KENYATAAN AKHBAR

26 OGOS 2010

KAKITANGAN KERAJAAN SELANGOR TERIMA BANTUAN KHAS HARI RAYA SEBANYAK RM500

Kakitangan Kerajaan Negeri Selangor akan menerima bayaran Bantuan Khas Hari Raya sebanyak RM500 sebagai persediaan untuk menyambut Hari Raya Aidilfitri bulan depan.

Menteri Besar, YAB Tan Sri Dato’ Seri Abdul Khalid Ibrahim berkata bayaran Bantuan Khas Hari Raya ini akan dibayar sebelum 1 Syawal kepada semua kakitangan Kerajaan Negeri kecuali kakitangan Gred JUSA ke atas.

Seramai 9,089 kakitangan awam akan mendapat manfaat daripada keputusan ini yang melibatkan kos pembayaran sebanyak RM4.5 juta.

Selain itu, Kerajaan Negeri juga telah memperuntukkan bayaran khas sebanyak RM250 kepada 5,297 guru Kelas Agama dan Fadhu Ain (KAFA) yang akan melibatkan pembayaran sebanyak RM1.3 juta.

Menteri Besar berharap bantuan Hari Raya ini dapat meringankan beban kakitangan awam untuk membuat persiapan menyambut Aidilfitri terutama mereka yang mempunyai ahli keluarga yang ramai.

Menteri Besar juga menasihatkan kakitangan awam dan guru KAFA supaya bersederhana dalam segala hal dan berbelanja secara berhemah mengikut kemampuan serta keperluan.

SEKRETARIAT AKHBAR
PEJABAT DATO’ MENTERI BESAR SELANGOR

KENYATAAN AKHBAR PIMPINAN PAKATAN RAKYAT
26 OGOS 2010

Pakatan Rakyat sedar wujudnya satu muslihat politik oleh pimpinan Umno-BN untuk mengapikan sentimen perkauman sempit dan agama bertujuan memecahbelahkan keharmonian masyarakat. Politik usang bersifat peras ugut dan memesongkan fakta ini digunakan oleh pimpinan Umno-BN kerana mereka berada dalam keadaan terdesak untuk meneruskan kelangsungan kuasa mereka. Demi mencapai cita-cita politik tersebut pelbagai jentera kerajaan seperti BTN dan media seumpama Utusan Malaysia diperkuda untuk menggugat kesejahteraan rakyat.
Berhadapan serangan bertali arus itu, Pakatan Rakyat tetap beriltizam untuk melaksanakan Perubahan demi kemaslahatan rakyat keseluruhannya. Kita beriltizam untuk memastikan keharmonian dan perpaduan masyarakat dapat diperteguh serta politik perkauman sempit akan sirna dari negara ini.
Pakatan Rakyat menghormati perjuangan parti masing-masing dalam Permuafakatan Pakatan Rakyat. Permuafakatan ini sememangnya berlandaskan Dasar Bersama Pakatan Rakyat yang telahpun disepakati.
Dasar Pakatan Rakyat menyatakan:
“Pakatan Rakyat bertekad untuk menyemai persefahaman dan perpaduan di kalangan rakyat berteraskan prinsip memelihara kepentingan bersama. Perpaduan negara mesti mencerminkan kesepakatan, persefahaman serta muafakat sejati antara kaum, budaya dan agama.”
Kita akui sememangnya terdapat perbezaan di antara komponen Pakatan Rakyat, walaupun begitu kita tuntas menggalakkan perbincangan dan bersikap terbuka. Ini berbeza sekali jika dibandingkan dengan politik dalaman BN yang mana komponennya sering bertelagah dan bersikap menyembunyikan segala permasalahan.
Pakatan Rakyat tidak mempunyai keraguan untuk tetap bersatu melawan kemungkaran dan penganiayaan Umno-Barisan Nasional terhadap rakyat. Kami beriltizam untuk menentukan hala tuju baru buat rakyat dan negara ini. Menjelang 53 tahun kemerdekaan, sudah tiba masanya negara ini meninggalkan politik perkauman sempit yang seumpama barah merosak masyarakat. Pakatan Rakyat merasa bertanggungjawab untuk memaknai kembali Kemerdekaan yang berlandaskan Politik Baru yang lebih matang dan mengutamakan kemaslahatan rakyat serta negara ini.
Kita percaya antara lainnya serangan ini adalah untuk menutup kegagalan kerajaan Umno-BN menguruskan khazanah negara seumpama skandal rompakan saham untuk rakyat termiskin bernilai RM 52 billion. Kita menggesa satu Suruhanjaya Di Raja ditubuhkan bagi menyiasat kehilangan hak rakyat tersebut.
YB Dato Seri Anwar Ibrahim,
Ketua Umum Keadilan

