Malaysia has descended into a hypo-kakistocracy (hypocrisy-kakistocracy) with the statement by Muhyiddin that he had advised UMNO Ministers not to quit

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Malaysia has descended into a hypo-kakistocracy (hypocrisy-kakistocracy) with the statement by the Prime Minister, Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin, that he had advised UMNO Ministers not to quit.

Muhyiddin said he had advised the UMNO Ministers to remain in the Cabinet to take into account the people’s interest and the country.

Muhyiddin is being quite hypocritical, when what he really meant was that the UMNO Ministers should remain to take into account Muhyiddin’s interest and survival and not that of the country.

The backdoor and illegitimate Muhyiddin government, the product of the infamous Sheraton Move, would have fallen if the UMNO Ministers had resigned their Ministerial posts.

Why deny what everybody knows?

Muhyiddin said he had advised the UMNO leaders  to stay on so that government efforts to combat Covid-19 and revive the economy will not be disrupted.

Muhyiddin should tell it to the marines
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 as only the imbecile would believe it.

If the government had been effective and efficient in combating Covid-19 pandemic, we would not have the third wave of the Covid-19 pandemic which is one of longest Covid-19 waves in the world and entering the eighth month in its duration.

Are we in the trajectory to become a kakistocracy, as illustrated by having the largest Cabinet in the nation’s history but its worst Cabinet, which does not have the moral and political courage to address three  historic challenges:

to advise the Yang di Pertuan Agong to convene Parliament to spearhead a national mobilisation of Malaysians to bring the Covid-19 pandemic under control by Malaysia Day on Sept. 16, 2021 so that normality and economic recovery can begin in the last quarter of the year;

to address the Inspector-General of Police’s shocking revelations and  set up a Royal Commission of Inquiry on Police Integrity and Professionalism and on how to turn the Malaysian police into a world-class police force; and

to fulfil the 2019 Parliamentary mandate when Parliament unanimously amended the Malaysian Constitution  to reduce the voting age to 18 in the next general election.

The Cabinet meeting today had come and gone, but the Cabinet continued as kakistocratic as ever
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 with Ministers more concerned about their place in the Cabinet than the burning issues in Malaysia today!

Why is the Cabinet dumb, blind and deaf to calls for the acceleration of the Covid-19 vaccination programme so that it could be completed by Malaysia Day on Sept. 16 and normality and economic recovery can be seriously initiated in the fourth quarter of the year?

Why is the Cabinet dumb, blind and deaf to the “war” in the Royal Malaysian Police Force despite  the Inspector-General of Police, Abdul Hamid Bador revealing that 34 police and enforcement officers were involved in a syndicate, and why is the Cabinet not giving the IGP full support?

Why is the Cabinet dumb, blind and deaf to Malaysia’s controversial RM320 million compensation to Singapore for cancelling the Kuala Lumpur-Singapore High-Speed Rail (HSR) project, although the people of Johor will be the greatest losers?

In Pursuit of Malaysian Dream
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 first principle is to recognise that Malaysia is falling behind other nations in excellence, meritocracy,  good governance and competitiveness

In pursuit of the Malaysian Dream for Malaysia to be a world-class great nation, the first principle is to recognise that Malaysia is falling behind more and more countries in excellence, meritocracy,  good governance and competitiveness.

We have regressed in our quest to  become a world-class great nation, including a country with the competitive edge over other nations in being able to draw foreign investments for the economic growth and prosperity, which is all the more important after the economic ravages of the Covid-19 pandemic after more than a year.

We must learn from our mistakes that prevent Malaysia from becoming a world-class great nation, whether in ensuring public trust and confidence,  good and democratic governance,  infrastructure investment or human capital development.

When Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin was the Education Minister at the beginning of  the last decade, he launched the Malaysia Education Blueprint 2013-2025  in September 2012 for Malaysia to become a “wonder nation” and make the quantum jump from the bottom third to top third of 2021 PISA (Programme for International Assessment) tests of OECD.

But this had been a dismal failure, for instead of leaping into the top third of the PISA tests, Malaysia’s 2018 PISA results had been worse than the 2015 PISA results in all the three subjects of maths, science and reading and we are still far from the top third among the 80 PISA participating countries.

The four sets of PISA results for Malaysia since 2009 are as follows:

PISA Score (Rank)

2009

2012

2015

2018

Maths

404 (57)

421 (52)

446 (45)

440 (47)

Science

422 (52)

420 (53)

443 (47)

438 (48)

Reading

414 (55)

398 (59)

431 (50)

415 (56)

Can we do better in the fifth 2021 PISA tests?

Another dismal failure of the Education Blueprint 2013-2025 was its strategic goal of recruiting from the top 30% cohort into the teaching profession.

According to the Ministry of Education’s statistics at the time, top academic performers comprised only 1% of applicants into the Bachelor of Education program in 2009 and this was only increased to 9% of total applicants in 2011. What is the position today?

A decade later, we have slipped further in human capital development to the extent that multinational companies (MNCs) are less keen to employ local engineers who had graduated from local public universities, preferring graduates from Philippines, Vietnam, Thailand and even Indonesia.

They say local graduate engineers fall below their requirement, viz:

they cannot perform their tasks well;

they will need more training on the job (which will cost time and money);

its more a nuisance to hire them, especially when engineers from nearby ASEAN countries can perform better.

We have also slipped in the world competitiveness ranking  from No. 22 in 2019 to No. 27 in 2020. Our ranking in the 2021 world competitiveness report is likely to be even worse!

Since 1970, the GDP of Malaysia has increased 90 times but Indonesia has increased by 117 times, Vietnam 122 times, China 163 times, Singapore 175 times and South Korea 178 times.

After the past 50 years, both Singapore and Vietnam have overtaken Malaysia in having larger GDPs.

The launching of the Theatre Impian is to sound the bugle call that the time has come for  all Malaysians to realise that we are losing out to more and more countries in creating a world-class great nation and  a workforce with technology know-how, political maturity and stability, racial harmony, the rule of law, control of corruption and good governance
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 and that there must be new spurt of national energies to make Malaysia great again if we are not to be relegated to be  a hypocritical and kakistocratic state!

Media Comment by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang at Theatre Impian, Bukit Jalil during a visit by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim on Wednesday, 31st March 2021 at 3.30 p.m

Malaysia telah terjerumus ke lembah hipo-kakistokrasi (hipokrasi-kakistokrasi) selepas Perdana Menteri Muhyiddin Yassin mengeluarkan kenyataan bahawa beliau telah menasihati Menteri UMNO agar tidak meletak jawatan

Malaysia telah terjerumus ke lembah hipo-kakistokrasi (hipokrasi-kakistokrasi) selepas Perdana Menteri Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin mengeluarkan kenyataan bahawa beliau telah menasihati Menteri UMNO supaya tidak meletakkan jawatan.

Muhyiddin dilapor telah menasihati Menteri UMNO untuk kekal dalam Kabinet. Keputusan itu kononnya mengambil kira kepentingan rakyat dan negara.

Tindakan Muhyiddin ini bersifat hipokrit, beliau sebenarnya bukan hendak menyelamatkan negara, sebaliknya menyelamatkan kepentingan dan kelangsungan politik beliau sendiri.

Kerajaan pintu belakang dan tidak sah yang dibentuk Muhyiddin, yang merupakan hasil produk Langkah Sheraton, akan runtuh musnah jika semua Menteri UMNO letak jawatan.

Mengapa hendak nafikan hakikat yang telah diketahui oleh semua ini?

Muhyiddin berkata beliau menasihati pemimpin UMNO untuk kekal sebagai Menteri kerana kononnya tidak mahu membantutkan usaha kerajaan dalam melawan Covid-19 dan memulihkan semula ekonomi.

Muhyiddin usah kelentong – kerana hanya orang yang tolol percaya dengan kata-kata tersebut.

Jika kerajaan benar-benar efektif dan cekap dalam melawan wabak Covid-19, kita tidak akan mengalami gelombang ketiga wabak Covid-19 yang terpanjang di dunia yang mana berlarutan sejak lapan bulan lalu sehingga hari ini.

Adakah kita sedang menuju ke arah untuk menjadi sebuah negara kakistokrasi, di mana kita memiliki sebuah Kabinet terbesar dalam sejarah negara, tetapi tidak mempunyai keberanian politik dan moral untuk menyahut tiga cabaran bersejarah.

Untuk menasihati Yang di Pertuan Agong untuk memanggil sidang Parlimen bagi menerajui mobilisasi kebangsaan rakyat Malaysia untuk mengendalikan wabak Covid-19 menjelang Hari Malaysia pada 16 September 2021 sehingga ekonomi dan kehidupan kembali normal bermula pada suku terakhir tahun;

Untuk menangani pendedahan mengejutkan Ketua Polis Negara dan menubuhkan Suruhanjaya Siasatan Diraja mengenai Integriti dan Profesionalisme Polis dan bagaimana untuk mencorak polis Malaysia supaya dapat menjadi pasukan polis bertaraf dunia?;

Memenuhi mandat Parlimen pada tahun 2019 untuk memberikan hak mengundi kepada rakyat Malaysia yang berusia lebih dari 18 tahun pada pilihan raya akan datang

Kabinet setiap minggu bermesyuarat, namun mereka masih mengamalkan budaya kakistokrasi — di mana tiada seorang pun Menteri Kabinet bangkit bersuara mengenai isu-isu hangat dalam negara.

Mengapa Kabinet Muhyiddin begitu buta dan pekak terhadap desakan untuk mempercepatkan program imunisasi Covid-19, supaya ia dapat dijayakan sebelum sambutan Hari Malaysia, 16 September, supaya kehidupan rakyat dapat kembali normal serta memulakan kerja-kerja pemulihan ekonomi bermula suku keempat tahun ini?

Mengapa Kabinet berkelakuan seakan-akan tidak sedar mengenai dakwaan “perang” dalam pasukan Polis Diraja Malaysia meskipun Ketua Polis Negara, Abdul Hamid Bador telah mendedahkan bahawa 34 anggota polis dan pegawai penguatkuasa terlibat dalam kegiatan sindiket, dan mengapa Kabinet tidak menyatakan sebarang sokongan padu kepada usaha KPN untuk membersihkan pasukan polis?

Mengapa Kabinet kelihatan seakan-akan tidak peduli dengan kontroversi pampasan RM320 juta yang dibayar Malaysia kepada Singapura kerana membatalkan projek Kereta Api Berkelajuan Tinggi Kuala Lumpur – Singapura (HSR), meskipun ia bakal merugikan rakyat negeri Johor?

Dalam usaha mengejar Impian Malaysia, prinsip pertama yang diperlukan adalah untuk mengakui bahawa Malaysia telah ketinggalan jauh berbanding negara-negara lain dalam aspek kecemerlangan, meritokrasi, tadbir urus baik dan persaingan

Kita telah mundur setapak dalam usaha kita untuk menjadi sebuah negara hebat bertaraf dunia, termasuk menjadi salah sebuah negara yang mampu bersaing sebaris dengan negara-negara lain dalam membawa masuk pelaburan asing bagi meningkatkan pertumbuhan ekonomi, yang merupakan sesuatu yang perlu diberikan keutamaan lebih-lebih lagi selepas ekonomi menempuh waktu yang sukar dan suram akibat penularan wabak Covid-19 yang berlarutan sejak setahun yang lalu.

