Outcome of Sarawak's 10th State Elections (Updated)

Comprehensive list of candidates and demographics for the 10th Sarawak State Election 2011

by The Rocket on Wednesday, April 6, 2011 at 8:22pm

Predictions by Sarawak Headhunter in red (updated).

SNAP: 15

PKR: 18

DAP: 14

PAS: 4 5

BN: 17 15

IND: 4

TOTAL: 71

P192 Mas Gading

N01: OPAR: SARAWAK: 8,099

1 . Stephen ak Sagir (SNAP)

2 . Joseph Jindy ak Peter Rosen (Independent)

3 . Boniface Willy ak Tumek (PKR)

4 . Ranum ak Mina (BN)

Incumbent: Ranum Mina (BN-SUPP)

Votes obtained: 3,585

Majority: 2,183

Malay/Melanau: 5.58%, Chinese 4.89%, Iban 6.15%, Bidayuh 82.92%, Orang Ulu 0.15%, Others 0.31%

SNAP (1) 

N02: TASIK BIRU: SARAWAK: 15,100

1 . Peter Nansian ak Ngusie (BN-SPDP)

2 . Frankie Jurem ak Nyombui (SNAP)

3 . John Tenewi Nuek @ John Tenewi (PKR)

Incumbent: Datuk Peter Nansian Ngusie (BN-SPDP)

Votes obtained: 6,393

Majority: 3,203

Malay/Melanau: 14.15%, Chinese: 7.30%, Iban 3.70%, Bidayuh: 74.56%, Others: 0.30%

BN (1)

P193 Santubong

 N03: TANJONG DATU: SARAWAK: 7,936

1. Tan Sri Adenan Satem (BN-PBB)

2. Gilbert Asson ak Kulong (Independent -PERSB)

3. Nani Sahari (PAS)

Incumbent: Tan Sri Adenan Satem (BN-PBB)

Votes obtained: 4,545

Majority: 4,136

Malay/Melanau: 53.06%, Chinese 19.63%, Iban 17.34%, Bidayuh 9,97%

PAS (1)

N04: PANTAI DAMAI: SARAWAK: 14,104

1. Suhaimi Selamat (Independent -PERSB)

2. Dr Abdul Rahman Junaidi (BN-PBB)

3. Wan Zainal Abidin Wan Senusi (PKR)

Incumbent: Dr Abdul Rahman Junaidi (BN-PBB)

Votes obtained: 5,217

Majority: 2,164

Malay/Melanau: 93.97.15%, Chinese: 3.46%, Iban 2.37%, Bidayuh: 0.20%, Others: 0.01%

PKR (1) 

N05: DEMAK LAUT: SARAWAK: 10,437

1. Dr Hazland Abang Hipni (BN-PBB)

2. Ali Hossen b Abang (PKR)

Incumbent: Dr Abang Rauf Abang Zen (BN-PBB)

Votes obtained: 5,094

Majority: 3,605

Malay/Melanau: 91.19%, Chinese: 7.25%, Iban 1.45%, Bidayuh: 0.08%, Others: 0.03%

BN (2)

        

P194 Petrajaya

N06: TUPONG: SARAWAK: 17,796

1. Datuk Daud Abdul Rahman (BN-PBB)

2. Baharuddin @ Din Shah Mokhsen (PKR)

Incumbent: Datuk Daud Abdul Rahman (BN-PBB)

Votes obtained: 6,885

Majority: 4,572

Malay/Melanau: 72.27%, Chinese 17.96%, Iban 6.63%, Bidayuh 2.30%, Others: 0.84%

PKR (2) 

N07: SAMARIANG: SARAWAK: 15,942

1. Sharifah Hasidah Sayeed Aman Ghazali (BN-PBB)

2. Zulrusdi Mohamad Hol (PKR)

Incumbent: Sharifah Hasidah Sayeed Aman Ghazali (BN-PBB)

Votes obtained: 5,365

Majority: 2,488

Malay/Melanau: 90.31%, Chinese: 1.95%, Iban 7.65%, Bidayuh: 0.02%, Others: 0.07%

PKR (3)

N08: SATOK: SARAWAK: 10,431

1. Datuk Amar Abang Johari Tun Abang Openg (BN-PBB)

2. Ahmad Nazib Johari (PKR)

Incumbent: Datuk Amar Abang Johari Tun Abang Openg  (BN-PBB)

Votes obtained: 4,222

Majority: 2,798

Malay/Melanau: 76.29%, Chinese: 18.85%, Iban: 4.07%, Others: 0.79%

PKR (4)

P195 Bandar Kuching

N09: PADUNGAN: SARAWAK: 23,576

1. Dominique Ng Kim Ho (Independant)

2. Wong King Wei (DAP)

3. Sim Kiang Chiok (BN-SUPP)

Incumbent: Dominique Ng Kim Ho (PKR)

Votes obtained: 8,002

Majority: 1,417

Malay/Melanau: 6.07%, Chinese: 90.77%, Iban: 1.71%, Bidayuh: 0.65%, Orang Ulu: 0.11%, Others: 0.69%

DAP (1)

N010: PENDING: SARAWAK: 29,488

1. Prof Dr Sim Kui Hian (BN-SUPP)

2. Violet Yong (DAP)

Incumbent: Violet Yong (DAP)

Votes obtained: 11,632

Majority: 4,372

Malay/Melanau: 5.63%, Chinese: 89.30%, Iban: 2.95%, Bidayuh: 1.59%, Orang Ulu: 0.17%, Others: 0.37%

DAP (2)

P196 Stampin

N011: BATU LINTANG: SARAWAK: 27,833

1. Sih Hua Tong (BN-SUPP)

2. See Chee How (PKR)

3. Soo Lina (Independent)

Incumbent: Voon Lee Shan (DAP)

Votes obtained: 8,806

Majority: 3,407

Malay/Melanau: 5.28%, Chinese: 83.40%, Iban: 7.81%, Bidayuh: 2.40%, Orang Ulu: 0.43%, Others: 0.67%

PKR (5) 

N012: KOTA SENTOSA: SARAWAK: 27,301

1. Chong Chieng Jen (DAP)

2. Datuk Alfred Yap Chin Loi (BN-SUPP)

Incumbent: Chong Chieng Jen (DAP)

Votes obtained: 6,579

Majority: 531

Malay/Melanau: 10.44%, Chinese: 69.34%, Iban: 13.33%, Bidayuh: 6.30%, Orang Ulu: 0.17%, Others: 0.42%

DAP (3)

N13: BATU KAWAH: SARAWAK: 20,664

1. Christina Chew (DAP)

2. Tan Joo Phoi (BN-SUPP)

Incumbent: Tan Joo Phoi (BN-SUPP)

Votes obtained: 6,755

Majority: 4,180

Malay/Melanau: 18.58%, Chinese: 54.56%, Iban: 8.97%, Bidayuh: 17.51%, Orang Ulu: 0.14%, Others: 0.24%

 DAP (4)

P197 Kota Samarahan

N014: ASAJAYA: SARAWAK: 13,799

1. Abd Karim Rahman Hamzah (BN-PBB)

2. Arip Ameran (PKR)

Incumbent: Abdul Karim Rahman Hamzah (BN-PBB)

Votes obtained: 6,949

Majority: 5,063

Malay/Melanau: 83.68%, Chinese: 8.44%, Iban: 7.88%

PKR (6) 

N015: MUARA TUANG: SARAWAK: 18,820

1. Datuk Seri Mohamad Ali Mahmud (BN-PBB)

2. Noraini Hamzah (PAS)

Incumbent: Datuk Seri Mohammad Ali Mahmud (BN-PBB)

Votes obtained: 7,863

Majority: 6,327

Malay/Melanau: 53.65%, Chinese: 15.63%, Iban: 18.85%, Bidayuh:11.45%, Others: 0.42%

PAS (2)

P198 Mambong

N016: BENGOH: SARAWAK: 21,955

1. Willie ak Mongin (PKR)

2. Wejok ak Tomik (Independent)

3. Richard @ Peter ak Margaret (SNAP)

4. Dr Jerip ak Susil (BN-SUPP)

 Incumbent: Dr Jerip Susil (BN-SUPP)

Votes obtained: 7,540

Majority: 3,988

Malay/Melanau: 6.61%, Chinese: 26.35%, Iban: 0.10%, Bidayuh: 66.24%, Others: 0.69%

