By DayakDaily Team
KUCHING, Jan 6: The survey by academician Professor Dr Jayum Jawan on the performance of Dayak ministers and deputy ministers is “non-empirical”, says Sarawak Deputy Minister for Tourism, Creative Industry and Performing Arts, Datuk Snowdan Lawan.
Commenting on the survey in a statement, Snowdan claimed that the 172 to 183 respondents didn’t substantiate Jayum’s work, which he said was more a perception, as a smaller number of respondents was collected to avoid a wider probability of margin of error.
Snowdan further commented that Jayum’s methodologies are vague and that the survey respondents were not made known.
“Categorically, are they made up of professionals, civil servants, officials, community leaders, university students or voters where these ministers are from,? Are they laymen or mere buddies?
“How would these respondents know the tasks and jobs of these ministers in the respective portfolios?” asked Snowdan.
He also noted that the survey was only on Dayak leaders, who, along with other non-Dayak Cabinet ministers, propelled Sarawak’s progress and were appointed by virtue of their credibility.
“By issuing his own statement (he is) revealing his own survey is proof that no one else within his academic sphere peruses his survey, probably knowing it is flawed and non-empirical,” said Snowdan.
Akin to a SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats) analysis, he said the survey should also highlight the ministers’ strengths and weaknesses, and the risks and opportunities present to mitigate their next course of action.
From there, Snowdan said they would accept constructive criticism positively and at the same time confined to the ethics imposed on them as guardians of the State’s interests.
Yesterday (Jan 5), Women, Early Childhood, and Community Wellbeing Development Minister Dato Sri Fatimah Abdullah issued a statement on the survey, calling for credibility and emphasis on robust data.
The survey by Jayum, a Fellow of the Academy of Sciences Malaysia (ASM) and a member of the National Unity Advisory Council (NUAC), collected responses from Dayak netizens on the approval ratings of 18 selected Dayak ministers and deputy ministers at the federal and State levels.
In the survey, Jayum said that of the 18 Dayak ministers and deputy ministers evaluated, only three scored approval ratings of 50 per cent and above and likened it to a ‘wake-up call’.
Snowdan is among the Dayak ministers and deputy ministers evaluated in the survey where he reportedly scored an approval rating of 38 per cent. — DayakDaily
