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PIKIRAN RAKYAT - The vast island of Borneo, shared by Indonesia, Malaysia, and Brunei, is home to a rich tapestry of indigenous cultures. Among these, the Dayak people stand out for their remarkable ...

Soon after his ordination in 1994, Father Tadeus Sam Anyeq started to work with the Dayak tribe in East Kalimantan. Twenty-five years later, he has improved the lives of the tribespeople, ...

Indigenous women in Indonesian Borneo often have to combine domestic responsibilities with food cultivation, known as behuma in the dialect of the Dayak Pitap community in South Kalimantan province.

Dressed in colourful costumes, some sporting feathered headgear and traditional swords, several thousand of Malaysia's ethnic Dayak people paraded in the streets of Sarawak state on Borneo island ...

SAMPIT, Indonesia — From his hiding place in the Borneo jungle, Asmawi Ab watched as a band of headhunters caught his father, Palindo, 50 yards away. The elderly man fell to his knees and begged for ...

A culture for Dayak women includes a belief of beautifying herself. They do it with tattoos and elongating the ears. In Mahakam Ulu, older generations usually have elongated earlobe with silver or ...

An archbishop in Indonesia’s West Kalimantan province has called on young male members of a Catholic indigenous group to ditch a ritual aimed at making them invulnerable to attack, saying the practice ...

Between December 1996 and the beginning of March 1997, one of the worst outbreaks of communal violence in Indonesia in decades broke out in the province of West Kalimantan between indigenous Dayak ...

Indigenous Iban men gather during the Gawai Dayak Culture Parade in Kuching - Copyright AFP Mohd RASFAN Indigenous Iban men gather during the Gawai Dayak Culture ...

Indigenous Iban women gather for the Gawai Dayak Culture Parade in Kuching Dressed in colourful costumes, some sporting feathered headgear and traditional swords, several thousand of Malaysia's ethnic ...