{"id":11360,"date":"2016-07-10T16:23:06","date_gmt":"2016-07-10T08:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/?p=11360"},"modified":"2016-07-10T18:22:52","modified_gmt":"2016-07-10T10:22:52","slug":"sarawak-as-a-region-in-malaysia-and-not-a-state-within-the-federation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/?p=11360","title":{"rendered":"Sarawak as a region in Malaysia and not a state within the federation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chief Minister Datuk Patinggi Tan Sri Adenan Satem has been urged to\u00a0refer to Sarawak as a region in Malaysia and not a state within the\u00a0federation when negotiating with the federal government in the\u00a0devolution of power and autonomy.<\/p>\n<p>This is because together with North Borneo (Sabah), Singapore and the\u00a0Federation of Malaya, Sarawak was one of four regions which formed\u00a0Malaysia in 1963.<\/p>\n<p>Local Government Minister Datuk Dr Sim Kui Hian who is also president\u00a0of Sarawak United People\u2019s Party (SUPP) said Sarawak should be a country\u00a0and not a state.<\/p>\n<p>He said this at the launching of the book \u2018The Grand Design\u2019 by Sabahan researcher Zainnal Ajaimain at his party\u2019s headquarters here recently.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Sim said he has discussed the matter with the Chief Minister, Tan Sri Adenan Satem.<\/p>\n<p>The book contains Zainnal&#8217;s research on the Malaysia Agreement\u00a0(MA63), Inter-Governmental Committee Report and Cobbold Commission\u00a0report.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Sim added that if Sarawak is serious about fighting for its\u00a0autonomy and reclaiming its status as a region in the nation as\u00a0written in the MA63, the Chief minister is the right person to take a lead.<\/p>\n<p>He said SUPP had been in the forefront in fighting for Sarawak\u2019s\u00a0rights as entrenched in the Report of the Inter-Governmental Committee\u00a01962 (IGC) and the MA63 and that it is important for the younger generation\u00a0to understand the three documents of IGC, Cobbold commission report and Malaysia Act 1963.<\/p>\n<p>The matter, he said, has been discussed with the prime minister, Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak who agreed\u00a0 with the issues.<\/p>\n<p>He stressed that he is not against the formation of Malaysia but merely fighting for the rights of\u00a0Sarawak and Sabah.<\/p>\n<p>Also present during the launching of the book were Secretary general, Dato&#8217; Sebastian\u00a0Ting, Assistant Minister for Rural Economy (Interior Areas) and Plantations Datuk Francis\u00a0Harden Hollis, , Batu Kitang assemblyman Lo Khere Chiang and Datuk Lee Kim Shim.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/image120.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-11361\" alt=\"image1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/image120-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/image120-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/image120-1024x681.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/image120.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/image215.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-11362\" alt=\"image2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/image215-300x168.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/image215-300x168.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/image215-1024x576.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/image215.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/image39.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-11363\" alt=\"image3\" src=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/image39-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/image39-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/image39-1024x681.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/image39.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/a><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chief Minister Datuk Patinggi Tan Sri Adenan Satem has been urged to\u00a0refer to Sarawak as a region in Malaysia and not a state within the\u00a0federation when negotiating with the federal government in the\u00a0devolution of power and autonomy. This is because together with North Borneo (Sabah), Singapore and the\u00a0Federation of Malaya, Sarawak was one of four regions which formed\u00a0Malaysia in 1963. Local Government Minister Datuk Dr Sim Kui Hian who is also president\u00a0of Sarawak United People\u2019s Party (SUPP) said Sarawak should be a country\u00a0and not a state. He said this at<a href=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/?p=11360\" class=\"read-more\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11362,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11360"}],"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=11360"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11364,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11360\/revisions\/11364"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}