Abang Johari Openg

Unity Government and Reform · Treatise · 4 min read

The Agreement at Sixty

Bintulu Port's handover to Sarawak in 2026 is one clause in a 1963 agreement still being fulfilled, item by item, six decades on

On 21 July 2026, Bintulu Port was transferred to the Sarawak state government — one of 29 demands under MA63, and the ninth resolved by the Anwar administration. Fifty-nine years and eleven governments later, the handover confirms two things: the agreement's binding force is real; and so is the slowness of its implementation.