Sep 16, 2012 is a day that will consequence a place in Malaysian history as THE day when a people took a initial stairs in reclaiming a energy to draft a march of their destiny. We have waited most years for this day as well as you appreciate you all for being here with us to declare history in a making.
My friends as well as countrymen, on this momentous day 49 years ago, a countries of Sarawak as well as North Borneo came together with Singapore as well as Malaya to form a Federation of Malaysia, organisation in a idea that this association would be a real partnership of four countries essay together for their mutual security, development as well as prosperity.
Our forefathers greeted that day with outrageous dreams as well as mighty aspirations.
Sarawak as well as Sabah being lands abounding with oil, timber, gold, fruitful lands as well as a agreeable as well as overworked people, they had everything to demeanour forward to. The destiny was brimming with a guarantee of a association of vibrant, abounding countries, populated by happy, healthy as well as secure peoples of various races as well as ethnicities.
But after 49 years you ask ourselves:
Does every adult good from a measureless resources of a country? Does everyone have access to a simple comforts of this modern era such as electricity, clean H2O as well as correct healthcare?
Are a lands as well as birthright being stable for a destiny generations? Are a children receiving a best educational opportunities? Are a Sarawakian as well as Sabahan workers highly skilled as well as meaningfully employed?
Have a d! reams of a initial fathers been realized? Or have those dreams turned into nightmares for large people who call this once 'fair land' Sarawak home?
Why have been you constantly saying 'Barang naik, barang naik' as well as anticipating it increasingly difficult to make ends meet?
Why have been a Malays of Kampung Sampadi unhappy that a surrounding lands where they 'cari makan' were enclosed in a franchise issued to a association owned by outsiders?
Why have been a Ibans of Melikin still struggling to urge their genealogical lands from a marauding plantation companies?
Why have been a Kayans & Kenyahs of Baram fighting to stop a drowning of their lands by a dam builders?
Why have been a people of Bakun still waiting for remuneration for a lands taken from them roughly thirteen years ago?
What happened to a lands, forests, a trees as well as healthy resources? you am reminded of an Indian motto that states: "After a sourroundings is destroyed, after all a trees have been cut down, after all a rivers have been polluted, after all a fishes have been dead, you will realize that income cannot be eaten."
Fellow Sarawakians, in 1915, Charles Brooke during a sitting of a State Assembly warned a forefathers that after his time as a Rajah of Sarawak,
"...others might crop up with soft as well as smiling countenances, to dispossess you of what is gravely your right as well as that is, a really land on that you live, a source of your income, a food even of your mouths? If this is mislaid to you, no amount of income could redeem it.
He continued,
"Unless you follow this recommendation you will remove your birthright, that will be taken from you by strangers as well as speculators who will in their turn become masters as well as owners, whilst you yourselves, you people of a soil, will be thrown aside, as well as become nothing but coolies as well as outcasts of a island."!
Y .B. Dato' Seri Hj. Abdul Hadi Awang, President
And currently a Rajah's greatest fears have been realized. The prophecy of a profanation of a trusting people has come to pass. While a people slept, a thieves came softly in a night as well as took a lands, cast of characters us aside.
The thieves have been a own leaders
Tragically, a betrayers of a people have been not strangers but a own leaders.
Sarawakians did not only have a profanation of their own leaders to bear on a inhabitant front, a rights that a initial fathers were so eager to guarantee as well as that were inscribed in a Malaysia Agreement were insidiously chipped divided over a years. Those leaders who were meant to demeanour out for a interests have been defunct on their watch. Or were they were as well busy looking out for their own interests to care?
And so today, a native landowners have mislaid their lands, their birthright as well as their birthright. The adults of Sarawak as well as Sabah have mislaid a elements of control over their own destiny, elements for that a initial fathers meticulously negotiated.
We as well have a dream
My friends, in a same year as a association of Malaysia was formed, on August 28th, 1963, from a stairs of a Lincoln Memorial in Washington, Martin Luther King Junior delivered his important 'I have a Dream' debate that brought about enormous elemental shift in a discrimination as well as poverty that influenced a African American race of America.
In this debate he pronounced that a African American people afterwards lived on a waste island of poverty in a midst of a immeasurable ocean of resources as well as element prosperity. His debate gave goal to thousands of Americans.
Today you conjure up a spirit of a "I Have A Dream" debate of Martin Luther King since a domestic rivals have recently called me a "Dreamer". But it is not wrong to dream, no make a difference how dim ! a night. No make a difference how formidable a obstacles, it is only right that you should have a vision, for it is pronounced that where there is no vision, a people perish.
