Beri laluan kepada kepimpinan baru jika tidak aktif - Abdul Karim

February 11, 2017

KUCHING: Menteri Muda Belia dan Sukan Datuk Abdul Karim Rahman Hamzah menyeru kepimpinan persatuan ataupun pertubuhan yang tidak aktif agar memberi laluan kepada kepimpinan baru.

Beliau menegaskan untuk memegang tampuk kepimpinan, seorang pemimpin memerlukan minat dan visi.

"Jika sudah setahun (menjadi pemimpin), (tetapi) tidak dapat mengatur program, ia membawa maksud masanya sudah sampai untuk melepaskan jawatan untuk diberikan kepada orang yang lebih mampu," katanya ketika merasmikan Majlis Sanjungan Budi Kilauan Bakti di sebuah hotel petang tadi.

Majlis tersebut dianjurkan oleh Jabatan Perpaduan dan Kawasan Rukun Tetangga Bahagian Samarahan.

Beliau memuji komitmen yang ditunjukkan oleh kepimpinan Rukun Tetangga di Bahagian Samarahan yang aktif menjayakan aktiviti-aktiviti dikawasan masing-masing.

Karim: Thumb-up to SRS

November 14, 2015

ASAJAYA: Assistant Minister of Youth Development (Urban) Datuk Abdul Karim Rahman Hamzah urged Department of National Unity and Integrity to adopt a holistic approach as to further fortify its Voluntary Patrolling Scheme (SRS).

He said the department could take advantage of the information technology in the undertaking.

Abdul Karim also praised the department for taking the initiative to implement the voluntary scheme in DUN Asajaya.

"This programme is interesting and useful ... and it gives many benefits to us," he said when delivering his speech at Jom Ronda Programme at Kampung Sampun Tebun last night.

Meanwhile the department state director Dirwana Azool said currently there were 472 areas have the scheme in the state.

Karim supports proposal for state minister to oversee JPNIN

September 21, 2015

SIBU: Placing a state minister or assistant minister to oversee the National Unity and Integration Department (JPNIN) will ensure that activities and programmes rolled out are in line with needs of the state leadership.

Assistant Minister of Youth Development Datuk Abdul Karim Rahman Hamzah said this yesterday in support of JPNIN Sarawak director Dirwana Azool’s proposal.

Dirwana made the suggestion after launching the‘Unity Week’ cum closing of ‘Kibar Jalur Gemilang’ campaign at the civic centre in Kota Samarahan on Saturday.

“I fully support the Sarawak JPNIN director’s suggestion for a state minister or assistant minister be appointed to oversee the department’s role in Sarawak.

“This is a federal outfit whose task and responsibilities require them to be on the ground most of the time.

“A state minister being assigned to oversee them as proposed will erase all doubts, sensitivity and suspicion of their roles on the ground,” said Abdul Karim, who is Asajaya assemblyman.

He added that placing a state minister to oversee them would also ensure that their activities and programmes met the requirements and expectations of the state leadership.

Abdul Karim: KRT highly relevant in community devt

January 5, 2015

FOR GOOD CAUSE: Karim inserting his contribution into Tabung Bencana Banjir KRT Samarahan. Also seen is Dirwana (right).

KUCHING: Establishing a strong core based on volunteerism and unity is the key to the success of any Neighbourhood Watch Committee (KRT) across the state.

According to Assistant Minister of Housing and Youth Development Datuk Abdul Karim Abdul Rahman Hamzah, the KRT is an instrumental entity especially among the grassroots communities, as its approach is closer to home, making it more appealing to all.

“Therefore it is imperative that KRTs remain active in carrying out constructive programmes for the people in their neighbourhoods,” he said during KRT Kota Samarahan appreciation dinner at a hotel here last Saturday.

At the event, organised by state National Unity and Integration Department, Abdul Karim told KRT committee members that they would be most welcome to approach state or federal people’s representatives to seek additional funds for their activities.

KRT members, he stressed, must be more confident and committed in ensuring that their responsibilities would be carried out effectively – with the body being an extended arm of the National Unity and Integration Department.

Abdul Karim suggested that local KRTs conduct working visits to their counterparts across the state or in Peninsular Malaysia.

“These visits will enable our KRT members to learn from their counterparts in other parts of the state and country on how to improve their operations,” he said.

Majlis terbuka sedia platfom untuk rakyat beramah mesra dan kukuh perpaduan

August 17, 2014

ASAJAYA: Menteri Muda Pembangunan Sosial Datuk Abdul Karim melahirkan rasa gembira melihat sambutan yang menggalakkan terhadap Majlis Jom Berambeh Raya Bersama Pemimpin di Kompleks Sukan Asajaya semalam.

Beliau menegaskan adanya majlis seumpama ini, ia dapat menyediakan platfom kepada rakyat untuk bergaul dan berinteraksi diantara satu sama lain.

Karim menyifatkan interaksi sosial ini penting untuk mengukuhkan kesefahaman dikalangan rakyat.

Selain dari itu, tambah beliau lagi, Majlis Jom Berambeh Raya Bersama Pemimpin juga dapat memberi peluang kepada komuniti untuk beramah mesra bersama pemimpin di kawasan mereka.

“Saya berharap usaha ini dapat diteruskan dalam kita memastikan kerjasama yang erat sentiasa terjalin di antara pemimpin dengan rakyat khasnya di akar umbi,” ujarnya.

Kira-kira seramai 500 ahli-ahli Rukun Tetangga Bahagian Samarahan yang dianjurkan oleh Jabatan Perpaduan Negara dan Integrasi Nasional (JPNIN).

Turut hadir, Pengarah JPNIN Sarawak Dirwana Azool.

Asajaya rep: Visit state more often and discover folk here are equally developed

By VANES DEVINDRAN vanes@thestar.com.my

Tuesday September 20, 2011

KUCHING: Malaysians from the peninsula have been asked to visit Sarawak more often so that they get to know the people here better.

Abdul Rahman Karim Hamzah, the political secretary to the Chief Minister, said some wrong perceptions of the state and its people remained a thorny issue because of the lack of traffic between Sarawak and the peninsula.

He said it was unfortunate that there were Peninsular Malaysians who believed that Sarawakians were living on trees.

He said the reason for the misperception was because these Peninsular Malaysians never visited the state. 

“Believe it or not, we still get questions like if Sarawakians are still living on trees from some of our Semenanjung brothers and sisters. These people still perceive Sarawakians as so backward that we don’t even know how to build houses.

“However, as you can see for yourself, we are developing well just like any other states in the peninsula,” he said at a Hari Raya gathering for a group of visitors representing several neighbourhood watch committees from the peninsula here on Sunday night.

Proof of participation: Karim presenting a certificate to a participant of the integration and unity visit to homestays in Samarahan as Azman (left) and National Unity and Integration state director Dirwana Azool look on during the Hari Raya gathering.

The programme was organised by the National Unity and Integration Department as a platform to get participants to see how the state was shaping up.