Pembalakan & Babas/ Hutan Yang Ditanam ba Bahagian Kapit ( Bahasa Iban)

Pembalakan & Babas/ Hutan Yang Ditanam ba Bahagian Kapit

Kena 6hb Feb 2021, Kepala ke megai Sarawak Dayak Iban Association (SADIA) bisi mansut ke jaku ba media senentang pekara ka bekait enggau tanah adat laban tudah ka minta kasih agai kompeni balak ka bisi megai lisen nanam kayu (LPF) ngambika sida bertanggungjawab agai orang ke ngempu tanah adat (NCR) kelebih agi ngagai sida ke bempu tanah ka dipasukka sida dalam lisen LPF.

SADIA minta kasih amat agai sida kompeni ka megai lesen LPF ngambika sida mantaika ulah ke manah serta nemu ngasai bertanggungjawab ianya enggau chara mayar sewa agai tanah NCR ka diguna sida ka dipasukkan ba dalam lisen LPF ngena chara salah ( nadai inggar) ka digaga sida pihak bekuasa lalu nyau digasak/dichuri sida kompeni ka bisi  megai lesen  LPF. Maya bejaku ba media mega, SADIA bisi meri jaku bejaga-jaga nuju sida bala kompeni ke nyau makin majak deka encheruboh tanah NCR dayak .Enti nitih, ukai sida SADIA ke patut meri jaku bakanya ngagai kompeni, tang kebendar ya sida Menteri Pembangunan Bandar enggau sumber Asli ke patut mansutka jaku nya lalu nagang serta nyaga tanah adat dayak. Menteri tu meh kebendar ia betanggungjawab ngeluluska ni bagi kompeni ka minta lisen ngambi kayu balak enggau meri lisen LPF. Diatu, menteri tu dipegai Awang Tengah Ali Hassan. 

https://www.theborneopost.com/2021/02/06/sadia-concerned-about-ncr-land-encroachment/

Industri balak enggau Industri ke baru ianya industri kelapa sawit udah lama dikumbai mai penusah serta mai pemerinsa agai idup kelebih agi agai bangsa dayak enggau orang ulu ka diau ba pedalaman sarawak.

Proses perintah GPS (suba dikangau Barisan Nasional)  ke ngeluarka lisen balak ianya siti proses ke amat sulit ( penuh rahsia)  lalu nyentukka diatu maklumat nya nyau dilalai ka sida ya laban mayuh lisen ke udah dipansutka sida, pemayuh serta penyampau tanah, rampa menua diatu nyau udah digundul ka sida ia magang, pekara tu amat nyelai lalu ngasuh mayuh orang nyau tusut runding kelebih agi ngagai sida ke bempu rampa menua ianya orang asal Sarawak empu. Bangsa Dayak enggau orang Ulu ke jauh diau ba pedalaman Sarawak nemu utai nya dekan nyadi lalu sida semina meda bala sida piko/kobi , lipan ka datai ari kompeni LPF serta orang ke enda dikelala sida nyau encherubuh tanah NCR laban ke endur sida betanam ka sawit. Sebedau nya mega, sida udah nemu penusah ke deka datai agai sida laban sida meda sungai enggau rampa menua ka nyadi penatai pemisi (pemakai) nyau musnah lalu jelu mega nyau majak punas.

Siku ari menteri bangsa Dayak kala madah, rampa menua nyau baka pasar ke alai endur ngalu bagi sida dayak, orang Ulu enggau kaum Penan ke diau ba pedalaman Sarawak.

http://www.theborneopost.com/2012/11/28/folly-to-rush-change-for-penans/

Kena bulan 1 2015, rayat Sarawak bisi nemu pasal maklumat ka bekait enggau lisen balak ka dipansutka perintah negeri Sarawak maya Tan Sri Adenan Satem ke agi nyadi kepala menteri : Penyampau 572 iti lisen balak ke dikemedarka temasuk lisen ngambi kayu tebelian enggau 155 occupation ticket.

https://www.thestar.com.my/News/Nation/2015/01/21/Sarawak-CM-plans-to-halve-number-of-OT-licences/

Occupation Ticket nya dikena ngaga ladang kelapa sawit.

Ba Kapit, munyi ka dipadah sida SADIA, diatu nyau bisi 11 iti kompeni LPF. Tiap- tiap LPF nya udah diberi pajak pengelama 60 taun.Tu reti ya bagi sapa ke bisi megai lisen LPF ulih ngaga ladang sawit ba endur sida sepemanjai 60 taun. Nitih utai ke  dipadah SADIA, kesemua lisen LPF tu makai tanah pemesai 1 juta hektar. Sebagian besai ari kawasan nya ianya Kapit. Kawasan Kapit nya diatu dipegai 2 iku menteri dayak ke ukai semina bepangkat tinggi enggau megai pengaruh besai, tang seduai ia mega sigi orang ke datai ari menua kapit.

https://forestry.sarawak.gov.my/page-0-486-1009-Progress-of-Planting.html

Jerita industri balak enggau industri kelapa sawit ba Kapit tu tadi citi jerita ke amat meri penyinu agai kitai dayak. Tu meh jerita pasal rayat ke behempas pulas bejuang deka nyaga pengelikun menua lalu milih wakil rayat, tang wakil rayat ke dipilih sida diatu nyau udah melakang ka sida baru baka jaku sempama “ ngarap ka pagar, pagar makai padi” enggau “ kaban makai kaban”.

Keni utai tu ulih nyadi lalu ninggang sida bangsa dayak enggau orang Ulu ba kawasan pedalaman Sarawak lalu utai tu nyadi lalu nadai nemu putus-putus? Pemerinsa idup bangsa dayak enggau orang ulu tu bepun ari perintah GPS ( suba ke dikangau kitai Barisan Nasional) ngeluarka lisen balak peneka ati, diatu lalu nambah ke ladang kelapa sawit.

Keistimewaan tu diberi agai sida nengah klausa ( jaku ke ditulis ba bup undang-undang) 26 ke bisi ba peraturan Hutan ( Rampa Menua) 1997. Nengah Klausa nya tadi,  pelabur dikemendarka ngemansang 20 % endur belisen, ianya kelapa sawit sepemanjai 25 taun ngambika pelabur bulih penguntung enggau masa ke pandak agi.  Nitih ka runding sida, pelabur ke udah kala melabur ba kawsan nya sigi diberi duit lebih. Bagi sida pelabur baka kompeni LPF, sida ka melabur nya tadi baka ngelombong emas ke ulih tumbuh baru. Ba jaku hokkien, utai tu disebut orang “ Chiek beh Liau”.

Nama utai ke patut digaga sida bangsa Dayak enggau orang Ulu senentang pekara ke nyadi tu?  Udah tentu sida ukai semina ulih bediri dedegi meda ngapa enggau sembahyang ngambika bala pemegai perintah serta penyukung sida ba industri balak enggau ladang kelapa sawit bisi ngasai pengasih enggau penyiru meda sida ke ditindas? Utai nya semina ngasuh CM Abang Johari lalu membuktika senentang pekara ke disebut ia ke kala viral ba media sosial kena 2/2/2021 nya betul.

https://www.facebook.com/100002474958275/videos/3697854240307038/

Siti utai ka patut digaga bangsa dayak enggau orang Ulu ianya sedar, utai ke ngasuh sida merinsa enggau penusah ka nuntung bepun ari pengawa ke digaga sida perintah GPS. Sida perintah GPS tu endang rangka/ bam lalu sida  dayak enggau org Ulu ke agi nyukung GPS ngasuh perintah GPS nyau gaga agi ngerja pengawa jaik. Amat nadai pechaya, kitai bisi 2 iku orang dayak ke megai pangkat pengambis besai ba perintah ke diatu, tang mayuh orang dayak ke diau ba bandar mayuh merinsa laban sida ke nadai ulih gawa di menua , tanah NCR sida ke dichuri bala sida kompeni. Amat nadai adil bagi kitai dayak digaga baka tu , kelebih agi bangsa dayak empu ke makai kitai dayak.