YB Ust Nasharuddin Mat Isa
Timbalan Presiden Pas

PKR YAB Lim Guan Eng
Setiausaha AgungDAP

Antara Kandungan Dasar Bersama Pakatan Rakyat. Iltizam untuk melaksanakan Politik Baru:

1. Demokrasi Telus dan Tulen

A – Negara Perlembagaan dan Kedaulatan Undang-Undang
Perlembagaan Persekutuan merupakan penzahiran cita-cita dan harapan rakyat Malaysia yang merdeka. Di dalamnya hak asasi setiap rakyat termasuk hak agama, bahasa, kerakyatan dan budaya dijamin sepenuhnya. Justeru, Pakatan Rakyat beriltizam memartabatkan semangat dan peruntukan Perlembagaan Persekutuan.
Pakatan Rakyat akan:
i. Mempertahankan Perlembagaan Persekutuan, Islam sebagai agama bagi Persekutuan dan agama-agama lain boleh diamalkan dengan aman dan damai di mana-mana di negara ini serta melindungi kedudukan istimewa orang Melayu dan anak negeri mana-mana antara Negeri Sabah dan Sarawak dan kepentingan sah kaum-kaum lain sejajar dengan Perkara 153

ii. Mempertahankan peranan dan tanggungjawab institusi raja berperlembagaan.

iii. Memartabatkan pengunaan Bahasa Melayu selari dengan Perkara 152 Perlembagaan dan memperluaskan Bahasa Melayu sebagai lingua franca serantau, melindungi dan memperkukuhkan penggunaan bahasa ibunda semua kaum.
iv. Memansuhkan Akta Keselamatan Dalam Negeri dan undang-undang yang membenarkan tahanan tanpa dibicara. Serentak dengan itu mengesyorkan pembatalan semua pengisytiharan Darurat yang masih berkuatkuasa.
v. Memansuhkan atau meminda semua akta dan undang-undang yang zalim serta melanggar hak asasi.
vi. Menjamin semangat persekutuan serta hubungan yang adil di antara Persekutuan dengan negeri-negeri, terutama Sabah dan Sarawak.

KENYATAAN MEDIA PEJABAT SETIAUSAHA AGUNG PARTI KEADILAN RAKYAT

Pejabat Setiausaha Agung Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) pada 25 Ogos 2010 telah menerima hasil siasatan Jawatankuasa Disiplin terhadap aduan penubuhan Parti Cinta Sabah

Laporan siasatan tersebut mengesahkan berlakunya perlanggaran terhadap disiplin parti mengikut Fasal 27.7 iaitu patuh kepada perlembagaan parti, menjalankan dasar-dasar parti dan memelihara nama baik parti yang membabitkan dua belas (12 )penama yang diadu. (Rujuk lampiran)

Jawatankuasa Disiplin juga telah mencadangkan hukuman penggantungan satu tahun dikenakan ke atas mereka yang akan hanya berkuatkuasa tertakluk kepada perakuan oleh mesyuarat Majlis Pimpinan Pusat (MPP) pada 29 Ogos 2010 yang akan datang.

