PM will address Sabah woes soon, no need for secession talk, Umno leader says

KOTA KINABALU, Aug 12 ― Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak is well aware of the demands in Sabah for increased autonomy for the state and will soon address these concerns, a senior Umno leader here said in urging for an end to calls for secession.

State Umno deputy chairman Datuk Seri Salleh Said Keruak said the prime minister knows that these demands ― an increase in oil royalty payments and better compliance of the 20-point memorandum on the 1963 Malaysia agreement ― are issues closest to the hearts of Sabah natives.

“The prime minister knows that these are issues to Sabahans and that is a matter that can be achieved through negotiations rather than through armed conflict like secession from Malaysia.

“I am confident that all these issues will be addressed in due time,” he told Malay Mail Online in an email interview.

The newly-appointed communications and multimedia minister also insisted that the majority of Sabahans still believe in the ruling government and would not likely warm to idea of the state’s secession from Malaysia.

He pointed out that many are already wary of the numerous incidences of security breaches along the state’s porous east coast.

“Despite harping on these issues in the previous general elections, the opposition parties still failed to win the hearts and minds of the people as was evident in the 13the general election results,” he said.

In Kuching on Monday, Najib reportedly pledged to empower Sabah and Sarawak, saying he had instructed Chief Secretary to the Government Tan Sri Ali Hamsa to touch base with the state secretaries of both Borneo states and look into their demands for more autonomy.

Talk of secession become rife last year after a social media group called “Sabah Sarawak Keluar Malaysia” began gaining traction, especially among the rural youth of east Malaysia.

The group has taken up issues emotive to Sabahans such as the alleged grabbing of native customary land, the influx of illegal immigrants, the lack of infrastructure and development in the state, distortion of historical facts regarding Malaysia’s formation and oil royalty rights.

The movement, which claims to be under a UK-based non governmental organisation “Sabah Sarawak Union”, has been campaigning for a review of the 1963 Malaysia agreement.

It has also played up sentiments against the federal government and promoted an online petition urging for a review of the Malaysian Agreement.

Sabah police have issued a warrant of arrest for its founder, UK-based Doris Jones, but UK does not recognise sedition as a crime.

However, four volunteers of the movement are awaiting trial this September for allegedly promoting secession, which is deemed a crime under the Sedition Act.

Source: http://www.themalaymailonline.com/malaysia/article/pm-will-address-sabah-woes-soon-no-need-for-secession-talk-umno-leader-says#sthash.FJWoaRRw.dpuf

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New Sabah Speaker bans ‘secession’ from being used in future sittings

KOTA KINABALU, Aug 10, 2015: Newly appointed Sabah Legislative Assembly Speaker has banned the word ‘secession’ in the state’s future sittings.

Datuk Syed Abas Syed Ali made the warning when he clocked in for the new job officially today at the State Legislative Assembly building, here.

Welcomed by his two deputies — Datuk Johnny Mositun and Datuk Johnson Tee, as well as staff, Syed Abas however said it was beyond his control if the assemblymen wished to talk about it outside the auspicious House.

“I can only forbid its usage during the sitting.”

Instead, the Balung assemblyman wanted the assemblymen to discuss issues related to bringing development to the people and for the people.

Syed Abas reminded that Sabah was a big state and needed a lot of funds for the development of roads, water supply and other infrastructures including school infrastructures for school children.

“Even some districts are bigger than the states in the peninsular…so these are the things that I hope our assemblymen will raise during the sitting.

“They need to think not about one tree but about all the trees in the whole forest.”

He also added that he hoped for the cooperation from the assemblymen from both the government and the Opposition and stated that both these groups had the good of Sabah in mind.

Syed Abas, who took over as the 9th Speaker from Datuk Seri Salleh Said Keruak, who resumed his federal ministerial post as the Communication and Multimedia Minister, told the media that it took him and his wife by surprise.

“I was surprised when the chief minister asked me to take over as Sabah’s speaker, with the approval from the Prime Minister. It was a good offer.”

Syed Abas has been in politics since the 1970s and was believed to be the right person for the post due to his vast experience in administration and political arena.

“I was always the backbencher or chairman of government linked corporations, and never did I expect to be appointed, especially since there have been rumours of other people who were likely to become the next State Speaker.

“I was, initially, told that I would probably be offered an assistant ministerial post, so this new responsibility is indeed a real a surprise for me.”

Despite his vast experience, Syed Abas is humbled as he admitted that the new post meant he would have to learn from scratch.

“I am prepared for the new challenge, and while I am the ‘new kid’ here, I believe my able deputies would assist me with the tasks.”

Source: The Rakyat Post

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Najib, Adenan not on same page on autonomy

The Prime Minister does not mention the Full Autonomy that Sarawak Chief Minister Adenan Satem has been preaching in his homeland

KOTA KINABALU: The UK-based Borneo’s Plight in Malaysia Foundation (Bopim), a Borneo rights NGO, takes issue with Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak describing “secession” talk in Sabah and Sarawak as “stupid talk”.

Bopim President Daniel John Jambun also noted that Sarawak Chief Minister Adenan Satem, apparently echoing Najib’s remarks, was quoted in the media as saying that, “there’s no need to leave Malaysia, it is a stupid talk. More power to Sarawak, yes, but secession – no”.

“If Najib’s idea of autonomy by way of working through the Federal Government Departments in Sabah and Sarawak goes through, the rights activists in Borneo will step up their respective campaigns ranging from harping on the Federal Government’s non-compliance on the Malaysia Agreement 1963 (MA63) to Full Autonomy and secession to independence.”

