KAPIT RESOLUTIONS 1962
DAYAK TREATY FOR MALAYSIA
General Introduction
I write this article in good faith for kind attention of all Dayak Ibans and other Dayak communities (Dayaklama and/or Dayakbaru) of Sarawak. We, Dayaks (Dayak Iban, Dayak Bidayuh and Dayak Orang Ulu), in Sarawak may not have 20 points like State of Sabah but we extremely have at least 21 points agreement prior to the formation of the “Federation of Malaysia”.
“Kapit Resolution 1962” was the key treaty and/or agreement mooted by the native Ibans with regard to the proposal of the “Federation of Malaysia” via the Malaysia Plan “Aum” 1962.
47 years of independence, Malaysia and/or the Federation of Malaya (promoted by UMNO) had failed to safeguard the natives’ rights and/or privileges and had also failed to accelerate efforts to improve the economics future of the natives in Sarawak.
Our history began here in 1962
The Ibans form the largest single group of the population and by far the largest native group.
Ibans are primarily country people and few take to town life. Although they are to be found throughout the country, nearly 75% of their total number live in the Second and Third Divisions.
Special Privileges for Natives Sarawak
Groups from all natives populations expressed a general desires;
a. The Head of State should be a native of Sarawak.
b. That special privileges should be given to the natives. They were extremely anxious that their position in the new Federation should be analogous to that of the Malays in the present Constitution of the Federation of Malaya.
c. There was a general agreement that economic development should be accelerated and increased attention paid to education, in particular reference to the needs of the natives;
d. That the land, forestry and agriculture should be subjected to be controlled by the State Government. Great emphasis was also laid on the need to safeguard customary rights and practices.
e. Customary land and other native rights should be protected.
General natives’ opinions toward the formation of “The Federation of Malaysia”
On a number of other points there are also some differences in opinions:
a. Some elements favor the arrangement that the Head of State of Sarawak should also be eligible to be the Head of the Federation of Malaysia, while others, a smaller element, favor a popularly elected of the Federation.
b. There were differences in attitude towards the acceptance of Islam as the national religions for Malaysia as a whole, and towards its particular application to Sarawak.
c. There were similar differences in attitude towards Malay as the national language for Malaysia as a whole and towards its application to Sarawak; and also as to official languages for Sarawak
d. There was conflict regarding the Constitutional allocation of the legislative powers between the Federal and the State Governments in the new Federation, to which is related the question of a formula for representation in the new Federal Parliament.
e. The immigration into Sarawak from other territories of the proposed Federation should be under the control of the State authorities. This springs from the fear that, on the establishment of “Malaysia”, the people of Malaya and Singapore in particular would migrate in large numbers to Sarawak to take advantage of the land and opportunities available, to the detriment of the people of Sarawak themselves. Coupled with this general anxiety, there is particular concern about the possible entry of undesirable elements from “outside”
f. There should also be no rapid change in the administrative arrangements affecting the daily life of the people or in such matters as taxation.
g. Rural development should be accelerated as it has been in the Federation of Malaya so that the general standard of living could be raised as soon as possible.
“Aum Kapit” Malaysia Plan 1962
“Aum” in Iban herein referred to as “conference”.
The most important single center of the Ibans is at Kapit in the Third Division. A conference (or “aum”) of 51 elected Chiefs (Pengarahs and Penghulus) had been held there on the 15th February, 1962, to discuss the proposals for a “Federation of Malaysia” set out in the Sarawak Government’s Paper.
KAPIT RESOLUTIONS 1962
The Iban conference @Aum reached their general agreement that the “scheme” should be supported, subject to certain conditions, and their resolutions when the Cobbold Commission visited Kapit on the 19th March 1962.
The “Kapit Resolutions 1962” were as follows:
1. Head of Sarawak State: The Head of the State of Sarawak to be a native of Sarawak.
Some groups expressed a wish that he should be elected by the people. Some would like him to have the title of Rajah and to be an Iban.
In either case, it was held that he should be eligible, with the Heads of other States in the new Federation, for the post of Head of the Federations. One or two groups asked that, during the initial period, a British Governor should be retained.
2. Head of State of Malaysia: The Head of each State in the Federation of Malaysia to be eligible in due course to be the Head of the Federation of Malaysia.
Some Ibans asked that he should be given the title of President as the title Yang di-Pertuan Agong is Malay, and is not acceptable.
3. Tradition Custom: “Adat Lama” to remain under the control of the Government of the State of Sarawak as it has until to-day.
4. Sarawak Land: Land to be under the control of the State including the existing rights of the natives of Sarawak in such matters as land.
5. National language: There was some difference of opinion. Some groups suggested that there should be no national language; others wanted it to be Iban. Still others were willing to have Malay or Iban.
6. Official Language: English to remain the official language of the State of Sarawak and to continue to be one of the official languages of Malaysia.
There was agreement among groups that English should be retained either indefinitely or for at least fifteen (15) years as the official language, not only in Sarawak but in the new Federation as well. Some groups wished Iban as well as English to be an official language.
7. Religion: Freedom in religious worship
8. Federal Representation: There is to be adequate representation for Sarawak in the Federal Government.
A number of groups asked that this should be worked out on a combined population and areas basis and that, within the number of seats allocated to Sarawak in the House of Representatives, the Ibans should have equal representation with the Malays and the Chinese.
9. Native Employment: British officers to remain until replaced by properly qualified local people. Natives to have a fair share of Government employment.
10. Native Privileges and Status: Sarawak natives to enjoy the same status and privileges as Malays in Malaya.
11. Education: Education to be a Federal subject and to be equalized throughout Malaysia as soon as possible. Sarawak natives to have a fair share of overseas scholarships.
12. Medium of instruction in schools: English should be retained as the medium of instruction, but Iban should be taught as a subject.
13. Immigration: Immigration to remain under the control of the State of Sarawak.
14. State Powers: Powers reserved in the Constitution to a State may not be changed without the agreement of the State.
15. Development: Development in Sarawak to be accelerated.
16. Religion: Much emphasis was placed on the need for freedom of religion as there is at present, i.e., freedom to profess, practice and propagate any religion.
There was a general feeling that Sarawak should be a secular State and the suggestion was made that if Muslims were given assistance from Federal funds, other religions – Christianity was specially mentioned – should enjoy similar treatment.
17. Name of the new Federation: There was dislike of the name “MALAYSIA” and hope that some other name could be devised. Many alternatives were suggested.
18. Armed Forces: The Ibans are anxious to have a fair chance of service in the Federation’s armed forces.
19. Sarawak State: A number of groups wanted to be sure that they could have a separate Sarawak State flag – some mentioned the old Rajah’s flag – a State anthem and a National Day.
20. Self-Government: The Ibans had been looking forward to the self-government which had been promised to them, and the principal reason why they were ready, on conditions, to accept the Malaysia proposals, despite their uncertainties, was because they were confident that the British Government would not recommend the scheme if it was not going to be beneficial to them.
21. Equal rights: Ibans wanted to be treated by the Malays as brothers, but not as the younger brothers. They were opposed to the idea that Sarawak should be treated as only one of 15 States in a Federation of Malaysia; they maintained that this would give her too small a voice in the new Federation’s affairs.
The 51 Chiefs at the conference together were said to represent some 112,000 Ibans out of a total population of nearly 238,000 and many delegations of Ibans who came before the Cobbold Commission teams at different centers in the Third Division confirmed that they supported the “Kapit Resolutions 1962”.
In a small number of cases a demand was made that they should either be accepted without alteration or that any changes should be made only after there had been opportunity for further discussion with the Iban people.
While the great majority of the Ibans in the Third Division who were in favor of the Malaysia plan took their stand on the “Kapit Resolutions 1962”, there were some groups who gave their full support to the “scheme” on the basis of the recommendations in the report of the Malaysia Solidarity Consultative Committee (MSCC).
Notes: The Sarawak MSCC Delegations in Singapore were represented by (3rd February 1962):
- Yeo Cheng Hoe – Leader
- Ong Kee Hui – Member
- Temenggong Jugah Ak Barieng – Member
- Pengarah Montegrai Ak Tugang – Member
- Dato Abang Haji Openg – Member
- Ling Beng Siew – Member
- James Wong – Member
- Remigius Durin Ak Nganau – Member
Other Desirable Provisions
Some felt that this was a desirable provision in a new venture about which they felt some doubts. Others suggested that it should apply only in certain circumstances such as:
a. A change of regime in Kuala Lumpur.
b. A change in the Federal Constitution which had not been accepted by Sarawak.
One group from the Baram River hotly opposed the creation of a Federation of Malaysia but recognized that the decision might go against them.
They insisted that, if this was so, certain conditions should be met. These were much the same as those set out in the “Kapit Resolutions 1962”, but went further in some respects and the group was not prepared to discuss any modification of them.
Right to withdraw from the new Federation
There was fear too that a large proportion of Sarawak’s revenue would be handed over to the Federal Government without a corresponding return in the shape of services to the people of Sarawak.
The question of the right to withdraw from the new Federation was raised with Sarawak MCSS at Kapit and elsewhere.
In certain circumstances there should be such a right at least for a period of five (5) years, and that this should be specifically stated in the Federal Constitution.
Conclusion
The Second Division Ibans were not represented at the “Aum Kapit” but most of the many groups supported the idea of Malaysia, though they asked for safeguards.
In many places, more especially in the more remote areas and in areas where the Ibans form a proportionately smaller section of the population, a feeling of general uncertainty was apparent.
The Ibans and others who had given the matter careful thought, that the “Kapit Resolutions 1962” had to be considered against a background of implicit trust in the British Government.
Political activity had been stimulated to an alarming degree by the “Malaysia” proposals and many Ibans were afraid that there might be violence not only between different races but between Ibans who supported the “Malaysia Plan” and those who opposed it.
