Protest Against Taib to be held in London on 26th July 2010
Taken from: Malaysia Today
Dayakbaru:
This is just a start. There maybe possibilities that the ” very Sarawak ” may gather courage to stage a protest against Taib in one of the town in Sarawak. With Taib as head of our Government, much of our money is “misdirected” away from development.
We must have a recovery plan after Taib leaves the Chief Minister post. We need to recover the Very Sarawak money that may have been taken out illegally.
Protest Venue:
Where: Entrance of the Said Business School, Park End Street, Oxford OX1 1HP
When: From 9.30 am Monday 26th July 2010
One of Asia’s greatest kleptocrats and single-handedly one of the most destructive forces against the environment and the people who depend on it, the Chief Minister of Sarawak, Abdul Taib Mahmud, will be making the opening address at the Said Business School’s inaugural Islamic Branding and Marketing Forum on Monday 26th July.
During his 30 years of iron grip over Sarawak, Taib Mahmud has systematically plundered a country once rich in natural resources, oil and timber. He and his family are now multi-billionaires, while indigenous tribes resort to the law courts to reclaim their ancestral lands.
Indigenous tribes are struggling to keep logging and oil palm plantations out of the last corners of their ancestral lands, some which are the last remaining areas of bio-diversity left on earth. Recent reports have revealed shocking evidence of their treatment, including the systematic rape and abuse of their women by logging workers, an outrage that Taib Mahmud has refused to acknowledge or investigate.
Abdul Taib Mahmud has destroyed all but 3% of the Borneo jungle in the state, which had been handed all but intact into the care of his uncle, his predecessor. Habitats which are home to the Orang Utan, proboscis monkey, a plethora of unique plant and animal life have been destroyed due to his rapacious and unsustainable plunder of the jungle. Oil Palm plantations span the length and breadth of Sarawak where ancient trees once stood before they were cut down. One would think that proceeds from exports would have been ploughed back into the state but the people of Sarawak remain some of the poorest in Malaysia.
Taib Mahmud’s ‘business interests’ are notorious. The whole state of Sarawak has been illegally absorbed into the possession of his cronies and family members through ‘privatisations’ and the handing out of palm oil and timber concessions, via arbitrary state acquisitions of native lands. He now runs the State as a family business, maintained through systematic electoral intimidation and fraud. See SarawakReport for evidence linking Taib to multi-million dollar properties in Canada, the US and the UK.
Taib Mahmud has laughably advertised his UK visit as a promotion of ‘Green Development’ in Sarawak and will be focussing on the promotion of Islamic and Halal products, his latest venture, during his visit to Oxford. But, we ask – just how ‘Halal’ are products produced under the auspices of this man ?
It is a disgrace for Oxford University to welcome Taib
It is a standing disgrace that Oxford University should be extending a hand of welcome and supporting the status of such a man. His wealth and ability to endow is not in doubt, however there is no possible basis of legitimacy for such wealth, as can only be plainly apparent to all his hosts.
The people of Sarawak are struggling to rid themselves of this man and his parasitical family and to preserve their unique environmental heritage from his further ‘business ventures’.
Lend Your Support if you are in London
Please lend your support to their struggle and to the campaign to preserve what is left of the Book of Life and the Borneo Jungle’s natural wealth. Defend the rights of the indigenous tribes that rely on the rainforest for their livelihoods. Demand that Taib Mahmud explain the source of money that has enabled him to purchase multi-million pound properties in Canada, USA and the UK. Urge the Malaysian government to seek justice for the Penan women who have been raped and sexually abused by loggers.
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Inspirational word from gkm2020
emulate people’s power like in phillipines. sarawak is not democracy. taib’s dictatorship should be thrown out in any way
Taib is a `tough` man. There have been a lot of allegations in the past against him and his family about their wealth etc but none could prove their guilty.
Why? Baseless allegation perhaps or authorities were `scared` to investigate.
May be DB have other reasons.
Dears Readers,
Yangdikasihi is now in London on a mission to sell Sarawak. No DB or PKR leaders are capable of doing that.Its for this very reason that Dayaks or rural populace should continue to vote and support BN in the coming state polls.
The Sarawak state government is making efforts to showcase the Sarawak Corridor of Renewable Energy (SCORE) as an investor-friendly destination in the United Kingdom (UK) to woo investors.
As of May, SCORE has attracted investments totalling RM87.61 billion across sectors, making it one of the most enviable investment destinations in the country since its launch in 2006.
The corridor is located within the Central Region of Sarawak, stretching 320km along the coast from Tanjung Manis to Samalaju. It covers 70,000 sq km with a population of 607, 800 people.
Iban Johor,
RM87.61 billion to enrich the people who woo investors or Rakyat? I am living in Central Region of Sarawak, nobody here can feel or talk about SCORE. No physical industries are seen here that can benefit the people. All top BN Sarawak leaders are shouting SCORE but people living days in and days out do not SCORE at all. It is nothing more than some huge projects to enrich some people under White Rajah rules.
Taib asuh tangkap orang ba London din. Anang ngasuh iya pulai ke Malaysia agi.
Tuchum Satem….lalu iya nyadi CM. Nemu nya agi numpang kini Jabu?
Iban Johor,
Kenya meh kitai akih ngering ke orang ke merinsa bansa Iban. Laban ke dibayar, taja pengawa nuan nya paloi tetap dikereja….kasih ga bini/anak nuan enda makai neh kaban?
Kasak ke nuan dia….pos nuan memagang ba newspaper, semua blog
The real problem as I see is that the Police, MACC and even Attorney General(AG) seem to have no knowledge and means as to how to quizz Be End people. The reasons best known to every one, I suggests or can DB explore the reasons further.
When, where? I want to join. The hate is unbearable!
If a man is so powerful, he himself will destroy him through the tiniest creature sent by God.
Aku nyukung 100%.sigi kenya cara ia,menua bukai bebunuh ngetan ka menua,ngetan ka hak,ngetan ka bansa,ngetan ka tanah.ukai taib aja,sebarang pekara meh,iya ka enda dilayan dimenua diri empu.nadai nyak salah,enti Demokrasi dimulut aja,kitai mansut ka menuai,ngica ka ulih nulung bansa.anang nyadi ulun.hidup sarawakian,hidup Dayakisme
Iban Johor(lungau.
Manah endar ‘figures’ nuan akih lungau, nyau billion-million. Nama reti figure nya akih enti nyau besegaring rayat menoa diri empu nadai pengawa, nadai kereja, nadai utai digaga, belah pasar kuching, sibu, bintulu, miri BESEGARING etc.
Nya ngujong ke bala ke nadai pengawa tu enchuri, ngerompak, ngachau utau orang, samseng etc akih lungau. Uji peda nuan belah Wisma Satok dia lemai tu legi akih maioh endar nadai tuju.
Akih lungau nadai utai ngasoh ati gaga, taja tai manok ke Landon, rayat di menoa diri empu nyau besegaring ke MERINSA, semina bala iya aja ke kaya raya, nama RETI akih lungau…???? Uji nuan akih lungau melawat ke MATU, meda pengidup bala kaban Melanau din. Enti empai chukup, ke Belawai, Daro, Sebako, Tekajong, Bruit, Kuala Rejang etc, ngambi nuan meda enggau mata nuan empu akih lungau…??
Figures ,cherita, jerita nadai RETI akih lungau, enti KENYATAAN rayat merinsa, miskin papa kerdana…pui…puiiii!!
Mupok akih lungau. Idup Iban Idup Dayak. OOhhaa…
DB,
Sarawak showcase in Landon regarding SCORE is sponsored by Sarawak gomen which cause our public fund several millions of ringgit. The show is more related to his company and Landon is chose as his business interest has been there especially to attract the new UK Prime Minister and New gomen.
This is indirect counter attack on the 18/20 points highlight by Malaysian last year on the previous gomen.
$88 Billion investment told by Iban Johor is just a promise on a Gulf Club no official agreement. Only $4 Billions are firm investment, even that no official agreement yet to bankin the money in our account. Reason is simple, cos of the end era of Taib Administration as the SCORE is mainly plan by Taib.
Telajan is not a Telajan Luyoh. Please noted it.
Detail of Taib wealth could not prevail but part of them can be read from http://www.sarawakreport.com.
Cheer.
