MIRI: Seventeen Miri temples’ committee bodies have met up with the Religious Groups Affairs’ Unit (Unifor) officiated by Sarawak Transport Minister Datuk Seri Lee Kim Shin here on Sunday.
According to a press statement, the meeting was to finalise the regulations pertaining to fund allocations as well as land applications for the construction or renovation of churches and temples and other problems faced by the non Islamic groups.
Also present at the meeting was Unifor director Richard Lon.
Unifor was set up on May 26, 2017 and it was the first unit set up in the Chief Minister’s Office under Deputy Chief Minister Datuk Amar Douglas Uggah Embas’ portfolio.
The establishment of Unifor as a state agency was mooted by the late former Chief Minister Pehin Seri Adenan Satem who was responsible to draw up a policy to promote religious harmony besides evaluating, suggesting and outlining policies, laws and regulations that involved non Islamic religious groups in Sarawak.
In 2017, a sum of RM15 million was approved by the state government for Unifor and increased to RM20 million in 2018, RM30 million in 2019 and RM50 million in 2020 and 2021 respectively.
