WARTAWAN RASMI LAMAN REFORMASI |
- USBO AKAN SERTAI BN?
- FMT: CheGuBard: Cukuplah kenyataan nak bersihkan ‘kuda trojan’
- Senatak Ezam, Anuar Shaari Seronok Dapat Peluru Percuma Serang PKR
- The benefit of being Malay first
- Aliran media statement
- Aliran is saddened to learn of the passing of Tun Dr Lim Chong Eu at the age of 91.
- KEMBARA JEJAK FAKIR PEMUDA PAS PAHANG
| Posted: 25 Nov 2010 04:38 PM PST USBO AKAN SERTAI BN?
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| FMT: CheGuBard: Cukuplah kenyataan nak bersihkan ‘kuda trojan’ Posted: 25 Nov 2010 04:30 PM PST FMT: CheGuBard: Cukuplah kenyataan nak bersihkan 'kuda trojan'Oleh Nazli Ibrahim PETALING JAYA: "Hentikan kenyataan mengugut nak bersih kuda trojanlah, nak bersih pengkianatlah," demikian kenyataan sinis Chegu Bard berhubung tindak-tanduk beberapa pemimpin yang masih lagi bermain dengan teori 'kuda trojan' dalam Parti Keadilan Rakyat. "Sebagai pemimpin besar memang betul harus membersihkan parti tetapi kenyataan mereka harus diikuti dengan pelaksanaan yang jujur dan penting juga mereka harus bertindak sebagai penyatu dalam parti.
"Dalam perihal ini nampaknya Shamsul jauh lebih baik dari Azmin di mana kenyataan pertama dia selepas minggu terakhir pengundian ada menyeru agar ahli PKR merapatkan saf kembali," ujar Chegu Bard lagi. Menurut beliau lagi, walaupun pemilihan PKR telah pun berakhir minggu lalu, namun harapan untuk membersihkan parti dari penyelewengan masih ada. "Harapan untuk membersihkan parti tetap ada. Tidak mengira samada musim pemilihan atau tidak, berjawatan atau tidak. Apa yang penting perjuangan diteruskan. Selagi ada Tuhan selagi itu ada harapan," kata beliau kepada FMT lagi. Anwar masih terbaik Disamping itu, beliau mengakui anak-anak muda tidak banyak pilihan untuk menumbangkan kerajaan Barisan Nasional (BN) selain menjadikan PKR sebagai landasan perjuangan. "Kepada anak muda kita tidak punya banyak pilihan untuk menentang BN secara peribadi. Setakat ini parti ini ialah parti paling progresif untuk perubahan negara. "Anwar pula ialah kereta kebal terbaik untuk kita berdepan merempuh regim warisan penjajah BN ini. Anwar ada karisma penyatu, setakat ini parti dan Anwar tidak sempurna tetapi masih yang terbaik. Beliau turut menyeru agar ahli politik muda dalam PKR agar tidak mengamalkan politik naungan sebaliknya bina kekuatan sendiri. "Anak muda mesti keluar dari kepompong politik naungan, bina kekuatan sendiri dan bersama bangkit merempuh untuk perubahan," kata beliau.  |
| Senatak Ezam, Anuar Shaari Seronok Dapat Peluru Percuma Serang PKR Posted: 25 Nov 2010 04:26 PM PST Senatak Ezam, Anuar Shaari Seronok Dapat Peluru Percuma Serang PKR   KUALA LUMPUR: Dakwaan Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) kononnya ia mempunyai sehingga 400,000 anggota menjadi tanda tanya banyak pihak termasuk ramai bekas pemimpin parti itu sendiri. Menurut mereka sehingga kini dakwaan itu gagal dibuktikan sama ada menerusi rekod bertulis mahupun pemilihan Majlis Pimpinan Pusat yang berakhir Ahad lepas yang menyaksikan hanya 10 peratus daripada jumlah yang dikatakan anggota parti keluar mengundi. Anuar Shaari, bekas setiausaha sulit Penasihat PKR Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim, berkata saiz keanggotaan PKR itu amat diragui bahkan sebelum beliau keluar dari parti itu pada Mei 2007, tiada satu rekodpun ditunjukkan bahawa parti itu mempunyai ahli sebanyak itu. "Setiausaha agung dulu (Datuk Salehuddin Hashim) tidak pernah menunjukkan rekod jumlah keahlian dan setiausaha sekarang ini (Saifuddin Nasution Ismail) pun tak pernah tunjuk. Jadi ini amat meragukan." "Kalaulah betul ada ahli