Finally, the view was expressed by the Ibans in many centers that it was of great importance that a decision on Malaysia should be reached as soon as possible.
So, where are Ibans and other native Dayaks today? What is your general status?
If you failed to vote your rights, you failed to protect and/or defend your “Special Privileges”
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gkm2020,
I am speechless.
You have proven, once again, the blatant disregard for the rights of the Natives of Sarawak by the Federal Government.
Very funny to recall back how Masing can DENY all Taib’s corruption and still feeling NOT GUILTY even though Bakun Dam clearly detrimental to his own displaced Dayak folks and even claimed IT’S THE CORRECT WAY OF DOING IT! WOOOHHOOHH!!!
Masing pleads ‘not guilty’ over indigenous displacement
Sarawak Land Development Minister James Masing told a tv news channel that he has absolutely no guilt over the displacement of indigenous people caused by the construction of hydro-electric dams in the state .
http://www.malaysiakini.com/news/100693
Mar 21, 09 2:32pm
Sarawak Land Development Minister James Masing told a tv news channel that he has absolutely no guilt over the displacement of indigenous people caused by the construction of hydro-electric dams in the state.
“I don’t feel guilty. I feel that is the correct way of doing it. I don’t have any guilt feeling for trying to help my people,” said Masing on the Al-Jazeera’s 101 East programme Thursday night. [Watch 10-min video]
Host Fauziah Ibrahim had asked Masing if he felt guilty, as a person of indigenous descent, over indigenous people being displaced to make way for economic development.
During the programme, Masing defended the construction of dams, such as the massive Bakun hydroelectric dam and the proposal to build 12 new ones, because the state government was preparing for the future.
“Sarawak has enough energy as it is today. But we must look 20 years down the road. By that time we may not have enough energy. You know very well the cost of fuel (is escalating),” he said.
Masing defends CM
Masing also defended the involvement of Cahaya Mata Sarawak (CMS), a company owned by family members of Chief Minister Taib Mahmud in the construction of the dams.
“The dam constructions are done to legal tenders. The lowest tender gets it. It doesn’t matter if CMS or somebody else. It must be done on tender basis.
“That is very transparent. The international community can take a look at it… it is an open book for everyone to look,” he said .
When Fuziah pointed out that there are numerous cases in which projects were given to companies linked to Taib without open tenders, Masing said: “I was not aware of it” .
Fuziah replied by that the Similajau aluminum smelting plant was given to CMS while the construction of several bridges were awarded to Titanium Management Sdn Bhd, which Taib’s eldest son Mahmud Abu Bekir holds substantial interest in.
‘Everything was transparent’
Even with evidence presented before him, Masing maintained that these awards were given fairly and in accordance with the law.
“We have rules and laws… If there is a decision made by people who have vested interest, there are laws which does not allow it. It is illegal for people in authority to give authority with vested interest.
“All these things have been done through open tenders. They are transparent,” he said.
“In the case of the aluminum smelter, there were a few companies that were asked to bid for it. I know. And the best company gets it.
“Unfortunately, it was given to a company where the authority has some interest. But it is done legally,” he added.
‘I’m a friend of the chief minister’
Meanwhile, Fuziah also scrutinised Masing over his links to Taib. Masing admitted that he was an “ally” to Taib, but gave a less outright answer when asked if he was Taib’s “crony”.
“I don’t think (so). Crony means friends. I am a friend of the chief minister,” he said.
On whether there was “crony capitalism” going on in Sarawak, Masing replied in the negative because no one has been brought to book over such matters.
“I don’t think so. If there is, those who deal in it would be dealt by the law. Until today, there is nothing. One must assume there is no cronyism as such,” he said.
On who would keep the chief minister and his family accountable, Masing said the electorate would.
“I believe the voters in Sarawak are a very intelligent group of people,” he added.
Dayaks sometime can be so forgetful. The following just a re-run in case of ‘Dayak mudah lupa’:
We are damned!
Why would someone want to generate electricity through a giant hydroelectric plant in an area that does not demand that massive supply? Answer me that question and you can stop reading.
By Hakim Joe, Saturday, 03 October 2009, Malaysia Today
Why would someone harness the power of moving liquid and transform it into a clean and usable energy? The answer is of course for the electricity that is utilized to operate the multitude of electrical and electronic devices that we have. Simple answer.
Now comes the harder question. Why would someone want to generate electricity through a giant hydroelectric plant in an area that does not demand that massive supply? Answer me that question and you can stop reading.
The Bakun Hydroelectric Plant (BHP) is located on the wrong side of the divide. The requirement for more energy emanates from the power-hungry residents of West Malaysia where flashing neon lights and air-conditioned shopping centres swallow them up by the megawatts, and not the East Malaysians where everything is rather subdued. How much electricity does one require to light up a longhouse anyway? (That was meant to be a joke…continue to vote BN and they will make certain that you people remain in longhouses watching Charlie Chaplin reruns on black and white television sets without a remote control in a congested room full of houseflies.)
Seriously though, even the West Malaysians have more than sufficient electrical energy to run all their electrical components simultaneously without having to rely on those generated by the BHP. In fact, we are drowned in it up to our nostrils that Tenaga Nasional had to payoff the Independent Power Producers (IPP) to stop their respective plants generating more electricity into the national power grid. So, why the urgent need for a hydroelectric plant capable of generating another 500 megawatts of electricity (originally 2,400MW), a plant so massive that it is only eclipsed by China’s Three Gorges Dam in Asia?
Even the original plan of rerouting the excess electricity back west through undersea cables was flawed. Yes, hydroelectric generated power is far cheaper and cleaner than the coal-fired or diesel-fired plants but when has the Malaysian government ever cared about the pollution levels in the country? (Even Petronas sells their cleaner and more expensive petroleum overseas and imports the cheaper high sulphur petroleum for use locally and the introduction of the environmental less-unfriendly RON95 was only done this year.) About the only time when they start caring is when their drivers and bodyguards find it hard to look past the windshield of their limousines.
Okay, so the West Malaysians do not require this clean energy here but what about the East Malaysians? Do they not deserve clean fresh air with their electricity? Well, of course they do but someone’s got to pollute the environment there and all the smokers and recalcitrant backyard dry leaves and rubbish burners are just not up to it, hence the intervention of the government.
To make up for cleaning the air through the production of clean hydroelectric energy (instead of coal-fired), Putrajaya in partnership with the Sarawak State Government has plans on the pipeline to retain the environmental status quo by developing a humungous pollution and toxic fumes (hydrogen fluoride, sulphur dioxide, tetrafluoromethane, hexafluoroethane, nitrogen dioxide, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, carbon monoxide and particulate matter PM-10 and PM-2.5) generating, electricity devouring aluminium smelter within its borders, a really gigantic one judging by its proposed production capacity of a maximum of 1.5 million tons a year.
Ha! Ha! You guys over there really thought that you are going to enjoy a breath of clean air, eh? Well, think again!
Oh, by the way, the largest existing aluminium smelter being built in the world is the Emirates Aluminium (Emal) plant in Abu Dhabi, capable of producing 1.4 million tons a year when it becomes operational after 2010. When the Malaysian plant becomes operational, it will be the largest in the world – Malaysia Boleh! (A Heads of Agreement has been signed between Rio Tinto and Cahaya Mata Sarawak Berhad in 2007.) More on CMS later.
Before we start with the serious stuff, let us look at the damned dam. If anyone reading this article thinks that a dam lasts almost forever, think again. Hydroelectric plants are not considered a renewable plant where constant maintenance will keep it going perpetually. (The engineers might think that their magical skills are all that is required to keep the dam going on indefinitely but this is a hypothetical scenario as the oldest serving dam is only 110 years old.)
The water might still flow but the dam cannot be salvaged after its expected lifespan and require decommissioning. Similar to our Buatan Malaysia products, they tend to be problematic right past their expiry date. Concrete under constant pressure fails after a fixed period of time. Nothing lasts forever and even God does not build things to last forever.
The International Commission on Large Dams (ICOLD) predicts a lifespan of 100 years (under present engineering designs) for those that are not maintained at all and double that for those that are well-maintained. It goes without saying that these predictions are made with the clause that the dams exist in a perfect environment. The ICOLD tracks all large dams (over 100-meters tall) in the world and at least 300 have experienced accidents. These were not all catastrophic failures, but if you are an engineer in charge of building an enormous dam, you definitely want to give some thought to what can go wrong. Remember Murphy’s Law.
Even the World Bank is sceptical of such mega load-bearing structures that they had stopped financing it completely. Additionally, if you are a resident living downhill where the dam is situated, you must seriously want to consider the calibre of Mara graduates. (That was another joke! To all Mara graduates, “stay cool lah!”)
Maintaining a dam is not easy either. With such a massive structure and its corresponding parts, a lot of predetermined inspection periods must be conducted properly and diligently. The powerhouse equipment can and will suffer a breakdown, the spillways will erode, the steel pipes might crack, the valves will fail, the retaining concrete wall might also suffer a crack at the bottom, the water will silt up, the sluice gates might get jammed, and a hell of a lot of other things can happen like someone might do a 911 with a hijacked plane or Thor might have forgotten to wear his bifocals and accidentally strikes it repeatedly (with lightning). Additionally, did you know that the construction of a large dam can artificially cause earthquakes to happen in areas previously thought to be seismically inactive? (28 earthquakes were registered in Sabah and Sarawak in the period between 1965 and 1994, the highest being a 5.8 tremor in 1976.)
The most powerful artificially induced earthquake caused by the construction of a huge dam (over 100-meters in height) is thought to be the 6.5 tremor that had it epicentre directly under the 103-meter Koyna Dam reservoir in Maharashtra, Western India in 1967 which flattened the village of Koynanagar causing 180 deaths. There have been 24 dams which have induced earthquakes of magnitude 4.4 and above (in recorded history) and in 17 cases, the tremors occurred within three years of initial Impoundment of the water. The Bakun Dam is 205 meters high, over twice the 100-metre height regarded by dam experts as likely to trigger off seismic activities.
