Borneo Research Bulletin articles from January 1 2003

Borneo Research Bulletin archives from January 1 2003

Notes from the editor.(Editorial)
January 1, 2003... In This Volume There are few, if any, issues of greater concern to the indigenous peoples of Borneo at the moment than land rights. Questions of land and land tenure have been repeatedly raised in the pages of the Borneo Research Bulletin...

The right Reverend Peter Henry Herbert Howes: 1911-2003.(Memorials)(Obituary)
January 1, 2003... Bishop Peter Howes died peacefully at his home in York on 12th April, age 92. His had been a long and full life, the main part of it spent in Sarawak as an Anglican priest and missionary from 1937 to 1981, during which time he spent only three...

Orang Kaya Pemancha Kalong Anak Jemat: 1910-2003.(Memorials)(Obituary)
January 1, 2003... With the passing of Orang Kaya Pemancha Kalong ak Jemat of Lundu, an era has come to a close. The last descendant of a hereditary line of local headmen, OKP Kalong passed away at his residence in Kpg. Sungai Lundu on the 30th May 2003, aged 93...

Boundaries, territorial domains, and Kelabit customary practices: discovering the hidden landscape *.(Research Notes)
January 1, 2003... Introduction The landscape of a place is a historical record of the activities of past generations, "woven like a tapestry from the lives of its inhabitants" (Ingold 2000:15). Historical landmarks are often permanently carved into the...

Transformation of the Iban land use system in post independence Sarawak.(Research Notes)
January 1, 2003... Introduction Iban land use, their customary land tenure, and inheritance patterns have all undergone many changes in post-independence Sarawak. The purpose of this paper is to examine (1) how customary rights to land were created based on...

The long life of Charles Brooke.(Research Notes)(Biography)
January 1, 2003... Charles Brooke, the second Rajah of Sarawak, continues to languish as a subject of biographical interest. Apart from the brief treatment given him by S. Baring-Gould and C.A. Bampfylde, whom he commissioned to write Sarawak Under Its Two White...

Health in the Borneo Highlands: the Bario Kelabit.(Research Notes)
January 1, 2003... Introduction Unlike many areas in Borneo, Bario is cool, quiet, and sequestered. From a health perspective, the Kelabits are better off than many Borneo farmers. They still have a usable environment for subsistence. Bario has a clinic and...

Food resources and changing patterns of resource use among the the Lundayeh of the Ulu Padas, Sabah.(Research Notes)
January 1, 2003... This paper gives an account of the food resources and diet of the Lundayeh of Long Pasia and Long Mio at the end of the twentieth century. I describe the diversity of resources used and patterns of resource use, investigating the importance of...

Traditional medicinal plants of the Dusun Tobilung of Kampong Toburon, Kudat, Sabah, Malaysia.(Research Notes)
January 1, 2003... Abstract A documentation of the traditional medicinal plant knowledge and knowledge of their uses by the Dusun Tobilung was conducted in 1999 in Kampong Toburon, Kota Belud, Sabah. Based on interviews with seventeen informants within the...

Academic correctness under monarchy. Universiti Brunei Darussalam and its research.
January 1, 2003... Abdul Latif bin Ibrahim (ed.) 1996 Purih: Universiti Brunei Darussalam Dalam Satu Dekad. Kumpulan Esei Mengenai Negara Brunei Darussalam/A Collection of Essays on Brunei Darussalam. Brunei: Akademi Pengajian Brunei/Universiti Brunei Darussalam....

A letter from Lundu (19 October 2004).(Brief Communications)(Letter to the Editor)
January 1, 2003... Otto Steinmayer P. O. Box 13 94500 Lundu, Sarawak Malaysia The official name of our kampong is "Stunggang Dayak" but I constantly drop the "Dayak" as our Kpg. Stunggang is the real Kpg. Stunggang, the site of the huge Rumah O.K.P....