However, if Adenan’s idea of Full Autonomy takes off, added Daniel, some rights activists in Borneo may be persuaded that he has cut the Gordian Knot on the Federal Government’s non-compliance on MA63, the issue of Malaysia having no legitimacy in Borneo, and in addition being party to further illegalities as in the case of the illegal immigrants in Sabah in particular.

“Adenan has a point when he lauds the benefits of a Federation but the fact remains that the Federal Government was being monopolised by Malaya and not shared with Sabah and Sarawak as the equal partners envisaged by MA63.”

Leaving aside for the moment the question of Malaysia’s legitimacy in Borneo, and being party to further illegalities as contained in the RCI Report, the fact remains that both Adenan and Najib are not on the same page on the status of Sabah and Sarawak in the Federation with the peninsula, pointed out Daniel.

“Adenan has been quoted as saying in the media last month that the Sarawak Government was engaged in talks with the Federal Government for Full Autonomy,” recalled the Bopim Chief. “He envisages the Federal Government, under the Full Autonomy Plan, confining itself to defence, foreign affairs and internal security.”

For starters, added Daniel, it’s wrong of the Sarawak Government to engage in talks with the Federal Government for Full Autonomy without the participation of the Sabah Government as well and/or for the Federal Government to entertain the notion of such talks with Sarawak only. “Both Sabah and Sarawak are in the same plight vis-a-vis Malaya. So, the question of Sarawak going solo on Full Autonomy talks should not arise. This is the result of Umno being in Sabah”

It’s interesting meanwhile, continued Daniel, that the language coming from Najib on Sabah and Sarawak rights was not the same as that used by Adenan. “Najib makes no mention of the Full Autonomy being preached by Adenan.”

Najib, said Daniel, sees autonomy — the word Full is missing from his vocabulary — in terms of the presence of Federal Government Departments in Sabah and Sarawak. “In that sense, he keeps referring to the duplication and waste between the Federal Government Departments in Sabah and Sarawak and the respective Governments in the two Borneo nations.”

“Going by Najib’s previous statements as well in the media, not so long ago in Sarawak, he sees autonomy and more powers in terms of handing over control of some – not ALL — of the Federal Government Departments in Sabah and Sarawak either to locals or handing them over to the respective state governments.”

It has not been stated by Najib, stressed Daniel, where the Budget will come from if the said Federal Government Departments in Sabah and Sarawak are handed over to the respective Governments in the two Borneo nations. “If the control of the said Government Departments was merely handed over to the control of locals, how does that address the problem of duplication and waste mentioned by Najib?”

“Would the Sabah and Sarawak Governments have to stop duplicating what these Federal Government Departments in the two Borneo nations have been doing once they are handed over to the control of locals?”

It’s an open secret in Borneo, said Daniel, that despite the Sabah and Sarawak Governments being members of the ruling Barisan Nasional (BN), all three governments have been competing with each other, almost trying to outdo each other on the same things when it comes to the civil service administration.

Source: Free Malaysia Today

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Mt Kinabalu guides honoured on Singapore National Day

Ricky Masirin, Valerian Joannes get posthumous Commendation medals for “devotion to duty” during Sabah quake; four other Malaysians recognised as well.

SINGAPORE: Mountain guides Ricky Masirin and Valerian Joannes who died trying to bring to safety several Singapore primary schoolchildren from the earthquake-stricken Mt Kinabalu in June were honoured by the Singapore government yesterday.

The two guides were posthumously awarded Commendation Medals during Singapore’s National Day Awards for their efforts in trying to guide Tanjong Katong Primary School pupils to safety.

The citation for the guides read: “(for their) Devotion to duty and exemplary conduct during the Sabah earthquake,” The Straits Times and Asia News Network reported.

Muhammad Danish Amran, another Sabah guide who brought several pupils down the mountain to safety, was also honoured together with Malaysian Mountain Torq trainers Hajiris Sulomin, Hilary Hendry Augustinus and James Maikol.

The Malaysians were among 16 others who were honoured.

Among the Singaporeans given the medal were Tanjong Katong School teachers Mohamed Faizal, Joshua Tan, Nur Uzaimah Fadzali, Lee Hui Jun, Carolyn De Souza and Roushan Amir Hussain.

Faizal, who teaches English and physical education, said modestly: “We weren’t doing anything extra. We were doing what is required of us as teachers, which is taking care of the kids under our charge.”

Source: http://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/nation/2015/08/10/mt-kinabalu-guides-honoured-on-singapore-national-day/

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Sapp to educate Gen-Y on Sabah’s true history

Putrajaya should start counting the Federation with Sabah and Sarawak from 1963 and not from 1957 or from 1948.

KOTA KINABALU: The Sabah Progressive Party (Sapp) wants to educate the Gen-Y in particular that Sabah was once a country on its own before 16 Sept 1963 when it came together in a Federation with Sarawak, Singapore and the peninsula. “Brunei stayed out at the 11th hour,” noted Sapp Vice- Youth Chief Yong Yit Yoong.

“Now, Sabah like Sarawak is a nation within the Federation. Full Autonomy is our Constitutional right. The Federal Government has also reneged on the Borneonisation of the civil service.”

He was explaining the purpose of the Black Sunday 2.0 Gathering on Sunday along Gaya Street, the venue of the packed weekly Sunday Market, in Kota Kinabalu, during which the participants held blank papers. “Friends in the police warned us that we can’t speak up on certain things. So, that’s why we held black papers in protest against such restrictions.”

