UMNO NAK MESYUARAT SOAL PERTANDINGAN.

TERBARU...mesyuarat Dewan Tertingggi BN petang Rabu Mesyuarat Dewan Tertinggi Barisan Nasional dimana Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi dijadual akan membuat pengumuman beliau akan diadakan pada jam 3.30 petang Rabu.Agendadaily mendapat tahu undangan kepada para pemimpin parti komponen BN sudahpun dihantar petang ini.

Malaysia PM keeps nation guessing on stepping down

The Associated Press
Published: October 6, 2008

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia: Malaysia's prime minister kept the nation guessing Monday on whether he will step down soon amid a festering rebellion in the ruling party, saying he will announce his decision in a day or two.

Party members have clamored for fresh leadership after Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi led the government to its worst performance ever during general elections in March.
Speculation is that Abdullah will not last beyond March 2009, when the ruling party, the United Malays National Organization, is scheduled to elect its top office bearers.

There are indications that Abdullah will not defend the post of party president, and by extension resign as prime minister.
"I will decide either tomorrow or Wednesday" whether to contest or not, Abdullah told reporters.


All five prime ministers since Malaysia's independence from Britain in 1957 have served as party president, while the deputy prime minister typically holds the second top post in the party's leadership.

If Abdullah decides against contesting, Deputy Prime Minister Najib Razak is widely expected to be his replacement. The only other contender in the field, veteran politician Razaleigh Hamzah, is unlikely to get the nominations of a minimum of 58 district chiefs required to run for the top job.

Party members in the country's 191 districts will begin meetings Thursday to decide on the nominations.
Abdullah said he will call a meeting of the 13-party National Front ruling coalition on Wednesday to discuss future plans.

"Our colleagues (in the National Front) have already indicated they would like to be briefed on what we are doing and what the plans are going to be," Abdullah said, refusing to elaborate.
With Abdullah most likely to step aside, and Najib moving up one notch in the hierarchy, senior politicians have started scrambling for the No. 2 post in the ruling party. At least four politicians have publicly declared their intentions to contest with a few more on the sidelines.
When asked if this was healthy given that he has not yet declared his intention to withdraw from the race, Abdullah said, "It is their choice."

"After a while some of them will drop out. After that there will be left only two, perhaps only one," he said.

Nearly a dozen more will contest three vice presidential slots, while scores will vie for the 25-member Supreme Council policy-making body.

The United Malays National Organization, which represents majority ethnic Malays, has been the bedrock of Malaysia's government for five decades but has been discredited since the March elections returned the party to power with a simple majority, instead of the two-thirds majority it has enjoyed since 1969.

The new party president's task is cut out — to counter opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim's three-party alliance which is threatening to topple the government through parliamentary defections.

ABDULLAH WILL DEFEND HIS PM POSITION-BLOGGER SAID

PAK LAH PERLU PERTAHANKAN JAWATAN

Pak Lah perlu pertahankan jawatan beliau didalam UMNO sebagai Presiden Parti kerana ianya bukan sahaja membabitkan soal maruah tetapi semua kesalahan bukan bermula dizaman Pak Lah.Punca utamanya ialah di zaman Mahathir Mohammad.

Pak Lah cuma perlu berubah dari beberapa segi sahaja.

1.Tindakan tegas keatas korupsi

2.Hapuskan I.S.A

3. Jauhkan Khairy dari duduk dibawah ketiak.

4. Lebih terbuka dengan para parti pembangkang

5. Jauhkan perniagaan yang melibatkan anak beranak

6. .....dan lagi......

Malaysia writer in sedition trial

Raja Petra is already in jail under a law that allows detention without trial
A prominent anti-government blogger has gone on trial in Malaysia on charges of sedition.
Raja Petra Kamaruddin, who is already in jail after being detained under the Internal Security Act, faces charges dating back to an April blog posting.

In the blog, he allegedly implied high-level involvement in a murder case.
His supporters say he is being punished twice, as part of government efforts to use the judiciary to punish its political opponents.

Raja Petra published the country's best-known political blog, Malaysia Today.
In the April posting, he published an article entitled "Let's Send the Altantuya Murderers to Hell".

This allegedly suggested that involvement in the 2006 murder of 28-year-old Mongolian woman Altantuya Shaariibuu went as high as the office of Deputy Prime Minister Najib Razak.
Mr Najib has consistently denied any involvement.

Ms Shaariibuu had worked as a translator on several government trips.
Prosecutors in the case say two policemen killed her and blew up her body with explosives.
They claim that think-tank director Abdul Razak Baginda, a close associate of Mr Najib, collaborated in the murder because the woman was demanding money after he ended an affair.
The three men are on trial for the murder.
Double jeopardy?