IbanJohor maybe jas joined UMNO recently. His comments seem blinded to the disadvantages of BN policies on Dayaks. Just like those comments by Dayaklama. Pls publish his IP address to confirm he is not DL under new disguises.
picture above…just like mj ‘earth song’. this thing really happen and still rolling in sarawak now.Inilah akibat nya jika hanya dengar lagu dan tidak faham maksudnya.
Iban johor..
ka nanya urg bintulu, nama pemansang dibaik SCORE tu?? Entah aku pun nda nemu.
Tu cherita pasal Taib ari Bloomberg dalam taun 2009.
Getting Rich in Malaysia Cronyism Capital Means Dayak Lose Home
By Yoolim Lee – August 24, 2009 17:00 EDT
Aug. 25 (Bloomberg) — After a stomach-churning takeoff from a 550-meter runway at Long Banga airstrip on the Malaysian side of the island of Borneo, the 19-seat plane soars over a green tropical wilderness. This is one of the world’s last remaining virgin rain forests.
About 30 minutes into the flight to the bustling oil town of Miri, the lush landscape changes, and neatly terraced fields of oil palms take the place of jungle. Twenty years ago, this was forestland. Now, those forests are lost forever.
The shift from rain forest to oil palm cultivation in Malaysia’s Sarawak state highlights the struggle taking place between forces favoring economic development, led by Sarawak state’s chief minister, Abdul Taib Mahmud, and those who want to conserve the rain forest and the ways of life it supports.
During Taib’s 28-year rule, his government has handed out concessions for logging and supported the federal government’s megaprojects, including the largest hydropower site in the country and, most recently, oil palm plantations. The projects are rolling back the frontiers of Borneo’s rain forest, home to nomadic people and rare wildlife such as orangutans and proboscis monkeys.
At least four prominent Sarawak companies that have received contracts or concessions have ties to Taib or his family.
Transforming Malaysia
The government of Malaysia plans to transform the country into a developed nation by 2020 through a series of projects covering everything from electric power generation to education. The country’s gross domestic product, which has been growing at an average 6.7 percent annual pace since 1970, shrank 6.2 percent in the first quarter.
In Sarawak, Taib’s government is following its own development plans that call for doubling the state’s GDP to 150 billion ringgit ($42 billion) by 2020. Sarawak Energy Bhd., which is 65 percent owned by the state government, said in July 2007 it plans to build six power plants, including hydropower and coal-fired generators.
The state government also wants to expand the acreage in Sarawak devoted to oil palms to 1 million hectares (2.5 million acres) by 2010, from 744,000 at the end of 2008, according to Sarawak’s Ministry of Land Development. Companies that formerly chopped down hardwood trees and exported the timber are now moving into palm plantations.
Lawsuits Filed
Meanwhile, many of the ethnic groups who have traditionally lived from the land in Sarawak — known as Dayaks — have filed lawsuits that aim to block some projects and seek better compensation.
Sarawak’s ambitions could be hindered by a lack of good governance, which would shut out overseas investors, says Steve Waygood, head of sustainable and responsible investment research at Aviva Investors in London, which manages more than $3 billion in sustainable assets.
“Even just the perception of corruption can lead to restricted inflows of capital from the global investment community into emerging markets such as Sarawak,” says Waygood, who wrote about reputational risk in a 2006 book, “Capital Market Campaigning” (Risk Books).
“The largest and most responsible financial institutions are very careful to avoid funding unsustainable developments,” he says.
Unilever, which buys 1.5 million tons of palm oil a year — 4 percent of the world’s supply — for use in products such as Dove soap and Flora margarine, announced in May that it would buy only from sustainable sources.
No Direct Purchases
“Unilever does not source any palm oil directly from Sarawak,” says Jan Kees Vis, Unilever’s director of sustainable agriculture. “We buy from plantation companies and traders located elsewhere.”
He says Unilever has committed by 2015 to buy all of its palm oil from sources certified by the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil, a group representing palm oil producers, consumers and nongovernmental organizations that seeks to establish standards for sustainably produced palm oil. The Malaysian Palm Oil Association, a government-supported group of Malaysian plantation companies, is a member of the RSPO.
About 35 percent of the world’s cooking oil comes from palm — more than any other plant, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. And 90 percent of the world’s palm oil comes from Malaysia and Indonesia.
Skittles and Soap
The oil is an ingredient used in everything from Skittles candy to Palmolive soap to some kinds of biodiesel fuel. Palm oil futures have climbed 45 percent this year as of Aug. 24 on concern that dry weather caused by El Nino may reduce output. Crude oil prices rose to a 10-month high of $74.24 a barrel, spurring demand for biodiesel.
Malaysia lost 6.6 percent of its forest cover from 1990 to 2005, or 1.49 million hectares, the most-recent data available from the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization show. That’s an area equivalent to the state of Connecticut.
Neighboring Indonesia lost forestland at the fastest annual rate among the world’s 44 forest nations from 2000 to 2005, Amsterdam-based Greenpeace says.
“Palm oil is the new green gold after timber,” says Mark Bujang, executive director of the Borneo Resources Institute in Miri, a city of about 230,000 people in Sarawak. “It has become the most destructive force after three decades of unsustainable logging.”
While Malaysia’s palm oil exports have more than doubled to a record 46 billion ringgit in 2008 from 2006, according to the country’s central bank, the gain has come at a price.
Displaced People
Development projects and palm plantations have displaced thousands of people, some of whom have lived for centuries by fishing, hunting and farming in the jungle. Almost 200 lawsuits are pending in the Sarawak courts relating to claims by Dayak people on lands being used for oil palms and logging, according to Baru Bian, a land rights lawyer representing many of the claimants.
A handful of activists have been found dead under mysterious circumstances or disappeared, including Swiss environmental activist Bruno Manser, who vanished in the jungle in 2000.
Cutting down rain forests to cultivate palms in Sarawak has consequences far beyond Malaysia, says Janet Larsen, director of research at the Washington-based Earth Policy Institute.
The forests that are being destroyed help modulate the climate because they remove vast stores of carbon from the atmosphere. Chopping down the trees ends up releasing greenhouse gases.
‘Lungs of the Planet’
“These last remaining forests are the lungs of the planet,” Larsen says. “It affects us all.”
Chief Minister Taib, 73, has multiple roles in Sarawak. He’s also the state’s finance minister and its planning and resources management minister — a role that gives him the power to dispense land, forestry and palm oil concessions as well as the power to approve infrastructure projects.
Until last year, Taib held the additional role of chairman of the Sarawak Timber Industry Development Corp., which fosters wood-based industries in the state.
Anwar Ibrahim, the former Malaysian finance minister who’s the head of the country’s opposition alliance, sees parallels between Taib’s rule and those of other long-standing leaders in Southeast Asia, such as former Indonesian President Suharto and former Philippine leader Ferdinand Marcos.
“It’s an authoritarian style of governance to protect their turf and their families,” says Anwar, who was fired as deputy prime minister by then Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad in 1998 and jailed on charges of having homosexual sex and abusing power. The sodomy conviction was overturned in 2004.
‘Driven by Greed’
Sim Kwang Yang, an opposition member of parliament for Sarawak’s capital city of Kuching from 1982 to 1995, agrees with Anwar’s assessment. “It is crony capitalism driven by greed without any regard for the people,” he says.
Taib’s adult children and his late wife, Lejla, together owned more than 29.3 percent of Cahya Mata Sarawak Bhd., the state’s largest industrial group, with 40 companies involved in construction, property development, road maintenance, trading and financial services, according to the company’s 2008 annual report.
Local residents jokingly say that the company’s initials, CMS, stand for “Chief Minister and Sons.”
In total, CMS has won about 1.3 billion ringgit worth of projects from the state and the federal government since the beginning of 2005, according to the firm’s stock exchange filings.
Taib declined to comment for this article. In an interview he gave to Malaysia’s state news agency, Bernama, on Jan. 13, 2001, Taib said CMS’s ties to him had nothing to do with its winning government jobs.
‘Not Involved’ in Contracts
“I am not involved in the award of contracts,” he said. “No politician in Sarawak is involved in the award of contracts.”
He told Bernama he doesn’t ask for special treatment of his sons. “I never ask anybody to do any favors,” he said.
