It is the duty of the Hulu Rajang MP to raise it in Parliament
Posted by Uchu Keling on 13th May 2008 in News Extract, Sarawak Politics
YB Billy Abit Joo is the current and incumbent elected MP for Hulu Rajang and Sungai Asap is under his constituency. During the current Parliament sitting, he failed to submit his question to the Dewan Rakyat. While we sympathies with the residents of Sungai Asap, we cannot see why the MP have failed to bring this matter to the Dewan Rakyat. If he did, then, it is his duty to share with the public of what has been done. Or otherwise, the people will perceive him of not doing anything.
Give the public all the reason, the layman will still thinks that he has done nothing. The losers are those who have voted him to Parliament.
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Albert | 13th May 2008 | Reply
Very absurd of those who vote such people. Hulu Rajang, do something!
Flo | 13th May 2008 | Reply
Gulp! Udah teleba meda gamal jalai baka tu ba menoa din, lapa nadai orang ka ulih ngubah nya neh? Hmmm….
taki kasung | 14th May 2008 | Reply
BN sigi nak ulih diharap.
Bintulu | 14th May 2008 | Reply
He is among the longest serving MP in Belaga. He did nothing much to develop Belaga. One MP even related to me that Billy rarely asked questions in Parliament.
Bulk of the votes he got was from the Iban, Kayan and Lahanan voters, while the Kenyah, Punan, Sekapans and Kejaman were rather split.
Hope they’ll continue to vote for him so that the Asap people can enjoy this kind of road / development a few more years to come.
Masing very much aware of this, that’s why he keeps Billy in the seat.
freesarawak | 15th May 2008 | Reply
i dont to blame our Dayak MPs but please remember people who has voted for you
dont lie to your people
people vote you to become their voice (bela nasib mereka)
dont mind if involve with rasuah as long as you take care your kawasan good
Tubai Rabut | 22nd May 2008 | Reply
My suggestion is MPs should “turun padang” more often to eyewitness what’s happening. Voters have faithfully given MPs a mandate, you faithfully need to work for them. Be proactive, don’t ever wait for voters to voice even the slightest sour issues. Even if they do there are reasons for doing so, that they can’t wait any longer. Now they vote you in, next they may vote you out.
Uchu Keling | 22nd May 2008 | Reply
Turun Padang if they do nothing also no point.
kimi | 8th June 2008 | Reply
klalu ka amat nyadi MP. enti bc ngemai pemansang nadai ngawa. nya jalai jai pun nda kiruh. ntah nyama nda pengawa iya. mua jai mati enggai.
petara ai | 8th June 2008 | Reply
tu meh org ka diarap kitai…sida ia slalu mai penusah ngagai kitai..kitai udah 45 taun merdeka dalam malaysia..is this what we shud hv in 45 yrs…
Orang Asap | 11th June 2008 | Reply
Saya rasa orang hanya pandai komen sahaja. Saya mengenali YB Datuk Billy lebih 20 Tahun. Saya tahu kerja yang dia talah lakukan. Mengenai jalan di Asap ke Bintulu pada pandangan saya perkara ini sebenarnya dulu jalan ini telah dibaiki namun kedatangan lori balak telah menyebabkan ianya rosak semula. Bukan YB yang bersalah disini, sebenarnya penguatkuasaan yang lemah oleh JPJ dan Polis. Kalau nak dibandingkan, cuba fikir Jalan dari Kuching sampai ke Miri..baik sangatkah jalannya. Jalan di Sungai Asap tu cuma 5 km saja yang rosak. Cuba fikir sekali lagi..kenapa ketua menteri yang kuasa nya besar tak dapat minta dgn kerajaan persekutuan membuat Lebuh raya yang canggih dari Kuching sampai ke Limbang? Cuba tgk di Semanjung Highwaynya berapa..sarawak satupun tak da. Jalan Pan Borneo tu bukan Highway cuma standard Jalan Kampung saja. Jalan baru rosak sikit dah cakap YB tak buat kerja. fikirlah sendiri..jangan pandai komen saja kalau kita sendiri tak duduk dekat tak tengok apa YB buat.
