DAP and Dayak Think Tank
Written by: Dr. John Brian Anthony
The idea of Dayak Think Tank is not new but the “will and positive” action by DAP to want to make it happen is new. No Dayak Based party in BN would want to form a Dayak Think Tank for fear of because accused of a narrow agenda for Dayak, basically they do not want be branded as Dayak Racialist party. Other then that, the BN component Dayak based parties shouted on top of their voice that they are championing Dayak interest. But the evidence of their effort to cahmpion Dayak interest is not there.
A Dayak Think Tank is therefor very important. Tan Sri William Mawan talked about such initiative in private. But without the proper ground work and finance and leadership effort how will that happen. it is left at empty talk and nothing more. Educated and society active Dayak took their journey to promote change. without proper platform they adopted PKR and hopefully they choose DAP too in time to come.
Did PRS and SPDP and PBB make any move to form a Dayak think Tank. NO! Why? The Dayak leaders think that they already know all the Dayak problems. the current BN Dayak leaders also see Dayak Think Tank members as a threat to their position. It might also be that they do not want a Think Tank because the Think Tank will produce recommendation that they are not able to propose or implement to the big brother UMNO from Malaya.
Evidence of BN non performance:
1. Dayak Business Development allocation is NEVER provided for. This fun d is targeting small Dayak business and grow them. It also target to encourage Dayak to actively participate into business. No Dayak based party in BN ever talk about such an initiative.
2. Dayak Education Fund was discussed at length. Former PBDS even collected money for the purpose of setting up a Dayak Education Fund. But the initiative never work and the fund never sustain itself. Dayak are the only people in Sarawak without an Education Foundation to call its own. The Dayak component parties of BN never push for this idea and leave everything to Sarawak Foundation to help the Dayak student “IF” there are any left to be given to Dayak.The Sarawak Foundation record is NEVER shared with the public but from public knowledge not many Dayak benefited from the Foundation.
3. The advancement and enhancement of dayak ADAT
This matter is left to the Chief minister’s Office and the Dayak Adat Department to look after. There are three courts that is recognized by the Federal Constitution and one of them is the Native Court. Where is this Native court building and organization now? It has not shown any progress and develop into a more comprehensive structure and more serious application. There is no evidence that any of the BN Dayak based is component party is pursuing this important aspect of Dayak rights.
4. Eradication of Poverty among Dayak.
BN introduce e-kasih, a pathetic approach toward giving the Dayak needy fishes. even then, the Minister Fatimah noted that a large amount has not been given out. In my interaction with the longhouses I found many that deserve the e-kasih assistance but was not given. it is either the YB elected for the area did not do a good job or the government servant responsible for its implementation is slower then snail in implementing the program. Did any Dayak leaders from BN Dayak based component party monitor and follow up Governmen t program to eradicate poverty. If YES what is the report like.
The Government did not give the Dayak the fishing rod for them to fish.Where is the land title? Where is the small holding? Where is the financial assistance? Where is the technical and technological assistance? Where is the supply chain support assistance for oil palm and rubber planting. The Dayak are left on their own.
Instead what the Government did was to implement BIG land development scheme in their effort to claim that they have done something to help the Dayak improve their income. How can you claim success when the structure of rural economics is not being provided by the government. Most rural areas do not have basic road and very poor health facilities. Yet the Government continue to harp on SCORE to help. In what way will SCORE help – providing jobs to build dams? After that, where will the job come from when there is no investment in the infra-structure of the Dayak areas.
Evidence of lack of jobs and opportunities among Dayak as a result of BN failure
Why do you think that close to 100,000 able bodied Dayak move to Malaya to find job? The answer is simple. the Sarawak Government fail to provide productive job from them. In fact, the Sarawak asked the Dayak to compete with foreign labor for job in the oil palm JV plantation in order to earn RM$ 12.00 per day.
The Sarawak government has destroyed the forest and pollute the rivers and even limit the Dayak from farming by giving away the NCR land to their cronies for plantation. Being poor is never nice. How do you send your children to school? How do you feed your parents and family? How do you move forward when the facilities and resources has been rob from the rakyat by the government.
Conclusion
The Dayak Think Tank can propose a framework for change that DAP can adopt. The Dayak agenda can be included so that it will fit into the element of setting up political base, identifying resources that can be develop to deliver the agenda, creating environment to allow Dayak buy-in of DAP political philosophy, creating process for Dayak engagement during election and long term civil society engagement to push for Dayak agenda within the DAP political struggle context and even put forward proposal for what is it for the Dayak that the DAP will agree in principle should the Dayak swing their support from BN to DAP?
In the journey of the Dayak struggle to “BERUBAH” we expect prudent and careful thinking. We need to put the community wisdom forward to ensure our survival. BN provide us with the false promise of development for ZDayak but instead create Dayak elite that has very little positive impact on Dayak development and progress.
Change WE Must and Aram Berubah.
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SDNU SHOULD LEAD BY EXAMPLE
Why don’t Sarawak DAYAK National Union (SDNU) and its Executive Committee members take the initiative proactively to lead the “Dayak Think Tank”?
What are SDNU’s “Dayak Action Plan” (DAP) to improve the Dayak well being?
I presume there are lots of calibers, credible and capable intellectuals in there.
Is SDNU still relevant? DBNA – Bidayuh, OUNA – Orang Ulu and etc … Why not Iban all back to SADIA kati malu dikumbai IBAN. Coprrect me if I am wrong.
No sane Dayak would want to risk their future ‘fighting’ for the rights of a fellow Dayaks! If you are seen crusading for the Dayaks, most likely the person is a political novice. I have been observing the writings of ”gkm2020” with admiration and wonder. Why don’t you Sir, take the initiative being the learned one in DayakBaru.Com? You have all the answers? As a concerned Iban/Dayak, we cannot leave it to the NG0s for action, the responsibility must be shared amongst us.
Kaban DBs.
Aku amat setuju enggau penemu atas nya, tang SAPA patut dipadu ke NGIRING MEGAI, nya tau dipejurai enggau RANDAU. Tang ba penemu aku, endang patut bala IBAN ke ganggam agi bala Iban ke BESAI PUGU bala Iban ke bisi KAH tau ngepon ke pengawa tu. Enti ba aku tak unggal Dr.JBA nya meh ke patut, laban iya peda aku bisi penemu bisi kaki bisi lengan jari bisi perau sereta bisi pemandai ba pengawa tu.
Maioh kitai Iban bisi criteria atas nya TANG penemu endang indah penemu diri SEBILIK, tau ke penemu ngemansang ke diri empu.. nya chunto baka akih t.jayang bisi meh penemu bisi meh kaki jari, tang nama bala iya kami meoa JULAU tu agi bekeregau beserigau agi kachoh dah agi idup kelap kelap mati enggai…!!??
Mensia ke jenis nya enda ulih laban concept iya ‘Periok AKU’..??
Mupok kaban. Idup Iban Idup Dayak. OOOhhaa….
Dalam SDNU ,nadai purih orang Panggau Libau kini nya kebuah kurang mendapat sambutan.
Idup Parti Panggau Libau(PPL)
SDNU has put much effort to the dayak community. It is the matter we cant see it because of its publicity is less.
But, if it is only effort from the SDNU only.. it cant be work. We have a Dayak leader is various sight. Political, education and etc..
I think, the most powerful is Political sight. But where there are?? BN Dayak said in campaign, your are championing of the dayak community. What have you done? Are we going to dump everything to SDNU? but then why people vote for these BN Dayak YB to look after Dayak community?
Some of these Yb are already long enough in Power. But what are their track record to the Dayak People? for me it is NOTHING! These YB are become rich and rich and rich but the one who support them become poor and poorer.. What is this crap?
enough for today!
If DAP were to set up and lead the DAYAK THINK TANK,let us Dayak first of all,put ourselves as fish in the fish tank!
As recent as a few days ago ‘no one owes anyone a living’ phrase appeared again and if we remember the topic discussed just before Gawai about Dayak core values-if we were to let others to take action to set the DAYAK THINK TANK,then the question of our Dayak Iban core values is erased to the ground.Let us stop any talk about core values.Do not ever come up again on ‘no one owes anyone a living’ once we Dayak people have lost our own will for our struggle and let others,DAP to run the show.
The gains that we might get through DAP initiative and action serving a major role in the DAYAK THINK TANK,would be likely to be DAP’s bargain in the future that we Dayaks must relented to DAP demand on any issues,to which we have to submit as a result of the gains we Dayaks received through their,DAP efforts.
What will be DAP demand in the future as yet we do not know;but to submit ourselves and agree to let DAP set up the DAYAK THINK TANK is to subordinate ourselves,to subordinate Dayak own will and determination.
We Dayaks will become mere fish in the fish tank!In the beginning we get good intention,and care.Oxygen will be supply to us,we get food and water change regularly and just about that.We do not have control of our life being mere fish and see human beings through the clear glass.
We do not know what we see is a human being because being fish,we only ever met other fish,big and small and this human being is also fish to fish,a much bigger fish.
What we Dayak must be aware is what the early Indian legal theorists,what they called ‘matsyanyaya’,'justice in the world of fish’,where a big fish can freely devour a small fish.The ‘justice of fish’ must not be allowed to invade the world of human beings!No matter how proper the organization might be if a big fish could still devour a small fish at will,this is a patent violation of human justice!
IBAN intellectuals must answer to this,whether DAP should set and lead DAYAK THINK TANK.
Jako Sempama:1.NUGONG KA REMAUNG NYURUH NGIGIT,NGANGAU KA NABAU NYURUH MELIT.2.ASI MANSAU PERIOK BELAH.3.NGANJONG PAUNG EMPA JANI.
Thank you.
Just talk collectively about Dayaks agenda.
Roundtable talk, come up with a ‘Blueprint’ to accelerate the development of our people in various aspects of life, be it politics, economy, education etc. Present it in a seminar/congress, get all the Dayaks to listen. Broadcast live in the media/new or maybe we should have an alternative radio station (private) like RFS, Which is not pro-Gov’t.
Any one trusted Iban leader should be groomed among the think-than and he should the prime-mover. we the DBs must give our fullest support.
ON UNITY AND SOLIDARITY OF THE IBAN,WE DO NOT NEED A TAN SRI,WE DO NOT NEED A DATUK,WE DO NOT NEED A TEMENGGONG,PENGULU,TUAI RUMAH,WE DO NOT NEED AN INTELLECTUAL.
EVEN AN ORDINARY PERSON,INDU TAU KA LELAKI ARI RUMAH PANJAI,BIAK TAU TUAI,BISI PENEMU KA SEGALA BEBATANG NGEREMBAI SERTA NGULU KA KITAI IBAN BEGULAI SEJALAI NYA PUNGKA LEBIH MANAH.
POLICY NUMBER ONE DAYAK THINK TANK IS IBAN UNITY AND SOLIDARITY.WITHOUT THIS ALL OTHER POLICIES IS BOUND TO FAIL.UNITE UNITE UNITE UNITE UNITE UNITE UNITE…7 TIMES
Unggal Moa Ari,
I’m just a common citizen (small human), “Atas Pagar” (partyless) and a passing-by blogger here. Again I’ve to admit I’m not a genius person here.
I do not “all the answers” because I am not God. In actual fact I am indirectly learning from your “reflection of thoughts” too!
Do you mean there’s no caliber, creditable, creative and capable people in SDNU? I also know that Dr. John Brian is the Deputy President of SDNU a very learned person and many more intellectuals representing the SDNU Executive Committee members that I knew in the past. But I am not too sure whether they still around?
Do you also mean SDNU as a registered seasoned Dayak NGO is incapable of creating awareness and leading the ‘Dayak Think-Tank’? Are you sure that SDNU is irrelevant now to do all these?
But somehow I still have faith on SDNU to unite all the Dayaks and other Dayak NGOs under one umbrella if they should focus on that “UNION”; and to revamp it policy(s), constitution(s) and restructured the organization well forward!
Again as I have observed for some times, DayakBaru.com is a “pro-PKR” weblog and a non-registered organization. I also believe we all have our “Right of Expression” and/or “Right of Thought” to share our opinions in this weblog, and I much thank DJB kindness and courtesy for allowing me to express my opinions herein.
I was inspired by your two comments and remembered you said herein this blog;
“True, pleasing a person is harder. It is easier impressing people”.
“Teach(ing) others. Why not teach ourselves, why bother the others? We are all grown up here, not students anymore. Some maybe better scholars, others may not be one. Opinion may differs, that is democratic process at work”.
And I wish to become your follower too, ngal.
Sorry typo error; “Do you mean there’s no caliber, creditable, creative and capable people in SDNU?”….not “creditable” but credible…my apology. Just a blogging error…hehehe…
Personally I m not receptive to DAP ideology. But for the sake of toppling BN it’s ok for any opposition to ally with DAP. Karpal Signh did say that he will never accept Pas ideology, not even over his dead body. But now you see him sit next to Pas Nik Aziz, that s politics- marriage for convenience.
DSAI used to bad mouth Pas n DAP leaders but not he sleep n eat with them in order to achieve his political mission to become PM. Don’t u guys realize that in every speech he made he never fail to mention Ibans.
I know swak DAP is arrogance n may adopt to PAP ideology. At the moment we have no trusted dayak leader to make change and it s to our advantage if DAP could act as our consultant. In the later days we can make the justification either the alliance is for good or another act of insult/ con to our dayak cause.
Unggal ciribut,
I agree with your opinion that “Dayak Think Tank” should be mooted by Dayak themselves and not by DAP. Unless DAP has another meaning for “Dayak Action Plan”.
“Prinsip Kalalu Ngelak Ka Ohang Dulu” – “Prinsip Kalalu Ngahap Ka Ohang”
Correction.
….but now he sleep n eat with them
Politik kitai dayak diatu enda salah baka anak manuk ditingal ke indai iya. Agi kapa2 ngiga orang ke ngau beridup. Kia kia nitih ke indai manuk bukai, pengidup agi enda berubah. Kekadang ngasuh pengidup merana agi.
Ka begulai ngau manuk Malaya mega kena chiping, begulai ngau manuk Serama selalu kena bully..semina ngeranjai ke orang aja. Ka begulai ngau manuk Cina mega kena bintis belama. Begulai ngau manuk kampung kena dalah ke orang tanah endur ngeranjai.
Keni dah ngeranjai kediri empu tauka agi ngiga indu manuk bukai ngau beridup?
Begulai ngau manok pilipin bakih kosong poket. Idup PPL.
Nama penyalah enggau penyai enti DAP mooted the idea of Dayak Think Tank? Ngarap ke sida Jabu sida Masing sida Mawan mai penemu nya? Kemaia? Sida ke mai penemu tu sigi nadai tuju bukai TANG betuju ke sokong bansa kitai dalam pengawa politik. Enti DAP ulih mai pemanah penyamai ngagai bansa kitai nama penyalah kitai nyukong DAP deh? Enti nyema sida bekuasa lalu ngerusak bansa kitai tau ngelaban sida ga.
