NEP and The Hard Core Poor
It has been many days I left The Lost Aborigine due to workload as a lecturer. The midterm was going on with less time to write. It made me to loose a little bit of my enthusiasm as I used to be before. Time is really tight indeed. You never expect to be in an easy environment if you choose to be in education line.
I have been granted to rent my colleague’s canon digital camera since I do not have one. Last Sunday, my brother-in-law and I went to Simuti to visit my fellow family members and friend. I brought with me the rented digital camera to shot some good picture at Dato Dr. James Dawos’s constituency. It was a great trip up there with my roaring EX5 motorbike. I hope to go to Kampung Kiding with 2 hours hiking up to the mountain top and see how the life of those aborigines.
Heaven in the Hell
It is obvious that the aborigines are marginalized economically though they are living under the world developing country under Barisan Nasional governance. First, the villagers (Sadir, Simuti, Sibuang and Siabakar) had their 24 hours electricity supply in 1994. Though it was a BN turkey project, the villagers are told to pull about three rolls of cable for 10 kilometers on “gotong-royong basis”. Next, they have to carry the cable post in order to lift-up the cable. It took them almost 1 year to complete the project.
The gravel road was built by a logging company in 1995-2003 with JKR annual maintenance. At least, the villagers do not have to walk on foot to get their food supply at Annah Rais or Kota Padawan. Somehow, the road is dangerous where you might fall into a ravine. There is no reason to develop those villages because they will not able to contribute to the state economy since there is more big three to be cut down.
Road to Eden
As I looked at the houses, I feel there must be something to be done to those villages. They are working a self-supply farmer and living under poverty or the best word is hardcore poverty. What is the best plan to be carried out by the Rural Development Ministry for those hardcore poor so that they can live as the others do? Some of the parents could not afford to send their children to school even though there are free text book and some may get school uniform aid from Yayasan Sarawak. They might struggle to feed the whole family and to buy stationeries for their children.
The Ultimate NEP's victim
SK St. Bernard Sadir combined four villages into one school. It is a boarding school with three meals a day and 5 days transit. I am glad to see some of the parents are diligent enough to support their kids by giving them moral support instead of monetary. There were a group of parents sending their kids to boarding school on that Sunday afternoon.
The economic struggle has been the worst fight for the aborigines since independent. I believe that the government has no intention to develop those areas though they are Bumiputera status. Therefore, if NEP is applicable for Bumiputera, should we (the aborigine) have to be happy with it? Do we have to happy with those ‘right” and “privilege” which we never get it at all?
The Future of the "bumiputera"
23 comments:
Only the marginalised can understand how the marginalised feel. The whole NEP thing is very clear - to benefit only the malays and no one else. Educate your people to fight for yours and the rights of everyone - equality and fairness for all. Assistance for all who are poor, regardless of race.
The same things are happening in Sabah, the rural Bumiputras (Rungus, Muruts, Dusun etc) continue to live in abject poverty.
The instant Bumiputra (recent Muslim immigrants from Southern Philippines and Indonesia) are all reaping the benefits of NEP.
Colonisation by the West Malaysian are worst than by the British. At least corruption is minimal (if any) under the British.
They have the money to develop the highland into a resort but the poor have to wait for gov't handout.
NEP meant for malay.not bumiputra... bumi-word just gimmick....instead the hidden meaning of NEP is malay, malay is NEP
nah..for them when they say bumiputra they mean 'malay bumiputra' only lah so NEP is applicable to them only.
I met some kadazan and bidayuh working over here in KL.
The stories they told me about the happenings in Sabah is just incredible.
These racist umnoputras facist slim ball dont gives a shit about other races in Msia and yet keeps harping about a multi racial Msia, what a f*c*king bunch of hypocrite.
If you read foreign news nowadays, we are now well know for having a racist gomen that practise racial discrimination. How else would you explain that almost all civil servants are malays..dont they understand that diversity is strength?.
