Kutai

Kutai is the name carried by 3 kabupaten (departments) of the province Indonesia of Eastern Kalimantan in the island of Borneo:

Kutai Barat
Kutai Kartanegara
Kutai Timur.

History

It is in Kutai that one found the oldest inscriptions of Indonesia known to date. Written in alphabet Pallava, they are reproduced on four sacrificial stone posts (called yupa in Sanskrit) which one dated from the surroundings of 400 after J. - C. They rent the generosity of king Mulawarman, wire of Aswawarman, towards the Brahmane S. There is not any more a trace in this area for: 1000 years which follow.

The names of Kutai and Pasir are attested as of the 14th century after J. - C. the Nagarakertagama , a poem epic writes in 1365 in the kingdom java are born from Majapahit, mentions them among the few hundred “regions tributary” of the kingdom. Actually, the territory controlled by Majapahit did not extend that on part of the east and center of Java. The “tributary regions” were in fact of the counters forming a sales network whose Majapahit was the center. Majapahit sent to it dignitaries of which the role was to make sure that these counters were not devoted to a private trade which would escape the kingdom.

The kingdom of Kutai Kertanegara had its capital with Tenggarong, on the river Mahakam, upstream of Samarinda, the provincial capital.

The mythical origin and the genealogy of the royal house are described in the Salasilah Kutai , written in a Malayan strewn with words coming from the language from Kutai and the Javanese.

Environment

The national park of Kutai one of the two zones of Kalimantan is dedicated to the protection of the Orang-outan S.

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