The Battle Between Sarawak Headhunter & The Kuching Mafia Of PKR

This post is a follow up from "Beware The Sarawak Headhunter's Curse" posted earlier. It will be updated from time to time as and when there are responses which Sarawak Headhunter deems fit to include and/or respond to.

As a result of Sarawak Headhunter's comments in the above post, dominique ng said...

I think it is rather unfair to put Datuk Hafsah Harun and even i as ppl who "are no great loss to the BN". I dont think Harison, someone whom i have the greatest of respects, meant us.

Datuk Hafsah has been one of the most outstanding and staunchest leaders of PKR Swak, and has remained and been a solid rock for us through the hardest of times, when PKR was a party nobody, including u, gives a damn about! As for me, i have never been in the BN! Your biaseness agst ppl who are Non Dayaks is really astounding!

For the record, i have been unstinting in fighting for the rights of Dayaks, both inside and outside the DUN.I have been arested twice by the police for defending Dayak squatter families in Kg whose houses were being demolished by the L&S.I have several cases in crt defending Dayaks NCR lands from being robbed by the plantation and loggin companies. Pls, while you are entitled to your opinion, lets play and be fair!

Dominique Ng

ADUN Padungan

10 Mar 09

March 10, 2009 4:05 PM

Al Tugauw said...

To Dominique Ng,

Thank you for your reply.

Harrison may or may not have meant the two of you, but I certainly did. If not then who are the Kuching Mafia of PKR?

And don't talk about respect when you yourself have no respect for anyone.

If you really believe or want us to believe that Hafsah Harun has been one of the most outstanding and staunchest leaders of PKR, then I can only say that you and she at the very least are birds of a feather and at worst co-conspirators. Are you aware that she is being financed by Rahman? And who are you being financed by?

Solid rock indeed! As far as I am concerned, she is a saboteur and so are you. Don't tell me what I or anybody else gives a damn about when both of you are among the biggest hypocrites around. I don't think you give a damn about PKR yourself, except your own personal ambitions to become the first Chinese Chief Minister of Sarawak - high hopes! Do you think you can ride rough-shod over everyone else?

I know you have never been in the BN, but you have certainly at the very least been a pawn for them in your efforts to sabotage DAP. Deny that if you will. Everyone knows the reason DAP will not discuss seat allocation with anyone else in PKR except Anwar, and that reason is you!

Please don't accuse me of bias against non-Dayaks - I am one myself. I have no concept of race apart from it being just a means of identity. I will oppose anyone from any race who does not do the right thing, and that includes someone of my own race - for them I reserve the full brunt of my criticism, for you and Hafsah I only have mild contempt.

Only you yourself know whether your so-called fight for the rights of the Dayaks is real or merely to promote your own self-interests, and now I see you are still playing a game of divide and rule the Dayaks in PKR. Whose idea is that, Hafasah or yours or both of you?

I will certainly be fair with you if you yourself would be fair to others.

You yourself know what you and Hafsah have done. Don't think that others don't know.

March 10, 2009 7:17 PM

dayakbaru has left a new comment on your post "The Battle Between Sarawak Headhunter & The Kuchin...":

Sarawak Headhunter's reply in red.

Something might have happened that I am not aware of - but then that is not relevant. I am taken aback by the vicious attack on two PKR State leaders. YB Dominique being the first PKR YB and Datuk Hafsah Harun - I have known her since PBB days and her loyalty to her political principle.

Something has been going on in PKR Sarawak for too long, and it is extremely relevant. I have known Hafsah Harun since her PBB days as well and have always found her to be a political hypocrite. To see her in PKR and to know what she has done in PKR has proven it. She has no political principles to speak of and her loyalty is only to herself.

Before more damage is done - in all aspects of this attack and explanation what would you suggest Al Tugauw.

Before more damage is done, Hafsah must be removed from PKR Sarawak or any position of influence within PKR Sarawak. The leadership of PKR - notwithstanding her good "PR" with Azizah and Anwar - must keep their distance from this poisonous woman or wake up one day to find PKR Sarawak in dire straits thanks to her.

She has been the main stumbling block for PKR to succeed from day one that PKR set foot on Sarawak soil and she is still continuing her nefarious activities. She has hijacked allocations meant for PKR Sarawak as a whole passed to her directly by Azizah for her own purposes and that of the Kuching Mafia within PKR, while at the same time accepting money from Rahman.

Ask those who stood as candidates during the 1999 parliamentary elections whether they received any funding from the party at all (only Hafsah and her group of Kuching favourites did).

