Radio Nyawa Sarawak

Today, it is Labour Day and the MCO is eased to stem the massive RM68 billion losses facing the country so far. But how much damage has already been done? George Young of NGO Hidup fears the future as fresh graduates come out without any possibility of employment security besides short term contract work for low wages. While Catherine Jikunan of the Malaysian Trade Union Congress (MTUC) tells all that now is the time for workers to fight for their rights, just as the country sees exactly what their labour is worth.

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Today, YB Kelvin Yii takes on all things Covid from the massive outbreak amongst health professionals at SGH, to the need for more testing, to the tiny concessions to the economy during MCO. He also tackles the necessity of the DUN sitting in May, especially now in spite of the timing…..

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Today, PKR’s Thomas Laja cries corruption on the construction of the road at Nanga Belasang, which washed away last night, leaving the residents of Nanga Jagau resettlement scheme in Kanowit stranded.

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Today Kelvin Yii shares on the next social group in Sarawak to suffer. The B40 are now semi-taken care of at least. What about the next sector up, now living with no income? We meet Mr Anut, a coffeeshop owner who is seeing the longest closure of his business in over 50 years and Jacklyn Simoh of Bayan Atuh homestay, stuck up behind the Bengoh dam lake with no guests and no income. Then Sarojeni of PANAP and Achul of Kapit consider the environmental damage at the root of this crisis and some of the steps needed to stop the next one….

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we speak to Amoi from Singkawang in Kalimantan, who has escaped the chains of bonded labour with the single idea that braving a Covid infection is nothing compared to the suffering she has endured for the last 6 months. A modern slave, she had her passport taken from her, kept a prisoner by her boss who fed her nothing but eggs and noodles…..

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On today’s show, we consider how Covid-19 will impact on tourism, one of the economic sectors often entered into by indigenous peoples trying to supplement their incomes. We speak first to Igam ak Inggok of Nanga Mujan. Usually he farms his land and then runs a little tourism business on the side, bringing small groups of tourists up to see the wild orangutan living free on his ancestral lands in Ulu Batang Ai. But this is under threat….

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On today’s show, the oil and gas industry which powers the nation remains in the spotlight as oil prices tumble to an 18-year low. YB Wong Chen charts a future of economic deficits as the price of Brent crude hovers at around $25 per barrel as opposed to the previous norm of around $55 over the past decade. For the 2020 budget, Malaysia was counting on $62, contributing a major part of the Malaysian economy in both Petroleum Income Tax and Petronas profits, normally around RM50 billion per year….

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On today’s show, we react to news that US oil prices are currently in negative figures. As people around the world stay at home, they literally can’t give the oil away. Instead they are paying people to take it in case they run out of storage space. But with Malaysia as an oil producing nation, this does not bode well for economic rescue packages.

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On today’s show, we speak to YB Wong Chen, MP for Subang, on the recent return of RM2.7billion by the US in plundered funds from 1MDB. This huge sum of money, stolen from the country’s wealth fund, couldn’t come at a better time but, in fact, it is only a small amount of the total actually siphoned off from the people of Malaysia, set by the US Department of Justice at closer to RM19.6 billion…..

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On today’s show, as the media spat between PKR and PSB and their respective champions Larry Sng and Baru Bian heats up, we speak first to Ambrose Badi, a PKR member of 20 years standing and proud holder of party number 92. Despite Baru’s ‘New Hope for Sarawak’, circulating on a Facebook page near you, he is unconvinced by the former PKR leader’s protestations that his vision is unchanged. How is that possible, he says, when he knows that PSB leaders have been rampantly taking the people’s rights along with Taib’s cronies?….

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