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29 July, 2008 (Tuesday) Session / Sesi Concurrent Session 1A Theme / Tema Chairman / Pengerusi Time / Masa Place / Tempat Intangible Cultural Heritage I: Music, Rituals & Change 8.30 – 10.30 am BRC A Presenters & Titles / Pembentang & Tajuk 1 . 2 . 3 . Laurentius L.L. Kitingan & Jacqueline Pugh-Kitingan (UMS) Rice, Ritual and Music: Continuity and Change in the Moginakan of the Kadazandusun of Tambunan, Sabah, Malaysia David Wong Tze Wan (Open University, UK) Christian Worship Traditions, Musical Instruments and Language Use in Two Chinese Churches in Sabah, Malaysia Ahmad Tarmizi Abdul Rahman (UMS) Munajat Tarekat Naqshabandiah Khalidiah (Spiritual Shout [Call] of the Naqshbandite Khalidite Tariqah) Session / Sesi Special Panel Session P1B Theme / Tema Chairman / Pengerusi Time / Masa Place / Tempat Migration Issues in Sabah Azizah Kassim (IKMAS, UKM) 8.30 – 10.30 am BRC B Presenters & Titles / Pembentang & Tajuk 1 . 2 . Azizah Kassim (IKMAS, UKM) Refugees in Sabah: Is There a Light at the End of the Tunnel? Wan Shawaluddin Wan Hasan, Marja Azlima Omar & Ramli Dollah (UMS) The Illegal Immigrants in Sabah: Why Do They Come Back? 1

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29 July, 2008 (Tuesday)

Session / Sesi Concurrent Session 1ATheme / TemaChairman / PengerusiTime / MasaPlace / Tempat

Intangible Cultural Heritage I: Music, Rituals & Change

8.30 – 10.30 amBRC APresenters & Titles / Pembentang & Tajuk

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Laurentius L.L. Kitingan & Jacqueline Pugh-Kitingan (UMS)Rice, Ritual and Music: Continuity and Change in the Moginakan of the Kadazandusun of Tambunan, Sabah, Malaysia

David Wong Tze Wan (Open University, UK)Christian Worship Traditions, Musical Instruments and Language Use in Two Chinese Churches in Sabah, Malaysia

Ahmad Tarmizi Abdul Rahman (UMS)Munajat Tarekat Naqshabandiah Khalidiah (Spiritual Shout [Call] of the Naqshbandite Khalidite Tariqah)

Session / Sesi Special Panel Session P1BTheme / TemaChairman / PengerusiTime / MasaPlace / Tempat

Migration Issues in SabahAzizah Kassim (IKMAS, UKM)8.30 – 10.30 amBRC BPresenters & Titles / Pembentang & Tajuk

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Azizah Kassim (IKMAS, UKM)Refugees in Sabah: Is There a Light at the End of the Tunnel?

Wan Shawaluddin Wan Hasan, Marja Azlima Omar & Ramli Dollah (UMS)The Illegal Immigrants in Sabah: Why Do They Come Back?

Dayang Suria Hj. Mulia (UMS)Working Conditions of Illegal Domestic Workers in Sabah

Jalihah Md Shah (UMS)

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29 July, 2008 (Tuesday)

Session / Sesi Concurrent Session 1CTheme / Tema

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Biodiversity, Conservation & Environment I: Peoples, Place & PerceptionsRamzah Dambul (UMS)8.30 – 10.30 amBRC CPresenters & Titles / Pembentang & Tajuk

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Ari Ganjar Herdansah (Research Institute of Padjadjaran University, Bandung)Forest Foray and the Importance of Marginal Society Development in Area of Frontier Indonesia-Malaysia

Masahiro Ichikawa (Research Insitute for Humanity and Nature, Kyoto)A Comparison of Satoyama (anthropogenic forests-based landscape) between Borneo and Japan

Jurry Foo @ Jurry Bt. MichaelUtilitarian Compositae di Kawasan Sawah Padi Bagi Suku Kaum Dusun di Ranau, Sabah

Jean-Francoise Bissonnette (University of Toronto)Exploring the Production of Place and Scale in Iban Rural Communities of Sarawak

Session / Sesi Concurrent Session 1DTheme / TemaChairman / PengerusiTime / MasaPlace / Tempat

Borneo Languages & Linguistics I: Sarawak & Software

8.30 – 10.30 amBRC DPresenters & Titles / Pembentang & Tajuk

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Suhaila bt. Saee & Suriati Khartini bt. Jali (UNIMAS)An Overview of Localizing AbiWord for Sarawak Ethnic Languages

Alvin Yeo (UNIMAS)Sarawak Language Technology (SaLT) Initiative: Preservation of Sarawak Ethnic Languages

Suhaila bt. Saee & Alvin Yeo (UNIMAS)Sarawak Ethnic Languages: Revitalisation and Maintenance

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29 July, 2008 (Tuesday)

