SELAMAT HARI GAWAI 2009
GAYU GURU
GERAI NYAMAI NGETAN KA MENUA

Anwar Ibrahim's statement on the economy
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Saturday, 30 May 2009 01:31

The administration’s lackadaisical approach to governance and accountability is deeply disturbing. At a time when Malaysian’s are forced to cut costs and worry if their hard earned money will cover the next month’s bills, our government continues to pour billions in taxpayer money down the drain.

The government’s neither-here-nor-there approach to the PKFZ scandal is a clear sign of UMNOs unwillingness to sacrifice its own delinquent members for the sake of the national good. The handling of the PKFZ affair amplifies the hypocrisy which was manifest in the investigations into money politics within UMNO and the selective persecution of foes of the new Najib administration.

The government has bragged that billions have been disbursed from the two fiscal stimulus packages. Yet there is virtually no information available to the public about the process of awarding tenders. We are left to assume that it is business as usual and have little confidence that the economy will benefit from the misappropriation of these funds that are being channeled to the same coterie of crony companies.

Inefficiency and largesse remain the prevailing traits of our bloated bureaucracy. Government monopolies preclude any significant change in the economic landscape of the nation and promises of liberalisation ring hollow when it comes to the lack of political will to implement change.

To date there is no plan in sight to resuscitate the economy and transform it as the Prime Minister has promised. We hear from him incoherent statements predicting a recovery by the end of the year while at the same time admitting that our economy is beholden to that of the US and Europe, which by their own account will remain weak into 2010.

Bank Negara has this week confirmed what most Malaysians have known already for eight months, save the Minister of Finance. The country is headed for recession. Thousands of jobs have already been lost and in the coming months we know that more factories will be shuttered and more will be laid off – by some estimates up to a half-million people. 2009 growth figures have been slashed to -5%, the worst economic scenario Malaysia has faced since the Financial Crisis.

These challenges require visionary leadership and the courage to act decisively against corruption and cronyism. Sadly both qualities are lacking in the current administration.

ANWAR IBRAHIM

WHY AM I NOT SURPRISED....... I was expecting the Court of Appeal to overturn the decision of the high Court to nullify Nizar as the legitimate Perak MB and it did. I feel sorry for the Perakians as they are the ones that should choose their MB. Like I said before, all this mess give the impression that BN will use any means necessary to stay in power. One thing is sure, come the next election, BN can kiss Perak good bye as I believe Perakians will have their 'revenge' on this whole mess..... Lo Keputusan Tiga Hakim Mahkamah Rayuan dianggap luar biasa

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Friday, 22 May 2009 22:46

(TV Antara) - Tiga hakim Mahkamah Rayuan hanya mengambil lima minit untuk mengumumkan Zambry Kadir dari UMNO adalah Menteri Besar Perak yang sah, dan bukannya Nizar Jamaluddin dari Pakatan Rakyat. Lebih mengejutkan ketiga-tiga hakim berkenaan mengambil pendirian senada bahawa Sultan Perak mempunyai kuasa penuh untuk melantik Zambry tanpa mengadakan sidang Dewan Undangan Negeri untuk mengambil undi tidak percaya terhadap Nizar. Hakim Md Raus Sharif, Zainun Ali dan Ahmad Maarop tidak memberikan hujah bertulis bagi menyokong keputusan mereka yang mempunyai implikasi mendalam terhadap sistem demokrasi berparlimen di negara ini dan kuasa-kuasa istana sebagaimana yang termaktub dalam perlembagaan. Mengulas keputusan mahkamah itu, peguam Nizar, Sulaiman Abdullah berkata, “negara kita mempunyai hakim-hakim luar biasa dengan kebolehan luar biasa.” Kini Nizar hanya boleh merayu kepada Mahkamah Persekutuan sebagai ruang perundangan terakhir untuk menegakkan mandat rakyat dan perlembagaan negeri Perak. Keputusan Mahkamah Rayuan hari ini tentunya sukar ditelan oleh bukan sahaja penyokong Pakatan Rakyat tetapi juga pendokong demokrasi malah di kalangan peguam sendiri. Presiden Majlis Peguam Malaysia K.Ragunath berkata keputusan mahkamah hari ini seolah-olah meletakkan kuasa-kuasa Sultan sebagai menjangkau parlimen atau dewan undangan negeri. Ragunath berkata Mahkamah Rayuan seolah-olah memberikan Sultan kuasa-kuasa yang menjangkaui daripada apa yang diperuntukan oleh perlembagaan. . Penasihat DAP Lim Kit Siang berkata keputusan mahkamah tanpa penghujahan bernas adalah mengejutkan dan satu penganiayaan proses keadilan. Namun beliau menjangka keputusan itu akan menjejaskan lagi kredibiliti Perdana Menteri Najib Tun Razak. “Keputusan hari ini hanya membuatkan rakyat lebih marah dan mempercepatkan kejatuhan BN,” kata Kit Siang. Ketua Pemuda Angkatan Keadilan Pemuda Samsul Iskandar menyifatkan keputusan itu “memualkan” dan dipengaruhi oleh tekanan politik. Beliau berkata keputusan tiga hakim itu jelas begitu cetek, tanpa disokong oleh fakta bernas, bukan sebagaimana penghujahan lengkap yang diberikan oleh Mahkamah Tinggi Kuala Lumpur yang mengisytiharkan Nizar sebagai Menteri Besar sah sebelum ini. Pemerhati politik berpandangan bahawa keputusan ini memang sudah dijangka kerana bibit-bibit campurtangan politik ini telah diwar-warkan oleh Perdana Menteri sendiri apabila beliau berkata BN hanya akan menimbang mengadakan pertemuan dengan Pakatan Rakyat bagi mencari penyelesaian krisis politik Perak setelah selesai proses mahkamah. Umumnya penyelesaian politik tidak ada kena-mengenai dengan keputusan mahkamah dan kenyataan Najib itu menimbulkan persepsi beliau sudah tahu hala keputusan Mahkamah Rayuan sebelum membuat kenyataan itu awal minggu ini.

