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Sunday, September 2, 2012

Hi Everybody In The World.....

Welcome to Long Panai blogspot,this is the way for us to keep in touch with each other espcially those panaian people.Long Panai is located a around 200Km from Miri Resort City,it was taken a whole days journey to reach out Long Panai using boat or "express" by the local people in Baram.Four wheel drive transportation nowadays only until Long Linei and has not been continued yet maybe in the future, it would be easily to reach Long Panai using four wheel drive cars.To reach Long Panai using boat express it was taken 3 hours from Kuala Baram to Marudi and from Marudi to Long Panai is taken about 3 hours and the half depend on rivers condition.In Long Panai there are a lot of facilities has been approve in the village nowadays.Public phone has been provide to all villagers to keep in touch with outside area and clinic also has been approved by days to days.Sk Long Panai is the first school in Long Panai that providing standard and quality education for student in the remote area of Sarawak espcially in Tutoh and Apoh.SMK Tutoh Apoh is the secondary school that been build after SK Long Panai been there for a decade.Nowadays,total of the student are increasing by years to years because of the quality education and teachers commitmends.Besides that,the most famous rivers that call Panai river is providing quality water to those villagers in the longhouse,clean and safe water besides free of charge without paying any bills is something better than the normal for the villagers.Long Panai is one of the longhouse in Baram with more than hundred doors and a lot of backside on it.Long Panai is just like no others.......



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Kayan Tradisional Sape'

Kayan Tradisional Sape'
The sape is a traditional lute of many of the Orang Ulu or "upriver people", who live in the longhouses that line the rivers of Central Borneo. Sapes are carved from a single bole of wood, with many modern instruments reaching over a metre in length. Initially the sape was a fairly limited instrument with two strings and only three frets. Its use was restricted to a form of ritualistic music to induce trance. In the last century, the sape gradually became a social instrument to accompany dances or as a form of entertainment. Today, three, four or five-string instruments are used, with a range of more than three octaves. Technically, the sape is a relatively simple instrument, with one string carrying the melody and the accompanying strings as rhythmic drones. In practice, the music is quite complex, with many ornamentations and thematic variations. There are two common modes, one for the men's longhouse dance and the other for the woman's longhouse dance. There also is a third rarely used mode. Sape music is usually inspired by dreams and there are over 35 traditional pieces with many variations. The overall repertoire is slowly increasing. Sapes are still being made in Borneo, and modern innovations like electric sapes are common.

Ke' jok dawa' Ke ajeng

Ke' jok dawa' Ke ajeng
Kajo lan gaben anih...

Kampung Long Panai

Kampung Long Panai
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