Session / Sesi Concurrent Session 1ETheme / TemaChairman / PengerusiTime / MasaPlace / Tempat

Borneo Ethnography Research I: Law, Leadership & PowerHasan Mat Nor (UMS)8.30 – 10.30 amBRC EPresenters & Titles / Pembentang & Tajuk

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Okuno Katsumi Thunder God, Men, Animals Among the Western Penan of Belaga, Sarawak

Kenneth Sillander (University of Hellsinki)The Manti Through History: Oscillation and Structural Contradiction in Bentian Leadership and Social Organization

Masaru Miyamoto (Chuo University, Tokyo)Indigenous Law and Native Court in Penampang, Sabah

Juergen M. Burkhardt & Lingam Burkhardt Then and Now: Changes in Social Organisation of the Berawan Community Since the Formation of Malaysia

Session / Sesi Concurrent Session 2ATheme / TemaChairman / PengerusiTime / MasaPlace / Tempat

Intangible Cultural Heritage II: Literature & Creativity

11.00 am – 1.00 pmBRC APresenters & Titles / Pembentang & Tajuk

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Sim Chee Cheang (UMS)Postmodern Value in Folktales: Story-telling, an Act of Creating and Re-creating an Identity

Alex C. Delos Santos (Buburayan Foundation, Inc.)Finding Datu Lubay: Creating a Literary Persona from the Legend of the Ten Bornean Datu

Low Kok On (UMS)Rentap: Lambang Semangat Juang Wira Rakyat Sarawak

Awang Azman Awang Pawi (UNIMAS)Eksperimen Bentuk dan Estetika Karya Pengarang Melayu Sarawak Mutakir

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29 July, 2008 (Tuesday)

Session / Sesi Special Panel Session 2BTheme / TemaChairman / PengerusiTime / MasaPlace / Tempat

Ethnicity and Ethnic Relations in SabahKntayya Mariappan (UMS)11.00 am – 1.00 pmBRC BPresenters & Titles / Pembentang & Tajuk

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Munir Ladoni & Kntayya Mariappan (UMS)Keetnikann Di Sabah: Demografi Penduduk dan Pembentukan Keetnikan

Sabihah Osman & Shaffie Abd Rahim (UMS)Keetnikan dan Politik di Sabah: Satu Tinjauan Sejarah

Kntayya Mariappan & Marja Azlima Omar (UMS)Hubungan Etnik Di Sabah: Tahap Toleransi Etnik dan Persepsi Penduduk

Budi Anto Mohd Tamring (UMS)Toleransi Etnik Dii Kalangan Generasi Muda Di Sabah: Kajian Kes Di UMS

Hasan Mat Nor (UMS)Hubungan Etnik Di Sabah: Perbezaan Agama Bukan Isu. Mengapa?

Session / Sesi Concurrent Session 2CTheme / Tema

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Borneo Languages & Linguistics II: Morphology & Language EcologyHans Kombrink (SIL International)11.00 am – 1.00 pmBRC CPresenters & Titles / Pembentang & Tajuk

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Salbia Hasan & Mary Fatimah Subet (UNIMAS)Kekerabatan Bahasa Melanau Dengan Bahasa Melayu

Antonia Soreinte (Max Planck Insititute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Jakarta)Notes on the Morphology of Oma Longh, the Most Divergent of the Kenyah Variants

Nelleke Johansson (SIL International)Cut and Break Verbs in Begak (Ida’an)

Peter Sercombe (Newcastle University, Newcastle Upon Tyne)Language Ecology in Multilingual Societies: The Situation of the Penan in Borneo

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29 July, 2008 (Tuesday)

Session / Sesi Concurrent Session 2DTheme / TemaChairman / PengerusiTime / MasaPlace / Tempat

Migration, Diaspora and Borderland IssuesAzizah Kasim (IKMAS, UKM)11.00 am – 1.00 pmBRC DPresenters & Titles / Pembentang & Tajuk

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Roslee b. Haji Abbas & Dzulkiflee Abdullah b. Binsin (UMS)Fenomena Penghijrahan Belia Sabah dari Desa ke Bandar-Bandar Utama di Malaysia

Siti Aminah Suari & Marja Azlima Omar (UMS)Isu Hak Asasi Manusia di Skim Penempatan Pelarian di Kota Kinabalu: Satu Tinjauan Awal

Tetsu Ichikawa (National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka)From Sarawak to Papua New Guinea: The Transnational Social Space of Malaysian Chinese

Wan Shawaluddin Wan Hassan, Marja Azlima Omar & Ramli Dollah (UMS)A Perceived Threat of Filipino Immigrants in Sabah and Its Impacts on Malaysia—Philippines Relations

Session / Sesi Concurrent Session 2ETheme / TemaChairman / PengerusiTime / MasaPlace / Tempat

