Dayak YB supported systematic alienation of Dayaks Land
Written by Seliong ak Wau
The dissatisfaction over NCR is that the very guardian of Dayak rights has provided legislative support for systematic alienation of Dayaks in their own land.
This list provided by Dr John Brian is the beginning, but it leaves clear indication on its future direction:
- Rumah Nyawin di tebang
- Rumah Umai Kenyah / Kayan Belaga bisi udah di tebang. KTS di beri perintah 90 ribu hectare for tree replanting. Sida diatu mina nanam 1,000 acre – is 90 ribu an asset to KTS or liability?
- Kati gaya temuda rimba bala ke dalam tanah nya deh ?
- Rh late Dato Seri Penghulu Abok,sg. Sera di Sebauh – NCR /Teuda di beri perintah ngagai Bornoe Paper Pulp
- Rh Nading / Rh Unjan – brick long house taken down.
- Kebun kami empu di Sengga – beri ngagai meyadi Taib.
Fact one
There are more Dayak ADUN in the state assembly that any other races. The Dayaks, all share the same traits of being part of their lands. We lived off the land; the un-cloned rubber trees of today and the wild fruits trees of yesteryears. This sentiment over land and land-issues is therefore, not an introduction to the Dayak lawmakers. We don’t expect NCR 101 course for Dayak ADUNs because we share the same roots, passion and sentiments when it comes to land matters. We expect them to empathise; something we don’t see as extra-ordinary.
Fact two
At the moment Dayak ADUNs are bystanders of all events pertaining to land matters. Whether it is in the Assembly itself or in resolving disputes between parties, it is likely that they follow the official line: the government has never intended to cheat the NCR land owners and therefore all complainants are instigators. In the Dewan, Bkt Assek Assemblyman’s motion was declined because he is DAP state chairman. In public, Dayak ADUN blamed local land owners for disruptions in Salcra or others LCDA projects involving native’s land.
Fact three
Meanwhile systematic annexation of NCR land remained unabated. According to the official line, this is the only way where NCR land can be developed. Dayak’s land had been idle for years and the none-productive agriculture activities of the natives must give way to commercialisation. No right-thinking Dayak can dispute that fact, but what we don’t realise is the systematic alienation of natives away from the land they had occupied since before the formation of Malaysia.
Dayak’s dwelling is called the longhouse. Which Dayak is not proud of his longhouse? Which Dayak (ADUN or not) is happy that his longhouse had been chopped off and destroyed? And which Iban ADUN was there when these plantation and timber giants took over these longhouses? And finally, how had the local natives benefitted from this so-called commercialism of NCR land?
Another few more thoughts
The golden crop that got all plantation rich and “people” greedy is oil palm – the donkey’s kuih jala according to commentator “Dyaks.” Commercialisation through O. Palm had gone on for 15 years.
Thought one:
What happens when CPO falls below production cost? The peak of RM3,700 per tonne it has plunged to something like RM1,400 now, which might be just above production cost. If CPO falls to RM800 ie below production cost, would these giant companies abandon the JV?
Thought two:
Is commercialism the only way Dayaks can benefit from their land? Is there really an idle, unprofitable and useless land? Only a Dayak can answer this question and as one, my answer is “no.”
Thought three:
If commercialism is the government line, the Dayaks are saying: give us the individual titles.
We can think, can we? But for the sake of brevity, let’s stop our brain from further instigation.
The Dewan will not allow any motion from the Opposition; this is true, and the Dayak ADUNs were bystanders there. That is politics and let them play it their way, BUT we are talking about land, the heritage of the Dayaks. Can the Dayak ADUNs not make a stand and motion of their own? Should the Dayak ADUNs “fiddle” while their NCR is systematically taken, piece by piece?
Conclusion
I have to disagree with Dr John here – “Kebun Kami empu di Sengga – beri ngagai madi Taib.”
Of course “others” will take our land. In fact that is perverted human trait; to take what belongs to others. My question is; what are our ADUNs doing when “others” take over our land? Were they not elected to “represent – pengari” the Dayaks? Do the Dayak ADUNs expect “others” to propose a motion on their behalf? Do our “pengari” need others to be their “pengari” in trhe Dewan?
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Inspirational word from gkm2020
“Thought three: If commercialism is the government line, the Dayaks are saying: give us the individual titles.” – Sheikh Seliong
This is more on political hypocrisy rather than political sincerity involved. I’ve commented on this matter previously but to stress again, govt is giving the wrong impression that once land titles are given, these Dayaks will quickly sell of their land no matter what. Govt actually scared of its own shadow of hypocrisy. While many politicians owns vast area of state lands dubiously, govt shows no concern of it. When opposition (YB Violet Yong, DAP) raised the idea of using open tender system for state land alienations to get maximum revenue rather than offering land-contra deal to select few crony housing developers to settle payment using in-kind (lands) rather than cash, Awang Tengah (PBB) simply kill it off saying that there will not much land left for poor Sarawakians to at least own some land for housing since big companies with huge funds will definately at advantage of getting the lands and by using land-contra deal the housing developers actually have to bear more future costs (Sympathy huh?). You can clearly figure out who is the spokesman for poor homeless Sarawakians and for crony housing developers. Isn’t it logical that by giving out land titles (Dayaks also among the poor Sarawakians), at least they own some piece of property, to claim their own land as the rightful owner that toiled the land long before Sultan Brunei being scared off by that big ship from James Brooke. If Yang Dikasihi moaning about the 2 million NCR lands caused by Dayaks as shifting cultivators, there are more than half of Sarawak’s 12 million hectares of land directly or indirectly own by his cronies thru timbers and plantation concessions, dubiously converted state lands as housing projects and many more means that falls under category of land scams. The govt concern on the possible cost of Dayaks selling their titled lands compared to huge state lands ‘lost’ to politicians can be summed as ‘penny wise, pound foolish’. Serve the crony crooks first, poor Dayaks last?
my dayak fellows,
Udah aku madah, selagi pala buban(km) menjadi ketua menteri sarawak, selagi itulah masalah hak milik tanah kaum dayak tidak dapat diselesaikan. Politik pembangunan yang diperkenalakan oleh KM sudah terlalu jauh ketinggalan. Politik jenis yang diperkenalkan oleh beliau tidak menyeluruh. Pembangunan yang diperkenalkan hanyalah pembangunan yang memberikan keuntungan kepada kroni-kroni sahaja. Mana ada kawasan disarawak yang dibangunkan tanpa memberikan keuntungan kepada Km dan juga kroninya. Ini adalah realiti suasana di sarawak masa ini. Sarawak dan masyarakat dayak perlukan idea yang lebih pantas dan cekap dalam membawa pembangunan menyeluruh kepada masyarakat sarawak dan juga masyarakat dayak khususnya. Politik kuku besi yang dimiliki oleh KM menjadikan YB-YB yang berada dibawahnya tidak mampu untuk bersuara. Apa lagi YB-YB kaum dayak yang kebanyakannya menjadi YB demi untuk kemegahan diri sendiri sahaja. Lupakan perjuangan tanah kita seandainya kita masih duduk diam seperti sekarang. Yb-Yb kaum dayak memang sudah tidak boleh dipercayai lagi. Sampai ada yang keluarkan kenyataan macam Yb william nyalau.Siapa generasi baru yang bijak sememangnya tidak bersama beliau kerana ideologi politik yang digunakan oleh beliau adalah politik takuk lama. politik mengampu mana akan diterima oleh generasi baru yang lebihkan kebijaksanaan, ketelusan dan keterbukaan dengan rakyat. Politik serta ideologi mengampu sudah tidak disetujui oleh anak muda kerana politik sedemikan sudah tidak diperlukan lagi. Untuk itu, masyarakat dayak harus ada parti baru yang lebih kuat dan dekat dengan masyarakat. Lupakan perahu penumpang macam PBB,SUPP,PRS dan SPDP. Kalau tak dapat kita kenalah macam HINDRAF…..munkin cara ini barulah mereka sedar akan kewujudkan masyarakat dayak..
The Dayak land are worthless, nothing, no title and etc. The Dayak cannot develop their NCR land unless they have money. If you want to go like HINDRAF, mana nya biar nuan siko masuk jel, makan free, aku ngai ngau. Nuan sigi beli.
There we go again, “Dyaks”. I may not like your theory, but again and again indisputable proofs of its accuracy surface. In this, your theory stated that longhouse folks are inherently suffering from that dreadful disease. Not really true; its infection is also carried over to the computer keyboard.
Is it worth it to recapitulate on the value of land? Ah… its no use; take “Dyaks” advice.
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All Petronas profits from oil and gas for 1 year is enough to used to give Clean Water and Electricity 24hours to all longhouses in Sarawak including connecting all longhouses with Tar-Seal roads to the big cities.. Clearly, after 45 years joining Malaysia, UMNO/BN goverment have no intention to help the Dayaks people. All the money that Petronas get from our oil and gas is only used to help the Malays people and Malaya !!!
UMNO/BN party treat us the Dayaks people just like Orang Utan. Because only Orang Utan don’t need Clean Water, Electricity and Tar-Seal road..
After 45 years joining Malaysia, let us Sarawak and Sabah get out from this racist Malaysia country !!!
NO MORE COMPROMISE !!
LET US ALL FIGHT TOGETHER !!
LET US ALL DIE TRYING, AND CUT ALL THE HEADS OF THIS BULLY !!!
Dear Bujang telajak,
Nuan tu sigi paloi serta beli. Nuan tu ulun bansa bala si BN pia. Enggau ukoi parai tau meh nuan. Sapa ngumbai bansa dayak enda ulih ngemaju ka tanah NCR? Nuan ka buruk serta beli aja enda ulih ngemaju ka tanah NCR. Padah ka perintah BN dek, anang ngambik tanah NCR bansa dayak. Maioh tanah perintah, nama kebuah ka ngambik tanah NCR.
Enti dek enggai enggau kami enda ibuh meh. Nadai kami ngemai urang ka paloi serta banga ba dek. Orang ka nyadi menteri nya maioh meh udah masuk jel. Nadai meda sida ia mati dalam jel magang-magang. Paloi enggau apai inda meh dek bujang telajak…..