Kita harus mengambil iktibar daripada kesilapan yang menyebabkan negara terbantut menjadi salah sebuah negara hebat bertaraf dunia, dalam pelbagai aspek antaranya keyakinan dan kepercayaan masyarakat, tadbir urus baik dan demokratik, pelaburan infrastruktur atau pembangunan modal insan.

Ketika Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin menjadi Menteri Pendidikan pada awal dekad yang lalu, beliau melancarkan Pelan Pembangunan Pendidikan Malaysia 2013-2025 pada September 2012 dengan harapan Malaysia menjadi “negara yang luar biasa” dan melonjakkan kedudukan ujian PISA (Program untuk Penilaian Antarabangsa) OECD dari ketiga ke bawah ke ketiga teratas pada 2021.

Namun, perkara ini menjadi kegagalan yang menyedihkan, kerana hakikatnya kedudukan ujian PISA kita tidak melonjak ke tangga ketiga kerana keputusan PISA Malaysia pada 2018 lebih buruk berbanding keputusan PISA 2015 dalam ketiga-tiga subjek matematik, sains dan membaca dan kita masih jauh dari tempat ketiga teratas antara 80 negara peserta PISA.

Empat keputusan PISA Malaysia sejak 2009 adalah seperti berikut:

Skor PISA (Kedudukan)

2009

2012

2015

2018

Matematik

404 (57)

421 (52)

446 (45)

440 (47)

Sains

422 (52)

420 (53)

443 (47)

438 (48)

Membaca

414 (55)

398 (59)

431 (50)

415 (56)

Bolehkah kita melakukan yang lebih baik dalam ujian kelima PISA 2021?

Paling menyedihkan Pelan Pembangunan Pendidikan 2013-2025 gagal mencapai matlamat strategiknya untuk merekrut individu dari peringkat 30% teratas ke dalam profesion perguruan.

Menurut statistik Kementerian Pendidikan pada masa itu, hanya 1% daripada jumlah pemohon yang memohon mengikuti program Sarjana Muda Pendidikan pada tahun 2009 adalah individu yang mempunyai prestasi akademik tertinggi dan statistik ini hanya meningkat kepada 9% daripada jumlah pemohon pada tahun 2011. Bagaimana kedudukannya hari ini?

Satu dekad kemudian, kita ketinggalan lebih jauh dalam usaha pembangunan modal insan sehingga syarikat multi-nasional (MNC) kurang berminat untuk mengambil jurutera tempatan yang mempunyai kelulusan dari universiti awam tempatan, sebaliknya memilih lulusan dari Filipina, Vietnam, Thailand dan Indonesia.

Mereka mengatakan jurutera siswazah tempatan kurang memenuhi kriteria mereka, iaitu:

mereka tidak dapat melaksanakan tugas mereka dengan baik;

mereka memerlukan lebih banyak latihan pekerjaan (yang memerlukan masa dan wang);

lebih menyusahkan untuk mengupah mereka, terutamanya apabila jurutera dari negara-negara ASEAN yang berdekatan dapat menunjukkan prestasi yang lebih baik.

Kita juga ketinggalan dalam indeks persaingan global apabila jatuh ke tangga 27 pada 2020 daripada tangga 22 pada 2019. Dapat dibayangkan bahawa kedudukan negara kita pada 2021 akan lebih teruk daripada sebelumnya.

Sejak 1970, KDNK Malaysia telah meningkat 90 kali tetapi Indonesia meningkat lebih tinggi iaitu 117 kali, Vietnam 122 kali, China 163 kali, Singapura 175 kali dan Korea Selatan 178 kali.

Setelah 50 tahun yang lalu, Singapura dan Vietnam telah mengatasi Malaysia dengan mempunyai KDNK yang lebih besar.

Pelancaran Teater Impian ini adalah untuk menyahut suara-suara yang berkata: sudah tiba masanya untuk semua rakyat Malaysia memiliki kesedaran bahawa Malaysia semakin jauh ketinggalan berbanding negara-negara lain dalam membentuk sebuah negara hebat bertaraf dunia – dan mewujudkan tenaga kerja dengan pengetahuan teknologi, kematangan dan kestabilan politik, keharmonian kaum, kedaulatan undang-undang, kawalan rasuah dan pemerintahan yang baik – dan perlu menyerap suatu semangat yang baru untuk menjadikan Malaysia hebat semula jika kita tidak mahu negara terus terjerumus ke lembah hipokrasi dan kakistokrasi!

Komen Media Ahli Parlimen DAP Iskandar Puteri semasa lawatan Ketua Pembangkang, Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim ke Theatre Impian, Bukit Jalil  pada Rabu, 31 Mac 2021, 3.30 p.m

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Pakatan Harapan should focus on the 15th General Election and not obsessed with the numbers game as to who can win the majority in Parliament to become Prime Minister

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I fully agree with Parliamentary Opposition Leader and head of Pakatan Harapan Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim that Pakatan Harapan should focus on the 15th General Election and not obsessed with the numbers game as to who can win the majority in Parliament to become Prime Minister.

When visiting the “Malaysian Dream” Theatre Impian in Bukit Jalil in Kuala Lumpur yesterday, Anwar said Pakatan Harapan should be moving forwards, strengthen the idealism of the people and focus on getting the machinery ready for the battlefield in the next general election to champion the aspirations of the people.

Malaysia is in a very extraordinary situation where the Prime Minister does not enjoy the confidence of the majority of Members of Parliament, and that is why Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin refused to advise the Yang di Pertuan Agong to convene Parliament and why he does not want the Emergency, purportedly to combat the Covid-19 pandemic, to end.

We may have reached a political situation where it is not easy to find a person who can command the absolute majority of MPs in Parliament.

Muhyiddin has said that emergency would end on August 1 to be followed by the holding of the 15th General Election.

But from the look of the shape of things to come, neither the emergency will be ended on August 1 nor will the 15th General Election be held in the third or fourth quarter of the year.

Muhyiddin is intoxicated with absolute powers without parliamentary scrutiny or check, which is the reason for latest Emergency (Essential Powers) Ordinance conferring absolute powers on the Prime Minister to enact supplementary supply bills without parliamentary scrutiny or check, although the Emergency Proclamation ends on August 1 in four months’ time.

I agree with Anwar that there is no reason for the new emergency ordinance that allows federal government to pass supplementary budgets without legislative scrutiny, which is most unethical, irresponsible and undemocratic.

The Budget 2021 which passed four months ago already allocated sufficient funds for the country’s Covid-19 response.

If valid additional spending is needed, then Muhyiddin should advise the Yang di Pertuan Agong to convene Parliament as the Yang di Pertuan Agong has declared that Parliament can be convened in an emergency.

Furthermore, any valid additional spending to combat the Covid-19 pandemic will get the unanimous support of Parliament, as all MPs from all political parties would like to see the Covid-19 pandemic ended as early as possible.

In fact, I had been calling for the convening of Parliament to spearhead a national mobilisation effort for an “all-of-government” and “whole-of-society” strategy and approach to bring the Covid-19 pandemic under control so as to restore normalcy and initiate efforts at economic recovery in the fourth quarter of the year.

It is ironic that while Parliament is suspended, and emergency declared, to combat the Covid-19 pandemic, we are one of the worst performing nations in Asia in the combat against the Covid-19 pandemic – having the longest Covid-19 waves in the world with the third wave of the Covid-19 pandemic in Malaysia entering its eighth month since the Sabah State general election in September last year.

Yesterday’s report of the daily increase of 1,133 new Covid-19 cases, despite a dip to triple-digit daily increase of new Covid-19 cases the previous day, is evidence that Malaysia is still struggling to bring the third Covid wave under control in double-digit figures.

Will the Muhyiddin government be able to bring the third Covid-19 wave under control by August 1, or will there be a fourth wave to justify the continuation of the emergency proclamation?

The backdoor and illegitimate nature of the present regime has made it very intolerant of democratic practices and norms, which is one reason for the egregious violation of the unanimous parliamentary mandate to confer the right to vote on Malaysians above the age of 18 in the next general election and why the constitutional amendment is being sabotaged.

Can Muhyiddin explain why 50 years ago, United Kingdom can execute the parliamentary mandate to confer the right to vote to those 18 years and above within a year of the law being given the Royal Assent but why50 years later, Malaysia needs more than three years to implement such a measure? This is kakistocracy at its worst!

(Media Statement by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Gelang Patah on Thursday, 1st April 2021)

Pakatan Harapan perlu menumpukan usaha kepada Pilihan Raya Umum ke-15 dan bukannya teralih perhatiannya kepada permainan angka untuk menentukan siapa yang mampu mendapatkan majoriti di Parlimen untuk menjadi Perdana Menteri

Saya bersetuju sepenuhnya dengan Ketua Pembangkang yang juga merupakan Pengerusi Pakatan Harapan, Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim yang mengatakan Pakatan Harapan perlu menumpukan usahanya kepada Pilihan Raya Umum ke-15 dan bukannya teralih perhatiannya kepada permainan angka untuk menentukan siapa yang mampu mendapatkan majoriti di Parlimen untuk menjadi Perdana Menteri.

Semasa melawat Teater “Impian Malaysia” di Bukit Jalil, Kuala Lumpur semalam, Anwar mengatakan yang Pakatan Harapan perlu bergerak ke hadapan, mengukuhkan idealisme rakyat, dan fokus untuk menggerakkan jentera bersedia untuk menghadapi pilihan raya umum yang akan datang untuk terus memperjuangkan aspirasi rakyat.

Malaysia berada dalam situasi luar biasa, di mana Perdana Menteri tidak mempunyai sokongan majoriti Ahli Parlimen, kerana inilah Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin enggan untuk menasihati Seri Paduka Baginda Yang di Pertuan Agong untuk memanggil sidang Parlimen dan kerana ini jugalah beliau tidak mahu menamatkan darurat yang kononnya diisytiharkan untuk membantu usaha melawan wabak Covid-19.

Kita mungkin telah sampai ke satu peringkat di mana tidak mudah untuk kita mencari sesiapa pun yang boleh mendapatkan sokongan majoriti mutlak Ahli-ahli Parlimen.

Muhyiddin telah mengatakan yang darurat ini akan berakhir pada 1 Ogos, diikuti dengan pelaksanaan Pilihan Raya Umum ke-15.

Namun melihat kepada situasi yang bakal dihadapi, tidak kelihatan seperti darurat ini akan ditamatkan pada 1 Ogos, mahupun PRU15 dilaksanakan dalam suku ketiga atau keempat tahun ini.

Muhyiddin sedang mabuk dengan kuasa mutlak yang dinikmatinya sekarang tanpa sebarang proses semak imbang daripada Parlimen, inilah sebab adanya Ordinan Darurat (Kuasa-kuasa Perlu) yang terkini yang memberikan kuasa mutlak kepada Perdana Menteri untuk menguatkuasakan perundangan perbekalan tambahan, sedangkan Proklamasi Darurat sedia ada ini dijadualkan tamat 1 Ogos, hanya empat bulan dari sekarang.

Saya bersetuju dengan Anwar, tidak ada sebarang sebab untuk wujudnya satu ordinan darurat yang memberikan kuasa kepada kerajaan untuk meluluskan belanjawan tambahan tanpa melalui Parlimen, kerana perkara ini adalah satu perkara yang tidak beretika, tidak bertanggungjawab, dan tidak demokratik.

Belanjawan 2021 yang diluluskan empat bulan lalu telah memperuntukkan sejumlah wang yang mencukupi untuk tindak balas Covid-19 negara kita.

