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Wednesday, February 15, 2012

With higher oil royalty, we wouldn't need anymore federal fund – STAR

KOTA KINABLU: State Reform Party (STAR) said that with a higher oil royalty of 50% for Sabah, the state wouldn't even need anymore federal allocation.

STAR's Deputy Chairman, En. Daniel John Jambun said this in response to the query by Sabah Barisan Nasional secretary Datuk Abdul Rahman Dahlan who expressed worry that Sabah would be worse off than what it is in now should the federal government under the Malaysia Plan be reduced.

"Abdul Rahman is forgetting that under the 10th Malaysia plan, Sabah and Sarawak combined are getting only about RM9 billion as compared to about RM100 billion for the Peninsular," Jambun pointed out.

"At this rate of allocation, Sabah is actually getting less than RM1 billion per year throughout the five-year Malaysia Plan. As such, the federal allocations are not much and hardly fulfil all the development needs of Sabah."

Jambun also said that if the BN government is replaced by the opposition in Sabah, the state will also be asking for the original promised right to allow it to collect and manage its own revenues, including taxes. "Taxes collected from Sabah alone amounts from RM15 to RM20 billion per year so just imagine how much we are losing at the moment," he said. "So combined that with the retention of income from oil by way of 50% royalty, the income for Sabah per year would be in the tens of billions per year. So why would we need anymore allocation from Sabah?"

He said with such a huge revenue base, Sabah would be able to take care of its own education, health and even security costs. "In fact Sabah would be a very rich state and would reach a developed status within a decade or two," he added. "So it is a pity that the BN leaders still have this outdated thinking that we must depend on the federal government forever to develop, whereas the real solution is right in our own backyard."

He reminded that many other revenues which should rightly belong to Sabah are being taken to Kuala Lumpur, such as the revenue collected by the immigration department, which the 20 Points gave us the guarantee that the power of immigration would remain in Sabah’s hands.

“From this we can easily explain why Sabah Sabah and Sarawak are the poorest and second poorest states respectively in Malaysia,” Jambun said. “The situation of the two states is made even worse when compared with Brunei which stayed out from Malaysia at the 11th hour in a dispute over oil revenues, and Singapore which was kicked out from the Federation in 1965 after two years. So why should Sabah and Sarawak accept an oil deal which Brunei was not willing to accept?”

Jambun added that a study of the total revenue picture in Sabah and Sarawak would show that Malaya is treating and exploiting the two states as colonies. “This must be brought to the attention of the UN's 24-nation Committee on Decolonisation. This is the committee that asked Britain to leave Sabah, Sarawak, Brunei and Singapore,” he stressed. “A comparison of oil-and-gas revenue sharing between producing provinces/states/regions and central authorities elsewhere in the world would show that Putrajaya is virtually stealing, and at gunpoint, the energy resources that rightfully belong to Sabah and Sarawak for their industrialisation and economic development.

“The raw materials are now being channelled mostly to the non-oil states in Malaysia by way of oil refineries, petrochemical plants and the like. Rightly, oil royalty or no oil royalty, the oil and gas produced from Sabah and Sarawak should stay within the two states for their industrialisation and economic development, for downstream diversification and for  socio-economic integration.”

48 comments:

  1. Sabahans still deserves Federal Funds, Jeffrey. Whether our oil royalty gets raised or not. It is our rights.

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    1. its is our rights and the federal responsibility..

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    2. i just thinking when will the oil royalty gets raised??

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    3. Dear John

      I am following your statements and writings on the Net.

      Let me say I applaud all that you are doing and saying for Sabah and also Sarawak!

      Your most recent statement was "With higher oil royalty, we wouldn't need anymore federal fund – STAR " in Wikisabah News

      If Sabah or Sarawak have such abundant wealth - which is more than sufficient to "develop" these 2 territories and extra to make each of us a millionaire (say 2.5 million people in each) in the last of 48 years- why are we still asking Kuala Lumpur for money which belongs to us in the first place?

      In fact why are we in Malaysia in the first place?

      The conclusion is that Sabah/Sarawak can stand alone economically and therefore we don't need to be rule by a foreign government in a colonial relationship.

      In short we can be an independent country!

      It is unclear why people cannot see this wonderfully simple explanation for Sabah or Sarawak to quickly get out of "Malaysia"

      The longer we stay- the more wealth we will lose to Malaya which we have been "developing" in the last 48 years - without money!

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  2. Sabah and Sarawak are equal partners with Malaya. Unless we no longer pay taxes to the Federal Government, we deserves to get federal allocations.

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    1. Bagus tidak payah lagi bayar cukai kepada kerajaan persekutuan. Kita bayar cukai untuk kerajaan Sabah sendiri sahaja.

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    2. Duit Sabah untuk membangunkan Sabah, duit semenanjung membangunkan semenanjung. Barulah adil untuk semua, setuju?

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    3. Melainkan Sabah sendiri yang urus minyaknya sendiri.

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    4. as long as we pay taxes to the federal, we deserves to get federal allocations...hopefully the federal will increase the allocations for sabah and sarawak..

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    5. ada baiknya juga jika Sabah tubuhkan syarikat minyak sendiri.

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    6. SEmua ini perlu ada perancangan, bukan mudah untuk di buat dalam masa yang singkat.

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  3. Tapi baik juga jika Anwar cuba menjawab persoalan Rahman Dahlan untuk mengelakkan kekeliruan dari rakyat.

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    1. ya.. persoalan Rahman perlu dijawab, rakyt sabah pasti ingn tahu.

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    2. semua yang dijanjikan oleh PR memang nampak sukar dicapai. buat pelan tidak mengmbilkira keupayaan.