Tourism Development I: Tourists & Tourism Issues

11.00 am – 1.00 pmBRC EPresenters & Titles / Pembentang & Tajuk

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Janie Liew-Tsonis & Jennifer Chan Kim Lian (UMS)Codes of Conduct for Hospitality: A Preliminary Finding of Its Practice by Small and Medium Sized Accommodation operators in Sabah

Siti Norlizaiha Harun, Mohd Roswadi Mat Zin, Kamariah Abdullah, & Nur Aidah Pirus (UiTM Perak)Pengurusan Tapak Tanah Bersejarah Sebagai Pelancongan Warisan: Isu dan Cabaran

Nathan Kumar Loganathan, Muhamad Najit Sukemi & Mohd Amil b. Abu HashimKemerupan Indeks Harga Pengguna dan Aliran Pelancong Benua Asia ke Malaysia: Aplikasi Model Arima

James Alin, Alexander Kosan Chee & Fumitaka Furuoka (UMS)Tourists’ Willingness to Pay for Proboscis Monkey Watching in Klias Wetlands

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30 July, 2008 (Wednesday)

Session / Sesi Concurrent Session 3ATheme / TemaChairman / PengerusiTime / MasaPlace / Tempat

History & Archaeology I: Archaeology & EthnohistoryQasim Ahamad (UiTM)8.30 – 10.30 amBRC APresenters & Titles / Pembentang & Tajuk

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Eng Ken Khong & Stephen Chia (USM)Palaeoanthropological Study of Prehistoric Human Remains Excavated from Melanta Tutup, Semporna, Sabah

Yumi Kato (Kyoto University)Ethnohistory of Sihan Subsistence Farmers and Their Concern with Sedentarization

Sanen Marshall (Nottingham University / UMS)Tribe, Segment, Village & Headman: Is a History of the Dusun of Borneo Possible?

Danny Wong Tze Ken (Universiti Malaya)Simon Sindurang Bulakang: A Pioneer Defender of Kadazan Rights in Colonial North Borneo

Session / Sesi Special Panel Session P3BTheme / TemaChairman / PengerusiTime / MasaPlace / Tempat

Iban Language and Oral TraditionsPeter Kedit (Tun Jugah Foundation)8.30 am – 10.30 amBRC BPresenters & Titles / Pembentang & Tajuk

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Clifford Sather (University of Helsinki)The Sugi Sakit: An Iban Healing Romance

Jantan Umbat (Tun Jugah Foundation)The Healing Power of the Sugi Sakit: An Epical Healing Chant

Vinson Sutlive Jr. (College of William & Mary, Virginia)“You’ll Never Walk Alone”

Janang Anak Ensiring (Tun Jugah Foundation)Bupjaku Iban: A Vernacular Dictionary for the Future

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30 July, 2008 (Wednesday)

Session / Sesi Concurrent Session 3CTheme / Tema

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Biodiversity, Conservation and Environment II: Conservation & Communities

8.30 am – 10.30 amBRC CPresenters & Titles / Pembentang & Tajuk

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Robecca Jumin, Annadel S. Cabanban, Sikula Magupin & Suziana Ramlee (WWF M’sia)Coastal Community Profile of the Kudat-Banggi Priority Conservation Area, Sulu-Sulawesi Marine EcoRegion Programme

Robecca Jumin, Lee Yoke Lee, Annadel S. Cabanban, Sikula Magupin (WWF M’sia)Promoting Biodiversity Conservation in the Kudat-Banggi Priority Conservation Area, Sulu-Sulawesi Marine EcoRegion

Agnes Lee Agama, Adam Murphy, James T.H. Wong, Yassin Miki & Gary J. Martin (Global Diversity Foundation)To Define and Divide: Community Participation in the Management of the Crocker Range Park, Sabah, Malaysian Borneo

Robin Lim Ah Hee (UMS)Carbon Fluxes in the Sabah Biodiversity Experiment: A Qualitative Analysis of Litterfall and Soil Respiration

Session / Sesi Concurrent Session 3DTheme / TemaChairman / PengerusiTime / MasaPlace / Tempat

Tourism Development II: Cultural Tourism in SarawakRosazman Hussin (UMS)8.30 am – 10.30 amBRC DPresenters & Titles / Pembentang & Tajuk

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L.C.L. Chua (Cambridge)Doing Culture: Objects, Performances and Tourism in a Bidayuh Village

Cheng Fan Fah (UPM)Cultural Tourism and Tourist Satisfaction in Malaysia

Danny Tan (National University of Singapore)“Will the real ‘Iban’ please stand up?” Tourism and its contributions to Iban ethnic identity

Maila Taibi & Siti Haslina Hussin (UNIMAS)Sarawak Culinary Delights: Promoting Local Delicacies and Tourism Products

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30 July, 2008 (Wednesday)

Session / Sesi Concurrent Session 3ETheme / TemaChairman / PengerusiTime / MasaPlace / Tempat

Politics in BorneoMichael Leigh (University of Melbourne)8.30 am – 10.30 amBRC EPresenters & Titles / Pembentang & Tajuk

