The Meratus Mountains is a mountain range in the Indonesian province of South Kalimantan ; it is located on Borneo island. The mountains run in a north-south arc that divides South Kalimantan province into two almost equal parts. Its highest peak is Mount Besar at 1,901 metres elevation.
8-570: The mountains are inhabited by the "semi-nomadic" Meratus Dayak people. The mountains are surrounded at lower elevations by heavily disturbed lowland rain forest and lands converted to agriculture. The higher elevations are home to submontane and montane forests, which are separated from the main mass of Borneo's montane rain forests in the centre and north of the island by approximately 300 km of lowland forest. The submontane and montane forests cover an area of approximately 2,460 km. Endemic plants include Gaultheria kalimantanensis (Ericaceae) and
16-409: A few years, then the forest is allowed to regenerate when the farmers move to a different swidden location to farm. The farmers may return to a swidden, although there is usually at least 15 years between leaving and returning to a swidden. Meratus people also collect forest products and trade with Banjar at markets outside the mountains. In these transactions Banjar typically act as middle men between
24-621: Is an ethnic group that inhabits the Meratus Mountains of South Kalimantan , Indonesia . The Banjar Kuala people would refer the Meratus people as Urang Baiju or Dayak Baiju , as they consider them to be the same as the Ngaju people . While the Banjar Hulu Sungai people would call the Meratus people as Urang Bukit , Dayak Bukit or Dayak Buguet . A Meratus Dayak's name changes over
32-591: The Banjar language. Most Meratus Dayak can speak Banjar and Indonesian since government administrators conduct business in Indonesian and trade with the Banjar people is conducted in Banjar. The Meratus people are divided into several sub-ethnics including:- Meratus Dayak are primarily farmers, and rice is the main crop. Rice cultivation occurs in swiddens (cleared portions of the forest). Swiddens are usually cultivated for
40-542: The 1990s the Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation reintroduced 350 orangutans into the protected Meratus and Sungai Wain forests. Due to extensive deforestation the ecosystem of the mountains, including many flora and fauna species are endangered. Traditional Dayak villages are also disappearing. This South Kalimantan location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Meratus Dayak The Meratus or Meratus Dayak
48-546: The Meratus and other traders. Most Meratus live and farm in umbun which are also considered the primary social units among the Meratus Dayak. Umbun are founded by a man and a woman, usually a married couple, but sometimes also a brother and sister, a widow and her adult son, or other male-female pairs. Umbun also embrace a variety of dependents who have not yet founded their own umbun , including children and recently married, disabled, and widowed adults. The founding pair
56-399: The carnivorous pitcher plant Nepenthes boschiana . The mountains' relative isolation from Borneo's other highlands has allowed for the evolution of several endemic species, including the birds Meratus blue flycatcher ( Cyornis kadayangensis ) and Meratus white-eye ( Zosterops meratusensis ). The area has been recognised as an Important Bird Area (IBA) by BirdLife International . In
64-610: The course of his or her life. Children have "body names" ( ngaran badan ) that are not usually used after adolescence. When they have children, men and women acquire teknonyms ( ngaran ba'anak ). For a man this name is Ma X or Pa'an X, where X is the name of one of his children, or sometimes another word. For a woman it is Induan X or Dun X, depending on which part of the Meratus area she lives in. Older men become Awat X (grandfather of X) and older women become Apih X. Local Meratus Dayak dialects are closely related linguistically to both Indonesian (the national language), and to
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