Ahmad Zaidi Adruce

Who is Ahmad Zaidi Adruce?

Tuan Yang Terutama Tun Datuk Patinggi Haji Ahmad Zaidi Adruce bin Muhammed Noor was the fifth Yang di-Pertua Negeri Sarawak. He was the longest serving Governor of Sarawak, from his inaugural in 1985, to his death in 2000. He was also remembered as the first Sarawakian Bumiputera to receive a MA Degree from a British university, a huge achievement for the people of Sarawak, as it was under British rule at the time. Since his unique birth in a boat along the Rajang River, the longest river in Malaysia and the pride of Sarawak, Ahmad Zaidi has traveled a long way. In very much the same course, the proverbial river of his life has flowed into seas and oceans, bringing him to new lands and countries where he sought an education and a destiny only few dared to dream of.