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Kelab Anwar Ibrahim (AIC)
16 April 2009
Tanggal 8 Mac 2008 menyaksikan rakyat Malaysia telah meletakkan satu batu asas penting di dalam sejarah sosio-politik negara: yakni penolakan ke atas politik perkauman sempit. Ini bersesuaian sekali dengan iltizam Almarhum Tunku Abdul Rahman Putra Al-Haj lewat Pemasyhuran Kemerdekaan yang dilafazkan beliau tatkala laungan merdeka bergema di udara pada pagi 31 Ogos 1957:
Tanah Melayu (kini Malaysia) akan kekal menjadi sebuah negara demokrasi yang merdeka dan berdaulat serta berdasarkan kebebasan dan keadilan dan sentiasa menjaga dan mengutamakan kesejahteraan dan kesentosaan rakyatnya dan mengekalkan keamanan antara segala bangsa..
Semangat dan roh perpaduan ini jelas sekali melangkaui sempadan ras dan agama. Integrasi sosial adalah sesuatu yang luhur dan perlu dibentuk melalui perpaduan dan persefahaman yang utuh di kalangan masyarakat Malaysia yang berbilang bangsa.
Seruan Utusan Malaysia melalui siaran 15 April 2009 antara lain menyeru agar bangsa Melayu bersatu untuk ‘berhadapan dengan bangsa lain”. Apakah rasional Utusan tergamak untuk mengeluarkan berita sedemikian rupa yang sangat tebal sentimen perkaumannya?
Kelab Anwar Ibrahim (AIC) bersetuju bahawa Melayu perlu bersatu, tetapi bersatu di dalam konteks bersama-sama bangsa lain untuk memajukan dan mengekalkan keamanan negara. AIC yakin dan percaya bahawa segenap lapisan generasi muda rakyat Malaysia menolak sama sekali unsur penyatuan hanya untuk menindas dan bersaing secara tidak adil dengan bangsa lain.
Continue reading ‘Utusan Malaysia Jangan Jadi “Penyebar Perpecahan Rakyat”’
Merdeka Blog | 15 April 2009
Once again, I was deeply disappointed of how arrogant the UMNO controlled Utusan Malaysia is. This newspaper today’s headline news was an article entitled “Bangkitlah Melayu!”. The news called for cooperation among Malays to face the increasingly excessive demands from the non-Malays.
How could the editor allow such kind of racist call to be published in a multiracial country? Would not the call ignite the racial sentiment of non-Malays and even among Malays? Who knows if the readers would not be emotionally fired and the consequence could not be another May 13 incident?
Continue reading ‘Utusan ruins Najib’s One Malaysia’s concept’
Utusan Malaysia is very mischievous and we should not allow them to get away with this. We should go out and buy some copies of Utusan Malaysia and burn them. Can we organise a ‘Burn Utusan Malaysia Day’? Then we should ask all the newspaper vendors and shops to boycott Utusan Malaysia.
By Raja Petra Kamarudin
Read the following piece published in Utusan Malaysia yesterday (Bangkitlah Melayu). If this is not considered seditious then I really don’t know what is. Opposition supporters, me included, have been made to face the court on sedition charges for lesser than what Utusan Malaysia wrote below.
The article starts by asking the Malays to rise up and unite in facing the ‘extreme demands’ of the ‘other races’. ‘They’ must be aware and remorseful about the current political situation that is witnessing all sorts of demands by the non-Malays that can result in Malay political power being jeopardised. Malays are asked to not bow to these extreme demands but on the other hand must rise up and unite to defend their rights and interests.
The article goes on to say that there are enough ‘Malay’ seats in Parliament for the Malays to form the government with just Malay seats. In other words, the Malays do not need the non-Malays to form the government. Therefore, the government must fulfil whatever demands of the Malays because the Malays are the majority and there should be no compromise with the non-Malays.
Continue reading ‘The REAL Umno agenda’
By Lee Min Keong, ZDNet Asia
MALAYSIA–Newly-minted Prime Minister Najib Razak has delivered an embarrassing snub to the country’s ICT association Pikom, after he not only ignored its call for a single ministry, but also transferred jurisdiction for the local communications sector to a low-profile ministry.
In a statement released last week following the Cabinet reshuffle, Pikom said it was “disappointed” its recent request for a single ICT ministry has gone unanswered. The industry body also revealed it was “caught by surprise” that the responsibility for the country’s ICT sector has been transferred to the Information, Culture and Arts Ministry, headed by Rais Yatim, a veteran politician who is regarded to lack substantial experience in the ICT sector.
Prior to Najib’s Apr. 3 appointment to Malaysia’s top political post, Pikom had urged the country’s incoming administration to establish a single, dedicated ICT ministry–given the sector’s prominent role in the local economy.
Continue reading ‘New Malaysian premier snubs ICT body’
Majalah antarabangsa Time sekali lagi mencalonkan Anwar Ibrahim sebagai antara 100 orang tokoh paling berpengaruh dunia untuk tahun 2009. Pada tahun lalu, Anwar diiktiraf sebagai antara tokoh paling berpengaruh dalam kategori Pemimpin & Revolusioner sebaris dengan Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Dalai Lama dan Vladimir Putin.
Sekiranya anda ingin memilih calon tokoh berpengaruh dunia untuk tahun 2009, anda boleh layari pautan di bawah:
The 2009 TIME 100 Finalists
PEJABAT DATUK SERI ANWAR IBRAHIM
Harakahdaily | 15 April 2009
KUALA LUMPUR, 15 April (Hrkh) - Demi memuji dan ‘memuja’ isteri Perdana Menteri, Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor, Kerajaan Negeri Sembilan didakwa membelanja sejumlah RM45,786.00 membeli iklan di sebuah akhbar arus perdana.
Iklan satu muka itu telah dibeli oleh Kerajaan Negeri Sembilan untuk ‘memuja’ Rosmah yang sudi melawat daerah Rembau.
Ketika ramai pihak sedang memberikan tumpuan ke Bukit Selambau, Batang Ai dan Bukit Gantang pada 7 April lalu, Rsomah telah melawat Pusat Anak Permata Negara di Chembong, Rembau.
Menurut sumber akhbar itu harga iklan untuk memuja Rosmah itu sahaja sudah berharga RM45,786.00.
Continue reading ‘RM 45,786 wang rakyat diguna untuk ‘puji’ Rosmah?’
After appointing a lacklustre cabinet, Malaysia’s new prime minister refused to answer questions from the media.
By Bridget Welsh, The Guardian UK
Malaysia’s sixth prime minister, Najib Tun Abdul Razak took office earlier this month, replacing Abdullah Ahmad Badawi. In Najib’s first week, he failed key tests that show he can be his own man. He lost important by-elections, failed to address persistent scandals and selected a cabinet of lacklustre appointees that has not evoked confidence. He ran away from the press, declining to address basic questions about his government.
This poor beginning raises serious questions about his leadership and calls into question his ability to deliver on the reforms that are critical for Malaysia’s future.
Continue reading ‘Najib’s disappointing start’
Malaysiakini | 15 April 2009
Seorang pekerja kontrak – yang terlantar di unit rawatan rapi (ICU) kerana meminum cecair pelarut semasa dalam tahanan polis – dihadapkan dengan pertuduhan memiliki dadah.
Adi Anwar Mansor, 23, yang terbaring lemah memakai topeng oksigen dengan tangan kanan bergari di kepala katil mendengar dakwaan terhadapnya yang dibacakan di depan majistret Liew Horng Bin di Bilik Infeksi, Wad 8B, Hospital Tengku Ampuan Rahimah kira-kira pukul 3.50 petang.
Continue reading ‘Wad ICU bertukar mahkamah’
Malaysiakini | 13 April 2009
Pengundi bukan Melayu “tidak mahu dilayan seumpama pengemis” – apabila menjelang pilihanraya, mereka ditaburkan pelbagai projek pembangunan dengan harapan mereka memilih calon BN, kata jurucakap rasmi MCA.
“Bukan Melayu tidak suka dilayan seperti peminta sedekah, hanya ketika pilihanraya kecil, lebih banyak penaikan taraf jalan dilakukan, peruntukan kepada sekolah, NGO dan badan amal meningkat,” kata ahli jawatankuasa pusat parti itu Lee Wei Kiat.
“Walaupun bantuan dalam apa jua bentuk kepada sesuatu masyarakat sentiasa dialu-alukan, pengundi ingin melihat ketekalan dalam peruntukan dan pengagihan kerajaan dan bukannya memuncak sewaktu pilihanraya kecil.”
Continue reading ‘‘Cina, India bukan peminta sedekah’’
Hari ini, masyarakat berketurunan Tamil pastinya gembira dengan ketibaan hari pertama tahun baru Tamil atau lazimnya disebut Puthaandu.
