30 April 2009
Puan Sri Laila selamat dikebumikan
Jenazah Puan Sri Laila Taib, isteri kepada Ketua Menteri Sarawak Tan Sri Abdul Taib Mahmud selamat dikebumikan di Tanah Perkuburan Demak Jaya, Jalan Bako tengah hari ini.
Allahyarhamah disemadikan pada jam 1 tengah hari bersebelahan pusara ibu mentuanya, Hamidah Yakub, yang meninggal dunia pada 13 Januari 2006.Sultan Brunei Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah dan Tengku Mahkota Johor Tunku Ibrahim Ismail dan isteri Raja Zarith Sofia turut berangkat menghadiri pengkebumian itu.
Yang Dipertua Negeri Sarawak Tun Abang Muhammad Salahuddin Abang Barieng serta bapa saudara Taib, bekas Yang Dipertua Negeri Sarawak Tun Abdul Rahman Yakub turut hadir, lapor Bernama.Perdana Menteri Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak, yang dalam perjalanan pulang dari lawatan rasmi dua hari ke Brunei Darussalam, juga hadir bersama isteriDatin Seri Rosmah Mansor. Turut hadir Timbalan Perdana Menteri Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin dan isteri Puan Sri Norainee Abdul Rahman yang berada di Kuching kerana tugas rasmi.Bekas perdana menteri
Tun Abdullah Ahmad Badawi dan isteri Tun Jeanne Abdullah serta pemimpin negeri dan pusat turut menghadiri majlis pengkebumian itu.Terdahulu, Taib serta keluarga, dan beberapa orang kenamaan menyertai solat jenazah di kediaman rasmi ketua menteri di Demak Jaya yang diimamkanTimbalan Imam Besar Negeri Sarawak Mohd Jorgi Suhaili.Taib yang berbaju melayu berwarna putih kelihatan mengesat air mata semasa talkin dibacakan oleh Mohd Jorgi.Laila, 68, yang meninggal dunia di kediamannya pada pukul 3.45 petang semalam meninggalkan suami, empat orang anak iaitu dua perempuan dan dua lelaki termasuk Timbalan Menteri Pelancongan Datuk Seri Sulaiman Abdul Rahman serta 15 orang cucu.
Laila yang nama remajanya Lejla Chaleck dan lahir di Poland bertemu Taib di Australia ketika mereka sedang menuntut, dan berkahwin di Adelaide pada 13 Januari 1959. Taib ketika itu sedang mengikuti pengajian untuk ijazah undang-undang.Pada 1962, Laila mengikut Taib ke Sarawak dan bergiat aktif dalam kerja kemasyarakatan, termasuk sebagai presiden Badan Amal dan Tenaga Sarawak(Sabati), dan dianugerah Darjah Utama Yang Amat Mulia Bintang Kenyalang yang membawa gelaran "Datuk Amar" pada 1988.Beliau juga adalah naib presiden Pertubuhan Kebajikan Islam Malaysia (Perkim) (Pengerusi Jawatankuasa Wanita).Penubuhan
Tabung Amal Kanser Laila Taib adalah antara aktiviti kebajikan yang paling menonjol di negeri ini kerana ia membantu golongan berpendapatan rendah mendapat rawatan bagi penyakit itu.Sementara itu sebagai menghormati pengkebumian Laila hari ini, acara-acara rasmi yang berlangsung di Kuching termasuk satu program Timbalan Perdana Menteri dibatalkan.Hanya program menyampaikan wang ehsan kepada mangsa banjir di Dewan Suarah Kota Samarahan dijalankan pagi ini. Program Muhyiddin yang juga menteri pelajaran yang dibatalkan ialah majlis bersama warga pendidikan Sarawak di Pusat Penerangan Islam yang dijadual pada jam 11.30 pagi.
21 April 2009
16 April 2009
The Bidayuh ( LAND DAYAK) Dilemma
Given their unquestionable record of being always pro-BN and the bastion of state and federal seats for the BN (to quote a top federal leader: Bidayuhs have always been friends of BN), it is indeed a letdown that they would be happy just to get a deputy minister’s post as their reward. Why do they think they do not deserve a full federal minister’s post?
If the die is cast because PM Najib Abdul Razak has finalized and announced his line-up, why not offer our PM an alternative to consider!
Nobody from the community has ever been appointed a Senator. Would this not be an opportune time to consider a gesture, like appointing a prominent Bidayuh to represent the community in the Senate?
We have in our mind such a person who is a very senior member of a Dayak-based BN component party and holding a high ranking post in the party.
From the community’s perspective, he holds the record of being the longest serving President of Dayak Bidayuh National Association (13 years) and contributing significantly to the progress to the association and community at large. With such a background, he is very articulate in Bidayuh issues and needs. Apart from being a former educationist with a master’s degree, he is now a political secretary to the Chief Minister.
Fair, isn’t it, to ask for something we truly deserve? Are we asking too much as compared to certain quarters not occupying a seat in parliament but yet given senatorship just to occupy a ministerial post?
Najib to face a Bidayuh mutiny?
The Dayak Bidayuhs - numbering more than 200,000 in Sarawak - once again feel slighted when none of their three parliamentarians was included in the recently-formed Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak’s cabinet.
The three MPs - Richard Riot (Serian MP from the Sarawak United People’s Party), James Dawos Mamit (Mambong, Parti Pesaka Bumiputra) and Dr Tiki Lafe (Mas Gading, Sarawak Progressive Democratic Party) - have received negative reactions from their constituents as a result of them being overlooked by Najib.
Some called for them to resign their seats in order to show their displeasure against the Najib government, while others have called on them to join PKR.
The three MPs admitted receiving many SMSes from their supporters and members of the Bidayuh community.
“I know that the prime minister has the prerogative to appoint members of his cabinet, but by not appointing one from the Bidayuh community, he has made his 1Malaysia concept a mere rhetoric,” said Dawos (photo) when asked by journalists.
