My Inner Baduy

A tribe living less than 4 hours drive from Jakarta, the capital of Indonesia. The Baduy tribe are divided into an Inner and Outer Baduy, where the Inner is most faithfull to the Baduy traditions. They must not wear strong colors, they must not eat wett grown rice, they wordship the surrounding forrests, they must not wear shoes or have any objects from the modern world. They don't allow white people to enter into their area. They use money towards the outside, world but not among each other.
The Chief rules both the Inner and outer Baduy. The inner consist of 3 villagers with a total of 1000 persons. The Baduy religion, is said to derive from Hinduism, but the believe in a person named Adam and wordship the nature surrounding them. In essence they are Animists.

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• Animism
• Baduy
• Hindu
• Java
• Indonesia
• Tribe
• secluded
• ixtland
• udbjorg
• chief