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Fig. 2: Collapsed dolmen “cemetery” Pa Tenam, near Long
Umung, Krayan Darat district.
aging feature is that nothing is being done to con
serve the few still extant reminders of the culture
of past centuries. Of the urn-dolmen burial site at
Long Pulung, Sellato reports; “Recently it was ...
protected by a wooden fence with a locked door”
(1995: 74). In 2003, as part of a group, I visited this
site and found no sign of a fence. Several of the
urn dolmens had been upended by rising tree roots.
And it has been decided that the National Park’s
museum, archives, and central administration are
to be located in Malinau - a city not only rapidly
purpose-built as the modern capital of the Malinau
administrative district, and lacking any tradition of
its own, but also remote from all that is worth see
ing in the KMNP itself. 3
A more suitable choice of location would be
the Kotawaringin Barat administrative district. As
a one-time princely domain, it still has a “palace”
and ancient mosques belonging to the royal house;
longhouses on the Minangkabau pattern, and im
pressive Naga doors made by the Turnon Dayaks,
with their feasts for the dead, and carnival-style
masked dancing; it has the orangutan reserve at
Tanjung Puting, fully developed infrastructure, and
straightforward access for tourists. There is only
one drawback: the 200 km stretch of rainforest be
tween the coast and the mountains has vanished and
been replaced by oil palm plantations.
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