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Berkenaan dengan posting pertama saya mengenai perlantikan hakim-hakim, kebanyakan komentar tidak setuju dengan komen saya bahawa apabila Kerajaan bekerjasama dengan pembangkang ia merupakan satu tanda kelemahan, dan di mana saya menganggap pembangkang sebagai musuh.
Secara politiknya, pembangkang adalah musuh. Bukanlah tidak demokratik apabila terpaksa bekerja dengan pembangkang tetapi ia menunjukkan kelemahan Kerajaan.
Kerajaan yang lemah tidak baik untuk Malaysia yang berbilang bangsa. Ia bakal mengundang cabaran yang tidak sepatutnya terhadap bidang kuasa yang dimiliki. Kerajaan tidak boleh memuaskan hati semua orang. Jika Kerajaan tidak boleh bertegas dan terpaksa (membuat keputusan) berubah-ubah maka keyakinan akan pudar di mana ia tidak begitu elok untuk melaksanakan polisi-polisi atau projek dengan lancar. Sesetengah orang mungkin sudah perasan akan perkara ini.
Sesebuah Kerajaan yang tidak memerlukan sokongan pembangkang akan lebih mudah mengabaikan gangguan yang terpaksa dihadapi oleh mana-mana kerajaan. Walaubagaimanapun, ia harus meneliti pandangan dan maklumbalas pembangkang di mana yang perlu.
Dalam konteks hari ini, Kerajaan Persekutuan tidak mampu membuat sebarang inisiatif sendiri untuk menggubal Perlembagaan dan ia akan menjadi tebusan setiap kali (mahu melakukannya).
Salah satu perkara yang amat penting mengenai majoriti dua pertiga adalah ia susah untuk mendapat ancaman berpaling tadah. Hari ini kita mendengar tentang ancaman seperti ini setiap hari. Kepimpinan Barisan Nasional menjadi seperti kucing di atas batu-bata panas. Dan kucing-kucing di atas batu-bata panas tidak akan mencapai apa-apa.
Kerajaan Persekutuan sebelum ini tidak pernah gagal mendapat majoriti dua per tiga. Sebagai ukuran kekuatan, sebuah kerajaan yang memiliki majoriti dua per tiga boleh membuat semua perkara sendiri dan bebas sepenuhnya.
Namun ada juga kemungkinan permintaan untuk mendapat sokongan pembangkang dibuat di atas dasar keikhlasan dan semangat demokrasi. Soalnya adalah mengapa sekarang? Mengapa tidak sewaktu Kerajaan memiliki 90% majoriti selepas Plihanraya Umum 2004? Perubahan mengenai bagaimana hakim-hakim dipilih sepatutnya boleh dilakukan selepas kemenangan besar 2004.
Saya selalu berpendapat bahawa negara ini perlu mempunyai kerajaan yang kuat dan bebas barulah ia boleh berkhidmat kepada rakyat dan tanahair tanpa takut dan memihak.
Tetapi saya juga diketahui sebagai seorang yang percaya kepada pembangkang yang kuat. Ini bagi memastikan Kerajaan tidak lari dari landasan yang betul, atau menyalahguna kuasa yang dimiliki.
Kombinasi sebuah Kerajaan yang kuat (majoriti dua per tiga) dan sebuah Pembangkang yang berkemampuan dan berkeinginan untuk memantau salahlaku Kerajaan adalah baik untuk Malaysia.
Mengenai cadangan terbaru Kerajaan untuk menubuhkan sebuah suruhanjaya kehakiman, adakah kerana sekarang ia fikir itu suatu yang bagus atau adakah ia satu percubaan terdesak untuk memenangi semula sokongan yang hilang?
Mengenai kritikal saya terhadap kepimpinan Kerajaan hari ini, saya percaya saya mempunyai sepenuh hak untuk melakukannya. Bersara hanya bermaksud menyerahkan bidang kuasa dan kuasa. Ia tidak bermakna saya harus meninggalkan peranan saya sebagai warganegara. Saya mempunyai hak untuk merasa bimbang terhadap salah pentadbiran negara dan parti yang telah saya bantu hidupkan semula pada 1987.
Parti ini bukan milik Dato Seri Abdullah seorang. Bukan juga bermaksud untuk terus menyokongnya walaupun apabila beliau gagal mengurus pilihanraya dan negara ini. Parti ini juga bukan milik saya. Ia milik semua ahlinya. Buat masa ini, para ahli parti dilarang bersifat kritikal. Mereka hanya boleh kata ya kepada apa yang Abdullah kata atau buat.
