KOTA KINABALU: State Law and Native Affairs Minister Datuk Aidi Moktar, who is under fire for allegedly proposing that Bugis and Javanese people be made natives of Sabah, said it was up to the state government to recognise these two groups of people.
“I never said the government will recognise the two ethnic groups; such things will be left to the state government to discuss,” he said amid a political firestorm over his alleged statement in Tawau that the state government would study the possibility of including Bugis and Javanese under the native definition of Sabah.
