{"id":10916,"date":"2016-06-12T00:34:40","date_gmt":"2016-06-11T16:34:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/?p=10916"},"modified":"2016-06-12T07:51:45","modified_gmt":"2016-06-11T23:51:45","slug":"dato-sebastian-at-the-dewan-promote-awareness-on-the-rights-and-entitlements-of-sarawak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/?p=10916","title":{"rendered":"Dato Sebastian at the Dewan: Promote awareness on the rights and entitlements of Sarawak"},"content":{"rendered":"

THE state government has been urged to be more active and aggressive\u00a0in promoting awareness on four important documents that contain the\u00a0rights and entitlements of Sarawak at the time of the formation of\u00a0Malaysia in 1963.<\/p>\n

The four documents according to Datuk Sebastian Ting Chiew Yew\u00a0(BN-Piasau) during his debate yesterday was The Cobbold Commission,\u00a0The Inter Governmental Committee, The Malaysia Agreement 1963 and The\u00a0Malaysia Act 1963 (Chapter 35).<\/p>\n

\u201cAs Sarawakians we must know our rights. Once we know our rights, we\u00a0must promote awareness to as many Sarawakians as possible,\u201d Ting said\u00a0in his maiden speech at the august House.<\/p>\n

By knowing the importance of the four documents, Sarawakians, he\u00a0added, would be more aware on ways to protect their rights and\u00a0ultimately reclaim those rights.<\/p>\n

Many Sarawakians were unaware of the existence of the four documents\u00a0as history books in the Malaysian education system had omitted and was\u00a0continuing to omit them (four documents).<\/p>\n

\u201cConsequently, the true history of Sarawak and the formation of\u00a0Malaysia have never been made known to our people and Malaysians as a\u00a0whole. It is therefore a fair statement to say that Malaysians in\u00a0Malaya will never know the true story of Sarawak and the formation of\u00a0Malaysia,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

On another note, Ting said SUPP had so far organised 10 political\u00a0forums which were participated by about 1,500 people.<\/p>\n

He also congratulated Chief Minister Datuk Patinggi Tan Sri Adenan\u00a0Satem for being successful in getting 13 administrative powers from\u00a0the federal departments and transferring them to the state government.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere will be more negotiations to be carried out for us to reclaim\u00a0our autonomous powers. While we look forward to reclaiming more\u00a0autonomous powers I urge the state government to employ more pragmatic\u00a0means to preserve some of the autonomous powers already in our hands,\u201d\u00a0he added.<\/p>\n

The Hudud Bill was also debated, which he said, after 53 years of the\u00a0formation of Malaysia, the fundamental principles of a secular state\u00a0was now being challenged and her foundation tested.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Private Bill introduced by PAS president Datuk Seri Hadi Awang to\u00a0enhance the Syariah Courts\u2019 criminal jurisdiction will effectively\u00a0make Malaysia an Islamic state. Hudud law may and will steadily\u00a0replace the current criminal system based on rule or law and the\u00a0Criminal Code used by all countries that run along democratic\u00a0principles.<\/p>\n

\u201c If the Hudud law is passed by Parliament, it is likely be the end of\u00a0Malaysia as a secular state. Our leaders in Sarawak did not and would\u00a0never have agreed to the formation of Malaysia had it known 50 years\u00a0down the line that Malaysia will become an Islamic state,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

He also said the Inter-Governmental Committee Report 1962 (IGC Report)\u00a0was tasked to work out the future constitutional arrangements to\u00a0safeguard certain special interests for Sarawak and North Borneo.<\/p>\n

\u201cFrom the IGC Report, it is very clear that besides the establishment\u00a0of the Federation of Malaysia, the first and foremost matter concerns\u00a0the committee was religious freedom,\u201d said Ting, adding that the\u00a0committee had also recommended that there should be a guarantee for\u00a0religious freedom when the Federation of Malaysia was established.<\/p>\n

He also suggested that a new ministry of religious affairs be\u00a0established in Sarawak to make laws and policies to protect and uphold\u00a0the religious freedom in Sarawak, to set up proper channels to assist\u00a0Sarawakians in the national registration process, particularly when\u00a0they have chosen to convert to other religions of their choice, to\u00a0encourage understanding and unity among different religions, promote\u00a0harmony and to oversee the welfare of different religious bodies,\u00a0particularly the registration of religious bodies so that these bodies\u00a0were entitled to state resources and support.<\/p>\n

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THE state government has been urged to be more active and aggressive\u00a0in promoting awareness on four important documents that contain the\u00a0rights and entitlements of Sarawak at the time of the formation of\u00a0Malaysia in 1963. The four documents according to Datuk Sebastian Ting Chiew Yew\u00a0(BN-Piasau) during his debate yesterday was The Cobbold Commission,\u00a0The Inter Governmental Committee, The Malaysia Agreement 1963 and The\u00a0Malaysia Act 1963 (Chapter 35). \u201cAs Sarawakians we must know our rights. Once we know our rights, we\u00a0must promote awareness to as many Sarawakians as possible,\u201d Ting said\u00a0in his maidenRead More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10917,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10916"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10916"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10932,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10916\/revisions\/10932"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}