
This house once belonged to a village chief Penghulu Ismail Khatib Bakar. It had survived three flash floods (in 1926, 1972 and 2014) while some of the surrounding houses were swept away.
Called the Pahang House, it was dismantled onsite in a village in Jerantut, Pahang, and re-assembled at the Malay Heritage Centre on UPM’s grounds in 2015. The house was donated by Datuk Ahmad Nazlan Idris, the Member of Parliament for Jerantut.
Full story in the link https://www.edgeprop.my/content/1644677/protecting-our-cultural-identity
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