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Archive for November, 2009

Nov

Will Anwar be ambushed by trial?

By Anwar Ibrahim 6 Comments

Categories: Analisis, Antarabangsa, Anwar, Demokrasi, Hebahan, Isu Semasa, Mahkamah, Malaysia, Media, Politik and Sidenotes

From The Nut Graph

Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim has failed in his bid, at the Court of Appeal, to obtain evidence from the public prosecutor about his alleged act of sodomy with a young former aide. Layperson reactions have naturally been cynical, dismissing the judgment as political in nature.

Indeed, the Court of Appeal’s interpretation of Section 51A of the Criminal Procedure Code (CPC), by which it made its judgment, is worrisome from a justice perspective. The judgment nullifies the efforts of the parliamentary select committee which proposed the CPC amendments in 2006 requiring pre-trial disclosure by the prosecution to the defence. The legislature’s intention was to “prevent trial by ambush” but the Court of Appeal’s judgment in Anwar’s sodomy case seems to overturn that principle.

But is Section 51A as clear cut as it is meant to be? And is splitting hairs over its meaning scuppering Anwar’s chances for a fair trial? Continue reading ‘Will Anwar be ambushed by trial?’

Nov

Polis Ikut Telunjuk Umno?

By Anwar Ibrahim 116 Comments

Categories: Agenda Baru, Aktiviti, Anwar, Catatan, Demokrasi, Hebahan, Isu Semasa, Malaysia and Pakatan Rakyat

Ceramah saya dan Dato’ Chua Jui Meng di Kulai, Johor, terpaksa dibatalkan kerana permit yang telah pun dikeluarkan, ditarik balik selepas mendapat bantahan dari kira-kira 30 orang pemuda Umno! Hanya Tian Chua dan Dr Boo Cheng Hau sempat berceramah.

Alasan yang diberikan Ocpd ternyata tidak masuk akal. Apakah selepas ini jika rakyat beramai-ramai membantah sebarang majlis anjuran umno makanya ianya akan dibatalkan? Saya hanya berkesempatan menyampaikan amanat untuk sekitar 10 minit kepada hadirin sebelum mereka bersurai. Tidak wajar polis mengikut telunjuk umno dan akur kepada sebilangan ahli yang bersikap biadap.

ANWAR IBRAHIM

Nov

Anwar: We Need Substantive Change

By Anwar Ibrahim 2 Comments

Categories: Agenda Baru, Aktiviti, Analisis, Anwar, Demokrasi, Hebahan, Isu Semasa, Malaysia, Pakatan Rakyat and Sidenotes

Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim told a Pakatan Rakyat seminar yesterday on the two-party system that Malaysia must move from the forms of representation to the substance of democratic experience to give validity to the nation’s founding constitution.

Speaking to several score leaders from PKR, PAS and DAP, the component parties of Pakatan, at the seminar in Kuala Lumpur organised to infuse them with a sense of mission, Anwar held that the country’s democratic beginnings were not sustained because of servile subscription to certain shibboleths.

Continue reading ‘Anwar: We Need Substantive Change’

Nov

Changes Small Corruption Big

By Anwar Ibrahim 6 Comments

Categories: Agenda Baru, Aktiviti, Analisis, Antarabangsa, Anwar, Demokrasi, Hebahan, Isu Semasa, Malaysia and Sidenotes

From FreeMalaysiaToday

By YL Chong

SEREMBAN: Parti Keadilan Rakyat adviser Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim today acknowledged that the Barisan Nasional government was making changes but said these were being delivered in doses that were too small considering the “big scale corruption and leakages” that were continuing.

The government would implement programmes which bring only small benefits to the people and the local mainstream media would highlight these projects, but ignoring the wayward spending by the government ministers and the huge losses due to corruption, leakages and malpractices, he added.

Continue reading ‘Changes Small Corruption Big’

Nov

Anwar: Dwi-Parti Hanya Akan Berjaya Jika PR Tonjol Pentadbiran Cemerlang

By Anwar Ibrahim 27 Comments

Categories: Agenda Baru, Aktiviti, Analisis, Anwar, Demokrasi, Hebahan, Malaysia, Pakatan Rakyat, Pilihanraya, Politik and Sidenotes

Dari TV Selangor

Sistem politik dwi-parti akan hanya punyai kredibiliti jika Pakatan Rakyat berjaya menjadikan negeri-negeri yang ditadbirnya sebagai pemangkin urus tadbir yang cemerlang, dan pembela golongan miskin.

Sehubungan itu, Ketua Pembangkang Anwar Ibrahim menggesa gagasan itu supaya bertungkus-lumus memastikan Selangor, Pulau Pinang, Kedah dan Kelantan menjadi contoh model pentadbiran mapan untuk diteladani Barisan Nasional.

