Sabah Colonised

14% Sabahans satisfied with 10% Budget?

2012-02-14T09:36:00.000-08:00

These BN supporters are happy that Sabah, with a population of 14% of Malaysia be given only 10% of the Malaysian budget. No wonder Sabah is the poorest in the world, not only in Malaysia. Especially when Sabah makes of 23% of the area of Malaysia.

With such stupid mentality, they are even certain that Anwar will giver much lower than 10%, overall budget, when oil revenue were RETURNED TO SABAH.

Anwar will certainly lose power immediately if he were that stupid. The worst that can happen is that SABAH will get the same stupidly low budget allocation, that most Sabahans are already satisfied with. The difference is that the State Government of Sabah is much richer this time. The money can also be spent in Sabah with 100% certainty, increasing Sabah's overall economic activities in Sabah.

With such blatantly stupid BN representatives, no wonder Sabah is the poorest in the world.

http://www.theborneopost.com/2012/02/14/sabah-will-be-worse-off-if-federal-governments-allocation-reduced-says-state-bn-secretary/

Sabah will be worse off if federal government’s allocation reduced, says State BN secretary

by Nancy Lai. Posted on February 14, 2012, Tuesday

KOTA KINABALU: Will the increase in Sabah’s oil royalty mean reduced federal allocation for development in the state?

And can the opposition, including Pakatan Rakyat leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim, should they form the next government, guarantee that federal allocation to Sabah will not be reduced in lieu of the increased revenue derived from the new oil royalty?

These were the questions raised by Sabah Barisan Nasional secretary Datuk Abdul Rahman Dahlan who is worried that Sabah will be ‘worse off’ than before should the federal government’s allocation under the Malaysia Plans be reduced.

It is very likely that Sabah may be getting higher oil royalty but in the end will get lower overall funds from Federal Government under his (Anwar’s) prime ministership, Abdul Rahman opinied.

Speaking to reporters here yesterday, the Kota Belud member of parliament said Anwar had been quoted repeatedly saying that (if Pakatan Rakyat forms the government) he would increase Sabah’s oil royalty from five per cent to 20 per cent.

Other opposition leaders like Datuk Dr Jeffrey Kitingan went even further by promising 50 per cent, Abdul Rahman said adding, “As an MP for Sabah, I do not have any reason to reject such wonderful proposal. More money for Sabah is obviously good for us.

“But I am also painfully aware that Anwar has not been fully forthcoming in his proposal. In Parliament I posed a question that if Anwar increased Sabah’s royalty to 20 per cent, could he guarantee that he would not reduce Sabah’s allocation in his federal budget or in the Eleventh Malaysia Plan?

“I reminded the opposition that Sabah had been consistently given biggest allocations by the federal government both in the Malaysia Plans and the federal government’s annual budget. For example Sabah received RM20.3 billion out of RM230 billion and in First Rolling Plan of the 10th Malaysia Plan, Sabah received RM10.7 billion out of RM98.5 billion.

“My concern is, while Datuk Seri Anwar may increase Sabah’s share of the royalty, he will have to reduce Sabah allocation in the 11th Malaysia Plan. We may end up worse off! That is why I asked for a guarantee. None of the opposition MPs at that time stood up to reply to argument,” he said.

According to Abdul Rahman, increases in royalty for Sabah, Sarawak, Terengganu and Kelantan would amount to more than RM10 billion a year.

Anwar knows very well that the RM10 billion given to the three oil producing states mean RM10 billion taken away from the budget of the other states in Peninsular Malaysia, he pointed out before saying, “I do not think Datuk Seri Anwar dare to say to the people from the non-oil producing states, ‘I am sorry, I have to cut your allocation because I need to give RM10 billion to Terengganu, Kelantan, Sarawak and Sabah!.

He (Anwar) cannot afford to say that because the people in these affected states will reject him and this is unacceptable to him since he needs their votes desperately to win Putrajaya, Abdul Rahman stressed.

“I want to know which state(s) is willing to have their budget reduced because the RM10 billion has to come from somewhere… money does not fall from the sky. Show us which sector he plans to reduce the budget to make up for the increase in oil royalty… which state will sacrifice its allocation?

“Anwar as a leader must answer this. How is he going to juggle the budget and he must inform the rakyat, Sabahans in particular on how this will be done because it is very likely that Sabah may be getting higher oil royalty but in the end will get lower overall funds from Federal Government under his prime ministership.

“For every ringgit given to Sabah, Sarawak, Terengganu and Kelantan, that one ringgit must come from somebody. This can only mean that some states must be willing to sacrifice their portion of the federal budget.

“Some projects in Peninsular Malaysia must be cancelled. Question is who and what needs to be sacrificed? Or will Datuk Seri Anwar spend less on security, health, education, infrastructure, public utilities, social etc given the fact he has to spend more on royalty?” he stressed.

Anwar must answer these tough questions so that people understand and are convinced, he said adding, “and mind you, Sabahans still remember how Anwar as Finance Minister and Deputy Prime Minister consistently refused PBS’ request for higher royalty.

According to Abdul Rahman, he will again raise these questions in the next parliamentary sitting which is scheduled to commence on March 12.

He also pointed out that Pakatan Rakyat said they would eradicate corruption and renegotiate lopsided deals which would give the federal government billions in extra funds for the increase in royalty.

As someone who sits in the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Committee (MACC) committee, Abdul Rahman said he hoped they would succeed.

“Any effort to abolish corruption must be supported and encouraged. I am sure Sabahans share the same view as mine. My concern is not about the effort to check corruption. It is more about Anwar’s rationale of including ‘savings from corruption eradication efforts and renegotiating lopsided deals’ as part of his government’s revenue.

“Can Anwar estimate how much yearly savings he gets from anti-corruption effort? Can he comfortably project such revenue with a high level of accuracy and use the figure to plan his budget?

“Can Anwar force those IPPs (independent power producers) and highway toll concessionaires to renegotiate the agreements immediately after he swears in as Prime Minister? Or will he face prolonged and protracted battle with the concessionaires?

“If yes, will his budget revenue projections fall short and hence disturb his spending plans?,” he said and pointed out that no government in this world is using projected savings from corruption as the basis of preparing its budget.

“That is utterly irresponsible. The budget will be in a mess. Any savings in anti-corruption drive is a bonus, not to be included in the budgeting. When Anwar says he will finance the royalty increase from corruption eradication savings, one has to be worried.

“My take is he will eventually have to cut allocations to the other states and those states deserve to know the facts. Anwar must give assurance and guarantee that he will not reduce federal allocation for Sabah if the oil royalty is increased.

Sabah's poverty rate 68%

2011-12-29T20:01:00.000-08:00

http://www.theborneopost.com/2011/12/30/sabah-has-most-welfare-recipients-dept/

Sabah has most welfare recipients – dept

Posted on December 30, 2011, Friday

KOTA KINABALU: Sabah has recorded the biggest number of welfare assistance recipients in the country at 72,600, according to Jais Asri, the senior assistant director of Welfare Services Department.
He said it is not a good sign to have the highest number of welfare recipients as it shows that many people in the state are still living under the poverty line.
Jais said that in Sabah, those with an income of less than RM960 are categorised as poor and based on the record, 68 per cent of Sabahans are earning less than that amount.
He said the department is receiving about 500 welfare assistance cases daily or about 20 cases from each district in the state.
With only 88 case workers, the department is unable to study the huge number of cases speedily, thus it is currently assisted by 106 temporary workers, he said.
Asri said there are 278,000 senior citizens in Sabah and 47,000 of them are currently receiving the senior citizen assistance.
He said the senior citizens must report to the department every four months to ensure they continue to receive the assistance.
Meanwhile, deputy director of Welfare Services Department, Said Sidup, announced that the department will set up a ‘Desa Bina Diri’ under the Destitute Persons Act 1977 (Act 183) to shelter homeless people soon.
He said the local authorities will carry out operations to identify thee homeless people in the state.

Razaleigh already inside plane and strapped but Harris invited him out!

2011-12-03T05:08:00.000-08:00

Why didn't Harris invited Razaleigh much earlier, before Razaleigh was inside the plane that crashed and killed the Sabah's Chief Minister and his strongmen?

It smells fishy!

http://www.dailyexpress.com.my/news.cfm?NewsID=79836

Razaleigh's revelation merits probe, says former State Sec

Published on: Thursday, November 24, 2011

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Kota Kinabalu: The High Court here heard the revelation by Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah that the then Deputy Chief Minister Datuk Harris Mohd Salleh's last moment invitation to him to leave the plane saved his life, merits an investigation.

Tan Sri Simon Sipaun, 73, a former State Secretary, suggested this to the court when he testified before Judge Dato' Abdul Rahman Sebli.

Sipaun also said that based on the new fact he felt that a re-investigation would help determine the truth behind the tragedy that killed Tun Fuad Stephens and all those on board the Nomad aircraft on June 6, 1976.

He agreed with the defendants' counsel that the best way to find out the truth is to have a tribunal to investigate into the causes of the air crash if it is one of the possible means of knowing the truth.

Sipaun was testifying as the defendants' fourth witness during re-examination in the hearing of a suit against Sabah Progressive Party (SAPP) and its President Datuk Yong Teck Lee which was brought by former Chief Minister Tan Sri Harris Salleh against the defendants for insinuating that he was involved in causing the Double Six tragedy on June 6, 1976.

Harris is claiming general damages, aggravated and exemplary damages of not less than RM50 million from Yong, who he named as first defendant and SAPP as second defendant, for libel.

He is represented by counsel Yunof Maringking and Trevor Kenneth Maringking, while Yong and SAPP are represented by counsel Datuk Simon Shim and Flora Dius.

Earlier, in his examination-in-chief, Sipaun told the court that on April 2, 2010 he had chaired a forum in which Razaleigh was the speaker on the topic of "Minyak Sabah Siapa Punya".

He said Razaleigh basically gave some background and information leading to the formation of Petronas and the Petroleum Development Act 1974 and that something in the course of the latter's speech caught his attention.

"It was his opening remarks where he told the audience that every time he comes to Sabah, he is reminded of the June 6, 1976 tragedy.

"However, what struck me most was when he said that he was already inside the plane together with the late Tun Fuad about to fly to Kota Kinabalu from Labuan when Harris came inside the plane and invited him to join him and go to Banggi, Kudat instead and to him that's how his life was saved because of the invitation.

"Personally, I found this revelation by Tengku most significant because this was the first time that I heard it happened that way," he said, adding the said revelation is a very important piece of information and that up to now he still does not know the real causes of the accident.

He also agreed with the first defendant's call for re-investigation into the air crash.

Sipaun, who was Permanent Secretary to the Ministry of Communication and Works at the time of the air crash, said he had never seen any official report on the cause of the accident or the report of the coroner regarding the accident or any official information regarding the accident or the cause of accident.

Meanwhile, during cross-examination by the plaintiff's counsel, Sipaun said he could not recall whether there was an investigation or no investigation on the air crash.

To a question, Sipaun said the gist of the new development to the story was the fact that Razaleigh was already inside the plane, all strapped up ready to depart but invited at the last minute to go elsewhere.

Counsel: Do you agree that your support for the call for re-investigation on the incident because of Tengku Razaleigh's revelation that the plaintiff's last moment invitation to him to leave the plane saved his life?

Sipaun: I am supportive of the case being revisited on the ground that new information which has not been available before has become available.

Counsel: Can you be specific what you meant by new information, which has not been available before becoming available?

Sipaun: The fact that Razaleigh was already seated in the plane together with the late Tun Fuad Stephen and the rest, and was asked to get off the plane at the last minute. This is something I have never heard before.

The trial will continue on Dec 5, 6, 21 and 22.

Sabah State budget of 4Billion and yet only 4% 2010 GDP growth!

2011-12-03T04:56:00.000-08:00

Malaysia was 10%, whereas Singapore 14%, which means,
West Malaysia is 12%, making Sabah GDP growth of only 1/3 of West Malaysia.

This is on the background of more than 2 Billion RM State budget, whereas Selangor's state budget had been less than 2 billion RM.

In 1994, Sabah's PBS budget was 2 billion RM a figure that UMNO's budget didn't achieve until a few years ago.

Check you facts and figures before you believe this lying reporter.

http://www.nst.com.my/opinion/columnist/rm4-billion-sabah-budget-surprise-1.14236

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RM4 billion Sabah budget surprise
By Joniston Bangkuai
jon@nst.com.my | 0 comments
State leadership proves it can deliver more development for the people

IT must have been music to the ears of Sabahans when Chief Minister Datuk Seri Musa Aman unveiled a whopping RM4.04 billion State Budget for next year, the largest ever in Sabah's 48-year history.

The people of Sabah have every reason to rejoice as the big budget means that more development programmes would be implemented for their benefit.

It is a holistic budget aimed at ensuring a balanced development of infrastructure and amenities between the rural and urban areas.

Themed "Accelerating the state's well-being and prosperity", the budget provides large funds to boost the state economy and improve the people's livelihood.

While the people are delighted with the huge budget, it is regrettable that the opposition has chosen to belittle it by questioning the ability of the state government to come up with the RM4.04 billion.

Having constantly labelled Sabah as one of the poorest in Malaysia, the opposition may have been taken by surprise with the huge budget.

To leaders of the Barisan Nasional, it was a perfect answer to quell the critics, especially the opposition, who have often described the state as one of the least developed.

It must be noted that despite uncertainties in the global economy and the fluctuating prices of oil, gas and commodities such as palm oil and timber, Sabah's economic fundamentals have remained strong because it is blessed with rich natural resources.

Most important is the proven capability of the state government, under the able leadership of the chief minister to efficiently and prudently manage its finances and resources.

Sabah has been among the top states that have achieved sound financial management, with giving it a clean bill by the Auditor-General for the last 11 consecutive years.

The state also received the highest rating of "AAA" by RAM Rating Services for the last three years for its strong fiscal position as a result of a series of surpluses and accumulation of strong reserves.

It has also obtained ISO certification from Moody International for efficiency and proper state budget management for three consecutive years. It must also be noted that the auditor-general's report for this year showed several actual figures that reflected the state's excellent financial achievements.

Among them was that the state reserves had exceeded RM3 billion, its revenue surpassing RM4 billion, actual surplus amounting to RM730 million, development expenditure at RM1.17 billion and it has no arrears on federal loans.

Perhaps, those who have often belittled the tireless efforts taken by the Sabah leadership to improve the state's economy and finances should compare the budget with that of Pakatan Rakyat-ruled states, like Selangor.

Despite being a more advanced and developed state, Selangor's budget for next year is only RM1.6 billion, while its reserves are about RM1 billion.

Musa, when tabling the budget at the State Assembly on Nov 18, expressed confidence in the ability of the state to deliver the RM4 billion budget, although its forecast revenue for next year is only RM3.6 billion. His optimism was based on the state's strong financial position and consistent actual surpluses, especially this year, where it recorded a surplus of RM730 million.

Musa, who is also State Finance Minister, said that Sabah's revised revenue for this year was about RM3.8 billion, an increase of more than RM1 billion or 39 per cent compared to the original estimate of RM2.4 billion.

About 80 per cent of its revenue for next year will come from crude palm oil sales tax, petroleum royalty, proceeds and interests from investments, land and forestry.

The bulk of next year's budget will be for special expenditures totalling RM2.3 billion, followed by RM1.1 billion for recurrent expenditures and RM623 million for emoluments.

A sum of RM881 million will be spent on development with focus on programmes and activities that will spur economic growth.

Emphasis is also given to the chief minister's three-prong Halatuju development strategy for agriculture, tourism and manufacturing as the state's main economic catalyst.

Special priority is also given to the eradication of poverty, creation of more jobs and providing skills training for the people.

With Sabah's economy growing rapidly and its finances in a strong footing, the state's budget for next year is a realistic one that took into account the state's development needs for the betterment of the people.

However, the huge budget would be meaningless if the targeted group did not benefit from the various development programmes that would be implemented.

As emphasised by the chief minister, elected representatives and government officers must constantly go to the ground to ensure the speedy and successful completion of projects.

The opposition may see it as an election budget, but to many in Sabah, it is a budget that would solve many of the state's development issues.

The big budget should erase the perception that Sabah is a poor and under-developed state.

Read more: RM4 billion Sabah budget surprise - Columnist - New Straits Times http://www.nst.com.my/opinion/columnist/rm4-billion-sabah-budget-surprise-1.14236#ixzz1fTYGVraf

Interesting comment from an Old man

2011-11-09T11:01:00.000-08:00

http://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/2011/11/09/racist-evil-federal-leaders-duping-sabahans/

Take note that the poorest are not the Dusuns but Suluk/Orang Sungai Muslims. Refer to UNHDP data in 2006 and the latest World Bank poverty report in 2011.

Racist, evil’ federal leaders duping Sabahans
Luke Rintod
| November 9, 2011

Where has the billions of ringgit which the federal government claims was spent on Sabah infrastructure gone?

PENAMPANG: Billions of ringgit have been spent on infrastructure projects in Sabah but there is little to show for it, especially in rural areas.

This has prompted a veteran political operative in Sabah to accuse federal government leaders of having an “evil” and “racist” attitude towards Sabah and Sarawak.

Fredoline Edwin Lojingki, 71, claims that by denying the two states similar infrastructure enjoyed in the peninsula, the federal government has kept the people in two states impoverished and deficient.

Lojingki, once an activist in the defunct United Kadazan National Organisation (Unko) and now a coordinator in Borneo Heritage Foundation (BHF), said each year both the federal and state governments trumpeted that hundreds of millions of ringgits would be spent on Sabah alone for rural development but it was astonishing that little is accomplished.

“Each year billions of ringgits are allocated for infrastructure with a focus on basic infrastructure.

“What astonishes me is that little is felt here in many rural areas in Sabah.

‘I have travelled to many parts of Sabah in recent times and I found it scary to claim that those billions were ever spent in Sabah.

“Not even small bridges or roads have been built in many of those places I visited. Even in Penampang, Inanam, Papar, Kota Belud, Keningau, Tambunan, Kudat, not to mention Nabawan, Sook, Banggi and some of the remote places in Ranau, Pitas, Kota Marudu.

“Very little has been done to upgrade public amenities like kampung roads and tracks, pedestrian bridges and even small wooden bridges have been left to rot.

“Don’t talk about drainage in the kampungs … it is almost non-existent,” he said.

Endangering lives

Lojingki said Chief Minister Musa Aman and his deputy Joseph Pairin Kitingan must explain why thousands of suspension bridges in the rural areas, especially in Kadazandusun-Murut kampungs are left unattended for decades.

He said the failure to ensure such facilities are safe was endangering the lives of many, especially schoolchildren who used them on a daily basis to get to and from school.

“I pity our people being taken for granted so easily and cheaply, duped into believing they are well taken care off by the governments who pour in billions of ringgits every year.

“In reality, the situations in the rural has become relatively worse in term of development now compared to the 1970s and even 80s, when not as much money was spent on Sabah by the federal government.

“Those younger people must raise their voice and learn to be bold to demand from their YBs, the district officers and all the top civil servants who are in the decision-making team.

“They must ask why their roads are not tarred or upgraded, or why their balai rayas are dilapidated, why no new infrastructure has been provided?

‘They should demand to see how the district office and YBs spent their allocation?” he said.

Sabahans can issue ultimatum

As citizens, he said, Sabahans can issue an ultimatum to the government and political parties that their support is not a given one and they can reshape the political landscape any time.

“There is no point in the Auditor-General stating every year that money has been misspent when the people, the real beneficiaries of this public money, are denied the right to participate, plan and monitor how the yearly allocation are being spent in each district or constituency,” Lojingki said.

The lack infrastructure in the state has been an unending lament for decades.

The issue is only hurriedly addressed prior to an election when roads are given a new layer of asphalt whether they need it or not, drains cleared and a dash of paint applied.

Indeed, rural folk mock that an election must be around the corner whenever they notice some maintenance or development taking place.

The government, on the other hand, makes no effort to hide the fact that the people should in fact be happy that they are noticed.

Many note that preferential treatment is given to some communities, pointing out that infrastructure development in those areas they reside are far ahead of those dominated by communities not on the ‘A’ list.

This imbalance has caused political and social friction in the state and further divided an already fractured society.

[Photo from insightsabah.gov.my]

Penjajahan Sabah dalam Malaysia dijelaskan oleh Prof Abdul Aziz Bari

2011-09-05T21:11:00.000-07:00

http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/bahasa/article/aziz-bari-secara-teknikal-tidak-pada-hakikat-british-jajah-kita/

Aziz Bari: ‘Secara teknikal tidak, pada hakikat British jajah kita’
Oleh G Manimaran
September 06, 2011
KUALA LUMPUR, 6 Sept — Pakar perlembangaan Prof Abdul Aziz Bari berkata meskipun negeri-negeri Melayu bukan atau tidak pernah dijajah oleh British, tetapi pada hakikatnya telah “dijajah kerana pentadbiran negeri dikawal” oleh kuasa Eropah itu sehingga negara merdeka lima dekad lalu.

“Pendeknya dari segi teknikal memang negeri-negeri Melayu bukan atau tidak pernah dijajah... hatta pentadbiran agama pun dipantau oleh British,” kata beliau dalam reaksi kepada The Malaysian Insider hari ini.

“Secara teknikal memang betul bahawa kita tak pernah dijajah; negeri-negeri Melayu hanya negeri lindungan. Hanya Melaka, Pulau Pinang, Sabah dan Sarawak yang pernah dijajah,” kata beliau.

Bagaimanapun menurut ahli akademik ini, negeri-negeri Melayu bukan negeri yang bebas dan berdaulat kerana mereka tidak bebas mengadakan hubungan luar.

“Raja-raja, contohnya, dipaksa menerima kejatuhan Empayar Uthmaniah yang dihancurkan oleh British dan sekutu-sekutunya pada 1924. Ini semua berlaku kerana Raja-raja di bawah tangan British meskipun mereka tidak dijajah.

“Selain itu meskipun di sisi undang-undang, yakni secara teknikalnya, mereka berdaulat kita semua tahu dasar dan undang-undang semuanya ditentukan oleh British,” kata beliau sambil menambah, Prof Emeritus Tan Sri Dr Khoo Kay Kim tidak harus membesar-besarkan kedudukan teknikal itu sehingga menafikan hakikat yang berlaku ketika itu.

Aziz (gambar) mengulas mengenai kritikan beberapa pihak ekoran pandangan tokoh sejarah itu bahawa negara ini sebenarnya tidak pernah dijajah oleh British, sebaliknya berada di bawah naungan negara Eropah itu.

Khoo melahirkan pandangan itu dalam satu temu bual dengan akhbar arus perdana kelmarin ketika kontroversi berkaitan kenyataan Timbalan Presiden PAS Mohamad Sabu hangat diperkatakan sehingga ada yang mahu fakta sejarah diteliti semula.

Negara akan menyambut ulang tahun kemerdekaan ke-54 bersama hari pembentukan Malaysia — buat julung kali pada 16 September ini.

Menjawab soalan mengenai kenyataan Mohamad bahawa Allaharham Datuk Onn Jaafar dan Almarhum Tunku Abdul Rahman Putra Al-Haj bukan pejuang kemerdekaan sebenar kerana mereka pegawai British, Khoo berkata: “Mereka tidak pernah bekerja dengan British. Kerajaan Melayu tidak pernah menjadi jajahan British. Kerajaan Melayu dulu secara rasmi dikenali sebagai Negeri Melayu Naungan iaitu di bawah perlindungan British, tetapi tetap diperintah oleh Raja.”

Katanya, kehadiran British adalah berasaskan perjanjian dengan raja setiap kerajaan dan pegawai British ditugaskan menjalankan pentadbiran, kedaulatan tetap pada raja.

“Maksudnya dari segi undang-undang, British tidak pernah menjajah kerajaan Melayu, hanya Negeri-Negeri Selat yang dikenali sebagai Tanah Jajahan Mahkota British. Pegawai British utama di Negeri-Negeri Selat dikenali sebagai gabenor, padahal kedudukan pegawai yang sama di kerajaan Melayu dikenali sebagai Pesuruhjaya Tinggi. Gabenor Hugh Clifford dalam ucapannya kepada Majlis Persekutuan pada Januari 1949 mengatakan apabila beliau merujuk kepada kerajaan Melayu: ‘They were, they are and they must remain Malay states. These states were when our cooperation in government was first invited Mohamedan monarchies. And such they are today. We have neither the right nor the desire to vary the system of government’,” katanya lagi.

Kata beliau, dalam undang-undang ada dua keadaan iaitu ‘de jure’ dan ‘de facto’.

“Datuk Onn mula-mula bekerja dengan kerajaan Johor dan Tunku dengan kerajaan Kedah. Mereka bekerja di negeri yang dianggap Negeri Melayu Tidak Bersekutu iaitu Raja masih ada banyak autonomi.

“Selepas perang, mula-mula Datuk Onn kemudian Tunku diterima oleh British sebagai presiden Umno yang diakui British sebagai parti politik orang Melayu. Oleh sebab orang Melayu menentang Malayan Union, British tidak melaksanakan Malayan Union. British selanjutnya berunding dengan Raja-Raja juga Umno untuk menentukan sistem lebih sesuai,” kata Khoo lagi dan menambah, “akibatnya pada Februari 1948, Persekutuan Tanah Melayu diwujudkan.”

Mengulas lanjut, Aziz berkata, Khoo perlu faham beza antara kedudukan teknikal dan formal dengan kenyataan atau hakikat, yakni sesuatu yang benar-benar berlaku.

“Sama seperti hari ini, Raja-raja adalah ketua agama. Soalnya apakah mereka benar-benar ketua agama dalam erti kata yang sebenar? Tidakkah pentadbiran agama dijalankan oleh kerajaan?” kata beliau lagi.

Sabah is cursed by its resources

2011-09-05T20:18:00.000-07:00

A good lesson for Sabah's resource curse

http://edition.cnn.com/2011/BUSINESS/09/05/libya.oil.resource.curse/

The 'resource curse': An Alaskan solution for Libya?
By Kevin Voigt, CNN
September 6, 2011 -- Updated 0158 GMT (0958 HKT)
Small boats of Libyan rebels escort an oil tanker, laden with 73,000 tons of petrol, as it docks in the Benghazi harbor on August 5.
Small boats of Libyan rebels escort an oil tanker, laden with 73,000 tons of petrol, as it docks in the Benghazi harbor on August 5.
STORY HIGHLIGHTS

'Resource curse' hits economies depend on oil, gas or other natural resource exports
'Paradox of plenty' can prop up weak or corrupt leaders at expense of economic growth
Some economists believe countries like Libya could reform through sharing oil wealth
Many countries, such as Botswana and Norway, have avoided the 'resource curse'

(CNN) -- In the aftermath of the 42-year rule of Moammar Gadhafi, the world is left wondering whether the bloodiest conflict in the popular unrest that has swept the Arab World will signal the rise of democracy in Libya or a descent into chaos.

A group of economists is proposing one solution to help a strong Libya emerge from the smoldering ruins of civil war: Give all Libyans direct annual payments from oil revenue.

Call it the 'Alaska solution.'

"In 1982 then-governor Jay Hammond of Alaska said, 'Look, there is no check or balance on our use (of state oil revenue)," said Todd Moss, a senior fellow at the Center for Global Development in Washington. Hammond started a program to give residents annual checks from the state's petroleum fund. "That held Hammond and all his successors into account."
Economy expanding in Mongolia
Rebels anxious to avoid bloodshed

Libya is a textbook example, Moss said, of what is known as the "resource curse" - countries whose economies depend on oil, gas or other natural resource exports. It's sometimes known as "the paradox of plenty" - rather than create an economic boom, export cash from resource-rich nations often flows directly to corrupt leaders while most the population doesn't share in the wealth.

How to handle a sudden burst in commodity wealth is an issue that echoes around the globe, from the huge copper and coal mines plumbed in Mongolia, to the offshore gas fields in Ghana and vast tracts of lithium deposits in the Andes Mountains of Bolivia.

"Of course you have corruption, but I think the key thing about understanding how the resource curse works is it impedes economic and political development," said Arvind Subramanian, a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute of International Economics in Washington.

Resource curse in the Arab World

Research shows the more a nation's economy is dependent on export of natural resources, the less that nation's economy is likely to grow, says Ragnar Torvik, an economist at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. "But it's a chicken and the egg question- is it natural resources that cause this low growth, or some bad economic and political conditions as a result of just specializing in natural resources?" Torvik said.

The unrest in the Arab world demonstrates the resource curse at play. "Why was the population (of Libya) not able to get rid of Gadhafi by their own, as they did in Egypt and Tunisia? One likely part of the answer is that the oil revenues in Libya is much more important than in Tunisia and Egypt, which gives the ruler a much wider menu of political choices to fight the democratic demands from the population," Torvik said.
Unfreezing Libya's assets
Why was the population (of Libya) not able to get rid of Gadhafi by their own, as they did in Egypt and Tunisia?
--Ragnar Torvik, Norwegian University of Science and Technology

"And why was the response in Saudi Arabia to hand out large sums of cash to the people? Presumably this was not because suddenly that they cared more about the people - the more likely answer is that this was a move to maintain political power and avoid demands for democracy," Torvik said. "So I think indeed the varieties of experience in the Middle East in the last months have much to do with oil revenues."

Major natural resources aren't necessarily a national curse. A recent survey of the 10 most livable cities by the Economist Intelligence Unit is dominated by cities in Canada and Australia - nations that both have booming commodities exports. While sub-Saharan countries like Nigeria and Congo have had moribund economic growth despite resource riches, diamond-rich Botswana is the fastest growing economy in Africa.

"Here in Norway we are one of the largest oil and gas exporters in the world; I can observe that in Nigeria oil has been bad, but in Norway it is good," Torvik said.

A key difference between nations that do well with natural resources and those that are "cursed" depends on the strength of government institutions before nations strike underground wealth, economists say. Botswana is one of the few sub-Saharan nations with a parliamentary system of government. Norway had 200 years of democracy before its off-shore oil industry took off in the 1970s.

Instead of giving direct payments to citizens, Norway has plowed all its oil revenues into a public fund for use in education or other public works. "We use 4% of the fund every year, the ambition is you don't eat the principal but live off the interest," Torvik said.

Mongolia grapples with 'curse'

On the steppes of Mongolia, the land of Genghis Khan has released a horde of coal and copper in recent years, causing an economic explosion in this landlocked nation in Central Asia. But worries are rising with its national coffers, Mongolian Prime Minister Sukhbaatar Batbold said.

"We talk a lot these days, and especially the last couple years, about the resource curse," Batbold told CNN.

"We have seen the Norwegian experience of sharing the benefit with the people. We have seen the Chilean stability fund, we have seen Canadian and Alaskan model," Batbold said. "We should not reinvent the wheel, we should better learn and copy from good successes."
Can Mongolia avoid corruption?
We talk a lot these days, and especially the last couple years, about the resource curse
--Mongolian Prime Minister Sukhbaatar Batbold

For example, Mongolia is using mining revenues to finance child cash benefits. Each Mongolian citizen will receive 536 shares from the privatization of the Tavan Tolgoi coal mine in southern Mongolia.

"Hopefully, the people will appreciate that they are responsible for an investment in their own future and that they will learn how to treat those shares and use them for benefit for themselves and their children in the future, rather than just selling them," said Bill Gorman, president of the Mongolian Stock Exchange.

Yet the challenges are stark for Mongolia, which has only has 20 years of democracy. The nation ranks 116th out of 187 nations in the 2010 Transparency International corruption perceptions. One-third of Mongolia's 2.8 million people live below the poverty line.

Corruption "is an enormous problem, but one of things we're hoping to do with our partnership with the London Stock Exchange is to make certain the listed companies have proper transparency and management," said Gorman of the Mongolian Stock Exchange.

Are taxes the solution?

Giving direct payments to Libyans, Subramanian and Moser argue, is a way for a new government in Tripoli to foster closer economic ties with its citizens - through taxes.

Taxes create an incentive for the government to make broad improvements across the economy to increase government revenues. And, as the Tea Party phenomenon in the U.S. shows, taxes create a populace that is deeply interested in how government spends its cash. "They are going to watch the government like a hawk," Moser said. "If one year people get a $500 check (from oil revenues) and the next year they get $400, they're going to wonder why."

"People think (an oil find) is Manna from heaven, so you don't need to tax," Subramanian says. "But that severs that two-way relationship between the governed and those who are governed."

Two practical problems to giving away oil cash: Convincing leaders it's in their best interests, and the modalities of getting that cash to citizens. "The latter is actually the easiest ... there's been a lot of advances in biometrics, such as iris scanning and fingerprinting, along with e-banking through cell phones," Moser said.

Trying to talk leaders in resource-rich countries to give it away, however, is another matter. Both Moser and Subramanian have approached leaders in Ghana and Nigeria, respectively, to distribute it - both were rebuffed.

Still, a new government in Libya could have a unique "constitutional moment" to allow its oil profits to flow directly to the populace, Subramanian said. "Libya is a country that has had virtually no political development for nearly 50 years," he said.

Adds Moser: "When you have a moment of transition, there's a lot of uncertainty - that's a moment you can lock into a certain kind of path you may not find for another generation."

