IBAN SYNOPSIS

Dalam awak Jaku randau lemmai tu, kami bisi berandau enggau Andrew Paul antara siku activist ti balat nanka undang2 Tanah chukup ringat kategal jaku penerang perintah ti chukup panjai bekaul enggau pengujung tanah sida dudi hari ila.

Penemu ti dipansutka Menteri Perengka Dipeguna Mensia-Mayuh, Datuk Stephen Rundi ti mansutka penemu ti salah ngasuh Perintah Sarawak berunding baru ngaga Tekat Hydro ba Batang Bram. Penemu nya balat bendar disakal - tuai Penyaga Sungai Mark Bujang enggau tujuh iku sida bukai ari pelilih menua Bram bisi nusui penemu sida di menua nya agi deka nampung pengawa sida ti nyakal ngagai tekat nya ti udah dikereja sida lima taun ti udah.

Dalam Programme Ekonomi Rumah Panjai, kami beratika manyuh bengkah peneusah ti amat nuntung orang di rumah panjai. Kati bisi penatai-pemisi kita di rumahpanjai ? Mayuh orang ti diau di rumahpanjai diatu pindah ke nengeri bisi sida gawa di tasik, lalu bisi sida bekuli, nyaalai rumahpanjai majak puang. Kami bisi berandau enggau siku orang ti ngaga wayang taun tu ti dikumbai 'Harga Naik, Gaji Maintain'. Iya berasai tetarit ati lalu ngagai wayang nya nitihka cherita pengidup Tonny, orang siku ti ninggalka anak iya ba rumahpanjai lebuh iya ti gawa bekuli bekereja ba kontraktor ba endur bukai. Pia mega, David Kallom ngelalu bala peninga kami enda klalu tetarit ati ba pemanah gaya mengeri ti besai-besai. Orang ti diau ba rumahpanjai semina agi idup kair-pantuk, lalu tanah sida diteju pia aja ti ngujungka tanah sida enda diempu sida agi. Cherita Romuald Siew ngujungka cherita kitai, iya enda nemu kebuah orang ti diau ba rumah panjai deka gawa kereja kontrak ba mengeri, nyua rumah endur sida diau lalu gaji sida mit, sida ninggalka temuda rimba sida nadai mansutka asil.

Pendingka Radio Nyawa Sarawak awakka kita ulih ningaka berita enggau agi mayuh cherita ti bukai.

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ENGLISH SYNOPSIS

On today’s show, we speak to Andrew Paul, one of the many land rights activists who sat angrily through yesterday’s forum in Kuching, being lectured by the government about the future of their land. Questions were limited and an opportunity for mutual understanding lost. Tune in again on Monday for an in-depth examination.

Confusion reigns and hackles have been raised over Public Utilities Minister Steven Rundi’s ill-advised statement that the State Government might reconsider the Baram Dam. Despite a hasty retraction – too much had been said, perhaps – Mark Bujang of Save Rivers and Steven from Baram share how the communities involved remain filled with horror that their five year fight might be about to restart.

In our new segment,Ekonomi Rumah Panjai(Longhouse Economics), we look at the reality facing many rural people. Is there an economy to be had in the longhouse? As many rural people migrate into town looking for work offshore or else as a coolie in a coffeeshop, the kampungsare increasingly empty. We speak to filmmaker, Albert Bansa who is debuting with the Freedom Film Festival this year, under their theme of ‘Harga Naik, Gaji Maintain’. He was moved to make a film by the touching story of Tonny, who has left his son in the longhouse while he works in construction elsewhere. Meanwhile, David Kallom advises our listeners to beware of the allure of the bright lights in the big city. While kampung folk struggle there to make ends meet, their land is left idle and ripe for being lost. Romuald Siew completes our journey, wondering why kampung folk have been consigned to contract work in the cities, endless rental payments and tiny wages when once they were able to live off their land.

Tune in for all this, the news and many more stories.