Jika di Sri Lanka, masyarakat Tamil di sana meraikannya sebagaimana sambutan Hari Raya di mana yang tua dan dewasa akan menghadiahkan ‘duit raya’ kepada mereka yang masih bujang utamanya untuk kanak-kanak sebagai tanda kemurahan rezeki.
Bagi penduduk desa, hari ini juga diraikan dengan acara ‘arpudu’ iaitu upacara menuai hasil ladang sebagai simbolik bermulanya kitaran baru aktiviti pertanian untuk tahun akan datang.
Saya dan Azizah pastinya berkongsi kegembiraan dan mendoakan agar ikatan kekeluargaan yang terjalin senantiasa kekal dalam kebahagiaan.
Buat rakyat Malaysia berketurunan Tamil yang meraikannya, saya ucapkan Iniya Tamizh Puthaandu Nalvazhthukkal!
Tidak dilupakan juga buat masyarakat Sikh yang meraikan hari Vaisakhi. Gagasan hari Vaisakhi yang menyeru kepada persahabatan dan pemahaman bersama sewajarnya diterapkan terutamanya dalam konteks Malaysia yang majmuk.
Ini juga sejajar dengan saranan Guru Gobind Singh Ji yang mengungkapkan: “Kemanusiaan itu sepadu, kita semua merupakan umat dari Tuhan yang satu”.
ANWAR IBRAHIM
Ujian mengajar dan pengalaman mendewasakan. Arakian satelah hiruk-pikuk awal menuntut hak calun yang mewakili kelompok masing-masing, bercambahlah senarai calun.
Ada yang mendakwa wakil kabilah, kaum, agama tidak dilayani. Dan tambah panas suasana manakala terdapat tokoh daerah yang memimpin parti menganggap diri mereka terlalu layak dan parti akan hancur sekiranya mereka tidak dipilih.
Alhamdulillah dan syabas kepada rakyat, dan khususnya pengundi Bukit Selambau yang memilih agenda perubahan KeADILan dan Pakatan Rakyat dan bukannya telatah bengis atau ugutan.
Semuga ianya menjadi pengajaran buat kita semua. Yang mengkhianati perjuangan kerana harta, takhta atau dendam kesumat akan dihumban olih rakyat.
Demikianlah gesaan saya di Bukit Selambau pagi semalam, dan kepada pimpinan KeADILan Pulau Pinang dan Permatang Pauh petang semalam.
ANWAR IBRAHIM
Press Statement by Dato’ Chang Ko Youn
Gerakan Deputy President
Chang: I do not agree with Muhyiddin’s assessment of Chinese voters
13/4/2009
Gerakan Deputy President, Dato’ Chang Ko Youn today criticised the remarks made by Deputy Prime Minister, Y.A.B. Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin on Chinese voters in an interview with Mingguan Malaysia over the weekend.
“I have to respectfully disagree with the remarks made by Tan Sri Muhyiddin on Chinese voters. While it is true that many voted for the Pakatan Rakyat in the Bukit Gantang and Bukit Selambau By-Elections; we must investigate why they did so,” said Chang.
Dato’ Chang added that based on his interaction with Chinese voters in Bukit Gantang, many of them find it hard to associate with the Barisan Nasional because they believe that the Barisan Nasional no longer upholds the very best of Malaysia.
“The conventional wisdom of dolling out allocations no longer works because many see it as a disingenuous attempt to gain votes. Their problems must be handled continuously and dishing out allocations before any by-election is not effective and convincing anymore. The more substantive issues of corruption, abuse of power and equity in national leadership and government delivery system must be dealt with first; only then the voters who deserted the BN in 308 will be ready to return,” commented Chang.
Dato’ Chang also felt that greater emphasis must be placed on Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak’s One Malaysia concept because the focus of uniting Malaysia under the One Malaysia “People First, Performance Now” agenda is a winner because it promotes fairness and equity, and gives real meaning to the Barisan Nasional struggle.
“Many were taken with the mantra of fairness and justice of the Pakatan Rakyat. We do not need a wizard to tell us what we need to do to remain as the Government. We cannot have separate campaigns for separate communities. Our focus should be on what unites Malaysians and not what divides us. I am certain if we move away from ethnocentric campaigning and strategies, and adopt a cohesive and universal messages the voters would trust us more. We do not want to start a blame game in examining reasons for the defeat. We must look for the revival plan collectively.” said Chang.
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