The two worst accidents happened in 1963 and 1975 in Italy and China respectively. A huge rock fall into the Vajont Dam reservoir in Italy sent an enormous splash of water over the top causing a tsunami more than 80 stories high, sweeping downstream and wiping out several villages causing the deaths of almost 2,000 people. Massive rainfalls (record 41.7 inch within 24 hours) caused the failure of the Banqiao Dam in China where millions were left homeless and a victim count exceeding 200,000. Altogether this 1-in-2,000 year chance flood caused 62 dams to fail in a domino effect where the accumulated water from one uphill dam crashes into the following dam and the accumulated water from both dams crashes into the third dam and so forth. Nothing to do with a lack of maintenance and the Banqiao Dam was designed to handle an additional 12 inch of rainfall a day (which was already an overkill) but the sedimentation caused by the rainfall choked the spillways. Overall, 15.738 billion tons of water was released triggering a 10km wide wave only 7 meters high rushing downhill at a speed of approximately 50km per hour and wiping out an area 55 kilometers long, 15 kilometers wide, and created temporary lakes as large as 12,000 square kilometers. BTW, the 1-in-2000 year deluge was caused by Super Typhoon Nina (T7503), the second deadliest tropical Pacific typhoon in history with winds up to 250km/h at its peak.
Okay, enough of the horror stories let us now look at the initial profits before construction starts. What? Oh yes, this is one of those rare construction projects that earns money from the onset. To facilitate the site being ready, the area surrounding the construction site must initially be cleared and that means timber. In fact, access roads leading to the site must be built and that means more timber as the BHP is located inside the virgin rainforest of Sarawak’s interior. Let us do a wee bit of math here – the shortest route between two points is a straight line but why settle for clearing only the trees that is in the way between these two points when one is able to maximise profits if the route takes us past the densest rainforest in the region? So, instead of clearing the forest between Point A and Point B, we can reroute it from Point A to Point C onwards to Point D and then to Point E before we make a sweeping curve back to Point B. The overall yield is estimated to be in the region of 12 million cubic meters of timber from the deforestation of 56,000 hectares of virgin rainforest. The harvest is estimated to be able to fetch RM1.2 billion in total (1995 estimates) of which a quarter was harvested.
Enough said. Let us look at the history of the BHP. Initially conceived in the early 60’s, it finally got the go-ahead in 1986 when TDM gave it the thumbs up (as opposed to the thumbs down given to Mohd Isa in the Bagan Pinang by-election) and preliminary studies were conducted to assess the feasibility of constructing a 205-meter high dam capable of producing 2,400MW of hydroelectric juice annually. This was at a time when Malaysia was slowly recovering from the 1985 recession and by 1990, the boasts of having the largest hydroelectric dam in Asia (China’s 3 Gorges Dam was not conceived yet) came back to haunt the Malaysian government as they were forced to shelf it due to the low demand for electricity and high cost of building it. Strike One.
As a stubborn man who can never accept no for an answer, TDM revived the US$5.2 billion “deal of the century” project again in September 1993 and awarded it to Ekran Berhad (without a public tender exercise) in 1994. (Ekran’s CEO’s wife is the now infamous “I don’t know what is projected cashflow” former PKA General Manager and PKFZ MD Datin O.C. Phang.) One of the major shareholders of Ekran is Rasip Harun. Who is he? Rasip is the business partner of Tun Daim Zainuddin (who happens to be the Finance Minister at that time). Coincidence? Rasip is also the partner of Robert Tan Hua Choon (another one of Daim’s business partners) who controlled Jasa Kita Sdn Bhd, a company involved in the Maika Telekoms share diversion. Remember Samy’s proxy company Clearway Sdn Bhd? Robert Tan’s driver (Baharuddin M. Arip) happened to be a director of that company. Rich driver indeed! (Probably comes to work in a Lamborghini.)
How did a Chinaman from Sarawak lay his hands on “the deal of the century”? TDM is after all no Cina Apek lover and his continuation of support for the NEP only serves to reinforce his ambition to see his cronies get enriched in government projects, and there are certainly more than enough of these people to serve his needs. Okay, one good deed deserves another and TDM is merely reciprocating a “debt of honour”.
The story goes like this. Ting Pek Khiing was a two-bit small time construction subcontractor picking up low-margin construction jobs in Sarawak but he had a reputation as the “Speed Demon” where no jobs are too complicated or too short a period to complete. His “never say die until you meet the God of Hades” attitude soon caught the eye of Emperor Abdul Taib Mahmud, and they soon found each others’ company “enriching”. Being a crafty Chinaman, he soon latched on to the Emperor’s two princes (Mahmud Abu Bekir and Sulaiman Abdul Rahman) and they formed a company seeking timber concessions from the Sarawak government. To Ting, it seemed like all his Christmas(es) have arrived together. On the other side of the horizon, TDM found himself in a pickle after sending out gilded invitations to the high and mighty of the international aerospace industry to kick off his inaugural international air show on Langkawi Island. No, there is nothing wrong with the air show except that the construction of the new convention resort is ambling along at such a pace that the invited guests might start fighting for the park benches after their arrival. The ever so helpful Taib knew of this and recommended Ting to TDM. Now, TDM does not suffer fools gladly and Ting’s “can do” motto was soon put to the test. Ting went on to slap together the remainder of the resort in a record breaking three months, saving TDM the embarrassment of ever having his invited guests sleep in the open, and earned himself the nickname of Ting Pek “Speed” Khiing. A star is born (no, not Barbara Streisand).
Ting, whose total knowledge about building a dam can probably fit on a single line on an A4 paper, hired Asea Brown Boveri (ABB) of Zurich and Companhia Brasileira de Projetos e Obras (CBPO) of Brazil as the contractors and formed a construction consortium consisting of Ekran Berhad, Tenaga Nasional Bhd (TNB), the government of Sarawak, Sarawak Electricity Supply Corporation (Sesco), and Malaysia Mining Corporation Bhd (MMC) – Syed Mokhtar was bound to have some kind of involvement in TDM’s projects.
So, how does one go about building a dam? Well, first you need to clear the land, and I mean “clear the bloody land” and that includes any indigenous people living there. Wildlife? Get rid of them all. Foliage and vegetation? Clear them out. Man-made structures? Flatten them. Timber? Keep and sell them.
Negotiations soon started between the indigenous people and state government. The almost 9,000 natives will be relocated to Sungai Asap under the Asap Resettlement Scheme (Operation Exodus) and each family be given 3 hectares of land gratis. This is of course pending on the outcome of the EIA report. (The natives eventually received 3 acres each, not 3 hectares as promised – suckers!)
Financing of this massive project was shady, to say the least. Investment capital was announced as a matter of fact stating only that the Sarawak government together with Ekran will provide 51% of the financing and the remaining 49% will be harvested from money-growing-trees. Okay, fair enough but how will abang-adik provide for the 51% which amounted to RM7.65 billion? Initially, Ekran launched a rights issue to finance the building of the dam, but it was pitifully undersubscribed (Ting had to eventually payout RM500 million). Well, EPF allegedly chipped in RM3 billion, the Pension Trust Fund for Bakun contributed RM400 million, and Hicom and TNB made up the rest. More of it later on.
Let us look at the two main contractors. First, ABB. Not a very good sign already. This is the same company under the same management that sold seven gas turbines valued at $500 million for $1 billion each to TNB. (Wonder where the excess money went to.) Then there is CBFO, the company that built both the Itaipu and Xingu dams in Brazil. Both went over budget by 488% and 100% respectively. Great, eh? And then there is the preliminary work performed by South Korea’s Dong-Ah Construction and Industrial Co, the same company that built the Songsu Bridge over the Han River in central Seoul which collapsed killing 32 people in 1994. Getting better, right? Fortunately the 1997 Asian economic crisis brought things to a screeching halt after construction started in 1996. Strike Two.
Due payments were then made to Dong-Ah (RM400 million) for completing the river diversion tunnels, Global Upline (RM60 million) for completing the auxiliary coffer dams and an undisclosed sum (rumoured to be in the region of RM1.8 billion) to Ekran as compensation for kicking them out. The government had also turned over a sum of RM1 billion to the Bakun Dam Consortium for the purchase of 8 hydropower turbines (the contract eventually went to IMPSA of Argentina and Alstom of France). BTW, Global Upline belongs to Ting as well.
IMPSA managing director Juan Aguero later revealed that they had secured the contract to design, manufacture, assemble and commission 4 of the 8 turbines at the Bakun project for RM300 million. The math doesn’t work out correctly, agree? If 4 turbines cost a total of RM300 million, 8 turbines should cost twice that amount, i.e. RM300 million times 2 equals RM600 million. So, where is the other RM400 million? Maybe the dog ate it or is this a case of what we call “escalating inflation”?
In 2000, plans were renewed to revive the project. Sarawak Hidro, a 100% government-owned company was established to take control of the construction of the Bakun Dam. The initial plans to transmit the additional electricity back to West Malaysia was now abandoned as the cabling project cost more than the remaining construction of the dam.
In 2002, the new main contractor was named. The Malaysia-China Hydro JV (MCH), a 70:30 consortium led by Sime Engineering Berhad of Malaysia (a subsidiary of Sime Darby) and Sino-Hydro Corporation of China. Other members of the consortium are WCT Berhad, MTD Capital, Ahmad Zaki Resources, Syarikat Ismail and Edward & Sons. Dato’ Mohamad Shukri Baharom is the Chairman of this company and also the executive VP of Sime Darby Group’s Energy & Utilities Division. The new completion date was summarily revised to February 2008.
