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This paper is aimed at exploring the living culture of Dayak Meratus tribes and explaining the implementation of the concept of bubuhan in an existing government resettlement program, namely Indigenous Community Empowerment or Pemberdayaan Komunitas Adat Tepencil (PKAT). Knowing and understanding the cultural values of Dayak Meratus tribes are very important in ensuring the success of the resettlement programs. Research is carried out by ethnography method, in particular, the approach of field observation and in-depth interviews. The descriptions presented in this paper are an overview of cultural interpretation and the notion of Dayak Meratus tribes, particularly the ones related to the implementation of resettlement program (PKAT) that so far have been doing well. From the research analysis, two factors have determined the success of the PKAT resettlement program for Dayak Meratus tribes in South Kalimantan, those are the maintenance of kinship system i.e. concept of bubuhan as the basis for the resettlements program and the selection of the resettlement locations based on the balai-adat or traditional dwelling of each kinship group.
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