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"Sarawak will much better under British colony rule, at least under the Queen's order just like autonomous rule Australia or New Zealand. We all assured to enjoy: Excellent education system, we speak real London English daily, efficient modern public administration, regional ASEAN investment and shipping hub, perhaps the last of crown jewel of the Queen, topnotch highways, international airports and public transport, Christianity is automatic religion by birth for all Dayaks,..." Anonymous comment on When The Rooster Crows
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Thank you for this comment and it really sparked my mind this morning once I login to The Lost Aborigine blog.
What make Sarawak looks different from other states? Sarawak is the biggest state with plenty of resources especially oil and gas, timber and tourism. In fact, Sarawak has the world oldest rainforest which is recognized by UNESCO. I think that Sarawak will be more developing if the state is still under British colonial. We must envy what British has done to Hong Kong, Mumbai, Johannesburg, Australia and New Zealand. Tun Mahathir once blamed the British colonial for sucking all the resources from Malaya to England and left a small portion to the Malayan themselves. He is right in this issue but has he ever realize how was the education and administration standard made by the British? Since we were agree with Raman Talib and Fen Wu and finally, Razak (1957) proposal on the Malaysian education, the education standard was reduced one level to another to proclaim our new low-standard education.
Anwar Ibrahim was then proposed Bahasa Melayu to be used as the medium language to build a great nation building under the greatest “Malayan Colonial”. The purposed of the new National Education Policy is to build an “identity” for the new generation of Malaya. Somehow, we never realized that the “identity” that we build was imbalance in term of social and cultural adaptation. For example, we must learn Bahasa Melayu and change the entire syllabus into Bahasa Malaysia language including Science and Mathematic. As a result, many of those who “need” a high standard education level went to England, United State and Australia to get degree or Masters Degree due to global job market demand. We cannot bring our University Malaysia Sarawak certificate with CGPA 4.00 to Middle East if we are not able to talk and write in English. Unless, your job is cleaning camel's dung.
As a summary, our education institution was engineered by the worst to produce the worst. Now, we are working very hard (including Minister of Education himself) to restored back English language into Science subjects and Mathematic. It is something like, throwing a piece of diamond and digging a big hole to mine glass.
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Let get back to what is my real topic today for the aborigine:
1. The aborigines are engineered by NEP which benefited only one Bumiputera (Malay) though they (the aborigines) are entitled “Bumiputera”.
2. Taib Mahmud said in the Borneo Post press tat NEP is not a handout but it is a government policy to help those “Malay” who are left behind.
3. NEP must be sustained to help the Malay to get better living compare to the Chinese and Indian, Kadazan and Iban, Murut and Bidayuh.
The undeveloped rural Industry. What is the best economic policy for the Bidayuh?
The soil sluggers are remaining as sluggers since I was a pupa and the sluggers will never end. The Bidayuh has no right under NEP though it is said to be and aid for them as “entitled” Bumiputera. Tough there might be development within the area of the Bidayuh, there must be term and condition to be obeyed. For example, the FELCRA and SALCRA project requires them to get convert. The endorsed Bengoh Dam project will never be a fair threat to those affected villagers since Manyin has changed job. It might be the same situation to fate of one of a village in Johore shown in TV last night. Yes, we are not chicken or dog where the government can chase us as their wish.
The new road to Padawan was build due to Borneo Highland Resort project which never bring any benefit to those surrounding areas. They lost their farms and orchard for less compensation or none at all. So who are the culprits behind this project?
The Bidayuh as no place in the government sector since NEP is entitled to help “another” bumiputera. Yes, we can make the State sectary as a very good example, but how about those jobless bidayuh graduates? Is there any aid for young Bidayuh entrepreneurs to start a Roti Canai stall?
We are sick of intimidation and marginalization made by the new colonial and if there is no political tsunami in Sarawak, there will be at least“mourning” rain which is much better than dry season.
I believe that British colonial is much better to develop Sarawak tough we have to share our resources with them but not with bandits and pirates.
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The best of Bidayuh brains came from Dragon school.
Almost everything is the best of English: from the teachers, dietry (pure bran oat for breakfast), tactical sports like rugby, football, hockey (but no golf, sadly), strict Bible teachings etc.
