KUCHING, Feb. 25 -- Solidarity Anak Sarawak (SAS) leader Peter John Jaban today expressed concern over reports that Gabungan Parti Sarawak (GPS) is considering a coalition with Umno and PAS to form the federal government.

Jaban, a human rights activist, urged Sarawak Chief Minister Datuk Abang Johari Openg, who is also GPS chairman, to consider carefully how this new coalition will be perceived in a multi-cultural and multi-racial Sarawak.

"Umno and PAS were defeated in the last general election in a widely acknowledged rejection of both corruption and race politics and a call for reform," Jaban said.

He added people put an end to decades of Umno rule, in which race and religion were used as a political tool to divide rather than unite...