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Uliw Qaljupayare (; 4 June 1951 – 11 March 2024) was a Taiwanese politician. Also known by the
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Chien Tung-ming (), he represented the Highland Aborigine district for the
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from 2008 to 2020 at the
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Early life and education

Born on 4 June 1951, Qaljupayare was a member of the
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of the
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in
Shizi, Pingtung Shizi Township is a mountain indigenous township in Pingtung County, Taiwan. It is the largest township of the county. The main population is the Paiwan people of the Taiwanese aborigines. Names The original Paiwan name for the area was Tjak ...
. He graduated from Fang Liao High School in Pingtung County before attending
National Pingtung University of Education National Pingtung University of Education (NPUE; ) was an institution of higher learning in Pingtung City, Pingtung County, Taiwan. It has now become part of National Pingtung University. Academics There were 14 departments at the universi ...
. He earned a master's degree in public administration and policy at
National Chung Hsing University National Chung Hsing University (NCHU; ; lit. National Resurgence University) is a comprehensive research university in South District, Taichung, Taiwan. Currently, NCHU is among the four universities of the Taiwan Comprehensive University Sys ...
and taught at multiple elementary schools.


Political career

Qaljupayare served Shizi Township as mayor for two terms from 1990 to 1998. He was elected to the Pingtung County Council later that year and stepped down in 2007 to prepare for a legislative campaign.


Electoral controversies

Qaljupayare was first elected to the
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in 2008 with 26.86% of the vote, to serve alongside
Kao Chin Su-mei Kao Chin Su-mei (traditional Chinese: 高金素梅; pinyin: ''Gāo Jīn Sùméi''; born September 21, 1965), also known as Chin Su-mei, May Chin and Ciwas Ali, is a Taiwanese politician and retired actress and singer. She is of Manchu and Ataya ...
and in the three-member Highland Aborigine district. Prosecutors in Kaohsiung sued Qaljupayare in February 2012 as part of a vote-buying probe related to the 2008 elections, and three of his staff were imprisoned, but Qaljupayare himself was cleared in 2013. More vote-buying allegations against Qaljupayare, this time in his native
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, surfaced during the 2016 legislative elections. The 2016 case was taken to Taichung District Court, where prosecutors sought an annulment of Qaljupayare's election victory. Qaljupayare and 57 others, including some of his campaign staff and a number of Pingtung County residents, were indicted in March. The Pingtung District Court issued the first ruling on the case in June 2017, sentencing Qaljupayare to five and a half years imprisonment. As a result of the guilty verdict, Qaljupayare became the first Taiwanese legislator to be suspended from his duties due to court proceedings. Upon appeal in January 2019, Qaljupayare's penalty was reduced, and he was acquitted in April of that year by the Kaohsiung branch of the Taiwan High Court. Qaljupayare did not run in the 2020 legislative elections, and was succeeded in office by Wu Li-hua in 2020, who contested the seat on behalf of the
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Legislative actions

Qaljupayare coauthored an amendment to the Mountain Slope Conservation and Utilization Act in 2012 that led to criticism from many aboriginal rights groups. The act contained a clause that mandated how long an aborigine was to keep their land before legally selling it. Chin, Kung, and Qaljupayare, along with Sra Kacaw,
Liao Kuo-tung Liao Kuo-tung (; born 8 January 1955) is a Taiwanese people, Taiwanese Amis people, Amis politician and physician. Also known by the Amis language, Amis name Sufin Siluko, he represented the Lowland Aborigine Constituency in the Legislative Yuan ...
, and , all aborigines, believed that the five-year ownership period mandated in the law was discriminatory and irrelevant, as the law already stated that all aboriginal land could only be sold to another aborigine. Qaljupayare authored another law related to aboriginal land reform in 2015, making it legal for aborigines to receive monetary compensation on land they own within conservation areas because they are barred from developing land marked as protected territory.


Political stances

Qaljupayare often criticized the
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for not supporting aboriginal people adequately. To give aboriginals more influence in the parliament, he advocated the reestablishment of an aboriginal caucus during his first term in office. In his first term as legislator, Qaljupayare opposed a proposal to remove the distinction between highland and lowland districts. Thereafter, he proposed that both nationwide aboriginal districts, currently divided by tribal groupings, be divided instead into three separate constituencies based on geography. Qaljupayare described the Aboriginal Basic Act as ineffective. The law, passed in 2005, mandates that other bills relating to aboriginal affairs should have been passed by 2008. The
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administration in power at the time had proposed many initiatives, but most had been stalled in the legislature. Additionally, the Council of Indigenous Peoples had shut down four of the amendments proposed by the deadline. Though Qaljupayare backed marriage between aboriginals and Han Taiwanese, he opposed the legalization of
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Personal life and death

Qaljupayare was married to Tai Chin-hua. Qaljupayare Tung-ming, who had required regular
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late in his life, died at
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on 11 March 2024, at the age of 72.


References

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