Some of you may have noticed this if you recently passed by the Round Tower – extension works on the outside of this gazetted heritage building. Many members of SHS and the broader Kuching community have brought it to our attention, expressing their shock and displeasure over what they consider an unwelcome and insensitive addition […]
Category Archives: SHS News
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Nov
Nov
A flash-back and reflexion on the past journey of SHS, its achievements, challenges faced and convictions forged, presented by Dato Sri Robert RIDU, SHS President of the last 4 years, on behalf of the outgoing Committee, at the occasion of the November 2019 AGM. Advocacy for a strengthened cultural heritage governance in Sarawak has remained […]
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Sep
Sep
[updated 09/2020] SHS launched its ‘HERITAGE QUEST’ (‘HQ’) campaign in November 2018 as part of its efforts to highlight and preserve Sarawak’s cultural heritage assets and to advocate for additional listing and gazetting of heritage items that are not in the list of cultural heritage items already listed by the Government as historic buildings, monuments […]
12
Nov
Nov
[updated 2 Feb. 2019] This phase of our call for submissions is now closed. If you have missed the deadline, follow our announcements and be ready to submit at a later phase that we may launch to complement the inventory. If you have not already submitted your choice of “items of significant heritage interest” or […]
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May
May
SHS is launching “SHS COMMUNITY”, a WhatsApp chat group set up as a real-time, interactive online conversation channel with other members and the SHS committee, and as a complement to this website and to the SHS Facebook page. SHS COMMUNITY will converse on and discuss topics related to Sarawak’s cultural heritage, tangible or intangible. It […]
Food for Thought/Opinions, SHS News
Cultural heritage management in Sarawak: how we see things and how we can contribute
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Nov
Nov
At our recent meeting with the Sarawak Chief Minister we recalled SHS’s views on Sarawak’s cultural heritage and on the ways we can contribute to enhance its management. Our key suggestions to the Government are summarized in the tables below. We presented specifically two key short term proposals : – A candid assessment of Sarawak’s […]