Tan Sri William Mawan, President of Sarawak Progressive Democratic Party (SPDP) told reporters in Sibu yesterday, that the party will reveal the party’s candidate for Mas Gading parliamentary seat ahead of the GE13 polls.

The announcement of the candidate will give the candidate as well as the people in Mas Gading the chance to get-to-know their election candidate better.

In the past, party candidate are only known by the voters when Barisan Nasional announce their candidates, which happen just a few days before they goes to poll. They will be a lot of applause as well as  disappointment, especially when the candidate favoured by majority of the party supporters was not being nominated.

Learning from past mistake, SPDP is going to make a brave move by announcing their new candidate ahead of the official announcement by the Barisan Nasional. JAMESJG.COM is sure that this announcement will have the blessing of YAB Datuk Seri Najib and YAB Pehin Sri Taib.

With the assurance from YAB Pehin Sri Taib, that he is not interfering with the SPDP crisis, the naming of Mas Gading candidate shall be seen as the ultimate party choice.

Tan Sri William Mawan, “When the chips are down, that is, it is finished. People will go to that Barisan Nasional candidate and not otherwise. Mas Gading is generally the Barisan Nasional stronghold.

We are confident of winning all four parliamentary seats… when the chips are down the people will know how to choose.”

To all the Mas Gading hopefuls; to service the people, it is not only a matter of winning, but also a matter of understanding how the government system works, and which federal agency to look for to solve the rakyat’s problem.

JAMESJG.COM hopes the chosen candidate is on social media too!

KUCHING: A political analyst yesterday said formation of Barisan Nasional (BN) clubs to accommodate disgruntled members of respective components of BN will set a bad precedent for the ruling coalition.

Dr Jeniri Amir, a local university lecturer, feared that if the BN clubs are allowed to spawn, their prominence will slowly erode the relevance of BN political parties and also the power-sharing concept which the BN had been practising all this while.

When rubbishing claims by state independent incumbent Datuk Peter Nansian Ngusie (Tasik Biru) and Datuk Sylvester Entrie Muran (Marudi) that he is only an armchair critic and agent of interested parties, Jeniri said his recent comment on the matter was a responsible one based on academic assessment.

He said his statement on BN’s future and whether should clubs be allowed were based on his experience on the ground for over 30 years and also in his capacity as a political analyst for the last 10 years.

“If my comments and opinions were not worthy, then local and national media as well as international media would not have called me and sought for them (opinions). My opinions are without malice and I am not affiliated to any (political) party. The comments on BN’s future are fair,” he said.

Hitting at Nansian and Entrie that their credibility was also suspect, Jeniri said: “President Truman used to say, there are three truths – your truth, my truth and their truth.”

Nansian and Entrie has made unprecedented moves by forming BN clubs in their respective constituencies and they were also contemplating to get the Regsistrar of Societies (ROS) register them after they were sacked by BN component Sarawak Progressive Democratic Party (SPDP) for undermining party leadership and gross insubordination.

Recently a hardcore ground spokesman for SPDP Stewart Aying who is also SPDP Lambir chief, said the sacked members are trying to hang on to the BN for political survival and to secure the right to disburse BN minor rural project (MRP) fund and maintain their assistant ministerial posts.

Aying reasoned that the BN at the moment do not want to rock their own boat simply by announcing that these independent incumbents (in Mas Gading and Tasik Biru) are outside BN, explaining that if it (the BN) announce that they were outside the coalition, it would technically lose several representatives.

Apart from Nansian and Entrie, the other controversial elected respresentatives are Datuk Dr Tiki Lafe (Mas Gading MP) and state assemblypersons Rosey Yunus (Bekenu) and Paulus Palu Gumbang (Batu Danau).

Aying further said the BN still need them to support their policies during debates in the State Legislative Assembly (DUN) and Parliament, when explaining why it (the BN) appeared to be supporting these independent representatives now.

He also pointed out that the crucial time for the BN is nomination day because this would be the time for the coalition to decide if they should stick to their BN principle or allowed candidates from clubs to contest in elections.

“I would say that, should Mas Gading or Tasik Biru BN clubs be approved by BN then nothing could then stop UMNO, MCA or MIC dissenting members to form clubs everytime they are unhappy with party leadership,” he said.

He added BN clubs would open the floodgates and set a bad precedent in the government fold and such approval would not augur well for BN’s future.

BN is a coalition of political parties and clubs would only set to make all 14 parties in BN irrelevant one day, he stressed.

