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> Dennis Along, Pengarah Komunikasi PKR Sarawak - Kebimbangan Pengagihan Subsidi: Adakah Golongan Sasaran Menerima Manfaat?
> Willie Kajan, Ketua Masyarakat etnik Tering di Baram - Sarawak Digesa Untuk Bertindak: Melaksanakan Projek Pemuliharaan Banjir dengan Bajet RM11.8 Bilion
> Jeffrery Ngau, Pengerusi MUDA Sarawak - Kontroversi Bajet 2024: YB Syed Sadiq Menantang Kepuasan Kerajaan
> Chris Lau, Wartawan Bebas - Peranan PAS dalam Kerajaan Madani: Menilai Keseimbangan
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> Dennis Along, Sarawak PKR Communications Director – Subsidy Allocation Concerns: Are the Target Groups Receiving the Benefits?
> Willie Kajan, community elder of the Tering ethnic group in Baram – Sarawak Urged to Act: Implementing Flood Mitigation Projects with RM 11.8 Billion Budget
> Jeffrery Ngau, Chairperson of MUDA Sarawak – Budget 2024 Controversy: YB Syed Sadiq Challenges the Government's Satisfaction
> Chris Lau, independent Journalist – Balancing Act: Evaluating the Role of PAS in the Madani Government
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Dennis Along, Sarawak PKR Communications Director
*Subsidy Allocation Concerns: Are the Target Groups Receiving the Benefits?*
Dennis thinks that PMX Anwar Ibrahim is really trying to take advantage of the 2024 budget to lift the people's economy - especially the poor. Out of the total budget of RM393.8 billion, RM81 billion is allocated for subsidizing the lower class. My question is does the subsidy reach the target group? asked Dennis. According to Dennis in the 2023 budget and the 2024 budget, RM225 million each (each year) is allocated to finance the cost of distributing basic necessities such as petrol, LPG, flour, rice and cooking oil to rural and rural areas under the Community Drumming - Sabah program and Sarawak. However, Penan residents in Long Tungan in Baram, Berawan people in Batu Bungan Mulu and Penan Murum in Metalun did not get the subsidized goods. My question is where did the subsidized goods go? Is it stolen, hidden or misused. There is information that we heard, these items are sold to Indonesian workers in oil palm plantations. I request this matter to be investigated - Said Dennis.
The second thing that caught my attention is the allocation to the Peninsular Orang Asli community of a total of RM305 in 2023 and in this year an increase of RM333 million. According to the description by PMX, this allocation is to implement socioeconomic development, infrastructure in Orang Asli villages and the provision of social assistance. For these two years alone, the allocation for the Orang Asli community totals RM638 million. Just apply to PMX and the finance ministry. We the Asal people in Sarawak, including the Penan, are equally backward and poor like the Orang Asli people in Peninsular Malaysia. We should also be given similar provisions. I appeal to PMX as finance minister, there is no time for research and reasons. We want a similar provision. In fact, the Penan people in Sarawak are far behind in many aspects of life - just like the Orang Asli of the Peninsula. I want this to be fixed and corrected.