This being by-election season - which include Batang Ai, the timing is precise to cause confusion among PKR. I am sure you have your reason and that your reason may be valid but can we find better ways to resolve this.

Unfortunately, I still see their dirty hands at work behind the scenes wreaking havoc even with the choice of candidate for Batang Ai.

I believe in what YB Dom and Hafsah is doing and that they are doing what is best for PKR. That is the more reason I personally do not believe in"personal interest" in politic. We should all have the interest of PKR in our heart. If there is nothing that need to be resolved, the mechanism and contact people are in place. If non is found in Kuching - then the PKR HQ in Damansara Ara is always ready to listen and hopefully would give advise.

Sad be the day when what I am saying is proven to you, if you really believe that what they are doing is best for PKR. I am telling you it will be the doom of PKR if they are allowed to continue. The PKR HQ does not know what is really going on in Sarawak except what is told to it by Hafsah, Dominique and their clique. Don't you understand why Harrison Ngau is frustrated?

I am placing my hope with PKR to provide the platform for change - so I wanted to make sure it remain strong and focus to work with us in Sarawak.

PKR still can do that once it finds the right leaders and candidates for Sarawak. It will only be strong and be able to focus once Hafsah's and Dominique's influence is curtailed.

Posted by dayakbaru to Sarawak Headhunter at March 11, 2009 12:08 AM


dominique ng has left a new comment on your post "The Battle Between Sarawak Headhunter & The Kuchin...":

Wow, now the knives and venom are really out. and i really do thank u that u only have "mild contempt" for me and Datuk Hafsah!

You and Hafsah should have been on the receiving end of this a long time ago, but better late than never. Yes, I am only mildly contemptuous of the both of you and I would have kept quiet if I didn't keep seeing the damage that you have done and continue doing to PKR.

U are a very intelligent and highly educate person, let there be no doubt about it, and embarking on a holy mission "to see the poor ppl of Swak, whoever they may be and of whatever race, throw off the shackles of servitude to the BN regime and be lifted out of poverty", and by God u do really mean it.

Of course I mean it, unlike you and Hafsah, just that I don't think I have elevated it to the status of a "holy mission" by any means. I see it more like getting rid of a few disease-carrying rats before they spread their disease.

But in yr holy mission, the others who dont fit into yr mold must be in the BN payroll and are all hypocrites, even if they fight ceaselessly for the ppl.

This is not true, and it does you no credit to hide behind such false reasoning, being a very intelligent and educated person yourself, even if a hypocrite. In any event, you only fight ceaselessly for yourself, not the people.

"i have subjected the same to independent verification and i am sure of my conclusions" So would the Colonisers say when they baptise the savages and then kill them, that what they are doing is to send these savages straight to Heaven and for the glory of God!

Really? And who appointed you and Hafsah envoys of God in your numerous attempts to kill off other people's political careers? What goes around will come around, sooner or later. Those whom you have stabbed in the back in your hurry to get to the top will ambush you one day and may yet have the last laugh.

Yr conclusions are really interesting, and completely self serving "Harrison may or may not have meant the two of you, but I certainly did. If not then who are the Kuching Mafia of PKR?"

You have given us a ridiculous nickname and atached a fully fabricated political baggage and use another article of great pedigree to launch yr attack and spite agst the so called faction or team in PKR that u in yr high and mighty horse, would pronounce "now i see you are still playing a game of divide and rule the Dayaks in PKR".

Self-serving? I have no interest in any political position or position of influence to serve any personal interests like you or Hafsah. I did not give you that "ridiculous nickname" and as for the purported "fabricated political baggage", please continue to defend your indefensible position and we will soon see what is fabricated and what is not.

One person whom you will absolutely suport is another fellow hypocrite (i have to say that he is a "fellow hypocrite" for he is with me for decades before i realise the real nature of his character) who is trying his very best to remove me and replace me as the "true champion of the ppl."

Haha, and who might that be? So you see yourself as the "true champion of the people"? Wow.

You are not for the BN, that is for sure, but you will kill off any others whom you think is not in your plot, or fit into your bigoted scheme of things. Bawin is therefore your perfect type, and so is his dream suport team in the PKR.

A bigot am I? And so is Bawin? Be careful, your slip is showing or is it your true colours that are showing? I find no affinity between myself and Bawin, nor what you demean as "his dream support team in the PKR". I have nothing to lose or to gain in this regard.

What is obvious is that you have no love lost for Bawin and would do anything to sabotage his candidacy. Am I therefore not right in pronouncing from my "high and mighty horse", that "now I see you are still playing a game of divide and rule the Dayaks in PKR"?

