Bornean Religions
BORNEAN RELIGIONS. From earliest times, the coasts of Borneo have been visited by travelers going between ancient centers of civilization in Asia. Since the sixteenth century Islam h...
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Borneo
Borneo is the third largest island in the world after Greenland and New Guinea. Politically, it consists of Kalimantan (the Indonesian portion of the island), Sarawak and Sabah (East Malaysia),...
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Borneo Peoples
The island of Borneo, the world's third largest, falls under the administration of three modern nations, namely Brunei, Indonesia, and Malaysia. Territories under Malaysia are di...
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Kalimantan
(2000 pop. 10.4 million). Kalimantan occupies the southern three-quarters of the island of Borneo in Indonesia. It is divided into four provinces: West, Central, East, and South Kalimantan....
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Pesta Menuai
Sabah, an East Malaysian state that occupies the northwest tip of the island of Borneo, celebrates Pesta Menuai (Harvesting Festival) each May to mark the end of the rice-harvesting seaso...
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Four members of a Borneo tribe are accused of torching a logging camp in a region home to one of the world's oldest rain forests, officials said Friday.The arrests illustrate frustrations among nat...
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Jakarta (dpa) - The worsening haze from illegal land-clearing
fires in Indonesia's Borneo and Sumatra have forced airports to shut
down and disrupted flights in and out of t...
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Jakarta (dpa) - Recent malaria outbreaks in two Indonesian
provinces have killed at least 24 people and sickened more than 600,
local media reports said Thursday.
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An environmental expert and an enterprise from Japan are working
in cooperation with locals to restore a vast extent of riverine
forest in Malaysia's Sabah State on Borneo Island in an ambiti...
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Jakarta (dpa) - Smoke from illegal land-clearing fires has
shrouded West Kalimantan province on Indonesian part of Borneo,
delaying flights from and into the region, the sta...
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Sarawak, Malaysia (dpa) - The bus edges its way along a narrow,
bumpy path, flanked by thick forest and soaring coconut trees, before
halting in a sudden clearance, scatteri...
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Gland, Switzerland (dpa) - Scientists have discovered an entirely
new species of cat - the clouded leopard - found on the islands of
Borneo and Sumatra, the Worldwide Fund f...
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Scientists have discovered at least 52 new species of animals and plants on the southeast Asian island of Borneo since 2005, including a catfish with protruding teeth and suction cups on its belly ...
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Bornean Religions
Borneo
4 Borneo tribesmen held in logging fire