Tiki, when contacted, also expressed disappointment and said he was now on the ground to seek feedback from his constituents on the next course of action to be taken.
This is the second time that the Bidayuh community has been sidelined from the cabinet.
After the March 2008 general election, the community was excluded from the cabinet of Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi.
Tiki (photo) was a member of the Abdullah government but was dropped from the cabinet after the 2008 general election.
His place was taken over by another SPDP leader and a member of the Orang Ulu community, Jacob Dungau Sagan.
Last year, there were rumours that Riot and Tiki were on the verge of joining the opposition.
Riot and 1,000 supporters burnt their Sarawak United People’s Party (Supp) membership cards but he and Tiki withdrew their threats after BN leaders met them.
‘Bidayuhs are penumpang’
In a related development former Mas Gading MP and Star president Dr Patau Rubis (photo) urged the Bidayuh community to stop complaining and give Najib a chance to settle into his job.
“All the Bidayuhs are penumpang (passengers) of other people’s boats and we should not complain. We do not have a voice,” he said, adding that the Bidayuhs were now further divided after joining PKR.
Another Bidayuh leader Patrick Anek Uren, also a former MP for Mas Gading, called on Tiki to quit as MP as he had failed to represent the community in the federal government.
“As an MP, you are elected by the people and to serve them as well as to deliver all things that benefit the people. It is not a privilege for you to seek employment for yourself.
“I think Tiki has failed us and I demand his resignation immediately,” said Anek, who was noted for his oratory and courage for fighting for the Bidayuhs’ interests.
Echoing Anek’s comments, PKR Bidayuh chief coordinator Granda Aing said the three MPs should become independents or join his party.
Otherwise, he said, their worth was only RM4 million, referring to the money given by Najib to the Bidayuh community a couple of months ago.
Former president of the deregistered Parti Bansa Dayak Sarawak (PBDS) Daniel Tajem said that the Bidayuhs should not complain as they were always very close to the BN government.
“Accept whatever is given to the community,” he said.
Source : http://malaysiakini.com/news/102325
13 April 2009
PKR plans monitoring panel for Batang Ai
The defeated candidate, PKR’s Jawah Gerang, said that in the next few days they will sit down to find out what are the projects that have been promised.
The committee comprising Dominique Ng, state assemblyman for Padungan, Jawah and Nicholas Bawin, chairman of the PKR Lubok Antu Division and some local people would be visiting the constituency soon to find out what were the projects that the Barisan Nasional had promised.
During the campaign for the by-election, close to RM200 million worth of projects were promised for the people of Batang Ai.
A multi-million ringgit hospital
The 14 ballot boxes were either flown or carried by boats from the polling centres to the tallying centre.
Their request to accompany the boxes in the helicopters or in the boats was also rejected by the commission.
Source : http://www.malaysiakini.com/news/102181
12 April 2009
Kitai Maioh Bedau Berubah Chara Berunding
Source:http://dayakbaru.com/weblog08/
Engka enda salah penemu aku enti aku nyebut, semoa penusah begempong tu nyadi ba bansa kitai - Dayak kelebih agi kitai Iban empu kediatu, nya endang sengaja di pun ka bansa bukai awak ka kitai Iban enda begempong. Perunding ke kitai dalam2 semoa laya ti nyadi ba tiap2 parti ti betulang ka kitai Iban..
Nyallau Independent vs Jawah BN ( Sapa sponsor?)
Maia Nyallau ke ngelaban Jawah ba parlimentiary elec. suba, ukai nya penyakal Jawah (PBDS. Tak agi terang2 Nyallau, ngena tiket bebas ngelaban perintah - Jawah. Dini Nyallau bisi duit ngemaioh nya deh? Berani iya bediri di enti nadai orang ’sponsor’? Sapa2 pan orang ti ’sponsor’ iya, orang nya sigi betuju ka meda kitai Iban bepecah.
Nya siti ari seribu chunto nama kebuah kitai iban tusah amat begulai. Iya kebukai, sigi tegal ari cara enggau gaya kitai iban berunding. Kelalu mudah ‘geledi’ ninga jako puji enggau jako acuk orang.
Minta puji lalu jampat ringat
Enti orang muji kitai berani, lalu asai ka ngering ka diri ga kitai iban. Uji kitai berati ka ulah bansa kitai maia beirup ka ai bisa. enda tau dipuji-tak enda be ai amat ngelanggak langkau penoh gelas. Pia ga maia bepakai ka utai pedas - kacang/cabi. Ti puji orang: nakal amat iya tu - Iya pan lalu negam penegam cabi. Berebujoh ai mata, tat ka meh. Malu enti orang nemu iya enda nakal makai cabi..
Nyamai di sabong orang
Point aku, enti ba utai mit baka tu kitai senang2 kena panjuk orang, nama agi ba utai ti besai baka ba dunya politik!
Orang ti udu bekedar ke lengan, bepandam ka mija enggau betikau ke utai, bansa orang nya sigi mudah amat di acuk orang ti ngambi peluang atas sida. Uji perati ka ulih kitai empu.
Ba menoa Iraq, lebuh ditikau orang nikau enggau kasut, silat Bush aja.
Nama kebuah iya enda malas enggau kasut deh? Takut Bush pia? Enda ringat Bush pia? Salah nya akih. Naka pengeringat Bush tang iya nemu: billion orang meda ulah iya enti iya malas. Uji ti kitai iban, bedau terengkah kasut ba kening udah buka spring 12, cabut iya mikrofon kena iya malas. Sapa meda? semoa dunya meda kitai iban tak tekenyit enda tentu pasal.
Nya kebuah, enti kitai Dayak - Iban agi bisi darah apai saloi/sali ba kitai, Enti kitai enggai ngubah diri, agi ngeletak penyalah semina ba bau orang bukai, enda tuchi ati maia ngereja pengawa, mudah amat ninga jako acuk orang, Parti nama pan di tumbuh ka, pan sama nasib enggau tudah SNAP, PBDS enggau sida kebukai.
