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.
On today's show we return to Kampung Tapang Maong in Melikin, where plantation companies continue to wreak havoc on NCR lands and bulldoze food crops during lockdown. We hear from local land rights defender Satama and Tuai Rumah Ajah, who tell us that continued earthworks forced them to lodge a police report on the matter…..
Read MoreOn today’s show, we have a non-Covid story to start off, a welcome relief perhaps. But not a welcome relief for Apai Bujang, who was until recently employed as a security guard in a Rimbunan Hijau oil palm estate in Tinjar, Baram. This 70 year old tells us that the plantation company is operating on their land and, in return for this, the community were promised that anyone fit to work would find a place in the estate for life…..
Read MoreOn today's show we consider whether Malaysia's lockdown period is anywhere near ending, or whether we should prepare ourselves for a much longer period of social distancing. How will we fare in the long run and what measures are in place to secure our futures beyond the MCO?…..
Read MoreOn today’s show, as the lockdown enters its third stage, the police are promising to crack down harshly on MCO offenders. But, while social controls are essential for containing covid-19, does the punishment always fit the crime? While people in other countries are being scolded for being seen in the park or on the beach, some Sarawakians are forced out to feed their families…..
Read MoreOn today’s show, we speak to Larry Sng who blasts GPS for politicising food aid. He tells that this is being implemented even at longhouse level where the Tuai Rumah will give to GPS supporters but let the PH voters go without. Perhaps the Tuai Rumah are confused by the fact that much of the food aid is stamped all over with the GPS logo. Perhaps they believe that all this food is GPS property, not realising it has been paid for by the people…..
Read MoreOn today’s show, as communities remain rightly locked down in their kampungs to prevent the spread of covid-19, plantation companies continue to spread destruction around them. Even worse, this time they are going for their crops, threatening these villagers not just with loss of their forest but also depriving them of food during this difficult time…..
Read MoreOn today’s show, as we continue to see no real change in the number of new covid-19 cases daily, we speak to Tan Sri Richard Malanjun, the former Chief Judge of Sabah and Sarawak and now head of the Osimal Foundation. He commends the efforts to distribute food to the rural people but maintains that cutting infection rates and ensuring a high level of testing are the best way to stop the need for government handouts…..
Read MoreOn today’s show, as we continue to see no real change in the number of new covid-19 cases daily, we speak to Tan Sri Richard Malanjun, the former Chief Judge of Sabah and Sarawak and now head of the Osimal Foundation. He commends the efforts to distribute food to the rural people but maintains that cutting infection rates and ensuring a high level of testing are the best way to stop the need for government handouts…..
Read MoreOn today’s show, as Sarawak records two more deaths from covid-19, bringing the total up to 12 out of 261 confirmed cases, we ask why the death rate in the state seems to be so much higher that elsewhere in Malaysia. Azrul Mohd Khalib of the Galen Centre tells us that Sarawakians seem to be checking into hospital very late into the progression of the disease when little can be done for them….
Read MoreOn today’s show, aid packages are appearing all over Sarawak and Sabah but no one seems to know how much they are, where they have come from, who they should be going to or whether there is more to come. Villagers are left looking at their handfuls of rice and sugar and wondering whether this is the best they can expect….
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