The new leadership of Sarawak National Party (Snap) - the rump of a bitter party split last year - will engage a team of professionals to study the achievements of the Dayak community in the last four decades.

Its president, Edwin Dundang, told reporters after chairing his first central executive committee meeting in Kuching yesterday that the research would cover three areas - education, economy

and native customary rights (NCR) lands.

"We'd like to know where the Dayaks (who represent about 50 percent of Sarawak's 2.2 million population) are in these areas of human endeavour," he explained.