Nyadi, jaku lalau nuju bangsa dayak enggau orang Ulu : Perintah GPS tu udah nunjuk ke agai kitai senentang sida ia tu sigi perintah ke enda beduli, nadai peduli agai nuan enggau nadai peduli agai generasi biak. Nuju perintah dayak ke megai pangkat besai, nuan bisi untak tang nuan nadai nemu berunding. Semina siti aja chara agai orang Dayak enggau Orang Ulu ke ulih digaga : Anang ngundi GPS maya bepilih ke deka datai tu ila. Beri meh peluang agai nuan empu ngambika nuan bisi masa depan ke lebih manah agi enggau perintah megai menua ke baru. 

Pemimpin Dayaks Dalam GPS - Cakap Tidak Serupa Bikin

Pemimpin Dayaks Dalam GPS - Cakap Tidak Serupa Bikin

On the 26^th October, Borneo Post online reported James Masing as having said Sect 18 NCR Land title owners face ‘great danger’ of selling land.

https://www.theborneopost.com/2020/10/26/masing-section-18-ncr-land-title-owners-face-great-danger-of-selling-land/

A hypocritical statement indeed as James Masing himself was implicated in some of the biggest sale of untitled NCR land in his own area in Kapit. Nobody know how much he benefited from the Sime Darby/Nature Ambience Sdn Bhd/Vertical Drive Sdn Bhd scandal but Sime Darby reported a loss in excess of RM100 million.

 

https://hornbillunleashed.wordpress.com/2014/09/04/63096/

 

https://www.theedgemarkets.com/article/chew-zubair-said-sime-would-buy-vertical-drive-if-ncr-bid-succeeds

 

James Masing’s wife, Corinne Bua Nyipa is the proud concession holder of Belian Timber Licence 3333, which covers a massive area of land, including NCR land, in the region.

https://www.sarawakreport.org/2012/03/spotlight-on-masing-corruption-exclusive/

 

The Linggi family, through their family owned companies like Rajang Wood Sdn Bhd, Keresa Timber Corporation Sdn Bhd, Asia Plantation Sdn Bhd, to name a few, have plundered their fellow dayaks of their NCR land for the last 25 odd years.

 

That very hypocritical and condescending statement reminds the dayaks of a statement made by CM Abang Johari on the 30^th August 2019 and reported by an online news portal, the Free Malaysia Today.In Nov of 2013. In that statement, the Malay Mail reported Nancy Shukri as having said bumiputra (including the poor dayaks) will resort to stealing if not aided by the government.

 

https://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/nation/2019/08/30/sarawak-has-reduced-poverty-rate-says-abang-johari/

 

https://www.malaymail.com/news/malaysia/2013/11/08/bumiputera-will-steal-if-left-unaided-says-law-minister/558131

 

The dayaks, as a community can however agree with the undiluted conclusion by CM Abang Johari, namely that the rural based dayaks B40 families have very low income because they cannot monetise their NCR land. While DCM Awang Tengah seems to suggest that Sect 18 land titles for dayak NCR lands is the starting point in the process to monetise NCR land and rightly so too, DCM James Masing seems to disagree with him (Awang Tengah). There are another two conclusions which dayaks, particularly the rural based dayaks, fully agree on is : The state of poverty that they are in makes them very vulnerable to manipulation and oppression by scrupulous politicians and their land, vulnerable to acts of land-grab.

 

The two conclusions above are and will continue to be the consequences of NCR remaining untitled and incapable of acquiring any meaningful financial value.

 

They can also agree that leaders who have occupied positions of extreme comfort and enviable wealth for far too long is oblivious to the sufferings of those who propel them to the positions that they (the so-called leaders) are now occupying. James Masing himself has been an ADUN for almost 25 years now and has also been a DCM for two years now.

