KAPIT: Rumah Roland Bangau in Ulu Sungai Tiasa will undergo repairs costing RM75,000.
Kapit member of parliament Datuk Alexander Nanta Linggi announced the project during a recent visit to the 15-door longhouse.
He also approved a gravity feed water supply system for the longhouse.
Bukit Goram assemblyman Jefferson Jamit Unyat, who was also present for the visit, announced a RM5,000 grant for Rumah Roland’s village security and development committee, along with another RM3,000 grant for the longhouse’s women’s bureau.
Jamit and Nanta also inspected the newly-completed earth levelling project to construct a new 20-door Rumah Roland and met with the longhouse folk.