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Letter from Lundu: 26 December 2006.(BRIEF COMMUNICATIONS)(Letter to the editor)
From:
Borneo Research Bulletin
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January 1, 2006| Author:
Steinmayer, Otto
| COPYRIGHT 2006 Borneo Research Council, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information
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Words surfaced, whose source I have searched for fruitlessly: "The Dyak doesn't know how his people used to live 60 years ago, and doesn't care." This was written 100 years ago, and if it were true then, so much it is truer now.
The elders are passing away. These are, were, the people who were born under the Rajahs, who lived through the Japanese Occupation, the British colonial years, Konfrontasi and the formation of Malaysia, perhaps the time of most fundamental and wr...
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