Its information chief, Ramdi Idang, said the indigenous people in Sabah viewed themselves as the firstborn whose duty and responsibility were to look after all the people in Sabah and Sarawak as one big family.
“Therefore, Ibrahim Ali should stop talking about looking after the pribumi, because there is no such people,” he told FMT.
He reminded Ibrahim that the Malay-centric and Malay supremacist idea to make Sabahans and Sarawakians pribumi or Malays did not work for more than five decades and would not work now either.
“We even look upon the Chinese as part of our family in Sabah and Sarawak, unlike the Malays in Malaya who view the Chinese as foreigners,” he said.
Hence, Ramdi said, there was no reason for the Malays from Malaya to be telling Sabahans what they should be doing.
“Their interest in Sabah and Sarawak is just to pillage and plunder our wealth. Their interest is to develop Malaya at the expense of Sabah and Sarawak.
“After more than five decades of being discriminated, disenfranchised and marginalised, these Malay voices from Malaya should stop talking about Sabah and Sarawak.
On Sunday, addressing a Perkasa conference in Tuaran, near here, Ibrahim said that minorities in Sabah should not cross the line to the point of denying the rights of the indigenous people.
He was referring to the Chinese community’s demand for official recognition of the Unified Examination Certificate (UEC), set by the United Chinese School Committees Association (Dong Zong) for students of Chinese independent secondary schools.
Ibrahim said those who refuted Perkasa’s role in defending the rights of the indigenous people were racists.
“All Perkasa wants is for indigenous Sabahans to unite and set aside their religious sentiments and demand their own rights.
“They should be getting more than the minority races. They must have control in all commercial areas, including the economy and land,” he said.