Yes, my associate countrymen, it is true. you as well have a mental condition you have a resplendent prophesy for a typical as well as downtrodden people of Sarawak.
you have a prophesy for a improved hold up as well as a brighter destiny for a children as well as a generations to come.
In my vision, a resources of a land is used for a good of ALL a people.
In my vision, a landowners reap bountiful harvests from their lands as well as have abundant to eat.
In my vision, a government is led by humble leaders who serve a rakyat with integrity, never forgetting that they have been but a servants of a people on whose goodwill as well as co-operation they have been entirely dependent.
In my vision, a schools learn a initial rate curriculum as well as a children have been since every event to acquire skills as well as education to scrupulously prepare them to face a challenges of life.
In my vision, a government provides protected as well as adequate infrastructure for a people as well as receptive to advice policies for mercantile development as well as growth
In my vision, a airwaves as well as radio screens lift balanced as well as accurate headlines so that a people have been scrupulously informed.
In my vision, a people have been giveaway to practise a sacrament of their selecting but any division from a authorities.
In my vision, a ill as well as infirm have been since a best medical care.
In my vision, Sarawakians as well as Malaysians of all races who have a integrity as well as drive have been since next to event to succeed as well as prosper.
you am told by a nay-sayers that you can only go on to mental condition about bringing a shift to a lives of a bad as well as a ma! rginaliz ed. Those who have a most to remove have been aroused of shift as well as thus flow scorn on my dreams, my hopes as well as my vision.
But you know all of you who have been station here currently share my dreams. you know that a people in a distant reaches of a interior hills, from Long Semadoh in Ba' Kelalan to Kampung Rejoi-Nyegol in a Bengoh ranges share my dreams. you know that a people of a rivers, from Kapit on a Rejang River to Marudi on a Baram River share my dreams. you know that a people of a towns, from Lundu in a East to Limbang in a West share my dreams.
The dreams of a forefathers might have been dejected by a ruthless as well as miserly pretenders who came in a night. But we, a people of Sarawak have been a resilient people. We now reject a nightmare inflicted on us by those who have stolen from us. We have started to revitalise a dreams that were dreamt for us by those who came before us. Your presence here currently is testament to my unshakable idea that you all share a same dreams, that you will play a part to safeguard that a beautiful republic is a place where peace as well as resources prevails, where justice as well as fairness as well as equality have been a right of every citizen.
An event now for CHANGE
My associate Sarawakians, as you come in a 50th year of this partnership with Malaya as well as North Borneo, you can see clearly a event for us to achieve a dreams. Our brothers as well as sisters from Peninsula Malaysia have been here to lend support to us as you reclaim a rights that have been peerless to a welfare.
The leaders from Pakatan Rakyat have wholeheartedly consented to honour a agreement that was sealed by a forefathers which, up until today, a government has preferred to ignore. These leaders have been here to uncover their sincerity as well as their joining to assisting us to realize a dreams. Today, a spirit of a Kuching Declaration is lighted as well as will go on! to heat in a hearts as a consistent goal as well as in truth of a promise, of improved days to come.
My friends, roughly 50 years after Martin Luther King's electrifying speech, America has changed over his expectations. In 2007, an African American named Barack Obama voiced his highly evolved mental condition to a nation, proclaiming: 'For that is a unyielding faith that in a face of impossible odds, people who love their republic can shift it.'
you call on all of you, my friends, to be a agents of change. You hold a energy to confirm a direction a dear republic will take. What you select to do on a sunrise of a next polling day will have measureless consequences for your lives as well as a lives of a generations of Malaysians to come.
We face a awaiting of during final creating a multitude that is satisfactory as well as just, of carrying a government that recognizes a elemental rights as well as privileges of all a adults in this wonderfully abounding as well as diverse land.
My associate Sarawakians as well as Malaysians, on this day, that marks a beginning of a Jubilee year, you call on all of you to embark on this exciting journey with us as you forge ahead towards restoring a republic that is finally strong as well as free, a republic where all her adults might live in loyal peace as well as harmony.
TOGETHER WE WILL MAKE OUR DREAMS AND VISION COME TRUE!
God Bless Malaysia, God Bless us all.