Bujang telajak tu sigi bisi untak..tang ukai ba pala ia. Untak ia ukai mega ba kaki tang ba kukut kaki ia. Paloi..Tanah nuan aja tau diambi perintah. Alai beri ka sida ia meh. Tang Tanah kami sigi tetap di tan ka kami.
Aku encabar nuan bujang telajak..enti nuan tu kaya lalu amai pintar..,alai calon diri nuan nyadi presiden menoa amerika ngelaban b obama. Enti nda calon diri nuan empu nyadi presiden party PBB lawan “uban”.
Enti nuan ulih ka aku beguna ka jako nuan..
Test Report For Disease Diagnosis: Sakai Mentality
Date: 11-11-2008
Patient: Bujang Telajak
Ref: DDSM/1108/001B
From post: http://dayakbaru.com/weblog08/?p=927
Sakai Mentality Part 1 (Inferiority complex test):
1. Sample received – “The Dayak land are worthless, nothing, no title and etc. The Dayak cannot develop their NCR land unless they have money”
2. Observation – Patient signalled some utter anxiety for some sense of hopelessness and low self-confidence.
3. Critical level – Still at medium stage.
4. Corrective action – Drink a mixture of donkey tongue (smoked and grind) and palm oil kernel (crushed) to reduce the possibility of critical level reaching terminally ill.
Sakai Mentality Part 2 (Happy-to-settle-for-crumbs test):
1. Sample received – “If you want to go like HINDRAF, mana nya biar nuan siko masuk jel, makan free, aku ngai ngau.”
2. Observation – Patient signalled rather elusive idea of happy to settle for something meagre rather than pick up for a fight. Admit defeat without fighting.
3. Critical level – Past medium stage but not terminal.
4. Corrective action – Watch movie ‘The Matrix’ in order to decide truth from fairy tales. The red or blue pill by Morpheus and the greedy traitor Cypher as lessons. Tattoo your arm with word ‘Neo’.
Further recommendation:
1. Patient must practice yoga to reach semi-concious state so he can fly to the nearest NCR lands that being robbed and the latest longhouse being burned downed (2 most common practice as sabbatical sacrifice to the Yang Dikasihi).
2. Stop reading materials that contain hallucination drug-overdose effect such as the ever-shameless Borneo Post or the ever-arselicker Utusan Sarawak.
Sakai Mentality main cross-reference:
http://dayakbaru.com/weblog08/?p=867
Test Report For Disease Diagnosis: Sakai Mentality
Date: 11-11-2008
Patient: Bujang Telajak
Ref: DDSM/1108/001B
From post: http://dayakbaru.com/weblog08/?p=927
Sakai Mentality Part 1 (Inferiority complex test):
1. Sample received – “The Dayak land are worthless, nothing, no title
and etc. The Dayak cannot develop their NCR land unless they have
money”
2. Observation – Patient signalled some utter anxiety for some sense of
hopelessness and low self-confidence.
3. Critical level – Still at medium stage.
4. Corrective action – Drink a mixture of donkey tongue (smoked and
grind) and palm oil kernel (crushed) to reduce the possibility of
critical level reaching terminally ill.
Sakai Mentality Part 2 (Happy-to-settle-for-crumbs test):
1. Sample received – “If you want to go like HINDRAF, mana nya biar
nuan siko masuk jel, makan free, aku ngai ngau.”
2. Observation – Patient signalled rather elusive idea of happy to
settle for something meagre rather than pick up for a fight. Admit
defeat without fighting.
3. Critical level – Past medium stage but not terminal.
4. Corrective action – Watch movie ‘The Matrix’ in order to decide
truth from fairy tales. The red or blue pill by Morpheus and the greedy
traitor Cypher as lessons. Tattoo your arm with word ‘Neo’.
Further recommendation:
1. Patient must practice yoga to reach semi-concious state so he can
fly to the nearest NCR lands that being robbed and the latest longhouse
being burned downed (2 most common practice as sabbatical sacrifice to
the Yang Dikasihi).
2. Stop reading materials that contain hallucination drug-overdose
effect such as the ever-shameless Borneo Post or the ever-arselicker
Utusan Sarawak.
Sakai Mentality main cross-reference:
http://dayakbaru.com/weblog08/?p=867
Yb Jabu kala nyebut org BN ke enda setuju enggau atur perintah tau ngetu.Nya nanda ke kitai ke enda setuju nggau dasar BN pan tau ngetu nyukung sida nitih ke penemu jabu.
Aku enda nemu lah perintah diatu sedar ke enda dasar pembangunan tanah NCR enda diterima bala mayuh.Tang ditu aku ka mantai penemu ngambi ke bala tuai politik ninga sada rayat.
Kami sigi nyukong buah pemansang,tang kami enda nyukung cara perintah ngemansang tanah NCR enggau cara:
1.Nukar akta NCR nyadi Tanah Perintah.
2.Meri kuasa bejalai ke tender/project agai non-bumiputera.
3.Terus nyadi ke tanah NCR hak milik syarikat/kompeni ke ngemansang ke tanah nya.
Kebuah ia:
1.Nama perlu akta NCR tukar agai Goverment Land?goverment semina organisasi/pertubuhan.Aktor ia sapa ke merintah.NCR ianya hak milik gerombolan peribumi.Pemilik ia secara am seluruh peribumi srwk.Secara khas org ke nguan menua nya.sedangkan GL nadai pemilik.walaupun GL atas nama ngeri sarawak.Tang sapa owner?TYT,CM,DUN,BN???…org tu pan mensia.Berkuasa atas tiket pilihanraya.TYT taja ukai ari election tang politict art of posibilities ba sarawak.Enti pagila lusa org tu alah sema jaku Cina CM,TYT pan engka cina.So Cina lah control goverment Land ba sarawak tu.Nya alai nama lah relevan ia NCR tu di pindah milik agai GL?
2.Enti akta NCR tu pindah milik agai GL tentu kuasa lisin ba perintah.Ukai agi ba rayat.Kita nentu sapa bulih tender.kemayuh agi lisin tu tadi di alibaba kita ngagai bala cina enggau sykt luar.Bah kemaya kitai ulih ngangkat ke bansa diri nyadi tuai?bisi bala bumiputera ke pandai nama enda sida dilantik lembaga pengarah syarikat ngambi ke hak bumiputera terus dipelihara.sekurang2 sida ulih campurtangan hal syarikat.Enti setiap tender beri agai bansa bukai ia ke untung semina perintah/kroni enggau koncu ke bejalai ke projek.kami ke rayat mapak makai gaji RM8 sari.pagila lusa enti bala bumiputera ngaga ulah,memberontak nama utai ulih gaga kita?rindu ke kita meda rayat bebunuh pangan diri laban dasar korup,kronisme,nepotisme,double standard kita tu?kami bumiputera sigi enggai tanah kami dirampas kita cara tu.biar pulai agai zaman kelia suba “NGAYAU”Enti nya ulih meri kita sedar.
3.Kita ke ngerampas tanah NCR tu nyangka enda sedar utai ke berlaku di sebalik tadbir.Ari kelia non bumiputera penapat inat ka meli,ngambi NCR.Tang meh laban bisi akta ari zaman british suba ke enda ngemendar ke sida meli tanah tu.Kelia maya CM kalong Ningkan ka ngubah akta NCR ngambi ke ukai bumiputera di beri kuasa meli,ngemansangka ke tanah tu ringat kita.Org ke paling balat ngelaban Ningkan ianya Taib empu.Diatu Taib empu ke ngemendar ke perintah ngambi NCR.Ukai semina ngemansang,tang ngaga geran lalu nyadi ke tanah tu tanah perintah.sedangkan dlm perintah bisi ukai bumiputera.enti tanah tu nyadi tanah perintah,secara enda langsung 50% tanah tu udah labuh agai ukai bumiputera.sedangkan 80% kekayaan ba srwk milik ukai bumiputera.nama2 aja polisi/projek gaga perintah ba tanah tu 80% mega chance ukai bumiputera ulih ngambi tender.utai ke nangi ke kitai ukai soal bulih tender ke enda,laban tender nya enggau pemendar.Nadai pemendar hitam putih nda sah meh kontrak.Hal ke patut diperunding kitai ianya ketegal kitai meri tender tu agai ukai bumiputera.Enti siti syarikat udah kelalu kuat ekuti,pegangan saham ba projek nya bakani kitai mgelak hak milik tanah tu labuh agai sida?enti semina lisin atas nama tanah perintah tang bos2 ceo,lembaga pengarah semua bala sida.bakani bumiputera ka bulih perlindungan?pelaba aku belik enti sida ka mengusai saham syarikat tang meh geran tanah syarikat agi enggi perintah.tentu ngaga bermacam tawaran,pakej agai perintah.Nyadi bala perintah tu anang saru kitai.Sida nya pan org biasa.semina raja ke bisi keistemewaan ari rayat biasa.Enda mustahil rayat biasa ke bernafsu besar ngambi pakej tu janji matlamat ia tercapai.Tu meh perjalanan halus ke kenggai kami.Mula2 ngambi tender,lama2 laban udah cukup katan geran tanah dibeli sida.pengudah nya bedarah pan mata kitai bumiputera nyabak enda menjamin tanah nya pulai agai kitai baru.Ingat “Petara enda ngaga tanah agi”.
Ari nya tadi ukai kami ke enda nyukung buah pemansang.Tang perintah ke nyukung ngayah ke kami.Pemansang nitih ni utai patut ko kita,ukai utai ke di pinta kami.Enti kita enda setuju enggau buah penemu aku.Jual aja tanah NCR kita empu agai tokey ke ka meli tanah!…Enggau syarat sida meli bakani syarat kita ngambi tanah kami?
Ila enti kitai udah nadai tanah,tau nanya kami.Nama kebuah kami enggai.