“Kerajaan negeri perlu menunjukkan teladan melalui dasar-dasar yang dirumuskan. Dasar yang memberi penekanan kepada urustadbir yang baik, kepedulian kepada yang lemah, dan memelihara sumber alam dan bumi,” kata Anwar.

Mantan Timbalan Perdana Menteri ini berkata demikian dalam ucaptama di simposium ‘Pakatan Rakyat dan Pembikinan Sistem Dua Parti’ di Kuala Lumpur hari ini. Anwar Ibrahim menegaskan keputusan PRU-12 lalu menunjukkan rakyat mahu sistem kerajaan dipulihkan, dan bukannya salinan pendua kerajaan Umno-BN. Continue reading ‘Anwar: Dwi-Parti Hanya Akan Berjaya Jika PR Tonjol Pentadbiran Cemerlang’

Nov

FEER (11/6) Turning A Blind Eye To Human Right

By Anwar Ibrahim 4 Comments

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

From The Eastern economic Review

By Colum Murphy

Barack Obama’s firts trip to Asia as president of the United States will come under especially close scrutiny this month from a constituency not often represented at the summit table. The region’s political prisoners and oppressed minorities are looking for a sign that Washington has not forgotten them. It could be a forlorn hope.

Some politicians and activists are disappointed with the Obama administration’s weak stance on human rights and democracy in the region. They question whether it grasps the important role which Asia — in particular Southeast Asia — could play in safeguarding U.S. interests.

Anwar Ibrahim, Malaysia’s former prime minister and current leader of the opposition, is one figure urging more action from the White House. “Using a ‘soft-soft approach’ through diplomatic channels is all very fine,” he says. “But a clear position is required.”

Without such a position, Mr. Anwar argues, regimes in Asia will not change their ways. “Washington’s stance on human-rights issues carries tremendous weight,” he says. “When America states a clear position in support of human rights, freedom and the rule of law, the world listens, and this makes unscrupulous leaders and autocrats think twice before clamping down on the opposition.” Continue reading ‘FEER (11/6) Turning A Blind Eye To Human Right’

Nov

Pakatan Rakyat and the Making of a Two Party System

By Anwar Ibrahim 27 Comments

Categories: Agenda Baru, Aktiviti, Analisis, Anwar, Demokrasi, Hebahan, Isu Semasa, Mahasiswa, Malaysia, Pakatan Rakyat, Persidangan, Pilihanraya and Politik

keynote address by Anwar Ibrahim at IKD Symposium on 21 November 2009.

It is a great honour to stand before you to talk about what can be described as a revolution in the collective consciousness of this nation. Last March, by the stroke of the pen, the people of Malaysia shattered all of the preconceived notions that denied the possibility of political change. In place of these old assumptions a new memory of our nation’s heritage and the self-image of its people has emerged.

Until now many of our elected representatives have failed to uphold the mantle of public office. Their interest has been an exercise in greed and avarice and not what Vaclav Havel described as a heightened responsibility for the moral state of society, and to seek out the best in that society and to develop and strengthen it. For it is only with leaders of such caliber that we can expect a government that is fair and abides by the Rules of Law, outlined in a Constitution that grants legitimacy to the very existence of that government. Anything short of this would be an injustice that approaches tyranny.

We had been weaned for many years on the notion that submissiveness and frailty were a prerequisite for the stability of the nation. Our diverse ethnic makeup, rather than an asset, was treated as a powder keg that could be ignited by the slightest spark. Economic development was not compatible with the freedoms that have been established in other democratic nations. On the contrary Malaysian democracy would be circumscribed by profoundly un-democratic rules. There was a freedom of speech but only on certain subjects. The freedom to associate was granted, but only with approved license. Due process, a fair and an impartial judiciary were granted only insofar as they did not encroach upon the vested interests of the rich and powerful. These measures were taken unscrupulously in the name of security and peace. Continue reading ‘Pakatan Rakyat and the Making of a Two Party System’

Nov

Bombshell 3: Najib’s brother met me, says Bala

By Anwar Ibrahim 10 Comments

Categories: Hebahan, Isu Semasa, Malaysia, Media and Sidenotes

From Malaysia Today

Private investigator P. Balasubramaniam has named architect Nazim Abdul Razak as the Malay Datuk who met him at the Curve in Damansara on the night of July 3 last year.

In an interview with three prominent lawyers, Bala says Nazim, the younger brother of the Prime Minister, was with his TV3 celebrity wife when they met outside the Volkswagen showroom.

“He was Datuk Nazim Razak, the younger brother of Najib. He was there with his pregnant wife. Although I did not speak to her, I recognised her as being a TV personality. I think she was the host on the Nona programme,” Bala was quoted as saying.

Bala claimed the meeting was arranged by carpet businessman Deepak Jaikishan, said to be an associate of Najib’s wife Rosmah Mansor. Continue reading ‘Bombshell 3: Najib’s brother met me, says Bala’

Nov

KL patriotism camps ‘racist and political’

By Anwar Ibrahim 5 Comments

Categories: Anwar, Demokrasi, Isu Semasa, Mahasiswa, Malaysia and Sidenotes

From Malaysian Insider

When Hafidz Baharom, a freelance writer, entered a public university in 2002, he was sent with his classmates to a government camp for a week.

It was the usual jungle trekking and other team-building activities, but interspersed with these were lectures. Some of the content was disturbing, he said.

“We were taught a song with lyrics like ‘the land that you walk upon is owned by others. Lecturers told us the Malays were forced to depend on the Chinese for support after 1998 because some Malays had betrayed their own race,” he recalled. Continue reading ‘KL patriotism camps ‘racist and political’’

Nov

Satu Bangsa Bukan Pilihan

By Anwar Ibrahim 8 Comments

Categories: Agenda Baru, Analisis, Demokrasi, Hebahan, Isu Semasa, Malaysia, Pakatan Rakyat and Sidenotes

Dari JalanTelawi.Com
Hasmi bin Hashim

Di suatu waktu, bertitah Sultan Saladin (Salahuddin) dengan tegas: “Memang! Nathan tidak berhak ke atas gadis ini, karena dia bukan bapanya…”

Apakah yang berlaku? Apakah yang telah dibuat oleh Nathan; si Yahudi peniaga kaya di Jerussalam itu?

Sasterawan Jerman, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing menuliskan naskhah lakon “Nathan der Weise: Puisi Dramatik Dalam Lima Aksi” (1778-1779) dengan latar “Perang Suci” (Kings’ Crusade”) atau dikenali juga sebagai Perang Salib ketiga (1189–1192).

Karya ini adalah gambaran bagaimana toleransi [juga kebijaksanaan] adalah keperluan yang memungkinkan tiga ugama (Islam, Yahudi dan Kristian) menempuh pancaroba demi kekal hidup aman damai bersama di “tanah suci” al-Ard ul-Muqaddasah.

Dalam pengantar “On Humanity In Dark Times: Thoughts about Lessing” edisi terjemahan Inggeris (2004) terhadap karya-karya Lessing, intelektual asal Jerman, Hannah Arendt antara lain berkomentar:

Ia susah kepada kita hari ini untuk mengindentifikasikan dramatik namun konflik yang tidak tragik di dalam “Nathan Yang Bijak” sepertimana perhatian Lessing. Sebahagiannya kerana perhatian kepada kebenaran telah menjadi persoalan yang kepada kita sudah tentunya untuk berkelakuan toleransi, meskipun ke atas sebab yang baru sahaja ada sebarang kaitan dengan alasan Lessing itu.

Toleransi, dalam maksud Hannah adalah kelakuan yang tidak boleh ditangguh-tangguh, esok-esok. Di era Nazi, karya Nathan der Weise itu diharamkan.

Continue reading ‘Satu Bangsa Bukan Pilihan’

Nov

Pakatan Rakyat And The Making Of A Two Party System

By Anwar Ibrahim 13 Comments

Categories: Anwar

Dato’Seri Anwar Ibrahim akan memberi ucaptama di Pearl International Hotel Kuala Lumpur, bersempena Majlis Simposium Nasional 2009 anjuran Institut Kajian Dasar yang berlangsung pada

Tarikh: Sabtu 21 November 2009.

Masa: 8.30am-4.30pm

Tempat: Pearl International Hotel, Batu 5, Jalan Klang Lama 58000 Kuala Lumpur.

Symposium tersebut diadakan bagi membicarakan penubuhan Pakatan Rakyat dan menjadikan politik Malaysia kearah sistem 2 parti utama.

Sila klik laman rasmi disini untuk keterangan lanjut : http://symposium.ikd.org.my/

Nov

Anwar Dan Nik Aziz Tersenarai Antara 500 Tokoh Muslim Paling Berpengaruh Dunia

By Anwar Ibrahim 31 Comments

Categories: Antarabangsa, Anwar, Islam, Pakatan Rakyat and Sidenotes

Dari Khairul Hidayat

The Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Center untuk pertama kalinya menerbitkan buku “The 500 Most Influential Muslims In The World” tahun 2009.

Para tokoh Muslim dari seluruh dunia yang terpilih masuk dalam daftar itu adalah kalangan Muslim yang dianggap memiliki kemampuan untuk mempengaruhi keadaan kemanusian dan mampu membawa perubahan dalam kehidupan ramai orang.

“500 Muslim Paling Berpengaruh di Dunia” sepanjang tahun 2009 itu, dibahagi dalam 15 katagori, antara lain katagori ulama, politik, cendekiawan, perempuan, pemuda, ilmu dan teknologi, media sampai katagori muslim radikal. Continue reading ‘Anwar Dan Nik Aziz Tersenarai Antara 500 Tokoh Muslim Paling Berpengaruh Dunia’