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Monday, February 16, 2015

Muhyiddin’s whirlwind trip to win Sarawakians over, but look again!

The uproar over the controversial Maktab Sains Rendah Mara (MRSM) ‘additional rules’ and the posting of Malayan teachers to the state without due consideration for Sarawakains hardly died down and Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin was already in Kuching, clearly hoping to head off a possible worsening situation.
Muhyiddin, who is also education minister, came with all the available panacea – possible increase in the intake percentage of not only qualified Sarawakians but also the “not so qualified” ones to be trained as teachers, to look at all Sarawak applicants case-by-case and more funding for the development of education – technical education included – in the state.
In what looks like a whirlwind visit, Muhyiddin came late Thursday morning and left past noon on Friday. In between, he was whisked off to several places, meeting the state’s education fraternity at Borneo Convention Centre, attended a closed-door meeting with leaders of the state Barisan Nasional component parties at Pullman Hotel, then on to a meet-the-people-session in a little known bazaar some 45km from Kuching where he announced a plan to build a new RM60mil road.
To top it all, Muhyiddin paid Chief Minister Tan Sri Adenan Satem a glowing tribute, saying since becoming chief minister last Feb 28, he had raised the people’s confidence in the state BN.
You would think all these would bring the smiles to the faces of Sarawakians, but on Friday the 13th (Feb 13) The Borneo Post front-paged a picture of the deputy prime minister managing a difficult smile as he walked alongside glum-faced Adenan.
There is no telling what was playing in Adenan’s mind, but you can bet all you need is look at Adenan’s face to know how Sarawakians feel about Muhyiddin’s promise of “special attention” to Sarawakians.
Adenan and Sarawakians are not easily pleased. They are not about to take the bait – yes, I mean bait.
It would be different if Muhyiddin had come and declared an increase in Sarawak’s share of the oil royalty. Or if he had said it would be Dayak instead of Bumiputera or Lain-Lain in government forms and documents. Or declared that all those young and jobless Sarawakians with a degree in education will be posted to the state’s schools. Or if he had said for certain the proposed amendments to the Sedition Act will not erode the rights of East Malaysians.
But what Muhyiddin said was nothing new. They were promises and Sarawakians have all along been afforded “special attention” in promises – broken promises, in fact, which is why until today Sarawakians still find it hard to get into the federal civil service, and its school infrastructure and facilities backward and lacking.
Consequently, we have Malayans working at every level of the administration – as office boys, clerks, enforcement officers, and of course as teachers – while Sarawakians continue to be unqualified, so to speak, therefore not good for all those jobs.
Nay, Muhyiddin has to do more than that to please Sarawakians, who now look not only at the dollar but also the sense of it all. — Jimmy Adit

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