United Progressive Kinabalu Organisation | |
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Malay name | Pertubuhan Kinabalu Progresif Bersatu |
Chinese name | 神山前進統一機構 神山前进统一机构 Shénshān qiánjìn tǒngyī jīgòu |
Abbreviation | UPKO |
President | Ewon Benedick |
Chairperson | Fredoline Jominoh |
Secretary-General | Nelson Angang |
Spokesperson | Peter Jr. Naintin |
Deputy President | Donald Peter Mojuntin |
Vice-Presidents | Pangiran Lalung Basari Sarkun Wong Thien Fook Fairuz bin Bandar Laurentius Ambu Gilbert Syam Selvester Taing |
Women Chief | Mohina Sidom |
Youth Chief | Felix Joseph Sitin Saang |
Treasurer General | Dennison R. Indang |
Founder | Bernard Giluk Dompok |
Founded | March 1994 (Formation of Sabah Democratic Party) 8 August 1999 (Renamed as United Pasokmomogun Kadazandusun Murut Organisation 24 November 2019 (Renamed as United Progressive Kinabalu Organisation) |
Split from | PBS |
Preceded by | PDS UPKO |
Headquarters | PO Box 420, Lot 9 & 10, 2nd & 3rd Floor, New World Commercial Ctr, Donggongon, 89507 Penampang, Sabah |
Newspaper | UPKO Kini Unofficial: Nabalu News |
Membership (2022) | 9548 |
Ideology | Regionalism |
National affiliation | Barisan Nasional (1994–2018) Pakatan Harapan (since 2021) |
Colours | Blue, white and red |
Slogan | Misompuru Tokou Wagu Mari Kita Bersatu Kembali (Let Us Be United Again) Doiti Miampai Diau DI Sini Bersamamu (Here With You) |
Anthem | Gunung Kinabalu |
Dewan Negara | 1 / 70 |
Dewan Rakyat | 2 / 26 (Sabah and Labuan seats) |
Sabah State Legislative Assembly | 1 / 79 |
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The United Progressive Kinabalu Organisation (Malay : Pertubuhan Kinabalu Progresif Bersatu; abbrev: UPKO) is a multiracial political party based in Sabah, Malaysia. [1] The party was rebranded from its previous party's name, United Pasokmomogun Kadazandusun Murut Organisation using the same UPKO acronym; which was a widely known Kadazan-Dusun-Murut based party in 2019. [2] The party had earlier been renamed once before in 1999 from its initial 1994 formation name of Sabah Democratic Party. [3] In August 2021, UPKO has officially joined the Pakatan Harapan (PH) coalition as a component party. [4]
The party started as Sabah Democratic Party (Parti Demokratik Sabah or PDS) which was founded by Bernard Giluk Dompok and other detractors who split from United Sabah Party (Parti Bersatu Sabah or PBS) soon after the Sabah state election in March 1994 to join the Barisan Nasional (BN) coalition. [5] PBS had earlier won a majority in the Sabah State Legislative Assembly then but with the two breakaway factions setting their own spliter new parties of PDS by Dompok and another United Sabah People's Party (Parti Bersatu Rakyat Sabah or PBRS) by Joseph Kurup had caused the crumble of PBS new Sabah government and allowed BN to form the government instead. [6] Part of the enticement offered by BN to the defectors was the promise of a rotating Chief Ministers of Sabah post, which Dompok held from 1998 to 1999. [7] The defection from PBS however damaged the party at the 1995 federal election, in which it won no seats.
