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Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Jabu talk

File doc FOURjabu
First draft Dec 10, 2008;
Edited Dec17;


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"This is our answer to Jabu and his ‘laser’ mouth. See who can talk sense between futuristic bloggers and a dinosaur-age politician." – The Four Horsemen
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Disclaimer: This is all about ‘political literature’, nothing personal.







*Photo from Africa; not related with subject matter here



Let's talk about JABU
http://knightadventure.blogspot.com/2008/12/jabu-talk.html
By The Four Horsemen






Meeting: Pre-Christmas rehearsal
Venue: Dewan Selamba
Attendees:
Haji Julaihi Haji Suut (Speaker Dewan)
Chris Knight (Minuting Secretary)
James anak Bond (protagonist)
Devil’s Advocate (antagonist)

Invited guest: JETTY (Joseph Tawie) from The Broken Shield

In the Agenda:
1. A ‘loquacious’ mouth (by Jetty)
2. Jabu sees rat
3. Knight wants out
4. Jabu as Dayak King (Exclusive)
5. A knight faces off the king (Exclusive)
6. Jabu crashes in Bario (Exclusive)
7. Jabu rapes the Penan – too?
8. Jabu and his protégé rats (Exclusive)
9. Fight of the Century: Jabu vs Taib

Items marked Exclusive are based on real events that have not been revealed to the public before, or revealed, but not as generously as it is made here. This Four Horsemen drama today is one hell-of-a-show – every sense of the word. Buckle up for a rude take off.


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*Group Jabu Zikalala from Africa
Jetty says, "Baka mulut indu."

The 'loquacious’ mouth
http://thebrokenshield.blogspot.com/2008/12/jabu-condemnation-who-will-be-next.html
By Jetty


JETTY: (*Reading his transcript word for word) It is Alfred Jabu’s habit to condemn Dayaks who do not “kow-tow” to him. Since he became YB and minister in 1974, he had been criticising his own people and his choice of words is always similar: anti-establishment, anti-development, instigators, ungrateful, what have you done to help the community, you know how to criticise, etc.

When the defunct Parti Bansa Dayak Sarawak (PBDS) was in the opposition, its leaders - Leo Moggie, Daniel Tajem, Edmund Langgu, Jawi Masing, James Masing, and the late Joseph Samuel, – had also been condemned by Jabu. He had also criticised leaders of Sarawak National Party (SNAP) such as the late Stephen Kalong Ningkan, Dunstan Endawie, Edwin Dundang, Justine Jinggut, Stanley Jugol, etc.

All Dayaks’ non-governmental organisations (NGOs) – Sarawak Dayak National Union (SDNU), Sarawak Dayak Iban Association (SADIA), Sarawak Dayak Graduate Association (SDGA), Dayak Cultural Foundation (DCF) and Dayak Chamber of Commerce and Industry (DCCI) – have been at the receiving end of his ‘loquacious’ mouth (baka mulut indu).

A couple of days ago, he chided SDNU and SADIA for not praising him and SALCRA for helping the Dayak community. And today, 8 Dec 2008 (according to The Borneo Post), he accused bloggers of discrediting him and SALCRA, instigating the people to go against the government and hampering its efforts by abusing and misusing the internet.

He said: “They blog every day and night but have done nothing for the people. They only talk”.

It is true we have done nothing in term of physical development. But our job is to help change the mindset of the people and help them to know their rights especially their customary rights over land that had been created by their forefathers centuries ago.

As a minister Jabu is in a better position to help the people as he has the federal and state funds at his finger tips. But yet he has failed miserably as many of his projects (kononnya) to help the Dayaks have become white elephants. Perhaps only SALCRA appears to be doing much better than many of his projects. But then he is not the originator of the project.

No doubt some SALCRA participants have received some substantial amount of money from its dividends and bonuses, but the bulk of such money goes to some rich Dayaks and non-Dayaks, while some of the poor Dayak participants receive as little as RM2.70 as dividends. One non-Dayak in Saratok, for example, has received over RM500,000 in dividends last year because some scheme participants have sold their land and shares to the 'Chinaman'. Did Jabu speak about him as a successful SALCRA participant?

On development, it is undeniable that Jabu has brought some development projects to Betong which is under his constituency. But that is Betong only. What about other Dayak areas? In fact some money meant for projects in other divisions have been diverted to Betong.

His political enemies have accused Jabu of only having interests in the development of politics and business for his family and cronies. For example, who is this Gerald Rentap who owns Utahol Sdn Bhd that has been given 6,900 hectares of land, Ulu Medamit, Limbang for the planting of oil palm? And who is this Robert Lawson Chuat who owns Durafarm which was given land totalling 1501.825 hectares at Tanjong Bijat and Skrang Land districts and 3665.1 hectares of land in Betong? And what about Henry Jantum’s Ever Herald Sdn Bhd that was given 2,127 hectares of land of Batang Layar/Batang Lupar land district and another 2,873 hectares of Sablor and Sebelak land districts in Betong?

The way I see it, the more Jabu criticises and condemns people from his community the more he will be isolated and the more people hate him. Now after criticising the Dayak bloggers, who will be his next targets?


(Applause)
(Standing ovation)






*Not related with anything Sarawak

Jabu sees (rat)
http://knightadventure.blogspot.com/2008/12/jabu-talk.html
By The Four Horsemen

JULAIHI: Demikian tadi pembentangan kertas kerja oleh saudara Jetty yang sekaligus membuka minda kita terhadap kebijaksanaan, kemuliaan dan belas kasihan pemimpin agung Dayak Datuk Patinggi Tan Sri Alfred Jabu anak Numpang – tak boleh panjang lagi ke nama ni. Semoga rakyat Dayak satu nusantara berpuas hati dengan pemimpin yang mereka pilih. Memang Dayak pandai memilih pemimpin Yang Dikasihi, itu pakcik tak boleh nafikan. Pihak ROS (Registrar of Society) pun tahu Dayak serba serbi pandai.

Dayak pandai memilih ketua. Bak kata pepatah Dayak, biar mati PBDS jangan mati Sng; tak hilang Dayak di belantara walaupun semua hutan belantara sudah hilang dikebas orang.

Untuk tidak membuang masa, mesyuarat Pra-Krismas hari ini diteruskan dengan sesi perbincangan Four Horsemen atau, dalam Bahasa Melayu klasik, Empat Abdul. Terimakasih saudara Jetty, sesi dialog yang akan berlangsung hanya untuk Abdullah berempat. Tuan-tuan dan puan-puan beri tepukan buat blogger Joseph Tawie dari blog perisaipecahsembilan.


(Jetty’s leaving the Digital Hall)


KNIGHT: I will have to excuse myself from this meeting, Speaker sir. You take down minutes today. (*Everyone dazed) Well, if you care to know, Jabu is my king in Dayak Kingdom, and he probably knows who my father is in the house of SNAP. He can say “Like father like son”, I can go speechless. You see, Jabu is not exactly my favourite king but as one of Dayak knights in this country Sarawak, my allegiance must remains with him. Please excuse me, I cannot betray my king.

BOND: Isn’t BETRAYAL the way of the Dayak, from headhunting days until next Christmas?

KNIGHT: The Ibans betray Ibans; Dayak in general are trustworthy. See you later, guys.

