PERDAGANGAN DI PERTEMUAN SUNGAI KAPUAS DAN TAYAN, SANGGAU, KALIMANTAN BARAT, ABAD KE-19

Abstract

This paper highlights trading activities at the confluence of the Kapuas River and Tayan River, Sanggau District, West Kalimantan. The meeting of two rivers is a strategic location, the river as a traffic lane, where the growth of settlements and the Malay kingdom. The kingdoms of West Kalimantan are generally located around river encounters, such as Sanggau, Tayan, Landak, Meliau, and Sintang. This paper aims to illustrate trade at the confluence of the Kapuas and Tayan Rivers, for example part of the upstream-downstream trading system between the inland and river mouths or coastal waters that rely on streams in the nineteenth century. The problem to be solved is how to conduct trade around river basin especially around meeting of Kapuas River and Tayan River of the 19th century. The methods used are descriptive, analytical, and historical. Through this research successfully revealed the landscape of trading activities, types of commodities, and trading system.

Keywords

• the junction of kapuas and the tayan river, tayan kingdom, tayan island, upstream – downstream, local and outside borneo commodity