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Banjar is the name of a Malay subethnic which consist for majority of people now lives in the vaccinity of the city of Banjarmasin, the biggest city in Borneo, Indonesia. For few hundreds years ago some of them had travelled to many places in the Malay archipellego and setting up pockets of settlement in those areas, namely in Perak, Selangor and Batu Pahat, Johor in Malaysia, in Medan, Sumatra in Indonesia and many other places.
They are soft hearted people. Many are farmers by nature but some are also fisherman. There are many Banjar people now lived in Saudi as well following continuous migration since few hundreds years ago. They are indeed very good muslim. They had never conquered any country. The face looks like Chinese, but nobody knows whether there are linkage with chinese heritage. They have few different tribes with slightly different dialect.
Now the Banjar people from Malaysia still maintain their communication with their relatives in the Banjarmasin mainland. There are many visits organised every year from many institution from Malaysia to visit Banjarmasin to strenghtened their family ties.
The banjar’s manifold functions are expressed in the various activities that take place in the banjar hall, which serves as a recreational space for children and teenagers, a place where dance and gamelan classes are held, trading takes place, and cock fights proceed.
Officially, the banjar has complete autonomy and all matters relating to the banjar administration and the community it serves should ideally require the agreement of the kelihan banjar, the head of the banjar, in order to proceed.
According to Ida Bagus Pandjaja, of foremost importance to the banjar in meeting the third millenium is the recognition of it by all parties as an independent and autonomous traditional institution.
As a traditional institution, the Banjar is ideally autonomous of the state and functions primarily to serve its members communal and religion needs.
But in the real world, the Banjar is well integrated into the affairs of state - a rather unavoidable predicament considering that the Banjar is the most basic building block of the whole of the Balinese society.
After all, the Banjar has survived and adopted to many changes over the past thirty years- the implementation of new development programs, new security measures, the influx of foreign cultures and values via tourism, the use of its lands for construction projects, etc. but simply continuing to exist, many assert, is not the issue.
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