EXCLUSIVE: 1987 Ming Court Affair - SARAWAK

1987 Ming Court Affair

This political crisis already started brewing when Tun Datuk Patinggi Abdul Rahman Ya'kub was the Governor of Sarawak/Yang di-Pertua Negara of Sarawak (1981-1985). 

He criticized his nephew (YB Pehin Sri Dr. Abdul Taib Mahmud) in a speech at a ceremony of opening of the Bintulu port in 1983. 

In 1985, Rahman Ya'kub was involved in a bitter dispute with his nephew, Abdul Taib Mahmud over allocation rights. 

In 1987, Rahman Ya'kub formed a new party named Parti Persatuan Rakyat Malaysia Sarawak (PERMAS) in order to challenge Taib Mahmud at the polls. He also formed an alliance with Sarawak Dayak People's Party (PBDS) in order to unseat Taib Mahmud. 

In March 1987, 27 of the 48 state assemblymen suddenly directed their support to Rahman Ya'kub while calling Taib Mahmud to resign as a chief minister. Among the defectors were Taib's 4 cabinet ministers and 3 assistant ministers. 

A war of accusations on timber concessionaires then broke out between Rahman Ya'kub and Taib Mahmud. Taib Mahmud revoked 30 timber licenses held by his defectors and Rahman's clients. Taib then accused Rahman for awarding 1.25 million hectares of logging concessions worth RM 22.5 billion to Rahman himself and his relatives. Rahman Ya'kub, in return, revealed a list of timber concessions covering 1.6 million hectares held by Taib's clients and family. 

Despite the unsuccessful attempt at the 1987 Sarawak state election, Rahman continued his struggle with his allies, Sarawak Dayak People's Party against Taib's led Sarawak Barisan Nasional until 1991 Sarawak state election when Taib's coalition won an overwhelming majority of 49 out of 56 seats in the state assembly

Another interesting character must be Datuk Justin Jinggut, a former SNAP vice president who is now actively promoting himself to be the PKR supremo in Sarawak. 

Interestingly Justin Jinggut is Norlia Tun Abdul Rahman's husband. Now, who is Justin Jinggut again? 

"I believe the first double-frogged politician was “born” in Sarawak. It was in Sarawak where this culture of double-frogging began when Ulu Rajang MP Justine Jinggut elected unopposed on a SNAP ticket in the 1982 parliamentary election defected to Parti Bansa Dayak Sarawak (PBDS) in 1983. 

In 1986, he contested on a PBDS ticket and won with a big majority. He leapfrogged back to SNAP before 1987. In 1990 he stood again on a SNAP ticket and was soundly defeated by Billy Abit Joo of PBDS." - The Broken Shield

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EXCLUSIVE: (1991) DATUK DR. JEFFREY KITINGAN ditahan ISA

(1991) Dr. Jeffrey G Kitingan ditahan ISA

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

Dr. Jeffrey, telah berusaha sejak 1986 mendidik rakyat tentang Hak Istimewa Sabah yang dijamin dalam Artikel VIII Perjanjian Malaysia dan 20-PERKARA sambil mengingatkan Kerajaan Persekutuan (Kuala Lumpur) supaya menghormati perjanjian tersebut.

Namun, usaha Dr. Jeffrey ini dihalang oleh Kuala Lumpur. 

Mahatir telah memberi amaran kepada beliau,

“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 BERTANGGUNGJAWAP MEMBERITAHU RAKYAT…” 

Kemudian tidak lama dari itu, Dr. Jeffrey diburu bagaikan seorang penjenayah oleh pihak polis sehingga beliau ditahan di bawah Akta Keselamatan Dalam Negeri (ISA) pada 13hb. Mei 1991.

Dr. Jeffrey ditahan di bawah akta ISA selama 2 tahun 7 bulan. 

Sejak penahanan Dr. Jeffrey ini, tiada lagi pemimpin-pemimpin Sabah yang berani meneruskan agenda menuntut hak ini kerana ditakut-takutkan dengan akta ISA. Ini jelas terbukti bahawa, Kuala Lumpur bukan saja bermain sandiwara tetapi lebih teruk dari itu. 

