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International Journal of Innovation, Creativity and Change. www.ijicc.net Volume 14, Issue 3, 2020 The Analysis of Food Symbols in the ‘Serarang’ Ritual of the Melanau Likow Community in Dalat, Sarawak Noor Norazila Inaia, Mohamad Maulana Magimanb*, Norhuda Sallehc , d e f Ahmad Nasir Mohd Yusoff & Mangai Tugau , Septian Aji Permana a,e , Ph.D candidate, Department of Social Science, Faculty of Agriculture and Food Science, Universiti Putra Malaysia Bintulu Campus, Sarawak, Malaysia, bSenior Lecturer, Department of Social Science, Faculty of Agriculture and Food Science, Universiti Putra Malaysia Bintulu Campus, Sarawak, Malaysia, cSenior Lecturer, Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Heritage, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Jalan UMS, 88100 Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia, d Senior Lecturer, Department of Government And Civilization Studies, Faculty of Human Ecology, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400 UPM Serdang, Selangor,Malaysia, Universitas PGRI Yogyakarta, Indonesia, Email: [email protected]. The Serarang ritual is a form of performance performed in the Melanau Likow community to be presented to Ipok. The presentation consists of symbolic elements based on each type of food served. These symbolic elements are involved with the belief and cosmological system that surround the lives of Melanau Likow. The main focus of this research is to analyse the symbol of food in the Serarang ritual from the viewpoint of non-verbal communication. This research used an ethnographic approach and the researchers also participated in the ritual. The data was collected through an in-depth interview with the main informant, Tama Kaul, and with the other ritual practitioners. The research was conducted in Kampung Medong, Dalat Sarawak. The data analysis found that the food that was delivered to Ipok had its own meaning and could be interpreted through shape, colour, and the way it was presented. -
The ISEAS Borneo Survey: Autonomy, Identity, Islam and Language/Education in Sarawak
ISSUE: 2018 No. 19 ISSN 2335-6677 RESEARCHERS AT ISEAS – YUSOF ISHAK INSTITUTE ANALYSE CURRENT EVENTS Singapore | 5 April 2018 The ISEAS Borneo Survey: Autonomy, Identity, Islam and Language/Education in Sarawak Lee Hock Guan* EXECUTIVE SUMMARY • ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute recently commissioned a public opinion survey of East Malaysian’s perspectives on Federal-State relationship, identity/religion, education/language and selected current issues. • The survey found strong support across all demographic groups in the Malaysian state of Sarawak for greater autonomy for the state, particularly in the areas of economic development, exploitation of natural resources, and education. • 63 percent of respondents identify themselves as Sarawakian first, and only about 25 per cent identify themselves as Malaysian citizens first. • The majority of respondents do not support Islam as the official state religion. 85 per cent of the Chinese respondents and 52 per cent of non-Muslim bumiputera respondents do not agree to having Islam as the state religion. In contrast 85 per cent of Muslim bumiputera respondents do. • Respondents across all demographic groups enthusiastically support reinstating English as the official state language and English medium schools in the state. * Lee Hock Guan is Senior Fellow at ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute. 1 ISSUE: 2018 No. 19 ISSN 2335-6677 INTRODUCTION ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute funded a survey recently which includes a section that is specifically about Sarawak. This survey was conducted between 12 and 25 July 2016. A sample of 803 respondents were interviewed via fixed-line and mobile phones. When Sarawak merged with the Malaysian Federation in 1963, the state was granted greater autonomy and had important privileges and safeguards bestowed upon it.1 Those privileges and safeguards have nevertheless been incrementally eroded or removed, especially after Singapore left the Federation in 1965 and the central government intervened to instate Rahman Yakup, a Muslim Melanau, as the third Chief Minister in 1970. -
Paul Beavitt My Aim in This Paper Is to Consider the Relationship Between
