Kalimantan

In the Dutch East Indies time, Kalimantan was known as Borneo. It didn’t mean that Kalimantan name was not known. Because of in the current time of the colonial Dutch East Indies government Kalimantan name more was known than the Borneo name for Kalimantan peoples. The Kalimantan name began to be popular again in around the 1940’s. In the 18th age, most of Kalimantan territories from the Sambas country until the Berau country were the subordinate kingdom of the Banjar Sultanate, but at the end it goes shrank to a small part of the South Kalimantan territory today because of the agreement with the Dutch. In the Karang Intan Agreement of Prince Nata Dilaga government (Susuhunan Nata Alam) (1808-1825), the Banjar Sultanate gave some of his territory to the Dutch East Indies government among them was Bulungan territory, Kutai, Pasir, Pagatan and Kotawaringin. The others area that was also given to Netherlands was the Porcupine, Sambas, Sintang and Sukadana. Only the core territory of the Banjar Sultanate that had not yet fall in the hand of Netherlands until 1860. Further in the 19th age, the Netherlands acknowledged the establishment of kingdoms (district area) that was direct command by the head of Bumiputera who was submitted under the Dutch authority (Indirect Bestuur). In the period of the Islam religion several Hindu kingdoms changed to the Islam Kingdom that had the nature of the Malay culture. Before the present of Moslem religious most of Kalimantan peoples were categorized cultured Dayak that consisted of the person Dayak, Melayu Hindu and Javanese Hindu.

Tanjung Puting National Park
You can participate in "orangutan tour". There are "Orangutan Rehabilitiation Centre" at Tanjung Harapan, Pondok Tanggui, and Camp Leakey. This is Indonesia's first orangutan rehabilitiation centre You can try spend a night at boat called klotok or at wooden house in the middle of junggle The existence of Tanjung Puting is important for the well-being of the surrounding local human population. The wetlands provide vital ecological services such as flood control, stream control regulation, erosion control, natural biological filtration system, and seasonal nurseries for fish which are the major source of local animal protein. Many of these services have an impact well beyond the local area. For instance, the waters surrounding Tanjung Puting attract fishing vessels from many different parts of Indonesia.
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Menara Keagungan
Interesting tower in Gorontalo. It's height are 65 meters and have five floors. Floor I : office and meeting Floor II : restaurant Floor III : souvenir shop Floor IV : - Floor V : - From the most top of tower, you can see almost all place in Gorontalo