54 research outputs found
Realignment of State-Centre Relations : The Adenan Factor in Sarawak
No full textThe realignment of Kuching-Kuala Lumpur Relations when Adenan Satem took over as the Chief Minister of Sarawak. The statement issued by the Chief Minister's office partly explains why Sarawak's politics took a slightly different trajectory after Adenan Satem took over as the new Chief Minister for Sarawak from Taib Mahmud on 28 February 2014. He argues in his speeches that Sarawak had been left behind and needs to catch up with other states in the Federation of Malaysia. In Sarawak's local dialect, Adenan Satem used the word "ngepong", referring to catching up with other states. His catching-up strategies are central to the current centre–state relations in Sarawak. This chapter discusses centre–state relations between Putra Jaya and Kuching, specifically after Adenan Satem took over from Taib Mahmud. Responses from the centre to this political realignment are also discussed
Ethno-Nationalism and Electoral Clientelism : The Dayaks' Experience
No full textDiscussing the rise of Dayak ethno-nationalism and relate it to the role of patronage politics in Sarawak
Tampun Juah Collective Memory Iban Sarawak
No full textMembincangkan ingatan orang Iban Sarawak tentang tamadun mereka yang berasal di Tampun Jua
Transformasi Digital Sarawak
No full textTransformasi digital merupakan agenda penting dalam memajukan Sarawak sebagai wilayah maju pada tahun 2030. Dalam merealisasi misi tersebut, sejarah dan anjakan paradigma pelan transformasi sejak tahun 1963 turut menjadi tunjang kepada agenda kerajaan Sarawak dalam melakukan transformasi digital bukan hanya dalam aspek ekonomi tetapi juga pendidikan dan infrastruktur. Melihat kembali kepada transformasi digital, permulaan adalah pada era Tun Abang Haji Openg Bin Abang Sapiee, yang merupakan Tuan Yang Terutama Sarawak Yang Pertama pada 16 September 1963. Tun Abang Haji Openg dikenal sebagai penjawat awam yang cemerlang dan setia kepada Kerajaan Brooke, namun semasa perjuangan kemerdekaan dilakukan Tun juga mendukung perjuangan kemerdekaan Sarawak dan terlibat dalam perundingan untuk membentuk Persekutuan Malaysia. Tun Abang Haji Openg Bin Abang Sapiee telah memperkenalkan idea idea
yang membuka peluang baharu dalam sektor ekonomi dan mempromosikan inovasi yang memberikan keuntungan jangka panjang kepada masyarakat dan negara. Dalam konteks Sarawak pada masa kini, Premier Sarawak, Datuk Patinggi Tan Sri (Dr) Abang Haji Abdul Rahman Zohari Bin Tun Datuk Abang Haji Openg meneruskan visi pembangunan yang dibawa oleh Tun Abang
Openg Bin Abang Sapiee. Transformasi digital dianggap sebagai kunci untuk mencapai visi Sarawak sebagai sebuah
wilayah yang maju pada tahun 2030. Dengan itu, Kerajaan
Sarawak merancang strategi transformasi digital pada tahun
2017 dengan tujuan merapatkan jurang digital antara bandar dan luar bandar. Sejajar dengan transformasi digital yang berlaku di Sarawak, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak melalui CITDS melakukan transformasi daripada mod komunikasi secara tradisional kepada penggunaan perkhidmatan automatik untuk
proses komunikasi, membuat keputusan, dan pentadbiran
rutin yang efisien
Penggunaan Sumber Asli dan Kearifan Tempatan Di Kampung Telok Melano dan Kampung Telok Serabang Di Lundu : Satu Pemerhatian.
No full textBagaimana komuniti tempatan di kedua-dua kampung menggunakan sumber asli mereka dan bagaimana pengetahuan loka itu dajar kepada generasi muda
Penggunaan Sumber Asli dan Kearifan Lokal Dalam Kalangan Etnik Di Lundu Sarawak
No full textBagaimana penduduk tempatan di Lundu menggunakan sumber Asli mereka disamping mempertahankan Kearifan Lokal daripada pupus. Apakah yang telah dilakukan untuk transfer pengetahunan tersebut kepada generasi muda
The Sarawak Dayaks’ Shift in Malaysia’s 2018 Election
No full textABSTRACT This paper examines Barisan Nasional’s (BN) surprise defeat in six rural constituencies in Sarawak, namely Selangau, Lubok Antu, Julau, Saratok, Puncak Borneo and Mas Gading, in Malaysia’s recent election in May 2018. Interestingly, all these are Dayakmajority constituencies, with the Dayak Iban dominating Selangau, Saratok, Julau and Lubok Antu, and Dayak Bidayuh outnumbering others in Puncak Borneo and Mas Gading. Four of these were won by the new federal ruling coalition, Pakatan Harapan (PH), and two others by independent candidates representing dissenting voices in the BN. While not comparable to the ‘Malay tsunami’ on the Malaysian Peninsula in scale and impact, the electoral shift of the Dayaks may shed light on some longstanding issues in Sarawak politics such as patronage, native customary rights land, the inter- and intra-coalition conflicts among the BN component parties as well as PH’s appeals to the people of Sarawak
‘Blue waves versus political tsunami’: Sarawak and the 2008 Malaysian General Election.
No full textThe 2008 general election was a disastrous outing for the National Front (Barisan Nasional). The party not only failed to retain two third of the seats in the national parliament but lost five states to the opposition. The defeat was attributed to strong opposition politics which had created ‘political tsunami’ of sorts and swept across several states which were formerly BN’s stronghold.
The defeat in several states also marked the end of BN’s hegemony. It begs the question of whether BN is still relevant. Ironically Sarawak remained a bastion of BN and the party won all the parliamentary seats except one. BN’s win in Sarawak was likened to a ‘blue waves’ (blue is the colour for BN’s flags) that like ‘political tsunami’ in Peninsular Malaysia had swept away all the opposition candidates except for Bandar Kuching. However, despite the big win in term of seats the support for BN in the urban areas declined greatly with some of its candidates won with a slim majority. This article examines the contestation between ‘blue waves’ and ‘political tsunami’ in Sarawak during the 2008 elections. The contestation is examined in the contexts of ‘politics of developmentalism’, which really impacted the electoral outcome in the rural areas. ‘Politics of developmentalism’ is put into practice by using government projects as patronage tools for sustaining and securing political support. This strategy works well especially in the rural areas where politics is still very much driven by the urge to fulfill basic needs
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