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Ajibah Abol being sworn in as a minister after her victory in the 1974 Sarawak state election. She was one of a group of civil servants, mostly teachers, who resigned in 1947 to protest the handover of Sarawak to the British. The ‘Benteng 338’ group chose the nobler form of civil disobedience over assassination to show their disagreement. — theborneopost.com

Earlier this week I was fortunate enough to visit the newly opened Borneo Cultures Museum in Kuching. Built at an estimated RM308mil, it is now the largest museum in Malaysia and the second-largest in South-East Asia. And for a museum buff like me, it was fun.

However, today I’m not going to talk about the extensive use of interactive digital exhibits (budgeted at RM15mil), nor the rather enjoyable children’s section which actually succeeds in making learning fun, nor even the knowledgeable staff that helped add value.

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