News and Articles about Kalimantan/Dayak People

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News

Senior Government Official Fined by Adat Laws

The first in Indonesian history that a provincial-level government official was fined by Dayak elders for humiliating Dayak farmers.............

Articles

Five Main Principles of Dayak Environmental Management System.....

In this article, John Bamba describes clearly five principles of Dayak environemntal management system and how the system is affected by the current capitalistic economic system

Timber Estates Threaten Natural Forests............

Stepanus Djuweng puts it very frankly how industrial tree plantation projects threaten the existence of Kalimantan's natural forests.

Troubled Kalimantan Revisited...........................

Dr. JJ. Kusnie, a Dayak Ngaju who has been residing in Paris for more than twenty years, experienced the haze tragedy in his own homeland and tells us what was wrong with it.

Are the Dayak  on the Way to extinction?....

The Dayak are faced with the threat of extinction on three levels: They are faced with people who dismiss their culture as primitive, the urban lifestyle they see on television tempts their leaders to undertake study tours to the cities, and they are coerced to transfer their land to investors.