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Dalam progrem Radio Free Sarawak lemai tu, kitai bisi ngenang pasal dalam anggar-anggar belanja taun 2021, perintah nadai agi meri tulung ngenap bulan ngagai raban Penan ti diau ba genturung pendiau di Murum berengkah ari ujung taun 2019 tu kamari. Lebih 4 billion ringgit duit dikena ngaga tekat hydro Murum, pia mega bebillion ringgit duit ari asil kayu kampung enggau tanah temuda Penan diambi perintah. Perintah Sarawak madahka ia udah ngena duit 20.3 million ringgit dikena nulung raban Penan di Murum, laban sepintu bilik nerima duit tulung 800 ringgit sebula-sebulan dikena sida meli barang pemakai, tang diatu sida diasuh ngatika diri ngidupka diriempu dalam kandang menua ti benung sigau laban penyakit corona. Kami bisi berandau enggau tuai Penan di Murum Mr. Surang Laing ti nusui pasal penusah sida ti ditejuka perintah ngidupka diriempu ba tanah sida ti semina tinggal mimit agi ba tisi dandang ladang kelapa sawit. Dalam kandang 5 taun sepintu bilik sida semina nerima duit tulung 800 ringgit tiap bulan, tang perintah Sarawak madahka duit 20.3 million ringgit udah dikena nulung raban Penan di Murum, bakani ku perintah ngira nya ?
Pendingka semua cherita tu ditusui Radio Free Sarawak online pukul 6 lemai tu...

English

On the Show Tonight: The State Government has admitted during budget talks that it stopped providing much needed food assistance to the stranded Penan communities in the Murum resettlement area from the end of last year - just as Covid struck! Over RM4 billion was spent on building the dam and billions more were extracted from the region by harvesting the ancient forests that had been their homeland. However, the state government complains that the RM20.3 million ringgit it spent on providing each displaced Penan family with a paltry RM800 a month of foodstuffs was enough compensation and now they have to fend for themselves in the middle of the pandemic. We speak to community leader Surang Laing about the dire prospects for these people left to fend for themselves on the edge of lands now turned into oil palm plantations. We are also left to wonder at the arithmetic. Over five years the RM800 per month per family ought to have amounted to no more than RM5 million and yet the state government claims it has cost four times that to get it to them - does that not sum up how things are managed in Sarawak? All this and much more online from 6pm..