The writer with an Iban, Magdelina at her house
A freshly painted longhouse in Bawang AssamA DAY WITH THE IBAN
Lamp-posts and cables jutting across the longhouses in Bawang Assan are testimony that the settlement is no longer a forgotten one.
The 10 longhouses are connected by tarred road and cars are parked by the roadside. Some of the houses have posters of BN candidate Robert Lau Hui Yew pasted prominently on the wooden wall.
A group of residents were karaokeing at the common area of James Semilan, the name of the longhouse, as they enjoyed langkau (home-made liquor).
It was a new PA set, double up as a karaoke set and the sound could be heard from the jetty, a few hundred metres away.
A kind resident who took us on a motorcycle ride to the next longhouse said he is currently working as a security guard at a nearby sawmill, where most of the adults are currently working.
I knew it! Bad! bad!
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