KUCHING, Nov 27 2025: Stakan State Legislative Member (SLM) Hamzah Brahim has called for the immediate arrest of former law minister Zaid Ibrahim under the Sedition Act over his call for the Malaysia Agreement 1963 (MA63) to be annulled and Sarawak and Sabah be made independent from Malaysia.
Hamzah Brahim: Why is Sedition Act is not used or implemented to arrest Zaid?
“There is no need to wait for tomorrow. Just arrest him today,” he said during the debate on the 2026 State Budget at the Sarawak Legislative Assembly (SLA) today.
“I agree that what Zaid had voiced out is an offence under the Sedition Act. But the power to arrest is in the hands of the federal government,” Hamzah stressed.
“We have the Sedition Act and the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) Act which are often shouted about by the federal government.
“Why is it that it is not used or implemented to arrest Zaid?” Hamzah asked.
He said if Zaid could talk about Sarawak and Sabah pulling out of Malaysia, it is considered as a crime.
“If this kind of crime is allowed today, what difference is there when we commit robbery the next day?
“What difference is there if we steal other people’s property?
“We need to stop kind of this incitement,” he said.
Hamzah also called on the state government to block Zaid from entering Sarawak.
He noted that recently, there was a stir on social media when Zaid recklessly described Sarawak and Sabah as a burden left behind by the British to Malaya.
Hamzah said in a podcast, Zaid also said that it would be better if the MA63 were annulled and Sarawak and Sabah were made independent from Malaysia.
He said he is confident that all the GPS SLMs strongly condemned the remarks by Zaid for being ignorant of history and dangerous to the state-federal relationship.
“I don’t understand why a former law minister and a practising lawyer, does not understand a law when an agreement was signed.
“His comments do not make sense. Is he, when he was a law minister, was of the view that Malaysia did not exist because he did not agree to MA63 which formed the basis for the formation of Malaysia?
“If we want to talk that we are a burden, I also don’t understand. We have contributed a lot to the federal government, hundreds of billions from oil and gas revenue given to the federal government.
“Despite all this, he still said we are a burden. I do not know what to say or how to explain all this.
“We contribute billions to the federal government, yet we are told we are a burden.
“It is this burden that has given much financial contribution to the development in Malaya until they have good roads, KLCC highrise building. I don’t understand about all this,” Hamzah said, shaking his head.
Hamzah said Zaid’s comments were a form of sentiment that could incite Malayans, who do not understand MA63, against Sarawak and Sabah.
“When they don’t understand, they can easily be manipulated.
“This sentiment incites the Malayans to hate Sarawak in a situation that they don’t understand what MA63 is all about,” he said, adding that they thought that Sarawak is taking advantage of the federal government.
“The fact is we don’t take advantage but we talk about is that we demand not more not less of our rights and interests in accordance with the agreement,” Hamzah said.
No comments:
Post a Comment