{"id":1498,"date":"2010-05-15T21:47:37","date_gmt":"2010-05-15T13:47:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nurulizzah.com\/site\/?p=1498"},"modified":"2021-02-05T23:15:12","modified_gmt":"2021-02-05T15:15:12","slug":"engaging-with-the-dayak-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nurulizzah.com\/site\/engaging-with-the-dayak-women\/","title":{"rendered":"Engaging with the Dayak women"},"content":{"rendered":"

DAP losing out on Dayak women votes<\/a><\/h2>\n

By Pushparani Thilaganathan<\/p>\n

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SIBU: As polling day gets closer, a sense of urgency has gripped the PKR camp over the inroads Barisan Nasional women\u2019s brigade has been making into Dayak women voters.<\/p>\n

PKR’s Lembah Pantai MP Nurul Izzah Anwar, who arrived here yesterday with a team, said it was among the priority areas in this last-ditch attempt to engage the women and youths.<\/p>\n

Nurul Izzah is hoping that being a woman and a youth herself, she will be able to break the ice.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s one of the priority areas… we\u2019re going in to see and talk,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

She expressed surprise when told that PKR was not doing enough compared to BN to woo the Dayak voters.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not possible to compete with BN’s overwhelming machinery\u2026 but our women are also on the ground and we are engaging the women voters,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Blogger and Dayak activist John Brian Anthnony wrote that the Pakatan Rakyat women\u2019s wing was weak in Sibu and that there was only one \u201creal\u201d woman campaigner \u2013 head of Sarawak PKR Women\u2019s Wing, Ibi Uding.<\/p>\n

He said in the next few days PKR and DAP needed to find ways to get the Dayak NGOs to help them if they wanted the vote of Dayak women.<\/p>\n

As it stands, Anthony said BN is ahead in Dayak women votes.<\/p>\n

\u201cMaybe, Idi Uding needs to change her routine of following the men and switch to forming an all- Dayak women campaign team.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis way, BN\u2019s Senator Empiang Jabu’s gain among Dayak women would be checked,\u201d he said, alluding to the Parti Bersatu Bumiputera (PBB) Wanita chief, who is supported by her deputy chief minister husband Alfred Jabu.<\/p>\n

Anthony believes that the Dayak women votes are crucial to the opposition and should not be ignored.<\/p>\n

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Women are more decisive now<\/strong><\/p>\n

Meanwhile, a tea chat with a local Foochow nurse, who calls herself Sin, revealed that many of the younger women voters were now more decisive than before.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy cousins and friends know what we need,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Coming from a family of six, Sin has been in Sibu all her life. Her maternal grandparents were from Kanowit, an hour\u2019s drive from Sibu town and she works in a district some three hours up the Rejang river.<\/p>\n

Women make up just over 50% of Sibu\u2019s voting community. Much of their lives are centred around work, school, church, temple and home.<\/p>\n

The PKR and DAP approach of engaging the youth and women community through churches and temples is seen as the right strategy.<\/p>\n

Said teacher Joseph: \u201cPeople here are reticent. You don\u2019t know what they are thinking… they are afraid to talk\u2026 especially the civil servants.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThey have been indoctrinated with fear that you owe your loyalty to the ruling government because they pay your salaries. They\u2019ve done this with the tuai (chiefs) in longhouses.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s intimidation\u2026 the opposition\u2019s approach to engaging the community through church seminars, chats is seen as casual, clean and honest,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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