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KARANGPANGI, Indonesia -- -- As he kept watch over a vigilante checkpoint on the Indonesian half of Borneo island last week, an indigenous Dayak fighter brandished a blood-stained machete and ...
SAMPIT, Indonesia — Borneo headhunters waging a war of “ethnic cleansing” massacred 118 refugees as police were escorting the terrified villagers to what they thought was safety, police ...
They were taken in and protected by members of the Dayak tribe — the "wild men ... thrilling jungle adventure in “The Airmen and the Headhunters,” premiering nationally on Veterans Day ...
a dozen Dayak headhunters sat smoking pungent clove cigarettes, revelling in mass murder and plotting more. A 21-year old veteran of last week's massacres of Madurese said: "I felt so strong ...
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 ...
he indigenous Dayak community of Central Kalimantan has a long-standing tradition of conserving and protecting natural resources that reflects their socioreligious beliefs. This practice has been ...
In Indonesia’s Central Kalimantan province, Indigenous Dayak societies living in Pulang Pisau district received a lease from the central government to manage a peatland under Indonesia’s ...
right, with fellow Briton Elizabeth Speedy, dressed in the traditional costume of the Ibans, in Sarawak. Justina is spending her year out teaching the descendants of the fearsome Dayak headhunters ...
They were taken in and protected by members of the Dayak tribe — the "wild men of Borneo," infamous for their custom of hunting and smoking enemy heads. Months later, the airmen were found by an ...