DEVIL: Jabu is one Iban, right? Betray him.

BOND: He said Iban betray Iban, not Kayan betray Iban.

DEVIL: Well, let’s start a new trend. Betray the Ibans before they do us.

BOND: If they haven’t already? I certainly hope it’s not Maharajah Taib who planted that rancid idea in your head, Devil Two Horns.

Hey, Knight, wait up! Listen to the wise man in you. There’s a very indistinct line between fidelity and deception as far as politics is concerned. As far as Jabu is concerned, he can play you to deceit. You don’t want to be fooled by a politician, do you?

For you to honour the oath to protect a ‘king’ – as you put it – who himself is probably not honest to his own people is an insult to your own ‘chivalry code’, if I can put it that way. But what about your fight for the Penan? What about our fight for Sarawak Supremacy, about our hope for Dayak being Sarawak Chief Minister, and about our wish for Dayak to become a strong, respectable nation? These are straightforward undertakings, no two ways about it, no deceit. What about us as your friends, about your folks who are Dayak, about true people who stand with us in the mud from where we embarked on this journey into the Dayak future? And what about the oath we took to overcome all obstacles along the way – do you not want to honour that?

If Jabu is a king, as you see him, he should be a wealthy king after three long centuries on the helm. Does he bother to give one hoot about your wellbeing and the wellbeing of the rest of Dayak who are crawling in the mud? For all we know, he cares naught about us anymore. You give allegiance when and where it due, give it to the deserving. We are Dayak, your friends yesterday, today and tomorrow. For all we know, our king has failed us. We only got each other now. So… are you going to BETRAY us for the sake of someone who cannot help us?

Even blogger Jetty can blatantly said “… some money meant for projects in other divisions have been diverted to Betong”. That’s for a fact, he said. When ‘some money’ goes to Betong, some people elsewhere cannot get the money. These some people could be the homeless, the jobless, the patients bound to wheelchair, the Dayak students who have to quit schooling because they cannot pay for their bus fare. What about the welfare of these group of people who are not as lucky as people in Betong, Knight? I have you know, Betong is just a tiny spot on Sarawak map it cannot represent Dayak populace in Sarawak. In case Jabu has forgotten, Dayak represents the indigenous tribes of Sarawak. Doesn’t it pain the good man in you if your king Jabu steals from Sarawak Dayak to feed only Betong Dayak? Speaking of Dayak development, what development is that if not the same old adage “Only Dyak can kill Dyak.”


(Silent)


DEVIL: Yes, Knight, what about the fund to build Long Lama Hospital? What about those who bleed all the way to Marudi because Long Lama don’t have doctors? What if I tell you the government has money to build hospital in Long Lama for the Orang Ulu in Baram River but someone quickly snatched that money to Betong?

KNIGHT: What if I tell you that someone will have to knock off YB Lihan Jok or MP Jacob Dungau before he can lay his hand on the money?

DEVIL: I can tell you Lihan cannot do anything. You know why? Because Lihan, too, is a brat!

KNIGHT: (*Agitated) Oh, Satan, where do you get this story? From Kebing Wan I’m sure. Have we forgotten Kebing is in opposition and opposition always make up stories?

DEVIL: You’re WRONG. The angels in the BN can cook up stories better than any opposition devils can. That angel can swear on Holy Book Anwar Ibrahim sodomised him. Yet doctors could not find a dick in his ass.

JULAIHI: No Anwar, No Sodomy, No Malaya. Teruskan dengan Sarawak Jabu.

KNIGHT: Look, I can agree Jabu is maybe a pain to many Dayak intellects like you two genius here okay. Maybe you despised his antic. Maybe Jabu is not fit as Dayak King for some other clever reasons only known to Dayak intellects like you. Whatever that may be, I am not smart enough to argue with you on point to point. But I can tell you this one thing – Jabu is still a Dayak and he is still functioning. He maybe HOPELESS, okay, if you like that, but he is not USELESS.

About project funds going to Betong… you know what, I don’t like the sound of ‘diverted’ or ‘hijacked’. There could be some technical reasons to it. Maybe it is not morally correct, but it is still correct constitutionally okay. When the fund is meant for a hospital in Baram but there were not enough patients in Baram for the hospital – when the Baram folks instead go to specialist hospital in Singapore –, of course the hospital must find a new location. Of course the hospital must go to Betong because they are many sick people in Betong.


(Laughter)


And of course the fund must follow the hospital to Betong, too. Not because Jabu is there in Betong, but because nearly everyone in Betong is sick. That could be the reason why many projects must go to Betong, because Betong NEED those projects more than other places need the projects.

BOND: That, in political sense, is the best option for an otherwise wasted government projects ya? And Jabu must make sure all leftovers must also go to Betong, ya? Now who defined, on behalf of the State government to the Federal government, what is wasted what is leftover? Someone from Betong, I guess.

KNIGHT: Jabu cannot go into every detail to explain everything, Bond. Maybe the process is complicated enough Jabu cannot satisfy every james anak bond who politicises everything and every devil’s advocate who suspects everyone.


(Devil wanted to say something)
(Julaihi stopped him)


Jabu has been in politics since the 70s, he is a seasoned politician. The handling of funds… maybe he merely plays to people’s ignorance, harmless as political psychology. Take the case of RM10 million-fund for Penan development for example. The money actually comes from the Federal and Jabu get to manage it because he is the Chairman of Penan Steering Committee – whatever committee whatever steering. The Penans may not know the money has come from the Federal. By kampung logic, they must have thought the money come from Jabu’s ministry. If you were Jabu, do you want to correct everything in people’s mind, every perception? Is that necessary, where’s the urgency? When he tries to correct people, some people called him ‘loquacious mouth’ instead. If I were Jabu, I would not bother myself with the trivia, but focus on the bigger picture.

The thing most necessary is the Penans get the fund. That is the bottom line. The same logik kampung applies to local crowd everywhere. The bottom point is Jabu brings in the developments. Federal money or State money or money from his own pocket, doesn’t matter much to us. What matters is the money is coming; the development projects are in the pipeline.

Wait, Bond, I haven’t finished. Think along this line, Jabu being Deputy Chief Minister of Sarawak must continue to remain useful to the Dayaks, at least BE SEEN as being useful. So, Jabu being Jabu must make sure people know of his contribution. Okaylah, maybe he exaggerates here and there. Maybe it was just a very little contribution from him; maybe he’s not even the originator of the project, for example the SALCRA. But in everything that has Jabu in the picture, he must takes credit for it. Take the credit all to himself, if he wish. We, as responsible Dayak, must allow him to do so. BECAUSE… he being a Dayak King must be seen as PROVIDER to the Dayak race.

BECAUSE, from knight’s philosophy, a king is the proud symbol that says a race is still valid; all knights must preserve the symbol that preserves the race. I talk too much already. I really shouldn’t be here.

BOND: Of course, talk too much but all-superficial.

DEVIL: What if the king is symbol of failure?

KNIGHT: It is in your perspective okay. It is how you want to see Jabu as a symbol. Two ways to see it: One, you can take pride in him being Deputy Chief Minister of Sarawak; Two, you can hate him for not being Chief Minister of Sarawak.

