Motivation Program di Saratok 04 Oct 2008
Venue: Victoria Inn, Saratok
Theme: Pemansang Penemu Mai Pemujur Bansa
Time: 0800 AM – 1600 PM
Date: 04 October 2008
Speaker 1: Martin Entamin – Wawasan Malaysia 2020, Peluang & Cabaran Bansa Kitai.
Speaker 2: Dr Chermaline Usop - Parenting for Education Excellence in the New Millenium
Speaker 3: Dr. Dusit Jaul - Tanggung Jawab Apai Indai Ngemansang ke Anak Besekula
Speaker 4: Dr. John Brian Anthony - Parenting for Creative Intelligence Read more
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Observations on the train of thoughts of the Dayaks.
Posted by Dr. John Brian Anthony
This article is taken from LAKKIA’s Feedback posted in Dayakbaru.
The purpose of this posting is to share his provocative yet positive thoughts that Dayak could draw their learning from.
Are we mirror image of our leader?
- We are no good because our leader is no good. Meaning to say, our race is no good not because we ourselves are not doing anything to upgrade ourselves to a better living standard but because our leader is not doing something to help us. So, as part of Dayak society, I will remain as a helpless individual until the ‘God-Send’ person comes along. Read more
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The Next Malaysian PM, NAJIB, and Dayak
Posted by Dr. John Brian Anthony
Najib is helpful to Dayak?
It’s a matter of time before Pak Lah handover the Premiership baton to Najib. Now, with Pak Lah, and previously Dr. Mahathir as the Prime Minister, Dayak obviously had been marginalised by government policy, what do you think of Najib’s Premiership?
Has he shown greater interest in the affairs of Dayak? What has Najib actually done at policy level that is helping the Dayak from moving from one level to the next?
Najib Family ties with Taib Mahmud
It is no secret that Najib has family ties with the White Croc, by virtue of his younger brother’s marriage to Tun Rahman Yaakub’s daughter ( White Croc first cousin). If, from what had happened, even under Pak Lah and past PMs, Dayak have been sidelined, what more to say under an upcoming PM that had family ties to the white croc?
Can the Dayak be able to expect better treatment from Najib? Read more
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Parti Pesaka Bumiputera Bersatu – to split Dayak!
Posted by Dr. John Brian Anthony
Who says that Jabu is NOT an important man in Dayak politics?
The most powerful Dayak politician is Tan Sri jabu and we need to appreciate and understand his role in modern Dayak politic. I will leave it to the readers to make their judgment on his performance. To me, the “yang dikasihi originator” is the most successful Dayak politician in modern era Sarawak.
He is a parallel to Taib in many ways – even though some achievement are not easily appreciated, Jabu footprint among the Dayak is “large” and sometime destructive.
How many Dayak DUN / MP in PBB
The REAL reason for Dayak in PBB is to weaken Dayak politically in Sarawak and uphold Taib/Muslim leadership in Sarawak. Jabu will never become the Chief Minister – otherwise why do PBB discussed about Adenan, Salleh, Abang Jo, Sulieman as possible successor? Why? Read more
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How much Sarawak need to Sacrifice for Malaysia?
Posted by Dr. John Brian Anthony
How does Federal Gov’t budget for Sarawak?
The call for Sarawak to pull out of Malaysia continues among the younger generation as they see injustice through their education and observation of the slow progress made by Sarawak compared to the West Malaysian states. How does the Federal Government approach the development in Sarawak?
- By giving budget based on population or
- Giving allocation based on land size.
There are other ways of approaching the allocation
- on needs basis, to close the developmental gap
- based on Sarawak financial contribution to national coffer
Sarawak Wealth
If you look at roads system for rural sarawak, take Kapit, Belaga and Upper Baram as examples – the amount of money that the government earned from timber royalty and timber sales duties would amount to many billions. These money could be used to build high priority roads in the area where the log comes from:
- Kanowit – Song-Kapit Road
- Bakun Belaga road
- Miri – Marudi Road
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Racial Act for UMNO Ministers only
Posted by Dr. John Brian Anthony
Racial Act
Is this an Act to “control” the population of Malaysia to ensure that they lost the ability to question and fear the state or does it provide “guidelines and Standard” in dealing with racial relation and issues. My question is who actually are not able to manage “racial issues” in Malaysia, is it the common people or the politician who use it for their political end? Most of the time it is UMNO Minister that do not know how to manage racial issue. Their approach is mostly a “singular race”.
Race and religion is not the problem in Malaysia but the government designed law and system that turn it into no just a problem but a nightmare. This maybe as a result of a feeling of insecurity and lacking in knowledge and ability to learn new subjects by questioning and reasoning.
UMNO Policies
Many UMNO and BN policies are “racially bias” and the natives of Sabah and Sarawak good names are being drag in by UMNO as bumiputera while those who enjoy the best benefit are non-native bumiputera. It is just the non-native name that are being abused but those of the good non-elite UMNO putera folk. Read more
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Visit to Belaga
Purpose of visit
I was invited to give talk in Belaga related to the well-being of womenfolk in the area.
