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Sunday 10 November 2013
Agenda Borneo Memartabatkan Maruah Negara Sabah
Buku ini, "AGENDA BORNEO: Perjuangan Pimpinan Datuk Dr Jeffrey G. Kitingan Untuk Memartabatkan Maruah Sabah" oleh Nestor Joannes adalah suatu kemajuan yang penting dalam perjuangan untuk memahami, menghargai dan memulihkan Autonomi dan Hak Istimewa Sabah dalam Persekutuan Malaysia. Buku ini harus dibaca oleh semua untuk memahami kenapa kita mesti bersatu kali ini sekali gus mengukuhkan perpaduan kita demi mencapai Agenda Borneo.
Saya telah berusaha sejak 1986 mendidik rakyat tentang Hak Istimewa Sabah yang dijamin dalam Artikel VIII Perjanjian Malaysia dan 20-PERKARA sambil mengingatkan Kerajaan Persekutuan supaya menghormati perjanjian tersebut. Namun, usaha saya ini dihalang oleh Kuala Lumpur. Mahathir telah memberi amaran kepada saya, "Jeffrey, orang-orang kampung tidak tahu tentang hak-hak negeri Sabah dan 20-PERKARA, kenapa kita harus memberitahu mereka? Laporan dari Special Branch (Polis SB) mengatakan bahawa kamu dan IDS bertanggungjawab memberitahu rakyat…" kemudian tidak lama dari itu, saya diburu bagaikan seorang penjenayah oleh pihak polis sehingga saya ditahan di bawah Akta Keselamatan Dalam Negeri (ISA) pada 13hb Mei 1991.
Sabah's political son Jeffrey Kitingan wasn't a hardened criminal but it was a living-death under the 'not too cruel' ISA.
By Nilakrisna James
Jeffrey Kitingan is an enigma, not least because he is partly elusive, partly unpredictable and partly Houdini.
You can never really find him and when you do, he very quickly disappears.
As his friend and compatriot in a civil rights mission, I know him and yet I don’t and, as a friend, you tend to wonder if he would ever fully trust you.
After the Internal Security Act (ISA) experience, his character became part of his natural defence mechanism.
Those were “The Cruel Years”, not “The Wonder Years”. The ISA had moulded him into the person that he is today and he remains fascinating.
When former prime minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad applauded Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak’s proposal to abolish the ISA, he decided to lace his comment with the sort of sarcasm that would add salt to the injury faced by former ISA detainees like Jeffrey.
Mahathir described the ISA as “not too cruel”.
Jeffrey recalls a very different scenario in Mahathir’s office in January 1994 upon his release from ISA detention.
Mahathir apparently said then: “I am sorry about the detention, Jeffrey, I know it is cruel.”
“The cruelty of ISA is immeasurable,” Jeffrey says.
‘I was glad to be breathing’
Recalling the details of his arrest, Jeffrey said that he had to sign a letter the police had given him.
They gave it to him at the Tambunan Ka’amatan (Harvest Festival) on the May 10, 1991, in the presence of some 200 FRU personnel, who left the scene immediately after he signed the document.
On the May 13, 1991, he presented himself for an appointment at the Karamunsing police station.
He was arrested on the spot and sent to the Kepayan detention centre.
That same afternoon he was flown to Kuala Lumpur on a MAS flight with only himself and Special Branch police officers as passengers.
That evening, though, the plane was not permitted to land at the Kuala Lumpur airport and he ended up being flown to Penang to spend the entire night in a cell.
The next morning, he was flown back to KL. Upon landing, he was blindfolded and shoved into a Black Maria.
Jeffrey paused, and without a single expression on his face, looked at me and said: “At that moment, I lost sight of the world and my material life… not knowing where they were taking me and what they were going to do with me.
“I was glad to still be breathing.”
