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Meratus

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Meratus 

a mountain range on the southeastern part of the island of Kalimantan, in Indonesia. Length, approximately 350 km. Elevation, to 1,892 m (Mount Besar). Mountains of medium elevation with rounded peaks and greatly dissected slopes predominate. The range is composed of granites, limestones, and crystalline schists. There are evergreen equatorial rain forests on mountain lateritic soils on the slopes.



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In recent years, oil exploration of the Meratus Basin, in Central Kalimantan, was curtailed.
At present it is presumed to be the official name for all extant Dayak religions of Indonesia, more exactly for what survives of them, especially in Central Kalimantan and along the borders to West and East Kalimantan (Tunjung, Benuaq Dayaks), as well as in the Meratus mountains of South Kalimantan.
Among the groups that have merged some of their timber concessions with MUSA are the Porodisa Group, owned by the Sumendap family from North Sulawesi, Indonesia, and the Meratus Kalimantan Timber Group, which was owned by the Sutrisno family.
 
 
 
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