Change Your Life. Change Malaysia!

We interrupt the usual Ask Lord Bobo Q&A to give you the answer to a question which all of you should be asking! After all, His Supreme Eminenceness is all-knowing, and therefore knows you want to ask this question even though you may not.



*What is UndiMalaysia! (UM!)? (Question from Your Brain, via Lord BoboBarnabus)*



Lord Bobo will tell you the answer in four parts – why, what, how, and what now.



*Why?*



Malaysians complain a lot. Malaysians think that only politicians are able to solve our problems, and every fault lies with the politicians when we do not get what we want. This is wrong. We disempower ourselves when we think that only politicians can solve our problems. We complain, and complain, and complain some more that our complaints are not being acted on, but when it comes to actually doing something, we the complainants sit back, fold our arms and do nothing. We do not see that there is an alternative to blaming politicians – acting on our own, reclaiming our power, and making true grassroots democracy more of a reality than it is today. As has been said,

“people should not be afraid of their governments; governments should be afraid of their people.”

The Malaysian political landscape is extremely polarised, and voters are forced to vote purely along party lines, or for personalities based on salacious and sensationalised issues (read: sex) rather than on properly analysed and advocated bread and butter election issues (read: food, housing, public transport, public service efficiency, human rights, and education). As such, our politicians are not required to address issues that affect local communities in a properly thought-out way, and most campaigning remains firmly stuck in gutter politics.

Generally, there are two types of Malaysian youth today – those extremely partisan towards a political party, and those so apathethic that the very thought of politics and civil society issues makes them sick. The former believe the answer lies in supporting and being part of a political party. The latter believe the solution is completely ignoring what is going on in the country. The former have an illusion of politics and political change. The latter are disillusioned with the Malaysian political scene as it stands.

Many voter registration initiatives have been started, and many youth have been registered. The efforts, and results, of these initiatives deserve to be celebrated – but it is only the first step. What is being done with the newly-registered voters? After registering, very few of them are being mobilised or activated. Why?



*What?*



To empower and enable Malaysians to meaningfully exercise their right to vote, and to ensure that election results express the will of voters based on informed choices, the Malaysian Centre for Constitutionalism and Human Rights a.k.a. PusatRakyatLB (the Centre) will undertake a first-of-its-kind citizen education initiative, known as *UndiMalaysia!* The *UndiMalaysia!*Initiative will be carried out on key election issues to equip Malaysians with the information they need to make informed choices when exercising their right to vote. Election candidates will be scrutinised on their performance, conduct, and pledges.

*UndiMalaysia!* should, if successful, lead to a larger social movement, and act as the “conscience” of the people at every election. The Centre will conduct this experimental initiative with the long-term goal of establishing a permanent voter education hub. *UndiMalaysia!* will mobilise and build a database of empowered youth as part of the “voter bank” to demand and sustain good practices for future elections. The voter population, particularly the younger generation, should be encouraged to make more informed choices at elections, and to ask fundamental questions which have often been forgotten by the electorate and politicians. A sustained campaign for a number of years will in its course influence voter behaviour leading to positive changes in the way politicians handle elections. *UndiMalaysia!* will also result in a core peoples’ movement, which is able to take things in their own hands and be self-reliant.



*How?*



The initiative consists of whatever floats your boat. We will reveal them as they are revealed. The prototype *UndiMalaysia!* pack will include infographics and a flagship workshop, targeted at both urban and rural settlements. We will also test our deliverables in one chosen Selangor Parliamentary constituency as if we are to “campaign” at that constituency to show the politicians how it ought to be done.

*UndiMalaysia!* will deal with a number of important issues of social relevance including poverty eradication, law and order, corruption, freedom of expression, managing the country’s resources, transparency in Government expenditure, and students’ and indigenous peoples’ rights. If it’s important to the *rakyat*, it’s important to us. We hope there will be Malaysians in all communities who will stand up and be counted to do their own maths, and question the politicians when the figures appear wrong.

When (not if) successful, this first-of-its-kind initiative will be replicated in other constituencies, and hopefully throughout the country.