The knives are out indeed.

Bigotry while very powerful, is a very dangerous pursuit and i hope in time you will realise how destructive it can be.

I would be glad if you would remind yourself of it - those who play with the sword die by the sword. Your own destruction is at hand just as you have destroyed others.

Btw, anonymity is a good cover, but it is also an act of cowardice. You can attack to your heart's content, but then your targets are hampered for they cant hit back directly, as you lurk under the cover of darkness and get to keep your ego from being bruised, and from being subjected to the savagery of the attacks you have launched on others.

Please remind yourself of it as well, the next time you attack targets who can't hit back. I am certainly not a coward and may one day face you openly if I think it will do any good. Neither am I concerned about whether my ego gets bruised or not. I use anonymity as a strategy against those like you, Hafsah and Taib who think that they can attack others, savagely or otherwise, with impunity.

May the Almightly Christian and non Christian Allah Bless You!

Thank you, but no blessings for you, devil in disguise!

Posted by dominique ng to Sarawak Headhunter at March 11, 2009 12:36 AM


YB Dominique,

1. shortly after 308, I was asked for a feedback on you.

2. shortly after i gave my feedback, i was informed by Members of the Ming Court Affair, that PKR will not do well as Rahman Yaakub have planted a Trojan to protect their dynasty and legacy despite the differences he have with Taib as blood is thicker than water

3. I was there that saturday, DSAI held a meeting at Grand Con and you were wearing a yellow shirt.

On that day, only i knew Hafsah Harun was with PKR.

I am not sure if she is the Trojan Horse referred to.

As friends of PKR, I have lamblasted Wong Ho Leng for being indifferent to you, but in coffeeshop talk, I have to understand why.

During coffeeshop talk, there are more disturbing news concerning you and I am not sure whether to believe it or to worry for PKR.

FYI at this hour, I just made a call to PKR in KL directing them to this post (naive I may be) and it was to remind them of what I heard and told them, after that saturday.

I sincerely hope, this article is buried if the war of words is true so that our objective is met.

Disclaimer: I am apolitical, not on anyones payroll nor a voter in sarawak.

Posted by hostage88 to Sarawak Headhunter at March 11, 2009 10:44 AM

Sorry to add on to it. I think Dominique must be removed at all cost. He's wrecking PKR Sarawak as well as PR's partners.

Remember what his action in having a 3 corner fight with DAP in Sarawak. Come on lah! If not because of DAP, you would have lost. Yeah, I almost forgot you were from DAP.

Posted by Anonymous to Sarawak Headhunter at March 11, 2009 2:30 PM


Sorry YB for Padungan, I am forced to reveal more of your true colours.

1)I first met you together with you buddy Cheng in Datuk Hafsah's house back in 1999. That time u left DAP due to some disagreemet...not my business to know and still a law student. In fact you and I together with Idris Bohari were PKR state founder members.

2)From the tone of your language those days I can see that you are not a team player. Not good for a political party who survive on team works.

3) I knew that both you and Cheng have private agendas when joining PKR.

4) With the assistant of Datuk Hafsah it is from day one you and Cheng wanted to have a complete control of the party.It was you in the present of Cheng, Hafsah and myself who was planning to topple Yusof Abdul Rahman.

5)Now Cheng left the party, Y? You backstabed him. Confirmed by Cheng when I met him at KIA a week ago.

6) In 2006 GE began to hate you when you sabortaged PKR by planting See How against DAP Voon in Stampin. Not only that you campaigned for a prostitue in Sarikie. What u get from her if I may asked?

7) I ve spoken to Richard Wong & Chong and DAP agree to plant independent candidate against you in the state election should PR be give the Padungan seat. The reality is you won the Padungan seat with the support of DAP and not cos you popular as you always claim.

8) I want you to know also that DSAI and PKR sacked you as state Chief cos of so many camplains again you. If you read correctly what's going on in PKR your days in the party are numbered.

9) Sarawak Headhunter refused to revealed those financing you to run down the PKR. Its SUPP and I ve documentary evidence.

10)In Batang Ai by-election, pls avoid going there cos some guys with rotten eggs are ready to declare war with you.

10) You & Hafsah refused to endorse Bawin candidacy, don't you dispute for I ve concrete evidence.

11) Last...BN is too glad if you remained with PKR but the party suffer as you may create more havoc in the party. So the sooner you the better. Let me tell you, your early exit is a victory for Dayak community.

