ANTIDOTE Six Sarawakian parents from the Lun Bawang, Kelabit and Iban communities are infuriated that their children’s ethnic origin has been recorded as ‘Malay’ in official Education Department documents.

“Our religion is Christian. We are very upset…the school changed the status of our children to keturunan Melayu (of Malay origin) which is completely wrong and unacceptable,” the parents complained in a letter to William Ghani Bina, the president of the Sarawak Teachers’ Union. They demanded that this practice be investigated and stopped immediately.