Kalimantan in a sentence

Other major rivers include the Mahakam in East Kalimantan (convert), the Barito in South Kalimantan (convert), and Rajang in Sarawak (convert).

For Widodo, though, the concept dovetailed with his infrastructure-building spree, including several strategic projects slated for East Kalimantan province.

The show by boyband EXO’s leader Suho also garnered much attention from the spectators, who comprised not only Malaysians, but also those from West Kalimantan, Singapore, Brunei and even South Korea.

Azizul Zekri said this initiative is a joint effort with the Mayor’s Office of Pontianak in West Kalimantan.

But watchdog groups say more land, including peat swamps, is set to be cleared in Central Kalimantan as well as on the western island of Sumatra and in the eastern region of Papua.

One month later I saw people in Kalimantan beheading and disembowelling their neighbours.

Seafarers on the “Kalimantan Palm” cargo ship from Singapore which transports palm oil.

In 2018, another Jhonlin Group company filed a defamation case against another reporter, Muhammad Yusuf, who was arrested and died five weeks later in South Kalimantan police custody.

President Joko Widodo announced in August that the capital would move to a site in sparsely populated East Kalimantan province on Borneo island, known for rainforests and orangutans.

We do not want this capital relocation to be a kind of escape from the problems that Jakarta is facing; we don’t want to move those problems to Kalimantan.

Widodo last year announced he will move Indonesia’s capital to East Kalimantan province on Borneo island, to reduce the burden on Jakarta, which is overpopulated and sinking.

Aceh, Kalimantan etc. supported federalism for greater sovereignty and traditional authority.

A man walks through the Balikpapan-Samarinda toll road construction site in Kutai Kertanegara regency, East Kalimantan province, near the site of Indonesia’s proposed new capital on Aug. 30, 2019.

By word of mouth and through social media, many Ibans have learnt about their genealogy from friends and relatives who have visited Kalimantan and found that Dayak cultures and traditions are well-preserved in the homeland of their forbears.

He said, because of this awareness, the community in Kalimantan kept their surroundings clean.

Indonesian governments in the capital Jakarta on the island of Java have been seeking to move to Kalimantan province, which makes up the Indonesian part of Borneo island, ever since the country’s independence in 1945.

One suggestion would be to build a road from Serudong district in Tawau to Simanggaris, which borders north Kalimantan, he said.

Over 10,000 personnel including the police and soldiers were now working hard to put out the fires in several provinces in Indonesia such as in Kalimantan, Jambi, Riau and South Sumatera.

Police Brigadier General Dedi Prasetyo, a national police spokesman, told us that Medan in northern Sumatra, Surabaya in eastern Java and Pontianak in western Kalimantan are the most significant transit locations for pangolins.

The eastern part of Kalimantan is the country’s coal and oil hubs and Kutai Kartanegara, in which the new capital will sit, is Indonesia’s biggest coal producer.