A Madurese community leader told me how he had been asked by the local government to sign a peace declaration with the Dayaks. |
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He added that there are many other plants used by the Dayaks for traditional herbal medicines, but not all can be recognized by the botanists. |
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Its traditional market, extending toward the interior, and its unique scenery projected an image of a village typical of the Dayaks. |
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Many sympathised with Dayaks as an indigenous people dispossessed of their forests by rapacious New Order development. |
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Clashes between Dayaks and the economically better-off Madurese have occurred for many years in Borneo. |
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Borneo has been rocked by ethnic tension between Dayaks and Madurese for many years. |
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Fash said that it had all started with clashes in Karengpangi, Sampit, at which the Dayaks and the Madurese had serious misunderstandings in December. |
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Dulhadi said it was important to offer Dayak studies at colleges and universities in West Kalimantan because the province was home to such a large number of Dayaks. |
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In the 1999 Sambas riots, Dayaks and Malays joined together to massacre thousands of the Madurese migrants. |
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