Upai Semaring

00:00:00doo' pekaak kuan taman-tinan, kinanak-kinanak luk ninger
good morning to my aunts/uncles and peers who are listening

00:00:08ratnan eceh cerita' luk uih pian mala bang co sinih
to a story that I want to narrate on this day

00:00:14cerita' ini cerita' rat lun merar tau maun nilaad
this story is a story from our elders a long time ago

00:00:21kurang-lebih cerita ini pengeh mio
this is a very old story

00:00:25mula' lun anak-anak tau luk rayeh umur
maybe some of our older children

00:00:30mungkin deh neninger cerita ini ratnan tepun-tepun deh luk atun
heard this story came from our forefathers

00:00:36jadi bang kereb nekinih
so today

00:00:41kudeng uih
like me

00:00:42kira-kira uih bang generasi luk kelimeh rat ku tepun kuh
I am approximately in the fifth generation from those forefathers

00:00:49idih puun kuh ngerawe cerita' ini memang metuu
that's why I think this story is true

00:00:53ngaceku lun merar tau maun, na deh mileh surat
because our elders, they couldn't read or write

00:00:59na deh inan bidan
they didn't have rural nurses

00:01:02na inan rumah sakit kereb dih
they didnt have hospitals in those times

00:01:04iamo' cerita ini pengeh mangun
but this story really happened

00:01:08erang pupu-pupu Lun Bawang luk maun nilaad
among the Lun Bawang a long time ago

00:01:12jadi inan uih keli' melio ratnan cerita' ini
but I know a lot about this story

00:01:20ratnan Upai Semaring nih nekinih
about Upai Semaring today

00:01:24jadi' uih papu' inan sebuleng haji rat Brunei
because I met a haji from Brunei

00:01:31kereb kai dueh pegayam-pegayam
and when we were talking

00:01:37idih ieh mala ratnan Upai Semaring
he spoke about Upai Semaring

00:01:42idih buri' kuh, "metuu neh"
so I said, "that is true"

00:01:45"uih pun pengeh ninger bala ratnan Upai Semaring nih rat kedeh ma' merar maun"
"I have also heard about Upai Semaring from our elders"

00:01:51buri' kuh ki haji Awang Damit
I told haji Awang Damit

00:01:54rat Brunei neh
he was from Brunei

00:01:55jadi buri' neh, "pengeh ini inayud"
so he said, "this has already been written down"

00:02:02buri' kuh, "kudeng peh ko keli' ratnan cerita Upai Semaring?"
I asked him, "how do you know about the story of Upai Semaring?"

00:02:06buri' neh
and he said

00:02:07"ngaceku inan buku luk inayud lun merar maun"
"because there was a book written by our elders"

00:02:13"mungkin bang meratu laak luk nepengeh"
"maybe in the past 100 years"

00:02:17"inayud deh, inau' bang library Brunei lah," buri' neh
"they wrote it and put it in the Brunei Library," he said

00:02:23"rat ineh uih keli' ratnan ayu' Upai Semaring," keneh
"that's how I know about Upai Semaring," he said

00:02:27dih uih ngecuk keneh nengalap buku neh
then I asked him to get the book

00:02:30dih ieh nengalap ceh buku rat bang library Brunei
and then he took a book from the Brunei Library

00:02:37dih uih nenier bukuh neh
so I looked at the book

00:02:40memang metuu-metuu cerita nih ratnan Upai Semaring neh
and it was true that it was about Upai Semaring

00:02:45cerita Upai Semaring kudeng nih
the story of Upai Semaring goes like this

00:02:48buri' deh ma' merar
according to our elders

00:02:50iUpai Semaring nih, ieh netudo dei' Long Bawan
Upai Semaring settled in Long Bawan

00:02:55pa Kalimantan Timur, Indonesia
in East Kalimantan, Indonesia

00:03:00jadi Upai Semaring ini tudo bang sebuleng lubang batuh
Upai Semaring lived in a cave

00:03:06nekinih pun masih tideh mala ini surud iUpai Semaring
even now they still call it Upai Semaring hill

