Written by: Dr John Brian Anthony15th Aug 2012 ( Resubmitted by Cikgu Iban)

First of all, let it be known that this article should not be written as it may have negative effect on Dayak. However, the truth must be told that the Dayak will be made to split further politically during this coming Election.

1. Let us examine today’s scenario –

where PRS is being challenged by the newly registered SWP, a political party that does not get any rebuke by the State leadership. Instead, it has been given a silent approval and sanction by the high ranking political leaders. Dr. James has to shout at the top of his voice to remind BN component parties of BN constitution .The constitution stipulates that for any party and its members to be admitted into BN fold, they must be a consensus by ALL parties. Even with the utterance of one odd voice from its current component parties, there would not be any admission into the fold. Dr. James would like to pre-empt such scenario by adopting and thinking of other strategies, should he find himself boxed into a corner. The key element of PRS strategy is “sediakan payong sebelum hujan”. As such, it must be fast enough to avoid a situation whereby “nasi sudah jadi bubur” before doing anything. The worst situation that PRS face is “di telan mati apai di luak mati indai” in their fight for survival. (more…)

Written by: Dr. John Brian Anthony

I was very disturb when I read the part that the Chief Minister of Sarawak has got his hand directly into our oil and gas resources working through a proxy called Rimbuna Hijau ( RHPetroGas Sdn Bhd) to rework certain oil and gas field in Sarawak. This is against the backdrop that Pakatan Rakyat promised to set up an independent Sarawak Oil and Gas company belonging to the State Government to maximize the already used up oil field. In this way, Sarawak can enjoy better revenue from oil in future and develop a company that has capability to go and prospect for oil overseas by acquiring experience, knowledge and skill working on home grown oil and gas environment. Why did the Chief Minister choose to be so selfish and greedy? (more…)

Written by: Dr John Brian Anthony

The Chairman of the Public Service Commission met the representatives of Dayak NGOs and listen to their grouses about the poor participation of Dayak in the civil service. Actually, there are only 2.8% Dayak in the Federal Public Civil Service which is grossly inadequate. I dare say that the Dayak YBs never talk about this problem and maybe the government pick this info from the social media and acted on it.

When the President of Sarawak Dayak Graduate Association called to inform me of this challenge my first reaction was of utter disbelief. The reason is because it is impossible to produce such number with a very short time of 2 months and actually we might never have that type of numbers looking for a job in the civil service. Nevertheless, I reacted by saying that the Dayak has to form a special team made up of the various stakeholders and organize them to allow for the dissemination of information and the collection and tracking of the number of application received. There is a need to go all out using all media available and break up into smaller team to ensure that the potential Dayak employee in the civil service acted on this challenge.

Possible short term solution

I was thinking how many Dayak has been appointed or should be into the current Public Service Commission as its member. If there is none then the Government should appoint at least TWO members from the Dayak community to help oversee this recruitment exercise even for a short term. (more…)