COMMENT | On the Rohingya issue, I have to give credit to my Chief Minister Abang Johari Openg. He had made the right call.

In 2017, when Malaysia started to accept Rohingya refugees, Abang Jo shut Sarawak’s doors on them, declaring that the state would not provide temporary sojourn for Rohingya refugees fleeing Myanmar.

This came about after Sarawak Education and Science Minister Michael Manyin stated that he would oppose any attempts to bring the Rohingya refugees to Sarawak, especially into the Serian and Bau districts.

Manyin was commenting to a report that a certain number of Rohingya would be housed in his hometown of Serian.

He had declared then: “Sarawak will never welcome the Rohingya refugees to our shores”...