Stripped naked
Hours later of what seemed to Jeffrey like an eternity, the vehicle arrived at a building in a place he would never know and his blindfold was taken off. He was ordered to strip naked and every item of clothing, including his watch, was removed.
“I felt ashamed… and felt ready to be wrapped up for my own funeral,” he said.
Given a blue uniform with the number “931” on the left side of his chest, Jeffrey’s photographs were taken at various angles before he was locked up in a maximum security cell.
“As the door shut behind me, I found myself confined to what can be described as a living hell to what seems forever.”
Jeffrey was thrown into his cell in the first 60 days after his arrest. He was accused of subversive political activities and is one of Malaysia’s most renowned political detainees under the ISA.
In that cold, bare room with nothing but an empty, solid wooden bed measuring about 2½ feet wide, there were no mattress, blanket, pillow, toilet, sink, water or window.
There was a small peephole on the door that you could only look through from the outside and two holes on the floor the size of a chicken egg for ventilation.
Sleeping with urine and faeces
The room, Jeffrey said, was so small that he would pace up and down and see only walls and felt no different to a caged animal.
“That’s how I realised how animals in a zoo behave when they’re deprived of their freedom.”
The lights in the cell were uncommonly bright and never, ever switched off. Occasionally, loud music would suddenly be played to shock him and he was deprived of his sleep.
“The toilet was at the other end of the building and if they don’t hear you knock, you end up sleeping in a cell with your urine and faeces everywhere.
“I had to clean up my own waste with nothing but the newspaper they gave to wrap up my faeces.”
Jeffrey could not recall a time when he could even take a shower as there were no facilities for bathing and there were no towels.
“We just had the toilet,” he said solemnly.
‘Am I alive, dead or dreaming?’
Jeffrey told me that this method of sensory deprivation was a living nightmare and the detainee would be denied any sense of time or conscious connection with the outside world.
“I felt lost, I felt alone and I felt abandoned even by my own God.
“I tried talking to myself just to hear my own voice. Where am I? Who am I? Am I dead or just dreaming? I even tried to sing.
“In the first week, I blamed God and scolded him. What did I do wrong? After one week, I thanked him for giving me the opportunity to experience this.”
Not knowing whether he was dead or alive or in some terrible dream, Jeffrey asked me to imagine the agony of having to endure 60 days of this repetitive nightmare.
The idea revolted me and my imagination did not allow me to feel the pain and suffering.
Yet, it was Jeffrey’s imagination that kept him sane.
“I had to hold on to reality by creating patterns in my mind with my meals. Wrapped in plastic and newspaper, the rice was always wet and sometimes I had one fish and maybe six strands of beansprouts.
“I saw patterns in my food. I would look at the walls and sometimes it felt like the patterns would fly out of the wall and come to life.”
Solitary world, mental torture
In a solitary world where Jeffrey could not experience a 24-hour cycle of being alive and being asleep, he managed to count his days and nights.
“To have some sense of time and give or take a margin of three to four days inaccuracy, I could determine how long I was in there by scratching the wall surface each time the rat comes through the hole in the ground or whenever my meal was delivered.”
He went through a terrifying interrogation ordeal that was tame in comparison to what he heard the other detainees had to go through.
“Some of them said they went through physical torture. I must have been one of the lucky ones.
“The first time they interrogated me I had to sit on a red stool in a dark red coloured room with eight nameless interrogators who humiliated and insulted me as if I was a condemned, worthless criminal ready to be sent to hell.
“They did this non-stop and deprived me of rest, sleep, food and water till I could no longer bear it and asked to see a doctor.”
Jeffrey felt himself growing weaker, rapidly losing weight and his beard began to grow.
He was eventually sent to the doctor in a blindfold with two men holding up his frail body. He was given vitamins and told to sit in the sunlight for 20 minutes.
It was only after his recovery that he was told the interrogation took four days and three nights.
Moving to Kamunting
After two months of solitary confinement, Jeffrey was hoping for his release and was told that if he was taken to the airport he would be a free man.