Posted by Friend of PKR to Sarawak Headhunter at March 11, 2009 4:05 PM

The following reply from Dominique Ng does not disclose anything new in his defence, shows his evasiveness and self-justification of his actions but does not respond to specific allegations. Anyway, he has a right of reply to anything said here (even if he himself has not always given others that same right) and Sarawak Headhunter leaves it to the readers to draw their own conclusions.

Wow, lets celebrate the profusion of attacks. and the litany of lies. Certainly worthy of a local academy award.

Celebrate if you like, after all, you and Hafsah are the winners of the local academy awards for longstanding performance (10 years) of having been able to put on such a good show that you managed to fool PKR's leadership, as well as most of its members and supporters for so long.

I have been keeping an eye on both of you for a long time too. Your performance really does deserve a local award, maybe say: Payhim Sri's Award for Best Performance in an Opposition Political Party by a Male Egotist and Tun Sri Rahman's Award for Best Performance in an Opposition Party by a Female Rat.

Some of the charges r too ridiculous as to qualify for my response. The greatest of lies are the half truths, for they are the most damaging. Half truths are deliberate and malicious lies masquerading along with elements of truth because the element of truth convinces those who may harbour some doubts of what are otherwise downright lies. And it is also a weakness of human nature that a lie if repeated often enough would eventually assume the mantle of truth!

Failure to respond is admission of guilt. What you say in the preceding para can also be said of yourself.

Allow me to have the forum to correct some of the half truths whh have often been bandied as to now almost assuming the mantle of truth. Of course i dont expect u to believe me, but i am addressing your multitude of readers who may begin to believe as a result of its being repeated.

By all means. I am personally in favour of giving even condemned men a chance to explain themselves. Be aware though that what you say may and can incriminate yourself.

The half truth is wrt to the 3 corner fight in Stampin, and my support of the independent candidate in Sarikei.

You are now hearing it from the horse's mouth as to what actually happened. As the highly intelligent person that you are, surely even you would agree with me that there are always 2 sides to a story, as there are 2 sides to a coin.

I hope this is not a horse which needs to be shot to put it out of its misery (or for the misery it has caused others). Btw, no need to praise me too much, if at all. - it does not have the slightest effect on me. This much I do know, and that is that there are many sides to a story, not just 2, unless you are a 2-faced or 2-dimensional person.

Why was there a 3 corner fight in Stampin?

So this story should have at least 3 sides then?

Pls spare me at least this, See Chee How was not planted by me. I never could undermine his career, for he is a very independent and smart person.

Did he not then plant himself with your blessing as you have admitted to encouraging and promoting below under the pretext of building the party?

Imediately after we won in Padungan, See set up the PKR Stampin Division, and the Service Centre. All this without me having to do anything at all, except that as a party leader who has been entrusted with building the party, this is exactly what we have to encourage and promote.

There is no doubt whatsoever that the PKR is a multiracial party, and intends always to have leaders and YBs from all races!

If only Hafsah and yourself really believed in such multiracialism!

Even Anwar has said it when he came to Sarawak, that the PKR intend to contest in all areas, in some Chinese seats, some Malay seats, some Dayak and some Orang Ulu seats etc.

We did set up a negotiating team whh was headed by Baharuddin Moksen, to negotiate with the DAP.

Surely the right person for the job - a new recruit to the Kuching Mafia of PKR.

But as fate would have it, and due to the rather tough stand of the DAP in Swak, the negotiations eventually was carried out in KL, between our KL leaders, and with the input of Swak leaders from both sides.

There are 7 seats in Swak with a Chinese majority or significant Chinese population. There was no conflict with the DAP in the other seats because they were not interested in them then.

We started out requesting for only 3 of the 7. This was a PKR party stand, or had the approval of our National Leaders.

Indeed.

We were prepared to go down, but the DAP started from a non compromising stand of all the 7 seats. Since the DAP would not want to concede even 1, then it was our strategy that I would have to demand, and i have the right to claim, to contest in Bandar Kuching!

A very good strategy of course. You are self-deluded if you think you have a right to claim anything.

For those who do not know our history, in the 3 corner fight in Bandar Kuching in 1999, there was another stand off between the PKR and DAP then, and in the end i had to come out to stand as an independent and as the results showed, i did better than the DAP, then represented by Chong Jnr.

You did not have to and could have waited for the state elections.

I polled some 9800 plus votes, to Chong's 5900 votes, or i bested him by some 3000 over votes! BUt we both lost to Song Swee Guan, who polled over 18000 votes.

