The Same Celebration with Different Feelings

Dear Tun Mahathir,

Re: Perpaduan Asas Kejayaan

" 5. Rakyat berbilang kaum tidak bermusuh sesama mereka walaupun tidaklah berharmoni seperti yang diharapkan. Namun tiap kali pilihanraya diadakan majoriti pengundi memberi kepercayaan kepada Kerajaan Barisan Nasional kerana beranggapan segala-gala yang dinikmati adalah hasil pemerintahan Kerajaan-Kerajaan BN. Biasanya mereka memberi kemenangan lebih 2/3 daripada kerusi Parlimen.

6. Rakyat Malaysia yang pergi ke negara asing berasa bangga kerana Malaysia dikagumi dan dihormati oleh siapa sahaja yang mereka bertemu apabila sahaja orang asing mengetahui yang mereka dari Malaysia. "

Sincerely,
The Lost Aborigine

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I do feel what Tun Mahathir feels right now as what he wrote in his blog. This morning I heard the theme song of our Merdeka (independence) day where it said there is harmony within the races and unity is the foundation of success. I think again what the song is all about. What is the foundation of national success with its multi-racial and multi-religion citizen?

The political tsunami spoke to us that the unity to fight from corruption is a genuine grief of the people. We have seen several rallies (called illegal assembly) last few quarters happening in Peninsular. What a peaceful time? The people as never feel their “independency” from the work of discrimination, corruption made by the present government. Police is used not to uphold security but to protect those from law and judgement. The police are used by individual to murder, exploit and destroy the freedom of the people. Altantuya was murdered by the police to cover the person personal affair.

For security or for UMNO?

Before the election, we were terrified by the Hindraf Rally which show us the awaken Indian against their marginalization in Barisan Nasional. Before, the lawyers marched on the street regarding on the Lingam Tape issue. There are many to say about them all but let me write what do I feel in this month of August.

The patriotism spirit is now fades in the heart of Malaysian people. I don't know how is the merdeka spirit in Kuala Lumpur at this moment because in Kuching I have not seen any national flag erected either at schools, offices and on the cars roof. I miss those time when I was in secondary school where we started celebrate “Merdeka” on the first day of August until 31^st day. During at that time, we have debate, patriotic song competition, poets and so forth. On the Merdeka day, there were sports, party and some sort of activities like historical exhibition. Car crawled with flags, not two but all around the roof. In Labuan, some of the village like Kampung Sungai Lada and Sungai Labu have parade and Jalur Gemilang competition. You can see every houses erect two flags at their compound, National flag and Federal territory flag. It was really great feeling at that time. I remember when we cried of proud when we sing “Negaraku” at that long time. We were thought to be patriotism as how the soldiers are thought to defence the county.

Before: We celebrated merdeka in Stadium This Year: We celebrate Merdeka on the street.

Now, the people are questioning the sovereignty of the country. People are free to protest on the street and to form riot including the university students. Some are living in fear due to hiking criminal rate. Children are no more free to play in the playground and schools. Mr. Jazlin will never feel independence from the ghost that feared his family. Mr. Saaribu will never say that Malaysia is a good country as it used to be like before. Indonesia will never trust Maybank scandals which brought a great shame to the national business.

What ave we done to this lady as a Sovereign Country? Can Rais Yatim clear this tense?

People will remember these days as the darkest day of the country. People will celebrate Merdeka on the street this year with tear gas and water canon. We will sing a new version and tune of Negaraku, some sing it as the song of disunity, discrimination, corruption and injustice.

Let sing "Smoke Underwater!!!"

Shall we blame Prime Minister on this matter? Well, it is up to us to measure the length of our patriotism for this beloved Malaysia. We allow terrorist to rule us and that is why we blown someone who “threatened” us. We sacked someone who is telling truth with no mercy and humanity. We “sodomise” those who say out our wrong doing and acts. We scattered those who stay in their motherland to benefit those individuals.

To the Malaysians, this is our country and we are responsible for it. The fall and the victory of the country are much determine by us, the citizen. We have loved this country by obeying every single of laws to ensure it sovereignty and peace. We do not want to see Malaysia to be like Angola and Rwanda where brothers fight against themselves. Indonesia racist tense has been a great lesson to us that Muslim and non-Muslim shall never spark any kind of issue to make war.

Happy Merdeka and God Bless Malaysia.

