United Pasok Momogun Organisation Explained

United Pasok Momogun Organisation
Native Name:Pertubuhan Pasok Momogun Bersatu
Abbreviation:Pasok Momogun / UPMO
Founder:G.S. Sundang
Leader:G.S. Sundang
Foundation:January 1962
Split:United National Kadazan Organisation (UNKO)
Dissolution:May 1964
Merger:Reunite back with UNKO to form UPKO (May 1964)
Successor:United Pasokmomogun Kadazan Organisation (UPKO)
Headquarters:Sabah

United Pasok Momogun Organisation (Malay: Pertubuhan Pasok Momogun Bersatu; abbrev:Pasok Momogun or UPMO) is an ethnically-based political party in North Borneo (later Sabah, Malaysia).[1] [2] It was a splinter party of United National Kadazan Organisation (UNKO); founded by Donald Stephens earlier in 1961. The breakaway UPMO formed by Orang Kaya Kaya (OKK) Datuk G.S. Sundang, in January 1962 to fight for the interest of Kadazan-Dusun-Murut (KDM) races; with the supports and encouragement of the Chinese in Sabah.[1] The split was in reaction and protest to the suggestion of the Prime Minister of Malaya, Tunku Abdul Rahman to create a new federation country named Malaysia, dubbed Projek Malaysia.

In May 1964, UPMO eventually reunited with its parent party UNKO which had earlier entered into a coalition with the United Sabah National Organisation (USNO) and the Sabah Chinese Association (SCA) to form a new consociationalism Government of Sabah with Stephens became the state's first Chief Minister, upon the successful formation of Malaysia in 1963,.[3] With the reunification of UPMO back into UNKO had renamed itself as United Pasokmomogun Kadazan Organisation (UPKO) in June 1964.[4] [2]

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Notes and References

  1. News: GOVERNMENTAL RECORDS (Before Independence). Sabah State Archives. Chief Minister Department. 9 April 2016.
  2. Web site: UPKO/PDS. 28 November 2019.
  3. Book: Lim, Regina. Federal-state Relations in Sabah, Malaysia: The Berjaya Administration, 1976-85. 2008. Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. 42.
  4. News: UPKO rebranded to United Progressive People of Kinabalu Organisation. 23 November 2019. Bernama. Malaysiakini. 26 November 2019.