 

The hope now is that dayaks, particularly the rural based dayaks have come to the realization that the time has arrived to get rid of GPS/BN from the Sarawak government, especially the jurassic era leaders like James Masing and Uggah. 

 

 

SELF-PRAISE IS NO PRAISE

  SELF-PRAISE IS NO PRAISE

‘Sarawak has sound financial and resource management and this has helped the state to implement various development projects.

                 Chief Minister Datuk Patinggi Abang Johari Tun Openg pointed this out at a community                           dinner  held at the Kapit Civic Centre on Sunday evening (Oct 4th 2020)’

Those were the opening lines in a news report captioned  ‘State has sound financial, resource management’ and carried by the New Sarawak Tribune dated the 5th Oct 2020.

The claim is something all Sarawakians would be proud of it was a completely truthful statement. Unfortunately, truth sometimes can be stranger than fiction and in this case, it is a fiction worthy of a literally award. The only thing that Sarawakians will agree about in the matter of financial management is Sarawak finances is shrouded in secrecy.

In June 2018, shortly after the GE14 in which the Pakatan Harapan (PH) showed Barisan Nasional (BN) the exit door, Sarawak DCM Tan Sri James Masing was reported as having said the the Sarawak BN government should use up all the state’s reserve in the amount of RM31 billion for projects before the PRN12. That was the first and the last time Sarawakians ever heard of the financial strength of the Sarawak government because after that revelation from James Masing there was no farther mention from any of the government leaders including from the chief minister himself. Indeed, I am inclined to think that most of GPS ADUNs including assistant ministers do not know of the existence of the reserve.

Sufficiently piqued by this revelation Sarawakians are now asking where is the money kept. It would not be logical to assume that the entire RM31 billion is kept in low interest paying bank accounts as that would not exactly be sound financial management. So where is the money spread? Treasury Bills, Malaysian Government Securities, Stock & Shares? Real Estate Investments?, Bonds like the 1MDB Bonds? If a significant portion of the reserve is kept in forms other than cash, then what is the current market value now? Is the RM31 billion still there? 

Sarawakians are asking because what they know of from information in public domain does not dovetail with this ‘brief flash in the pan’ revelation from James Masing. There was for example the issuance of USD1.6 billion through Goldman Sachs in 2011 and 2012:  US investment bank Goldman Sachs appears to have turned a blind eye to glaring corruption risks and conflicts of interest in order to underwrite US$1.6 billion in bonds for the Sarawak State Government, Malaysia, said Global Witness today (1). https://www.globalwitness.org/en/archive/goldman-sachs-underwrites-us16-billion-under-radar-bonds-corrupt-sarawak-regime-and-wins/

The scandal ridden jiwa murni roads in central and northern regions of Sarawak is another example which speaks of the possibility of the reserve not existing at all. The jiwa murni roads were crucial network of roads that was intended to provide rural communities with road connectivity. We now know that the ‘contracted’ sum was RM800 million which was less than a billion ringgit. Why did the Sarawak government not use the reserve to construct these roads, so crucial to the well-being of the rural folks? Not to mention the 24 hours electricity and treated water supply to communities that are still deprived of these most basic of utilities. Good financial management would have dictated that financing for these projects would be through sources carrying the smallest interest or opportunity cost burden to the state government and raising funding through issuance of bonds is definitely not the best option.

The Development Bank Of Sarawak (DBOS), incorporated in May 2016 and commenced business in Jan 2018 is one page from the annals of the financial management of the Sarawak government which raised many questions among Sarawakians. The following is an excerpt from a news report carried by Borneo Post on the 13th Jan 2019 :

‘As of Oct 23 last year, DBOS holds a total deposit of RM3.448 billion with credit facilities approved and disbursed standing at RM350 million and RM244 million, respectively.