Route to Belaga
There are 4 routes to Belaga. The most common route is by “Express River Boat” service from Kapit which will take approximately 5 hours and the fare is about $50.00 one way. The second route is by plane which lands at a tiny airstrip down river that is about 45 minutes boat ride to Belaga town. The third route is through the Bakun dam which is upstream to Belaga and it takes 1 hour by “Express River Boat” usually leaving at 5.30am to 6am.
The fourth routes takes about four and half hours from Bintulu town using the road to Bakun where the junction entrance to Belaga is slightly before reaching Tubau town. The signage is well displayed at the junction.
Gated Entrance to Belaga
The road entrance to Belaga is gated and manned by private security guard with an iron pipe acting as the bar across the road. You are actually entering into a private property belonging to KTS Group for tree replanting project. I was made to learn that the area given to KTS is only 90,000 hectares and the area that has been replanted is at most about 1000 hectares. At this rate of replanting of trees how many decades would KTS take to complete the work? Read more
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Dayak at a Political Cross-road
History
Dayak was in Opposition when Ningkan was overthrown by Tun Rahman and Taib, and SNAP became Opposition. Then PBDS became opposition again after the Ming Court, all this is caused by Tun Rahman again and te MAJU group failed badly especially in the Muslim areas.
Today
No more PBDS and MDC was not approved to be registered as a political party. Nicholas Bawin moved on to PKR and is the Deputy PKR Chief for Sarawak. Bawin and the Dayak PKR leadership really need to lead and explain the PKR struggle and political concept to Dayak. otherwise, the Dayak would be totally confused on why should they vote for PKR and what will they get from joining PKR. It is a task where all PKR Dayak must be directly involved in. Many seemed to think that forming Branches and Divisional level PKR is enough – the answer is NO as the voters who are non PKR must understand the political struggle of Dayak in PKR. Read more
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Native Dayak Community “Pre-Bumi/Bumiputra” Capacity BUilding Into The 21st Century
This article is taken from rumahdayak.com, authored by gkm2020. The author is a Dayak with PhD and is exploring what the Dayak should consider in their moving forward into 21st Century.
NATIVE DAYAK COMMUNITY “PRE-BUMI/BUMIPUTRA” CAPACITY BUILDING INTO THE 21ST CENTURY
Disclaimer: This is not a request nor a privilege but just an idea for discussion purpose only and written in good faith.
PREAMBLE: Route & Rules To Success
Never head on nor touch on any sensitive issue or racial sentiments but to compliment, maintain collaboration and joint-effort to focus on fostering peace, harmony, political stability, economic and social development of our beloved country Malaysia. Malaysia is for every Malaysian. The advanced ones charge ahead, nourish the weaker ones and usher them to be at par and/or as your supporting elements. Forget your opponents; always play against par. It’s not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves. Behold the spirit of democracy via open-forum and/or open-form. So let’s all paddle it together to achieve our Vision 2020 as a developed nation. Read more
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Opposition in Sarawak
Common Response
Maybe it is the case of “birds of the same feather flocks together” because most people that I met in Sarawak are in favour of voting the opposition in the next election. PKR received very good response in Kuching, about 97 tables at a PKR dinner was sold out on 15th September and about 70 tables sold on 16th September in Miri, The crowds are multi-racial with a very good mixed of all races in Sarawak. Everybody seemed to look forward to a new dawn in Sarawak and are looking forward to be involved in the process.
Is there a Pakatan Rakyat in Sarawak
There should be a working Pakatan Raayat in sarawak to reflect the coalition in West Malaysia. Of late DAP and PKR State leadership do not seem to be together in carrying out common activities. This is hopefully a small storm in the tea cup and to curb “personalities” difference for the larger good of sarawak future. WThe leadership must not forget to focus on the bigger picture and higher objective of providing the alternative government in Sarawak to speed up the development in the state to benefit a bigger population of people . Read more
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PENGISYTIHARAN PENUBUHAN MALAYSIA (16/09/1963)
Sumber dari www.ctl.utm.my
Pada hari ini dalam tahun 1963 seiring dengan dentuman 101 das tembakan meriam dan teriakan“MERDEKA”, Perdana Menteri Tunku Abdul Rahman telah mengisytiharkan kelahiran sebuah negara baru kepada seluruh dunia iaitu Malaysia. Stadium Merdeka yang dibanjiri oleh 30,000 rakyat Malaysia telah bergema kembali dengan laungan semangat rakyat seperti 6 tahun yang Ialu dalam tahun 1957 ketika Persekutuan Tanah Melayu mencapai kemerdekaannya. Upacara membaca Deklarasi Penubuhan Malaysia itu telah dilakukan di hadapan DYMM Seri Paduka Yang di-Pertuan Agong, Raja-raja Melayu, Gabenor-gabenor Pulau Pinang, Melaka, Singapura, Sarawak dan Sabah. Turut serta dalam upacara itu ialah tiga orang pemimpin dari tiga buah negara yang baharu di dalam Persekutuan Malaysia laitu Lee Kuan Yew, Donald Stephens dan Stephen Kalong Ningkan. Upacara ini telah dihadiri juga oleh Kabinet, anggota-anggota diplomat asing di Kuala Lumpur serta wakil-wakil dari Kerajaan-Kerajaan yang telah dijemput khas.
