Unity? It’s pure delusional politic crap lah
After splitting the Dayaks for fun, Masing then crying for Dayak unity
Unity, Splitting, Unity, Splitting…big joke PBDS Parti Bunoh Dayak Sarawak lah
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Decision taken for the sake of unity – PRS man chief
Borneo Post, Sunday 17 July 2011
KUCHING: PRS’ decision to withdraw the Pelagus election petition last Friday is a ‘collective party decision’.
Its information chief Wilson Nyabong said the party did not want to see disunity in Pelagus.
“We have no desire to proceed with the case and we want to give George Lagong (Independent Pelagus assemblyman) a chance to deliver his election promises to the people of Pelagus in the next five years,” he said when contacted yesterday.
Last Friday, Stanley Nyitar, the defeated BN candidate during the April 16 polls, filed an application at the High Court here to withdraw the election petition.
The petition, alleging money politics, was filed on May 20 to nullify the result in Pelagus.
On June 14, Lagong filed an application to have that petition struck out.
But last Friday, he too filed an application at the Sibu High Court to have the case struck out.
Judge Datuk Abdul Rahman Sebli has fixed Aug 12 for the hearing of the applications.
Meanwhile, PRS secretary-general Datuk Wilfred Nissom did not deny the decision was made after considerations were made on the current political situation.
“Party president Tan Sri Dr James Masing may have had a discussion with top BN leaders of which I’m not privileged to. And besides, we also want to give Lagong a chance to deliver on his election promises,” he said.
Nyitar, the BN-PRS candidate in Pelagus, lost to independent candidate George Lagong in a three-cornered fight when he secured only 2,903 votes against Lagong’s 5,740 votes and PKR Edward Sumbang Asun’s 1,171 votes. Pelagus is the only seat lost by PRS in the election.
Lagong had made himself clear that he is a BN-friendly independent after he stated his support for the Pehin Sri Abul Taib-led government in his press statement distributed during the recently-concluded State Legislative Assembly (DUN) sitting.
He even surprised a lot of people when he attended the BN Backbenchers (BNBBC) post-DUN sitting dinner on June 29 despite being technically an opposition member.
Lagong is also the uncle of Larry Sng, the former assemblyman of Pelagus from 2001.
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PBDS debacle: It’s Masing’s fault, says Moggie
by Tony Thien, Malaysia Kini, 6 Sep 2003
Former Parti Bansa Dayak Sarawak (PBDS) president Leo Moggie today put the blame squarely on the party’s former information chief Dr James Masing for the turmoil in PBDS today.
“Masing is paranoid about becoming president and suffers from a sense of insecurity to achieve that,” he told a party gathering of branch leaders, members and supporters at his longhouse at Nanga Bejait, about 45km from Sibu.
“He will go to any length (to become president of the party) and I think he is not prepared to compromise unless he becomes president,” Moggie said in reference to Masing, who is state social development and urbanisation minister.
Masing was elected president by his own faction at their own triennial delegates conference (TDC) in Bintulu on July 24, along with Sng Chee Hua as deputy president.
Daniel Tajem, who succeeded Moggie as president when the latter suddenly resigned on June 25, was returned unopposed as party chief in July when nomination for party posts closed. His running mate, Joseph Salang, was also returned unopposed as deputy president.
Biggest longhouse gathering
Today’s PBDS gathering, attended by Moggie, Tajem, Salang and key party leaders, was described by journalists covering the event as possibly the largest political gathering in a longhouse.
The number was estimated at between 4000 and 6000.
According to Moggie, several more buses carrying party members from several places in Sarawak were still waiting in queue at the nearby ferry point when the meet-the-people was already in progress this morning.
“Many also couldn’t find their direction to the longhouse,” he added.
At a press conference later, Moggie who is also Minister of Energy, Communications and Multimedia, said some newspaper reports had suggested that the PBDS’ troubles started after he resigned as president on June 25.
“The problems within the party started long before that,” he said, reiterating that his decision to step down was for the sense of betrayal he felt after so many meetings during which Masing had made commitments and promises but failing to keep them afterwards.