sebanyak yang dikatakan, buktikanlah. Daripada pemilihan MPP pun, yang mengundi Mohamed Azmin Ali (calon timbalan presiden) tak sampai lima peratus pun," katanya kepada Bernama. Anuar berkata sekiranya benar anggota PKR sebesar itu, ini bermakna sebahagian besar tidak mengambil bahagian dalam proses pemilihan parti, maka ini dilihat sebagai satu protes secara halus. Mengikut keputusan tidak rasmi, Mohamed Azmin yang kini Naib Presiden PKR, dipilih sebagai timbalan presiden mengalahkan seorang lagi Naib Presiden, Mustaffa Kamil Ayub. Seorang lagi calon, Datuk Zaid Ibrahim, menarik diri dan keluar dari parti itu selepas mendakwa berlaku penyelewengan dalam pemilihan. Jawatan Presiden kekal dipegang Datin Seri Wan Azizah Ismail yang menang tanpa ditandingi. Anak Anwar dan Wan Azizah, Nurul Izzah, pula terpilih sebagai naib presiden. Ditanya mengapa pemilihan MPP hambar dengan peratusan keluar mengundi pada tahap 10 peratus sahaja berbanding Mesyuarat Agung Tahunan Cabang (MATC), Anuar berkata ia disebabkan keghairahan anggota untuk mengundi terbantut kerana telah diberikan tekanan oleh beberapa pemimpin. "Segalanya telahpun dicaturkan dan ada juga pemimpin yang mendesak, merayu, meminta dan ada juga yang mengugut supaya calon mereka dimenangkan," katanya. Kenyataan yang hampir sama turut disuarakan oleh bekas Ketua Angkatan Muda Keadilan (AMK), Senator Ezam Mohd Nor. Katanya meskipun beliau tidak mengetahui jumlah anggota PKR selepas meninggalkan parti pada 2006, jika berdasarkan jumlah keanggotaan yang ada, sepatutnya lebih ramai anggota yang mengundi pada pemilihan MPP. "Sekiranya benar, sudah pastinya calon yang menang tidak diberikan mandat daripada ahli untuk memimpin parti berdasarkan kepada peratusan kecil yang keluar mengundi," katanya. Ezam tidak menolak kemungkinan bahawa peratusan mengundi rendah disebabkan anggota PKR merasa diperalatkan untuk mencapai matlamat politik individu tertentu. Penganalisis politik, Dr Sivamurugan Pandian, pula berkata beliau juga sangsi dengan jumlah keanggotaan PKR. "Saya tidak tahu ia benar atau tidak. Kalau benar, sudah pastilah mereka ini akan keluar mengundi. "Kalau kita berpegang kepada baki 90 peratus lagi anggota PKR keluar mengundi, keputusan pemilihan boleh jadi berbeza. "Pada saya kalau benar (anggota PKR 400,000), 90 peratus itu adalah kelompok yang menunjukkan protes secara halus," katanya pensyarah sains politik dari Universiti Sains Malaysia itu. - BERNAMA  |
| The benefit of being Malay first Posted: 25 Nov 2010 04:19 PM PST The benefit of being Malay firstby Jacqueline Ann Surin 
For certain the question is not a new one. The DAP has for the longest time been brandishing the motto of "Bangsa Malaysia" in an attempt to dismantle the Barisan Nasional (BN)'s race-based politics. DAP advisor Lim Kit Siang, for one, is nowhere close to letting up on this issue. He has demanded repeatedly for, especially, Umno politicians to declare if they are Malaysian or Malay first. And while Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin seemingly failed the test question, Datuk Seri Nazri Aziz recently scored some points by declaring he was "Malaysian first and Malay next". But is the question really about which should come first? Why does it seem to matter so much? And which of the two labels — one about race and the other about citizenship — is more profoundly important to us as Malaysian citizens? Asset vs liability If there's anything that we've learnt from our series of Found in Malaysia interviews, it's that our identities are far more complex than, first, the British colonialists and now, the BN government would like us to believe.
Just read some of the stories from the Malay Malaysian personalities we've featured. Chef Wan has Japanese and Indonesian ancestry in him, national squash player Mohd Azlan Iskandar is European, Indian, Malay and Chinese all in one, and Tan Sri Rafidah Aziz who is featured exclusively in the Found in Malaysia book is, in her own words, of pendatang stock since her ancestors were from Sumatera. And so, one wonders why someone like the deputy prime minister, who is also Umno deputy president, feels compelled to respond to Lim's challenge by making his Malay identity more important than, in this instance, his national identity. Why was it not possible for Muhyiddin to have replied that he was both Malay and Malaysian with neither one identity being more important? After all, our racial identities are far more complex than the tightly contained boxes we are expected to tick. But this isn't just about Muhyiddin although what our deputy prime minister, who is also education minister, says has implications on politics in Malaysia. It is about a larger issue of why being Malay to some is far more critical in Malaysia than placing equal or more importance on being Malaysian.  Najib Razak This is where I find a commentary by Deputy Education Minister Dr Puad Zarkashi and the remarks by Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak at the end of September at the United Nations rather disingenuous. Our racial diversity, we are told, is an asset, not a liability, that is cherished. These claims, however, belie the fact that it is really far more advantageous to be a Malay citizen than a non-Malay citizen in Malaysia. From quotas for education and housing to promotions in the civil service to becoming prime minister, it cannot be denied that the system in place clearly favours Malays over non-Malays primarily on the basis of race. And so if it's clear that there are two classes of citizens in Malaysia — Malays and non-Malays — it is only logical to expect the growing incidence of name-calling of non-Malay Malaysians whether in political rallies, Biro Tatanegara programmes or in schools. In order to maintain the paradigm of ketuanan Melayu that is repeatedly used to justify continued Malay privileges and dominance, one must not ever admit that regardless of race, we are, as citizens, all actually the same and hence deserving of equal opportunities and treatment.  Puad (© parlimen.gov.my) No surprise then that the likes of Muhyiddin are not about to declare they are Malaysian first. Similarly, that would also explain just why Puad, who is an Umno supreme council member, would so quickly label the likes of Nazri as suffering from "Malayphobia". Those who declare themselves as Malaysian first, Malay second, are dangerous because they are violating the constitution and Umno's raison d'etre, charged Puad. Herein lies the weak link to the BN's claim that it believes in the vision of 1Malaysia. How can citizens believe that the government, especially Umno, cherishes our diversity if it consistently favours one racial group of citizens over others? Any attempt to reframe the equation so that all of us are the same — from a citizenship point of view — would of course be seen as a threat. After all, such thinking could just dangerously lead to changing the equation of privilege and superiority to one of equality. Inclusive instead of exclusive  Nazri Aziz And that's why Nazri's remarks made him such an instant hero in some circles. No matter the actual motivation for his remarks, this is what I suspect many people heard him say. That it was more important to him to belong to a group of people ("Malaysians") where everyone was the same than it was to belong to another group of people ("Malays") who enjoy exclusive privileges at the expense of others. For many Malaysians, including me, saying "I am Malaysian first" is not about denying the cultural heritage of our respective ethnic groups. It is about reclaiming an identity that is inclusive instead of exclusive. It is about contesting the equation of Malay privilege so that no citizen needs to feel disadvantaged because of their race. For certain, our identities are not one or the other, and cannot be limited to just race or nationality. Class, gender, sexuality, and religion are other aspects of identity that have been sidelined in this debate about being Malaysian. Indeed, depending on context, one aspect of our identity may be far more important than another with no contradiction at all to who we are. When Malaysians are overseas for example, it's the most natural thing to say, "I'm Malaysian" instead of "I'm Malay/Chinese/Indian/etc". Still, if Umno politicians, or any other politician for that matter, want us to believe that 1Malaysia is for real, they best start talking and acting in ways that demonstrate they believe in an equation of inclusivity instead of exclusivity. The sum result, after all, is in the proof.
