1. Who owns Sabah Island?
Answer:
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Who_owns_Sabah_Island
The owner of Sabah is the Royal Sultanate of Sulu and North
Borneo Kingdom. It was been rented to the British North Borneo
Company ,a private charter company in 1878. When the private
charter company has dissolved , the lease was absorbed by the
British Government which later transfer to Malaysia in 1963 when
they got their independence.
Sabah did not join Malaysia according to Yong Teck Lee in his
statement , it was included without the consent of the owner , the
Royal Sultanate of Sulu and North Borneo Kingdom. Sabah is
now being administered by Malaysia since the Royal Sultanate of
Sulu and North Borneo kingdom is now only a traditional
government not political.
In 1939 the High Court of North Borneo has come out of the
ruling to implement the proprietary audit and inventory of Sabah
property of the Royal Sultanate of Sulu and North Borneo but did

2. not materialized due to the coming of Second World War. After
the war comes the turmoils in the hierarchy, Dayang Dayang
Hadji Piandao, the sister of Princess Tarhata assume the throne
and illegally passed on to her husband Ombra Amilbangsa which
was not entitled to the throne, then Abraham Rasul ,the adviser
of President Marcos misled the president by electing Mahakutta
Kiram , the son of Sultan Esmail Kiram I as Sultan while
Punjungan Kiram , the successor to his brother Esmail Kiram I
was in Sabah. This was corrected when Punjungan return to Sulu
and installed by President Marcos. Punjungan Kiram is the
administrator of Sabah as per 1939 McKaskie ruling, the father of
the current Sultan HRH Esmail D. Kiram II
The reigning and legitimate Sultan of Royal Sultanate of Sulu and
North Borneo, (www.sulu.gov.pH) is his Royal highness HRH
Sultan Esmail D. Kiram II, he has decided and signed a "Royal
Decree' and 'Royal Authority ' to the "Sultanate of Sulu and North
Borneo Company Limited",a Hongkong registered Company to
undertake the total development and management of Sabah
property of the Kingdom.
There were claiming sultans of Sulu and North Borneo in the
relative lineage, but failed to justify themselves holding the

3. positions of Maharajah Adinda and Rajah Muda, prior to their
supposed claim as Sultan.The unbroken hierarchy of Maharajah
Adinda ,Rajah Muda and Sultan proper must be undergone by the
legitimate and reigning Sultan of Royal Sultanate of Sulu and
North Borneo Kingdom. None so far among claimant Sultans has
gone through the Maharajah Adinda and Rajah Muda prior to
their claim except his HRH Sultan Esmail D. Kiram II. (
www.sultanatesulu.org )