This does not give you any right to the seat. Winning more votes is not about who is right or wrong, as you should know by now. Elections just decide who wins, not who is right or wrong.

There is a longer story of how we eventually come to a compromise, and how we managed to achieve the breakthrough in 2006, by winning 4 of 5 Kg areas seats!

As to how i managed to win in Padungan, please note that i did win, and it was for the first time for the opposition. The DAP considered that it was because of their wind that i win, but i beg to differ.

Of course, when the DAP won it was because of you, but when you won, it was not because of the DAP.

We won because the ppl of Kg wanted change and we were able to capitalise on it by not fighting among ourselves.

Much change they got with you and your politics of divisiveness. I don't think you could ever resist fighting with the DAP, knowing your ego.

As the state leader of PKR then, and the only YB, it is my job to get the Party to stand in as many seats as we could put candidates of quality. And in the Chinese areas, we have to negotiate with the DAP in order to come out with a 1 to 1 fight agst the BN.

Indeed.

We did negotiate, and it was a very tough time then, but we eventually came down to an agreement for us to contest in only Stampin, 1 out of 7 Chinese seats, with the rest being given to the DAP.

But as luck would have it, the DAP changed their minds at the last minute. And we were caught in a bind in the last minutes to Nomination Day.

Let's hear what the DAP has to say about this.

As a matter of tactic, I had threatened to stand in Bandar Kuching, if the DAP wont come to a compromise with us, and indeed i have the full blessings of the PArty Leadership then! I also have the Surat Watikah to prove it.

If the party leadership is prepared to do things like this, can we trust Anwar then? Or was this arranged by Hafsah with Azizah? I never cease to be amazed how easily Azizah is taken in by the wily Hafsah.

But in the last minute, i pulled out of the Bandar Kg contest, to the relief of many, but also to the consternation and condemnation of our strong party supporters!

If indeed i am in the pay of the BN, I would have to stand in Bandar Kg, and thus cause Chong to possibly lose his seat!

I think Kuchingites are on to the real Dominique Ng by now and I doubt if you could beat Chong in a straight fight (just between the two of you).

But there was bad blood between the DAP and the PKR as there was a 3 corner fight in Stampin, and also in Sibu. What happens when a war that could be avoided occured? Only the BN wins, as we came head to head agst each other. Of course the recriminations fly and the blame game started.

It could have been avoided if your ego and whatever else did not cause you to manipulate the issue. You were one of the main causes, if not the main cause, of the bad blood and now you are playing innocent and disowning responsibility. If you are responsible, of course you can expect to get blamed. I know you lah!

As I have said, what goes around comes around. What you do to others, others will also do to you.

The 3 corner fights in Stampin and Sibu resulted in the opposition losing both.

But wrt Bandar Kuching, please do take note of this, if i did have any heart to sabotage the DAP, why did it come up with a far bigger majority than the time DAP's Chong stood for the first time?

And what about Sarikei? Why did i go and support the independent candidate?

Because she had suffered the same fate as i, in the hands of the DAP! She was the DAP candidate who had missed out by only 500 votes in wresting the Repok seat from the SUPP in the 2006 elections!

She became a casualty of the rather dirty war between the DAP and the PKR. In order to pull the rug from underneath the PKR in Sarikei, they offered our Dr Wong the chance to be the DAP candidate! Dr Wong was the only other PKR candidate who can outperform the DAP! He humiliated the DAP in Sarikei when he came out 2nd and pushed the DAP candidate into 3rd and last position!

So all you seem to be interested in is humiliating the DAP!

So Dr Wong became the DAP candidate leaving her, the ex DAP candidate who nearly won in the 2006 elections, out in the cold. i do admire her courage, daring to make a stand agst all odds. i have no other motive. Btw there were 3 independent candidates in the Sarikei elections. and by coincidence, they all joined the PKR in 2008.

To end this piece, whh i typed while my dinner is lying cold on my table, allow me to quote Francis Bacon,

“The best of men are like the best of precious stones, wherein every flaw.. [is] noted more than in those that are generally foul and corrupted”

Good that you have such a high opinion of yourself or is that just your ego talking? If you are really the best of men, then PKR Sarawak is really in trouble if they don't get rid of you.

Have a good night.