New and more recent dating for the bronze water buffalo and rider from East Kalimantan.(Brief Communications)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Dr. Martin Baler W.-Fra. Laur Weg 6 D-723 78 Hechingen Germany In a brief communication in the Borneo Research Bulletin, Volume 29, pages 226-231 (Brier and Sather 1998), we described the circumstances surrounding the purchase by...

Tree Flora of Sabah and Sarawak, Volume 4, was published in 2002.(Regional News)(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... Tree Flora of Sabah and Sarawak, Volume 4, was published in 2002. It contains information on 24 genera, 321 spp. (45 new); Aquifoliaceae (S. Andrews), Ebenaceae (F.S.P. Ng), Lecythidaceae (M.A. Pinard), Oleaceae (R. Kiew, 8 new species),...

Wildasia.net is an initiative led by Reza Azmi, a Malaysian-born conservationist.(Regional News)(Author Abstract)
January 1, 2003... Wildasia.net is an initiative led by Reza Azmi, a Malaysian-born conservationist. It is an internet-based resource about nature and the natural areas of Asia. Simple guides have been produced for a number of natural areas throughout Malaysia...

Michael E. Boutin has prepared an extensive bibliography on cassava which is available on-line as 2003.(Regional News)(Author Abstract)
January 1, 2003... Michael E. Boutin has prepared an extensive bibliography on cassava which is available on-line as 2003. SIL Electronic Working Paper. Cassava: An Annotated Bibliography, through the SIL website

Mr. Leslie Harold Newsom Davis, British Resident (administrator) in Brunei between January and August 1948, died peacefully at home in Heyshott, Sussex, on 16 June 2003, aged ninety-four.(Brunei News)(Brief Article)(Obituary)
January 1, 2003... Mr. Leslie Harold Newsom Davis, British Resident (administrator) in Brunei between January and August 1948, died peacefully at home in Heyshott, Sussex, on 16 June 2003, aged ninety-four. He is survived by his widow, three children and four...

Dr. J. P. Mogea is studying the diversity of rattan in Kalimantan and Dr. R. C. K. Chung obtained his Ph.D. with a study of taxonomic and micromorphological studies.(Kalimantan News)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Dr. J. P. Mogea is studying the diversity of rattan in Kalimantan and Dr. R. C. K. Chung obtained his Ph.D. with a study of taxonomic and micromorphological studies of Grewia L. and Microcos L. (Tiliaceae) in Peninsular Malaysia and Borneo at...

Lieutenant-General Sir Tom Daly (1913-2004), Chief of the Australian General Staff between 1966 and 1971, died in Sydney on 5 January 2004, aged ninety (Daily Telegraph, London, Thursday 15 January 2004, page 31, illustration).(Kalimantan News)(Brief Article)(Obituary)
January 1, 2003... Lieutenant-General Sir Tom Daly (1913-2004), Chief of the Australian General Staff between 1966 and 1971, died in Sydney on 5 January 2004, aged ninety (Daily Telegraph, London, Thursday 15 January 2004, page 31, illustration). During the...

Between 19 May and 10 June 2003, Dr. Irawati and Mr. U.. Mahyar (BO) in collaboration with the WWF Indonesia went to the Kayan Mentarang National Park for orchid training.(Kalimantan News)
January 1, 2003... Between 19 May and 10 June 2003, Dr. Irawati and Mr. U.. Mahyar (BO) in collaboration with the WWF Indonesia went to the Kayan Mentarang National Park for orchid training. They visited Tarakan, Long Bawan, and Data Dian and were accompanied by...

Indonesia Forests and Media Project.(Kalimantan News)
January 1, 2003... Indonesia Forests and Media Project (INFORM). The GEF has approved a "medium-sized" project to generate concern and to encourage action to enhance the long-term social and political foundations for forest conservation in western Indonesia. It...

Taufiq Tanasaldy is currently ennrolled as a Ph.D. student in the Department of Political and Social Change, the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, the Australian National University.(Kalimantan News)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Taufiq Tanasaldy is currently ennrolled as a Ph.D. student in the Department of Political and Social Change, the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, the Australian National University. Born in Mempawah, West Kalimantan, Taufiq...

