Dayak people

I've come here after a killer, Mr. Kurt.

Oh, Dayaks maybe, headhunters?

No, no, this one's a civilized killer, an American.

Wanted in San Francisco for murdering his wife.

Yeah, so in relation to the haste crisis that we currently have, a lot of people blame slash and burn technique and that the fire is started deliberately by human, not something that happens naturally.

Slash and burn itself in Indonesia, in some communities such as the Dayak community in Kalimantan, They have been doing this particular practice for over decades.

But within this tribe, they are doing it in a very careful and mindful way to the environment.

What they do is basically at the end of rainy season, in the start of dry season, usually in the month of July, they would burn the vegetation that is already dried and it is an easy and cheap way to clear the land basically the result of that very controlled fire you will have ash which they could in turn become a replacement of chemical fertilizer so it's a it's a very rich substance to your upcoming plantation.

Then I looked for the actual proof, which we found last night.

The long shed in that pit is built exactly as the Dayaks of Borneo build theirs, a whole village living on communal terms under one roof.

The stone slab for the fire is the same and over it the Dayaks hang the treasured heads, just as we saw them last night.

Now you had better go and see the police, Wigan.

Don't drag me into it.

The true Malays call these folk Orang Benua, or men of the country.

Many are almost savages, some are cannibals, and others are headhunters, like some of the Dayaks of Borneo.

In the Philippines, too, we find what is probably the same class of wild people living in the mountains.

They are warlike, savage, and resist approach.

At least as early as 1250 they were converted to Mohammedanism, brought to them by these Arabian missionaries, and under the impulse of this mighty faith they broke from their obscurity and commenced that great conquest and expansion that has diffused their power, language, and religion throughout the East Indies.

Mohammedan settlement in Borneo A powerful Mohammedan Malay settlement was established on the western coasts of Borneo probably as early as 1400.

The more primitive inhabitants, like the Dayaks, who were a tribe of the primitive Malayans, were defeated and the possession of parts of the coast taken from them.

From this coast of Borneo came many of the adventurers who were traversing the seas of the Philippines when the Spaniards arrived.

What draws me in is that this party was never just a party that belonged to one particular group in Sarawak.

And just so you know, it came out of three different parties in the 70s, right? There was Panas, rooted in the Malay community, in Kuching, there's Berjasa, more focused towards central Sarawak, the Malays and the Melanaus of the central region in Sarawak.

And there's, of course, Pesaka, which is led by Tun Jugah, the Dayaks from Kapit area, the Rejang area.

So these three groups combined and formed PBB.

And back in the 70s, I think it's around 1973, the formation of the party, you know, the I think that we're thinking at the time that instead of competing against each other and fragmenting the situation, might as well we just combine together and be stronger together rather than compete.

Los más vulnerables son los niños pequeños, los ancianos y las personas que ya tienen enfermedades respiratorias como el asma.

Pero también las comunidades indígenas que viven en los bosques como los pueblos Dayak en Borneo, que no tienen acceso a hospitales ni a equipos de protección.

There's a cruelty to that.

The communities least responsible for the fires are often the ones absorbing the worst health consequences.

But the white race, as it is often called, is taken to include a wide diversity of types, many of whom are not white at all.

Thus, for example, Keane points out that the black Berbers are Caucasic, and he goes so far as to class the Maoris of New Zealand, the Dyaks of Borneo, and the Hawaiian Islanders under a branch of the white race.

With this, though, present writers cannot agree.

There are certain points, however, even in this complicated matter that seem fairly clear.