Kalimantan

Speech parts

1. Kalimantan - Noun

2. Kalimantan - Proper noun

Meaning

3rd largest island in the world; in the western Pacific to the north of Java; largely covered by dense jungle and rain forest; part of the Malay Archipelago

the part of Indonesia on the southern side of the island of Borneo

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Examples

At the same time, the country suffered a severe drought and some of the largest forest fires in history burned in Kalimantan and Sumatra. Source: Internet

President Joko Widodo announced in August that the capital would move to a site in sparsely populated East Kalimantan province on Borneo island, known for rainforests and orangutans. Source: Internet

A multi-agency task force that includes the police and military is trying to fight the fires, which have shrouded Sumatra and Kalimantan in a dense haze. Source: Internet

But older poets from Kalimantan and the Sumatran mainland struggled to hold the crowd. Source: Internet

A wild orangutan is spotted in a tree during a rescue and release operation for orangutans trapped in a swath of jungle destroyed by a forest fire in Sungai Mangkutub, Central Kalimantan, Indonesia, in this January 7, 2016 file photo. Source: Internet

Four of the case studies are Indonesian: the Kedungombo Dam and the Tapak River in Central Java, coal mining in East Kalimantan, and the Tanah Lot development in Bali. Source: Internet

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