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Chief Minister Datuk Amar Abang Johari Tun Openg (fourth right) together with Pesaka Bumiputera Bersatu (PBB) members on stage for lighting up the ‘pelita tanah’ as highlight for Ramah Tamah Aidilfitri PBB ceremony at Hilton Hotel. PHOTO: AHMAD ISKANDAR
Chief Minister Datuk Amar Abang Johari Tun Openg (fourth right) together with Pesaka Bumiputera Bersatu (PBB) members on stage for lighting up the ‘pelita tanah’ as highlight for Ramah Tamah Aidilfitri PBB ceremony at Hilton Hotel. PHOTO: AHMAD ISKANDAR

KUCHING: Parti Pesaka Bumiputera Bersatu (PBB) may open the party membership to other races in the state.

Chief Minister Datuk Amar Abang Johari Tun Openg who is also PBB president, said the membership of the party would probably be open for the Chinese community one day.

“This was our platform when Parti Pesaka and Parti Bumiputera merged into the PBB, which has bceome the largest unification for the Bumiputera.

“Hence, one day we will expand this cooperation with the Chinese community and eventually all Sarawakians will be united,” he said in his speech at PBB Aidilfitri Ramah Tamah at a leading hotel here on Thursday night.

Johari said history had shown the fragmented spirit in the context of the Barisan Nasional (BN) before the merger.

“Therefore, we want to maintain a solid unity among the Bumiputera and cooperate with the non-Bumiputera.

“In fact, PBB’s struggle is basically not just for the party but also for the other BN component parties too,” he explained.

Meanwhile, Johari insisted that Sarawak would continue to claim its rights as enshrined in the Malaysia Agreement 1963 (MA63).

“So I sent Sharifah Hasidah (Assistant Minister of Law, State-Federal Relations and Project Monitoring) and her entourage to London to look into our rights eroded in MA63.

“It is not that we do not know the contents of MA63 but there are probably some that are not written and for that we need law experts to study it,” he said.

Johari said the State government did not act on its own accord but based on facts.

In this regard, he also implored outsiders like the National Trust Party (Parti Amanah Negara)  not to intervene in the affairs of the state, especially those involving MA63.

Also present were PBB deputy presidents Datuk Amar Awang Tengah Ali Hasan and Datuk Amar Douglas Uggah Embas, Sarawak United People’s Party (SUPP) president Datuk Dr. Sim Kui Hian and president of the Progressive Democratic Party (PDP), Dato ‘Seri Tiong King Sing.

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