Parang

Parang is a sharp weapon made from ordinary iron.

Relatively simple shape with no knick knacks.

Usefulness is as cutting tools or cut down tool

(Especially the bolt shrub) when the user exit entry

forest. Machetes are also used for agriculture.

In Kalimantan, also referred to as the threshold machete

Parang is also a typical weapon of the Malays in

villages in the past. While society

Malays of Java and Sumatra make machetes as

one of the gun battle.

wither on the Pacific Islands community in the area belantu machete

as an everyday piece of equipment while the "sundang"

is a machete-like tool with a longer size

and more sparse as fighting weapons are not all

blacksmith skills have made him where

only blacksmith who has knowledge or language iron

melayu belitungnya "iron sendawe incantation" which may

made because these weapons are in a for

pembuatanya war then in the process at each

gilding on fill it with "an iron sendawe Manthara" last,

during their hunting equip themselves with a "machete

Lading "which looks similar to her" commando knife "

but the thin shape and is longer, the Pacific Islands

knife is also called "pisu '"

Indonesian Culture