{"id":22514,"date":"2018-07-21T11:24:08","date_gmt":"2018-07-21T03:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/?p=22514"},"modified":"2018-07-21T20:00:03","modified_gmt":"2018-07-21T12:00:03","slug":"sarawak-independent-day-allows-sarawakians-to-appreciate-sarawak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/?p=22514","title":{"rendered":"Sarawak Independent Day allows Sarawakians to appreciate Sarawak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div>For too long Sarawak was made &#8220;invisible&#8221; when perceived as being one\u00a0of the 13 states in Malaysia, instead of being one of three founding\u00a0states to the federation of Malaysia which had consistently been the\u00a0biggest contributor to the national coffer since 1963.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Tiang is therefore of the opinion that\u00a0<a dir=\"ltr\">July 22<\/a>\u00a0gazetted by Sarawak Government to be Sarawak\u00a0Independent Day in 2016 was a monumental step that allows Sarawakians\u00a0to appreciate Sarawak is in fact a sovereign state in the federation\u00a0of Malaysia.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Sarawak is a sovereign state that owns territorial boundaries\u00a0and waters as well as all the minerals and natural resources therein.\u00a0In state governance, our sovereignty includes among others a State\u00a0cabinet with a chief minister and ministers, local governments and\u00a0immigration powers. 722 is a special day to remind our people of all\u00a0these important facts which are never taught in the national syllabus\u00a0in our schools.<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless it is equally important for us to celebrate\u00a0the harmony of our multiracial, multicultural and multireligious\u00a0community which is so deeply embedded in our community that it becomes\u00a0synonymous for Sarawak.<\/p><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/unnamed-11.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-22512\" alt=\"unnamed (1)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/unnamed-11-300x209.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"209\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/unnamed-11-300x209.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/unnamed-11.jpg 310w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For too long Sarawak was made &#8220;invisible&#8221; when perceived as being one\u00a0of the 13 states in Malaysia, instead of being one of three founding\u00a0states to the federation of Malaysia which had consistently been the\u00a0biggest contributor to the national coffer since 1963. Michael Tiang is therefore of the opinion that\u00a0July 22\u00a0gazetted by Sarawak Government to be Sarawak\u00a0Independent Day in 2016 was a monumental step that allows Sarawakians\u00a0to appreciate Sarawak is in fact a sovereign state in the federation\u00a0of Malaysia. Sarawak is a sovereign state that owns territorial boundaries\u00a0and waters as well<a href=\"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/?p=22514\" class=\"read-more\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22512,"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\/22514"}],"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=22514"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22515,"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22514\/revisions\/22515"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}