Sarawak general election must prove that the Pakatan Harapan campaign for a  world-class great Sarawak and Malaysia for a clean and better future is still the best vision  for our children and children’s children and not a “hopeless cause”

Next week, two books on the recent history of Malaysia will hit the bookstores in the country – the first, “Capturing Hope – The Struggle Continues for a New Malaysia” by Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad will be available tomorrow while the second, “Final Reckoning – An Insider’s View of the Fall of Malaysia’s  Barisan Nasional Government” by Romen Bose, the former political communications adviser to Najib Razak when he was Prime Minister of Malaysia, which will be available in all  bookstores on Tuesday.

Both these books provide an invaluable insight into the past tumultuous decade, both the 22-month Pakatan Harapan government and the Najib government which was toppled by a democratic vote of the people of Malaysia in the 14th General Election on May 9, 2018, in particular how Najib averted a plot to arrest him while Prime Minister over the 1MDB scandal at a Cabinet meeting  a day earlier by the sacking of Deputy Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin and Attorney-General Gani Patail in the final “Week of Long Knives” in July 2015.

In his Preface to his book, Tun Mahathir said:

“…the Pakatan Harapan Government was never a hopeless cause. Far from it. To this day, I believe that the Pakatan Harapan Government of 2018-2020, with our policies and commitment to a cleaner, better future, was the right path for Malaysia. And in the short period it governed the country, it did much to reverse the abuses of the kleptocrats.

“We were betrayed.”

This sums up the objective of the Sarawak General Election, which will be a prelude to the 15th national general election next year – that the Pakatan Harapan campaign for a  world-class great Sarawak and Malaysia for a clean and better future is still the best vision  for our children and children’s children and not a “hopeless cause”!

I know there is a lot of disappointment with the performance of the 22-month Pakatan Harapan government  in Sarawak and Malaysia  because I myself am disappointed with its performance as I believe the Pakatan Harapan government could have done better.

However, it is unfair to judge the Pakatan Harapan government on its 22-month performance before it was toppled by an undemocratic and unconstitutional conspiracy, the Sheraton Move conspiracy, in February 2020 for the Pakatan Harapan government was given a mandate of five years to executive its general election pledges.

The Pakatan Harapan should  be judged whether it has failed to implement its election pledges in five years, and not in 22 months when it was trying to find its footing after more than half-a-century of UMNO hegemonic government.

It is even more unfair to accuse the 22-month Pakatan Harapan Government and the DAP of having betrayed our principles and objectives because such allegations are sheer political demonisations and totally untrue.

I met Mahathir in a private meeting in July 2019 where I expressed my concern about the implementation of the Pakatan Harapan election pledges, and he agreed to the establishment of a Pakatan Harapan review committee on the implementation of the Pakatan election pledges.

As the Pakatan Harapan government had 60 months to implement the election manifesto, I was planning to meet the Prime Minister on the issue in the mid-term of the government, but the Pakatan Harapan could not even last half-way to 30 months, as it was toppled undemocratically, unconstitutionally and illegitimately in 22 months in the Sheraton Move conspiracy.

Yesterday, I saw  a report quoting a DAP Johore leader,  Dr. Boo Cheng Hau as saying that  there are voices  in DAP  calling for Anwar Ibrahim to step down as Opposition Leader as they are eager to return to power and are cosying up to Mahathir hoping to return to power one day.

I do not think Dr. Boo is doing a service to DAP or to himself concocting  such baseless stories.

I am one of those responsible for Mahathir’s return to be Prime Minister a second time and I do not see Mahathir becoming a Prime Minister a third time – and I am not aware of any DAP leader  “eager to return to power” with Mahathir as the Prime Minister for the third time.

I have become an octogenarian. Mahathir is older – he just celebrated his 96th birthday. I do not see him becoming Prime Minister a third time.

Why is Dr. Boo concocting such a story?

But I agree with Mahathir that  the Pakatan Harapan vision was not a hopeless cause, as Pakatan Harapan campaign for  a world-class Sarawak and Malaysia which offers a clean and better future for our children and children’s children is the best vision for Sarawak and Malaysia.

For the last half-a-century, we were on a trajectory of a failed state, with one country after another overtaking Malaysia – Taiwan, South Korea, Singapore and Vietnam.  The 23-month Covid-19 pandemic must be a wake-up call that we are even losing out to Indonesia.

Instead of being one the world’s better performing nations in fighting the Covid-19 pandemic, we proved to be one of the worst performing nations, losing out even to  Indonesia in the past four months both in daily increase of Covid-19 cases and daily Covid-19 deaths.

Yesterday, for instance, Malaysia recorded 4,626 new Covid-19 cases and 31 Covid-19 deaths while Indonesia recorded 228 new Covid-19 cases and six (6) Covid-19 deaths.

It is not going to take one or  two years or even one or two decades to reverse the trajectory of the  past half-a-century to  become a world-class great Sarawak and Malaysia, but we owe it to our children and children’s children to make Sarawak and Malaysia world-class great destinations as our objective.

I always believe that there is no reason why Sarawak and Malaysia cannot become world-class great destinations when we are at the confluence of the four great human civilisations – Malay/Indonesian, Chinese, Indian and Western – but the conditions are our ability to leverage on their values and their best virtues instead of surrendering to divisive politics of race and religion and quarrel among ourselves.

What is worse, we became “kleptocracy at its worst” in the past decade and Malaysia has still to prove to the world that there can be no relapse to kleptocracy and rampant corruption in future.

Sarawak and Malaysia must start on a new long-term campaign lasting two or three decades to prove Sarawak and Malaysia can be world-class great achievers and stop being overtaken by other countries but we overtaking them.

Let  us start this new journey in the Sarawak state general election on Dec. 18, followed  by the 15th General Election next year.

(Statement by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang at a media conference in Sarikei on Sunday, 12th December 2021 ast 11 a.m)

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Why is Ismail  conspicuously silent on his ridiculous 90 pct score for his Cabinet for its Hundred Days performance and the massive and unprecedented violation of Covid-19 SOPs at the 100-Day Report Card event at KLCC

Why is the Prime Minister Ismail Sabri conspicuously silent on his ridiculous 90 pct score for his Cabinet for its first Hundred Day performance and the massive and unprecedented violation of Covid-19 SOPs at the 100-Day Report Card event at KLCC?

Many questions have been asked about  these two scandalous events but Ismail Sabri had uttered not a single word.

This is the time for Malaysians to hear Ismail Sabri’s  voice  on these scandalous events and he cannot continue to keep quiet.

Instead, we have Ismail Sabri doing what no UMNO Prime Minister had ever done before, pleading for continued UMNO support for him  him as Prime Minister to enable him to focus on resolving economic and health issues facing Malaysia!

I cannot  remember when an UMNO Prime Minister had ever to plead for UMNO support. This is definitely a “first” for Ismail Sabri, which does not promise any great premiership.

Not that he had resolved the Covid-19 pandemic, as he has not been able even to return to the pre-Emergency on January 11, 2021 let alone end the longest Covid-19 wave in the world – going back to September last year.

(Media Statement by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Sibu on Sunday, 12th December 2021)

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I will interrupt my campaigning for Pakatan Harapan in the Sarawak general election and fly back to KL  tomorrow to vote in Parliament on  the  Constitution Amendment Bill 2021 to undo the Constitutional Amendment 45 years ago to restore to Sarawak its rights under the Malaysia Act 1963

(Versi BM)

I will interrupt my campaigning for Pakatan Harapan in the Sarawak general election and fly back to Kuala Lumpur tomorrow to vote in Parliament on the Constitution Amendment Bill 2021 to undo the Constitutional Amendment 45 years ago to restore to Sarawak its rights under the Malaysia Act 1963.

When the 1976 Constitutional Amendment Bill was voted in Parliament on 13th July 1976, it was carried by 130 votes supporting and nine votes opposing – all the nine votes came from DAP which included myself. Those who supported the Constitution Amendment in 1976 which reduced Sarawak and Sabah from a region comparable to Peninsular Malaysia to one of the 13 states in Malaysia included all the Sarawak Barisan Nasional leaders, like two MPs who became Sarawak Chief Minister and Sarawak Yang di Pertua, Abdul Rahman Yaacob and Taib Mahmud, SUPP leaders Ong Kee Hui and Stephen Yong and SNAP leaders Edmund Langgu, Patrick Uren and Luhat Wan.

The 22-month Pakatan Harapan tried to undo the 1976 Constitution Amendment and restore to Sarawak and Sabah the status of region together with Peninsular Malaysia and not one of the 13 states but this was move was defeated by the opposition of the GPS Members of Parliament who did not support it.

Now, the GPS has another chance to undo the 1976 Constitution Amendment Bill tomorrow because the Confidence-Supply-Reform (CSR) Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) signed between Prime Minister Ismail Sabri and the four Pakatan Harapan leaders Anwar Ibrahim, Lim Guan Eng, Mohamad Sabu and Wilfred Madius Tangau on Sept. 13, 2021 insisted that the restoration of Sarawak and Sabah as two of the three regions and not two of the 13 states in Malaysia be addressed with priority and should be one of the key issues of the CSR MOU.

Tomorrow will be the implementation of one of the key issues of the CSR MOU, and it is taking place at a time when there is more light at the end of the tunnel in the 23-month Covid-19 pandemic, which was another objective of the CSR MOU as yesterday, Malaysia has finally gone below the 4,000-case daily increase of new Covid-19 cases after struggling for seven months since May this year.

We have stopped the crazy upsurge of Covid-19 cases and deaths, which if not for the CSR MOU, could reach cumulative totals of five million Covid-19 cases and 100,000 Covid-19 deaths at present in Malaysia. But I am not happy with the agonising slowness of decrease in daily new increase of Covid-19 cases and deaths. Yesterday, Malaysia recorded 3,490 new Covid-19 cases and 17 Covid-19 deaths, but Indonesia recorded lower figures of 163 daily new Covid-19 cases and seven Covid-19 deaths. Indonesia, which has more than eight times the population of Malaysia, has been reporting triple-number daily increase of Covid-19 cases for two months while we have been struggling for seven months to fall below 4,000 cases.

From the latest report, even India which has a population more than 42 times that of Malaysia, has yesterday reported an almost similar number of daily increase of new Covid-19 cases (3,632 cases).

When will the world’s longest Covid-19 wave in Malaysia which must be traced back to September last year end? When will Malaysia return to the pre-Emergency time of January 11, 2021 when the daily increase of new Covid-19 cases was in 2,000-case zone?

I know there is a lot of disappointment with the performance of the 22-month Pakatan Harapan government in Sarawak and Malaysia because I myself am disappointed with its performance as I believe the Pakatan Harapan government could have done better.

However, it is unfair to judge the Pakatan Harapan government on its 22-month performance before it was toppled by an undemocratic and unconstitutional conspiracy, the Sheraton Move conspiracy, in February 2020 for the Pakatan Harapan government was given a mandate of five years to executive its general election pledges.

The Pakatan Harapan should be judged whether it has failed to implement its election pledges in five years, and not in 22 months when it was trying to find its footing after more than half-a-century of UMNO hegemonic government.

It is even more unfair to accuse the 22-month Pakatan Harapan Government and the DAP of having betrayed our principles and objectives because such allegations are sheer political demonisations and totally untrue.

I met Mahathir Mohamad when he was Prime Minister of Pakatan Harapan government in a private meeting in July 2019 where I expressed my concern about the implementation of the Pakatan Harapan election pledges, and he agreed to the establishment of a Pakatan Harapan review committee on the implementation of the Pakatan election pledges.

As the Pakatan Harapan government had 60 months to implement the election manifesto, I was planning to meet the Prime Minister on the issue after the mid-term of the government, and if there had been delay in implementing the election promises in the first half of the Pakatan Harapan government, steps could be taken to accelerate the fulfilment of the election pledges in the second half of the Pakatan Harapan Government

But the Pakatan Harapan could not even last half-way to 30 months, as it was toppled undemocratically, unconstitutionally and illegitimately in 22 months in the Sheraton Move conspiracy.

There is another reason for the slow progress in the implementation of the Pakatan Harapan election manifesto – DAP is only one of the four component parties of the Pakatan Harapan coalition and we have to convince the other three political parties on the urgency of fulfilling the election manifesto.

I played the Devil’s Advocate in a discussion with a disappointed voter in Sibu yesterday. I asked him whether in his disappointment that Pakatan Harapan government could not have done better in 22 months – as there were a lot of resistance and opposition visible and not visible – does he want to see DAP to disappear and cease to exist.

He said he is disappointed by the Pakatan Harapan government’s performance but he did not want the DAP to disappear, for the future will be really dark and bleak.

I told him that whatever the ups and downs, the fight for a better Sarawak and Malaysia must go on, that one must not give up the hope, vision and battle for a better society and surrender to hopelessness.

I am glad he agreed with me that all is not lost so long as we do not surrender to hopelessness, dejection and despondency.

This is what the Sarawak general election is all about on Dec. 18, 2021.

(Media Statement by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Sibu on Monday, 13th December 2021)

Saya akan menangguhkan kempen saya untuk Pakatan Harapan dalam pilihan raya umum Sarawak dan terbang pulang ke KL esok untuk mengundi Rang Undang-undang Perlembagaan (Pindaan) 2021 di Parlimen bagi membatalkan Pindaan Perlembagaan 45 tahun lalu bagi mengembalikan hak kepada Sarawak di bawah Akta Malaysia 1963

Saya akan menangguhkan kempen saya untuk Pakatan Harapan dalam pilihan raya umum Sarawak dan terbang pulang ke KL esok untuk mengundi di Parlimen mengenai Rang Undang-undang Perlembagaan (Pindaan) 2021 bagi membatalkan Pindaan Perlembagaan 45 tahun lalu bagi mengembalikan haknya kepada Sarawak di bawah Akta Malaysia 1963.

Apabila Rang Undang-undang Perlembagaan (Pindaan) 1976 diundi di Parlimen pada 13 Julai 1976, ia disusuli dengan 130 undi menyokong dan sembilan undi menentang – kesemua sembilan undi itu datang daripada DAP termasuk saya sendiri. Mereka yang menyokong Pindaan Perlembagaan pada 1976 yang mengurangkan Sarawak dan Sabah daripada wilayah yang setanding dengan Semenanjung Malaysia kepada salah satu daripada 13 negeri di Malaysia termasuk semua pemimpin Barisan Nasional Sarawak, seperti dua Ahli Parlimen yang menjadi Ketua Menteri Sarawak dan Yang di-Pertua Sarawak, Abdul Rahman Yaacob dan Taib Mahmud, ketua SUPP Ong Kee Hui dan Stephen Yong serta ketua SNAP Edmund Langgu, Patrick Uren dan Luhat Wan.

Pakatan Harapan selama 22 bulan cuba membatalkan Pindaan Perlembagaan 1976 dan mengembalikan status wilayah kepada Sarawak dan Sabah bersama-sama Semenanjung Malaysia dan bukan satu daripada 13 negeri tetapi langkah ini digagalkan oleh pembangkang yang terdiri daripada Ahli Parlimen GPS yang tidak menyokongnya.

Kini, GPS mempunyai peluang lagi untuk membatalkan Rang Undang-undang Perlembagaan (Pindaan) 1976 esok kerana Memorandum Persefahaman (MOU) Keyakinan-Pembekalan-Reformasi (CSR) yang ditandatangani antara Perdana Menteri Ismail Sabri dan empat pemimpin Pakatan Harapan Anwar Ibrahim, Lim Guan Eng, Mohamad Sabu dan Wilfred Madius Tangau pada 13 September 2021 menegaskan bahawa pemulihan Sarawak dan Sabah sebagai dua daripada tiga wilayah dan bukan dua daripada 13 negeri di Malaysia ditangani dengan keutamaan dan harus menjadi salah satu isu utama CSR MOU.

Esok akan menjadi pelaksanaan salah satu isu utama MOU CSR, dan ia berlaku pada masa kita semakin hampir dengan cahaya di penghujung terowong dalam pandemik Covid-19 yang berlarutan selama 23 bulan, yang merupakan satu lagi objektif untuk MOU CSR kerana semalam, Malaysia akhirnya merekodkan kes harian baharu Covid-19 di bawah paras 4,000 selepas bergelut selama tujuh bulan sejak Mei tahun ini.

Kami telah menghentikan lonjakan mendadak kes dan kematian Covid-19, yang jika bukan kerana MOU CSR, boleh mencapai jumlah kumulatif lima juta kes Covid-19 dan 100,000 korban Covid-19 pada masa ini di Malaysia. Tetapi saya tidak berpuas hati dengan penurunan kes harian baharu Covid-19 yang perlahan.

Semalam, Malaysia merekodkan 3,490 kes baharu Covid-19 dan 17 korban Covid-19, tetapi Indonesia mencatatkan angka yang lebih rendah iaitu 163 kes harian baharu Covid-19 dan tujuh korban akibat Covid-19. Indonesia, yang mempunyai lebih lapan kali jumlah penduduk Malaysia, telah melaporkan peningkatan tiga angka harian kes Covid-19 selama dua bulan manakala kita telah bergelut selama tujuh bulan untuk turun di bawah paras 4,000 kes.

Menurut laporan terbaru, India yang mempunyai jumlah penduduk lebih 42 kali ganda berbanding Malaysia, semalam telah melaporkan jumlah peningkatan kes harian baharu Covid-19 yang hampir sama (3,632 kes).

Bilakah gelombang Covid-19 terpanjang di dunia di Malaysia yang dikesan pada sejak September tahun lepas akan berakhir? Bilakah Malaysia akan kembali ke masa pra-Darurat 11 Januari 2021 apabila kita merekodkan jumlah harian baharu Covid-19 dalam julat 2,000?

Saya tahu terdapat begitu ramai yang menzahirkan kekecewaan dengan prestasi kerajaan Pakatan Harapan selama 22 bulan di Sarawak dan Malaysia kerana saya sendiri kecewa dengan prestasinya kerana saya percaya kerajaan Pakatan Harapan boleh melakukan yang lebih baik.

Bagaimanapun, adalah tidak adil untuk menilai kerajaan Pakatan Harapan atas prestasinya selama 22 bulan sebelum ia digulingkan oleh konspirasi yang tidak demokratik dan tidak berperlembagaan, konspirasi Langkah Sheraton, pada Februari 2020 kerana kerajaan Pakatan Harapan diberi mandat lima tahun untuk menunaikan janji pilihan rayanya.

Pakatan Harapan harus dinilai sama ada ia berjaya atau gagal dalam melaksanakan ikrar pilihan rayanya dalam tempoh lima tahun, dan bukannya dalam tempoh 22 bulan ketika ia masih cuba membina asas kekuatannya selepas lebih setengah abad negara kita diperintah oleh hegemoni UMNO.

Adalah amat tidak adil untuk menuduh Kerajaan Pakatan Harapan selama 22 bulan dan DAP telah mengkhianati prinsip dan objektif kami kerana dakwaan tersebut adalah fitnah politik semata-mata dan tidak benar sama sekali.

Saya bertemu Mahathir Mohamad semasa beliau menjadi Perdana Menteri kerajaan Pakatan Harapan dalam mesyuarat tertutup pada Julai 2019 di mana saya menyatakan kebimbangan saya tentang pelaksanaan janji pilihan raya Pakatan Harapan, dan beliau bersetuju dengan penubuhan Jawatankuasa semakan mengenai pelaksanaan janji pilihan raya Pakatan Harapan.

Memandangkan kerajaan Pakatan Harapan mempunyai 60 bulan untuk melaksanakan manifesto pilihan raya, saya bercadang untuk bertemu Perdana Menteri mengenai isu itu selepas tempoh pertengahan pentadbiran kerajaan, dan jika terdapat kelewatan dalam melaksanakan janji pilihan raya pada separuh pertama kerajaan Pakatan Harapan, langkah boleh diambil untuk mempercepatkan pelaksanaan janji pilihan raya pada tempoh separuh kedua pentadbiran Kerajaan Pakatan Harapan.

Tetapi Pakatan Harapan tidak dapat bertahan separuh jalan hingga 30 bulan, kerana ia telah digulingkan secara tidak demokratik, tidak mengikut perlembagaan dan tidak sah dalam tempoh 22 bulan oleh konspirasi Langkah Sheraton.

Saya memberitahu beliau bahawa walau apa pun suka dan duka, perjuangan untuk Sarawak dan Malaysia yang lebih baik mesti diteruskan, seseorang itu tidak boleh berputus asa, visi dan perjuangan untuk masyarakat yang lebih baik dan menyerah dan berputus asa.

Saya gembira beliau bersetuju dengan saya bahawa semuanya tidak akan hilang selagi kita tidak menyerah kepada keputusasaan dan

terdapat satu lagi sebab mengapa pelaksanaan manifesto pilihan raya Pakatan Harapan agak perlahan – DAP hanyalah satu daripada empat parti komponen gabungan Pakatan Harapan dan kita perlu menyakinkan tiga parti politik lain mengenai keperluan mendesak untuk memenuhi manifesto pilihan.

Saya memainkan watak Devil’s Advocate (penyanggah) dalam perbincangan dengan pengundi yang kecewa di Sibu semalam. Saya bertanya kepadanya sama ada dalam kekecewaannya bahawa kerajaan Pakatan Harapan tidak dapat melakukan yang lebih baik dalam tempoh 22 bulan – kerana terdapat banyak tentangan yang kelihatan dan tidak kelihatan – adakah beliau mahu melihat DAP lenyap dan tidak wujud lagi.

Beliau berkata beliau kecewa dengan prestasi kerajaan Pakatan Harapan tetapi beliau tidak mahu DAP hilang, kerana masa depan akan benar-benar gelap dan suram.

Inilah yang dimaksudkan dengan pilihan raya umum Sarawak pada 18 Dis 2021.

(Kenyataan Media oleh Ahli Parlimen DAP Iskandar Puteri, Lim Kit Siang di Sibu pada hari Isnin, 13 Disember 2021)

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Proposal for a High-level Conference of 4,500 Longhouse heads in 2023 to mark the 60th Anniversary of formation of Malaysia  to find out why Sarawak is rich but the Ibans remain mired in poverty with poor and backward  infrastructure facilities

I have just visited  two longhouses in the Dudong state assembly constituency and I am shocked by the bitter  complaints from the longhouse residents about their poverty and their poor and backward infrastructure facilities.

Sarawak is very rich and has produced a very wealthy person known all over the world, but the people, in particular the Iban community, are mired in poverty with poor and backward infrastructure facilities. Why  is this so?

When the Malaysian concept was first proposed  before 1963, there were  delegation after delegation of Sarawakians who visited Peninsular Malaysia to see the advanced developments there, and the Sarawakians were promised that if Sarawak joined in the establishment of Malaysia, Sarawak would be as developed as Malaya.

In two years time in 2023 will be the 60th anniversary for the formation of Malaysia in 1963 but the promises of Sarawak  being as developed as Malaya had remained a broken promise after six decades.

This is why the Constitution Amendment Bill in Parliament tomorrow is important, for it must be the first step to honour  the undertakings of the Malaysia Agreement 1963.

This is why I am rushing back to Kuala Lumpur tomorrow to ensure that the Constitution Amendment Bill 2021 is passed with the requisite two-thirds majority.

This is why I  will interrupt my campaigning in the Sarawak general election and am rushing back to Kuala Lumpur tomorrow to ensure that the Constitution Amendment Bill 2021 is passed with the requisite two-thirds majority.

There are four Members of Parliament who voted  in Parliament on 13th July 1976 on the 1976 Constitution Amendment Bill which downgraded Sarawak from one of the three regions of Malaysia – Sarawak, Sabah and Malaya –  to one of the 13 states of Malaysia who are also in the current Parliament.

They are Mahathir Mohamad, Razaleigh Hamzah, Najib Razak and myself.

Mahathir, Razaleigh and Najib voted for the 1976 Constitution Amendment Bill. I voted against it.

In 2019, the Pakatan Harapan  Government under Mahathir Mohamad tried to undo the 1976 Constitution Amendment and restore to Sarawak and Sabah the status of  two of three regions together with Peninsular Malaysia and not two  of the 13 Malaysian states but this was move was defeated by the opposition of the GPS Members of Parliament who did not support it.

Would Razaleigh and Najib, as two of the remaining MPs who had voted for the 1976 Constitution Amendment Bill now support the 2021 Constitution Amendment Bill to restore the regional rights of Sarawak and undo the injustices which Sarawak, together with Sabah, suffered for 45 years?

Would Razaleigh and Najib apologise in Parliament tomorrow for their vote in 1976 which had done such grave injustices to Sarawak for close to five decades?

There are some 4,500 longhouses in Sarawak.

I would like to suggest that to mark the 60th anniversary of the formation of Malaysia in 1963,  all political parties whether in government or opposition, make a commitment to convene a high-level Conference of the heads of 4,500 longhouses in Sarawak to find out why Sarawak is so rich but the Iban community is mired in poverty, with poor and backward infrastructure facilities.

Both the Prime Minister of Malaysia and the Chief Minister of Sarawak, whoever they are, must address this High-Level Conference of 4,500 longhouse heads on their plans to ensure that Sarawak development would be at par with the development in Peninsular Malaysia after six decades.

(Media Conference Statement  by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Dudong on Monday, 13th December 2021)

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Puad should explain how much public funds he misspent to mislead Malaysians and Malaysian students all over the world that the 1MDB scandal never existed  when he was Director-General of JASA from March 2015 to April 2018

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I have said that I will not waste time on UMNO Supreme Council member, Puad Zakarshi, if he is unable to answer the many queries I have raised about him.

He has not been able to do so, and I have no time for him although he is desperately trying to prove his usefulness to UMNO despite being dropped as an UMNO candidate for Batu Pahat parliamentary constituency in the 2018 general election – after being defeated in the 2013 general election.

However, Puad should explain how much public funds he had misspent to mislead Malaysians and Malaysian students all over the world claiming that the the 1MDB scandal never existed when he was Director-General of JASA from March 2015 to April 2018, drawing a salary even more than a Cabinet Minister to carry out the UMNO propaganda job.

It would be intriguing to find out what is the total amount of public funds which were abused by Puad and other public personalities in the Najib government to mislead the Malaysian public over the 1MDB scandal.

(Media Statement (2) by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Sibu on Monday, 13th December 2021)

Puad perlu menjelaskan berapa banyakkah wang rakyat yang dibazirkan beliau untuk menipu rakyat Malaysia dan pelajar Malaysia di seluruh dunia dengan mengatakan kononnya skandal 1MDB ini tidak wujud semasa beliau menjadi Ketua Pengarah JASA di antara Mac 2015 sehingga April 2018

Saya telah katakan yang saya tidak akan membazirkan masa dengan Ahli Majlis Tertinggi UMNO, Puad Zarkashi, sekiranya beliau tidak dapat menjawab persoalan yang saya bangkitkan mengenai beliau.

Beliau tidak berjaya menjawab persoalan-persoalan ini dan saya tidak mempunyai masa untuk melayan beliau, walaupun beliau sedang terdesak untuk membuktikan yang beliau masih berguna kepada UMNO walaupun telah digugurkan daripada menjadi calon UMNO untuk kerusi Parlimen Batu Pahat dalam PRU 2018 – selepas ditewaskan dalam PRU 2013.

Namun, Puad perlu menjelaskan berapa banyakkah wang rakyat yang dibazirkan beliau untuk menipu rakyat Malaysia dan pelajar Malaysia di seluruh dunia dengan mengatakan kononnya skandal 1MDB ini tidak wujud semasa beliau menjadi Ketua Pengarah JASA di antara Mac 2015 sehingga April 2018, mengambil gaji yang lebih besar daripada Menteri Kabinet untuk menjalankan kerja propaganda UMNO.

Menarik untuk dilihat, berapa banyakkah wang rakyat telah dihabiskan untuk menipu rakyat Malaysia mengenai skandal 1MDB oleh Puad, dan juga personaliti awam lain dalam kerajaan Najib dahulu.

(Kenyataan Media (2) oleh Ahli Parlimen DAP Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang di Sibu pada hari Isnin, 13 Disember 2021)

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Four reasons why Sarawak should unite behind DAP candidates and not split their votes in the Sarawak general election on Dec. 18

(Versi BM)

I am at the Sibu Airport to rush back to Kuala Lumpur for the voting in Parliament on the 2021 Constitution Amendment Bill to end 45 years of injustices to Sarawak and Sabah caused by the 1976 Constitution Amendment Bill which resulted in Sarawak and Sabah not enjoying the rights and interests intended in the Malaysia Agreement 1963.

There are four reasons by the voters of Sarawak should unite behind DAP and Pakatan Harapan candidates and not split their votes in the Sarawak general election on Dec. 18, 2021.

They are:

1. DAP has been accused as a peninsular party and not a Sarawak party and therefore cannot be trusted. But the 1976 Constitution Amendment Bill proved that DAP is more Malaysian and Sarawakian then the Sarawak government political parties for while all the MPs of the Sarawak government parties supported the 1976 Constitution Amendment which reduced Sarawak to one of the 13 Malaysian states instead of one of the three territories which together with Sabah and Malaya formed Malaysia in 1963, the DAP MPs opposed it. The 130 MPs who voted for the 1976 Constitution Amendment Bill included former Sarawak government leaders like Abdul Rahman Yaacob, Taib Mahmud, Ong Kee Hui, Stephen Yong, Edmund Langgu and Patrick Uren. But all the nine opposition votes came from DAP. The 1976 Constitution Amendment which is largely the cause of the injustices suffered by Sarawak and Sabah in terms of financial allocation and development was passed in Parliament before the DAP set up branches in Sarawak. This showed that even before DAP formed branches in Sarawak, the DAP was more Malaysian and Sarawakian than the Sarawak government parties.

2. After the DAP had established branches in Sarawak in 1978, the last 43 years have seen DAP Members of Parliament and State Assembly members elected in the various parliamentary and state assembly elections, they had all flown high the rights and interests of Sarawak and Malaysia.

3. The 2021 Constitution Amendment Bill today is only the first step to restore the full rights and position of Sarawak (and Sabah), and DAP elected representatives, whether in Parliament or the Sarawak State Assembly, are important voices to undo the injustices of the past half-a-century in terms of financial allocation and development.

4. The 14th General Election in 2018 is a political watershed for Malaysia, for it has ended the UMNO political hegemony in the country. This should mark the end of regression of half-a-century of the country losing out to other countries like Taiwan, South Korea, Singapore and Vietnam, so that in the coming decades, we do not lose to other countries like Indonesia and the Philippines. We should begin to overtake other countries instead of being overtaken by other countries. Let the Sarawak general election be the beginning of a second “Long March” movement for Malaysia to become a world-class great country before Malaysia celebrates its 100th Birthday in the next few decades.

(Media Statement by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang at the Sibu Airport on Tuesday, 14th December 2021 at 11 am)

Empat sebab mengapa rakyat Sarawak perlu bersatu menyokong calon DAP dan bukannya memecahkan undi mereka dalam PRN Sarawak pada 18 Disember

Saya berada di Lapangan Terbang Sibu, bergesa kembali ke Kuala Lumpur untuk mengundi Rang Undang-undang Pindaan Perlembagaan 2021 di Parlimen untuk menamatkan ketidakadilan kepada Sarawak dan Sabah yang telah berterusan selama 45 tahun akibat RUU Pindaan Perlembagaan 1976 yang menyebabkan Sarawak dan Sabah tidak dapat menikmati hak dan kepentingan yang diniatkan seperti dalam Perjanjian Malaysia 1963.

Ada empat sebab mengapa pengundi di Sarawak perlu bersatu menyokong calon DAP dan Pakatan Harapan dan tidak memecahkan undi mereka dalam Pilihan Raya Negeri Sarawak yang akan berlangsung pada 18 Disember 2021:

Sebab-sebab ini adalah:

1. DAP telah dituduh sebagai sebuah parti semenanjung dan bukan sebuah parti Sarawak, oleh itu tidak boleh dipercayai. Tetapi, Pindaan Perlembagaan 1976 membuktikan yang DAP lebih setia kepada Malaysia dan Sarawak berbanding dengan parti-parti politik kerajaan Sarawak ketika itu. Ketika itu parti-parti kerajaan di Sarawak yang menyokong pindaan ini yang menurunkan status Sarawak daripada status sebagai salah satu daripada tiga wilayah – bersama-sama dengan Malaya dan Sabah – yang membentuk Malaysia pada tahun 1963 kepada salah satu daripada 13 negeri Malaysia, sedangkan Ahli-ahli Parlimen DAP ketika itu membantah pindaan ini. 130 Ahli-ahli Parlimen yang menyokong pindaan ini ketika itu termasuklah mantan-mantan pemimpin Sarawak seperti Abdul Rahman Yaacob, Taib Mahmud, Ong Kee Hui, Stephen Yong, Edmund Langgu, dan Patrick Uren. Tetapi kesemua undian pembangkang ketika itu datang daripada DAP. Pindaan Perlembagaan 1976 yang merupakan sebab utama ketidakadilan yang dihadapi Sarawak dan Sabah dari segi peruntukan kewangan dan pembangunan ini diluluskan di Parlimen sebelum DAP membuka cawangan di Sarawak. Perkara ini menunjukkan yang walaupun sebelum DAP bertapak di Sarawak, DAP lebih peduli kepada Malaysia dan Sarawak berbanding dengan parti-parti kerajaan Sarawak.

2. Selepas DAP mula bertapak di Sarawak pada tahun 1978, 43 tahun yang lepas telah menyaksikan Ahli-ahli Parlimen DAP dan Ahli-ahli Dewan Undangan Negeri DAP dipilih dalam pelbagai pilihan raya negeri dan parlimen dan mereka semua telah berterusan mempertahankan hak dan kepentingan negeri Sarawak dan Malaysia.

3. Pindaan Perlembagaan 2021 hari ini hanyalah langkah pertama untuk mengembalikan semula hak dan kedudukan penuh Sarawak (dan Sabah), dan wakil-wakil rakyat DAP, sama ada di Parlimen atau di Dewan Undangan Negeri Sarawak, adalah suara penting untuk mengungkai semula ketidakadilan yang telah berlaku dalam setengah abad yang lepas dari segi peruntukan kewangan dan pembangunan.

4. Pilihan Raya Umum ke-14 adalah satu saat yang bersejarah dalam arena politik negara, kerana detik ini telah menamatkan hegemoni politik UMNO dalam negara kita. Perkara ini sepatutnya menjadi titik berhentinya kemunduran negara kita dalam setengah abad yang lepas berbanding dengan negara-negara lain seperti Taiwan, Korea Selatan, Singapura, dan Vietnam, supaya dalam dekad-dekad yang mendatang, kita tidak pula kalah dengan negara seperti Indonesia dan Filipina. Kita patut mula memintasi negara lain dan bukannya ditinggalkan ke belakang oleh mereka. Jadikanlah Pilihan Raya Negeri Sarawak ini menjadi permulaan “perjalanan panjang” kita untuk menjadikan Malaysia sebuah negara hebat bertaraf dunia sebelum kita menyambut ulang tahun ke-100 negara ini dalam beberapa dekad yang akan datang.

(Kenyataan Media oleh Ahli Parlimen DAP Iskandar Puteri, Lim Kit Siang di Lapangan Terbang Sibu pada hari Selasa, 14 Disember 2021)

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Karim said those seeking independence for Sarawak can’t be blamed but he does not realise that the widespread  unhappiness of Sarawakians is caused by the failure of the Sarawak  government leaders 45 years ago

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Recently, a GPS Minister, Abdul Kafim Rahman Hamzah, a vice president of Parti Pesaka Bumiputera Bersatu (a mainstay of GPS) said that the people who seek independence for Sarawak cannot be blamed for such sentiments, in view of the record of lot state rights but he did not realise that the widespread unhappiness of Sarawakians is caused by the failure of the Sarawak government leaders 45 years ago.

This is why I am interrupting my campaigning for DAP and Pakatan Harapan candidates in the Sarawak state general election and returning to Kuala Lumpur tomorrow as Parliament will be debating and voting the 2021 Constitution Amendment Bill to undo 45 years of injustice to Sarawak (and Sabah) caused by the 1976 Constitution Amendment Bill which was passed by Parliament on 13th July 1976 by 130 votes in support and nine votes in opposition.

