After 1938, Dutch-Borneo ( Kalimantan ) was one administrative territory under a governor ( Governor Haga ) whose seat was in Banjarmasin.

In 1957, following the independence of Indonesia, Kalimantan was divided into three provinces: South Kalimantan, East Kalimantan, and West Kalimantan.

Sultan Muhammad Ibrahim Shafi ud-din II of Sambas in Kalimantan was executed in 1944.

The North Borneo Federation, also known as Kalimantan Utara or North Kalimantan was a proposed political entity which would have comprised the British Colonies of Sarawak, British North Borneo ( Sabah ) and the protectorate of Brunei.

The Transmigration program ( Transmigrasi ) was a National Government initiative to move landless people from densely populated areas of Indonesia ( such as Java and Bali ) to less populous areas of the country including Papua, Kalimantan, Sumatra, and Sulawesi.

In 1607 he was sent by the board to Sukadana West Kalimantan to rescue Hans Roeff, who had died when Blommaert arrived.

One of the largest scientifically measured specimens, which was from Balikpapan, East Kalimantan, Indonesia, was measured under anesthesia at and weighed after not having eaten for 3 months.

It may have had limited or entirely notional influence over some of the tributary states in included Sumatra, the Malay Peninsula, Kalimantan and eastern Indonesia over which of authority was claimed in the Nagarakertagama.

Invariably, when colonial rule was first felt in the Kalimantan Kingdoms, conflict over the subjugation of territory erupted several times between the Dayaks and the respective authorities.

In Indonesia alone it was estimated 13, 100 km² per year were being lost, 3, 680 km² per year from Sumatra and 3, 770 km² from Kalimantan, of which 1, 440 km² were due to the fires of 1982 to 1983.

Sukarno's proclaimed objective was not to annex Sabah and Sarawak into Indonesia, but to establish a State of North Kalimantan under the control of North Kalimantan Communist Party.

Claret was the code name given to operations conducted from about July 1964 until July 1966 from East Malaysia ( Sarawak and Sabah ) across the border in Indonesian Kalimantan during the Indonesia-Malaysia confrontation.

Their purpose was to seize the initiative and put the Indonesians on the defensive instead of allowing Indonesian forces to be safely based in Kalimantan and attack when and where they chose.

The border between East Malaysia and Kalimantan was not well defined and 22 Special Air Service reconnaissance patrols seem to have liberally interpreted its inexactitude from late 1963 or early 1964.

The government of Lanfang Republic was ended in West Kalimantan after the Dutch occupation in 1884.

West Kalimantan was under Japanese occupation from 1942 to 1945, when Indonesia declared its Independence.

West Kalimantan was the site of substantial fighting during the Indonesia-Malaysia confrontation under the Sukarno government in the mid-1960s.

The island of Kalimantan has or is to get a 122 km long railway for the transport of coal.

From 1611 to 1617, the English established trading posts at Sukadana ( southwest Kalimantan ), Makassar, Jayakarta and Jepara in Java, and Aceh, Pariaman and Jambi in Sumatra which threatened Dutch ambitions for a monopoly on East Indies trade.

In the coastal sultanates of Sumatra and Kalimantan, for example, sultans and others whose authority had been shored-up by the Dutch, were attacked as soon as Japanese authority left.

According to the International Union for Conservation of Nature ( IUCN ), Indonesia has 13 hornbill species: 9 of them exist in Sumatra, and the rest exist in Sumba, Sulawesi, Papua and in Kalimantan has the same hornbill species as in Sumatra, except the Rangkong Papan ( Buceros bicornis ).

Other groups in coastal areas of Sabah, Sarawak and northern Kalimantan ; namely the Illanun, Tausug, Sama and Bajau, although inhabiting and ( in the case of the Tausug group ) ruling, the northern tip of Borneo for centuries, have their origins from the southern Philippines.

In Indonesia the caves at Maros in Sulawesi are famous for their hand prints, also recently found in 38 painted caves in the Sangkulirang area of Kalimantan.

Vibrant Hindu communities remain in Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia ( as in Java, Bali, Sulawesi and Kalimantan ) ( for details, see Agama Hindu Dharma ), and the Philippines mainly due to presence of Indians.

* every operation to be planned and executed with maximum security, cover plans made, code names for each operation, soldiers sworn to secrecy no details to be discussed over radio or telephone, no id disks to be worn and no identifiable material to be left in Kalimantan,

Ever since Indonesia opened its mineral and natural resources for foreign investment in 1970s, East Kalimantan province has experienced major boost of timber, petroleum and other exotic forest products.

