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Sep

Isu Masjid: Usaha Musuh Pakatan Gagal

By Anwar Ibrahim 5 Comments

Categories: Agenda Baru, Analisis, Anwar, Demokrasi, Islam, Isu Semasa, KeADILan, Malaysia, Media, Pakatan Rakyat, Parlimen, Politik, Program, Sidenotes and Umno

Dari Harakah Daily
Oleh Shukur Harun

Usaha beberapa ulama dan para pemimpin PAS mengemukakan hujah Al-Quran dan Sunnah yang mengharuskan orang bukan Islam memasuki masjid, setelah mendapat izin pihak berkenaan, telah dapat membersihkan imej Islam yang dikotori golongan tertentu.

Malah telah mempererat lagi hubungan antara parti-parti dalam Pakatan Rakyat serta menggagalkan usaha mereka memecah belahkan Pakatan Rakyat dengan menimbulkan pelbagai isu yang bersifat fitnah, tuduhan dan rangkaian kata-kata karut marut yang disebarkan dalam media tradisional yang dikuasai golongan itu.

Tokoh ulama seperti Tuan Guru Haji Nik Abd Aziz Nik Mat, Dr. Muhd Nur Manuty, Dr. Dzulkifly Ahmad, Dr. Mujahid Yusuf Rawa dan lain-lain serta para tokoh pemimpin PAS, Haji Mahfuz Omar, Salahuddin Ayub dan lain-lain telah benar-benar membantu menjernihkan keadaan, di samping memperlihatkan wajah Islam sebenar kepada anggota Pakatan Rakyat.

Dengan itu, gagallah usaha musuh politik Pakatan Rakyat – Umno/BN – untuk memporakperandakan Pakatan Rakyat dengan menaburkan isu karut marut yang sangat berbau perkauman dan kebencian.

Malah kita terkesan juga bahawa umat Islam sendiri kebanyakannya faham hal ini dan tidak terpedaya dengan isu palsu yang ditimbulkan. Masjid dan surau, kuliah-kuliah, tazkirah tidak lansung membangkitkan isu ini bahkan melawan balik – suatu isyarat bahawa umat Islam sedar isu ini hanya ‘permainan’ golongan politik sekular yang bangkrap idea. Continue reading ‘Isu Masjid: Usaha Musuh Pakatan Gagal’

Aug

Parlimen Malaysia Perlu Tubuh Kaukus Untuk Palestin

By Anwar Ibrahim 15 Comments

Categories: Agenda Baru, Aktiviti, Analisis, Antarabangsa, Anwar, Asia Tenggara, Demokrasi, Dunia Arab, Ekonomi, Hebahan, Islam, Isu Semasa, KeADILan, Malaysia, Media, Pakatan Rakyat, Parlimen, Persidangan and Program

Rombongan kami sebagai Ahli Parlimen Parti Keadilan Rakyat yang turut serta dalam Misi Kemanusiaan Ramadzan di Semenanjung Gaza, mengucapkan terima kasih kepada Kedutaan Malaysia di Mesir dan Kerajaan Mesir kerana membenarkan kami masuk untuk melaksanakan
misi kali ini.

Sesungguhnya misi kali ini amat bermakna untuk kami meninjau sendiri kesan peperangan yang telah membebankan rakyat Palestin. Peranan Kerajaan Malaysia sebagai pihak yang prihatin kepada isu Palestin termasuk membuat usul mengutuk serangan tentera Zionis Israel dalam parlimen perlu diterjemahkan ke dalam bentuk tindakan yang lebih proaktif.

Di antara yang kami pinta adalah :-

1. Meminta Kedutaan Malaysia di Mesir untuk berunding dengan Kerajaan Mesir bagi memastikan konvoi atau misi kemanusiaan ke Gaza dipermudahkan pada masa hadapan.

Secara tidak langsung ia membuka laluan perdagangan di antara dunia luar dan rakyat Palestin khususnya.

2. Meminta Parlimen Malaysia untuk mewujudkan Kaukus bagi memperjuangkan isu Palestin dari kezaliman tentera Zionis Israel secara lebih berfokus. Tujuan utamanya adalah untuk memberi tekanan politik antarabangsa supaya wilayah Semenanjung Gaza dibebaskan dari sekatan ekonomi.

3. Menggesa pelbagai pihak termasuk ahli-ahli parlimen, kerajaan negeri dan mana-mana pertubuhan kemanusiaan untuk menziarahi dan menghulurkan bantuan kemanusiaan di Semenanjung Gaza; kerana mereka amat memerlukan lawatan kita di sana bagi menguatkan hubungan dan semangat juang menentang regim Zionis Israel.

Dokumentasi misi kemanusiaan Ramadzan Ke Gaza oleh MAPIM dengan kerjasama ahli parlimen yang turut serta ke Semenanjung Gaza akan diserahkan kepada YB Menteri Luar di Parlimen pada bulan Oktober atau November 2010 nanti.

HAJJAH ZURAIDA KAMARUDDIN
Ketua Wanita KEADILAN
Ahli Parlimen Ampang
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Wakil Ahli Parlimen Parti Keadilan Rakyat yang hadir menyertai Misi Kemanusiaan Ramadzan di
Semenanjung Gaza mulai 6 – 18 Ogos 2010 :

1. YB Hajjah Zuraida Kamaruddin
Ahli Parlimen Ampang
Ketua Wanita Parti Keadilan Rakyat

2. YB Haji Ahmad Kasim
Ahli Parlimen Kuala Kedah
Pengerusi Majlis Pimpinan Parti Keadilan Rakyat Negeri Kedah Continue reading ‘Parlimen Malaysia Perlu Tubuh Kaukus Untuk Palestin’

Aug

Isu Bukan Islam Masuk Masjid

By Anwar Ibrahim 24 Comments

Categories: Agenda Baru, Analisis, Anwar, Demokrasi, Hebahan, Islam, Isu Semasa, KeADILan, Malaysia, Media, Pakatan Rakyat, Parlimen, Politik and Umno

PARTI KEADILAN RAKYAT
KENYATAAN MEDIA

Bagaikan menahan lukah di pergentingan, UMNO dan para kuncunya tidak habis-habis menerkam apa jua kesempatan dan isu sebagai modal mempertahan survival politik perkauman mereka. Seperti biasanya, bagaikan jerat sudah mengena, UMNO dan para pendokongnya mengambil kesempatan ke atas tindakan beberapa pemimpin Pakatan Rakyat bukan Islam yang telah memasuki masjid dan surau baru-baru ini. Peristiwa Dr. Xavier Jayakumar berucap di dewan utama sebuah masjid di Taman Sri Andalas, Klang pada Ogos 2009 yang lalu, telahpun hampir dilupakan. Kini tindakan YB Teo Nie Ching (Ahli Parlimen DAP Serdang) masuk ke Surau Al-Huda, Kajang dan YB William Leong (Bendahari PKR, Ahli Parlimen PKR Selayang) masuk ke dalam Masjid At-Taqwa, Selayang Baru pula dijadikan isu besar.

Untuk menjelaskan pendirian kami mengenai isu ini, kami ingin membawa perhatian semua pihak kedudukan perkara ini dari perspektif fiqh (hokum Hakam Islam). Sekurang-kurangnya ada empat pandangan mengenai masalah ini. Pertamanya: Mazhab Hanafi yang membenarkan bukan Islam memasuki semua masjid. Keduanya: Mazhab Syafie yang membenarkan masuk kesemua masjid melainkan masjid Haram dan kawasan tanah haram Makkah. Ketiganya: Mazhab Hanbali yang membenarkan untuk memasuki masjidil haram dan lainnya setelah mendapat kebenaran dari umat Islam atas tujuan-tujuan yang munasabah. Akhirnya, Mazhab Maliki yang tidak membenarkan memasuki semua masjid melainkan kerana darurat kerja.

Beberapa peristiwa di zaman Rasulullah juga boleh dijadikan panduan. Baginda pernah membenarkan ramai orang-orang bukan Islam masuk dan tinggal lama di masjid. Rasulullah juga diriwayatkan pernah menerima tetamu Kristian dari Najran di dalam masjid Madinah, malah diizinkan oleh Nabi s.a.w untuk menunaikan sembahyang mereka di dalam masjid dan nabi menyebut kepada sahabat: “Biarkan mereka (untuk melunaskan sembahyang mereka)”

Kepelbagaian pandangan ini menggambarkan keluasan hukum Islam dalam persoalan yang digembar-gemburkan sebagai isu besar ini. Hakikatnya, majoriti ulama silam dan kontemporari jelas mengharuskan bukan Islam memasuki masjid-masjid biasa dengan syarat-syarat tertentu seperti keperluan mendapat keizinan umat Islam atau badan berkuasa Islam, mempunyai sebab yang munasabah dan menjaga adab-adab yang telah ditetapkan.

