KOTA KINABALU - Sabah Progressive Party (SAPP) said the water village of Sembulan and Tanjung Aru would be up-graded to be like what they have in Brunei, well organised, clean and safe. Some houses in the water village could become choice homestay for tourists.
Datuk Richard Yong said, "With proper and follow-through development, Tanjung Aru and Sembulan water villages could be developed into a popular tourism area."
Richard, who is the Chairman of SAPP Tanjung Aru CLC, was making his routine rounds at the Tanjung Aru and Sembulan area together with members of Tanjung Aru SAPP getting feedback from the people living there.
The villagers voiced their worries and fear especially during time of monsoon season when there are thunderstorms and strong winds.
They said they are literally having sleepless nights when heavy rain came along with strong wind like what has been happening recently and some rooftops had been blown off by the wind. "We are having a hard life here," they said.
They also lamented that the development by the government is haphazard and never properly completed. It had taken a long time for the concrete bridges to complete but with lamp posts which don't light up, so the lamp posts stood there as a useless decoration like the so-called community leaders.
One resident by the name of Lamit said, the environment that they are living in has nothing to envy, the houses are not stable and unsafe, not properly arranged and closely built. They have to repair wooden bridges by themselves and still a lot of the wooden planks have got rotten and the bridges are shaky and unsafe. Fire hazard is another high risk they are facing.
"The rubbish is another 20-year old story, whenever a new Mayor came to visit together with the YB, they would condemn the people for causing the rubbish as if the government and authority has got no responsibilities over this issue. There was no improvement at all.
"The presence of many foreigners living in the area most probably because of cheap rental is posing social and security problems, said Lamit.
"We want to see some positive and consistent actions without waiting for the forming of RCI which is much discussed without time frame. We want to see real improvement to our living condition and to be treated as a human with dignity," said one old woman.
Richard, who is also secretary-general of SAPP, assured the residents of Tanjung Aru Lama (water village) that SAPP government will make it a point to organise the water village taking Brunei water village as model.
"Medium and long term programmes to be implemented to keep the area clean to enhance and uplift the environment and surroundings. The place will be conducive for living and even be promoted into a choice for homestay.
"With political will and proper planning, Tanjung Aru area will definitely be a popular tourism area with creation of business and job opportunities and economic activities to improve the income of the local people," said Richard.
Richard also stressed that SAPP as a local political party is determined to make Tanjung Aru a better place for the people and urged the residents there to be forward-looking and bring about change together.
SABAHANS DO YOU REALISE THAT THE FILIPINO CLAIM ON SABAH COULD BECOME A REALITY SINCE THERE ARE MORE FILIPINO THAN SABAHANS IN SABAH NOW?
ReplyDeleteIt can happen like this-
Since the F.....UMNO MADRE CHUK BASTARDS have given all illegals votes, they could one day demand a referendum and join the Philippines.
They don't need to land marines on Sabah's porous coastline...THEY ARE HERE ALREADY!!!
ALTERNATIVE- the Indonesian numbers could swell enormously and the same thing can be done. May be Philippines and Indonesian can fight each other for Sabah!
THIS IS YOUR WAKE UP CALL! VOTE UMNO OUT FOR GOOD!
SABAH PARTIES MUCT UNITE TO DO THIS!~
Therefore it is not easy for Sabah to secede from Malaysia, once we left, these illegals will turn around and vote their Philippine government and we will be colonized once more, this time under Philippines.
DeleteThe Philippine government still has not release their claims on Sabah, this is a fact. They refused to set up their Philippine consulate in Sabah because they still harbor hopes that Sabah will fall into their grasp once more.
DeleteFRIENDS WE NEED TO KNOW THE HISTORICAL DETAILS- THEN YOU WQN'T BE SCARED ALL THE TIME ABOUT THE PHILIPPINES.
DeleteNOTE THAT THE PHILIPPINE CLAIMS IS LIMITED ONLY TO THE EASTERN PART OF SABAH AND NOT THE WHOLE. THE MAIN PART OF SABAH WAS ACTUALLY CEDED TO BRITAIN IN THE LATE 19TH CENTURY...
THE Philippines has long since lost its right to any claim at least 300 year as ago when Sabah was traded by other nations like a commercial item.
Philippine claim is made through the Sulu Sultanate which was a granted parts of Sabah territory by the Burnei Sultanate which granted rights to the North Borneo company.