THE KUCHING DECLARATION
LEST WE FORGET, AND LEST ALL THE PEOPLES OF OUR GREAT NATION OF MALAYSIA FORGET, WE, THE UNDERSIGNED, DO ONCE AGAIN FIRMLY, RESOLUTELY AND UNEQUIVOCALLY PLEDGE AND PROMISE BEFORE THE WHOLE NATION OF MALAYSIA AS OUR WITNESSES, ON THIS HISTORIC DAY THE 16THOF SEPTEMBER, 2012, IN THE CITY OF KUCHING, AND ON BEHALF OF OUR RESPECTIVE PARTIES AND PAKATAN RAKYAT AS A WHOLE, THAT W! HEN WE F ORM THE NEXT GOVERNMENT OF MALAYSIA, PAKATAN RAKYAT WILL HONOUR ALL ITS PLEDGES AND PROMISES TO THE PEOPLES OF MALAYSIA.
WEWILL HONOURABLY EXECUTE ALL THE POLICIES SET FORTH IN THEBUKU JINGGASO THAT MALAYSIA WILL ONCE AGAIN BE A GREAT NATION, HER PEOPLES PROSPEROUS, HER FUTURE SECURE AND PEACEFUL, AND HER NAME CELEBRATED BY ALL THE NATIONS OF THE WORLD.
WEWILL HONOUR THE SPIRIT OF THEMALAYSIA AGREEMENT OF 1963WHICH OUR FOUNDING FATHERS PUT THEIR HANDS TO, AND AS A SIGN OF OUR DEEP COMMITMENT TO THE PEOPLES OF SARAWAK AND SABAH, CONSISTENT WITH DEMOCRATIC PRINCIPLES AND JUSTICE FOR ALL MALAYSIANS, IN PARTICULAR:
ARTICLE ONE: EQUAL PARTNERS
We will revive a spirit of a Malaysia Agreement as well as a in front of of Sarawak as well as Sabah as next to partners inside of Malaysia by restoring liberty to Sarawak as well as Sabah inside of a framework of a Federal Constitution.
ARTICLE TWO: FAIR REPRESENTATION
We will enlarge inhabitant integration between Sarawak, Sabah as well as Peninsular Malaysia by a satisfactory power-sharing arrangement that fully upholds a spirit of a Malaysia Agreement.
ARTICLE THREE: CITIZENSHIP
We will set up a Royal Commission to solve a perennial inhabitant complaint of bootleg immigration as well as citizenship, particularly in Sarawak as well as Sabah.
ARTICLE FOUR: RESTORATION OF NATIVE CUSTOMARY RIGHTS OVER LAND
We will validate a authority already vested in a State Laws of Sarawak as well as Sabah to set up Land Commissions to investigate, resolve disputes, redress, survey as well as revive Native Customary Rights over Native Cu! stomary Lands.
ARTICLE FIVE: COMPETENT SARAWAK AND SABAH
We will validate a appointment of Sarawak as well as Sabah adults to conduct Government Departments in their own particular States as well as by a powers vested in a State Secretaries of both States as well as give initial priority to a appointment of Sarawak as well as Sabah adults during Federal Government level functioning inside of Sarawak as well as Sabah.
ARTICLE SIX: OIL JUSTICE
We will raise a royalties paid on petroleum as well as hydrocarbon resources to Sarawak as well as Sabah to 20% from a present 5%.
ARTICLE SEVEN: EQUITABLE DEVELOPMENT
We will move a level of infrastructure development in Sarawak as well as Sabah up to par with Peninsular Malaysia.
WE, a undersigned, MAKE THIS DECLARATION AS AN INCONTROVERTIBLE CONTRACT BETWEEN THE PAKATAN RAKYAT AND THE PEOPLES OF MALAYSIA, THIS HISTORIC DAY OF 16THSEPTEMBER, 2012, ON MALAYSIA DAY, SO THAT IT MAY RING OUT RESOUNDINGLY From MALAYSIA'S high forest mountainous country Down to a open sea; SO THAT freedom MAY ever reign; AND OUR PEOPLES Live in Unity!
In declare whereof a undersigned, being duly authorised thereto, have sealed this Declaration, as well as all a peoples of Malaysia being witnesses thereof.
Done during Kuching, this 16th day of September, 2012, in six copies of that a single shall be deposited with each of a signatories.
For People's Justice Party (KEADILAN)
Y.B. Dato' Seri Anwar Ibrahim, Ketua Umum
For Democratic Action Party (DAP)
Y.B. Lim Kit Siang, Parliamentary Leader
For Islamic Party of Malaysia (PAS)
For People's Justice Party (KEADILAN)
Y.B. Baru Bian, Chairman, PKR Sarawak
For Democratic Action Party (DAP)
Y.B. WONG HO LENG, Chairman, DAP Sarawak
For Islamic Party of Malaysia (PAS)
TUAN HAJI ADAM BIN AHID, State Commissioner, PAS Sarawak
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