Politik, Legislatif, Dasar dan Tadbir Urus

Yesterday, the Sri Gading Umno member of parliament Mohamad Aziz demanded that Bersih 3.0 co-chairman Datuk Ambiga Sreenevasan to be hanged for treason because of the Bersih 3.0 rally that she and her team had organized. Today, that Aziz reportedly "reversed" the statement that he made yesterday by saying that here merely "asked" if Datuk Ambiga could be hanged or not. Wow, such an immediate twist of facts. However, in the Hansard (parliament) record, it shows that the Umno MP had mentioned, "Apakah Ambiga tidak boleh kita anggap penderhaka kepada Duli Yang Maha Mulia Yang Dipertuan Agong dan hukum gantung pada dia?" That means, it is clear that Aziz is calling for Ambiga to be hanged at all cost! It shows that Umno is a real terrorist organization, full of leaders with violent and revengeful thoughts. If we continue to let this race-based political party rule this nation, they will turn this country upside down with their bloodbath and had Kuala Lu...

Sebaik sahaja Datuk Seri Ali Hamsa mengambil-alih sebagai Ketua Setiausaha Negara (KSN) yang baru, beliau menyeru kakitangan-kakitangan kerajaan di seluruh negara untuk menyokong dan berdiri teguh di belakang Barisan Nasional (BN) serta Umno. Kenyataan Datuk Ali ini juga dianggap sebagai satu peringatan daripada jentera tertinggi kerajaan kepada semua kakitangan awam agar taat setia kepada dan mengundi menyokong BN dan Umno pada pilihanraya umum yang akan datang. Kenapa pula seorang pegawai tertinggi perkhidmatan awam tiba-tiba bangkit untuk menyatakan sokongan beliau kepada BN? Perbuatan KSN ini seolah-olah menggambarkan yang beliau ini adalah penyokong kuat BN dan Umno. Jangan-jangan Datuk Ali ini juga adalah seorang ahli Umno, entah cawangan mana beliau kini berada. Tindakan KSN yang melafazkan sumpah taat setianya kepada BN dan Umno dan pada masa yang sama mengarahkan semua kakitangan-kakitangan kerajaan di seluruh negara juga berbuat demikian merupakan suatu perbuatan yang ...

Sebaik sahaja ada berita yang mengatakan Altantuya Shaariibuu tidak pernah menjejak kakinya di Perancis, ramai pemimpin Barisan Nasional (BN) segera melafazkan rasa gembiranya mereka dan segera membidas pertubuhan hak asasi manusia Suara Rakyat Malaysia (Suaram) dengan menuduhnya cuba memburukkan imej negara dan perdana menteri. Wahai para pemimpin BN, siasatan yang kini sedang diusahakan oleh tribunal kehakiman Perancis di Paris itu masih berjalan dan ianya akan mengambil masa yang agak panjang bagi mengesahkan segala maklumat yang diperolehi daripada kenyataan-kenyataan yang sedang, telah dan akan diberi oleh ramai saksi-saksi yang telah disenaraikan. Kenyataan-kenyataan yang diberikan oleh seseorang saksi itu berkemungkinan tidak tepat dan ada yang bertujuan untuk melindungi diri dan kedudukan mereka sendiri, malah ada yang memberikan kenyataan seperti yang diarah oleh pihak-pihak yang tertentu bagi memastikan hubungan diplomatik di antara Perancis dan Malaysia tidak akan t...

Well, the Elections Commission (EC) is trying to cause some trouble again with the creation of more rules and sub-rules so they could give opposition parties some nightmares, particularly PKR, DAP and PAS who are now currently working under a coalition named Pakatan Rakyat. In the recently list of rules being circulated out by the EC chairman recently, it stated that if any opposition party is contesting in an area, flags and posters of the other opposition parties who are not contesting cannot be displayed. The EC chairman was referring to the Pakatan Rakyat (PR) coalition and blamed the PKR, DAP and PAS leaders for not being serious enough to get PR registered with the Registrar of Societies (ROS). The EC head also added that an exception was given to Barisan Nasional (BN) where its component parties are allowed to display the flags, banners or posters of their respective parties, because the BN is an entity registered by the ROS and PR was not until today. First, the i...