The Associated Press reported that Raja Petra looked frail when he was brought in handcuffs in a police van for the trial.

"They are penalising him twice... It's double jeopardy. But his spirits are up," said Raja Petra's wife, Marina, at a district court, AP reported.

Several dozen supporters greeted Raja Petra at the Kamunting Jail in central Malaysia, wearing T-shirts with slogans such as "I am with RPK", "Free RPK", and "No to ISA".

Raja Petra was arrested on 12 September under the Internal Security Act (ISA) as part of a government clampdown on opposition voices.

An opposition member of parliament and a journalist also arrested at the same time were soon released.

Mr Najib is widely expected to take over as prime minister when incumbent Abdullah Badawi agrees on a transition date.

Mr Abdullah has lost widespread support following the ruling party's poor showing in elections in March.

Zaid sees 'no future in Umno'

Datuk Ibrahim, who resigned as minister in the PM'S Department last month, may be changing his mind about not leaving party. -NST

Sun, Oct 05, 2008The New Straits Times

KOTA BARU, MALAYSIA: Datuk Zaid Ibrahim, who resigned as minister in the Prime Minister's Department last month, may be changing his mind about not leaving Umno.
His reason is that he does not see a future for him in the party.

"I have given 20 years of my political life (to Umno) and I have got into a lot of difficulties because of my views and not that I was disloyal.

"I have always had different views on many things previously and today.

"I have been suspended from the party for nothing and now disqualified from running for (the Kota Baru) division election.

"So what do you want me to do if you are in my position?" Zaid said at his house in Pasir Hor here yesterday.

He tendered his resignation in mid-September over the government's use of the Internal Security Act on three individuals, including DAP stalwart Teresa Kok and blogger Raja Petra Kamaruddin but said he would not quit the party.

On reports that he had been courted by Parti Keadilan Rakyat and met its adviser Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim, he said he had met Anwar and Kelantan Menteri Besar Datuk Nik Aziz Nik Mat as friends.

"I met Nik Aziz on Friday to wish him Selamat Hari Raya and we spoke about national issues, but did not touch on personal things."

Malaysia race heats up for ruling party top posts

The Associated Press

Published: October 5, 2008





KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia: Malaysia's senior politicians have started scrambling for coveted posts in the ruling party amid expectations of a major power shuffle once the embattled prime minister steps down.

The contest will carve the next set of leaders in the United Malays National Organization, which has been the bedrock of Malaysia's government for five decades but is battling to regain its luster after dispiriting results in March general elections.

Contenders are now vying for the support of party officials in 191 districts that will launch a series of nationwide meetings Thursday aimed at nominating candidates to compete in the party's top-level ballot scheduled for March next year.

"Nominations will start, and the ground troops are all set for some serious political maneuverings. Things are going to be hot in the next few weeks," said Ahmad A. Talib, former chairman of the Malaysian Press Institute.

Party members have clamored for fresh leadership after the government retained power with only a simple parliamentary majority in March. The party, whose members are from the ethnic Malay Muslim majority, is the biggest component of the multiethnic ruling coalition.
Today in Asia .

Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, who endured much of the blame for the coalition's worst electoral performance ever, is widely expected to announce within a few days that he will not defend his position as the party's president.

Abdullah's deputy, Najib Razak, apparently has enough nominations to fill Abdullah's slot. His only known challenger is Razaleigh Hamzah, a lawmaker who might not receive the minimum number of 58 district nominations needed to formally contest the top job.

Candidates will likely to pledge to reinvigorate the party to fend off opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim's three-party alliance. Anwar has unsettled many government supporters since March by trying to topple the ruling coalition through parliamentary defections.

All five prime ministers since Malaysia's independence from Britain in 1957 have been the president of the Malay party, while the deputy prime minister is typically the party's No. 2.
International Trade Minister Muhyiddin Yassin is the front-runner for the deputy presidency, but a junior Cabinet minister and a state chief last week offered to also contest the post if Najib moves up. Others might enter the race after Abdullah confirms his retirement.

Other contests will be even more crowded. Nearly a dozen popular figures might seek the party's three vice president slots, while scores of others will jostle to fill the 25-member Supreme Council policy-making body.

Does cyber-terrorism exist?

Date: October 2008Source: crn.com.au

Global security experts gathered in Malaysia last month to help ramp up the world’s defenses against cyber-terrorism.Dubbed by organisers as ‘the largest ministerial-level gathering ever organised about cyber-terrorism’, the World Cyber Security Summit (WCSS), was recenlty held in Malaysia. Hosted by the International Multilateral Partnership Against Cyber-Terrorism (IMPACT), government representatives from all over the globe including Australia joined private sector and prominent security experts.

