Ditu baru bisi MEDA bala Dayak ( pelaba aku mayuh ke kah IBAN ) ke meri komen manah manah. Penemu mega nadai jauh limpang ari enggi pangan. Ti majak baka nya… tentu Iban Dayak ulih begulai sejalai ngemansang ke diri empu begulai enggau bansa bukai ( Laut, China, Tambi….) ke enda bambi ulih ari pemanah/penelap bansa Iban Dayak.

” The habit of of automatically assuming SUPERIORITY over the other is the antithesis of critical thinking, its a DANGEROUS HABIT that THREATEN BOTH DEMOCRACY AND WORLD PEACE. Those who feel superior generally either try to force their ways on others CAUSING MUCH VIOLENCE AND MANY WARS, or care less about the fate of humans they think less valuable, allowing widespread tolerance of national and global poverty and suffering. A sense of superiority lead people to forget that all groups have an essential similarity that is far more important than any difference among them and every group is human. It is neither reasonable nor productive to react to difference, which is to be expected by thoughtlessly assuming that one particular human group is inferior or less valuable than another.”

…extract from a book i recently read. So this so call malay supremacy is a gravely dangerous ideology.

The overseas Chinese forced assimilation to the then newly independent countries – was wrong: it was cultural genocide even if the envisaged end result was national integration.

Interestingly enough, the forced assimilation did not suppress the Chinese from, progressing. In Indonesia, 10% of the wealth is held by ethnic Chinese. Similarly in Thailand, Taksin – an ethnic Thai-Chinese, remains the richest man in Thailand.The same can be said of the ethnic Chinese in the Philippines.

The ex-immigrant Chinese had made their respective adopted nation proud, and had contributed more to the nation, than just economics.

Even without the national contribution, the principle that a large group of people can lord over others in a national compact, is still wrong and will not be sustainable.It will be detrimental to the long term nation building. Already, government officials and educationist lament the tendency for students in institute of higher learning, to congregate along racial lines. The cause for the polarisation can’t be too hard to understand.

As regard, the Dayak stake in the rights and privilege; lets be clear about what’s actually there. The 18-point agreement had never been acknowledged by the ruling Barisan National for the past 46 years. It is the ruling Barisan National-controlled state legislature that had continue to erode the Dayak rights to their NCR/L by amending the State Land code since 1958.It is the same BN government that has refuse to grant the Dayak their legal rights to the NCR/L land by withholding any approval to the land title. While the non-Bumiputera may not be allowed to purchase and own NCR land, it is the State BN policy to grant 60 years lease to public-listed companies -and often used the execuse that this would be the only way that the Dayaks will get their Land title to their NCR land (after the 60 yrs tenure).To be provided with such opportunity to acquire cheap (untitled) Dayak land, is way better than having to buy it; just pay the land premium.As far as conversion of NCR land to Mixed Zone,that practise has been part of a contrived land speculation scheme involving inside people in Land and Survey, the Local City Council Planning, and political big wigs – for ages.

The remaining rights and privilege that Dayak still enjoy is the quota into IPTA and ASB. Lets also look at this remaining rights and privilege in detail. For Dayak, it is not so much the quota thats important: it is also the economic means. All to often, many poor Dayak families won’t be able to scrap enough saving to utilise their quota even with IPTN scheme.As for ASB, the average returns is no where near when it was first lunch. With so much Amanah Saham XYZ, that is opened to all Malaysians, the local bourse is no longer an exclusive playing field for ASB to secure 10 % returns.

To my mind, what Dayak have at this moment: that was supposedly trickled down and protected by UMNO and their proxy in the State BN, is not zilth but not sufficient to be the basis of undying loyalty.

As Shaik amd many esteemed writers has observed, the problem with privilege is that it tends to be benefit a few. The system of privilege is fraught with predatory politicians and group who enrich themselves using privilege that only the political party has power to dispense, over and above the noble aims of delivery system like the NEP.In such a system,you will breed people who benefit from AP permit, you will breed people like Naroden (the undisputed owner of 48,000 hectare of NCR land in Simunjan), and Sharifah M, is rumour to have been awarded with vast tracts in Kuching.

There are ways to implement Affirmative Action policy that would be entangled free of political influence. And that is by not associating the privilege as the provence of politics and politicians. There is no reason why it would not be possible to provide quota and priority scholarschip scheme to all poor Malaysians, regardless of race. The same can be said of the equity market : the poor can be granted special privilege to participate in unit trust and IPOs.

