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Samboja
Samboja () is a district in Kutai Kartanegara Regency, East Kalimantan, Indonesia. As of 2023, it was inhabited by 41,607 people, and currently has the total area of 284.93 km2. Its district seat is located at the village of Kampung Lama. It borders West Samboja to the west and Muara Jawa to the north. Etymology The origin of this place name is still unclear, there are two theories: from a male given name, or from a purported Chinese sentence ''sam bo cia'' "not eating in three days". History The small town of Samboja was founded about a century ago in what was then rainforest when oil was discovered in the area. The first drilling began in 1897 near Balikpapan Bay. Dutch oil workers moved into the area to work for a company that was later taken over by Royal Dutch Shell and later still by the national Indonesian oil company Pertamina. The oil company began cutting wood in the 1950s and as people came flooding into the booming oil town of Balikpapan they cleared the s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samboja Lestari
Samboja Lestari is a Bornean orangutan (''Pongo pygmaeus'') rescue and rehabilitation centre, tropical rainforest restoration project, sun bear sanctuary, and eco-lodge located in the district of Samboja in Kutai Kartanegara Regency, East Kalimantan, Indonesia, owned and operated by the Borneo Orangutan Survival (BOS) Foundation. According to its founder, Willie Smits, Samboja Lestari uses the principles of People, Planet, Profit, attempting to provide incomes for local people using conservation.February 2009 TED (conference), TED talk, It is located about 38 kilometres from Balikpapan. The project covers about of previously Deforestation, deforested land. In 2001, the BOS Foundation began purchasing land near Samboja that, like much of the deforestation in Borneo, deforested land in Borneo, was covered in alang-alang grass (''Imperata cylindrica''). The name Samboja Lestari roughly translates as the 'Samboja Forever'. Reforestation and orangutan rehabilitation are at the core of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Willie Smits
Willie Smits (born February 22, 1957, in Weurt, Gelderland, the Netherlands) is a trained forester, microbiologist, conservationist, animal welfare activist, wilderness engineer and social entrepreneur. He has lived in Indonesia since 1985 and is an Indonesian citizen. He is married to Adrienne C. Watson since March 2016. Smits founded the Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation and has worked for the survival of this threatened species of ape, during which time his work has also broadened out into the related areas of sustainable farming, reforestation and remote monitoring of forests. He travels widely, raising awareness of the issues surrounding deforestation in Borneo and the plight of the orangutan. He became a senior advisor to the Ministry of Forests in Indonesia and has been knighted in the Netherlands. Training In 1994, Willie Smits received his MSc degree in tropical forestry, tropical soil science and genetics at the Wageningen University in the Netherlands, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kutai Kartanegara Regency
Kutai Kartanegara Regency (abbreviated as ''Kukar'') is a regency of East Kalimantan Province, Indonesia. It has a land area of 27,891.13 km2 and a water area of 4,097 km2, geographically located between 1°18′40″S and 116°31′36″E. The population of the regency was 626,286 at the 2010 CensusBiro Pusat Statistik, Jakarta, 2011. and 729,382 at the 2020 Census;Badan Pusat Statistik, Jakarta, 2021. the official estimate as of mid-2024 was 789,767.Badan Pusat Statistik, Jakarta, 28 February 2025, ''Kabupaten Kutai Kartanegara Dalam Angka 2025'' (Katalog-BPS 1102001.6403) The town of Tenggarong is the capital of the regency. The regency includes the middle and lower reaches of the Mahakam River, the longest river in East Kalimantan, including its extensive delta. The city of Samarinda is situated on the river, about 48 km (30 miles) from its mouth; it is an administrative enclave within the regency, which thus contains much of the metropolitan area of Samarin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
West Samboja
West Samboja (, ) is a district in Kutai Kartanegara Regency, East Kalimantan, Indonesia. As of 2023, it was inhabited by 31,513 people, and currently has a total area of 415.92 km2. Its district seat is located at the village of Tani Bakti. West Samboja was created from western parts of Samboja on 19 October 2020, and it is the youngest district in the regency along with Kota Bangun Darat. It borders Loa Janan and Muara Jawa to the north; Samboja to the east; West Balikpapan, Central Balikpapan, and East Balikpapan (Balikpapan) to the south; and Sepaku Sepaku () is a district of Penajam North Paser Regency, East Kalimantan, Indonesia. As of 2024, it was inhabited by 41,677 people, an increase from 40,322 people in 2023 and 39,738 people in 2022, and currently has the total area of 1,172.36 ... (Penajam North Paser Regency, Penajam North Paser) to the northwest. Governance Villages Samboja is divided into the following 10 villages (the rest are urban , rura ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