All the leaders of Sarawak Barisan Nasional (the predecessors of GPS) voted in support of the 1976 Constitution Amendment bill which reduced Sarawak (and Sabah) from one of the three territories together with Malaya to form Malaysia to one of the 13 states of Malaysia.

The nine Opposition votes all came from the DAP MPs at the time.

This event proved that the DAP was right and ahead of the times, and was more protective of the rights and interests of Sarawak than the Sarawak government leaders, as those who voted in support of the 1976 Constitution Amendment Bill were Sarawak government leaders like Abdul Rahman Yaacob Taib Mahmud, Ong Kee Hui, Stephen Yong, Edmund Langgu, Patrick Uren and Luhat Wan.

Abdul Karim said Sarawakians, in general, were proud to be Malaysians and appreciate their forefathers’ move in leading the state to join Malaya, Sabah and Singapore to form Malaysia in 1963.

He said: “But at the time, there were certain things that were very close to us, certain rights which we negotiated for, that throughout the years, have slowly diminished.”

Such rights included oil and gas royalties, the state’s entitlement to one-third of parliamentary seats, and rights over matters such as tourism that were not included in the list of matters under federal purview.

Karim said that regardless of whether there was malice by any party over the erosion of Sarawak’s rights, the reality was that certain leaders in the past had done things that were “not right”, and this was why the state was now pushing for the return of the rights.

He said the unequal development between West Malaysia and East Malaysia was a sore point for many, especially those who have seen the advanced stage of development in the Peninsula.

The 1976 Constitution Amendment Bill, which all the Sarawak government leaders supported resulting in 130 votes in agreement but which the DAP opposed with our nine votes, is the original cause for the unequal development between West Malaysia and East Malaysia.

I agree with Abdul Karim that Sarawakians have a right to demand equitable sharing of resources so that Malaysia and all states of Malaysia develop together.

There is nothing wrong for Sarawak to demand that its rights to development be returned, but the people must realise that the unhappiness of Sarawakians from 1976 to 2018 was due to the failures and negligence of the federal as well as the Sarawak government leaders.

In 2019, the Pakatan Harapan Government tried to undo the injustices of unequal development between West Malaysia and Sarawak caused by the 1976 Constitution Amendment and restore to Sarawak and Sabah the status of two of three regions together Malaya which formed Malaysia and not two of the 13 Malaysian states but this was move was defeated by the opposition of the GPS Members of Parliament who did not support it. Otherwise, this process of restoration of the development rights of Sarawak would have started from 2019 and not more than two years later from tomorrow.

We have wasted more than two years and we should not waste any more time, and that is why I rushing back to KL tomorrow to ensure that there is two-thirds parliamentary majority which is necessary for the 2021 Constitution Amendment Bill to be passed.

(Speech by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang at a dinner of DAP activists in Sibu on Monday, 13th December 2021 at 7 pm)

Karim berkata mereka yang menuntut kemerdekaan untuk Sarawak tidak boleh dipersalahkan tetapi beliau tidak menyedari bahawa rasa tidak senang rakyat Sarawak adalah disebabkan oleh kegagalan pemimpin kerajaan Sarawak sejak 45 tahun lalu

Baru-baru ini, seorang Menteri GPS, Abdul Karim Rahman Hamzah, naib presiden Parti Pesaka Bumiputera Bersatu (tunjang utama GPS) berkata bahawa rakyat yang menuntut kemerdekaan untuk Sarawak tidak boleh dipersalahkan untuk sentimen sedemikian, memandangkan Sarawak mempunyai haknya yang tersendiri, tetapi beliau tidak menyedari bahawa rasa tidak senang rakyat Sarawak berpunca daripada kegagalan pemimpin kerajaan Sarawak sejak 45 tahun lalu.

Itulah sebabnya saya menangguhkan kempen saya untuk calon DAP dan Pakatan Harapan dalam pilihan raya umum negeri Sarawak dan kembali ke Kuala Lumpur esok kerana Parlimen akan membahaskan dan mengundi Rang Undang-undang Perlembagaan (Pindaan) 2021 untuk menamatkan 45 tahun ketidakadilan terhadap Sarawak (dan Sabah) disebabkan oleh Rang Undang-undang Perlembagaan (Pindaan) 1976 yang diluluskan oleh Parlimen pada 13 Julai 1976 dengan 130 undi menyokong dan sembilan undi menolak.

Semua pemimpin Barisan Nasional Sarawak (pendahulu GPS) mengundi menyokong Rang Undang-undang Perlembagaan (Pindaan) 1976 yang mengurangkan status Sarawak (dan Sabah) sebagai satu daripada tiga wilayah bersama-sama dengan Tanah Melayu untuk membentuk Malaysia kepada satu daripada 13 negeri di Malaysia.

Sembilan undi Pembangkang semuanya datang daripada Ahli Parlimen DAP ketika itu.

Peristiwa ini membuktikan bahawa DAP adalah benar dan mendahului zaman, dan lebih menjaga hak dan kepentingan Sarawak berbanding pemimpin kerajaan Sarawak, kerana mereka yang mengundi menyokong Rang Undang-undang Perlembagaan (Pindaan) 1976 adalah pemimpin kerajaan Sarawak seperti Abdul Rahman Yaacob, Taib Mahmud, Ong Kee Hui, Stephen Yong, Edmund Langgu, Patrick Uren dan Luhat Wan.

Abdul Karim berkata rakyat Sarawak secara amnya berbangga menjadi rakyat Malaysia dan menghargai langkah nenek moyang mereka memimpin negeri itu menyertai Malaya, Sabah dan Singapura untuk membentuk Malaysia pada 1963.

Beliau berkata: “Tetapi pada masa itu, ada perkara-perkara tertentu yang sangat dekat dengan kami, hak-hak tertentu yang kami rundingkan, yang sepanjang tahun, perlahan-lahan berkurangan.”

Hak tersebut termasuk royalti minyak dan gas, kelayakan Sarawak kepada satu pertiga daripada kerusi parlimen, dan hak ke atas perkara seperti pelancongan yang tidak termasuk dalam senarai perkara di bawah bidang kuasa persekutuan.

Karim berkata tanpa mengira sama ada terdapat niat jahat oleh mana-mana pihak terhadap penghakisan hak Sarawak, realitinya adalah pemimpin tertentu pada masa lalu telah melakukan perkara yang “tidak betul”, dan inilah sebabnya negeri itu kini mendesak untuk mengembalikan hak tersebut.

Beliau berkata pembangunan yang tidak sama rata antara Malaysia Barat dan Malaysia Timur menimbulkan kekecewaan banyak pihak terutama mereka yang telah melihat tahap pembangunan yang maju di Semenanjung.

Rang Undang-Undang Perlembagaan (Pindaan) 1976, yang disokong oleh semua pemimpin kerajaan Sarawak menghasilkan 130 undi bersetuju tetapi ditentang DAP dengan sembilan undi kami, adalah punca asal pembangunan yang tidak sama rata antara Malaysia Barat dan Malaysia Timur.

Saya bersetuju dengan Abdul Karim bahawa rakyat Sarawak mempunyai hak untuk menuntut perkongsian sumber yang saksama supaya Malaysia dan semua negeri di Malaysia membangun bersama.

Tidak salah bagi Sarawak untuk menuntut hak pembangunannya dikembalikan, tetapi rakyat harus sedar bahawa rasa tidak senang rakyat Sarawak dari 1976 hingga 2018 adalah berpunca daripada kegagalan dan kecuaian kerajaan persekutuan serta pemimpin kerajaan Sarawak.

Pada tahun 2019, Kerajaan Pakatan Harapan cuba untuk membatalkan ketidakadilan pembangunan yang tidak sama rata antara Malaysia Barat dan Sarawak yang disebabkan oleh Pindaan Perlembagaan 1976 dan mengembalikan kepada Sarawak dan Sabah status dua daripada tiga wilayah bersama Tanah Melayu yang membentuk Malaysia dan bukan sekadar dilihat sebagai dua daripada 13 negeri di Malaysia tetapi langkah ini telah digagalkan oleh pembangkang yang terdiri daripada Ahli Parlimen GPS yang tidak menyokongnya. Jika tidak, proses pemulihan hak pembangunan Sarawak ini akan bermula dari 2019 dan tidak lebih dua tahun kemudian mulai esok.

Kita telah membazir lebih daripada dua tahun dan kita tidak perlu membuang masa lagi, dan itulah sebabnya saya bergegas pulang ke KL esok untuk memastikan terdapat dua pertiga majoriti parlimen yang diperlukan untuk Rang Undang-undang Perlembagaan (Pindaan) 2021 diluluskan.

(Ucapan Ahli Parlimen DAP Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang pada majlis makan malam aktivis DAP di Sibu pada hari Isnin, 13 Disember 2021 jam 7 malam)

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Khairy will be  destroying his own credibility and political future  if he forces through the draconian and unscientific Prevention and Control of Infectious Diseases Amendment Bill with excessive million-ringgit fines and  compounds and disproportionate seven-year  penal penalties on Thursday

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The new Health Minister Khairy Jamaluddin will be destroying his own credibility and political future if he forces through the draconian and unscientific Prevention and Control of Infectious Diseases Amendment Bill with excessive million-ringgit fines and compounds and disproportionate seven-year penal penalties on Thursday.

Although Khairy had done quite a good job in his first Hundred Days on Dec. 7 as compared to other Ministers as he had ended the crazy upsurge of daily Covid-19 cases and daily Covid-19 deaths (which might have reached by today cumulaltive totals of five million Covid-19 cases and 100,000 Covid-19 death if the crazy upsurge had not been stopped), we are still a great distance from ending the third Covid-19 wave in Malaysia, which has become the longest Covid-19 wave in the world going back to September last year.

In fact, we have not even returned to the pre-Emergency Days before January 11 when daily new Covid-19 cases were in the 2,000+ region.

Is the government looking for an excuse for Malaysia becoming one the worst performing nations in the world in the 23-month Covid-19 pandemic.

The forcing through of the draconian and unscientific Prevention and Control of Infectious Diseases Amendment Bill on Thursday will a day of infamy for it would prove two things:

Firstly going against all his statements that Malaysians must learn to live with Covid-19 as we cannot eliminate the virus;

Secondly, that nothing has changed in Malaysia despite the signing of the confidence-supply-reform (CSR) memorandum of understanding (MOU) between Prime Minister Ismail Sabri and the four Pakatan Harapan leaders, which is supposed to usher in a more consultative form of government.

Khairy should withdraw the amendment bill and consult not only with MPs and political parties, but all the relevant medical bodies and NGOs on the amendment Bill or face the prospect of having the bill opposed in a division (the first case after the signing of the CSR MoU) and re-table an amendment bill in the next meeting of Parliament.

(Media Statement by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Kuala Lumpur on Tuesday, 14th December 2021)

Khairy akan menghancurkan kredibiliti dan masa hadapan politik beliau sekiranya beliau memaksa pindaan RUU Pindaan Akta Pecegahan dan Pengawalan Penyakit Berjangkit yang bersifat drakonian dan tidak berasaskan kepada sains dengan peruntukan denda dan kompaun berjuta ringgit yang melampau dan hukuman penjara sehingga tujuh tahun yang keterlaluan

Menteri Kesihatan baharu, Khairy Jamaluddin akan menghancurkan kredibiliti dan masa hadapan politik beliau sekiranya beliau memaksa pindaan RUU Pindaan Akta Pecegahan dan Pengawalan Penyakit Berjangkit yang bersifat drakonian dan tidak berasaskan kepada sains dengan peruntukan denda dan kompaun berjuta ringgit yang melampau dan hukuman penjara sehingga tujuh tahun yang keterlaluan pada hari Khamis ini.

Walaupun Khairy telah menjalankan tugas dengan agak baik dalam Seratus Hari pertama beliau pada 7 Disember berbanding dengan Menteri-menteri lain apabila beliau berjaya menghentikan peningkatan mendadak kes harian dan kematian akibat Covid-19 (yang mungkin akan mencapai sehingga lima juta kes terkumpul dengan lebih daripada 100,000 kematian terkumpul sekiranya peningkatan mendadak ini tidak dihentikan), kita masih berhadapan dengan perjalanan yang panjang sebelum berjaya menghentikan penularan wabak ini di Malaysia, yang merupakan gelombang penularan yang terpanjang di dunia sejak daripada bulan September tahun lepas.

