13 July 2020
IBAN
Dalam progrem Radio Free Sarawak, kitai ningaka penusah ti nuntung rayat ti diau ari ili tekat hydro Bakun, laban ai ti lepaska ari tekat nya ngampuh lalu ngerusak utai tanam,rumah enggau sekeda jalai raya. Kedua semua orang ti mudik tauka ngundur ai Batang Rajang diasuh bejaga laban ai ti baah sereta dras ti tau ngenusah orang, tang bekeni ku rayat ti enda nemu pasal penusah laban baah tunggal nya ila deh ? Kami bisi dipadahka pasal mayuh penusah ti nuntung rayat laban baah tunggal nya ila tentu bisi rumah, utai tanam, jalai ampuh baah, sungai Batang Rajang baah lalu ai dras enda ulih endur berikan. Kami bisi berandau enggau sekeda rayat ti diau ari ili tekat hydro Bakun, madahka kompini Sarawak Energy enggai mayar pampas utai tanam tauka rumah sida ti rusak, tauka ngaga jalai ti udah rusak ampuh baah, pia mega sida nadai disambungka kuasa karan ngagai rumah sida, tang sida agi mengkang ngena generator taja sida dipejal pindah ari tanah sida ti direngkap kandang tekat hydro nya. Sida siang-malam ngembuan pengirau ati laban asai ti diau dibaruh punggu asai ti begulai enggau antu dibaruh dagu. Kami bisi berandau enggau kaban gerempung "Mari Makan" di Miri ti agi meri tulung barang pemakai ngagai orang ti suntuk di Miri, udah nya kitai nemuai ngagai Palan Main Asal Dayak.... Pendingka pekara tu ari Radio Free Sarawak pukul 6 lemai tu.
English
On the show today: 'Controlled Release?' Residents of the area beneath Bakun Dam, where around half of Sarawak's native populations live, have been notified that owing to dangerously high water levels in the Dam the operators will begin a 'controlled release' of water starting IMMEDIATELY for the next MONTH. Anyone navigating the river is warned of the danger of the artificially high waters, but what of those not yet warned? What of the native people whose fields and roads and buildings are routinely flooded, crops destroyed and fishing made unavailable by these sudden and unpredicted artificial surges? We speak to the communities who say SEB have never compensated them for their losses or provided roads to withstand the deluges. Nor do these communities downstream of the 2nd largest hydropower installation in the world yet have electricity from the dam - they are still forced to depend on diesel generators despite having been forced from their lands to make way for the dam (whose safety issues remain glaring and unresolved). Also, we speak to the 'Let's Eat' activist who helps many of the displaced native poor obtain food in Miri City and we take a tour of Dayak Cultural Classes and Art.......