Tun Datu Haji Mustapha bin Datu Harun dilahirkan pada 31 Julai 1918 di Kampung Limau-Limauan, Kudat. Nama asalnya ialah Datu Badiozaman, ditukarkan kerana sering sakit semasa kecil.
Tun Datu Haji Mustapha juga mempunyai nama timangan yang dikenali sebagai Jaman. Bapa Tun Mustapha ialah Datu Harun bin Datu Nasaruddin dan ibunya ialah Norani Hj. Abdul Rahim.
Beliau merupakan anak keempat dari Sembilan orang adik-beradik yang terdiri daripada enam orang perempuan dan tiga orang lelaki yang masing-masing bernama Dayang Lana, Dayang Hjh. Bidari, Dayang Siti Sarah (Dayang Pindau), Dayang Hjh. Harum, Datu Muhammad, Dayang Tahiran, Datu Hj. Aliuddin dan Dayang Hjh. Hadijah.
Tun berkahwin dengan Toh Puan Rahmah Hj. Zulkanian dan mereka mempunyai Sembilan orang anak, iaitu Datu Abdul Hamid (Allahyarham), Dayang Maimunah, Datu Amir Kahar, Datu Hj. Badaruddin, Datu Kamaruddin, Dayang Hjh. Zulfah, Dayang Aminah, Rasalonah Abdullah, Dayang Marina dan Datu Harun.
Pada tahun 1932, Tun Mustapha menerima pendidikan di Sekolah St. James, Kudat. Tetapi ia hanya kekal selama sembilan bulan sahaja kerana ibunya telah meninggal dunia dan juga kerana perpindahan pekerjaan bapanya.
Tun Mustapha pernah dipilih untuk mengikuti kursus pertanian RIDA atau Rural Industry Development Authority dari tahun 1951- 1952 di Serdang. Pada tahun 1959, beliau telah ditaja oleh kerajaan British untuk mengikuti kursus bahasa Inggeris dan Politik di Britain.
Tun Mustapha suka menggesek biola, berjoget, berjenaka dan mendengar muzik irama keroncong. Beliau juga gemar bermain golf dan telah mengasaskan Kinabalu Golf Club di Tanjung Aru dan Kudat Golf Club di Kudat ketika memegang jawatan Ketua Menteri Sabah.
Selain itu, Tun Mustapha juga suka memancing, membaca buku dan menyaksikan perlumbaan kuda. Beliau gemar memakan masakan Melayu. London ialah tempat paling gemar dilawatinya. Pada tahun 1928, semasa Tun Mustapha berumur 10 tahun, beliau bekerja sebagai pelayan rumah kepada Residen Kudat Syarikat Berpiagam Borneo Utara, E.W. Morrel.
Beliau kemudian menjadi “Office Orderly” di Pejabat Daerah Kudat pada tahun 1934. Pada 1 Februari 1937, beliau dilantik sebagai Ketua Anak Negeri (Native Chief) dan Pemungut Cukai Candu. Pada tahun 1961, Tun Mustapha telah mengasaskan dan menjadi presiden pertama (United Sabah National Organization) USNO ketika konsep gagasan Malaysia dicadangkan oleh Tunku Abdul Rahman.
Pada masa yang sama, beliau juga adalah Ahli Majlis Perundangan (Legislative and the Executive Councils), Ahli Kerajaan Tempatan(Local Government) apabila Sabah diberi hak pemerintahan sendiri (self-government) dan juga Ahli Perundingan Perpaduan Malaysia (Malaysia Solidarity Consultative Committee).
Seri Darjah Paduka Chura Si-Maharaja (S.P.C.M.) dengan gelaran “Dato Seri” pada 15 September 1971 sempena hari keputeraan Sultan Perak; Seri Paduka Mahkota Perlis (S.P.M.P.) pada 29 Mac 1971, dari Raja Perlis;
Seri Paduka Mahkota Johor (S.P.M.J.) pada 27 Oktober 1971, dari Sultan Johor; Panglima Negara Bintang Sarawak (P.N.B.S.) pada 20 Ogos 1971 daripada Tuan Yang TerutamaYang di-Pertua Negeri Sarawak; Seri Indera Mahkota Pahang (S.I.M.P.) daripada Sultan Pahang, 20 September 1969; Seri Panglima Darjah Kinabalu (S.P.D.K.) dengan gelaran “Datuk Seri Panglima” ; dan Seri Maharaja Mangku Negara (S.M.N.) – anugerah tertinggi di Malaysia dengan gelaran “Tun” pada 26 November 1964. Tun Mustapha juga seorang yang bergiat aktif dalam persatuan.
Beliau pernah memegang jawatan Presiden dalam Pertubuhan Islam Seluruh Sabah (USIA: United Sabah Islamic Association) dan PERKIM (sesi 1977/ 1979). Beliau juga merupakan Ketua Persatuan Pengakap Sabah (Sabah Chief Scout) dan telah menerima pingat “Semangat Padi” pertama di Sabah pada 21 Jun 1974. Selain itu, Tun Mustapha ialah Ahli Royal Commonvealth Society dan ahli seumur hidup Commonvealth Parliamentary Association.
