MIRI – The Night Market or “Pasar Malam” at Saberkas Commercial Centre is still not settle accordingly whereby the hawker’s complaint that the new site is quite small and not conducive for them to run business. For visitors to this new site is not convenient for them to buy foods, drinks and so on because the place was congested, crowded and smaller compare with the existing one.

From safety point of view they said that this new location is quit dangerous to hawkers especially for hawkers that selling sate, boiling hot water, to roast chicken, fish and so on.

If there are too many people coming to buy foods at the site, this may cause congested, crowded and may cause unnecessary incident such as collide with something like boiling water, cooking oil etc. This site also will become polluted areas with smoke and dust. It’s not save for hawkers and customer to visit the site during peak hours.

From the perspective of the basic facilities such as clean water supply to wash the foods and drinks also not yet allocated. They have to take the water from nearby shop. No public toilet and drainage also not flooring smoothly it may cause smelly and blockage.

For the relevant authority such as MMC should think of this matter seriously and should provide the basic facilities before they force the hawkers to move to the new site. For safety purpose they should act smartly and fairly to everybody regardless of political differences and races. We PAS and Pakatan Rakyat always concern to the public problem arise by the hawkers not because of the political mileage, religion, race or colored. We come to help them to solve their problem according to the laws. PAS for all!

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Royal Mulu Hotel - Chief Minister owns shares in this state-funded enterprise

Sarawak Report can reveal that the Chief Minister, Abdul Taib Mahmud, has a major personal shareholding in Sarawak’s highly controversial Royal Mulu Resort, a project that has received huge injections of cash from the State. This means that, as both Chief Minister and Finance Minister, Taib has authorised the diversion of large sums of public money straight into his own pocket.
As State Resources and Planning Minister, Taib was also responsible for the forced acquisition of a large area of Native Customary Lands from the indigenous Berawan tribe to build the resort, for which the tribespeople received virtually no compensation. Our evidence therefore further exposes him for having authorised this land-snatch for his own direct benefit.
His shareholding is in a company that was incorporated as recently as November 2007, Mesti Bersatu Sdn Bhd. This in turn has a 50% shareholding of the Taib/Mahmud family company Kenyalang Cergas, one of the main shareholders of Borsamulu Resorts Bhd (BRSB). BRSB was handed the ownership and lucrative management contract for what was once a state-owned National Park, thanks to a series of decisions by Taib’s own government starting in 1991. The management contract is paid for by the taxpayer!

In the money! - a decade ago the Geneids had nothing, now they are the toast of Malaysia's Tatler Ball 2010!

The other major beneficiaries and shareholders of the Royal Mulu Resort are members of his family, including his sister Raziah, her third husband Robert Geneid and the family of his late brother Arip Mahmud. Taib Mahmud has personally accused the Berawan people of being “greedy” for refusing to hand over their lands for ‘development’. Their peaceful protests in the 1990s were brutally put down by army and police and their leaders were imprisoned. Deprived of their territories, these communities are now impoverished and hungry and few people, apart from the Mahmud family, will have difficulty in discerning where the true greed lies.
This time it’s on record
The significance of this official confirmation of the Chief Minister’s own shareholding lies in the fact that Taib has normally sought to disguise his acquisitions and shareholdings in an attempt to avoid widespread allegations of corruption. He habitually uses members of his own family to hold shares on his behalf. Thus, the names of his many brothers and sisters, his late wife, his four children, nieces, nephews, cousins and in-laws are prominent as key shareholders in most of Sarawak’s important businesses.
Insiders have also told Sarawak Report that the elderly Chief Minister has employed a number of other devious methods to keep control of such companies until he is able to extract his wealth and invest it secretly abroad. These methods include forcing his nominees to sign undated resignation letters and share transfer forms, which he can use at any time to force their removal and employ somebody else as his front man or ‘nominee’!
Likewise, Sarawak Report has copies of US documents showing that shares which were publicly registered as belonging to family members were in fact secretly ‘held in trust’ for the Chief Minister himself.
Chief Minister’s name is in black and white in the Register of Companies

In black and white - Chief Minister Taib Mahmud declares his interest!

Mesti Bersatu Sdn Bhd therefore forms a notable exception, in that Taib declares his financial interest in black and white in Malaysia’s Company Register. It is likely to have been an oversight on his part and a sign of his growing confidence that he can do what he likes in Sarawak and get away with it.
He is registered both as a Director and a Shareholder of Mesti Bersatu and holds 400,000 shares out of the 2,300,000 total shares issued for the company. The other shareholders are his late brother Arif’s three wives (condoned under the Muslim faith) and two grown up daughters. At RM 1.00 per share, Taib’s shareholding represents an outlay of 400,000 ringgit.

Cheesy tourist welcome - the local tribespeople put on embarrassing display at the Royal Mulu Hotel (from the Geneid family facebook album)

The company is registered as having ‘No Operation’ at it’s Kuching address, but in fact owns half the shares in Kenyalang Cergas Bhd, which was set up in 1992 as a direct Shareholder of the Royal Mulu resort. The other Directors and Shareholders of Kenyalang Cergas are Taib’s sister Raziah and her current husband Robert Geneid, who were behind the original development of the resort and act as the main directors of the company. Crony timber tycoons the Yaw family, the owners of Samling, have also put money into the project, along with the architect from Singapore. Crucially the Sarawak State Government has also taken up an interest in the venture and has usefully pumped in large sums of life-saving injections of cash from the taxpayer over the years. That involvement was of course thanks to Taib Mahmud.
All thanks to Taib!
Raziah and Robert Geneid reportedly came up with the plan to develop Mulu, which is famous for its caves, in the early 90s, when Raziah was still married to her 2nd husband. In 1991, thanks to Taib Mahmud the Chief Minister, a decision was made by the Sarawak State Government to alienate land acquired in the National Park for a pitiful sum of RM 80 per acre from a local headman to their new family company the Royal Mulu Resort. The Geneids had no money or hotel experience, but Taib’s brother Arip, who had made money from another family venture Achipeligo Shipping (which has now developed into a separate major scandal over the allegations of billions made in timber kickbacks) invested in the venture.

Berawan land - who cares?

Given that the Chief Minister had alienated profitable state land into the hands of his unqualified sister and brother, the project was from the start corrupt. Even more corrupt has been the continuing support by the state of Sarawak, through the Sarawak Economic Development Corporation, of what has turned out to be a lamentably unprofitable venture. In the name of ‘developing tourism’ the SEDC has been paying what appear to be astronomical ‘management fees’ to the Geneids and their co-shareholders for running their own hotel investment!
This generosity has turned what would have been a disastrous investment and a failed venture into a major money-spinner for Raziah and Robert (the son of an Australian fruit-vendor) who appear to have turned the resort into something of a family forest playground, judging from family facebook sites. Indeed few actual tourists go there and most tourist guides warn visitors that the small sized National Park has long since been stripped of its wildlife by the effects of Taib’s logging activities in all the surrounding areas.
It is also, of course, thanks to Taib that awkward complaints by the local population have been so firmly suppressed by the full force of the state and police. Thus, while the Geneids party in luxury (arriving at their holiday hideaway via a specially-built airstrip that involved blowing off the top of a sacred mountain and taking more of the land that belonged to the natives), the local people have received none of the benefits of the much-trumpeted ’progress and development’.


