SABAH 20 POINTS/ SARAWAK 18 POINTS AGREEMENT WHEN JOINING MALAYA

SABAH 20 POINTS/ SARAWAK 18 POINTS AGREEMENT WHEN JOINING MALAYA

by Kami Rakyat Sarawak Mahu Taib Berundur on Monday, March 28, 2011 at 1:48pm

SABAH 20 POINTS/ SARAWAK 18 POINTS AGREEMENT WHEN JOINING MALAYA

Point 1: Religion

While there was no objection to Islam being the national religion of Malaysia there should be no State religion in Borneo (Sarawak & Sabah), and the provisions relating to Islam in the present Constitution of Malaya should not apply to Borneo.

 

Point 2: Language

* a. Malay should be the national language of the Federation

* b. English should continue to be used for a period of 10 years after Malaysia Day

* c. English should be an official language of Borneo (Sarawak & Sabah) for all purposes, State or Federal, without limitation of time.

 

Point 3: Constitution

Whilst accepting that the present Constitution of the Federation of Malaya should form the basis of the Constitution of Malaysia, the Constitution of Malaysia should be a completely new document drafted and agreed in the light of a free association of states and should not be a series of amendments to a Constitution drafted and agreed by different states in totally different circumstances. A new Constitution for Borneo (Sarawak & Sabah) was of course essential.

 

Point 4: Head of Federation

The Head of State in Borneo (Sarawak & Sabah) should not be eligible for election as Head of the Federation

 

Point 5: Name of Federation

"Malaysia" but not "Melayu Raya"

 

Point 6: Immigration

Control over immigration into any part of Malaysia from outside should rest with the Central Government but entry into Borneo (Sarawak & Sabah) should also require the approval of the State Government. The Federal Government should not be able to veto the entry of persons into Borneo (Sarawak & Sabah) for State Government purposes except on strictly security grounds. Borneo (Sarawak & Sabah) should have unfettered control over the movements of persons other than those in Federal Government employ from other parts of Malaysia Borneo (Sarawak & Sabah).

 

Point 7: Right of Secession

There should be no right to secede from the Federation

 

Point 8: Borneanisation

Borneanisation of the public service should proceed as quickly as possible.

 

Point 9: British Officers

Every effort should be made to encourage British Officers to remain in the public service until their places can be taken by suitably qualified people from Borneo (Sarawak & Sabah)

 

Point 10: Citizenship

The recommendation in paragraph 148(k) of the Report of the Cobbold Commission should govern the citizenship rights in the Federation of Borneo (Sarawak & Sabah) subject to the following amendments:

* a) sub-paragraph (i) should not contain the proviso as to five years residence

* b) in order to tie up with our law, sub-paragraph (ii)(a) should read "7 out of 10 years" instead of "8 out of 10 years"

* c) sub-paragraph (iii) should not contain any restriction tied to the citizenship of parents – a person born in Borneo (Sarawak & Sabah) after Malaysia must be federal citizen.

 

Point 11: Tariffs and Finance

Borneo (Sarawak & Sabah) should retain control of its own finance, development and tariff, and should have the right to work up its own taxation and to raise loans on its own credit.

 

Point 12: Special position of indigenous races

In principle, the indigenous races of Borneo (Sarawak & Sabah) should enjoy special rights analogous to those enjoyed by Malays in Malaya, but the present Malays' formula in this regard is not necessarily applicable in Borneo(Sarawak & Sabah)

 

Point 13: State Government

* a) the Prime Minister should be elected by unofficial members of Legislative Council

* b) There should be a proper Ministerial system in Borneo (Sarawak & Sabah)

 

Point 14: Transitional period

This should be seven years and during such period legislative power must be left with the State of Borneo (Sarawak & Sabah) by the Constitution and not be merely delegated to the State Government by the Federal Government

 

Point 15: Education

The existing educational system of Borneo (Sarawak & Sabah) should be maintained and for this reason it should be under state control

 

Point 16: Constitutional safeguards

No amendment modification or withdrawal of any special safeguard granted to Borneo (Sarawak & Sabah) should be made by the Central Government without the positive concurrence of the Government of the State of North Borneo