He was taken instead to Kamunting Detention Camp and spent the next 2½ years detained without a trial.
“You don’t go straight to Kamunting. You go into an empty building somewhere on transit with hardly anybody around.
“I was then transferred to Camp 5 in Kamunting. That would be the time you’re given a pillow and a blanket. Those are the only possessions. It’s worse than being a convict.
“The camp had maximum security and was a U-shaped building, I remember, with a barb-wired security fence as high as 12 to 15 feet, reinforced by zinc and cement so that you could not see the outside world.
“You could only see the sky. They locked us up at night and opened the cells in the morning like a chicken coop.”
Kamunting had open areas for inmates to play sports but their footballs would burst against the wired fence.
They bathed communally and they would poke and shove one another for soap and hassled to hurry.
Wrote books and poems
Every week, they would assemble to raise the Malaysian flag and sing the national anthem and recite the “Rukun Negara”. Their library was filled with propaganda materials and was uninspiring.
Jeffrey wrote books, poems and read voraciously. His family would post all the reading materials he requested from them.
He learnt meditation and practised yoga, teaching taekwondo to communist detainees. They, in turn, taught him Chi Kung.
“The inmates were high-tensioned people: communists, terrorists, political detainees, spies, immigration fraudsters.
“An accidental knock in the playground would end up in fights.
“In the TV room, they argued all the time. The Indians would want to watch the Hindi movies, the Malays their dramas. I saw all sorts of people, especially the vengeful, dangerous types who vent their anger on other inmates.
“I believe these types would always keep their anger inside, even after their release.
“Yet, there were ‘happy-go-lucky’ types who would kill time by talking forever or giving others a massage.”
Whispering campaign
He remembered the paranoia they developed through whispering campaigns where some detainees were believed to be spies from the Special Branch.
The inmates even became possessive over photos and pictures of women pasted on the table.
They engaged in manual labour by cleaning the compound, cutting the grass, doing domestic chores and cleaning the toilets.
They took turns to cook and followed the roster quite diligently although the only delicacy they enjoyed was the odd snake or bird caught in the compound.
When the authorities found out about the addition of caught wildlife in their diet, the roster was changed and they had to eat “institutionalised, prisoner’s food” that had no variety and was only adequate to prevent starvation.
The inmates would rather be sick in the detention camp than face the humiliation of being handcuffed to their beds in the hospitals.
A lot of them went mad and tried to commit suicide, banging their heads violently on the floors, especially if they knew that their term of imprisonment would be extended.
“They would rather die than spend another day inside”, Jeffrey said.
Human nature
I asked Jeffrey how he coped and survived the experience, wondering if there was a deep psychological scarring for a man who was spiritually intellectual.
In his mind, Jeffrey believes that ISA gave him a greater insight into human nature.
“I survived by playing the role of a researcher… I studied and observed the behaviour of detainees in confinement.
“Somehow, by taking on the role of a healer and friend I managed to remove myself mentally from the situation,” he said.
Jeffrey’s diaries were confiscated and the letters he sent and received were screened.
“I wrote a letter in Dusun [local native dialect] once and the officer couldn’t understand it and sent it through.
“The letter caused a demonstration at home because it told of my experience. The officer was promptly replaced.”
Keeping people ignorant
Released with conditions in January 1994, Jeffrey was told not to be involved in politics and organisations and remembered Mahathir telling him not to teach the people what they don’t know.
“This must be the attitude: to keep the people ignorant,” he said.
He remains resolute in his political drive to abolish all legislation deemed to be an affront to human and civil rights and tows that fine line of risks which many fear to tread.
“Behind the negative is the positive,” he says calmly.
“In that situation, I couldn’t see the world with my eyes so I travelled with my mind and learnt to function through my spirit.
“The development of this mental vision is where I began to truly understand myself and I found solutions to many outstanding problems which were recorded in my writings and letters.