Manah agi begulai enggau antu ke enda dikelala ari ke begulai enggau petara ke semina nemu ngemedis ke bansa….
Siok tu benar ninga unggal papung engkilu mantai ke penemu.Ila kita ngutang 3,4 pek Cap langkau ba DAP. Nti nda alah bayar putong ba tanah temuda.Nyamai kira nya unggal.Idup PPL.
To all Dayak Iban,Believe in this CREDO:
NO HAPPINESS WITHOUT ORDER.
NO ORDER WITHOUT AUTHORITY.
NO AUTHORITY WITHOUT UNITY.
When a Dayak Think Tank led by DAP or any other people BESIDE OUR VERY OWN DAYAK,Dayak will become fish and more or less ‘MRP’ mentality again.This is the question of our Dayak intelligences,and for the whole wide world to see us Dayaks now reduce to a belacan-the belacan that even given free nobody would even want to take home,because this is now not ordinary belacan,this is the worst of the worst belacan,that Adenan Satan and Taib,whose past ancestor skull could be hanging at the loft of the longhouse ketawa ngerising ka kitai bansa Dayak,kelebih agi kitai Iban.
Sure we Iban still too many merinsa,dont have abundance of money,but we can plead to our Iban people,indu,lelaki,tuai,biak,students(YOU ARE THE FUTURE),what about RM1.00,seringgit sebulan,tiap bulan by say 400,000 thousand head,out of the 800 000 Iban;this is NOT asking much-LESS THAN 4 CENTS A DAY!.CAN WE OR WE COULD NOT!.Those who have the means please sacrifice to give what ever amount more than RM1.00,for the sake of our Iban people.We need money now,than to let others to pity our dismal existence!THIS IS AN URGENT MATTER WHETHER YOU ARE BN SUPPORTERS OR THE OPPOSITE.This is civil nationalism,DAYAK CIVIL NATIONALISM!
What we need is MOTIVATION and the MENTAL WILL in the name of OUR COLLECTIVE SURVIVAL AND A BETTER FUTURE FOR OUR LIFE,LIBERTY AND PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS-MAXIMUM HAPPINESS FOR MAXIMUM IBAN PEOPLE!(QUOTE from American Declaration of Independence and Jeremy Bentham Utilitarianism)
BEGULAI ATAU MATI
Thank you
Engka manah agi ngena “Lakian Think Tank” begulai enggau DAP….hehehehe…
…..akaiiiiii !!!….bedau kitai bejurai ka dayak think tank, cuba kitai Dayak meri rm1.00 siko kena nyiap rumah dayak ti enda siap siapnya aaaaaa. Malu ngaku diri empu Dayak tiap ari ngelimpas. Rumah enda siapnya simbol kitai dayak nadai bersatu (1 Dayak)
Semut Api, that is how you look at your own people-semina beguna ke chap langkau and begadai ke tanah. Malu meda kita ke bepenemu ke pandai runding bakanya ngagai bansa diri…
Unggal papung Engkilu,nti udah mabok Cap Langkau DAP dini bisi berasai malu.Nti udah ngeleda baru sedar tanah udah ambi Cina DAP.Nya kebuah kitai nda tau betuai ke Cina DAP unggal.Idup PPL unggal Engkilu.
Anang prejudice nuan Igat Semut Api. Diatu DAP bedau bisi penyai enggau bansa nuan enggau bansa aku. BN udah dpeda penyai sida.kami iban ke diatu enda ngirup arak chap murah nya…we go for branded whisky or brandy…
Anembiak Semut Api, diatu DAP bedau bisi penyai ngagai bansa tua. Kami nyukong DAP laban dipeda party tu nyukong bansa Dayak, bejako ke penusah bansa Dayak lalu bejanji deka nulong bansa Dayak.
Anak Lim Kit Siang udah terus terang rauh rauh deka numboh ke Dayak Trust fund 1000 juta enti bkuasa, kati tu jai ngagai bansa Dayak bansa Iban? Kala nuan ninga sida BN bjanji enggau bansa Dayak munyi tu? IYa dedinga sida deka trus beguna ke tanah Dayak alai bkebun sawit. Nama sawait tu enti nitih ke janji diatu nguntong ke bansa Dayak nguntong ke orang ke ngempu tanah? Enti LEKA MATA enda meda pending enda ninga minta kita ENCHELAK ke leka mata lalu ngeritok tai pending ngambi ke meda enggau ninga.
Fire Ant,
PE is right,DAP was a derrivative of Singapore’s PAP,and had only became DAP when Singapore pulled out of Malaysia in 1965.
DAP just like DAP is not a communist party,although its members are majority Chinese.Look at how much Singapore has developed way ahead of our BOLEHLAND.
May be you could do a bit of research about DAP Idelogy,history and its ups and downs against BN.If DAP had been a component of BN,LKS,V David and Karpal Singh would have been at least Tan Sris like Lee Lam Thye.
Kong Hi Fa Chai cikgu pencen & papung sengkilu tumbong.Seduai tu tuai ngetas pintu ngau ngabas ai maia Taun Baru Cina tu ila niti pasar ikan,pama meh nti bulih 1/2 gelas Langkau Chap DAP.Kami gawai tu mpai lama bisi main Singa kaban kena nyedia ke diri pegai DAP. Abis tekeremping tudung periok ngau beledi kena kami begendang tarian Singa Kaban. Biasalah, kitai DASAR SEMIUL ORANG(Yes tuan,yes sir,yes boss)
Pencen, buatlah cara pencen cikgu,anang melalut baka Mahadir,jaga uchu diri jako cina.
Idup PPL.
Unggal Papong Sengkilu & cikgu pencen,kitai Iban tu ndang selalu bepikiran tunsang,biasala purih Apai Sali.Manah kumbai jai,jai kumbai manah.Parti Cina DAP nemu agi penusah/pemerinsa kitai Iban rumah panjai ari Bansa diri,pia nda.Ila kitai mai DAP mudik ke ulu menuan,yong,ibau,bangkit,merit,belawai,metah etc.Sida tu asoh besuar,bebatak nengah kerangan.
Lim Guan Eng ngeluan,Wong Ho Leng ngemudi.Nya baru ia kaban.
Idup PPL.
Semut Api, DAP sigi lebih agi nemu penusah bansa Iban ari bansa diri empu. Kala nuan ninga bala YB bansa nuan besebut ke penusah penyeranta bansa iban maia meeting kunsil negri meeting parliament? Diatu bala DAP selalu bejako ke penusah iban- penusah tanah iban di ambi orang BN. Bala iban ukai enda nemu penusah bansa tang malu ngaku bansa diri empu tusah idup seranta idup serba nadai.
Nama kebuah nuan ngasoh LGE enggau sida WHL mudik besuar bebatak ngagai menua ulu ke dsebut nuan nya d? ASoh lah sida Masing sida Salang eida Enturun besuar kin. Nama guna kita paloi selalu ngundi sida tu deh enti sida enda tetulong ke bansa. Aroh ga orang diatu nyebut’ PENGUNDI PALOI NGUNDI WAKIL RAKYAT PALOI’. Idup selalu tunsang-utai manah dkumbai jai, kasih kasih…
DB,
Enti kita madah ka bansa kitai, madah ka DAP deka mai perubah, ngemansang ka kitai Dayak, tau berunding panjai dulu kita. Selidik amat-amat latar belakang DAP enggau orang ke bejalai ka parti nya.
Pengering DAP ba bansa China. Diatu DAP masuk Sarawak ketegal bala China ba Sarawak, China ke udah nyadi kominis lalu pansut nyukung Taib,ngelamatu ngasut Taib ngerumpak hak kaum Dayak. Ngambi kayu kampung, ngulih ka lisen, ngulih ka tanah asal nyadi State Land. Diatu semoa utai tu udah oleh China Sarawak magang maia sida nyukong Taib.
Utai ke enda oleh China Sarawak ke diatu ari perintah Taib iya nya tender ke diberi perintah besai, hak kaum bumiputra dipunas nyadi hak semoa bansa, enda nyalah baka hak bumiputra di Singapora.
Siti aja jalai China ngulih ka tender nya enggau ngapus ka hak kitai bumiputra iyanya ngelaban Taib. Mai bansa Iban ngelaban Taib lalu Megai perintah menoa Sarawak.
Enti parti penyakal betuai ka DAP menang, KM lalu beri ka China. Dia kitai tau berunding panjai, kati asai kitai dipegai YB China ba Limbang 25 tahun? Kati asai menoa Engkilili dipegai YB China 20 tahun? Bakani asai Kapit dipegai Sng 20 tahun?
Kati bisi China deka meri penuduk YB nya ke kitai Dayak? Ingat bakani Datuk Sng meri penuduk ngagai anak iya ke agi bau tusu nganti iya nyadi YB ba 99% bansa Iban di Balleh?
DB, enti pangkat YB nya tusah kitai Iban ka ngambi iya pulai, penuduk KM ila angka seribu kali tusah kitai deka ngambi iya pulai ari China. Nyamai agi kitai ngambi iya ari Taib. Berunding panjai meh utai ke udah nyadi ba kitai bakatu.
Ngena jako madah ka Taib korupsi diatu China Sarawak mai Iban muai Taib.
Tang ngelama tu sida enda meda pengenyai Taib, enda meda korupsi Taib laban sida sama jai, sama korupsi baka Taib. Dini China maia Ming Court, Maju Group. Lapa enda maia nya sida serakup enggau Dayak muai adat korupsi lalu nyukung Maju Group ngemansang ka Dayak?
Nama kebuah diatu ngelaban Taib, lapa enda ngelamatu? Sebedau tanah asal nyadi tanah State land, sebedau tanah kampung diberi ngagai Taib begulai enggau China? Sebedau semoa rumah kedai enggau tanah ke besai rega diberi ngagai China di Bandar-bandar besai di Sarawak?
Udah boleh utai ari Taib dia China Sarawak ngumbai Taib jai. Ngumbai Taib jai enggau Iban tang pengenyai sida empuenggau Iban dilalaika. Enda bisi utai dipelalai ka bala China ke nyukung DAP mai kitai Iban beserakup ba PR numbung ka Taib?
Bah berunding meh kitai Iban anang kelalu sibuk semina deka numbang ka BN tang chara orang ke deka makai kitai ari belakang ke jai agi enda dipeda.
Enti baka tu penemu kitai DB manah agi kitai beserakup ba perau Jabu. Numpang ba perau bumiputra ari ke numpang perau cap naga.
Kitai berunding enggau bala Malaya-Melayu-Melanau minta penuduk KM bagi enggau kitai, minta kitai digempong sida ba siti parti ba PBB. Pupok meh pinta kitai ari kitai ke masau diri ngering diri ngelaban enda temu tunga.
Diatu angka utai tu enda oleh dirunding kitai enggau Malaya tang jemah angka tau dikerunding ka bala ari Malaya enggau Melayu Sarawak, lebih agi maia Taib udah bado pagila lusa. Lebih agi enti kitai begempung, cakah agi minta utai tu tentu iya muntang agi oleh kitai.
Peda aku, chara kitai Dayak ke ngelaban ngelamatu, begulai enggau PKR, DAP enggau etc tak baka ke masau diri. Nadai tentu bisi penunga enggau pengujung. PKR semina nemu neju ka kitai ngelaban BN, nyabung ari belakang tang enda beamat nulung baka meri duit kena kimpin bepilih. Siko candidate diberi duit 15-30K aja maia bepilih tu tadi, nama reti nya. Amat nulung baka nya.
DB, berunding panjai meh kitai anang semina meda utai ke pabo aja. Perening utai ke dalam agi. Seragam dalam agi runding orang.
DAP tau enggau begulai tang enda tau nyadi ka ketuai baka ke udah di propose sida ba PR Shadow Cabinet menoa Sarawak. DAP tau nyadi ka kaban tang ukai nyadi Dayak Think-Tank.
Iban Abroad,asoh pindah ke Limbang,Engkilili tau ka Kapit papong Engkilu tumbong nya ngambi aku milak ke mata ia nti ia nda meda nama penusah kami din.Peda dek Kapit,sida ke diau di ulu sungai,sebelah pala wong pelagus,nebing btg rajang.Ngerembang babas,nengah sungai jalai sida ke kapit,maioh mati lemas nengah wong pelagus,nemu utai dek.Sapa megai Kapit nti ukai Cina Cap Langkau.Menoa dek angka udah bisi jalai lalu senang datai Langkau Cap DAP,nya kebuah dek mabok nda ngirup.Aku sigi nyukong nama2 parti amat meh ngelaban BN tang ukai DAP tambab.Nemu dek kabuah aku mai geng DAP dek mudik ke ulu sungai,ngambi kita meda kem kayu cina.Bisi dek kala meda kem kayu Iban,nama PAPONG SENGKILU TUMBONG SDN.BHD.Nti nda ngerunding bansa diri,kapa iboh betalat ngau orang ke tambab, nti dilak takut ke orang bukai dibai dek majat tesat.
Aku tiap pagi warm up kereta kena nurun kerja,tang nti dirumah panjai ulu sungai din,sengayuh,suar kena warm up. Idup PPL
Our Iban in Kapit have no big problems.
Absence of basic amenities should not be an issue. No road access, no treated water supply and absence of 24 hour electricity supply should never be a bis deal.
Our people in Kapit have been keeping JJM in office for many terms. He is a very prolific BN man. Now he has just been bestowed with an award which carries the title TAN SRI. I am sure he has done wonders for the people in Kapit,particularly. In fact, we shall be proud of him as well as LLJ.
We should never grumble.
No other Ibans from other parts of Sarawak has more than two individuals with the title Tan Sri. On top of that, there was a TUN as well.We should be proud of them.
Indeed, it has truly been a pleasure for our people there.
I wanna see more Iban from Kapit becoming more successful in their life.
Cheers…
Semut Api…..nuan anang banggar ngemula ke bala ba ruai tu. Sapa enda nemu kita sebilik ngundi BN magang? Nuan baka mayau ….ngelalai ke tai udah bira ba dapor.Sapa enda nemu Aya nuan ke benama Papung Engkilu….ketegal diberi RM20 iya ngundi BN. ASAPAI
I am not entirely opposed to the DAP’s proposal for a Dayak Think Tank.
I’m sure we have many legal experts who can come up with a ‘win win’ formula for us. Just make it legally binding for both sides. We also have the constitution to fall back to. This time make sure we keep the documents in the Dayaks safe hands! We also need a body to oversee the implementation of the agreement…….PPL?
Thru Cikgu, No road access, no treated water supply and absence of 24 hour electricity supply should never be a problem for those who receive bribes like langkau cap apek from Sng family.
Minta papong sengkilu tumbong nyadi tuai rumah di ulu Janan kaban. Call 999 nti ia nda nemu ndor menoa nya.
