MACC’s role in `monitoring’ election campaign-but why no prosecutions?

4 MEO-Net’s observers paid a visit to MACC on Apr 11th, 10.00am, considering  that MACC is  part of the election administrator for the Sarawak state elections. MACC’s officer Sendri Ugi who was transfered here recently answered our questions-after telling us that all the higher ups were all away. From the discussion we were told the following:

* MACC has 4 regional offices in Sarawak with the following hot line numbers: Kuching (082-245115); Sibu(084-311982); Bintulu(086-316200), Miri (085-415404) Limbang is serviced by Miri officers;

* There are 80 officers in Sarawak and another 30-40 arrive from West Malaysia to handle more work from the elections;

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Kapit Land Survey Department offer compensation to Sg Asap resettlers-but …

Latest news from Sg Asap is that BN through the Kapit Land & Survey department visited the various long houses in Sg Asap to offer the long overdue compensation to the long suffering resettlers there-perhaps reflecting some electoral jitters on the part of the ruling parties. However the compensation package, after allowing for various deductions eg the unpaid electricity charges by the residents and other costs allegedly incurred by the re-settlers, amount to unsatisfactory amount that make the residents think twice whether to sign up to the package or not. Of course the electoral calculation behind the offers of the compensation is not beyond the natives’ mind. It is just another form of vote buying so that there is an excuse to pass some money to the voters. So what better excuse than to dress it up as the compensation that is awaited by the re-settlers? But the electoral mentality means that they may just want to give enough to keep the cash strapped natives happy enough till after the polling day-and not the full compensation that is due for the natives. The natives will exercise their wisdom to work out their response this time!

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Cyber-samseng attacking Malaysiakini’s facebook

The facebook of Malaysiakini here is currently under attack by cyber-samseng. It is a crime in some countries to mount such DDOS attacks on someone’s web site, punishable with heavy fines and imprisonment.

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Sarawak report is available here now!

This is another site where you can access Sarawak Report: here, other than the mirror site.

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Malaysiakini is available FREE here for now!

http://www.facebook.com/MalaysiaKini

http://www.facebook.com/mkinicn

http://www.facebook.com/mkinibm

For a read on how these attacks happened:

Malaysiakini down, hit by cyber attacks

Apr 12, 11 5:46pm

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Freedom to campaign curtailed in Sarawak elections!

 

Alice Lau of DAP is one of the politcians who complained about being denied entry to long houses around Sibu.

 

 

Freedom to campaign in Sarawak election seriously curtailed!

From reports by election observers in various parts of Sarawak there are a number of significant ways where freedom to campaign have been seriously curtailed in the Sarawak state elections: Firstly, long houses are stopping Opposition parties to campaign-cutting off the info-poor residents from getting information from all sides, which is a necessary condition to make free and informed choice; Tuai Rumah (Chief of long houses) who have just enjoyed a doubling of their government provided monthly allowance (from Rm450.00 to Rm800.00) from February this year are instigated by ruling politicians to keep out Opposition campaigners, thus seriously compromising the freedom of choice by the voters living in the rural communities.

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4 last electoral rolls only available in PDF format-to restrict analysis?

The 4 electoral rolls which are finally ready are available in PDF format -in contrast to the rest which are in ACCESS format. Why they choose to release the rolls in PDF format which are harder to be used for analysis purpose compared to ACCESS? The EC should answer these questions or risk being seen as a non-voter friendly election adminsitrator!

The last 4 electoral rolls are: Baleh, Pelagus, Kartibas, Asajaya

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10 point agreement on Malays bible not accepted-mainstream media & SMS lie to public/voters

While there are a couple of christian groups agreeing to the 10 point agreement authored by Idris Jala there are still many who disagree with the way the Malay Bible is being handled-thus their continual prayer rallies in major cities in sarawak. Below is a statement by CCM youth who disagree with the 10-point agreement:

STATEMENT OF THE CCM YOUTH

“UPHOLD DEMOCRATIC PRINCIPLES: FULL FREEDOM, FULL RIGHTS –

NO TO 10-POINT PROPOSAL”

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8 April 2011

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Kuala Lumpur – 8 April 2011. CCM Youth issued a press release today expressing their views in response to the various press statements issued by the Christian Federation of Malaysia (“CFM”), the National Evangelical Christian Fellowship (“NECF”), the 10-point solution as proposed by Senator Datuk Seri Idris Jala (“10-Point Proposal”) Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department, and comments made in the media by the Home Minister, Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein and various parties.

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Malaysiakini down-stripped down version available, Sarawakreport come back in mirror site, Radiofreesarawak still inaccesible

Latest on the cy-war front:

Malaysiakini is currently down-only stripped down version available.

Sarawakreport come back through a mirror site: http://www1.sarawakreport.org

Radiofreesarawak.org remain inaccessible. But the radio can be received with SW radios at 15425khz from 6.00pm-8.00pm daily.

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