Oleh kerana pembangkang juga menyokong Dato Seri Abdullah, jika saya tidak kritik, maka tidak akan ada (sesiapa yang akan melakukannya). Dan tanpa kritikan-kritikal Kerajaan Dato Seri Abdullah memang akan buat salah.
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Tempua // May 7, 2008 at 3:31 am
Tun telah menterjemahkan artikel blog beliau dalam Bahasa Melayu dan akan menulis dalam kedua-dua bahasa sebelum ini. Terjemahan beliau adalah jauh lebih baik dari terjemahan saya. Oleh itu selepas ni kita boleh terus baca aritkel-artikel Tun di blog beliau dalam 2 bahasa..
jiwa saya // May 10, 2008 at 7:51 am
TEMPUA SAYA MENANTI PANDANGAN-PANDANGAN ANDA……
human book // May 11, 2008 at 8:20 am
List of racial discriminations in Malaysia, practiced by government as well as government agencies. This list is an open secret. Best verified by government itself because it got the statistics.
This list is not in the order of importance, that means the first one on the list is not the most important and the last one on the list does not mean least important.
This list is a common knowledge to a lot of Malaysians, especially those non-malays (Chinese, Ibans, Kadazans, Orang Asli, Tamils, etc) who were being racially discriminated.
Figures in this list are estimates only and please take it as a guide only. Government of Malaysia has the most correct figures. Is government of Malaysia too ashamed to publish their racist acts by publishing racial statistics?
This list cover a period of about 50 years since independence (1957).
List of racial discriminations (Malaysia):
(1) Out of all the 5 major banks, only one bank is multi-racial, the rest are controlled by malays
(2) 99% of Petronas directors are malays
(3) 3% of Petronas employees are Chinese
(4) 99% of 2000 Petronas gasoline stations are owned by malays
(5) 100% all contractors working under Petronas projects must be bumis status
(6) 0% of non-malay staffs is legally required in malay companies. But there must be 30% malay staffs in Chinese companies
(7) 5% of all new intake for government army, nurses, polices, is non-malays
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2% is the present Chinese staff in Royal Malaysian Air Force (RMAF), drop from 40% in 1960
(9) 2% is the percentage of non-malay government servants in Putrajaya. But malays make up 98%
(10) 7% is the percentage of Chinese government servants in the whole government (in 2004), drop from 30% in 1960
(11) 95% of government contracts are given to malays
(12) 100% all business licensees are controlled by malay government e.g. Approved Permits, Taxi Permits, etc
(13) 80% of the Chinese rice millers in Kedah had to be sold to malay controlled Bernas in 1980s. Otherwise, life is make difficult for Chinese rice millers
(14) 100 big companies set up, managed and owned by Chinese Malaysians were taken over by government, and later managed by malays since 1970s e.g. MISC, UMBC, UTC, etc
(15) At least 10 Chinese owned bus companies (throughout Malaysia, throughout 40 years) had to be sold to MARA or other malay transport companies due to rejection by malay authority to Chinese application for bus routes and rejection for their application for new buses
(16) 2 Chinese taxi drivers were barred from driving in Johor Larkin bus station. There are about 30 taxi drivers and 3 are Chinese in October 2004. Spoiling taxi club properties was the reason given
(17) 0 non-malays are allowed to get shop lots in the new Muar bus station (November 2004)
(1
8000 billion ringgit is the total amount the government channeled to malay pockets through ASB, ASN, MARA, privatisation of government agencies, Tabung Haji etc, through NEP over 34 years period
(19) 48 Chinese primary schools closed down since 1968 - 2000
(20) 144 Indian primary schools closed down since 1968 - 2000
(21) 2637 malay primary schools built since 1968 - 2000
(22) 2.5% is government budget for Chinese primary schools. Indian schools got only 1%, malay schools got 96.5%
(23) While a Chinese parent with RM1000 salary (monthly) cannot get school-text-book-loan, a malay parent with RM2000 salary is eligible
(24) 10 all public universities vice chancellors are malays
(25) 5% - the government universities lecturers of non-malay origins had been reduced from about 70% in 1965 to only 5% in 2004
(26) Only 5% is given to non-malays for government scholarships over 40 years
(27) 0 Chinese or Indians were sent to Japan and Korea under “Look East Policy”
(2
128 STPM Chinese top students could not get into the course that they aspired e.g. Medicine (in 2004)
(29) 10% place for non-bumi students for MARA science schools beginning from year 2003, but only 7% are filled. Before that it was 100% malays
(30) 50 cases whereby Chinese and Indian Malaysians, are beaten up in the National Service program in 2003
(31) 25% is Malaysian Chinese population in 2004, drop from 45% in 1957
(32) 7% is the present Malaysian Indians population (2004), a drop from 12% in 1957
(33) 2 million Chinese Malaysians had emigrated to overseas since 40 years ago
(34) 0.5 million Indian Malaysians had emigrated to overseas