Idup PPL.
Unggal Iban Abroad & Cikgu Iban,
Aku setuju enggau penemu seduai nuan ngal.
Sigi adat kitai bepolitik; Kalau-Menang adat, Miskin-Kaya adat, Pintar-Jugau adat…
Enti nyau pintar-pintar/ bidik magang-magang nyau semoa ga ohang nyadi Raja, nyadi PM/CM, nyadi Tan Sri….hehehe….
Dalam dunia tu nadai siko ohang ka merinsa, ka tusah, ka miskin, ka pedis, ka kalah…
Dalam dunia tu nadai utai ‘free’, nadai duit-ringgit tau laboh ari langit enti kitai enda nemu gawa, enda nemu ngintu diri sereta enda nemu ngidup ka diri….
Enti besampi nadai siko kitai Iban ka nyebut merinsa nguan menoa, semoa nya “lantang senang nguan menoa”….
Enti nadai duit, ngiga duit – simpan duit…hehehe…
Enti nadai bini, ngiga bini “giga indu misi baka seduai Bunyau enggau Mujap” – ngaga rumah tangga, ngaga anak mayoh-mayoh…hehehe…
Enti nadai lauk, ngiga lauk – kenyang pehut….hehehe….
Enti enda tulih meli ai ka bisa, beli cap langkau – tunu ka pala babi…..hehehe….
Enti nadai kerja, ngiga kerja – anang kena buai…hehehe….
Enti nadai kereta, beli kereta – anang ngelantak ohang…hehehe… “anang baka Unggal Bunyau nyau betambah aksesori ba tuboh”….hehehe….
Enti nyepi diri empu tusah/merinsa belajar sereta gawa bebendar ka agi meh. Nadai nya beleman….
Anang ka lalu nyalah ohang bukai, ohang bukai bakanya meh ka ngidup ka dihi….
Sapa pintar niki ka atas, Sapa enda tinggal dibelakang…labu kabaruh meh keda iya….
Aku tu agi kiroh ngadu ka “blogspot” aku ngal. Ka nitih ohang iya ka udah dulu agi. Enti udah siap aku madah….hehehehe…
Cheers!
Akai dai nyau bisi typo error ga nya deh…
“Sigi adat kitai bepolitik; Kalah-Menang adat, Miskin-Kaya adat, Pintar-Jugau adat”….
Engka agi ngelu pala ngihup ai cap langkau kini…hehehe…
Semut Api n Iban Abroad enggau bala blogger ke bukai, Paty DAP nadai utai d kenakut ke bansa kitai. Abis maioh penudok ulih menang sida di Swak tu 18 iti aja-18 iti aja. Kati tumbong Semut mati menang 18 penudok ulih nyadi kepala menteri kah? Sida nadai jalai nyadi perintah enti enda begulai enggau bansa bukai. Ba awak tu meh kitai Dayak ulih ngena DAP ngambi ke penguat pengering kitai Dayak megai menua.Nyema DAP menang 18 kerusi lalu party bala Dayak menang lebih ari enggii sida bala Dayak meh nyadi ke tuai begulai enggau bala kominis ke dalam DAP.Ingat Semut mati-party DAP sigi enda ulih numboh ke kerjaan negri enti enda begulai enggau bansa bukai.
Iban ari menua jauh bisi nyebut begulai enggau bala Jabu dalam PBB. Kami enda nagang nuan numpang kia. Enti nyamai bala Dayak udah nyamai ari kelia enti PBB nya ulih tauka deka nulong bala Dayak.Parai Taib ila enda meh Dayak iban dipilih nganti iya. Tetak butoh aku enti Iban nganti Taib. Sampai kemaia kitai deka ngayuh besuar ke perau sida Jabu nya deh bangkai Semut mati?
Nuan tu paloi Semut parai ngasoh aku diau di menua ulu Ranan.Enti kita nadai jalai raya nadai ai beresi nadai api letrik NAMA KEBUAH KITA ENGGAI BADU NYUKONG SIDA MASING SIDA ENTURUN SIDA CHINA CHIBYE NYA DEH? Sapa paloi-party DAP ka tauka bala pengundi menua kita temasuk nuan empu? Nama leka mata nuan buta enda meda penusah bansa kita di Kapit ke kelalu nyukong sida Masing?
Nama kita k bempu menua nya enda ngelaban kompani ke bambi ke balak di menua kita deh? Ukai china DAP ke ngami balak kita TANG Taib ke bempu kompani, Linggi and Masing bempu kompani. Nama kebuah agi ngundi Masing deh tambab? Tinga ba ngeli orang dipeda semut parai tang lumpong kayu ba baroh idung nuan e\mpu enda dipeda.
Aku enda meh tentu rindu bekelakar enggau orang tambabb baka nuann tu bankai semut. Maioh pengawa bukai tau dkerja ari ke bekelikoh enggau orang paloi.
amat tambab bala kita semut parai-batang kayu betakat rarat lalu dipiring ke bala kita sida Masing-rangkai ngeli orang meda pemeli bans iban di menua kita nya. China empu pengaya iban empu menua iban minta ampun ngagai petara.Patut runding enggau penemu nuan manjai utai nuan empu semut mati, dikemeli ke anak china ke agi bau lia ditat ke kita ga. Kati chibai nya tau menang ba menua 90@ pengudi iban? NYa meh laban baka penemu semut mati nya-maia bepilih dijanji deka begaga ke jalai sampai diatu bedau ga digaga. Enti umor enda panjai enda meda jalai nuan semut parai( ukai ngjih laban aku enda nemu ajih) jalai ari Kapit ngagai menua Sibu.
Unggal papung Engkilu,
Iga nya nyau sampai ka netak “butoh aku enti Iban nganti Taib”….hehehe…
Gaga bala sida Apek Cinaben ba DAP enti siko kitai Iban nyau nadai ‘senapang’ kena nambah ka bala generasi baru ila ngal…hehehe….
Semut Api nya enti udah sengkilu nuan enggau tai sigi nyau meh ia begelumu dalam tai ngal…hehehe….
Nya meh bansa kitai Iban tu enti besebut ka penemu tauka bekelegar ka pemintar sigi enggai kalah nang ari menya….tang enti ngelaban bansa bukai nyau kelemput ga bala sekeda ketuai kitai Iban….nadai penyadi….
Nadai nya salah enti kitai Iban ka betampil enggau DAP tauka enggau sapa-sapa asai aja bansa kitai Iban/Dayak tau bulih pemansang, bulih kerja, bulih duit-ringgit, bulih pengelantang sereta senang nguan menoa….auk munyi ko leka sampi kitai ngelama tu meh kaban….
Nih bala aki-ini kitai kelia-menya nyau begulai enggau antu-jelu idup meh sida ia…hehehe…
Merandau meh kitai enggau manah enti kitai enggai meda ruai tu ila puan…..hehehe…
Ohang takut nemuai ngagai ruai tu enti kitai majak ka ngerekat, ngelesei, nganu orang kiba-kanan….
Nih tudah aku laban ka lalu “smart” udah ga disuruh ohang ngaga blogspot ka diri….engka enggai bekunsi penemu meh nya kini….
Bansa bukai berebut ngiga/bekkunsi/bebayar ka penemu tang bansa kitai majak kapapas enggau bansa diri…tu meh penyalah bansa kitai Iban.
Engka nemu agi tudah Aki Hawong nampong jako aku ditu….hehehe….Ni nuan aki?
Kada agi beselinting enggau Ini “Kuch Kuch Hota Hai” tudah aki….hehehe….
Apo nama nya bisi gai ga typo error; “bekelekar”, “puang”…”bekunsi”…
Tu meh utai ko aku ka bekunsi penemu enggau bala kita sebuat ditu….
Aku tu ka belajar nulis ‘nyako Iban’ ko Cinaben…laban kalau ‘smart’ nulis bahasa Inglis nulis ‘nyako Iban’ alu enda ‘smart’….malu endar tudah aku tu….
Laban nadai kala sekula/nulis bahasa Iban menya ngal…enti berandau aja nemu meh tudah aku tu tang kadang-kadang nyau ga becampur-aduk enggau nyako Inglis bisinya nyako Laut Malaya…..hehehe…..
Kati ko deh….hehehe….ni nuan Aki Hawong?
Akih Gkm-kadang kadang randau sigi tau kasar, nadai salah bekelikoh enti bisi utai dikelikoh.Kitai bansa sigi selalu bekelikoh TANG enti ngelaban bansa orang baru kitai ngeleput. Melanau siko enda ulih laban iban sejuta laban iban endang ari kelia enda kala 100% ngari ke iban. History nunjok ke iban nulong bala rajah ngayau ngalah ke iban.Diatu pan sama-iban nulong melanau ke ka sejeput ngalah ke iban. Sida melayu sida china nebang kayu menua Baleh bulih pengaya tang bala iban ke miring ngampun ngagai petara.Rangkai meh ngeli sida kominis meda pemeli kitai bansa ba hal tu. Ukai sida Lim Kit Siang sida Guan Eng ngambi nebang kayu tu tang bala china bala sida Taib ke empu pengawa empu kerja ke ke ngelus ke ngeranggas ke menua.
Patut kami PKR di Pelagus mpai lama alah laban bebas,papong sengkilu tumbong ngau bala Sng nulong George Lagong.Nemu dek nama kait George ngau Larry Sng?
Nuan tu papong engkilu,pandak runding.Nti alah buat la cara alah,nti menang buat la cara menang.Amat meh aku bisi utai nda manah disebut ngagai nuan tang nda aku sampai ngasoh nuan netak senapang dek.Silap2 olih mati akih,legi nadai agi ngau aku bekerakal.Idup PPL…
I think Dayaks or Ibans have enough people qualified to sit in a Think Tank for the community – just that it cannot be done yet due to many factors. Some of us here had said that one of the constraints for Dayak NGOs to speak up is the fear of repercusion from the State Government – in another word the current Dayak leaders especially those who were elected by the people are mostly politically impotent.
This is one of the situations which leave us with little alternative but to strive and struggle on individual basis first, to better improve ourselves so that we don’t rely on others.
Do note that DAP is different from SUPP. There are many credible and sincere DAP leaders or YBs especially the younger group.
However, no matter what, the Ibans or Dayaks should still try to stand on their our own feet. I think this Joint Think Tanks is not such a good idea. Thanks but no thanks. Dayaks have to be the master of their own destiny! We have to let the Dayaks stand for themselves, no matter how bad or poor and even if we have to wait until the cows to come home.
Unggal CharcoalArt,
I agree with your opinion ngal.
Still busy working on my own “blogspot”.
Have a pleasant weekend bro!
Kaban DB.
OOhhh…please bala kaban cool down, do not SIMPLY hentam our friends just because of his/her ideas or opinions are awan abu asing anan taip acan mentality or even jugah’s way of thinking. Just because of jugah, here we IBAN & What we Iban are TODAY. I think IF our Rajahs still around, Iban may NOT that FAR BEHIND or sideline.
Bala kaban, to me gone are the days where WE IBAN have to be the FOLLOWERs, enough for the past 48 yrs where our answers are YES…YES…&…yes all the times. Now is the time where WE IBAN have TO LEAD our FUTURE & NOW we MUST LEARN TO SAY NO…NO…NO…& many more NO….to come.
Bala kaban, WE START our journey 48 yrs AGO, BUT SAD to SAY WE IBAN NEVER LAND at the RIGHT PLACE, at the right house & at the right home. Do beleive our forefathers provide us this suppose to be THE PROMISE LAND, Land of The Iban Dayak. But sorry to say our AKI jugah SIGNED the WRONG FUTURE with the RIGHT pen.
Bala kaban I totally support the above ideas of the propose THINK TANK. Bala kaban why must WE HAVE to stay put in the HOUSE of UNCERTAINTY & at the home of UNCLEAR FUTURE..??? Enough is enough & today is the right TIME for US to MOVE to the new HOUSE..
KOW any comment.
Mupok bala kaban. Lemai legi ka ngabas siti da tanah ke baru beli nisi highway ga. Idup Iban Idup Dayak. OOhhaa….
Bala Kaban.
Pandangan saya, tidak salah kita bersama dengan dap atau sapa sapa sahaja jika mereka benar jujur baik INGIN membantu kita. KENAPA kita perlu selama-lamanya BERSAMA dengan orang atau pbb spdp prs supp JIKA PELUANG mereka 48 tahun berlalu HANYA sekadar menjadikan kita IBAN DAYAK sebagai KUDA TUNGGANGAN atau BATU LONCATAN, dan sekadar ditabur dengan MRP & nasib baik bukan BATU API.
Kenapa kita IBAN perlu dan harus bersama dengan awan asing abu taip acan dengan kawan kawan seumur HIDUP JIKA mereka tidak dapat membantu untuk kehidupan seperti rakan melayu melanau cina. Pastikanlah rakan rakan yang lain mesti BELJAR untuk MEMBEZA kehidupan Iban melayu melanau & cina, supaya kita KENAL diri dan bangsa & supaya kita bercakap berasaskan KENYATAAN & bukan fakta ANGKA SEMATA-mata.
48 tahun telah berlalu tetapi kenapa TIDAK ADA satupun Iban Dayak yang terfikir mana’THINK TANK IBAN’, tidak ada salah jika dap mahu menyedia tapak untuk TTID tersebut..saya pasti sokong
Mupok kaban. Idup Iban Idup Dayak. OOOhhaa…
Penemu ke numboh ke Dayak think Tank tu berasal ari DAP tang DAP deka milih tauka ngelantik bala Dayak bala iban ngelekai ke pengawa nya. Nadai penyalah DAP meri pun penemu ba hal tu laban nyangka leka mata sida enda buta baka leka mata bangkai semut api nya-meda penusah bansa Dayak Iban.enti nganti sida Jabu sida Masing nyangka utai tu lalu enda digaga. Aku enda nulak penemu tu tang enti iya amat ulih nguntong ke bansa nama kebuah enda nerima.
Bangkai semut, enda nemu sapa ke alah ke menang meh tua. Aku amat enda kaya raja enda pandai TANG enda dketawa ke orang sampai rangkai ngeli ngampun ngagai petara ketegal pengawa orang bukai, orang ke bulih pengaya kita ke ensepi pemedis. Betul betul munyi jako sempama ” Diulu orang munsi tubu di ili orang balut miang”.
Julau tauka Jenau- enda iboh jako laut Uchak. Nadai laut nyengok ngagai ruai tu…
Ngagai semut api & papong engkilu,
Numbas seduai bekelikuh ke engkilu n semut. Seduai sama2 menang tang kami bukai alah ketegal malu meda laya seduai baka anak mit.
Enti rindu ka belaya masuk blog: http://www.engagemalaysia.wordpress.com & http://www.makcikhajjahsittalwuzara1001.wordpress.com/category/status.