*What now?*



You should *UndiMalaysia!* It will excite and be exciting. We are in the process of recruiting and mobilising. We are also inviting all NGOs on board to raise their own issues when we campaign, and share the same platform for a larger presence and stronger voice. Most importantly, we want YOU on board. No expertise is required.

If you have an interest in being part of omething bigger than your own personal life, join us. If you think you are clueless and want to come on board to learn, join us. If you have no clue about politics, but are keen on helping out in any way, join us. We will guide and find a place for you.

Be part of a movement that is truly a *rakyat*’s movement. Move us. Move with us. Join us. Start history with us. Change the way politicians behave – they are not VIPs who need to be bowed down to, they are there to represent YOUR needs. Re-write the lives of Malaysians. Be the change you want to see.


Email your details to *undimalaysia@loyarburok.com*, and we will do the rest! We promise you, your life will never be the same.

Beranilah, Nurul Hana Anwar Ibrahim!

Bertuah kerana dapat memasuki mahkamah pada hari ini bagi menyaksi perbicaraan kes Anwar Ibrahim dan sempat berdiri di sisi Nurul Izzah dan Nurul Hana.

Sepanjang perbicaraan, Nurul Izzah memegang tangan adik Hana sambil melihat Hana dengan perihatin.

Semasa tuduhan dibaca, Nurul Izzah bertanya kepada Hana: "Adik, Daddy akan kena charge, re u ok?"

Hana nod dan terus diam sahaja. Mata Hana asyik pandang ke arah hakim dan tidak mengata apa-apa pun.

Akan tetapi, apabila Saiful dipanggil dan memberi kenyataan dalam mahkamah, air mata Nurul Hana turun dengan tidak terhenti......

Kak Izzah pegang tangan Hana, pujuk adik supaya berani dan bertenang. Hana tidak mengata apa-apa, mengelap air mata yang turun tidak terhenti, dan terus memberi sokongan kepada ayah yang kena tuduh...

Bukanlah senang untuk menghadapi ahli keluarga yang tersayang dijatuhkan hukuman sebegini dan bukanlah senang bagi seorang gadis muda untuk matang dan berani. Tetapi, sebagai anak Ketua Pembangkang yang tegas, percaya Hana dapat menghadapi semua ini dengan tenang dan berani juga!

Keadilan akan sentiasa berada dengan mereka yang menegakkan kebanaran!

Malaysia’s regime crisis, race politics and the kalimah Allah issue*

Petikan dari blog Tengku Razaleigh

The centre of gravity of global economic activity has been moving eastwards towards Asia for quite some time now. The present global financial crisis has accelerated that process.

Asian economies, led by China, seek to spur domestic demand and increase intra-regional trade. As the global appetite for treasuries and US equities decreases, it is likely that large flows of risk capital will start moving to emerging markets again over the next six months. The main destinations will be India and China, but the countries of Southeast Asia are also set to benefit from these flows of global capital to the extent that they have an economic story to tell. The two top performers are going to be Indonesia and Vietnam. Indonesia, the new “i” in BRIIC, has a market-size, natural resources and liberalisation story while Vietnam has a large and industrious labour force that is skilling upwards rapidly. The Philippines and Thailand, despite political worries, remain relevant for their large domestic markets while Singapore, as the financial hub of the region, benefits from any increase in regional economic activity. This year also sees the full implementation of AFTA and the signing of more regional FTAs. We can be cautiously optimistic about the basis for growth in trade and investment.

I mentioned the major Asean countries but not Malaysia in my list of investment destinations. That is because Malaysia has fallen off the map for much foreign investment. With neither the cost and scale advantages of Vietnam and Indonesia nor the advanced capabilities of Singapore, Malaysia is firmly caught in a middle-income trap and appears to have fallen off the radar screen of foreign investors. It might seem puzzling that this country, sitting at the heart of Southeast Asia, blessed with extraordinary natural, cultural and human capital, and once a beacon in the developing world, has become irrelevant.

I want to discuss how this happened, and reflect on what this story might teach about larger issues of common concern. Other members of Asean might be concerned that a country that was once at the forefront in spearheading regional initiatives is at a crossroads over its own future.