Basically, NEP is all but FAKE, ILLUSORY and VOMITOUS. It's part of a bigger game by UMNO, a game goes against themselves. Misery by its own device.
FAKE:
It's fake right after Dr.M being re-admitted to UMNO and being crooked away from it's native, original noble point to help the poor Bumiputera. Tun Razak and Tun Hussein Onn made a good cause for NEP but Dr.M bent it just to enrich a few UMNO groups in pretext or encompass all Bumiputera. All the nonsense such as AP policy (importing cars to cements), Bumiputera-designated/selective govt tenders projects, students quota, taxi individual permits, secretive timber concessionaires etc all of it just perfect to dupe the Malays in general that their rights are up and foremost protected. NEP target to fold 30% equity shareholdings among Bumiputeras was fell short to 15-19%. Out of that, in disguise, only those from UMNO goons and thugs enjoy the so called equity preferential treatments. Therefore to call all Bumiputera enjoy NEP is fake. It's only applicable to Malay/Muslim Bumiputera, while non-muslim bumiputeras like Dayaks, Orang Asli(forced-convert muslim or animist alike) were all systematically sidelined; kept poor for ease of control.
ILLUSORY:
The fact that Tunku Abdul Rahman never forgive Dr.M til his death sums up the rotten state of UMNO, so do the NEP. Dr.M with his sidekick Tun Daim able to dictate who gets what so well done that it's translate it into Asia's economic success averaging 8% growth for 20 years. With iron grip on most media (non-internet age of course), NEP continued to be projected as noble cause for all Bumiputeras. Beneath it lies the real faggots of UMNO, the faggots that halted the other group of Bumiputera access of fair share of cookies. Only those Dayaks politicians given some share of the loots after much embedded brainwash that fighting for Malay thugs is good and worth everything. As well as in students quota, Malay students fared lower than Dayaks will get the scholarships, perks firsthand. It's illusory that PSD guarantee fairness, the best student got it shit like that. UMNO is happy to shipload the useless Malay students rather than Dayaks to graduate and excel further. This is real things going on around and it's fucking sad that Bidayuhs, Dayaks leaders keep mums about it, day-light robbery right in the face.
VOMITOUS:
Instead of benefitting all bumiputeras, NEP selectively swindle the wealth to UMNO goons. in older days Dr.M, Taib may able to fool us all but now no more. It's just another get-rich-quick scam. While the the crooks are well guarded with their loots, nothing last forever. You see, in Gulf War saw Saddam burning most Kuwaiti oil wells before fleeing. 'Burning down the house' is the worst tactic any tyrant might do, just hoping to get the loots back. But none materialise. Saddam get his head off and Iraq liberated. The fine tuning job rest with U.S to gauge the mess against Iran. Hopefully U.S will drop nukes all over Iran and all will wash off.
What we learn from it is that UMNO directing into similar path. NEP is perfect tool to steal legitimately, continously. The trace of UMNO bundling the loots elsewhere out of the country is clear: govt investment arms, UMNO-linked big corps buying oversea assets banks, getting big infra projects hastily. The Arab sheikhs also are happy to keep it for UMNO, muslim brotherhood in some sense. Typical crooks.
Only the 'immobile' loots is UMNO crooks unable to bundle out. Therefore it must be 'burn down'. NEP is nearly exhausted it function for enriching the UMNO crooks.
'Burning down the house' tactics now already deployed by UMNO. Sources of wealth and power must be sabotaged, disengaged, disrupted. Windfall tax being devised as last pitch to get the loots, even from their own ranks. PAS youths divisions are all being bribed by UMNO to derail PR plans. How well the wildfire(made by UMNO arsonist) being contained is up to who will be the petrol or water.
So what's up for Bidayuhs, Dayaks? Just like the deers trapped inside the wildfire? Will Taib take Sarawak out of burnt-out Malaysia as part of contigency plan? Will Bong Kie Chok remind us the infamous plan: Operasi Ganyang Malaysia by Sukarno? Will Sabah be captured by the Sulu Mindanao pirates, jihadist and formed the Sulu Republic?
