Sarawak United People's Party
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Sarawak United Peoples' Party
Parti Rakyat Bersatu Sarawak Gerempong Sa'ati Rayat Sarawak 砂拉越人民联合党 |
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| 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
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| Dewan Rakyat: |
1 / 222
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| Sarawak State Legislative Assembly: |
7 / 82
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| Election symbol | |
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| Website | |
| www1 |
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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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