SNAP (2) Independent (1)

N017: TARAT: SARAWAK: 16,352

1. Ateng ak Jeros (SNAP)

2. Roland Sageh Wee Inn (BN-PBB)

3. Peter Ato ak Mayau (PKR)

Incumbent: Roland Sagah Wee-Inn (BN-PBB)

Votes obtained: 5,854

Majority: 3,256

Malay/Melanau: 4.72%, Chinese: 29.10%, Iban: 0.05%, Bidayuh:65.74%, Orang Ulu: 0.02%, Others: 0.37%

BN (3)

 P199 Serian

 N018: TEBEDU: SARAWAK: 12,497

1. Kipli b Ale (Independent)

2. Datuk Seri Michael Manyin ak Jawong (BN-PBB)

3. Christopher ak Kiyui (PKR)

4. Anthony ak Nais (SNAP)

Incumbent: Datuk Michael Manyin Jawong (BN-PBB)

Votes obtained: 6,107

Majority: 4,256

Malay/Melanau: 6.79%, Chinese: 1.67%, Bidayuh: 91.10%, Orang Ulu: 0.01%, Others: 0.42%

SNAP (3) (2)

N019: KEDUP: SARAWAK: 17,466

1. Lainus ak Andrew Luwak (PKR)

2. Maclaine Ben @ Martin Ben (BN-PBB)

3. Amin ak Banti (Independent -PERSB)

4. Belayong ak Jayang (SNAP)

Incumbent: Frederick Bayoi Manggie (BN-PBB)

Votes obtained: 5,635

Majority: 1,981

Malay/Melanau: 6.19%, Chinese: 17.22%, Bidayuh: 75.32%, Orang Ulu: 0.05%, Others: 1.22%

BN (4)

P200 Batang Sadong

N020: SADONG JAYA: SARAWAK: 7,656

1. Aidel Lariwoo (BN-PBB)

2. Mahayudin Wahab (Independent -PERSB)

3. Abang Eddy Allyanny Abang Fauzi (PAS)

Incumbent: Datuk Wan Abdul Wahab Wan Sanusi (BN-PBB)

Votes obtained: 2,715

Majority: 858

Malay/Melanau: 82.84%, Chinese: 7.64%, Bidayuh: 9.42%, Orang Ulu: 0.01%, Others: 0.09%

PAS (3)

N021: SIMUNJIAN: SARAWAK: 10,104

1. Mohd Naroden Majais (BN-PBB)

2. Mashor Hussen (PKR)

3. Zaini b Le' (Independent)

4. Mac Palima ak Nyambil (PCM)

Incumbent: Mohd Naroden Majais (BN-PBB)

Votes obtained: 4,786

Majority: 3,350

Malay/Melanau: 61.04%, Chinese: 4.78%, Iban: 34.07%, Others: 0.12%

IND (1) (2)

P201 Batang Lupar

 N022: SEBUYAU: SARAWAK: 8,042

1. Ali b Semsu (Independent)

2. Adam Ahid (PAS)

3. Julaihi Narawi (BN-PBB)

Incumbent: Julaihi Narawi (BN-PBB)

Votes obtained: 3,748

Majority: 2,448

Malay/Melanau: 64.26%, Chinese: 3.85%, Iban: 31.77%, Bidayuh: 0.11%

PAS (4)

N023: LINGGA: SARAWAK: 7,745

1. Abang Othman Abang Gom (SNAP)

2. Abang Ahmad Arabi Abang Bolhassan (PKR)

3. Simoi Peri (BN-PBB)

Incumbent: Simoi Peri (BN-PBB)

Votes obtained: 3,245

Majority: 1,870

Malay/Melanau: 61.58%, Chinese: 5.63%, Iban: 32.80%

BN (5)

N024: BETING MARO: SARAWAK: 7,868

1. Razaili Gapor (BN-PBB)

2. Abang Ahmad Kerdee Abang Masagus (PAS)

Incumbent: Datuk Bolhassan Di @ Ahmad Di (BN-PBB)

Votes obtained: 2,796

Majority: 895

Malay/Melanau: 90.42%, Chinese: 1.47%, Iban: 8.11%

BN (6)  PAS (5)

P202 Sri Aman

N025: BALAI RINGIN: SARAWAK: 8,798

1. Ibi ak Uding (PKR)

2. Snowdan Lawan (BN-PRS)

3. Dan ak Giang (SNAP)

4. Lipeh ak Mawi (PCM)

5. Cobbold ak Lusoi (Independent)

6. Sujal ak Gansi (Independent)

Incumbent: Snowdan Donald Lawan (BN-PRS)

Votes obtained: 3,075

Majority: 1,516

Malay/Melanau: 3.3%, Chinese: 7.44%, Iban: 89.08%, Bidayuh: 0.01%, Orang Ulu: 0.01%, Others: 0.16%

SNAP (4) (3)

N026: BUKIT BEGUNAN: SARAWAK: 7,778

1. Mong ak Dagang (BN-PRS)

2. Lias ak Julai (Independent -PERSB)

3. Jimmy Lim @ Jimmy Donald (PKR)

4. Ivanhoe Anthony ak Belon (SNAP)

Incumbent: Mong Dagang (BN-PRS)

Votes obtained: 3,083

Majority: 1,007

Malay/Melanau: 7.84%, Chinese: 4.98%, Iban: 87.16%, Others: 0.03%

SNAP (5) (4)

N027: SIMANGGANG: SARAWAK: 10,488

1. Leon Jimat Donald (DAP)

2. Datuk Francis Harden ak Hollis (BN-SUPP)

Incumbent: Datuk Francis Harden Hollis (BN-SUPP)

Votes obtained: 5,144

Majority: 4,258

Malay/Melanau: 12.46%, Chinese: 33.5%, Iban: 53.96%, Others: 0.09%

DAP (5)

P203 Lubok Antu

N028: ENGKILILI: SARAWAK: 9,444

1. Dr Johnichal Rayong ak Ngipa (BN-SUPP)

2. Jimmy Simon Maja (Independent)

3. Semijie ak Janting (SNAP)

4. Marudi @ Barudi ak Mawang (PKR)

Incumbent: Dr Johnical Rayong Ngipa (BN-SUPP)

Votes obtained: 3,442

Majority: 426

Malay/Melanau: 1.57%, Chinese: 12.62%, Iban: 85.69%, Orang Ulu: 0.02%, Others: 0.11%

 *Dr Ngipa won the seat on a SNAP ticket but joined SUPP in December 2009

SNAP (6) (5)

N029: BATANG AI: SARAWAK: 8,728

1. Nicholas Bawin ak Anggat (PKR)

2. Malcom Mussen ak Lamoh (BN-PRS)

Incumbent: Malcolm Mussen Lamoh (BN-PRS)

Votes obtained: 3,907

Majority: 1,854

Malay/Melanau: 2.15%, Chinese: 3.83%, Iban: 93.79%, Orang Ulu: 0.01%, Others: 0.22%

*Lamoh won the seat in a by-election on April 7, 2009 following the death of Datuk Dublin Unting Ingkot (BN-PRS) on Feb 24, 2009.