Maybe UMNO just like The Joker: happy to see things in chaos, burn down, destroyed. A happy anarchist?
Congratulation on being appointed as a lecturer. But as I student I am appaled with your command of English/ In almost every sentence that you wrote there are many grammatical flaws either with the wrong syntax or wrong tenses. "The midterm was going on with less time to write" conveys no meaning at all no body knows what you want to tell your audiences. It would have been better had you wrote 'Because I was too busy or engrossed with the mid term semester examination, I could hardly find time to write in my blog. The next sentence too does not convey any meaning to me. Sorry for pointing your mistake, it makes me laught when you say that you are a lecturer and yet what you wrote in your blog is all screwed up. The standard of English is far from satisfactory. Now let me point your mistake again. You said "I brought with me the rented digital camera to shot some good picture at Dato Dr. James Dawos....If would have been better if you write. I used the digital camera which I have borrowed to take pictures in the Mambong Parliamentary of which the Member of Parliament is Dato Dr. James Dawos.
I am not too sure of what you want to convey in the next and following sentences. It would be better if you sign up for some advance course in writing English no wonder you always say that your are being marginalised.
NEP - Never-Ending Poverty
since when do we have a proof reader, to check our english online....???.
u didn't get the points presented by the article??!!how stupid!!
this is d 1st time i read ur blog. sad enough, everyone just think that NEP is meant only for malay bumi... i'm malay, muslimah... but me & my family from rural area in Selangor never benefited from the NEP. NEP just meant for umnoputra... they became rich in 1 blink and as for the rest of us, the non-contributal malay, we will be left without nothing. sad enough... but really not 'ambil hati' on whatever all of u had wrote... if only you are on my shoes...
Keep on writting and don't worry too much on your grammar or your syntax (I am not promoting corruption of english language). What is more important is the points your are hammering on. Hai, the china man who operates a shop does not speak good malay but he is make money. Look at Ting Pek King, he is a master builder who has limited command of english and hires master, degree or diploma holders, whose english are far more better than his.
Keep on writting and don't worry too much on your grammar or your syntax (I am not promoting corruption of english language). What is more important is the points your are hammering on. Hai, the china man who operates a shop does not speak good malay but he is make money. Look at Ting Pek King, he is a master builder who has limited command of english and hires master, degree or diploma holders, whose english are far more better than his.
It is sad to hear that NEP is not for the Malay too. Then, NEP is not for the Malay but the other "kind" of Malay. Pretty sure that NEP is just another disaster as per stated in Social Contract.
You are confused. The more you write the more you are confused with your idea. At one place you say that there is lack of development and at one of your writing you criticise part of the development efforts. SALCRA and FELDA are being accused by you of land grabbing and not providing workers to the Malaysian. Yes it is true but blame it on the people. How many of the Dayaks want to be employed in the schemes becaue of low wages. They prefer to work for the Chinese as coolies or even as Kitchen helpers. They reason is simple, they are lazy and do not want to toil it out in the plantations. Not only that, even to tap rubber, these people don't want to in spite the fact that the price of rubber is high. Do you blame the government? Yes, you are blaming the government, but the government cannot force you to tap rubber if you refused to. That is why the built universities, they build schools, they focus their attention on developing the human capital. But if you do not take the opportunities, that is where you start to blame the darkness. Well, what is there in the rural areas which can help to up lift the quality of life in the remote village? If you have the capital will you invest the capital which is deemed unprofitable? Look around at your own village, how many of the youngsters want to work in the farm after completing their form five. Look at your self as an example, would you want to be employed in the Palm Oil estate near to your kampong? If you don't want, why blame the darkness? We should be happy for our brothers from Indonesia who want to seek a fortune in our land of plenty if our own people don't want to take the opportunity?