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Malaysia Day in Kuching on September 16th
Malaysia Day in Kuching
It was a hot day at Central Padang or also known as Padang Merdeka on the 16th of September in Kuching. This would be the 4th year running without failed that a small group of Malaysian would assembled in the Padang and raised the Malaysian and Sarawak flag. This year there was a difference as no Federal Reserve Unit was deployed by the government to watch the crowd. Instead the police sent many Special Branch officers and many are counted as personal friends who shared the same understanding that September 16th is the actual Malaysia Day.
Flag Raising Ceremony
The group of people sang the National Anthem “Negara Ku” and “Sarawak Tanah Air Ku” accompanied by a tape recorder. Everything was proper and certain political leaders with the same understanding of Malaysia Day date were present to lend their support to the group. There were many people looking from across the road, all witnessing the flag Raising Ceremony but may not have the “gut” to be part of the crowd. We must understand that sometime we are made to feel that Malaysia is almost a “police state” by the manner in which the police enforce the law sometime to the point of “no brainer” but who can blame them. That is the quality of the “brain” we have in the police force. More physical brute force than grey matters used. Read more
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Is UMNO Acceptable by Dayak?
Posted by Dr. John Brian Anthony
UMNO for Sarawak
After UMNO entry into Sabah there was a lot of talk of UMNO possible entry into Sarawak. Datuk Abang Abu Bakar was trying very hard to bring UMNO into Sarawak and there are strong interest shown by the Sarawak Malay and some Dayak supporters sometime in 2001. In 2007 a large numbers of UMNO flag was flown on flag posts and roofs and wall of houses in the villages throughout Sarawak. Some suggested that UMNO will make YB Joseph Salang their candidate in the PRU12 as he was without a party then until Taib directed him to join Party Raayat Sarawak headed by his good friend YB Dr. James Masing.
Sabah experience with UMNO
A raging discussion on the merit and threat of UMNO entry into Sarawak was being discussed by the Dayak younger generation in their discussion portal. Many felt that UMNO is already in Sarawak through their proxy, that is Parti Pesaka Bumiputera Bersatu (PBB) while a good numbers reject the idea of UMNO entry into Sarawak because their Sabahan friends are saying that UMNO is the worst thing that happened to Sabah politic. UMNO is greedy, UMNO are suckers and UMNO is a narrow minded party. Many do not believed in such superlative mega negative description of UMNO. Read more
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Agi Idup Agi Ngelaban – is it applicable to Dayak today?
Posted by Dr. John Brian Anthony
Fighting Motto
This Sarawak Ranger fighting motto “Agi Idup Agi Ngelaban” and later adopted by Malaysian Rangers is an Iban words which mean “Fight until Death” and some has literally translated as “As long as your are still alive you fight on”. The Dayak are famous for their bravery and skill as a fighting force and won the highest bravery award from Britain and Malaysia. The Malaysia Ministry of Defence recognised the Dayak fighting skill and spirit where “retreat” is a non-word in war and “afraid” does not exist for the Iban warrior who are the direct descendant of the headhunter of Borneo.
AGI IDUP AGI NGELABAN is not a reckless approach to win battle and war. It is grounded on key success factors: leadership, objective, plan, knowledge, skill, organization, resources, network, process, systems and strong value system. This motto has made the Dayak very successful headhunters and modern soldiers but it has not been translated into a motto for Dayak success into the globalization of the 21st century. Read more
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Should the PM Step Down Earlier?
Posted by Dr. John Brian Anthony
Abdullah helping his opponent in UMNO
The Prime Minister is helping those UMNO members who wanted him to hand over power to Najib the earlier the better. The PM himself do not seem to be aware of his own action that will bring the transfer of power earlier then he has planned and agreed with Najib despite the PM saying ” no” to the revision in power transfer plan. The PM is trying to hold on a “false hope” that the planned transfer of power will help the country to progress and that Malaysia is far more important than UMNO’s politiking. Who is he to fool except himself as the situation in UMNO, the Barisan nasional and country get from bad to worst.
Rakyat lost of faith in Abdullah leadership
The PM says he will not listen to people talking about losing faith in his leadership. His leadership rating has sunk to a new low of slightly above 40% from 90% when he first won his election and he is not going to even acknowledged this fact. The PM reasoned out that he is not a quitter and he wanted to do a good job for the people. But then how can the PM do a good job when the country has no confident in him anymore? Read more
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