Crafts & Textiles
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Kapuas Hulu & Sintang, West Kalimantan
Ikat Weaving at the Ensaid Panjang Longhouse
3 daysMax. 8
FromIDR 3,300,000 / person
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Destination in West Kalimantan
Kapuas Hulu & Sintang
Longhouses on the upper Kapuas, where ikat weaving and customary forests are kept together.
Photo: Zhilal Darma · CC BY-SA 4.0
Tours in Kapuas Hulu & Sintang
2 tours available
Nature Trails
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Kapuas Hulu & Sintang, West Kalimantan
The Sungai Utik Longhouse and Customary Forest
4 daysMax. 8Challenging
FromIDR 5,800,000 / person
About Kapuas Hulu & Sintang
In the interior of West Kalimantan, a number of Dayak communities still live in rumah betang, longhouses on stilts where many families live side by side in rooms that open onto one long gallery. The longhouse is where kinship, tradition and a love of the forest are kept alive.
In Sintang, the Ensaid Panjang longhouse is known as a centre of Dayak Desa ikat weaving, done by women on gedogan backstrap looms. Further upstream in Kapuas Hulu, the Iban of Sungai Utik live in a longhouse more than two hundred metres long, built in 1973, and look after the customary forest that sustains them.
Getting there
Fly to Pontianak, then take a limited connecting flight to Tebelian Airport in Sintang or Pangsuma Airport in Putussibau. Overland from Pontianak is long: about 8–10 hours to Sintang and more to Putussibau.