Sabah's indigenous people can now specify ethnicities in forms


KOTA KINABALU: Sabah is following Sarawak’s move of allowing members of indigenous communities to specify their ethnicities in the race column when filling forms.

State Secretary Tan Sri Sukarti Wakiman said that the Sabah Cabinet in its meeting on Wednesday had agreed that the race column in Government forms should from now be blank.

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