{"id":23162,"date":"2018-10-30T21:52:58","date_gmt":"2018-10-30T13:52:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/?p=23162"},"modified":"2018-10-31T07:00:51","modified_gmt":"2018-10-30T23:00:51","slug":"go-read-federal-constitution-chong-chieng-jen-told","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/?p=23162","title":{"rendered":"Go read Federal constitution, Chong Chieng Jen told"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SUPP Youth central chief, Michael Tiang asked Deputy Minister of\u00a0Domestic Trade and Consumers Affairs Chong Chieng Jen to be specific\u00a0and not to come up with percentage when saying that Sarawak will\u00a0receive for development expenditure in the coming National Budget 2019\u00a0to be tabled this Friday.<\/p>\n<p>In a press conference today, Tiang said Chong said Federal will give\u00a0Sarawak 30 percent for development expenditure. \u201c30 percent out of RM2\u00a0or RM2 million,\u201d he asked.<\/p>\n<p>Tiang said Chong should learn from Chief Minister Datuk Patinggi Abang\u00a0Johari Tun Openg, who clearly stated the amount of RM2.8 billion for\u00a0water supply, RM2.3 billion for electricity and RM6 billion for roads\u00a0projects, and not in percentage instead of going into a percentage\u00a0figure. \u201cThis is how a wise leader behave, being transparent to the\u00a0people, not beat about the bush,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>He was also disappointed with Chong in his statement \u201clooking for a\u00a0formula for revenue sharing\u201d and wondered if there is such a thing in\u00a0the Federal constitution as when Malaysia was formed, Tiang added that\u00a0that, we came together and worked on Inter-Governmental Committee\u00a0(IGC), to include Sarawak and Sabah special rights and position to\u00a0safeguard our rights and talked on how we are entitled to our revenue.<\/p>\n<p>Chong, he advised should get a copy of the Federal Constitution before\u00a0talking about revenue to the state and Sarawak rights.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/IMG_7936.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-23163\" alt=\"IMG_7936\" src=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/IMG_7936-194x300.jpg\" width=\"194\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/IMG_7936-194x300.jpg 194w, https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/IMG_7936-664x1024.jpg 664w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 194px) 100vw, 194px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SUPP Youth central chief, Michael Tiang asked Deputy Minister of\u00a0Domestic Trade and Consumers Affairs Chong Chieng Jen to be specific\u00a0and not to come up with percentage when saying that Sarawak will\u00a0receive for development expenditure in the coming National Budget 2019\u00a0to be tabled this Friday. In a press conference today, Tiang said Chong said Federal will give\u00a0Sarawak 30 percent for development expenditure. \u201c30 percent out of RM2\u00a0or RM2 million,\u201d he asked. Tiang said Chong should learn from Chief Minister Datuk Patinggi Abang\u00a0Johari Tun Openg, who clearly stated the amount of RM2.8<a href=\"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/?p=23162\" class=\"read-more\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23163,"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\/23162"}],"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=23162"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23164,"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23162\/revisions\/23164"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}