CNN's Anna Coren contributed to this report

East Kalimantan is 50% richer than Sabah in 2010

2011-08-23T06:57:00.000-07:00

A neighbour underestimated
by Raja Petra Kamarudin on Tuesday, 23 August 2011 at 07:05

http://www.facebook.com/PiEeAwanG#!/notes/raja-petra-kamarudin/a-neighbour-underestimated/10150292149369658

By Karim Raslan, The Star

The buoyant statistics coming out of East Kalimantan underline the extent to which the once-poor neighbour has eclipsed Sabah. And until Sabahans can exorcise their ghosts, Indonesia will remain an untapped mirage.

WE are living in an age of tremendous financial turmoil. Currency and equity market gyrations have dramatically altered relations between nations and entire regions. Indeed, the decline of US and European competitiveness and the attendant acceleration of Chinese wealth have been the most note-worthy developments.

What is less well-documented is the fact that these trends have also led to significant changes within South-East Asia with China’s (and India’s) hunger for natural resources driving prices ever higher.

This is most apparent on the island of Borneo.

In 2010, the GDP per capita in Sabah was RM8,450. By way of comparison, the GDP per capita in the neighbouring Indonesian province of East Kalimantan (or Kaltim) was over US$4,000 (RM12,000).

While the Kaltim statistics are inflated by skyrocketing coal, as well as oil and gas prices, the reality shows a marked increase in living standards for the province’s 3.2 million people.

In fact, Kaltim’s booming economy is also contributing to Sabah’s shortage of labour for the plantation sector.

Meanwhile, decentralisation initiatives (dubbed regional autonomy) meant that a greater proportion of the natural resource bounty was being retained locally.

Kaltim is Indonesia’s largest producer of both coal and oil/gas. At the same time there are plans to increase palm oil planting to well over 1.5 million hectares.

Balikpapan – the premier commercial hub with a population over 600,000 – is also a major transport and services hub.

The city’s Sepinggan airport (with over five million passengers a year) is Indonesia’s fourth busiest.

The buoyant statistics coming out of Kaltim underline the extent to which the once-poor neighbour has eclipsed Sabah and indeed Malaysia.

This is all the more ironic given the fact that for many decades Sabahans have felt imperilled by what they’ve perceived as waves of “desperately poor” Indonesians and Filipinos pressing at their borders.

Indeed, the control (or lack of it) of migrant workers has been an enormously controversial issue in Kota Kinabalu.

Sabah’s exponential population growth – most notably in the 1980s when naturalisation policies (covert or otherwise) were at their most pronounced – witnessed a dramatic increase from 929,992 in 1980 to 1,734,685 in 1990.

Indeed, it is arguable that Sabahans have been traumatised by the massive influx of illegals.

The state’s indigenous communities have seen their demographic and political leadership whittled away.

Unsurprisingly, they are deeply suspicious of Indonesians and Filipinos.

All this has made it difficult for Sabah to leverage Indonesia’s current prosperity despite the state’s strategic location.

Sabah has very poor connectivity with Kaltim, so much so that even the lengthy land border lacks formal road crossings.

Still, Indonesians – including Awang Faroek, Kaltim’s Governor – are lobbying hard for a link at Serudong along the Tawau/Kota Kinabalu road.

In the absence of an overland crossing, hundreds of thousands of Indonesian workers in Sabah have been forced to travel by ferry through Tawau’s meagre and unimpressive port facilities.

By way of comparison, the Entikong crossing between Sarawak and West Kalimantan has become a major thoroughfare with countless buses plying the route linking Pontianak and Kuching.

Moreover, it is estimated that some 3,000 Indonesian students are currently studying in Kuching’s many private educational institutions.

At the same time, direct flights (on local carrier, Kalstar) linking the two cities have further enhanced connectivity and opportunities for businessmen on both sides of the border.

Kota Kinabalu and Balikpapan are like step-sisters. A journey between the two cities requires an awkward and time-consuming detour through either Kuala Lumpur, Singapore or Jakarta.

The alternative is the nerve-wracking ferry from Tawau to either Nunukan or Tarakan ... neither of which are particularly attractive for tourists or business travellers.

But Kota Kinabalu remains a superb destination.

With its waterfront lifestyle, schools, hospitals and international flights, the city is poised to become a popular hub for Indonesians – from as far away as Banjarmasin, Makassar, Samarinda and Manado.

It is worth noting that all four cities are beneficiaries of the natural resources boom and growing faster than the national average.

Indeed, other Malaysian cities such as Penang and Malacca have become adept at tapping the Indonesian demand for healthcare, education, housing and retail.

It remains to be seen whether the socio-political trauma of past decades could be overcome to allow Sabah to maximise these opportunities.

However, thankfully, some of Sabah’s leaders are beginning to recognise their neighbour’s vast potential.

Flamboyant former chief minister Datuk Harris Salleh has been a major promoter of the cross-Borneo linkages.

Last year, he undertook a highly publicised tour across Indonesian Kalimantan.

Similar sentiments are raised by Sabah Economic Development and Investment Authority CEO Yaakub Johari who confidently said: “History aside, we see Sabah acting as a conduit between an expanding Indonesia and the dynamic Northeast Asian markets.

“Enhanced connectivity whether by land, air or sea is a must.”

Until Sabah and Sabahans can exorcise their ghosts, Indonesia will remain an untapped mirage.

Why SAbah was the richest in the world under the British

2011-07-04T17:24:00.000-07:00

SAbah was clearly colonised by Great Britain and UK admits it, while
SAbah is also clearly colonised by Malaya, despite denials by Malayan
officials and their servants in Sabah.

Sabahans don't really care whether we are colonised or not, since we
are used to it. What matters is if the colonial masters are fair or
compassionate or not. Clear the British are much better than Malaya.
FActs show it clearly in all former British colonies despite the
propaganda uttered by the later colonial masters using locality as an
excuse to plunder citizens.

When you want to compare, you must compare apples with apples, oranges
with oranges. In the case of development, you must compare the same
time and take into account the number of people residing at that time.

A good indicator of wealth is car.
Now BN likes to lie about the fact that Sabah has more cars now than
under the British, to show that Sabah is now more wealthy under
Malaya. What they fail to tell you is that, based on facts and figures
from all the world bodies and Sabah Government's EPU(Economic Planning
Unit), the number of cars per population is the worst in Malaysia, and
if you compare with the rest of the world, among the worst. After all,
Malaysia does not have the highest car ownership in the world.

What it means that even the poorest nations on earth, have more cars
per population than even Sabah. Watching documentaries and news clips
will clearly show the cars roaming the streets of the poorest nations
on earth.

Under the British, just after the wars, there are a few cars in Sabah,
much less than now, but many other nations, don't even have cars at
all. You may argue that UK has more cars than Sabah in those days, but
if you take into account the much lower population of Sabah, Sabah is
almost the same level in car ownership as UK, which makes Sabah among
the richest in the whole world.

The railway is even clear. There is not a single increase in railway
track under Malaya. Under the British, it was from zero, to hundreds
of kilometers, which is at an infinite rate. Many regions still do not
have any railway, e.g. Sarawak, even now.

Sabah also has the most advanced communication system in the world,
much better than Malaya. It was at par with Singapore but since Sabah
has much less population, it makes Sabah, the best equipped in the
whole world.
You may argue that it was used to ease the job of colonising Sabah,
but who cares. At least Sabahans also benefit, unlike the current
exploitation by the Malayan colonialists.

Our oil and gas is exploited without any benefit for Sabahans at all.
Not even jobs. While the British will recruit Sabahans and even train
them if they are not well trained yet, unlike the Malayans who give
excuses that Sabahans are not qualified for any job on offer.

Any qualified Sabahans will be transfered to Malaya under the so
called integration. It is more like suppressions. Just imagine UK
sending Sabahan workers to work in UK. The British didn't do this, but
Malaya does.

Under the British, jobs are plenty. It was Sabahans who don't want to
work. Under Malaya, Sabahans had to go out of Sabah to work, while
Malayans, who call themselves Malaysians, take the posts in Sabah, as
well as foreigners, giving excuses that Sabahans are lazy and stupid,
the usual excuses.

The British never call Sabahans lazy and stupid, and will train
Sabahans to handle even the most demanding tasks, just as piloting
ships. My father and many of my relatives are proofs of this.

Under Malaya, Sabahans, can't even get jobs as Police Constables, let
alone teachers. Just look at the policemen and teachers in Sabah, and
find out how many are locals. The Malayan workers outnumber Sabahans
by significant margins, whereas you hardly find British teachers in
Sabah under the British.

Of course you can find exceptions, but these are just excuses and it
was a hard fight for Sabahans to get jobs in Sabah, and you have to
make lots of sacrifices.

I just pity the life of my children. All our children must be prepared
to work overseas. You just can't find jobs in Sabah. Or as what my
brothers had done, get jobs in Malaya while waiting for openings in
Sabah. This had been going on since 30 years ago, and it should get
worse.

Afer cutting off Sabah's Limbs, Sabah is blamed for being Lazy, and Musa agrees

2011-07-02T08:29:00.000-07:00

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From: "Ir. Hj. Othman bin Hj. Ahmad" <othm...@gmail.com>
Date: Jul 2, 11:20 pm
Subject: THEFT OF RESOURCES LOWERING GDP, not LAZINESS
To: soc.culture.malaysia

On Jul 2, 11:06 pm, "Ir. Hj. Othman bin Hj. Ahmad" <othm...@gmail.com>
wrote:

>http://sabahcolonised.blogspot.com/2011/07/theft-of-resources-lowerin...
> Paul Saccani has made a comment about the current state of affairs in
> Sabah which appear to be valid but actually nonsense. BAsed on real
> case stories in SAbah, Nigeria and even Indonesia before REformasi. It
> is called THEFT OF RESOURCES.

> And yet the victims are condemned as stupid and lazy. But for the
> Sabah case, we have cases to fall back to of incidences before the
> THEFT and after the THEFT.

Also it is well known that GDP is affected by government expenditures.
The GDP in Sabah must have been severly affected by the lack of
government expenditures in the past that its GDP has dropped so low.
Now the low GDP is used as a guide in allocating fund to SAbah which
is grossly unfair. After stealing from Sabah, making it the POOREST IN
THE WORLD, money is allocated only based on its GDP so called alleged
productivity.
Just like cutting off your limbs and blame you for not producing your
share of work after you have lost all your limbs.

The statements that Sabahan is stupid and lazy is well know to be made
by idiotic West Malaysians, who is so proud of their idiocy like one
minister who does not even know that Sandakan district is bigger than
the state of Pahang.

THEFT OF RESOURCES LOWERING GDP, not LAZINESS

2011-07-02T08:03:00.001-07:00

Paul Saccani has made a comment about the current state of affairs in Sabah which appear to be valid but actually nonsense. BAsed on real case stories in SAbah, Nigeria and even Indonesia before REformasi. It is called THEFT OF RESOURCES.

And yet the victims are condemned as stupid and lazy. But for the Sabah case, we have cases to fall back to of incidences before the THEFT and after the THEFT.

On Jul 2, 4:33 pm, Paul Saccani wrote:

> On Fri, 1 Jul 2011 16:45:21 -0700 (PDT), "Ir. Hj. Othman bin Hj.

> Ahmad" wrote:
> >On Jul 1, 9:34 pm, Paul Saccani wrote:
> >> On Thu, 30 Jun 2011 05:12:38 -0700 (PDT), "Ir. Hj. Othman bin Hj.

> >> Ahmad" wrote:
> >> >The current GDP for Sabah is 4%, not 6%.

...

> >Either interpretation, Sabah is still clearly discriminated. If the
> >share of malaysian GDP is only 10% whereas Sabah's population is 15%,
> >with an area of 23%, this is certainly a blatant discrimination and
> >lack of progress that Sabah had experienced.

> Again, you fail to comprehend your own cited article. It stated that
> Sabah's share of the GDP was 6%, and the article forecast that it
> would increase to 10%.

> For you to talk about discrimination is to expose your complete
> failure of comprehension once again. Using your figure of Sabah as
> 15% of the population of Malaysia, along with the figure of 6% of GDP
> produced there, the conclusion is that Sabahans are less than half as
> productive as the rest of Malaysia.

Even with most of the petroleum and oil palm produced in Malaysia???
Sabah is still less productive. Have you ever wondered why?

Do you know how GDP is calculated?

> >the usual way of measuring GDP is the growth % per year.

> Well, no, that is a complete and utter nonsense. And in any case the
> article was completely explicit;

No it doesn't. Even I only mention GDP instead of GDP annual growth,
and many authors use these simplified terms as well.

If you really want to be explicit, then use the word absolute GDP.

> "In terms of numbers, we think Sabah will increase its overall share
> in Malaysia's GDP from six per cent to 10 per cent in the next five
> years as it will grow faster than the more saturated Peninsular
> Malaysia,"

> In other words, unproductive Sabahans will increase their productivity
> by two thirds, according to the forecast. Even then, they will still

per Sabahan.

> be producing much less than their fair share of the work.

Valued in Ringgit Malaysian terms, per person.

They can do the same job, but paid much much less.

Have you ever wondered why? Idiot.

When all resources are stolen from SAbah, to be spent in West
Malaysia, their GDP per capita increases in terms of RM.

Whereas, Sabah, whose resources are stolen, have less GDP per capita
expenditure, simply because a lot of its money are stolen.

GDP has nothing to do with productivity. It is called GROSS DOMESTIC
PRODUCT for good reasons. Only idiots will use it as a sole
productivity measurement.

It is a good and fair measurement because it takes into account world
monetary values, unlike the PPP(?), so called adjusted GDP.

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> Of course, this will not be the case if you have anything to do with
> it - it seems that you would not work in an iron lung.

> > If you want
> >to diverge from the norm, you have to explain in more detail.

> 1: GDP is never measured in percentage.
> 2:What was being discussed was stated explicitly.
> 3:Your failures both in comprehension and writing are not a
> requirement for others to kow tow to your deviant ideas.

> >Because of your arrogant and racist attitude,

> Don't pretend that others suffer from your afflictions.

> > you can't even see
> >alternative meanings to phrases, and choose the best alternative based
> >on normal practise, which is the way honest people interpret.

> I see no signs of honesty, humility or comprehension from you.

> >Musa Aman is still lying.

> From the report, and your comments, it would seem that rather than
> Musa Aman being a liar, it is simply a case of you being too stupid
> and arrogant to comprehend an article written in simple English.

> With people like you in Sabah, it is no wonder that so little
> productivity occurs in the place, with the rest of Malaysia having to
> pay more taxes to subsidise stupid and incompetent people like you.

> At the moment, Sabah produces 6% of Malaysia's GDP, but gets 8% of
> government spending. You are getting subsidised with 33% more than

Wow. It may be 8% 6% of GDP, but certainly much more in revenue from
petroleum and oil palm that Sabah produces in abundance.

> you have produced, yet bemoan that you are being cheated. In fact,
> you are stealing from other Malaysians by being lazy and inefficient

Funnily, just before BN took over Sabah, Sabahan were not deemed lazy
and inefficient, with among the largest per capita GDP.
Why is it????

> and expecting others to pay you to be stupid, lazy and arrogant.

We don't expect others to pay for our salaries. We only want our
resources back, idiot.

If you look at the poverty statistics, it is not in the number of
developments, rather in the numbers of service personnel allocated to
SAbah, number of doctors, dentists, teachers etc.

Doctors are allocated by the Federal government. Also number of
schools, hospitals etc, all these making SAbah the POOREST IN THE
WHOLE WORLD!!!

Don't you think this will not add to the per capita annual GDP? I am
being very explicit to idiots like you!!!

What 6% GDP contribution are you talking about when our income taxes
are not even spent to improve our lives to a decent level, only to the
level of the POOREST IN THE WHOLE WORLD!!!

Just spend all SABAH resources to ourselves. The GDP will
automatically go up and Sabah removed from the POOREST IN THE WORLD
category, like before.

Sabah has more resources now than before Malaysia or BN, and yet still
the POOREST IN THE WHOLE WORLD!!!

Don't tell me you cannot find doctors to work in Sabah, as most
doctors are from Bangladesh, Myanmar etc anyway.

Why send them to West Malaysia instead of the POOREST IN THE WORLD,
SABAH!!! Bloody bastard idiot.

Sabah government knew Sabah was the poorest since 2002

2011-07-01T18:56:00.000-07:00

http://www.sabah.gov.my/infosoc/ppt/UPEN%20(1).ppt

The above is a link to the documents prepared by Sabah's EPU.

Pictures can be viewed at my blog sabahcolonised

Lying about Sabah's economic performance and prospect

2011-06-30T05:15:00.000-07:00

The current GDP for Sabah is 4%, not 6%.

The current GDP for Malaysia is 7% so West Malaysia should be around
10%.

If Sabah were to grow at 10% next year, a near impossibility, given no
commitment apart from empty promises, it is still the same as West
Malaysian's current rate of growth. With much more resources diverted
to WEst Malaysia, the situation will continue.

Just imagine, Sabah only getting 10% of the total natioinal budget,
with a population of 14% and area of 23%?

Will Sabah's GDP ever exceed that of West Malaysia that gets much more
of the national budget?
Never indeed. Just use your common sense.

Upbeat on Sabah's prospects

Published on: Tuesday, June 28, 2011

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Kota Kinabalu: Global publishing, research and consultancy firm,
Oxford Business Group (OBG), firmly believes Sabah has enormous
business and economic potential given what it has to offer investors.

So much so, it expects Sabah to increase its overall share in
Malaysia's GDP from six per cent to 10 per cent in the next five
years, saying it would grow faster than Peninsular Malaysia.

OBG Regional Director for Asia, Laura Herrero, said the book "The
Report: Sabah 2011" launched by Chief Minister Datuk Seri Musa Aman on
Monday is testament to this.

"Not only we have done good business here, it has (also) been a
pleasure to work and interact with the people of Sabah at all levels,"
she said.

"So, foreign businessmen and investors, read this report; take note of
our example; follow our lead and come to Sabah," she said.

She said the rapidly evolving economy of Sabah holds out enormous
business and economic potential.

She said the book that was produced by OBG over a six-month period of
research is worthwhile for the people, foreign businessmen and
investors.

The report provides in-depth coverage of Sabah's Development Corridor
(SDC) blueprint and considers the interest that the long-term
development plan is generating among global investors.

The publication charts the wave of new projects which spans
agricultural infrastructure, transport, tourism and logistics, while
analysing the role they are set to play in Sabah's plans to become a
leading economic and investment hub by 2025.

Asia Regional Director for OBG, Paulius Kuncinas said Sabah is blessed
with natural beauty and resources that is key to attracting visitors
and investors alike.

"(Hence) it is worth stating at the outset that the reason our
Publishing Group decided to come here was because we discovered there
are attractive investment opportunities for both domestic and foreign
investors, some of which are overlooked by mainstream investors," he
said.

From OBG's research, he said Sabah is well positioned to benefit from
recent growth in Asean.

It is also well located in the Borneo region to attract Foreign Direct
Investment (FDI) in the next 5-10 years, he said.

He said Oxford Business Group found there are a number of sectors
outside traditional tourism, agri-business and energy that could
benefit from greater involvement of private sector and investment.

The organisation feels the policy momentum created under the Tenth
Malaysia Plan (10MP) will fuel fresh interest form smart investors
looking to locate in the country's most progressive regions, with
Sabah offering the most compelling case.

"In terms of numbers, we think Sabah will increase its overall share
in Malaysia's GDP from six per cent to 10 per cent in the next five
years as it will grow faster than the more saturated Peninsular
Malaysia," he said.

According to him, growth in new service sectors would likely push
total GDP to USD$12 billion with an average annual growth of above
five per cent.

He said their analysts argued in the report that Sabah had the fortune
of being insulated from the great financial crisis thanks to its
resource-based sector that continued to enjoy financial strength and
solid balance sheets throughout the crisis.

However, Kuncinas said there would be challenges going forward such as
to reduce the dependence on commodities and tourism sectors, which
when combined continue to dominate economic activity in the State.

He said one of the key growth areas is likely to be service-related
sectors that offer support services to established plantations,
agriculture, energy and manufacturing industries.

"Even though the rise of commodity prices recently offer attractive
returns to local business, we found it very encouraging the State
managed to post 6.8 per cent growth in services which will help to
diversify the overall economic mix of Sabah's economy," he said.

To achieve sustainable growth and the advanced economy status included
in Malaysia's 2020 Vision, he said Sabah needs to focus on creating
alternative sources of growth by focusing its efforts on education,
research and innovation.

Just like other states in Malaysia, he said Sabah is in competition
for young talent that will determine its competitiveness in the
future.

He said retaining this talent within the State will be key to further
productivity growth and advancing the economy beyond natural
resources.

On the other hand, Kuncinas said Sabah's exports this year continue to
be dominated by palm oil, palm kernel oil, rubber, crude petroleum and
processed woods.

"We believe that these will continue to provide income momentum in the
next five to 10 years," he said.

Looking at the trade data, he said they found a high share of
processed fuels, lubricant and mineral, which accounted for 18.3 per
cent of the total this year.

He said there are still huge investment opportunities in the
downstream segments, especially in oil and gas sectors with Sabah in a
good position to become one of the leading downstream processing
centres in Borneo.

"We also see an upside in the logistics sector with Sabah well
positioned to cater for remote regions of East Asia with the Sapangar
Bay Container Port well placed to become one of the leading trans-
shipment centres in BIMP-EAGA," he said.

Supported by rising world palm oil consumption, Sabah's ports have
returned to full capacity after weathering the global economic crisis.

Nevertheless, he said one of the long term structural issues that will
need to be addressed is the Cabotage Policy and also the nation's hub-
and-spoke transport policy.

He said quite a number of businesses interviewed by the OGB said that
logistics operating costs in Sabah are higher than that in the
peninsula, which undermines the State's competitiveness.

However, he said that OBG was encouraged to learn that the State is
now addressing the vital issue of external and internal connectivity
through infrastructure upgrade investment.

Through the Sabah Development Corridor (SDC) programme, he said the
government is implementing road and rail projects across the State
that will have substantial benefits for both movements of goods as
well as the tourism sector.

Kuncinas noted that Kota Kinabalu is already enjoying advanced air
connectivity with a high frequency in both domestic and international
flights.

"We are compiling investment opportunities in Sabah in our first ever
report and as we continue our coverage, we hope to provide more detail
and insight," he said.

But the best case scenario now, he said, is that Sabah's economy will
continue to outperform other Malaysian states with GDP per capita
increases helping to drive rural and urban development across the
entire State with new growth sectors coming on stream in the next 5-10
years.

Given its location and resources, he said Sabah is a natural choice
for many industries and a contender for the status of sub-regional
capital.

With effective implementation of the initiatives now under way, he
said it may be a prize soon captured by the Land Below the Wind.

Proof that BN disrespects and breaks the constitution

2011-03-19T07:32:00.000-07:00

Why should only a private citizen sue the Barisan Nasional, Federal
Government? Why not any of the opposition parties?

http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2011/3/19/courts/8300501&sec=courts

Saturday March 19, 2011
Court voids amendment on appointment of JCs

KOTA KINABALU: An amendment to the Constitution to take away the power
of appoin-ting judicial commissioners (JCs) by the heads of state of
Sabah and Sarawak has been declared null and void by the High Court
here.

Justice Datuk David Wong Dak Wah in his landmark judgment said the
1994 amendment to Article 122AB of the Constitution was invalid as it
did not have the consent of the two states.

He said the amendment affected the operation of the Constitution as it
removed the power of the appointment of JCs by the respective Yang di-
Pertua Negri of Sabah and Sara-wak.

Prior to the 1994 amendment, the appointment of JCs to the High Courts
of Sabah and Sarawak was done by the governors on the advice of the
Chief Judge of the High Court of Sabah and Sarawak.

In allowing the suit brought by retired policeman Robert Linggi
against the Federal Government, Justice Wong also declared null and
void Section 37 of the Judicial Appointments Commission Act, which
empowers the Prime Minister to amend any provision of the Act by way
of a gazette.

However, he dismissed the claim by Linggi, who is from Keningau, that
the Judicial Appointments Commission Act (except for Section 37) was
unconstitutional.

In his suit filed on March 13, 2009, Linggi, who was represented by
Datuk Lawrence Thien, had among others, sought a declaration that the
removal of the power of appointment of JCs to the High Courts of Sabah
and Sarawak by the heads of the two states was null and void.

In his 39-page written judgment delivered on March 15 and made
available on Thursday, Justice Wong said Article 161E (2) prohibits
amendments to the Federal Constitution without the consent of the
governors "if the amendment is such as to affect the operation of the
(Federal) Constitution with regard to the constitution and
jurisdiction of the High Courts of Sabah and Sarawak."

The Government was represented by Senior Federal Counsels Suzana Atan
and Narkuna-vathy Sundereson.

On the contention by the Government that Linggi had no locus standi to
bring the suit, Justice Wong ruled that "all Malaysians have a duty to
protect our constitution."

Sabah, the poorest in the world has no starving people???

2011-03-04T02:40:00.000-08:00

Sabah, being the poorest in the whole world, is not even told to
Malaysians, let alone the huge number of starving people in Sabah
being reported.

If Doni, committed suicide because his classmates laughed at him for
eating starvation level diet in the centre of a city, Kota Kinabalu,
with the most updated infrastructure in the poor state of Sabah,
getting a government subsidi, JUST IMAGINE the people in the remote
places, where statistics show the REAL POOR really ARE.

Kota Kinabalu is not listed as the poor areas in Sabah, and yet there
are many students living on starvation diet, rice with boiled kangkong
picked up from the drains. If you don't call that starvation diet, you
must be crazy.

Muhiddin must therefore be crazy if he thinks that eating just rice
everyday is not starvation diet. Many other people in Sabah, also eat
similar diet. You don't even have 1 US dollar per day because you are
unemployed. Unemployment is the highest in Sabah.

China and India are much richer than Sabah. Just imagine how come
nobody is ACKNOWLEDGED as living on starvation diet. BN is just a
bunch of liars manipulating statistics.

To make matters worse, Sabah has much more resources than China and
Indian combined together. How come SAbah can be the POOREST IN THE
WORLD???

Simple. NONE OF THE RESOURCES ARE FOR SABAH. All petroleum resources
go to Malaya via expensive gas pipelines costing BILLIIONS OF RM.

With a SO CALLED PROMISED 5%, but unaudited, it is more like much
less than 1%, or NEGLIGIBLE. Not even enough to cover maintenance of
the foreign workers employed for these gas pipelines and the
environmental loss that led to the poverty of the locals. Just use
your imagination to calculate how much is 150 RM million per year for
the past 30 years. Is it really 5%??? Price of petrol has gone up 1000
percent. It may have been 5% 30 years ago, after price and volume
increases, it is much less than 0.1% remaining. It had been increased
to 400 million, i.e. from 0.1% to 0.4%!!!!

In another 30 years it become 0.04%!!!!

If you don't believe, than explain why Sabah GDP grows 4%, while
Malaya grows 9%!!!!
Malaysia is 7%.. Malaysia includes Sabah so it pulls down Malaysian
overall GDP.

With MInisters like Muhidin that don't know that Kinabatangan is
BIGGER THAN PAHANG.
No wonder, they only give 20 million for Sabahan poor, the 3RD behind
Trengganu and Pahang.

And these are only for fishermen who are registered. If you have no
money, how can you even register??? tell me honestly. You still think
that there are no starving people in Sabah!!! Idiot.

Stop whining, poor Sabahans told
Charlie Rudai
| March 4, 2011

Deputy Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin has admitted that the
government is unable to do much for the landless and hardcore poor
mainly due to incompetence of its leaders.

TONGOD: Poor Sabahans should stop whinning and be satisfied with their
lot because the poverty situation in Sabah was not as bad as that
faced by citizens in China and India.

Deputy Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin said that since starvation did
not exist in Malaysia, there should be no complaints about the poverty
situation in the state.

Drawing comparisons with countries like China, India and other
developed countries, he said that unlike others there had been no
reports of people dying of starvation in Malaysia.

He said that in some countries the poverty issue was so critical that
some of the people there were earning about one dollar a day and
coping with the issue of starvation unlike Malaysia.

Last year, the World Bank Report revealed Sabah to be the poorest
state in Malaysia. According to the report, 40% of Malaysia's poor
were centred in Sabah, which incidentally is an oil and gas hub. The
state government, however, has vehemently disputed the categorisation.

Muhyiddin also made a staggering revelation that the Barisan Nasional
(BN) government has been unable to do much for the landless and
hardcore poor in the country mainly due to incompetence of its
leaders.

He took a swipe at ruling party political leaders for not doing their
jobs and not articulating the problems they faced.

Citing Kinabatangan, he said he had been ignorant until now that the
constituency is much bigger than Pahang, and was shocked to know that
Tongod itself was bigger than Selangor.

Muhyiddin claimed it was not easy to bring development to Sabah until
political leaders went down to the ground to study and understand the
needs of the people.

Infrastructure projects

He sees the whole problem of poverty eradication and development as an
infrastructure issue.

"So how to bring development to Sabah and Sarawak? … the only way is
to provide better infrastructure.

"In this respect, Sabah and Sarawak get the priority from the federal
government… millions of ringgit are being poured in to implement
infrastructure projects.

"I monitor every month and listen to the ministers during meetings,"
he said, adding that under the 10th Malaysia Plan, RM320 million had
been approved for various projects in the Kinabatangan parliamentary
constituency alone.

However, he said that the government would give out funds according to
priority and not all at once to prevent bankrupting the country.

"It is like in a family: when you give a present to one child, the
other children also want it but a family with a small income would not
be able to do so.

"Similarly, the nation will go bankrupt if it fulfils the demands of
all the people," he said.

Muhyiddin assured that Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak was focused on
the National Key Economic Areas (NKEA) to propel the country to a high-
income nation by improving the economy and living standards of the
people.

"Our prime minister is focused and as his deputy, I sit with him every
week in various economic development meetings," he said, adding that
last year Malaysia had achieved a 7.2% growth, which not many country
could claim.

Communal land titles

He also defended the BN's record on poverty eradication, saying the BN
government had made extraordinary achievements as far as reducing and
eradicating poverty in the country is concerned compared to pre-
independence days when the poverty rate was 98%.

In an almost election-like campaign speech at the Kampung Simpang
Entilibon field here yesterday, he claimed the BN never stopped
thinking about how to bring development to the people and lauded Chief
Minister Musa Aman for granting communal land titles to the landless
and distributing dividend payments to the hardcore poor.

"Ask any other states (in Malaysia) or in other countries if they are
doing what the Sabah state government is doing… none.

"The BN government realises that the people still yearn for
development," he said.

Muhyiddin, who is also Education Minister, said he was briefed on the
poor education situation in Sabah schools.

"It was supposed to be a 20-minute briefing but it went on for more
than an hour and I said last night that if it cannot be solved, then
we should form a committee so that the education facilities in Sabah
are not only at par with the rest of the country but are also better,"
he said.

Libya can produce petrochemicals for local use even in crisis

2011-02-27T01:11:00.001-08:00

Despite the turmoils, Libya's Eastern part where only about 1.4
million people live is still capable of producing petrochemicals for
local consumption. Petrol as well as cooking gas.

Sabah, which also produces light petroleum and gas, cannot produce
anything for local consumption. Everything has to be exported to
Malaya 1000km away. Sabah has a much higher population of 3.4 million
than even this eastern part of Libya.

Even in times of crisis, oil production is not affected. It is the
lack of shipping that is hindering export of oil and gas.

I wonder where the money goes to. With the sanctions on Gaddafi's
regime, the money should go to the interim government of Libya in
Benghazi.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=134090660

Turmoil Rocks Libya's Oil Sector, Slashing Output

by The Associated Press

BREGA, Libya February 26, 2011, 08:05 pm ET

The massive oil terminal at Brega feels strangely deserted for Libya's
second-largest hydrocarbon complex. After more than a week of turmoil
in the country, production has been scaled back by almost 90 percent
with many employees fleeing and ships not coming to collect its
products.

The most activity on the site Saturday appeared to be a squad of boys
from the nearby town finishing the job of tearing apart the local
headquarters of Moammar Gadhafi's Revolutionary Committee.

The seaside Brega complex, some 125 miles (200 kilometers) west of the
rebel stronghold of Benghazi, collects crude oil and gas from Libya's
fields in the southeast and prepares it for export. It also produces
some petrochemicals and refined products for local consumption.

Since the crisis began on Feb. 15, however, General Manager Fathi
Eissa said the facility has had to scale back production dramatically
from 90,000 barrels of crude a day to just 11,000.

There are no reliable figures about the impact of the uprising against
Gadhafi on Libya's oil exports, but facilities across the country have
been forced to make sharp cuts. Most Libyan ports — the main method of
export — also were closed due to bad weather, staff shortages or
production outages, according to the International Energy Agency.

The IEA, citing reports from Western producers, said overall crude
production has dropped from 1.6 million barrels per day to 850,000.
The unrest in the OPEC nation — which ranks about 17th among world oil
producers and has Africa's largest proven oil reserves — has sparked a
major spike in world oil prices.

At Brega, the huge spherical storage containers and reservoirs used to
hold natural gas and crude oil are filling up rapidly with no ships to
cart away their valuable contents.

Production in the southern fields has been throttled back until Brega
can clear some of its capacity.

"At this time we are operating with the minimum required number of
operators, technicians mainly," Eissa said. "The production from the
fields right now is at minimum, it is not completely stopped but it is
minimum."

On Saturday, a ship arrived to collect some ammonia and methanol, but
it was one of only a few since the troubles began.

Brega has continued to pump natural gas for local consumption along
the coastal pipeline that is keeping the power plants and desalination
plants running, as well as providing the people with cooking gas
canisters.