Assistant Minister of Corporate Affairs Abdullah Saidol said the depositors are government-linked companies (RM7.5 million), local authorities (RM17.6 million), statutory bodies (RM23.2 million), and the public sector (RM3.4 billion)’

https://www.theborneopost.com/2019/01/13/dbos-an-alternative-financing-route-for-sarawak/

At that time DBOS had in their books deposits totaling RM3.448 billion, all from the Sarawak government, directly or indirectly and a paid-up capital of RM1 billion.

https://www.dbos.gov.my/page-0-9-6-tid.html

On the 13th Jan 2020 DBOS homepage published a media statement in which they said ‘ Besides this, he (Sim Kheng Boon,CEO of DBOS) said DBOS had already approved loans amounting to a few billion ringgit. Aside from financing mega development projects, the bank also finances smaller infrastructure projects……“DBOS will offer banking facilities to eligible borrowers which have at least 51 per cent state equity with management control.’

The last sentence quoted here presented at least one area of concern which is that, among the eligible borrowers are those with 51% state equity with the balance of 49% being privately held. What it means here is that DBOS was set up to help finance (with state funds) private business people. Here we are talking about financing for the elites, the privilege few who are able to dip their hands into the 49% share in these very lucrative areas.

https://www.dbos.gov.my/modules/web/pages.php?mod=news&sub=news_view&menu_id=0&sub_id=19&nid=11&m=1&y=2020

An article published in the Home Page of Sarawak’s DAP reveals some names which should ring many alarm bells.

https://en.dapsarawak.org/petros-board-members-beneficiaries-of-petronas-contracts/

Next is Petroleum Sarawak Berhad (Petros), another wholly state-owned enterprise incorporated on the 6th March 2018. Petros presently has an issued and paid-up capital of RM20 million. 

In the words of CM Datuk Patinggi Abang Johari, it was set up by the state government to enable Sarawak to actively participate in the extraction of oil and gas in Sarawak. The thinly veiled objective was to increase the revenue stream from the oil and gas sector as the federal government was saying signs that it will not bow to Sarawak’s demand for an increase in oil loyalty.

What significant success has Petros achieved since incorporation? It was reported in Feb 2020 that Petros has assumed the role of gas transporter and aggregator in Sarawak effective this year following the sales and purchase of gas distribution business and assets in Miri and Bintulu.

Petroleum Sarawak Gas Sdn Bhd (Petros Gas), a subsidiary of Petros, is now the operator of Miri Gas Distribution System (MGDS) and Bintulu Gas Distribution System (BGDS). Both facilities were previously owned and operated by PETRONAS Gas Berhad (PGB), a subsidiary of Petronas.

https://www.newsarawaktribune.com.my/petros-takes-over-gas-distribution-business/

How much is the segment worth yearly to Sarawak or how much did Sarawak compensated Petronas for it was never revealed. What we do know is PDA74 is still very much relevant in the oil & gas industry and will remain as a major damper on CM Abang Johari’s ambitions for Petros and for the ROE and ROI of Petros. 

And there is the matter of the SST payout of RM2.95  billion by Petronas. Sarawakians were told on the 17th Sept 2020 that Petronas has paid to the Sarawak government the sum of RM2.95 billion in court-awarded SST on O&G products. Nine days later, Sarawakians were told that the Sarawak government has agreed to buy all of Tabung Haji oil palm estates in Sarawak. The consideration price was not mentioned but a 2019 valuation of the estates placed the fair value at RM1.42 billion. 

In the final reckoning it was a case of the federal government, through Petronas, putting money through Sarawak’s left pocket and taking it back through the right pocket via the Tabung Haji’s rescue plans. Whether or not there was some arm twisting there is unknown but Sarawak certainly was short changed.

https://www.theedgemarkets.com/article/petronas-says-it-has-paid-sarawak-sst-2019

https://www.theborneopost.com/2020/09/26/swak-government-to-take-over-tabung-haji-oil-palm-plantations-in-the-state-says-cm/

And that, to my mind are unacceptable blunders in the managing of both the state’s financial and natural resources.