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We are happy to find you visiting us.Thank you.

We have a common interest in Baduy Tribe|The People of Kanekes , its Land, Life and Nature. We want to share ideas with the rest of people all over the world. Because we live next door to Baduy Village, we believe it would be better to share valuable experiences with people like you, who have interests and believe like us. It is our vision that through better cross-cultural understanding, its uniqueness within the diversity, we are pacing to a better peaceful world. We are one, the only one, living in this small village of Earth in this Gigantic Universe.

 

When you are to visit Baduy Village, we would be glad to assist you during you are visiting the people. However, we are not some sort of professional travel agent. Our goal is to provide information and/or guidance. Although entering Baduy Village is restricted by some taboos, everyone may always be able to reach the near villages. For example, if you are not circumcised Indonesian, you are only allowed to visit Outer Baduy Village. The Inner Baduy Village is veiled from you. Here is a short brief what expert says about Outer and Inner Baduy:

Who are Baduy?
The Inner Baduy (Baduy Dalam), numbering only 350 in three villages (kampung) in the core area, are the strictest adherents to Baduy spiritual belief, while the remaining population live in the Outer Baduy (Baduy Luar) area. The Baduy Dalam is the centre point of culture and religious following and the focus of rituals and sacred sites within the Baduy territory. Symbolically, the Baduy Dalam clan members may wear white with the black traditional clothing, while the Baduy Luar clan members are characteristically dressed in black or dark blue. The Baduy Luar serves as a buffer zone between the Baduy Dalam and the outside world with members of the outer clan acting as intermediaries for the more pure members of the inner clan.

Of course we will have more social, cultural or whatever discussion during your staying here to dig deeper our understanding. We do hope this short description will suffice to give you courage to begin new experience as if you go through time tunnel back several hundreds years: finding an exotic phenomena of old people in seclusion!

Happy travelling,

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