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Sep

Faekah: Lebih Baik Khir Toyo Diam…

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Categories: Analisis, Anwar, Ekonomi, Isu Semasa, KeADILan, Pakatan Rakyat, Selangor, Sidenotes and Umno

Dari Malaysiakini
Oleh Hazlan Zakaria

Datuk Seri Dr Mohd Khir Toyo sebaiknya berdiam diri saja kerana dakwaan yang ditimbulkannya terhadap pentadbiran Selangor hanya akan memakan diri sendiri, kata setiausaha politik kepada menteri besar Selangor, Faekah Husin.

Faekah mendakwa banyak masalah yang berlaku di negeri itu pada masa sekarang sebenarnya berpunca daripada keputusan yang dibuat sewaktu pentadbiran Khir Toyo.

Faekah memberi contoh, keadaan itu boleh dilihat dalam isu melibatkan pembahagian tanah kepada peneroka di sebuah tanah rancangan di Bandar Alam Perdana, Kuala Selangor.

Jelasnya, peneroka berkenaan telah memohon untuk mendapatkan geran kecil bagi tanah seluas antara 60 hingga 120 ekar itu.

Bagaimanapun, terdapat beberapa individu yang mengemukakan injunksi di mahkamah bagi menghalang geran berkenaan dikeluarkan. Continue reading ‘Faekah: Lebih Baik Khir Toyo Diam…’

Aug

MB Selangor: Langat 2 Hanya Lepas Selesai Struktur Air

By Anwar Ibrahim 5 Comments

Categories: Analisis, Anwar, Ekonomi, Isu Semasa, KeADILan, Kewangan, Malaysia, Pakatan Rakyat, Parlimen, Selangor, Sidenotes and Umno

Dari Malaysiakini

Kerajaan Selangor hanya akan meneruskan projek Loji Rawatan Air Langat 2 (Langat 2) selepas perbincangan penstrukturan semula industri air dengan pemegang konsesi swasta dan agensi persekutuan diselesaikan dengan baik.

Menteri Besar Selangor Tan Sri Abdul Khalid Ibrahim berkata, kerajaan negeri tidak pernah membantah projek Langat 2, tetapi mempertikaikan mengapa kerajaan pusat memberi keutamaan terhadap projek tersebut.

“Kita menerima Projek Langat 2, tetapi ia tidak perlu dibuat dengan terburu-buru. Sekarang kerajaan negeri mahu menyelesaikan isu penstrukturan semula indusri perkhidmatan air di Selangor. Continue reading ‘MB Selangor: Langat 2 Hanya Lepas Selesai Struktur Air’

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

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

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

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

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’

Aug

Keluarga Diutamakan,Bumi Sarawak Rugi 300 Juta

By Anwar Ibrahim 2 Comments

Categories: Analisis, Anwar, Ekonomi, Isu Semasa, KeADILan, Kewangan, Malaysia, Media, Pakatan Rakyat, Parlimen and Sidenotes

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. Continue reading ‘Keluarga Diutamakan,Bumi Sarawak Rugi 300 Juta’

Aug

Cakap Cakap Mahathir

By Anwar Ibrahim 36 Comments

Categories: Analisis, Anwar, Demokrasi, Ekonomi, Isu Semasa, KeADILan, Malaysia, Media, Pakatan Rakyat, Pilihanraya, Politik and Umno

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.

Aug

Malaysia Needs New Property Policy

By Anwar Ibrahim 8 Comments

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

From The Sun
By Himanshu Bhatt

Malaysia needs a new property rights policy to safeguard its population against rising prices and “market excesses” beyond the means of many people, Balik Pulau MP Yusmadi Yusoff said today.

Joining the debate on national housing, Yusmadi said the extremely high prices have denied many the opportunity to own homes.

He said that despite the quota system for bumiputras, many are still confined to their own kampungs and categorised as squatters because the land the villages stand on is owned by someone else.

In particular, Yusmadi said, the residents of Balik Pulau, both Malays and non-Malays, have become “mere spectators” as luxury housing projects way beyond their affordability come up in the area. Continue reading ‘Malaysia Needs New Property Policy’

Aug

Wawancara Khusus Tempo dengan Nurul Izzah, Anak Tokoh Oposisi Malaysia Anwar Ibrahim.

By Anwar Ibrahim 13 Comments

Categories: AIC, Agenda Baru, Aktiviti, Analisis, Antarabangsa, Anwar, Asia Tenggara, Demokrasi, Ekonomi, Islam, Isu Semasa, Izzah, KeADILan, Kewangan, Mahasiswa, Mahkamah, Malaysia, Media, Nurul Izzah, Pakatan Rakyat, Parlimen, Penerbitan, Pilihanraya, Politik, Propaganda and Umno

TEMPO Interaktif, JAKARTA -Banyak orang menilai situasi politik dalam negeri Malaysia sama seperti Indonesia di masa Orde Baru. Oposisi ditekan, dan media tak bebas mengkritik pemerintah. Perasaan itu dialami oleh Nurul Izzah, putri sulung pemimpin oposisi Malaysia, Anwar Ibrahim. Meski baru dua tahun menjadi anggota parlemen, ia sudah merasa tidak nyaman dengan kondisi politik negaranya.