Those Bidayuh guys passing the same genes into their kids now, albeit without English schools, stressing the utmost importance of education as nobody can take your knowledge once it's etched inside your brain. Nothing can take even you change(decisively or not) your religion to become a kirieng. Which explained why Bidayuh have the highest concentration of graduates among all Sarawak Dayaks. Ibans were victims by their own device: drinking and gambling habits. Can't say much but Ibans now, new generation, are all-out excellent too.
But it's pathetic now to see SMK Dragon TAR in such a lowly typical govt school, same goes to most other Bidayuh area schools. Discount any conspiracy theory, but Education Dept is indirectly/hiddenly/purposedly? sending the low-grade teachers/or problematic school principal out to Bidayuh/ Dayaks populated area schools. Over the course of time, this tactic seems working to destabilise Bidayuh students supremacy in education but it's all never gonna stop Bidayuh to excell academically.
Not everyone loves to admit that Bidayuhs are very good in academics. That's why every tactics are employed to stop Bidayuh from reaching further progress, whether you all realise it or not.
Let's us hope the return of Dragon school former glory, or at least favourable education policy toward Bidayuh, one way or another.
SMK Tun Abdul Razak name? Such a sick joke pain in the ass.
Tbs said,
"As a summary, our education institution was engineered by the worst to produce the worst. Now, we are working very hard (including Minister of Education) to restored back English language into Science subjects and Mathematic."
Flip flop education system, initally stressing on English then back on harping to use BM and now Math and Science using English.
It's all simply time, money not well spent:
-Retrain the teachers
-publication cost for language translation BM-English vice versa
-obsolete cost for outdated English version of books (in IT subjects)
Then the issue of Western culture threathening the Malays minds and this crap harping the way to improve our English proficiency target.
This all cost bomb of taxpayers'money. Why use a bit of common sense and ignore the scaremongering. Let English to be used as medium. Singaporean Malay can take it proudly but they still a Malay so what the fuss with ours here?
Time is running fast. Good command in English can do nothing worst.
What is the message that you want to put across in your posting? Saying that there is a highest BIdayuh concentration of graduates among all the Sarawak Dayaks is of the BIdayuh origin is not true. Look how many Profesors to we have as compared with the Ibans? Look how many high ranking officials in JUSA do we have as compared to the Ibans. Look at how many undergraduates do we have as compared to the Ibans. All my life I come across only with one BIdayuh Professor while there are four from the Iban community. So why want to blow the trumpet when there is nothing to show.
Who is the best of the Bidayuh brains from Dragon? Patau....yes, Jerip...yes..Dr. Frank Kiong..yes, Detta Samen...yes. William Tanyuh...not too sure. YB Roland Sagah yes. Prof. Dr. Peter Songan..yes, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Gabriel Tonga..yes.. Assoc Prof. Andrew Ragai..not sure. Datuk Amar WIlson..no SMK St, Thomas. Ik Pahon..yes. William Nyigor..nope..not sure. Dahim Nadot..yes. The list can go on.
Even now some of the undergraudates come from SMK Tun Razak. Some are doing well while others not so well.
So what is the message? Musa anak Ngong come from where. BADUG and SMK Tun Razak? A great brain? Yes if you think, but still struggling with his English. You read his blog and check, I am not a teca and could not check,
How do you know that Sarawak will be beter under the colony? Did you know that the Brooke rule Sarawak from 1837 until 1963 and what did we get. Can you name some of the prominent buildings, projects and whatever you know under the British colony. The British divide and rule worse than anything. Can you disclose the number of Bidayuh graduates under the British colony? Can you name the schools whether secondary or primary schools built in the Bidayuh areas during the brooke rule and the British colony? Can you name any prmominent Bidayuh figures in the Civil Service during the Brooke rule and the Crown colony. Your father and your uncles, your aunties are the by-product of colonial rule. Did they posses any properties. If they did, what I know is only three acreas of Native Area Land (NAL) which is meant for agriculture purposes. The Bidayuh are asked only to plant three acreas of rubber. Anything bigger than the three acreas of land will be bound to be illegal. Don't you know that? That is why not many Bidayuh were able to own big peices of land which is more than three acreas.
With respect to education, Education is left to the mission, not by the colonial rule. St Bernard Sadir is built by the villagers on gotong royong basis with minimal assistance from the Anglican mission. Thanks to the late father Rev. St, James Quap too was build by the Anglican mission, St. Paul Bunuk too was built by the Anglican Mission, other schools such as St Philip in Annah Rais was build by the Mission, St. Augustine at Kampong Mambong was build by the mission. Have you realy scrutinise the British colony budget and see how much is spent on education. Like wise the same scenario happened to schools in Bau and also in Serian. In Bau, St John, Apar was built by the Catholic mission. So what are you talking about the British colony.