The power of amending the Constitution of the State of Borneo (Sarawak & Sabah) shouldbelong exclusively to the people in the state. (Note: The United Party, The Democratic Party and the Pasok Momogun Party considered that a three-fourth majority would be required in order to effect any amendment to the Federal and State Constitutions whereas the UNKO and USNO considered a two-thirds majority would be sufficient)

 

Point 17: Representation in Federal Parliament

This should take account not only of the population of Borneo (Sarawak & Sabah) but also of its seize and potentialities and in any case should not be less than that of Singapore

 

Point 18: Name of Head of State

Yang di-Pertua Negara

Point 19: Name of State

Sarawak or Sabah

 

Point 20: Land, Forests, Local Government, etc.

The provisions in the Constitution of the Federation in respect of the powers of the National Land Council should not apply in Borneo (Sarawak & Sabah). Likewise, the National Council for Local Government should not apply in Borneo (Sarawak & Sabah).

Sarawak is famous -Senadin case will be brought to United Nations Human Rights Commission in Geneva!

Sarawak is famous -Senadin case will be brought to
Posted by United Nations Human Rights Commission in Geneva! on April
20, 2011 at 09:39:25:

In Reply to : What a coincidence-two blackouts posted by Dudong and
senadin!! on April 20, 2011 at 09:32:05:

From FMT 20.4.2011

KUALA LUMPUR: The incident in Sarawak's Senadin constituency involving
PKR candidate Dr Michael Teo will be presented to the United Nations
Human Rights Commission in Geneva today.
The disputed results on April 16 will form the spine of a presentation
to be made by Sarawak Report (SR) and other observers of the recently
concluded 10th Sarawak election.
According to SR blogger Clare Rewcastle Brown, "we will tell exactly
what happened (in Sarawak)".
Citing Senadin, she said PKR was leading by 1,000 odd-votes during the
last ballot counting in Miri City Stadium when suddenly a blackout
"conveniently occurred".
The blackout, she said, lasted an hour during which time the Election
Commission (EC) continued counting.
"Suddenly they brought in 'postal' votes at an illegally late hour and
SUPP was declared 'winners' with a slim 58-vote majority.
"The EC also announced 158 spoiled votes favouring PKR. The commission
refused a recount despite the fact that there was a clear case for
it," she said.
Brown added that the Senadin incident was only one example that SR was
planning to present to the UN.
She said SR's report to the UN would include the "mass
disenfranchisement of much of the population in the interior".
This, she said, enabled Taib to operate a "rotten borough system"
where seats are decided by just a tiny number of people whom he can
pressure and influence.
"Some 470,000 natives do not voting rights out of Sarawak's 2.5
million population.
"There is also the illegal touting of projects and votes by Barisan
Nasional politicians, including the prime minister, in the run-up to
the election.
"These are used as a direct bribe and form of blackmail. They tell the
voters that they will not get the projects and worse, may be
discriminated against in the provision of basic amenities if they do
not vote BN, " she said in her posting on SR.
Postal votes and bribery
On postal votes, she said this was another issue which would be made
known to the UN.
She said SR would inform the UN about the abuse of postal votes and
the "outrageous targeting of postal votes at single constituencies" BN
wants to influence.
"We will also tell them about the practice of doubling up by sending
in postal votes by the army and then bringing in plane loads of the
same soldiers to vote in person as well and the introduction of
suspicious last-minute 'postal votes' in order to try and boost BN's
tallies far later than legally allowed."
The other areas that the report will highlihgt include the use of
gangsters to intimidate and turn away voters from the polling
stations, the abuses by the EC which included switching voters'
polling stations away from their home areas to distant places they
cannot get to and hiding ballot boxes.
The UN will also hear of the tampering of Form 14, cutting off mobile
phone networks on polling day as well as the "naked bribery by BN" of
poor voters on the eve of the election.
Brown said the scale of these bribes went sky high at this election
and was indicative of how unpopular BN is.
BN secured 55 seats against the opposition's 16 in the April 16 polls.