PKR (7)

P204 Betong

N030: SARIBAS: SARAWAK: 8,054

1. Ricky @ Mohammad Razi Sitam (BN-PBB)

2. Abang Zulkifli Abang Engkeh (PKR)

Incumbent: Dr Wahbi Junaidi (BN-PBB)

Votes obtained: 2,441

Majority: 94

Malay/Melanau: 82.82%, Chinese: 3.13%, Iban: 14.03%, Orang Ulu: 0.01%, Others: 0.01%

PKR (8) 

N031: LAYAR: SARAWAK: 8,109

1. Joe ak Unggang (SNAP)

2. Stanny Embat Dharoh ak Laja (PKR)

3. Ngumbang @ Kibak ak Datu (Independent)

4. Tan Sri Dr Alfred Jabu ak Numpang (BN-PBB)

Incumbent: Tan Sri Alfred Jabu Numpang (BN-PBB)

Votes obtained: 3,767

Majority: 2,677

Malay/Melanau: 14.71%, Chinese:11.05%, Iban: 73.44%, Bidayuh: 0.79%, Others: 0.01%

IND (2) SNAP (6)

N032: BUKIT SABAN: SARAWAK: 7,657

1. Dayrell Walter Entrie (SNAP)

2. Jerah ak Engkiong @ Edward Jerah (PKR)

3. Robert Lawson Chuat (BN-PBB)

Incumbent: Robert Lawson Chuat Vincent Entering (BN-PBB)

Votes obtained: 3,258

Majority: 1,878

Malay/Melanau: 26.20%, Chinese: 3.79%, Iban: 69.82%, Bidayuh: 0.12%, Orang Ulu: 0.05%. Others: 0.03%

SNAP (7)

P205 Saratok

N033: KALAKA: SARAWAK: 14,167

1. Ismail b Hussain (Independant)

2. Abdul Wahab Aziz (BN-PBB)

3. Mohd Yahya Abdullah (PKR)

Incumbent: Abdul Wahab Aziz (BN-PBB)

Votes obtained: 7,396

Majority: 5,929

Malay/Melanau: 63.83%, Chinese: 10.15%, Iban: 29.95%, Orang Ulu: 0.01%, Others: 0.06%

BN (7) (6)

N034: KRIAN: SARAWAK: 11,016

1. Liman ak Sujang (SNAP)

2. Datuk Peter Nyarok ak Entrie (BN-SPDP)

3. Banyi ak Beriak (Independent)

4. Ali ak Biju (PKR)

Incumbent: Datuk Peter Nyarok Entrie (BN-SPDP)

Votes obtained: 4,784

Majority: 2,089

Malay/Melanau: 0.28%, Chinese: 3.46%, Iban: 96.20%, Others: 0.06%

SNAP (8)

P206 Tanjong Manis

N035: BELAWAI: SARAWAK:  8,623

1. Abdul Wahab Abdullah (PKR)

2. Kiprawi b Suhaili (Independent -PERSB)

3. Datuk Talif @ Len Salleh (BN-PBB)

Incumbent: Hamden Ahmad (BN-PBB)

Votes obtained: 4,102

Majority: 3,316

Malay/Melanau: 67.37%, Chinese: 4.88%, Iban: 27.75%

BN (8) (7)

N036: SEMOP: SARAWAK: 8,891

1. Abdullah Saidol (BN-PBB)

2. Ong Chung Siew (PKR)

3. Ajiji Fauzan (Independent -PERSB)

Incumbent: Datuk Mohamad Asfia Awang Nasar (BN-PBB)

Votes obtained: 4,479

Majority: 3,226

Malay/Melanau: 74.16%, Chinese: 5.66%, Iban: 20.18%

BN (9) (8)

P207 Igan

N037: DARO: SARAWAK: 7,305

1. Murni Suhaili (BN-PBB)

2. Jamaludin Ibrahim (PKR)

3. Muhamad Zamhari Berawi (Independant)

4. Noh @ Muhamad Noh Bakri @ Bakeri (Independent)

Incumbent: Murni Suhaili (BN-PBB)

 *Murni won the seat uncontested in 2006.

Malay/Melanau: 65.43%, Chinese: 2.79%, Iban: 31.77%

IND (3)

N038: JEMORENG: SARAWAK: 8,635

1. Asbor Abdullah (Independent)

2. Abdul Hafiz Noh (Independent)

3. Gani @ Abu Seman Jahwie (BN-PBB)

Incumbent: Abu Seman Jahwie (BN-PBB)

Votes obtained: 3,567

Majority: 1,710

Malay/Melanau: 92.58%, Chinese: 3.57%, Iban: 3.86%

BN (10) (9)

P208 Sarikei

N039: REPOK: SARAWAK: 18,481

1. Datuk David Teng Lung Chi (BN-SUPP)

2. Dr Wong Hua Seh (DAP)

Incumbent: Datuk Davi Teng Lung Chi (BN-PBB)

Votes obtained: 5,502

Majority: 576

Malay/Melanau: 10.29%, Chinese: 55.59%, Iban: 33.90%, Bidayuh: 0.05%, Orang Ulu: 0.13%, Others: 0.04%

DAP (6)

N040: MERADONG: SARAWAK: 15,337

1. Ling Kie King (BN-SUPP)

2. Ting Tze Fui (DAP)

Incumbent: Ting Tze Fui(DAP)

Votes obtained: 5,990

Majority: 3,578

Malay/Melanau: 11.19%, Chinese: 38.59%, Iban: 50.19%, Bidayuh: 0.01%, Orang Ulu: 0.03%, Others: 0.01%

DAP (7)

P209 Julau

N041: PAKAN: SARAWAK: 9,274

1. Datuk Seri William Mawan (BN-SPDP)

2. Jamal B Abdullah @ Tedong ak Gunda (SNAP)

Incumbent: Datuk Seri William Mawan Ikom (BN-SPDP)

Votes obtained: 4,138

Majority: 1,763

Malay/Melanau: 1.30%, Chinese: 8.24%, Iban: 90.46%

SNAP (9)

N042: MELUAN: SARAWAK: 11,487

1. John Brian Anthony ak Jeremy Guang (PKR)

2. Wong ak Judat (BN-SPDP)

3. Labang ak Jamba (SNAP)

Incumbent: Wong Judat (BN-SPDP)

Votes obtained: 5,086

Majority: 3,007

Malay/Melanau: 0.98%, Chinese: 6.40%, Iban: 92.61%, Others: 0.02%

PKR (9)

P210 Kanowit

N043: NGEMAH: SARAWAK: 8,058

1. Alexander Vincent (BN-PRS)

2. Yakup Khalid (Independent)

3. Adeh ak Denong (PCM)

4. Michael ak Lias (SNAP)

5. Aris ak Alap (PKR)

Incumbent: Gabriel Adit Demong (Independent)

Votes obtained: 2,582

Majority: 549

Malay/Melanau: 0.36%, Chinese: 6.71%, Iban: 92.93%

SNAP (10) 

N044: MACHAN: SARAWAK: 9,944

1. Kong Tat Kim (PCM)

2. Datuk Gramong Juna (BN-PBB)

3. George Chen Nguk Fa (PKR)

4. Augustine ak Liom @ August Kiom (SNAP)

Incumbent: Datuk Gramong Juna (BN-PBB)

Votes obtained: 4,045

Majority: 2,289

Malay/Melanau: 4.62%, Chinese: 16.81%, Iban: 78.56%, Others: 0.01%

SNAP (11)

P211 Sibu

 N045: BUKIT ASSEK: SARAWAK: 26,926

1. Hii Tiong Huat (Independant)

2. Chieng Huong Toon (BN-SUPP)

3. Wong Ho Leng (DAP)

Incumbent: Wong Ho Leng (DAP)

Votes obtained: 10,380 Majority: 4,751

Malay/Melanau: 1.66%, Chinese: 94.62%, Iban: 3.67%, Bidayuh: 0.01%, Orang Ulu: 0.02%, Others: 0.02%

DAP (8)

N046: DUDONG: SARAWAK: 26,251

1. Yap Hoi Liong (DAP)

2. Datuk Tiong Thai King (BN-SUPP)

3. Apandi Abdul Rani (Independant)

Incumbent: Datuk Dr Soon Choon Teck (BN-SUPP)

Votes obtained: 7,359

Majority: 408

Malay/Melanau: 11.79%, Chinese: 51.92%, Iban: 36.14%, Bidayuh: 0.04%, Orang Ulu: 0.05%, Others: 0.06%

DAP (9)

P212 Sibu

 N047: BAWANG ASSAN: SARAWAK: 16,743

1. Alice Lau Kiong Yieng (DAP)

2. Datuk Seri Wong Soon Koh (BN-SUPP)

Incumbent: Datuk Seri Wong Soon Koh (BN-SUPP)

Votes obtained: 6,804

Majority: 2,504

Malay/Melanau: 5.36%, Chinese: 59.73%, Iban: 34.84%, Orang Ulu: 0.05%, Others: 0.01%

DAP (10)

N048: PELAWAN: SARAWAK: 28,808

1. Vincent Goh Chung Siong (BN-SUPP)

2. David Wong Kee Woan (DAP)

Incumbent: Vincent Goh Chung Siong (BN-SUPP)

Votes obtained: 7,375Majority: 263

Malay/Melanau: 7.64%, Chinese: 89.07%, Iban: 3.06%, Orang Ulu: 0.11%, Others: 0.12%

DAP (11)

N049: NANGKA: SARAWAK: 14,197

1. Dr Annuar Rapaee (BN-PBB)

2. Norisham Mohamed Ali (PKR)

Incumbent: Awang Bemee Awang Ali Basah (BN-PBB)

Votes obtained: 6,202

Majority: 4,815

Malay/Melanau: 53.55%, Chinese: 25.28%, Iban: 20.50%, Bidayuh: 0.21%, Orang Ulu: 0.19%, Others: 0.27%

BN (11) (10)

P213 Mukah

N050: DALAT: SARAWAK: 11,857

1. Datin Fatimah Abdullah @ Ting Sai Ming (BN-PBB)

2. Sylvester Ajah Subah @ Ajah Subah (PKR)

3. Salleh Mahali (Independant)

Incumbent: Datin Fatimah Abdullah (BN-PBB)

 *Datin Fatimah won the seat uncontested in 2006.

