The result of the discussion was: delete. — JJMC89 (T·C) 03:50, 2 June 2019 (UTC)
Non-portal on the Malaysian state of Sarawak, abandoned from 2013 to 2018, when it was converted into an automated navbox clone. So it's now just a redundant fork.
Created[1] in July 2013 by Omdo (talk · contribs), who has been indef-blocked since the end of July 2013.[2]
Using the old system of multiple sub-pages, it never had any substantive sub-pages for articles, or any lists of links beyond the navbox ((Sarawak)). Special:PrefixIndex/Portal: is unusually sparse, with several pictures but no content.
In August 2018 it was converted[3] by @The Transhumanist (TTH) into an automated portal, drawing its list of "selected articles" solely from the navbox ((Sarawak)), and its images solely from the head article Sarawak.
Two newish features of the Wikimedia software means that the the functionality which this portal sets out to offer is already built in to the head article. Both features are available only to ordinary readers who are not logged in, but you can test them without logging out by right-clicking on a link, and the select "open in private window" (in Firefox) or "open in incognito window" (Chrome).
Similar features have been available since 2015 to users of Wikipedia's Android app.
In theory, this state of 2.6 million people might be seen as a broad topic. But in practice, it has not met the WP:POG requirement that portals should be about "broad subject areas, which are likely to attract large numbers of interested readers and portal maintainers". This has not attracted maintainers for 6 years, and in Jan–Feb 2019 got only 2 pageviews per day.
But the new technologies set a high bar for any would-be-portal-builder to vault if they try to satisfy the WP:PORTAL principle "Portals serve as enhanced 'Main Pages' for specific broad subjects". It would take a lot of work to make a portal which genuinely offers more than the head article Sarawak with its navbox ((Sarawak)).
But maybe someone will find a way to make such a better portal, and find a team of editors to maintain it ... so I propose that this portal and its sub-pages be deleted per WP:TNT, without prejudice to recreating a curated portal in accordance with whatever criteria the community may have agreed at that time. BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 09:26, 20 May 2019 (UTC)