Radio Free Sarawak
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| Broadcast area | Sarawak |
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| Branding | RFS |
| Slogan | Radio Free Sarawak is the independent radio station that brings you the news you want to hear, not what the Barisan Nasional (BN) government wants you to hear. No one controls us, except you, the listeners of Sarawak. So tune in and get the information, news, interviews, reports and comment that you could never hope to hear on any of the government-controlled radio stations in Malaysia. |
| Frequency | 15420 kHz |
| First air date | 16 November 2010 |
| Format | Talk, news, music |
| Language(s) | Iban, Malay and English |
| Owner | Clare Rewcastle Brown |
| Webcast |
SoundCloud iTunes link |
| Website | radiofreesarawak |
Radio Free Sarawak (Malay: Radio Sarawak Bebas) is a pirate radio station established by journalist Clare Rewcastle Brown and helmed by former Sarawakian CATs FM Radio Peter John Jaban better known by his on-air pseudonym Papa Orang Utan, Christina Suntai who graduated from Florida Technical College in computer science and computer programming and Michael Ngau. First broadcast on 16 November 2010, the station can be received by shortwave on 15420 kHz and, it also podcast globally daily at 11.00-12.30 UTC or 19.00-20.30 at Sarawak localtime. The station received wide publicity in Malaysia after the brief disappearance of Jaban. However it was later discovered that he had gone into hiding voluntarily. On 15 November 2014, the radio suspended its shortwave transmission services and claimed the Sarawak state government has jamming its service.
In its own words, "Radio Free Sarawak is the independent radio station that brings you the news you want to hear, not what others want you to hear." In a report by the London Evening Standard, it was stated that the station aims to "expose the alleged corruption of Taib Mahmud, Chief Minister of ... Sarawak ... and bring an end to his 30-year rule."
The station can be seen as an attempt to by-pass the control of mass media outlets in Sarawak which are controlled by Taib's government and logging companies
Born in Sarawak to British parents, Brown is best known as an environmental journalist who started her career with the BBC in 1983. In 2008, she returned to Sarawak to report on a by-election and secretly filmed companies clearing rainforests for oil palm plantations.
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