Pemburu haram ceroboh kawasan hutan Kampung Semadang

KUCHING: Jawatankuasa Kemajuan dan Keselamatan Kampung (JKKK) Kampung Semadang, kira-kira 40 kilometer di Jalan Puncak Borneo kini terpaksa menggunakan khidmat pasukan Rela untuk berkawal di sekitar Jalan Semadang-Skio yang sedang dalam pembinaan berikutan kehadiran orang luar untuk memburu di kawasan hutan dan menangkap ikan di sungai di kawasan kampung berkenaan.

Kehadiran orang luar terbabit menakutkan penduduk kampung berkenaan terutama golongan wanita yang takut keluar ke kebun untuk menoreh

getah atau ke kebun masing-masing.

Ketua kampungnya, Samson Mangang berkata, walaupun nasihat sudah diberi tapi orang luar terbabit masih tetap datang untuk memburu dan menangkap ikan di sungai-sungai yang terdapat di sepanjang Jalan Semadang-Skio.

Menurut Samson, minggu lepas pasukan Rela yang bertugas berjaya menahan sebuah kereta yang dinaiki beberapa remaja yang membawa bersama mereka dua laras senapang patah.

“Anggota Rela yang bertugas menahan mereka dan memeriksa di dalam kereta mereka dan mendapati mereka membawa dua laras senapang patah.

“Mereka juga didapati tidak memiliki lesen kebenaran membawa senjata api. Mereka terbabit sudah diberi amaran untuk tidak lagi datang untuk melakukan kegiatan memburu dan menangkap ikan di situ,” katanya.

Samson berkata, sebelum ini juga pernah berlaku seorang pekerja sebuah syarikat kontraktor pembinaan jalan di situ diserang dan dirompak sekumpulan lelaki.

Manakala seorang penduduk kampung bekenaan pernah diugut sekumpulan lelaki apabila penduduk berkenaan menegur mereka semasa ditemui berada di kawasan hutan di kampung berkenaan untuk memburu.

Samson berkata, tindakan menugaskan anggota Rela untuk berkawal termasuk pada waktu malam adalah untuk menghalang orang luar datang memburu dan menangkap ikan.

Di samping itu, katanya, ia juga sebagai langkah berjaga-jaga bagi mengelak sebarang kejadian tidak diingin termasuk kes jenayah seperti kecurian dan rompakan.

“Saya ingin menasihatkan penduduk dari kampung lain supaya menghormati ketenteraman penduduk kampung kami dengan tidak datang untuk memburu d kawasan hutan kampung kami atau melakukan aktiviti menangkap ikan di sungai-sungai yang terdapat di dalam kawasan kampung kami,” katanya.

Beliau berkata, pihaknya tidak akan beragak-agak untuk mengambil tndakan undang-undang terhadap mana-mana pihak atau individu yang mengingkari arahan.

Kampung Semadang kini menjadi perhatian umum berikutan pembangunan kawasan penempatan baru bagi menempatkan penduduk dari empat buah kampung yang diarah untuk berpindah berikutan pembinaan empangan Bengoh.
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Ketua masyarakat mahu Taib lantik Dr Jerip anggotai kabinet

KUCHING: Ketua-ketua masyarakat Kaum Bidayuh berharap Ketua Menteri Tan Sri Abdul Taib Mahmud akan memberi peluang kepada Ahli Dewan Undangan Negeri (Adun) kawasan Bengoh Dr Jerip Susil untuk menganggotai Kabinet Negeri

Pemanca Austin Dimin berkata, memandangkan masyarakat Bidayuh telah memberi sokongan penuh kepada Barisan Nasional (BN) pada pilihan raya negeri 16 April lalu, jadi sewajarnya seorang lagi anak Bidayuh diberi peluang menjadi anngota Kabinet Negeri.

Pada pilihan raya lalu, BN berjaya mengekalkan kesemua enam kerusi Bidayuh, iaitu Opar, Tasik Biru, Bengoh, Tarat, Tebedu dan Kedup.

Buat masa ini, kaum Bidayuh hanya mempunyai seorang wakil sebagai menteri penuh, iaitu Datuk Sri Michael Manyin dan seorang pembantu menteri, iaitu Datuk Peter Nansian.

Austin membuat gesaan itu, semasa berucap pada majlis makan malam anjuran Kelab Ketua-Ketua Masyarakat Kaum Bidayuh bagi meraikan kemenangan Dr Jerip pada pilihan raya negeri lepas di sebuah restoran di sini, mmalam semalam.

Sementara itu, Austin menggesa ketua masyarakat kaum Bidayuh agar meneruskan kerjasama erat dengan kerajaan dan wakil rakyat untuk kebaikan dan kemajuan masyarakat yang diwakili masing-masing.

Sementara itu, Dr Jerip melahirkan rasa gembira beliau dengan kerjasama yang diberi ketua-ketua masyarakat di kawasan pilihan rayanya dan berharap akan terus mendapat sokongan dan kerjasama sedemikian bagi membolehkan beliau terus membawa pembangunan ke kawasan itu.

Dr Jerip berjaya mengekalkan kerusi Bengoh dengan majority yang lebih besar, iaitu 3, 646 undi.
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Words are mightier than sword, says Jerip

Re-elected State Assemblyman for Bengoh, Dr Jerip said words are mightier than sword.He was referring to the Opposition propaganda during the 10th State election’s campaign.
Dr Jerip described the recently concluded State Election as a very challenging moment and was not an easy fight.
“It was indeed an uphill battle but together we had fought a good battle and together we have retained Bengoh for BN with 3, 646 votes majority.

“I appreciate your alertness, hard work, commitment and partnership during the 10-day campaigning period. I know that all of us were under tremendous stress and strain,” he said at a thank you dinner for the party’s election workers at a restaurant in Mile 11th Kuching-Serian Road yesterday night.
Constantly and relentlessly there was this urgent call of duty to neutralize irrelevant propaganda of the Opposition, to clarify perceptions which were non issues, to explain various measures taken by the State government in addressing the grievances of the people and to emphasize the importance, relevance and furtherance of politics of development in Bengoh.
“While we rejoice over BN victory in Bengoh, we were not unaware of the onslaught of urban opposition propaganda – fueled by a great many orators from their counterpart in West Malaysia.
“In Siburan and Siniawan we lost 850 votes. Words are mightier than sword. The word of DAP have turned into a mighty double-edged sword – with one side slashing their opponents and with the other side almost slashing away Chinese representation in BN,” he added.
Thus, he urged the party members and supporters to spread words around that they want to maintain autonomy and do not want West Malaysian Opposition parties to interfere in the State Government affairs.
“We do not want to have any part or used as pawn in the power struggle, and unfulfilled ambition of Anwar Ibrahim.
“We pledge to uphold BN brand of politics of development, no matter what.
“We Sarawakians in Sarawak do not need PKR or DAP to fight for us. BN constitution and government policy guarantee our rights and privileges.
Let us arm ourselves with this words/sword and start whispering,” he added.
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Song SUPP questioned why Soon Koh accepted Cabinet appointment

Song SUPP wants Datuk Seri Wong Soon Koh to explain to the party’s central committee why he had agreed to accept a state Cabinet appointment.
In a letter to SUPP secretary-general Datuk Sim Kheng Hui yesterday, branch secretary Toh Tze Bin requested for a central committee meeting to be held within two weeks.
He also proposed a motion for the committee to discuss Wong’s Cabinet appointment.
The motion reads: “To direct Wong to explain to the central committee meeting why he had, on his own action, accepted the appointment as a Cabinet minister on the afternoon of April 18, contrary to the central working committee decision made in the morning which had resolved unanimously to direct the two Chinese assemblymen not to accept any Cabinet post.”
Toh also proposed that after hearing Wong, the central committee should proceed to decide via secret ballot whether to accept or reject his explanation.
“If the committee rejects his explanation, Wong has to resign as a Cabinet minister within two weeks of the committee’s decision,” Toh said, adding that Wong’s acceptance of the Cabinet post had tarnished SUPP’s image.
Wong, who retained his Bawang Assan seat in last week’s state election, was sworn into the state Cabinet on Monday. He was retained as Second Finance Minister and Environment and Public Health Minister.
Wong accepted his re-appointment as a minister despite the party leadership’s decision to nominate only its bumiputra assemblymen for Cabinet positions.
SUPP subsequently described Wong’s acceptance of the Cabinet appointment as his personal decision.
Wong and Datuk Lee Kim Shin, who won in Senadin, are SUPP’s only Chinese representatives after the party lost 13 of 16 seats it contested. The party also has four bumiputra representatives.
Meanwhile PBB deputy president Datuk Amar Abang Johari Tun Openg said BN's defeat in Chinese-majority seats in last week’s polls has caused racial polarisation which is unhealthy for Sarawak, said
“Barisan lost in Chinese-majority seats to the Opposition while it won in bumiputra-majority seats. This is not good for our multi-racial political landscape,” he said at Samariang PBB’s polls appreciation dinner here last Friday night.
In the April 16 polls, Barisan contested in 71 seats and lost 13 Chinese-majority seats to DAP and PKR, two bumiputra seats to PKR and one to an independent candidate.
Johari, who is Housing and Urban Development Minister and Satok assemblyman, said he was glad that bumiputra youths and the middle class in urban seats like Pantai Damai, Samariang, Tupong, Demak Laut and Satok stood by Barisan.
He said the Opposition was very confident of taking away votes from Barisan but was proven wrong.
Johari slammed opposition candidates who claimed to be young intellectuals but failed to see the good Barisan was bringing to the people.
Citing examples, he said the government had plans to turn Samariang into a township with better basic infrastructure including a new general hospital, while Jalan Sultan Tengah which used to be congested during rush hours had been widened.
“We have a vision to transform the city. Barisan delivers for the people. We don’t just talk, we act. We walk the talk,” he said.
He said since voters in Chinesemajority seats in the city had rejected Barisan, the government would channel more development to seats that are Barisan strongholds.
Thanking voters for their support, Johari said he was confident that come the next parliamentary election, PBB Youth chief Datuk Fadillah Yusof would retain Petra Jaya with a comfortable majority. Petra Jaya comprises Tupong, Samariang and Satok.
Earlier, Samariang election operations director Datuk Abang Khalid Abang Marzuki said assemblyman Sharifah Hasidah Sayeed Aman Ghazali thanked the party’s election machinery and 21 sub-branches for their hard work throughout the campaign period.
Khalid said Hasidah’s victory would finally shut her critics up, some of whom claimed that she was not a popular candidate and seldom went to the ground.
“She polled 8,008 votes and increased her majority from 2,488 votes in 2006 election to 5,431 votes. More people have supported her because she has done her job well,” he said.
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