Music kindly provided by AT ADAU. Originating from Sarawak, AT ADAU were born in June 2014 and started as an experimental traditional contemporary music driven by the spirit of the traditional Sape' tunes blended with traditional drums from different tribe in Borneo. The name AT ADAU comes from the combination of words from two Borneon languages. AT refer to the roots in the Bidayuh tribe's language and ADAU in the Kenyan dialect is the name of the preferred tree used to craft the Sape', a traditional string instrument from Borneo.
Malaysia is being hit by yet another political scandal as rumours abound that the Prime Minister was attempting to reshuffle his entire coalition following meetings at the Sheraton and pally dinners seating old political opponents together in a parody of new partnerships….
Read MoreOn today’s show, we return to land matters to show that land, indeed, still matters in Sarawak. The flood of new land grabs and provisional leases has abated but many communities are still living with the after effects of endless court continuances and quarrels over compensation….
Read MoreOn today’s show, we carry on with agriculture of a different kind with Freedy Misid who is an inland fisherman from Kampung Betukan, Lundu on the Sungei Kayan. He tells us of the difficulties faced by inland fisheries in his area which receive no funding or assistance from any department as monies seem to be directed towards coastal fishermen, despite widespread enquiries….
Read MoreOn today’s show, we speak to Hilarion Besi who is in the middle of a court case against the Lands and Survey Department. He tells us that he bought the land from the villagers and had it surveyed in 1972 under the Part V Settlement Survey, but yet, nearly 20 years passed and no title was ever forthcoming….
Read MoreOn today’s show, we consider the idea of divided loyalties as Idris Buang calls for only ‘loyal and true blue Sarawakians’ for public office. But in a globalised world and a Malaysia with massive levels of statelessness, what are the loyalties owed to and by our citizens?….
Read MoreOn today’s show, agriculture is in our spotlight, not for its growth but rather for its sad decline. We start with rice, the centre of every Asian dinner table and of Sarawak’s indigenous farming practice. Dumbai anak Lumut tells us that the rice industry in Simanggang is dead. There is no help from the Agriculture Department and no development from Bernas. The rice mill in the area lies derelict. Why, he wonders, when his rice, so he says, is the best in the world!…
Read MoreOn today’s show, we speak to Datuk Dr Jeffrey Kitingan about calls for Sabah and Sarawak to hold 35% of the seats in the Federal Parliament, up from the 25% that they currently wield. An arbitrary percentage, it might seem, given the relative populations of the Borneo States to the mainland. But Jeffrey says no!…
Read MoreOn today’s show, Sarawakians are up in arms at the news that Kosovan footballer, Liridon Krasniqi has been granted Malaysian citizenship after just 5 years in the country. Simon Siah of Lawyers Kamek 4 Change, who has been fighting for stateless people for many years now, talks to us about the extreme unfairness that a footballer who already has another nationality should get it when so many genuine natives are denied time and time again, despite having nowhere else to go….
Read MoreOn today’s show, we hear about a community in Stapang who were asked to surrender their guns. The twist in the tale is that the group of men who presented themselves at the longhouse, dressed in plain clothes and claiming to be from Bukit Aman, to demand all their guns and licenses were not in fact sent by the IGP as part of his campaign against rural gun owners….
Read MoreOn today’s show, we catch up with the long-standing story in Simunjan, where Senabong and his community are still withstanding attempts to take over their ancestral land. This time, the Indonesian workers at the plantation, with whom they had a violent fracas just one year ago, have come to keep the peace, informing the community that their ancestral graveyards, at the centre of the plantation, had been desecrated….
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