Kajang Tribe, a Unique Ethnic Forest People in Bulukumba Regency, South Sulawesi

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The Kajang tribe or Kajang People or in Indonesian call it ‘suku Kajang’ is sub-ethnic to Makassar ethnic groups, who inhabited a particular area in the forest. The area and the people are quite isolated from other people of bulukumba. The head of this group who is ruled by a tribal and religious is called “ammatoa” and their land called it Tana Toa.
Ammatoa is a person who masters of “pasang ri kajang” an oral teaching of kajang people, which inherited from one generation to the others. The life of kajang centered to pasang which is not only rules the relation among man, man to the Creator but it covers the relation of man with the nature. To have a person chosen as ammatoa the congregation of elders attending the ritual will listen to the supernatural signs. It might be in a form of a buffalo suddenly come to someone house’s and stays there without precedents or a rooster fly in and stops at someone’s shoulder.
Kajang Tribe or Kajang People simplicity, it can be seen from their home, noun of the household furniture. There are no chairs or mattress and other modern stuff. They also do not use any electronic equipment, such as radio and television. They assume, of modernity to keep the tribe with nature and the ancestors.
When visitors visit Kajang Dalam, starting from the village gate till inside the village visitor can see the home of this tribe, all the houses are face to the west and built in from the same material made of wood, not only the material, shape is the same with roof symbol. They also regard it as a symbol of uniformity. They believe, if there is uniformity there would be no jealousy among the people Spare Kajang. Each house has only one bedroom, only the bride can used and sleep in these room.
Any visitors who want to visit village, they must be comply with all applicable customary rule to get into this village, visitors must not use modern transportation in the area of Kajang Dalam Village or Tana Toa, visitors should be walk. As an alternative, the visitors may only ride a horse to circle the Tana Toa.
The Kajang Tribe still hold, believes and teachings of their ancestors till this time. The teachings of the ancestors have an important meaning. Once the importance, they always run the various activities of life based on ancestral traditions.

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Vocabullaries
a.    Inhabit        (Verb)            : Mendiami.
b.    Tribal        (Adjective)        : Suku.
c.    Inherit        (Verb)            : Mewarisi.
d.    Congregation    (Verb)            : Perkumpulan jema’ah.
e.    Nature        (Noun)    : Alam.
f.    Sign        (Noun)    : Tanda.
g.    Precedent    (Noun)    : Hak yang lebih tinggi.
h.    Simplicity    (Noun)    : Kesederhanaan.
i.    Ancestor    (Noun)    : Datuk/ Nenek moyang.
j.    Bride        (Noun)    : Pengantin wanita.

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Communicative Purpose
To describe the way things are, with reference to a range of natural, man-made and social phenomena in our environment.
Generic structure
a.    General classification    : introducing the thing that will be talked about.
b.    Description            : elaborating and reporting on the subject in detail.

Exercise 1
Choose T if the statement is true and F if it is false based on to the text. 

1. T – F The area and the people of Kajang are isolated from other people of Bulukumba.

2. T – F The life of Kajang people centered to a book called as “Pasang”.

3. T – F “Tanatoa” is the  name of the Kajang’s village. 

4. T – F The head of Kajang’s group will be chosen automatically, the son from the last “Ammatoa”.

5. T – F They does not have any bedroom, chair, mattress and also any electronic equipment such as radio and television.

7. T – F All the houses in “Tanatoa” are face to the east.

8. T – F Only the visitors that can use modern transportation to circle the “Tana Toa”.

9. T–F Kajang people believe that their tradition not to use any kind of modern stuff will make no jealousy among them.

10.T– F All of the people in Kajang still uphold their ancestral traditions until now.

Exercise 2
What do the words refer to?1. “It” (paragraph 1 line 1) refers to…
2. “Their” (paragraph 1 line 4) refers to…
3. “It” (paragraph 2 line 3) refers to…
4. “It” (paragraph 2 line 5) refers to…
5. “They” (paragraph 3 line 2) refers to…
6. “They” (paragraph 5 line 1) refers to…