Forest fun - canopy walk at Mulu. Berawan guides are not permitted

The Berawan tribe have now returned to court to fight the company’s forced acquisition (thanks to Taib’s government) of yet more of the NCR lands for a second extension of the resort as part of a deal to develop it further, in collaboration with the US-owned Marriott Hotel chain. So far they have received no compensation or recognition of their claims from Taib, despite the fact that previous governments did recognise their ownership of the land.
The Marriott Hotel chain appears to have no shame in participating in this deal, having already collaborated with Raziah Mahmud in developing the Marriott in Miri, again thanks to favours and land alienated by the government of Abdul Taib Mahmud.
However, Unesco which attributed World Heritage status to the site in 2000 has already signalled its own worries about the situation at Mulu. Its 2008 report into the management of World Heritage Sites raised the management of the park as an issue of concern. It states that the Chief Minister’s plan to flood great areas of Sarawak with dams could impact on the site and further points out that there have been reports that ”the benefits of tourism and World Heritage designation are not available to the indigenous groups. If these reports were confirmed” UNESCO states “this lack of engagement of local communities could threaten the effectiveness of management and impact the integrity of the property”. The UNESCO report requires reassurances by 2010, which can hardly have been forthcoming.
Local poor are dependent on tourist tips
Despite the usual bragging about ‘progress’ from AbdulTaib Mahmud, the ‘development’ of Mulu has predictably provided no compensation and little in the way of jobs for the local people. The Berawan are apparently banned from being guides in the park they know so well. In return these people have lost their lands and livelihoods and no longer have their hunting grounds. The Geneids and their government partners have therefore provided virtually nothing for the people who they have displaced, many of whom are starving hungry.

Progress and development at Royal Mulu - for the natives that is.

The once nomadic Penan of the area have likewise lost their hunting grounds, due to Taib-sponsored logging all around the actual park (which is on high ground and therefore does not have very interesting trees) and they are now living in shanty settlements on the fringes of the Berawan lands. Far from enjoying the fruits of modernisation they survive from making baskets for the few tourists who come to look at them from the resort hotel. So poor was the standard of housing provided by the Geneids in this ‘progress and development’ scheme that one such tourist himself put up the money to pay for the removal of mosquito-breeding swamps from beneath the settlement’s main longhouse, which had been a major discomfort and health hazard.
So how much has the Sarawak State paid to the Taib family to run Mulu?
Nevertheless, the taxpayer is still being forced to pay substantial sums to the Geneids in the name of ‘developing tourism’, for managing their own venture! The big question is exactly how much has Sarawak invested in this project that is now being taken up by the Marriott? Sarawak Report has ascertained that in 2007, the same year that Taib Mahmud openly acquired his shares in the company, a new contract was drawn up whereby the State was to pay even larger sums into the Borsamulu Resort Company, of which he was now publicly an owner.

Made from Ratan - bewildered Penan hunters reduced to a tourist attraction at Royal Mulu

Sarawak Report has been informed from reliable sources that the agreement was for Borsamulu’s management subsidiary to be paid RM 50 million a year for 50 years by the state. This means that the State of Sarawak has agreed to pay the Geneids and indeed the Chief Minister himself, RM 50 million a year to manage their own investment until the day they die! We therefore ask the Government of Sarawak if they will please confirm this figure and explain on what grounds they think they can condone such corruption?
Clearly these figures should be made public as it is the right of the people of Sarawak to be informed of the total sum of public money that has been poured into the Geneid’s forest playground since its inception in 1993 and they should also know how much more it is committed to spend.
Marriott Hotel
Sarawak Repot would also like to enquire of the Marriott Hotel Chain whether this continuing support by the Sarawak taxpayer forms part of their ’incentive’ for taking up a joint venture with the Geneids at Borsamulu Resort and also whether the company holds any ethical standards regarding human rights and the environmental impact of their activities? If so, how does their involvement in Borsamulu equate with these standards?
Marriott’s new business partners in their joint venture with Borsamulu Resort include the Chief Minister of Sarawak and his family, the State Government of Sarawak and the logging giant, Samling, recently condemned in an investigation into illegal logging by the Norwegian Government. Since Marriott are re-launching the resort under the auspices of eco-tourism and the Chief Minister and his family can only be described as one of the worst environmental menaces alive on this planet, we would like to ask Marriott how they are planning to deal with this contradictory arrangement?

'Eco-tourism' - a Geneid pal contributes to the destruction of the Mulu homeland of the Berawan Tribe

We would also like to enquire if Marriott can reveal the true identity of another of the major shareholders of Borsamulu, Widervale Assets Limited? We assume that in the course of doing their due diligence into the joint venture eco-tourism project they have identified the owner of this company, however in an instance of extreme irregularity it is not registered on the Malaysian Company Register, despite such a significant holding in a prominent state government-backed concern!
Given that Marriott Hotel Group’s promotional material regarding their planned acquisition of Mulu in 2011 claims confidence in the “eco-tourism potential” of the Royal Mulu Resort, Sarawak Report would finally like to ask on what criteria the Marriott Hotel Group judges ‘eco-tourism’? Their new business-partner, the Chief Minister of Sarawak, has sponsored the destruction of a huge segment of the Borneo rainforest, destroying the landscape of the whole of Sarawak. He authorised the logging of thousands of square miles of virgin rainforest surrounding the tiny Mulu National Park, eradicating most of the wild-life of the region, including inside the Park itself. In the process the local people and native forest tribes have been nearly starved into extinction and left to rot without a shred of compensation. Their protests have been put down by armed police.
We would therefore like to ask the Marriott Hotel Group how they intend to explain and justify these circumstance to their visiting ‘eco-tourists’ and indeed to concerned onlookers at UNESCO’s World Heritage Commission?
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Jalan berlopak dan becak waktu hujan menyukarkan penduduk kampung untuk keluar menjalan urusan harian mereka. Dimana keperihatin kerajaan Bn terhadap penduduk Kpg Tukau yang masih lagi ketinggalan dari segi kemudahaan asas seperti api letrik, bakalan air bersih dan jalanraya yang bertar untuk memudahkan mereka menjalankan aktiviti harian.


Salah sebuah rumah yang dikunjungi PAS Kawasan Miri dimana segala kemudahan asas seperti yang tersebut diatas masih belum lagi didapati oleh penduduk tersebut.



Salah sebuah keluarga miskin yang hidup dalam sebuah pondok kecik.



Keadaan dalam pondok yang sangat menyedihkan kerana keluarga tersebut terpaksa tinggal dalam pondok yang kecik lagi daif.



Salah sebuah rumah mewah dipinggir bukit yang masih dalam pembinaan. Mereka yang kaya hidup senang lenang dalam kemewahan sedangkan orang miskin terus hidup dalam pondok kecik demi menyuap kehidupan keluarga mereka.

Inilah dikata yang kaya bertambah kaya yang miskin hidup melarat.

Marilah kita sebagai rakyat yang mempunyai akal fikiran supaya dapat menilai sendiri apa yang telah kerajaan Bn lakukan terhadap rakyat miskin yang selama ini memberi sokongan kepada mereka sehingga pemimpin2 Bn kebanyakan mereka hidup dalam kemewahan sedangkan rakyat marhean masih hidup dalam kemiskinan.Kuasa ditangan rakyat maka rakyatlah yang menentukan nasib diri mereka sendiri.

