ALMOST 90 PER CENT OF INDONESIAN COUPLES IN SABAH ARE NOT REGISTERED UNDER THE INDONESIAN ISLAMIC DEPARTMENT AND CIVIL DEPARTMENT OFFICE

Almost 90 per cent of Indonesian couples in Sabah marry under religious law

KOTA KINABALU 17/12/2012: Almost 90 per cent of marriages involving Indonesian couples in Sabah were contracted under religious law and regarded as not valid under civil law, said the republic’s consul-general here, Soepeno Sahid.

Because of this, he urged all Indonesia couples in the state who had married under religious law to register their marriage with the Indonesan consulate here.

Soepeno said although a couple’s marriage was valid in the eyes of their religion, it was not certified as valid by the Indonesian civil authority as long as they had not register it under the republic’s civil law.

PKR COMES UP WITH SOFTWARE TO DETECT VOTER TRANSFERS

PKR comes up with software to detect voter transfers

June 03, 2012: AZMIN also distributed a computerised programme to all its 25 candidates for the Parliamentary seats.

The programme would allow users to trace the movements of voters' identity cards and merge the data from the electoral rolls in 2004, 2008 up till the first quarter of 2011.

"Once the electoral roll is merged, we could detect the movements of the voters, from one locality to another. This is a very big issue nationwide and not only in Sabah.

92% VOTERS WANT ELECTORAL ROLL CLEANED BEFORE ELECTIONS, 81% OF PENINSULAR VOTERS SUPPORT SABAH RCI – MERDEKA CENTER

Most Malaysians want the electoral roll cleaned before elections

BANGI – A survey among voters in Peninsula Malaysia found that nearly all – 92% of voters want the electoral roll to be cleaned up before elections are held.

DAFTAR PEMILIH TAMBAHAN BOLEH DISEMAK

Daftar pemilih tambahan boleh disemak

KUALA LUMPUR 1 Mei - Suruhanjaya Pilihan Raya (SPR) mula mempamerkan senarai Rang Daftar Pemilih Tambahan Suku Tahun Pertama 2012 di 952 tempat di seluruh negara selama 14 hari bermula hari ini.

SPR dalam satu kenyataan di sini memaklumkan, senarai itu dipamerkan selaras dengan kehendak Peraturan 13(5), Peraturan-Peraturan Pilihan Raya (Pendaftaran Pemilih) 2002.

NEW BN-FRIENDLY SULUK PARTY, PARTI KEBENARAN SABAH, REGISTRATION APPROVED

New BN-friendly party formed

SANDAKAN April 18, 2012: Parti Kebenaran Sabah has its registration approved and is now actively looking to attract new members to expand itself across Sabah.

Kebenaran’s main goal and purpose is to serve as a catalyst to United Suluk Community Organization (USCO) in upholding their principle of improving the socio-economic status of Suluks in the state, according to sponsoring chairman of Sandakan Parti Kebenaran Sabah Datu Omar Ali Datu Bachtiyal.

"SEMUA PERMOHONAN PROSES PEMUTIHAN, PERTUKARAN MAJIKAN, PERMOHONAN ID, PERMOHONAN MAKLUMAN KEPADA KEDUTAAN/PESURUHJAYA TINGGI DAN PERMOHONAN MENGEMAS KINI DATA PENDATANG TANPA IZIN (PATI) AKAN DIBERHENTIKAN SERTA-MERTA PADA RABU," - KDN

Proses Pemutihan 6P Berakhir - KDN

KUALA LUMPUR April 11, 2012: Kementerian Dalam Negeri (KDN) mengumumkan proses PDAFemutihan Program 6P tidak akan dilanjutkan lagi setelah berakhir pada 6 petang Selasa.

Ketua Setiausaha KDN Tan Sri Mahmood Adam berkata sehubungan itu, lapan pusat pemutihan yang beroperasi di seluruh negara ditutup serta-merta mulai Rabu.

CAMPAIGN CALLS FOR 100 PER CENT VOTER TURN-OUT IN NEXT GE

Campaign calls for 100 per cent voter turn-out in next GE

KOTA KINABALU April 9, 2012: The ‘Jom 100’ campaign organised by the movement of Coalition for Clean and Fair Elections (Bersih) is not in the business of telling the people whom to vote but is instead a call for a 100 per cent voter turn-out in the next general election with the view to strengthening the democratic system in the country.

At the launching of the state-level campaign yesterday, the chairperson, Datuk Ambiga Sreenevasan, stressed that Article 119 of the Federal Constitution provides that every citizen who has attained the age of 21 years is entitled to vote in a constituency in any election to the House of Representatives or the Legislative Assembly unless he is disqualified under any law relating to offences committed in connection with elections.

