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Gusti Mesir became a prisoner of the Imperial Japanese army who captured Indonesia from the Dutch in 1942, so there was a government vacuum in the Kingdom of Simpang. At the end of the Japanese occupation in Indonesia, around 1945, Gusti Ibrahim, the son of Gusti Egypt, was appointed as king. However, because at that time Gusti Ibrahim was only ...
The Mempawah Kingdom (Malay: کرجاءن ممڤاوه , romanized: Kerajaan Mempawah) also known as the Mempawah Sultanate, (Malay: کسلطانن ممڤاوه , romanized: Kesultanan Mempawah) was an Islamic Dayak kingdom located in a territory now known as the Mempawah Regency, West Kalimantan, Indonesia.
The Kalimantan Physical Revolution (Indonesian: Revolusi fisik Kalimantan) was an armed conflict between Indonesian nationalists and pro-Dutch forces in Dutch Borneo in the second half of the 1940s. It began with the end of the Japanese occupation of the Dutch East Indies and the 1945 Proclamation of Indonesian Independence by Sukarno and ...
Judging from the size of the territory, West Kalimantan is Indonesia's third largest province by area, after Papua (421,891 km 2) and Central Kalimantan (152,600 km 2). The largest regency is Kapuas Hulu (31,318 km 2 or 21.3 percent of the provincial area), followed by Ketapang (30,019 km 2 or 20.4 percent) and Sintang (22,026 km 2 or 15.0 ...
The Dutch attempted to create an autonomous West Kalimantan state under the United States of Indonesia. [5] Independence was recognized in 1949 and autonomous states were absorbed into the modern country of Indonesia, and many Dayaks joined the new republican government, filling a power vacuum left by a lack of Malay rulers who formerly ruled ...
In 2019, President of Indonesia Joko Widodo proposed that Indonesia's capital be moved to Kalimantan. The People's Consultative Assembly approved the Law on State Capital in January 2022. [3] The future capital, Nusantara, is a planned city that will be carved out of East Kalimantan.
Sultanate of Bulungan کسلطانن بولوڠن Kesultanan Bulungan 1731–1959 19th century Coat of arms Map of the Sultanate of Bulungan (colored dark teal) and its vassals (light teal) in 1849. Status Vassal of the Sultanate of Berau (1731-1789) Vassal of Sulu (1789–1855) Protectorate of the Dutch East Indies (1834-1878) Part of the Dutch East Indies (from 1878-1949) Autonomous ...
Kotabaru Regency is one of the eleven regencies in the Indonesian province of South Kalimantan.It consists of two parts; the smaller (2,375.44 km 2) but more populated insular part comprises Laut Island ("Sea Island"), the largest island off the coast of Kalimantan (Indonesian Borneo), together with the smaller Sebuku Island off Laut Island's east coast and other even smaller islands nearby ...