Paul Beavitt: Melanau Sickness Images: Spirits Given Physical Form 95 MELANAU SICKNESS IMAGES: SPIRITS GIVEN PHYSICAL FORM Paul Beavitt My aim in this paper is to consider the relationship between art and the act of healing with respect to one society in north eastern Borneo. This group, the Melanau, lives on the coastal areas of what is now the state of Sarawak, in East Malaysia. They were studied in 1949 and 1950 by Dr. H.S. Morris who died before he completed his planned publications. However, Beatrice Clayre edited his proposed study of Melanau ritual and belief for the Sarawak Museum Journal, and this volume provides the main source for this account. There were some 44,000 Melanau in Sarawak in 1960 - Jones 196 - three years before the formation of Malaysia - and, of these, some 10,000 followed traditional religious practices at that time, the rest were Moslem and Christian. Since this time, the number practicing traditional beliefs has declined further and greater numbers have become incorporated into Islam, and the population has intermingled more with coastal Malays. It is widely accepted that the Melanau were originally a part of the Kayan, Kajang, Kajaman population group, who were thought to have originated in the Usan Apau uplands of north central Borneo but later moved down river toward a number of coastal locations (Figure 1 on CD) where they began to cultivate the sago palm, in the swamp forests, frequently flooded by a combination of monsoon tides and the high rainfall in the region (in excess of 150 inches per year). -
English for the Indigenous People of Sarawak: Focus on the Bidayuhs
CHAPTER 6 English for the Indigenous People of Sarawak: Focus on the Bidayuhs Patricia Nora Riget and Xiaomei Wang Introduction Sarawak covers a vast land area of 124,450 km2 and is the largest state in Malaysia. Despite its size, its population of 2.4 million people constitutes less than one tenth of the country’s population of 30 million people (as of 2015). In terms of its ethnic composition, besides the Malays and Chinese, there are at least 10 main indigenous groups living within the state’s border, namely the Iban, Bidayuh, Melanau, Bisaya, Kelabit, Lun Bawang, Penan, Kayan, Kenyah and Kajang, the last three being collectively known as the Orang Ulu (lit. ‘upriver people’), a term that also includes other smaller groups (Hood, 2006). The Bidayuh (formerly known as the Land Dayaks) population is 198,473 (State Planning Unit, 2010), which constitutes roughly 8% of the total popula- tion of Sarawak. The Bidayuhs form the fourth largest ethnic group after the Ibans, the Chinese and the Malays. In terms of their distribution and density, the Bidayuhs are mostly found living in the Lundu, Bau and Kuching districts (Kuching Division) and in the Serian district (Samarahan Division), situated at the western end of Sarawak (Rensch et al., 2006). However, due to the lack of employment opportunities in their native districts, many Bidayuhs, especially youths, have migrated to other parts of the state, such as Miri in the east, for job opportunities and many have moved to parts of Peninsula Malaysia, espe- cially Kuala Lumpur, to seek greener pastures. Traditionally, the Bidayuhs lived in longhouses along the hills and were involved primarily in hill paddy planting. -
Language Use and Attitudes As Indicators of Subjective Vitality: the Iban of Sarawak, Malaysia
Vol. 15 (2021), pp. 190–218 http://nflrc.hawaii.edu/ldc http://hdl.handle.net/10125/24973 Revised Version Received: 1 Dec 2020 Language use and attitudes as indicators of subjective vitality: The Iban of Sarawak, Malaysia Su-Hie Ting Universiti Malaysia Sarawak Andyson Tinggang Universiti Malaysia Sarawak Lilly Metom Universiti Teknologi of MARA The study examined the subjective ethnolinguistic vitality of an Iban community in Sarawak, Malaysia based on their language use and attitudes. A survey of 200 respondents in the Song district was conducted. To determine the objective eth- nolinguistic vitality, a structural analysis was performed on their sociolinguistic backgrounds. The results show the Iban language dominates in family, friend- ship, transactions, religious, employment, and education domains. The language use patterns show functional differentiation into the Iban language as the “low language” and Malay as the “high language”. The respondents have positive at- titudes towards the Iban language. The dimensions of language attitudes that are strongly positive are use of the Iban language, Iban identity, and intergenera- tional transmission of the Iban language. The marginally positive dimensions are instrumental use of the Iban language, social status of Iban speakers, and prestige value of the Iban language. Inferential statistical tests show that language atti- tudes are influenced by education level. However, language attitudes and useof the Iban language are not significantly correlated. By viewing language use and attitudes from the perspective of ethnolinguistic vitality, this study has revealed that a numerically dominant group assumed to be safe from language shift has only medium vitality, based on both objective and subjective evaluation. -
