QUOTE(itekderp @ Jan 12 2017, 02:35 PM)
You're right.
Please understand though, my contention isn't with a single entity. Shin yang is just endemic of the larger problem we face. Why aren't we competitive? Why have we been left behind in progress? All this can be attributed to our political leaders, we can't just blame the west for holding us back all the time.
Sarawak is just as complicit.
I'm not going to defend Shin Yang. After all everyone knows that Shin Yang, as big as it is today, is a reminder of Taib's era where he had tendrils and arms into everywhere, everything.
If you think we can't blame the west, think hard again.
Petronas made Shell close the one and only refinery in Miri. The only one and only refinery in entire of East Malaysia (bar Brunei). Instead now they have plans for refinery in West Malaysia (and ironically they ain't even in Kelantan and Terengganu).
Petronas laid off workers. Guess what? Higher staffs are from Peninsular.
SOP (Sarawak Oil Palm) laid off workers, retained almost all peninsular staff, much to the chagrin of the laid off workers. Competence issue aside (because we all know they had to downsize), the real crux is the fact that the pie that Sarawak had is shrinking. Now if Sarawak doesn't fight toe to nail for the size, it can never grow.
There is a port in Bintulu. Ships pay RM1 million per entry. Guess who owns the port? Federal in Putrajaya. Not Kuching. The money is paid there. But the infrastructure is in Bintulu. You think locals will be content staring at those money which was rightfully Sarawak government to be taken away just like that?
The real problem was if there's a pie, its shinking in size. Worse, the percentage of the pie that used to be of Sarawak's, is now getting even smaller. Look at the Pan Borneo project. Its paid for entirely by the Sarawakians. How? By deducting the annual allocation to Sarawak. Its not even a "federal" extra-ordinary budget. Its not like Federal said "lets set aside xxyyzz billions specially for Sabahans and Sarawakians for the Pan Borneo project". And yet the HEAD of the project are those in Peninsular.
to put it bluntly in a tl;dr form:
Project Pan Borneo should have been:
- fully funded by federal govt
- headed entirely by State Government (respective sides) with their own contractors and subcontractors
instead, it is
- funded by the state govt by slashing their annual allocation by the fed
- headed by consortiums in Peninsular (based entirely in Peninsular)
- projects ran by west malaysians in all key positions. keyword: ALL
- layers and layers of fat with only bits and parts alloted to Sarawakian companies and subcontractors.
so instead of its current form; might as well do the following:
- let state govt allocate (without saying anything) from the yearly allocation
- appoint contractors locally (no peninsular companies allowed)
- appoint all locals
and you get all the benefits above, minus the fats and money transactions going to peninsular. But it didn't. Because somebody promised something and delivered entirely different. Else why would Adenan Satim voiced his grievances in the Parliament as the CM of Sarawak, and only Borneo based newspapers even bothered to report about it? Think.
If you think opening up to the peninsular is a "GREAT" move, think again. It isn't that the 'rage' against the peninsular was something that came up overnight. Its something that was already brewing way long before.
This post has been edited by hyperyouth_firepower: Jan 12 2017, 01:58 PM