SARAWAK LIVE: Jerip Susil

Dr Jerip Susil akan buat keputusan selepas terima refendum rakyat Mambong

KUCHING: Ahli Dewan Undangan Negeri (ADUN) Mambong Datuk Dr Jerip Susil berkata beliau hanya akan membuat keputusan untuk menyertai mana-mana parti komponen Barisan Nasional (BN) selepas menerima refendum sebulat suara majoriti rakyat di kawasan itu.

Beliau tambahnya tidak memilih mana-mana parti komponen BN, asalkan diberi mandat untuk bertugas membantu semua lapisan masyarakat dan parti komponen yang lain demi menjaga kestabilan kawasan Mambong.

“Selepas PRN kita lupakan isu pertelingkahan, dendam, pahit dan menyakiti hati sesama kita tetapi mesti bekerjasama supaya semua kawasan Mambong tidak ketinggalan dalam pembangunan di peringkat persatuan, kampung, masyarakat dan kerajaan.

“Jangan memikirkan orang itu memiliki kuasa mutlak kerana kuasa itu datangnya daripada mereka di akar umbi dan ia membantu orang yang diatas.

“Jika Mambong didekatkan dengan parti komponen yang kuat dan stabil maka itulah yang akan membantu.

“Malam ini kita akan menerima referendum daripada penghulu, ketua masyarakat dan rakyat dan saya akan bersetuju dan rendah hati menerima keputusan sebulat suara ini,” katanya ketika berucap pada Majlis Kesyukuran dan Penghargaan Petugas PRN Ke-11 DUN Mambong malam kelmarin (Sabtu).

Sementara itu, Pemangku Ketua Cawangan PBB Mambong yang mewakili Ahli Parlimen Puncak Borneo Datuk Seri Dr James Dawos Mamit semalam memberitahu bahawa PBB kawasan Mambong telah menulis surat kepada setiausaha agung PBB untuk menerima Dr Jerip sebagai ADUN PBB bagi kawasan tersebut.

Surat tersebut antara lain mengandungi sokongan daripada segenap PBB agar kawasan DUN Mambong turut diperuntukkan kepada PBB dan pada PRN 2021 kerusi Mambong juga akan diperuntukkan kepada ADUN daripada PBB.

Kata beliau, sekiranya Dr Jerip diterima menjadi ADUN PBB ia akan menyatupadukan rakyat di kawasan Mambong untuk mengurangkan pergeseran ketika menjalankan tugas di peringkat akar umbi bagi pembangunan.

Ia adalah penting untuk kawasan ini mengurangkan pergeseran akar umbi.

“Untuk PBB ia akan menjadi lebih seimbang dengan yang bukan Islam dan Islam dan sebab itu kita menyokong beliau menyertai PBB.

“Sejurus ini beliau akan menjadi pengerusi PBB Mambong dan menjadi team Adenan Satem dan mempunyai kuasa yang lebih dan selesa sewaktu menjalankan tugas.

“Politik dan ekonomi Mambong secara amnya apabila Dr Jerip telah diterima menjadi ADUN PBB pada masa depan akan menjadi lebih cerah,” tegasnya.

Pada masa yang sama, beliau yang juga bekas pengarah operasi Pilihan Raya PRN11 ADUN Mambong Sora Rusah menyampaikan penghargaan kepada komponen parti BN seperti PBB, UPP, SPDP, PBDS BARU, PRS, TERAS, SUPP dan persatuan-persatuan Braang, Biperoh yang telah banyak membantu dalam kemenangan BN di kawasan Mambong.

Pilihan raya tersebut ujarnya, adalah agak mencabar tetapi kerjasama erat antara banyak pihak yang memberikan BN kejayaan untuk Dr Jerip memperolehi undian sebanyak 3,333.

Turut hadir Penghulu Bidayuh Penrissen Richard Deho dan Temenggung Bidayuh Austin Dimin.