I don’t mean for the country to throw away the system in less than 10 years. I mean for Sarawakian and Malaysian to look around, and agree on a better future for the nation by taking steps to dismantle the artificial structures that keep the nation divided.The Chinese and Indians would have to meet the Bumiputras half-way, and vice-versa. It has to be an aspiration for all Malaysians, to dismantle their own, self-created, self-imposed apartheid-ic social contract.

For Dayak, its a non-choice. UMNO/BN is not protecting or endowing it with the promised rights and privilege, as accorded to the Malay and political elites. It is time to be more circumspect – and to look toward real democracy is the true gurantor of justice. If we continue to believe in being granted special rights and privilege through Bumiputera-ism, then I have to say, we would not be any different than the Tuai Rumahs who would feel such debt of gratitude from the few 1000s ringgit of MRP grants, issued just before an election day.

I would be remiss if I don’t finish off with this point to ponder: since there are already many Malays, Chinese, Indians, etc intellectuals who begin to question the wisdom of partitioning Malaysians by their accorded rights and privilege, the very least that Dayak can do is to read the lines, and anything between the lines, very carefully, and to understand that the goal is a good and noble one, and I should think – achievable.

I was at a coffee-shop and there I met some chinese malaysians talking away quietly and with intellectuality.

When I first tried to join them, they seemed reluctant to allow me to join. Luckily among them there was someone who knew me.

Those chinese malaysians were in fact retired teachers and journalists. They are experts on chinese culture and history of Sarawak, in their own right.

They asked what did I know, being a Sarawakian, Mr. Equaliser. I replied you had not asked me the question and you assumed I did not know. That was bad, I said.

One of them said, you heard how the dayaks who married chinese made so much fuss about the status of their children for the sake of having the extra privileges. (The parents of the girl were better of than most chinese malaysians and yet they appeared they could not support their own child). Some Dayaks were furious and started saying all sorts of things which normally they wouldn’t dare to utter at all.

Our wise man said, Look at the “Hua Len”, they kept quiet and moved on, with or without the Bumiputra Status.

He continued, “Do you know all Sarawakians who were born in Sarawak were natives, as proclaimed by the Rajah of Sarawak in 1920″? Of course, I said, “I don’t know. Now, you are pulling my legs. That cannot be true.”

He continued and said, “In 1953, the British Government changed the law and declared only those tribes (races) listed in that Order issued in 1953 were natives.

It was that list that was later included and embedded in the Federal Constitution in 1963, on the formation of Malaysia. (It is the same list that prevents mixed parentage children from Sarawak to qualify as bumiputras.)

The chinese malaysians from Sarawak were natives from 1920 to 1953.

The chinese malaysians from Semananjung and Sabah were never proclaimed as natives and they were not.

He farther said, “The chinese malaysians in Sarawak were smart enough, not to create tension and wasting their time, by fighting for their rights but rather they took it as a challenge, to unite, cooperate and look after themselves by working doubly HARD to progress in life.

He added, “The results speak for itself”.

I was stunned and lost for WORDS. Quickly, I excused myself and left the coffee-shop, like a wounded fighting cock.

God bless everyone: the Malays, the Dayaks, the natives or the non-natives.

Yeah, it looks like, it will take sometime for Sarawakians to obey God, “All Men Are Created Equal.”

Thank you, friends.

Conclusions:

Bumiputra Rights = Malay Rights + Dayak + other indegenous.
Malay Rights = only to Malays

So the Malays had most advantage as they already had the Malay + Bumiputra Rights.

When Indonesia, Philippine, Vietnam, Thailand, India even China hold their Independent. The first issue they raised was the catogary of citizenship to be adopted for non-bumiputra of the country. Most of all are Chinese oveseas except China/Hongkong were Western and Korean.

The Chinese stayed overseas during that time were asked to choose whether they leaved the country or lose their identity, family Chain, language, name, Chinese education, name, handwriting and etc to accept the citizenship. Those who stayed they lose their identity and forced to change their identity and adopted the identity of the country they live. By then, there is no Chinese in Philippine, Indonesia, Thailand, India and Vietnam unless they do it illegally.

This system of citizenship adoption is different from Malaysia including Sarawak. Malaysia keeps all the identity and previlage of Non-bumiputra provided that they respect the bumiputra right. Then Dayak NCR Right, 18 points are prevailed along with Ketuanan Melayu. In the case of 18 points, one of it is, if TYT of Sarawak is Muslim, CM must be given to Dayak and opposite. Dayak Right in NCR Land is that, Non-bumiputras are not elligible to own this land similarly with rizab Melayu in Malaya.

