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Bada people

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Bada
To Bada
Total population
9,000 (2013)[1]
Regions with significant populations
Central Sulawesi (Bada Valley)
Languages
Bada
Religion
Ethnic religion, Christianity, Islam[1]
Related ethnic groups
Lore peoples (Behoa • Napu • Tawailia)

Bada people (Bada: To Bada) is a ethnic group who inhabit the Bada Valley in Central Sulawesi, Indonesia. Their territory is in the former Lore Kingdom area. Swedish ethnologist, Walter Kaudern, classifies them as a sub-ethnic of Poso-Toraja.[2] But nowadays it is more appropriate as part of the Lore peoples who share a similar culture. A.C. Kruyt believes that this ethnic originated from the north of the area they currently occupy, based on the megalithic remains he studied in Bada Valley. Kaudern argues that Kruyt's migration theory is wrong, calling it a 'weak' theory, and adds that it is very difficult to understand the migration process carried out by the Bada people only by observing megalithic stones.[3]

Of the villages scattered across the Bada Valley, two or three are still considered pristine. These villages included Bulili, Badangkaia, and most likely Gintu, while the rest were colonies of these villages. Badangkaia and Bulili are considered to be truly ancient settlements, an opinion put forward by Kaudern after finding a large number of stones that had been cut into mortar shapes in both villages, and appears to be a remnant of an earlier period. Bada people by the 1920s were said to have not known how to carve stone. The other villages in the valley, consisting of Bewa, Kanda, Pada, Bomba, Lelio, and Kolori, are all located northeast of Bulili and Gintu. All of them are colonial villages, founded by the inhabitants of the three oldest villages in Bada Valley.[4]

The Bada people had a colony called Buyumpondoli, which was located at the northern tip of Lake Poso. Kruyt notes that interactions between the inhabitants of this colony and the native Pamona people who lived in the surrounding area, became closer.[5]

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References

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  1. ^ a b "Memperjuangkan Hak Masyarakat Adat Bada' yang Terabaikan". mongabay.co.id (in Indonesian). Mongabay. 17 December 2013. Retrieved 12 July 2025.
  2. ^ Kaudern 1925, p. 75.
  3. ^ Kaudern 1925, p. 76.
  4. ^ Kaudern 1925, p. 77.
  5. ^ Kaudern 1925, p. 79.

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