DAP taps Dayak leader to entice rural vote


Desmond Davidson

DAP’s Sarawak chapter has, for a time, had its eye on making inroads into the Dayak community to fulfil the party’s long-term plans of capturing non-Muslim Bumiputera votes. – The Malaysian Insight file pic, May 16, 2021.

DAP has pulled off a coup of sorts in its quest to make inroads into the Dayak interior of Sarawak after recruiting prominent grassroots leader, Joseph Jinggut, analysts said.

Jinggut, the former Kapit district council chairman, was appointed a member of the party’s state committee on Labour Day. He has been handed the task of spearheading DAP’s election campaign in the Kapit division, among others.


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