CA-you think the joint think thank is not a good idea then what are the better ideas you can offer? Being ditebak tuga atas pagar offer other alternatives???
Glad with efforts to nengkubang dead PBDS ??
Unggal p.Ingkilu.
Just in case, there are Bahasa Malaysia HIDING behind or hiding in the BUShes at your backyard unggal papung. Unggal papung, my intentions here NOT to HURT bala kaban FEELING, I just want to forward my humble & my true ideas for the GOOD of FUTURE Iban & also just to share my opinions.
Mupok unggal papung. Lemai tu ka ngabas tanah ke baru dibeli ba nisi jalai highway. Idup Iban Idup Dayak. OOOhhaa…
Niether is my intentions akih julaw but sometimes reality is hard to swallow and bound to upset someone. But who cares and at times reality has to be exposed and cannot be kept locked in the kitchen….
Akai dai uchu gkm. Balat ga penemu kita ditu! Nyau teberobos pansut ari ‘tank’ hehehehehe….untak aku udah kurang power ka think tank. Nya alai aku semina diau diri ngelamatu……ngai gik mansutka penemu. Pedis amat ka nyadi think tank ditu.
Hope you all can contribute some good and productive ideas to the think tank group.
“idiot!” of course a sane individual don’t want to be called an idiot. but that is it’s.
Uncle CA, i like the word “impotent” especially who you are refering to the above. anyway, impotent and idiot are a good words to describe the vast majority of the dayak, in their ways of thinking, executing tasks, their life and so forth, but excluding those who are in DBs.
buddy Julaw, if you are asking me about my opinion concerning, “think tank”, well, if it is good and it seems to be good, i ‘ve know objection. after all what do we the dayak have to lose, whereas in reality we are losing for now. just try another luck when oppurtunity arise, whose knows we might win a battle, it cannot be Omaha Beach all the time for the dayak.
just one think buddy Julaw, i ‘ve to agree with PE, anang ngena jako laut, for a very particular reason. manah agi ngena jako iban remun, balau, dau, ulu, katibas, tauka jako dayak kalimantan.
Ooii Aki Hawong,
Aku tu sama meh Aki laban kelalu ‘smart’ alu disuruh orang ngentak ka blog ka diri. Nyadi diatu tengah ngupas nebas langkau lama aku nya Aki.
Tusah amai ka mansut/ bekunsi penemu enggau bala ditu Aki. Munyi ko nuan, pedis amat ka nyadi think tank ba ruai tu.
Manah agi ga aku berandau ka diri kutau-kutau ngirup kopi ba ruai aku empu ga….hehehe….
Enti bisi maya aku ngabas enda lama nemuai ngagai Unggal DJB ditu…nyebut selaka dua…..hehehe….
Nyadi saut aku ba senantang “Dayak Think Tank” ditu bisi disebut aku ba ruai aku ditu: http://ruaigkm2020.blogspot.com/2011/06/dayak-think-tank.html
All are welcome to visit my langkau umai at: http://ruaigkm2020.blogspot.com/
Thank you.
Fire Ant,
Even though retired I am just lke you still entitled to my ONE vote in every election.I believe I am still entitled to my own opinion even though I may think different from you.Remember we are INDIVIDUALISTIC in our own way.PBDS was deregistered and MDC had never experienced a LIFE.
Your PPL is still embedded in your DAYDREAM. Since we are all very keen to get rid of BN,DAP is the only VIABLE alternative.
Try and get your PPL registered then I will contact you again ok !
Hello Aki Hawong,
Awaiting Moderator approval aku tu…hehehe….
Bala kaban DB,se-agi2 kitai tu mpai bisi perau kediri se-agi2nya kitai numpang perau orang.Bisi sekeda ngayuh ke perau cina,perau laut/melanau,bebas.Se-agi2 kitai mpu ndai perau kediri se-agi2nya kitai tu meruan belaya ngau diri sama diri.
Kira menang meh nuan unggal papong engkilu,laban nuan bisi cina DAP dikering.Aku jako ngapa munyi ke deka nanah ke ke pengari bansa diri tang nadai parti. Deka ngau James & Mawan tang seduai tu agi numpang perau Melanau/Melayu.Munyi ke nundi nuan aku unggal papong sengkilu,nti PPL ke dicadang ciribut tau ka parti PBDS baru ulih ditumbohka,lalu betuai ka DR.JB angka badu kitai tu becekih ke penemu ti baka tu. Aku ngai nda madah ke nuan,baik deka tauka ngai nuan ninga,aku sigi ngai betuai ke bangsa cina tauka bansa bukai kelimpah ari kitai Iban ke nda betuai ke BN.Tang pandak jako, dek pan baka aku,kucah2 bejako ngering diri munji parti tang diri mpu lalu nda kala ngau bediri.
Idup PPL
Due respect ngagai nuan Unggal Semut Api,
Who said that Unggal Papaong Engkilu had never stood in an election?
I know him.Unggal Jugam knows him.
He is among the very first soul to come forward to offer himself for an election candidate.
He had tried to appear in the political scene even before most of us knew the existence of his party which he likes.
What about you Ant Fire?
Have you ever tried? I am not trying to side any particular person but I somehow know this PE is.
It is nice to find out that you and Unggal PE have differences but that is alright.
We cannot agree on all things all the times. Not even with your spouses.
There is no loser or winner in all argument. The winner is only those who can take out the positive elements in our points of discussion.
Cheers…
Ba ko Memaloh,’kita Iban tu enda nemu jako,duku kumbai ulu,sungai kumbai kita ulu gak’,ruai di rumah,burung kumbai ruai’.hehehe.
Baka ke di peda datas nya nyau carut penemu.Umbas meh nya be anu pangan.Enti laya mit gaga nadai,enti laya besai gaga mit,nya jako orang ke tuai.
Tu cerita Memaloh ka bebini di Pasai Siong ke di tusi kaban.Nyadi Aya Memaloh tu bebini enggau indu kitai Iban tungga Pasai Siong.Seduai pen bisi anak lelaki.Sekali anak seduai kira umor empat taun kena sakit tang maia nya nadai klinik lalu beguna ka manang.Endang baka dulu menya,Manang pen di ambi belian ka anak seduai ngica ka gerai.Manang pen belian luput baka selama meh meda pemedis ia ti sakit.Nya alai manang lalu merubat anak Aya Memaloh ti sakit lalu manang madah penti iya enda tau makai ikan baung.
Hari siti Aya Memaloh nurun nginti lalu bulih ikan baung.Datai di rumah di pandok iya ikan baung.Udah lauk mansau laban ti sayau serta kasih,siru ka anak iya,anak iya di beri iya makai kuah ikan baung,enda di beri ia isi baung laban nya penti padah ka manang.Meda iya meri anak iya kuah baung bini Aya Memaloh pen ngerara ‘ba dek manang madah enda tau makai baung di beri dek makai baung ga anak tua ti sakit’ko bini iya bejako.Saut Aya Memaloh ‘kita Iban maioh penti pemali,enda tau makai lelabi,enda tau makai baung di irup kita meh ai Pasai’.Amat gak munyi saut Aya Memaloh tu,enda tau makai isi tang ai irup gak.
Nyadi DAP tu ka nyadi ‘manang’ ka kitai bansa Dayak.Nama pantang penti pemali manang DAP tu ila?Nama upah manang DAP tu ila?Ulih manang DAP tu ngerai ka penyakit kitai Dayak,penyakit kitai Iban?Penyakit enggai saati,penyakit enggai begulai sejalai idup atau mati ENDA beguna ka manang,dukun,beliau tang beguna ka kitai Dayak empu ngubat.Penyakit kitai ka pecah belah dulu adu,udah kitai kering segulai sejalai baru kitai ngadu ka penyakit nadai menoa ka merdeka.Ubat Merdeka dulu julok kitai kena ngubat semua penyakit kitai bansa Dayak kitai bansa Iban,udah merdeka baru kitai ngaga pemansang baru kitai nuju progress.Sebedau kitai merdeka kitai enda ulih mansang di baroh kuasa orang.Semua manang,bomoh bansa bukai enda ulih ngubat penyakit bansa kitai enti ukai manang bansa diriempu;laban manang bansa bukai kada enda deka munoh kitai,tau ka minta upah ka enda patut.Nya aja penemu aku,ANANG BEMANANG KA BANSA BUKAI NGUBAT PENYAKIT BANSA KITAI.
there nothing wrong with you too, PE & semut api.
after i analysed and give some thoughts.
only the past and present political scenerio made us depressed, marginalised or even mad and sometime beyond the limitation or out of control and begin scolding of our another fellow dayak. i think you two both have some points wise to ponder and some times cross path is not unusual.
well, true to itself, Semut Api, it is very good and a dream of people like you and the rest of the dayaks, if we have iban/dayak ONE based party, for the whole of dayak, i mean all of it members from president to the grassroot are dayak/iban, just like MCA & MIC. we should support it.
on the hand, PE also right. we the dayak have been working with BN component parties for so many years. we have been in the coalition of BN with PBB,SPDP,SUPP &PRS. what do dayak get for the last 47 solid years? the purposed of changing such as having “think tank” with the DAP is also not a bad idea! since in REALITY dayak based party(whole of dayak) cannot STAND alone, WE the dayak are not majority in MALAYsia. only the petara knew what will come out from this “think tank” between dayak and DAP, hopefully it wont be a Panzer or a tiger tank, but rather a great strenght of dayak unity as a whole.
Semut api,aku sigi nyukong Party ke ngelaban BN temasuk DAP di menua Sarawak tu kelimpah ari party SNAP ke aum juak enggau bala raban party penyakal. Baka bepilih tu tadi maioh ga bansa kitai Dayak bediri ari PKR tang ga alah ,baka sida JBA, Mengga enggau maioh bala bukai. Tang DAP laban pengundi china ke seati dia maioh meh sida iya menang. Nyema calon PKR menang semua pendudok di kawasan Dayak bala Dayak meh majority lalu bala dayak begulai enggau DAP megai perintah lalu bansa Dayak meh megai ulu nyadi KM. Tang ga bala Dayak enda seati ke ngujong ke pengari PKR maioh alah. Ba aku penemu ke begulai enggau DAP di Sarawak ngambi pengering bala china laban bansa Dayak tauka bansa china sigi enda ulih megai perintah kediri.Enti majoirty bansa Dayak nyukong PKR lalu begulai enggau DAP dia 2 iti party tu ulih menang megai perintah menua Swak. Tang kdiatu bala Dayah agi pambar kiba kanan lalu kemaia meh bansa Dayak ulih begulai dalam siti paty politik. PBDS baru???Mechah ke bansa dayak jauh agi???
Uchak Semut, nuan kutap kutap ngasai ke diri enda kala bediri minta pilih lalu ngumbai orang pan enda kala baka nuan ga. Nuan salah ba hal tu. Anang nuan ngasai diri enda kal lalu nyangkong ngumbai orang bukai enda kala???
Aku nemu Yb independent baru kita Pelagus nya. Iya diberi Party Snap endorsement bediri ngelaban Masing di Baleh tang enda nyadi laban Bedindang enggai ngalah kediri. Nya alai iya lalu bediri di Pelagus. Enda pechaya tau tanya iya empu-Amat ka enda SNAP meri iya surat wartqah bdiri di Baleh serta enggau belanja mimit dikena mayar deposit enggau nganjong nama?
Ciribut, kati enti sakit lalu abis semua manang bansa kitai alai berubat lalu enda ga gerai deh, nama lalu diteju ke mati orang ke sakit pia? Manang bansa bukai ulih ngubat lalu ulih ngerai ke iya ke sakit enda ga ke sakit nya tau dianjong ngagai manang bansa bukai? Nyamai agi ga meda lalu neju ke iya mati ari ke diubat manang bansa bukai laban takut ke tu takut ke nya? Taja pan manang nya manang bansa bukai tang ni kitai nemu nyangka penemu iya berubat dalam agi pandai agi. Udah ga manang kitai enda tegerai ke iya ke sakit agi ga majak nganjong kia nama pengujong deh-PARAI MAMPUS lah pengujong iya.
Haha…nadai entu utai dipelaya ke kitai enti bisi party tauka bansa bukai deka nulong rayat kitai ke agi tusah ngiga pemakai/ duit ringgit kena beridup. Laban nya udah dipansa leka sampi kitai maia ke mantai ke piring- ngangau ke semua Petara ke tau nulong kitai, baik iya Petara ari Panggau Libau, DAP, PKR, BN enggau parti bukai.
Kekadang aku ngasai ke diri empu salah laban kelalu mejar orang rumah panjai nitih utai ke ka kitai, sedang ke kitai enda nemu penusah sida, taja sida merinsa tang nadai kala minta pemakai ari kitai. Nadai salah enti sida enda sama runding enggau kitai laban cara sida ngidup Kediri ba rumah panjai enda sama enggau kitai ke bisi gaji tetap/ bulan.
Dipelaba ke aku, tebal agi kitai ke meri penemu ditu nadai diau ba menua; kitai enda nemu penusah orang rumah panjai. Kitai semina ulih meri penemu tang enda ulih meri sukong ari segi tulang enggau duit, menang pan kitai bekilikuh ditu enda mih kitai ulih ngubah pengidup sida enti nadai orang ke enggau kitai berandau ditu nganjung penemu datai tubuh enggau mua ngagai sida (orang rumah panjai).
Dudi2 tu aku meda cara kitai berandau nadai entu sepenemu enggau pangan, sama majak ke runding diri, nya ngujung ke bisi beserekang mimit. Penemu ke diberi udah cukup maioh tang nadai siko ke ditemu (selain ari Dr. JBA laban ke minta pilih) ngeraup randau kitai (ke manah sereta bebatang) ditu nyadi nyata ba pengidup sida. Setuju enggau unggal Enda Surut, kitai udah puas belunyak ke penemu (topik) tang lalu nadai mai hasil ngagai orang ke dituju aum randau. Semina mulut aja nemu bejaku tang patung enda engkebut/ nyaut.
Keni kitai ulih nganu sida enda nitih utai ke kitai enti kitai ke berandau ditu mega 2×5, nadai bisi orang nyadi ke tuai tauka sama ka nyadi tuai- randau nadai pulai ke pengujung laban nadai siko ke ulih dipercaya ulih ngeraup randau nyadi siti juluk (ati/ aum) ke mai kitai sepenemu nulung bansa diri ke agi tinggang penusah.
Sebedau kitai nganu tuai kitai (laban enda sama penemu) kitai ke berandau ba blog tu patut mega nyeremin diri, ulih ke kitai (DB) meri chunto ke manah tauka agi 2×5, agi beserekang penemu, nadai orang ke tau dikarap, nadai orang ke tau nyadi tuai aum/ randau? Ulih ke kitai sepenemu numbuh ke komiti ke tau ngatur aum kitai nyadi nyata ba orang ke beguna ke runding DB tauka kitai sigi rindu mantai ke penemu diri (semina muai jam) tang nadai mai hasil ke beguna?
