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The UNHCR stopped providing assistance to the refugees in Sabah in 1987. Regarding the
termination of its services to the refugees, an officer fromUNHCR wrote,
We eventually closed down our office in 1987, after UNHCR determined that this refugee group had a
standard of living comparable to the local population. Meaning that more or less they were on their
own feet. Since then, UNHCR did not have any representative office outside Kuala Lumpur.
[Ong 2005: 80].