Sarawakians: What more should they ask for?

Written by Rama Ramanathan

My brother and I were on a jambu tree. We were munching on the crunchy red fruit. Life was good. Sweet juice was running down our chins, cheeks and hands. We thought we had chosen our positions carefully. We thought we would not be food for red ants. We were wrong. Soon we were smacking the ants. First the ones on our bodies. Then the ones on the branches. Next we jumped off. We ran away. We ranted.
That scene from my childhood came to mind when I saw a video about Rumah Nyawin, a 12 door longhouse near Bintulu, with 120 residents.
On 04 January 2007, hundreds of uniformed officers from the Land and Survey (L & S) Department and tens of policemen arrived. Bulldozers and chainsaws were deployed.
The longhouse was demolished. The residents were weeping. Some, just made homeless, gathered to pray. Rubble remained. Soon they were living in tents.
The presentation was designed to grab the emotions. I wept.
I stewed in my anger for a week. Then, I did some research.
On 04 October 2006, the Government of Sarawak issued a 30-day eviction notice to the residents of the longhouse. The basis was that the land belonged to the state, and the state had given the land to MARDI (Malaysia Agriculture Research Institute).

Kehadiran Presiden Pas Ke Sarawak Menyuntik Semangat Petugas Pas

Kuching 2 Apr : Kunjungan Presiden Pas Tuan Guru Dato' Hj Abdul Hadi Awang beberapa hari ke Sarawak bermula malam 1 April yang lalu telah menyuntik semangat petugas-petugas Pas yang telah mula berkempen setelah DUN Sarawak dibubarkan. Ketibaan Tuan Guru Presiden di sambut meriah  oleh ahli-ahli dan penyokong-penyokong Pas tempatan.

Presiden Pas dijadual akan menunjau persiapan jentera pilihanraya parti Pas di kawasan-kawasan di mana Pas akan bertanding. Pada sebelah pagi 2 April, Tuan Guru telah menyampaikan amanat(gambar) bagi petugas-petugas Pas di Kuching bagi memotivasikan lagi para petugas yang sedang memperkemaskan jentera pilihanraya parti untuk memenangkan calon-calon Pas yang akan bertanding pada 16 April nanti.

‘BN using army, soldiers to frighten voters’

Taib Mahmud's regime has much to lose and is 'instilling fear' in the people, according to Sarawak PKR.

KUCHING: The state Barisan Nasional (BN) is allegedly using its military personnel to intimidate voters in the outlying areas in Sarawak.

According to Sarawak PKR chief Baru Bian, he has been receiving reports of army personnel threatening constituents as “there is so much at stake”.

“The state BN government even uses the army to threaten people as there is so much at stake in this coming election.

“Just last evening I have received reports from my area, Ba’Kelalan, that the army personnel who are now constructing roads to Ba’kelalan are telling people if they vote for the opposition and the Barisan Nasional lost, they will tear down all the schools,” he said.

Video : Ubah v.s.Taib ( ver. Iban )

‘Call home and push for changes’

PKR wants Sarawakians who are unable to return home for the election to make the phone call and convince their families and friends to vote for change.

KUCHING: Sarawak PKR is urging Sarawakians who are unable to return home to cast their votes to call home and encourage their family members and friends to vote for change.
Sarawak PKR chief Baru Bian said this was the only way the opposition could spread the word considering the mainstream media was inaccessible to them and the blogs were being closely monitored.
“Our only hope to disseminate news and information to the rural voters is through their children, the intellectual and professional people who can go back and vote.
“For those who are unable to return to Sarawak to vote, they should telephone their parents and relatives of the need to change.

Pakatan gov't experience to help penetrate rural S'wak

Kuek Ser Kuang Keng

Although the 'political tsunami' of the 2008 general election is losing steam in the peninsula as shown by the recent by-elections, it will still be Pakatan's major weapon in fighting the 10th Sarawak state election on April 16.

The formation of five Pakatan Rakyat state governments after the last general election, will be portrayed by the Sarawak opposition as a strong example of how to convey a simple message to the Sarawak electorate, especially the natives in rural areas, that the BN is unable to equal that governance.

What appears as the most basic political concept to most people - that a political party or coalition needs to secure most of the seats in the legislature assembly to form a government, is apparently beyond the grasp of a majority of the rural native communities, - after 48 years of BN rule.

