MELAYU SARAWAK DAN BIDAYUH KECEWA (DWIBAHASA)

Melayu Sarawak, Bidayuh Kecewa Dengan Perwakilan Dalam Kabinet

Parti Pesaka Bumiputera Bersatu (PBB), tunjang Barisan Nasional (BN) Sarawak, melahirkan kekecewaannya berhubung perwakilan Melayu Sarawak dalam Kabinet persekutuan.

Meskipun mengharapkan lebih ramai anak Sarawak dilantik ke peringkat persekutuan, Timbalan Presiden PBB Datuk Amar Abang Johari Tun Openg (foto di atas ) bagaimanapun melihat perkara itu dari sudut positif.

Ini kerana, katanya dalam senarai Kabinet yang diumumkan pada 9 April lepas, Perdana Menteri Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak melantik wakil Sabah Datuk Seri Mohd Shafie Apdal sebagai Menteri Kemajuan Luar Bandar dan Wilayah, yang akan memberikan pemahaman yang lebih baik mengenai keperluan kawasan pedalaman di Sabah dan Sarawak.

"Ia hak mutlak Perdana Menteri, kita perlu terima," katanya kepada pemberita selepas menyampaikan surat tawaran rumah kos rendah di bawah program "Rumah Mesra Rakyat" kepada 24 penerima hari ini.

Abang Johari yang juga Menteri Perumahan Negeri berkata lazimnya seorang ahli politik Melayu daripada PBB akan diberi jawatan menteri penuh tetapi dalam Kabinet yang diumumkan itu, tiada seorang pun yang dilantik.

Wakil PBB dalam Kabinet persekutuan adalah Naib Presiden kanannya yang juga Menteri Sumber Asli dan Alam Sekitar Datuk Douglas Uggah Embas, Timbalan Menteri Sains, Teknologi dan Inovasi merangkap Ketua Pemuda PBB Fadillah Yusof, Timbalan Menteri Pertanian dan Industri Asas Tani Datuk Rohani Abdul Karim dan Timbalan Menteri Pelancongan Datuk Seri Sulaiman Abdul Taib.

Selain PBB, wakil lain Sarawak dalam Kabinet persekutuan adalah seorang menteri dan dua timbalan menteri daripada Parti Rakyat Bersatu Sarawak (SUPP) dan dua timbalan menteri masing-masing daripada Parti Rakyat Sarawak (PRS) serta Parti Demokratik Progresif Sarawak (SPDP).

BERNAMA

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Malays, Bidayuh unhappy with Cabinet representation

KUCHING, April 14 (Bernama) : Parti Pesaka Bumiputera Bersatu (PBB), the backbone of the Sarawak Barisan Nasional (BN), has admitted disappointment over the Malay representation in the Federal Cabinet.

Although expecting more Sarawakians to be appointed at the federal level, PBB deputy president Datuk Amar Abang Johari Tun Openg however, viewed the matter positively.

This was because the prime minister had appointed Sabahan Datuk Seri Abdul Shafie Apdal as rural and regional development minister which would enable better understanding of the needs of the rural areas in Sabah and Sarawak.

"It is the prerogative of the prime minister, we have to accept it," the state housing minister told reporters after presenting offer letters to 24 recipients of a low-cost housing scheme under the 'Rumah Mesra Rakyat' programme here today.

PBB representatives in the federal cabinet are its senior vice-president Datuk Douglas Uggah, who is natural resources and environment minister, Science, Technology and Innovation Deputy Minister and PBB Youth chief Fadillah Yusof, Agriculture and Agro-based Industry Deputy Minister Datuk Rohani Abdul Karim and Deputy Tourism Minister Datuk Seri Sulaiman Abdul Taib.

Apart from PBB, other Sarawak representatives in the Federal Cabinet are a minister and two deputy ministers from the Sarawak United People's Party (SUPP), and two deputy ministers each from Parti Rakyat Sarawak (PRS) and Sarawak Progressive Democratic Party (SPDP).

Meawhile, a local daily reported today that two Bidayuh members of parliament (MP) from BN were upset over the exclusion of a Bidayuh.

BERNAMA/SUN2SURF