KOTA KINABALU - The Angkatan Gabungan Rakyat Asli Sabah (Agaras) on Friday lodged a police report against hate group Pertubuhan Pribumi Perkasa Malaysia (Perkasa) stating that it does not want the latter to be in Sabah or conduct any activities in the state.
“Agaras is strongly against Perkasa as they are a threat to the unity of our people, especially the youths, whom they are manipulating into joining their organisation,” said Agaras’s President, Cornelius Frederick @ Michael F. J. Sulip. “We don’t want the NGO to be in Sabah under the guise of Bumiputeraism and the unity of the Bumiputera.”
Sabah like Sarawak, he pointed out, is about the Orang Asal living in harmony with others.
He said this in reference to the police report lodged by the NGO at the Penampang police station.
Cornelius added that hate preacher and Perkasa chief Ibrahim Ali’s call for the burning of Bahasa Melayu bibles and his NGO’s ideologies and teachings were not in line with the 1Malaysia ideology initiated by Prime Minister Najib Razak.
He also hoped that the authorities concerned would take the necessary action to stop Perkasa from spreading their teachings in Sabah.
“If this problem is not nipped in the bud it will affect the minds of our youths, spread hate, shatter the harmony of our country and drive it into chaos,” he added. “We will not allow Ibrahim Ali in Sabah.”
Copies of the police report will be handed to Sabah chief minister Musa Aman, the state secretary, the Immigration Department, local authorities in the state, component parties of the ruling Barisan Nasional (BN) coalition and the opposition.
The NGO believes that the Sabah Government can use its autonomy in immigration powers and not only ban Ibrahim Ali from the state, as the Sarawak Government had done, but root out the NGO in the state.
He suggested the local authorities, for example, deny a trading licence to the NGO.
Trading licences, obtainable from local authorities, were necessary in Sabah to operate any organisation from lawfully recognised premises. Organisations were not allowed to operate from residential premises.
The City Hall in Kota Kinabalu said they would look into the presence of Perkasa in the Sabah capital. A spokesman declined to comment further.
Agaras’s vice president Patrick Sadom also lodged a police report at the same time against a Facebook user named ’Zef Fithry’ “for posting insulting and degrading remarks on Sabah and its people”.
“This is unacceptable. We hope that the authorities will look into the matter and bring the person to justice,” said Sadom. “We believe the person is from the peninsula. No Sabahan would ever post such hate about his own people.”
’Zef Fithry’ has allegedly posted, among others, remarks that Sabah was a shame to Malaysia, that its people were stupid and jobless and forced to resort to prostitution, and that artistes in the state looked like male private parts.
By John Joseph
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