Uchu Keling | 11th June 2008 | Reply
Orang Asap, then tell your YB to get the public well inform. Why the public react and gave comments? Simple, because they do not know what have been done.
Now, since you have read this thread, it is good of you, and we be thankful, if you care to inform Datuk Billy on the matter.
If the JPJ or Police are not doing anything, then Datuk Billy should go and see them and seek answers.
Is 5km to much to ask for repair?
Finally, it is your duty, since you have been 20 years close to Datuk Billy to keep us inform of what is happening at his constituency. Silence means it is not longer look upon as golden in this new era. To us silence means not doing anything.
Thank you for your sincere respond. We hope to see your replies soon.
Cheers and Selamat Gawai!
kimi | 11th June 2008 | Reply
ya…im agree with uncle uchu keling. if the so called JPJ and police DIDNT do anything, the MP should go and check.
empurau | 12th June 2008 | Reply
I live in asap..the road has been repaired many times..still the same story..peoples attitude is to blame yb..but we ourselves rosak the jalan by allowing illegal lorries to come in..why? becoz of money..so simple lah..can blame the yb all you want and he can keep repairing the road but it will never end till the people’s attitude change
Orang Asap | 12th June 2008 | Reply
Terima kasih empurau. Uchu saya sebenarnya dah banyak kali dah inform Yb tentang perkara ini. Beliau ada mengatakan yang perkara ini telah dibangkitkan di Parlimen. Masalahnya sekarang adalah seperti yang diperkatakan oleh empurau. Oleh ayng demikian bagus kiranya rakyat kami di Sungai Asap mengadakan satu perhimpunan untuk menghalang semua lori-lori balak yang merosakan jalan ini. Perkara ini juga pernah dipanjangkan ke JKM melalui Talikhidmat namun tiada tindakan yang diambil atas sebab rasanya atas arahan orang tertentu yang mempunyai kepentingan dengan pembalakan disana. Maksudnya disini adalah apabila Syarikat yang sekarang ini menggunakan jalan asal(Jalan Balak) mereka akan membayar sejumlah wang yang besar kepada Syarikat yang mempunyai jalan tersebut dan ini memnyebabkan syarikat yang satu tadi tidak mempunyai untung yang banyak jadi mereka guna jalan kamilah. So cadangan disini adalah tembak saja lori balak yang menggunakan Jalan Kami dan bakar sahaja lori-lori balak yang tersadai di tepi jalan. k.
Uchu Keling | 12th June 2008 | Reply
Orang Asap, kalau dah berkali-kali inform (tak jumpa in-person?), masih Datuk baru ni tak buat apa-apa, so macam mana?
Dia sebagai wakil rakyat perlu buat sesuatu dengan mana-mana agensi yang berkenaan. Tak kan buat sekali dan harap semua OK buat selama-lamanya.
Kena ada continuity atau apa term they all pakai sekarang - memantau?
Whack and keep whacking .. that simple or else, it is seen as not doing anything.
To Datuk Billy,
Kalau dapat
berkaraokeclubbing sampai pagi di Shelter, kenapa tak boleh nyanyi kat Parlimen sampai pagi juga, eh Datuk!kimi | 13th June 2008 | Reply
LOL
STllL Waras | 13th June 2008 | Reply
Tak payahlah nak sebut hal clubing ker karaoke ker ye.Parlimen Hulu Rajang bukanya kecil. Parlimen paling besar di malaysia. Perkara ini telah banyak kali dibangkit, masalahnya sekarang tindakan orang yang sepatutnya seperti kontraktor yang mempunyai kontrak yang tidak menjalakan pembaikan. Takan YB nak jaga tu jer.
Uchu Keling | 13th June 2008 | Reply
Still Waras, yes of course! The rakyat sees it that way. Go and ask around, what is the expectation out of our representative.
Today I call upon the SUPP reps in Miri, tomorrow, you will see them on location.
Can our Dayak reps does the same? I believe our Pemanca Wilson Siang is a truly wakil rakyat bansa Dayak (at least for people in Miri, Bekenu and Sebuti).
Or, please list our what a YB should and should not jaga.
