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.

SAMPIT, Indonesia — From his hiding place in the Borneo jungle, Asmawi Ab watched as a band of headhunters caught his father, Palindo, 50 yards away. The elderly man fell to his knees and begged for ...

Soon after his ordination in 1994, Father Tadeus Sam Anyeq started to work with the Dayak tribe in East Kalimantan. Twenty-five years later, he has improved the lives of the tribespeople, ...

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The winding, slippery mud roads to the interior villages of Kalimantan, the Indonesian portion of Borneo island, are now familiar to Father Ruben Basenti Moruk. For the past three years, Father Moruk ...

Borneo is home to nearly 18 million people, nearly doubling since 1980. Borneo, like New Guinea, has long had two very different populations: lowly populated, highly tribalized groups in the ...

For Dayaks, especially those who live in East Kalimantan, rivers are the main source of life. Local communities cannot be separated from the river, starting with the Mahakam River, the largest river ...

Men in tribal dress stand amid dense jungle on the Indonesian island of Java, their bodies covered in elaborate, traditional tattoos inspired by cultures in distant corners of the vast, tropical ...