Sabtu, 10 November 2012

Ian Apokayan : Insects in the REAL world's longest


Ian ApokayanInsects in the REAL world's longest and ONLY FOUND THERE KALIMANTAN Island. Rod-shaped insect is defined as the longest insect in the world by a British scientist.
The specimen was found by local residents and examined by Malaysian amateur naturalist Datuk Chan Chew Lun. Unique insect is then given its scientific name: Phobaeticus Chani or Chan's megastick.
Paul Brock of the Natural History Museum in London said that this is the longest insect species discovered so far. The shape resembles a bamboo pencil thin, about 22 inches in length, and body length of about 14 inches.
Is greatness insect? These insects have the ability to camouflage to defend themselves. In addition, he is also going to spray toxic against predators!
Finally, we've got Phobaeticus Chani, the world's largest stick insect. The species an insane measure 1.6 feet long and, as you can see, looks an awful lot like just a regular twig. This particular species was discovered deep in the heart of Borneo, and only three specimens have ever been observed. Still, that's more than enough times for me to advise that, if you ever find yourself in the heart of Borneo, take a good look before picking up any twigs.
These are just a few of the strange and awesome animals that are found in the jungles of Borneo.



Ian Apokayan Insects in the REAL world's longest

Kamis, 01 November 2012

A orangutans are found in a state full of bullet wounds exposed her body in oil palm plantations, Pangkalan Bun, Central Kalimantan. An autopsy conducted Doctors Team Orangutan Foundation UK found a 104 grain bullet in the body of the orang-utan.

Pangkalan Bun - A orangutans


TEMPO.CO, Pangkalan Bun - A orangutans are found in a state full of bullet wounds exposed her body in oil palm plantations, Pangkalan Bun, Central Kalimantan. An autopsy conducted Doctors Team Orangutan Foundation UK found a 104 grain bullet in the body of the orang-utan.

»X-rays done in the head, chest, abdomen, legs and arms," ??said veterinarian from Orangutan Foundation UK, DVM. Zulfiqri, in a press release received by Tempo, Wednesday, October 24, 2012. Orangutans are found by a rescue team SKW II-BKSDA Kalimantan and Orangutan Foundation on October 10, 2012.

According Zulfiqri, from the body of an orangutan, named Aan was found 37 bullets in the head and 67 bullets were scattered over his body. »Several bullets also lodged in vital organs, including in the heart and lungs," he said.

Currently Aan, who is still in intensive care, in critical condition. »Aan likely to die due to severe infections in the head," said Zulfiqri. Shot in the head to make the holes that will be the entrance for various types of disease, including the types of deadly diseases.

The bullet lodged around the eyes and ears make Aan no longer have the ability to see and hear. »His left eye was blind when Aan was taken out of the oil palm plantations," said Zulfiqri.

According to the Liaison Officer Orangutan Foundation UK, Astri Siregar, the team will continue to seek the best way to be able to continue to live Aan. »Operations and treatments for Aan will be pursued to the fullest," said Simpson. When Aan able to survive, will be moved to one of the camp reintroduction in Lamandau River Wildlife Reserve, Central Kalimantan.

Head of Conservation Areas II-Natural Resources Conservation Center of Central Kalimantan (Kalimantan BKSDA SKW-II), Hartono SP deplored the conditions experienced by Aan. He was one of the orangutan species legally protected because it is endangered. »Other relevant Government agencies need to evaluate the provision permitting development outside the forestry sector to keep the balance of nature," said Hartono.
The shooting of orangutans often occurs in oil palm plantations. In January orangutan hunting action revealed by the discovery of the bones of the orangutan. Cases involving oil palm plantations PT Prima and PT Citra conformable Sabhantara Rawi Santosa, PT Khaleda Agroprima Malindo, in East Kutai Police disclosed East Kutai in East Kalimantan.