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James M. Alin (UMS)If God had intended us to vote, He would have given us candidates

Mohd Noor Yazid (UMS)Keputusan Pilihan Raya UMUM 2008 di Sabah dan Sarawak: Satu Perbandingan dengan Negeri-Negeri Lain di Semenanjung Malaysia

Mat Zin b. Mat Kib (UiTM Sabah)Isu-Isu dalam Pilihan Raya Ke-12 di Sabah dan Sarawak

Md. Saffie Abd. Rahim, Wan Shawaluddin Wan Hassan, Baszley Bee Basrah Bee & Saat Ag. Damit (UMS)Pakatan Pembangkan dan Pilihan Raya Umum Ke-12 Sabah: Satu Analisis

Session / Sesi Concurrent Session 4ATheme / Tema

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Intangible Cultural Heritage III: Old & New Instruments & ContextsJacqueline Pugh-Kitingan (UMS)11.00 am – 1.00 pmBRC APresenters & Titles / Pembentang & Tajuk

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Saat Awang Damit (UMS)Peranan gambus dalam konteks budaya masyarakat Brunei Sabah

Ahmad Hakimi bin Khairudding, Abd Aziz bin Abdul Rashid, Kamaruddin bin Zakaria, Mohd. Anis bin Abdul Samad & Mohd. Azam bin Sulong (Muzium Negara Malaysia)The Gambus in the Sabah Brunei Community: Documenting Changes in Manufacturing Technology

Abdul Jamal Abd Hamid (UMS)Innovative and Creative Ideas in Sabah Musical Systems: Somporing – the Bamboo Saxophone of Sabah

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30 July, 2008 (Wednesday)

Session / Sesi Special Panel Session P4BTheme / Tema

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Issues and Trends in Contemporary Iban Society – Field Reports on Project on Rural-Urban Migration Amongst the Balleh Iban, KapitVinson Sutlive (College of William & Mary, Virginia)11.00 am – 1.00 pmBRC BPresenters & Titles / Pembentang & Tajuk

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Peter Kedit (Tun Jugah Foundation)Internal Migration in Sarawak: Field Report of a Study Among the Iban of Kapit

Dimbab Ngidang (UNIMAS)Community in Transition: Linking Market Economy and Mobility of Iban Migrants in Kapit

Madeline Berma (UKM)Beyond Rumah Panjai: Iban Women and Migration in Kapit Division

Robert Menua Saleh (Tun Jugah Foundation)Cultural Practices and Tradition Among Iban Migrants in Kapit, Sarawak, Malaysia: At the Crossroads to Change

Session / Sesi Concurrent Session 4CTheme / Tema

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Health, Healing & Borneo Societies I: Communities & Diseases in Contemporary ContextsBella Puvok (UMS)8.30 – 10.30 amBRC DPresenters & Titles / Pembentang & Tajuk

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Sharon Kwan Sam Mee, Norzihan Ayub, Patricia Joseph Kimong & Beddu Salam Baco (UMS)Tekanan dan Burnout dalam Kalangan Jururawat Hospital Queen Elizabeth, Kota Kinabalu

Norzihan Ayub, Beddu Salam Baco, Ferlis Bahari & Sharon Kwan Sam Mee (UMS)Burnout dan Komitmen terhadap Organisasi dalam Kalangan Jururawat Hospital Queen Elizabeth, Kota Kinabalu

Stevie Sebol (UMS)Risk Factors that Contribute to Hypertension Among Kadazandusun Patients Receiving Outpatient Treatment in Luyang Health Clinic, Kota Kinabalu

Edmund Sim (UNIMAS)A Study of Cancer Disease in Sarawak: Ethnicity, Gender and Age as Susceptibility Factors

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30 July, 2008 (Wednesday)

Session / Sesi Concurrent Session 4DTheme / TemaChairman / PengerusiTime / MasaPlace / Tempat

Tourism Development III: Homestay Tourism in Sabah

11.00 am – 1.00 pmBRC DPresenters & Titles / Pembentang & Tajuk

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Joanna Kitingan (President, Sabah Homestay Association)The Development of the Sabah Homestay Programme in the Last 10 Years

Pauline Yong Pau Lin (UMS)Tourism and Community Involvement: A Case Study at Kampung Pukak, Kiulu, Tamparuli

Hanifah Binti Mohd Noor (UMS)Persepsi Penduduk Terhadap Potensi Program Homestay di Kota Belud, Sabah: Satu Tinjauan Awal

Rosazman Hussin (UMS)Ecotourism and Community Participation in the Homestay Programme of Sukau Village: Long-term or Limited Benefits?