If it has a claim it could bring it to the UN but the Philippine politicians are just stirring this issue for their own popularity game.
It is a shame that we are still so pathetic and helpless to think we need a big brother to protect us. We can be independent and if desired have defence agreement with the Big Powers to assist us in such issues (preferably not).
Sabah can afford to build up a strong defence force with its wealth.
So do not let a "foreign ivasion threat" frighten us or hold us back from gaining independence.
The foreign invasion big scare was one unfair tactic used by Britain and Malaya to pressurize us to accept their Malaysia proposal in the 1960s. They said being in Malaysia would give us the security from foreign invasion.
And what did we get? Malayan "protection" which is really foreign invasion and occupation. Most of us didn't know this as it happened so fast! Sabah was "independent" on 31 Aug 1963 and incorporated into Malaysia on 16 Sept 1963. Only 16 days when you woke up to the Malayan invasion!
Britain could have let Sabah and Sarawak be independent and agree to provide temporary protection until we build up our armed forces. It is an unfortunate error of our leaders not to think of this forceful argument for independence and got sucked into the belief that we get security inside Malaysia.
This security argument is lie because Malaya allowed Filipinos and Indonesians to invade Sabah and Sarawak for its own sinister purposes.
Britain wanted to consolidate its colonial interests in a fast de-colonising world and Malaya UMNO had expansionist inhibitions and saw Malaysia as an opportunity to annex Borneo territories like Indonesia annex Papua n 1963.
British cold colonial calculations coincided with Malayan territorial ambitions.
It is not easy just to invade a country if the people are determined to resist.
Look at how the USA tried to invade North Vietnam but failed even though it was the greatest military power of the era. China invaded Vietnam and got beaten back. USA also invaded Afghanistan and it is a stalemate. Now it cannot get out fast enough.
Why? When the people resist you cannot impose your will so easily.
So let us not be bamboozled again asd in 1960s by the foreign invasion argument!
Let us unite for our independence outside Malaysia!
HISTORY OF HOW SULU GAVE UP OR LOST CLAIM OVER SABAH
Deletehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Sabah
Sultanate of Brunei
The Sultanate of Brunei began after the ruler of Brunei embraced Islam....
During the reign of the fifth sultan known as Bolkiah between 1473–1524, the Sultanate's thalassocracy extended over Sabah, Sulu Archipelago and Manila in the north, and Sarawak until Banjarmasin in the south.[12] This was during the period when the Sultanate was in its 'golden era'.[citation needed]
In 1658, the Sultan of Brunei ceded the northern and eastern portion of Borneo to the Sultan of Sulu in compensation for the latter's help in settling the Brunei Civil War in the Brunei Sultanate. The Sultan of Brunei continued to loosely govern the west coast of Sabah. The Brunei Malays began settling in this region during this period.[citation needed] In 1749, the Sultanate of Borneo ceded southern Palawan to Spain.[13]
North Borneo
In 1761, Alexander Dalrymple, an officer of the British East India Company, concluded an agreement with the Sultan of Sulu to allow him to set up a trading post in the region. This plan, together with other attempts to build a settlement and a military station centering around Pulau Balambangan, proved to be a failure. A map by Dalrymple of North Borneo is exhibited in the National Museum of Scotland. There was minimal foreign interest in this region afterward and control over most parts of north Borneo seems to have remained loosely under the Sultanate of Brunei.
In 1846, the island of Labuan on the west coast of Sabah was ceded to Britain by the Sultan of Brunei and in 1848 it became a British Crown Colony. Labuan became a base for British operations against piracy in the region.