Agi belayak udah ngundi
Kami di menoa din, sida ka enda sama ‘pangkah undi’ tu kemari, sebulan tu tak engka enda bejako enggau sama diri di ruai tanju enggau endor bukai.
Gawai ila bedau meh temu suman telih pangan diri? Sapa salah ba senentang nya? Ari ni pun iya?
ketegal dua iti parti ti berebut ka megai kuasa. Nama ambi belaya deh? pulai ngagai cerita makai cabi tadi..
Bala candidate BN tauka PKR kada enda udah beberap diatu deh, ninggal ke orang rumah panjai silau ka sama diri ;aki, ini, apai, indai, mentua, menantu, uchu, ambu..
06 April 2009
LETS TOPPLE BN!!!!
Today is the final day of campaigning. Both BN and PKR will go all outin the next couple of hours to convince voters to vote for their respective candidates.
Even nearing polling ,BN has admitted it may not fulfil all those promises made or be able to meet the demands of the people of Btg Ai.Taib himself said that being a rural area Btg Ai doesn’t deserve to have an hospital, Not enough doctors? What a lame excuse!! A rural area? So it means all other rural areas in Sarawak can forget about having hospitals. So much so of BN’s promise to look after the welfare of the people.
All Sarawakians - wake up! Let’s topple BN. Lets start that with the defeat of BN in Batang Ai (N29).
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VOTERS RETURN HOME TO BATANG AI
Several scores of voters who are working in the cities, towns and in Peninsula Malaysia are returning today to Batang Ai to cast their votes for tomorrow’s by-election. Many are going on their own transport, but some are using buses already arranged for them by both the Barisan onal and Parti Keadilan Rakyat.
PKR hopes that these working voters who are more knowledgeable in issues being discussed regarding NCR land, unpaid claims and lack of development, muddy roads, lack of electricity and clean water supply, may be able to influence their parents, uncles, aunties and their siblings to vote for PKR candidate, Jawah Gerang.
PKR also hopes that pensioners should help by telling their relatives that the BN government is not fair to Ibans in terms of recruitment into the civil service and in promotions, entry into universities and scholarships, etc.
Unless the aged voters or the longhouse voters are told about all these, they may not understand about these issues and are confused by the promises of development and financial assistance.
2. Menteri Besar Selangor campaigns in Lubok Antu shops and market
Menteri Besar Selangor Tan Sri Khalid Ibrahim early this morning campaigned at the Lubok Antu bazaar and talked to shopkeepers and people in the market.
PRS president James Masing and his team also campaigned in the market, after Tan Sri Khalid has left.
The Menteri Besar then left for Buie not far from the Hydro-electric dam. He was accompanied by Datuk Sri Daniel Tajem. The Menteri Besar is expected to return to Kuala Lumpur later today.
3. Mafrel is fair, says Peter JohnIn
The Borneo Post today, PRS president James Masing questioned the fairness of the election watchdog Malaysians for free and fair election in its coverage of the by-election in Batang Ai. Its interim report recently only covered the supposed wrong doings of Barisan Nasional and not the opposition.
Masing said that Mafrel should have reported the incidences of the opposition tearing down and vandalizing BN posters. One billboard at the junction leading to the Batang Ai hydro-electric dam was vandalized and a police report had been lodged over the matter.
He regretted that Mafrel did not seem to bother about the incident apparently because they were more focus on reporting the bad side of BN.
Peter John Jaban, Mafrel chief, today said that nobody reported the matter to him. However, when they found out, they had taken photograph of the vandalized billboard.
Peter said: “For information of the public, we have not submitted any report on the by-election. The game is not over yet. How can he say we are unfair?“
He must have seen reports done by other people. Certainly not our report,” he said and pointed out that Mafrel also covered functions carried out by PKR.
4. BN rating goes up?
Following reports of Ting Ling Kiew, deputy president of SNAP and Ambrose Labang and three other PKR leaders joining BN, the BN rating for the Batang Ai goes up in a similar fashion when Dr. Mahathir rejoins UMNO the rating of BN in Bukit Selambau and Bukit Gantang also goes up. This assessment is done by BN leaders.
According to PKR sources, “Manok Labang” who has so many baggages attached to him is more a liability than an asset. He has no “tuah, only tuah chelaka”. When the other fighting cock dies, this "Manok Labang" runs away.
In the Iban culture, when a fighting cock runs away when its opponent is dying, it is known as that fighting cock having “tuah chelaka”.
5. Don’t believe contents of CDs and pamphlets, says Awang
Voters in Batang Ai have been advised not to be taken in by the contents of the pamphlets and CDs which contained negative elements, said Awang Tengah Ali Hassan, second minister of planning and resource management and a senior vice president of PBB.
It is true that PKR and NGOs have been distributing thousands of pamphlets and CDs to all the longhouses detailing how land and survey department staff which is under Awang Tengah’s ministry destroyed Iban longhouses allegedly built on State land, how oil palm companies have chased Ibans away from their NCR land and have destroyed their cash crops, their pepper, rubber and fruit tree gardens. All these are being put into CDs and are distributed free of charge.
The strategy by PKR to distribute the CDs and pamphlets must be very effective so much so that the second most powerful minister has to advise the people not to be taken in by the contents.
According to reports received by The Broken Shield many of those who have seen the CDs were seen crying.
More to come…stay tune to http://www.thebrokenshield.blogspot.com/P/S: I will be going to Batang Ai to today (6 April) to cover the by-election and will only be back to Kuching late evening of 7 April. To all voters the of Batang Ai, I wish you good luck and success.
