Malaysian revisits history in Jugra before MCO

The Masjid Diraja Sultan Alaeddin is over 100 years old and used to be pale yellow. — Photos: KALA RASIAH

Earlier this year, before the movement control order (MCO) began on March 18, my friends and I visited Jugra in Kuala Langat, Selangor. Among the nine of us, some had never heard of Jugra before.

“It was never mentioned in our history textbooks, ” said one friend, when told that Jugra used to be the royal capital of Selangor in the late 1800s.