{"id":12117,"date":"2016-08-29T17:14:44","date_gmt":"2016-08-29T09:14:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/?p=12117"},"modified":"2016-08-29T23:22:57","modified_gmt":"2016-08-29T15:22:57","slug":"12117","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/?p=12117","title":{"rendered":"7 points agreement reached by State Government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>1.\u00a0 SUPP welcomes the 7 points agreement reached by our State\u00a0Government, Federal Government and Petronas that paves the way for\u00a0more Sarawakians to be directly involved in Sarawak&#8217;s oil &amp; gas\u00a0industries. Congratulations to our chief negotiator, Chief Minister\u00a0Datuk Patinggi Tan Sri Adenan Satem and his negotiation team Deputy\u00a0Chief Minister Datuk Amar Douglas Uggah Embas and State Secretary Tan\u00a0Sri Datuk Amar Mohd Morshidi Abdul Ghani for the outcome of the\u00a0negotiation.<\/p>\n<p>2.\u00a0 At the same time, we thank the Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun\u00a0Razak for his continuous commitment of the Sarawak&#8217;s well-being and to\u00a0Datuk Wan Zulkifli Wan Ariffin, CEO of Petronas for his understanding\u00a0of the Sarawakian&#8217;s sensitivity on issues concerning our State&#8217;s oil\u00a0and gas resources.<\/p>\n<p>3.\u00a0 Referring to the Inter-Governmental Committee (IGC) Report 1962,\u00a0paragraph 16(g) regarding Immigration, it says that &#8220;the Federation\u00a0Government should give an assurance that labour for federal projects\u00a0in the Borneo States will not be recruited from outside the State if\u00a0adequate local labour is available&#8230;&#8221; and Petronas is wholly owned by\u00a0the Federal Government. So, this 7 points agreement reiterates that\u00a0the Federal Government is still committed to fulfill all that were\u00a0promised to us when we formed Malaysia in 1963.<\/p>\n<p>4.\u00a0 Appointment of a Sarawakian to be a member of the board of\u00a0directors of Petronas is a great recognition of Sarawak&#8217;s contribution\u00a0to the national oil &amp; gas industry. Bintulu&#8217;s liquid natural gas (LNG)\u00a0production had helped to project Malaysia as the second largest\u00a0exporter in the world after Qatar.<\/p>\n<p>5.\u00a0 SUPP is happy to note that the State Government has\u00a0 set up a\u00a0Committee responsible for the focusing on benefits that can be derived\u00a0from the State&#8217;s petroleum resources, as a back up support to our\u00a0State Secretary&#8217;s duties and scope as a Board Member of Petronas.<\/p>\n<p>6.\u00a0 Commitment by Petronas to recruit 192 Sarawakians for the vacant\u00a0posts and to give education and training opportunities to Sarawakians\u00a0is most welcomed. It is to ensure continuous involvement of\u00a0Sarawakians in its oil &amp; gas industry and achieve the Sarawakians work\u00a0force target by 2020. A constant monitoring on all oil &amp; gas related\u00a0companies employment and promotion policies\u00a0 is needed to ensure\u00a0compliance of the\u00a0 Sarawak Government&#8217;s policies.<\/p>\n<p>7.\u00a0 SUPP is also excited with\u00a0Petronas\u00a0 agreeing to support the construction of the petrochemical\u00a0and downstream industries after the completion of the Joint Study with\u00a0the State Government on top of allocating RM 2.1 billion of its oil &amp;\u00a0gas contracts exclusively to Sarawak-based contractors annually. SUPP\u00a0hopes that the profits from these will trickle down to our medium and\u00a0small sized Sarawakian companies connected to the industry.<\/p>\n<p>8. Our Sarawak Government should now also focus on all oil and gas\u00a0companies operating in Sarawak, Miri and Bintulu in particular on\u00a0their employment policy, their development and training programs with\u00a0the view of promoting our Sarawakians to hold senior management posts\u00a0in these companies.<\/p>\n<p>9\u00a0 Lastly, SUPP hopes that the Federal Government and Petronas will\u00a0agree to the Sarawak Government&#8217;s request to be a party of the future\u00a0PSC contracts.<\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/image144.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-12118\" alt=\"image1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/image144-281x300.jpg\" width=\"281\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/image144-281x300.jpg 281w, https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/image144.jpg 308w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 281px) 100vw, 281px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1.\u00a0 SUPP welcomes the 7 points agreement reached by our State\u00a0Government, Federal Government and Petronas that paves the way for\u00a0more Sarawakians to be directly involved in Sarawak&#8217;s oil &amp; gas\u00a0industries. Congratulations to our chief negotiator, Chief Minister\u00a0Datuk Patinggi Tan Sri Adenan Satem and his negotiation team Deputy\u00a0Chief Minister Datuk Amar Douglas Uggah Embas and State Secretary Tan\u00a0Sri Datuk Amar Mohd Morshidi Abdul Ghani for the outcome of the\u00a0negotiation. 2.\u00a0 At the same time, we thank the Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun\u00a0Razak for his continuous commitment of the Sarawak&#8217;s well-being<a href=\"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/?p=12117\" class=\"read-more\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12118,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12117"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12117"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12137,"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12117\/revisions\/12137"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}