Sakinah Junid
Puan Sri Datin Sakinah Junid was the long-serving Dewan Muslimat's Chief of Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party (PAS) for twenty years ranging from 1963–1983.[1] She is the wife of Asri Muda, PAS leader.
Education
She studied at Perguruan Diniyyah Puteri Padang Panjang, West Sumatra, Indonesia as schools that formed the mindset and personality of leaders through the process of "propagation and overreach - dakwah and tarbiah" that eventually made him a charismatic leader.
Woman activism
Sakinah Junid actively involved in Angkatan Wanita Sedar (AWAS); Conscious Women's Front) was the first nationalist women's organisation in Malaysia. It was established in late 1945 as women's wing of the Malay Nationalist Party (Template:Lang-ms, PKMM). The organisation has also led by Shamsiah Fakeh. At its peak, AWAS had a membership of 2000 women. The group organised, held discussions and hosted Indonesian women visitors. AWAS members, led by Sakinah Junid,[2] participated in a six-mile protest march against the British prohibition disallowing the use of motorised vehicles in processions.[3]
She first led the Angkatan Wanita Sedar (AWAS) Padang Rengas Branch when he was 23 years old. As a female character in the front row after the Japanese invasion, Sakinah Junid may dikatatakan as Malaysia's first female fighter who led a group of men and women fighters. He was leading a group of 300 young people from the Angkatan Pemuda Insaf (API) (API) and women of Angkatan Wanita Sedar (AWAS) marched from Padang Rengas to Kuala Kangsar, singing songs of Darah Rakyat dan Dari Barat Hingga Ke Timur passionately in alternating with cries of "Merdeka ! Merdeka! Merdeka (Independence)!. "Sakinah Junid managed to convince the men in the group to walk even if at first they become discouraged to attend mass gathering against the Malayan Union on May 28, 1946 in Kuala Kangsar for public vehicles, even trucks and bullock carts are not allowed Britain took them to Kuala Kangsar. "If you guys do not want to take part against the Malayan Union, our heroine just let that go. You better wear Kain Sarung at home ", said Sakinah with" nationalist "and eager accurate. In conclusion, this figure is not a warrior woman to woman because she is a female warrior to religion, nation and country'
Sakinah Junid is a big name and is one of the female figures in-line with the name Shamsiah Fakeh and Tan Sri Aishah Ghani as the first female leader involved in the struggle against colonialism and the struggle for independence. He is among the founders of Angkatan Wanita Sedar (AWAS). Anthropologist Wazir Jahan Karim attributes the impetus for the creation of AWAS to the core leaders of the organisation: Aishah Ghani, Sakinah Junid, and Samsiah Fakeh.[4] Compared Shamsiah Fakeh and Tan Sri Aishah Ghani, who is seen as the leader of the women in the group of women per se, Sakinah Junid seen as leading a group comprising women and men.
Politics
Early stage of her struggle in Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party (PAS) was through female wing, known as Dewan Muslimat since its existence in 1953. After ten years, Sakinah Junid took the leadership of this wing for 20 years. Sakinah Junid was known for her fiery speeches and raise the spirits of the listeners. A pretty charismatic and respected. She was an orator of Malaysian women who simply superb. She was able to tease the listener with emotional phrasing is quite beautiful and poetically. Sometimes she recite some verses of the Quran and sweet her words with poem and poetic.
She also contributed in the struggle to defend the fate of women, the poor, rural communities and FELDA. Sakinah Junid nearly retired from politics at the age of 70.
She end the rest of her life as a mother of 10 children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren. She suffered from bronkopneumonia finally died on 7 September 2004 at the age of 81 years and was buried in the Muslim cemetery in Sungai Tangkas.
References
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- ^ Mohamad, Maznah; Ng, Cecilia; Hui, tan beng (2013). Feminism and the Women's Movement in Malaysia: An Unsung (R)evolution. Routledge. pp. 17–18. ISBN 978-1-134-18883-3.
- ^ Lai Suat Yan (2012). "The women's movement in peninsular Malaysia". Social Movement Malaysia. Routledge. p. 50. ISBN 978-1-136-00326-4.
- ^ Wazir Jahan Karim. "Malay Women's Movements, Leadership and Processes of Change". Int. Soc. Science Journal. 35 (4): 719–731.