The North Kalimantan Communist Party and the People's Republic Of
The Developing Economies, XLIII-4 (December 2005): 489–513 THE NORTH KALIMANTAN COMMUNIST PARTY AND THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA FUJIO HARA First version received January 2005; final version accepted July 2005 In this article, the author offers a detailed analysis of the history of the North Kalimantan Communist Party (NKCP), a political organization whose foundation date itself has been thus far ambiguous, relying mainly on the party’s own documents. The relation- ships between the Brunei Uprising and the armed struggle in Sarawak are also referred to. Though the Brunei Uprising of 1962 waged by the Partai Rakyat Brunei (People’s Party of Brunei) was soon followed by armed struggle in Sarawak, their relations have so far not been adequately analyzed. The author also examines the decisive roles played by Wen Ming Chyuan, Chairman of the NKCP, and the People’s Republic of China, which supported the NKCP for the entire period following its inauguration. INTRODUCTION PRELIMINARY study of the North Kalimantan Communist Party (NKCP, here- after referred to as “the Party”), an illegal leftist political party based in A Sarawak, was published by this author in 2000 (Hara 2000). However, the study did not rely on the official documents of the Party itself, but instead relied mainly on information provided by third parties such as the Renmin ribao of China and the Zhen xian bao, the newspaper that was the weekly organ of the now defunct Barisan Sosialis of Singapore. Though these were closely connected with the NKCP, many problems still remained unresolved. In this study the author attempts to construct a more precise party history relying mainly on the party’s own information and docu- ments provided by former members during the author’s visit to Sibu in August 2001.1 –––––––––––––––––––––––––– This paper is an outcome of research funded by the Pache Research Subsidy I-A of Nanzan University for the academic year 2000. -
A Study on Trend of Logs Production and Export in the State of Sarawak, Malaysia
International Journal of Marketing Studies www.ccsenet.org/ijms A Study on Trend of Logs Production and Export in the State of Sarawak, Malaysia Pakhriazad, H.Z. (Corresponding author) & Mohd Hasmadi, I Department of Forest Management, Faculty of Forestry, Universiti Putra Malaysia 43400 Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia Tel: 60-3-8946-7225 E-mail: [email protected] Abstract This study was conducted to determine the trend of logs production and export in the state of Sarawak, Malaysia. The trend of logs production in this study referred only to hill and peat swamp forest logs production with their species detailed production. The trend of logs export was divided into selected species and destinations. The study covers the analysis of logs production and export for a period of ten years from 1997 to 2006. Data on logs production and export were collected from statistics published by the Sarawak Timber Industry Development Corporation (Statistic of Sarawak Timber and Timber Product), Sarawak Timber Association (Sarawak Timber Association Review), Hardwood Timber Sdn. Bhd (Warta) and Malaysia Timber Industry Board (MTIB). The trend of logs production and export were analyzed using regression model and times series. In addition, the relation between hill and peat swamp forest logs production with their species and trend of logs export by selected species and destinations were conducted using simple regression model and descriptive statistical analysis. The results depicted that volume of logs production and export by four major logs producer (Sibu division, Bintulu division, Miri division and Kuching division) for hill and peat swamp forest showed a declining trend. Result showed that Sibu division is the major logs producer for hill forest while Bintulu division is the major producer of logs produced for the peat swamp forest. -
