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Central
Kalimantan
Central Kalimantan is huge province, covering South Central
Borneo from the Schwaner Mountains to the Java Sea. Kalimantan
Tengah-Kalteng-is the least visited region on the island. But
the Dayak peoples of this region are perhaps |
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Borneo's most traditional, and the Kaharingan religion, a government
sanctioned faith that has spread to other Dayak groups in Kalimantan
has its roots here. For the visitor, Central Kalimantan requires
initiative and the ability to travel like a Borneoan, by small
airplane and on speedboats, slow boats and canoes. |
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Kalteng has 153,800 square kilometers (59,382 sq.mi.) of swamp,
jungle and forest which are split by a series of roughly parallel
rivers flowing from the Scwaner and Muller Ranges in the north
to the Java Sea in the South. Most of the regencies follow Kalteng's
Major River systems inland to where the rapids make the transition
to the highlands and mountains. Two special districts |
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incorporate
the vast sparsely populated northern region of the province.
The total population of the province is 1.3 million. The coastal
extremities of the river systems are also thinly populated,
because of the swamplands, choked with nipa palms and mangroves
that extend in some place 30-100 kilometers (19-60 mi.) inland
from the coast. The exceptions are the towns of Kumai, Pangkalan
Bun and Sampit near the coast. |
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