RCI on illegal immigrants in Sabah – reflections

by Tan Sri Simon Sipaun

Proham Chairman

More than 20 years ago when I was still a civil servant, a gentleman came to see me. At the time he had just retired. He was a Sabahan and the substantive holder of the post of Director of the National Registration Department in Sabah. However he was never given the opportunity to function as a director. Instead he was posted to Semenanjung. He was neither a Malay nor a Muslim. He told me that genuine identity cards were prepared in the headquarters and brought to Sabah to be given  to Muslim illegal immigrants. There was a special unit to handle this.

It is people like him who should be of interest to the on-going RCI in its effort to establish the real truth concerning the illegal immigrant issue. Genuine Sabahans are keen to know the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

It is appropriate that the RCI has requested ex-civil servants who had first-hand experience and knowledge from inside the relevant government departments and agencies to appear before it. I hope that people from Sabah who have done research, written books and articles on the issues and problems associated with illegal immigrants will also be invited to testify. Some of them have also been detained under the ISA. The information disclosed by witnesses so far is quite shocking but not surprising.

It is shocking because the government appears to be uncaring towards Malaysians living in Sabah preferring non-citizens over citizens. It is not surprising because it is what the people of Sabah had suspected all along. I note some of the ex-civil servants who had testified had been detained under the ISA yet they were only carrying out the directives of their political masters. Why were they detained unless, of course, they were made the unfortunate scapegoats?

The Minister of Home Affairs allegedly made a statement that the government has neither issued citizenship nor given voting rights to illegal immigrants in Sabah. He wanted proof from people who thought otherwise. On 1 October, 2011, the Deputy Home Minister Lee Chee Leong was reported to have denied that Sabah is a victim of ‘projek IC’ – a planned illegal immigrant population explosion engineered by the federal government for citizenships in exchange for votes to help the present government retain political power. YB Datuk Wilfred Bumburing took up the challenge of the Home Minister. YB Datuk Wilfred can relate the rest of the story as he knows best.

In the early 70s a lot of Vietnamese refugees landed in Semenanjung. They were confined to Pulau Bidong and within 2 years they were all moved to other countries. They were not Muslims. There appears to be double standards. One standard for the non-Muslim Vietnamese and one for the Muslim illegal immigrants in Sabah.

Malaysia is neither a state party to the UN Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees 1951 nor the 1967 Protocol. This being the case, all refugees in Malaysia are treated as illegal immigrants. They are subjected to penalties, detention and deportation under the Immigration Act 1959/63. This Act does not recognize refugees.

To indicate that the Federal Government is seen to be doing something to resolve the mother of all problems in Sabah, a Federal Task Force was established more than 25 years ago. But it took one year just to create the post of the head of the task force. Today, the task force is still in existence, but so is the problem, only bigger and more complicated.

I do not blame the illegal immigrants for being in Sabah. As human beings they are just looking for a better life. They have human rights like any Malaysian, no more no less. Human rights have no borders. However, I question the authorities for allowing them into Sabah without proper documents and move around in Sabah with impunity.

The rapidly increasing number of illegal immigrants is fast changing the economic, social, cultural and political landscape of the state. The reverse take-over has long started. It appears that the government has no intention of resolving the problems once and for all because government appears to be part of the problem rather than the solution. This is indicated by the terms of reference of the RCI which are by and large investigative in nature. The terms of reference should include identifying who are the real culprits followed by prosecution. I hope the RCI will interpret its mandate liberally.

Foreigners who were not qualified to be given citizenship status or given the right to vote illegally should have their citizenship revoked and deported to their country of origin. However, I fear that there will not be any political will to resolve the issue as it appears that it is part of the present government agenda. If not, this problem should not arise today.

The demand by genuine Sabahans for the formation of an RCI is not new. Much earlier 100,000 signatures had been collected requesting government to establish an RCI. It was followed by a long period of silence. It was not until 8 February,2012 that a decision was made for the formation of the RCI. At the time its terms of reference were not known. To arrive at a decision on its establishment without the terms of reference is like putting the cart before the horse.

Many people are of the view that if it was not for the impending 13th general election, it is very conceivable that the RCI would not have been established.

Malaysians living in Sabah feel very uneasy, threatened and insecure as the number of foreigners keeps increasing. You may remember the demonstrations that took place in March, 1986. My office at the time was over-looking the state mosque and I could see hundreds of them gathering outside the mosque before they took to the streets. The only Sabahans I noticed were a few prominent political leaders from Berjaya and Usno leading them.

The illegal immigrants were being made use of. I heard explosions all over town. A number of vehicles were either over-turned or burnt. It was very frightening. If my memory does not fail me, I think at least five people lost their lives.

Sabah people will not do this sort of thing. I could not believe that such incidents could take place in Sabah. It was sad and reflected very badly on the mindset and maturity of the leaders who had a hand in instigating the illegal immigrants to demonstrate and causing unnecessary fear among the peace loving public.

When kg. Ice-box in Tawau was burnt about 25 years ago 5000 people lost their houses. Of the 5000, only 500 were Malaysians. The late General Zulkifli told me he saw many of them coming out with M16 in their possession.

In 1970, Sarawak population was about 1 million. In 2004, 34 years later, it was about 2 million. In 1970, Sabah’s population was about 698,000. In 2004, it was estimated to be between 3.3 and 3.5 million. Based on Sarawak’s population growth rate Sabah’s population in 2004 should be around 1.4 million. There is a ‘surplus’ of 1.9 million.

As of June 2005 the district of Kinabatangan had a population of about 85,000 and only about 25,000 were Malaysians. As at 23 December, 2005 Sabah’s prison population was 3052. About 70% were foreigners. In KK we have a Filipino market. In kg. Boronuon behind Telipok town you can see thousands of them. Next to it is a completed housing development. The last time I saw the place, not a single unit has been taken up.

The Minister of Health was reported in the Daily Express in its 9 July, 2006 edition that hospitals in Sabah were receiving the most number of foreigners amounting to about 30%. According to the Minister, some of them used forged identity cards to gain admission and leave without paying. They also account for many cases of contagious and communicable diseases. It was reported in the Daily Express on 18 November, 2007 that 80% of the Likas maternity hospital beds were occupied by illegal immigrants.

It is ironical that whilst thousands of illegal immigrants have become citizens and voters, many locals especially those living in remote areas have no valid documents such as birth certificates and mykad. Technically they are stateless and yet they have never left the place of their birth. It has been said that what is impossible elsewhere is possible in Sabah. Some of you may recall a news report in 2002 regarding an immigration raid in Keningau. 34 foreigners were found to be in possession of mykad. At the time mykad had not yet been introduced in Sabah. The National Registration Department confirmed that the cards were indeed genuine. How could this happen without the complicity of the relevant authorities?

It is common knowledge that the electoral roll in Sabah is highly tainted. The new Sabah Times in its 9 June, 2001 edition reported that the High Court ordered former CM Datuk Yong Teck Lee to vacate his Likas seat because he won it in 1999 with the help of phantom voters. Justice Datuk Muhammad Kamil Awang said that the 1998 electoral roll for the constituency was illegal and the election held in March 1999 was null and void. The judge, amongst others, stated that the evidence adduced was tip of an iceberg and fantastic evidence.

The next logical step would have been to clean the electoral roll. Instead, Parliament amended the Election Act, whereby the electoral roll once gazetted cannot be challenged in any court of law. This is just not right. A clean electoral roll represents a universal democratic value. Immediate action should be taken to clean the tainted electoral roll before the 13th general election. If the Election Commission is unable to do it for some reasons it could be farmed out to a suitably qualified, experienced and independent organization.

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Views shared by Tan Sri Simon Sipaun at the DAP Public Forum on the RCI on Illegal Immigrants in Sabah held on Thursday 24 January, 2013, 2.30 pm – 4.30 pm at the Star City, Kota Kinabalu.

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75-Day Countdown to 13GE – Will UMNO/BN leaders who really believe that BN will regain two-thirds majority in 13GE stand up?

“BN parties say will regain two-thirds majority in Election 2013” is the lead story of The Malaysian Insider yesterday, reporting that BN leaders are confident BN  will win with a two-thirds parliamentary majority in 13GE.

However, only one UMNO leader, its propaganda chief, Datuk Ahmad Maslan, has gone on public record to declare that “BN will win two-thirds majority, better than 2008”.

No other UMNO/BN leader is quoted as having such confidence, including MCA vice-president Datuk Seri Chor Chee Heung, the MCA leader cited in the report.

Reason for Ahmad’s confidence?

Strangely enough, it is Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Najib Razak’s record to battle corruption and reduce crime, among other things.

It is no surprise that as the UMNO propaganda chief, Ahmad tried to decry the  latest opinion poll survey by the University of Malaya Centre of Democracy and Election (Umcedel) which showed that 78 per cent of those polled said that integrity and abuse of power by BN leaders would affect voters’ support in the 13GE.

But what beggars imagination is that the UMNO/BN leadership could feel proud and cocky about the Najib administration’s four-year record on combating corruption and reducing crime, when these two agendas are  among the biggest failures of Najib’s Government Transformation Programme (GTP) and the National Key Result Areas (NKRA) in the past four years, raising the question whether the Najib administration is rooted in reality or living in a make-believe world of its  own.

We just need to refer to one indicator on the anti-corruption front  –  the annual Transparency International (TI) Corruption Perception Index from 1995-2012 which showed that the four-year Najib premiership has the dubious record of being the most corrupt when compared to previous Prime Ministers in Malaysia.

Malaysia was ranked 23rd out of 41 countries by TI CPI in 1995, plunging to No. 37th placing in 2003 when Dr. Mahahatir Mohamad stepped down as Prime Minister, and which plunged further to 47th ranking when Abdullah Badawi resigned as Prime Minister in 2008.

In the four years of Najib’s premiership, Malaysia’s TI CPI plunged to even lower depths – No. 56 in 2009 and 2010, No. 60 in 2011 and No. 54 in 2012.

On the crime front, the tragic death of  six-year-old missing boy William Yau Zhen Zhong has highlighted one brutal fact about Malaysia, that apart from Umno/BN Ministers and leaders who are protected by security details, the country is just not safe, whether for citizens, tourists, investors or even children like William!

