Kutai Kartanegara ing Martadipura Sultanate also gives awards for Non-Relatives outside the Palace. The award was given as an expression of appreciation for service and devotion to the Sultanate especially, East Kalimantan or to the Republic of Indonesia Generally.
The award is usually given coincides with the moment, for example in the series of anniversary celebrations of Sultan Kutai and others. One event conferring the award of Sultanate is when 85th birthday celebration as well as 10-year tenure of Sultan H. Mohd Adji Salehoeddin II in Tenggarong, East Kalimantan, October 2009.
The event was packed with the headline "Sultan Award" was attended by a number of high officials in East Kalimantan province and in East Kalimantan regency or city. The event "Sultan Award" in 2009 gave cultural awards to 16 people or artists who considered in preserving and developing the cultural arts in Kutai. The 16 figures who received awards from Kutai Kartanegara ing Martadipura Sultanate in were: