I make frequent visit to my ‘orang asal’ friends in Jalong Tinggi since 2002. There are 10 ‘orang asal’ villages in Jalong Tinggi, Sungai Siput. Most of the villages have complete basic amenities e.g. tar road, electricity, treated water, school and health centre.
Dato’ Seri Samy Vellu, the ex-Member Parliament and Dato’ Chang Ko Youn, the ex-State Assembly for Jalong have contributed to the improved basic amenities in these settlements. The tar road was built several years ago, the electricity has been supplied to few villages since last year and recently the treated water was supplied. The schools, suraus and health centres have been built years ago. All these facilities are funded by the federal government.
However, since 2008, its seems that nobody taking cares of these public facilities.
The road conditions are very bad. Potholes every where along the road due to broken culverts, erosions etc. Some roads were damaged by the heavy vehicles. A meeting was held in early 2009 attended by Jabatan Kemajuan Orang Asal (JKOA), Jabatan Kerja Raya (JKR), all the effected Batins, the nearby estates representative and myself. A concensus decision has been made to stopped the nearby estates using the road as they were not cooperative to maintain the road.
Other roads caused by nature factors have been bought to the attention of the BN Coordinator a few months ago. The affected areas has been shown to him then. A local Malay daily reported that, the BN Coordinator visited the area about 2 months ago. He must have passed through these roads (the only route) and shall make an effort to repair or resurfaced it; however, no actions till today!
A few electricity poles were fell recently. This is not the first time. As far as I knew, it is the third time. The Coordinator has been informed. Sungai Siput TNB was told too. Since it happened so often, TNB shall make an effort to relocate the poles or some preventive actions shall be taken. Till today, the poles fell recently have not put up yet. The fallen poles with high voltage cable may cause danger to road user.
Where is the current Sungai Siput MP and Jalong State Assemblywomen?
The current Sungai Siput MP whom is a human rights activist and always assists the poor especially the workers … but what he does to assist the ‘orang asal’? Nothing brought up to the Parliament or the relevant authority. He likes cheap publicity e.g. caught by police for illegal demostration! Gooshh! He demo for other people not for his voters! He demo in other place not for his own constituency!
The Jalong State Assemblywomen busy organising “Road to Putrajaya” dinners to fund her newly purchased assets [maybe?] i.e. a bungalow in Heawood Garden and a double story semi-detached shop lots in Sungai Siput Business Centre …. and a brand new Honda CRV not long ago! In less than 3 years, she made not less than half million as the State Assemblywoman with a monthly allowance of RM3,500 ……Not a single word from the State Assemblywomen on the above issues too!