COMMENTS:

This is not a strange news at all. Could UN do something about money
politics in Malaysia??? There is lawlessness when comes to election
campaign period.

DIRTIES AND MOST FOUL ELECTION BY BN AND EC - RACIST REMARKS BY EX-PM MAHATHIR AND BN UNFAIR LEADERS

DIRTIES AND MOST FOUL ELECTION BY BN AND EC
Posted by YET THE PEOPLE MUSTER COURAGE AND WILL TO DEFY BN on April 18, 2011 at 12:05:01:

1) The Federal Government is actually campaigning for BN of Sarawak, using Public Fund, Facilities, Vehicles and Premises

2) The PM, DPM and Ministers are campaigning in their office as such

3) The Federal Government is using immigration to prevent West Malaysians from coming in to help the opposition but not BN and UMNO leaders and members

4) Tenth of thousands of postal vote done voted by West Malaysian army personal are found

5) The Police, councils and hooligan employed by BN trying to put up all so of obstacles to the Opposition ceramah

6) From the tallying of the vote BN won 55 seats polling 372,379 votes and Opposition 15 seats with 251,947 votes, resulting into every 6770 vote for a BN seat and 16,796 votes for an Opposition seat. FOR BN IS 1 MAN 1 VOTE THAN FOR OPPOSITION IS 2.5 MEN A VOTE....DO YOU CALL THIS FAIR.

7) BN PROMISED LONGHOUSE HEAD WITH PUBLIC MONEY TO PAY THEM SPECIAL BONUS IF THEY PREVENT OPPOSITION FROM CAMPAIGNING IN THEIR LONG HOUSE

8) BN USING EC MEN TO DENY RECOUNTING OF VOTE. IN FACT ANY VOTE AS CLOSE AS 15% MAJORITY DESERVE TO BE RECOUNTED PER REQUEST

9) FEDERAL GOVERNMENT START THROWING IN PROJECTS PROMISES AT THE CRITICAL DURING CAMPAIGNING PERIOD WHICH EC HAD DEEMED AS ILLEGAL

10) IS THIS ELECTION FOR THE PEOPLE OF SARAWAK OR IS THIS ELECTION FOR THE WELFARE OF BN POLITICIANS AND CRONIES?

THIS ELECTION IS ILLEGAL.

IT IS NOT FOR SARAWAKIANS. IT DOES NOT REPRESENT SARAWAKIANS. IT IS A BUNCH OF CROOKS BATTLING LEGITIMATE POLITICIANS, THE DAP, PKR AND PAS. THE ELECTION IS STRICTLY FOR LOOTING THE WEALTH OF SARAWAK AT WILL BY THE SAME FEW POWERFUL IN BN.

YET THE GOOD PEOPLE OF SARAWAK MUSTER COURAGE AND WILL TO DEFY BN.

I SHALL SALUTE TO THOSE BRAVE IN DAP, PKR AND PAS AND MOST OF ALL THOSE IN SARAWAK WHO TURN UP IN FORCE TO REDUCE THE BN WINNING NO MATTER HOW THEY CHEATED.



COMMENTS:

BN has in fact failed badly to win with greater popular votes. BN wins poll in Sarawak but Pakatan Opposition Front has denied BN 2/3 of the popular votes; down by 8% from 63% to 55%. The Change has begun!

BN leaders have made racist remarks that Chinese voters have not supported the government. This is an unfair statement and a racist remark as the "urban voters" have supported the ideology for change in government since the reformation strategy by BN government has failed to produce much positive results. It should be categorized as "urban voters" and cannot racially pin-pointed to the Chinese because the low 55% of the total votes does not come from the urban only.

Judging from the low percentage of 55% of the overall votes, not only the urban voters have swung towards the Opposition but the rural voters have started to tilt towards the Opposition too. This is the scenario which BN govt cannot deny but have to look into it positively and re-evaluate the unfair and unjust policies which YB George Chan had admitted is one of the causes of SUPP defeat in the recent State Election.

Malaysian ex-PM Mahathir made a racist remark on the Chinese voters rather than categorized as urban voters versus rural voters who are still under the spell of poverty and still depend heavily on pro-govt TV news for brain-washing them. If the Opposition could have the mass-media and the fair game of the field, BN will lost more terribly and less than 55% of the total votes.