For them, the BN is the ultimate power able to advance their livelihood, or wield the rod should they revolt.

Therefore, the opposition campaign in the rural areas is nothing more than basic political education, that the people have the right to elect a government of their choice, even if it is not the 'Dacing'.

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THE SALCRA SCANDAL – STEALING FROM SARAWAK’S POOREST PEOPLE

. Sarawak Report

World’s most incompetent company! – SALCRA HQ
Judging from his performance as Chairman of Salcra, it would be unwise to hire Deputy Chief Minister Alfred Jabu to run a fruit stall, let alone place the livelihoods of tens of thousands of families under his control.
The man has clearly squandered hundreds of millions of ringgit.  Yet, as he refuses to provide even the most basic standards of accountability, no one has a clue where all that money has gone !
All one can do under such circumstances is observe that Mr Jabu himself has an extremely large house and is noted for the consipicuous wealth of his family.  So, could it be that this most incompetent manager is nevertheless a highly competent thief?!
Meanwhile, the abiding shame and scandal of this BN Government is that those poor Native Customary Rights Landowners, whom they started driving into the SALCRA scheme more than 30 years ago on the pretext of rescuing them from poverty, are still scraping a living from the most miserable dividends that could possibly be imagined from the so-called business partnership run on their behalf by Mr Jabu.

BN Sarawak rampas lebih banyak tanah daripada Raja Brooke

Anwar menunjukkan lambakan tanah rakyat yang dirampas BN

SARAWAK: Pimpinan Barisan Nasional (BN) Sarawak merampas lebih banyak tanah hak rakyat berbanding Raja Brooke – penjajah British, kata Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim.
Bagaimanapun, Ketua Umum KEADILAN itu, berkata perbuatan merampas itu tidak diketahui umum kerana ia diselindungkan media tempatan yang dikawal mereka.
“Lebih banyak tanah yang diambil oleh kerajaan BN berbanding Raja Brooke semasa pentadbiran British.
‘Kita tengok, semua syarikat yang dapat balak ialah anak Taib Mahmud, Alfred Jabu. Orang Iban dapat apa?” katanya kepada penduduk di rumah panjang Kampung Pakit, Temudok dalam DUN Bukit Begunan, hari ini.
Pada ceramah kelompok itu, beliau turut memaparkan peta imej tanah yang dirampas pimpinan BN Sarawak.
Selain itu, beliau turut kesal kerana orang Iban, Bidayuh dan Melanau di Bumi Kenyalang sengaja dilaga-lagakan parti pemerintah dalam soal pemilikan tanah.

Walau Lama Perintah, BN Masih Gagal Tangani Isu Agama

SERIAN 2 APRIL : Ketua Pembangkang Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim mengkritik kegagalan Barisan Nasional menyelesaikan masalah hubungan antara agama terutamanya dalam isu kalimah Allah dan Al-Kitab walaupun berpengalaman mentadbir negara lebih 50 tahun.

Anwar berkata Barisan Nasional masuk campur dalam hal ehwal masyarakat Kristian disebabkan sikap sombong dan bongkak mereka.

"Tak perlu gaduh soal ini, itu hak masing-masing, dalam 'Al Kitab' pakai Allah, (itu) hak orang Kristian, Bidayuh , jangan gaduh, yang gaduh ini sebab dia tak faham, yang tak faham ini Barisan Nasional, kalau tak faham tak boleh perintah, kita kena ubah pemerintah bagi yang faham perintah," tegas Anwar ketika bertemu dengan masyarakat Bidayah  di Kampung Paon Sungai Rimu, Serian semalam,

Beliau juga sempat menjawab secara jelas kepada masyarakat Bidayuh yang kebanyakannya beragama Kristian mengenai isu penggunaan kalimah Allah.

"Nabi orang Islam Nabi Muhammad, bapa Muhammad namanya Abdullah, nama Abdullah itu sebelum Islam, sebab Nabi belum ada nama sudah ada Abdullah, maknanya hamba Allah, 60-70 tahun sebelum Islam, jadi macam mana kita boleh kata orang Kristian tidak boleh pakai nama Allah, dia (BN) tak pakai otak sebab dia tak faham sejarah," terang Anwar.

