“STAR Sabah’s direction is crystal clear and the clearest amongst all the parties in Sabah. STAR Sabah seeks the restoration of Sabah as 1 of 3 equal partners in Malaysia and its struggle is made clear with the Borneo Agenda and its 7 core demands” said Datuk Dr. Jeffrey Kitingan, STAR Sabah Chief, in response to Lajim’s statement published in the Daily Express yesterday.
Unlike the recent remarks by a Sabah Umno leader, Sabah and Sarawak are not equal to the States in Peninsular and, more importantly, Sabah and Sarawak did not join Malaysia as the 12th and 13th States.
“If Lajim is not clear and does not understand the direction and struggle of STAR for Sabah, he is most welcome to attend any of the presentations during the Borneo Tea Parties that are held throughout the entire State” added Dr. Jeffrey.
The struggle of STAR for Sabah is well understood even in the rural and remote parts of Sabah and that is why the people are flocking to support STAR. Sabah and Sarawak are now the kingmakers and our lawmakers need to leverage on this unique window of opportunity to demand the restoration of Sabah’s rights, autonomy and constitutional safeguards.
In fact, since 2008 if the lawmakers in Sabah and Sarawak were to switch camps, it will result in the change of the Federal government in Putrajaya. If they were to demand for the restoration of Sabah and Sarawak’s rights and autonomy including a review of the oil revenue sharing with Petronas, the Barisan Nasional government will have to accommodate these demands lest they wish to be changed to be the opposition in Parliament and allow a change of government.
The window of opportunity for Sabah and Sarawak to leverage on their role as kingmakers will remain and unlikely to be changed in the forthcoming 13th general elections.
STAR Sabah will even seek the restoration of Sabah as an autonomous nationhood state within Malaysia. Our TYT will be restored as the Yang Di Pertua Negara and Sabah will be divided into 5 administration regions similar to the old residencies to spearhead and expedite development and growth.
Reforms will introduced to revamp the system of government and administration to advance Sabah as a safe, autonomous and progressive nation-state contributing positively to the overall progress of Malaysia.
The outflow of revenue collected from Sabah to the Federal government and the collection of 95% of Sabah’s oil revenue are key demands under the Borneo Agenda. It is nothing new as we have been explaining them to the people since 2 years ago.
Neither is any expertise needed from Pakatan on the “loss” of these revenues, some RM15 billion in oil revenues and RM22.7 billion in revenue collected from Sabah for 2011 as these are actual facts.
The problem is the Umno/BN Federal government refuses to acknowledge the status of Sabah under the Malaysia Agreement as an equal partner to Malaya and entitled to its revenue collections. The problem is compounded by the refusal and inaction of the Umno/BN government to correct the injustice done to Sabah.
Many of our Sabah leaders are mere stooges and proxies of Kuala Lumpur leaders. These Sabah leaders, no longer have the heart and desires to fight for the special rights and position of Sabah and Sarawak in Malaysia.
If Lajim is still unclear, he is most welcome to discuss with me or any of our divisional leaders who are all well versed with STAR’s direction and the Borneo Agenda.
It appears that Lajim and Bumburing are still unclear about how to go about with their direction and struggle for Sabah. Under the Pakatan manifesto, it pledges to:-
“Restore autonomy to Sabah and Sarawak in line with and within the framework of the Federal Constitution and the Federation Agreement”.
The autonomy pledged by Pakatan is no different with that now under Umno/BN regime as under the present Federal Constitution, Sabah is 1 of 13 states in Malaysia.
If Lajim finds it in his heart to defend the position of Sabah as an equal partner of 3 entities with its own autonomy and special rights, he should work with STAR and join our struggles to restore these rights and not fall into the same trap as before with the politics and agenda of Malaya parties.
Datuk Dr. Jeffrey Kitingan is Chairman of STAR Sabah Branch
Star's direction for Star may be crystal clear, but their failure to cooperate with other opposition parties made their chances in winning majority votes during the General Election scarce.
ReplyDeleteianya hanya membuktikan keegoaan Star dan ketamakan pemimpinnya...
Deletekalau untuk menerajui negeri ni, memang sukar bagi STAR jika tiada kerjasama dari semua parti pembangkang yang lain.
DeleteSTAR ada agenda sendiri untuk dicapai.
DeleteCouldn't agree anymore. No man is an island, so does STAR.
DeleteIf all 3 opposition parties decided to compete at once during the next general elections, there will be split votes.
ReplyDeleteWhat ever the number of candidate standing in one constituency does not really matter, present voters are now more conscious, smarter and evaluative...very much incline to voting base on the struggles of the party each represents and not base on how nice the candidate is , how close is he/she to me,what will i get from the candidate, how handsome/pretty or how rich is the candidate,...... the struggles , visions and missions of a party are all that matter/important !!!.......so, straight fight kah,...two conners fight kah....five,six conners fight kah, a voter needs only to vote one and therefore multiple candidates in one costuency will not cause the votes to split but its the voters themselves that split their votes !!! !!!
DeleteTidak mungkin parti pembangkang boleh berjaya jika undian berpecah-pecah.
Deletemakin banyak parti di Sabah dengan halatuju yang berbeza.
DeletePerbelahan antara pembangkang akan memberi laluan kepada BNterus mencapai kemenangan.
DeleteBe realistic that too many corners fight is not advisable.
DeleteParti pembangkang asing-masisng tidak mau kalah, semua suka janji kosong dengan rakyat.
DeleteLets see if star can win the heart of Sabahans people.
ReplyDeleteKita tengoklah sendiri semasa PRU-13, sama ada Star berjaya memenangi sokongan majoriti di Sabah.
DeleteDi Labuan sendiri pun sudah ditubuhkan cawangan STAR.
DeleteCawangan banyak tidak beerti undi yang bakal diterima pun banyak.
DeleteSAPP kasih tubuh banyak-banyak cawangan pun, belum tentu ada yang mau sokong.
DeleteIts up to JK to make sure that STAR can survive.
ReplyDeleteEnough of barging in on us. We need our privacy now. We need to take stock of the situation and count all items that have been carted away. We need to assess, pare and cut our losses. We need to perform due diligence in view of plugging all loopholes. We need to think things through. It is already crowded in here. We have our all-important party to hold. Please do not come gate crashing. If you subscribe to our interest let us know. If you are smarting over this message please leave. All irrelevant parties, GO AWAY.
ReplyDeleteI am with STAR
ReplyDeleteI am with MOON.
Deletesabah base opp. parties must work together. It is a must.
ReplyDeletethere's no way the opposition in sabah will cooperate with each other...
Deleteselagi pembangkang tidak bersatu, peluang mereka untuk menang memang tipis.
DeleteVotes splitting is unavoidable n inevitable if oppositions parties unable to form any seat arrangement to beat BN
ReplyDeleteStar cakap dia akan tanding 32 kerusi...tu SAPP cakap 2/3 kerusi....PKR cakap 1/3 kerusi...memang akan kalahlah pembangkang di sabah...kompom sudah...
Deleteundi akan pecah.. BN dpt kelebihan.
Deletesemua parti pembangkang mahukan kerusi yang banyak menyebabkan pembangkang tidak bersatu.
DeleteI have a controversial theory about why JK suddenly came out from politic semi retirement to form STAR and starts bringing out issues that should have been highlighted years n years ago. To make things interesting let me relate it to movie characters.
ReplyDeleteYou see JK is a vampire that have been resting or hibernate but was brought back to awaken state by Maha the vampire king who lately growing worry with the rise of Lycan in the peninsula led by Maha nemesis Anwa. To prevent the smooth spread of Anwa power to Sabah, thus overpower the state chief vampire Mosa and ultimately cause the down fall of vampire rule in the country, Maha must do something secretly now or never. JK mission is simple .. Tell the Lycan in Sabah that all Lycan or vampire from the west are evil so they must reject Anwa even though he is Lycan. Sabah Lycan is very trusting species so they trust JK even though he is a vampire. So Sabah Lycan is splitted into 50 % support JK and 50% support pure Lycan led by Anwa. With this split, during election Mosa likely to get 50% votes, JK 20% and Anwa 30%. JK will join Mosa after election giving Mosa total 70% control thus let Vampire to control the state again. The Lycan that supported JK is now realized that they have been deceived once more. JK n Maha can now go back to rest...,peacefully. My theory will attract lots of criticism from JK supporters but I couldn't care less if you hurl back with all sort of accusation so be it I don't care I have my opinion and you have yours ....
Better to trust a fellow Sabahan than a Malayan colonialist
DeleteSo? Avatar script was written years before the movie was made. It took about fifteen years to materialize into Avatar the movie. Why? They didn't have the cutting edge technology that was needed to capture the vision of the writer earlier. And if you have any qualms or theories about any possibility of Maha(kote) being implicated or remotely involved in the rising of STAR... well one's kote is soon going to drop off getting kicked into a bucket by nature. Ad nauseam already
DeleteJK help himself, his brother and Maha kutty
DeleteCannot equate with avatar ... JK has all the opportunities during PBS era..... more so that time AMNO and PATI influence politically still very less compared to now .... U look at things terbalik dah kawan ....