00:03:12kudeng piko me' dei' Long Bawan, dei' Kerayan
if you go to Long Bawan in Kerayan

00:03:16dih ko ngitun-ngitun iapeh lubang Upai Semaring
and you ask where the Upai Semaring cave is

00:03:19idih deh mala, "ini surud luk dei' ineh"
they will say, "that is the hill over there"

00:03:23"neh surud iUpai Semaring neh"
"that is Upai Semaring's hill"

00:03:25"inan lubang batuh neh," keburi' deh
"there is a cave," they say

00:03:29jadi bang ceh co
and one day

00:03:33ngaceku pa dayeh aken iUpai Semaring nih
because the place where Upai Semaring bathes is upriver

00:03:38ceh fa'
there is a river

00:03:39ngadan fa' ineh fa' lutut
the river is called Pa Lutut

00:03:42fa' lutut ineh rayeh, rayeh sesuut
this Pa Lutut is a bit bigger

00:03:47jadi bang kereb ineh lun merar tau maun
but during that time of our elders

00:03:51ideh pekalai mudut anun milit bubuh
they used to construct fish traps

00:03:57deh milit bubuh ruen neten bang fa' neh
they built the fish trap to set in the river

00:04:01pele deh ngalap lawid leh
so that they could catch fish

00:04:03jadi bubuh sineh pengeh nererak
and that fish trap was already torn

00:04:07ngaceku ba mio deh nemakai dih
because they had been using it for a very long time

00:04:10ketecan beker neh
only the rings are left

00:04:13buri' tau Lun Bawang pieh beker
in Lun Bawang we call it "beker"

00:04:15beker ini sebuleng war bang pulung
the "beker" is made from a vine taken from the jungle

00:04:20idih lun merar ngalap idih ngeseb dih
the elders collect it and burn it

00:04:22metueh ieh peh
so it becomes harder

00:04:23ineh luk belain deh beker bubuh
thats what they call the "beker" of a fish trap

00:04:26dih deh nemudut... milit bubuh neh
so they constructed and tied the fish trap

00:04:31jadi bubuh neh pengeh nererak
but the fish trap got torn

00:04:35ngaceku bulu' na tumaan
because the bamboo could not last

00:04:37idih beker nemanud
and the rings were swept downriver

00:04:39manud beker bubuh neh
the rings of the trap were swept downriver

00:04:42neteng ieh bang aken iUpai Semaring
and ended up in Upai Semaring's bathing place

00:04:46jadi idih anak buah iUpai Semaring temurun me' ngalap efa' bang aken
so one of Upai Semaring's relative's children went down to the river to fetch water

00:04:52dih ieh nier beker ineh
and saw the rings of the fishtrap

00:04:55dih ieh nengalap beker ineh
and she picked up the rings

00:04:57inuit neh bire kiUpai Semaring
and she brought it and gave it to Upai Semaring

00:05:01dih Upai Semaring nier beker neh
then Upai Semaring saw the ring

00:05:04"iiih, bura' peh rayeh pakel lai sinih nih," keneh
"wow, this man's leg ring is so big," he said

00:05:08dih ieh nari keneh
then he measured it

00:05:11miek burur iUpai Semaring semuet bang beker ih
Upai Semaring's body could even fit inside the ring

00:05:14"iiih, ba rayeh lemulun luk ini," buri' neh
"oh this person must be very big," he said

00:05:17"na mayu, na tauh miek ngelawan keneh"
"no chance, there is no way that we can fight him"

00:05:21"ba rayeh ineh"
"he's huge"

00:05:22"doo' tauh buro," keneh
"we better leave," he said

00:05:24dih buro iUpai Semaring nih dengan dueh anak neh
so Upai Semaring left with two of his children

00:05:28anak neh, Awang Sumaun sebuleng
one of them was Awang Sumaun

00:05:32Awang Alak Betatar sebuleng
the other was Awang Alak Betatar

00:05:34"doo' tauh nalan," keneh
"we should leave," he said

00:05:37nalan diteluh neh peh
so the three of them set off

00:05:38rat tunge' dayeh
from here upriver

00:05:40rat tunge' dayeh dih nih, puneng ebpa' tau tunge'
from our headwaters here

