By Joe Fernandez
PRESS STATEMENT BY
GINDOL INITIATIVE FOR CIVIL SOCIETY BORNEO (GICiSoBo)
KOTA KINABALU
March 23, 2010
Majority of young and middle-aged Sabahans agreed to a suggestion in a written random survey that the ageing former communist leader, Chin Peng (pic above), be allowed home into Malaysia by the Federal Government.
Sabah, the least affected Malaysian state by the feared communist insurgence, seems to be more forgiving to the once notorious but now reconciling Chin Peng, when 256 out of 323 Sabahan respondents, or 79.25 percent agreed that he be allowed by the Government to come back and visit Malaysia.
Another 60 out of 323 respondents or 18.57 percent however disagreed for Chin Peng to be allowed home, while seven of the 323 or about 2 percent choosed the answer "unsure" (tidak pasti).
The survey was carried in November and December last year by private Gindol Initiative for Civil Society Borneo for academic purpose and for public consumption. Respondents aged 17 to 49 years old were picked at random from various backgrounds and affiliations. The average age polled was 37.
Chin Peng, who together with some surviving comrades, now stayed at a government protected settlement in Southern Thailand, have so far been barred by the Malaysian Government from coming back to Malaysia despite numerous pleas by the ageing ex-communist.
President and Founder of Gindol Initiative, Kanul Gindol, said meanwhile there are two other completed surveys on the line, one is a four-question survey on a public perception on the performance of the current Chief Minister, and the other a survey on Sabahan teens and youths' view on various socio-political, economic, education, and youth issues.
KANUL GINDOL
Founder and Chairman of Gindol Initiative
016-8460018
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