Iban Katibas speaks from his heart and if we read his comment carefully, we can feel his passion, anger and humiliation over the treatment he sees in the NCR land issue. Anyone willing to translate his comment into English?
i agree with u “Iban ketibas”. We’re not againt the pembangunan but..,until now that pembangunan tanah proposed by the goverment was still not give better impect to us..longhouse peoples. Sida ka ngau masuk skim maioh amai agi miskin/ merinsa dipeda kitai.
Sida ka masuk skim mega nadai megai agreement ka patut di sain bersama. Bila timpoh tanah abis dipajak ?, Berapa percent untung setiap bulan ka patut diterima ? Semua utai nya agi kabur…laban ka nadai agreement ba sida. Jemah ila nyadi ka penusah ka bala anak ka nuntut tanah diri laban nadai “hitam putih”. Anang ka baka nya warna surat agreement pan kitai nadai nemu.
Petara nadai agi meri tanah ka kitai ngena ngaga bumi nombor 2 tauka nombur 3.
Isu tanah sigi antara ti paling sensitif ba bansa Iban.
Lebuh maya aku pulai ka menua pun taun nyin kemari, aku balat tekenyit laban orang rumah panjai udah nyain agreement enggau perintah pasal ngena tanah sida ia nanam sawit. Ati aku balat enda nyamai, aku nanya tuai rumah lalu minta iya mantai ka surat agreement ke udah disain sida. Kengka agreement ti pantai ka iya bisi lebuh sepuluh iti sigi bala ti dibaruh pegai iya empu. Aku ngelala sida nya magang. 1. Sida nadai sekula, 2. Sida enda nemu maca, 3. Sida enda nemu jaku orang putih, 4. sida semina nemu nyain aja.
Nemu kita? Semua agreement nya digaga ngena lekajaku “orang putih” magang. Nemu kita lekajaku kena bala lawyer tu sigi ia kedalam dalam magang. Aku nanya tuai rumah, kati maya kitai sain semua tu bisi minta orang translate ka kita reti utai ditu? Saut iya NADAI. Asai ka labuh ai mata aku ninga iya bejaku munyi nya. Semina enggau jaku manis “perintah” sida nyain surat nya tang enda nemu nama reti utai dalam nya. Kira bisi lebih 10 iti muka surat semua dalam jaku orang putih magang. Asai ka gila aku ngenang semua utai nya tang udah laun.
Ka aku nganu sida apai indai enggai nyadi laban utai udah nyadi. Tanah nya ukai free ari aki ini kami kelia tang dibeli kami ari perintah. Agi skim getah suba kami sigi udah bebayar, bisi orang udah abis lalu mayuh mega bedau abis bayar sida. Diatu lus magang udah disungkur lipan lalu ditanam ka sawit. Aku mega enda ngelaban pemansang ti ka dibai perintah ngagai orang rumah panjai, tang enti sida amat ikhlas sepatut iya sida enda ngaga pengawa tergesa-gesa lalu mejal orang rumah panjai nyain agreement ti seleka pen enda ditemu sida. Nya udah siti kelai sida ka ngemedis ka uchu ichit kami ke dudi hari. Sapa kini empu tanah nya ila enti rebak kami tu udah parai???
Sangka aku utai ti sama nyadi ba endur bukai!
Opis Sains diatu benung rancak amat nukar status tanah. Apai aku minta sida land survey ngechik tanah kami di menua ulu agi taun 90-an suba baru taun nyin kemari sida ba opis Sains ngadu ka nya, lebih sepuluh taun surat nya disimpan sampai diatu pun sida agi bedau meri surat rasmi pasal tanah nya. Makin mayuh tanah NCR enggau ‘green land’ udah ditukar perintah ngagai commercial status. Orang ke ngempu iya semina orang ti meri ‘aki uban’ 1m ke atas.
Bala kaban, bala menyadi, perintah ti manah kitai sigi enda nulak tang enti perintah nginsap darah rakyat kati ko enda rakyat ngelaban. Manah bepun ari diatu kitai patut ‘ngenajam’ a agi isu tu lalu mutar ka pekara tu sereta betemu enggau menteri ka betanggungjawab minta report ari sida. Ari kitai majak attack sereta point out ngagai penyalah siku-siku manah kitai ngereja utai ti lebih praktikal. DJB udah ngemansut ka isu, lalu kitai ka bukai fokus ngagai practical solution.
Nuju DJB, one of my fren from oversea observe, dayakbaru is like a fighting club for dayak.
Can we move to academia club?
Peace!
The Federal Government has allocated RM566.7 million to Sarawak for its rural development projects next year, said Deputy Chief Minister and Minister of Rural Development, Datuk Patinggi Tan Sri Alfred Jabu ak Numpang.
“RM420.1 million or 74.1% will be allocated to improve the various rural development projects such as utilities and social amenities such as rural roads, rural electrification projects, village roads, rural water supply, village lights and other social amenities,” Jabu said in his winding-up speech at the State Legislative Assembly Sitting here yesterday.
He said RM40.5 million will be allocated for the eradication of poverty and the remaining RM106.1 million will be used for human capital development, rural economy, land and regional development and for ICT development.
“In 2008, RM27.1 million was allocated for poverty eradication programmes in the State. RM14.2 million was for the Housing Assistance Programme (Program Bantuan Rumah) to complete 631 projects.
“While RM12.9 million was allocated for non-physical projects such as Program Peningkatan Pendapatan (PPP), Program Latihan Kemahiran and Kerjaya (PLKK), Program Kecermelangan Pendidikan (PKL) and Program Pembangunan Minda Insan (PPMI),” he said.
For the Department of Irrigation and Drainage (DID), Jabu said in 2008, RM22.43 million was allocated to implement 12 projects and also payment of survey works, consultancy fees, land acquisition and crop compensation.
“There are nine projects which are currently under construction. The construction works for tree projects namely Merasam Scheme, Sg Setuan Scheme and Surabaya Scheme are expected to be completed at the end of this year while another six projects, namely Sg Seblak Scheme, Bukar Scheme, Bungin Scheme and the rehabilitation and upgradiung works of Sarupai Scheme, Kuala Sarupai Scheme and Asajaya Scheme are expected to be completed in 2009 and 2010.
“Three remaining projects namely Sg Kakus Scheme, Sg Jenan Scheme and Paya Sg Kedada Scheme are currently under detailed design works and expected to be tendered out by the end of this year,” he said.
He added that a sum of RM22.8 million had been allocated for seven coastal erosion protection projects which include Jalan Miri-Kuala Baram Road, Kpg Rejang project in Mukah, Kpg Punang in Lawas, Jalan Temengong Oyong Lawai Jau in Miri, Kpg Buntal Lama in Kuching, Kpg Litong project in Mukah and Jalan Lutong-Kuala Baram (Phase 2) in Miri.
Meanwhile, Jabu said the village lighting project (LJK) would start early next year with an initial allocation of RM2.5 million.
“It will be used to implement 600 projects which will involve 4,293 units of village street lights in the State,” he said, adding that Sarawak Energy Berhad (SEB) will implement the project.
he Ministry of Education has always been committed in providing equal educational opportunities for the Orang Asli and Penan students throughout the country, according to Deputy Director General of Education Malaysia, Datin Dr Asariah Mior Shaharuddin.
She said the ministry was “very mindful of the fact that providing a culturally-appropriate education for Malaysian students of indigenous descent is not a privilege but a fundamental right”.
“As we know, the Malaysian education system has won the praise and recognition of UNESCO as one of the best education systems of a developing country.
Needless to say, this achievement will be meaningless unless we can adequately address the issues of Education for All and No Child Left Behind,” she stated in her address when she officiated at the conference entitled “Indigenous Pedagogy in the Malaysian Context” at Mega Hotel yesterday.
Datin Dr Asariah said she strongly felt that in order for Malaysia to become a fully-developed nation by the year 2020, it would be crucial to look into education of the indigenous population.
The common weakness of current approach to educational practice is Eurocentric bias and lack of attention to the influence of indigenous culture on schooling.
She said further it was time for Malaysia educationists to find ways to unify their instructional methods or pedagogy in order “to meet our indigenous students’ diverse needs”.
In other words, the time has come for the educationists to pay more serious attention to the development of indigenous pedagogy.
While commenting on the conference, she said it was aimed at supporting the conceptualism and development of indigenous pedagogy in order to improve the educational outcomes among the indigenous learners.
Specifically, one of the conference objectives was to facilitate the development of indigenous pedagogy in accordance to the Malaysian needs.
“In our search of pedagogical practices that are sensitive to existing local needs in the indigenous context, we in the education fraternity must be prepared to embrace changes,” she remarked.
Teachers for instance, may need to revisit their existing practices and rethink their pedagogy.
At the same time, curriculum planners too would need to review the curriculum involving addition of subjects, updating the content or reorganising the curriculum structure.
Some 420 participants were attended the 3-day conference.
The conference was jointly organised by the Teachers Education Division (BPG), Ministry of Education Malaysia and Sarawak Teachers Training Institute (IPS).
About 24 papers were being delivered covering a diverse range of topics ranging from policy, leadership and management to classroom practice and research.
The conference explored themes of policy, leadership and management, classroom practice and research, curriculum design and implementation, instructional technologies and resource development, teacher preparation and classroom experiences.
Manah amai utai ka disebut jabu nya. Tang ba penemu aku semua nya mina lawa kerubung. Nadai tentu datai ba rakyat. Ambis masuk poket sida menteri enggau kontraktor magang. Laluh aja baru empu rakyat.
Aku ngelala sida nya magang. 1. Sida nadai sekula, 2. Sida enda nemu maca, 3. Sida enda nemu jaku orang putih, 4. sida semina nemu nyain aja.
Nemu kita? Semua agreement nya digaga ngena lekajaku “orang putih” magang. Nemu kita lekajaku kena bala lawyer tu sigi ia kedalam dalam magang. Aku nanya tuai rumah, kati maya kitai sain semua tu bisi minta orang translate ka kita reti utai ditu? Saut iya NADAI. Asai ka labuh ai mata aku ninga iya bejaku munyi nya. Semina enggau jaku manis “perintah” sida nyain surat nya tang enda nemu nama reti utai dalam nya. Kira bisi lebih 10 iti muka surat semua dalam jaku orang putih magang. Asai ka gila aku ngenang semua utai nya tang udah laun. – Bujang Skrang
So land agreement decisions done under duress or undue influence? Totally one-sided contract in order for the Dayaks to get such a low, crappy returns annually or “Salcra”. It’s time for govt to come out clean and declare all the profits or loss made by all plantation schemes, where the money gone. Why so secretive and scared to reveal all?