Marenleodianman | 13th June 2008 | Reply
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Marenleodianman | 13th June 2008 | Reply
hi uchu..saya dah tengok u punya komen. Kita tinggalkan Jalan Sungai Asap untuk seketika. Yang saya dengar Jalan Berkenaan akan dibaiki sedikit masa lagi. Sekarang saya nak minta Uchu bercakap mengenai Jalan Dari Pasar Bakong menuju ke Pekan Lapok. Apa yang saya faham jalan ini telah lama dibina iaitu lebih awal dari Jalan Sungai Asap. Kenapa sampai hari ini masih belum di tar sedangkan YB bagi kawasan tersebut dah jadi Menteri muda bagi DUN(Marudi) dan Timbalan Menteri bagi Kawasan Parlimen(Baram). So..harap jalan dapat dibaiki jugalah lebih-lebih lagi di tar…
Uchu Keling | 13th June 2008 | Reply
Marenleodianman, isu jalan Bakong-Lapok telah timbulkan semasa perjumpaan Dato Jacob dengan ketua kaum kawasan itu dan juga para pengundi di kawasan Baram.
Dato Jacob telah berjanji kepada semua yang hadir masa itu (di hotel Dynasty Miri).
Tetapi, pada pagi ini, semasa midterm review RMK9, belum ada suara dari wakil rakyat dari parti PRS and SPDP.
Walaubagaimana pun, hadirin semasa perjumpaan dengan Dato Jacob telah (dengan tegasnya) menyuarakan ketidakpuas hati mereka pada isu jalan tersebut, dan ingin Dato Jacob berbuat sesuatu dengan drastic atau beliau mungkin tidak di sokong penduduk di kawasan itu pada masa hadapan.
Kita tunggu dan lihat..
Assap 4ever | 16th June 2008 | Reply
i agree with Orang Asap 100%. Datuk Billy voiced this issue so many times.
Tubai’s comment tjat there is no turun padang is not relevant for Datuk Billy. Datuk is active to ‘turun padang’ every month, not using helicopter like James Masing but using this same road in the picture…Even brought t up in the papers… see this article in Borneo Post, in April:
Sungai Assap Internet centre ready by Sept
28 April 2008
BELAGA: An Internet centre will be set up for Sungai Assap folk when their multi-purpose hall is ready by this September.
Deputy Minister of Energy, Water and Communications Datuk Joseph Salang Gandum said besides this centre, it would accommodate a post office to provide banking transactions services, as one stop payment centre to receive payment for utility bills and an Amanah Saham Nasional (ASN) and Amanah Sham Bumiputera (ASB) investment counter.
He said this at a dialogue session with the residents of Uma Belor, one of the 15 longhouses at the Sungai Assap resettlement scheme, on Saturday night.
The Sungai Assap and Sungai Koyan centres are for the about 10,000 Orang Ulu communities affected by the implementation of the Bakun Hydro-electricity Project.
Salang was accompanied by Hulu Rajang MP Billy Abit Joo, Multimedia and Communication Commission senior director Datuk Jailani Johari, Belaga district officer Sirai Taha, Temenggong Datuk Sri Nyipa Batok, Pemanca Umek Jeno and others had earlier on visited the Bakun Dam project before the dialogue.
He said other facilities to be made available at the multipurpose centre would include a library.
“The decision to set up the Internet centre is to enable the resettled communities to communicate with the rest of the world like their counterparts in Bario, Long Bedian and Long Jengkitan,” he said.
Salang said with a wireless technology provider Sacofa Sdn Bhd planning to erect its transmission tower soon, the people here could enjoy RTM television broadcast and better cellular phone coverage.
Earlier on, Billy Abit urged the government to improve the condition of the Bakun highway as well as to have proper enforcement of traffic rules by the relevant authority.
“The highway is always very busy with huge lorries carrying heavy timber loads. This is dangerous to regular motorists. The people are patient to a certain extent, but they might be tempted one day to express their feelings in a way bad for us politicians. So I hope those responsible can act soonest,” he said.
He also hoped the Bakun highway would be maintained regularly.
“The highway is very important to the people. It is their life line. But it suffers from a chronic lack of maintenance. To make the matter worse, it is a very busy logging road as well. I believe all the requests by the Sungai Asap and Sungai Koyan people are very reasonable and fair. We should appreciate their sacrifices in making way for the implementation of the Bakun project 10 years ago,” he said.