Sekiranya benar-benar perlu perbekalan tambahan, Muhyiddin patut menasihati Yang di Pertuan Agong untuk memanggil sidang Parlimen, memandangkan Baginda telah pun bertitah mengatakan yang Parlimen boleh bersidang semasa darurat.

Tambahan lagi, sebarang perbekalan tambahan untuk melawan wabak Covid-19 pastinya akan mendapat sokongan sebulat suara Ahli-ahli Parlimen, kerana semua Ahli Parlimen daripada semua parti politik mahu melihat wabak Covid-19 ini berakhir secepat mungkin.

Malah, saya telah lama menyeru supaya Parlimen dipanggil bersidang untuk membolehkan kita menggunapakai strategi dan pendekatan yang melibatkan “keseluruhan kerajaan” dan “keseluruhan masyarakat” untuk mengawal wabak Covid-19 supaya kehidupan normal dan proses pemulihan ekonomi dapat bermula dalam suku keempat tahun ini.

Amatlah ironi apabila Parlimen kita sedang digantung sidangnya, dengan darurat diisytiharkan, kita masih lagi salah satu negara dengan prestasi terburuk di Asia dalam melawan wabak Covid-19 — dengan mencatatkan salah satu gelombang penularan terpanjang di dunia, yang berlarutan hampir lapan bulan sejak Pilihan Raya Negeri Sabah pada bulan September tahun lalu.

Laporan 1,133 kes baharu semalam, walaupun selepas negara kita mencatatkan kadar peningkatan tiga angka baru-baru ini, menunjukkan yang kita masih lagi sedang bergelut untuk mengawal gelombang ketiga wabak ini.

Adakah kerajaan Muhyiddin mampu untuk mengawal penularan wabak ini menjelang 1 Ogos atau adakah akan ada gelombang keempat Covid-19 untuk memberikan alasan untuk meneruskan lagi proklamasi darurat?

Hakikat rejim sedia ada yang dibentuk melalui pintu belakang dan secara tidak sah ini telah menyebabkannya tidak bertoleransi kepada perilaku-perilaku demokratik, yang menjadi sebab mengapa mandat parlimen untuk menurunkan had umur mengundi kepada rakyat Malaysia yang berusia 18 tahun dalam pilihan raya yang akan datang dicabuli dan usaha pindaan perlembagaan ini disabotaj.

Boleh Muhyiddin menjelaskan, mengapa 50 tahun yang lepas, United Kingdom boleh melaksanakan mandat Parlimen untuk memberikan hak mengundi kepada mereka yang berusia 18 tahun dan ke atas dalam tempoh setahun selepas undang-undang tersebut dipinda dan diberikan kelulusan Diraja, tetapi 50 tahun kemudian, di Malaysia, kita memerlukan lebih daripada tiga tahun untuk melaksanakan langkah ini? Inilah kakistokrasi yang terburuk sekali!

(Kenyataan Media Ahli Parlimen DAP Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang di Gelang Patah pada hari Khamis, 1 April 2021)

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Emergency Proclamation and Suspension of Parliament not science-based but politics-based decisions  purportedly to combat Covid-19 pandemic in Malaysia

The Prime Minister, Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin is considering lifting travel restrictions for those who have completed their Covid-19 vaccination and have been issued a digital certificate proving this.

The Prime Minister is on the right track but all Malaysians are asking why the Prime Minister is not considering convening Parliament and the State Assemblies to mobilise the whole country in a national mobilisation effort for an “all-of-government” and “whole-of-society” strategy and approach in the war against Covid-19 pandemic to bring the third wave of the Covid-19 pandemic in Malaysia – one of the longest Covid-19 waves in the world – under control?

In the last three days, the daily increase of new Covid-19 cases have returned to  four-digit figures. i.e. 1178, 1483 and 1133 cases, after falling to triple-digit  figure for the first time in nearly four months when it registered 941 new cases on  March 29.

This shows it would take some time before the third wave of the Covid-19 pandemic, which started last September  because of  the Sabah state general election, could be brought under control.

Two questions are relevant here:

Firstly, whether Malaysia could breach the triple-digit figure to fall to double-digit figure in April itself; and

Secondly, whether Malaysia can prevent the upsurge of a fourth wave before bringing the third Covid wave fully under control.

The East Asia and Pacific region is one of the few global bright spots in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic unlike the disastrous performance of United States and the European nations, and such a success  provides many lessons on containing infectious diseases at a low cost to the economy in an era of chronic pandemics.

One of the exceptions is  Malaysia as we have performed dismally compared to many countries in the region.

The latest monthly  report of the Bloomberg Covid Resilience Ranking on  March 25  again showed  Malaysia as trailing  behind Singapore, Taiwan, South Korea, China, Japan, Thailand, Hong Kong and Vietnam in our performance as a nation in the war against the Covid-19 pandemic.

The Emergency Proclamation and the suspension of Parliament are decisions which are not science-based but politics-based purportedly to combat Covid-19 pandemic in Malaysia, and this is why the Muhyiddin government should show greater respect to science-based measures instead of ignoring them and banking on  politics-based decisions.

How, for instance, can the Muhyiddin government justify the lifting  of travel restrictions and the holding of  pasar malam when Parliament and the State Assemblies could not meet to discharge their constitutional duty of oversight over the

Executive, whether national or state?

I am not suggesting that the government should not lift travel restrictions as justified by new circumstances or clamp down on pasar malam, but that the government should abandon politics-based decisions like the suspension of Parliament and the State Assemblies.

The Penang Chief Minister, Chow Kon Yeow, has rightly asked the Prime Minister to allow the Penang State Assembly to be convened. What science-based arguments can the Prime Minister give for  a negative answer?

This is also the reason why the national Covid-19 vaccination programme should be accelerated as it is in the personal and national interests of every Malaysian to end the Covid-19 pandemic as soon as possible so that normal life and economic recovery efforts could be initiated.

I will be receiving my second dose of the Covid-19 vaccine next Tuesday and I want to urge all Malaysians to get vaccinated as soon as possible.

I have suggested that the national Covid-19 vaccination campaign should be accelerated so that it could be completed by Malaysia Day on Sept. 16, so that efforts for full normality and economic recovery could be initiated in the fourth quarter of the year.

Is this suggestion being seriously looked into?

If Parliament and parliamentary committees on public health could function normally, then these issues could be publicly ventilated forming public pressures on the Muhyiddin government to give proper responses.

(Media conference  statement  by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang at the Iskandar Puteri Covid Vaccination Registration Counter at Gelang Patah on  Friday, April 2, 29, 2021 at 9 am)

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Mahathir will not be Prime Minister for a third time but Malaysia has reached an unprecedented political situation where there is no one  person who can command majority support of Members of Parliament

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Tan Sri Muhyddin Yassin is the first Prime Minister in Malaysia who cannot command majority support in Parliament.

This is why Parliament is suspended and emergency declared to allegedly combat the Covid-19 pandemic.

This is also why Muhyiddin has ignored the Yang di Pertuan Agong’s most clear position on Feb. 24 that Parliament may convene during the emergency period based on the advice of the Prime Minister.

Since the Yang di Pertuan Agong had made his position clear on Feb.24, the Cabinet had met six times but it had been most negligent in not once considering the Yang di Pertuan Agong’s advice.

I do not agree with UMNO veteran Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah that the Yang di Pertuan Agong can convene Parliament without the Prime Minister’s advice, but the Prime Minister, Tan Sri Muhytiddin Yassin, and his bloated Cabinet had violated all constitutional proprieties and norms in ignoring the Yang di Pertuan Agong’s advice for six consecutive Cabinet meetings.

In fact, I would go so far as to say that the Prime Minister and his Cabinet had acted in utter disregard of the Rukun Negara on “Loyalty to King and country”.

Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad will not be Prime Minister for a third time, but we have reached an unprecedented political situation where there is no one person who can command majority support of Members of Parliament.

Pakatan Harapan should focus on the 15th General Election and we should get away from the numbers game as to who can win majority support in Parliament to become Prime Minister before the next general election.

I am glad that when visiting the “Malaysian Dream” Theatre Impian in Bukit Jalil, Kuala Lumpur on Wednesday, the Parliamentary Opposition Leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim said that Pakatan Harapan should be moving forwards, strengthen the idealism of the people and focus on getting the machinery ready for the battlefield in the next general election to champion the aspirations of the people.

Muhyiddin has said that emergency would end on August 1 to be followed by the holding of the 15th General Election.

But from the look of the shape of things to come, neither the emergency will be ended on August 1 nor will the 15th General Election be held in the third or fourth quarter of the year.

Muhyiddin is intoxicated with absolute powers without parliamentary scrutiny or check, which is the reason for latest Emergency (Essential Powers) Ordinance conferring absolute powers on the Prime Minister to enact supplementary supply bills without parliamentary scrutiny or check – although the Emergency Proclamation ends on August 1 in four months’ time.

I agree with Anwar that there is no reason for the new emergency ordinance that allows federal government to pass supplementary budgets without legislative scrutiny, which is most unethical, irresponsible, undemocratic and dictatorial.

It is shocking that Malaysians performed a political miracle in the 14th General Election on May 9, 2018 to reject a kleptocratic dictator only to be confronted 22 months later with a kakistocratic dictator.

The Budget 2021 which passed four months ago already allocated sufficient funds for the country’s Covid-19 response.

If valid additional spending is needed, then Muhyiddin should advise the Yang di Pertuan Agong to convene Parliament as the Yang di Pertuan Agong has declared that Parliament can be convened in an emergency.

Furthermore, any valid additional spending to combat the Covid-19 pandemic will get the unanimous support of Parliament, as all MPs from all political parties would like to see the Covid-19 pandemic ended as early as possible.

In fact, I had been calling for the convening of Parliament to spearhead a national mobilisation effort for an “all-of-government”and “whole-of-society” strategy and approach to bring the Covid-19 pandemic under control so as to restore normalcy and initiate efforts at economic recovery in the fourth quarter of the year.

The backdoor and illegitimate nature of the present regime has made it very intolerant of democratic practices and norms, which is one reason for the egregious violation of the unanimous parliamentary mandate to confer the right to vote on Malaysians above the age of 18 in the next general election and why the constitutional amendment is being sabotaged.

Can Muhyiddin explain why 50 years ago, United Kingdom can execute the parliamentary mandate to confer the right to vote to those 18 years and above within a year of the law being given the Royal Assent but why 50 years later, Malaysia needs more than three years to implement such a measure?

This is kakistocracy at its worst!

Malaysians are faced with an unprecedented political situation, with a three-kingdom scenario among Bersatu, PAS and UMNO – but what is obvious is that these three parties in the illegitimate “backdoor” government are not pursuing the Malaysian Dream.

We must never yield to the temptation of “Power for Power’s sake” but must ensure that all our actions are guided by our principles and our commitment to pursue justice, eliminate corruption, uphold the rule of law and separation of power, close the growing gap between the haves and have-nots and improve the life of all Malaysians – all ingredients of the Malaysian Dream!

(Speech by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri, Lim Kit Siang, to DAP leaders and activists at the DAP Iskandar Puteri parliamentary liaison premise in Skudai on Thursday, 1st April 2021 at 8 pm)

Mahathir tidak mungkin akan menjadi Perdana Menteri buat kali ketiga, namun Malaysia berhadapan dengan situasi politik yang belum pernah berlaku di mana tiada sesiapa pun memiliki sokongan majoriti di Parlimen untuk menjadi Perdana Menteri

Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin adalah Perdana Menteri pertama di Malaysia yang tidak mempunyai sokongan majoriti di Parlimen.

