The Kaul Festival of Dalat

The annual Kaul Festival of Dalat (specifically Kpg. Medong) is held on January 1st every year (villages within the area celebrate around closer dates), as opposed to the Kaul of Mukah, which is celebrated on the 3rd week of April. This festival is a large and pagan festival celebrated by the Melanaus of Sarawak. The Kaul in Dalat does not have the “Tibau”, the large swing that men jump on as part of the festivities.

(Picture taken from: Learn Melanau)

The festival’s ritual ceremony starts when the Serarang, made from sago, bamboo and meduk leaves, are placed on the boats or tongkang.Offerings are placed in a container containing, chicken eggs, yellow glutinous rice, tobacco leaves and betel leaves. The Serarang is part of the Melanau Liko belief system in the Sea Deity, Ipouh. The festival is to appease Ipouh and provide offerings.

The ceremony is led by the Bapa Kaul (Kaul Father), who undergoes the ritual cleansing or purification before beginning the ceremony.

During the 3 days of the festival, no animal are allowed to be slaughtered within the borders of the village, already marked with red flags. Sago palms (staples of the Melanau) are also not to be felled. Gunshots and fireworks aren’t allowed because peace and quiet must avail in the surrounding area where the ritual is being held.While the Serarang is carried around the village, no one should paddle their festival boats against the approved direction.

The tongkang, which carries the Serarang leads 60-100 small boats, that travels behind or beside it only. They act as guards of the main tongkang.

[source:dayakgold @ The Indegenious People of Borneo]

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Why Independence are the best for Borneo-Sabah & Sarawak.

That question could not be more clear, straightforward and fair, a point I am pleased to see has been acknowledged by many commentators and indeed by few international parties, whatever their views on independence itself. There are, inevitably, some voices among the anti-independence camp who have cried foul at the question – but really, what are they afraid of? It seems "they" know they are losing the argument and are now scared stiff of losing the agreement which are well known it is null and void.

But while I welcome the international interest, it is the people of Borneo who need to have their say – so I urge as many people as possible to contribute to the petition we have launched. That is especially important in a discussion about how the substantial body of opinion in Borneo which favors greatly increased powers for independence . It is crucial the options open to people are not constrained by Unitary Nation string-pulling.

The people of Borneo will be in charge. Our future, our resources, our opportunities will be in our hands. Independence will give us, the people of Borneo - Sabah & Sarawak, the opportunity to make decisions in our best interests.

And that means we will be able to make Sabah & Sarawak the country we all know it can be – a wealthier and fairer nation. A country that speaks with its own voice, stands taller in the world and takes responsibility for its own future.

Kindly draw your signature to SSKM petition in support to our cause. This is our rights, pride and dignity. [Please note this is not a petition which affiliated to any party in politics] @ :http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/sabah-sarawak-rights.html

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EVOLUTION OF MALAYSIA

This is the accurate fact regarding the evolution of Malaysia...

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SEKALI MERDEKA, TETAP MERDEKA

SELAMAT MENYAMBUT HARI KEMERDEKAAN NEGARA SARAWAK - 22hb.JULAI, 2012.

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ENQUIRY IN NORTH BORNEO

Captured from CHAPTER 2 : ENQUIRY IN NORTH BORNEO, Section D. - Summary of Evidence from Indegenous and Chinese Populations and Political Parties ; 118 (e) Status of North Borneo in Malaysia.

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Bukti Sabah sebagai bukan satu daripada 13 atupun 14 negeri dalam Malaysia.

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Hydropower projects in Sarawak 2008-2020

UNESCO World Heritage site to be partially submerged:
The SEB presentation indicates the locations of twelve proposed hydropower projects in the East Malaysian state of Sarawak planned for the 2008 to 2020 period. It is to be expected that all of the proposed dams will adversely affect indigenous communities living in Borneo's unique tropical rainforest environment. If they are to be realized, several thousand natives of Sarawak's interior will lose their traditional lands and will have to be relocated in other areas. One of the proposed projects, a 220 MW-dam on the Tutoh river in North-eastern Sarawak, would submerge parts of the Mulu National Park that is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage site.

