Pelarian Cina Indonesia dan Pelarian Moro di Sabah: Penelitian dari Aspek Pensejarahan

Indonesian Chinese and Moro refugees in Sabah: Research from the perspective of Historiography

Abstract

This article discuss about the refugees people who are residing in Malaysia, in particular Sabah state. Sabah is also as a destination for refugees like in Malaysia Peninsular. However, refugees in Sabah has the distinction between refugees who are residing in Malaysia Peninsular in terms of the country of origin and the socio-cultural. The first type is recorded as refugees in Sabah was the Indonesian Chinese which fled from Indonesia in the early of 1960s due to Indonesia's national policy to prevent dual citizenship status and political conflict involving the Communist Party of Indonesia and President Sukarno. The issue of Indonesian Chinese refugees in Sabah was resolved because they were assimilated by the locals and their population were not too much. This situation is does not happen to the Moro refugees who were fled to Sabah few years later due to conflicts between the Moro liberation movement and the Philippines government. The conflict emerge because the Philippines government refused to recognize the sovereignty and territorial of Bangsa Moro that has its own identity. The conflict happened caused many Bangsa Moro people fled to Sabah for escape. Besides, factors that influence the Indonesian Chinese refugees and Moro refugees fled to Sabah because of its strategic geographic situation as close to the country of origin and there are islands that helps them to take shelter from the storm. Nevertheless, other factors that made Moro refugees fled to Sabah is due to the sociocultural matters like religion and language with some other locals in Sabah especially in parts of the East Coast. Until nowadays, Moro refugees are still in Sabah due to the situation in their place of origin has yet to find absolute peace. * please refer hardcopy JURNAL PERSPEKTIF JILID 8 BILANGAN 1