::Create 3 Chief Ministers for Sarawak and 3 for Sabah too

Time and again, Sarawak and Sabah never fail to deliver seats to BN. They did this, in the hope of getting attention and assistance from Federal gov’t. Both state are oil rich, timber and even hydropower – but both states is not progressing well. How do you explain that with that richest from natural resources income, the TWO states are lagging far behind West Malaysia. Maybe the physical area is too big and fund allocation are too small.

Can you imagine, the state of Perlis, Malacca and even Penang is smaller than some “district” in Sarawak and Sabah. They have Chief minister and Menteri Besar – DUN etc, for the same land size we have a District Officer and supported by Administrative Officer. Federal gov’t do not allocate fund according to land size – but population density. Unless, the federal gov’t change their approach in allocating funds – nothing better will happen to Sarawak / Sabah. No wonder many of the population are wondering if it is not better for the two state to be more autonomous, increase our oil royalty and maybe create 3 Chief Ministers in sarawak and 3 for Sabah too. In this way we get more funds and the more resources to carry out implementation. The Chief Minsiter is then not confine to State but a sub-state for these two state.

Non Muslim bumiputera living under poverty line in Sarawak ia slightly more than 50% and 61% for Sabah (Anthea Mulakala) . Where is the timber money and what has the plantation done to improve the rural poor?

The prices of fuel and food in rural Sarawak / Sabah is already double that of West Malaysia before the last price increased. Now, it is going to be much higher. Generally the food and drinks are 15% more expansive, household goods etc. The per capita income are lower than West Malaysia, and now the people will be paying more. Being oil producing state, why not allocate special funds to improve their infra structure, funds to start small business to increase their income.

Investors came to take advantage of cheap land and rich natural resources – what has they given back to the community? These investors even choose to impose their “corporate values” when dealing with the community – legal agreement, follow company’s rule, ignoring Sarawak and Sabah natives. Or has the Sabah and Sarawak politician taken the goodwill from the big investors into their own pocket.

Now BN wanted to develop Sarawak / Sabah better – this has been said many times over before. It is just empty promises. Even if there are being implemented – the contract is mostly given to UMNO related companies or political cronies of ministers. If not – how do you explain that the local companies have so little business to do?

Sarawak / Sabah – wish to progress like the other states in Malaysia. Lip service do not work – ensure it is delivered without the “corruption” elements.

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June 20, 2008 · Filed Under General

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4 Responses to “::Create 3 Chief Ministers for Sarawak and 3 for Sabah too”

Apai Enai on June 21st, 2008 1:18 am

“Sarawak / Sabah – wish to progress like the other states in Malaysia” – Dr.John

Dear Dr.John,

Please do not believe that the other states are progressing and we Sarawak should be the same as them. We need a new government, new leaders with new ideas and new approach to undo the mistake of the pass 50 years.

In 1960s we are the same as Singapore in terms of health care, education, human capital and almost everything else. We were better and richer than the Koreans too. Now is 2008 and both Singapore and Korea are far far ahead of Malaysia. Can I ask all the Dayaks if we Sarawak did agree to join an Islamic country in 1963? Did we? Did we say we allow the Federal government to take away 95% of our oil revenue and we Sarawak take the balance 5%? Where did the BN government lead us to? Do we Dayaks make believe that by 2020 our country will be a 1st world country like Sweden, Japan or New Zealand? Why are the Dayaks still in slumber and lies such as Wawasan 2020 can fool us? I can declear that nothing in Malaysia leadership and progress is pointing in the direction where we can clearly see the goal of Wawasan 2020. Sadly many Dayaks still do, I pray that Sarawakian especially Dayaks can come to their senses and see why we have been short charged by racist Melayu from West Malaysia especially the zealots in UMNO. We Sarawak is paying for UMNO mistake and greed since they started the NEP.

I wish to remind all Dayaks that nothing in the direction of BN qualify for the make up of our lost time, we have wasted 45 years and we Dayaks cannot allow BN to continue to rape us. We need a new direction, a leader that can close the gap between us and the first world nation (Korea/Japan/Singapore/NZ/Aust/Sweden) not one that try to make us progress like Melacca, Johor, Perak or Pahang. We need visionary leaders and those who are not please excuse us.
Eddie Wong on June 22nd, 2008 10:11 am

Dayak should be the CM of Sarawak as Dayak is the largest community in Sarawak.
Support to be more autonomous state to control the wealth of Sarawak. Sarawak wealth is for Sarawakian, for the sake of our next generation, we need to stand up to do somethings.
Jetty on June 22nd, 2008 9:29 pm

The idea is fantastic, that is, having three Chief Ministers. However I would like to go one step further by proposing that we in Sarawak should have nine Chief Ministers or primiers which is similar to the States in Australia. Overall in charge is the Prime Minister, who should be based in Kuching, the new capital of the federated divisions.
freesarawak on June 24th, 2008 2:34 am

agree with apai enai

we gained nothing from malaya….umno and pkr and any other malaya based party are the same

bangsa malaysia/ketuanan rakyat=ketuanan melayu as both will be malay/islamic as core principle…..

greater autonomy or independence…i choose the latter