“We have the right to speak up on Sabah rights. If we don’t have the right to speak up, even in the social media, the Ministry of Communications and Multimedia Commission should close down.”

The Sabah Independence Day celebrations on August 31 to be held in Kundasang this year by the party, added Yong, would stress that independence began in 1963 and not 1957. “In the case of Sarawak, independence came on 22 July 1963 and they observed the anniversary last month for the second time since 1963.”

“The Federal Government should start counting the Federation with Sabah and Sarawak as beginning from 1963 and not from 1957, the Independence Day for the peninsula, or even from 1948 when the Federation of Malaya Agreement was signed in London.”

The history of the Federation in 1963, charged Yong, was being ignored or down-played by the Federal Government as evident in school text books. “We cannot forget out history. We need to educate the Gen-Y so that they will know their true history, not the one put out by Putrajaya.”

Yong, delving into the history since 1963, lamented that the status of Sabah and Sarawak had diminished since Singapore’s departure in 1965 from being equal partners of Malaya incorporating Singapore, to the 12th and 13th states in the Federation. “There has been very little public education on Sabah and Sarawak’s real status in the Federation.”

Source: http://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/nation/2015/08/10/sapp-to-educate-gen-y-on-sabahs-true-history/

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Jeffrey: S’pore abandoned Sabah and Sarawak

The two Borneo nations need to wake up from their trance-like state induced by Umno and the Barisan Nasional (BN).

KOTA KINABALU: Bingkor assemblyman and longtime rights activist Jeffrey Kitingan has mixed feelings on the 50th Anniversary of Singapore ending its merger with Malaya and exiting the Federation with the peninsula, Sabah and Sarawak. “When I asked the late Lee Kuan Yew once what his greatest regret was in relation to Sabah and Sarawak, he hung his head, and tears rolled down his face. He was so choked with emotion and regret that he could not speak.”

“Sabahans and Sarawakians need to wake up from their trance-like state induced by Umno and the Barisan Nasional (BN) and their links with the peninsula where the Federal Government has refused to comply with the Malaysia Agreement 1963.”

While extending greetings on the Golden Anniversary joy for Singapore, he can’t at the same time resist pointing out that the city state abandoned Sabah and Sarawak which facilitated its merger with Malaya through their Federation with the peninsula and the island. “Otherwise, multiracial Malaya refused to have Chinese-majority Singapore merge with it.”

“What might be the status of Sabah and Sarawak today had the two Borneo nations left the Federation in 1965 at the same time as Singapore?” asked Jeffrey on the road not taken. “Just as Lee Kuan Yew fought hard to persuade Sabah and Sarawak leaders to agree to Federation in 1963, Singapore should have fought equally hard for the two Borneo nations to leave the Federation at the same time as it left.”

Moving forward, said Jeffrey, it was clear that Sabah and Sarawak could no longer rely on Umno and Malaya and pointed out that Singapore’s success illustrated Malaysia’s failure. “If Singapore can do it, and Brunei can do well on its own by keeping out of the Federation at the 11th hour, Sabah and Sarawak can also do well if they stand on their own two feet.”

“The Singapore economy in GDP terms is larger than that of Malaysia, the currency almost RM3 to S$1, and it has the world’s third highest per capita income. All these were achieved in a tiny land area, without water or natural resources and without Umno and BN.”

The only thing going for Singapore was its strategic location, human resources, and its commitment to the brightest and best leading the way for all, added Jeffrey. “Sarawak today is better off than Sabah because it has no Umno.”

Source: http://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/nation/2015/08/10/jeffrey-spore-abandoned-sabah-and-sarawak/

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Black Sunday 2.0

KOTA KINABALU, 10 Ogos 2015: Satu program aman yang bertemakan Black Sunday 2.0 telah dilakukan oleh Pemuda SAPP bagi tujuan kesedaran awal tentang Hari Kemerdekaan Sabah di Gaya Street pada hari Ahad.

Program ini memfokuskan kepada penyebaran kebenaran sejarah yang selama ini tidak diketahui oleh orang ramai khususnya bangsa Sabah.

Dengan berbekalkan bendera lama kerajaan Sabah yang dikibarkan pada tahun 1963 sehingga tahun 1982, poster yang berlakarkan gambar wajah Ketua Menteri Sabah yang Pertama, Tun Fuad Stephens dan Yang Di-Pertua Negara Sabah, Tun Mustapha telah digunakan untuk tujuan program kesedaran ini.

Menurut En.Dexter Chin yang merupakan setiausaha Penganjur Exco Pemuda SAPP, beliau mengatakan bahawa adalah sangat penting bagi orang ramai untuk memperingati sejarah bahawa Sabah adalah berstatus negara pada 31 Ogos 1963 sebelum membentuk Persekutuan Malaysia pada 16 September 1963.

Pembentukkan Persekutuan Malaysia adalah berdasarkan kepada konsep Rakan Kongsi Empat Negara yang terdiri daripada Negara Sabah (dahulu dikenali sebagai North Borneo), Negara Sarawak, Negara Singapura dan Persekutuan Tanah Melayu (Malaya). Namun, pada 9 Ogos 1965, Singapura telah keluar daripada Persekutuan dan meninggalkan dua negara Borneo ini bersendirian dengan Malaya. Lantas itu, konsep Persekutuan telah diubah dengan penurunan status Sabah sebagai sebuah negara dan rakan kongsi telah diturunkan oleh Kerajaan Persekutuan Malaysia pada 27 Ogos 1976.

