{"id":22115,"date":"2018-06-06T12:44:39","date_gmt":"2018-06-06T04:44:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/?p=22115"},"modified":"2018-06-06T18:56:44","modified_gmt":"2018-06-06T10:56:44","slug":"supp-launched-petition-to-protect-ownership-of-resources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/?p=22115","title":{"rendered":"SUPP launched petition to protect ownership of resources"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sarawak United People\u2019s Party (SUPP) has launched a petition meant to gain public support for the Sarawak government to defend and protect its ownership of resources of oil and gas.<\/p>\n<p>Datuk Sebastian Ting, at the launching of the petition yesterday, said Petronas\u2019 court application could mean to \u2018frustrate Sarawak\u2019 \u2013 restricting it from getting full control over oil and gas resources effective\u00a0July 1\u00a0this year.<\/p>\n<p>Under the Malaysia Agreement 1963 (MA63), Sarawak Alteration of Boundaries Order in Council 1954, the Federal Constitution and Sarawak Constitution were all supporting Sarawak\u2019s claim on sovereignty in oil resources found in its territorial waters, it said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor 44 years, Petronas has been making tons of money from Sarawak\u2019s oil and gas resources; yet, Sarawak remains poor just because it does not get any fair share of the proceeds from these resources,\u201d SUPP said.<\/p>\n<p>SUPP secretary-general Datuk Sebastian Ting was present to deliver the press statement and launched the petition yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>To know more about the petition, go to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.change.org\/p\/protect-sarawak-oil-gas-rights\" target=\"_blank\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=http:\/\/www.change.org\/p\/protect-sarawak-oil-gas-rights&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1528368751069000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHPzraHuT-CTes_sBZkEB3YUKUJsA\">www.change.org\/p\/protect-<wbr \/>sarawak-oil-gas-rights<\/a>. The petition can be signed and uploaded via this site.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/34470506_10155557859448133_1913903548119121920_n2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-22116\" alt=\"34470506_10155557859448133_1913903548119121920_n\" src=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/34470506_10155557859448133_1913903548119121920_n2-300x173.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"173\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/34470506_10155557859448133_1913903548119121920_n2-300x173.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/34470506_10155557859448133_1913903548119121920_n2.jpg 850w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sarawak United People\u2019s Party (SUPP) has launched a petition meant to gain public support for the Sarawak government to defend and protect its ownership of resources of oil and gas. Datuk Sebastian Ting, at the launching of the petition yesterday, said Petronas\u2019 court application could mean to \u2018frustrate Sarawak\u2019 \u2013 restricting it from getting full control over oil and gas resources effective\u00a0July 1\u00a0this year. Under the Malaysia Agreement 1963 (MA63), Sarawak Alteration of Boundaries Order in Council 1954, the Federal Constitution and Sarawak Constitution were all supporting Sarawak\u2019s claim on<a href=\"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/?p=22115\" class=\"read-more\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22116,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22115"}],"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=22115"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22117,"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22115\/revisions\/22117"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}