The summit was chaired by Malaysian Prime Minister Dato’ Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi with international speakers such as Professor Howard Schmidt, former White House security advisor and former chief security officer at Microsoft and eBay.They were joined by a multitude of security experts including Mikko Hypponen, chief research officer at F-Secure; Dr Paul Twomey, president and chief executive officer of ICANN; Dr Vinton G. Cerf, ‘Father of the Internet’ and chief Internet evangelist at Google and Eugene Kaspersky, founder and chief executive officer of Kaspersky Lab.Australia was well-represented with officials from the Attorney-General’s office and other government bodies attending the three-day summit.

According to IMPACT, the goal was to chart the future course for IMPACT as a global multilateral platform using ministerial roundtables, plenary sessions and information-sharing sessions about the latest cyber-security threats, trends and issues, such as, ‘Global Denial of Service’.According to Kaspersky, IMPACT is a unique initiative, aimed primarily at consolidating efforts against cyber-terrorism.

“Like all forms of terrorism, cyber-terrorism does not recognise borders or laws, the threat of cyber-terrorism is real,” said Kaspersky.

Cyberwarfare has emerged as a genuine tool of attack against governments, critical infrastructure and corporations. Most recently, Chinese hackers were accused of attacking CNN’s website following its broadcasts of Tibetan protests earlier this year.The Estonian government accused Russia of launching a cyber-war back in April 2007 after a number of its websites crashed. The Russian government denied any involvement.

The incident forced NATO, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, to think about the consequences of cyber-terrorism this year, announcing its intentions to build a dedicated cyber-warfare centre in Estonia.It has also been claimed that governments have recruited hacker armies, for example, North Korea has a legion of hackers, according to Ken Low, security marketing director at security vendor, TippingPoint.Dmitri Alperovitch, director, intelligence analysis at Secure Computing Corporation, addressed a room of delegates at the RSA Conference in San Francisco in April and confirmed that cybercrime is financing criminal activity including terrorism and people are dying.

“There are clear cases to date of cybercriminal activity resulting in deaths of people,” he said. “This is not just bits and viruses; this is not just someone stealing a Word document; there’s a lot of talk about ties to terrorism and organised crime,” said Alperovitch.

Nationally, a new TippingPoint report, Cyber Hack Update 2008 found that cyberattacks targeted at Australian Government websites are increasing. Despite the report’s failure to determine the culprits and their motives, it does confirm the existence of a local threat. The report found that attacks on Western Australian Government websites increased by 121 percent from 2007 to 2008. Attacks on South Australian Government websites increased by 29 percent and the Queensland Government had a 13 percent increase, year on year. “Australia is a high profile country despite its population,” said TippingPoint’s Ken Low.

The world this week

Politics this week
Oct 2nd 2008From The Economist print edition
AP
Frantic negotiations took place after congressmen unexpectedly voted against the federal government’s $700 billion bail-out of America’s banking system. As markets around the world spun into a free fall after the vote (the Dow Jones Industrial Average plummeted by 777 points, its largest-ever such drop over a day), proponents of the bill in America and Europe urged Congress to pass the legislation in order to avoid financial catastrophe. Passage looked more likely after the Senate voted for the bill on October 1st. See article

The crisis boosted Barack Obama, who opened up a large lead over John McCain in national polls. He also vaulted over his rival in vital swing states, such as Florida. See article
Meanwhile, more states, including Ohio, began the process of early voting in the presidential election. Around a third of the electorate is expected to cast its vote before election day on November 4th.

Michael Bloomberg was poised to launch a bid for a third term as mayor of New York. To do so he will need to get a city law changed that limits mayors to two terms.
California became the first American state to require restaurants to display the calorie count of each item on the menu, starting in 2011.
Manto takes a hike

South Africa’s new president, Kgalema Motlanthe, who is likely to serve only until the middle of next year, reappointed Trevor Manuel as finance minister. But he replaced the controversial health minister, Manto Tshabalala-Msimang, who questioned the link between HIV and AIDS, with Barbara Hogan, who strenuously opposed such views when they were also espoused by the recently ousted president, Thabo Mbeki. See article

More than two weeks after they signed an agreement to form a government of national unity in Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe’s ZANU-PF and Morgan Tsvangirai’s Movement for Democratic Change were in deadlock over the allocation of ministries. The MDC called for Mr Mbeki, who is still the official mediator for Zimbabwe, to help resolve the issue.
Somali pirates in the Gulf of Aden captured a Ukrainian ship with 33 Soviet-era tanks on board, then demanded a ransom of $20m. More than 60 ships have been hijacked by pirates in the area this year. See article
AFP

A car-bomb attack on the edge of Syria’s capital, Damascus, which killed 17 civilians, was followed two days later by a bomb in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli, which killed five soldiers. Though details were murky, both were widely surmised to be the work of Sunni Arab jihadists opposed to the governments in both countries. See article

The Iraqi government took responsibility from the Americans for paying and controlling some 54,000 mainly Sunni guards stationed in Baghdad.