Mahmud Abu Bekir Taib, the elder of Taib’s two sons, is CMS’s deputy chairman and owns 8.92 percent of the firm, according to the annual report. Sulaiman Abdul Rahman Taib, the younger son and CMS’s chairman until 2008, holds an 8.94 percent stake.
Taib’s two daughters and his son-in-law are also listed in the annual report as “substantial shareholders.”
Taib’s History
Taib, a Muslim who belongs to the Melanau group — one of about 27 different ethnic groups in Sarawak — entered politics at the age of 27 after graduating from the University of Adelaide in Australia with a law degree in 1960.
He held various ministerial positions in Sarawak and Malaysia before taking over in 1981 as the chief minister from his uncle, Abdul Rahman Yaakub. Rahman, now 81, ruled Sarawak for 11 years.
Taib, who has silver hair, appears almost daily on the front pages of Sarawak newspapers, sometimes sporting a goatee and a pair of rimless glasses, at the opening of new development projects or local events.
He lives in Sarawak’s capital city of Kuching, an urban area of about 600,000 people on the Sarawak River. Its picturesque waterfront is dotted with colonial buildings, the legacy of British adventurer James Brooke, who founded the Kingdom of Sarawak in 1841 and became known as the White Rajah. Brooke’s heirs ruled the kingdom until 1946, when Charles Vyner Brooke ceded his rights to the U.K. Sarawak joined the Federation of Malaysia on Sept. 16, 1963, along with other former British colonies.
Cousin’s Role
At Taib’s mansion, which overlooks the river, he receives guests in a living room decorated with gilt-edged European-style sofa sets, according to photos in the July to December 2006 newsletter of Naim Cendera Holdings Bhd., which changed its name to Naim Holdings Bhd. in March.
Naim is a property developer and contractor whose chairman is Taib’s cousin, Abdul Hamed Sepawi. He is also chairman of state power company Sarawak Energy and timber company Ta Ann Holdings Bhd., and is on the board of Sarawak Timber Industry Development Corp. and Sarawak Plantation Bhd.
Naim and CMS jointly built Kuching’s iconic waterfront building, the umbrella-roofed, nine-story Sarawak State Legislative Assembly complex. Naim has won more than 3.3 billion ringgit worth of contracts from the state and the federation since 2005, its stock exchange filings show.
Companies Respond
Ricky Kho, a spokesman for Naim, said the company declined to comment for this article. Naim’s deputy managing director, Sharifuddin Wahab, said in an interview with Bloomberg News in July 2007 that the chairman’s family ties weren’t why the company won government contracts.
“We have been able to execute our projects on time, we stick to the budget and the quality of what we hand over to the government is up to their expectations, if not more,” he said.
“Our teams have always acted professionally” when working with the government, whether on large or small projects, CMS’s group managing director, Richard Curtis, said in an e-mail. “CMS is governed by the strict listing regulations of the Malaysian stock exchange,” he said, adding that the chairman and the group managing director are both independent.
“The large projects carry with them an equally large risk, including a huge reputational risk, particularly for crucial projects by the government,” he said. “It is the government’s prerogative and discretion to award projects using a variety of approaches that includes open and closed tenders as well as directly negotiated processes, to the contractors and developers they feel will deliver the project as promised.”
Malaysia’s reputation as a place to conduct business has deteriorated in recent years, according to Transparency International, the Berlin-based advocacy group that publishes an annual Corruption Perceptions Index.
‘Monument of Corruption’
Transparency ranked the country 47th out of 180 in 2008, down from 43rd in 2007. Transparency also has singled out the Bakun Hydroelectric Dam, under construction on the Balui River in Sarawak, as a “monument of corruption.”
The index lacks fairness, says Ahmad Said Hamdan, chief commissioner of the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission, because it doesn’t take into consideration the size of the population of the countries in the ranking, for example.
“I’ve seen a lot of improvement in civil service in the past 10 years,” he says.
Dead Fish
Early this year, hundreds of dead fish started floating on the muddy river near the Bakun dam site. The fish were killed by siltation, which was triggered by uncontrolled logging upstream, Sarawak’s assistant minister of environment and public health, Abang Abdul Rauf Abang Zen, says. He says the Bakun dam has very strict environmental assessments and isn’t to blame for the siltation.
In January, Tenaga Nasional Bhd., Malaysia’s state- controlled power utility, and Sarawak Energy said they won approval from the national government to take over the operation of the hydropower project through a leasing agreement. Sarawak Energy also won preliminary approval to export about 1,600 megawatts of electricity from the 2,400-megawatt Bakun project, once it begins operating, to Peninsular Malaysia. The remaining power will go to Sarawak.
Taib announced a plan called New Concept in 1994. The aim was to bring together local people, with their customary rights to the land, and private shareholders, who would provide capital and expertise to create plantations. The plan called for companies to hold a 60 percent stake in the joint ventures, the state to own 10 percent and the remaining 30 percent to go to local communities in return for a 60-year lease on their land.
‘Emotional’ Disputes
That time period equals about two complete cycles of oil palm development. An oil palm typically matures in 3 years, reaches peak production from 5 to 7 years and continues to produce for about 25 years, says Nirgunan Tiruchelvam, a commodities analyst at Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc in Singapore.
The policy has led to some disagreements. In his interview with Bernama in 2001, Taib said land acquisitions by the state have led to “emotional” disputes because some people seek too much compensation.
“We are not allowed to pay more than market value,” he told Bernama. He said people need to prove that they have traditionally lived in an area — for example, by providing an aerial photograph — in order for the state to grant them title to the land.
“If there are disputes, they go to the court,” Taib told Bernama.
Some local people say they received no compensation at all for their land. In Kampung Lebor, a village about a two-hour drive from Kuching, 160 families, members of the Iban group that was formerly headhunters, live in longhouses and survive by fishing and some farming. The Iban are Sarawak’s largest single group of Dayaks, who make up about half of the state’s 2.3 million population.
Land Overlap
In mid-1996, the state handed out parcels of land that overlapped with the community’s customary hunting and fishing areas to the Land Custody and Development Authority and Nirwana Muhibbah Bhd., a palm oil company in Kuching.
In mid-1997, the authority and the company cleared the land with bulldozers and planted oil palm seedlings, according to a copy of Kampung Lebor’s writ of summons filed to the High Court in Kuching.
Government ‘Cruel’
“The government is cruel,” says Jengga Jeli, 54, a father of five in Lebor. “Fruit trees have been cut down. It’s become harder to hunt and fish. Now we are forced to get meat and vegetables from the bazaar, and we are very poor.” Jengga’s village filed a lawsuit in 1998 against Nirwana, LCDA and the state government in a bid to get compensation.
The case was finally heard in 2006 and is now awaiting judgment, according to Baru Bian, who is representing the Iban in Kampung Lebor. Reginal Kevin Akeu, a lawyer at Abdul Rahim Sarkawi Razak Tready Fadillah & Co. Advocates, which is representing Nirwana and LCDA, declined to comment.
The cases show that the development projects, including plantations and dams, haven’t helped poverty among the local people, many of whom live without adequate electricity or schools, says Richard Leete, who served as the resident representative of the United Nations Development Program for Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei from 2003 to 2008.
Poverty Remains
“This is the paradox of Sarawak — the great wealth it has, the natural resources in such abundance, and yet such an impoverishment and the real hardship these communities are suffering,” says Leete, who chronicled Malaysia’s progress since its independence from Britain in his book “Malaysia: From Kampung to Twin Towers” (Oxford Fajar, 2007). “There has no doubt been a lot of money politics,” he says.
In the rugged hills about 150 kilometers (93 miles) south of Kuching, some 160 Bidayuh families, known as the Land Dayaks, are clinging to their traditional habitat, while a dam is under construction nearby. They live by farming and fishing.
With only a primary school in the village, children have to go to boarding schools outside the jungle to get further education, crossing seven handmade bamboo bridges and trekking two hours over the hills when they return home.
The state has offered the Bidayuhs 7,500 ringgit per hectare, 80 ringgit per rubber tree and 60 ringgit per durian fruit tree in compensation for their native land, says Simo ak Sekam, 48, a resident of Kampung Rejoi, one of four villages in the area. In Rejoi, about half of 39 families have refused.