Two years later, the engineering consulting firm JR Knowles of the UK (no relation to the sexy “PAS kata haram” Beyoncé Knowles) was hired to study the delays in the construction of the dam. The spanking newly revised and freshly amended completion date is now sometime in 2010 (probably February the 30th.) Also in 2004, Global Upline (owned by Ting) was allegedly awarded the contract to clear the biomass in the flood basin. One company (under the name of Pacific Chemicals and also owned by Ting) had already “cleared” a quarter of it (in 1995) and another was “just coming back to finish off the job” in an alternative form.
Let us leave the construction side of things and access the feasibility of using the excess energy being churned by the 8 turbines. Here is where the aluminium smelter comes in. Forget about the non-income generating toxic gases for awhile and concentrate on the electrical usage. This mega smelter requires 50% of the total electricity produced by the Bakun Dam and that means a huge and constant income for Sesco (1,200MW at a selling price of RM0.286 per unit equals RM343.2 million a year. The current IPP selling price to TNB is RM0.017 per unit. The total margin would be RM322.8 million a year.). Additionally, it will provide an extra 4,700 jobs. Wow! We can even construct huge fans in arrays and blow it in the direction of Indonesia if they do not control their annual forest fires! Double Wow!
As mentioned above, the two suspects in this joint venture are Rio Tinto (largest aluminium manufacturer in the world) and CMS. Never heard of Cahaya Mata Sarawak Berhad before? Well, it was called Cement Manufacturers Sarawak Berhad when it started business in 1974 producing Portland cement as a state-owned firm. It was in the 90’s that it was privatised from a state-owned public-listed company into a private sector public-listed conglomerate. Why would someone takeover such a dull company? Let’s look at what CMS owned before they were privatised – PPES Quarry, Steel Industries Sarawak and PCMS, all profitable companies. After the takeover, CMS continued consolidating their company by purchasing Syrakusa Sdn Bhd and Concordance Sdn Bhd, via cash and share swaps. In a reverse takeover, the owners of these two companies acquired CMS and began injecting their other assets into it including Bank Utama, Sarawak Securities and Archipelago Shipping. CMS is now a diversified conglomerate involved in stock brokering, road construction, water filtration and treatment, quarry operations, civil and structural engineering, steel bar manufacturing, trading of construction materials, cement production, technology, education, financial services and investment holdings. No prizes for guessing who owns CMS – the Mahmud family. Oh, by the way, Taib Mahmud’s spouse Laila and his children are the majority shareholders of Sitehost Plc, Australia, which owns the 380-room Adelaide Hilton Hotel. Company records dated December 2000 show them holding 95 percent of the company or 9.5 million (Aussie dollars) fully paid up shares. One question: How much does a hotel cost anyway? Another family member (Taib’s brother Onn Mahmud) along with his daughter and son in law owns SAKTO Corporation, a major real estate operator of non-residential buildings in Ottawa, owning and managing more than half a million square feet of prime office space with affiliate offices in the US, UK, Asia and Australia. They also own SAKTO Development Corporation, a multi-million dollar development and construction company in Ottawa.
Back to the construction site. In 2007, the government once again revived the cabling project. The new estimates (from TNB) are approximately RM9 billion. Others put it as high as RM20 billion, depending on the number of cables involved. These include the Bakun to Bintulu HVAC double circuit overhead lines for a distance of 160 km, Bakun to Tanjung Parih HVDC overhead line for a distance of 670 km, Tanjung Parih to Tanjung Tenggara submarine cable for a distance of 670 km and the Tanjung Tenggara to Kuantan landline to connect to the national grid. The government in fact invited Sumitomo Corp of Japan to do a feasibility study report and assist in the laying of the submarine cable. The longest existing submarine cable is the 580km NorNed undersea connection linking Norway and the Netherlands.
The once revised 500MW capacity is once again back to the original figure of 2,4000MW with 1,600MW being rerouted back west and the completion date has been pushed further back by another year. This is done with the assumption that Rio Tinto would back out of the aluminium smelter deal. However plans are being drawn to construct yet another dam (the 1,000MW Murum Dam in the Upper Rejang Basin of central Sarawak) and concept studies are being prepared for the construction of an enormous 20,000MW hydroelectric dam along the Rejang River rivalling China’s 22,500MW Three Gorges Dam.
In 2008, Sime Darby announced that the company will not be taking up the offer of an equity stake in the Bakun project. This prompted the government to search for another shareholder and at the beginning of this year, TNB and Sarawak Energy Berhad (SEB) were granted permission by the federal government to form a special purpose vehicle to jointly takeover the entire project from Sarawak Hidro through a leasing agreement. Additionally, the Xinhua News Agency published a report on its website revealing that four Chinese state-owned enterprises, including China Sinohydro Corp, had been “downgraded” because of “safety or environmental pollution accidents”. Sinohydro is one of seven firms in the Malaysia-China Hydro Joint Venture consortium working on the Bakun Dam.
The proposed public tender for the undersea cable laying process is expected to be held next year. The manufacture of these RM4 billion cables was promised to FCW Holdings way back at the onset of the project by TDM but anything could happen now that the government is under a new administration. (FCW Holdings is owned by Ting and allegedly also by one of TDM’s son.)
One last thing, the planning of the dam was conducted with no public accessibility to vital feasibility studies, no process of public feedback on the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) process and limited consultation procedures with the indigenous peoples. Feasibility studies and reports commissioned by the government on the Bakun project have been classified under the Official Secrets Act (OSA), meaning it is a criminal offense for anyone to see or use their information. Not all of the appendices, interim and final reports of the EIAs have been made accessible to the general public. Project proponents have refused to meet critics in any open discussion.
Cost overruns? Maybe, but one won’t get to hear about it as this information is classified (unless MT gets their hands on it). Let’s just put it this way – if a RM1.8 billion project situated in nearby Klang can balloon to a staggering RM12.5 billion, what are the chances that a US$5.2 billion (approximately RM26.3 billion) project situated in the middle of the forest in Sarawak, coming in on budget?
Jinxed dam? Perhaps, but one thing is certain – we (the taxpayers) are damned.
Cost Overruns? ( We Are Damned II)
By Hakim Joe, Sunday, 04 October 2009, Malaysia Today
(Read Part I at: We are damned!)
Will the final cost of the construction of the Bakun Dam be revealed to the public once operations start in 2011, OSA aside? Will the moon on the night preceding that day turn blue?
One thing’s for certain is that Datuk Peter Chin would not likely be looking forward to the next Parliamentary sitting after the grand opening ceremony of the Bakun Hydroelectric Dam in Sarawak whereas YB Lim Kit Siang and YB Gobind Singh Deo would be rubbing their hands in glee as they intend to taruh the Energy Minister kau-kau.
The Bakun Dam is a public project using public funds and henceforth must be subjected to the public’s scrutinisation. How it was ever covered under the Official Secrets Act (OSA) remains a farce in public accountability. There are bound to be cost overruns and that is normal considering the fact that the project had been stopped and restarted twice. Inflation and the fluctuation of material prices and workmanship costs are unpredictable and will add to this cost overrun, that’s normal as well. Additionally, work stoppages owing to unfavourable weather conditions or parts unavailability are normal conditions that will add up the cost of construction, especially in such a massive project. Even the World Bank bluntly states that these overruns are unavoidable as the builders are bound to hit some unseen geological snags on such projects. So, why the secretive manner in handling it? Are there things that are done illegally and should not be revealed? If not, why the OSA?
The building of dams has always ended up in cost overruns. There was never an occasion when these mammoth engineering feats have come in on budget unless the developers have set aside a large contingency fund to cover unexpected costs. According to a 1996 World Bank technical paper (No. 325) titled “Estimating Construction Costs and Schedules: Experience with Power Generation Projects in Developing Countries”, all World-Bank funded (and monitored) construction of large dams were averagely 27% above the initial projected cost. It goes on to say that hydro projects showed a tendency to be above this average figure while coal and other thermal power stations were below this average figure.
So, if this technical paper is to be believed (the World Bank has funded and monitored the financing and construction of over 500 large dams in the world), then the final cost of building Bakun Dam should also follow such conventions and be 27% above the projected cost. What is the projected cost anyway? Ekran Berhad estimated it at RM6 billion, so did TNB. The Malaysia-China Hydro JV (MCH) website states that the final cost will be RM5.8 billion. That is the cost of building the dam alone and not the cabling process (which is estimated by TNB to be RM9 billion). So, 27% of let’s say RM6 billion is RM1.6 billion and that will bring the total cost to something like RM7.6 billion. Take note that the 27% is a figure where the World Bank is actively monitoring the spending(s) and construction of the dam. What if there were no authorities monitoring them? Will it be a case of “cost-overruns” or “cost-super-overruns” then?
For example, Brazil’s 3,000MW Xingó dam which took seven years to build at a cost of US$3.2 billion was twice its original budget of US$1.6 billion. The 14,000MW Itaipu dam (also in Brazil) went 488% over the original budget. Both were built by Companhia Brasileira de Projetos e Obras (CBPO) of Brazil. Trivia question: “Which other company did Ekran Berhad hire to build the Bakun dam other than ABB?”
Building mega-dams are risky business. One, the expected cost overruns in the construction stage is not a small sum. Then, the owners better pray that there are no man-made accidents occurring in the dam’s lifetime or natural calamities like landslides, earthquakes or super heavy rains that can jeopardise the structure of the dam. Three, weather pattern changes and the output capacity of a dam depends on the volume of water flowing through it. Insufficient water flow owing to a drought will decrease the electrical output of the dam. Less energy sold means less income. Too much water flow would mean a higher maintenance bill and over production of electricity does not generate income as there are no ready buyers for it. Spillages over the top from an unaccountable accident would mean reparation costs to those affected (plus the legal bills as well), and finally, who will bear the cost of decommissioning a dam if the structure is no longer sustainable?
