Ma'anyan Dayaks
Ma'anyan women in the times of the Netherlands Indies.
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| Total population | |
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| (Approximately 85,000) | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
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Central Kalimantan (71,000) South Kalimantan (10,000) |
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| Languages | |
| Ma'anyan language, Ngaju language, Banjar language, East Barito languages | |
| Religion | |
| Christianity, Islam, Kaharingan | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Dayak people, Malagasy people, Ot Danum people, Banjar people |
Ma'anyan (colonial spelling Maanjan or Meanjan), Dayak Maanyak or Dayak Barito Timur people are a sub-ethnic group of the Dayak people indigenous to Borneo. They are also considered as part of the east Barito Dusun group with the name Dusun Ma'anyan. According to J. Mallinckrodt (1927), the Dusun people group is part of the Ot Danum people cluster, although later that theory was disproved by A. B. Hudson (1967), who argues that the Ma'anyan people are a branch of the Barito family. The Ma'anyan people who are often referred to as Dayak people are also referred to as Dayak Ma'anyan. The Dayak Ma'anyan people inhabit the east side of Central Kalimantan, especially in the East Barito Regency and parts of South Barito Regency which are grouped as Ma'anyan I. The Dayak Ma'anyan people also inhabit the northern parts of South Kalimantan, especially in Tabalong Regency which refers to the Dayak Warukin people. The Dayak Balangan people or Dusun Balangan people which are found in the Balangan Regency and the Dayak Samihim people that are found in the Kotabaru Regency are grouped together with the Dayak Ma'anyan people group. The Dayak Ma'anyan people in South Kalimantan are grouped as Ma'anyan II.
Administratively, the Ma'anyan people have just recently appeared in the 2000 census and made up 2.8% of the Central Kalimantan population; previously the Ma'anyan people were grouped together with the Dayak people in the 1930 census.
The uniqueness of the Dusun Ma'anyan people among others are agriculture, elaborate funeral ceremonies, and having shaman to treat their disease.
It is said that the Ma'anyan people arrived and settled on Madagascar island in 945 to 946 AD, sailing through the Indian Ocean on 1,000 leeboard sailboats. Based on historical facts, every stone relief in Borobudur tells of the Malay archipelago conditions during the peak of Buddhism period. Interestingly, the Srivijayan, Nan Sarunai and Majapahit kingdom had used the leeboard sailboats throughout its history. It is known that the Srivijaya kingdom did expand its empire covering West Java, part of Central Java and the desperate Empu Sendok from Medang Kingdom which was about to reach East Java in 929 to 947 AD. Therefore, it is possible that scholars and artisans of that time period recorded the events of the Ma'anyan people evacuating in large numbers on leeboard sailboats in 945 to 946 AD on the stone reliefs of Borobudur.
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