161,371 PATI REGISTERED UNDER 5P PROGRAM - MUSA

161,370 illegal immigrants registered under the 5P programme – CM

KOTA KINABALU 29th March, 2012: A total of 161,370 illegal immigrants were registered under the 5P programme conducted in Sabah between July 18 and Aug 10 of last year.

The number included 115,046 Indonesians, 45,894 Filipinos and 430 other nationals, Chief Minister, Datuk Seri Musa Aman disclosed this in his winding-up speech at the State Assembly Tuesday. The text of his speech was read by Minister in the Chief Minister’s Department, Datuk Sri Nasir Sakaran.

DON’T MISTAKE ILLEGALS FOR LOCALS, NRD TOLD

Don’t mistake illegals for locals, PBS tells NRD

KOTA KINABALU Mac 25, 2012: There is a need to set in place additional precautionary measures to prevent immigrants from taking advantage of the ongoing National Registration Department’s (NRD) mobile registration drives to acquire Malaysian citizenship.

Parti Bersatu Sabah (PBS) vice president Datuk Radin Malleh who suggested this, said although certain mechanisms were already in place, the NRD still needs to be extra careful to ensure that illegal immigrants are not mistakenly registered as locals and given Malaysian birth certificates and identity cards (ICs).

“We ask the relevant authorities to be extra careful in registering the birth certificates and identity documents, so that they do not fall into the wrong hands especially illegal immigrants, as this could jeapordise the country’s sovereignty and future,”

SABAHAN REGISTER BEFORE MAY IN ORDER TO VOTE

Register before May in order to vote

March 14, 2012: THE EC Chairman urged Malaysians in Sabah who have reached the voting age of 21 to register to make them eligible to vote in the coming election.

He said that out of 1.19 million people in the state who are aged 21 and above, there are still 312,070 who have not registered as electors.

"I am advising them to register quickly; there is still time because the electoral roll will only be gazetted in May," he said.

MORE THEN 80,000 REFUGEES IN SABAH TO BE REGISTERED

More than 80,000 in Sabah to be registered

KOTA KINABALU Nov 8, 2011: More than 80,000 Filipino and Indonesian-Chinese refugees in Sabah from the 1960s are to be recorded under the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees’ (UNHCR) latest registration programme.

State Immigration director Mohammad Mentek said refugees from both countries were issued the IMM13 document when they fled to Malaysia following unrest in their home countries.

BORANG BANTUAN ISI RUMAH RAKYAT SEBANYAK RM500 JANGKA KELUAR DISEMBER

Borang Pemberian Bantuan Isi Rumah Dijangka Keluar Disember

BANGI, 1 Nov (Bernama) -- Borang pemberian bantuan rakyat sebanyak RM500 kepada isi rumah yang berpendapatan bulanan RM3,000 dan ke bawah dijangka mula dikeluarkan pada bulan Disember ini.

Ketua Pegawai Eksekutif Lembaga Hasil Dalam Negeri (LHDN) Datuk Dr Mohd Shukor Mahfar berkata borang itu boleh dimuat turun menerusi laman web LHDN selain diperoleh di semua pejabat agensi berkenaan.

KADAR KEMISKINAN TERUS MENINGKAT

Kemiskinan terus meningkat

KUCHING: Kadar kemiskinan dijangka terus meningkat, kata Menteri Kebajikan, Wanita dan Pembangunan Keluarga Datuk Fatimah Abdullah.

Menurutnya, perkara tersebut adalah ekoran daripada keadaan ekonomi global dan peningkatan kos sara hidup di negara ini.

 “Sabah, Sarawak dan Kelantan merupakan negeri yang mencatat kadar kemiskinan tertinggi dan dijangkakan kadar kemiskinan pada tahun ini (2011) akan terus meningkat berikutan keadaan ekonomi global yang sudah berubah dan kos sara hidup yang semakin tinggi seperti harga makanan dan sebagainya,” katanya.

6 TIMBALAN MENTERI & 19 MP MASUK UNIVERSITI

Enam timbalan menteri turut masuk universiti

SINTOK: Seramai enam timbalan menteri dan 19 anggota Parlimen mengikuti pengajian peringkat sarjana dan doktor falsafah (PhD) di kampus Univeristi Utara Malaysia (UUM) di Kuala Lumpur bermula Jun lalu.

Antara mereka ialah Timbalan Menteri di Jabatan Perdana Menteri, Datuk S K Devamany; Timbalan Menteri Pengangkutan, Datuk Abdul Rahim Bakri; Timbalan Menteri Tenaga, Teknoloji Hijau dan Air, Noriah Kasnon; Timbalan Menteri Kesihatan, Datuk Rosnah Abdul Rashid Shirlin dan anggota Parlimen Tenggara, Datuk Halimah Mohamed Sadique yang dilantik menjadi ketua kelas.

