One Man's Meat

One family, two towns

By PHILIP GOLINGAI
Tarakan town, which is Tawau's twin city in Indonesia. - Pic by Agil Murthala

Cross-border trade between the ports of Tawau and Tarakan began centuries before Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines were formed. 

KOTA Tahele lives in two worlds – the Malaysian and Indonesian sides of Borneo.

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