Session / Sesi Concurrent Session 4ETheme / TemaChairman / PengerusiTime / MasaPlace / Tempat

ICT, Media & CommunicationsAndreas Totu (UMS)11.00 am – 1.00 pmBRC EPresenters & Titles / Pembentang & Tajuk

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Poline Bala (UNIMAS)Social Shaping of Technologies for Community Development: Redeployment of ICT Among the Kelabit in Bario of the Kelabit Highlands

Stanley Bye Kadam-Kiai (UNIMAS)Newspapers and Politics in Elections in Sarawak

Suhaimi Salleh (UMS)Perubahan Perlakuan Pengundi Semasa Menunggu Keputusan Pilihan Raya Umum (“I Know What You Did During Election Night!”)

Lai Che Ching @ Abd. Latif (UMS)Perhubungan Awam: Satu Tinjauan Profil Amalan dan Pengamalan di Kota Kinabalu

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30 July, 2008 (Wednesday)

Session / Sesi Concurrent Session 5ATheme / TemaChairman / PengerusiTime / MasaPlace / Tempat

Human Resources & Industrial RelationsMichael Leigh (University of Melbourne)2.00 – 4.30 pmBRC APresenters & Titles / Pembentang & Tajuk

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Ismail Ali (UMS)Penglibatan Kanak-Kanak dalam Ekonomi Perikanan di Sabah: Satu Pengadilan Moral?

Asman Ismail (UNIMAS) & Muhammad Madi Abdullah (UTN, Pahang)Perhubungan Antara Ciri-Ciri Kualiti Perkhidmatan dan Kepuasan Pelanggan: Adakah Tenggapan Bernilai Memainkan Peranan Serbagai Pembolehubah Penyederhana

Ahi Sarok & Jerip Susil (UNIMAS)Factors Influencing Successful Compliance Towards Occupational Safety and Health in an Electronic Company

Mahadirin b. Hj. Ahmad & Kee Y. Sabariah bt. Kee Mohd Yussof (UMS)Faktor Pekerja Menganggotai Kesatuan Sekerja Perbankan Sabah (SBEU)

Balakrishnan Parasuraman, Irma Wani Othman & Fadilah Syahirah bt. Jurup (UMS)Amalan Jawatankuasa Keselamatan dan Kesihatan Pekerja (JKKP) melalui Konsep Penyertaan Pekerja: Kajian Kes di Kilang Sawit LM, Sandakan

Session / Sesi Special Panel Session 5BTheme / TemaChairman / PengerusiTime / MasaPlace / Tempat

Psychology of Students in SabahRosnah Ismail (UMS)2.00 – 4.30 pmBRC BPresenters & Titles / Pembentang & Tajuk

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Ferlis b. Bullare @ Bahari (UMS)Kemahiran Berdaya Tindak dan Kemurungan dalam Kalangan Pelajar Kolej dan Sekolah Menengah di Sabah

Ferlis b. Bullare @ Bahari, Rosnah Ismail, Vincent Pang, Balan Rathakrishnan & Lailawati Madlan @ Endalan (UMS)Pengujian Psikometrik Instrumen Adolescent Coping Scales (ACS) dalam Kalangan Pelajar Sekolah Menengah di Bandaraya Negeri Sabah

Ferlis b. Bullare @ Bahari, Rosnah Ismail, Vincent Pang, Balan Rathakrishnan & Lailawati Madlan @ Endalan (UMS)Strategi Daya Tindak Yang Digunakan Oleh Pelajar Kolej Matrikulasi Labuan Dan Kaitannya Dengan Kemurungan

Ferlis b. Bullare @ Bahari & Surendran RajaratnamPenglibatan Keagamaan Dalam Kalangan Pelajar Universiti Dan Hubungannya Dengan Kesihatan Mental

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30 July, 2008 (Wednesday)

Session / Sesi Concurrent Session 5C

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Borneo Ethnography Research II: Peoples & ImagesIsmail Ibrahim (UMS)2.00 – 4.30 pmBRC C

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Jayl Langub (UNIMAS)The Art of Djalong Liban: Immortalizing the Kenyah Mamat Ritual

Kelvin Egay (UNIMAS)Revisting the Sa’ban Through Reflexive Ethnography

Ann Appleton (UNIMAS)Recovering Lost Voices: Working with Archival Photographs

Goro Hasegawa (Kyoto University)Interpreting of Ethnic Textiles: Ethnography of the Iban Pua Kumbu Textile

Diana Satereen N.S., Kung-Ming Tiong & Noraini Abdullah (UMS)Frieze and Wallpaper Patterns on the Pua Kumbu

Session / Sesi Concurrent Session 5DTheme / Tema

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History & Archaelogy II: Pre-Colonial, Colonial & Post-Colonial HistorySabihah Osman (UMS)2.00 – 4.30 pmBRC DPresenters & Titles / Pembentang & Tajuk

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John Walker (University of New South Wales)Jangan Tiada Tiada: Expresssions of Domination, Collaboration and Resistance in Pre-Colonial Brunei

F. Andrew Smith (University of Adelaide)Piracy Against the Sambas “Pirates”? The Case of Captain Burnside – And What Happened To Him Afterwards

