abstract:Kutai or Dayak Kutai is the traditional name of a historic region in East Kalimantan in Indonesia on Borneo and also name of Dayak people on the region with a language of the same name and their historic states. Today the name is preserved in the names of three regencies in East Kalimantan, the Kutai Kartanegara Regency, the West Kutai Regency and the East Kutai Regency.
Six companies affiliated with Nusantara held licences for six blocks in the East Kutai district of East Kalimantan province, but did not explore for coal.
According to Muhammad Darlis, one of Kutai's representatives in the provincial parliament, villages in the regency have nothing to show for the billions of rupiah channelled to them.