A German company is threatening to plunge a longhouse in Layar constituency into darkness again because the state government is playing pucks with it.
KUCHING: Five hundred Ibans in Rumah Ringkai longhouse in Kerapa Spak, Betong, may soon have to junk their satellite phones, fridges, computers and television sets and return to kerosene lamps and generators because the state government has failed to honour an understanding it had with German company IBC Solar.IBC Solar, which installed the widely reported solar hybrid system (SHS) in a longhouse “accessible only by boat, on foot or by air,” is threatening to shut down the system if the state government is not interested in pursuing similar projects for other longhouses in the state.
It has given Chief Minister Taib Mahmud’s government until June 2011 to make good on its promise to IBC Solar or there will, literally speaking, be no light in Rumah Ringkai.