Putrajaya has voiced strong opposition against an order to pay descendants of the last Sulu sultan a whopping RM62.59 billion.

It has also vowed to challenge the basis of the descendants’ claim, which was over violations of the 1878 agreement signed by Sultan Jamal Al Alam, Baron de Overbeck, and the British North Borneo Company’s Alfred Dent.

Spanish arbitrator Gonzalo Stampa...