{"id":7059,"date":"2015-07-12T15:50:02","date_gmt":"2015-07-12T07:50:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/?p=7059"},"modified":"2015-07-12T18:13:24","modified_gmt":"2015-07-12T10:13:24","slug":"sarawak-united-peoples-party-press-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/?p=7059","title":{"rendered":"SARAWAK UNITED PEOPLE\u2019S PARTY PRESS RELEASE"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Dato Sebastian Ting Chew Yew<\/p>\n

(1)\u00a0\u00a0 TRANSFER OF SMK LUTONG\u2019s PRINCIPAL MR. MARCUS HUGO to SMK MERBAU<\/p>\n

(2)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 REGAIN AUTHORITY OVER SARAWAK EDUCATION<\/p>\n

(1) The recent transfer instructions to Mr. Marcus Hugo, Principal of SMK Lutong to SMK Merbau has caused me and many people in Miri grave concern.<\/p>\n

When I first heard about Mr Marcus Hugo’s transfer to SMK Merbau, I was very much disturbed by this and felt extremely uncomfortable. My thoughts went back to Sabrina’s conversion incident this year which involved two teachers from Peninsular Malaysia. They were immediately transferred back to Peninsular Malaysia.<\/p>\n

The perception of many people, parents of students studying at SMK Lutong and teachers there, is that his sudden and totally unexpected transfer is connected to the Sabrina’s case which took place in March this year.\u00a0 This perception is real.<\/p>\n

Mr. Marcus Hugo has an excellent track record in the educational field. He has overseen the rise of educational standards in SMK Lutong.\u00a0 The school has received many awards of achievement under his leadership.<\/p>\n

I spoke to Mr Marcus on Thursday (9\/7\/2015) and established the facts, which are as follows:<\/p>\n

1.\u00a0 The letter of Transfer was issued from DG of Education Ministry KL dated 25th May 2015 transferring him to SMK Merbau Miri and to report to that school on 15th June 2015.<\/p>\n

2.\u00a0 The said letter was sent to Kuching Education Dept which forwarded it to Miri by ordinary post.<\/p>\n

3.\u00a0 Mr Marcus received the letter on the 2nd July 2015.<\/p>\n

4. He has applied for early retirement and if approved he would retire in Dec 2016.<\/p>\n

5.\u00a0 PIGB SMK Lutong has submitted a letter of appeal to Ministry of Education KL and Education Dept Kuching requesting for Mr Marcus to remain as Principal of this school until his retirement.<\/p>\n

Since, the people of Sarawak and myself feel this matter relating to the unexpected\u00a0 transfer of Mr. Marcus Hugo is of special concern, I have forwarded the above facts to higher authority and will continue to pursue this matter vigorously.<\/p>\n

(2) This issue brings up another very important matter.\u00a0 SUPP and the people of Sarawak\u00a0 are of one voice and strongly advocate that Sarawak should regain authority over its own Education system. This incident shows that the Federal education authorities must not manage our educational matters by \u2018remote-control\u2019.<\/p>\n

We in Sarawak understand our issues better and by that extension, can therefore\u00a0 manage our own educational policies better. How can the transfer of a Principal with such good academic achievements benefit a school just before PMR, SPM and STPM examinations in few months’ time.\u00a0 Parents are justifiably worried.<\/p>\n

We hope the transfer is not in retaliation for the Sabrina’s conversion case. People would like to believe\u00a0\u00a0 that Sarawak\u2019s educational authorities would not have resorted to this type of illogical and unfair action. But the present perception is otherwise.<\/p>\n

The return of Sarawak\u2019s educational jurisdiction should be made a top priority and seriously pursue.
\n[12\/07 15:11] W Adam Yii: Cr. Misiah Abdullah – Presiden of Persatuan Alumni SMK Lutong handing over the appeal letters of Persatuan Alumni and PIGB.<\/p>\n

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by Dato Sebastian Ting Chew Yew (1)\u00a0\u00a0 TRANSFER OF SMK LUTONG\u2019s PRINCIPAL MR. MARCUS HUGO to SMK MERBAU (2)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 REGAIN AUTHORITY OVER SARAWAK EDUCATION (1) The recent transfer instructions to Mr. Marcus Hugo, Principal of SMK Lutong to SMK Merbau has caused me and many people in Miri grave concern. When I first heard about Mr Marcus Hugo’s transfer to SMK Merbau, I was very much disturbed by this and felt extremely uncomfortable. My thoughts went back to Sabrina’s conversion incident this year which involved two teachers from Peninsular Malaysia.Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7060,"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\/7059"}],"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=7059"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7061,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7059\/revisions\/7061"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}