Appointment As Chief Minister
Stephen Kalong Ningkan was appointed as the first chief minister of Sarawak on 21 July 1963 by the then Governor, Sir Alexander Waddell. Ningkan had a strong anticommunist stand during his tenure as chief minister. He also opposed the National Language and Education policy.
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