One of the main purpose of this right is to respect Dayak as a native of the Hornbill Land. Beside that is to put Dayak balance more faster in all field such which are education, economic, culture and etc. NEP always try it best to do this.

On this base we can see the Non-bumiputra Right including Chinese community in Malaysia. They have the right to practise their culture, belief, social, economy and politic in Malaysia without restricted like in other country. We will not find this Non-bumiputra Right in this Globe including China beside Malaysia and Singapore. Some country including China and India practise that, non-bumiputra shall use different identity card and prevent to involve in politic.

But now we can see what happen in Sarawak. We may see Sawarak more or least look like China Country where all the poster and building accupied by Chinese community with Chinese Identity, over power the Malaysian identity. New Law was established to convert Dayak NCR Land to Mix Zone and sell to Chinse with low price. We can check from Land & Survey Office in Sarawak, almost all the high quality of these Mix Zone Land has been sold to Non-Bumiputra without any proper channel or transpirency. Only leave are Leasehold Land and non titttle Dayak Land.

In core Chinese company which are control most of Sarawak economy, no body can joint the company or go to Chinese school without having a basic Chinese Language. This is one of the example of 1000 of Chinese Right in sarawak that is very common now a day.

The question is, whether all Malaysian are ready or agreed to put Bumiputra Rights and 18 points into our rubbish bin together with Non-bumiputra Right on their identity, culture, family chain, Chinese education, Chinese handwriting and etc in rubbish bin as well? The answer is in our self.

Non-bumiputra shall not misunderstand, when Bumiputra protect their right the same as the bumiputra shall not misunderstand when Non-bumiputra protect their right. Use or protect our right wisely and avoid to take other people right.

DB Readers, I do not think that the whole Globe including China is ready to put all of us into one Culture, 1 language, 1 identity, 1 belief or 1 World. This theory is seemed good but we do not know when the God can creats it?

Diatu bala iban dipeda tambab laban iya ke pandainya ENGGAI ngajar bala iban ke paloi.

Iban ke paloi nya laban ditulong apai saloi.

Iban maioh ngena Thoery ketam, enti bangsa iban bisi niki mimit maioh agi bala iban ka narit ia ke niki ngambi ke laboh.

Iban ke pandai nya, Pandai Sumbong, semina milih bulu diri empu. Serta landik endar bejako ngalah ke niang presiden sukarno.

Iban ke tambab majak tambab, laban maioh bala iban ke pandai nya enda nulong enggau serious. munyi ke simpulan bahasa laut, “seperti melepas batuk di tangga” baka chunto “Kasih aku meda nuan miskin Engkamat anak nuan maioh nadai ambis sekola.” Kasih jako aja nama reti?

Manang Empanggau,
Uji nuan nenggau enggau batu ilau. kati bangsa iban tu bisi beerarit “FUTURE”?

Ila meri pengeras iya, besi mansau, beras kala gadong, duit 30 sen, rokok apong, minyak kelapa serta buah angkong enggau bungai emperingat.

What does this have to do with the Dayak ?

Well, Dayak is a Bumiputera. Does have some privilege, or so it says – in the constitution. UMNO is a Barisan National main party. All Barisan National component party pay homage to Ketuanan Melayu and uphold the rights of the Bumiputera, and the Natives of Sabah and Sarawak.

So,is it the case that the Dayak must therefore be stupid not to support Barisan National – to preserve its rights and privilege against the advent of modern thoughts like Shaik, which would be, presumably to the natural liking of non-Bumiputera – Indians, Chinese, Eurasians, Portugese ? And perhaps to the natural liking of progressive political parties in PR …

Shaik was writing for the Malays, but vide Bumiputra-ism, he was also implicating the Dayak in his public discourse with his race.

As a Dayak, would you agree with the Shaik’s contention that in the long run, that Bumiputra rights and privilege which dovetail with the Malay Ketuanan, would be weakening the Bumiputra capability to compete in the global marketplace ?
That the the NEP/DEB has a downside (complacency and malaise), which outweight the upside ?

Will you, in your deepest of thoughts, be willing to concede to the non-Bumiputras, that they should be accorded equal rights and privilege, just as the UN charter and your God would have reminded you ?

Take note that it is not possible to dismantle Ketuanan Melayu and not to also dismantle the rights and privilege, granted to Bumiputera …

Or, ultimately is it the case that for Dayak, the political choice is predestined to protect any attempt to erode Bumiputra righs and privilege, and thereby to act as a fence,to protect Ketuanan Melayu ?