Presiden Umno dan perdana menteri Najib Razak baru-baru ini telah menggesa masyarakat Cina agar tidak tersinggung dengan "golongan" yang menggelar mereka pendatang kerana kenyataan itu dibuat oleh "yang tidak berapa betul". Kami ingin bertanyakan kepada Najib, apakah yang dimaksudkan "tidak berapa betul" itu? Adakah Najib bermaksud mereka-mereka yang dianggap gila, atau mempunyai sebarang masalah dari segi mental yang mungkin membahayakan orang ramai? Kenapa pula Najib menasihatkan masyarakat Cina agar tidak tersinggung dengan perkataan atau panggilan "pendatang"? Abaikan label "pendatang" itu sahaja, begitulah kenyataan beliau semalam. Maksudnya "golongan yang tidak berapa betul" itu boleh terus menggunakan panggilan "pendatang" itu terhadap masyarakat Cina dan kerajaan tidak akan mengambil sebarang tindakan terhadap "golongan" tersebut? Sebab itulah, sehingga pada hari ini, kerajaan masih enggan me...

Siapakah yang tidak inginkan kestabilan dalam negara kita ini? Kami rasa setiap rakyat teringin sangat akan kestabilan yang berkekalan di dalam negara kita ini. Bukan sahaja rakyat biasa daripada kelas pekerja, bahkan para peniaga dan orang-orang yang kaya raya juga inginkan kestabilan. Jika tinjau keadaan di peringkat akar umbi dan menemuramah orang ramai, baik orang Melayu, Cina, India mahupun yang berbangsa Kadazan, Dayak dan sebagainya, kesemua mereka akan memeberikan jawapan yang sama iaitu, mereka mahukan keamanan dan kestabilan yang sejagat bagi menjana ekonomi dan pendapatan harian mereka. Kestabilan politik dalam negara ini adalah juga bergantung penuh kepada kerajaan yang ada sekarang, sama ada ianya dapat mengurus-tadbir negara ini dengan baik, mengamalkan ketelusan dan keadilan untuk semua rakyat, memastikan kewangan, pengurusan dan pentadbiran negara bebas daripada cengkaman rasuah serta memastikan kebajikan rakyat senantiasa terpelihara. Jadi apa yang disebut oleh ...

Gerakan secretary-general Teng Chang Yeow was recently appointed the new Penang BN chairman to replace the unpopular Dr Koh Tsu Koon who previously held the position. Soon after his appointment, Teng started to sound his war drums by announcing to the people strings of goodies, proposals and projects to be initiated by the state BN in order to regain Penang in the next general elections. The plans announced for Penang should BN were to recapture the state are, establishing a global financial hub in the state, building an innovation park, an aquaculture hub, an tourism hub and the most important one - to seek for the return of free port status to the state. Teng, supported by Penang Umno chief Datuk Zainal Abidin Osman also bravely took up the challenge and said he would "fight it up policy by policy" for the state. However, two weeks after his announcement, his bitter rival, Penang Gerakan chief Teng Hock Nan together with Balik Pulau Umno division chief Datuk Dr Hilmi...

An Umno deputy minister in the prime minister's department Datuk Mashitah Ibrahim had recently interpreted the Federal Constitution's Article 8, Clauses 1 and 2 that the lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgenders (LGBT) are not constitutionally protected under the nation's highest law. LGBT people are not humans? Is that what the BN government had interpreted as stated by the deputy minister? If these LGBT people are not humans, then how do the government categories them and what will you do to them if the authorities were to detain them? Are you going to put them in cages or send them to the nearest zoo? Can any other members of the BN government come forward to clarify this? In the Article 8 of the Federal Constitution, the clauses herein mentioned the following: All persons are equal before the law and entitled the equal protection of the law. Except as expressly authorized by this Constitution, there shall be no discrimination against citizens on the ground on...

What is the legality and relevance of the recently established Sarawak Workers' Party (SWP)? The SWP's registration was actually hijacked from the Sabah People's Front (SPF) when some of the SWP leaders had by some means managed to take over the documentations of the SPF and worked it out to transform the SPF into SWP. This has been confirmed lately by some leaders of the SPF when its party deputy president Osman Enting came forward and lodged an official complaint against the conspirators of the conversion to SWP. The Registrar of Societies (ROS) however, refused to acknowledge the SPF complaint citing that the process of conversion from SPF to SWP has been carried out accordingly within the regulations and as required by the Societies Act. The ROS however, failed to provide any evidence of the proper conversion of SPF to SWP when asked to do so. We are wondering why ROS could allow a Sabah-based political party be hijacked and transformed into a Sarawak-based par...