The Heart of Borneo: the Nexus of Bioregional Transition, Indigenous Environmental Ethics and Environmental Sustainability
The Heart of Borneo: the nexus of bioregional transition, indigenous environmental ethics and environmental sustainability International Society for Ecological Economics (ISEE) 2016 Conference held at the University of District Columbia, Washington, D.C, United States June 26-29, 2016 Choy Yee Keong Graduate School of Economics Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan [email protected] This work was supported by the MEXT*-Supported Program for the Strategic Research Foundation at Private University, 2014-2018 (*Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan) Aim To critically examine the process of bio- regional transition to a Green Economy in Borneo To examine the connection between indigenous environmental ethics and environmental sustainability and its implications on bioregional green economic transition Located in Southeast Asia Composition: Indonesia (Kalimantan), Malaysia (the states of Sarawak and Sabah) and Brunei, covering an area of roughly 740,000 km2) 3rd largest island in the world next to Greenland and New Guinea 3 Natural Cultural value value A unique blend of Economic value Forests evolved about 100 million years ago 15,000 plant species (>5,000 endemic) 150 reptile and amphibian species 100 mammal species 200 bird species Between 1994 and 2004: 361 new species 30 unique fish species identified 16 ginger species 3 tree species 2 tree frog species 2006 alone: 52 new species indentified 1 large-leafed plant Source: WWF, Indonesia, 2006 species Plant diversity: as great as all of Africa which is 40 times the size of Borneo Source: Schilthuizen, M. 2006. Biodiscoveries. Borneo’s Botanical Secret. World Wildlife Fund (WWF), Jakarta, Indonesia 8 world’s largest flower species Source: WWF (undated): http://wwf.panda.org/what_we_do/where_we_work/borneo_forests/about_borneo_forests/borneo_animals/bor neo_plants/, also, in WWF. -
The Response of the Indigenous Peoples of Sarawak
Third WorldQuarterly, Vol21, No 6, pp 977 – 988, 2000 Globalizationand democratization: the responseo ftheindigenous peoples o f Sarawak SABIHAHOSMAN ABSTRACT Globalizationis amulti-layered anddialectical process involving two consequenttendencies— homogenizing and particularizing— at the same time. Thequestion of howand in whatways these contendingforces operatein Sarawakand in Malaysiaas awholeis therefore crucial in aneffort to capture this dynamic.This article examinesthe impactof globalizationon the democra- tization process andother domestic political activities of the indigenouspeoples (IPs)of Sarawak.It shows howthe democratizationprocess canbe anempower- ingone, thus enablingthe actors to managethe effects ofglobalization in their lives. Thecon ict betweenthe IPsandthe state againstthe depletionof the tropical rainforest is manifested in the form of blockadesand unlawful occu- pationof state landby the former as aform of resistance andprotest. Insome situations the federal andstate governmentshave treated this actionas aserious globalissue betweenthe international NGOsandthe Malaysian/Sarawakgovern- ment.In this case globalizationhas affected boththe nation-state andthe IPs in different ways.Globalization has triggered agreater awareness of self-empow- erment anddemocratization among the IPs. These are importantforces in capturingsome aspects of globalizationat the local level. Globalization is amulti-layered anddialectical process involvingboth homoge- nization andparticularization, ie the rise oflocalism in politics, economics, -
The Demographic Profile and Sustainability Growth of the Bidayuh Population of Sarawak
International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences Vol. 8 , No. 14, Special Issue: Transforming Community Towards a Sustainable and Globalized Society, 2018, E-ISSN: 2222-6990 © 2018 HRMARS The Demographic Profile and Sustainability Growth of the Bidayuh Population of Sarawak Lam Chee Kheung & Shahren Ahmad Zaidi Adruce To Link this Article: http://dx.doi.org/10.6007/IJARBSS/v8-i14/5028 DOI: 10.6007/IJARBSS/v8-i14/5028 Received: 06 Sept 2018, Revised: 22 Oct 2018, Accepted: 02 Dec 2018 Published Online: 23 Dec 2018 In-Text Citation: (Kheung & Adruce, 2018) To Cite this Article: Kheung, L. C., & Adruce, S. A. Z. (2018). The Demographic Profile and Sustainability Growth of the Bidayuh Population of Sarawak. International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences, 8(14), 69–78. Copyright: © 2018 The Author(s) Published by Human Resource Management Academic Research Society (www.hrmars.com) This article is published under the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) license. Anyone may reproduce, distribute, translate and create derivative works of this article (for both commercial and non-commercial purposes), subject to full attribution to the original publication and authors. The full terms of this license may be seen at: http://creativecommons.org/licences/by/4.0/legalcode Special Issue: Transforming Community Towards a Sustainable and Globalized Society, 2018, Pg. 69 - 78 http://hrmars.com/index.php/pages/detail/IJARBSS JOURNAL HOMEPAGE Full Terms & Conditions of access and use can be found at http://hrmars.com/index.php/pages/detail/publication-ethics 69 International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences Vol. -
Ethnoscape of Riverine Society in Bintulu Division Yumi Kato Hiromitsu Samejima Ryoji Soda Motomitsu Uchibori Katsumi Okuno Noboru Ishikawa
No.8 February 2014 8 Reports from Project Members Ethnoscape of Riverine Society in Bintulu Division Yumi Kato Hiromitsu Samejima Ryoji Soda Motomitsu Uchibori Katsumi Okuno Noboru Ishikawa ........................................ 1 Events and Activities Reports on Malaysian Palm Oil Board Library etc. Jason Hon ............................................................................................ 15 The List of Project Members ........................................................ 18 Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (S) In front of a longhouse of Tatau people at lower Anap River March 2013 (Photo by Yumi Kato) Reports from Project Members division has more non-Malaysian citizens, Iban and Ethnoscape of Riverine Society in Melanau people than other areas and less Chinese Bintulu Division and Malay residents. Yumi Kato (Hakubi Center for Advanced Research, Kyoto University) Hiromitsu Samejima (Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Historically, the riverine areas of the Kemena and Kyoto University) Ryoji Soda (Graduate School of Literature and Human Tatau were under the rule of the Brunei sultanate until Sciences, Osaka City University) the late 19th century and the areas were nothing but Motomitsu Uchibori (Faculty of Liberal Arts, The Open University of Japan) sparsely-populated uncultivated land (Tab. 1). Back Katsumi Okuno (College of Liberal Arts, J.F. Oberlin then the Vaie Segan and Penan inhabited the basin University) Noboru Ishikawa (Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University) Other-Malaysian Introduction Citizens Non-Malaysian 0% Citizens The study site of this project is the riverine areas Orang Ulu 21% Iban 5% 40% Bidayuh 1% of the Kemena and Tatau Rivers in the Bintulu Divi- Malay 9% sion. This article provides an overview of the ethnic Melanau Chinese groups living along those rivers. -
(Pkpb) Negeri Sarawak Dikemaskini: 15 April 2021
SOP PERINTAH KAWALAN PERGERAKAN BERSYARAT (PKPB) NEGERI SARAWAK DIKEMASKINI: 15 APRIL 2021 Aktiviti dibenarkan Waktu 24 Jam Waktu Aktiviti Seperti Ketetapan Pergerakan Dibenarkan dalam Zon Berkuatkuasa Dibenarkan Penduduk masing-masing kecuali ke ▪ Rantaian aktiviti ekonomi dan Kawasan PKPD industri ▪ Melaksanakan Tugas Rasmi AKTIVITI DAN PROTOKOL Kerajaan ▪ Mendapatkan rawatan kesihatan, Tindakan Penerangan Ringkas urusan kecemasan dan kematian Kawasan Yang ▪ ZON KUCHING (Bahagian Kuching, Bahagian Samarahan dan Bahagian Serian) Terlibat ▪ ZON SRI AMAN (Bahagian SriAman) ▪ ZON SARIKEI (Bahagian Sarikei dan Bahagian Betong) ▪ ZON MUKAH (Bahagian Mukah) Aktiviti tidak dibenarkan ▪ ZON BINTULU (BahagianBintulu) Senarai aktiviti yang TIDAK DIBENARKAN ▪ ZON MIRI (Daerah Miri) (Negative List) ▪ ZON BELURU (Daerah Beluru) ▪ ZON SUBIS (Daerah Subis) ▪ ZON TELANG USAN (Daerah Telang Usan) ▪ ZON MARUDI (Daerah Marudi) ▪ ZON LIMBANG (Bahagian Limbang) ▪ ZON SIBU (Daerah Sibu) Arahan Tetap ▪ ZON KANOWIT (Daerah Kanowit) ▪ Peraturan 18 P.U. (A) 97/2021 ▪ ZON SELANGAU (Daerah Selangau) ▪ Ordinan Darurat (Pencegahan dan ▪ ZON KAPIT (Daerah Kapit) Pengawalan Penyakit Berjangkit) ▪ ZON SONG (Daerah Song) (Pindaan) 2021 ▪ ZON BELAGA (Daerah Belaga) ▪ Tertakluk kepada ketetapan yang dikeluarkan oleh MKN, KKM dan ▪ ZON BUKIT MABONG (Daerah Bukit Mabong) JPBN Sarawak ▪ Lain- lain arahan dari semasa ke semasa yang dikeluarkan oleh Ketua Tempoh 13 April Mac 2021 (mulai 12.01 pagi) sehingga 26 April 2021 (11.59 malam) Pengarah Kesihatan Berkuatkuasa 1 SOP PERINTAH