Beliau mengulas dengan lebih lanjut lagi dengan menambahkan bahawa apapun yang telah terjadi, Sabah dan Sarawak masih mempunyai kuasa autonomi dalam mengendalikan hal-ehwal kerajaan tempatan. Semuanya in telah termaktub didalam Perjanjian Malaysia dan ia mesti dihormati oleh kerajaan persekutuan. Autonomi penuh perlu diberikan kepada Sabah agar kelancaran didalam pentadbiran dapat dicapai bagi kepentingan kerajaan tempatan dan rakyat Sabah.

Kenyataan Datuk Seri Zahid Hamidi yang merupakan Menteri Kementerian Dalam Negeri (kini Timbalan Perdana Menteri) tentang larangannya kepada rakyat Sabah untuk tidak mempersoalkan isu pendatang asing merupakan satu penghinaan kepada rakyat Sabah. Ini kerana kuasa imigresen sebenarnya merupakan kuasa kerajaan Sabah dan ia telah termaktub didalam 20 Perkara. Selain Imigresen, kuasa mengurus Pendidikan dan Ekonomi Sabah juga adalah antara kuasa yang dimiliki oleh Kerajaan Sabah. Namun, kesemua ini tidak dihormati oleh kerajaan persekutuan, tegas En.Dexter Chin.

Justeru, adalah sangat penting untuk setiap rakyat Sabah untuk bersama-sama berjuang untuk menuntut hak Sabah seperti yang telah termaktub didalam Perjanjian Malaysia.

Sepanjang program dijalankan, terdapat sedikit kekecohan dan ketegangan yang telah berlaku. Pihak polis telah mengganggu program tersebut dan ingin merampas bendera Sabah yang dipegang oleh peserta program sehinggakan peserta program tersebut jatuh kerana ditolak oleh pihak polis dengan kasar.

Salah seorang peserta program telah membawa dan mengibarkan bendera Sarawak yang telah dikibarkan pada tahun 1963 sehingga tahun 1973.

Seramai 30 orang peserta telah menjayakan program aman dan dua NGO telah memberikan sokongan kepada program tersebut. NGO yang terlibat ialah Sabah Solidariti dan Sabah Sarawak Union - United Kingdom (SSU-UK).

Turut hadir bersama dalam program tersebut adalah Ketua Pemuda Exco SAPP Jamain Shamarudin, Naib Ketua Pemuda SAPP Stephan Gaimin, Naib Ketua Pemuda SAPP Yong Yit Yoong.

Source: Bobohizan Press

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The Proclamation of Singapore as Independence Country in 1965

The Proclamation of Singapore that announced Singapore's separation from Malaysia on 9 August 1965 was drafted by Mr E W Barker, then Minister for Law. He was also responsible for drafting two other related documents, namely: an Amendment relating to the separation of Singapore from Malaysia as an independent and sovereign state, and an Act to amend the Constitution of Malaysia and the Malaysia Act to give Singapore independence.

PM Lee Kuan Yew entrusted Mr E W Barker with the job of drafting the documents in mid-July 1965 after he received news that the Federal Cabinet had agreed with Tunku Abdul Rahman that Singapore should separate from Malaysia. After several rounds of negotiations between the Singapore government represented by Mr Lee and Dr Goh Keng Swee, Minister of Finance, and the Malaysian government represented by Tunku, Tun Abdul Razak, Deputy Prime Minister, Dato Ismail bin Dato Abdul Rahman, Home Affairs Minister and Tun Tan Siew Sin, Finance Minister, the abovementioned documents were eventually finalised on 7 August.

"Every time I look at these Agreements, I'm happy, I have a sense of pride, having contributed to a major change - the separation of Singapore from Malaysia. I was able to draft these documents then in a short time because I had just left the Bar, in fact, nine months before that. I had been in practice for 14 years and had a lot of experience. Hence, I was able to do it." 

Extract of oral history interview with Mr E W Barker, 1982.

Information extracted from the oral history interview of Mr E W Barker, Accession No: 000193

Proclamation of Singapore that Mr E W Barker 

drafted was signed by Mr Lee on 9 August 1965. 

1. Lee Kuan Yew, The Singapore Story: Memoirs of Lee Kuan Yew (Singapore: Times Editions Pte Ltd and Singapore Press Holdings, 1998), pp. 631-632.
   
   
2. Leslie Fong, "The Week Before Separation", in Singapore 25 Years: A Straits Times Special, National Day, 9 Aug 1990, ed. Leslie Fong (Singapore: Straits Times Press, 1990), pp. 5-10 and Lee, The Singapore Story, pp. 628-647.

Source: http://www.nas.gov.sg/archivesonline/article/proclamation-of-singapore

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Konspirasi Pengkhianatan dan Pembunuhan

Mungkin ada yang takut untuk membuka mulut dan untuk sebab itu, biar pihak kami yang berbicara. Sila lihat gambar ini. Keempat-empat mereka merupakan sahabat baik dan dikatakan sebagai abang dan adik. Mereka juga pejuang Kebangsaan Negara Sabah. malaya tidak mampu mengganggu bangsa Negara Sabah secara langsung. Apatah lagi minyak dan gas. Walaupun mereka digunakan untuk menumbangkan Tun Mustapha kerana keengganannya untuk menyerahkan minyak, apabila mereka memegang kerajaan, mereka juga sedar sebab-sebab apa Tun Mustapha tidak mahu menyerahkan minyak tersebut.

Komplot untuk menghapuskan Pejuang-pejuang ini telah dilakukan atas kesepakatan malaya dan barua (pengkhianat) bangsa negara Sabah iaitu harris salleh.