MIC vice-president Datuk M.Saravanan had recently slammed the statement made by a leader of an Indian-based chamber of commerce citing the party had failed the Malaysian Indian community. Saravanan asked, "Who is he to condemn MIC and to claim that MIC had failed the Indian community without any facts or knowledge of the party's contribution?" We would like to ask Saravanan, if MIC really contributes for the betterment and welfare of the Indian community at large, why did MIC failed to defend most of its seats contested in the last general elections in 2008? This means, MIC is already irrelevant in the eyes of the Indian community. We hope Saravanan and the other MIC leaders would stop talking big about their "contributions" and start looking at themselves all over again to see if they really have any shortcomings among themselves and the party as well. There's no point for you to deny your failure as your failure has already been proven in the last...

The Umno deputy president and deputy prime minister Muhyiddin Yassin has called on the Penang chief minister Lim Guan Eng to take full responsibilities for the hill slope developments in the Penang state which has been recommended and approved by the previous state government led by the then former chief minister and Gerakan president Koh Tsu Koon. According to Muhyiddin, the BN federal government also has clear guidelines on the hill slope development and the previous BN state government had pledged to adhere by these guidelines. But based on the records checked, these hill slope developments were all recommended and approved by the previous BN state government prior to 2008 general elections. So, did the Koh Tsu Koon-led state government really adhere to the federal guideline on such hill slope developments at that time? Looks like Muhyiddin is trying to cover-up the past mistakes of the previous BN state government by asking the present state government to take full responsib...

Recently, the newly appointed Penang Barisan Nasional chairman Teng Chang Yeow, who is also the Gerakan secretary-general had announced that granting Penang a free port status would be one of the state BN's election promise to the people. However, his proposal was rebuked by prime minister and Umno president Najib Razak who responded that the concept of a free port no longer exists long time ago. Najib had eventually confirmed this via his statement in the parliamentary reply during the Dewan Rakyat sitting. It looks like the Umno president is not about to sacrifice the Penang Port to give the state BN a better chance of wresting back the state which it lost to Pakatan Rakyat in the last general elections in 2008. The federal government is already bankrupt and that is why they are not willing to give up the port. With the recently announcement by Najib that the promise of a free port status for Penang is really a "bullshit", it really embarrassed the Penang BN ch...

Siapakah yang paling derhaka sekali di negara ini? Datuk Seri Nizar Jamaluddin ataupun Abdul Razak Baginda? Dalam isu Datuk Nizar, Ahli Parlimen Bukit Gantang yang juga Timbalan Persuruhjaya PAS Perak telah menyatakan dalam laman twitternya bahawa wang sebanyak RM520,000 itu sepatutnya disalurkan kepada rakyat Johor yang memerlukannya dan turut berpendapat bahawa adalah lebih baik jika sekiranya wang tersebut digunapakai untuk Projek Perumahan Rakyat Termiskin (PPRT) di negeri tersebut. Kita juga sependapat dengan Datuk Nizar mengenai perkara tersebut. Adalah amat sayang sekali dengan wang sebanyak setengah juta Ringgit itu digunakan hanya untuk mendapatkan sekeping nombor kenderaan yang bermula dengan huruf WWW. Kan lebih baik jika wang tersebut diberikan kepada mereka yang sangat-sangat memerlukannya, khususnya golongan yang miskin, kurang upaya, pendidikan dan sebagainya. Kenapa pula cadangan dan pendapat yang mempunyai sifat kemanusiaan ini dimanupulasi oleh pihak-pihak ya...

Di dalam siri perbicaraan tribunal yang kini sedang berlangsung di Perancis baru-baru ini yang menyiasat beberapa bentuk dan amalan rasuah yang melibatkan perjanjian pembelian beberapa buah kapal selam terpakai oleh kerajaan Malaysia, ianya telah mengesahkan ada pihak di kerajaan Malaysia yang menjual maklumat pertahanan negara kepada negara asing bagi mendapatkan habuan. Lantas daripada itu, ahli-ahli parlimen Malaysia yang prihatin mengemukakan usul tergempar di Dewan Rakyat untuk membincang serta membahaskan kes tersebut yang dianggap serius dan boleh memudaratkan keselamatan negara jika sekiranya ianya tidak dibendung dengan segera. Akan tetapi, Speaker Dewan Rakyat Datuk Pandikar Amin Mulia dengan lantang menolak usul tersebut dengan alasan ianya adalah tidak penting sangat. Selain daripada itu, speaker juga telah menolak percubaan beberapa orang ahli parlimen yang meminta agar kementerian pertahanan dan menterinya memberikan penjelasan yang terperinci mengenai kes tersebut y...

Sejak kebelakangan ini, banyak aduan timbul akibat daripada tender untuk nombor kenderaan yang bermula dengan huruf WWW. Ada yang sanggup membelanjakan sejumlah besar wang untuk mendapatkannya dan ada pula yang sanggup menyeleweng wang rakyat untuk mendapatkannya. Apakah faedah yang rakyat jelata akan dapat hasil daripada tender WWW ini? Jelas terbukti, rakyat tidak akan mendapat sebarang faedah daripada nombor kenderaan seperti ini. Yang dapat faedah adalah dari kalangan golongan kapitalis kaya-raya dan feudal sahaja dengan unsur "syiok sendiri" dan mahukan muka untuk berbangga-bangga dengan sesuatu yang sangat mahal harganya dan pada masa yang sama menunjukkan kepada orang ramai bahawa mereka ini kaya raya, sangat berkuasa, sanggup boros berbelanja tak tentu arah dan tidak mempedulikan kebajikan serta masalah rakyat jelata. Kenapa nak berbelanja sehingga ke tahap beratus-ratus ribu ringgit semata-mata untuk mendapatkan nombor kenderaan yang berhurufkan WWW itu? Dahla...

(Rencana ini telah disiarkan dalam portal berita Malaysia-Chronicle baru-baru ini) Pelbagai khabar angin tersebar baru-baru ini mengenai berkemungkinan besar pilihanraya umum ke-13 (PRU13) akan diadakan tidak lama lagi pada tahun ini dan jika ia benar-benar berlaku, rakyat akan sekali lagi keluar mengundi dan parti yang memperolehi jumlah kerusi parlimen yang paling banyak akan mengambil-alih tampuk pemerintahan kerajaan pusat. Keputusan PRU yang lalu Berbalik kepada pilihanraya umum ke-12 (PRU12) yang diadakan pada tahun 2008 yang lalu, daripada jumlah pengundi berdaftar seramai 10.9 juta orang, dilaporkan hanya 70 peratus sahaja yang telah keluar mengundi pada pilihanraya tersebut. Berdasarkan keputusan PRU12 yang lalu, Barisan Nasional (BN) memperoleh lebih kurang 52 peratus undi dan memenangi 140 daripada 222 kerusi parlimen, manakala Pakatan Rakyat (PR) pula berjaya memperoleh 48 peratus undi dengan kemenangan sejumlah 82 kerusi parlimen. Bagaimanapun, 30 pera...

(Rencana ini telah disiarkan dalam portal berita Malaysia-Chronicle baru-baru ini) Ada beberapa pihak yang mengemukakan cadangan mereka agar Jawatankuasa Pilihan Parlimen (PSC) bagi Pembaharuan Pilihanraya dinaiktarf menjadi satu PSC yang tetap bagi memerhati dan mengawalselia  pembaharuan sistem pilihanraya di negara ini dalam semua aspek dan jadual perlaksanaan, dan pada masa yang sama PSC itu juga boleh bertindak sebagai satu badan pemantau dan penasihat kepada Suruhanjaya Pilihanraya (SPR). Di pihak SPR pula, menurutnya mereka telahpun mengumumkan dengan begitu cepat sekali bahawa mereka telah bersiap sedia untuk menghadapi pilihanraya umum ke-13 (PRU13) yang akan datang pada bila-bila masa. Persoalannya adalah bagaimana dengan 32 cadangan pembaharuan yang telah dikemukakan oleh PSC bagi Pembaharuan Pilihanraya sebelum ini? Apakah perkembangan terbaru mengenai hasil perlaksanaan 32 cadangan yang diketengahkan oleh PSC itu? Adakah SPR betul-betul telah menjalankan t...

Selangor Umno deputy chairman Noh Omar is now using the freezing of PTPN loans to Universiti Industri Selangor (Unisel) students to threaten the Selangor state government into submission by demanding Menteri Besar Tan Sri Khalid Ibrahim to openly admit that they have been wrong on the PTPN issue. Just look how Umno is practicing political terrorism by making these innocent students victims of their political war with the PKR-led state government. Just look at how revengeful and arrogant Umno is in dealing with such situation. It shows that Umno had certainly lost its battle in the democratic system and now they are resorting to strong-arm tactics, a gangster-like style of blackmailing in order to force someone into submission or to admit a guilt of others. Talking about whether PTPN should be abolished or otherwise is purely a political issue and Umno would have to fight it out in the general election by justifying their course. Why make these students as victims of your politic...