 Malay/Melanau: 73.88%, Chinese: 8.31%, Iban: 17.81%

PKR (10)

N051: BALINGAN: SARAWAK: 11,792

1. Suriati bt Abdullah (PKR)

2. Tan Sri Abdul Taib Mahmud (BN-PBB)

3. Datuk Salleh Jafaruddin (Independent -PERSB)

Incumbent: Tan Sri Abdul Taib Mahmud (BN-PBB)

Votes obtained: 6,393

Majority: 5,726

Malay/Melanau: 68.63%, Chinese: 12.81%, Iban: 18.55%, Others: 0.01%

IND (4)

P214 Selangau

N052: TAMIN: SARAWAK: 12,244

1. Joseph Mauh ak Ikeh (BN-PRS)

2. Mengga ak Mikui (PKR)

Incumbent: Joseph Mauh Ikeh (BN-PRS)

Votes obtained: 4,639

Majority: 2,377

Malay/Melanau: 2.35%, Chinese: 4.55%, Iban: 87.37%, Bidayuh: 2.17%, Orang Ulu: 1.80%, Others: 1.75%.

PKR (11) 

N053: KAKUS: SARAWAK: 9,604

1. Dick @ Laurance Dick Sekalai (PCM)

2. Paul Anyie Raja (PKR)

3. John Sikie ak Tayai (BN-PRS)

4. Entali ak Empin (Independant)

Incumbent: Joseph Mauh Ikeh (BN-PRS)

Votes obtained: 3,739

Majority: 2,852

Malay/Melanau: 5.92%, Chinese: 5.41%, Iban: 77.92%, Bidayuh: 1.49%, Orang Ulu: 8.53%, Others: 1.00%.

PKR (12)

P215 Kapit

N054: PELAGUS: SARAWAK: 15,322

1. Stanley Nyitar @ Unja ak Malang (BN-PRS)

2. Edward Sumbang ak Asun (PKR)

3. George ak Lagong (Independent)

Incumbent: Larry Sng Wei Shien (BN-PRS)

Votes obtained: 5,965

Malay/Melanau: 5.88%, Chinese: 15.40%, Iban: 78.18%, Bidayuh: 0.21%, Orang Ulu: 0.33%

BN (12) (11)

N055: KATIBAS: SARAWAK: 8,542

1. Datuk Ambrose Blikau ak Enturan (BN-PBB)

2. Toh Heng San (SNAP)

3. Munan ak Laja (PKR)

Incumbent: Datuk Ambrose Blikau Enturan (BN-PBB)

Votes obtained: 3,887

Majority: 3,332

Malay/Melanau: 3.54%, Chinese: 5.51%, Iban: 91.31%

SNAP (12)

P216 Hulu Rajang

N056: BALEH: SARAWAK: 11,287

1. Datuk Seri Dr James Masing (BN-PRS)

2. Bendindang ak Manjah (PKR)

Incumbent: Datuk Seri Dr James Masing (BN-PRS)

Votes obtained: 5,330

Majority: 4,802

Malay/Melanau: 0.23%, Chinese: 0.19%, Iban: 99.03%, Orang Ulu: 0.53%, Others: 0.01%

BN (13) (12)

N057: BELAGA: SARAWAK: 8,463

1. John Bampa @ Tusau (SNAP)

2. Liwan Lagang (BN-PRS)

3. Basah Kesing @ Ali Basah Kesing (PKR)

4. Michael Jok (Independant)

5. Matthew ak Munan (Independant)

6. Kenneth Adan Silek (Independant)

Incumbent: Liwan Lagang (BN-PRS)

Votes obtained: 1,855

Majority: 227

Malay/Melanau: 3.37%, Chinese: 2.82%, Iban: 1.03%, Orang Ulu: 89.78 

SNAP (13)

P217 Bintulu

N058: JEPAK: SARAWAK: 12,979

1 . Ramli Ak Malaka (SNAP)

2 . Abdul Jalil b Bujang (PKR)

3 . Datuk Haji Talib b Zulpilip (BN-PBB)

4 . Abdul Kuddus b Ramlee (Independent)

5 . Awang Abdillah b Awang Nasar (Independent)

Incumbent: Datuk Talip Zulpilip (BN-PBB)

Votes obtained: 4,997

Majority: 3,179

Malay/Melanau: 55.20%, Chinese: 4.47%, Iban: 40.30%, Orang Ulu: 0.04%

BN (14) (13)

N059: KIDURONG: SARAWAK: 27,225

1. Chiew Chiu Sing (DAP)

2. Henry Ling Koung Meng (BN-SUPP)

Incumbent: Chiew Chiu Sing (DAP)

Votes obtained: 8,517

Majority: 1,664

Malay/Melanau: 15.15%, Chinese: 38.11%, Iban: 46.21%, Bidayuh: 0.06%, Orang Ulu: 0.08%, Others: 0.39%

DAP (12)

N060: KEMENA: SARAWAK: 14,082

1. Liam Rengga (Independent)

2. Bernard Bar Bayang ak Rading (PKR)

3. Dr Stephen Rundi ak Utom (BN-PBB)

4. Ungun ak Bayan (SNAP)

Incumbent: Dr Stephen Rundi Utom (BN-PBB)

Votes obtained: 4,750

Majority: 1,572

Malay/Melanau: 4.18%, Chinese: 3.76%, Iban: 92.03%, Orang Ulu: 0.01%, Others: 0.02%

SNAP (14)

P218 Sibuti

N061: BEKENU: SARAWAK: 10,672

1. Rosey bti Yunus (BN-SPDP)

2. Dayang Juliana bti Awang Tambi (PCM)

3. Thony ak Badak (SNAP)

4. Ishak b Mahwi (PKR)

Incumbent: Rosey Yunus (BN-SPDP)

Votes obtained: 4,357

Majority: 3,072

Malay/Melanau: 48.57%, Chinese: 14.67%, Iban: 36.34%, Orang Ulu: 0.40%, Others: 0.02%

PKR (13)

N062: LAMBIR: SARAWAK: 14,144

1. Ripin b Lamat (BN)

2. Zolhaidah bti Suboh (PKR)

3. Johari b Bujang (SNAP)

Incumbent: Datuk Aidan Wing (BN-PBB)

Votes obtained: 4,331

Majority: 2,834

Malay/Melanau: 37.26%, Chinese: 26.48%, Iban: 31.19%, Bidayuh: 1.46%, Orang Ulu: 3.56%, Others: 0.06% 

PKR (14)

P219 Miri

N063: PIASAU: SARAWAK: 16,600

1. Ling Sie Kiong (DAP)

2. Tan Sri Dr George Chan (BN-SUPP)

Incumbent: Tan Sri Dr George Chan (BN-SUPP)

Votes obtained: 6,573

Majority: 3,918

Malay/Melanau: 19.9%, Chinese: 64.06%, Iban: 13.88%, Bidayuh: 0.25%, Orang Ulu: 1.73%, Others: 0.17%

DAP (13)

N064: PUJUT: SARAWAK: 22,577

1. Chia Chu Fatt (BN)

2. Fong Pau Tek (DAP)

Incumbent: Andy Chia Chu Fatt (BN-SPDP)

Votes obtained: 6,493

Majority: 1,370

Malay/Melanau: 20.19%, Chinese: 65.37%, Iban: 8.95%, Bidayuh: 1.86%, Orang Ulu: 3.12%, Others: 0.50%

DAP (14)