“Once you have gone through death, you become fearless.”
Nilakrisna James is a lawyer-cum-social activist. She is also a co-founder of the United Borneo Front, headed by Jeffrey Kitingan.
“Re-convene RCI Urgently to Investigate Fake ICs – Dr. Jeffrey”
Kota Kinabalu: “PM Najib and the Royal Commission of Inquiry on Illegal Immigrants in Sabah (RCI) should take immediate steps to re-convene and hear fresh and further evidence from new witnesses from security guards arrested recently with fake ICs including the Ambank murder cum robbbery suspect" said Datuk Dr. Jeffrey Kitingan, STAR Sabah Chief. commenting on news of the arrest of the Ambank case suspect and other arrests of foreigners with fake ICs purportedly given in Sabah but alleged to be Sabahans
PROJECT IC: "IC Foreign students VS IC Sabah"
If more than 2.1 million foreign workers can have new iKad plus hundred thousands of foreign students will also can be considered to receive new biometric identity cards, thus, why 2.4 million of Sabahan can't have new "IC Sabah" to resolve immigrants and illegal foreigners in Sabah dubbed PROJECT IC which is more pressing concern especially in terms of security?
Everything Is ‘Relative’ in Sarawak – The Answer To The Melikin Mystery? EXCLUSIVE!
Sarawak Report can reveal that Sarawak’s biggest on-going crime mystery has a relative answer.
That is to say, the Serian District Police Chief, Mohd Jamali Umi, turns out to be a close relative of the Planning Minister Awang Tengah, who controls one of the companies controversially logging the area of Melikin.
Numerous insiders have now confirmed that Jamali is none other than Tengah’s brother in law (their wives are sisters), a fact that was believed to be unknown to fellow BN politician James Masing when he launched a federal enquiry into the whole mysterious matter last Friday.
Because, what everyone was wanting to know was why are the Serian police not doing anything to protect Melikin residents against well-publicised attacks by gangsters linked to these logging companies?
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Perbandingan mudah antara Sabah, Timor Leste, Acheh dan Irian Jaya - JALIBIN PAIDI
PERBANDINGAN MUDAH ANTARA SABAH, TIMOR LESTE, ACHEH DAN IRIAN JAYA.
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Jalibin Paidi
A former secondary school principal of SMK Entilibon, who represent State Reform Party (STAR) for DUN Keranaan, Ranau in GE-13 garnering 1067 strong vote.
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Sabah membentuk @ membina Malaysia secara bersyarat.
Dengan segala syarat membina Malaysia dulu tidak dipatuhi, kini Sabah masih sebahagian Malaysia, walau sudah ditelan Malaya, dibanjiri warga Filipina, Indonesia dan Pakistan.
Timor Leste adalah MEMANG sebahagian dari Indonesia.
Timor Leste sebaliknya kini adalah sebuah negara berdaulat yang punya kerusi di PBB, anggota ASEAN dan bertanding di Olimpik. Sabah @ North Borneo yang pernah bertanding di Olimpik 1959 kini hanya layak bertanding dalam SUKMA.
Acheh dan Irian Jaya yang langsung TIADA KUASA menentukan Kerajaan Pusat Indonesia kini menikmati 70% hasil mahsulnya untuk negeri mereka.
Sabah yang bersama Sarawak adalah KUASA PENENTU Kerajaan Pusat Malaysia hanya dpt RM000000 hasil cukainya dan 5% hasil minyak dan gas.
Alahai Sabah...
Parti IKATAN
KOTA KINABALU: Politik semasa di Sabah sedang dilanda taufan kencang sehingga mampu mengubah arusnya apabila beberapa perkembangan positif di pihak kerajaan menjadi bualan bukan sahaja di kedai-kedai kopi tapi juga di dada-dada akhbar utama dan televisyen.
