In Indonesian Borneo, a community of Indigenous Dayak Iban have fought for the past four decades to protect vast swaths of rainforest that are home to a diverse number of songbirds. For the Sungai ...

In the rainforests of West Kalimantan, in Indonesian Borneo, the Indigenous Dayak Iban listen to what they call “omen birds,” ...

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A palm oil company is rapidly clearing rainforest inside a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve that’s home to orangutans and sun bears, ...

Over the past half century the rainforests of Borneo have been logged, strip-mined, burned, and converted for monoculture plantations. The forests that local people primarily relied upon for ...

Muhyiddin would arrive by helicopter at the longhouse at 11am, revealed Deputy Minister of Information, Communication and Culture, Datuk Joseph Salang. “He will be accorded a traditional welcome on ...

Dayak, the general term to describe the indigenous groups and non-Muslim bumiputras in Sarawak, will be out of official use soon. On Monday, the 62-member Sarawak legislative assembly approved ...

KUCHING: The rich culture and traditions of Sarawak's Iban community will be on show at the Sarawak Tourism Federation's (STF) Gawai Dayak open house in June. STF president Audry Wan Ullok said the ...

Thu, November 16, 2017 Published on Nov. 16, 2017 Published on 2017-11-16T01:54:29+07:00 Hidden in the jungles of Kalimantan away from the hustle of urban life, in a betang (traditional long house) in ...