Speech by Chiew Chiu Sing ADUN N59 Kidurong on the debate of Motion of Appreciation on Tuan Yang Terutama Yang Di-Pertua Negeri’s Address on 24th of June, 2011 in the Sarawak State Legislative Council, Kuching, Sarawak.
Mr. Speaker,
I rise to take part on the debate of Motion of Appreciation on Tuan Yang Terutama Yang Di-Pertua Negeri’s Address which was so graciously delivered by His Excellency the Tuan Yang Terutama Yang Di-Pertua Negeri in this august House on Tuesday, the 21st of June, 2011
Mr. Speaker,
I stand here today, humbled by the greater support which I obtained during the 10th Sarawak General Election from people of all races in Kidurong. I am grateful for the trust that had been bestowed, and I am mindful of my role to serve the people not just in Kidurong but all the peoples of Sarawak, from this oldest parliamentary institution in the country.
Mr. Speaker,
So many had been elected to serve in this Sarawak Legislative Council in the past 144 years of the history of our Legislative Council. We have been able to carry on, not just because of those before us , but because of the people of Sarawak who have remained faithful to the ideals of our parliamentary democracy, in our strife for freedom, justice, equality and that, all deserve a chance to pursue our full measure of happiness.
As we continue on with our journey today at the start of the second decade of the 21st century, it has become more and more important to me that the government from this oldest parliamentary institution must do better in upholding our parliamentary democracy, to help our young men and women to find job at a decent wage so that they do not have to go so far away just to make a living, helping our businesses to survive and grow, helping us to get ownership that we can have and afford or a retirement that will be dignifying- etc etc because only then can we restore the vital trust between a people and their government.
Let us be reminded that the success of our economy is not just on the success of a few big companies or foreign investments, but on the depth of the reach of our prosperity, on our ability to extend opportunity to every willing heart- not out of charity, because that is the surest route to prosperity for all. A nation cannot prosper long when it favours only the prosperous.
Mr. Speaker,
I mentioned about helping our people to earn a living, extending opportunity to every willing heart. But unfortunately, there had been much neglect especially with our women from the rural, trying to start their own little business to find a decent living here in town.
All what many want to do is to sell some vegetables or food, so that they can earn some money at places where there are people around, in Bintulu they sell near Tamu, at the ABF housing beach, in front of the shops at MLNG Shop House near Fair Choice, Sg. Plan road side, outside the SK Kidurong , the open space in front of Sg Plan Shop Houses or even those at the Junction of the Bakun and Bintulu/Miri road and others.
These women sat for hours under the hot sun each days selling vegetables and sundries just to earn a few dollars. I cannot understand why the government cannot and had not been implementing more decent places, say, with a roof over their heads, or provide some fans for those at the Tamu, to let them do their businesses to make a living.
Life for them is already hard enough, yet they have to face the constant fear of the enforcement officers coming ,chasing and snatching away their goods with no mercy, Or not even giving a bill of goods so taken, how would you feel when the things you try to sell is being taken away like that.
There is a Chinese saying, Women holds up half of the sky. Today in so many parts of the world, evidence has mounted that helping women can be a successful poverty – fighting strategy. Women are indeed a linchpin of development strategy.
Women starting business or working, contribute to the gross national product and when they made the money they help the education of their children, a brother or a sister, or younger relatives and when they have money to spare, they save their money and boost national savings rate. In a nod to the female chromosomes, this is called, ‘The double X solution ‘ in fighting poverty.
In 2001 the World Bank produced an influential study, Engendering Development Through Gender Equality in Right, Resources, and Voice, arguing that promoting gender equality is crucial to combat global poverty. UNICEF issued a major report arguing that gender equality yields, a ‘double dividend’ by elevating not only women but also their children and communities.
Mr. Speaker,
Longhouse folks living at 38 km from the Mukah town, near the Aluminium Smelting plant, in Mukah Division are experiencing health, environment and social problems . Nothing of this sorts of things ever occur to them for all their 20 odd years of stay there.
The longhouse folks there told me that when they go into their farms to find food, it is becoming harder and harder these days, their vegetables are not growing well as compared to the past, and when they try to sell them, people do not want to buy, and so, what can they do, they eat them themselves. Their fruits trees like the coconut, mango, star fruit and others are not fruiting well also like before.
Women staying in these longhouses, complain of dizziness, uneasy breathing, frequent coughing, pain in the bones and just generally not feeling well. The rain water which they are using have a different odour to it, bathing with it makes one’s body itch and drinking it could cause diarrhea to children. At times in the morning, smelly air would come gushing into their rooms not telling what they are breathing in over the night and day as well.
Bathing and washings in the ponds also causes much itching and when scratched, red dots appear over the body. One said that when the plant first started, fish in his fish pond also died. Today, there is hardly any more fish in there.
Longhouse folks there had gone in and out of the hospital about their suffering and medical people had come visiting them also but their problems still persists, nothing happens.
Mr. Speaker,
How can this be ? I mean the people had been staying there happily for so long already, and nothing like the above mentioned, has ever happened, but, when the Aluminium smelting plant is built, all is changed. Farms produce are not growing well, folks are not feeling well, water for use is becoming a bigger problem.
Government have to do something to help these people before things get even worst and whether the problems so faced by the folks there, is actually a direct result of the gas and water emission from the smelting plant. And to what extend is fluoride being leaked into the air.
If the answer is in the positive, like I have talked many times before in this Dewan about the ill effects of the aluminium smelting plant, shouldn’t the plant then be closed down pending further investigation, because we are talking increased production in the near future, from the present 50kt of aluminium ingot per year, to eventually 115kt per year, 2 times of the capacity now. And the greater problems that it will bring to the human lives and lives of the community of people in Mukah, plus also the implications that it is going to have on the people in Nyalau and Bintulu for the proposed few other aluminium smelting plants to be built at the Samalaju Industrial Park, Similajau, Bintulu. I know the eventual capacity of one of the proposed aluminium smelter is 1.5 million tons a year. That is 30 times that of the present Mukah plant capacity. And what about the capacity of the other two ?
Mr. Speaker,
The sweet promise that the the aluminium smelting plant which started about two years ago in the Mukah Division will create good employment for the local and downstream industries there is not true. Most of the works there now are being done by people from other countries. There are no extrusion plants either.
Mr. Speaker,
Folks of Kuala Similajau who had been staying there since time immemorial, precious their way of life, the Similajau river and the sea. They precious their land , their culture and their civilization and they have wanted to stay on. Presently the river is giving them much fish and prawns and the bounty catches of fish and others from the sea. Kuala Similajua is giving them a living and had been giving them life.
They believe that development must benefit the people on the grounds also and we know that developments that harm the environment, land, water and life should not be implemented. There are so many developments projects which one can choose, let’s take the good ones. So the folks asked that the land near the bank of the Similajau river from the mouth of the river going in wards for about one thousand acres be earmarked to be Kampong Kuala Similajau.
Mr. Speaker,
In Sebatu, Suai and along the Bintulu/Miri road, many longhouses are still without pipe water supply. It is urged that, they be quickly connected with it. And I hope that this time there would be enough water trucks on standby to bring water quickly to these longhouse folks when they run low on water during the dry seasons, and this is not just for Bintulu only, but all divisions in Sarawak.
However there are some longhouses along the Bintulu/Miri road which have the pipe water supply, but the water cannot get up to their longhouses, like Rh Robert area, Rh Janting at Mile 15, 16 Bintulu/Miri road and other places also. I therefore urge that the government to look into this matter immediately to resolve the situation.
Grid electricity supply is another thing. Some Kampongs and longhouses in Sebatu and the Bintulu/Miri road areas are still not connected to it.
The Suai road, leading from the junction at coastal highway near Niah going towards the Suai Bridge at the old Bintulu/Miri road needs up grading and tarring. Let us be more caring for our rural folks also and give them a better road tar sealed and all. And let’s repair the holes on the roads, those that come off the main road, leading to the door steps of the long houses.
And what about the bridge over the Kerong stream for the Suai road, when is that going to be done. It is taking so long that even the access road at the side of the bridge is so damaged that smaller car can hardly passed at times.
Mr. Speaker,
During the May 2010 DUN meeting, I had raised concern on the extend to which beach development works at the Tg. Batu beach condominium is affecting the monsoon drain water flowing from the Assykirim area to the sea.
At the end of last year there was quite a heavy rain one time. The situation of the monsoon drain is then tested and it did not carry the water fast enough out to the sea, the water had been supposedly slowed down by the embankment at the condominium beach development. As a result serious flooding occurred at places that had never been flooded before, like the road between Farly and Sing Kong super markets, Kpg Assykirin Ph one and Fortune park housing areas.
And would the Ministry let us know what is the present status of the situation, as we would be approaching the monsoon rain again soon.
Mr. Speaker,
Big earth filling and other trucks, going through residential estates must slow down and make sure that they do not make a mess or damage the road badly. For example, folks at the MLNG Housing living along the inner 4 lane residential road, could actually feel the tremor in their houses, of the trucks passing by, not to mention of the dust and damage done to the road. The tremor had already caused hair line crack in the house at this early stage of the nearby sea filling works which could take many more years !
Similar problem is also true of the road from SMK Baru going down the hill to the Nyigu road.
The U turn after the traffic light near Sibiew Bridge, Bintulu/Tatau road, in the BBC Industrial estate, mile 5 B/M road is also damaged by the earth filling trucks, making it almost inaccessible for smaller cars. This side of the road there is often flooded, damaged and need urgent repair.
Talking about road, folks travelling between Sibu, Bintulu and Miri on the old trunk road had been very unhappy with the road situation for a long time already. Many parts of the road are not only bumpy, of patches of repair and repair, causing much damages to ones cars, especially the smaller cars. The condition of the road is also making driving unsafe on this road.
Being the only road linking the whole state and with so much money being taken by the Federal Government from our oil and gas. The people feel that it is high time that giving us back a proper road or making the road into a 4 lane highway must be given top priority by the Federal Government. They have done some many many good roads in West Malaysia already, why can’t they do one good one here.
Mr. Speaker,
Land Owners of an area of land of over 6000 sq. meter at Kampong Jalan Masjid, Bintulu are very concerned as their kampong land are going to be acquired by the Government for a Kampung Heritage Project.
They are worry because they have seen other private lands in Bintulu said to be acquired for public purposes though compensated, ended up for commercial buildings etc fetching in a lot more of the compensated price for the new owner.
It is therefore urge that whatever compensation to these land owners at Kampung Masjid, it must be reasonably and done with their interests in our heart also.
And with that Mr. Speaker. Thank you.
N. 59吉都隆区砂劳越州立法议员周政新於砂劳越古晋立法议会参与动议感谢州元首2011年6月24日所发表御词之辩论演词
议长先生，
我参与感谢州元首2011年6月21日御词的动议辩论。
议长先生，
今天，我立于此却因为第10届州大选，在吉都隆选区获得各族人民的热烈拥护而益感谦卑。我非常感激他们对我们的信任，我也时刻谨记在这个国家最古老的议会机构为人民服务的身份，不仅仅是为吉都隆人民，而是为全砂劳越的人民服务。
议长先生，
在我们的立法议会过去的144年里，有许多人曾被选中和服务于砂劳越州立法议会。我们能够继续，不仅是前人的高瞻远瞩，也因为砂劳越州的人民仍然相信我们的议会民主、有争取自由、公正、平等及其他追求幸福生活的应有机会。
在我们继续迈入21世纪的第二个十年之始，更显重要的，在这个最古老的议会机构的政府必须做得更好，帮助我们的年青男女寻找一份能赚取足以体面生活的薪酬，让他们不需离乡背井去谋生。帮助我们的生意能生存和成长，帮助我们在能力的范围内获得拥有权，和享有一个有尊严的退休。唯有如此，我们才能重建人民对政府的信任。
我们的经济繁荣不是靠几个大公司或外国投资, 而是在于繁荣的深度，在于我们能给予每一位愿意接受者的能力，而非施舍。因为这是我们最确切的成功之路。如果只优惠几个富人，一个国家不能长久繁荣。
议长先生，
我谈及帮助我们的人民谋生。给予所有愿意接受者机会，但很不幸的，却大大的忽略了尤其是乡区的妇女，她们想在市区过一个得体的生活，她们要自力更生做小生意。
她们的要求只是在民都鲁有人潮的地方卖点蔬菜或食物，如靠近市集的地方，ABF海滨住宅区，在MLNG店屋前靠近Fair Choice，Sg. Plan路傍，吉都隆小学校外，sg plan店屋外的空地，甚至是在巴贡和民美公路路口和其他地点。
这些妇女坐在烈日下数小时，售卖蔬菜和杂货，只为赚取几块钱。我不明白为何政府不能也不曾提供任何适当的地点供她们谋生，比如有片遮阳的屋顶，或者在市集地点装设风扇。
他们的生活已够艰苦，可是还要时刻担忧执法者到来驱赶他们，毫不怜悯地夺去他们的货品，且处之以罚单，即便所售物品不值几个钱。试问当所售之物被如此取去，你的感受会如何。
华语有句话说：女性可撑半边天。今天，在世界各地已证明，协助妇女是有效扑灭贫穷的策略。事实上，女性是发展政策的主轴。
女性做生意或工作，是对国家生产做出贡献。当她们有钱时，能资助子女、弟妹或年轻的亲戚受教育。犹有余钱，她们会储蓄起来。这更提升了国家的储蓄率。在向阴性染色体敬礼之际，这也称为“双X解决方案”。
2001年世界银行做了一个很有贡献的研究。“扶植发展通过性别权利、资源及发言权力平等”，议论说全球与贫穷抗争最重要的是提倡性别平等。
联合国儿童基金会发表一份重要的报告，强调性别平等产生一个“双份红利”，不仅女性获得提升，她们的子女及社群也一样。
议长先生，
在距离沐胶镇38公里处，靠近熔铝厂的长屋居民正面对健康、环境及社会问题。这些事情，在他们定居在该处20年来，从未发生。
该处长屋居民告诉我，当他们到农田里找食物时，近来已越来越困难。他们的蔬菜没有以前长的好，要卖也没人要，没法子只好自己吃。他们的果树，如椰子、芒果，杨桃等的收成也大不如前。
居住在这些长屋的妇女也投诉说，她们感到昏眩、呼吸困难、常咳嗽、骨骼疼痛，总感到不舒服。雨水有异味，用之洗浴後，身体发痒，饮用後，引起孩童腹泻。有时上午时分，带有臭味的空气直冲入屋，更不用说日夜呼吸着的空气。
在水塘洗浴或洗涤衣物会发痒，搔痒後身上现出红斑点。有个说，工厂刚运作时，水塘里的鱼也死了。今天水塘里已难见鱼踪。
长屋居民如今因其遭受，成了医院常客，医务人员也曾到长屋看个究竟，但问题仍是不获解决。
议长先生，
怎能如此？人民在那里长久以来安居乐业，也从未发生上述情形，但建立熔铝厂，一切都变了。农作物收成不好，居民感觉不好，食用水成了大问题。
在情形更恶化之前，政府必须帮助这些人, 无论问题是否与熔铝厂排放的气体或水直接有关。还有到底有多少的氯化物被排放到空气中。
如果答案是肯定的，如我过去多次在议会中提出熔铝厂的害処，是否要先关闭工厂等待调查。因为他们正准备增加产量，从现在每年的5万公吨铝块，到最终每年生产11.5公吨。双倍於现在的产量。它將带给沐胶人民更大的健康问题。这也与住在Nyalau及民都鲁人民有关，因为还有几个熔铝厂将在士米拉爪工业园设立。我知道其中有一间最终的计划是每年生产150万公吨。这是目前沐胶生产量的30倍。如果再增加两个那又会是怎样的呢？
议长先生，
两年多前在沐胶设立熔铝厂，将会给当地人制造好的就业机会及下游工业的甜美诺言是假的。今天大多数的工作都是外国人担任，本地人少之又少。
议长先生，
今天世代居住在士米拉爪河口的居民，因为珍惜他们的生活方式、士米拉爪河、海洋和他们的土地、文化及他们要继续生活下去的文明。当下，这条河流给予他们鱼虾及大海丰富的海产，士米拉爪河口赐给了他们生活和生命。
他们认为，发展必须让在当地生活的居民受益。破害环境、土地、水源和生命的发展不应该推行。有许多可供选择的发展，我们应该选好的。居民要求把从河口向内约一千公顷士米拉爪河岸的土地设立为士米拉爪河口甘榜。
议长先生，
在Sebatu, Suai及沿着民美公路，许多长屋仍然没有自来水供应。我吁请当局尽快接驳给他们。我希望这次有足够的运水车，随时准备运水救济长屋居民的燃眉之急。这不仅是在民都鲁而已，是全砂劳越州。
沿着民美公路，许多长屋有自来水供应，但水压不足不能输送到长屋内去。在15、16里民美公路的Robert地区的长屋， Janting长屋及其他地方。因此，我吁请政府关注此事，即刻解决此问题。
电流供应网是另一问题。有些在Sebatu和民美公路地区的甘榜和长屋还未接驳上电流。
从靠近尼亚海滨公路路口到旧民美公路的Suai桥，需要提升和重新舖过。我们应该更关心他们，给他们造一条舖上沥青的好路。把，並把那些延伸到长屋门口路上的坑坑洞洞填平。
Suai 路Kerong 河的桥何时才能竣工？已经太久了，就连桥边的过道也已破坏不堪，连小车子都难以通过。
在2010年5月底立法议会会议上，我曾提出在Sg. Batu海滩公寓大厦的海滩发展工程，影响Assykirim地区排水道向海里排放雨水的问题.
去年底，有一阵子雨量很大，这对此事是一个考验。结果该大沟不能迅速把雨水排送到海里去，因为海滩发展工程围墙阻缓了它。结果造成严重的泛滥，连从不淹水处，如华利和星光超市之间的道路，甘榜Assykirim第一期和幸福花园的住宅区都变成一片泽国。
有关部长是否能告知目前的情况，因为雨季就快来临？
议长先生，
大型填土车和其他卡车进入住宅区必须减缓速度慢下来，并确保不损坏道路和破坏环境。例如在MLNG住宅区内大路旁居民, 当车辆经过时在屋里能感受到震动，更别谈所引起的沙尘和对道路的破坏。震动已造成屋子出现裂缝，靠海附近的填土工程刚开始，还要许多年才能结束！
同样的问题也发生在从Baru中学到Nyigu路岭下的路。靠近民都鲁/达岛路Sibiew 桥交通灯之后的回转处，在民美公路5里BBC工业区，道路也被大卡车破坏了，小型车辆几乎不能通过。一边的道路已破环更时常淹水，急需速修补。
说及道路，使用诗巫，民都鲁及美里旧路的旅客，对路况多时以来就很不高兴。许多路段都崎岖不平，补丁一块块，对车辆造成破坏，尤其是小型车辆。路况对驾驶也十分危险。
即是唯一联系整个州的道路，而联邦政府又从石油和天然气取去这么多钱。人民认为是时候联邦政府应该优先给回一条真正的路，或者建造一条4道高速公路。在西马，他们已经建造了许许多多的道路，为什么不能在此建条好的路。
议长先生，
在民都鲁的甘榜教堂路拥有6千平方公尺大片土地的地主们非常担心，因为他们的土地将被政府征收做为甘榜传统计划之用。他们担心，因为有鉴于其他民都鲁私人土地，虽然说征收供做公共用途并获得赔偿，最后却成为商业建筑物及其他等，为新地主赚进更多的赔偿金。
在此我吁请无论给这些土地任何赔偿都必须合理，并为他们的利益着想。
即此我结束我的演讲，谢谢议长先生。
Saturday, June 25, 2011
10 Questions from Me for the Sarawak State Legislative Council Meeting from 20 - 29 June 2011 (English & Chinese)
Ten questions from me for the Sarawak State Legislative Council meeting from 20 - 29 June 2011.
1. To ask the Honourable Minister of Industrial Development to state:-
i) the number of companies which had been approved to set up aluminium smelting plant at the Samalaju Industrial Park, Similajau, Bintulu ,
ii) the names of these companies and their equity structures,
iii) the proposed production capacity of these plants at the start of their operations and by when,
iv) their eventual production capacity and by when,
v) the status of the Environment Impact Assessment (EIA) studies for these companies,
vi) how many are still in the process of applying and with due considerations.
(written answer)
2. To ask the Honourable Minister of Industrial Development to state, on the construction of the polycrystalline silicon plant at Samalaju Industrial Park, Similajau, Bintulu,
i) the number, production capacity and schedule for the life of the plant(s)/project(s),
ii) the manufacturing stages of the plant(s) and its technologies,
iii) the effect on the environment and human health from the plant(s) pollutant emission/heavy metal emissions during the manufacturing stages,
iv) whether an EIA had been approved for the project,
v) what is the cost and amount of the electricity which will be sold to the plant,
vi) the down streams industries which can and are being planned to be set up, for the local, to benefit directly from the plant if any, if not why ?
(oral answer)
3. To ask the Honourable Minister of Industrial Development to state with regards to the proposal to build nuclear power plants,
i) whether such plant will be built in Sarawak, if so, where,
ii) the rationale for building such plant in Sarawak,
iii) in view of the huge electricity supply available in Sarawak and the inherently dangerous nuclear plant technology whether the government will reject such proposal out right.
(written answer)
4. To ask the Honourable Minister of Social Development and Urbanisation to state
i) the extent of the rural-urban migration for all age groups, by gender, race and regions in Sarawak,
ii) the reasons for such migration,
iii) the problems arise from such migration for these rural migrants,
iv) the measures taken by the government to help these rural migrants to overcome their problems,
v) the measures taken by the government to tackle the urban situations as a result of the influx of the rural migrants.
(written answer)
5. To ask the Honourable Minister of Social Development and Urbanisation to state with regards to women from China entering Sarawak,
i) the types of visas which they were given for entry and their duration of stay,
ii) a break down by age group and the number of them entering Sarawak for the past five years,
iii) were there any violations found on them with regards to the entry conditions, if so, how many, if not why ?
iv) what measures is the government taking to ensure that their entries match with the conditions of entry.
(oral answer)
6. To ask the Honourable Minister of Social Development and Urbanisation to state the names of all the ongoing programmes implemented in the state that are aimed to help the poor, women and the elderly.
(written answer)
7. To ask the Honourable Minister of Rural Development to state with regards to the post of Tuai Rumah and Tuai Kampongs in the state,
i) the total number of Tuai Rumah and Tuai Kampong in the state,
ii) the total number of them who had been confirmed and the reasons for those who are not confirmed,
iii) the amount of their present monthly allowance as compared to that of other states in the country.
(written answer)
8. To ask the Honourable Chief Minister to state,
i) the students to teacher norm ratio for a secondary school class room so as to enhance maximum learning,
ii) what is the average number of student to teacher ratio for the urban secondary school in Sarawak and what is that for the semi urban secondary schools,
iii) what are the plans of the government to bring the unfavorable students to teachers ration in the over crowded schools, especially like the case of SMK Bintulu in Bintulu, Sarawak.
(written answer)
9. To ask the Honourable Minister of Urban Development and Tourism to state,
i) the total number of drain manhole with no covers for each of the commercial centres in Bintulu,
ii) and for each of those in the housing estates in Bintulu,
iii) the length of time of these drain covers which had been missing in each of the above mentioned area,
iv) the reasons for the drain covers to be missing,
v) the measures that had been carried out to ensure all drain manhole are provided with covers in Bintulu.