In any team, a blog, an association or a party what it needs is a good leader to bring it forward or to make it success.
Enti bakatu, majak pahai meh kitai Iban.
Enti Lutor Iban nadai ulih ngubak, manang Iban pan enda go tau diasoh ngubat penyakit kitai Iban, lutor ohang putih, India tauka ke sapa sapa lutor bansa bukai pan enda ga tau diasoh ngubat, ni enda majak maioh mati meh bansa kitai tu.
Pati Dayak enda ulih ngadu ke kitai, pati bansa bukai ke mehi kitai buah hunding aja pan enda ga tau dikena. Pati bansa bukai deka ngadu ngatur bansa kitai pan enda ga tau. Bah,nama penyadi?
Nganti ke pahai aje meh tu… enti bakatu.
Cheers…
DAYAK THINK TANK – DTT
First-Thing-First, (I remember Unggal Anthony Belon asked me to buy this book some times ago…), we need to answer these questions:
1. What is Dayak Think Tank? (Hopefully not “Think Kosong” or “Tin-Tong”).
2. Why it has to be linked with DAP and why not with other Dayak organizations and/or setup independently?
3. What keys areas, roles and responsibility does this Dayak Think Tank (DTT) play?
4. Why shouldn’t DTT works with the current government? Why has to be with Pro-Opposition? Does Pro-Opposition has budget and agenda for Dayak?
5. If the DTT is setup purely for the interest of the general Dayaks, would the government be able to provide it with mobilization funds?
6. Is DAP-Dayak Think Tank main objective is to challenge the current government ministration or for promoting a joint Chinese-Dayak special interests?
7. How would DTT able to boost Dayaks’ development?
8. Is DAP-Dayak Think Tank exclusively for DAP members?
9. Should PKR-DTT, SNAP-DTT, PAS-DTT, PBDS-DTT, SDNU-DTT, SGDA-DTT, DBNA-DTT, OUNA-DTT, FORUM-DTT, UBF-DTT, DCCI-DTT, MCA-DTT, MIC-DTT, Gerakan-DTT, PPP-DTT, UMNO-DTT, etc and/or other Pro-Government DTT be established? Will there be any conflict of interests?
If Dayaks want to pursue and advocate their own “Dayakism Agenda” then they have to stand-up on their own two feet. Is it not enough to shadow behind “others” for the last 48 years?
I really don’t foresee any problem for SDNU, SGDA, SADIA, PGBS and other Dayak NGOs to setup their respective DTT if it’s for Dayak special interest or “Dayak-Specific”, right?
Faced with a complex domestic and international situation, Dayaks have to make and undertake great efforts to boost the development of their Think Tanks; for the Dayak, with the Dayak and to the Dayak if they want to be at par with others and internationally!
When we talk of “Dayak Think Tank (DTT)” it has a vast roles and responsibility, not just political interest!
Technically a Think Tank is an established organization consisting of a group of experts who provide advice and ideas on various issues, especially in political, regional, economics, social, technology, international, law and environmental fields (PRESTILE).
According to Wikipedia;
A Think Tank (or policy institute) is an organization that conducts research and engages in advocacy in areas such as social policy, political strategy, economics, military or technology issues. Most Think Tanks are non-profit organizations, which some countries such as the United States and Canada provide with tax exempt status. Other Think Tanks are funded by governments, advocacy groups, or businesses, or derive revenue from consulting or research work related to their projects
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Let’s not forget that perhaps DAP stands for: 1)”Dayak Anang Paloi” and 2)”Dayak Anang Palau”.
1).DAP/”Dayak Anang Paloi” is basically agenda for Dayak education.
2.)DAP/”Dayak Anang Palau” meanwhile is more than just eradicating alcoholism/addiction to binge drinking but also other form of addiction/being drunk under BN’s Rasuah Corruption, made slave by BN thru seizing Dayak into subsidy mentality etc. It’s good that DAP trying to instil virtue of hardwork, competitive & self-reliant among the Dayaks.
Ironically those iniatives (eg.education agenda etc) are long a failure by own Dayak BN leaders.
Why? Divide and rule tricks by UMNO? UMNO keep on bribing the Dayak leaders with so much projects, titles until they forgot to serve the poor Dayaks?
Hence, to pull the Dayak out of poverty cycle is best thru Education reform and Hardwork mentality exactly what made the Chinese best survivors without much help.
Why should the Dayak keep on following the lazy, corrupt UMNOPutra culture when Dr.M himself hated it so much?
DAP is correct. Only with good education and hardwork attitude will make Dayaks independent and can survive anywhere in the world even thrown in desert still can make money. Best of all Dayak no longer enslaved by BN UMNO as fixed deposit as Dayak work for no one except own money and effort.
Anyway, Bravo to DAP for waking up the Dayaks!
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Mahathir criticises Malay community
BBC, 16th June 2002
The Prime Minister of Malaysia, Mahathir Mohamad, has launched a strong attack on the majority Malay community, saying it had failed to make real progress despite being given special privileges for more than 30 years.
In a newspaper interview ahead of a five-day meeting of his party the United Malays National Organisation or Umno, Dr Mahathir criticised Malays for being too complacent and unwilling to work hard.
He said that after more than 20 years in office he had failed to change what he called this culture of extravagance.
Malays make up more than half of the 23 million population but receive special privileges because the Chinese minority is seen as having disproportionate wealth.
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Mahathir warns Malays to brace for end to privileges
Kyodo News International, 20th June 2002
Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad on Thursday defended his country’s affirmative action policy but warned ethnic Malays that their rights and privileges are ”far from being safe.”
”The Malays are clearly far from being safe. Do not think that the power of the Malays in the political arena is permanent, that it will guarantee the safety of the Malays forever,” the 76-year-old premier said in a two-hour speech to open the United Malays National Organization (UMNO) annual assembly.
If the special status of the Malays, or ”bumiputeras” as they are also known, is challenged today, he said, Malays will not be able to survive.
”They are not prepared to face any competition at all. They are so afraid of the other communities. Without the experience of competing with others, if the protection is suddenly withdrawn, they will not be able to survive,” Mahathir, also UMNO president, said.
As head of the party that deems itself the custodian of Malay culture, Mahathir put his newly gained political fortune on the line recently when he dared to pry open the three-decade-old New Economic Policy (NEP) to provide more opportunities for non-Malays, although only in education.
The NEP, Malaysia’s affirmative action policy, guarantees Malays 30% corporate equity, easy credit, contracts and projects from the government and places in public universities.
The policy, which came about following the 1969 clashes between the poorer, rural Malays and the economically more dominant ethnic Chinese, is now called the National Vision Policy.
Recently Mahathir stirred up a controversy by changing the race-based quota system for university entrance to a merit-based one. Then he ordered 10% of places to be allocated to non-Malays in government-run colleges and that English, instead of the national language, Malay, be used to teach science and mathematics.
Malay nationalists are up in arms crying treachery. But Mahathir is adamant, saying the NEP has made Malays ”lazy” and prone to rely on ”the easy way and the quick way.”
”Because of that, when licenses are given, they sell the licenses…No work is done other than to be close to people with influence and authority in order to get something because they are Malays,” he told the 2,000 delegates attending the three-day assembly.
”Truly I am ashamed to expose all these, especially in front of the other people, in front of the whole nation and the world. But they all already know all these. I am not exposing anything that they don’t know,” he said.
Mahathir expressed his disappointment that after 21 years at the helm of the country he has failed to change the Malay mindset.
”Mostly I feel disappointed, disappointed because I achieved too little result from my principal task — the task of making my race a successful race, a race that is respected, a race that is honorable, a race that is highly regarded. I beg your pardon because I have failed,” he said.
But despite his criticism of Malays and their over-dependence on government assistance, Mahathir defended the benefits of the NEP although he said it has slowed down national development.
”What slowed down the national development was because the government had to try and try again to balance the economy of the Malays against that of the non-Malays at all levels and in all fields,” he said.
But the NEP, he said, has succeeded in closing the gap between the Malays and non-Malays.
Those who condemned the NEP, he said, have ignored the fact that government scholarships and opportunities have allowed thousands of Malay children to enter universities.
The government has also provided 3 billion ringgit as capital for the National Equity Corp. to initiate unit trusts which succeeded in making 7.28 million Malays shareholders in big corporations with investments totaling 34.89 billion ringgit.
The shares allocated to the NEC were the result of the restructuring of new companies that are required by the NEP to provide 30% of their equity for bumiputera.
”In truth, without the NEP, the unit trusts and the governmental institutions which were managed on behalf of the Malays, today the NEP would achieve only 2% of the target,” Mahathir said.
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Education is top priority: Moggie
The Borneo Post, Monda 23 April 2001
KUCHING – Parti Bansa Dayak Sarawak (PBDS) will take drastic action to raise up the education level of the Dayak community, including effecting a change in the culture of the people if needed be.
The party is putting education as a top priority for its activities in the next two to three years in order to ensure that the community is not left behind in the k-based economy. Party President Datuk Amar Leo Moggie said efforts were being made in trying to get the community, the parents in particular to understand the need to change their attitude and concept towards education. If the culture of the people was found to be a main factor behind the Dayak’s current attitude towards education, then it must change, he said to reporters after officiating the opening of an Educational Motivation Seminar at Kpg Entinggan, Samarahan today.
“The performance of the Dayaks and Bumiputeras in particular in education is not as good as compared to the Chinese for instance. Why is that so? Maybe it is the cultural background. If so, what we need to do is to change that,” he said.
In its seriousness to address this issue, the party had at September last year set up the PBDS Education Committee. Starting next month, a research would be conducted to obtain systematic data as to why the Dayaks were not performing satisfactorily at the school and university level, Moggie who is also the Minister of Energy, Telecommunications and Multimedia said.
The research would be carried out separately under the supervision of lecturers by University Kebangsaan Malaysia and Universiti Teknologi MARA with the PBDS Education Committee as the main body overseeing it. Showing concern as to the level of education performance especially in rural schools, he said the trend of the quality of passes for the past few years had not been that satisfactorily. The research would be professionally carried out and the results obtained would hopefully give the party some idea on what was needed to be done to improve the situation.
“This is a serious matter. It is a major challenge for us,” he stressed.
He said the people had to know that while the government had been doing a lot to help, such as providing the support, building schools, giving education funds, loan schemes to pursue education at higher levels, the community must be willing to change their attitude too. A k-based society could only exist if the people were educated and had the necessary skills, he pointed out. “Parents must be reminded that they must give priority to education,” he said.
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Enter varsity on own merit, Dayaks told
Bernama News, Monday, May 14, 2001
SIBU: Dayak students in Sarawak were told that their bumiputra status alone will not open university doors for them.
Dayak Cultural Foundation Education Committee chairman Datuk Gramong Juna said some Dayak students were still under the impression that they could enter any university based on their rights and privileges as bumiputras.
“Such right alone is not enough. The opportunity is more based on merit and the better your result is, the more opportunity you will have for admission,” he said in his speech at the opening of the foundation’s tuition centre here.
Gramong, who is State Assistant Minister of Rural and Land Development, said gaining a place in local universities was getting more and more competitive and those with outstanding results were the ones generally favoured.
Denying allegations that the foundation’s tuition centres only catered for children of the elites in the community, Gramong said they were open to all Dayak and even non-Dayak students.
“We planned them as a non-profit oriented community service to the urban Dayaks in Sibu and Kuching who are quite sizeable in numbers now,” he said.
Gramong said the centres were heavily subsidised by the foundation and the fees charged were 30% lower than private centres.
“However, this does not mean our centres are inferior as we have the same or even better facilities and the student-teacher ratio is kept low for the sake of greater individual attention,” he said.
Gramong said the foundation would operate similar centres in Bintulu and Miri after the Gawai Dayak festival.–Bernama
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The Malays in Singapore, no crutch mentality
by Guntor Sadali, The Malaysian Insider, August 05, 2010
It is a fact known to all that Malays in Singapore are a minority.
However this minority is quite different from other minorities in the world.
Similarly, to some, Singapore is just a red dot in this vast Asian region.
But it is no ordinary red dot.
It is a grave mistake to equate size with ability, just as it is wrong to assume that being small and in the minority is to be weak and insignificant.
The recent World Cup proved this. While Spain may be the world champion, it was minnow Switzerland that became the only country in the tournament that was able to defeat Spain.
Forty-five years have passed since Singapore left Malaysia, yet every now and then we still hear non-complimentary comments from across the Causeway about the Malay community here.
The latest came from former Malaysian prime minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad, who casually reminded Malaysian Malays not to become like Singaporean Malays.
He did not make it clear what he actually meant, but the comment was made in the context of the possibility of Malaysian Malays losing their power in Malaysia.
Again he did not specify what type of power, but it could safely be interpreted as political power.
Now, what could have happened to the Malays here in the last four decades?
What could have driven Dr Mahathir to voice his concern and to caution the Malaysian Malays?
I wonder.
The Malay community in Singapore, of course, know what has become of us here.
First and foremost, we have become a completely different community from what we were 45 years ago.
We have developed our own identity and philosophy of life that are distinct from our relatives across the Causeway.
We may wear the same clothes, eat the same food, speak the same language and practise the same culture.
However, the similarities end there.
We are now a society that upholds the philosophy of wanting to stand on our own feet, or what is known in Malay as “berdikari” or “berdiri atas kaki sendiri”.
We do not believe in being spoon-fed or being too dependent on government help.
In other words, we do not have a crutch mentality. We firmly believe that a community with such a crutch mentality will soon become a “two M” community — the first “M” stands for “manja” (spoilt), and the second for “malas” (lazy).
We definitely do not want to be labelled as a pampered and lazy community.
That is why our Malay community here constantly work hard to raise funds to build our own mosques, madrasahs and other buildings in expensive and land-scarce Singapore.
Over the years we have raised millions of dollars to become proud owners of these buildings.
Through our own efforts and with the help of other organisations, we have also helped the needy not only financially, but also in equipping them with new skills so that they can earn their living.
For Dr Mahathir, however, all that we have done and achieved so far are not good enough.
He takes a negative view of our changed attitudes and different mindset, and has therefore cautioned Malaysian Malays not to be like us.
What about power? For Malays in Singapore, power is not about wielding the keris.
For us, knowledge is power. In fact we believe that knowledge is THE real power.
The constant emphasis by the community on the importance of education and acquiring knowledge has led to the formation of institutions such as Mendaki, Association of Muslim Professionals (AMP), the Prophet Mohamad Birthday Memorial Scholarship Board (LBKM) and many others.
These self-help organisations not only provide financial help to needy students, but also strive to nuture our students to their full potential.
At the same time, these organisations help to tackle various social ills faced by the community.