(35) 3 million Indonesians had migrated into Malaysia and became Malaysian citizens with bumis status
(36) 600000 are the Chinese and Indian Malaysians with red IC and were rejected repeatedly when applying for citizenship for 40 years. Perhaps 60% of them had already passed away due to old age. This shows racism of how easily Indonesians got their citizenship compare with the Chinese and Indians
(37) 5% - 15% discount for a malay to buy a house, regardless whether the malay is poor or rich
(3
2% is what Chinese new villages get compare with 98% of what malay villages got for rural development budget
(39) 50 road names (at least) had been changed from Chinese names to other names
(40) 1 Dewan Gan Boon Leong (in Malacca) was altered to other name (e.g. Dewan Serbaguna or sort) when it was being officially used for a few days. Government try to shun Chinese names. This racism happened in around year 2000 or sort
(41) 0 churches/temples were built for each housing estate. But every housing estate got at least one mosque/surau built
(42) 3000 mosques/surau were built in all housing estates throughout Malaysia since 1970. No churches, no temples are required to be built in housing estates
(43) 1 Catholic church in Shah Alam took 20 years to apply to be constructed. But told by malay authority that it must look like a factory and not look like a church. Still not yet approved in 2004
(44) 1 publishing of Bible in Iban language banned (in 2002)
(45) 0 of the government TV stations (RTM1, RTM2, TV3) are directors of non-malay origins
(46) 30 government produced TV dramas and films always showed that the bad guys had Chinese face, and the good guys had malay face. You can check it out since 1970s. Recent years, this tendency becomes less
(47) 10 times, at least, malays (especially Umno) had threatened to massacre the Chinese Malaysians using May 13 since 1969
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20 constituencies won by DAP would not get funds from the government to develop. Or these Chinese majority constituencies would be the last to be developed
(49) 100 constituencies (parliaments and states) had been racistly re-delineated so Chinese voters were diluted that Chinese candidates, particularly DAP candidates lost in election since 1970s
(50) Only 3 out of 12 human rights items are ratified by Malaysia government since 1960
(51) 0 - elimination of all forms of racial discrimination (UN Human Rights) is not ratified by Malaysia government since 1960s
(52) 20 reported cases whereby malay ambulance attendances treated Chinese patients inhumanely, and malay government hospital staffs purposely delay attending to Chinese patients in 2003. Unreported cases may be 200
(53) 50 cases each year whereby Chinese, especially Chinese youths being beaten up by malay youths in public places. We may check at police reports provided the police took the report, otherwise there will be no record
(54) 20 cases every year whereby Chinese drivers who accidentally knocked down malays were seriously assaulted or killed by malays
(55) 12% is what ASB/ASN got per annum while banks fixed deposit is only about 3.5% per annum
There are hundreds more racial discriminations in Malaysia to add to this list of “colossal” racism. It is hope that the victims of racism will write in to expose racism.
Malaysia government should publish statistics showing how much malays had benefited from the “special rights” of malays and at the same time tell the statistics of how much other minority races are being discriminated.
Hence, the responsibility lies in the Malaysia government itself to publish unadulterated statistics of racial discrimination.
If the Malaysia government hides the statistics above, then there must be some evil doings, immoral doings, shameful doings and sinful doings, like the Nazi, going on onto the non-malays of Malaysia.
Civilized nation, unlike evil Nazi, must publish statistics to show its treatment on its minority races. This is what Malaysia must publish……….
We are asking for the publication of the statistics showing how “implementation of special rights of malays” had inflicted colossal racial discrimination onto non-malays.
ruyom // May 11, 2008 at 8:24 am
New Cabinet:
Prime Minister - Anwar
Deputy Prime Minister - Lim Kit Siang
Culture Minister - Farish Noor
Defence Minister -
Education Minister - Nga Kor Ming
Environment Minister - Teresa Kok
Finance Minister - Tony Pua
Foreign Minister - Ramasamy
Health Minister - Tan Seng Giaw
Home Minister -
Information Minister - Jeff Ooi
Law Minister - Teng Chang Khim
Manpower Minister -
Sports Minister -
Technology Minister -
Trade Minister - Khalid
Transport Minister - Liew Chin Tong
(Penang Chief Minister - Lim Guan Eng)
vokoyo // May 11, 2008 at 8:27 am
I wish to point out that the Orang Asli, not the malays, are the original inhabitants of Malaysia. Most of the malay Malaysians came from Sumatra and other parts of Indonesia. They only migrated here much earlier than the Chinese and Indian Malaysians. It does not mean they deserve privileges or rights just because they were the pioneer immigrants.