King Rafael
Nearly two-thirds of voters in Ecuador approved a new constitution, the Andean nation’s 20th. It gives the president, Rafael Correa, wide-ranging new powers, including the right to stand for two more terms and tighter control over the economy and the other branches of government. See article

Mexico’s president, Felipe Calderón, sent a security package to Congress aimed at fighting a wave of drug-related violence in the country that has claimed more than 3,000 lives this year. His move followed the discovery of six more bodies in the border town of Tijuana, a day after 16 other corpses had been found.

In the midst of Canada’s election campaign, Stephen Harper, the Conservative prime minister, was accused of plagiarism, leading to the resignation of one of his speechwriters. Large chunks of a speech Mr Harper made as opposition leader in 2003 in support of the invasion of Iraq were found to be almost identical to a similar speech given by John Howard, Australia’s prime minister at the time.

A watchful eye

The European Union sent 300 observers to Georgia to monitor Russia’s promised pull-out of troops. The observers were allowed into most of the buffer zones around the two enclaves of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, but the Russians are stopping them from entering the enclaves themselves.

Western election-monitors criticised both the conduct and the vote-counting in Belarus’s parliamentary election. All the seats were won by parties backing the president, Alyaksandr Lukashenka (who has been edging towards the West in recent months). See article

Two far-right parties did well in Austria’s general election, taking 29% of the vote between them. But neither is likely to be invited to join the government, which will probably be a revamped grand coalition of the centre-left and centre-right parties. See article

The ruling Christian Social Union did badly in Bavaria’s state election, losing its absolute majority for the first time in 46 years. Both the CSU premier and the party chairman stepped down. See article

The crush of the crowd
At least 147 people were killed in India in a stampede at a Hindu temple in Jodhpur in the north-western state of Rajasthan. It was the fourth deadly stampede at a religious festival in India this year.

America’s Congress approved the country’s deal on civil nuclear co-operation with India, the last hurdle for a controversial agreement that gives India the privileges of a nuclear power without having signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. India and France signed a deal on co-operation in energy, paving the way for the sale of French nuclear reactors to India.
Christopher Hill, a senior American diplomat, visited North Korea to try to rescue a deal on denuclearisation. Meanwhile, North and South Korea held their first official meeting since Lee Myung-bak became the South’s president in February.

Malaysia’s main ruling party, the United Malays National Organisation, postponed until March its internal leadership election, the winner of which becomes prime minister. This was seen as enabling a smoother handover of power from the prime minister, Abdullah Badawi, to his deputy, Najib Razak.
AFP

Chinese astronauts successfully completed their country’s first space walk. In a live broadcast on television, Zhai Zhigang, the mission leader, waved a Chinese flag 340km (210 miles) above the earth.

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Free Speech Malaysia

October 2008

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Human rights observers and free speech advocates are condemning the Malaysian government’s continued use of the country's Internal Security Act to arrest opposition political leaders and journalists.Raja Petra Kamarudin, founder and editor of the Malaysia Today Web site, and Tan Hoon Cheng, a reporter for the Sin Chew Daily, were detained September 12 under an article of Malaysia’s Internal Security Act, or ISA, for allegedly threatening "security, peace and public order." Ms. Tan Hoon Cheng has subsequently been released.

However, on September 22, Home Minister Syed Hamid Albard authorized Raja Petra’s detention for two years. Earlier in September, Malaysian police also detained Teresa Kok, a member of Parliament from the opposition Democratic Action Party, for allegedly violating the ISA. She was released after one week, with no charges ever filed by the government.

"The Malaysian government has taken its repression of dissenting voices to a new level," said Joel Simon, Executive Director of the Committee to Protect Journalists. "The Malaysian government is using this law as a repressive measure to control dissent," said Amnesty International in a statement issued September 12.

