14 Sep 2006

Horas Mandailing/ The Mandailing People
www.mandailing.org, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Self-description: "The Mandailing are a people of the west coast of North Sumatra, Indonesia. Throughout the 19th century, they were embroiled in several civil wars, at first in Sumatra and then in peninsular Malaysia, to which they migrated in large groups. The clan-based society has an indigenous tradition of democratic and egalitarian governance. Their habitat ranges from well-irrigated highlands to marshy lowlands. Their productive economy is based on padi, rubber, cinnamon, coffee and gold mining. They are well known for their literature and music of the Nine Great Drums."
Supplied note: "This is to inform you that the Horas Mandailing website at www.mandailing.org has been extensively upgraded with more materials especially in Bahasa Malaysia/Indonesia. The current upgrading will continue until the end of September 2006. - arl."
Site contents: * Contents; * Links; * Contact; * Pictures; * Old Pictures [a selection of B&W pictures from 'Pakanten, a remarkable (strange) part of Sumatra'; by Johannes Thiessen; Published ca. 1906 by 'Verlag zum Vorteil der Missions-arbeit' - ed.]
[A bilingual site: Malaysian/Indonesian and English - ed]
URL http://www.mandailing.org/Eng/indexeng.html
Internet Archive (web.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract - ed.]
Link reported by: AR Lubos (arlubis--at--gmail.com)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Online Guide
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]: Other
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Interesting
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 30