Politik, Legislatif, Dasar dan Tadbir Urus

(Rencana ini telah disiarkan dalam kolum saya di Malaysia-Chronicle baru-baru ini)  Pada 19 Februari  yang lalu, ahli parlimen Pasir Mas  yang tidak menganggotai mana-mana parti, Ibrahim Ali telah mengumumkan bahawa beliau akan mempertahankan kerusi parlimen yang disandangnya sejak tahun 2008 yang lalu, tetapi tidak menyatakan pula sama ada beliau akan bertanding semula sebagai calon bebas ataupun menyertai mana-mana parti politik yang pilihan beliau. Pada pilihanraya umum yang lalu, Ibrahim bertanding atas tiket PAS dan memenangi kerusi parlimennya atas bantuan dan sokongan ahli-ahli dan para penyokong PAS di kawasan Pasir Mas, tetapi tidak pernah memohon menyertai parti tersebut selepas itu. Pemimpin pertubuhan perkauman ekstremis Perkasa itu, turut mendakwa sokongan masyarakat Cina kepadanya turut bertambah dan disebabkan oleh faktor tersebutlah yang telah mendorong Ibrahim berhasrat untuk bertanding mempertahankan kerusi parlimen yang disandangnya pada pilihan...

The BN federal government's fiscal debts has by now reached up to RM456.1 billion and the government's debt is further burdened by an additional of RM16.76 billion in contingent liability spread between loans guaranteed as public debt at RM109.14 billion and off-shore loans amounting to RM7.62 billion. This means, the BN federal government's debt had in fact exceeded 65 percent of the gross domestic product (GDP) and it shows that the government had clearly violated the Loan Act 1959 and the Government Funding Act 1983 which stated the maximum limit of 55 percent to the GDP ratio. Just look at how the government debts had increased all these years: RM146 billion in year 2002, RM242 billion in year 2006, RM456.1 billion in 2011, So, what would happen between five to ten years time if the debts were to continue to increase? Maybe, in five years the debt would shoot up to 100 percent and in ten years time our nation would go totally bankrupt, bankrupt in the sens...

Well, it was because Selangor State Legislative Assembly Speaker Teng Chang Khim's blackberry message went out of its way and somehow landed in one of the mobile set of a BN state assemblyman which prompted the entire BN sitting staging a walk out citing unjust manner of  way Teng's messaging calling on all the state executive councillors to take every opportunities they have during the state legislative assembly sittings. And now these BN state assemblymen had a little feeling of the bite from the speaker. Didn't they realize that it is merely a decade old tradition of BN when they are in power prior to the 2008 political tsunami? In general or technical speaking, the state legislative assembly speaker has to be a neutral person when it comes to managing and running the entire legislative session. But, unfortunately, this tendency of bias has been going on for decades in the parliament and BN controlled state legislative assemblies. It has been going on for more tha...

(Rencana ini telah disiarkan dalam kolum saya di Malaysia-Chronicle baru-baru ini) Cubalah kita bayangkan jika anda adalah seorang pemilik sebuah syarikat perniagaan dan apakah yang akan anda lakukakan jika sekiranya ada seorang “pekerja” anda yang tidak pernah mempamerkan prestasi yang memuaskan sepanjang tempoh penggajiannya dengan syarikat anda? Kenapa? “Pekerja” yang prestasinya yang tidak baik selama ini sudah tentunya akan menerima tindakan yang sewajarnya, sama ada penggantungan kerja ataupun penamatan perkhidmatan. Dan ini adalah merupakan suatu keadaan yang hampir sama sekali apabila tibanya pilihanraya umum ke-13 (PRU13) tidak lama lagi. Kita semua selaku rakyat dan pengundi umum adalah merupakan “majikan” kepada kerajaan yang dipilih dan oleh itu, kita akan menilai semula prestasi kerajaan apabila PRU menjelang pada setiap lima tahun. Di dalam PRU 2008 yang lalu, rakyat telahpun memberikan satu peringatan dan amaran keras kepada kerajaan persekutuan BN agar berubah atau meng...

Social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter have made Malaysians more “liberal” and thus more willing to commit acts that can "threaten" the national security of this country, a top police official have said. Internal security and public order director Datuk Salleh Mat Rasid said the internet posed a challenge to the police as it has allowed people “to know what was going on in and outside the country”. This means Datuk Salleh is very much in favour of some sort of dictatorship and a one-party rule in this country, like the one of Nazi or Fascist kind of governing institution. He simply wants the BN federal government (his bosses up there) to get rid of democracy as soon as possible in order to make things easy for the police and so that the police special branch too can roll out their terminators to get rid of dissidents and oppositions to this government. Datuk Salleh wanted the force to be given full authority to purge the people without fear, he wanted the force to...