Before the political tsunami 2008, Hishammuddin stood out as one of the UMNO/BN leaders who suffered from the serious denial syndrome in refusing to admit that his various  keris-wielding episodes as UMNO Youth leader had alienated middle-ground Malaysians, resulting in his becoming a major cause of the UMNO/BN debacle in 2008.

Is Hishammuddin again to stand out as one of the UMNO/BN leaders in the current administration who suffered from the serious denial syndrome in refusing to admit that the ever-worsening crime rate and fear of crime in Malaysia in the past four years have raised doubts about the credibility and legitimacy for the continued rule of the Umno/BN government and again become a major cause of severe reverses for UMNO/BN in the 13GE?

It is really unbelievable  there are UMNO/BN leaders who dare to claim that with these dubious records in combating corruption and reducing crime, Umno/BN is poised to win an even greater victory than the 2008 general elections – even to regain two-thirds parliamentary majority.

Will UMNO/BN leaders who really believe that BN will regain two-thirds majority in 13GE stand up?

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An Inconsolable Sorrow

by Goh Keat Peng

My mind and heart is so weighed down by that tragic end of a life merely beginning and so harshly and cruelly snuffed out by wicked grown-ups. How can this be allowed to happen?

The sudden loss of life in unexpected circumstances is always tragic.  Especially when it happens to a precious child. In this case a mere six-year old boy. His only crime was to have left the relative safety of the family car to seek parental help for a younger crying sibling. JUST LIKE THAT.

Once more we as part of the human race is plunged into regrets, self-doubts, anguish, a gnawing inconsolable sorrow. Probably the most terrible of human feelings.

This is a time for SOUL-SEARCHING. For each of us. Where each of us is reminded of our own fears, our own sense of guilt, our own lapses, our own anxieties, our own self-examination…

Soul-searching is about myself. It is not an exercise involving finger-pointing at others. The finger is pointed inward to oneself. It is not other-directed. The onus is not placed on others but my own self.

Yes, there is a sympathy, empathy for those directly involved who are suffering indescribably. Even with genuine empathy, we who are looking on from the outside could scarcely comprehend the anguish those directly involved are undergoing and for how long more in time. May GOD’s Presence be upon them.

But soul-searching for myself because such tragedies brings home once again my own carelessness – in the house or on the road … When my action or non action, my concentration and focus lacked discipline and I took risks always against my better judgements which could have so easily resulted in disaster and ruin. Simply because I escaped damaging or killing myself or, worse still, others including my own loved ones… does not mean that I should repeat the very same lack of a presence of mind and, as it were, gambling with chance.

Soul-searching because we owe it especially to those who are unable to fend for themselves, care or look out for themselves. The poor. The disabled. Those who are simply just too young to do so for themselves.  GOD have mercy …

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Our Malaysia of the 70s

by Azly Rahman

Malaysiakini

Jan 25, 2013

With the state of racial and religious things entire in our beloved Malaysia today – rumours of a festival of Bible-burning, continuing humiliation of the Malaysian Indians especially, the death of critical sensibility in our public universities, the devastating revelations of the ‘Sabah IC-gate’ plot, the issue of ‘stateless Indians’ and the criminalisation of children not able to be schooled because they were born ‘stateless’ and a host of other issues Malaysian-ly unbecoming.

I have decided to travel down the path of nostalgia. I am quite sure many of you reading this column would agree that the late sixties and early seventies presented a good frame of reference of what it means to be Malaysian and what ‘national identity’ could be about. Names upon names came back to me as I conjure fond memories.

There was a certain kind of magic, innocence, and sincerity to foster a Malaysian identity, back then. It didn’t matter what race you were one could love to one’s heart’s content folks like these: P Ramlee, AR Tompel, Aziz Sattar, Saloma, Siput Sarawak, Ayappan, Lim Goh Poh, Andre Goh, Kartina Dahari, Orchid Abdullah, soccer players like V Arumugam the ‘Spider Man’, Soh Chin Aun ‘The Towkay’, Shaharuddin Abdullah the cool guy, Mokhtar Dahari ‘Super Mokh’, Santokh Singh, and many other great names that helped make Malaysian Malaysia proud.

One could laugh at the comedian-ventriloquist Jamali Shadat’s jokes, remember names such a V Sambanthan, Khir Johari, the great statesman Dr Ismail Abdul Rahman, Tan Siew Sin, Temenggung Jugah (the man with a really cool haircut I so wanted one… ), Aishah Ghani, and of course the reluctant but down-to-earth and benevolent multiculturalist-statesman Tunku Abdul Rahman (right) with his famous uncontrollable blurting of Malay curse words and his philosophy of “oil and water can never mix”. A simple, yet profound life was back then…

Those were the days before today… when hell is breaking loose. What happened to the ethos of that genre, I wonder.

Growing up in the early 70s, different words to describe reality, practices, and possibilities were dancing happily around me.

Perhaps those street names tune us to calmness… Jalan/Lorong Aman, Sentosa, Bahagia, Rahmat, Syukur, Ne’mat, and Merdeka…

All these shaped the child’s mind, such as that of mine growing up with a fascination of names, as if living is about being taught names and being able to “read the self and the word” in order to be liberated.

There were also words related to spirituality; words such as ‘sembah-Hyang’, marhaban, berzanji, kenduri, berkhatan, and bersugi gigi…

There were also cool words related to Malay magic such as jampi serapah, tangkal, kemenyan, dukun, pawang, and of course the “mambang laut-mambang darat-mambang udara” trinity/trio”…

Smooth-sailing seventies

Back in the day of the smooth-sailing seventies people were happy wearing what ought to be simple fashion and accessories… kebaya, baju kurong (not a straitjacket mind you), baju Melayu Telok Blangah, terompah, selipar chapal, selipar Jepun… manik koran, and all kinds of Malay, Chinese, and Indian ‘bling bling’ to adorn oneself with cultural niceties

Growing up in the kampong, I was not attuned to hearing totally foreign words, imported from elsewhere to denote and connote the self, spirituality, and salvation, and “saving the soul of others”; words such as solat, dakwah, ushrah, tarbiyyah jihad, muzakarah, jubah, serban, hijab, purdah, burqah, niqab, Arqam, tabligh, Ayatollah, muktamaar, buah tamar, or even Daulah Islamiyah…

Not that I knew or had even heard of… until the beginning of the eighties when these words like Karl Marx would became technologies of the “body, mind, and spirit” that changed the social relations of production and the ideological landscape of the country and the consciousness of a segment of Malay people…

And  I never heard anyone wanting to burn the Bible nor shout “Allahu Akbar” (God is great) when scoring goals in a friendly kampong football match.

And the beauty of living back in the day was how the self was constructed out of the early introduction to pluralism/ multiculturalism such that in me, every time the Chinese spirit of Bruce Lee possesses me, I could just go out and beat up my best friend Fook Shiang for example. We could then walk to town and overdose on the Indian food tosei and capati. Along the way we would stop by breezy Lido beach to grab a bite of the Javanesse soul food tauhu (tofu) sumbat.

Next, we could stop by at our teacher’s house and listen to his stories of Malay spiritual powers and magic called ‘Ilmu Budi Suci’ where the energy within possibly called the ‘chi’ can be harnessed so that one could kick like Bruce Lee without even touching your enemy!

Then, back in the day, we could go home after that to watch Joe Bugner got punched out into outer space by the ‘Black Superman’ named Muhammad Ali. I could still remember the words of the announcer … “Annnddd in thissss corneerrr… weighing 220 pounds… from Louisville Kentucky… the undisputed world champion… Moooo hammaaaad… Aaaa Liiii… Aaaa Liiiii… Aaaa Liiii…” to the sounds of the audience gone berserk.

I could go on and one with this nostalgic; a trip down memory lane of the seventies especially, just by recalling words and words that were synonymous with a world that was about to enter globalisation but was dealing with a strange brew of modernisation and uneven development – a Malaysia before Mahathirism.

That was true multiculturalism without any strand of today’s idiocy. That was our Malaysia with a lot of sense and sensibility.

DR AZLY RAHMAN, who was born in Singapore and grew up in Johor Baru, holds a Columbia University (New York) doctorate in International Education Development and Master’s degrees in the fields of Education, International Affairs, Peace Studies and Communication. He has taught more than 40 courses in six different departments and has written more than 300 analyses on Malaysia. His teaching experience spans Malaysia and the United States, over a wide range of subjects from elementary to graduate education. He currently resides in the United States.

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74-Day Countdown to 13GE –  Fuad Mohamad should be sacked as JASA director-general and the entire department dissolved

Late last night, I tweeted:
“Workers Party Lee Li Lan wins Punggol East by-election in Singapore with impressive 3182-vote majority against PAP. Najib more nervous about 13GE.”

It is the height of irony that with the winds of change blowing strong and hard in the region,  resulting in  the Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Najib Razak becoming  more nervous than ever about the 13th general elections, a government agency has been misusing its position and abusing public funds by going around the country to spread the  word that Barisan Nasional has the ability to obtain a two-thirds majority in the 13GE.

This was revealed by none other than Bernama in its report yesterday that the director-general of the Department of Special Affairs (Jasa) of the Ministry of Information, Fuad Hassan, in a question from a participant in the Johore Social Media Partner gathering at the Johore International Convention Centre in Johor Baru yesterday said:

“God willing…BN could obtain a two-thirds victory in the upcoming general election if we continue to work hard and strive to achieve what was targeted.”

Fuad said to garner two-thirds majority, BN needs to draw at least 30 per cent votes from the Chinese voters and respectively 65 per cent from the Malay and Indian voters, nationwide.

Fuad expressed confidence that the Malay support for BN in Johor could exceed 80 percent while support from Indian voters has also recovered fully from the fall in the 2008 elections and so too is the support from the Chinese community.

Fuad is entitled as a private Malaysian citizen to believe and to work towards the objective of BN recapturing two-thirds parliamentary majority in the 13GE, but he has no business to lead an entire government department, Jasa, paid from public funds, to campaign for UMNO/BN.

This is a gross abuse of public funds and misuse of government facilities, government malpractices which  have become more and more blatant,  flagrant and rampant after 55 years of UMNO/BN rule.