Again, we do these all on our own. Malay children here attend the same schools as other Singaporeans with a shared aim — to obtain a holistic education and, of course, achieve good examination results.
Yes, it is tough. Like all other children, our Malay students have no choice but to work hard.
It is a reality of life in Singapore that we have come to accept — that there is certainly no short cut to success.
We do not believe in getting any special treatment, because it would only reduce the value of our achievements and lower our dignity.
The meritocratic system that we practise here is, without doubt, a tough system but it helps us to push ourselves and prevent us from becoming “manja” and “malas”.
Still, Dr Mahathir and some Malay leaders across the Causeway do not like the way we do things here and have therefore warned Malaysian Malays not to be like us.
On our part, there is certainly no turning back.
Meritocracy has proven to be a good and fair system.
It pushes us to work hard and makes us proud of our achievements.
We can see how it has benefited us by looking at the growing number of doctors, lawyers, magistrates, engineers, corporate leaders and other professionals among us.
It is the successes and achievements of some of these people that Berita Harian wants to highlight and celebrate when we launched this Achiever Award 12 years ago.
Tonight, we have another role model to present to our community.
So, the question is: Shouldn’t our friends and relatives across the Causeway be like us — Malays in Singapore?
It is definitely not for us to suggest or decide.
And we too have no intention of asking our own community if we would like to be like them either, because we have already chosen our very own path for the future.
We, the Malays in Singapore, should be proud of our achievements, because we have attained them through hard work.
It is true that what we have achieved so far may not be the best, and that we are still lagging behind the other races.
There are large pockets in our community facing various social problems.
We have achieved so much, and yet there is still a long way to go. But we should not despair.
We can do a lot more on our own if the community stay united and cohesive.
In critical issues, we should speak with one voice.
We need to help and strengthen each other while at the same time reach out to the other communities in multi-racial, multi-religious Singapore. A successful and prosperous Singapore can only mean a successful and prosperous Malay community.
Can we do it? Well, to borrow US President Barack Obama’s campaign slogan, “Yes, we can”.
* Speech by Berita Harian Singapore editor Guntor Sadali, at the Berita Harian Singapore Achiever of the Year Awards ceremony on July 28, 2010.
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Lessons from S. Korea on transforming from developing economy into high income economy
The Star, Monday November 15, 2010,
KAREN Lee is a part-time English translater with the South Korea Trade-Investment Promotion Agency (Kotra) in Seoul. Although still a university student, she handles herself with maturity and professionalism and is among a rising number of South Koreans proficient in English.
Kim Min Hae is a Japanese translater, with Kotra Seoul as well. She also speaks English and like many other South Koreans striving to improve and upgrade themselves, hopes to do her MBA soon.
To Hank Ahn, the commissioner of Invest Korea, a Kotra unit, people like Karen and Kim are the embodiment of the qualities that built the South Korean economic miracle – hardwork and competition, underpinned by a strong education system.
He noted that South Korea, which has limited natural resources,had to rely on its population to provide its most valuable resource – skilled workforce, especially in the areas of science and technology.
“The most important factor for South Korea’s fast growth is our investment in human beings. In other words, education,” he told StarBiz recently on the sidelines of the Foreign Investment Week organised by Kotra.
This people-based economic power has driven South Korea to become the 15th largest economy in the world, with a per capita income of over U$17,000 in 2009. Malaysia’s average per capita income is about US$7,000.
South Korea’s foreign exchange reserves totalled US$289.8bil as of September this year, the fifth largest in the world.
Its total foreign direct investments from 1998 to 2008 totalled US$124bil, five times as much of that from 1962 to 1997, according to South Korean government data.
Nearly half of the global Fortune 500 companies have established a presence in South Korea.
Ahn reckons that many resource-rich countries in Africa as well as Latin and South America have not made “a big progress” in their economic development due to their failure to invest in education in a big way for their people.
“The important thing is that the majority of people should be well educated and trained,” he says, noting that 56% of young Koreans have a university degree. “It’s a big number.”
According to Kotra data, the national illiteracy rate in South Korea for people between the ages of 20 and 40 is zero, while the overall literacy rate is 98.7%.
Hahn notes that the average South Korean spends “big money” on their kids’ education, citing news reports that they fork out an average US$1,000 per month for after-class tuition. Such emphasis on education has driven South Korean parents to become “goose fathers and goose mothers.”
“We call them goose fathers and goose mothers because they live apart. The father maybe here in South Korea while the mother is in the United States,” he says, explaining that South Korean parents live apart as a consequence of trying to be cost effective in their children’s education. As far as education is concerned, South Koreans are willing to do whatever (it takes).”
Turning points
South Koreans point to a few landmark events that have helped transform their economy from a developing economy into an advanced, high income economy.
The first foundation was laid when the country decided to go into heavy industry sometime in the mid seventies.
“We could not make our economy into an advanced economy without transforming from light to heavy industry,” says Ahn.
The industrialisation programme gave birth to the country’s automotive, engineering, chemicals and electronics sectors, paving the way for South Korea to break into the global market with now established brand names such as Hyundai and Samsung.
According to Kwon Pyung-Oh, the director-general for free economic zones under the Knowledge Economy Ministry, the seeds for South Korea’s transformation into a developed economy were planted in the late eighties.
For Kwon, the spark that lit the transformation into an advanced economy came from the torch of the Olympic flame itself, specifically the 1988 Seoul Olympics.
“The 1988 Olympics gave full confidence to the South Korean people, which would lead to South Korea’s membership in the OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) in 1996,” he says.
The OECD is an international economic organisation of 33 countries founded in 1961 to stimulate economic progress and world trade. According to Wikipedia, the group defines itself as a forum of countries committed to democracy and the market economy.
Most OECD members are high income economies with a high human development index and are regarded as developed countries.
Even so, South Koreans would regard the 1997-1998 Asian financial crisis as the last great turning point before their economy became truly advanced and globally competitive.
“Between 2001 and 2002, after (recovering) from the Asian Financial Crisis, I think that was the point when major economies would look at South Korea as an advanced economy,” Kwon said, adding that South Korea’s decision to implement tough International Monetary Fund (IMF) reforms and liberalisation of its economic sectors during the crisis years had turned out well for the country.
Positioning for the future
But even with advanced economy status, South Korea did not rest on its laurels. Its economy and people continued to evolve, getting ready for a new world economic order led by China.
Ahn of Invest Korea noted that western scholars had already postulated a “global Asian era.”
“The global Asian era has come already. To take advantage of (this new era), we have to sometimes cooperate with China, sometimes compete against China,” he said.
The mechanism put in place by South Korea to both compete and cooperate with China, and to bring the country further up the economic value chain, was its six free economic zones (FEZs), led by the US$230bil Incheon FEZ, launched in 2003 and the first of the South Korean FEZs.
“China has become the world’s factory. South Korean manufacturing will eventually become not cost effective compared with the Chinese. Japan has technology, which they can sustain, so where is South Korea?” Heekyung Jo Min, the director-general of the business opportunity bureau at Incheon FEZ told StarBiz when asked on what went behind the setting up of the Korean FEZs.
“So we need to transform from simple manufacturing to a more technology and knowledged based industry to compete,” she said, adding that healthcare was one such industry targeted by the Incheon FEZ.
Healthcare, together with education, remain the two major sectors untouched by IMF reforms in South Korea more than ten years ago.
But in 2003, the South Korean government decided to allow foreign access to these two sectors, but limited only to the FEZs.
Since then, the Incheon FEZ has attracted three foreign education providers to set up operations – Chadwick International, State University of New York at Stony Brook and Utah State University. It is also hoping to get John Hopkins Medical School to help run an international hospital.
At the individual level, more South Koreans are adjusting to China’s rising global influence by learning Mandarin, apart from English.
And what is a favourite destination for South Koreans to learn both Mandarin and English at the same time, and at a reasonable cost? According to some South Korean officials – Malaysia. And what’s the lesson to be learnt here?
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Malaysians embrace English
By Baradan Kuppusamy, Asia Time, Aug 25, 2005
TAMPIN, Malaysia – It’s 3 pm on a normal weekday in this small town, about 110 kilometers south of the national capital, and Hafsiah, 9, and her brother Badrul, 12, are tearing up the stairs of a three-story shop house to enter a room full of students eager to learn English.
Many of the children are still in regular school uniforms and have not had time to change but they are ready for another session of learning in a scene commonplace these days in rural Malaysia, which is dominated by the country’s indigenous Malays.
So keen are Hafsiah and her brother, as are many of the other students, that they have not returned to their homes in nearby villages for lunch but stayed on in Tampin with stomachs growling, so they do not miss their precious English language coaching session.
English, once shunned as the language of colonialism, is now regarded as the passport to success in the modern world and is rapidly replacing Islamic studies and the sciences.
“My parents say English is the key to the future and that we have to master it,” Hafsiah said after her session. “But [English] is so strange to the tongue.”
Apparently, the difficulties that Malays have in competing in a rapidly globalizing world is being attributed by the older generation to their failure to master English, and even to turning their backs on the language in 1970 in a wave of nationalism.
Malays form slightly more than 50% of Malaysia’s 23 million people. The economically dominant ethnic Chinese form 22% and are concentrated in the urban centers where the English language has survived better. Indians, who form another 7% of the population, are also largely urban.
The frenzy to catch up with English in rural Malaysia is more than just palpable and nowadays second only to the craze for English football and the popular “Malaysian Idol” contest, a reality-type TV show.
Signs of the frenzy are everywhere. Bookshops are stacked high with volumes of dry English grammar, and these include familiar reprints from the1960s when English had better status than in the intervening years.
English tuition centers are mushrooming in shop houses, schools and homes – wherever space is available.
Newspapers are promoting English by giving out free copies to schools and businesses are donating millions of dollars to adopt entire schools, picking up the tab so that students can have an English education.
“We should not be shy to say English is a Malaysian language,” Education Minister Hishammuddin Hussein said recently while launching a new scholarship program that provides English language resources to 290 rural and semi-urban schools.
English may have been the language of the colonial masters, Hussein said, “but it was also the language which our founding fathers acquired, took to London, and returned as masters of their own land”.
“Forty-eight years on we should not be shy to say English is a Malaysian language,” he said, giving the all-important official cue for the drive to once again excel in a language that seems to have thrived globally rather than declined in the post-colonial phase.
Earlier, when Malay nationalism was at a high and learning the Malay language considered sacrosanct, such a statement would have quickly ended the minister’s political career.
“The standard of written and spoken English has deteriorated in the past 30 years,” said Ramasamy Palanisamy, professor of political science at the University Kebangsaan Malaysia. “After the 1969 race riots [between Malays and ethnic Chinese], Malaysia switched to the Malay stream for schools and university in 1971. From then on English as a language declined.”
English continued to be taught as a second language in rural Malaysia but its quality declined because of official hostility, the rise of Islam and poor teaching resources.
That climate has now reversed dramatically and the study of English is nowadays being actively promoted by officialdom and receiving a matching response as well.
It all started in 2002 when some Japanese investors told former prime minister Mahathir Mohamad that many Malaysian graduates were so poor in English that they were simply unemployable. There were serious communication problems. While Japanese factory managers had learned English, Malaysian graduates had not.
“You don’t expect us to learn Malay language to communicate with our workers,” one Japanese manager famously asked of government officials. “Even in China, the Chinese are rushing to learn English.”
But that is a situation familiar across Asia where former British colonies such as India are competitively attracting international investors because of significant numbers of English-proficient professionals even with the shortcomings in terms of infrastructure and conducive business environment.
In Malaysia, about 20,000 graduates are estimated to be unemployed because of poor communication skills and most of them are from rural backgrounds. The government is even spending millions of dollars to retrain them in various industrial skills.
Rather than remain unemployed, many graduates have begun to hide their degree certificates and take lower-paying jobs for which they are considered overqualified – such as with the fire department.
Mahathir realized that if the trend continued, Malaysia’s position as a vibrant, trading economy would be badly affected. So as a technocrat and a believer in social engineering, with a pro-Malay approach, he decided on a fast-track scheme to bring English to rural students.
And without careful preparation and ignoring stiff, all-round opposition, he announced that from 2003 onward all schools must teach key subjects like science and mathematics in English.
Opposition lawmakers, education experts as well as Chinese and Tamil language teachers warned that student performance would drop dramatically if a switch was made in such a sudden manner and without planning.
They argued that teachers, who had been teaching science and mathematics in Malay, Mandarin and Tamil languages for more than 30 years, could not overnight begin to teach in English.
Mahathir was both impatient and adamant. He said modern technology, use of the Internet and special teaching software would be employed to make the overnight switch work.
“English has to be learned as a language, it can’t be acquired by learning science and mathematics in English,” said a school headmaster then who had opposed the scheme and asked not to be identified. “Mahathir’s scheme, now into its second year, is a mess.”
As the experts had predicted, the performance of rural Malay students had dropped when they were forced to switch to English as the medium of instruction in science and mathematics. More Malays were not making the grade to enter colleges, polytechnics and universities largely because of the sudden switch.
“It is an alien language and not easily learnt by rural Malay students – you cannot force people to learn,” said the headmaster. “It has got to be a gradual process.”
The current campaign to learn English seeks to repair somewhat the damage caused by the earlier scheme, by helping students learn the language in gradual stages.
The semi-official New Straits Times newspaper is leading the campaign under the telling slogan, “Build Tomorrow’s Malaysia, Learn English, Adopt a Student”.
A downside of the infatuation is the arrival of foreigners, tourists and others pretending to be English language teaching experts.
“Teach English on the colorful and exotic island of Borneo in Malaysia,” reads one Internet advertisement, inviting foreigners to head to Malaysia to teach English.
It goes on to say: “The flamboyance of Malaysia is breathtaking. This is a country where the sun shines, the sea is crystal clear and there are endless coconut, banana and palm trees! No qualifications required. Before you go – you can enroll in a one-day intensive open teacher, training day [optional] to help you teach if you have no previous experience.”
There seems little concern for nuances such as the all too-evident differences in American English and the British variety, with which this former crown colony is more familiar – though as a rapidly receding memory.
For now it is a free for all and rural Malays are too busy learning “English as she is spoke” to worry about who is doing the teaching.
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Chinese praised for emphasis on education
Borneo Post, Tuesday, August 14, 2001
KUCHING – The Chinese community today won praise from the Chief Minister for their resolve in wanting to educate their young.
He saluted them for going to great lengths to put up schools wherever they went so that their children could have a better future.
“Because of the strong Chinese emphasis on education, the community would struggle to build schools wherever they go to give opportunities to their children to acquire education,” said Datuk Patinggi Tan Sri Haji Abdul Taib Mahmud.
He was reacting to the community’s effort to raise RM1 million to build the recently completed SJK Chung Hua Asajaya.
Taib who officially opened the school today said former students had chipped in generously, adding it was no mean feat in a small place like Asajaya.
