Pagatan

Pagatan lies on the southeastern coast of Borneo, facing the waters between the island and Sulawesi. In the eighteenth century Bugis migrants from South Sulawesi founded a settlement here, carrying their language and maritime connections across the sea. With the permission of the Sultan of Banjar, they established the kingdom of Pagatan around 1750. Its community became a distinct branch of the Bugis world on Borneo's coast.