2001-05-22 04:00:00 PDT Long Lawen Village, Malaysia-- As village elder Sian Enjau performs a tribal war dance, he shouts loudly before pouncing on an imaginary human prey. Enjau, whose ear lobes ...

Borneo seemed like a good place to go. The robust local people — the Dayaks — rivaled the original Polynesians as tireless dancers and drinkers. Parties and storytelling raged until dawn in ...

The Dayaks make up about 40 percent of the population in Borneo's Kalimantan provinces. The word "Dayak" refers to the largely non-Muslim indigenous peoples who inhabit the interior regions of Borneo.

Many Dayaks see it as just a matter of time before paved roads reach their villages and palm oil companies buy their land to convert into plantations. Farmer Lambai Sudian sold his 25 acres of ...

In Borneo village, Indigenous Dayaks leave farming amid stricter fire ... One study estimated that the resulting air pollution blanketing Borneo and Sumatra Islands would lead to 100,000 premature ...

Borneo is home to nearly 18 million people, nearly doubling since 1980. Borneo, ... The inland people (Dayaks) were primarily hunter-gatherers with some shifting cultivation, ...

Malaysia's Dayaks mark rice harvest end with colourful parade. AFP AFP; Jun 21, 2025 ... sporting the traditional Iban headgear worn by one of Borneo's best-known tribes.

The Dayaks were soon engaged in a full-scale massacre. They attacked Chinese in their homes and in their shops, killing them, beheading them, even chopping out their livers and hearts and eating them.

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.

Malaysia's Dayaks mark rice harvest end with ... several thousand of Malaysia's ethnic Dayak people paraded in the streets of Sarawak state on Borneo island Saturday to celebrate the ...

Many Indigenous Dayaks here, however, say they believe the fine margins and risks of arrest have made farming unsustainable. The main office of PT Kalimantan Lestari Mandiri in Kalumpang village ...