In 1865 the American Consul General of Brunei, Charles Lee Moses, obtained a 10-year lease over North Borneo from the Sultan of Brunei Abdul Momin. Ownership was then passed to an American trading company owned by Joseph William Torrey, Thomas Bradley Harris, and some Chinese merchants. They set up a base and settlement in Kimanis and the Sultan of Brunei appointed Torrey as "The Rajah of Ambong and Marudu". His fortress "Ellena" was located in Kimanis with hundreds of Iban trackers led by Lingkanad. Torrey returned to America in 1877 and died near Boston, Massachusetts, in March 1884. The rights of the trading company were then sold to Gustavus Baron Von Overbeck the Austrian Consul in Hong Kong, and he later obtained another 10-year renewal of the lease. The lease was subsequently converted into a cession via a treaty which was signed by the Sultan of Brunei Abdul Momin. In the treaty, the Sultan appointed Overbeck as "Maharajah of Sabah and Rajah of Gaya and Sandakan." The treaty granted Overbeck the right over whole region of Sabah, including parts purporting to be the dominion of the Sulu Sultanate including Sandakan and Tawau. The treaty was signed on December 29, 1877 at the Brunei Palace.[14]
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Part 2 Sabah history
DeleteOn the east coast of North Borneo near Sandakan, Overbeck and William Cowie, on behalf of Dent's company,[citation needed] negotiated and obtained a lease in perpetuity from the Sultan of Sulu over its holdings in this region in 1878. This lease was signed on January 22, 1878 in the palace of the Sultan of Sulu.[15] The lease would later be the subject of dispute by the modern republic of Philippines regarding the sovereignty of the state of Sabah. The rights were subsequently transferred to Alfred Dent, who in 1881 formed the British North Borneo Provisional Association Ltd.[citation needed] In 1881, the British government granted the British North Borneo Company a royal charter. William Hood Treacher was appointed the first British Governor of North Borneo.
In the following year, the British North Borneo Company was formed and Kudat was made its capital. Beginning 1882, the Company brought in Chinese people mainly Hakkas from Guangdong province to work as labourers in plantation farms. Most of the migrants settled in Kudat and Jesselton (now Kota Kinabalu).
In 1883 the capital was moved to Sandakan to capitalise on its potential of vast timber resources. In 1885, United Kingdom, Spain and Germany signed the Madrid Protocol of 1885. The purpose of the protocol was to recognise the sovereignty of Spain in the Sulu Archipelago and also for Spain to relinquish all claims it might have had over North Borneo.[16]
In 1888 North Borneo became a protectorate of the United Kingdom. Administration and control over North Borneo remained in the hands of the Company despite being a protectorate and they effectively ruled until 1942. Their rule had been generally peaceful except for some rebellions, including one led by the Bajau-Suluk leader Mat Salleh from 1894 to 1900,[17] and another led by Antanum of the Muruts known as the Rundum resistance in 1915.[18] Beginning 1920, more Chinese migrants arrived from the provinces of Guangdong, Fujian and even Hebei after the British changed its immigration policy to stimulate the stagnant economy during that period.[19] There was also Javanese migration into Sabah beginning 1891 and subsequent recruitment of laborers by the British from 1907 onwards.[20] Other significant migrants from present-day Indonesia into Sabah consists of the Bugis people beginning mid-19th century[citation needed] and the Florenese people from Flores beginning early 1950s.[21]
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ON THE BOTTOM LINE REGARDLESS OF ANY CLAIMS BY THIS OR THAT COUNTRY IF THE PEOPLE OF SABAH CHOSE TO BE AN INDEPENDENT NATION - IT IS THEIR RIGHT UNDER UN PRINCIPLES TO DO SO.
Sabah was effectively a separate country by the 20th Century and Sulu had not control over it.
It is up to the Sabah people to freely express their will without outside interference.
Yes, we need not fear Philippines or even Indonesia. We will be much stronger as one. We need to believe in our abilities and our conviction. If we live in fear, we will forever be colonized.
DeleteI wonder if SAPP ever realized about the existence of water village in Tg Aru.
DeleteFuck!!!!Mahashit..The..Evil..man..ent..he??..
ReplyDeleteSpeaking of Mahathir, many of the Project M immigrants are living in these water villages.
DeleteApa boleh buat la dengan era M time tu? Kalau boleh pusing jam, memang kita semua mau dia masuk neraka.
DeleteBukankah perumahan setinggan di perkampungan air bi mau dirobohkan??
DeleteToo many PATI lived in these water villages its difficult to tell if they are illegals or locals.
ReplyDeleteKesian locals yang kena cop sebagai PATI.
DeleteIndeed. Most of the villagers are actually non locals, mostly in Sembulan area.
Deletethe illegals already became a local people...sad..
DeleteJadi rumah2 penduduk ni pun dinaiktaraf juga ka..beruntunglah PATI yang tinggal di sana.
DeleteMereka juga diberi mykad, lagi payah untuk membezakan yang benar dan tidak.
DeleteMore tourist to visit Tanjung Aru, more people will go eat at Yong Teck Lee's Sugar Bun, right! Last time go to Tanjung Aru no need to pay money, but after Yong Teck Lee, we need to pay money to enter.
ReplyDeleteAll I know is he never care about Tanjung Aru. Nada!