“Even if these clubs later on sprang into action and turned BN into a single entity or party, there will be no more power-sharing concept which is being practiced by the fold now,” he added.

By Churchill Edward

KUCHING: State Democratic Action Party (DAP) special assistant to Bandar Kuching MP, Mordi Bimol, was totally off the mark when he stated that Sarawak Progressive Democratic Party’s (SPDP) Tan Sri William Mawan Ikom’s presidency is just decorative lacking power in the Barisan Nasional (BN).

SPDP Youth chief Robert Ayu said this when commenting on Mordi’s recent take on Mawan.

Mordi is said to be the DAP hopeful to contest in Mas Gading come next parliamentary election but thus far the loose state opposition fold Pakatan Rakyat (PR) has yet to confirm  this speculation.

When contacted yesterday Robert pointed out that Mordi’s comment was calculated to put a wedge between Mawan and State BN chairman Pehin Sri Abdul Taib Mahmud and / or between Taib and federal BN chairman Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak.

He said the BN is experiencing a process where few leaders are clamouring for positions in the BN because BN is a winnable coalition.

Robert was referring to the sacked office bearers of SPDP in Datuk Peter Nansian Ngusie, Datuk Dr Tiki Lafe, Datuk Sylvester Entrie Muran, Rosey Yunus and Paulus Palu Gumbang who professed to be supporting BN using a proposed vehicle, the BN clubs.

“They are hanging on to BN because BN is winnable coalition otherwise they would have joined the DAP. Why are they not joining DAP?,” he said.

“Mordi’s comment was aimed at ridiculing the president but ignoring the fact that SPDP is now building foundation for young leaders and budding politicians,” said Robert when explaining the effect of the vacancies left behind by the sacked office bearers.

Mawan, being SPDP president has influence in BN, he said.

“The president is very much in control (of the party) and he too has influence in BN. We have  four parliamentary seats in which two incumbent MPs are deputy ministers while one, chairman of the BN Backbenchers Club,” he said explaining that SPDP elected representatives has the greatest of chance to be given government official posts because of Mawan’s influence.

Mawan is State Senior Minister and Social Development Minister while former SPDP office bearer Dr Tiki was also former deputy minister for two terms, Robert stressed.

Among the four seats is Mas Gading which may see a new BN face come parliamentary polls. Saratok is now being held by vice president Jelaing Mersat while Baram (senior vice president Datuk Jacob Dungau Sagan) and Bintulu (treasurer-general Datuk Seri Tiong King Sing).

Robert said Mordi was again wrong when he said Mawan could not solve the recent party leadership crisis.

There were various factors which Mawan had to consider, and the party has regarded the crisis duly.

Posted on January 30, 2012, Monday

KUCHING: Sarawak Progressive Democratic Party (SPDP) is a political party with principles as it adheres to the constitution and principles of Barisan Nasional (BN).

It is therefore relevant in the society despite the ‘misperception’ which two independent representatives, namely Datuk Peter Nansian Ngusie and Datuk Dr Tiki Lafe, tried to create in the minds of people in Bau last Saturday, said party secretary-general Nelson Balang Rining yesterday.

He said as of yesterday he had not received any resignation letter from members of SPDP in Mas Gading division.

So technically, the 1,000 members said to be siding Nansian and Dr Tiki are still very much party members, he pointed out.

Balang was responding to a public query on whether SPDP or other BN parties for that matter would lose their relevance when five independent representatives tried to champion the setting up of a BN club.

He said: “SPDP is still relevant to society. Those who said they are not are trying to play down BN’s relevance in society too. BN is a coalition of political parties.”

He cited growing number of membership applications as proof that SPDP still had its public appeal.

“SPDP’s relevance depends very much on overall support of the people and recruitment from time to time. As far as SPDP Mas Gading is concerned, the number of people at the last two dinners showcasing potential replacements for the current incumbents (Nansian and Dr Tiki) in Bau is proof that SPDP and BN are still relevant,” he said.

“New members applying to join the party elsewhere recently and handing over of membership forms to join SPDP Puteri last Saturday also showed that the party is relevant. SPDP has major roles to play in our society,” he added.

“And don’t forget even the 1,000 people whom the independent YBs claimed to be siding with them are still party (SPDP) members. Technically they are still BN members,” he stressed.

On his take on party president Tan Sri William Mawan Ikom’s actions of late, Balang said Mawan’s firm decision on most crucial matters had made him a credible leader in the eyes of members, let alone party loyalists.