“Allah tidak mengubah nasib sesuatu kaum sehingga mereka mengubah nasib mereka sendiri” (Ar-Ra’d: 11) dan pasti kita tidak akan dapat mengubah diri kita ataupun mengangkat darjat kita di sisi Allah tanpa jiddiyah..

tepuk dada tnya iman..

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Pandangan banyak pihak tentang peningkatan kes perceraian di Sarawak dalam media tempatan amat membimbangkan. Mari kita kaji berlakunya kes sebegini dari sudut Ibadah Solat.Dalam sebuah hadis, sebagaimana yang telah diriwayatkan oleh Ibnu Umar, Rasulullah SAW telah bersabda;“Perbuatan halal yang dimurkai Allah ialah talak” Riwayat Abu Daud dan HakimManakala firman Allah SWT, di surah An Nisa’ ayat 19 bermaksud;“Pergaulilah isterimu dengan baik, sekiranya kamu benci kepada mereka, boleh jadi ada yang kamu benci itu Tuhan akan menjadikan kebaikan yang banyak padanya”
Perceraian merupakan perkara yang halal tetapi paling dibenci oleh Allah swt. Firman Allah di surah Al Baqarah ayat 229 yang bermaksud,
“Rujuklah mereka (isteri-isteri kamu) dengan cara yang ma’ruf atau ceraikanlah mereka dengan cara yang baik”
Begitu juga Islam melarang seorang isteri yang minta diceraikan tanpa ada sebab-sebab yang syar’ie, sebagaimana hadis Rasulullah saw yang bermaksud,
“Dari Sauban r.a bahawa Rasulullah saw bersabda : “Mana-mana perempuan yang meminta cerai daripada suaminya tanpa ada apa-apa keuzuran syar’ie, maka haram ke atasnya bau syurga” Riwayat : Abu Daud

Perkara di atas ini berlaku juga terhadap suami yang menceraikan isterinya, tanpa ada sebab-sebab atau alasan yang kuat sehingga isteri terasa dizalimi atau menceraikannya dengan cara penganiayaan. Begitu juga haram bagi suami menceraikan isterinya sewaktu sedang haid atau sewaktu isteri dalam keadaan suci tetapi telah dicampurinya.

Punca Perceraian

Untuk membicara perkara ini ianya agak subjektif, kerana setiap pasangan mempunyai alasan dan persoalan yang tersendiri yang menyebabkan rumahtangga mereka bergelora. Namun melalui pengalaman saya sebagai Naib Khadi atau istilah sekarang Penolong Pendaftar Nikah, Cerai dan Rujuk orang Islam, bolehlah dijadikan sedikit ukuran dan pertimbangan untuk mengenal pasti punca perceraian yang berlaku dari segi akar umbinya.Saya suka meneliti dari setiap sudut persoalan dan cuba memahaminya agar persoalan itu lebih mudah untuk dirungkaikan. Dalam al-Quran, firman Allah SWT yang berkaitan hukum serta persoalan talaq atau perceraian ada dihuraikan pada surah al-Baqarah. Bermula dari ayat 222, yang menceritakan tentang kedudukan wanita di sisi suaminya sehinggalah kepada ayat 242 yang menghuraikan tentang hak-hak wanita yang telah ditalaqkan.

Namun yang menariknya, terselit diantara persoalan tersebut dua ayat, iaitu pada ayat 238 dan 239 yang menghuraikan perintah dan arahan Allah SWT untuk memelihara solat tidak kira dalam bagaimana keadaan sekalipun, ketika aman atau dalam permusafiran.Sebagaimana yang difahami, ayat-ayat al-Quran walaupun ianya diturunkan secara berperingkat-peringkat dan kadang-kala setiap ayat itu berpisah antara satu sama lain ketika penurunannya, namun setelah mana ia dibukukan mengikut wahyu Allah SWT kepada Nabi SAW, ianya mempunyai nilai maksud yang tersendiri melalui tafsiran secara tahliliyyah yakni tafsiran secara terperinci. Maksud dari setiap ayat berkait-kait dari satu ayat dengan ayat yang lain, begitu juga dari satu surah kepada surah yang lain. Walaupun sebab penurunan ayat berbeza ketika waktu penurunannya dan jalan ceritanya juga berbeza pada zahir ayatnya tetapi ianya mempunyai hubungan dari satu ayat dengan ayat yang lain. Itulah kehebatan al-Quran, tersimpan rahsia bagi yang mahu mengkajinya.

Justeru, ketika kita cuba memahami tafsiran ayat-ayat tersebut, pengertian yang ingin disampaikan oleh Allah SWT secara tersirat ialah melalui bagaimana persoalan perceraian ini boleh dan dapat dibendung. Allah SWT menegaskan terhadap penjagaan hak Allah sebagaimana yang ditetapkan iaitulah menjaga solat. Firman Allah SWT dalam ayat 238;

“Peliharalah kamu (kerjakanlah dengan tetap dan sempurna pada waktunya) segala sembahyang fardu, khasnya sembahyang Wusta (sembahyang Asar) dan berdirilah kerana Allah (dalam sembahyang kamu) dengan taat dan khusyuk. (238) Dan jika kamu takuti (sesuatu bahaya) maka sembahyanglah sambil berjalan atau berkenderaan, kemudian apabila kamu telah aman sentosa, maka hendaklah kamu mengingati Allah (dengan mengerjakan sembahyang secara yang lebih sempurna), sebagaimana Allah telah mengajar kamu apa yang kamu tidak mengetahuinya”. (239)

Jagalah hak Allah SWT dalam apa keadaan sekalipun dan ingatilah Allah SWT nescaya Ia akan mengajar kamu dan memelihara kamu.Dalam kehidupan ini, apa yang perlu kita ketahui ialah perjalanan hidup kita senantiasa dalam ketentuan Allah. Walaupun kita mampu berusaha dan sememangnya disuruh untuk berusaha tetapi kita kena senantiasa bersandarkan kepada ketentuan Allah SWT, kerana Dialah yang menentapkan segala sesuatu.

Daripada Ibnu Abbas RA, sabda Nabi SAW:

