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Mar

Seminar Pengurusan Majlis & Moderator Anjuran AIC-FNF

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Categories: AIC, Aktiviti and Sidenotes

Kelab Anwar Ibrahim (AIC) dengan kerjasama Friedrich Naumann Foundation akan menganjurkan satu Seminar berkenaan Pengurusan Majlis.

Seminar ni bertujuan untuk melatih peserta yang berminat dalam bidang Moderator Forum/Dialog. Peserta akan dilatih untuk menganjurkan program, yang mana input daripada seminar ini sangat berguna untuk mana-mana pihak samada individu mahupun pertubuhan bagi sebarang urusan penganjuran program.

Seminar sehari ini akan dikendalikan oleh 2 penceramah berpengalaman iaitu:

1. Dr Pimrapaat Desaiderayawong
(Program Director, Malaysia Programme)

2. Leong Lai-Ming
(FAN Malaysia, Merdeka Centre)

Program ini akan dijalankan pada tarikh, tempat dan masa seperti berikut:

Tempat: Corus Hotel, Kuala Lumpur

Tarikh: 12 April 2009 (AHAD)

Masa: 8.30pagi hingga 5.00petang.

*Tempat adalah terhad kepada 50 Peserta yang betul-betul berminat. Sila emel nama penuh, alamat e-mel dan no telefon anda kepada Setiausaha AIC (Saifuddin Shafi) di alamat: armando_digo@yahoo.com

Mar

Polis larang sentuh ‘Altantuya’ di Bukit Gantang

By Anwar Ibrahim 77 Comments

Categories: Hebahan, Isu Semasa, KeADILan, Media, Pakatan Rakyat, Pilihanraya, Politik and Sidenotes

Malaysiakini | 31 Mac 2009

Polis melarang penceramah PKR di Bukit Gantang mengulas isu pembunuhan Altantuya Shaariibuu yang sering dikaitkan dengan kes kenalan dekat timbalan perdana menteri, Abdul Razak Abdullah Baginda.

Sewaktu pembantu ADUN Sepetang, Tai Sing Ng ke balai polis Taiping semalam, beliau diberikan senarai larangan tambahan tersebut dalam program pada pilihanraya kecil parlimen itu yang sedang berlangsung.

Dihubungi Malaysiakini hari ini, Lau Teck Hai apabila beliau bertanyakan arahan tersebut kepada seorang pegawai berpangkat ASP, “beliau hanya tersenyum”.

Dalam arahan yang sama, polis juga melarang penceramah “mempersoalkan keputusan yang dibuat oleh institusi raja.”

Larangan ini dipercayai bagi menghalang Pakatan Rakyat menjelaskan krisis perlembagaan dan peralihan kuasa Perak antara pembangkang dengan BN sejak Februari lalu.

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Mar

Program Anwar Ibrahim di Bkt Selambau, Batang Ai dan Bukit Gantang

By Anwar Ibrahim 96 Comments

Categories: Aktiviti, Anwar, Hebahan, Isu Semasa, Malaysia, Pakatan Rakyat, Pejabat Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim, Pilihanraya and Sidenotes

BUKIT SELAMBAU (31 Mac 2009):

Tempat: JDM Bukit Rusa, Bukit Selambau

Masa: Jam 10 Malam

Hubungi: Sdr. Saiful Izham 012 321 1162

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BATANG AI (1hb April 2009):

4.30 malam: Rumah Panjang Lubok Subong

7.00 malam: Solat Maghrib di Masjid Kg Melayu

8.00-9.00 malam: Lawatan Rumah Panjang (akan ditentukan kemudian)

10.00 malam: Ceramah perdana di Lubok Antu

Untuk dihubungi: Sdr Hasrul Muhaimin Hasbi 012 2239 738

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BUKIT GANTANG (2 April 2009):

8 malam:Ceramah di Markaz Trong

10 malam: Ceramah di Markaz Sungai Tinggi

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BUKIT SELAMBAU (3 April 2009):

1.00 – 3.30 ptg – Sembahyang Jumaat (Masjid Kuala Sin) disusuli dengan program jamuan Rakyat

7.30 – 9.00 mlm – Dinner dengan Komuniti China – (Kelab Cinta Sayang)

9.30 – 10.30 mlm – Ceramah I (Tmn Prmhan Laguna, Merbok)

11.00 – 12.00 mlm – Ceramah II (Pekan Bukit Selambau)

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BUKIT SELAMBAU (4 April 2009):

10.00 – 12.00 thgari – Dialog dengan NGO / Warga Guru

12.30 – 2.30 ptg – Program Bersama MB (Prog PAS)

5.00 – 7.00 ptg – Indian Community Culture Show – Tmn Ria Jaya

7.30 – 8.30 mlm – Tazkirah Maghrib – Masjid Batu 2

9.30 – 10.30 mlm – Ceramah 1 – Bukit Lembu

11.00 – 12.00 mlm – Ceramah II – Dewan Hock Seng – Sg. Lalang

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BUKIT GANTANG (5 April 2009):

9-11 pagi: Prog bersama YB Nizar

11pg -1 tghari: Dialog dengan Warga Guru

1-2 ptg: Jamuan Rakyat di DUN Sepetang (tempat akan di tentukan kemudian)

2-5 ptg: Meyuarat dgn petugas parti

5-7ptg:Hi-Tea di DUN Changkat Jering

7.30 -8.30 mlm: Tazkirah (Surau/Masjid akan ditentukan)

9 – 11 mlm – 2: Ceramah Perdana

Untuk dihubungi: Hj Ismail 012 508 0344

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BUKIT SELAMBAU (6 April 2009):

10.00 – 12.00 tghari – Prog Bersama MB Kedah (Kakitangan Kerajaan or Serah Extension Tanah Lot (sedang atur)

12.30 – 2.30 ptg – Prog Lunch Rakyat bersama MB

5.00 – 7.00 Ptg – Hi-Tea (Prog Wanita)

10.00 – 12.00 mlm – Ceramah Grand Finale -Pentas AMK – Taman Ria Jaya Depan Tmn Tengku Aminah

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PEJABAT DATUK SERI ANWAR IBRAHIM

Mar

A Mahathir redux expected with Najib

By Anwar Ibrahim 16 Comments

Categories: Analisis, Antarabangsa, Anwar, Catatan, Demokrasi, Ekonomi, Hebahan, Isu Semasa, Malaysia and Sidenotes

From Jakarta Post

M. Taufiqurrahman dari DeKalb, Illinois

Nearly a decade after the start of a reform movement and at a time when one of its closest neighbors will soon have a free election for the third time, Malaysia remains where it was, if not worse, politically.

Barring some major catastrophe, very soon Malaysia’s hegemonic coalition the National Front (Barisan National) will have anointed Deputy Prime Minister Najib Razak as the country’s new prime minister, replacing Abdullah Ahmad Badawi who has been in power for the past six years, following Mahathir Mohamad’s resignation in 2003.

Foreign media and those in the opposition have buzzed about the alleged involvement of the prime-minister-in-waiting in the grisly murder of a Mongolian model, who knew about shady dealings involving Najib’s aide in a multi-billion defense contract.

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Mar

Anwar Expects Further Crackdowns Under New Malaysian Leader

By Anwar Ibrahim 12 Comments

Categories: Analisis, Antarabangsa, Anwar, Demokrasi, Ekonomi, Hebahan, Isu Semasa and Sidenotes

From Wall Street Journal
By JAMES HOOKWAY

BANGKOK – Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim on Monday again warned that the imminent rise to power of rival Deputy Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak will likely provoke a further crackdown on popular dissent in the economically struggling Southeast Asian nation.

Speaking in an interview with The Wall Street Journal in Bangkok, Mr. Anwar said: “I think we can clearly see a trend developing. Already we can see what Mr. Najib’s rule will be like.”

In the past week, Malaysian authorities have shut down two opposition-run newspapers, effectively preventing them from reporting on the run-up to three by-elections on April 7, which will provide a partial test of Mr. Najib’s national support. On Monday, policed seized DVDs the opposition was using as part of its election campaign, and last week riot police used teargas and water cannons to prevent Mr. Anwar from addressing his supporters.

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Mar

Malaysian Opposition Leader Warns of More Repression

By Anwar Ibrahim 5 Comments

Categories: Analisis, Antarabangsa, Anwar, Demokrasi, Ekonomi, Hebahan, Isu Semasa, Malaysia and Sidenotes

From Voice of America
By Heda Bayron

Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim warns of rising repression in the country as a new prime minister takes office this week.

Deputy Prime Minister Najib Razak is expected to take over Thursday as prime minister of Malaysia, when Abdullah Badawi steps down.

But Malaysian opposition-leader Anwar Ibrahim told reporters in Bangkok that recent developments suggest the Najib administration could usher in a further stifling of dissent and a return to the authoritarian style of former prime minister Mahathir Mohamad.

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Mar

The Global Economic Crisis and the Future of Asean

By Anwar Ibrahim 27 Comments

Categories: Anwar, Asia Tenggara, Ekonomi, Isu Semasa, Kewangan and Transkrip

THE GLOBAL ECONOMIC CRISIS AND THE FUTURE OF ASEAN
(Keynote Address by Anwar Ibrahim at Chulalongkorn University, March 30th 2009)

When I first uttered the unutterable in Hong Kong sometime late last year that Hayek is history I was then bombarded with accusations of having turned my back on Adam Smith. Not too long later however, we heard reluctant acquiescence from liberal institutions that the free-market principles that guided American financial development would no longer count as biblical injunctions.

In the presence of such an erudite audience today, let me take the liberty to indulge further in the discourse. Just to be clear, I make no claim to pioneering new ideas but suffice to say that I am a mere commentator having had some experience in managing an economy which was also going through one of the worst financial turmoil in Asia. We need to remember only the boom-and-bust cycles articulated by the 19th century economists such as John Stuart Mill or Alfred Marshall, before we get carried away with the modern orthodoxy, which depicts financial markets as effective, stable, and self-correcting mechanisms.

The advocates of spontaneous order which had hitherto attained the level of religious orthodoxy having rammed free market strictures about self correction and deregulation are now conspicuously silent. What went wrong?

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Mar

Najib It Is

By Anwar Ibrahim 17 Comments

Categories: Asia Tenggara, Isu Semasa, Mahkamah, Malaysia, Politik and Sidenotes

From asiasentinel

On Friday, Malaysia is scheduled to end months of waiting to announce its new prime minister, Najib Tun Razak, after the United Malays National Organisation, the country’s biggest ethnic party named him their leader during their annual convention.

Najib told the UMNO parley, held in Kuala Lumpur last week, that it is crucial that his party reform itself or it will lose its hold on the electorate. But Najib’s history, and that of the party itself, portends instead a return to the politics and practices that got the national ruling coalition into trouble in the first place, losing its historic two-thirds majority in the national parliament in national elections last year. Najib’s ascent to power more likely represents a clear preference by UMNO stalwarts to return to cronyism, money politics and corruption after an eight-year interregnum from the authoritarian reign of Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad. Continue reading ‘Najib It Is’

Mar

Najib must be screened by a royal commission of inquiry

By Anwar Ibrahim 20 Comments

Categories: Analisis, Hebahan, Isu Semasa, Mahkamah, Malaysia, Media, Politik, Sidenotes and Umno

By Kim Quek

In a heated press conference at the end of the UMNO Annual Assembly on Mar 28, the newly crowned President of UMNO Najib Razak failed to dispel swirling rumours of his alleged links to the murder of Mongolian beauty Altantuya Shaariibuu.

This press conference had attracted unusual foreign press attention, due to heightened international media coverage over the scandal as Najib’s anticipated ascension to premiership nears. And as the name of Altantuya splashes in news features that pop up all over the world from France to Australia and from US to India, Najib seems to be irretrievably linked to this sex-corruption-murder scandal over an arm purchase.

Answering a barrage of questions from foreign journalists whether these persistent aspersions would undermine his premiership, Najib only repeatedly said: “These are malicious and baseless lies. I have already given my answers, but they persist. This is an opposition ploy.”

Najib sounded as if he had already given all the necessary explanations to exonerate himself from his apparently strong connection to the case, but actually all he had done was the repeated uttering of these few words: “I had never met the Mongolian woman, I had never known her”, full stop. In fact, he swore in public several times, using the same words.

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Mar

Forum Krisis Ekonomi Sejagat & Masa Depan ASEAN di Bangkok

By Anwar Ibrahim 105 Comments

Categories: Aktiviti, Antarabangsa, Anwar, Demokrasi, Ekonomi and Pejabat Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim

Sabentar tadi saya berucap dalam Forum Krisis Ekonomi Sejagat & Masa Depan ASEAN di Universiti Chulalongkorn, Bangkok.

Hadhir meraikan saya ialah Rektor Universiti Chulalongkorn, Professor Pirom Kamol Ratanakul, seorang pakar Epidemiologi Klinikal dan Ekonomi Kesihatan. Acara dimulakan dengan ucapan pengenalan olih Yang Mulia Putera Sukhumband Paribatra, Gabenor Bangkok.

Ketika mana institusi pengajian tinggi Malaysia dihalang dari menjemput saya untuk menyampaikan syarahan, saya masih diberi kesempatan untuk melontarkan pandangan berhubung krisis ekonomi sejagat mutakhir ini serta berkongsi pengalaman bagaimana peritnya menongkah arus tatkala mengurus kewangan negara sekitar krisis kewangan Asia pada tahun 1997.

