Developing S’wak without losing our voice: Taib
KUCHING: The following is the last of three historic speeches extracted from the official Sarawak 45th anniversary souvenir book, ‘Perayaan 45 tahun Sarawak maju dalam Malaysia, 1963 – 2008’.
The speech was delivered by Pehin Sri Abdul Taib Mahmud, who was then Minister for Communications and Works, in seconding a Council Negri motion in 1963.
It was as follows:
“Mr Speaker, Sir, the subject matter that is contained in the motion before this House is undoubtedly a national one.
In fact, there were honourable members who referred to themselves as nationalists when arguing on the motion today. Such an approach to this motion is very commendable in that it shows that most of us here have some love for Sarawak.
I for one prefer such an approach because I love Sarawak as much as those others who are concerned with the question of Malaysia.
This motion is raised in such a way that it may tempt us to think along the narrow line of supporting Malaysia or opposing it. I would like, in arguing before this House, to rephrase the meaning of this motion in such a way that every nationalist should support it.
The implication of this motion can be summarised thus: Have we got the desire as Sarawakians to bestow all our love on Sarawak? Now, if we have this desire, have we got the ambition to build a free Sarawak? And if we have that, have we got also the desire to preserve that freedom by showing the courage to defend our country, while at the same time to pour most of our resources on economic development? If we have those comprehensive desires, let us at once realise that those desires are very expensive ones when undertaken together.
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Musa Aman and Taib is two good friends which think about what is the best for “themselves” in stead of their state struggles under Malaya governance or better to say under Pak Lah supervision. I saw Musa Aman at Permatang pauh saying that Anwar Ibrahim will never get his people on the line (crossover) due to his “morality” issue. Well, it’s sad to say that Musa Aman has never been a good partner to SAPP and PBS. In facts, Musa Aman should step down from CM position because his term in invalid. What is the point to support UMNO if the Sabahan in under struggle and marginalization. He has no intention to unite the Sabahan but to dig as much as he can to get rich from timber and plantation. He could not answer the IC project issue and illegal immigrantd that flooded Sabah for centuries. There is no different between Tun Mustapha, Haris Saleh and Musa Aman. They are the destroyer of the Sabahan unity and race freedom. The support fully project IC launched by UMNO to gain more support from illegal immigrants from Philippine and Indonesia.
Taib, the eldest politician should think what is the best for the Sarawakian instead of beig “puppetize” by UMNO. I was shock to hear that there is a UMNO branch in Kuching. It true!! One of my friends is a Puteri UMNO member. As far as I know there is no any UMNO in Sarawak unless it is another alternative when uncle Taib die and Sulaiman could not stand for his father. So, it seems to me that Sarawak will follow Sabah’s foot print soon. Auction will start soon with a lot of money from UMNO.
Taib must realize that Sarawak in a very poor state and his part is to develop the state well by stopping CMS to be the main contractor and asking Global Upline to be the “sub-contractor” of every state’s development project. Look at 20- points of memorandum where Sarawak has been raped lustily by the Malaya. In fact, there are many issue need to be settle before we talk about adopting sovereignty from Malaya which never benefited Sabah and Sarawak so far. Yes, we cannot afford for defense, but we must put Sarawak and Sabah in win-win situation especially on the timber and oil loyalty. I do think that British way of colonialism is far better than how the Malaya colonized us. At least we can speak English fluently and have a British education standard, British technology and currency. We are colonized yet developing further than Malaya itself.
Taib will never be the saluted leader of the Sarawakian since he failed the Sarawakains for decades and reap greedily for his family and cronies.
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Taib's Politic Of Timber?
Taib implicated in Indonesian timber scam
By Tony Thien
malaysiakini.com
2008-08-23
Indonesian logs are being illegally imported into Sarawak and re-exported as local timber to other countries, including China, Taiwan and Japan, according to an Indonesian newspaper report.
In the Aug 14 edition of the Tribun Pontianak, the Pontianak-based Indonesian language daily also implicated chief minister Abdul Taib Mahmud and Hardwood Sdn Bhd, a wholly-owned unit of state agency Sarawak Timber Industry Development Corporation (STIDC).
"The good name of the chief minister and that of the government-owned company have been marred by the report," Ng Kim Ho, PKR Sarawak state chief told Malaysiakini.
Ng said PKR will lodge a report with the Anti Corruption Agency on the matter. According to him, the Tribun Pontianak report was serious enough to warrant immediate investigation by the authorities here, especially since Indonesia and Malaysia have an existing agreement prohibiting the illegal export of logs.
"Let the relevant authorities carry out an immediate and thorough investigation," said Ng, who is also assemblyperson for Padungan.
The front-page news report was accompanied by a chart detailing how logs were being transported illegally from the forests in Ketapang and how they were being shipped out of West Kalimantan to two places. The names of some middlemen purportedly involved in the scam were also mentioned.
According to the report, several individuals were charged in an Indonesian court for complicity in illegal timber trade, including the forest controller for the area, a M Darwis. The report said Darwis admitted to receiving bribe money from the individuals in exchange for allowing the logs to be iilegally taken out of Ketapang.