Aku ngarap ke Perintah Pusat ke di tuai oleh UMNO, ke maia diatu penuh enggau kes money politics and rasuah. Bisi 400 police reports. Meeting sida ia penuh FRU and ACA laban sida ia selalu mukut sama-sama kawan diri empu. Kadang-kadang, enda alah bukut, sida ia ngena golf clubs and kerusi. Udah nya nyaman pangan diri. Kadang kadang sida ia threatened the candidates and delegates using SMS. Nya meh utai ke di karap ke aku. So, you want to join me trusting the Federal Government and its budget?
“The Federal Government has allocated RM566.7 million to Sarawak for its rural development projects next year,” -AL
Empai cukup tu. Should ask for 20% increase in oil royalty or 3-4 billions increase in development budget to Swak.
“The Ministry of Education has always been committed in providing equal educational opportunities” – SA
I hope this statement translate into equal budget for rural schools, equal entry to universities and equal scholarship awarding.
“The common weakness of current approach to educational practice is Eurocentric bias and lack of attention to the influence of indigenous culture on schooling.”
SAW, it looks like this statement fits your write up about the importance of Dayak pedagogy towards their development success in rd.net.
js, aku meda utai ke di konsi oleh “ambai lalai” enggau kitai nya:
“RM106.1 million will be used for human capital development, rural economy, land and regional development and for ICT development.”
Dreaming aja tang enti allocate a little to Dayak Baru Weblog, Dr John can continue with his Education Agenda and I can leave my job, teaching rural folks full-time on finance, banking, investment and business… just dreaming aja.
Bala bakih ba dayakbaru…
Bisi bala kitai ditu ke gawa ba jabatan land survey or SAINS or apa2 yang berkaitan?
Minta tulung.. mantai ka berapa mayuh tanah kitai iban, temuda etc ke udah diambi perintah.
You know what.. lebuh kitai claim tanah aki ini or temuda ba perintah, sida deka nyimpan dokumen nya lalu mula menyiasat pasal tanah nya. Siti utai ti dikereja sida, naka ulih ngiga ‘bukti’ or ngaga bukti bahawa tanah nya sigi enggi perintah. Nya siti ari kebuah kitai laun bulih approval. Tu muslihat perintah, betaun-taun udah. Aku ka nyakap bala dayak ke gawa ba sekeda opis tu, tampil mantai ka utai endang amai. Bala YB kitai enda tentu ulih dikarap ba perkara tu, enti ba sekeda pekara bukai nyangka ulih kini… Enti sida ka bejaku pasal tanah lagi dah sida kena ’sound’ bala aki uban.
Ila lusa enti bala kitai tu udah pencen magang, nyau tuai magang, nyau sakit enda dapat agi bala kitai ditu ngeradai ka ngenan ka tanah kitai, diatu meh maya iya kala kitai agi rumpas lalu kala utai tu benung nyadi, enti kelalu laun nyau nadai daya agi kitai ka ngetan ka tanah kitai agi. Aram kitai sama berjuang untuk bala anak, bala uchu ichit kitai.
After so much discussion about this, aram kitai ngumpul data & maklumat enggau detail agi lalu perkara tu ngagai perintah menua. Enti sida enda nerima, aku suggest kitai ngaga baka BERSIH or HINDRAF etc nyangka ari nya suara kitai didinga perintah. Anang semina nganti election baru kitai ka rauh2 kiba kanan bejaku ka hal bakatu. Tu semina cadangan aku aja, sapa bala kitai ke pintar agi ulih meri ‘practical suggestion’ penemu tu.
“Agi idup agi ngelaban”….. anang semina teori aja tang mesti ayan ba sikap & ulah pendiau kitai ti ngenan ka bansa & menua kitai.
SAW
What we can do to get our fair share of 30% Bumiputera equity in view of the yesterday’s relaxation of company listing in KLSE with respect to this?
Will DCCI take up this issue again?
Setuju aku enggau penemu nuan bujang skrang. Amai betul padah nuan. Di seluruh dunia orang slalu ngena cara bejalai bemua maioh ngambik ka tuntutan sida ia ditemu serta diperati ka orang. Enti dikira,pengawa baka tu sigi salah magang. Tang dipelaba aku kitai dayak udah nadai jalai agi. Enti semina ngarap ka enggau cara runding, dipelaba aku enda ulih sekali. Enti enggau cara bepantai ka penemu enggau cara nulis, debat tau ka confrence, aku rasanya semua nya nadai diperening orang. Enti semua cara ka disebut tadi tau slove our problem, dipelaba aku nadai kitai masalah agi. cara ngetan tauka depend munyi ko dipadah ka bala bukai mega nadai tentu guna. Baka ni ka depend enti perintah udah nyerang enggau pelbagai cara. Enti nadai bujang berani ari kitai bansa dayak, dipelaba aku kitai semina rangap-rangap aja. Cara intelektual kitai dipelaba aku nadai didinga perintah BN. Bakani nuan madah ka idea nuan pan nadai guna. Orang nadai peduli ka nuan. Enti cara inteletual tu berkesan, dipelaba aku pengawa tu enda samapi baka ka saritu. Bujang berani endang patut mansut ka diri maia tu. Ngumbul bala kitai dayak madah ka penemu kitai ngagai perintah. Ngambik orang meda bansa kitai. Udah lama amai aku meda bansa kitai dayak tu nyadi tikus. Ditegah orang mimit udah takut. Kini ka pemerani bansa kitai suba. Endang amai ko orang, bansa dayak tu suba baka harimau.Tang diatu, bansa dayak udah nyadi tikus. Bansa dayak diatu udah nadai pemerani mantai ka penemu. Semina ni orang aja. Betul munyi ko apai sambai. “Ni ku orang aja meh wat. Nyamai bai orang nyamai meh. Merinsa bai orang merinsa ga. Tak ni ko orang meh tu wat-wat”.
Bujang Skrang, Deo,
1. Taib blamed apai-indai, aki-ini bansa Dayak/iban laban betemuda maioh ari hasil shifting cultivation. Ia nyebut nya aba Dewan. Ni bala Dayak, bala Iban bisi bemunyi? Nadai.
2. Ari nya sida ia ngena undang-undang occupancy law – that states that unless is recently occupied or tilled (within 7 taun), it belongs to the state. Bisi aku ninga hal tu maia ke Sarawak apin lama, but I cannot confirm it. Enti law tu di pass aba Dewan, we will have problem ngelangar nya using NCR rights. Once again, sida bala YB Dayaks bisi nemu hal tu, tang bisi sida ia mantah? Nadai.
3. Unless tanah bisi getah, buah, we have no claim on that piece of tanah, unless umai kitai was there within the last 7 years. Bisi tanah bala ke kosong, asoh jampat tanam getah.
Exercise ke di sebut seduai amai manah, tang diatu we are limited by resources. Sida perintah ngena wang Cukai, wang rakyat ngelaban tanah kitai. Kitai mina nguna wang kitai empu. Ke di karap diatu, awak Iban semua sedar, lalu nyetup pengawa perintah ke baka tu. Ngandar ke YB Iban kitai ambis tanah pegila lusa.
Rossie anak Binyai,14, has proven that being visually handicapped is not a hindrance to achieve good results in the UPSR examination.
The visually handicapped Iban girl from SK Batu Lintang Pendidikan Khas (B), at Jalan Batu Lintang here scored 3As, 1B and 1C in her UPRS examination this year when the results were announced nationwide yesterday.
The subjects in which she scored 3As were Bahasa Melayu (comprehension and writing test), and in the English Language, while B for Science and C in Mathematics.
“I feel very happy with my results.This evening I am going to call my parents in Bintulu to inform them about it,” she said when met at her school yesterday.
She just nodded when asked if she was surprised with the result.
Rossie, who hailed from Kapit is one of three Primay Six pupils from the special school who sat for the UPSR this year. The other two pupils are Seripah Hadiah bin Wan Mohammad, who scored D in Bahasa Melayu (comprehension) and E in Bahasa Melayu (writing), E in the English Language, E in Mathematics and E in Science, and Then Chiew Yen, who scored C in Bahasa Melayu (comprehension), B in Bahasa Melayu (writing), C in English Language,C in Mathematics and E in Science.
Extra study helped
Rossie who aims to become an English teacher one day attributed her success to the lessons provided by her teachers and the many hours of extra study outside normal school hours. She said she spent about five hours- three hours at night and two hours in the afternoon – daily studying and doing her revision.
According to her English teacher, Mariana Yusuf, the school provided extra classes for them in the afternoon, during weekends and at night. She said it was difficult for these special pupils because without the knowledge imparted to them by their teachers, they had no other sources of learning.
“They are using Braille. In teaching them teachers have to convert the workbook into embossed pictures. To emboss a simple graphic could take two days while the more complicated ones sometime could take four to five days,” she said, adding that as teachers of these special pupils they have to work doubly hard.
Okay despite handicaps
“I can’t say we are very satisfied but this is the overall results and it is okay despite their handicaps. They had done their best and the teachers too had also done their part. We have provided them with afternoon, weekends and night classes to help them,” she said.
Mariana said it was unfortunate that Chiew Yen achieved an E for her Science, otherwise if she had scored at least a C in the subject, she would have passed.
Chiew Yen was sobbing, and had to be consoled by Rossie and Mariana yesterday when she found out that she only got an E in her Science paper.
Meanwhile, according to the headmaster, Faridah Abdullah, last year six out of seven visually handicapped pupils who sat for the UPSR examination managed a full pass. Did Dayak Baru help this poor soul?