Ahmed Jerksi, the chairman of the manager's office and a 40 year
veteran of the company, estimated the terminal was operating with just
45 percent of its normal manpower.

Many employees left amid rumors that Gadhafi was going to bomb the
plant and its volatile contents, while others feared for their
families, he said.

The neighboring petrochemical complex of Ras Lanouf, some 60 miles
(100 kilometers) to the west has experienced similar drops in manpower
and has had to cut production down to similar levels, Jerksi said.

Ras Lanouf is also perilously close to the town of Sirte, one of the
last holdouts for Gadhafi loyalists in central Libya, raising concern
about clashes in the area.

The Gulf of Sidra is critical to Libya's energy exports. The ports of
As Sidra, Marsa el Brega, Ras Lanuf, Tobruk and Zuetina handle about
77 percent of Libya's oil exports. Allegiances in the Gulf of Sidra
and the economic value they represent, therefore, are key to the
survival of Gadhafi's regime.

Libya's uprising came to the Brega complex on Feb. 20 when inhabitants
of the nearby village appeared at the gates and said the complex was
now with the revolution. The facility's guards let them in and they
went around and tore down the many pictures of Gadhafi.

The local headquarters of the Revolutionary Committee was also
trashed, with air-conditioning units pulled out of the walls and a
large-screen projection TV knocked over.

By Saturday, a group of youths had little to do besides smash windows
and set fire to a picture of Gadhafi.

"We are with the revolution," said Eissa, the general manager. "We are
supporting the change by keeping operations running to avoid the
country's collapse."

Many of Brega's 600 foreign workers — mostly from Britain and other
European countries — were preparing to evacuate. The British frigate
HMS Cumberland, which took evacuees from Benghazi to Malta, is set to
return to pick up many of Brega's workers. They missed an earlier
evacuation at Benghazi because of the poor state of communications in
the country.

Marianne Steeley of Britain has been working on and off at Brega since
1981 and is hoping her absence won't be long.

"Everybody's erring on the side of caution and they've certainly
dialed down the oil and gas operation here and the ammonia plant,
everything's been sort of kept on a very cautious level," she said. "I
think they are trying desperately to get things going as soon as
possible, I would certainly be very happy to return once things are
sorted."

Even Africa reports on Sabah's cancellation of Coal Power

2011-02-27T01:11:00.000-08:00

http://af.reuters.com/article/energyOilNews/idAFL3E7DH01Y20110217

Malaysia scraps Sabah coal power plant project
Thu Feb 17, 2011 1:07am GMT

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KUALA LUMPUR Feb 17 (Reuters) - Malaysia's federal and Sabah state
governments have scrapped a plan to build a coal-fired power plant
meant to meet the state's energy needs, the Star newspaper reported on
Thursday.

Sabah Chief Minister Musa Aman said national power producer Tenaga
Nasional and national oil corporation Petroliam Nasional Bhd
(Petronas) have been asked to come up with an alternative solution to
replace the proposed 300-megawatt coal-fired plant in Lahad Datu.

"Sabah needs to increase its power supply to meet the increasing
development but the state cannot afford to put its natural environment
at risk," he said.

Environmental groups campaigned against the building of the power
plant after it was proposed in 2007. (Reporting by Julie Goh)

Malays in Sabah grow by 1,552%!!!

2011-02-20T04:06:00.000-08:00

"Look, in those 30 years the Kadazan-Dusun-Murut community grew by
162% – a population growth that makes sense.

"But those classified as Malay grew by a staggering 1,552%. The
federal government hasn't given any solid explanation for this
staggerring rise," Chong said.

It also does not make sense for Kadazan community because in Sarawak,
population growth is only 106% and Brunei 157%. Brunei's growth is due
to immigrants from Malaysia.

It shows that there are also many migrants within the Kadazan
community as well.

As for Malays increasing at such rapid rate, it is due to immigration
from West Malaysia where everybody call themselves Malays as long as
they are Muslims.

I doubt Filipinoes will call themselves Malays because they can always
call themselves Bajau, which is one of the natives of Sabah.

However these Filipinoes like to pretend that they are West Malaysian
Malays, imitating the West Malaysian Malay dialect.

The most vocal groups in SAbah are the Kadazan Dusun communities
because they feel that they are swamped by Muslims reducing their
political influence. But this community is now supporting the current
BN government that allows this situations to occur through parties
such as PBS, UPKO and PBRS.

https://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.malaysia/post?hl=en

Sabah's tale of woes
February 20, 2011

Beyond the touristy Kota Kinabalu waterfront lies the 'hazy' reality
of Sabah's fragile social fabric.

Saturday afternoons at the markets flanking the Kota Kinabalu
waterfront are a casual affair. Tourists stroll the walkways toting
cameras, families finish buying their day's groceries, the smell of
pickled vegetables and fresh fruit intoxicates.

A line of tailors steal a nap during the lazy, shady hours. It's quite
a delight seeing those vintage Singers still in use.

And as a solitary machine goes "shik-shik-shik" in the background, the
issue about Sabah's fragile "social" fabric crops up again.

Interwoven in this tapestry is a generation of carefree children, who
neither read nor write, and who each morning leave their homes in the
settlements at Pulau Gaya and come ashore to the city's waterfront
seeking menial work – dishwashing, food preparation and packaging.

Is it fair that these children, innocent of any crime, be deprived of
a promising future because of negligence by their hosts? To them a
high-income economy and the New Economic Model are meaningless.

This is the tale of Sabah that has seen a population increase by a
stupefying 301% in 30 years (1970-2000), a phenomenon that surely
needs to be investigated closely.

Especially since neighbours Sarawak grew by 106%, and Brunei 157% in
the same time-frame.

Said former Sabah senator and activist Dr Chong Eng Leong: "Sabah's
borders were deliberately kept porous. You could enter and leave it
like a sieve."

Chong believes that foreigners and the contentious Project IC are two
of the biggest issues facing Sabah for over two decades.

Project IC, or more pointedly Project M, refers to the "allegation of
systematic granting of citizenship to immigrants (whether illegal or
legal) by giving them identity documents known as IC (identity card),
and subsequently, MyKad" .

It is an alleged covert exercise with its roots in the early 1990s to
alter the demographics of Sabah to make it more favourable to the
ruling government and certain political parties.

"Look, in those 30 years the Kadazan-Dusun-Murut community grew by
162% – a population growth that makes sense.

"But those classified as Malay grew by a staggering 1,552%. The
federal government hasn't given any solid explanation for this
staggerring rise," Chong said.

Damning evidence

But despite the issue being common conversation in the warongs and
kopitiams here and, to some degree, in the local media, investigations
into Project IC never quite reached a satisfactory momentum nor
conclusion.

Chong believes it's because the evidence is damning – it shows up in
the daily life of Sabah.

Chong has self-published a book, "Lest We Forget" (Security and
Sovereignty of Sabah), in July 2009 – a compilation of hard facts and
newspaper clippings to create public awareness of Project IC.

"Don't get me wrong. I have nothing against foreigners…They are human
beings who seek a better life; borders mean nothing to them.

"It is the lack of a political will in both the federal and state
governments to resolve this problem that gets me (upset)… They refuse
to even acknowledge it's a problem.

"Here they (foreigners) are considered a vote bank. I have collated
the reports and evidence in my book," said Chong.

He said the worst thing about Project IC and the influx of these
immigrants is the humanitarian aspect.

"You have brought (them) in as a vote bank, offered them MyKad, given
them Bumiputera status, perhaps resettled them somewhere…

"You are expected to remain grateful. No education for your children.
No proper sanitary system. No refuse collection – rubbish is disposed
of in the sea or burned in some common dumpyard nearby.

"It's an epidemic waiting to happen," he said between conversations
with the local traders at the KK Handicraft Market, commonly known
here as Pasar Filipina.

Tragic Sabahan

Chong, who speaks a variety of local dialects, believes that to
properly understand the issue of Project IC, one needs to walk the
problem. And that was what he did: one Saturday last year, he took
this writer from the Saya Anak Bangsa Malaysia blogsite on a
walkabout.

The most tragic part of the problem is that Project IC has left the
genuine local Sabahan with the short end of the stick.

"You know, conditions are even worse for the natives of Sabah. Visit
their kampungs scattered all over Sabah if you can.

"They get no water or electricity supply. Let's not even mention
schools for the moment.

"We have many cases of true-blue Sabah natives who were denied MyKad
even though they have birth certificates to prove their case.

"How can a government do this to its own people?" Chong asked.

From the charm of the KK waterfront, Chong took us across the scenic
Likas Bay to Telipok, about 30 km away.

Here, two government-initiated settlements have sprung up over the
years.

Hazy meaning of "Malaysian'

Atop a hill lies Kampung Boronuon. The residents prefer to call it
Kampung Penempatan – resettled.

They were resettled from Pulau Gaya in 2001. Back then, the mayor of
Kota Kinabalu had assured the people of Telipok that the Pulau Gaya
resettlers were Malaysians.

But in this part of the world, as we were beginning to see, the
meaning of "Malaysian" can be as hazy as smog from the annual
Kalimantan fires.

In his book, "Lest We Forget", Chong cites numerous cases of dubious
citizenship. Here is a sampling:

• A Pulau Gaya fag smuggler admitted in court he is a Philippine-born
Malaysian, but his new IC is coded 12, that is, born in Sabah. His old
IC number was H0558763, and is still registered on the Sabah electoral
rolls today.

• One foreigner was convicted in 1992 for possession of fake IC and he
told the court that he got his IC through Project President Mahathir
(appendix 51 of book). He was jailed for two years and managed to get
registered in 1995 on Sabah electoral rolls after his release – was he
deported but later sneaked back? His old IC number was H0487096 and is
still on Sabah electoral rolls today.

• Salman Majid – arrested in March 2005 at KLIA and detained for 199
days at the immigration centre in Sepang… Salman stated in the "Sijil
Akuan" that he was born in Ranau, Sabah, when in fact he was born in
Pakistan. His old and new IC numbers were H0352141 and 620202-12-5053
respectively.

Salman had reportedly said about his IC: "Pada tahun 80′an saya telah
ditawarkan kad pengenalan di Sabah semasa Projek Khas. Saya telah
menerima tawaran itu bersama dengan beribu-ribu rakyat Sabah yang
lain." (In the 1980s, I was offered an identity card in Sabah under
the a speical project. I accepted the offer together with thousands of
other people in Sabah.)

Down in the valley from Kampung Penempatan lies a serpentine grouping
of houses. This is Kampung Pelarian, otherwise known as the UNHCR
Settlement Scheme. It was established in the 1970s under the care of
the UN for Filipinos fleeing from the civil war in the southern
Philippines.

Growing settlements

Although the war has long since ended and UN funds ceased, the land
continues to be inhabited.

Instead of diminishing in number, more houses are being built in this
area. A 2006 Borneo Post report said more than 1,000 dwellings are
occupying the land and growing.

In both these neighbouring settlements, life isn't super.

There aren't many in terms of amenities; there's electricity and water
supply. Waste just goes into a hole or a waterway. The residents are a
hardy lot. But the story repeats – no schooling.

At about 3pm that afternoon, we noticed a dusty van passing in front
of us along the narrow, winding lane. It stopped not far ahead, its
body listed to one side because of the potholes.

A couple of young girls – no more than 15 years old and dressed in
Tees and jeans – boarded the van.

Were they heading for their day jobs as dish-washers or other menial
jobs at the market, we wondered? Or rather, we hoped.

For it could easily be something even worse. Something like
prostitution.

It is not mere imaginings. Another excerpt from Lest We Forget:

• Six girls in vice activities in Perak in March 2002 were initially
said to be Sabahans but Sabah police chief later on corrected by
saying that they were Indonesians whose Malaysian ICs were issued by
Sabah NRD.

If all this is true, then Project IC is not merely about the story of
a power-crazed government pulling out all the stops to retain its
position.

It is also about the social repercussions which hurt the state and the
very people who were invited inside our borders.

2Million RM a day for Diesel in Sabah?

2011-02-19T08:15:00.000-08:00

TNB subsidises RM2million a day for diesel. Do you know how much will
TNB need to subsidise if coal were produced? It could be up to RM20
million a day for COAL. Taking into account all costs, storage,
transportation and cleaning up.

And this does not include the RM2.5 billion gas pipeline to export
Sabah's gas!!!
If this gas were to be used in Sabah, there is no need to spend 2.5
billion RM, no need to subsidise any diesel at all. The most important
of all is that, it is the cleanest fuel EVER. That is why it is very
valuable for other nations but SAbah is denied its use.

Musa used to be a strong supporter of the coal power plant. Why the
sudden change of heart??? Is it caused by the coming election??? What
happens after the ELECTION????

Won't they BE RELIABLY EXPECTED TO CHANGE THE FACTS AGAIN???
Certainly!!!
They will start saying that COAL IS CHEAPER THAN GAS etc. Just as what
they have been doing now.
Notice the lack of commitment in abolishing this coal powered plant.
Musa only said that the people of SAbah objected, NOT HIM.

Guaranteed 100% that if BN wins, the coal power will continue. After
all, this is what BN believes sincerely, that COAL IS MUCH CHEAPER
THAN GAS etc. So far there is no admission of error or the slightest
sense of guilt at all from the BN parties.

SAbahans should wake up and SEE THE FACTS!!!

Bintulu LNG to generate power supply for Sabah's east coast
February 19, 2011

KOTA KINABALU, Feb 19 — Petronas and Tenaga Nasional Berhad (TNB) will
soon be working on bringing liquefied natural gas (LNG) from Bintulu
to generate alternative power supply to Sabah's east coast.

Chief Minister Datuk Seri Musa Aman said this was to address the
critical shortage of power supply in the east coast, especially since
the proposed coal-fired power plant project was recently scrapped.

"I know that we have a critical problem in terms of providing stable
electricity to the people in the east coast, and not many know that
TNB was subsidising RM2 million a day for diesel used in the various
independent power plants there," he said at Gerakan's Chinese New Year
and Chap Goh Mei celebrations here today.

Musa said the venture between Petronas and TNB was a directive by
Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak during the recent National
Economic Action Council (NEAC) meeting, which came prior to his
meeting with the premier, together with Deputy Chief Minister Tan Sri
Joseph Pairin Kitingan and state Industrial Development Minister Datuk
Raymond Tan on the proposed coal-fired power plant.

During that meeting, Musa told Najib of the Sabah people's unhappiness
over the project.

Meanwhile, Gerakan president Tan Sri Dr Koh Tsu Koon said the party
fully supported the decision by the government to scrap the proposed
coal-fired power plant project, that was in line with the
sustainability concept under the New Economic Model.

"This (decision) reflects the commitment of the chief minister and the
BN (Barisan Nasional) to continue to make environment as its main
agenda. So, this is most welcome," he said.

Koh, who is also minister in the Prime Minister's Department, said the
scrapping of the project was one of three reasons for BN to smile in
the Chinese New Year of the Rabbit.

The other two, he said, were the victory in the Batu Sapi
parliamentary by-election and Gerakan receiving many new members. —
Bernama

Amazed with Sabah's 4.5% growth vs 7 for malaysia, 14 for Singapore?

2011-02-19T07:56:00.001-08:00

And this is despite having a positive trade balance of over 2, 000%!!!
Export is 20 times import.

No wonder Sabah is the poorest in the whole world.
Despite exporting so much, very little has gone into Sabah. over 95%
goes to develop Malaya.(West Malaysia).

Musa Aman dapat pujian

<b>Pengesahan buat Musa</b>: Muhyiddin Yassin menandatangani plak
menandakan lawatannya di tamu Donggongon di Penampang. Bersamanya
ialah Musa (kiri) dan Menteri Perusahaan, Perladangan dan Komoditi,
Tan Sri Bernard Dompok.

Pengesahan buat Musa: Muhyiddin Yassin menandatangani plak menandakan
lawatannya di tamu Donggongon di Penampang. Bersamanya ialah Musa
(kiri) dan Menteri Perusahaan, Perladangan dan Komoditi, Tan Sri
Bernard Dompok.

Timbalan perdana menteri kagum dengan pencapaian Sabah

Sabah mendapat RM5.7 bilion pelaburan tahun lalu, empat kali ganda
lebih banyak pada 2008, dan walaupun berlaku kegawatan global. Jumlah
ini hampir seperlima daripada RM32.6 bilion pelaburan yang diterima
Malaysia dan meletakkan negeri di timur Malaysia ini sebagai tumpuan
pelabur asing.

Ia adalah pelaburan dalam perindustrian merangkumi sektor pembuatan
galian bukan besi hinggalah kepada produk kimia, makanan, kertas dan
kayu-kayan.

Timbalan Perdana Menteri Datuk Muhyiddin Yassin agak kagum dengan
ketahanan ekonomi Sabah yang dijangka berkembang di antara 4 peratus
dan 4.5 peratus tahun ini. Ketika lawatan selama tiga hari di Sabah,
Muhyiddin berasa selesa membiarkan perkara berkaitan ekonomi selamat
di tangan Ketua Menteri Sabah, Datuk Musa Aman yang bekerja tanpa
mengenal penat untuk menjauhkan negeri ini daripada kesan kemelesetan
ekonomi dunia.

Sebaliknya, beliau mengalihkan perhatian kepada kekurangan sekolah di
Sabah yang menyaksikan banyak sekolah rendah berkongsi bangunan dengan
sekolah menengah. Sebagai menteri pendidikan, Muhyiddin berkata,
beliau berasa terkilan dengan keadaan itu dan berjanji untuk membuat
perubahan.

Dalam dialog dengan ahli perniagaan, Muhyiddin berkata, keseimbangan
jualan semula Sabah memberinya RM2.3 bilion. Kemelesetan melengahkan
eksport pada tahun lalu. Namun, Sabah masih mengeksport RM2.4 bilion
nilai komoditi primari, terutamanya minyak mentah sawit manakala ia
mengimport hanya RM125.5 juta hasil produk - kebanyakannya barangan
pengguna dan jentera. – Insight Sabah

Melaka get NGV Train while Sabah export NGV but no NGV Train

2011-02-19T07:31:00.002-08:00

Melaka is to spend RM272 million for NGV Train while Sabah had to
spend 2.5Billion RM to supply this train with NGV, while having NO NGV
at all for Sabah.

The train in Sabah, after spending RM200 million, will use diesel
fuel, which has to be imported.

Melaka Tram to open to public in May 2012
2011/02/19

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AYER KEROH -- Train maker, Mrails International Sdn Bhd expects its
RM272 million Melaka Tram, the first natural gas vehicle (NGV) powered
tram in the world, to open to the public in May next year.

Its president and managing director, Datuk Jeya Kumar said, the
implementation and application of the environmentally friendly "Next
Generation Tram" will revolutionise the locomotive industry.

"We will be using this technology to add convenience to culture and
enhance heritage without affecting the environment in compliance with
Melaka's status as a Unesco World Heritage Site," he told a media
briefing here today.

Kumar said the tram would scrap the traditional "pantograph" system in
keeping with the times and also in line with United Nations Framework
Convention on Climate Change to combat global warming.

"This also represents our vision to take part in Melaka's growth as an
ultimate destination centre for tourism, and marks our commitment to
creating sustainable transport systems," he added.

The ground breaking ceremony was performed by Prime Minister Datuk
Seri Mohd Najib Tun Razak.

Also present was Melaka Chief Minister Datuk Seri Mohd Ali Rustam and
Terengganu Menteri Besar Datuk Seri Ahmad Said.

Melaka Tram was made official via an agreement between the Chief
Minister Incorporation (CMI) and Mrails in March last year.

Under the agreement, the company has agreed to design, construct and
finance, manage, maintain and supervise the road tramway and tramcar
operations for 25 years, while the financing of the project worth
RM272 million is borne by Mrails as well.

The company has also been charged with managing ticket collections for
25 years, with CMI taking 20 per cent in terms of ticket collection
and the balance by Mrails, Kumar said.

He highlighted that the Melaka Tram Corridor would begin from its
depot adjacent to the Ayer Keroh Toll Plaza heading to the heritage
town of Melaka with a distance of 40 kilometres covering 11 of
fourteen major tourist spots.

"We will work hand-in-hand with our partners, CNR Tangshan Railway
Vehicles Co Ltd, a Chinese-based locomotive manufacturer," he said.

The tram is a rail borne vehicle, lighter than a train and differs
from other forms of locomotion, as the tracks are embedded in the
street.

It is able to accommodate 120 passengers at one time, caters to the
disabled because its ground-level design and will operate at speeds of
40 km/h.

Kumar said Mrails, which is expecting at least a 40,000 ridership
daily, would make commuting affordable, with a fare charge of RM2.

It is free for the disabled and students.

Moving forward, the company intends to export its train to other
cities in the country as well as overseas, namely to India and Africa
next year, he said. -- BERNAMA

Read more: Melaka Tram to open to public in May 2012
http://www.nst.com.my/nst/articles/MelakaTramtoopentopublicinMay2012/Article/#ixzz1EQ1ndqlN

PBS is similar to BN in making Sabahans the poorest in the whole world

2011-02-19T07:31:00.001-08:00

This is an honest and truthful view of the political situation in
Sabah and a reminder what Jeffry Kitingan was.

Usno and Berjaya govts took better care of poor'
David Thien
| January 11, 2011

Umno-Barisan Nasional is a poor match to Usno and Berjaya's native-
friendly policies, according to Sabah DAP.

KOTA KINABALU: Sabah DAP has conceded that the previous Usno and
Berjaya state governments had better and more effective policies which
helped alleviate poverty and improve the economic status of the
natives in the state.

Placing credit where it's due, state party chief Jimmy Wong said the
"Usno and Berjaya governments had done something unique and
interesting".

"For example, the low-cost housing started by Usno involving only six
posts was laughed at by many (at that time) but today these six-post
houses are sitting on premium lands and have become expensive
properties.

"We can at least praise Usno for lifting the economic status of the
people.

"As for the Berjaya (governemnt), it started giving away 15 acres of
land for every Sabahan.

"This was a brilliant policy and today those people who received,
retained and planted oil palm on these lands are much better off than
many people working in the city and towns.

"These are policies of the past governments that have benefited and
uplifted the standard of living of the people," Wong said.

He said when PBS took over the state administration, it did a huge
"disservice'"to the people by cancelling the policy of giving each
Sabahan 15 acres of land.

"PBS cancelled the policy and instead went on to give away huge tracts
of land to non-Sabahans for oil palm plantations.

"The Umno-BN government today is proud to give away communal lands to
natives which is akin to confining the Red Indians in a 'reserve' in
the United States.

"If the Sabah natives cannot own lands, they will always remain in
poverty and disadvantaged including their children and grandchildren,"
Wong said, alluding to Sabah's poverty level.

According to the Ninth Malaysia Plan, Sabah is not only the poorest
but had the highest number of abject poverty. This has also been
confirmed by the World Bank report published late last year.

No respect for Sabah and Sarawak

Wong was speaking at a Pakatan Rakyat solidarity dinner in Inanam on
Sunday. Also present at the dinner was the newly-appointed PKR state
chied Pajudin Nordin and Sabah PAS deputy commissioner, Haji Aminudin
Aling.

A five-member team from DAP headquarters led by Cheras MP Tan Kok Wai
(national DAP election director), Petaling Jaya Utara MP Tony Pua
(national publicity secretary), Serdang MP Teo Nei Ching (deputy
publicity secretary), an academician Ong Kian Meng and the party's
national bureau executive director Ooi Leng Hang.

Pua, when addressing the crowd, said: "Sabah and Sarawak did not get
the respect of the federal government when assessed based on the
annual budget."

According to Pua, the two states were only allocated less than 10% of
the total value of the nation's development fund in Budget 2011.

"The federal government intends to spend millions of ringgit on a
useless multi-storey building in Kuala Lumpur while neglecting the
high poverty rate in Sabah," Pua said.

Tan, meanwhile, reminded party leaders of the long and hard struggle
that lay ahead.

He told them that the picture was not as rosy as painted because Prime
Minister Najib Tun Razak was "cleverly using his plans that come in
alphabets" including NEM, NKRA, KPI and others.

"Nevertheless, the country is facing so many problems including price
hikes, creeping inflation, corruption, poor perception of the
judiciary, abuses by the police, human rights issue and poor
international ratings on corruption and free press, to say a few.

"Poverty is a household word in Sabah and it is an issue which the
Umno-BN government finds hard to put a lid on.

"Poverty itself is not an issue as it exists almost in every corner of
the world.

"But it becomes an issue when a country blessed with an abundance of
natural resources (like in Sabah) is home to many inhabitants living
in poverty," he said.

Real story of Sabah's Petroleum resources

2011-02-19T07:31:00.000-08:00

Malaysian oilfields: 50,000 drums per day

The Commercial Arrangement Area (CAA) in the Malay Basin, which
Malaysia shares with Vietnam, also contributes to the country's oil
production. Talisman Energy (Canada) holds operating interests in the
Northern and Southern oil fields in the CAA. While the Southern Fields
are still under exploration, the Northern Fields development
reportedly began producing at 25,000 bbl/d in August 2009, reportedly
rising to 50,000 bbl/d in early 2010. Talisman holds a 41.4 percent
interest, Petronas holds a 46 percent interest and PetroVietnam has
12.5 percent. Talisman is continuing to explore and develop fields in
the area.

Sabah's oil fields: 300,000 drums per day

Construction began on the Sabah Oil and Gas Terminal (SOGT) in
February 2007 and it is expected to be completed by 2012. It will have
handling capacity of 300,000 barrels of crude and 1 billion cubic feet
of natural gas per day and will primarily serve Malaysia's export
markets. The Sabah-Sarawak Gas Pipeline project is part of this
development.

With one drum of petrol can earn US100, at 300,000 drums per day, it
will be 30 million US$ per day.

I'm afraid Sabah will see very little of this revenue but instead more
destruction and poverty as a result of the pollution created. What a
sad end to the heaven that was Sabah.

http://www.eurasiareview.com/analysis/malaysia-energy-profile-31122010/

Malaysia Energy Profile:

Written by: Eurasia Review
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(EIA) –Malaysia's national oil and gas company, Petroleam Nasional
Berhad (Petronas), holds exclusive ownership rights to all oil and gas
exploration and production projects in Malaysia and is the single
largest contributor of Malaysian government revenues, almost half in
2009, by way of dividends and taxes.

As Malaysia's oil fields are maturing, the government is focused on
enhancing output from existing fields and from new offshore
developments of both oil and gas, which are expected to increase
aggregate production capacity in the near- to mid-term.

Malaysia's western coast runs alongside the Strait of Malacca, an
important route for seaborne energy trade that links the Indian and
Pacific Oceans. Malaysia's position in the South China Sea makes it a
party to the various disputes among neighboring countries over
competing claims to the sea's resources. Although Malaysia has
bilaterally resolved competing claims with Vietnam, Brunei, and
Thailand, a potential problem is the fact that China claims almost all
of the South China Sea, including the Spratly Islands, which are in
proximity to oil and gas producing basins.

Oil

According to the Oil & Gas Journal (OGJ), Malaysia held proven oil
reserves of 4 billion barrels as of January 2010. Nearly all of
Malaysia's oil comes from offshore fields. The continental shelf is
divided into 3 producing basins: the Malay basin in the west and the
Sarawak and Sabah basins in the east. Most of the country's oil
reserves are located in the Malay basin and tend to be of high
quality. Malaysia's benchmark crude oil, Tapis Blend, is very light
and sweet with an API gravity of 44° and sulfur content of 0.08
percent by weight.

Top 5 Asia-Pacific Proven Oil Reserve Holders, January 2010

Sector Organization

Malaysia's national oil and gas company, Petroleam Nasional Berhad
(Petronas), holds exclusive ownership rights to all oil and gas
exploration and production projects in Malaysia, is responsible for
all licensing procedures, and is subject to only the prime minister,
who controls appointments to the company board. The company holds
stakes in the majority of oil and gas blocks in Malaysia. It is the
single largest contributor of Malaysian government revenues, almost
half in 2009, by way of dividends and taxes. Since its incorporation,
Petronas has grown to be an integrated international oil and gas
company with business interests in 31 countries. It was ranked by
Fortune as the 80th largest corporation in the world in 2009 and the
13th most profitable. All foreign and private companies must operate
through production sharing contracts (PSCs) with Petronas. ExxonMobil
is the largest foreign oil company by production volume and other
major foreign oil producers operating in Malaysia via PSCs include
Shell, Murphy Oil, and Talisman Energy.

Energy policy in Malaysia is made and overseen by the Economic
Planning Unit (EPU) and the Implementation and Coordination Unit
(ICU), which report directly to the Prime Minister. Malaysia's oil and
gas policy has historically focused on maintaining the reserve base to
ensure long term supply security while providing affordable fuel
supplies to its population. In July 2010, the government introduced
subsidy reductions for gasoline, diesel, and liquid petroleum gas
(LPG) with the aim of gradually rationalizing the fuel subsidy system
to reduce expenditures. Further cuts in fuel subsidies are expected.

Exploration and Production

Total oil production in 2009 was 693,000 barrels per day (bbl/d), of
which 83 percent was crude oil. More than half of total Malaysian oil
production currently comes from the Tapis field in the offshore Malay
basin. Malaysian oil production has been gradually decreasing since
reaching a peak of 862,000 bbl/d in 2004 due to its maturing offshore
reservoirs. Malaysia consumes the majority of its production and
domestic consumption has been rising as production has been falling.
Exports in 2009 were 157,000 bbl/d. However, the government is focused
on opening up new investment opportunities by enhancing output from
existing fields and developing new fields in deepwater areas offshore
Sarawak and Sabah.

Exxon-Mobil's enhanced oil recovery project at the Tapis field, which
lies 118 miles off Terengganu in 210 feet of water, will start up in
2013, with an estimated gross investment of more than $1 billion.
Tapis is one of 7 mature fields offshore peninsular Malaysia that
ExxonMobil and Petronas have agreed to develop as part of a 25-year
production-sharing contract that was finalized in June 2009. Under the
agreement, which includes provisions for the deployment of enhanced
oil recovery and further drilling to boost output, work will be
carried out on all 7 fields, including Seligi, Guntong, Tapis,
Semangkok, Irong Barat, Tebu, and Palas.

The over-20-years dispute between Malaysia and Brunei over land and
sea boundaries was ended when the two countries signed a boundary
agreement in April 2009. Blocks L and M were ceded to Brunei while
Limbang, a popular tourist site on the Sarawak-Brunei border, was
ceded to Malaysia. In September 2010, Petronas and the Brunei
government reportedly agreed to jointly develop the 2 blocks offshore
Borneo Island, signing a 40-year production sharing agreement for
newly named Block CA1; an agreement on Block CA2 is expected.

Deepwater oil production projects under development are all offshore
Sabah:
The Kikeh oil field is currently Malaysia's only producing deepwater
oil field. It is offshore Sabah in 4,400 feet of water and was
discovered and is operated by Murphy Oil in partnership with Petronas.
It came onstream in 2007 at an initial rate of 20,000 bbl/d; estimated
production in 2010 is 68,000 bbl/d of oil and 62 mcf/d of gas. Murphy
Oil is carrying out more developmental drilling in order to boost
output to 120,000 bbl/d in the near term. The nearby Kakap and Siakap
fields, discovered in mid-2009 in the same block, will be tied into
Kikeh in 2011 and 2013, respectively, to maintain steady production
through 2015.

The Gumusat/Kakap project, offshore Sabah in 3,900 feet of water, will
include the region's first deepwater floating production system from
19 subsea wells. Gumusat/Kakap is expected to be onstream in 2012 with
production of 150,000 bbl/d, using reinjected associated gas to
maintain pressure. Shareholders are Shell, the operator, at 33
percent, ConocoPhillips at 33 percent, Petronas at 20 percent, and
Murphy Oil at 14 percent. The system will be connected via pipelines
to the new Sabah Oil and Gas Terminal being built in Kimanis, which is
also expected to be completed by 2012.

Development is also underway at the Kebabangan Northern Hub
development project (KBB), to be brought online together with Gumusat/
Kakap and Malikai between 2012 and 2014. KBB, about 87 miles northeast
of Kimanis, will be the hub for the development of deepwater oil and
gas assets offshore Sabah. The KBB platform will be located in 460
feet of water and has a design capacity of 825 Mmcf/d of gas and
22,000 bbl/d of condensate. It consists of 4 contiguous fields being
developed by the Kebabangan Petroleum Operating Company (KPOC),
consisting of Petronas at 40 percent, ConocoPhillips at 30 percent,
and Shell, the operator, at 30 percent.

The Malikai oil and gas field is located nearby and will be tied into
the KBB via liquids and dry gas pipelines shortly after first gas
comes from KBB. It will supply the Sabah Oil and Gas Terminal. The
field was discovered in 2004 at 1,854 feet and field development began
in 2009. Malakai is expected to come online by 2013 with production of
up to 150,000 bbl/d. Shell is the operator at the Malikai oil field
with 35 percent interest, in partnership with ConocoPhillips at 35
percent and Petronas with 30 percent.

Oil Pipelines

Malaysia's main oil pipelines connect oil fields offshore Peninsular
Malaysia to onshore storage and terminal facilities. From the Tapis
oil field runs the 124-mile Tapis pipeline, which terminates at the
Kerteh plant in Terengganu, as does the 145-mile Jerneh condensate
pipeline. The oil pipeline network connecting oil fields offshore
Sabah with the coast is currently expanding following the launch of
development projects including the Kebabangan cluster, the Malikai,
Gemusat/Kekap, and Kikeh oil fields. The majority of pipelines are
operated by Petronas, although ExxonMobil also operates a number of
pipelines connected with its significant upstream holdings located
offshore Peninsular Malaysia.