Jacqueline Ann Surin says "I'm Malaysian first" because there really is no benefit or meaning to saying "I'm Dan Lain-Lain first".  |
| Posted: 25 Nov 2010 05:21 AM PST Aliran media statement http://aliran.com Tharmendran's detention deeply disturbing The detention of former Air Force sergeant N Tharmendran by eight air force personnel outside the Shah Alam High Court is deeply disturbing. The Court had fixed 17 December for a decision on Tharmendran's application to strike out the charge for the theft of two fighter jet engines. Tharmendran had been charged with allegedly stealing the engines in 2007 at the RMAF base in Subang. Tharmendran's lawyers are clearly worried with justification about his safety as they claim he had been hurt before while in custody. His lawyer insists that Tharmendran is a civilian as he is no longer in service and therefore the air force had no right to arrest him. The air force, for its part, considers him a deserter for failing to report for work after posting bail on 6 September this year. But according to his lawyer N Surendran, Tharmendran's contract with the air force had expired on 28 May and had not been renewed. Neither had he received any wages since then. "This is a clear violation in the administration of justice…," he said. It is appalling that the air force personnel could haul away Tharmendran in full view of several police personnel who were at the court compound. Aliran regards what happened to Tharmendran as an interference with the due process of justice and calls for his immediate release. The air force personnel responsible for his detention must also be hauled up and made accountable for their actions. Tharmendran's previous allegations of ill-treatment must also be thoroughly investigated and the perpetrators brought to book. Aliran executive committee 25 November 2010 --
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| Aliran is saddened to learn of the passing of Tun Dr Lim Chong Eu at the age of 91. Posted: 25 Nov 2010 05:18 AM PST TUN DR LIM CHONG EU His was a colourful and illustiouscareer that spanned many decades Aliran is saddened to learn of the passing of Tun Dr Lim Chong Eu at the age of 91. A veteran politician who was active for almost half a century, Tun Dr Lim had a colourful and illustrious career that spanned many decades. He left an indelible mark on the socio-economic and political scene of Penang. Under his leadership, the state's rapid growth and vibrant industrialization revived Penang's economy and gave serious meaning to the motto Penang Leads. The Penang Free Trade Zone, now renamed the Free Industrial Zone, and the Penang Bridge which connected the two parts of the state, will remain fitting tributes to the memory of this outstanding politician. When campaigning for the 1969 General Election, Tun Dr Lim spoke at the Esplanade with other Gerakan leaders. Then he shared his vision of developing Penang into a dynamic state with the expansion of industrialization and creation of jobs. He promised to create 90,000 jobs if returned to power. The vast majority of the voters who eagerly attended this gigantic rally were skeptical that such an enormous target could be attained. Looking back, we now know that Tun Dr Lim surpassed his target. His successful economic transformation of Penang turned the state into a leading centre of global electronic manufacturing that paved the way for Malaysia's industrialization. The high point in his political career must surely be when the newly-formed Parti Gerakan Rakyat Malaysia captured Penang in 1969 which allowed Tun Dr Lim to be the Chief Minister. He went on to hold the post for 21 years. Although his political career ended with his defeat by Lim Kit Siang in 1990, Tun Dr Lim's record as Chief Minister has been unrivalled. Gerakan threw up many magnificent