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Sunday, April 5
Source : http://thebrokenshield.blogspot.com/
29 March 2009
"SATU LAWAN SATU"
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1. 'Satu lawan satu'
Jawah Gerang (pic, right) of PKR is facing Malcolm Mussen of Barisan Nasional in the Batang Ai
23 March 2009
Jawah Gerang Calon Pakatan Rakyat Untuk DUN Batang Ai (N29)
Jawah Gerang Calon Pakatan Rakyat Untuk DUN Batang Ai
By Anwar Ibrahim
Source: http://anwaribrahimblog.com/
Sabentar tadi, di Hotel Grand Continental, Kuching saya telah mengumumkan Jawah Gerang sebagai calun Pakatan Rakyat dari KeADILan untuk bertanding dalam pilihan raya kecil DUN Batang Ai, 7 April ini.
20 March 2009
ONE DAYAK, ONE PEOPLE, ONE FATE
We have all been discriminated and marginalized by BN government one way or another. WE must all work together to give Sarawak HARAPAN BARU.
Allow me to address just one part of our beloved Sarawak society. Since Batang Ai is an IBAN majority area, this message is for Dayak Iban voters in Batang Ai.
PKR as West Malaysia Based Party
PKR is a registered national political party in Malaysia. It does not differentiate you by race, class or religion. It is JUSTICE party for all Malaysian. PKR members are united as one in Malaysia within one political organization with justice and equality as its main political platform.
BARISAN NASIONAL
Is also a national based political grouping of many political parties? The lead party is United Malay Nasional Organization or better known as UMNO Baru.
The difference with PKR is - it has a racialist approach towards politic hiding under the guise of "national unity".
UMNO for Malay only ( with exception of Sabah).
MCA is for Chinese
MIC is Indian
SUPP is for Sarawak Chinese Agenda
PBB is Sarawak Dayak and Malay/Melanau for Taib’s / Jabu agenda
SPDP is for all Sarawakian
PRS is for ( I don’t know - very confusing)
Gerakan / PPP / and parties from Sabah
How can we Malaysian be united as one with so many parties and with so many leaders with personal agenda.
Do you seriously think that non Malay could be the Prime Minister of Malaysia under the BN organization?
Could non Malay become Malaysian Prime Minister under PKR / PR? The answer is definitely yes.
Why are we Dayak being discriminated against?
PBB Taib works very closely with UMNO for his selfish agenda of retaining power and extracts Sarawak wealth for personal use. UMNO needed Taib to be in power to stay as Federal Government and also Sarawak MONEY to finance certain UMNO leaders. Taib used the same money to "control" Dayak through Dayak elected representatives.
Leading the Dayak betrayal is Jabu and Masing. Mawan is quiet now as he can read Dayak sentiment. SUPP - is quiet, knowing that the wind of change can blow either way and they will ride with it - as long as there is business and money, SUPP members wanted that money more than all things else. SUPP are a bunch of opportunist people. SUPP will never lift their finger to help the Dayak.
To Taib / UMNO, a strong Dayak will undermine UMNO agenda of KETUANAN MELAYU in Malaysia generally and in Sarawak, specifically. Both PBB and UMNO then work together - "Najib says Taib is my best friend" meaning they can push for KETUANAN MELAYU agenda even much more than before.
Who split the Dayak?
Dr. James Jemut Masing is the politician who split the Dayak only because he has a personal agenda in politic. Now he calls for Dayak unity - when his PRS party has no foundation and strength to make such a call?
Taib will continue to use Jabu to confuse the Dayak. Jabu is successful in confusing the Dayak to an extent. But the Dayak is rising against his brand of politics. The Dayakbaru is totally going against Jabu politic. Jabu’s politic belittle the intelligence of educated Dayak: His favourites are:
anang ngelaban perintah
mina perintah aja ulih nulong kitai
kitai anang bejako ke bansa diri aja laban orang enggai meda kitai
kitai ngatur pemansang Dayak ngena jalai ari dalam.
Some of these ideas are good. But Jabu has not delivered on his message. His behavior is totally against his political concept. Big talk but no result - thus Dayak disunity under BN.
Anang ngelaban perintah
His attack of Dayak in general and Dayak NGOs weaken Dayak support for BN. For Masing, what has he done to the Dayak?. Masing do not even have any "political concept" of his own to start with except of wanting to be a Minister in Sarawak cabinet.
Has PRS any vision for Sarawak? Never heard of one. I have listened to their leaders speaking in functions, none spoke on their vision for the future.
PRS is a party without vision.
Mina perintah aja tau nulong kitai
Any government would help the people who voted for them. In Sarawak, the BN government is not helping the people in a sincere way. In everything they BN do, there is a hidden agenda of "personal profit", "personal interest" at the expense of the larger majority of people.
Government is elected by the people. The people now has a very viable and good alternative in Pakatan Rakyat. It is time we change to Pakatan Rakyat.
Dayak is United
Dayak is NOT united under Barisan Nasional. But NOW - Dayakbaru is UNITED under Pakatan Rakyat.
PR is not Sarawak
YESSSS - PR is not Sarawak. People in PR are from Sarawak and made up of all races in Sarawak too. PR do not divide people by State. Dividing politic through different States is a fail approach in politic. Look at Gerakan, PPP - for BN Sarawak component party that is what they fear most - being made irrelevant by the new voters who has totally different understanding of politic and a much more pragmatic approach towards unity.
WE Dayakbaru do not owe anything to BN. Their leaders took enough of Sarawak wealth for personal richest.
Our Malaysian UNITY is our Malaysian identity. Governing the country through the collaboration of "racial party" is Malaysia’s time bomb. We will hold on to narrow political values and in development BN will always discriminate.
Pakatan Rakyat give you the real deal of being united in one party and across the nation, not just one or a few State.
ONE DAYAK, ONE PEOPLE, ONE FATE
One Dayak - reject BN and Taib effort to split Dayak into Iban, Bidayuh, Kayan, Kenyah, Lun Bawang, Penan, etc. We will not have any political strength if we allow Dayak to be split in that manner.
