::’Save money, change your lifestyle’- for a longhouse family?
The Prime Minister and many “experts” has advised family to save where they could, by changing our lifestyle – easy from the point of view of the PM / political leaders and “expert” who lives in town with 2-3 luxury cars, 2-3 maids, with children studying abroad, wearing branded goods, eating out in expensive restaurant, at least 3 times a week and family overseas vacation at least once a year. Try to sort out the “how” to save from a normal long house family (average income of RM600 per month. Note : Poverty line in Malaysia is RM 700 per month).
- Cost of boat transport to school per day $ 6.00 per child
- Cost of food for a family of 5 pax $ 20.00 per day
- utilities ( generator) of 2 litres diesel consumption $10.00 per day
- clothes / cooking gas / school books $50.00 per month
The long house family needs at least RM 1,070 per month to make ends meet. In ‘normal’ circumstances, in order to meet the basic needs of ‘living with dignity’ instead of ‘living in hunger’, the family will forgo the children’s education, to ‘save’ the RM120 boat transport and half-ed the usage of generator, hence back to ‘living in darkness’. DOES SAVING MEANS THE LONG HOUSE CHILDREN HAVE TO FORGO THEIR EDUCATION?
RM1,070 for PM/politician (and experts who are advising the PM), is probably the expenses for ONE meal for a family of 4 in a luxury hotel restaurant.
Long house folks used to be able to get free food (wild meat / jungle vegetables / fish) for their daily meals. But they can no longer get these food due to logging activities, river pollution, and oil palm plantation (that stretches thousands and thousands of hectares that promises ‘good for the nation’). These longhouse folks now need to buy their food from the market, at inflated prices. So, DOES SAVINGS MEANS THEY HAVE TO REDUCE THE INTAKE OF FOOD?
For a long house family or low income family WHAT IS THERE TO SAVE when you are already living in deficit?
The long house family may be able to adhere to our PM and his advisors’ call to “save money, change lifestyle” if the state government and “plantation companies” which has been promising better standard of living and better income when they “acquire” the land from the long house folk for oil palm plantation, fulfill their promises.
So, ‘save money, change lifestyle’ … or should it be ‘save money, change lifestyle only for the rich’ whilst for the poor ‘save your life, yourself’.
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Inspirational word from gkm2020
We should be living like the Bruniean or the Singaporean. Why? This is beacause this two country are just like us 45 years ago but because they did not join and the other was kicked out of Malaysia. Sarawak if we are left alone we could be some where between Singapore and Brunei. Even if we are worst than Brunei we can’t be as bad as Bolehland.
Imagine their currency is 2.37 times stronger and Singapore has over US300 Billion in foreign reserve. I hope all Sarawakian can see why our state have been deprived of what we deserve. I am very sad that we have to work within the Malaysia system, if we have a choice we would go independent.
I hope all Dayaks will unite and kick out PBB and BN in coming election.
semina nemu bejako aja PM nya.. uji ia asuh diau dulu din aaa..
keni ia ka save..? keni ia nupi bini baru ia nya din..?
keni asai ia empa nyamuk dalam kampung din..?
hate it..!!
I hope all Dayaks will unite and kick out PBB and BN in coming election.
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yeah and win all dayak seats and some of minority seats = simple majority = show to others we can govern the state ways better than current ones
Sarawak kaya bisi minyak,kayu balak,lada,kelapa sawit enggau utai bukai tang rakyat merinsa ketegal perintah rasuah,Kitai meda Singapore nadai utai tang rakyat kaya laban perintah landik ba ekonomi.Kitai iban meda lumpung kayu aja duit orang bukai empu, ladang sawit beratus ekar pemesai kitai makai gaji enda cukup kena meli beras sekilo, ketuai kitai iban nyual tanah adat kena ngangkat ka penatai pemisi, tang terima bonus enda tentu, kadang-kadang sampai sepuluh taun baru bisi nerima, nya pan semina berapa ratus aja.Nya alai sida enda layak bejako ka pengidup kitai iban.
Wat Lembau,
Sigi betul baka ke di sebut nuan nya problem kitai Dayak, tang nama jalai ba penemu nuan ti ulih dikena kena ngemansangka bansa kitai?