Revised text version, 28 May 2008.
Dennis Chua: The Kris Of Taming Sari Is Owned By Sultan Of Perak Chua from chuascorner.blogspot.com 3rd series
Sultan Muzaffar Shah’s descendant Sultan Azlan Shah is now the owner of the Taming Sari kris. Wan Ahmad Arshad, a Johorean prince who collects ancient manuscripts and artifacts, found an ancient manuscript which described the Taming Sari kris in detail three months ago. The family of Mahmud Shah rules 5 states in Malaysia namely Johor, Pahang, Terengganu, Perak and Selangor.
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Sdr. Kaawai,
I send over to you some Chua's articles as promised. I do not wish to re-wind my previous comment this time.
But as Hose & McDougall (1912) said in their book The Pagan Tribes of Borneo, "... the Kadayans, a quiet agricultural folk,skilled in various arts, but rendered timid by continual oppression."
This is my 2 cents to Hose & McDougall. Perhaps it is true that Kadayans generally are quiet people. Perhaps they don't speak very much when they met outsiders. But according to a hadith, Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) said that, "Jika tidak tahu, lebih baik kamu diam (all I can do is an abrupt translation of this - If you don't know, then shuddup)".
And Kadayan don't write or blog a lot. But timid? no, they aren't actually. Humble and down to earth is a more proper word to describe Kadayans.
"ada kuku tapuk"
"ada sisik tapuk"
" ikut rasmi padi"
"makin tua makin tunduk..."
do the above phrases made any sense at all?
About the continual oppression. It is the hard fact of the past. It was the reality for Kadayan people, that once was also called as the "Orang Bukit". Most western observers in 19th century noticed this as well, and they recorded it in their writings.
The "Orang Bukit" and "Orang Darat" things, these phrases bring sentiment equivalent to "Jakun", "Semai" and "Negrito" in Peninsular Malaysia. And the saddest thing was, we are not "Jakun" at all. As the matter of fact, we are not less civilized than the oppressor themselves.
And even now. Chua uses us to undermine Malays in Malaysia by saying that Kadayan is just another Indonesian immigrants.
Please publish these articles so we can capture some of Chua's flow of thought. Maybe, after reading all of them, we can consider to "pantak" him.
kadayan banaa.
Again, Thank you Sdr "Kadayan Banaa". We do have some of his articles from Google "cache". But, some of your posted material of course, became an addition to the existing one. Since we have them in place, here are the first article, see below – Kaawai Tanah.
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Chua's article No. 1.
Date of publication: Wednesday, May 02, 2007
URL: http://chuascorner.blogspot.com - The the blog is no longer exist.
By Dennis Chua
The Kris Of Taming Sari Is Owned By Sultan Of Perak
Taming Sari is the mighty and supposedly magical kris (Native Malaysian curved dagger) which belonged to ancient Melaka’s legendary defence minister Hang Tuah.
It originally belonged to a man named Taming Sari who was a prince of Java.
[The Javanese are from the kingdom of Java.
Covering the whole island of Java, and adjacent Madura and Bali, the kingdom was centred in Yogyakarta, and is today part of Indonesia.
Java used to be under the control of the Temuan kingdom of Johor and its successor, Melaka.
The Javanese are descended from the Melanau tribe of Sarawak, who are in turn, from the Seletar tribe of Johor]
Taming Sari tried to assassinate the Kelantan sultan and his brothers, when Tuah and his sultan, Mansur Shah of Melaka, were visiting Kelantan.
[The Kelantanese and their rulers are Mons, also called Senois, Chams (in Vietnam) or Temoqs.
They are the ancestors of the Vietnamese (Annamese) and Cambodians (Khmers).
And the Bidayuhs of Sarawak who gave rise to the Bugis of Sulawesi (and the Maluku and Tenggara Islands) in Indonesia (and also became the Polynesians or Micronesians).
Tuah is of Bugis and Kedayan (Orang Laut, the tribe of the sultans of Brunei) ancestry]
Tuah offered to fight with Taming Sari and in the process, he realised that the kris belonging to the Javanese had special powers to protect him from harm.
Tuah eventually killed Taming Sari with the kris after making him trip and fall.
The sultans of Kelantan and Melaka both allowed Tuah to keep the magical kris.
When Tuah’s cousin Hang Jebat later revolted against Mansur Shah, Tuah used the Taming Sari kris to kill Jebat.
Before Tuah died, he bequeathed the kris to Sultan Mahmud Shah 1, the last sultan of Melaka (Mansur’s grandson).
Mahmud Shah 1 left Melaka after the Portuguese invasion and occupation of his kingdom in 1511, and re-established the sultanate of Johor.
Shortly before he died in 1528, he gave the kris to one of his sons, Raja Muzaffar Shah, who was appointed as the first sultan of Perak.
Sultan Muzaffar Shah’s descendant Sultan Azlan Shah is now the owner of the Taming Sari kris.
Wan Ahmad Arshad, a Johorean prince who collects ancient manuscripts and artifacts, found an ancient manuscript which described the Taming Sari kris in detail three months ago.
The collector who lives in Seremban, Negeri Sembilan, found the manuscript in Kuala Terengganu, Terengganu, and soon learnt that it matched the Taming Sari kris which is part of the Perak monarch’s regalia.
The family of Mahmud Shah rules 5 states in Malaysia namely Johor, Pahang, Terengganu, Perak and Selangor.
The sultanates of Kedah and Perlis in north-western West Malaysia are Kanak [known as Hmong in Thailand and China and Batak in Sumatra, Indonesia] kingdoms, while the sultanate of Negeri Sembilan surrounded by Melaka, Johor, Pahang and Selangor, is a Semelai [Jakun, also called Minangkabau, Orang Hulu or Orang Darat] kingdom.
Kelantan is a Temoq [Cham, Mon or Senoi] kingdom, while Penang and Melaka which were previously part of Kedah and Johor, respectively, are republics headed by governors.
The East Malaysian states of Sabah and Sarawak are also republics headed by governors.
Sabah was previously ruled by the sultan of Sulu [Sulu was the name of a much larger kingdom covering Sabah, and the Sulu Islands, Mindanao, Palawan, the Visaya Islands and Luzon in the Philippines], the king of its dominant Bajau tribe.
Sarawak was ruled by the sultan of Brunei, the king of its Kedayan tribe [which gave rise to Tuah].
The Sabah monarch used to pay tribute to the Brunei monarch.
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