JE nyaut kritikan

Lebuh maia makai malam di Makai Malam Gawai Dayak, SIDS Sekuau, kena 30.05.09, ia nyemetak amai endah puas ati ketegal sida suratkhabar 'ngalih' ke jaku ia ke bendar.

Nitih ke di terang ke ia maia makai malamnya, nadai sekali ia ngansak kitai muai leka jaku 'dayak' tang, ia ke bendar, kenu ko ia, 'leka jaku 'dan lain-lain'', nya ke bendar deka dibai ia diperamu ke perintah, ngambika ka nyematak sekali madah enggau terang baik ka nya iban, bidayuh, kayan, melanau, kenyah, beketan, lahanan. Bakanya reti utai ke dipadah ke ia maia 'press conference' ke dulu agi ari nya.

Ia berasai enda nyamai amat ati laban bala menyadi kitai di 'sepiak nyin' enda tentu nemu enggau terang leka jaku dayak nya ke bendar. Kenu ko ia, sida ia ke diau 'din' nyemaka ke dayak di sarawak tu enggau sida dayak ke agik telanjai, diau di atas pun kayu, sereta macam-macam utai ke enda tentu manah, enda tentu nyamai didinga meh ke selalu di sangka kaban menyadi kitai 'nyin'

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Iban Student deprive from her right

It is indeed a sad story of a student, Nadia Selimin, who scored 9As and a B in her Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia (SPM) early this year, but denied entry to further her studies at Kolej Matrikulasi just because her mother is a Chinese. Her father is an Iban, Selimin Kring.

Sad, because there is such a thing as prejudice being practised in Malaysia, despite the fact that we are supposed to be in the 21st century and has been independent for 46 years in the federation of Malaysia.

Her plight was brought up YB Mong Dagang, State assemblyman for Bukit Begunan at the Dewan Undangan Negeri meeting.

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Nya ya... nya baru 1Malaysia, neh unggal!

YB kitai mai muai leka jaku 'DAYAK'.

Tekejut ninga jaku menteri kitai munyi nya, sapa-sapa meh ti ngasuh ia bejaku munyi nya kini?

Enda ibuh pulai gawai taun tu... nya ga ukai gawai dayak agi ga deh... kitai ga ukai dayak!

Manah ga nya kini, nyangka tau kurang bansa kitai majak ke pengawa ngirup bebasau ke anak belanja. Amai manah nya unggal enti amat munyi nya. Udah tu, nyangka tau manah agi gaya urang bekaul enggau bansa kitai, laban badu agi ngumbai diri empu dayak.

Enti kita ke empai maca empai ninga, tu munyi jaku YB kitai nya.

Manah meh nya unggal, pajak ke meh...

bisi ga seleka dua jaku timbal sida ke bukai,

Dr JBA ba dayakbaru

Ati Lurus ba dayakbaru

ibanabroad ba dayakbaru

Ngagai ke enda tentu landik nyepil sereta maca jaku english, kta tau maca versi bahasa melayu ditu

Dah nya maiuh macam agi kedalih

Policies that make Sarawak poor and without enough food

ritten by Dr. John Brian Anthony

I do hope that the Sarawak ADUN and MP are informed by the Rural and Regional Development Ministry that it has allocated $240 million for the development of rubber and oil palm small holding.

Here is a case where the failure of the ADUN and MPs in carrying out their elected duties will badly affect the farming communities in Sarawak.

Let us look at the Ministry’s allocation

For the development of every hectare, smallholder will receive RM$7,000 and the figure may increase from time to time - (Tan Sri Rahim Tamby Chik - Risda Chairman).

My question is “Does RISDA belong to West Malaysia only?” If it is, what is the equivalent organization in Sarawak to help Sarawak smallholders?

• Kelantan is allocated to redevelop 29,316 hectare
• Pahang - 38,823 hectare
• Terengganu - 14,000 hectare
• Selangor - 11,000 hectare
• Perak - 24,000 hectare
• Kedah - 24,000 hectare
• Johore - 16,000 hectare

The objective of these redevelopment and replanting is to increase the source of income for the people in these state.

Where is SARAWAK and SABAH in this allocation? MPs - you need to ask of these for Sarawak farmers. We are poor and we needed this assistance to upgrade our rubber and oil palm small holding.

Now you know why Sarawak is not progressing

Our MPs and Federal Ministers are sleeping on the job. they are doing only their assigned work and are not looking for opportunities to help sarawak farmers.

Why??? - do Senior ministers in the State really think that Sarawak do not deserved assistance from the Ministry of Rural development.

In Sarawak - the Rural Development Ministry is a TOTAL FAILURE. The Ministry has no plan at all and maybe most of the staff are sleeping - and why not? It depend on the Minister leading the Ministry. If the Ministry is a “control” leadership has has a false believed in himself as the smartest person in cabinet - that is the exact result we see in Sarawak.

