04 Aug 2009

Tun Jugah Foundation, Sarawak, Malaysia.
The Tun Jugah Foundation, Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia.
Self-description:
"Tun Jugah Anak Barieng (1903 - 1981) was the Paramount Chief of the Iban people for more than 55 years. They called him 'Apai' meaning 'father'. Tun Jugah was one of Sarawak's founding fathers. He was a state leader, and was Federal Minister for Sarawak Affairs. He was elected a member of Parliament during Malaysia's first elections in 1963. [...] Among the objectives of the Foundation are: * Primarily, to receive and administer funds for educational, medical, and charitable purposes, all for public welfare and for no other purposes; * To preserve and promote Iban culture, arts and language; * To conduct research, and to provide intellectual materials or education tools such as publications, for scholars and future generations; * To collect/record, transcribe, translate and interpret all forms of Iban folklore for study by contemporary scholars and future generations of Iban in particular; * To perpetuate the memory of the late Tun Datuk Patinggi Tan Sri Temenggong Jugah anak Barieng."
Site contents:
* Oral History (Introduction, Objectives, Research Methodology, Research Projects (# Oral Literature, Life Histories of Iban elders, Publication Project, Iban Dictionary Project), # Other Research Activities (Workshop, Lectures & Talks, Research on Rural-Urban Migration, Projects by Research Fellows));
* Publications;
* Fort Sylvia [About the Foundation's HQs, Fort Sylvia, built in 1880 - ed.];
* Textile, Museum & Gallery (# Objectives - To preserve and to promote the development of the traditional methods of the indigenous ikat weaving of the Iban. # The Weaving Project (On-going Projects / Activities, Past Projects / Activities), # Datin Amar Margaret Linggi Pua' Gallery (Gallery 1 - Display Gallery, Gallery 2 - Weaving Gallery A. Preparation of yarn (from home-grown cotton taya'), B. Ngar Ritual (treatment of yarn using a mordant bath), C. Preparing the warp, D. Tying and Dyeing, Gallery 3 - Museum, Gallery 4 - Tun Jugah Memorial, Other Exhibits, Access).
* Library (The larger part of the collection includes monographs and other materials on Borneo and West Malaysia i.e: Arts of Asia, Borneo Magazine, Borneo Research Bulletin, Borneo Review, Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society Review (recent Volumes only), Journal AZAM, Sarawak Gazette, The Sarawak Museum Journal, Studies in the Third World Societies).
URL http://www.tunjugahfoundation.org.my/
Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.tunjugahfoundation.org.my/
Link reported by: T Matthew Ciolek (tmciolek--at--coombs.anu.edu.au)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Publisher [academic - business - government - library/museum - NGO - other]: Museum
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 300