DeleteIdiots are behaving like mad dogs blaming wrong people on wrong issues.
DeleteWhy don't you say Yong Teck Lee also own KFC, Mcdonalds, Airasia.....petronas etc...
"Sabah Progressive Party (SAPP) said the water village of Sembulan and Tanjung Aru would be up-graded to be like what they have in Brunei, well organised, clean and safe. Some houses in the water village could become choice homestay for tourists"
ReplyDeleteKalau penduduk tidak berubah, macam mana mahu ada kawasan penempatan yang bersih? Lebih2 lagi bila pilak saja yang banyak.
what the hell did SAPP talking about. That place is impossible.
Deletei agree with u anon....even the facilities there being up-graded if the people's did not change, it will be a waste...maybe SAPP is too desperate..
Deletesome of you guys so low in dignity deserved to be colonised forever by B End.
DeleteYou dare not demand for better things, you dare not even think of something better. No vision, no guts no imagination.....
Persekutuan meluluskan pinjaman berjumlah RM235 juta kepada kerajaan negeri Sabah untuk membina sebuah loji rawatan air baharu untuk manfaat kira-kira 200,000 penduduk Keningau
ReplyDeleteLebih banyak peruntukan diberi oleh kerajaan untuk pembangunan, ini terbukti lebih banyak tumpuan diberi.
DeleteSegala usaha kerajaan membuktikan kemampuan kerajaan yang diterajui Barisan Nasional (BN) untuk menerajui kepimpinan negara untuk masa depan negara dan kesejahteraan rakyat
ReplyDeleteHanya BN saja yang mampu mengubah nasib rakyat.
DeleteKita kenalah bersemangat dan berusaha sama-sama dengan BN.
DeleteSAPP pandai cakap kosong saja, mana boleh percaya...tempat itu alamakkkkk
Deleteperkampungan air di sana memang banyak pendatang. dapat bayangkan keadaan yang kotor tu.
DeleteSalah tempat durang berkempen, sana tu banyak PATI.
DeleteBetul..hanya BN sahaja yang mampu mengubah nasib rakyat.
DeleteFor those who have not been to Brunei, the water village there is filthy. The water village would be good for tourism , yes but not as a residential zone.
ReplyDeleteSo someone in SAPP does not know what they are talking about.
IT IS FILTHY..I CAN'T BELIEVE THEY SAID THAT.
DeleteSAPP simply say only without doing their research on the water village in brunei.
Deleteikut sedap mulut saja bah ni SAPP kalau bercakap...
DeleteSama saja dengan cakap2 Anwar..
Deletethis wouldn't happen, i'm sure.
ReplyDeletememang tidak akan berlaku...cakap2 politik saja bah ni SAPP...
DeleteI can't believe SAPP said that. what is going on in their minds?
ReplyDeleteif its possible to develop the water villages into a tourist attraction, then why not?
ReplyDeletefrom the way i see it,even if the water villages becomes developed, the illegal immigrants who are staying there would slowly destroy what has been developed there. No doubt about it.
DeleteThat's why la maslaah pati harus ditanggani sebaik mungkin dan dalam kadar segera.
DeleteTo make my point clearer. To use the water village or kampung Ayer as they call it in Brunei as an example is definitely out of the question. To develop a tourist-water village in KK is possible although not in the area mentioned and in my humble opinion not the thing to do right now. Sabah is already a top ECO-tourist destination so we should be concentrating on the conservation and bio-diversity of what Sabah has to offer. We should also look into nation building.There is so much potential but we must first take our country back from the colonist.
ReplyDeletethe water village that i know of in brunei is filthy.. i hope sapp is not referring to that water village.
ReplyDeleteThere is only one water village in Brunei which is located in the capital of Bandar Seri Begawan. This is the Brunei River which is brown. There are solid and human waste all over the place, which the fish feed on. The kids living there also swim and bath in the same water. Why people still live there, I don't know. Opens your eyes to know that Brunei is not a rich country as most people imagine it to be. 90% of the wealth is derived from oil & gas. (Thats what they say, but I believe it's more like 100% because as far as I know, they don't export anything else). That chunk of wealth goes to the Sultan by the way and only a trickle is handed to society. Brunei is not a bad country if you think about the price of gasoline, motor vehicles, cheap road tax, free medical, no income tax, relative peace and quietness but thats about it. I much prefer the middle east - gulf states like Dubai or Abu Dhabi.