N065: SENADIN: SARAWAK: 14,144

1. Michael Teo Yu Keng (PKR)

2. Datuk Lee Kim Shin (BN-SUPP)

Incumbent: Lee Kim Shin (BN-SUPP)

Votes obtained: 7,173

Majority: 4,799

Malay/Melanau: 28.23%, Chinese: 50.21%, Iban: 17.04%, Bidayuh: 0.88%, Orang Ulu: 3.50%, Others: 0.13% 

PKR (15)

P220 Baram

N066: MARUDI: SARAWAK: 13,093

1. Sylvester Entrie ak Muran (BN-SPDP)

2. Michael Ding Tuah (Independent -PERSB)

3. Gerang ak Dagom (PKR)

4. Edwin Dundang ak Bugak (SNAP)

Incumbent: Sylvester Entrie ak Muran (BN-SPDP)

Votes obtained: 4,954Majority: 4,284

Malay/Melanau: 11.24%, Chinese: 16.50%, Iban: 61.94%, Bidayuh: 1.52%, Orang Ulu: 8.49%, Others: 0.31%

SNAP (15)

N067: TELANG USAN: SARAWAK: 13,623

1. Harrison Ngau Laing (PKR)

2. Kebing Wan (SNAP)

3. Jok Ding (Independent - PERSB)

4. Dennis Ngau (BN-PBB)

Incumbent: Lihan Jok (BN-PBB)

Votes obtained: 4,593

Majority: 2,771

Malay/Melanau: 1.26%, Chinese: 4.57%, Iban: 16.03%, Bidayuh: 0.56%, Orang Ulu: 76%, Others: 1.58%

PKR (16)

P221 Limbang

N068: BUKIT KOTA: SARAWAK: 14,471

1. Dr Abdul Rahman Ismail (BN-PBB)

2. Leong Kwang Yew (DAP)

3. Usop Jidin (Independent)

4. Ladis Pandin (Independent)

Incumbent: Dr Abdul Rahman Ismail (BN-PBB)

Votes obtained: 5,501

Majority: 3,229

Malay/Melanau: 54.18%, Chinese: 30.95%, Iban: 12.83%, Bidayuh: 0.10%, Orang Ulu: 1.90%, Others: 0.04%

BN (15) (14)

N069: BATU DANAU: SARAWAK: 7,636

1. Palu @ Paulus ak Gumbang (BN-SPDP)

2. Dr Lau Liak Koi (PKR)

3. Lawrence Cosmas Sunang ak Simpang (SNAP)

Incumbent: Paulus Gumbang (BN-SPDP)

Votes obtained: 2,961

Majority: 1,262

Malay/Melanau: 4.41%, Chinese: 1.09%, Iban: 26.13%, Bidayuh: 0.29%, Orang Ulu: 68.07%, Others: 0.01%

BN (16) (15)

P222 Lawas

N070: BA'KELALAN: SARAWAK: 6,958

1. Baru Bian (PKR)

2. Willie Liau (BN-SPDP)

Incumbent: Balang Rining (BN-SPDP)

Votes obtained: 2,064

Majority: 475

PKR (17)

N071: BUKIT SARI: SARAWAK: 9,983

1. Datuk Amar Awang Tengah Ali Hassan (BN-PBB)

2. Japar Suyut (PKR)

Incumbent: Datuk Amar Awang Tengah Ali Hassan (BN-PBB)

Votes obtained: 2,064

Majority: 475 

Malay/Melanau: 70.35%, Chinese: 13.13%, Iban: 3.46%, Bidayuh: 0.04%, Orang Ulu: 12.86%, Others: 0.16%

PKR (18)

Jabu Loses His Cool

Jabu blows top over claims about Salcra

 

Kuek Ser Kuang Keng
Apr 6, 11
3:44pm

 

Sarawak Deputy Chief Minister Alfred Jabu, who is defending the Layar seat for the eighth consecutive term, has evaded allegations that the management of the Sarawak Land Consolidation and Rehabilitation Authority (Salcra) is not transparent.

He countered that the opposition was "jealous" because the agency had paid out more than RM400 million in dividends to landowners.

"We are answerable to the government. We are not answerable to people who shout on the street," said Jabu after he filed his nomination form at the Betong district office.

He was referring to PKR supporters who had shouted "Reformasi" during the nomination process this morning.

"What can they prove that they have given to the landowners? What can they prove? Let them shout," he said.

Pressed to comment on complaints from some landowners that Salcra has never provided them with its financial statements, the veteran politician lost his cool.

"That's what you say, that's what you say!" he said, raising his voice and staring at the journalist who posed the question.

Whistleblower website Sarawak Report had alleged that Salcra's performance has been dismal under the leadership of Jabu, who is its chairperson.

It said Jabu's promise of a bumper payout of “a record RM74 million in profits” to native landowners was an election gimmick to hide the failure of Salcra.

Sarawak Report reasoned that RM74 million in profit for 48,000 hectares of oil palm plantations - equal to RM1,541 a hectare - was “simply pathetic”, compared with other plantaion companies such as IOI that made a profit of RM13,347 a hectare the same year.

The website highlighted suspicions that Jabu had squandered Salcra's earnings.

Participants in Salcra schemes are mainly rural Iban folk who have signed over their native customary rights to their land to the Salcra management.

However, Malaysiakini has been receiving complaints about the absence of financial statements, as well as about dividends paid at the management's whim.

Opposition warned again

Jabu also repeated his warning to opposition canvassers from Peninsular Malaysia not to cause trouble in Sarawak.

"But I'm quite worried because I saw what happened during the Sibu by-election... the unhealthy political elements of the opposition," he said.

"Don't try to jeopardise what has been going well here. They just come here for two weeks during the election. After they go back, the Sarawak people will have to bear the burden left by them, which was demonstrated in the Sibu by-election."

He reiterated that Sarawakians would not hesitate to take action to defend their social harmony if threatened by the opposition.

"Please try to respect us... the multiracial and peace-loving people of Sarawak have their own patience, but once the threshold of patience is worn out, they will naturally defend their integrity," he said.

Home Minister Hishammuddin Hussein, who had accompanied Jabu to the nomination centre this morning, echoed the statement.

He said the police have been deployed to maintain peace and order, but that no report of untoward incidents has been received so far.

 

Orang Malaya PKR, Listen Lah!

S’wak polls: Rude wake-up call for PKR

Joe Fernandez | April 2, 2011

If Snap is indeed being funded by BN as PKR strenuously claims, this is something that’s best seen to be believed.

 

COMMENT

 

The propaganda barrage is intense. The story is that the Sarawak National Party (Snap) is a fifth column within the opposition alliance and or otherwise funded by the ruling Barisan Nasional to split votes and give the latter victory by default.

The fact that such self-serving talk emanates openly from PKR does not seem to augur too well for the fledging opposition alliance in Sarawak. PKR is clearly the spoiler in the pack.

It’s true that the BN in Sarawak has been known to fund at least one mosquito party which appears from nowhere, on the eve of state elections, to make a bid for every seat.

The most infamous example was Parti Negara Rakyat Sarawak (Negara) in the early 1990s which was funded by Parti Pesaka Bumiputera Bersatu (PBB)-linked moneybags. The party lost every seat but in the process managed to draw away enough votes from the opposition especially in the marginal and mixed seats.

If Snap is indeed being funded by BN as PKR strenuously claims, notwithstanding various devious attempts in the past by Sarawak Chief Minister Abdul Taib Mahmud to finish it off once and for all, this is something that’s best seen to be believed.

PKR seems patently oblivious to the inconvenient fact that Daniel Tajem, Taib’s arch political enemy and nemesis, is Snap adviser. Hence, BN funding for Snap is an unlikely scenario given the history of mutual animosity between the two men.

Taib has been known to openly ridicule Tajem even in the Iban longhouses. Here, the Melanau Dayak Taib puts on his Dayak mask while downplaying his faith in the process.

There is also the fact that Snap is not going for every seat unlike Negara. A BN-funded Snap would surely go for all 71 state seats. Also, the talk is that former PKR vice-president Jeffrey Kitingan may be Snap’s director of operations for the elections. Again, this rules out the “BN-funded Snap” theory.

It’s not known how the opposition alliance will come together, if at all, before the April 6 nomination date. For one, there’s still no let-up in the PKR campaign against Snap as the former desperately attempts to discredit the latter in the eyes of the voters to claim the lion’s share of the seats. However, even their unlikely coming together will not assure the opposition alliance victory at the polls.