Please give your support to this petition for your country:
http://www.avaaz.org/en/petition/STOP_BARAM_DAM_SAVE_SARAWAK_FOREST_AND_RIVER/

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In search of the white Rajah

In search of the White Rajahs: Actress Joanna Lumley beside the memorial to Sir Charles Brooke, during the filming of a BBC documentary about the kingdom

The antics of Princesses Gold, Pearl and Baba, as they were nicknamed by locals, fascinated the press in both Britain and America — and by the Thirties Sarawak had become something of a music-hall joke.

As he grew older, Vyner appeared to lose interest in the day-to-day business of government and considered abdicating. Since his brother Bertram had suffered a nervous breakdown and was incapable of rule, his natural successor was his nephew, Anthony.

In 1939, during one of Vyner’s annual pilgrimages to England for the flat-racing season, the 23-year-old heir apparent was left in charge of the country for six months.

He made a good impression on the British Colonial Office, despite his aunt Ranee Sylvia accusing him of inflated self-importance. She reported, among other things, that he had attached a gold cardboard crown to his car and ordered ox-carts and rickshaws to draw aside as he passed.

He denied these charges, but he was never allowed to inherit the rule of Sarawak because in 1946 Vyner agreed to cede it to the British Crown in return for a substantial financial settlement for him and his family. So it became Britain’s last colonial acquisition.

After failing in a long legal battle to have the sale of Sarawak reversed, Anthony began a second career as a self-styled ‘ambassador-at-large for the people of the world’, travelling the globe and campaigning for peace.

This put an increasing strain on his marriage to Kathleen Hudden, the sister of a Sarawak government official. They had three children but eventually separated, not least because of his increasingly bizarre beliefs.

At one point, he joined a New Age Commune in North-Eastern Scotland and adopted their belief that flying saucers would one day bring ‘peace on earth and to the brotherhood of man’.

He and Kathleen finally divorced in 1973 when he told her he was about to be contacted by extra-terrestrials and did not want her caught up in whatever dramas ensued.

He went on to marry a peace campaigner from Sweden who was 18 years his junior. Together they travelled the world, producing a newsletter which focused on issues, including environmental protection and the rights of indigenous people, before finally settling in New Zealand, 5,000 miles from the land he once dreamed of ruling.

We will never know how Sarawak would have fared if he had ruled for longer than those brief six months, but these details of his later life suggest one thing. When it came to continuing his family’s tradition of idiosyncratic government, history would not have been disappointed in Anthony Brooke, the last of the White Rajahs.

source : BBC Documentary archive

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Sindurang Bulakang

In search of Simon [Sindurang Bulakang]: a pioneer defender of Kadazan rights in colonial North Borneo.
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In 1910, the Dusun of Papar  engaged the services of an English lawyer to summon the North Borneo (Chartered) Company administration to answer to charges that the Company had erred in selling land owned by members of the community to the railway and to plantation estates, thus violating the rights of the people. The community also alleged that the estates which had sprung up in the area had violated the customs and traditions of the people by destroying the graveyards of the community and scattering the remains of the dead. The action to sue the Company Government was the culmination of almost three years of unceasing and untiring efforts by Dusun leaders to champion the community's rights. The outcome of the lawsuit, however, was rather mixed. The Judicial Commissioner ruled that the government and the estates had erred in encroaching into some of the Dusun-owned lands, and they were asked to compensate those who had suffered losses. However, in its entirety, the ruling did not favor the community, as the Government and the estates were asked to compensate the Dusun according to the price that a Dusun would sell to another Dusun; they were not asked to return the land they had taken. Not happy with the ruling, the Dusun and their English lawyer intended to appeal, but were prevented from doing so by a series of measures introduced by the government aimed at discouraging the appeal. The matter dragged on for another ten years before a Parliamentary Paper in 1920 more or less absolved the Government from responsibility except for several matters deemed to be related to the case. However, by 1920, interests in the case had waned and many of the Dusuns who had fought for their rights were already of advanced age and the matter was allowed to slowly fade away, so much so that little could be recalled by the community with regard to the case. In a sense, the case was totally forgotten by the community.
source : North Borneo History

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SARAWAK INDPENDENCE DAY - best wishes from SSKM Admins team

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War Memorial in Kundasang, Sabah.

