KUCHING: President of SUPP, Senator Datuk Dr Sim Kui Hian was one of the first from east Malaysian states to oppose the Hudud Bill which was nearly tabled in Parliament yesterday.
Dr Sim said SUPP would never stand for the
Bill when Sarawak agreed to form Malaysia as part of a “secular Government”
with “secular laws”.
“All signatories to the Malaysia Agreement
1963 agreed that this Federation shall be secular,” Dr Sim said in a statement
yesterday evening.
SUPP, as a member of Barisan Nasional (BN),
would insist that “fundamental spirit and principles” be safeguarded.
“Although the Syariah Courts (Criminal
Jurisdiction) Act 1965 was never extended to Sarawak, we as a BN component
party in this state reckon any attempt to enhance Syariah Courts’ criminal jurisdiction
would shatter the trust and confidence of Sarawakians in this Federation.”
He added that any possible tabling of the
Bill would only motivate the “people of Sarawak in moving towards parting of
ways with Malaysia as they will see that this Federation is going to be far
from the secular Federation our forefathers agreed to in 1963.”
Dr Sim, whose father was one of the most
senior and earlier Chinese deputy chief ministers of Sarawak, urged the Federal
Government to take “all actions necessary to prevent such a bill from being
tabled”.
Sarawak Tribune
Date Posted : Friday 27-May-2016
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