Across Borneo, the Dayak people’s swidden agriculture depends on fire to replenish nitrogen in the soil, reduce acidity and kill pests that eat away at their crop yields.

PIKIRAN RAKYAT - The Dayak people, an umbrella term encompassing over 200 distinct ethnic groups, are the indigenous inhabitants of the vast island of Borneo. Their deep-rooted connection to the ...

The term was coined by Europeans referring to the non-Malay inhabitants of Borneo. There are over 50 ethnic Dayak groups speaking different languages. This cultural and linguistic diversity parallels ...

By Aseanty Pahlevi MEKAR RAYA, Indonesia — Yulius Yogi kneels under the forest canopy here on the island of Borneo, surveying land he plans to reclaim for his Dayak Simpan Indigenous community.

Dressed in colourful costumes, some sporting feathered headgear and traditional swords, several thousand of Malaysia's ethnic ...

The re-emergence of beheading in the latest ethnic clashes in the Indonesian province of Kalimantan has focussed attention on the customs of the region's Dayak tribes. Dayak is the general term for ...

PULANG PISAU, Indonesia — Bandi paddled through the black swamp, passing alongside banks of high brush outside Kalawa village here in the south of Borneo Island. The narrow canoe, known here as ...

More than a century after Dayak tribes on Borneo island declared an end to headhunting, the barbaric custom has returned with a vengeance as immigrant settlers are slaughtered.

Borneo: A new Church is born among the Dayak. by Piero Gheddo. Though suffering from a lack of priests and sisters, these are lively communities with many conversions, ...

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.