Politik, Legislatif, Dasar dan Tadbir Urus

Recently, the premier of the rebel government Muhyiddin Yassin has announced yet another new council to address Bumiputra socio-economic concerns in this country. It is expected to be simply known as Bumiputra Prosperity Council or in the local language, Majlis Kemakmuran Bumiputra.  We are not questioning the status of Bumiputras nor its status in the constitutions but we were given to understand that such "council of empowerment" of many kinds or brands has been in place since from the beginning. From Umno, to Barisan Nasional, till Pakatan Harapan and today the Perikatan Nasional's rebel government, the efforts are of the same old story, certainly but in a different brand of course, under different ruling coalitions. For over 61 years of BN's rule which was dominated by Umno who notoriously claimed to champion the plights of the Malays and Bumiputras, for 61 years, we only saw only a small group of Bangsawan who has managed to craft a successful venture in their bu...

Recently, PAS secretary-general and minister in the prime minister’s department in charge of law, Takiyuddin Hassan had given his assurance that all Perikatan Nasional MPs who did not join the cabinet will be appointed to lead all the government-linked-companies (GLC). All incumbent heads of GLC and agencies will be terminated as soon as possible to make way for these rebel government MPs to take over. Here you go, one after another chairmen and heads of GLC who were not at all political appointees but from professional backgrounds were sacked or terminated systematically to allow rebel government MPs to assume these positions. It has been highlighted that the process of terminating these incumbents has started as early as end of March last month. What we have seen today is most of the rebel government MPs do not possess relevant experience to head all these GLCs. When comes to professional management and making business decisions in these GLCs are they well-versed in such or are th...

Ever since the 2013 general elections, the Barisan Nasional (BN) regime has not won handsomely but with a very low margin with more support moving towards the opposition parties. The reasons are very clear, corruption, power abuse, mismanagement, racism and religious extremism. The BN regime has continue to refuse acknowledgment of its shortcomings despite its electoral setbacks, but instead continue to introduced many tough laws in order to curb the rising influence of the opposition parties, human rights NGOs, civil societies and the people's criticisms against the regime. Opposition leaders, civil societies leaders, human rights activists, intellectuals, educationists, critics, social media users and ordinary people were charged, fined or imprisoned for allegedly being seditious and insulting in opposing the BN regime. Now, when it comes to charging the person for his seditious statements, words, articles, action and manner, what kind of reference does this regime refer...

Premier Najib and allies use law to bludgeon critics In 2012, with Malaysia’s national ruling coalition facing a tough reelection campaign, Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak promised a raft of human rights reforms including cutting the country’s infamous colonial-era Internal Security Act, which allows for indefinite detention without trial. None of those reforms happened. Instead, in the past several months, Najib, faced with a revolt within his United Malays National Organization, has in effect replaced the internal security act with a sedition law that he had also promised to do away with. Under its provisions, as many as 20 opposition political figures, lawyers and at least one journalist have been charged and are confronted with varying penalties in what the Malaysian press has taken to calling “operation dragnet,” an oblique reference to Operation Lalang, in which former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad ordered the roundup of dozens of opponents in 1987 and jailed them under ...

First, when the flight MH370 went missing in the middle of its flight to Beijing in the early of last March, the BN government blamed the opposition leaders for trying to tarnish the country's image in the eyes of the international community. Now, when the news of a Malaysian embassy junior official was caught for rape, assault and burglary in New Zealand, and officials from Wisma Putra (Foreign Ministry) tried to cover up the entire fiasco, the BN government again blamed the opposition leaders for attempting to tarnish our country's image. Then, when it was made known that Professor Datuk Dr Mohammad Redzuan Othman was fired as Universiti Malaya's Centre for Democracy and Elections (UMcedel) as well as dean of the UM's Faculty of Arts and Social Science, the Education Ministry tried to cover up the whole episode by claiming that Dr Redzuan's contract was "not renewed", the BN government again blame the opposition for trying to turn things upside do...

My article was earlier published in TheAntDaily.com on 12/4/2014 In February last year, about 200 Sulu terrorists from the southern Philippines “invaded” Lahad Datu in their bid to reclaim Sabah for the so-called Sulu Sultanate, killing several policemen during the ensuing stand-off with security forces. The police force was initially mobilised to stop these terrorists but the weaponry employed by the latter was more sophisticated than that of the police, forcing the army to be deployed later. The delayed deployment of the army and the government’s attempts to negotiate with what it thought was merely a band of criminals proved costly to the country’s image. The government was heavily criticised for its delayed and initial weak response to the invasion, which resulted in more deaths than necessary. In the aftermath of the Sulu invasion, the Eastern Sabah Security Command (Esscom) was established to beef up the security for the entire east coast of Sabah as well as to ...