00:05:44ilung neh nalan-nalan me' matun dei' Bawang Pedian
and they walked all the way to Brunei

00:05:50nalan deh nih
they walked

00:05:51iapeh-iapeh inan deh nih tudo
and wherever they stayed

00:05:53doo' iapeh inan deh rudap
wherever they slept

00:05:55iapeh inan deh tudo kuman
wherever they sat and ate

00:05:57inan bekas-bekas luk inan deh tudo luun batuh
they left marks on the rocks

00:06:02kereb ieh tudo luun batuh
when he sat on a rock

00:06:04ineh peh inan deh mabud luk kenen
if their food supply finished

00:06:07dih deh ngalap pade
they got some paddy

00:06:08dih deh tupeh pade dih
and they pounded it

00:06:10ilung neh batuh neh mangun kudeng yung
so the stone became the rice mortar

00:06:13kudeng yung pade inan deh tupeh pade
like the rice mortar that they use to pound rice

00:06:16nalan pideh neh
so when they walked

00:06:18dih iapeh inan deh tudo, tudo luun batuh
wherever they sat on the rock

00:06:21inan bekas-bekas puet deh tudo luun batuh
they leave marks with their bottom on the rocks

00:06:25atau iapeh batuh luk ridu' deh
or wherever they stepped on a rock

00:06:28idih inan bekas balad kukud deh tudo ineh
you can see their footprints

00:06:33ineh iapeh-iapeh ulek deh mecing dei' Bawang Pedian
all the way until they reached Brunei

00:06:38idih papu' inan sebuleng lun rayeh dei' Bawang Pedian
and they met someone important in Brunei

00:06:45Bawang Pedian ngadan neh kereb dih
at the time the name was Bawang Pedian

00:06:50nekinih pieh Brunei nekinih peh
today it is called Brunei

00:06:52neh luk belain deh lun merar Bawang Pedian
that's what the elders called Bawang Pedian

00:06:54kereb Upai Semaring neh
during Upai Semaring's time

00:06:56jadi kereb ideh mecing dei' Bawang Pedian
so when they arrived at Brunei

00:07:00uih mada' cerita nih mala Bawang Pedian lah
I'm telling this story using the name Bawang Pedian

00:07:02Bawang Pedian, Brunei neh nekinnih peh
now it's known as Brunei

00:07:06papu' sebuleng lun rayeh dei' Pedian
they met someone important in Brunei

00:07:11buri' lun rayeh neh, "rat iapeh muyuh nih?"
and that person said, "where are you from?"

00:07:14idih deh mala, "kai inih rat tunge' puneng ebpa'"
and they said, "we are from upriver"

00:07:17"rat puneng ebpa' kai nih"
"we are from the headwaters"

00:07:20"rat Kalimantan Timur, Indonesia"
"from East Kalimantan, Indonesia"

00:07:27buri' lai rayeh lun Pedian nih
the man from Brunei said

00:07:32"mungkin inan ilmu muyuh nih," buri' neh
"you must have magical powers," he said

00:07:37"non diko ilmu?"
"what is your power?"

00:07:40"non diwih ilmu?"
"what is my power?"

00:07:43ieh pegayam dengan Awang Alak Betatar
he was talking to Awang Alak Betatar

00:07:49buri' Awang Alak Betatar
Awang Alak Betatar said

00:07:52"mo kudeng peh kiteh pian petutun ileh"
"if we want to test each other's skills"

00:07:55"non ileh ko"
"to test your skill"

00:07:57"non ileh diwih"
"and my skill"

00:07:58"makai naru' apui kiteh"
"let's make fire"

00:08:01"supeh apui mulun"
"and see whose fire starts"

00:08:03"doo' naru' apui kiteh nekinih"
"we better make the fire now"

00:08:06buri' Awang Alak Betatar
Awang Alak Betatar said

00:08:08"iko makai pelidik"
"you use matches"

00:08:10"uih peh inan pelidik teh," buri' neh
"I also have matches," he said

00:08:13"kiteh naru' apui"
"let's make fire"