In the case of the Bakun dam, the additional energy from this site will hopefully help generate a host of other businesses, assuming that the dam works. Such heavy investments will take a long period of time before its funders can start to recoup their initial investments; in this case it is the state and federal governments. If something goes wrong and the dam becomes yet another white elephant, the government will be the one to financially support it and guess where the money will be obtained from? If this happens, the Sarawakians will be the first to feel the impact. State budgets for other purposes (like medical, education and social services) will be cut to prop up the dam. This would mean a general lowering of the standard of living for all Sarawakians.
Is this what the Sarawakians want?
Unggal gkm2020,
Terima kasih besai ngagai nuan ka udah mantai lalu mansut ka semoa sempekat, leka aum dulu menya, enti nunda patut nyadi ka lalau perintah diatu megai menoa Sarawak.
Terima kasih madi, mayuh perkara udah dibantai ka nuan ditu, cukup beguna ka anak telesak, tiris pantis bangsa kitai jemah ela.
Minta pemendar ngagai nuan, deka print lalu nyimpan semoa utai nya, ngica ka nyadi ka lalau tau ka reference sida ka rebak dudi ari ela.
Kitai nadai tuai ka tau dikarap ka agi ngetan, bejako, ngari ka kitai bangsa agi.
Enda nemu mansut ka jako agi, meda leka aum ka dibantai ka nuan nya.
Semina jako olih dipansut ka ianya, “MALAYA bula ka semaya”.
Kemaya meh bangsa kitai amat amat ngasai ka MERKEDA, menoa majak teberunsai, orang ka nyadi ka tuai enda ngeleda.
Kitai majak baka kampar dimenoa diri empu.
Unggal Linut Mulung,
Carry on my brother!
Aku minta nuan mega serta semoa bala kitai DBs ditu nyadong sempekat tu ngagai semoa bansa kitai Dayak ba menoa Malaysia tauka ba luar Malaysia.
Regards, gkm2020
AGI IDUP – AGI NGELABAN; CHANGE WE MUST…Hoo…Haa..!!
What a story-the history that lot us new generation of dayak didnt know before..not bcose we re buta huruf..but anything related to dayak interest has been sideline by bn policies…not part of BN agenda..
But it better late then never to know this ..we should realise how worried our leader before to the formation of Msia..some said ‘anang baka tebu manis d pun, tabar d ujung, that what really happened now
—The 51 Chiefs at the conference together were said to represent some 112,000 Ibans out of a total population of nearly 238,000 and many delegations of Ibans who came before us at different centers in the Third Division confirmed(<–????) that they supported the “Kapit Resolutions 1962”.—
DELUSION OF GRANDEUR! "CONFIRMED", REALLY THAT SIMPLE SHIT SURRENDER WHOLE SARAWAK??? VERY EASY FOR UMNO TO ROUND UP THOSE DAYAKS, LIKE A FOX GUARDING HENS!
THOSE OPPOSE IT LIKE SUPP, KALONG NINGKAN, SOME SNAP TOO ALL BRANDED COMMUNISTS BY UMNO. YES PUSH DAYAK RANGERS SHOOT THE COMMIES IN THE JUNGLE, LET UMNO RELAX AND LOOT THE SARAWAK OIL MONEY! SHOOT DAYAK RANGERS, SHOOT! DONE? NAH PENCEN ASKAR SEMADI NADAI AOK!
SEE, THE SAME TRICK EMPLOYED BY UMNO EXAGGERATED THE SUPPORT AS MAJORITY SUPPORT! JUST ROUND UP THE DAYAKS INTO CHICKEN COOP!
IF UMNO CAN BUY ANY YB/MP NOW LIKE CHICKEN DUCK AT PASAR, WHAT IS THAT 51 DAYAK LEADERS BACK THEN FOR UMNO TO BRIBE?
SERIOUSLY, THIS IS THE DISEASE THAT CREEP WELL INTO OUR DAYAK LEADERS UNTIL NOW – RAPED BRIBED BY UMNO EASILY!
–12.Medium of instruction in schools: English should be retained as the medium of instruction, but Iban should be taught as a subject.—
TELL THAT MOOHEYDIN TO LEAVE PPSMI ENGLISH FOR SCIENCE/MATH IN SARAWAK LAH!
–11.Education: Education to be a Federal subject and to be equalized throughout Malaysia as soon as possible. Sarawak natives to have a fair share of overseas scholarships.—
WHAT THE F-CK YAYASAN SARAWAK MUST SPONSOR YEMEN OR BOSNIA STUDENTS?
WHY TOP DAYAK STUDENTS LEFT TO BEG FOR PLACE IN UNI/KOLEJ MUST CONFIRM HIS HER SKIN OR MUM OR DAD IS BUMIPUTRA STATUS SO WHAT A STUPID DOG NAMED BUMI AK UKOI GET AUTOMATIC ENTRY?
—13.Immigration: Immigration to remain under the control of the State of Sarawak.—
THIS ONE VERY FUNNY LAH. AHLONG GANGSTER SYNDICATE CAN BRING AS MANY CHINA DOLLS TO SARAWAK AS PENIS MASSEUR AT FOOT MASSAGE SHOPS BUT BAN INDIAN FROM KL TO VISIT LONGHOUSE. EVEN FUNNIER FOR JABU TO WARN OUTSIDER LIKE INDIAN, PKR ARE BAD LUCK BUT AIDS FROM CHINA DOLLS NOT A BAD STUFF AT ALL.
—16.Religion: Much emphasis was placed on the need for freedom of religion as there is at present, i.e., freedom to profess, practice and propagate any religion.There was a general feeling that Sarawak should be a secular State and the suggestion was made that if Muslims were given assistance from Federal funds, other religions – Christianity was specially mentioned – should enjoy similar treatment.—
WELL WELL WELL, FROM JAIS, LKMNS ALL GOT BIG GRANTS FROM BN WHY CHRISTIANS DON'T HAVE STATE DEPT CHRISTIAN BODY? WHERE IS OUR:
- JABATAN AGAMA KRISTIAN SARAWAK (JAKIS) ?
- LEMBAGA KEBAJIKAN GEREJA NEGERI SARAWAK (LKGNS) ?
- LEMBAGA TABUNG HIJRAH JERUSALEM SARAWAK (FOR CHRISTIANS TO HELP FUND THEIR PILGRIMAGE TO JERUSALEM HOLY LAND LIKE TABUNG HAJI) ?
- SEKOLAH MUBALIGH/ MISSIONS SCHOOL GRANTED FULL-AIDED SCHOOL, FOR ONCE?
- ANNUAL CHURCH/CHAPEL MAINTENANCE, REPAIRS BY GOVT OR LOCAL COUNCILS (IF SURAU CAN GET IT WHY NOT FOR CHURCH?) ?
- PUSAT MAKLUMAT KRISTIAN (LIKE BIG, EXPENSIVE ISLAMIC INFORMATION CENTRE AT JALAN ONG TIANG SWEE) ?
AND THAT IS FOR CHRISTIAN WELFARE. WHAT ABOUT OTHERS LIKE BAHAI, BUDDHIST, HINDU ETC.? IF REALLY NO OFFICIAL STATE RELIGION WHY ISLAM GET SPECIAL EXCLUSIVE TREATMENT GET BIG FUNDS?
OH, UMNO WILL FART THAT ISLAM MAJORITY RELIGION IN MALAYSIA HUH! BUT HERE IN SARAWAK 70 PERCENT ARE CHRISTIANS! WXCEPT ONLY ISLAM ENJOY 100 PERCENT PRIVILEDGE IN SARAWAK!
—Right to withdraw from the new Federation. There was fear too that a large proportion of Sarawak’s revenue would be handed over to the Federal Government without a corresponding return in the shape of services to the people of Sarawak.—
THAT'S RM 1 TRILLION OIL MONEY AND 50 YEARS TOO LATE LAH!
PETRONAS DEVELOPMENT ACT 1974 MEANS STEPHEN KALONG NINGKAN MUST BE KICKED OUT BY UMNO AND TO DO THAT WHO CAN ELSE CAN KILL ANOTHER DAYAK?
IT TOOK A DAYAK TO KILL A DAYAK, RAJAH BROOKES ONCE SAID!
NOT DIFFICULT FOR UMNO TO BRIBE ANOTHER DAYAK TO KILL OF NINGKAN FROM POWER LAH! JUST ASK JABU AND LOOK NOW JABU STILL THE SAME OLD PENUMPANG READY TO SERVE UMNO AT A FLICK OF FINGER WAGGING HIS TAIL!
SO FAR WE DAYAK A SEMADI MENUMPANG JABU, DREBAR PEMANDU IDRIS JALA, UKOI JUGAM WOOF! WOOF! AND WHY OH WHY DAYAK CAN NEVER TAKE CONTROL FOR THEIR OWN RIGHTS DESTINY AND FUTURE???
MAYBE DAYAK ARE MADE TO SERVE UMNO, NOT TO BE SERVED BY UMNO!
INSTEAD OF GETTING 95 PERCENT OIL MONEY TO OUR SARAWAK FUTURE WE GIVE FREE 95 PERCENT TO UMNO! OHHHHHAAAAAHHHHHH DAYAK OHHHHHHAAAAAHHHHH!
MAYBE DAYAK ARE MADE TO SERVE UMNO, NOT TO BE SERVED BY UMNO!
INSTEAD OF GETTING 95 PERCENT OIL MONEY TO OUR SARAWAK FUTURE WE GIVE FREE 95 PERCENT TO UMNO! OHHHHHAAAAAHHHHHH DAYAK OHHHHHHAAAAAHHHHH!
MAYBE DAYAK ARE MADE TO SERVE UMNO, NOT TO BE SERVED BY UMNO!