Pada masa yang bersama dua belas (12 )penama tersebut mempunyai hak untuk mengemukakan rayuan dalam tempoh empat belas (14) hari bermula dari 29 Ogos 2010 nanti.

Lampiran

DUA BELAS PENAMA KES SIASATAN JAWATANKUASA DISIPLIN PARTI KEADILAN RAKYAT

1. Daniel John Jambun

2. Awang Ahmad Sah

3. Moses @ Mozes Michael Iking

4. Nicholas James Guntobon

5. Paul Kerangkas

6. Slyvester @ Balon Mujim

7. Innocent Makajil

8. Nasir Samie

9. Harry Kujukok Manisit

10. Rubbin bin Guribah

11. Gosibin Yosundang

12. Guandee Kohoi

Saifuddin Nasution Ismail
Setiausaha Agung
Parti Keadilan Rakyat

Tarikh 26 Ogos 2010

Dari Sinar Harian

Ahli Dewan Undangan Negeri (ADUN) Seri Setia Nik Nazmi Nik Ahmad menyifatkan kenyataannya yang menyebut pelaksanaan hukuman hudud di Malaysia adalah tidak sesuai seperti dilaporkan media sebagai tidak tepat.

Katanya, beliau tidak berniat menentang hukum syariah kerana ia sebahagian daripada agama Islam, tetapi dalam 17 Perkara Dasar Keadilan, telah termaktub pendirian Keadilan dalam hal agama.

“Mendaulatkan Islam sebagai agama Persekutuan sambil menjamin hak bukan Islam untuk beragama dan berfikir, serta memperkembangkan peranan agama dan nilai-nilai sejagat demi menegakkan kebenaran, keadilan, tatacara berakhlak, kemanusiaan dan kemuliaan insan. (more…)

Malaysiakini | 26 Ogos 2010

Perebutan kerusi ketua Pemuda PKR (AMK) hampir pasti menyaksikan pertembungan tiga penjuru antara penyandangnya Shamsul Iskandar Md Akin dan dua anggota majlis pimpinan pusat (MPP) Badrul Hisam Shaharin dan Rafizi Ramli.

Bagaimanapun, anak sulung ketua umum parti Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim dan presiden PKR, Datuk Seri Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail — Nurul Izzah difahamkan tidak berhasrat merebut mana-mana jawatan kanan dalam sayap parti itu sebaliknya mahu menumpukan tugasnya sebagai ahli parlimen.

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From Malaysian Bar

The Malaysian Bar is disappointed that the Court of Appeal, by a majority, has decided to grant the appeal by V K Lingam, Tun Ahmad Fairuz and Tun Eusoff Chin for leave to quash the Report by the Royal Commission of Enquiry on the “video clip incident” in whole or in parts.

A Royal Commission of Enquiry’s mandate entails the production of reports based on findings and recommendations. Hence, in essence, it cannot be a subject of legal challenge since the Royal Commission is not mandated to make decisions that can fall under the scope of judicial review. The Court inevitably refused or failed to consider the substantive arguments at the leave stage that the appellants surely had no arguable case.

The Bar urges the Honourable Attorney General to file an application for leave to appeal this decision at the Federal Court on this important question of law, which will have an impact on the success, effectiveness and credibility of future Royal Commissions. We look forward to the Federal Court to make the right decision.

At the same time, the Bar is shocked at the reprehensible threats made against certain individuals who were involved in exposing the “video clip incident” and were witnesses at the Royal Commission of Enquiry. We trust that the Royal Police Force will investigate these threats and provide adequate protection to these individuals immediately.

Meanwhile, the Bar continues with its disciplinary proceedings against V K Lingam.