The general election of March 2008 was a watershed in Malaysian politics. The ruling Barisan Nasional coalition lost its accustomed two-thirds majority in the Parliament, and lost five states to the opposition, including the economic backbone states of Selangor, Perak and Penang. Compared to the ebb and flow of power in other parliamentary democracies, you might not find this a remarkable development. Against the backdrop of Malaysia’s political history, however, the entire political landscape had changed overnight. Gone was the invincibility of Umno, the Malay-based party that has dominated Malaysian politics since independence. The political credibility of Umno/BN had been more than just a set of racially-based political parties. Over its decades of ascendancy, history had been re-written, mythology created, and the party abolished and reinvented to reinforce the necessity and inevitability of a government led by Umno.

The formula of communal power-sharing that the Barisan Nasional and its predecessor were built on had started life as a political accommodation, a nation-building compromise, a way-station on the road to a fuller union of our citizens. Fifty years later it had ossified into the appearance of an eternal racial contract, a model replicated at every level of national life. The election results plunged this model, and the regime built upon it, into crisis.

The people are often ahead of their government. They are interested in more things than identity politics. Unable to respond to the reality that the BN formula is broken and the people want more than ethno-religious politics, the ruling party appears to be reacting by digging itself deeper into narrow racial causes with no future in them. This desperate response is self-defeating in a cumulative way. As Umno is rejected by the voters, party members pursue racial issues more stridently. They think this will shore up their “base”. They are mistaken about the nature of that base. As they do so, they become more extreme and out of touch with ordinary voters of every race and religion whose major concerns are not racial or religious identity but matters such as corruption, security, the economy and education.

Umno’s position in the present controversy over the use of the term “Allah” by non-Muslims is an example. In a milestone moment, PAS, the Islamic party, is holding onto the more plural and moderate position while Umno is digging itself into an intolerant hardline position that has no parallel that I know of in the Muslim world.

Umno is fanning communal sentiment, and the government it leads is taking up policy lines based on “sensitivities” rather than principle. The issue appears to be more about racial sentiment than religious, let alone constitutional principles.

In a complex multiracial society a party and a government whose primary response to a public issue is sunk in the elastic goo of “sensitivities” rather than founded on principle, drawn from sentiment rather than from the Constitution, is already short of leadership and moral fibre. Public life is about behaving and choosing on principle rather than sentiment. Islam, in particular, demands that our actions be guided by an absolute commitment to justice for all rather than by looking inward at vague “sensitivities” of particular groups, however politically significant. It is about doing what is right rather than protecting arbitrary feelings. If feelings diverge from what is right and just, then it’s time to show some leadership.

“Sensitivities” is the favoured resort of the gutter politician. With it he raises a mob, fans its resentment and helps it discover a growing list of other sensitivities. This is a road to ruin. A nation is made up of citizens bound by a shared conception of justice and not of mobs extracting satisfaction for politicised emotional states.

As a mark of our decline, at some point in our recent history the government itself began to speak the language of sensitivities. In the controversy over whether Christians are allowed to use the term “Allah” the government talks about managing sentiment when it should be talking about what is the right thing to do. This is what government sounds like when a political system and its leadership have come unstuck from the rule of law. It goes from issue to issue, hostage to the brinksmanship of sensitivities. Small matters threaten to erupt into racial conflict. The government of a multiracial society that cannot rise above sentiment is clearly too weak or too self-interested to hold the country together. It has lost credibility and legitimacy. The regime is in crisis.

The deterioration of our political order did not happen overnight or in isolation. It is part of a more general pattern of the decline of democracy and the rule of law in many newer democracies. Many post-colonial societies that began with democratic institutions saw democracy collapse afterwards into dictatorship. I can think of Nigeria, Pakistan and Kenya, for example. What has not been said is that underneath the appearance of continuity, and over two decades, Malaysia has quietly undergone the same process. There has been, beneath the surface, a decisive rupture with the federal, constitutional and democratic system upon which we were founded, and which alone confers legitimacy. What replaced it was an authoritarianism based on personality. Policy was set according to personal whims of the leader, which is to say that in areas such as the economy and foreign affairs, the country was run according to the personal enthusiasms and pet peeves of individual leaders.

