Sarawak’s rich ethnicity full of diversity


  • Nation
  • Tuesday, 23 Jul 2019

Sensational Sarawak: Part of the crowd that turned up at the Sarawak Day rally dressed in traditional attire at Padang Merdeka in Kuching.

DID you know that there are close to 30 different ethnic groups in Sarawak? Me neither! But yes, the Land of the Hornbills is so rich with diversity, little known facts about the state like these continue to surprise every day.

This is why many Sarawakians abhor very much the term “Others (lain-lain) used by those in peninsula to conveniently term the many native tribes of Malaysian Borneo.

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