Dari The Malaysian Insider
By Debra Chong
KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 2 – Opposition Leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim’s many recent visits abroad appears to have paid off – the 62-year-old ranked No. 32 in the inaugural list of top thinkers that mattered most this year in the latest issue of the influential Foreign Policy magazine in the United States.
The Quran-quoting PKR adviser was among only 10 Asians on the list and is cited by the magazine for “challenging the Muslim world to embrace democracy.”
Dari Malaysian Insider
KUALA LUMPUR, Dis 2 – Parti Makkal Sakthi Malaysia, yang dilancarkan dua bulan lalu oleh Perdana Menteri, menuju perpecahan dengan kumpulan bertelagah mendesak Presidennya R S Thanenthiran melepaskan jawatannya dengan segera.
Kumpulan yang dipimpin oleh Timbalan Presiden A Vathemurthy yang mendakwa menerima sokongan lebih 15 daripada 27 anggota Jawankuasa Pusat (CC) tidak mahu Thanenthiran memimpin parti ini lagi.
Dari Malaysian Insider
Oleh Neville Spykerman
SHAH ALAM, Dis 2 – Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim petang ini memulakan langkah awal untuk menarik sokongan kakitangan awam negeri sejurus selepas mengangkat sumpah secara rasmi sebagai penasihat ekonomi kerajaan Selangor.
Dalam ucapan sulungnya, bekas timbalan perdana menteri dan menteri kewangan itu menzahirkan bahawa kejayaannya semasa berada di kerajaan persekutuan adalah atas sokongan kakitangan Perbendaharaan.
Dari PerakExpress
Oleh: M3M
Institusi Kehakiman kita sejak lebih 20 tahun yang lalu, hancur dan berterabur. Ini semua adalah gara-gara tangan durjana pemerintah UMNO/BN sejak Mahadhir mula menerajuinya. In fact, ia menjadi seperti badut yang ditertawakan oleh dunia.
Individu-individu yang terlibat secara langsung dalam sistem kehakiman kita, yang dipertanggungjawabkan untuk memberi keadilan kepada semua, telah terpalit dengan skandal-skandal yang memalukan. Baik para hakimnya…. Peguam Negara serta teamnya…. para peguam yang BN-friendlynya…. semuanya sudah tidak boleh dipercayai. Hancur lebur kredibiliti dan integriti mereka.
Esok merupakan kes saman DSAI ke atas Mahathir Mohammad berhubung pemecatan salah tahun 1998. Berikut merupakan butiran kes tersebut:
Tarikh: Khamis, 3hb Disember 2009
Masa: 9.00 AM
Tempat: Mahkamah Persekutuan, Istana Keadilan, Putrajaya
Pejabat Dato’ Seri Anwar Ibrahim
From Malaysia Kini
By Khoo Kay Peng
Second Finance Minister Ahmad Husni Hanadzlah made a honest revelation although it was not something new.
Husni said Malaysia’s economy has been stagnating the past decade and is now trailing badly behind its neighbours. He is calling for “urgent” and wide-ranging reforms.
Unfortunately, the minister stopped short of telling us what sort of reforms the government is ready to undertake. This is not unusual too. (more…)
Dari Harakah Daily
Oleh Azamin Amin
Parlimen hari ini ‘kecoh’ apabila diberitahu bahawa terdapat surat pekeliling arahan untuk mendapatkan cop Ketua Umno Bahagian untuk kontraktor mendapatkan projek.
Perkara ini didedahkan di Dewan Rakyat oleh Mahfuz Omar (PAS-Pokok Sena) dalam soalan tambahannya kepada Kementerian Kewangan berhubung projek-projek untuk kontraktor kelas A sehingga F.
“Saya dapat tahu ada perjumpaan seorang menteri kabinet yang mengarahkan supaya projek-projek tidak disalurkan kepada penyokong Pakatan Rakyat. (more…)
From Malaysia Kini
By Rahmah Ghazali
Bank Negara’s disclosure that it is investigating the transfer of RM10 million to London by Negri Sembilan Menteri Besar (MB) Mohamad Hasan in 2008 is just the tip of the iceberg.
According to Batu parliamentarian Tian Chua, the central bank has confirmed that 114 cases involving illegal funds transfer were detected from 2006 to 2009,.
“The details have never been revealed,” Tian Chua told reporters at the Parliament lobby today, also disclosing that he is personally aware of two prominent cases.
One, he said, involves a wife of a current senior minister, while the other is said to be a former minister. In both cases, funds were allegedly transferred in violation of banking laws. (more…)
Dari Harakah Daily
Oleh Hazayani Zakaria
Jawatankuasa memantau hal ehwal Kementerian Pertahanan di bawah Pakatan Rakyat meminta kementerian berkenaan mengadakan satu taklimat mengenai dasar-dasar pertahanan kepada semua ahli parlimen khususnya jawatankuasa berkenaan.
Ahli Parlimen Machang dari PKR, Saifuddin Nasution Ismail berkata, taklimat itu penting kerana isu pertahanan merupakan tanggungjawab seluruh rakyat Malaysia serta membuka ruang kerjasama yang sihat di antara Pakatan dan kementerian. (more…)
No 32, Anwar Ibrahim for challenging the Muslim world to embrace democracy.
Opposition leader | People’s Justice Party | Malaysia
Two decades ago, it would have been impossible to imagine Anwar pulling together rural Malays, ethnic Indians and Chinese, and Islamists into a coherent political bloc. Back then, Anwar was deputy prime minister in a de facto single-party state that espoused preferential treatment for ethnic Malays. It was a policy that Anwar had pushed from his days as a youth leader right up until 1997, when he denounced his patron, then-Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, for corruption. He would spend the next six years in solitary confinement on trumped-up charges for that political betrayal. And he would leave jail in 2004 with a bold message for change in a country now at the forefront of the struggle for democracy in the Muslim world. Today, Anwar’s political career is blossoming, despite a new, politically motivated indictment. Abroad, he has become an outspoken advocate of religious tolerance.
He sat down with Foreign Policy to talk about his big ideas:
On Muslim countries and the West: You can’t just erase a period of imperialism and colonialism. You can’t erase the fault lines, the bad policies, the failed policies, the war in Iraq, and support for dictators. That to me is the reality. But what is the problem? When you … apportion the blame only to the West or the United States. They want to deflect from the issue of repression, endemic corruption, and destruction of the institutions of governance.
On his time in prison: I spent a lot of time reading. I decided to focus on the great works and the classics. Friends from around the world were sending books, but it takes months for [the prison] to vet them. There came a book on the Green Revolution at that time. The officer said, “Anything revolution — out!” even though it was about agriculture. But the books kept coming. The officers were not even graduates, and [the books] were in English. They would say, “Anwar, out of 10 books, can you send back one?” So I would select something I had already read or something I was not interested in and say, “We should reject this.”
On politics: Of course, you simplify the arguments [for politics], but the central thesis remains constant. People say, “Anwar, you are opportunistic. How can you talk about Islam and the Quran here, and then you talk about Shakespeare and quote Jefferson or Edmund Burke?” I say, it depends on the audience. You can’t talk about Edmund Burke in some remote village in Afghanistan. Then you go to Kuala Lumpur and you quote T.S. Eliot. If I quote the Quran all the time to a group of lawyers, [they will think] I am a mullah from somewhere!
