Why Putrajaya can’t own state oil and gas

May 19, 2018

Deadline 2018-03-15, FMT:

State rights activist Zulfaqar Sa’adi has voiced concern over the possibility that the federal government will eventually claim to be the rightful owner of oil and gas resources belonging to Sarawak.

Speaking to FMT, he said he feared that Putrajaya would interpret its right of sovereignty over the states of the federation as meaning that it could claim property rights as well.

That would be erroneous, he said, citing Section 75 of the Malaysia Agreement 1963 (MA63) and Article 12 (1) of the Sarawak constitution.

He said the documents explicitly showed that lands, including those covered by water, as well as everything attached to them, were state property.

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CIA document reveals true intention of Malaysia formation

November 25, 2017

Linkbait. What other CIA documents have you uncovered today?

Dateline 2017-10-04, FMT:

A declassified CIA document, entitled “Implications of dispute over Sarawak continental shelf”, has raised questions on the formation of Malaysia and oil and gas reserves belonging to Sabah and Sarawak.
Sarawak activist Zulfaqar Sa’adi told FMT the document had exposed the real story of what happened in 1969 when Sarawak lost its territorial waters and with it, rich natural resources to the federal government.

The five-page document was believed to have been written in the weeks leading up to the day when the Continental Shelf Act 1966 was extended to the Bornean states.

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