al-Fatihah untuk Allahyarham Awangku Omar Pengiran Jawa

December 27, 2018

Awangku Omar was ‘a very kind man, that is why his demise, we feel the loss so much’.

-Minister of Tourism, Art, Culture, Youth and Sports Datuk Abdul Karim Rahman Hamzah 

All round aye for establishment of Consultative Committee

November 6, 2018

Abdul Karim giving his winding up speech after 31 members of DUN debated on his ministerial motion for the the establishment of the Consultative Committee in the State Legislative Assembly today.

KUCHING: All members of the State Legislative Assembly including the opposition were unanimous today to support the establishment of a Consultative Committee to determine and agree upon the representations for submission to the Sarawak representatives of the Malaysia Agreement 1963 (MA63) Steering Committee.

This was in response to the formation of MA63 Steering Committee on Sept 5 and chaired by Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad, which was described as being lopsided with only three representations from Sarawak.

Minister of Tourism, Arts, Culture, Youth and Sports Datuk Abdul Karim Rahman Hamzah (PBB – Asajaya) moved the establishment of the Consultative Committee in his ministerial motion under Standing Order 23(1)(a) read together with Standing Order 89 and Article 24(1) of the State Constitution.

Chong tarik balik dakwaan terhadap Morshidi ekoran usul dibentang Karim

November 17, 2017

KUCHING: Chong Chieng Jen (DAP-Kota Sentosa) semalam menarik balik dakwaan ke atas Setiausaha Kerajaan Negeri Sarawak Tan Sri Datuk Amar Mohamad Morshidi Abdul Ghani ekoran satu usul dibentangkan Menteri Pelancongan, Kesenian, Kebudayaan, Belia dan Sukan Datuk Abdul Karim Rahman Hamzah.

Karim membentangkan usul meminta Dewan menggantung Chong daripada menghadiri Persidangan DUN yang berbaki sehari, selepas pengerusi DAP Sarawak itu menggunakan perkataan ‘imbuhan’ (gratification) di dalam Dewan ke atas Morshidi.

“Saya menarik balik perkataan ‘imbuhan’ tetapi persoalannya ialah semua permohonan untuk status ‘penduduk tetap’ masih di atas meja setiausaha kerajaan negeri, kekal,” katanya ketika menjawab Speaker DUN Datuk Amar Mohamad Asfia Awang Nassar yang memintanya menarik balik perkataan itu.

Galeri: Majlis Ramah Tamah Aidilfitri Bahagian Samarahan 2015

August 6, 2015

Ketua Menteri Sarawak Datuk Patinggi Tan Sri Adenan Satem memerhati Datuk Abdul Karim Rahman Hamzah membuat persediaan untuk memotong lemang sempena perasmian Mahlis Ramah Tamah Aidilfitri Bahagian Samarahan 2015.

Ketua Menteri Sarawak Datuk Patinggi Tan Sri Adenan Satem menyempurnakan  Majlis Penyerahan Geran Tanah dan TOL yang turut diadakan bersamasama Majlis Ramah Tamah Aidilfitri Bahagian Samarahan 2015. Seramai 347 orang telah menerima geran tanah dan tol dari kawasan Asajaya dan Sadong Jaya.

Jambatan Batang Sadong sudah hampir siap: Karim

August 6, 2015

ASAJAYA: Menteri Muda Perumahan dan Menteri Muda Pembangunan Belia (Bandar) Datuk Abdul Karim Rahman Hamzah memaklumkan Jambatan Batang Sadong hampir siap dan Batang Samarahan siap dalam tempoh satu setengah tahun lagi.

Abdul Karim yang juga ADUN Asajaya menjelaskan dengan jambatan itu nanti, perjalanan dari Samarahan disingkatkan dan ekonomi penduduk dapat ditingkatkan.

“Dengan jambatan ini, perjalanan dahulunya mengambil masa satu jam dapat disingkatkan iaitu kira-kira 30 minit sahaja,” jelasnya.

Beliau berkata demikian semasa Majlis Ramah Tamah Aidilfitri Bahagian Samarahan 2015 di Kompleks Sukan Asajaya yang di hadiri Ketua Menteri Datuk Patinggi Tan Sri Adenan Satem dan isteri, Datin Patinggi Datuk Jamilah Anu.

Sehubungan itu, Abdul Karim berharap penduduk di situ dapat berdiri teguh dengan Barisan Nasional.

“Seperti kawasan lain, harapan saya agar masyarakat di sini agar dapat berdiri teguh di bawah kepimpinan Ketua Menteri,” katanya.

Tambahnya, pelbagai perubahan beliau dapat bawa kepada masyarakat negeri ini.

