KUCHING: Sarawakians are encouraged to set aside personal interests and work towards the common goals to ensure unity is preserved.
Tupong assemblyman Fazzrudin Abdul Rahman said that maintaining unity required sacrifices from the community.
“When our unity is solid, there will be negative elements or forces that will try to sow division among us. In this case, we must put Sarawak’s interests and prosperity above our self-interests. We must be careful. We must make sacrifices to ensure our unity will continue to be preserved,” he said during the Hari Bertemu Temuey community organised by the Sinjan-Tanjong neighbourhood watch (KRT) at Dewan Sri Tanjong today.
Fazzrudin also urged the communities in Kampung Tanjong and Kampung Sinjan to remain united and preserve their neighbourly ties.
“Today is our ‘temuey’ (gathering) for the large family of Kampung Tanjong and Kampung Sinjan. In whatever we do, unity is important, whether it is in a surau committee or a village safety and development committee (JKKK). When there is no unity, we cannot move forward. The same goes for when there is no unity among races and political parties.
“We can see today that the people from these villages can get together and organise recreational activities. I hope that this will continue for the future of the people in Kampung Sinjan, Kampung Tanjong in Seberang Ulu, Tupong, and Petra Jaya as a whole,” he added.