INSTEAD OF GETTING 95 PERCENT OIL MONEY TO OUR SARAWAK FUTURE WE GIVE FREE 95 PERCENT TO UMNO! OHHHHHAAAAAHHHHHH DAYAK OHHHHHHAAAAAHHHHH!
MAYBE DAYAK ARE MADE TO SERVE UMNO, NOT TO BE SERVED BY UMNO!
INSTEAD OF GETTING 95 PERCENT OIL MONEY TO OUR SARAWAK FUTURE WE GIVE FREE 95 PERCENT TO UMNO! OHHHHHAAAAAHHHHHH DAYAK OHHHHHHAAAAAHHHHH!
MAYBE DAYAK ARE MADE TO SERVE UMNO, NOT TO BE SERVED BY UMNO!
INSTEAD OF GETTING 95 PERCENT OIL MONEY TO OUR SARAWAK FUTURE WE GIVE FREE 95 PERCENT TO UMNO! OHHHHHAAAAAHHHHHH DAYAK OHHHHHHAAAAAHHHHH!
gkm2020,
Thank you for this info and such a great information, internet is one of the best way to share this kind of information..nak harapkan media massa rasmi malaysia, jangan haraplah..
Asyik2 dgn berita “dacin” bagus..selain dari “dacin”, yang lain xbagus..media massa sarawak, lagilah jauh..tapi apa boleh buat, semua mau jaga periuk nasi masing2..
Tapi apa2 pun, a journey begin with 1 small step..pama meh tuk ari ke nadai..digigit siko semada bedau entu pedis iga tang enti seratus semada ngigit, pedis amat nya..bakanya gak sengat indu manyi, sengat siko agi ulih tat ke tang enti disengat seribu..
Silap2 ulih disenggai bala diri sebilik ***(fikir-fikirkan)***
See, we have our autonomy!
I wonder what type of autonomy Taib is referring to when he said that he want to ask for more autonomy from the federal few days ago.
He is a total twister!
Do we really need to form Malaysia?
While talking about this formation above, I can count alot of ‘fear’ word from the above article.
If we are in such fear and uneasiness, why don’t just ignore Tunku?
BTW, all Dayak must register as voters and once and for all crush UMNO regime and his proxies!
I dont believe that 51 long house chief bla bla bla…
That time no MACC. Even today with MACC, only for show. Corruption is the reason why Sarawak fall into the hand of UMNO. If we ever form an independent country, corrupter must be erased instantly.
?Kaban Makai Kaban on October 13th, 2010 2:31 pm
Well “DREBAR PEMANDU IDRIS JALA” is paid to drive Najib as instructed.
If Najib says…”shout at the top of your voice the words tranformation” Jala will say “Ia tuan” but what the true reality is, or what happen to Sarawak…belakan kira
Najib said “shout at the top of your voice, it is 80% devine power”, Jala will say “Ia tuan”
Everybody knows Jala is well educated and very experienced…..but true what you said our Dayak leaders whether he is as qualified as Idris Jala are easily bought and bribe.
Those who are not easily bribed or bought, no matter how smart, intelligence and qualified he is in the like of our kaban gkm2020, Dr JBA and many others will never be accepted in the Najib or Taib folds.
Also good example is our former CM Stephen Kalong Ningkan…he is one of those few dayak who refuse bribe.
I hope we will have more qualified dayaks people will emulate the example of those fews.
Iban Abroad….
I agree with you on your comment earlier on about Idris Jala.
To all Kaban DBs,
“See, we have our autonomy”
VERY VERY VERY TRUE…..it is an autonomy for Taib to give the land title to any person he wants, to give timber license to anyone he wants, or to flood Rejang River with logs anytime he choose or to shiphone the Sarawak money out of Sarawak or to give all the oil money to Malaya, or to bring 3,000 teachers from Malaya to Sarawak and many more … these are his autonomous action.
And nobody should stop and say anything against him
Brothers DBs…don’t you agree that it is TRUELY an autonomy to Taib?????
gkm2020 ..nice one bro!
Very well presented.
The Key Problem for dayak in politic arena is Leadership. This is Number One.
This is why i said we need a leader in the CLASS of Lee Kuan Yew.
At this time I can only see Idris is the Man who is leading to that path. He lead..he show the way and he is even leader among Man.
Common man will belittle him , but man of talent will tell you that he is among best leader man that money can get..
My stand remain..The best Dayak should LEAD for sarawakian and not from the Word of Anwar, Nurul Izah or Azizah.
”The uneducated one”
gkm2020,
Terima kasih ka semua info ari nuan ti chukup manah sereta tau nyadi ka peransang bansa kitai dayak.
Tang siti pinta aku, enti ulih badu kitai ngena slogan “AGI IDUP AGI NGELABAN’ nya.
Enda alah kitai dayak nyau enda ngetu ngelaban, menang lalu enda. Ukai reti nya kitai enda tau ngelaban perintah ti bechiping, tang utai ko aku nya, enti kitai ngelaban, giga meh jalai kitai tau menang lalu ngati ka diri. This message is dedicated to all of us who wish to be called Dayak.
FIGHT AND WIN.
The uneducated one on October 13th, 2010 4:19 pm
“Common man will belittle him , but man of talent will tell you that he is among best leader man that money can get”
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Yes…your comment here refer….
“Man of talent” …yes yes..but he has a principal/belief of supporting corruption and injustice..so .his talent will one day to be used to craft a better corruption and injustice strategy.
Uneducated one…just answer this question, Do you support corruption and injustice and COHORT with those who practice corruption and injustice sucha as BN??. You have not answer me on this question. DO YOU???????
This is what your idol Idris Jala support, i.e corruption and injustice and cohort with those who are practicing corruption and injustice.
Pintless for you to say “gkm2020 ..nice one bro!
Very well presented” but deep in you, you just believe in the injustice and corruption
To me supporting Jala is nothing more than supporting corruption and injustice.
Take note I have nothing against Jala as a person but I am against his belief because it is sickening and devilish. It is not the so called “different opinion”
So what now? Are we ready to arm with pencil and vote for opposition? ARE U WITH ME!!!
Uneducated one…forget to mention here…
Since you equate our good friend Idris Jala with LKY, well to show that he truely reject corruption and injustice, why don’t he leave BN and strategize Sarawak to get back its rights on the wealth/resources and authority and hence make Sarawak as sucessful as Singapore.
That was exactly what Mr Lee Kuan Yew did for Singapore. He strategized Malaya to reject Singapore from the Federation of Malaysia.
If Idris Jala can and willing to put his neck for that call, I shall go all out to support him.
Not just talking and talking and talking…my foot!!!!!! What else “big Transformation”
I see gkm2020 and Dr JBA is more talented, smarter and more intelligent than Idris Jala…for one, they do not support BN corrupted and injustice practice. Two, they are not easily bought by corrupted regime.
Maybe Jala makes more money than them…maybe I don’t know know,,,but Jala money is from injustice and corruption source, while both gkm2020 and Dr JBA money comes from their hard earn and honest effort.
So who do you see a better leader??????
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Bala Kaban.
TQ unggal gkm2020, bendar meh pengiroh nuan unggal MANSAI ikan empurau ai Batang Rajang ke diperambu’ tuai Iban kitai Jugah kelia menya kenuuuu”…
Nama reti enti enda dibai aki Jugahnya engka enda kitai Iban Merinsa ba menoa diri empu baka saritu…!!
Manah agi enti kitai Iban suba agi pigai BEROK pelaba aku kaban kaban.
Kasih meh bala kitai Iban ke Rebak Baru diatu laban NADAI diberi PELUANG ba semua perkara..!!! JUGam. Utai ke enggai orang baru kitai Iban masuk/tamak..!!?? Open your eyes & head Jugam, what your comment or What Say You..!!??
Enti baka gaya ke diatu, anang ngarap ke Kepayang ulih nyadi CM kaban kaban, engka tak pahai puni CM meh tudahnya ila, enda iboh sebut TYT.!!
Nama guna JANJI sida Jugah nya, lalu tinggal janji meh nya, simpan ba Muzium pan enda layak hanya tinggal kenangan kaban kaban.
Jugam no other way…Change We Must..!
Mupok kaban. Idup Iban Idup Dayak. OOhhaa…
Dont need to be highly educated to differentiate ‘to serve corruption’ and ‘to fight corruption’. If you know it is wrong but still working for corruption then you choose to be BLIND, DEAF AND A FOOL! Worst still for a blind deaf and foolish like that ‘Uneducated one’ to tell us talent is above justice it’s like BLIND LEADING THE BLIND lah! What is talented high IQ like jala if just another BLIND DAYAK? Such a waste serving devil BN! Uneducated one your name already self-explain lah, how about ‘Stupid Blind Deaf Uneducated One’ name, sounds better yeah!
Unggal gkm2020,
Sendat seput ninga Aum Kapit 1962 ke dibantai ka nuan.
I thought I lost it.
Nya meh; asi udah nyadi bubur.
Enda oleh dikenggai ka kitai, kitai Dayak ke ngumbai orang Melayu Malaya nya baka tebu; Manis ba pun tang tabar ba ujung.
I see a lot of interesting article with you, I hope we can turn it into book, cd even presentation for the roadshow thro Borneo to support BDF.
Anyway, thank a lot.
Kaban Semua,
Rajah Babon & Menteri Dayak Lungau = Ulih dibeli Ngena Duit/sundal
- Nasib Bangsa/Menoa belakang Ari enda dipeduli
CHANGE WE MUST
@jalaialun :
anang betuai ka Tuai ti berunding Ngena “Untak Janik Melaya”(perumpak).
“Lee Kuan Yew wife told him that they would not succeed to join malaysia because umno malay leader had such different lifestyles and because their politics were communally based on race and religion…” – Taken from The last farewell to my wife on The Star today. If only if Sarawak has this kind of leader that time….. Very obvious that umno is invading borneo, with a stroke of pen.