(written answer)
10. To ask the Honourable Chief Minister to state,
i) The number and categories of crimes for all divisions of Sarawak in the past five years.
ii) The reasons for the increase for the concerned categories of crimes,
iii) The measures that had been taken by the police to reduce the concerned crimes and by what percentage and time frame,
iv) The percentage increase in police personnel in each of the crime categories in Sarawak for the past five years.
(written answer)
Thank you.
Chiew Chiu Sing.
N59, Kidurong.
吉都隆區立委周政新於20-29.6.2011在州议会所召开的会议向部长提出下列十題询问。
1. 请尊贵的工业发展部长说明：
i) 获批准在民都鲁士米拉爪工业园设立炼铝工厂的公司数目。
ii) 这些公司的名称及股份结构。
iii) 这些工厂拟议中何时开始生产及产量。
iv) 它们最终将生产的产量及时间。
v) 这些工厂的环境影响评估的情况。
vi) 有多少仍在申请的评介考虑程序中。
2. 请尊贵的工业发展部长说明有关在民都鲁士米拉爪工业园建立多晶硅工厂的情形。
i) 工厂/计划的数目，生产量及进度。
ii) 工厂的生产过程及工艺。
iii) 在生产过程放射的污染体/重金属对环境及人体的影响。
iv) 该工程是否已获得环境影响评估的批准。
v) 是以何等价格及数量售卖电流给该工厂。
vi) 是否有设立任何该工厂可让本地人直接受益的下游工业或计划，若无，为何没有？
3. 请尊贵的工业发展部长说明有关设立核电厂的建议：
i) 是否会在砂劳越设立类似工厂，若是，会设置于何处。
ii) 在砂劳越设立这类工厂的理由。
iii) 由于在砂劳越拥有大量的电力供应以及核电工艺所附带的危险性，政府会否直接拒绝这项建议。
4. 请尊贵的社会发展及城市化部长说明：
i) 在砂劳越州，从乡区往城市移居的人口幅度，个别年龄层、性别、种族及地区。
ii) 移居的原因。
iii) 因这些乡区移民到来而引起的问题。
iv) 政府协助乡区移民解决这些问题所采取的措施。
v) 因乡区移民涌入所造成的城市状况，政府的解决办法。
5. 请尊贵的社会发展及城市化部长说明有关进入砂劳越州的中国女性的问题。
i) 批准给予和获准逗留的各种签证。
ii) 列出过去五年，进入砂劳越州个别年龄层的数目的明细表。
iii) 她们有无发生任何对签证违规逾越的事件，若有，有多少件，若无，原因为何？
iv) 为确保她们能遵守入境的条件，政府所采取的措施。
6. 请尊贵的社会发展及城市化部长说明州内所有扶助贫困、妇女及老年人的现行计划。
7. 请尊贵的乡村发展部长说明有关长屋屋长及甘榜头人：
i) 在州内，长屋屋长及甘榜头人的总人数。
ii) 职位已获得确认的总人数及未获确认者的原因为何。
iii) 他们的每月的津贴是多少，以及与国内其他州的津贴比较。
8. 请尊贵的首席部长说明：
i) 为达到最佳的学习效果，中学一般课室的教师和学生人数的比率。
ii) 在砂劳越，城市的中学平均教师和学生的人数比率，以及在城郊中学的比例又如何。
iii) 对教师与学生人数比率不利、过度拥挤的学校，尤其是以民都鲁中学为例，有何改善的计划。
9. 请尊贵的城市发展及旅游部长说明：
i) 在民都鲁，每个商业中心的无盖泄水井的总数。
ii) 在民都鲁住宅区，每个商业中心的无盖泄水井的总数。
iii) 在上述地区，泄水井遗失的时间已有多久了。
iv) 泄水井盖遗失的原因。
v) 在民都鲁，确保所有泄水井都有安装盖的措施。
10. 请尊贵的首席部长说明：
i) 在砂劳越州，过去五年，个别省份的各类犯罪的数目。
ii) 有关犯罪类别已增加的原因。
iii) 为减少有关罪犯，警方所采取的措施其效率如何，及所需时间。
iv) 在砂劳越州，对打击各项罪犯，警力所增加的比率。
周政新。
1. To ask the Honourable Minister of Industrial Development to state:-
i) the number of companies which had been approved to set up aluminium smelting plant at the Samalaju Industrial Park, Similajau, Bintulu ,
ii) the names of these companies and their equity structures,
iii) the proposed production capacity of these plants at the start of their operations and by when,
iv) their eventual production capacity and by when,
v) the status of the Environment Impact Assessment (EIA) studies for these companies,
vi) how many are still in the process of applying and with due considerations.
(written answer)
2. To ask the Honourable Minister of Industrial Development to state, on the construction of the polycrystalline silicon plant at Samalaju Industrial Park, Similajau, Bintulu,
i) the number, production capacity and schedule for the life of the plant(s)/project(s),
ii) the manufacturing stages of the plant(s) and its technologies,
iii) the effect on the environment and human health from the plant(s) pollutant emission/heavy metal emissions during the manufacturing stages,
iv) whether an EIA had been approved for the project,
v) what is the cost and amount of the electricity which will be sold to the plant,
vi) the down streams industries which can and are being planned to be set up, for the local, to benefit directly from the plant if any, if not why ?
(oral answer)
3. To ask the Honourable Minister of Industrial Development to state with regards to the proposal to build nuclear power plants,
i) whether such plant will be built in Sarawak, if so, where,
ii) the rationale for building such plant in Sarawak,
iii) in view of the huge electricity supply available in Sarawak and the inherently dangerous nuclear plant technology whether the government will reject such proposal out right.
(written answer)
4. To ask the Honourable Minister of Social Development and Urbanisation to state
i) the extent of the rural-urban migration for all age groups, by gender, race and regions in Sarawak,
ii) the reasons for such migration,
iii) the problems arise from such migration for these rural migrants,
iv) the measures taken by the government to help these rural migrants to overcome their problems,
v) the measures taken by the government to tackle the urban situations as a result of the influx of the rural migrants.
(written answer)
5. To ask the Honourable Minister of Social Development and Urbanisation to state with regards to women from China entering Sarawak,
i) the types of visas which they were given for entry and their duration of stay,
ii) a break down by age group and the number of them entering Sarawak for the past five years,
iii) were there any violations found on them with regards to the entry conditions, if so, how many, if not why ?
iv) what measures is the government taking to ensure that their entries match with the conditions of entry.
(oral answer)
6. To ask the Honourable Minister of Social Development and Urbanisation to state the names of all the ongoing programmes implemented in the state that are aimed to help the poor, women and the elderly.
(written answer)
7. To ask the Honourable Minister of Rural Development to state with regards to the post of Tuai Rumah and Tuai Kampongs in the state,
i) the total number of Tuai Rumah and Tuai Kampong in the state,
ii) the total number of them who had been confirmed and the reasons for those who are not confirmed,
iii) the amount of their present monthly allowance as compared to that of other states in the country.
(written answer)
8. To ask the Honourable Chief Minister to state,
i) the students to teacher norm ratio for a secondary school class room so as to enhance maximum learning,
ii) what is the average number of student to teacher ratio for the urban secondary school in Sarawak and what is that for the semi urban secondary schools,
iii) what are the plans of the government to bring the unfavorable students to teachers ration in the over crowded schools, especially like the case of SMK Bintulu in Bintulu, Sarawak.
(written answer)
9. To ask the Honourable Minister of Urban Development and Tourism to state,
i) the total number of drain manhole with no covers for each of the commercial centres in Bintulu,
ii) and for each of those in the housing estates in Bintulu,
iii) the length of time of these drain covers which had been missing in each of the above mentioned area,
iv) the reasons for the drain covers to be missing,
v) the measures that had been carried out to ensure all drain manhole are provided with covers in Bintulu.
(written answer)
10. To ask the Honourable Chief Minister to state,
i) The number and categories of crimes for all divisions of Sarawak in the past five years.
ii) The reasons for the increase for the concerned categories of crimes,
iii) The measures that had been taken by the police to reduce the concerned crimes and by what percentage and time frame,
iv) The percentage increase in police personnel in each of the crime categories in Sarawak for the past five years.
(written answer)
Thank you.
Chiew Chiu Sing.
N59, Kidurong.
吉都隆區立委周政新於20-29.6.2011在州议会所召开的会议向部长提出下列十題询问。
1. 请尊贵的工业发展部长说明：
i) 获批准在民都鲁士米拉爪工业园设立炼铝工厂的公司数目。
ii) 这些公司的名称及股份结构。
iii) 这些工厂拟议中何时开始生产及产量。
iv) 它们最终将生产的产量及时间。
v) 这些工厂的环境影响评估的情况。
vi) 有多少仍在申请的评介考虑程序中。
2. 请尊贵的工业发展部长说明有关在民都鲁士米拉爪工业园建立多晶硅工厂的情形。
i) 工厂/计划的数目，生产量及进度。
ii) 工厂的生产过程及工艺。
iii) 在生产过程放射的污染体/重金属对环境及人体的影响。
iv) 该工程是否已获得环境影响评估的批准。
v) 是以何等价格及数量售卖电流给该工厂。
vi) 是否有设立任何该工厂可让本地人直接受益的下游工业或计划，若无，为何没有？
3. 请尊贵的工业发展部长说明有关设立核电厂的建议：
i) 是否会在砂劳越设立类似工厂，若是，会设置于何处。
ii) 在砂劳越设立这类工厂的理由。
iii) 由于在砂劳越拥有大量的电力供应以及核电工艺所附带的危险性，政府会否直接拒绝这项建议。
4. 请尊贵的社会发展及城市化部长说明：
i) 在砂劳越州，从乡区往城市移居的人口幅度，个别年龄层、性别、种族及地区。
ii) 移居的原因。
iii) 因这些乡区移民到来而引起的问题。
iv) 政府协助乡区移民解决这些问题所采取的措施。
v) 因乡区移民涌入所造成的城市状况，政府的解决办法。
5. 请尊贵的社会发展及城市化部长说明有关进入砂劳越州的中国女性的问题。
i) 批准给予和获准逗留的各种签证。
ii) 列出过去五年，进入砂劳越州个别年龄层的数目的明细表。
iii) 她们有无发生任何对签证违规逾越的事件，若有，有多少件，若无，原因为何？
iv) 为确保她们能遵守入境的条件，政府所采取的措施。
6. 请尊贵的社会发展及城市化部长说明州内所有扶助贫困、妇女及老年人的现行计划。
7. 请尊贵的乡村发展部长说明有关长屋屋长及甘榜头人：
i) 在州内，长屋屋长及甘榜头人的总人数。
ii) 职位已获得确认的总人数及未获确认者的原因为何。
iii) 他们的每月的津贴是多少，以及与国内其他州的津贴比较。
8. 请尊贵的首席部长说明：
i) 为达到最佳的学习效果，中学一般课室的教师和学生人数的比率。
ii) 在砂劳越，城市的中学平均教师和学生的人数比率，以及在城郊中学的比例又如何。
iii) 对教师与学生人数比率不利、过度拥挤的学校，尤其是以民都鲁中学为例，有何改善的计划。
9. 请尊贵的城市发展及旅游部长说明：
i) 在民都鲁，每个商业中心的无盖泄水井的总数。
ii) 在民都鲁住宅区，每个商业中心的无盖泄水井的总数。
iii) 在上述地区，泄水井遗失的时间已有多久了。
iv) 泄水井盖遗失的原因。
v) 在民都鲁，确保所有泄水井都有安装盖的措施。
10. 请尊贵的首席部长说明：
i) 在砂劳越州，过去五年，个别省份的各类犯罪的数目。
ii) 有关犯罪类别已增加的原因。
iii) 为减少有关罪犯，警方所采取的措施其效率如何，及所需时间。
iv) 在砂劳越州，对打击各项罪犯，警力所增加的比率。
周政新。
Thursday, November 4, 2010
Budget Speech DUN November 2010 Sitting (Chinese Version)
民主行动党砂劳越署理主席暨N59吉都弄区州立法议员周政新参与2010年供应（2011年）法案及有关发展开销预算案动议辩论.
