In a recent interview with the Borneo Post, Jason Brooke, Director of the (London based) Brooke Trust, gave updates on the Trust’s activities. He highlighted the collaboration with the Sarawak Government and the Sarawak Museum on the Brooke Gallery being set-up in the recently renovated Fort Margherita, Kuching, as a complement to the rest of […]
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In the late 1950’s and early 1960’s, Tom Harrison and his wife Barbara produced two series of documentaries on Borneo for the British television. Tom Harrison was at the time the curator of the Sarawak Museum. Below are links to the 9 episodes (via Vimeo). Each is of 25-30 minutes. These films are themselves historical […]
Below are the text of the Sarawak Heritage Society press release further to the recent felling of trees around Fort Alice in Sri Aman, and additional links to media articles on the subject. SHS Press Release – 11 March 2015 Sarawak Heritage Society renews call for a specialized heritage unit in the face of the […]
The hill on which Sri Aman’s Fort Alice -which has just been restored in a RM5mil project- has been stripped of about a dozen (all but two) of its old trees. The stripping of the leafy surroundings has been described as being part of “beautification works” of the Fort’s surroundings. It […]
“Living alone on a mountaintop in Sarawak” is the title of a recent Straits Times (Singapore) report (12 Jan. 2015) on the history-charged old Jagoi-Bratak Bidayu longhouse perched on Bung (Mount) Jagoi, not far from Kuching. The wooden longhouse, its baruk (the round ceremonial house) and the relics it contains are kept alive by Ms […]
from THE STAR / COMMUNITY, 10 Nov. 2014 : “The Malaysian Association of Tour and Travel Agents (MATTA) is making a clarion call to the relevant authorities to take conservation and preservation of historical and heritage sites in the country more seriously, as such sites are also tourist attractions. (…)” “We have already lost so […]