Malah, kita masih lagi belum mencapai kadar jangkitan pada era sebelum darurat diisytiharkan pada 11 Januari, di mana kes harian berada dalam paras sekitar 2,000 kes sehari.

Adakah kerajaan sedang mencari alasan mengapa kita menjadi negara dengan prestasi terburuk dalam mengendalikan wabak Covid-19 sepanjang 23 bulan yang lepas ini.

Pemaksaan kelulusan RUU Pindaan Akta Pecegahan dan Pengawalan Penyakit Berjangkit yang drakonian dan tidak saintifik pada hari Khamis ini akan menjadi satu hari yang memalukan negara yang hanya akan membuktikan dua perkara:

Pertamanya, berlawanan dengan apa yang dikatakan beliau sebelum ini bahawa rakyat Malaysia perlu belajar untuk hidup bersama dengan wabak Covid-19 memandangkan kita tidak dapat menghapuskan penyakit ini;

Keduanya, tidak ada apa-apa pun yang telah berubah walaupun Memorandum Persefahaman (MOU) telah ditandatangani di antara Perdana Menteri Ismail Sabri dengan empat orang pemimpin Pakatan Harapan, yang sepatutnya membawa masuk satu bentuk kerajaan yang lebih banyak melibatkan rundingan dengan semua pihak.

Khairy perlu menarik semula rang undang-undang pindaan ini dan berunding dengan semua pihak, bukan sahaja setakat Ahli-ahli Parlimen dan parti-parti politik, tetapi juga semua badan perubatan dan badan-badan bukan kerajaan mengenai RUU pindaan ini, jika beliau tidak mahu berhadapan dengan kemungkinan RUU ini ditolak dengan belah bahagi (kejadian belah bahagi pertama selepas MOU dimeterai) dan kemudiannya perlu dibentangkan semula dalam persidangan Parlimen yang akan datang.

(Kenyataan Media oleh Ahli Parlimen DAP Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang di Kuala Lumpur pada hari Selasa, 14 Disember 2021)

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Can the four special envoys, Hadi Awang, Tiong King Sing, Richard Riot and Vigneswaran  produce their 100-Day Report Cards?

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The answer by the Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department (Special Functions) Abdul Latiff Ahmad yesterday on the number of special advisers and special envoys of the Prime Minister, Ismail Sabri is both a shocker and an eye-opener.

The first question that comes to mind is why is the Prime Minister having so many special advisers and special envoys as he already has a jumbo-sized Cabinet of 31 Ministers and 38 deputy ministers and a full complement of High Commissioners and Ambassadors all over the world?

Is Ismail Sabri prepared to ask for specific approval from Parliament authorising him to appoint Special Advisers and Special Envoys? Otherwise, this is not parliamentary government but Special Adviser Government in Malaysia!

At present, Ismail Sabri has four special envoys – Abdul Hadi Awang (special envoy to the Middle East), Tiong King Sing (special envoy to China), Richard Riot (special envoy to Japan, Korea, and Taiwan), S Vigneswaran (special envoy to India and South Asia).

Can the four special envoys, Hadi Awang, Tiong King Sing, Richard Riot and Vigneswaran produce their 100-Day Report Cards? If the four super-Ambassadors are unable to produce their 100-day Report Cards, what are they useful for?

I had previously asked whether Malaysia’s special envoy to the Middle East had been banned from Saudi Arabia, and had never visited Saudi Arabia since his appointment as far back as April 2020, but no answer had been forthcoming.

What is the use of an Ambassador or Special Envoy of a region when he cannot visit the country or region he is supposed to be responsible?

How many times have Tiong King Sin visited China since his appointment and what had he done to justify his appointment? The same question applies to Hadi, Richard Riot and Vigneswaran.

Latiff told Parliament that the sixth Prime Minister, Najib Razak had the most number of advisers and special envoys during his premiership from 2009 till 2018.

It does not mean that the deviations and abuses of power by Najib is justification for Ismail Sabri to do the same when he becomes Prime Minister.

If so, Ismail will be perfectly justified to turn Malaysia again into a “kleptocracy at its worst” as during Najib’s tenure as Prime Minister and have his own 1MDB scandal.

When the book of Najib’s political communications adviser for six years, Romen Bose, “Final Reckoning – An Insider’s View of the Fall of Malaysia’s Barisan Nasional Government” hit the bookshops yesterday, the surprise element was not that Bose had written an account of Najib’s fall from power, but that nobody has ever heard of him until his book came out.

We cannot have a secretive government where the Prime Minister has an army special advisers who are paid by public funds and yet Parliament and the people know nothing about it.

This secretive government must stop immediately!

(Media Statement by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Kuala Lumpur on Wednesday,15th December 2021)

Bolehkah empat duta khas, Hadi Awang, Tiong King Sing, Richard Riot dan Vigneswaran mengeluarkan Kad Laporan 100 Hari mereka?

Jawapan Menteri di Jabatan Perdana Menteri (Tugas-tugas Khas) Abdul Latiff Ahmad semalam mengenai jumlah penasihat khas dan duta khas Perdana Menteri, Ismail Sabri amat mengejutkan dan membuka mata ramai pihak.

Persoalan pertama yang terlintas di fikiran ialah mengapa Perdana Menteri mempunyai begitu ramai penasihat khas dan duta khas kerana beliau sudah mempunyai Kabinet gergasi yang terdiri daripada 31 menteri dan 38 timbalan menteri dan tidak kurang juga Pesuruhjaya Tinggi dan Duta Besar di seluruh dunia?

Adakah Ismail Sabri bersedia untuk meminta kelulusan khusus daripada Parlimen bagi memberi kuasa kepadanya untuk melantik Penasihat Khas dan Duta Khas? Jika tidak, ini bukan kerajaan parlimen tetapi Kerajaan Penasihat Khas di Malaysia!

Pada masa ini, Ismail Sabri mempunyai empat duta khas – Abdul Hadi Awang (duta khas ke Timur Tengah), Tiong King Sing (duta khas ke China), Richard Riot (duta khas ke Jepun, Korea, dan Taiwan), S Vigneswaran (duta khas ke India dan Asia Selatan).

Bolehkah empat utusan khas, Hadi Awang, Tiong King Sing, Richard Riot dan Vigneswaran mengeluarkan Kad Laporan 100 Hari mereka?

Jika empat Duta Besar tidak dapat menghasilkan Kad Laporan 100 hari mereka, apakah fungsi mereka ini?

Saya sebelum ini bertanya sama ada duta khas Malaysia ke Timur Tengah telah disekat daripada menjejak kaki ke Arab Saudi, dan tidak pernah melawat Arab Saudi sejak dilantik sebagai duta khas setakat April 2020, tetapi tiada jawapan yang diberikan.

Apa guna Duta atau Duta Khas sesuatu wilayah apabila dia tidak dapat melawat negara atau wilayah yang di bawah tanggungjawabnya?

Berapa kali Tiong Sin King melawat China sejak pelantikannya dan apakah yang telah dilakukannya untuk mewajarkan pelantikannya? Soalan yang sama ditujukan kepada Hadi, Richard Riot dan Vigneswaran.

Latiff memberitahu Parlimen bahawa Perdana Menteri keenam, Najib Razak mempunyai bilangan penasihat dan duta khas paling ramai semasa menjadi perdana menteri dari 2009 hingga 2018.

Ia tidak bermakna penyelewengan dan salah guna kuasa oleh Najib menjadi justifikasi untuk Ismail Sabri melakukan perkara yang sama apabila menjadi Perdana Menteri.

Jika ya, Ismail sengaja mahu menjadikan Malaysia sekali lagi dikenali sebagai “kleptokrasi yang paling teruk” seperti zaman Najib menjadi Perdana Menteri dan terpalit dengan skandal ala 1MDB yang tersendiri.

Apabila buku penasihat komunikasi politik Najib selama enam tahun, Romen Bose, “Final Reckoning – An Insider’s View of the Fall of Malaysia’s Barisan Nasional Government” mula dijual di kedai-kedai buku semalam, unsur yang mengejutkan bukanlah Bose telah menulis kisah tentang kejatuhan Najib daripada tampuk kuasa, tetapi tiada siapa yang pernah tahu atau mendengar tentang beliau sehinggalah buku hasil tulisannya diterbitkan dan mula dijual.

Kita tidak boleh mempunyai kerajaan rahsia di mana Perdana Menteri mempunyai sepasukan penasihat khas yang dibayar menerusi dana awam tetapi Parlimen dan rakyat tidak tahu mengenainya.

Kerajaan rahsia ini mesti dihentikan segera!

(Kenyataan Media oleh Ahli Parlimen DAP Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang di Rabu, 15 Disember 2021)

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I support a division voting should be called if Khairy is so unreasonable as want to  force through the draconian and unscientific Prevention and Control of Infectious Diseases Amendment Bill tomorrow instead of referring it to a Select Committee

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I support that a division voting should be called if the Health Minister Khairy Jamaluddin is so unreasonable as want to force through the draconian and unscientific Prevention and Control of Infectious Diseases Amendment Bill tomorrow with excessive million-ringgit fines and compounds and disproportionate seven-year penal penalties instead of referring it to a Select Committee.

Just as there was no justification for the declaration of Emergency on January 11, 2021 to combat the Covid-19 pandemic, there is no justification for the Dewan Rakyat to pass the amendment to the Prevention and Control of Infectious Diseases Amendment bill tomorrow.

The amendment bill should be referred to a Select Committee to benefit from consultation with not only MPs and political parties, but all the relevant medical bodies and NGOs, especially as the Health Minister is asking Malaysians to “live with Covid” in an endemic phase.

Was the Health Ministry being negligent for the past 23 months of the Covid-19 pandemic in not having such amendments?

Khairy should bear full responsibility if the Opposition is forced to call for division voting to express its opposition to the draconian and unscientific provisions in the Bill and spoil the bi-partisan spirit that has started to develop as a result of the confidence-supply-reform (CSR) memorandum of understanding (MOU) signed by Prime Minister Ismail Sabri and Pakatan Harapan leaders on Sept. 13.

It is most unfortunate that after the historic consensus and unity shown in the Parliament yesterday in passing the 2021 Constitution Amendment Bill to undo the injustices of the 1976 Constitution Amendment Act, the parliamentary spirit of finding unity and consensus ushered by the CSR MOU should be spoilt by Khairy’s obstinacy in wanting to force through the Prevention and Control of Infectious Diseases Amendment Bill tomorrow.

(Media Statement by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Kuching on Wednesday, 15th December 2021)

Saya sokong belah bahagi diadakan sekiranya Khairy bertindak secara tidak munasabah dengan cubaan untuk memaksa meluluskan pindaan Akta Pencegahan dan Pengawalan Penyakit Berjangkit yang bersifat drakonian dan tidak berasaskan sains pada hari esok dan bukannya merujuk perkara ini kepada Jawatankuasa Pilihan Khas dahulu

Saya sokong belah bahagi diadakan sekiranya Khairy bertindak secara tidak munasabah dengan cubaan untuk memaksa meluluskan pindaan Akta Pencegahan dan Pengawalan Penyakit Berjangkit dengan peruntukan denda dan kompaun sehingga berjuta ringgit dan hukuman penjara yang melampau yang bersifat drakonian dan tidak berasaskan sains pada hari esok dan bukannya merujuk perkara ini kepada Jawatankuasa Pilihan Khas dahulu.

Seperti mana tidak ada sebab untuk pengisytiharan darurat pada 11 Januari 2021 untuk melawan wabak Covid-19, tidak ada sebab untuk Dewan Rakyat meluluskan pindaan ini esok.

Rang undang-undang pindaan ini sepatutnya dirujuk kepada sebuah Jawatankuasa Pilihan Khas untuk mendapat manfaat daripada rundingan, bukan sahaja dengan Ahli-ahli Parlimen dan parti politik, tetapi juga mendapatkan input daripada badan-badan kesihatan yang berkenaan dan badan-badan bukan kerajaan yang lain, terutamanya apabila Kementerian Kesihatan kini meminta rakyat Malaysia untuk belajar untuk “hidup dengan Covid” dalam fasa endemik.

Adakah Kementerian Kesihatan telah lalai dalam 23 bulan yang lepas dengan tidak mencadangkan pindaan sebegini lebih awal lagi?

Khairy perlu bertanggungjawab penuh sekiranya pihak Pembangkang terpaksa mendesak undian belah bahagi untuk menolak pindaan yang drakonian dan tidak saintifik ini dan secara langsung, merosakkan semangat bipartisan yang telah mula berkembang sejak daripada pemeteraian Memorandum Persefahaman (MOU) Perbekalan-Kepercayaan-Reformasi (CSR) di antara Perdana Menteri Ismail Sabri dan pemimpin Pakatan Harapan pada 13 September.

Malang sekali sekiranya selepas konsensus dan perpaduan yang bersejarah yang ditunjukkan di Parlimen semalam dengan kelulusan Rang Undang-undang Pindaan Perlembagaan 2021 untuk memperbaiki ketidakadilan yang berlaku daripada Pindaan Perlembagaan 1976 sebelum ini, dan juga semangat kerjasama dan perpaduan di Parlimen, dimusnahkan dengan kekerasan Khairy untuk memaksa pindaan ini esok.

(Kenyataan Media Ahli Parlimen DAP Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang di Kuching pada hari Rabu, 15 Disember 2021)

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Sarawak government MPs cheered when the 2021 Constitution Amendment Bill was passed yesterday, but they also cheered when the 1976 Constitution Amendment Bill was passed 45 years ago  causing two generations of Sarawakians to lose their basic rights to citizenship and development for half a century

Sarawak government MPs cheered when the 2021 Constitution Amendment Bill was passed yesterday, but they also cheered when the 1976 Constitution Amendment Bill was passed 45 years ago causing two generations of Sarawakians to lose their basic rights to citizenship and development for half a century.

The only MPs who opposed the 1976 Constitution Amendment Bill were the nine Members of Parliament from the DAP.

If the 1976 Constitution Amendment Bill had not been passed, Sarawak would not be reduced to one of the 13 Malaysian states for 45 years, and would have a higher status as one of the three territories, namely Sarawak, Sabah and Malaya, which formed Malaysia in 1963, with vast implications in terms of financial allocations, state autonomy on education and health, oil rights and development status.

The Federal Government should now enter into serious discussion to compensate Sarawak for 45 years of being treated as one of the 13 states of Malaysia instead of as one of the three territories which formed Malaysia in 1963.

Before Parliament adjourns on Thursday, it should set up a Special Select Committee on Reparations to Sarawak and Sabah for the 1976 Constitution Amendment Act for treating the two territories as one of the 13 Malaysian states when it should be treated as one of the three territories forming Malaysia in 1963, and make recommendations on the reparation measures that should be made by the Federal Government in the next meeting of Parliament.

This Special Select Committee should be jointly chaired by an MP for Sarawak and an MP for Sabah.

I am flying back to Sarawak to continue my campaigning for DAP and Pakatan Harapan candidates, as the Sarawak general election on Dec. 18 has assumed new significance – it should be a verdict by the voters of Sarawak to demand reparations for 45 years of neglect since the 1976 Constitution Amendment Act to treat Sarawak as one of the three territories forming Malaysia in 1963 – instead of relegating Sarawak to one of the 13 Malaysian states.

There are four reasons by the voters of Sarawak should unite behind DAP and Pakatan Harapan candidates and not split their votes in the Sarawak general election on Dec. 18, 2021.

They are:

1. DAP has been accused as a peninsular party and not a Sarawak party and therefore cannot be trusted. But the 1976 Constitution Amendment Bill proved that DAP is more Malaysian and Sarawakian then the Sarawak government political parties for while all the MPs of the Sarawak government parties supported the 1976 Constitution Amendment which reduced Sarawak to one of the 13 Malaysian states instead of one of the three territories which together with Sabah and Malaya formed Malaysia in 1963, the DAP MPs opposed it. The 130 MPs who voted for the 1976 Constitution Amendment Bill included former Sarawak government leaders like Abdul Rahman Yaacob, Taib Mahmud, Ong Kee Hui, Stephen Yong, Edmund Langgu and Patrick Uren. But all the nine opposition votes came from DAP. The 1976 Constitution Amendment which is largely the cause of the injustices suffered by Sarawak and Sabah in terms of financial allocation, autonomy on education and health, oil rights and development was passed in Parliament before the DAP set up branches in Sarawak. This showed that even before DAP formed branches in Sarawak, the DAP was more Malaysian and Sarawakian than the Sarawak government parties.

2. After the DAP had established branches in Sarawak in 1978, the last 43 years have seen DAP Members of Parliament and State Assembly members elected in the various parliamentary and state assembly elections, who had flown high the rights and interests of Sarawak and Malaysia.

3. The 2021 Constitution Amendment Bill passed by the Dewan Rakyat yesterday was only the first step to restore the full rights and position of Sarawak (and Sabah), and DAP elected representatives, whether in Parliament or the Sarawak State Assembly, are important voices to undo the injustices of the past half-a-century in terms of financial allocation, autonomy on education and health, oil rights and development.

4. The 14th General Election in 2018 is a political watershed for Malaysia, for it has ended the UMNO political hegemony in the country. This should mark the end of regression of half-a-century of the country losing out to other countries like Taiwan, South Korea, Singapore and Vietnam, so that in the coming decades, we do not lose out to other countries like Indonesia and the Philippines. We should begin to overtake other countries instead of being overtaken by other countries. Let the Sarawak general election be the beginning of a second “Long March” movement for Malaysia to become a world-class great country before Malaysia celebrates its 100th Birthday in the next few decades.

Instead of a local Sarawak general election, it has now assumed national importance and significance – to lead to a Malaysian regeneration to become a world-class great nation.

I am asking the voters of Sarawak to lead Malaysia to become a world-class great nation and to support DAP and Pakatan Harapan candidates for this unprecedented mission.

(Media Statement by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang at Kuala Lumpur International Airport, Sepang on Wednesday, 15th December 2021 at 7.30 a.m)

Ahli Parlimen kerajaan Sarawak bersorak gembira apabila Rang Undang-undang Perlembagaan (Pindaan) 2021 diluluskan semalam, tetapi sorakan yang sama turut bergema semasa Rang Undang-undang Perlembagaan (Pindaan) 1976 diluluskan 45 tahun lalu, yang menyebabkan dua generasi rakyat Sarawak kehilangan hak asas sebagai warganegara dan mundur dari segi pembangunan selama setengah abad

Ahli Parlimen kerajaan Sarawak bersorak gembira apabila Rang Undang-undang Perlembagaan (Pindaan) 2021 diluluskan semalam, tetapi sorakan yang sama turut bergema semasa Rang Undang-undang Perlembagaan (Pindaan) 1976 diluluskan 45 tahun lalu, yang menyebabkan dua generasi rakyat Sarawak kehilangan hak asas sebagai warganegara dan mundur dari segi pembangunan selama setengah abad.

Satu-satunya Ahli Parlimen yang menentang Rang Undang-undang Perlembagaan (Pindaan) 1976 ialah sembilan Ahli Parlimen daripada DAP.

Sekiranya Rang Undang-undang Perlembagaan (Pindaan) 1976 tidak diluluskan, Sarawak tidak akan hanya menjadi salah satu daripada 13 negeri Malaysia selama 45 tahun, dan akan mempunyai status yang lebih tinggi sebagai salah satu daripada tiga wilayah, iaitu Sarawak, Sabah dan Malaya, yang membentuk Malaysia pada tahun 1963, dengan implikasi yang luas dari segi peruntukan kewangan, autonomi negeri mengenai pendidikan dan kesihatan, hak minyak dan status pembangunan.

Kerajaan Persekutuan kini perlu mengadakan perbincangan serius untuk memberi pampasan kepada Sarawak selama 45 tahun kerana dianggap sebagai salah satu daripada 13 negeri di Malaysia dan bukannya sebagai salah satu daripada tiga wilayah yang membentuk Malaysia pada 1963.

Sebelum Parlimen ditangguhkan pada Khamis, ia perlu menubuhkan Jawatankuasa Pilihan Khas Mengenai Pampasan kepada Sarawak dan Sabah bagi Akta Pindaan Perlembagaan 1976 kerana menganggap kedua-dua wilayah itu sebagai salah satu daripada 13 negeri Malaysia apabila ia sepatutnya dianggap sebagai salah satu daripada tiga wilayah yang membentuk Malaysia pada tahun 1963, dan membuat syor mengenai langkah-langkah pemberian pampasan yang sepatutnya dibuat oleh Kerajaan Persekutuan dalam mesyuarat Parlimen akan datang.

Jawatankuasa Pilihan Khas ini hendaklah dipengerusikan bersama oleh seorang Ahli Parlimen Sarawak dan seorang Ahli Parlimen Sabah.

Saya akan berlepas semula ke Sarawak untuk meneruskan kempen saya bagi calon DAP dan Pakatan Harapan, kerana pilihan raya umum Sarawak pada 18 Disember telah diisi dengan makna yang baharu – ia sepatutnya menjadi keputusan pengundi Sarawak untuk menuntut ganti rugi selama 45 tahun pengabaian sejak Akta Pindaan Perlembagaan 1976 yang menurunkan status Sarawak daripada salah satu daripada tiga wilayah membentuk Malaysia pada 1963 kepada salah satu daripada 13 negeri Malaysia.

Ada empat sebab mengapa pengundi di Sarawak perlu bersatu menyokong calon DAP dan Pakatan Harapan dan tidak memecahkan undi mereka dalam Pilihan Raya Negeri Sarawak yang akan berlangsung pada 18 Disember 2021.

Sebab-sebab ini adalah:

1. DAP telah dituduh sebagai sebuah parti semenanjung dan bukan sebuah parti Sarawak, oleh itu tidak boleh dipercayai. Tetapi, Pindaan Perlembagaan 1976 membuktikan yang DAP lebih setia kepada Malaysia dan Sarawak berbanding dengan parti-parti politik kerajaan Sarawak ketika itu. Ketika itu parti-parti kerajaan di Sarawak yang menyokong pindaan ini yang menurunkan status Sarawak daripada status sebagai salah satu daripada tiga wilayah – bersama-sama dengan Malaya dan Sabah – yang membentuk Malaysia pada tahun 1963 kepada salah satu daripada 13 negeri Malaysia, sedangkan Ahli-ahli Parlimen DAP ketika itu membantah pindaan ini. 130 Ahli-ahli Parlimen yang menyokong pindaan ini ketika itu termasuklah mantan-mantan pemimpin Sarawak seperti Abdul Rahman Yaacob, Taib Mahmud, Ong Kee Hui, Stephen Yong, Edmund Langgu, dan Patrick Uren. Tetapi kesemua undian pembangkang ketika itu datang daripada DAP. Pindaan Perlembagaan 1976 yang merupakan sebab utama ketidakadilan yang dihadapi Sarawak dan Sabah dari segi peruntukan kewangan dan pembangunan ini diluluskan di Parlimen sebelum DAP membuka cawangan di Sarawak. Perkara ini menunjukkan yang walaupun sebelum DAP bertapak di Sarawak, DAP lebih peduli kepada Malaysia dan Sarawak berbanding dengan parti-parti kerajaan Sarawak.

2. Selepas DAP mula bertapak di Sarawak pada tahun 1978, 43 tahun yang lepas telah menyaksikan Ahli-ahli Parlimen DAP dan Ahli-ahli Dewan Undangan Negeri DAP dipilih dalam pelbagai pilihan raya negeri dan parlimen dan mereka semua telah berterusan mempertahankan hak dan kepentingan negeri Sarawak dan Malaysia.

3. Pindaan Perlembagaan 2021 hari ini hanyalah langkah pertama untuk mengembalikan semula hak dan kedudukan penuh Sarawak (dan Sabah), dan wakil-wakil rakyat DAP, sama ada di Parlimen atau di Dewan Undangan Negeri Sarawak, adalah suara penting untuk mengungkai semula ketidakadilan yang telah berlaku dalam setengah abad yang lepas dari segi peruntukan kewangan dan pembangunan.

4. Pilihan Raya Umum ke-14 adalah satu saat yang bersejarah dalam arena politik negara, kerana detik ini telah menamatkan hegemoni politik UMNO dalam negara kita. Perkara ini sepatutnya menjadi titik berhentinya kemunduran negara kita dalam setengah abad yang lepas berbanding dengan negara-negara lain seperti Taiwan, Korea Selatan, Singapura, dan Vietnam, supaya dalam dekad-dekad yang mendatang, kita tidak pula kalah dengan negara seperti Indonesia dan Filipina. Kita patut mula memintasi negara lain dan bukannya ditinggalkan ke belakang oleh mereka. Jadikanlah Pilihan Raya Negeri Sarawak ini menjadi permulaan “perjalanan panjang” kita untuk menjadikan Malaysia sebuah negara hebat bertaraf dunia sebelum kita menyambut ulang tahun ke-100 negara ini dalam beberapa dekad yang akan datang.

Pilihan raya umum Sarawak kini membawa makna baharu – untuk menjana semula Malaysia bagi menjadi negara hebat bertaraf dunia.

Saya meminta pengundi Sarawak untuk memimpin Malaysia menjadi negara hebat bertaraf dunia dan menyokong calon DAP dan Pakatan Harapan untuk misi luar biasa ini.

(Kenyataan Media Ahli Parlimen DAP Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang di Lapangan Terbang Antarabangsa Kuala Lumpur, Sepang pada hari Rabu, 15 Disember 2021 jam 7.30 pag)

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2021 Constitution Amendment Bill is the initial fulfilment of Impian Malaysia launched by the DAP with over 100 health, education and infrastructure projects in Sarawak in the five years from 2013 to 2018

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The 2021 Constitution Amendment Bill is the initial fulfilment of Impian Malaysia project launched by the DAP with over 100 health, education and infrastructure projects in Sarawak in the five years from 2013 to 2018.

The passage of the 2021 Constitution Amendment Bill in Dewan Rakyat on 14th December 2021 is the first step, and not the last step, in the restoration of the full citizenship rights of the people of Sarawak with regard to equitable financial allocations, autonomy for education and health, just share of oil rights and fair share of the development funds for the upliftment of Sarawak.

I visited Mambong and Serian constituencies this morning, and I am shocked by the depth of poverty suffered by the Dayak community which should not exist today if Sarawak’s rights and interests had been looked after as was intended by the founders of Malaysia 58 years ago in 1963.

I said in Kuching earlier this morning that there can be no new dawn for Sarawak unless there is a new dawn for Malaysia. Such a new dawn will take several decades, and not years, to accomplish.

I want now to add that there can be no new dawn in Sarawak unless all communities in Sarawak, Dayak, Malay-Melanau and Chinese, have a new dawn for their rights and interests which had been denied for half-a-century, whether by 1976 Constitution Amendment Bill or a series of actions which were insensitive to the rights and interests of all communities in Sarawak.

When Sarawak joined Sabah and Malaya to form Malaysia in 1963, the first two Sarawak Chief Ministers were Dayaks – Stephen Kalong Ningkan and Tawi Sli.

Since then, the office of Sarawak Chief Minister seemed to have slipped out of Dayak hands.

Sarawak cannot have any new dawn unless the Dayak community can dream of an Dayak becoming a Chief Minister of Sarawak again.

When can an Dayak become a Sarawak Chief Minister. Nobody knows. But at present, it seemed to have become an impossible dream. If so, how can there be a new dawn for Sarawak when the first two Sarawak Chief Ministers were Dayaks?

It has taken over 200 years for a black man to become the President of the United States, but Sarawak seemed to have travelled in the opposite direction and receded to a stage where it is an impossible dream for an Dayak to become a Sarawak Chief Minister in 50 years.

Sarawak must become a normal entity where Dayaks can realistically dream of becoming the Sarawak Chief Minister, although nobody can predict when such a possibility can be realised.

(Statement by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Serian, Sarawak on Thursday, 16th December 2021)

Pindaan Perlembagaan 2021 ini adalah permulaan pengotaan Impian Malaysia yang dilancarkan oleh DAP dengan lebih dari 100 projek berkenaan kesihatan, pendidikan, dan infrastruktur di Sarawak dalam tempoh lima tahun antara 2013 hingga 2018

Pindaan Perlembagaan 2021 ini adalah permulaan pengotaan Impian Malaysia yang dilancarkan oleh DAP dengan lebih dari 100 projek berkenaan kesihatan, pendidikan, dan infrastruktur di Sarawak dalam tempoh lima tahun antara 2013 hingga 2018.

Kelulusan Rang Undang-undang Pindaan Perlembagaan 2021 di Dewan Rakyat pada 14 Disember 2021 ini adalah langkah pertama, bukannya langkah terakhir dalam usaha untuk mengembalikan hak kerakyatan penuh kepada rakyat Sarawak dari segi peruntukan kewangan yang lebih adil, autonomi untuk sistem pendidikan dan kesihatan, hak hasil minyak yang adil, dan pembahagian dana pembangunan yang saksama untuk pembangunan Sarawak.

Saya telah melawat kerusi Mambong dan Serian pagi ini dan saya terkejut dengan tahap kemiskinan yang dihadapi oleh komuniti Dayak yang tidak sepatutnya berlaku hari ini sekiranya hak dan kepentingan Sarawak telah dipelihara seperti yang diazamkan oleh tokoh penubuhan Malaysia 58 tahun yang lalu pada tahun 1963.

Saya katakan di Kuching awal pagi hari ini bahawa tidak akan ada fajar baharu untuk Sarawak melainkan dengan adanya fajar baharu untuk Malaysia. Fajar baharu ini akan memakan masa berdekad, bukan hanya bertahun, untuk dicapai.

Kini saya ingin tambahkan, yang tidak akan ada fajar baharu di Sarawak, melainkan semua komuniti di Sarawak; Dayak, Melayu-Melanau, dan Cina, menemui fajar baharu untuk hak dan kepentingan mereka yang telah dinafikan selama setengah abad, sama ada melalui Pindaan Perlembagaan 1976 atau apa-apa tindakan yang tidak sensitif terhadap hak dan kepentingan semua komuniti di Sarawak.

Semasa Sarawak menyertai Sabah dan Malaya untuk membentuk Malaysia pada tahun 1963, dua Ketua Menteri terawal Sarawak adalah dari kalangan orang Dayak, Stephen Kalong Ningkan dan Tawi Sli.

Sejak daripada dua tokoh ini, pejabat Ketua Menteri Sarawak kelihatan seperti sudah terlepas daripada tangan orang Dayak.

Sarawak tidak boleh mencapai fajar baharu melainkan komuniti Dayak dapat bercita-cita untuk melihat seorang Dayak kembali menjadi Ketua Menteri Sarawak sekali lagi.

Bilakah seorang Dayak akan dapat menjadi Ketua Menteri Sarawak sekali lagi? Tiada siapa pun yang tahun. Tetapi setakat ini, perkara ini kelihatan seperti satu cita-cita yang mustahil untuk dicapai. Jika begitu, bagaimanakah boleh datangnya fajar baharu untuk Sarawak sedangkan dua Ketua Menteri terawal Sarawak adalah orang Dayak?

200 tahun telah berlalu sebelum seorang berkulit hitam akhirnya menjadi Presiden Amerika Syarikat, tetapi Sarawak kelihatan seperti sudah terkebelakang dalam arah yang bertentangan sehingga impian untuk seorang Dayak menjadi Ketua Menteri dalam masa 50 tahun kelihatan seperti suatu perkara yang mustahil.

Sarawak perlu menjadi sebuah entiti yang normal, di mana orang Dayak dapat bercita-cita untuk menjadi Ketua Menteri Sarawak, walaupun tiada siapa pun yang dapat jangka, bilakah perkara seperti mungkin akan dapat dicapai.

(Kenyataan Media Ahli Parlimen DAP Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang di Serian, Sarawak pada hari Khamis, 16 Disember 2021)

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There cannot be a new dawn for Sarawak unless there is a new dawn for Malaysia, which is why Sarawak GE is the opening shot  for the 15GE and the battle to make Malaysia a world-class great nation by before Malaysia’s 100th anniversary in 2063

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There are people who say that a new dawn has come to Sarawak with the passage of the 2021 Constitution Amendment Bill by the Dewan Rakyat on Tuesday, undoing the injustices of the 1976 Constitution Amendment Act which reduced Sarawak to one of the 13 Malaysian states when it was one of the three entities with Sabah and Malaya which formed Malaysia in 1963.

I do not agree. We want a new dawnn for Sarawak, but a new dawn for Sarawak has not arrived yet. It is a work-in-progress. What happened in Parliament on Tuesday is only the first step to bring about a new dawn for Sarawak, after half-a-century of nightfall!

More will have to be done before the arrival of a new dawn in Sarawak.

Firstly, we must ask why two or three generations of Sarawakians have been denied their full citizenship rights in Malaysia to financial allocation, autonomy especially in terms of education and health, oil rights and development in Sarawak in the last half a century.

The 1976 Constitution Amendment Act is a major culprit. It brought nightfall to Sarawak for 45 years, which became one of the three most corrupt states in Malaysia.

The second step is to demand fair and equitable compensation from the Federal Government for the lost rights of two or three generations of Sarawakians for full citizenship rights in Malaysia – and this is the most powerful reason why Sarawak needs a strong, effective and principled DAP in the Sarawak Legislative Assembly to demand compensation from the Federal Government and their proper use for the benefit of Sarawakians and not for anybody’s individual benefit.

GPS leaders like Awang Tengah are confident that GPS will win the 2021 Sarawak general election with a landslide and he may be right.

The question then is whether there is going to be an Opposition in the Sarawak State Assembly in the next five years, and if there is going to be an Opposition, what better representatives can Sarawakians get than from the DAP and the Pakatan Harapan candidates in the Sarawak general election to uphold the rights and interests of Sarawak?

There are many questions for the Sarawak voters when they cast their vote on Saturday.

Will it serve the interest of Sarawak if the DAP is wiped out in the Sarawak State Assembly in the next five years?

I believe that if there is no DAP in the Sarawak State Assembly, dawn will not come to Sarawak.

Who were responsible for two to three generations of Sarawakians losing their full citizenship rights in Malaysia in the past half-a-century? The blame cannot be put 100% on the shoulders of the Federal Government, as the Sarawak government leaders were also responsible in passing the 1976 Constitution Amendment Act.

If Pakatan Harapan had not succeeded in ending UNMO political hegemony in the 2018 general election, the GPS and Sarawak government leaders will continue to submit to the likes and dislikes of UMNO in the Federal Government.

In fact, the Pakatan Harapan government tried to restore the full rights of Sarawak and Sabah in 2019, but GPS Members of Parliament did not support the constitution amendment then which would bring about an earlier new dawn for Sarawak.

DAP is prepared to work with GPS to restore the full rights of Sarawak but the question is whether GPS is prepared to work with DAP – putting the higher interests of the people of Sarawak to ensure that a new dawn can come to Sarawak as early as possible.

There is another vital question – will there be a new dawn for Sarawak when there is no new dawn for Malaysia?

For the last half a century, Malaysia has been losing out to one nation after another in international competitiveness, good governance and having an effective and efficient government. We lost out to Taiwan, South Korea, Singapore and Vietnam and the 23-month Covid-19 pandemic should be a forewarning that unless Malaysia buck up quickly, we are going to lose out to more countries including Indonesia in the coming decades.

Yesterday, Indonesia recorded 205 daily new Covid-19 cases and nine Covid-19 deaths, while Malaysia recorded 3,900 daly new Covid-19 cases and 33 deaths.

How can there can be a new dawn in Sarawak when there is no new dawn in Malaysia?

When can a new dawn in Malaysia happen? Not in one or two years, even one or two decades, probably in more than three decades when we practise “Malaysian First” policy for the whole country, and “Sarawak First” policy for Sarawak!

I would like to call the political battle from 1957 – 2018 as “Battle One” which is to end UMNO political hegemony which has turned Malaysia into a kleptocratic state.

“Battle Two” will be from 2018 to 2063 for Malaysia to become a world-class great nation by Malaysia’s 100th birthday anniversary in 2063.

