Sarawak ranks second highest in teenage pregnancy cases

*Sarawak ranks second highest in teenage pregnancy cases

     KUCHING: The State’s teenage pregnancy index this year from January until June, has recorded a total of 1264 cases compared to 2909 cases recorded in 2015.

     Sarawak still ranks the second highest in number of teenage pregnancies after Sabah in 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2016, said Minister of Welfare, Women and Community Wellbeing, Datuk Hajah Fatimah Abdullah .

     “We want to decrease another 20 per cent or until the number of teenage pregnancies is below 100 cases. Thus, another aspect to be highlighted is on creating awareness of and carrying out the advocacy to prevent teenage pregnancy so that we could decrease the number,” she said during the closing ceremony for Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) to OSTPC Workshop at Merdeka Palace Hotel, here yesterday.

     It is crucial for the OSTPC committee to come out with the Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) to ensure all matters of OSTPC committee in divisional and district level understand the purpose of OSTPC and on how to improve better services for teenage mothers, she added.

     “In OSTPC we are not only treating the symptom but we also want to go through on the root causes of the problem in order to reduce the number of teenage pregnancies.

     “We must understand that in OSTPC, we do not encourage marriage at a young age, the services will provide the necessary needs for the mother and child, to ensure no recurrence of cases and to monitor there is no case of abandoned babies and abortion,” she pointed out.

     Fatimah added that another worrying issue was on the increased number of unmarried teenage pregnancies.

      “According to the statistic by the Health Department, in 2014, the number of teenage pregnancy cases was 3401 cases of which 1201 cases involved teenagers who were not married while in 2015, the number of teenage pregnancies recorded was 2909 cases of which 1410 cases involved teenagers who were not married.

     “Up to June this year,  with 1264 cases recorded, 82 cases involved teenagers who were not married,” she pointed out.

     Meanwhile, Fatimah also stated that the ministry would ink a memorandum of understanding (MOU) and strategic partnership with the Royal Malaysian Police (PDRM) on cases of rape, violence against women and children, suicide, drug addiction, sexual abuse, domestic violence and teenage pregnancy in order to curb the issues and crimes that affect women and family.

     “Besides that, on suicide case, I have spoken to *Sarawak Crime Investigation Department (CID) chief, SAC Dev Kumar Sree Shunmugam, on allowing the ministry to look into the statistics on suicide case.

     “We would like to see whether there is any increase in trend and what is the motive of the suicide cases.   We would also look into the need of creating an agency or body to look into detail of these suicide cases,” she said

comments:

     Have they identified the root causes of the problem?  They have identify the problem and they have found the solution.  But they still have not identified the root causes of the problem.  This is the problem of the BN government.  Spending too much time studying the problem and finding the solution without identifying the causes.  Hence, ……………………..

     Are our Sarawak economic conditions and the education condition not directly or indirectly related to these problems?  I think Fatimah and her team not only should study the problematic groups but also should study the families who are exempt from these problems to find out the real causes of these problems. 

     Are domestic violence, suicide and the like not linked to the Sarawak economic conditions and education?

     Why has Sarawak bestowed with so much resources become abjectly or appallingly poor?    Why?????????????????????????

程明智：缺乏设施： 翼公众捐款乡区学校 诗华日报（29日报章中

程明智：缺乏设施： 翼公众捐款乡区学校 诗华日报（29日报章中区）

砂Adenan的政治秘书程明智律师。。。。。。。无法在网上找的全文

（SK Assan Nunggang）每个区不是都有BN-部长代表。 一个部长每年有RM1,000,000.  再加上国会代表超越RM 一百万的拨款，怎么都舍不得拿出来给学校呢？ 任何政府应改承当的事。 常常把它推给人民。 很多无知的公众就被这些很狡猾的政治精英出卖了，耍弄还不知道。 

      程律师有出RM1,000 赞助呢。

     程律师说得“ 很美好” 政府拨款通常都是很慢。所以他认为公众应该协助学校解决学校的不时之需。 这是砂一直以来的问题。因为，我们的政府官员都是这么模样办事。 税收后，都没有原则的及时拨款。年年拖欠，我不知道拖欠累积的数量是多少，那位部长，先生，小姐和女士care to find out.  反对党部长，先生，小姐和女士们有认真的去追查吗 ? 