Over sixty people are reportedly being detained under the Internal Security Act. A vestige of British colonial rule, the ISA empowers police to arrest without warrant and hold up to sixty days any person who acts "in a manner prejudicial to the national security or economic life of Malaysia." In addition, access to legal counsel may be denied, and court proceedings may take place in secret. Upon the recommendation of an advisory board, the Home Minister may authorize further detention for up to two years, with an unlimited number of two-year periods to follow.

The Malaysian Bar Council (an independent body of legal professionals) has asserted that detentions under the Internal Security Act should be subject to full judicial review. However, Malaysian courts are not allowed to review procedural challenges to ISA detentions.U.S. State Department Spokesman Sean McCormack said in a statement issued September 18,

"The United States firmly believes that national security laws, such as the ISA, must not be used to curtail or inhibit the exercise of universal democratic liberties or the peaceful expression of political views. The detention of opposition leaders under the ISA would be viewed by the United States and the international community as a fundamental infringement of democratic rights and values."

MASJID JAMEK KUBANG SEMANG RAI KAN ANAK QARYIAH

PERMATANG PAUH 2 OKT-Satu majlis yang telah menjadi tradisi masyarakat kampung Kubang Semang ialah meraikan anak-anak Qaryiah di setiap malam kedua hari raya dimana semua anak-anak qaryiah yang berhijrah ke luar dari Permatang Pauh akan pulang berhari raya dan dalam masa yang sama kesempatan untuk meraikan anak-anak kampung yang pulang berhari raya diadakan.Masjid Kubang Semang adalah diantara masjid tertua di daerah ini yang menggunakan wang dari anak-anak qaryiah dan derma orang ramai.Semua pengurusan hal ehwal masjid diuruskan sendiri oleh anak tempatan.Dianggarkan wang tabungan masjid ini adalah sebanyak RM500,000 bagi menguruskan permasaalahan penduduk qaryiah masjid ini.

Majlis yang telah dijalankan sejak 15 tahun lalu ini diadakan dengan kehadiran Dato Hashim Yahya bekas mufti Wilayah Persekutuan dan juga Sdr Idrus Ibrahim kekanda DSAI yang mewakili beliau yang tidak dapat hadir.

Majlis tazkirah, dan pemberian wang hari raya untuk kanak-kanak juga diberikan.Dalam tazkirah yang diadakan, Dato Ustaz Hashim Yahya menegaskan bahawa dalm membuat dan memberi pertolongan, janganlah sesekali mengungkit kerana perbuatan ini adalah tidak sesuai dengan ajaran Islam.

Manakala Sdr Idrus pula menyampaikan ucap salam dari Adinda beliau DSAI yang tidak dapat hadir dan mempersilakan semua anak-anak qaryiah ke majlis DSAI yang akan diadakan pada 11 Oktober nanti jika tidak ada aral melintang.

Majlis disudahi dengan jamuan makan ..

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SOKONGAN DARI RAKYAT UNTUK MENGHAPUSKAN ISA TETAP DITERUSKAN. NYANYIAN SELAMAT HARI RAYA DAN HAPUSKAN I.S.A DILAUNGKAN.KALUNGAN BUNGA DIBERIKAN SEBAGAI TANDA INGATAN TULUS IKLAS KEPADA MARINA UNTUK DISAMPAIKAN KEPADA RPK......

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PERMATANG PAUH-suasana malam raya di Permatang Pauh dimana YB Hamdan Abdul Rahman telah meraikan petugas-petugas pilihanraya dengan berbagai juadah seperti membakar kambing ,dan berbagai hidangan di pusat DUN Permatang Pasir. Dalam masa yang sama takbir hari raya bergema.......





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Perutusan Eidulfitri oleh DSAI

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08
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By Anwar Ibrahim

Categories: Anwar

Assalamualaikum Warahmatullahi Wabarakatuh,

Saya, mewakili keluarga dan segenap lapisan kepimpinan & akar umbi Parti Keadilan Rakyat ingin mengucapkan Salam Eidulfitri kepada umat Islam di Malaysia dan seluruh dunia amnya.
Ramadhan kini menghampiri penghujung, Syawal bakal menjelang tiba. Umat Islam selepas menunaikan ibadat puasa di bulan yang mulia ini pastinya menyambut kedatangan bulan Syawal dengan rasa penuh kesyukuran.

Bulan Ramadhan ini, sebagaimana yang diulaskan oleh para ulama, adalah madrasah terbaik buat melatih serta mendidik kita umat Islam agar berani dan yakin mendepani segala cabaran yang mendatang. Ramadhan sentiasa mengajar kita betapa kesabaran menjadi paksi kepada kejayaan hakiki dan memperkukuhkan kekuatan ruh serta jiwa. Ini kerana jiwa dan ruh yang membentuk manusia, seperti yang diungkapkan oleh Abul Fath al-Busti:

Perhatikan jiwamu, dan sempurnakan,Kamu insan kerana jiwa, bukan kerana jasad.
Ramadhan pastinya mengingatkan kita akan kisah Pembukaan Kota Mekah(Fath Mekah). Kejayaan Rasulullah S.A.W yang didokong para sahabat baginda wajar menjadi teladan. Kejayaan tersebut sudah tentu tidak datang sekelip mata. Dua tahun sebelum kejayaan membuka Kota Mekah, satu perjanjian yang dikenali sebagai Perjanjian Hudaibiyyah telah dimeterai di antara Rasulullah S.A.W dengan wakil kaum Quraisy.

Tidak sedikit yang merasa ragu dengan perjanjian tersebut. Namun ternyata ada hikmahnya di sebalik kesediaan dan kesabaran Rasulullah S.A.W di dalam menerima perjanjian tersebut. Rupa-rupanya ‘jalan kemenangan sudah jelas nyata.’ Selepas sahaja termeterainya Perjanjian Hudaibiyyah, maka turunlah firman Allah S.W.T yang berbunyi:

Sesungguhnya Kami telah membuka bagi perjuanganmu (wahai Muhammad) satu jalan kemenangan yang jelas nyata.

Ayat ini menghilangkan keraguan umat Islam serta memperkuatkan lagi azam mereka bagi memastikan seruan untuk melakukan islah terlaksana.
Rakan-rakan sekalian,

Ketakwaan yang diadun bersama kesabaran dan kebijaksanaan adalah kunci utama untuk mengecap kejayaan. Janganlah keyakinan kita digugat tatkala kejayaan sudah hampir. Saya menyeru pencinta kebenaran agar perkukuhkan tekad perjuangan. Ingatlah anjuran Al Quran yang berbunyi:

Dan bagi (menjalankan perintah) Tuhanmu, maka hendaklah engkau bersabar (terhadap tentangan musuh)!

Perubahan yang ingin kita laksanakan bertapak di atas bongkah-bongkah yang kukuh, jauh sekali dari retorik kosong yang berasaskan kebencian dan persengketaan. Kita harus menyedari negara Malaysia bukannya ekabudaya. Kita harus memastikan negara ini tidak ditelan api asabiyyah dan karam dengan sikap taksub melulu. Ingatlah “siapa yang menyemai angin akan menuai badai.”

Sering saya ulangi pemerkasaan ekonomi tidak akan berjaya selagi mana kemajuan dan pembangunan didorong oleh nafsu serta tamak yang bukan kepalang. Pertumbuhan ekonomi dan kekayaan harus difahami dan dimaknai dengan pengertian yang lebih luas. Kekayaan tidak boleh berlegar di kalangan segelintir sahaja, ianya harus menjadi pendorong untuk membebaskan masyarakat dari penindasan dan kezaliman. Inilah yang kita tegaskan sebagai ekonomi yang manusiawi. Ekonomi yang dibangun di atas prinsip insan sebagai makhluk bermoral dan berakhlak, bukannya semata-mata homo economicus; yang hanya memburu kepentingan diri sendiri.

Rakan-rakan sekalian,

Syawal yang bakal menjelang pastinya disambut meriah oleh semua. Pun begitu hendaklah kita sentiasa wasatiyah dalam pendekatan, yakni bersederhana tanpa meminggirkan mereka yang tidak berkemampuan. Syawal adalah bulan kemenangan, bulan memupuk ukhuwah.

Kemenangan mengharungi Ramadhan dirai dengan jalinan ukhuwah yang utuh sesama ummah. Kemenangan ini bukan sekadar melawan hawa nafsu sepanjang Ramadhan, sebaliknya diterjemahkan jua sebagai kemenangan menentang kezaliman dan menegakkan keadilan.
InshaAllah kemenangan yang diredhai menjadi milik kita pastinya, sebagaimana yang dijelaskan di dalam Al Quran,”ibarat pohon yang baik, akarnya teguh dan cabangnya menjulang ke langit

(Ayat 24, Surah Ibrahim)”
Salam Eidulfitri 1429 Hijrah.Minal ‘aidil wal faiziin.Maaf zahir dan batin.
ANWAR IBRAHIMKetua PembangkangKetua Umum Parti Keadilan Rakyat

Political power struggle in Malaysia continues unabated

By John Roberts30 September 2008

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The deadline set by Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim to force the ruling Barisan Nasional (BN) coalition from office—September 16—has come and gone. Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi is still in power and the government insists that it will continue to rule. Yet the power struggle shows no signs of ending.