Dominique Ng
ADUN Padungan

Posted by dominique ng to Sarawak Headhunter at March 11, 2009 9:05 PM

Beware the ‘curse of PBDS Syndrome’ By Joe Fernandez, Malaysiakini
Comments by Sarawak Headhunter in red.
[Photo]Green activist, lawyer and ex-Baram MP Harrison Ngau Laing, 49, worries that PKR (Parti Keadilan Rakyat) Sarawak suffers from “the curse of the PBDS Syndrome”. He denies that he is being a wet blanket and predicts that “time will sadly prove me right unless a miracle happens on the ground to save PKR from itself”. He has, in recent days, warned party adviser Anwar Ibrahim directly and indirectly against “following in the tragic footsteps of Leo Moggie Anak Irok”, the first and only president of PBDS which was eventually de-registered following a prolonged leadership tussle allegedly “bankrolled by moneybags”. PBDS stands for Parti Bansa Dayak Sarawak. Laing, who joined PKR officially in December last year after a two-year courtship, following a long spell in the political wilderness, acknowledges that there are important differences between both parties. However, he said this may, as yet, tip the odds in favour of PKR “but we don’t want another Perak here…there are many disturbing similarities as well with PBDS”. “It is clear that there is strong sentiment on the ground for political change in Sarawak because voters are sick and tired of Taib Mahmud who refuses to go away despite his ill-health. They would also like to see the back of Alfred Jabu and George Chan but Chan has at least pledged to quit anyway unlike the other two,” is Laing’s reading of the current situation in Sarawak.Jabu still harbours hope of being the next Chief Minister after Taib or at least the first Iban Governor. He has made approaches to Pak Blah and has also been engaged in secret talks with Najib behind Taib's back. Pak Blah as usual doesn't know what to do and for the time being at least Najib is still playing safe. Don't forget, Najib's sister-in-law (his brother's wife) is Tun Rahman's daughter, Khadijah.Taib of course still harbours hope that his son Siliman will be able to take over from him, but most if not all senior PBB members have either kept silent or are actively opposing this (behind the scenes of course) and each have their own plots and schemes. So far no one has been stupid enough to take up Taib's offer to warm the seat for Siliman.
“But that’s about as far as it goes. There are few signs, as yet, that the current anti-BN public sentiment will translate into regime change as expected by PKR even if Jabu is not replaced, as speculated, by senior PBB vice-president Douglas Uggah.”Unfortunately, PKR does not as yet have any candidate of leadership potential for the state. Anwar cannot do much with the line up that is presently there, while arguably most would probably make the state assemblymen grade, but is there anyone in PKR at the moment who can take Taib head on as leader of PKR Sarawak? Gabriel Adit? Jawah Gerang? Nicholas Bawin? Dominique Ng? Wan Zainal? Even Harrison Ngau himself?Is anyone of them a strategist who can think and act for the state as a whole? This is where it will make a difference.This is not really the time to debate all this in the open, but since it is already out in the open, then let's discuss it as positively as possible.Unfortunately Anwar seems to have taken a position of ignoring these issues, which does not augur well for PKR or Pakatan's chances in Sarawak.These issues must be tackled well and early enough to create the desired impact on the Sarawak political scene and to give PKR and Pakatan Rakyat a fighting chance to overthrow the BN in the next state elections.
‘Living on hope and wishful thinking’ “PKR in Sarawak seems set to suffer the same fate as PBDS, wresting defeat from the jaws of victory. There’s so much living on hope and wishful thinking. They just sit around attending sponsored party dinner functions, waiting for some nice things to happen to them one day. This is the PBDS Syndrome…the Dayak curse.” Laing’s assessment on the ground is uncharacteristically bleak for an incurable optimist and idealist. He believes that PKR’s dream of adding Sarawak to its booty of war will not materialise in the immediate future, despite the “little boy“ (Anwar) telling the emperor (Taib) that he has no clothes, “unless the winds of change blow from within the party itself so it can manifest itself at the ballot box”.Sarawak Headhunter agrees with this assessment.
Change must begin with discarding the current top-down approach, reiterates Laing, loosening the grip of the Kuching Mafia on the party, keeping moneybags at bay, democratisation and meaningful decentralisation. It is agreed that Anwar is perhaps “the most energetic politician in Malaysia” but he cannot continue to be “a one-man political entertainment show”. “At present, the messengers are carrying only good tidings to the king (Anwar) and the result has been a kind of euphoria which has induced a tendency to be complacent and rest on one’s laurels,” said Laing. “There is a dire need to reduce the influence of political has-beens, sore losers, sour grapes, those with a self-serving agenda and others with no record of serving the public. All of them need to be put in their proper places if they want to be in PKR.Again Sarawak Headhunter has to agree with this. In fact Sarawak Headhunter