Message of "Deliver Us"

Where is The Promise Land??

We Love Malaysia and Not Disrespect
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When The Rooster Crows - IX

45^th Independence Day – Shall we happy of it??

Yesterday, we were praying for our beloved nation, Malaysia as we are now 51 years old in indepencent governance. We sang this song too:

“Now is the time

For you to visit Malaysia

Speak Your mercy…”

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“Sekaranglah waktunya,

Kau lawat Malaysia

Nyatakan belas kasihMu Tuhan….”

As we pray, the pastor brinngs us to pray for the peace and freedom of the nation, the leadership and the ruling government. Though we are a very small congregation in Serian Good News Fellowship church, we pray for our nation every week. There was an evangelist from New Zealand preached yesterday. She stated that we must pray for our nation because it is our responsibility to bless our nation in prayer.

It’s the 51^st independent anniversary for Tanah Melayu and the 45^th for Sarawak. I am glad to be in such a harmony and peaceful country, Malaysia. It’s my 26^th years to be in an independent country that has been mould by the greatest leaders and fellow ministers. As a small boy in my village, I feel very happy to see such a developing country with twin tower, F1-circuit, big airport, Proton Saga and Perodua Nautica and so much more. I believe that the hard works of our government has now producing fruits. Thank you to the leaders and ministers who worked days and night to ensure that we are developing well and balance.

Somehow, there is some lack that should never neglect which is the welfare of the aborigines despite Orang Asli, Kadazan, Iban, Bidayuh, Murut, Dusun, Kelabit, Kenyah and other tribes. These are the struggling tribe under the governance of the Malay, Chinese and Indian. Though there are quite much kind of policies to ensure that those aborigines are well preserved, we are still living under uncertainties and marginalization. We have NCR land but we could not develop them due to some issue concerning to the government policies. We have opened our land to SALCRA and FELCRA to plant oil palm on it, but now there are occupied with Indonesian workers. In Sabah, you might find Bajau and Philippines or Timorese in the oil palm estate.

Great Lost under NCR Policy

Last Saturday, on my return from college to home I saw a convoy of flag bearers with big bikes. It was fun to see them on the road with the flag they bear. How I wish to be in that convoy with my old noisy Honda EX5 motorbike in the midst of the Virago and Harley Davidson big bikes. In my heart, I persuaded my regret by waving to them as one by one of the riders passing by. I could not horn my bike since the horn system is faulty due to flatted battery.

Great Nation with Great Discrimination

What is theses nation in the heart of the Aborigines? We see independent day celebration on TV with great speech and firework show. Leaders spent million at Puterajaya and somewhere else to celebrate Malaysia Day and the next morning we have to toil all over again to get some food for the kids and folks. We raise national flag but never understand the meaning of independent. Truly, we had never affected by the British, Japanese, communists occupation because we are not the subject of profit to them. We still have relative in Kalimantan and never encounter confrontation from “Bapa” Sukaerno. Therefore, we had gain independent during the era of our forefather. We were free to hunt, fish, planting paddy with no intimidation. The only thing is that we have to send our kid to school which is 20 kilometers away or more (Teng Bukap and Dragon School). Father Reverend Howes came all over from Britian to teach grammar and adopted many aborigines to be sent to England to have proper education. We lost him as our “Bruno Manser” and we never have anyone like him though we have our own MP who representing us.

Does Robet Anak Wai independent from Poverty?

Shall we declare Independence at our hut while the others are playing golf on that very holiday? There are many golf courses on our forefather’s mountain but never get chance to play once. We are toiling to the hardest while some are playing golf up there. Will this Merdeka Day be the most emotional moment to us when we see our children could not spell and write? We saw helicopter on once in a four years to collect vote but the MP has never come for 8 years of in charge. That is marvelous to us. Pak Lah was in Hilton on that Day and made his way to Bandar Mutiara “before this it is called Tebedu” but he chopper flew very high and he could not see the huts of the aborigines.

"I have been in this hut for many years and I am comfortable with it. "

Merdeka,!! Merdeka!!, Merdeka!! That is the great loud of the nation on the next week event. Its always merdeka (independence) though, but we never live in such independence under Barisan Nasional.

Minority Report

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"

British Colonial Vs Malay Colonial

Bad Bugs Never Get Tired!!

"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.

More here...

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.