Bamboo Bridges
“We don’t want to move because we are happy here,” Simo says. “We feel very sad because our land will be covered with water. The young generations won’t know this land. They won’t see the bamboo bridges.”
The builder of the local reservoir is Naim Holdings — the company headed by Chief Minister Taib’s cousin. The government awarded Naim the 310.7 million-ringgit contract without putting it out for bids. Naim’s statement announcing the deal in July 2007 said it won the job on a “negotiated basis.”
One of the most threatened groups is the Penan, nomadic people who live deep in the jungle on the upper reaches of the Baram River. On a steamy equatorial morning in late October 2007, Long Kerong village leader Kelesau Naan and his wife, Uding Lidem, walked two hours to their rice-storing hut. Kelesau, who was in his late 70s and who had protested logging activity in their area, told Uding he’d go check on an animal trap he had set nearby. He never came back.
Skull and Bones Found
Two months later, his skull and several pieces of his bones, along with his necklace made of red, yellow and white beads, surfaced on the banks of the Segita River. Inspector Sumarno Lamundi at the regional police station says the investigation is ongoing.
It was just the latest tragedy among activists working for the Penan since the early 1990s, when rampant logging took place. At least two other Penan were found dead, including Abung Ipui, a pastor and an advocate for land rights for his village. His body was found in October 1994 with his stomach cut open.
Manser, the Swiss activist for the rights of the Penan, vanished without a trace from the Borneo rain forests in May 2000 and was officially declared missing in March 2005.
Kelesau’s death has made the Penan willing to stand up for their survival.
“We are scared of something terrible happening to us if we don’t resist,” says grim-faced Bilong Oyoi, 48, headman of Long Sait, a Penan settlement close to Long Kerong.
Penans’ Resistance
Bilong, who wears a traditional rattan hat decorated with hornbill feathers, says his group is setting up blockades to resist logging activities. They are also working with NGOs to get attention for their plight and filing lawsuits.
With the help of the Basel, Switzerland-based Bruno Manser Fund, an NGO set up by the late activist, Bilong and 76 other Penan sent a letter — which some signed using only thumb prints — to Gilles Pelisson, the chief executive officer of French hotel chain Accor SA.
The letter urged Accor to think twice about partnering with logging company Interhill Logging Sdn. to build a 388-room Novotel Interhill in Kuching. The Penan community says Interhill’s operations in Sarawak have a devastating effect on them. Accor responded by sending a fact-finding mission to Sarawak to investigate Interhill’s logging activities.
“If the worst-case scenario occurs and if no action plan is implemented, we will not continue with our partnership,” Helene Roques, Accor’s director for sustainable development in Paris, said in June. In mid-August, she said she expects “good results” by the end of September.
Rio Tinto Venture
No foreign investor has made a larger bet on Taib’s development plans than Rio Tinto Alcan, a unit of London-based mining company Rio Tinto Plc. A joint venture between Rio Tinto and CMS for a $2 billion aluminum smelter has been negotiating power purchase agreements with Sarawak Energy for more than 12 months, according to Julia Wilkins, a Rio Tinto Alcan spokeswoman in Brisbane, Australia.
CMS meets Rio Tinto’s requirements as a joint-venture partner, she says. “CMS is a main-board-listed company with its own board of directors,” she says. “It has a free float of shares in excess of the minimum market requirement. The chairman and the group managing director are both independent.”
Malaysia grants special economic advantages to the country’s Malay majority and the local people of Sabah and Sarawak states on Borneo, collectively referred to as Bumiputra — literally, sons of the soil.
Still, the country is leaving behind many of its ethnic minorities, says Colin Nicholas, a Malaysian activist of Eurasian descent who has written a book about the mainland’s oldest community, “The Orang Asli and the Contest for Resources” (IWGIA, 2000).
‘Completely Powerless’
One person trying to help the Dayaks is See Chee How, 45, a land rights lawyer who became an activist after meeting Sim, the former opposition member of parliament in Kuching.
In 1994, See witnessed an attack on Penan demonstrators who’d erected a roadblock to prevent logging trucks from driving through their land. A 6-year-old boy died after security forces used tear gas on the demonstrators, he says.
“They were completely powerless,” recalls the soft-spoken, crew-cut See, sporting a white T-shirt and a pair of jeans, in his office above a bustling market in Kuching. “They were depending on logging trucks to move around because their passageways had been destroyed by logging trails.” See now works with Baru Bian, 51, one of the first land rights lawyers representing the Dayaks in Sarawak.
Lawsuits and Votes
Nicholas says Sarawak’s people have to fight for their rights not only through lawsuits but by voting.
“The biggest problem we have with indigenous people’s rights is that we have the federal government and state government run and dictated by people who have no respect or interest for indigenous people,” he says. “We need a change of government.”
The prime minister’s office declined to comment.
Opposition leader Anwar says change is possible. His alliance won control of an unprecedented five states in Peninsular Malaysia in a March 2008 election. Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak’s ruling coalition has lost at least four regional polls held this year.
“I think this is a turning point,” Anwar says.
Still, Taib’s coalition won 30 of Sarawak’s 31 seats in March 2008 parliamentary elections. That helped the ruling National Front coalition led by then Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi retain a 58-seat majority, ahead of Anwar’s People’s Alliance. Sarawak is due to hold the next election by 2011.
Taib defended his government’s program to turn forestlands into oil palm plantations as a way of improving living standards for the Dayaks at a seminar on native land development in Miri on April 18, 2000.
“Land without development is a poverty trap,” he said, according to his Web site. Many Dayak people, who have seen their land transformed as a result of Taib’s policies and companies linked to him, say they are still waiting to see their share of wealth.
To contact the reporter on this story: Yoolim Lee in Singapore at yoolim@bloomberg.net
Sorry tu Bloomberg address on Taib uncililised treatment of the dayaks as per reports above.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aBC4ld4jmdV4#
Nama kebuah kita enda sayau ke Pehin ke udah negai kitai nyau ka 30 taun deh akih? Jilis amat kita dipeda aku. Biar meh iya megai kitaio sampai ke taui amai, sampai parai. Boring amat nadai tawing akih.
My Hipotesis:
Let say MACC dare to touch this ‘guy’, and this ‘guy’ then call PM … he say we wan to quit from BN. You know what will happen then in Putrajaya??? kalau saya lebih baik duduk diam saja…kan PM kan??
IbanLama.
Uji nuan nemuai ke MATU, ngambi nuan enda bejako kosong ngambi nuan meda pendiau, pengidup bala Melanau akih kuno. Enti ba semak Matu enda chukup tau ga nuan nemuai ngagai Kampong Jemoreng, Kampong Jerijih, Kampong Tekajong enti empai chukup ila nuan madah ke aku ga.
Nama Reti akih kuno bala pemimpin aja kaya raya, rayat merinsa miskin papa kerdana, enti belah Tekajong nyau BEKECHIBAI atai enggau dinding daun apong langkau bala Melanau akih akih kuno.
Nuan kala ke Brunei akih kuno, enti enda kala manah nuan ngiga peluang nemuai ke Brunei, ukai bejalai mansa aja akih. Uji nuan nemuai kin, meda sekula, kampong, pasar, astana & Kampong air enggau utai bukai.
Aku nemuai ke Brunei taun 2002 suba akih, malu aku pulai ari Brunei akih laban meda pendiau rayat din enggau perintah menoa nyin. Perintah menoa nyin ngadu ke rayat, enggi kitai ditu perintah ngadu ke bala YBs aja.
Mupok akih kuno. Idup Iban Idup Dayak. OOhhaa…..
Kapa ka ngarap ke sida YB nya ngadu ke pendiau kitai akih. We must not rely on YB only to improve our life. If they can’t help us, don’t hope too much. Let do it ourselves. The YBs also have their own families to care for. Why should we burden them to care for ourselves.
Urang ke miskin jai pendiau nya sigi mensia ke enda nemu ngidupka diri, akih.
IbanLama on July 25th, 2010 2:10 pm
Kapa ka ngarap ke sida YB nya ngadu ke pendiau kitai akih. We must not rely on YB only to improve our life. If they can’t help us, don’t hope too much. Let do it ourselves. The YBs also have their own families to care for. Why should we burden them to care for ourselves.
Urang ke miskin jai pendiau nya sigi mensia ke enda nemu ngidupka diri, akih.