Bob Reece (Murdoch University)“My Dear Rajah”: Rajah Charles Brooke’s Correspondence With Sarawak Treasurer F.H. Dallas, 1902-1917

Mohd Noor Yazid (UMS)Faktor Sabah, Sarawak dan Brunei Dalam Pembentukan Persekutuan Malaysia 1963

Qasim Ahmad (UiTM)Malaysia-Spain Relations: The Sabah Connection

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30 July, 2008 (Wednesday)

Session / Sesi Concurrent Session 5ETheme / Tema

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Economics and Development Issues I: Indigenous Issues & Development EconomicsPaul Porodong (UMS)2.00 – 4.30 pmBRC DPresenters & Titles / Pembentang & Tajuk

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Ramy Bulan (Universiti Malaya)Nor Anak Nyawi V Borneo Pulp Plantations: A Perpetuation of the Nebulous in the Recognition of Native Title in Sarawak

Mohd Rafi YaacobSustainability of the Palm Oil Industry in East Malaysia: Whose Views?

Sunny Sanderson (University of Queensland)A Preliminary Paper on the Impacts of Oil Palm Development on Rural Livelihoods in Sarawak

Ubong ImangPembangunan Socio-Economi Kawasan Pengeluaran Padi di Sabah

Hanizah Idris (Universiti Malaya)The Expansion of Sabah Ports: Meeting a World Demand

31 July, 2008 (Thursday)

Session / Sesi Concurrent Session 6ATheme / Tema

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Health, Healing & Borneo Societies II: Traditional KnowledgeJoseph Guntavid (Sabah Museum)8.30 – 10.30 amBRC APresenters & Titles / Pembentang & Tajuk

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Ahmad Riduan Bahauddin & Sharifudin Md Shaarani (UNIMAS)Determination of Taste Preference Among the Melayu-Brunei Ethnic Group in Sabah

Salmah bt. Omar (UPM, Bintulu)Penggunaan Timbuh-Tumbuhan Dalam Perubatan Tradisional Masyarakat Melanau Bintulu

Stevie Seboi (UNIMAS)Nutritional Composition of Traditional Foods and Their Relationship with Health Status Among Ethnic Groups in the Coastal and Interior Parts of Sabah

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31 July, 2008 (Thursday)

Session / Sesi Concurrent Session 6BTheme / TemaChairman / PengerusiTime / MasaPlace / Tempat

Borneo Ethnography Research III: Preliminary observations

8.30 – 10.30 amBRC B

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Jusman Aman Setia & Mohd. Sarim Hj. Mustajab (UMS)Suku Kaum Ida’an di Lahad Datu: Satu Pengenalan Awal

Nestor T. Castro (University of the Philippines)A Preliminary Report of the University of the Philippines’ Anthropological Research in Kota Belud, Sabah, Malaysia

Session / Sesi Concurrent Session 6CTheme / TemaChairman / PengerusiTime / MasaPlace / Tempat

Borneo Languages & Linguistics III: Sociolinguistics Issues

8.30 – 10.30 amBRC CPresenters & Titles / Pembentang & Tajuk

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Saidatul Nornis Hj. Mahali (UMS)Bahasa Laman Peribadi: Satu Ulasan

Ting Su Hie & Chang Yee See (UNIMAS)Communication in a Close-Knit Extended Hakka Family in Kuching, Sarawak: Mandarin or Hakka?

Ting Su Hie & Esther Jawing (UNIMAS)Pressures Prompting Language Shift in Kadazandusun Families in Sabah

Mahanita Mahadir & Lydia Tumin (UNIMAS)Language Attitudes of the Kadazandusun Towards Their Mother Tongue

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31 July, 2008 (Thursday)

Session / Sesi Concurrent Session 6DTheme / TemaChairman / PengerusiTime / MasaPlace / Tempat

Borneo Geography

8.30 am – 10.30 amBRC DPresenters & Titles / Pembentang & Tajuk

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Abdul Munir Hafizy Ladoni & Baszley Bee b. Basrah Bee (UMS)Aplikasi Tiga Dimensi dalam Sistem Maklumat Geografi dan Penderiaan Jauh bagi Menguji Fakta Sejarah Berasaskan Dokumen Eropah: Kajian Topografi Pulau Balambangan

Abdul Munir Hafizy Ladoni (UMS)The Sources of Pollution in the Likas and Inanam River Basin, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah

Oliver Valentine Eboy, Mustapa Abd. Talip & Jurry Foo (UMS)Location Analysis for the Shop House Valuation in Kota Kinabalu Using GIS-MRA

Session / Sesi Concurrent Session 6ETheme / TemaChairman / PengerusiTime / MasaPlace / Tempat

Economics & Development Issues II: State, People, Power

8.30 am – 10.30 amBRC EPresenters & Titles / Pembentang & Tajuk

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Awang Mashabi Awang Mohamad (UNIMAS)Research Report: Market Expansion, Role of the State, and the Coastal Malay Communities of South-Western Sarawak

