Tuesday 17 April 2012

CHINESE SHOULD BE CONSIDERED AS NATIVES


The Chinese should be considered as natives or indigenous people of Sabah because history recorded their presence in Borneo as early as 835AD. Sabah Native Cultural and Welfare Organisation (Sano) President, Samson Quintin, said the involvement of the Chinese community in shaping the history of Borneo was also evident through one Ong Sum Ping in 1375 who landed in Kinabatangan.

Ong and his army succeeded in stopping the Suluks' advancement into the territory and in later years he married the daughter of the Sultan of Brunei.

"Based on this fact, I am of the opinion that the Chinese are also qualified to be considered natives of Sabah," he said in a statement here Saturday.

"There is a difference between the term Anak Negeri (indigenous) and Bumiputera," he said.

"For example, in the peninsula, the Malays do not consider themselves as Anak Negeri because the Sakai tribe and others there are the indigenous people.

"Similarly in Sabah, the term native is for native and Bumiputera is for Bumiputera," he said. (DE)

8 comments:

  1. Don't make people of Sabah confuse. Chinese will never be natives in Sabah. Native mean originally people of Sabah. (Orang asli/Orang Asal)

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  2. Ada yang megatakan orang Kadazandusun ini berasal dari Mongolia dan sedikit campuran Tiongkok.

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    1. patut ada satu kajian mendalam tentang asal usul kadazan dusun..

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  3. In Sabah the term Native means the orang Asli such as Kadazan, Dusun and Murut. This idea that Chinese should be considered as Native is new to me.

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  4. This suggestion should be reviewed first before approval. I'm not sure what the rest of the Sabahans think about this.

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  5. cadangan ini perlu mendapat persetujuan semua pihak. natives adalah untuk orang asal.

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  6. cuba minta pandangan seluruh rakyat Sabah dahulu, adakah mereka bersetuju bahawa kaum cina perlu diberikan status native..

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  7. Ini tidak boleh diputuskan begitu saja dan memerlukan perbincangan pihak tertinggi untuk semua ini.

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