BOND: I certainly hope it could be simplified like that in political scenario of Sarawak Dayak, squire. We are talking about Jabu being a provider but selective provider here, not some old literature from the Round Table. Did you listen to what blogger Jetty has said? How do you read Jabu, which one of your TWO WAYS you see him?

KNIGHT: Count your blessing and stop complaining.
Okay, guys, see you later.

DEVIL: Yeah? CUNT your blessing and stop complaining! You know why F-rat Jabu continue to hide in padi huts in Betong and grow fat on grains stolen from Dayak farms from all around Sarawak? Because no knights want to hunt him there. Because there are many knights like you in Sarawak! You knights can draw sword and punch a hole in the ballot paper but you care nothing about right and wrong in OUR COUNTRY Sarawak. Go get your books and fly to England now. We don’t need knights who protect crooked kings.

BOND: Or knights who bother only see to the bell-tolls-how-many-times-for-which-lord, who maintain the orderly distribution of power in Maharajah Taib Mahmud’s office, who preserve the tradition of who-gets-more-for-which-small-tribe, who sustain the methodical sharing of produce of the land. SHARING in name but the real benefit is lost, when only a handful of portly rats feast on the stockpile of milk and honey.

KNIGHT: If I had your mentality, Jebon, if I have to be meticulous and calculative in every little thing produced in this land of milk and honey, nobody can have time to eat anything when everybody inspects what is in other’s plate. Then we fight over what little extra I found in your plate.

DEVIL: If you have one wife but Jabu has two wives, you don’t want to ask why he has two wives you have one?

KNIGHT: I don’t need two wives; multiple girlfriends can.

DEVIL: If that Federal woman wants to marry a Kayan bachelor in Baram but Jabu snatch her to Betong and give her to an Iban widower for his wife…

KNIGHT: Okay, guys, got to go now.

DEVIL: If the Federal sent money to your children, but Jabu took it for his children…

KNIGHT: Bye, devil.

DEVIL: If your children run to complain to you about it, you say BYE SON…

KNIGHT: Hey! Fuck you ha (*Furious). You don’t drag my son into this jabu-jabbing business okay!

BOND: Unfortunately, Mr Knight, for as long as your beloved King Jabu continues to rake things at his whims and fancies in your Dayak Kingdom, many Dayak children will soon be forced to play marbles in a borrowed shed under a rented durian tree in Jabu wholesale territory. Someone has pocketed chunks of Dayak Benefit since last century, mind you. As Pakcik Julaihi has succinctly put it in his article on Dayak Betrayal, and to paraphrase it here, “Don’t wait until all land in Sarawak is mapped in Jabu’s will before we start asking damning question how he got away with it each time.”

KNIGHT: That is what you can say. Give me facts and figures. Do you have any? Yes, you have something but you cannot string up all evidences to make even a borderline conclusion. You cannot punch out details. You have nothing concrete against Jabu.

BOND: I return the same treatment to you: It is in your perspective; how you want to see it. We ASK what his Dayak Agenda is really, other than enriching his own clan, if they are not rich enough already. Listen to Jetty’s transcript again. Play that recorder Pakcik Julaihi. Thank you.

(Recorder playing :)

His political enemies have accused Jabu of only having interests in the development of politics and business for his family and cronies. For example, who is this Gerald Rentap who owns Utahol Sdn Bhd that has been given 6,900 hectares of land, Ulu Medamit, Limbang for the planting of oil palm? And who is this Robert Lawson Chuat who owns Durafarm which was given land totalling 1501.825 hectares at Tanjong Bijat and Skrang Land districts and 3665.1 hectares of land in Betong? And what about Henry Jantum’s Ever Herald Sdn Bhd that was given 2,127 hectares of land of Batang Layar/Batang Lupar land district and another 2,873 hectares of Sablor and Sebelak land districts in Betong?



DEVIL: Did you hear that – 7,000 hectares of land in Ulu Medamit, Limbang? Don’t forget, your uncle Panai and three cousins are living in Ulu Medamit. This Iban rats are slowly eating into Orang Ulu territory, can you feel the earth moves? What happen when they enter Lawas? That sweet daughter of the Lun Bawang Penghulu… poor her. I wonder what they will do to your ex-girlfriend.

KNIGHT: Devil! Can you stop blowing things out of proportion? What that got to do with oil palm plantation anyway? It is NOT as if the Rentaps are raiding and looting and sacking the place. We should be thankful they are there, to provide thousands of jobs to locals in Limbang and Lawas. For all you know, the locals there are by now jobless after the loggers have no more trees to fell, no more fish in the river, no more natural resources. You can go protective and go broke or you can embrace change and prosper.

Oh for your information, that ex-girlfriend is working with Maybank now. I have you know, the Iban rats don’t raid banks.


(Laughter)





Knight wants out
http://knightadventure.blogspot.com/2008/12/jabu-talk.html
By The Four Horsemen

BOND: This peculiar attitude in you is glaring, Knight. You beg to be excused from this jabu-jabbing business, yet you can offer your own explanation when Jabu is attacked here. Are you with us or without?

KNIGHT: The truth is, I do not want to have any part in this jabu-jabbing, okay guys, not here not in this blog. I am not anonymous like you three. I am not as learned as Dr John Brian or Al Tugauw or Joseph Tawie or Raja Petra Kamaruddin. I am easy to be ‘killed’ – so to speak.

Of course the thought of Jabu reading this blog is freaking me out. Of course I fear for his outburst. We know of his LOQUACIOUS MOUTH, don’t we? He can badmouth me to the press, like what he did to blogger Jetty the other day. Jetty walked out of the tumult with his head held high; I might not be as lucky, because… I am nervous person (*Winks to Julaihi). So it is best if I don’t say anything about Jabu.

If I can say some good thing about him, I would say this: He is a Dayak King, that’s that. He is our king we are his subject, that’s that. As clear as night and day. A king can go loquacious mouth; can be selfish, vain, self-absorbed, narcissistic, snobbish, stuck-up, greedy, corrupt, thieving, treacherous, deceitful, conniver, sadistic, adulterous, downright fat and ugly… But he is a king regardless; kneel before him regardless. Take him as he is, like it or not.


(Devil hoots)
(Bond laughs the satirical)
(Julaihi suspects the paradoxical)


BOND: Oh, that’s a classic and very touching, knight-in-rusty-armour (*Chuckles). All right then, draw your sword and meet me in the king’s square. You defend Jabu while I – Devil probably like to accompany me – stab your beloved Jabu to defeat.

KNIGHT: Disregard the philosophy I said earlier. Who says I want to defend him? His fate and fortune are all his to protect on his own. I choose not to harm even a single strand on his head; hence, in the sideline I stand with sword unsheathed. Please acknowledge my position and allow this knight-in-rusty-armour to exit this room, gracefully. You Good Sarawakians can talk all you want about Jabu, I wish not meddle with your pleasure. Till we meet again, my friends, mind your head.








*Anime Lord Jabu. Photo not related with anything Sarawak

Jabu the Dayak King
http://knightadventure.blogspot.com/2008/12/jabu-talk.html
By The Four Horsemen


JULAIHI: Awak tak hairan ke, Knight. Kalau pasal Taib, dua budak ni boleh berselisih pendapat. Tapi kalau pasal menghentam Jabu, mereka boleh gang lah pulak. Bilamasa gelaran Jabu sebagai DAYAK KING ini mula digunakan. Tak pernah terbaca pun di mana-mana suratkhabar. Awak reka sendiri kot.