议长先生，当因快艇和驳船相撞而丧生的13名死者的遗体一具具从达岛河的Kelupu运抵民都鲁的停尸间时，我的心也随之下沉。
我们和罹难者的家属同声一哭，但无论多少的泪水和悲痛都唤不回失去的生命。我们想不通，为什么会发生这种事。在这片土地上的许多河川，从来水上交通就是我们的交通方式。
我们认为已有了精细的水上运输系统、好的船艇、条例和法规。是的，可能吧。但若仔细观察真相和真正的乘坐船只出游，船公司是否按照执照的规定行事，驾驶员这个主要角色是否我们就这样把生命的安危交付给他，正如飞机或巴士的驾驶员一般。船只是否有完善的维修、有买保险、救生衣、安全和逃生设备、ISO标准、河川航行条规等等。
或者我们就如邻国，因疏忽、错误而一再发生渡轮沉没惨案，虽然也有条规管制和专业知识。
难道我们的性命不值钱，就如其他第三世界国家的人命那么贱。当我们乘搭我们的船只或使用陆路交通系统，巴士、包厢车、汽车，我们其实就如被运载的货物一般，而非有尊严和获得敬重的旅客。
应该是时候我们的交通系统，无论是水路还是陆路运输，我们给予注意。驾驶员也必须很专业的执行职务。经过专业的训练和很专业的执行任务以提升行船的专业水准。
给予他们应有的地位和荣誉如他们做好我们期望的工作。不再是穿着短裤拖鞋，而是提升至专业的水上交通服务。因为砂劳越河川纵横，每天州内大小河川上都有近千百艘载客的船只在航行。我们必须尽所能，不懈的确保旅客的生命安全和驾驶等人都时刻得到保障，尤其是使用水道。
议长先生，
巴贡水坝至巴雷河的水上作业全部被迫停止。以往的拉让江上游如今只剩下一条浑浊的小溪流，沿江两岸则布满木屑残渣及沙堆。
自从2010年10月13日巴贡水坝蓄水开始，一切都改变了。环境及大自然受到严重的破坏，居民们的生活也严重受影响，造成整个地区像死一样的沉静。
以往从巴贡到布拉甲只需要一个小时的航程，如今河水枯竭，船只无法川航，人们必须使用道路通过木山营，不仅时间要增加至3个小时且费用也涨了3倍。那些住在内陆地区长屋的居民需要花更长的时间及金钱在交通上，对他们来说是巨大的生活及经济负担。
原本在第8大马计划下所要兴建的巴贡-布拉甲道路，到现在仍未动工且无消息。更何况经常被提及可以降落747飞机的巴贡机场又在哪里？
巴贡水坝原本是要为本区域人民带来希望及前途，可是如今人民所尝到的却是发展所带来的一系列负面影响。我呼吁政府即刻展开调查，这些给人民所带来的痛苦及影响，并采取行动来帮助及解决人民所面对的问题。
议长先生，
在美民公路31里士米拉兆的Mr. Terence Ak Alok和友人的油棕园是一例。
在2006年，这一小撮有事业心的当地人为响应政府的号召种植油棕，以他们的所有投入小园丘种植以改善他们的困境。在他们的甘榜和习俗地周围种植数百亩的油棕。
他们开垦、租赁机械开路、筑水道灌溉农地、买油棕幼苗开始种植。他们的积蓄、公积金、养老金全投进去。有一位更把在民都鲁的半独立屋卖了，筹钱买树苗肥料及还其他农业费用。
油棕树都顺利成长，Mr. Terence和友人只等收取辛劳的成果，眼看油棕日渐成长。
但在2008年初，森林局的SAPU官员来到，他们被告知，他们的习俗地是森林保护区，他们种植在政府地。他们耕种的农具和机械全被取去民都鲁SAPU的办公室，被充公了。
而许多油棕树继续生长，有许多已开始结果。在2009年4月，一位自称是为DAIKEN工作的承包商来到Mr. Terence及友人的油棕园，用他的Kobelco挖泥机开始推倒他们已结果的油棕树，成千上万的油棕树被推倒，一夜之间全化为乌有。
在2009年4月18日，Mr. Terence 和友人向警方举报有关事件，虽然承包商承诺赔偿，但至今为止他们的要求仍无下文。
今天，油棕树被推倒也枯死了，Mr. Terence和友人的油棕园也没了，但却由DAIKEN承包商种满了Acacia树，所有这些有进取心的当地人投入的金钱血汗和种植在他们习俗地的油棕树全没了，也全都烟消云散。
如果政府对这些小园主关心的话，而不仅是大公司，Mr. Terence和友人所种的油棕树就不需夭折，被推倒而被Acacia树取代。
如果政府能把森林保护区的土地卖给外国公司如DAIKEN种植Acacia, 为什么就不能卖给Mr. Terence及友人，这些自己土地上的儿女。
Mr. Terence和友人呼吁政府也考虑及小园丘农业在砂州的重要。也让他们在太阳下有生存的空间。
他们希望政府能介入这事件，让他们取得赔偿和让他们在自己的土地上能生存。
我呼吁政府，当带入大型发展时，我们必须不可忘记底下的人民。我们必须确保他们也是发展的一部分，不可失去任何东西，反而从他们那儿获得更多。
但一般上都并非如此。正如Hassan B Ayup先生，他在1978年7月向Sulaiman Bin Baka买了在民都鲁Sg. Plan Besar，Jalan Market Garden Road，Taman Temuda的4依甲地，当时由现已故世的Penghulu Hj Hamzah Bin Keria 见证。
约有20人也在那里买地，同样都声称他们的也是习俗地。在1983年，土地局甚至有一份这样的记录，但今天在政府的记录中完全没有这项Sulaiman Bin Bakar，一名马兰诺人将习俗地卖给Hassan B Ayup及其他人的记录。虽然这件事是在发展民都鲁之前，但民都鲁的马兰诺人都知道。马兰诺人居住在那里以务农和捕鱼为生。
如果是比较友善的发展，Hassan B Ayup先生及其他20人可能还能拥有他们的习俗地，但随着民都鲁的发展，他们的土地已没有了。他们买的土地已消失在空气中。今天，这些土地已归别人所有。
整件事最讽刺的是，像土著一样轻易就会失去土地，大公司却可以轻易的就得到民都鲁的土地。怎么能够不经过公开投标、没人知晓的情况下，如此批给大公司99年期限的土地。透明度去了那里？就如在旧飞机场的整百亩地和ABF住宅区200公顷的海边土地批给私人公司。
出售这些优质地段的土地，可为本州政府赚取大笔的税收以协助本州的人民。为何没有公开投标。
另一个讽刺是当土地批给不需经过招标，但那些数十年居住在棚寮、迫切需要一小片土地建个家者，政府却不能拨出一小片土地给整个社群。但我们却有千千万万公顷的优质混合地段的土地批给种植公司。
议长先生，
虽然大部分在土地法典地47条下的土地，经过民都鲁民众连年的不满申诉，在今年初已解冻了，但仍然有一些仍被冻结。政府称这些是为了发展基本设施及其他的原因。
我要说的是格纳盟河岸Nyigu路地区许多的土地仍是冻结在第47条下。民都鲁许多土地都能解冻，为什么他们的就不能。同样是民都鲁的土地，发展研究或计划和需要做的事情已过去30年之久，该做的都已做了，不需要用到的土地应该解冻归还。我呼吁应即刻归还第47条下的土地。地主都担心他们必须再次等待，因为上次他们一等就是30几年之久。因此，我认为在第47条下冻结的土地，若没有用上，两年後必须自动解冻归还。
议长先生，
我有一封由民都鲁Jalan Sibiew或Lot 44, Pearl Graden, Block 32, Kemana Land District 六十户居民的联名签署信。他们很担心，也很沮丧，因为民都鲁发展局批准比邻的土地建另一个住宅区。新的住宅区的地面将高出现在的Pearl Garden，新住宅区在两者之间建挡土墙。
新住宅区的挡土墙有3.5公尺高，连篱笆共有6公尺之高，和Pearl Garden现在的围墙背靠背将高出许多。建成之後，这道墙和Pearl Garden的屋子只有4.5尺距离或一步之遥。
Pearl Garden的居民要求民都鲁发展局能重新考虑，要求把毗邻的地面降低，让两个住宅区的高低度不至于太悬殊。
两墙之间没有通道和沟渠，分界处有两道墙，而是背靠背。任何从新住宅区挡土墙排水孔流出的东西将直接流过Pearl Garden的篱笆进入其范围。
无论如何，这事情应从两方面去看。发展建屋让民众有机会买屋子住是应该赞许的，而民都鲁发展局批准建筑图则和计划所做的决定应该让我们都能快乐和融洽的和睦做邻居。
议长先生，
如果沿着Jalan Tun Hussien Onn，不是所有路口转入住宅区都有交通灯，当然我们也不能这样要求。但总该为这些路口做些事，因为情况越形混乱，尤其是SMK Bandar/Shell Station及SK Sibiew的路口。这些路口设计应该改进，因为使用这路口的车辆繁多，有些车辆就直接越过分界堤转弯而去，造成高速公路交通混乱和危险。而且夜间还有许多罗里停在路边。六里喑溝工程也要快做以暏车。
但是，有发觉到沿着Tun Hussien Onn路右转进 Taman YTD及其他处的路肩太短，造成两条直行车道之一大排长龙，除非要转完了，才能通过。我吁请把转弯的路肩加长。
即使如此，这也是短期的权宜办法以减轻Tun Hussien Onn路和Jalan Sultan Iskandar的交通拥挤。今天需要的是，这两条道路两边各需笫三条车道，筑成三线或四线的高速道。因为每天有越来越多的车辆上路。
Kidurong 路也是如此。我们必须在道路阻塞前，尽快的增加车道。我想问，从Petronas Housing到Bintulu Port的新路现况如何。
议长先生，
每个人都对从Tg. Batu海滩到ABF Housing 地区的新海滨大道甚感满意。这两公里的车程可观赏Tg. Batu海滩和南中国海及美丽的珊瑚礁。
沿着这道路驾车和沿着Michigan湖的湖滨道是完全不一样的，但感受却是一样。因为只有两公里，正如我所说，每个人都很享受。我希望至少部分的珊瑚礁能保留和发展成一个水上乐园和保留现有的海滩活动，以及增加一些水上运动。因为长久以来，这海滩是民都鲁人民的最佳的休闲好去处。今天湖里填土工程正在进行，一切都不一样了。
议长先生，
如果我说Tg.Batu Beach或 Tg. Kidurong Beach，这些名字马上让人明白，但若无说Pantai Temasya，你可能不知我说的是那个地方。是的，名字所做何为。名字是一个表记，都有一个故事。它拥有传承一个地方的所有传统的功能。
长久以来，Tg. Batu Beach就是在民都鲁Tg. Batu 的沙滩。那是我们长大而且每个人都有他或她的惦念、感情、记忆和故事的地方。Tg. Batu Beach这名字因此是个特别的地方，在我们心中占有特殊的地位，所以我们称这沙滩是我们的。这就是我们民都鲁人对这地方、这名字Tg. Batu Beach的感情。
今天，我们见到Pantai Temasya这名字立于沙滩上。换了名字，令人马上产生陌生感，似乎连地方也变了，感觉完全不对。 Tg. Batu Beach是在Tg. Batu的沙滩的名字。我知道民都鲁很多人都要保留这个名字，保留她的身份、她所有的故事和每个人对这沙滩的记忆。
议长先生，
处理重新筑路，民都鲁诗巫路段路况是每况愈下。许多车辆在使用这条道路，没理由不把这条路维持在最佳状况。
我也呼吁主要的修路工程应该把那些已破损的路段重新铺设，至少让它们看起来像条高速公路，也唯有高水准的作业和严格的监督才能办到。
议长先生，
林惠娥女士的丈夫Ngui Eng Song在1988年去世。当时她43岁，还有4个孩子要抚养。他也留下一块2.064亩的地，或称之为Lot 635, Kemana Land District。她丈夫生前在那栽种橡胶和果树。但到今天，那片地还未能转到她的名下，虽然她已经多次尝试和写了许多信，以及通过许多管道以获得过名给她。
民都鲁土地局在1997年致函给她，通知她说，她申请将地转给她不获批准。自此之後，她更积极的申请，不断以书信或亲身向有关方面申诉，但都不成功。
这片地是政府在1963年批给已故Mr. Ngui的。这是他唯一留给他妻子和孩子的遗产。今天Lim 女士仍然守寡，等待着土地转名给她。我呼吁土地局帮助她，把地还给她和发给她地契。
来自民都鲁-美里路41.5英里处Juna长屋的Majah Ak Sari 原本拥有一片约4英亩的土地，并用来种植油棕树。不幸的是，国油沙巴-砂拉越的天然气管恰恰从该土地的中间直接开过，造成该土地上被毁且不再适合用来种植油棕树，变成废地。
土地局只针对其0.019英亩的土地做出1000多令吉的赔偿。真很显然是不足够的，土地局最起码应该给予他足够购买新的一块土地的赔偿金，否则即将退休的他将面对没有明天的未来。
Majah先生已经上诉多次更多次写信给国油公司，可全都石沉入海到现在仍然音讯全无。我希望Majah的问题可以得到圆满的解决，不要因为发展而至使他失去他所拥有的一切。
Mr.Speaker
Sg. Plan16座组屋，数以百计的家庭由于拖欠房屋贷款，被房屋委员会将他们的屋子锁起及出售的厄运，除非他们在2010年11月9日之前将债务还清。
许多人感到非常恐慌，因为他们不知道要怎样还清债务。他们同时担心，一旦他们的屋子被锁，他们及家属们将无家可归。居住在该处的几乎是来自全砂的土著，如美里、尼亚、木胶、诗巫、加帛、泗里街、西联、民都鲁、Kemena、Kakus、Tamin等地区。
他们回答了住房委员会，并要求宽大处理，并重新安排其债务，并促请房屋委员会予以适当考虑，而不是对他们过于苛刻，锁定他们离开他们的家园和出售其单位。
我不容许那些可以付还而不偿还贷款的人。但是，这些真正无法支付的人，我促请房屋委员会向做出一个细节的调查，研究他们的背景和他们的收入，并制定了一项计划，重新安排他们偿还债务，使他们能够留在自己的家园。
谢谢！
议长先生，当因快艇和驳船相撞而丧生的13名死者的遗体一具具从达岛河的Kelupu运抵民都鲁的停尸间时，我的心也随之下沉。
我们和罹难者的家属同声一哭，但无论多少的泪水和悲痛都唤不回失去的生命。我们想不通，为什么会发生这种事。在这片土地上的许多河川，从来水上交通就是我们的交通方式。
我们认为已有了精细的水上运输系统、好的船艇、条例和法规。是的，可能吧。但若仔细观察真相和真正的乘坐船只出游，船公司是否按照执照的规定行事，驾驶员这个主要角色是否我们就这样把生命的安危交付给他，正如飞机或巴士的驾驶员一般。船只是否有完善的维修、有买保险、救生衣、安全和逃生设备、ISO标准、河川航行条规等等。
或者我们就如邻国，因疏忽、错误而一再发生渡轮沉没惨案，虽然也有条规管制和专业知识。
难道我们的性命不值钱，就如其他第三世界国家的人命那么贱。当我们乘搭我们的船只或使用陆路交通系统，巴士、包厢车、汽车，我们其实就如被运载的货物一般，而非有尊严和获得敬重的旅客。
应该是时候我们的交通系统，无论是水路还是陆路运输，我们给予注意。驾驶员也必须很专业的执行职务。经过专业的训练和很专业的执行任务以提升行船的专业水准。
给予他们应有的地位和荣誉如他们做好我们期望的工作。不再是穿着短裤拖鞋，而是提升至专业的水上交通服务。因为砂劳越河川纵横，每天州内大小河川上都有近千百艘载客的船只在航行。我们必须尽所能，不懈的确保旅客的生命安全和驾驶等人都时刻得到保障，尤其是使用水道。
议长先生，
巴贡水坝至巴雷河的水上作业全部被迫停止。以往的拉让江上游如今只剩下一条浑浊的小溪流，沿江两岸则布满木屑残渣及沙堆。
自从2010年10月13日巴贡水坝蓄水开始，一切都改变了。环境及大自然受到严重的破坏，居民们的生活也严重受影响，造成整个地区像死一样的沉静。
以往从巴贡到布拉甲只需要一个小时的航程，如今河水枯竭，船只无法川航，人们必须使用道路通过木山营，不仅时间要增加至3个小时且费用也涨了3倍。那些住在内陆地区长屋的居民需要花更长的时间及金钱在交通上，对他们来说是巨大的生活及经济负担。
原本在第8大马计划下所要兴建的巴贡-布拉甲道路，到现在仍未动工且无消息。更何况经常被提及可以降落747飞机的巴贡机场又在哪里？