我希望大家们都该苏醒了。  记得，霸权是人民养成的。 政府用[拖]来逃避责任是我们部长先生，小姐和女士们一起做成的。  这种拖欠就最后是否就等于拨款就完全没有到场。 民间是否应该兴起一个组织专门去追讨长年累月所拖欠的款项呢。

砂多少拨款有到场。该是时候[问责]了吧。 人民太贱，所以才会有如此的现象发生。 拨款不知去向，就不知去向，不关[我]的事。 这样自私的心态就这样自己干掉自己了。 拨款就自由东转转西转转就变成某某官爷的私人财产。 我们还要这么样堕落下去吗？

Allocation enough only to upgrade 16 pct of dilapidated schools

October 22, 2016, Saturday Lian Cheng, reporters@theborneopost.com

KUCHING: An allocation to upgrade 30 dilapidated schools in Sarawak in Budget 2017 only meets 16 per cent of the overall needs.

Minister of Welfare, Women and Community Wellbeing Datuk Fatimah Abdullah said there were 486 dilapidated schools throughout Sarawak and 183 of them were categorised as ‘worst than others’.

“We need to upgrade all 183 dilapidated schools. They cannot wait. The allocation for only 30 schools does not even constitute half of the schools that urgently need repairs and upgrading.

“We have earnestly hoped that there will be allocation for all the 183 schools.  Somehow, we already knew that realistically, that would not be quite possible,” Fatimah said when contacted for her response to the 2017 Budget announced by Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak in parliament yesterday.

“There are 183 schools which need immediate upgrading. The school development sector within the State Education Department will have to decide which schools would be upgraded first.

“They will decide and prioritise those needing to be upgraded first. It would be very hard because 183 of them are all in the same category. We have already categorised all schools in Sarawak into three categories. Those that fall under ‘most dilapidated and in need of instant upgrading’ number 183. It would be hard for the school development sector to decide,” said the Dalat assemblywoman.

When asked if the state would take the matter into its hand in view of the urgent needs and the limited resources from the federal government, Fatimah said she would have to re-look at the whole situation with the state Education Department.

“I will have to discuss it with the state Education Department to come up with a proposal in view of the limited allocation given under the Budget 2017.”

“We will then submit the proposal to the state cabinet and see what can be done by the state to help the rest of the schools which are in dire straits of rebuilding or upgrading,” said Fatimah.

Najib had announced in Budget 2017 that RM570 million would be allocated to upgrade 60 dilapidated schools in Peninsular Malaysia and 30 each in Sarawak and Sabah.

 My comments:
Like a dog barking, Najib pow-bows...........................................

现今局势与1976年不同 领袖无需为修宪道歉

2016年10月27日 南砂

（本报古晋26日讯）今非昔比，局势不同，现任砂拉越领袖无需为前辈于1976年支持国会修宪贬低砂拉越地位一事而道歉！

砂副首长兼砂人民党主席丹斯里占玛欣今日在该党党总部见证新受委的该党中央理事签署委任状仪式后，接受媒体访问时，如是表示。
他说，由于当时的局势与今日的局势有别，无法相提并论，因此，砂拉越现任的领袖没必要就前辈于1976年在国会支持“降级”砂拉越地位一事作出道歉。

“也许当年他们并没有意识到修宪的后果，也可能当时他们也不甚了解砂拉越的真正地位，他们才会在国会表决对修宪的支持，由于当时的局势和现在的局势有所不同，因此，后人情何以堪，何以代前辈道歉？”

力挺首长呈动议
不过，占玛欣强调，砂首长拿督巴丁宜丹斯里阿迪南沙登已表明会在州立法议会提出索回砂拉越权益的动议，因此，砂人民党一定会全力相挺。

至于砂拉越是否应该删除“州”的字眼，他认为，最主要是要让西马半岛人民知道砂拉越与西马半岛是平等伙伴的地位，称呼字眼上的课题不过是其次。

My Comments：
砂就是有太多这种被叫[狗] 也可以，被叫[猫]也没关系，被叫[猪]so what? 所以。。。。才会沦落到今天这么凄惨的地步。  一直被霸权掠夺，还要感恩人家。  还要庆祝人家掠夺咱们。  贱到人家当笑话。

杰菲里：恢复权益要件 须先处理大马契约问题

2016年10月26日 沙巴

（本报亚庇廿六日讯）沙巴立新党主席拿督杰菲里吉丁岸今日表示，唯有解决一九六三年大马契约，才能有效处理沙砂两州与柔佛要求恢复各自权益的呼声，而巫统元老兼前任财政部长东姑拉沙里，更是有不可推卸的责任。

他说，在联邦的体系内，本不该会出现要求恢复州属权益和自主权的同等区域主义之呼声，不管是来自沙巴、砂拉越或柔佛，都对马来西亚联邦感到不满，因为这些州属自一九六三年共组马来西亚以来，它们的权益皆受到冒犯和侵蚀。

「如果沙巴和砂拉越的开国元勳当年知道共组后的马来西亚是今天的这个样子，他们肯定不会签署一九六三年大马契约。」

「沙巴不会同意成为被马来亚殖民的一州，或九十五巴仙的石油和天然气资源被用以资助发展马来亚，及需乞求联邦政府获取拨款用作本身的发展。」

他说，更糟的是，沙砂两州在一九七六年因修正联邦宪法第1（2）条文而地位变更。「拉沙里是国会议员的一份子，且投票支持通过该修正案。」

他表示，拉沙里当时也是国油主席，他也签署和接受一九七五年的执行令，即执行已故敦阿都拉萨将本州岸上和岸外的石油和天然气资源归属国油管理。

他说，现在是拉沙里纠正错误的最后机会，以协助马来西亚联邦重归其组成时的基础。

王长福：去年2015拨款没有着落， 财案对华教没惊喜

在网上找不到这篇文章。  诗华日报 23日10 （2017财政预算案）

砂的领袖们在做什么？？？？？？？？？？

梁传宏：无实质效应 朝野道歉骂战幼稚

2016年10月22日 北砂

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（本报美里22日讯）“朝野政党近期掀起道歉还是不道歉口水骂战，根本没有对砂拉越索回自治主权有实质效应，口水政治秀只会令砂拉越人民更反感！”

“砂拉越人的砂拉越（S4S）要看到朝野政党对砂拉越未来格局制定更多计划和方案，让人民能清楚看到他们朝向国家体制改革，不是通过报章和社交媒体，继续对呛，大家比烂。”

S4S行政处发言人梁传宏今日在一餐馆召开记者招待会上指出，近期被媒体揭发1976年联邦宪法修宪时投赞成票议员名单，以及砂拉越和沙巴原本属于“邦”地位，以及拥有与马来亚同等法定地位，修改宪法后却变成了13州其中州属，砂拉越地位因而降级报道后，S4S迄今只见到朝野政党你来我往的口水战，这一回砂人联党沈桂贤不道歉，次日人联秘书长陈超耀却公开道歉，而另边厢行动党杨薇讳等人却要人联党解释，并呛声道歉没有诚意言论占据了报章版面。

“道歉或不道歉真的就这么重要的吗？道歉又如何?最终还不是马照跑，舞照跳。砂拉越的自治主权和建国63契约阐明法定地位和自治主权，难道可从道歉或不道歉声中拿回来了吗?”

梁传宏认为，道歉与否口水战继续延烧，只是幼稚，这对砂拉越未来格局无济于事。

放下己见枪口一致
梁传宏说，砂首长阿迪南较早时已经提出，要朝野政党枪口一致在国会提呈检讨1976修宪动议。他进一步说，S4S迄今只见到公正党巴鲁比安和施志豪有对砂拉越的法定地位表示关注，将在国会上提出动议。其他只顾口水战，什么都不做和没做。

梁传宏称，S4S促请不论朝野政党，应该在国家体制作出改变，砂人民对索回砂拉越主权毫无建设口水骂战只会感到无比厌倦。

他说，没有方案，没有计划的政党，只是让砂民对未来再空等50年。所以，S4S希望政党放下己见，大家都为砂拉越未来大局制定计划。
梁传宏说，修改宪法关系重大，关乎每一个人民。S4S不希望一些中选国会议员，在国会里什么都听不懂，看到同伴赞成就跟，结果国会重大决策，尤其是修宪方面，人民完全不知情，任由几个为了私己利益的议员把玩权力。

