Datuk Janang Bungsu is the Group Managing Director and co-founder of Konsortium Bumi Consultants and Services Sdn. Bhd. (KBCS), a Sarawak-based multidiscipline consultancy firm.As a Dayak electrical engineer, Janang gathered a few other Dayak professionals and founded KBCS back in 2006 to provide consultancy services in an extremely competitive market.Under the leadership of Janang, the company rose above various challenges to become a highly capable and competitive firm, winning both personal and industry awards along its road to success.His story has the makings of Sarawakian novelty; starting from humble origins, striving hard toward what is important with both people and God’s grace as its key ingredients.

Janang, was born in Bintangor/Tanjung Manis, Mukah. Being a remote area back then, he was plunged into poverty, having to endure a difficult and unpleasant childhood.Youngest amongst the five siblings, he was barely a year old when his father passed away due to a freak hunting accident. The loss of his father, who was coincidentally also an ‘entrepreneur’ in his own way – selling fish, prawns, produce and meat whilst always being the first to purchase the latest outboard motors – threw the family into poverty.Though it was far from desirable, Janang attributes growing up with poverty crucial in pushing him to strive for a better future.Growing up selling prawns and fish, he had to learn the hard way how to be very independent in order to survive as a child. By the age of nine, he was left to fend for himself as his mother remarried and had to work far away from the longhouse. Despite the trials and tribulations of poverty, Janang took it as ‘fuel’ and motivation in giving his very best in all his endeavors.

Through the years, the independent boy who went to the virtually unknown SRK Bakerkong, Bintangor emerged as a graduate and electrical engineer from the prestigious University of Malaya, Malaysia. He worked as an engineer in Kuala Lumpur and abroad for a few years before finding his feet back on the shores of Sarawak once more.By then, he had gained invaluable experience working in a few other engineering and consultancy firms, when he met Datuk Hisham Ghani, Managing Director of Perunding Hashim and NEH Sdn. Bhd. Kuala Lumpur. Mentor to Janang’s since his early working days, Hisham possesses wide technical knowledge and built himself a business in the engineering consultancy practice. Still his mentor today, and one he will always look up to, it was not long before Janang followed in his footsteps and started his own small engineering consultancy firm in 2004, Perunding JYS Sdn. Bhd. in Kuching. Nevertheless, the engineering consultancy market has always been highly competitive with many bigger, well established firms maintaining dominance.

It was not long before Janang realised the need for synergy, prompting him to partner up with other Dayak professionals in 2006 to form Konsortium Bumi Consultants and Services Sdn Bhd, a multi-disciplinary consultancy in architecture, civil and structural engineering, and mechanical and electrical engineering. The consortium mooted by Janang was a product of his vision to form a strong entity that garnered the strength of other like-minded professionals in order to withstand the strong competition posed by other well-established firms. Thankfully, the partnership managed to secure a sizable project that was crucial in sustaining the business back then. KBCS’s success is one Janang strongly believes stems out of unity. Some of the toughest issues the entity has had to overcome were especially matters of capital expenditure and operational expenditure. He reflects on how incredibly difficult his initial business venture was without having adequate capital, having to start from scratch.Synergising this expertise was essential in improving competitiveness, shifting from small numbers to possessing a bigger platform in which to build the Dayak business community. Moving toward a multidisciplinary approach and having his Dayak partners to rely on became essential in setting the foundations of the organization’s culture of unity, along with proper planning and persistency of course. When it comes to people, KBCS has always understood that this meant more than just its own employees.

Being the first Dayak professional consultancy firm, they take cognizance in further developing its own community by providing industrial attachments to university and college students to develop professionals via internship programs. In addition to that, KBCS also focuses on giving job opportunities to Bumiputera graduates, along with school leavers and unemployed persons. From the perspective of social responsibility, the company strongly encourages its staff to participate in community service.

Professional Affiliations

• Professional Engineer with Practising Certificate, Board of Engineers Malaysia, Registration No. C111329
• Member, Board of Engineers Malaysia (BEM), No. 29766A
• Member, Institution of Engineers Malaysia (IEM), No. M21883
• Member of Association of Engineers Malaysia (ACEM), No. 948
• Member of Natural Resources and Environment Board (NREB) Sarawak No. NREB/1/00793
• Committee Member of Institute of Engineers Malaysia, Kuching (Electrical)
• Principal Interviewer for Professional Engineer's Candidate

Academic Background

• B. Eng, Electrical Engineering, University Of Malaya (1996)
• SPM. Sekolah Tuanku Jaafar, Kuala Pilah, Negeri Sembilan (1989)
• SRP, Sekolah Dato' Harun, Tanjung Karang Selangor (1987)
• Primary Education at SRK Bakerkong, Bintangor, Sarawak, MAL (1984)

Career Background

• Konsortium Bumi Consultants and Services Sdn. Bhd. Kuching Sarawak, Malaysia - Managing Director (2006-present)
• Konsortium Bumi Environmental Consultants Sdn. Bhd. - Director (2010-present)
• Konsortium Bumi Development Sdn. Bhd. - Director (2010-present)
• JEC DesignaBuild Sdn. Bhd. - Director (2006-present)
• Perunding JYS Sdn. Bhd. Kuching Sarawak, Malaysia - Director (2004-2006)
• Perunding Hashim & NEH Sdn. Bhd. Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia - Chief Resident Engineer (2002-2004)
• Javel Engineering Sdn. Bhd. (OBYU Group of Companies) Kuching Sarawak, Malaysia - Project Engineer (2001-2002)
• Hashim & NEH (Sarawak) Sdn. Bhd. Kuching Sarawak, Malaysia - Engineer (1999-2001)
• Regional Consultant Sdn. Bhd. Brunei Darusalam - Engineer (1999)
• Perunding Hashim & NEH Sdn. Bhd. Kuala Lumpur - Electrical Engineer (1996-1999)

Social Involvement

• Ahli Majlis Tertinggi Parti Rakyat Sarawak (Timbalan Setiausaha Agung)
• Board Member, Fellowhip of Evangelical Student and Scru
• Member, Sarawak Dayak Graduate Association(SDGA)
• Member, Dayak Chamber of Commerce and Industry (DCCI)
• Council Member of Gempuru Besai Kristian Jako Iban Malaysia
• Council Member of Iban Revival Ministry
• Ahli Jawatankuasa Penasihat Politeknik Mukah, Sarawak
• Ahli Lembaga Pengajian Bagi Program Baharu Sarjana Sains(Pengurusan Kejuruteraan) di Fakulti Kejuruteraan, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak(UNIMAS)
• Board Member Of Kuching Port Authority
• Supreme Council Member Of Dayak Chamber Of Commerce & Industry(DCCI)