SIBU: About 30 members of the Sibu RASCOM Ex-Civil Service Association (SRECSA) attended its inaugural reunion gathering at a hotel here recently.
According to SRECSA’S press release, the gathering serves as a starting point to unite former RASCOM civil staff, and to recruit more members to join the association.
The association’s registration was approved by the Registrar of Societies (ROS) on February 13, 2025.
The current members had served in the component of RASCOM Civil Service since its inception on March 26, 1972 until RASCOM was dissolved in 1995.
Under the association, it aims to unite former civil staff into a family combination, serving as a platform to helping each other as well as preserving, maintaining and fighting for the interests and needs of its members’ welfare, including immediate family and the heirs of the deceased former staff.
“The RASCOM’s civil staff component acted to plan strategies and mobilise activities or programmes through a very effective movement in the local community in RASCOM’s operations so that it is not easily fooled and influenced by communist terrorist propaganda during the emergency period.
“The integrated approach coordinated three main components, namely, the military, police and public-mobilised forces, that succeeded in eradicating and eliminating communist terrorist threats and restoring the living conditions back in peace.
“RASCOM was once known as the ‘Rajang Area Security Command’ in which its establishment came from several incidents of threats, chaos, destruction of public properties, and most tragic was the brutal murder of community leaders and police officers by communist terrorists in the then third, sixth and seventh divisions of Sarawak,” the press release added.
Among those present were SRECSA President Belayong Pok, Deputy President Anthony Luta, Secretary Catherine Kundau, and other committee members.