During the colonial rule most of the schools in town were run by the local concils and as such we have three types of schools systems viz run by the Masrasah Melayu for the Malays, runs by the missions namely Catholic, Anglican and SDA, and run by Chinese Associations for the Chinese, and until now these Chinese schools are present in our midst. SO how come you say that the British colony rule is better than what the present government. Now every year under during the budget session we read in papers that a huge sum of money is allocated for education. But we never know how much money were being spent by the colonial govermnent to develop our state. Our state backwardness was the result of the colonial rule. They mine our gold, bauxite, our natural resources were taken and were used to develop England with very little allocation or taxes collected to develop the town areas.
Now, can you tell me any Secondary schools which are being built in Bidayuh areas during the colonial rule. It think is none, if there is, it is just probably Dragon schools. Other schools, such as Bau Government Secondary School, Bau Lake Government Secondary School, Sematan Secondary School, Lundu Secondary school, Padawan Secondary School, Taie Secondary School, Tarat, Serian, Tebekang, Balai Ringin and Siburan Secondary schools were all built after 1963. So check your fact first before you made any comments which you yourself don't even know because of being naive.
You mentioned of Sarawak world oldest rainforest which is reconginsed by UNESCO, but whose legacy are those? Tell me? Is it because of the legacy of the Brooke, the Colonial Rule or because of the fne work or the Department of Forestry of which CM is at the helm as the minister in charge of the protflio? Had Sarawak not having CM at the helm of the government would you think UNESCO would recognise Sarawak as the world oldest rainforest in this part of the world? My answer is know, it would have been Brazil.
Do you think the British is responsible for the Development at Johannesberg. My answer is no, because to the aperthied.
You mentioned Anwar introduced Bahasa Melayu, you are wrong again, it was actually Tun Dr. Mahathir when he was made the Minister of Education and he was also responsible for the U turn in using English to teach Math and Science. So what is wrong? We should stay focus, take this as a challenge and make sure that all Bidayuh must be proficient in ENglish, Bahasa Malaysia and Bidayuh. Some must also know a little bit of Mandrin or Iban so that we can co exist peacefully with other race. There is no place for a racist in a multi racial country in Sarawak. If you want to be a bloddy racist go and built your home inside the deep interior so that you don't have to inter mingle with the other race.
How many our new Dayak generations knew or aware that we Dayak had been colonised by malaya since 1963? We have to educate & inform our new generations about the actual facts and the truth of what happened in the past. I strongly feel that our forefathers had make a big mistake to surrender our future to tiz greedy species frm malaya. In 1963, we should remained under British or seek our own real independence (not joining the malaya).
2nd Anon said,
"..only with one Bidayuh Professor while there are four from the Iban community"
"..List can go on..Even now some of the undergraduates come from SMK Tun Abdul Razak. Some are doing well while others not so well."
--Given the smaller Bidayuh population over Iban in a wider scope, Bidayuh definately have higher concentration of graduates. If given all DESERVED opportunities and without 'biased/hidden' motive state education directive, hell know that Bidayuh students would be the Jews of the Dayaks (in a good, intellect sense). Minute but all-out great, god-like minds.
3rd Anon said,
"That is why not many Bidayuh were able to own big pieces of land which is more than three acreas."
--Then, Sarawak land code must be revised as it now favour/inclined more towards commercial property exploitation. Bidayuhs, Dayaks alike must get their native land titles which are rightly their land. Expediate the process more, review all land ownership status in Sarawak which totalled 12million hectares square. Why the delay?
Recalled back at DUN session when DAP YB Violet propose open tender for state land alienation, Awang Tengah stood up against it as it deem to deprived the poor from owning lands and houses. Really? Awang Tengah also spoke in defence the land contra deal between Naim Cendera and state govt for contract part payment instead of cash, while maintaining private property developer actually bearing much more responsibility in term of future business planning and its cost. You see, even a minister become the spokeperson for private developer rather than the rakyat, know so much about property business in and out. Smell fishy? It's more fishy if govt keep delaying the issuance of land titles to the Dayaks in particular. But in dealing in land exchanges for private developers, govt would prioritise it the most.
"Our state backwardness was the result of the colonial rule. They mine our gold, bauxite, our natural resources were taken and were used to develop England with very little allocation for taxes to develop town areas."