Power was consolidated and constitutional government turned back. The result was a recession to authoritarianism and the centralisation of power, abetted by the corruption of the ruling party. The ideology of the ruling party, which had combined Malay nationalism with an overriding national concern, was vulgarised into an easily manipulated politics of group resentment.

Umno started in 1946 as a grassroots-based party that commanded the idealism of my generation. After 1987 it was transformed into a top-down patronage machine. Party membership became a ticket to personal gain. The party attracted opportunists and ne’er do wells while good people stayed away in droves. For any organisation this is a death spiral.

The challenge of Umno and of Malaysia today is not simply reform but restoration, not simply democratisation but re-democratisation. This is because we are not building from scratch but trying to recover from the decline of once-excellent core institutions.

There are regional implications to Malaysia’s crisis. The formation of the Federation of Malaysia in 1963 precipitated a regional conflict to which, in part, the formation of Asean in 1967 was meant to be a solution. Now in a clear sign of the erosion of the rule of law, agreements that structured state-federal relations over matters such as the distribution of the petroleum revenue are casually ignored. Malaysia is a federation of sovereign entities, but one of the consequences of authoritarianism has been that it has come to be run habitually as a unitary state. We have to learn again how to be a federation.

Let me try to draw some conclusions:

Shortcuts in governance may appear to work for a while, but they wreak long-term havoc on the institutional capability of a nation. Short-term boosts to the economy are difficult to evaluate when 40 per cent of the national budget come from a single source which does not report financial details either to the public or to Parliament.

What is clear is that there is no secure basis for long-term growth without a return to strong institutions, transparency and good government. The challenges of economic development, nation-building and institutional integrity are linked, more so in a complex country like Malaysia.

The success of Asean collaborative measures depends on the core countries taking a lead, and it is in everyone’s interest that these countries have strong democratic institutions and the rule of law. When countries lack good governance and transparency, domestic economies falter, domestic politics goes from crisis to crisis, and the country turns inwards and away from engaging constructively with the real world and with their neighbours.

The economic success of Asean economies up to the Nineties was based in part on the superiority of their institutional frameworks to those of Eastern Europe and South America. In the early days, Malaysia and Singapore played leading roles in Asean. Of late, Malaysia’s role has diminished, while that of Indonesia has grown. It is no accident that this is the result of successful reform and democratisation in Indonesia and the failure so far of any such process in Malaysia. Over the longer term, reform and democratisation must go hand in hand for there to be sustained economic development.

The present Prime Minister has made some helpful gestures towards liberalising the economy and pursuing more multiracial policies. These initiatives, however, must do more than skim the surface of what must be done. Malaysia is in need of fundamental reform. The reforms we need include, at minimum:

a. An overhaul of the party system which rules out racially exclusive parties from facing directly contesting elections. This will inaugurate a new era of post-racial politics.

b. The restoration of the independence of the judiciary and the freedom of the media.

c. An all-out war on corruption, the root of all the evils in nation-building and economic development.

The greater economic collaboration we aspire to in Asean requires that we pay attention to the internal conditions in each country that make it possible. We need to place the promotion of governance and institutional reform on the Asean agenda. I hope this is a matter you see fit to take up.

*Speech delivered by at the ISEAS Regional Outlook Forum 2010 at the Shangri-la Hotel, Singapore on Jan 7.

Surat Terbuka Untuk Penduduk Seksyen 23

Surat Terbuka Untuk Penduduk Seksyen 23
2hb September 2009 M
13 Ramadan 1430 H

السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته

Kehadapan penduduk Seksyen 23 yang dihormati,

Semoga surat ini menemui tuan-tuan dalam keadaan sihat wal afiat serta keimanan yang teguh dan jitu berkat bulan Ramadhan ini.

Saya mengambil kesempatan ini untuk mengingatkan diri saya serta tuan-tuan akan Firman Allah, Surah Al Maaidah ayat 8 yang bermaksud;

“Bertindak adil! Ianya lebih rapat dengan keTaqwaan.”

