Tenggarong

Tenggarong lies on the Mahakam River, upstream from the old Kutai capital near the delta of eastern Borneo. Its position placed the court along the great waterway that carries the produce of the interior toward the Makassar Strait. In 1782 Sultan Aji Muhammad Muslihuddin moved the seat of Kutai Kartanegara here from Pemarangan. The new capital, initially called Tepian Pandan, became known as Tenggarong and remained the center of the sultanate.