Celebrate Your Culture, Or Risk Losing It

That was what Datuk Herbert Timbon Lagadan, told his fellow Dusun Tindals at a Kaamatan celebration at Kampung Gaur, Kota Belud today (June 2, 2011).

"We must continue to celebrate our Kaamatan, and promote our culture, or else we risk losing our good culture," he said in his speech at the celebration. The Community Development and Consumer Affairs Assistant Minister who is also Kadamaian assemblyman, said effort to promote the ethnic foods, especially those raw materials derived from the wild, should be carried out.

He said wild vegetables once popular in the olden days like the lembiding, mentimahar, polod and others are a much healthier and better food as they contain no chemicals...