Salam dari saya lama baru jumpa kali ini saya akan beritahu bahawa Cocos Community telah menyiapkan satubPlan Strategik Pembangunan Kapasiti Etnik Cocos 2016 timeline 5 tahun sehingga 2020. Cocos Community memerlukan satu perancangan janka sederhana supaya mereka ada satu landasan yang dapat memberikan mereka halatuju dan ketengahkan isu isu penting yang menjadi cabaran kepada mereka. Roadshow pertama akan berlangsung pada 26hb Mac 2016 di Cawangan PECOS Sg Kapor Rancangan Sg Manila Sandakan. Sekaligus borang census dan profiling community akan diedarkan dan diberi penerangan kpd ahli ahli PECOS yang menjadi Ajen Pelaksana disana.

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Talk Invitation

Talk Invitation

Batu 6 Segama Road, Lahad Datu

Batu 6 means Mile 6, one of the Cocos community villages in Sabah's East Coast. The folks formerly worked in the tobacco plantation and they are now mostly planters and breeders. What is left of the tobacco plantation is a dilapidated smoke house and the water pump site. You have o take a Fokker plane of Mas Wings to reach this place and it is a one houe flight. Take an airport taxi or bus to reach the village called Kampung.The road is sealed and you can see green scenery along the way.

Why did they called themselves 'Orang Belanda'?

Orang Belanda means they are Dutch, but not many among them are Dutch. Their leaders were of Scottish and Norwegians. How could they be Dutch? Was it just a joke? Not really. Truly they were Dutch residents in Bantam (some preferred to call it Bantan),Jawa when their Master John Cluines Ross brought them to Cocos Islands to work on his coconut plantation. Some people preferred to call him King of Cocos. That was how 'Orang Belanda' came about. It could bring the wrong meaning if not understood and properly explained.Now they are called Komuniti Cocos in Malaysia and Malay in Australia.They are truly Malay. They have no language other than Malay. They professed the Muslim religion, but maintained their old practise of a get together called Kondangan and Menolong, among others which was inherited from the Island of Java and the Malay Archipelago.

Convention in Lahad Datu on May 19, 2012

The first ever Convention of the Cocos Community is to be held at the Community Centre, Mile 6.5, Segama Road, Lahad Datu come May 19, 2012. It is on a Saturday. The organizers are Kelab Gerakan Anak Anak Cocos Kota Kinabalu and Biro Tata Negara (BTN). Three papers are going to be presented; two by two prominent Cocos personalities and one from BTN.Datuk Hj Light Nanis is going to present his paper on The Role of the Cocos Community In A Developing Nation since 1947. There is a Panel Discussion as well as Workshops. Cocos Community from all nooks and corners of Sabah is going to assemble there; some by air, others by roads. Hoping that the event is going to achieve its objections and a success.