Biperoh Bazaar to be further extended

Datuk Dr Dawos, Dr Jerip Susil and Dr Benedict with recipient
of the incentives. 

The Biperoh Bazaar, a weekend market at Kampung Garung along Jalan Puncak Borneo will be further extended and would cost approximately RM1.5 million.
Developed by the Biperoh Association Kuching (BAK), the market when completed would also become the main tourist centre in the area.

Datuk Dr James Dawos entertaining the guests at the 

dinner.

BAK president Dr Benedict Poris said the master plan of the project has been submitted to the Federal Tourism Ministry through its deputy minister Datuk Dr James Dawos Mamit in May this year.
“I was told by the deputy minister (Dawos) that the proposal has been included in the rolling plan,” he said at the association’s annual dinner at a restaurant in Siburan recently.
In November last year Dawos has pledged RM200,000 for the upgrading of the market and said when that was done it would have a new name — Biperoh Tourist Market.
He said with the upgrading it would make the weekend market the first to be developed in the Bidayuh area.
Dr Benedict said the centre would also have a farmer’s centre with RM50,000 fund has already been acquired from the federal Ministry of Agriculture under the Mambong Parliamentary Agriculture Development Council (Majlis Pembangunan Pertanian Parlimen Mambong) which Dawos is the chairman.
He said the allocation has been used to build a store for storage of agriculture equipments and to purchase 40 sets of canopies for the farmer’s bazaar at the centre.
“The farmer’s bazaar is already about 70 percent completed and should be operating soon,” said Dr Benedict.

Dr Jerip Susil sings a song to entertain the guest at 

the dinner

Sebastian Sakoi who is the secretary of Mambong Parliamentary Agriculture Development Council is the committee chairman of the farmer’s bazaar.
Dr Benedict said the Public Health Assistant Minister Dr Jerip Susil has also forwarded a request to the Padawan Muncipal Council (MPP) to widen the road shoulder to the bazaar.
He said PMM secretary Michael Saweng has visited the site and gave his approval for the works to commence.
Dr Benedict in his speech also pleaded to Dawos for an allocation of RM50,000 to build the state at the bazaar.
In November during a dialogue with the Biperoh community leaders at the bazaar site had asked BAK, the organisers and managers of the market to come up with a design of the market to be submitted to him so that the allocation could be approved.
Dawos also suggested setting up a cultural centre to showcase the Bidayuh Biperoh culture and artefacts to attract tourists to the bazaar.

Datuk Dr James Dawos presenting the incentive to a student. 

Dr Jerip look on. 

He commended BAK for taking the initiative to develop the weekend bazaar, which he said could complement the growth of the tourism sector and at the same time benefit the local people.
Dawos also wanted the centre to have food outlets to cater for the tourist needs during their visits to several tourist attractions in the area.
According to him, in Padawan two tourist destinations have been developed — the Timurang Tourist Centre and Annah Rais Hotspring.
“Tourists after visiting tourist destinations in the area would want to have a place to eat and drink and so the Biperoh Tourist Market should be the ideal place for stop over,” he added.