This is something serious

Warisan - Anak Kecil Main Api

2008-04-09T12:57:00.004+01:00

Anak kecil main api,

Terbakar hatinya yang sepi,

Air mata darah bercampur keringat,

Bumi dipijak milik orang.

Nenek moyang kaya raya,

Tergadai seluruh harta benda,

Akibat sengketa sesamalah kita,

Cinta lenyap di arus zaman.

Indahnya bumi kita ini,

Warisan berkurun lamanya,

Hasil mengalir ke tangan yang lain,

Peribumi merintih sendiri.

Masa depan sungguh kelam,

Kan lenyap peristiwa semalam,

Tertutuplah hati terkunci mati,

Maruah peribadi dah hilang.

Kini kita cuma tinggal kuasa,

Yang akan menentukan bangsa,

Bersatulah hati, bersama berbakti,

Pulih kembali harga diri.

Kita sudah tiada masa,

Majulah dengan Maha Perkasa,

Janganlah terlalai teruskan usaha,

Kita kan gagah di nusantara.

Siapa Menang, Siapa Kalah?

2008-04-08T11:32:00.004+01:00

Apalah yang hendak dibanggakan sangat wahai ah LiPas dan Keadilan sekalian? Kalau mengikut peratusan, keputusan PRU lepas, tak perlulah nak berlagak dan bersorak. Sebenarnya kejayaan siapakah yang saudara semua raikan? Atau tumpang gembira, dengan kejayaan siapa? Siapakah sebenarnya yang menang atau kalah? PAS kah atau Keadilankah atau DAP? Apa kah yang DAP ini perjuangkan yang semua ah LiPas dan Keadilan sokong?

Apalah yang hendak dibanggakan sangat dengan semangat Malaysian Malaysia ini? Sanggupkah kita meletakkan masa hadapan anak cucu kita di tangan DAP?

Mengapa Lim Kit Siang asyik mempersoalkan peruntukan untuk baikpulih dan membina Sekolah Kebangsaan di Parlimen? Mengapa dia mahukan peruntukan itu diberikan kepada Sekolah (J) Cina? Tidak adakah orang cina di Sekolah Kebangsaan?

Mengapa dengan terang, kaum Cina yang pertama sekali diperjuangkan dengan b*** dan China village di Selangor? Ke manakah Malaysian Malaysia yang dilaung-laungkan dalam PRU lepas?

DAP lebih rela seorang bekas posman dari parti Keadilan menjadi MB, berbanding seorang jurutera dari Pas menjadi MB. Ya, walaupun pada akhirnya mereka bersetuju, mesyuarat2 bersama pegawai2 kanan kerajaan dengan MB semuanya dihadiri oleh exco dari DAP.

Be grateful with what you have today for tomorrow is still uncertain.

“Kepada semua, marilah kita sama-sama berbangga kerana kita telah berjaya memusnahkan ketuanan melayu dan membuka pintu Melayu kita dengan rela supaya kaum dan bangsa lain menyerbu masuk untuk memusnahkan segala yang orang Melayu miliki selama ini.

Hari ini terbukti, kerana kita marahkan seekor nyamuk, tanpa berfikir panjang,kita sanggup membakar sebuah rumah. Hari ini protes rakyat seakan sudah tidak terkawal. Mungkin ramai yang termenung selepas keputusan yang dikeluarkan terutamanya orang Melayu?

Adakah hari ini kita bertambah selesa dengan kemenangan pembangkang yang sudah menjadi kerajaan? Adakah hari ini kita selesa dengan DAP (Cina) berbanding MCA (Cina) yang lebih baik berbanding DAP yang keras pendekatan politiknya terhadap ketuanan Melayu? Apakah kita lupa bahawa DAP adalah pecahan PAP yang merupakan parti didikan Lee Kuan Yuew (Singapura) yang sedang mengintai peluang untuk meratah kemewahan Malaysia?“

Dipetik dari http://malaysia-hariini.com/home/index.php/bila-orang-melayu-lupa-UMNO.html

Bila orang Melayu lupa UMNO

2008-04-08T09:39:00.002+01:00

Dipetik dari http://malaysia-hariini.com/home/index.php/bila-orang-melayu-lupa-UMNO.html

UMNO dalam sejarah semakin longgar ikatannya. Penghayatannya semakin terhakis. Budi dan jasa UMNO yang dulunya bergelar Perikatan semakin jauh ditelan zaman. Anak-anak muda mula mengagungkan kebebasan mentafsirkan kemajuan dan masa depan agama,bangsa dan negara mengikut acuan mereka sendiri. Golongan pengkritik seolah-olah meletakkan UMNO itu begitu hina sifat fizikalnya, begitu daif pada perwatakan serta ketrampilannya.

Hari ini UMNO dimanifestasikan sebagai ruang kosong yang tidak perlu disi lagi dengan semangat dan roh orang-orang Melayu. UMNO yang satu ketika dulu meniupkan semangat api kemerdekaan dalam semarak menentang gagasan Malayan Union, hari ini dilihat telah dilihat oleh sebahagian yang ramai seperti sampah dalam mata.

UMNO sedang menuju ke pintu Arkib Negara dan bakal menjadi satu lagi catatan sejarah yang entah bila akan dirungkai semula peranan dan tanggungjawabnya terhadap Malaysia ini. Adakah UMNO sudah ditunjukkan jalan oleh rakyat untuk menjadi semakin tidak relevan dalam politik Malaysia?

Kita akan menerima kalau bangsa lain memperkecilkan peranan UMNO tetapi apalah malangnya apabila orang-orang Melayu sendiri tanpa segan silu menolak UMNO, orang Melayu sendiri memperkecilkan UMNO, orang Melayu sendiri mengaibkan UMNO dan ditangan orang Melayu sendirilah tersedia belati untuk menikam dan meracik UMNO daripada dalam.

Sejarah mencatatkan dan sejarah tidak boleh diputarbelitkan bahawa UMNOlah yang memperjuangkan kemerdekaan Negara ini. UMNOlah yang membentuk gagasan bagi menjadikan Malaysia dan orang Melayu serta bangsa-bangsa lain maju dan merdeka tetapi kerana ada orang-orang Melayu yang lupa sejarah dan buta pengertian tentang kemelayuannya, mereka melihat UMNO itu sebagai benteng yang menghalang mereka kononnya untuk menjadi lebih bebas berfikir dan bertindak.

Barangkali ada yang tidak lupa ataupun diberitahu oleh pejuang-pejuang kemerdekaan terdahulu bagaimana nenek moyang kita meluruhkan gelang dan rantai, menggadaikan apa yang ada untuk diberikan kepada pemimpim-pemimpin Melayu bagi dijadikan bekal keluar Negara untuk menuntut kemerdekaan daripada Inggeris.

Dan hari ini kalaulah hari ini mereka masih bernafas, alangkah sedihnya mereka apabila orang Melayu hari ini tergamak menodai perjuangan mereka terdahulu. Alangkah kecewanya mereka kerana anak-anak melayu yang mendapat pendidikan barat dan selesa kehidupan peribadi sanggup menggigit tangan UMNO yang memberikan mereka tempat dan kedudukan istimewa hari ini.

Apakah Malaysia yang selama ini yang teguh dengan Islam dan Melayunya akan menjadi bangsa yang merempat dibumi sendiri dan adakah satu dua pemimpin Melayu yang masih ada hari ini akan menghantar UMNO ke neraka untuk dibakar hidup-hidup dan sanggupkah satu dua pemimpin UMNO yang ada hari ini melihat UMNO akan berkubur kerana mereka lebih rela mempertahankan kerakusan mereka dari mempertahankan UMNO?Sanggupkah mereka meletakkan kepentingan peribadi lebih utama daripada maruah dan masa depan UMNO itu sendiri?

Apabila Dasar Ekonomi Baru ( DEB) yang digagaskan oleh Tun Razak telah dimansuhkan di Pulau Pinang, ianya satu isyarat yang cukup jelas kepada bukan sahaja orang Melayu Pulau Pinang tetapi tempiasnya turut terkena kepada seluruh bangsa Melayu di Malaysia bahawa kita bakal dikenang hanya sebagai sebuah bangsa semata-mata dan inilah sebenarnya barangkali yang dituntut oleh orang Melayu. Orang melayu mungkin menuntut supaya hak keistimewaan orang melayu diberikan kepada bangsa lain dan biarlah mereka tidak lagi menjadi istimewa kerana Negara ini malah hak dan ketuanan melayu tidak perlu dipertahankan lagi.

Kepada semua, marilah kita sama-sama berbangga kerana kita telah berjaya memusnahkan ketuanan melayu dan membuka pintu Melayu kita dengan rela supaya kaum dan bangsa lain menyerbu masuk untuk memusnahkan segala yang orang Melayu miliki selama ini.

Hari ini terbukti, kerana kita marahkan seekor nyamuk, tanpa berfikir panjang,kita sanggup membakar sebuah rumah. Hari ini protes rakyat seakan sudah tidak terkawal. Mungkin ramai yang termenung selepas keputusan yang dikeluarkan terutamanya orang Melayu? Adakah hari ini kita bertambah selesa dengan kemenangan pembangkang yang sudah menjadi kerajaan? Adakah hari ini kita selesa dengan DAP (Cina) berbanding MCA (Cina) yang lebih baik berbanding DAP yang keras pendekatan politiknya terhadap ketuanan Melayu? Apakah kita lupa bahawa DAP adalah pecahan PAP yang merupakan parti didikan Lee Kuan Yuew (Singapura) yang sedang mengintai peluang untuk meratah kemewahan Malaysia?
Apakah dosa UMNO sehingga orang Melayu perlu melupakannya? Apakah syurga yang dijanjikan DAP? Apakah kita sudah lupa dengan jasa UMNO yang mengangkat martabat Tanah Melayu dan orang Melayu pada tahun 1957?

Apakah dengan keputusan pilihan rakyat pada kali ini telah memuaskan citra politik Melayu? Pilihan rakyat dalam pilihanraya kali ini jelas menunjukkan seolah-olah jasa UMNO semakin dilupakan. Yang lebih malang apabila Melayu sendiri melupakan UMNO. Hari ini UMNO perlu bangkit untuk menyedarkan orang Melayu bahawa mereka masih tetap relevan dalam kancah politik Malaysia dalam membela nasib Melayu. Orang Melayu perlu diingatkan dan disedarkan.
Mungkin keghairahan untuk memprotes menyebabkan ramai di kalangan Melayu lupa mempertahankan hak sendiri. hari ini hak Melayu mula dicabar. Hak Melayu mula dipersoal.

Lihat sahaja apa yang berlaku di Pulau Pinang, lihat sahaja apa yang berlaku di Perak. Kerana Melayu (PAS) tidak menang majoriti mudah kerusi DUN Perak, maka kerana ini DAP menolak calon MB (Melayu PAS). Hakikatnya jelas kita diperlekehkan bangsa lain apabila Melayu hilang kuasa majoriti dalam politik. Usah bicara soal ekonomi yang telahpun menunjukkan bangsa lain menguasainya tatkala Melayu masih lagi merangkak.

Mudah-mudahan orang Melayu kembali untuk berfikir apakah rasional untuk mereka terus melupakan UMNO dalam keadaan sejarah telah membuktikan jasa dan pengorbanan UMNO terhadap orang Melayu.

Modus Operandi

2008-04-07T17:04:00.004+01:00

Salam brothers and sisters, This is another statement by Teresa Kok...Seems she's the "appointed" MB.....I am no racists but this is a pakatan that calls them respecting other races....DAP would always and forever "dulu kini dan selamanya" a chinese racist chauvinist ultra-racist faction and PKR and PAS are just licking DAP a** all the way http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2008/4/7/nation/20871438&sec=nation

"KLANG: In a bid to lure more investments from China to Selangor, the state government is planning to build a China village that will provide an investor-friendly working environment. The China village would have basic facilities and infrastructure such as a college or university set up by the education centre from China, an international school and housing areas. State Investment, Industry and Commerce Committee chairman Teresa Kok said the plans for the village were in the preliminary stages. “We want to continue to attract more investors, especially from China, into the state which has international standard industrial zones such as Pulau Indah and the Science Park to cater to them,” she said after meeting members of the Chinese Chambers of Commerce and Industry from Klang, Kuala Lumpur and Selangor here yesterday. Also present at the function were Sungai Pinang state assemblyman Teng Chang Khim and state Local Government, Research and Development Committee chairman Ronnie Liu. Improving the investment environment for investors was crucial as Malaysia was competing with other South-East Asian countries like Thailand and Cambodia that were also very attractive to investors, she added"

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Hmm.. modus operandi yang sama dengan Lee Kuan Yew. tulah aku kate, DAP - parti serpihan PAP Singapore, chauvinist, anti-malay, communist. bawak masuk cina ramai2 supaya majoriti melayu, india and kaum lain makin kurang?
http://singaporedissident.blogspot.com/2008/03/chinese-malay-and-indian-singaporeans.html

Nizar, MB Perak Tipu

2008-04-06T01:41:00.004+01:00

Petikan Utusan Malaysia

http://utusan.com.my/utusan/arkib.asp?y=2008&dt=0403&pub=utusan_malaysia&sec=dalam%5Fnegeri&pg=dn_10.htm&arc=hive

60,000 penduduk kampung baru dapat geran tanah
IPOH 2 April – Lebih 60,000 penduduk kampung baru di negeri ini akan memperoleh geran pemilikan kekal ke atas tanah yang didiami apabila kerajaan negeri membuat keputusan membenarkan mereka memiliki tanah tersebut.

Menteri Besar Perak, Ir. Mohammad Nizar Jamaluddin berkata, selain penduduk kampung baru, peluang tersebut turut diberikan kepada mereka yang mendiami kampung tersusun sebagai ‘hadiah’ daripada kerajaan negeri terhadap rakyat yang mengundi ketiga-tiga parti membentuk kerajaan campuran itu pada pilihan raya lalu.

“Ini adalah tawaran terbesar kami kepada rakyat di atas sokongan mereka terhadap kami pada pilihan raya lepas, apatah lagi peluang ini memang ditunggu-tunggu oleh mereka yang sudah lama mendiami tanah tersebut.

‘‘Selama ini, mereka begitu bersabar menduduki tanah terbabit menggunakan geran tanah pemilikan sementara (tol) walaupun sudah tinggal di situ sejak 1948 iaitu sebelum merdeka lagi,” katanya.

Beliau berkata demikian pada sidang akhbar selepas mendengar taklimat daripada ketua-ketua jabatan di pejabatnya di Bangunan Perak Darul Ridzuan di sini hari ini.

Menurut Mohammad Nizar, keseluruhannya terdapat 134 kampung baru di Perak dengan setiap kampung mempunyai penduduk berjumlah kira-kira 500 orang terdiri daripada 15 peratus Melayu dan India manakala selebihnya Cina.

Beliau berkata, pemberian geran berkenaan bagaimanapun tertakluk kepada syarat yang ditetapkan di bawah Peraturan Tanah Negeri Perak dan Kanun Tanah Negara.