Terkini, YB Dato' Jelani Hamdan, ADUN N. 5 Matunggong telah membuat kenyataan rasmi peletakan jawatan sebagai sebagai Naib Pengerusi PKR Sabah yang berkuat kuasa serta merta kerana kegagalan parti itu mengamalkan pemberian autonomi kepada rakyat Sabah seperti dijanjikan parti itu.
Pada masa yang sama Jelani juga tidak menolak kemungkinan untuk menubuhkan parti baru dalam masa terdekat dan meneruskan perjuangan untuk rakyat menerusinya.
Kuasa internet tanpa sempadan mempermudahkan sesiapa sahaja mencapai maklumat dengan cepat. Melalui medium ini dikatakan parti yang akan ditubuhkan oleh Jelani dinamakan Parti Ikatan Rakyat Sabah atau ringkasnya IKATAN berdasarkan paparan dalam laman kumpulan parti ini di laman sosial facebook.
Walaupun kemunculan parti ini belum diumumkan secara rasmi tetapi melalui kiriman dalam laman kumpulan itu, Jelani memberitahu bahawa selain beliau sendiri, seorang lagi ADUN akan menyertai parti baru itu iaitu YB Jeremy Malajad, ADUN Kadamaian. Ini bermakna selepas sahaja parti baru ini diumumkan secara rasmi sudah ada dua ADUN di dalamnya.
Apa yang lebih menarik, ada juga desas desus akan ada lagi ADUN atau Ahli Parlimen dari parti-parti lain di Sabah merisik untuk menyertai IKATAN.
Senario ini juga mendapat perhatian dari beberapa pertubuhan etnik dan badan-badan NGO di Sabah untuk memberikan sokongan padu kepada perjuangan yang sedang dirangka oleh Dato' Jelani Hamdan.
Kenyataan terbaru yang dibuat oleh Presiden Pertubuhan Kimaragang Malaysia, Datuk Hj. Abdul Latiff Kandok melalui laman rasmi facebooknya memberikan gambaran jelas akan sokongannya kepada parti baru ini kerana pada masa ini tiada parti lain yang diwar-warkan ditubuhkan selain IKATAN.
'Mahathir described ISA as "Not too cruel" - LINA SOO
MAHATHIR DESCRIBED ISA AS 'NOT TOO CRUEL'
If there ever was an understatement, this has to be it
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Lina Soo is a candidate for State Reform Party (STAR) for P196 Stampin, Sarawak in GE-13
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Read Nilakrishna James recount of Jeffrey's ISA way back in 1991 when he was detained without trial for allegedly trying to take Sabah out of Malaysia.
In 1962 and 1963, thousands of Sarawakians were detained under ISA for opposing the Malaysia Plan.
Little did they know that Britain and Malaya had already secretly signed an agreement that Malaysia must go through by hook or by crook, and whatever the anti-Malaysia acivists tried to do to prevent the takeover of Sarawak by Malaya would just be voices crying in the wilderness and they would pay too heavy price for it.
Jeffrey's experience is what many of our political detainees went through pre and post Malaysia, and worse.
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Datuk Dr. Jeffrey Kitingan is the Chairman of STAR Sabah and State Assemblymen for N33, Bingkor, Sabah.
He also contested in P180, Keningau and garnering 11900 strong votes
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READ ‘Enlightened’ Jeffrey recalls ISA’s cruelty: CLICK HERE
Malaysia, came into being on 16th September 1963
MALAYSIA
The Federation of Malaya became an independent kingdom on 31st August 1957. The original federation consisted of the peninsular states of Johor, Kedah, Kelantan, Malacca, Negri Sembilan, Pahang, Pinang, Perak, Perlis, Selangor and Trengganu.
A new Federation, with the name of Malaysia, came into being on 16th September 1963. It consisted of the original peninsular states, together with, Singapore, Sarawak and Sabah (British North Borneo) on the island of Kalimantan (Borneo). Singapore withdrew from the federation and became an independent republic on 9th August 1965.
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