“From now on, we should not forget that Sarawak is a ‘region’, ‘wilayah’. I feel like it is a great region. I can’t say it’s a state because it’s big though the population is not big,” the prime minister said, using the Malay word for ‘region’.
Muhyiddin calls Sarawak a ‘region’, Malaysia’s model of unity – Old Kuching Smart Heritage
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