00:08:15"ko naru' apui"
"you make fire"

00:08:16"sebelum kiteh naru' apui"
"before we make fire"

00:08:18"uen kiteh ngerereb pelidik kiteh bang fa',"
"let's dip our matches in water"

00:08:23buri' Awang Betatar
said Awang Betatar

00:08:26dih diweh pegai' ngerereb aneh dih bang fa', pelidik diweh
they both dipped the matches into water at the same time

00:08:32pengeh neh ieh ngecuk
after that he instructed

00:08:36"ko atun naru' apui," keneh
"you make fire first," he said

00:08:38ke lai eceh lun rayeh Brunei dih
he said to the man from Brunei

00:08:41dih lai sineh ngaceku mebaa' pelidek nidih
then the man, because his matches were wet

00:08:43dih ieh nutik-nutik pelidek nih peh
he tried to strike the match

00:08:45na ieh mulun
but it didn't light

00:08:46ngaceku mebaa' ieh
because it was wet

00:08:48"iiih, na pelidek uih nih mulun," peburi' neh
"my match won't light," he said

00:08:52"ko ieh peh," keneh
"it's your turn," he said

00:08:54buri' Awang Alak Betatar
so Awang Alak Betatar said

00:08:56"mo, uih ieh peh," keneh
"yes, it's my turn now"

00:08:57ngaceku tau Lun Bawang kereb dih
because we Lun Bawang at that time

00:09:01makai aneh deh, makai ubet kedeh
they used fibre

00:09:05makai bulu'
the use bamboo

00:09:07dih deh ngalap bulu' telang
they get some telang bamboo

00:09:10ruen deh midang buda'-buda' neh
and dry it until it turns white

00:09:13mengered deh, tueh-tueh linuh neh peh
so it's matured and the outer part is hard

00:09:16dih deh ngalap kudeng neh buri' tau pegku'
then they get something like broken china

00:09:20egki' keh atau upa enon, kudeng upa bigan
or broken pieces, half a plate

00:09:24dih deh ngalap ceh ubet
and then they get some fibre

00:09:26ubet lem pulod nih
fibre from the pulod palm

00:09:28ubet ratnan ku... ratnan pulod dih neh, buri' deh
fibre from the pulod palm, they said

00:09:32ubet lapen deh
they take the fibre

00:09:33neh luk halus tuu-tuu rat ku bang pulod luun pulung
the fibre from the pulod palm in the jungle in very fine

00:09:38dih ieh... ruen deh midang neh kering-kering
then they dry it until it is very dry

00:09:41nih buluh neh pun, ruen midang kering-kering
and they also dry the hairs of the fibres

00:09:43jadi sineh pakai Awang Alak Betatar
so that is what Awang Alak Betatar used

00:09:47dih ieh ngalap ubet neh
he took the fibre

00:09:49dih ieh ngalap bila' bigan keh
and then he took the broken china

00:09:52bila' enon lek luk pakai ieh lah
or whatever he used

00:09:55dih ieh ngasaa-ngasaa neh luun buluh peh
then he rubbed it against the fibre

00:09:58yuk ngasaa idih peh
and as he rubbed it

00:09:59mulun ieh peh
it lit up

00:10:00mulun ubet nidih peh
the fibres were alight

00:10:04ngaceku melau' buluh dih peh
because the fibres were hot

00:10:05dih ieh ngiup-ngiup deh peh
so then he blew on it

00:10:07dih ieh naru' apui
and made fire

00:10:08mulun apui Alak Betatar
so Alak Betatar's fire was alight

00:10:11buri' lai ceh lun rayeh Brunei dih
so the man from Brunei said

00:10:14"kudeng pieh kudeng neh," buri' neh
"in that case," he said

00:10:16"iko nih, inan ilmu," buri' neh
"you are more powerful," he said

00:10:20"rayeh ilmu minih peh," buri' neh
"your power is strong," he said

00:10:22"kudeng pieh kudeng neh peh"
"in that case"

00:10:23"doo' ko... iko tudo tunge' Brunei"
"you should stay here in Brunei"

