Prisoners to form orchestra by 2020


MMTC executive director Peter Chua (second from right) handing over a violin to Kota Kinabalu Prison director Rosman Norman (second from left) at the event.

KOTA KINABALU: The Sabah Prisons Department and Malaysia Music Teachers Training College (MMTC) are working together to create an orchestra by making musicians out of Kota Kinabalu central prison inmates.

Sabah and Labuan Prisons director Suria Idris said the project was the first in Malaysia involving prisoners as members of an orchestra.

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