Sabah and Sarawak, no longer states in partnership with Malaya in Malaysia, but territories — i.e. colonies — needs decolonisation by the 24-Nation UN Committee!
Commentary And Analysis . . . There’s case for creating movements, no matter how little, for change and progress on circumventing the non-compliance since 1963 on the Malaysia Agreement 1963 (MA’63). It isn’t enough that MA’63, the basis for Equal Partnership of Sabah and Sarawak and the Federation of Malaya in Malaysia, was recently inserted in the Federal Constitution.
MA’63, like the Federal Constitution, has force of law. Article 4 explains further.
Much more must be done on upholding Borneo Rights.
The onus lies on the people on the Way Forward.
The status of Sabah and Sarawak, under International Law, needs resolution. This is the message, among others, that emerges on 16 September, Malaysia Day, for Final Solution in the former British Borneo territories, Sabah and Sarawak.
Sabah and Sarawak, no longer states in partnership with Malaya in Malaysia, but territories — i.e. colonies — needs decolonisation by the 24-Nation UN Committee. That calls for decision on the Malaysia Parliament, the Federal Cabinet, and the redundant Territorial Cabinet and Assembly in Sabah and Sarawak. It was Prime Minister Tun Mahathir Mohamad who conceded, rightly, after GE14 on 9 May 2018, that Sabah and Sarawak were territories.
Sabah and Sarawak
Two thirds majority on constitutional amendments in Malaysia and simple majority, contrary on public perceptions, aren’t based on the full house sitting and voting. That must be kept in mind on proposing exit from Malaysia for Sabah and Sarawak.
Parliamentary procedures in Malaysia and Commonwealth jurisdiction, based on quorum, preside.
Then, in law, there’s institutionalisation of political parties.
DAP for example, like other political parties institutionalised, stays for the longhaul as long as it gets at least one seat in any legislature.
DAP has more than one seat. Non-Muslim, on both sides of the Southeast Asia Sea, were willing to put all their win or lose votes under DAP.
Muslim, after GE14, were not willing to put all votes under one political platform since the draconian Internal Security Act (ISA) 1960 no longer exists for crushing the Opposition. Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak did away with the ISA after 2009.
Muslim know that putting all votes under one political platform isn’t for them. It only benefits small group in power. The small group, serial pocket fillers, are all about being party for illegalities in the form of rotten politics based on 3R, abuse of power, conflict of interest and criminal breach of trust arising from bribery and corruption, money laundering activities and related retention of “secret profits”.
Authority And Administration
The case for Sabah Authority and Sarawak Authority comes in for civilian administration. The Chairman and President preside.
Sabah and Sarawak have been under Malaysian Military Administration since 16 September 1963, the 1st Malaysia Day, when British troops marched out and the Royal Malay Regiment (RMR) marched in.
Poverty
Poverty in Malaysia, as elsewhere in the world, probably cannot be eradicated by projects because of alleged bribery, corruption and politics.
We have necessary digression.
Self-proclaimed China expert and former Harvard University economics professor Dr Subramaniam Swamy said this many times in YouTube. He was commenting on poverty in India.
Dr Subramaniam, being Brahmin, doesn’t mention that it was the caste system which imposed poverty on India. It prohibits upward social mobility based on various factors — past lives, Karma from past lives, rebirth and reincarnation — all based on politically incorrect theories bordering on crackpotism.
Dr Subramaniam was worth listening except when he said that “Mother Teresa sold babies”. He comes across as anti-Church — it’s against the caste system — and Hindu Rashtra and/or Hindutva fanatic and anti-Muslim. He married Parsi, his daughter married Muslim.
Many Hindu think that the Church, by preaching against the caste system, was about making Hinduism “look bad”.
Dr Subramaniam, although representing BJP as elected member in the Rajya Sabha, was no Modi fan. Modi comes from the low caste tea seller.
Dr Subramaniam claims being offered the Presidency of the BRICS Bank but rejected it. He cited being too long away from India. He eyes the Finance Ministry as fan of the economic policies of Narasima Rao and Manmohan Singh, both former Prime Minister under the Congress government.