Selepas misi konspirasi pembunuhan berjaya dilakukan dengan cara "semula jadi (konon)" tetapi yang sebenarnya, bom telah dipasang dan meletup diudara sebelum mendarat (BUKAN terhempas), harris salleh telah menjadi Ketua Menteri, dia telah menyerahkan hak minyak & gas 2 minggu selepas kejadian tersebut tanpa membawa hal ini kepada perbincangan kabinet menteri Sabah. Selepas itu, dia juga telah bersetuju menurunkan status "Negara" kepada "negeri". Dia juga dalang perlaksanaan Dasar Kabotaj yang menyebabkan peningkatan harga kos hidup di Negara Sabah sehingga membantutkan pertumbuhan ekonomi yang jelas hanya menguntungkan pelabuhan malaya. Dan orang ini juga dalang disebalik projek IC.

"Harris later admitted that he found himself being pushed around by the federal government and he was too young to stand up against the its demands. However, if Tun Fuad was still alive, he may be able to stand up against it because he was more senior and had the respect of the federal government."

Mengapa orang ini masih hidup sehingga sekarang? Sebab ada sesuatu yang bakal disaksikannya nanti iaitu penghukuman terhadapnya. Keadilan akan dilakukan terhadap mangsa tragedi Double Six.

Sebarkan info ini.

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Zahid warns ‘disruptive elements’ from breaking Putrajaya-Sarawak ties

Datuk Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi has warned what he described as "disruptive elements" from attempting to split the good relationship Putrajaya has with Sarawak and the relationship the Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak has with Chief Minister Tan Sri Adenan Satem.

The deputy prime minister, on his first official visit to the state since his ministerial elevation 10 days ago, did not name who the disruptive elements are.

Zahid, who is also home minister, said he would use all his powers as the home minister to thwart all attempts at creating a division.

"If there are any groups or individuals who try to divide us, the home ministry will use its full might to break up the attempts," he said at the Hari Raya gathering at the Stadium Perpaduan in Kuching, organised by Rela.

"We won't let anyone come between Kuala Lumpur (Putrajaya) and Sarawak."

The prime minister enjoys a good relationship with Adenan after the Sarawak chief minister gave his undivided support to the embattled prime minister in his two visits to the state in June.

Najib, then under pressure from former prime minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad to step down, said he could now better sleep at night with such support.

Zahid said he would also emulate the prime minister by making frequent visits to the state, particularly to the rural areas.

"I was a village boy who used to play in the mud and grew up in a house without electricity.

"I will come to Sarawak more often and I will not come empty-handed," he said.

"There will be something for the rural people." – August 7, 2015.

Source: http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/malaysia/article/zahid-warns-disruptive-elements-from-breaking-putrajaya-sarawak-ties?ref=yfp#sthash.vft2XwBc.dpuf

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Secession a right of any state that joined Malaysia voluntarily, says Sabah politician

It is not seditious for Sabah and Sarawak nationalists to call for secession from Malaysia if the agreements that formed the country in 1963 are not honoured, Sabah opposition politician, Datuk Dr Jeffrey Kitingan said.

The Bingkor assemblyman, who is chairman of the Sabah STAR party, said the people of these two Borneo states which formed Malaysia with Malaya had been "taken for a ride and cheated outright" despite the Malaysia Agreement as the peninsula depended on these two states for political support and oil wealth.

"If the federal leaders care to listen, Sabah and Sarawak nationalists and activists are not seeking secession but restoration of the legitimate rights, privileges and autonomy of the Borneo states that were taken away or eroded since 1963.

"There was a basis that led to the formation of Malaysia and if that basis is not honoured, one of the lawful and legal recourse would be a de-merger or dissolution. In such an event, it is not secession," Kitingan said in a statement today.

The opposition politician has long campaigned against the Barisan Nasional federal government over issues of oil royalty, freedom of religion, alleged Islamisation of Sabah institutions and the local people as well as immigration which have change the demographic of the state's population.

Kitingan said secession was a legal right of a state if it had voluntarily entered a federation, citing Lord Landsdowne who had chaired the Inter Governmental Committee which had studied the proposed formation of Malaysia in 1962.

Because a state had this "intrinsic" right, it was "unnecessary to include it in the constitution", Landsdowne had said, quoted Kitingan.

"If secession is seditious and against the constitution, why was Singapore allowed secession in 1965? Shouldn't the Singapore leaders then be charged for sedition?" Kitingan added, noting that the federal government then had even signed a departure agreement with Singapore.

Kitingan also noted that "nowhere is it stated in the Federal Constitution that Sabah and Sarawak are not allowed to secede".

The federal government's decision to retain the Sedition Act and plans to make calling for Sabah and Sarawak's secession a criminal offence was a "huge mistake", he added.

But he welcomed threats to arrest and charge Sabah or Sarawak activists for sedition for making such calls, as prosecution would reveal "dark secrets and wrongdoings" against the people of both states.

Criminalising calls for Sabah and Sarawak to leave Malaysia, Kitingan said, would "mark the beginning of the end and break-up of the Malaysian federation". – February 1, 2015.

Source: http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/malaysia/article/secession-a-right-of-any-state-says-sabah-opposition-politician#sthash.4zvVa5ww.dpuf

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Flashlight: Jessie and Billance Duet.

KOTA KINABALU, 6 Ogos 2015: Seorang anak kelahiran bangsa Negara Sabah yang berasal daripada Kota Kinabalu yang bernama Billance Fung Chee Von dan merupakan etnik Sino Kadazan telah menarik perhatian warga Facebook setelah rakaman videonya yang berduet dengan seorang penyanyi terkenal yang bernama Jessie J dengan lagu Flashlight dikongsikan kepada umum melalui profil akaun "Facebook" peribadinya.