‘Melayu party from Malaya’

If at all the Ibans turn away from BN, and quite a number of them will do so in any case this time, they are more than likely to swear by the home-grown Snap rather than PKR. The latter is seen disparagingly by the parochial longhouse dwellers as a “Melayu party from Malaya.”

The Ibans know which side their political bread is buttered vis-a-vis Peninsular Malaysia. They may have more than a beef with the Taib regime but they will be damned if they are going to allow any orang luar (outsiders) to capitalise on the situation in the process.

The lessons of Sabah from 1994, and the current predicament of the Dusun, are only too well etched in their minds. Nine out of the 12 state cabinet positions in Sabah, including that of chief minister, are today held by Peninsular Malaysian parties. That’s more than enough to scare off the locals from a Kuala Lumpur-controlled Sarawak PKR for good.

No doubt, in the post April 16-period, PKR will have to seriously re-think its presence in Sabah and Sarawak or kiss Putrajaya goodbye forever.

PKR must incorporate itself locally in Sabah and Sarawak, and remain independent of Kuala Lumpur, if it is to be accepted by the tribal-minded Iban and Dusun in particular. The latter continue to flee PKR in the wake of Jeffrey first declining to go for any posts during the recent party polls – except that of Pensiangan division chief – and later announcing his bombshell departure around New Year’s Day.

Attempts are still being made by the party to woo Jeffrey back after it initially made various attempts to demonise him but to no avail. PKR Kota Kinabalu division chief Christina Liew remains starry-eyed and is hoping against hope that her “hero” Jeffrey will return before too long to the fold. She dreams on in the manner that de facto party chief Anwar Ibrahim dreams on in Sabah and Sarawak.

Too ambitious for its own good

PKR, under Anwar, has so far been clearly too ambitious for its own good in Sabah and Sarawak. Much of this ambition is based on the outdated model of proxy politics put in place by the ruling elite since Malaysia. Wither the agenda for change and reform!

PKR sees itself as the legitimate alternative to the PBB in Sarawak and Umno in Sabah. Both the ruling parties in Malaysian Borneo are cast in the ketuanan Melayu (Malay dominance and supremacy) mould favoured by the ruling elite in Putrajaya.

PKR comes 30 years too late to join the gravy train in Malaysian Borneo. PBB and Sabah Umno are discredited political models waiting to tumble down like a house of cards. Already, Sabah BN has come under severe strain as its oft-cited power-sharing model and consensus-and-compromise approach to decision-making – the BN spirit – comes apart at the hands of local warlords.

The inevitable destruction of the Pesaka component of PBB will finally free Dayak politics from Putrajaya. This will bring an end to proxy politics in Sarawak once and for all. Sarawak, as yet, may for once finally show the way for Sabah.

PKR, under the circumstances, should be willing to eat humble pie and play second fiddle in Sarawak to the local parties like Snap and the others. But this happy state of affairs is unlikely to materialise as long as the party and Anwar dream on oblivious to the emerging harsh realities on the ground.

Almost no one, at this juncture, wants to hazard a guess at the eventual fate of the opposition alliance come April 16 in Sarawak.

One brave analyst in Kuching, a veteran of many polls, thinks that Snap can do no better than nine seats, PKR three seats, DAP 13 seats and PAS one seat. That gives a grand total of 26 seats to deny the BN its coveted two-third majority in the state assembly.

Snap’s seats are likely to come from Pesaka and PBB except perhaps for one each from Parti Rakyat Sarawak (PRS) and Sarawak Progressive Democratic Party (SPDP).

DAP’s 13 seats will be taken away from the Sarawak United People’s Party (Supp) and drawn from the Chinese, marginal/mixed seats. Already, DAP secretary-general Lim Guan Eng has announced that the party will go for 15 seats in Sarawak including five in the south and the rest in the central and northern regions.

PKR is expected to get a seat each from marginal/mixed Malay, Bidayuh and Orang Ulu communities. The party, it is reported, wants to go for between 37 and 39 seats at the very minimum, conceding five to PAS, 15 to 17 to Snap and 15 to DAP.

PKR has reportedly three competing lists i.e. one drawn up by state chief Baru Bian, another by Anwar and the third with 10 names selected by businessman Sng Chee Hua and to be funded by him. Sng is not willing to fund the other PKR candidates. This has made the Sarawak chapter wonder why they should accept his proposal without getting anything in return.

PAS’ sole win in the forthcoming state election can only be in the marginal/mixed area with a significant number of Malay voters.

There are 12 marginal and five mixed seats in Sarawak.

SNAP Explains

SNAP: WHY WE DO WHAT WE DO

By Paul Kadang, Director of Operations, Sarawak National Party (SNAP)

SNAP’s recent re-emergence to reclaim its place in the Sarawak political arena has sparked numerous allegations and prejudgements on the motives of the prime movers of the party’s re-vitalisation. Presumably made with good intentions, these prejudgements have been voiced out in the internet by political observers who seem to hold themselves out as being totally familiar with the present Sarawak political scene. Most of these, however, contain presumptions that have not been thoroughly examined.

Let me elaborate on the reasons and circumstances leading to SNAP’s re-emergence.

Background

From the beginning since its founding in 1961, SNAP  has had two important characteristics vis-a-vis its support: it has always been a multiracial party. Of equal importance has been its emphasis on Dayak interests, which is not surprising since this community forms its inner core.  

It had been the tearing and cracking of this core by its political opponents since 1970,  through their divide and rule policies, which not only decapitated SNAP as a viable political organization but also formed the first significant break in Dayak communal unity. The manifestation of these divide and rule policies has continued to this day and has been a contributing factor to the dispossession of the Dayak people of much of their properties and lands by unscrupulous people.

Since that time the holy grail of Dayak politics has been to forge their internal unity and cohesion in their search for equitable power sharing in the country. They have laboured hard towards this end but so far without success. And so to this day, Dayaks have continued to be splintered and their political representation fragmented amongst the various parties in Sarawak.

Over the past eight years, Ibans and other natives did not have any indigenous political party as their platform for democratic dissent. They gave the benefit of the doubt to SPDP and PRS and even PBB to try to regain the rightful political significance of the native population. In those eight years, the blatant disregard for Native Customary Rights and Native Customary Land as enshrined in the laws of the state, continued and became even more widespread till today. All these happened without even the slightest protest coming from legislators and political parties that claim to represent, protect and uphold native interests be they  the PBB, SPDP or PRS.  

By 2008, the natives, particularly those from the Dayak communities, were totally marginalised politically.  A new generation of native intellectuals then decided that the time had come for natives to depend on no one but themselves to fight their battles.

Answering the clarion call of Reformasi that have yielded fruits in the federal general elections of March 2008, these Dayak intellectuals began to look at PKR as the platform from which to fight their battles. Some became PKR members, while some others watched with keen interest and gave their support from the fringes.

But two years later, they slowly drifted away from PKR for reasons which in total had shown to these intellectuals that native problems are of a low priority to PKR. The instances are as follows.

PKR’s Relationship with Natives and Native Issues

The records show that PKR in Sarawak was started by disenchanted  Malay-Melanau politicians splintered from the then and present ruling elite. For ten years the main issues that made up PKR Sarawak’s political agenda were their typical infighting and their urge to find a way to replace Taib Mahmud and gang as the ruling elite of Sarawak. All the office-bearers and head of PKR Sarawak were from that group for most of the twelve years of PKR Sarawak’s existence.

It was only in 2008, with the entry of other native and Dayak intellectuals into the party that wider native issues became part of PKR’s campaign fodder to attract these native votes. Before this, there were almost no PKR divisions in Dayak-majority constituencies. Attempts were then made by personalities like Nicholas Bawin to open up branches in Dayak native-majority constituencies.

It is notable that only after twelve years, for the first time ever, a Dayak was appointed a few months ago as head of PKR Sarawak. Even then the appointment was not without vociferous protests from the pioneers of PKR Sarawak. Till now, no Iban sits in PKR’s inflated Majlis Pimpinan Pusat or its political bureau. These are ominous signs of the patronising attitude of PKR that culminated in the Batang Ai by-election catastrophe of April 2009.