Sebab, kata dia, begitu banyak intimidasi yang dibuat oleh rezim Perdana Menteri Najib Razak. Kepada Faisal Assegaf dari Tempo, ibu dua anak yang masih terlihat cantik ini menjelaskan soal kiprahnya sebagai politikus muda. Berikut ini penuturannya saat ditemui pada Selasa sore lalu di Hotel Aryaduta Semanggi, Jakarta.

Anda lelah dengan kasus ayah Anda?
Siapa yang mau ditimpakan fitnah sekeji itu untuk kedua kalinya. Seluruh keluarga merasa lelah dan marah karena kejahatan itu luar biasa. Tapi, di mahkamah, terwujud begitu banyak ketimpangan dalam dakwaan itu. Masa menunjukkan tidak ada kredibilitas dan ada konspirasi pihak tertinggi untuk mengulangi kasus fitnah ini.

Apa pernah berpikir ayah Anda seorang biseksual?
Tidak pernah wujud rasa tersebut. Sebagai muslim bertanggung jawab, bila didatangi kabar fitnah, itu merupakan kabar jahat.

Soal kasus Anwar, Anda merasa nyaman berpolitik?
Tentunya tidak. Siapa pun tidak perlu menjadi Anwar Ibrahim untuk merasakan memang tidak nyaman terjun ke politik karena banyak kejahatannya. Kita tidak boleh berdiam diri. Di bawah rezim BN (Barisan Nasional), sangat banyak kelemahan yang jelas, dan rakyat mau dan perlu perubahan. Bukan digantikan pemimpin sempurna, melainkan yang jauh lebih baik dari yang ada saat ini.

Anda pernah diintimidasi?
Tentu. Hak saya sebagai wakil rakyat dinafikan. Berceramah politik tidak dibenarkan. Tidak diberi ruang dan izin. Media pun begitu. Bila mereka menulis tentang saya, mendapat kecaman dari Pak Menteri. Ini merupakan taktik yang digunakan oleh pemimpin yang tidak yakin dengan kekuatannya.

Ancaman melalui SMS?
Ada, dan sudah berkali-kali. Pernah saya melakukan dialog dengan kumpulan pedagang keturunan Cina. Polisi menghentikan pidato saya dan mengambil mikrofon saat saya di atas pentas. Continue reading ‘Wawancara Khusus Tempo dengan Nurul Izzah, Anak Tokoh Oposisi Malaysia Anwar Ibrahim.’

Aug

Radical Reform And Tariq Ramadan

By Anwar Ibrahim 2 Comments

Categories: Analisis, Antarabangsa, Anwar, Asia Tenggara, Demokrasi, Ekonomi, Islam, Isu Semasa, KeADILan, Malaysia, Media, Penerbitan and Sidenotes

Dr Ahmad Farouk Musa
Courtesy of harakahdaily.net/en

What is perhaps clear to the perceptive minds of many rational thinking Muslims is that the challenge facing Muslims currently is not merely one of reformulating democratic principles in an Islamic idiom, but also of reforming and adapting Islam’s ethical and legal percept to the practice of democracy.

About a century ago, prospects appeared fairly hopeful that Islam would find a way to devise a system between faith and modernity.

Great theologians such as Muhammad Abduh (left) argued that while certain aspects of religion would remain immutable especially those concerning ib?dah (worship) and aq?dah (creed); issues of governance should be addressed through human reason since they fall under the realms of al-mutaghaiyyirat (the changing).

It was Abduh’s reformist agenda and rationalism then, with its emphasis on reason (‘aql) and God’s justice (‘adl), which seemed as if it might be able to ground a dynamic Islamic theology capable of successfully meeting the challenges of modernity.

Alas, these promising attempts were thwarted by the rise of the literal Salafis and its ramifications.

Ath-thawabit (the Immutable) and al-mutaghaiyyirat (the Changing)

One of the most prominent Islamic scholars and intellectuals who is at the forefront in combating the literalists is non-other than Tariq Ramadan (right), the grandson of the founder of The Muslim Brotherhood, Hasan al-Banna.

Tariq Ramadan in his book Radical Reform asserted that the contemporary literalist approach puts into evidence three reductions or confusions, which restrict interpretation and in effect make it impossible to give adequate answers to contemporary challenges.

The first reduction is the failure to distinguish between that which, in the Revelation, is immutable and that which is subject to change in accordance to the temporal evolution and environmental changes. Continue reading ‘Radical Reform And Tariq Ramadan’

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