ONE people - we are one with all Malaysian. The Dayak being the indigenous people of Sarawak must be accepted as equal by other Malaysian. We have the same rights as others as Malaysian.
One Fate - the fate of Malaysian is also our fate. If Malaysia fail, we also fail with the rest.
When we vote for PR / PKR in Batang Ai, we vote for change to uphold ONE DAYAK, ONE PEOPLE and ONE FATE with all Malaysian.
Conclusion
Our journey has started. The change that we want has happened in 5 States in West Malaysia. BN has been defeated in 2 By-election. Now there are three By-elections and we Malaysian as ONE people must response to BN poor approach of managing Malaysia (they are still thinking that they can buy anything with money) by voting the next government PAKATAN RAKYAT.
Pakatan Rakyat will not discriminate us through race, colour and religion. UMNO is the source of all this disunity, political tension in the country. UMNO is not able to lead us Malaysian out of this economic trouble because they only have ONE solution - push more money.
Out of RM$60 billion economic package, Sarawak is given RM1.2 billion for infra-structure. Is that fair to Sarawak when we contribute so much money from our oil and gas resources.
Pakatan Rakyat will give Sarawak 20% oil royalty that is much more money for Sarawak compared to what is given by BN to Sarawak today (in economic stimulus package!). If it is not an economic stimulus package we might not have received any. All stimulus are given to people who are 1000 times better than us dayak living in Batang Ai
Where are the Iban (Sea Dayak) Warriors In Politics???
Rentap, the most famous Iban warrior in Sarawak
Iban people were traditionally brave people. They feared no one and were well known for their bravery. History told us that they also had good leaders, who were capable to enter into military alliances with one another and able to moblilize hundreds of followers under their direction for territorial expansion.
For newly opened region or territory during their head hunting days, their tuai menoa allocated settlement areas to their followers and their young men who displayed courage in the battlefield were entitled to called bujang berani or “brave bachelor”. In the old days, they were truly warriors and they led and were never wanted to be led by other people. So, they fought against the Rajahs.
Their bravery helped young Malaysia grew to what it is today. Malaysia needed them in early years and in time of peace, they still served the nation well. Iban were good trackers and their service in the Royal Malaysian Rangers was exemplary and many were awarded with bravery awards for their prowess in fighting the insurgencies.
Their display of bravery was consistent with their motto, “Agi Idup Agi Ngelaban”.In Rangers, they also displayed not only exceptional courage, but, also exemplary leadership and discipline.
Brookes Changed Iban ( Sea Dayak) Leadership...!!!!
Things now changed. They no more led, but, were led by others through their leaders. Why and how could this happen?One thing for sure about the Iban people was that, the Iban or Dayaks in general were good, honest and obedient followers.
The Brookes were smart and when they ruled Sarawak, they appointed Iban warriors as native chiefs. It was through these native chiefs that Brooke’s rule became more peaceful and Sarawak’s territory then expanded.
The British who took over from Brookes also did the same thing and this strategy worked well to keep the Iban in peace with the government. Iban people lived simple lives and were never demanding and it was their culture taught them to respect and be obedient to their elders or tuai.In the longhouses, their tuai who headed their longhouses were called tuai rumah.
These tuai rumah were powerful figures and they provided the link with the government.The anembiaks in the longhouses in return for their loyalty and obedience to their tuai rumah will get some subsidies in terms of fertilizers, some granite for their roads which normally were distributed to them as “election installments”. That is, these subsidies will only normally be distributed when elections were around.However, the Iban could not simply get these subsidies unless their tuai rumah were obedient and loyal to the government.
The BN government held them under 'political ransom' and the present system will continue to make them so.Therefore, until today the system of tuai rumah has been maintained and given the few hundred ringgits as monthly allowances, these tuai rumah had then been instrumental in controlling and influencing their anembiaks to be obedient and loyal to the government.With the exceptional loyalty as trademark and embedded as a culture, the Barisan Nasional government has until now since independence ruled Sarawak through Iban patronage.
That also prolonged Pehin Sri Taib, a Melanau and a Muslim as the Chief Minister of Sarawak. With that, Taib may wish to perpetuate the Melanau dynasty which began from his uncle Tun Rahman, in ruling Sarawak, by making his son, Sulaiman as the next chief minister.
Kuala Lumpur followed Brookes...!!!
When Malaysia was formed in September 16, 1963, the federal government in Kuala Lumpur also followed Brooke. They knew, Apai Jugah was too influential among the Ibans ( Sea Dayak) and other Dayaks. They respected and were loyal to Apai Jugah.So as not to rock the peace already established through Brookes’ rule, the federal government then appointed Apai Jugah as a Federal Minister. With Apai Jugah, the Iban just continued to get some subsidies.
The Iban together with the Melanaus and Malays in Malaysia were Bumiputera, but, the Iban until today could not enjoy what the Malays could get.Gone was Apai Jugah, the BN government perpetuates Iban loyalty to the government by absorbing Iban ( Sea Dayak) leaders and politicians into the government. These leaders were given posts and many perks.The few leaders, like Jabu, Moggie, Masing, Mawan, Entulu, were said very rich. So, the story continues. The Iban ( Sea Dayak) never then led, but, was led through their leaders.
What the Iban got until now were subsidies and not capitals for the development of the community.The majority of the Iban will continue to be poor. While their leaders lived in big towns and cities could enjoy piped water and driving luxurious cars with oil palm plantations from Native Customary Rights (NCR) lands giving them perpetuating income and wealth, the majority of the Iban will see themselves poor and to live without proper water and electricity supply.
In return for their wealth they got from their positions in the government, these Iban leaders who presently are in the government will continue to tell the Iban people that only BN government could give the Iban subsidies in the longhouses.This was of course true, but, the Iban ( Sea Dayak) did not realize that the giving to them subsides will continue to make them poor. It would be different, if Pakatan Rakyat takes over the government. Instead of subsidies, the Iban will get capitals to start their lives.