--Really beg to differ, with what Taib doing now. Same shit, different rajah. Politic of development..of timber..now, politic of flood?
There's an alley at Carpenter Street near Waterfront, called Jalan Crookshank. It doesn't matter which crooks in which time now, but it's a good reminder.
"..schools were built after 1963"
--If taking account since 1963 until now, Bidayuhs should deserve more, better equipped schools and facilities, not to mention quality teachers and visionary principals. Mission schools should receive full govt funds, not left to rot. The delay tactics employed indirectly deprived Bidayuh students getting what they deserved. Samy Vellu and Tamil schools status as full-govt funding debacle now is a good focal point.
"Had Sarawak not having CM at the helm of the government would you think UNESCO would recognise Sarawak as the world oldest rainforest in this part of the world?"
--What if scientists are able to carbon-dating certain Amazon samples and it's older than Sarawak rainforest? Ok, never irked your white hair rajah. You owed much your precious monthly salaries, pensions from him.
"Do you think the British is responsible for the Development at Johannesberg. My answer is no, because to the aperthied."
--How ironic eh? The economic destruction in Zimbabwe was accused by Mugabe as being plotted by the West and British alike. Interestingly this time, Mugabe himself using apartheid-like tactics against his own black countrymen. Yet Mahathir offered him safe asylum here. Glad if Taib would do the same. You know, crooks with same feather flocks together.
"There is no place for a racist in a multi racial country in Sarawak. If you want to be a bloddy racist go and built your home inside the deep interior so that you don't have to inter mingle with the other race."
--No doubt that it's good to be multi-lingual. The crucial point is: if you stage against racism, look at how minority Melanaus thru Taib rule over majority Dayaks. Would you accept a Foochow chinaman to become your CM in the spirit of multi-racial tolerence? Would a Foochow Rajah can be a better rajah? Don't you know Foochow are the hated, barbarian Chinese, even chased away from their mainland Chinese? Why SUPP itself divided among Foochow and Hokkien, Henghua, Hakka groups?
You see, smart people will go for the money. It's better if you are well educated. Bidayuh therefore is in unique position, despite small population. Composure is the key to bargain the chips more from Taib.
Remember, James Brooke with his small number of sailors just show off his bad ass vessel the royalist, to the horror of brunei sultan, scared his ass off, he gave away chunk of borneo (Sarawak) to James Brooke.
So to 2nd, 3rd Anon:
Just find the cure for cancer to your beloved rajah taib, as time running out fast.
If he's gone, so do you. Kindly suck it.
The good thing is about the reign of the Brooke Rajah is the Sarawak is conceived. Before that the northern Borneo is part of the Brunei empire. The White Rajah had also officially ended the tribal war so that everybody stop cutting each other head. The most important one was that the Brooke administration had enabled the Christian Missionary to come to Sarawak and spread the Good News of Gospel especially to the Bidayuh people. Hence the education to the Bidayuh people as well. This is wonderful because the Bidayuh people finally get the Salvation and it's up to the Bidayuh people to earn a place in Heaven. Remember, this world is only temporary place & it's only a transit to the eternity.
Bengohdamtalk,
all was damn views!
Talk and just talk in the shadow of the language, the CM and the Rajah. If i've given a chance will i chose Rajah?
Yes maybe Kuching will be like Singapore also.
But now, what can we do?
Big ass butt! but will damn nothing when "nasi sudah jadi bubur".
Musa must be still to critique the Bidayuh ass. Because, "who will act as our Mahathir and Anuar to critic fuel price". I means who will goes to strive for Bidayuh generations and how many ass UNTIL that time!
Shut up you mouth when we goes to have a problem. So that Bidayuh nations will be "built". Damn critic!
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Taib must be very powerful in Sarawak, so much so that there are so many anonymous postings here.
That is the problem with our country, the majority (the rakyat) are cowed by the ruling party.
Yes i much agree with you Sabahan. When we talk about cowed, it does not means to be afraid to the ruler, but rather applied for those who are aware of the YB,s. Maybe not for all but enought to be aware because since the goverment makes the so called developments but until that time for over 200 case of NCR unresolved at courts but the dams just continued to be done at Sarawak. The same with blog www.pemudasabah.blogspot.com/ which says Pairin Kitingan should resign.
Yess! we says because it's true because perhaps the money is more than their duty.