Semoga dalam usaha kita membina keTaqwaan dalam bulan Ramadhan ini, kita mengingati hakikat bahawa ‘keTaqwaan’ yang diusahakan itu mempunyai hubungan rapat dengan keadilan. Keadilan ini pula perlu dilaksanakan terhadap semua, walaupun terhadap yang tidak disenangi. Ini ditegaskan di dalam ayat yang sama yang bermaksud,

“dan jangan oleh kerana kebencian kamu terhadap sesuatu kaum menyebabkan kamu tidak berlaku adil…”

Kalau terhadap kaum yang dibenci sekalipun dituntut keadilan, apatah lagi terhadap jiran sekampung dan warga sekota? Walaupun mereka tidak sebangsa dan seagama, hakikatnya mereka tidak memusuhi kita atau memusuhi Islam. Maka, mereka layak mendapat layanan yang adil. Adakah adil sekiranya kita menafikan mereka hak tempat beribadat yang berhampiran dan sebaliknya memaksa mereka ke seksyen 22, di tengah-tengah kawasan Industri berat, jauh dari kawasan kediaman? Tiada apa di sana kecuali kilang-kilang.

Saya hanyalah seorang wakil rakyat yang dipilih oleh tuan-tuan melalui pilihan raya yang diadakan pada masa-masa tertentu. Saya tidak berhak memaksa apa-apa pandangan atau keputusan ke atas tuan-tuan semua. Saya hanya mengharapkan keputusan yang tuan-tuan rumuskan sendiri berhubung cadangan pemindahan kuil ke Seksyen 23 mengambil kira persoalan keTaqwaan dan keAdilan seperti di atas.

Islam adalah agama yang adil. Keadilannya mampu menawan hati semua manusia. Yang paling saya takuti adalah tindakan yang memberikan gambaran bahawa Islam adalah sebaliknya. Allah murka terhadap mereka yang bertindak dengan cara yang merosakkan imej Islam sehingga menyebabkan manusia terhalang untuk mengenali keadilannya. Allah berfirman ayat 94 Surah An-Nahl yang bermaksud:-

“Dan kamu ditimpa kehinaan kerana menjadi penghalang kepada jalan Allah (disebabkan tindakan buruk kamu) dan untuk kamu azab yang amat dahsyat (pada hari akhirat kelak)”

Ada yang bertanya kepada saya, tidakkah saya khuatir saya kalah dalam Pilihan Raya yang bakal tiba oleh kerana isu ini. Bagi saya sekiranya itulah kehendak pengundi, apakan daya? Yang penting sejarah akan menjadi saksi bahawa ada Ahli Parlimen dari parti Islam yang memperjuangkan keadilan untuk semua walaupun orang Hindu. Seperti kisah seorang raja Islam di Mysore, Bangalore, India pada abad ke 18 yang bernama Sultan Fateh Ali Khan Tippu (Tippu Sultan). Rakyatnya terdiri daripada orang Islam, Hindu dan Sikh. Hingga ke hari ini rakyat India masih menceritakan mengenai pemerintahan beliau yang berasaskan Islam sebagai sebuah pemerintahan yang adil.

Semoga Allah memberkati kita semua dan memimpin kita ke jalan yang diRedhaiNya.

وسلام عليكم و السلام على من التبع الهدى
YB KHALID BIN ABDUL SAMAD
Ahli Parlimen Shah Alam

Malaysiakini:Rakyat belum maafkan BN

Rakyat belum maafkan BN
Apr 7, 09 10:10pm

Kejayaan Pakatan Rakyat mengekalkan kerusi parlimen Bukit Gantang dan DUN Bukit Selambau dengan pertambahan majoriti membuktikan penolakan berterusan rakyat terhadap BN walaupun pilihanraya umum sudah setahun berlalu.

Kemenangan itu juga menunjukkan rakyat Malaysia masih belum memaafkan BN walaupun Umno - tulang belakang gabungan itu - dan negara sudah bertukar kepemimpinan kepada Datuk Seri Najib Razak.

Ia akhirnya menjadi "pungutan suara" terhadap perdana menteri baru itu yang belum lagi sempat membariskan kabinetnya sejak mengangkat sumpah, Jumaat lepas.

