Maratua Island, Berau – East Kalimantan

  Maratua island is one of the outer islands in Indonesia that located in Sulawesi Ocean and it bordered with Malaysia. Maratua island is administratively located on Berau regency, East Kalimantan. Maratua is a small and long island, and it has sharply curve at the edge and it located at the south side of Tarakan city. Maratua Island is also part of Derawan Islands.   By the strategic location and the richness of its marine, Maratua island is now popular by the Travelers from many countries. The tourists who give…

Bangkirai Hill, Balikpapan – East Borneo

Bangkirai Hill Bukit Bangkirai is a natural tourism area which is managed by PT. Inhutani I Unit I Balikpapan. This tourist area is located in Samboja District, Kutai regency, East Kalimantan. Bangkirai hill can be reached by traveling overland for 1.5 hours from the city of Balikpapan. This tour offers the charm of a tropical rain forest that is still natural, and facilitated with some infrastructures like restaurants, hall for meetings, a swimming pool and jungle cottage or cabin. In this area there is a canopy bridge along 64 m…

Kancet Ledo, Another East Kalimantan Traditional Dance

Kancet Ledo Kancet Ledo or Tari Gong, is another traditional folk dance from East Kalimantan. Looking at the name, Gong dance is a dance that instrumented by Gong music instrument. Beside, this dance is sometimes been performed above a gong. This dance is also representing the gentle movements of a girl that flick like the move of paddy in the field. This dance is presented by Dayak women that wearing Dayak Kenyah’s traditional clothes. The dancers are also use a huge Enggang bird’s feather tail on their hands and that…

Kancet Papatai, Dayak Traditional War Dance

Kancet Papatai Kancet Papatai is kind of Tari Perang or War Dance is a traditional dance from Dayak tribe, East Kalimantan. This dance is telling represents the heroic act of Dayak Kenyah hero that fought against the enemy. The movements of this dance is very lively and energetic and it follows by the squeal of the dancers. At this dance, the dancers are wore the traditional Dayak Kenyah clothes, and it completed by the traditional war equipment like Mandai, shield and armor. Moreover, this dance is also followed by traditional…

Sangalaki, The Home Of The Mantas

Sangalaki Island In the eastern part of Kalimantan and about 45 km from the Berau river, estuary out in the Makassar strait, lie several reefs ideal for scuba diving. The dive sites are famous for the large gatherings of manta rays and jellyfish lake. But in the reefs, in the Berau archipelago also live a lot of very interesting critters, hidden crabs and shrimps and unusual fish such as ghostpipefishes, scorpionfishes, Cuttlefish, Blue Ribbon Eels, Turtles, Manta Rays, Sharks, dozens of species of Nudibranchs, hundreds of species of hard and…

Tenggarong And The Legend Of Kutai Kartanegara

Tenggarong Tenggarong is a city district which become the capital of regency of Kutai Kartanegara, East Kalimantan, and it has 13 groups of Kelurahan. Dated back from the ancient history of Indonesia, Kutai Kingdom was the oldest kingdom in Indonesia. It prooved by the discovery of seven inscriptions written on yupa (stone monument) which was written in Sanskrit using Pallawa letter. Based on its palaeography, the writing may arise from the 5th century AD. From the inscription it was mentioned the existence of a kingdom under the leadership of the…

Tarakan, Between History And Nature

Tarakan Tarakan, is one of Indonesia cities and become part of East Borneo Province. Tarakan or also known as the Paguntaka Earth is an island located in the northern side East Kalimantan. Tarakan name, according to folklore comes from the Tidung language, Tarak (met) and Ngakan (eat) which literally means Place of the fishermen to take a break to eat, to meet and to make exchanges with other fishermen haul. In addition, Tarakan is also a meeting place of Kayan River estuary flows, Sesayap and Malinau. Northern East Kalimantan region…

Bontang, Another Rich City

Bontang Bontang is a city in East Kalimantan province, Indonesia. The city is located about 120 kilometers from Samarinda, directly have border to the East Kutai regency in the north and west, Kutai Kartanegara regency in the south and Regency Makassar Strait in the east. In this city stand three large companies in different fields, Badak NGL (natural gas), East Kalimantan Fertilizer (fertilizer and ammonia), and Indominco Mandiri (Coal) and has a petrochemical industrial area called the Kaltim Industrial Estate. Bontang city itself is oriented in the industrial, services and…

The Very Rich Balikpapan

Balikpapan “Gawi Manuntung Waja Sampai Kaputing”, this is the Balikpapan slogan taken from Banjar language which mean, when starting a job should be accomplish perfectly. Balikpapan, is Indonesia city part of East Kalimantan province. A resource-rich region well known for its timber, mining, and petroleum export products. There are some folklores that indicate the early begin of Balikpapan name, but there are no one for sure mention the right history about the name. Balikpapan, according to Bahasa Indonesia, balik is behind and papan is a plank. One of the folklore…

Welcome To Samarinda

Samarinda Samarinda is a city in East Borneo which also an official capital city for East Borneo province. The whole area of the city is directly border to the Kutai Kartanegara Regency. There are some historical time-lines that remain the build of Samarinda city from the early time until this present time. It start from Bungaya agreement to the arrival of the Bugis to the Sultanate of Kutai, this Wajo Bugis people are living in Samarinda at the beginning of the year 1668 or precisely in January 1668 that as…