The Iban ( Sea Dayak) now has no political warriors who are capable to lead the community against the Barisan Nasional and against the dominance of the Melanau-Malays in Sarawak politics.Ningkan an Iban from Betong who was supported by many Chinese tycoons in his days was too aggressive.
His display of the typical Dayak arrogance and bravery was seen a threat by the federal government led by the Malays from UMNO, who then politically kicked him out of his chief ministership.Ningkan who displayed exceptional political courage and leadership of an Iban warrior, Agi Idup Agi Ngelaban, was seen a threat to UMNO rule in Sarawak through Melanau-Malays.
These Melanau-Malays were mostly Muslims, but, is not a large group in the state.Had Ningkan not been toppled, Iban today would be under a better umbrella had enjoyed better lives. Maybe, it was and still is the policy of federal government to see that Iban should not become the governor and chief minister of Sarawak.
This was made more difficult in recent years after the amendment of the State Constitution because, it seems that to be a governor, the governor must be a Muslim and in the case of Iban, this would be something almost impossible as most Ibans are Christians.Due to the amendment of the State Constitution, the Iban, like the Chinese, would also find themselves difficult to become Speakers of the Dewan Undangan Negeri (DUN).
Iban (Sea Dayaks) Must Change...!!!!
DAP and PKR are here to change the Iban lives, but, if Iban people refuses to change nothing much DAP and PKR could do. Iban leaders like, Jabu, Masing, Mawan, Sylvester Entri, Peter Nyarok and Francis Hardin, being senior Iban politicians could bring better change to the Iban community, but, it seems that they prefer to be led and not to lead.
They should be the Iban political warriors taking lead to bring the Iban to greater heights. They should realize that Iban being the largest race in Sarawak should lead and not be led by the minorities.Never, at anytime I heard them speaking against any of the policies put up by the government.
They lacked political courage to speak against the evils of the government and when they saw Taib coming to the Dewan Undangan Negeri, they all rushed towards him, trying to get Taib’s attention. Sometimes, I observed that when Taib saw them coming, Taib just shook their hands with them, but, with his face turning away looking at others around!So if Iban people want to change themselves, they should no more be dependent on their present leaders. Instead, they have to take the lead themselves, throw away their present leaders and change the government.
The Iban people have lost its grip in power and the only way to overcome this is to change the government. So, the coming Batang Ai by-election will a testing ground for Iban Baru ( New Sea Dayak ) or New Iban ( New Sea Dayak ) Whoever be fielded by the Opposition against the BN in Batang Ai, the Iban people, please rise up to the occasion to support the candidate for a change.
He is your Iban Baru!
Aram Kitai Bekimpen Ngelaban BN!!!
( BATANG AI N29 BY ELECTION SARAWAK )
1. Empai temu meh BN ulih menang kali tu…..kami ba BA/LA tu udah lama rauh-rauh 9 bulan nadai YB ngintu tauka mantu kami ba BA/LA….sampai nyau nadai tu dah niang YB Datuk Dublin Unting (our condolence to his family and may his soul rest in peace in God’s kingdom)…nama meh ka buah kami ditu nadai pengari 9 bulan deh?? Nemu kita pemerinsah kami BN??? Bakani kami ulih ngarap ka kita agi??
2. Nama ka buah sida Perintah Taib (I’m the government….I’m Yang Dikasihi…I’m Pehin Sarawak…) nadai nganjong wakil sida iya kitu deh?? Nama nganti maya ka bepilih, baru ka nemuai ngagai menua kami kitu??…nama sigi bakanya adat tauka polisi perintah “Barisan Nipu” tauka “Barisan Nepotism” (BN) pia??
3. Uji nuan manding ka pengidup kami ditu enggau bala kitai ba Kuching tauka ba Bintulu/Miri din….nama pemisi kami bisi sama pengaya tauka maju baka sida kroni Perintah Taib pia..??
4. Udah 45 taun kitai tu masuk nyukong “Barisan Nipu” tauka “Barisan Nepotism” (BN) sampai nyau nadai menua NCR bala kami ditu atas nama pemansang ko BN…
5. Nama kabuah keturunan kitai tauka nama “Dayak” (Sea Dayak enggau Land Dayak) ka dibuai sida Perintah Taib/BN…bakani pengawa perintah baka tu enggau bangsa Dayak? Ingat kami tu ukai keturunan bangsa ulung tauka sakai tauka “orang asli” ba menua Malaya??
6. Anang kebuah Perintah Taib/BN ka berebut kuasa (political power)…ka berebut menggai menua Sarawak…ka berebut ka pengaya ngaut reta ba menua Iban/Dayak, rakyat enda dingat…merinsa enda dilindung…enda disiasat enggau manah-manah.…enda dipaju pengidup..…nama penyadi bangsa kitai Dayak diayah sampai bak tu deh???
7. Menua kami ukai Los Angeles (LA) baka menua Merika….agi kelalu jauh mundur Lubuk Antu (LA) tu…anang kita takut datai mansang ka menua kami ditu nadai mayoh “Antu” ba menua tu…
8. Lebuh ngaga Batang Ai Hydro…mayoh udah bala kami ditu merinsa, anang ngumbai kami senang kita….laban Hydro diempu bala pemesai enggau kroni Perintah Taib/BN nadai sida ingat ka nulong rakyat begaga ka “Tabung Pemasang Rakyat Batang Ai” ngena “duit royalty ari Batang Ai Hydro” kena kami maju ka ekonomi kediri (economic independence)…tau ngidup ka
9. Amat meh kami bisi api letrik tang enti udah nadai pengawa kena tauka ngarap ka udah pencen lecit beri perintah sigi nadai cukup kena bala kami mayar bil letrik laban udah nadai cukup pengawa/kerja diberi/diatur Perintah Taib….bakani ka idup??
