Monday, 15 August 2016

ELEMENT OF RUMAH PANJANG



            Longhouse settlement refers to a common space. All residents share everything in the house long. All residents slept in the same room, for the same work, have the same treatment. There is no concept of personal possession, personal space, rules, and laws. Each occupant can be anywhere in the house long, free to act without restraint, control or punishment of Tourism Promotion Corporation of Malaysia Act 1999.

             Rungus longhouse tradition contains a series of adjoining houses, each of which is owned by certain domestic family separately. According to Appell (1963) a 'house ' in longhouses as a temporary apartment to the Rungus , this house is named ‘sirang’. Sirang is domestic family dwelling. As the concept of modern homes have a certain part of the activities of different work, a ‘sirang’ also has sections, each associated with a particular work activities .

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