(Knight stopped halfway to the door)
(He’s walking back to the table)


KNIGHT: You didn’t read that article in my newspaper, pakcik? It was in 2004, I guess, during a wedding ceremony in Long Pelutan, formerly known as Long Miri. Jabu went there by invitation from Miri Division Paramount Chief Temenggong Pahang Ding. In the full view of a few thousands of Kayan Uma Peliau, Jabu walked over a file of eight gongs – by Kayan custom, only a supreme king can walk over eight gongs in a single file. Jabu is already the Number One Iban in Sarawak, now the Baram folks hailed him as Number One Dayak. The Paramount Chief announced to the Kayans that Jabu is DAYAK KING.

DEVIL: Did you bring your hands together like this and bow your head? Did they send concubines to his room that night? (*Laughter)

BOND: The pertinent question, Knight, do you acknowledge Jabu as Dayak King. YES you do, you said that already. You respect the choice of the Kayans. BUT, do you respect Jabu as Dayak King?

KNIGHT: No comment.

BOND: Meaning you DON’T.

KNIGHT: Don’t put word in my mouth okay.

BOND: Was that official – the anointment, the investiture, the kingship… whatever?

KNIGHT: As in many local customs, Bond, such as in Tanah Adat, you do not need paper or courthouse to bring to effect or legitimise something in the native society. All you need is a special rite witnessed by many people and remembered by many heralds. I happened to be one the witnesses, and now the herald. For as long as I can remember seeing Jabu gloating in his new fame, extremely overjoyed, in Long Pelutan that night, and for as long as I can feel funny seeing the radiant on his face like I have never seen him before… Jabu in my mind is the Dayak King.


(Everyone: Oooh)


BOND: Just a silly question, if you don’t mind me goading you. By right of lineage, you can lay claim to the Kayan throne in Baram valleys… assuming you want to restore the office of your grandfather Jok Ngau of Liam… and say for example in this worst-case scenario the Dayak King nullifies your claim…

KNIGHT: Not interested, Bond, drop it.

BOND: Say for example your people called out to you to expel Dayak King and his army of rats from the land of the Kayans…

KNIGHT: Don’t be ridiculous and childish, Bond.

BOND: Say for example the Dayak King enslaves the Kayans and carries them away to captivity in Betong…


(Silent)
(Great anticipation)


KNIGHT: Well, if it should come to your WORST-CASE SCENARIO… I will rise to the occasion.


(Loud cheering in the house)
(Julaihi high fives Bond)
(Devil shouts The return of the king!)







*Anime Saint Jabu. Photo not related with anything here

A knight faces off the king
http://knightadventure.blogspot.com/2008/12/jabu-talk.html
By The Four Horsemen


BOND: Have you done anything in the service of your Dayak King?

Don’t know. Maybe I did.

Ouch! Let’s hear it.

I said MAYBE.

Tell us the maybe.

Nah, maybe it was not what I thought. Forget about it.

DEVIL: Forget about what?

KNIGHT: (*Irritated) All right... I can’t remember the year. Maybe in 2003 in Kuching, before I moved to Miri Bureau. I just got back from a trip to Ba’ Kelalan and a friend from Sarawak Tourism Board, maybe a Kevin Nila, passed me some article about Micro hydro power project for me to read, and ‘process’ – meaning to follow up.

Micro Hydro is about tiny water dam, but sustainable, can generate electricity to several hundreds of homes. It worked in several areas already in Australia. If applied to Ba’ Kelalan, the Micro hydro project can be the cheapest, most reliable power source for the rural villages. All this while, they rely on diesel generators for power. You see, before that, I have not heard of MICRO HYDRO.

I thought the information was very useful to Sarawak Government. So, there was a press event that night in Kuching during the launching of festive lighting in streets near MAS office and Upwell Supermarket. I wanted to tell Jabu about a way to light up Ba’ Kelalan, too. Reporter Sulok Tawie was also with me that night, but he chased after another Minister after we promised to share notes later.

I stopped Jabu before he got into his SG car. I told him about Micro Hydro. He remained blurred. He told me he cannot give anything until he is “convinced” – his exact word. I said maybe some article can do the talking for me, to convince him. He said okay. So I handed him a copy of that article – I brought it along with me that night, in case he play dump.


(Laughter)


Long story short I never heard anything from him about the Micro Hydro after that. I thought such project was not feasible in Sarawak terrains, from his point of view. Imagine my surprise a year later when I heard about this plan by the late Datuk Judson Tagal and several SESCo engineers to install a Micro Hydro project in Ba’ Kelalan. So the Micro Hydro is the right thing for Sarawak interior. Good for Ba’ Kelalan folks. I’ve been there, I know how difficult life is without proper supply of electricity.

DEVIL: No one stopped to say thanks to you? No call from Jabu?

Maybe I don’t deserve anything. Maybe I have nothing to do with that project. Maybe they picked up the information on their own; after all it was information from the Internet. I can only remember giving Jabu article on Micro Hidro.

The bottom point is, Devil, our knight here did offer assistance to Sarawak rural development. Big or small, useful or not, that’s a different story.

Okaylah, maybe he copied the idea from the article I handed him but due to his busy schedule, he forgot to thank me afterward.


(Laughter)


KNIGHT: It’s nothing for me to shout about really. It was just a small highlight, eye-opener maybe, no big deal. The government men did the real job, collecting and compiling massive information on the Micro Hydro stuff, and later see to its physical development. What is important is the bottom line. The bottom line is the ‘micro light’ is coming to rural Sarawak.

Okaylah, if indeed my stopping Jabu that night and my giving him the article had opened his eyes to some idea, well, good for him. He is my Dayak King and a Dayak King must be SEEN as provider to the Dayak. I am glad I can help. That’s my service to the Dayak King.

That I say IF I did play a part in Sarawak’s Micro Hydro revolution, although very, very small.

IF I had nothing whatsoever to do with it, then the joke is on me. I don’t want to embarrass myself okay. In fact, I did not want to say anything about this Micro Hydro thing, but you guys forced me to speak. In case I was wrong about Jabu getting the Micro Hydro from me, in case that was not the case… I take back all things I said earlier about Micro Hydro. I said it here and now it was all by Jabu’s effort and luck. He found the article near Malaysia Airlines office in Kuching that night. The article just dropped in front of him from the sky.


(Outburst of laughter)
(Devil drops to the floor laughing)
(Bond’s banging table in excitement)
(Julaihi struggles to keep from laughing)







*Photo not related with anything here

Jabu crashes in Bario
http://knightadventure.blogspot.com/2008/12/jabu-talk.html
By The Four Horsemen


KNIGHT: I really shouldn’t be here. Please, I have to go.

BOND: What a refreshing change, you’ve never been this witty during our dialogue here, Knight. We’d like to hear more from you, if it’s okay with you. You and Jabu seemed to have some history together (*Laughter). Would you mind sharing with us that MISADVENTURE during the Bario Heli Drama 2004, especially that night when you wanted to save His Majesty but he refused, at his peril, the service of one of his bravest knights?

Owh, that! Forget it, Bond. It’s not a good story to tell, not good for Jabu. It will embarrass my Dayak King.

