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Oevaang Oeray – Third Governor of West Kalimantan [2] Cornelis M.H. – The Eighth Governor of West Kalimantan [3] Yurnalis Ngayoh - Vice Governor and 10th Governor of East Kalimantan. Olla Ramlan - Indonesian TV personality [4] Alue Dohong - First Dayak Deputy Minister of Indonesia; Veddriq Leonardo - First Dayak won Gold Olympic Games.
In 1957, the province of Kalimantan Tengah ("Central Kalimantan") or 'Kalteng' was officially established by a Presidential Decree. The local government was led by the Ngaju with Rawit as governor. The traditional religions of the Ngaju, Ot Danum, Ma'anyan and other Dayak was named Kaharingan ("power of life" or "way of life"). [1]
The following is a list of Dayak groups and their respective languages in West Kalimantan province, Indonesia: [1] [2] List ... Kayong Utara: Malayic: Ulu Sekadau ...
The Dayak (/ ˈ d aɪ. ə k / ⓘ; older spelling: Dajak) or Dyak or Dayuh are one of the native groups of Borneo. [4] It is a loose term for over 200 riverine and hill-dwelling ethnic groups, located principally in the central and southern interior of Borneo, each with its own dialect, customs, laws, territory, and culture, although common distinguishing traits are readily identifiable.
The independent state of Nansarunai, established by the Ma'anyan prior to the 12th century, flourished in southern Kalimantan. [4] The kingdom suffered two major attacks from the Majapahit forces that caused the decline and fall of the kingdom by the year 1389; the attacks are known as Nansarunai Usak Jawa (meaning "the destruction of the Nansarunai by the Javanese") in the oral accounts of ...
A Dayak war party in proas and canoes fought a battle with Murray Maxwell following the wreck of HMS Alceste in 1817 at the Gaspar Strait. [39] The Iban Dayak's first direct encounter with the Brooke and his men was in 1843, during the attack by Brooke's forces on the Batang Saribas region i.e. Padeh, Paku, and Rimbas respectively.
Mualang (also Moealang or Dayak Mualang) are an indigenous people of West Kalimantan from the Dayak group and a sub-ethnic of the Iban people. [2] They speak the Mualang language and they are mostly concentrated in areas in the Sekadau Regency and Sintang Regency of West Kalimantan, Indonesia. The specific districts where the Mualang people ...
The Meratus or Meratus Dayak is an ethnic group that inhabits the Meratus Mountains of South Kalimantan, Indonesia. The Banjar Kuala people would refer the Meratus people as Urang Baiju or Dayak Baiju , as they consider them to be the same as the Ngaju people .