YULIAWATI
source: http://id.berita.yahoo.com/104-peluru-bersarang-di-tubuh-orang-utan-122401176.html #

Sabtu, 27 Oktober 2012

The Airmen and the Headhunters: A True Story of Lost Soldiers, Heroic Tribesmen and the Unlikeliest Rescue of World War II


The Airmen and the Headhunters: A True Story of Lost Soldiers, Heroic Tribesmen and the Unlikeliest Rescue of World War II
 
 
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The story behind The Airmen and the Headhunters: A True Story of Lost Soldiers, Heroic Tribesmen and the Unlikeliest Rescue of World War may sound like the plot of a movie but it is a true tale of survival. Judith M. Heimann draws on her long career as a diplomat and author to bring this little known episode of World War II to life.
Q: You spent a decade piecing together the events in The Airmen and the Headhunters: A True Story of Lost Soldiers, Heroic Tribesmen and the Unlikeliest Rescue of World War IIfrom hundreds of different sources. How did you first learn of this little-known but harrowing episode of World War II?
JH: In 1992 I was sitting in the War Memorial Library in Canberra, Australia, going through the papers of Tom Harrisson. I was writing a book about him because he had led a little-known special operations unit behind enemy lines in Borneo in the middle of WWII. One of the documents I came across was a letter addressed to Major Harrisson that was written in the rounded Palmer Method handwriting taught in American schools in the 1940s. The letter was signed by nine U.S. airmen—some army, some navy, with their ranks and serial numbers—who were being hidden in the jungles of Borneo by natives. I knew then that there was a story here that had to be uncovered and told.
Q: What kind of research went into understanding the unique psyche of airmen who flew in the B-24 bomber, both before they were shot down and after? Was WWII aviation new ground for you?
JH: In all, eleven U.S. airmen were shot down over Borneo, survived the war, and returned home. Of these, I was able to track down five while they were still alive; I interviewed each of them several times. I used taped interviews, memoirs, diaries, and other documents from these men and two others. I also interviewed wives and widows. I drew on all these sources to understand what was going on inside the airmen’s heads at various times in the story. I also read some very insightful comments about what this particular generation of flyers was like. I found Samuel Hynes’sThe Soldiers’ Tale: Bearing Witness to a Modern War, Paul Fussell’s Doing Battle: The Making of a Skeptic, James Bradley’s Flyboys: A True Story of Courage, and Studs Terkel’s The Good War: An Oral History of World War II especially helpful.
Q: How did the surviving airmen and their families respond to your interest in their experiences?
JH: With unstinting generosity and unswerving frankness. All of them felt the story should be told—and to a wider audience than they had been able to attract or reach on their own. Their interest was not mercenary at all; they just felt that the story—and the role the Borneo tribespeople play in it—deserved wider recognition.
Q: Set primarily in the jungle forests of Borneo,The Airmen and the Headhunters offers a rare glimpse of the daily lives of the island’s native tribes, the isolated Dayaks. By contrast, you are a seasoned world traveler. How did you find common ground with the Dayaks when you interviewed them?
JH: As a diplomat, I am less of a world traveler than I am someone who has lived for years at a time in different places where I’ve tried to fit in and feel at home. This way, I have a better sense of what the place and the people are really like, so that I can find things where we agree, work together, or at least understand where the other side is coming from. (That is why diplomacy can never be reduced to telegrams, phone calls, e-mails, or even teleconferences and occasional visits.)
In this case, I had already lived in Borneo for two years (in the 1960s) and I spoke the lingua franca (Malay). Also, the Dayak people already knew what I was interested in. In 2000 I had arranged for a woman they had known as a baby, Thea Makahanap, to come and ask questions on my behalf. She is the daughter of their wartime district officer (an Indonesian from another island), and she traveled there with her teenage son, Stefan. Then, in 2003, I made this journey, also accompanied by Stefan. He spoke no English but knew where to find the people I wanted to meet. As guests, we sat in front rooms of the houses of the people I wanted to interview; that was probably the most useful element in setting up successful interviews.
I also had enough experience of interior Borneo to know how not to behave: not to loom over people, talk loudly, wear shoes indoors, or touch people on the head. To me, it seemed obvious how to behave politely: dress simply but modestly, look people straight in the eye, shake hands, accept refreshment graciously, speak softly, and ask permission before taking photos or recording interviews.
Q: Your book paints the Dayaks as patient storytellers who draw out their tales for hours or even days. How did their culture of storytelling affect your research?
JH: I spoke Malay well enough that we could understand one another; not so well, however, that they did not feel the need to keep things as simple and clear as they could for me. Our conversations stayed pretty straightforward. I know of their long nights of storytelling from other occasions, when I was living in Sarawak, and from books I have read by or about these people. The most useful book I read on this topic wasChanging Borders and Identities in the Kelabit Highlands by Poline Bala, an inland tribeswoman who is now preparing for a doctorate in anthropology at Cambridge University.
Q: The Dayaks had moved away from their practice of headhunting by the time the Americans crashed on Borneo. Yet their decision to help the downed airmen elude Borneo’s Japanese occupiers sparked a return to this long-renounced ritual. How did the Dayaks feel about discussing this part of their past with you nearly sixty years later?
JH: They were perfectly comfortable talking about it. It was a known part of their not-so-distant past (the early 1930s). In any case, this 1945 activity was not headhunting per se. These Japanese men had been killed in a modern war because they were enemies, not to take heads. Once the enemy soldiers were dead, there seemed to be no harm in honoring these heads as they had honored heads from rival longhouses in the past.
Q: Have you always been a writer? What’s the secret to squeezing research and writing time into the busy life of a diplomat?
JH: Yes, I have always been a writer since childhood. My father and three uncles were all professional writers; my daughter and sister also write. I have done a lot of writing as a diplomat, much of it drawing on interviews with politicians and people who have valuable insights or information. Many of these interviews were conducted in what was for me a foreign language. I find people are more themselves in their own language and so, if I have the choice, I use their language rather than mine.
My books have been researched as opportunities arose but they have been written at times when I was in a period of doing little or no diplomacy. Currently, I work as a diplomat only a few days a week and only six months a year, which gives me time to write. I am already working on my next book, which takes place in Java, Indonesia.
Q: You’ve now written two books about WWII soldiers, including The Most Offending Soul Alive. What drives your continued interest in that era?
JH: I would start by saying that the chief interest for me is finding subjects where East meets West. My first overseas experience was living three years in Southeast Asia in the late 1950s, and it changed my life. But my interest in World War II in the Pacific has grown as I have learned more about it. I guess the biggest appeal for me is that this was a war all Americans can be proud of, up to and including the decision to save probably hundreds of thousands of lives—Japanese as well as American—by using the atomic bomb against an enemy that simply did not know how to surrender.

