State library appeals for local source of Brooke era material

PRESERVING HISTORY: Jason Brooke (left) and Bugo exchanging MoA documents while Japri
(right) looks on. The MoA will make Brooke era documents available for the benefit of Sarawakians.

KUCHING: The Sarawak State Library (PNS) believes that Brooke era writing and documentation can be found within the state itself, but its existence will remain unknown unless the owners come forward.

Speaking at the signing of a Memorandum of Agreement (MoA) between PNS and The Brooke Heritage Trust yesterday, PNS chairman Tan Sri Datuk Amar Hamid Bugo asked that locals who possess these items to bring it to the attention of the state library for documentation and preservation.

Bugo added that the library would also like to make duplicates of the materials so that they could be added into their State Records Repository, available to the public.

“If there is an original document, we can verify if the history is accurate or not,” he said.

Bugo later signed the MoA on behalf of PNS, while Jason Brooke signed on behalf of The Brooke Heritage Trust.

In his speech, Brooke said that his grandfather Anthony Brooke understood that those who were too closely involved in the events might be unable to form an objective viewpoint, thus his approach was to make documented evidence available and allow others to form their own judgement.

“This is the philosophy of the Trust,” he said. “It is up to others to interpret – the historian, anthropologist, sociologist, film makers. It is for Sarawakians to know and understand their shared heritage.”

Brooke later presented Bugo with a hard drive containing 36,514 digitized Brooke era records. The originals are housed at Rhodes House Library, in Oxford. The digitization of these records is part of a large project undertaken by the Trust, with cooperation of Oxford University and Pustaka Negeri Sarawak, in an endeavor to support the expansion of knowledge on Sarawak’s history.

According to Arpah Adenan, head of the library’s depository services, the Trust and the library were mulling the possibility of housing the original documents in Sarawak.

“This is only when we have proper storage facilities for these documents. Right now we don’t,” she told reporters.

The library hopes to make the digitized documents available to the public within the year, but first, they will have to examine it themselves in order to better respond to requests for specific documents.

Also present at the signing was PNS acting chief executive officer Japri Bujang Masli.

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Penahanan seorang warga Indonesia di salah sebuah pintu masuk Negara Sarawak

Pihak SSKM Administrative telah menerima laporan ringkas mengenai penahanan seorang warga Indonesia di salah sebuah pintu masuk Negara Sarawak. Penahanan ini melibatkan pemilikan MyKad yang mencurigakan dengan maklumat di MyKad menyatakan bahawa "pemiliknya" adalah warga Negara Sabah tetapi apabila disiasat, "pemilik" MyKad tersebut memiliki Passport Indonesia dengan gambar yang serupa pada MyKad.

Untuk pengetahuan pembaca dan rakyat Sarawak serta Sabah secara keseluruhan, ini adalah INSIDEN KEDUA di pintu masuk negara Sarawak yang sama dan sebelum ini pihak admin menerima laporan secara VERBAL daripada seorang petugas di Pintu Masuk tersebut. 

Ia melibatkan seorang warga PAKISTAN yang menggunakan IC Sabah dan menyatakan bahawa dia berasal daripada Sabah namun apabila disuruh menyanyikan lagu Negaraku dan lagu Kebangsaan Sabah, warga pakistan tersebut tidak mampu melakukannya. 

Antara maklumat yang diperolehi oleh pihak SSKM adalah segala dokumen yang dibawa oleh warga Pakistan tersebut adalah SAH dan penahanan tidak dapat dilakukan.

Maka, untuk tindakan Warganegara Sabah dan Warganegara Sarawak sekalian, perkara seperti Projek IC serta pemalsuan IC dan MyKAd adalah suatu yang sangat merosakkan kedaulatan negara-negara kita.

Semoga lebih ramai yang akan melaporkan kepada pihak SSKM berkenaan perkara ini secara TERUS agar dapat didedahkan di SSKM Media Network Television.

Dum Spiro Spero | Pergo Et Perago

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Bumburing echoed Bingkor assemblyman DATUK DR. JEFFREY KITINGAN'S demand

KOTA KINABALU: The latest statement by the new Sulu Sultan that the Sulu Sultanate will continue to pursue its claim on Sabah is disquieting, said Tamparuli assemblyman Wilfred Bumburing.

He said it was alarming that despite numerous calls for action, Barisan Nasional (BN) government leaders were being indifferent to a scandal that has compromised national security.

He questioned the government’s continued silence over what is turning out to be the exposure of a decade-long immigration fiasco in Sabah.

Bumburing, who the president of Movement for Change Sabah (APS), said that by their silence, state and federal authorities are confirming the long-held suspicion that a citizenship-for-votes scheme was an exercise to re-engineer the state’s population demographics.

“In fact the Malaysian government seems to portray Malaysia as being a country that is not affected at all by the influx of illegal immigrants coming into this country especially those illegal landings on Sabah shores,” he said recently.

He echoed Bingkor assemblyman Jeffrey Kitingan’s demand that the federal government recall all identity cards (ICs) issued by the National Registration Department (NRD) in Sabah for review.

Bumburing said the exposure of a recent case involving a robbery suspect in possession of a genuine MyKad and similar cases should be enough justification by the authorities to recall citizenship documents issued to hundreds of thousands residing in Sabah.

He also questioned how many of the over 860,000 foreigners identified in the 2010 census had been granted citizenship.

Bumburing also said that it was disquieting that the sudden population surge experienced by Sabah took place after 1990, the year Umno spread its wings to the state.

“Perhaps, a new kind of Mykad solely in Sabah-born Malaysians may be considered if the NRD continues to issue Mykad to undeserving citizens,” he said.

Datuk Dr. Jeffrey Kitingan is the Chairman of STAR Sabah and State Assemblymen for N33, Bingkor, Sabah.

He also contested in P180, Keningau garnering 11900 strong votes

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