Unggal gkm2020,
Siti da utai dipinta aku ditu angka bala anembiak deka nemu.
Bisi enda nuan ngibun senarai nama 51 ketuai ba Aum kapit. Uji list ka ditu.
Nya aja dulu.
I am with our Dayak leader especially Iban leader Datuk leo, Datuk jabu and many more. Remember during PBDS rakyats select but for some reasons PBDS was abandoned. Till now, no significant development to us Dayak brought by our leaders.
Forgive me if I was wrong to say deny what our Dayak leader claim as development road, water and electricity IS NOT the real development because this is basic thing same like father/mother to prepare the basic thing to his children after all these is not free.
What we want is clear JOB opportunity, capital or govern initiative to prepare business platform and many more.
For example palm plantation for small holder instead you giving hundred of hectares to few people.
There’s many more. Believed me, young Dayak is aware very much what going on and they’re capable to carry out any business if opportunity is given fairly.
TQ
”This is what your idol Idris Jala support, i.e corruption and injustice and cohort with those who are practicing corruption and injustice”
Bro Merakat..i don`t idolise any Man. Man is not perfect and man should not be the standard.
It is my personal thot and i love to study man and their leadership .i like to see comman man that had made the difference to life of their fellow man..i.e. Moses, Nelson Mendela Abraham Lincolm and many others.
I belief The real development that dayak realy need is thier Mind/character/habit. others is temporary.
the uneducated one
the uneducated one: I belief The real development that dayak realy need is thier Mind/character/habit. others is temporary.
It is proven that ‘the uneducated one’ is as PERMANENTLY BLIND, STUPID AND DEAF as Jala and other equally BLIND, STUPID AND DEAF DAYAKS that still cannot differentiate ‘to serve BN corruption’ and ‘to fight BN corruption’.
For those BLIND, STUPID AND DEAF DAYAKS please join Anti BlindStupidDeaf Dayak Association (ABDA) as soonest! TQ.
ADBA,
Agreed. Dayaks less using their mind power. They still do not know they unleash potential.
ABDA,
For those BLIND, STUPID AND DEAF DAYAKS please join Anti BlindStupidDeaf Dayak Association (ABDA) as soonest! TQ
I will never joining your so call association becouse your seed is hatred ,anger and jealousy…Let me say this you will become what you wrote and it will become your life fullfilling phrophecy if you don`t take charge of your mind , character and habit.
Whether you in BN or opposition their is a corruption in power, justice and in life.Tell me where is the place in this world is sinlessly and corrupt free?
ADBA,
I totally agree with you.
It is very clear that educated one does not know what is corruption and injustice or because he just refuse to know.
With that, I can conclude that uneducated one belief and prinicple is there is nothing wrong with corruption and injustice as long as he makes money for himself.
Uneducated one…don’t make a comparisson to Moses, Nelson Mendela Abraham Lincolm, etc, as they are NOT CORRUPTED and do not condon injustice.
You should know that if Nelson Mandela is like Idris Jala, he won’t be in jail for almost 30 years. Do you know that??????? You know why he went to jail????
Please don’t talk rubbish if you do not know your fact well
Uneducated on…
so to you corruption and injustice is right and should be accepeted by the society.
We know who you are…you are no difference with Jugam…maybe you are Jugam imposer.
Anang jakok mayoh the ‘Uneducated one’!
Join ABDA and I’ll baptise you as new virgin Dayak free of BN corruption and sins!
On top of that you’ll become 1st Life Member of ABDA and guest speaker if you wish to talk about how stupid Dayak can be bought for a can of tiger beer!
So Tahniah in advance to you ‘the Uneducated one’, keep the ball rolling and thousands more BLIND, STUPID AND DEAF DAYAKS join your steps in ABDA!
For those BLIND, STUPID AND DEAF DAYAKS please join Anti BlindStupidDeaf Dayak Association (ABDA) as soonest! TQ.
Anti BlindStupidDeaf Dayak Association (ABDA) – Wake up the Dayaks now! Uhhhaaa!
Kaban DBs let us all be relevant and honest,,,,
If you are really genuine Dayak don’t make a fool of yourself. Put aside all those negative perceptions about our own people. You are equally stubborn if you keep on condemning your own kind.
Be focus on the Dayak agenda for transformation not deformation causing further degradation. LEARN TO RESPECT OUR OWN PEOPLE, BY NOT CONDEMNING THEM ANY FURTHER …Please??? Find solution on ways to improve our own people for a better tomorrow!!!
the uneducated one on October 13th, 2010 4:19 pm
The Key Problem for dayak in politic arena is Leadership. This is Number One.
At this time I can only see Idris is the Man who is leading to that path. He lead..he show the way and he is even leader among Man.
Common man will belittle him , but man of talent will tell you that he is among best leader man that money can get..
My stand remain..The best Dayak should LEAD for Sarawakian and not from the Word of Anwar, Nurul Izah or Azizah.
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I feel accountable to your post as I am the one who condemn Idris Jala. My disappointed is there with Idris Jala.
First, as a key person in Transformation Team he should play a core rule to stop corruption in Sarawak, cost multi-billion Ringgit. Rakyat especially Dayak, suffer a lot of Taib injustice, power abuse and corruption. Taib leadership is no different with Marcos and Suharto.
His attitude to be quite in the stand where Dayak need him is totally made me disappointed. Sign of corruption leader is there with him now.
Secondly, Idris Jala is well known educated Dayak but not respected by all Malaysian.
By then, imagine if he becomes CM of Sarawak he will do the same like Taib as he intelligent as Taib. He will practice corruption, power abuse and injustice. At the end, Taib corruption gomen and discrimination to Dayak is still ongoing just a matter of different person, all things are transfer from Taib to Idris Jala.
There are a lot of points to highlight on Idris Jala but the two points above is more than enough to note it.
Again I repeat it, Lim Kit Siang, Nik Aziz, Anwar even Ku Li are the present leader practice the moderate way of life, work for the good of rakyat in heart, different from BN leaders including Idris Jala who are arrogant, ego and practice corruption, power abuse and injustice to enrich them self.
Yes we are problem with leadership, a good quality leader with rakyat and nation in heart not a leader who are practice corruption, injustice and power abuse to enrich them self.
Idris Jala is not a leader he is just a good officer. He is just success in his business.
Leadership quality is not with Idris Jala. He never fight for Dayak Right. He never talk about the people need. He never fight against injustice, corruption and human discrimination as what Baru Bian is doing now.
SIMPLY PUT – BARU BIAN AGAINST BN EVIL, BUT IDRIS JALA WORK FOR BN EVIL. BOTH SAME DAYAK BUT THATS ALL SIMILARITY ENDS TWO POLAR APART. HA HA HA MAYBE SOME DAYAK LAZY TO THINK LAH LIKE ‘UNEDUCATED ONE’! EVEN TO THINK ALSO LAZY, SO JUST FITS THE NAME ‘UNEDUCATE ONE’ NICELY!
We must amend NCR land law once we crush this bn regime. CM has full autonomy over NCR land, resulted him becoming Christmas father giving land away to cronies and family members. I am not a lawyer but there are better approach in handling NCR land or else any tom, dick and harry who become cm can manipulate NCR land as he wishes.
the uneducated one on October 14th, 2010 2:27 pm
“Whether you in BN or opposition their is a corruption in power, justice and in life.Tell me where is the place in this world is sinlessly and corrupt free?”
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Kaban DBs,
This is the most concerned and serious altitude among few of us DBs especially the uneducated one.
After all what we in DB is trying to profess particularly against corruption and injustice, here we have these DB who said “Tell me where is the place in this world is sinlessly and corrupt free?”
Basically to him, the Uneducated one, you can kill anyone you don’t like as there also many killing elsewhere, or you can rape uneducated daughters/wife, etc as there are raping cases happening in many other palces in Malaysia.
So to the uneducated one, an evil deed is not an evil deed as it is also committed in other part of the world or the country.
So our dream and vision to have a free corruption and injustice for our beloved country will be badly hampered by this kind of mentality and altitudes by a very persons who believe in good talents, leadership, etc. For that I won’t discount the kind of leadership as admired by uneducated one will ultimatedly lead us to distruction and disaster as we can see in many other corrupted countries(fighting and killing everyday as it ok to kill since there is killing elsewhere).
Brother AB/ABDB/MKM, I totally support your opinion and I hope we get rid of this kind of pest in the person of “uneducated one” unless he is willing to fight against corruption and in injustice with us.
Blame the Ningkan family for lacking of vision……………….
Dear DB’s,
Singapore once being part of Malaysian Federation. Under certain circumstances, they we able to withdrawn and become the develop country compare to Malaysia now. How they able to withdraw? Anybody they able share it here? Lets everybody know the story.
As one of democratic country, we should form one organization to purge an efforts to withdraw from Malaysia. or Should we form ‘ Kumpulan Pemisah Borneo’ ?? We were being bullied by Malaya. They owe us so much. From the economic, defense (merdeka time), employment and esthetic value of Borneo. As long as we being united in one name, we should able to do that.
We need a leader to initiate this. We relied our hope on Dr. JBA or gkm2020.
i agree and support any independence movement for Sarawak
if they manipulate electoral system, the duku ilang can be used
Mere papers do not grant Dayak, the liberty and the glory of their past.
Not only the 20-point agreement, but this Kapit Resolution is absolutely meaningless in our present legal system. Come to think of it: even the Federal Constitution does not translate into any practical laws that would protect the Indigenous People of Sarawak. All of this historical artifacts are mere statement of intent that had become nothing.
No disrespect to you gkm2020, but what good is a history lesson that so pointedly remind us of the stupidity, if not the blatant greed of our past Dayak leaders ? We know the perks that those who supposedly represent Sarawak interest got for signing into the Malaysia agreement.
That our forefathers reluctantly join Malaysia ? But they did sign-off ! Is there any ground at all to get legal redress – ICJ? I think not.