Ouch! No way can help him there anyway. The whole of Malaysia knew about his erroneous exploit already. But you can save him now. You, of all reporters in Malaysia, are the person in good position to say why the mistake was inevitable.

Jabu and I had a little secret, best we don’t talk about it – ever. Even Taib did not know what happened that night.

DEVIL: (*Turning to Bond) What happened? How come my Taib didn’t know?

BOND: This is BIG EXCLUSIVE story. Do all you can to make him talk.


(Knight’s walking towards the door)
(Devil’s calling out to him; he’s ignored)
(Bond signals to Julaihi)


JULAIHI: Encik Knight, awak terlupa sesuatu.


(Knight halted)


JULAIHI: Awak lupa apa kata pembaca-pembaca suratkhabar hari itu. Mereka kata suratkhabar awak yang salah buat laporan. Suratkhabar-suratkhabar satu dunia, termasuk stesyen-stesyen TV, melaporkan satu perkara yang sama tetapi laporan awak ceritakan satu perkara yang berlainan, yang bercanggah dengan kenyataan umum, yang kantoi.

KNIGHT: (*Enraged) Who is kantoi? Who is kantoi huh? Of course I reported a different story because all media reported the LIES while I made the big, world big scoop. The whole world was kantoi, not me. Jabu was kantoi, not me. Someone put the lie in everyone’s mouth that day, but I spit out the lie! The readers were kantoi big time that day, but not my readers.

I was the BEST of reporter this country has ever seen, at least on that day, and Jabu knew it! I really don’t want to brag like this, pakcik, I really don’t, but you don’t question my sense of journalism okay, especially not on that day.


(Julaihi quickly apologizes to Knight)


DEVIL: The BEST, but no paper takes you to work with them now.

KNIGHT: Because I was the sharpest on that particular day but the lousiest on many other days BEFORE and AFTER that day. Happy now? Bye! I’m not coming back to this meeting again.

BOND: But you’re not helping anyone that day. You should have insisted on Jabu’s personal secretary – what’s his name – to wake Jabu up from sleep that night. Your paper can publish his explanation for the error he made earlier that evening. That way, he can say he had wanted to rectify the mistake that very same night but only your paper can wait until very late for his DAMAGE CONTROL.

You said it yourself, Bond, the mistake could not be avoided. It also could not be amended in time. Anyone in Jabu’s position could have done the same mistake he did.

Not everyone! Not George Chan. He seemed to have a way to go about it. He knew Jabu had jumped to a conclusion, a very wrong one.

So, why not George Chan amended the mistake? He was operating in the nerve centre in Bario; you were also in Bario, right? You knew he knew what actually happened. He could save the situation but why didn’t he? Why didn’t he, Jebon?

Because it was Jabu’s call! Jabu was the Head of Operation in Miri during the SAR Operation. George Chan cannot simply intervene beyond his jurisdiction.

Dealing with emergency like that, Bond, just forget the protocol; do what is necessary.

Right, they should do the right thing in the wrong time. I tell you why I think George Chan did not intervene. He wanted Jabu to fall into the pit he dug for himself. He could save the situation. He could alert the press. The press would go buzzing again. In a matter of an hour, all matters cleared. But why would he want to take the trouble for Jabu? If Jabu can jump headfirst into the hole, he can spring out of it. I tell you why I think George Chan did not save Jabu. He wanted Jabu off his back in the SAR management. He needed only do nothing. He knew the mistake would shed bad light on Jabu as crisis manager. George Chan wanted the convenience of running the show on his own, without a gaffer-prone Jabu getting on everyone’s nerves everyday.

KNIGHT: Stop giving me what you think.

BOND: All right. Then give me what you think. Tell me why you didn’t go all out to rectify the situation. You’re member of the press. You’re in the middle of the league and you have in your knowledge a crucial information waiting to explode. Just press the button and all lies collapsed. You can do what Chinaman George refused to do for your Dayak King. Why didn’t you alert the press, Knight, that’s my question.

I could only confirm the error around 10PM.

Even at 10 or 11PM. It took only 30 minutes for the information processed completely in the media circle. Why didn’t you leak that information?


(Silent)
(Knight reluctant to answer)


BOND: I tell why I think you did not leak that information. Because it was your SCOOP! Your bloody scoop. You don’t trade away your scoop for anything. It’s like a jackpot to journalists. You hang on to your scoop as if your life’s depending on it. Am I right?


(No answer from Knight)


I tell you what I think was eating you that night. You were at the crossroad. You didn’t know which way to go. You’re in a dilemma. You can make the best of frontpage in the morning OR you can single-handedly save the Sarawak Government from the embarrassment overnight. What was your choice? I tell you what I think was your choice. You chose to WORSHIP yourself.

KNIGHT: Hey! Enough! Maybe your George Chan was right okay… I wanted that stupid Jabu to fall into the hole he dug for himself.


(Outburst of laughter)
(Devil whistles repeatedly)
(Bond to Knight Now you’re talking, boy, now you’re talking)


JULAIHI: Tenang! Tenang! Jangan ribut-ribut. Rupa-rupanya banyak perkara yang masih pakcik belum tahu tentang tragedi helicopter Bario. Apa masalah sebenarnya kesilapan Jabu memang tidak dapat diselamatkan, Knight? Silakan bercerita. Permintaan ikhlas dari pakcik. Awak, Devil, jangan menyampuk. Hak bersuara awak ditarik selama 5 minit.


(Silent)
(Knight unsure)


(Silent)
(Knight hesitates)


(Silent)
(Knight sighs)


KNIGHT: Okaylah, here’s what happened. Promise not to tell anyone.

Long-story short. July 14, 2004, we received fresh information in Miri airport that day about the ill-fated Hornbill Skyways Long Ranger Bell 206 helicopter that has crash-landed in Bario highlands a few days earlier. A passing aircraft picked up ‘reliable’ signal from the ground. At a press conference, rather ad-hoc, at around 6PM that evening, if I can remember the time correctly, Jabu told the press about it. We press hurried back to office, filed in the ‘good news’. By then, news editors everywhere should be preparing the headline: Helicopter and survivors FOUND.

My chief editor in Kuching asked for additional details to go along with our frontpage news. I made calls to several air control towers, including KK and Labuan, just to try my luck. It was in Labuan the strangest of thing happened.

Quite voluntarily, the officer who manned the air control tower disclosed EVERYTHING to me: the signal picked up earlier was a false alarm, no heli wreckage found, nothing. The team sent to investigate the finding returned to report the results. But by then Jabu’s press conference in Miri already said a different thing.

Now, this is interesting. After the officer GIFTED me with much information over the phone, he asked me again who I was. Again, I gave him my name. He asked my post. Again, I told him I was a reporter. He gasped he panicked. As it turned out, he had thought I was his superior.

So I made a deal with him. I told him I would not publish his name, would not even mention Labuan in my report, IF he can give me more information. I got nearly all.

So I called up Kuching to wait for the ‘real’ news. Equipped with the Labuan’s information I talked the Kelabit woman operating at Bario operation centre to confirm the rest of the information. I got all. Then I called YB Lee Kim Shin in Miri as to ALERT him of the error. He gave me a phone number and asked me to talk to Jabu personally. I called. Jabu’s personal secretary, Beti, picked up the call. I still keep the phone transcript.