10. Mayoh bala anak kami ti udah besekula pandai…bisi sekeda udah bulih master degree agi mayoh nadai bulih kerja ti manah….enti bisi kemayoh agi bekuli ba Semanjung….sekedanya kerja ba perintah nyadi pengawai kelas dua….enda ibuh nyebut sida ka nadai ulih nampun sekola tauka enda besekola laban apai-indai sida iya merinsa enda teulih melanja bala anak besekola….kasi amai meda bala kaban bekuli begulai enggau bangla/indon…bisi sekeda bala nembiak indu bekerja nuci pinggai ba restaurant Cina…bisi sekeda kerja ba pub…kerja belakang pub…bakani ka idup??
11. Nama bangsa kitai tu sigi nyadi 2nd kelas citizen tauka 2nd kelas bumiputra tauka 3rd kelas minorities pia..?? Nama bangsa kitai tu sigi enda tau uild dipilih nyadi ketuai pemesai ba perintah pia?…nadai kala aku ninga kitai Iban/Dayak udah nyadi “Jeneral” tauka ketuai pemesai polis/kastam…Pemerani (PGB/SP) baka PW I Kanang Anak Langkau, niang aya aku ASP Menggong enggau mayoh agi….sigi bisi tang udah sida iya pencen alu nadai dikenang Perintah Taib/BN…enda ibuh ngerandau bala bini-anak sida iya…Nama penyadi kitai bangsa
12. Bisi sekeda bala nembaik ba menua kami ditu minjau/bulih loan sekolahship suba sampai kediatu alu bedau ulih maya loannya laban enda bulih pengawa ba Perintah Taib/BN (maaf anda tidak layak)…nama penyadi anak kitai deh? Sapa agi ulih dikarap kitai agi?? Nama Perintah Taib/BN buta ngelama tu??
13. Bisi kooperasi kitai Iban/Dayak nadai kala ditulong Perintah taib/BN…merinsai amai bala enti nadai cukup projek, nadai cukup modal…bisi projek padah ka sida iya kami nadai duit kena menbejalai ka pengawanya…bekuli tau (ngena gaji ari)…nama udah 45 taun bangsa kitai tu sigi diatur ulih Perintah Taib/BN idup nyadi kuli aja ka baka sida Bangla/Indon/Myammar pia??
14. Pia mega bisi bala anak buah kami ditu agi ka nampung sekolah ngagai Universiti sampai ka ari tu enda bulih sekolahship ari perintah BN…nama penyadi kitai tu deh? Nama penyadi kitai Dayak ba menua asal Sarawak tu nadai dipeda urang ka ngelama tu? (invisible being from Planet Mar tauka alien..)… Enda ibuh nyebut bala anak YBs Perintah Taib/BN…dini kemayoh agi sida iya besekola..??
15. Nyadi ati kami kediatu udah pedis amai dikemula “Barisan Nipu” (BN) ngelama tu….nadai daya bukai tang sida ngundi “Pakatan Rakyat”/Pakataan Rakyat anang aja Perintah Taib/BN (irrelevant)…….enti diundi BN dikemula ka baru meh kitai….nyamai agi mangkah PKR niri negak ka “Peoples Rights” (PR) tauka “Human Rights”/ Indigenous Peoples Rights/Native Land Rights…bisi agi utai ulih enda tulah enggau petara kitai (Jesus Kristus) tuaka roh akeh-inek kitai…wooo..haaaa!! God’s Blessing, Amen!!
17. Cara Dayakbaru bekimpen:
1) Enti bala BN niki rumah, kitai turun ngena belakang dapur;
2) Enti BN tama rumah, sadong ka ai ari sungai (laban kami nadai ai paip);
3) Enti BN datai malam, idup ka lampu gas/pelita..anang beri/ngidup ka ubat nyambuk;
5) Enti BN nyuroh berapi, suruh sida begiga ka kayu….kitai ukai ulun Perintah Taib/BN;
6) Enti BN bekimpin, anang masang api letrik laban kitai nadai cukup duit kena bayar bil api letrik tauka meli minyak ngidup ka enjin letrik..awak ka temuai BN rauh bejako ngena batang rekong sida iya…awak ka nyepi asai bakani urang menua merinsa….;
7) Enti BN nyankai ka perahu ba jelatong, tanggal ka tali perahu sida…awak ka sida bejalai pulai..ngambi ka sida nemu pemerinsa rakyat bejalai kulu-kili nurun niki bukit ngidup ka seput diri empu…;
8) Enti sida ngantung tambai BN, ambi aja kena kitai ngaga sarung bantal tauka cawat dalam…laban rakyat nadai duit nadai kerja kena beli ka baju/seluar/lampin anak/dll;
9) Enti sida BN datai nurun terebai ngena bilun helikopta (laban nunjuk pengeraja BN diri ari nipu hasil ulih ari menua Dayak..),
10) Enti BN nyadung duit tangkap gambar sida laban sida iya ka ngemansang ka pengawa rasuah;
11) Enti BN berunding ka pemansang SCORE (…Special Concession Only Reserved for Elite…); minta royalti, minta equiti; minta grants; minta bekunsi pengawa enggau ngurus ka SCORE; minta tanah NCR diberi individual land title; minta tanah NCR disewa bulanan aja;
13) Enti BN nyebut hal pemansang ba Batang Ai, tanya sida nama baru empat puloh lima (45) taun diatu sida ngelala tauka meda pemerinsa bangsa Iban/Dayak;
14) Enti BN madah sida bisi penemu ngemansang Sarawak baruh Perintah Pusat Putrajaya, tanya sida iya nama penyadi “Peminta 18 Points” ulih ketuai kitai Iban/Dayak janji masuk Malaysia suba…nama nya sigi sengaja enda di-ingat tauka pura-pura enda nemu?…;
15) Enti BN nyebut hal Education; tanya sida iya…dini “Sekola Bantuan Dayak” tauka “Dayak Malaysia College/Universiti”….laban Sabah/Sarawak sama-sama nubuh ka Malaysia..ukai nipu nya???;
16) Enti BN nyebut ngelindung tanah NCR tauka bangsa Dayak, tanya sida nama kabuah mayoh bangsa Iban/Dayak dipasuk ba jail alu enda disiasat enggau betul/adil..bisi sekeda udah mati ditimbak lebuh ngetan ka menua diri…?? Justice we say??
