Bernasib Baik - Kata-kata yang sering disalahgunakan ( Bahasa)

Bernasib Baik - Kata-kata yang sering disalahgunakan

“Sarawak bernasib baik kerana mempunyai kuasa untuk membuat keputusan sendiri, sesuai dengan keadaan semasa tempatan dan tidak semestinya mengikuti keputusan daripada kerajaan persekutuan yang mungkin tidak mempunyai kepentingan terhadap negeri Sarawak”

Kata-kata tersebut dikaitkan dengan CM Datuk Patinggi Abang Johari Tun Openg, dan ianya  merujuk kepada langkah-langkah yang diambil oleh kerajaan negeri Sarawak untuk menghentikan penyebaran Covid-19 di negeri ini. Beliau bercakap mengenai 'kuasa' yang diberikan oleh kerajaan negeri Sarawak berdasarkan Fasal Jadual Kesembilan (7) dalam Senarai Bersama dalam perlembagaan persekutuan. Beliau terus mengatakan bahawa perkara tersebut adalah hak (kuasa) yang harus dilindungi oleh rakyat Sarawak pada  masa depan.

https://www.newsarawaktribune.com.my/sarawak-fortunate-to-have-autonomous-powers/

"Kata-kata tersebut mencetuskan pertanyaan kepada saya, “Adakah Abang Johari sengaja membingungkan pemikiran beliau sehingga sejarah yang amat jelas yang telah dinyatakan dalam sejarah Sarawak di Malaysia dibuat seakan-akan ianya tidak berlaku? Atau, adakah beliau benar-benar tidak mengetahui mengenai sejarah Sarawak di Malaysia serta tidak tahu mengenai inisiatif yang telah dimulakan oleh parti-parti politik dan masyarakat sivil di Sarawak untuk menuntut semula hak-hak Sarawak? Hak-hak yang bukan sahaja tidak dapat dicabar tetapi juga dilindungi oleh kerajaan persekutuan tanpa rakyat Sarawak mengambil tindakan yang boleh dianggap bersifat konfrontatif seperti berusaha meminda perlembagaan persekutuan atau mencari pembelaan dan keadilan melalui proses mahkamah"

Pembentukkan Malaysia yang berlaku kerana adanya gabungan Sarawak, Sabah dan negeri-negeri persekutuan Tanah Melayu menjadi rakan setaraf di Malaysia dan dari formula rakan setaraf itu, persekutuan Tanah Melayu seharusnya mengalirkan semua kuasa yang diperlukan oleh Sarawak untuk mengawal sumber semula jadi dan pentadbiran negeri. Status tersebut ditegaskan oleh Pejabat Perdana Menteri (PMO) semasa Pakatan Harapan (PH) sebagai kerajaan persekutuan. 

https://www.pmo.gov.my/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/MA63_S.pdf

https://www.theborneopost.com/2016/02/21/adenan-great-defender-of-sarawaks-rights/

Pada 16 September 2012, ketua-ketua parti PKR, DAP dan PAS peringkat negeri Sarawak PKR,DAP telah melancarkan Pengisytiharan Kuching atau Kuching Declaration (dalam bahasa Inggeris) di Chonglin Park, Kuching. Pengisytiharan itu dibuat demi menyahutakan panggilan dan seruan daripada anak Sarawak supaya status rakan kongsi setaraf Sarawak didalam Malaysia dikembalikan.  Pada 6 May 2014, satu titik sejarah telah dicatatkan di DUN Sarawak apabila DUN Sarawak sebulat suara bersetuje untuk menuntut 20% royalti minyak daripada kerajaan pusat. Itu merupakan sebilangan kecil tindakan diambil untuk menuntut semula hak Sarawak yang terhakis kesan daripada pindaan perlembagaan pada 1976 oleh Barisan Nasional. Pindaan perlembagaan pada 1976 tersebut telah menyebabkan penurunan status Sarawak daripada ‘rakan sama-rata dengan Malaya’ dalam menubuhkan Malaysia kepada negeri ‘biasa’ di Persekutuan Malaysia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuching_Deklarasi

https://www.nst.com.my/news/politics/2019/03/467786/pbb-and-supp-supported-1976-constitutional-amτρο-chong

Bagaimana perkara tersebut (pindaan) berlaku? Secara ringkasnya, ianya berlaku kerana adanya persetujuan dari Ahli Parlimen Sarawak dalam Barisan Nasional. Dua tahun sebelumnya, kerajaan persekutuan, iaitu melalui Akta Pembangunan Petroleum 1974 telah berjaya mengambil alih kawalan penuh terhadap sumber minyak dan gas Sarawak. Kerajaan Persekutuan berjaya mengambil alih tanpa tentangan sedikitpun  daripada Ahli Parlimen dari Sarawak yang majoritinya dari BN.

Sebenarnya, terdapat peluang besar bagi Ahli Parlimen GPS (BN yang dijenamakan semula) dari Sarawak untuk menuntut kembali perkara tersebut pada Mei 2019 ketika pindaan perlembagaan untuk mengembalikan hak Sarawak dan Sabah sebagai rakan setara dibentangkan di parlimen. Namun, mereka gagal berbuat sedemikian untuk rakyat Sarawak apabila pada masa itu mereka, bersama rakan baharu mereka dalam kerajaan persekutuan PN (UMNO & PAS) ambil keputusan untuk tidak menyokong pindaan tersebut.

https://www.thestar.com.my/news/nation/2019/04/10/golden-opportunity-lost-for-sabah-and-sarawak-to-regain-status-says-liew

Maksudnya di sini adalah: Sarawak seharusnya mempunyai kuasa dalam menentukan hala tujunya. Namun, semua itu tidak lagi berlaku kerana kerajaan pusat yang dibantu oleh wakil rakyat Barisan Nasional Sarawak merampas kuasa yang diberikan kepada Sarawak seperti yang tercatat pada Perjanjian Malaysia 1963 (MA63). Kehilangan kuasa telah menyebabkan Sarawak berada dalam kedudukan 'bernasib baik' dengan hanya sekadar menikmati sisa kuasa, yang berasal dari senarai bersama dalam perlembagaan persekutuan. Tegas disini, itu bukanlah satu keadaan yang boleh dianggap beruntung atau satu keadaanyang bolih dipanggil bernasib baik.

Abang Johari sebagai KM Sarawak merangkap ketua gabungan GPS seharusnya mohon maaf kepada warga Sarawak kerana telah biar Sarawak kekal dalam keadaan atau posisi yang sangat malang ini. Sangat tidak patut beliau cuba menerima kepujian untuk hak yang sebenarnya tidak wujud dengan sepenuhnya seperti yang termaktub di MA63. Sarawak seharusnya memiliki hak atonomi yang penuh dan bukan hak ‘semadi nadai’ seperti hak yang tertulis didalam senarai bersama (concurrent list) perlembagaan persekutuan.

Sarawak & Carbon Credit - Surely You Jest Bro Jo

 Sarawak & Carbon Credit - Surely You Jest Bro Jo

In a statement to the media on the 19th Oct 2020, reported by Borneo Post under the caption ‘ Sarawak Needs To Upgrade Law To Claim Carbon Credit, say CM’ CM Datuk Patinggi Abang Johari Tun Openg talked about updating state laws so that Sarawak can claim carbon credit and be recognised as a green state.

https://www.theborneopost.com/2020/10/19/sarawak-needs-law-to-claim-carbon-credit-says-abang-johari/

So what exactly is this carbon credit that Abang Johari is talking about and what is green state? Well, the key to understanding this starts with something called carbon footprints and carbon footprint corresponds to the whole amount of greenhouse gases (GHG) produced to, directly and indirectly, support a person’s lifestyle and activities.

Carbon footprints are usually measured in equivalent tons of CO2, during the period of a year, and they can be associated with an individual, an organization, a product or an event, among others.

Wide scale deforestation is a significant contributor to carbon footprints and the consequential global warming. 

Carbon credits and carbon tradings are mechanisms put in place by countries who are parties to the Kyoto Protocols and the Paris Agreement to control the emission of greenhouse gas and reduce global warming. Developing countries like Malaysia whose greenhouse emission is presently relatively high can use carbon credits earned from efforts to progressively reduce their rate of emission while promoting renewable energy. In other words, carbon emissions trading allows countries that have higher carbon emissions to purchase the right to release more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere from countries that have lower carbon emissions. It is a little like sin tax.

The thing to note here is that while Malaysia did ratify the Kyoto Protocol and the Paris agreement these two treaties are not binding on Malaysia because Malaysia is on the non-annexed list of developing countries. Incidentally, both the Kyoto Protocols and Paris Agreement are initiatives of the United Nation. Because Malaysia is not fully bound to the two agreements the question of Malaysia trading carbon credits does not arise. That Abang Johari mentioned that Sarawak does not have provisions in its law to treat carbon credit as a trading commodity is even more perplexing because carbon credit trading can occur only with the framework of the two treaties mentioned and the treaties are between nations that are fully and legally bound by the terms of the treaties. In short, these two treaties is the business of the federal government and the Sarawak government has no direct voice in the workings of these treaties in Malaysia.

https://magazine.scientificmalaysian.com/issue-13-2017/tackling-climate-change-malaysias-emission-reduction-target/

There is however the small possibility that Abang Johari has decided that he does not want to be controlled by the Malaya-driven federal government any more. And he wants Sarawak to have the necessary state laws to empower the Sarawak government to ‘fully ratify’ and be completely and legally bound to the two treaties, for the good of Sarawak. That of course will automatically mean that he is pushing forward the idea that Sarawak is a sovereign state (equal partner) within Malaysia and furthering the full and complete autonomy agenda under MA63. If this is the case, I am certain he has the unequivocal support of all Sarawakians, provided he carry the plan through. 

Sarawakians should now strongly urged Abang Johari to apply to the UN to allow Sarawak to be a party to the Kyoto Protocols and to the Paris Agreement and thereafter to ratify these two treaties. Once that is done Sarawak DUN must legislate a state law to ensure full compliance by all parties involved in the industry.

Sarawak’s stake in the oil palm industry was recently increased when the Sarawak government agreed to buy all of Tabung Haji’s plantations in Sarawak. The plantations were collectively valued at RM1.42 billion. That is the equivalent of 48% of the SST paid by Petronas to Sarawak. So it stands to reason that it must do all it possibly can to get in the good books of consumers in the EU countries and in the US.

https://www.theedgemarkets.com/article/newsbreak-th-plantations-advanced-talks-sell-assets-sarawak

So, what has bio-gas from oil palm bio-waste got to do with carbon credits and green state status for Sarawak? Truth be told, I really don’t know. The main issue with the EU countries and the US over Malaysia’s oil palm is wide scale deforestation, cause of high carbon dioxide emission and global warming and, generating bio-gas from oil palm bio waste may be in line with the global trends of favoring renewable energy but it will not make the deforestation issue disappear.

There is the other issue about the viability of investments in plants for bio-gas in Sarawak. A study conducted not too long ago shows that one key issue among plantation companies is the high capital investment in the generating plants. Even if the mills are in close proximity to SEB’s grid, the Sarawak government will still not be able to compel any mill owners to build bio-gas generating plant as presently Sarawak does not have have ‘purpose built’ or dedicated ordinance that govern bio-gas industry in Sarawak.

Renewable energy is the future and CM Abang Johari looks determined and is fully prepared to bring Sarawak to make that quantum leap into the future. This is another area where Sarawakians must give their full support to Abang Johari. We there strongly urged him to lead the government, in the next sitting of the DUN, to legislate two crucial two ordinances namely the Renewable Energy Ordinance and Sustainable Energy Development Ordinance, patterned along the lines of the federal Renewable Energy Ordinance Act 2011 and the Sustainable Energy Development Act 2011. 

It would be quite safe to conclude that without these two initiatives, namely ratifying the two international treaties mentioned above and legislating laws that will give power to the government to implement the reforms to the industry, the oil palm industry will remain only as a channel to give huge tracts of land, very often NCR land of the dayaks, to the cronies of the government leaders.

Sarawakians will regard the initiatives mentioned above as one among your must do pre-PRN-12 Key Performance Indicators and will be closely monitored.

Over to you Abang Johari Sir.