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In 2002, a census of the Punan in eastern Borneo focused only on the villages, because so few nomads were thought to exist.

From New York Times • Sep. 19, 2023

Over decades, the Indonesian government stripped the Punan of their ancestral lands and encouraged them, sometimes forcibly, to settle in ready-built villages.

From New York Times • Sep. 19, 2023

Unlike the Indigenous farmers, who lived in long houses, the Punan roamed the island’s northern rainforest in family groups, hunting bearded pigs, harvesting starchy plants and gathering forest products for trade.

From New York Times • Sep. 19, 2023

In 2019, Brendan Borrell and Joshua Irwandi traveled by boat and on foot to meet the Punan Batu living along the Sajau River near Tanjung Selor, Indonesia.

From New York Times • Sep. 19, 2023

Hitherto we have designated all these groups by the name Punan, which properly belongs to the largest group only.

From The Pagan Tribes of Borneo by Haddon, Alfred C. (Alfred Cort)