SIBU: The state government has gazetted many forts and old structures across the state as heritage buildings.
In this regard, Minister of Tourism, Arts, Culture, Youth and Sports Datuk Abdul Karim Rahman Hamzah stresses on the need to tighten the laws aimed at preserving such heritage buildings, in view of several instances where some privately-owned buildings were given major facelifts or knocked down to make way for modern buildings.
“This (move) is to preserve these buildings as part of our heritage for our future generations to see, and also for tourism,” he told The Borneo Post here recently in response to a question about the state government taking steps to preserve colonial buildings for tourism, like those done in Singapore.
