29 June 2020
Iban
Menua Sarawak enda suntuk ai laban bisi mayuh sungai, tang setitik pan ai nya enda tau diirup laban pemansang ti digaga perintah ngamahka semua sungai, tang nadai diganti ngena ai pipe di menua pesisir sereta nadai perengka ti batang pemadu beguna nyengkaum jalai raya tauka kuasa karan. Kandang menua Tubau semua kampung abis endur ngambi batang kayu, pia ku penerang ari Abun Sui madahka pekara nya ngerusak pendiau bala Penan lalu taja pendiau sida semak tekat hydro Murum tang sida mengkang nadai kuasa karan. Cecilia Siti Una ari Betong madah rayat Sarawak lebih agi sida ti di pesisir merinsa bendar laban nadai jalai raya, ai pipe, kuasa karan, internet, sekula enggau klinik. Mayuh pasar di pesisir nadai pekekas ti beguna nyengkaum injin ATM endur ngeluarka duit nya ti ngasuh pengidup rayat balat merinsa maya atur bekurung di rumah. Nama runding GPS ti bisi duit bebillion ringgit ti ari asil kampung, tanah, tekat hydro menua Sarawak tang enggai ngatur bisi injin ATM ba semua pasar di menua pesisir ? Pendingka Radio Free Sarawak pukul 6 lemai tu, Thomad Tegong Laka tau didingaka kita nusui Pengingat Tuai.
English
There is water everywhere in Sarawak, but not a safe drop to drink in so many rural areas where so-called 'development' has polluted great rivers but failed to bring piped treated water to replace them or virtually any other basic amenities - places like Tubau, stripped bare by logging, says the Hulu Rajang branch leader Abu Sui and the settlements for displaced Penan tribespeople forced from their homes thanks to Murum dam where they still have no electricity supply, just miles from the hydro-electric power station. Cecilia Siti Una from Betong, agrees that Sarawakians especially from rural areas are in dire need of basic amenities such as roads, clean water, electricity, internet, schools and clinics. In most rural areas of Sarawak these facilities are not yet available and there are no ATM machines to get out cash, which produced especial hardship during lockdown. What are GPS planning to do about sharing the billions cashed in from the ATMs of Sarawak's forests, land bank, and hydropower?