"Former premier Dr Mahathir Mohamad has accused DAP, which won 12 of the 15 seats it contested in Sarawak, of spreading its racist disease to the State. In a blog posting, the 84-year-old statesman said Saturday's state election results clearly showed that the Chinese in Sarawak rejected multi-racialism. "I congratulate DAP for bringing its racist politics to Sarawak. Before this, all races cooperated well with each other for the good of Sarawak. "Perhaps SUPP is at fault but others in BN also committed many wrong things. But the rejection is almost entirely by the Chinese community," he added.

With due respect Dr Mahathir Mohamad was not on the ground in Sarawak to witness the fraud and bullies committed by BN campaign machinery. The swing of votes came from both the urban voters and rural voters whose Native Customary Rights land have been robbed by the State government. The natural resources in the State is near depletion and soil erosion into the Rejang River has caused rampant flash floods in Sibu town and low-lying areas.

It cannot be denied that rural voters have swung to the Opposition lest the 12 urban and semi-urban seats could not contribute to 45% of the total votes supported by the People. In order to have 2/3 overall support from the voters, you need to achieve 67% of the total votes cast by the People of Sarawak from the 71 constituencies. Instead of pointing the blame on the Chinese voters why not re-look at the unfair and unjust policies which BN lawmakers have passed? Even SUPP Chairman George Chan had revealed the root cause as "unfair and unjust government policies". Why not blame on these unfair policies???

The urban voters have given SUPP over 30 years to represent the People and we have voiced out our frustration over Al-Kitab-Allah issue which needs a permanent solution to it and not quick-fit by 10-point proposal which has not even addressed the root cause of the issue coming from the Arabic word "Allah" which the Christians have used it centuries before the coming of Isalm to mean merely a title for "God" who has the personal Name called Yahweh (YHWH). Yet why the court's case agains the Roman Catholic Church in Malaysia is not settled yet???

Why the rural voters are still under the spell of poverty??? These rural voters have remained poor so that they rely on Federal govt aid and financial support. So the rural voters are desperate to find some source of extra incomes for the family. Every 5 year when comes the State Election, the BN leaders are willing to offer "money-for-vote" in order to remain in power. This is the real scenario of Sarawak politics. Poverty is the "master" who causes the rural folks to rely on Federal govt for financial aid.

The question is why Sarawak leaders have agreed to contribute 95% of the revenue to the Federal govt and only retain 5% for the development projects and not the other way of retaining 95% for the developments in the State. This again is because the Federal govt has "cheated" on the immature Sarawakian leaders who could be offered personal benefits at the expenses of the people who trusted them. Could BN govt develop fair and just policies on 50%-50% power-sharing basis??? Do not ever make racist remark on the Chinese alone because the root cause is not the Chinese but the BN govt who has instigated the Chinese to react with their votes.

The very purpose of democracy is to allow the People to express the wishes of the People by casting the ballots. Now the urban voters have "spoken" through their votes with "one-heart" and you begin to condemn the urban voters for this and that. I would say that BN leaders and ex-PM Mahathir are not so bright people who want to promote a real 1Malaysia but merely a slogan for show off - "hot air" only. The democratic rights of the People cannot be hidden from the eyes of the BN govt by apple-polishing State Assembly men and women. Voting is the democratic rights of the People and the People's rights cannot be punished for voicing their grievances. You cannot ignore the root cause of the displeasure and frustrations of the urban voters who have brains and courage to vote with "one-heart" in order to send a loud and clear message to BN govt that the People's wishes have been neglected.

How could you ex-PM misinterpret the outcome of Sarawak poll as the works of DAP from West Malaysia??? Why are you ignoring the PM and DPM who came to Sarawak like Santa Claus using Federal funds and vehicles for this campaign against the Opposition??? With due respect, ex-PM Mahathir has made a racist remark on the Chinese who have given a good feedback from the votes. Do you still want to ignore the wishes of the urban voters??? Wait and see the result for the coming Federal election in 2012 and you will know what the People really want!