KOTA KINABALU - State Reform Party (STAR) reaped a bounty yesterday (Sunday) when 163 leaders and members of the now defunct Sabah People’s Front (SPF) at a luncheon at Mayflower restaurant along Jalan Bundusan here.
In welcoming their entry, Sabah STAR Chairman, Datuk Dr. Jeffrey Kitingan, said that the members of SPF were very disappointed for having been played out to the point that they lost their political platform when it was taken over by other people. SPF was somehow taken over by a Sarawak group and its name was changed to Sarawak Workers’ Party.
“Now that we are about to face the 13th general election which is expected to be held anytime soon, we warmly welcome the entry of the former leaders and members of SPF,” Jeffrey said. “We pledge that they will be given the opportunity to be at the forefront of STAR’s struggle.
We call upon them to consider STAR as their new home where they will be with the other members as one family to forge ahead with the Borneo Agenda for the future of Sabah.”
The 163 who filled up and submitted STAR membership forms at the venue were led by Joseph Lusin Balangan, the former SPF treasurer general who was also the chief co-ordinator for Papar parliamentary constituency and Kawang state constituency; Jefry Kumbang (Tenom) and Elzear Maggin (Tuaran); eight state constituency co-ordinators – Doris alom (Bongawan) cum SPF Women’s Movement Chief ; Chok Yit Min (Apas), Bidin Jawa (Sulabayan), Wilfred Kilos (Moyog), Kundian Durasim (Tamparuli), Rain Stibin (Karambunai), Tony Foo (Tg. Aru) and Lee John (Matunggong).
Joseph Lusin, speaking for the group, told that SPF had 37,000 members throughout the state and they had identified 18,400 who will be following their step to join STAR.
Jeffrey commended the group for having taken the bold step by joining STAR and continue their political struggle to champion Sabah’s rights under STAR party.
“Their joining STAR has many positive implications” he said. “They first of all are saying to the people of Sabah and other local political parties that they have to unite in order to build up our strength to demand for the rights of Sabah.
“They appreciate that Sabah is our country and together we will march forward to face the various problems and challenges. Sabah has lost its autonomy and independence, continues to lose its natural resources which are being siphoned out of Sabah, totalling RM24.7 billion in 2012 alone. Our revenue from petrol was RM18 billion last year but we were left with only RM4 billion.
“What a tragedy to know that Sabah is so rich but the people are so poor. The news two days ago, in which there was an announcement that Sabah’s poverty had suddenly been reduced but strangely the people don’t feel any of it. They keep losing the right to their lands and deprived of the NCR to the point that they have to collect money and go up and down the courts to fight for their rights just because they are living in the forest reserves, but they have been in the areas before the areas were converted into forest reserves.
“We also seem to have no more security as a state in the federation although we formed Malaysia together with the assurance of military security. Now Sabah is no longer safe with the intrusion of the army of the Sultan of Sulu in Lahad Datu.
“How they managed to enter Sabah is a real puzzle, because where were the navy and marine police, the intelligence units and the other security forces? Today, the threat on our security is not just physical but also in politics where we are also no longer safe with the illegal immigrants who have been given ICs and the right to vote.
“If the federal government cannot guarantee us security, we the citizens of Sabah need to do something to ensure the security of Sabah. One important idea espoused by STAR is the establishment of the Sabah Homeland Security, Immigration and Registration when we come to power,” he said.
“Sabah is ours, our future is in our hands and we cannot depend on outsiders nor to Sabahans who have become stooges and proxies of outsiders,” he said.
Datuk Dr. Jeffrey Kitingan is Chairman of STAR Sabah
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ReplyDeleteRasanya ini masih belum cukup untuk STAR menguasai Sabah.
DeleteJika dilihat sendiri pun Sabah masih lagi memilih BN untuk parti pilihan mereka.
DeleteKerajaan telah banyak membawa perubahan yang ketara kepada sabah jadi sudah pasti rakyat tahu menilai semua itu.
DeleteSTAR masih baru di Sabah dan masih tidak begitu dikenali oleh rakyat Sabah sendiri.
DeleteKita tunggu saja PRU13 nanti bagaimana cara STAR bertanding dalam PRU tersebut.
