Article originated by Philip Khoo in Aliran Magazine.
In the course of a year, the two major parties in the Sarawak Barisan Nasional (BN) with an essentially Dayak base met a similar fate. Both are parties with complex and uneasy relationships, in turn submissive and defiant, with the dominant Sarawak BN party, the Parti Pesaka Bumiputera Bersatu (PBB). Both had been in opposition at some point in the past. Both were established to realise a Dayak identity, and to advance allegedly Dayak interests and aspirations. Both haven�t quite succeeded in either objective, except in limited ways.
Revisited Link here
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
3 comments:
dear sir,
glad to see that you took up the effort to fight for the bidayuhs. perhaps it's time that you guys stop voting for BN and vote for DAP instead. perhaps then, bidayuhs have a chance in this country.
"glad to see that you took up the effort to fight for the bidayuhs. perhaps it's time that you guys stop voting for BN and vote for DAP instead. perhaps then, bidayuhs have a chance in this country."
Until this very day, no real Bidayuh politician pick up the fight for Bidayuhs. The Bidayuh politicans are all handpicked out of all Bidayuh choice and they are all after the loots, being a YB is getting as much business, projects etc. Greed is good. So for all Bidayuhs alike, no need politics. We rather continue our lives. Let our land hanging without titles and robbed as state land instead. It took a millenium to build a church while a masjid with few muslims plus few cats and worms can be build instantly. Our mission school still under-funded, befitting the name as Sekolah Rendah Bantuan. Read: Bantuan. Such a pity but that life for Bidayuh, a f-cking tough life. So much so for a tribe with 180K population yet asking for too much like ministerial position just for the sake of being 'symbolic appointment'.
Symbolic appoinment? F-cking shame.
I do not know if Ph.D is the requirement to be a Bidayuh representative. As far as I know, Tun Jugah did not get his Senior Cambridge to be the leaders of the Iban in Kapit. He asked the the government to build Methodist Missionary School at his long house. He admired education thought he is "buta huruf".
The Bidayuh leaders have plenty of Ph.D but the truth is, they are insane and possessed by money and title.
All hail to those who we have voted for lah!!!
Post a Comment