DeleteSour grape, People in Brunei is much better off then Sabah people and the whole world knows it. RM2.50 - Brunei$1.00.
Deletethe most stupid idea...can believe it as it only a blatant lies.... conman idea!!!!!
ReplyDeleteapa bah diorang SAPP cakap ni? tidak masuk akal betul lah..
ReplyDeleteMemang durang suka cakap benda yang tidak logik.. pendekatan yang lansung tidak kena tempat.
Deleteterdesak sudah kah SAPP?
ReplyDeleteBN government had completely spoiled Tanjung Aru and Sembulan. BN had failed miserably. Stop destroying Sabah!
ReplyDeleteIf some of you chicken brains can't do anything, don't think other people are as stupid as you.
There are many smart Sabahans and they will do something meaningful for Sabah.
http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/independence-for-sabah
ReplyDeleteIt is a good idea if water villages can be developed into tourist attraction as proposed.
ReplyDeleteWho knows if those living in these water villages are legal or really locals?
ReplyDeleteLet’s see if what they have said will become a reality.
ReplyDeleteSAPP should do proper research about these water villages.
ReplyDeleteAt least SAPP intend to do something for the people there, unlike all the other ball-less YESMEN.
DeleteMemang la sekarang SAPP janji macam2.. PRU mau dekat pancing undi lah.
DeleteI suppose they know what they are saying.
ReplyDeleteWhy BN don't solve the water village problems? Are they having an hidden agenda? Are they thinking of robing the people these sea front land?
ReplyDeleteMemang boleh develop tapi sebelum develop tu tengok juga tu tempat. Mana tau pati ja di sana:P
ReplyDeleteYa ka??? Cuba konon kita lihat apa hasilnya nanti.
ReplyDeleteKalau untuk kebaikan rakyat, pasti semua pun akan setuju. Tapi kalau setakat nak pancing undi, hhmmm bahaya juga tu.
ReplyDeleteYa, memang bahaya. Malah ia boleh mendatangkan masalah lain lagi kalau tempat tu semuanya sah pati.
DeleteKasih halau PATI lah, bodoh bunya kerjaan.
Deletekenapa BN dengan PBS YB tidak boleh apa, apa kah? lama sudah masalah ini.
ReplyDeleteSaya akan baki peluang SAPP kani ini lah!
Mau bagi peluang sama SAPP buat apa?? bukan boleh percaya, pandai cakap saja.
Deletethose faces of hypocrites.....silly! in this century such idiots still existed....too cheap ideas that make them look fools....
DeleteBiggest hypocrites are the wakil rakyats who don't know how to work, but only know how to fool the people making the people like idiots.
DeleteSAPP baru sekarang mereka sibuk turun padang jumpa penduduk sembulan. Sebelum ini tidak pernah langsung.
ReplyDeleteKawasan Tanjung Aru ada YB wakil rakyat BN-PBS, tanya lah apa jadi kepada sampah, jambatan yang buruk, PATI yang ramai sangat di kawasan itu?
Deletemau dekat pilihan raya sudahkan, jadi semua pun mau tunjuk prihatin.
DeleteSAPp atau BN atau PKR, ini semua pilihan rakyat sendiri. kami menantikan perkembangan selanjutnya.
ReplyDeleteSudah cukup bukti, BN tidak peduli dengan kebajikan orang tempatan di Tanjung Aru, apa lagi mahu menanti? undilah SAPP atau PKR.
Deletebiar rakyat tentukan pilihan mereka sendiri.
DeletePATI harus dihantar balik sementara masih dalam kawalan. Jumlah ini akan bertambah lagi dan akan di luar kawalan.
ReplyDeleteJagan jagan PATI itu fixed deposits bah. Habislah Sabah ini.
ReplyDeletedi kampung air tu rata-ratanya pati.
ReplyDeleteperlu dipastikan mereka itu pati atau tidak, golongan pati harus dihantar pulang ke negara mereka.
ReplyDeletesemua parti kini sedang sibuk untuk mendapatkan sokongan rakyat. jadi ada saja yang tiba-tiba menjadi hero.
ReplyDeleteLet the positive impact more goes to the people.
ReplyDeleteThe people need to be no 1 in every decision making.
ReplyDeletekenapa SAPP tidak majukan kawasan itu sebagai destinasi pelancongan ketika YTL jadi KM Sabah?
ReplyDelete