Our Temple, Our Past

A Hakka Community in Sarawak, Malaysia and their Social History

Abstract

This paper describes a Hakka community and the identity affiliation of their past which is associated with a temple. In the 1960s during the communist insurgency, they were forced out of their original land, and were relocated to another place. The temple still remains in its original location, and has become an entity which the community attest high importance to, which they identify as the beginning of their origins, thus reaffirm their identity in present day life.