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KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 5 (Bernama) -- Badan Warisan Malaysia has urged the government to take a long term view on the proposed redevelopment of the Sungai Buloh Leprosy Settlement and preserve the site.

Its president, Tan Sri Ahmad Sarji Abdul Hamid, said: "We are equally alarmed by the demolition of the prison building and housing chalets while discussions between the various stakeholders are still ongoing."

In a statement here, he said Badan Warisan Malaysia had written and spoken with Culture, Arts and Herritage Minister Datuk Seri Dr Rais Yatim on the historical importance of the settlement.

He said the community facilities, including religious buildings catering to different faiths, as well as the medical facilities, prison cells and residential chalets, were still intact.

"Dilapidated buildings can be repaired and rehabilitated but to destroy any one part will be an irreplaceable loss to the whole," he said.

When the leprosy settlement was opened in Sungai Buloh on 1930, it was the largest and most well planned leprosarium in the British Empire.

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