Kuala Lumpur yang di bawah pimpinan Mahatir menggunakan pentadbiran kuku besi (regime Mahatir) dalam segala hal di Sabah khasnya.

Manipulasi jenayah politik Kuala Lumpur ini telah menjadikan rakyat Sabah kehilangan hak-hak. 

Pada hari ini, selepas 50 tahun, kita menyedari walaupun sedikit berlambat, bahawa Malaysia adalah bukan Malaysia seperti yang dijanjikan kepada kita, iaitu gabungan sama rata di antara 4 buah Negara iaitu Sabah, Sarawak, Singapura dan Persekutuan Tanah Melayu. 

Sabah dan Sarawak telah menjadi negeri ke 12 dan ke 13 sejak penyingkiran Singapura (1965) di bawah jajahan Persekutuan Tanah Melayu! Sabah terus dimanipulasi oleh Kuala Lumpur sehinggalah sekarang!

Jadi? Masa kita sudah sampai untuk TAKE CHARGE! GOD is watching!

Agenda Borneo – Sejak Dr. Jeffrey dibebaskan dari tahanan ISA, beliau meneruskan perjuangan ini melalui parti politik namun bermacam-macam bentuk tohmahan dan kritikan ditempuhi untuk mencapai hasrat menuntut hak Sabahan. 

Untuk meneruskan perjuangan Agenda Borneo ini, beliau telah menubuhkan sebuah pertubuhan bukan kerajaan dan bukan parti politik yang dinamakan “UNITED BORNEO FRONT (UBF)” sebagai landasan meneruskan usaha mendidik rakyat Sabah tentang hak-hak yang seharusnya menjadi hak mutlak rakyat Sabah sejak Sabah diberi kebebasan dari penjajah British pada 31hb. Ogos 1963. 

(NOTA: PENAHANAN DI BAWAH ISA OLEH KUALA LUMPUR TELAH MEMPROMOSI SATU BENTUK TERROR (terrorist act) KEPADA RAKYAT SABAH AGAR TUNDUK KEPADA KUALA LUMPUR SEPENUHNYA)

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EXCLUSIVE: (1986 – 1994) Kejatuhan Parti Bersatu Sabah (PBS)

(1986 – 1994) Kejatuhan Parti Bersatu Sabah (PBS)

Apabila Kerajaan Berjaya ditumbangkan PBS dalam pilihan raya 1985, Datuk Joseph Pairin (Tan Sri) tidak mendapat sokongan sepenuhnya oleh Kuala Lumpur kerana perjuangan PBS pimpinan Datuk Joseph Pairin Kitingan (Tan Sri) pada ketika itu dilhat mencabar kepimpinan Persekutuan dengan mengungkit hal berkaitan dengan Perkara 20 dan Perjanjian Malaysia yang di perkenalkan oleh Datuk Dr Jeffrey dalam perjuangan PBS. 

Dalam Pilihan Raya Negeri Sabah 1994, PBS menghadapi tentangan hebat daripada BN yang kini diketuai UMNO yang telah melebarkan sayap ke Sabah. 

Sebelum itu, PBS turut kehilangan beberapa tokoh pemimpinnya seperti mendiang Datuk Mark Kodingyang telah menubuhkan AKAR dan Datuk Yong Teck Lee yang telah menubuhkan Parti Maju Sabah (SAPP) di mana mereka telah menyertai Barisan Nasional. 

Kemasukan UMNO di Sabah telah memecah belahkan perpaduan pemimpin-pemimpin PBS kerana UMNO yang diketuai oleh Mahatir dan Timbalannya Annuar telah memperkenalkan formula PECAH dan PERINTAH yang mana pemimpin-pemimpin PBS yang keluar dan menyertai BN akan diberi jawatan Ketua Menteri Sabah sekiranya melompat dari PBS. 

Maka terjadikan aksi-aksi katak melompat ke BN. 