has pointed some of this out in his "Letter to Malaysiakini On Sarawak Landmines" entitled "Hidden blowpipes for the unwary Malayans".As the Sarawak Headhunter did warn, without going so far as calling them the Kuching Mafia (which in fact they are), "If PKR falls into the trap of listening too much to the Kuching Malays and even the Kuching Chinese and Dayaks for that matter, they will never be able to capture Sarawak or get anything positive done".Sarawak Headhunter will name some names and they include Hapsah Harun and Dominique Ng, both of whom as Harrison Ngau says below "are no great loss to the BN". At a certain level their actions have been greatly damaging to the party and the reason why the party has not been able to attract candidates of better calibre, especially from the crucial central rural belt of Sarawak.Sarawak Headhunter will only single out the two main culprits for the time being, otherwise PKR might find itself entirely without a line-up (not entirely of course, but almost).The very first Liaison Head of PKR Sarawak (KeADILan) at that time (around 1999), Yusuf Abdul Rahman, was actively and effectively sabotaged by the Kuching Mafia of PKR led by these two culprits, just because he happened to be a Melanau and related to Taib and Tun Rahman.
Laing has brought up his take on Sarawak at the national leadership level but the reply from Anwar was telling. He wants the party to be inclusive, “not exclusive”, an ideal with which Laing agrees but the question is “who should be calling the shots in the party (PKR), certainly not those who are no great loss to the BN”. Skeletons in the cupboard Laing, who won his only term as MP (1990 – 1995) as an independent against the combined might of the BN and came late to law as a distance learner in the process, opines that the ex-PBDS – the figure given is 90,000 – and BN influx into PKR is largely led by discredited politicians who will be rejected by the people. He defines “discredited people” as those who have no record of service to the people despite being given the opportunity to serve, have skeletons in the cupboard, are not wanted by the BN itself and may not be above horse-trading with PBB even when the chips are not down. “Why is Nicholas Bawin – PKR Batang Ai - going around telling people that there is not even one sincere leader among the Dayaks? He’s right but he should also include himself - ‘that’s right’, fumes ‘we are not perfect’ James Masing and ex-radical Wildfred Nissom of PRS - among them,” said Laing who considers himself among the few leaders to emerge from the grassroots and survived to fight another day. “Nicholas Bawin is a very naïve man, a colourless character, with an old longhouse brain who doesn’t understand politics. He doesn’t impress, inspire or motivate people.”Sarawak Headhunter begs to differ here. Perhaps Harrison Ngau may have been influenced somewhat by Nicholas Bawin's detractors within PKR itself, including none other than the two culprits (and others who need not be mentioned) who are ganging up on him.
Laing readily dismisses the collective Dayak political leadership as not only insincere, as alleged by Bawin, but “largely a creation of the powers that be that have thrust them on the people and hounded genuine grassroots leaders out of existence”.True.
The ruling elite prefer those who are vulnerable, to lead the Dayaks, so that they can be easily threatened, blackmailed and intimidated into submission, charges Laing.True.
“This kind of politics started with Abdul Rahman Yakub – who preceded his nephew Taib as chief minister - and the moneybags linked to SUPP (Sarawak United People’s Party).”True. However Taib managed to elevate it to an unprecedented and dangerous level. and used it to obscenely enrich himself, his family, henchmen and cronies while ignoring and even exploiting the plight of the impoverished rural population. Notwithstanding a fractured and disorganized opposition, this kind of politics may still bite him back, but the opposition should not just engage in such wishful thinking.
[Photo]As one example, Laing points out that Taib callously replaced the only Bidayuh member in the Federal Cabinet with his son, Sulaiman, after the general elections last year “because the Bidayuh are led by vulnerable leaders in the BN”. Taib’s cousin sister – returned unopposed despite being unknown — and brother are also in the Sarawak state assembly as first time representatives.The cousin of course is one of Tun Rahman's daughters, Norah, and she is an MP, not state assembly representative.
‘Huge government projects’ [Photo]As another example, Laing claims that PBDS was actually sponsored by moneybags linked to PBB (Pesaka Bumiputera Bersatu) to split SNAP (Sarawak National Party), and “was destroyed dutifully by Masing and Sng Chee Hwa, at PBB’s behest, when Daniel Tajem Anak Miri took over from Moggie”.True.
“Sng is now back again, like a bad smell that follows us everywhere, sponsoring all the PKR dinner functions so far in Kuching, Bintulu, Sibu and Miri while his son, Larry Sng, enjoys Taib’s patronage and remains an Assistant Minister. This is despite him not being in any political party.”True.
“The father-in-law (Larry’s) continues to get huge government projects,” notes Laing. “I have warned Anwar about the presence of Sng Snr. He merely said he knows and started preaching again about being inclusive.True. Anwar is being too naive here. Being inclusive is fine but doesn't he realise the danger of accomodating enemies within PKR?