Weather forecast: Tsunami in Sarawak to sweep BN away

New Jo-Lyn, C Celestine, Malaysia Chronicle

A political tsunami is expected to rock Sarawak in the impending elections as Chief Minister Taib Mahmud’s dirty linen has been washed in public too many times for voters to ignore.
“The rakyat are responding well to us. We are confident we will at least deny BN a two-thirds majority – at least 36 seats. The news of Taib’s squandering, the Bible issue and the Penan rapes will not go down well for him during the elections,” PKR MP for Ampang MP Zuraida Kamaruddin told Malaysia Chronicle.
The candidate set to contest against Taib himself in his stronghold is a woman, whom Zuraida said she hopes will put Taib to shame for his “rotten” treatment of ladies. She referred to the Chief Minister’s treatment of a female candidate in the previous election, where his bodyguards tried to physically block her.
Apart from the political slap in the face such a move was meant to be, PKR leaders also said it was meant pre-empt any undue and overly-harshly harassment against the Pakatan candidate by Taib and his men.
“We hope Taib will be more circumspect when he and his gang campaign against our candidate. If he wants to be rough and resort to violence, that’s his problem but we warn him it will backfire and expose him even more as a dark force that Sarawakians must reject at all costs,” PKR vice president Tian Chua told Malaysia Chronicle.

Anwar Ingatkan Rakyat Sarawak Usah Terpedaya Politik Pembangunan BN

ASAJAYA 2 APRIL : Rakyat Sarawak diingatkan supaya tidak terpedaya dengan kempen politik pembangunan yang dibawa oleh Barisan Nasional kerana golongan yang
menikmatinya di negeri ini hanyalah segelintir elit yang sememangnya kaya raya, sementara rakyat bawahan terus dibelit kemiskinan.

Ketua Pembangkang Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim berkata, mana-mana kerajaan di dunia pasti akan membawa pembangunan tetapi yang menjadi persoalan ialah golongan manakah yang menjadi sasaran kepada pembangunan itu dan kelompok mana yang boleh mengaut keuntungan melaluinya.

" Syukur ini kepada siapa? Kepada Allah bukan kepada manusia, Mubarak pun buat jalan, Indonesia lagi ada jalan, England ada jalan, negera China ada jalan, India ada jalan,  Bangladesh yang miskin pun ada pun jalan, sekolah ada.

Senario 1 lawan 1, agihan kerusi KEADILAN, SNAP hampir selesai

SARAWAK: Tiada pertembungan sesama parti gabungan Pakatan Rakyat termasuk Parti Nasional Sarawak (SNAP), sebaliknya semua pihak mahu mewujudkan senario satu lawan satu menentang Barisan Nasional (BN).
Pengerusi Majlis Pimpinan KEADILAN Sarawak, Baru Bian berkata, perbincangan pengagihan 41 kerusi antara KEADILAN dan SNAP juga hampir selesai, khususnya di kawasan majoriti Melayu.
Beliau berkata, semua parti gabungan juga sudah bersetuju DAP bertanding di 15 kerusi Dewan Undangan Negeri (DUN) manakala PAS lima kerusi manakala bakinya ditandingi KEADILAN atau SNAP.
“Kita tidak mahu bertembung sesama sendiri kerana ia akan memberi kelebihan kepada BN Sarawak. Semua pihak mahu suasana satu lawan satu,” katanya pada sidang media, hari ini.
Turut serta, Pengerusi DAP Sarawak, Richard Wong Ho Leng, Pesuruhjaya PAS Sarawak, Adam Ahid dan beberapa pimpinan Pakatan Rakyat di negeri itu.

Prosperity for Taib and BN, poverty and misery for Sarawakians

Selena Tay, Malaysia Chronicle

Chief Minister of Sarawak Taib Mahmud has urged Sarawakians going to the polls on April 16 to vote BN for the sake of peace, prosperity and progress. It is the umpteenth time he is making such a call. This has been Taib’s theme throughout his walkabouts in Sarawak. This is also BN’s theme come every general election and it has been this way for the longest time.
So far, the gullible Malaysian electorate have fallen for this line until the March 2008 tsunami blew in. After that, not only were many Malaysians awoken, but things have never really been the same. And that is for the better, many pundits have said.
However, Taib’s and BN’s strong point is that they control the mainstream media and thus they have the power to manipulate the minds of the Sarawak electorate, most of whom lack access to the alternative media.
Malaysia Chronicle spoke to Fuziah Salleh, PKR’s Kuantan MP who is in Sarawak to help the Pakatan Rakyat bid to wrest the state from Taib. She commented that the word ‘prosperity’ in used heavily in the BN slogans is very debatable.
“Whose prosperity are you talking about?” Fuziah asked.

