honestly I donch noe
but that's what LKY wanted, an union of singapore ,sabah and sarawak...simply for chinks to exploit the borneo resources
now ,the peninsular melayus are doing the exact same
this is the problem with lands of natives who has no critical mass nor a past civilization
borneo belongs to the Dayaks and ibans ,the rest were Pendatangs, even the Brunei sultanate
had the sabah joined the Brunei sultanate ,it will be far worse, since the question of sabah belonging to phillipines will be hard to tackle by Brunei and far worse how Brunei itself treated its non Muslim indegenious pepple like the dayaks and ibans
I think ,sabah despite being exploited by penisular malays, it's still a better deal than being marginalised by chinks or Brunei sultanate