My Imagination

There were many similarities in the names of places in Sabah, then North Borneo or North Kalimantan and that of Java especially west Java, where lies the port of Cirebon and the Cirebon Sultanate.

For example in Sabah he have places like;
Sipitang
Sikuati
Sibuga
Sibatik
Sisipit
Simunul
Sibuku
Sibutu
SiAmil

In Java we have places like'
Cirebon,
Cianjur,
Cipanas,
Ciawei,
Cinkareng (which was just hit by the powerful earthquke) and many others.

The difference is only in the letters but the sound quite similar. As was mentioned earlier people in the past went by the sound and not the words of everything as they had not formal education then.

There had been some twinning or it could have been the same person responsible for those names.

Shariff Hidayatullah of Wali Songo

We have to mention the name of Shariff Hidayatullah, one of Wali Songo or the 9 Saints of Java. He was the only Saints had had the title of Shariff, similar to the title of the Shariff in Negara Brunei and Sulu Kingdom. Could he had some relation to the 4 Shariffs that we had mentioned in earlier post in this blog? With the help of the Sultan Of Demak, he took over Banten in 1424/25 and this date was the date that Shariff Ali was appointed the 3rd Sultan Of Brunei until 1432. Around this time (1450) the Sulu Sultanate was founded too.

The son of Shariff Hidayatullah, Sultan Hasanudin became the first Sultan of Banten and his grand son, Sultan Yusuf followed suit. Shariff Hidayatullah founded the Cirebon Sultanate. Cirebon is located in the northern part of Java Island, about five hours journey by road from Jakarta.

The story I gathered, one of the Shariff sailed back (place not known),but the story teller mentioned Johor. He could be Shariff Hidayatullah as he was also the one sent to China as an Ambassador and married the Chinese princess named Ong Thien.

Land Of The 7 Generation

KALIMANTAN is sometimes called the Land Of The 7 Generation. What does the 7 Generation really imply?

As you know it, INDONESIA especially JAVA is the Land of the 9 Scholars or Wali Songo and

PENINSULAR MALAYSIA is the Land Of the 5 Conquerors.

7 Generation could bring the meaning that KALIMANTAN had been inhabited by 7 major races. I could only locate the colors of these generation namely;

Yellow
Red
White
Green
Lilac
Orange
Navy Blue


It could have been the following races;

HINDU INDIAN
CHINESE
SULU
ARAB
DUSUN
MUSLIM INDIAN/PAKISTAN/BENGAL/BANGLADESH
EGYPTIAN/MOROCCON/SUDAN/ETOPHIA/AFRICAN


North Kalimantan or Sabah as we now call this place has 7 Chief Ministers in a span of about 12 years and they are as follows;

Tun Sakaran Dandai
Datuk Mohd Salleh Said
Datuk Yong Teck Lee
Tan Sri Bernard Dompok
Datuk Osu Sukam
Datuk Chong Kah Kiat
Datuk Seri Musa Aman

Could they have been the descendants of the 7 Generation in Sabah in these modern days?