Najib dijangka mengumumkan kabinet baru tengah hari esok.

Kejayaan menteri besar Pakatan di Perak, Datuk Seri Mohamad Nizar Jamaluddin mengekalkan kerusi parlimen itu - di kubu tradisi Umno - juga menunjukkan bahawa rakyat tidak merestui rampasan kuasa BN di negeri tersebut, Februari lalu.

Ia juga membuktikan strategi kempen BN yang cuba menggambarkan Mohamad Nizar sebagai seorang "penderhaka" kepada Sultan Perak tidak diterima pengundi.

Kini bukan sahaja beliau, malah Bukit Gantang juga "mohon derhaka" - ucapan yang disampaikan sewaktu ingin berbeza pandangan dengan Sultan Azlan Shah di kemuncak krisis dengan Istana Kinta.

Kepemimpinan PAS dilihat tepat membaca politik apabila memilih ADUN Pasir Panjang itu sebagai calonnya di saat-saat akhir untuk memanfaatkan suasana tidak menentu di negeri itu.

Kehadiran mantan perdana menteri Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad - yang ingin kembali kepada Umno, Sabtu lalu - juga tidak banyak membantu.

Malah, dipercayai kalangan penyokong Umno akan menyalahkan kehadiran bekas presiden Umno itu atas kekalahan teruk BN di dua kawasan pilihanraya kecil tersebut.

Mohamad Nizar meraih majoriti 2,789 undi apabila menewaskan calon BN Ismail Saffian yang mendapat 19,071 undi.

Arwah wakil rakyat PAS Roslan Shaharum memperolehi 1,566 undi - kali pertama parti itu menawan kubu BN berkenaan.

Sementara calon PKR S Manikumar yang mengekalkan kemenangan bekas wakil rakyatnya V Arumugam menunjukkan calon muka baru tidak menjadi isu kepada pengundi parti pimpinan Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim.

Walaupun PKR berdepan dengan krisis kecil susulan pemilihan mengejut Manikumar, yang bakal dilantik sebagai exco kerajaan Kedah, tetapi sokongan pengundi di DUN Selambau tetap tidak berubah.

Ahli perniagaan di awal 30-an itu menang dengan majoriti 2,403 undi dengan meraih 12,632 undi. Manakala calon BN Datuk S Ganesan memperolehi 10,229 undi.

Arumugam, waktu itu calon bebas, meraih 2,362 undi.

Mengulas kemenangannya, Mohamad Nizar berkata ia menunjukkan rakyat mahukan demokrasi sebenar dan akan menjadikan kejayaan ini untuk menuntut pembubaran DUN Perak bagi membolehkan satu pilihanraya peringkat negeri diadakan.

The Malaysian Insider: Nizar wins!

Nizar wins!
By Adib Zalkapli and Debra Chong

UPDATED

TAIPING, April 7 — In a major boost to the ousted Pakatan Rakyat state government, PAS won the Bukit Gantang by-election with its candidate Datuk Seri Nizar Jamaluddin defeating his closest rival, Barisan Nasional's Ismail Saffian, by 2,789 votes.

The former Perak mentri besar, who was ordered to resign by the state Ruler, obtained 21,860 votes while Ismail garnered 19,071 votes.

Independent Kamarul Ramizu Idris only managed to secure 62 votes and lost his deposit of RM10,000.

A total of 41, 626 voters out of 55,471 or 75.1 per cent cast their ballots.

The by-election was widely seen as a referendum on the newly-formed Perak government led by BN's Datuk Dr Zambry Kadir and today's outcome was the clearest sign yet that the move by the coalition to form the new state government has not gone down well with the people.

BN formed the government in February after three PR lawmakers left the alliance to become BN-friendly independents and Nizar's attempt to dissolve the state assembly to pave the way for state-wide election failed.

And with the swearing in of Datuk Seri Najib Razak as the sixth prime minister last Friday, the by-election also became the first test of his leadership and his reform agenda.

Nizar told a press conference after the announcement of the result that his immediate priority would be "to stabilise the political situation in Perak" and to seek the dissolution of the state assembly.

