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 ...

The Dayaks and ethnic Malays each make up about 40 percent of the population in Borneo's Kalimantan provinces. Ethnic Chinese, holders of much of the region's wealth, make up about 12 percent of ...

Almost all the victims have been Madurese, and many of them were beheaded by the Dayaks, who are descendants of a tribal group in Borneo known for practicing headhunting and cannibalism until the ...

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 ...

In recent years they have been marginalised by the rapid economic development of Indonesian Borneo and have found themselves competing with the Madurese for jobs. When violence broke out in 1997 in ...

Hundreds of Dayak demonstrators rampaged through this provincial capital in central Borneo on Friday, setting ablaze security posts and a police truck. Borneo Police Fire on Rampaging Dayaks - Los ...