| Clashes between Dayaks and the economically better-off Madurese have occurred for many years in Borneo. |
| Many sympathised with Dayaks as an indigenous people dispossessed of their forests by rapacious New Order development. |
| Fash said that it had all started with clashes in Karengpangi, Sampit, at which the Dayaks and the Madurese had serious misunderstandings in December. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| A Madurese community leader told me how he had been asked by the local government to sign a peace declaration with the Dayaks. |