Kerana inilah Parlimen digantung sidangnya dan darurat diisytiharkan atas alasan kononnya untuk mengekang wabak Covid-19.

Perkara ini juga menjadi sebab mengapa Muhyiddin tidak mengendahkan titah Yang di Pertuan Agong pada 24 Februari lalu bahawa Parlimen boleh bersidang dalam tempoh darurat berdasarkan nasihat Perdana Menteri.

Kabinet telah bermesyuarat sebanyak enam kali sejak Yang di Pertuan Agong menyampaikan titah nasihat tersebut, namun tidak sekali pun saranan Baginda itu dipertimbangkan.

Saya tidak bersetuju dengan veteran UMNO, Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah yang mengatakan Yang di Pertuan Agong boleh memanggil sidang Parlimen tanpa nasihat Perdana Menteri, namun, Muhyiddin dan barisan Kabinetnya telah melanggar kelaziman dan ketetapan Perlembagaan dengan mengabaikan titah Yang di Pertuan Agong dalam keenam-enam mesyuarat yang diadakan mereka.

Malah, saya berani untuk mengatakan yang Perdana Menteri dan barisan Kabinetnya telah bertindak bertentangan dengan prinsip “Kesetiaan kepada Raja dan Negara” seperti yang termaktub dalam Rukun Negara.

Tun Dr Mahathir tidak mungkin akan menjadi Perdana Menteri buat kali ketiga, namun Malaysia berhadapan dengan situasi politik yang belum pernah berlaku di mana tiada sesiapa pun memiliki sokongan majoriti di Parlimen untuk menjadi Perdana Menteri.

Pakatan Harapan harus memberi tumpuan kepada Pilihan Raya Umum ke-15 (PRU-15) dan kita harus meninggalkan “permainan angka” yang berlegar dalam lingkungan persoalan tentang pihak mana yang dapat mengumpulkan sokongan majoriti di Parlimen untuk menjadi Perdana Menteri sebelum pilihan raya umum seterusnya.

Saya berasa gembira semasa kunjungan ke pameran “Impian Malaysia” Teater Impian di Bukit Jalil, Kuala Lumpur pada Rabu, Ketua Pembangkang, Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim berkata Pakatan Harapan harus bergerak maju ke depan, mengukuhkan idealisme rakyat dan memberikan tumpuan sepenuhnya untuk mempersiapkan jentera bagi berdepan medan peperangan dalam pilihan raya umum akan datang, selain berusaha mengangkat aspirasi rakyat.

Muhyiddin sebelum ini berkata bahawa tempoh darurat akan tamat pada 1 Ogos dan PRU-15 akan menyusul selepas itu.

Namun melihat pada situasi semasa, nampaknya darurat tidak akan tamat pada 1 Ogos dan PRU-15 juga tidak akan dilaksanakan pada suku ketiga atau keempat tahun ini.

Muhyiddin sedang mabuk dengan kuasa mutlak tanpa sebarang mekanisme semak dan imbang, dengan pewartaan satu ordinan baru yang memberikan kuasa kepada Perdana Menteri untuk meluluskan Belanjawan Tambahan tanpa penelitian atau semakan Parlimen – meskipun pengisytiharan darurat akan berakhir dalam tempoh empat bulan dari sekarang.

Saya bersetuju dengan Anwar bahawa tidak ada alasan untuk ordinan berkenaan diluluskan kerana ia jelas tidak beretika, tidak bertanggungjawab, tidak demokratik dan bersifat diktator.

Ironinya, setelah rakyat Malaysia bersatu hati melakukan keajaiban politik dengan menolak seorang diktator kleptokratik dalam PRU-14 pada 9 Mei 2018, 22 bulan kemudian rakyat Malaysia terpaksa pula berdepan dengan sebuah diktator yang mengamalkan kakistokrasi.

Belanjawan 2021 yang diluluskan empat bulan lalu telah memperuntukan dana yang mencukupi bagi mempersiapkan negara menghadapi Covid-19.

Jika ada perbelanjaan tambahan yang sah diperlukan, Muhyiddin sepatutnya menasihati Yang di Pertuan Agong untuk memanggil sidang Parlimen kerana Baginda telah bertitah bahawa Parlimen boleh bersidang dalam tempoh darurat.

Tambahan pula, sebarang perbelanjaan tambahan yang diperlukan bagi membiayai usaha melawan Covid-19 pasti akan menerima sokongan padu daripada Parlimen, kerana semua Ahli Parlimen dari semua parti mahu melihat wabak Covid-19 berakhir secepat yang mungkin.

Malah, saya telah berkali-kali menggesa agar kerajaan membenarkan Parlimen untuk bersidang bagi menerapkan strategi dan pendekatan “keseluruhan kerajaan” dan “keseluruhan masyarakat” dalam menangani wabak Covid-19 supaya kehidupan rakyat kembali normal dan ekonomi dapat pulih seawal suku keempat tahun ini.

Hakikat rejim sedia ada yang dibentuk melalui pintu belakang dan secara tidak sah ini telah menyebabkannya tidak bertoleransi kepada perilaku-perilaku demokratik, yang menjadi sebab mengapa mandat parlimen untuk menurunkan had umur mengundi kepada rakyat Malaysia yang berusia 18 tahun dalam pilihan raya yang akan datang dicabuli dan usaha pindaan perlembagaan ini disabotaj.

Boleh Muhyiddin menjelaskan, mengapa 50 tahun yang lepas, United Kingdom boleh melaksanakan mandat Parlimen untuk memberikan hak mengundi kepada mereka yang berusia 18 tahun dan ke atas dalam tempoh setahun selepas undang-undang tersebut dipinda dan diberikan kelulusan Diraja, tetapi 50 tahun kemudian, di Malaysia, kita memerlukan lebih daripada tiga tahun untuk melaksanakan langkah ini?

Inilah kakistokrasi yang terburuk sekali!

Rakyat Malaysia berhadapan dengan situasi politik yang tidak pernah berlaku sebelum ini, ditambah dengan sandiwara “Hikayat Tiga Negara” yang melibatkan Bersatu, PAS dan UMNO — namun apa yang pasti; kerajaan pintu belakang yang dibentuk ketiga-tiga parti tersebut tidak memperjuangkan Impian Malaysia yang diidamkan rakyat.

Kita tidak boleh terleka dan terbuai dengan godaan kuasa, sebaliknya kita harus siap untuk memastikan setiap tindak tanduk kita berdasarkan prinsip dan komitmen untuk memperjuangkan keadilan, menghapuskan rasuah, mengangkat kedaulatan undang-undang dan menghormati konsep pemisahan kuasa, selain merapatkan jurang antara yang kaya dan yang miskin, malah mempertingkatkan kualiti hidup seluruh rakyat Malaysia — inilah ramuan yang diperlukan untuk menggapai Impian Malaysia!

(Ucapan oleh Ahli Parlimen DAP Iskandar Puteri, Lim Kit Siang, di hadapan pemimpin dan aktivis DAP di pusat khidmat parlimen di Skudai pada hari Khamis, 1 April 2021, 8 pm)

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Which is worse – kakistocracy or kleptocracy?

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Is the Shah Alam High Court decision to quash a preventive detention order which was signed last year by Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin who was also acting as home minister at the time using the “glamour name” Muhyiddin Mohd Yassin rather than his government gazetted MyKad name Mahiaddin Md Yasin an example of kakistocracy at its worst?

Muhyiddin was Johor Mentri Besar from 1986-1995, Cabinet Minister from 1995 to 2009 helming various Ministries from Youth and Sports, Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs, Agriculture and Agro-based Industries as well as International Trade and Industry.

He was Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Education in 2009 until he was sacked from the Cabinet in July 2015 for questioning the then Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Najib Razak’s handling of the 1MDB scandal.

After the 14th General Election on May 9, 2018 , Muhyiddin was Home Minister and became Prime Minister on March 1, 2020 in the infamous “Sheraton Move” which toppled the Pakatan Harapan Government after 22 months.

Have all the government orders signed by Muhyiddin in his nine years as Johore Mentri Besar, 22 years as Cabinet Minister and 13 months as “backdoor” Prime Minister to be scrutinised and reviewed as to whether they are illegal because he had used his glamour name of Muhyiddin instead of his MyKad name of Mahiaddin?

Which is worse – kleptocracy and kakistocracy?

Or are both to be rejected in Malaysia?

This will be one of the decisions Malaysians will have to make in the 15th general election.

(Media Statement by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Kuala Lumpur on Saturday, 3rd April 2021)

Yang mana lagi buruk — kakistokrasi atau kleptokrasi?

Adakah keputusan Mahkamah Tinggi Shah Alam untuk menolak perintah tahanan yang ditandatangani oleh Perdana Menteri Muhyiddin Yassin yang juga merangkap sebagai Menteri Dalam Negeri semasa itu menggunakan “nama glamour” beliau, Muhyiddin Mohd Yassin dan bukannya nama sebenar beliau mengikut MyKad, Mahiaddin Md Yasin merupakan satu contoh kakistokrasi terburuk?

Muhyiddin pernah menjadi Mentri Besar Johor daripada tahun 1986 sehingga 1995 dan menjadi Menteri Kabinet di antara tahun 1995 sehingga 2009 di pelbagai kementerian, dari Belia dan Sukan, ke Perdagangan Dalam Negeri dan Hal Ehwal Pengguna, Pertanian dan Industri Asas Tani, , dan juga Perdangan Antarabangsa dan Industri.

Beliau merupakan Timbalan Perdana Menteri dan juga Menteri Pendidikan pada tahun 2009 sehinggalah beliau dipecat daripada Kabinet pada bulan Julai 2015 kerana mempersoalkan cara Perdana Menteri semasa itu, Datuk Seri Najib Razak dalam mengenai skandal 1MDB.

Selepas Pilihan Raya Umum ke-14 pada 9 Mei 2018, Muhyiddin dilantik menjadi Menteri Dalam Negeri dan kemudiannya menjadi Perdana Menteri pada 1 Mac 2020 selepas Langkah Sheraton yang menumbangkan kerajaan Pakatan Harapan hanya selepas 22 bulan mentadbir negara.

Adakah semua perintah kerajaan yang ditandatangani oleh Muhyiddin dalam tempoh sembilan tahun sebagai Mentri Besar Johor, 22 tahun sebagai Menteri Kabinet, dan 13 bulan sebagai Perdana Menteri “pintu belakang” telah disemak dan diteliti untuk memastikan sama ada ia semua sah dan ditandatangani dengan nama sebenar beliau, Mahiaddin, dan bukannya nama glamour beliau, Muhyiddin?

Manakah yang lebih buruk — kleptokrasi atau kakistokrasi?

Atau adakah kedua-duanya perlu ditolak sepenuhnya di Malaysia?

Inilah persoalan yang perlu dijawab oleh rakyat Malaysia dalam Pilihan Raya Umum ke-15 nanti.

(Kenyataan Media Ahli Parlimen DAP Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang di Kuala Lumpur pada hari Sabtu, 3 April 2021)

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How can we rekindle and re-motivate the hope and inspiration in the Malaysian Dream for the country to be a world-class great nation by ensuring that the 15th General Election to fulfil the high but dashed hopes of the 14th General Election for reform and salvation?

