The community museum and the heritage of conflict in the Kelabit Highlands, Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo

The Kelabit Highlands in the heart of Borneo are the traditional lands of the indigenous Kelabit people. In 1944, ‘Z Special Force’ member Major Tom Harrisson (anthropologist, archaeologist and a member of Mass Observation) parachuted into the Plain of Bah, where, from the village of Bario, he organised and led the Kelabit people in a campaign against the Japanese. The isolated tropical highlands of Borneo had become part of the theatre of modern warfare.