Christian Oesterheld recently received his Msc in Conflict, Violence and Development from SOAS, University of London.(Kalimantan News)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Christian Oesterheld recently received his Msc in Conflict, Violence and Development from SOAS, University of London. Born in 1980 in Eschwege, he has done undergraduate studies in Languages and Cultures of Austronesia, Philosophy and Social...

WWF Malaysia has obtained funding from the ASEAN Regional Centre for Biodiversity Conservation (ARCBC) to conduct botanical studies at Ulu Padas, in the extreme southwest of Sabah.(Sabah News)
January 1, 2003... WWF Malaysia has obtained funding from the ASEAN Regional Centre for Biodiversity Conservation (ARCBC) to conduct botanical studies at Ulu Padas, in the extreme southwest of Sabah. A first expedition was carried out in April 2002 to the Maligan...

Ulu Sg. Palutan, Usun Apau.(Sarawak News)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... A botanical expedition to Ulu Sg. Palutan, Usun Apau was carried out between 23 March and 10 April 2003. Fifteen Malaysian and Singapore botanists involved in the Tree Flora of Sabah and Sarawak Project from FRIM, the Forest Departments of...

New Records of Orchidaceae from Sarawak.(Sarawak News)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... New Records of Orchidaceae from Sarawak. During a series of field trips in Sarawak between 1991 and 1998 by staff of the National Herbarium Nederland (L), in close collaboration with the Sarawak Forest Department (SAR), a considerable number of...

Carol Yong Ooi Lin. Flowed Over: the Babagon Dam and the Resettlement of Kadazandusuns in Sabah.(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... Carol Yong Ooi Lin. Flowed Over: The Babagon Dam and the Resettlement of Kadazandusuns in Sabah. Subang Jaya: Center for Orang Asli Concerns, 2003. xviii +217 pp., maps, figures, plates, glossary, bibliography. ISBN 983-40042-8-1 Facts are...

J.H. Walker, Power and Prowess: the Origins of Brooke Kingship in Sarawak, Crow's Nest (Australia).(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... J.H. Walker, Power and Prowess: The Origins of Brooke Kingship in Sarawak, Crow's Nest (Australia): Allen and Unwin, & Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2002, 300 pp. James Brooke's amazing career as Rajah of Sarawak has been explored...

Carol J. Pierce Colfer and Ida Aju Pradnja Resosudarmo, eds., Which Way Forward? People, Forests and Policy Making in Indonesia.(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... Carol J. Pierce Colfer and Ida Aju Pradnja Resosudarmo, eds., Which Way Forward? People, Forests and Policy Making in Indonesia. Washington: RFF Press, CIFOR, ISEAS, 2002, 433 pp. Indonesia has long been a favorite "locus" in the...

Bernard Sellato, Innermost Borneo: Studies in Dayak Cultures.(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... Bernard Sellato, Innermost Borneo: Studies in Dayak Cultures. Singapore and Paris: Singapore University Press and Seven Orients, 2002. 221 pp. + 16 pages of B&W plates. Bernard Sellato, the author of this book, is Director of the Institute...

Zahorka, Herwig, Die Erschliessungsfronten auf Borneo (Kalimantan) 1937 bis heute. Soziookonomische, ethnographische und okologische Veranderungsprozesse unter besonderer Berucksichtigung der Stammeskultur der Dayak.(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... Zahorka, Herwig, Die Erschliessungsfronten auf Borneo (Kalimantan) 1937 bis heute. Soziookonomische, ethnographische und okologische Veranderungsprozesse unter besonderer Berucksichtigung der Stammeskultur der Dayak, Libertas, Sindelfingen...

Kerry B. Collison, Indonesian Gold.(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... Kerry B. Collison, Indonesian Gold. Hartwell (Australia): Sid Harta, 2002, 613 pp. The central theme that runs through Kerry B. Collison's novel, Indonesian Gold, is that the natural environment of Kalimantan is now in peril, and...

