APAI SAWAI BEDANDANG BESAI ABA TEMUDA

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APAI SAWAI BEDANDANG BESAI ABA TEMUDA

Kitai Iban bisi udah bebeli ke Estima, Pejaro, Hilux – rega RM80,000 keatas. Nya kebuah enti kitai meli earth mover & backhoe, tu tentu ulih dirunding bansa kitai. Siko meli earth mover (lipan), siko meli piko, siko farm tractor, siko meli lori antu – beduruk nukar ke landscape temuda kitai. Tuju iya: Ka bumai bedandang besai.

Note: I have been advised that deliberate changes to the landscape using machines require IE reports from the environmental department. My argument is that you and I are farming our own land much like our ancestors did with slash & burn cultivation. On the other hand, once the land have been improved, our farm is permanently operated on the same piece for the coming many years. Compared to the chemical contamination of rivers by loggers, our operation does not bring lasting harm to the environment.

Pulai asuh randau tadi, enti kitai ulih beduruk, nama dandang besai ke enda ulih dikereja kitai? Namam sawit? Nadai penusah, nah di Trengganu, MB Datuk Ahmad ngagih ke paung sawit diberi iya asuh urang kampung. Enti sida nemu nanam kediri, kitai nemu mih.

Ka nanam Jatropha? Nya ulih mih. Endang kitai menya berumpang ribu ekar tanah kampung, nebang keyau ngena beliong enggau kapak aja. Ukai suba bisi tinso? Enti jatropha tu mulai ke pengelelak, nama kebuah enda ulih nanam? Nah urang menya nangkal jelutung malam malam ari.

Ka nanam buah mbawang, buah ma, buak kemanti? Ka nanam buah temendak, buah kepayang, buah rungang? Nya pen ulih enti bisi raga dipasar. Ka nanam mbawang bepuluh ekar enti nadai urang meli nadai guna ga.
Enggau jaku pandak, kitai bansa bisi tulung dianjung. Kitai bansa ukai bansa ke malas, bansake berat tulang, bansa ke enda nemu kereja.

OPITION SATU: Beduruk & berandau

Enti menya kitai beduruk diri serumah, diatu kitai beduruk semenua. Menua Undup bisi piko, menua Lemanak bisi lori antu, menua Kanowit bisi lipan. Tiga sitak menua tu beduruk. Din, di menua Baram siti ga duruk bukai.

Sebedau beduruk, kitai deka berandau dulu. Randau kitai munyi tu:

1. Kitai bansa tu endang bansa miskin, nadai wang kena modal. Ari nya kitai beserakup tulang. Kami menua Undup bisi piko, deka beduk enggau kitai menua Kanowit enggau menua Lemanak. Kitai kereja dua bulan ditu, dua bulan di Kanowit, dua bulan di Lemanak.

2. Nyadi baka minyak enggau driva, kitai ngumpul duit. Sapa ba duruk ngeluar ke RM200 siko siko kena meli minyak. Enti enda chukup, kitai berunding baru. Driva nya kira ke diri empu mih.

3. Baka spare part nya, laban tu dalam duruk arap ke enda rusak, tang enti jentera nya rusak kitai besaup ngadu ke iya.

NAMA UTAI TANAM?

Nitih ke penemu sida ke sekula di University, bisi udah datai PhD, kitai nanam tau ke nupi jelu ke bisi rega. Enti nadai rega nadai guna ga kitai nanam iya. Kapa ga nanam ensabi bepuluh ekar enti enda berega? Nah engkabang ke bisi rega ambis ditebang sida Ah Heng.

Kedua mesti bisi endur nyual. Enti sema mina segelintir urang ke deka meli, nama guna nanam nya bedandang besai? Dinga ke penemu sida Dom, sida Igat di sekula tinggi. Sema nupi ikan empurau berega RM400 sekilo, gaji sapa ke tebeli ke nya? Nah ikan sultan RM16 sekilo enda ambis dibeli urang. Peda aba Sibu Jaya dia, sapa ke meli ikan sultan?

