During these last few critical days of the campaign period in Batang Ai, the exhausted campaign workers on both sides must be preparing for their final push, while the Iban fence-sitting voters must be getting more and more confused from the last bombardment of political propaganda.

Sarawak city folks and concerned citizens on the Malaya Peninsula would probably be hungry for news on the Batang Ai ground. They are bound to be frustrated, because the Iban people in the jungle of Sarawak do live in a separate universe in more ways than one. Political news from and about them seldom find its way to the outside world.