Sungai Mujong Ng. Sepasir Kapit

Aduhai, lama dah tidak balik rumah panjang di Sungai Mujong Ng. Sepasir Kapit time-time Gawai Dayak. Kalau ada cuti pun mesti time-time Christmas. Setiap kali Christmas mesti ramai yang tidak balik rumah panjang,jadinya tidaklah meriah sangatlah sambutan time ini. Lagipun setengah daripada penduduk rumah panjang kamu Christian dan setengah lagi masih mengamalkan adat-adat lama seperti Miring, Bebiau dan Nimang. Walaubagaimanapun saya tetap banggalah sebab ada lagi penghuni rumah panjang kami mengekalkan adat-adat lama ini.

Perjalanan ke rumah panjang saya lebih kurang 6-7 jam baru sampai. Penat tu memang penatlah tapi yang seronoknya dapat naik Bot Express dan Perahu Panjang menyusuli Batang Rajang, Batang Balleh dan semestinya Sungai Mujong. Siapa-siapa yang belum pernah merasai naik Perahu Panjang selama lebih kurang 2-3 jam, bolehlah buat lawatan ke rumah panjang saya time-time ada perayaan dan mestilah time tu ada saya, he3...

Rumah panjang saya tidaklah secantik rumah-rumah panjang yang lain disepanjang Sungai Mujong, tetapi ianya best dan satu-satunya rumah panjang yang masih bergantung. Jadi adalah saya dengar-dengar daripada Tuai Rumah, rumah panjang kami pernah dilawati oleh pelancong luar daripada Australia, USA, German dan banyak sebenarnya ramai daripada Europe. Time tu saya memang terkejutlah sebab sepanjang saya balik, tidak pernah dengar berita macam ini. Ternyatanya pelancong-pelancong ini berminat untuk merasakan suasana tinggal di Rumah Panjang kayu dan bergantung. Banggalah saya,he3....

Baru semalam saya sharing dengan Fr. Jojo dan Uncle David tentang Aki saya di Rumah Panjang. Time saya balik Christmas tahun lalu, saya terkejut yang Aki saya tidak kenal saya. Saya macam bukan berada di dalam kawasan rumah panjang saya. Time tu saya tanyalah Aki saya, "Aki, ngelala dik aku sapa aku". Aki saya jawab,"Enda aku ngelala dik ucuk, temuai kini dik tok. Ya ga nama kitak enda kala disebut, nya kebuah aku enda ingat,". Aduh, betapa tergurisnya hati saya time tu, cucu kesayangan dia, langsung dia terlupa nama. Time tu lah cousin saya bagitau yang Aki saya dah semakin tua 90 lebih umur dia. Jadi penyakit tua dia semakin muncul. Sedih saya time tu.

Tapi yang paling bestnya time Christmas tu, Aki saya pergi Ngajat. WAH!!!!! tidak sangka dia boleh ngajat lagi time tu. Punyalah bangga dan jatung saya berdegup dengan laju time tu... FUH!!!!! Memang ternyata Aki saya masih lagi bertenaga walaupun memory dia semakin kurang.

Saya sentiasa berdoa agar Aki saya akan panjang umur, Amen. Saya perlu belajar banyak lagi stail ngajat daripada dia selain daripada "Ngajat Nginti", he3...

Saya akan berjumpa dengan Aki saya Gawai nie lah, harap time tu saya dapat cuti. hu3....

LOVE U AKI JEMBU@MEGONG......

Reality

For Immediate Release

Orang Asal representative got kicked out from participating a public forum

11 February 2010

Jaringan Orang Asal SeMalaysia (JOAS) strongly condemns the discriminating act by the Prime Minister’s Department in dispelling a community representative from participating in the public forum that was organised by the department that aims to gather information and feedbacks on numerous issues so as to understand and resolve the perennial problems of the people.

Nicholas Mujah, a representative of the Sarawak Dayak Iban Association (SADIA) was asked to leave the forum for no apparent reason by the organisers.

The Sarawak Lab, part of the national circuit, was held on 9 February 2010, at Pullman Hotel Kuching and was chaired by Idris Jala.

Participants include senior government officers consisting of officers from various ministries, Resident and District Officers and the Sarawak Attorney General. Various plantation companies were also present as well as community chiefs and a few individuals who were interested in the public forum. Participants took part in three discussion labs; socio economic, native customary rights (NCR) and the Native Court.

One of the feedbacks from the NCR group was given by Hassan Sui who addressed the disputes caused by the lack of accountability and transparency of government agencies such as the Land and Survey Department as well as plantation companies such as Pelita, and shared his recommendations. Another feedback by Temenggong Stephen Jussem stated that the ongoing manipulation and intimidation against the Tuai Rumahs to certify native land and boundaries, should stop.

Mujah had already participated for the first part of the forum in the morning session. During the morning tea break, he was pulled by one of the organisers to a room and was told to leave the forum as the event is only for invited participants and government officials.

Mujah protested that the forum is for the public and continued to insist that he should be in the forum. However, the organisers later told Mujah that the directive to eject him out of the forum came from the top.

The organisers of the forum were wrong in ejecting Mujah out. Mujah, a well-known community representative and NCR activist, in advocating Orang Asal rights plays an important role in providing feedback as well as recommendations for this public forum. He should not be stopped from attending the forum, unless the Prime Minister’s Department is not serious in addressing this issue and this event is just another window dressing for the public.

JOAS questions the accountability of the public forum that does not include the participation of a community representative and organisers that lacks of responsibility to be inclusive of all rakyat so as to ensure a transparent and open public forum to discuss upon the most important issues that are faced by the indigenous peoples of Sarawak today.

Until the government moves forward towards a meaningful solution with the full and effective participation and the free, prior and informed consent of the Orang Asal as enshrined in the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of the Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP), NCR land disputes will continue to take place throughout the state, to the detriment of the rights of the indigenous peoples of Sarawak, the sustainable development of the Sarawakian population and the image of the state of Sarawak and Malaysia, contrary to the spirit of 1Malaysia.


Yours truly,

Adrian Banie Lasimbang
President
Jaringan Orang Asal SeMalaysia (JOAS)
Indigenous Peoples network of Malaysia
joasmalaysia@ gmail.com

For more information please contact:

Nicholas Mujah
Sarawak Dayak Iban Association (SADIA)

Tel: 016-8946976
Email: sadiahq@gmail. com

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I do not know where to start and how to start. In fact, I not really like to write something what is inside my head, but well it's just begin. He3...