Wright, Leigh, Julian Pauncefote and British Imperial Policy 1855-1889.(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... Wright, Leigh, Julian Pauncefote and British Imperial Policy 1855-1889. University Press of America, Inc.; Lanham, Maryland; New York: Oxford, 2002; ISBN 0-7618-2202-X; paperback; xvi + 141pp; index. The Right Honourable Sir Julian...

Errata.(Correction Notice)
January 1, 2003... p. 13: Sir John Bowring (rather than 'Bowering'). p. 44: Midlothian campaign: 1879-1880 rather than Autumn of 1885? p. 46, line 6 from foot: for 'set read 'sent'. p. 50, line 8: for 'affect' read 'effect'. p. 56, line 3 from...

Ellenberg, Michael, 2003, Brave Boys and Gentle Girls: an Anthropological Study of Children, with Focus on Social Change among the Iban in West Kalimantan, Indonesia.(Abstracts)(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... Ellenberg, Michael, 2003, Brave Boys and Gentle Girls: An Anthropological Study of Children, with Focus on Social Change among the Iban in West Kalimantan, Indonesia. Unpublished field report in Danish, Aarhus University, Denmark. In the...

Kuhnt-Saptodewo, Sri, 1993, Zum Seelengeleit bei den Ngaju am Kahayan. Auswertung eines Sakraltextes zur Manarung-Zeremonie beim Totenfest.(Abstracts)(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... Kuhnt-Saptodewo, Sri, 1993, Zum Seelengeleit bei den Ngaju am Kahayan. Auswertung eines Sakraltextes zur Manarung-Zeremonie beim Totenfest. Ph.D. dissertation, Department of Anthropology, University of Munich, 367 pp, illus, photos. This...

Kuhnt-Saptodewo, Sri and Hanno Kampffmeyer, Bury Me Twice.(Abstracts)(Movie Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Kuhnt-Saptodewo, Sri and Hanno Kampffmeyer, Bury Me Twice, ethnographic film, 127', IWF, G6ttingen, 1996. The Kalimantan village of Tumbang Malahui celebrates a death festival (Tiwah) during which 23 families re-inter a total of 35 dead...

Sather, Clifford, 2002, Commodity Trade, Gift Exchange, and the History of Maritime Nomadism in Southeastern Sabah.(Abstracts)(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... Sather, Clifford, 2002, Commodity Trade, Gift Exchange, and the History of Maritime Nomadism in Southeastern Sabah, Nomadic Peoples 6(1). 20-44. Even before the first European penetration of Island Southeast Asia, the maritime boat people...

Wadley, Reed L., 2003a, Ethics of Access, Boundary Keeping and Forest Resource Management in Indonesian Borneo: Potential Tools for Conservation Work among Mobile Peoples.(Abstracts)(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... Wadley, Reed L., 2003a, Ethics of Access, Boundary Keeping and Forest Resource Management in Indonesian Borneo: Potential Tools for Conservation Work among Mobile Peoples. IN: D. Chatty, ed., Mobile Peoples and Conservation, A Special Issue of...

Wadley, Reed L., 2003b, Lines in the Forest: Internal Territorialization and Local Accommodation in West Kalimantan, Indonesia (1865-1979).(Abstracts)(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... Wadley, Reed L., 2003b, Lines in the Forest: Internal Territorialization and Local Accommodation in West Kalimantan, Indonesia (1865-1979). South East Asia Research 11 (1): 91-112. The history of internal territorialization in West...

Bibliography.(Bibliography)
January 1, 2003... Abdul Latif bin Haji Ibrahim, Dr Haji 2003a Brunei Darussalam. Rantisan Sejarah dan Budaya [Brunei: History and Culture Narration]. 2003b Melayu Islam Beraja. Pengantar Uraian [Malay Islamic Monarchy: Introductory Description]. ...