Urang Kanekes is a unique group of society that closed from outside influences, especially for their culture. Although they called themselves as an Urang Kanekes, Urang Cibeo or Urang Cekertawana, the outsider society call them as Urang Baduy.
In fact, they’re not an isolated tribe which is modern life and contact separated. They are just a group of society that set apart from outsider. Urang Kanekes, intentionally isolate their life from outside influences. It is forbidden to be moral praxis for them. For example, it’s prohibited for them to use detergent for laundry at the river or damaging the forest that is their living earth. All Baduiest, without exception, for centuries has been doing this prohibition. » Read more: Kampong Baduy, daily living and the way of its life
