Ceding power to local communities

IMAGINE that you live in a remote part of Sarawak. You live a simple life in an area which lacks many of the basic amenities of life. The road leading to your longhouse is a dirt track ridden with potholes and turns to mud whenever it rains. You rely on the river that passes by your longhouse for water, and a noisy diesel generator in the evening for electricity.

You are frustrated by the lack of basic utilities that Malaysians elsewhere take for granted.