“Wahai anak, aku ingin ajarkan kepada engkau beberapa kalimah: Peliharalah hak-hak Allah nescaya Allah memelihara kamu. Peliharalah hak-hak Allah nescaya engkau akan mendapatiNya di mana saja kamu berada. Apabila kamu ingin meminta bermohonlah kepada Allah. Apabila kamu inginkan pertolongan mohonlah pertolongan daripada Allah. Dan ketahuilah, sekiranya seluruh umat berhimpun untuk memberikan suatu manfaat kepada engkau, mereka tidak akan dapat berbuat demikian sedikit pun melainkan dengan suatu yang telah Allah tetapkan kepada kamu; sekiranya mereka berhimpun untuk memudaratkan kamu, mereka tidak akan dapat berbuat demikian sedikit pun melainkan dengan suatu yang telah Allah SWT tetapkan ke atas kamu. Telah pun diangkat segala pena dan telah keringlah segala buku (segalanya telah ditetapkan oleh takdir dan ditulis di Luh mahfuz).Riwayat al-Tirmizi dan Ahmad.
Jelaslah bila kita jaga hak-hak Allah pastinya Allah akan memelihara kita, apatah lagi untuk memelihara hubungan kita sesama manusia khususnya suami isteri.
Solat menjadi asasnya. Hubungan yang sentiasa dengan Allah akan membuahkan ketenangan dan kedamaian serta jalan keluar dari segala permasalahan. Namun apa yang berlaku disebalik corak kehidupan manusia yang dikatakan beriman kepada Allah dewasa ini, jauh menyimpang dari sifatnya sebagai seorang yang beriman. Solat hanya sekadar adat kebiasaan bukan suatu yang didambakan untuk memuji-muji tuhan, memohon keampunan dan kerahmatan, tetapi hanya sekadar hiasan dan kebiasaan. Kesannya, solat yang tidak mampu meraih kasih Allah dan menghindarkan dirinya dari kemungkaran.
Dan ingatlah sebahagian besar perselisihan dalam rumahtangga adalah terkesan dari kemungkaran yang dilakukan, sama ada secara sedar atau tidak kemungkaran terhasil dari pengabaian hak-hak Allah yang pelbagai. Bermula dari solat, penutupan aurat, pergaulan bebas, makan minum dari sumber yang haram, mengambil hak orang lain secara haram, pelanggaran hukum-hukum Allah dan sebagainya.

Bila saya bersoal selidik dengan para pasangan yang bermasalah khususnya berhasrat untuk bercerai, 90 % dikalangan mereka mengabaikan solat, sama ada suami atau isteri. Justeru kesimpulan ringkas yang boleh saya nyatakan, apabila tidak menjaga solat dengan sempurna maka ia adalah sebahagian dari punca penceraian dan akan membawa kepada pengabaian yang lain juga.Oleh itu jagalah, sempurnakanlah serta berusahalah untuk mendapat khusyuk padanya, kerana sesungguhnya berjayalah orang mukmin yang khusyuk dalam solatnya. Bila solat berjaya maka segala lapangan kehidupan kita juga akan berjaya serta jagalah hak-hak Allah yang lainnya. Itulah keberhasilannya. Moga kehidupan kita diberkati Allah, ameen

Pandangan Ustaz M Zaki Ameen

Tidak sampai seminggu rakyat dikejutkan dengan pengumuman Perdana Menteri bahawa kerajaan membenarkan pelaburan luar negara Kumpulan Wang Simpanan Pekerja ditingkatkan daripada 7 peratus kepada 20 peratus membabitkan dana awam hampir RM75 bilion, kini RHB Bank yang dimiliki KWSP dilaporkan telah memberi pinjaman USD285 juta atau RM880 juta kepada adik Ketua Menteri Sarawak, Raziah Mahmud dan suami ketiga beliau, Robert Geneid.

Menurut laman web sarawakreport.com yang terkenal dengan pendedahan kekayaan dan aset serata dunia yang dimiliki Tan Sri Abdul Taib Mahmud serta keluarganya, daripada maklumat Suruhanjaya Syarikat Malaysia (SSM) pinjaman besar tersebut diperolehi pada Jun sebuah syarikat persendirian yang dipunyai oleh pasangan tersebut, Kumpulan Construction Sdn Bhd.Maklumat SMM menunjukkan Kumpulan Construction didaftar dengan modal berbayar saham RM1 juta di mana 5 peratus sahamnya dipegang oleh Zaleha Mahmud, kakak kepada Raziah dan selebihnya dimiliki oleh Mastim Sdn Bhd, syarikat yang dimiliki oleh Raziah dan Robert, yang merupakan warganegara Australia.

Tanpa laman sesawang rasmi, tidak banyak informasi mengenai syarikat yang diketahui umum namun menurut sarawakreport lagi sumber terhad yang diperoleh daripada akaun syarikat tersebut melalui SSM menunjukkan Kumpulan Consruction memcatat perolehan sebanyak RM43 juta pada 2009, dengan untung bersih kira-kira RM4 juta setelah ditolak cukai.Di samping modal saham berjumlah RM1 juta, modal simpanannya hanya lebih kurang RM4 juta sementara liabiliti serta aset keseluruhan syarikat bernilai RM42 juta.

Persoalan yang timbul bagaimana KWSP yang diamanahkan untuk mengawal serta menjaga kepentingan "Simpanan Hari Tua" kaum pekerja di negara ini dengan senang sekali meluluskan pinjaman RM880 juta kepada sebuah syarikat yang dikategorikan sebagai sederhana.Lebih mengejutkan walaupun nama Kumpulan Construction membawa maksud syarikat itu terbabit dalam aktiviti pembinaan namun ia dikatakan tidak pernah langsung melaksanakan sebarang projek kecuali hanya mengsubkontrakkan projek yang diperolehi kepada pihak ketiga.

Memetik sumber dalaman RHB, sarawakreport berkata, "syarikat itu tidak pernah melaksanakan sebarang kontrak yang diperolehi dan kesemuanya disubkontrakkan kepada pihak lain terutamnanya Hock Seng Lee Bhd(HSL)".Sebelum ini sarawakreport juga mendedahkan Kumpulan Construction adalah antara tiga pada 2008 bagi projek pembentungan bandaraya Kuching 2008.Selang sebulan konsortium tiga syarikat itu - Kumpulan Construction, Nishimatsu Construction dan Hock Seng HSL - memperolehi kontrak tersebut, projek itu disubkontrakkan kepada HSL dengan nilai sebanyak RM452 juta.

Ini bermakna dengan mudah Kumpulan Construction dan Nishimatsu mendapat keuntungan atas angin sebanyak RM78 juta dalam tempoh sebulan.Laporan tahunan RHB Capital Bhd bagi 2009 menunjukkan KWSP memegang 56.14 peratus kepentingan dalam RHB Capital yang memiliki 70 peratus saham dalam RHB Bank Bhd.RHB Bank pada masa ini adalah kumpulan perbankan keempat terbesar di Malaysia dengan saiz aset sebanyak RM103 bilion dan mempunyai 200 cawangan di seluruh negara dan beberapa cawangan di luar negara yang majoritinya di Singapura.


Source: Bank Milik KWSP Beri Pinjaman RM880 Juta Kepada Adik KM Sarawak - MiLo SuaM http://milosuam.blogspot.com/2010/10/bank-milik-kwsp-beri-pinjaman-rm880.html#ixzz169moNHN3

KUCHING: Ting Phek Khiing, one of the richest men in Sarawak, has come under fire again for billing the state goverment RM7.5 million for chopping 300 trees along Jalan Tun Jugah.It was done ostensibly to pave the way for the construction of a flyover without approval from the authorities.

Sarawak DAP secretary Chong Chieng Jen who has been calling for the authorities to act on the matter, wants action to be taken immediately against Ting.“How come Ting could go and chop those trees when there was no approval for the construction of a flyover at Jalan Tun Jugah?And now he wants the government to pay him RM7.5 million, an average of RM25,000 per tree,” said Chong, the MP for Bandar Kuching.

“All the trees have gone just because Ting wanted to chop down the trees. And the worst thing is that the authorities could not do anything about it.
“Regardless of how rich you are, the authorities should know that everyone is equal before the law. Just because he is a Tan Sri does not place him above the law,” said Chong.He was responding to a news item which quoted James Chan, the mayor of Bandar Kuching as rubbishing Chong’s claims that the council spent RM7.5 million to cut down the trees.