He’s perpetual litigant hailed by the media as “India’s greatest lawyer”. He holds no law degree. He claims attending few weekend classes in law at Harvard. He sat for no law exam.
Half the lawyers in India have not been admitted by the High Court, having not attended law school, and having no law degree. Lawyers in India are known as Vakil (wakil or agent) as Solicitors. They are also known as Pleaders (advocates) based on PA (power of attorney) from Client. Vakil may also have PA.
Consumer Economy
Larger consumer economy in Malaysia, as elsewhere in the world, would help in eradicating poverty.
Dr Subramaniam has been advocating this approach in India.
It calls for the government pumping in money every month, directly, into the pockets of those living below the poverty line in the money economy and those living outside the money economy. He believes that there won’t be added inflation if the government controls the supply side of the economy. That means increasing local production including by Chinese factories in India, allowing imports from cheaper sources, and getting away from the US$ in bilateral trade.
India has created group of 20 nations, including Russia and Malaysia, for bilaternal trade denominated in rupee. India wants no yuan, no crypto and no digital currency. It will probably defend America, on the US$, against Russia and China.
Also, as suggested by Dr Subramaniam, India — Malaysia too — must pace America on innovations brought by technology as follow up after creativity and inventiveness. He claims that “the China story was over” and that India will beat China by looking at America.
India, being dysfunctional as the largest democracy in the world and greatest functioning anarchy, feeds America with IT people. The former Google CEO said this in pleading that “we should not take all their IT people. Leave some with them. Some, not all.”
Reforms In Malaysia
There must be reforms in Malaysia, away from redundant affirmative action programmes, for merit-based society.
Instead, we have allegedly rotten form of politics based on 3Rs (race, religion, royalty), language, vernacular schools, halal, haram and hijab and obsession with boycott and Palestine.
Jewish people, along with Indian and Chinese, are seen as the greatest professors in the world.
True education begins with reading, being able on counting, connecting the dots from all that’s in memory based on all the readings, and showing ability for increasing intelligence based on learning from mistakes, not repeating old mistakes, and allowing learning from new mistakes.
Incorrigibility — read Anwar Ibrahim — shows inability for reform and may be form of mental illness and/or form of insanity driven by delusion created by demon.
Demon, in taking leaf from religion, may be behind chemical imbalance in brain and/or hormonal imbalance and hormone deficiency probably presided over by the immune system. There’s no science behind Demon.
In America, Professors get tenure for life. That system has been harshly criticised in YouTube by American scientist and systems engineer Dr Shiva Ayyadurai who secured patent rights on programme called EMAIL.
Dr Shiva, in every video, says that he’s “untouchable from India who found refuge in America”. He rails against the caste system.
He fears that America has also come under some form of caste system and questions the universities, student loans as form of scam, Big Pharma, the obsession with China on the pandemic etc etc
Dr Shiva claims that he’s leading Independent candidate in US 2024. He’s in court, acting on his own, on the US Constitution barring the foreign born from the Presidency. He’s allegedly perpetual litigant. He plans on setting up Academy for Acting in Person in court.
PhD Issues
In Malaysia, the PhD are being questioned in so many ways, including on poverty eradication. Subject matter experts Lim Teck Ghee CPA, Azly Rahman and Murray Hunter can perhaps write about the PhD phenomenon in Malaysia. It’s probably scam. No PhD student should be awarded if he or she can’t explain thesis statement face2face before Panel of Experts, both local and foreign.
IT people from India were in Cyberjaya for a time and left alleging discrimination by Immigration. My nephew in Canada, representing IT company in India, visited Cyberjaya and filed discouraging report. Indonesia, these days, attracts top IT talent from India and pays them better than America in US$.
Even Singapore has admitted failure on being innovative. The rigid nature of the straight 7As society in Singapore, being based on memorisation and rote learning, stands against the “little red dot” being innovative. — NMH
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Longtime Borneo watcher Joe Fernandez has been writing for many years on both sides of the Southeast Asia Sea. He should not be mistaken for a namesake formerly with the Daily Express in Kota Kinabalu. JF keeps a Blog under FernzTheGreat on the nature of human relationships.
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