KUALA LUMPUR, MalaysiaKUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — Members of an indigenous tribe in Borneo lost a case in Malaysia’s top court Thursday challenging the state’s seizure of land to build a massive dam. The ...

You don’t hear a lot in the news about Borneo, even though it is the third-largest island in the world. Its land is divided among three countries: Indonesia, Brunei and Malaysia. It’s the Malaysian ...

Separated by thousands of miles and the span of the world’s largest ocean, the indigenous tribes of California’s North Coast and the Southeast Asian island of Borneo were recently united with the ...

By Cassidy Beach In Borneo’s dense rainforest, some communities of Punan people still find their medicine among the trees.

A new report by JOANGOHutan, the Malaysian Network of Indigenous Peoples and Non-Governmental Organizations, paints an atmosphere of abuse and ambivalence toward indigenous communities embroiled in ...

Dozens of Penan tribespeople armed with blowpipes and spears have erected blockades across the roads cut by logging companies deep into their forest in Borneo. The blockaders are calling for an end to ...

The indigent tribes of the island of Borneo, in company with many other peoples throughout the world, are known to practise or have practised tooth mutilation. Fastlicht suggests that the term is ...

Borneo is home to nearly 18 million people, nearly doubling since 1980. Borneo, like New Guinea, has long had two very different populations: lowly populated, highly tribalized groups in the ...

KUALA LUMPUR (AFP) - Malaysian tribal activists who have fought for years against a planned hydroelectric dam declared victory on Tuesday (March 22), saying the state government has scrapped a project ...

At least fourteen people, including six members of the Penan tribe, were arrested in Malaysia today as they tried to voice their opposition to hydroelectric dams that will force them off their land.

For many, ”Borneo” conjures images of jungle teeming with leeches and snakes, of headhunters and the ”wild man of Borneo.” But Borneo today offers much more. The headhunters are gone but their tribes ...

You don't hear a lot in the news about Borneo, even though it is the third-largest island in the world. Its land is divided among three countries: Indonesia, Brunei and Malaysia. It's the Malaysian ...