IT'S A NO NO

I disagree with the calls of certain quarters to register bloggers.

To me , such an act will curtail my individual my rights (what ever left of it) as the citizen of this country.

We have enough laws to address the issue of bloggers misuse their freedom of expression on the internet. There is no need to register us bloggers.

Furthermore, the task will be near impossible to achieve as blogs can be set up as fast as you can cook your instant noodles.

Don't start something that you cannot finish. Otherwise, people will think that you are an idiot or worse still, 'hangat-hangat tahi ayam'.

Lo

Proposal to register bloggers needs careful study – Rais (From Malaysian Insider)

SHAH ALAM, May 21 — Information, Communications and Culture Minister Datuk Seri Dr Rais Yatim said the proposal by some quarters for bloggers in Malaysia to be registered required in-depth study.

“The idea is good, but we have to see it from the legal aspects and from the aspect of freedom of Internet use.

“We have to see whether registering bloggers is in line with the provisions of the Communications and Multimedia Act 1998. We should not be hasty in implementing the proposal,” he said after meeting with Selangor Information Department and Special Affairs Department officers, here, today.

However, he said, bloggers were still subject to existing laws for defamation and sedition.

“We are studying a new Act, the Multimedia Signature Act, which has been in the pipeline the past three years. This Act is expected to support the Communications and Multimedia Act 1998,” he said.

At the same time Rais is encouraging his ministry’s officers to be Internet-savvy, including about blogging, to keep up with a changing world.

Rais said if he, who had served under five prime ministers, could learn new things through the Internet, he could not see why the officers should not.

He also said that information officers needed to be close to the people by giving information on government policies not just in their homes and community halls, but also at the coffeeshops and other eateries and at the market place, in order to know their sentiments.

Disseminating information through less formal ways but directly to the people could be more effective for the government, he added.

On the need to locate the Selangor Broadcasting Department closer to the state Information Department, he said the former would be shifted back to the state if there were suitable premises available.

The Selangor Broadcasting Department was ordered to vacate its office at the Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz Shah Building last year after Pakatan Rakyat took over the state government from the Barisan Nasional after the last general election on March 8, 2008. – Bernama

WE LOVE YOU

Annette Senia Lo

12th June 2005-18th May 2006

Gone from our eyes but not from our hearts

Deeply missed and forever loved by mummy Jati ak Jampong,

daddy Telemachus Lo, sister Alexis Rebecca Lo,

great grandparents, grandparents, aunties, uncles and cousins.

GIVE BACK THE RAKYAT THEIR RIGHTS
DISSOLVE PERAK ASSEMBLY &
RE-ELECTION FOR PERAK NOW

COURT SAYS NIZAR IS PERAK MB

I breathed a sigh of relief when I received an sms from Malaysiakini.com. High court has declared that Nizar as the legitimate MB for Perak and maintained the status quo of the assembly to pre BN coup.

That means the famous under the tree sitting of the assembly was legitimate.

Zambry and his BN excos are also asked by the court to vacant their seats.

I am very dissappointed and angry at the way this crisis in Perak is being handled by BN government.

The final straw was the forceful removal of Sivakumar, Pakatan Speaker from the assembly. The scenario looked move like a ganster movie than an assembly proceeding. What a shame.

The fiasco has given an impression that BN will resort to any means to grab and maintain power even resorting to force.

Now that the court has decided, I pray that Perak Sultan will agree to dissolve the assembly and give back the rights of Perakians to choose their government.

Lo

BLACK DAY FOR DEMOCRACY IN MALAYSIA

Never before in any state legislative assembly that a Speaker was evicted from the house using force.

