Sabah urgently need Power? Wise?

Voice of Sabahans-We concern ours future.

Dear my fellow Sabahan, YBs, friends and family. First of all, I want to introduce ourselves. We are University Student (local and oversea), young adult, young professional, adult and most importantly we are the children of Sabah and we are our future asset. We believed in education and unity as a success to our people. We call ourselves the Voice of Sabahan or Vosian. We were all united because of the current issues affecting to not only us but our future generation too. We are pure Sabahan and come in peace as the people's voice and we DON'T have any relation to any political person. Therefore with humble heart we write this letter to the current leader of the state and also to the people in Sabah.

There are two issues that we would to highlight. They are the need of Power Source and also the MyKad problem.
Power Source is most important for a state to become an industrial state. Not only that, it will help the utility to branch out their power into the pedalaman/rural area which is indirectly, will improve the villager life style. Besides boosting the stability of power in the future, it will also become one of the requirements for a company strategy to determine whether to invest or not. Losing power could affect the industry badly in term of profit and schedule.

We agreed to the environment people since they know the engineering to do the study and also to SESB. Since the state income mostly come from tourism industry, it is not wise for us to received pollution at large. We admit that coal fired plant might the easy way to be built since TNB have so many of them in Malaya, but that’s not meant it is the only way. We could have done something better such as building hydro and Gas based plant. We cannot see any option that would benefit the people of Sabah expect those we mention before. We might have to have coal fired plant in the future but if we had any reason to delay it, it's good enough. We never know what will happen in the future but we can predict and plan for it. This will give us time to explore more option and try to avoid any of coal fired plant.

We concern on our local utility also, yes SESB. They will always be blamed if there is any black out. We know they doing their good but without support from the people and local government, they will be gone and be replaced by other not from local. We must treasure what we have now and try to make it better. Why we blame them when we experienced blackout because of the thieve cable activities? A Sabahan probably working with SESB and they surely not happy if any of this contingency happen. To solve the problem, we only need UNITY. The local government, engineers and the Sabahan itself, have to have positive mindset and stay united. Why do we depend on other? The government and the local utility must work together to restore the confident and trust from the people. Now we have the opportunity to give Sabahan engineer experience and hoping in the future we can handle it by ourselves. Come Sabahan, together we show to all the Malaysian that Sabah BOLEH and Sabah Maju Jaya.

It would be wise for the state government to depend on its own people. We can always send our engineer to aboard for training just like the government sends our MPs for study trip. This will not only give Sabahan the job opportunity but to make them more experience and confident which is indirectly, we believe will boost the Sabahan's social economic.
Mykad issues were long old but until now we failed to solve the problem. By replacing the chairman in the JPN state of Sabah also will not promise the solution. We the young generation (born 80s), and the generation before us, we still remember the clean Sabah, in our memory there is no MyKad (or so called Kad Pengenalan ) issues during our childhood. We all still can recall our memories how we lived harmony with all the races in Sabah in the past, and miss the feeling sleeping without worries being break-in. The main issue here is that we make mistake, we let them become more and more in Sabah. Some of new generations (90s,) are actively involving with the bad social life together with the "outsider". We have the right to call them outsider because we know who is the origin in Sabah and remember, we are graduate and born in (80s, 70s) we pretty much capable of remember what happened and can predict what will happen in the future.

Why do we have to suffer the mistake done (not by us) in the past? That is why today, we will raise our concern for the future generation. With all due respect to our MPs, YBs, and the Federal Government, we now ask, do they really understand what we suffer here in Sabah? Our local student in high school could have done better rather than to be associated with the "outsider". They might even can do something benefits to the community if the outsider not being around. We all can be a witness to some of our friend who falls because of get involved with the outsider.

We are not stupid and we know "personally" some of the outsider already posses MyKad. Therefore, JPN MUST BE OVERHAUL from the bottom till the top. Federal government should give the autonomy of issuing MyKad to the Sabahan people because we know the land better than they do. With all due respect, we raise our voice because we believed that we can do this job not only in JPN but also in all government departments. Many of Sabahan cannot return home and choose to work in Peninsular or oversea because of lack of opportunity in their hometown. These people however are the asset to the future and the government should give attention to them as well. The State government can always summon them to return home and offering them with a good job. What the hell are they for if not for the Sabahan people? We must have the integrity to be proud Sabahan. Local government seriously needs to create more working environment for the people. For how many years the sabahan have been study mostly in Science Social degree and recently in Science Technology.

By applying the "thinking out of the box" we can employee our people to many areas in the department and they also qualify for higher position. No one is perfect until they learn how to do their job. Example an engineer only know the concept and few practical work before he gain experience during his working years. I believed that our people can be trained even though their degree background is not majoring in administration for admin work. It's worth to try and give them opportunity at higher level. Most of Sabahan nowadays are equal good to those imported from peninsular.

Sabah State needs "more than a degree" to qualify someone to work in the state. Example, someone who was born in Sabah knows the problem better than who is not. We know how our people work, culture, adat, and also love to our own people and land. We admit the needs of experts to monitor every work progress but not with no Sabahan in the department (High till low rank) are compulsory but not forever. Why they come here to work and our people are jobless? Or doing low quality job? For example, do we really don't have any Sabahan teacher to become guru besar/pengetua to teach our children? Do we really need to sacrifice ourselves in that way? Is it the wise path to Sabah Maju Jaya? No! It's not. We must get the experience as fast as possible. We must realize that we are now left far behind by other state in Malaysia. Getting our people in the top position is one of the wiser steps. So the government department must be entrusted to the local Sabahan, a complete overhaul is a must.

The Sabahan must focus and have confident on themselves . We don’t need someone to suffer 2 years just like the 78-years old Young Lee Hua to get replacement for her MyKad and we also heard so many issues such as birth certificate under section 10, although the couple have undergone a valid wedding under ketua kampong.

The leader of the State who represents the People in Sabah, especially from the KDM community must fight for their people since we are losing our identity.

Last but not least we hope that more Sabahan who concern the current issues but don't know where to voice out is welcome to join us at: voiceofsabahan@hotmail.com.