Sepuluh tahun berlalu, manakala negara-negara jiran seperti Vietnam, Thailand mahupun Indonesia sudah pun mengorak langkah memantapkan asas pengurusan ekonomi seumpama tadbir urus yang baik, peningkatan tahap ketelusan dan pengukuhan mekanisme pertanggungjawaban, Malaysia masih mendabik dada walaupun berada di takuk lama.

Tambah menakutkan bila mana meneliti Laporan Tahunan 2008 Bank Negara Malaysia yang menyatakan kadar pengangguran tidak mustahil berada pada paras 4.5%, bermakna kurang lebih 550,000 orang akan kehilangan pekerjaan!

Saya turut melakukan kunjungan tidak rasmi ke atas Perdana Menteri Thailand, Abhisit Vejjajiva dan bertukar bicara berkenaan beberapa isu serantau.

ANWAR IBRAHIM

Mar

Pupus Bahasa

By Anwar Ibrahim 42 Comments

Categories: Analisis, Demokrasi, Ekonomi, Hebahan, Isu Semasa, Malaysia, Seni & Sastera and Sidenotes

Dari www.kesturi.net
Oleh Aqil Fithri

Dewasa ini, frasa “Bahasa Melayu Bahasa Ilmu” sudah kian asing. Apa yang terpapar sekarang ialah, Bahasa Melayu tidak lagi digunakan dalam pengungkapan yang tinggi, dan dituduh tidak mempunyai kekuatan bagi diperkasakan sebagai bahasa yang penting. Hatta, Bahasa Melayu turut dikritik habis-habisan kerana gagal untuk bertahan dalam era globalisasi, serta tersisih apabila berhadapan dengan cambahan istilah-istilah baru, terutamanya yang terdapat dalam sub-bidang baru yang muncul di dalam sains, teknologi, matematik, komunikasi, komputer dan lain-lain lagi.

Selain itu, Bahasa Melayu juga dikatakan tidak mempunyai kekuatan sejarah dan falsafah bagi dibangunkan sebagai bahasa moden, sekalipun bukan sebagai antara bahasa utama dunia, meskipun secara geografinya jumlah penutur bahasa ini demikian banyak. Memang, hasrat kewujudan Bahasa Melayu bukanlah untuk mengalahkan Bahasa Inggeris–yang memang begitu berkuasa pada abad ini–tapi bahasa ini tetap saja dilihat terpuruk berbanding bahasa-bahasa moden lain, seperti Bahasa Perancis, Bahasa Jerman, Bahasa Sepanyol, Bahasa Jepun, dan lain-lain lagi.

Di samping itu, ada juga yang berhujah bahawa ketika ilmuan Perancis sedang membincangkan hubungan antara ¨minda dan jirim¨ sewaktu Zaman Renainsans Eropah, maka ketika itu orang Melayu masih lagi sibuk bercucuk tanam. Demikian juga, ketika ilmuan Jerman sedang membincangkan hubungan antara ¨fizik dan metafizik¨ sewaktu Zaman Pencerahan Eropah, orang Melayu maseh lagi membaling tombak melawan penjajah. Kalangan ini memperlekeh, jika tamadun dari bangsa-bangsa Eropah ini telah pun melahirkan Rene Descartes, Immanuel Kant, dll, maka gerangan manakah sarjana yang dilahirkan oleh Tamadun Melayu?

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Mar

Mesyuarat Ekonomi di Abu Dhabi

By Anwar Ibrahim 21 Comments

Categories: Aktiviti, Antarabangsa, Anwar, Catatan, Dunia Arab, Ekonomi and Program

Saya singgah beberapa jam di Abu Dhabi, wilayah Arab yang belum terkesan dari kegawatan ekonomi rantau dan global. Ada beberapa pertemuan penting yang diselenggarakan tetapi tidak dapat saya lapurkan semuanya.

Sidang khas dengan perancang ekonomi dan peniaga berkisar isu kegawatan ekonomi. Gesaan saya adalah agar permasalahan ekonomi dilihat secara menyeluruh dan dampaknya tidak terbatas kapada peniaga dan syarikat tetapi rakyat terbanyak.

Turut diulang hujah Keynes mengenai “colossal muddle” dan pengamatan Amartya Sen berkaitan krisis keyakinan dan psikologi.

Kini saya memasuki pesawat menuju Bangkok.

ANWAR IBRAHIM