Sarawak Political Scene

What will happen to the political scene?

 I can see the immediate weakening of PBB politicality through disunity. PBB is strong now because Taib used his charisma and personality to hold PBB together. After that, there is nothing that I can see in PBB leadership that is able to hold it together. PBB do not have a political core value and neither is it operating on principles. Those in PBB are after business opportunitoes provided by Taib and also not limited to pushing for lofty political position as Senators but also include those who wanted to be a certified Tuai Rumah. 

PBB has no political struggle to fight for. It is a platform that is being pulled by UMNO “Ketuanan Melayu Agenda” where Dayak is just a partner to make the partnership look pretty. In reality, the PESAKA Wing of PBB is mostly not effective and lack clear direction in its political objective. Jabu talk a lot about improving the rural population and evidence suggest that this is not as successful as Jabu would like to make it to be. Too many results and statistics presented about the rural economy and status are manipulated. That include those income generated by land development scheme and poverty eradication figure are examples. We can see in real life that the people are not as rich as Jabu made it out to be. The implementation of Rural Water and Electricity program are also a shamble. The statistics provided look great but on the ground there are just too many dwelling without water and electricity. I was told most of the big contracts to provide pipe water and electricity actually belong to Senior Ministers in Sarawak. This is what I called unsustainable because the business as strongly link to political position. When the position change and so will be the business.

 What will happen to Dayak?

 It is important for young Dayak not with standing you are directly involved in politics or not, the departure of Taib will surely present us with a new opportunity to fight for what we deserve in Sarawak. The big question is “what do you want to see and have after Taib for the Dayak community? 

We know Taib is always after our land either through plantation, miming, dams etc. If you want the change, what kind of change do you want it to be? The Dayak are not fairly treated in business, employment in the civil service, infra-structure development etc. Are we expecting to see the same unfair treatment after Taib or do we really have to prepare now for the future. We may need to not only discuss the future but HOW to get to the future that we want. The Chief minister position cannot be in the hand of Malay all the time.

 The Dayak must make an effort to get it back and if PBB Dayak are not willing to go for the post then other Dayak based party can have a go at it. Distraction Sometime I do think the SWP is created to weaken PRS so that Dr. James will not aspire to be the Chief Minister. Taib might have some concern in that area of politics. Or even SPDP Group of 5 was created to weaken SPDP. By all indication both Masing and Mawan seemed not to think so and both has been saying that their future lies with BN without any doubt or question.The “Tan Sri” title may play a big part in their thinking as that will play exactly into the hand of UMNO as it is its real intention. This Tan Sri title are issue to prepare the way for a continued Malay Chief Minister in Sarawak. 

 Conclusion 

Sometime I often wonder about what the Dayak in BN is doing. Nearing election they start to promise so many things to the people. In between after winning the election, nothing seem to happen at all. The Federal Ministers would come and help them win rural votes and the gullible voters would believe everything the Minister said. Then in between election the people would regret their vote but the same trend is happening year in year out. No wonder education is key to the change that we want to see in Sarawak. Even that, the BN government make sure that Dayak has the least number of graduate in order that they can control the Dayak vote easily. It is time for change. Berubah meh kitai and Change WE Must.