back to your question of no development in the your kampong or the nearby kampongs I am sure you know how to develop your own land? You see when the government want to develop the area you say they will grab or steal your land. If you have the capital try to plan for a housing estate at your kampong and see how many of your kampong mates would want to buy the house from you? Is there any factor that will pull the people to live in your kampong? Why don't you as a graduate reverse these trend. Infact if you study rural urban migration it happened every where not only in your kampong. If you go to big cities such as New York, Hong Kong, and other places there are pockets of poverty. The pictures that you put in your blog may not be a true picture, those are the pictures of a langkau padi in the farm, or the picture of a padi hut that you have taken. And one more think, have you asked the permission from the relevant authorities before you put the pictures on the internet i.e. your blog. You have violated the basic principle of basic human right. How if the old lady or that boy whose picture you took found out that you have put their picture and accused them of this and that? I feel that this is highly unethical and you have violated their basic human right and you have humiliated them to the whole world.
I feel that this is highly unethical and you have violated their basic human right and you have humiliated them to the whole world.
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How I wish you to go to those place and see it yourself. What is your main point to accuse me to take those photos? Do I have to apply for license to have a blog? NOP...
We do not have to be a YB to get those pictures and air them in the internet.
"...i'm malay, muslimah...but me and my family from rural area in Selangor never benefited from NEP. NEP just meant for umnoputra..."
-->You are lucky considered you're in fact a Muslim. Look at Orang Asli, the REAL, ORIGINAL BUMIPUTERA. Whether they are Animist or newly convert Muslim, govt still gladly left them behind. Maybe kept inside Taman Negara as study speciment, an endangered species just like any other wild animals.
Between Orang Asli and Negros during the slaves period, at least Negros were set free...some of them now become rap stars, UN Sec-Gen, a President and soon another new President. Orang Asli may got the Prime Minister Dept.'s Orang Asli Affairs but actually doing what for Orang Asli? Enacting the law prohibiting use the word 'Jakun'?
"Look at Ting Pek Kiing, he is a master builder..."
--> Such a f*ckin' joke.
TPK got a very limited education that he no longer use money as legal tender but instead using mangoes.
If he is such a master builder, he should able to finish the Bakun Dam project no matter what cost. Master builder mah...FYI: Bakun Dam now costing govt nearly RM20billion and rising. Eat mango and die.
"How many of the Dayaks want to be employed in the schemes becaue of low wages. They prefer to work for the Chinese as coolies or even as Kitchen helpers. They reason is simple, they are lazy and do not want to toil it out in the plantations. Not only that, even to tap rubber, these people don't want to in spite the fact that the price of rubber is high. Do you blame the government? Yes, you are blaming the government, but the government cannot force you to tap rubber if you refused to."
////Now you're talking on low wages. Ever wonder why? Palm oil industry can't even pay reasonable wages, with current high palm oil prices, why?
Tell you why: It's greed. Greedy crooks. High fuel prices increasing the price of fertilizers. Now, palm oil industry players instead of employing Indonesians workers will bring in China workers. Much cheaper. After that, who knows where to source cheapest human labour slaves? Employing apes and chimps?
You see, it's not entirely right to blame laziness. It's about who and how to cheat, getting the lowest cost. Palm oil industry must operate on lowest possible economy of scale. The bigger land area the better. NCR lands by far the easiest and cheapest to dupe, other than state lands of course. NCR landowners will be glad to receive the meagre dividend payouts but SALCRA, FELCRA would be much happier to keep the much, much bigger share of profits: for future developments, expenditures shit like that while in fact drive them to grabbing more lands as it's more lucrative for the crooks individually.
Throughout history, none of world commodities (non-renewable or not) can afford to cling on upward trends forever, not even gold. That is why govt reluctant to put/propose high price ceiling for commodities such as rice, rubber, peppers etc. Govt is more interested to reap the highest profits on record commodity prices but when the price tumbled, the smallholder landowners were hit hard without any minimum floor price imposed by the govt.
When the basis of development is greed, it's half criminal. The other half depends on how good and genuine the photo of the NCR landowners receiving the meagre dividends paycheck during election campaign period.