Ketiga mesti nanam utai ke temu kitai teknoloji iya. Nanam jatropha to manah endar, tang meproses iya ngambi ke tau dijual, nemu ke enda bansa Iban? Enti bisi endor kitai belajar, anang malu kitai kin, pinta ajar urang. Enti urang enggai ngajar free, bayar aja mih. Nadai duti kena mayar, nadai penemu bukai, pulai. Ka mukut urang salah ga kitai.

Ari nya option (pilihan) Apai Sawai pulai asuh nanam sawit. Laban ke udah kereja aba ladang sawit begaji RM13 sehari, Apai Sawai nemu nanam sawit.

I have been informed that beside being paid RM13 per day, they do not have any SOCSO ie insurance coverage, or EPF contribution. They are also not provided with safety clothing while working with weedicides.

Meli leka Sawit

Menya sawit dikumbai urang sabun.

Rega sawit baka tu:
• Leka RM2 seleka. Tu kira ke udah disilik sereta diengkah dalam rumah panas.
• Paung sawit RM16 sepun, nitih ke pemesai iya.

Terena ke leka sawit, di beli ari kompeni ari Miri nyin. Udah beduruk ngereja tanah, udah kena meli minyak, udah kena ngadu ke jentera rusak, udah nya meli leka sawit, meli beg endur nerenak ke sawit baru neresak, duit udah ambis lebih kurang RM15,000, enda nyengkaum rega jentera berat.

Nanam sawit, nebas umai, ngerachun umai, nya oengawa kereja diri empu aja. Enti ulih ngiga urang ke deka bekuli dia.

OPTION KEDUA

Tiga iko sida Apai Sawai serumah bekungsi. Sida baru udah kereja di menua tasik din, nyadi diver, nyadi fitter, nyadi welder di menua urang laban nadai kereja dimenua diri empu. Pulai ke menua bisi ga duit mimit mimit lalu di kunsi ke sida tiga.

Siti Piko rega RM80K (secondhand), siti lori antu rega RM25K, (toyota secondhand), lalu ketiga lipan, enggau rega RM120K (komatsu secondhand).

Target: Bisnis mutung tanah nanam sawit.
Upah: Tiga mesin, enggau minyak, driva RM1,000 sari.

Agi ke diatu, sida tida nadai tentu bisi bisnis, tang laban mensia bansa Dayak udah mula nemu, sida tiga nyangka bisnis deka niki aba taun Rimau 2010 tu.

Rationale

Despite the ridiculous and light-hearted presentation of this article, the message is serious.

Our forefathers did not receive any instruction on how they utilise their land. They used adzes and axes to hew acres of virgin jungle and started claiming land of their own. By the time of the Chinese arrival at around 1800, much of the present cultivated areas were already under the hands of the Dayak communities. Unfortunately the concept of land titles and ownership claims are still contentious issues until today.

The number one problem, as mentioned, is the inability of the Dayaks to register legal claims on their lands, where we see as numerous legislative barriers completely alien to our forefathers. In olden days, the sight of mbawang, durians, lensat etc would be adequate “legal” proof of ownership, but today regarded as both invalid and insufficient. The tembawai are slowly bulldozed and our old mbawang trees are fell by loggers, sharing similar fate as the engkabang (Shorea species – red meranti).

The solution to this ownership claim is in the hands of the Dayaks themselves. First of all, we must revive the concept of “beduruk” where we MUST share our resources. The investment to revive our land is expensive, but we really have no choice. The modus operandi needs to be fine-tuned.

Secondly, we must cultivate these land in the same manner as our ancestors – unrestricted and unlimited. This would be the most concrete proof of onwership. We cannot leave the temuda idle and unproductive. Why would be succumb to the Oil Palm companis when we can plan similar oil pam trees of our own on the same land? We have argument rights to retain our temuda.

Thirdly we have to commercialise our operations. Business of land cultivation is similar to any business. We must make money. We must handle and invest the money.

These are the three messages of this article.

Finally, I want to apologise to any Dayak who is really an Apai Sawai. I don’t know anybody with such name and he is used here to represent all of us, the Dayaks. May it be well with Apai Sawai, and with God’s blessing may he succeed.

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