DeleteI feel like throwing up. Once the prime minister for twenty-three darn years. Now only brickbats he's getting. They get lofty when they are around long enough to be brazen. We do want someone NEW.
DeleteSTAR masih dalam peringkat diuji.
DeleteTidak yakin Star jadi pemimpin di Sabah.
Deletepenganalaisis politik berkata pembentukan sebuah lagi parti gabungan pelbagai etnik di Sabah, khususnya dalam kalangan parti pembangkang, akan hanya menguntungkan Barisan Nasional (BN) di negeri itu berikutan kecenderungan penggerak utama masing-masing untuk mengubah sokongan atau menubuhkan parti baru setiap kali menjelang pilihan raya.
ReplyDeleteMereka akan bercakaran sesama sendiri, kata Prof Madya Dr Bilcher Bala dari Universiti Malaysia Sabah (UMS).
Delete"Mereka tak akan ada peluang untuk menang. Ini samalah dengan perpecahan yang berlaku dalam gabungan parti pembangkang sebelum ini. Pembangkang akan mengalami masalah besar apabila mereka berpecah," katanya.
Beliau berkata malah, banyak pihak percaya pembentukan pakatan pembangkang Borneo itu lebih merupakan persiapan untuk menghadapi pilihan raya umum akan datang bagi membolehkan STAR-UBF memberi tumpuan untuk menarik undi masyarakat pribumi Sabah (Kadazan, Dusun dan Murut), manakala SAPP (Cina) dan Usno pula, melalui kerjasama mereka dengan SPF, berharap akan dapat meraih undi Bumiputera Islam.
DeleteBagaimanapun, harapan itu sebenarnya tidak mudah dicapai seperti yang mereka impikan.
Delete"Halangan terbesar ialah perbezaan yang wujud antara penduduk Sabah dan Sarawak. Daripada segi budaya, mereka mungkin ada persamaan, tapi dalam kehidupan sosial, mereka berbeza. Keadaan politik juga amat berbeza antara kedua-dua negeri itu serta rakyatnya," kata beliau.
Dr Bilcher Bala berpendapat penubuhan sebuah barisan pembangkang yang dianggotai parti berasal dari Sarawak dan Sabah sukar berfungsi dengn baik kerana pandangan dan objektif masing-masing memang berbeza.
Delete"Satu hakikat yang tidak boleh dinafikan ialah kewujudan tiga dunia yang tidak pernah serupa -- Semenanjung, Sabah dan Sarawak," kata beliau.
PKR memang tidak dipercayai malah tidak diterima Dr. Jeffrey. Percubaan mewujudkan APS dan menerimanya dalam lipatan PR oleh Anwar adalah percubaan menyaingi dan menidakkan kedudukan dan peluang Dr. Jeffrey dan STAR.
ReplyDeleteSAPP yang bersekutu secara terbuka dengan STAR masih bermain kayu tiga dengan Pakatan Rakyat. SAPP amat sukar menyingkir pertalian Pakatan Rakyat dengan DAP. Di kawasan yang dikenalpasti sebagai kawasan ‘advantage” DAP, terdapat SAPP dan STAR yang jelas mempunyai “advantage” yang sama dengan Pakatan Rakyat-DAP.
DeletePercubaan SAPP melalui gagasan 1215-satu lawan satu yang didalanginta menerusi DESAH Sabah, terus sahaja diketepikan DAP. DAP faham dan sedar bahawa SAPP hanya berusaha menyingkirkan dan menidakkan peluang mereka.
DeleteDAP dalam masa yang sama menuduh STAR sebagai baruah BN yang hanya berusaha memenangkan BN dengan mudah pada PRU13 nanti. Dalam masa yang sama SAPP tidak mampu mengendurkan kuasa ‘negotiation’ nya mendapatkan seat yang sufficient untuk SAPP. Jika ia cuba berlembut denga PR, pastinya SAPP akan terpaksa berdepan dengan tentangan dalam parti itu sendiri. Kesan jangkapanjangnya lebih kepada keruntuhan parti itu sendiri.