The Sarawak Land Code [CAP81] clearly recognizes the NCR lands and has defined the elements that give recognition to native customary rights to land. Further to this the Federal Court decision of Madeli Salleh vs government of Sarawak states very clearly that the customary rights of inhabitants were recognized and accepted by the British crown when it governed Sarawak. It became part of common law. These customary rights therefore are part of common law and thus must be recognized and protected.
Land is life and guarantees the peoples livelihood. The Federal constitution ensures the right to life and livelihood. Thus when the land of the indigenous people are taken away, then their livelihood is gone. As a consequence, it violates the constitutional rights of the indigenous peoples.
Therefore, the IFFM team reiterates that the indigenous peoples struggle to their land is legitimate. It is the responsibility of the state and federal governments to recognize the NCR to land and livelihood. The state can no longer lease indigenous peoples land to lease out for plantations or contract farming to companies.
The current intensive and extensive violations of the NCR land is bringing about devastating impact on the lives of the indigenous peoples. The development of oil palm plantations at a rate of 7% covering more than 40% of land in Sarawak has tremendously reduced food production; destroyed the rivers where communities depended on the fish; the pollution of the rivers, particularly with highly hazardous pesticides and the environment has affected the health of communities with increase in diseases.
The insatiable expansion of this monocrop has destroyed the forests with the resultant loss of biodiversity that has even further affected the dependence of the indigenous communities for their livelihood. With the imminent global crisis on food, the indigenous communities will further face impoverishment and poverty.
The use of palm oil for agrofuel is a threat to food production and is one of the contributing factors of the current global food crisis. The increase demand for agrofuel has led to intensive expansion which has brought about deforestation, consequently impacting on climate change. It is crucial that Sarawak protects the rainforest as the last few rainforests left in the world.
We are very concerned that the increased violence and harassment on the indigenous communities especially on the leaders by the companies involved in expanding the plantations. Such form of violence can only intensify the conflict without a due process and a people centered conflict resolution. It therefore demands people’s participation through a democratic process for peaceful resolution.
Sarawak Deputy Chief Minister Tan Sri Alfred Jabu today advised the DAP and Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) against instigating the rural people to reject joint-venture development of Native Customary Rights (NCR) land, saying such projects were the best way to lift the rural people out of poverty.
“I would especially call on the opposition (parties) like the DAP and PKR not to suppress or oppress such opportunities by instigating the landowners to reject them (joint-venture land development projects),” he said.
The two parties are always doing things to gain political mileage, as had happened in a number of places in the state, he told reporters after presenting RM757,748 in dividends to 864 landowners from the Jih, Pedai, Tuah, Bawan and Mapai estates in Block B of the Kanowit Boustead/Pelita joint-venture NCR land oil palm plantation.
Jabu, who is also chairman of the Sarawak NCR land Development Taskforce Committee, said the state NCR land bank had about 700,000 hectares.
“Of these, 45,000 hectares have been planted while 200,000 hectares have been committed for joint-venture development with selected investors. Twenty-two joint-venture commercial projects have also been approved by the state government,” he said.
“We at the Rural Development Ministry and the Land Ministry are overwhelmed by requests from landowners statewide to speed up the development of their land,” he said.
He said the Kanowit Boustead/Pelita NCR land oil palm plantation project, the first such project in the state, was progressing well, adding that so far Boustead had paid RM1.39 million in dividends to all the 1,369 participating landowners since the start of the project 12 years ago.
Jabu said about 61,517 hectares of NCR land in the district had been identified for oil palm cultivation and about 20,000 hectares had been cultivated by Boustead and other investors.
“When all (the hectares) are developed, Kanowit will become a very progressive and modern business town, with very good communication infrastructure in its interior areas,” he said.
The agriculture sector which was once the backbone of the state economy is now declining its importance. In the 1970s it employed 64.3% of the state labour force and contributed 30% to the state Gross Domestic Product (CDP). The labour force dropped to 46.7% and accounted for 28% of the state GDP in 1980. This was further reduced to 25% and 7.5% in 1990 and 1994, respectively. In 1997, only 34% of the workforce was employed in the sector, and marginally contributed 5.3% of the state GDP. In past three decades, efforts of commercializing agriculture have met a myriad of problems. Although Sarawak has vast area of land, most of those areas which are suitable for agriculture are claimed under Native Customary Rights (NCR) where a mixture of subsistence and smallholders agriculture are quite prevalent. Private investors tend to shy away from developing NCR land due to teething problems of multiple and/or conflicting landownership and lack of explicit land policies. Furthermore, infrastructure and facilities are still lacking and labour shortage in Sarawak has made it very unattractive for the private sector to rely heavily on foreign workers for sustaining support for commercial and/or food production. In addition, construction of factories is expensive, and factories require technological inputs to make their use economical and effective. On the other hand, the government has not been successful in persuading longhouse communities to participate in commercial farming sue to lack of capital. Most farmers in rural areas lack access to institutional credits. They could not use their NCR land as a collateral because it has no document of title. Farmlands tend to be fragmented and scattered and production is usually relied on family labour. Again, longhouse folks are also constrained by the lack of infrastructure such as rural roads although they have vast tracts of NCR land commercial farming. Despite all this, farmers have been very responsive to commodity markets. They are risk aversive and they only cultivates cash crops which they think could easily market and give them good returns. Farmers are reluctant to carry out commercial farming based on mono cropping because this would make them vulnerable to market uncertainties like price fluctuation due to changes in world demand and supply. While officials tend to put the blame on farmers attitudes, the government on the other hand, also shares the blame because of its failure to provide adequate infrastructure, credit and marketing facilities, and also due to the lack of political will to protect farmers interests during bad times. Recently, there has been an over emphasis on the development commerce and industries like electronic, timber and/or wood based, oil and gas, and service industries. During the past 30 years, our industrialization policy has been heavily biased toward export oriented as a means of boosting our foreign exchange earnings. This strategy tends to backlash and has led to a situation where Sarawak is now become a net importer of food and food products. The agriculture sector has played a “backstage†role since early 1980s in favour of mining, petroleum, forestry and service sectors. The impact of such policy to too obvious to ignore even before the current economic crisis where the Malaysian currency has devalued for more than 60% to US dollar. For instance, the average export per annum for the entire 6MP period was about RM10 million, but import for the same commodities averaged more than 357 millions. This gives an annual average import-export gap of about RM347 millions between 1991-1995. This gap seems to be widening every year. In Malaysia, the food import bill has reached RM10 billion a year, and this would increase if the economic crisis prolongs over time. The financial crisis that rocked Asia is an eye opener for the state policy markers and planners alike. Food security has never become an issue before the economic crisis. In fact, the government felt that it would be cheaper to import food than to produce it. Today the scenario has changed. The concern for capital flight and the fear of riots in the neighboring country – Indonesia as a result of a price hike in food items have made food production becomes one of the most important agenda in the National Agriculture Policy. The goal here is not only directed towards achieving self-sufficient in food production but also have necessitate the urgency of commercialization of agriculture as an export generator through value-added food products to meet both domestic and global markets.
117. COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF EXISTING INVESTMENT/LANDUSES (TRADITIONAL FARMING/MANAGEMENT) AND COMMERCIAL PLANTATION INVESTMENT ON NATIVE CUSTOMARY RIGHTS (NCR) LANDS IN BAU AND LUNDU DISTRICTS The Sarawak Land Code classified lands into five classes: Mixed Zone Land, Native Area Land, Native Customary Land, Reserved Land, and Interior Area Land. About 20% of the land areas in Sarawak is under the Native Customary Land tenure, more popularly known as Native Customary Rights (NCR) lands. Compared with some other classes of land (for example, the Mixed Zone lands), the NCR lands are owned and used by the natives in a manner considered non-intensive. Sometimes the NCR lands are also regarded as being poorly managed and inefficiently used (Jitab et al. 1989). The pattern of utilization and level of management of these lands areas, however, varies with location, social and cultural setting, as well as the existing biological and physical factors. Organised development on NCR lands began in the early 1960s by government agencies. It started with land resettlement schemes undertaken by the Sarawak Development Finance Corporation (SDFC) in collaboration with the Department of Agriculture (Ngidang, 1997). One of the earliest land development agencies was Sarawak Land Development (SLDB). It had been responsible for the first few land development projects in Sarawak. The first few major developments, however involved state lands (forests), which were mainly Interior Area Lands (in tenure). With declining availability of suitable state land to be developed into agriculture, the state government began to turn to other classes of land, including Forest Reserves and Native Customary lands, particularly within the last two decades. Land development agencies such as Sarawak Land Consolidation and Rehabilitation Authority (SALCRA) and Land Consolidation and Development Authority (LCDA) has been formed to develop NCR lands statewide
SA & AL
I suggest you two provide the references or sources from which those write-ups are taken.
“Rossie anak Binyai,14, has proven that being visually handicapped is not a hindrance to achieve good results in the UPSR examination.”- AL
If we look at the big picture, how many Dayak students score all As in UPSR compared with other races? DO you think Dayak students do better than them?
“The Sarawak Land Code [CAP81] clearly recognizes the NCR lands….”
If it does, how can the NCR lands are encroached into?
“Land development agencies such as Sarawak Land Consolidation and Rehabilitation Authority (SALCRA) and Land Consolidation and Development Authority (LCDA) has been formed to develop NCR lands statewide.”
How much is the actual return from SALCRA? Is it as expected?
The return has been reported in newspaper and discussed in internet.
Land development schemes and NCR land disputes
Land development schemes in Sarawak are very much a duplication of the Peninsular Malaysia that
followed the colonial concept of modern development. During the regime of the White Rajah the
attempt of plantation scheme failed due to the non submissiveness of the native Dayak people who
refused to be ruled or managed by the wish of the coloniser.
It is the new government that inherited the economic approach of the Western World continues to
pursue the plantation concept since the formation of Malaysia in 1963. This state administration has
taken the model of land schemes from Peninsula Malaysia and implemented in Sarawak in 1970s and
1980s. The efforts were not successful because of failing to recognise the differences of ethnic
backgrounds between the Peninsula and Sarawak. (King 1990:170-171)
The state then turns to private and joint venture project to develop the state land as well as the native
customary right (NCR) land. The newly developed land bank concept termed as ‘konsep baru’ or
‘new concept’ is developed, to incorporate NCR land for conversion into particularly oil palm plan-
tation since 1990s.