Oleh yang demikian, kami berpendirian bahawa adalah tidak wajar bagi siapa jua untuk menyempitkan sesuatu yang tidak jelas dari sudut nas-nasnya dan dalil-dalilnya. Apatah lagi jika kita sememangnya berpegang dengan mazhab al-Syafie sebagai mazhab rasmi umat Islam di Negara ini. Lebih jauh lagi, sikap menghalang bukan Islam memasuki masjid ini adalah bertentangan dengan semangat yang diputuskan oleh Muzakarah Jawatankuasa Fatwa Majlis Kebangsaan Bagi Hal Ehwal Ugama Islam Malaysia Kali Ke-90 yang bersidang pada 1 Mac 2010 telah memutuskan bahawa pelancong bukan Islam diharuskan memasuki masjid dan ruang solat dengan syarat-syarat yang telah ditentukan. Continue reading ‘Isu Bukan Islam Masuk Masjid’

Aug

Anwar Ibrahim Again Battles Dubious Sex Sharges

By eddieputra 9 Comments

Categories: Analisis, Antarabangsa, Anwar, Demokrasi, Ekonomi, Isu Semasa, KeADILan, Kewangan, Mahkamah, Malaysia, Media, Pakatan Rakyat, Parlimen, Penerbitan, Pilihanraya, Politik and Umno

From The Globe And Mail
By Mark MacKinnon

There is an uncomfortable pattern to life for Anwar Ibrahim, the charismatic leader of Malaysia’s opposition. In 1998, shortly after he quit the authoritarian government of Mahathir bin Mohamad, he was convicted and jailed on trumped-up sodomy charges.

Six years after that conviction was quashed and he was released from prison – and just as it looked like he and his multi-ethnic coalition might finally oust the long-ruling United National Malays Organization from office – Mr. Anwar finds himself trapped in the most awkward of reruns, once more accused of “consensual intercourse against the order of nature.”

The charges again look to be a thinly veiled attempt to ruin Mr. Anwar’s reputation and sabotage his political career in this Muslim-majority country. The trial to date – dubbed “Sodomy II” in Malaysia’s unsubtle government-controlled press – has produced a succession of lurid headlines about lubricant tubes and stained underwear, while Mr. Anwar and his lawyers have been denied the right even to see the medical records of the man with which he is alleged to have had anal sex.

But instead of letting the scandalous court proceedings force him to the sidelines, the eternally optimistic Mr. Anwar has been using good humour and his ever-present BlackBerry to turn even the most awkward of headlines to his advantage, holding up the charges against him as proof of the absurdity of the system he’s trying to change.

As a lone judge contemplates whether there is evidence to convict Mr. Anwar and sentence him to up to 20 years in prison, as well as a flogging, Mr. Anwar has continued his ferocious assault on a government he derides as repressive and corrupt, blogging from the courtroom and sending cheeky and upbeat 140-character updates to his followers via Twitter.

“Sodomy circus turns into sex opera!” reads one of Mr. Anwar’s mid-trial posts, which linked to a video of a lawyer discussing the lurid details of the case. “Courage of conviction. Que sera sera,” was his response to a fellow Twitter user who worried the energetic 63-year-old was headed back to jail.

The odds do seem stacked against Mr. Anwar, a former deputy prime minister who was once considered the rising star of Malaysian politics. But to hear him tell it, his déjà-vu legal ordeal is evidence that Prime Minister Najib Razak and his party are losing their grip on power, and they know it well.

“They can’t deal with me politically – either my economic programs or policies. They can’t debate me. So they resort to this ludicrous exercise to demonize me,” he said in an interview at the offices of his People’s Justice Party in western Kuala Lumpur, a confident grin fixed on his narrow, goateed face. “We will win the next election and we will change the courts.”

It seems unlikely things will go quite that smoothly. Mr. Anwar’s political career has seen his fortunes change as often and as quickly as the weather in this peninsula thrust between the Indian and Pacific oceans. The leader of a Muslim youth organization during his student days, he shocked his followers by joining UNMO in the early 1980s and taking a succession of cabinet posts in the authoritarian government of Mr. Mahathir, eventually rising to become his powerful finance minister and deputy prime minister. Continue reading ‘Anwar Ibrahim Again Battles Dubious Sex Sharges’

Aug

Umno Mahu Taib Undur, Untuk Kuasai Sarawak

By Anwar Ibrahim 4 Comments

Categories: Analisis, Anwar, Demokrasi, Isu Semasa, KeADILan, Malaysia, Pakatan Rakyat, Parlimen, Pilihanraya, Politik, Propaganda, Sidenotes and Umno

Dari Harakah

PAS melihat Umno kini terdesak untuk menyingkirkan Ketua Menteri Sarawak, Tan Sri Abdul Taib Mahmud selepas
kekalahan yang memalukan BN di Sibu baru-baru ini.

Ketua Penerangan PAS, Idris Ahmad berkata, tekanan tersebut sama seperti dilakukan Umno ketika mahu menjatuhkan Mahathir dan Pak Lah.

Ianya sewaktu kedua-duanya dituduh sebagai punca Kekalahan BN dalam pilihanraya Umum 1999 dan 2008.

Umno ujar Idris mahu menguasai Sarawak dengan menyingkirkan Taib yang kini presiden Parti Pesaka Bumiputera Bersatu (PBB). Continue reading ‘Umno Mahu Taib Undur, Untuk Kuasai Sarawak’

Aug

Malaysia’s New Journey

By eddieputra 3 Comments

Categories: Analisis, Antarabangsa, Anwar, Asia Tenggara, Demokrasi, Ekonomi, Islam, Isu Semasa, KeADILan, Kewangan, Mahkamah, Malaysia, Media, Pakatan Rakyat, Parlimen, Penerbitan, Politik and Umno

From Time Magazine
By Michael Schuman / Kuala Lumpur

Malaysia is that rare country with an unequivocal national narrative. It goes something like this: Malaysia’s 28 million people, comprising mainly Malays, Chinese and Indians, make up a moderate and modern emerging democracy. Unlike members of other multiethnic countries, they respect one another’s beliefs and values and share a commitment to achieving prosperity. The official religion is Islam, but other faiths are freely allowed and celebrated. This is one harmonious place.

Much of that narrative is true — but not all of it. Malaysia’s economic miracle has stalled, and while the nation is, indeed, somewhat pluralistic, it is no melting pot. Indeed, it is a society where people define themselves first and foremost by race.
(See pictures of Islam in Asia.)

The country’s political leadership has in some respects reinforced those ethnic identities. For the past 40 years, policymakers have doled out special privileges — in education and business — to one community: the majority Malays. The program is one of modern history’s greatest experiments in social engineering and possibly the world’s most extensive attempt at affirmative action. But the policies have also bred resentment among minorities, distorted the economy and undermined the concept of a single Malaysian identity.

Now a movement is gaining strength to finally change the system — and it’s coming from the very top. Prime Minister Najib Razak, 57, has surprised the country by advocating a fundamental reform of the pro-Malay program first introduced, ironically, by his father, who was Malaysia’s Prime Minister in the 1970s. Though the specifics of the new policies remain hazy, Najib’s intent is not. “I want Malaysia to be globally competitive,” he told TIME in an exclusive interview. “For that, we need to get every single Malaysian to be together.”

Najib’s proposals have simultaneously raised hopes, ire and fear. The mere idea of changing the affirmative-action system has reopened old wounds in Malaysian society and reactivated the long-running debate on how best to fuse Malays, Chinese and Indians into one nation. The direction Malaysia takes, moreover, has repercussions beyond its shores. The issues raised by Najib’s proposals are relevant to any upwardly mobile developing economy, especially a multicultural one: how to increase wealth and do so equitably.
(Read “Why the Honeymoon is Over for Malaysia’s New PM.”)

In confronting these sensitive challenges, Najib is taking enormous political risks. The primary base of electoral support for Najib’s political party, the United Malays National Organization (UMNO), is the Malay community, and altering decades-old perquisites could cause voters to defect to the opposition. But Najib believes he has little choice. If Malaysia’s economy is to compete with China, India and other rapidly emerging neighbors, Najib sees no other route but reform. “The competition is much greater and some would describe it even as cutthroat,” Najib says. “There is a realization that what has worked in the past may not necessarily work in the future.”

The Malay Card
Najib is facing the same dilemma his predecessors have since the earliest days of Malaysian independence: balancing the perceived needs of the Malays, both political and economic, with those of the country as a whole. At the heart of the problem is the reverse-pyramid shape of the Malaysian economy. Though the Malays and other indigenous peoples, together known as bumiputra in Malay, make up about 60% of the population, they have traditionally been poorer than the Chinese and Indian immigrants, who have long dominated the nation’s business and trade. After Kuala Lumpur was struck by race riots in 1969, a shaken leadership determined that communal peace was impossible without economic balance. The result was the New Economic Policy (NEP), introduced in 1971, which aimed to raise the Malays’ share of the economic pie. Malays were given preferential access to public contracts and university scholarships. Any company listing on the stock market had to sell 30% of its shares to bumiputra investors. Though some measures have been softened or eliminated over the past two decades, many pro-Malay privileges remain. Certain government contracts are available only to bumiputra-controlled firms, for example. Malays even receive special discounts on home purchases. The affirmative-action program has become so ingrained in the Malaysian psyche that it is akin to a national ideology.