巴贡水坝原本是要为本区域人民带来希望及前途，可是如今人民所尝到的却是发展所带来的一系列负面影响。我呼吁政府即刻展开调查，这些给人民所带来的痛苦及影响，并采取行动来帮助及解决人民所面对的问题。
议长先生，
在美民公路31里士米拉兆的Mr. Terence Ak Alok和友人的油棕园是一例。
在2006年，这一小撮有事业心的当地人为响应政府的号召种植油棕，以他们的所有投入小园丘种植以改善他们的困境。在他们的甘榜和习俗地周围种植数百亩的油棕。
他们开垦、租赁机械开路、筑水道灌溉农地、买油棕幼苗开始种植。他们的积蓄、公积金、养老金全投进去。有一位更把在民都鲁的半独立屋卖了，筹钱买树苗肥料及还其他农业费用。
油棕树都顺利成长，Mr. Terence和友人只等收取辛劳的成果，眼看油棕日渐成长。
但在2008年初，森林局的SAPU官员来到，他们被告知，他们的习俗地是森林保护区，他们种植在政府地。他们耕种的农具和机械全被取去民都鲁SAPU的办公室，被充公了。
而许多油棕树继续生长，有许多已开始结果。在2009年4月，一位自称是为DAIKEN工作的承包商来到Mr. Terence及友人的油棕园，用他的Kobelco挖泥机开始推倒他们已结果的油棕树，成千上万的油棕树被推倒，一夜之间全化为乌有。
在2009年4月18日，Mr. Terence 和友人向警方举报有关事件，虽然承包商承诺赔偿，但至今为止他们的要求仍无下文。
今天，油棕树被推倒也枯死了，Mr. Terence和友人的油棕园也没了，但却由DAIKEN承包商种满了Acacia树，所有这些有进取心的当地人投入的金钱血汗和种植在他们习俗地的油棕树全没了，也全都烟消云散。
如果政府对这些小园主关心的话，而不仅是大公司，Mr. Terence和友人所种的油棕树就不需夭折，被推倒而被Acacia树取代。
如果政府能把森林保护区的土地卖给外国公司如DAIKEN种植Acacia, 为什么就不能卖给Mr. Terence及友人，这些自己土地上的儿女。
Mr. Terence和友人呼吁政府也考虑及小园丘农业在砂州的重要。也让他们在太阳下有生存的空间。
他们希望政府能介入这事件，让他们取得赔偿和让他们在自己的土地上能生存。
我呼吁政府，当带入大型发展时，我们必须不可忘记底下的人民。我们必须确保他们也是发展的一部分，不可失去任何东西，反而从他们那儿获得更多。
但一般上都并非如此。正如Hassan B Ayup先生，他在1978年7月向Sulaiman Bin Baka买了在民都鲁Sg. Plan Besar，Jalan Market Garden Road，Taman Temuda的4依甲地，当时由现已故世的Penghulu Hj Hamzah Bin Keria 见证。
约有20人也在那里买地，同样都声称他们的也是习俗地。在1983年，土地局甚至有一份这样的记录，但今天在政府的记录中完全没有这项Sulaiman Bin Bakar，一名马兰诺人将习俗地卖给Hassan B Ayup及其他人的记录。虽然这件事是在发展民都鲁之前，但民都鲁的马兰诺人都知道。马兰诺人居住在那里以务农和捕鱼为生。
如果是比较友善的发展，Hassan B Ayup先生及其他20人可能还能拥有他们的习俗地，但随着民都鲁的发展，他们的土地已没有了。他们买的土地已消失在空气中。今天，这些土地已归别人所有。
整件事最讽刺的是，像土著一样轻易就会失去土地，大公司却可以轻易的就得到民都鲁的土地。怎么能够不经过公开投标、没人知晓的情况下，如此批给大公司99年期限的土地。透明度去了那里？就如在旧飞机场的整百亩地和ABF住宅区200公顷的海边土地批给私人公司。
出售这些优质地段的土地，可为本州政府赚取大笔的税收以协助本州的人民。为何没有公开投标。
另一个讽刺是当土地批给不需经过招标，但那些数十年居住在棚寮、迫切需要一小片土地建个家者，政府却不能拨出一小片土地给整个社群。但我们却有千千万万公顷的优质混合地段的土地批给种植公司。
议长先生，
虽然大部分在土地法典地47条下的土地，经过民都鲁民众连年的不满申诉，在今年初已解冻了，但仍然有一些仍被冻结。政府称这些是为了发展基本设施及其他的原因。
我要说的是格纳盟河岸Nyigu路地区许多的土地仍是冻结在第47条下。民都鲁许多土地都能解冻，为什么他们的就不能。同样是民都鲁的土地，发展研究或计划和需要做的事情已过去30年之久，该做的都已做了，不需要用到的土地应该解冻归还。我呼吁应即刻归还第47条下的土地。地主都担心他们必须再次等待，因为上次他们一等就是30几年之久。因此，我认为在第47条下冻结的土地，若没有用上，两年後必须自动解冻归还。
议长先生，
我有一封由民都鲁Jalan Sibiew或Lot 44, Pearl Graden, Block 32, Kemana Land District 六十户居民的联名签署信。他们很担心，也很沮丧，因为民都鲁发展局批准比邻的土地建另一个住宅区。新的住宅区的地面将高出现在的Pearl Garden，新住宅区在两者之间建挡土墙。
新住宅区的挡土墙有3.5公尺高，连篱笆共有6公尺之高，和Pearl Garden现在的围墙背靠背将高出许多。建成之後，这道墙和Pearl Garden的屋子只有4.5尺距离或一步之遥。
Pearl Garden的居民要求民都鲁发展局能重新考虑，要求把毗邻的地面降低，让两个住宅区的高低度不至于太悬殊。
两墙之间没有通道和沟渠，分界处有两道墙，而是背靠背。任何从新住宅区挡土墙排水孔流出的东西将直接流过Pearl Garden的篱笆进入其范围。
无论如何，这事情应从两方面去看。发展建屋让民众有机会买屋子住是应该赞许的，而民都鲁发展局批准建筑图则和计划所做的决定应该让我们都能快乐和融洽的和睦做邻居。
议长先生，
如果沿着Jalan Tun Hussien Onn，不是所有路口转入住宅区都有交通灯，当然我们也不能这样要求。但总该为这些路口做些事，因为情况越形混乱，尤其是SMK Bandar/Shell Station及SK Sibiew的路口。这些路口设计应该改进，因为使用这路口的车辆繁多，有些车辆就直接越过分界堤转弯而去，造成高速公路交通混乱和危险。而且夜间还有许多罗里停在路边。六里喑溝工程也要快做以暏车。
但是，有发觉到沿着Tun Hussien Onn路右转进 Taman YTD及其他处的路肩太短，造成两条直行车道之一大排长龙，除非要转完了，才能通过。我吁请把转弯的路肩加长。
即使如此，这也是短期的权宜办法以减轻Tun Hussien Onn路和Jalan Sultan Iskandar的交通拥挤。今天需要的是，这两条道路两边各需笫三条车道，筑成三线或四线的高速道。因为每天有越来越多的车辆上路。
Kidurong 路也是如此。我们必须在道路阻塞前，尽快的增加车道。我想问，从Petronas Housing到Bintulu Port的新路现况如何。
议长先生，
每个人都对从Tg. Batu海滩到ABF Housing 地区的新海滨大道甚感满意。这两公里的车程可观赏Tg. Batu海滩和南中国海及美丽的珊瑚礁。
沿着这道路驾车和沿着Michigan湖的湖滨道是完全不一样的，但感受却是一样。因为只有两公里，正如我所说，每个人都很享受。我希望至少部分的珊瑚礁能保留和发展成一个水上乐园和保留现有的海滩活动，以及增加一些水上运动。因为长久以来，这海滩是民都鲁人民的最佳的休闲好去处。今天湖里填土工程正在进行，一切都不一样了。
议长先生，
如果我说Tg.Batu Beach或 Tg. Kidurong Beach，这些名字马上让人明白，但若无说Pantai Temasya，你可能不知我说的是那个地方。是的，名字所做何为。名字是一个表记，都有一个故事。它拥有传承一个地方的所有传统的功能。
长久以来，Tg. Batu Beach就是在民都鲁Tg. Batu 的沙滩。那是我们长大而且每个人都有他或她的惦念、感情、记忆和故事的地方。Tg. Batu Beach这名字因此是个特别的地方，在我们心中占有特殊的地位，所以我们称这沙滩是我们的。这就是我们民都鲁人对这地方、这名字Tg. Batu Beach的感情。
今天，我们见到Pantai Temasya这名字立于沙滩上。换了名字，令人马上产生陌生感，似乎连地方也变了，感觉完全不对。 Tg. Batu Beach是在Tg. Batu的沙滩的名字。我知道民都鲁很多人都要保留这个名字，保留她的身份、她所有的故事和每个人对这沙滩的记忆。
议长先生，
处理重新筑路，民都鲁诗巫路段路况是每况愈下。许多车辆在使用这条道路，没理由不把这条路维持在最佳状况。
我也呼吁主要的修路工程应该把那些已破损的路段重新铺设，至少让它们看起来像条高速公路，也唯有高水准的作业和严格的监督才能办到。
议长先生，
林惠娥女士的丈夫Ngui Eng Song在1988年去世。当时她43岁，还有4个孩子要抚养。他也留下一块2.064亩的地，或称之为Lot 635, Kemana Land District。她丈夫生前在那栽种橡胶和果树。但到今天，那片地还未能转到她的名下，虽然她已经多次尝试和写了许多信，以及通过许多管道以获得过名给她。
民都鲁土地局在1997年致函给她，通知她说，她申请将地转给她不获批准。自此之後，她更积极的申请，不断以书信或亲身向有关方面申诉，但都不成功。
这片地是政府在1963年批给已故Mr. Ngui的。这是他唯一留给他妻子和孩子的遗产。今天Lim 女士仍然守寡，等待着土地转名给她。我呼吁土地局帮助她，把地还给她和发给她地契。
来自民都鲁-美里路41.5英里处Juna长屋的Majah Ak Sari 原本拥有一片约4英亩的土地，并用来种植油棕树。不幸的是，国油沙巴-砂拉越的天然气管恰恰从该土地的中间直接开过，造成该土地上被毁且不再适合用来种植油棕树，变成废地。
土地局只针对其0.019英亩的土地做出1000多令吉的赔偿。真很显然是不足够的，土地局最起码应该给予他足够购买新的一块土地的赔偿金，否则即将退休的他将面对没有明天的未来。
Majah先生已经上诉多次更多次写信给国油公司，可全都石沉入海到现在仍然音讯全无。我希望Majah的问题可以得到圆满的解决，不要因为发展而至使他失去他所拥有的一切。
Mr.Speaker
Sg. Plan16座组屋，数以百计的家庭由于拖欠房屋贷款，被房屋委员会将他们的屋子锁起及出售的厄运，除非他们在2010年11月9日之前将债务还清。
许多人感到非常恐慌，因为他们不知道要怎样还清债务。他们同时担心，一旦他们的屋子被锁，他们及家属们将无家可归。居住在该处的几乎是来自全砂的土著，如美里、尼亚、木胶、诗巫、加帛、泗里街、西联、民都鲁、Kemena、Kakus、Tamin等地区。
他们回答了住房委员会，并要求宽大处理，并重新安排其债务，并促请房屋委员会予以适当考虑，而不是对他们过于苛刻，锁定他们离开他们的家园和出售其单位。
我不容许那些可以付还而不偿还贷款的人。但是，这些真正无法支付的人，我促请房屋委员会向做出一个细节的调查，研究他们的背景和他们的收入，并制定了一项计划，重新安排他们偿还债务，使他们能够留在自己的家园。
谢谢！
Budget Speech DUN November 2010 Sitting (English Version)
Speech by Chiew Chin Sing, DAP Sarawak Deputy Chairman and Member of the Sarawak State Legislative Council for N59 Kidurong on the Debate of the Supply (2011) Bill 2010 and the Motion to refer the Estimates of Development Expenditure, 2010, on 4th November 2010 in the Sarawak State Legislative Council, Kuching, Sarawak.
Mr. Speaker, my heart sank ,when the bodies of the dead, one after another arrived at the mortuary at the Bintulu hospital, 13 of them, sent from Kelupu, Tatau river, where the Express boat and tug boat accident occurred.
We all wept with the families of the deceased and our sympathy go with them but no amount of tears or sorrows can bring back the lives of those who died. We thought about how could this had happened, in a land where rivers are many, and boat transportation had been our mode of transport since the early days.
We thought we have a sophisticated water transport system, and in place are our good boats, the rules and regulations. Yes, perhaps we have, but how often do we take a closer look at how things really are, and actually been travelling on a boat. Whether the boat operators are complying with the license conditions , how about the driver, the key man, to whom we entrust our lives in his hands, like the hand of the pilots of an airplane or a bus, is the maintenance on the boats sufficient, insurance, what about life vests, safety and escape procedures, ISO, river transport rules, so on and so forth.
Or are we not any better than the ferries and boats that had sank in our neighboring countries where we learnt of the neglects and mistakes made over and over again, though in place were the rules and regulations and their expertise also.
