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Sabah RCI: Suluk leader claims PKR rep an Indonesian immigrant
Mohd Zaki Harry Susanto claimed that although PKR’s Christina Liew (left) was born in Indonesia, she managed to go on to become the Api-Api assemblyperson.
"I got this information from the Indonesians in Tawau, they confirmed that she is Chinese Indonesian, but went on to become a leader of the opposition.
"I brought this up because people only target the Bajaus and Suluks when it comes to the RCI... Don't only target one or two ethnic groups," he said.
At this, one of the RCI's commissioner Henry Chin said he was certain that Liew was born in Tawau, Sabah as he was the OCPD of that district at that time.
"Liew's parents were from Hong Kong and she was born in Tawau, and when they grew up she married an Indonesian.
"Your information is incorrect because I know her family when I served as OCPD of Tawau and I know she was born at Tawau hospital," he said.
Information 'hearsay'
However, Mohd Zaki was adamant that Liew was from Indonesia and had changed her name when she supposedly arrived from Indonesia.
"It could be that she was not born here but her birth certificate was done through late registration.
"I'm bringing this up because the people in Tawau told me," he said.
However, Chin stressed that he had to clarify the fact as Mohd Zaki's information was hearsay.
"You only heard about it, but you cannot verify that information," said Chin.
Liew was elected as Api-Api assemblyperson in last month’s general election and was chosen as the new opposition whip.
Mohd Zaki, who is former secretary-general of Persatuan Rumpun Etnik Suluk Sabah, was queried at the RCI on whether his organisation had helped Suluks in Sabah to illegally obtain citizenship.
However, Mohd Zaki who is also a former police officer, denied this, stating that all of its members were Malaysian citizens.
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Christina rubbishes claim she was Indonesian
Posted on June 21, 2013, Friday
KOTA KINABALU: Api-Api assemblywoman Christina Liew said she would not be entertaining the allegation by Sabah Suluk Ethnic Clan Association that she is an Indonesian of Chinese descent who had obtained Malaysian citizenship.
Liew told a press conference yesterday that the statement by the association’s secretary during the Royal Commission of Inquiry (RCI) on illegal immigrants in Sabah on Wednesday was baseless.
“I do not want to entertain this man’s baseless and frivolous allegation during the RCI hearing, but to keep the record straight, I categorically deny I was born in Indonesia.
“My parents were British subjects who migrated from Hong Kong to North Borneo (now Sabah) 60 years ago, before the independence of Sabah. I obtained my first Blue IC (identity card) when I attained 12 years old,” she said.
Liew, who showed the supporting documents of her late father during the press conference yesterday, said one of the five RCI panel members Tan Sri Henry Chin was Tawau district police chief and he (Chin) knows her family.
“Tan Sri Henry knows my late father, and his statement on Wednesday has rebuted the baseless claim from the man,” said Liew.
On Wednesday, Sabah Suluk Ethnic Clan Association secretary Mohd Zaki Harry Suisanto claimed that Liew was from Indonesia.
Mohd Zaki however admitted that the information was based on hearsay.
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Kota Kinabalu: Api-Api Assemblywoman Christina Liew on Thursday demanded a public apology from Sabah Suluk Ethnic Clan Association Secretary Mohd Zaki Harry Susianto for questioning her Sabahan status.
She said Zaki should not use the Royal Commission of Inquiry (RCI) on Illegal Immigrants as a platform to slander her.
"I reserve the right to take action against Mohd Zaki at a later date," she said.
Zaki had on Wednesday said he believed Christina, who was previously known as Christina Hadikusumo, was a Chinese Indonesian who had somehow obtained a Malaysian IC. He also questioned Christina's birth certificate.
However, RCI panel member Tan Sri Henry Chin defended Christina, saying he knew Christina's family, including the parents and that Christina was born at the Tawau hospital.
Thanking Chin for standing up on her behalf, Christina however wanted to put the facts straight.
"No, I was not born in Sabah. I was born in Hong Kong where my parents came from. I was only a few months old when we first came to Tawau, 12 years prior to Sabah's independence.
"During that time, since both Hong Kong and Sabah (then North Borneo) were under British rule, it was easy to get an IC.
"I previously had an Indonesian sounding name because I married my husband, who is a Chinese Indonesian, in the United States.
The law there required that I register my name under my husband's name," she explained.