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Iban Lama,
Minta ampun laban ke numpang penemu nuan diatasnya.
Ngemansang ka pengawa diri empu tauka bilik diri empu nya endang pengawa tiap iko kitai mensia baika kitai di Sarawak tauka ka dini-dini endor di dunya tu.
Tang pengawa ngaga sekola ke manah, jalairaya enam iti gembar, ngaga irigation ba tanah kerapa, nyambung api letrik, paip ai, arus telipon pemanchar TV, hospital ke manah, service centre baka District Office endang pengawa orang ke megai perintah, pengawa sida YB, Mentri.
Bedau nyebut Nation Building, Economic competitive, Heavy Industry enggau mioh utai bukai.
Angka tua enda oleh ngaga jalai raya ari Lundu terus ke Tawau deh Unggal. Aku enggai bula nadai duit ngaga utai ngemesainya. Enti ngibun tinchin pengajih baka Telajan angka tua oleh. Jako begagai.
Tang tu ukai utai ke enda oleh dikerja, enti perintah bepenemu lurus, bisi ati manah kasih ka rakyat, enti perintah beamat-amat deka ngereja iya, laban duit kitai lebih ari chukup kena ngaga iya enti enda tebasau kebukai.
Enti deka nitih ka pengidup lama kitai ke agi mengkang ngibun rumah panjai betalun kelia, enda ibuh meh kitai begunaka jalai alun, sekola, komputer, internet enggau maioh macam cara pengidup baru baka kemaiaritu.
Arinya Tuai, tau buai penemu lama nuan nya. Lalu aku arap ka nuan oleh macha panjai agi utai ke dikumbai orang Nation Building. Maioh amat reti utai tu enti dirintai kitai enggau jako panjai.
Tu meh penusah besai kitai bansa Dayak kediatu laban maioh agi bala pengundi ke agi ngibun penemu lama, pengidup cara lama lalu mai sida agi ngibun Sirat Political Mentality.
IbanLama___Tuai-tuai Tai Manuk,Enti salah Sigi Diukum.Anang Ia “Tua Tak Sedar Diri”.Merinsa kitai Bansa Dayak Ukai ketegal Buruk,Perintah Bejalai ka Polisi Sapa Kaya Trus Kaya Ngena Cara Politik Bisnes Ti Pemadu Besai.Enti Nuan Orang Bedagang,Bedagang Aja La Temu Nuan.Enti Nuan Bisi Kuasa Politik + Bisnes(Salah Guna kuasa/Kroni)=Undang-Undang Nuan Ngaga Kediri.Enti Nuan Ka Nemu Silik Tanya Nuan Najis Tauka Tai Manuk enggau Jabun,Seduai Sebuat Pan 100% Setuju Jako Aku Tu
IbanLama
Enti bejako anang semina bejako KOSONG aja akih, laban utai ke disebut nuan enggai nyadi, enggai nyadi utai ke dibai nuan dalam MIMPI. Jako TANYA aku lalu nadai disaut nuan, enti baka nya bakani kami ka berandau enggau nuan. Enti nuan enda kala ngagai MATU madah manah akih, ngambi aku meri chunto ke semak enggau tuboh nuan ngambi enda mayoh belanja kena nuan ngabas meda.
Ke Brunei enda ga kala akih, kasih endar nuan akih tak Bejako kosong laban mayoh utai enda TEMU. Iga nuan dipadu ke bala YDK ngambi ke ‘counter attack’ ba blog tu nadai nemu UTAI..!!!
Enti nadai belanja kena bejalai tau NUMPANG aku akih maya aku ke bisi bejalai. Minggu tu ila bisi 3 iti Surat Jemputan enggau YBs bejalai ngagai RP menoa kami ditu akih. Ari dua nemuai ke Ulu tungga semak ke Saratok aku akih, nengah jalai balak. Ari empat enggau orang rami di Sarikei, ari 5 bisi jemputan rami sekula tungga ke pakan akih akih.
Mupok akih. Berandau ukai pengawa meri penemu aja akih, tang penemu ke pansut bepun ari pendiau pengidup kitai akih akih.
Idup Iban Idup Dayak. OOhhaa……
IbanLama,
You seem to be a person of high standing with very low moral values, judging from your commments below; Do you mean the Malays and Dayaks are behind Chinese because we are stupid enda nemu ngidup kediri?
If YB cannot help, why should he stand in lection? To enrich themselves?
Kapa ka ngarap ke sida YB nya ngadu ke pendiau kitai akih. We must not rely on YB only to improve our life. If they can’t help us, don’t hope too much. Let do it ourselves. The YBs also have their own families to care for. Why should we burden them to care for ourselves.
Urang ke miskin jai pendiau nya sigi mensia ke enda nemu ngidupka diri, akih.
Akih Julau_____Rindu Aku Ka Leka Lako Nuan “BEKECIBAI”.Nyangka Baka Nyak Untak IbanLama @ Murtad
Iban Lama___Orang Ba Menua Kami Ari Kelia Sampai Ka Sari Tu Agi Merinsa.Nadai Jalai Alun,Nadai Karan,Ai Sungai Keruh.Ngena Perau Mudik Kulu Meli Minyak Rm4 Seliter.Enti Kurang 60 Liter Anang Ngumbai Diri Datai Dirumah Panjai.IbanLama___Mereti Ka Nuan Pemerinsa Bansa Dayak?
Bah…patut nuan ngena nama Jalaialun neh akih.
Aku tu pen datai ari keluarga ke merinsa baka enggi sida iban bukai. Tang pendiau keluarga aku jauh udah maju laban ke enda ngarap ke sida YB, sida DB akih. Landik aku ti ngidupka diri. Mayuh sida china sida tambi alah dibanding ke enggau pendiau aku akih.
Taib Mahmod nya pen enti bapai ke apai ke baka enggi aku nya pen kami enda jauh ari pangan.
Nuan baka Laut Malaya,selalu rigang-rigang muji diri.Nadai bansa Dayak enggai maju enggai ka pengaya,kiak magang tuju urang ngambi ka idup menyana.
Aku enda ka minta puji di Blog tu.Semina berandau ka pengebam bala yb/ketua menteri,becerita ka penyaai BN/UMNO.Nyak aja
Enti enggau pihin nya, aya iya Raman ke nyungkak ke iya. Enti iya beaya ke aya aku, kada iya lebih ari aku deh.
jalaialun.
Ukai nama kaban, laban meda penemu IbanLama, engka tak kumbai iya form 5, 6 tau ke diploma aja kitai tu ko iya. Amat kaban tak minta ampon ukai nusi diri, angka ke menoa Malaysia tu tak ambis endor aku bejalai maya sekula lalu diatu maya ke ngereja pengawa.
Enti Matu, Daro, Pulau Bruit, Belawai, Tanjong Manis, Kuala Rejang, belah Mukah angka ke menoa bala Melanau udah ambis endor aku bejalai gawa nya kaban.
Kasih meda pendiau enggau pengidup bala sida kaban kaban. Kitai Iban ke merinsa diau ba rumah panjai tang enda ga datai baka pemerinsa bala kaban kitai Melanau, amat amat MERINSA kaban.
Mupok kaban. Pagi ila bisi meeting ga tu. Idup Iban Idup Dayak. OOhhaa…..
Minta ampun akih, aku ka nemu ninggi ni pelajar kita deh?
IbanLama on July 25th, 2010 2:10 pm
1. Kapa ka ngarap ke sida YB nya ngadu ke pendiau kitai akih.
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Enggal,
Tu ukai pasal ngarap ke YB tau ke ukai. Tang ke suah agi, sida Yb ke bejako rauh rauh baka ke nadai orang agi ke tau dikarap ngadu ke pendiau ke kitai. Sida iya selalu rauh rauh ngayan ke urat rekong madah ke nadai orang bukai ke tau dikarap enti ukai sida iya aja.
2.We must not rely on YB only to improve our life.
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Engal,
This is a good piece of advice. YBs just cannot afford to do most of the things to improve our life. And for that reason it is wise not to be naively influenced by their words or political speeches.
3. If they can’t help us, don’t hope too much. Let do it ourselves.
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Engal,
This is good! But Please do not trust them wholeheartedly. More often than not, they are telling lies as some of the things in their speeches just could not be delivered as promised.
