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  Camp Leakey Orangutans Adventure Tours & Tanjung Harapan rehabilitation center, Tanjung Puting National Park tour in ...
Kalimantan or Borneo island with total size around 746.540 square km, a 532.400 square km is belong to Indonesian region.
Central Kalimantan has the size 152.600 square km, and is one of Indonesian area with smallest population density.
Kalimantan is still a vast land to explore, it has vast tropical forest great rivers and specific ethnic group, the Dayak.
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  NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Central Kalimantan   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Central Kalimantan (Indonesian: Kalimantan Tengah often abbreviated to Kalteng) is a province of Indonesia, one of four in Kalimantan - the Indonesian part of the island of Borneo.
Central Kalimantan, is the biggest Indonesian province on the island of Kalimantan.
Palangkaraya is the capital of the province of Central Kalimantan.
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 Sectors of Development
Central Kalimantan is home to the Dayak people and the orangutan, and rapidly becoming a top destination for the more enterprising visitor to Indonesian Borneo.
Central Kalimantan is cross-crossed by ten fairly large rivers which all disgorge into the Java Sea.
The original inhabitants of Central Kalimantan are the Dayaks, who are believed to have migrated from Yunan in South China during the last Ice Age.
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 INDONESIA: Development Inspires Violence in Central Kalimantan
The governor of Central Kalimantan claims that 24,000 Madurese have left Kalimantan during the past week, mainly by ship to East Java, and he hopes that the rest will have departed by March 11.
In Central Kalimantan last year, four people died in incidents in Kumai in August and in Ampalit in December; much property, including homes and vehicles, was also burned.
As in other areas where "horizontal conflicts" have broken out, people in Central Kalimantan without power are turning on other groups because they are frustrated and do not know who else to blame for their day-to-day misery.
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 Kalimantan Gold Corporation Limited - Press Releases - Kalimantan to Advance Copper Prospects Through a Joint Venture ...
Kalimantan Gold Corporation Limited (TSX V: KLG) is pleased to announce the signing of a Heads of Agreement with Australia's Oxiana Limited (ASX: OXR) to advance exploration of Kalimantan's KSK Contract of Work (CoW) copper-gold porphyry prospects in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia.
Kalimantan holds exploration rights over a large 941km2 area in Central Kalimantan which is governed by the KSK Contract of Work (CoW).
Kalimantan will have an option to acquire the interest held by Oxiana at the time of withdrawal for 50% of the total expenditure to the date of withdrawal less the amount expended during the Initial Period.
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 archipelaGoCentral Kalimantan
Central Kalimantan is an area with a rich artistic heritage.
This town in the upstream regions of the Kahayan river was formerly known as the village of Pahandut in the regency of Palangkaraya.
Therefore, for the Dayaks of Central Kalimantan especially the Ngaju, the death ritual, called Tiwah is considered of the utmost importance.
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 Kalimantan (Indonesia Borneo) - Central Kalimantan, West Kalimantan, East Kalimantan, Cross Borneo
The population of Kalimantan is approximately 9 million people, most live in settlements along its rivers.
The Dayak, indigenous to Kalimantan, are forest dwellers and primarily Christian.
Kalimantan is also an "island of rivers" and is the only routes to reach all the way in to the heart of the island.
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 Kalimantan Summary
Kalimantan occupies the southern three-quarters of the island of Borneo in Indonesia.
The history of Kalimantan is a patchwork of Chinese, Malayan, Hindu, Muslim, and Dutch influences.
Hinduism reached Kalimantan around 400 CE, and the islands were ruled by Hindu kingdoms until, with the introduction of Islam, several sultanates emerged in the fourteenth century.
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 Borneo Orangutan Adventure Tour, Mahakam River, Explore Dayak, Cross Borneo / Kalimantan
West Kalimantan (Indonesian: Kalimantan Barat often abbreviated to Kalbar) is a province of Indonesia.
East Kalimantan (Indonesian: Kalimantan Timur often abbreviated to Kaltim) is a province of Indonesia.
South Kalimantan (Indonesian: Kalimantan Selatan often abbreviated to Kalsel) is a province of Indonesia.