Since the launching of the Theatre Impian in Bukit Jalil, Kuala Lumpur last Sunday, I have been waking up at 3 am, 4 am or 5 am with the question
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 how can we rekindle, re-inspire, re-energize and re-motivate hope and inspiration in the Malaysian Dream for the country to be a world-class great nation by ensuring that the 15th General Election fulfil the high but dashed hopes of the 14th General Election for reform and salvation?

How do we restore the hope and the inspiration in the 14th General Election when Malaysians at home and abroad made the superhuman effort to ensure that their every vote counted and stood tall in the world by performing the political miracle of effecting a peaceful and democratic transition of power for the first time in six decades?

But the high hopes of May 9, 2018 had not been fulfilled.

We had a mandate of five years to implement the Pakatan Harapan manifesto for a New Malaysia, but it was cut short in 22 months by the Sheraton Move conspiracy which toppled the Pakatan Harapan government and ushered in a backdoor and illegitimate regime.

As the former Attorney-General Tommy Thomas said in a recent podcast, among the “worst failures” of the Pakatan Harapan government were not actively addressing the Sedition Act and Anti-Fake News Act while the “biggest achievement” was the passing of the constitutional amendment lowering the voting age to 18 before the five-year mandate of the Pakatan Harapan government was suddenly terminated after 22 months.

Malaysians spoke out loud and clear to oppose kleptocracy but kakistocratcy slipped in by the backdoor.

Is it possible for Malaysians, at home and abroad, to make another superhuman effort in the 15th General Election to reject both kleptocracy and kakistocracy and to save Malaysia from becoming a failed state?

There is frustration, disappointment and even despair in the land.

Has Malaysia reached the terminal stage where the future is only kleptocracy, kakistocracy and a failed state?

I do not think so.

So long as Malaysians do not believe the siren song that any race or religion is facing extinction, as there is no race or religion in Malaysia’s plural society which wants to eliminate another race or religion, and Malaysians regardless of race or religion can focus on the shared middle ground of making Malaysia a world-class great nation which delivers a better quality of life in education, economics, public health, housing and environment to all Malaysians, then the Malaysian Dream is still relevant and pertinent.

Politics in Malaysia has entered a new phase, with the Three-Kingdom scenario in the backdoor government evolving into a new stage, with each of the three players in government attempting to secure an unique advantage over the others.

What is surprising is that key role played by PAS, which the Prime Minister, Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin, had condemned in the past as “Parti Ajaran Sesat”.

It is a sign of the turbulent and tumultuous political times in Malaysia that the Prime Minister is now the captive of the “Parti Ajaran Sesat” he had been condemning, when he was previously in UMNO or Bersatu!

In pursuit of the Malaysian Dream for Malaysia to be a world-class great nation, the first principle is to recognise that Malaysia is falling behind more and more countries in excellence, meritocracy, good governance and competitiveness.

We have regressed in our quest to become a world-class great nation, including a country with the competitive edge over other nations in being able to draw foreign investments for the economic growth and prosperity, which is all the more important after the economic ravages of the Covid-19 pandemic after more than a year.

We must learn from our mistakes that prevent Malaysia from becoming a world-class great nation, whether in ensuring public trust and confidence, good and democratic governance, infrastructure investment or human capital development.

When Muhyiddin Yassin was the Education Minister at the beginning of the last decade, he launched the Malaysia Education Blueprint 2013-2025 in September 2012 for Malaysia to become a “wonder nation” and make the quantum jump from the bottom third to top third of 2021 PISA (Programme for International Assessment) tests of OECD.

But this had been a dismal failure, for instead of leaping into the top third of the PISA tests, Malaysia’s 2018 PISA results had been worse than the 2015 PISA results in all the three subjects of maths, science and reading and we are still far from the top third among the 80 PISA participating countries.

The four sets of PISA results for Malaysia since 2009 are as follows:

PISA Score (Rank)

2009

2012

2015

2018

Maths

404 (57)

421 (52)

446 (45)

440 (47)

Science

422 (52)

420 (53)

443 (47)

438 (48)

Reading

414 (55)

398 (59)

431 (50)

415 (56)

Where will Malaysia be in the fifth 2021 PISA tests?

Another dismal failure of the Education Blueprint 2013-2025 was its strategic goal of recruiting from the top 30% cohort into the teaching profession.

According to the Ministry of Education’s statistics at the time, top academic performers comprised only 1% of applicants into the Bachelor of Education program in 2009 and this was only increased to 9% of total applicants in 2011. What is the position today?

A decade later, we have slipped further in human capital development to the extent that multinational companies (MNCs) are less keen to employ local engineers who had graduated from local public universities, preferring graduates from Philippines, Vietnam, Thailand and even Indonesia.

They say local graduate engineers fall below their requirement, viz:

they cannot perform their tasks well;

they will need more training on the job (which will cost time and money);

its more a nuisance to hire them, especially when engineers from nearby ASEAN countries can perform better.

We have also slipped in the world competitiveness ranking from No. 22 in 2019 to No. 27 in 2020. Our ranking in the 2021 world competitiveness report is likely to be even worse!

Since 1970, the GDP of Malaysia has increased 90 times but Indonesia has increased by 117 times, Vietnam 122 times, China 163 times, Singapore 175 times and South Korea 178 times.

After the past 50 years, both Singapore and Vietnam have overtaken Malaysia in having larger GDPs.

The time has come to sound the bugle call for all Malaysians to realise that we are losing out to more and more countries in creating a world-class great nation and a workforce with technology know-how, political maturity and stability, racial harmony, the rule of law, control of corruption and good governance — and that there must be new spurt of national energies to make Malaysia great again if we are not to be relegated to the backwaters of a kleptocracy, kakistocracy and a failed state!

Can we return to the days when we can uphold the Malaysian Constitution and the five Rukun Negara principles to achieve a world-class great nation — as we have now Ministers who have dubious positions on the Constitution and the Rukun Negara?

(Media Statement by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Kuala Lumpur on Sunday, 4th April 2021)

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DAP had never been extremist unless the Malaysian Dream where every citizen is Malaysian first before his or her ethnic, religious or other identities is “extremist”

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DAP had never been extremist unless the Malaysian Dream where every citizen is Malaysian first before his or her ethnic, religious or other identities is “extremist”.

The Malaysian Constitution and the Rukun Negara are the basis of the Malaysian plural society, based on constitutional monarchy, federalism, parliamentary democracy, the separation of powers, the rule of law, good governance, public integrity, respect for human right, religious freedom and tolerance.

How far we have veered from these moderate and middle-of-the-road practices is illustrated by the sad fact that we have now Cabinet Ministers who do not subscribe to the nation-building principles spelt out in the Constitution and the Rukun Negara.

It is understandable to regard ourselves as Malays, Chinese, Indians, Kadazans, Ibans or Muslims, Buddhists, Christians, Hindus, Sikhs, Taoists first and Malaysian second in the early decades of nationhood, but if we continue to subordinate our Malaysian identity and consciousness to other identities and consciousness, then it is a failure in Malaysian nation-building and nationhood.

This is the substance of the Malaysian Dream, that while Malaysians will continue to have multiple identities – ethnic, religious, cultural – we must all be Malaysians first and foremost.

The Pakatan Harapan 2018 General Election manifesto to rebuild the nation and fulfil the nation’s hopes is the most courageous attempt in the last five decades to return Malaysia to our founding principles.

Are the promises in Pakatan Harapan manifesto in the 14th General Election “extremist”
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 the promises of institutional and political reforms like term-limit for the Prime Minister and restricting of the Prime Minister’s Office so that Cabinet Ministers cease to “mere yes-men”; to resolve the 1MDB, FELDA, MARA and Tabung Haji mega scandals; reform the MACC and strengthen anti-corruption efforts; restore the dignity of Parliament; ensure transparency and robustness of our electoral system; restore public trust in the judicial and legal institutions; make the governance of our GLCs world class at par with international standards; make our human rights record respected by the world; abolish repressive laws; spur investment; enhance the income of the majority; ensure the long-term prosperity of the rakyat; implement the 1963 Malaysia Agreement and fight crime and social ills “extremist”?

But early in the Pakatan Harapan Government, it was Mahathir who said that the manifesto was not a bible.

Who was being extremist?

Right from the formation of the DAP in 1966, DAP had adhered to its long-term commitment to build an united, harmonious, just and prosperous, multi-racial, multi-religious and multi-cultural Malaysian nation, and to realise the Malaysian Dream.

The 32 million Malaysians of diverse races, languages, religions and cultures cannot build a great Malay nation, a great Chinese nation or a great Indian nation for that will be a formula for great divisiveness and discord in Malaysia
—
 but we can together build a great Malaysian nation.

In fact, as the confluence of four great civilisations in the world
—
 Malay/Islamic, Chinese, Indian and Western
—
 we are well poised to be a successful example of Alliance of Civilisations and not an example of failure from Clash of Civilisations as Malaysia should leverage on the best values and virtues of the world’s four great civilisations to be “a beacon of light to a difficult and distracted world”.

DAP has been demonised in the past 55 years by extremists on both ends of the political spectrum on the one hand as anti-Malay, anti-Islam anti-Royalty and on the other, having sold out the rights and interests of the Malaysian Chinese and Indians for daring to espouse the Malaysian Dream.

But however uphill and seemingly impossible the espousal of the Malaysian Dream, I am inspired by two events:

that DAP has produced a leader who is prepared to pay a heavy personal and political price for the honour and dignity of an underaged girl of another race and religion (when there are no political leaders in Malaysia who have been prepared to pay any price even for someone from their own race and religion);

that there are 80 artists from all races and religions who contributed to the Malaysian Dream project in Theatre Impian in Bukit Jalil, Kuala Lumpur.

It is my hope that all Malaysians, including past practitioners of the politics of race and religion, will espouse the Malaysian Dream
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 for it is the only way for Malaysia to return to the path to be a world-class great nation and to fulfil the aspiration of Bapa Malaysia, Tunku Abdul Rahman for Malaysia to be “a beacon of light to a difficult and distracted world”.

(Media Statement by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Kuala Lumpur on Monday, 5th April 2021)

DAP tidak pernah bersifat ekstremis, melainkan Impian Malaysia, di mana semua orang pertamanya adalah rakyat Malaysia sebelum identiti-identiti etnik, agama, atau lain dianggap sebagai “ekstremis”

DAP tidak pernah bersifat ekstremis, melainkan Impian Malaysia, di mana semua orang pertamanya adalah rakyat Malaysia sebelum identiti-identiti etnik, agama, atau lain dianggap sebagai “ekstremis”.

Perlembagaan Persekutuan dan Rukun Negara menjadi asas pembentukan masyrakat majmuk di Malaysia, berasaskan sistem raja berpelembagaan, semangat persekutuan, demokrasi berparlimen, pemisahan kuasa, kedaulatan undang-undang, integriti awam, hormat terhadap hak asasi manusia, kebebasan beragama, dan toleransi.

Sejauh manakah kita telah tersasar daripada amalan-amalan moderat dan bersederhana seperti ini dapat dilihat di Kabinet kita, dengan menteri-menteri yang kini tidak menghormati prinsip-prinsip pembinaan negara bangsa seperti yang termaktub dalam Rukun Negara dan Perlembagaan Persekutuan.

Pada era-era awal penubuhan negara kita, boleh difahami jika seseorang itu melihat diri mereka pertamanya sebagai seorang Melayu, Cina, India, Kadazan, Iban, Islam, Buddha, Kristian, Hindu, Sikh, atau Tao dan kemudiannya barulah seorang rakyat Malaysia, tetapi sekiranya kita terus mengetepikan identiti Malaysia kita, perkara ini hanyalah menjadi bukti kegagalan proses pembinaan negara bangsa kita.

Inilah intipati Impian Malaysia, bahawa walaupun rakyat Malaysia akan terus mempunyai pelbagai identiti — etnik, agama, budaya — kita semua pertamanya adalah rakyat Malaysia.

Manifesto Pilihan Raya Umum 2018 Pakatan Harapan untuk membina semula negara dan memenuhi harapan negara adalah usaha paling berani dalam lima dekad terakhir untuk mengembalikan Malaysia kepada prinsip-prinsip asas kita.

Adakah janji-janji dalam manifesto Pakatan Harapan pada Pilihan Raya Umum ke-14 “ekstremis” — janji-janji reformasi institusi dan politik seperti had terma untuk Perdana Menteri dan pembatasan kuasa Pejabat Perdana Menteri yang telah menyebabkan Menteri-menteri Kabinet hanya menjadi pak turut; untuk menyelesaikan skandal mega 1MDB, FELDA, MARA dan Tabung Haji; reformasi SPRM dan memperkukuhkan usaha pencegahan rasuah; mengembalikan maruah Parlimen; memastikan ketelusan dan ketahanan sistem pilihan raya kita; mengembalikan kepercayaan masyarakat terhadap institusi kehakiman dan perundangan; memastikan terdapatnya tadbir urus berkelas dunia dalam GLC kita yang setaraf dengan piawaian antarabangsa; menjadikan rekod hak asasi manusia kita dihormati oleh dunia; memansuhkan undang-undang yang menindas; memacu pelaburan; meningkatkan pendapatan rakyat dan memastikan kemakmuran jangka panjang rakyat; melaksanakan Perjanjian Malaysia 1963 dan memerangi jenayah dan penyakit sosial “pelampau”?

Tetapi pada era-era awal pentadbiran Pakatan Harapan, Mahathir yang mengatakan bahawa manifesto itu bukanlah kitab suci.

Siapa yang melampau?

Sejak terbentuknya DAP pada tahun 1966, DAP mematuhi komitmen jangka panjangnya untuk membina sebuah negara Malaysia yang bersatu-padu, harmoni, adil dan makmur, berbilang kaum, dengan pelbagai agama dan pelbagai budaya, dan untuk merealisasikan Impian Malaysia .

32 juta orang rakyat Malaysia daripada pelbagai latar belakang kaum, bahasa, agama, dan budaya tidak boleh membentuk sebuah negara Melayu yang hebat, sebuah negara Cina yang hebat, atau sebuah negara India yang hebat, kerana perkara ini akan menjadi formula kepada perpecahan dalam negara kita — sebaliknya, bersama, kita semua mampu untuk membina sebuah negara Malaysia yang hebat.

Malah, sebagai titik pertemuan empat peradaban hebat dunia — Melayu/Islam, Cina, India, dan Barat — kita berada di kedudukan yang bertuah untuk menjadi contoh kejayaan Penyatuan Peradaban yang bertemu di negara kita ini, dan bukannya menjadi contoh kegagalan akibat pertembungan budaya. Kita perlu menggerakkan segala usaha untuk memanfaatkan nilai-nilai murni dalam peradaban utama dunia ini untuk menjadi “sinar cahaya dalam dunia yang kelam dan terganggu”.

DAP telah difitnah sejak 55 tahun yang lepas oleh para pelampau di kedua-dua sudut spektrum politik di satu pihak sebagai anti-Melayu, anti-Islam anti-Raja dan di sisi lain, sebagai menggadaikan hak dan kepentingan orang Cina Malaysia dan Orang India kerana berani menerapkan Impian Malaysia.

Namun, biarpun besar cabarannya untuk menerapkan Impian Malaysia ini, saya telah mendapati inspirasi daripada dua kejadian:

· Bahawa DAP telah melahirkan seorang pemimpin yang bersedia untuk berkorban dari segi peribadi dan politik demi kehormatan dan martabat seorang gadis bawah umur dari kaum dan agama yang berbeza (ketika di mana tidak ada seorang pun pemimpin politik di Malaysia yang bersedia untuk berbuat demikian demi saudara sekaum dan seagama mereka sendiri);

· Bahawa terdapat 80 seniman dari semua bangsa dan agama yang menyumbang dalam projek Impian Malaysia di Teater Impian di Bukit Jalil, Kuala Lumpur.

Harapan saya agar semua rakyat Malaysia, termasuk pengamal politik perkauman dan keagamaan sebelum ini, akan menerapkan Impian Malaysia — kerana inilah satu-satunya jalan bagi Malaysia untuk kembali ke arah untuk menjadi sebuah negara besar bertaraf dunia dan memenuhi aspirasi Bapa Malaysia, Tunku Abdul Rahman agar Malaysia menjadi “sinar cahaya dalam dunia yang kelam dan terganggu”.

(Kenyataan Media Ahli Parlimen DAP Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang di Kuala Lumpur pada hari Isnin, 6 April 2021)

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No reason or excuse for Muhyiddin to refuse to advise the Yang di Pertuan Agong to convene Parliament when the third Covid-19 wave is finally coming under control after eight long months – making it one of the longest Covid-19 waves in the world!

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I received the second dose of Covid-19 vaccine in Kuala Lumpur this morning – together Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim, Datuk Seri Wan Azizah Wan Ismail and Datuk Seri Saifuddin Nasution.

The registration and vaccination against the Covid-19 pandemic must be speeded up so that the Covid-19 pandemic in Malaysia can be ended as early as possible to allow normality and economic recovery to be launched by the last quarter of the year.

Parliament should be convened to decide that the Covid-19 national vaccination campaign should be accelerated and completed by Malaysia Day on Sept 16. 2021 through an “all-of-government” and “whole-of-society” anti-Covid-19 strategy and approach.

There is no reason or excuse for the Prime Minister, Tan Sri Muhyddin Yassin, not to advise the Yang di Pertuan Agong to convene Parliament to carry out a full national mobilisation of Malaysians in the war against the Covid-19 pandemic as the third Covid-19 wave is finally coming under control after eight long months – making it one of the longest Covid-19 waves in the world.

During the last parliamentary meeting from Nov. 5 to Dec. 17, 2020, the daily increase of new Covid-19 cases fluctuated between 589 cases on 15th November to 2,234 new cases on Dec. 12, 2020 during the seven-week Parliament.

In the last 28 days, the daily increase of Covid-19 cases has been brought down to the triple digit figure of 941 cases on March 29 to the highest of 1,671 cases on March 20 – lower than the peak during the last parliamentary period although still to match the lowest daily increase of 589 new cases.

I hope to see a continuous reduction in the daily increase of new Covid-19 cases in the coming days, and that we should be able to reduce it to less than 589 new cases in this month itself.

The Cabinet tomorrow should decide that the Prime Minister should advise the Yang di Pertuan Agong to convene Parliament to deal more effectively with the Covid-19 pandemic.

Will the Cabinet do so?

(Media Statement by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang after receiving the second dose of Covid-19 vaccine in Kuala Lumpur on Tuesday, 6th April 2021 at 10 am)

Tiada lagi alasan untuk Muhyiddin tidak menasihati Yang di Pertuan Agong untuk memanggil sidang Parlimen sedangkan gelombang ketiga wabak Covid-19 akhirnya berada di bawah kawalan — menjadikannya salah satu gelombang penularan terpanjang di dunia!

Saya telah menerima dos kedua vaksin Covid-19 pagi ini di Kuala Lumpur — bersama dengan Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim, Datuk Seri Wan Azizah Ismail, dan Datuk Seri Saifuddin Nasution.

Proses pendaftaran dan pengedaran vaksin Covid-19 perlu dipercepatkan supaya wabak Covid-19 di Malaysia dapat ditamatkan secepat mungkin untuk membolehkan kehidupan normal dan pemulihan ekonomi dimulakan dalam suku keempat tahun ini.

Parlimen patut dipanggil bersidang untuk membuat keputusan mempercepatkan pelaksanaan program imunisasi Covid-19 kebangsaan menjelang hari Malaysia pada 16 September 2021 dengan menggunapakai pendekatan yang melibatkan “keseluruhan kerajaan” dan “keseluruhan masyrakat”.

Tiada lagi sebarang sebab atau alasan untuk Perdana Menteri Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin tidak menasihati Seri Paduka Baginda Yang di Pertuan Agong untuk memanggil sidang Parlimen untuk menggerakkan seluruh negara dalam perang melawan wabak Covid-19, memandangkan gelombang ketiga wabak ini akhirnya berada di bawah kawalan selepas lapan bulan — menjadikannya salah satu gelombang penularan Covid-19 yang terpanjang di dunia.

Semasa persidangan Parlimen yang lepas, di antara 5 November sehingga 17 Disember 2020, kadar peningkatan harian wabak Covid-19 berada di antara 589 kes pada 15 November ke 2,234 kes pada 12 Disember.

Dalam tempoh 28 hari yang lepas, kadar peningkatan ini berada di antara 941 kes pada 29 Mac kepada 1,671 kes pada 20 Mac — satu julat yang lebih rendah berbanding dengan kemuncak dalam persidangan Parlimen yang lepas, walaupun masih belum mencapai kadar peningkatan 589 kes pada 15 November.

Saya berharap kita akan terus melihat penurunan kadar kes Covid-19 dalam hari-hari yang akan datang, dan harapnya kadar peningkatan pada bulan ini akan turun di bawah paras 589 kes.

Mesyuarat Kabinet esok perlu memutuskan yang Perdana Menteri perlu menasihati Yang di Pertuan Agong untuk memanggil sidang Parlimen, bagi membolehkan wabak Covid-19 ini ditangani dengan lebih efektif.

Adakah Kabinet akan berbuat demikian?

(Kenyataan media Ahli Parlimen DAP Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang selepas menerima dos kedua vaksin Covid-19 di Kuala Lumpur pada hari Selasa, 6 April 2021 pada jam 10 pagi)

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Malaysia needs a government which is dedicated to fulfilling the Malaysian Dream to restore the national aspiration to become a world-class great nation

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There is a lot of thunder and lightning on the Malaysian political scene and the country is undergoing unprecedented number of political intrigues and conspiracies.

But they are not wrestling with the most important issue in Malaysia – which is how to establish a government which is dedicated to fulfilling the Malaysian Dream to restore the national aspiration to become a world-class great nation.

When we achieved Merdeka in 1957, our economy, education, judiciary and civil service, and in some sports, were among the best in the world, but the past six decades we have slipped behind one country after another in these fields while Malaysia had become infamous in areas which would have embarrassed our founding fathers – like becoming “kleptocracy at its worst”!

The 14th General Election was a high-water mark in the pursuit of the Malaysian Dream, for it represented a superhuman effort by Malaysians who believe in the Malaysian Dream to roll back decades of regression and imprudent policies and to try to fulfil Bapa Malaysia, Tunku Abdul Rahman’s hope that Malaysia can be “a beacon of light in a difficult and distracted world”.