The forest controller told the court the bribe money amounted to between Rp 10 million and Rp 40 million for each shipment of between 800 and 1,000 cubic metres of timber.
About 30 shipments of illegal logs worth some Rp2.16 trillion (about RM750,000) were being taken out either by land or sea across to the East Malaysian state every month.
NGOs go undercover
An Indonesian-based NGO together with a UK-based NGO investigating the illegal timber trade in Indonesia had gone undercover to Sarawak, where they traced the eventual destination of the logs.
The name of Hardwood Sdn Bhd was implicated, although Tribun Pontianak erroneously reported the firm was owned by he governor of Sarawak' Abdul Taib Mahmud.
The news report also highlighted a dialogue the European Commission had in Kuching with various stake-holders and NGOs on issues of the legality of the timber being exported to Europe.
The legality issue is tied to, among other things, the sources of the timber and respect for the rights of indigenuous groups living on the land from which the timber is extracted.
Malaysiakini understands some of the logs end up being processed by local industries, which would otherwise face a shortage because of an increase in manufacturing activities and also because Sarawak still allowed the export of timber. Up to 40 percent of the total annual production of round logs is exportable.
Timber is one of Sarawak's main earners accounting for several billions of ringgits in export revenue each year.
Reference Links:
(Polri Kejar Warga Malaysia Penadah Kayu Ilegal)
http://www.rambukota.com/showNews.php?id_news=71&cat=21
(Polisi Tangkap DPO Pembalakan Liar)
http://www.sinarharapan.co.id/berita/0804/07/nus01.html
('Pak Pulisi'Tergilas Gelondongan)
http://www.inilah.com/berita/2008/04/17/23448/%E2%80%98pak-pulisi%E2%80%99-tergilas-gelondongan/
(Indonesia akan Protes Malaysia Kapolri dan Menhut Ancam Cukong IL)
http://paktw.multiply.com/journal/item/50
Taib's Politic Of Flood?
Project: Bengoh Dam
Main Contractor: Naim Cendera
Contract cost: RM310.65m
Naim Cendera website release:
http://www.naimcendera.com/future2.asp
CONSTRUCTION OF BENGOH DAM, KUCHING
Once completed, this 63 metre high by 267 metre long dam will have a capacity of 144 million cubic metres (1m3=1,000kg or 1 tonne) and will produce a lake with a surface area of approximately 10km square. Designed to secure Kuching's water supply for the foreseeable future, the dam will be only the second in Malaysia to be constructed using Roller Compacted Concrete (RCC) technology, which offers a projected service life of 100 years. The package also includes ancillary buildings, infrastructure and associated works, and resettlement of the affected communities.
Press release:
http://www.thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2007/7/24/business/18386034&sec=business
Tuesday July 24, 2007
Naim gets new project
KUALA LUMPUR: Naim Cendera Holdings Bhd told Bursa Malaysia that it has won a RM310.65mil contract for the construction of the Bengoh Dam in Kuching. – AFX-Asia
Sub-Contractor: Sino Hydro Corp. (China)
Sub-Contract cost: RM145m
Press release:
http://www.sinohydro.com/servlet/Report?node=56780&language=1
Sinohydro Corporation Won the Bidding of Malaysia Bengoh Water Supply Project
Malaysia Item Department2008-02-20
In February 2nd the Eighth Bureau of Sinohydro Corporation received the letter officially issued by the owner of Malaysia Bengoh water supply project, the total price is 145,000,000 Malaysia Ringgit (approximately 45,000,000 US dollars), which lays a solid foundation for the develpoment of Sinohydro Corporation in the Southeast Asia market.
Bengoh water supply project is the municipal administration public facility invested by Malaysia Federal State, which belongs to the international market non-water and electricity project. This project is located in the Kuching administrative area under the government of Malaysian Sarawak State, which is 42 kilometers away from Kuching urban district and the exterior transportation condition is good. The project is the inpounding and intake water project, mainly provides clean water source for downstream 30 kilometer place Batu Water Treatment Factory to solves the clean water source problem of Sarawak State capital Kuching city. The project includes a roller compacted concrete dam, intake water tank structure, upstream boat slope constructure and operating control office. The total excavation amount is approximately 305,000 cubic meters, the roller compaction concrete is 150,000 cubic meters and habit concrete 20,000 is cubic meters. The project is conducted by the way of primary contractor project, the total time limit is to plan to complete in 30 months.
Contract cost difference:
RM310.65m - RM145m = RM165.65m
So the difference go to where?
Piling jobs? Access road bridges jobs? Blow jobs?
Wake up Bidayuhs, the leaders Bidayuh YBs MPs basically killed, robbed own Bidayuhs in broad daylight.
The Bidayuh area shold not be developed at all. All they know is that the government robbed them. They should be left untouched and not assisted at all. Let them go ahead and practice their old traditional ways, plant padi, tap rubber. Their parents should not send them to schools, universities. Otherwise they will be rob of their right.
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