Here’s another interesting part. I told him the real situation about the sighting in Bario and that Jabu must respond to it. I asked if Jabu had learnt about the real situation. He said Jabu hadn’t. I asked where’s Jabu. He said Jabu was already fast asleep. I said wake him up. He said there’s nothing Jabu can do anyway.

HE SAID it was already too late for any correction. HE SAID Miri made the error because Bario made the error – that information came from Bario, Miri processed it. HE SAID the correction from Jabu’s part had to wait until sunrise. HE SAID I should write like everyone else – which is the incorrect story. I told him I cannot do that; I will run the true scenario. I completed the second version of my report at 1.30AM. The rest is history.


(Long silent)
(Everyone’s in his own mind)
(Murmur)


BOND: You’re saying Jabu had the opportunity to correct himself in at least one newspaper but he refused that opportunity?

KNIGHT: Well, he can always say he was already sleeping when I called.

DEVIL: Bollocks!

BOND: Precisely my sentiment.

But on second thought, his correcting himself in the same day would only make him looked foolish. Then again, considering the weight of the erroneous information it had on the public who hoped for the best, I honestly believe Jabu should swallow his pride and tell the actual account. The TVs were still broadcasting news about the ‘happy ending’ until late night, which was sadly not at all true. Jabu and George Chan should have tried to correct themselves on TV if they could not do it in print media.

The moral of the story, devils and gentlemen, is some people in Sarawak Government want to save their ass first, the people’s asses second, the truth last. They can even think of giving hope to the people tonight only to kill that hope in the morning, and they knew all along they’re fooling the people, oh my god. So how did Jabu make the correction the following day? He said he was taken out of context, he was misquoted.


(All four: Bollocks!)





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“At this juncture, we wonder if Jabu has already grasped the true meaning of loquacious mouth, and the pain it causes others. If he hasn’t, we can ‘laser’ him some more. At this juncture, we wonder if Jabu can still say bloggers only talk and talk and no real work. Very well, let’s see what WORK the following talk can do to the mindset of the people who vote for Jabu.” – The Four Horsemen
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*Photo not related with anything Sarawak

Jabu rapes the Penan – too?
http://knightadventure.blogspot.com/2008/12/jabu-talk.html
By The Four Horsemen


BOND: Whatever his excuse a day after that regretful day it is only as good as afterthought without real benefit to him or anyone. Damage is done, it was all by his own doing. Did he not try to shift the burden of guilt to his Bario counterpart? He did, but it didn’t stick. Did he not try to make it look as if he’s innocent? He did, but he was a very poor actor. He even talked loudly to a ‘Tan Sri’ over the phone in full view of the journalists, oh my god.

DEVIL: Not long after that incident, George Chan took over operation in Miri also, right? What happened to Jabu? They sacked him?

I don’t know what happened to him. Do you know, Bond?

No, I don’t know what happened to Jabu. Do you know, pakcik?

No.

Fuck! No one knew what happened to Jabu?

Yes, Devil, no one knows. No one wants to know.


(Laughter)


BOND: He vowed to search for the seven missing men using everything that is “humanly, technologically and logistically possible” – that’s his exact word. Such determination could find within a minute even a needle in the haystack. They searched and they were rewarded with seven corpses in eight bags after 28 long days.

His only success with that ‘battle cry’ was raising people’s hope so high, the higher the harder they fall. Are you sure your Dayak King is a responsible person, Knight? Next time I go missing in the jungle, don’t send your king to look for me.


(Laughter)


KNIGHT: Bond, please, give Jabu some opportunity to prove himself okay. He is after all one of our own; we must support our fellow Dayak. That was in 2004, four years ago. By now, he should be careful with his choice of words already. The bad experience should make him a better hunter now.

DEVIL: Yeah? A better hunter you say? NOW you say? This year? He cannot even find the men who raped the Penans!


(Applause)
(Bond hugs Devil)


KNIGHT: It was the police who should find the rapists, not Jabu.

DEVIL: Right! Then Jabu should not start his ‘loquacious mouth’ about the matter. He should shut up. Shut up and let the police do the job. But you know what Jabu did when people brought the matter to his attention?

He CAN say, “Is it? Oh okay, I will check on that rumours, give me some time to ask around”. Or he can say, “This is a serious allegation, I will personally fly to the jungle to talk to the Penans, I am the Chairman of Penan, wait for my return”.

He can say that. He can say that and we can like him for saying that.

But NO! He said a different thing. He tried to play smart again. He said the report is a foreign propaganda hell bent to smear the good name of Sarawak Government. Did he check the real situation on the ground before he said that? Not yet he checked but already he can say that was foreigners job. You said he’s careful with his choice of words, Knight? 2004 or 2008, he’s still the same old Jabu year in year out.

GAWD! He can worry about foreigners attacking Sarawak while the whole of Malaysia is worried about Penan women being abused. Why your Jabu always want to look the other way, Knight, why? Maybe that’s why he missed the helicopter in Bario, because he looked in all the wrong direction.

If he knows nothing about something, SHUT UP! He’s not helping the Penans by speaking with his ‘loquacious mouth’ about the Swiss. When he said the Rape of the Penan was foreign propagandas, people start to look overseas. People don’t bother to look into the jungle. So, the rapists continue to have field day in the jungle. If I were the rapist, I would send a big thank you card to Jabu on Christmas Day.

BOND: My advice to you, Knight. You had better quit defending your Dayak King, now that this devil is in his prime.

KNIGHT: I guess you’re right, Devil, Jabu should investigate first before he can blame the tourists. George Chan can do better than Jabu, I can say that. Remember that sensational porn VCD entitled “Oil Town Sex’ some years back? It was near Election Month when the porn hit the black market. So I asked George Chan if he can suspect some political propaganda was behind the Oil Town Sex. George said, “I don’t know. Maybe. Maybe something else. I don’t know. Do you have the VCD? Give it to me. I watch it first then I let you know”.

BOND: (*Laughing) What do you think you’ll get if you ask Jabu the same thing? Say for example the VCD is entitled “Betong Sex”.

DEVIL: I can answer that I can answer that. Jabu will say, “This has got to be the work of the UMNO!”


(Everyone goes hysterical)
(Speaker Julaihi drops to the floor, holding his stomach)


BOND: Back to issue at hand, Jabu the howler and Penan the endangered species. I wonder where his concern really is – the welfare of the Penans or the Penan Fund from the Federal. Hey! I’m not making imputation here; I am seeking clarification.

DEVIL: Oh my gawd!

BOND: What?

DEVIL: Oh my gawd!


(Everyone: What?!)


DEVIL: (*Standing up, furious) And all this monies now making its way to Betong? That’s MILLION of money for the Penans! If Jabu can hijack funds from elsewhere to feed projects in Betong, what job is that to him to hijack the Penan fund, too?! Oh my gawd, he had better not do that. Oh my gawd, the Dayak King cannot be this evil!

BOND: (*Panicking) Wait, wait, wait! You’re not making accusation here right, Devil. You only want to ASK re-le-vant questions, you only want to know WHAT IF, what if this what if that – whatever.

DEVIL: (*Clinching fist) If he do that to the Penans, if he starves the Penans in the jungle to feed the Ibans in Betong, if he can be that heartless… I can only describe him in one word – Rapist! He rapes the Penan race.