The first generation of Merdeka leaders led by Bapa Malaysia  Tunku Abdul Rahman were very conscious of the important distinctions separating the government, the political party in power and private personal capacities, which was an important reason why corruption and abuse of power were kept under firm check in the early years of Merdeka unlike in the past three decades when  abuse of power and misuse of public funds virtually run riot as  all the checks and balances were dismantled and destroyed one by one.

This was the reason why Bapa Malaysia, Tengku Abdul Rahman resigned as Prime Minister in April 1959, when he felt that he had to go round the country to consolidate national support for the Alliance before the 1959 general election, in the face of a formidable challenge from the Opposition.

Tengku stepped down temporarily as Prime Minister between April to August 1959 so that he would not be accused of abusing his powers and position as Prime Minister when he led the campaign for public support for Alliance, resuming the Prime Minister’s post after the Alliance won the 1959 general election.

Tunku’s action would be completely unthinkable today when there is even full departments and entire Ministries devoted to one objective – abuse their powers and public funds in a blatant and unashamed campaign for votes for UMNO/BN for the 13GE.

Fuad Hassan should be sacked as director-general of Jasa, because he had grossly abused his powers and position as a public servant as well as misused public funds.

Alternatively, Fuad Hassan should resign from the civil service and the whole Department of Special Affairs in the Information Ministry dissolved, as Fuad should join UMNO as a special officer to promote social media reach-out for UMNO/BN in the run-up to the 13GE, paid from party funds and not from public coffers for such a blatant political party objective.

It is clear that Fuad Hassan and Jasa are only tip of the iceberg in the blatant misuse of government machinery and abuse of public funds to serve the personal and party objectives of UMNO/BN leaders – another reason why there must be UBAH in the 13GE for a systemic end to such deep-rooted misuses of government power and abuse of public funds, which are the root causes of the rampant corruption and abuses of power in the country today.

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Fare Thee Well O Little One!

By Martin Jalleh

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No one is spared from Kee Thuan Chye’s pen

by Daniel Anthony

Malaysiakini

Jan 26, 2013

If there is one Malaysian who can smell bullshit from a mile away, it’s him. In his latest collection of essays Ask For No Bullshit, Get Some More!, Kee Thuan Chye leaves no stone unturned.

From behind the scenes of Bersih 2.0 to the speculations of the 13th general elections, every scandal and issue in the local news has a place in this book.

Just like his previous book
No More Bullshit, Please, We’re All Malaysians
, Kee  has certainly made a name for being able to boil the tangled mess of legal jargon and deceptive semantics down to a simple English that everyone can swallow.

Kee scratches the surface of these major issues and then pulls you into the deep side to reveal all the details you never knew.

His writing unravels the stories spun by the mainstream media and lays every thread on the table, leaving you to draw your own conclusion.

The article
Was Shahrizat’s Act Really A Sacrifice
blew apart what the mainstream media had twisted.

He revealed how a conspiracy of events that lead to a simple act watering down the inevitable was spun into a Kamikaze stunt, or in his words, “she merely chose to relinquish her position just a little ahead of April 8, when her senatorship would expire”.

In with needle when necessary

Even the opposition is not safe from Thuan Chye’s meticulous eye. As biased as the title of the book may seem, this is definitely not one that should not be judged by its cover.

When he wrote
Why Hurt DAP by Fighting in Public
, he showed no hesitation or fear in criticising opposition strongmen Karpal Singh and P Ramasamy for their skirmish that went public, saying that “if it (the quarrel) can’t stop, at least don’t bring it out in the open”.

Kee has a comical side as well. In this book he has included excerpts from plays he has written and staged.

Each of these passages further tenderise his writing and some even can make you laugh out loud.

He even put himself into the shoes of a cabinet minister and tells the satirical tale of life in the federal office with
Lament of a  stressed-out Minister
with lines like “but we’re not always liars… wait! That didn’t come out right. We don’t lie”.

He also played on Mahathir’s behaviour in court during the VK Lingam scandal with Cut the old man some slack!”

How can he be expected to remember so many things in the 22 years of his premiership?” It is sure to bring a smile to your face.

Purgative for ridding brainwashing

Kee penned narratives about his experience in the Bersih rallies from the past with great expression.

Seasoned by tear gas and  chemical-laced water, the first hand narratives written serve as a testament to what hundreds and thousands of Malaysians went through in the fight or free and fair elections.

He describes how the festive atmosphere and “strong sense of camaraderie” among demonstrators were ripped apart by the FRU with their brutality and went on to describe the overkill in detail.

However, as much as this book is simple enough for everyone to understand, it may not sit eell with everyone. There is massive shock value for the general reader.

Should one who is brainwashed by the mainstream media pick it up, it would be a massive eye-opener.

It may even be too much to handle especially for the politically myopic. An open mind is necessary to comprehend
Ask For No Bullshit, Get Some More!

Thuan Chye does a good job of allowing the readers to make their own judgment. However, how many readers are ready to make the right decisions?

Ask For No Bullshit, Get Some More!
is exactly the type of literature that Malaysia needs right now. It should be the prescribed remedy for the brainwashing we have received from the mainstream media.

Kee has done his job with pointing out where the dirt is. It’s now up to the rakyat to clean it up.

It is now our turn to clean up this mess together in the big gotong-royong that is the 13th general election.

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73-Day Countdown to 13GE – Is Sabah RCI into illegal immigrants going to be “an exercise in futility” as it is intended to  whitewash and suppress the truth?

With the Sabah Royal Commission of Inquiry (RCI) into illegal immigrants beginning its second week of public hearings tomorrow, the question posed by the former Kuala Lumpur CID chief Datuk Mat Zain Ibrahim deserves attention – whether the RCI  would prove to be “an exercise in futility” as it is merely intended as a whitewash and a “sandiwara” by the Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak and the Attorney-General Tan Sri Gani Patail to suppress the truth in the “citizenship-for-votes” scandals in the Land Below the Wind?

None of the RCI’s eight terms of reference is directed to identity those responsible for the treacherous acts against the country or for the RCI to propose any action to be taken on those responsible.

So far, there has no response to Mat Zain’s call on the Inspector-General of Police  to open investigation papers following the revelations in the RCI that the late Megat Junid Megat Ayob and Abdul Aziz Shamsuddin were involved in Ops Durian Buruk, as they involved betrayal and acts of treason of the highest order.

Citing his own case in June 2000, when he was heading the KL CID, Mat Zain said the police initiated investigations against  the Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Dr. Mahathir immediately after Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim lodged a report on the day the former director-general of the Anti-Corruption Agency, Shafee Yahaya, gave his evidence during a civil trial, citing the then PM for abuse of power for closing its probe on former Economic Planning Unit director-general Ali Abul Hassan.

Mat Zain said: “What I intend to emphasise here is that police investigations commenced immediately in that instance, without having to wait for the trial to be over or for a decision to be made by the court.

“Similarly, in the revelations made during the current Sabah RCI, the IGP need not wait for any clearance from anybody to investigate the matter.

“In fact, he should have simultaneously announced what the police intend to do once the information was made public.”

Mat Zain  said: “Now that former Sabah National Registration Department director, Ramli Kamaruddin and former Tamparuli NRD chief Yakup Damsah have implicated the late Megat Junid and Abdul Aziz, both known as Dr Mahathir Mohamad’s right-hand men then, and also the revelation of Ops Durian Buruk between 1992-1995 by Mohd Nasir Sugip, police must commence full scale investigations.

‘The police need not wait for the RCI to be over or for the RCI report to be completed. The police need not wait for anyone to lodge a police report before making their move. The police can and must act on their own motion. The revelations made are too devastating to stomach.

“These are cheating, betrayal and acts of treason of the highest order that have threatened national security and our sovereignty.”

Mat Zain posed the  question whether the lack of police action on the revelations of the Sabah RCI about the crimes of cheating, betrayal and treason is because of the joint intention by Najib and Gani to protect the real traitor involved in Ops Durian Buruk and the “citizenship-for-votes” scandals.

Mat Zain asked whether  the witnesses who had given “sensational testimonies” and who are actually accomplices of a crime had been given assurances and protection that action would not be taken against them in court or they would not have been brave enough to make the startling revelations without fear of being prosecuted or sent back to their countries.

Is Mat Zain right when he said: “What we are seeing is the beginning of a drama, with Gani playing his role like he did in the black-eye RCI, the VK Lingam RCI and Teoh Beng Hock RCI.”

Sabahans and Malaysians will be looking for answers to these questions by Mat Zain with the resumption of the Sabah RCI public hearings tomorrow.

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The Chief Constable and his warnings

 — Sakmongkol AK47

The Malaysian Insider

Jan 27, 2013

Walked the Thaipusam 2013 celebration with Muslim Malaysia. This is what I said”:

JAN 27 — Politicians and civil servants are saying a lot about religion nowadays, as there are competent interest5s

The Malaysian IGP or equivalent to UK’s Chief Constable has come out warning those who make fun of religion and racial issues. He says doing that can create hostilities and disunite the country.

We agree with him fully. He should use whatever powers he has to haul these people in without fear or favour.

So why are the police slow in taking up action against Ibrahim Ali?

This fellow has made seditious calls for Malaysian Muslims to seize and burn bibles.

He should have been called the instance he uttered those words. Are we waiting for some bonfires somewhere before action is taken? Then, representatives from the NGO which Ibrahim heads deny any knowledge of a planned bible burning event in Penang.

Having thrown the stones, you hide your incriminating hands.

Why has Penang been singled out? Penang which is headed by a non-Muslim, allocates more than RM60 million a year for Muslim affairs.

It has increased allowance for mosque and surau officials. Gave money to Quran reciters. And so on and so forth.

Perkasa as the self-appointed guardian of all things Malay, Islam and the King should congratulate Penang rather than turning Penang into a Bible burning venue.

If Perkasa wants to burn Bibles, it should choose Seremban. The chief minister there, a Malay and a Muslim can only manage to give RM10 million allocation. The same amount he asked one money changer to send over to UK.

But back to the IGP. Having declared it, he must translate his talk into action. Please arrest Chua Soi Lek for making fun and mocking Islam at his MCA General Assembly late last year.

The whole of Muslim Malaysia heard what he said. Soi Lek has made so many disparaging remarks about Islam. Perkasa was silent on the things Soi Lek said about Islam and in fact condoned and agreed to what Soi Lek said.

