Kawang

Kawang
Kawang
Coordinates	5 ° 46 '  N , 116 ° 1'  E Coordinates: 5 ° 46 '  N , 116 ° 1'  E
Basic data
Country	Malaysia
State	Sabah

De Fontaine Memorial

Kawang is a town in the west of the Malaysian state of Sabah . Kawang is in the West Coast Division , about 30 kilometers south of the state capital Kota Kinabalu . Administratively, the municipality belongs to the Papar district .

history

Kawang was an independent territory within the Brunei Jajahan system . As a tulin, Kawang was privately owned by Syarif Jahir. Although the Sultan of Brunei still had sovereign rights over the tulin , the territory was ruled by Syarif Jahir, who also received the proceeds from the territories. He had inherited the tulin from his father, who in turn had received it from Pengiran Raja Muda Hassim. Kawang was settled by Kadazandusun and Bajau . The Bajau had moved in from the neighboring tulin of Pengiran Rauf. They were therefore obliged to pay poll tax to Pengiran Rauf. This led to conflict with Syarif Jahir's claims to all income within his tulin .

After acquiring the tulin papar and putatan, some of the tribes who refused to pay poll tax to the society relocated their trading activities to other jajahan , including the tulin Kawang. The North Borneo Chartered Company (BNBCC) also suspected the influential tribal leader Kandurong of using the tulin Kawang to hide stolen cattle there. The company then intensified its efforts to bring Kawang into the possession of the BNBCC as well.

The negotiations with Syarif Jahir turned out to be surprisingly easy: Loyal to Pengiran Rauf, the Bajau paid their poll tax to him and thus reduced Syarif Jahir's income from the tulin Kawang. Syarif Jahir finally ceded the Kawang Territory to the BNBCC on May 8, 1885 for the sum of 1,300 Straits dollars.

Already on May 10, 1885, two days after acquiring the tulin , the BNBCC started a punitive expedition against Kandurong, which led to the tragic Kawang incident on May 12 .

De Fontaine Memorial

Near the train station is the De Fontaine Memorial , which the North Borneo Chartered Company built to commemorate the Kawang Incident , an ambush on the North Borneo Armed Constabulary on May 12, 1885 .

Infrastructure

Kimanis is on the A2 (Pan Borneo Highway) and has a stop on the Kota Kinabalu-Tenom railway line of the Sabah State Railway .

literature

• KG Tregonning: A History Of Modern Sabah (North Borneo 1881-1963). 2nd edition. University of Malaya Press, Kuala Lumpur, 1965.
• Owen Rutter: British North Borneo - An Account of its History, Resources and Native Tribes. Constable & Company, London 1922.
• WH Treacher: British Borneo - Sketches of Brunai, Sarawak, Labuan and North Borneo. Government print department, Singapore 1891.

Web links

Commons : Kawang  - collection of images

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} D.S. Ranjit Singh: The Making of Sabah 1865-1941 - The Dynamics of Indigenous Society , 3rd Edition (2011), page 178, ed. from the Prime Minister's Office, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah