DAP melantik tokoh aktivis Melayu berprofil tinggi dalam bidang kempen ketelusan dan integriti Tunku Abdul Aziz Ibrahim sebagai naib pengerusi parti itu yang baru dalam usahanya memikat sokongan kaum itu.Tunku Abdul Aziz merupakan bekas naib presiden organisasi antarabangsa terkenal Transparency International (TI).
DAP hari ini memperkenalkan barisan baru pimpinan tertinggi parti itu melibatkan 10 lantikan baru bagi mengisi jawatankuasa eksekutif pusat (CEC) di samping 20 ahli yang dipilih semalam.
Keputusan itu dicapai hasil mesyuarat pertama CEC semalam, kata setiausaha agung parti itu Lim Guan Eng.
Selain Tunku Abdul Aziz, Teresa Kok yang sebelum ini menjadi setiausaha publisiti turut dilantik berganding dengan M Kula Segaran dan Chow Kon Yeow.
Lim, dalam sidang media selepas pengumuman 10 nama itu, ditanya sama ada barisan CEC baru itu merupakan pasukan impiannya.
"Ini adalah kehendak perwakilan. Hanya ada satu pasukan dalam DAP iaitu roket (semua ahli DAP)," katanya.
Menjawab soalan wartawan, beliau menafikan lantikan Tunku Abdul Aziz bertujuan menyediakan calon menteri kabinet jika Pakatan Rakyat berjaya membentuk kerajaan baru selepas 16 September.
Tunku Abdul Aziz, yang pertama kali mengisi borang DAP semalam, berkata beliau memilih parti itu kerana ia tidak berasaskan kaum dan paling konsisten serta bekerja keras memperjuangkan ketelusan, keadilan dan menolak penyalahgunaan kuasa berbanding parti-parti lain.
"Tiada wang dalam DAP. Ada yang kata saya dibeli, ada kontrak menunggu. Parti ini disertai kerana prinsip-prinsip asas kita," katanya.
Ditanya kenapa bukan PKR, kerana ideologi kedua-dua parti itu hampir sama, Tunku berkata:
"Saya lebih selesa dengan DAP."
Dalam ucapan penggulungannya, Lim yang juga ketua menteri Pulau Pinang, menggesa DAP memikirkan "pendekatan lebih menarik" untuk memancing penyertaan pelbagai pihak khususnya kaum Melayu.
Dalam sidang media yang sama, pengerusi DAP Karpal Singh pula berharap dengan penyertaan Tunku Abdul Aziz, lebih ramai golongan Melayu menyertai parti itu.
Tokoh popular DAP, Lim Kit Siang dan penasihat parti, Dr Chen Ma Hin juga menerima baik lantikan Tunku Abdul Aziz dan barisan baru CEC DAP.
Dr Ma Hin diminta mengulas Kit Siang yang tidak tersenarai dalam mana-mana jawatan parti.
Beliau berkata, pemimpin veteren itu tetap mempunyai peranan besar dalam parti walaupun tidak dilantik memegang sebarang jawatan rasmi.
"Beliau boleh jadi setiausaha agung, pengerusi, apa saja. Beliau adalah pemimpin yang penting. Beliau tidak perlu jadi pemimpin rasmi," katanya.
Dipetik daripada laman web The Malaysian Bar:
Tunku Abdul Aziz: Why I joined DAP
Sunday, 24 August 2008 09:51pm
Sunday, 24 August 2008 09:51pm
©The Sun (Used by permission)
by Tim Leonard
KUALA LUMPUR (Aug 24, 2008) : One of the country’s prominent icons for transparency, Tunku Abdul Aziz Ibrahim, who joined the DAP on Saturday and was today appointed one of its national vice-chairmen said his move to join the ‘rocket’ was not for monetary reasons but purely because he shared the same values and ideals as the party.
"There is no money...," said Tunku Aziz at a press conference attended by DAP stalwarts during the party’s 15th Triennial National Congress at a hotel here, today.
"If anyone thinks I have been bought, then they have to think again," he said.
"I have been targeting DAP without their knowledge for the last 20 years.
"A lot of people might be thinking why I joined DAP…but the reason is simple. While other parties talk about democracy, justice and equality…DAP not only espouses these values but try much harder than the rest (to practice these values)," he said.
