The merging of DAP with SNAP

From the 2011 Sarawak election, we can see that BN Party still emerge as the final victor. BN won 55 out of 71 seats competed. Pakatan Rakyat(PR) only won 15 seats with 1 seat being won by an independent. The 15 seats consists of 12 seats won by DAP and 3 seats won by PKR. Out of the 15 seats, 13 seats consists of majority chinese community. SUPP only won 2 chinese seats out of 15 chinese seats contested.
This shows that the chinese community in Sarawak had generally voted the PR. However, local tribes are the majority people in Sarawak. The PR only manage to win 2 seats of which the majority community is the local tribe.

SNAP is an opposition which consists mainly local tribe did not win any seats in the Sarawak election in 2011. DAP can only manage to win in chinese area. However, DAP is unable to go into the local tribe community. Thus, DAP is considering of merging with SNAP in order to win both chinese and the local tribes community. The success of merging may be able to create a new political situation in Sarawak.

However, the ways that SNAP and DAP works are completely different. From the 2011 Sarawak election, we can see that SNAP can hardly work with PKR. By merging into DAP, DAP may face problems in working with PKR. PR in Sarawak may fall due to the merge. Thus, merging may not be a good alternative.

DAP should try to go into the local tribe community by encouraging more local tribes to enter into DAP in order to make the change of government possible in Sarawak as PKR and SNAP as a main local tribe opposition party in Sarawak has proven that they are unable to go into the local tribes even though they consists mainly on local tribes.

This make DAP the most powerful opposition party in Sarawak now.

Due to the lost of many chinese community seats by BN. The chinese representation in the government has significantly reduced. The new politicl situation has proven that chinese community has lost their place in the new government. This is not healthy for a country with many different races especially when this situation looks like as if the chinese community is standing on oneside and the local tribes are standing on the other side. This may cause a chaos like the chaos once in Indonesia.

The chaos in Indonesia is due to the hyperinflation in Indonesia. The chinese community in Indonesia is a higher class community in Indonesia. The local tribes are in a lower class community. This has caused a problem in a hyperinflation community where the local tribes just take whatever from the chinese community as they are unable to buy. Killing and fighting between communities also arise. This has caused the fall of the money value of Indonesia.

Thus, unless Sarawak changes government in a way that there is a balance of power between different communites, if not, some communities may be left behind and missunderstandings between races may arise.