Over 40,000 join Miri City Christmas Parade 2025

https://www.theborneopost.com/2025/12/07/ov...as-parade-2025/

MIRI (Dec 7): The Miri City Christmas Parade 2025 drew over 40,000 of participants and spectators on Saturday night, reaffirming its role as one of the city’s strongest symbols of unity, harmony and shared community spirit.

Premier Datuk Patinggi Tan Sri Abang Johari Tun Openg, in his officiating speech, said the annual celebration has evolved far beyond a festive procession.

According to him, the celebration, which has become a proud tradition in Miri for the past 15 years, is not just a parade of lights, music and colours but a symbol of unity, peace and goodwill among the people of Miri, regardless of race, religion or background.

He added that the parade serves as a reminder that Sarawak’s greatest strength lies in its diversity and its people’s ability to celebrate one another’s culture and faith with mutual respect.

“It reminds us that Sarawak’s strength lies in our diversity — in our ability to come together and celebrate one another’s faith and culture with mutual respect,” he said.

His speech text was read by Deputy Premier Datuk Amar Douglas Uggah Embas, who represented him at the event.



This post has been edited by g5sim: Dec 7 2025, 02:19 PM

cukur, boleh hidup aman dan damai tanpa currybun

Sedap lah curry bun. Tina, sambal bilis semua sedap

peace unity masked the corruption, yike

This would not appear in peninsula states easily, I believe.

Therefore indeed a good cause to celebrate and be happy about.

Meanwhile for this though, I think Sarawak has done very well in comparison to many other states

1. Free tertiary public education for Sarawakians.
2. Heavily subsidized medical and treatment fees in public hospital or healthcare institutions for Sarawakians.
3. Sarawak now has a major stake in Bank, allowing pathway to fully owning a state bank.
4. Sarawak now has a port that belongs to the state.
5. Sarawak now has her own sovereign future / pension fund.
6. Sarawak now has her own airlines.
7. Sarawak also has completed majority of her infrastructure projects and more to come.

Corruption, we gotta wait for prosecution to act. But even with corruption, Sarawak has done more than states that claims to have "no corruption". Especially with the barrage of news on federal level.

This post has been edited by sadukarzz: Dec 7 2025, 02:38 PM

where is that certain politician that held a samurai katana why so silent ya

Waiting for Sarawak to change from negeri to Negara.

That day might come, one day

After she decided that she has outgrown the leader

We'll see

Then it might be a very appealing country for non-bumi from peninsular to migrate to. Me included.

♪ Joy to the world! The lord is come.
Let earth receive her King! ♪

Let's the same, Christmas Parade in Kelate!

Nicely done, Abang Jo and Sarawak really slapping hard on the face of Malaya and Puas in particular.

Sorry to splash cold water on your hopes

But even right now, its quite difficult to be a citizen there

Even for Sabahans

But hey not all hopes are lost, they are starting to snowball, they will need talents

If Singapore can and still demand talents - Degree holders etc

Don't see why not

Without money, not much can be done but all thanks to Najib who abolished the legal road block that has prevented Sarawak from reclaiming their oil money before. So give where credit is due, Najib.

Why would you want to do that? In 2018, many DAP macai calling Sarawakian stupid for voting for GPS. You also want to be labelled as "stupid"?

miri 40k... so huge crowd? kuching one i think 7k this year.. didnt join

Christmas parades has been a feature of major Sarawak towns for decade. Kuching. Sibu etc

But PH openly wanted to change that from the day they became the government. Before, it was on the quiet.

Akhmal diam saja.