It is also controversial. Critics contend that the pro-Malay program too often benefits the connected few over its intended targets: the poor and struggling. All car-import permits, for example, are awarded to bumiputra-controlled firms, a policy intended to foster entrepreneurs in the community. But government audits have revealed that Malay businessmen with access to the permits sometimes sell them to minority traders who don’t — at an instant profit. (The Ministry of Trade and Industry, recognizing the problem, says it will phase out the permit system by 2020.) “Unfortunately, as [the NEP] was implemented over time, some of the zealots, politicians and bureaucrats included, tended to become more racial and emphasized more on the people who have relationships with them,” says Razaleigh Hamzah, an UMNO dignitary and former Finance Minister. “That’s where it went wrong.”

Despite four decades of special aid, 3 in 4 of the poorest people in Malaysia are still bumiputra. Adli Ahmad Ghazi, the Malay co-owner of Malaysian Defensive Driving & Riding, a 70-employee driving school in Kuala Lumpur, complains that the pro-Malay policies do little to help a small businessman like himself. In 2008, Adli tried to get financing from three agencies tasked with supporting Malay businessmen or small enterprises, but got rejected. When he has to deal with the bureaucracy, Adli says, he faces the same red tape as any other businessman. It took him two years to buy a parcel of land for his company from the local government. “The [NEP] rules don’t really apply to people on the ground,” Adli says. “They say the NEP would help the Malays, but it only helps a small percentage of the Malays.” Continue reading ‘Malaysia’s New Journey’

Aug

Program Lawatan Dato’ Seri Anwar Ibrahim Ke Sarawak

By Anwar Ibrahim 5 Comments

Categories: Agenda Baru, Aktiviti, Anwar, Demokrasi, Hebahan, Isu Semasa, KeADILan, Malaysia, Media, Pakatan Rakyat, Parlimen, Politik, Program and Sidenotes

31 Ogos – 01 September 2010 (Selasa dan Rabu)

31 OGOS 2010 (Selasa) – Lawatan ke Limbang / Lawas

11.30 am – Perjumpaan dengan masyarakat N68 Bukit Kota di Pekan Limbang

2.00 pm – Perjumpaan dengan masyarakat N70 Bakelalan di Lun Bawang

3.30 pm – Perjumpaan dengan masyarakat Lawas sempena perasmian

Pejabat Khidmat P222 Lawas, N71 Bukit Sari Continue reading ‘Program Lawatan Dato’ Seri Anwar Ibrahim Ke Sarawak’

Aug

Melawan Politik Perkauman Sempit

By Anwar Ibrahim 7 Comments

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

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.

Aug

Press Release: Malaysian Bar Disappointed With The Court of Appeal’s Decision On The Royal Commission of Enquiry’s Report On The VK Lingam Video Clip

By Anwar Ibrahim 1 Comment

Categories: Anwar, Demokrasi, Hebahan, Isu Semasa, KeADILan, Mahkamah, Malaysia, Media, Pakatan Rakyat, Parlimen, Politik and Umno

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

Aug

Eh, Tun dah lupa?

By Anwar Ibrahim 14 Comments

Categories: Agenda Baru, Analisis, Anwar, Demokrasi, Ekonomi, Isu Semasa, KeADILan, Malaysia, Media, Pakatan Rakyat, Parlimen, Penerbitan and Umno

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? Continue reading ‘Eh, Tun dah lupa?’

Aug

Isu Doa Khutbah Jumaat:Ustaz Zakaria Pertahankan Pendirian

By Anwar Ibrahim 12 Comments

Categories: Analisis, Anwar, Demokrasi, Hebahan, Islam, Isu Semasa, KeADILan, Mahkamah, Malaysia, Media, Pakatan Rakyat, Parlimen, Penerbitan, Politik, Propaganda, Sidenotes and Umno

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 Continue reading ‘Isu Doa Khutbah Jumaat:Ustaz Zakaria Pertahankan Pendirian’

Aug

Beri Ruang Pemimpin Baru Di Sarawak

By Anwar Ibrahim 2 Comments

Categories: Agenda Baru, Anwar, Demokrasi, Ekonomi, Hebahan, Isu Semasa, KeADILan, Malaysia, Pakatan Rakyat, Parlimen, Pilihanraya, Politik and Sidenotes

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. Continue reading ‘Beri Ruang Pemimpin Baru Di Sarawak’

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