Politik, Legislatif, Dasar dan Tadbir Urus

By Soong Phui Jee Openness and liberalisation is the only way to achieve the vision of turning the country into a high-income economy. However, the recent political development is disappointing. Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak conveyed the message of political transformation, openness and liberalisation when he announced the repeal of the Internal Security Act (ISA) and other outdated laws on the eve of Malaysia Day. However, everything is going back to the square one only a week later. Politicians are now accusing each other for triggering the Islamic state controversy. Both the BN and Pakatan Rakyat coalitions hope the controversy would bring an infighting to their rival. Former Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad challenged Kelantan Mentri Besar Datuk Nik Abdul Aziz Nik Mat to implement the hudud law in the state with an intention to stir up conflicts in PAS. As for Nik Aziz, his response to the implementation of hudud law was based on the stand to defend Islam and fight fo...

We had managed to get some Sabahan's who are currently working in peninsular for an interview on the current situation on their homeland on condition that we should not expose their identities for fear of persecution by the state authorities and the local ruling elites. We agreed that safeguarding their identities will be our utmost priority. When we started interviewing them on the current socio-economic and political situation in Sabah, we were gravely shock to hear the worst of all over what we had actually expected. Composition of ethnics in Sabah As expected, if a general question were to put forward on who is the largest and majority stakeholder in Sabah's ethnicity, everyone of us would certainly to give one straight answer, that is the combination Kadazan Dusun and Muruts. Okay, let us look at the current ethnic composition which we got from various source. The Kadazan Dusun and Muruts current consist of about 21.1%, while the Bajaus are 13.4%, Malays consist of 11.5%, ...

The proposed the UNDILAH video clip is to encourage our people to be aware of what is happening in our nation, to register as voters and vote in the next general election. We wonder why on earth the BN government's Film Censorship Board takes so long to review the proposed video and withheld its approval for no reasons.

The MCA leaders in a recent forum has called Mohamad Sabu the next "Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini" of Malaysia in the making, thus taking a different tack from Umno’s then offensive against the PAS deputy president for allegedly being a Communist sympathizer. Khomeini was an Iranian religious and political leader who played an integral part in the Iranian Revolution that led to the overthrow of the Shah of Iran in 1979. He later became Iran’s Supreme Islamic Revolutionary Leader until his death in 1989. So many inconsistencies in the Barisan Nasional (BN) coalition now. First, Umno had aggresively branded Maohamad Sabu as a Communist following his political ceramah in Tasek Gelugor, Seberang Perai citing that the police officers killed at Bukit Kepong police station were of the colonial police force. Then, MCA fired another salvo at Mat Sabu different from the one Umno had done it previously by saying he is more to an "Ayatollah Khomeini" type, because of his Islami...

The MCA president Dr Chua Soi Lek had recently pledged that the party is is leading will quit the Barisan Nasional (BN) if the coalition's dominant partner Umno were to implement the Islamic hudud law. And Dr Chua even challenged DAP in doing the same (leaving Pakatan Rakyat) if PAS were to implement or enforce the said Islamic law in Pakatan-rule states. We wonder if Dr Chua is really serious about what he had mentioned and is he really going to do that anyway? Or is this yet another political gimmick of his in order to regain the support from the Malaysian Chinese community? We can assure you that the Umno-MCA tiff on the hudud tiff is just another kind of sandiwara in playing. Umno trying to gain its ground at the Malay areas and MCA trying to regain its support from the Chinese areas. In the end of the day, they will come back to the same old close door room and telling everyone of us that everything has been resolved. Just imagine if MCA were to quit the BN fold once Umno imp...

Looking at the announcement made by Umno president and prime minister Najib Razak saying that the draconian Internal Security Act (ISA) will be abolished soon, we obviously feel that the BN government is not sincere enough in revealing it. So does Najib himself. The Umno president is making it simple and by telling the people only a little of it, thinking that our minds are very simple too. Is Najib trying to fool us? In his announcement to nation saying that the ISA will be abolished, he did not say when will the ISA be abolished. Besides only planning to abolish the ISA, Najib also didn't pledge no to work out another set of draconian law similar to the ISA. Immediately after Najib's announcement on the ISA repeal, we heard voices from the home affairs ministry officials saying that another sets of draconian laws were being planned to replace the ISA very, very soon. This means, only the name will be repealed and the entire set of the ISA contents will come under a new name, ...

Mula-mula seorang "professor" yang bernama Zainal bin Kling mengatakan bahawa Malaya pada masa itu tidak pernah dijajah oleh British dan negara kita di waktu itu hanya dinaungani oleh British, bermakna Malaya dilindungi oleh British. Kemudian pula bekas perdana menteri Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamed pula mendakwa bahawa secara teknikal negeri-negeri Melayu tak pernah dijajah, tetapi sultan-sultan yang telah memutuskan untuk menjemput pihak British untuk ke Malaya bagi menasihati Raja-raja Melayu cara-cara untuk mentadbir negeri-negeri tersebut. Kenyataan Tun Dr Mahathir bermakna, Sultan-sultan pada masa itu telah mengkhianati rakyatnya sendiri dengan menjemput pihak British ke negeri masing-masing bagi menngurus tadbir kerajaan mereka. Ianya juga bermakna, Tun Dr Mahathir telah menganggap Raja-raja Melayu langsung tidak berguna dan tidak tahu mentadbir neger-negeri di bawah para baginda sehingga mahukan orang asing datang untuk mentadbir. Selepas itu pula, pengerusi Yayasan 1Malaysi...