DeleteAsas perjuangan Dr. Jeffrey melalui STAR hanya akan menjadi kenyataan jika dia dan Parti nya, STAR dan sekutunya berjaya menawan majoriti kerusi DUN dan MP di Sabah. Ramai yang sudah meramalkan bahawa untuk mencapai tahap itu teramat slim atau hampir mustahil.
DeleteTetapi STAR dan barisan kepimpinannya adalah mereka yang tidak gemar atau tidak cenderung kepada “kompromi” apabila sampai kepada pembahagian kerusi. Mereka berjuang ‘kalau bukan kita siapa lagi, kalau bukan sekarang bila lagi”. Jika kita meneliti suara mereka dalam dunia cyber, mereka siang-siang sudah bersedia ‘bersendirian’ tanpa gangguan parti pembangkang yang lain.
DeleteJelaslah bahawa peperangan dalam parti-parti pembangkang di Sabah amat sengit. Mereka sudah rela bertarung demi ideology dan perjuangan parti masing-masing. Bagi mereka cedera atau tidak dalam pertarungan di gelanggang pembangkang sebelum menghadapi BN pada PRU13 bukan perhitungan utama. Yang Penting “lawan tetap lawan”.
DeleteLagi ahli Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) dan Parti Maju Sabah (SAPP) keluar parti di Beaufort. Semua ini berpunca daripada kekecewaan dan hilang kepercayaan terhadap parti tersebut.
ReplyDeleteSikap Anwar Ibrahim juga adalah punca ahli PKR Beaufort keluar parti dan menyertai UMNO. Ini kerana Anwar telah tersilap langkah memilih Lajim sebagai orang kepercayaannya di daerah Beaufort.
ReplyDeleteAnwar, JK semua ada kepentingan peribadi sendiri yang ingin di capai.
DeleteLajim dan Bumburing tidak menyertai PKR secara langsung, tetapi pertubuhan mereka dijadikan pertubuhan mesra-Pakatan Rakyat.
ReplyDeleteBoth work closely with PR. Whether or not both still gain support from the people.
DeleteDengan ini mereka boleh mempunyai kuasa tawar menawar atas dasar rakan kongsi (equal partner) sebagai dua tambahan 'komponen' kepada Pakatan Rakyat selain PKR, Pas dan DAP.
ReplyDeleteKawasan P.177 Beaufort yang merupakan kubu kuat Lajim, penerimaan Anwar Ibrahim dengan tangan terbuka terhadap PPS adalah sehingga ke tahap membunuh cabang PKR Beaufort sendiri.
ReplyDeleteSegala aktiviti PKR telah di'hijack' oleh kumpulan Lajim sehingga semua jentera cabang PKR asal di sana benar-benar dipinggirkan.
ReplyDeletePerpecahan parti pembangkang akan memberi laluan kepada BN terus berkuasa.
DeletePercaya dengan kepimpinan BN.
DeleteSebagai kemuncak dari ketidakpuasan hati ini, semua 15 orang AJK PKR Beaufort diketuai oleh Naib Ketua Cabang PKR Beaufort En. Adnan Mohd Ali telah bertindak keluar dari parti dan menyertai UMNO.
ReplyDeleteYang tinggal ialah ketua PKR Beaufort yang juga merupakan adik kepada Lajim. Itulah yang berlaku di Beaufort sekarang ini dengan kehadiran Lajim dalam mimpi Anwar.
ReplyDeleteLain pula yang berlaku dengan SAPP Beaufort yang tidak lagi percaya dan hilang keyakinan dengan parti tersebut yang tidak menepati janji. Mereka pun bertindak dan membuat keputusan untuk meninggalkan parti SAPP dan menyertai UMNO.
ReplyDeleteSAPP semakin ditolak oleh rakyat di Sabah.
DeleteSemua ini atas kepercayaan mereka terhadap kepimpinan Ketua Menteri Sabah Datuk Musa Aman mentadbir negeri Sabah ini. Penyertaan bekas penyokong pembangkang itu membuktikan mereka sedar hanya BN satu-satunya parti yang sentiasa berjuang menjaga kebajikan rakyat.