- Borneo Post Online

Mambong likely to witness a four-corner battle

ELECTION TALK: Sarawak's 11th state election is looming but allocation of new seats for the various BN component parties has yet to be finalised while picking winnable candidates to contest under the Barisan Nasional (BN) banner is still shrouded in mystery.

Among the most talked about seats this time around is Mambong (formerly called Bengoh) where Assistant Minister of Health Dr Jerip Susil is the incumbent.

Dr Jerip, who won the seat three times since 2001 under the Sarawak United People's Party (SUPP)-BN banner, left the party in 2014 to form another party, United People's Party (UPP) together with Community Development Minister Wong Soon Koh and two other SUPP elected representatives – Ranum Mina (Opar) and Johnical Rayong (Engkilili).

UPP became a BN-friendly party while Jerip and Wong continue to be in Adenan's cabinet.

As part of Adenan's plan to solve the seat allocation impasse between SUPP and UPP, he had recently mandated SUPP deputy president Richard Riot Jaem, who is also a federal minister, to look for SUPP potential candidates for the four Dayak seats – Mambong, Opar, Simanggang and Engkilili – which traditionally belong to SUPP.

Should that be the case, it is clear that Adenan wants the four Dayak seats to remain with SUPP. This would mean that the four seats in question are now out of UPP's reach.

Where would that leave Dr Jerip in the upcoming election? When told about the chief minister's mandate to Riot, he said, "I have not heard about that."

Asked to confirm rumours that he might stand in the newly created seat of Serembu under the BN banner, he answered, "That's not true. I will still stand in Mambong."

Could it be possible that Dr Jerip might be mulling over the idea of standing in Mambong as an independent candidate if he is not able to do so under the UPP-BN banner.

After all, Mambong has been his political home ground for the last two decades. Before he first won on a SUPP-BN ticket in 2001, he had stood as an independent candidate in the same constituency in 1996 and he narrowly lost to the late William Tanyuh, who represented SUPP-BN.

Hence, his support in Mambong runs deep and even as an independent candidate, he is a force to be reckoned with.

Mambong is not short of qualified SUPP potential candidates and Riot's choice seems to have been narrowed down to two of them – Mambong SUPP chairman Ahkim Sarok and retired senior customs officer Dr Benedict Poris.

Ahkim is a chartered accountant (ACA) as well as a member of the Malaysian Institute of Accountants (MIA). He also holds an MBA degree from Ohio University.

Meanwhile, Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) has been working hard on the ground in Mambong since the past several years. The name Willie Mongin has been announced by the party.

Mongin is an IT consultant who holds a Bsc (Hons) in Computing from Staffordshire University.

During the last election in 2011, Mongin managed to garner a sizable 4,447 votes though he bowed out to BN's Dr Jerip by a 3,646-vote majority. He is trying to redeem his loss this time around.

Democratic Action Party (DAP) will not be out of the action in Mambong either. The party remains at loggerheads with PKR in the coming state election and has named Sanjan Daik as its candidate.

Before his recent retirement, Sanjan had been an English lecturer at Teacher Education Institute, Batu Lintang Campus. Besides having an education degree from Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM), Sanjan also has a law degree from University of London.

It looks like a four-corner fight Mambong is on the cards.-The Ant Daily

Sitak Mambong agi beguna mayuh pemansang: Jerip

KUCHING: Mayuh agi pemansang deka digaga ba sitak Mambong pengudah sitak nya diberi nama baru, ti ari baruh pegai Kaban Kunsil Nengeri (ADUN) Bengoh suba,Datuk Dr. Jerip Susil.

Bengoh diatu dibagi ngagai dua iti sitak, iya nya Serembu (N18) enggau Mambong (N19), ke alai sitak Serembu mungkur Krokong, genturung pendiau di Serembu baka Siniawan, Paku, Tanjung Durian enggau genturung pendiau Melayu di Kranji, nyengkaum Sg Pinang (Kandis Baru enggau Kandis Lama).