“We don't have that kind of money. If the council has RM7.5 million, I would be able to build a better Kuching. I keep on dreaming of that kind of money, but it never comes,” said Chan.In response, Chong said: “I can provide a Sept 5 paper cutting where Ting acknowledged that RM7.5 million was incurred to chop down the trees.
“He can ask his good friend Ting Phek Khiing,” the DAP MP said. “Who gave Ting the authority or the approval for him to cut down the trees? As a mayor, Chan has a lot to answer.“From what I know, the approval should have come from the state secretary,” he said.

Tahmid kesyukuran Eidul Adha ini melambangkan kerendahan hati manusia di dalam mengabdikan diri setulus-tulusnya terhadap Allah s.w.t. Sesungguhnya, Eidul Adha mempunyai pengajaran yang amat besar kepada kehidupan kita sebagai seseorang Muslim dan umat Islam. Dalam hubungan ini, antara pengajaran terbesar sekali ialah tentunya tentang semangat pengorbanan yang ditunjukkan oleh Nabi Ibrahim dan anaknya Nabi Ismail di dalam menyempurnakan perintah Allah. Pengorbanan baginda mereka di dalam menjunjung perintah Allah adalah lambang kepatuhan tertinggi seorang hamba kepada Penciptanya.

Program Qurbaan dan Kebajikan PAS Miri 1431 H berjaya dilaksanakan dengan jayanya di sekitar DUN Senadin. Bermula program Puasa Sunat Hari Arafah pada Selasa (bersamaan 9 Zulhijjah) dan Iftar ,petugas PAS disemua peringkat meraikan Hari Kebesaran Eidul Adha 1431 H dengan sederhana sekali. Buat julung kali 2 Ekor dikorbankan pada pagi yang mulia ini 10 Zulhijjah dengan dana disumbangkan oleh ahli dan petugas PAS Kawasan Miri. Turut menyumbang adalah dari PAS Selangor dan Sabah yang baru sahaja pulang dari lawatan kerja minggu lalu.

Selain sumbangan barang keperluan yang disumbangkan sejak hari Isnin kepada penduduk sekitar Kg Tukau,Tudan dan Luak;program kali ini turut melibatkan agihan korban pada Hari Raya Eidul Adha.
Sebanyak 180 bungkusan daging korban yang menggunakan beg plastik PAS telah diedarkan disetiap pelusuk Kampung sekitar Miri termasuk ke Kuala Baram. Suasana ukhuwah dan gembira jelas terpancar diwajah para penerima pada hari yang mulia ini.


Program diketuai Setiausaha Kawasan Miri,Saudara Arif dan AJK Pemuda dan Muslimat.Saudara Arif ketika ditemui menyatakan PAS yakin, sekiranya penghayatan semangat pengorbanan dan ketaatan yang tinggi ini dapat dijelmakan, sebagai agen perubahan, para belia akan mendorong kewujudan sebuah persekitaran hidup yang bercorak Islami sejajar dengan tuntutan syariah. Persekitaran yang Islami adalah prasyarat asas yang akan membawa kepada sebuah kehidupan yang yang diberkati dan seterusnya membawa kepada kelahiran umat terbaik - khayra ummah.

InsyaALLAH satu Majlis Jamuan Eidul Adha akan diadakan dirumah YDP PAS Kawasan Miri pada hari akhir Tasyrik 13 Zulhijjah,Sabtu ini bersempena juga dengan Aqiqah beberapa sahabat anggota PAS Miri yang baru menerima cahayamata.

AlhamduliLLAH. Minggu ini dalam kerangka lawatan kerja Pemuda PAS Negeri Sabah dan Selangor,atas nama ukhwah sesama Islam pelbagai aturcara Siasah dan Dakwah dilaksanakan. Rombongan seramai 10 orang dari kedua –dua negeri tiba pada Khamis malam Jumaat .

Rombongan Sabah hadir setelah mengharungi cabaran perjalanan darat selama hampir 12 jam dari Kota Kinabalu.rombongan diketua sendiri oleh Ketua Pemuda PAS Negeri,Saudara Lahirul Ratigu. Rombongan tiba semasa majlis Iftar Jamaei dan Talaqi Kitab PAS Kawasan Miri yang diadakan setiap Khamis malam di pejabat PAS Kawasan. Rombongan biarpun penat mengharungi perjalan sukar dari Sabah tetap membuai wajah kemanisan membuktikan nilai persaudaraan tinggi sesama ahli Jemaah Islam.


Rombongan Pemuda PAS Selangor pula diketuai Exco Pemuda PAS Pusat, Saudara Sany Hamzan. Program disusun atur PAS Kawasan Miri pada Jumaat termasuk Liqa Fikri seluruh ahli PAS Miri.lebih menarik kehadiran ahli Dewan Himpunan Penyokong PAS Miri yang menarik perhatian hadirin dalam ucapan sulungnya tentang keindahan akhlak ISLAM yang dipamer pemimpin PAS khasnya Tuan Guru Nik Aziz yang sentiasa menjiwai kepayahan rakyat. Saudara John sempat menceritakan pengalaman p[eribadi melawat Kelantan semasa mengikuti NGO kemasyarakatan pada era 90-an ,beliau pernah bertemu dengan Tuan Guru Nik Aziz di Kelantan. Semasa itu rombongan beliau menginap di Kediaman Rasmi MB diwaktu pemerintahan BN dan dilayan bagai VIP sedangkan Tok Guru dengan pakaian berjubah menyantuni semua tetamu tanpa ada darjat dan kawalan keselamatan yang ketat untuk rakyat bertemu muka. Disaat ini Saudara John berasa amat terharu dan menjadi satu motivasi kuat untuk petugas PAS Miri dalam menghadapi urusan Siasah dan Dakwah.


Pengisian utama pada malam Jumaat ialah Perancangan Strategik PAS dalam menghadapi Pilihanraya disampaikan oleh Cikgu Razi;Setiausaha Jabatan Pilihanraya PAS Pusat. Dengan perkongsian mantap disusuli dialog ia menjadi pemandu arah penting pada para petugas PAS Miri demi memastikan kemenangan PAS dan Pakatan Rakyat dalam pilihanraya Negeri dan Umum mendatang. Dengan penggunaan teknologi ICT dan Sistem Komunikasi Canggih mengatasi Media Perdana;suasana kini berpihak pada PAS dan Pakatan Rakyat.

Assertions by Andy Chia, Pujut Current Assemblyman, in the media this week, to showcase the planning of PAS and Pakatan Rakyat if they manage to get the mandate from the public in the next state and general election, is actually a clear sign showing his uneasiness of the public acceptance to the PAS and Pakatan Rakyat in taking-over the rule of the state and the country. If this statement is paired with another statement uttered by a person who see himself an ‘ultra-Malay’; Tun Mahathir, who claimed that the power of the Malays will perish if PR takes over the country; depicts an utter apprehension of BN toward PR. Let not what Datuk Seri Ahmad Hanadzlah and Datuk Mukhriz Mahathir claimed last month that the investors stop coming to Malaysia due to their belief to the tell-tales of the oppositions. If these are the statements given out by people who are responsible for finance and investment within the country, henceforth, it is better that the people mandate be given to the Pakatan Rakyat so that more investors come to this country.