DeleteIni mungkin sebabnya si JK tidak rela bekerjasama dengan parti pembangkang lain .... betul juga teori Lycan di atas ..... ada udang di sebalik JK ..... ha ha ha .... dari mana JK dapat sumber kewangan untuk menjalani STAR ...... memang dari seorang / parti yang Maha kaya Maha berkuasa ..... biasa dengar JK hentam DAP Sabah dari dengar hentam BN Sabah..... susah nak turut JK walaupun dia orang Sabah sebab ahli politik Sabah BN pun orang Sabah juga ......
Deletepatut lah sekarang orang Sabah yang percaya JK selalu melaungkan sentimen orang Malaya tak boleh dipercayai sebab mereka ni nak koloni Sabah saja.... last last mereka sokong si JK pulak ..... jadi berjaya lah rancangan si Maha kutty nanti .... Maha kutty tak boleh kalah nanti susah dosa 22 tahun di ketahui dan perniagaan kroni kroni menjunam
Deletepatutlah Datuk Jeffrey mengambil masa yang lama. Susah juga menembusi kepala-kepala yang berkerak ini ataupun terlampau banyak pati santan
DeleteTak lama pun STAR hanya berusia lebih kurang setahun saja ....nampak otak kau berkerak n mata rabun ......
DeleteSiapa suruh percaya Star/JK?? Semua tu cuma agenda si Raja Katak saja.
DeleteJika Star tidak berjaya, parti mana lagi JK mau lompat lepas ni.
DeleteTO,YB DATUK LAJIM ...... .......... ON BEHALF OF INANAM UNITED BORNEO FRONT ( UBF ) I CORDIALLY AND KINDLY INVITE YANG BERHORMAT DATUK TO ATTEND OUR BTP,ON THE 22ND,SUNDAY, 2012, AT 2.00PM, AT KEDIAMAN PN PATRICIA,AT KG NOUNTUN INANAM,....THE SUBJECT OF TALKS WILL BE...THE FORMATION OF THE NATION CALL MALAYSIA IN 1963(MA1963,20 POINT AND IGC )...WHAT HAPPEN AFTER 1965,..MANIPULATION BY MALAYAN /FEDERAL LEADERS,SABAH AND SARAWAK WERE DOWNGRADED TO BECOME THE 12TH AND 13TH STATES UNDER MALAYA...LOSES OF STATE'S RIGHTS AND REVENUES WHICH RENDERS SABAH TO BECOME THE POOREST STATE,..AND THE WAY FORWARD...DEMAND FOR THE RESTORATION OF STATE'S RIGHTS AND AUTONOMY AS PER MA1963,20 POINT AND IGC. ...........WE, IN INANAM UBF, HIGHLY APPRECIATE THE GRAVE CONCERN BY YB DATUK THE WORSENING SITUATION PREVALENT IN SABAH AS WELL AS YOUR DETERMINATION TO FIGHT FOR THE RESTORATION OF SABAH'S RIGHTS...WE THEREFORE LOOK FORWARD FOR YOUR INVALUABLE PRESENCE,....TERIMA KASIH....Yang benar,...Felix Sitaun....contact no...013 859 2236.
ReplyDelete......THE ABOVE BTP TALK WILL BE CONDUCTED/PRESENTED BY DR. NICHOLAS, A PRACTICING MEDICAL DOCTOR AND SDR.FREDRIN, TRAINED/GRADUATE AND EXPERIENCE TEACHER.....Felix Sitaun,...Penolong Penyalaras UBF Inanam.
Delete....the above ubf/ BTP talk would be conducted and presented by Dr. Nicholas, a practicing medical dr, and sdr. Fredrin , a trained/graduate/experience teacher,...
Deleteokey good..
DeleteSebelum hadir, boleh janji jadi KM lepas menang kah?
Delete...ini tidak ada kenamengana dengan mau jadi KM ataupun apa, ini hanyalah penerangan tentang FAKTA SEJARAH PENUBUHAN NEGARA MALAYSIA dimana SETIAP RAKYAT SABAH, YANG TULIN, BERHAK UNTUK MENGETAHUINYA,...KEHADHIRAN PADA CERAMAH INI ADALAH BERDASAR KEPADA KERELAHAN DAN BUKAN PAKSAAN....SI Anonymous diatas yang beringin jadi KM tak perlulah hadhir kerana majlis seumpama ini terlau kecil dan remeh untuk kamu.