James Wong proclaimed Sarawak formed Malaysia as equal partner with Malaya, and not as one of the Malay states ? What a dimwit ! Malaya had 10 times more people and human capital expertise at that time, with which to dominate the Federation. For political “equality” to be preserved, Sarawak could have been allocated 1/4 of the MPs seat, in close proportion to its land mass being at least 1/2 of the entire Federation.
So what is there left to do ? Well, maybe – as the adage goes,”the truth will set us free”. One would cringe to be reminded of those past, but perhaps it is a good exercise after all, to understand the the whole historical truth, nothing but the truth – about Sarawak people’s history of betrayal and abandonment to Malaya, by the British colonial government – and by her own supposed prodigal sons at that point in time.
Finally: one of these days – it might be acceptable to a new Federal Government, for Sarawak people to simply ask individual Sarawakian if he/she would support Sarawak to continue to be part of the Federation or to hypothetically “consider to secede – if allowed by the Malaysian law” ? Such level of personal liberty, freedom and free speech, may be one single compelling reason to vote for PR.
MERAMAT TAJAK,
Unggal, you are too fast in your judgment to say “Aum Kapit Resolution 1962″, the frame of our history and James Wong’s words are meaningless.
Maybe we’re all frustrated with our situations but that’s negative element to weaken our moral internally and externally.
When we lack of morality, it’s always easy for our enemies to doom/destroy us. We need strength, courage, reconciliation, initiative and focus in our direction to success.
To win, we all must eliminate our frustration because it will demoralize us sooner or later. No struggle is easy and no victory is easy, and neither peace is easy too.
This is only the preliminary step of our struggle. “Aum Kapit Resolution 1962″ is just a portion of our “Sarawak Agreement” toward the formation of “Malaysia” as it’s only incorporating the Ibans side of interests.
I may have some clues right now and it’s not appropriate to publish it here in this blog. This matters need to be discussed academically, legally and intelligently.
To seek the truths and answers, we need to cannibalize the origins of our history(s).
History is our past, it was our yesterday. But historical mistakes can always be corrected if we’ve seen, analyze and understand its legal standi….
We can’t have the truth if we hadn’t seek and/or conduct any due-diligence on our history and/or facts.
If our elders have been branded as “stupidity” then are we still continuing their legacy until today? I don’t wish to call our “elders” stupid nor greed but an error of legality and lack of sophistication.
If they’re all stupid and/or greedy then they might not have left us any NCR lands and/or Adat today….. We got to think from a different angle; why others have succeed and we’re not today?
Are we all “stupid” (paloi/bodoh/lunggau) and/or “greedy”? What and where are the root cause of our disadvantages? If we’re still at the disadvantage position then how are we going to overcome it?
To be frank ie in relation to our Dayaks issue today, our Dayaks are not ready yet; “berani tang agi takut-takut”….
No disrespect and my apology, PR alone may not be the answer to all our grievances but only a step forward to diminish and/or weakened BN political strongholds. Dayaks at this very moment have no real political platform and have no “shadow cabinet alternative platform” too.
Should you are able to meet me in person and with other DBs including Dr. JBA, I shall try to explain to you gentlely….
For now I shall leave this topic unanswered until a suitable time is found. Hope we could meet face-to-face some day in the near future. Thank you.
Sincerely, gkm2020
gkm2020,
Good debate/ argument or call it clarification or just one’s opinion.
If you are a lawyer by profession (apart from your core qualification- PhD) I think you are better than Tajem to represent Dayaks in the Dewan Rakyat.. You can smash right away a person like Jugam/Satem in the dewan sitting.
Please offer yourself to be the PR candidate in the next SE, you got nothing to lose but everybody gains from your active politics- represent our community (now and later, in this blog and on the ground).
I salute you my honorable senior Sir….
Long Live DBees
MT,
A realist but sometime accept defeat easily.
CA,
Points of view- more constructive now, less talking about his school days (being the smartest & well off family)…
Dr. John,
Very2 impressive in the blog, having plentiful of good ideas/ assets but still lacking in impacting when come to deliver the speech in front of the crowds. You can improve to connect your ideas (all the brilliants are in your blog) with more practice- understand the rural folks’ interest & listen to their needs.
Famous saying, ‘you can ride the horse to the sea but cannot force it to drink’. Meaning to say, you could not charge your ideologies into them like the way you talk to urban people. Slow but steady- do it regularly- meet the people. Dont just talking from your PC like I am doing now.
Bernad Bayang is already identified (by PKR leadership) to contest in Kemena. Dr. John got to find alternative DUN, what about Kakus- go and crush John Sinkie- the battle of 2 JOHNS?
ES,
Also could be our candidate- very consistent (sharing) with good ideas.
MAP,
You also can offer yourself as candidate.
If the above guys, of course MT should always give check & balance, are in one solid team & blend with young but energetic potential candidates, I think the opposition can deny BN 2/3 majority.
Good to highlight the blunders from our past leaders but never cry over the spilled milk. Apa kata DSAI, ‘ kita lawan tetap lawan- (walaupun underdogs in term of logistics & cash)
GKM2020,
Thanks for your reply. I think I owe you a bit more clarification.
It probably would have been more accurate if I had been more careful with the choice of words.
History is never “meaningless”. We learn from it or be force to repeat the mistakes. In fact, I read with interest the chronicle of Sarawak history by Bunga Pakma in Hornbill Unleashed.
At any rate: I look forward to any face to face meeting where restoration of “historical” rights, such as 20-point agreement or Kapit Resolution 1962, can be shown to fit into the checkered Dayak political narrative.
Rest assured: I’m not the type who would be “berani, but takut-takut”.But in the case of our historical rights, I believe the path to its possible restoration is to spur the Pakatan political direction to respect freedom of speech.
Once freedom of speech is guaranteed, with a bill of rights, then we can ask Sarawakian easy questions like “whether they would prefer to stay in the Malaysian Federation or to secede … if allowed by law”. I prefer a planned execution of strategies than foolhardy frontal attack on all fronts.
On James Wong drift about Sarawak joining as “equal” partners in his book, I still think he was stupid to assume others would grant perpetual equality without a legally binding structure. The leaders who agreed to sign Sarawak into forming Malaysia could have asked for proportionate representation by land mass.
On the land laws : NCR laws pre-date the formation of Malaysia – since Brooke rule. The leaders did not have the strategic foresight to ring fence (perimeter survey) like the Indians tribes in North America. Now the Dayak descendants, have to be burdened to try to protect their temuda. I can’t imagine Christina Suntai would praise the early Dayak leadership for enacting protective laws for NCR land ownership – when they could have done it better than today ! I think I won’t be alone in calling those leaders as stupid, docile – irresponsible idiot, who were more interested in getting their reward from Malaya.To use CharcoalArt phrase, those guys are the “Unforgiven”.
Hope this clarify the post a bit more, for yourself and for other readers.
MMERAMAT TAJAK on October 16th, 2010 11:50 pm
Mere papers do not grant Dayak, the liberty and the glory of their past.
Not only the 20-point agreement, but this Kapit Resolution is absolutely meaningless in our present legal system.
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Unggal MT,
As far it is concerned, your post above is not only wrong but totally dangerous by calling 20 point and Kapit Resolution is absolutely meaningless, even in the contact of present legal system.
It may not in the legal right but in term of moral consignment to fight for our right, it is very important. It is become our platform to know our history and platform for our people to know their right.
It is not 20 points and Kapit Resolution 1962 is absolutely meaningless but your comment is absolutely meaningless.
I think, gkm2020, has a very good point to explain all of this.
ANTI POLITIC OF DIBOLOTMENT on October 16th, 2010 10:03 pm
-Jugam, life would be lonely without you…however please create your own blog. DBs will be glad to surf to your blog and don’t forget to inform us the url for your new blog.
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Jugam – Dayaklama – Linda – Changop
Jugam already got blog, even listed at Dayakbaru blog network links, how funny is that!
Jugam is UMNO spy for Dayak
Target: 2011 must bring Umno to Sarawak
How:
1. Merged SPDP-PRS to fool the Dayak (example PBDS Baru)
2. Split PBB into Dayak faction and Malay/Melanau faction
3. Dayak PBB urged to join PBDS Baru plus SUPP Dayak too
4. Malay/Melanau got no choice but join Umno Sarawak
5. PBDS Baru split again
6. Umno Sarawak grab all Dayak seats with significant Malay voters
7. Dayak seats at most is 10, all mosquito YBs
8. Umno Sarawak easily control over 40 DUN seats and don’t need Dayak, SUPP anymore
9. Jugam the Dayak traitor cornered, seized by own frustrated Dayaks
10. Jugam hanged but he’s just a man died, too late whole Dayak future destroyed and f-cked up forever under Umno Sarawak
Jugam is our next Tun Jugah that caused maybe another 50 years or more of Dayak sufferings, shame and stupidity!
Jugam,
You such a waste of government money foruming. You should deliver. But your performance is below par as far as works are concerned.
Waste taxpayers money meri nuan makai.
Iban Abroad,
I hear you.
I stand by my statement that any references to those documents for purpose of restoring the rights contained therein, through any form of legal redress is useless – until I can be convinced otherwise through some legal argument.
More important than that though, we have different views on how to liberate Dayak people. Lets just say, I won’t fully subscribe to the Dayak-centric list of points in the 20-point agreement and in the Kapit Resolution 1962. I think some of the terms would alienate non-Dayak, and that will be an impediment to any long term, moonshot move in tandem with other non-Dayak Sarawakian thinkers and progressive Malaya folks, to chart a different path for Sarawak (out of the Federation or be a secular republic under the Federation) – that may be better for Malaysia or for the region.
I hope to be in touch with gkm2020 shortly to better understand the significance of the historical documents to alleviate the Dayak present political predicament.