Selain geran pemilikan tanah kekal, Mohammad Nizar memberitahu, kerajaan negeri turut membatalkan semua saman yang dikeluarkan untuk kesalahan meletak kereta dan menjaja yang dikeluarkan oleh pihak berkuasa tempatan (PBT) sehingga 17 Mac lalu.

“Orang ramai yang dikenakan saman oleh PBT kerana kesalahan meletak kereta dan menjaja sehingga 17 Mac lalu tidak perlu membayar saman tersebut kerana ia sudah dibatalkan.

“Notis saman tersebut boleh disimpan atau dikembalikan kepada PBT. Lagipun, saman letak kereta misalnya kadang-kadang bukan kesalahan pemandu tetapi kerajaan yang gagal menyediakan tempat letak kereta yang mencukupi sehingga memaksa orang ramai meletak kereta mereka merata-rata,” katanya.

Mengulas mengenai peletakan jawatan 776 ketua kampung di Perak, semalam, Mohammad Nizar mengesahkan beliau sudah menerima surat rasmi berhubung perletakan jawatan itu daripada Pengerusi Persatuan Ketua-Ketua Kampung Perak.

Katanya, peletakan jawatan tersebut dibuat secara sukarela oleh ketua kampung terbabit dan kerajaan negeri menghormati keputusan mereka.

“Buat masa ini, kita akan memberi panduan kepada penghulu untuk melaksanakan pemilihan semula ketua kampung yang baru berpandukan peraturan Jawatankuasa Keselamatan dan Kerja Kampung (JKKK) yang sedia ada.

“Mana-mana kampung yang tiada ketua kampung, kita akan lantik pemangku ketua kampung yang akan bertanggungjawab melaksanakan proses pemilihan ketua kampung baru dan kita beri hak kepada orang kampung untuk membuat pilihan,” katanya yang menjangkakan proses pemilihan itu akan mengambil masa tiga bulan.
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petikan Utusan Malaysia
http://www.utusan.com.my/utusan/info.asp?y=2008&dt=0405&pub=Utusan_Malaysia&sec=Muka_Hadapan&pg=mh_10.htm

Beri hak milik kekal langgar Kanun Tanah Negara
Oleh ABDUL RAZAK DIN
IPOH 4 April – Kerajaan negeri campuran di Perak hanya menipu rakyat jika memberi status geran hak pemilikan kekal kepada penduduk kampung baru dan kampung tersusun kerana ia bercanggah dengan Kanun Tanah Negara.

Ahli Dewan Undangan Negeri (ADUN) Manong, Datuk Ramly Zahari berkata, ini kerana pemberian status berkenaan adalah di bawah kuasa Kerajaan Persekutuan dan bukan kerajaan negeri.

Beliau yang juga bekas Pengerusi Jawatankuasa Pembangunan Industri, Usahawan dan Pembangunan Koperasi berkata, kuasa kerajaan negeri hanya tertakluk dari segi kutipan hak milik tanah sementara (TOL), bayaran premium dan cukai tanah.

‘‘Pemberian geran hak pemilikan kekal kepada penduduk kampung baru dan kampung tersusun bercanggah dengan Kanun Tanah Negara.

‘‘Ini bermakna ia tidak boleh dilaksanakan dan oleh itu, saya menganggap kerajaan negeri cuba menipu rakyat dalam soal ini,” katanya.

Beliau berkata demikian ketika diminta mengulas pengumuman Menteri Besar Perak, Mohammad Nizar Jamaluddin bahawa lebih 60,000 penduduk kampung baru di negeri ini akan memperoleh geran pemilikan kekal ke atas tanah yang didiami mereka.

Mohd. Nizar berkata, selain penduduk kampung baru, peluang tersebut turut diberikan kepada mereka yang mendiami kampung tersusun sebagai ‘hadiah’ daripada kerajaan negeri terhadap rakyat yang mengundi ketiga-tiga parti pembangkang membentuk kerajaan campuran pada pilihan raya lalu.

Beliau memberi alasan selama ini, mereka begitu bersabar menduduki tanah terbabit dan menggunakan geran TOL walaupun sudah tinggal di situ sejak 1948 iaitu sebelum merdeka lagi.
Keseluruhannya terdapat sebanyak 134 kampung baru di Perak dengan setiap kampung mempunyai penduduk kira-kira 500 orang dengan majoriti iaitu hampir 85 peratus kaum Cina manakala selebihnya iaitu kira-kira 15 peratus Melayu dan India.

Beliau berkata, pemberian geran berkenaan bagaimanapun tertakluk kepada syarat yang ditetapkan di bawah Peraturan Tanah Negeri Perak dan Kanun Tanah Negara.
Ramly berkata, kerajaan Barisan Nasional (BN) sebelum ini telah berusaha memastikan penduduk di 134 kampung baru di Perak memiliki suratan hak milik secara sah.
Katanya, usaha ini dilakukan sehingga sanggup memberi diskaun premium beberapa kali bagi penyambungan tempoh hak milik.

‘‘Semasa BN dahulu kita telah berjaya mengeluarkan sebanyak 48,183 hak milik mukim dan 4,672 hak milik berdaftar.

‘‘Kita percaya tidak sampai 10 peratus daripada jumlah lot kampung baru yang belum memiliki suratan hak milik. 10 peratus ini pun sebenarnya hanya tinggal di peringkat untuk membuat pendaftaran sahaja,” katanya.

Sementara itu, seorang pengamal undang-undang berkata, pemberian hak milik kekal kepada penduduk kampung baru dan kampung tersusun memang bercanggah dengan Kanun Tanah Negara.

Katanya, jika kerajaan negeri ingin memberikan geran milik kekal kepada penduduk berkenaan, penduduk kampung lain juga patut diberi taraf yang sama.

‘‘Setahu saya untuk memberi geran milik kekal mesti ada syarat istimewanya. Persoalannya kenapa hanya kampung baru dan kampung tersusun yang dapat dan apa kata kampung-kampung lain yang mendapat status hak milik sementara,” katanya.

Beliau berkata, jika diberi status milik kekal, kerajaan tidak mungkin boleh mengutip balik cukai premium atau sebagainya dan tidak boleh mengambil balik tanah tersebut untuk projek pembangunan.

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Lembu punya susu, sapi dapat nama.

Apa strategi Pak Lah?

2008-04-03T15:15:00.007+01:00

Kalau Malaysia Today boleh publish strategi pembangkang di Parlimen, April & May nanti, apa strategi Pak Lah? (Oh, sorry, not pembangkang after this, they will be government then. So, we will be the bitter pembangkang).

Petikan from Malaysia Today;

Yes, it is certainly going to be a close race. Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah will make his move on 4 April while Anwar Ibrahim can make his only after 14 April. Then, Anwar can make his second move after 7 May while Tengku Razaleigh will make his on 11 May.

THE CORRIDORS OF POWER

Raja Petra Kamarudin

TAWAU, March 27 (Bernama) -- Kalabakan Member of Parliament Datuk Ghapur Salleh relinquished his post as Deputy Natural Resources and Environment Minister effective yesterday. He told Bernama today that he submitted his resignation letter to Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi in Putrajaya last night. Dismissing talk that he would hop over to the opposition, which is said to be trying to lure several MPs from Sabah and Sarawak, Ghapur, who won the seat unopposed in the March 8 general election, said he would continue to be an elected representative and Kalabakan Umno division head. He is the second MP from Sabah and the third person to resign as a federal deputy minister since the election.
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Umno elections could be postponed
Needing time to 'regroup' after GE, party may defer polls till next March
By S JAYASANKARAN, Business Times, 26 March 2008
ELECTIONS in the United Malays National Organisation (Umno), Malaysia's dominant political party that leads the ruling Barisan Nasional (National Front) coalition, are likely to be postponed because of the political uncertainty gripping the country. Umno officials say this was the impression they got after meeting Umno president and Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi on Monday. Mr Abdullah also told them the party needs to stamp out 'money politics' because that would only make the people angrier.

On March 8, the Barisan Nasional (BN) was given a hiding at a general election, losing control of five states and its two-thirds majority in Parliament. Originally, Umno was supposed to hold its elections in August. The party's constitution stipulates elections every three years for all posts from the president down, but also allows for deferment. In this case, elections must be held by March next year. Umno officials openly admit they never expected such a drubbing at the GE, at which voters from all the country's races, including the majority Malays, rebuffed the BN.
'The feeling now is that we have to unite and avoid any in-fighting because that could split the party,' an official told BT. 'For that, we need to time to regroup.' Whether this will happen is uncertain. Waiting in the wings is Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah, 71, who is offering himself as an alternative to Mr Abdullah as leader of Umno and the government.

Tengku Razaleigh is a prince from Kelantan, founder-president of national oil corporation Petronas and a former finance minister under two prime ministers - Hussein Onn and Mahathir Mohamad. In 1987, he challenged Dr Mahathir for the Umno presidency and lost by a narrow 43 votes. Ironically, at the time, Mr Abdullah was on the Tengku's side and was one of the few on his team who made the cut as one of Umno's three vice-presidents.

Whether the Tengku will be allowed to challenge Mr Abdullah is the big question. After the 1987 elections, the rules were changed to make a presidential bid against the incumbent all but impossible. The rules now demand that a presidential challenger obtain nominations from 30 per cent of Umno's divisions - or 58 nominations. Asked recently about Tengku Razaleigh's chances, Dr Mahathir said he did not think there would be divisions 'brave' enough to support him openly against an incumbent prime minister. But in the present climate, Dr Mahathir could be wrong.
Political analysts say it would take only a few brave souls to speak up for a stampede to begin. And a trickle of support has begun. Over the weekend, 80 Umno branches in Muar, Johor, spoke up in support of the Tengku, who has asked for an extraordinary meeting of Umno to be convened to discuss the election debacle. Indeed, the postponement of the Umno polls could help the Tengku's cause, giving him time to canvass divisions across the country. That would help get his message directly to his audience, given his inaccessibility to the mainstream media which is resolutely pro-Mr Abdullah.

The Tengku could also be helped by repeated mis-steps on Mr Abdullah's part that suggest weak leadership. For example, the impasse over the Terengganu crisis could be resolved soon, but only with damage inflicted on Mr Abdullah.

Last Saturday, the state's Sultan (who is also Malaysia's King) appointed Umno assemblyman Ahmad Said as chief minister over Idris Jusoh, Mr Abdullah's nominee, who was also supported by 22 other state assemblymen. The appointment triggered a constitutional crisis. If Mr Abdullah's numbers were right, the Sultan acted unconstitutionally - a word Mr Abdullah himself used.

Yesterday, however, Mr Abdullah seemed to back down. He said he was seeking an audience with the King. And at a news conference, Mr Idris apologised to the King for 'everything' that had angered him. While Mr Idris maintained that Mr Ahmad does not deserve the chief minister's position, he seemed to throw in the towel, saying he would accept any position given to him.
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Ghapur Salleh actually wanted to resign from Umno Sabah just before the 8 March 2008 general elections so that he could contest the election on a PKR ticket. Anwar Ibrahim, however, would not allow him to do so. Ghapur grumbled to his friends that all Anwar needed to do was to give the word and he, plus a few other close associates in Umno Sabah, would cross-over and contest the election under the PKR banner. Anwar, of course, had his reasons. He wanted Sabah and Sarawak to be the 'reserve team' in the event the opposition wins enough seats to form the federal government.

As it now stands, the opposition has won 82 seats in Parliament and all it needs is another 30 to give it a two-seat majority over Barisan Nasional. 30 seats would make the score 112:110, all that is needed for His Majesty to do what the Federal Constitution of Malaysia requires him to do. And what His Majesty the Agong would have to do would be to appoint a new Prime Minister from amongst any of the 222 Members of the House who, in His Majesty's opinion, commands the confidence of the majority of the Member of the House. It is certainly very 'loose' though clearly worded but the way it has been written gives enormous powers to His Majesty the Agong to interpret 'opinion', 'commands' and 'confidence' the way His Majesty sees it. Most important of all, though, is that His Majesty need not 'seek advice from the Prime Minister' but instead can exercise his 'own discretion' in arriving at 'his opinion'.

Isn't the English language just lovely? And that is what it all boils down to, so the legal eagles can just stay out of this whole thing and allow the English teachers to step in to help properly interpret what the Federal Constitution of Malaysia says -- which is written in the Queen's English anyway. And 'Queen' here refers to Elizabeth II and not Freddie Mercury who died of AIDS.

So, does Anwar have 30 Barisan Nasional Members of Parliament safely tucked away? No, he does not have 30. Instead, he has thus far 38, the majority from Sabah and Sarawak. Did you not notice Anwar flying off to Sarawak the morning of 9 March and to Sabah the following day? And rest assured it was not to buy some Iban or Dayak hats. It was to conference with the Barisan Nasional leaders from these two East Malaysian states.

Abdullah Ahmad Badawi knew all this of course, as did his advisers on the fourth floor. However, instead of trying to win the hearts and minds of the East Malaysians, he antagonised them further when he offered the East Malaysian warlords just five Deputy Minister posts, and in very unimportant ministries on top of that.

Sabah and Sarawak brought in 54 Parliament seats to match the 86 from Peninsular Malaysia. Without these 54 Parliament seats from Sabah and Sarawak, Barisan Nasional would be having a mere four-seat majority over the opposition coalition of PKR, DAP and PAS -- while the popular votes garnered by Barisan Nasional would be less than half. It became slightly over half only when the Sabah and Sarawak votes were included.

20 of the 30 Barisan Nasional Members of Parliament from Sarawak have agreed to cross-over to the opposition while 16 of the 24 from Sabah will follow suit if Sarawak first takes the plunge. To start the ball rolling, Anifah Aman, brother to the Sabah Chief Minister, rejected the offer for the post of Deputy Minister and with about half a dozen or so other Sabah warlords flew off to Melbourne to meet the other warlords from Sarawak. They have been there since last week; planning, plotting and scheming their moves, which they will make when the time is right. Rest assured Anifah would not act without the consent of his brother, Musa Aman.

They will of course not make their move now. They are waiting for May 2008. By midnight of 14 April 2008, Anwar will be eligible to contest the elections and probably Tan Sri Khalid Ibrahim will resign his Bandar Tun Razak seat or Zulkilfi Nordin his Kulim seat. A by-election will then be called and Anwar will of course be that PKR candidate to contest the by-election. On 5 May 2008, Parliament will be convened with Anwar now a Member of Parliament. From 7 May 2008 onwards, 82 opposition Members of Parliament will be able to table a motion of no confidence against Abdullah, supported by no less than 38 Barisan Nasional Members of Parliament, as it now stands. The 38 Members of Parliament from Barisan Nasional is of course the latest tally taken this morning. 7 May 2008 is still more than a month away and one day is a long time in politics, what more 40 days. So expect this 38 to grow further and it should not come as a surprise if the final tally is no longer just a simple majority but a resounding two-thirds majority. Will we see, therefore, Anwar finally taking office as the Sixth Prime Minister of Malaysia?
Nevertheless, while all this is going on, another candidate for the post of the Sixth Prime Minister of Malaysia is also moving very rapidly in the background. And this man is the resident of that very imposing White House-like abode along Langgak Golf.

Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah has not been sleeping. He has been aggressively meeting hundreds of people from all over Malaysia. Even as you read this Tengku Razaleigh is hosting more than 100 Umno division and branch leaders to a sumptuous feast in his office cum home behind the United States Embassy.

Tengku Razaleigh is going a slightly different route though. While Anwar is working on a 'no confidence' vote in Parliament, Tengku Razaleigh is working on the 193 Umno divisions. And he, thus far, has 74 Umno divisions with him. He needs at least 58 nominations to be able to contest against the party President cum Prime Minister. But that is only if he wishes to contest the August 2008 party elections, which Abdullah is trying to postpone till 2009.

August 2008 is too late. 2009 even later. By then Anwar may already be Prime Minister. So Tengku Razaleigh can't afford to wait till August. He must move now. And, on 4 April 2008, Tengku Razaleigh is organising a rally at his home base in Gua Musang. If he can get more than 100 Umno divisions to attend his rally, then he can push for an EGM on 11 May 2008 whereby the party constitution can be amended to allow the 'normal' two-nomination-only to contest, just like what it is for all the other positions -- plus he probably can get a vote of no confidence against the party president passed as well.

Yes, it is certainly going to be a close race. Tengku Razaleigh will make his move on 4 April while Anwar can make his only after 14 April. Then, Anwar can make his second move after 7 May while Tengku Razaleigh will make his on 11 May.

It will be a photo-finish and a win by the nose. But whose nose will it be that will cross the finishing line first? Hey, I can't reveal all just yet. Khairy Jamaluddin and his boys are reading this too, you know. Let's first of all see if they succeed in postponing the August 2008 Umno party elections to 2009. If they fail, then Tengku Razaleigh is well-poised to become the next Prime Minister. If they succeed in postponing the party elections, well, then I suppose my money will have to be on Anwar. Did I not tell you that Malaysia is an exciting country?

Oh, and one more thing, observe what the Rulers have been doing these last three weeks since 8 March 2008 and what they will be doing these next few weeks. That should give you a good hint as to what's in store for us. In the meantime, read the following piece by Mathias Chang, which also gives us an insight into what's in store for us in the not too distant future.
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Barisan Nasional is finished if Pak Lah is not replaced by end April 2008
Matthias Chang
I just could not believe my eyes, when I read in the New Strait Times newspaper, business section – Business Times – that Bank Negara projects 5.6 pc growth this year. Bank Negara Governor, Tan Sri Dr. Zeti Akhtar Aziz was quoted as saying:

“We have done several simulations of different packages which can be implemented in the event of any significant slowdown, which we do not see on the horizon at this point in time.”
I am sure that the “simulations were all done and tested prior to the 12th General Elections of March 8, 2008. So they are no longer valid as they failed to take into account the post-election reality.

Bank Negara must be wearing blinkers or under directions from Pak Lah and his spin-doctors to spin a story that all is well and good. The observation that no significant slowdown can be seen on the horizon at this point of time can be tested by reviewing some independent observations.
Spiegel reported on Wednesday, March 26 2008 that:

“Germany and other industrialised countries are desperately trying to brace themselves against the threat of a collapse of the global financial system. The crisis has now taken its toll on the German economy, where the weak dollar is putting jobs in jeopardy and the credit crunch is paralyzing many businesses.”

Why is the Governor of Bank Negara playing down this acknowledged global financial meltdown – the financial tsunami? Is there a conspiracy of silence among the world’s central bankers?
Spiegel has let the cat out of the bag when it reported further that:

“For some time, there has been a tacit agreement among central bankers and the financial ministers of key economies not to allow any bank large enough to jeopardise the system to go under – no matter what the cost. But on Sunday, the question arose whether this agreement should be formalised and made public. The central bankers decided against the idea, reasoning that it would practically be an invitation to speculators and large hedge funds to take advantage of this government guarantee. Everyone involved knows how explosive the agreement is. It essentially means that while the profits of banks are privatised, society bears the costs of their losses. In a world in which the rich are getting richer and the poor poorer, that is political dynamite.”

There you have it - the global conspiracy of silence by central bankers and finance ministers. Yet, it is I that has been accused of being a conspiracy theorist.

The Malaysian Ticking Time Bomb
Besides the impending global financial tsunami hitting our shores in the very near future, Malaysia is waiting for a ticking time bomb to explode that will leave our country totally defenceless.

No one has even given a thought to this time bomb. What is this time bomb? It is the total dislocation and disruption of the entire 9th Malaysian Plan.

How can this be? Simple! The informal Barisan Rakyat has captured four critical states, more precisely the four critical economic states of Penang, Perak, Selangor and Kedah (part of the rice bowl of Malaysia) and retained Kelantan. There used to be a MIMALAND (Mini Malaysia) in Gombak. But that was a mere tourist attraction. These five states is the real deal, the Real Mini Malaysia, without which the BN government is useless, a toothless tiger.

The 9th Malaysia Plan (and all previous Five Year Plans) envisages that a substantial portion of the RM200 billion budget spread over five years will be allocated to the “state economic engines” of the Malaysian economy, namely Selangor and Penang – the crown jewels. When combined with Perak and Kedah, these states provide the crucial infrastructure, human resources and more importantly the critical mass for the massive investments needed to prepare the economy to meet the impending threat of the global tsunami and at the minimum, to enable the country to float just above the water till the tsunami rolls back to deeper waters.
Just a few days ago, Pak Lah acknowledged this stark reality and conceded that some of the mega-projects will have to be scaled back. Pak Lah and the corrupt and greedy politicians of the Barisan Nasional cannot bear the thought that they will not be in control of these massive investments in the states of Selangor, Perak, Penang and Kedah.

The 9th Malaysian Plan cannot be implemented successfully without the close cooperation between the central Federal Authority and the state counter-parts. This is a given the BN state partners-in-crime to loot the national treasury is absent. Pak Lah and his family have the money but the same cannot be diverted to the coffers of cronies at the state level, when they are no longer in power and control of the state governments.

The nightmare for the Barisan Nasional is not that they lost their 2/3 majority in Parliament and the massive reduction in the popular votes, but that they can no longer enrich themselves as before.

The whole system of patronage that confers absolute power to the President of UMNO and Prime Minister has been rendered ineffective and the rewards for a subservient power hierarchy cannot be guaranteed. Pak Lah and his goons will no longer be able to wield the threat that should the leaders of the political multi-level organisation fail to toe the line, the gravy train will not stop at their stations.

The gravy train stations are now in control of Barisan Rakyat!
So long as Pak Lah and his family are control of the levers of power and the treasury, the economy will be in a grid lock and the entire system will come to a standstill. Checkmate! There are enough reasons to remove Pak Lah as demanded by the electorate in the just concluded elections. But the nail that hammers in the lid of the coffin is the consequences of this stark economic reality.

The Prime Minister who replaces Pak Lah must be one who is without controversy, baggage and more importantly must be acceptable to the leaders of the Barisan Rakyat. This will provide the minimum basis for cooperation between the two “Barisans”. And such a leader will then be able to reform the present system and save the economy from dislocation and disruption and the unimaginable consequences that will assuredly flow from the present gridlock.

Time is against us.
Pak Lah must be removed when Parliament convenes, if the Barisan Nasional Members of Parliament have the interest of the country at heart and not their warped interest for power and self-enrichment.

No one to date has the guts and the convictions to take on Pak Lah and his goons except Tengku Razaleigh. He has offered to serve the country. He should be given a chance.
Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad has also called for Pak Lah’s removal. Members of Barisan Nasional must heed their call to remove Pak Lah. The nation must ensure that the momentum generated by the results of the General Election must gather speed and force to sweep away the political debris of Pak Lah, his family and his goons!
And God help us and Malaysia should we fail!

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Aku nak tahu lah apa strategi Pak Lah. Kenapa Pak Lah taknak buat apa2 lepas election, dan seolah tidak risau dengan keadaan politik Malaysia? Mungkin dia mengantuk, bosan dan malas dah nak layan politik Malaysia ni? Persoalannya, mengapa dia tidak risau dia akan digulingkan Disember nanti? Persoalannya, kenapa dia tidak risau dengan perpecahan UMNO? Persoalannya, kenapa dia tidak risau kurangnya sokongan bukan Melayu?

Adakah dia tidak risau, kerana dia memang nak Anwar Ibrahim jadi PM? Dia dapat anything from Anwar ke? Anwar pernah tak kutuk Pak Lah & KJ in his ceramah? Atau pun dia nak Anwar jadi PM, untuk membuktikan kepada rakyat Malaysia yang Anwar memang paksi Zionis? So, if anything happens to Malaysia Pak Lah will migrate to Australia? Perenggan di atas bukan pernyataan, tapi soalan-soalan. Siapa ada jawapan, silalah jawab.

Dia tak bagitahu strategi tulah masalahnya. Diharap adalah orang2 Pak Lah yang baca forum nie dan feedback perkara sebenar. Jangan 'Ye Datuk Seri' saje lah. Sakit hati aku baca suratkhabar arus perdana. (Tapi lagi menyampah baca Harakah, lagie hampeh).

Bila takde strategi yang diterangkan kepada akar umbi. Goyanglah perjuangan parti. Orang nak sokong UMNO pun dah tak tahu kenapa nak sokong UMNO. Yeah3, Melayu3 and it's ketuanan. But, how? What is your strategy to get back into business? MCA, MIC, Gerakan camne? Dengar one of cawangan MIC dah bubar in Malaysia Today (nie lagi satu website aku menyampah nak bace, tapi gagahkan jue lah).

Pak Lah laung2kan kebebasan bersuara, ketelusan, Islam ada had ada hari. Akhirnya penuhlah blog2 dengan suara2 sumbang dan dakwaan2 ke atas KJ & Patrick Bedewi. Tapi, dia buat diam saje. Kalau dia rasa suara2 sumbang ni tak betul, perbetulkanlah. Kalau dakwaan tuh salah, sangkallah. Ini tidak, dia hantar KJ jawab, kalau takde monyet di bawah pokok, takkan pokok bergoyang. Puh-lease lah! That is not even an answer. Padan muka merata dalam Youtube orang letak gambar monyet sebelah gambar kau, KJ.

Daripada buat statement kat press, “Saya masih di sini. Saya masih di sini. Saya masih di sini. Mereka semua membuat spekulasi. Saya larilah. Saya letak jawatan. Kenapa perlu saya letak jawatan. Kerajaan saya mendapat majoriti besar (walaupun) bukan dua pertiga tetapi amat kukuh... itulah sokongan yang diterima. Takkan saya nak lari, tinggal saya punya tanggungjawab,” katanya.

Tak convincing & tak menyelesaikan masalah langsung. Dia kena layout some strategy lah, macam mana nak satukan Melayu UMNO semula, macam mana nak satukan Melayu, Cina & India semula, macam mane nak kembalikan kepercayaan rakyat terhadap UMNO, MCA, MIC, Gerakan dan parti2 komponen dalam BN semula. Daripada jawapan syiok2 sendiri saja.

Kalau Pak Lah betul2 sayang kan Malaysia, fikirkanlah. (Jangan dok pikir sampai tertidor pulak). Make a move. Ke depan atau ke bawah, tak kisah.

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I did not get any positive answers by posting out this question in Kumpulan Menyokong UMNO website. I am thinking of giving up on UMNO. But, I just can’t.

Other political parties are no angel;
DAP – serpihan PAP, Singapore, anti Malay, chauvinist & kiasu communist,
PKR – excess baggage UMNO, dendam kesumat melampau & paksi zionis and
PAS – Parti Ajaran Sesat, flip-flop Islam & suka kutuk orang, cari salah orang, cakap orang kafir and think that they can masuk syurga.

The thing about this no-angel parties are they are taking advantage of the non-performing Prime Minister. So, we are just not asking Pak Lah to resign (go down), but do something about the condition of the country(move forward); harga barang, how you spend money on your corridors, KJ issues, unity of the races, and BN components. I think he is still in denial. He did not answer to the people's voices. Main stream media, tolonglah do something. This is not the time to shower him with flowers anymore lah.

There are also other people who are taking advantages. Not just this 3 no-angel parties. Somewhere, somebody is looking. A new dawn is coming alright.

Why I don’t want Malaysia to be another Singapore;
http://singaporedissident.blogspot.com/2008/03/chinese-malay-and-indian-singaporeans.html

Siapa Anwar Ibrahim?

2008-04-02T10:16:00.006+01:00

petikan from Utusan

Laporan akhbar Israel tentang Anwar dicurigai

KUALA LUMPUR 1 April – Rakyat mempunyai sebab untuk curiga dengan laporan sebuah akhbar Israel yang meramalkan Penasihat Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR), Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim bakal menjadi Perdana Menteri Malaysia.

Bekas Ketua Pemuda PKR, Mohamed Ezam Mohamed Noor berkata, walaupun tidak mempunyai bukti atau mengetahui apakah motif sebenar laporan sedemikian dikeluarkan, umum mengetahui Israel bijak memanipulasi keadaan demi kepentingannya.

‘‘Sejak kebelakangan ini, sudah terlalu banyak percaturan politik yang menggadaikan maruah negara.

“Saya juga ada alasan untuk bimbang mengenai perkara ini,” katanya kepada Utusan Malaysia di sini hari ini.

Mohamed Ezam diminta mengulas mengenai laporan akhbar Jerusalem Post bertajuk Anwar Ibrahim: Malaysia’s Future Prime Minister yang sebelum itu turut mendapat reaksi bekas Perdana Menteri, Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad dan seorang bekas pemimpin PKR, S. Nallakarupan, semalam.

Dr. Mahathir menyifatkan sekiranya Anwar dilantik sebagai Perdana Menteri Malaysia, ia hanya akan membawa satu malapetaka kepada negara ini.

Nallakarupan pula melihat akhbar itu tidak jelas mengenai perjalanan politik negara apabila membuat ramalan sedemikian.

Mengulas lanjut, Mohamed Ezam berkata, itu merupakan satu lagi usaha pemimpin seperti Anwar mengejar cita-cita dalam dunia politik.

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Tun Mahathir always did something beyond his time. Sepang F1 Circuit, KLIA, KLCC and the list goes on and on. People won’t understand his actions until at least 2-3 years time. A song kept playing in my head; I did it my way.

Banyak sangat conspiracy theory kan? Takde ke cerdik pandai yang ikuti ceramah Anwar? He claimed for 8 years he’s a Finance Minister, harga minyak naik sekali for 3 cents or 8 cents? And then, Melayu Alamak, Cina Adoi, India Ayoyo, dia turunkan balik to RM1.10? (He is a true politician kan? He can talk and convinced people if today is Monday, it is Saturday and if you are a woman, maybe you can be a man).

My mother was an Assistant Bank Manager when he was a Finance Minister. As a Finance Minister, he had increased BLR, and caused hundreds of people to kill themselves. He also almost got Malaysia into debt by almost taking loan from IMF. Thank God, Tun Mahathir did not agree with his deputy at that time.

I can’t believe the people can’t think about it? Jangan lah taksub sangat sampai buta nak lihat dan tuli nak dengar.

Oh! By the way, ada satu cerita taksub kelakar from my brother-in-law. He got this from his fellow Petronas colleague who is so taksub with Anwar, PAS, PKR, you name it all. “Mahathir ada simpan arak kat rumah, mesti dia minum arak. Anwar pun ada simpan arak kat rumah, tapi dia bagi guests je minum.” And you call that tak taksub? Beats me.

The thing about us, we are just not like them. We have our mind of our own. Kalau Pak Lah, tidur kita kate dia tidur lah. Kalau Anwar tipu, kite nilailah betul2. My point, janganlah taksub sangat! Google Jerusalem Post Anwar Ibrahim.

Below adalah petikan akhbar berkenaan. Nilai2kan lah. Penyokong2 PAS & PKR, renung2kan lah. A new dawn is coming alright.

PAS Bertepuk Sebelah Tangan

2008-04-01T10:03:00.000+01:00

Petikan from Harakah.

Demi ketuanan Melayu, sanggupkah Adun Umno Perak sertai PAS?
Mat Zain Mat Isa Tue Apr 01, 08 12:01:58 pm MYT

Tak pasal-pasal PAS pula yang dipersalahkan di atas kekurangan jumlah Exco berbangsa Melayu yang dibentuk kerajaan Perak, Sabtu lalu. Pelbagai pihak seakan berpakat menggambarkan betapa keadaan itu wujud disebabkan orang Melayu telah tersalah memberi kepercayaan kepada parti itu dalam Pilihan Raya Umum ke-12 bulan lalu. Sejauh manakah rasionalnya dakwaan itu? -->-->

Barisan 10 Exco Kerajaan Negeri Perak telah mengangkat sumpah jawatan masing-masing di hadapan Pemangku Raja Perak, Raja Dr Nazrin Shah di Istana Iskandariah, Kuala Kangsar, 29 Mac. ?

Mengikut pembahagian parti, DAP memperolehi enam kerusi Exco, diikuti Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) tiga dan PAS hanya satu. Ahli Dewan Undangan Negeri (Adun) Pasir Panjang, Ir Mohamed Nizar Jamaluddin yang mewakili PAS bagaimana pun telah dilantik sebagai Menteri Besar minggu lalu. ?

Ertinya, dalam kesebelasan utama peneraju negeri Perak (termasuk Menteri Besar), komposisinya mengikut parti ialah DAP 6: PKR 3: PAS 2. ?

Pembahagian kuota itu dianggap sejajar dengan jumlah kerusi dimenangi parti-parti terbabit. Dengan 18 kerusi dimenangi DAP, sudah tentu parti itu menuntut bilangan kerusi Exco yang lebih. Bahkan, jika dinilai dari sudut itu sahaja, kerusi Menteri Besar juga sepatutnya menjadi milik parti itu. ?

PKR menang tujuh kerusi, manakala PAS enam. Maka apabila PKR diberikan tiga kerusi Exco dan PAS dua (termasuk jawatan Menteri Besar), apa lagi yang perlu dipertikaikan? ?
Ada pun taburan mengikut kaum daripada 11 orang itu, enam adalah berbangsa Cina, empat Melayu dan seorang India. ?

Perkara ini dijadikan isu dan cuba diperbesarkan, terutama oleh pemimpin Umno Perak yang tidak pernah menyangka akan duduk di kerusi pembangkang. Kononnya komposisi Exco negeri itu tidak seimbang dengan taburan penduduk negeri tersebut yang 56 peratus berbangsa Melayu. ?

"Pemerintahan kerajaan Perak kini dikuasai oleh bukan Melayu. Melayu kini sudah hilang kuasa di Perak walaupun dalam sebuah kerajaan negeri yang mempunyai Menteri Besar berbangsa Melayu daripada parti PAS," kata Ahli Parlimen Pasir Salak, Datuk Tajuddin Abdul Rahman. ?
Barangkali beliau cuba membangkitkan sentimen kaum. Andaian itu semakin dijelaskan dengan
kenyataan beliau seterusnya. ?

"Sudah tentu DAP mempunyai kuasa yang lebih dalam membuat keputusan dan apa lagi yang diharapkan oleh orang Melayu dan Islam daripada kerajaan ini?" katanya, sebagaimana dipetik Mingguan Malaysia, Ahad lalu. ?

"Saya harap kita tidak menjadi menang sorak, kampung tergadai," kata Adun Pangkor, Dato' Dr Zambry Abdul Kadir pula. Secara sinis beliau berkata rakyat boleh menilai sendiri siapa sebenarnya yang memerintah Perak. ?

Tidak cukup setakat itu, kalangan rakyat bawahan pula cuba diapi-apikan sentimen kaum itu. Akhbar Utusan Malaysia, Isnin (31 Mac) menyiarkan pula temu bual dengan masyarakat Melayu di Perak. Bagai diduga, ia tidak akan menyiarkan pandangan yang memperbetulkan keadaan. Sebaliknya apa yang dipaparkan menjurus kepada kecaman terhadap kerajaan negeri pimpinan PAS. ?

Ruangan surat pembaca akhbar tersebut juga turut memuatkan pandangan dan lontaran fitnah berbau perkauman itu. Mangsa utama kesemua mereka ialah PAS, yang digambarkan gagal membela bangsa Melayu walau pun diberi kepercayaan menerajui negeri Perak. ?

"Tiada apa yang boleh disesalkan lagi. Melayu kini sudah hilang kuasa di negeri Perak, walaupun dalam sebuah negeri yang mempunyai Menteri Besar daripada parti PAS," tulis seorang pembacanya. ?

Inilah masalah dengan orang Melayu, terutama di kalangan pemimpin Umno. Asal saja ada masalah dengan soal Melayu, mereka cenderung meletakkan kesalahan kepada pihak lain, terutamanya PAS. Seolah-olah hanya Umno berbangsa Melayu dan hanya Umno yang memperjuangkan agenda Melayu. ?

Untuk meletakkan kesalahan kepada pihak lain memang tidak sukar. Namun, sepatutnya dalam perkembangan dunia serba maju ini, lebih-lebih lagi seorang bertaraf wakil rakyat perlu merasionalkan hujah dan berpijak ke bumi nyata. Apakah masuk akal untuk menuntut sesuatu yang lebih baik daripada apa yang diputuskan kerajaan campuran itu dalam realiti politik di Perak kini? ?

Bagi yang belum jelas keadaannya, perangkaan pecahan Adun-Adun Perak mengikut parti dan kaum wajar diteliti seadilnya. Berdasarkan parti, Barisan Nasional memperolehi 28 kerusi, iaitu 27 oleh Umno dan satu oleh MCA. ?

Di pihak kerajaan negeri pula, telah disebutkan DAP memperolehi 18, PKR tujuh dan PAS enam. ?

Jika dibahagikan mengikut kaum, jumlah Adun Melayu keseluruhannya adalah seramai 36 orang, Cina 18 dan India, lima orang. Malangnya, seramai 27 Adun Melayu adalah daripada Umno dan berada di pihak pembangkang. ?

Maka jumlah Adun Melayu yang ada di pihak kerajaan hanyalah sembilan, iaitu enam daripada PAS dan tiga daripada PKR. ?

Jumlah Adun berbangsa Cina di pihak kerajaan ialah 17, manakala India seramai lima orang. Ertinya komposisi mengikut kaum di pihak pemerintah ialah Melayu 9: Cina 17: India 5. Apa lagi alasan tersangat kukuh yang mahu diberikan bagi mewajarkan PAS atau PKR menuntut lebihan kerusi Exco, semata-mata atas dasar menambah kuota Melayu dalam kerajaan? ?

Persoalan yang sepatutnya ditanya semua pihak, terutama mereka yang konon amat mementingkan soal ketuanan politik Melayu, ialah mengapa jumlah Adun Melayu di pihak kerajaan Perak begitu sedikit? Apakah PAS dan PKR tidak meletakkan jumlah calon Melayu secukupnya untuk memastikan Adun Melayu menjadi majoriti dalam Dun? ?

Perlu diketahui bahawa PAS telah meletakkan 21 orang calon yang kesemuanya Melayu, tetapi menang hanya di enam kerusi. Ia menewaskan lima calon Umno dan satu calon MIC. ?
PKR pula bertanding di 20 kerusi. Sebelas calonnya adalah Melayu, lima Cina dan empat India. Di kalangan yang menang, ada tiga Melayu, tiga Cina dan satu India. ?

DAP pula bertanding di 18 kerusi. Calonnya 14 berbangsa Cina dan empat India. Tiada calon Melayu dari DAP. Ia menang kesemua kerusi ditandinginya. ?

Ertinya, di pihak parti-parti kerajaan sudah ada 32 calon Melayu, iaitu masing-masing 21 daripada PAS dan 11 PKR. Tetapi mengapa hanya sembilan antara mereka yang menang? Jawabannya ialah kerana mereka dikalahkan calon BN. ?

Siapakah calon BN yang mengalahkan mereka? Siapa lagi kalau bukan Adun-Adun Umno yang ada di Perak sekarang! ?

Kuota pembahagian kerusi Exco Perak mengikut kaum kini masih boleh dibaiki sekiranya jumlah Adun PAS atau PKR berbangsa Melayu bertambah. Tiada cara lain selain Adun-Adun Melayu di pihak pembangkang (Umno) menyertai parti-parti itu. ?

Soalnya, apakah mereka sanggup berbuat begitu demi ketuanan Melayu? Rasanya?payah la sikit kot.?Maka mahu tidak mahu buat masa ini semua pihak, terutama golongan yang terlalu mendewakan soal ketuanan Melayu di Perak perlu menerima hakikat yang ada. ?

Penyelesaian lebih baik mungkin akan datang dalam masa empat atau lima tahun akan datang. Cukuplah beri undi kepada calon-calon Umno. Jika benar-benar mahu jumlah Adun Melayu di pihak pemerintah di Perak bertambah, pastikan semua calon PAS menang. ?

Umno pula jangan menjadi batu penghalang kepada agenda PAS meramaikan Adun Melayu, jika ia benar-benar mahu ketuanan Melayu di Perak dipulihkan.

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Nampaknya penulis harakah ini menunjukkan betapa dia tidak berapa panjang akal. Bukankah PAS-DAP-PKR yang bersetuju parti mana yang akan bertanding di kawasan-kawasan di Perak? Dari peringkat pemilihan parti mana yang bertanding jelas membuktikan PAS tidak berwibawa dalam bersuara untuk memperbanyakkan jumlah wakilnya di negeri Perak. Jadi, jangan salahkan Melayu yang risau PAS tidak akan berjaya merperjuangkan ketuanan Melayu di Perak. Kemudian, Nizar dipersoalkan pula sebagai MB. DAP lebih rela seorang bekas posman, dari PKR menjadi MB. Sekali lagi, jangan salahkan Melayu yang risau PAS tidak akan berjaya merperjuangkan ketuanan Melayu di Perak. Walaupun pada akhirnya persetujuan dicapai, bilangan exco pula yang menjadi isu. Hinggakan wakil DAP hendak letak jawatan kerana seorang sahaja wakil India yang menjadi exco? Ini drama Tamil mana ni? Kata Malaysian’s Malaysia? Sudah terbukti dalam hati MP ini, dia sedar, warna kulitnya dan asal usulnya.

PAS tak sedar diri? Rela bekerjasama dengan orang munafik dari orang zalim? (Dia sendiri tuh tak zalim?) Pandai kutuk orang je. Pastuh, insya allah masuk syurga. What da?

PAS have to swallow back their piles of heave by putting their agenda negara Islam to their grave. Cakap tak serupa bikin. Mana perjuangan so-called Islam nya? They are confusing themselves. They don't even know what they are fighting for today. Malaysian's Malaysia? What a bunch of copycats.

I am disgusted with PAS. If one day, when I’m old, Malaysia becomes another Singapore or another Palestine, I will blame PAS and Melayu PKR for their bodohness and selfishness. I hope I’m already in the grave by then.

Anak2 Felda, Scholar MARA, JPA takkan tak sedar diri awak tuh produk DEB/DPN. I bet Nizar pursue his study through government’s scholarship. Khalid pun same, bukan ke PNB tuh terhasil dari DEB/DPN. Ini bukan soal susu pakai botol atau pakai cawan. Ini soal tak cukup khasiat, kena ada supply susu dari kerajaan.

Chinese and Indian yang shout Malaysian’s Malaysia ni fahamkah apa yang diperjuangkan PAS-DAP-PKR ni? My fellow Indian friends, a lot of them are under-achiever. Kalau takde help from the government with the kuota, jangan haraplah dapat masuk universiti. Yang Chinese ni pun, nak sangat ke masuk MRSM and SBP? Kenapa takde pun one of my Chinese friends yang apply nak masuk MRSM? Apply and then kena amek test. Takde pun yang berminat apply. So, apa sebenarnya yang other races nak? Politicians are just playing out the race sentiments to gain money and power. Please lah.

For the PAS people in Petronas and other GLC, do you think you will be there if it is not for DEB & DPN? So, you think you are so great? Without bottle milk also you can survive. The government needs to do what they have to do konon. You are so wonderful, brilliant and talented that you have been chosen and selected from a few of people for the scholars, your job and your position? Come on lah! Think lah people. Ini bukan cerita hantu ke cerita dongeng nak takut2 kan orang. Ini cerita betul lah.

I am not offended at all of DEB & DPN. I am not offended at all that Malays have the privileges. It is our right anyway. Scottish people do not feel offended that they do not have to pay taxes. It’s their privileges. We should not be offended but be proud of it.

I’m so disgusted with people that think this is some kind of joke. It is not funny at all! This is something serious. Jangan jadi taksub sangat sampai tuli nak dengar and buta nak lihat.

I can’t see PAS agreeing to things DAP are going to propose? DAP-PAS coalition are not going to happen unless;
1. PAS dropped its Islamic fanatic stand (which I think they already did - tapi takut nak announce and make it official, sebab takut hilang undi pengikut fanatik PAS).
2. DAP drop its Chinese chauvinism & anti-Malay privileges (which I think they will not do, in this life or hereafter).

As long as, PAS is Taliban and DAP is Chinese Communist I can’t see myself voting for them. PKR is just excess baggage from UMNO. UMNO pulak now sucks. So, lebih baik kite migrate? Haha. Opps, now I’m swallowing my own words. This is not funny, but something serious.

DAP has learned Malaysia’s politics well enough. MCA has put some level of tolerance and acceptance into DEB/DPN to be in power. DAP has also put some tolerance and acceptance into accepting Nizar & Khalid as MB. See the pattern?

Compromise works both ways

2008-03-26T14:24:00.000Z

petikan from Malaysia Today

Scream about a 'one-Malaysia' by all means. Demand that all races be considered Malaysian and not Malays, Chinese and Indians, if that makes you happy. But make sure your actions match your words. And if you scream 'no compromise', then expect no compromise in return.

NO HOLDS BARRED

Raja Petra Kamarudin

I was at a party on Saturday night and one Chinese man who sat beside me commented that 'we Chinese are scared of PAS because we don't want Malaysia to be turned into Iran'. I then asked him what exactly is it like in Iran and he was at a loss for words. He could not reply to my question. I then asked him if he had ever gone to Iran and he shook his head. Had he even gone to Kota Bharu? No!

I then commented that if I see dark clouds in the sky and if I hear thunder, I can safely assume that it will rain. “Can I in turn ask you, what are the signs that gives you the impression PAS will turn Malaysia into Iran?” I asked this Chinese man. He muttered below his breath that 'this is just what we Chinese think'.

“Sure, there must be a reason as to why Chinese think this way,” I replied. “What are the reasons?” He did not reply.

“Okay,” I continued. “Why do the Chinese assume that Malaysia will turn into Iran (though this certain Chinese man had no clue as to what it was like in Iran). Why can't you instead assume that Malaysia will be turned into Turkey?”

Again, he did not respond. “Do you know that in Turkey they 'ban' the use of the tudung? One woman Member of Parliament was in fact told to leave the Parliament building when she entered Parliament wearing a tudung. That is even 'better' than Malaysia. In Malaysia, you choose whether to wear it or not. In Turkey, they forbid you from wearing it.”

The Chinese man shook his head and gave me a 'I did not know all that' look. He then 'closed the subject' by saying, “That is what the rural Chinese think. I am from the rural area. Maybe the Chinese in town think differently.” This was actually a no-answer answer but I thought I too would drop the subject because this certain Chinese man had no clue what he was talking about and merely expressed his views based on what he fantasised in his mind. In fact, many Chinese I have met share this same mentality. They make assumptions based on what they imagine to be the truth rather than based on what they have personally experienced. Most times it would be stories they pick up at coffee shops and restaurants related by so-called experts who not only have never visited a Muslim country but have never even been to Kelantan.

Another Chinese man who had been listening to the entire 'debate' stood up and, quite perturbed, said, “You people spend so much money flying all over the world but you never take the trouble to visit Kelantan to see the situation there for yourself. You believe all the government propaganda and yet you say that the mainstream newspapers can't be trusted and print lies.”

Chinese are quick to point out that this country practices racial discrimination and that Malays are racists. They refuse to wear a songkok because they argue that this tantamount to racial discrimination and they refuse to be forced to wear something that they do not wish to wear. Dressing should be voluntary, they will argue, not compulsory. And if the dressing is 'Malay', then certainly they will not want to be forced into wearing it.

When Chinese enter the Parliament building, even just as an observer, they will have to wear a proper suit and tie. A suit and tie is not Chinese dressing (nor Malay), but this appears to be no problem for the Chinese. A suit is not part of Chinese culture at all. It is Kwailo (Mat Salleh) culture. And the Chinese are being forced to wear something 'colonial' or western in Parliament. But never have the Chinese protested about being 'forced' to wear a suit and tie. The Chinese accept this as the mandatory dress code for entering Parliament. But if the suit happens to be Malay dressing or part of Malay culture, then the Chinese will protest like mad and will boycott Parliament until the mandatory dress code ruling is removed.

The bottom line is, the Chinese will protest only if the dress code is Malay. During APEC meetings, Chinese are made ('forced') to wear the costumes of the host country. But as long as it is Australian, New Zealand, Japanese, Vietnamese, Chinese, Thai, Filipino, etc., this poses no problem. Just don't force the Chinese to wear a 'Malay' outfit.

Are the Chinese opposed to being forced into a dress code and opposed to being forced to wear something against their will or are the Chinese just opposed to being forced to wear something 'Malay'? The issue appears to be that the Chinese are not anti-dress code but just anti-Malay dress code.

If you come to the National Press Club (NPC), whether as a guest or member, there is a dress code to observe there too. You can't wear slippers, shorts and slippers, which many of my Chinese friends like to wear. When they come to the NPC as my guest, I am forced to advice my Chinese friends to wear pants, a collared shirt and shoes. Many a time my guests came not properly attired and they were asked to leave. I had to profusely apologise to my guests and explain that the management is very strict about the dress code. It is quite embarrassing when I have to tell my guests to leave because they are not properly dressed. But they understand this and do not hold it against me. Some even go home to change their clothes and come back again.

One chap who came in shoes and pants but was wearing a T-shirt also faced the same problem. His only problem was the T-shirt though, so I asked him to buy a long-sleeve shirt from the club and that solved the problem. He was allowed to stay but the others had to leave because the club only sold shirts, not pants and shoes.

The shoes, pants and long-sleeve shirt is not Chinese. It is not Malay as well. But that is the dress code for the club so everyone complies without protest. No one argues about being 'forced' against their will to dress in a 'colonial' dressing. No one declares that they are boycotting the club because of the 'racist' dress code in spite of all of us having to look like black, brown and yellow Englishmen. However, I can assume, and I have good reason to assume so, that if the National Press Club dress code was a songkok, there would be many who will protest at being 'forced' to wear something that they do not wish to wear. But if the NPC changes that dress code to an American baseball cap then that would be accepted without protest though none of us are white Americans.

Yes, Malays are racists. Umno is racist as well. The Malaysian government is racist too. But the Chinese are no less guilty of being racists. Can I sum up by saying that all Malaysians, irrespective of race, are racists.

If Umno Melaka were to announce that there are ten datukships for sale at RM250,000 per datukship, 300 Chinese will rush forward and in ten minutes all ten will be sold. But datukships are a Malay feudal thing. A datuk has to pay homage to a Malay ruler. You will become the subject of that ruler. Isn't this undignified for a Chinese who now has to kowtow to a Malay just like how the Chinese had to do so in the old days when the British ruled part of China?

Then they receive the invitation cards to come to the palace -- or the governor's residence for states without rulers. And the invitation card stipulate the dress code. The Chinese recipients of these datukships will rush out and spend RM5,000 or so on a new suit so that they can go to the palace or governor's residence to accept their datukships. The dressing is actually very unique and they will proudly have their photograph taken and will hang this giant photograph on the wall so that everyone who comes to their house or office can see them dressed in these very weird clothes while receiving their datukships. And if they have to wear a songkok then they will wear a songkok. After all, what is a RM10 songkok compared to the RM250,000 datukship and RM5,000 monkey suit.

They are being 'forced' to pay RM250,000 for a Malay feudal datukship. They are being 'forced' to wear a 'colonial' Mat Salleh monkey suit to go receive their datukship. If they do not observe the dress code then they cannot go receive their RM250,000 datukship. But they regard it as 'observing' the dress code, not being 'forced' to wear something against their will. But if it is a songkok then it is 'forcing'.

How do you reconcile the mind and 'value system' of the Chinese? When does 'observing the mandatory dress code' become 'forcing'? Only when it involves the songkok?

The Chinese insist that we are all Malaysians. We must not be categorised as Malays, Chinese or Indians. We must be regarded as one race, a Malaysian race. But we still want to be Chinese and not 'forced' into a common identity. And the songkok is Malay, not Malaysian, as far as the Chinese are concerned. What then would the Chinese consider as Malaysian? If you are not supposed to be bare-headed and if your head must be covered, what would be acceptable to the Chinese? Would they rather the cowboy hat be the Malaysian dress code? Or maybe a baseball cap? What would the Chinese accept as the proper uniform to use on one's head? Anything as long as it is not Malay?

The Chinese have to take a long, hard look at themselves and ask whether they are equally racist. Dress codes are common all over the world. Certain restaurants will not allow you in unless you wear a tie and suit. They will even loan you a tie and coat if you walk in not properly dressed. Never have I heard that the Chinese will protest and boycott the restaurant that forces them to observe these dress codes even though this type of dressing is not Chinese but very colonial. Only if the restaurant stipulates that the dress code includes a songkok will the Chinese protest. And this is because the songkok is Malay. So is it the dress code that the Chinese find offensive or is it what they perceive as the Malay part of the dress code that they find offensive?

They defend their resistance by saying that this is not their personal feeling. This resistance is only to please the Chinese population who will feel betrayed if the Chinese they voted into office compromises with the Malays. Finally, they admit the real reason for the resistance. It is so that the Chinese voters will not think they have compromised with the Malays. It is all about not being seen to have compromised with the Malays. Do the Chinese, therefore, have any right to demand that the Malays compromise with the Chinese?

Scream about a 'one-Malaysia' by all means. Demand that all races be considered Malaysian and not Malays, Chinese and Indians, if that makes you happy. But make sure your actions match your words. And if you scream 'no compromise', then expect no compromise in return. And this entire piece is not at all about the songkok. It is about Chinese resistance to what they perceive as Malay and their stand of no compromise. To be honest, even I do not like wearing a songkok. But that is not because I am anti-Malay.

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I just finished reading In Good Faith by Zaid Ibrahim. I do feel a little bit liberated after reading it. But, my feet still stands firm.

In my opinion, Malaysians regardless their races, are racists. Deep in the heart, they know they are Malay, Chinese or Indian. It’s in their heart and in their soul. We are not Americans where we have First Name, Middle Name & Last Name. No one will know whether you are black or Caucasians (unless if you meet them). But in Malaysia, you carry your name and for Malay, your father’s name. People can identify your races and in your ID there’s even your religion.

I think the education system in Malaysia does not help the multi-racial, multi-religion society. Kenapa perlu ada Sekolah Jenis Cina & India? Kenapa perlu ada sekolah pondok? Kenapa MRSM dan SBP majoritinya hanya Melayu? Kenapa bahasa pilihan yang diajar di SBP bahasa Perancis dan Jepun? Kenapa tidak ada pilihan belajar bahasa Mandarin & Tamil? Why does hearing a Hindu’s chanting before a meeting is strange but reciting Quran versus before a meeting is accepted?

Why do certain races always need to do the sacrifices and compromise? Why can’t there be acceptance instead of sacrifices? We have been brought up with this false hope that Malaysia is a multi racial society lives in harmony. We are not. Early in the beginning there have been social contracts that secure Malay’s and Bumiputera’s rights as the origins of Malaysia previously known as Peninsula State of Malaya & Borneo.

I believe there should be a level of rationality put in to the acceptance, tolerances and sacrifices.

Uncle Lim Kit Siang I quoted from the book (In Good faith) said that he understand this fact. His father at least understands this fact. As a trade for his citizenship, he is willing to accept the fact the Malays and Bumi’s are the origin of this country. But, his son cannot understand it, because he was born in Malaysia.

I don’t quite understand why did Mr Lim Jr cannot accept and respect that fact? My daughter was born in England. We pay tax like all other British. But, we did not go to the British government and asked why my daughter has not been granted with child benefit and other benefits.

Malay hard-core are scared to death with DAP because what happened in Singapore. Malays are being oppressed systematically and politically correct. How can we know for sure that DAP will not do the same thing? How would we know that they will not take advantage over liberalised Malays?

Wake up Pak Lah, wake up!

2008-03-22T12:34:00.000Z

Kini Waktu Berterus Terang

A Kadir Jasin

PERDANA Menteri boleh berkata dan boleh mendakwa bahawa tiada siapa yang menekan dia untuk meletakkan jawatan atau boleh menekannya untuk meletakkan jawatan.Laporan itu mungkin dan mungkin tidak mewakili sentimen atau kenyataan sebenar Perdana Menteri. Dan ia tidaklah penting. Yang penting ialah wajib ada seorang yang menerima dan memikul tanggungjawab ke atas prestasi buruk BN semalam.Siapakah orang itu jika bukan Perdana Menteri? Bukankah dia orang yang sehingga saat-saat akhir kempen begitu yakin bahawa BN akan mencatat kemenangan cemerlang dan mempertahankan majoriti dua-pertiga di Parlimen.Apakah undi rakyat yang begitu teruk menghukum Perdana Menteri dan partinya belum cukup untuk membuatkan dia menerima sepenuh tanggungjawab dan menetakkan jawatan kerana kepemimpinannya tidak lagi diyakini?Kalau pada PRU 2004 dia begitu gembira dan angkuh menyatakan bahawa kerana dialah BN menang besar, kenapa kali ini dia begitu keberatan mengakui bahawa kerana dia jugalah BN menderita teruk?Seperti kata bekas Perdana Menteri, Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad, dalam sidang akhbarnya pagi tadi, tiada pilihan lain bagi Perdana Menteri kecuali memikul tanggungjawab terhadap prestasi buruk BN dan berundur.

Berikut kenyataan Timbalan Perdana Menteri merangkap Timbalan Presiden Umno, Mohd Najib Abdul Razak, yang dikeluarkan semalam:"

1. Perjalanan pilihan raya yang ke-12 telah berjalan dengan selamat dan telus selaras dengan amalan demokrasi di negara ini.

2. Rakyat Malaysia telah menyatakan suara dan pilihan mereka dan kita berasa syukur kerana BN terus diberi kepercayaan untuk memerintah Negara.

3. Walaupun BN agak kecewa dengan kegagalan untuk kembali berkuasa di lima negeri serta kegagalan mendapat majoriti 2/3, kita menerima dengan hati penuh terbuka, keputusan rakyat.
4. Kita akan terus berusaha untuk mendapat semula kepercayaan rakyat. Kita minta ahli-ahli UMNO untuk merapatkan barisan dalam menghadapi cabaran ini.

5. Sebagai Timbalan Presiden, saya akan membantu YAB Presiden untuk hadapi cabaran besar ini."

Sementara itu, Abdullah Ahmad Badawi mengangkat sumpah sebagai Perdana Menteri buat penggal Kedua di hadapan Sultan Mizan Zainal Abidin di Kuala Lumpur. Serentak itu, Bursa Malaysia yang dibuka buat kali pertama selepas pilihan raya jatuh merudum sehingga mamaksa pengurusan menggantungkan sementara urus niaga pada jam 2.58 petang. Ketika itu, indeks komposit jatuh 130 mata atau 10 peratus kepada 1,166.32 mata Urus niaga disambung semula pada jam 3.58 petang. Harga di kebanyakan bursa Asia jatuh tetapi tidak seteruk di Bursa Malaysia.

Seperti jutaan pengundi yang tidak berselindung-selindung lagi menolak BN, Perdana Menteri juga tidak boleh lagi berdolak-dalik dan berselindung di sebalik pelbagai alasan.Prestasi BN kali ini adalah jauh lebih teruk daripada prestasi Perikatan pada tahun 1969. Rentetan kekalahan itu, Perdana Menteri dan Presiden Umno ketika itu, Allahyarham Tunku Abdul Rahman Putra, menyerahkan kuasa kepada timbalannya dan akhir bersara. Contoh dan teladan sudah ada.

Sesudah pengundi Malaysia membuat kata putus dengan memberi kejutan voltan tinggi kepada Barisan Nasional adalah tidak tetap dan tidak wajar lagi bagi sesiapa pun berselindung-selindung dan teragak-agak.Realitinya BN kehilangan banyak kerusi Parlimen, terlepas kawalan ke atas Pulau Pinang, Kedah, Selangor dan Perak serta ketewasan beberapa tokoh berprofil tingginya, termasuk tiga orang menteri.

BN ditolak kerana ia dilihat sebagai tidak cekap dan tidak sensitif kepada kehendak rakyat tetapi pada masa yang sama bongkak, mungkir janji, mengamalkan pilih kasih dan gagal menangani isu-isu massa seperti kenaikan harga barang dan kadar jenayah.Kerana dinasihati oleh anggota “kabinet dapur” yang jahil tetapi bongkah serta rakus – mereka yang digelar 3K, JKKK dan Budak Tingkat Empat -- dan menyisihkan jentera serta veteran parti, Perdana Menteri merangkap Presiden Umno dan Pengerusi BN sering tersilap membuat perkiraan.

Kepemimpinan kerajaan dan parti dilihat sebagai mempersendakan suara dan aspirasi rakyat dengan membuat kenyataan-kenyataan yang menyinggung perasaan yang kemudiannya dihebahkan secara meluas oleh media massa arus perdana yang pro-pemerintah.

Misalnya:
1. Perdana Menteri, pada hari penamaan calon, menyifatkan pakatan pilihan raya pembangkang sebagai “syok-syok sahaja”;

2. Perdana Menteri yang mencabar penunjuk perasaan supaya menggunakan peti undi sebagai tempat mutakhir menunjuk perasaan;

3. Menteri Kerja Raya yang mengatakan dia sedia berhenti jika rakyat jelata tidak mahukan dia lagi. Dia terus bertanding dan rakyat menyahut seruannya dengan mengundi pembangkang. Maka kecundanglah dia pada hari jadinya yang ke-72;

4. Menteri Penerangan (yang kalah di Sungai Petani) yang menyifatkan para blogger sebagai “syok sendiri.”;

5. Dia juga “bersumpah” akan memastikan lawannya hilang wang pertaruhan. Lawanya tidak hilang wang pertaruhan sebaliknya dia yang hilang kerusi; dan

6. Timbalan Ketua Pemuda (yang menang di Rembau) yang berkata tugasnya adalah memporak-perandakan pembangkang. Malangnya yang berlaku adalah di sebaliknya. Pembangkang memporak-perandakan BN.

Sekali pun benar bahawa keperibadian, gaya, kaedah serta prestasi Perdana Menteri menjadi pertikaian, faktor yang benar-benar menyebabkan pentadbiran beliau menjadi begitu tidak popular adalah persepsi mengenai kesombongan dan keangkuhan segelintir kecil manusia di sekelilingnya.Dalam tempoh kerjaya kewartawanan saya selama hampir 40 tahun, saya tidak pernah melihat sekumpulan orang di sekeliling seorang Perdana Menteri yang begitu dicurigai dan dibenci tetapi pada masa yang sama sangat ditakuti.Hasil mengejutkan keputusan pilihan raya ini tidak dapat tidak akan mencetuskan tanda tanya mengenai kewibawaan, integriti serta kesahihan kedudukan Perdana Menteri sebagai ketua kerajaan dan Presiden Umno.

Apatah lagi banyak calon yang dikaitkan terus dengan Perdana Menteri dan “kabinet dapurnya” seperti Azim Zabidi (Bukit Gantang), Osman Desa (Sik), Zainuddin Maidin (Sungai Petani), Annuar Musa (Ketereh) dan Awang Adek Hussin (Bachok) kecundang.Di pihak pembangkang pula, tindak-tanduk mereka akan diperhatikan dan dinilai bagi memastikan sama ada mereka juga akan menjadi sombong, angkuh dan pendendam kerana kuasa.Atau mereka menjadi pemegang amanah yang berhemah, merendah diri, sederhana dan bertimbang rasa.Dan apakah dasar-dasar dan program-program mereka lebih baik daripada BN.

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I can't stop myself from thinking that Pak Lah is actually jeopardizing UMNO? Why is he too self-centred to listen to Tun Mahathir? He was the Prime Minister of Malaysia for more than 20 years. He must have done something in the zone of excellent, good and true. He had made the frictions between races unbelievably invisible. He made this country known to the world. He is Bapa Pembangunan Malaysia. Pak Lah has a very big shoe to fill. Is Pak Lah just playing deaf to listen to the voters? We just can’t trust Pak Lah anymore. Can’t he understand it? I think he is just too sleepy to think? ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ?

Pak Lah really has to make a move. He really needs to make UMNO & BN stronger. He really needs to address and solve every day Mamat, Siew Meng and Vimala’s problem. Not just focused on his corridors and his family. He needs to come to his senses. I think he is so selfish to put his interest first before the country and before UMNO. He's living in his own dreams.

If he does not think he’s capable to achieve this, he can forget GE the 13th. The Malaysian Prime Minister prophecy is true.. RAHMAN.. Tunku Abdul Rahman, Abdul Razak, Hussein Onn, Mahathir, Abdullah Badawi, another A????, N???? and then it ends.

So, it does not mean just wake up Pak Lah, wake up. It also means, wake up everyone wake up. Jangan jadi pak turut sajalah.

Melayu Liberal? Melayu kah?

2008-03-21T10:20:00.000Z

CMs, DPMs and PMs: Time to go beyond the old taboos
By Farish A. Noor

WHEN the opportunity presented itself for Malaysia to choose a Malaysian woman of South Asian origin to be made the country’s first astronaut, those responsible for the final decision stepped back before the seemingly-insurmountable wall of taboos and inherited petty wisdom. No, they opined, we should choose a Malaysian Male Muslim Malay instead, as this would reflect the demographic realities of the country. But by doing so, they not only reflected the demographic realities of the day, but also confirmed the hegemony of that reality and thus rendered it absolute and unquestionable.

Now think of the possible alternatives had the Malaysian-Indian woman be chosen instead: For a start it would point to the demographic realities many of us would have wanted to see; and it would have been such a powerful symbolic message sent to Malaysia and the world. Had the other candidate been chosen, we could have proudly proclaimed that this was a country where racial and ethnic divisions had been transcended, and where gender equality was within reach. It would also have been such an enormous boost to the pride and sense of self-worth of so many other marginalised minority groupings in the country, to see themselves mirrored in the national narrative and to be made to feel that they truly belonged to a Malaysia that was indeed a country for all races. But no: Sadly, once again, the powers that be did the familiar cop-out and conceded to their own misguided belief in the old taboos.

The debate over who should be made chief minister of Perak, which has been going on for a week now, points to the same sort of intellectual and psycho-social impasse that has kept Malaysia paralysed for so long. Despite winning the biggest number of state assembly seats in the state, the DAP was not allowed to nominate one of its own to the post. The grounds for this realpolitik consideration happens to be a legal provision in the Perak constitution that apparently precludes the possibility of a non-Malay and non-Muslim from assuming the post of chief minister, even if her/his party won all the seats in the state assembly.

That such a provision emerged in a specific historical context that was determined even before the struggle for independence got off the ground is known to historians and laymen alike. But the question is this: Are we forever to remain beholden to history and trapped by the circumstances of the past? Or are we finally going to admit to ourselves that this nation-state of ours – Malaysia – is an invented construct and as such is also open to deconstruction, revision, adaptation and subsequently evolution? Are we now ready to evolve a new Malaysian politics that will finally reflect the plural and multicultural reality of Malaysian society today?
The debate over who should be the Perak chief minister appeared archaic and totally out of touch with the realities of our time. Coming immediately after an election that demonstrated the possible emergence of a pan-Malaysian cross-racial electorate, the fact that the post of chief minister for Perak was determined not by merit, experience or acumen, but rather by the racial background of the potential candidate, was surreal to say the least.

But as the dust settles and as the country slowly regains its momentum in the wake of the results of the 12th general election, let us take this opportunity to stir up some other sleeping sacred cows and rattle some other popular taboos.

To begin with, let us ask the singular question that nobody seems to have raised thus far: If, as our politicians would lead us to believe, this is indeed a country for all Malaysians, then should it not be the case that Malaysian citizenship and the commitment to the ideal of a plural Malaysian Malaysia be the guiding principle and criteria for all appointments to high office? Should that premise be accepted, would it not be conceivable that one day this country may have as its prime minister or deputy prime minister a Malaysian of non-Malay, non-Muslim and non-Male background? In other words, can we even begin to imagine the day when we may have a prime minister who happens to be of Indian-Hindu background and a woman to boot? And if such a situation is deemed unthinkable by some at the moment, we need to ask: Why? What is holding us back from entertaining such contingencies and variables? Surely what matters most in the selection of any leader or administrator is the competence and sincerity of the individual concerned; and it’s not as if it is the colour of the person’s skin that is doing the governing! (We hope not at least.)

The following imponderable questions can be addressed to all the parties in the country today as well.
Umno considers itself the party that defends the interests of the Malays and bumiputeras, though as we all know, both of these ethnic-racial categories are artificial and were invented as part of the colonial census. Be that as it may, Umno still presents itself as the party of the Malays and bumiputeras, and so let us ask this question aloud: Can the Umno leadership and membership consider the possibility that one day the president of Umno may be of Kadazan, Bajau, Iban, Penan or Peranakan background? Could a Catholic Kadazan ever dream of rising to such a post, and if not, what does this say about the institutional and structural limitations of Umno itself that does not and will not open up such opportunity structures?

PAS on the other hand claims to have transcended the culture and praxis of race politics, and the elevation of its Chinese-Muslim leader (Datuk) Anuar Tan Abdullah in Kota Bharu is a case in point. Yet PAS still has a woefully small number of non-Malay Muslims in its ranks and it remains to be seen if the party can and will make that great leap to non-racialised politics by courting the support of non-Malay Muslims across the country. Now the leaders and members of PAS may wish to consider this imponderable question as well: Can and will a non-Malay Muslim ever become the president of PAS, chief minister of Kelantan or even assume the highest post of Murshid’ul Am (Spiritual Leader) of the party and its followers?

Both the DAP and Gerakan on the other hand are ideologically-defined parties that have foregrounded their ideologies in the course of their struggles. But with the demise of Ahmad Noor, it has become an imperative for the DAP in particular to expand the racial spectrum of its leadership and membership. Already efforts are being made to undermine the hard work that the DAP has put into winning back Penang and those crucial state assembly seats in Perak and Selangor. Barbed comments about the DAP being a Chinese-dominated party may upset the sensibilities of DAP stalwarts who have laboured for so long to fulfil their leftist ambitions, but the fact remains that this perception of the DAP as a Chinese party is real for many and resonates with others too. In the same way that PAS places Islam at the forefront of its struggle, so should the DAP keep its Democratic-Socialist course, but surely the time has come when we can and should imagine the possibility of the DAP being led by a leader who may be of Malay or Indian background?

In the wake of the election, many of us have celebrated what may well be the first signs of a nascent Malaysian nation where citizenship counts the most in defining ones identity. A rupture has been opened up at last in the collective mindset that determines the conduct of our politics, and perhaps for the first time since 1957, we are in a position to collectively redefine the terms of Malaysian politics.

We need a new Malaysian politics that would breathe new life and faith in the political system, and where all of us – mainly on the basis of our universal citizenship – can claim to be stakeholders in the nation-building process. But for this to be the case we have to be brave enough to think out of the box and to imagine what was once deemed unimaginable. Our sacrosanct taboos and sacred rites have held us back too long, and kept us in a state of limbo where political superstitions ruled the day. For so long, we assumed that Malaysians would not vote for change; that the Malays would never support the DAP; that non-Muslims would never vote for PAS. But these certainties have been shattered and we now see that we are a mature, adult nation after all.

So perhaps all we need to do is push the envelope a little further, set our targets a little higher, wish and work a little harder; and our dreams for a truly democratic Malaysia that is the nation for one and all may eventually come true. We failed to send a Malaysian-Indian woman to space, but that doesn’t mean we can’t send her to the Prime Minister’s Office in Putrajaya!

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In my opinion, if we would want to go beyond this so-called taboo, then we also need to change our names. As what Indonesia has done. So that, you can not differentiate a Malay, a Chinese or an Indian based on their names. So any submission made either for a business, education, politics or anything will be purely on merit. We may also need to change our appearance as well; make some plastic surgery on our jawa noses, opera eyes and pour some acid on our skins to change its colour.

Sayang semuanya, sudah terlambat

2008-03-20T14:05:00.000Z

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Undi Melayu bukan untuk hapuskan DEB

SAYA tertarik dengan tulisan Ab. Jalil Becker dalam ruangan Forum 19 Mac tentang para pemimpin Melayu dalam Pas dan Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) yang kini umpama ‘kaduk naik junjung’.

Apa yang beliau bangkitkan dalam tulisannya itu cukup tepat dan turut menjadi keresahan ramai orang Melayu masa kini.

Saya terasa orang Melayu sedang ditertawakan oleh kaum lain angkara sikap mahu berkuasa oleh beberapa pemimpin Melayu dalam pakatan pembangkang.

Kita tidak pernah belajar daripada sejarah bagaimana orang Melayu menjadi lemah dan tergadai kampung halaman disebabkan sanggup menjadi alat kepada ‘kuasa asing’.

Saya adalah salah seorang pengundi dalam pilihan raya baru-baru ini. Sememangnya saya mengakui buat pertama kalinya saya mengundi pembangkang. Tetapi ia dengan niat dan harapan agar para pemimpin Melayu dalam pakatan pembangkang akan tetap menjaga kepentingan Melayu.

Lagipun langkah melakukan eksperimen dengan mengundi pembangkang kerana rasa tidak puas hati terhadap beberapa isu nasional dan sekadar mahu memberi mesej kepada BN.

Tetapi ia tidak bererti saya memusuhi UMNO yang menjadi akar umbi orang Melayu dan banyak berjasa mempertahankan kepentingan Melayu.

Tetapi yang menyedihkan saya, undi yang diberi kepada parti Melayu dalam pakatan pembangkang, telah memakan diri masyarakat Melayu. Lihatlah apa yang terjadi di Pulau Pinang. DAP yang tegar dengan gagasan Malaysian Malaysia dan pernah memberi amaran akan menentang habis-habisan Pas yang mahu menegakkan negara Islam, akhirnya berjaya menawan negeri itu dengan bantuan PKR dan Pas.

Alasan
Baru sehari memerintah, DAP bertindak mahu memansuhkan Dasar Ekonomi Baru (DEB) dengan mencari apa sahaja alasan bagi mewajarkan tindakan mereka.

Pendirian yang sama diambil oleh PKR yang cuba memecahkan DEB yang sinonim dengan sumbangan UMNO. Anehnya, Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim dan Tan Sri Khaled Ibrahim ketika mereka dalam kerajaan, mempertahankan dasar itu. Malah Anwar kerap mengecam pembangkang yang mempersoalkan DEB.

Adalah memalukan kini para pemimpin PKR mengkhianati masyarakat Melayu sendiri yang memerlukan lebih pembelaan pada ketika golongan termiskin di negara ini adalah orang Melayu sebagaimana laporan Program Pembangunan Bangsa-Bangsa Bersatu (PBB). Bagaimana kontraktor kecil Melayu yang tidak mempunyai sokongan modal yang cukup dapat bersaing dengan para kontraktor Cina yang sudah hebat, banyak modal dan mempunyai rangkaian perniagaan dan pembekalan yang menyeluruh?

Bagaimana anak-anak Melayu yang miskin dan agak berjaya dalam pelajaran dapat diperkasakan menerusi bantuan biasiswa dan program ke asrama penuh, kalau tanpa DEB?
Banyak lagi contoh yang boleh diberikan termasuk bagaimana Melayu dapat membuka kedai jika rumah kedai semua dimonopoli oleh Cina? Untuk membuka kedai tayar pun, Melayu masih belum berjaya kerana rangkaiannya dikuasai oleh satu kaum yang telah lama mempunyai tradisi perniagaan.

