—————————————————————————————————————————- Also in the News: Sat. 18 April 2015 – Fort Alice, Sri Aman, re-opens. For day programme, see Sarawak Museum webpage. For more on the Fort, see our articles of 02/02-17/05/2015, 09 March 2015 & 12 March 2015 —————————————————————————————————————————– The Sarawak Cultural Heritage Ordinance 1993 puts forward the following criteria for the registration/listing of […]
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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 […]
On the first day of 2015, The Star newspaper recalled, in an article, the criteria used by Malaysia’s National Heritage Department for the listing of heritage buildings, in application of the Malaysia National Heritage Act 2005. These are : 1) the historical importance, association with or relationship to Malaysian history; 2) the good design or […]
“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 […]