PAS questions the seriousness of the management of the country economy by the BN Government which cause the FDI in Malaysia drops. According to a report produced by the ASEAN Secretariat, Malaysia only managed to get USD1,381million worth of investment in 2009 as compared to USD7,318million in 2008. The drop in total investment is the highest when compared to other ASEAN countries. Malaysia which is listed in ASEAN 5, is way behind Indonesia, Philippine, Thailand and Singapore. However, the state that is governed by Pakatan Rakyat managed to attract foreign investments. Kedah and Selangor, for example, received RM1.837billion and RM7.755 billion respectively. This shows that investors do have their trust in the PR states, where at the same time The Federal BN Government rants that the investor stop coming due to being influenced by the PR lies. But the most funny rants came from Tun Mahathir where he said that foreign investors have no money to invest.

PAS like s to remind the BN leaders in the like of Andy Chia, that investors do not come to this country because of other reasons that need to be contemplated by all leaders of the country. The foreign investors are not like investors in “Pak Man Telo” scheme. They have experts who study the probabilities and the prospects of the more conducive investment. How would the investors come if the agreement that clearly states that that a state should get its petro-royalty is literally not adhered to! They will definitely worry that what assurance will be to their investment, if even the agreement with their own people is bulldozed. They (the investors) are scared looking at the VK Linggam video clip which depicted the drama in the judiciary system. Above all, the blatant disregard of the people’s mandate in the Perak fiasco really frightens them off.

Race discrimination like the customary land grab and the rape of the Penan rights are issues that prove the failures of the BN planning. High Corruption Index in the other hand still unresolved and is becoming a lot worst. Look at the wealth of Taib Mahmud and his family. Even if, the ACA has changed its name to MACC (Malaysia Anti Corruption Commission), the ones that are caught only the small fish, while the sharks are still at large. Those caught are government officers but the political sharks escaped. All these are factors that distance the investors from our shores. If these conditions prevail, the claim by that Datuk Idris Jala that the country will become bankrupt by 2019 could come true. However, it is not too late to mend things. The BN government should relinquish their power before it becomes more cancerous and give it to the PR for them to proof that they have the capability to govern for the betterment of the rakyat.

In conclusion, Andy Chia, better complete the ‘planning’ of BN who caused Sarawak, which is rich with natural resources but people are poor, in dire need of infra-structure; rather than calculating in getting the excellent planning of the Pakatan Rakyat in insuring the welfare of the Sarawakians. Take a look at the Kg Sealine, Kg Wireless, Tudan Fasa 1 -6 and many others places with poor conditions. Do not just bark but act. As the momentum and acceptance of people at Miri towards PAS and Pakatan Rakyat is high Andy Chia should change with the ‘Green’ Party; PAS and PR, before getting sunk in the next election.


‘PAS UNTUK SEMUA’


PAS Kawasan Miri
S.K YDP Kawasan , MT PAS Kawasan
Dewan Pemuda PAS Miri
Dewan Muslimat PAS Miri
www.pas-miri.blogspot.com

PAS For ALL sekali lagi diterjemahkan melalui program pembelaan rakyat dan kebajikan di sekitar pinggir Desa Senadin dan Kg Sealine. Diketuai YDP PAS Kawasan Miri;Tuan Haji Jofri serta pimpinan Kawasan beserta anggota Dewan Himpunan Penyokong PAS ;rombongan telah turun menyampaikan bantuan serta mendengar sendiri permasalahan rakyat setempat.

Turut serta ;Sdr Khairul Faizi yang dalam rangka lawatan kerja bertemu Pemuda PAS Kawasan. Kebanyakan penduduk ditemui amat kecewa dengan janji pemimpin BN khasnya berkaitan pampasan kepada penduduk yang terlibat pada kebakaran 2 bulan yang lalu. Tidak diberi pampasan malah terpaksa membayar harga tinggi untuk mendapatkan rumah baru yang dibina kroni BN di Desa Senadin.

Selain itu bagi penduduk sekitar Kg Senadin pula menghadapi masalah tiada sambungan bekalan air dan elektrik sempurna. Bayaran mahal sehingga 3000 diperlukan untuk penyambungan melalui pihak swasta iaitu SESCO dan LAKU. Janji demi janji ADUN setempat yang kononnya akan menyegerakan penyelesaian masalah ini terus diimpikan walaupun sudah 5 kali pilihanraya. Mereka kesal dan telah menyatakan sokongan kepada PAS dan Pakatan Rakyat untuk membuat perubahan.

Tuan Haji Jofri yang ditemubual menyatakan komitmen dan usaha PAS untuk membawa permasalahan ini dan dengan penubuhan dewan Himpunan Penyokong yang insyaALLAH bakal dirasmikan Tuan Guru Presiden ;PAS for ALL kini benar benar diterjemahkan di negeri Bumi Kenyalang ini. ALLAHUAKBAR!

Parti Islam Se-Malaysia mengangap kekalahan PAS di Dun Galas dan PKR di Parlimen Batu Sapi sebagai satu loceng amaran untuk terus bangkit dan muhasabah terhadap kerja parti bagi menghadapi pilihan raya umum ke-13 (PRU 13).PAS menerima kekalahan di Galas sebagai satu adat perlawanan. Pilihan raya kecil Galas dan Batu Sapi merupakan satu siri pilihan raya yang menampakkan ketempangan demokrasi dan pencabulan media terhadap PAS dan Pakatan Rakyat.

Keputusan di Galas bukan satu yang mengejutkan kerana, sebelum ini pilihan raya kecil Manek Urai yang merupakan kubu kuat PAS pun, hampir PAS tewas dengan majoriti 65 sahaja. Begitu juga sebelumnya ketika PRK Pengkalan Pasir merupakan kubu kuat PAS tewas dan dapat tawan kembali dalam PRU 12.Insya Allah, PAS akan membuat muhasabah ke dalam dengan melihat masalah-masalah yang perlu diperbaiki. Sebagai sebuah parti Islam, kekalahan ini akan memberi satu pengajaran yang berguna, kerana setiap musibah ada hikmahnya.Kemungkinan Allah tidak mahu kita leka dengan kemenangan cemerlang PRU 12 sehingga menimpa kekalahan yang mengejutkan dalam PRU 13.

Kekalahan PAS di Galas, bukan bererti kita menjadi malas untuk berjuang, sebaliknya kita mesti bersemangat untuk menggalas amanah ummah di negara ini untuk menggantikan BN sebagai wadah perjuangan orang Melayu di negara ini. PAS tidak akan membiarkan rakyat menjadi mangsa kezaliman BN terhadap rakyat sehingga kualiti hidup rakyat semakin teruk.Kenaikan harga barang, jenayah bunuh meningkat, perzinaan dan buang bayi meningkat. PAS mesti berusaha untuk bekerja dengan lebih kuat. Kita perlu sekat kemenangan mereka, dengan kita mesti bekerja kuat untuk menangkis fitnah dan menerangkan wadah perjuangan kepada masyarakat.Sudah cukup mandat yang mereka perolehi selama 53 tahun menyebabkan anak cucu kita terutamanya yang akan menanggung beban.

