Across Borneo, the Dayak people’s swidden agriculture depends on fire to replenish nitrogen in the soil, reduce acidity and kill pests that eat away at their crop yields.

More than a century after Dayak tribes on Borneo island declared an end to headhunting, the barbaric custom has returned with a vengeance as immigrant settlers are slaughtered.

TWO Liberator bombers circled high above the Borneo jungle, searching for a break in the dense tree cover. At last, they spotted it: a flat plain, on a plateau, suitable for a parachute landing.

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 ...

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

The company, MAS, arrived on the Indigenous Dayak Hibun’s ancestral land in 1996, and by 2000 had swallowed up 1,400 hectares (3,460 acres) of the community’s land within its concession.

Descendants of Borneo’s Dayak people attend a cultural festival in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, in 2016. The Dayak were once known as headhunters. (Pradita Utama/NurPhoto/Sipa USA) Review by Dennis ...

The grand finale of the Miss Borneo Dayak Cultural Festival 2025 saw 10 finalists showcasing their beauty and culture.

The Dayak tribe of Borneo painted, carved, and made intricate artworks with beads. Photograph by Herianus Herianus, Alamy. BOOK TALK; Two Men Set Out To Find Borneo’s Jungle Tribes.

As an anthropologist of Borneo, I had been carrying out research on Dayak peoples since the 1980s, and had recently begun a project on the impact of World War II on their lives. By the end of the ...

While BDF appears to be a pan-Borneo socio-cultural body aimed at uniting all Dayak tribes in Borneo, including the Kadazandusun and Murut people in Sabah, some suspect it has political intentions.

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Central Kalimantan Province is set to hold Dayak Borneo Culture Festival starting from June 1 to 6. The festival offers traditional dances, carnival, product and culinary fair of ...