Sabah dan Sarawak perlu dikecualikan dari kenaikan harga minyak


Pada awal bulan Jun tahun ini merupakan hari perayaan Gawai bagi masyarakat Dayak di Sarawak dan disambut dengan kenaikan harga minyak sebanyak 10 sen. Kedua-dua RON95 dan diesel naik pada RM2.05 per liter manakala RON97 naik pada RM2.35 per liter.

Sudah tentu sedikit sebanyak pasti memberi impak kepada masyarakat Dayak yang pulang bercuti ke kampung dan rumah panjang mereka dengan kenaikan kos harga bahan api pada tambang pengangkutan.

Walaupun pihak kerajaan memberi amaran supaya jangan ada pihak peniaga menaikan harga barang tapi disebabkan kos pengangkutan naik mereka terpaksa juga menaikkan harga tambang untuk menampung kos harga bahan api yang naik,

Bila kos tambang pengangkutan naik, pasti para peniaga juga akan menaikan harga barang jualan mereka disamping GST yang akhirnya pengguna juga yang akan menangung beban keatas kenaikan harga minyak ini.

Sabah dan Sarawak selain Terengganu adalah penyumbang terbesar minyak negara dan sudah tentu pertimbangan untuk menaikkan royalti bagi memberi banyak kebaikan kepada rakyat Sabah dan Sarawak perlu diberi keutamaan.

Sekiranya sukar bagi pihak kerajaan persekutuan memberi 20 peratus royalti kepada Sabah dan Sarawak ianya boleh memberi keistimewaan dengan menetapkan harga minyak di Sabah dan Sarawak selaras dengan harga minyak di Brunei. Ini boleh diibaratkan sebagai ganti royalti yang masih sukar diperolehi.

Harga gasolin atau minyak di Brunei dalam bulan Mei 2015 seliter RM1.41, kalau di banding dengan harga RON97 di Malaysia sudah tentu jauh beza iaitu pada RM2.25 seliter pada bulan Mei yang lalu. Kita buat perbandingan dengan negara Brunei Darussalam sebab ianya negara jiran terdekat bagi Sabah dan Sarawak maka sepatutnya rakyat Sabah dan Sarawak pun menikmati harga petrol yang sama dengan Brunei.

Penduduk Sabah dan Sarawak sepatutnya diberi pengecualian dari kenaikan harga minyak setiap bulan
kerana ianya penyumbang terbesar kepada pendapatan negara dari hasil petroleum.

Kenaikan harga minyak setiap bulan sudah pasti menyebabkan rakyat di negara ini terbeban dengan kos kehidupan yang semakin meningkat lebih-lebih lagi dengan adanya GST yang menambah lagi beban kepada rakyat terutama golongan pendapatan kecil dan sederhana.

Kenaikan harga minyak ini pasti akan lebih dirasai oleh penduduk di luar bandar dan pedalaman Sarawak kerana mereka terpaksa membeli harga minyak ini lebih tinggi dari harga di bandar tanpa pengawasan pihak kerajaan.

Kita mengesa pihak kerajaan persekutuan dapat memberi kelonggaran kepada Sabah dan Sarawak dalam menentukan kenaikan harga minyak mengikut harga pasaran negara Brunei memandangkan qualiti dan hasil minyak dari Sabah dan Sarawak adalah sama macam di Brunei.

Kita harap perkara ini dapat perhatian dan pertimbangan yang sewajarnya dari kerajaan persekutuan dalam menentukan nasib penduduk Sabah dan Sarawak yang masih terpinggir dari arus pembangunan.

Jofri Jaraiee
PAS, Sarawak

English version

Sabah and Sarawak should be exempted from fuel price hike
 
In early June of this year is the celebration of the Gawai for the Dayak community in Sarawak and were greeted with the fuel price hike by 10 cent. Both RON95 and diesel rose at RM2.05 per liter, while RON97 up at RM2.35 per liter.

Of course to some extent inevitably have an impact on Dayak community who return back to their villages and longhouses with the rising cost of fuel prices on transport fares.

While the government warned that none of the dealers increase the prices of goods, but due to increased transportation costs they have also raised fares to cover the cost of rising fuel prices.

When the cost of transport fares go up, the dealers would also raise the price of their sales of goods in addition to GST, which eventually users will also bear the burden on the increase of this fuel price hike.

Sabah and Sarawak besides Terengganu is the largest state oil and of course, a consideration to raise the royalties to provide many benefits to the people of Sabah and Sarawak should be given priority.

If difficult for the federal government to provide 20 per cent royalty to Sabah and Sarawak it can give privileges to set the price of petrol in Sabah and Sarawak in line with the price of petrol in Brunei. This can be viewed as superseded for royalties that are still difficult to obtain.

The price of gasoline or oil in Brunei in May 2015 RM1.41 per liter, when compared with the price of RON97 in Malaysia is certainly much difference which is at RM2.25 per liter in May last month. We make a comparison with Brunei because it is the nearest neighbor for Sabah and Sarawak in that case the people of Sabah and Sarawak should also enjoy the same gasoline prices with Brunei.

Sabah and Sarawak should be exempted from fuel price hike every month because it is the largest contributor to the national income of petroleum products.

Rising oil prices every month is certainly cause people in the country is burdened with increasing cost of living especially with the GST, which adds more burden to people, especially small and medium-income groups.

This oil price hike will definitely be felt by the population in rural and remote areas of Sarawak because they had to buy this petrol prices higher than the prices in the city without supervision from the government.

We urge the federal government to provide flexibility to Sabah and Sarawak in determining increase in oil prices according to the market price of Brunei as the quality and yield of oil from Sabah and Sarawak is the same as in Brunei.

We hope this can be noted and taken into consideration of the federal government in determining the fate of the people of Sabah and Sarawak who have been marginalized from the mainstream of development.