Galeri: MAULIDUR RASUL 1436H

January 04, 2014

MAULIDUR RASUL 1436h ... Pemangku Yang di-Pertua Negeri, Datuk AMar Haji Mohd Asfia Awang Nassar serta isteri Datin Amar Hajjah Fatimah Iskandar, diiringi bersama Ketua Menteri Datuk Patinggi Tan Sri Haji Adenan Haji Satem serta isteri Datin Patinggi Puan Sri Dato Hajjah Jamilah Haji Anu menyertai perarakan Maulidur Rasul 1436H Peringkat Negeri Sarawak 2015, dari perkarangan Masjid Jamek Negeri Sarawak Petra Jaya di Kuching semalam.

Karim receives a commemorative medal from State Government for his contributions to Sarawak

July 23, 2014

Jamilah receives the medal from Adenan

KUCHING: The state presented 104 Golden Jubilee Commemorative medals yesterday in connection with Sarawak’s 50th anniversary of independence. 

Chief Minister Tan Sri Datuk Amar Adenan Satem presented the medals during an investiture ceremony at the State Legislative Assembly (DUN) Complex in Petra Jaya.

Among the recipients were Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Datuk Joseph Entulu Belaun; Minister of Women, Family and Community Development Datuk Seri Rohani Abdul Karim; Human Resource Minister Datuk Seri Richard Riot Jaem and Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Nancy Shukri.

Fellow medal recipients were Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Datuk Seri Idris Jala and Works Minister Datuk Fadillah Yusof were unable to attend the ceremony.

Deputy Minister of Natural Resources and Environment Datuk Seri Dr James Dawos Mamit, Deputy Home Affairs Minister Datuk Wan Junaidi Tuanku Jaafar and Deputy Minister of Rural and Regional Development Datuk Alexander Nanta Linggi also received the medal.

Adenan presents the medal to Empiang

Also receiving their medals from Adenan were his wife Puan Sri Datuk Jamilah Anu, and Dato Sri Empiang Jabu – the wife of Deputy Chief Minister Datuk Patinggi Tan Sri Alfred Jabu Numpang.

State assistant ministers who received the medal were Datuk Roland Sagah Wee Inn, Datuk Francis Harden Hollis, Datuk Lee Kim Shin, Datuk Sylvester Entri Muran, Datuk Daud Abdul Rahman, Datuk Mohd Naroden Majais, Datuk John Sikie Tayai, Datuk Abdul Wahab Aziz, Datuk Talib Zulpilip, Datuk Peter Nansian Ngusie, Datuk Mong Dagang, Datuk Stephen Rundi Utom, Datuk Julaihi Narawi, Datuk Abdul Karim Rahman Hamzah, Datuk Dr Jerip Susil, Liwang Lagang, Robert Lawson Chuat and Rosey Yunus.

The Golden Jubilee Commemorative Medals were presented in conjunction with the 50th anniversary celebration of Sarawak’s independence within Malaysia to those who had contributed to and sacrificed towards the development of the state after independence.

CM started the sorrowful meeting by saying he will resign soon - Karim

February 9, 2014

“He told us to respect his decision. He was composed and very cool. He probably spoke until 12.30, about two hours, before opening up the floor to questions." - Tuan Haji Abdul Karim Rahman Hamzah

Man of the hour: Datuk Amar Abang Johari Tun Openg greeting Taib (left) upon his arrival at the PBB headquarters for the party’s supreme council meeting.

KUCHING: Datuk Amar Abang Johari Tun Openg, Datuk Amar Awang Tengah Ali Hasan and Tan Sri Adenan Satem have been named as likely successors of Chief Minister Tan Sri Abdul Taib Mahmud.

Taib announced the names at the PBB Supreme Council meeting yesterday, according to party insiders.

Abang Johari is PBB deputy president, Tengah is senior vice-president while Adenan is the Information chief.

Karim to resign?

November 14, 2011

KUCHING: The Sarawak Barisan Nasional backbencher’s club chairman Abdul Karim Rahman Hamzah will resign from his position today.

Karim, 51, having been appointed to assistant ministerial portfolios, including Housing and Youth Development, is no longer qualified to lead the group of non-ministers.

Karim said his replacement had been identified but declined to name the person.

“I believe he’s very capable,” Karim told reporters yesterday following a Barisan pre-State Legislative Assembly meeting at the PBB headquarters here.

“We’ll leave the announcement for tomorrow (today),” he said.

Pressed further, he said: “What can I say? Well, he is still new, but he should be capable enough to handle it. This is an important position in the Assembly.”

Asked what gave the replacement the upper hand against the other Barisan assemblymen, Karim said that various factors including academic qualifications and career achievements prior to his entering into politics were considered.

Karim to resign as state BN backbencher’s club chief

Monday November 14, 2011

KUCHING: The Sarawak Barisan Nasional backbencher’s club chairman Abdul Karim Rahman Hamzah will resign from his position today.

