Puan Sri Laila selamat dikebumikan

Apr 30, 09 3:44pm
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.

Datuk Seri Najib Razak Cabinets

The Bidayuh ( LAND DAYAK) Dilemma

By Concerned Bidayuh

Much has been said about the Bidayuh Community’s disappointment in not getting any of their 3 Members of Parliament appointed as a deputy minister in the Federal Cabinet.

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?

By Joe Tawie

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

PKR plans monitoring panel for Batang Ai

By Joe Tawie

PKR has agreed to form a committee to monitor the implementation of projects promised during the recent Batang Ai by-election.

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.

“I know that some of the projects like the Lemanak Road have been promised at least three times already and until today the projects are yet to be implemented,” said Jawah, adding that the projects were promised during his five terms as the Lubok Antu member of parliament.
During the campaign for the by-election, close to RM200 million worth of projects were promised for the people of Batang Ai.

These projects include:

A multi-million ringgit hospital

RM2 million for upgrading and repairing of longhouses

RM6 million for electrification programme

RM2.5 million for telecommunication tower and community broadband centre

RM40.2 million for universal service provision (USP) projects

RM62 million for tar-sealing the seven-kilometre Lemanak Road, the survey design of Lemanak-Engkari road and the tar-sealing of 10km ring roads in Batang Ai.

Gov’t promises land titles

The BN government has also promised to settle unpaid claims as a result of the construction of

the Batang Ai hydro-electric dam and to issue land titles to landowners.

Jawah who secured 2,053 votes lost to the BN candidate Malcolm Mussen Lamoh by a majority of 1854 votes.

Yesterday, Ng together with Bawin and Jawah visited Batang Ai and held a meeting with the people, assuring them that PKR would not abandon them.

“We tell them, we will not abandon them. In fact we tell them to be ready for the next round of state election. We must prepare early,” said Ng said when contacted today.

He said that the group also went to Engkilili which forms the other state constituency of the Lubok Antu parliamentary constituency, where they met the local PKR members and advised them to be ready for the next state election.

Meanwhile, Ng said that PKR would not retract its claims that that 14 boxes had been tampered with in the recently-concluded Batang Ai by-election, adding that the party was now conducting investigations into the matter.

The findings would be submitted to PKR headquarters in Kuala Lumpur by April 15.

Money politics and ‘tampered’ ballot boxes

PKR did badly in these areas from where the 14 ballot boxes came and what puzzled them was

that these areas were known to be the opposition’s stronghold.
The 14 ballot boxes were either flown or carried by boats from the polling centres to the tallying centre.

PKR had one week before polling written to the Election Commission to have the votes counted at the polling centres, but their request was rejected.

Their request to accompany the boxes in the helicopters or in the boats was also rejected by the commission.

“After our findings have been submitted to the headquarters, then we will know what course of action is to be taken,” said Ng.

In Sibu, Sarawak DAP chairman Richard Wong alleged money politics was involved in the Batang Ai by-election and wanted the Election Commission to look into it.

He alleged that the BN government had spent up to RM70 million in upgrading the road projects and other infrastructures during the campaigning period and alleged that each family was given some cash in the name of development fund.

He said that in other countries a lot of what the BN government and politicians had done during the campaign would have been illegal under their election laws.

Source : http://www.malaysiakini.com/news/102181

Kitai Maioh Bedau Berubah Chara Berunding

Posted by: Apairock
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.

Darah Apai Saloi..!!!

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..

LETS TOPPLE BN!!!!

By Freelance writer

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.

Actually, nothing much can be done with most of the voters having made up their minds, except those ‘fence-sitters’ who may decide until polling tomorrow whom to vote. Even so, things may well change in the next couple of hours, especially with BN’s mighty financial means by‘enticing’ or ‘rewarding’ voters on the eve of polling .( Note: MAFREL should monitor and that no such things will happen. PKR must also be very alert))

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.

Then,why did Taib offiiate the ground breaking of Giat Mara? Isn’t that also not worth having, since Btg Ai is rural, with a small population.What if there were not enough trainers/personnel? Then it’d be another ‘white elephant’ or would it be just another ground breaking project. After election, nothing - gone with the wind!!!

Now, it seems that there will be more roads to be built (promised) in a space of weeks ,if not, days. That’s quick as lightning approval. Suddenly, BN become so efficient or is it that only now BN realised Btg Ai deserve roads.

There so many other promises made.( No need to mention them here) The people of Btg Ai have never had it so good. Not sure whether to be elated and applaud BN for such good deeds. But perhaps, one would be more inclined to feel sorry for the people of Btg Ai. No doubt, Btg. Ai has been truly neglected all these years.The great pretenders in BN are in ‘top gear’ and full of ‘action ‘ once again!!!

Oh well, that’s BN way of holding on to power by whatever means, including pouring money, lying to the people and bombarding ‘threats’against the people if they don’t vote BN.

Undoubtedly, all those hardworking BN Ministers/YBs will be well-rewarded after this by-election. More businesses, new and bigger houses, and all other precious things. But the people will remain as they are now - living from hand to mouth.

That’s the sad facts of the real situations in Sarawak.The continued rule of BN will lead to further miseries to the people especially the Ibans (Dayaks).The gap between the rich and powerful, and the poor will be greater.

All Sarawakians - wake up! Let’s topple BN. Lets start that with the defeat of BN in Batang Ai (N29).

Vote PKR- Vote Jawah.

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VOTERS RETURN HOME TO BATANG AI

1. 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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