Maybe Ibrahim Ali needs to be arrested too because he has said that one of the reasons why Malays and Muslims lagged behind in business is because Islam is inhibitive.

Please also arrest Najib Tun Razak for being physically present in the event where Soi Lek uttered those words.

Later Najib also endorsed what Soi Lek said.

Please arrest Mahathir for saying that if Allah has not chosen Muhammad to be the messenger of Islam, He would have chosen someone else. That’s blasphemous.

Otherwise the public will interpret that Ismail Omar’s statements were only directed to those opposed to UMNO’s interpretation of Islam.

To Muslims please read Quran 5:57. After reading that, will they still want to support Najib? – as long as I am PM, we will not implement Islamic laws. Will they continue to believe what Mahathir says?

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72-Day Countdown to 13GE – Clean Politics of Truth and Justice versus Dirty Politics of Lies and Falsehoods

The relentless day-by-day approach of the 13th general elections has injected not only increasing  urgency but also sparked a growing sense of desperation among UMNO/BN propagandists because of the lack of credibility of their propaganda.

While government departments like Department of Special Affairs (Jasa) of the Ministry of Information are being roped in to pump the UMNO/BN propaganda line that UMNO/BN can win the 13GE with a two-thirds parliamentary majority, nobody – not even UMNO/BN leaders – really believe that such an outcome is on the cards in the 13GE.

Malaysian parliamentary democracy will be healthier and more mature if a two-thirds parliamentary majority becomes a virtually impossible goal for any coalition, for this will be the surest safeguard to ensure that there can be no repetition of the bane of  UMNO political hegemony imposing the “Listen, listen, listen” political culture on the other political parties in the Barisan Nasional.

In fact, the Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Najib Razak and the  top UMNO/BN leadership provide the best proof that they have no confidence that they could improve on their performance in the  2008 general elections, or the 13GE would have long been held already.

Instead Najib has now gone into the history books for being the longest Prime Minister in Malaysia without an elected mandate of his own.

But  Najib wants to avoid making another dubious history, of being the first Prime Minister to be voted out of office in the 13GE or even to be another Tun Abdullah of being forced out by Mahathir as Prime Minister after the 13GE because he could not improve on the UMNO/BN results in 2008 and regain two-thirds parliamentary majority.

The 13GE is going to be a toss up for the federal government in Putrajaya  could be won either by Barisan Nasional or Pakatan Rakyat, largely depending on what happens during the election campaign period.

The latest University of Malaya Centre for Democracy and Elections (Umcedel) polls conducted between Dec. 26 and Jan 11  is most interesting, as it shows that the difference between those who believe BN can beat PR in the 13GE has been  slashed from 25% in Dec. 2011 to 5% in January 2013.

Respondents who believe that Pakatan Rakyat can take Putrajaya in the 13GE have steadily climbed from 18% in December 2011 to 21% in April 2012 to 30% in Sept. 2012 and 37% in Jan 2013.

In contrast, respondents who believe that Barisan Nasional can win the 13GE had fluctuated from 43% in Dec. 2011 to 49% in April 2012 to 44% in Sept. 2012 and 42% in Jan 2013.

Respondents undecided or unsure who could win the 13GE fell from 39% in Dec. 2011 to 30 per cent in April 2012 and 26% in Sept 2012 and 21% in Jan 2013.

On this Umcedel scenario, all that is needed for PR to beat BN in the race to Putrajaya in the 13GE is to win over more than five per cent of the undecided or unsure respondents, which stands at 21% in January 2013.

Although Deputy Prime Minister, Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin said in Kuching yesterday that Barisan Nasional is confident of retaining “almost all” of the parliamentary seats in the 13GE, the fact is that Sarawak is one the three “deposit states” together with Sabah and Johore where BN could lose more than one-third of the parliamentary seats totaling  83 seats, i.e. PR winning at least 28 seats which would be the “magic number” to effect a change of Federal government in Putrajaya in the 13GE.

With the UMNO/BN leaders and propagandists more and more desperate in the run-up to the 13GE, they will increasingly resort to the politics of  lies and  falsehoods to incite distrust and hatred against the DAP and Pakatan Rakyat, turning the 13GE into a battle of Pakatan Rakyat’s Clean Politics of Truth and Justice  versus UMNO/BN’s Dirty Politics of Lies and Falsehoods.

The  recent instances of the politics of lies and falsehoods perpetrated by  UMNO/BN propagandists in the social media of facebooks, twitter, blogs and news portals  include the following:

•	the wicked lie and falsehood concocted from non-existent interviews/conversations alleging that Irene Chang, the wife of Sarawak DAP Chairman and MP for Sibu, Wong Ho Leng, had attacked the DAP leadership for being heartless over Ho Leng’s  undergoing medical treatment for a brain tumour;

•	the lie that I had blamed the government for the tragic death of six-year-old William Yau, when I tweeted: “6yr William Yau’s tragic death – apart from UMNO/BN Ministers/leaders, Msia just not safe even 4children like William!”. I did not accuse anyone for William’s death but pointed out the deplorable fact highlighted by William’s case, that Malaysia has become increasingly unsafe for Malaysians, tourists and investors because of the spike in crime and fear of crime – where only UMNO/BN Ministers/leaders are safe because they have security protection.

•	The lie that I had uttered anti-Malay slogans in the streets in Kuala Lumpur on May 11, 1969 causing the May 13 riots of 1969, when I had stated both in Parliament and outside that I was never in Kuala Lumpur whether on May 11, 12 or 13, 1969.

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Pengiraan Detik 73 Hari ke PRU13 – Adakah RCI terhadap pendatang tanpa izin akan menjadi “usaha sia-sia” memandangkan ia bertujuan mengaburkan dan menutup kebenaran?

Dengan bermulanya minggu kedua pendengaran awam Suruhanjaya Siasatan Diraja (RCI) menyiasat isu pendatang tanpa izin Sabah esok, soalan yang dikemukakan oleh bekas Ketua Jabatan Siasatan Jenayah Kuala Lumpur Datuk Mat Zain Ibrahim sepatutnya diberikan perhatian – adakah RCI berkenaan terbukti satu “usaha sia-sia” memandangkan ia bertujuan mengaburkan dan hanya sandiwara Perdana Menteri Datuk Seri Najib Razak dan Peguam Negara Tan Sri Gani Patail untuk menutup kebenaran tentang skandal “kewarganegaraan-untuk-undi” di negeri bawah bayu?

Tiada satu pun daripada lapan syarat RCI bertujuan mengenalpasti dalang di sebalik tindakan pengkhianatan terhadap negara  ataupun bagi RCI mencadangkan sebarang tindakan diambil terhadap mereka yang bertanggungjawab.

Setakat ini, tiada jawapan kepada tuntutan Mat Zain supaya Ketua Polis Negara membuka kertas siasatan berikutan pendedahan di dalam RCI bahawa Megat Junid Megat Ayob dan Abdul Aziz Shamsuddin terlibat di dalam Ops Durian Buruk, kerana mereka terlibat di dalam penderhakaan dan pengkhianatan peringkat tertinggi.

Memetik kesnya sendiri pada Jun tahun 2000, ketika beliau mengetuai Jabatan Siasatan Jenayah Kuala Lumpur, Mat Zain mengatakan pihak polis memulakan siasatan ke atas Perdana Menteri, Datuk Seri Dr. Mahathir sejurus selepas Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim membuat laporan  pada hari bekas ketua pengarah Biro Pencegahan Rasuah, Shafee Yahaya mengemukakan buktinya pada perbicaraan sivil, memetik penyalahgunaan kuasa PM ketika itu yang menutup siasatan terhadap bekas ketua pengarah Unit Perancangan Ekonomi Ali Abul Hassan.

Mat Zain berkata: “Apa yang saya mahu tekankan di sini adalah penyiasatan polis dilakukan dengan segera, tanpa perlu menunggu perbicaraan  tamat atau keputusan dibuat oleh mahkahmah.

“Begitu juga dengan pendedahan yang dibuat ketika RCI Sabah, KPN tidak perlu menunggu lampu hijau dari[ada sesiapa untuk menyiasat perkara itu.

“Malah, dia sepatutnya mengumumkan serentak apa yang polis akan lakukan sebaik sahaja maklumat itu didedahkan.”

Mat Zain berkata: “Kini bekas pengarah Jabatan Pendaftaran Sabah, Ramli Kamaruddin dan bekas ketua JPN Tamparuli Yakup Damsah telah membabitkan Megat Junid dan Abdul Aziz, kedua-duanya diketahui sebagai orang kanan Dr Mahathir Mohamad waktu itu, juga pendedahan Ops Durian Buruk antara 1992-1995 oleh Mohd Nasir Sugip, polis sepatutnya melakukan siasatan penuh.

“Pihak polis tidak perlu menunggu RCI tamat atau lengkapnya laporan RCI. Pihak polis tidak perlu menunggu sesiapa membuat sisatan polis sebelum bertindak. Pihak polis boleh dan perlu bertindak sendiri. Pendedahan yang dibuat terlalu dasyat untuk diterima.

“Ini merupakan penipuan, penderhakaan dan pengkhianatan peringkat tertinggi yang telah mengancam keselamatan dan kedaulatan negara.”

Mat Zain menyoal sama ada kurangnya tindakan polis terhadap pendedahan RCI Sabah berkenaan jenayah penipuan, penderhakaan dan pengkhianatan adalah kerana usahasama Najib dan Gani untuk melindungi pengkhianat sebenar di dalam Ops Durian Buruk dan skandal “kewarganegaraan-untuk-undi”.

Mat Zain bertanya sama ada saksi yang telah memberikan “testimoni sensasi” dan merupakan orang yang terlibat telah diberikan jaminan dan perlindungan bahawa tindakan tidak akan diambil ke atas mereka di mahkamah atau mereka tidak akan berani membuat pendedahan mengejutkan tanpa rasa khuatir akan didakwa atau di hantar pulang ke negara asal.

Adakah Mat Zin benar apabila beliau mengatakan: “Apa yang kita lihat adalah permulaan sandiwara dengan Gani memainkan peranan seperti mana dia lakukan di dalam RCI mata lebam, RCI VK Lingam dan RCI Teoh Beng Hock”

Rakyat Sabah dan Malaysia akan mencari jawapan bagi soalan-soalan Mat Zain dengan bersambungnya pendengaran awam RCI Sabah esok.

