Mandor

Mandor lies inland in western Borneo, among the gold-bearing hills north of the Kapuas. Chinese miners formed cooperative associations, or #italic kongsi#!, to work the deposits and govern their communities. The Lanfang organization emerged around Mandor in the 1770s under the leadership of Luo Fangbo. It became one of several powerful mining associations whose settlements linked the interior goldfields to the coast and overseas trade.