Maybe the Minister in charge of Agriculture and rural development is spending too much negative time talking down to those who are not of the same idea with him. The Minister maybe spend too much time indulging is “angkat bakul” self praising his great work - when actually there is non to speak off after having spent more than 30 years in Cabinet.

How do you stay that long in the State cabinet if you are not the chief Minister?

That speak volume of the cunning of such a Minister. The cunning is not in helping the people of sarawak to progress but to hold on to his Ministerial seat. To do that he will do anything for the Chief Minister. That is the main reason why Dayak Iban specifically is always on the receiving end of his negative comment.

Well - we dayakbaru do not think that this particular senior Minister is relevant anymore. He can buy his vote and intimidate his electorate in his constituency - but as a senior minister he is a failure in the State. Despite him trying to impress one small Dayak ethnic group one at a time, Dayakbaru has no respect for such leadership. It is downright disgusting to hear and see him apple polishing his political master.

Who are the losers?

The poor people of Sarawak and the rural dayak population suffer much from this Minister. there is no substantial agricultural program implemented to increase the income of rural population through agriculture. the effect of economic slow down is getting to be badly felt by the rural people because the minister in Charge of Agriculture is not able to implement program to produce enough food in Sarawak.

Simple economics

As long as the people are able to put food on the table - that is sufficient enough to keep hope to see better days in the future. But has the BN government done that in Sarawak.

The recent increase in rice import vividly shows how bad is the situation in sarawak because sarawak cannot produce enough rice for ts own consumption.

Sarawak is not able to produce tapioca, sago, corn, sugar cane, fruits, fish, meat - in everything that is related to agriculture Sarawak have to import. Our government policy is not addressing this real basic problems.

Sarawak have vast land and many farmers - why is the rural and Agricultural Ministry in Sarawak not able to implement program to increase food production in Sarawak? This is because the State government focus on the most nonsensical agricultural policy of encouraging oil palm plantation and the Ministry of Natural resources focus on Forest replanting.

The focus are on these two areas - because the Ministers can make “questionable” money from approving such development. It involved the giving away of large track of Sarawak land resource.

During difficult economic time - can the people of sarawak eat “oil palm” and ‘replanted” timber to survive. Remember - there is not enough food being planted because the BN State government ignore this simple economics.

We import basic food that could be produced locally and import the very same items for consumption. Why are we in this situation - because we have destroyed our land and resources that produce this basic food.

Look at Thailand / Vietnam.

These countries have plenty of food. They export rice, fruits and fishes. Their people will never go hungry during bad economic time.

Look at Malaysia - we focus on manufacturing and export- when bad time comes these factories they close and the people are out of work. Then these people would have no money and the imported food are expensive. Now what would happen? Worst case scenario “poor” people have to go to the street and start a revolution.

Other bad news

In the 8 years of Bush Presidency - he has managed to destroy most of US economic strength through war agenda and overspending.

Today China has 20 million jobless people and 80,000 factories has shut down. They are not able to export because there are no orders. So who is going to buy our rubber - our palm oil. Even if we have that money, is it able to put food on the poor family tables?

The effect of economic slow down has not reach Malaysia that bad. We can see symptom though - multi-national are closing down and Malaysian SMI als following suit. Talk by BN Minister asking the Bank to extend credit are at best “nice to hear”. The Bank are not going to lend more money - indeed they are looking for ways to cut down on potential losses.

Conclusion

The BN State government is wrong to focus Sarawak into large scale plantation and ignoring the production of food. The Rural Development and minsitry of Agriculture is a COMPLETE FAILURE as it has not been able to transfer technology in farming, increase food production, improve the income of rural farmers through improve crop and extended farming activities.

Since the Minister is already outdated and incompetence - he must consider to step down gracefully. Politiking and initimidating the poor people do not change their life for the better. Only R.Mugabe does that and we in sarawak should not suffer such fate from similar thinking leaders.

Dayakbaru - we must bring new solution, idaes, honesty and even be self critical of our effort in order to bring happiness and peace for our country.

PERAK as an example is no peace. Who is the culprit - needless to say the Barisan nasional government that is talking about rebranding and improving is now degressing backward.

There is no HOPE for BN to change. The culture of arrogance, power abused, corruption, injustice, intimidation, corruption and lead by the TO BE “tainted” prime Minister is NOT a choice at all.

Allocation for Flood Victims in Sarawak - A reality check

Written by Dr. John Brian Anthony

On an annual basis the Federal government allocate RM$200 million (Tabung Wang Ihsan) to help families affected by flood. This money is usually requested by the ADUN / MP and submitted to Federal Government on behalf of flood victims in their constituency.

The intention of this article is to alert dayakbaru of the existence of such funds and follow up with your respective ADUN/MP to ensure that affected victims of flood in your area received appropriate assistance to ease their financial burden.

