Anwar to Ibans:Time for change is here
Taken from: TVANTARA
PKR adviser Anwar Ibrahim, who was on a two-stop swing through Batang Ai yesterday, hoped to raise the consciousness of the Iban of their need for redemption from poverty.
Anwar’s first stop was Kampong Nanga Kesit, located at the end of a bumpy 7km ride over a gravel road that leads off the main Seri Aman- Lubok Antu artery, about 25km from the latter one-street town.
Nanga Kesit has two longhouses, one situated on a knoll that meets visitors immediately after they have crossed the muddy Sungai Lemanak by using a wobbly 100-metre plank bridge; and the other longhouse is located in a drop behind the hill.
The first longhouse has tiled floors and brick walls while the second is all wooden poles and planks.
Almost inevitably, the tuai rumah (village chief) of the upper longhouse declined to host a PKR ceramah but did not stop residents from flocking to the ceramah at the lower longhouse.
By the time Anwar arrived in the early evening, the upper longhouse was empty of residents except for Ran, the frail looking chief. Ran’s wards were waiting with residents of the lower house to listen to the man whom they hope would be prime minister someday.
After the tuai rumah from the lower longhouse and Jimmy Donald, the former Barisan Nasional parliamentarian for nearby Seri Aman, had stirred the crowd with the ex-MP pumping up the adrenaline to a crescendo, Anwar took over, delivering a 15-minute speech that essentially told the poor Iban that it was now or never for them to change their fate of poverty.
“You are ruled by people who do not want you to call your God Allah,” he told them, subtly playing on their resentment of the ban on the Iban term for God.
“They want you to change your name for God, they want to change the ownership of the title to your land,” he said, adding, “Who do they think they are?”
Warming quickly to his theme that insolent powers were ranged against poor Iban peasants whose only recourse to salvation was the party he leads, Anwar deftly played to his audience’s perception that he was no ordinary opposition leader who will sell out to the powers-that-be.
“Just the other day I was in Bangkok and the Thai prime minister asked me if I could get PAS leader Tok Guru Nik Aziz (Nik Mat) to come to southern Thailand and together help the government resolve their problem with Muslims.
“The people who take your land, who keep you in poverty, don’t have much respect for me and the Tok Guru, but the Thais appear to have a higher regard for us. Perhaps the Thais know something about us that these people don’t,” he said sarcastically.
Anwar at this point put in his plug for Jawah Gerang, PKR’s candidate for the vacant Batang Ai seat: “I know enough about Jawah to tell you that if you vote him in, he will join in the overall Pakatan Rakyat effort to lift every Malaysian – Malay, Chinese, Indian, Dayak or Kadazan – up in this country that you all call yours.”
By this time the crowd of some 200 was beginning to perspire from the heat of being pressed within its thatched walls but they had heard enough to laugh at his subtly admonition against supposed Iban fecklessness.
“Back in Kuala Lumpur they tell me that the Iban vote can be easily bought through food and strong drink. But I told them that this time the Iban are ready to change 46 years of getting nothing but robbery of their land and their rights in return for their vote.
“It is time for the Iban to change their fate and to vote that change by choosing Jawah as their man in this election which will then bring a big change to Sarawak and the rest of Malaysia,” he thundered as a finale.
Then he was off to Kampong Melayu in Lubok Antu for evening prayers before another stirring speech at Kampong Kutai in Lubok Antu town where he addressed a slightly more educated crowd on whom he pressed the need for change in a verbal register a note higher than he did at Nanga Kesit.
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Inspirational word from gkm2020
You should not put Jawah there in the first place. Get new blood. They know what Jawah did there as Jawah was part of them. What has he done to the people there while he was the MP. Why the hell is he telling that the development in his constituency is under the prerogative of the state government. What is he doing as the MP representative of the people, can’t he bark?
Only now he start to talk about development, telling them they have been neglected but when he is inside he did not do as expected.Now like pot telling kettle is black.
Ex Barisan rep are all the same in the government they say they are always correct, once kicked out they said bad things about their master.
An Opportunity to Change, yes sir.
It is rumoured that Dato Seri Najib, the new Prime Minister of Malaysia (tomorrow) is a believer of “Blue Ocean” strategy. With a fresh start as a PM, he can push for “Blue Ocean” and hopefully, given time, changes will occur.
Sarawak is given another opportunity to change – whatever strategy is adopted. Btg Ai is a watershed both in term of this by-election and also its geographical location. Whoever the winner would be, the opportunity to change has never been this close before.
PKR’s win would bring changes, not the roads or the electric bulbs, but the changes are deep rooted. It would plant a new mind-set; people are deciders of their own destiny. It would mark the point where Dayaks can choose their own leaders. With that, many barriers would be torn down – the barrier of fears and uncertainties.
BN’s win would also bring changes, more physical than anything else. BN has been dominant for over 47 years, and given such a lengthy period of administration, BN cannot take people’s support for granted anymore. It would think of deliveries. It would need to think about the issues that people, especially the Dayaks, asked. Issues like land rights, employment, educational opportunities and as usual basic amenities are going to play prominently in the future.
PKR’s win is based on the promise of greater transparency and accountability. It has shown itself delivering on these promises in the P Malaysian states it administers. Its leadership lead by examples. They are closer to the people. Their rallies are attended by ordinary folks whose only agenda was to listen to the leaders.
