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KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 29, 2014:
The 1963 Malaysia Agreement failed to live up to its purpose, a Sabahan politician and a human rights activist claimed.
State Reform Party (STAR) chief Datuk Dr Jeffrey Kitingan said the reality in Sabah and Sarawak now was different from what was written in the Malaysian Agreement 1963.
East Malaysia, he claimed, was “rushed” into agreeing to merge with Malaya, and that Sabah and Sarawak were politically immature for the merger.
“They were also made to feel that if we didn’t accept the merger, we would have been branded as ‘traitors.
“It should have been a merger of partnership and not a takeover,” he said at a forum called Revisiting Malaysia Agreement 1963, organised by Negara-ku, at the KL Selangor Chinese Assembly Hall (KLSCAH).
Jeffrey said the reality today differed from what the country’s first Prime Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman had said during the merger, which was that Sabah and Sarawak would gain self-governance and absolute independence.
The 20 points agreement, he said, was breached, while “Project IC” had seen many foreigners gaining IC as locals. Project IC is the moniker given to describe the allegation of systematically granting citizenship to immigrants
The federal government, Jeffrey said, took Sabah’s oil and resources and returned only 5% of the profits.
Sabahans, he added, were also asked to wave their rights to royalty of their own resources.
He said they had to correct the system by revisiting the Malaysia Agreement.
“Let us resolve the disparity.”
Suhakam vice-chairman Tan Sri Simon Sipaun said the Malayan Constitution was a “cut and paste” and became the Malaysian Constitution.
“We were never consulted.”
He said the contents of the 20-point memorandum was breached many times when the Constitution was amended in 1976.
“I would have included an escape clause in case it was breached.”
Sipaun said the agreement could be revisited and there was hope for the future if this was done.
Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia’s Institute of Malaysian and International Studies academician Dr Helen Ting said what was most apparent in Sarawak was the socio-economic disparity with the peninsula.
Also in attendance was Negara-ku patrons national laureate Pak Samad and former Bar Council chairman Datuk Ambiga Sreenevasan as well as Komas director Jerald Joseph, Pertubuhan Ikram Malaysia vice-president Zaid Kamaruddin.
http://www.therakyatpost.com/news/2014/09/29/malaysia-agreement-failed-live-purpose-says-jeffrey/
KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 29, 2014:
The 1963 Malaysia Agreement failed to live up to its purpose, a Sabahan politician and a human rights activist claimed.
State Reform Party (STAR) chief Datuk Dr Jeffrey Kitingan said the reality in Sabah and Sarawak now was different from what was written in the Malaysian Agreement 1963.
East Malaysia, he claimed, was “rushed” into agreeing to merge with Malaya, and that Sabah and Sarawak were politically immature for the merger.
“They were also made to feel that if we didn’t accept the merger, we would have been branded as ‘traitors.
“It should have been a merger of partnership and not a takeover,” he said at a forum called Revisiting Malaysia Agreement 1963, organised by Negara-ku, at the KL Selangor Chinese Assembly Hall (KLSCAH).
Jeffrey said the reality today differed from what the country’s first Prime Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman had said during the merger, which was that Sabah and Sarawak would gain self-governance and absolute independence.
The 20 points agreement, he said, was breached, while “Project IC” had seen many foreigners gaining IC as locals. Project IC is the moniker given to describe the allegation of systematically granting citizenship to immigrants
The federal government, Jeffrey said, took Sabah’s oil and resources and returned only 5% of the profits.
Sabahans, he added, were also asked to wave their rights to royalty of their own resources.
He said they had to correct the system by revisiting the Malaysia Agreement.
“Let us resolve the disparity.”
Suhakam vice-chairman Tan Sri Simon Sipaun said the Malayan Constitution was a “cut and paste” and became the Malaysian Constitution.
“We were never consulted.”
He said the contents of the 20-point memorandum was breached many times when the Constitution was amended in 1976.
“I would have included an escape clause in case it was breached.”
Sipaun said the agreement could be revisited and there was hope for the future if this was done.
Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia’s Institute of Malaysian and International Studies academician Dr Helen Ting said what was most apparent in Sarawak was the socio-economic disparity with the peninsula.
Also in attendance was Negara-ku patrons national laureate Pak Samad and former Bar Council chairman Datuk Ambiga Sreenevasan as well as Komas director Jerald Joseph, Pertubuhan Ikram Malaysia vice-president Zaid Kamaruddin.
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