We shall not rely so much on them. As such, kindly do not take heed of their word to ask us to vote for them in the election. Just ignore their request to vote for them during election.
Yes, we shall do it ourselves.
4. The YBs also have their own families to care for.
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Engal,
We also have our own families to feed. But the YBs must never talk in such a way that they are the most reliable human beings on planet to deliver every thing the rakyat need.
5. Why should we burden them to care for ourselves.
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Engal,
If they cannot be burden to do with simple things expected of them as our YBs, then it is advisable to get rid of them.
6. Urang ke miskin jai pendiau nya sigi mensia ke enda nemu ngidupka diri, akih.
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Engal,
Enda tentu betul, Engal. Bisi dipeda aku sida tu nadai nemu nguna peluang ke bisi ba moa sida. Ketegal ari kurang pelajar sekula, dia sida enda nemu reti peluang ke bisi datai.
Kadang kadang kitai Iban suah udah dipeda endang enda diberi orang peluang. Maioh udah chunto disebut bala ba blog tu. Nya lai kitai Iban nyau majak agi merinsa… peluang nyau makin mimit semimit diberi ngagai kitai.
Cheers…
Ibanlama___Apoon….Pama nuan neh baka Yb BN ka udah pencen.Cukup enggai nuan ningga sebana Iban merinsa,Laban nuan ka pandai kenu kok nuan,sida iban merinsa nyak buruk.
In conclusion, Ngal Cikgu, sigi amat ngerua duit perintah aja aja kitai ke nyukong sida YBs nya. Manah agi ngarapka sida ke kereja perintah ngadu ke pendiau kitai. Sida YBs nya semina nemu bepolitik aja kena negapka pendiau diri ari berindik ba atas nama politik.
Peluang makin mimit is perhaps that indicates we are heading towards the scenario in India and China….mensia makin mayuh dia alai mayuh urang ga ka enggau berebut nya. Sapa kuat iya dapat, akih.
Sigi amat buruk sida Iban ke merinsa nya akih. Ngumpul tin beer pen bulih duit akih. Enti sida buruk enggai/enda ngiga tai besi, tin beer, F & N etc, kati ku ka bisi utai dijual deh akih. Nuchi pingai mangkok ba kedai pen biisi gaji akih. Nuchi rumah YBs pen diberi gaji.
This could be the person arranging for Taib participation at SAID Businsess school/Oxford University.
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Ibanlama….you are here to confuse everybody. Do you know what role YB should play? If you know…you should not put such comments “Kapa ka ngarap ke sida YB nya ngadu ke pendiau kitai akih…….”
But ok your comment is just to make DB confuse and that’s what your YDK paid you to do…ok you have done your job well but sorry I don’t get confuese. Our DB’s objective is clear and I am sure our brother ES/gkm2020/Iban abroad and many others are confused by your meaningless comments.
nya aja kaban….
Sorry DB Brother correction…”ARE NOT confused”
DB,
I really appreciated Iban Lama comment and argument. I feel that he represent the idea of old folk, as I always called them Sirat Political Mentality in rural area.
Majority of Iban voter particularly in rural area now a day are the same view of point with him that we need to answer for the process of Change We Must.
We may feel hatred by his comment but at least we know what they need, what they want and how arrogant they are in the process of Change We Must.
We must be humble, patent, and intelligent to deal with this group. I am sure the more Unggal Iban Lama makes comment the more you thinking on how to deal with SPM toward the process of Change We Must. In this way, it will make us more matured, more thinkable and more intellectual.
Change We Must cannot be success to be done by one side. We need pro and contra. Change We Must cannot be done by one group, it need everybody support even complaint. Change We Must is on going process. We cannot expect the change will be coming tomorrow while new gomen will come after the next election.
We must prepare to be loser and get up from that in order to be a winner.
Iban lama___Merinsa kami diulu din enggai meh asuh nuan nyampah sebelah pasar begumpul ka tin.Bisi getah,bisi lada,bisi tanah kena bumai.Tu meh pengidup Iban,ukai baka laut ka nginsap gam,bepakai ka dadah wai.
julaw on July 25th, 2010 12:53 pm
IbanLama.
Uji nuan nemuai ke MATU, ngambi nuan enda bejako kosong ngambi nuan meda pendiau, pengidup bala Melanau akih kuno. Enti ba semak Matu enda chukup tau ga nuan nemuai ngagai Kampong Jemoreng, Kampong Jerijih, Kampong Tekajong enti empai chukup ila nuan madah ke aku ga.
Nama Reti akih kuno bala pemimpin aja kaya raya, rayat merinsa miskin papa kerdana, enti belah Tekajong nyau BEKECHIBAI atai enggau dinding daun apong langkau bala Melanau akih akih kuno.
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Amat nya unggal Julaw….agi BEKECHIBAI pia rumah Melanau?
I never know that….? Taun 1983 maia kereja ba Tanjung Mani nemu aku rumah sida nya sekeda agi ngena daun apong. It’s already 27 yrs, I thought 99.9% kampung bala Melanau udah bekena ke atap spandex. Ni langkau babi kitai Iban ga beatap ke zinc, dini bisi ngena daun apong- apong udah maioh mati laban sungai enda agi beresi.
Angka nya langkau umai sida Melanau nya kaban. Dipeda baka merinsa tang sida bisi rumah batu ba mengeri mendua iti- aku fikir. Meda ba mengeri tak BEKERINDI ga bala Melanau kereja ba opis perintah, ba kompeni ke besai2, ba CMS, ba Putrajaya, Cyberjaya, ba semua bank, ba DBKU, DBKS, MMC, SMC, MCE etc.
Lakunan Taib aja nya pelaba aku, asuh iya sida Melanau niri ke rumah daun apong ba sebelah nisi ai Batang Rejang…ngambi Iban layap….agi ngumbai sida merinsa…tang nembiak sida diau ba rumah mewah…sekeda enggau Taib meli ba Landan, USA, Australia etc…bekena ke kereta jai2 pan Proton Perdana.
Iban- ke dimuzium ke Taib ba “culture village” aja agi diau ba rumah atap daun apong. Nadai kebuah ga Melanau bemati-idup ngundi Taib enti sida merinsa dipegai perintah BN? Kada enda bala kera ke berayung sebelah langkau bedaun ke atap apong ke dipeda nuan nya unggal?
Ngal Iban Abroad,
Nya baru isi jaku enggi nuan nya akih Iban Abroad, nyau baka penemu ke ulih ari menua tasik din neh?
Mayuh sida DBs ditu enda mereti ke penemu aku ditu. Look like Dr JBA could catch my opinion much better. Enda tinggal mega akih Dr gkm2020. Nemu amat sida nya nyagam penemu aku ditu akih. Enggi akih Jalai tak digrading ke iya aja jalai, asal iya belenggok lenggok, neh akih.
Akih Merakat, I may look like confusing but it really needs a good skill to understand my opinion.
Akai dai…..jai amat imej kitai ba Cultural Village dia nyau dipeda agi diau ba baroh atap apong akih. Nasit diatu sida benong ngaga rumah ke beatap baka pelan atap kayu belian. atap spandex. Tang agi ga bisi atap apong dipeda dia akih. Kati ku enggau rumah…..uji tunu akih. Malu meda rumah ke ngenyai nya….Kati nya rumah ke ka nyadi pelakun narit pelancong agai menua kitai akih? Nyau ketawa sida tuan meda rumah baka nya. Enti ngaga pengawa enda siti, sigi bisi ari kena jeling ari lubang dinding atap akih, meda kaban nyau kanyir kanyir ngepam utai.
Tabi bala Db’s,
SCORE tu endang siti ari jalai Taib ngulih ke duit. Kena nyapi bala Iban Johor, bala Iban Lama, enggau bala2 ukui iya ke bukai. Taib madah DAM is renewable energy. Bala rumah panjai & bala orang ulu dini nemu utai nya. DAM tok sebenar ya kumbai orang GREEN energy. Laban ya ndai mansut ke pengamah agai menua. Tapi logically, DAM taib & projek SCORE (aluminum smelter) ya tetap meri pengamah agai menua. DAM agi ngena arang batu. Unless, Taib meri SOLAR baka orang KErapa, SPAK. Peda aja Lubuk Antu. Dah develop baka KL or at least baka Kuching? Sapa ke untung dia, bala company ari Japan, company ari Australia & Hilton. Agi gak orang ari Btg Ai & Engkari ngena perau undur ke ili.
