Abdullah says "Thank You" and we say "No thanks to U"

In conjunction with the national level Gawai Dayak celebration, the prime minister flew in to the Land of the Hornbill on the 14th June 2008. During the speech addressed to the people, he thanks the Sarawakian for giving their total support to the BN in the 308 general election. The overwhelming support of the Sarawakian made Sarawak BN the biggest winner and contributed 30 out of the 31 parliamentary seats to the BN.


The PM obviously lost sight of the fact that most of the Sarawakian have regretted for having given the BN such support for in less than 90 days, the BN government announced the biggest fuel prices hike on the 4th of June 2008. The pump price for petrol and diesel was raised by 78 sen per litre and RM 1.00 per litre respectively.


The fuel prices hike was most unexpected by the Sarawakian as even the minister of Domestic Trade had announced just on the 2nd of June that the price of fuels would be adjusted in August. Furthermore, Sarawakian are of the opinion that we should not be made to suffer when we produce 1/3 of the nation oils and gas which had benefited the state oil, Petronas, and the federal government. In simple calculation, Sarawak contributed around RM 30 billions last year and we were paid the oil royalty of only 5 % since the early 70's. Even a primary school student knows that every Sarawakain would get around RM 12,000 per annum if the total amount (RM 30 billion) is to be evenly distributed to all the Sarawakian.

Furthermore, the inflation spiral caused by the fuel prices hike would increase the number of Malaysian living in poverty , failing businesses, unemployment, crimes and family and social problems. All these could not be negated by a simple "thank you" from the PM who had made the decision hastily without sparing a thought to the people that would be affected.


If the PM asks any Sarawakian, he/she would say "No thanks, we do not accept it and lets hold another election now if you want to know how we feel". We will do whatever we feel is appropriate until the BN government reverse its decision. So to the PM, I would say "Please stand down and reverse the fuel price hike decision immediately"



David Wong
DAP Sarawak publicity sec.,
16-06-2008