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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 ...
West Borneo Special Region (Indonesian: Daerah Istimewa Kalimantan Barat) was a component entity of the United States of Indonesia in western part of Borneo.It was established on 12 May 1947 with capital at Pontianak.
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 Pontianak Sultanate was founded in 1771 by explorers from Hadhramaut led by al-Sayyid Syarif Abdurrahman al-Kadrie, a son of a Hadramaut Arab cleric from the Mempawah Kingdom and descendant of Imam Ali al-Uraidhi ibn Ja'far al-Sadiq, on Wednesday, 23 October 1771 (14 Rajab 1185 H) which was marked by clearing the forest at the junction of the Landak River, Kapuas Kecil River, and Kapuas ...
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.
Pontianak [a], also known as Khuntien in Hakka, is the capital of the Indonesian province of West Kalimantan, founded first as a trading port on the island of Borneo, occupying an area of 118.21 km 2 in the delta of the Kapuas River, at a point where it is joined by its major tributary, the Landak River.
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 ...
Kutai is a historical region in what is now the Indonesian province of East Kalimantan on the island of Borneo.The region shares its name with the native ethnic group of the region (known as Urang Kutai 'the Kutai people'), with a total population around 300,000, who have their own language known as the Kutainese language which accompanies their own rich history.