Are the lives of our people so cheap and worth so little like many other third world countries, that when we travel in our boats or even in our land transport system, the buses, the vans, cars that we are actually being transported around like goods instead of like an honorable and dignifying passenger.
It is high time that we tighten our transport system whether its land or water transport, that we give special attention to our drivers, such that they must be professional in all they do. Trained as a professional and work as a professional to up lift the whole standard of the job.
And give them the recognition which they deserve, when they are doing a good job. No more of the old days of short and slippers but to move up the notch of serving others in water transport with professionalism, as Sarawak is a land of rivers, and each day, hundreds of passengers boats sail up and down our rivers big or small in all divisions of our state. We must do all we can to constantly ensure that the lives of our passengers and the drivers are save and protected at all times especially those using the water ways.
Mr. Speaker,
The water ways below the Bakun Dam to Baleh River is gone, no more. What used to be the upper Rejang today is left with only a small muddy stream, with timber debris and sand bank on each side , ten, twenty times the width of the stream.
All of a sudden when Bakun started its impoundment on Oct 13 everything is changed. The place is all quiet and dead. The effect on the lives of the people, the eco system and environment there is too huge.
What used to be an hour boat ride from Bakun to Belaga now takes 3 hours and triple the fares, going through timber camp road to Belaga where the government offices are. Not to mention the longhouses affected from Bakun to Pelagus. The sufferings which the people there now face are really too much, too sudden and uncalled for.
Government ill prepare them for all these and even the road which was supposed to be build under the 8 Malaysia Plan from Bakun to Balaga was not build. What about the Bakun Airport which was so much talked about, it was planned for 747 landing, wasn’t it, it is not there.
The Bakun dam was supposed to bring so much high hopes to the people there, but to day they tastes only the bitter fruit of the development. I urge that government to look into the acute pains and sufferings felt by these people and take immediate actions to provide all the necessary helps that they need to pass through these hard times.
Mr. Speaker,
Mr. Terrence Anak Aloh and friends of the Similajau area, mile 31, Bintulu- Miri road. In 2006 this small group of enterprising locals had decided to take heed of the government’s advice to plant palm oil, and with what they have, they could only do it on small holdings in order to reduce their poverty. They started planting hundreds of acres of palm oil on their kampong and their temuda land.
They worked on the land, rented machines to opened up road and drains for their farm land. They bought the palm oil seedling and planted them. All their savings, EPF money, pension were all dumped in. One even sold his semi D in Bintulu to pay for the seedlings, fertilizer and other farm expenses.
The palm oil trees were growing well and Mr. Terrence and his friends were waiting for the rewards of their hard work, watching the palm oil trees grow every day.
But in early 2008 officers from the SAPU unit of the Forest Department came and told them that their temuda land is Forest Reserve land and thus the farming there were doing was on government land. All their farm tools and machineries then were taken to the Bintulu SAPU office and confiscated.
Meanwhile the palm oil trees grew on and many had started fruiting. But in April 2009, a contractor, claiming to be working for Daiken came to Mr. Terence and friends’ palm oil farm and started pushing over the fruiting palm oil trees with his kobelco crawler, thousands and thousands of them were over turned and killed overnight.
On the 18th of April, 2009, Mr. Terrance’ group made a police report about the incidence and although the contractor promised compensation but up to this day their request had been ignored.
Today with the palm oil tree turned over and died, Mr. Terrence and friends’ palm oil farm is all gone and planted with acacia trees by the contractor of Daiken. All the money, blood and sweat that was put in, by these enterprising local folks, planting palm oil on their temuda land had come to nothing, all has disappeared in thin air.
I believe that, had the government had more of the small holding farm folks in their hearts, instead of just the big companies, the palm oil planted by Mr. Terrence and his friends need not die a premature death, being turned over and died so that acacia can be planted.
If the government can sell the Forest Reserve land to a foreign company like Daiken for planting acacia, why can’t the government sell it to Mr. Terrence and his friends, the sons of our own soil.
Mr. Terrence and his friends urge that the government to think also the importance of small holders farming in Sarawak and to let them have a place under the sun. They hope that the government could also interfere in this case with regards to their compensation and that they be given a place to survive in one’s own homeland.
I call on the government that when we bring in the big development we should never forget our own people on the ground. We must make sure that they too can be a part of the development and do not loose anything but stand to gain even more from what they had.
But this is not the case always, like the case of En Hassan B Ayup who had bought four acres of Tanah Temuda at Sg. Plan Besar, Jalan Market Garden Road, Bintulu, from En Sulaiman Bin Bakar in July of 1978 as being witnessed by the late Penghulu Hj Hamzah Bin Keria .
There are about 20 others who had bought land there and are similarly claiming their Tanah Temuda there. There was even a record of this in Land and Survey Miri, in 1983, but today there is no mention anywhere of government’s record that those were theTanah Temuda of En. Sulaiman Bin Bakar, a Bintulu Melanau, who had sold his land to En Hassan B Ayup and others. Though it is a fact and well known to all the Bintulu Melanau that during the pre development days of Bintulu, the Melanau had lived there and were farming and fishing in the area.
Had there been a friendlier development, En Hasan B Ayup and the 20 others probably would still have their Tanah Temuda. But with the development of Bintulu, there lands were gone, no more. What they bought came to nothing and vanish in thin air. Today the land belongs to someone else.