"That is why the built universities, they build schools, they focus their attention on developing the human capital."
///Govt can spend RMbillions to build universities but a Malay-centred/racist education policy is a defeat to its purpose; to develop human capital. Any donkey can graduate from Uitm because it's such a low standard sekolah pondok, for instance.
Developing human capital for Bidayuhs therefore is irrelevant as 99% of Bidayuh's best, eligible students being systematically denied education opportunities. The same goes for all bright Dayaks students in whole Sarawak and Sabah. To make things worse, the setting up matriculation centre in remote Labuan means another 'legit' hurdle, as more expenses incurred for Dayaks students therefore half of them unable to study. Why not provide matriculation level at high school, as Form 6 in high school? Seems like bright Dayak students should be denied to study is remain a mystery unsolved.
How to develop human capital when govt purposedly just let the worst students to graduate, just for sake of 'producing more graduates'? Or accurately, more Malay graduates, quality or not, just let them graduate but never Dayak/Chinese/Indian/Orang Asli students?
Govt's racist human capital/education policy will only end up producing millions of jobless no-brainer graduates. It could backfired more if a concerted policy by most Chinese-own industries/employers to not employing Malay graduates.
If govt can be unforgiving to non-malays, non-malays can be even more unforgiving.
"Is there any factor that will pull the people to live in your kampong? Why don't you as a graduate reverse these trend. Infact if you study rural urban migration it happened every where not only in your kampong. If you go to big cities such as New York, Hong Kong, and other places there are pockets of poverty."
///It's a matter of time that things will be reversed. The new crop of Dayaks have seen enough pathetic, racist things being done by the govt of the day. The elder, ill-informed voters will be replaced eventually. The fact that Sarawak and Sabah is expensive to operate industries thus depriving jobs opportunities to the locals is due to govt simply not doing enough to improve basic business infrastructure in place: highways, ports, airfields etc. It's nonsense that govt thinks spend so big here is a futility. It's those things, if implemented just 15-20 years ago, will able to lower cost of business here and more FDI coming. When will govt try to bring the balance of industrial development here? Until the next 15-20years in Johor that Iban Dayaks outnumbered the Malays and become a race issue that Ibans force to flee Johor and elsewhere?
Dear TBS,
Thankyou for highlighting these founding.
As a bidayuh from Braang Tribe, i never consider myself as bumiputra. Those are tagline use by our smart leader to divide/rule and make us proud of false security.
I am even angry when my non bumi fren said that im a bumiputra and i deserve all NEP benefit such as ASN, Loan, Education. In fact, my non bumi fren also infected with rule/divide mentality and political tactic practice by our leader.
Im more sadder to see UITM Sarawak student(especially the Dayak) who went out to protest in regards to Selangor MB. And sad to say i am a product of UITM, who had to work really hard(after graduation) in order to be accepted by the real world. I had to take english tuition because my english was so bad even government link company refused to accept me in their team. My only hope to excel is to secure a government job which fit my lousy UITM diploma. A paper certificate that gratify government shallow policies. All my classmate is eyeing a goverment position because we dont feel belong in the real corporate world. Its tough and nothing has prepared us for his in our local uni. It angers me when i remember how proud my lecturer was, especially the malay and the delusion dayak lecturer.
Teruskan menulis my dear brother. We will get rid of corrupt policies bgy voting BN out this coming State Election!
Regards
p/s: James Dawos left not a legacy but full of hate!
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In the case of Sarawak, the natives are not bumiputera. Bumiputera was coined by Malay Semanjung for the Malays.
Dayaks are Dayaks and not equal class with the Malays. The problem is the Dayaks leaders are too ashamed to admit it.
I agreed that tbsbidayuh is confused. Who won't be confused by the way things are run. Dayaks and other bumis are be chased out of their kampongs and worst the kampong is named after some malay who never lived there. Bumis they said include dayaks but in actual practise never. Confused...who won't!!!!! There are many other confusing matters if want to dig them out. If you are not confused than you are walking carrying and caring others ball.
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