David Hii Chin Loung
KUCHING: The Sarawak Patriot Association (SPA) will be organiSing a seminar on Sarawak’s rights under the Malaysia Agreement 1963 (MA63) on Dec 7 starting 7 pm until 10pm at the Sarawak Islamic Information Center, Jalan Ong Tiang Swee.
Its secretary David Hii Chin Loung aid SPA invited two distinguished speakers to share with members of the public on Sarawak Rights under MA63.
They are Dato Sri JC Fong and Datuk David Teng Lung Chi, he shared.
Fong, the State Legal Counsel will speak on the subject of equal status and partnership for Sabah and Sarawak within the Federation of Malaysia.
Fong is also Sarawak former State Attorney General and currently part of the MA63 Legal Team. He has vast experience in MA63. He initiated MA63 research in 2007 and he was one of the team members who made the trip to London to do more research into MA63.
Teng, Sarawak Arts, and Cultural Research Institute president will speak on the subject of MA63 special positions and safeguards of Sarawak.
Teng, a lawyer by training, was a former Assistant Minister and served seven terms as Repok assemblyman before his retirement from active politics.
“From our recent survey, 80 per cent of those interviewed expressed their keen interest to know our Sarawakians rights ” Hii said.
“We encourage every Sarawakian to participate for awareness of our rights under MA63, the importance of equal partnership, how it will affect us Sarawakians and the importance of the special positions and safeguards for Sarawak under MA63. It is our duty as Sarawakians to rally together and to pursue for the return of our eroded rights under MA63.”
The seminar will be conducted in English and will include a 45 minute question and answer session to allow the participants to seek for clarification from the two expert speakers.
Tickets for the seminar are available for purchase from seminar chairperson Brenda Yong (012-8621233), David Hii (012-8861923) or Datuk John Lau (010-3268 333).