Dr. Jerip madah, enti nitihka sitak Bengoh ke lama suba diatu dibagi ngagai dua, timur enggau barat, lalu semina ba kandang Bau aja agi ari baruh kuasa Bau, ku iya.

“Bau diatu udah dibagi dua, pengundi manggai urung 9,600 iku pengundi lalu tebal agi ari sida tu endang ari Bau empu. Nya alai, di Bau diatu bisi sitak Tasik Biru, Opar, Tanjung Datu enggau Serembu.

“Reti nya, bisi 4 iti sitak di Bau,” ku iya.

Iya madah munyi tu lebuh dikerandau pengarang berita pengudah bejadika atur pengawa Nyerah Dokumen Opis Pelilih Menua Tebedu, Opis Pelilih Menua Mit Siburan enggau Opis Pelilih Menua Mit Padawan ba Opis Pelilih Menua Mit Padawan semak ditu,kemari.

Ari sepiak Penrissen, iya nya sepiak sitak Mambong mungkur Puncak Borneo belabuh ari PULAPOL (Palan Pengawa Latih Polis) nyentukka Puncak Borneo ti tebal diuan bansa Bidayuh, Tabia (Kidin, Parang, Asom), nuju Anah Rais datai ngagai Simuti, Sadir, Sibakar, Sebyang, Kiding, Parang, Asom, Kekas enggau Bianah (ke kala dipegai Tarat suba).

“Tu mih pemar ke pemadu besai ke deka ditapi aku kelimpah ari beratika pemansang ekonomi di sitak tu dikemansangka nengah pemansang tanah Hak Adat Bumiputera (NCR),” ku iya.

Ku iya baru, pemerat Kepala Menteri Datuk Patinggi Tan Sri Adenan Satem ngangkatka Serian ari sebuah Pelilih Mit ngagai Bagi Menua, ngambika penyikap infrastruktur ulih dikemansangka di menua pesisir Kuching enggau Serian.

Kandang menua ti kala dipegai Tarat, iya mega Siburan Duras, Seratau,Sg Duuh, Masaan enggau Batu Gong enggau Duranda Emas ke mungkur urung 16,000 iku pegundi.

“Taja pan sitak aku mit tang sebagi besai ari sepiak Tarat kelebih agi sepiak ulu nya, Ulu Padawan bedau bisi sebarang pemansang infrastruktur baka,” ku iya.

Ba tanya pengarang berita sentang sekeda genturung pendiau sepemanjai tisi jalai Puncak Borneo ke lalu bedau bisi bekal ai paip, ku Dr. Jerip:

“Projek nyambung paip ke digaga ngena ungkus urung RM1.5 juta ari Punau nyentukka Derum, bisi udah tembu digaga lalu bisi sekeda nya bedau tembu,” ku iya.

Diatu Opis Kereja (JKR) baru deka nyerahka dokumen ari Indu Opis JKR ngagai Opis Pampang JKR ngambika pengawa nyambung paip ulih digaga, ku iya.

Ku iya baru, baka Kpg Benuk ti nyadi genturung pendiau ke pemadu besai lalu ngembuan urung 120 buah rumah diatu udah bisi elekterik ke digaga nengah Program Transformesyen Menua Pesisir ngena ungkus setengah juta.

Sama bisi enggau ngulu atur pengawa nya kemari, Ketuai Pupu Bansa Bidayuh Temenggong Austin Dimin.-Borneo Post

Sarawak Houses from Punau to Garung to enjoy treated water supply

KUCHING: Houses along Jalan Puncak Borneo from Kpg Punau upwards that have yet to enjoy treated water supply will soon enjoy the amenity, says Assistant Minister of Public Health Datuk Dr Jerip Susil.

He said the RM1.5 million project to lay the main pipe from Punau to Garung had been completed.

