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Banjarmasin

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Ban·jar·ma·sin also Ban·djar·ma·sin  (bnjr-mäsn, bän-)
A city of Indonesia on a delta island of southern Borneo. An important deep-water port, Banjarmasin was part of a Hindu kingdom in the 14th century and passed to Muslim rulers in the 15th century. Population: 578,000.

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A valuable account of local responses to political control (first by the Banjarmasin Sultanate, then the Dutch after the Banjarmasin War of 1859-1862) in chapter 9, emphasizes the relative autonomy of local populations in making decisions about production and conservation (via sacred groves), despite interventions.
In the Banjarmasin plant, informal on-the-job training (OJT) is currently used to train new employees on the wood products assembly line, where they learn to assemble various kinds of wood products by working alongside an experienced worker, with little help from supervisors.
 
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