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Sarawak United People's Party

Sarawak United Peoples' Party
Parti Rakyat Bersatu Sarawak
Gerempong Sa'ati Rayat Sarawak
砂拉越人民联合党
Abbreviation SUPP
President Sim Kui Hian
Secretary-General Sebastian Ting Chiew Yew
Deputy President Richard Riot Jaem
Chairman of Central Youth Section Tan Kai
Chairman of Central Women's Section Jennifer Alice Chee Moinie
Founded 1959
Headquarters 7, Jalan Tan Sri Ong Kee Hui, 93300 Kuching, Sarawak
Newspaper SA 'ATI (United)
Youth wing SUPP Youth Section
Women's wing SUPP Women's Section
Ideology Centrism
Nationalism
National affiliation Alliance (1970–73)
Barisan Nasional (1973–present)
Colours Yellow, red, black
Dewan Negara:
1 / 70
Dewan Rakyat:
1 / 222
Sarawak State Legislative Assembly:
7 / 82
Election symbol
Barisan Nasional Logo.svg
Website
www1.supp.org.my

The Sarawak United Peoples' Party, or SUPP (Chinese: 砂拉越人民联合党; Malay: Parti Rakyat Bersatu Sarawak; Iban: Gerempong Sa'ati Ra'ayat Sarawak) is a political party in Malaysia. The party is one of the constituent members of the ruling Barisan Nasional. It was established in 1959 mainly by leftists and working class Chinese, many of whom were members of the underground communist movement in Sarawak.

For the first decade of its existence, many of its members were deported from Sarawak for communist activities. Several of its senior members moved across the border into Kalimantan where they took up arms against the Sarawak government.

In the early 1960s, SUPP opposed the formation of the Malaysian state. Along with Partai Rakyat Brunei and National Pasok Momogun Party, SUPP sent a memorandum to the United Nations demanding that the people of Northern Borneo be given right to self-determination and that the status of the area would be decided in a plebiscite.

In the Malaysian general election, 2008, SUPP managed to retain all of the seats it won previously. Compared to Parti Gerakan Rakyat Malaysia and Malaysian Chinese Association, the party defended most of its Chinese majority seats from falling to the opposition, save for the Bandar Kuching Parliamentary seat, in which the Democratic Action Party incumbent managed to retain his seat.


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