On the five independent elected representatives – Dr Tiki (Mas Gading MP) and state assemblypersons Nansian (Tasik Biru), Datuk Sylvester Entrie Muran (Marudi), Rosey Yunus (Bekenu) and Paulus Palu Gumbang (Batu Danau) who claimed they were BN members – Balang said SPDP would always see them as outsiders.

When contacted yesterday, SPDP Lambir division chief Stewart Aying, however, said these independent representatives were playing ‘politics of perception and political survival’.

A hardcore grassroots spokesman for SPDP, Aying said he hoped his counterparts in Mas Gading understood their (independents) political game and ultimate motive.

“The sacking of these five office bearers from SPDP was a painful decision but it had to be made otherwise party leaders would lose credibility,” he said.

He explained that at the moment BN did not want to rock the boat simply by announcing that these independent incumbents (in Mas Gading and Tasik Biru) were outside BN.

There are good reasons for this, he said.

“Firstly, BN needs people to disburse minor rural project (MRP) funds and who else better than the incumbents (Nansian and Dr Tiki) themselves?

“Secondly, if BN announces now that these incumbents are outside BN, then the coalition will technically be losing two representatives or more if it includes YB Entri, YB Rosey and YB Paulus. BN still needs them to support their policies during debates in the State Legislative Assembly and Parliament,” he said when explaining why BN appeared to be supporting these independent representatives now.

Not selfish in sharing political views, Aying pointed out that the crucial time for BN was nomination day because this would be the time for the coalition to decide if it should stick to its principle or allow candidates from clubs to contest in elections.

“I would say, should Mas Gading or Tasik Biru BN clubs be approved by BN then nothing could then stop dissenting members of Umno, MCA or MIC from forming clubs every time they are unhappy with their party leadership,” he said.

To him, formation of BN clubs would only open the floodgates and set a bad precedent in the government fold.

“Such approval does not augur well for BN’s future. BN is a coalition of political parties and clubs would only set to make all 14 parties in BN irrelevant one day, he stressed.

“Even if these clubs later on spring into action and turn BN into a single entity or party, there will be no more power-sharing concept which is practised by the fold now,” he added.

SPDP will be holding its Triennial General Meeting (TGM) on March 17 and 18 at Bintulu to regularise their actions apart from reconsolidating members from all over Sarawak. The party now has around 90,000 members.

JAMESJG.COM says, “The test of loyalty towards Barisan Nasional will be proven come GE13. Let us see if these community leaders give their votes to BN-SPDP in Mas Gading. Lidah tidak bertulang, loyalty will decide your fate in DUN election later.”

Reaching out to all the young ladies: Barbara (seated third right) and the rest of the exco members after the wing’s first meeting since its formation.

Puteri SPDP receives nearly 8,000 new membership applications, says its chief

KUCHING: Newly formed Puteri SPDP is off to a good start as it has secured close to 8,000 members, most of whom have tertiary education.

Its chief Barbara Mawan said for this month alone the wing, which catered to ladies aged between 18 and 35, received 600 new applications from students of universities and colleges.

“We have already submitted the forms to our secretary-general,” she said.

Puteri SPDP, according to her, is a platform for the age group to voice issues concerning them.

“And we are going to make ourselves more attractive from today onwards,” she said after chairing the wing’s first exco-meeting at SPDP headquarters here yesterday.

She believed that Puteri SPDP would play a pivotal role in helping Barisan Nasional and the party since it was addressing new young voters.

“Being 21 and above makes you eligible to vote so if we can convince them that we have a healthy platform for them to air their views and we respond fairly to them, then I’m sure they may change the way they see the party,” she explained.

The three-hour meeting also saw the formation of four special bureaus within Puteri SPDP which centred on economy, education, sports and cultural and welfare.

Barbara conceded that regardless of age, the problems faced were not very different and so Puteri SPDP hoped to complement the other wings of SPDP in addressing the issues among the young women.

“I do not see it as overlapping because in the party we are a family. We complement each other; we assist Wanita SPDP and also the Supreme Council. Without such machinery, we will not be effective in discharging our duties,” she explained.

Source: The Star Online

By RINTOS MAIL
rintos@thestar.com.my

Dr. Jeniri Amir

KUCHING: The proposed formation of the Sarawak Barisan Nasional Club will create more problems to the Barisan Nasional coalition, warned a political analyst.