Established in 1962, this was one of the first memorials to commemorate the brave Australian and British Prisoners of War who died in Sandakan and during the infamous death marches to Ranau during World War II. The memorial also remembers the people of North Borneo who risked their lives to help the Prisoners of Wars.

The Memorial is made up of four beautiful gardens - the Australian Garden, the English Garden, the Borneo Garden and the Contemplation Garden and Pool. It is  to represent the different nationalities. With its towering pine trees and blooming roses, a walk in the gardens is reminiscent to that of a stroll in a quaint English garden. The scent of roses lingers in the air and the serene atmosphere makes the Kundasang War Memorial an ideal place to contemplate and remember the heroes of the war.

 

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List of British Colonial Buildings Built Between 1800 and 1930 - SABAH-SARAWAK

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SARAWAK Independence Day is only month to go

Please go to :http://youtu.be/32uCKz1K9ZU  

Please go to :http://youtu.be/32uCKz1K9ZU

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SEJARAH ROSLI DHOBY

Warkah terakhir Rosli Dhoby - Rakyat
Sarawak yang pertama dihukum
 gantung

Wednesday, June 10, 2009

Warkah Terakhir untuk Orang Negara Sarawak

Surat di bawah merupakan warkah terakhir Rosli Dhoby kepada ra'ayat Sarawak. Surat ini telah diserahkan oleh Rosli kepada seorang warden yang amat dipercayainya bernama Sumarja Muhammad, atau Pak S. Oleh itu atas nama perjuangan yang belum selesai saya berharap selagi nafas kita masih ada sebarkanlah surat ini untuk kita kemudi negeri Sarawak ini untuk agama bangsa dan tanah air.

Dengan secharek kertas ini dan se‑putung pensil untuk renungan sepanjang masa. Saya si‑penulis Rosli Dhobi dalam lindungan Permai. Saudara-saudara dan saudari-saudari sa‑perjuangan, saya ta' lama lagi akan meninggalkan jejak tanah tumpah darakku yang ku chintai, dan utama sekali ayah bunda yang ku kasehi dan saudara2 semua, dengan nama Allah sifat pemurah dan pengampun saya menyusun 10 jari mohon ampun dan maaf atas kesalahan saya yang telah terjadi selama ini, saga sanggup berkorban nyawa untuk memperbaiki raayat yang telah di‑ budaki oleh penjajah, saya mengaku dan terima apa-apa kesalahan di dunia ini saya ta'genter saya ta'takut mati, saya terima hukuman yang telah di jatohkan di‑mahkamah.

Saya berdoa kepada Allah S. W. T. Saudara-saudara saudari-saudari di‑akhir kelak balek ke‑pengkuan Ibu‑pertiwi. Sungguh begitu saya sudah sanggup menghapuskan orang putih yang berasin dan datang‑nya tetapi saya sudah tidak ada di dunia ini nama saya tetap harum seluroh Dunia sa‑genap plusuk. Akhir kata, hey! Saudara-saudara Saudari-saudari sekalian berjuanglah jangan mundur majulah ka hadapan

Amin ya rabbul alamin berkat do a laillahaitlahi Munamada rasululah. Dan saga uchapkan jutaan terima kasih kepada saudara Pa. S. Allah sahajalah yang akan membalas budi jasa‑nya dengan penuh layanan, nasiha yang belom pernah di‑dengar oleh saya dari awal hingga akhir.

Harapan ini surat jangan sekali di‑beri sesiapa pun. Simpan baik‑bai, barangkali di‑lain masa ada guna‑nya.

Ditulis pada 1‑3‑1950

Saya yang akan meninggalkan endah ini,

R.D.

Tanggal 2 Mac 1950 beliau telah dijatuhkan hukuman gantung dan dikebumikan di Penjara Kuching bersama-sama Awang Rambli Mohd Deli , Bujang Suntong dan Morshidi Sidek.