Selangor Sultan Sharafuddin Idris Shah yesterday called on all parties to protect Malay reserve land from falling into the hands of ineligible individuals or companies. In doing so, the parties must observe all related provisions under the Constitution. Sultan Sharafuddin said he did not want any parties to resort to irresponsible acts by attempting to transfer Malay reserve land to individuals or companies not owned by Malays. He said land was Selangor's main asset. Well, only protecting the reserve land isn't enough. In fact, any kind of land that belongs to our people should also be protected entirely and the call should not be made to only one particular race or religion. Not only we have poor Malays, but we also have poor Chinese, poor Indians, poor Orang Aslis, poor Sikhs, poor Kadazans, poor Dayaks or any other poor communities whose welfare need to be looked into. The people's land should be protected from any sort of power abuse, mismanagement as well as the overw...

(Rencana ini telah disiarkan dalam kolum saya di Malaysia-Chronicle baru-baru ini) Sudah lebih 54 tahun Umno memerintah negara kita ini, dan dengan perlaksanaan Dasar Ekonomi Baru (DEB) yang bertujuan untuk meningkatkan daya saing dan kuasa ekonomi orang-orang Melayu yang masih diamalkan sehingga ke hari ini. Jadi kenapa pula Umno dan Perkasa sering melaung-laungkan yang orang-orang Melayu sering dipinggirkan. Siapakah yang sebenarnya telah meminggirkan orang-orang Melayu selama ini? Dan kenapa pula sudah lebih 54 tahun Umno memerintah dengan DEB untuk membantu masyarakat Melayu, namum sehingga ke hari ini, orang-orang Melayu pada kebanyakan masih hidup di dalam keadaan miskin dan daif? Kenapa sehingga ke hari ini, di kebanyakan perkampungan masyarakat Melayu masih tidak mempunyai kemudahan air, jalan dan elektrik di kawasan-kawasan tempat tinggal mereka? Kenapa pula dengan adanya Umno yang mendakwa dirinya jaguh Melayu, masih terdapat orang-orang Melayu yang buta huruf, tidak dapat me...

Recently, we got to know from the news report this week announcing that Sukan Komanwel 98 (Sukom 98) Berhad has been shut down for good. What was surprising was the winding up of Sukom 98 Bhd was indeed being carried out in such a hurry. First of all, why in a hurry to shut it down? It took nearly about fourteen years for the company and its accountants to wind up the company after the event in 1998. What took it so long to do it? And now they are doing it in just one glimpse. Didn't they realize that Sukom 98 Bhd was established as a business entity under the category of public limited company by shares which was fully funded by the government's treasury. Since it is a public limited company funded by the government, there should be transparency and accountability on to its accounting transaction, reports, and its activities from 1998 right up to the date of the company's winding up. Come on, the formation of Sukom 98 involved a large proportion of public funds being used,...

(Rencana ini telah disiarkan dalam kolum saya di Malaysia-Chronicle baru-baru ini) Presiden Umno dan perdana menteri Najib Razak baru-baru ini telah melakukan satu lagi kesilapan yang jelas menunjukkan bahawa beliau adalah seorang pemimpin yang tidak mempunyai pendirian yang teguh. Skim Saraan Baru Perkhidmatan Awam (SBPA) yang diilhamkan oleh Najib sebelum ini telah dimansuhkan terus oleh beliau sendiri dan kini semuanya berbalik kepada skim lama iaitu Sistem Saraan Malaysia (SSM). Beginilah usaha pembaharuan yang asyik diketengahkan oleh beliau selama ini. Skim SBPA yang telah dimansuhkan itu pada mulanya diperkenalkan bagi membolehkan kakitangan awam menikmati kenaikan gaji yang lebih menyeluruh dan pada masa yang sama memastikan tahap keberkesanan mutu perkhidmatan setiap di antara mereka. Objektif SBPA ini adalah bertujuan untuk merombak keseluruhan sektor perkhidmatan awam agar badan tersebut dapat menjadi efisien, produktif, berdaya saing dan mampu memberikan perkhidmatan yang t...

(Rencana ini telah disiarkan dalam kolum saya di Malaysia-Chronicle baru-baru ini) “Umumnya, perhubungan Gerakan dan MCA selama ini boleh diibaratkan seperti dua wanita gemuk yang cuba melalui sebuah pintu masuk yang sempit secara bersama”. Kenyataan ini telah diperoleh daripada satu dokumen rasmi tahun 1987 dari ibupejabat MCA ianya merupakan rekod yang dipetik daripada perbincangan antara para pemimpin kebangsaan MCA. Pemimpin tersebut yang menyatakan perkara itu cuba menerangkan bertapa peritnya hubungan Gerakan dan MCA pada masa itu, sambil menambah, “masyarakat Cina sememangnya berharap agar Gerakan dan MCA akam bekerjasama rapat demi kebaikan masyarakat tersebut, akan tetapi kewujudan Gerakan ini sering dilihat oleh MCA sebagai duri dalam dagingnya. Asal-usul ketegangan ini boleh dilihat daripada pemilihan MCA yang diadakan pada tahun 158 di mana Dr Lim Chong Eu telah mencabar pengasas MCA Tan Cheng Lock untuk merebut jawatan presiden parti dan Dr Lim berjaya dalam perebutan jaw...