It is true that there have been abuses under the name of malay special rights and it is the duty of the malays in particular, and all Malaysians in general, to stop it so that the rightful malays get their rights, and the non-malays get their rights as citizens of this country.
It is a sad thing to say, but I do believe the main thing that is holding back malays is not the Chinese or the Indians, but the malays themselves. That is why Badawi and Mahathir have been quoted as telling to throw away crutches and work hard to face the challenges of globalisation.
The malay and others of the same mind should learn to stand on their own feet rather than claim for special rights and privileges. The world is becoming globalised and if they don’t change their attitude, they will only become beggars in their own country.
As for the malays who insist on hiding behind the veil of malay special rights - you have lost the respect of non-malays a long time ago.
We also suspect that the current situation will, unfortunately, get worse if no action is taken now. Why? Because our kids in school hardly mix with each other. They will grow up with little understanding of their fellow Malaysians, and with the suspicions that exist, it will be worse.
The truth of the matter is that polarisation in Malaysia is caused by the discriminatory practises of the government - especially after the NEP - rather than vernacular education.
The NEP is upheld for the rich and not the poor in Malaysia.
Whether we admit it or not, the problem is that the special rights and privileges given have now resulted in only a selected few malays getting richer and richer. The bulk of the malays, especially in the rural areas are not benefiting from the system.
Poor people are poor people, rich people are rich people - no matter which race they come from.
The poor in Malaysia must be served but I am sure all taxpayers feel that this should be done in a manner which is blind to age, ethnicity, gender and religion.
What is wrong with extending help to all deserving citizens based on merits and needs regardless of race?
The Malaysia problem is that rich do become richer. And because of the political system, the players are the same.
Out of control - this is all I can say about any type of enforcement and the level of corruption in Malaysia. No idea what Badawi has done in his four years in office but judging from the ground, I guess nothing much.
If you have ever heard of the simple saying, “Give a man a fish, he eats for a day, teach him how to fish and he eats for a lifetime.” you will realise that many non-malays have learned how to fish but the government is still handing out fishes to the malays. One day the fish will run out.
If you want to say discrimination is here in the US, yes, of course it is. Can you name a country where it doesn’t happen? But let me tell you one thing - if you go looking for it, you will find it. But in Malaysia, you don’t have to go look for it because it seeks you out, slaps you in your face every which way you turn, and is sanctioned by law!
Official figures have more than one million Chinese Malaysians emigrating over the past 25 years. Why did they emigrate? I am sure the government knows.
For most professionals, living abroad has its own ups and downs. But you get dignity, fair treatment and respect for your ability. You get a voice too. And ears to hear you.
Brain drain by the tank-loads is what we get. Every single year, Malaysia loses people who could potentially contribute to the country immensely.
So malay, you may keep your rights and perpetuate them. Such things are archaic. Who loses in the end? Your country, which should have been a first world one by today.
I sympathize with those that have benefited from the NEP, but the bad news is that the price he pays for his progress is much higher than what he pays for his benefit.
These special rights and privileges were once a necessity for them to move forward. Today, after many decades, they find themselves still standing in the same place.
It is a shame that our history has been constantly twisted so that our younger generation has no understanding of Malaysia’s foundation and its true aspiration.
It is arguable that if not for the contributions of the Chinese and Indian Malaysians who helped in the development of this country tremendously, Malaysia would probably be in same category like Indonesia or the Philippines, if not worst.
To improve the malays lot, more have to be made to work in private companies where competition is real and what count is your ability. If special rights only help malays to become government servants, then all the more reason not to invoke special rights.
But of course, the present ruling elite drunken with wealth, will continue to fight this dream to ensure that Malaysia is kept divided so that BN can continue to rule.
Alternatively, Malaysians may begin to realise the dream of a new Malaysia.
The bitter truth is that the majority of this nation don’t see the need to change things yet and until then, we can do little about it.
The bottom line with present day globalisation is this: compete on a level-playing field or you will lose. Plain and simple.
jiwa saya // May 11, 2008 at 10:49 pm
tempua dimana saudara
blueyes // May 12, 2008 at 3:31 am
here they comes.. aik? boleh nampak lak tulisan kecik2 ni? hahaha
jiwa saya // May 12, 2008 at 10:25 am
SALAM TEMPUA,
HARAP SAUDARA KEMBALI DENGAN POSTING BARU…..
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