Towards this end the Chief Minister urged former students of schools to contribute to their alma mater for the benefit of the younger generation.
Taib who also laid the foundation stone for a multi-purpose centre in Asajaya said every effort should be made at preparing schoolchildren for the borderless economy, both in terms of technology and language skills.
In rural areas, for instance, it is becoming increasingly imperative for students to acquire information and communication technology skills so that they can work as fast and as efficient as their counterparts in Kuching, he said.
“As the world changes, their proficiency in several languages and adeptness in ICT would be able to assist them to easily establish trade with many countries, particularly China which will become the greatest economic giant in Asia,” he added.
In the same vein the Chief Minister said the development of new products in the State, like computer chips, would require traders with better qualifications and higher competency levels.
To face these challenges, people in the State, regardless whether they are Bumiputras or non- Bumiputras, have to cooperate and work together as ‘anak Sarawak’ to achieve success, he said.
At the function Taib also presented a State government donation of RM50,000 for the school to upgrade its computer facilities.
Earlier, Deputy Chief Minister Tan Sri Datuk Amar Dr George Chan called on the Chinese community in Asajaya to continue supporting the present leadership in the State.
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Too many school dropouts in Sarawak, says Taib
The Star, Friday, July 27, 2001
SRI AMAN: The number of dropouts among primary and secondary students in Sarawak has reached an alarming rate, said Chief Minister Tan Sri Abdul Taib Mahmud.
He said 64,000 primary and 18,000 secondary students dropped out of school between 1991 and 1996.
“This situation should be checked as it is a cause of concern to the government,” he said when launching the rural national science centre programme at the Civic Centre here on Wednesday.
Taib said if the problem was not addressed, it would hamper the government’s efforts to develop the state.
He said the state’s literacy rate was 83% and that 15.1% of the population did not receive any formal education. Only 9.3% had attained tertiary education.
He said the younger generation should fully utilise the information and communication technology to acquire more knowledge in the globalisation era.
“To create an awareness among rural community on the importance of science and technology, the state government will carry out more roadshows,” he said.
Taib said the government would pick five students from Sri Aman division to visit the National Science Centre and Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur to encourage more students to take up science subjects.
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Discard subsidy syndrome
Borneo Post, Friday, May 11, 2001
KUCHING – Yang di-Pertua Negeri Tun Datuk Patinggi Abang Haji Muhammad Salahuddin Abang Barieng today urged the people to eradicate the subsidy syndrome and be less dependent on government aid.
He said it was important to change their attitude to strengthen the foundation for self-reliance and to develop a spirit of competitiveness. “Mindsets and attitudes which hinder development must be discarded.
The subsidy mentality and government dependency must be discarded to enable us to stand on our own two feet and to have a competitive spirit,” he said when opening the State Legislative Assembly sitting here. He said the people had to have a dynamic entrepreneurial attitude and be well-versed in information technology (IT) to face the global economic challenges.
“In order to meet even bigger challenges in the future, our entrepreneurs must prepare themselves to face competition in the international market, be knowledgable and have high integrity and self-reliance,” he said.
He said highly knowledgeable and skilled entrepreneurs would motivate the new economy and prepare the State for the increasingly tough competition in the era of globalisation.
“The globalisation trend is besieging us and whether we accept or reject it, is not the question. What we should ask is to what extent we are prepared so far,” he added.
His Excellency said trade liberalisation _ an aspect of globalisation _ required the people to enhance their competitiveness.
“This means they should be efficient in terms of the quality of the produce and production cost. A mind and attitude still inclined to traditional work practices which stifle progress should be discarded,” he said.
He also stressed the importance of research and development (R&D), saying the government should reap optimum benefits from the State’s vast natural resources.
On human resource development, the Head of State said he appreciated the State government’s efforts to develop a ready pool of highly skilled workers, who were knowledgeable and trained in information technology.
“A huge allocation has been set aside for educational facilities and skills training. There is also a fund for Sarawak students to further their studies and upgrade their skills, especially in the technical and professional fields,” he said.
He thanked the Federal government for establishing community colleges in all parliamentary constituencies.
“This will certainly enable us to have more opportunities for the youth and members of the public to increase knowledge in technical and vocational skills,” he said.
His Excellency also reminded elected representatives not to neglect their constituents, saying they should try their best to help them.
“As representatives of your constituents, you are in the best to understand the problems of the people such as on issues pertaining to education, social and economic development,” he said.
Unggal Unak Semambu.
Utai ti di sebut nuan endang amat. Baka aku empu diau di Malaya, tang deka ga berandau enggau kita di RUAI ditu. Reti nya temuai ari jauh meh aku tu. Bisi ga pulai dua kali sebulan lalu berandau enggau bala kaban, tang dipelaba ka aku engka enda datai di ulu din penemu kitai.
Nyadi kitai ngarap ka bala kaban DB ke selalu bejalai sebelah ulu tu meh mai penemu kitai kin ila.
Pia mega Dr. JBA ulih ga nyarap semua penemu ke udah di pansut ditu di kena iya bekempen ila.
Enti udah badu gawa ila (2 taun agi) engka ulih ga enggau orang bejalai nabur ka penemu.
Naka nya, sekali tu.
Madah ngagai semua bala dlm ruai tu,aku amat meh ngau penyakal tang agi kalat2, penyakal ni ke patut dititihka.Aku setuju amat ngau penemu Semut Api,kebuah pia ngelamatu kitai Iban balat becekah ngau diri sama diri,bisi ngering ke cina,bisi ngering ke laut.Ngering ke bansa diri nadai kaban,tang semoa kitai tu sama bela deka numbang ke BN magang.Nti sema pembangkang megai perintah tu ila,kitai baru ga kiroh numbang ke sida nya ila.Nyadi kerja tu nda nemu putus.Nama kebuah,laban ukai bansa diri ke megai ulu.Munyi ko papong engkilu DAP manah tau dititih.Amat aku ngau pembangkang tang nda sekali2 aku muji cina baik ka ari DAP,MCA tauka ari BN munyi ko papong engkilunya.Anang2 ia tu bisi sakit dugal, tau asoh betemu ngau wat telanjur basah ngirup 1/2 gelas cap langkau,ngambi suman.Idup ka PPL kita unggal semut api and the geng.
gkm 2020,i fully agree with you on DTT,is 100 percent Dayak,for the Dayak and to the Dayak.DTT must be an independent organisation and not set up with the vested interest of any political parties.Neither DTT set up is to be a pro-opposition parties nor pro-government parties.
WE THE DAYAK PEOPLE MUST HAVE A STRONG MENTAL WILL,AND ACUTE INTELLIGENCE TO UNDERSTAND OUR DAYAK DILEMMA.The utmost important is Unity and Solidarity.Even with the DTT without Unity and Solidarity we will achieve nothing.All Dayak must sacrifices for these Unity and Solidarity,and only after achieving these we work for our further progress toward the betterment and upward mobility of Dayak people.
The DTT first aim should be the unity of Dayak people to be in full support of this DTT.
Selamat pagi akih ”gkm2020”. I engaged you because you have The Questions and The Answers! Since you’re the learned person presumably an Iban/Dayak, why leave the tasks to others? We do not need to be a partyman to help? Helping our people is helping ourselves, our future generations. We should not wait for others if we have the burden in our hearts. By the way Sir, congrats. I hope you have plenty of followers on your Blog. It is better to have our own, where we could share our thoughts and ideas. Thank you for justifying my questions posed earlier.
Unggal Moa Ari,
Munyi ko jako Laut; “menyahut seruan Ilah”…hehehe…
Sama-sama meh dua nulong rayat ngal. Enda iboh ngarap siko aku tu….hehehe…
If I am to answer my own questions then it is very unfair. It has to be a two way forum/communications unless DayakBaru is setup mainly to criticize others!
For me, I am what I am, and like you just said “I am helping myself”…hehehe…
To whose who can’t help themselves will remain “Helpless”.
Thank you.
Unggal Moa Ari,
Munyi ko jako Laut; “menyahut seruan Ilah”…hehehe…
Sama-sama meh tua nulong rayat ngal. Enda iboh ngarap siko aku tu….hehehe…
If I am to answer my own questions then it is very unfair.
It has to be a two way forum/communications unless DayakBaru is setup mainly to criticize others!
For me, I am what I am, and like you just said “I am helping myself”….hehehe….
To those who can’t help themselves will remain “Helpless”.
Thank you.
DB,
“ANANG BEMANANG KA BANSA BUKAI NGUBAT PENYAKIT BANSA KITAI”. TQ Unggal Ciribut. Laban kitai enda nemu upah iya lalu enda oleh malas upah iya. Enda patut Manang China ka ngubat kitai nadai upah?
Why shouldn’t DTT works with the current government? Why has to be with Pro-Opposition? Does Pro-Opposition has budget and agenda for Dayak? Unggal GKM 2020.
Ingat, China meri kitai Dayak sebatang insap, besai amat reti nya? Laban juluk Manang China selalu jauh rampa kadang-kadang enda temu kitai Dayak ke bepangkat doctor.
DB,
Anang ingat ka kitai Dayak boleh penuduk lebih ari DAP 18 iti enti kitai enggai beserakup enggau kitai Dayak ke bukai baka ba BN. Ari nya kitai oleh dimain ka DAP lalu sida nyadi tuai. Dia meh maia DAP ngapus ka Hak kitai Dayak nyadi rakyat asal menoa Sarawak. Dipinta sida sebaka enggau sida, berebut ka utai nadai pilih kasih ba mai sida ke dulu mansang ngelaban kitai Dayak ke agi kapa-kapa ba pengidup.
DB, berunding meh panjai. Kaul meh kitai Dayak ba BN anang selalu ngenyai ka sida enti ka ngaga DTT.
Nadai salah kitai betuai ka Jabu enti kitai oleh beserakup dia, ari kitai ke betuai ke bansa bukai tang kitai pechah kin kitu, belaya diri sama diri disabung orang.
JUST TO SHARE MY OPINION WITH YOU HERE TODAY:
NO MATTER WHAT: Dayak can have many-many organizations (politics, NGO, corporate, DTT or whatever) but if they and/or their leaders can’t organize their own “organizational culture and values” it will remain cultureless and valueless!
Emerson quotes:
“Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations. The sin is limitations. As soon as you once come up to a man’s limitations, it is all over with him”.
In many situations, the primary problem for Dayak leaders is not competition but a lack of understanding their own organizational culture.
Few organizations spend any time understanding their culture. Organizational culture relates to the underlying set of key values, beliefs, and norms shared by the workforce.
Organizational Values co-exist on two planes: personal and governance (ministration of policy and corporate structuring).
Core organizational values guide an organization while an individual operates on a set of core values that dictate his/her actions.
Therefore, creating good culture in an organization is complicated due to the fact that different people have varying values, different habits, different mindsets, different ideologies, different lifestyles, and so on.
Since culture is a crucial factor in long-term success, Dayak leaders should study and measure key dimensions of culture.
This cultural awareness will help Dayak organizations develop more effective strategies be it politics, social, humanitarian program or business.
Unfortunately, many organization initiatives fail due to the lack of cultural understanding.
Why is it so? In my view, “The failure occurs in most cases because the culture of the organization remained the same”.
Unless a ‘CHANGE & TRANSFORMATION’, there is little hope of any long lasting improvement in Dayak organizational culture.
Therefore, 21st organizations ought to recognize the important of understand their own leadership and corporate/ministration culture.
If Dayak still insist in maintaining their “status quo”, then “success, advancement and prosperity” will never become a reality.
“Status-Quo” simply mean to keep the things the way they presently are or used to be and/or the state of affairs that existed previously!
Nadai berubah lalu baka selama; nguan menoa baka selama nadai pemansang….
Thank you
Actually there had been many attempts in the past to talk about Dayak issues. They are just short of being called “Think Tank”. One such NGOs was SDGA where it was aimed to bring the minds of Dayak intellectuals to discuss about Dayak issues. Sabah Kedazan Dusuns also did the same.
As a spin off from OPP3 and the review of NEP, Dayaks and Kedazan Dusuns reviews their status looking at themselves as minority Bumiputras. Such effort had met with a lot of awareness and to me it is reasnonably successful. For those who like to criticise however, it is always easy, as you know talking is cheap.
There are many resolutions derived from SDGA as well as by DCCI. I am sure there are no less similar objectives and resolutions established by SDNU, SADIA, etc, (correct me if I am wrong).
In fact there had been many many objectives meant to be for Dayaks that had been estbalished by NGOs as well as political parties. Whether or not they are able to be implemented is another question.
So, what is so special or what had been missed out by previous and current efforts that drives DAP to call for a Think Tank? While it is easy to open our arms in the sense that any help is welcome, I think we should also a bit more critical and should exercise our enquiring minds. It is easy to say yes instantly but once you have digested it and pause, then you realise there are many reasons why DAP-Dayak Think Tank is not such a good idea:-
1) For a start, it’s an insult to Dayak Nation that Chinese people has to think tank for us! DAP wish to claim the glory that they are fighting for Dayaks more than the Dayak themselves! At face value it seems to be so but there are more than meets the eyes, remember this!
2) We have enough clever Dayak people. Oh wait, what is there to think tank about when we had been thinking about it since the last 20 years? Why not just refer to the resolutions of SDGA, DCCI and perhaps SDNU or SADIA?
3) Dayaks actually know their problems very well. It doesn’t take a rocket science to tell them what are their problems. It is the solution and implementation that are shortcoming.
4) Being minority in Malaysia, Dayaks cannot afford to distant themselves from the Government of the days. They cannot afford to be put in cold storage indefinitely or wait until one fine day that DAP-PKR becomes the Government of Sarawak.
5) Assuming DAP know all the Dayak problems and with ready solutions, in what capacity DAP implement them in Sarawak? Don’t forget the next election would be in 2016.
6) What if DAP “ada udang di sebalik batu?”. when would Dayaks stop allowing themselves to be made used of by other people? Should Dayaks be so gullibles as to escapre for the lion’s jaw and jump staright to a crocodile’s mouth?
Unggal CharcoalArt,
“Tepuk Jari” and that almost answered all my candid questions above. Thank you.
Cheers bro!
http://ruaigkm2020.blogspot.com/
I must be optimistic about the move, it doesnt matter if others did it for us. The struggle must be reinforced to greater heights. Let DAP intiate the move and we Dayaks to execute the strategy. We left with little hope/options, if we look back to the past history of Dayak struggle.
Adopt and adapt to whatever moves that bring significant changes to our people, whether we like it or not, it is not a big issue. If we want CHANGE, we must be ready to SACRIFICE our pride and dignity with honour.
Dayak must apply the ” Archimedes theory ” in their way of life. Think of themselves first and displace as much their fellow brothers in order to stay afloat. Sink them and only then come with a rescue plan. While rescuing get as much advantage as you can same as the banking system operate.
There must be a dominant figure in our society to propel others to follow.