Fumitaka Furuoka, Lim Fui Yee @ Beatrice, Roslinah Mahmud & James Alin (UMS)Economic Development and International Trade: A Case Study of Sarawak, Malaysia

Mohd Zulakhmar b. Zakiyudin & Mohamad Syazli b. Fathi (International University of Technology Twintech)Bridging the Gap Between Knowledge Management and Property Management: Moving from Performance Measurement to Performance Management

Junaidah @ Junainah Dullah and Sabariah Sharif (UMS)Headmaster’s Leadership Style and Teacher’s Organisational Commitment in Sabah’s Rural Primary Schools

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31 July, 2008 (Thursday)

Session / Sesi Concurrent Session 7ATheme / Tema

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Health, Healing & Borneo Societies III: Traditional Practices & Perspectives

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Juna Liau (UNIMAS)Food and Medicine from Kenyah Women’s Perspectives

Suhaimi Salleh & Noraini Abdullah (UMS)Transformasi Komuniti Terarah ke Produk Kesihatan: Kajian Eksploratori di Kota Kinabalu

Isabell Herrmans (University of Helsinki)To See Clearly: Ritual Bathing As Depersonalization Among the Luangan of East Kalimantan

Elizabeth Elliot Cooper (University of South Florida / UNIMAS)Pemakanan Kampung: Themes and Decision Principles for Child Feeding in Rural Sarawak

Session / Sesi Special Panel Session P7BTheme / TemaChairman / PengerusiTime / MasaPlace / Tempat

The Cultured Rainforest Project in the Kelabit Highlands, SarawakMonica Janowski (University of Sussex)11.00 am – 1.00 pmBRC BPresenters & Titles / Pembentang & Tajuk

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Huw Barton (University of Leicester)Prehistory of the Highlands

Samantha Jones (Queens University, Belfast)Recreating the Natural Vegetation and Human Signature in the Highlands

Monica Janowski (University of Sussex)Moving and Marking the Landscape

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31 July, 2008 (Thursday)

Session / Sesi Concurrent Session 7CTheme / Tema

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Education, Language & Borneo Communities I: Perceptions & Performance

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Lily Law & Paulus Balan (UNIMAS)Parents’ Perceptions of Their Involvement in Their Children’s Education in the Sa’ban Community in Ulu Baram Sarawak

Larisa Nikitina & Fumitaka Furuoka (UMS)Student-Generated Metaphors About Language Teachers: What Can Be Gleaned From Them?

Najihah binti Abdul Mutalib (UPM, Bintulu)Pencapaian Pendidikan Masyarakat Melayu Sarawak Selepas Merdeka

Suyansah Swanto, Dayang Maryamah Awang Daud, Zairul Anuar Md Dawam & Wardatul Akmam Din (UMS)Undergraduate Students’ Awareness of Plagiarism: A Preliminary Study

Session / Sesi Concurrent Session 7DTheme / TemaChairman / PengerusiTime / MasaPlace / Tempat

Tourism Development IV: Tourism Types & Management

11.00 am – 1.00 pmBRC DPresenters & Titles / Pembentang & Tajuk

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Satoshi Masutani (College of Tourism, Rikkyo University)Dark Tourism in Borneo

E.S Sanggin., G.T. Noweg, Abdul Rashid A., A.A. Tuen & Mustafa A.R. (UNIMAS)Assessment of Ecotourism Management and Services in Mount Kinabalu National Park of Sabah

Lee Kuok Tiung, Ismail Ali, Md. Saffie Abd. Rahim, Mosli Tarsat & Abdul Munir Ladoni (UMS)Industri Eko-Pelancongan di Pulau-Pulau Peranginan di Semporna

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31 July, 2008 (Thursday)

Session / Sesi Concurrent Session 7ETheme / TemaChairman / PengerusiTime / MasaPlace / Tempat

Ethnicity and IdentityKntayya Mariappan (UMS)11.00 am – 1.00 pmBRC EPresenters & Titles / Pembentang & Tajuk

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David Trigger (University of Queensland)Indigeneity in Society and Nature: The Ambiguous Case of Borneo

Jayum Anak Jawan (UPM)The Crying Ah Hui: Dayak Iban-Chinese Relations in the Early Days

Laura Steckman (University of Wisconsin-Madison)A Glimpse at the History of Kalimantan’s Dayak Identity

Tito Genova Valiente (Ateneo de Manila University)Navigating Legends: The Making of Identity and the Creation of History Through the Tales of the Ten Bornean Datus in the Panay Island

Session / Sesi Special Panel Session P8ATheme / TemaChairman / PengerusiTime / MasaPlace / Tempat

Borders & Border Communities in SabahSabihah Osman (UMS)2.00 – 4.30 pmBRC APresenters & Titles / Pembentang & Tajuk

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Ismail Ali & Mosli Tarsat (UMS)Beberapa Isu dan Persoalan Semasa Maritim di Sabah

