West Kalimantan

Above, receding forest cover near a company plantation in West Kalimantan, Indonesia.

Palm Oil Firm Rebuts Greenpeace Claim Andreas Isma 2010

Richard Zimmerman, founder of NYC-based non-profit Orangutan Outreach, was at the conference last week after returning from a rescue mission in West Kalimantan, where he and his team are in the process of building a critically needed rehabilitation center in the remote city of Sintang.

Deborah Bassett: Orangutan Genocide Continues in Indonesia 2010

Richard Zimmerman, founder of NYC-based non-profit Orangutan Outreach, was at the conference last week after returning from a rescue mission in West Kalimantan, where he and his team are in the process of building a critically needed rehabilitation center in the remote city of Sintang.

Deborah Bassett: Orangutan Genocide Continues in Indonesia 2010

KETAPANG - After getting a blood transfusion, patients RSUD Agoesdjam Ketapang, West Kalimantan, died Friday (9/1) at 22: 30 WIT ago.

Patients Died in Agoesdjam hospitals Ketapang, Because of false Transfusion 2009

By the time the Indonesian Army moved in to restore order last week, evidence of carnage was everywhere in the Sambas region of West Kalimantan province on Borneo.

Rule Of The Headhunters 2008

This gang is known as the Sambas Gang because all the members came from the town of Sambas, in West Kalimantan, Indonesia.

Indonesian Gang Rearrested. 2008

Many ethnic Chinese have entered politics, including the current minister of Trade, Mari Pangestu; the vice governor of West Kalimantan province; a great many local mayors; and about a dozen members of Indonesia's Parliament (their exact number is unknown since they use Indonesian names).

Chinese and Proud of It 2008

Professional spotters prowl Indonesia's neglected West Kalimantan province, collecting bounties as high as $100 for each mark they find for the brokers.

Bottom of the Barrel 2008

The images were from the island of Sulawesi, where Muslims and Christians had been fighting, and the province of West Kalimantan, where brutal beheadings triggered by ethnic conflict between Dayaks the old head-hunters of Borneo and Madurese were portrayed as Christians killing Muslims.

Seeds of Terror Maria A. Ressa 2003

In West Kalimantan, ethnic rivalries between the Dayaks, the old head-hunters of Borneo, and the Madurese spurred weeks of brutal beheadings.

Seeds of Terror Maria A. Ressa 2003