No fetish for heritage here, and yet…
By Carolyn Hong
November 2015 FOOTPRINTS
Memories and mementoes link back to the old way of life in Ba Kelalan.I was looking out of a window in the longhouse when a local resident asked if I could spot the ancient stone mound, called a perupun in the local language, which is often associated with burials.I knew that there was once a large perupun at the site of the longhouse in Buduk Nur, the largest village in Ba Kelalan. I had heard the story of the mound...
Carolyn Hong
lives in Ba Kelalan sometimes, in KL sometimes. A former journalist who once chased the big stories for a regional newspaper, she now hunts for the small stories in Malaysia’s smallest places.