But the irony of the whole thing is that as easy as the natives loose their lands, big company were easily getting lands in Bintulu. How could it be right to give land to big companies and for 99 years without even open tender and with hardly anybody knowing about it. Where is transparency? Like the near hundred acres of the old airport land and the 200 hectares of the ABF Housing beach land and others given to private companies. Why were there no open tender for sales of these prime lands which could bring in so much revenue for our state government to help our state and our people.
Another irony of the whole thing is that while lands were given away without tender, but those people who had stayed in shacks for decades and decades and who are in desperate need for a plot of land to build a house to stay, the government cannot even allocate a small piece of land for the whole community. Yet we have hectares and hectares of mix zone prime land and thousand and thousands hectares of rural agriculture lands given to big plantation companies.
Mr. Speaker,
Although a large part of the land under section 47 had been released earlier this year after years and years of unhappiness and outcry by the people in Bintulu. There are still quite a bit of which, that are still not released. The government said that many of those are for infrastructures development and others.
I am talking about the land at the near side of the Kemena river at the Nyigu road area, many of these lands are still under section 47. Like other lands in Bintulu if they could be released from section 47, why not these. They are all Bintulu land and what ever development studies or planning that needs to be done, after some thirty odd years now, should all have been done already and those not required should be released like those lands that had been released. It is therefore urged that these lands be released immediately of section 47 also. Land owners are afraid of having to wait again, as the last time they waited, they waited for thirty odd years. I therefore say, land that are acquired under section 47 and not used, be released automatically in 2 years.
Mr. Speaker,
I have a copy of a letter jointly signed by 60 house owners of Lot 44, Pearl Garden, Block 32, Kemena Land District or at Jalan Sibiew, Bintulu. Home owners of the Pearl Garden are very concerned and sad about the approval of the housing estate level by the authority for the development of an adjourning neighbouring lot into another housing estate. The level of the new housing estate is at a level much higher than that of the adjacent existing Pearl Garden and as a result, a retaining is built between the two at the boundaries.
The retaining wall of the new housing estate is 3.5 meter high and together with a fence, the whole wall will be 6 meter high, back to back with Pearl Garden existing wall, and towering over their houses. After completion, the distance between the retaining wall and the Pearl Garden house is only four and half feet apart or a step away.
Pearl Garden home owners are asking the authority to reconsider in giving the approval to the adjacent lot to a lower level, instead of the big difference in level of the two housing estates. Because with a double wall at the boundary, back to back, whatever that flows out from the weeps holes of the retaining wall of the new housing estate, is coming out and flowing onto the fences and compounds of the Pearl Garden Folks.
Whichever the case may be it is urged that the matter be looked into again from and with, both sides. We appreciate housing developers making houses for people to buy and live in and the BDA in approving building plans and projects, but whatever we do, decisions we make, make sure that it can help us to live together happily and harmoniously as good and happy neighbours
Mr. Speaker,
Along the Jalan Tun Hussein Onn, not all junctions, going into the many housing estates, has traffic lights, and of course we cannot have that. But however, something has to be done at these junctions, as it is getting messy, especially the junctions at the SMK Bandar/Shell Station and SK Sibiew. These junctions have to be better planned and developed, as too many cars are using or not using these junctions, some just drive across the road median and make a turn, making driving on the highway quite disorderly and dangerous indeed. Apart from that lorries parking alongside the road at night and the snail pace culvert construction at mile 6 are causing problems there too.
However, it was noted that along the Tun Hussein Onn Road, the right turning shoulder lanes to Taman YTD and others are all very short, queuing into, one of the two straight going lanes, making it passable only when the turning is done. It is urged that the turning shoulder lanes must be lengthened.
But even with that, I think this could only be a short term measure to alleviate the congested traffic along the Tun Hussein Onn road and Jalan Sultan Iskandar. What is needed today is a third lane on each side for these two roads, making them into 3 or four lanes highways, as more and more cars join us every day on the road.
Such is also the case at the Kidurong road. We need to add more lanes to the road urgently, before the road is jam stuck. And what is the status of the new road going to and from the Petronas Housing to the Bintulu Port, may I ask.
Mr. Speaker,
Every body enjoys so much the new sea shore road, leading from Tg. Batu Beach to the ABF Housing area. The 2 KM drive have a pleasant view of the Tg. Batu Beach, the south China Sea and the beautiful lagoon.
Driving along the road, though is not completely like driving along the Lake Shore Drive of Lake Michigan, but the feeling is the same. Because it is only 2 KM, and like I say, every body is enjoying it, it is hoped that at least a part of the lagoon could be retained and developed into a water park, incorporating and keeping much of the existing sea shore activities, and adding on some water sports. This is because for so long already, this beach area had been one of the favorite places for rest and relaxation for the people in Bintulu. But today with the earth filling works going on in the lagoon all is going to be different.
Mr. Speaker,
If I say Tg. Batu Beach or Tg. Kidurong Beach these names ring a bell immediately. But if I say Pantai Temasya, you would probably wonder where that is. Yes, for what is in a name. A name is an identity, it tells a story. It carries with it the heritage and all the traditions of a place.
For as long as many of us know, Tg. Batu Beach had been the name of the beach at Tg. Batu, that famous place in Bintulu where many of us grew up with and each having his or her own affinity, feeling, memories and story of the place. The name Tg. Batu Beach thus have become a special place, occupying a special part in our hearts and therefore we call the beach our own. That is how it is for all of us in Bintulu with regards to the place and name Tg. Batu Beach.
Today we see the name Pantai Temasya placed at the beach. Seeing the name changed, one immediately get a feeling of it being quite foreign, as if the place has changed, it is just not the same feeling. Tg. Batu Beach is the name of the beach at Tg. Batu, I know many people in Bintulu would like to keep it that way, keeping her identity and all the stories and memories of the beech for each and every one of us.
Mr. Speaker,
Bintulu Sibu road is getting worse and worse and it can only get worse until they are done over. There are so many cars using this road and no reason that the road should not be kept in top notch condition. I urge that major road repair be done to those stretches that are worn out already and lay down a new stretch and make them at least look like a highway which is only possible with high quality works and close supervision.
Mr. Speaker,
Madam Lim Hui Ngo’s husband Ngui Eng Song died in 1988 when she was 43 years old, leaving her 4 children to raise. He also left a 2.064 acre land lot, known as Lot 635, Kemana Land District which her husband had planted rubber trees and fruit trees. But up this day the land is not transferred to her name yet even though she had tried many times, written some many letters and through so many avenues to get the land transfer to her name.
Land and Survey, Bintulu in 1997 wrote a letter to her and told her that her application for the issuance of title for the above lot is not approved and since then she had been trying even harder, making appeal after appeal through letters or personally to all concerned but all to no avail.
The land was given to the late Mr. Ngui in 1963 by the government then and this was the only property which he had left for his wife and the children. Today madam Lim is still a widower waiting for the transfer of the land to her name. I therefore urge that the Land and Survey Department to help her in this case and give her back the land and issue her the land title.
Mr. Speaker,
Mr. Majah Anak Sari of Rh Juna, Mile 41.5, Bintulu –Miri road, had about 4 acres of land near his longhouse where he had planted palm oil tress. But sadly the Petronas Sabah-Sarawak pipe passed by right through the middle of his land bull dozing off his palm oil making his land completely not useable anymore because it passed through the middle.
Land and Survey compensated him only 0.019 acres or an amount of over a thousand ringgit. It is really not enough, at least pay him enough money so that he can buy another piece of land as this is all that he has, and now all broken up. He and his family need a piece of land for a living after his pension soon.
Mr. Majah had made so many appeals and wrote many letters even to Petronas but all to no avail. I hope that his problem can be solved so that Mr. Majah does not have to loss everything because of development.
Mr. Speaker,
Hundred and hundred of the over thousand units of the 16 blocks of flat housing at Sg. Plan owed housing loans to the Housing Commission and are facing having their homes locked in by the Housing Commission and sold off unless they settle their outstanding debt by 9th of Nov, 2010.
Many are getting panicky as they do not know where to get the money to pay off the debt. They are worried because once their flat unit is locked in, where are they going to stay, what about their children and their elderly. Almost all who stay there are the natives who have come from all over Sarawak, from Miri, Niah, Kemena, Kakus, Mukah, Tamin, Sibu, Kapit, Sarikei, Betong, Serian and others coming to Bintulu to find a living.
They have written to the Housing Commission and ask for leniency and to reschedule their debts and I urge that the Housing Commission to give them due consideration and not to be too harsh on them, locking them out of their homes and selling off their flats. What else do they have?
I am not condoning those who can pay but are not paying, these people should pay up. But there those who genuinely cannot pay and I urge that Housing Commission do a detail survey into this, to study their background and their income level and work out a plan to reschedule their debts so that they can stay on in their homes.
Thank you.
Mr. Speaker, my heart sank ,when the bodies of the dead, one after another arrived at the mortuary at the Bintulu hospital, 13 of them, sent from Kelupu, Tatau river, where the Express boat and tug boat accident occurred.
We all wept with the families of the deceased and our sympathy go with them but no amount of tears or sorrows can bring back the lives of those who died. We thought about how could this had happened, in a land where rivers are many, and boat transportation had been our mode of transport since the early days.
We thought we have a sophisticated water transport system, and in place are our good boats, the rules and regulations. Yes, perhaps we have, but how often do we take a closer look at how things really are, and actually been travelling on a boat. Whether the boat operators are complying with the license conditions , how about the driver, the key man, to whom we entrust our lives in his hands, like the hand of the pilots of an airplane or a bus, is the maintenance on the boats sufficient, insurance, what about life vests, safety and escape procedures, ISO, river transport rules, so on and so forth.
Or are we not any better than the ferries and boats that had sank in our neighboring countries where we learnt of the neglects and mistakes made over and over again, though in place were the rules and regulations and their expertise also.
Are the lives of our people so cheap and worth so little like many other third world countries, that when we travel in our boats or even in our land transport system, the buses, the vans, cars that we are actually being transported around like goods instead of like an honorable and dignifying passenger.
It is high time that we tighten our transport system whether its land or water transport, that we give special attention to our drivers, such that they must be professional in all they do. Trained as a professional and work as a professional to up lift the whole standard of the job.
And give them the recognition which they deserve, when they are doing a good job. No more of the old days of short and slippers but to move up the notch of serving others in water transport with professionalism, as Sarawak is a land of rivers, and each day, hundreds of passengers boats sail up and down our rivers big or small in all divisions of our state. We must do all we can to constantly ensure that the lives of our passengers and the drivers are save and protected at all times especially those using the water ways.
Mr. Speaker,
The water ways below the Bakun Dam to Baleh River is gone, no more. What used to be the upper Rejang today is left with only a small muddy stream, with timber debris and sand bank on each side , ten, twenty times the width of the stream.
All of a sudden when Bakun started its impoundment on Oct 13 everything is changed. The place is all quiet and dead. The effect on the lives of the people, the eco system and environment there is too huge.
What used to be an hour boat ride from Bakun to Belaga now takes 3 hours and triple the fares, going through timber camp road to Belaga where the government offices are. Not to mention the longhouses affected from Bakun to Pelagus. The sufferings which the people there now face are really too much, too sudden and uncalled for.
Government ill prepare them for all these and even the road which was supposed to be build under the 8 Malaysia Plan from Bakun to Balaga was not build. What about the Bakun Airport which was so much talked about, it was planned for 747 landing, wasn’t it, it is not there.
The Bakun dam was supposed to bring so much high hopes to the people there, but to day they tastes only the bitter fruit of the development. I urge that government to look into the acute pains and sufferings felt by these people and take immediate actions to provide all the necessary helps that they need to pass through these hard times.
Mr. Speaker,
Mr. Terrence Anak Aloh and friends of the Similajau area, mile 31, Bintulu- Miri road. In 2006 this small group of enterprising locals had decided to take heed of the government’s advice to plant palm oil, and with what they have, they could only do it on small holdings in order to reduce their poverty. They started planting hundreds of acres of palm oil on their kampong and their temuda land.
