Gambaran konflik politik dalam kalangan masyarakat Sabah (Description of political conflicts among the people of Sabah)

Abstract

Abstrak

Makalah ini bertujuan meneliti konflik politik yang berlaku dalam kalangan masyarakat Sabah berdasarkan novel Busa Hati (2002) Karya ArenaWati. Apa yang digambarkan oleh ArenaWati melalui karyanya ini pastinya bertolak daripada realiti pergolakan politik yang berlaku dan diterjemahkan dalam bentuk realiti kreatif. Antara konflik politik yang digambarkan oleh pengarang termasuklah pertentangan ideologi, perebutan dan penyelewengan kuasa, politik wang dan rasuah, politik etnik dan amalan lompat parti. Kajian mendapati, melalui Busa Hati pengarang merakamkan kembali konflik politik yang berlaku di Sabah dalam bentuk realiti kreatif.

Kata kunci: konflik, lompat parti, politik wang, permusuhan, perebutan kuasa, realiti kreatif.

Abstract

This article aims to examine the political conflicts that occurred in the community of Sabah, described by Arena Wati in his novel Busa Hati (2002). What is illustrated by ArenaWati through  his novel is derived from the  reality of the political turbulence, and it was translated in the form of a creative reality. The political conflicts envisioned by the author include ideological conflict, struggle and political malpractice of power, money politics and corruption, ethnic and political party leap. The study concludes that through Busa Hati, the  author revealed the occurance of the past  political conflicts  in Sabah in the form of creative reality.

Key words: conflict, jump party, political money, hostilities,  power struggle,  creative realities.