Sejak Timbalan Presiden PAS Muhammad Sabu membangkitkan isu siapakah pejuang kemerdekaan yang sebenarnya, ramai pihak, khususnya daripada pihak kerajaan, para pemimpin Umno dan BN tampil ke hadapan mengecam ulasan pemimpin PAS itu dan ada pula yang mengecap beliau sebagai pendukung komunis ataupun pengkhianat negara. Tidak cukup dengan itu, kerajaan BN dan para pemimpin Umno sekarang mengeluarkan beberapa kenyataan yang memutarbelitkan sejarah pejuang-pejuang kemerdekaan dan memberikan tanggapan bahawa mana-mana pihak yang mengusahakan perjuangan kemerdekaan sejak sebelum Perang Dunia Kedua sehinggalah tahun 1945 adalah komunis dan pengganas, tak kira siapa sebenar mereka, baik kaum Melayu, Cina mahupun India, asalkan jika ada wujudnya para pejuang kemerdekaan yang bertahan sehinggalah ke tahun 1945, maka mereka itulah semuanya pengganas dan komunis belaka. Tujuan BN dan Umno berbuat demikian adalah untuk mengikat terus Muhammad Sabu dengan pengertian komunis sekaligus mengelar beliau ...

Gerakan president and the party's Federal Territory liaison committee chairman Dr Koh Tsu Koon had said that measures taken by the police during the rally had given the public the “impression” that the government was “too restrictive”, and that this was not true. “Certain announcements, measures by the police, for example, they have given the people the impression that we (the government) were too restrictive. When the prime minister offered a stadium and they chose Stadium Merdeka, police said no for whatever reasons. This is yet another some sort of publicity stunt played by Dr Koh and Gerakan (if he says he represents the party in this statement). Who will listen to all this now, after all, the Bersih 2.0 rally had long gone. First of all, why only Dr Koh voice out such statement only now? Why didn't he bravely voice out his opinion and support for the Bersih 2.0 rally before it takes place on last July? Where was Dr Koh, when everyone of us saw the government and police are...

Recently, there had been a lot of sayings about how patriotism is about in Malaysia and to an extent one Umno vice-president had even questioned the loyalty of some communities just because only very few of them join the police or armed forces. While we admire those who give their time, effort and at times lives in the service of defending the nation, we are very certain that patriotism means even more than that. Patriotism is not just about waving and hanging so many flags, singing the national songs, donning the national colours, waving the “parang” or “keris”, waving placards, banners or burning effigies, shouting and yelling here and there about one race supremacy, demonstrating one’s superiority over the other, blindly supporting the government and so on. Such simplistic and unbecoming displays do not at all reflect the true face of being a patriot. The fact here is, all decent, hard working, tax-paying Malaysian citizens are patriots of this nation and they love this nation more ...

So, this is how Umno is demonstrating its power and supremacy over all the Barisan Nasional (BN) component parties and they had even became more demanding by ordering BN component parties who did not perform well in the last general elections to handover all the seats so that Umno could contest them in the next general elections. Umno vice-president Datuk Mohd Shafie Apdal had arrogantly made the call to all BN component parties who failed to perform in the last general elections to surrender the seats that they had contested and lost three years ago so that Umno could contest and win them back for BN. Apart from that, the Umno vice-president also cited that the reason for the seats handover request is to show the willingness of BN component parties of helping each other and to demonstrate the principle of power sharing within the coalition itself. And this is the way Umno treat its colleagues in the BN coalition fold, using its arrogance, power and supremacy to reign over all these BN...

Di dalam ceramah tersebut, Timbalan Presiden PAS Muhammad Sabu hanya menyebut, “Dekat nak Merdeka nanti, siarlah cerita Bukit Kepong. Bulit Kepong itu polis itu British. Yang Serang Bukit Keponglah pejuang kemerdekaan. Ketuanya, Muhammad Indera” . Dan sejak daripada hari itu lah, Mat Sabu dicaci dengan bermacam-macam jenis perkataan, gelaran dan panggilan, seperti pengkhianat, penderhaka, penyokong Komunis, "Mat Sabu bukan lagi Melayu" dan sebagainya. Agenda mengenai ceramah Mat Sabu ini turut dipaparkan di dalam media-media dan akhbar utama milik Umno hampir setiap hari, tanpa henti-henti, kononnya Mat Sabu telahpun disabitkan kesalahan dan sedang menanti hukuman "gantung sampai mati" . Malah, ramai juga yang secara membuta tuli membuat laporan polis tanpa usul periksa yang sempurna dan hanya berdasarkan khabar angin dan tokok tambah yang dibuat oleh orang-orang Umno. Sebenarnya, terdapat juga ramai yang berfikiran dan kuat menyanjung Komunis di dalam Umno. ...