But the hopes and dream of Malaysians for a New Malaysia spelt out in Buku Harapan – the 2018 general election manifesto of Pakatan Harapan coalition – suffered a grievous blow when the Pakatan Harapan Government was toppled by the Sheraton Move conspiracy after 22 months, ushering in a backdoor illegitimate government which suspended Parliament as it was unsure that it could continue to command the support of the majority of MPs in Parliament.

Instead of five years of institutional reforms and political, economic, social and educational changes to strongly anchor Malaysia as a world-class great nation, we were suddenly plunged into a post-PH scenario with the country teetering on the verge of a kakistocracy, while facing the worst racial and religious polarisation after many years of unhampered dissemination of a deluge of fake news, lies, falsehoods and disinformation to drum up fear, distrust and hatred among the diverse races, languages, religions and cultures in the country.

The Prime Minister, Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin, lambasted PAS as “Parti Ajaran Sesat” in the last decade, both when he was in UMNO and Bersatu, but it posed no obstacle to his formation of Perikatan Nasional with PAS.

We have today Cabinet Ministers who reject the basic nation-building principles in the Malaysian Constitution and the Rukun Negara – constitutional monarchy, federalism, Malaysia as a plural society, parliamentary democracy, the separation of powers, the rule of law, good governance, public integrity, respect for human rights, religious freedom and tolerance.

Last week, Indonesia’s Vice President, Ma’ruf Amin – formerly the Supreme Leader of Nahdlatul Ulama (NU) in Indonesia, the world’s largest Islamic organisation – declared that Indonesia is not a Islamic state and reiterated support for Pancasila as the foundational nation-building basis for Indonesia.

Is the PAS President, Hadi Awang, prepared to announce that Malaysia is not an Islamic State and declare support for Rukun Negara as the foundational nation-building principles.

While it is understandable to regard ourselves as Malays, Chinese, Indians, Kadazans, Ibans or Muslims, Buddhists, Christians, Hindus, Sikhs, Taoists first and Malaysian second in the early decades of nationhood, will the Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin now declare that in 2021, he is Malaysian first and Malay second?

If after six decades of Malaysian nationhood, we continue to subordinate our Malaysian identity and consciousness to other identities and consciousness, (while nobody is suggesting that Malaysians should surrender their other multiple identities) then it is a failure in Malaysian nation-building and nationhood!

This is the substance of the Malaysian Dream.

It is sad and tragic that the various political intrigues and conspiracies in Malaysia are not carried out in pursuit of the Malaysian Dream.

We had a mandate of five years to implement the Pakatan Harapan manifesto and fulfil the Malaysian Dream for a New Malaysia, but this was cut short in 22 months by the Sheraton Move conspiracy which toppled the Pakatan Harapan government and ushered in a backdoor and illegitimate regime.

There is frustration, disappointment and even despair in the land.

Has Malaysia reached a terminal stage where the future is only kleptocracy, kakistocracy and a failed state?

So long as Malaysians do not believe the siren song that any race or religion is facing extinction – as there is no race or religion in Malaysia’s plural society which wants to eliminate another race or religion – and Malaysians regardless of race or religion can focus on the shared middle ground of making Malaysia a world-class great nation which delivers a better quality of life in education, economics, public health, housing and environment to all Malaysians, then the Malaysian Dream is still alive, relevant and pertinent.

The greatest challenge today is how we can rekindle, re-inspire, re-energize and re-motivate hope and inspiration in the Malaysian Dream for the country to be a world-class great nation by ensuring that the 15th General Election is another superhuman effort to fulfill the high but dashed hopes of the 14th General Election for reform and salvation.

But we must learn from the mistakes of the 22-month Pakatan Harapan government.

Firstly, the importance of public perception – we must not, for example, convey the perception that we are not serious about our general election promises which happened when the former Prime Minister said that the PH Election Manifesto was not a bible. Even if 80 or 90 per cent of the election pledges had been implemented in the five-year mandate, damage would have been done. It was worse when the five-year tenure of the PH government was cut short in 22 months by the Sheraton Move conspiracy.

Secondly, the Prime Minister and Cabinet must have a Pakatan Harapan coalition mindset and framework. A major Pakatan Harapan mistake in the 22 months of Pakatan Harapan government was that the Prime Minister and the Cabinet Ministers did not have a Pakatan Harapann coalition mindset and framework and prepared to be guided by these principles.

(Media Statement by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Kuala Lumpur on Wednesday, 7th April 2021)

Malaysia memerlukan sebuah kerajaan yang berdedikasi untuk memenuhi Impian Malaysia untuk mengembalikan aspirasi nasional untuk menjadi sebuah negara hebat bertaraf dunia

Negara gegak kempita dengan kancah politik Malaysia yang dipenuhi konspirasi politik yang belum pernah terjadi sebelumnya.

Namun, isu yang paling penting di Malaysia, bagaimana untuk membentuk kerajaan yang berdedikasi untuk memenuhi Impian Malaysia untuk mengembalikan aspirasi nasional untuk menjadi sebuah negara hebat bertaraf dunia masih terus dipinggirkan.

Ketika kita mencapai kemerdekaan pada tahun 1957, sistem ekonomi, pendidikan, kehakiman dan perkhidmatan awam kita, malah bidang sukan kita, adalah antara yang terbaik di dunia, tetapi dalam tempoh enam dekad yang lepas kita telah ketinggalan berbanding dengan kebanyakkan negara — negara lain dalam bidang — bidang ini, sebaliknya menjadi terkenal di seantero dunia dengan gelaran “kleptokrasi yang terburuk” yang membawa malu kepada maruah tokoh — tokoh awal negara kita.

Pilihan Raya Umum ke — 14 adalah tanda aras tertinggi dalam mengejar Impian Malaysia, kerana ia merupakan usaha luar biasa rakyat Malaysia yang dengan keazaman terhadap Impian Malaysia untuk menebus kegagalan berdekad — dekad dan berusaha memenuhi impian Bapa Malaysia, Tunku Abdul Rahman agar Malaysia dapat menjadi “sinar cahaya dalam dunia yang sukar dan terganggu”.

Tetapi harapan dan impian rakyat Malaysia untuk Malaysia Baharu seperti yang dinyatakan dalam Buku Harapan — manifesto pilihan raya umum 2018 gabungan Pakatan Harapan — dimusnahkan apabila Kerajaan Pakatan Harapan digulingkan melalui konspirasi Langkah Sheraton selepas hanya 22 bulan mentadbir negara, sekali gus melihat terbentuknya kerajaan pintu belakang yang tidak sah yang seterusnya menggantung Parlimen kerana tidak yakin ia akan terus mendapat sokongan majoriti ahli parlimen di Parlimen.

Daripada melakukan pembaharuan institusi dan perubahan politik, ekonomi, sosial dan pendidikan selama lima tahun untuk menjadikan Malaysia sebagai sebuah negara hebat bertaraf dunia, kita tiba — tiba terjerumus ke dalam senario pasca — PH dengan negara kini bergerak ke ambang kakistokrasi, sementara berhadapan dengan polarisasi perkauman dan agama yang terburuk setelah bertahun — tahun berdepan tanpa henti penyebaran berita palsu, pembohongan, kepalsuan dan maklumat yang tidak benar yang direka bertujuan untuk menimbulkan rasa takut, tidak percaya dan kebencian di antara pelbagai kaum, bahasa, agama dan budaya di negara ini.

Perdana Menteri, Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin, menganggap PAS sebagai “Parti Ajaran Sesat” dalam dekad terakhir ketika dia masih berada dalam UMNO dan Bersatu, tetapi hal itu tidak menghalangnya untuk bekerjasama dengan Pas untuk membentuk Perikatan Nasional.

Kita hari ini mempunyai Menteri Kabinet yang menolak prinsip — prinsip asas pembinaan negara dalam Perlembagaan Malaysia dan Rukun Negara — Raja Berperlembagaan, federalisme, Malaysia sebagai masyarakat majmuk, demokrasi berparlimen, pemisahan kuasa, kedaulatan undang — undang, pemerintahan yang baik, awam integriti, penghormatan terhadap hak asasi manusia, kebebasan beragama dan toleransi.

Minggu lalu, Wakil Presiden Indonesia, Ma’ruf Amin — mantan Pemimpin Tertinggi Nahdlatul Ulama (NU) di Indonesia, organisasi Islam terbesar di dunia — menyatakan bahawa Indonesia bukan sebuah negara Islam dan mengulangi sokongan terhadap Pancasila sebagai dasar pembangunan negara bangsa untuk Indonesia.

Adakah Presiden PAS, Hadi Awang, bersedia untuk mengumumkan bahawa Malaysia bukan Negara Islam dan menyatakan sokongan terhadap Rukun Negara sebagai asas pembinaan negara bangsa.

Walaupun dapat difahami bahawa kita menganggap diri kita sebagai orang Melayu, Cina, India, Kadazan, Iban atau Muslim, Buddha, Kristian, Hindu, Sikh, Taois pertama dan Malaysia kedua pada dekad awal kebangsaan, adakah Perdana Menteri Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin sekarang akan menyatakan bahawa pada tahun 2021, beliau pertamanya adalah rakyat Malaysia, sebelum identitinya sebagai seorang Melayu?

Sekiranya setelah enam dekad kenegaraan Malaysia, kita terus menundukkan identiti dan kesedaran Malaysia kita kepada identiti dan kesedaran yang lain, (sementara tidak ada yang menyarankan agar rakyat Malaysia menyerahkan identiti mereka yang lain) maka itu sebenarnya adalah sebuah kegagalan dalam pembinaan negara dan bangsa Malaysia!

Inilah hakikat impian Malaysia.

Adalah menyedihkan dan tragis bahawa pelbagai usaha dan konspirasi politik di Malaysia tidak dipacu untuk mengejar Impian Malaysia.

Kami mempunyai mandat selama lima tahun untuk melaksanakan manifesto Pakatan Harapan dan memenuhi Impian Malaysia untuk Malaysia Baru, tetapi ini telah digagalkan dalam 22 bulan oleh konspirasi Langkah Sheraton yang menggulingkan kerajaan Pakatan Harapan dan menghasil sebuah rejim pintu belakang dan tidak sah.

Terdapat kekecewaan bahkan rasa tidak puas hati yang dirasai ramai pihak di negeri ini.

Adakah Malaysia telah mencapai tahap tepu di mana hanya kleptokrasi, kakistokrasi dan negara yang gagal dilihat sebagai destinasi yang akan dituju?

Selagi mana rakyat Malaysia tidak mempercayai kata-kata yang mendakwa mana-mana kaum atau agama sedang diancam kepupusan — kerana tidak ada kaum atau agama dalam masyarakat majmuk Malaysia yang ingin kaum atau agama lain dihapuskan — dan rakyat Malaysia tanpa mengira bangsa atau agama dapat memberi tumpuan kepada usaha untuk titik persefahaman bagi menjadikan Malaysia sebagai negara hebat bertaraf dunia yang memberikan kualiti hidup yang lebih baik dalam pendidikan, ekonomi, kesihatan awam, perumahan dan persekitaran kepada semua rakyat Malaysia, supaya Impian Malaysia terus hidup dan relevan.

Cabaran terbesar hari ini adalah bagaimana kita dapat menghidupkan kembali, menginspirasi kembali dan memotivasi kembali harapan dan inspirasi dalam Impian Malaysia agar negara menjadi negara hebat bertaraf dunia dengan memastikan bahawa Pilihan Raya Umum ke-15 adalah satu lagi usaha luar biasa rakyat Malaysia untuk memenuhi harapan pada Pilihan Raya Umum ke-14 yang lalu untuk melakukan reformasi.

