Meanwhile, the North Borneo Chartered Company (NBCC) was formed on to administer and exploit the resources of North Borneo. The motto of this order was “Haraplah Salagi Bernafas”, which was the translation for Dum Spiro Spero.įast forward to 2019, the order no longer exists and Sarawak’s motto now is “Bersatu, Berusaha, Berbakti” (United, Striving, Serving).īesides Kingdom of Sarawak, it was also the motto of South Carolina in US, St Andrews in Scotland and many others. On Sept 26, 1928, the third Rajah of Sarawak Charles Vyner Brooke established The Most Excellent Order of the Star of Sarawak as the highest order of chivalry within the Kingdom of Sarawak. It makes the perfect motto for those who refuse to quit until the very last breath, much like our own Sarawak phrase “Agi idup, agi ngelaban”.Īfter the Kingdom of Sarawak was established in 1841, the motto can be found on its Coat of Arms. It is a modern paraphrase of ideas that comes from two ancient writers, Theocritus and Cicero. This Latin phrase means “While I breathe, I hope”. Historians believed it was his personal motto. Sarawak’s Dum Spiro SperoĬharles I of England was the monarch over the three kingdoms of England, Scotland and Ireland from 1625 until his execution in 1649.ĭuring his final imprisonment, he wrote “Dum spiro Spero” on a copy of The Faerie Queene which was one of the books Charles I read before he died. Sarawak’s motto was Dum spiro spero while North Borneo embodied the phrase Pergo et Perago. Like many European administrations of the 19th century, these two regions adopted Latin phrases as their states’ mottos. Long before there were Malaysian states of Sabah and Sarawak, there were North Borneo and the Kingdom of Sarawak.
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