ReplyDeleteAnggota Jawatankuasa SAPP Beaufort, Saidi Kasni yang mengetuai kumpulan itu menyerahkan borang keahlian kepada Ketua Wanita Umno Bahagian Beaufort Datuk Azizah Mohd Dun pada majlis silaturahim bersama pemimpin di Kg Binunuk.Kehadiran mereka ini amatlah dialu-alukan oleh pucuk kepimpinan UMNO Sabah. Mereka dengan sejujurnya telah berkata yang mana mereka tertarik dengan cara kerajaan Barisan Nasional (BN) menepati janji dan itulah yang menjadi kehendak mereka selama ini.
ReplyDeleteSAPP tidak pernah prihatin terhadap nasib rakyat sebaliknya hanya pandai menabur janji kosong. Itulah yang SAPP tahu lakukan selama ini. Maka mereka mengakui sendiri yang mana parti yang menepati janji dan tidak pernah lupa akan janji ialah Parti BN. Sebab itulah BN menjadi pilihan mereka untuk memastikan terus kekal menjadi pilihan rakyat dan tidak tersilap pilih.
ReplyDeletePEOPLE CENDERUNG UNTUK MENYOKONG PEMIMPIN YANG MEMBERI IMPAK KEMAJUAN KEPADA RAKYAT SEPERTI MUSA AMAN
ReplyDeleteMusa Magic (Part II): Pushing for a Better Sabah
The coming state assembly elections for Sabah may be a pivotal moment in determining the future trajectory of the state’s political economy and indeed progress, in the near term. Pitted against each other are two contesting visions of Sabah: the incumbent coalition government comprising the Umno-led BN in a coalition with local parties Party Bersatu Sabah (PBS), United Pasok Momogun Kadazan Organisation (UPKO),Party Bersatu Rayat Sabah (PBRS) and Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), are campaigning on a platform of good governance which is supported by the arithmetic of rapid economic growth — approximately 7 per cent on average — in the last ten years of Musa Aman’s government.
PEOPLE CENDERUNG UNTUK MENYOKONG PEMIMPIN YANG MEMBERI IMPAK KEMAJUAN KEPADA RAKYAT SEPERTI MUSA AMAN
ReplyDeleteMusa Magic (Part II): Pushing for a Better Sabah
On the other side is the Pakatan Rakyat combine shepherded by Anwar Ibrahim and Bumburing’s Angkatan Perubahan Sabah (APS) and Lajim Ukin’s Pertubuhan Pakatan Perubahan Sabah (PPPS), which still believes that it can acquire power in Kota Kinabalu by manipulating the state’s race and religious arithmetic in its favour. The Sabah Progressive Party (SAPP) and Sabah STAR is the third front in this contest — trying to take on the incumbent government on a Borneo agenda-Sabah autonomy, rather than governance plank — but not yet powerful enough to be a credible alternative in government, leaving many to believe that both the SAPP and Star Sabah have been planted by Barisan National to split the opposition votes. After all, President Yong Teck Lee himself will have plenty explaining to do on what he did during his tenure as chief minister when SAPP was in the BN.
PEOPLE CENDERUNG UNTUK MENYOKONG PEMIMPIN YANG MEMBERI IMPAK KEMAJUAN KEPADA RAKYAT SEPERTI MUSA AMAN
ReplyDeleteMusa Magic (Part II): Pushing for a Better Sabah
It would be in the larger interest of the state of Sabah and its people if this election puts to rest the notion that power can still be captured based on old social divisions and grievances. It is important for Sabah’s political economy to move on to a politics of aspiration, where people vote for a party or coalition that delivers governance. This will force all serious political parties (including the SAPP and Sabah Star if they want to remain relevant) to contest future elections on a forward looking governance plank in the spirit of the Malaysia Agreement within the framework of the Federal Constitution, rather than a backward looking social engineering plank. This time round, such reasoning undoubtedly favours the UMNO-PBS combination which is the main pillar of Barisan National Sabah, and a majority of opinion polls, for what they are worth, suggest an easy victory for the Musa Aman-led coalition.
