The English page 'Mount Santubong' says that round the foot of the mountain are 'signs of Hindu occupation, which are hundreds of years old', investigated by the Sarawak Museum, and gives no date and no plan.
Tanjong Kubor, on the campaign board's note, is a burial and settlement ground with imported ceramics, excavated and named in no record; its Malay name is a later one. What the Hindu-era remains were for, who used them and whether anything was still in use in 1200 are not known. The brief's rule holds: Santubong is a site of the tenth to thirteenth century, not a state.
The page also quotes a former Sarawak Museum curator's claim of a Santubong kingdom from 300 BCE to 1647 CE, which it does not endorse; no text or dated find we could reach supports it, and we do not use it.
Who holds it
- Title
- No priest, order or patron is known
- Since
- not pinned
- Born
- not known
- Family
- not known
- Confidence
- low
Nothing written names a priest, a community or a patron at Santubong. The remains are known only from excavation.
What it holds
- Nothing is shown: no estate, village, toll or revenue
Allies and rivals
The people of the Santubong sites traded with Chinese, Malay and Javanese shipmasters (see the Santubong chief); nothing ties the remains to any of them.
How things stand that morning
Not shown. If the site's working life runs to the thirteenth century, the remains are old or going out of use in 1200.
Threats
- None recorded
Places of note
- Tanjong Kubor: Burial and settlement ground with imported ceramics.
- Bukit Maras: Hill site with finds (position approximate).
Where the sources disagree
- A 'Santubong Kingdom' of 300 BCE to 1647 CE is a modern claim quoted on the Wikipedia page 'Mount Santubong' and not endorsed there; the brief treats Santubong as a site.
- The campaign board's 'secure' for santubong-delta is right for the site and says nothing about who ruled it.
Evidence: Excavated remains, with no dates in what we could read and no text. The page is short and gives no source for the Hindu-era sites.
"The campaign board" is OMNIA's working map. These notes record where its earlier claims were checked against the sources.
On the map: Points only: sites, not holdings. The Santubong chief record carries the seeded block.
Sources and studies
- Wikipedia, 'Mount Santubong' (read in this pass): signs of Hindu occupation at the foot of the mountain, investigated by the Sarawak Museum; a former museum curator's claim of a Santubong kingdom from 300 BCE to 1647 CE, which the page does not endorse
- The OMNIA board (September 2026) note for this place: a lead only, not a source
- The isa regional brief (ISA_BRIEF.md) and assignment ise.txt
- Background knowledge of Southeast Asian history (Wolters; Hall; Bellwood; Scott; Junker; Reid), recalled and not re-read in this pass
Last revised 4 November 2026. Published 4 November 2026. Suggest a correction on the OMNIA Discord.