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Pengiraan Detik 74 Hari ke PRU13 – Fuad Mohamad sepatutnya dipecat dari jawatan Ketua Pengarah JASA dan keseluruhan jabatan hendaklah dibubarkan

Lewat malam semalam, saya menghantar twit: : “Workers Party Lee Li Lan wins Punggol East by-election in Singapore with impressive 3182-vote majority against PAP. Najib more nervous about 13GE.”

Merupakan sesuatu yang ironi apabila angin perubahan bertiup kencang di rantau ini, menyebabkan Perdana Menteri, Datuk Seri Najib Razak menjadi lebih gementar menghadapi pilihan raya umum ke-13,  sebuah agensi kerajaan telah menyalahgunakan dana awam dengan menjelajah seluruh negara untuk menyebarkan bahawa Barisan Nasional mempunyai kemampuan untuk mendapat dua pertiga majroriti di dalam PRU13.

Ini dilaporkan tidak lain tidak bukan oleh Bernama di dalam laporannya semalam bahawa Ketua Pengarah Jabatan Hal Ehwal Khas (JASA)  Kementerian Penerangan, Fuad Hassan di dalam satu soalan daripada perserta Perjumpaan Rakan Media Sosial Negeri Johor di Pusat Konvensyen Persada Antarabangsa Johor semalam berkata:

“InsyaAllah, BN berkemampuan mencapai kemenangan dua pertiga pada pilihan raya umum ini jika kita terus bekerja kuat dan berusaha mencapai apa yang disasarkan”

Fuad menjelaskan bagi memperoleh majoriti dua pertiga, BN perlu menarik sekurang-kurangnya 30 peratus undi daripada pengundi Cina dan masing-masing 65 peratus undi daripada pengundi Melayu dan India di seluruh negara.

Fuad menzahirkan keyakinan bahawa sokongan orang Melayu untuk BN di Johor mampu melebihi 80 peratus manakala sokongan orang India juga telah pulih sepenuhnya daripada kejatuhan pilihan raya 2008 dan begitu juga sokongan masyarakat Cina.

Fuad secara peribadinya sebagai rakyat Malaysia berhak untuk percaya dan berusaha bagi memenuhi matlamat BN untuk mendapatkan semula majorti dua pertiga dalam PRU13, tetapi bukanlah urusan beliau untuk mengetuai sebuah jabatan kerajaan, Jasa, yang didanai oleh dana awam, berkempen untuk UMNO/BN.

Ini merupakan penyalahgunaan dana awam dan kemudahan kerajaan, penyelewengan kerajaan yang semakin menjadi-jadi, terang-terangan dan berleluasa selepas 55 tahun pemerintahan UMN /BN.

Generasi pertama pemimpin Merdeka yang diketuai oleh Bapa Malaysia Tunku Abdul Rahman amat sedar kepentingan membezakan kerajaan, parti politik yang berkuasa dan kapasiti peribadi, yang menjadi sebab penting mengapa rasuah dan penyalahgunaan kuasa diperhatikan dengan tegas pada tahun-tahun awal Merdeka tidak seperti tiga dekad lalu apabila penyalahgunaan kuasa dan dana awam semakin melampau memandangkan semua system semak dan imbang dipecahkan dan dimusnahkan satu persatu.

Inilah puncanya mengapa Bapa Malaysia, Tengku Abdul Rahman meletakkan jawatan sebagai Perdana Menteri pada April 1959, apabila beliau merasakan yang beliau perlu ke serata negara untuk mengukuhkan sokongan terhadap Perikatan sebelum pilihan raya umum 1959, ketika berdepan dengan cabaran hebat daripada Oposisi.

Tengku meletakkan jawatan sebagai Perdana Menteri Malaysia untuk sementara waktu antara April hingga Ogos 1959 supaya beliau tidak akan dituduh menyalahgunakan kuasanya dan kedudukannya sebagai Perdana Menteri apabila mengetuai kempen untuk meraih sokongan umum kepada Perikatan, lalu menyambung semula jawatan Perdana Menteri selepas Perikatan memenangi pilihan raya umum 1959.

Tindakan Tunku tentunya tidak dapat dibayangkan hari ini apabila terdapatnya jabatan dan Kementerian yang matlamatnya hanya satu – menyalahgunakan kuasa dan dana awam  secara terang-terangan dan tidak tahu malu berkempen meraih undi untuk UMNO/BN bagi PRU13.

Fuad Hassan sepatutnya dipecat daripada jawatan Ketua Pengarah JASA, kerana beliau telah menyalahgunakan kuasa dan kedudukannya sebagai kakitangan awam dan juga menyalahgunakan dana awam.

Selain itu, Fuad Hassan sepatutnya meletakkan jawatan daripada perkhidmatan awam dan keseluruhan Jabatan Hal Ehwal Khas d bawah Kementerian Penerangan dibubarkan, kerana Fuad sepatutnya menyertai UMNO sebagai pegawai khas untuk mempromosikan capaian media sosial untuk UMNO/BN menjelangnya PRU13, dibayar oleh dana parti dan bukan dana awam kerana itu terang-terangan merupakan matlamat parti politik.

Adalah jelas bahawa Fuad Hassan dan Jasa hanyalah sebahagian daripada penyalahgunaan terang-terangan jentera awam dan penyalahgunaan dana awam untuk memenuhi matlamat dan objektif pemimpin UMNO/BN – satu lagi sebab mengapa perlunya UBAH di dalam PRU13 untuk mengakhiri secara sistematik penyalahgunaan kuasa kerajaan dan dana awam yang semakin menjadi-jadi, yang merupakan punca berleluasanya rasuah dan penyalahgunaan kuasa di dalam negara hari ini.

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Pengiraan Detik 75 Hari ke PRU13 – Adakah pemimpin UMNO/BN yang benar-benar percaya BN akan mendapat semula majoriti dua pertiga dalam PRU13 dapat membuktikannya?

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Parti BN mengatakan akan menang majoriti dua pertiga dalam Pilihan Raya 2013
” merupakan berita utrama The Malaysian Insider semalam, melaporkan bahawa pemimpin BN yakin BN akan menang majoriti dua pertiga parlimen dalam PRU13.

Bagaimanapun, hanya seorang pemimpin UMNO, ketua propagandanya, Datuk Ahmad Maslan, telah secara terbuka mengisytiharkan bahawa “BN akan menang majoriti dua pertiga, lebih baik daripada 2008”.

Tidak ada pemimpin BN yang dipetik kerana mempunyai keyakinan sedemikian, termasuklah naib presiden MCA Datuk Seri Chor Chee Heung, pemimpin MCA yang dipetik di dalam laporan itu.

Apakah alasan yang meyakinan Ahmad?

Aneh, rekod memerangi rasuah dan mengurangkan jenayah Perdana Menteri, Datuk Seri Najib Razak adalah antara alasannya.

Tidaklah mengejutkan apabila ketua propaganda UMNO, Ahmad cuba untuk menolak undian pandangan terbaru oleh Pusat Kajian Demokrasi dan Pilihan Raya Universiti Malaya (Umcedel) yang menunjukkan 78 peratus daripada undian menyatakan integriti dan penyalahgunaan kuasa oleh pemimpin BN akan memberikan kesan kepada sokongan pengundi dalam PRU13.

Akan tetapi apa yang tidak dapat dibayangkan adalah kepimpinan UMNO/BN mampu berasa bangga dan berlagak dengan rekod empat tahun pentadbiran Najib dalam memerangi rasuah dan mengurangkan jenayah, apabila kedua-dua agenda ini merupakan antara kegagalan besar  Program Transformasi Kerajaan dan Bidang Keberhasilan Utama Negara (NKRA)  sejak empat tahun lalu, membangkitkan persoalan sama ada pentadbiran Najib berpijak di bumi nyata atau hidup di dalam dunia mereka sendiri.

Kita cuma perlu merujuk kepada satu indikator pencegahan rasuah – laporan tahunan Indeks Persepsi Rasuah (CPI) Transparency International (TI) dari 1995-2012 yang menunjukkan bahwa empat tahun pemerintahan Najib mempunyai rekod buruk sebagai pemerintahan yang paling korup dibandingkan dengan Perdana Menteri Malaysia sebelumnya.

Malaysia berada pada kedudukan ke-23 daripada 41 negara oleh CPI TI pada tahun 1995, menjunam ke No. 37 pada 2003 sewaktu Dr. Mahahatir Mohamad meletakkan jawatan Perdana Menteri, dan terus menjunam ke kedudukan 47 apabila Abdullah Badawi meletakkan jawatan sebagai Perdana Menteri pada tahun 2008.

Dalam tempoh empat tahun Najib menjadi Perdana Menteri, CPI TI Malaysia menjunam lebih teruk –  No. 56 pada 2009 dan 2010, No. 60 pada 2011 dan No. 54 pada 2012.

Dari segi jenayah pula, kematian seorang kanak-kanak enam tahun yang hilang, William Yau Zhen Zhong telah menonjolkan hakikat yang menyakitkan tentang Malaysia, bahawa selain pemimpin dan para Menteri UMNO/BN yang terpelihara keselematan mereka, negara  ini tidak selamat, sama ada untuk warganya, pelancong, pelabur malah untuk kanak-kanak seperti William!

Sebelum tsunami politik 2008, Hishammuddin menonjol sebagai salah seorang pemimpin UMNO/BN yang menghidap sindrom penafian dalam menafikan yang pelbagai episode julang keris yang beliau lakukan sebagai Pemuda UMNO telah menjauhkan rakyat Malaysia pertengahan, menyebabkan beliau menjadi penyebab terbesar kejatuhan UMNO/BN pada 2008.

Adakah Hishammuddin sekali lagi akan menonjol sebagai pemimpin UMNO/BN dalam pentadbiran waktu ini yang menghidap sindrom penafian dalam cuba menafkan bahawa kadar jenayah yang semakin buruk dan kebimbangan terhadap jenayah di Malaysia sejak empat tahun lalu telah menimbulkan keraguan terhadap kewibawaan dan legitimasi kelansungan pemerintahan kerajaan UMNO/BN dan sekali lagi menjadi punca terbesar kejatuhan UMNO/BN di dalam PRU13?

