Sabah State Archives
| Sabah State Archives Arkib Negeri Sabah
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| Archive type | State Archives |
| Coordinates | 5 ° 57 '14.1 " N , 116 ° 4' 44" E |
| place | 2 locations / 6 departments |
| Visitor address | The Sabah State Archives KM 4, Penampang Road 88999 Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia |
| founding | July 15, 1946 |
| scope | 8 million |
| carrier | State of Sabah |
| Organizational form | authority |
| Website | www.sabah.gov.my/ark/index.html |
Sabah State Archives ( Mal. Arkib Negeri Sabah ) is the name for the State Archives of the State of Sabah in Malaysia . It is based in Kota Kinabalu and has a branch in Keningau . It preserves the historical lore of the state of Sabah and its predecessor institutions. The archival holdings go back to the time of government by the North Borneo Chartered Company since 1881.
Archive inventory
The archive holdings include more than 8 million exhibits, including from the areas of national history, administrative history, politics, economics, social history and culture. The holdings come from the governments and public administrations of the time as well as from the private sector.
Access to the archive is open to authorities, academic institutions, students, schoolchildren and citizens.
history
After the Japanese 37th Army surrendered , reconstruction in Sabah, Sarawak and Brunei was in the hands of the British Military Administration (BMA) from August 1945 to July 1946 . On the orders of Brigadier General Charles Frederick Cunningham Macaskie, large amounts of pre-war archives and undamaged public documents were collected and put into suitable housing.
With the withdrawal of the British Military Administration, the documents passed into the possession of the newly established British Crown Colony. July 15, 1946 is therefore considered to be the founding day of the North Borneo Central Archives .
On November 22, 1957, the British Crown Colonial Secretariat issued a circular announcing the establishment of the North Borneo Central Archives (NBCA) at the Jesselton Secretariat site. It was also announced that all British North Borneo Chartered Company and colonial documents should be collected centrally at the NBCA.
In 1965, at the same time as Malaysia's independence, the Sabah Museum received administrative sovereignty over the NBCA. This brought all archiving activities - with the exception of research activities - to a standstill for the next thirteen years. The central archive was only able to end this situation on July 18, 1979 with the creation of the "Sabah State Archives", an institution independent of the Sabah Museum. A corresponding decree, the State Archives Enactment , came into force in 1980. In 1980, all of the archive material was moved to the current building at kilometer 4 on Jalan Penampang . The building that was moved into at the time was originally intended as the location for the Sabah Museum.
In 1984 the archive was merged again with the Sabah Museum. The two institutions came under the common name Department of Sabah Museum and State Archives as a department under the administration of the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sports. In 1992 this connection was severed again. Since then, the State Archives have been working as an independent institution within the "Chief Minister's Department".
Departments
The archive is divided into six sections:
- Public Archives Management & Research
- Restoration & Reprography
- Administration & Finance
- Records Management & Consultation
- Acquisition & Processing
- Organization & Human Resource Development
Directors
The current director of the State Archive is Sairin Melin.
literature
- State of Sabah: Enakmen Rekod dan Arkib Negeri Sabah 2007 dated December 27, 2007
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e History of the State Archives
- ^ Organization chart of the State Archives
- ↑ Management of the State Archives
Remarks
- ↑ The decree was replaced by the decree "Enakmen Rekod dan Arkib Negeri Sabah 2007" of December 27, 2007.
- ^ The "Chief Minister's Department" is comparable to the German term for a state chancellery .