"This is a very strong signal from the people that they reject corruption, but they want democracy and they want a free and fair election,"

he said, agreeing to suggestions that the outcome of the election was an endorsement of the ousted PR-led government.

He was also confident that the alliance would win with a bigger majority if state elections are called.

"Our policies are not discriminatory," he added.

Earlier in his speech, Nizar urged party supporters who had gathered outside the polling centre to disperse.

Meanwhile, Perak Umno secretary Datuk Ramly Zahari insisted that the outcome of the polls did not justify the call for state elections.

He said the non-Malays voted strongly for PAS because of the populist policies of the PR-led state government including awarding permanent land titles to new villagers.

"We need more time to explain to them on the legality of this populist policy adopted by the previous government," said Ramly.

"And probably also our strategy was not right. We couldn't focus much on the by-election because of party elections and in Perak itself we have been busy handling the political turmoil," he told The Malaysian Insider.

Bukit Gandang Undilah Nizar!

Undilah Pakatan Rakyat demi masa depan Malaysia! Undilah Nizar demi generasi yang akan datang!



Bukit Gantang: 10,000 dengar Amanat Mursyidul Am, Presiden PAS

TAIPING, 10 Mac - Hujan renyai-renyai yang turun di sekitar jam 9.00 malam tidak menghalang 10,000 penyokong Pakatan Rakyat membanjiri kawasan ceramah di Simpang, Taiping untuk mendengar amanat Mursyidul PAS PAS, Dato' Tuan Guru Nik Aziz Nik Mat dan Presiden PAS, Dato' Tuan Guru Abdul Hadi Awang sempena Pelancaran Gerak Kerja Pilihan Raya Parlimen Bukit Gantang pada 8 Mac lalu.

Turut memberikan amanat di majlis itu, Menteri Besar Perak yang sah, Dato' Seri Ir Mohamad Nizar Jamaludin, Naib Presiden PAS yang juga Pesuruhjaya PAS Negeri Perak, Ustaz Ahmad Awang, Ketua Dewan Muslimat PAS Pusat, Ustazah Nuridah Ahmad, Exco Kerajaan Pakatan Rakyat Negeri Perak dari DAP, Nga Kor Ming, Adun Aulong, Yew Tian Hoe, dan Yang Dipertua PAS Kawasan Bukit Gantang, Ustaz Nordin Jaafar.

Dato' Nik Aziz dalam amanatnya meminta para pengundi di kawasan Bukit Gantang agar bijak berpolitik dalam menentukan pemimpin yang bakal dipilih nanti.

Umno katanya, bukan sahaja tidak boleh diharapkan membela agama dan orang orang Melayu, bahkan parti itu sendiri menderhakai Raja Raja Melayu melalui beberapa siri penderhakaan yang dilancarkan parti 'Assobiyah Melayu' itu.

Antaranya termasuklah dalam isu menghapuskam imuniti Raja Raja Melayu, tindakan penyokong Bekas Menteri Besar Terengganu yang menghina Sultan Terengganu dan pelbagai siri penderhakaan terhadap Raja Melayu.

Program pada malam tadi juga berjaya menghimpunkan seluruh penyokong dan petugas-petugas Pakatan Rakyat dalam Pilihan Raya Kecil Bukit Gantang.

Sebelum itu pada sebelah petangnya Ustaz Nik Aziz telah melancarkan dan merasmikan Bilik Gerakan Pilihan Raya Kelantan di Kuala Sepetang. Kelantan dijangka akan menghantar petugas-petugas sepenuh masa bagi membantu Pakatan Rakyat mengekalkan kemenangan dengan majoriti lebih besar lagi.

Pelancaran gerak kerja pilihan raya yang dilancarkan Mursyidul Am PAS itu bermakna bermulalah gerak kerja pilihanraya Parlimen Bukit Gantang.

Selepas ini Bukit Gantang yang mempunyai tiga DUN dan 38 daerah mengundi akan didatangi oleh beribu-ribu petugas Pakatan Rakyat dari seluruh negara.

