IBAN TRANSLATION

Dalam awak Jaku Randau saharitu, kami bisi berandau enggau Thomas Laja ti bisi nanyaka pasal pemendar ti diberi ngagai komiti pemansang kandang menua pasal ti deka bengunaka Tanah Pesaka, NCR di Ulu Ngemah.

Semua enam bengkah raban Gerempung Ti Ukai Dikuasa Perintah, NG0, raban bansa di menua nya apin tentu meretika atur pemansang lalu sida mega irau bendar ati, laban pekara tu enda senutuk enggau utai ti dikedeka ka sida.

Berita ke selebubu ngapa madahka pengawa ngulihka balak bisi dikereja ba endur nya, nya kebuah jaku bantah nya lalu dikenataika ngagai perintah.

Minggu siti tu kemari, Gerempung SADIA bisi ngatur jaku randau enggau siku pengari ti terubah ari menua jauh di Canada. Pengarang berita bansa asal enggau activist, Darryl J Mcleod bisi berandau enggau President SADIA Encik Sidi Munan laban deka ningaka cherita ari iya.

Puan Mond ari Tubau madahka diri enda lantang ati laban anak indu ke ulih iya ngiru mengkang apin bisi Kad Pengelala. Diatu laban ti ngarapka diri ulih nampung pelajar kena ngambi Diploma, dia iya ngasaika pengidup iya ke dudi hari ila bisi bendar penanggul laban Opis Pengerejista Bansa, JPN enggai ngaga ka iya kad pengelala taja pan bisi keretas kereja ti menuku.

Kes nembiak ti niri ka rumah tangga kelalu biak, nya batang pekara ke balat bendar dikenang diserata menua Malaysia, lalu menua Sarawak dikumbai sabengkah ari menua ti apin deka nerima atur ti deka nambahka penuai umur sida ti nembiak dikemendarka belaki/bebini, amat pan menua Sarawak nya siti ari menua ti pemadu mayuh kes nembiak jadi melaki bini. Encik Nicholl Ragai Lang bisi ngenang pasal Adat Rumah Panjai ke mungkur Adat Tikah enggau Sarak. Irene Chang kaban Parliament Bukit Assek bisi mega ngenang pasal pengirau ati iya lalu madahka Perintah Sarawak patut nyakal atur ti deka nambahka penuai umur nembiak belaki ngagai 18 taun, laban nangika menua tu tinggal dalam standard undang2 antara-bansa ba sentang atur nyaga sida ti nembiak. Tang penemu iya ti ngasuh nyakal atur ti baru nya, dilempaika ngagai mensia mayuh. Bekaul enggau pekara tu, kami bisi bendarau enggau dua iku indai orang, iya nya Agnes ari Dijih seduai Indai Dorothy ari Miri, ke sama ngarapka anak seduai enda kelalu tumu belaki serta mengkang ngemeranka pelajar sekula, taja pan Indai Dorothy ke belaki lebuh umur iya b aru 16 taun.

Menua Sarawak nya sabengkah menua ke pemadu mayuh sida ti nembiak ke belaki/bebini apin chukiup umur, lalu dipelabaka agi mayuh mega kes di menua pesisir nadai diriput. Dr. Madeline Berma, Kepala Gerempung SUHAKAM serta siku ari orang ti pandai dalam pemansang penatai pemisi, madahka kira-kira sentang kes nya, tebal agi beduduk ari pengusah ti kurang penatai pemisi, ke nuntung bala nembiak indu di menua pesisir, nya-alai dikena sida mutarka penusah nya, sida lalu mutus ka penemu deka belaki taja pan umur agi biak. Ba pengujung Jaku Randau tu, kami bisi berandau enggau Puan Margaret Bedus ke nyadi President Sarawak Women for Women's Society, minta bala anak kitai dijaga lalu tu enda tau enda datai ari pelajar sekula ti tinggi.

Pendingka Radio Nyawa Sarawak ti ngena pekara tu nyengkaum Berita Menua. Semua tau bejaku!

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ENGLISH TRANSLATION

On today’s show, we meet Thomas Laja who is querying the permission given to an area development committee over exploitation of NCR lands in Ulu Ngemah. Along with six NGO groups, the communities are unsure what the content of development is and therefore even more concerned that this is not in their interests. Rumours of an illegal logging operation weigh heavy on their minds and so they are making their objections known.

Last week, SADIA held an important sharing session with a First Nations representative from far away in Canada. Darryl J McLeod is an indigenous writer and activist and, through Sidi Munan, President of SADIA, we hear his stories.

Puan Mond of Tubau is distraught because her beautiful adopted daughter remains stateless. Now hoping to further her education to diploma level, her future is in jeopardy because JPN refuse to issue her with the proper paperwork despite nearly a decade of effort.

Meanwhile, the issue of underage marriage is a hot topic of debate across the nation, with Sarawak being labeled as one of the resistors to an increase in the minimum age, as well as being the state with one of the highest rates of applications. Nicholl Ragailang shares on the Adat Rumah Panjai covering marriages and divorces. Then Irene Chang, MP for Bukit Assek, raises her concerns that Sarawak should object to raising the age of consent to 18, fearing that it is being left behind in international standards in child protection. But is this resistance born out in public opinion? We speak to two community members, Agnes of Dijih and Indai Dorothy from Miri, who both hope that their girls will delay their marriages and stay in school, even though Indai Dorothy herself married at sixteen.

Yet, the reality remains that Sarawak has one of the highest rates of underage marriage in Malaysia, many possibly even underreported in rural areas. Dr Madeline Berma, SUHAKAM Commissioner and renowned academic in economic development, tells us that these statistics are often the terrible result of socio-economic hardships faced by these rural girls and that solving the issue of underage marriage will also require the uplifting of Sarawak’s rural people. We end our show with Margaret Bedus of SWWS (Sarawak Women for Women’s Society) who calls for better protection of our children, though cautions that this must come hand in hand with better education.

Tune in to all this and more, including our usual Berita Menoa. Semoa kita tau bejako!