Where is BORNEONISATION?

SAPP ‘no’ to ‘outsider’ as INTAN Sabah chief

KOTA KINABALU: It has come to the knowledge Sabah Progressive Party (SAPP) that the Federal Government is planning to appoint yet another non-Sabahan or even Sarawakian to head INTAN in Sabah.

"INTAN is an important department in-charge of training our civil servants. The act of the Federal leaders under Umno to continue trampling on the 20 Points agreement to Borneonise all Federal Departments in Sabah could not be tolerated by Sabahans," said SAPP Supreme Council member Peter Marajin.


"We understand that the in-coming Sabah INTAN director is Mohd Nawardi Saad, who hails from Peninsular Malaysia currently attached to INTAN in Sungai Petani, Kedah.

"Isn't there a qualified Sabahan to head and staff Federal agencies here, after 47 years of togetherness under the Federation of Malaysia?.

"We call upon Chief Minister Datuk Seri Musa Aman, PBS president Tan Sri Joseph Pairin Kitingan and UPKO president Tan Sri Bernard Giluk Dompok to speak up and stop this trampling on our very condition to join hands with Malaya, Sarawak and Singapore in 1963 to form the Federation," he said in a statement issued yesterday.

Sabah and Sarawak want not only the heads of federal agencies in East Malaysia to be from their own, but also virtually all staff must be locals, he added.

"On this subject, I would ask why BN component parties from Sabah especially PBS, UPKO and PBRS are silent or non-effective on the issue of more and more from peninsular rather than locals being recruited to staff all Federal Departments in Sabah and Sarawak,” he said. This is very visible in the police, army, education, health, and the various departments as well as units under scores of Federal ministries that are being extended to Sabah now, he said.

"What will happen to our local graduates and school-leavers? They should be the ones recruited to staff all these agencies, not outsiders from peninsula," he said.

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Perjanjian Malaysia Batal Dan Tidak Sah?

Saudara Pengarang,

SAYA baru pulang daripada London selepas menemui Queen Counsel Anthony Lester berhubung khidmat nasihat untuk merayu kajian semula Perjanjian Malaysia yang ditandatangani pada 9 Julai 1963.

QC Anthony menasihati saya agar meneruskan Kempen Memungut Tandatangan untuk mendesak Kerajaan Malaysia ‘Mengkaji Semula Perjanjian Malaysia 1963’.

Menurut QC Anthony, Perjanjian Malaysia adalah ‘BATAL DAN TIDAK SAH’ apabila Brunei tidak menandatanganinya selepas 11 Jam dokumen tersebut disediakan dan Selepas Singapura menarik diri pada 1965.

Kami akan melancarkan ‘Pungutan Suara’ berkenaan pada 9 Julai 2011 di Batu Sumpah, Keningau sebelum diedarkan ke Sabah dan Sarawak untuk dikemukakan kepada Ratu Elizabeth Disember 2011 kelak.

Bagi pihak rakyat Sabah, saya mohon ehsan saudara dan Sabahkini.net membantu menjayakan usaha murni ini demi survival rakyat Sabah dan Sarawak dalam Persekutuan Malaysia.

Salam Hormat,

DATUK PATRICK SINDU
Aktivis Masyarakat & Hak Asasi Manusia

Borneo states' rights should be upheld

‘To allow entry or not, is our right’

Parti Rakyat Sarawak president James Masing says no one should question Sarawak's rights which it had retained when it joined Malaysia.

KUCHING: Sarawak’s immigration laws “should not be questioned” as the state reserves the “right” to allow or bar the entry of any individuals and groups.

Reminding “visitors” to Sarawak, Parti Rakyat Sarawak (PRS) president James Masing said Sarawak had retained its autonomous rights when it joined the Federation of Malaysia in 1963.

“Our rights, especialy our immigration laws, should not be questioned. Autonomy was a prerequisite when we joined the Federation of Malaysia in 1963.

“Those who question these rights should refer to history books or read the Federal Constitution,” he said, adding that it was therefore unnecessary for the state government to justify barring anyone’s entry into the state.

Masing was commenting on Bersih 2.0 chairperson Ambiga Sreenevasan’s legal suit against the Sarawak government for barring her from entering the state for the April 16 state election.
She claimed the move was against the Federal Constitution.

Said Masing: “When politicians and members of the NGOs from Peninsular Malaysia are barred from entering Sarawak, they should never question the state authorities on such issues.

“In fact, they should understand that Sarawak has its own autonomy and by that, it means that we don’t have to give any reason and explanation for barring anyone from entering.

“We normally stop those who pose a security threat to the state,” he said.

“Please don’t politicise these rights as we also don’t question the rights of others,” he reportedly said in local daily Borneo Post.

Sreenivasan, who was part of the coalition’s election monitoring team, had filed a suit against the state government and the case is set for hearing on July 13.

In her affidavit, she claimed she was stopped at the Kuching International Airport on April 15. She said she was given no reason for being barred entry into Sarawak.

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Sipaun in trouble over ‘British better than Malaya’ remark

Luke Rintod

The ex-Suhakam man has been questioned by the police for saying life in Sabah was better under the British administration.

KOTA KINABALU: Police have started questioning several people following a complaint made against Malaysian Human Rights Commission’s (Suhakam) former vice-chairman Simon Sipaun in Kota Kinabalu last month.

Sipaun, a former state secretary, caused some embarrassment for state political leaders when he said during his concluding remarks as chair of an inter-party dialogue session, that life in Sabah was better in many aspects under the British administration compared now, almost 50 years after it joined Malaya to form the Malaysian Federation in 1963.

Among those who have been called in for questioning is the president of the Common Interest Group Malaysia (CigMa), Daniel John Jambun. He will report to the state police headquarters in Kepayan on Tuesday (April 12).

FMT learned that Jambun had been summoned to give his statement as a follow-up on two police reports made by two Sabah Umno divisions in Tawau on the state’s the east-coast.

The Sabah Umno divisions in their police reports had alleged that the former state secretary was misleading and seditious in his remarks.

So far Sabah police have not made any public announcement on who would be called apart from Jambun and Sipaun to assist in their investigation.

Sipaun when contacted, confirmed to FMT that he had already been questioned by the police several days ago.

Sipaun said he explained to the police his task was to chair the panel session and at the end to make a summary of the discussion in a concluding remarks.

“I gave the police a copy of my remarks. It included my sharing with the audience of my memory on Sabah before it became part of Malaysia. I was already 25 years old when Malaysia was formed…” he said adding that the police officer who recorded his statement was very polite, pleasant and professional.

Stating the truth

Sipaun also told FMT he was not aware if other activists had been interviewed over his remarks but hastened to say that he had a feeling that the authorities are interested in the matter because the dialogue was not organised by the ruling Barisan Nasional (BN) party but by the United Borneo Front (UBF).

When Umno lodged the police reports, the elderly and highly respected Sipaun said he was amused that certain quarters should lodge police reports against him for stating the truth based on his own pleasant memories of life in Sabah during the colonial administration.

“What is wrong for me to tell the people what I remembered of Sabah, then known as North Borneo, before Malaysia was formed?  After all I was 25 then and know what I was talking about,” he explained, adding that he was not against the Malaysia Agreement, but only stating that life was better during the colonial days.

Sipaun ruffled feathers in political circles in the state after his comments were widely published that life in Sabah was  considerably better in many aspects before Malaysia was formed.

He also drew comparisons of how Malaya then was just as under-developed but that Sabah had fallen very far behind the peninsula now.