Jeniri Amir, who is a senior lecturer with Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (Unimas), said that condoning its formation would be tantamount to going against the Barisan principle.

He went on to say that allowing the five ex-SPDP elected representatives to pursue their political interest through such club would set a precedent that no other party president would want to condone.

The five ex-SPDP elected representatives are Datuk Peter Nansian Ngusie (Industrial Development Assistant Minister and Tasik Biru assemblyman), Datuk Sylvester Entrie Muran (Water Supply Assistant Minister and Marudi assemblyman), Datuk Dr Tiki Lafe (Mas Gading MP), Rosey Yunus (Family Development Assistant Minister and Bekenu assemblywoman) and Paulus Gumbang (Batu Danau assemblyman).

Recently, Nansian, who is the spokesman for the five, told a press conference that the proposed club would be the new vehicle for them to pursue their political struggle under Barisan.

Nansian also said that a protem committee for the club had been formed and an application to register the club would be submitted to the Registrar of Societies after the Chinese New Year celebration.

“The purpose of forming the club is to gather and continue the support of the people in our respective seats for Barisan. We believe through the club we will be able to show our unity and solid support behind Barisan.

“So far, the response to the club has been good and we hope Barisan will appreciate it,” Nansian told newsmen after a ceremony to take down the SPDP signboards and replace them with new signboards bearing the name “Pusat Khidmat Wakil Rakyat Barisan Nasional” at his service centre and that of Dr Tiki’s in Bau recently.

Jeniri, however, argued: “If you allow some individuals who have been sacked from a Barisan component party to form a club just to remain in the coalition, its implication is far-reaching not just to the party involved but also to Barisan as a whole.

“The formation of the club, if condoned by Barisan, will create confusion, cause splits and weaken the coalition.”

According to Jeniri, there is no need for such a club to be formed because Barisan is a coalition of political parties and not a club.

He said the action of the five ex-SPDP elected representatives to form the club was actually sending a wrong message to Barisan members and followers.

“Imagine, what will happen if it happens in PBB, which is the biggest party in Barisan?” he asked.

Jeniri said Barisan should go by its principle and take serious action against the five. He said the five had been sacked by SPDP, which is a component of Barisan, and they should not be allowed to park or form such a club for their own survival.

“I believe Barisan has its own standard operating procedure to deal with cases like this. “It should follow the procedure, abide by the principle and maintain its consistency,” he said.

Jeniri suggested that the five should just quit totally from their present posts in the government.

“They are talking about principle, but why are they not abiding by the Barisan principle. “They are out of SPDP. Because SPDP is a component of Barisan they should be out from Barisan too,” he said.

Nansian and his group had decided to group themselves under the proposed club after their membership in SPDP was terminated in December last year.

Before that, the party had sacked Datuk Sylvester Entrie Muran, Water Supply Assistant Minister and Marudi assemblyman, for insubordination.

KUCHING: Sarawak Progressive Democratic Party (SPDP) will intensify its activities in Krian and Ba Kelalan in the months to come to reconsolidate party members and also help Barisan Nasional (BN) to strengthen the local bases. The party has in fact held many activities at the two state constituencies but not enough to attract the attention of the media, its deputy secretary-general Paul Igai texted via SMS yesterday.

BN-SPDP lost the two seats to Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) in the last state election “due to some political confusion and manouevering several months prior to the April 16 state poll.

“But just because there was no intense media coverage in Ba Kelalan and Krian, that does not mean the party is not canvassing any support for the BN there,” said Paul, who is also a political secretary to the Chief Minister when rubbishing claims made by several independent assemblypersons that the party was overlooking the two areas.

Apart from Krian and Ba Kelalan, other state seats allocated to SPDP are Marudi, Tasik Biru, Meluan, Pakan, Bekenu and Batu Danau while its parliamentary seats are Bintulu, Baram, Mas Gading and Saratok.

The four parliamentary seats will see a lot of political activities in the next few months prior to the general election.

“We have many activities in Saratok and Krian. Activities have also been planned for Ba Kelalan.

“There seems to be a lot of activities in Mas Gading and Baram of late because of intense media coverage there. But there are no less party activities in Saratok and Bintulu.”

On another matter, Paul described last Saturday political gathering in Bau by former members of the party as a gathering of five independent assemblypersons apparently supporting the BN.

“Since they are now ex-SPDP members, we wish them all the best,” he said.