Selepas 46 tahun bersemadi di penjara Kuching tanpa bernisan, tulang-temulang mereka kemudiannya dikebumikan semula di Masjid An-Nur Sibu pada 2 Mac 1996. Al Fatihah

Posted by Samsol at 2:27 AM

(rujukan  nota :http://putrasarawak.blogspot.co.uk/2009/06/warkah-terakhir-untuk-orang-negara.html)

Habibah - Ibu kepada Rosli Dhoby

Seruan dari rakan seperjuagan dalam SSKM (Sabah_Sarawak Keluar Malaysia)
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Rakan - rakan semua. Sokongan pro Malaysia ini timbul kerana tidak faham apakah yg rasional SSKM ini. Sini saya terangkan:

Bukan sebab kita tidak dapat hasil sepatutnya kita marah dan mahu keluar, Jika ini persoalannya maka kita tuntut dimahkamah.
Bukan sebab kerajaan tempatan yang lemah dan memperbodohkan dan menindas kita. Kita mahu keluar, jika ini persoalannya kita boleh kempen dipilihanraya
Tapi bila KEDAULATAN negara kita Sabah dan Sarawak dinodai dan kita merelakan maka itu menunjukkan kalian buta sejarah, Kalian tahu apa yg kalian telah buat?
YA negera Sarawak telah berdaulat 170 tahun. Miliki rajah yg berdaulat, dijajah 20 tahun dan merdeka 22 julai 1963.
Ya negeri sabah berdaulat 123 tahun, Dijajah jepun 4 tahun dan merdeka 31 ogos 1963.

JANGAN buta sejarah, JANGAN buta mata degan apa yang dilihat dan dipertontonkan. JANGAN leka dengan apa yang kalian nikmati.

Dgn mengatakan sudah terlambat kita merdeka, kalian telah mengatakan ...
yang perjuangan Rosli Dhobi itu satu jenaka,
perjuangan Ranger Sarawak itu satu jenaka,
wasiat Rajah Brooke itu satu jenaka.
Perlantikan Koroh bin Santulan itu satu jenaka,
kematian Ketua Menteri Tan Sri Fuad Stephen itu satu jenaka.
perjuangan rakyat Sabah tentang jepun itu satu jenaka.
Demonstrasi  "anti cesssion"  itu satu jenaka.
Tanah adat itu satu jenaka.
Sabah dan sarawak itu satu jenaka.

Perjuangan SSKM ini bukan omongan kosong. Bukan perkara enteng yg boleh kalian dijadikan permainan lidah dan bola pencaturan politik.

SSKM berjuang demi kedaulatan NEGARA yg sudah merdeka dan tiba-tiba tanpa referendum kita diasimilasikan jadi negeri malaya. Kata putus kita dipegang Putrajaya. ITU TIDAK ADIL! ITU DIJAJAH NAMANYA. HARTA KITA DIRAMPAS DAN ANAK NEGERI KATA ITU ADIL UTK SEMUA NEGERI? Itu baru saya kata satu jenaka!

Tempat Rosli Dhoby disemadikan

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SEJARAH HOSPITAL DUCHESS OF KENT, SANDAKAN - SABAH

Tahun 1900
Hospital Duchess of Kent, Sandakan telah memulakan perkhidmatan pada awal tahun 1900.
Bangunan hospital pertama dibina di lokasi persimpangan Jalan Singapura dengan Jalan Bukit Bendera.  Ia terdiri daripada beberapa bangunan kayu dan separuh kekal, yang dapat memenuhi keperluan kesihatan dan perubatan penduduk sekitar Sandakan pada masa tersebut.
Malangnya semasa Perang Dunia Kedua ia musnah apabila dibom oleh Tentera Jepun.

Tahun 1952
Setelah peperangan tamat, pihak British telah mula membina sebuah hospital baru di tapak hospital yang ada pada hari ini.  Hospital baru dua tingkat jenis kekal ini dibina pada tahun 1951 dan merupakan hospital moden pertama di Negeri Sabah.
Bangunan ini siap sepenuhnya pada tahun 1953.  Pembukaan rasmi hospital ini telah dilakukan pada 20 Oktober 1952 oleh HRH Duchess of Kent ketikaitu, dan dinamakan Hospital Duchess of Kent bersempena dengan nama perasminya.