They worked on the land, rented machines to opened up road and drains for their farm land. They bought the palm oil seedling and planted them. All their savings, EPF money, pension were all dumped in. One even sold his semi D in Bintulu to pay for the seedlings, fertilizer and other farm expenses.
The palm oil trees were growing well and Mr. Terrence and his friends were waiting for the rewards of their hard work, watching the palm oil trees grow every day.
But in early 2008 officers from the SAPU unit of the Forest Department came and told them that their temuda land is Forest Reserve land and thus the farming there were doing was on government land. All their farm tools and machineries then were taken to the Bintulu SAPU office and confiscated.
Meanwhile the palm oil trees grew on and many had started fruiting. But in April 2009, a contractor, claiming to be working for Daiken came to Mr. Terence and friends’ palm oil farm and started pushing over the fruiting palm oil trees with his kobelco crawler, thousands and thousands of them were over turned and killed overnight.
On the 18th of April, 2009, Mr. Terrance’ group made a police report about the incidence and although the contractor promised compensation but up to this day their request had been ignored.
Today with the palm oil tree turned over and died, Mr. Terrence and friends’ palm oil farm is all gone and planted with acacia trees by the contractor of Daiken. All the money, blood and sweat that was put in, by these enterprising local folks, planting palm oil on their temuda land had come to nothing, all has disappeared in thin air.
I believe that, had the government had more of the small holding farm folks in their hearts, instead of just the big companies, the palm oil planted by Mr. Terrence and his friends need not die a premature death, being turned over and died so that acacia can be planted.
If the government can sell the Forest Reserve land to a foreign company like Daiken for planting acacia, why can’t the government sell it to Mr. Terrence and his friends, the sons of our own soil.
Mr. Terrence and his friends urge that the government to think also the importance of small holders farming in Sarawak and to let them have a place under the sun. They hope that the government could also interfere in this case with regards to their compensation and that they be given a place to survive in one’s own homeland.
I call on the government that when we bring in the big development we should never forget our own people on the ground. We must make sure that they too can be a part of the development and do not loose anything but stand to gain even more from what they had.
But this is not the case always, like the case of En Hassan B Ayup who had bought four acres of Tanah Temuda at Sg. Plan Besar, Jalan Market Garden Road, Bintulu, from En Sulaiman Bin Bakar in July of 1978 as being witnessed by the late Penghulu Hj Hamzah Bin Keria .
There are about 20 others who had bought land there and are similarly claiming their Tanah Temuda there. There was even a record of this in Land and Survey Miri, in 1983, but today there is no mention anywhere of government’s record that those were theTanah Temuda of En. Sulaiman Bin Bakar, a Bintulu Melanau, who had sold his land to En Hassan B Ayup and others. Though it is a fact and well known to all the Bintulu Melanau that during the pre development days of Bintulu, the Melanau had lived there and were farming and fishing in the area.
Had there been a friendlier development, En Hasan B Ayup and the 20 others probably would still have their Tanah Temuda. But with the development of Bintulu, there lands were gone, no more. What they bought came to nothing and vanish in thin air. Today the land belongs to someone else.
But the irony of the whole thing is that as easy as the natives loose their lands, big company were easily getting lands in Bintulu. How could it be right to give land to big companies and for 99 years without even open tender and with hardly anybody knowing about it. Where is transparency? Like the near hundred acres of the old airport land and the 200 hectares of the ABF Housing beach land and others given to private companies. Why were there no open tender for sales of these prime lands which could bring in so much revenue for our state government to help our state and our people.
Another irony of the whole thing is that while lands were given away without tender, but those people who had stayed in shacks for decades and decades and who are in desperate need for a plot of land to build a house to stay, the government cannot even allocate a small piece of land for the whole community. Yet we have hectares and hectares of mix zone prime land and thousand and thousands hectares of rural agriculture lands given to big plantation companies.
Mr. Speaker,
Although a large part of the land under section 47 had been released earlier this year after years and years of unhappiness and outcry by the people in Bintulu. There are still quite a bit of which, that are still not released. The government said that many of those are for infrastructures development and others.
I am talking about the land at the near side of the Kemena river at the Nyigu road area, many of these lands are still under section 47. Like other lands in Bintulu if they could be released from section 47, why not these. They are all Bintulu land and what ever development studies or planning that needs to be done, after some thirty odd years now, should all have been done already and those not required should be released like those lands that had been released. It is therefore urged that these lands be released immediately of section 47 also. Land owners are afraid of having to wait again, as the last time they waited, they waited for thirty odd years. I therefore say, land that are acquired under section 47 and not used, be released automatically in 2 years.
Mr. Speaker,
I have a copy of a letter jointly signed by 60 house owners of Lot 44, Pearl Garden, Block 32, Kemena Land District or at Jalan Sibiew, Bintulu. Home owners of the Pearl Garden are very concerned and sad about the approval of the housing estate level by the authority for the development of an adjourning neighbouring lot into another housing estate. The level of the new housing estate is at a level much higher than that of the adjacent existing Pearl Garden and as a result, a retaining is built between the two at the boundaries.
The retaining wall of the new housing estate is 3.5 meter high and together with a fence, the whole wall will be 6 meter high, back to back with Pearl Garden existing wall, and towering over their houses. After completion, the distance between the retaining wall and the Pearl Garden house is only four and half feet apart or a step away.
Pearl Garden home owners are asking the authority to reconsider in giving the approval to the adjacent lot to a lower level, instead of the big difference in level of the two housing estates. Because with a double wall at the boundary, back to back, whatever that flows out from the weeps holes of the retaining wall of the new housing estate, is coming out and flowing onto the fences and compounds of the Pearl Garden Folks.
Whichever the case may be it is urged that the matter be looked into again from and with, both sides. We appreciate housing developers making houses for people to buy and live in and the BDA in approving building plans and projects, but whatever we do, decisions we make, make sure that it can help us to live together happily and harmoniously as good and happy neighbours
Mr. Speaker,
Along the Jalan Tun Hussein Onn, not all junctions, going into the many housing estates, has traffic lights, and of course we cannot have that. But however, something has to be done at these junctions, as it is getting messy, especially the junctions at the SMK Bandar/Shell Station and SK Sibiew. These junctions have to be better planned and developed, as too many cars are using or not using these junctions, some just drive across the road median and make a turn, making driving on the highway quite disorderly and dangerous indeed. Apart from that lorries parking alongside the road at night and the snail pace culvert construction at mile 6 are causing problems there too.
However, it was noted that along the Tun Hussein Onn Road, the right turning shoulder lanes to Taman YTD and others are all very short, queuing into, one of the two straight going lanes, making it passable only when the turning is done. It is urged that the turning shoulder lanes must be lengthened.
But even with that, I think this could only be a short term measure to alleviate the congested traffic along the Tun Hussein Onn road and Jalan Sultan Iskandar. What is needed today is a third lane on each side for these two roads, making them into 3 or four lanes highways, as more and more cars join us every day on the road.
Such is also the case at the Kidurong road. We need to add more lanes to the road urgently, before the road is jam stuck. And what is the status of the new road going to and from the Petronas Housing to the Bintulu Port, may I ask.
Mr. Speaker,
Every body enjoys so much the new sea shore road, leading from Tg. Batu Beach to the ABF Housing area. The 2 KM drive have a pleasant view of the Tg. Batu Beach, the south China Sea and the beautiful lagoon.
Driving along the road, though is not completely like driving along the Lake Shore Drive of Lake Michigan, but the feeling is the same. Because it is only 2 KM, and like I say, every body is enjoying it, it is hoped that at least a part of the lagoon could be retained and developed into a water park, incorporating and keeping much of the existing sea shore activities, and adding on some water sports. This is because for so long already, this beach area had been one of the favorite places for rest and relaxation for the people in Bintulu. But today with the earth filling works going on in the lagoon all is going to be different.
Mr. Speaker,
If I say Tg. Batu Beach or Tg. Kidurong Beach these names ring a bell immediately. But if I say Pantai Temasya, you would probably wonder where that is. Yes, for what is in a name. A name is an identity, it tells a story. It carries with it the heritage and all the traditions of a place.
For as long as many of us know, Tg. Batu Beach had been the name of the beach at Tg. Batu, that famous place in Bintulu where many of us grew up with and each having his or her own affinity, feeling, memories and story of the place. The name Tg. Batu Beach thus have become a special place, occupying a special part in our hearts and therefore we call the beach our own. That is how it is for all of us in Bintulu with regards to the place and name Tg. Batu Beach.
Today we see the name Pantai Temasya placed at the beach. Seeing the name changed, one immediately get a feeling of it being quite foreign, as if the place has changed, it is just not the same feeling. Tg. Batu Beach is the name of the beach at Tg. Batu, I know many people in Bintulu would like to keep it that way, keeping her identity and all the stories and memories of the beech for each and every one of us.
Mr. Speaker,
Bintulu Sibu road is getting worse and worse and it can only get worse until they are done over. There are so many cars using this road and no reason that the road should not be kept in top notch condition. I urge that major road repair be done to those stretches that are worn out already and lay down a new stretch and make them at least look like a highway which is only possible with high quality works and close supervision.
Mr. Speaker,
Madam Lim Hui Ngo’s husband Ngui Eng Song died in 1988 when she was 43 years old, leaving her 4 children to raise. He also left a 2.064 acre land lot, known as Lot 635, Kemana Land District which her husband had planted rubber trees and fruit trees. But up this day the land is not transferred to her name yet even though she had tried many times, written some many letters and through so many avenues to get the land transfer to her name.
Land and Survey, Bintulu in 1997 wrote a letter to her and told her that her application for the issuance of title for the above lot is not approved and since then she had been trying even harder, making appeal after appeal through letters or personally to all concerned but all to no avail.
The land was given to the late Mr. Ngui in 1963 by the government then and this was the only property which he had left for his wife and the children. Today madam Lim is still a widower waiting for the transfer of the land to her name. I therefore urge that the Land and Survey Department to help her in this case and give her back the land and issue her the land title.
Mr. Speaker,
Mr. Majah Anak Sari of Rh Juna, Mile 41.5, Bintulu –Miri road, had about 4 acres of land near his longhouse where he had planted palm oil tress. But sadly the Petronas Sabah-Sarawak pipe passed by right through the middle of his land bull dozing off his palm oil making his land completely not useable anymore because it passed through the middle.
Land and Survey compensated him only 0.019 acres or an amount of over a thousand ringgit. It is really not enough, at least pay him enough money so that he can buy another piece of land as this is all that he has, and now all broken up. He and his family need a piece of land for a living after his pension soon.
Mr. Majah had made so many appeals and wrote many letters even to Petronas but all to no avail. I hope that his problem can be solved so that Mr. Majah does not have to loss everything because of development.
Mr. Speaker,
Hundred and hundred of the over thousand units of the 16 blocks of flat housing at Sg. Plan owed housing loans to the Housing Commission and are facing having their homes locked in by the Housing Commission and sold off unless they settle their outstanding debt by 9th of Nov, 2010.
Many are getting panicky as they do not know where to get the money to pay off the debt. They are worried because once their flat unit is locked in, where are they going to stay, what about their children and their elderly. Almost all who stay there are the natives who have come from all over Sarawak, from Miri, Niah, Kemena, Kakus, Mukah, Tamin, Sibu, Kapit, Sarikei, Betong, Serian and others coming to Bintulu to find a living.
They have written to the Housing Commission and ask for leniency and to reschedule their debts and I urge that the Housing Commission to give them due consideration and not to be too harsh on them, locking them out of their homes and selling off their flats. What else do they have?
I am not condoning those who can pay but are not paying, these people should pay up. But there those who genuinely cannot pay and I urge that Housing Commission do a detail survey into this, to study their background and their income level and work out a plan to reschedule their debts so that they can stay on in their homes.
Thank you.
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