Suddenly I was overcome with nausea. I felt suffocated and hurt. I drank some more beer. I was unsure now, whether I was drunk from the beer or seeing the reality of a community that has never been seriously taken care of by this Republic.
Luckily, there are still programs by PNPM Peduli, I said trying to cheer myself up. Loud beats from the House music was drowning out all noise, and the dancers were becoming more provocative…
As far as I can remember, this is not the Dayak custom. They never had the technology to distill alcohol. Dayak Iban, Jangkang, Mualang and several other Dayak ethnics in the interior could only make tuak, a drink made from the fermentation of sticky rice and yeast. How did they learn of the dice? They never knew that the ancient Greeks loved to play using the dice. Maybe the ancestors of Dayak Salako interacted with the Chinese gold miners at Mandor and Monterado. By the Hee Soon group or Lanfang, around 1770M, before a small group of Dayak Salako came to Ambawang river and became the ancestors of Loncek village.
