Bidayuh is the collective name for several indigenous groups found in southern Sarawak, Malaysia and northern West Kalimantan, Indonesia, on the island of Borneo, which are broadly similar in language and culture (see also issues below).
Bidayuh Bau is a major dialect spoken by over 50,000 people concentrated around Bau near Kuching in the Malaysian state of Sarawak, North-Western Borneo. The language has three main sub-dialects with significant differences between them which are Jagoi , Serombu and Singgai , each corresponding roughly to the area surrounding an ancestral mountain.
Through these programmes, visitors get to experience the Bidayuh lifestyle, including gardening, farming, hunting, fishing, and rafting. Being the oldest Bidayuh settlement, Annah Rais also has the oldest Bidayuh longhouses in Sarawak.
Like the Iban, the Bidayuh originally came from regions that now lie in northwestern Indonesian Borneo; in Sarawak the Bidayuh homeland is in the far western portion of the state. Most rural Bidayuh practice shifting rice cultivation.
Bidayuh is the collective name for several indigenous groups found in southern Sarawak, Malaysia and northern West Kalimantan, Indonesia, on the island of Borneo, which are broadly similar in language and culture (see also issues below). The name Bidayuh means 'inhabitants of …
the following objectives, the first is to describe the history of traditional Bidayuh culture, second is to evaluate the influence of the ritual and ceremonial process in moulding the life of the Bidayuh people, and the last is to summarize the function of the process of …
The Bidayuh believe in an omnipotent being, “Tempah” and everything good and bad is ascribed to him. He lives in the sky, which they think is made of stone. The sun is a great fire, and its eclipse is caused by a large snake (raung) encircling it when it is necessary for everyone to beat drums and gongs to frighten it away.