An international oil products pipeline runs from the Dumai oil
refinery in Indonesia to the Melaka oil refinery in Melaka City,
Malaysia. An interconnecting pipeline then runs from this refinery via
Port Dickenson to the Klang Valley airport and to the Klang oil
distribution center.

Downstream Activities

According to OGJ, Malaysia had about 515,000 bbl/d of refining
capacity at six facilities as of January 2010. Petronas operates 3
refineries (259,000 bbl/d total capacity), while Shell operates 2
(170,000 bbl/d total capacity), and ExxonMobil operates one (86,000
bbl/d). Malaysia invested heavily in refining activities during the
last two decades and is now able to meet most of the country's demand
for petroleum products domestically, after relying on the refining
industry in Singapore for many years.

Petronas' refinery in Melaka is a joint venture with ConocoPhillips,
which owns a 47 percent interest. The refinery produces a full range
of refined petroleum products. An expansion project at Melaka is being
completed in 2010 to increase crude oil, conversion, and treating unit
capacities.

The Sabah Oil and Gas Terminal is under construction in Kimanis by
Samsung Engineering, and is expected to be completed by end-2013. It
will receive crude from offshore fields, process and distribute the
products via a planned 310-mile onshore pipeline linking Sabah with
Bintulu, Sarawak. The terminal will have a processing capacity of
300,000 bbl/d of crude and condensate, and 1.25 million cubic feet per
day (Mmcf/d) of natural gas.

Natural Gas

According to the Oil and Gas Journal, Malaysia held 83 trillion cubic
feet (Tcf) of proven natural gas reserves as of January 2010. Most of
the country's natural gas reserves are in its eastern areas,
predominantly offshore Sarawak.

Sector Organization

As in the oil sector, Malaysia's state-owned Petronas dominates the
natural gas sector. The company has a monopoly on all upstream natural
gas developments, and also plays a leading role in downstream
activities and the LNG trade. Most natural gas production comes from
production sharing agreements operated by foreign companies in
conjunction with Petronas.

Exploration and Production

Natural gas production has been rising steadily, reaching 2.1 Tcf in
2009, while domestic natural gas consumption has also increased
steadily, reaching 1.0 Tcf in 2009. There are several important
ongoing projects that are expanding natural gas production in Malaysia
over the near term. Exploration and development activities in Malaysia
continue to focus on offshore Sarawak and Sabah.

Malaysia-Thailand Joint Development Area

One of the most active areas for natural gas exploration and
production is the Malaysia-Thailand Joint Development Area (JDA),
located in the lower part of the Gulf of Thailand. The JDA reportedly
holds 9.5 Tcf of proved plus probable natural gas reserves. The area
is divided into three blocks, Block A-18, Block B-17, and Block C-19,
and is administered by the Malaysia-Thailand Joint Authority (MTJA),
with each country owning 50 percent of the JDA's hydrocarbon resources
(map of the JDA). The Carigali-Triton Operating Company (CTOC), a
joint venture between Petronas Carigali and Hess, operates Block A-18,
while Blocks B-17 and C-19 are operated by the Carigali-PTTEP
Operating Company (CPOC), a joint venture of each country's national
oil company. Block B18 phase 1 came online in 2005, and in September
2009, production was reported to have reached 1 Bcf/d. Block B17 came
online in 2009. In October 2010, B17 gas shipments reportedly reached
335 Mmcf/d, with half going to Thailand and half to Malaysia

New Sarawak Natural Gas Projects

Murphy Oil announced in September 2009 the startup of several smaller
new gas fields located in Blocks SK309 and SK311. The first phase of
this project, located 137 miles offshore Sarawak, is to produce gas
from the Golok, Golok Barat, Serampeng, and Merapuh gas fields, which
are being developed in a cluster and will supply the Bintulu LNG
Terminal. It was reported in fourth quarter 2010 that gross production
had reached 250 Mmcf/d and is expected to remain at that level for 5
years. Murphy Oil holds an 85 percent interest and Petronas holds 15
percent. Murphy Oil projects that Phase 2 could produce 350 Mmcf/d for
another 10-year period when additional fields in SK311 are brought
online.

The Kumang Cluster in Block SK306, Central Luconia province, a major
gas field offshore Sarawak, is being developed by Petronas. Phase 1 is
expected to provide 500 Mmcf/d and 22,000 bbl/d of condensate to the
Bintulu Terminal when it goes online at end-2010.

Three new gas fields in Block SK 308, 124 miles offshore Sarawak, are
being jointly developed by Shell and Petronas. They are projected to
produce first gas of 90 Mmcf/d in 2012.

Pipelines

Malaysia has one of the most extensive natural gas pipeline networks
in Asia. The Peninsular Gas Utilization (PGU) project, completed in
1998, expanded the natural gas transmission infrastructure on
Peninsular Malaysia. The PGU system spans more than 880 miles and has
the capacity to transport 2 billion cubic feet per day (Bcf/d) of
natural gas.

A number of pipelines link Sarawak's offshore gas fields to the
Bintulu facility. Petronas is building the 310-mile Sabah-Sarawak Gas
Pipeline between Kimanis, Sabah and Bintulu, Sarawak to transport gas
from Sabah's offshore fields, such as Kota Kinabalu, to Bintulu for
liquefaction and export. Some of the gas will be used for downstream
projects in Sabah. This pipeline is expected to be completed by March
2011.

The Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) is promoting the
development of a trans-ASEAN gas pipeline system (TACP) aimed at
linking 80 percent of ASEAN's major gas production and consumption
centers. Because of Malaysia's extensive natural gas infrastructure
and its location, the country is a natural candidate to serve as a hub
in the ongoing TACP project. The first pipeline connected Malaysia
with Singapore and was commissioned in 1991. This has been followed by
gas pipeline links between West Natuna, Indonesia and Duyong,
Malaysia, commissioned in 2002, and the Trans-Thailand-Malaysia gas
pipeline, commissioned in 2005, which allows Malaysia to pipe natural
gas from the Malaysia-Thailand JDA to its domestic pipeline system.
Other links are under development.

Exports

Malaysia was the second largest exporter of LNG in the world after
Qatar in 2009, exporting over 1 Tcf of LNG, which accounted for 12
percent of total world LNG exports. Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan
were the 3 primary purchasers. LNG is primarily transported by
Malaysia International Shipping Corporation (MISC), which owns and
operates 27 LNG tankers, the single largest LNG tanker fleet in the
world by volume of LNG carried. MISC is 62-percent owned by Petronas.

The Bintulu LNG complex on Sarawak is the main hub for Malaysia's
natural gas industry. Petronas owns majority interests in Malaysia's 3
LNG processing plants, all located at Bintulu, which are supplied by
the offshore natural gas fields at Sarawak. The Bintulu facility is
the largest LNG complex in the world, with 8 production trains and a
total liquefaction capacity of 1.1 Tcf per year. A further increment
through debottlenecking is expected by end-2010, raising overall
capacity by 0.6 Tcf per year. Japanese financing has been critical to
the development of Malaysia's LNG facilities.

Source: EIA

Fwd: A very complete analysis of Malaysia Agreement

2010-12-30T15:37:00.001-08:00

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Pakatan's 100-day plan almost silent on Sabah, Sarawak
Fri, 31 Dec 2010 06:06
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By Joe Fernandez

COMMENT There is nothing particularly exciting for Sabah and Sarawak
in Pakatan Rakyat's 100-day reform plan, hailed as a Complete Makeover
for Malaysia, a National Recovery Plan, a Malaysia Revival Programme
or any other such platitudinous expression it cares to articulate.

The plan is supposed to swing into action from Day One of Pakatan's
capture of Putrajaya.

But except for the 20% oil royalty, any other benefit to the Borneo
states is purely incidental.

PKR, similarly, has paid lip service so far to the Tambunan
Declaration of Oct 7, 2006, under which the party pledged that it was
committed towards the autonomy of Sabah and Sarawak as per the 1963
Malaysia Agreement. Instead the party, just like Umno and Barisan
Nasional, has routinely observed the Tambunan Declaration more often
than not in the breach.

It's high time that Pakatan, and BN too, thought along the following
lines when cooking up something that is supposed to be good for the
nation: "How will this be greeted in Sabah and Sarawak?" Neither
coalition should announce anything until it has asked itself this
question. This will spare it the blushes, if not red faces all around.

It's still not too late for Pakatan to amend its reform plan to
include the Borneo Agenda. A start must be made within the 100-day
period.

Meanwhile, BN should ask itself how it can better Pakatan in Sabah and
Sarawak. It is more than apparent that it cannot be business as usual
for the ruling coalition in Malaysian Borneo. However, media pictures
of Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak screaming his head off, hands
raised, does little to inspire confidence. He comes across as one
scared out of his wits and needing to put on a show of bravado.

As it stands, BN cannot better its 2008 performance in the two states.
At least 10 parliamentary seats each will fall in the two states and
this is sufficient to put Pakatan within striking distance of
Putrajaya. Sabah and Sarawak are in a mood to punish BN in Parliament
even if they get nothing out of it. It must be remembered that it was
the mood-creating effect of Hindraf's Makkal Sakthi wave that helped
take down BN more than a peg or two in 2008.

Bleak spot

In addition, up to a third of the state assembly seats in Sabah and
Sarawak will fall to the opposition. All this is assuming that the
opposition alliance can get its act together and forge a one-to-one
pact in Malaysian Borneo, as in Peninsular Malaysia, to take on BN.

Between Pakatan and BN, it's more than likely that the former will get
a better hearing in Sabah and Sarawak, notwithstanding a troubled
relationship so far, especially in Sabah. It's a fact that the bleak
spot in an otherwise bright picture is that de facto PKR chief Anwar
Ibrahim has been riding roughshod in Sabah on any number of issues.
His pronouncements on the illegal immigrants, for example, don't augur
well for the future of Pakatan in Sabah, if not in Sarawak.

Pakatan should keep on the safe side and rework its reform plan for
Malaysia, this time keeping Sabah and Sarawak in mind.

Of particular interest to the two states is why the compliance
mechanism for the Malaysia Agreement has fallen into disuse even
before it can be implemented.

The suspicion is that the Malaysia partnership ceased to exist with
the departure of Singapore from the Federation in 1965. This issue
needs to be put to rest. It appears that the definition of Federation
in the Federal Constitution is as per the 1957 Federation of Malaya
and not the 1963 Federation of Malaysia. In that case, both Sabah and
Sarawak became independent of Malaysia at the same time as Singapore
but were somehow retained illegally as the 12th and 13th states in the
resurrected Malayan Federation, now masquerading as Malaysia.

Pakatan must be bold enough to announce that it will study whether the
Malaysia Agreement still exists, and whatever the verdict, what's the
best way forward.

Anwar's oft-cited flimsy excuse in private that "the Malays in
Peninsular Malaysia will not stand for autonomy for Sabah and Sarawak"
does not hold water. He seems to be almost conceding that Sabah and
Sarawak are colonies of Malaya. Even the erstwhile Pakatanco-
coordinator, Zaid Ibrahim, who has openly confessed his ignorance,
echoed Anwar on the issue. No one is asking the Malays, or anyone else
in Peninsular Malaysia, anything about the Malaysia Agreement. They
have nothing to do with the issue. This is an issue between Sabah and
Sarawak on one side and the federal government on the other. The only
other party which can enter the picture is the UN Security Council.

Pakatan must also include the Philippines' claim to Sabah in its
reform plan. It is little known that the Sabah claim does not cover
the whole of Sabah, but only the eastern seaboard, which was
traditionally under the Sulu Sultanate, now in the Philippines
Republic, and the northern third, which was handed by the Brunei
sultanate to the Sulu sultanate.

Straightforward case

Sulu transferred its sovereignty over the northern and eastern parts
of Sabah to the Philippines. These parts were leased by Sulu to the
British North Borneo Chartered Company. The company sold the whole of
Sabah to the colonial office in London for 1.2 million pounds after
World War II as it was too broke to repair the war damage caused by
the Japanese occupation. The rest is a brief British colonial history
followed by Malaysia.

Sabah must be kept united and given the right to decide between
Malaysia, the Philippines and independence. This will bring closure to
the Sabah claim and the Malaysia Agreement.

Sarawak is a more straightforward case of non-compliance on the
Malaysia Agreement and its fate will hinge more on which way Sabah
moves. At one time, before Malaysia, Sarawak wanted a Borneo
Federation with Sabah and Brunei. Unfortunately, Sabah saw Sarawak as
a poor economic prospect and rejected the Borneo Federation. Malaysia
entered the picture, but Brunei stayed out of the new federation at
the 11th hour.

Sarawak was independent for more than 150 years before the cash-
strapped Brooke Dynasty handed the kingdom over to the colonial office
in London after World War II. As in Sabah, the government was too
broke to repair war damage. The British should have returned Sarawak
to independence and not force it into the Malaysian Federation.

The acceptance of Pakatan's 100-day reform plan in Sabah and Sarawak
will undoubtedly hinge on the inclusion of the Malaysia Agreement and
the Sabah claim and their resolution one way or another.

As the plan stands, there is little to quarrel with it apart from the
non-inclusion of the Borneo Agenda.

Fwd: More reasons why Sabah is the poorest in the world

2010-12-23T07:14:00.001-08:00

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Subject: More reasons why Sabah is the poorest in the world
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Despite surrendering all the revenues that Sabah get to the Federal
government, there is still virtually none allocated for Sabah as shown
by the Fishery department and now Khazanah Malaysia.

This has been going on for years even now. Mara didn't spend any money
for Sabah as well as other Malaysian government bodies, presumably
they never Consider Sabah as Malaysia. These bodies include the
Ministry of Education that is supposed to be the brightest in
Malaysia.

And yet these Malaysians, complain that it is the State Govenments who
didn't do its duty.

With virtually no revenue and now operating at 50% deficit budget with
a total that hardly increased since the PBS government in 1994,(RM2
billion), nothing much should be expected from Sabah's state
government and yet all blames are put to the State government as being
incompetent, so more excuses to take away Sabah's revenue.

The latest is the gas and coal revenue. Soon it will the tourism for
Sabah when Sulu sea become so polluted with acid rain and poisonous
effluents from the coal power plant.

SAbah, that is already the poorest, will be even poorer. Sabah will be
hell on earth from what used to be Heaven on earth, as Sabah used to
be the richest in the whole world.

http://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/fmt-english/politics/sabah-and-saraw...

'Why are Sabah schools not in trust project?'

By Dominic Legeh

KOTA KINABALU: A Sabah Barisan Nasional MP has asked the Education
Ministry to explain why Sabah has been left out of the 'Trust School'
pioneer project.

Ranau MP Siringan Gubat posed the question in Dewan Rakyat recently
after it was revealed that 10 schools in Johor and Sarawak had been
picked to take part in the project.

Second Deputy Education Minister Dr Mohd Puad Zarkashi was responding
to a question from Parit Sulong MP Noraini Ahmad on the implementation
of 'trust schools' when Siringan raised the question.

The pioneer project is part of a government plan to transform
education in the country through collaboration with private sector.

The project is being implemented through Khazanah Malaysia Berhad.

The on-going programme at the 10 schools will be used as a benchmark
for nationwide implementation in future.

Siringan queried if Sabah schools had been sidelined because they were
not qualified to take part in the pioneer project.

Mohd Puad replied that any school could be selected for the programme
including the Chinese and Tamil national-type schools.

He cited as an example a Tamil national-type school that was picked
for the project.

Sabah, he explained, had been left out because Khazanah Malaysia
Berhad was more focused in Sarawak and Johor and had decided to only
pick schools in both states.

Mohd Puad assured Siringan that Sabah schools would not be left out of
the project and that his ministry would look into the matters raised
by the Ranau MP.

The 'trust school' programme is geared towards providing quality
education in schools at every level, he said.

'Trust schools', he said, are not elitist and selection for the
programme is based on several criteria irrespective of performance and
location.

The selection he said was dependent on the approval and commitment of
the school administration, parents and the local community.

Price of giving away resources to Malaya

2010-11-24T01:28:00.001-08:00

Oil palm does not give money to Sabah. 60% goes to the
Malaysia(Malayan) government, but they create havocs to our local
environment that local fishermen that rely on rivers and the
environment for a living cannot find ways to provide their income. No
wonder there are more and more poor people in Sabah.

http://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/fmt-english/politics/sabah-and-sarawak/13233-give-us-some-light-and-water-please

'Give us light and water, please'
Wed, 24 Nove 2010 12:08
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By FMT Staff

KOTA KINABALU: Listening to Gum-Gum assemblyman Zakaria Edris' volley
of demands at the recent State Legislative Assembly sitting is telling
of the situation in Sabah. He was asking for better enforcement, clean
water, electricity, and police and fire stations in his constituency
which is barely 45 minutes from Sabah's second largest city, Sandakan.

Rolling off his list of grouses, Zakaria said villagers living along
Sungai Memanjang in his constituency were struggling to make ends meet
following a steady decline in aqua life in the river as a result of
toxic effluence from a neighbouring oil palm mill.

The once "fish-rich" river is now "dead", he said, adding that
complaints to the State Environment Protection Department and the
Federal Environment Department have fallen on deaf ears.

"We have highlighted the issues to the two departments but there had
been no action. Nothing has been done to stop the mill operators and
help the villagers.

"If the mill continues to dump its toxic waste into the river, the
ones who will suffer are the locals.

"These villagers depend on the river for their livelihood. The
government cannot go on ignoring this It must take immediate action.
It must issue a stop order to the mill, " he said.

No water, electricity

Describing clean water as a "basic necessity", he said several
kampungs in his constituency were dependent on well water.

"Many kampungs in my constituency still don't have clean water and
electricity... this is a basic necessity. The state government must
look into this urgently," he said.

Kampung Ulu Dusun, Kampung Sungai Kapoor, Kamung Jaya Bakti, Kampung
Lalason and Kampung Tanjung Pisau are among the villagers which still
depend on well water. During the dry spell, the water dries up leaving
the villagers without clean water.

Kampung Pulau Libaran and Kampung Pulau Pemaguan have no electricity.
The community is dependent on power from a generator. Since the
increase in petrol prices, villagers have been unable to afford
electricity.

Zakaria has proposed that the state government take urgent action to
provide rural villagers with water and electricity.

"I propose that solar energy be introduced in these villagers since
petrol is expensive and generators are not practical," he said.

Rising crime

Early last year, a 16-year-old student was raped, brutally murdered
and dumped in the nearby forest in the constituency.

The incident sent shockwaves through the constituency which was also
riddled with a rising crime rate, said Zakaria.

"We urgently need a police station and a fire station. We don't have
any now. The nearest stations are in Sandakan... 45 minutes away.

"This is too far in case of an accident or emergency. A few years ago
we had a big fire and the by time the firemen came, 30 houses were
burnt down," he said.

Sandakan, on Sabah's east coast, is a known gateway for immigrants.
Over the years shantytowns have emerged creatinga whole range of socio-
economic problems for the state.

In the recent Batu Sapi by-elections, the 16-year-old Barisan Nasional
state government's lack of commitment to infrastructure development
came to the fore when opposition candidate Ansari Abdullah twice
plunged into the sea after the jetty and bridge he was standing on
collapsed.

Early last week, the World Bank Report 2010 reaffirmed a commonly held
belief when it reported that Sabah was the "poorest" state in Malaysia
and is unlikely to move ahead if current policies do not change.

Federal Government clearly discriminates against Sabah

2010-11-23T20:20:00.001-08:00

I didn't notice this until I got the World Bank report:
Imagine, Sabah, the poorest in the WORLD, the largest sea shore in
Malaysia, 10 times larger than Pahang and Trengganu combined, many
times the number of fishermen in Pahang and Trengganu, and yet
allocated only RM20 million, much less than Pahang and Trengganu.

And yet, you still belive the title of this article??????
This is not even priority, it is blatant discrimination.

From people who blatantly break international Malaysia agreement, this
is not surprising at all.

http://findarticles.com/p/news-articles/bernama-malaysian-national-news-agency/mi_8082/is_20090926/lkim-priority-fishermen-sabah/ai_n51634835/

LKIM GIVES PRIORITY TO FISHERMEN IN SABAH
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from BERNAMA, The Malaysian National News Agency PAPAR, Sept 26
(Bernama) -- Fishermen in Sabah have always been accorded priority by
the government in its bid to uplift the status of traditional
fishermen and transform them into modern fishermen.

The Malaysian Fisheries Development Authority (LKIM) chairman, Datuk
Abdul Rahim Ismail, said LKIM had allocated RM20 million for the state
this year for infrastructural development including the construction
of new jetties and upgrading the old ones.

"Sabah is one of the states that has been accorded priority after
Pahang and Terengganu. The RM20 million is the third largest
allocation given by the federal government from its total allocation
of RM87 million nationwide.
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"And that does not include annual allocation and other aid and
assistance," he told reporters at his Aidilfitri open house here
today.

Abdul Rahim, who is also Pantai Manis assemblyman, said the allocation
was expected to be fully utilised by December.

Realising that most fishermen in the state were unaware of the
programmes and assistance made available by LKIM, he said the
Agriculture and Agro- based Industry Ministry had also set aside an
allocation of RM300,000 for Sabah to promote the programmes on
billboards statewide.

"Many people are unaware that the programmes to uplift the status of
the fishermen had been implemented for almost 40 years. So, we have
set up promotional billboard in Papar and will do the same in
Bongawan, Sipitang, Kudat, Lahad Datu and Semporna," he explained.

He said LKIM would also produce video clips and multimedia
presentations to promote the programmes to the fishermen in the target
areas.

Sabahan workers are not lazy

2010-11-23T19:58:00.001-08:00

The reason why salaries are so low is because ALL MONEY are siphoned
out of Sabah despite our huge tourism, forestly, palm oil, petroleum
and gas resources. I claimed all, because what was sent back are just
scraps that do not even cover costs, and most are never realised, only
promises of scrap handouts.

Imagine spending RM2 million per year for HARDCORE poverty
eradication. Recently relabelled "poverty eradication".

http://www.dailyexpress.com.my/news.cfm?NewsID=75908

How our tourism sector is losing

Published on: Sunday, November 21, 2010

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Kota Kinabalu: Sabah is losing many of her best tourism workers to
better paying bosses in the peninsula and Singapore.

While pointing out that more such workers needed to be churned out by
the State to make up for these losses, State Tourism, Culture and
Environment Minister, Datuk Masidi Manjun also underlined the
importance of a system to ensure the workers stay in Sabah.

"We need to up the quality of our human resources in the service
industry.

The problem is that in the tourism industry, our staff are always on
the move because they are constantly being pinched by others.

"(For instance), our hotel employees are constantly being pinched by
West Malaysian hotels and Singaporeans - Singaporeans love Sabahans
because they say they're the best employees.

"We have a tough time retaining them in Sabah. I have said many times
that the hotel owners (in the State) need to re-look their
renumeration package, with a view to improve it because that's the
only way we can retain them," he said.

Speaking to reporters after launching an electronic advertising firm,
Bliss Media and Advertising, here, Saturday, Masidi said "headhunters"
of potential overseas employers were always on the lookout for
hardworking Sabahans.

"The turnover is quite high (although) I can't give the figures but
headhunters are always on the look for Sabahans.

"For instance, the Traders Hotel in Kuala LumpurÉ(about) 60 per cent
of the employees are Sabahans É when they pay twice or more than the
amount of money we are paying here, than obviously they prefer to go
there, you can't stop them."

Asked if this could affect Sabah's aim of ushering 2.5 million tourist
arrivals next year, the Minister said the State could still cope,
barring any world disaster.

"We have to do with what we have. At this point of time, short of
world catastrophe like the H1N1 or bird flu (among others), I believe
we can touch that figure."

In the State 2011 Budget tabled by Chief Minister, Datuk Seri Musa
Aman on Friday, the State Government will allocate RM116.27 million to
meet the tourist arrival target by further strengthening Sabah as a
main tourist destination.

On the new high quality tourism products also mentioned by Musa in the
State Budget, he pointed out that Sabah was geared towards sustainable
tourism.

"I think the products he was talking about was that we have some of
the most fantastic tropical forests in the world and what he is saying
is we should utilise it.

"That's why he allocated some money to the Forestry Department to
collaborate with us to make full use of nature's best as tourism
products."

A sum of RM9.53 million was allocated to the Forestry Department to
implement programmes related to tourism activities such as promotion
and rehabilitation of forests.

Asked if he was happy about the allocations to his Ministry, Masidi
said: "It's not an issue of being unhappy É I think no Minister is
going to be happy with whatever they are given but it's a question of
getting full value of every Ringgit that you spend.

"We are accountable, not only to the people, but also the fact that we
need to spend the money consistent with the Government's strict
accounting procedures."

There is no planning to eradicate poverty in Sabah

2010-11-23T17:09:00.001-08:00

How can there be planning when the BN does not admit there is any
poverty in Sabah that needs to be addressed?

All budgets and plannings assume that Sabah is not that poor, so no
money for Sabah lah!!!

We need world bodies to wake us all up. Even these world bodies are
just damn stupid. It is not projects and reduction of corruptions in
Sabah etc that will eradicate poverty, but JUST GIVE US BACK OUR
MONEY. There were rampant corruptions in SAbah in 1970s and yet Sabah
was among the richest in the world, even without any oil revenue. Now
even with oil resources, oil palm resources, timber resources, Sabah
is still the poorest. Why not if all oil and gas revenue is taken to
Malaya, oil and timber resources are taxed more than 60% by the
federal governments, and most of high paying workers are also from
Malaya.

Even this idiotic professor forgot that SArawak has less
infrastructure than Sabah and yet the World Bank didn't consider
Sarawak as poorer than Sabah. This proves one thing very clearly.
There is a massive outflow of resources out of Sabah to Malaya without
it even being brought back to Sabah. Unlike Sarawak.

The worst thing is that, the Malaysian(Malayan) government does not
even acknowledge that there is that much poverty in Sabah. Keep on
saying that Kelantan is poorer.

Those of you who believe in this BN lies, just go and visit Kelantan
with an open mind, and compare Kelantan with SAbah. Just don't assume
that all these poor places are filipinoes. Many of my inlaws stay in
these places with the immigrants and inter marrying with them.

http://www.dailyexpress.com.my/news.cfm?NewsID=75898

Sabah poverty not stated in 10MP report: Scholar

Published on: Friday, November 19, 2010

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Kudat: The Tenth Malaysia Plan or RMK-10 (2011-2015) does not indicate
that Sabah has the highest poverty rate.

UKM's Head of the International Relations Division, Centre for Public
and International Relations, Prof. Dr Junaenah Sulehan, said there was
nowehere in the RMK-10 report that said Sabah had the highest poverty
rate.

"That was in the Ninth Malaysia Plan or RMK-9 (2006-2010).

But in the RMK-10, the way they say it, it does not indicate that
Sabah has the highest poverty rate. Because how they count poverty now
is very different," she said.

Prof Dr Junaenah was speaking to Daily Express after presenting her
paper on "Women Empowerment for Sustainable Development" at the
Conference on Women of Substance, a prelude to the State-level Women's
Day celebration, recently.

The Ninth Malaysia Plan registered Sabah's poverty rate at 23pc, which
is relatively high compared with other states.

"It's not just Sabah. No, there are other poor states as well like the
state where I come from (Sarawak). You must understand how they
measure poverty.

"Poverty can be measured by two tools - one is based on income and the
other on aspects like nutrition, health, security and others. RMK-9
has its index on how they calculate the poverty rate. So, basically,
it is based on income.

"But again, you must understand that income is relative which means
people in the rural areas may not have income like what we are having
- a monthly income.

"So, whatever the rural people produce for their food is counted as
income."

From her observation, many factors contribute to Sabah's high poverty
percentage.

"To me, like Sarawak, it is attributed to geographical and distance
factors.

So, when you are very faraway, how can you channel development
programmes?" she asked.

"When I say far, I mean remote areas and some of them are pockets
(small, isolated areas).

"To reach one village and then go to another village, you have to
travel by sampan or boat. That's what I mean."

Prof Dr Junaenah added that the geographical landscape in Sabah and
Sarawak is not the same as that in Semenanjung.

"That's one. I can tell you the simplest factor for poverty.

The term we use in sociology is structural problem.

"When you say structural problem, for a lay person's understanding, it
means institution (that is, an established practice or custom).

"Here, we can say government agency, enforcement and the like.

Is there any co-ordination? Is there co-operation? What we see in this
issue is that in managing our bureaucracy, we always have this
tindaklapis (duplication).

"Yes, we have co-operation but we have no co-ordination.

The Jabatan (Department) co-operate. For example, the Pertanian bagi
funding (Agriculture giving funding), Welfare bagi (giving) funding,
ada e-Kasih (there is e-Kasih).

"But in the end, it doesn't trickle down to the grassroots.

Why? Because each is waiting for the other to act," she contended,
adding that structural problem also relates to political institution.

Sabah BN government promises even more promises to eradicate poverty

2010-11-23T02:27:00.001-08:00

Now they use the word poverty, no more hard core poverty, but their
actions of giving zincs indicate that they are only eradicating hard
core poverty. RM2 million for the whole of sabah, also indicate that
it is meant only for hard core poverty.

Allowance of only RM 300 per month is also not poverty eradication,
only hard core poverty eradication.

Poverty is only eradicated if income is above RM1200 per month.

When salaries of BN village heads and other government servants are
still below this level, with difficulties in employing, let alone
paying workers with wages below this poverty level, do you think that
this effort is really sincere?

What the SAbah BN govenrment is more interested is to give away more
and more Sabahan resources for free, such as the gas from Sabah to be
piped for free to Bintulu and later on to Malaya, while Sabah is
forced to borrow even more money to build Coal fired plants at a cost
of 2 Billion RM, while Bakun dam that is much nearer are to be more
economically piped to Malaya at a cost of RM7 billion.

What have actually Sabah got apart from these promises? Any real
money? When even Sukau, the poorest among the poorest in the world,
cannot even get a single allocation, as stated by its BN
representative, do you think all these promises will materialise???

Even the Malaysian agreement, signed internationally had not been
realised, promises of more money for Sabah will not even be
entertained. I think you are dreaming. Yes, they will give you zincs
and water tanks worth RM2 million, after getting RM2 billion from
Sabah.

http://sabahkini.net/v1/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5492:sabah-disputes-poorest-state-tag&catid=35:berita-sabah&Itemid=27

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By: JOE FERNANDEZ

THE State Economic Planning Unit (EPU) in the Chief Minister's
Department in Kota Kinabalu has a different angle from the World Bank
(WB) on the incidence of poverty in the state.

In the Malaysian Economic Monitor (MEM) report released last
Wednesday, the World Bank noted that Sabah, with 10 percent of the
country's population, had 40 percent of the poor.

Disputing this in a press statement yesterday, the EPU said Sabah is
not the poorest state in Malaysia, although it did not identify the
state concerned.

Sarawak has long been considered the poorest state after Sabah,
followed by Kelantan and Terengganu.

The EPU said that "certain sections of the local media and groups with
vested interests had taken it upon themselves to sensationalise (the
incidence of poverty in Sabah) with wanton disregard for the facts and
truth".

"It's a gross misinterpretation of the MEM report. The report does
mention a significant reduction in poverty in Sabah from 1976-2004,"
said EPU director Ismail Abdullah in elaborating on the statement.

Citing WB figures in the MEM, he stressed that the incidence of
poverty in Sabah has dropped from more than 50 percent in 1976 to 24.2
percent in 2004.

"The WB has described this as an excellent achievement although there
still exist pockets of poverty in Sabah as in Sarawak and other places
in Malaysia," he said.

The incidence of poverty in Sabah, Ismail said, further fell to 16.4
percent in 2007 and this fact was captured by the Household Income
Survey (HIS) carried out by the Statistics Department. It would have
fallen further if not for the financial crisis of 2008/2009.

He blamed the rise in cost of food, fuel and transportation for
setbacks to the hardcore poverty eradication scheme.

Ismail did not differentiate between poverty and hardcore poverty but
pledged that "the state government is targeting to eliminate hardcore
poverty totally by the end of this year".

The mean monthly gross income of Sabah households, according to the
HIS, had increased from RM 2,593 in 2004 to RM 3,102 in 2009, "an
average growth of 5.3 percent which is better than many states in
Malaysia".

Ismail did not comment on the MEM report finding that "people are paid
poor salaries against the job they are doing. Those who are working
may be poor not because they are not working but working in low-paying
jobs".

"HIS indicates that the number of Sabah households enjoying an income
of between RM1,000-1,999 had increased substantially by 2009," he
said.

NKRA goals

Ismail agreed that the MEM was put together by the WB after a working
visit to Sabah in September. He also agreed that the MEM was issued
after the tacit approval and cooperation of the state government in
line with the partnership programme between the WB and the Malaysian
government.

"The partnership saw the WB providing policy analysis and advice as
well as information on member-countries' experience, which included
research and data collection," said Ismail.

Apparently, the WB team also had discussions and consultations with a
cross-section of individuals and groups, both from the private and
public sectors, academicians and NGOs.

The WB team assessed the state's poverty eradication programmes such
as projects under the Mini Estate Sejahtera and the micro credit
scheme under the Yayasan Usaha Maju.

The latter is a state government agency providing small loans to poor
and low-income groups, especially women to allow them to do small-
scale businesses and economic activities that can provide sustainable
incomes for them and their families.

