Written by Dr. John Brian Anthony
Introduction
on 18th Oct 2008 night Sarakup Indu Dayak Sarawak (SIDS), the women wing of Sarawak Dayak National Union is having an annual dinner in Sibu Civic Centre. The SIDS Chairpeerson is YB Senator Datuk Empiang Jabu and by virtue of being the Women’s Wing Chairman, she is an automatic Vice President in SDNU. The other automatic Vice President is the Dayak Youth Wing with Dr. Dusit as its Acting Chairman.
It is important to note that all must become SDNU member first before they could joined SIDS or its Youth Wing. SDNU/SIDS and the Youth Wing must work closely together to ensure success in implementing its various initiatives. Read the full article »
Written by Dr. John Brian Anthony
This is an individual perspective on “Can we make Dayak’s NGO to work as one?”. This idea stemmed out of an earlier challenge, that is “Can Sarawak Dayak National Union be made as the Umbrella body to all Dayak Organization?”.
Why is this an important step forward to the Dayak?
The ever changing political environment, opportunities and challenges is a fact of life that the Dayak must accept. This idea of getting all Dayak NGO to work as one is to challenge the current paradigm that Dayak ethnic group is pursuing separate and specific goals but is not driving the Dayak to a greater political progress and economic achievement. Read the full article »
Written by Dr. John Brian Anthony
Many Dayakbaru members mentioned about the SDNU handling of Rumah Dayak in Satok, and the failure for the building to be completed till today. Many has even “associate” the failure to complete the building with Dayak inability to do anything well. That is the mentality and level of thinking we have to deal with today.
I must say, all are said for good purpose and intention to improve ourselves. But some say it in the spirit that Dayak are not capable of moving forward.So Dayak better surrender their future and live in the hand of other races in Sarawak. To some of us, Dayak are hopeless people. Is it so?
To help better understand the issue Dayakbaru would benefit from the following update.
A bit of History
An agreement was signed by SDNU and the property developer in 1997 (Crystal Realty) giving the developer 80% of the property and SDNU received 20% upon completion. The President then was Dato Seri Daniel Tajem and the Secretary General is Sidi Munan. Read the full article »
The completion of this website is another milestone for SDNU. This SDNU on line will bring SDNU to its members and potential members. Please use this platform to provide feedback, give your comment and suggestion and even sharing of experience and information.
SDNU can also now be contacted by our brothers across the boarder in Kalimantan, our Dayak brothers in Sabah and Brunei too. It is a simple development but will give great value in our effort to bring dayak as one and eventually form a World Dayak Federation body.
One small step forward will bring us to a thousand miles journey forward and all in the name of Dayak community being recognized and respected in this world.
Thank you for visiting this SDNU site. Please join us in SDNU.
Progress we MUST.
Dr. John Brian Anthony
The completion of this website is another milestone for SDNU. This SDNU on line will bring SDNU to its members and potential members. Please use this platform to provide feedback, give your comment and suggestion and even sharing of experience and information.
SDNU can also now be contacted by our brothers across the boarder in Kalimantan, our Dayak brothers in Sabah and Brunei too. It is a simple development but will give great value in our effort to bring dayak as one and eventually form a World Dayak Federation body.
One small step forward will bring us to a thousand miles journey forward and all in the name of Dayak community being recognized and respected in this world.
Progress we MUST.
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