Tetapi kita mesti belajar dari kesilapan pemerintahan Pakatan Harapan selama 22 bulan.

Pertama, pentingnya persepsi masyarakat — kita tidak boleh, misalnya, menyampaikan persepsi bahawa kita tidak serius dengan janji pilihan raya kita seperti yang berlaku ketika mantan Perdana Menteri mengatakan bahawa Manifesto Pemilihan PH bukanlah kitab suci. Sekalipun 80 atau 90 perarus janji pilihan raya telah dilaksanakan dalam tempoh mandat lima tahun, ia tetap akan mengundang persepsi negatif. Lebih teruk lagi apabila tempoh lima tahun pemerintahan PH dalam 22 bulan telah ditamatkan oleh konspirasi Langkah Sheraton.

Kedua, Perdana Menteri dan Kabinet mesti bergerak dalam pemikiran dan kerangka gabungan Pakatan Harapan. Kesalahan besar Pakatan Harapan dalam 22 bulan pemerintahan Pakatan Harapan adalah kerana Perdana Menteri dan Menteri Kabinet tidak bergerak dalam pemikiran dan kerangka pakatan Pakatan Harapan dan bersedia dipandu oleh prinsip-prinsip ini.

(Kenyataan Media Ahli Parlimen DAP Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang di Kuala Lumpur pada hari Rabu, 7 April 2021)

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Is the failure of  30-year Vision 2020 for an united  Bangsa Malaysia, with a developed, democratic, ethical, liberal, scientific  and caring society,  a failure of extremism or a failure of moderation in Malaysia?

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After the meeting of Malay DAP leaders with Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad yesterday, DAP Pahang Assemblywoman for Ketari Young Syefura Othman tweeted:

“Sempat juga kongsi dengan Tun bahawa DAP ni memang ekstrem sikit dalam isu demokrasi, kebajikan rakyat dan tadbir urus kerajaan.”

There were two other events yesterday which caught my attention:

Firstly, columnist Mariam Mokhtar’s article,
 “Malay unity: fact or fantasy?”

Secondly, the touching story of the DAP MP for Bukit Mertajam, Steven Sim, helping a homeless man several days after helping an evicted mother with 10 children.

I was struck by one question: Is the failure of 30-year Vision 2020 for an united Bangsa Malaysia, with a developed, democratic, ethical, liberal, scientific and caring society, a failure of extremism or moderation in Malaysia?

I supported Vision 2020 for it embodies the Malaysian Dream for Malaysia to be a world-class great nation – a plural society of people with multiple identities because of their diversities of race, language, religion, culture and region but united by one common bond, they are first and foremost Malaysians ahead of their different ethnic, religious, cultural or regional identities.

Hence Vision 2020 with a united Bangsa Malaysia!

When we achieved Merdeka in 1957, our economy, education, judiciary and civil service, and in some sports, were among the best in the world, but the past six decades we have slipped behind one country after another in these fields while Malaysia had become infamous in areas which would have embarrassed our founding fathers – like becoming “kleptocracy at its worst”- and teetering on the verge of a kakistocracy!

The 14th General Election was a high-water mark in the pursuit of the Malaysian Dream, for it represented a superhuman effort by Malaysians who believe in the Malaysian Dream to roll back decades of regression and imprudent policies and to try to fulfil Bapa Malaysia, Tunku Abdul Rahman’s hope that Malaysia can be “a beacon of light in a difficult and distracted world”.

But the hopes and dream of Malaysians for a New Malaysia spelt out in Buku Harapan – the 2018 general election manifesto of Pakatan Harapan coalition – suffered a grievous blow when the Pakatan Harapan Government was toppled by the Sheraton Move conspiracy after 22 months, ushering in a backdoor illegitimate government.

Instead of five years of institutional reforms and political, economic, social and educational changes to strongly anchor Malaysia as a world-class great nation, we were suddenly plunged into a post-PH scenario with the country teetering on the verge of a kakistocracy, while facing the worst racial and religious polarisation after many years of unhampered dissemination of a deluge of fake news, lies, falsehoods and disinformation to drum up fear, distrust and hatred among the diverse races, languages, religions and cultures in the country.

Should we give up on the Malaysian Dream?

Or should we again pursue Vision 2020 as Vision 2050 to create a united Bangsa Malaysia, with a developed, democratic, ethical, liberal, scientific and caring society so that Malaysia can take her place in the international community of nations as a world-class great country?

So long as Malaysians do not believe the siren song that any race or religion is facing extinction – as there is no race or religion in Malaysia’s plural society which wants to eliminate another race or religion – and Malaysians regardless of race or religion can focus on the shared middle ground of making Malaysia a world-class great nation which delivers a better quality of life in education, economics, public health, housing and environment to all Malaysians, then the Malaysian Dream is still alive, relevant and pertinent.

The greatest challenge today is how we can rekindle, re-inspire, re-energize and re-motivate hope and inspiration in the Malaysian Dream for the country to be a world-class great nation by ensuring that the 15th General Election is another superhuman effort to fulfil the high but dashed hopes of the 14th General Election for reform and salvation.

(Media Statement by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Kuala Lumpur on Saturday, April 10, 2021)

Adakah kegagalan Wawasan 2020 untuk membentuk Bangsa Malaysia yang bersatu padu, dengan masyarakat yang maju, demokratik, beretika, liberal, saintifik dan penyayang, merupakan satu kegagalan akibat ekstremisme atau kegagalan untuk bersederhana di Malaysia?

Selepas pertemuan pemimpin Melayu DAP bersama dengan Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad semalam, Adun DAP Ketari Young Syefura Othman menulis di Twitter:

“Sempat juga kongsi dengan Tun bahawa DAP ni memang ekstrem sikit dalam isu demokrasi, kebajikan rakyat dan tadbir urus kerajaan.”

Terdapat dua peristiwa lain semalam yang menarik perhatian saya:

Pertama, artikel kolumnis Mariam Mokhtar, yang bertajuk; “Kesatuan Melayu: fakta atau fantasi?”

Kedua, kisah menyentuh hati Ahli Parlimen DAP Bukit Mertajam, Steven Sim, menolong seorang gelandangan beberapa hari selepas menolong seorang ibu yang diusir keluar dari rumahnya bersama dengan 10 orang anak.

Saya dikejutkan dengan satu persoalan: Adakah kegagalan Wawasan 2020 untuk membentuk Bangsa Malaysia yang bersatu padu, dengan masyarakat yang maju, demokratik, beretika, liberal, saintifik dan penyayang, merupakan satu kegagalan akibat ekstremisme atau kegagalan untuk bersederhana di Malaysia?

Saya menyokong Wawasan 2020 kerana ia mewujudkan Impian Malaysia untuk Malaysia menjadi negara hebat bertaraf dunia — dengan masyarakat majmuk yang mempunyai pelbagai identiti kepelbagaian kaum, bahasa, agama, budaya dan wilayah tetapi disatukan oleh satu ikatan yang sama, bahawa mereka pertamanya adalah rakyat Malaysia yang sebelum identiti etnik, agama, budaya atau wilayah mereka yang berbeza.

Kerana itulah, Wawasan 2020 untuk Bangsa Malaysia yang bersatu!

Ketika kita mencapai kemerdekaan pada tahun 1957, sistem ekonomi, pendidikan, kehakiman dan perkhidmatan awam kita, malah bidang sukan kita, adalah antara yang terbaik di dunia, tetapi dalam tempoh enam dekad yang lepas kita telah ketinggalan berbanding dengan kebanyakkan negara-negara lain dalam bidang-bidang ini, sebaliknya menjadi terkenal di seantero dunia dengan gelaran “kleptokrasi yang terburuk” yang membawa malu kepada maruah tokoh-tokoh awal negara kita.

Pilihan Raya Umum ke — 14 adalah tanda aras tertinggi dalam mengejar Impian Malaysia, kerana ia merupakan usaha luar biasa rakyat Malaysia yang dengan keazaman terhadap Impian Malaysia untuk menebus kegagalan berdekad — dekad dan berusaha memenuhi impian Bapa Malaysia, Tunku Abdul Rahman agar Malaysia dapat menjadi “sinar cahaya dalam dunia yang sukar dan terganggu”.

Tetapi harapan dan impian rakyat Malaysia untuk Malaysia Baharu seperti yang dinyatakan dalam Buku Harapan — manifesto pilihan raya umum 2018 gabungan Pakatan Harapan — dimusnahkan apabila Kerajaan Pakatan Harapan digulingkan melalui konspirasi Langkah Sheraton selepas hanya 22 bulan mentadbir negara, sekali gus melihat terbentuknya kerajaan pintu belakang yang tidak sah yang seterusnya menggantung Parlimen kerana tidak yakin ia akan terus mendapat sokongan majoriti ahli parlimen di Parlimen.

Daripada melakukan pembaharuan institusi dan perubahan politik, ekonomi, sosial dan pendidikan selama lima tahun untuk menjadikan Malaysia sebagai sebuah negara hebat bertaraf dunia, kita tiba-tiba terjerumus ke dalam senario pasca-PH dengan negara kini bergerak ke ambang kakistokrasi, sementara berhadapan dengan polarisasi perkauman dan agama yang terburuk setelah bertahun-tahun berdepan tanpa henti penyebaran berita palsu, pembohongan, kepalsuan dan maklumat yang tidak benar yang direka bertujuan untuk menimbulkan rasa takut, tidak percaya dan kebencian di antara pelbagai kaum, bahasa, agama dan budaya di negara ini.

Perlukah kita berputus asa dengan Impian Malaysia?

Atau perlukah kita mengejar lagi Wawasan 2020 sebagai Wawasan 2050 untuk membentuk Bangsa Malaysia yang bersatu padu, dengan masyarakat yang maju, demokratik, beretika, liberal, saintifik dan prihatin sehingga Malaysia dapat mengambil tempatnya dalam komuniti negara-negara antarabangsa sebagai sebuah negara yang bertaraf dunia?

Selagi mana rakyat Malaysia tidak termakan umpan-umpan yang mengatakan mana-mana kaum atau agama berhadapan dengan risiko kepupusan — kerana tidak ada kaum atau agama dalam masyarakat majmuk Malaysia yang ingin menghilangkan kaum atau agama yang lain — dan rakyat Malaysia tanpa mengira kaum atau agama boleh memberi tumpuan kepada berkongsi jalan tengah menjadikan Malaysia sebuah negara besar bertaraf dunia yang memberikan kualiti hidup yang lebih baik dalam pendidikan, ekonomi, kesihatan awam, perumahan dan persekitaran kepada semua rakyat Malaysia, maka Impian Malaysia masih hidup dan kekal relevan.

Cabaran terbesar hari ini adalah bagaimana kita dapat menghidupkan kembali, memberi inspirasi, dan menggerakan semula harapan dan inspirasi dalam Impian Malaysia agar negara kita menjadi sebuah hebat bertaraf dunia dengan memastikan bahawa Pilihan Raya Umum ke-15 menjadi satu usaha kerjasama hebat kita semua untuk memenuhi harapan-harapan dalam PRU-14 untuk membawa reformasi dan menyelamatkan negara.

(Kenyataan Media Ahli Parlimen DAP Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang di Kuala Lumpur pada hari Sabtu, 10 April 2021)

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