According to him, it was a matter of implementation since all the applications were now with Public Works Department (JKR) divisional office.

“We hope it will be very soon because the contractor has handed over the project to JKR headquarters while the JKR divisional office has all the application forms,” the Bengoh assemblyman told reporters yesterday.

Earlier, he witnessed the handing-over of official documents to Tebedu, Siburan and Padawan sub-district offices in the presence of Kuching Resident Shukarmin Chasemon and Kuching District Officer Ibrahim Kipli.

Dr Jerip also said the 120 doors at Kampung Bunuk, also in Jalan Puncak Borneo, which had yet to have electricity supply, would be connected soon.

He said the RM500,000 allocation under the Rural Transformation Programme (RTP) to the village was now with the Resident office.

“The money (for the electricity supply to the 120 doors) is already there and very soon they will have the supply,” he said.

He also told reporters that he would seriously look into the infrastructure problem like roads faced by a few villages in upper Padawan. Among the villages are Kiding, Sadir, Sebukar, Perang, Assum and Kekas.

He said the people in area would not progress without proper roads to link the villages.

“It will be a challenge for me to have the few villages in my area with proper roads and which I will seriously look into,” he said. - Borneo Post

UPP menggiatkan persiapan menghadapi PRN: Dr Jerip

KUCHING: Parti Rakyat Bersatu (UPP) menggiatkan lagi persiapan menghadapi Pilihan Raya Negeri (PRN) yang dijangka diadakan pada Mac atau April nanti.

Timbalan Presidennya Datuk Dr Jerip Susil berkata antara langkah diambil parti itu ialah membekukan cuti ahlinya.

“Jentera pilihan raya kami sekarang pada tahap maksimum. Kami sudah turun padang tanpa henti bagi memastikan kerusi yang akan kami tandingi dapat dimenangi untuk BN (Barisan Nasional),” katanya.

Walaupun beliau tidak menyatakan kerusi bakal ditandingi UPP, adalah difahamkan parti itu sedang bergerak aktif di kawasan majoriti Bumiputera di Mambong, Opar dan Engkilili.

“Selaku penyandang Mambong (sebelum ini dikenali Bengoh), saya juga membantu mempromosikan BN di kawasan baharu Serumbu untuk memastikan calon yang dipilih BN dapat menang,” ujarnya.

Beliau yakin BN dapat memenangi kerusi majoriti Bidayuh itu walaupun ia belum diagihkan kepada mana-mana parti komponen BN. Dr Jerip juga yakin UPP dapat memenangi ketiga-tiga kerusi yang disandang parti ketika ini iaitu Opar, Mambong dan Engikili.

Ditanya jumlah kerusi diintai UPP, Dr Jerip berkata ia terpulang kepada Ketua Menteri Datuk Patinggi Tan Sri Adenan Satem untuk menentukannya tetapi menegaskan mesyuarat pada 17 Disember lalu mungkin yang terakhir sebelum Adenan memutuskan pengagihan kerusi antara UPP dan SUPP (Parti Rakyat Bersatu Sarawak).

Dalam PRN terakhir, SUPP diagihkan 19 kerusi tetapi tewas di 13 kerusi. Pada kali ini, dengan tambahan 11 kerusi baharu, SUPP dan UPP masing-masing dijangka akan diagihkan dengan satu kerusi untuk memuaskan hati kedua-dua parti. - Utusan Borneo.

State polls: UPP shifts to top gear

KUCHING: United People’s Party (UPP) has placed its election machinery in top gear as the 11th state election is speculated to be held in March.

Its deputy president, Datuk Dr Jerip Susil, said the party had frozen the holidays of party members in order to be well prepared for the polls.

“Our election machinery is now in top gear. We have gone to the ground non-stop to ensure that the seats we are going to contest will be delivered for the BN,” Dr Jerip told The Borneo Post yesterday.