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Pengiraan Detik 76 Hari ke PRU13 – Sokongan kepada pembersihan korupsi badan kehakiman sejak 25 tahun lalu, termasuklah membuka semula dakwaan 33 mukasurat pada 1996 oleh pemberi maklumat badan kehakiman pertama di Malaysia melibatkan 112 dakwaan terhadap 12 orang hakim

Saya menyokong sepenuhnya tuntutan tiga bekas hakim Mahkamah Rayuan supaya dibuka semula kes lama dakwaan rasuah terhadap para hakim, termasuklah 33 mukasurat aduan oleh pemberi maklumat badan kehakiman pertama di Malaysia pada 1996 melibatkan 112 dakwaan rasuah, penyalahgunaan kuasa dan salah laku terhadap 12 orang hakim, kerana saksi-saksi mungkin bersedia untuk tampil kedepan sekarang.

Trio Tan Sri V.C. George, Datuk Shaik Daud Ismail dan Datuk K.C. Vohrah adalah betul apabila mereka mengatakan bahawa orang ramai tidak berpuas hati kerana dakwaan sebelum ini tidak dilihat dengan cermat.

Malah, berikutan testimoni di dalam Suruhanjaya Siasatan Diraja terhadap kes video klip V.K Lingam (2007-2008), saya telah mengulangi di Parlimen apa yang telah saya bangkitkan di Parlimen pada 1996, menuntut sisatan menyeluruh ke atas 112 dakwaan korupsi, penyalahgunaan kuasa dan salah laku kehakiman terhadap 12 orang hakim yang telah dibuat oleh hakim Mahkamah Tinggi ketika itu, Dartuk Syed Ahmad Idid Syed Abdullah Idid.

Ini kerana testimoni di dalam Suruhanjaya Siasatan Diraja Klip Video Linggam berkenaan rasuah dan korupsi hakim, termasuklah Hakim Besar ketika itu, mengingatkan rakyat Malaysia, terutamanya pemimpin politik, Ahli Parlimen, para hakim dan peguam kepada ucapan pertengahan Mac yang terkenal, ketika Peguam Negara Tan Sri Mohtar Abdullah mengejutkan rakyat Malaysia dengan pendedahan “33 mukasurat surat layang” yang membuat 112 dakwaan rasuah, salahguna kuasa dan salah laku terhadap 12 hakim pada satu Persidangan Hakim di Kuching pada March 1996.

Mohtar secara terbuka mengeluarkan arahan kepada polis untuk memulakan siasatan bagi “mencungkil” dan “mengheret ke muka pengadilan” “konspirator”, “pengkhianat” dan “unsur-unsur khianat” yang cuba “mencemarkan nama baik badan kehakiman dan menumpaskan keadilan” di negara ini.

Empat bulan kemudian, Mohtar mengumumkan kes tersebut ditutup apabila beliau mendapati seorang hakim Mahkamah Tinggi merupakan orang di belakang 33 mukasurat surat layang terhadap badan kehakiman dan hakim itu telah pun meletakkan jawatan.

Hakim itu adalah Syed Ahmad Idid Syed Abdullah Idid, yang mana satu dekad kemudian secara terbuka mengumumkan dakwaan beliau tidak pernah disiasat secara menyeluruh, dan perkara itu telah disahkan oleh Peguam Negara Tan Sri Abu Talib yang mengeluh bahawa “sebaliknya, hakim yang menulis surat itu yang telah disiasat”.

Sudah tiba masanya keadilan mesti ditegakkan di dalam kes dakwaan Syed Ahmad Idid pada 1996.

Akan tetapi pembukaan semula kes lama dakwaan rasuah ke atas hakim-hakim itu tidak sepatutnya terhad kepada dakwaan Syed Ahmad Idid, tetapi sepatutnya melibatkan semua dakwaan rasuah dan salah laku kehakiman sejak pemecatan Tun Salleh Abas dan dua hakim Mahkamah Agung, Tan Sri Wan Suleiman Pawanteh dan Datuk George Seah pada 1988, termasuklah kes rasuah yang disebut bekas Ketua Hakim Negara  Tun Ahmad Fairuz Sheikh Abdul Halim, yang mengatakan secara terbuka pada March 2007 bahawa terdapat hakim yang korup tetapi tiada susulan terhadap pendedahan terbuka sedemikian baik dengan laporan polis atau penubuhan tribunal kehakiman terhadap hakim-hakim yang korup.

Seperti yang telah ditegaskan oleh George dengan tepat, tiada undang-undang yang menentukan had masa dalam pendakwaan jenayah maka dengan itu tiada sebab mengapa kes lama tidak boleh dibuka semula.

Masanya telah tiba untuk memulihkan kembali keyakinan awam ke atas kedaulatan undang-undang yang adil dan badan kehakiman yang benar-benar bebas di Malaysia dengan melancarkan pembersihan rasuah kehakiman sejak 25 tahun lalu, termasuklah membuka semula dakwaan 33 mukasurat pada 1996 oleh pemberi maklumat kehakiman pertama melibatkan 112 dakwaan ke atas 12 orang hakim.

Jika tiada kesungguhan politik di bawah pentadbiran masa ini untuk menegakkan keadilan kepada para hakim, sama ada yang sedang berkhidmat sekarang atau bekas-bekas hakim, ini adalah salah satu sebab mengapa masa telah tiba untuk perubahan dalam PRU13.

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Suaris Interview: The Future of Malays (Part I)

Interview with Suaris: The Future of Malays, Part 1.

[The original in Malay appeared in
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Introduction:

Dr. M. Bakri Musa’s perspective may appear alien to some readers, especially those less exposed to the Internet and the English language. It is their loss not to have ready access to his clear thinking and substantive ideas.

            Suaris.wordpress.com is taking this initiative in bringing to readers especially those versed only in Malay his commentaries. Born and raised in Negri Sembilan, Bakri represents the earlier generation of Bumiputras that had been given the opportunity for an education abroad. Yet he never forgets his roots as evidenced by his extensive writings and many books. Even though he resides in America, but through his books and essays we feel close to him.

            He recently released his latest book, Liberating the Malay Mind, published by ZI Publications.

            In this interview, Dr. Bakri Musa discusses a critical issue, the future of Malays in our country. We are at a critical juncture in many respects, from politics to economics, and from education specifically to social arenas generally. What is the future of our people in the decades ahead and how can we best prepare for that future?

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Suaris: How are you doctor? Hope that you and your wife are healthy and blessed by Allah!

MBM:
 Great! Healthy! Thank you and praise be to Allah!

Suaris: Doctor, you write frequently on the general unpreparedness of our people in meeting future challenges. In what way and how unprepared are we?

MBM:
 In my book, Towards A Competitive Malaysia, I put forth this proposition. The fate of a society hangs on four pillars: leadership, people, culture, and geography. Of the four, only one – geography – cannot be altered. Whether that society is blessed with abundant oil and its land fertile, those are the blessings of Allah. Lucky indeed are the inhabitants!

            However, no matter how bountiful the land is but if its leaders are corrupt and incompetent, people uneducated and unskilled, and culture wasteful and destructive, then eventually that society will decline. We have many ready examples, among them Brunei and the Arab states.

            On the other hand, if the geography is less forgiving, the land mountainous and covered with thick snow, climate cold such that crops could grow only for a few months a year, but if the quality of leadership and people is high, their culture progressive, that country will advance. An example is Switzerland.

            We are all aware of the importance of wise, efficient and trustworthy leaders not only in politics and the administration of the country (ministers and civil servants), but also in religion (muftis and ustads), society (sultans and rajas), schools (teachers and professors), and at home (parents and neighbors).

            The quality of our people (human capital) depends on two measures: health and education. If our citizens are unhealthy (drug addicts, afflicted with dengue or malaria), they will not be vigorous or diligent. And if our schools are rotten, then our young will not be skillful and productive.

            A citizen is either productive and contributor to or dependent and a drain on society. If we have more of the former, then our society will rapidly progress. Conversely, if we have more of the latter, we will quickly decline.

            By culture I mean the rules and institutions of that society, together with its norms and values. Consider institutions. Lacking effective and reliable agencies, considerable time and effort would be spent just to ensure that the house I am about to buy legitimately belongs to the seller. With trustworthy registry in place, I spend my time on things that really matter, like whether the house would meet my needs and the price worth it. Similarly when I deposit my money at the bank, sans effective regulatory bodies, I would not be assured that the manager would not abscond with my precious funds.

            As for the values of a society, if it honors its thieves, thugs and cheaters, that would serve as ready examples for the rest. Before long that society would be like the Mafia in Southern Italy.

            All these four elements – leadership, people, culture, and geography – interact with and in turn are being influenced by each other. Enlightened citizens will select or vote in only equally enlightened leaders; those voters will no tolerate the corrupt and incompetent. Likewise, wise leaders will formulate progressive education policies so the young will be skillful and productive.

            Wise leaders and citizens will together utilize and protect the environment to ensure sustainable development. Cancun, Mexico, for example, was in the 1950s a poor fishing village. The only “tourists” were American hippies seeking cheap ganja. Through wise leadership and well-trained citizens, Cancun is no longer that but an affluent and much sought tourist destination. Its previously poor fishermen now own sleek motor yachts taking rich Americans and Europeans out for sports fishing.

            Now examine our society with respect to those four pillars. What mark would we give ourselves for the quality of our leadership, people, culture, and environment?

            Take geography. We have beautiful beaches, the waters warm, skies blue, and the sun always shining. We ought to attract millions of European and Japanese tourists; we would beat Cancun hands down! But we do not. Why? Well, look at the garbage strewn all over, and even where there are public facilities like bathrooms, they are dirty.

            Whose fault? Leaders? Of course! Citizens? Yes, we too contribute. Culture? Further comment would be needless!

            In my
Towards A Competitive Malaysia
 I put forth ideas on how to secure good leaders, enhance the quality of our people, elevate the values of our culture, and protect and value our environment. There is nothing original in the ideas I put forth, they have been tried successfully elsewhere. We do not need to reinvent the wheel, merely learn from the experiences of others, emulate those who are successful and avoid the pitfalls of others less so.