Private companies are given temporary occupation license on state lands that overlap indigenous
people’s customary claims in many cases. This has led to a new round of native resistance following
the protest of logging in community territories highlighted in late 1980s. This time the indigenous
people are threatened with loss of territory claims while the logging industry’s threats are on forest
resource losses and environmental damages. The resistance is getting intense throughout the state
and in the recent development of violent conflicts has caused several human lives of both the com-
munity and the company employees in Bakong and Ulu Niah of the Miri Division.
The land bank concept is being pushed hastily since 1997 in a number of areas in the north and
central parts of Sarawak (Baram and Kanowit/Mukah) while communities are not well informed or
properly consulted. A portion of the targeted communities refused to participate while the new
phases are facing greater resistance after the targeted people learned the actual conditions from the
implemented phases. (Songan 2000:252)
Large-scale land development project and environmental threats
Large-scale land development projects such as oil palm plantation and single species tree plantation
(pulp and paper industry) are causing great pressures to environment. The implementations of these
plantations sought to clear the landmass as well as the topsoil to construct terraces for the monocrops,
which requires heavy chemical inputs. It is a common practice that biomass are burn during dry
season that causes haze hazard and forest fire. These farming practices cause severe soil erosion,
which contributes to flooding and river sedimentation problem. Water sources are contaminated by
synthetic inputs that threats human health, especially the cancer causing nitrite solution from the
fertiliser applied. These export-oriented industries gain foreign exchange on the expanse of local
social and environmental costs.
Improper environmental impact assessment and lack of a regional/strategic assessment, the cumula-
tive impact of pollution of a number of scheme in the same water catchment areas worth some
attentions. For instance, a number of tree and oil palm plantations at the immediate upstream of the
second largest town in Sarawak conduct individual EIA that neglect the symmetric effect of the
combined impacts. The chemical discharges to the main river of Rajang that sources public water
supply for over 200,000 people in Sibu, could pose serious long-term health threats.
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Other spillover effect of large scale cash crop plantation including pest problem to the neighouring
small holders’ farm. For instance, after more than three years of implementation, the crops of Kanowit
Oil Palm Plantation started bearing fruit in late 2000. The plantation attracted multitudes of mice
that cross the boarder to eat the community people’s paddy. At least one longhouse next to the
plantation at Machan District compliant that they have lost heavily to the damage cause by the mice.
A survey shows that in Rumah Jali the 17 families loss a total of 17 tonnes or 60 percent decrease as
compared with the previous year. Many of them harvest merely half of the expected produce; others
get insignificant amount of harvest like 20 kg, while some lost completely to this new ecological
imbalance phenomenon. (Information gathered during a field visit on 10 March, 01)
Indigenous knowledge and community based agroforestry
The longhouse communities that reject large-scale development projects begin to find ways to im-
proved land use while seek to protect their rights over the customary lands. The idea of agroforestry
introduced by local NGOs in late 1980s started to gain responses in a number of communities. As a
matter of fact, traditional Dayak farming system is a type of ‘agroforestry’ that termed lately by
some researchers. The implementation of agroforestry programme builds on traditional knowledge
and cultural practices are developed further with scientific knowledge. It sorts to manage the farm-
ing activities without depleting the forest and land resources.
Community forest reserve is guarded to prevent poaching and its resources enhanced by planting
trees (local timber, fruit species), rattan, and wild palm for utility and food purposes. Diversified
farming practices are maintained for both domestic use and marketable farm produces, such as
vegetables, food and cash crops, livestock and aqua products. Marketing information and transpor-
tation system is looked into according to each community’s particular social and geographical situ-
ations. Potentials of non-timber forest products and handicraft programme are explored and pro-
moted.
While the practice of swidden agriculture or rotation hill farming continue to provide food for the
household, new experiments on non burning non tillage hill slop farming system has been carried out
in some of the communities. Organic farming system with special introduction of leguminous plants
has help greatly the conservation and maintenance of farm fertility and maintain ecological balance.
Since such farming system benefit also the wider society – consumer and environmental health, it
deserve social supports in farmers’ capacity building, technical and financial as well as labour assist-
ance, particularly during the first few years while the conservation effort yields little immediate
income.
The record of the agroforestry project in Rumah Rendah on their forest and farm produces shows a
steady income of the participating households. Those domestically consumed produces are con-
verted into monetary value at the local price. The average household income between 1997 and
2000, amounted to over RM1, 600 per month. The figure excludes incomes from works outside the
community. (see Appendix I – Income records of Rh. Rendah Putan Agroforestry Project) As com-
pared with the income of those work in the plantation scheme (an average of RM 200 take home per
month, found in the case of the Kanowit Oil Palm Plantation worker), Rumah Rendah obviously
enjoys a much higher living standard in addition to other social and environmental qualities. (Wong
2000) Little areas of land are left for these scheme participants to do farming of their own and the
community forest areas are completely wiped out.
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The success of agroforestry project would shed light for an alternative land use system, which is
socially adaptable, environmentally sound and economically viable. Such local initiative is consid-
ered as a capacity building process that would empower the community for genuine dialogue in the
case of land use conflict.
The Case of Rumah Rendah: Putan Agroforestry Project
Background of the community
Rumah Rendah is an Iban (the largest indigenous group of Sarawak composed of about 30% of the
state 2 million strong population) community located in the upper Pedanum River, about 34km from
Sarikei town. Currently there are 12 doors or families in this longhouse. The 100 strong members of
the community are in some way related to each other and they could be considered as one extended
family.
According to their oral history, the community has live in the area for over two hundred years, or
eight generations. (Tuba 1994) The Iban people were originally nomads, and practiced hunting and
gathering. A person named Banyan and his people from the central part of Borneo (Kalimatan) first
arrived and settled in the Second Division (now known as Sir Aman) with other people. Later,
Banyan moved over land to the mouth of Kanowit River of the Third Division (now Sibu Division).
From there they paddled to the upper river, entered one of its tributary called Julau. They went
further upstream at Pedanum (Sarikei Division) where they found the land suitable and settled them-
selves in the area.
The present site of Rumah Rendah (Longhouse named after the headman Rendah) is located at a
small stream called Sungai Rintong (Rintong is a cone shape container used for honey collection).
The size of over 1000 hectares of hilly land is considered as the menoa or ancestor domains of the
community. It includes their temuda (individual farmland and land on which their longhouse is lo-
cated), kampong (community forest) where hunting and gathering occur, several streams including
Sungai Rintong, sungai Wong and Sungai Bejait, water catchment areas, lumbong and pendam
(cemetry). Their land also includes numerous Tembawai (sites of former longhouses). Some them
are: Tembawai Gerungang, Tembawai Lama, Tembawai Baru, Tembawai Niur, Tembawai Tiggi,
Tembawai Lumbung, Tembawai Rian, Tembawai Pemangkat, and Tmbawai Anggat. People occu-
pied these tembawais for an average of twenty years except for Tembawai Anggat where they stayed
for only one year because six people died there. Remains of tembawai are considered important
evidence of their native customary rights in the domains.
A. Community Agroforestry Project
The idea of agroforestry at Rumah rendah was first conceived in 1995 after a series of awareness
programmes and community land use mapping exercises. This project named as Putan (traditional
blacksmith) Agroforestry Project was initiated by the community in 1996. It started with paying
special attention in an area of about 150 acres of communal forest, which was threatened by intrud-
ers from other communities.
The forest is rich in biodiversity. It provides the longhouse community with valuable timber woods,
medicinal herbs, rattan, fruits, vegetables, animal and other resources.
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There are over 40 types of woods, which can be used for general construction, furniture and house
building materials. Some examples include kedang, meranti (Shorea spp), meraka kapur
(Dipterocarp), kasai muring, sindu, empit, nyato and many others.
Various fruit trees, either growing wild or planted in this forest includes Durians, isu (wild Durian),
kepayang, mata kucing (wide longan), tingkas, kong and kemayau (wide date), uchong (starfruit),
and engkebang (illipenuts). Black date (dabai) trees often yields a lot, sometimes up to 300 kilo-
gram of fruit for each tree, the people get handsome incomes by selling them in market.
Local plants like the leave of sindu and sabong, fruit of lemayong, and the shoots of many types of
palm are eaten as vegetables. Longhouse people love them very much because they are free from
pesticides. Both fruits and vegetables are consumed by the community members, and sometimes
sold in the market with a very good price.
Various types of mammals and birds are still living in many parts of the forest. Some of them are wild
boar, deer, mouse deer, giant squirrel, monkey, barking deer, porcupine, pangolin etc. There in-
cludes also pigeon, flycatcher, kingfisher, woodpecker, crested firebird, partridge and many types of
local birds, which are difficult to name. [Appendix II - Bio-resources recorded in Putan Agroforestry
Project]
The objectives, expected outcomes and implementation approaches of the project are described by
the community as follows:
Project Objectives
I. To conserve our communal forest
ii. To defend our forest from being taken by logging companies/large plantation schemes
iii. To protect our natural resources and livelihood
iv. To protect our native Customary Land from encroachment by intruders.
v. To make our forest more productive by planting valuable plants.
Outcomes
The implementation of this project will benefit the longhouse community in the following aspects:
I. Communal forest is protected.
ii. Livelihood of community will be secured.
iii. Generating more income for the community.
iv. Enhance better relationship and cooperation within the community.
Steps to achieve objectives
* carry out discussion on the implementation of the project.
* daily or weekly jobs that includes :
·
clearing paths and streams.
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monitoring the forest from encroachments such as illegal logging.
·
collecting or harvesting forest products.
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recording the amount or income generated from forest produce.
·
establish nursery for useful plants.
·
planting timber trees, fruits, vegetables etc.
·
conduct educational tours for visitor or communities from other longhouse who
have intention interested to start similar agroforestry project.
