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East Kalimantan East Kalimantan is now divided into 6 regencies and 3 cities. Awang Faroek Ishak is its governor and Farid Wadjdy as its vice governor. This province is the location of the oldest Hindu kingdom in Indonesia, Kutai, the existence of which is attested to by a stone manuscript, or Prasasti, which is now kept in the National Museum in Jakarta. The manuscript is written in the Pallava alphabet and the Sanskrit language. The replica of this manuscript can be seen in the Governor's Office in Samarinda. Inscriptions on seven stone pillars erected in the 5th century BCE on the command of a local ruler, King Mulavarman, records his victories, his generosity to Brahmins, his princely genealogy. Until 2012, East Kalimantan was divided into ten regencies and four cities. The city of Tarakan and four Regencies were split off to form a new province of North Kalimantan on 25 October 2012, leaving the following regencies and cities to comprise the reduced East Kalimantan . On th...

Kakaban Kakaban island is part of the Derawan Islands, East Kalimantan, Indonesia. The most distinctive feature is the huge brackish water lake in the middle of the island, in the local dialect Kakaban means "hug" as the island hugs the lake from the surrounding seawater. In the middle of this island is a mangrove-fringed lake, slightly above sea level, where thousands of non-stinging jellyfish live making it interesting for diving. The jellyfish consist of four different species which have lost their natural defense system because of the lack of major predators in the lake. They are: Aurelia aurita with transparent body, Tripedalia cystophora which only has a tip finger size, Mastigias papua is likes a green-brown bulb, Cassiopea ornata which is upside-down jellyfish with their tentacles upright. Similar lakes exist in the Philippines Palau, with Jellyfish Lake being the best known. The lake has warm brackish water and the bottom is covered with marine green algae. Ther...