{"id":28493,"date":"2024-05-05T18:49:13","date_gmt":"2024-05-05T10:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/?p=28493"},"modified":"2024-05-05T18:49:14","modified_gmt":"2024-05-05T10:49:14","slug":"assembly-speaker-asserts-sarawak-is-a-region-not-a-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/2024\/05\/05\/assembly-speaker-asserts-sarawak-is-a-region-not-a-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Assembly speaker asserts Sarawak is a region, not a state"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>KOTA KINABALU: Sarawak Assembly Speaker Tan Sri Mohamad Asfia Awang Nassar has publicly stated that Sarawak considers itself a region in Malaysia rather than just a state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Vibes reported that during a gathering at the Parti Pesaka Bumiputera Bersatu (PBB) headquarters in Kuching, he emphasised that Sarawak holds a higher status than any other state in the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He highlighted that Malaysia was formed in 1963 through the unification of Malaya, Sarawak, Sabah, and Singapore, all of which are regions that came together to form one country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As a result, he believes it is time for Sarawak to drop the term&#8217;state&#8217; and rename its legislative assembly as the Sarawak legislative assembly to reflect its regional status.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As for the motion to officially remove the term &#8216;state,&#8217; Asfia stated that the decision will be left to the assembly members during the upcoming sitting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;This move by Sarawak to assert its higher standing within Malaysia has been gaining momentum, with Gabungan Parti Sarawak (GPS) planning to utilise legislative channels to declare Sarawak as a region rather than a state,&#8221; he told The Vibes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KOTA KINABALU: Sarawak Assembly Speaker Tan Sri Mohamad Asfia Awang Nassar has publicly stated that Sarawak considers itself a region in Malaysia rather than just a state. The Vibes reported that during a gathering at the Parti Pesaka Bumiputera Bersatu (PBB) headquarters in Kuching, he emphasised that Sarawak holds a higher status than any other [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":28494,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-28493","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-local-news"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28493"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28495,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28493\/revisions\/28495"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}