Pemimpin utama PAS iringi calon 6 April

KUALA LUMPUR, 2 April: Semua pemimpin utama PAS akan turun ke Sarawak bagi mengetuai perarakan calon pada hari penamaan calon 6 April ini.
Pengarah Pilihan raya Negeri Sarawak, Ustaz Nasharudin Mat Isa berkata, Presiden PAS, Datuk Seri Tuan Guru Abdul Hadi Awang dan Ketua Pemuda PAS Pusat, Nasrudin Hassan akan mengiringi calon PAS di Beting Maro.
Beliau yang juga Timbalan Presiden PAS akan mengiringi calon PAS di Sebuyau, Naib-naib Presiden pula iaitu Salahuddin Ayub di Sadong Jaya, Datuk Mahfuz Omar di Muara Tuang sementara Datuk Tuan Ibrahim Tuan Man dan Ketua Muslimat PAS, Ustazah Nuridah Mohd Salleh di Tanjong Datu.
Suruhanjaya Pilihan Raya (SPR) menetapkan hari mengundi bagi pilihan raya negeri pada 16 April ini.
Sarawak mempunyai 71 kawasan Dewan Undangan Negeri (Dun) di mana BN memenangi 62 kerusi pada pilihan raya negeri kesembilan pada 2006 lalu, SNAP (11), DAP (6), PKR (1) dan Bebas (1).

国阵代理人银弹攻势变相贿选，施志豪吁支持民联落实制度改革

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一个大马组织向来只活跃于补选期间，并且因过去曾在加腊士、丁能及万里望补选举办免费吃喝玩乐活动及派送礼品而臭名昭彰。人民公正党探悉该组织近期 活跃于古晋地区，除了每日轮流于该区各地巴刹及小贩中心免费派送礼品，更举办大型晚宴邀请附近居民免费出席。值得一提的是，上述晚宴活动均邀请国阵候选人 及领袖出席。

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In Sarawak, Anwar to speak of injustice

By Shannon Teoh

The Sarawak campaign will be a gruelling physical test for the opposition leader. — file pic

KUALA LUMPUR, April 2 — The day before Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim accompanies Baru Bian to the nomination centre in Ba’Kelalan, he will arrive at Lawas airport in a 28-year-old twin-engine propeller plane.
With a capacity of 19 passengers, it will barely fit his entourage in a nine-day sweep of Sarawak ahead of the April 16 state polls.
The plane he will arrive in is one of just four Twin Otters that serve the Lawas district, an area three times the size of Malacca but with a population of just 35,000.
Lawas is cut off from the rest of Sarawak’s road network. The only two ways to drive into the remote outpost is from Brunei and Sabah.

Rakyat Sarawak perlu tolak politik ‘jembalang’ BN

KUALA LUMPUR, 2 Apr: Jabatan Pilihanraya Dewan Pemuda PAS Pusat menyifatkan kenyataan Timbalan Perdana Menteri, Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin yang melabelkan parti selain Barisan Nasional sebagai ‘jembalang dan hantu yang bermulut manis’ adalah kenyataan paling bodoh daripada seorang pemimpin negara.
Pengarahnya, Mohd Firdaus Jaafar melahirkan rasa hairan bagaimana kenyataan itu boleh timbul daripada pemimpin tertinggi negara.
Beliau mengingatkan, tidakkah Muhyiddin tahu bahawa Barisan Nasional adalah ‘jembalang dan hantu’ yang dia sendiri maksudkan.
“Bukankah BN yang menawarkan pelbagai janji manis yang bertujuan mengelabui mata pengundi Sarawak, dan setelah menang pilihanraya mereka sekali lagi hilang umpama hantu dan jembalang tanah?” soalnya dalam kenyataan kepada Harakahdaily.

Burung Kenyalang turun berkempen p'raya S'wak

Ia boleh dianggap sebagai yang tercomel - dan mungkin satu-satunya sahaja - maskot yang diguna oleh parti politik dalam menghadapi pilihan raya di negara ini. Dan itulah yang dilakukan oleh DAP dalam menghadapi pilihan raya negeri Sarawak. Parti itu menjadi burung kenyalang bernama 'Ubah' sebagai maskotnya.

