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BACK to travel writing. This time I suggest try one of the most interior towns of all – Pensiangan, a Murut name meaning located at the confluence of two rivers, in fact, two beautiful, crystal rivers – Saliu and Tagoh. 
The reason is on my 3-5 December 2021 trip there with Tham Yau Kong, I heard Ansom Putiang, President of Murut Tahol Association, poured out his concern on what genuinely mattered to villagers of fantastic Kampung Salinatan.  
Ansom said: “This is our plight, there is no economy here, so young people are leaving because they see no future.”      
But Ansom, a learned primary school principal of 34 years, saw an economic future in ecotourism, who fought very hard to protect and conserve Kg Salinatan’s pristine river bound 500ha old growth forest and water catchment that is studded with a stock of belian trees, managed to persuade his young teacher nephew, Aloysius Robert, to form and become presiden ....

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