This town is also popular as Kota Kalong, which means megabat city.

Louis Fan as Kalong (Kalon)

Other Hiligaynon dances are the harito, balitaw, liay, lalong kalong, imbong, inay-inay and binanog.

Stephen Kalong Ningkan tried to initiate a land reform law that allowed the natives to acquire full title of Native Customary Land.

Tun Stephen Kalong Ningkan (Sarawak 1st Chief Minister)

The name probably slightly shifted over centuries, from Kalingga, Kaling, Kalong, and later added with pe- -an circumfix forming "Pekalongan".

Neighboring districts are (from the north clockwise) Thung Wa, Manang, Khuan Kalong and Tha Phae.

Stephen Kalong Ningkan was appointed as the first chief minister of Sarawak on 21 July 1963 by the then Governor, Sir Alexander Waddell.

Persip Pekalongan have fanatical supporters of Kalong Mania and Sneper (Suporter Nekat Persip).

Neighboring districts are (from the northwest clockwise) La-ngu, Khuan Kalong, Khuan Don and Mueang Satun.

Tan Sri Datuk Amar Stephen Kalong Ningkan (First Chief Minister of Sarawak)

On 3rd October 2000, The Dalai Lama approved the amendment of the Charter regarding the election of the Kalong Tripa and the other Kalons.

The crisis broke out after 21 out of 42 members of the state legislature declared that they did not have confidence in Stephen Kalong Ningkan, the then chief minister of Sarawak.

In the weeks that followed they moved slowly northwards up the coast, through all the many fishing villages, Ular and Chendar and Kalong and Penunjok and Kemasik and many others.

Nearby Kanawa and Seraya Islands are a great opportunity to do some diving and snorkeling and every evening at Kalong Island thousands of flying fox bats put on an amazing display.

The minor district (King Amphoe) Khuan Kalong was established on June 1 1969 by splitting the three tambon Thung Nui, Pae-ra and Tha Phae from Mueang Satun district.

Stephen Kalong Ningkan, the then president of the Sarawak National Party (SNAP), became the first Chief Minister of Sarawak, while Wong became the state's first deputy Chief Minister.

Aziz's judgment held that in line with the case of Stephen Kalong Ningkan, former Chief Minister of Sarawak, the leader of a state government can only be toppled by a vote of no confidence in the state assembly.

As police and the army stormed the building, militants holed up inside opened fire, killing Sgt Maj Pongsathorn Niraphai of the Bannang Sata police station and Sergeant Major 3rd Class Sangsun Kalong, 39,a soldier.

Siswa/siswi started their studies in a temporary Tati campus at the College of Religious Sultan Zainal Abidin (KUSZA) before moving to the permanent campus in the Gulf Kalong, Kemaman, in 1996.

Over the next several years Saeroen continued to work as a journalist while opening several hotels in Cipayung with bat-themed names, including Kampret, Kalong (flying foxes), and Kelelawar (roundleaf bats); he is also reported to have helped raise the children of Titien Soemarni after the actress' death.