leaders like the late Professor Syed Hussein Alatas, Dr Tan Chee Khoon, V David, Tan Phock Kin, Veerappan, Mustapha Hussein, and Professor Wang Gungwu. The party''s founding came at a time of great promise and expectations. The Alliance found a formidable match in Gerakan and there was a real possibility for change. There was genuine potential for the emergence of a two-party system. In the May 1969 election, the Alliance lost its two-thirds' majority in parliament for the first time. In fact, the Alliance failed to win the majority of state legislative assembly seats in Kelantan, Perak, Selangor, and Penang. Sadly, the ethnic violence erupted on May 13, three days after polling, and changed the course of our history. Sad, too, was the division within Gerakan that led to the departure of several prominent leaders when Tun Dr Lim took the party into the Barisan Nasional coalition which Tun Abdul Razak constructed with the participation of most other opposition parties, including PAS, SUPP and PPP. Notwithstanding that development which frustrated many hopes of a reformed political system, Tun Dr Lim will be remembered as a dynamic leader who held his ground against his critics, including those within the Barisan Nasional, such being his fortitude and much respected stature. To that degree, Tun Dr Lim Chong Eu's Penang was never a brow-beaten but proud and admired state within Malaysia. The Excecutive Committee and members of Aliran sincerely offer their condolences to Toh Puan Goh Sing Yeng and members of Tun Dr Lim's family. May he rest in peace. Aliran Exco October 2010 With very warm regards, RAMA  |
| KEMBARA JEJAK FAKIR PEMUDA PAS PAHANG Posted: 24 Nov 2010 10:32 PM PST      KEMBARA JEJAK FAKIR PEMUDA PAS PAHANG Foto/berita oleh: wrlr Kuala Krau- Kembara jejak fakir oleh pemuda PAS kawasan Kuala Krau yang di ketuai oleh Ustaz Shahril Azman Al-Hafiz selaku Timbalan Ketua Pemuda PAS Pahang yang juga merupakan ketua dewan pemuda PAS kawasan Kuala Krau bersempena dengan hari raya aidil adha baru- baru ini dilahat sebagai satu langkah mengukuhkan siratulrahim antara masyarakat dengan kaum asal . Kembara jejak fakir ini yang bermula dari Bandar Jengka dimana sebanyak 14 ekor lembu korban telah ditumbangkan di mana para jemaah telah sudi membahagiakan daging korban sebanyak 100 kilo untuk disumbangkan kepada saudara seagama di kampong orang asal iaitu Kampung Pasu di daerah Kuala Krau .Kuala Krau terletak di bawah DUN Kerdau. Rombongan konvoi ini yang di sertai seramai 30 aktivis dan juga para petugas PAS kawasan telah bertolak sekitar jam 5.00 petang dan sampai sejam kemudian.Rombongan kemudiannya di perkenalkan dengan Tok Batin kampong Pasu iaitu antara beberapa buah penempatan orang asal di dalam daerah Kuala Krau.Batin Raman Chen yang dikenali penduduk di situ begitu mesra membawa rombongan bertemu dengan masyarakat islam dan bukan islam dimana daging korban telah di bahagikan. Rombongan kemudiannya bergerak dari rumah ke rumah dimana para petugas yang mengikuti telah bergerak membahagikan daging korban kepada penduduk kampong asal dimana sambutan dari penduduk kampong yang begitu mesra dengan kedatangan rombongan jentera PAS kawasan yang saban tahun dan setiap kali menculnya hari raya dan juga hari- hari kebesaran , penduduk kampong Pasu tidak dilupakan. Selain dari daging dan duit raya yang disumbangkan kepada penduduk kampong Pasu, rombongan yang juga dituruti oleh tok batin mengedarkan risalah kepada penduduk kaum asal.Risalah mengenai agama islam juga diberikan sebagai bahan bacaan untuk penduduk kaum asal memahami sedikit sebanyak mengenai agama islam. Program jejak fakir ini kemudiannya berakhir sekitar jam 7.30 malam dan rombongan berhenti solat berjemaah yang diimamkan oleh ustaz Shahril di masjid Kuala Krau.  |
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