Selimbau

Selimbau was the leading river kingdom of the upper Kapuas basin in West Kalimantan. Remembered locally as the oldest Hindu kingdom in the region with a fully formed court, it was first called Pelembang and founded by Bindu Mahkota, also known as Abang Bindu Mahkota, whose seat lay about two kilometres from the later town of Selimbau. Its rulers passed through twenty-five generations, beginning as Hindu rajas and later converting to Islam, and ranked above smaller neighbouring Malay chiefdoms.

In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries Selimbau traded and fought along the Kapuas within the influence of the Sambas Sultanate, its power reaching upriver toward the Sarawak border. The Dutch recognised Selimbau's primacy over the upper Kapuas chiefdoms in an 1823 treaty.