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2 unusual facts about Kalimantan


Greater Sunda Islands

It contains all of Brunei, the Indonesian provinces of Central, East, West, North, and South Kalimantan, and the Malaysian states of Sabah and Sarawak.

Patih

In some cases the headmen of local communities could be termed Patih, for example on 16th-century Java and in Banjarmasin in southeastern Kalimantan.


Agung Laksono

Laksono is known for his brash condescendence and overtly harsh remarks towards Singapore, especially with regards to the island republic's diplomatic calls to the Indonesian government to curb the acrid trans-boundary haze that shrouds large areas of Sumatra, Peninsular Malaysia and Singapore annually as a result of extensive "slash and burn" cultivation in Sumatra, Kalimantan and other Indonesian territories.

Ba'kelalan

Tourism has increased in recent years: Ba'kelalan now has a 9-hole natural golf course, and the settlement is also the easiest point of access for visits to Kayan Mentarang National Park in Krayan, Kalimantan.

Bengkayang Regency

Bengkayang is located in northern West Kalimantan, sharing a border with Sarawak in Malaysia.

Berau

Berau Malays or Berau people, an ethnic group in East Kalimantan

Berau Malay language, language spoken by the Berau people in East Kalimantan

Bidayuh

They constitute one of the main indigenous groups in Sarawak & West Kalimantan and live in towns and villages around Kuching and Samarahan in the Malaysian state of Sarawak, while in West Kalimantan they are mainly concentrated in the northern Sanggau Regency.

Biodiversity of Borneo

Borneo island, made up of three countries which are Malaysia (Sabah and Sarawak), Brunei (Sultanate) and Indonesia (Kalimantan), is the third largest island in the world.

Bota

The Banjar people are a group of migrants who originated from Banjarmasin in Kalimantan, Indonesia.

Bukitan people

Then, in came the marauding Ibans from Kapuas (in Kalimantan), a powerful headhunting tribe at that time, attacking them and chasing them out of their homeland.

Castanopsis acuminatissima

Castanopsis acuminatissima ranges from southwestern China (Guizhou and Yunnan provinces) through Indochina (Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam, and the Chittagong Hills of Bangladesh) and Malesia (Malaysia; the islands of Sulawesi, Java, Kalimantan, and Sumatra, in Indonesia; the islands of New Guinea (West Papua in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea) and New Britain (Papua New Guinea)).

Central Kalimantan

The three major Dayak tribes in Central Kalimantan are the Ngaju, Ot Danum and Dusun Ma'anyan Ot Siang.

The three major tribes extended into several branches of prominent Dayak tribes in Central Kalimantan such as Lawangan, Taboyan, Dusun Siang, Boyan, Bantian, Dohoi and Kadori.

Gatot Soebroto

In March 1952, Gatot moved to Makassar to take over command of the VII/Wirabuana Military Territory, which covered all of Indonesia east of Java and Kalimantan.

Headhunting

In 2001, in the Central Kalimantan town of Sampit, at least 500 Madurese were killed and up to 100,000 Madurese were forced to flee.

Kalbar

West Kalimantan, known in Indonesian as Kalimantan Barat and abbreviated to Kalbar

Longhouse

Many of the inhabitants of the Southeast Asian island of Borneo (now Kalimantan, Indonesia and States of Sarawak and Sabah, Malaysia), the Dayak, live traditionally in buildings known as a longhouse, Rumah panjang / Rumah Betang in Indonesian, rumah panjai in Iban.

Mahakam River

The Dayaks are the indigenous people inhabiting Kalimantan beside the Kutais and the Banjars.

Since the 1970s transmigration of people to East Kalimantan was organised by the Indonesian government especially in areas near River Mahakam.

Marbled whipray

Among the few members of its family restricted to fresh water, the marbled whipray has been reported from Saigon in Vietnam, the Mekong River near Tonle Sap and Phnom Penh in Cambodia, the lower Nan and Chao Phraya Rivers in Thailand, and the Mahakam River in Kalimantan, Indonesia.

Museum Negeri Pontianak

Museum Negeri Pontianak is a museum in Pontianak, West Kalimantan, Indonesia, near Tanjungpura University.

N. mollis

Nepenthes mollis, the velvet pitcher-plant, a tropical pitcher plant species native to Kalimantan, Borneo

Ocean Park Conservation Foundation Hong Kong

Other research studies include: Irrawaddy Dolphins in northern Borneo,Malayisia and Mahakam River and Lakes in East Kalimantan, Indonesia.

Palmartona

It contains only one species, Palmartona catoxantha, which is found from Myanmar eastwards throughout Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia (Sumatra, Nias, Java, Bangka, Kalimantan, Sulawesi), the Philippines (Palawan) to Papua New Guinea.

Roy M. Huffington

In 1966 HUFFCO signed production sharing contract with Pertamina to explore oil in the Kutai Basin of the Mahakam River delta in East Kalimantan, Indonesia.

Sultan Abdul Hamid II

Sultan Hamid II (1913–1978), last Sultan of Pontianak, only President of the State of West Kalimantan

Tarakan riot

South Sulawesi Governor Syahrul Yasin Limpo had spoken with the East Kalimantan Governor Awang Faroek Ishak to inquire about the situation, and called for peace negotiations.

Tuhfat al-Nafis

The conflict occurred both in the provinces of Riau and in Kedah, Selangor, Siak and Kalimantan.

Vata Matanu Garcia

As a full-time manager Vata worked with Guntur Bali, winning the league in his only season, and also coaching in that country Mitra Kukar and Kalimantan (in 2004–05).


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