She denied the claim that she acquired her IC through Project IC.
"My IC bears the code number 71 instead of 12. That means I am a Sabahan born outside of Sabah.
Code number 12 means a Sabahan born in Sabah," she explained.
Christina said she suspected that the former police officer who is now Umno Tawau Education Bureau secretary has a hidden political agenda for raising the issue now.
Christina, who is a PKR supreme council member, defeated Parti Bersatu Sabah deputy president Datuk Dr Yee Moh Chai for the Api Api State seat in the recent polls.
http://www.theborneopost.com/2013/06/20/rci-member-shoots-down-claim-christina-liew-an-indonesian/
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by Murib Morpi. Posted on June 20, 2013, Thursday
KOTA KINABALU: The Royal Commission of Inquiry (RCI) on illegal immigrants in Sabah yesterday heard that Api Api state assemblywoman Christina Liew of PKR was an Indonesian of Chinese descent who had obtained Malaysian citizenship.
Sabah Sukuk Ethnic Clan Association secretary Mohd Zaki Hari Susanto Zaki said certain Indonesian individuals had claimed that Liew was indeed an Indonesian and used to have an Indonesia surname.
However, one of the five RCI panel members, Datuk Henry Chin, who is a former Kuala Lumpur and Tawau district police chief, asked Zaki if he could provide any verified information to support the claim, adding that he personally knew Liew’s family and that the latter was born in Tawau.
“I know Christina Liew’s family, she was born in Tawau, she is a Sabahan, her parents were born in Hong Kong. She was born at Tawau Hospital when I was the Tawau OCPD,” said Chin.
“This is just claim, no verified information? So, I think you need to explain this to the people in Tawau, whatever perceptions that are not right,” he told Zaki.
Chin had earlier asked Zaki, who is also a former police officer, to clarify the statement he (Zaki) gave to the Commission’s investigation officer regarding the nationality of Parti Keadilan Rakyat leader Christina Liew.
He admitted mentioning in his statement that he received information in Tawau that Liew was a Chinese Indonesian who somehow managed to acquire Malaysian citizenship.
Zaki, who called for the inclusion of all non-native groups in the RCI probe, told the inquiry panel that he heard that residents of Tawau were questioning why only the descendants of Bugis and Sulu were identified as being recipients of identity cards through dubious means.
He said the RCI appeared to be focusing more on the Suluk ethnic group despite there being many other immigrants from other countries in Sabah.
“So the question is why is it only our race (Suluk) and this treatment is not extended to everyone,” he said.
Earlier, the witness told the Commission that the allegation that his former association Persatuan Rumpun Etnik Suluk Sabah (PRESS) was being used to acquire Malaysian identification cards for immigrants was not true.
Zaki, who was the secretary of PRESS before joining MPPS in April, said the objective of the association, which has nine affiliate organizations, is to unite the native Suluks in Sabah, especially in the east coast.
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He said the movement also accepted members from other native ethnics but they must all be Malaysians.
ReplyDelete“The association was new and was only registered in April 2012. It is not possible for it to become an agent or used as a platform (for illegal issuance of ICs) in such a short time.
“So, the perception that it is used as a vehicle to get ICs, or the people from the Philippines think that they can get ICs by becoming a member of the association is absolutely not true,” he said.
To a separate question, Zaki said certain things transpired from the recent Lahad Datu incursion, particularly associating the incident with the local Suluks, which is a great insult to the group.
“When I was serving with the Malaysian peacekeeping force in Timor Leste, I have met and become friends with members of the Philippines troupe who were Tausugs. I told them that I am a Suluk and they did not know what it is.
“It shows the (term) Suluk only exists in Malaysia, and that the local Suluk in Sabah is different from the so-called Suluk or Tausug from the Philippines,” he said.
Meanwhile, another witness, Andi Kadir Jailani, denied that Persatuan Kebajikan Bugis Sabah (PKBS) was used to get ICs for Indonesian immigrants through the back door.
Andi who served as PKBS secretary general from 1993 to 2005, admitted that there were incidents where the name of the association was used in fake IC application forms and a report had been lodged on the matter at the Karamunsing police station.
Andi, who did not mention when the report was made, said they had not received any response from the police so far.
He informed that PKBS has 18 branches with 12,000 members state- wide and they are working closely with the police to ensure the name of the association was not being misused by irresponsible parties.