Moggie said he had after the bitter party contests at the 2000 TDC tried to bring the two factions together by proposing a new top leadership line-up after he had stepped down as president.
Unfortunately, according to him, as he later found out, it was very clear to him that Masing had always wanted to be president right from the start.
Plan to oust Moggie
Tajem told the crowd that he had never reneged on any undertaking or promise as claimed by the Masing group arising from a meeting held in April in Miri last year.
He revealed that he refused to go along with a plan hatched by the Masing group at the time to oust Moggie as president and put him (Tajem) as president and Masing as deputy president.
“Moggie and I have known each other for a long time and we have struggled together for the last 20 years through PBDS,” he added.
PBDS permanent chairman Edmund Langgu traced the history of the party, linking it with the original aims of the Sarawak National Party (Snap) in providing the platform to articulate Dayak aims and aspirations.
He told the crowd that when Moggie and his supporters lost in the Snap elections in 1981 and James Wong Kim Min became president, succeeding Dunstan Endawie, they had to form a new Dayak-based party PBDS to fight for the principles they believed in. PBDS was born as a result.
“Masing is not fighting for principles and it is certainly not for the community but for personal glory and interests,” he charged.
Salang told party members that “there is only one party and there is only one president in PBDS.”
He urged them to be patient and stand united behind the leadership of Tajem.
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Masing-Sng pact an ‘unholy alliance’, says rival leader
by Tony Thien, Malaysia Kini, 15 Mar 2003
In what is seen as the first shot taken by a rival faction against their opponents, the Parti Bansa Dayak Sarawak (PBDS) state assemblyperson for Ngemah Gabriel Adit Demong has described the pact forged between party information chief Dr James Jemut Masing and vice president Sng Chee Hua as “an unholy alliance.”
He was quoted in today’s Borneo Post, an English daily, as questioning the need and the motive behind the announcement by the duo to contest for the two top party posts two days ahead of the party’s supreme council meeting in Marudi.
He added that he could not understand why they made the announcement when the party had not even announced the date for the forthcoming triennial delegates conference (TDC).
The Borneo Post report said that “Adit agreed that the fact the announcement was timed so that the printed press would carry it in their pages on the eve of the supreme council meeting on Saturday (today) was just plain suspicious.”
“They may be trying to pressure Leo Moggie (PBDS president) into retiring when all the grassroots actually want him to stay on,” Adit , a nephew of Moggie, was quoted as saying.
“What they are doing will have a bad impact on the party. You don’t pressure your president like that. I tell you, Masing and Sng are an unholy alliance”, he said.
At Thursday’s press conference, after saying, in response to questions, that this was an internal party matter and that the Chief Minister Abdul Taib Mahmud would not interfere into PBDS’ internal affairs, Masing also said he hoped that there would be no “external inflence” trying to get Moggie not to step down.
To Masing, Adit said:” I hope they (Masing and his group) are not the ones who are being influenced by others.”
According to the Borneo Post, Adit reiterated that the party’s two top posts should be held by Dayak leaders, but this, he added, did not mean that PBDS is not a multi-racial party.
“I am no being chauvinistic, but I think everybody should know where their roles are in the party and they should not overstep their roles,” Adit was also quoted as saying, referring to similarities with the Sarawak United People’s Party (Supp).
He said Supp is a multi-racial party but everyone knows their place in the party and no one questioned why top posts in the party are held by Chinese.
Meanwhile, newspaper reports today said Moggie, who is also Minister of Energy, Communications and Multimedia, was non-commital when asked about the possibility of the TDC being postponed.
He was quoted as saying that so far none of the branches had asked for any postponement.
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Dayaks need soul-searching to move forward: Tajem
Bernama News, Aug, 2000
KUCHING, Mon.- The Dayak community in Sarawak need to do a deep examination of themselves if they wish to overcome their weaknesses and catch up with the other races.
Only by identifying their own weaknesses could the Dayaks, who form the majority of Sarawak’s estimated two million people, gather their strengths to move forward.
