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Amde Sidik (born in Kg Pantai, Sipitang, Sabah, Malaysia in 1952) whose grandfather a Lunbawang and grandmother a Kadayan by origin.

Currently the Deputy President of Sabah Progressive Party (SAPP) and Chairman for Constituency Liaison Committee (CLC) for N28, Sindumin.

Educational Background: awarded Sabah State Government's scholarship to do Diploma in Communication at Aberdeen Commercial College, Scotland (1975). He obtained a BA in 1980, MSc from Aston University in Birmingham (1983), LLB) at Hull University in 1998, he also did a post Diploma Legal Workshop and LLM at Australian National University in 1997.

He was the President of Sabah Kadayan Association (KADAYAN) 1994-2000, he who revived the association after it deregistered during the presidency’s of Datuk Dr Yussof Yacob, a Member of Parliament for Sipitang then. For those didn’t understand him, he was viewed as anti establishments and politically leaning left. But it was during his time the Kadayan Association emerged as respected institution in Sabah.

He was the President Sabah Students’ Union in England and Ire in 1979

He worked as a shipping clerk at Sabah Foundation and as corporate planner 1984-85. He retired early from a post of Senior Legal Officer and Deputy Group Manager in Sabah Foundation (2000)

He took up several teaching posts, taught law and International Institutions and Political Environment both at local and foreign universities.

Amde’s interests closely associated with media. He was guess columnist with Daily Express for many years and a regular contributor to newspapers and online media.

He was voted Chairman for Citizen Journalist Malaysia in 2011.

His Books: Writing from the tip of Borneo published by Universe, I Beg To Differ and The Mystic of Borneo-Kadayan, both published by Book Stand and ‘Kadayan Mistik’ a translation into Malay, published by Borneo Publisher.

Occasionally he is invited to give talks on ethnics of Borneo by overseas institutions.

Into politics since 2009, Amde is joined by several of his close friends, notably, Kamis Daming, his class mate at SMK Sipitang, (a former Police District Chief of Lahad Datu, Sabah), as Deputy Chairman for CLC N28, Sindumin and Sarudin Maidin (a former Area Manager (Business Sales) for Telecom Malaysia, Labuan), as Treasurer.

Amde is an advocator for non-communal politics bows in the struggle for fair treatment and just practice.