Video tersebut telah mendapat sambutan yang hangat setelah dikongsikan disebuah Page Facebook yang bernama The Future of Sabah/Sarawak and the Federation of Malaysia" dan telah mencatat jumlah "share" yang telah mencecah 2,136  dan "Like" sebanyak 1,654. Manakala, jumlah rekod "share" di akaun peribadinya mencatat sebanyak 680 dan "Like" dalam 1,272.

Menurut beliau,  "rakaman tersebut dilakukan secara "duet" bersama dengan penyanyi Jessie J tetapi bukan secara live. Ia menggunakan aplikasi "Sing! Karaoke by Smule" dan sesiapa juga boleh melakukannya."

"Tiada sebarang latihan khusus. Saya hanya menyanyikannya "for fun" sahaja. Terdapat banyak pilihan lagu sama ada "single, duet or group" yang tersedia dalam aplikasi tersebut. Apa yang perlu dilakukan adalah dengan hanya perlu memilih salah satu lagu berkenaan untuk dinyanyikan", ujarnya.

Respon daripada warga Facebook yang rata-ratanya berasal daripada negara Sabah dan negara Sarawak memberikan pujian dan pengiktirafan terhadap kemerduan suara beliau. Malah ada sejumlah ramai wanita dan juga lelaki telah terpikat dan jatuh hati dengannya setelah mendengar lagu duet beliau itu. Ini ditambahkan lagi dengan kekacakannya telah menjadi faktor kepada minat terhadapnya.

Difahamkan bahawa beliau adalah seorang Jurutera Proses (Process Engineer) yang bekerja di Kota Kinabalu, Sabah.

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Seven months on, Sabah cops admit Doris Jones arrest warrant only enforceable in Malaysia

KOTA KINABALU, Aug 5 – Sabah police conceded today that the arrest warrant for UK-based Sabah secessionist Doris Jones obtained nearly seven months ago can only be enforced should she choose to return to Malaysia.

State police commissioner Datuk Jalaluddin Abdul Rahman said that the warrant of arrest, issued on January 16 this year, put Jones on the police’s wanted list for sedition but its powers was limited within the country.

“The warrant of arrest still stands. But in Malaysia. We can take action as soon as she comes here,” said Jalaluddin.

In February, Jalaluddin announced that police had issued the warrant for Doris Yapp Kim Young, 45, with a last known address in Labuan for offences under the Sedition Act.

Jones is believed to be behind a Facebook page “Sabah Sarawak Keluar Malaysia” which aims to promote awareness of Sabah and Sarawak rights within Malaysia and controversially also promotes discourse on secession.

Jalaluddin was previously reported as saying the local police would seek Interpol’s help in locating her but in Britain, where she is believed to be residing, the crime she is alleged to have committed is not recognised.

Jones has repeatedly denied being contacted by authorities or Interpol in the UK and yesterday, wrote on her Facebook account that she “has been waiting since last year” to be served.

Yesterday, a warrant of arrest was issued to founder and editor of whistleblower site Sarawak Report, Clare Rewcastle-Brown for activities detrimental to parliamentary democracy.

The Sarawak Report website was blocked in Malaysia last month for posing a “threat to national stability” after posting reports that Najib had up to RM2.6 billion deposited into his personal accounts.

Lawyers have dubbed the warrant of arrest on Rewcastle-Brown as futile because of its limitations within Malaysia.

Source: http://www.themalaymailonline.com/malaysia/article/seven-months-on-sabah-cops-admit-doris-jones-arrest-warrant-only-enforceabl#sthash.6xBXdqTz.dWwtquji.dpuf

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Tolak Najib atau Tolak UMNO?

Saya memang tolak Najib dan tolak UMNO. Ini pandangan dan tindakan saya. Jelas seperti kristal jernih.

Ada pandangan yang kata kita tukar Najib untuk kebaikan negara. Tetapi UMNO harus kekal memerintah demi Melayu dan Islam. Saya kata pandangan ini salah. Buktinya?

1. Tun M letak jawatan kerana tekanan yang mengatakan beliau sudah terlalu lama dan bakal rosakkan negara dan tidak Islamik. Beliau akur.

2. Tun A ganti malah lebih teruk ekonomi negara. Banyak perkara tidak terkawal. Orang kata Tun A terlalu lembik walaupun agak Islamik. Beliau akur dan letak jawatan.

3. DSN ganti, juga masih teruk. Ekonomi merundum, banyak isu tanpa jawapan jelas. Digesa letak jawatan malah memecat orang lain.

Kalau sudah tiga kali ganti masih tidak ngam, maka apa masalah sebenar? Kepimpinan? Bukan. Masalahnya ialah UMNO yang sudah berakar umbi dan melahirkan jenis kepimpinan ini. Gantilah bagaimana, masih tetap sama. Selain itu ialah masalah sistem pentadbiran negara yang banyak dikuasai rangkaian pemimpin UMNO. Selagi rangkaian ini tidak diputuskan, penjawat awam tidak akan dapat buat kerja dengan baik. Ada peluang untuk dipecat jika tidak ikut arahan.

Jadi mau tolak Najib atau UMNO? Jawapan saya tolak UMNO maka Najib dan pemimpin yang sejenisnya ditolak secara langsung. Rangkaian busuk dalam sistem pentadbiran bakal diperbaharui dengan rangkaian baru. Mereka yang baru ini sudah tentu lebih berhati2 dan ini baik utk negara.