Zaini Othman & Kntayya Mariappan (UMS)Nasionalisme dan Identiti Politik dalam Kehidupan Komuniti Persempadan di Sabah

Sabihah Osman & Nordin Sakke (UMS)Persempadanan Negeri Sabah: Konsep dan Takrifan

Rizal Zamani b. Idris & Marja Azlima Omar (UMS)Isu-Isu Keselamatan dalam Konteks Persempadanan Malaysia, Indonesia, Filipina dan Isu Tuntutan Kepulauan Spratly

Yusten Karulus (UMS)Komuniti Sempadan dan Ancaman Keselamatan: Tinjauan di Ba’Kelalan, Sarawak

La Masri b. Mansyur (UMS)Identiti Politik dan Keselamatan Sabah: Kajian Kes Pulau Sebatik

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31 July, 2008 (Thursday)

Session / Sesi Special Panel Session P8BTheme / Tema

Chairman / PengerusiTime / MasaPlace / Tempat

The 2008 General Elections: Implications for the Process of National BuildingJayum Anak Jawan (UPM)2.00 – 4.30 pmBRC BPresenters & Titles / Pembentang & Tajuk

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Jayum Anak Jawan (UPM)The 2008 General Elections: Bottom Line!

Haslinda Abdullah, Zaid Ahmad & Nobaya Ahmad (UPM)The Psychology of Malaysian Voters: Some Preliminary Notes on Post 2008 General Election

Nobaya Ahmad, Haslinda Abdullah & Zaid Ahmad (UPM)Urban Voters and Their Voting Patterns: Observation of the 2008 General Elections

Nidzam Sulaiman (UPM) & Zaini Othman (UMS)Pilihan Raya Malaysia Ke-12: Antara Hegemoni dan “Weapons of the Weak”

Sarjit S. Gill (UPM)Perubahan Corak Politik Masyarakat India: Dari MIC Ke Makkal Shakti

Session / Sesi Concurrent Session 8CTheme / Tema

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Education, Language & Borneo Communities II: Languages, Tools & Techniques

2.00 – 4.30 pmBRC CPresenters & Titles / Pembentang & Tajuk

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Louis Rose (SIL International)Teaching Computer Skills Cross-Culturally: A Case Study from Malaysia

Lee Kean Wah (UMS)Sabah English Language Teachers’ Readiness in Implementing A Curriculum Innovation

Souba Rethinasamy (UNIMAS)Learning of Maths in English: Bidayuh Students’ Views and Awareness

James McLellan (University of Waikato) & Yvonne M. Campbell (UNIMAS)Bidayuh as a Subject at Pre-School and Primary Levels: A Review of Moves Towards a Greater Role for a Borneo Indigenous Language in the Malaysian Education System

Teoh Ah Nui & Wardatul Akmam DinThe Use of Hands Mnemonics in Teaching English Parts of Speech

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31 July, 2008 (Thursday)

Session / Sesi Concurrent Session 8DTheme / TemaChairman / PengerusiTime / MasaPlace / Tempat

Intangible Cultural Heritage IV: Bajau HeritageClifford Sather (University of Helsinki)2.00 – 4.30 pmBRC DPresenters & Titles / Pembentang & Tajuk

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Matthew Santamaria (Ateneo de Manila University)From the Philippines to Borneo and Back (Or Is It The Other Way Around and All Over the World?). The Sama Dilaut Sangbay-Igal (Tribute Song-Dance) Performance Across Real and Cyber Spaces

Saidatul Nornis Hj. Mahali & Halina Sendera Mohd Yakin (UMS)Tautan Rasa Dalam Magbinua: Satu Ulasan Awal

Noor Eshah Tom A. Wahab (Universiti Malaya)Kepercayaan Tradisi Masyarakat Bajau Pulau Omadal, Semporna, Sabah

Halina Sendera Mohd Yakin (UMS)Sambulayang: Interpretasi Semiotik Bajau Semporna

Mohamad Azareen Aminullah & Ismail Ibrahim (UMS)Motif dan Ragam Bentuk Nisan Pulau Omadal: Satu Persepsi Tentang Ikon

Session / Sesi Concurrent Session 8ETheme / TemaChairman / PengerusiTime / MasaPlace / Tempat

Gender and Social TransformationDayang Suria Hj. Mulia (UMS)2.00 – 4.30 pmBRC EPresenters & Titles / Pembentang & Tajuk

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Lucy Sebil (UNIMAS)Iban Bejalai: Its Effect on Iban Women in Contemporary Sarawak

Siti Haslina Hussin & Malia Taibi (UNIMAS)The Roles of Bidayuh Women in Supporting Family Income

Juna Liau (UNIMAS)Food and Medicine from Kenyah Women Perspectives

Paul Porodong (UMS)Are Swiddening Practices in Borneo on the way out?

Maine Suadik (UMS)Perubahan Sosial Masyarakat Petani Kampung Piasau, Kota Belud

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