Kegigihan PAS dan rakan-rakan dalam Pakatan Rakyat yang bekerja dalam pilihan raya tanpa diupah adalah merupakan satu kekuatan, berbanding dengan BN. Mereka hanya menumpang tuah jentera kerajaan, jika diharapkan jentera BN maka sudah lama BN akan berkubur.

Ustaz Idris Ahmad

KUCHING: Sarawak United People’s Party's (SUPP) Engkilili branch chairman, Toh Heng San, has quit the party in protest against the admission of independent state assemblyman for Engkilili Johnichal Rayong into SUPP.Toh cited several reasons for his "difficult and painful decision”, including his belief that SUPP had beome “too submissive” to Party Pesaka Bumiputra Bersatu (PBB).His resignation, which took immediate effect, is expected to be followed by scores of other members of the branch.“I hereby declare with grief that I resign my membership of SUPP with immediate effect.I am compelled to make this difficult and painful decision because the present political course of SUPP is not in the interest of the people of Sarawak due to the politics of hegemony of PBB.I have also said publicly that if Rayong becomes SUPP member, then I would resign as SUPP member,” Toh said in a statement faxed to FMT.

Toh joined SUPP in 1960 as a teenager and was among one of its earliest members. Immediately after joining SUPP, he joined a movement against colonialism and imperialism.As result, he was imprisoned for eight years.
“But I have no regrets because what I had done was for the better future of our children and children’s children,” he said.

Explaining his reason for quitting the party, Toh said: “Today’s SUPP is not the SUPP that I used to know. The present leadership does not practise anymore the political principle of ‘from the masses and back to the masses’.
“The party is ruled by one man alone. On many occasions, the party central leadership unilaterally over-ruled or completely ignored the decisions adopted by the special delegates conference (SDC), the delegates conference (DC), central committee (CC), and central working committee CWC),” he said.
Backing his claim with several examples, he said that in the 2006 SDC, it was unanimously resolved to amend the SUPP constitution to introduce a term limit of nine years for the party president."The central secretariat under Sim Kheng Hui and the publicity (section) under Alfred Yap, who is a lawyer, somehow did not forward the relevant amended articles and documents by the SDC to the Registrar of Societies for endorsement.

"As a result, all the relevant resolutions became null and void," he said, adding that the party leaders had made a big fool of the delegates who had come from all over the state at their own costs to attend the 2006 SDC.
He said that in 2008 and 2009, the DC, CC and CWC unanimously resolved not to accept Rayong, the independent state assemblyman for Engkilili, into SUPP because this would create a bad precedent.However, the central leadership chose to ignore these resolutions.Rayong was eventually admitted as a member on Sept 20.
Toh said the formation of the Dudong branch also faced a similar fate.
Despite the resolutions of 2005 and 2008, the SUPP Sibu branch defiantly directed Sibu Municipal Council to dismantle the party signboard of the Dudong branch in August 2009, and used its financial muscle to nip Dudong branch in the bud.

"No disciplinary action was taken because the top leaders were afraid of the financial strength of the Sibu branch leaders, thus making a mockery of the party’s constitution," he said.Toh said the most recent dispute over the choice of candidate in Padungan state constituency was yet another example of the high-handedness of the current leaders.In the 2009 CC meeting, it was unanimously resolved that all prospective state and parliamentary candidates must be recommended by the respective branches and subsequently forwarded to the CC for deliberation and approval.

However, SUPP president George Chan unilaterally announced that Lily Yong had declined to defend the seat. This was strongly denied by her and the Padungan branch.
Toh said that Chan must respect the resolutions adopted by the CC.
"Chan must remember he is not the emperor of SUPP,” he said, adding that the SUPP top leaders have short memories because they seemed to forget the political backlash from the voters.He said that in the 2006 state election when the chosen candidates from the respective branches were dropped at the 11th hour due to pressure from PBB, SUPP from that moment had lost all its sovereignty and independence.

He said that in August this year, all the important leaders (including both state and federal ministers) assembled in Kuala Lumpur to discuss ways to solve the woes faced by SUPP, especially over land issues, Chinese schools and the negative image of some PBB leaders.“All those present signed a letter of consensus and understanding which stipulated that if the Barisan Nasional at the federal level could not assist SUPP to solve these problems, then SUPP must seriously review its position in BN.Later, the secretary-general also informed the mass media that there would be ‘a big change’ in SUPP which will take place as early as September 2010.
The consensus was put in writing and signed by all the top SUPP leaders. Party members and supporters were thrilled upon hearing the news.
Sadly, once Chan came back from overseas, he categorically denied that there was such a consensus. Collective leadership exists in name only,” he said.

After the 2006 state election, SUPP was denied its rights to choose Kuching South City Mayor, who traditionally was a SUPP supporter recommended by the party.
The top leaders were submissive to PBB and they do not have the political courage to fight for it, he said.

That is BN politics. My Motion on Rejang logjam was killed without debate. Motion to cut salary of Ministers who had shown laziness was also killed.

(1) 1st Motion Killed
We had seen so many statements made by the BN Ministers on the logjam, that it was an environmental and ecological disaster at the Rejang basin.
We saw the other side of their faces today. The Speaker asked the Dewan whether they agreed to debate my Motion. They voted against debating it. The important Motion on the logjam was out of the window and dismissed.
I hadn’t even the opportunity to move it. I told the Speaker that he was wrong to dismiss my Motion before I even moved it. He smiled. But it was to no avail. The Speaker’s ruling was final.To the BN members, it is a matter of political convenience. To them, it is better to play safe than antagonize the political masters.

(2) 2nd Motion Killed
All elected representatives are entitled to receive answers to questions that they have raised. Over the years, the Ministers (which include the Deputy Ministers by definition) had been lazy to ensure that their Ministries enabled elected representatives to get their answers. For their laziness I gave notice to move a motion to deduct their salaries. It was gunned down by the Speaker saying that a similar motion that was moved by me was dismissed for exceeding the word limit in May 2010. He wouldn’t allow the issue to be opened up.
The Speaker was totally wrong. The subject matter in the May 2010 Motion was never considered or concluded and my Motion was proper. The Speaker quoted Gobind Singh case saying that all elected wakil rakyat is entitled to receive the remuneration/allowances. But my motion is to deduct salary of the Ministers for not doing their jobs. It has nothing to do with the Ministers’ allowances as elected members.I wondered what the Speaker had learnt in his legal practicing days. I also asked him to resign. But that was not captured by the microphone which was switched off by the Speaker.

(3) 3rd Motion Allowed
The 3rd Motion on our table was by BN’s member for Asajaya (Abdul Karim). It was allowed, only because it was from the BN’s Backbenchers’ Chair. They have the numbers.It was a Motion asking the Government to prepare and publish a White Paper on “unhealthy and divisive activities and actions” “undertaken by various peoples, organizations and media from outside the State”.In his motion speech, Asajaya directed his arrows at political leaders from West Malaysia, saying that they had come to Sarawak to “demonize and ridicule our leaders”.In my speech in reply, I said that if “our” leaders are corrupt and unclean, then there is nothing to demonize and ridicule.The member for Pujut (Andy Chia) accused DAP’s political leaders of accusing the Government for having killed Teoh Beng Hock! How ridiculous! He said he heard DAP leaders campaigning in the Sibu By-election thus, “today it is Teoh Beng Hock. Tomorrow it can be me. The next day it could be somebody else.”
I saw nothing wrong to remind voters of the circumstances under which Teoh died, and that security is vital.I am not even offended when Member for Pelawan (Vincent Goh) asked me to quit legal practice on the ground that the issue of Teoh’s death was in court and should not be brought up during the election. That shows how lack of legal knowledge Vincent Goh is.