Masih ada persoalan lagi. Katanya kalau UMNO kalah, Melayu dan Islam hancur.

Cuba kaji sejak lebih 50 tahun ini UMNO buat apa dengan Melayu dan Islam?

1. Peratusan ekonomi utk Melayu/Bumiputera tidak pernah capai sasaran. Sebab apa? Rasuah dan kroni, akhirnya projek alibaba.

2. Ruang dakwah begitu terbuka luas, tetapi Islam masih takut rosak aqidah hanya kerana lihat perkataan Allah diguna agama lain dan lambang salib. Ketika di negara barat, Islamnya berkembang walau dikelilingi rumah ibadat agama lain. Sebab apa? Sebab Islam di negara ini hanya topeng untuk raih sokongan. Ini menyebabkan bukan Islam memandang serong terhadap Islam.

Jadi siapa rosakkan Melayu dan Islam? Jawapan saya UMNO. Walaupun demikian, masih ada alim ulama dalam UMNO termasuk yang sudah jadi YB. Saya yakin mereka ini tetap diterima rakyat walaupun tanpa lambang keris itu lagi.

Jadi masih mahu tolak Najib? Janganlah. Tolak UMNO terus. Baru Ngam.

Hasmin Azroy Abdullah.

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IS SARAWAK A NEGARA?

I noted that Peter John and Mujah were grilled incessantly on the words 'negara' and 'referendum' at the balai polis. now, i will reserve my comments on the word referendum, but i cannot keep my silence on the negara status of Sarawak.

Now, look at this book, Malaysia Agreement. it is the mother of all documents on the formation of Malaysia. Without MA63, there is no Malaysia. Without Malaysia there is no Perlembagaan. One senior minister James Masing even noted, if MA63 is breached, then it becomes null and void. meaning there can be no Malaysia then.

MA63 is an international treaty lodged with United Nations. Why the UN accepted it for registration when submitted by Britain in 1970, after Singapore had departed to become an independent nation is beyond my comprehension but that is not my contention here.

What I want to say is, if Sarawak was not a negara at the time MA63 was inked then the Agreement cannot be valid becos in international law only sovereign nations can enter into an international agreement.

If Sarawak is a negara at the time of signing the Agreement, then why must the federal govt be unhappy if we want to re-affirm that Sarawak negara status. why must we be questioned if we say Sarawak is a negara?

and why must the federal government be alarmed if we talk about MA63? it is the Agreement that forms Malaysia, and this book is obtainable from the govt printing offices. Why is it wrong to talk abt MA63 then?

Why must the Sedition Act be used to threaten those who question our negara status and our rights, why must even a legitimate NGO be declared haram and considered as a threat to public order and national security?

Will Sarawakians and Sabahans bow down to intimidation and threats?

Source: Lina Soo

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Catalonia calls early elections in new independence push

The leader of Catalonia has signed a decree calling for early parliamentary elections on September 27 which will serve as a proxy vote for the northeastern region’s potential secession in a fresh attempt at gaining independence from the rest of Spain.

Catalan president Artur Mas announced on Monday that if pro-independence parties secure the majority of votes in parliament then the region, which accounts for a fifth of Spain’s economic output, will aim for independence within 18 months.

While the Spanish general elections are due in 2015, the early Catalonian vote puts pressure on Madrid. The Catalan nationalist leaders have recently signed an agreement on what they call “a road map” to secession which aims to implement the plan by 2017.

The region’s three pro-independence parties are predicted to win 68 to 72 seats in Catalonia’s 135-seat parliament, according to last month’s La Vanguardia poll.

The Catalan coalition called “Together for Yes” comprises the ruling CDC party, the Republican Left of Catalonia (ERC) in addition to associations responsible for pro-independence rallies in the region. By last week the coalition had already presented plans to create a Catalan tax agency and agreed to establish a public credit institution which could later could be transformed into a Catalan central bank.

Spain’s central government in Madrid furiously rejects the notion that elections in Barcelona should be viewed as a referendum on independence.

“In a regional election one chooses lawmakers for the regional parliament, who in turn elect a president of the region. This is what citizens are deciding with this vote and nothing else,” Deputy Prime Minister Soraya Saenz de Santamaria, said on Monday.

READ MORE: 80% of Catalans say 'Yes' to independence in symbolic ‘referendum’

Last year a symbolic vote on independence showed that some 80 percent of the 2.2 million people supported separation from Madrid. Prior to the November 9 referendum, Madrid blocked the vote through the Spanish Constitutional Court.

In the fallout stemming from a symbolic independence vote which was conducted despite a court injunction, Spanish state prosecutors filed charges against referendum supporters including Mas.

In the meantime, the Spanish general election is expected to take place in late November. As Catalonia braces for its new attempt to gain independence, popular support for regional secessionist groups in the region has dropped due to internal politics and the emergence of popular nationalist parties.

READ MORE: Spanish local elections: Upstart Podemos, Ciudadanos parties shine, ruling PP fades

Spain’s regional elections in May showed big gains for upstart leftist and center-right parties with conservatives losing their majority: The results have been the worst for Mariano Rajoy’s People’s Party in more than 20 years. Voters have punished the Prime Minister for four years of severe spending cuts and a string of corruption scandals.

Rajoy now faces stiff opposition by relative new-comers, the Podemos and Ciudadanos parties which have appealed to voters by calling for more transparency and accountability in politics.

Source: https://www.rt.com/news/311496-catalonia-early-vote-independence/

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Alleged S4S promoter charged in court

SIBU: A 47-year-old purported promoter of Sarawak for Sarawakians (S4S) was yesterday produced in a Magistrate’s Court here to face a charge under Communication and Multi-media Act 1998.