·
monthly evaluation on the implementation progress of the project.
·
training of forest guards / cadres.
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(Putan Agroforestry Project Proposal, 1997)
B. Project Implementation
The community forms committee to plan and implement the project. Family members are mobilised
in the community actions such as community land use mapping, communal forest boundary marking
(tree painting), paths and streams clearing and planting of useful timber, fruit/food plants, mainte-
nance of old forest growth.
Elders are involved in the narration of oral history when younger educated ones record. Forest
resource knowledge is imparted to the younger generation in the community learning process of
identifying and recording of various bio resources.
Project committee assigns teams to take terms in monthly patrolling to safeguard the forest from
being intruded. Forest resource harvests are done with community consensus in timber extraction
for house construction and other purposes. Longhouse families harvest jungle fruit, nut, and edible
plants seasonally and when need arises. Fishing is an important activity to supplement family food
source. Hunting of game is carried out occasionally.
The project engages a local non-governmental organisation (NGO), Institute For Development and
alternative Living (IDEAL) as consultant to get technical advice. The connection with NGOs helps
to link up with other communities doing similar project and with outside organisations for informa-
tion and support. The project managed to obtain a grant of about RM38,000 (US$10,000) for the
years 1999 and 2000. The support contributes significantly in strengthening community’s capacity in
their conservation efforts to enrich the forest potentials.
Workshops are conducted with the community for learning the various aspects of agroforestry and
organic farming methods that include marketing, information system, knowledge sharing and tech-
nical skills etc. An exchange tour was made to visit another agroforestry project in the Baram area
of northern Sarawak. This has allowed people-to-people sharing and learning.
The project also hosted a volunteer in recording community history and culture. The community
offers opportunities for academic work as well. There was one local university student conducted
her fieldwork in Rh. Rendah.
C. Project achievements
After 4 years of community effort, most of the project objectives have been achieved. They have
successfully stopped the intruders from other communities. The intrusion had earlier threatened the
sustainability of the forest resources while adat or customary law was not observed. The former
intruders lost their own forest due to bad management or sold out their rights to logging industry.
They encroachment to Rh. Rendah’s forest threatened with overexploitation. Bad practices such as
fish poisoning led to depletion of food resources and pollution of the stream.
The collection and harvest of forest produces for domestic and for market purposes has been in-
creased. For example, fish and edible snail catches from the streams has increased from an insignifi-
cant amount in 1997 and 1998 to over 150 kilograms in 2000. This is an important protein source for
the families. Together with their other farming activities, such as paddy planting and cash crop
cultivation, the average household monthly overall income over the last four years is estimated to
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over RM1600, which is significantly higher than the average traditional indigenous community in
the state. It is much better than the plantation workers whose average individual monthly wages is
estimated to be less than RM 300.
The project enhances community tie to allow the continuation of traditional culture. It also builds
self-esteem and respect as the community begins to conceptualise their right in the national context
by presenting their community map and oral history. They are given a choice of their own to con-
tinue living in harmony with nature in a healthy environment with improved management skills and
farming knowledge.
The project generates ‘spillover’ effects that interested more than 20 other indigenous families in
other communities. These families are starting similar programme in their respective areas in Sibu
Division. Many of them visited Rh. Rendah and got inspired by them. Within the same area in
Pedanum, the project also contributed to the school children’s environmental education as well. The
members of Rh. Rendah assisted in organising the planting of over 1500 trees within the school
compound in 2000.
The most important aspect of achievement is the building up of the community people’s capacity.
With strengthened capacity, the community would be able to deal with problems facing them, and be
able to make greater contribution to the society at large.
D. Elements of success in the project
a. Exclusive right of the natural resource and land tenure security
Community people’s effort in mapping and marking the boundary of the community forest/land and
to safeguard the resources from intrusion of outsider is an important aspect in natural resource
management. Exclusive right of a communal forest is the most important incentives for the commu-
nity to defense their forest resources to ensure short and long terms benefit. In this case of the
indigenous community, the customs and traditional values/knowledge serve as a key instrument to
exclude the neigbouring indigenous communities from intruding and to ensure sustainable use.
For long term tenure, the community might have to obtain official recognition like to seek for ga-
zette of their forest under the state law. However, the weaknesses of Sarawak customary land
tenure are always putting the indigenous community to a disadvantage when other interest parties
enter the area for other development purposes.
b. Reversible environmental damage
The damages caused formerly should not go beyond the extent that the health of the environment is
not reversible or too expensive to do so. In the case, of Rh. Rendah, the communal forest was mildly
disturbed before they start the Putan Agroforestry Project. Previous irresponsible ways of resource
harvesting, such as extensive rattan and palm shoot collection, indiscriminate fishing by with poison
had put the resource base to a stress. However, when these activities are curbed the resilience of the
nature resume it capacity in a few years time. By 2000 about five year of project implementation, the
community managed to enjoy sustainable resource yield and healthy environment again.
c. Information, community cooperation and participation
Sufficient information is a key element to allow the community to decide on the kind of livelihood
that they wish to live. Some members of the community in Rh. Rendah were in contact with NGOs,
who provided information on alternative land use systems. The community is a small homogenous
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group who shares a common interest in the sustainable use of forest resources. The success of the
project is attributed to the strong leadership of the community who is capable to unite the members
and get things organised.
Prior to the implementation of the project, there were a series of discussion carried out among the
community. A consensus was reached before plans are made. The process involved young and old,
men and women, from the very beginning. Elders in the community recollect old stories of their
ancestors (oral history) and indigenous knowledge on forest resources, women share specific knowl-
edge on farming and seeds, while younger people conveyed new knowledge obtained.
The community is able to practice traditional culture and exercise communal spirit in the implemen-
tation of the project. Major works are carried out in the traditional berdurok or cooperatives man-
ner, while routine maintenance or patrols are assigned to small groups who take terms to do the job.
d. Appropriate technology and traditional knowledge
The project builds on their traditional knowledge on forest resource use and management principles.
Introduction of new technology is carefully considered in harmony with the local contexts of social,
economic and environmental conditions. For instance the organic farming techniques introduced
must be socially adaptable, economically viable and environmental friendly. In the Putan Project, the
skills in farming are enhanced through the promotion of minimal chemical input and maximise the
utilisation of local organic materials. In cash crop cultivation, the cultural practice of mixed crop-
ping is encouraged with new idea of contour terracing. It is also noted that any new technology
introduced would be adapted very slowly if the local conditions are not infavour of it. For example,
compost making is technically viable and has many benefits to farm. However, due to it extra labour
and time required to yield the benefits, few families accept the technology. The other factor is attrib-
uted to the larger area of land still available for rotation purposes, the farmers tend to take less
attention in conserving a particular farm site. As the cost of chemical input is getting expensive and
available land near the longhouse is becoming rare, the community is beginning to pick up the
conservation approach.
e. External and social support
It is generally understood that the wellbeing of Indigenous community should not be solely depend-
ent on external agents, be it government, NGOs or otherwise, nor should it be left to the community
people themselves. In this case of Putan Agroforestry Project, NGOs had in the earlier stage serve as
information provider. It was followed with training workshop in the facilitation the concept and
equipping the community people with necessary skills and tools such as community organising, land
use mapping. The exposure tours and people-to-people sharing programmes conducted by NGOs
enable the community participants to visualise the concept and to gain confidence in the project. The
members of Rh. Rendah had participated several exposure tours to government and private
agroforestry projects both within the country and in Kalimantan, Indonesia. A demonstration plot
on agroforestry set up at the Three Pillars Farm (an NGO run Programme) in Sibu served as an
important model for community motivation.
Some initial financial, materials and technical supports were important for the community to take off
the project. The continuation of Putan Agroforestry is greatly helped with a small grant for two
years. Meanwhile, the prospect of self-sustaining of the project looks very promising as the commu-
nity gaining better income from the forest and land they work on.
The visit of people from other interest groups or community also served as an booster to the people
of Rh. Rendah who feel proud of themselves for having the agroforestry project.
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E. Concluding remarks
Top down community development approach has failed in many incidences in Sarawak. The indig-
enous community is facing particular brink future in the light of present development of large
monocropping project. This trend is unhealthy as it is reflected in the repeated disputes and conflicts
between development agents and the customary landowners. There are hidden tensions in the
unsurfaced cases that are expressed through urban migration and social crimes as a result of the
difficulties in coping with the changes.
The experience of Rh. Rendah in the community agroforestry project has proved that there are
alternatives to ‘expert’ managed large-scale project. The community people could base on their
traditional knowledge/practices and be open to learn new knowledge to improve their livelihood
within subscribing to drastic changes.
Putan Agroforestry Project has many spillover effects that could benefit the society at large. As
more communities in Sarawak are starting the similar programme, the state authorities should ac-
commodate such kind of people’s initiative in their capacity building to overcome poverty and from
being marginalised. 1998 Nobel Laureate for economics, Amartya Sen describes such capacity building
as a kind of freedom to achieve alternative functioning combinations or the freedom to achieve
various lifestyles (Sen 1999:75). With this open mindedness, perhaps, cultural diversity and biodiversity
would be better secured in this new age to come. -end
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More than 4,000 cases of land placed under Section 47 have been released by the Government as they are no longer needed for development.
Second Minister of Planning and Resource Management, Datuk Amar Haji Awang Tengah Ali Hasan, revealed yesterday that at present, there were only 76 cases still under Section 47 for “potential development by client departments”.
“We review all land acquired under Section 47 once every two years. This way we will release those areas which we don’t need. However, sometimes we still need to retain the land in cases which involves general development which often takes time (to implement). For instance, road construction will take time as it takes time to study the project and the necessary alignment. We blanket it under Section 47 because investigation got to be done and exact alignment need to be carried out.
“But when everything (review) is done, the rest will be released because they are no longer required,” Tengah told reporters after opening the Land and Survey Department’s Integrity and Quality Day here yesterday.
Among those present were Assistant Minister of Planning and Resource Management, Mohd Naroden Majais, Deputy State Secretaries, Datuk Mohd Morshidi Ghani and Datu Abdul Ghafur, and Land and Survey Director, Datu Sudarsono Osman.
