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- Indonesian group's protest outside M'sian embassy in Jakarta turns unruly
- Sabah to ban shark hunting from next year
- DAP, PAS 'agree to disagree' on hudud issue
| Indonesian group's protest outside M'sian embassy in Jakarta turns unruly Posted: 12 Oct 2011 07:09 AM PDT JAKARTA: Issues concerning the Malaysia-Indonesia border in West Kalimantan which were played up by the Indonesian media, caused a group of Indonesians to stage a demonstration outside the Malaysian embassy here Wednesday. However, the protest went out of control resulting in a glass panel at the guard post at the entrance to the embassy to be damaged while nine Indonesian policemen, who were part of a team for crowd control and guarding the embassy, were injured. The group, calling itself Forum Betawi Rempug (FBR) and numbering a few hundred people, hurled hard objects at the guard post, perimeter lighting and the policemen. They began gathering there at about 1pm local time and dispersed about an hour later after venting their anger over news reports that Malaysia had seized 1,000 acres of land belonging to Indonesia along the Malaysia-Indonesia border in West Kalimantan. On Tuesday, Malaysia's Foreign Minister Datuk Seri Anifah Aman and his Indonesian counterpart Dr Marty Natalegawa, after the 11th Joint Commission for Bilateral Commission Cooperation Meeting between the two countries in Kuala Lumpur, said at a joint press conference that the removal of markers at the border, either by mischievious individuals or natural disasters, could easily be replaced by their joint survey team. They added that the coordinates had been established during colonial times. Meanwhile, Malaysia's ambassador to Indonesia Datuk Syed Munshe Afdzaruddin Syed Hassan said the embassy would be sending a diplomatic note to the Indonesian government over the incident. He said in the note, the embassy would also be asking the Indonesian government as to how it could help the embassy avoid such incidents from recurring. - Bernama Full content generated by Get Full RSS. |
| Sabah to ban shark hunting from next year Posted: 12 Oct 2011 04:21 AM PDT KOTA KINABALU: Shark hunting is expected to be illegal in Sabah by early next year, state Tourism, Culture and Environment Minister Datuk Masidi Manjun said. He said his ministry was ready with the appropriate paperwork to seek a total ban on all forms of shark hunting in the state. "Our request is simple. We are not insisting that it (the ban) should cover the whole country, but only in Sabah. "We would like the Fisheries Act to incorporate a provision, whereby all forms of shark hunting or shark finning are prohibited in Sabah." He was speaking reporters after witnessing all chapters of the Junior Chamber International (JCI) Malaysia commit to the 'Say No To Shark's Fin Soup' awareness campaign, here, Wednesday. Masidi said his ministry had also taken into consideration the parties, such as restaurants serving shark's fin soup, that might be affected once the ban was imposed and felt that the situation was manageable. He said sharks were mainly found in the waters off Tawau, Semporna and Kudat and attracted divers from all over the world, earning Sabah RM192.5mil from the diving industry last year. - Bernama Full content generated by Get Full RSS. |
| DAP, PAS 'agree to disagree' on hudud issue Posted: 12 Oct 2011 03:54 AM PDT PETALING JAYA: DAP and PAS have agreed to disagree on the hudud issue, following a high-level meeting between Pakatan Rakyat allies Monday. "Hudud is not the common agenda of Pakatan Rakyat for the forthcoming general election," DAP secretary-general Lim Guan Eng said, adding it would not be a common policy even after the next general election. He said "the meeting concluded with both DAP and PAS agreeing to disagree on the hudud law." It was the second such meeting held within a span of two weeks to end the deadlock. Among the Pakatan top guns present at the meeting were Lim Kit Siang, Karpal Singh, Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim, Azmin Ali, Dr Mohd Nur Manuty, Mohamad Sabu, and Datuk Mustafa Ali. Stressing that hudud was not part of Pakatan Rakyat's policy, Lim said it was neither included in the Common Policy Framework nor in Buku Jungga. Lim said the Pakatan government would only implement policies agreed upon by the three component parties. More in The Star Thursday Related Stories: |
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