Broadcast: 9 December 2019

On today’s show, we return to Tanjung Penasu near Sibu where the communities have taken steps to remove the concrete blocks that are blocking the road to their two longhouses. As the Sibu Resident Charles Siaw tells the Borneo Post that this is a dispute ‘between landowner and kampung folk’, activist Bill Jugah says that this remains irrelevant in the light of their human rights. All that the community can hope is that someone will take responsibility for the mess and open their access route immediately.

Last week we spoke to George Young Si Ricord Jr of Hidup about Kampung Maang. So today we speak to Gloria who comes from the community itself, cut off from all infrastructure. She tells us how they live in the dark and, even worse, how poor sanitation and lack of facilities have sparked an outbreak of dengue fever as mosquitos flourish.

From Sabah, we have two stories of statelessness and the differing strategies to tackle this key issue. Nelson Dino of Pertubuhan Profesional Suluk Sabah gives us an idea of the extent of the problem in our neighbouring state and a broad view of the problems that this causes for everyone affected. Then we speak to Marcel Simok, a filmmaker and activist from Citizen Journalists Malaysia. He has made a documentary on the subject entitled ‘Living in the Drains’, highlighting the plight of the stateless in Sabah. He describes how he was driven to document this issue as every ‘official’ version of the story ended up one-sided, in his view, praising the state government’s efforts to the detriment of those actually affected. This is the power of freedom of expression, he says, to speak out against such bias.

We end our show with a spotlight on dengue fever. Horrifying statistics are seeping out of the Ministry of Health, which show a 69.5% increase in cases across the country in the last year and, even worse, of an astronomical 236% increase in Sarawak itself. But these reports follow a general trend across Southeast Asia as rising temperatures caused by global climate change are fuelling an explosion in the mosquito population. Aroe from KAMY (Klima Action Malaysia) shares the realities of climate change with our rural listeners who are on the frontline of environmental protection as custodians of some of the world’s richest rainforest. Then Azrul Mohd Khalib from the Galen Centre for Health and Social Policy tells us how this change in temperatures is increasing the incidence of dengue in their area, a new threat, which is particularly pressing for those far away from decent hospital provision or even for those with difficulty accessing it, like our friends from Kampung Maang.

Tune in for all this and more, including our usual Berita Menoa. Semoa Kitai Tau Bejako.

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Dalam Program ke saharitu, kami ngenang baru pasal Tanjung Penasu enda jauh ari Sibu, ke alai raban bansa di endur nya, udah bejalaika atur kena ngiarka blok semin kena mempang jalai nuju ngagai dua buah rumah panjai di endur nya. Nitihka padah Resident Sibu Charles Siaw ngagai Borneo Post, tu penyarut antara orang ti bempu tanah enggau orang ti nguan rumah panjai nya, tang ko activist Bill Jugah pekara tu enda relevant enti nitihka undang2 kuasa mensia. Orang ba rumah panjai nya ngarap ba bisi orang deka betanggung jawab mutarka pekara tu lalu muka jalai nya baru enggau jampat.

Minggu siti tu kemari, kami bisi brandau enggau George Young Si Ricord Junior ari Hidup pasal Kampung Maang. Saharitu kami bisi berandau enggau Gloria ke datai ari kampung nya empu, lalu madahka sida endang nadai diberi perengka ti diguna. Iya madahka sida nadai api letrik, tambah mega ari ti nadai parit enggau perengka diguna ke menuku, nya ti ngujung ka penyakit dengue berampit laban nyamuk majak mayuh ba kampung nya.

Ari Sabah kami bisi ngeluarka dua bengkah berita pasal orang ti nadai status peranak nengri enggau chara ti enda sebaka kena mutarka batang pekara nya. Nelson Dino ari Pertubuhan Profesional Suluk Sabah nyerita ngagai kami pasal gaya penusah ti nuntung sida di Sabah lalu kami mereti ka gaya penusah ti nuntung sida tu. Lepas nya, kami bisi berandau enggau Marcel Simok, siku orang ti ngaga filem enggau activist ari Gerempung Pengarang Berita Malaysia. Iya bisi ngaga documentary pasal pekara tu ke dikumbai 'Living in the Drains', enti disalin ngagai Jaku Iban 'Diau Dalam Parit', ke endur nyerita ka pasal sebana sida ti apin dikemdnarka nyadi peranak nengri di Sabah. Iya nerangka nama kebuah iya ngaga document pasal pekara tu laban semua ayat dalam cherita tu semua berat sepiak. Dalam runding iya, endang minta perintah naka ulih mutar ka semua sida tu ke lalu apin nyadi peranak nengri. Tu kuasa ke nadai nagang orang mansutka penemu, lebuh ti mgenang pasal atur ti bechiping.

Dalam pengujung program tu, kami ngenang pasal penyakit dengue, ke majak berampit serta balat bendar ngirauka ati. Angka kira2 ti dikluarka Opis Mentri Pengerai madahka kes penyakit dengue nambah 69.5 peratus diserata menua Malaysia dalam taun siti tu kemari lalu di Sarawak nambah 236 peratus. Tang riput tu endang nitihka trend ti nyadi dikandang Asia Tenggara , laban ari pengangat menua ti niki, beduduk ari ubah pengangat menua lalu nya ngujungka nyamuk mayuh. Aroe ari KAMY [Klima Action Malaysia], bekunsika pengamat berita pasal dunya ti majak angat ngambika bisi dipekunsika iya enggau bala peninga di menua pesisir, iya orang ti bempu tanggung pengawa nyaga rampa menua serta orang ti ngemataka skeda kandang kampung ti kaya dalam pengeraja asal dalam dunya. Azrul Mohd Khalib ari Palan Galen Ti Nguasa Pengerai enggau Polisi Pengawa Rama, madahka bakani pengangat kandang menua tau berubah, ke ngujungka penyakit dengue majak berampit dikandang menua sida. Tu sabengkkah penusah ti baru, ke lebih agi nuntung sida ti diau jauh ari sepital tauka sida ti bisi penanggul nganjung diri berubat, baka sida ti diau ba Kampung Maang. 

Bala peninga, kita tau mendingka program tu enggau program ti bukai nyengkaum Berita Menua ari Radio Nyawa Sarawak. Semua Kitai Tau Bejaku.