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.

A growing coalition of Indigenous communities, students and civil society organizations from Borneo is rallying against ...

KOTA KINABALU: After more than two decades, Datuk Seri Dr Jeffrey Kitingan (pic) is still adamant that the term “Dayak" is a more fitting representation of the natives in the Borneo island. Responding ...

KOTA KINABALU: The Borneo Dayak Forum (BDF) is playing an increasingly key role in building solidarity among an indigenous people spread across three territories who face threats to their culture, ...

PIKIRAN RAKYAT - The Dayak people, an umbrella term encompassing over 200 distinct ethnic groups, are the indigenous inhabitants of the vast island of Borneo. Their deep-rooted connection to the ...

The recent inaugural Dayak International Justice Congress in Keningau organised by Borneo Dayak Forum (BDF) raises several questions. Are the Kadazandusuns and other natives in Sabah ready to be ...

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The 'Hodoq Kawit' ritual performed by the indigenous Dayak during the 12th Mahakam Festival in Samarinda, East Kalimantan (11/4). ANTARA/Amirullah TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Four Dayak organizations from ...

Alena Murang’s second solo album, Sky Songs, continues the mission set out five years ago in her debut, Flight, which is the musical conservation of the endangered traditions and languages of Borneo, ...

Though suffering from a lack of priests and sisters, these are lively communities with many conversions, The tribal groups are asking for baptism and refusing to become muslims. Here is a report by Fr ...

We may never know for sure who inspired the phrase “wild man of Borneo”. Some say it was a pair of dwarfs from Ohio who exhibited themselves in P.T. Barnum’s freak show. Others point to Oofty Goofty, ...