Ismail said that Sabah would step up its poverty eradication efforts,
including agropolitan projects in pockets of poverty like Banggi,
Pitas, Tongod, Kota Belud, Tenom, Sook and Nabawan.

Under the National Key Results Areas (NKRA), the state government will
embark on the development of the basic rural infrastructure in Sabah.
This calls for the construction of 1,020 km of rural roads, and the
provision of electricity and water supplies to 95 percent and 90
percent of the rural folk respectively.

Over 12,000 poor households in the state will get government
assistance in the repair of their existing houses and construction of
new ones.

The NKRA target for Low Income Households, said Ismail, seeks to raise
the income level of the bottom 40 percent of households in the state
through programmes in agriculture, business, jobs and training.

Why only Sabah State government interested in eradicating Hardcore Poverty?

2010-11-23T02:09:00.001-08:00

There is no attempt at all to eradicate poverty only Hard core
poverty, so how can poverty be eradicated.

Worst, Sabah state govenment is almost bankrupt, and yet it is the
only body that is interested. The Malaysian(Malayan) government is
not interested at all, despite getting most of the revenue that Sabah
produces, as a result of the generosity of Sabahan BN puppet
government in surrendering all its resources contrary to the Malaysian
agreement.

http://www.theborneopost.com/?p=75274

Sabah not poorest state

Posted on November 15, 2010, Monday

KOTA KINABALU: The State Economic Planning Unit (EPU) of the Chief
MinisterÕs Department has refuted the news report that Sabah is the
poorest state in the country, saying poverty rate in the state was
reduced from 24.2% in 2004 to 16.4% in 2007.

In a rebuttal issued yesterday, the State EPU said the World Bank had
acknowledged in its Inclusive Growth report on 10 Nov that between
1976 and 2004, the State and Federal Government had made great strides
in poverty reduction, so much so that the number of poor households in
Sabah had been reduced from more than 50% in 1976 to 24.2% by the end
of 2004.

ÒThese are facts which are borne out by official statistics based on
the Household Income Survey (HIS) which is carried out at periodic
intervals by the Department of Statistics.

ÒThe Sabah State EPU also wishes to state the fact that based on the
Household Income Survey, the State Government under Datuk Seri
Panglima Musa Haji Aman had successfully reduced the incidence of
household poverty in Sabah from 24.2% in 2004 to 16.4% in 2007.

ÒIf not for the ensuing financial crisis in 2008 and 2009 and the
resultant increase in the prices of many essential items such as food
and transportation due to the reduction in fuel subsidies, the Sabah
EPU is confident that the incidence of household poverty would have
been reduced much further.

According to the State EPU, the mean monthly gross income of Sabahans
had at the same time increased from RM2,593 in 2004 to RM3,102 in
2009, a very respectable average growth of 5.3% annually for the
period 2004-2009, which is better than many states in Malaysia.

Meanwhile, income distribution data from the HIS also indicated that
for the same period the number of Sabahans enjoying income of between
RM1,000 to RM1,999 had increased substantially by 2009.

The Government is targeting to totally eliminate hardcore poverty by
the end of this year.

ÒIt is regrettable that certain people have chosen to ignore the fact
that even in developed countries, by their own standard measure of
poverty, a substantial proportion of their population remains poor,Ó
it said.

ÒFor example, the CIA World Fact Book, an often cited reference
document, has stated that in 2004, 12% of the population of the United
States and 14% of that of the United Kingdom in 2006 live below their
respective poverty line and thus classified as poor.

ÒDo these make United Kingdom and United States poor countries or
poorest amongst the developed countries which perform better than them?
Ó

The State EPU said the World Bank team in the course of the
preparation for the Inclusive Growth report had made a working visit
to Sabah in September 2010 and had had discussions and consultations
with a cross section of individuals and groups in Sabah both from the
private and public sector including academics and NGOs.

ÒThe World Bank team had also visited and assessed the state poverty
eradication programmes such as projects under the Mini Estate
Sejahtera (MESEJ) program and the microcredit scheme under Yayasan
Usaha Maju, a State Government agency providing small loans to the
poor and low income group especially women to allow them to do small
scale businesses and economic activities that can provide sustainable
incomes for them and their families.

ÒIt is a fact that the World Bank was impressed with these programmes,
the tremendous success in the reduction of poverty in Sabah and the
State GovernmentÕs dedication and continuing efforts to eradicate
poverty in Sabah.Ó

It said that other than the poverty eradication programmes mentioned
earlier such as MESEJ, the State Government is presently undertaking
many other poverty programmes aimed at not only raising the income of
the poor but also ensuring a better quality of life for poor families
in both rural and urban areas especially in housing, education and
health.

The State Government has embarked on the implementation of the
AGROPOLITAN projects in areas with pockets of poverty in Sabah such as
Banggi, Pitas, Tongod, Kota Belud, Tenom and Sook/Nabawan under the
9th Malaysia Plan.

On completion these Agropolitan projects would significantly
contribute to reducing poverty further in Sabah.

Likewise, the Federal Government had also embarked on the
implementation of the six National Key Results Areas (NKRAs)
(2010-2012).

One of these is the NKRA pertaining to the development of Rural Basic
Infrastructures in Sabah.

The plan calls for the construction of 1,020 kilometres of rural
roads, provision of electricity and water supply to ensure that 95%
and 90% of rural folks in Sabah obtain these services, and
construction of new houses and repair of existing ones involving
12,494 of poor households.

Meanwhile, the NKRA for Low Income Households had set target to raise
income level of the bottom 40 % of households through the 1ZAM
programs in four main areas Ð agriculture, business, jobs and
training.

The State EPU expressed confidence that with all these untiring
efforts and dedication to development, Sabah will definitely prosper
and on track to become a developed state, where the fruits of
development will be shared equitably by all Sabahans.

Sabah remains the poorest in the world

2010-11-23T01:50:00.001-08:00

Why Sabah BN government want to apologise?
It gave away its revenues to the Federal government while getting much
less in return, contrary to the Malaysia agreement.

After all, violating the Malaysian Agreement has been the routine
practise for the BN government.

http://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/fmt-english/politics/sabah-and-sarawak/12870-humiliated-sabah-govt-slams-poverty-report

Humiliated Sabah govt slams 'poverty' report
Mon, 15 Nove 2010 13:23
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By Michael Kaung

KOTA KINABALU: An embarrased 16-year-old Barisan Nasional administered
Sabah state government is furious at the recent World Bank report
which placed Sabah as the poorest state in Malaysia.

Lashing out at 'the facts', the Sabah Chief Minister's Department
(CMD) said that the World Bank's 2010 Malaysia Economic Monitor (MEM)
Report was grossly 'misinterepreted' and the content sensationalised.

The State Ecnomic Planning Unit (EPU) in a statement said its was
'disappointed' that the 'fact on poverty in Sabah was twisted.'

Said EPU director Ismail Abdullah: "It is a gross misinterpretation …

"The EPU, as the state's central planning agency, is disappointed
because the fact on poverty in Sabah was twisted and used to downgrade
the state government's image even though the state administration
under the leadership of Chief Minister Musa Aman is really committed

to developing Sabah and reducing poverty incidence," he said.

Ismail highlighted the fact that the MEM report also mentioned the
significant decrease in the incidence of poverty in Sabah between
1976-2004.

He said his boss, Musa, 'was in control' when the Statistics
Department figures showed that the incidence of household poverty had
gone down from 24.2% in 2004 to 16.4% in 2007.

Ismail also blamed the financial crisis of 2008/2009 and the increase
in the price of many essential items due to the reduction of fuel
subsidies, for the continued high incidence of household poverty.

He said the mean monthly gross income of Sabahans had infact increased
from RM2,593 in 2004 to RM3,102 in 2009 or 5.3% annually during the
period while the number of Sabahans enjoying an income of between
RM1,000 and RM1,999 had increased substantially by 2009.

Ending poverty

Ismail also drew attention to Tawau district, on the east coast of the
state, which was recently declared poverty free by Musa.

He said the state government has targetted the elimination of hardcore
poverty by the end of this year.

Ismail backed his argument by citing figures published in the CIA
World Fact Book which stated that in 2004, 12% of the population of
the United States and 14% of that in the United Kingdom lived below
their respective poverty line and thus were classified as poor.

"Do these (figures) make United Kingdom and United States poor
countries or poorest amongst the developed countries which perform
better than them?" he asked.

The World Bank report released last week painted a different picture
of the state from the cheery outlook of the EPU boss.

The report quoted the bank's East Asia and Pacific Region Human
Development Sector director Emmmanuel Jimenez as saying that there
were "deep pockets of poverty here in Sabah."

Jimenez who was in Kota Kinabalu to present the report last Wednesday
had also reportedly said:"Sabah has about 10% of the Malaysian
population but more than 40% of all poor people in Malaysia live in
Sabah."

The report however noted that when comparing the figure to that of
Selangor, which has about 25% of the population, the percentage of
poor people was less than 10%.

"Whatever poor people remaining in Malaysia, many of them are here in
Sabah and most of them live in the rural areas … groups such as the
Rungus, Suluk and Orang Sungai … according to the statistics … they
remain very high," Jumenez told reporters present.

"I would imagine that once you move away from the coastal areas to the
interior, the poverty rates remain very high," he added.

Jimenez also noted that what most people arriving in the state capital
or other towns in the state noted immediately was its apparent wealthy
state. But this, he hinted, was a mere sheen.

"Just from our own experience coming from the airport to the hotel,
you don't see poverty but the statistics say there's a lot and there
are huge disparities."

Low salaries

He also pointed out Malaysia's vision of a prosperous country through
productivity could be affected because workers are paid poor salaries.

"Those who are working maybe poor not because they are not working
(hard) but working in low-paying jobs. So the question is how to
increase productivity?" he asked.

The World Bank report recommended a three-pronged approach to raising
the living standards of the people living under grinding poverty in
the state.

It stressed that the government must strengthen the investment climate
and revitalise the labour markets; promote investment in human capital
by improving education and provide well-targetted social protection to
help those who cannot help themselves.

World bank states that Sabah is the poorest State in Malaysia

2010-11-23T01:38:00.001-08:00

Certainly not Kelantan as stated by BN government since 1996 when I
visited Kelantan.
I beg to differ even in those days. Now not only UNHDP stated it in
2006, the situation remains the same in 2010, as verified by the World
Bank, another independent world body.

http://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/fmt-english/politics/sabah-and-sarawak/13068--kit-siang-wants-royal-inquiry-on-sabah-poverty

Kit Siang wants royal inquiry on Sabah poverty
Sat, 20 Nove 2010 10:03
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By Queville To

KOTA KINABALU: DAP is calling for a Royal Commission of Inquiry to
investigate how Sabah, which was once a rich state, had crashed to a
point that it was now the "poorest" in Malaysia and is "likely to stay
that way for a considerable length of time".

In making the call, party adviser Lim Kit Siang also asked how the
government had allowed the state to become the poorest in the country
if there was "inclusive growth".

Lim was commenting on a World Bank Report last week which noted that
40% of Malaysia's poor were centred in Sabah, making it the poorest
state in the country.

The embarrassing disclosure has since sent state officials helter-
skelter looking for arguments to counter the report, which has
triggered an uproar against the state government.

Lim said the exhaustive report has exposed the lie that there was
"inclusive growth" in the country.

"Sabah should not have become the poorest state… it was once one of
the richest states before entering into Malaya, together with Sarawak,
to form Malaysia, 47 years ago.

"As emphasised in the official report, 'inclusive growth', means
benefiting every Sabahan and Malaysian and not just a handful of
people. It has been the key objective of the government of Malaysia
since Independence.

"This (report) is an indictment of the government that after 47 years
it has failed to fulfil its promises to the people of Sabah," he told
reporters here yesterday.

Eradication on wrong track

Lim said it was alarming that the World Bank's Human Development
Sector had found that "Sabah is not only the poorest state in
Malaysia, but is likely to stay that way for a considerable length of
time given current efforts on poverty eradication".

"This means that Sabah will not only be the poorest state in Malaysia
but will continue to be the poorest unless there is a total change in
policy," he said, adding that the economic plan in Sabah was neither
balanced nor fair nor equitable nor sustainable for all Sabahans.

Lim said that though the government might have tried for years to
eradicate poverty, it was obviously on the wrong track as the report
showed that Sabahans would continue to struggle to make ends meet,
especially those living in the rural areas.

He said that a Royal Commission of Inquiry should be formed to further
probe on whether the guarantees given to Sabah and Sarawak in 1963
when they agreed to establish Malaysia had been fulfilled.

"Both Sabah and Sarawak could be as developed as Peninsular Malaysia.
That was what they had hoped but it is clear now that the hope has not
been fulfilled."

Lim said that since DAP alone could not force the setting up of such a
commission, it is urging all Sabah BN Members of Parliament to give
their full support to determine why Sabah has remained in the
backwaters.

Also present at the press conference yesterday were Sabah DAP chairman-
cum-Kota Kinabalu MP Hiew King Cheu, Sri Tanjung assemblyman Jimmy
Wong and DAP national publicity assistant secretary Teo Nie Ching.

Malaysia Agreement is already Null and Void

2010-09-14T07:48:00.001-07:00

It has just occurred to me that the Malaysia Agreement is already Null
and Void. No need to wait for the agreements to be fulfilled and no
way to rectify it. Can you refurbish a Null and Void agreement? You
can't.

What is missed is the statement in the Borneonisation. The words is
"when Sabahans are qualified".
How can SAbahans not qualified to lead their departments after more
than 10 years? Ridiculous, isn't it.

Let alone 47 years. Borneonisation should have been carried out within
10 years. More than than is just unreasonable. It this failed to be
carried out, then the Agreement is null and void. Even though, Malaya
were to honour the agreement by making all Federal Posts be given to
Sabahans, now, the agreement remains Null and Void.

So there is no point in putting the no cessation clause. Since there
is not Malaysia Agreement, Sabah can demand to be independent any time
now, despite all attempts to fulfill in full the rest of the
agreements.
One option is to renegotiate a new Agreement but Agreement between a
subjugated member will never invalidate the agreement before Sabah was
colonised by Malaya.

One of these days, a few disgruntled groups from SAbah will bring this
Malaysia Agreement to the world court and declare Sabah independent,
like Kosovo. You can imagine what the decision that the World Court
will take. Enforcing it is another matter but it won't be peaceful
until Sabah is devoid of all resources. Even Sabahans will be kicked
out sooner or later.

What is so important about Borneonisation? All the problems that Sabah
face are due to the non-compliance of this part of the Malaysia
Agreement. The corruption, illegal immigrants, destruction of fishing
by bombings, crimes, drugs, gambling, human trafficking are due to
enforcement departments that are not headed by SAbahans, but by
Malayans who never consider Sabah as Malaysia.

Why should they care about Sabah? It is not even considered as their
country. The destruction of SAbah is not the destruction of Malaysia
so corruption, denudation and other social ills are small prices for
these officers' prosperity in their true county, i.e. Malaya aka
Malaysia.

I stand with the view that humans are different from animals because
of their honour. Those who do not honour agreements are not humans but
animals. And you know how animals behave. They have no regard for
human lives. In fact many Sabahans were already victims, directly or
indirectly. Honestly, I am talking about being killed.

About Sabahans killing Malayans? Never hear even a word, but
Sarawakians, yes. No wonder Sarawak is more advanced than Sabah.

Will Sabahans ever fight back? Never. They won't even fight back
politically. But beware, true SAbahans are getting less and less. Too
many immigrants. Malayans will reap what they sow. They already get
this experience right at their backyards. After all, despite what
Malayans like to think, Sabah is still Malaysia.

http://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/fmt-english/politics/sabah-and-saraw...

Time KL honoured 20-Point Agreement, says BN senator
Mon, 13 Sep 2010 15:43
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By Michael Kaung

KOTA KINABALU: Three days ahead of the 47th anniversary of the
formation of Malaysia, a Sabah Barisan Nasional party has again urged
the federal government to honour its 20-Point Agreement with the
state.

The United Pasokmomogun KadazanDusun Murut Organisation (Upko) warned
that failure to stick to the agreement would prolong the friction
between the federal government and the people.

“For as long as the federal government remains in a state of denial,
the friction will continue,” Upko vice-president Senator Maijol Mahap
said here yesterday.

"After 47 years of being part of Malaysia, Sabahans have not made any
unnecessary demands such as wanting a local to be the Yang diPertuan
Agong or the Timbalan because this was not included in the agreement,"
he said.

"If Sabahans continue to be denied (the rights guaranteed by the 20
points), then how can the 1Malaysia concept of 'people first,
performance now', be achieved as the definition of the concept is to
ensure that all Malaysians are provided with opportunities
irrespective of region or state?" he said.

"In the context of Sabah, the rights of the people are contained in
the 20-Point Agreement, which were agreed on before the formation of
Malaysia," Maijol said.

He added that "if the decision-makers do not understand or purposely
deny the contents of the agreement, then this issue will continue to
be a source of conflict every time it is raised".He said the federal
government should by now understand why people in Sabah keep demanding
that Sabahans head its departments in the state.

The bitter pill for most Sabahans, he said, is that despite the 20-
Point Agreement clearly stating that the “Borneonisation” of federal
departments and agencies in Sabah should be done as soon as possible,
it had become a broken promise.

Maijol said the wording of the agreement clearly indicated that
Sabahans should be appointed to the posts as soon as they were
qualified and not when a post became available.

"Sadly, when that happens, an officer from Peninsular Malaysia,
despite having served only a few months, will be transferred to Sabah
to head the agency or department.”

He said such officers were unsuitable as they lacked an understanding
of the conditions and feelings of the people to plan and implement
government policies. As such, their tenure in the state was a waste of
time.

He said Sabah has a different set of values from the peninsula, adding
that civil servants there were bound to make mistakes.

Maijol said the “Borneonisation” policy was a case of common sense as
qualified Sabahans would be able to make an impact on the lives of the
people.

The Sabahan civil servants would be familiar with the local situation
unlike officers who were transferred from other places.

Maijol said the usual excuse that local officers were still
inexperienced compared to their counterparts from Peninsular Malaysia
was no longer acceptable.

The 20-Point Agreement relates to:

Point 1: Religion

Point 2: Language

Point 3: Constitution

Point 4: Head of federation

Point 5: Name of federation

Point 6: Immigration

Point 7: Right of secession

Point 8: Borneanisation

Point 9: British officers

Point 10: Citizenship

Point 11: Tariffs and finance

Point 12: Special position of indigenous races

Point 13: State government

Point 14: Transitional period

Point 15: Education

Point 16: Constitutional safeguards

Point 17: Representation in federal parliament

Point 18: Name of head of state

Point 19: Name of state

Point 20: Land, forests, local government, etc.

Sabah's Remarkble Transformation Through Malaysia

2010-08-19T01:29:00.001-07:00

BERNAMA is a government mouthpiece. It tends to exaggerate the
achievements of the current BN government especially UMNO.

Statistics don't lie. Our salaries had not increased as much as our
neighbours especially Brunei and Indonesia. In fact, it had decreased
in many areas, taking into account the value of our currency.

In fact Brunei and Singapore never devalue their currencies like
Malaysia, while keep on increasing salaries, whereas in Sabah,
suppression of salaries and devaluations of currencies had made the
income of Sabahans to be 5 times less than Brunei. Indonesia salaries
had increased 300% in the last few years.

The facts are very clear, by 2006 Sabah has among the highest
incidence of poverty in the whole world. Sabah also has the highest
human trafficking cases in the whole world. All this accelerated
during the UMNO rule of Sabah, since 1994.

It is true that Sabah has improved, but at a much slower rate than
other regions included what used to be poor, such as Acheh, Rwanda,
Myanmar, Somalia, Darfur. As a result these regions had improved so
much while Sabah had not. The reason is vey clear.

The policy of the Federal government as state in the Newspaper article
by Taib Mahmud is very clear. Sabah and Sarawak had never been given
any priority in development because it is not cost effective. If this
is not very clear enough, there is now NO SPECIALIST HOSPITAL AT ALL,
in Sabah. Under PBS, the opposition, at least we had SMC, Sabah
Medical Centre. Even medical statistics is very sadly putting Sabah
among the poorest in the whole world. Even in Malaysia Sabah is far
far behing. No wonder, when it is the worst in the whole world.

If the Coal power plant were built, destroying our tourism industry
due to the destruction the environment, the contruction of the gas
pipelines across Sipitang, destroying livelihood of fishermen and tour
operators, while getting nothing for the gas itself, the FUTURE is
very DARK.

After all, it is very clearly stated in all government statements and
budgets. Sabah is not worth developing fast because it is never
economical, but its resources are worth sending to Malaya for free
despite the huge transportation and environmental costs, despite the
dire needs for Sabah. Sabah cannot even use the gas for themselves.
They had to import COAL at heavily subsidised prices.

Sabah's Remarkble Transformation Through Malaysia

By Emin Madi

KOTA KINABALU, Aug 19 (Bernama) -- When Donald Stephens, dressed in a
Kadazandusun traditional attire, read the proclamation of the
Federation of Malaysia on 16 Sept 1963, it was a highly meaningful and
exciting moment for the thousands of people at the Jesselton Town
Field.

Abdul Rahim Ismail was a form one student at Sabah College when he
witnessed the important event that not only marked the inauguration of
a new nation called Malaysia but officially confirmed Sabah's
participation in the federation.

"Although I knew what was going on but at that particular moment I did
not think much of the event's significance to my state as well as my
future," said Abdul Rahim.

The historical event at the town field now known as Padang Merdeka was
held in the presence of Tun Abdul Razak Hussein, the deputy prime
minister then.

After the proclamation was read, (Tun) Datu Mustapha bin Datu Harun
was sworn in as Head of State and Donald Stephen (later to be known as
Tun Fuad Donald Stephen) as the Chief Minister of Sabah.

Looking back, Abdul Rahim, now a Datuk and a former state minister,
said being the son of a poor fisherman, there was nothing much to look
forward in life and he was unsure of his future.

"But independence has indeed brought new hope to the people of Sabah,
especially the poor like me.

"I am proud to say that what I have achieved today was the result of
Sabah's independence through Malaysia," said Abdul Rahim, who hails
from Kampung Buang Sayang, Papar.

TRANSFORMATION OF SABAH

Abdul Rahim who is currently the Chairman of the Fisheries Development
Authority (LKIM) pointed out that Sabah has undergone tremendous
transformation in terms of physical infrastructure and socio-economic
development since joining the federation.

"But the real transformation as far as Sabah is concerned is
undoubtedly after the Barisan Nasional (BN) took charge of the state,
where the Federal-State government working relationship improved
tremendously," he said.

"While Malaysians truly benefited from their new found freedom, some
countries were unfortunate because they were still troubled by
internal conflicts that led to bloodshed and civil wars even after
independence.

"I think we should never forget to tell our children and future
generation on the importance of appreciating our country's
independence," he said.

In echoing Abdul Rahim's views, Zaiton OKK Anik agreed that since
gaining independence through Malaysia 47 years ago Sabah has
practically transformed from an economic backwater into a vibrant,
united and progressive state.

"Now people can move freely and conveniently from one place to another
because of the availability of good road network throughout the state.

"You will also notice that even some remote areas in Sabah are now
provided with electricity, water supply, clinics and schools," the 59-
year former teacher said.

Zaiton, who attended secondary school in Keningau, said she was
particularly proud of Sabah's transformation in the field of
education, especially with the mushrooming of public and private
institutions of higher learning in the state.

"30 years ago or so, it was very costly for Sabahans to pursue studies
at universities in Peninsular due to many factors, including distance,
cost of air flights and accommodation," says Zaiton.

"But Sabah students now have the opportunity to pursue their studies
at local universities without having to go overseas," she said

Zaiton also believes that Sabah's rapid socio-economic development
under Malaysia is due to the sound management of its vast resources by
past and present leaders, especially under the BN government.

"In short, Sabah through the goodwill of state and federal leaders has
indeed gained a lot in terms of socio-economic development since
gaining independence and the people now enjoying better standard of
living.

HISTORY OF INDEPENDENCE

A young lawyer, Azman Ruslan, feels fortunate to learn of the
experiences of his parents who have lived during and after the
colonial era.

"It is even more fortunate for people of my generation because we have
everything on a silver platter as a result of the selfless struggles
of our past and present leaders.

"I therefore believe that we should not only play a role in
safeguarding the sovereignty of our nation but also teach the future
generation about the meaning and importance of independence," says
Azman, who was born in August, 1970.

Azman, who is also Sabah Umno Youth head, said it was therefore
imperative for the future generation to remember the history of our
country's independence as 'colonialisation' could repeat in different
perspective.

While appreciative of Sabah's tremendous socio-economic achievement
under Malaysia, Jasni Matlani, a writer and head of the Badan Bahasa
Sabah (BAHASA), believes the struggle must continue in safeguarding
our sovereignty.

"Therefore I suggest that any form of activities that involve youths
must include programmes that inculcate the history of our nation's
independence as well as paying tribute to those who struggled for
independence.

"We also urge the government to consider setting up a special
allocation for non-governmental organisations (NGOs), especially the
literary and cultural bodies, to conduct youth programmes that create
awareness," he said.

Meanwhile, Emmanuel Apin, a quantity surveyor, says those who have
inherited the colonialists' era robust thinking must consider
themselves lucky.

"We find that life in the challenging 21st century actually calls for
the rigid and disciplined leadership of the colonial era," he said.

-- BERNAMA

Justifications against Coal Power Plant for Sabah

2010-08-15T08:41:00.001-07:00

This is a well researched article giving the justifications why Coal
Power Plant is extremely destructive to Sabah.

It is not just bad, but very destructive. Nature, Ecotourism is all
that Sabah has after Oil and Gas revenue had been taken away from
Sabah. Now they even want to deny Gas and Oil for Sabah's own
consumption.

Preferring to import coal at huge costs and subsidies while spending
billions to build such an expensive Coal Power Plant. Gas power plant,
like that in Sepanggar bay is much cheaper, faster to build and easier
to power using Gas because Gas is already in Sabah, unlike Coal.

There is only one reason for the continuance of the Coal power plant.
To suck Sabah dry while ignoring the needs of Sabahans and its future.
It is a worst disaster than the loss of the Oil revenue and Labuan. At
these these losses do not affect our long term survival but Coal power
plant will destroy our future and quality of life.

http://news.mongabay.com/2010/0813-cynthia_ong_pm_letter.html

Malaysia preparing to take big step backward on energy policy
Commentary by Cynthia Clare Ong Gaik Suan
August 13, 2010

An open letter to the Prime Minister of Malaysia.

Dear Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak,

I write to you as a deeply concerned and saddened citizen of Malaysia.
For most of the 45 years of my life, I have been proud to be
Malaysian. Recently, I have become heartbroken to be Malaysian.

I am profoundly grateful to write this with the support of both my
local communities in Sabah, Malaysian Borneo and California, U.S.A.,
and a larger world community. That said, I take full ownership of and
sole responsibility for the views articulated in this letter; I
express them from my stand as a mother, an earth citizen and a leader.

I founded and lead a public charity and non profit organization both
in Malaysia and in the U.S., to bridge between worlds and build
partnerships for ecological conservation. I have been at the front
lines of the founding and mobilization of Green SURF (Sabah Unite to
RePower the Future), the civil society movement opposing the
construction of the 300 megawatt coal-fired power plant in Lahad Datu,
Sabah, on the edge of the Coral Triangle, one of three of the world's
most bio-diverse ecosystems. You know. You signed the 6-nation
declaration between Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines, Papua New
Guinea, East Timor and Solomon Islands to collectively protect this
1.6 billion acres of ocean. You also know of course of your pledge at
Copenhagen to reduce carbon emission intensity by up to 40% by 2020.
You likely also know that the plant will displace fishing communities
who have been there for a long time - irreparably contaminating their
livelihoods forever. And if you listened, you would also know that
they do not want the "development" that your government is imposing on
them.

Tun Sakaran Marine Park , made up of pristine islands and marine
waters, lies off the coast of Semporna less than 100 kilometers from
the coal plant. Photo by: Yee I-Lann.

One of the priorities of Green SURF was to study clean energy
alternatives to the coal-plant, and propose them to the government. We
collectively invested tremendous time and resources to identify and
commission the expertise of Professor Daniel Kammen at Renewable and
Appropriate Energy Laboratory of University of California, Berkeley to
conduct the Clean Energy Options for Sabah report. We had no notion of
the outcome of the study, and results showed that Sabah is in an
exceptional position to shift towards clean energy due to the
availability of natural resources. We are in fact in an opportune
position to lead the nation and the region in clean energy - the kind
of leadership the world so urgently needs now. I wonder if you know
that Sabah is the last coal power-free frontier of Borneo. FYI, the 5
core NGOs in Green SURF are amongst the largest, oldest and most
recognized conservation groups in Sabah and Malaysia - collectively
responsible for most of the conservation work in the nation, with
partnerships that span the world.

We have tried every avenue available to communicate to you the results
of our findings and to engage in discussion about the future of energy
for Sabah. After months of unsuccessful attempts to meet with you, I
can only conclude that you do not want to meet with us. This confuses
and disturbs me. Your words in public are about listening to the
rakyat (people) and hearing their views. A sizeable portion of the
rakyat of Sabah has been doing everything within their power to be
heard by you. To no avail. We have given you the benefit of the doubt
that word is not getting to you, and yet we have met with those around
you who promised they would convey our message to you. Many months,
memos, reports, letters, faxes, emails and phone calls later, and we
have not received a single response from you or any member of your
administration. We also did our best at state level government, and
have huge support from within the government but ultimately the
message is that this is untouchable because "ini Najib mau" (Najib
wants this).

Sir, my most consistent experience of your administration is stone
walls, arrogance and insincerity. I am shocked by the behavior of the
leadership of my nation. I find it patronizing, archaic, oppressive,
blatantly and self-righteously elitist and top-down. I do not
experience your administration as democratic, transparent, open,
accountable or responsible. There is a deep incongruence between what
you are projecting externally and what we have experienced internally.
I can only surmise that you intentionally run your administration in
this manner. Otherwise, it would mean that your leadership is
incompetent and ineffective.

I am angry, and I am not willing to accept systemic disempowerment of
our people. I am writing this open letter as a last resort. Sabahans
are speaking up because we are deeply troubled and scared about the
fate of our ecological and cultural legacy, and what we will be able
to hand down to our future generations. Please show true leadership
and listen. You and your administration have much to do to regain a
modicum of respect amongst many Sabahans. If 1Malaysia is more than a
PR campaign and is truly intended "to provide a free and open forum to
discuss the things that matter deeply to us as a Nation", please walk
your talk.

The coal plant will be built on the northern edge of Lahad Datu Bay.
Photo by: Cede Prudente.

The circle denotes the coal plant. Tabin Wildlife Reserve is to the
west, Semporna (Tun Sakaran Marine Park) is to the south. Map courtesy
of Green SURF.

Map shows Sabah's place in the coral triangle. Map courtesy of Green
SURF.

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Photos reveal paradise-like site for coal plant in Borneo

(05/21/2010) With the world's eyes on the environmental catastrophe in
the Gulf of Mexico, many are beginning to ponder the rightness of not
just America's, but the world's dependence on fossil fuels. Yet large-
scale fossil-fuel energy projects continue to march ahead, including
one in the Malaysian state of Sabah on Borneo to build a 300 MW coal
plant, which has come under fierce opposition from locals (already the
project has been forced to move locations twice). The newest proposal
will build the coal plant, as photos below reveal, on an undeveloped
beach overlooking the Coral Triangle, one of the world's most
biodiverse marine environments, with transmission lines likely running
through nearby pristine rainforest that are home to several endangered
species, including orangutans and Bornean rhinos.

Fishermen express doubts about coal plant overlooking their fishing
grounds

(06/13/2010) Local fishermen in the Malaysian state of Sabah are
uncertain of their future, if the government pushes ahead to build a
300 megawatt coal power plant. They have been told they will be moved
from their current seaside village to one deeper inland, and while the
coal plant will provide manual labor work in its building stages, the
fishermen express doubt about the impacts over the long-term effects
of the coal plant on their livelihood. "Someone mentioned that maybe
we have to move to Sungai Merah, which is quite far from our village.
We are also worried because Sungai Merah is not next to the sea like
[our village] is," local fishermen, Ali Hia, told Green SURF and Save
Sandakan members—two local organizations opposed to the coal plant—who
recently visited the seaside village of Kampung Sinakut, site of the
proposed coal plant.

Analysis shows Borneo can say 'no' to coal power

(03/17/2010) Plans for a coal power plant in the Malaysian state of
Sabah in northern Borneo have run into stiff opposition.
Environmentalists say the coal plant could damage extensive coral reef
systems, pollute water supplies, open rainforests to mining, and
contribute to global climate change, undercutting Sabah's image as a
'green' destination. The federal government contends that the coal
plant is necessary to fix Sabah's energy problems. However, a recent
energy audit by the Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory (RAEL)
at the University of California Berkeley shows that pollution-
intensive coal doesn't have to be in Sabah's future.