Karim, 51, having been appointed to assistant ministerial portfolios, including Housing and Youth Development, is no longer qualified to lead the group of non-ministers.

Karim said his replacement had been identified but declined to name the person.

“I believe he’s very capable,” Karim told reporters yesterday following a Barisan pre-State Legislative Assembly meeting at the PBB headquarters here.

“We’ll leave the announcement for tomorrow (today),” he said.

Pressed further, he said: “What can I say? Well, he is still new, but he should be capable enough to handle it. This is an important position in the Assembly.”

Asked what gave the replacement the upper hand against the other Barisan assemblymen, Karim said that various factors including academic qualifications and career achievements prior to his entering into politics were considered.

Abdul Karim confident of successor’s capability

October 1, 2011

KUCHING: Former Barisan Nasional Backbenchers Club chairman Abdul Karim Rahman Hamzah, who has been appointed Assistant Minister for Youth Development and Housing, is confident that his successor will continue his good job.

Speaking to the press here yesterday, Abdul Karim kept mum about his potential successor but believed that the next chairman would be named the soonest within two weeks.

“We have got a few good YBs and that (getting a successor) should not be a problem at all. You will know it before the next state legislative Assembly (DUN) sitting, which will be in November,” he said.

The Asajaya assemblyman said BN elected representatives would call for a meeting and decide the best candidate.

“Definitely, my views will be sought. BN Backbenchers Club is not a registered society, it is an in-house society just like a class unit that has a monitor,” he said.

Earlier, Chief Minister Pehin Sri Abdul Taib Mahmud told reporters that BN would get “someone who can lead the team.”

The state BN chairman declined to name any potential backbencher who could take over the job from Abdul Karim.

Taib said DUN Speaker Datuk Amar Mohd Asfia Awang Nassar would seek consultation with members of the Backbenchers Club to come up with a name or two for a final decision.

“I don’t know that (a name). They will suggest one or two names then the speaker and I will make the final decision,” he said.

  

Karim defends Mahmud’s political standing

September 11, 2011

KUCHING: Dato Sri Mahmud Abu Bekir Taib is a capable individual to perform as a member of parliament for Kota Samarahan if he is nominated in the next general election.

According to Chief Secretary to the Chief Minister, Abdul Karim Rahman Hamzah, Mahmud as a corporate figure will be able to carry the responsibilities of an elected representative well.

Answering a question by a reporter during his Hari Raya open house at Jalan Astana yesterday, Karim said claims made by certain individuals that Mahmud will not perform, just like his brother Dato Sri Sulaiman Taib, is unfounded.

“In my opinion, each individual has his own style. We cannot generalise,” he said.

Karim, who is state Barisan Nasional backbenchers chairman, said each individual is different.

“Take, for example, the political scenario in Sarawak, the State Legislative Assembly (DUN) speaker Dato Asfia’s brother is in the opposition,” he added. Therefore, Karim said it is not fair to look at Mahmud in the same light as Sulaiman who might have his own personal issues and could not perform in serving the people in his full capacity.

“However, Kota Samarahan is developing rapidly from various efforts between BN and community leaders, and the result itself is important,” he said. On the question of the risk taken if nominating Mahmud who does not reside in Sarawak, Karim said the news has not been confirmed and no official statement has been made.

Pembangkang sukakan publisiti murahan

July 1, 2011

SANTAI: Kelihatan ADUN-ADUN yang baru menyanyi ketika majlis makan malam anjuran Kelab Penyokong BN.

KUCHING: Pengerusi Ke­lab Penyokong Barisan Nasional (BN) Abdul Karim Rahman Hamzah menyi­fatkan tindakan pihak pem­bangkang keluar dari dewan pada hari terakhir Persi­dangan Dewan Undangan Negeri (DUN) yang baru selesai sebagai publisiti murahan.

Katanya, tindakan mereka adalah sekadar untuk meraih perhatian daripada pihak media.

“Pada hari terakhir mereka (pembangkang) terpaksa membuat seolah-olah pub­lisiti murahan di mana mere­ka bertindak meninggalkan dewan sebanyak dua kali untuk mendapat perhatian media.

“Mereka meninggalkan dewan ketika Timbalan Ketua Menteri menyampaikan uca­pan penggulungan dan ketika ADUN Tarat menyampaikan ucapan penggulungan, mere­ka turut keluar,” katanya lanjut.

Beliau berkata demikian ketika berucap pada majlis makan malam anjuran kelab tersebut, dekat sini, malam kelmarin.

Sementara itu, beliau menyifatkan Persidangan DUN yang lepas telah diadakan dengan jayanya biarpun dengan kehadiran lebih ramai pihak pembangkang.

“Semua orang menanti (DUN) dengan penuh minat kerana pihak pembangkang berkata, inilah masanya untuk mereka menghentam kita.