BN’s win is a promise of continuity – i.e. development. This is the part that had been hard to accept. Given 47 years ruling the state, what extra time do they need to prove themselves? The parameters people look at multi-folds. Where have our resources gone to? Who are actual beneficiaries to the wealth of the state? Why is that other states in the peninsula enjoying better facilities than us? For BN therefore this is an opportunity to do a self examination. Your promise of continuity is not acceptable. You have to deliver.
Even without DSAI calling the Ibans to decide their own fate, we all know now is indeed the opportunity. Whoever wins, we can only think it’s for the better, hopefully.
NAMA KEBUAH KITAI MESTI NYUKUNG ANWAR,NGUNDI PKR???
Mayuh orang madah,anang nyukung anwar.anwar nipu iban.anwar pura2 manah enggau iban awak ke iban ngundi pkr.pkr menang anwar nyadi perdana menteri.enti ia nyadi pm ia ulih malas dendam.macam2 meh jaku asut mensia.
Aku enda ga madah kita mesti pecaya ke anwar 100%.tu politik.ni ku kita milih calon/parti.
Enti nya agenda anwar ko kita,nadai salah kitai ngundi pkr.anwar muai umno.kitai muai bn sarawak.
bah nama pengerugi kitai???
ari kitai ke nyekat pkr masuk sarawak,anwar enda disagi kimpin.nama utai ulih kitai?nadai!!!
Ingat kita jaku aku,empai temu bisi parti ulih muai bn ari sarawak!enda temu semaya kitai iban ulih register parti dayak enti bn agi berkuasa,empai temu peganti taib kitai dayak badu ditindas!empai temu bala tuai politik dayak berani mantah pengawa enda betul bos sida,empai temu snap,dap,pkr(sarawak) ka nulung bansa dayak!empai temu najib ka bejaku ke hal dayak!empai temu!!!
Bah!..nama penyalah anwar bekimpin ba sarawak,nama penyalah anwar mai pkr masuk sarawak.nama pengerugi kitai iban nyukung pkr.Nama pengerugi??
orang ke madah pkr parti ari semenanjung menjajah sarawak.nya cerita lama.enti kitai enggai dijajah semenanjung suba kitai enda beserakup enggau sida.
Salah jaku sigi, enti pkr enda masuk sarawak agi meh sarawak dijajah malaya!Nama agong malaysia ukai orang malaya?nama umno ke mastermind bn ukai orang malaya??nama pbb,prs,spdp,supp ti beserakup dalam bn ukai mai penjajah ari malaya???
Ari ni asal bn?bn digaga umno+mic+mca semenanjung.
Ney!.nama baru diatu jaku nya pansut.Meda umno dipelaba masuk sarawak enti najib nyadi perdana menteri nadai ga borneo post,utusan sarawak ngelapor nya parti penjajah?nama bida umno vs pkr(dua2 bela parti majoriti melayu,bela di digaga ba semenanjung).nama mesti pkr dilabel penjajah??..
Bah!enti jaku aku tu salah.tulak kita meh anwar.amat meh kita bulih penganti bansa bukai ti ka kiruh ke kitai iban.sekat kita meh pkr,amat meh sarawak badu dijajah malaya.
Tang enti penemu tu semina jaku kimpin musuh anwar,penyakal pkr.’masuk teliga kanan,keluar telinga kiri’.nadai guna!aku enti enggau orang bediri enggai meh alah laban munsuh.
uji kita mikir,sapa ngaga cerita tu?..penyanyi?pelakon?pemain bol?deriba bas?engka???…laban politik jalai pintas enti ka jampat kaya.Tang..uji kita merati, enda patut ga umno+mca+mic+pbb+prs+supp siang malam ka kiruh bejai anwar+pkr ba tv,radio,ceramah.bisi kebuah nya!.’nadai musuh,nadai senjata’.enda pia?
Au..sekali agi aku ngingat,peluang emas jarang datai dua kali.
Enda ibuh irau!…anwar enda selama ia ulih berkuasa.semua utai idup nemu mati.tang enti kitai iban enda nguna peluang diatu enggau betul,enda besemaya kitai bulih peluang baka tu baru.
Tepulai agai kita empu.kita ka nyukung anwar tauka kita ka nyukung taib?kita ka ngundi pkr tauka kita ka ngundi bn?undi ba jari kita.
Tang sebedau nya,giga meh maia seminit dua kena kita berati utai sebut aku;
“Bisi 3 iku lalat labuh agai kolam besai.lalat keterubah,pengudah labuh diau diri aja laban nyangka enda ulih ngaga nama2.lalat kedua bisi pandai mimit.ia nguji engebab-engkebab ke sayap seraya engkuda ke kaki ngica ke ulih terebai.pemuas,laban lelak ia pan jenuh.’Enda pia pia bisi meh lalat 1 enggau aku’ ko ia bejaku kediri.lalat ketiga,ia enda pecaya ulih selamat lepu-lepu ba kolam nya,ia terus nitih ke cara lalat kedua sampai datai ba tisi kolam.Bah!agak kita,lalat ni selamat???
Enti ba situasi politik dayak.Lalat 1(pbb,prs,spdp,supp),lalat 2 (snap,star),lalat 3 (pkr).Ni sukung kita???…
Hello bala kaban……. ba penemu aku kitai tau nyukung Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim…..enti nadai iya suba engka enda nurun rega minyak….mati kitai…..????