Coal plant could damage rainforest reserves, coral reefs, palm oil
plantations in Malaysian Borneo

(12/20/2009) A proposed coal-fired power plant in Malaysian Borneo
could damage the region's world-renowned coral reefs, pollute air and
water supplies, open Sabah's biodiverse rainforests to mining, and
undermine the state's effort to promote itself as a destination for
"green" investment and ecotourism, warn environmentalists leading an
effort to block the project. The scheme, which is backed by the
federal Tenaga Nasional Berhad and state energy company, Sabah
Electricity Sdn. Bhd, has faced strong opposition and already been
forced to re-locate twice since it was conceived more than two years
ago. The 300-MW plant is now planned for a coastal area that is
situated in the middle of the Coral Triangle/Sulu Sulawesi Marine
Ecoregion, an area renowned for astounding levels of biodiversity.

Prime minister approves the application for 6,000 hectares of land by Ibans

2010-05-13T03:39:00.001-07:00

If this is true, it shows also that Sarawak has lost control over
their own land. Land approval is supposed to be Sarawak matters, and
does not require any approval from the PM of Malaysia.

And only RM34 million for rural roads, to be spent 5 years later?
Too little and too late.

http://www.malaysiakini.com/news/131660

11.20am: Prime minister approves the application for 6,000 hectares
of land by Ibans for oil palm plantations, during his visit to a
longhouse, Rumah Sebastian Onggoh along Jalan Teku.

Najib Abdul Razak also announces that RM34 million will be set aside
under the 10th Malaysia Plan to upgrade the Pasai Siong road in Sibu's
rural district.

Kelantan is getting more prosperous under PAS compared to Sabah under BN

2010-04-29T02:11:00.001-07:00

Just look at the passenger traffic at the various airports in
Malaysia.
While in BN controlled states, the number of passengers had gone down,
in Kelantan it has gone up.
Who says that Kelantan is backward under PAS?

http://www.malaysiaairports.com.my/index.php?ch=38&pg=157&ac=1026

Traffic
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
Passengers
589,950
639,871
635,397
678,306
759,316
836,060
Cargo handled
(metric tonnes)
315
235
168
210
163
181
Cargo handled (KG)
694
518
370
462
163,433
181,327
Aircraft movements
10,010
11,869
11,194
38,352
58,996
57,102

Malaysia Airport Berhad,
Lapangan Terbang Sultan Ismail Petra,
16100 Kota Bharu,
MALAYSIA.
Tel: +60 (0) 9 773 7400
Fax: +60 (0) 9 773 2852

Traffic
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
Passengers
497,999
574,213
621,513
633,194
626,192
618,927
Cargo handled
(metric tonnes)
3,713
4,053
4,531
5,475
6,224
3,055
Cargo handled (KG)
8,185
8,935
9,989
12,070
6,224,488
3,054,589
Aircraft movements
10,588
10,823
11,662
10,776
8,410
9,622

Lapangan Terbang Sandakan,
Peti Surat 1719,
90719 Sandakan, SABAH,
MALAYSIA.
Tel: +60 (0) 89 660405
Fax: +60 (0) 89 668226

Traffic
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
Passengers
1,377,312
1,509,684
1,594,855
1,559,379
1,454,167
1,537,840
Cargo handled
(metric tonnes)
3,881
4,721
5,392
4,080
3,564
4,146
Cargo handled (KG)
8,556
10,407
11,887
8,994
3,564,114
4,146,405
Aircraft movements
43,460
45,269
42,865
42,680
35,502
38,172

Lapangan Terbang Miri,
Peti Surat 851,
98008 Miri,
MALAYSIA.
Tel: +60 (0) 85 615205
Fax: +60 (0) 85 615208

Traffic
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
Passengers
31,108
46,692
27,683
18,509
27,209
23,751
Cargo handled
(metric tonnes)
214
602
370
146
219
179
Cargo handled (KG)
471
1,327
815
321
219,348
178,618
Aircraft movements
57,636
70,369
77,504
74,880
64,936
60,512

Lapangan Terbang Batu Berendam,
75350 Melaka,
MALAYSIA.
Tel : +60 (0) 6 317 5860
Fax: +60 (0) 6 317 5214

Sabah's True poverty at 60%!

2010-04-27T08:16:00.001-07:00

Given the higher cost of living nowadays, this figure should be
correct instead of the BN government's self imposed poverty figure.

No region can withstand outstanding robbery of its resources as had
happened in Sabah. Sabah had been robbed of hundreds of billions of RM
and yet given back only less than RM10 billion. This amount is not
enough to cover the costs of the damages done by the stripping of
Sabah's wealth.

The worst is to come with the building of the coal powered plant
while our hydroelectric and gas resources are exported out of Sabah at
great costs, RM2.5 billion for piping to Bintulu and RM10 billion for
underwater electric cables. Soon Maliau BAsin will be stripped bared
for its coal deposits.

http://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/fmt-english/politics/sabah-and-sarawak/4961-sabah-poverty-issue-crippling-bn

Sabah poverty issue crippling BN
TUE, 27 APR 2010 11:40
BY FMT Staff

KOTA KINABALU: The federal government's E-Kasih system has identified
15,293 families in Sabah who are living below the RM540 a month
poverty level .

They were among 44,634 poor families nationwide, who had registered
with the Women, Family and Community Development Ministry's E-Kasih
programme.

The families were from Sabah, Sarawak, Terengganu, Kelantan, Kedah and
Johor.

Poverty in Sabah has become a politically crippling issue for the
Barisan Nasional government.

According to the the Sabah-based Common Interest Group Malaysia
(CigMa), about 1.8 million or 60% of the 3.25 million population in
Sabah live in poverty.

In five decades, Sabah, which was once the riches state in Malaysia,
is now the poorest.

Much of it has been attributed to the exponential population increase
and the "Malaysianisation" of illegal immigrants during former Prime
Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad's reign.

While the BN-led state government claims that poverty levels have
progressively been reduced, private non-governmental organisations and
opposition leaders differ on the issue.

Serious issue

Yesterday, Women, Family and Community Development Minister Shahrizat
Abdul Jalil, who admitted that poverty in Sabah was a matter of grave
concern, said the government had deployed the National Population and
Family Development Board Malaysia (LPPKN) officers to access the
hardcore poor and low income families.

"We've set aside RM6.9 million for the LPPKN programmes in six states
to help the poor.

"We will be looking at various issues. One is finance. We will have to
find out which segment they fall under -- the low-income group or
hardcore poor.

"Next, we want to know whether the head of the house is able to work
or if the family needs aid," she said.

She addded that LPPKN will also be identifying household members who
need training, job placements or if they are keen to do business.

"We will find out their needs before helping them," she said.

Shahrizat said it is a start to tackling a serious issue.

"We've been evolving our approach... since the 2008 general
election... I was shocked when I lost in Lembah Pantai.

"But it was a good lesson and since we are still governing the
country, it is a god-given opportunity to make amends and improve
ourselves and the public service delivery system," she said.

On allegations that her ministry was incompetent, she said: "We are
not a department. It's a big ministry... yes, sometimes we make
mistakes too, but we rectify them just as quickly."

Removing Hardcore Poverty(RM540), with RM300/month allowance

2010-04-27T07:39:00.001-07:00

The ministry only provides RM300 per month allowance for those
categorized as hard core. My widowed and sickly cousin, was not even
registered earlier so not in the 44,643 hard core poor figure.

If it can happen to my cousin that live right in Sandakan Town, 10km
from the town centre, what about those living in the remote Islands?

hard core is supposed to be survival state. You need RM540 to survive
in Sabah. With RM300, it is not sufficient to survive, especially when
you have to pay water and electricity bills.
Where are the other RM240 coming from? They expect it to be coming
from her relatives such as her son that also have a wife and a few
children, and yet earn below the poverty level.

April 27, 2010 18:20 PM
Shahrizat Confident Of Zero Hardcore Poor By Year End
KOTA KINABALU, April 27 (Bernama) -- Women, Family and Community
Development Minister Datuk Seri Shahrizat Abdul Jalil today expressed
confidence that the ministry could get all hardcore poor families in
the country out of the clutches of poverty by year end.

She said the confidence was based on positive development of the
programmes implemented by the government and the initiatives taken by
government's departments and agencies in achieving their National Key
Result Areas (NKRA).

"When the NKRA was first introduced, we have 44,643 hardcore poor
families listed in the E-Kasih system.

"Now, after four months of NKRA implementation, we only have 32,693
hardcore poor families left in the list," she told reporters after
briefing Sabah Cabinet members, elected representatives and government
officers on her ministry's NKRA, here Tuesday.

Also present was Chief Minister Datuk Seri Musa Aman.

Shahrizat said the ministry needed an additional allocation of RM1.66
billion to get the rest of the families out of poverty by December.

She said the additional allocation was vital to help the states that
had the most poor and hardcore poor families, especially Sabah.

At present, she said there were 15,923 hardcore poor families earning
a monthly household income of less than RM540 and 16,753 poor families
with a monthly household income of RM960 in Sabah.

Meanwhile, Musa said the state government was willing to assist the
ministry as such a cooperation between the federal and state
governments was vital to enable them to receive the allocation and
channel it faster to the target groups.

"We are so happy to be able to discuss and exchange our views on how
the NKRA could be implemented more efficiently and in an orderly
manner," he added.

-- BERNAMA

Delay in World Heritage Application shows that Maliau Basin will be Denuded

2010-04-15T05:06:00.001-07:00

Why the delay in the application?
It was mentioined more than 20 years ago. Will it take another 20
years to go ahead?
By this time the coal-powered plant will be operational and will have
the excuse to demand more coal from Maliau Basin.
Have you seen the strip mining in Indonesia? That will happen to
Maliau Basin and will be a disaster worse than the Copper Mine in
Ranau.

If Sabahans can get something out of it, it is all right but facts
show that Sabah has become worse off by being the poorest in the
world, and still the lowest
medical health facility in the world while having the highest case of
Jaundice in the world. All my 5 children got Jaundice at birth whereas
all of us 7 brothers and sisters never got any Jaundice at all.
All are due to the copper mine at Mamut, Ranau.

What will happen after the coal power plant and strip mining of Maliau
basin. What else apart from Jaundice will our future generations get
while still having the least number of doctors and hospitals in the
world.

http://www1.voanews.com/english/news/asia/Malaysia-Seeks-Heritage-Listing-for-Lost-World-90830694.html

Malaysia Seeks Heritage Listing for Lost World
The Maliau Basin covers almost 600 square kilometers, hidden so deeply
within Borneo that it was only discovered in the 1970s. Much of it
remains unexplored.
Luke Hunt | Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia 14 April 2010

Photo: VOA - L. Hunt
An Orangutan on north east Borneo, not far from the Maliau Basin,
which will soon be nominated as a World Heritage Site
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In Malaysia, authorities have ended years of debate and announced they
will seek a World Heritage listing for the Maliau Basin, a pristine
wilderness area in remote northern Borneo.

The decision to seek World Heritage status will effectively save the
isolated and celebrated rain forests from timber and mining interests.

The basin covers almost 600 square kilometers, hidden so deeply within
Borneo that it was only discovered in the 1970s. Much of it remains
unexplored. Scientists hail the Malaysian government's decision on a
heritage listing as a victory for the environment.

Glen Reynolds, director of the Royal Society's Southeast Asian rain
forest program, says a listing will go a long way toward securing the
forest's future.

"Oh it's fabulous, I think it's the most amazing bit of forest I've
ever been in," he said. "There's certain bits of Maliau Basin I doubt
there's ever, [that] anybody's ever set foot. The terrain is very
difficult, it's a got a certain degree of natural protection if you
like in as much as it's very inaccessible, but you know it's really
extraordinary."

Miners and timber conglomerates have long eyed the minerals and trees
in the basin, which is home to clouded leopards, orangutans,
rhinoceros, pigmy elephants and hundreds of waterfalls.

Concerns for what remains of Malaysia's native habitat prompted a
decision by the Sabah state government that gave the go ahead for the
Maliau Basin to be nominated as a UNESCO World Heritage site.

But Reynolds notes that rain forest preservation can only be achieved
by including timber companies and miners within the conservation
process.

Malaysian resource company Sime Darby is negotiating to finance a 10-
year scientific study of altered forests and their ecosystems. Funding
is expected to top millions of dollars.

"Most forested areas and obviously plantations, it's all held by big
corporates," he said. "So if we're going to conserve these forests,
better manage them, then you've got to be working within and in
partnership with these companies. They are the major land managers now
in this part of Southeast Asia so it's critical that we're engaged
with them."

Increasingly companies and governments realize that carbon trading -
where industrial polluters pay countries with large forests to keep
trees standing could prove a lucrative way to raise the money to
protect the environment, and fund economic growth.

BN is proud of Sabah's High Poverty Rate

2010-04-15T04:24:00.001-07:00

SAbah at 1 doctor every 2650 is 0.37 per 1000 people. As figures below
shows, Sabah is still the poorest among them despite the data being 5
years old.

= 145 Fiji: 0.34 per 1,000 people 1999
= 145 Tonga: 0.34 per 1,000 people 2001
# 144 Burma: 0.36 per 1,000 people 2004
= 142 Nicaragua: 0.37 per 1,000 people 2003
= 142 Thailand: 0.37 per 1,000 people 2000
# 141 Botswana: 0.4 per 1,000 people 2004
# 140 Northern Mariana Islands: 0.44 per 1,000 people 1999
= 138 Iran: 0.45 per 1,000 people 2004

In comparison with Brunei in year 2000, Sabah still has a very long
way to go, and yet BN government is already proud of this figure.
Only gullible fools want a government that is satisfied in giving such
poor service to Sabahans that has much more resources than Brunei.

12 Brunei: 1.01 per 1,000 people 2000
# 113 Maldives: 0.92 per 1,000 people 2004
# 114 Guatemala: 0.9 per 1,000 people 1999
# 115 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines: 0.87 per 1,000 people
1997
# 116 Jamaica: 0.85 per 1,000 people 2003
# 117 Trinidad and Tobago: 0.79 per 1,000 people 1997
# 118 American Samoa: 0.78 per 1,000 people 1999
# 119 South Africa: 0.77 per 1,000 people 2004
# 120 Pakistan: 0.74 per 1,000 people 2004
= 121 Samoa: 0.7 per 1,000 people 1999
= 121 Malaysia: 0.7 per 1,000 people 2000

http://groups.google.com.my/group/soc.culture.malaysia/post?hl=en
April 15, 2010 17:53 PM
Tun Ahmadshah: Sabahans Enjoy A Better Quality Of Life
KOTA KINABALU, April 15 (Bernama) -- The Sabah people are now enjoying
a better quality of life through the provision of various facilities
and services, Yang Dipertua Negeri of Sabah Tun Ahmadshah Abdullah
said.

He said that in terms of health facility, there were now 22 hospitals,
270 government clinics, including those in the rural areas, and 298
private clinics.

"The doctor-population ratio is also improving from one doctor to
2,935 people in 2006 to one doctor to 2,650 people last year," he said
in his speech when opening the third term of the state legislative
assembly here Thursday.

In terms of education, Ahmadshah said the number of schools had also
increased, from 1,257 in 2006 to 1,271 in 2008.

In the meantime, he said, over 20 education institutions had stated
their commitment to open their respective branches at the Sandakan
Education Hub which is expected to be completed by 2016.

Among them are Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Mara Junior Science College,
several polytechnics, Inland Revenue Board training centre, Asian
Tourism Institute and PTPL College.

"More education opportunities will be provided either at the secondary
or higher education levels to create quality human resources," he
said.

He said the RM2 billion hub, mooted by Chief Minister Datuk Seri Musa
Aman, would make Sabah the only state in Malaysia to have a large-
scale and integrated education hub.

Meanwhile, Ahmadshah said Sabah should produce high quality products
and services to transform the state from a low-income to a high-income
state.

He said despite numerous positive developments under the Ninth
Malaysia Plan (9MP) (2006-2010), the state was still faced with
internal and external challenges.

"The state should make the shift towards the 10th Malaysia Plan, with
the incorporation of knowledge-based inputs and innovation into all
production chains," he said.

In a related development, Ahmadshah said the state's tourism industry
continued to grow despite the global economic downturn, with tourism
receipt reaching RM3.86 billion last year.

"Some nine million tourists visited Sabah during the first four years
of 9MP compared to about seven million during the previous Malaysia
plan," he said.

Ahmadshah said the number of hotels had also increased to 443 last
year compared to 279 at the end of 8MP.

"This means that there was also an increase in the number of hotel
rooms from 11,528 in 2005 to 18,065 last year," he said.

The tourism sector provided 83,384 employments last year compared to
64,977 in 2006, he added.

-- BERNAMA

30pc Sabahans under new poverty index: Harris

2010-04-04T05:58:00.001-07:00

If you consider RM1,700 to be the poverty line in KL, the poverty line
in most towns in Sabah is not that far off from RM1,700 so the
percentage of Sabahans that are below the poverty line is much higher
than the official figure of just 16%.

30pc Sabahans under new poverty index: Harris
Published on: Sunday, April 04, 2010
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Tawau: Former Chief Minister Datuk Harris Salleh said Sabah still lags
behind other states in Malaysia after 50 years of independence through
the formation of Malaysia.

He estimated that at least 30 per cent of Sabahans are under the new
poverty index.

There are many Sabahans still living on subsistence income or "kais
pagi makan pagi, kais petang makan petang," he said.

"With the cost and standards of living escalating and with the income
of the people in rural and urban areas only increasing slightly, the
effect means that people will just continue to be poorer and poorer
under the new index of poverty," he said.

He also lamented that the Federal Government has classified people in
Kuala Lumpur earning RM1,700 as poor.

Speaking to 18 members of the Ex-Assemblymen Association during their
visit to Balung here, Saturday, he said these days money is everything
and is required for everything.

Although the rural houses may have been rebuilt or improved by the
Government, at least 15 per cent of these houses have hardly any cash
even as low as RM10 at any one time, he said.

"Vegetables or fruits are hardly being planted around their house
compound. These outside incomes may be from the government contracts
or either their children working in Peninsular Malaysia," he said.

"It appears that the government policies and programmes are not
conductive nor productive in helping these rural people. With the
desires on living the modern lifestyle, these rural people had to sell
off their lands or lease them all at once for 99 years.

"The government stimulus packages and the subsistence on various
consumer goods, that includes the giving of allowance to the hardcore
poor and fishermen. All these do not contribute much to the rural
economy.

The stimulus packages are nothing but only benefits the 'negotiated
contractors' and foreign workers.

"Development of infrastructures like schools and medical facilities
does not contribute directly to the income of the rural people," he
said.

With respect to the tourists, Sabah is only getting mostly the budget
tourists but despite this fact, everyone is praising Sabah as a great
tourist product, he said.

"I, on my part, have left many economic activities for Sabah and
Sabahans.

For example, the famous 906,330 acres identified and reserved for the
smallholders and the planting of accacia trees. Accacia wood will be
the wood of Sabah for now and the future," he said.

He was also critical of the ex-assemblymen, asking them if they had
achieved anything to change Sabah and Sabahans, particularly the
livelihoods of the people during their respective terms.

"The answer is categorically, no," he said.

Vote for Yong Teck Lee

2010-01-05T04:00:00.001-08:00

He is the only leader intelligent enough not to be fooled by greedy
West Malaysians and brave enough to say it aloud. Thank you Daily
Express for reporting his comments.

This is the sort of leader that we need. No matter how corrupt he may
appear or made to appear, these losses are nothing compared to the
losses due to the irresponsible and greedy theft of Sabahan resources.
Sabahan should wake up and don't pretend that everything is alright.
Sabah is already the worst in all areas of development, physical and
human. Sabah cannot even beat Darfur of Sudan,let alone Bangladesh.

No effort at all to eradicate poverty, instead, Sabah is made even
poorer by stealing our electricity, gas and environment, despite
having frequent power cuts and poor communications. All for what? Just
to enrich the already rich West Malaysians even more, disregarding all
economic principles. Piping gas from Sabah to Bintulu at a cost of RM
2500 billion and piping Bakun dam in Bintulu area to West Malaysia for
RM10,000.

In return, instead of using gas from Sabah, Sabah has to buy COAL from
Indonesia, to power a power plant that cost RM2500 million just to
produce 300 Mega Watt of electricity, hardly sufficient for current
Sabah needs, let alone the future.

Electricity from Bakun will cost less than RM2500 million, much less
than the single coal power plant while improving Sabahan power grid
system at the same time and much more power capacity than the 300
MWatt.

Piping the Bakun electricity to West Malaysian will only improve the
grid system for the fishes while causing environmental and safety
hazards in the South China Sea.

http://www.dailyexpress.com.my/news.cfm?NewsID=69909

'Sabah should take back SESB'
Published on: Tuesday, January 05, 2010
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SABAH should take back Sabah Electricity Sdn. Bhd. (SESB) since it has
failed to improve power supply in the State after its privatisation.

"Like Air Asia which was sold by the Government to the private sector
for one Ringgit, we ask that TNB shares in SESB be given back to Sabah
for one Ringgit as well," Yong said.

"Sabah has nothing to lose except the bosses from Kuala Lumpur," he
said, adding energy supply could be better managed by Sabah as the
State had the ability to do so.

He said the Sabah Electric Board (SEB) was handed over to Kuala Lumpur
by the Berjaya Government due to insufficient funds but still no
improvement was seen.

Following that, he said, SEB was privatised in 1998 and renamed SESB
when taken over by Tenaga Nasional Berhad (TNB).

"Twenty years after being given to Federal, Sabah's electricity
problems remain. The Berjaya Government handed over SEB to Kuala
Lumpur hoping the problem could be addressed but not so.

"Then TNB came in 11 years ago promising to overcome it but until
today, the problem remains," he said at the formation of SAPP Kampung
Kibabaig branch and receiving new members led by Florian Chong at the
residence of Jolis Podi, at Kampung Kibabaig, near here.

Yong who is a former Chief Minister said Sabah has the ability to
manage its energy supply just like Sarawak .

Sarawak run its own electricity supply via Sesco and never faced any
problems, he said, adding SAPP has a task force studying the mechanism
to take back SESB.

He said it is sheer arrogance for the Barisan Nasional (BN) Government
to pipe Sabah's natural gas to Bintulu LNG Plant 500km away at a cost
of billions Ringgit, but not allowed Sabah to use that gas for power
generation in the State.

"We are forced to buy Indonesian coal for a coal power plant from
China .

To add insult to injury, the coal power plant is targeted to be
located in the Tungku Lahad Datu Felda - which was state land given to
Felda supposed to be for local settlers but end up mostly as Felda
corporate land," he said.

He said the Bintulu LNG plant is capable of producing 25 Million ton
per annum (MTA) which is the biggest plant in the whole world.

The plant is now being expanded to take in more gas to be converted
into LNG to be sold to Japan and China at massive profits of billions
of ringgit to Petronas, he claimed.

He said on Dec 22 last year, the Senate was told by the Federal Deputy
Minister of Energy, Green Technology and Water that it is too
expensive to transmit power supply from Bakun near Bintulu to Sabah.

Yong said the Deputy Minister's reasons were because of the terrain.

"Ironically, why is it possible to pipe our gas to Bintulu? Why was
the same terrain of mountains, rivers and valleys not a problem when
it comes to pipe our gas to Bintulu? It is the same geography, same
terrain, same mountains, the same rivers, the same jungles, the same
that carries our gas away to Bintulu that cannot also take electric
power from Bakun to Sabah ," he said.

He said TNB was reported planning to transmit the same power supply
from the same Bakun dam to peninsula Malaysia, across 700km of the
South China Sea.

"Even a Form Three geography student knows...but our leaders do not
know," he said, adding he was angry not because Kuala Lumpur is
cheating Sabah, but Sabah leaders in the Federal and State Governments
are not defending Sabahans.

As result, he said Sabahans pay more for electricity, forced to take a
dirty polluting coal power plant, and still suffer power breakdowns.

"All these must change. We shall no longer keep quiet," he added.

He said Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak during his visit
here in November last year had told Sabahans to compromise and accepts
the coal power plant.

"My answer is how can the PM ask the poorest state to compromise,"
Yong said.

Malaysian court: day-to-day means 24-hours a day to interview witnesses

2009-12-22T19:05:00.001-08:00

From thefreedictionary:
http://74.125.153.132/search?q=cache:0Gt0vegO-0QJ:www.thefreedictionary.com/day-to-day+day+to+day&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=my

adj.
1. Occurring on a routine or daily basis: the day-to-day movements of
the stock market.
2. Subsisting one day at a time with little regard for the future:
lived a day-to-day existence.

But our appeal court deemed that this phrase means that MACC has the
right to interview WITNESSESS 24-hours a day.

Justices Datuk Hasan Lah, Datuk Ahmad Maarop and Datuk Syed Ahmad
Helmy Syed Ahmad

These judges, either are so ignorant of English or just blatantly
corrupt in all sense of the word.

Unfortunately this is the CURRENT LAW IN MALAYSIA.

WITNESSES WILL BE FORCED TO TESTIFY AGAINST THEIR WILL 24-HOURS A DAY,
AND MANY HAD DIED DURING CUSTODY.

Unfortunately, suspected criminals are better treated. The law do not
allow the policemen to interrogate them 24-hours a day.

It is definitely better to be a criminal than to be a witness. My
advise is for all Malaysians, to keep quiet, if you want your peace
and livelihood to survive.

How low has Malaysia gone done towards the path of destruction.

How can a nation ever survive when violent CRIMINALS are better
treated than the WITNESSES.

The only conclusion we can deduce is that we have put into power,
CRIMINALS.
Tell me, how can Malaysia ever develop at all if CRIMINALS are running
the country.
Is the so called peace and development promised by criminals worth a
cent?

Look at the status of developoment of Sabah, the least developed in
the whole world, much less than Bangladesh indeed, as viewed by
Bangalis in Sabah.

We haven't looked at the high incidence of poverty in Sabah, among the
highest in the world as well.

Sabah, Malaysia, peaceful? Are you willing to bet on it by leaving
your children unattended?

http://bernama.com/bernama/v5/newsgeneral.php?id=463821

December 22, 2009 13:30 PM

Tan Boon Wah To Appeal Against Ruling On MACC Working Hours

PUTRAJAYA, Dec 22 (Bernama) -- Kajang municipal councillor Tan Boon
Wah on Tuesday filed a motion for leave to appeal against the Appeal
Court's ruling last week that the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission
(MACC) can interrogate witnesses after office hours.

Tan, 39, filed the motion and his sworn affidavit through his counsel,
Karpal Singh at the Federal Court registry here.

In the motion, Tan said the intended appeal was important as it
involved novel questions and issues arising for the first time in the
country and the Federal Court decision would be an advantage to the
public.

Tan also listed five questions to be determined by the court, among
others, whether the phrase 'day-to-day' under section 30(3)(a) of the
MACC Act 2009 encompasses only office hours or a continuous period of
24 hours.

Karpal Singh, when met by reporters, said he would write to the
Federal Court for an early date of hearing.

"This is a very serious matter, therefore it is important for the
Federal Court as the highest court to decide on this issue once and
for all," he said.

He also hoped that Attorney-General Tan Sri Abdul Gani Patail would
appear personally in the proceedings later. "There are far-reaching
consequences of the Appeal Court decision.

If the decision is right, it means that the MACC officers can come to
your house at 3am and you are required to go to MACC office to be
questioned. That situation is unacceptable.

"Witnesses will also be reluctant to come forward to give evidence
knowing that they will be harassed and questioned round-the-clock
continuously," he said.

On Dec 17, a panel of three Court of Appeal judges unanimously held
that Section 30(3)(a) of the MACC Act did not restrict to working
hours the time for a witness to be examined in an investigation.

Justices Datuk Hasan Lah, Datuk Ahmad Maarop and Datuk Syed Ahmad
Helmy Syed Ahmad also overturned the High Court decision restricting
the interrogation to office hours, between 8.30am and 5.30pm.

On Nov 19, High Court judge Mohammad Ariff Md Yusof, in allowing a
judicial review filed by Tan, ruled that Section 30(3)(a) of the MACC
Act 2009 did not empower the MACC to investigate a witness "round-the-
clock".

Tan had sued MACC chief commissioner Datuk Seri Ahmad Said Hamdan,
MACC assistant superintendent Mohammad Hassan Zulkifli and the MACC,
claiming that his detention and questioning for 16 hours overnight by
the MACC was unlawful, which resulted in him suffering losses and
damages.

-- BERNAMA

Will Historical facts, 16th of Sep, ever be acknowledged by Malayans disguising as Malaysians?

2009-10-19T07:48:00.001-07:00

Only after 46 years has the true date of the formation of Malaysia,
well documented in history books and documents and even the
constitution of Malaysia, has ever been recognised.

Many Malaysians even believe that Sabah got its independence on the
31st of August despite all the statements and pictures in history
books that British sovereignty over North Borneo will only cease on
the 16th of September. So how can Sabah be independent when British
officers still make the final decisions?

Maybe they don't realise that North Borneo was Sabah. Or don't
understand the meaning of sovereignty.

With so many years of the distortion of history in order to humiliate
Sabah, no wonder Sabah is among the poorest in the world. Bangladeshis
in Sabah are laughing over Sabahan claims of being developed right in
front of myself. Based on statistics, I believe they are right.

Even Darfur have towns that are better than many towns in Sabah. Have
you ever find any schools that don't have tables and chairs, except in
Sabah? Even Palestine, under heavy Israeli bombardments have better
schools and tables than schools in Kota Kinabalu, the capital of
Sabah, based on pictures of these Palestinian schools being bombed.

Malaysia Day on Sept 16 declared a public holiday
Husna Yusop

KUALA LUMPUR (Oct 19, 2009) : Beginning next year, Sept 16 will be
made a public holiday for the whole country in conjunction with the
Malaysia Day celebration, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Abdul Razak
declared in the Dewan Rakyat today.

He said the decision was made by the cabinet recently to have a twin
celebration for the country's national day.

"The Independence Day on Aug 31 reminds us of the struggle to achieve
independence from the colonialists and it will be celebrated with
various official functions like parade and others.

"Malaysia Day will be celebrated with programmes to strengthen unity,
promote inter-racial understanding, portray people's success and
accomplishment in sports, socio-culture, arts and others which will
lift up the spirit of 1Malaysia," he said.

In an immediate response, United Pasokmomogun Kadazandusun Murut
Organisation (UPKO) president Tan Sri Bernard Dompok who is Member of
Parliament for Penampang, applauded Najib's decision.

He said it is a historical fact that the Federation of Malaysia was
formed on Sept 16 1963 when the Federation of Malaya, Singapore,
Sarawak and Sabah mutually agreed to become a new nation.

"Malaysia, therefore, is only 46 years old. The 52 years of
independence is only for the Persekutuan Tanah Melayu or better known
today as Semenanjung.

"Some have tried to equate our position to that of the United States
of America. They argue that although other states like Hawaii joined
much later, the country dates its formation as 4th July 1776."

"Ours is of course very different because before 1963, there was no
Malaysia yet. There was only the Federation of Malaya and this
federation together with Singapore, Sarawak and Sabah negotiated to
set up a new country called Malaysia," he said.

"While we are happy to celebrate with Semenanjung their independence
from colonial rule on Aug 31 1963, I am sure all of you will agree
that it is indeed right and proper that all Malaysians celebrate this
year 46 years of nationhood," he added.

"We cannot distort history," said Dompok, who is also Minister of
Plantation Industries and Commodites.

He also stated that some national leaders seem to give the impression
that Malaysia was born on Aug 31, 1957.

"The level of awareness among Malaysians in Semenanjung on the
formation of Malaysia is lower than those in Sabah and Sarawak, so
much so they believe Malaya or Semenanjung is Malaysia," said Dompok
in his blog.

94.8% Sabahans disagree with 31 August

2009-08-28T20:30:00.000-07:00

Banggi Island of Sabah never benefited from Malaysia

2009-08-19T12:20:00.000-07:00

Banggi had suffered under 75% poverty rate since Malaysia, which is
more than 53 years as so called Malaysians would like to call it or
rather Malayans. Actually only 47 years after Sabah formed Malaysia
and never joined Malaysia at all, because Malaysia never existed
before that date, not even the name.

And yet this article bother to tittle itself as Banggi the benefector
of Malaysia?

Poverty rate is still 75% and it will take another 10 years before
this half baked ideas will take in and if other Felcra and Felda
schemes are to be viewed as a guide, NEVER. They will just become
slaves in perpetual debt because they are not even allowed to work on
their so called "LAND".

As to Electricty? It is still only SOLAR POWERED, meaning, not
reliable.

They don't even talk about water. There is no clean water supply in
Pulau Banggi and no road that you can think of. So you are still brave
enough to visit this island????

"Like many of the places that have undergone transformation since
Merdeka or after the formation of Malaysia, Pulau Banggi is finally
seeing light at the end of the tunnel with tarred roads, clean water
and electricity."

The tarred roads, clean water and electricty had existed even before
Malaysia or as this author like to state Merdeka which was in 1957,
when Sabah was still a British Colony.

In fact there are more of them under the British then after Malaysia.
It was not repaired properly and population had grown tremendously.
The water and electricity is still distributed around a small area of
Karakit, not throughout the island, and therefore will not benefit
most of the people. I never will expect poverty to drop significantly
below 75% in the foreseeable future, unless the government changed the
figures, just as 25% turned into 17% overnight.

August 18, 2009 14:28 PM

Residents Of Pulau Banggi The Benefactors Of Malaysia

By Kristy Inus

In conjunction with the Merdeka Month celebration.

KUDAT, Aug 18 (Bernama) -- About half a century ago Pulau Banggi in
Sabah was no more than a fishing enclave without any basic amenities.

However, after Sabah became part of Malaysia, Pulau Banggi located in
the waters of Kudat witnessed some transformation.