Even though he did not mention the seats that UPP will contest in, it is understood that the party is in full swing in the Bumiputera-majority areas of Mambong, Opar and Engkilili.

“As the incumbent for Mambong (formerly known as Bengoh), I am also helping to promote the BN in the new constituency of Serembu to ensure that whoever is fielded by the BN will win the seat.”

He was confident the BN could win the Bidayuh-majority seat even though it had not been allocated to any BN component parties yet. Dr Jerip was also confident that UPP could deliver the three predominantly Bumiputera seats that the party currently held, namely Opar, Mambong and Engikili.

“For Chinese seats, I leave it to our party president (Dato Sri Wong Soon Koh) to comment.”

When asked how many seats UPP was eyeing, Dr Jerip said it was up to Chief Minister Datuk Patinggi Tan Sri Adenan Satem to decide.

He was, however, quick to point out that the Dec 17, 2015, meeting could be the final meeting for Adenan to decide on seats allocation between UPP and SUPP.

In the last state election in 2011, SUPP was allocated 19 seats, but lost 13. This time around, with the addition of 11 new seats, there is speculation that SUPP and UPP will be given one seat each to appease both sides.

On another matter, Dr Jerip, who is also Assistant Minister of Public Health, said the Ministry of Health had not made any statement regarding Dengvaxia – the first-ever vaccine against dengue fever that has been cleared for use in Mexico.

According to a recent news report, French manufacturer Sanofi said the vaccine had been described as the “innovation of the decade”.

The vaccine could potentially become ‘a blockbuster’ and generate more than a billion dollars in revenue for the French pharmaceutical company, which took 20 years and spent more than 1.5bil euros (about RM7bil) in research and development to create Dengvaxia. It has been reported that several million doses of the vaccine are ready to ship, and Sanofi expects annual production to reach 100 million doses by 2017.

A stockpile for the European Union will be shipped early this year, and for the US a year later. Clinical tests – carried out on 40,000 people from 15 countries – found that Dengvaxia can immunise two-thirds of people aged nine years and older, rising to 93 per cent for dengue haemorrhagic fever, and reducing the risk of hospitalisation by 80 per cent.  Until now, scientists have been stumped by dengue, which is caused by four separate viruses acting in concert.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) said dengue has become the fastest-growing mosquito-borne disease, with as many as 400 million people infected every year. Dengue fever has been a threat to health in Malaysia for a long time. It can trigger a crippling fever, along with muscle and joint pain. There is no known cure.

According to WHO, the deadliest form of this disease kills 22,000 people annually. Over the past 50 years, dengue has become endemic in more than 100 tropical and sub-tropical countries, thanks largely to rapid urbanisation.-Borneo Post

Dr Jerip: UPP Batu Kitang to be launched on Nov 30

KUCHING: UPP deputy president Datuk Dr Jerip Susil has announced that the party’s Batu Kitang branch would be launched on Nov 30.

According to Dr Jerip, they decided to form Batu Kitang branch after the party’s success in receiving support from people from all walks of life in Batu Kawah, which had also spilled over to “the other half of Batu Kawah area that is Batu Kitang”.

“We have members of Batu Kitang who have decided that they want to launch Batu Kitang branch as well because they have seen that it is for us to be united and work together to contribute back to society,” he said in his speech at the first anniversary dinner of UPP Batu Kawah here on Wednesday.

Dr Jerip, who is Bengoh assemblyman, hoped that the spill-over effect would not just be confined to Batu Kitang but would also move on to other parts of Kuching such as Kota Sentosa, Padungan, Pending and Batu Lintang.

“We established UPP because we want to be relevant to the people and to the people whom we serve in Sarawak. We believe that what we are doing is relevant to other parts of Kuching.”

While admitting that winning Batu Kawah state constituency would be a very challenging task for UPP in the coming state election, Dr Jerip believed that as time goes by people would believe the party’s sincerity and struggle that is for the people of all races and religions.

