Peter Mojuntin

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Peter Mojuntin
Tomb of P. Mojuntin
Statue of P. Mojuntin in Donggongon Market Square

Datuk Peter Joinod Mojuntin ADK , PDGK (born October 10, 1939 in Kg. Hungab, Penampang , † June 6, 1976 in Sembulan, Kota Kinabalu ) was a politician in the Malaysian state of Sabah and Minister of Local Administration in the government of Tun Fuad Stephens . He died along with other politicians in a plane crash in Kinabalu.

Life

Peter Joinod Mojuntin was born on October 10, 1939 as the third child of rice farmer Mojuntin Matanul and his wife Minjaim Lim in Kampung Hungab, Penampang . After his education at the St. Michael School in Donggongon and the secondary school Sacred Heart in Jesselton , he began his professional life in 1958 as a teacher at "his" elementary school St. Michael. After working for the daily newspaper North Borneo News , he worked as managing director of Nabahu Co Snd. Bhd .

On May 9, 1964, he married Nancy Mary Mobijohn. The couple had five children; three boys and two girls.

During his life Mojuntin was active in various Kadazan organizations, first as the first president of the youth organization United Sabah Kadazan Youth Association , then from 1965 to 1974 as president of the Kadazan Cultural Association (KCA) and from 1975 as its patron .

Political career

Mojuntin's political career began in 1962 as Secretary General of the United National Kadazan Organization (UNKO). From 1963 to 1964 he was a member of the Malaysian Parliament.

In 1967 he succeeded in becoming a member of the legislative assembly of Sabah; he kept his seat there until his death in 1976.

From 1972 to 1973 he was Assistant Minister in the Sabah Ministry of Industrial Development. With Tun Fuad Stephens' electoral victory , he became Minister for Local Government in Sabah in April 1976. 44 days later he died in an airplane accident.

Death from plane crash

Peter Mojuntin is one of the victims of the so-called Double Six Tragedy . On June 6, 1976, Mojuntin was with Tun Fuad Stephens and several cabinet members on board a flight from Labuan to Kota Kinabalu . About 2 km from Kota Kinabalu International Airport , the Australian-built GAF Nomad propped up; all occupants on board were killed. Immediately after the accident, conspiracy theories about the cause of the crash began to emerge.

The place of the crash is marked with the Double Six Monument , a memorial in the form of a stone obelisk, which was erected shortly after the accident. The site is located in the Sembulan neighborhood near the Grace Garden complex in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah on the Jalan Coastal Highway leading to Sutera Harbor Resort.

Peter Mojuntin was buried in the churchyard of St. Michael .

Political legacy

Mojuntin was one of Tun Mustapha's political adversaries . The expulsion of missionaries and church people in the course of the Islamization of Sabah was loudly criticized by him. He lodged a personal protest with Prime Minister Razak against the raids to arrest, harassment and deportation of the priests. Mojuntin's attitude is documented in the biography edited by Bernard Sta Maria. The Malaysian Home Ministry put the book on the Malaysian List of Banned Books on June 22, 1978 for allegedly denigrating the then Prime Minister of Sabah, Tun Mustapha .

A larger than life statue in Donggongon in the Penampang district commemorates Peter Mojuntin and his life .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ biography of Peter J. Mojuntin ; Accessed June 18, 2012
  2. ↑ a b c d e Information on the memorial plaque on the Mojuntin statue ( memento of the original dated August 30, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in Donggonggon. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / bengodomon.com
  3. ^ Far Eastern Economic Review , February 27, 1971; cited in Regina Lim: Federal-state relations in Sabah, Malaysia: the Berjaya administration 1976-85 , Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2008, ISBN 978-981-230-811-5
  4. ^ Daily Express: Why bio on Mojuntin among banned: Ministry , November 11, 2009 issue; cited in [1]
  5. ↑ No. 1288 on the List of Forbidden Books (PDF; 327 kB); Accessed June 11, 2012

Remarks

  1. ↑ His maiden name was initially Joinod Mojuntin. He chose the first name Peter after his conversion to Christianity at the age of 15.
personal data
SURNAME Mojuntin, Peter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES The Golden Son of the Kadazan; Mojuntin, Peter Joinod
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Malaysian politician and minister in Sabah, Malaysia
DATE OF BIRTH October 10, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Kampung Hungab, Penampang
DATE OF DEATH June 6, 1976
Place of death Sembulan, Kota Kinabalu