Lagipun DEB selama ini tidak pernah memiskinkan kaum lain tetapi dengan dapat menyusun semula masyarakat dan mengelak mana-mana kaum mendominasi ekonomi tertentu.
Seperkara yang penting, undi yang orang Melayu beri kepada Pas dan PKR dan juga kepada DAP (atas semangat menyokong pakatan), bukan mandat untuk menghapuskan DEB atau Dasar Pembangunan Nasional (DPN). Jika hal itu (pemansuhan DEB) dinyatakan lebih awal, saya percaya ramai orang Melayu akan menolak Pas dan PKR.

Jangan menipu dan memanipulasi orang Melayu dengan sikap tamak haloba politik.
Kini saya menyesal kerana memberi undi kepada pakatan pembangkang kerana mengakibatkan DEB dimansuhkan. Begitu juga dengan Pulau Pinang yang jatuh ke tangan DAP hasil gerakan undi Cina untuk Cina. Bukankah itu lebih perkauman? Tetapi mengapa PKR dan Pas berdiam?
Saya berjanji akan menebus kembali kesilapan saya itu pada pilihan raya umum depan. Saya sudah berpesan kepada keluarga dan sanak-saudara supaya mempertahankan DEB.
Saya rasa cukup berdosa kerana mengkhianati bangsa dan agama saya sendiri. Saya tidak mahu lagi bersekongkol dengan para pemimpin Melayu yang umpama si kitul mahu menjual bangsa dan tanah air mereka. Lima tahun lagi tidak lama.

– RASA BERDOSA,
Shah Alam.

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I fully agree with the writer. But, maybe instead of referring to DEB we should refer to DPN after this. Sigh, now everyone felt the aftermath of the unexpected tsunami. But, there are also some who took opprtunity over what happened. Sigh lagi sekali.

Melayu Elit?

2008-03-20T10:53:00.000Z

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Persoal pemimpin Melayu tolak DEB
KEPUTUSAN Pilihan Raya Umum Ke-12 memang perit kepada UMNO dan Barisan Nasional (BN). Sungguhpun kekalahan beberapa kerusi telah dijangka tetapi protes yang begitu besar terhadap kenaikan kos sara hidup memang menakjubkan.

Empat negeri iaitu Kedah, Pulau Pinang, Perak dan Selangor jatuh ke tangan parti lawan iaitu DAP, PKR dan Pas. Sebagai menghormati hak-hak demokrasi maka kita tahniahkan kemenangan mereka dan berharap mereka dapat laksanakan janji-janji ‘bulan dan bintang’ dalam manifesto mereka.

Apa yang saya ingin bangkitkan di sini ialah mengenai sikap kepimpinan Melayu Pas dan PKR yang seumpama ‘kaduk naik junjung’.

Ramai orang Melayu yang memberi sokongan kepada mereka tidak pernah memberi mandat untuk mereka ini mempertikaikan Dasar Ekonomi Baru (DEB) yang telah tamat pada 1990, mahupun Dasar Pembangunan Nasional (DPN) yang masih meneruskan semangat DEB.

Justeru apabila Menteri Besar Selangor yang baru, Tan Sri Khalid Ibrahim dan Naib Presiden Pas, Mohamad Sabu mendakwa hanya segelintir orang Melayu dalam UMNO yang menerima habuan DEB, maka saya fikir beberapa pernyataan perlu diungkapkan semula untuk dinilai oleh orang Melayu.

Jika diteliti keseluruhan dasar kerajaan membantu bumiputera, hampir keseluruhan orang Melayu dan bumiputera menerima limpahan dasar ini.

Ambil sahaja contoh kemasukan pelajar Melayu dan bumiputera ke institusi pengajian awam (IPTA), ke kursus-kursus teknikal dan penting seperti perubatan, sains, kejuruteraan, ekonomi dan undang-undang.

Jika diteliti sejak 1980-an sehingga sekarang begitu ramai pelajar bumiputera yang dapat masuk ke universiti dan dihantar ke luar negara. Apakah ini bukan limpahan kenikmatan DEB dan DPN hari ini?

Peluang
Berapa ramai pula anak-anak Melayu dan bumiputera di kampung-kampung tanpa mengira Pas, UMNO mahupun dalam parti lain yang dimasukkan ke Maktab Rendah Sains Mara (MRSM). Malahan saya boleh buktikan ramai juga ahli Pas termasuk wakil rakyat hari ini merupakan bekas pelajar MRSM yang kemudiannya diberi peluang pula melanjutkan pelajaran ke luar negara.

Kita lihat pula penyokong-penyokong Pas dan PKR yang mencari rezeki di syarikat petroliam negara. Saya juga boleh namakan siapakah para penyokong Pas dan PKR di syarikat milik kerajaan itu.

Apakah mereka berpandangan tanpa dasar probumiputera dan Melayu mereka akan menduduki tempat tersebut hari ini? Jika Pas dan PKR mendakwa penyokong mereka tidak menerima limpahan kurnia dasar ini dan jika mereka mendakwa hanya ahli UMNO menerima limpahan DEB maka kita patut mengeluarkan semua penyokong Pas dan PKR dari Petronas. Juga dari syarikat berkaitan kerajaan lain seperti Telekom, TNB dan Khazanah Nasional.

Ini belum lagi kita tanya berapa ramai pemimpin dan penyokong Pas dan PKR yang menerima didikan dari Universiti Teknologi Mara (UiTM). Apakah ini bukan nikmat dasar pro-Melayu?

Jika pemimpin parti-parti ini masih menafikan maka sekali lagi saya dan rakan-rakan bersedia untuk menyenarai pensyarah-pensyarah universiti yang menyokong mereka ini untuk kita keluarkan dari universiti.

Apakah mereka berpendapat tanpa Skim Latihan Akademik Bumiputera (SLAB) dan tanpa dasar-dasar kerajaan ini maka sebegitu ramai pensyarah Melayu akan dihasilkan?
Yang sering dipertikaikan ialah soal orang Melayu itu kaya, orang Melayu ini kaya kerana mendapat kontrak kerajaan. Hakikatnya, mereka kaya bukan kerana bulan jatuh ke riba. Mereka berusaha membina keupayaan dan hubungan.

Dalam mana-mana sistem ekonomi dan politik sekalipun, soal hubungan, keupayaan dan kronisme tidak dapat dielakkan. Namun apakah begitu tertutup peluang perniagaan orang Melayu dan bukan Melayu kerana kronisme ini?

Yang kita selalu persoalkan ialah soal kontrak yang diberi kerajaan kononnya tidak telus dan sebagainya. Hakikatnya, berapa banyak kontrak syarikat swasta yang diberi secara tidak telus dan kepada siapa diberi pun kita tahu.

Faktanya, setiap tahun beribu-ribu orang Melayu menerima bantuan kewangan daripada Majlis Amanah Rakyat (Mara) dan Perbadanan Nasional Berhad (PNB) untuk merebut peluang perniagaan. Mereka ini tidak pernah ditanya parti apa, ideologi apa.

Akhir sekali kita akui ada orang seringkali menyalahgunakan dasar-dasar ini. Dalam sistem apa pun, pasti ada oportunis yang sentiasa akan cuba mengkayakan diri sebanyak mungkin. Namun apakah sistem yang harus disalahkan?

Hakikatnya, DEB dan DPN telah membantu begitu ramai orang Melayu dan bumiputera secara langsung dan tidak langsung. Cuma, apakah semua orang Melayu bersedia menundukkan ego mereka dan mengakuinya?

Akhirnya, mungkin dalam keadaan ini kita boleh meminta Menteri Besar Selangor yang baru menerangkan segala keistimewaan dan kekayaan yang beliau peroleh semasa menduduki Ketua Pengarah Eksekutif Guthrie, termasuklah keuntungan transaksi saham dan sebagainya.
Biar masyarakat buat penilaian siapa pejuang orang Melayu dan siapa pula musang berbulu ayam.

– AB JALIL BACKER,
Petaling Jaya.

Gelombang pilihan raya 30 sen

2008-03-20T09:55:00.000Z

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Oleh: BAHAROM MAHUSIN

SEORANG guru wanita Melayu di Selangor menangis pada pagi 8 Mac lalu selepas dia mengundi pada Pilihan Raya Umum Ke-12. Arwah bapanya ialah seorang penyokong setia UMNO, Perikatan dan Barisan Nasional (BN). Ketika Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad berada di kemuncak popularitinya pada tahun 1990-an, bapa guru itu yang pernah menyaksikan betapa sukarnya pimpinan UMNO terdahulu memperjuangkan kemerdekaan bertepuk tangan apabila mendengar kepetahan Dr. Mahathir berucap di kaca televisyen.

Tetapi pada pagi 8 Mac 2008, air matanya bergenang. Guru wanita itu berasa tertekan kerana dalam pilihan raya itu dia mengundi calon DAP dan Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR), iaitu parti yang bukan menjadi pilihan politik dirinya dan arwah bapanya. Dia memberitahu rakan-rakan rapatnya: “Saya sedih, saya menangis dan saya berasa bersalah tetapi saya terpaksa mengundi pembangkang untuk memberikan satu mesej kepada kepimpinan UMNO dan kerajaan.”
Di seluruh negara seminggu lalu, terdapat begitu ramai pengundi seperti guru ini. Di Parlimen Kelana Jaya yang di bawahnya kerusi Dewan Undangan Negeri (DUN) Seri Setia, ramai pesara Melayu di kawasan itu yang tidak pernah tidak keluar mengundi dalam pilihan raya sejak tahun 1960-an – dan pada setiap kali pilihan raya mereka memangkah lambang dacing – enggan terlibat dalam proses pilihan raya. Seorang pesara berusia 65 tahun di situ memprotes: “Biarlah, biar padan muka.”

Akibatnya, di Parlimen Kelana Jaya, calon PKR, Gwo-Burne Loh, anak muda berusia 33 tahun yang merakamkan video perbualan peguam V.K. Lingam – yang tidak pernah pun ada sekelumit jasa kepada penduduk tempatan di Kelana Jaya – memperoleh 30,298 undi mengalahkan calon BN, Datuk Lee Hwa Beng yang mendapat 25,267 undi. Undi majoriti Gwo-Burne ialah 5,031. Di peringkat DUN Seri Setia pula, seorang pemuda Melayu berusia 26 tahun daripada PKR menjadi wakil rakyat kawasan itu mengalahkan seorang pemimpin wanita UMNO yang terkenal.
Empat tahun lalu, pada pilihan raya umum 2004, pesara yang kecewa dengan kerajaan itu adalah antara pengundi yang telah memenangkan bekas Ahli Parlimen BN di situ yang mendapat undi majoriti 21,671. Bayangkan, dalam tempoh empat tahun, di Parlimen Kelana Jaya sahaja berlaku penghakisan sokongan terhadap BN yang begitu dahsyat. Wujud swing kira-kira 26,500 pengundi yang beralih daripada menyokong BN kepada menyebelahi PKR pada pilihan raya kali ini.

Malang bagi BN, pilihan raya umum 8 Mac lalu diadakan dalam mood negatif ini yang dirasai oleh guru wanita dan pesara itu serta berjuta-juta lagi rakyat yang selama ini merupakan penyokong setia parti-parti kerajaan di seluruh negara. Ia bukan sahaja dirasai oleh pengundi Melayu, tetapi juga para pengundi Cina dan India. Ia tidak sahaja menimpa UMNO, tetapi juga MCA, Gerakan dan MIC.

Mood itu sudah lama tercetus, bukan baru seminggu lalu, tetapi ia tertutup daripada difahami. Kesombongan politik telah melindungi mata sesetengah pemimpin daripada merasai kemarahan rakyat itu.

Dalam pilihan raya umum 21 Mac 2004, BN menang besar kerana wujud persepsi positif terhadap kerajaan dalam kalangan orang seperti guru wanita dan pesara itu. Orang seperti merekalah yang membolehkan Perdana Menteri, Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi membawa kemenangan hebat menguasai 198 daripada 219 kerusi Parlimen pada pilihan raya tahun itu, dengan undi popular untuk BN sebanyak 64 peratus.

Namun, 40 hari selepas menang besar pada pilihan raya umum 2004, kerajaan mula menaikkan harga petrol dan gas, mula-mula sebanyak dua sen tetapi dalam tempoh tidak sampai dua tahun harga petrol telah dinaikkan lima kali. Kali terakhir ia dinaikkan pada 28 Februari 2006, sehingga 30 sen seliter, yang menjadikan dalam tempoh dua tahun harga petrol dinaikkan sebanyak 57 sen.

Kerajaan mungkin mempunyai alasan tersendiri mengapa ia tidak mampu terus menampung subsidi petrol. Pada Februari 2006, kerajaan memberi alasan penjimatan RM4.4 bilion setahun daripada subsidi petrol ekoran kenaikan 30 sen seliter boleh digunakan untuk projek membaiki sistem pengangkutan awam. Malangnya, guru wanita dan pesara itu tidak nampak pun projek itu di kawasan mereka dan mereka bukanlah orang yang mendapat manfaat langsung daripadanya.

Fenomena
Maka meletuslah perasaan marah dan geram. Penjimatan RM4.4 bilion setahun itu menyebabkan harga barangan dan perkhidmatan menjadi tidak terkawal. Tarif elektrik dan air naik, harga susu melambung, harga sayur, ikan dan barang keperluan dapur melonjak mendadak. Upah gunting rambut pun bertambah mahal.

Kerajaan, dan Abdullah secara peribadi, memang berusaha keras untuk membendung kenaikan kos sara hidup itu, tetapi isu tersebut menjadi pencetus satu fenomena. Walaupun media prokerajaan cuba mengimbanginya, tetapi sedikit demi sedikit kerajaan mula ditafsirkan sebagai tiada kasihan belas kepada rakyat. Apabila ada pemimpin UMNO berkata ‘biarlah kerajaan susah sedikit asalkan rakyat jangan susah’, idea itu tidak mendapat sokongan dalam UMNO dan kerajaan. Kemenangan besar tahun 2004 telah menimbulkan sesuatu, pada pihak kerajaan dan BN, ia dipanggil keyakinan, tetapi pada mata sebahagian kecil rakyat, ia dianggap suatu keangkuhan.

Senario itu mewujudkan mood yang dahsyat pada 8 Mac lalu, dua tahun selepas kali terakhir harga petrol dinaikkan. Selama ini sebahagian pengundi tidak kisah dengan kesilapan yang pemimpin negara lakukan. Gosip politik mengenai pemimpin muda yang kelihatan terlalu berpengaruh seperti Khairy Jamaluddin mereka tidak hiraukan sangat dalam situasi biasa. Siapa ahli perniagaan mendapat projek kerajaan yang boleh menjadikan seseorang kaya-raya juga mereka pandang dengan sebelah mata.

Tetapi dalam keadaan poket mereka diserang, pendapatan benar merosot, kualiti hidup mereka terjejas dan perasaan bahawa dari segi kewangan hidup mereka sekarang adalah lebih susah daripada empat tahun lalu, maka bermulalah satu sentimen yang kemudian merebak. Sentimen bertukar menjadi mood masyarakat. Bergulinglah snowball effect. Gosip politik mula dipercayai, skandal dibincangkan secara terperinci dan putar belit pembangkang kini dianggap benar.
Sebahagian mereka, terutama pengundi atas pagar yang tidak terikat dengan mana-
mana parti politik, dalam diam-diam mula bertekad mahu menghukum kerajaan. Dari Kuala Lumpur dan Lembah Klang, di mana kos sara hidup yang tinggi memanaskan lagi kegelisahan, ia kemudian merebak ke kawasan lain di pantai barat dalam kalangan penduduk bandar. Masalah hubungan kaum akibat timbulnya isu Hindraf menjadi faktor yang merumitkan lagi keadaan. Dari Kuala Lumpur membawa ke Kedah, dari Kuala Lumpur melarat ke selatan, pengundi yang selama ini diam membuak-buak ingin bersuara.

Mereka mahu menggunakan peti undi untuk menunjukkan rasa tidak puas hati. Masing-masing ingin memprotes, termasuk para pengundi konservatif Melayu. Dalam proses untuk meluahkan apa yang mereka meluat itu, mereka tidak sedar akibatnya. Lidi kalau sebatang boleh dipatahkan, jika segenggam boleh membunuh. Undi protes jika satu sahaja tidak membawa apa-apa bekas, tetapi menyatakannya dalam jumlah yang ramai sehingga berjuta-juta orang, ia menggoncang kekuatan BN yang selama ini tidak pernah termimpi dapat disaingi pembangkang.
Ahli Majlis Tertinggi UMNO, Datuk Seri Mohamed Nazri Aziz menceritakan kepada pemberita bagaimana mood protes dari Kuala Lumpur dibawa oleh pengundi muda Melayu, Cina dan India ke kawasan Parlimen Padang Rengas di Perak. Mereka, kata Nazri, balik ke kampung mempengaruhi ibu bapa masing-masing supaya mengundi pembangkang. Nazri hanya dapat mempertahankan kerusi Padang Rengas dengan undi majoriti 1,749 sahaja, sedangkan empat tahun sebelum itu beliau menang dengan undi majoriti yang lebih selesa sebanyak 5,563. “Saya hanya selamat kerana hubungan peribadi saya dengan pengundi di situ,” katanya.
Hakikat bahawa BN hanya memperoleh 140 kerusi Dewan Rakyat, dan tewas di 82 kerusi Parlimen – berbanding kemenangan 198 kerusi pada 2004 – dan kalah di berpuluh-puluh lagi kerusi DUN sehingga hilang penguasaan ke atas negeri Kedah, Pulau Pinang, Perak dan Selangor selain gagal menawan Kelantan mencerminkan betapa besarnya gelombang mood rakyat. Para penganalisis mengumpamakannya dengan tsunami – satu gelombang besar yang memukul dan memusnah tanpa disedari.

Di Parlimen Kuala Langat yang pada tahun 2004 BN menang dengan undi majoriti 21,495, calon BN di kawasan itu, Datuk Sulaiman Mohd. Karli tidak menyangka beliau boleh tewas kepada calon PKR, Abdullah Sani Hamid dengan undi majoriti 989. Semasa kempen pilihan raya, Sulaiman tidak merasai langsung tanda-tanda BN akan kalah di situ. Pada malam keputusan diumumkan, seorang pembantunya yang panik mengirim SMS kepada seorang editor akhbar: “Saudara, apa sudah berlaku ini?”

Di sesetengah kawasan pilihan raya, mood rakyat diburukkan lagi dengan masalah politik kaum. Kuala Langat mempunyai kira-kira 18.49 peratus pengundi India daripada 66,515 pengundi di situ, iaitu seramai 12,298 orang. Dengan Abdullah mengumumkan pilihan raya ketika masalah Hindraf dan ketidakpuasan hati masyarakat India belum dirungkaikan, Sulaiman menjadi salah seorang yang tumbang.

Undi India jugalah yang menumbangkan BN di banyak kawasan di Selangor, Kuala Lumpur, Perak dan Pulau Pinang. Datuk Seri Shahrizat Abdul Jalil kalah di Lembah Pantai kerana pengundi India.

Politik perkauman yang telah menipis kini tebal semula dalam pilihan raya umum yang baru lalu. DAP berjaya dengan kempennya di Pulau Pinang, Perak dan Selangor. Parti itu memberitahu pengundi Cina bahawa satu undi kepada MCA dan Gerakan bermakna satu undi yang akan mengukuhkan dominasi UMNO. Banyak orang Cina, khususnya di Pulau Pinang, termakan dengan hasutan itu.

Perkauman
Sentimen perkauman pengundi Melayu juga berputik. Di Parlimen Hulu Selangor, misalnya, Timbalan Presiden MIC, Datuk G. Palanivel yang mewakili BN tersungkur di kawasan itu. Pengundi Melayu di situ memberi kemenangan kepada BN di ketiga-tiga kerusi DUN di Hulu Selangor iaitu kepada calon MCA di DUN Kuala Kubu Baharu dan dua calon UMNO di DUN Batang Kali dan Hulu Bernam. Tetapi di peringkat Parlimen, sebahagian besar pengundi memangkah calon PKR, Datuk Dr. Zainal Abidin Ahmad, dan membenamkan masa depan politik Palanivel, cuma dengan undi majoriti 198.

Palanivel tentulah amat kecewa kerana pengundi yang sama di Hulu Selangor pada tahun 2004 telah membantunya mengalahkan tokoh Pas, Datuk Ismail Kamus dengan undi majoriti 14,483. Kali ini orang Melayu di situ, pengundi yang sama, menolaknya walaupun beliau ialah seorang wakil rakyat yang berdedikasi. Perbalahan politik yang berlaku dalam masyarakat India memberi implikasi kepada persepsi pengundi Melayu. Persepsi inilah yang melanda bukan sahaja Palanivel tetapi juga Presiden MIC, Datuk Seri S. Samy Vellu yang kalah di Parlimen Sungai Siput.

Serangan terhadap kerajaan melalui laman-laman blog dan Internet sudah wujud sejak pilihan raya 1999, tetapi strategi itu gagal membantu kemaraan pembangkang dengan berkesan, malah tidak efektif langsung dalam pilihan raya 2004. Blog dan laman web hanya menjadi satu medium komunikasi yang berpengaruh pada 2008 apabila mood rakyat terhadap kerajaan bertukar ekoran kenaikan harga minyak selepas pilihan raya 2004.

Di Kedah pula, perbalahan antara Abdullah dan Mahathir mungkin bukan satu-satunya faktor kenapa Kedah jatuh kepada Pas, dan hujah itu tidak popular di kalangan sesetengah orang UMNO, tetapi ia menambahburukkan lagi sentimen pengundi.

Di Kedah, analisis awal menyebut sebahagian besar pengundi saluran 3 dan 4 di peti-
peti undi di negeri itu, iaitu mereka yang lahir pada tahun 1960-an dan 1970-an, menyokong pembangkang. Pendapatan benar yang merosot di kalangan pengundi berusia 30-an dan 40-an yang sedang membina keluarga digambarkan dengan jelas dalam pola pengundian. Ia membuktikan petunjuk-petunjuk ekonomi seperti nilai perdagangan luar berjumlah trilion ringgit dan pertumbuhan Keluaran Dalam Negara Kasar sehingga hampir tujuh peratus belum dapat diterjemahkan kepada kemakmuran hidup rakyat biasa.

Faktor calon di kebanyakan kawasan dalam pilihan raya kali ini bukan isu besar kerana jika pembangkang letakkan ‘batu, kayu atau sesiapa sahaja’ pun ia akan menang berdasarkan kecenderungan rakyat kali ini. Contoh klasik ialah calon bebas yang menang di DUN Bukit Selambau, Kedah. Pengundi Melayu dan Cina sudah sampai ke peringkat mereka tidak berasa bersalah mengundi siapa sahaja asalkan BN kalah. Perasaan ini berleluasa.

Jentera pembangkang tidak sekukuh seperti yang disangkakan. Sungguhpun pembangkang kelihatan mempunyai lebih banyak wang untuk berkempen kali ini, undi protes dalam pilihan raya umum bukan timbul kerana faktor jentera pembangkang atau kerana hujah-hujah pemimpin seperti Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim.

BN hilang kuasa di Terengganu pada 1999 kononnya kerana faktor sentimen rakyat terhadap Anwar ketika itu. Kenapakah kali ini BN tidak jatuh lagi sekali di Terengganu ketika Anwar berada di luar penjara? Rakyat Terengganu tahu betapa susahnya hidup di bawah kerajaan pembangkang. Mereka tidak mahu lagi, mereka serik.

Sebaik sahaja selesai pilihan raya 8 Mac lalu, ramai pengundi yang memprotes menghela nafas panjang dan mengurut dada. Mereka kini menyesal. Baru mereka sedar betapa hebatnya kuasa undi protes mereka. Mereka kini tahu bahawa satu undi kepada Pas dan PKR akan membolehkan ahli-ahli politik DAP menguasai kerajaan negeri dan negara.

Mereka kini ada contoh jelas bagaimana kuasa UMNO dan Melayu jatuh. Muncul di depan mata mereka pengalaman orang Melayu hampir-hampir hilang kuasa, pemimpin Melayu terpaksa menjadi boneka dan bagaimana ayat al-Quran digunakan dalam kempen oleh sesetengah pihak tetapi bila memperoleh kuasa ia dilupakan untuk membantu menaikkan politik cauvinis Cina di Pulau Pinang, Perak, Kuala Lumpur dan Selangor.

Banyak pengajaran daripada pilihan raya Sabtu lalu – kepada rakyat mahupun pemimpin. Kepada ahli-ahli politik yang kalah dan pemimpin yang hampir kalah, pengajarannya ialah jawatan politik adalah satu tragedi yang tidak boleh dielakkan. Selepas kemenangan, akan datang kekalahan. Yang bernasib baik mungkin mati semasa memegang jawatan. Yang tidak beruntung akan dihantui kekalahan itu sepanjang hidup mereka.

Bagaimanapun, politik dalam konteks orang Melayu di Malaysia melampaui kepentingan perseorangan. Kekalahan banyak kerusi bakal membawa pembaharuan, kerana politik bukan sekadar kisah peribadi. Politik bagi orang Melayu lebih besar daripada isu jawatan dan individu, kerana ia soal ketahanan kuasa bangsa. Dalam politik, orang Melayu kini berdoa, barang dijauhkan Allah kuasa bangsa Melayu ditimpa tragedi, barang dijauhkan Allah bangsa Melayu hilang negeri lagi.

Buat tak kena, Tak buat terkena

2008-03-13T03:20:00.000Z

Cuba teka apa dia? From one extreme to the other, I have become a constant pemerhati politik here in the UK. Sangat risau akan keselamatan both my beloved parents in Ipoh. If Sultan does not declare an MB for 30 days, allegedly the army and police will take over the state. Ah, I’m so relief that alas some announcements were made today. (But, apparently, the drama still continues).

I grew up in KL with Chinese and Indian friends alike. They were rich, lavish and they shared their wealth among their friends. My surrounding neighbours were also Chinese. We lived happily in my childhood years in KL. My point is when MCA & Gerakan was voted by the Chinese (at least when they were on top of their career ladder) Chinese lives in harmony with the Malay. They did not question our privileges of being Malay and why Malaysia is previously known as Semenanjung Tanah Melayu. The frictions between races were not felt at all. As long as they have business and duit masuk, I don’t think they could care less who is the Minister of Information.

A couple of years later I was accepted into a boarding school. I depart from my multi-racial friends and became a Malay Muslim devotee. I got scholarship to pursue my studies. So, I should be thankful to BN who secured the DEB through DPN. At least they secured SBP, MARA, MRSM, and Universities and again my point BN does not question Malay’s privileges.

I don’t understand why they are Malay elites voting out the Malay privileges? Marahkan nyamuk, habis kelambu dibakar. I would think that majority of them are being sponsored by the government. Yang dapat PTPTipu tuh, fat chance lah, there are still scholarship, korang yang tak berapa nak perform.

DAP on the other hand is announcing something that PAP is doing in 1969, Malaysians Malaysia. This formula is successful in Singapore. So, why do Malay Elites still agree with them does not make sense at all to me. Just change – will eventually make Malaysia become another Singapore.

Thanks to the PAS members who struggle to make the country an Islamic country, a decent request. Maybe they realized they cannot achieve their goals, now that they understand they live in a multi-racial country. Maybe, they also think by joining forces with somebody with an extreme ideology differences, things will get better. Azan akan berkemundang di mana2, masjid tidak akan dirobohkan seperti di Negara Singapura. Nasib Melayu Islam akan terjaga. So, we shall see.

Perjuangan, pengorbanan dan hala tuju UMNO looks decent as well. Sejarah telah membuktikan, bahawa UMNO telah banyak berjasa kepada rakyat. Tapi, did the wakil rakyat nowadays walk the talk? Tidak dinafikan masih ada wakil rakyat yang memperjuangkan penduduk kampungnya. Masih ada ahli parlimen yang mempertahankan perlembagaan negara. Tapi, ada segelintir yang corrupt dan tak boleh pakai. Kerana nila bertitik2 menitis, rosaklah susu sebelanga. Yang segelintir nil ah yang telah salah guna UMNO untuk memperjuangkan dirinya, keluarganya, kroninya, daripada memperjuangkan nasib anak bangsanya, penduduk kampungnya dan pengikutnya.

MCA, MIC & Gerakan tidak dilupakan. Nampaknya, wakil2 rakyat dan ahli parlimen lebih menjaga hati orang atas daripada menjaga hati pengundi yang mengundi mereka. It was sooo inappropriate for a minister to answer, kalau tak mampu bayar duit minyak, duit tol, naiklah motor, jangan naik kereta? Ada ke logic. Nak suruh aku mengandung dengan ada anak kecik nie naik motor in the rain. I believe a politician is somebody who sells himself to the public. Nobody in their right mind will cast their vote to somebody who talks ridiculously like that.

I have an opportunity to sembang with my English professor. He demonstrates a true global, European mind set. He asked why I looked so sad and gloomy. I answered that I’m worried with the Election result. “The opposition won.” “So what,” he asked? “The opposition is trying to get rid of Malay’s privileges in Malaysia,” I answered.

With a sigh, I further re-iterate “Before you left, and gave us independence, you left us with some compensation in our constituency. You divide and ruled, maybe you felt that it was inappropriate for you to take over Peninsula State of Malaya from our Sultans and gave that compensation.”

He answered back with the most diplomatic way. “It is bound to happen. In 1000 years to come, I’m not sure if England will still be an English land. In this global world, where you can get anywhere, anytime, it is bound to happen. I only have 2 children, but my neighbour next door who is not English, have 7 children, and their children will have 7 children. They eventually may want to claim this land. It is bound to happen”.

With that, I packed my bags, and prepare myself home. Sighing, walking and thinking. Apa yang akan terjadi pada anak cucu aku. Apa yang akan terjadi pada agama dan bangsa ku. Apa yang akan terjadi pada Negara-ku Malaysia. I hope and wish we can all still live in peace and harmony.