The Batang Ai By-Election

The native intellectuals group, Malay Melanau and Dayak,  that supported PKR had by the end of 2008 quadrupled in number, ready to adopt PKR as the saviour of the natives. Then came the Batang Ai by-election and it was clear to most of PKR Sarawak native leaders that Nicholas Bawin was the most viable PKR candidate and was expected to be nominated. They were astonished therefore that a long time ex-yang berhormat, formerly from the ruling coalition who was not known to be associated with PKR, was appointed instead of Bawin. That was at the behest and financial lobbying of a Chinese towkay whose official affiliation with PKR was nil but who evidently held a major sway in the personal considerations of PKR’s Ketua Umum. Without consultation with PKR’s native leaders, Bawin was dropped. Such is ‘democracy’ in PKR.

The result of the by-election, as expected, was a major disaster to PKR’s attempts to make inroads into Sarawak Dayak native politics. PKR’s candidate was thrashed. He obviously did not enjoy the confidence of these intellectuals, who chose to stay away in protest against the evident highhandedness. As an excuse for their defeat, PKR went into its typical damage control mode in alleging, for instance, that the ballot boxes were switched while in helicopters. That’s just vintage PKR to ignore the elephant in the room.

In the post-mortem, if ever really there was one, the issue of Dayak leaders’ lack of influence in PKR’s decision-making in Sarawak was never even addressed. Batang Ai is one of the many things observed by these intellectuals which raised questions about native-issue priorities in PKR. They have since kept their distance from the party. PKR remains in their mind as a party that will perpetuate neo-colonial intentions in Sarawak. This is obvious for those who care to see.

Consequently, while those intellectuals were grappling to find a vehicle to voice out native dissatisfaction by natives themselves, SNAP’s re-registration was ordered by the courts. It is only natural therefore that SNAP became a magnet to these partyless native opposition leaders.

SARAWAK STATE ELECTIONS 2011

SNAP was and is very much in favour of an opposition electoral pact for obvious reasons. Now that the possibility of such a pact appears to be diminishing by the day, it is important that political observers and commentators are made aware of the following:

Negotiations

The opposition grouping has no chairman nor a fixed structure. Even then, it does not matter much to SNAP as to who takes the lead in convening negotiations between the four opposition parties (SNAP, PKR, DAP and PAS) as long as certain rules of political decency and civil negotiations are followed and that the management of the negotiations by whomsoever has the competency and the power to decide.

PKR took the mantle and in the same breath publicly announced that it will run in 53 seats and SNAP will be accorded only 3. It was as if the seats were for PKR to distribute. SNAP had no choice but to respond publicly that it intends to run in all of the native-majority seats numbering 29.

Negotiations commenced in a haphazard manner and much later than ideally possible. SNAP refuses to be marginalised and to underscore its seriousness and capacity to compete, declared publicly its 16 candidates for 16 named constituencies. A startled PKR came back to ‘offer’ 4 seats, instead of 3. SNAP responded to this infantile insult by announcing 11 more candidates for 11 more constituencies. Altogether totalling 27 seats.

PKR’s incompetency in leadership and management of the negotiations was obvious. There was no negotiation agenda and things were done by the seat of their pants and at their convenience. SNAP expected the first session would have been attended by decision-makers of all parties. There is no point in negotiating if the negotiators have no power or mandate to decide. Decisions from higher-ups must be obtained at the point of negotiation. That wasn’t the case with PKR. At all times, PKR insisted that the final decision would be made by KL after a negotiating position had been reached by the parties. To any seasoned negotiator, such a statement is already a ball-breaker.

We had also expected that the first order of the day was to get a consensus of the proportionate spread of the number of seats to be contested by each party in accordance to macro demographic factors which all four parties hold themselves to champion for.  It was clear that DAP would run in Chinese-majority areas, PAS in a few Muslim-majority areas and PKR in Malay-Melanau areas, where they had concentrated their efforts in the past decade for better or for worse. SNAP, being a multiracial party but traditionally a Dayak-based one, will contest in the native-majority areas. It was only in the mixed areas that overlapping claims will have to be resolved through negotiations.

But PKR having suddenly realised that native issues could be the determining issues in the coming elections, and still hung-over from the ecstasy of the 2008 electoral tsunami in the peninsular, thought that by placing their candidates in these native constituencies PKR can be the beneficiary of a Sarawak tsunami.

The opinion-makers and intellectuals who had fled to SNAP therefore fear that the beneficiary of native electoral dissatisfaction may be a national party that has shown in the last two years little sensitivity to the natives’ political predicament. They fear that Sarawak’s native problems, under PKR, will remain secondary to a grander federal plan of PKR’s national leaders. At worst, SNAP will never be able to be given back those constituencies by PKR.

If in fact PKR had made a positive impact in native constituencies and indeed enjoyed native support, by putting in hard work in building up an articulation of native dissatisfaction, the results would have been evident. But instead, PKR had never won nor come close to winning a native-majority seat in 3 federal elections and 2 state elections in the 12 years of their existence in Sarawak. In fact, a number of their candidates lost their deposits. So much for PKR’s desire to contest in 53 seats.

The second order of the day would be for the negotiating parties to consider the ‘winnability’ of their candidates as a basis for their allocation of the overlapping seats. Till this very moment, the ‘conductor’ of the negotiations themselves has not sorted out their own internal selection problems as to who runs where. They fear that if they make representations of the winnability of a particular candidate, it may incur the wrath of another party member also aspiring to be the candidate for the same area.

Out of this fear and indiscipline, it is PKR’s practice that their candidates list is only completed on the eve of nomination day so that those among their members who have lost out will not have options but to play along. Knowing this, SNAP decided that it would not be encumbered by PKR’s internal deficiencies. SNAP announced its candidates way ahead of time to give them a head start in going to the ground in the vast constituencies to familiarise the voters with their candidacy.

What is the Status Quo?

To date, SNAP has announced its decision to run in 27 of the 29 native-majority seats. It has refrained from contesting in the remaining 2 seats in deference to the work done by and its support for two PKR native leaders. In a gesture of goodwill and in recognition of the winnability factor, these concessions are made. The truth is that PKR has no other native leaders of their calibre and SNAP’s candidates in the 27 seats will be at par, if not better than PKR’s candidates.

As it has always maintained, SNAP will be happy to be a part of an electoral pact if it is allowed to contest in the said 27 constituencies. However, should there be a free for all, SNAP has the capacity and candidates to contest up to 40 seats. That is an option that it will take only if there is no more rules of engagement among the opposition parties.

Finances

Opposition supporters are hoping, and SNAP along with them, that the natives in a bold decisive move will act with political maturity and courage to invoke an electoral tsunami. It is indeed high expectations.

However, it is disheartening to note that while such a lofty commitment is expected of natives, the possibility that their commitment might extend to financing the election campaign that they favour is strangely dismissed by these commentators. On this premise, SNAP is maliciously accused of conspiring with BN in order to get political funding. Such accusations are insulting to SNAP and are the furthest from the truth.

These commentators underestimated and underrated successful natives as people who cannot put money where their hearts are. In the last few months, SNAP has been inundated with monetary contributions from well-to-do natives working abroad. Perhaps these commentators have stereotyped natives to the point that it is unthinkable to them, for example, that a native petroleum engineer working in the Middle East and earning US$ 25,000 a month and who is moved by the plight of his community, will contribute up to RM100,000 to SNAP’s election campaign.

SNAP needs money badly but it also realises that an efficient and honest campaign will not be too dependent on huge campaign budgets.

Quality of Candidates

It has been mentioned that SNAP’s candidates are of the quality that can be bought over once elected. It is as if there is a fail-proof formula to prevent this. At SNAP, we humbly submit that we have dealt with this issue on a ‘best-effort’ basis. It is only those who have not gone through the rigours of election management that wishfully think a watertight formula is ever possible. By the same token SNAP would like to hear those people who doubt the integrity of our candidates, if it is at all possible, to attest their supreme confidence that candidates of PKR or any of the other opposition parties will not jump ship once elected.

SNAP’s list of candidates is multiracial in nature. It comprises young professionals and also a good mix of Dayak nationalists with experience far beyond those of the commentators.

Conclusion

Let the voters decide. SNAP respects the opinions of others as their right to voice out opinions in a democracy. By the same token, SNAP reserves its right to its own political action without having to be accused of treachery and all the other tales that make interesting gossip at the teh tarek stalls.

SNAP urges that before certain presumptions are made, basic empirical research should be done that goes beyond mere rhetoric and wishful thinking.

