SIBU: Parti Rakyat Sarawak (PRS) strives to be not only a political movement but also a social movement that can raise the spirit of the Dayak community.
Its president Datuk Joseph Salang Gandum said as much at a dinner in conjunction with the party’s Triennial Delegates Conference (TDC) on Sunday.
“One of the programmes planned by the new PRS committee is that each of the 38 PRS divisions is to be visited by the PRS supreme council.
“Especially those areas that have no people’s representative or who have no representatives from our supreme council.
“We should not forget them, instead we have to encourage those who haven’t joined any political parties to join us,” he said.
Salang also hoped the supreme council will consider looking for funding for PRS branches or divisions that do not have their source of revenue.
“This will help them (PRS branches) to have more activities and not only be active just before the TDC but active as well after the TDC.
“We do not want our members to think that we only need them during the election, we want every division to feel that they are always important to us,” he said.
Salang also pointed out the importance of women in the PRS more so with the establishment of the youth wing called ‘Pewaris’ in PRS.
“I’m sad to hear the concerns of our women’s wings that they are neglected, what I want to say is you matter the most to us, we just haven’t struck the right chord.
“Now we know the PBB has created the group of 1828 (youth aged 18 to 28) but for us, we call it ‘pewaris’. This is the moment we bring more women aged 18 to 28 to join us and they can be chairman in one of our branches,” he said.
He emphasised that PRS will be a party that always has room for everyone who wants to join them.
“What I want to emphasise is that women or men, young or old, all have a place in PRS, where they have the opportunity to develop themselves, where they have the opportunity to help to strengthen PRS,” he said.
He also advised the veteran members to not neglect both the youth and the women wings but to work together to improve the organisation.
“Let us walk together and find a way to improve PRS so that PRS would be a fun and loving organisation that people would want to be associated with,” said Salang.