Ragunath Kesavan
President
Malaysian Bar

25 August 2010

Majlis Iftar dan Tarawikh bersama aktivis NGO Islam anjuran Biro Perpaduan Agama akan diadakan dikediaman Dato Seri Anwar Ibrahim.Manakala Tazkirah akan disampaikan oleh Ustaz Sidek Fadhil diikuti dengan Dato Seri Anwar Ibrahim.Berikut adalah butiran program tersebut:-

Tarikh: 26 Ogos 2010 (Khamis)

Tempat: Kediaman Dato Seri Anwar Ibrahim,
Bukit Segambut,Kuala Lumpur

From Malaysian Insider
By Art Harun

Every year, during the first two or three days of fasting, I suffer from headaches. That is because my blood sugar level drops. Thank God this will go away after the third day of fasting.

Low blood sugar level may cause hypoglycemia. In some cases, symptoms of hypoglycemia include impaired judgment; irritability; belligerence; confusion; combativeness and rage. Thankfully, as far as I know, I don’t have those symptoms.

When Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad said yesterday that meritocracy and “meritocrats” are racists, my first reaction was one of irritation. Then I was bemused. Later I was amused. And finally today I think it must have been the fasting month and the obvious low blood sugar level which was affecting him.

Meritocracy as I understand it is the act of rewarding or awarding an individual or a body of individuals or any entity with anything based on merit. Like awarding a student who has scored 13 As in SPM a place in the university. Or awarding X Sdn Bhd a contract to maintain a submarine because X Sdn Bhd has successfully maintained 15 other submarines before this without any problem at reasonable costs as compared to any other company who were bidding for the job.

Conversely, if someone becomes chief this or that just because he or she has good contact with the appointer, that is not meritocracy. It is also not meritocracy if a person obtains something just because he or she is of a particular race, religion or even has a particular sexual preference.

In the sporting arena, Datuk Nicole David has been a world champion for so long because she is so good at what she is doing that there is no other living creature who could be as good as her. Therefore, Datuk Nicole is a champion by virtue of meritocracy. God forbid that Tun Dr M thinks that the good Datuk is a racist or that the World Squash Championship people are!

The same thing with our badminton teams. We have won the Thomas Cup umpteen times just because we are the best. Are we racists or the organisers of the Thomas Cup racists?

The Spaniards recently won the World Cup because they played the best football. Are they or FIFA racists?

At King’s College, London University, students who top their class are given a Merit award on their post-graduate degree. That is because those students qualify for the said award by being top students. They are not given a Merit just because they are of a particular race or profess a particular religion. In other words, the students get the award based on merit. Is King’s College racist?

I believe Tan Sri Azman Mokhtar is the chief of Khazanah because he is really good at what he is doing. And he is appointed by the Prime Minister. The same goes with the new Petronas chief who replaced Tan Sri Hassan Marican. Recently, Datuk Mohd Bakke Salleh was appointed as the new Sime Darby chief because it is said that he is the most suitable person to be the chief of Sime Darby. He has done a great job at Felda. Again, the PM must have had a hand in his appointment.

The PM also chooses all the members of his Cabinet. I am sure the PM appoints all the Cabinet members because the PM thinks those people are the most qualified people to be in the Cabinet. Thus we have people like Idris Jala and Amirsham in the Cabinet. These are proven people from the corporate sector.

Tun, is the PM racist then?

Dear Tun, allow me to say this. Malaysia could be a united nation, with a confident Malaysian society, infused by strong moral and ethical values, living in a society that is democratic, liberal and tolerant, caring, economically just and equitable, progressive and prosperous, and in full possession of an economy that is competitive, dynamic, robust and resilient.

But we cannot be so until and unless we overcome the nine central strategic challenges. They are:

1. The challenge of establishing a united Malaysian nation with a sense of common and shared destiny. This must be a nation at peace with itself, territorially and ethnically integrated, living in harmony and full and fair partnership, made up of one “Bangsa Malaysia.”

2. The challenge of creating a psychologically liberated, secure, and developed Malaysian society with faith and confidence in itself, justifiably proud of what it is, of what it has accomplished, robust enough to face all manner of adversity. This Malaysian society must be distinguished by the pursuit of excellence, fully aware of all its potentials, psychologically subservient to none, and respected by the peoples of other nations.

