Few days ago, I posted an interview of James Masing by East 101, Al-Jazeera (See HERE for the interview). Accept it or not, we all know this is the fact that indegenous people in Sabah and Sarawak DO neglected by our government.
Today, I came accross Jabatan Kebajikan Masyarakat Malaysia website and saw this in their EFFORT to provide financial help to those poor and needed:
Apakah bantuan-bantuan kewangan yang disediakan kepada golongan miskin atau berkeperluan yang memohon dengan JKM?
JKM mengendalikan 2 skim bantuan kewangan iaitu Skim Bantuan Am Negeri dan Skim Bantuan Persekutuan.
- Skim Bantuan Am Negeri
– adalah tidak seragam di antara negeri-negeri. Di antara jenis-jenis bantuan yang diberikan ialah bantuan bulanan kepada warga tua, balu dan tanggungan, anak yatim miskin, OKU, tanggungan banduan, pusat tahanan dan pesakit. Bantuan sekaligus seperti Bantuan Sekolah, Bantuan Alat Tiruan/Sokongan, Bantuan Pemulihan Bencana dan Bantuan Segera bagi kes-kes terdampar atau kes-kes yang memerlukan bantuan serta merta.- Skim Bantuan Persekutuan
– seragam di seluruh negara tetapi tidak meliputi Sabah dan Sarawak. Jenis-jenis bantuan yang diberikan ialah bantuan bulanan seperti Bantuan Penyaraan Kanak-kanak, Bantuan Anak Pelihara, Bantuan Orang Tua, Elaun Pekerja Cacat dan Bantua Am Persekutuan. Manakala bantuan sekaligus pula ialah Bantuan Geran Pelancaran, Bantuan Alat Tiruan/Sokongan dan Geran Pendidikan dan Latihan Kemahiran. Di bawah Skim Bantuan Am Persekutuan (Kuala Lumpur dan Labuan) juga terdapat bantuan sekaligus seperti Bantuan Sekolah, Bantuan Pemulihan Bencana dan Bantuan Segera bagi kes-kes terdampar atau kes-kes yang memerlukan bantuan serta merta.
GREAT… Did you see what I see?
SKIM BANTUAN PERSEKUTUAN exclude Sabah and Sarawak!!!
Aren’t Sabah and Sarawak part of MALAYSIA too? What differ from the poor in Semenanjung Malaysia and Sabah/Sarawak? In Haris recent visit to Sarawak, he found that some of the Sarawakians earn only RM2000 per year (less then RM150 per month)!!!
How can you say “SERAGAM DI SELURUH NEGARA”, but exclude Sabah and Sarawak? Do you mean they are NOT PART OF THIS COUNTRY?
What have they done to deserve this from our BN govt? They voted for BN govt for sooooooooo many years, FAITHFULLY!!! And this is what they get? They DO NOT DESERVE this!!!
Batang Ai folks, you know what you should do…
Vote for your future, vote for your children!
Teach the arrogant govt a lesson
Let them know THIS IS YOUR COUNTRY
THIS IS YOUR LAND
And they have no right to take that away from you!!!
Update on 3rd April 2009:
A day after I post this article, surprisingly the Jabatan Kebajikan Masyarakat Malaysia EDITED their web page and deleted the word “tetapi tidak meliputi Sabah dan Sarawak” . I am surprised and glad that they are so efficient in UPDATING their website. I hope Jabatan Kebajikan Masyarakat not deleting the sentence simply because of people whacked them about this or simply because of the coming Batang Ai election. I hope the Jabatan Kebajikan Masyarakat can really implement the same terms and condition throughout the country and REALLY able to help those poor people in Sabah and Sarawak.

