PDS was renamed as United Pasokmomogun Kadazandusun Murut Organisation (UPKO) or Pertubuhan Pasokmomogun Kadazandusun Murut Bersatu on 8 August 1999, taking the same acronym of the now defunct original United Pasokmomogun Kadazan Organisation, which was formed and dissolved in the 1960s by Fuad Stephens. [3] The name of the new UPKO includes the words "Kadazandusun" and "Murut", with a new logo of a silhouette of Mount Kinabalu and was not a water buffalo as in the old UPKO logo. [5] It was redefined as an ethnically-based party striving to voice the rights and advance the development of KDM populations of Sabah and the Orang Asli of Peninsular Malaysia. [8] [9]
The party won three federal seats at the 1999 election, and four at the 2004 as well as 2008 polls. In 2009, UPKO opened four divisions in Perak, seeking a foothold among local Orang Asli indigenous people. [8] In the Malaysian general election, 2013, the party was reduced from four to three federal seats and from six to four state assembly seats. Dompok lost his federal seat to the People's Justice Party (PKR). The following year he resigned as the party's president, a position he had held for 20 years. [10] [11]
UPKO was one of the component parties in the Barisan Nasional (BN) coalition which ruled Malaysia until 2018. The party's core Sabahan indigenous constituency includes many Christians, while BN is, on a national scale, dominated by the United Malays National Organisation, an overtly Muslim-Malay party. While a member of the BN federal government, UPKO often spoke out about government policies affecting Christians. In 2013, the party's president Bernard Dompok distanced himself from Prime Minister Najib Razak on the contentious question of the use by Malaysian Christians of the word "Allah" to describe God. Najib had supported a government appeal to the High Court seeking to outlaw the word's use by a Christian newspaper; Dompok criticised the appeal and defended the right of Christians, especially indigenous Malaysians, to use the word. [12]
UPKO also agitated, often against the national government of which it was a part, for tougher measures against illegal immigration in Sabah. In February 2012, UPKO succeeded in forcing the establishment of the Royal Commission of Inquiry on illegal immigrants in Sabah. In the same year one of the party's federal parliamentarians, Wilfred Bumburing, quit UPKO and joined the opposition PKR in protest at what he considered to be government inaction on illegal immigration. [13]
UPKO was an advocate for the repeal of the Internal Security Act, which for over 50 years permitted detention without charge in certain circumstances. The law was repealed in 2011. [14]
In the 2018 general election, the party won only one federal seat and five state assembly seats. Following this, the party's acting president Madius Tangau announced that UPKO with five of their party state assembly seats members had left BN to form a coalition government with the Sabah Heritage Party, alongside PKR, DAP and Amanah became a partner party for the Pakatan Harapan (PH) coalition instead. [15] [16]
The party was re-branded again as United Progressive People of Kinabalu Organisation or Pertubuhan Kinabalu Progresif Bersatu while retaining its existing UPKO acronym on 23 November 2019. [2] [3] [17] There is also a slight change in UPKO's logo with the inclusion of a new colour, red while the Mount Kinabalu image remains. [1] [5] The party re-branding process was aimed to migrate from the communal politics to a universal and inclusive politics by opening the party membership to other races than KDM communities. [1] [3] On 26 August 2021, it officially joined opposition Pakatan Harapan coalition. [4] [18]
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UPKO currently holds two seats in the federal House of Representatives and one in the Sabah State Legislative Assembly.
UPKO currently has 2 members in the Dewan Rakyat.
State | No. | Parliament Constituency | Member | Party | ||
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![]() | P170 | Tuaran | Wilfred Madius Tangau | UPKO | ||
P174 | Penampang | Ewon Benedick | UPKO | |||
Total | Sabah (2) |
Sabah State Legislative Assembly
State | No. | Federal Constituency | No. | State Constituency | Member | Party | |
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![]() | P169 | Kota Belud | N7 | Kadamaian | Ewon Benedick | UPKO | |
Total | Sabah (1) |
Election | Total seats won | Seats contested | Total votes | Voting Percentage | Outcome of election | Election leader |
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1995 (as PDS) | 0 / 192 | 5 | 199,900 | ![]() | Bernard Giluk Dompok | |
1999 | 3 / 193 | 5 | 89,999 | ![]() (Barisan Nasional) | Bernard Giluk Dompok | |
2004 | 4 / 219 | 5 | 55,117 | 0.79% | ![]() (Barisan Nasional) | Bernard Giluk Dompok |
2008 | 4 / 222 | 5 | 58,856 | 0,74% | ![]() (Barisan Nasional) | Bernard Giluk Dompok |
2013 | 3 / 222 | 5 | 53,584 | 0.48% | ![]() (Barisan Nasional) | Bernard Giluk Dompok |
2018 | 1 / 222 | 5 | 57,062 | 0.47% | ![]() (Barisan Nasional), later Governing coalition, later Opposition coalition (Pakatan Harapan) | Wilfred Madius Tangau |
2022 | 2 / 222 | 5 | 72,751 | 0.47% | ![]() | Wilfred Madius Tangau Ewon Benedick (leader-elect) |
State election | State Legislative Assembly | |
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Sabah | Total won / Total contested | |
2/3 majority | 2 / 3 | 2 / 3 |
1999 | 2 / 60 | 2 / 12 |
2004 | 5 / 60 | 5 / 6 |
2008 | 6 / 60 | 6 / 6 |
2013 | 4 / 60 | 4 / 6 |
2018 | 5 / 60 | 5 / 6 |
2020 | 1 / 73 | 1 / 12 |
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