Siri lompatan ini adalah tajaan Kuala Lumpur pimpinan UMNO yang didalangi oleh Annuar kerana Annuar adalah master mind untuk fomula pecah dan perintah ini di Sabah yang telah diamanahkan oleh Mahatir. 

(ref: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4_hTItpHr4&feature=youtu.be). 

Dr. Jeffrey kembali ke pangkuan PBS dan membantu parti tersebut untuk menghadapi pilihanraya 1999.

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Germania the Nation that Defeated Rome Part 2/2

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GLORIOUS "1 SUARA SABAH" VS FAKE "suara borneo" (UMNO/BN)

FAKE borneo page by UMNO/BN cybertroopers

The GLORIOUS 1 Suara Sabah.

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Germania: the Nation that Defeated Rome Part 1/2

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EXCLUSIVE: (1986) Rusuhan di Sabah

(1986) Rusuhan di Sabah

Rusuhan Sabah 1986 berlaku di antara Mac dan Mei di beberapa lokasi seluruh negeri Sabah. Rusuhan itu tertumpu di Kota Kinabalu, dan juga bandar Tawau dan Sandakan.

Pada 12 Mac, tujuh bahan letupan plastik telah diletupkan di Kota Kinabalu. Satu bom turut diletupkan di Tawau. 

Rusuhan itu telah mengakibatkan 5 kematian.

Rusuhan itu terjadi berikutan keputusan Pilihan Raya Negeri Sabah, 1985, di mana Parti Bersatu Sabah (PBS) yang baru sahaja ditubuhkan telah menang, dan menjatuhkan parti BERJAYA dari tampuk pemerintahan. BERJAYA merupakan kerajaan sebelum itu dan merupakan parti komponen Barisan Nasional. 

Telah dilaporkan bahawa kumpulan perusuh telah berarak untuk cuba menggulingkan presiden PBS Datuk Joseph Pairin Kitingan dari jawatan Ketua Menteri.

Jelas sekali pihak Kuala Lumpur yang telah menaja parti Berjaya telah kalah dan Kuala Lumpur telah menggunakan taktik kotor mereka iaitu memperalatkan PTI buat kacau di Bandar-bandar utama Sabah untuk mempromosi TERROR di kalangan rakyat asal Sabah! 

Inilah satu lagi sandiwara politik Kuala Lumpur di Sabah kerana kalah dalam pilihanraya!

(Nota: RUSUHAN DI KOTA KINABALU TELAH DIREKA KHAS OLEH KUALA LUMPUR KERANA PARTI BERJAYA YANG DITAJA KALAH TERUK DALAM PRU)

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BURIAL & BURNING OF IBAN & BORNEON LANGUAGE BOOKS BY MALAYAN GOVERNMENT

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"MALAY-NISATION" OF SARAWAK LANGUAGES -1965, 1977

BURIAL & BURNING OF IBAN & BORNEON LANGUAGE BOOKS BY MALAYAN GOVERNMENT

The UMNO Government on the formation of Malaysia wasted no time in tearing up the whole Malaysia Agreement by proceeding to exert its central authority over Sabah, Sarawak and Singapore. 

This was strongly opposed by Singapore which led to its leaving the federation in 1965. 

Kuala Lumpur 's attempt to “Malayanise” Sabah and Sarawak instead of abiding by its promise to “Borneonise” was also met with strong resistance by their respective chief ministers.

But it was not strong enough and the Malayans got their way by pushing aside those who opposed them. 

This then saw the stepped up Malayanisation of Sabah and Sarawak government public service and education system.

Local languages became a casualty. 

The replacement of the Borneo Literature Bureau also saw all Sarawak school text books replaced with sanitized Malayan text books.

In 1965 the language issue was one of the issues which Chief Minister Stephen Kalong Ningkan had strong disagreements with the new Kuala Lumpur colonial masters. He fought them over the continued use of English as the teaching medium which he saw as advantageous for students going overseas for higher education. 

He resistance against attempts by the UMNO government to take control of Sarawak led to his dismissal.

