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...fell to Jerry Schecter to cover the outer provinces-North Borneo, Sarawak and Brunei-and he found it "the most fascinating assignment in nearly three years out here." He felt like James Brooke, the "white rajah," landing in Sarawak in the 18405 and seeing "what no educated eye had ever gazed on." In the jungle frontier, he retraced the steps of Conrad and was disconcerted to find characters still liv ing who might have stepped out of a Conrad novel...
...simmering racial hostility between the new nation's Chinese and Malay populations. Throughout the federation, the astute, prosperous, hard-bargaining Chinese dominate business, industry and trade, have economically far outstripped the rural, easygoing Malays. Chinese tycoons control North Borneo's booming young timber industry and Sarawak's vast, rolling pepper gardens; in Malaya. Abdul Rahman's government has complained that the rich, inbred Chinese business community has erected a "wall of prejudice" against ambitious young Malay businessmen...
...spent much of their time in late-night movie houses. But last week the dragnet was out. Sweeping through the island state, government security police rounded up 115 pro-Communist subversives and labor agitators opposed to Singapore's inclusion, with Malaya and Britain's Borneo dependencies of Sarawak, Brunei and North Borneo, in a proposed Malaysian Federation of 10 million people...
Major cause of the revolt, it seemed, was the federation plan itself. Brunei's dominant, fiercely independent People's Party was dead against the alignment of the state with Malaya, Singapore, and the neighboring British possessions of Sarawak and North Borneo. Instead, People's Party Leader A. M. Azahari. 34, a goateed veterinarian, was determined to weld Brunei, Sarawak and North Borneo into a single independent nation. But the British-backed Sultan of Brunei, Sir Omar Ali Saifuddin. wanted to join Malaysia, for Brunei's oil resources, which yield him $40 million annually, promised him influence...
Singapore will now get limited representation in the Malaysian Parliament in exchange for local control over labor and education policies (which it needs to curb Communist influence). By Aug. 31, 1963, the British-run territories of North Borneo, Sarawak and Brunei are to com plete the federation with Malaya and Singapore to form a 1.600-mile crescent around the South China...