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Friday, March 13, 2015

Sarawak, like Sabah, loses control of borders

Erecting security fencing along Sarawak’s 2,000 km border with Kalimantan is one option.
sabah sarawakKUCHING: The presence of some 300,000 illegal foreign workers in Sarawak follows the breaching of the state’s buffer zones with Kalimantan which, in any case, has a long border with Malaysia in Borneo. Sabah, in comparison, has long lost control of its borders. There are 1.7 millions foreigners, including 1.2 million illegals, in Sabah as against 1.2 million locals.
“The buffer zones have been breached by oil palm plantations and there seems to be nothing that we can do about it,” said Deputy Home Minister Wan Junaidi Tuanku Jaafar. “The so-called jalan tikus (secret trails) have become jalan gajah (big paths) and people are just simply crossing the Malaysia-Indonesia border without valid travel papers.”
He was commenting on the Indonesian Consul-General in Kuching, Jahar Gultom, lamenting the fact that only 110,000 of the estimated 400,000 Indonesian workers in Sarawak were documented by his office. “There are unscrupulous middlemen taking advantage of the situation to bring in workers illegally.”
Getting into details, Wan Junaidi said that the main areas where the buffer zones had been breached were Bau, especially Kampung Stass and Kampung Serikin, Long Busang in Belaga and Ba’Kelalan in Lawas near the border with Sabah. Half of Serikin is in fact in Kalimantan but the Bidayuh villagers here can avail themselves to special border passes or cross without such passes provided they don’t stray too far into Malaysian territory.
Wan Junaidi, who is also Santubong MP, said he doesn’t know what can be done to combat the phenomenon posed by illegal workers but added that he had briefed the Sarawak Government on the matter. “The enforcement agencies like the Immigration Department and police should do something about this,” said Wan Junaidi whose Ministry has oversight on these agencies.
Alternatively, said the Deputy Home Minister, the Federal Government could erect security fencing along Sarawak’s 2,000 km border with Kalimantan. “It’s going to be very expensive,” he conceded. “Also, the Indonesian Government has to agree.”
Malaysia was downgraded last year, from Tier2 to Tier 3, by the US State Department as a country where trafficking in persons was rampant.

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