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 Central Kalimantan: Palangkaraya, Kapuas, Kotawaringin Timur, Kotawaringin Barat, Barito
Palangkaraya is the province capital of Central Kalimantan and situated in the upstream region of the Kahayan river In the local Dayak language, Palangkaraya means a holy container.
Sampit town, on the Sampit river and the capital of Sampit regency, is known as the biggest timber port in Kalimantan as well as in Indonesia.
Pangkalanbun is the capital of the Kotawaringin Barat regency, in the western part of Central Kalimantan.
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 Kalimantan Island, Borneo, Orang Utan, Mahakam River, Tropical Rainforest, Eco tours - Indonesia   (Site not responding. Last check: )
West Kalimantan is bordered on the north by Serawak, East Malaysia, on the south by Java sea and Central Kalimantan and ranges east from the Natuna sea to meet the province of Central and Eastern Kalimantan.
West Kalimantan, as one of the member of Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philipina East Asean Growth Area (BIMP-EAGA) has rich potency and opportunities that can be offered to private sector for supporting the economic development of West Kalimantan.
Indonesia (West Kalimantan), Malaysia (Serawak and Sabah) and Brunei Darussalam agree to construct the road which are connecting the country and named it "Pan Borneo Hightway".
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 Borneo Facts on Kalimantan
he province of Central Kalimantan was created on 23 May 1957 after a combination of small scale guerrilla actions and intervention by Jakarta.
The Central Kalimantan Province then came under the automomy of the Dayak of Central Kalimantan in the 1950s.
entral Kalimantan for several centuries was under the control of Banjarmasin and the conversion of an Islamic province began at the begining of the 17th century with the banjar Sultanate tradition of life.
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 Pusat Data Kalimantan
South Kalimantan is one of the 27 province in Indonesia or one of 4 provinces in Kalimantan (formely called Borneo).
The province is bordered with East Kalimantan at the north, with Maccasar Strait at the east, with Java Sea at the south and with West Kalimantan and Central Kalimantan at the west.
The northern and central regions are mountain range which Meratus range, at the west lowland and swamp at the east forest and grassland.
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 CNN.com - Kalimantan: Indonesia's recurring nightmare - February 28, 2001
Kalimantan's ethnic tensions are still a powder keg, but it seems the fuse was lit by the government's ambitious plan for decentralization.
Part of the central government's decentralization plans included the redrawing of regional boundaries in Sulawesi and the North Maluku islands, creating new government posts, coveted for their political influence.
Despite the high death toll and grisly tales of beheadings, Central Kalimantan is relatively lucky.
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 BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | Indonesia flashpoints: Kalimantan
Kalimantan - the Indonesian part of the island of Borneo - has suffered from a number of outbreaks of inter-ethnic violence in recent years.
By 2000, transmigrants made up 21% of the population in Central Kalimantan, and the demographics of the region had changed dramatically.
The Madurese were not the largest migrant group in Kalimantan, but they were the principal target of Dayak anger because of their greater wealth and the long-held stereotypes each group held about the other.
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 CNN.com - Refugees flee Borneo violence - March 3, 2001
The violence that began two weeks ago left more than 450 Madurese settlers dead in Borneo's Central Kalimantan province, where Dayak natives beheaded and hacked their victims to death in a terror campaign to drive Madurese from the area.
Two ships carrying 7,000 refugees departed the Central Kalimantan town of Sampit on Friday and were scheduled to arrive in Surabaya, in East Java, late on Saturday.
Ripples from crisis in Central Kalimantan are being felt in Indonesia's capital, Jakarta, where both President Abdurrahman Wahid and Vice President Megawati Sukarnoputri have been criticized for their handling of the situation.
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 Orangutans online
Many people in Central Kalimantan had reported respiratory problems and eye irritation stemming from the thickening smoke, a local environmentalist said.
In Central Kalimantan, at least one plane canceled its scheduled landing on Tuesday morning in the provincial capital of Palangkaraya as visibility there remained low at around 500 meters even after the sun rose.
Meanwhile in South Kalimantan, head of the province's forestry office Sony Partono said at least 68 hot spots were detected there through satellite monitoring.