00:10:27"iko mangun ku lun rayeh"
"you can become our leader"

00:10:28"ngimet Bawang Brunei nih"
"and lead Brunei"

00:10:31"ngaceku rayeh kuasa ko"
"because your power is great"

00:10:32"rayeh lalud ko"
"your power is great"

00:10:34buri' ieh, lai ceh luk Brunei neh
said the man from Brunei

00:10:38jadi ngaceku ineh peh
so because of that

00:10:41Awang Betatar, ieh ngimet Pedian
Awang Betatar became the leader of Brunei

00:10:45ieh tudo Pedian nih
he stayed in Brunei

00:10:46ieh ngimet Pedian peh
and became the leader of Brunei

00:10:47maya' kudeng peh cerita luk bila deh
according to the story which they told

00:10:51bang surat deh neh luk inau' deh ngayud Brunei neh
in the book that they wrote in Brunei

00:10:55Awang Betatar ineh, ieh luk puun-puun nenguwit lun Brunei semuat Islam
Awang Betatar was the person who converted the people in Brunei to Islam

00:11:03idih puun inan Islam dei' Brunei mecing nekinih
so that's why the people are Muslim in Brunei today

00:11:08kudeng ineh cerita luk ratnan Awang Betatar
that's the story of Awang Alak Betatar

00:11:14anak Upai Semaring
the son of Upai Semaring

00:11:16jadi Upai Semaring lemubed me' dei' dayeh dengan Awang Sumaun
Upai Semaring returned to the interior with Awang Sumaun

00:11:20jadi luk tau keli' nekinih
but we know today

00:11:23bukti-bukti neh
there is proof

00:11:25bang ceh kereb inan lun rayeh
one time there were some scholars

00:11:29tuda'-tuda' lun mileh rat dei' Brunei
several scholars from Brunei

00:11:33deh nguwit alat-alat icuk Sultan Brunei
they brought some tools on the orders of the Sultan of Brunei

00:11:37buri' deh, "kai pian me' nier iapeh bekas-bekas iUpai Semaring"
they said, "we want to see the marks of Upai Semaring"

00:11:44"kudeng pieh batuh," buri' deh
"as for the rocks," they said

00:11:47"kai pian nier batuh ineh"
"we want to see those rocks"

00:11:50"tuda' laak, tuda' ratu laak umur batuh neh"
"to see how many hundred years old those rocks are"

00:11:54"baru kai keli' idan Upai Semaring idih"
"so that we know when Upai Semaring existed"

00:11:59"luk ieh necing dei' Pedian, dei' Brunei," buri' deh
"when he arrvied in Brunei," they said

00:12:07jadi enem burur deh
there were six of them

00:12:09uih sendiri keli' kedeh mecing tunge' dayeh
I myself saw them arrive here

00:12:13nguwit alat-alat deh luk canggi-canggi
bringing very advanced equipment

00:12:16deh nier batuh
they looked at the rocks

00:12:18tuda' umur batuh luk inan Upai Semaring tudo
to see how old the rocks were where Upai Semaring stayed

00:12:22luk inan ieh tupeh bera kereb dih
and where he pounded the rice at that time

00:12:26mungkin bang kereb nekinih alat-alat luk inuwit deh
maybe today with the equipment they brought

00:12:31keli' ideh ayu'-ayu' tuda' laak Upai Semaring
they know how old Upai Semaring is

00:12:37idih neh imug bang Istana Sultan Brunei nekinih
and stored it in the palace of the Sultan of Brunei

00:12:44jadi maya' kudeng apeh cerita-cerita lun Melayu' Brunei
so according to the story of the Brunei Malays

00:12:50ideh pun mala
they also say

00:12:52ngaceku kai Lun Bawang luk muneng
that we Lun Bawang who are close by

00:12:55kudeng Trusan, Lawas mecing Ba Kelalan
like those in Trusan, Lawas and up to Ba Kelalan