These were among the first words of newly re-elected Parti Bangsa Dayak Sarawak (PBDS) deputy president Datuk Daniel Tajem when asked on the achievements of the Dayak community.
“The Dayaks comprising Iban, Bidayuh and Orang Ulu are still lagging behind in all fields, and they need a paradigm shift to be on par with other races,” he told Bernama after the end of the PBDS general assembly here yesterday.
Tajem beat state Tourism Minister Datuk Dr James Masing in a straight fight for the number two post which saw a contest for the first time in the party’s 17-year history.
Tajem polled 360 votes against 278 votes obtained by Dr Masing.
Datuk Amar Leo Moggie was returned unopposed as president, a post he held since the party was formed in 1983.
Tajem said the Dayaks clearly lagged behind in the economic, education and social sectors, among others.
The majority of the estimated 3,800 longhouses and Dayak villages in the state were still without electricity and water supply, said Tajem, 64, a former deputy chief minister.
He said the party should have the vision to expand the middle class among the community.
“I am happy if several Dayaks have become millionaires but to strengthen the community’s economic position, the creation of more middle-class Dayaks should be the objective of PBDS this century,” he said.
He said if more Dayaks become entrepreneurs and businessmen, they could set up a Dayak Chamber of Commerce like what has been done by the other communities.
Tajem, who completed his tenure as Malaysian High Commissioner to New Zealand in the middle of this year, said the achievements of Dayaks in education also pale in comparison with those of other races.
He said all Dayak leaders irrespective of which party they are from should make concerted efforts to help improve the performance of Dayak students so that more of them could enter universities.
“I am worried because in the field of information technology, which has become a requirement for every kind of endeavour like studies and business, the Dayak community will continue to be left behind,” he said.
Tajem said whatever the vision for the Dayaks, he could not run away from pondering over the fate of a big section of the community who still live in longhouses and villages in the interior. “With the programmes drawn up by the state government, they can progress but the Dayak community must be given sufficient information on development projects, especially land development,” he said.
One way to further develop the Dayak community was to set up nucleus land development programmes and open up plantations by leasing out Native Customary Rights (NCR) land belonging to Dayaks, he said.
“For a Dayak with 120 acres of land, for example, he can only work on 20 acres the most and the rest can be rented to plantation companies for development of oil palm estates or other crops.
“I am not anti-development but I want every planned development project to be fully understood first by the Dayaks so that they can reap the full benefits,” he said.
Asked on his victory in the party election, Tajem said it was a healthy contest as it offered a new kind of experience to the Dayaks to make them more mature politically.
It afforded them an opportunity to evaluate candidate and pick who they considered the best, and this education process was important as the state election was not far away, he said.
“If we do not allow contests it means we are not giving party members a choice,” said Tajem, adding that he was just defending his post.
“I had served as a state assemblyman, High Commissioner and deputy chief minister, and now I am really free and able to strengthen the party machinery,” said Tajem, a founder of the party.
He dismissed allegations that his decision to defend the post was prompted by his desire to contest the next state election, and hopefully make a return to the state Cabinet.
“My intention is to strengthen the party so that anyone holding a post, like Datuk Moggie, can focus on government duties and not worry about the party,” he said.
Tajem said he wanted PBDS to remain as the vehicle for the Dayak community to unite and contribute to the country in the spirit of cooperation practised by the Barisan National (BN).
Asked on his determination to retain the post as seen from the unveiling of his term for the contest, Tajem said those in his camp comprised professionals in various fields.
“They included businessmen, bank officers, lawyers, housing developers, plantation managers, economists and private company senior executives with vast experience to contribute to the country,” he said.
Tajem, a lawyer knows for his oratorical skills, said the party needed leaders with expertise in various fields to draw up programmes to develop the Dayaks.
“I also want to gather the Dayak intellect and professional groups regardless of their party so that they can server as the think tank to bring the Dayak community to greater heights and contribute to the development of Sarawak and Malaysia,” he said. -BERNAMA