The gangster alike Pahang menteri besar Adnan Yaakob recently has made and insult remark on some journalists and calling them "bodoh", as well as pushing one of the journalists' camera over various news reports on the people's protests against Lynas Advanced Material Plant in Gebeng. First of all, as a menteri besar, Adnan has indeed shown a bad example being a public figure who is called a "Yang Amat Behormat" or YAB in short. It would be better if he is called the "Yang Amat Bangsat" because he is behaving like one anyway. It is also lucky that the journalist that Adnan had pushed so hard was not injure nor suffer from any harm as he had tactically avoided the Pahang menteri besar's harsh action. With Adnan's continuous insult on the journalists, the press community should therefore focus more on the Pahang state government under Adnan leadership for any other scandalous activities within his administration. The one not to be forgotten to...

The much tainted Wanita Umno chief and women, family and community development minister Shahrizat Abdul Jalil whose family members are behind the National Feedlot Corporation (NFC) scandal involving the swindling of RM250 million of government fund confirmed that she will resign from her cabinet post on 8 April 2012 next month once her senatorial membership in the Dewan Negara expires but refused to relinquish her party position. In fact, if she is truly honest in ensuring the integrity of the government that she is serving, Shahrizat should have immediately resign from all her government and party positions once the NFC scandal erupted to the public earlier. Why go for a few weeks leave and then keep hanging around here and there? Even the Cheras Umno division chief Syed Ali Syed Abas had on several occasion called for her immediate resignation and doubt her announcement today by calling her a "Makcik Bollywood". And just look at her hypocritical attitude in public recently....

(Rencana ini telah disiarkan dalam kolum saya di Malaysia-Chronicle baru-baru ini) Keadaan di Malaysia jelas menunjukkan bahawa negara ini sedang menuju ke arah kebankrapan yang tidak dapat dielakkan lagi. Ya, singkatan BN ini telahpun digelar Bankrapkan Negara dalam erti kata yang sebenarnya. Jika sekiranya hutang negara yang kini berjumlah lebih RM456 billion ini ditambah pula dengan tanggungan luar jangkaan sebanyak RM97 billion lagi (belanjawan tak terkawal), negara ini akan menanggung hutang sejumlah RM553 billion, suatu jumlah yang telah melebihi 63% daripada keluaran dalan negara kasar (KDNK). Menurut Akta Pinjaman 1959 dan Akta Peruntukan Kerajaan 1983, kadar hutang negara tidak sepatutnya melebihi 55% daripada KDNK. Dan jika sekiranya tanggungan luar jangkaan sebanyak RM97 billion itu tidak dicampurkan bersama dengan beban hutang negara sebanyak RM456 billion, kadar tersebut tidak akan menjangkau lebih 63% daripada KDNK, tetapi hanya akan terletak pada kadar 53.5% daripada KDN...

(Rencana ini telah disiarkan dalam kolum saya di Malaysia-Chronicle baru-baru ini) Sudah lebih 50 tahun negara kita merdeka dan BN yang juga telah memerintah negara kita lebih daripada 50 tahun, dengan dakwaan kononnya mereka ini ini penuh dan punyai pengalaman yang luas dalam menguruskan kerajaan, namun sistem dan kemudahan pengangkutan awam di negara kita ini masih di dalam keadaan yang memeritkan sehingga ke hari ini. Sehinggalah ke hari ini, rakyat jelata masih mengeluh pada setiap hari mengenai pelbagai masalah dan karenah sewaktu berada di atas jalanraya ataupun semasa menggunakan kemudahan pengangkutan awam untuk berulang-alik dari rumah ke pejabat dan dari pejabat ke rumah. Kegagalan kerajaan BN untuk menangani masalah tersebut yang semakin berleluasa saban hari jelas terpapar pada muka setiap rakyat yang menggunakan jalanraya dan kemudahan pengangkutan awam untuk berurusan. Oleh itu para pemimpin BN perlu bertanggungjawab penuh ke atas kegagalan tersebut. Yang kita sering per...

Malaysia Airlines (MAS) recorded a stunning net loss of RM2.52 billion for 2011 and the company is now in “crisis”, the national flag carrier said today. The carrier also confirmed that the losses for the 2011 financial year were the largest in its history. The airline reported a massive net loss of RM1.28 billion in the fourth quarter, which was about as much as the first three quarters combined. “The company is in crisis,” CEO Ahmad Jauhari Yahya openly admitted in his statement today. For so many years, MAS has indeed suffered losses continuously and last year, its performance was the worst in history. It clearly shows that the nation's carrier has been badly managed, overstaffed and its management as well as workforce has no productivity at all. Why? It is because the entire organization itself is full of politics, cronyism and opportunists. In fact the entire board of directors of MAS should resigned en bloc to pave way for an extraordinary general meeting (EGM). Khazanah Nasi...