Taib 12 dams target endang kena marking maya ya ka ngetu nyadi CM Sarawak sebedau diganti anak ya, Seliman. Bansa kitai dayak nadai utai di anti ka nyadi CM. Sida Jabu, Masing, Jelaing & etc endang tai ancur maya bejaku enggau Taib. Taib ka ngerusak ke semua tanda pengangkat bansa bukai, awak ke nadai ke tanda pengering bansa bukai.
1. Batang Ai – tanda penatai bansa Iban ari Batang Kapuas.
2. Bakun – menua alai Golden Age bansa Kayan/Kelabit
3. Bengoh – Penatai bala dayak (bidayuh) ari Indonesia/krokong
4. Murum – menua alai Golden Age bala bansa Kenyah/Punan
5. Menua pegai pantu – dibalak & digaga ke Taib ladang Sawit (Pelita Holding). Suba menua tok endur bala Iban remun terubah ngentap ke diri udah penatai sida ari Indonesia.
Mayuh agi menua/utai ti dikesayau kitai, utai ti diangkun ke bansa kitai lenyau enti majak nyukung Taib. Badu pecaya ke IbanLama, IbanJohor n sekutu2 ya. Sida nya musang bebulu manuk. Ila maya ngundi, undi manah2 orang meri duit ambi. Bila mangkah, pilih PKR!!
Free Sarawak!!
All DB readers,
We Iban not solely depend on our YB’s. If IbanLAma say so, then it already wrong. Give us an example please. So we can conclude with better reason. Yb have their role to play. They are not giving project. An approval is from the gov. A community with less dependency on gov will bore a good community. If you don’t believe me, just go into Kelantan and Terengganu. I know they were under PAS for ages. But, their live much better than the people (Malay) from Pahang, Perak and Penang. You will see more of them drive Merz and others import cars other than others. The peoples who always depend on the Yb’s and gov, who put big LAZY word on their shoulder will be the one who poor. There is no point for Dayak to ask for help if they never change their habit of 5P – Penyabung, Pengirup, Pengindu, Penjudi, Pemalas.
I’m saying here not all of them, but peoples in the Longhouse still have those 3p/5p. You know and I know. Helps such as subsidies from Gov just another chance from them to change for better. Exploit it to the full potential and use it wisely to improve life, to send children for education and etc. What is lacking from gov is proper infrastructures which are more permanent impact like road access and electricity to bring more development to rural area.
Oooo…AkiManang….nya pen isi jaku peda aku.
Baka pemansang ke baka ke lubah datai agai menua siti siti nya sigi baka iya. Ukai nya ka baka meli ikan masin ba kedai Ah Chong nya akih. Mayuh YBs kitai ke enda teberi ke projek ke rayat alu minta bantu urang opis perintah bukai. Udah bulih peminta, iya pen alu nekan, nyalah opis nya lubah ngaga projek. Bah, nama maya pegai iya, projek nyau enda bejalai deh akih. Nya meh gaya sida YBs main selingkot akih. Kira ke betul meh YB sida iya nya, ku ati rayat din ku ba dalam ati YB nya.
Ingat akih, meri projek ukai baka ka meli ikan masin ba kedai runchit Ah Chong. There are lots of procedures/beurocracies to follow that the gomen servants cannot do sewenang ikut sesuka hati. Ukai duit perintah nya duit apai kitai amat meh apai bisi mayar pupu, akih.
Iban lama & AkiManang___Anang kelalu seduai besalah ka urang rumah panjai.Bala Yb sigi nadai ati,semina ka menang aja(fixed deposit).Urang rumah panjai nadai minta pemansang,Barisan Nasional ka pandai-pandai bekimpin ka pemansang.Menua kitai Syndrom Politik Bisnes,Yb sebedau masuk bekimpin,baka biasa sida ngasuh Detektif Deo masuk dulu ngumpul risikan.Urang rumah panjai bisi ngembuan 4D,— 1.Dikemelik, 2.Dikemula, 3.Dijanji, 4.DiRasuah.Bala Yb Ngembuan 1D,—1Dadak(YB ngereja ka 4D) .Badu Ngundi Barisan Nasional laban bisi peluang 47 taun ti udah tang Barisan Nasional ka betuai ka UMNO (PENJAJAHAN CARA BARU) semina ngiga ulih aja.
Nemu ga nuan duit ukai apai indai aki ini kitai ka empu.Anang rigang-rigang besebut ka Peruntukan bebilon-bilion enggai baka ka ngajar rayat bulak.Mayuh urang kereja perintah sebana dinga aku.Mantan Pm Bedulah Bedawi nyau kerik-kerik madah Tambang percuma setaun sekali.nyau beterigau bala kera ka ngembuan 1D nempik mija.uji nuan berunding Pm Bedolah-dalih ngena untak tauka ngena pala patung maya ka bejako?
Enti ka manah peda rayat, maya bejaku ba mua sida iya, kitai mesti landik bulak akih.
Bedau puas agi debate?
Giga endur kitai debat betungga mua, ba ni di sarawak, sjung tauke ba Sabah?
Tambang, makai & endur diau diri empu. Endur debate ngau ai mineral aku sponsor.
Bisi suggestion bukai?
Tetap ke maia & endur.
Pok Iban Melitan,
Janganlah buat seperti kawan kita Baru Bian tok, sampai bayar tambang sendiri nak periksa harta benda Pehin di London. Bagi saya, berdebat di Forum dah memadailah Pok.
Kalau boleh, cuba tayang potarit di sini!!!
ibrahim ali
itulah pejuang sebenar…dlm forum sja debat buat apa??????hasil mmg tak dpt pun…atlis kita bangga dgn pngrbanan dia…(baru bian)
iban melitan..guds suggestion!!
–lawan tetap lawan–
Pama Jamah Iban Melitan,peda Iban Lama Nyau ngeleput dibai bebukut
jalai Alun,
I put the words LongHouse because, most of Iban belong there regardless they are at rural area or town area. They came from the same place. So, don’t misunderstood. There is no shame. The truth should be told. I told they may have 3p among 5p : Penyabung = penjudi = pengirup. Those three are most long story of Iban untreated disease. You should know if come from rumah panjai. and those three still belong to them even if they migrated to town area. Don’t believe me? Go to Miri or Kuching. Go to drinking place, go to Kelang sabung. Even in our housing area, most of Langkau drinker is Dayak.
That why YB’s use them. They know how to exploit Dayak weakness. We Dayaks should avoid and sealed our weakness. Improve our self. CHANGE WE MUST. I’m not supporters of IbanLama n his friends. I’m just voice out my opinion.
If you ever go back to your long house. Help your peoples. At least we able to give them an information regarding education, health or financial advised. They lack of information with very little access through TV and radio only.
Thank You.
Aki Manang anang tua belaya wai.Nuan mantai ka 5P aku mantai ka 4D.nuan nyebut urang rumah panjai,aku madah ka nama kebuah tau bakanya 47 taun udah di pegai Bn/Umno.ok..
Nama nuan nyau ngelepot ngelaban akih AkiManang deh akih? Nyau aku ga ke dikumbai nuan ngelepot tadi. Bah..sapa tua ngelepot ka bebukot deh akih? Enggai ga nuan ngelaban, nya aki manang udah ka.
NE12 country after Malaysia achieved a peak performance of the economy ..many foreign investors wanted to invest in our country hahahahahahaha our country has proven com .. because I forgot benefactor to the rest of their economy collapses dramatically once ..in the spirit of our country 1Malaysia donated 3.5 billion …Vision 2020 seems to be achievable in the near future.the facts are there .. with the new price increase .. which used to mark the indigenous people should be .. I need all the help it again .. they have been able to stand on their own feet ..Why do we need to change the existing government? whereas we have almost achieved the target set hahahahahahahahhahaha BN living 1Malaysia peace:)
Panjai amat ketawa dek akih!
Tak nyau ka ketawa belama akih bulak tu neh?
hahahahhahaha bakih ibanlama..
laban ka lalu gaga enggau pemansang ka udah di bai bala yb ka kitai bakih..
salam 1malaysia:)
Kada enda bedebat enggau antu kok-ki aku tu akih.