Beliau juga pernah memegang jawatan sebagai Pengerusi Persatuan Peladang Kebangsaan pada tahun 1972. Beliau juga merupakan Pro-Canselor bagi Universiti Pertanian Malaysia dari November 1973 hingga Februari 1990.
Tun Mustapha telah meninggal dunia pada 2 Januari, 1995. Al-Fatihah.....
Jasa Tun Mustapha adalah besar untuk Sabah. Kita tidak patut melupakan beliau.
ReplyDeletesejarah tidak pernah melupakan beliau..
Deletecakap saja tentang USNO pasti nama Tun Mustapha akan segera diingat.
DeleteTun Mustapha tidak akan di lupakan..
DeleteHero perjuangan harus sentiasa dikenang.
DeleteKita harap juga sejarah untuk Sabah lebih banyak diceritakan didalam buku teks Sejarah sekolah.
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kalau mahu tau lebih terperinci kenalah buat pembacaan yang lagi banyak dan tanamkan sifat minat untuk belajar subjek sejarah.
Deleteperjuangan beliau tertulis dalam sejarah. golongan muda harus banyak membaca.
DeleteGolongan muda harus banyak membaca agar tau sejarah Negeri Sabah dan menghargai perjuangan beliau.
DeleteApapun Musa telah lakukan yang terbaik untuk membanggun Sabah.
ReplyDeletesepanjang musa aman menjadi KM sabah, sabah membangun dengan pesat...ekonomi sabah juga bertambah kukuh...
DeleteMusa contribute a great development to Sabah, such effort should be continued.
DeleteTun Datu Mustapha Datu Harun (1918-1995) was the first state Governor and third Chief Minister of the Malaysian state of Sabah. He was Governor from 1963-1965 and Chief Minister from 1967-1975.
ReplyDeleteHe also served as Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department to Malaysia’s first Prime Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman Putra from 1965-1967 and to Malaysia’s fourth Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad from 1993-1994.
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ReplyDeleteHe died of kidney failure on January 2, 1995, a year after announcing his retirement from politics. Datu Mustapha was born in Limau-Limauan Village in Kudat, northern Sabah, on July 31, 1918. He was a Bajau prince of the Sulu royal house which historically governed Sabah.
ReplyDeleteHe was also the grand-nephew of Datu Mat Salleh, the Sulu monarch who governed Sabah during British colonial rule.Datu Mat Salleh led a revolt against British rule in Sabah, as well as the maritime realms of the Sulu kingdom namely Mindanao, Palawan and the Sulu Islands.(Mindanao, Palawan and the Sulu Islands were annexed by the Philippines in 1900). His revolt which began in 1895 ended with his murder at the hands of a British agent in his army, in 1900.
Datu Mustapha received his early education at St James’ School in Kudat and later studied English in Britain.In the colonial government, he first worked as a servant to the British governor E W Morrell in 1928. He subsequently became a government clerk in 1934.
ReplyDeleteDuring the Second World War, he joined a guerilla force organised by the British Army to liberate Sabah from Japanese fascism. He was ranked an honorary Captain by the British.
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ReplyDeleteAfter the war, Datu Mustapha became a native officer in the British colonial government. He subsequently formed the United Sabah National Organisation (USNO) to unite Sabah’s Muslim indigenous people and agitate for independence.
In 1990, USNO was transformed by Datu Mustapha into the Sabah chapter of the country’s largest and dominant political party, the United Malay National Organisation or UMNO. Datu Mustapha became the first head of UMNO Sabah.
ReplyDeleteWhen Sabah achieved independence on August 31, 1963, Datu Mustapha became Sabah’s first indigenous head of state with the title of Governor. Sabah joined Malaysia on September 16, 1963. Four years later, Datu Mustapha became Sabah’s third Chief Minister, a post he held for 8 years.
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ReplyDeleteDatu Mustapha groomed a great many indigenous politicians who played an active role in Sabah’s history since Independence. They included Sabah’s seventh Chief Minister and eighth Governor Tun Sakaran Dandai
Datu Mustapha was also the political mentor of Bajau, Kadazan and Kedayan (Bruneian) politician Datuk Seri Osu Sukam of Papar in western Sabah. Osu served as Sabah’s 11th Chief Minister from 1999-2001 and was also Minister of Land and Cooperative Development in the government of Tun Dr Mahathir.
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ReplyDeleteAnother well-known protege of Datu Mustapha was Datuk Railey Jeffrey, a Kadazan-Dusun, Bajau, Murut and Kedayan (Bruneian) politician from Tawau in south-eastern Sabah who once served as Deputy Information Minister in the government of Tun Dr Mahathir.