Well, that was the sms that I got today from news portal Malaysiakini.

Plainclothes 'officers' basically dragged Sivakumar, Pakatan Rakyat Speaker out of the Perak state assembly to make way for BN speaker to take his place.

It is indeed a very sad day in Malaysia. The way this crisis is being handled is making a mockery of Malaysian voters intelligence.

By the way, I am wearing black today.

Lo

Photo : Kickdefella

Court allows Sarawak woman to challenge confiscation of ‘Allah’ CDs

KUALA LUMPUR, May 4 – A Melanau woman was given the green light by the High Court here today to challenge the Home Ministry’s decision to confiscate eight compact discs (CDs) of Christian religious teachings containing the word “Allah”.

Justice Datuk Alizatul Khair Osman granted leave to Jill Ireland Lawrence Bill, 27, to initiate the judicial review proceedings to seek three reliefs from the court.

She wants an order of certiorari to quash the ministry’s decision to confiscate the CDs, an order of mandamus to direct the ministry to return the CDs to her and a declaration that she has the legitimate expectation to exercise her right to possess, use and import publications containing the word “Allah”.

Alizatul made the order in chambers after hearing submissions from her counsel, Annou Xavier and Henry Teh, and senior federal counsel Suzanna Atan, representing the ministry and the government who were named as respondents.

On May 11 last year, the ministry seized the CDs under Section 9 (1) of the Printing Presses And Publications Act 1984 when Jill Ireland, a clerk, disembarked at the Low Cost Carrier Terminal (LCCT) in Sepang.

The CDs containing titles including “Cara Menggunakan Kunci Kerajaan Allah, Cara Hidup Dalam Kerajaan Allah and Ibadah Yang Benar Dalam Kerajaan Allah” were brought in from Indonesia.

Jill, a Sarawakian native and a Christian, claimed that she used the word “Allah” in her prayers, worship and religious education. She claimed that she used both Bahasa Malaysia and the Bahasa Indonesia ALKITAB which uses the word “Allah”.

She claimed that she received a letter dated July 7 last year from the ministry outlining the reasons for the confiscation, including that it was a threat to security, that it used prohibited words and that it was a breach of religious guidelines. – Bernama

People can criticise Rulers, says Asri

By Shannon Teoh of Malaysian Insider

LAMPETER (Wales), May 2 — Regardless of the state of the monarchy in Malaysia, a society that wants to move forward should shed medieval and feudal traditions, said former Perlis mufti Mohamad Asri Zainul Abidin.

"Citizens should have the right to criticise the Rulers. In Islam, there is no such thing as any person who is above criticism," he told The Malaysian Insider when asked about the issue of derhaka, or betrayal, that has become a point of contention amongst Muslims in the country.

The issue of derhaka came into prominence in February after Sultan Azlan Shah refused to dissolve the Perak assembly upon the request of the then Mentri Besar Datuk Seri Nizar Jamaluddin.

The Sultan of Perak later appointed Datuk Seri Zambry Abdul Kadir as mentri besar after installing Barisan Nasional as the state government. Certain quarters, especially BN, have tried to convince the public, especially the Malays, that criticising or disputing the decisions of the Rulers was tantamount to treason.

DAP chairman Karpal Singh, having stated that the Sultan could be sued along with the new BN state government, is now facing a sedition trial.

The maverick Islamic scholar, who has a strong following among young Muslims in Malaysia, said that the idea of being Malay and Muslim should be decoupled and addressed separately.

Speaking at his home in Lampeter, he disagreed with the conventional understanding that Malays have been Islamised but instead that they have "meMelayukan (to influence with Malay) Islam."

Asri, who was mufti for two years before quitting the position to move to Wales last December to research on Islam, was no stranger to controversial statements in his time as mufti.

He became an icon for progressive Muslim voices for his stand against the propensity of religious authorities to conduct raids on Muslim couples engaged in khalwat, or close proximity, and has stated that non-Muslims had a right to use the word "Allah".

Asri said that Malays had to stop equating Islam with the Malays."If Malays want to defend their rights, go ahead based on Bumiputera rights or whatever. But you cannot say Islam does not defend you because you are Chinese or Indian. Islam was not given just to the Malays.

"Do not in your efforts to defend Malay rights relate it to Islam. Islam was not sent down by God to protect Malays but all of humanity," he explained, saying that such moves in the past had caused non-Malays to be fearful of the religion as it appeared to be intent on removing their culture.

During the interview, Asri expressed his consternation over ideas that have taken root in Malaysia under the guise of Islamic principles.

"Sometimes there are terms which we cannot understand. Daulat (sovereignty) for example. What is the meaning of daulat? Does this mean that if you criticise a Ruler, then you will be cursed by God? This is not in Islam," he said.