Sudah ternyata Umno tidak mahu memberi ruang kepada rakan-rakannya di dalam Barisan Nasional (BN) dan kini telah lebih berani menonjolkan kuasa ketuanannya dengan mengarahkan parti-parti komponen BN yang tidak menunjukkan prestasi yang memuaskan pada pilihanraya umum yang lalu agar segera menyerahkan kerusi-kerusi yang diperuntukan itu kepada Umno untuk ditandingi. Naib-presiden Umno Datuk Mohd Shafie Apdal dengan nada yang keras menyatakan bahawa parti-parti komponen BN perlu rela menyerahkan kesemua peruntukan kerusi-kerusi mereka yang kalah tiga tahun yang lalu dengan alasan bahawa sekiranya Umno bertanding, parti itu akan dapat memenangi kembali kerusi-kerusi tersebut untuk BN. Selain daripada itu, naib-presiden Umno itu juga menyebut bahawa nasihat beliau kepada parti-parti komponen BN agar menyerahkan kesemua kerusi-kerusi yang kalah dan yang tidak yakin kepada Umno adalah juga berdasarkan semangat perkongsian kuasa di antara satu sama lain di dalam BN. Nampaknya Umno te...

Kedah Gerakan Youth wants the PAS-led state government to enact a constitutional provision to appoint a deputy menteri besar to replace the menteri besar should anything were to happen to the later. However, Gerakan had for so many years fail to address the same concern on the other states which are governed by the BN. During BN's reign in Kedah prior to the year 2008, why didn't Gerakan voice out the same concern and to propose for the creation of a deputy menteri besar's post to deputize the menteri besar in event the later was unable to perform his duties as chief executive of the state? What about the BN rule states of Perak, Terengganu, Melaka, Johor and Pahang? Why didn't Gerakan raise the same question to their counterparts Umno, MCA, MIC and PPP to have deputy MBs in all these states? Why didn't Gerakan urge these BN govern states to demonstrate their rule by examples first before they forward this question to Pakatan rule states? Such a call by Geraka...

By Lim Sue Goan Every country needs a government to operate but recent history shows that the government's role and functions have been gradually degraded to non-essential. A government refers to a law enforcement and management body and it is essential for a country's operation. However, Belgium has set a world record for the longest wait for a government, without collapsing the country. Today, the governments of European countries, the United States and Japan have messed up their economies and shown no ability to resolve the problems of rising international food prices, famine and global warming issues. Governments have now become incompetent clowns. Populism, leadership qualities and human nature weaknesses have turned governments in democratic countries into lame ducks. Democracy is about pleasing the people for votes as they need to gain enough seats to govern. Therefore, despite knowing the importance of a balanced budget, many governments in democratic co...

Sepuluh Tahun Sebelum Merdeka from fahmi reza on Vimeo . Pertubuhan Kebangsaan Melayu Bersatu atau lebih dikenali sebagai Umno sebenarnya bukan pejuang kemerdekaan negara kita yang sebenarnya. Umno telah mengkhianati perjuangan kemerdekaan sejak daripada tahun 1946 lagi. Setelah pentadbiran British di Malaya pulih ekoran daripada tamatnya penaklukan Jepun dan perang dunia kedua, pihak British telah bercadang untuk membentuk satu kesatuan yang menyatukan kesemua negeri-negeri Melayu yang bersekutu dan tidak bersekutu serta negeri-negeri selat di bawah satu payung pemerintahan pusat. Hasil daripada itu pihak British telah mengilhamkan pembentukan Malayan Union untuk menyatukan beberapa bentuk identiti negeri-negeri Melayu tersebut. Akan tetapi cadangan pembentukan Malayan Union tersebut ditolak dan dibantah oleh Umno dengan alasan kuasa orang-orang Melayu dan Raja-raja akan dikurangkan melalui pemerintahan pusat yang dikuasai oleh seorang Gabenor-Jeneral. Ekoran bantahan de...

The United Malays National Organization or better known as Umno today, was actually not the initiators that led to the independence of Malaya. In the year 1946, when the British Military Administration (BMA) after regaining control of Malaya following the surrender of the Imperial Japan in aftermath of the Second World War, intended to establish a Malayan Union. As the result of BMA's plan to form the Malayan Union in order to prolong the colonial status of Malaya, Umno came out in protest against the proposed Malayan Union state citing the new colonial system would further "erode the powers of the Malay people and the Rulers". This reason was Umno's mere claim. When the British authorities disengaged their plans for the Malayan Union state following the mass protests by Umno, the then BMA then offered the Umno leaders the opportunity for Malayan independence in 1946, but the Umno leaders promptly responded to the British colonial government that they were not rea...