“Why is Sng Snr. going around handing out money directly to lower line PKR leaders? I have complained about this. This is a guy who gives money to both sides after obtaining it from government projects.”Sng Snr. is one of the most dangerous persons in Sarawak as far as PKR is concerned. Ask the Ibans/Dayaks of PBDS how many of them he used to obtain at least S$200 million of financing from a Singapore bank which only he had access to and utilised and which the bank later tried to pursue them individually for between S$10 million and $20 million each.
Laing wants Sng to donate directly to the party, “if he is sincere”, and not “go around buying up people on the ground” and “then run to the government (in the past) with a big bill to reimburse himself many times over with projects which he can sell. This is stealing from the people”.That is Sng's modus operandi. He is a gambler with very good connections to both the Federal and State BN. Who knows what deals he has made with the BN to sabotage PKR?
However, moneybags and “dubious characters” plaguing PKR in Sarawak are not the least of the party’s problems. Laing wants some way to be found to integrate, into PKR, the thousands of para-legal trainees from the grassroots who have been turned out over the last ten years by community activists linked to Sahabat Alam Malaysia, Sadia (Sarawak Dayak Iban Association) and Brimas (Borneo Resources Institute). [Photo]“This is where the future of PKR in Sarawak and Dayak politics lies,” said Laing.Sarawak Headhunter (or rather his friend) says it again, and this time direct to PKR: Form the Sarawak NCR Foundation immediately!
This will not only give these community activists something positive to do about Native Customary Rights but also about developing (in a sustainable, responsible and transparent manner) NCR land for the benefit of the natives rather than just the rich companies connected to Taib, his family, henchmen and cronies.The setting up of the Sarawak NCR Foundation will also show how it can be done properly and directly challenge Taib's methods and modus operandi regarding NCR land development, which is now carried out without consulting the NCR landowners and more often than not without even informing them. Because Taib's regime treats them as squatters or trespassers on state land, they often only realise that their land has been approved for development when the plantation companies' bulldozers start moving in and clearing their gardens and destroying their homes, with the help of the police and gangsters.The setting up of the Sarawak NCR Foundation by PKR will constitute a big dilemma for Taib. PKR will in one fell swoop show how concerned it is about the customary rights of the natives and also show the practical solution to their problems.If Taib refuses to allow the development of NCR land from the ground up, ALL natives and Sarawakians will see him for the hypocrite that he is and the battle for Sarawak will already be half won.
If he allows it, then PKR should be able to prove that it can deliver development to the natives even while still in opposition, what more if it was the government. After all, PKR already has an experienced plantation developer in the person of Khalid Ibrahim, the MB of Selangor.Imagine the mutually beneficial joint ventures that could be set up between Selangor State agencies and the Sarawak natives through the Sarawak NCR Foundation.
“If we lose these people, BN will continue to rule even if they lose the next state election. Too much is at stake for PBB. They are already bragging that they know who to buy should PKR take over the state government and we have a situation like that in Perak.”If the BN is completely wiped out in the state, they will not be in any position to buy anyone. At the very least they are acknowledging that there is a possibility that PKR (or rather Pakatan Rakyat) may be able to take over the state government by a narrow margin. It is up to PKR to lead the way and convince the people to give Pakatan Rakyat a big margin of victory, possibly even a two third majority.
“Why did Perak happen? It’s because the wrong kind of people were fielded by PKR i.e. people vulnerable to threats and blackmail and lacking in commitment to sincerely serve the people. “Sarawak could easily turn into another Perak especially when the governor is firmly in the PBB camp…and the Rahman-Taib political dynasty has strong lobbyists in Kuala Lumpur with unlimited funds.”The governor can be convinced otherwise - he is not a blind loyalist to Taib or Rahman. How does the Sarawak Headhunter know this? Sarawak Headhunter will reveal only when the time and circumstances are right.
No matter how strong Taib's (not so much Rahman's) lobbyists in Kuala Lumpur, ultimately it is up to the people of Sarawak to decide, not Taib or Rahman or these lobbyists and certainly not the BN Malayans.Taib may yet find himself at the receiving end of the Sarawak Headhunter's Curse - that he and his family, henchmen and cronies shall never enjoy the wealth that they have stolen from Sarawak and its people and that they will suffer for all their wrongdoings against Sarawakians. window.google_render_ad()