Bid to reveal Sarawak-Petronas settlement terms rejected by assembly


Desmond Davidson

The Sarawak state assembly has rejected a bid to reveal the settlement terms between Petronas and Sarawak concerning the sales tax on petroleum products. – The Malaysian Insight file pic, November 10, 2020.

THE Sarawak assembly dismissed a DAP assemblyman’s motion seeking the state government to disclose to the legislature the terms of settlement it has with Petronas to end the state sales tax on petroleum product dispute.

Speaker Mohd Asfia Awang Nassar, in dismissing Irene Chang’s (DAP-Bukit Assek) motion, said the motion violated the assembly’s Standing Order 20(2)(e) where “every question shall not refer to proceedings in a committee which have not been reported to the state assembly”.


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