“I, for one would like to see our UPP members to be more on the ground and I also would like to see that our candidate for Batu Kawah shall be none other than Liu Thian Leong because he has worked very hard to see all of you come together.”

He said the attendance of more than 1,300 UPP Batu Kawah members at the dinner was a testimony of what the party could do and what it wanted to do for the future.

“We have reasons to see the response of such magnitude. Our desire to serve the people at grassroots level is much more apparent and we are at this point of time being seen as a party that serves the communities all over, those in the northern, central, and southern regions and also the other parts of Sarawak.

“We are actually on the ground to serve the people and for this reason, we want to congratulate, particularly for what had happened in Batu Kawah.”

Dr Jerip said among the ‘assets’ owned by the party which it could capitalise at this point of time was the ongoing and rising support for Chief Minister Datuk Patinggi Tan Sri Adenan Satem, besides the party’s education fund.

“Our Chief Minister has been in office for about 20 months and he had stated out his policies in such a way that all Sarawakians are in favour of. One of the things that he had expressed in his policies was the whole idea of maintaining Sarawak as a harmonious state and free from all forms of extremism. We in UPP also want to ensure that this also is our mission and vision.”

He said Bumiputeras in the party were also very supportive of Adenan’s emphasis on rural development because they believed that the rural areas still needed a lot of development and with development, the natives in rural areas would benefit from government policies.

Due to Adenan’s policies, he said the Chinese community, who had once supported the opposition, was gradually returning to mainstream politics, adding this was a reflection of Chinese support for Adenan’s struggles and policies.

On the education fund, he said UPP would continue to make it part and parcel of the party’s contribution to the society to enable those wanting to further their studies to achieve their aspirations.

“We are very grateful to those who contributed to this fund and as we disburse this fund, we are conscious that there are many others who need this fund and many who do not have the means and ways to further their studies.”-Borneo Post

Peka sensitiviti masyarakat Sarawak

Keterbukaan Adenan harus dicontohi segenap lapisan rakyat: Dr Jerip

KUCHING: Sarawak akan terus mengekalkan penggunaan kalimah ‘Allah’ tidak hanya bagi masyarakat yang beragama Islam, bahkan bagi masyarakat bukan ber-agama Islam di negeri ini.

Menurut Menteri Muda Kesihatan Awam Datuk Dr Jerip Susil, perkara itu telah diumumkan oleh Ketua Menteri Datuk Patinggi Tan Sri Adenan Satem dalam mesyuarat kabinet, baru-baru ini.

Malah, jelasnya, Adenan juga ada mengumumkan bahawa hukum hudud tidak akan dilaksanakan di Sara-wak.

“Beliau (Adenan) meng-ambil contoh testimoni pengalaman peribadinya yang menuntut di sekolah mubaligh suatu ketika dahulu, yang mengamalkan bacaan doa hampir setiap pagi sebelum bermula waktu persekolahan mengikut cara Kristian, tetapi beliau tetap seorang Islam.

“Malah di sekolah itu juga (Sekolah St Joseph) beliau belajar dan memahami bagaimana rakyat di Sarawak bercampur gaul bersama tanpa mengira latar belakang agama dan seumpamanya.

“Ini jelas menunjukkan be-liau sebagai seorang pemimpin yang bersifat inklusif (menyeluruh) dan begitu peka akan sensitiviti masyarakat yang berbilang kaum di sini,” katanya.

Katanya, meskipun kawan-kawan beragama Kristian bersembahyang mengikut acara agama itu, pelajar Islam lain yang juga bersekolah di sekolah mubaligh kekal dengan agama Islam yang mereka yakini dan percaya.

“Kita berharap ini akan menjadi contoh kepada pelbagai lapisan generasi dan seluruh rakyat di negeri ini supaya isu perkauman dan keagamaan tidak timbul sebagai isu perpecahan kaum oleh mana-mana pihak sekali-pun,” tegasnya.