Railey is the uncle of New Straits Times sports journalist Arnaz Khairul and singer-cum-actress Asma (Mas) Ghani, a graduate of popular Malaysian reality show Akademi Fantasia’s second season in 2004.
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ReplyDeleteDatu Mustapha was knighted by Malaysia’s third King Tuanku Syed Putra Syed Hassan Jamalullail, the late Raja of Perlis, in 1964 and received the peerage title of Tun (equivalent to Lord in Britain).
His mausoleum is in Penampang, Sabah, close to the famous Monsopiad Cultural Village, Sabah’s foremost living museum of indigenous Sabahan culture. It was built at the site of a fort owned by Datu Mat Salleh.
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ReplyDelete(The cultural village is owned by descendants of Sabah’s most illustrious Kadazan-Dusun paramount chief Monsopiad who lived a century before Datu Mat Salleh.
ReplyDeleteThe cultural village’s founder-chairman is Aima Bajerai, who is the first cousin of Malaysia’s Paula Abdul, Malaysian Idol judge and R&B singer Fauziah Latiff Bajerai)
Three of Datu Mustapha’s grand-nieces namely Naufara Yasin, Naufara’s younger sister Norafizah (Pija) Yasin and their cousin Siti Surianie (Yanie) Julkarim, all from Kota Kinabalu, are popular pop stars of Sabah.Sabah’s diverse population is 20 per cent Malaysian Chinese and 80 per cent indigenous Sabahan.
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ReplyDeleteThe indigenous Kadazan-Dusun tribe which is a quarter Muslim and three quarters Christian is the largest at 45 per cent of the population, followed by the fully Muslim Bajau tribe at 18 per cent, the fully Muslim Kedayan (Bruneian) tribe at 10 per cent and the Murut tribe at 7 per cent, which is also a quarter Muslim and three quarters Christian.
Tapi penulis blog "Suara Pakatan Rakyat" tidak tahu semua ini, kerana tidak diajar di sekolah!!
DeleteJangan kita pandang sebelah mata sahaja tentang kebaikkan yang telah diberikan oleh Datuk Musa kepada kita semua.
ReplyDeleteTenom Umno Division chief Datuk Rubin Balang is confident that BN will repeat its success by winning all the state and parliamentary seats in the interior in the coming general election.
Deletepembagunan yang berlaku sekarang harus dilaksanakan setiap masa.
DeleteMemang kebaikkan susah untuk kita terima kerana kejahatan akan sentiasa menjadi pengukur kepada kelemahan kita.
ReplyDeleteGovernment’s ‘Transformasi’ is so much different from the opposition’s ‘Reformasi’ which calls for changes to be made to the shape and body of what Malaysia is, including the BN government’s efforts to develop Sabah
DeletePolitics is all about perception and we can’t avoid when people voice out their grievances through their own perception. While we can’t please everyone, leaders are considered successful when they can bring development.
ReplyDeleteSome people say that leaders tend to monopolise everything and do not divide the wealth of the state equally. In this case, if some areas are less developed, it’s all due to the elected people’s representatives representing the areas who fail to deliver. Then, it’s not fair to put the blame totally on the Chief Minister as the head of the government
To me, Musa has managed the state wisely in bringing development to the state physically and politically. Musa knows about the people’s needs as for the last nine years, several ideas have been implemented such as drawing foreign direct investment to the state and promoting Sabah as an educational hub. Musa is in a very good position as he did not rule the state by giving priority to one particular race and sidelining the other races.All these show that Musa is almost certain to break the 10 year Sabah chief minister’s tenure jinx
Leaders at all levels must have the moral courage to depoliticise education and be able to make decisions that can ensure a better future for Malaysian children and the nation, and not merely for populist intentions, said Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak
ReplyDeleteRaja Nong Chik berkata beliau gembira untuk mendengar sumpah Ketua Umno Penampang, Datuk John Ambrose meneruskan sokongan BN dan calon dalam PRU13.Beliau percaya bahawa jika Umno Penampang terus bersatu dan bekerja bersama-sama, mereka akan terus menjadi kubu kuat Umno dan BN di Sabah.
ReplyDeletekerjasama yang kuat dalam BN akan memberikan hasil yang memuaskan.
DeletePerjuangan USNO terdahulu sudah berkubur, perjuangan USNO sekarang sudah berubah.
ReplyDeleteDi era pentadbiran Tun Mustapha, ada baik dan buruknya yang mana golongan veteran akan ingat sampai bila2.
ReplyDeletejasa Tun Mustapha pasti akan dikenang sampai bila-bila.
ReplyDeleteInilah sikap yang harus ada dimana jasa beliau sentiasa dikenang oleh generasi kini dan akan datang.
Deletekemerdekaan yang kita miliki harus dijaga dengan sebaiknya.
ReplyDeletenanti tulis pula sejarah hidup pemimpin2 lain di Sabah.. takkan seorang saja..
ReplyDeleteSejarah perjuangan harus dikenang.
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