00:12:58ideh ngerawe kai inih sebuleng pupu
they think that we are one people

00:13:02sebuleng inul ratnan Upai Semaring
all descended from Upai Semaring

00:13:07doo' dih Melayu' luk bang Brunei
both the Brunei Malays

00:13:10doo' lun Bawang luk pa Trusan mecing Lawas, Ba Kelalan
and the Lun Bawang from Trusan up to Lawas and Ba Kelalan

00:13:15inul Upai Semaring
we are all descended from Upai Semaring

00:13:17jadi nekinih ideh ngerawe
so now they think

00:13:20kai nih sebuleng tepun ratnan Upai Semaring lah
all of us are share an ancestor in Upai Semaring

00:13:25ngaceku ineh agan pana' ideh lun Islam
although they are Muslim

00:13:29kai inih lun Kristen, pupu Lun Bawang
and we are Christians, the Lun Bawang people

00:13:31iamo' kai inih rat bang sebuleng inul
we are from the same ancestors

00:13:34kudeng ineh cerita ratnan lun merar tau maun
that is the story from our elders

00:13:39ratnan iUpai Semaring
about Upai Semaring

00:13:41idih ratnan lun Melayu' dei' Brunei
and the Brunei Malays

00:13:45bang kereb dih, ngadan neh Bawang Pedian
at that time its name was Bawang Pedian

00:13:50kudeng uih am salah
if I'm not mistaken

00:13:51bang laak enem puluhan
in the 1960s

00:13:53masih tideh Trusan mala
people in Trusan still said

00:13:56"aba', me' iapeh muyuh?"
"uncle, where are you going?"

00:13:57"me' dei' Pedian kai"
"we're going to Brunei"

00:13:59"me' masui bua' baung"
"going to sell bananas"

00:14:00"me' masui dele"
"going to sell corn"

00:14:02"masui enon-enon dei' Brunei"
"going to sell whatever in Brunei"

00:14:03ilung neh, Pedian ieh buri' deh
that means they called it Pedian

00:14:06baru nekinih peh
it's only today

00:14:08anak-anak beruh nekinih
the younger generation today

00:14:10baru deh ngerawe Brunei
now they call it Brunei

00:14:12nekelupan deh ratnan Pedian
they have forgotten about Pedian

00:14:15ngaceku deh anak beruh
because they are young

00:14:18kuan kai luk merar pieh
for us who are older

00:14:19masih kai ngerawe enon cerita' lun ma' merar maun
we still remember the the story of our elders

00:14:22neh luk keli' kai
that's what we know

00:14:24inih satu cerita' luk bila-bila lun merar maun
this is the story that was told by our elders

00:14:28keli' tauh nekinih peh
and we know today

00:14:30ngaceku ratnan luk inayud lun rayeh Brunei maun bang meratu laak atun leh
from what the people of Brunei wrote some hundred years ago

00:14:36mecing nekinih metuu inan bukti ieh
and now they have proof

00:14:40metuu ieh peh
that it's true

00:14:40ratnan buku luk inau' kuh maca' dih
from the book that I read

00:14:44bukan hanya Lun Bawang sebuleng
it is not only the Lun Bawang

00:14:46me' ieh ku lun Iban
but also the Iban

00:14:47me' ku lun pupu-pupu beken dei' Kuching, dei' Sibu
and other peoples in Kuching and Sibu

00:14:52idih inul-inul iUpai Semaring bang neh peh
that are descendents of Upai Semaring

00:14:56luk netau luk bang Sarawak nih peh
among us in Sarawak

00:15:00mula' tau ratnan inul iUpai Semaring
many of us are descended from Upai Semaring

00:15:05kudeng neh luk uih mala kuan tau
so that is the what I wanted to say

00:15:09inih satu certia luk ruen kuh ninger rat lun merar tau maun
this is a story I heard from our elders

00:15:13idih mecing nekinih bukti neh
and now it's proven

00:15:15ratnan buku luk inayud deh lun rayeh Brunei
from the book which was written by the Brunei scholars

00:15:20bang tuda' ratu laak luk nepengeh
a few hundred years ago

00:15:23terima kasih kuan muyuh luk ninger
thank you all for listening

00:15:26inih mo' bala rat negku
that's all from me