Secretary-General of SUPP, Datuk Sebastian Ting said SUPP welcomes the announcement by the Prime Minister Dato\u2019 Sri Ismail Sabri during the celebration of 2021 Malaysia Day celebration at Kota Kinabalu, Sabah that the federal government promises to look after the interests of Sarawak and Sabah and continue to resolve the remaining unsettled issues related to Malaysia Agreement 1963 (MA63).
He hoped that the federal government through its MA63 Special Council chaired by the Prime Minister himself, will accept the proposed comprehensive amendments to the Federal Constitution unanimously passed by our DUN on 30th April 2019.
On 30th April 2019, Sarawak DUN had unanimously passed a motion moved by de facto State Law Minister Datuk Sharifah Hasidah and seconded by Assistant Minister of Tourism, Arts and Culture Datuk Sebastian Ting for comprehensive amendment to the Federal Constitution.The proposed amendment includes amending Article 1(2) by adding the sentence \u201cpursuant to Malaysia Agreement 1963\u201d and revert back Sarawak and Sabah status as separate entity and not lump together with the States of Malaya. At the same time, amendment to the Article 160(2) to redefine \u201cthe Federation\u201d as the Federation established under the Malaysia Agreement 1963 signed on 9th July 1963.
“The key thing here is for the Malaysia Agreement 1963 to be recognized by the Federal Constitution, the supreme law of the land, for any future discussions to restore or reclaim Sarawak\u2019s eroded rights.Amendment to Article 95B to stop federal government from amending the State List and Concurrent List in the Ninth Schedule or any matter not already in any of the Lists without first seek consent from our DUN. With this provision, it will help to prevent any further erosion of legislative and executive powers of the state which had happened in the past where Parliament without prior consultation with Sarawak, altered or amended our Legislative Lists.
Amendment to the Federal Constitution to transfer \u201cTourism\u201d matter from Item 25A in the Federal List to be listed in Concurrent List and \u201cEnvironment\u201d matter to be placed in Supplement to the Concurrent List for Sabah and Sarawak. This will give more power to Sarawak government to better manage our tourism and environment in order to protect the interest of Sarawak and our people, ” he said.
Ting opinioned that apart from tourism and environment, SUPP also would like to propose that education and health matter to be placed under State List for Sarawak so we can have separate improved education and health system tailored to the needs of our people. Of course, federal government is to provide the annual funding for the management of these two matters by the state government.
He added that another important amendment is to Article 85A so that state land given to federal government for federal purpose to be returned back to Sarawak government if unused. In this case, federal government also cannot dispose the land or use the land for another federal purpose without the consent of the Sarawak government and hoped all these crucial amendments to the Federal Constitution can be quickly agreed, tabled and passed by the Parliament smoothly to safeguard the legislative and executive powers of Sarawak, sources of revenues and financial autonomy assigned for Sarawak.
“We also would like to thank Prime Minister\u2019s commitment to increase economic growth and development to Sarawak by allocating RM 4.47 billion for Sarawak which is one of the highest compared to other states via the First Rolling Plan 2021 under 12th Malaysia Plan. This is on top of the revenue from our oil and gas royalty and sales tax on petroleum products collected from Petronas, ” he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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