From: gewong@mtholyoke.edu (= G e r m a i n =)
Subject: M'sian News..
Organization: Mount Holyoke College
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1992 05:57:04 GMT



Here are some news snippets... Thought some of you may be interested.
:)



	
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	More like Kelantan's newsbrief :-)
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	Subject:      Kelantan Plan Disputed
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	    Reuter, Kuala Lumpur, April 3 - A controversial plan by Malaysia's
	Kelantan state to implement strict Islamic law needs Kuala Lumpur's
	approval, a federal deputy minister said on Friday.
	    "Capital punishment as prescribed in the Hudud laws comes under the
	jurisdiction of the federal constitution," Abdul Hamid Othman, deputy
	minister in the prime minister's department in charge of Islamic
	affairs, was quoted as saying by the national Bernama news agency.
	    Abdul Hamid said attempts to introduce Hudud laws had failed in
	Islamic nations such as Sudan and Pakistan.
	    "These laws failed because the people were not willing to accept
	them," he said.
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	Subject:      The Sultan's Car
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	    Reuter, Kota Bharu, K.T. Arasu, April 3 - A row between a sultan and
	the Malaysian government over his new Italian sports car has sparked
	debate about the rights of the nine hereditary state rulers, who are
	constitutionally above the law.
	    Sultan Ismail Petra, ruler of Kelantan state, last month drove his
	imported Lamborghini Diablo away from a customs area without paying 2.1
	million ringgit ($813,950) in customs duties.
	    "The law must be respected. And we will...make sure the process
	takes place," said Finance Minister Anwar Ibrahim, the most vocal
	minister on the issue.
	    Police say they will neither assist or stop customs officers trying
	to enter the sultan's palaces. But Kelantan officials say the sultan
	will not surrender the car or pay the duties.
	    "The sultan will not surrender the car or pay the duties as he had
	obtained the Kelantan state government's approval to buy the car with
	his own money," Fuad Hassan, the ruler's private secretary, said on
	Friday.
	    "The palaces belonging to Sultan Ismail Petra are protected areas
	and out of bounds to customs officers," he told Reuters in Kota Bharu,
	capital of the state which is controlled by the opposition party.
	    Anwar says the sultan must pay duties as he had exceeded his
	entitlement of seven duty-free luxury cars. Palace officials say
	previous requests for exemption had always been granted and the
	government is now harassing the sultan.
	    "If they think they can use this issue to return UMNO to power they
	are wrong," private secretary Fuad said, adding that the publicity
	against the sultan had angered Kelantanese.
	    Analysts say the car issue could backfire on UMNO and further
	alienate Kelantan from Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad's ruling coalition.
	
	
	

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	Subject:      Andy Mutang Flees Malaysia
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	Forwarded from EcoNet rainforest.timber conference:
	Topic 228'ANDY' MUTANG FLEES MALAYSIA
	gn:pandersonRainforest Tropical Timber Campaign12:53 pm  Apr  2, 1992
	
	'ANDY' MUTANG FLEES MALAYSIA UNDER THREAT OF ARREST
	
	Terry Gould
	
	SARAWAK, Malaysia, Mar.30 (ENS) - Anderson Mutang, 35, head of the
	Sarawak Indigenous Peoples' Alliance, fled Malaysia Friday after
	learning that the Sarawak government was planning to arrest and
	charge him with "criminal intimidation and abettment of criminal
	intimidation".
	
	Antalai Sawing, Mutang's lawyer, said that "fear that Mutang will
	urge the Penan people to set up new blockades to stop the logging
	of their ancestral homeland," prompted the government's pending
	charges.
	
	Speaking from his secret santuary, Mutang said he would remain in
	hiding until he determined how the government would proceed
	against him. "I suffered much mental torture when I was in prison
	last year and I do not wish to go through that experience again."
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	Subject:      Kelantan Islamic Laws
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	    Reuter, Kota Bahru, K.R. Arasu, April 2 - Malaysia's Kelantan state
	plans to implement Islamic laws that prescribe stoning, whipping and
	amputation of hands and feet.
	    "We are determined to implement the Hudud laws," Nik Abdul Aziz Nik
	Mat, chief minister of Kelantan and leader of the opposition
	fundamentalist Parti Islam Se-Malaysia (PAS), told Reuters.
	    Islam is the official religion of Malaysia, a multi-racial country
	of 18 million people, but the country has had secular laws since
	independence from Britain in 1957.
	    Since taking power, Nik Aziz, a soft-spoken Islamic religious
	teacher fluent in Arabic and Urdu, has tried to impose Islamic practices.
	    Gambling has been banned. The government also forbids the sale of
	alcohol to Moslems and bars female Chinese hairdressers from attending
	to Moslem clients, Nik Aziz said.
	    He said the Hudud laws would apply to both Moslems and non-Moslems
	in Kelantan.  He declined to say when the laws would be enforced.
	    The Hudud laws are a legal code that makes convictions for adultery,
	theft, renunciation of Islam and drinking of alcohol automatically
	punishable under Islamic or shariah law.
	    Stoning, whipping and amputation of the hand or foot are punishments
	prescribed under the code.
	    "If a thief is caught, his hand will be amputated," Nik Aziz said.
	"The punishment is aimed at preventing a crime from taking place rather
	than penalising the criminal."
	    He added: "If a drug trafficker is caught, he will only lose his
	hand and not his head as prescribed by the country's secular laws."
	Malaysia has hanged about 100 drug traffickers, including several
	foreigners, under its tough anti-drug laws.
	    Nik Aziz, popularly known in Kelantan as Tok Guru or teacher, said
	the Hudud laws would be applied evenly to all Kelantanese, including
	ethnic Chinese.
	    "I am sure a Chinese who was robbed would want the thief's hand to
	be amputated," he said, when asked if non-Moslems would support the
	legal code.
	    "The Hudud laws will be like wearing crash helmets," he said.
	"Initially, there will be some discomfort but after some use, the wearer
	will become used to it."
	    If the Hudud laws are found to be incompatible with the federal
	constitution, the state government would meet federal officials to sort
	things out, Nik Aziz said.
	    "But from what we understand, the implementation of such laws are up
	to the state government," he said.
	
	
	

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