Sunday, March 28, 2010

Malaysia and Its Indigenous People

A Bernama report today stated that Putatan Member of Parliament, Datuk Marcus Mojigoh claimed Malaysia as the best example when it comes to handling indigenous peoples' rights. This is some of what he said according to Bernama:

"We care for them from womb to grave. We have a lot of programmes for them. For example, housing, schools and healthcare facilities are built close to the villages of indigenous people so that they are not forced to move to urban areas."As a result, mortality rates have dropped and poverty is being alleviated, and through education, they have greater control of their lives," he said.

Since Datuk Marcus himself is from an indigenous community, what he said must be right. However, those of you who feel otherwise are welcome to share your comments.

13 comments:

Anonymous said...

Refer this plus the comment made:
http://tbsbidayuh.blogspot.com/2008/04/when-rooster-crows-ii.html

What the Wilaya SM claimed their credit in Borneo were using the revenue from the Borneo's oil and timber resources.
It just like a stranger taking money from your pocket and claimming that it is for your family's future...
Is this consider robbing ?

Anonymous said...

Ingati buku sejarah di sekolah menengah tercatat: Negara Kesultanan Melayu yg pertama di Semanjung Melaka ialah Parameswara, beliau berasa dari Palembang, Sumantra... pada masa itu kerajaan Melaka dihendaki membayar "bunga emas" kpd Raja Siam.

Ini bermaksud Tanah Melayu semanjung adalah milik Siam (Thailand), dan Melayu adalah pendatang dari Sumantra!!
Nah, sekarang penduduk "red shirt" Thai sudah "bertumpah darahnya" di Bangkok sedangkan mengjawapi lagu Negaraku dan Tanah Semanjung adalah milik Thai... dgn itu, org Tanah Samanjung Melayu yg tak hormati dgn Raja Thai sepatutnya dikejar balik ke Tanah Melayu Sumantra !!!

Sebaliknya, pulau Borneo adalah sebuah negara tersendiri yg tak bergaitan langsung dgn Kesultanan Tanah Melayu... oleh itu, parti2 SM dan Sultan2 SM sepatut tak boleh kacau kehidupan org Tanah Borneo...

Komem ini dapatkan dari:
http://www.sabahforum.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=14969

UrbanChicks said...

Yeah actually we have those thing but as for me still not enough since our general populace become more bigger. And also we still need to have more fund to develop rural and urban land. I believe, we can do more and more, as a preparing ourselves to face the coming year of 2020.

So yeah, Best of luck to all.

nokuro tii said...

There are a lot of things that can be improve in managing the indigenous people...

jack said...

yeah...lots of things can be improve specially at the rural area...hope that in the RMK10, govt will put the development of the rural areas specially sabah and sarawak as they top priority..

rite said...

There are still lots of spaces to be improved.

grt said...

Kita tau pasal tanah melayu tapi sayangnya mereka tidak tahu langsung pasal KDM.

:P said...

Difference between Malaya and Sabah & Sarawak is the indigenous people.

POP said...

They are different from us but we accept them as our own. But i know the government can do better than that. I really hope to see even more improvement.

aku bah said...

Ada betulnya juga lah. Tapi rasanya kerajaan boleh buat lebih baik lagi utk kebajikan Indigenous people :)

G.D said...

History is a place where we learn about our roots but too bad, there are a lot of forgotten facts has been erased and entered with lies. So sad..

Asmawati said...

Saya tak nafikan kerajaan memang sudah jalankan peranan mereka... Cuma saya harap agar mereka tingkatkan lagi usaha dan dalam masa yang sama semua pihak haruslah bekerjasama utk sama2 bergerak ke arah yang lebih baik.

wilmar said...

masyarakat majmuk malaysia janganlah dihina? sejarah menjadikan malaysia negara majmuk yang sekarang ini hidup aman damai. this article intended to create anger among malaysian! please respect malaysian for living in peaceful country of Malaysia.