SPR SEDIA KEMUDAHAN MUAT TURUN BORANG PENDAFTARAN PEMILIH

SPR Sedia Kemudahan Muat Turun Borang Pendaftaran Pemilih

KUALA LUMPUR, 6 Sept (Bernama) -- Suruhanjaya Pilihan Raya (SPR) mulai Selasa menyediakan kemudahan memuat turun borang pendaftaran pemilih atau Borang A menerusi laman web www.spr.gov.my.

Setiausaha SPR Datuk Kamaruddin Mohamed Baria berkata kemudahan memuat turun Borang A secara online itu bertujuan menggalakkan lebih ramai warganegara Malaysia yang berumur 21 tahun dan ke atas mendaftar sebagai pemilih.

"Kemudahan ini disediakan kepada Penolong Pendaftar Pemilih (PPP) dan orang ramai, kemudahan ini juga membolehkan semua PPP yang dilantik SPR memuat turun borang A mengikut keperluan mereka,"

FOUR TEMPORARY DETENTION CENTRES IN SABAH TO BE EMPTIED FIRST BEFORE THE TWO-MONTH ENFORCEMENT AND DEPORTATION PHASE OF THE 5P PROGRAMME FOR ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS BEGINS TOWARDS THE END OF OCTOBER - MENTEK

Need to empty detention centres first, says Dept

Kota Kinabalu September 05, 2011: The four temporary detention centres in the State will have to be emptied first before the two-month Enforcement and Deportation phase of the 5P programme for illegal immigrants begins towards the end of October.

 "We need to empty the detention centres before integrated operations under the 4P are fully implemented because space is needed to place the illegals who will be arrested during the ops," said Sabah Immigration Director, Mohammed bin Mentek, recently.

"There are four temporary detention centres. In Kimanis, Papar, two in Sandakan and one in Tawau. Altogether, they hold 2,311 Filipinos and 333 Indonesans.

"About 90 per cent of them are waiting for the issuance of their travel documents and would be deported to their respective countries."

AMARAN KEPADA WARGA ASING PULANG SUKARELA ATAU TINDAKAN - MENTEK

Pulang sukarela atau tindakan

 

KOTA KINABALU 2 Sept. - Pendatang asing tanpa izin (PATI) yang telah mendaftar dalam program 5P (Pendaftaran, Pengampunan, Pemantauan, Penguatkuasaan dan Pengusiran) pengampunan baru-baru ini perlu meninggalkan negara ini secara sukarela sebelum 11 Oktober ini.

Pengarah Jabatan Imigresen Sabah, Mohammad Mentek berkata, pihaknya akan mengenakan tindakan tegas mengikut undang-undang sedia ada sekiranya mereka masih gagal berbuat demikian.

“PATI harus kembali ke negara masing-masing untuk mendapatkan dokumen perjalanan yang sah sebelum dibenarkan masuk ke Malaysia.

“Kita memberikan mereka tempoh dua bulan bermula 11 Ogos hingga ke 10 Oktober untuk meninggalkan negara ini secara sukarela dan jika mereka gagal berbuat demikian kita akan mengambil tindakan,”

ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS HAVE TO LEAVE VOLUNTARILY OR FACE ACTION

Illegal immigrants have to leave voluntarily or face action

KOTA KINABALU August 26, 2011: Illegal immigrants who have registered themselves and their families during the amnesty programme are required to leave the country voluntarily.

Sabah Immigration Department director Mohammad Mentek said in the second stage of the 5P programme, which is Pengampunan (Forgiveness), illegal immigrants are required to leave the country before October 11 or face legal action.

“After the registration period, which ended on August 10, illegal immigrants who have registered themselves and their families must return to their respective countries to get the proper travel documents before they are allowed to enter Malaysia.

“We are giving them two months, from August 11 till October 10, to leave the country voluntarily.

“Failure to do so, action will be taken against them,” he told a press conference at the Immigration Department office at the State Federal Administration Complex here yesterday.

398,708 FOREIGNERS REGISTERED UNDER 5P

398,708 foreigners registered under 5P latest!

August 24, 2011 : ASSISTANT Minister to the Chief Minister Datuk Radin Malleh yesterday disclosed that 398,708 foreigners were registered during the 5P programme which was carried out in the state recently.

Radin said 237,338 were legal foreign workers while the remaining 161,370 were illegal immigrants.

Replying to Elopura assemblyman Au Kam Wah at the State Assembly sitting yesterday, Radin said that the plantation sector had the highest number of foreign workers at 102,735.

NO 5 YEARS! FOREIGNERS MUST LEAVE SABAH

Foreigners must leave Sabah – PBS

KOTA KINABALU August 24, 2011: Parti Bersatu Sabah (PBS) reiterated its opposition to the suggestion by former Chief Minister Tan Sri Harris Salleh that foreigners be allowed to remain in Sabah for more than five years.

The party has told state Immigration Department director Mohammad Mentec the law is very clear that foreigners must leave the state before the expiry of the five years.