Beliau berkata demikian ketika ditemui pemberita pada majlis penyerahan peruntukan projek kecil luar bandar (MRP) kepada Gereja Sidang Injil Borneo (SIB) Rekap Bunuk, Kampung Bunuk, Jalan Puncak Borneo di pejabat Menteri Muda Kebudayaan dan Warisan Liwan Lagang di Bangunan Baitulmakmur di sini, semalam.

Sementara itu, Liwan ketika bercakap mengenai MRP yang berjumlah RM250,000 dari kerajaan negeri kepada Gereja SIB Rekap Bunuk itu memberitahu, peruntukan itu jelas membuktikan Adenan seorang pemimpin yang mengambil berat akan kebajikan rakyat Sarawak tanpa membeza-bezakan latar belakang rakyat.

“Beliau seorang yang tidak cakap kosong. Kalau dia umum untuk melakukan sesuatu, beliau akan umum. Seperti apa yang beliau kata, beliau akan bantu sesiapa sahaja, maka beliau hulurkan bantuan.

“Kami (wakil SIB) sangat berterima kasih kepada Adenan kerana memberikan peruntukan besar bernilai RM250,000 ini untuk membangunkan rumah ibadah iaitu gereja untuk digunakan oleh penduduk sekitar Jalan Puncak Borneo,” jelasnya.

Difahamkan, Gereja SIB Rekap Bunuk baharu yang menggantikan gereja kecil lama dan usang sebelum ini, dibina di atas tanah ber- keluasan kira-kira 30 poin dan apabila siap kelak, ia dijangka mampu menampung kapasiti masyarakat Kristian di kawasan sekitar dengan jumlah seramai 400 orang dalam satu masa.

Hadir sama Ketua Pastor Khoo Kin Nyen, wakil Pejabat Daerah Kuching Pastor Stanley Lukong dan Setiausaha Jawatankuasa Gereja SIB Rekap Bunuk Moin Kuer.-Utusan Borneo

Jangan terperdaya dengan berita, khabar angin dalam media sosial

BAU: Orang ramai dinasihati agar tidak mudah terperdaya dengan apa sahaja berita atau khabar angin disebar melalui media sosial khasnya yang belum disahkan kesahihan serta tidak diketahui sumbernya.

Menteri Muda Kesihatan Awam Datuk Dr Jerip Susil berkata, tindakan mempercayai sesebuah khabar angin yang disebarkan meluas secara membuta tuli boleh menggugat ketenteraman awam jika dibiarkan terus berlaku.

“Kita sebagai rakyat yang bijak harus fikirkan dulu sama ada sesuatu khabar angin itu betul atau tidak sebelum kita sebarkan kepada kawan-kawan lain dan menjadikannya viral (tersebar luas),” katanya.

Beliau berkata demikian ketika berucap menyempurnakan Pertandingan Sketsa Rukun Negara 1Malaysia di Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan (SMK) Paku di sini, semalam.

Dr Jerip yang juga Ahli Dewan Undangan Negeri (ADUN) Bengoh turut menyeru orang ramai khasnya pengguna media sosial untuk mengesahkan berita atau mendapatkan sumber berita daripada mereka yang arif.

Beliau turut menjadikan contoh insiden di Plaza Low Yat di Kuala Lumpur pada 11 Julai lalu berlaku apabila beberapa individu tidak bertanggungjawab menyebar maklumat gambar tidak betul dan akhirnya mencetus keadaan huru-hara.

“Adakah kita ingin melihat perkara seperti ini terus berlaku? Sudah tentu jawapannya tidak,” katanya.

Beliau menambah, oleh itu kerajaan sering memberi nasihat supaya jangan mudah percaya dengan apa yang dipaparkan dalam media baharu.

“Bukan semuanya baik, walapun banyak yang lebih baik jika kita pandai mengguna dan menilainya,” katanya.-Utusan Borneo