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To be continued. Interview #2: Suaris: In a recent interview with Astro Awani, Dr. Mahathir said that Malays would be left behind unless given continued help. He referred to such help as crutches. Do you agree that Malays continue to need crutches? If so, for how long?

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Thank You, Tok Guru

By Martin Jalleh

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71-Day Countdown to 13GE – charade of Sabah RCI, Malaysia’s high-risk in defence corruption and worst-ever press freedom ranking proof of failures of Najib’s transformation slogans/policies and why country needs Federal government change in 13GE

Every day, Malaysians are provided new evidence of the failures of the transformation slogans and policies of the Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Najib Razak and why the country needs a change of federal government in the 13th General Elections around the corner.

Today, we need only refer to three current developments.

The first is the charade of the of Sabah Royal Commission of Inquiry (RCI)  into illegal immigrants entering into its second week of public hearings.

What have concerned Sabahans and Malaysians that the RCI would not be able to get to the bottom of the whole truth about the illegal legalization of illegal immigrants in Sabah causing a five-fold increase of the  state’s population from 600,000 in 1970 to the  current 3.3 million seem to have been justified, and this is best summed up by a Malaysiakini reader who commented:

“Now we have it. There will be 100 odd witnesses in the RCI who will claim and counter-claim until it is all so messed up that no further action will be taken. It is all a sandiwara (act).”

But the real flaw of the RCI is the gross omission in its eight terms of reference to identify those responsible for the treacherous acts against the country in the long-running “citizenship for votes” scandals in Sabah state – or to be specific, to probe and identity the masterminds of Project M and Project IC.

Unless and until the Sabah RCI is given an additional term of reference to specifically probe and identity the masterminds of Project M and Project IC  in Sabah, the Sabah RCI can only end up as a charade.

Is the Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Najib Razak, prepared to give the Sabah RCI a ninth term of reference to probe and identify the masterminds of Project M and Project IC and to recommend the actions to be taken against such acts of treason against the country?

Secondly, Malaysia’s ranking by a leading international transparency watchdog as having high corruption risk in its defence spending and operations, placing it in the same league with countries such as Bangladesh, Pakistan, China, Russia, Kazakhastan and Jordan.

In the Government Defence Anti-Corruption Index, the world’s first global analysis of corruption risk in defence establishments worldwide released by Transparency International UK yesterday, Malaysia scored D- in the band range of A to F.

This lowly ranking is a repudiation of Najib’s Government Transformation Programme (GTP) and National Key Result Areas (NKRA) programme which have combating corruption as one of the top priority agendas, as the new anti-corruption index is produced after a two-year study with country research done between July 2011 and November 2012 – which fall fully  smack into Najib’s GTP and NKRA programmes in the past four years.

Among Asean countries, Singapore and Thailand outperformed Malaysia, both scoring D+, while Indonesia and Philippines fell behind Malaysia in band E.

Each government was assessed in five main areas of possible defence corruption risks – political, financial, personnel, operations and procurement risks.

Malaysia scored the lowest in financial risks and operations risks, with 25 percent and 10 percent out of 100 percent respectively.

The country report on Malaysia said “Political corruption vulnerability is high, as there is no defence and security committee and parliament’s role in the sector is limited to approving a general, aggregated budget”.

Thirdly, Malaysia plunging to a historic low of No. 145 ranking in the latest 2013 World Press Freedom Index – the worst since the start of the annual index by  Reporters Without Border (RSF) in 2002.

Under the unflattering  heading of
“Cambodia and Malaysia: drift towards authoritarianism”
 for South-East Asia, RSF said Malaysia’s 2013 press freedom ranking  “presented a sorry record, falling 23 places to a position below the one it had in 2002”, as a result of “a campaign of repression by the government, illustrated by the crackdown on the Bersih 3.0 protest in April, and repeated censorship efforts, continue to undermine basic freedoms, in particular the right to information”.

QED –  why there must be a change of Federal Government in Putrajaya in the 13GE.

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Once a pushover, Pakatan sniffs power

By Dan Martin

AFP/FMT

January 30, 2013

Speculation is rife that Pakatan could win enough in the polls to lure ruling coalition defectors and form a government.

KUALA LUMPUR: After bloodying the government’s nose in 2008 elections, a more experienced and organised Malaysian opposition is eyeing the once-unthinkable: toppling one of the world’s longest-serving governments.

Malaysians vote soon with the formerly hapless opposition buoyed by a new track record of state-level government, signs of growing voter support, and what its leader Anwar Ibrahim calls a sense of history in the making.

“I am convinced, Inshallah (God willing), that we will win government,” Anwar told AFP, evoking the winds of change that powered the “Arab Spring” elsewhere in the Muslim world.

“Of course we call it a ‘Malaysian Spring’, but our method is elections (not uprisings).”

Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak is expected to call a fresh vote in weeks, pitting his Malay-dominated Barisan Nasional coalition against Anwar’s multi-ethnic opposition alliance Pakatan Rakyat.

The 57-year-old ruling bloc enjoys deep pockets, mainstream media control, an electoral system the opposition says is rigged, and a record of decades of economic growth under its authoritarian template.

Few expect the opposition to win the 112 parliamentary seats needed to take power. The three-party alliance won 82 seats in the 2008 polls, up from 21, stunning the BN with its biggest-ever setback.

But speculation is rife that Pakatan could win enough in the polls — which must be held by late June — to lure ruling coalition defectors and form a government.

“Before this year, many were in denial about Pakatan’s potential. Today, we see society beginning to accept that the possibility (of a BN defeat) is real,” said Wan Saiful Wan Jan, who runs the independent Malaysian think tank IDEAS.

The country’s stock market has trembled recently over the uncertainty as opinion polls suggest the vote will be tight. One recent survey put Najib and Anwar neck-and-neck as prime ministerial candidates.

In a Jan 12 show of force, the opposition held a rally that drew clsoe to 100,000 people.

“I think it’s very close, and the party that makes the least mistakes will be the party that wins,” said S Ambiga, , head of Bersih, an NGO coalition that has organised large public rallies for electoral reform.

Pakatan’s promise

Pakatan attacks the ruling coalition, and particularly its dominant partner Umno, as corrupt, repressive and lacking a long-term vision for Malaysia.

Anwar says Pakatan would end authoritarianism and free the media.

It would lure foreign investment by attacking rampant graft and reforming the system of preferences for Malays that is blamed for harming national econonomic competitiveness and stoking resentment among minority Chinese and Indians.

“The people are committed to reform. There is a legitimate expectation among the public for them to see that reforms do take place,” Anwar said.

Anwar, who was acquitted a year ago on sodomy charges he called a bogus Umno attempt to ruin him politically, has been integral to the opposition’s revival.

The former BN heir-apparent’s spectacular 1998 ouster in a power struggle with then-premier Dr Mahathir Mohamad gifted the opposition a charismatic leader with top government experience to rally around.

The loose alliance of 2008 is stronger today, having since agreed on a common manifesto, and has shown it can govern in four states won five years ago, the most ever in opposition hands. Malaysia has 13 states.

“Cooperation between the parties is much stronger than 2008. They have done more to prepare the ground for new voters,” said leading political pollster Ibrahim Suffian.

Concerns linger over Pakatan’s ability to govern nationally.

Besides Anwar’s multi-racial PKR, it includes PAS representing Muslim ethnic Malays, and the secular DAP dominated by ethnic Chinese.

PAS’s calls for an Islamic state are a source of alliance squabbling, but Anwar dismisses any concern, saying PAS realises the goal is a non-starter in the diverse nation.

Economists, meanwhile, warn that populist Pakatan promises such as free primary-to-university education could sink Malaysia into debt, while noting ever-larger public handouts by Najib’s government also posed a risk.

Najib took office in 2009 and has portrayed himself as a reformer but surveys suggest BN is still viewed as a corruption-plagued, status-quo force.

Eroding minority support, particularly Chinese, that hurt the coalition in 2008 appears to be accelerating, independent polls show, while first-time voters estimated to number up to three million are a question mark.

One top Umno official told AFP that party officials fear the coalition could lose 20 more seats — it now has 140 — raising the spectre of a Pakatan power play.

“All said, Najib still has the advantage, but an opposition victory is clearly possible,” said Bridget Welsh, a Southeast Asian politics expert at Singapore Management University.

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Pengiraan Detik 71 Hari ke PRU13 – Kepura-puraan RCI Sabah, risiko tinggi Malaysia dalam rasuah pertahanan dan kedudukan kebebasan akhbar paling buruk adalah bukti kegagalan slogan/dasar transformasi Najib dan mengapa negara perlu menukar kerajaan Persekutuan dalam PRU13

Setiap hari, rakyat Malaysia dihidangkan dengan bukti kegagalan slogan dan dasar transformasi Perdana Menteri, Datuk Seri Najib Razak dan mengapa Negara perlukan perubahan kerajaan persekutuan dalam Pilihan Raya Umum ke-13 yang semakin hampir.

Hari ini, kita perlu hanya merujuk kepada tiga perkembangan terkini.

Yang pertama adalah kepura-puraan Suruhanjaya Siasatan Diraja (RCI) Sabah terhadap pendatang tanpa izin yang memasuki minggu kedua pendengaran awamnya.

Apa yang menjadi kebimbangan rakyat Sabah dan Malaysia bahawa RCI itu tidak akan mampu menggali kebenaran hingga ke dasar tentang tindakan haram menghalalkan pendatang tanpa izin di Sabah yang menyebabkan peningkatan lima kali ganda penduduk negeri itu daripada 600,000 pada tahun 1970 kepada 3.3 juta kelihatan berasas, dan disimpulkan dengan baik oleh seorang pembaca Malaysiakini yang memberikan komen:

“Now we have it. There will be 100 odd witnesses in the RCI who will claim and counter-claim until it is all so messed up that no further action will be taken. It is all a sandiwara (act).”

Akan tetapi kecacatan sebenar RCI adalah lapan syarat yang ditetapkan tidak termasuk mengenalpasti siapa yang bertanggungjawab melakukan pengkhianatan terhadap negara di dalam skandal “kewarganegaraan untuk undi” di negeri Sabah – atau secara terperincinya, menyiasat dan mengenalpasti dalang Projek M dan Projek IC.