Anwar told a press conference on September 16 that he had the support of the 31 BN parliamentarians needed to form a majority in the 222-seat national legislature. His opposition Malaysian Peoples Front (PKR) won 82 seats in elections in March, reducing the government’s presence to 140 seats and ending its two-thirds parliamentary majority. Anwar won a seat in a by-election last month, having been prevented from standing earlier by a ban resulting from his conviction on a trumped-up corruption charge in 1999.

The day after Anwar’s media conference, the Sabah Progressive Party (SAPP) announced it had quit the BN coalition and its two MPs would join the opposition. The states of Sabah and Sarawak in northern Borneo provide the government with 55 of its MPs, including 40 from small parties like the SAPP. The opposition has been targeting these parties, by promising to increase the share of royalties from these states’ gas and oil production from 5 percent to 20 percent.

Anwar used his press conference to call for a meeting with the prime minister to give him “the chance to exit gracefully”. He demanded the recall of parliament to consider a no-confidence vote. The government has set an especially long break for the Muslim month of Ramadan, with parliament not due to resume until October 13. When the premier ruled out any early resumption, Anwar suggested that the opposition might seek an audience with head of state, King Sultan Mizan Zainal Abidin, who has the power to call a parliamentary sitting.

Deputy Prime Minister Najib Razak declared the government would continue to rule and denounced Anwar’s statements as “the politics of deception, deployed to deceive, and clearly it has not become a reality”. However, the United Malays National Organisation (UMNO), the leading BN partner, is clearly worried about the challenge to its rule and will stop at nothing to cling to power.

In the lead up to September 16, the government took the extraordinary step of sending nearly 50 BN parliamentarians on a paid trip to Taiwan to study farming techniques. Few believe that farming issues were the reason behind the trip. Among those sent were parliamentarians regarded as most susceptible to being courted by the opposition. PKR secretary general Salehuddin Hashim described the expedition as “kidnapping,” saying it was “a very clear sign of the anxieties and insecurities inside Barisan”.

On September 17, Prime Minister Abdullah ominously declared that the opposition’s bid for power was a threat to national security and would endanger the flow of foreign investment. “I will do what I have to do to protect the economy and save the country,” he warned.
The government had already invoked the draconian Internal Security Act (ISA), which provides for lengthy detention without trial. On September 12, Chinese-language newspaper journalist Tan Hoon Cheng, political Internet blogger Raja Petra Kamarruddin, and Teresa Kok, an MP for the ethnic Chinese-based Democratic Action Party, were detained under the ISA.

Home Minister Syed Hamid Albar declared that Tan was arrested to prevent racial conflict. Tan’s “crime” was that he reported the derogatory remarks of UMNO figure Ahmad Ismail to the effect that Malaysian Chinese were “immigrants” and “squatters”. He was released after 16 hours. Kok was accused of complaining that prayer calls from some mosques were too loud. She denied ever making the comments and was later released.

Raja Petra, who is well known for his popular opposition web site Malaysia Today, was arrested for an article deemed to be anti-Islamic. On September 22, the home minister ordered the blogger to be taken to the Kamunting detention centre for two years. According to his wife, Raja Petra also has been charged with tarnishing “the country’s leadership to the point of causing confusion among the peoples.”

The detentions have only deepened the crisis in the government’s ranks. Liow Tiong Lai, head of the Malaysian Chinese Association’s (MCA) youth movement, declared that if police were concerned over Kok they should have given her police protection, not arrested her. The conservative ethnic Chinese-based MCA is one of UMNO’s main coalition partners.

On September 15, Zaid Ibrahim quit his post as minister in the Prime Minister’s Department in charge of the legal reform promised by Abdullah following UMNO losses at the March election. Zaid bluntly told the media that he had failed in his efforts to change the judiciary, the constitution and the anti-corruption agency after meeting a “brick wall” from the cabinet members and UMNO. He said the ISA should be used only against those attempting to topple the government by force.

The government’s blatant use of the police and courts for political purposes is underscored by the latest trumped-up case against Anwar. He was formally charged on August 16 with sodomy, an offence in Malaysia that carries a jail term of up to 20 years and an automatic ban from political office. The case rests solely on the allegations of a former aide, Mohamad Saiful Bukhari Azlan, who, the opposition alleges, was a government plant. Photographs have been produced showing Saiful with senior UMNO figures.