Like everybody else in this state, we wish to unseat the Taib regime.  But we will do it in a manner that safeguards Sarawakian and Dayak control over their own affairs and destiny, and avoid jumping out of the pot into the fire. Our words are based on actual experience but we certainly welcome learned comments and guidance from armchair politicians made in good faith.

God bless the people of Sarawak.

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The writer holds a master degree in political science from University of British Columbia, Canada. He was previously the deputy secretary-general of PKR and is now the director of elections for SNAP in the coming Sarawak state elections. 

SARAWAK NATIONAL PARTY (SNAP)Parti Asal Bansa Sarawak
SNAP Headquarters, Rubber Road,
93400 Kuching, Sarawak.
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Will Sarawakians Flunk This Test Yet Again?

State election a test for Sarawakians

 

Letter to Malaysiakini

 

Loyal Malaysian
Mar 21, 11
6:11pm

It is good for those of us who have got disgusted at the inaction of the authorities in the face of all the exposes on the corrupt rule of Taib Mahmud and his cronies. It gives hope that what is not acted on by the authorities shall be judged in the arena of public opinion. If Taib Mahmud does not get his two-thirds majority in the Sarawak state assembly it should hasten his retirement.

Good? For those of us who have been disheartened by the turbulent and stormy seas surrounding the PR coalition, this state election brings hope that it shall breathe some hope that PR will be able to put up a creditable performance come GE13.

Granted all the exposes on the excesses of Taib, his family members and cronies, there ought to be a backlash of public opinion against his 30 years of misrule. The impounded bibles issue and the Allah controversy should open the eyes of Sarawakian Christians in particular and all non-Muslims in general that the Umnoputras do not practise what they preach!

 

Freedom to practise our religion is only in name, the Umnoputras are using every rule in the book to force their values and morals on the non-Muslims.

Bad? With the BN's immense resources, both governmental and private, it will be another buy-election on a state-wide level. The opposition shall not be able to match the candies and carrots dished out by the Umnoputras. Make no mistake about it, Taib and his cronies are Umnoputras through and through.

 

So, will the disadvantaged and development-deprived rakyat again bite the bait and return Taib and his cronies with a two-thirds majority in the state assembly? This will then demoralise the opposition even further.

Who knows? The Lord works in mysterious ways. Perhaps a bashing at the Sarawak state election will bring Anwar to his senses. Raja Petra has alluded many times to Anwar's misguided handling of the politics of Sabah and Sarawak, trying to impose leaders not accepted at the local level there.

With GE13 looming and the acknowledged importance of the Sabah and Sarawak parliamentary seats if Pakatan is to harbour any realistic hope of evicting the Umnoputras from Putrajaya, perhaps, just perhaps Anwar shall then put the PKR act together in East Malaysia.

A slight detour but I draw inspiration from the UN sanctioned actions to protect civilians rebelling against Gaddafi rule in Libya. It shows that the international community will not stand idly by when a dictator uses his control of the military might of its country to mow down opposition to its rule.

I am sure this is reassuring to many rakyat who have reservations about booting the Umnoputras from Putrajaya because they control the security forces. The Umnoputras have shown themselves as having no inhibitions to use force on unarmed protestors.

 

This action by the UN should make any Umnoputra harbouring the thought of employing the security forces to boost the regime should it lose political power to have second thoughts. Who knows?

SNAP's Media Statement & List Of First 16 Candidates

MEDIA STATEMENT

For immediate release

Date: 15 March 2011

SARAWAK STATE ELECTIONS 2011

Sarawak National Party (SNAP) has always been, since the inception of Malaysia 47 years ago, the party that speaks out, defends and fights for the welfare of the people of Sarawak especially the interior native population. It must be reiterated that SNAP will remain so now, and in the future, in response to the popular requests and desires of the people of Sarawak. SNAP is synonymous with the political development of Sarawak and intends to play its role in positive nation building within the ambit of the Federation of Malaysia Agreement 1963. SNAP it should be remembered was one of the political parties which were signatories to the Malaysia Agreement.

The forthcoming state elections this year will be a watershed in the political history of Sarawak and it is imperative that SNAP, being the traditional party of choice among natives play a meaningful role in the shaping of Sarawak’s political future. 

In this context, the Select Committee after being given the mandate by the Central Executive Committee (CEC) of SNAP met this weekend and agreed among other things that SNAP’s participation in these elections will reflect its historic role and its presently reignited dynamic role, as requested by our membership. Consequently SNAP has decided to put up a total of 40 candidates, 29 of which will be in interior native-majority constituencies and the rest will be in areas where natives form the largest single grouping. 

To underscore our seriousness and commitment to the above, SNAP hereby announces our candidates for the first 16 seats.

They are as follows:

1. Stephen Sigar - N. 1 Opar

2. Frankie Jurem Nyumboi - N. 2 Tasik Biru

3. Richard @ Peter M. Munai - N. 16 Bengoh

4. Slyvester Belayong - N. 19 Kedup

5. Abang Othman Abang Hj Gom - N. 23 Lingga

6. Dan Giang - N. 25 Balai Ringgin

7. Joe Unggang - N. 31 Layar

8. Dayrell W. Entrie - N. 32 Bukit Saban

9. Anthony Liman Sujang - N. 34 Krian

10. Tedong Gunda @ Jamal Abdullah - N. 41 Pakan

11. Augustine Liom - N. 44 Machan

12. George Lagong - N. 56 Baleh

13. John Bampa - N. 57 Belaga

14. Johari Bujang - N. 62 Lambir

15. Edwin Dundang Bugak - N. 66 Marudi

16. Kebing Wan - N. 67 Telang Usan

The candidacies for the remaining 24 constituencies will only be finalized and announced at a later date. This is because SNAP feels that its present effort to invite other native leaders who are currently partyless or dispersed in other political parties to come back to contest under the SNAP banner in order to avoid the dilution of native votes in these constituencies, will bear positive results. The present aspiring SNAP candidates for these constituencies are willing to sacrifice and accommodate these native leaders as candidates in favour of the desire not to split native votes.

The Select Committee having decided on the above also reiterates that it is SNAP’s fervent desire that there will be throughout Sarawak one-to-one contests against the ruling coalition. Common wisdom tells us that it is wise not to split the anti-BN votes to ensure opposition victory. 

SNAP does not see any problem towards an electoral understanding with the Democratic Action Party (DAP) of Sarawak. We are urged by our membership to go further than electoral pacts and work towards greater understanding and mutual support with the DAP. Our leadership has been and shall be meeting DAP leaders over these matters in due course.

We also do not see any problems in our relationship with Parti Islam SeMalaysia (PAS). 

However, sadly, we have been informed that Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) has on its own initiative, and without mandate, took on the role of the leading opposition party by announcing that they intend to contest in 52 seats and leave SNAP a miserable 3 seats to squabble over. We also note that PKR has overlapping claims with the DAP. The very recent announcement by PKR that an agreement has been reached on the opposition electoral pact in Sarawak is totally inaccurate. PKR’s attempt to gloss over this major problem and ride roughshod against SNAP is unwarranted and unbecoming. There has been no agreement, no attempt to negotiate and PKR’s lackadaisical attitude towards native political issues is now becoming obvious.

We reiterate that such presumptuousness on the part of PKR is unwarranted and unmandated. We believe that PKR after reviewing its influence in Sarawak for the last 12 years should only concentrate in the mixed areas where we feel they can do better than SNAP. It is worthy of note that after 12 years and participating in 3 federal elections and 2 state elections over these years involving 74 candidates which they have put up, PKR has only managed to win 1 state seat. It is also a fact that can be verified that PKR has had little impact in native-majority areas ever since it first contested in Sarawak. 

With that background, we hope that PKR will co-operate to ensure the opposition electoral pact will be a reality based on actual representation of the various political groupings. Its problems over overlapping seats with DAP should also be solved as fast as possible.

The above has been communicated to PKR in the various meetings but to no avail. It is sad that at this eleventh hour, PKR still insists on contesting in 52 seats at our expense, and without substantive grounds to support their insistence. 

In this state elections of 2011, SNAP is taking back its rightful role as the leading opposition voice in Sarawak. 

SNAP is conscious of its role and intends to fulfill it without reservation.

God bless the people of Sarawak.



EDWIN DUNDANG
President
Sarawak National Party (SNAP)