Nik Aziz meminta pengundi di kawasan tersebut agar tidak membuat kesilapan dengan memilih calon BN, sewajarnya calon PAS yang mewakili Pakatan Rakyat menjadi pilihan pengundi di kawasan ini sebagai tindakan 'mengajar' BN yang bertindak zalim apabila merampas kuasa rakyat di negeri Perak.

"Pilihan raya kali ini menjadikan Bukit Gantang sebagai ukuran pengaruh yang sebenar kepada Pakatan Rakyat dan BN," kata Nik Aziz.

Mustahil UMNO-BN Mampu Bawa Perubahan!

By Anwar Ibrahim

Setelah anaknya digantung tugas semalam, hari ini YB Karpal Singh pula dihadapkan dengan tuduhan menghasut, hanya kerana memberi pandangan profesional berhubung kedudukan Dato’ Seri Nizar sebagai Menteri Besar Perak yang sah. Saya rasa ramai sekali pakar perundangan yang memberi pandangan mereka berhubung isu tersebut, ada yang bersetuju, ada yang tidak.

Episod ini terjadi hanyalah kerana Singa Bukit Gelugor adalah Ahli Parlimen Pakatan Rakyat! Beliau cuba dialahkan dengan kekuasaan milik pemerintah, namun rakyat keseluruhan yang dahagakan Perubahan pastinya bersama wakil Pakatan Rakyat.

Hadir bersama pagi tadi di mahkamah ialah Saudara Kit Siang, Guan Eng, Tian Chua dan saya sendiri. Jelas perubahan yang dicanang seluruh negara adalah kepura-puraan UMNO-BN bagi meraih kembali sokongan rakyat.

Terpalit dengan pelbagai skandal penyalahgunaan kuasa juga rasuah, mustahil UMNO-BN mampu memangkin agenda perubahan. Baru sahaja pilihanraya umum yang lalu, rakyat menghantar mesej kepada penguasa, dan untuk kesekian kalinya, mereka memandang remeh mesej tersebut.

ANWAR IBRAHIM

Bukit Gantang by-election – three historic missions of the voters

(Took from blog Lim Kit Siang)

The 55,562 voters in the Bukit Gantang parliamentary constituency have a three-fold historic mission when they cast their votes in the by-election on Tuesday, April 7, 2009.

Firstly, to vote on behalf of the people of Perak to reject the unethical, undemocratic, illegal and unconstitutional power grab in Perak orchestrated by Datuk Seri Najib Razak sparking off a prolonged constitutional crisis with two Mentris Besar, a political stalemate and the grave erosion of the doctrine of the separation of powers, symbolised by the Democracy Tree in Ipoh which has entered into Malaysian political folklore and gained international recognition and admiration. Vote on April 7 for a return of the mandate to the voters of Perak by dissolving the Perak State Assembly and holding of state general election for Perakians to decide on the government of their choice.

Secondly, to vote on behalf of the people of Malaysia to send a clear and unmistakable message to Najib, who is to succeed Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi as Prime Minister of Malaysia, that to safeguard the honour of the highest political office of the land and that of the nation, he must address the many serious swirling allegations haunting and hounding him whether about mega-defence commissions or the C4 murder of Mongolian Altantunya Shariibuu as they affect public and international perceptions about his suitability, integrity and legitimacy as Malaysian Prime Minister – and public interests demand a Royal Commission of Inquiry to establish Najib ’s innocence and clear his name with regard to all these allegations; and

Thirdly, to vote on behalf of all Malaysians to endorse and reaffirm the March 8, 2008 general elections results to demonstrate that the political tsunami last year was not an accident or one-off phenomenon but represented the deep-abiding aspirations of Malaysians for political change and an end to Umno political hegemony and arrogance of power; that Malaysia can only move forward to become more democratic towards a two-coalition political system with effective checks and balances to prevent gross abuses of power and that there can be no retreat or return to the Mahathirism of the past under Najib.

(Speech at the Pakatan Rakyat Bukit Gantang by-election ceramah at Kuala Sepetang on nomination day, Sunday, 29th March 2009 at 10 pm)

Undilah Pakatan Rakyat demi masa depan Malaysia! Undilah Nizar demi generasi yang akan datang!