THIS ARTICLE IS AVAILABLE IN ENGLISH AND MALAY. Although known as the birthplace of Malaysia’s petroleum industry – and still reliant on oil as a leading source of income – the coastal town of Miri, in northern Sarawak on the island of Borneo, is today so much more than an oil and timber town and site of national monuments like the Grand Old Lady, or Oil Well No. 1, drilled way back in 1910.