Tag Archives: Archaeology

Santubong village extension and archaeological sites: the need to reconcile development needs and heritage conservation

[updated 14 Aug. 2017 (added photo)] Sarawak Heritage Society Statement download pdf version On 22 March 2017, the immediate past president of the Sarawak Heritage Society draw attention to earthworks on the land immediately facing site of the Bongkissam shrine in Santubong. It was then learnt that these works related to a project to extend […]

Misc. Heritage News – Nov. 2016 to Feb. 2017

download pdf version SARAWAK What did we hear, see and learn on the Sarawak heritage scene in the last four months? Statements by the now Chief Minister and Minister of Tourism, Arts and Culture Datuk Amar Abang Johari Tun Openg, on several occasions provided an updated picture of the Government pipeline of projects touching on […]

Misc. Heritage News – March 2016

[download pdf] SARAWAK Restoration project for the old Sibu mosque – The Borneo Post reported that a memorandum of understanding was signed between the Sibu Islamic Welfare Trust Board (Lakis) and University College of Technology Sarawak (UCTS) on a conservation project of the old Masjid Al-Qadim mosque. The article mentions a cost of RM 1.8 […]

Misc. Heritage News – December 2015

A wealth of info this past month. For easier reading, you may wish to go to the pdf version of this article. SARAWAK Early December – Kuching.  At a function, the Director of the Sarawak Museum Department touched on the new Sarawak Museum campus project. He said that the RM 300 million State funded project, to […]

Misc. Heritage News – August to November 2015

[updated 03 Dec.2015] SARAWAK 30 July – Bario, Borneo Highlands. At the occasion of the Bario Food and Cultural Festival, Puan Sri Jamilah Anu, wife of Sarawak Chief Minister, launched the book “Highland Tales in the Heart of Borneo” documenting the heritage of the highlands of Ba’ Kelalan, Bario, Long Semadoh in Sarawak and Long […]

Titbits of Sarawak Heritage, as presented some 50 years ago : the “Borneo Story” series

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 […]