Dari Dua Parti kepada Banyak Parti: Tinjauan Umum tentang Politik Kepartian Orang Iban, 1960-2006 - From Two Parties to More Parties: General View on Iban People's Political Party, 1960-2006

Abstract

Iban is the largest population in Sarawak. However, political developments to unite themselves in one party facing difficulty. Competition between them is very significant with the formation of two Iban (Dayak) parties the early 1960s. At this stage competition between these parties still under control because they took the approach of understanding. However, this understanding did not last long and eventually the competition between them started in the middle of 1960s. Their rivalry became more apparent when the young and educated Iban wanted to reinstall back the leadership of Iban at the pinnacle of Sarawak political. These ambitious have a significant impact when dissension increasingly evident with the formation of multi-party Iban people. This is realized by Iban leaders, and they tried to work toward unification. But the effort to consolidate is still far to be reached. The competition between them still continues, and the common ground between them still not succeed to unite them. This study is based on a document study by doing research on the primary and secondary sources. This research would have covered the period between 1960 until 2006. The finding from this research showed that the competition between the Iban leaderships brought hardened the unity among the Iban which led to formation political parties under the Iban’s leadership.