Tahun 1960
Bangunan hospital ini dinaik taraf kali pertama pada tahun 1960.

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HAPPY FATHERS' DAY

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Public Memoranda - Sarawak Independence

It's left only one week for the anniversary of The Independence Day of Sarawak... Lets us together pray for THE ALMIGHTY LORD to grace our land with love and unity...

Towards Genuine Sovereign and Independent Sarawak Nation

DUM SPIRO SPERO

(contribution from : Sarawak Kingdom)

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Census of Sarawak Religions

 

Source : Sarawak Regions Census 2010.

Sarawak possesses a richly spiritual society formed from its multiracial and diversity of religions of its people. Christianity has the highest number of practitioners in Sarawak with 43%-majority according to the 2010 census. Major Christian denominations in Sarawak are the Roman Catholics, Anglicans, Methodists, Borneo Evangelical Mission (BEM or Sidang Injil Borneo, S.I.B.) and Baptists. Many Sarawakian Christians are non-Malay Bumiputera, ranging from Iban, Bidayuh, Orang Ulu and Melanau. Islam is the second largest religion in Sarawak with 30% of Sarawak population are Muslim. Many Muslims are from Malay, Melanau and Kedayan ethnic groups. Buddhism is the third largest, predominantly practiced by Chinese, with slightly less than 20% professing it. 

Other significant religions in Sarawak are Baha'i, Hinduism, Sikhism and animism. Many Dayak especially Iban continue to practice traditional ceremonies, particularly with dual marriage rites and during the important harvest and ancestral festivals such as Gawai Dayak, Gawai Kenyalang and Gawai Antu. Other ethnics who still have trace number of animism followers are Melanau and Bidayuh.

source of : Census of Sarawak Religions year 2010

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Point 1: Religion

While there was no objection to Islam being the national religion of Malaysia there should be no State religion in Borneo (Sarawak & Sabah), and the provisions relating to Islam in the present Constitution of Malaya should not apply to Borneo

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Double Six Tragedy in Memory

36 years ago 6.6.1976 Tun Mohd Fuad Stephens Chief Minister of  Sabah and 10 of his cabinets met with this tragedy (or conspiration?)

The Double Six Tragedy, also known as the Double Six Crash, was a plane crash which took place on June 6, 1976 in Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia. The plane, operated by Sabah Air, coming from Labuan crashed in the sub-district of Sembulan in Kota Kinabalu upon approaching Kota Kinabalu International Airport. The crash killed everyone on board the flight, including Tun Fuad Stephens, the Chief Minister of Sabah at that time. 

The other passengers on the flight were State Ministers Datuk Salleh Sulong, Datuk Peter Mojuntin, Chong Thien Vun, and assistant minister Darius Binion. Others who perished were the then Secretary of State for the Ministry of Finance of Sabah Datuk Wahid Peter Andau, Director of Economic Planning Unit of Sabah Dr. Syed Hussein Wafa, Isak Atan (Private Secretary to Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah), Corporal Said Mohammad (bodyguard to Tun Fuad Stephens), Captain Gandhi Nathan (the pilot of the aircraft) and Tun Fuad's eldest son Johari Stephens.

The reason behind the crash is uncertain. Immediately after the accident there were allegations of foul play due to the political circumstances at the time. The Australian government sent a team of four investigators to assist in finding the cause of the accident. Mechanical failure was ruled out, and preliminary investigations indicated overloading was one of the contributing factors. The real reason for the crash remains a mystery, and the original report on the incident remains classified.

In the afternoon following the accident, Deputy Chief Minister Harris Salleh was sworn in as the sixth Chief Minister of Sabah.

The aircraft was an Australian designed and built Nomad. Tragedy happened at 3:50PM and crashed was in Sembulan, Kota - Kinabalu.

source :http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Six_Tragedy

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