Balai Bidukun

Description of Balai Bidukun
The picture from Balai House
Balai Bidukun is located at Malinau Village. We could visit Balai Bidukun by Motorcycle or car from Kandangan because the way have aspalt now. Surrounding Balai Bidukun have still too much jungle there and many houses of villager that haven’t stayed in Balai.
The environment have still looked jungle there and mountain could give a direct issues about Balai happened now. It’s could be seen Balai form, the floor elevation have 1 meter higher from the ground, it’s be done by villagers to anticipation from the enemy attack and protected from the wild animal.

Analisys about Balai Form

Orientation the Sun and the Mountains
In Processing To Establish Balai House a leader of the villager usually “ semedi “ ( concentrating in a place to solve the trouble in life ) before build Balai House, determain the location, the view of Balai house and materials that could be used. These are done to escape from the faulting of tradition there.
According of the tradition, one of the rule to establish Balai House must to face the sun or sun raise. The villager sure that the soul of the dead body would follow the shiny from the sun raise to found the last rest in a top of Meratus Mountain.
So Balai house have oriented to Sun Rise, and than in establishing the Balai House must oriented the mountain. It’s could be seen to Balai Bidukun that located around the mountain. The villagers sure that the soul of the dead body would stay in Meratus Mountains.
According in the health aspect from the sun orientation have much useful for Balai house.

Wind
wind could give issue to form of Balai House especially Balai Bidukun. It can be seen under of the roof found the ventilation around of Balai House. It made in order to the circulation could be well.

Rainy
Rain and wind were relating each other especially in the rainy season, so the roof made like tropical architecture. So if hard rain happened the water could be fast down to the ground.

Temperature
Loksado area have the tropical climate that warm, and windy and issued about the Balai form. The floor have 1 meter on the ground. This thing to anticipated from the wild animal attack or another disturb in out there.

Contour
The choice of Location that planned to Balai house done by a leader of the villagers. It done after the leader finished his “ Semedi “