Cabinet urged to approve using ‘Dayak’ in official forms


Chong (seated centre) showing the reply from Minister in the Prime Ministers Department Datuk Joseph Entulu while other state DAP leaders look on.

KUCHING: The Federal Cabinet has been urged to approve the Bumiputra Minority Technical Committee’s recommendation to replace “lain-lain” with the term “Dayak” in government official forms.

Bandar Kuching MP Chong Chieng Jen said he received a reply from Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Datuk Joseph Entulu to a question in Parliament on Wednesday that the committee had agreed on March 5 to recommend the use of “Dayak” to the Cabinet for approval.

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