Sejak itu, maskot tersebut - dalam bentuk barangan permainan hingga
kepada butang - menjadi tumpuan dan rebutan. Manakala pemimpin
parti itu pula sering geli hati apabila diminta bergambar dengan Ubah sewaktu mengadakan sidang akhbar.

Di perbatasan siber pula, Ubah mempunyai laman Facebook dan akaun Twitter sendiri, di samping sentiasa muncul untuk bergambar di majlis-majlis anjuran DAP di Sarawak.

Malah, Malaysiakini pun tidak mahu melepaskan peluang untuk mewawancara Ubah.

Pilihan raya negeri Sarawak ukuran tarikh PRU13, kata Najib

KUALA LUMPUR, 1 April — Datuk Seri Najib Razak berkata keputusan pilihan raya negeri Sarawak pertengahan bulan ini akan digunakan sebagai “ukuran” untuk menentukan tarikh pilihan raya umum ke-13 — sama ada dipercepatkan ataupun sebaliknya.

Desas-desus menyebut pilihan raya umum akan diadakan tahun ini, tetapi mandat semasa hanya akan berakhir April 2013.
Hari penamaan calon pilihan raya negeri Sarawak akan berlangsung Rabu depan manakala pengundian pula 16 April.
Kata Perdana Menteri (gambar), kerajaan akan memutuskan masa yang sesuai bagi pilihan raya umum selepas pilihan raya negeri Sarawak.

29 'kerusi panas' di Sarawak

Persaingan sengit dijangka berlaku di 29 kerusi dalam pilihan raya negeri Sarawak, demikian menurut ramalan pensyarah sains politik Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (Unimas), Faizal Syam Hazis.

Faizal (kiri) percaya semua 15 kerusi majoriti pengundi Cina, tujuh
kerusi majoriti Iban, tiga kerusi majoriti Malay-Melanau, dua kerusi majoriti Bidayuh dan dua kerusi majoriti Orang Ulu, "boleh memihak kepada mana-mana parti".

Pada asasnya, kata beliau, ketidakpuasan terhadap kerajaan negeri sebahagian besarnya membabitkan penduduk kawasan bandar, tetapi dari segi sejarahnya, pengundi di kawasan luar bandar cenderung menyokong pembangkang disebabkan oleh personaliti calon atau isu-isu tempatan.

Faizal menjangka sokongan besar kepada pembangkang terbesar di 15 kerusi majoriti Cina, sambil menambah bahawa "penentangan" terhadap BN di kawasan Kuching pada 2006, dipercayai telah merebak ke seluruh negeri.

“Walaupun terdapat beberapa kawasan 'selamat' pengundi Cina di kawasan Miri... Saya tidak akan terkejut jika pembangkang boleh menembusinya,” katanya dalam satu forum awam di Petaling Jaya mengenai pilihan raya negeri Sarawak anjura Merdeka Centre.

Yang menarik, tambahnya, berasaskan kepada keputusan 2006, terdapat kerusi Melayu-Melanau di kawasan luar bandar yang juga berisiko, seperti kerusi Sadong Jaya, Beting Maro dan Saribas. 

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SPR jamin tiada pengundi hantu di S'wak

Suruhanjaya Pilihan Raya (SPR) telah melaksanakan pemeriksaan dan pengesahan dengan teliti untuk memastikan daftar pemilih negeri Sarawak adalah yang terkini, selain bertujuan memastikan tiada pengundi hantu dalam pilihan raya negeri ke-10.

Timbalan Pengerusinya Datuk Wan Ahmad Wan Omar berkata SPR telah melaksanakan dengan teliti proses pemeriksaan dan pengesahan Daftar Pemilih sehingga 21 Mac apabila Dewan Undangan Negeri dibubarkan.

"Kami semak sebaik mungkin, (nama) mereka yang telah disahkan meninggal dunia oleh JPN (Jabatan Pendafaran Negara) sehingga 21 Mac ini sudah dikeluarkan," katanya kepada pemberita pada taklimat pilihan raya negeri Sarawak di Miri hari ini.

Wan Ahmad berkata sejak Daftar Pemilih baru dikeluarkan, tiada sebarang aduan daripada parti politik di sini berhubung pengundi hantu.