I found this article shocking and surprised at the way the Iban tribe would react to immigrant's. I think it was very brave and showed a lot of respect for there homeland. Every one has a right to there own religion and what they do to defend it. I think some of the spearing and machete hunting was a bit extreme. I wonder what happened to the former president? Was he killed by the Iban? How is the Iban tribe reacting today to immigrants? After finishing this article, I searched around and found out he Iban tribe has a long history of tattoo's! which I found very interesting.
Sunday, February 8, 2015
Blog 3
In the article “Rule of the Headhunters” published in Newsweek, author Maggie Ford . She goes in depth about the head hunting of immigrants on the island of Madura. The head hunters otherwise known as the Iban tribe. The tribe would be armed with spears and machete's and would not let anything get In there way. As the Indonesian Army would try and stop the brutal head hunter, many people started to blame the former president Suharto for the deadly Iban tribe. The policy that the former president has made up was known as "transmigration" which would allow poor people move to a less crowded island. Because of this policy the head hunters didn't like immigrants moving through there land and that's when the hunting and spearing started taking place.
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Do you know if this is still going on today? So your telling me i cant go into there home land or i will be killed. I will try and stay away. You said they had an Army who tried to stop it? Who would be the president of the military if the headhunters started to hurt people. Like who controlld the military and such. Also you said the iban tribe had knives and spears, who are they garding there tribe. Other then that you got to the point, so that is good.This was a very intresting article to read. You did a good job with it!
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