Ceding power to local communities


  • Letters
  • Wednesday, 22 May 2019

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.

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