According to the book "Media & Nation Building: How the Iban became Malaysian" by John Postill, page 59.

"Soon after Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka (DBP), Malaysia's language planning and development agency, took over the Borneo Literature Bureau in 1977, they had all the books in Iban and other Bornean languages buried. 

Shortly afterwards, the mass media grave was discovered by a reader who rescued some of the books. To prevent future finds, my informants allege that the new cultural authorities resorted to a traditional agricultural practice known as “open burning.” 

If this is true, what in the 1960s had been a modest literary boom, ended up feeding a bonfire."

In Sarawak this saw local languages totally ignored or sidelined without much protest even from the Ibans.

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PRESS STATEMENT: “EPU Report Re-Affirms Chronic Poverty in Sabah” - DATUK DR. JEFFREY KITINGAN

DATUK DR. JEFFREY KITINGAN PRESS STATEMENT - 12.11.2013

“EPU Report Re-Affirms Chronic Poverty in Sabah–Dr.Jeffrey”

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

Kota Kinabalu: “The recent disclosures of the poverty and abject poverty figures for Sabah, Sarawak and the nation by the Economic Planning Unit (EPU) of the PM’s Department clearly contradicts the rosy picture painted by the Sabah government on the alleviation of poverty in Sabah" said DatukDr. Jeffrey Kitingan, STAR Sabah Chief, commenting on the poverty levels in Sabah.

According to EPU figures, Sabah had 53.5% of the abject poor households in the nation while Sarawak accounted for 11.4%. In the poor household category, Sabah had 39.3% while Sarawak had 11.7%. 

Whatever the cutoff points in the definition of the abject poor and poor categories and the number of households involved, the percentages reveal glaring failures of the federal and Sabah governments in resolving the poverty problems in Sabah. 

The efforts of the Sabah government in reducing poverty levels in Sabah are poor and miserable compared to the efforts of the Sarawak government, if the numbers of the Prime Minister’s Department are relied upon. 

Yet, the Sabah government has been boasting that they have done a good job in reducing poverty in Sabah.

In truth, in the villages and even in urban and suburban areas of Sabah, one only needs to see and ask casually of the poverty levels and it will not be surprising that there are more than 8,457 abject poor households and 42,400 poor households. The real numbers will probably be 5 to 10 times more.

The irony of it all that while Sabah and Sarawak are the poorest in Malaysia, they are the two (2) biggest oil and gas producers and contributed about RM18 billion and RM45 billion respectively to Petronas and the federal government in 2012. 

On their part, Sabah only received about RM941 million and Sarawak RM2.37 billion for their 5% share.

As a figurative comparison to totally resolve the 8,457 and 1,801 households in Sabah and Sarawak, it will only cost a one-off sum of RM820.64 million. 

This is derived by giving each household the equivalent of RM80,000 comprising a house costing RM40,000 and another RM40,000 in special agricultural grant to develop their own 15 acre plot of land. 

Assuming a RM300 monthly return on each acre of their agriculture, they will be each getting RM4,500 per month in household income, higher than most university graduates’ income. 

What is RM820 million compared to the RM63 billion of oil and gas “stolen”annually from Sabah and Sarawak?

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On a more serious note, the Sabah government should take immediate steps to look into and help solve the poverty problems of these 8,457 and 42,400 households.

One of the most immediate steps that can be taken by the Sabah government is to seek an immediate increase of the oil payment from 5% to 20% from Petronas and the federal government which will bring Sabah an additional revenue of RM2,823.75 billion based on 2012 figures given by the Sabah government.

This 20% is not wishful thinking as it has even been declared by the Chief Minister that the government will be seeking a review of the oil payment. Unless of course, this is an empty promise and election gimmick given during the run-up the GE-13.

And the Sabah coffers will be further increased with the return of the 40% net revenue collected by the federal government from Sabah as provided under the Tenth Schedule of the Federal Constitution.

Datuk Dr.Jeffrey Kitingan

Chairman, STAR Sabah

12November 2013

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