"Taib must be very powerful in Sarawak,"
Not only powerful but also richer than God. Sultan Musa Aman looks rather small, comical dwarf compared to White Hair Rajah Taib.
Taib can turn anything into money: old Muslim graveyard lands, flood water, thrash dumpsites, timber(of course), sago, palm oil, jathropa, limestone rocks, prehistoric caves, buah kepayang...you name it Taib got it. Midas touch, sort of.
I believe there are more than enough Bidayuhs in Malaysia to form enough voice to make yourself heard. Knowing that Bidayuhs are naturally mild, I feel it is time for Bidayuhs evoke the spirit of the late Dato William Nais to place yourselves among the best races in the country.
I suggest that there must be a most important tool and this tool is to publish a newspaper in the Dayak language. Having a Dayak newspaper will give your race significance in the society. Until now there is not one publication of such, not even when the Queen ruled the Dayaks. Having this tool will make Bidayuhs progress in all senses.
I am not a Dayak but having lived with Bidayuhs for three years in my life and having given the chance to educate a hundred Bidayuh children in those three years, I feel blessed to have come to know one of the best peoples in the world.
I implore the best brains of Bidayuhs to consider and look seriously in the publication of Bidayuh literature to remain a strong voice in the country that they still belong to now.
Let us not let the enormous effort of Dato William Nais be left a white elephant in libraries.
"I believe there are more than enough Bidayuhs in Malaysia to form enough voice to make yourself heard."
No amount of voices able to remind them that it's wrong for them as Bidayuh leaders to keep supporting a clearly unjust racist ruling Umno thru PBB/ BN Sarawak.
Yes, given the fact that Bidayuh are mild gentle people that they most succumb in following order, obey one called white hair rajah taib to rule over and over again, with his own whim and fancy.
The Bidayuh leaders mostly lost their conscience, unable to differentiate whether it's right or wrong to support a modern-day tyrant.
When were you ever being intimidated? Isn't it PKR who were intemidating you? If you feel intimidated why don't you fight back?
I'm coming a bit late into this discussion but I did want to leave a comment about a rather clear historical fact that people seem to be a little confused about. The question to ask then is have the powers that be in West Malaysia succeeded in confusing you about your own history?
West Malaysia had a different colonial history from Sarawak's. Sarawak was ruled by an English family as a private kingdom. Each of the three White Rajahs had a different philosophy and a different task because of the circumstances of the times in which they ruled.
Let's take a look at some basic differences between British coloniah rule and Brooke rule. British colonies were used as market places for British produced goods from the motherland. Natural resources were reaped from the colonies to support the industries in Great Britain. Sarawak's resources were used to support Sarawak's industries. There was no mother country to send these resources to. The Brookes had to make Sarawak a self-sustaining economy or they would not have had to shoulder the financial burden of a bankrupt country. This is what James Brooke had to do in the early part of his rule ... he poured what was left of his own personal fortune into Sarawak and when that proved to be inadequate, he had to beg and borrow from his wealthy friends. Anyone who can think that James Brooke benefited financially from Sarawak really has no idea of his own country's history.
Part of bringing peace to a country so that essential services like transportation, indsutries, hospitals, education, etc., can be provided, meant that warring tribes had to be subdued. This is where I suspect a myopic view of what the Brookes did comes in, depending on whether you were one of those warring tribes or a peaceful one being victimized.
No one can deny (unless you choose to ignore history and rewrite it) that under Brooke rule, there was peace in the country and Sarawak became self-sustaining enough that there were industries developed that continue to this day ... pepper, rubber, etc. were developed during Brooke rule; hospitals were built; a transportation infrastructure was put into place; hospitals were built; a medical service was created where people were vaccinated against diseases such as small pox, etc.; read some day about how a lone English doctor would spend months going from village to village innoculating everyone and then you tell me that these people did not do any good.
The Brookes built the foundation for Sarawak's economy today; they gave Sarawak an efficient civil service (one which included all the native people ... I have seen the government rolls from those 100 years, so I know the truth); a good education system that should have propagated itself.
The Brookes left Sarawak better than they found it. Had WWII not occured, I suspect that Sarawak's history would be far different. So Sarawak really only had British colonia rule from 1946 to 1963. To equate Brooke rule with what British colonial rule is an insult to history and a disservice to your country. Sarawak is unique with a unique colonial history ... look at the facts, do not be blinded by West Malaysian propaganda. They can look at their colonial past whatever way they choose, you just have to remember that you have a different colonial history.
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