Balikpapan is a seaport city on the east coast of the island of Borneo, in the East Kalimantan, a resource-rich region known for its timber, mining, and petroleum export products.

In Kalimantan there are some 700 thousand transmigrants and their descendants in West Kalimantan, 400 thousand in Central Kalimantan, almost 500 thousand in South Kalimantan, and over a million in East Kalimantan, totaling 2. 6 million for the whole area.

In General, plates that start with K are from Kalimantan Island, D for other small islands, like Bali, Lombok.

Future plans for the dam include connecting it to an envisioned Trans-Borneo Power Grid Interconnection, which would be a grid to supply power to Sarawak, Sabah, Brunei, and Kalimantan ( Indonesia ).

Having been founded in East Kalimantan, Hidayatullah naturally has a great concern for the development of the remove areas of the province.

In other words, the Ngruki Islamic boarding school became a source for fighters and activists for Islamic da ’ wah, not only as part of a network in Central Java, but also in East Java, East and West Nusa Tenggara, Sumatra, Kalimantan ( Indonesian Borneo ), the Celebes, and With another meaning eventually Ngruki boarding belonged to the message of Islam fighters and activists, who not only have a network in Central Java, but East Java, West Nusa Tenggara and East Java, Sumatra, Kalimantan, Sulawesi, and various other areas throughout Indonesia.

The company also maintain a secondary hub for its oil & gas industry clients in Sepinggan International Airport, East Kalimantan, and operates limited scheduled services from Ngurah Rai International Airport on the island of Bali to the islands of Lombok and Flores.

During the 1930s the Dutch colonial powers initiated a " transmigration plan " to move people from heavily populated islands such as Java, to the less populated islands of Irian Jaya and Kalimantan.

Since 1970s transmigration of people to East Kalimantan was organised by the Indonesian government especially in areas near River Mahakam.

The Madurese were also major clients of the government transmigration programs of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, through which they settled in relatively sparsely populated areas of Indonesia's other islands, especially Kalimantan.

Harvesting of fruits close to the Kalimantan border where road communication is poor made it so difficult that the trading of fruits can only take place about midnight when the sellers emerges from the jungle after a day of harvesting.

By the 18th century, the area from Sambas to Berau were tributaries to the Banjar Kingdom, but this eventually shrunk to the size of what is now South Kalimantan as a result of agreements with the Dutch.

In 1958, the province of Central Kalimantan separated from South Kalimantan as its own territory.

The Chinese, who make up 29 % of the population of Sarawak and 17 % of total population in West Kalimantan, originally migrated from southeastern China.

* Dahl, Otto Christian, Migration from Kalimantan to Madagascar, Oslo, Norwegian University Press, 1991.

The Karimata Strait is the wide strait that connects the South China Sea to the Java Sea, dividing the islands of Sumatra from Borneo ( Kalimantan ), both in Indonesia.

The strait is about 150 km wide, as measured from the east coast of the island of Belitung to the west coast of Borneo ( Kalimantan ).

There have been serious outbreaks of inter-ethnic violence on the island of Kalimantan since 1997, involving the indigenous Dayak peoples and immigrants from the island of Madura.

In the mid 1990s, the most reliable sightings have been reported from the upper Kapuas River in West Kalimantan, and in the Gunung Palung National Park.

There are also a large number of Indonesian community living around the city, mostly coming from Celebes, Java, Kalimantan, Flores of the Lesser Sunda Islands.

Madurese Mandouriyah ( Jawi: مندوريه ) is a language of the Madurese people of Madura Island and eastern Java, Indonesia ; it is also spoken on the neighbouring small Kangean Islands and Sapudi Islands, as well as from migrants to other parts of Indonesia, namely the Tapal Kuda area comprising Pasuruan, Surabaya, Malang until Banyuwangi, Masalembu Islands, even some on Kalimantan.

Special forces were mostly reconnaissance patrols crossing the border from the Malaysian state of Sarawak or Sabah into Indonesian Kalimantan in order to find and monitor Indonesian forces who might attack Sarawak or Sabah.

These included SAS patrols, Border Scouts ( many of whom had relatives in Kalimantan ), information from locals gathered by Border Scouts, Military Intelligence Officers and Field Intelligence NCOs, and probably police Special Branch and others.

Java, smallest but by far the most populous ; Sumatra in the west, directly across the Strait of Malacca from Malaysia ; large, compact Borneo, the Indonesian sector of which is called Kalimantan ; and wishbone-shaped, distended Sulawesi ( formerly Celebes ) to the east.