System Tagang

The above notice literally means, feeding the fish at "Sistem Tagang Sg.Engkatit" once a week commencing from 26 May 2008.

Sistem Tagang is basically a mean to maintain the ecological balance of a river. It also prevents unsystematic harvesting of fishes and other marine life. Tagang is an Iban word which means refrain and sistem tagang literally means, a system which refrains someone from catching fishes and other marine life and offenders will be dealt with rules and regulations that has been laid down by the Central Committee.


Caution : It is an offense to catch marine life between Lubuk Kelibang and Nanga Ransal. Whoever is caught doing so will be penalized in accordance with the rules and regulations that has been laid down by the Central Committee of Sistem Tagang, Sg. Engkatit, Yong,Kapit.

1.Equipment and any catch will be confiscated.
2.Cash penalty
i) From Rh.Semut and Rh. Lapek:-RM 50.00
ii) Outsiders:-RM 100.00
3.Report to Village Chief
4.Report to Police.


The site map for areas that are involved in this project.

Long House: Head hunting

The ibans have been always been notorious for head hunting, a custom which is now been eradicated. It was essentially a religious practice, the ibans seeking a consecration for every important event's of his life by the acquistion of one or more skulls.




The young man is not admitted to full tribal rights, nor can he woo a bride with any hope of success, until he has a skull or more to adorn his hut: a chief's authority would not be acknowledged without such trophies of his prowess.




The strictest rules govern head hunting; a period of fasting,of isolation in a taboo hut, precedes the expedition, for which the iban clothes himself in the skins of wild beast. The ibans prefers the head of a fellow tribesman and the hunt is usually one of ambush rather than of open combat. Skulls those of enemies are held in great veneration.