Naik Dango

Naik Dango ceremonies are ritual which implies rice thanksgiving gratitude or thanks and honor to Almighty God for the harvest of rice collected from the Dayak community in Borneo, which is held every year.

Dango in this sense is the rice granary of a building near the house where keep rice crops each year, the first time took the rice from the barn to do the ceremony Naik Dango. The core program is the prayer of rising Dango (Nyangahatn) by a priest (panganyahatn) in family barns are a party organizer who performed in the morning. The contents of his prayer is calling home to gather in the spirit of rice in the granaryas well as ceremonial celebration of God's substance (Jubata) and begged bestowed his blessing to use the rice that was stored on granaries for food purposes. 

For Dayaknese in a particular area, Naik Dango ceremony is carried out through four activities. the fourth activities are prearation of the Batutuk, Matic, Nyangahatn and eat together.

Batutuk is the activity of pounding rice in a mortar to get the rice. Either ordinary rice (Sunguh) and glutinous rice (Poe') for food preparation and offerings.

Then Matic is a prayer to convey meaning to the Lord (Jubata) to give his blessing for the implementation of the clerk Naik Dango. Matic event was presented on traditional devices such as Tumpi Sunguh (white bowspirit variety), Poe Solengk (bamboo containing cooked rice), Betel cook (betel leaf, lime, gambier, ready to chew betel nuts, plus rolled cigarettes palm leaves).

After that "nyangahatn" is a prayer spoken by Indigenous priests (panganyahatn) to cal the spirit of rice, to give thanks to God for the gift of the rice harvest, beg forgiveness of God (Jubata) from sin and guilt and begged the Lord to give prosperity in the coming year.

After the above three events, held a banquet together. The food was Poe' (sticky rice cooked with coconut milk), Tumpi' (bowspirit sweet), lamang (coconut sticky rice cooked in bamboo). Forwarded to eat rice and side dishes, the drink is coffee.

Naik Dango tradition worthy appreciation because the ceremony is an expression of cultural, religious and social are only found in Borneo.