Marenleodianman | 17th June 2008 | Reply
good comment from u asap 4 ever.
Uchu Keling | 17th June 2008 | Reply
Urging the government via a speech is one thing. To follow-up on the process with the relevant authorities is another thing.
We hope it happen in both areas of the process. No point getting the coverage on media but in actual fact nothing has really been done with the authorities.
Maybe Datuk Billy can call for a press conference and show some papers to show that there is a request, etc and that has been sent to the authorities like JKR, etc. on the road issue.
My reply here is not to question Datuk Billy on what he has done, but, it will be better to have some supporting document when giving press release.
If some effort have been done, then the people of Sungai Assap should follow up with Datuk Billy to ensure that the deliveries is being done asap.
Leodian | 17th June 2008 | Reply
For your information Bakun-Asap road will be repair soon. Don’t ask when, BUT soon. Stop blaming YB Datuk Billy, he has been working very hard for US in Hulu Rejang. Iban and Orang Ulu get the benefit from his hard work and generousity. Uchu Keling, the culprit is the timber company, which has been control by people from the TOP! We have try to bring TV3 and they were refuse entrance. Can you imagine that. Who can do that! it is the people from the TOP!
What we from Asap want now is get thing done for the sake of US! Stop blaming and pointing finger.
Marenleodianman | 17th June 2008 | Reply
Good fed back Leodian.
Uchu Keling | 17th June 2008 | Reply
Leodian, thank you for the updated information. This is indeed good news for the people of Sungai Asap. And, for those who are reading this, go back to the rural areas and share this good news.
When people at the “TOP” does this to its own BN reps.. what does that mean?
Asap MAn | 17th June 2008 | Reply
tak dapat komen lah Uchu. Nanti saya kena buang kerja. Dahlah saya kerja kerajaan….
freesarawak | 19th June 2008 | Reply
TOP?
why still support that TOP?
your kawan | 19th July 2008 | Reply
I hope someone will unseat him in the next general elections.He has done nothing!!!! if he cannot take the blame for the poor roads or for failing to solve our land issues, he shouldnt have contested as an MP. As a Kayan, seeing my kampung ppl being evicted from their own land these past few days changed my view towards Uncle Billy Abit. Despite being closely related to him, his failure to help my family and HIS own uncle from being forced out of our own temuda shows what kind of person he is. His political career is more important than his ppl’s welfare.
I can confidently say he has no more respect among the Kayans or any other natives in my area. If he reads this he would know who I am.
Cikgu Billy should just quit!!!!
asapmaju | 24th October 2008 | Reply
saya amat kesian dgn orang kita di hulu,especially asap n belaga people in general harapkan YB yg berpindidikan tinggi tapi rupanya makan rakyat sendiri. sebab apa saya katakan begitu terlalu byk masalah yg telah berlaku,sedang berlaku dan akan berlaku dimana kah titik penyelesaian nya.Dulu semasa kempen undilah BN hanya BN yg mampu mengubah nasib rakyat.tapi cuba lihat sendiri apa yg berlaku. kalau semua kita di kwsn asap koyan tidak bersatu hati menentang kominis pembalakan ini sampe 100 tahun pun kita tetap seperti ini.memang kita sendiri tahu lori balak ini milik syarikat shin yang kenapa YB tak pergi jumpa Bos dia tanya siapa yg suruh guna jalan ini ? sebab kalau kita guna kekerasan terhadap pemandu , tak boleh sebab mereka ikut arahan bos mereka. so yg kita penting bos dia kalau perlu tangkap mereka ini .
semang | 17th November 2008 | Reply
Assap 4ever,orang Asap,Empurau & Leodian,
jibuh nah duan lebak2,hajahkah Billy anan jinun tek gunah loh.kuri term ihak u jadi MP? jibuh nah kelok seng mempertahankan ihak.mybe kelok nih kelunan nak? akui pun kelunan Asap lim kah tegu bulan 12 tua akui nyineng nen Billy ha Asap tapik ha Uma Belor tua,duwi burak ateng mavuk dahin tegu seng election tua jureh neng nak nyemu.YB nun aleng nunan?