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    3. janji PR memang sukar untuk di capai, semua memerlukan perancangan yang panjang.

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    4. ya..Anwar perlu menjawab persoalan yang diberikan.

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  4. i think even the oil royalty has been increased, we still need the federal funds..

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    1. this is because we only get 5% since last 35 years ago..how much federal gets? we must remember that our oil resource is drying out..

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    2. it is federal gov responsibility to give funds to all the state in this country.

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    3. Even Penang also need Federal fund and also has got debt with the Federal.

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    4. in fact i think sabah needs more federal funds in order to be on par with the other states in malaysia.

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  5. maksudnya akta petroleum harus disemak semula..

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    1. Saya sokong sekiranya akta tu disemak semual dan perbaharui mana2 yang patut.

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  6. HIGHER ROYALTY - NO NEED FOR FEDERAL FUNDING OR FEDERAL RULE!

    While supporting the campaign for a better deal, it seems the issues bring up more questions.

    Sabahans as well as Sarawakians have been clamouring for a greater share of their oil and gas well which their former mis-leaders signed away to Kaula Lumpur. In those days a few millions dollars easily bought the likes of Harris Salleh CM Sabah and Abdul Rahman Yakub CM Sarawak.

    In reality they sold out our resources for peanuts.

    Daniel Jambun says getting 20% oil royalty makes makes us independent of Federal "funds" (most of its our own money from gas & oil!).

    Logically the question is why in the first place did we surrender our oil rights and more important independence for nothing when we could own 100% of our resources and be an independent nation!

    This shows we don't need Kuala Lumpur domination or Malaysia at all!

    The faster we get out the better for us all! We can use our resources to develop our country Sabah and not subsidize the development of Malaya!

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  7. "Sabahans as well as Sarawakians have been clamouring for a greater share of their oil and gas well"

    read "Sabahans as well as Sarawakians have been clamouring for a greater share of their oil and gas wealth "

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  8. PKR 20%, STAR 50% untuk royalti minyak. Lebih baik rakyat Sabah undi STAR sebab royalti minyak lebih banyak dapat. Macam sale la juga. Sale STAR lebih menguntungkan. Tapi Sabahans kena ingat Sabah dan rakyat bukan medium untuk tawar-menawar. Tu yang parti pembangkang buat sekarang. Masing2 kasi tunjuk % royalti berapa banyak boleh bagi. Jangan sangka semua tu senang2. Sekiranya ada 1 skala untuk merujuk berapa royalti sepatutnya Sabah dapat sudah tentu semua parti pembangkang punya % yang sama. Tapi mereka tidak mempunyai 1 skala yang tetap. Macam mana mahu percaya semua tu.

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    1. Masing2 mau tunjuk siapa lagi hebat antara dua parti pembangkang ini, Cuba memancing undi dengan royalti minyak ini.cakap memang senang, untuk menunaikan, belum tau lagi.

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    2. mungkin ini cara mereka untuk mendapatkan sokongan saja.

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  9. IF WE CAN STAND ON OUR OWN - IT SEEMS CRAZY TO BE RULED BY MALAYA & LET THEM STEAL OUR WEALTH!

    IF WE CAN STAND ALONE - THEN WE CAN BE INDEPENDENT-

    WHY CONTINUE TO BE CHAINED TO A COLONIAL PLUNDERER...?

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  10. Itu cuma permainan yang dibuat oleh STAR.

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    1. Beginilah cara STAR untuk memancing undi dengan berjanji perkara yang belum tentu dapat di tunaikan lagi.

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    2. mungkin juga..hanya star yang tahu agenda atau perjuangan mereka sendiri.

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  11. Mungkin STAR cuma memikirkan sesuatu dalam jangka yang pendek dalam hal ini.

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    1. STAR didn't think it thoroughly if the oil run out.

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  12. Rasanya susah jg mau percaya, harus fikir untuk jangka masa yang panjang.

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  13. don't know what is STAR actually thinking but commonla, the federal fund should still be given to sabah. After all, sabah paid for the taxes. its not fair that sabah is not receiving funds from the federal government.

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  14. I can't imagine what become of sabah if STAR is the government.

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    1. star terlalu baru..susah juga mau cakap kemampuan mereka.

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  15. we don't need federal fund?? our oil will run out soon..

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  16. mana yang lebih bagus, terus bergantung dengan peruntukan persekutuan walaupun minyak telah habis atau bergantung sepenuhnya dengan minyak tanpa mengharapkan peruntukkan persekutuan??

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  17. rakyat pandai-pandailah menilai...jangan mudah trpengaruh dengn janji-janji manis.

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  18. Ada juga ba logiknya idea ini. Tapi royalti minyak dan peruntukan sama penting dalam memastikan Sabah terus membangun.

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  19. Lain orang lain pandangannya jadi sendiri mahu ingatlah apa yang patut dan tidak patut dibuat.

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  20. what happen if the oil run out? DOesn't that means there be no longer oil royalty given to sabah?

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    1. Its quite risky to only depend on the oil royalty alone. I'm kinda having second thoughts on STAR leadership.

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    2. For me, oil royalty and federal fund are equally important to have sabah continuously developed.

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  21. Anwar promise he would increase Sabah's oil royalty from five to 20 per cent, while Datuk Dr Jeffrey Kitingan went even further by promising 50 per cent...its funny how both opposition parties is competing with each other when what they suppose to do is cooperate.

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    1. We mustn't easily trust any promises given by the opposition. Let us not easily get influence by their sweet talk. The oppositions will do anything to get us vote for them.

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