Orang Ulu of Sarawak  Alternative names: Natives, Dayaks,
various tribal names: Iban (Sea Dayaks), Bidayuh, Kenyah, Kayan,
Kedayan, Murat, Punan, Bisayah, Kalabit Location: throughout
Sarawak Population: 540,000 (1980) %of population: 44% of
Sarawak population Religion: indigenous animist beliefs,
Christian Language: various Dayak languages  The Orang Ulu
“peoples of the interior” is a name used by most of the native
Dayak ethnic groups of Sarawak to describe themselves.
Numerically they are the largest grouping in Sarawak, in 1980
accounting for 540,000 or 44% of the population. Other ethnic
groups are Malays (22%), Melanau (6%) and Chinese (29%). The
Dayaks are a diverse group, with many different tribes and sub-
tribes, and are part of the much larger Dayak community of the
island of Borneo, three-quarters of which is the Indonesian
provinces of Kalimantan.  Iban, or Sea Dayaks, are the largest
single group, which in 1980 had a population of 368,000. They do
not consider themselves to be Orang Ulu although