When the nature of charge was read and explained to Yeu Bang Keng, 47, from Tiong Hua Road, through an interpreter in Mandarin, he said he understood the charge but denied it.

The offence framed under Section 249 of the Communication and Multi-media Act 1998, and punishable under Section 242 of the same Act carries a maximum penalty of RM100,000-fine or two years’ jail or both on conviction.

Yeu is charged for refusal to provide his Facebook username and password to the police in their investigation into a commentary in his FB posting at Sibu Central Police Station at 4.30pm on May 15.

Clad in a black S4S T-shirt when he appeared in court yesterday afternoon, Yeu was granted bail of RM15,000 with two sureties.

As bail condition, magistrate Saiful Sayoti ordered that he deposit RM10,000 in the form of fixed deposit certificate with the court.

State Deputy Public Prosecutor Mohd Azrul Faidz preferred the charge against the accused who was not represented.

The case comes up for further mention on Sept 2 and for trial on Oct 8.

Source: http://www.theborneopost.com/2015/08/05/alleged-s4s-promoter-charged-in-court/#ixzz3htfQw7nJ

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Apabila Jenayah Berselindung Disebalik Undang-Undang

1.Tidak pernah ada pun menteri yang lantang bercakap akan berusaha menghapuskan salah laku dan pecah amanah dalam kalangan menteri-menteri dan ahli politik. Yang kita selalu dengar berulang ulang adalah nasihat kepada rakyat, harapan dan janji-janji palsu iaitu memberi kesejahteraan kepada rakyat dan memperbaiki taraf ekonomi rakyat.

2. Undang-undang yang pernah ada di Malaysia, hanya disediakan khas untuk menteri-menteri dan ahli politik. Ahli politik beserta dengan undang-undang mereka sahaja. Sistem perundangan yang hanya berkesan kepada rakyat biasa tetapi kebal kepada empunya kuasa perundangan iaitu dalam kalangan pengamal undang-undang dan barisan menteri-menteri dan sekutunya.

3. Undang-undang dalam Malaysia telah mematikan dan membekukan hak-hak dan kuasa rakyat bawahan. Ianya digunapakai ke atas rakyat biasa, iaitu pekerja bawahan.

4. Kesalahan jenayah terbesar dalam sebuah negara itu bukanlah jenayah sosial yang hanya melibatkan kesalahan jenayah yang dilakukan oleh rakyat. Mahkamah, polis, pendakwa raya, perundangan dan perlembagaan semuanya sengaja direka dan diwujudkan untuk rakyat. Berlakunya penyalah gunaan kuasa. Lalu rakyat dikawal seketat ketatnya dengan alasan untuk menjaga kesejahteraan negara dan mengawal keamanan dalam Malaysia. Orang awam atau rakyat biasa dijadikan simbol utama kepada permasalahan jenayah sosial yang akan memudaratkan negara.

5. Hakikatnya, jenayah serius dan hal yang bakal memudaratkan sesebuah negara itu ialah krisis yang ditimbulkan sendiri dalam kalangan menteri-menteri barisan hadapan negara dan ahli politik itu sendiri. Skandal korupsi dan penyelewangan yang dilakukan oleh menteri-menteri merupakan jenayah terburuk dan keji yang sepatutnya bakal mengugat kesejahteraan dan keselamatan dalam negara.

6. Mengapa ketua hakim atau ketua peguam, pendakwa raya negara, pasukan keselamatan negara iaitu polis dan tentera hanya dikerahkan untuk menangani permasalahan rakyat biasa. Bagaimana dengan pasukan pendakwaan khas, pasukan perisikan khas, akta-akta dan undang-undang dalam negara yang disediakan khas jika berlakunya salah laku dan pecah amanah dalam kalangan menteri-menteri?

7. Adakah salah laku yang hanya dilakukan oleh rakyat biasa seperti mencuri, memfitnah, membunuh, dan sebagainya diyakini tidak pernah langsung dilakukan oleh menteri-menteri kita pada hari ini? Menteri-menteri yang dilantik menjadi pemimpin negara pada hari ini merupakan seorang rakyat biasa yang dipilih untuk menjadi menteri. Jika seorang menteri itu dahulunya pernah menjadi rakyat biasa sebelum dipilih menjadi pemimpin, maka pada hari ini atas apakah alasan atau undang-undang dunia manakah yang menyatakan bahawa mereka tidak harus dikenakan tindakan atau hukuman atas salah laku mereka.

8. Pecah amanah yang dilakukan oleh mereka kerana tanggapan bahawa jawatan yang disandang dilihat sebagai harta dan kekayaan semata mata.

Tanpa kita sedari bahawa kita diperbodohkan melalui persetujuan untuk akur dan tunduk dan sembah kepada kuasa atau sistem perundangan dan perlembagaan yang dianggap mampu menstabilkan keadaan negara dan mewujudkan sebuah negara yang aman dan harmoni dan bebas daripada kuasa penjajahan oleh negara luar. Ciptaan undang-undang buatan manusia yang cuba mengaburkan mata rakyat bagi menutup rahsia dan penyelewangan yang dilakukan oleh pemimpin negara.

9. Jikalau rakyat sudah kehilangan kepercayaan kepada perundangan negara, maka tidak perlulah wujudkan pekerjaan sebagai peguam, kerana pada hakikatnya wang ringgit, masa dan tenaga yang dibazirkan juga tidak pernah berpihak dan menyebelahi nasib rakyat.

Source: G.M

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