Flood Victim do not know of such allocation

Radio Malaysia in Sarawak - especially the Dayak section usually talks of many trivial things and fail to include this news that there is allocation for the people badly affected by flood. Maybe we cannot blame the Radio team but ADUN/MP has been silence on this scheme to help flood victim.

I would urged the ADUN / MP to do their job properly and earn an honest living from their monthly salary. As the representative of the people - the ADUN need not act like Kings and Princes anymore. Just go down to the ground and do your job. Secure the monetary assistance and ensure that the flood victims get the money - not “politician” pocket.

Sibu Flood

During the Dayak Symposium (gathering) in Sibu recently, there is water everywhere. I can recalled that the BIG MOUTH SUPP Minister has announced that Sibu has been allocate RM$400million to implement flood mitigation solution. That was almost 2 years ago - the much talk about 9th Malaysia plan and the PM wish to see that money for approved project should be dispensed off as soon as possible.

What happen to the money for flood mitigation project in sibu? The money has not been delivered by Federal or the money is lost to something else. Maybe the BN government is talking about money it does not have - and the people are waiting and suffering in the process.

Sarawak Trunk Road

The main Sarawak trunk road is in totally bad shape. In the first place - why are roads constructed in Sarawak of such poor quality. Has it to do with insufficient allocation, incompetence contractor, sleeping JKR, corrupted businessman and politician?

In West Malaysia, no matter how heavy and how long the rain lasted you will never see that numbers of pot hole on their trunk road.

The road leading to Durin bridge - used to be good and there is no reason that it is what it is today - a total shame. The construction has been on going for 2 years and look at what type of road we have in that section. Corruption is really bad - it affect Sarawak’s progress and the quality of life of its people.

The Mukah Junction at Selangau

Those Engineers looking after the project, the JKR that oversee the construction of “it looks like a round about” - nearly 2 years has gone by, the construction over such a small section has not been completed.

Do the BN government really hope to get away with such poor work and irresponsible project implementation.

That make me think that the money allocated for such road construction has not be delivered by Federal Government and if it has the CORRUPTION is Sarawak is very bad that such simple construction could not be completed over such a long time.

It is disgusting to see the state of the truck road. Nobody seemed to be taking interest in the delay - least of all the ADUN/MP of the area. Are their hand being tied down by corruption too?

Conclusion

We have no other choice but to replace this BN government in Sarawak. They are totally inefficient and tardy in the job of delivering services to the people of Sarawak. It is a fact that most politician are spending too much time making and spinning money for personal gain rather than focusing on servicing Sarawak.

We must stop such low functioning government. A government made on one or two person decision maker. A BN led government that intimidate the government administration arm, the enforcement arm and those in planning that bow down to one man fancy.

SARAWAK BN STATE GOVERNMENT NEED TO DO A BETTER JOB.

Flood-Stricken Farmers Seek Govt Assistance

SIBU, Jan 31(Bernama) -- Padi Farmers affected by the worst flood since 1958 in the Selangau district near here hope to get some kind of government assistance.

Deputy Rural and Regional Development Minister Datuk Joseph Entulu said almost 100 percent of the wet padi farms from Stapang town to the last longhouse on the Oya River and along Mukah River and Lower Balingian areas had been completely destroyed.

"I have advised all longhouse chiefs to submit a very accurate report of all those affected and the number of families depending solely on the next harvest.

"We are hoping the government can give them some form of assistance to tide over until the next harvesting season," he told Bernama here today.

He, however, stressed the assistance sought should not be confused with compensation.

On the flood, Entulu who went around visiting the victims together with Tamin state assemblyman Joseph Mauh Ikeh, said it was very fortunate there were no casualties.

"This is a blessing from God and we hope it will stay that way. The Mukah River is now flowing exceptionally fast. A few nights ago we even had to evacuate people at night and we did it safely," he said.

Meanwhile, according to the Sibu Flood Operation Centre, the water levels in the Mukah and Baligian Rivers were still rising due to continous heavy rain since last night but the situation was still under control.

Some 927 people from 229 families living in 29 longhouses have been affected by the flood. A total of 514 evacuees are still being sheltered at four evacuation centres, namely the St.Charles Church, SADIA Centre, SJK Tong Ah and Sk Bukit Arip.

In Sibu town itself which recorded 25.5 mm of rainfall yesterday, more roads were inaccesible to light vehicles this morning due to the rain which also coincided with the occurence of the seasonal king tide at about midnight last night.

-- BERNAMA

Jako Pesan Pastor Niemolar

When the Nazis came for the communists, I remained silent;I was not a communist.

When they locked up the social democrats, I remained silent;I was not a social democrat.

When they came for the trade unionists, I did not speak out; I was not a trade unionist.

When they came for the Jews, I remained silent; I was not a Jew.

When they came for me, there was no one left to speak out.



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