Barisan Nasional (BN) chairman and Umno president Najib Razak has openly admitted recently that it was difficult to "reform" Umno and shed off its racist and extremist characteristics. Selangor Umno state liaison committee chairman Noh Omar had even supported his party boss' statement by saying that the Malay community still needs help and the only way is to maintain its thicken race-based policies. So, Umno has been running this country for about 56 years now, and Umno leaders are now saying that in 56 years of their rule, the Malay community which they claim to represent still lacks behind, are even poorer and still needs help today. Then, where on earth is the validity of Umno and its leaders to claim that they are the champions of the Malay community? In fact, they are not fit at all to claim themselves and the political party they are in being Malay or Islam. Umno do not possess the values of the Malays and Islam at all. Totally none at all. Umno has indeed ...

The 13th general elections (GE13) had just concluded, with Barisan Nasional (BN) only managed to win in a slimmer majority, while Pakatan Rakyat (PR) has won even more seats now and had successfully obtained a firmer control on our nation's two most industrialized states, Selangor and Penang, while making more inroads into BN strongholds. In the immediate reaction on BN's slim majority, the coalition's chairman who is also the Umno president Najib Razak made an initial statement saying that the BN's slimmer majority was not actually PR's gain but more to a sort of "Chinese Tsunami", referring to the even worst defeat that the three BN Chinese-based component parties, MCA, Gerakan and SUPP had suffered. Then later, Umno's mouthpiece called Utusan Malaysia then vented its anger onto the Chinese community by sarcastically asking "Apa lagi Cina mahu?" So, is the outcome of the GE13 really a typical Chinese swing? In the previous rallies or...

According to the prime minister and Umno president Najib Razak recently, one vote for the opposition parties would be a vote for the breakdown of faith in this country. Well, everyone knew whatever Najib says was merely because he just needs to say that for the sake of saying it. His words were empty. One vote for Umno is in actual fact one vote for violent, threat and terrorism. Our people has already know does dirty works being carried out by Umno all this while. Their leaders' speech and statements are full of incitement for hatred on our nations non-Muslims and non-Malay communities; Umno leaders incite its members to disguised under the name of various NGOs nationwide, told to hold racist based demonstrations throughout the nation to demonstrate against the opposition parties' alleged "anti-Islamic" or "anti-Malay" lifestyles; attempting to topple opposition held state governments by various ways and means; encourage Malays and Muslim to hate other c...

We were gravely surprised and shocked to hear from the Penang BN chairman and Gerakan secretary-general Teng Chang Yeow saying that the K-pop singer Psy who was invited to perform in the recent Penang BN Chinese New Year open house in Han Chiang High School has been threatened with an assassination attempt of which had prevented the later from coming up to the state for the "lo shang" together with the prime minister and Umno president Najib Razak. We were all wondering why would Teng give such an excuse. To cover-up its shame for not being able to persuade Psy to come up to the stage in the name of BN? To cover-up Najib's face after the invitation has been rejected? We would like to ask Teng, why can't he come up with something which is more believable? Why can't BN just admit it and move on to the next chapter? Why make up such unreasonable stories to cover its losing face scene? Accept the facts that the people in Penang are not in favour of BN anymore. ...

The tourism minister and MCA vice-president Ng Yen Yen had condemned the Penang state government's municipal councils in Seberang Perai and Penang Island (MPSP and MPPP) for the removal of the prime minister's ILLEGALLY HUNG Gong Xi Fa Cai banners in the state due to "political reasons". Both officials of the MPSP and MPPP as well as those in the state government has already clearly stated that those banners or whatever it is which are not approved or without permits will be taken down, be it the prime minister's or any big shots. In this case, whoever wants to hang up a banner or advertisement would have to submit their applications to obtain the permit to do so in order to ensure all owners of their respective banners, advertisement boards or whatsoever posters are accountable in event these ads becomes damaged, rotten or expired so that these items would not endanger the motorist or other road users in the near future. Asides, with the permit in hand, o...

Most recently, the Felda Global Ventures Berhad (FGV) a subsidiary of the Federal Land Development Authority (Felda) under the chairmanship of a convicted money politics culprit has dropped below the issuing price for the first time ever. Then, the prime minister who is also the Umno president Najib Razak announced strings  of benefits and cash rewards to the entire nation's Felda settlers worth billions of Ringgit in order to ease these settlers' dissatisfaction over the losses suffered by both FGV and Felda over these years. And while FGV and Felda has been suffering from such massive losses locally, they are now dreaming of wanting to do "big" investments in war torn regions, like Mindanao (The Philippines), Myanmar and Liberia, and some countries with unstable political and economic situations like Papua New Guinea, Cambodia and Cameroon. In this case, we would like to know what had actually happened to our money (in our retirement funds), when the Emplo...