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 Central kalimantan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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 CNN.com - Borneo hit by choking haze - Sep. 20, 2002
The haze that has consistently blanketed parts of Kalimantan is caused by the slash-and-burn land clearance method employed by farmers, the forest clearing activities of large corporations and coal fires smoldering on peatland.
Hidayat, a meteorology official in the Central Kalimantan capital said conditions were horrible in the city, where visibility had dropped to 10 meters (11 yards) since Thursday.
Hidayat said other parts of Central Kalimantan province were suffering from haze, although not as bad as Palangkaraya, a key transit point on the Indonesian side of Borneo.
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 Introduction
The Central Kalimantan forest also produces a number of other products that bring cash into local economic activities like Damar Resin and Kulit Gemur (a tree bark used in insect repellent), ellipe nuts yield and oli which is processed into cosmetic as well.
The first is the Tribes of Mahakam River, situated in Eastern Borneo (East Kalimantan), the second is the Tribes of Barito River which runs through the province of Central Kalimantan and South Kalimantan, and thirdly is the Tribes of Kahayan River, which ran through the province of Central Kalimantan and West Kalimantan.
There are two major tribes that resides in Central Kalimantan, the first is the tribes of Dayak Ngaju or Dayak Kapuas, and the second is the tribe of Dayak Ma'anyan.
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 HeartOfDarkness
Indeed, in the case of the 1997 violence in West Kalimantan, local Chinese and Malay populations - themselves descendants of migrants, many of whom had arrived in the Dutch colonial period (1602-1942) - joined with the Dayak to attack the Madurese.
The province of East Kalimantan has shown the way forward here by announcing that it intends to make all junior and senior high school education free for local inhabitants once it starts receiving expected royalties from foreign oil and gas, and mining companies.
Central Kalimantan may not have such assets at its disposal, but the combination of timber, agriculture and tourism could generate sufficient income to ensure better social welfare facilities and economic opportunities for all its people.
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 KALIMANTAN
The capital city of East Kalimantan Province is Balikpapan.
The people of East Kalimantan have traditional dances that are performed for certain events, including Erau Pelas Talun (Cleaning the village), Tepung Tawar (Welcoming the visitor), Kelebur Bejamug (Farewell ceremony), Erau Padi/Bob jengen/Bunut (Harvesting ceremony), Meniwa (Thanking God), Belian (Healing of sick people), and Kwangkay (Burial ceremony).
Banjarmasin is the capital city of South Kalimantan Province.
www.seasite.niu.edu /indonesian/Budaya_Bangsa/TMII/Kalimantan.htm   (314 words)

  
 Majestic Kalimantan
One of the main attractions of West Kalimantan is the culture of its Dayak ethnic groups.
At the end of the 19th century, Central Kalimantan, according to the Dutch Colonials, was included in the residence of South Kalimantan.
Central Kalimantan was a part of the larger province of Kalimantan.
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 Conflict resolution, prevention, and transformation: Search for Common Ground
The main objective of the programme is to show how the youth of Central Kalimantan and Madurese IDPs can work together although they have been in a conflict situation, and that they can freely express, create and share their ideas using their own media.
Thus the Peace Journalism programme in Central Kalimantan and Madura works towards engaging journalists from these regions to understand the importance of their role in contributing to conflict resolution, and giving them practical skills to maximise this role.
Training is followed up by guided working visits to the 'other side,' meaning Madurese journalists visiting Central Kalimantan and reporting on IDP return and reconciliation, and Dayak journalists visiting Madura and reporting on the IDP situation and other aspects of life there.
www.sfcg.org /Programmes/indonesia/indonesia_kalimantan.html   (516 words)

  
 Indonesia.NL - Kalimantan :Central Kalimantan   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Palangkaraya is the province capital of Central Kalimantan and situated in the upstream region of the Kahayan River.
Sampit town, the capital of Sampit regency, is known as the biggest timber port in Kalimantan as well as in Indonesia.
Pangkalanbun is the capital of the Kotawaringin Barat Regency, in the western part of Central Kalimantan and is a busy town.
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