Deletemalang sekali UBF digunakan sebagai kuda tunggangan politik Star untuk meraih sokongan...
Deletetentu ada kena mengena. AI suda janji bos jadi KM. Kalau tidak janji tidak lompat.
Deletesdr. terry jika anda faham perjalanan politik semasa anda tidak akan mengkritik betapa pentingnya hubung kait NGO dengan sesebuah parti. nampaknya anda masih mentah dalam memahami situasi politik semasa.
DeleteYa betul. Sama juga tu KDM Msia diguna sebagai kuda tunggangan politik Umno dan kamurang KDM masih tidak nampak lagi.
DeleteJK sebenarnya gila kuasa. Agendanya mahu jadi KM.
Deleteparti2 pembangkang berebut mendapatkan lajim..
ReplyDeletelajim cakap dia belum membuat keputusan untuk menyertai mana2 parti pembangkang...
ReplyDeleteBetul, walaupun Lajim Ukin sudah berputus untuk keluar parti, tapi beliau belum lagi memilih parti yang bakal diikuti.
Deleteramai orang nk dptkan Lajim.. ramai peminat jg Lajim ni.. huhu..
Deletesemua pun berebut mahu dapatkan Lajim. nampak macam mereka terdesak pula.
DeleteOnce Lajim quits from UMNO, less hope for his political survival.
DeleteSana sini orang cakap pasal Lajim akan lompat parti PKR lah , PAS laa.. tunggu sahaja lah pengumuman beliau.
DeleteQuite unfortunate for them....
ReplyDeleteThere seems to be tension for them all.
ReplyDeleteWho is responsible for the tensions caused?
ReplyDeleteLet's see what would be their next step.
ReplyDeleteLet Lajim decide for himself.
ReplyDeleteOnly Jeffrey Kitingan knew what Star's direction is.
ReplyDeleteif that is the case, the party struggle is about a solo mission
Deletewhen Jeff said.
Delete-STAR Sabah seeks the restoration of Sabah as 1 of 3 equal partners in Malaysia and its struggle is made clear with the Borneo Agenda-
and for me this is enough to understand the clear direction of STAR struggle for Sabah.
that's mean we in STAR knew our direction.
INI KALI LAH
Bukan saja Jeff yg tahu halatuju Star. Kita rakyat biasa pun tahu. Hanya pengkhianat Sabah saja yang enggan akun Sabah sebuah negara berautonomi dan rakan kongsi sama taraf dengan Malaya dan Sarawak.
Deletecuma star ni seperti tidak sehaluan dengan sapp dan pembangkang yang lain.
ReplyDeleterekod JK yang sering lompat parti membuatkan segelintir orang ragu untuk sokong star.
ReplyDeleteSejauh mana STAR boleh capai di Sabah?
ReplyDeletelebih baik STAR gabung atau kerjasama dengan parti lain, lagi cerah peluangnya.
ReplyDeleteJangan pula STAR gilankan kuasa. Harus membuktikan keupayaan untuk memperjuangkan yang terbaik untuk rakyat.
ReplyDeleteMampukan STAR ini memang pada PRU13 nanti. Kelihatan STAR ada peluang berbanding dengan SAPP. Kerana SAPP langsung tidak menarik penyokongn berbanding dengan STAR yang aktif sekarang ini.
ReplyDeleteTambahan lagi.. STAR tidak akan menyertai PR. Jadi ini bermakna terpaksalah bertanding 3 penjuru ini. SAPP saja yang jadi pengecut bersama dengan PR nanti pada PRU. Lihat STAR. Hebat bukan.
ReplyDeleteBoleh percaya kh parti Star ini, lebih-lebih lagi JK.. nanti lain yang di janji, lain yang di buat.
ReplyDeletesebenarnya tompinai tujuan star sangat baik untuk orang sabah ori,tapi bukan senang oh,malaya bukan diam diam tu,sebab diaorang tahu sabahlah punca ekonomi malaya.jk punya pelan ni bagus tapi orang orang kg susah sikit mau faham ba ni,ada yang cakap sabah keluar malaysialah,mana ada macam tu,contoh tingu US bogitu bah kita mahu atau macam negara china dengan hong kong maksudnya satu negara dua sistem,bah ada faham tompinai ngawi,INI KALILAH KALAU BUKAN KITA SIAP LAGI,KALAU BUKAN SEKARANG BILA LAGI,posik kou ngaie tompinai.
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