Chien Tung-ming
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Chien Tung-ming MLY |
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| 簡東明 | |
| Member of the Legislative Yuan | |
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In office 1 February 2008 – 12 June 2017 |
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| Preceded by | Tseng Hua-te |
| Constituency | Highland Aborigine |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
4 June 1951 Pingtung County, Taiwan |
| Nationality | Taiwanese |
| Political party | Kuomintang |
| Spouse(s) | Tai Chin-hua (戴錦花) |
| Alma mater |
National Pingtung University of Education National Chung Hsing University |
| Occupation | Politician |
Chien Tung-ming (Chinese: 簡東明; born 4 June 1951) is a Taiwanese aboriginal politician. Also known by the Paiwan name Uliw Qaljupayare, he has represented the Highland Aborigine district since 2008, along with Kao Chin Su-mei and Kung Wen-chi.
Chien graduated from Fang Liao High School in Pingtung County before attending National Pingtung University of Education. He earned a master's degree in public administration and policy at National Chung Hsing University and taught at multiple elementary schools.
Chen 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.
Chien was first elected to the Legislative Yuan in 2008 with 26.86% of the vote in the three-member Highland Aborigine district. Persecutors in Kaohsiung sued Chien in February 2012 as part of a vote-buying probe related to the 2008 elections, and three of his staff were imprisoned, but Chien himself was cleared in 2013. More vote-buying allegations against Chien, this time in his native Pingtung County, surfaced during the 2016 legislative elections. The 2016 case was taken to Taichung District Court, where prosecutors sought an annulment of Chien's election victory. Chien 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 Chien to five and a half years imprisonment. As a result of the guilty verdict, Chien became the first Taiwanese legislator be suspended from his duties due to court proceedings.
Chien 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 Chien, along with Sra Kacaw, Liao Kuo-tung, and Lin Cheng-er, 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. Chien 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.
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