
Photo above showed DAP's land issue signature campaign in the remote district of Durin.
DAP Sarawak urge the SUPP and the state BN government to stop fooling the people again about their rights to properties ownership. The new policies announced are not only unfair, unjust and unethical but outright outrageous in every sense.
Sarawak people deserve better! We deserve to be treated as the true masters of Sarawak and truly be treated as such. We are not begging for our own rights but demand that such rights be honored by the government that was put in place by the people. As the government is by the people, it has to be of the people and for the people. Our CM and his cabinet have to understand that we are living in a democratic country and they were elected to serve the people and the state and not the other way round.
The basic rights of all Sarawakian have to start from property’s ownership as the land is our “roots”, without true ownership, how could we call ourselves the masters of Sarawak. How could we call ourselves Sarawakian if we can’t even able to defend our properties against the policies of our elected government?
We do not want any nonsense policies that treated us as fool. The voice of the people have to be heard and they are all crying out “NO” very loudly to the new land policies announced by Sarawak’s second minister of planning and resources, Datuk Sri Awang Tengah on the 26th of May 2007 in Miri.
NO! We do not want and we do not have to “buy” back our own properties after 60 years or 99 years. It is absolutely ridiculous and barbaric for the government to ask the people to buy back what they already “owned”. It is like robbing the people in broad day light.
The DAP stand is very clear and firm, that the Sarawak Land Code must give unconditional and automatic renewal to all the land leases upon their expiry. The 1958 Sarawak Land Code must be amended to protect the rights of properties ownership such as SS. 26-27(renewal and compensation) and SS. 47-48(red line).
The people of Sarawak must stand firm on this issue and must not have any disillusion that the SUPP can stand up for their rights. We must stand united and the ballot papers must be fully utilized to make our stand known. Only through political pressure would be able to see a change in the government’s policies, towards this end, the equation of check and balance is critical.
DAP Sarawak publicity Sec.,
David Wong