Jumat, 26 Oktober 2012

Suhardi Pandery: earth peg (medicinal plants)

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Naming earth peg does fit the shape of the roots of this plant is similar to wood or nails from wood that stuck straight into the earth. This plant is found growing in Borneo, it is no wonder then Pegs Earth become one of the most famous medicinal plant since ancient tribal society such as the banjo and Borneo Dayak. However, it is now very difficult to find this type of timber.

Wood is efficacious to overcome: Diabetes, High Blood Pressure, Increase Vitality, Uric Acid, Rheumatic, Back Pain, Asthma, Dental Pain, Itching, anti malaria.

Dosage: Soaked in hot water 15 minutes or more bra cup in half drunk after dinner.

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Sabtu, 20 Oktober 2012

things that only exist in Borneo


BANANA GAMBUR

 Banana GAMBUR

Have you ever come across this one banana tree, banana supposedly only grow island of Borneo, the Dayak people call it a Banana GAMBUR.

Specific features of this banana tree dr ill forming clumps grow single alias, and none were a child or shoot around, breeding through its seeds which is a lot, but bananas can not be consumed because it supposedly bananas as a natural contraceptive society Borneo, roots mixed with other materials and drunk so she is not going to have any more children;

from: https://www.facebook.com/sugeng.priyadi.12




Type owl Borneo.

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Oval face with the characteristic shape of 'leaf love'. Part not too bent and slightly flattened elongated faces hidden in the fur. Segment of leg length and the lower segment unfeathered. Thin black fur speckled with brown dominant color beige black:

from: https://www.facebook.com/mas.jiwo.pogogowl Borneo