UMNO is resorting to the same crude methods as a decade ago when Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad stripped Anwar of his positions of deputy prime minister and finance minister and expelled him and his supporters from the party. After organising anti-government rallies, Anwar was detained under the ISA, beaten by the country’s police chief and finally charged and convicted of sodomy and corruption. After six years in jail, Anwar was released when the sodomy conviction was overturned in the Federal Court for lack of evidence.

At the centre of the political struggle between Mahathir and Anwar were sharp differences over the direction of economic policy following the 1997-98 Asian financial crisis. Anwar championed the IMF’s prescriptions to open up the Malaysian economy to foreign investors—a move that threatened a layer of Malay businessmen closely associated with UMNO. Mahathir instead imposed capital and currency controls aimed at protecting weaker, less competitive layers of business.

Both Mahathir and Abdullah, who took over as prime minister in 2003, gradually removed the capital and currency controls and made limited economic reforms, including in the banking sector. Like other countries in the eye of the Asian financial crisis, Malaysia recovered largely due to a boost in exports, fed by the rapid growth of the Chinese economy and continued high demand in the US, Europe and Japan. However, the sharp divisions in the ruling elite have reemerged as Malaysia has been affected by the global slowdown and financial turmoil.
According to the 2008 UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) report, direct investment flows into Malaysia were negative for 2007 for the first time in the country’s history. Malaysia is confronting increasingly intense competition for investment from other cheap labour platforms, particularly China, India and Vietnam. Industrial production is also slowing, falling back from 2.2 percent in June to 1.8 percent in July. The key stock market index has declined by over a quarter this year.

At the same time, inflation, which hit 8.5 percent in July, is exacerbating social and political tensions. A poll published by the Merdeka Centre on Monday found that half of those surveyed identified the economy as their main concern. Asked who would make a better prime minister, Anwar outpolled Najib Razak, who has been named as Abdullah’s successor, by 40 to 34 percent. More than half of the respondents agreed that Anwar was “a strong and visionary leader” and “a competent manager of the economy”.

The looming economic problems have exacerbated recriminations inside UMNO over its poor performance in the March elections. Mahathir quit the party in May, having bitterly attacked Abdullah since 2006 for shutting down major infrastructure projects and failing to defend Malay businesses. Abdullah was forced to announce that he would stand down as prime minister by 2010 to fend off challenges within UMNO. Over the weekend, he was compelled to bring the date forward to next year. In return, the UMNO leadership agreed to postpone the party’s annual general meeting in December and a potential leadership showdown.

The continuing political turmoil is not simply a battle between Abdullah and Anwar for the levers of power, but reflects a groundswell of resentment and anger over deteriorating living standards and UMNO’s anti-democratic methods and communal politics. Neither the government nor the opposition is capable of resolving the underlying economic crisis. While Anwar has made various populist pledges to ease price rises and assist the poor, his economic program would inevitably fall hardest on working people and exacerbate the existing social polarisation.

Anwar tops Malaysia poll as economy dominates concerns

When asked who would make the better prime minister, 40 per cent said Anwar.






AgenciesPublished: September 30, 2008, 01:18



Kuala Lumpur: Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ebrahim scored better than the government's pick to become the next prime minister in an opinion poll which showed that worries over the economy dominated voter concerns.



Anwar is threatening to unseat the government that has ruled Malaysia for 51 years and the rise of the opposition since their success in elections in March has paralysed policy-making as top politicians from the government jostle for power.



The poll by the Merdeka Centre published yesterday showed that for half of people questioned, the main concern in this country of 27 million people was the economy at a time when fuel prices have risen and inflation has surged to 27-year highs.



Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, who has offered to quit early to avoid a leadership challenge topped the poll, although his approval ratings continue to fall.

Asked who would make the better prime minister, 40 per cent said Anwar and 34 per cent said Najeeb Razak. Najeeb has been named as successor to Badawi who scored 43 per cent.

Trumped-up charges

Anwar, a former deputy prime minister who was imprisoned on what he says were trumped-up sodomy and corruption charges in the late 1990s, was characterised as "a strong and visionary leader" and "a competent manager of the economy" by 51 per cent of respondents in the poll of 1,003 voters.

He is facing new charges of sodomy which he denies. Anwar has said that he has won over enough government MPs to oust Badawi in a confidence vote in parliament and the prime minister on Friday said he would hand power to Najeeb, most likely in March.
Badawi had earlier planned to hand over power in 2010.

Since becoming prime minister in 2004, Badawi has failed to implement key pledges such as ending corruption and boosting the independence of the judiciary. The policy drift, along with rising racial tensions, has unsettled both party activists and investors.

A year ago just 25 per cent of those questioned in a similar poll by Merdeka were worried about the economy in the poll a year ago compared with 50 per cent now.

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