« Back :: Cerita Rakyat Dayak Jalai: Bidik Menggaling (Folk Tale of the Dayak People in Jalai: Bidik Menggaling) Editor : Elisabeth Lilis For the Dayak people, oral tradition is not only the escort to sleep, but it has full of educational values, moral message, or norms of the people that must be obeyed together. This book is the one that asked us to act fully on nuance of wisdom, perseverance and the power through the leading figure of the story Bidik Menggaling. Bidik Menggaling, in this story was depicted as a very wise figure treated the fellow living creatures (animals) as the friend towards him created the better life. He cultivated an unirrigated filed very well so as to receive abundant results, as well as could face heterogenous the stinging problems so as to be able to remain in various conditions. This book is deliberate in form of comic, in the hope of pushing the interest of children in studying and understanding the folk tale that beforehand perhaps only was heard through the original teller. The most important matter, to bequeath the oral tradition that lived in the community, don't forget children. Therefore should not underestimate the oral tradition. Such is the deepest message from this book. Size: 17.7 cm x 25.5 cm ; 66 pages First Edition, December 2008