COMMENT | Sarawak’s boundary, which is not moveable under the federal imperium, has been reconfirmed by Article 2 Part II of Unclos 1982. The Emergency Ordinances (“Eos”) 7, 10, 11 of 1969 could not reduce Sarawak’s international boundary from 12 to three nautical miles.

In fact, the CCO communists were in the jungles, not at sea nor in the territorial waters. The brave Sarawak Rangers were dispatched to KL to assist in quelling the riots there.

In pursuance to President Truman’s policy on the continental shelf after 1945, the federal governments of the US, Canada and Australia had overreached with their jurisdictions, controls with self-assertion of their similar “implied rights”.

This under the emerging concept of international law erroneously and illegally over the oil and gas (O&G) in the seabeds and subsoils of the continental shelves of the coastal states of their respective federations governed by the common law and municipal law, not by the emerging concept of international law in the patchwork quilt of jurisprudence.

But, they have not the seven FCs (seven provisions of the Federal Constitution) and the seven PM laws (seven protective municipal laws) of Sarawak under the dominion for their federal judges, else the legacy of President Truman would have been different only in the supreme court. But the political and legal settlement for sharing the O&G would still be the end game in the economic battles for the sharing of the benefits of O&G.

In fact, the federal government has only imperium, namely political rights and legal sovereignty only in the context of jurisdiction and full administrative control over affairs under international law within the territorial waters and continental shelf of Sarawak recognised by other sovereign nations under Unclos 1982....