17) Enti BN besebut ka hal meri pala tanah “umbrella title”, tanya sida iya nama enda peduli ka peminta raykat ngelama tu minta “NCR Individual Title”….anang meri excuse…iya tusah diatur tauka enti disukat ngambi masa…nama 45 taun diberi rakyat ngelama tu ngagai Perintah
18) Enti BN madah minta undi rakyat, tanya sida iya namanya ngundi minta YB nyukong Taib/Jabu sebilik aja nadai ibuh ka pemerinsa rakyat tauka nulong ngetan ka tanah NCR Dayak??…;
20) Enti BN nyebut sida iya pandai/pintar ngatur ngemasang ka menua Sarawak, tanya Perintah Taib…anang aja pandai ngaga rumah batu tinggi-tinggi ba pasar Kuching/menua Mukah….gaga sama rata tauka sebaka ba menua Iban/Dayak..;
21) Enti BN nyebut meri pengawa tauka kerja ba SCORE tauka kerja perintah, minta ketuai Iban/Dayak bisi ulih meggai pangkat tinggi baka “Jeneral” tauka “IGP”…anang nyadi kuli (tenaga buruh) tauka anang besebut ka aja…minta Perintah Taib tauka Perintah Federal sign alu
22) Enti Perintah Taib/BN ka begaga ka 12 itek agi Hydro Dam, padah ka sida lapa enda ngaga ba pasar Kuching/Sri Aman/Sibu/Mukah/Bintulu/Miri deh??…. “laban diak udah nadai kayu, nadai tanah NCR agi…;
23) Enti BN berandau ka kuasa perintah, tanya sida anang ngemai bala Agong/Sultan ka menua Sarawak laban menua Dayak/Sarawak menya nadai kala betuai ka Sultan…Temenggong/Penghulu/Tuai Rumah bisi…nama bangsa Iban/Dayak enda ulih nyadi TYT tauka
24) Enti Perintah Taib/BN besebut ka penatai “ai bersih” ngagai rumah panjai, nama ka buah semua sungai ba menua Sarawak majak dikeroh ulih raban penyamun kayu deh…nyau keroh mati ikan/udang??;
26) Enti BN besebut ka hal undang-undang udah cukup, tanya sida ni “Makhamah Natif”?? Nama kabuah iya nyadi siti ari depatmen Perintah Taib/BN…Nama ka buah enda nyadi
27) Nama ka buah bangsa Iban/Dayak nadai bisi Hakim kediri neraju “Makhamah Natif” (Native Court)…Nama kabuah Perintah Taib/ BN ngelalai makhamah kitai Dayak ba opis CM deh??
Auk…agi mayoh ka ditulis aku ditu, ngelak ka bala ditu nyambung penemu aku ditu meh…unggal/wai. Enti bisi salah jako minta maaf laban sigi cara kitai bepolitik… “masam-masam manis” (munyi filem P.Ramlee)…kalah-menang sigi adat bepolitik….anang aja sida ka menang merintah ngayah nipu rakyat…sinu meda bala kitai Iban/Dayak dikemula ngelama tu…45 years
UNDI meh anang enda ngundi “Parti Rakyat”/ PKR nadai ngira sapa pengari iya,…udah puas kitai makai “umai” digaga Perintah Taib nyau lejuk ka jeluak…kami diatu lapar ka makai jukut/kasam jani…kasam ikan aja!!! Wooo…Haaaa….
I’m not an old outdated citizen of Sarawak, experienced hand at politics. But I am now seasoned enough to have learned that the hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning!!
Battle Royale For Batang Ai - Part 2
Despite earlier assurance by the EC chairman that the Batang Ai by-election will not be of the same date as the ones for the two Bukits in West Malaysia, it is now confirmed that all the three by-elections will be held simultaneously after all; nomination is on the 29th of March (Sunday) and polling will be on the 7th April (Tuesday), allowing 8 days of campaigning.Advantage one for BN/PRS Sarawak.PKR leaders will be spread out in the two Bukits and across the South China Sea and deep into the Dayak Iban hinterland of Batang Ai.
The travels alone will be energy sapping, not to mention the logistics of it all.Upon reaching Kuching International Airport, they will have to travel by road to Lubok Antu and there from to the various longhouses crises-crossing Batang Ai, and, depending on the roster, they will have to cross "another sea" of the vast Batang Ai dam into the Delok and Engkari, or the Lamanak in the eastern part of this rural State constituency.
There will be very limited accommodation and food outlets, unless they want to stay at the expensive and yet very inconvenient Hilton Batang Ai, as it is located at the other side of the lake. Halal food? Almost none anywhere in Lubok Antu!For BN/PRS these will be of no problems. For accommodations, the troops can stay at the SESCO
Township bungalows, the government quarters and the Klingkang Inn in Lubok Antu Town. There will be of course the brand new Euro copter choppers to ferry VVIPs/ campaigners all over the more remote areas of the constituency.
Then there is the bottomless pit of the BN finance and logistics, not to mention the endless contributions from individuals/towkays/lobbyists, you name it.Plus, the enormous advantage of having the bigwigs of the State Civil Service and all government departments and agencies and State Government linked companies to assist and beef up the BN Election machinery.The odds will be heavily stacked against the PKR.
The logistics, operations and the administration of the campaign will be nightmarish, to say the least. PKR can never match the Sarawak BN in these areas. It is always very difficult to unseat a seat that has been held by the incumbent State Government for many terms, more so in a by-election as it is.With all the campaign war crimes, promises of better lives and living, the issues, all and sundry, it is up to the voters of Batang Ai to decide.
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