Sarawak’s mixed-race children struggle over ‘native’ identity |
Sarawak’s mixed-race children struggle over ‘native’ identity
Free Malaysia Today
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
2022-01-05
PETALING JAYA: Alena Murang, who has mixed parentage, discovered only as an adult that she was not legally “native” in her homeland, Sarawak.
Alena, 32, a musician, songwriter and visual artist, said she and many others were oblivious to the issue. Her birth certificate said she was a Kelabit.
Her father Ose Murang, 67, is a Dayak Kelabit community leader and her mother is European.
“Only when I was an adult did I come to understand that in Sarawak, mixed children like myself are not legally native…
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