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 West Kalimantan -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
West Kalimantan ((The dialect of Malay used as the national language of the Republic of Indonesia or of Malaysia) Indonesian: Kalimantan Barat) is one of the (Click link for more info and facts about provinces of Indonesia) provinces of Indonesia.
West Kalimantan is further divided into two municipalities and ten rural regencies.
West Kalimantan was the site of substantial fighting during the (Click link for more info and facts about Indonesia-Malaysia confrontation) Indonesia-Malaysia confrontation under the (Indonesian statesman who obtained the independence of Indonesia from the Netherlands in 1949 and served as president until ousted by Suharto in a coup d'etat (1901-1970)) Sukarno government in the mid-1960s.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/w/we/west_kalimantan.htm   (577 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: West Kalimantan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
West Kalimantan (Indonesian: Kalimantan Barat) is one of the provinces of Indonesia.
West Kalimantan was the site of substantial fighting during the Indonesia-Malaysia confrontation under the Sukarno government in the mid-1960s.
East Kalimantan (Kalimantan Timur) Map of Kalimantan Kalimantan is the Indonesian part of the island of Borneo.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/West-Kalimantan   (1529 words)

  
 Indonesia - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Indonesia
Lavish incentives were introduced to encourage new foreign investment, assets nationalized by Sukarno were restored to their former colonial owners, and generous compensation paid for losses suffered by foreign companies as a result of Sukarno's policies.
In 1984, in response to an OPM-organized rebellion in Irian Jaya, Suharto announced a stepping-up of his ‘transmigration programme’, aimed at resettling families from overpopulated Java, Madura, and Bali in sparsely populated outer islands, such as Sumatra, Kalimantan, Sulawesi, and Irian Jaya, where interethnic friction was evident.
About 1,000 forest fires were burning in Kalimantan, the Indonesian portion of Borneo, killing or putting to flight endangered species such as orang-utans and proboscis monkeys.
encyclopedia.farlex.com /Indonesia   (6323 words)

  
 Kalimantan on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Fire in East Kalimantan: a panoply of practices, views, and [discouraging] effects (1).
Introduction to Danau Sentarum National Park, West Kalimantan, Indonesia.
Kalimantan Gold's Baroi Porphyry Shaping up to be Big.
www.encyclopedia.com /html/X/X-K1alimant.asp   (423 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Pontianak, Indonesia (Indonesian Political Geography) - Encyclopedia
398,357), capital of West Kalimantan prov., W Borneo, Indonesia, at the mouth of a small stream in the Kapuas delta near the west coast.
The chief city of W Borneo and an important port, it serves an area producing rubber, palm oil, sugar, pepper, rice, tobacco, and gold.
In the city are the Univ. of West Kalimantan and a private university.
reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/P/Pontiana.html   (166 words)

  
 Bali
For other uses of Balli, see Bali (disambiguation).
It is located in a chain with Java to the west and Lombok to the east.
The island is a popular tourist destination and known, along with Java, for its individual style of music, especially that played on the gamelan.
www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/b/ba/bali.html   (830 words)

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