Brother GKM 2020 may can elaborate further.
Salam 1Malaysia
idea is just an idea if we did not implement it
I would prefer that the Dayaks form a think-tank with PAS instead of DAP. What’s your take? PAS Welfare state is better for the Dayaks than the DAP secular state.
ES,
PAS is unpredictable it doesn’t have a firm stand (doubtful) DAP is more acceptable where religion is not exploited and augurs well within our struggle.
Anyway we can steer the course of our political struggle should we Dayaks able to stand firm with strong bargaining power with other political parties in Malaysia.
Right now, its free for all, back to ground zero for the dayaks!!!
bravo Uncle CA, your comments did clear the air of “think tank” about dayak & dap.
i like your phrase Uncle CA especially this one,”For a start, it’s an insult to Dayak Nation that Chinese people has to think tank for us! DAP wish to claim the glory that they are fighting for Dayaks more than the Dayak themselves! At face value it seems to be so but there are more than meets the eyes, remember this!” …yes, sir! remember its, it is more than meets the eyes. very,very big meaning indeed.
i think it is safe and allright for us the dayak, to conclude that, we can forget or say good bye to the “think tank” with the dap. Uncle CA has given us various reasons for the objection to its.
i guess semut api will be very happy and he should be.
Bala Kaban.
OOOhhh…nama utai tu nyau majak angat majak CHARUT majak TUSUT dah, nyau baka tali pukat tali ginti tali tansi. Bala kaban SARA’ anang ngasoh utai charut nambah ke TELIH meh..ni akih papung Engkilu dah..??
Ingat bala kaban, 48 taun kitai Iban udah merdeka bai aki jugah kenuuuu…..,30 taun bai abu awan asing taip acan sereta kumpulan ybs Iban dayak ke bukai, tugong beserigang suba diatu, nyau PARAI MATI PAHAI pUNGKA KEDUA…sereta lalu nadai NINGGAL ke BELANG munyi ko laut. Ninggal ke UTANG ba rayat maioh engka AMAT, janji tu janji nya….??? Bah NI ‘THINK TANK’ dah bala kaban..!!??
Nama kita ngarap ke awan asing abu nyedia numboh nyait ‘THINK TANK’ IBAN pia…., jauh panggang ari api nya nah akih papung Engkilu KOW. Bala kaban nama kebuah MESTI TAKUT enggau CINA, enti nadai CINA nadai bala kita ke ENDA SETUJU endor kita bekedayau NGEPAP KEROKE belah kedai kaban kaban… Enti nadai CINA TUTUP pasar KUCHING SIBU MIRI BINTULU enggau pasar pasar bukai…pasar JULAU pan tutup bala kaban…
Sebedau ngereja pengawa ANANG MAGAR diri dulu, UJI CUBA TRY munyi ko laut, enda pia akih papung Engkilu, KOW… Nah ORANG YAHUDI enti bala sida ka nulong kitai nadai meh ngasoh kitai RARI bala kaban, UJI DULU.
Enti penemu kita ke BESAI agi pangkat BISI agi PUGU agi baka penemu buah kepayang, anang ngarap ke kitai ulih nitih ke orang enti penemu kita semina PEHINTAH aja ulih NULONG tusah kaban….., nadai sama NGADU KEDIRI empu meh bala kitai pengujong ia kaban. Enti nadai orang BUKAI ulih ngiring kitai kami tu ka PAN ENDA enggau orang bukai… NGUJI dulu meh bala kaban, enti lain asai RARI MEGA kitai, UKAI dap ngerantai kaki kitai enggau sida….Nadai kitai enggau dap lalu mai rantai enggau kunchi dah..??
Mupok kaban, ampon enti balat WONG PELAGUS. Idup Iban Idup Dayak. OOhhaa…
Ciribut Dayak Think Tank.
1.Absolute Unity is a MUST.
2.Removal Of Dayaks from remote areas and relocation of Dayaks in big numbers to a new strategic location,new township where Dayak majority must be maintain,Dayak in commerce,Dayak traders,Dayak kedai kopi,Dayak Restraunt,Dayak supermarket,Dayak school,Dayak college,Dayak University,Dayak Polytechnic,Dayak Hospital,Dayak Resident,Dayak District officer,Dayak own police force,Dayak emoloyment in the public and private sector,and etc etc.
3.Under the Native Compensation Agreement with their removal from remote areas,and relocation to new areas as mentioned in 2 above,the Dayak gave up their Native Customary Rights Land,receiving millions or billions of ringgits as compensation.Since the former Dayak land now has been relinquished developers can proceed with whatever development they want on the land,free from Dayak claims what so ever.A Dayak Development Corporation is to be established and must be the majority shareholders in all this new development.
4.The problem is Dayak is not the government.Dayak have no government because in Malaysia,for Dayak to form a Dayak government is like the sky and the earth,it will never happen in a thousand years,Dayak have no Sultan,unless out there a Dayak can prove that he is keturunan Sultan,so the position of King is beyond the Dayak,Dayak cannot even become a governor in Sarawak(muslim Dayak possible-Jabu would be Dayak No.1 candidate for governor if Jabu convert to Islam,in case Jabu dont prefer the Chief minister post).The presence of Dayaks in Johore or Malaya by thousands would not be a force to ensure Dayak become the leader in the Malaysian Government;we just don’t get enough seat,what more to say a two third majority.COMMON SENSE tell us this is plain impossible.
5.So the Ciribut Think Tank composed of Dayak Intellectuals come with the conclusion that-”No Dayak Government,No Dayak Development” statement.This is the first major problem pointed by the Ciribut Think Tank Adviser and thinkers.As mentioned earlier Dayak cannot be the backbone of Malaysian government,i repeat,COMMON SENSE tell us that.Ciribut Think Tank advisers and thinkers
came up with another new thinking-’the Dayak should be able to be the backbone of the government of independence Sarawak,these possibility is not remote and attainable provided the Dayak must be united to fight for homeland,a sovereign country.’ collectively the advisers and thinkers agree on this.
6.Now fellow Dayaks the two above ‘thinking’ from the Dayak intellectuals,advisers and thinkers of the Ciribut Think Tank,seek your one hundred percent support,”Dayak government and Dayak sovereignty is the key for the future of Dayak People”, so the Dayak intellectuals concluded in their final deliberation.
7.Iya ka udah,udah, badu beensiban ati enggau pangan,anang ka netak senapang diriempu,palu enggau papong engkilu tau senapang,enda meh baka ka di tetak,engka ibu agi beguna.Ciribut Think Tank tu guna ditu aja dulu ngelimpang ka bala ke bisi carut,tang nadai gak salah berati ka jako sida advisers enggau thinkers CTT,enda pia Unggal Unggal semua,enggau bala kita Wat,Dom,Jang kita ka biak.Enti bisi salah anang gak nganu bala CTT ke mansut ka anak penemu ke mengemit.
Terima kasih
Unggal ciribut,
Your paragraph 4 noted.
I would add:
Dayak dominant political parties have been banned by Taib, and Taib’s politics is to ‘divide and rule’ over Dayak. Old school but effective so far.
Other bumiputera races like Malays and Melanau prospered in leaps and bounds under BN administration. But not Dayak.
Is Taib against Dayak since the day he got into office? What say all if all Dayak BN ( Dayak BN only )go and demand more from Taib? In fact if Dayak BN had done their job properly, Dayak should be on par with Malays and Melanau.
The Dayak BN majority have stood solidly behind BN and (quote)as monkey voters, have elected monkey representatives who precedes miring ceremony as cure for most Dayak problems.
Let us get DAP to join the Dayak playground and proceed with the Think Tank, then maybe Dayak BN feel malu and start doing real things for all Dayaks.
Otherwise, unity is merely a dream but bananas are real. Go feed them some more bananas!
Enda Surut,
Dayaks form a think-tank with PAS?
I think langkau cap DAP lover will strongly oppose the idea ha..ha..ha..
DB,
Pengawa DAP deka ngaga Dayak Think-Tank nadai bukai tang ngaga agenda politik ka sida empu.
Tuju iya udah temu kitai, deka mikat ati pengundi Dayak lebih agi rebak baru enggau bala ke bisi pelajar awak ka oleh ngundi Pembangkang lalu mai DAP bansa China nyadi KM megai menoa Sarawak.
Laban DAP DTT tu deka dikerja bala Dayak ke rebak baru ke bisi pelajar tang nadai pengelaman ba pengidup enggau politik. DAP mempergunaka orang baka nya mikat pengundi kitai Dayak, lebih agi rebak baru.
DAP udah nemu enti BN Sarawak tumbang ngagai pembangkang sida deka nyadi parti ke majority lalu nyadi KM Sarawak. Party Bansa Dayak udah temu sida pechah lalu enda oleh nyadi majority enggau KM, semina nyadi ke tubuh aja. Sekeda YB Dayak deka dibeli bala Tawkey China dalam DAP kena maioh ka tubuh. Pia mega bala Melayu enggau Melanau enti penuduk dia bisi menang.
Kitai Dayak ke bukai ke nyukong DAP DTT nya mega udah temu kitai penemu. Bisi sekeda semina deka meda BN alah, deka meda YB kitai Dayak ba BN tumbang lalu enda mikir ka penusah Dayak udah nya. Bisi sekeda deka meda bala YB Dayak ba BN malu laban bansa bukai ngadu ka DTT kitai. Bisi sekeda teparuk enggau janji DAP tang enda nemu reti perintah ke udah dipegai DAP enggau PAP, enda nemu asai pemerinsa bansa bumiputra ke dia ba perintah ke dipegai DAP enggau PAP.
Lalu nadai siti runding ke nyukung DAP DTT tu nerang ke enggau silik baka ni atur DTT ke bendar, dini endor boleh duit kena bejalai ka DTT nya, sapa orang ke bejalai ka nya, kering oleh ka enda orang ke bejalaika DTT nya enggau maioh pengawa ke bukai. Mujur ka enda DAP DTT tu bedau temu. Enti kitai lalu enda nemu semoa utai tu bakani ko kitai tau nyukong polisi DAP ke deka ngaga DTT. Nama semina nyukung enggau buta enda nemu ulu enggau ili?
Penusah enggau chara ngadu ka penusah kitai Dayak enda iboh minta DAP ngaga ka kitai DTT. Penusah enggau Chara ngadu ka penusah kitai Dayak enda perlu ka expertise ari bansa bukai, kitai empu pan oleh ngerintai ka iya. Penemu ba DCCI, SDNU, SDGA enggau maioh Association Dayak ke bukai udah chukup dikena kitai. Semina baka ni kitai bejalai ka penemu nya enggau mujur.
DB, enti kita enggau ati manah serta lurus deka bejurai ka penusah enggau atur ngadu ka penusah kitai Dayak, pesau kitai Dayak ari BN, PR enggau bala bukai, berandau manah, gaga forum lalu gaga siti agenda enggau buku ijau kena nyimpan anak penemu ke oleh ari forum lalu pejalai ka pengawa nitih ka buku ijau nya.
Enti nadai belanja kena ngadu ka nya, mupuk ngiga sponsor, bepesau bebubul ka duit. Gaga working paper, gaga homework dulu.
Sapa-sapa bala kita DB ke deka ngereja pengawa ke baka nya enggau beamat-amat tau ngiga aku, angka oleh aku nyadi siko sponsor ke besai utai ke bakatu.
Unggal Iban Abroad,
“Tepuk Jari”, aku setuju amat enggau penemu nuan nya ngal.
Please do visit my private blogspot:
http://ruaigkm2020.blogspot.com/
Cheers!
I see that there is no such word “leadership” nor “unity” in the Iban vocabulary, agree? the worst thing, we allowed to be manipulated over and over again, to remain disunited for the sake of short-term personal wealth and position. Since the current Dayak leaders lack the courage to genuinely develop our socio economic status, awak ke bala urang DAP meh ngemujur ke pemansang bala kitai…..if some may say DAP is doing this out of political mileage, then so be it; bala BN pan baka nya….But personally, I would like to see Pakatan Rakyat does it collectively; not just DAP. Let the people see that the opposition stand united to ‘safe’ the Dayak.
Anang takut ke DAP di Sarawak kitai bansa Dayak iban.Abis maioh DAP ulih menang dalam pengawa bepilih menua Swak ianya 15 -18 iti penuduk, SEMADI meh semua dayak masuk lalu nyukong DAP lalu DAP bediri ba sitak majority iban. Kati ba penemu kita ke pandai bepolitik DAP nyadi KM enti semina menang 15 iti kerusi kah? DAP tu tau diguna bala dayak nyadi ke pengering bansa Dayak ke ngelaban BN.
Anang takut ke bala China , PAP singapore lain. China di Spore majority . Enti nadai China sida Charcoal Art nya kada bebini laban enggai enda bebini indu China-betul akih CA?
Aku nyukong penemu DTT ke di puun ke DAP laban aku endang nadai pengarap ke tuai Dayak dalam BN deka tauka berani ngepun ke penemu utai tu.47 tahun udah dipegai BN lalu enda ga sida ngepun ke utai tu. Bambi ke tanah rayat nemu meh bala sida Jabu sida Chuat.Jauh ka nulong Dayak munoh Dayak baru rajin. Peda penusah kami menua Betong ketegal sida ke beambi ke tanah ngelingi pasar Betong TANG bepilih agi ga anak Numpang menang. Iban kami Betong endang enda enchelak…
Respect amat aku ninga penemu nuan Iban Abroad.Se-agi2 kitai allowed to be manipulated by bangsa bukai selaginya meh kitai remain disunited.Maioh rumah panjai nyadi pandak, rumah pandak nyadi panjai,why? MANIPULATION. By whom,who…if not by talibarut bangsa bukai.
Idup PPL
A forthnight ago I briefed PAS Deputy President Mat Sabu on the mentality of the Dayaks esp. the Iban in the state. He expressed his keeness to exploit and manipulate the Dayaks to achieve PAS political agenda of Welfare state. He expressed confidence that PAS welfare state agenda suit the the rural Dayaks who will not be able to compete with other races on level playing field. A food for a thought!!!!!!!
Iban Abroad,sekali tu jako serta penemu nuan nadai kurang nadai timpang.’Anang bemanang ka manang bansa sida DAP belian ngerai ka penyakit bansa Dayak,bansa Iban.Berentak agi macah laban nuan ngena jako Iban sekali tok.Sama sama kitai negi ngering ka bansa diri.
Thank you
Really? At the moment, only two Dayak NGOs are louder than the others. SDNU and SADIA. What about OUNA,DBNA,DCCI,SDGA? Until the few pro-BN people in these organisations forgo their personal privilledges, no change shall happen.
Next week I’will conform with Tok Guru akih enda surut,to support your good good work.
Unggal Semut Api,
I heard Tok Guru @PAS is going to counter offer Dayak with “Dayak Welfare Trust”….hehehe…