PEOPLE CENDERUNG UNTUK MENYOKONG PEMIMPIN YANG MEMBERI IMPAK KEMAJUAN KEPADA RAKYAT SEPERTI MUSA AMAN
ReplyDeleteMusa Magic (Part II): Pushing for a Better Sabah
But a political economy which puts governance at its centre may not favour the incumbent government for all times to come, such are the huge challenges facing any government that is elected to power in Sabah. To what extent can Musa Aman’s government claim credit for Sabah’s apparent turnaround, powered by a growth rate higher than Malaysia’s average over the last five years? A dissection of the growth figures shows both the contribution of the government and the challenges that remain. Most of Sabah’s growth these past five years has been powered by agriculture, construction, tourism and services, particularly hotels, restaurants, shopping malls, trade and, to an extent, oil and gas. The impressive growth in these sectors isn’t matched by the lethargic performance in manufacturing — those are challenges that still face the next government.
PEOPLE CENDERUNG UNTUK MENYOKONG PEMIMPIN YANG MEMBERI IMPAK KEMAJUAN KEPADA RAKYAT SEPERTI MUSA AMAN
ReplyDeleteMusa Magic (Part II): Pushing for a Better Sabah
The state government can claim credit for fuelling the growth in agriculture, fisheries, tourism and construction, since much of this has come through rural development projects, water supply, electrification, bridges and roads funded through the federal and state’s exchequer. In fact, the government’s public spending record has been good, and a massive improvement on the poor spending record of the previous governments before Musa Aman that preceded it. Planned spending was tripled within ten years of the Musa Aman government taking office. This has spillover effects, in a Keynesian “stimulus” sense. Apart from increasing spending, the government has also taken huge strides in improving the law and order situation especially in the east coast of Sabah where bulk of the illegals with fake or questionable Malaysian identity have outnumbered the locals. That has helped boost not just agriculture and the construction activity but has also given a fillip to service industries in the tourism sector like hotels and restaurants which have registered impressive growth.
PEOPLE CENDERUNG UNTUK MENYOKONG PEMIMPIN YANG MEMBERI IMPAK KEMAJUAN KEPADA RAKYAT SEPERTI MUSA AMAN
ReplyDeleteMusa Magic (Part II): Pushing for a Better Sabah
In short, the government has effected the turnaround in the state’s economic fortunes by simply doing the two things any good government ought to: implementing law and order as well as spending on infrastructure. In doing so, it has reversed the long decline in the state’s fortunes that took place before Musa Aman took over the chief ministers in 2003. It is also important to remember that a lot of this impressive growth in the last five years has plenty to do with Sabah starting from a very low base — and that there is a limit to the sustainability of a growth rate that is powered largely by government spending and a small section of services industries and not forgetting that Sabah is the 2nd largest state in Malaysia with an area of 74,500 sq. km which is 260 times bigger than Penang, which is only 293 sq. km in size even, smaller than Sabah Forest Industries (SFI). Therefore for growth to be sustainable it needs to be more broad-based into manufacturing and agriculture.
PEOPLE CENDERUNG UNTUK MENYOKONG PEMIMPIN YANG MEMBERI IMPAK KEMAJUAN KEPADA RAKYAT SEPERTI MUSA AMAN
ReplyDeleteMusa Magic (Part II): Pushing for a Better Sabah
Here, the task gets a lot harder, and will involve massive policy reform in land, labour and product markets. What makes Sabah’s task of industrialisation harder than that of some other states is the fact that goods are more expensive in Sabah due to the federal government’s cabotage rules a policy set in the early 1980s, making sure that all the domestic transport of foreign goods could only be done by Malaysian vessels, reducing Sabah’s attractiveness as an investment destination. This protectionist policy has led to excessive shipping costs, importers and exporters in Sabah had to pay more than RM1 billion for shipping services as a result, causing prices everywhere in East Malaysia to go up and ultimately a higher cost of living and higher price of goods as producers hike up prices to compensate the increase in cost of production. Further more, Sabah lost a lion’s share of its industries after Labuan became a Federal Territory.
ia tak bermakna Star dah kuat.
ReplyDeletepeluang star masih lagi tipis di Sabah.
ReplyDeleteSTAR tiada hasil dan tanda perjuangannya, bukan mudah rakyat menaruh harapan dan memberi undian ke atasnya.
DeleteSerahkan kepada rakyat sama ada memberi sokongan kepada STAR?
ReplyDeleteSTAR members, let’s celebrate! With 300,000 members, we will sweep Sabah in GE13 and form the government! No need to campaign already.
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