Tengah explained that sometimes, certain areas would be retained under Section 47 due at the requests of client departments could not develop the land at the moment because of lack of funds.
“Nowadays we acquire more land for development under Section 48, meaning to say it is very definite that we plan to develop that particular area.
“Anyway, under Section 47, we do give compensation which is normally close to the market price or current price. Unlike in Singapore, when the government acquire land for development, say for instance it was acquired in 1973, the compensation is capped at the value of that land in 1973,” said Tengah.
Earlier in his speech, Tengah said the Land and Survey Department was vital in the State’s development agenda.
“The Land and Survey Department is a very important agency as most of our development involves land transactions,” he said.
As such, he urged the staff of the department to always carry out their duties with the highest level of integrity.
“The quality of service and your professionalism must start from the grassroots level up to the management level,” he said.
He also advised the staff to understand the State Government’s policy in land issues.
“Our policy is to utilise our land to the optimum level. That is the reason why in certain areas such as Batu Kawah, Rampangi and Sibu Jaya prices of land have shot up from a few hundred thousand Ringgit per acre in the past to a few million per acre today,” he said.
On computerisation of the department, Tengah said the Land and Survey Information System (LASIS) used in the state was the first of its kind in the country.
“Many state governments want to learn from us, and soon we will be implementing LASIS II to provide an even more efficient system,” he added.
dl, what is the balance of releasing lands under section 47 but take lands under Section 48?
Dayak Lama, does the new concept of land development brings its expected benefit like Felda in PM?
Jabu, who is also chairman of the Sarawak NCR land Development Taskforce Committee, said the state NCR land bank had about 700,000 hectares.
“Of these, 45,000 hectares have been planted while 200,000 hectares have been committed for joint-venture development with selected investors. Twenty-two joint-venture commercial projects have also been approved by the state government,” he said.
Enda lama da ambis tanah NCR kitai dayak diambik sida jabu enggau kompeni ia. Nya asai kitai dikemeli ka Jabu. Ketuai ti makai bansa diri empu. Kitai dayak ujung-ujung baka urang datai ari menua bukai ila. Nadai utai ka diangkun ka agi.
Kerajaan BN Sarawak dan kroni2nya patut ditukar.Kalau 45 sudah mederka dalam sarawak, kenapa banyak rumah panjang di kawasan pendalaman tidak ada kemudahan asas seperti jalan raya dan elektrik? Ini jelas dalam BN berlaku rasuah politik.Diharap dalam pilihanraya yang akan datang BN Sarawak dapat digulingkan.
Stuju ngan anak sarawak. Menteri Bn saja yang cakap sarawak sudah maju sangat. Maju memang majulah, tapi tidak seperti semenanjung malaysia. Kalau saya tak berani nak kata swak maju. Beribu-ribu lagi rumah yang tak ada bekalan elektrik dan kemudahan air bersih. Jalan raya bertar tak payah nak cakap lagi. Jalan kat Kuching pun berlubang-lubang lagi. Yang lagi peliknya, rumah panjang yang berdekatan dengan Hiro batang ai (pusat penghasilan elektrik) pun tiada lagi bekalan elektrik. Saya percaya mereka yang berdekatan dengan Bakun hidro pun boleh tiada elektrik nanti. Ini memang realiti. Tak caya, datang ke rumah panjang sekitar daerah lubuk antu. jangan kat pekan saja, tapi jalan seluruh rumah panjang. Itu baru realiti.
Tiap-tiap masa mengundi, YB BN akan pergi ke rumah-rumah panjang dan menipu rakyat dengan mengatakan hanya parti BN yang boleh membawa kemajuan kepada orang-orang rumah panjang. Tapi selepas 45 tahun, rumah-rumah panjang masih tidak ada air bersih, bekalan elektrik dan jalan raya tar.
Realiti adalah parti BN Bukan membawa kemajuan tetapi membawa kemunduran…
We now have STAR and PKR. Go for them
Hakikatnya kaum dayak di Sarawak memang telah sekian lama ditipu, ditindas dan diperbodohkan oleh para pemimpin BN yang terkenal dengan huruf’P’ (Penipu, perompak, penyanggak, pengampu, pembohong ect…). Tapi anda harus ingat ini berlaku kerana kesilapan anda yang memilih mereka melalui undi anda! Maka sekarang sedarlah lain kali jangan silap lagi! pastikan tsunami politik melanda Sarawak pada 2011! Anda mampu melakukannya! Hidupkan Dayak! Selamatkan NCR!
Please read,United Nations Declaration on the Rights of The Indigenous Peoples.
Fight for your rights.
I dont like to see the Dayaks end up like the Red Indian in US.
Land grab happened in most countries in South East Asia.
So beware…exercise you right well.
Land title is a must. Vote for change.
Only you can change.
Leo Moggie, Gramong J, D. Tajem, Gabriel Adit, C. Ujang, Leonard L, Jimmy D, J. Rayong etc…all dayak/ Iban elected ADUN & MP since independent were/ are responsible & accountable for all our deficiency in development, lost NCR to govt, deprived of business opportunities, marginalized….
Jabu, JJ. Masing & Mawan are the last stooges used and abused by Taib to complete the handover of dayak rights to BN led govt.
IF PKR fails to win this by-election and not able to wrest power in the next state election….maioh agi YB kitai iban berdosa ngindik bansa diri empu ketegal siko aja mensia ba sarawak
Sapa kitai ke kala terebai ngena bilun MAS tauka AIRASIA tauka bilun buah engkabang, bilun chechawir, etc, ari Miri ke Sibu tentu bisi nilik ke baroh meda dandang umai sawit ke chukup besai ba arong menua Niah, Bintulu, Balingian, Mukah, Sibu. Tanah sapa enda meh ke dipidat sida nya deh unggal! Ba runding aku din….apooo….besai amat meh kebun sida bakih tu neh! Sapa meh sida bakih ke ngempu kebun nya? Nyau temenung ga aku dalam bilun lalu datai meh pikir ke ngirauka ati aku. Enti baka tu, tentu enda lama da agi kitai tu ka baka sida negro ba menua Zimbawe. Aku kala ninga rita ba menua nya alai sida urang putih ngebun bedandang besai lalu sida negero dia nyau nadai tanah alai berumah. Kada enda ka kia meh tuju menua kitai tu deh unggal. Dinga aku, enti tanah udah diperimeter survei lalu diberi ke sida kompeni, urang ke diau dalam menua nya pen deka kena buru sida kompeni ngena adat ator undang undang ila unggal. Peda dek kes Rh. Nyawin, rumah sida di Mukah, Balingian alai deka endor pansa jalai nya nyau diruntuhka ukoi perintah nadai ngira reta tengkira ke ulih sida ke ngempu rumah ke bepuluh taun ke udah. Kati sida nya enda sinu, beati perut enda sinuka sida iban dia. Nyau peneka ati ngerubohka rumah sida nya. Uji tak rumah sida ga diruboh enggau enda beradat, enti sida ka meda. Amat meh sida nya bisi ngelanggar adat, tang uji beri meh sida nya tanah, pampasan awakka sida ulih ngaga rumah baru. Nya nyau sida ga ka ngeruboh enda betatak nadai kasih agi neh, nyau baka anak mit ke nyuluk sarang pipit ba puchuk pinang. Sida tu mega, enti rayat bisi kena tinggang penusah, sida pen nyau gesah gesah datai deka mantu. Tang ba pasal ke ngerubohka rumah tu ketegal ke ngachau palan jalai, sida pen nyau gesah gesah ga deka mantu perintah ngerubohka rumah laban sida iban nya ngenusahka perintah, enda pia ku dek unggal. Nadai apak apak amat. Amat chukup jai mensia, pama iya udah ka jai.
The Salcra mean is the best method we can use to improve the standard of Iban. Even that RM50 per person per month is lot enough for buying a kilo of sugar, salt and aji no moto. Yes, TS Jabu is the best planner for the life of Iban, much more better than the felda in terms of dividens. Keep going TS!!!! We are behind you.
NCR nya sigi ditemu tanah kitai nya kebuah kitai diasoh nyain form siti leboh enggau masuk skem ladang sawit. Kitai ke empu NCR nya pen di janji dibagi 30% ari penguntung asil pansut ari pemansang nya enggau mega penguntung ke bukai, nya meh kebuah kitai ka. Tang leboh sida LCDA meri surat pasal tanah nya (ukai pala tanah) di dibaruh bisi di tulis “nadai sapa ulih ngereja tauka bekuasa atas tanah nya enti enda minta pemendar ari LCDA”. Reti nya ti kitai udah sain form masuk pemansang nya, nuan udah nyerah ka kuasa nuan ke empu tanah nya ngagai orang. Sida ke di rumah panjai gaga lebuh nerima surat pasal tanah tu lalu ngumbai nya land title. Bala tuai rumah pen enda nemu, nya kebuah sida tak setuju. Tu meh siti cara ke betul nipu, lapa sida enda ngaga pala tanah ke bendar ari ke ngaga kar tanah lalu madah ke nya landtitle ngagai rayat ke enda nemu utai.
Ti kitai ka masuk pemansang ladang enggau kompeni ke besai besai/LCDA kitai mesti ngaga surat janji ke mesti dititih ke sida ukai ngarap ke janji sida ke tau bula ke ngujung ke kitai nyadi asa.
Ti sida setuju enggau janji digaga kitai baru kitai tau muka.
Kitai ukai enggai ke pemansang tang enggai ditipu serta dikemula. Dayakbaru ukai dayak ke buta tang nemu serta meda.
Uji kitai nitih ka politik sida di Amerika. Ulih enda ka kitai di Sarawak nukar perintah ari BN ngagai perintah Pakatan Rakyat ba penggawa bepilih ti ka datai dalam ujung taun 2010 tauka 2011. Kitai ka ensepi asai perintah Pakatan Rakyat udah tu ila. Ni nemu, nyangka Pakatan Rakyat lebih manah ari perintah BN.