{"id":8134,"date":"2021-11-22T22:29:08","date_gmt":"2021-11-22T14:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/?p=8134"},"modified":"2021-11-22T22:29:08","modified_gmt":"2021-11-22T14:29:08","slug":"better-deals-for-sabah-sarawak-after-jcc-meeting-ongkili","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/2021\/11\/22\/better-deals-for-sabah-sarawak-after-jcc-meeting-ongkili\/","title":{"rendered":"Better deals for Sabah, Sarawak after JCC meeting &#8211; Ongkili"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KOTA KINABALU: A better deal for Sabah and Sarawak is being discussed with the government, through the Joint Consultative Committee (JCC)\u00a0on Special Grants under Article 112D of the Federal Constitution.<br \/>\nMinister in the Prime Minister\u2019s Department (Sabah and Sarawak Affairs) Datuk Seri Dr Maximus Ongkili said the JCC,\u00a0chaired by Finance Minister Tengku Datuk Seri Zafrul Tengku Abdul Aziz, is expected to meet soon\u00a0to discuss the issue further.<br \/>\nHe said during the Pakatan Harapan (PH) administration,\u00a0financial and annual grants review under Article 112D and refund of the 40 per cent income and revenues derived from Sabah\u00a0were\u00a0addressed but the state government rejected the offer as the PH formula did not explain how they came up with the amount.<br \/>\nSarawak also rejected the PH formula for similar reasons. Both states wanted to know how the formula was derived and whether it reflected the right amount of what is payable to both states.<br \/>\n\u201cBoth Sabah and Sarawak also\u00a0wanted a transparent formula, which is in line with what is rightfully payable under the Federal Constitution,\u201d\u00a0Ongkili said in a statement tonight.<br \/>\n&#8212; BERNAMA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KOTA KINABALU: A better deal for Sabah and Sarawak is being discussed with the government, through the Joint Consultative Committee (JCC)\u00a0on Special Grants under Article 112D of the Federal Constitution. Minister in the Prime Minister\u2019s Department (Sabah and Sarawak Affairs) Datuk Seri Dr Maximus Ongkili said the JCC,\u00a0chaired by Finance Minister Tengku Datuk Seri Zafrul [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":8135,"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-8134","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\/8134","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=8134"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8136,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8134\/revisions\/8136"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}