KUCHING, Jan 16 — A Sarawak pro-autonomy advocate today called on Premier Tan Sri Abang Johari Openg to propose the term constituent province, instead of region, for Sarawak in...
KUCHING, Jan 16 — A Sarawak pro-autonomy advocate today called on Premier Tan Sri Abang Johari Openg to propose the term constituent province, instead of region, for Sarawak in his coming meeting with Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim.
“It is used, for example, in the Province of Quebec in Canada or the Province of Aceh in Indonesia, both of which have autonomy over various matters including language, economy, taxation, education and even resource rights. Abang Johari had said that he would raise with the prime minister on whether the region status has been gazetted or when it would be gazetted.
“It is a geographical term. Territory is even less appropriate as it suggests, in international terms, a subordinate relationship,” he said, asserting that in Malay, the term “wilayah” becomes problematic because of the way it has been applied under the Federal Constitution.
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