KUCHING: PRS Women’s chief Datuk Seri Doris Sophia Brodie said with the recent kidnapping incident at Kampung Danau Melikin in Serian, she felt it necessary to build a border control post at or near the village.
She said besides allowing both sides to have better immigration control, it would also facilitate legitimate trade and tourism in the region.
Glad that the case was amicably resolved by the relevant authorities, she thought that it should also prompt the construction of a highway connecting Sarawak and Kalimantan for better cross-border crossings.
In this she was echoing a suggestion that had been made by Deputy Chief Minister and Infrastructure Development and Transportation Minister Tan Sri Datuk Amar James Jemut Masing.
This, in her opinion, would also allow enforcement and other relevant authorities to have better security control along the border.
She urged the authorities to have a more forward thinking concerning the external defence of the country to prevent similar unfortunate incidents from happening in future.
Around noon last December 11, five Sarawakians who were harvesting timber at Wong Rangkai forest near Kampung Danau Melikin, 400 metres from the Sarawak-Kalimantan border, were held at gunpoint and brought to the Indonesian side.
The five had since been released.
