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> Dominic Langat- Penan tribe in Long Tungan, Baram – Rural Price Disparities: Long Tungan's Struggle for Affordable Goods
> YB Chiew Choon Man, PKR MP of Miri – RM950 Subsidy per Metric Ton: A Step Towards Affordable Rice
> Nasir Dollah, deputy chairman of JKOAK – Prolonged High Prices of Essential Goods Plague Orang Asli Communities in Malaysia's Interior
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Dominic Langat- Penan tribe in Long Tungan, Baram
*Rural Price Disparities: Long Tungan's Struggle for Affordable Goods*
To get to long Tungan, you have to travel by land using a four-wheel drive 4X4, which takes 8 hours from Miri city. According to Dom, the price of rice, flour, cooking oil and other daily necessities is RM10 more expensive than the price in MIRI town. We have never obtained subsidized prices or enjoyed the goods transported using the necessary goods distribution program, LPG and the price standardization program through the 2023 budget. All our necessary goods, we buy and transport ourselves. This is what makes it expensive in the hinterland. According to the 2023 budget, more than RM200 million will be allocated for the cost of transportation and distribution of basic necessities to the interior. Dom claimed that the village of Long Tungan had never obtained sunsidi price goods. He requested that the government and delivery contractors be transparent about this matter. Regarding the potential of Sarawak as a rice producing state. This cannot be denied. Since the 1980s, we in Long Tungan have been cultivating paddy fields and received little help from the government. But the aid has been stopped. But if it is reactivated and supplied with quality seeds, irrigation, modern agricultural technology and the latest agricultural infrastructure. It is not impossible that the desire to make Sarawak a paddy/rice producing state will be achieved. Because the people in my village do have skills in agriculture - said Dom. Now we grow hill paddy on a small scale for self-sufficiency.
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