It shows how sour the SUPP is over their loss in the Sibu by-election.
Pujut could have done a lot better by supporting the Motion, But he seconded the Motion. He even interjected in my speech. After what I felt had taken him a long time to speak, and after he refused to sit, I blurted out, asking the “boy” to sit down. Of course, he was upset, and I withdrew the condescending word.
Pujut’s remarks were hopelessly childish and untrue. DAP politicians were only asking the Government to be responsible because Teoh was alive when he went into the building which housed MACC to help investigate a case of corruption involving RM2400.00. Yet, he was found dead, falling dead to the 5th floor of the building. There was nothing wrong in talking about security in an election campaign. No one ought to kneel and thank the person who caused the death of Teoh, I said.

Asajaya also raised the issue of the Bible where in Sarawak “Allah” could be used but was played up. In my reply, I said that non-Muslim communities had been using the word “Allah” for many decades. Yet, the Government confiscated those Bibles that had been brought to West Malaysia.I said that Allah is an issue in Sarawak. Non-Muslims in Sarawak can use the word “Allah”, but when they land in LCCT or KLIA, they cannot anymore!I do not know how to pronounce “Allah” very well. The Speaker had a laugh when I could not pronounce it accurately. But I can pronounce “Jesus” correctly.

Vincent Goh thought that he was smart. He showed the 2008 DAP election manifesto and say that we had promised RM6000 to poor households. It was very misleading, for that was a national manifesto to be implemented when DAP forms the federal Government. He seemed to say that the manifesto was dishonest and that I should apologise for it, in the same manner as I had apologized to Wong Soon Kai after the 1996 election. Well, he would not like to have it recorded that the whole of SUPP apologise to me on 11th December 2008.Batu Lintang (Voon Lee Shan) had a go at opposing the Motion. The Speaker said he went off tangent, but Voon continued reading and ended abruptly.

Needless to say, Asajaya’s Motion received a lot of support from his colleagues. It was carried, with the 5 DAP members voting against it. We wait to see when the Government will publish a White Paper! Before he wound up the debate, Asajaya tried to explain what a White Paper is. When I asked what colour is the White Paper, he was not able to answer. I wonder whether the BN folks knew!

(4) 4th Motion killed
Pending (DAP – Violet) moved a Motion to introduce a Private Members’ Bill to reform the Land Code, to allow automatic renewal of land leases and to make better provisions for land compensation. SUPP’s George Chan said yesterday that he would not support the Bill. Well. It was a clear cut case. The Speaker said that Pending had to seek leave of the Dewan to move the Motion. It was put to the vote. Without even having the chance to move it, the Motion was killed. Only the DAP side supported the leave application with 5 votes.

That is how the state Government looks at things proposed by the DAP. We had even prepared about 100 copies of the Bill for distribution to all the ADUNs. The SUPP would never see DAP eye to eye and would muster all kinds of tactics to kill the Motion. They had a part to play in denying the Motion. Surely, the people will give them the boot in the coming election.

(5) Motion to Suspend Ting
At 3:40pm, we received the much anticipated Notice of Motion to suspend Ting Tze Fui (Meradong). Ting had many months ago said that “millions and millions of development funds had been siphoned off and unaccounted for”. She provided the facts and substantiation but that was not good enough to the Privileges Committee who had recommended that she be suspended for the remaining of the session.
So, how long would be the suspension? The Motion will surely be tabled by a Minister tomorrow and we shall know how long is meant by “suspended for the remaining part of this session”. Could it be 2 months until end of the year?
Ting may have lots to say but against the hungry foxes, there is no escape. She can be guaranteed that she will be “suspended for the remaining part of this session”.

Down but Not Out

I may be down but I am never out. As far as fighting for the right of the rakyat is concerned, I never quit. Neither am I prepared to let the BN have the last laugh. The Pakatan Rakyat will make sure that the BN is going to receive its just reward in the coming state election.This is the time when the people of Sarawak missed Chong Chieng Jen (DAP – Kota Sentosa). Had he been in the Dewan, he would have his piece of mind recorded in the hansard to oppose the meaningless motion.
Meaningless? It wasn’t I who coined it. I was in the toilet on the 8th floor when someone came in and said “It is a waste of time. The Motion is too small”. I could not laugh in the cubicle, could I?However, the BN folks had the pleasure in debating and passing an insignificant, meaningless motion. Do they have better things to do?

by Saudara YB Wong Ho Leng,
State Assemblyman for N45 Bukit Assek and Member of Parliament for P212 Sibu

SIBU – Thirteen longhouse folks lodged police reports this morning and last weekend over an oil palm plantation which had encroached into their lands.
The four Tuai Rumah who lodged police reports this morning were from Sg. Lenggan, Nanga Singat, Nanga Mawan and Nanga Sg. Seputah.
They were brought there by a man who wanted to be identified only as Robert. Robert, an Iban said the 13 long houses had formed a protem committee to look into the matter.

The protean committee appointed to look into the possible settlement of land sale issue and campaign against oil palm plantation at Pulau Lebaan were David Majang as Chairman, William Limbat Vice Chairman, Simon anak Amut Secretary and Anthong Ijan as Treasurer.He said they were not interested to turn this issue into a political one but the longhouse only wanted their own land back to do farming.
Robert said last weekend, the longhouse had already sent a protest against the intruding of the oil palm company which were encroaching into their NCR lands. He said in 1942, the British had given them land documents which they had with them. “The long house folks wanted to protect what belonged to them only,” he said adding that if they were unable to fight this alone, they would think of other options.

Last weekend, the 13 Tuai Rumah and representatives went to Rumah Francis Kiai anak Pengarah to seek for a dialogue session with Daro State Assemblyman, Murni Suhaili. They wanted to tell him that a company with heavy machinery had been constructing roads and drainage for the oil palm plantation starting at Pulau Lebaab.
Nine longhouse folks then lodged a police report on October 28th. When Murni did not turn up, the 13 lnghouse Tuai Rumah discussed among themselves and held a protest condemning the encroachment into their NCR lands.

The 13 Tuai Rumah/Wakil Tuai Rumah gathered for the dialogue session were from Rh. Seli, Rh. Lanting, Rh. Igat, Rh. Leang, Rh. Guang, Rh. Francis Kiai, Rg, Jawa, Rh. Nyait, Rh. Kaming, Rh. Bungkok, Rh. Baying, Rh. Jinga, Rh. Jimmy and Rh. Sintan.
Expressing their concern that the river there is their source of drinking and cleaning, the oil palm plantation would polluted the rivers as they did not have pipe water supply. They were equally worried about the environment of the plantation which would destroy the flora and fauna.The jungles, being part of their livelihood feed them with fish and food including wild mushrooms, bamboo shoots, bidin, planting of vegetables which would be destroyed with the plantation set up there.
The longhouse folks claimed that their land of 6,000 hectares had been sold for RM2.3millions and it was against their rights that their lands were sold without notifying them.The group of 13 Tuai rumah had also seek the help of a lawyer to set a court injunction against the oil palm company.