3. The challenge of fostering and developing a mature democratic society, practising a form of mature consensual, community-oriented Malaysian democracy that can be a model for many developing countries.

4. The challenge of establishing a fully moral and ethical society.

5. The challenge of establishing a matured, liberal and tolerant society in which Malaysians of all colours and creeds are free to practise and profess their customs, cultures and religious beliefs and yet feeling that they belong to one nation.

6. The challenge of establishing a scientific and progressive society, a society that is innovative and forward-looking.

7. The challenge of establishing a fully caring society and a caring culture, a social system in which society will come before self, in which the welfare of the people will revolve not around the state or the individual but around a strong and resilient family system.

8. The challenge of ensuring an economically just society. This is a society in which there is a fair and equitable distribution of the wealth of the nation, in which there is full partnership in economic progress. Such a society cannot be in place so long as there is the identification of race with economic function, and the identification of economic backwardness with race.

9. The challenge of establishing a prosperous society, with an economy that is fully competitive, dynamic, robust and resilient.

Tun, with all due respect, we cannot run away from those challenges. We, as a nation and as a people, have to confront those challenges and by hook or by crook, overcome them in order to be a developed country.

What we are doing now is to forget those challenges. To assume that they are not there. To sweep them under the carpet and pretend that everything is okay when it is quite obviously not.

We are letting racism and communal interests rule the day. We are not working as one nor living as one. We are not even willing to attempt to do so. We have abandoned the ideals of this nation when this nation was at the brink of achieving independence. The ideals and aspirations of our forefathers have been betrayed, destroyed and consigned to our archives and treated as if they are not worth the paper they are written on.

Where is the nation at peace with itself, territorially and ethnically integrated, living in harmony and full and fair partnership, made up of one “Bangsa Malaysia” stated above? (more…)

Dari Merdeka Review
Oleh Nazar Hashim

Khatib yang didakwa terlibat dalam isu doa khutbah Jumaat, Ustaz Zakaria Ahmad, mempertahankan pendirian beliau bahawa tiada kesalahan yang dilakukan semasa doa khutbah tersebut dibacakan bagi mendoakan kesejahteraan kepada Ketua Menteri Pulau Pinang, Lim Guan Eng.

Zakaria Ahmad (gambar kanan) yang bercakap kepada media selepas menemui panel jawatankuasa Majlis Agama Islam Negeri Pulau Pinang (MAINPP) di pejabat MAINPP semalam, berkata bahawa tidak menjadi satu kesalahan untuk berdoa (kepada orang bukan Islam).

“Cuma caranya sahaja perlu diperbetulkan. Saya mengucapkan terima kasih kepada pihak MAINPP yang telah membantu bagi memberi panduan mengenai keperluan yang ada dalam isu khutbah ini.”

“Namun begitu isu ini hanyalah satu isu kecil. Sebelum ini pun ada orang lain yang membacakan doa dalam khutbah Jumaat kepada pemimpin tetapi kenapa mereka tidak dipanggil?” tanya beliau.

Mungkin ambil tindakan saman malu (more…)

Dari TV Selangor

Parti Keadilan Rakyat Sarawak menggesa Ketua Menteri Sarawak Tan Sri Abdul Taib Mahmud supaya melepaskan jawatannya dengan sesegera mungkin dan membuka ruang kepada lapisan pimpinan baru.

Pengarah Operasi Pilihanraya Nicholas Badwin menyambut baik kenyataan Taib yang menyataan kesediaan untuk berundur sekiranya khidmat beliau tidak diperlukan lagi.

Nicholas menjelaskan kerajaaan Taib Mahmud telah melewati tarikh luput dan tidak lagi mampu untuk menguruskan Sarawak dengan baik. (more…)

Dari Malaysiakini
Oleh Aidila Razak

Sebuah syarikat yang dimiliki oleh anak-anak Ketua Menteri Sarawak, Tan Sri Abdul Taib Mahmud berjaya memperolehi tiga bidang tanah di Kuching pada harga yang tersangat rendah. Tindakan itu menyebabkan kerajaan negeri itu kehilangan potensi pendapatan RM300 juta.

Ahli parlimen Bandar Kuching Chong Chieng Jen yang membuat pendedahan itu berkata kerajaan negeri telah memperuntukkan seluas 269 ekar di bandaraya itu kepada Monarda Sdn Bhd pada harga yang jauh lebih rendah daripada harga pasaran iaitu pada kadar purata RM291,000 bagi setiap ekar.

“Harga pasaran adalah dalam lingkungan RM1.5 juta dan RM2 juta bagi setiap ekar. Jika dijual secara tender, kerajaan negeri akan memperolehi pendapatan antara RM400 hingga RM500 juta,” katanya kepada Malaysiakini, hari ini. (more…)

By Hussein Abdul Hamid

Every time I go on the Net to see what is going on in KL -without fail – I will come across this Mahathir’s name! An article about him, an article by him, something he said, something he did not say, and something he was going to say.

Why has not this Mahathir got the grace to understand that he is no longer Crime Minister?… …sorry that should have been Prime Minister! This Mahathir must really have a thick skin. Anybody else would have just crawled into a dark hole somewhere and hide. Tak malu ka? How much more money do you want? Pension not enough? Your children not giving you enough pocket money? Isn’t Petronas paying for the petrol you use? I do not want to demonise you but really Tun enough is enough!

In your good old days people like Ibrahim Ali would not even get through your first layer of Setia Usahas. And yet these days you are the best of buddies.

For the love of God, Tun jaga standard sikit lah! Even your children will not be seen dead with this Ibrahim Ali…jatuh standard lah Tun!

Just stop to think what it is that you are doing (and have done to us Malaysians). I am not going to go into nepotism, money politics or abuse of power – I am just trying to understand how a person that considers himself to be the greatest PM Malaysia has ever had can now do what you do. And what you do is to bring yourself down to a level where people like me – an old man in Adelaide – can have you in my sight and fire away at you. Call you whatever name I want, expose whatever wrong doings you have done while in office and do so without any qualms.

I do not do so with Daim..nor with Lim Chong Eu…nor with Pak Lah…you are fair game because you put yourself right square in our sights. And if you think you do so because you can take anything that we throw at you and give back as good as you get…think of this:

A democratic victory for the people is when BN is faced with the real possibility of losing a General Election.

And that Tun has already happened under your watch – under the people you picked and choose as your team, as your people as your successor. So it has already happened and you Tun made it happen. All your choices of people to manage UMNO during or after your time were failures. And it all comes back to you. That you have already bankrupted Malaysia is a given fact. That you have caused untold misery and hardship for so many people by your non- judicious use of the ISA is also a given fact. That the IPP’s agreements, the Tolls Agreements, the Privatisation process – and so many other initiatives undertaken under your watch are greatly flawed and lopsided in favour of your chosen cohorts and friends is also a given fact.

So what is left Tun? You are trying to right a wrong? Trying to correct a mistake. Trying to make up for the mistakes you have done? Trying to make back for our country all the monies you have given away or lost through your time as Prime Minister?

Let me tell you this TUN – there will not be enough time to do that even if your grandchildren were to start now to do so. The damage done to our economy, the losses sustained by the country and the restructuring you did of the various races in the country people cannot be corrected within our lifetime – or that of our children.

As for UMNO: it is done Tun. Common sense tells me that you would never have chosen Najib as Prime Minister. Why? He has no balls. No substance. No guts. He is not PM material and you are practical enough not to pick him even if he did deliver the decisive support you needed in your fight against Musa and Ku Li.

No Najib will never be you choice. Nor, now it seems was Pak Lah. So who? Your son….please don’t play play lah!

And so now you are watching the closure of UMNO in the history of our country.

Please God – give you long life so that you will see a PR government take office at Putrajaya and a PR Perdana Menteri move into Sri Perdana…because TUN, that will be the deepest cut of them all.