KUCHING: The Sarawak government has renewed its commitment to foster religious unity and understanding, with Chief Minister Abang Johari Openg saying a special unit was allocating millions of ringgit to help in carrying out repairs to non-Muslim houses of worship.
He said the Unit for Other Religions or UNIFOR had been allocated RM20 million, saying this was something unique to Sarawak.
“Next year the approved allocation is RM30 million, and let me give the reassurance that the state government will continue to provide the funds so that many more can benefit from it in the future,” he said in his Christmas and New Year message today.
Abang Johari said Sarawak is a land where people of other religions shared in the joy and festivities as this had been the practice all the while.
“We are able to stay together and religions do not create walls between us because we believe that ‘your religion is your religion and my religion is my religion’.
“That’s the way it has been for us in Sarawak for the last hundred years and that’s the way it should be in the future,” he said.
In another development, Abang Johari said the state had decided to self-finance implementation of several roads, bridges and electricity and water supply projects in Sarawak.
He said most of the projects would be carried out through open tender beginning the first half of next year. -FMT
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