Tag Archives: Tribe

The Origin of Saringgon, Indonesian Folklore From the Batak Tribe

Once upon a time in the Batak area, the area around the province of North Sumatra, there lived a king who had six wives. Even though the king had six wives, none of his six wives had children. Therefore the king remarried his seventh wife. Batak folklore says that about a year later his seventh […]

Is it true that the Batak Sumatran people of Indonesia were cannibals?

Who doesn’t know one of the largest tribes in Indonesia? Yup, the answer is the Batak tribe, even though it is famous for its rough voice, even melodious. Did you know that the majority of the tribe living in Sumatra, which is full of highlands, is a cannibal? There’s even a Human Eating Ceremony? “Cannibalism […]

Why is there a Javanese Tribe Community Living in the Americas?

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Long before the Government of the Republic of Indonesia sent Indonesian Migrant Workers (TKI) abroad, the Government of the Kingdom of the Netherlands from 1890 to 1939 had sent 32,956 workers from Java to Suriname. At that time, Suriname and Indonesia were both colonies under the Government of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. The purpose […]