He said the party’s main focus now was to hold the next triennial general meeting (TGM) in Bintulu in March.

He said the party would also need to assess a new candidate in Mas Gading because the incumbent MP Datuk Dr Tiki Lafe (also former SPDP vice-president) was no more a party member.

Much repair work would be required in Baram too.

Paul said: “Baram needs reconsolidation of BN members to lessen the impact of the sacking of its former vice-president Datuk Sylvester Entri (also Marudi assemblyman) from the party last November.”

Paul now functions as publicity and information chief following the membership termination of its former information chief Paulus Palu Gumbang (also Batu Danau assemblyman).

To all my Chinese readers, may the Year of the Water Dragon brings you happiness, success and filled with peace, hope and togetherness of your family and friends….Wishing you Gong Xi Fa Cai!

By Churchill Edward, Borneo Post
18th January 2012

Tan Sri William Mawan

KUCHING: The void left by the five sacked elected representatives of Sarawak Progressive Democratic Party (SPDP) is a blessing because it provides budding politicians opportunity to be selected as future Barisan Nasional (BN) candidates.

And on winning (elections) they would become a part of the next echelon of state leaders, said SPDP president Tan Sri William Mawan yesterday.

He said those who ridiculed SPDP by calling it a mosquito party were not only sarcastic but they did not have the foresight that the party was in the process of producing state leaders, said Mawan who is BN vice-chairman and Minister of Social Development.

“New leaders will provide people with new hope, fresh promises and enthusiasm,” said Mawan who is also Pakan assemblyman.

The youth would benefit much from this latest development in the party, he added.

He said the five elected representatives, now party less (or pro-BN independents) could not take the seats with them because they were already allocated to SPDP.

He was commenting on his critics’ statement that the party was a mosquito party after it terminated the membership of five elected representatives. The latest critics are political observers apparently with opposition mindset and several Sarawak National Party (SNAP) leaders.

Mawan said the crisis in SPDP last year was different from the one experienced by SNAP in 2002.

In SPDP’s case, he said the crisis started when its former secretary-general Datuk Sylvester Entri wanted the post so badly that he eventually committed gross insubordination while SNAP’s case involved its alleged failure to exercise natural justice when handling a decision to suspend Bintulu MP Datuk Seri Tiong King Sing until the Registrar of Societies (ROS) had to intervene.

“But we never bad-mouthed SNAP. We grew up with SNAP. When the party (SNAP) was in trouble, SPDP took over to keep the majority of its members intact with the BN,” he said in rubbishing SNAP’s belief that what SPDP had experienced was Karma.

He said the sacking of the five elected representatives namely Entri (Marudi), Datuk Peter Nansian (Tasik Biru), Rosey Yunus (Bekenu) and Paulus Palu Gumbang (Batu Danau) as well as Mas Gading MP Datuk Dr Tiki Lafe, was a “consequence rather than the cause”.

“Ninety per cent of the (sacking) job was done by the five ex-members. We (SPDP) never wanted to sack anybody. We had to terminate them because we could not continue to be at loggerhead with them.”

He said the party was now embarking on holding activities with the aim at rejuvenating itself and helping BN to reconsolidate members on the ground.

Asked if the number of elected representatives in SPDP was a priority, Mawan said: “As far as SPDP is concerned, one seat more or one seat less will not make me the Chief Minister or Deputy Chief Minister.”

“What is most important is that SPDP has been guided along BN principle,” he said.

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A special Thank You to:

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I couldn’t possibly reply to you guys individually, but coming into my 44th year, there are a few things that I have notably realised.

We tend to spend more time putting on the green (agreed by Dana Empading). Back in 2005, I spend just little time putting.. look, aim, hit..! It doesn’t matter if you win the game or not, but its the network, friendship and beer that matter most. However, that time, most of my schoolmates are busy with their career. Today, it is good to see them on the fairway (ehh Stephen, Dana, etc.)

LOL.. dun ask when we are going to have a round.. I am busy ferrying marine crew these days. But, an hour at the driving range should be a good time to catch up with the latest gossip on Dayak politics.

Another notably thing is that, we tend to eat less meat after forty. Its not so much about health, but our teeth are no longer tightly arranged like before. So, its more of fish and vegetable on the dinner table.

Coming home late after beer… remember this, don’t call before noon. We are having a bad headache!

Anyway, I would like to thank everyone for your birthday messages, prayer, calls and smses. God bless you too and here is a video for everyone to view.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_24GeI7aRA