Monday, April 20, 2009

Dayaks lack element of smartness: Masing

Borneo Post April 20th 2009)

“Politics within the community (Dayak), particularly in rural areas, is fluid until now because there is lack of the smart facor. And because of that they will listen to instigation and get manipulated by certain individuals” Dato Sri James Masing.

Who manipulate the Dayaks?

I think James is talking about himself, Jabu and his other bunch of friends - they traveled by helicopters to long houses during election, used Gov’t 4WD vehicles etc and pour in a lot of money to buy food and drinks and music and they spoke and lied to the Dayak in Batang Ai.

They lied and give Dayaks empty promises because they believed that Dayak lack element of smartness.

Dayak lack element of smartness

Only a Smart Ass like James can say such things about Dayaks. He believes he is the king of Dayak and can say whatever he likes - because he treated all Dayak as fools - just because PRS/BN won the Batang Ai By-election so James is smarter.

Those Dayaks that do not “blindly follow” Smart Ass James in politics are less smart. So there were 2000 over less smart Dayak voters in Batang Ai - all fools because they do not accept BN land policies, poor Mycard service, poor roads, no electricity, no hospital, no clean water, no proper mean of cash income through properly organized agriculture etc.

Focus on Delivering BN promises

James and Jabu should focus on delivering on their promises during the By -election. What happen to the land titles that are suppose to be given to Batang Ai resettlement people - the balance portion / parts of their land compensation.

It is wrong for the government to sell the long house to the Batang Ai resettlement areas for $80,000.00 per door when they never issue land title to the individual houses - just like in town.

Two years from now - the next state election, in Batang Ai the BN promises will still not be delivered - do you think that is because the Dayaks are less smart or it is just that James is the politician who manipulated the Dayak and getting their votes by manipulating them.

When did BN make the rural Dayak smart?

The radio programmes - most of it are full of BN propaganda. Message that lack meaning or substance and at best is causing confusion to the rural people. Things like - ” mina BN aja ulih meri pemansang ngagai Sarawak”etc.

James himself spoke on many occasions - but in all those occasion, instead of inspiring the Dayaks and show them the correct direction to take in personal development - he belittled them with LIES.

It is the duty of government to develop the state and its people - and the people need not feel that they owed the government for such development. But why is BN syaing that the people must appereciate their good work?

State Level Land Seminar in Bintulu

Why is James - as Minister of Land Development not a speaker at the Land Seminar in Bintulu? Is that an indication that his views are not important and that he is actually a puppet to Taib and Awang Tengah on land matters?.

We Dayaks are still looking for new ideas to ensure that NCR land owners really benefited from land development through direct participation instead of injecting their landed asset but do not hold any decision making power in the plantation company.

Why don’t James you answer that question first - rather than talking about Dayak are less smart because there raised too many questions that you are not able to answer personally..

Educated Dayak

Most educated Dayak do not want to see Dayak being lied to and being fooled- 45 years is enough. We have nothing more to call our own and yet James felt that by explaining the real issues and truth to rural Dayak is wrong.

No James - we are not liar like you and we do not have self interest - like holding political position and make personal money out of politics. We Dayakbaru are really concern that too much lies has been told to Dayak by BN Dayak Ministers.

Rural Based Party

It is good to know that PRS - and James is the President, is a rural based party. This rural areas would be the main focus of Dayakbaru in the next election - to educate then on the truth and what sustainable development is all about. It is about increase incomes, create value through their land cultivation, employ technology to increase productivity and to say NO to Dr. James model of land development - akin to pirate scheme.

Sunday, April 12, 2009

Dayak - Let us pursue unity and not fight

Pursuing merger among Dayak based party

I am sorry to say but I am not 100% favor UMNO, PKR, etc. to further divide the Dayaks. I would be more in favor of pursuing unity and merger among the Dayak base parties such as PRS and SPDP. I wish to see that all Dayaks should group into one party like similar to UMNO, MCA and MIC. This may not happen in Taib’s era but time will change and perhap one day it happens.

There is still hope that we can be in one party

The current Dayak leaders who are constantly bickering, scheming, competing with each other will eventually be phased out although some more funny characters will surface. But like people say, politic is so liquid, anything can happen, therefore for me there is still hope to eventually get something like MDC.

At this moment we are still not able to overcome the “divide and rule” modus of operandi which has been systematically administered to our society since the fall of Kalong Ningkan.

It is painful to be in Opposition

History from PBDS has taught us that it is painful to be an opposition in Sarawak and beside the ever so powerful “divide and rule” had resulted in Dayaks/Ibans unwilling to make sacrifices in order to support Dayakism. Thus we see our leaders like Dr James, Dato Salang , etc. are with BN not only for own political sakes but for the rakyat as well. Ibans/Dayaks cannot afford to be left out completely from Gov’t as our bottom line is bread on the table.

Money politic is about holding to power

The determination to win election or money politics are simply part of the efforts to hold on to power and keep on with the present regime. It is tough to fight this without strong support like what PBDS had once upon a time. PKR will not be able to garner similar support from the Dayaks. Dayakbaru will remain frustrated. Ex-PBDS die hard fighters like Datuk Tajem, Baru Bian, Telajan, Adit, Augustine, etc. will soldier on. In the midst of it all will create some sort of organised challenges such that BN need to be on their toes - or like what happen in BA.

Fighting among Best of Friends

However, in such midst, if we are not careful, we will forget to look at the bigger picture. We will continue to end up fighting one another within friends and families. We have seen Salang fought Jawah in Batang Ai, yet they are actually the best of friends. It is easy to fall into the pit without realising how you end up there in the first place.

We cannot get rid of each other

I have heard before that in order to unit the Dayaks, we have to get rid of BN Dayaks. While it is theoritically correct, like Shakespeare said “Long live the king, kill the king!”, our Dayak population is simply too small to be able to have enough credible Dayak leaders in the stature of Leo Moggie, Linggi or even Salang. Therefore when you kill them, you will end up with no many left. Surely you would say, pls don’t under estimate the many educated and capable younger generation, sure, but to garner the grassroot support, bloggers like you and I won’t be so effective. We need the already establised personalities whether you like it or not.

I believe we should pursue unity, lets don’t fight, lets enquire and discover instead of critising. We should use all available avenues to promote unity such as SDNU, SDGA, etc. We should free these kind of organisations from politic.

Conclusion

We should continue to harbour hope to have a party like MDC and that all that Dayaks will group into this with proper concensus from the Gov’t coalition.