Pulau Banggi was officially declared as a district in 1975 but the
island of 14,000 people and 43 villages once had a dubious distinction
because 75 per cent of its population lived below the poverty line.

The majority of the people on the island is from the Ubian ethnic
group followed by the Dusun Banggi, Kegayan, Suluk and Bajau.

Previously the island dwellers were dependent on fishing and
subsistence farming but now they are making a transition into rubber
cultivation and working with Felcra Bhd, the agency entrusted with the
first agropolitan project on the island.

Like many of the places that have undergone transformation since
Merdeka or after the formation of Malaysia, Pulau Banggi is finally
seeing light at the end of the tunnel with tarred roads, clean water
and electricity.

THEN AND NOW

Even up to two years ago the dwellers here were using generators that
can only provide electricity up to 12 hours per day and even that is
restricted to the Karakit town fronting the jetty. But now villagers
in seven areas enjoy electricity for the whole day through the solar
hybrid system costing RM21 million.

If previously there were no piped water to the villages, today a
network of 36km of pipes provide clean water to eight villages and
there are also tarred roads.

The first phase of the Pulau Banggi Agropolitan Project launched in
2007 to eradicate hardcore poverty has been completed. The initial
phase covers 700 hectares of rubber plantation while the second phase
involves 1,100 hectares with 980 hectares already cleared for
planting.

Recently 100 heads of hardcore poor families in the island were
offered homes under the local community housing project (PPMS).

One of the recipients, Talhaja Junaidal, 49, noted that she is lucky
to receive the house and believed that it would help in providing for
her children's future.

The single mother of four before this was farming and sewing where she
earned up to RM400 per month. But now she is also paid RM18 for a
day's work in the Felcra's agropolitan project.

Talhaja said her old house at Kampung Kobong has no clean water or
electricity supply and when they move into their new house, her 25
year-old eldest son would also be participating in the agropolitan
project.

"I am more than happy. I am really thankful, this is a sign of good
tidings and hope they will continue.

"This time I got a job and more or less a permanent one, I hope to see
more benefits after the agropolitan project brings return to the
participants," she said.

THANKFUL

Abdullah Sulaiman, 45, from Kampung Perpaduan, noted that the
residents of Pulau Banggi have always yearned for a better life by
getting into the mainstream of development.

"Before Sabah became part of Malaysia there was nothing here, almost
no facilities or employment opportunities...we lived hands to mouth.
Thus we are very happy looking at the situation now.

"We not only want to see the current generation benefiting from the
agropolitan project but also our future generations," said the father
of 10.

A civil servant from the Banggi People Development Leader's Unit
(UPKR), Amir Hamzah, 46, observed that the difference now and then is
evident to anyone living here.

Amir who was born and bred on this island stated that if previously
they had to depend on the sea for a living, including him, now they
are many employment opportunities on this island.

"I even started working with UPKR from this year, last year I was
still a fisherman. So we have to be thankful to Felcra for
contributing to the well-being of the people," added Amir.

PULAU BANGGI ASSURED OF DEVELOPMENT

Rural and Regional Development Minister Datuk Seri Mohd Shafie Apdal
during his recent working visit to Pulau Banggi conveyed another good
news to the residents, their request for a multipurpose hall in
Kampung Karakit has been granted.

He is happy with the infrastructure development on the island and
hoped that the islanders would soon be free from the shackles of
poverty.

"Many years ago when I came here as a government official, Pulau
Banggi was not like this...the efforts to develop land and transform
the people takes time.

He pointed out that many of the agropolitan projects in Peninsula are
already bearing fruits with the project participants increasing their
income from RM200 a month to RM1,000 and RM1,300 per month.

He advised the residents here who find it difficult to make a
transition from sea base economic activities to land based activities,
not to give up halfway because there is a greater reward in the long-
term.

The people in Pulau Banggi now have every reason to smile as they are
slowly coming out from the vicious cycle of poverty, all within the
spirit of Merdeka that promised a better future for everyone.

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Not toilet at the most beautiful beach

2009-06-13T16:09:00.001-07:00

You can see the picture of our toilet at sabahcolonised.blogspot.com

Rubbish is everywhere especially non-biodegradable plastic bottles.

That is why I urge my family and friends to enjoy Kulambu Beach while
it is still enjoyable. Sooner or later it will be turned to Batu Sapi,
that used to be even more beautiful but now among the ugliest in the
whole world.

Bak-bak beach may look beautiful with its calm sea but Kudat Beach was
much better. It was just next to Kudat Town with white sandy beaches.

Kudat has a calm sea because it is within Marudu bay, but Batu Sapi is
even calmer because it is within Sandakan bay, and Batu Sapi is an
island just like Kulambu island.

One Malaysia is all a lie

2009-06-13T15:57:00.000-07:00

What more proof do you need to be shown?

United Nations have already recognised Sabah as among the poorest and highest income gap in the world.

United States condemn Sabah as tghe worst centre for Human Slavery.
Malaysia is one of 3, but 80% cases are in Sabah, which makes Sabah the worst with 100% certainty.

'Cabotage policy should be liberalised further'

Published on: Thursday, June 11, 2009

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Kota Kinabalu: The Federation of Sabah Manufacturers (FSM) on Wednesday thanked the Government for taking the first step to liberalise the cabotage policy which has been in existence for almost 30 years but said it did not go far enough.

Its President, Datuk Wong Ken Thau, said the policy has directly or indirectly affected the livelihood of the people of Sabah as well as industries all these years.

"The Federation hoped this would lead to more liberalisation in the near future," he said after chairing a meeting following the selective liberalisation of the policy at Wisma Tun Fuad Stephens, here.

It was participated by its council members comprising the presidents and chairmen of all chambers of commerce and industry, furniture association, and timber industries association, among others.

The Government last week agreed to liberalise the policy for containerised transhipment cargoes for sectors between Sepanggar, Bintulu, Kuching and Tanjung Pelepas and vice-versa.

The selective liberalisation will allow foreign vessels to carry containerised transhipment cargoes between the above sectors without the need for a domestic shipping licence, the Ministry of Transport said in a statement.

The liberalisation gives an opportunity for importers and exporters in Sabah and Sarawak, as well as industries, to enjoy a low fare cost due to competition in the shipping transportation sector, which can be translated into cheaper price of consumer goods and industrial needs.

The liberalisation came into effect on June 3. Before that (liberalisation) foreign vessels (foreign shipping companies) were not allowed to take in Malaysian goods that were produced in Peninsular Malaysia to bring them to Sabah.

"Likewise foreign vessels were not allowed to take goods produced in Sabah to Tanjung Pelepas or Port KelangÉthese so-called domestic trade was only allowed for local vessels/Malaysian-owned shipping vessels," said Wong.

With the implementation of the liberalisation of the cabotage policy, he said foreign vessels are allowed to pick up goods from Peninsular Malaysia or Port Kelang to Sabah but "it only involves the containerised transhipment goods."

"Containerised transhipment goods means goods which transit in Port Kelang from foreign ports/countries awaiting other vessels to take them to Sabah. This means foreign vessels are allowed to pick up from Port Kelang goods which are not manufactured in Peninsular Malaysia but only that coming from overseasÉso these are the goods the foreign vessels now can take to Sabah," he said.

So the liberalisation of the policy does not apply to locally-manufactured goods from the peninsula, he said, adding before and after the introduction of the liberalisation of the policy foreign vessels cannot take goods from the peninsula to Sabah.

In other words, liberalisation of the policy only covers containerised transhipment goods which come from overseas and land in Port Kelang, and not locally manufactured goods from the peninsula.

Only Malaysian flagged ships are allowed to take locally-manufactured goods from the peninsula to Sabah, he added.

"That means this liberalisation of the cabotage policy only involves a small segmentÉ I do not think it is going to benefit us very much at this point of time, because we know the containerised transhipment goods from the peninsula to Sabah is very limitedÉthere are not many such goods coming in to the State, actually probably less than 200 containers per month, or probably less than that," he said.

The Federation hoped the Government can have greater liberalisation on this sector, because due to the load problem "I don't think any foreign vessel would like to come in to just take such goods to Sabah or Sarawak...it is unlikely to happen, and the chances of lowering the prices of freight may probably take a longer time until we have enough containerised transhipment goods."

"So we hope the government actually can liberalise further so as to allow goods made in the peninsula to be carried by foreign vessels to SabahÉthat is our hope, that the government can further relax or further open up, further liberalise, so that foreign vessels can be allowed to carry locally-manufactured goods from the peninsula to Sabah, and vice versa," he said.

He said the Federation knows it is the Government's intention to also take care of the Malaysian shipping industry and help ensure its continued survival, but hoped under the spirit of 1Malaysia the Government would not forget the industries in Sabah and the consumers here.

"Facts I get from the Malaysian Shipping Association (Masa) show the shipping industry in Malaysia has grown from four ships to 3,400 ships, but unfortunately our manufacturing sector contribution to the State's GDP (gross domestic products) has dropped from 25% to only 9% today," he said.

"We hope that by supporting the shipping industry there will be another formula to assist the local industries here, or make Sabah more conducive to foreign investment so as to make Sabah more cheaper for foreign investment", he said.

At the same time if the Government find it difficult to open up (allow foreign vessels to take locally-manufactured goods from the peninsula to Sabah and vice versa) because of the shipping industry, he said the Federation suggests the government to make the Port of Sepanggar the official international hub port for this region.

"By doing so I think we can attract more cargo and containers to come direct to Sabah," he said.

Secondly he said the Federation also hoped the State government can look seriously into setting up a Yayasan Sabah shipping line or for it to be involved in the shipping industry, by getting the support of a Federal grant especially under the Sabah Development Corridor (SDC).

He said they also hoped the government can look seriously into setting up a board or a monitoring body to look into the transparency of the so-called high freight charges as well as the other charges involved, so as to ensure the business and manufacturing sectorsare not affected by the adjustment.

The Federation also suggests the government can look into giving a matching grant or subsidy to be created for importers and exporters in Sabah, to let the local industries get involved more actively in the export/import business in foreign countries to ensure their survival.

Wong said they have also often received complaints about the shipping vessels that have going around this sector (Sabah) as being not very efficient because they are rather old.

"This may increase the vessel maintenance and other costs. The shipping industries, if they have made more money, they should give back to the industries to make it more effectiveÉif not we suggest they look into the policy of merging some of these shipping companies, so that they will be more efficient when unloading their cargo in our ports here," he said.

He said the Federation hoped the government will once and for all review the national cabotage policy because the time has come to review it thoroughly so that it will benefit all industries, not only the shipping industry.

"In the spirit of 1Malaysia, we hope the government can review this. Let's not make a policy that will only benefit one or two industries," he said.

The Federation also thanked Transport Minister Datuk Ong Tee Keat and others leaders at both Federal and State levels as well as all the chambers and associations for their effort in the liberalisation of the cabotage policy.

"We welcome it simply because this is the first step, after so many years we have been fighting for it.

So this is a breakthrough or something like that.

For the first time the government has decided to respond to our request."

"The shipping industry is also a very important industry, we accept the fact. At the same time we also need to make sure that when the government protects the shipping industry it should not also forget the other industries especially in Sabah," he said.

No toilet at the most beautiful beach

2009-06-13T15:54:00.000-07:00

This is the only toilet that you'll ever get.

Soon there will be no voting in Malaysia

2009-05-22T19:53:00.001-07:00

Those of you who hate voting will realise your dreams. The recent
appeal court has decided that it is not necessary to vote in order to
make a decision regarding "confidence of the majority" since there is
no mention of it in the phrase that any voting is required.

Similarly for all elections. There is no such word in the phrase in
determining that an assembly man has the confidence of the registered
voters which is to be decided by the Election Commission.

You may argue that votes are to be counted in an election but
similarly for all elected house assemblies. Votes should be counted.
Now a show of hand is sufficient. Similarly for the Election
Commission just because there is no word in the sentence that voting
is required in order to determine the person who has the confidence of
the voters.

The court is very clear in stating that this applies only to the Perak
Assembly which implies that the Federal Assembly is a different case
but the wordings of these constitutions and Election acts are similar.
There are no specific words which state that voting is required in
order to determine the person who has the confidence of the voters or
members.

Of course it should not be applied to all cases, but what stops the
judges from declaring similar judgements? Nothing at all.

Many of you will be happy that you don't even have to vote. Maybe just
write a piece of letter or petition in return for huge sums of money.
It will be more beneficial for most Malaysian voters and much cheaper
for the Election Commissions.

Hasn't the Elections Commissions and especially BN government
complained that Elections COST TOO MUCH??? Many voters even complained
the voting is too much hassle and costly.

Soon your wish will be answered. But Malaysian will fall into the
drain much worse than Zimbabwe because even Zimbabwean judges dare not
make such a judgement, and voting is still practised despite all the
costs in money and lives.

Reasons why Malaysian Judiciary is Unfair

2009-05-21T23:34:00.001-07:00

http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/index.php/opinion/hanipa-maidin/26826-perplexing-judiciary-in-perak-lawsuit

The Malaysian Insider
Friday May 22 2009
Mohamed Hanipa Maidin sits on the Pas central committee and is the Pas
legal adviser. He is also a lawyer who blogs at peguampas.
blogspot.com
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Perplexing judiciary in Perak lawsuit

MAY 18 — As of today it is undisputable that Datuk Seri Zambry Abdul
Kadir is a confirmed unlawful mentri besar of Perak. On the other hand
Datuk Seri Nizar Jamaluddin is a confirmed lawful mentri besar of
Perak. That is the gist of the high court's decision delivered by
Justice Datuk Abdul Aziz on May 11, 2009.

How about the stay order granted by a single Judge of the court of
Appeal on May 12, 2009 ? Does the stay order invalidate the high
court's decision? The short answer is a resounding no.

The stay order merely bars the lawful mentri besar from carrying out
his lawful duties and in turn allows the unlawful mentri besar to
continue performing his unlawful duties. That is the gist of the court
of appeal's decision delivered on May 12, 2009.

When the high court judge made a decision allowing all the prayers
sought by Nizar in his judicial review application, the learned high
court judge, to his credit, gave a reasoned judgment.

Therein he discussed in great detail all the points canvassed by all
parties in their respective submissions. Armed with such a reasoned
decision, the people are not kept in the dark as to the reasons why
Nizar won the suit.

On the contrary there were glaring absences of reason as to why the
stay order was granted to Zambry thus the court of appeal has kept the
people in the dark. Justice demands a reasoned judgment from the court
whenever it allows or dismisses any application made by any litigants.

In all Perak suits which have landed in the highest court so far,
neither the court of appeal nor the Federal court paid attention to
this vital aspect of the court's process namely the preparation of
reasoned judgments.

No judgment was prepared when the court of appeal allowed V.
Sivakumar's appeal against the decision of Ridzuan J. denying
Sivakumar's right of appointing his own solicitors.

When the court of appeal dismissed Nizar's appeal against the decision
of Justice Lau Bee Lan which allowed the Attorney General's
application to refer Nizar's suit to the Federal court, the court of
appeal also failed to write any grounds of judgment.

When the Federal court overturned Lau Bee Lan's decision allowing the
Attorney General's application to refer Nizar's suit to the Federal
court, the apex court could not be bothered to prepare written grounds
of judgment setting out the reasons why the high court's decisions
deserved to be reversed.

The request made by Nizar's lawyers for a written judgment was only
met with the following reply by our judiciary : " the court will not
provide any ground of judgment."

It is common knowledge especially amongst the legal fraternity that
the issue cropped up in the Federal court involved a very important
and fascinating constitutional issue. The utter failure of the apex
court to prepare a reasoned judgment in such an important case speaks
volumes of judicial dexterity.

When the Federal court allowed Zambry's suit against Sivakumar, once
again the Federal court did not write any written judgment. Everybody
was expecting that the Federal court would prepare a reasoned decision
for such an important decision.

After all the Federal court disregarded the doctrine of separation of
powers thus nullified the earlier five judgments given by Malaysian
judges of impeccable integrity. Unfortunately no reasons were given as
to why the court came to that finding.

In view of the above scenario, it came as no surprise when Datuk Ramly
J. failed to prepare any written judgment when he granted the order of
stay favouring Zambry. To date we are unable to know what are the
special circumstances necessitating the grant of such a stay order.

The argument that if Nizar was not barred from acting as a lawful
mentri besar , he would dissolve the state assembly is, with due
respect, misconceived in law. It presupposes the power to dissolve the
state assembly is vested in Nizar. Definitely such a reason does not
qualify as special circumstance justifying the order of stay.

Perak crisis has attracted media frenzy domestically.

The lawsuit deals with many constitutional issues of great
consequence. In other jurisdictions one would expect the court in
particular the apex court takes pride in preparing a ground of
judgment.

Writing a ground of judgment is part of judicial process hence it must
be seen as a sacrosanct duty and exalted task. Unfortunately the Perak
lawsuit seems to suggest that this vital judicial exercise is no
longer seen as a lofty act done with profound enthusiasm.

When the highest courts of the land failed to prepare a judgment in
such an important lawsuit , the only conclusion which may be
justifiably drawn is that the courts are not fully confident to share
the reasons with the people at large.

The old adage that justice must not only be done but must manifestly
be seen to be done has unfortunately escaped the attention of our
judiciary.

It is germane here to share the following sentiment of former Lord
President Tun Salleh Abas when he gave the following advice to his
then judicial brethren

"We hope that Judges should endeavour to write their grounds of
decision and take delight in this aspect of judicial work as a matter
of personal pride and satisfaction and not as a burden. Failure on the
part of judges to write their grounds of decision will certainly
undermine their authority to insist upon magistrates and presidents of
sessions court to write theirs. If the practice of not writing grounds
of judgment is widespread the system of administration of justice will
tumble down."

Nizar and by extension the people of Perak are not only perplexed by
the failure of the court to prepare a judgment but also overwhelmed by
the conduct of our judiciary in failing to fix an early date for
Nizar's application to set aside the stay order.

The judiciary is bound to explain to the public why Zambry could
easily get the hearing date on the same day he filed his application
for a stay of execution. Zambry filed his application on May 12 and
obtained the hearing date and in turn the stay order on the same date.

Nizar filed his application on May 14 and was only given the hearing
date on May 18 despite having a certificate of urgency. The hearing
date which was initially fixed on May 18 was subsequently changed to
May 21 — the same day the hearing of Zambry's appeal. If this is not
discriminatory, please do tell what is?

By fixing Nizar's application on the same day of Zambry's appeal, the
people perceive that that the rule of the game has been unduly
changed. It is no longer seen as a fair game governed by transparent
and unbiased umpire.

The public perception is that that the umpire namely the court is seen
to be more sympathetic to Zambry than Nizar. The court should have
avoided doing something which led to such a negative perception.

The people need to know why the court failed to appreciate the urgency
of Nizar's application as it did to Zambry so much so Nizar's
application has now become academic and fruitless. Why there is a need
to have Nizar's application heard on May 21 when Zambry's appeal is
also fixed on the same date. Like it or not, this is a mockery of the
first order.

Whatever reasons given by our judiciary on such a regrettable
incidence, it is very hard for the people to believe that the dented
image of our judiciary has been duly and fully repaired. Under such
circumstances, can the people be faulted if they have misgivings about
our judiciary?

Re: War it will be

2009-05-16T20:45:00.001-07:00

On May 16, 12:13 pm, "samsuddin" <samsud...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Islam
>
> No comment - just read, absorb it and pass it on.
>

These are the facts of the so called imposed Islam as practised by
Karzai in Afghanistan and UMNO in Malaysia.

In Malaysia, the so called Islamic has created the poorest region on
earth although the richest in oil revenues, i.e. Sabah, Trengganu and
Sarawak whereas, Kelantan, rules by PAS, a more fundamentalist Islamic
government has prospered well despite lacking in resources.

The West had been supporting these false Islam in the Gulf States,
Shah of Iran, Iraq, UMNO of Malaysia, Karzai of Afghanistan creating
all the social ills such as poverty(among the worst in the world),
slavery(Malaysian is among the worst offender) and gap in income, that
are caused by lack of morality that led to corruption and plain theft.

What made it worse is that the western nations used to allow free flow
of the ill-gotten wealth of these corrupt so called Islamic regimes,
into their nation's economy until recently with the introduction of
anti-moneylaundering acts.

These anti money laundering acts had nothing to do with helping the
true Muslims but in controlling terrorism, especially Islamic Freedom
Fighters(called terrorists by the west) that want to expel these
corrupt
so-called Islamic regimes by attacking their main sponsors, the
western world.

They have achieved their aim with the introduction of the anti-money
laundering acts in most of the world. Now these corrupt leaders have
to justify their income and therefore cannot freely move their ill-
gotten wealth to the western nations to be spent and enjoyed.

They have to build these luxuries right at home so that they can enjoy
their wealth, instead of just plundering the wealth of their homeland
to be enjoyed in the more developed nations.

The very clear example is Sudan, a false Islamic state that condone
murder and rape in their genocide of Darfur. It is becoming more
developed than Malaysia, at least at Khartoum, which is similar to
Kuala Lumpur of Malaysia.

Of course, the role of the ICC(International Criminal Court) is
probably higher than the role of the anti-money laundering acts, in
the case of Sudan.

> Islam is not a religion, nor is it a cult. In its fullest form, it is a
> complete, total,100% system of life.
>
> Islam has religious, legal, political, economic, social, and military
> components. The religious component is a beard for all of the other
> components.
>
> Islamization begins when there are sufficient Muslims in a country to
> agitate for their religious privileges.
>
> When politically correct, tolerant, and culturally diverse societies agree
> to Muslim demands for their religious privileges, some of the other
> components tend to creep in as well.
>
> Here's how it works:
>
> As long as the Muslim population remains around or under2% in any given
> country, they will be, for the most part, be regarded as a peace-loving
> minority, and not as a threat to other citizens. This is the case in:
>
> United States -- Muslim0.6%
> Australia -- Muslim1.5%
> Canada -- Muslim1.9%
> China -- Muslim1.8%
> Italy -- Muslim1.5%
> Norway -- Muslim1.8%
>
> At2% to5%, they begin to proselytize from other ethnic minorities and
> disaffected groups, often with major recruiting from the jails and among
> street gangs. This is happening in:
>
> Denmark -- Muslim2%
> Germany -- Muslim3.7%
> United Kingdom -- Muslim2.7%
> Spain -- Muslim4%
> Thailand -- Muslim4.6%
>
> From5% on, they exercise an inordinate influence in proportion to their
> percentage of the population. For example, they will push for the
> introduction of halal (clean by Islamic standards) food, thereby securing
> food preparation jobs for Muslims. They will increase pressure on
> supermarket chains to feature halal on their shelves -- along with threats
> for failure to comply. This is occurring in:
>
> France -- Muslim8%
> Philippines -- Muslim5%
> Sweden -- Muslim5%
> Switzerland -- Muslim4.3%
> The Netherlands -- Muslim5.5%
> Trinidad & Tobago -- Muslim5.8%
>
> At this point, they will work to get the ruling government to allow them to
> rule themselves (within their ghettos) under Sharia, the Islamic Law. The
> ultimate goal of Islamists is to establish Sharia law over the entire
> world.!
>
> When Muslims approach10% of the population, they tend to increase
> lawlessness as a means of complaint about their conditions. In Paris , we
> are already seeing car-burnings. Any non-Muslim action offends Islam, and
> results in uprisings and threats, such as in Amsterdam , with opposition
> to Mohammed cartoons and films about Islam. Such tensions are seen daily,
> particularly in Muslim sections, in:
>
> Guyana -- Muslim10%
> India -- Muslim13.4%
> Israel -- Muslim16%
> Kenya -- Muslim10%
> Russia -- Muslim15%
>
> After reaching20% , nations can expect hair-trigger rioting, jihad militia
> formations, sporadic killings, and the burnings of Christian churches and
> Jewish synagogues, such as in:
>
> Ethiopia -- Muslim32.8%
>
> At40% , nations experience widespread massacres, chronic terror attacks,
> and ongoing militia warfare, such as in:
>
> Bosnia -- Muslim40%
> Chad -- Muslim53.1%
> Lebanon -- Muslim59.7%
>
> From60% , nations experience unfettered persecution of non-believers of all
> other religions (including non-conforming Muslims), sporadic ethnic
> cleansing (genocide), use of Sharia Law as a weapon, and Jizya, the tax
> placed on infidels, such as in:
>
> Albania -- Muslim70%
> Malaysia -- Muslim60.4%
> Qatar -- Muslim77.5%
> Sudan -- Muslim70%
>
> After80% , expect daily intimidation and violent jihad, some State-run
> ethnic cleansing, and even some genocide, as these nations drive out the
> infidels, and move toward100% Muslim, such as has been experienced and in
> some ways is on-going in:
>
> Bangladesh -- Muslim83%
> Egypt -- Muslim90%
> Gaza -- Muslim98.7%
> Indonesia -- Muslim86.1%
> Iran -- Muslim98%
> Iraq -- Muslim97%
> Jordan -- Muslim92%
> Morocco -- Muslim98.7%
> Pakistan -- Muslim97%
> Palestine -- Muslim99%
> Syria -- Muslim90%
> Tajikistan -- Muslim90%
> Turkey -- Muslim99.8%
> United Arab Emirates -- Muslim96%
>
> 100% will usher in the peace of 'Dar-es-Salaam' -- the Islamic House of
> Peace. Here there's supposed to be peace, because everybody is a Muslim, the
> Madrasses are the only schools, and the Koran is the only word, such as in:
>
> Afghanistan -- Muslim100%
> Saudi Arabia -- Muslim100%
> Somalia -- Muslim100%
> Yemen -- Muslim100%
>
> Unfortunately, peace is never achieved, as in these100% states the most
> radical Muslims intimidate and spew hatred, and satisfy their blood lust by
> killing less radical Muslims, for a variety of reasons.
>
> 'Before I was nine I had learned the basic canon of Arab life. It was me
> against my brother; me and my brother against our father; my family against
> my cousins and the clan; the clan against the tribe; the tribe against the
> world, and all of us against the infidel. -- Leon Uris, 'The Haj'
>
> It is important to understand that in some countries, with well under100%
> Muslim populations, such as France, the minority Muslim populations live in
> ghettos, within which they are100% Muslim, and within which they live by
> Sharia Law. The national police do not even enter these ghettos. There are
> no national courts, nor schools, nor non-Muslim religious facilities. In
> such situations, Muslims do not integrate into the community at large. The
> children attend madrasses. They learn only the Koran. To even associate with
> an infidel is a crime punishable with death. Therefore, in some areas of
> certain nations, Muslim Imams and extremists exercise more
> power than the national average would indicate.
>
> Today's1.5billion Muslims make up22% of the world's population. But their
> birth rates dwarf the birth rates of Christians, Hindus, Buddhists, Jews,
> and all other believers. Muslims will exceed50% of the world's population
> by the end of this century at their current rate of
> reproduction.
>
> Adapted from Dr. Peter Hammond's book: Slavery, Terrorism and Islam: The
> Historical Roots and Contemporary Threat
>
> This is scary. Here is some serious reading for serious thinkers.
>
> Now that you know, what we will do with this knowledge?
>
> Robin Kanarek5Cliff Road
> Greenwich, CT06830
> Home:203-869-1648
> Cell:203-962-1908
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Pictures of Sudan and Darfur

2009-05-15T21:07:00.000-07:00

These are pictures of Sudan taken from blog, http://saharanvibe.blogspot.com/
Khartum Palace :

Khartum:

Alsunut:

These are pictures taken from frames in Darfur Today:

Geneina in Darfur:

A town in Darfur. Note the electricity poles. So they have electricity. Many villages in Sabah do not have electricity. Even small towns like Pensiangan and Sukau only have a few hours of electricity. In fact the whole of Sabah is suffering from frequent blackouts.

Near Jabal Marra where the Darfur rebels are fighting. Note the large advertisement boards and multi-storey buildings. It is just like any major town in Sabah execpt for the roads. It is still earth but appear to be passable. Unlike gravel roads in Sabah that are full of holes.

World actions led to Sudan's Developments

2009-05-15T20:55:00.001-07:00

These are very good comments on the sufferings of the all-muslims
Darfur citizens.

I have made comments at this blog but failed to copy them.

Let me add some more:

The warrant of arrest against Omar Bashir and others didn't allow them
to transport money and wealth out of their nations which they are
plundering. Although we may fail to indict them, but at least the
sufferings of the people should be much less.

We should do the same with Myanmar and Israel.

Israel may be difficult because of US support for these war criminals
since it is also protecting its own war criminals. Just pray that US
will change its mind and join the ICC.

Anti-money laundering, which is actually devised to stop terrorism,
actually helped citizens because their leaders cannot just export
their ill gotten wealth overseas or domestically without international
repercussions.

http://saharanvibe.blogspot.com/2007/05/is-sudan-next-power-house-in-africa.html

photographer said...

"African" Liz and those weighing in,

You are naive to the point of approaching blindness if you cannot
(or are perhaps unwilling to) connect the dots between years of
marginalization and persecution at the hands of the very same rouge
regime you are touting here as an up and coming African power-house
and the new development in Khartoum.

This will be nothing more than a playground for Sudan's
conscientiously flexible elite to entertain the representative of
multinational corporations while they all become wealthier securing
future development and international trade deals.

Are you aware that for years the populations living on oil rich
ground in south Sudan were bombed off their lands so their government
could exhume the crude beneath the bodies of those not quick enough to
escape and all the while strategically deny them access to education
and a voice in government? This government has a track record nearing
three decades long for conducting scorched-earth campaigns on it's own
people because it could not maintain it's grip on power and wealth
while providing for the needs of it's people. It was a simple matter
of choice and the capacity to live with themselves after.

Now, after years of oil revenues enabling the buildup of "defense"
forces designed to suppress the populous, surpluses afford this regime
the capacity and therefore opportunity (some might say obligation) to
tend to the needs of the destroyed population remaining. Yet they
still choose to indulge themselves with a modernity beyond the means
of a responsible government in their position, while living with
themselves following decades of shameful choices seems within reach on
the eve of turning their capitol city into a gated community.

They cannot be praised for this, and the millions of dead,
diseased and displaced, whose shortened miserable lives paved the way
for this "development" must not be merely a parenthetical footnote. As
a documentary photographer, I have lived countless days through the
hell, which lies in the wake of nearly two and a half decades of
brutal "civil" wars by other means. I have followed in the footsteps
of the population of Southern Sudan whose lives lie shattered and
strewn across the Central and East African landscape. I have been to
Darfur. You should go to the new south Sudan and see the myth of
tranquility you've heard about.

This development project, multinational corporate boardrooms, and
yes Khartoum are the new frontlines of the war threatening to
exterminate the precedence of Genocide.

As an artist, I have chosen as a platform for illustration the
latest in a series of genocidal positions taken by those governing who
would choose the protection of natural resource revenues over that of
it's people.

We all have to make choices we can live with.
January 16, 2008 5:03 PM

Sabah is as poor as Darfur

2009-05-12T06:30:00.001-07:00

Darfur:
Taken from Darfun Today DVD.

Their houses are made of stone and their clothes are proper.

And this is a population is undergoing genocide with many being killed.

Sabah:

Look at the houses in Sabah. Rusty zinc roofs and no proper sewer. These are not Filipinos because they are right in towns.

These houses may have electricty but just imagine the conditions of these houses when they are far from towns. They also won't have electricity and water.

Similarly for Darfun. In towns, their houses are just as big and beautiful as in Sabah.

I had problems earlier with the image capture from DVD play. Later on I shall compare towns in Sabah and Darfur.

Both Darfur and Sabah are oil producing regions.

Re: A stay given to Zambry, is a stay of M'sian justice

2009-05-12T04:00:00.001-07:00

On May 12, 6:14 pm, "FWF" <JN...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> a legally elected representative to be MB, is given by the court over right
> to a thief
>
> the thief can appeal but the thief has no right until his appeal is heard
>
> however here in malaysia a thief is given the right over the person he stole
>
> by a court who decided the matter in a second
>
> GOODBYE MALAYSIAN JUDICIARY

A very strange way of justice in Malaysian courts.

Nizar was the original Chief Minister. Zambri had been elected
illegally as judged by the High Court of Malaysia

When Nizar applied for a stay of execution, i.e. delaying the
appointment of Zambri based on dubious circumstances, Nizar, the
original Chief Minister elected by the people and officially appointed
by the Sultan of Perak, was denied.

When Nizar finally got the court verdict, that Nizar is the actual
Chief Minister, he is prevented from assuming office because a stay of
execution order was awarded to Zambri, the thief of the original post.

Just imagine having a thief who stole your house by forcefully
evicting you from your house. When you go to court to reclaim your
property, the court does not allow you the right to enter your own
house, despite protesting that the thief is illegally occupying your
house.

When you finally won a judgement, that the house is actually yours,
the court now allows the thief to continue staying and enjoying your
house, while the court process is still in process. You should know
that court processes in Malaysia can take ages to finish. The thief
can continue occupying your house illegally, while you, the original
rightful owner is denied the rights to that house.

You don't call this justice any more. More like a Kangaroo court.

If you read this news, please note that Zambri is not the "staus quo",
Nizar was.

http://www.nst.com.my/Current_News/NST/Tuesday/Frontpage/20090512173212/Article/index_html

PERAK CRISIS: Nizar seeks audience with Ruler to dissolve assembly
By : M. Husairy Othman, Jaspal Singh & P. Chandra Sagaran
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KUALA KANGSAR, Tues:

Datuk Seri Nizar Jamaluddin has sent a letter through an aide to Perak
Regent Raja Dr Nazrin Shah today to seek an audience and ask for the
dissolution of the state assembly.
"The letter was sent over to Istana Kinta in Ipoh at 8am today," he
said after attending an investiture in conjunction with the Sultan of
Perak Sultan Azlan Shah's 81st birthday at Istana Iskandariah here.

