Copy URL Sarawak’s state assembly will not sit for the duration of the emergency from August 2 to February 2, 2022, speaker Mohd Asfia Awang Nassar says. – The Malaysian Insight file pic, August 4, 2021. THE Sarawak State Legislative Assembly will not sit for the duration of the emergency in the state from August 2 to February 2 next year, Speaker Mohd Asfia Awang Nassar said today. He cited Section 4 of the Emergency (Essential Powers) (Sarawak) Ordinance 2021, and said that for so long as the emergency is in force, the provision for the sitting of the state assembly in Sarawak’s constitution shall have no effect.