Sabah dan Sarawak dalam Malaysia: Satu Kupasan Kritikal

Zainal Ajmain

Wilayah Scotland di UK pada tahun lepas telah melahirkan kekecewaan mereka berada
dalam UK dan menuntut untuk keluar dari negara tersebut. Pelbagai bentuk media
sosial dieksploitasi untuk mendapatkan sokongan serta memberi tekanan kepada
pemerintah. Kerajaan UK akhirnya bersetuju untuk mengadakan referendum namun
keputusannya amat mengejutkan apabila majoriti penduduk Scotland rupa-rupanya
lebih berminat untuk kekal berada dalam UK. Kini keadaan yang hampir sama sedang
berlaku di Sabah dan Sarawak apabila muncul gerakan yang menuntut kedudukan dua
negeri ini disemak semula, malah mahukan autonomi yang lebih tinggi diberi kepada
mereka. Medial sosial dieksploitasi untuk menjadi wadah bagi menggembar-gemborkan
isu ini. Sama ada di dalam laman web atau facebook dan lain-lain telah muncul laman
seperti SSKM atau Sabah Sarawak Keluar Malaysia, The Future of Sabah and Sarawak
and the Federation of Malaysia, Gerakan Sabah Merdeka dan Sabah Merdeka
Channel. Media sosial ini mendapat hit atau kunjungan yang tinggi dan ia seharusnya
diberi perhatian yang wajar oleh pihak berkuasa demi kepentingan integrasi nasional.
Kumpulan penyelidikan ini cuba melihat sejauh mana kekuatan peranan media sosial
dalam usaha kempen meyakinkan pelbagai pihak akan tuntutan mereka. Sdra Zainal
Ajamain merupakan aktivis yang mahir dalam perkara ini dan telah mendapat banyak
jemputan sama ada dari pemerintah atau badan lain untuk memberi penjelasan akan
duduk perkara yang sebenar perkembangan gerakan ini.

Kata kunci:
Persekutuan Malaysia
Integrasi Nasional
Media Sosial
Etnisiti
SSKM
 Siri Wacana KITA

Seminar: Sabah dan Sarawak dalam Malaysia: Satu Kupasan Kritikal

Penceramah Jemputan: En. Zainal Ajamain
Pengulas: Dr.Zaini Othman

Tempat: Kolej Keris Mas, Aras 3

Tarikh: 20 Jan 2016

Aturcara.

9.00 Kehadiran perserta dan tetamu dan pendaftaran

9.15 Kata-kata aluan Pengarah KITA
9.30 Pembentangan Penceramah
10.30 Ulasan dari Pengulas Jemputan Dr Zaini Othman, UMS
11.00 Sesi Soal Jawab
12.00 Sesi tamat dan jamuan ringan
Brief intro - Mr. Zainal Ajamain
Zainal bin Ajamain holds a MA in Development Studies from the University of East
Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom.
He started his career in the State Civil Service as the State Operation Officer,
responsible to monitor the implementation of development projects and programs in
Sabah. His tenure in the State Civil Service gives him the opportunity to work as the
Municipal Secretary in the Labuan Municipal Council and as Senior Research
Associate in the Institute for Development Studies Sabah, the state think tank.
He works as the head of Local government division in the Labuan Development
Authority (LDA) before leaving the state civil service.
In the private sector, he had the opportunity to be a lecturer in the University
Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM), kampus Sabah and as lead Economist to the research
division of Innosabah Securities Berhad an equity stock broking house in Kota Kinabalu.
His foray into the private sector and financial world provides him the opportunity to
establish Innosabah securities offices in Zurich, Switzerland and the creation and
launching of an Offshore Islamic Fund from Labuan together with Dar Al Maal Al
Islami (DMI), a Trust for Faisal Finance of Saudi Arabia operating from Geneva.
He writes extensively on development issues specifically pertaining to Sabah
within the national development mainstream and publishes articles in both the local
media as well as several international journals. He co-authored the Halatuju:
Pembangunan dan Kemajuan Negeri Sabah that forms the base for the present Sabah
Development Corridor (SDC).
Zainal bin Ajamain was the Executive Assistant to the Executive Chairman of Innoprise
Corporation Sdn Bhd. He also holds a position as a Principal Senior Research
Fellow at the Centre for Remote Sensing and Geographic Information System
(CerGIS), University Malaysia Sabah.
Currently he is on his own. A passionate activist promoting the history on the formation
of Malaysia, Sabah rights in the Malaysia Agreement 1963 and the Inter-Governmental
Committee Report, Sabah Oil and Gas Rights, development of BIMP-EAGA and
abolishing the long standing National Cabotage Policy.
He is married to Rosnaneh Haji Awg Tuah and has two sons and a daughter.