RCI Sabah akan berakhir dengan sia-sia melainkan dan sehinggalah RCI Sabah dimasukkan syarat tambahan untuk menyiasat dan mengenalpasti dalang Projek M dan Projek IC di Sabah.

Adakah Perdana Menteri, Datuk Seri Najib Razak, bersedia untuk memasukkan syarat kesembilan dalam RCI Sabah bagi menyiasat dan mengenalpasti dalang Projek M dan Projek IC dan mencadangkan tindakan yang perlu diambil terhadap perbuatan khianat ke atas negara itu?

Kedua, pemantau ketelusan antarabangsa yang terkemuka melaporkan Malaysia berada di kedudukan berisiko tinggi rasuah dalam perbelanjaan pertahanan dan operasinya, meletakkan Malaysia seiring dengan negara seperti Bangladesh, Pakistan, China, Russia, Kazakhstan dan Jordan.

Di dalam Indeks Anti-Rasuah Pertahanan Kerajaan, analisis global pertama terhadap risiko rasuah di dalam pertahanan seluruh dunia dikeluarkan oleh Transparency International UK semalam, Malaysia mendapat D- di dalam kumpulan antara A hingga F.

Kedudukan rendah ini membuktikan kegagalan Program Transformasi Kerajaan (GTP) dan Bidang Keberhasilan Utama Negara (NKRA) yang meletakkan antara keutamaan tertingginya memerangi rasuah, memandangkan indeks anti-rasuah terbaru yang terhasil selepas kajian selama dua tahun dengan kajian dilakukan antara Julai 2011 dan November 2012 – memberikan tamparan hebat kepada GTP dan NKRA Najib yang berlangsung sejak empat tahun lalu.

Di kalangan negara Asean, Singapura dan Thailang menewaskan pencapaian Malaysia, kedua-duanya mendapat D+, manakala Indonesia dan Filipina di belakang Malaysia dalam kumpulan E.

Setiap kerajaan dinilai dalam lima bidang berkemungkinan ada risiko rasuah pertahanan – politik, kewangan,  kakitangan, risiko operasi dan perolehan.

Malaysia memperoleh mata terendah di dalam risiko kewangan dan operasi, dengan 25 peratus dan 10 peratus daripada 100 peratus.

Laporan bahagian negara ke atas Malaysia menyebut “Kelemahan rasuah politik adalah tinggi, memandangkan tidak terdapatnya jawatankuasa pertahanan dan keselamatan dan peranan parlimen di dalam sektor itu pula terhadap pada sekadar meluluskan belanjawan agregat dan umum.

Ketiga, Malaysia menjunam ke kedudukan terendah dalam sejarah yakni No. 145 di dalam Indeks Kebebasan Akhbar 2013 – paling buruk sejak Reporters Without Border (RSF) memulakan indeks tahunan itu pada tahun 2002.

Di bawah tajuk yang tidak menarik iaitu “
Cambodia and Malaysia: drift towards authoritarianism
” bagi Asia Tenggara, RSF menyatakan kedudukan kebebasan akhbar Malaysia 2013 “mempamerkan rekod menyedihkan, jatuh 23 tempat ke kedudukan lebih rendah berbanding kedudukan yang diperoleh pada tahun 2002”, berpunca daripada “kempen menekan kerajaan, seperti yang digambarkan melalui tindakan keras terhadap protes Bersih 3.0 pada April, dan usaha penapisan, berterusan melemahkan kebebasan asas dalam hak untuk memperoleh maklumat”.

Menunjukkan – mengapa perlunya pertukaran Kerajaan Persekutuan di Putrajaya dalam PRU13.

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Pengiraan Detik 72 Hari ke PRU13 – Politik Bersih Kebenaran dan Keadilanlawan Politik Kotor Penipuan dan Pembohongan

Hari demi hari yang meresahkan menjelang pilihan raya umum ke-13 telah menyebabkan bukan sahaja perlunya tindakan segera tetapi juga rasa terdesak di kalangan propagandis UMNO/BN kerana kurangnya kewibawaan propaganda mereka.

Sementara jabatan kerajaan seperti Ketua Pengarah Jabatan Hal Ehwal Khas (JASA) Kementerian Penerangan dibawa masuk ke gelanggang untuk menyebarkan ayat-ayat propaganda bahawa UMNO/BN boleh memenangi PRU13 dengan majoriti dua pertiga, yang tiada siapa – tiada juga di kalangan pemimpin UMNO/BN- yang percaya akan keputusan begitu dalam PRU13.

Demokrasi berparlimen Malaysia akan lebih sihat dan matang sekiranya majoriti dua pertiga menjadi mustahil untuk mana-mana perikatan, kerana itu merupakan perisai untuk memastikan tidak akan berulangnya penguasaan  merosakkan politik UMNO yang mengenakan budaya politik “Listen, listen, listen” terhadap parti politik lain di dalam Barisan Nasional.

Malah, Perdana Menteri, Datuk Seri Najib Razak dan kepimpinan tertinggi UMNO/BN memberikan bukti terbaik bahawa mereka tidak yakin mereka akan memperbaiki pencapaian mereka dalam pilihan raya umum 2008, jika mereka yakin pastinya PRU13 sudah lama diadakan.

Sebaliknya Najib kini telah mencatat nama di dalam buku sejarah menjadi Perdana Menteri paling lama di Malaysia tanpa mandat pilihan raya sendiri.

Tetapi Najib mahu mengelakkan daripada mencipta satu lagi sejarah hitam, menjadi Perdana Menteri pertama yang diundi keluar daripada pejabatnya dalam PRU13 atau menjadi seperti Tun Abdullah yang ditendang keluar oleh Mahathir daripada jawatan Perdana Menteri selepas PRU13 kerana tidak dapat memperbaiki pencapaian UMNO/BN pada 2008 dan memperoleh majoriti dua pertiga.

PRU13 penentu nasib sama ada kerajaan persekutuan di Putrajaya akan dimenangi oleh  Barisan Nasional atau Pakatan Rakyat, amat-amat bergantung kepada apa yang terjadi sepanjang tempoh kempen pilihan raya.

Undian terbaru yang dilakukan Pusat Demokrasi dan Pilihan Raya Universiti Malaya (Umcedel) antara 26 Disember dan 11 Januari adalah yang paling menarik, kerana ia menunjukkan perbezaan antara mereka yang percaya BN boleh mengalahkan PR dalam PRU13 telah berkurangan daripada 25% pada Disember 2011 kepada 5% pada Januari 2013.

Responden yang percaya Pakatan Rakyat boleh menawan Putrajaya pada PRU13 telah meningkat dengan tetap dari 18% pada Disember 2011 kepada 21% pada April 2012 kepada 21% pada Januari 2013.

Sebaliknya, responden yang percaya bahawa Barisan Nasional boleh memenangi PRU13 menurun dari 43% pada Disember 2011 kepada 49% pada April 2012 kepada 44% pada September 2012 dan 42% pada Januari 2013.

Responden yang tidak membuat keputusan atau tidak pasti siapa yang boleh menang dalam PRU13 jatuh dari 39% pada Disember 2011 kepada 30% pada April 2012 dan 26% pada September 2012 dan 21% pada Januari 2013.

Dalam senario Umcedel ini, apa yang perlu bagi PR untuk menewaskan BN dalam perlumbaan ke Putrajaya dalam PRU13 adalah untuk memikat lebih daripada lima peratus responden yang tidak membuat keputusan dan tidak pasti, yang berjumlah 21% pada Januari 2013.

Walaupun Timbalan Perdana Menteri, Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin berkata di Kuching semalam bahawa Barisan Nasional yakin mempertahankan “hampir semua” kerusi parlimen dalam PRU13, walhal Sarawak adalah salah satu daripada tiga “negeri deposit” termasuklah Sabah dan Johor yang mana BN boleh kehilangan lebih daripada satu pertiga kerusi parlimen berjumlah 83 kerusi, iaitu PR memenangi sekurang-kurangnya 28 kerusi yang merupakan “angka keramat” untuk mewujudkan perubahan kerajaan Persekutuan di Putrajaya dalam PRU13.

Semakin terdesak pemimpin dan propagandis UMNO/BN apabila menjelangnya PRU13, semakin bertambah mereka mereka menggunakan politik penipuan dan pembohongan bagi mencetuskan rasa ragu dan kebencian terhadap DAP dan Pakatan Rakyat, menjadikan PRU13 menjadi pertempuran Politik Bersih Kebenaran dan Keadilan melawan Politik Kotor Penipuan dan Pembohongan UMNO/BN.

Contoh terbaru politik penipuan dan pembohongan yang dilakukan propagandis UMNO/BN di dalam  media sosial seperti di facebook, twitter, blog dan portal berita termasuklah yang berikut:

Penipuan dan pembohongan jahat dihasilkan daripada perbualan/temubual yang tidak wujud mendakwa Irene Chang, isteri kepada pengerusi DAP Sarawak dan Ahli Parlimen Sibu, Wong Ho Leng, menyerang kepimpinan DAP kerana tidak berhati perut mengenangkan Ho Leng yang melalui rawatan perubatan tumor otak;

penipuan bahawa saya menyalahkan kerajaan atas kematian tragis kanak-kanak enam tahun William Yau, ketika saya twit: : “6yr William Yau’s tragic death – apart from UMNO/BN Ministers/leaders, Msia just not safe even 4children like William!”. Saya tidak menuduh sesiapa atas kematian William tetapi membangkitkan hakikat menyedihkan bahawa Malaysia semakin tidak selamat untuk rakyat Malaysia, pelancong dan pelabur kerana meningkatnya jenayah dan kebimbangan terhadap jenayah – yang mana hanya Menteri/pemimpin UMNO/BN merasa selamat kerana mereka mempunyai perlindungan keselamatan.

Penipuan bahawa saya telah mengucapkan slogan anti-Melayu di jalanan Kuala Lumpur pada 11 Mei, 1969 menyebabkan tercetusnya rusuhan 13 Mei 1969, walhal saya telah nyatakan di dalam dan di luar Parlimen bahawa saya tiada di Kuala Lumpur pada 11, 12 atau 13 Mei 1969.

This article is also available in English at:
https://blog.limkitsiang.com/2013/01/29/72-day-countdown-to-13ge-clean-politics-of-truth-and-justice-versus-dirty-politics-of-lies-and-falsehoods/

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