The Sarawak general election on Dec. 18, 2021 is the opening shot for this Battle Two for Malaysia and Sarawak to become world-class entities.

I will not be around to see the outcome of “Battle of Malaysia II” in 2063, but I call on the youths of Sarawak to stand up and help lead the youths of Malaysia to ensure that the country can become a world-class great nation, to ensure Sarawak can have a new dawn because Malaysia has got a new dawn!

There is considerable disappointment and unhappiness among the people with the 22-month Pakatan Harapan government, because the hopes and expectations were very high over the unprecedented success in toppling the seemingly invincible UMNO government of half-a-century.

But it is unfair to judge the Pakatan Harapan government in 22 months when it had been given a mandate for five years to implement its election manifesto.

I myself am not happy with the performance of the 22-month Pakatan Harapan government as I believe that more could be done and achieved.

But the Pakatan Harapan was denied the opportunity to fulfil its election pledges – as the PH government could accelerate the fulfilment of the election pledges in the second half of its term if it had been slow in the first half-term.

Furthermore, it was not a DAP government alone, but a coalition of four political parties. It takes time to convince the other three political parties of the importance of implementing the Pakatan Harapan election pledges.

On top of that, there was sabotage and treachery within the Pakatan Harapan ranks which culminated in the Sheraton Move conspiracy in February 2020 which undemocratically and unconstitutionally toppled the popularly-elected PH government.

I can understand the frustrations and disappointments of the people that the Pakatan Harapan did not do more in the 22 months in power before it was undemocratically toppled.

But I disagree with those who suggest that the DAP should break away from the Pakatan Harapan Government without trying to make it work. We must persevere in our struggle to make a better Malaysia and a better Sarawak – not for our own sake, but for the sake of our children and children’s children.

This is why I had declined three times the offer of titles to me, for we are in politics not for the sake of ourselves but for a better future for our children and children’s children.

It is in this spirit I ask Sarawakians to come in big numbers to vote on Saturday and establish a high voter turn-out in the Sarawak general election. Let us prove that we have the stamina, grit and commitment to struggle for decades for a better Malaysia and Sarawak.

(Media Statement by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Kuching on Thursday, 16th December 2021)

Tidak akan ada fajar baharu untuk Sarawak melainkan adanya fajar baharu untuk Malaysia juga, kerana inilah PRN Sarawak ini merupakan satu permulaan untuk PRU15 dan perjuangan untuk menjadikan Malaysia sebuah negara hebat bertaraf dunia sebelum ulang tahun ke-100 negara pada 2063

Ada yang telah katakan terdapat suatu fajar baharu telah tiba di Sarawak selepas Rang Undang-undang Pindaan Perlembagaan 2021 diluluskan di Dewan Rakyat pada hari Selasa, memperbaiki semula ketidakadilan yang berlaku sejak Pindaan Perlembagaan 1976 yang menurunkan taraf Sarawak kepada satu daripada 13 negeri Malaysia sedangkan ia adalah satu daripada tiga entiti yang membentuk Malaysia pada tahun 1963 bersama-sama dengan Sabah dan Malaya.

Saya tidak setuju. Kita mahukan fajar baharu untuk Sarawak, tetapi fajar baharu ini belum tiba lagi. Ia adalah satu kerja yang sedang diusahakan. Apa yang berlaku di Parlimen pada hari Selasa hanyalah langkah pertama untuk membawa permulaan baharu di Sarawak selepas tempoh yang kelam selama setengah abad lamanya!

Masih banyak perkara yang perlu dilaksanakan sebelum kehadiran fajar baharu ini di Sarawak.

Pertamanya, kita mesti bertanya, mengapa dua atau tiga generasi rakyat Sarawak telah dinafikan hak kerakyatan penuh mereka di Malaysia daripada mendapat peruntukan kewangan, autonomi, terutamanya dari segi pendidikan dan sistem kesihatan, hak carigali minyak, dan pembangunan di Sarawak dalam setengah abad yang lepas.

Pindaan Perlembagaan 1976 ini adalah punca utamanya. Perkara ini telah membawa era yang kelam ke Sarawak selama 45 tahun, menjadikannya salah satu negeri yang paling korup di Malaysia.

Langkah kedua adalah untuk menuntut pampasan yang adil daripada Kerajaan Persekutuan untuk hak-hak yang telah dinafikan selama ini – dan perkara ini adalah salah satu sebab yang paling kuat mengapa Sarawak memerlukan DAP yang kuat, berkesan, dan berprinsip di Dewan Undangan Negeri Sarawak untuk menuntut pampasan ganti rugi daripada Kerajaan Persekutuan dan supaya pampasan ini memanfaatkan semua rakyat Sarawak, bukan mana-mana individu.

Pemimpin GPS, seperti Awang Tengah, yakin yang GPS akan menang besar dalam PRN Sarawak 2021 dan mungkin tepat.

Persoalannya sekarang, adakah akan ada sebarang Pembangkang dalam Dewan Undangan Negeri Sarawak untuk lima tahun yang akan datang, dan sekiranya akan ada Pembangkang, siapa lagi wakil rakyat yang lebih sesuai untuk mempertahankan rakyat dan kepentingan Sarawak kalau bukan calon-calon DAP dan Pakatan Harapan?

Terdapat banyak persoalan kepada rakyat Sarawak apabila mereka membuang undi pada hari Sabtu ini.

Adakah menjadi satu perkara yang bermanfaat untuk Sarawak sekiranya DAP tidak diwakili langsung dalam Dewan Undangan Negeri Sarawak dalam lima tahun yang akan datang?

Saya percaya sekiranya tidak ada DAP di Sarawak, fajar baharu ini tidak akan hadir ke Sarawak.

Siapakah yang bertanggungjawab terhadap kejadian di mana dua atau tiga generasi rakyat Malaysia dinafikan hak mereka dalam Malaysia untuk setengah abad yang lepas? Kerajaan Persekutuan tidak boleh 100% disalahkan kerana pemimpin Sarawak juga bertanggungjawab meluluskan Akta Pindaan Perlembagaan 1976.

Sekiranya Pakatan Harapan tidak berjaya menamatkan hegemoni politik UMNO dalam PRU 2018, GPS dan pemimpin kerajaan Sarawak akan terus menurut kehendak UMNO dalam Kerajaan Persekutuan.

Malah, Pakatan Harapan telah cuba untuk mengembalikan hak penuh Sarawak dan Sabah dalam tahun 2019, tetapi Ahli-ahli Parlimen GPS tidak menyokong pindaan perlembagaan ketika itu yang sepatutnya membawa era baharu yang lebih awal kepada Sarawak.

DAP bersedia untuk bekerjasama dengan GPS untuk mengembalikan hak penuh Sarawak, tetapi persoalannya, adakah GPS bersedia untuk bekerjasama dengan DAP – dengan mengutamakan kepentingan rakyat untuk memastikan kita dapat lihat fajar baharu di Sarawak ini secepat mungkin.

Terdapat satu lagi persoalan penting – adakah akan wujud fajar baharu untuk Sarawak apabila tiada fajar baharu untuk Malaysia?

Selama setengah abad yang lalu, Malaysia telah kalah kepada satu demi satu negara dalam daya saing antarabangsa, tadbir urus yang baik dan mempunyai kerajaan yang berkesan dan cekap. Kita kalah kepada Taiwan, Korea Selatan, Singapura dan Vietnam dan pandemik Covid-19 selama 23 bulan seharusnya menjadi amaran bahawa melainkan Malaysia pulih dengan cepat, kita akan kalah kepada lebih banyak negara termasuklah Indonesia dalam dekad yang akan datang.

Semalam, Indonesia merekodkan 205 kes baharu Covid-19 setiap hari dan sembilan kematian Covid-19, manakala Malaysia merekodkan 3,900 kes baharu dan 33 kematian akibat Covid-19.

Bagaimana boleh ada fajar baru di Sarawak sedangkan fajar baru tidak ada di Malaysia?

Bilakah fajar baru di Malaysia boleh berlaku? Tidak dalam satu atau dua tahun, malah satu atau dua dekad, mungkin dalam lebih tiga dekad apabila kita mengamalkan dasar “Malaysian First” untuk seluruh negara, dan dasar “Sarawak First” untuk Sarawak!

Saya ingin menggelar pertarungan politik dari 1957 – 2018 sebagai “Pertempuran Pertama” iaitu untuk menamatkan hegemoni politik UMNO yang telah menjadikan Malaysia sebuah negara kleptokrasi.

“Pertempuran Kedua” akan berlangsung dari 2018 hingga 2063 untuk Malaysia menjadi negara hebat bertaraf dunia menjelang ulang tahun ke-100 Malaysia pada 2063.

Pilihan raya umum Sarawak pada 18 Disember 2021 adalah pukulan pembukaan untuk Pertempuran Kedua ini untuk Malaysia dan Sarawak menjadi entiti bertaraf dunia.

Saya tidak akan ada untuk melihat keputusan “Pertempuran Kedua” ini pada tahun 2063, tetapi saya menyeru para belia Sarawak untuk bangkit dan membantu memimpin belia Malaysia bagi memastikan negara dapat menjadi sebuah negara hebat bertaraf dunia. , untuk memastikan Sarawak dapat bersahur baru kerana Malaysia telah mendapat subuh baru!

Terdapat banyak kekecewaan dan rasa tidak senang di kalangan rakyat dengan kerajaan Pakatan Harapan selama 22 bulan, kerana harapan dan jangkaan sangat tinggi terhadap kejayaan yang belum pernah berlaku sebelum ini dalam menumbangkan kerajaan UMNO yang kelihatan tidak dapat dikalahkan selama setengah abad.

Tetapi adalah tidak adil untuk menilai kerajaan Pakatan Harapan dalam tempoh 22 bulan apabila ia telah diberi mandat selama lima tahun untuk melaksanakan manifesto pilihan rayanya.

Saya sendiri tidak berpuas hati dengan prestasi kerajaan Pakatan Harapan selama 22 bulan kerana saya percaya banyak lagi yang boleh dilakukan dan dicapai.

Tetapi Pakatan Harapan dinafikan peluang untuk menunaikan ikrar pilihan raya – kerana kerajaan PH boleh mempercepatkan pemenuhan ikrar pilihan raya pada separuh kedua penggalnya jika ia lambat pada separuh penggal pertama.

Tambahan pula, ia bukan kerajaan DAP sahaja, tetapi gabungan empat parti politik. Ia mengambil masa untuk meyakinkan tiga parti politik lain tentang kepentingan melaksanakan ikrar pilihan raya Pakatan Harapan.

Selain itu, terdapat sabotaj dan pengkhianatan dalam barisan Pakatan Harapan yang memuncak dalam konspirasi Langkah Sheraton pada Februari 2020 yang secara tidak demokratik dan tidak berperlembagaan menjatuhkan kerajaan PH yang dipilih oleh rakyat.

Saya dapat memahami kekecewaan dan kekecewaan rakyat bahawa Pakatan Harapan tidak melakukan lebih banyak dalam tempoh 22 bulan memerintah sebelum ia digulingkan secara tidak demokratik.

Tetapi saya tidak bersetuju dengan mereka yang mencadangkan bahawa DAP harus berpisah daripada Kerajaan Pakatan Harapan tanpa cuba membuatnya berfungsi. Kita mesti tabah dalam perjuangan kita untuk menjadikan Malaysia yang lebih baik dan Sarawak yang lebih baik – bukan untuk kepentingan kita sendiri, tetapi demi anak-anak kita dan anak-anak kita.

Itulah sebabnya saya menolak tawaran gelaran kepada saya sebanyak tiga kali, kerana kita berada dalam politik bukan untuk kepentingan diri sendiri tetapi untuk masa depan yang lebih baik untuk anak-anak dan anak-anak kita.

Atas semangat inilah saya meminta rakyat Sarawak datang beramai-ramai untuk mengundi pada hari Sabtu dan mewujudkan peratusan keluar mengundi yang tinggi dalam pilihan raya umum Sarawak. Mari kita buktikan bahawa kita mempunyai stamina, ketabahan dan komitmen untuk berjuang selama beberapa dekad demi Malaysia dan Sarawak yang lebih baik.

(Kenyataan Media Ahli Parlimen DAP Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang di Kuching pada hari Khamis, 16 Disember 2021)

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