Datuk Datuk (or its variant Dato or Datu) is a Malay title commonly used in Brunei, Indonesia, and Malaysia, as well as a traditional title by Minangkabau people in West Sumatra, Indonesia. The title of the wife of Datuk is Datin. Origin The oldes ...

Joseph Entulu Belaun (born 8 June 1954) is a

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politician A politician is a person active in party politics, or a person holding or seeking an elected office in government. Politicians propose, support, reject and create laws that govern the land and by an extension of its people. Broadly speaking ...

. He was a

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and a

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(MP) for the Selangau constituency in

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, representing the

Sarawak People's Party The ''Parti Rakyat Sarawak'' or PRS (English: Sarawak Peoples' Party) is a multiracialism & nationalism political party in Sarawak, and Malaysia at all. The party was founded in the wake of the de-registration of the Parti Bansa Dayak Sarawa ...

(PRS) from 2004 until the dissolution of the Parliament on 7 April 2018.

Political career

Entulu was elected to Parliament in the 2004 general elections. Immediately after his election in 2004, Entulu was appointed to the federal level as Deputy Minister in the Prime Minister's Department. Before his election, he was Assistant Minister to the

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. He was first elected to Parliament as a member of the

Sarawak Native People's Party The Sarawak Native People's Party or ms, Parti Bansa Dayak Sarawak (PBDS) was a political party in the state of Sarawak in Malaysia. It was established in 1983, by Datuk Amar Leo Moggie Irok, after seceding from Sarawak National Party (SNAP) ...

(PBDS), but joined the PRS after the

Parti Bansa Dayak Sarawak The Sarawak Native People's Party or ms, Parti Bansa Dayak Sarawak (PBDS) was a political party in the state of Sarawak in Malaysia. It was established in 1983, by Datuk Amar Leo Moggie Irok, after seceding from Sarawak National Party (SNAP) ...

(PBDS) was deregistered in 2004. Entulu was re-elected unopposed to Parliament in the 2008 general elections. Following the 2008 general elections he became Deputy Minister of Rural and Regional Development and in October 2008, he was also conferred the title of ''Datuk''. He has spoken out against the use of the term ''Dayak'' as a generic descriptor of Sarawak's indigenous non-Muslim residents, preferring instead specific terms for each community in 2009. After he was re-elected again in the 2013 general elections, Entulu was promoted to a full minister as a Minister in the Prime Minister's Department. On 13 May 2018,

People's Justice Party The People's Justice Party ( ms, Parti Keadilan Rakyat , often known simply as KEADILAN or PKR) is a reformist political party in Malaysia, formed in 2003 by a merger of the National Justice Party and the older Malaysian People's Party. The ...

(PKR) Women chief

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announced that Entulu has joined its ranks as a PKR party member in a press conference in Cheras. Entulu has joined

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(PSB) since March 2019. Prior to that, he was the Deputy President of the PRS until his sacking in April 2018, which was announced by the PRS President Dr.

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Election results

Honours

Honours of Malaysia

* : ** Commander of the Order of the Star of Hornbill Sarawak (PGBK) - Datuk (2008)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Entulu Belaun, Joseph 1954 births Living people People from Sarawak Iban people Parti Rakyat Sarawak politicians Parti Bansa Dayak Sarawak politicians Government ministers of Malaysia Members of the Dewan Rakyat Members of the Sarawak State Legislative Assembly Commanders of the Order of the Star of Hornbill Sarawak 21st-century Malaysian politicians