The Secretary General of MCA, Datuk Seri Kong Cho Ha says Sarawak has the most liberal policies towards the Chinese among all states in Malaysia.
He is surprised that Urban Chinese in Sarawak do not seem to realize how great a deal they are getting from State Barisan Nasional.
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Second Minister of Planning and Resource Management Datuk Amar Awang Tengah Ali Hassan (fourth left) and Chung Hwa Limbang school board chairman Lim Chwee Cheng (third left) briefing Taib and his wife Puan Sri Raghad Al-Kurdi Taib on the school’s development at the opening ceremony of SJKC Chung Hwa Limbang while board members and others look on. |
He highlights the following:
· Sarawak has the most liberal policies towards the Chinese among all states in Malaysia;· A Chinese district officer is unheard of in any part of the country. And nowhere do you have a Chinese Mayor;
· The State government is very liberal over the use of Chinese language; and
· The State government is very accommodating to the community in practising their religion and traditions;
Datuk Seri Kong Cho Ha says nobody really doubt that Barisan will be returned to power in Sarawak. Only the margin of victory is uncertain.
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Dr Sim meeting Bintawa Fishing Village Residents with Health Minister |
Therefore it would be unfortunate for Sarawak Chinese if they decide to throw their weight behind the opposition, which will not be able to form the next state government.
If DAP succeeds in getting rid of SUPP in some constituencies, this will only mean diluting Chinese representation in the government. SUPP has been very successful in keeping Chinese mayors in the Municipality of Kuching South, Padawan Municipal Council, Sibu Municipal Council and Miri Municipal Council; these are all major councils.
It has also been very successful in articulating the need to have Chinese as Residents for Kuching and Sibu divisions.
The Chinese must appreciate the fact that the State government is very liberal in the usage of Chinese language and very accommodating to them in practicing their religion and traditions due to the politics of development of the Chief Minister, Pehin Sri Haji Abdul Taib Mahmud.
The hallmark of Pehin Sri Abdul Taib’s policies is fairness to all communities, who must have opportunities to get good education. More importantly none of them should be left out in the economic transformation, beginning from this year, from the medium income to high income economy that will push Sarawak to become a developed State toward the year 2020.
The Government under his leadership has been making conscientious efforts to help poor people to get good nutrition in their food. It has been able to abolish malnutrition among the people so that children can learn better and pursue good education.
The government realizes that it is the only away to abolish distinction between one race to another or one religion to another; the distinction should not exist. The distinction between the people who want to work in towns and those who want to work in rural areas must be minimized, if not eradicated.
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| Pehin Sri Haji Abdul Taib Mahmud accompanied by BN supporters to the nomination centre on Apr 6, 2011. Seeon on his left is Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin and on his right is Datuk Seri Musa Aman, Chief Minister of Sabah and other VIPs. |
Pehin Sri Abdul Taib says this is what the State Government is aiming at. It will be a different kind of Sarawak that abolishes all discriminations. It will be more of what he would like to achieve with the politics of development to get all races to come together; to get Chinese to feel at homes with Bumiputras.
This is a different world that can give bigger profits and better income to the people regardless of their ethnic origins or religious beliefs.
There is little respect for Lim Guan Eng from the majority of Sarawakians as the Chief Minister of Pulau Pinang. He must look at his Pulau Pinang first before he can start talking big in Sarawak. Thanks to RTM and TV3, which have been airing interviews with people in Pulau Pinang that DAP has failed to fulfill its 2008 elections promises. Until now promises remain mere promises. They advise the people in Sarawak, who will be voting on April 16, not fall into promises of DAP and PKR.
Lim Guan Eng may get willing ears from urban voters but he must remember that Sarawak is not only Kuching, Sibu and Miri but much more. Of course RM I billion, which he has boasted sufficient to develop Sarawak, will be enough for him to improve on the development in Kuching, Sibu and Miri like building more shopping complexes and vernacular schools and approving more gambling outlets or entertainment centres.
Obviously, he is not thinking of building roads to Ba’kelalan, Telang Usan, Belaga, Ulu Kapit and the coastal trunk roads from Sematan to Limbang. He is also not thinking of how to implement meaningful socio-economic projects that can help to raise the standard of living of Lun Bawang in Kelabit highlands, Orang Ulu in Ulu Baram, Malay/Melanau in the vast coastal areas, the Ibans who are scattered over a wide area in the hinterlands of Sri Aman, Sarikei, Kapit and Baram and the Bidayuh in Padawan and Bau.
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| Pehin Sri Haji Abdul Taib Mahmud cutting the Kuching and Samarahan Divisions Chinese Associations’ anniversary cake with (from left) federation president Dr Chou Chii Ming, Deputy Chief Minister Datuk Patinggi Tan Sri Dr George Chan and organising chairman Wong Tiong Hook. |
At the micro level, he is not thinking of giving tar roads to traditional villages and longhouses, about 5,000 of them in all throughout the nooks and corners of the State, which is almost the size of Semenanjung Malaysia, minus Pulau Pinang.
Lim Guan Eng is not stupid but he is being blinded by the ambition to shoot few idiots into the State Legislative Assembly. The party is putting young candidates, who can be expected to make a nuisance of themselves if elected in Padungan and Batu Kawa.
PBB, which provides the backbone of the State Barisan Nasional, on the other hand is putting 10 credible new faces out of its 35 candidates. The new faces comprise of engineers, doctors, educationists and others; they are all kinds of people. They are young, some of them in their late 30s and early 40s. The party is conscious of the need to groom more young people including women to continue with the struggle right into the future.
This election is very important for us. The choice is whether to play politics all the times or build a better future for the people of Sarawak in Malaysia. Let us vote for good candidates and put more credible young people with good qualifications in the government. There are bigger things to come because we have been able to work together.
Besides, we understand how to get opportunities and are prepared to work hard to succeed in our endeavors. Those are our unique characteristics as Sarawakians. Let us build Sarawak to become a developed State with our entrepreneurial and bold pioneering spirit towards the year 2020 and beyond.
Obviously, we must look forward into the future; if we look backward we may put ourselves in trouble. Besides, life is not a process of looking backward. It is a process of walking with our eyes forward. If we look backward, we will stumble and fall. But if we walk forward, we can see things clearly in front of us. We can walk straight and faster as we know the roads much better. That is what we have to do for Sarawak, in the next 20 years.
benuasains
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