Ethnic TOGUTIL

Togutil tribe located in the interior of Halmahera in North Maluku, Indonesia. Although they are still primitive because of the nomadic lifestyle without displace and destroy nature, but their presence as it has provided a valuable lesson to us all in terms of conserving the forest. As if they were told; Do not let destructive nature.

If viewed from the settlement system of the people Togutil Wasilei can be divided into three groups, namely:
1. They are wandering in the forests with caves with houses as emergency shelter.
2. Those who move in a certain location with a housing system that has been regularly (at Toboino and Tutuling).
3. They settled on a location with a settlement pattern that has regular (at Paraino).

A research was performed on the second and third groups. The first group is the wanderer who was named by the second and third groups and population sub Wasilei to as "sheep." They are hard to find and their suspicion of outsiders is very large.
People live sheep are always hostile to people Togutil Dodaga (second and third groups). Every meeting between these two parties must be resolved by fighting. The second and third group considers each collateral or a party, while both these groups did not admit people of sheep as a party of people with them.
People Togutil Dodaga as one sub-tribe Tobelo In, residing at three locations chosen by their own in the near Dodaga, about 30 km from the capital district Wasilei (Lolobata). Some of them are people who never dimukimkan Togutil tribe in 1971. The locations are; Paraino, Toboino and Tutuling as mentioned in the above research results. Dodaga Togutil people coming from two places, namely:
1. Local Kao, namely from source, Gamlaha & Kao own.
2. Tobelo regions, namely from the Kupa-kupa, Ufa & Efi-EFI.
Judging from the language used according to the research, it looks bigger influence Boeng Tobelo language of this tribe. Dodaga Togutil people mostly come from regions Kao. They only understand one language and mastering the language Tobelo long time even though they reside in an environment that Maba-speaking majority.
Dodaga Togutil people have closed themselves to get in touch with the outside world until about 1961, afterwards there is contact between them with other people around the middle part of Halmahera. The nature of this closure can be understandable because they were fugitives.
Togutil tribal ancestors displacement from homelands Dodaga is due to avoid payment obligations Balahitongi (Tax) imposed by the Government of the Netherlands East Indies antiquity to their fathers. When and how the process lasts not clearly known.

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