Kaban kaban,
If indeed there is a protest,it is a good start.One day it will come to every long house in Sarawak.Good a very good start.!!!!!!
Kaban semua,
Jakp Ibanlama nya meh nyadi ka peransang kitai bejako ka bansa diri.
Enti kitai ringat ila, gaga ia, laban ia semina ngiga kita ringat lalu badu adi berandau ka pemerinsa kitai.
Bagi, sigi enda di bacha aku, komen sida nya.
Terus ka randau kita ke manah, laban kamio tu, print out lalu udah disadong ka rumah panjai.
Anang irau ka sida. % dalam satu mensianya.
Ba Miri bisi kain rentang di simpan orang ba Fly over pujut ba pujut conner nyebut,RAKYAT BAHAGIA TANPA BN.
Tanda ti manah ari rakyat miri ka meda menoa tu tukar enggau PKR.
Nama utai SCORE ko iban johor tadi kaban???????
Bisi iban johor meda kilang arang batu ba mukah,sapa orang ka gawa dia?
Nemu kita kaban,ORANG CINA ARI MENOA CINA JOHOR,
SCORE JAKO KENA NGANYAMAI KA ATI ORANG YA RINDU DI KEMULA AJE.
SCORE UNTUK ORANG KAYA AMAT,TANG ASOH RAKYAT KITAI,SORRY BROTHER!!!!!!! 50 YEARS…API,AIR,MNA.MNA,MNA…AGI NGENA API KELITA ORANG RUMAH PANJAI.
NGALASAK KA DIRI.
MELAYU AMAT….BAJA,RUMAH,BINI,ANAK,KEBUN PISANG,SAWIT,TINDOK BA RUMAH,BERMIMPI SEMUANYA SUBSIDI DI BERI PERINTAH…..
NYA AJE.ARAP KA IBAN JOHOR UKAI ASAI ARI BANGSA IBAN.
Taib pala buban enti ditemu salah tau dibecara enti amat salah sigi diukum.Urang ka nyadi Yb/ketua menteri enti ngaya ka diri tang rayat merinsa kira ka udah ngereja pengawa salah ba perintah.Enti Pakatan Rakyat udah Numbang ka Barisan Nipu/Umno(Untak Malaya Ngulun ka urang) aku arap ka ulih ngaga undang2 baru kena nagang/ngukum urang politik ka 1.salah ngena kuasa kena ukum Denda/pejara 2.ngaya ka diri kena ukum penjara/reta pengeraja dirampas
Why not…protest tu patut digalak ngambi semua orang nemu di peringkat antarabangsa laban ngelama tu kitai enda tentu berani besuara di menoa diri empu.
Tuai ke baka tu tau di buai oleh kuasa rayat ukai semina nganti maya bepilih (GE) aja baka di Thailand. Kumpulan baju merah udah ditemu bekesan ngayan ke pengeringat ati.
Extract from Sarawak Report:
Panic and concern was soon evident amongst the organisers, who called the police and sent an army of Special Branch officers to photograph the protesters, who were banned from entering the building by anxious bouncers. The School, clearly taking no risks, had hired a phalanx of extra personnel to protect their awkward guest and to block entry to the clearly highly-respectable gathering of locals and some Malaysians who had come to explain to Oxford exactly what they were dealing with. Many reminded the organisers that the criminals were the ones inside, while the people outside were lawfully making a very valid protest.
The forest of banners said it all. “Taib Mahmud Declare The Source Of Your Wealth”, “How Much Forest Is Left?”, “Respect Native Customary Rights”, ”Stop Sexual Harassment and Rape of Penan Women and Children”, “Save Sarawak”,
BRUNO MANSER FUND, BASEL SWITZERLAND
25 July 2010
Oxford University under fire over Taib invitation
By iniviting “one of Asia’s greatest kleptocrats” as a keynote speaker, the Said Business School is betraying the Oxford University’s academic integrity
The Oxford University’s Saïd Business School has come under fire over an invitation extended to Taib Mahmud, the controversial Chief Minister of the Malaysian state of Sarawak. Taib Mahmud will present an opening address at the “Oxford Global Islamic Branding and Marketing Forum” to be held on 26-27 July 2010. British civil society groups have announced a protest rally for tomorrow morning 26 July 2010 in front of the Saïd Business School.
According to a joint NGO statement, which will be released tomorrow, Taib is “one of Asia’s greatest kleptocrats” who has “systematically plundered the rich Borneo jungles for timber”. “Most of the state of Sarawak has been illegally absorbed into the possession of his cronies and family members through ‘privatisations’ and the handing out of palm oil and timber concessions, via arbitrary state acquisitions of native lands.” This has resulted in “environmental destruction, serious human rights violations and poverty.”
Since Taib came into power in the early 1980s, his family has systematically transferred huge ill-gotten assets into a number of countries, including the UK, Canada, the United States and Australia. It has recently been disclosed that Ridgeford Properties, a developer of London luxury properties, is a wholly-owned Taib family business.
By inviting Taib Mahmud as a keynote speaker, the Saïd Business School is not only offending Sarawak’s native communities and Malaysia’s civil rights movement but is also betraying the Oxford University’s integrity and academic tradition.
It was an Oxford scholar, the eminent social anthropologist Rodney Needham, who first travelled to Sarwak in 1951 to study the Penan, Borneo’s famous rainforest culture. Months before his death, in 2006, Needham signed an affidavit in favour of a Penan land rights litigation, out of concern for what had happened to the Penan as a result of the indiscriminate logging of their forests.
Taib Mahmud, who holds the three key offices of Chief Minister, Finance Minister as well as State Planning and Resource Management Minister of Sarawak, is directly responsible for the destruction of the state’s once rich primeval rainforests. Up until today, Taib is denying the Penan, Sarawak’s poorest inhabitants, all rights over their traditional lands in the jungle.
Tomorrow’s NGO statement will be released by FERN (www.fern.org)
News on the protest rally and pictures will be available from Survival International (www.survivalinternational.org)
News on Taib Mahmud’s record of corruption and his foreign assets can be found on Sarawak Report (www.sarawakreport.org)
Iban Johor,
Yes may be it is true as you have said that YDK is selling Sarawak in London.May I ask you is he selling Sarawak on our behalf i.e. on the Dayak and Sarawakians behalf or selling Sarawak to benefit his family ?
If he is selling and reap all the benefits for himself or his family,then I think you better get some land concession in Johor so that we all can move there,following your foot step.Is that OK with you ?
PUB….
YDK had sold Sarawak already 47 years ago.
Iban Abroad.
Dini nuan tu gawa unggal, TQ meh laban mansut ke bootttt… buuuttttt Tai Manok? Agi serungkai dia meh boootttt Tai Manok nya unggal, post ditu ngambi ke bisi dipeda bala maioh kaban.
Aku tu baru pulai ari Ulu Entabai kaban, kasih meda bala rumah kitai Iban belah nisi jalai batang nyau BETEKEBAP madah ke PEMIRINSA tudah, lori batang nurun niki nengah jalai nya kaban, kitai Iban ke diau menoa nya merinsa.
Mupok kaban. Idup Iban Idup Dayak. OOhhaa……
Readers & All,
UK resident protested simply because they thought Yangdikasihi is just an ordinary man on the street.They cannot appreciate how YDK had sacrificed for the past 30 years in bringing development to Sarawak.
Most importantly in Sarawak people see YDK as “god-given- Gift”. Since becoming CM in 1981 we witnessed not even one single protest against Yangdikasihi…. so what the UK residents did was an insult to the right thinking Sarawakian.
Dears Readers,YDK successfull mission to UK….
Yangdikasihi is back from London on a successfull mission to sell Sarawak. No DB or PKR leaders are capable of doing that.Its for this very reason that Dayaks or rural populace should continue to vote and support BN in the coming state polls.
The Sarawak state government is making efforts to showcase the Sarawak Corridor of Renewable Energy (SCORE) as an investor-friendly destination in the United Kingdom (UK) to woo investors.
As of May, SCORE has attracted investments totalling RM87.61 billion across sectors, making it one of the most enviable investment destinations in the country since its launch in 2006.
The corridor is located within the Central Region of Sarawak, stretching 320km along the coast from Tanjung Manis to Samalaju. It covers 70,000 sq km with a population of 607, 800 people