Hulu Pawan

The upper Pawan drains the forested interior of western Borneo towards the South China Sea. Downstream the river passes Tanjungpura and reaches the coast at Ketapang. In the seventeenth century Indra Laya, on the Puye tributary of the Pawan, became a centre of the Tanjungpura royal house; upstream communities and coastal rulers shared the river basin.