The indigenous people (Orang Asal) who dwell on the island of Borneo are known as Iban, which means "people" or "human beings." Sarawak, West Kalimantan, Brunei, Sabah (Iban Merotai), and Labuan are all home to them. The Ibans are thought to be the first people to migrate to the old ISEA, according to a study by Genome scientists who investigated the human genomes of Asian tribes. In fact, based on examinations with Iban women, the findings of a study on the 50,000-year-old Deep Skull in Sarawak's Niah Cave were proven to be similar to those of Borneo natives themselves. According to oral history, the Ibans' social culture was formed and developed during the heyday of Austronesia in the Panggau Libau Kingdom in Tampun Juah, before the Ibans, Bidayuh, Ot Danum fan Ngaju, and other countries divided into many sub-tribes. The Ibans were originally known as the Sea Dayaks during the British colonial period in Sarawak and the Dutch colonial period in West Kalimantan.The Iban are known as "Sea Dayaks" because of their presence in the seas during the 17th to 19th century in the South China Sea. The "Vikings of the Eastern Sea" and the "King of the Sea of Borneo" are two European maritime peoples.The majority of Ibans live in communities in longhouses, which are frequently built on the banks of rivers or by the side of roads to enable work, communication, and socialisation. The style of life is built on traditional law, taboos, tolerance (tolerance), and intimate connection with one another.The majority of the Iban population now accepts Christianity as a way of life, while maintaining the ideals of customs and cultural features that reflect the Iban community's traditions.

         The world refers to the Ibans as "Masters of Language." Prof Derek Freeman, an Iban language expert, has asserted that the Iban people are true language masters. Prof Derek Freeman further noted that the Iban people are good at using language in every line of sentences, writing and constructing poems wonderfully, and having various varieties of poems that use sentence structure that suits the sound, as used in poetry and prose in  English.The Iban people who speak their own language, namely the Iban language, speak it in similar ways everywhere (except in terms of intonation). The Iban language is a single dialect. The Dayak-Iban people are the only indigenous people in Malaysia that use a visual writing system known as 'papan turai' to aid in the memory of folk poems (funny) such as tusut, pengap, and sabak, which are quite long and take an entire night to recite at specific ceremonies and gawai. This turai board technique is effective when the Iban people can accurately refer ancestors up to dozens of previous generations, record key events with physical documentation, and maintain native customs and civilizations.