梁传宏说，S4S促请朝野政党都能积极推动公投法，凡涉及人民重大课题的议题，如修宪议题，应该交由人民自己决定，不是交给三数个只顾把玩权力的议员，继续糊弄人民。

他一再重申，S4S不偏帮反对党或倾向执政党，任何政党以砂拉越自治主权地位积极推动，落实公投法案，S4S都认同。

（本报美里22日讯）S4S中央文宣陈宏祥指出，时下朝野政党不断围绕在小小课题口水骂战续纠缠不清，S4S这边厢早已自动自发搜索更多砂拉越主权和地位资料，已成功收集逾26万个砂民签名提呈联合国和砂首长，让他们清楚了解砂民诉求和期望。
     “换言之，朝野政党不做或不敢做的事，S4S已经走在前方了。”
陈宏祥续说，S4S早在2010年便已着手在各方面和管道，收集了砂拉越主权和法定地位资料，包括大马63建国契约和葛波特和政府级报告书资料。直至约2年后，才有政党陆续关注到砂拉越主权课题和有些动作。
      有鉴于此，S4S对于1974年国会议员结构亦备有资料。他进一步说，当年国会议员人数是154人，西马执政党包括巫统占了103席，砂拉越国阵议员仅24席。即便当年砂国阵成员党括土保党（8）、人联党（7）、砂国民党（9）都投反对1976修宪法案，结果还是一样，即是该修宪案照样通过。
     所以，到底是谁造成砂拉越因修宪由邦降为州罪魁祸首，应该是不公平的国家体制，以及当年缺乏砂拉越自治主权意识和资讯。
朝野一致争取权益
      历史已成事实，继续要谁道歉与否，是在浪费时间。他认为当前之务，应该要厘清当年修宪是否已经抵触63建国契约国际律法，将一切原本属于砂拉越权益和权力归还砂拉越，才是砂拉越朝野政党一致要为砂拉越人民争取的重点，这才是砂拉越人民要看到大格局，不是要看政治人物发出毫不实际，对砂拉越人民毫无益处的“口水”。
      陈宏祥续说，S4S已经制定3个已落实和将逐步落阶段和步骤。首阶段是推广砂拉越人的砂拉越意识已经达致。S4S自2010年便活跃推动，成功收集逾26万个要求公投签名运动，超过砂拉越10分之1的21岁以上砂人的签名，签名表格已经提呈给联合国和砂首长阿迪南手中。
     目前S4S已经晋入第二阶段，即推动砂拉越人精神，砂拉越人爱护砂拉越的精神。而第三阶段是朝向砂拉越为砂拉越。

Kitingan supports Adenan’s stand on Sarawak’s position in Malaysia

October 18, 2016, Tuesday

KUCHING: STAR Sabah president Datuk Dr Jeffrey Kitingan has complimented Chief Minister Datuk Patinggi Tan Sri Adenan Satem for insisting that Sarawak is equal to Malaya and that the 1976 constitutional amendments downgrading Sabah and Sarawak to be the 12th and 13th States is null and void.

Taking his hat off to Adenan for calling a spade a spade, the Bingkor (Sabah) assemblyman said it reflected his (Jeffrey’s) and his United Borneo Front’s (UBF) stand.

“It needs to be re-emphasised that the ultimate objective of the British government was to form a confederation of five territories comprising the Federation of Malaya, Singapore, Sarawak, North Borneo (now Sabah) and Brunei, although Brunei declined the merger eventually.

“It was also on this basis that the then Prime Minister of Malaya, Tunku Abdul Rahman, and his entourage of Malayan Ministers agreed with the Prime Minister of Britain, to create a Federation of Malaysia embracing the Federation of Malaya, Singapore, Sarawak, North Borneo (now Sabah) and Brunei at the Anglo-Malayan London Talks in November 1961,” he said in a press statement yesterday.

According to Jeffrey, this agreement to create the Federation of Malaysia was affirmed in the joint British-Malayan statement after the conclusion of the London Talks and also recorded in the British Parliament as reported by the Hansard on Nov 28, 1961.

Further, he said, when the Cobbold Commission was formed in 1962 and tasked to seek the views of Sabahans and Sarawakians on the Malaysia proposal, the Chairman of the Cobbold Commission, Lord Cobbold, had forewarned that: “If any idea was to take root that Malaysia would involve a takeover of the Borneo Territories by the Federation of Malaya and the submersion of the individualities of North Borneo and Sarawak, Malaysia would not, in my judgment, be generally acceptable or successful.”

Jeffrey stated that the Federation of Malaysia was never about Sabah and Sarawak joining the Federation of Malaya as the 12th and 13th States.
“If it was, there was no necessity for the signing of the Malaysia Agreement 1963 (MA63) as all that was required would be for Sabah, Sarawak and Singapore to subscribe to the Federation of Malaya Agreement 1957 signed by the eleven Malayan States.

“If it was even told to the Sabah and Sarawak founding fathers that Sabah and Sarawak would join as the 12th and 13th States of Malaya, they would have respectfully declined and there would have been no Malaysia today.”
He said one could only ruefully imagine what Sabah and Sarawak would be today if they had not agreed to form Malaysia back then.