This was the first official function he attended after being declared
as the rightful Menteri Besar by the Kuala Lumpur High Court on
Monday.

Earlier, Nizar and his wife Datin Seri Fatimah Taat arrived at the
palace in the official Menteri Besar's Toyota Camry bearing the
registration number AGS 10 at 8.30am.

In the palace, he had a brief chat with state secretary Datuk Dr Abdul
Rahman Hashim and newly-appointed speaker Datuk R. Ganesan.
Speaking to reporters as he was leaving the palace, Nizar said: "I am
seeking an appointment date after which I will speak on the
dissolution of the assembly to the Regent."

When asked whether he had discussed the matter with Raja Nazrin at the
palace, he said they only spoke on the investiture and family matters.

Meanwhile, copies of letters sent to Abdul Rahman and state legal
adviser Datuk Ahmad Kamal Shahid on their suspension by Pakatan Rakyat
on Monday night have been pinned up at all notice boards at the state
secretariat building.

They were suspended from their duties and barred from going to their
offices with immediate effect.

The letter dated on May 12 and signed by Nizar also stated that state
financial officer Datuk Jamalludin Al Amini Ahmad would carry out the
duties of state secretary.

However, the suspensions were later overturned after Zambry won the
stay of execution at the Court of Appeal, in which he announced that
the Perak state administration has returned to status quo.

Fwd: Malaya will have cheap electricity but not Sarawak and Sabah

2009-04-26T19:50:00.001-07:00

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: "Ir. Hj. Othman bin Hj. Ahmad" <othm...@lycos.com>
Date: Apr 27, 10:49 am
Subject: Malaya will have cheap electricity but not Sarawak and Sabah
To: soc.culture.malaysia

Malaya does not need to build polluting power plants but Sarawak and
Sabah will still need to build polluting coal powered plants despite
being so near to Bakun compared to Malaya, or is it Malaysia.

The resources of Sabah and Sarawak are only to be enjoyed by
Malaysians, but certainly Sabah and Sarawak had never been considered
as Malaysia.

http://my.ebay.com.my/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?MyMessagesFolderView&&FClassic...

Go-ahead for Sabah-Johor undersea electricity cable
By STEPHEN THEN

MIRI: At least10,000megawatts of electricity from the RM6bill-Bakun
hydro-electric dam project in central Sarawak will be supplied to
peninsula Malaysia so that every states there will have adequate and
uninterrupted supply of power for households and industries.

The Cabinet has decided that the undersea-power transmission cable
project between the southern tip of Sarawak and Johor must proceed so
that energy from Bakun can be channeled via the bed of the South China
Sea to Johor and then to the rest of peninsula Malaysia.

Energy, Green Technology and Water Minister Datuk Peter Chin Fah Kui
said the Cabinet during its recent meeting agreed that it would be
better to undertake the undersea-power cable project rather than to
continue building new power plants in the peninsula states.

''Over the long term, it will be more economical and viable to
transmit power from Bakun to peninsula Malaysia even though the
undersea-cable project would be very costly.

''This project will ensure that folks in peninsula Malaysia get
constant and adequate supply of electricity at a rate that would be
much better compared to what they will have to pay if we (Government)
were to allow more power plants to be build in the states in the
peninsula.

''The costs of having to build more power plants in peninsula states
will be much more as compared to the costs of the undersea-cable
project,'' he said when interviewed after presenting grants for minor
projects at the Sarawak United People's Party here.

Chin said that the10,000MWs from Bakun should be enough to meet the
needs of the whole of the peninsula, but stressed that the amount
could be increased as and when the needs arise.

The great benefit of hydro-power is that it can be increased when
needed, he said, pointing out that Sarawak itself will have an
abundant source of hydro-power that will be enough to meet not just
the nation's needs, but also the needs of regional countries.

Asked who will handle the undersea-cable project, Chin said a joint-
venture would be undertaken by Tenaga Nasional Bhd and Sarawak
Elctricity Board to carry out the job.

The cost of the undersea-cable project has not been finalised as yet,
he said, adding that the rates at which power would be sold to the
peninsula is also being worked out.

Bakun is expected to be operational by2011.

''Sarawak will sell to Kalimantan, Sabah and even the southern
Philippines as well because there will be much electricity to be
generated not only from Bakun, but also from the other hydro-dams that
will be build under the Sarawak Corridor of Renewable Energy (SCORE)
project,'' he said.

Chin said Sarawak will have the capacity to generate electricity
reserve of up to28,000Mws from the SCORE project.

Further violations of Malaysia Agreement means that Malaysia is dissolved

2009-04-22T07:06:00.001-07:00

Even if the inconsistent Federal Court of Malaysia were to decide that
Malaysian Agreement has no bearing on the Constitution of Malaysia,
there is the International Court, and the courts of many nations such
as UK and Spain that will uphold justice all over the world.

http://www.dailyexpress.com.my/news.cfm?NewsID=64416

Sabah's safeguards retained

Published on: Wednesday, April 22, 2009

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Kota Kinabalu: The Federal Court has decided that only advocates
admitted to the High Court of Sabah and Sarawak may appear and argue
cases when the Appellate Courts sitting in Putrajaya hear appeals
originating from the two States.

Sabah Law Association (SLA) President Datuk John Sikayun, in a
statement, Tuesday, said the Federal Court's judgement had also
cleared the air as to whether advocates from their respective states
could appear in the Appellate Court at Putrajaya.

Sikayun said the Federal Court's judgement was delivered in Kuching on
April 15, 2009 after hearing submissions from various parties on March
15, this year on two issues which have been vexing the members of both
the Sabah and Sarawak Bars for a long time.

The issues were:

- Whether an advocate and solicitor from Peninsular Malaysia is
entitled to appear as advocate in an appeal to be heard in Putrajaya
arising from a matter originating from the High Court in Sarawak and
Sabah at Kuching or Kota Kinabalu and;

- Whether an advocate from Sarawak or Sabah is entitled to appear as
advocate in a appeal to be heard in Putrajaya arising from a matter
originating from the High Court in Sarawak and Sabah at Kuching or
Kota Kinabalu.

The submissions were heard by five members of the Federal Court made
up of the Chief Justice of the Federal Court of Malaya Tan Sri Zaki
Tun Azmi, Chief Judge of Sabah and Sarawak Tan Sri Richard Malanjum,
Chief Justice of Malaya Datuk Ariffin Zakaria, President of the Court
of Appeal Datuk Sri Aluaddin Mohd Sheriff and Federal Court Judge
Datuk Zulkifli Ahmad Makinuddin.

Sikayun said the Federal Court's decision had reaffirmed the
Constitutional safeguards that were accorded to both Sabah and Sarawak
at the time of formation of Malaysia.

He said the arguments before the Federal Court involved the Malaysia
Agreement, the Malaysia Act 1963, the Inter-Governmental Committee
Report, the Cobbold Commission Report and the Federal Constitution.

"The Sabah Law Association undertook tremendous amount of research
into the history with regards to the formation of Malaysia, the
safeguards and the protection under the Malaysia Agreement and such
foundation documents that were instrumental and the basis upon which
the Malaysia Act and the Federal Constitution were formulated',
Sikayun said..

The issue arose in an appeal originating from Sarawak heard before the
Court of Appeal in Putrajaya where the appellant was represented by a
counsel from Kuala Lumpur together with the Sarawak counsel.

The respondent's counsel had raised a preliminary objection on the
right of the counsel from Kuala Lumpur to appear in the case without
first obtaining ad hoc admission under the Sarawak Advocates
Ordinance.

Court of Appeal Judge Datuk Gopal Sri Ram had ruled that the right of
a counsel to appear in cases heard in the Appellate Courts sitting in
Putrajaya was governed by the Legal Profession Act 1976 and,
therefore, only lawyers from the Malayan Bar could appeal and argue on
cases in Putrajaya in spite of such cases originating from Sabah and
Sarawak.

The Court of Appeal also said that the Sarawak Advocates Ordinance has
no extra territorial effect. The respondents, dissatisfied with the
decision, had appealed to the Federal Court.

On Feb. 22, this year, the Federal Court had granted the respondents'
leave to appeal and when doing so invited all interested parties to
address the Federal Court on the issue.

The Federal Court being mindful that the matter involved serious
Constitutional issues and indeed the Formation of Malaysia itself,
wanted to hear full arguments and empanelled five members Coram to
hear the matter.

The Federal Attorney-General, Sarawak Attorney-General, Sabah Attorney-
General, the Bar Council, the Sarawak Advocates Association and the
Sabah Law Association were some of the invitees by the Federal Court
as amicus curie (friends of the court) to address the court on the
Constitutional laws that govern the issues before the Federal Court.

The SLA was represented by Sikayun, Datuk Stephen Foo, Alex Decena and
Jeyan Marimuttu.

Sikayun said the full written judgement will be given in the not-too-
distant future.

Re: by-election at batang ai...massive cheating by BN

2009-04-22T07:01:00.001-07:00

On Apr 22, 8:40 pm, "james" <jab2...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I was borned in Batang Ai
>
> I wish for my state, Batang Ai and my father home Rumah Ai, the best of
> everythings
>
> This election, I returned home to watch.
>
> My father was offered500to vote for BN, father told me to vote for BN.
> Uncle also received500to vote for BN also told me to vote for BN.

There is nothing wrong in taking the RM500 but it is corrupt and
unethical to vote for those who give out the money.

Take the money but think before you vote. You will be rewarded with
the money and by god in this world and hereafter. You get the best of
everything if you choose to think.

If you choose to be influenced by the RM500 to vote for the giver of
that money, you will be punished in this world and hereafter.

Why do you choose hell on earth and hereafter, when you can choose
heaven on earth and hereafter while getting RM500 also?

This is not corruption, but stupidity.

The giver of this RM500 had promised so many times for the past 22
years to give fair compensation and land rights guaranteed by the
constitution, but failed to do so. Why do you still believe him by
voting for him again and again.

As to BN being a local party instead of BR(Barisan Rakyat), it is just
blatantly stupid. BN is a West Malaysian party. Locals who join this
banner had been proven to be puppets in agreeing to ZERO Petroleum
Rights. What kind of person will give away their properties for
NOTHING? If not for thoughtless puppets???

The Petroleum agreement gives a maximum of 10% for Sarawak and Sabah
with NO MINIMUM, which means it can be ZERO. If you are Petronas,
which would you like to give? 10% or ZERO??? Certainly zero!!!

It is your vote that still prevented Petronas from giving much less
than the promised 5%, but in actual fact both states get less than 1%.

Use your head. How can it be 5% when the same amount RM150 million was
given our for the past 20 years??? Prices of petrol had increased by
leaps and yet Sabah still get the same amount of Petroleum revenue.

PKR, although a West Malaysian party, had promised to give 20%.
What had BN promised??? ZERO %. Why do you still vote for those who
PROMISE to give you ZERO %?

Why don't you take the RM500, the roads etc. while still use you brain
to think????

Only stupid fools will do that. No wonder Sabah and Sarawak are the
poorest states in Malaysia. The poorest are those who got these RM500.

>
> When I asked father, what had BN done for us, why had BN done on the promise
> to compensate of our family land taken for development. My father and uncle
> said, it is coming. It had been coming for22years and still yet to be
> seen.
>
> I told my father and uncle, I cannot. They got angry and telling me that I
> am voting for west Malaysian party.
>
> I explained,
>
> WHAT IS BN WHEN IT WANTED TO CHEAT ON THIS ELECTION BY GIVING YOU500
> WHAT IS IT THAT BN WANTED SO BAD TO CHEAT NEXT
> PKR IS WEST MALAYSIAN BUT WHAT OF BN, ITS POLICIES IS ALSO FROM WEST
> MALAYSIA
> IF WE DAYAK TAKES MONEY AND VOTE FOR BN, DAYAK PROSTITUTED THEMSELVES
> DAYAK WILL EVEN HAD PROSTITUTED THEIR FAMILY, CHILDREN AND THEIR FUTURE FOR500
> NOTHING HAD BEEN DONE FOR US IN THE PAST, FOR45YEARS
> EVERY ELECTION WE HEARD PROMISES
> NOTHING EVER CHANGE
> IT IS TIME TO GIVE CHANGE A CHANCE
> EVEN IF WE ARE WRONG, EVERYTHING WILL STILL BE THE SAME IF BN HAD WON
>
> Further I explained, BN giving money to you serve the purpose to prove that
> they are crooks. They had no purpose other then to gain power to cheat the
> people. It is time Dayak stopped prostituting themselves to the crooks, the
> cheaters and the corruptors, for these are using our money to turn us into
> prostitute.
>
> My father cried, my uncle hung his head, and he said, you know others will
> still take the money and vote for BN. I told them to take the money and vote
> for anybody other than BN. TO STOP MONEY POLITIC.

Sabah the worst Slavery Case in the Whole World

2009-04-20T02:35:00.000-07:00

Borneo Post, English Sabah Edition on the 15th of April, 2009.
This shows to you that US government had labelled Malaysia as the hottest 3 spots in the world for Human Trafficking which includes Sex and Labour slavery.

With the cases happening 80% of the time in Sabah, this certainly makes Sabah, the worst in Human Slavery in the whole world.

Re: Reason why Malaysia is World's top Centre for Sex and Labour Slavery

2009-04-19T18:19:00.001-07:00

http://www.dailyexpress.com.my/news.cfm?NewsID=64257

NGO: Sabah among 3 human trafficking hotspots

Published on: Wednesday, April 15, 2009

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Kota Kinabalu: Sabah has earned the dubious distinction of being a
hotbed for human trafficking in the country, the victims being women
and children forced into prostitution.

The situation, according to the NGO Tenaganita, has become quite
serious in Sabah because the problem is being monitored more closely
in the peninsula.

Because of that the culprits are moving their modus operandi to Sabah
and Sarawak, claimed its Director Dr Irene Fernandez.

She said of the 119 cases of human trafficking in the country, thus
far 80 per cent of the victims were rescued in Sabah.

A worrying trend is that among those rescued were children below 16
some as young as 14 and 13, she said.

"This means that children are being brought in for forced
prostitution," she said at the opening of a two-day workshop on "Role
of the Media in Countering Trafficking in Persons" at Likas Square,
Tuesday.

She identified Labuan, Sandakan and Limbang as the latest "hotspots"
for human trafficking and prostitution in the country based on the
victims they rescued who had been forced into prostitution.

She said most of the women and girls rescued were from neighbouring
countries like the Philippines and Indonesia as well as from Vietnam
and India.

According to her, prostitution is bound to increase whenever there are
huge development projects such as the Bakun dam in Sarawak.

In this respect, it is very important to train municipal councils and
town councils since they are the authorities with power to approve and
revoke trading licences of entertainment outlets.

But at the same time, Fernandez said many Sabahan girls had also
fallen victims to trafficking after they were duped by employment
agencies who then forced them into prostitution once they reached
Singapore.

"Our partner in Singapore said there's been an increasing number of
Sabahans forced into prostitution," she said.

However, she said they are facing challenges in this aspect in the
Lion City because Singapore has legalised prostitution.

Fernandez said Singapore does not believe that anyone could be forced
into prostitution but that Tenaganita is challenging it since there
are syndicates operating and forcing foreign women into prostitution.
She said there is still much more to do in countering human
trafficking.

"Although the police now have a special (human trafficking) unit
established in Bukit Aman, we would also need a unit in Sabah," she
said.

This is so that the police here would be trained and be knowledgeable
in the law effectively and to enforce it in Sabah.

The migration of humans is now so fluid that there must be effort to
address it especially in terms of human trafficking, she said.

President of Sabah Journalist Association (SJA), Datuk Joniston
Bangkuai, said the media must play its role toward combating human
trafficking in the country.

He said that everyone including the Government, private sector and the
public must cooperate with the media to overcome the problem.

Reason why Malaysia is World's top Centre for Sex and Labour Slavery

2009-04-19T18:14:00.001-07:00

Not only can employers deduct levy, they can also deduct all sorts of
deductions including food and transportation to the point of leaving
nothing to the workers.

It happened in Sinora, a Sabah State Government owned factory at
Sandakan.
It used to provide employment for locals but because of the deliberate
and inhumane BN policies, such as the following newspaper extract,
many locals are displaced by slave labours.

Among the slave labourers are also locals. So you think that by
supporting BN policies you will be sure of your prosperity, wait till
your children were forced into slavery.

Children from Sabah were forced into slavery in West Malaysia
thinking that they were continuing their studies. Their parents had to
sell their land in order to finance their so called study in West
Malaysia.

This was reported in Borneo Post, Sabah edition.

This article is a lie. Not Sabah, but Malaysia is among the top 3
hotspots in human trafficking.

http://www.dailyexpress.com.my/news.cfm?NewsID=64257

http://www.theborneopost.com/?p=50401
Employers can deduct levy from wages: Labour DG

KUALA LUMPUR: There is good news for employers — they are now re-
allowed to deduct the levy from the wages of the their foreign workers
until the expiry of their present visas, Labour Director-General Datuk
Ismail Abdul Rahim said yesterday.

They had earlier been directed by the department to stop such
deduction, effective April 1, causing much uneasiness among employers
as they had to bear the cost of the levy and this upset their budget.

The directive was therefore reversed by the Human Resources Minister
Datuk S Subramaniam on Wednesday following numerous appeals by
employers, Ismail told Bernama.

However, Ismail explained that no deduction would be allowed for new
employees registered after April 1 in line with the government's
policy requiring employers from all sectors to bear the full cost of
the levy from that cut-off date.

The rationale to get employers to bear the levy was to discourage them
from employing foreigners, he said.

Nevertheless, Ismail hoped the new decision would lessen the burden of
employers during this economic downturn.

Meanwhile, the Immigration Department has yet to implement the new
levy rates for foreign workers in the manufacturing and services
sectors because it had not been gazetted by the Home Ministry.

The new levy had been doubled for workers in these two sectors from
RM1,800 to RM3,600 a year.

Immigration Director-General Datuk Mahmood Adam told Bernama that the
department expected to implement the new rates by May 1.

However, Bernama understands that the delay in gazetting the new rates
was due to the numerous protests and appeals by employers from the
affected sectors.

In fact the Indian Muslim Restaurant Owners Association had threatened
to increase the price of Malaysian favourite indulgence, roti canai
and teh tarik, if the new rates were implemented.

Meanwhile, the Malaysian Employers Federation executive director
Shamsuddin Bardan welcomed the Human Resources Ministry's decision to
allow employers to deduct the levy from the workers wages, saying this
was a step in the right direction.

This decision would greatly benefit employers who had thousands of
foreign workers on their payroll.

He hoped the government would review the proposed new levy rate and
maintain the existing one at least until the economy improved.

"This will give some breathing space for employers and help them to
put back their businesses on a stronger footing," he said.

— Bernama

Discrimination against Sarawak by EC?

2009-04-06T12:00:00.001-07:00

It costs the same for Batang Ai as Bukit Selambau despite the vast
differences in infrastructures.

It means that allowances of EC workers in Sarawak will be much less
than those in Kedah.

Less money and therefore less economic activity for Sarawak. No
wonder, Sarawak is among the poorest in Malaysia.

http://www.bernama.com.my/bernama/v3/news.php?id=402044
April 06, 2009 13:16 PM

Three By-elections Cost EC RM1.5 Million

KUALA LUMPUR, April 6 (Bernama) -- The Election Commission (EC) is
spending about RM1.5 million to conduct the three by-elections
tomorrow, in the Bukit Gantang parliamentary constituency in Perak and
the state constituencies of Bukit Selambau in Kedah and Batang Ai in
Sarawak, the Dewan Negara was told today.

Minister in the Prime Minister's Department Datuk Seri Mohamed Nazri
Aziz said the EC was spending RM700,000 to conduct the by-election in
Bukit Gantang and RM400,000 each to conduct the by-elections in Bukit
Selambau and Batang Ai.

The cost of the by-election in Bukit Gantang was higher because it was
a parliamentary constituency, he said when replying to a question from
Senator Datuk Abdul Rahman Bakar.

Replying to a supplementary question, from Senator Mumtaz Md Nawi,
Nazri said the people could not be subjected to automatic registration
as voters.

"Automatic registration would mean subjecting an individual to
coercion. In a democratic country, a citizen has the option of
registering as a voter.

"As such, in this matter, we cannot force anyone. When they are made
to register as voters and they don't exercise their right (when the
time comes), they would be regarded as having neglected their duty to
vote," he said.

-- BERNAMA

Why BN has to wait for 20 years to fulfil a promise?

2009-04-06T11:13:00.001-07:00

But will BN still fulfil it after lying for the last 20 years.

A liar is always a liar. People should learn this.

Only idiots will keep on trusting anyone who has ever lied to them
once, let alone those that keep on lying for the last 20 years.

Similarly for Batang Air in Sarawak.
I don't think BN will ever keep its promise to develop Batang Air or
any Dayak area unless it loses big this time.

Why should BN fulfill its promise at great expense when the Dayak
voters keep on voting for BN for the last more than 20 years?

The great expense is in spending Sarawak resources for Sarawak
especially the interior Dayaks. After all, it is well documented and
proclaimed proudly that Sarawak is not worth developing because it is
not economical. It is only worthwhile to extract its resources cheaply
to be used by Malaya. You can read the photographed article in my blog
at sabahcolonised.blogspot.com.

If BN loses in Batang Air, there is some hope that other Dayak areas
will be developed to the level that is normal all over the world such
as what is happening in Indonesian Kalimantan. At least there are some
Dayaks who are clever enough to see if BN fulfil its promises since
more than 20 years ago in order to vote BN this time.

For Malayans who believe that it is a waste of money and resources to
develop Batang Air, please note that by developing this region, such
as building roads, electricity, water and education, it will improve
the productivity of the people here making them better consumers for
all Malaysians. Read OBAMA arguments.

Making the rich even richer will only destroy a nation, even as
powerful as USA, as Bush had done with his policies of supporting the
rich in the hope that they will develop the nation. In reality, it is
a fallacy as proven by the sorry state of US economy under Bush
administration, compared to the much more prosperous Clinton
Administration.

Now back to Bukit Gantang. Is it really a local that is representing
them? The candidate appears to be only a local information chief at
that. What has happened to the UMNO chief or his assistants?

What is the real story behind selecting this particular person who
cannot even get the vote of the majority of UMNO members in Bukit
Gantang?

Bkt Gantang folks torn between local and ousted Perak MB
By SAODAH ELIAS

TAIPING: Will Bukit Gantang Folks finally choose a local to air their
grouses in Parliament after 23 years, or will history repeat itself?

All will be answered by 10pm Tuesday when the result for Bukit Gantang
by-election is announced.

Barisan Nasional candidate Ismail Saffian is a local unlike Nizar who
is a registered voter in Pasir Panjang where he is also its state
assemblyman.

Another, independent candidate Kamarul Ramizu Idris is from Taiping,
but he is not considered a factor in the by-election.

Ismail, who is Bukit Gantang Umno information chief, is from Kampung
Kubu, Bukit Gantang while his wife is from Changkat Ibol in the same
constituency.

The choice of an outsider as a candidate has been oft cited by many
state Umno leaders as the main reason why Barisan lost in the last
general election.

Barisan had fielded Umno's treasurer Datuk Mohd Azim Zabidi from the
Bukit Bintang division as its candidate then, much to the anger of the
local Barisan supporters who had had to contend with "imported"
candidates for four consecutive general elections.

Mohd Azim lost to the late PAS' Roslan Shaharum by 1,566 votes.

In 2004, Barisan fielded Wanita Gerakan chief Datuk Tan Lian Hoe in
Bukit Gantang.

Despite grumbling on the ground, the people of Bukit Gantang had voted
her in after being promised that a local would be fielded in the next
general election.

Despite the intense campaigning and various shows of strengths by both
sides in the last eight days, the outcome, in as far as Bukit Gantang
Umno division head Datuk Rosli Husin is concerned, is clear. The local
must win.

"Barisan will win. This is our stronghold and the people will choose
our candidate," he said.

Rosli who is the state assemblyman for Trong, one of the three state
constituencies under Bukit Gantang said there was no longer any reason
for the people of Bukit Gantang to vote for PAS as their wait of more
than 20 years for a local representative was now close at hands.

Similarly confident is Barisan director of election for Bukit Gantang
Datuk Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi.

He said Nizar's only hope of winning was to play on people's sympathy.

"He portrays himself as the victim, as the ousted mentri besar.

But that gimmick can only go so far.

"People now have a better understanding of the whole fiasco as we have
already explained to them what exactly happened and they are now back
with us," he stated.

Close to the ground however, campaigners on both sides were not that
confident of a win, one way or the other.

Statistics being bandied about by both sides was 50/50. Unlike the
Kuala Terengganu by-election in January, where the deciding factor was
said to have been the 11% Chinese votes, here in Bukit Gantang, the
intense campaigning was for the 63% Malay votes.

It is said that close to 60% of Malay voters are for Barisan while
about 70% of Chinese voters are with PAS.

Even as campaign period draws to a close, PAS national election
director Datuk Mustafa Ali said they needed to work very hard to
capture the hearts and minds of the Malay voters.

The by-election is called following Roslan's death of heart failure on
Feb 9.

Bukit Gantang has 55,562 voters comprising Malays (63.5 per cent),
Chinese (27.1 per cent), Indians (9.1 per cent) and others (0.3 per
cent).

The majority of the people in this constituency are involved in
agriculture while a significant percentage of its Chinese populace in
Kuala Sepetang are fishermen.

Many of the youths from this area have left to work in larger towns
and cities, including Penang, Ipoh and Kuala Lumpur.

Sabahans burned State Flags

2009-04-04T18:38:00.001-07:00

What are the real issues?

The government would like it to appear as though it is just the
behaviour of a bunch of trouble makers. The Malaysian government would
like it to appear as though Malaysians are all a bunch of mad men who
want to cause trouble.

1) These are all mad men without any reason whatsoever, as alleged by
the government

2) They demand that Sabah be returned to the Philippine government,
via Sulu Sultanate. Illogical because one of them claim to be an heir
to the Sultan of Sulu in Sabah.

3) The heir wants his share of the lease money sent to the heirs of
the Sultan of Sulu which is more logical. I met a friend who make
arrangements for this sort of think but he is based in Sandakan but I
don't know who he is representing but in his case, he wanted to
surrender the rights of the Sultan of Sulu to Malaysia in return for
RM20 billion.

Published: Saturday April 4, 2009 MYT 7:04:00 PM
12 held for burning Sabah flags
By RUBEN SARIO

KOTA KINABALU: Police in Lahad Datu have arrested 12 men for burning
state flags in the east coast town Saturday.

Sabah Police Commissioner Datuk Noor Rashid Ibrahim said they had
received a tip-off at 8.40am that a group of men had burned six flags
in front of the town's market.

"Some of the men were also seen carrying yellow flags bearing the
insignia of a red lion, believed to be the pre-independence flag of
the Governor of Sabah", he said.

He added that the flag has long fallen into disuse.

Noor Rashid said by the time police reached the scene, the men had
already fled.

They left behind burnt remains of the flags.

Some of the men were then seen running towards the district police
headquarters, where they were promptly arrested and investigated for
illegal assembly, he said.

Noor Rashid added that those detained were aged between 14 and 41
years.

"We are still investigating the motive of the incident. "The alleged
group leader has claimed to be a descendant of the Sulu Sultan," Noor
Rashid said.

Lahad Datu police immediately deployed more than 80 personnel around
the town area following the incident.

Meanwhile, Lahad Datu state assemblyman Datuk Nasrun Datu Mansor said
the flag burning was an isolated incident caused by individuals trying
to create a disturbance in the town.

"This was nothing more than actions of some irresponsible people," he
said, adding that Lahad Datu residents need not worry as police had
the situation under control.

Subsidy Discrimination Against Sabah and Sarawak

2009-04-03T17:34:00.001-07:00

From Borneo Post, Sabah English Edition. Datuk Yong Teck Lee commented
on the extreme discrimination on the giving of subsidies to Sabah and
Sarawak, the poorest states in Malaysia.

Despite being the poorest states, and yet with huge resources in
Petroleum and other raw materials, subsidies given to them are the
lowest per quantity of essential items and even worse per capita
because these two statems account for more than 25% of the total
Malaysian population.

The subsidy for rice millers in Sabah and Sarawak is RM600 per ton vs
RM750 for West Malaysia. In all, the total spent is RM21.3 million vs
RM360 million which is more than 15 times or 6% for a population of
25%.

A picture of the article is in my blog sabahcolonised.blogspot.com

Abject poerty in Sukau, Sabah

2009-03-24T04:31:00.000-07:00

Sabah only got 2.5% for a population of 14% and area of 23%

2009-03-11T03:38:00.001-07:00

With a promised of only 3 billion out of the total 60 billion, but
only confirmed 1.5 billion, it appears that Sabah got a much worse
deal than before.

The Kalabakan-Keningau is still not being carried out despite having
Pensiangan and Kalabakan on the routes, where in Kalabakan, students
don't even have chairs, apart from being the poorest region on Earth.

We still haven't gone to Island Banggi that still does not have
reliable water and electricity. And they still claim that SAbah is
given special treatment.

Descendents of Prophet Muhammad urged Nizar to resign

2009-02-09T02:57:00.001-08:00

This source is from Bernama so its authenticity will be questioned
even more.

Megat are direct descendents of Prophet Muhammad but not throught
their father's lineage any more. Those with the father's lineage are
called Syed or Sharif. Those with Syed, especially those with strong
Indian looks are suspect because Indians tend to label all Arabs as
Syed,

Many of these Megat may not be aware of the significance of this
title. Many thought that it is just a royalty title. So it will be
even worse for ordinary people like myself. I only knew about it more
clearly last month.

In Malaysia Megat tends to hold high offices because they tend to be
the more educated, and many of their ancestors had held high offices,
so it was synonymous with high office and even royalty as I had just
found out that Sultan of Perak is just a Megat instead of the full
Syed.

So by right descendents of Prophet Muhammad, no matter from the father
or mother, after all, all known descendents are from the daughter of
Prophet Muhammad, i.e. the mother's side, are obliged to uphold a high
standard of Islamic principles, not to subject themselves to greed and
corruption. They must hold their esteem in respecting justice.

Demanding Nizar to resign is completely unethical when he has
constitutional grounds to reject an order from the Sultan and condemn
the Sultan's refusal to dissolve the State Assembly as demanded by the
Constitution of Perak. Even if the courts were to decide in favour of
the Sultan, and thus reinterpreting the constitution and wordings of
Malaysian constitution, the normal court practises must be obeyed.
When challenged, the status quo must remain, i.e. Nizar is stil the
Chief Minister, unless the courts had made a decision.

It is also made worse by the facts that the 3 independent Assemblymen
were deemed to show their support in front of the Sultan but not
witnessed by the parties affected, which is against the principle of
justice, and they had already been dismissed by the Speaker and the EC
does not have the authority to decide on the evidence of the Speaker
in vacating these seats. As far as the normal law is concerned, they
have already been dismissed but the courts can still reinterpret the
law and reverse the decisions of government officials.

With all these arguments, only a DAYUS, a crime worse than death, will
obey the Sultan. Obeying the Sultan in resigning is like committing
murder. Nizar must fight for his rights if he were to uphold Islamic
principles as ordered by the Quran. The Megats, as descendents of
Prophet Muhammad should also urge Nizar to bring the matter to the
courts and refuse to resign in order to protect his rights.

Whatever persecutions that Nizar faces, he should be patient, SABAR,
which is the real SABAR, a basis of Islamic faith, not to be DAYUS,
condemned by Islam, i.e. patient to the point of being pathetic in
accepted injustices.

In fact, so far Anwar is the only one practising the true Sabar. He
has suffered persecutions since his student days, in defending the
rights of the poor and disprivileged.

http://www.bernama.com/bernama/v5/newsgeneral.php?id=388502

February 08, 2009 23:08 PM

Nizar Urged To Step Down Honourably

KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 8 (Bernama) -- The Persatuan Keturunan Megat Terawis
Malaysia, an organisation representing the Megat clan, has urged Datuk
Seri Mohammad Nizar Jamaluddin to step down as the Menteri Besar of
Perak honourably.

Its secretary Megat Iskandar Megat Zaharuddin said Nizar should
emulate the Orang Kaya Bendahara during the reign of the 15th Sultan
of Perak in the 18th century who stepped down along with senior state
officials when asked to do so because of a misunderstanding with the
Sultan and the government at that time.

According to Megat Iskandar, the role of the Orang Kaya Bendahara then
was the same as the Menteri Besar now.

"In the interest of the people of Perak, we urge Datuk Seri Nizar and
his state executive councillors to step down honourably and do not go
against the Sultan," he said in a statement here today.

To do otherwise was tantamount to treason, he added.

On Friday, Sultan Azlan Shah of Perak asked the Pakatan Rakyat
government to resign and Nizar step down as the Menteri Besar after
the coalition failed to command a majority in the state's legislature,
but Nizar refused to budge.

The clan's history dates back to the very first sultan in the state,
that of Paduka Seri Sultan Muzaffar Shah I whereby the Orang Kaya
Bendahara was also from the clan.

-- BERNAMA