(People are speechless)


BOND: IF he do that then he is as bad as rapist, IF he do not do that then he is not rapist. That’s what our friend Devil is trying to say here. No harm. To paraphrase Jabu, “don’t take Devil out of context, don’t misquote him, what he said in this closed door meeting is only privy to us…”


(Laughter)







*Photo not related with anything Sarawak

Jabu and his protégé rats
http://knightadventure.blogspot.com/2008/12/jabu-talk.html
By The Four Horsemen


DEVIL: Okay, Knight, you don’t want to ‘betray’ your Dayak King. What about his rat YB Lihan Jok?

No comment. Bye everyone.

What’s the matter, dude, you cannot stand and fight? Fight for the Kayan Kenyah in Baram, for Christ’s sake.

BOND: … before all funds in land of the Dayak go only two directions – Betong or Long Bedian.

KNIGHT: There you said it, Bond, ‘precisely my sentiment’. To simplify, Lihan Jok is to Long Bedian what Jabu is to Betong. Take it from there. You work out the rest. I’m not saying anything here. Still no comment here.

DEVIL: You mean Lihan hijacked fund from Betong to build Long Bedian?

I wished that was the arrangement between the two men, Devil. But NO.

Try the other way round, Devil. Or if you like, Long Bedian takes a clinic from Betong, Betong takes a hospital from Long Bedian. How’s that for a Kayan-Iban partnership?

Fuck!

Precisely my sentiment.

DEVIL: But Lihan is a Kayan. Kayan don’t become rat to fellow Kayans. Kayans look after one another, even Charles Hose, McDougal and Tuan Sapu acknowledged that.

BOND: Please suspect he’s been exposed to foreign influence from Betong. That Jabu is sort of a ‘Godfather’ to him Lihan could have becoming less Kayan. He is starting to look a lot less like the YB the Kayan should never have voted, and a lot more like a puppet the Iban Betong have manufactured. But, that’s just my personal opinion.

DEVIL: Oh okay. But why there’s no Kayan elders want to bring this Kayan YB back to the way of the Kayans? No Kayan maren, no lords, no knights, no heir to the Kayan throne can be bothered to advise this Kayan maverick? Oh I got it. Because all members of the aristocracy only worry about themselves. They just walk away from trouble each time. See that Kayan prince now (*Pointing to Knight at the door), he’s walking away from his people.


(Knight’s walking back to the table, red faced)


KNIGHT: Do you actually think I have not tried to CORRECT that YB! (*Banging table). I told him to exercise some restraint while fortifying or dressing up Long Bedian because too much of it will make other villages feel neglected. I even told him if he cannot help himself and he wanted to do it anyway, at least for his sake don’t make it too obviously. Scale down, slow down or play it cleverly, not straightforward, not blatant.

BOND: Not in gung-ho manner Jabu did Betong. I certainly hope Lihan Jok is not planning to make Long Bedian another new Division of Sarawak (*Laughing to himself). You actually talked to him about his neglecting the non-Bedians?

KNIGHT: We talked about it over coffee in Morsjaya Miri one day. But maybe he already made up his mind about how best to manage Telang Usan constituency. Maybe he has good reasons to stick to his method, maybe it is due to the government plans to make Long Bedian the third city of Sarawak. I don’t know.

During the meeting, he seemed displeased. He must have suspected some quarters had put word in my mouth. No one has influenced me. That’s my personal observation. But my concern was, as you put it, ‘precisely the sentiment’ of people from outside Long Bedian.

BOND: The problem with YB Lihan is he is very hardworking. The problem with his hardwork is it is very selective. He should work smart. Is that how you want to put it, Knight?

KNIGHT: You see, I attended this Apoh Dinner one night. There he announced the government grants to villages in Apoh region. When I totalled up the amount it was evident Long Bedian received a lot more than what the larger villages get. A lot! So much that I cannot conceal my disbelief.

But he sensed my displeasure quickly. He hauled me to a corner and there he asked me privately not to go very specific about the breakdown of grants. No explanation was given. He suggested I generalise the figure under Apoh instead, which I did in my report, but not after I gave him a disapprove look.

Wipe that smirk off your face, Devil! Of course I wrote it the way he wanted me to write it. I worked for a mainstream media then okay. It will be a completely different content if I write to a blog. You want me to rewrite my story here? You want me to tell everything I know what is wrong in Telang Usan? Dare me, I can sink the whole of Telang Usan overnight. If SNAP cannot take him out, I can. But as the Iban said, “semadi aku ngai.”

(Laughter)

BOND: Hamat ko nuan nya, bakeih, nti ndak ulih nunduk ka iya ngena penemu... tau bebukut kitai. Semadi ngai kak ngalah ka iya.

JULAIHI: Apo kelalu badas penemu nuan, Bon. Uji kena ka berunding manah-manah tau nyabak Taib di kemelik kitai.

DEVIL: Auk ah! Semadi ngai kak.

(Laughter)


KNIGHT: Back to Lihan. My plea to him is simple and humble: Telang Usan needs a hardworking YB like Lihan Jok but he needs to be fair to Telang Usan. He has in his position the ability to can do for Telang Usan folks in one term what the Kayan Maren, Kebing Wan and I for example, cannot do in one lifetime. My only hope is he don’t trade away those ability to Betong or restrict that ability to Long Bedian.

I have no problem with Long Bedian okay. Maybe now they have problem with me. In fact, Long Bedian makes me very proud being Kayan after they won Malaysia Exemplary Village that year. Maybe some Bedian Kayan becoming big headed after the victory. If people like Dennis Ngau had thought only Long Bedian folks championed the Long Bedian, I can agree with him. If he had thought the Long Bedian 900 votes made Lihan Jok a YB for the whole of Telang Usan, I can also agree with him. If he had thought YB Lihan Jok must take all developments to Long Bedian because Lihan come from Long Bedian, I CAN also agree with him.

Then Okaylah, the Government projects should all go to Long Bedian. All of the projects, take lah, take them all, all of them, ALL, and leave none to other villages in Baram. Take lah, take, take, take, take, jahit, lipat, gulung, bungkus, jilat, take it. Take ALL!


(Laughter)
(Julaihi: Knight sudah merajuk ye)
(Laughter)

(Knight leaves the room; he’s still mad)


BOND: Precisely my sentiment. If Long Bedian is a small reflection of Betong, no wonder Sarawak Dayak is lacking behind in many areas. Probably the idea is to have all the Ibans migrating to Betong and all the Kayans migrating to Long Bedian to enjoy the spin-off brought about by modern Sarawak.

DEVIL: … and they leave the rest of the land to my beloved Taib.

JULAIHI: Precisely my sentiment.


(Laughter)


BOND: Our only hope is this ‘Jabu Factor’ is not as widespread as we fear. But after March 8 and the rate things are going in Sarawak now, it’s only a matter of two years before Jabu and his loquacious mouth will fail him beyond point of repair. The Dayak King and all his rats will go down in history as Rapists of the Dayak. This dialogue here is their eulogy.

(Everyone: Precisely my sentiment)





Food for thought
http://knightadventure.blogspot.com/2008/12/jabu-talk.html

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Jetty in BrokenShield: “The way I see it, the more Jabu criticises and condemns people from his community the more he will be isolated and the more people hate him. Now after criticising the Dayak bloggers, who will be his next targets?”