“In all probability given their oil and gas wealth, Sarawak contributing RM55 billion and Sabah another RM20 billion annually, they would be like Singapore and Brunei, the third and fifth richest nations in the world.
“Instead, Sabah and Sarawak are languishing as the poorest and second poorest State in Malaysia with almost all their wealth siphoned off to develop Malaya.”

Be that as it may, Jeffrey said, Sabah and Sarawak did agree to form Malaysia as equal partners, for better or for worse.

“The Federation of Malaya now masquerading as the Federation of Malaysia and its federal government has no business to make the 1976 constitutional amendments lumping Sabah and Sarawak with the other 11 States of Malaya and downgrading them to be the 12th and 13th States of Malaya and renamed as the Federation of Malaysia.”

Two ways to right the wrong done in 1976

October 18, 2016, Tuesday Peter Sibon, reporters@theborneopost.com

KUCHING: There are two ways to undo the 1976 amendment to the Federal Constitution that cost Sarawak its rights as stated in the Malaysia Agreement 1963.

Former Bau-Lundu MP Patrick Anek Uren, who is a lawyer, said one option was through Parliament and the other via the State Legislative Assembly (DUN)—as the august House was a signatory of the Agreement.
“It is technically impossible to reverse the amendment done to the Federal Constitution in 1976 because Sarawak and Sabah have only 65 members of parliament, out of the 222,” he told The Borneo Post yesterday.

“But the reversal can be done if DUN passed a unanimous motion to reverse the decision and get Putrajaya to amend the Federal Constitution … as Sarawak DUN is part of the signatory of the Malaysia Agreement of 1963.”

Anek, who was MP from 1974 to 1986, was then Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Welfare; hence, he claimed he was unable to debate on the matter before the Bill was passed.

“In any case, both the chief ministers of Sarawak and Sabah consented to the amendment: so there was nothing we could do about it.”

The chief minister of Sarawak then was the late Tun Datuk Patinggi Abdul Rahman Ya’kub and Sabah’s chief minister then was Tan Sri Harris Salleh.
Anek was commenting on a statement by Datuk Patinggi Tan Sri Adenan Satem when he closed a seminar on the history of Sarawak here on Sunday.

The chief minister insisted that Sarawak’s right as an equal partner in the federation should be restored. He hinted that MPs from Sarawak might propose in Parliament to reinstate an article of the Federal Constitution to enable the state to regain powers that had eroded over the years and also via direct negotiations with the federal government.

“Before that (the amendment in 1976), it says the states of Malaysia shall be (a) the states of West Malaysia, (b) Sarawak and Sabah, and (c) Singapore. Of course, Singapore no more lah. Now there is only one category,” he told reporters covering the event.

However, Adenan was quick to add: “No, partners by virtue of the Malaysia Agreement. The agreement was between Malaya, Sabah (then North Borneo), Sarawak, Singapore, and the United Kingdom, of course.
And when you are parties to an agreement, you are equal.”

Anek opined that what was done in 1976 could be considered ‘ultra vires’ as it was against the spirit of the Malaysia Agreement.

“I fully support the statement made by our chief minister that Sarawak should be considered one of the three regions that formed the Federation of Malaysia after Singapore left in 1965.

“Once that is achieved, we can ask for bigger development allocations from the federal government. Right now, we will never have enough allocation from the federal government because we are just one of the states.”

To develop Sarawak to be on par with the peninsula, Sarawak needed at least RM40 billion annually, he estimated.

“That amount is fair considering that Sarawak contributes at least RM122
billion to the federal coffer annually.”

Meanwhile, former Saratok MP Dato Sri Edmund Langgu Saga said he could not recall what transpired during Parliament sitting in 1976 even though he was deputy minister of agriculture then.

“I can’t recall what transpired in Parliament 40 years ago;  perhaps, I was too busy carrying out my duties as a deputy minister.”

However, Langgu, who was an MP from 1963 to 1987, pointed out that he was always daring enough to stand up for the interest of the State.

“But as a member of the Cabinet, we cannot take part in  the debates of any Bill. But suffice for me to say that the amendment of the Federal Constitution in 1976 was unfair to Sarawak as it had reduced our state to one of the 13 states in Malaysia. The Malaysia Agreement should not have been amended in Parliament,” said Langgu.

“So I hope our chief minister will right the wrong that had been done 40 years ago so that we can develop Sarawak and make it on par with the peninsula.”