Recently, when the Penang state government issued a circular barring journalists from both Utusan Melayu and New Straits Times (NST), both Umno-owned newspapers, MCA and Gerakan are quick to hit back saying that the state government preaches about press freedom but does not practice it at all. The question here is, are both MCA and Gerakan fit enough to talk about press freedom? Both Utusan and NST has been publishing racial and hatred views, articles and other false accusations against the opposition leaders in their newspapers. In this case, did Utusan and NST give fair political views? The simple question here is why didn't both MCA and Gerakan speak up when Utusan and NST spewed so much racial hatred and their dailies to disunite Malaysians. Penang MCA advisor Koay Kah Huah sharply condemned the state government for a number of measures barring journalists from Utusan and NST from covering the state's events and functions, while Gerakan secretary-general Teng Chang Yeo...

The opposition coalition Pakatan Rakyat which consist of PKR, DAP and PAS are all beginning to flex its muscles into many of BN's traditional strongholds and firmly gripped states. How did they do that? They made full use of the most available space in the internet, via online news portals, blogs, facebook, twitter or any other networking channels where they could get in order to reach the people. With the cyberspace at large, Pakatan Rakyat is gaining the advantage as more and more people are now turning to the internet for more real and reasonable news and report on our nation's current political situation. Why? It is because they don't trust the mainstream medias anymore. Whatever the BN government says no longer demonstrate the real scenarios, the actual political feedback and of course most of the time look pretty awkward with news and reports against the opposition. As Pakatan Rakyat is able to venture into the cyberspace with no limits, BN too follow suit but it...

We agreed with the recently statement from Gerakan secretary-general Teng Chang Yeow saying that Malaysians had became more racial but disagreed that the situation had became racial only after the 12th general elections in last 2008. Teng must realize that Malaysians had became more racial not after the 2008 elections. It is because the Barisan Nasional (BN) coalition itself, the policies and undertakings carried out by the Umno-led BN governments are all racial. That is why you cannot blame the Malaysians of being so racial these days. In the BN itself, it consist Umno who is for Malay unity, MCA for Chinese unity, MIC for Indian unity, PBB for Melanau unity, SPDP and PRS for Dayak unity and so on. The very big problem here is in the BN coalition itself are consisting of racial-based political parties which champion each others' ethnics which they claim to be representing. And what can multiracial parties in BN like Gerakan and PPP can do in order to strengthen non-racial app...

According to Umno president and prime minister Najb Razak, his Umno-led BN government will do whatever it can to quash any threat bent on disrupting public order and security. From Najib's statement, it looks like he is on the innocent and good side while the oppositions are always on the bad side. In reality, the BN government is currently going all out to quash the rising influence and popularity of the opposition front Pakatan Rakyat. When Umno, and its sponsored NGOs like Perkasa, Pekida and Pembela send their members to create disturbance and violence by attacking and injuring members of the opposition parties in their ceramahs, peaceful gatherings and meetings, we hardly see any of these Umno, Perkasa, Pekida or Pembela members got apprehended, arrested, send to trial and jailed. Most of the time, these government-backed violent attackers managed to get away with whatever they had done i.e. disrupting public order and security of our people. Najib, does your warning incl...

(Rencana ini telah disiarkan dalam portal berita Malaysia-Chronicle baru-baru ini) Sesebuah parti politik tidak memiliki kerajaan walaupun parti tersebut adalah merupakan parti yang mempuyai majoriti di parlimen atau dewan undangan negeri (DUN) dan memegang tampuk pemerintahan. Sesebuah parti politik berperanan membentangkan undang-undang, membahas dan seterusnya meluluskan rang undang-undang tersebut untuk dijadikan sebagai satu akta parlimen. Penguatkuasaan akta tersebut akan adalah dilaksanakan oleh para penjawat awam (pegawai kerajaan) yang dilantik dan diperkenankan oleh raja berpelembagaan. Sebab itulah, pada sampul surat-menyurat kerajaan, terdapat perkataan yang menyebut “Urusan Seri Paduka Baginda”. Dan ini adalah makna dan definasi sebenarnya perpisahan di antara peranan sesebuah parti politik dan struktur pemerintahan kerajaan. Pembangunan Pembangunan bukannya sesuatu yang unik bagi Umno. Setiap parti politik yang menguasai tampuk pemerintahan boleh mel...