The Four Horsemen: “Who will be his next targets? He should take it up with the one man in the whole of Sarawak who is worthy of Jabu’s treatment. He should charge at Taib Mahmud. He do that and we will hail Alfred Jabu anak Numpang as the true King in the land of the Dayak. Don’t go after the small fish, my lord. If you are what you think you are, grab the giant by the horns. And we will rise with you!”
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3 comments:

allegro424 said...

my favourite post so far

Dyaksblog said...

The Politic Of Buah Kepayang? Dayaks Must Say No-No-No!

Morning Dayaks. Let me begin by asking you as a food lover, do you know some fruit called buah kepayang, the hideous looking nutty fruit? Ok fine, that poisonous fruit indeed but some of our old folks got their ingenious method in neutralise the fruit by washing its cynide content slowly in downstream river and dried it. Can be eaten raw after boiling it but it rather tasteless and mild. It's a peanut in composition as some expert might explain it but nevertheless, despite the tastelessness in nature, there are varieties of Dayak cooking methods to prepare it like cook it with preserved durian paste or unripe flesh with crushed cucumber leaves. Some made it as pickles but yet to see someone deep fry and air dried it to perfect crisp, just like some Taiwanese air-dry vegetable crackers. Right, it is just another typical Dayak delicacy with not much market value really, let alone for international market much like selling rambutan in Harrods London supermarket for GBP20 per kg (RM110-120/ kg). Please Jesus.

Somehow somewhere if most Dayak can remember some donkey years back, our fake paramount leader J*bu vehemently during his heyday as state agricultural minister came out with scores of ridiculously insane ideas, from releasing fish fry such as tilapia aka Ikan J*bu (only to damage the river ecosystem), to palm oil only to be shrouded with Salcra crappy returns, nepotism, cronyism secrecy and last but not least, to try in vain to elevate buah kepayang as possible next golden fruit to be planted in large-scale farming. Fucking brilliant eh? Being agricultural minister is one of the best job in the world in which your resources to dupe people is endless, as long as it can be grown. Unlike works minister or education minister, you need some projects to launch or finished to show your success and capability to serve the people. No projects, no signs of development but empty promises and you're doomed. That is why J*bu was ab-using his post as agricultural minister to pick at random any plants or fruits as the next golden fruit plus some magic fish too. He always mislead the people in believing something that is in truth as worthless but made as illusory golden fruit such as in the case of buah kepayang as unsung heroes; ordinary fruits should never be taken for granted but made a saviour or martyr in war against poverty, sort of. But J*bu's picking on buah kepayang so far the most lunatic if not the most ridiculous by any standard as Sarawak's next golden fruit after palm oil.

Therefore, let's called it as Politic Of Buah Kepayang. A politic full of false hope and false ideas in which selected illusory golden fruit can eradicate poverty which is a clear insult to common sense and general intelligence to all Dayaks and non-Dayaks alike. Having some ideas to eliminate poverty is good but to make something out of nothing without actual worth is either convenient crap or plain hallucination from the truth: buah kepayang as potential golden fruit against Dayak poverty. Throughout the history of Sarawak, there are many plants are indeed worthy as cash crops which made its way as traded commodity and formed into food industries with great efforts from business communities and politicians but to make false hope out of it is something close to lunacy and worse of all, a proud legacy. It just feels right when it done by J*bu as it epitomise what Dayak leaders' real capabilities are other than gooning Yang Dikasihi but in fact just show how dopey clown intelligent they are. It's an insult to other Dayaks that worked so hard to quell themselves out of Dayak's Sakai Mentality only for their own leaders shows that Dayak are still in laughable state of intelligence mediocrity. This is a dangerous shit, my Dayak folks. When you are a minister and easily manipulating words like large-scale farming, golden fruits, eradicate poverty, mix it and sell it like a processed junk food to Dayak masses, you can only imagine what junk food can do to your brain if consume in large numbers in long term: Destroying good brain cells and retard the Dayaks.

Beneath all the false hopes and false ideology, you can see slowly that J*bu is treating Salcra as his mini CMS as to what Yang Dikasihi treat CMS as one giant cash cow of Salcra. That is the end-product of Politic Of Buah Kepayang. Make Dayak to believe in crap junk food, take their money and retard their brain in the process. The ploy here is always to take the land resources and what convenient way to dupe it from the Dayaks by promoting a false hope on illusory golden fruit. For instance the cash generated from palm oil business is from open market CPO trading and that is why Dayaks are only encouraged in plantation side but never beyond that. The basic resources such as land and even the Dayak shareholdings must be kept at lowest cost possible while milking the last drop of kernels for the top chain business goes to political cronies which do not benefit the target group of poverty among the Dayaks. Plantation need lands, not suspended air to grow upon but Dayaks sit between them as nuisance so the only way to get their land is by letting them to join but the best they can received is harvesting the palm oil fresh bunch fruits money and leave all the big money of refining, trading open market CPO, other plantation inputs to the goons. You see Dayaks, large-scale plantation is one good hallucination against poverty be it any kind of fruit. It is the same modus operandi: bonking on false hope to exploit the Dayak lands. It's like the case of Indian surrogate mother to Japanese couple: pay the poor Indian cheaply (using Dayak lands but give them crappy returns) in order for the couple to get their baby (Salcra goons get the big money). Best of all, there's no specific legal repercursion against this practice in India (here there's no law against false hope on dopey buah kepayang). You can promote any fruits or fish but make sure it is practical and profitable even until the end-product to cash on it. Even SEDC lost so much in promoting sago so the odds are well againts buah kepayang in the same sense.

The Dyaks Blog Final Donkeys:

That is why when you try to talk about 'Change' to the Dayaks, one of many things for Dayaks to move forward is to change/ stop this brand of politics of false hope or Politics Of Buah Kepayang. You don't see it in tangible manner but the psychological trick behind it is to keep Dayak believe in mediocre intelligent ideas hence promoting a community full of mediocre intelligence. When a Dayak mingle with other Dayak and see not much level of intelligence awareness among them, the probability for them to be kept ignorant, ill-informed and ultimately kept poor for ease of control is remain large for BN for ripe pickings. For such enclosed Dayaks of course they are proud for such false ideas such as J*bu's ideas while for the rest of the world, we can only hope that it'll not be picked up by some NBC channels as a serial late night jokes. J*bu may hold different post now but his lunatic ideas remain unchanged (like try to dupe us that whole Sarawak bridge replacement projects to late Yang Dikasihi son Bekir, Sulaiman, brother Arip Mahmud-linked company, Titanium Construction is based on technical merits and experience. Note: experience, my ass. Yeah right for such a new RM2 AliBaba company) and will keep coming out so just enjoy the freak show, my Dayak folks. The more, the better for Dayak to reverse it. Right. To some extent of how feasible or laughable buah kepayang is on big farming scale is up for you to believe. But I believe that buah kepayang is good enough as profitable pasar tani items but certainly way too bad to be made as next golden fruit as mystic god to worship in the war against Dayak poverty. So The Politic Of Buah Kepayang? Dayaks must say NO-NO-NO!

Tulips said...

nice post.