How shameful are all these BN leaders, Selangor Gerakan chairman Datuk A.Kohilan Pillay, former MIC president Datuk S.Samy Vellu, the three former MIC municipal councillors, S.Rajakupal, G.Jayakumaran, M.Rajandran and P.Kamalanathan. These BN leaders, fearing being exposed by the Selangor state government, made their first move on 26 October last month in leading a demonstration in front of the Batu Caves temple to protest against the proposed construction of a 29 storey condominiums there, accusing the Selangor state government of giving the approval to the developer to commence the luxurious project next to the cave temple. When the Majlis Perbandaran Selayang (MPS) and the state government tried to justify that it was the previous BN state government who had given the nod for the project, these BN leaders decided to shout even louder by saying that the Pakatan administration is trying to cover-up something. Finally, the MPS and state government has decided to declassify all...

The official public inquiry over the purchase of the French Scorpene submarines by the Malaysian government in the year 2001 is expected to commence tomorrow in France. The official probe was called by the French government. The probe in France will be carried out by a specially appointed Paris Tribunal Grande Instance. Some prominent Malaysian human rights activist are also expected to be called up as witness for the inquiry. Among them are Suara Rakyat Malaysia (Suaram) director Dr Kua Kia Soong and Suaram secretariat member Cynthia Gabriel. Well, we hope the Tribunal would come up with some findings in France of which will link to Abdul Razak Baginda (a one time advisor and agent of prime minister and Umno president Najib Razak during his tenure as minister of defense), the murder of a Mongolian interpreter Altantuya Shaariibuu and the deal which led to the purchase of these Scorpene submarines. The father of the late Altantuya, Setev Shaarribuu is also expected to appear...

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...

Hang Tuah, Hang Jebat, Hang Lekir, Hang Kasturi, Hang Lekiu and the wife of the Malacca Sultan, Hang Li Poh does not exist at all. This has been confirmed by a retired historian recently after his research and studies in to compare the Chinese history with Malaysia's. Our country's history has been distorted. What a shame to tell other people that our history are in fact non-existence. And now the government is planning to rewrite our country's history. The other issue, is our entire history non-existence too? What about the historical records of our country's sultanate and the history of these rulers? How about the history of our country's independence and its earlier independent fighters? It shows that we cannot believe nor trust the history of our nation anymore. The Umno's role in our country's independence is now already being questioned, as interviews with some freedom fighters prior to the Umno era shows that they are the ones who had initiated the qu...

Earlier today, MCA youth vice chairman Yoo Wei How Yoo says if PKR and DAP were really multi-racial, then Tian Chua should be their candidate for prime minister and Karpal Singh as deputy prime minister. Looks like the said MCA youth leader is playing a racist game on PKR and DAP. First of all MCA itself is a racist party as the party is mean only for Chinese, while Umno is only for Malays and MIC is for the Indians. Umno for Malay unity, MCA going for Chinese unity and MIC with their Indian unity agenda. So, who is actually racist in the first place? Instead of asking PKR or DAP to forward a non-Malay candidate for the premier and deputy premier's positions, why not MCA do the same by asking Umno president Datuk Najib Razak to step aside as prime minister in order to allow MCA president Dr Chua Soi Lek to assume the premiership? Oh ya, Dr Chua isn't an elected member of parliament, so you could ask MCA deputy president Datuk Liow Tiong Lai to assume the position of prime minis...

The 2010 Auditor-General's report which was released in parliament recently for scrutiny, showed only some improvement in financial and procurement management in government departments and ministries. The bad ones are a still ranked highest. The Auditor-General's report also shows that most of the federal government departments and agencies had indeed continuously came up top in many blatant abuse of powers and over spending of their financial allocations, where most of these expenditures does not really benefit the people. So, what is the use of some government departments and agencies who managed to make some millions of Ringgit while the majority of the other departments, agencies or even government-linked companies (GLCs) were blatantly misusing and losing billions of Ringgit? The under performed sectors had outdo the well-performed ones. In this case what is the use of giving credit to some of these minority sectors who had managed to make it through when the majority ones...

An active online forum user says at least four of them are professional models, and posts pictures of them together with those published by the media. The girls were widely photographed by the press during the MCA youth general assembly recently which featuring and portraying them as "a set of new generation of party members". However, when journalists attempted to approach them for exclusive interviews, they were quickly whisked away by some MCA leaders reasoning that they were new members and inexperience. And when the media started to discuss more on these MCA beauties for several days, the party leaders from various level gave different and conflicting view on these girls' status in the party's youth general assembly. A state leader first clarified that these girls were new members, still having their membership applications pending approval. Then another local party leader said that they were members from nationwide invited to the event as mere observers but when...

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...