"I am very pleased to say that I have made up my mind. The decision (to join DAP) was taken a long time ago but the signing of the form was yesterday ," he added.
Asked why he chose to join DAP only now and not earlier, the former Transparency International-Malaysia president and member of the Royal Commission on the police force in 2004 said:
"Yesterday (Saturday) was as good as any other day".
Tunku Aziz said his decision was also based on the fact that there was no future for race based political party or system in the country and there is a need for Bangsa Malaysia.
"After 50 years (of independence), we've got to decide what kind of Malaysia we want. Do we want a fractured Malaysia?" he asked.
"People must have a stake in this country," he said.
Questioned by reporters why he chose DAP instead of other opposition parties such as Parti Keadilan, Tunku Aziz said:
"Let’s put it this way. I am much more comfortable (with DAP)… I trust people around me…"
Tunku Aziz, when asked if he shared the same take as DAP on nominating Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim as leader of Pakatan Rakyat if the Opposition topples the Government despite being critical of Anwar in the past, said:
"I have always been an independent person with independent view…based on my principles."
Meanwhile, DAP secretary-general Lim Guan Eng said it was an honour to have Tunku Aziz join the party.
"This is the first time Tunku is involved in a political party and it is indeed a great honour to have him in our team," said Lim.
"This is in line with our objective to be a multi-racial party," he added.
Tunku Aziz formerly held senior management positions in large private and public sector organisations in Malaysia, Hong Kong and the United Kingdom.
He began his business career with Guthrie Corporation Ltd and later became the advisor of Bank Negara. Later he returned to the private sector by joining Dunlop Malaysian Industries before being appointed a Sime Darby Group director.
He left Malaysia in 1985 to take up a directorship at the Commonwealth Secretariat in London before returning to Malaysia in 1992 following his retirement.
Pengenalan terhadap Tungku Aziz :
Tunku Abdul Aziz Ibrahim has held senior management positions in large private and public sector organlsations in Malays/a, Hong Kong and the UK.He began his business career with the Guthrie Corporation Ltd. after tertiary education in England and Australia. He then moved to the Central Bank of Malaysia as Advisor.
He returned to the private sector, his preferred option, joining Dunlop Malaysian Industries before being appointed a Group Director of Sime Darby limited. He left Malaysia in 1985 to take up II directorship at the Commonwealth Secretariat, London, returning to Malaysia on retirement, in 1992.
He was at one time or another a member of the Council of the Federation of Malaysian Manufacturers, the Malaysian National Shippers Council, the Asean Business Council, the Asean-US Business Council, and the Aslan-EU Business Council. He was for two terms Chairman of the Asean Chambers of Commerce and Industry Working Group on Industrial Complementation that produced the Asean Motor Industry Guidelines. He served for several years on the Employers' Panel of the Industrial Court of Malaysia.
Tunku Aziz founded, with the support of like-minded Individuals, the Malaysian Chapter of Transparency International, the global coalition against corruption, known locally as The Kuala Lumpur Society for Transparency & Integrity of which he was the President until December 2004. In October 1997 he was elected to the international board of Transparency International and in March the following year, he became Vice-Chairman of the Board of Directors of Transparency International. He was re-elected Vice-Chairman of the Board of Directors in October 1999 and relinquished that position in October 2002.
Tunku Aziz devoted the whole of his time to Transparency International on a voluntary basis from 1995-2004 and has written and spoken widely on corruption and integrity Issues both domestically and internationally. His book, Fighting Corruption: My Mission, has just been released.
He is a member of the World Bank High Level Advisory Group on Anti-Corruption in the East Asia and Pacific Region, and a member of the Advisory Board of Global Public Policy Networks, a project of “Visioning the UN", an initiative of the Secretary-General of the United Nations and the United Nations Foundation. He also serves as a member of the Asian Pacific Advisory Panel on Good Urban Governance, and is a member of the Board of the International Institute of Public Ethics. He was a member of the UNDP Advisory Panel for the Human Development Report 2002.
He is on the Global Advisory Council of Caux Roundtable, a US-based business organization promoting, among other things, principles of good governance. In February 2004 he was appointed a member of the Royal Commission inquiring into the police service.
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