SAH 32 KATA DSAI
Sasaran 16 Sept.: Anwar Sahkan 32 Setuju Sertai Pakatan Rakyat
08-09-2008 02:40:14 PM
(Dikemas kini) PETALING JAYA: Tiga puluh dua Ahli Parlimen Barisan Nasional (BN) sudah bersetuju menyertai Pakatan Rakyat?
“Ya.” Ini jawapan daripada Ketua Umum Pakatan Rakyat Datuk Seri Anwar sebentar tadi selepas selepas mempengerusikan mesyuarat bersama pemimpin kanan Pakatan Rakyat di Kuala Lumpur.
Mesyuarat itu berlangsung hampir tiga jam. Dan, ini kali pertama angka tepat jumlah anggota Barisan Nasional (BN) yang didakwa akan menyertai Pakatan Rakyat disahkan oleh beliau, khususnya selepas dipilih sebagai Ketua Pembangkang di Parlimen 28 Ogos lalu.
Pertemuan itu diadakan selepas bertemu selama hampir tiga jam di ibu negara malam tadi.
Pertemuan hari ini bermula sebentar tadi juga dilihat memfokus soal pembentukan kerajaan persekutuan.
Ketika hanya tinggal seminggu sahaja untuk membuktikan sama ada sasaran 16 September akan menjadi kenyataan ataupun sebaliknya, Pakatan Rakyat telah mengadakan pertemuan informal malam tadi bagi membincangkan kemajuan siri perundingan yang telah diadakan setakat ini.
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KAUM ASLI DAH PILIH PERJUANGAN PKR
Jam 3.30 petang, 8hb September 2008, saya akan berada di perkamponganOrang Asli, Kg Pian, Kuala Krau.
Hari ini adalah meeting dengan ahli-ahli PKR Kg Pian untuk sayamenyampaikan maklumat parti kepada mereka dan untuk merekamenyampaikan maklumat kemasyarakatan kepada saya.Kg Pian adalah salah sebuah kampong yang penting bagi penduduk OrangAsli kaum Jahud kerana disana terdapat penduduk yang ramai dandikalangan anak-anak muda kampong itu telah memilih PKR sebagai wadahperjuangan.Cawangan PKR disitu dipimpin oleh Mohd Nazmi b Abd Majid selaku KetuaCawangan, Wan Kisam Daud sebagai Timbalan Ketua dan bekas SetiausahaUMNO Cawangan Sdr Bahari Ngin sebagai Setiausaha.Cawangan ini adalah sebuah cawangan yang aktif dan lengkap, iamempunyai Jawatankuasa Cawangan, Jawatankuasa Wanita dan JawatankuasaAngkatan Muda.Berbeza dari bulan-bulan lain, di Bulan Ramadhan ini meeting itu tidakadalah makan minum diantara mereka dengan Jawatankuasa Bahagian,tetapi mereka akan makan minum sesama mereka. Sebahagian kecil darimereka beragama Kristian dan majoritinya tidak beragama, cuma agamanenek moyang sahajalah.Orang Asli disini tetap mengharapkan agar tanah dimana mereka tinggaldan dimana mereka bercucuk tanam diberikan geran tanah. Mereka sudahlihat tanah-tanah mereka diceroboh dan mereka saksikan bahawapengangguran dikalangan anak-anak muda mereka amat tinggi, danpendapatan bulanan mereka amatlah rendah.50 tahun Merdeka tidak merubah nasib mereka. Mereka adalah Orang Asaldi Negara ini tetapi tidak ada pembelaan konkrit terhadap mereka.Mereka sentiasa diberikan "gula-gula" agar pemikiran mereka terusdijajah oleh UMNO khususnya sewaktu berhadapan dengan Pilihanraya. Dansetelah pilihanraya berlalu, mereka berbalik kepada keadaan yang asal.Jumlah penduduk dikawasan mereka semakin bertambah, tetapi sumberpendapatan di kampong mereka tetap tidak berubah. Tanah tapak rumahmereka menjadi kecil kerana banyak rumah terpaksa didirikan diatastanah yang berkongsi diantara ahli-ahli keluarga dan tempat bercucuktanam menjadi semakin kecil.Sukar untuk disenaraikan tuntutan-tuntutan mereka kerana mereka kinitidak punyai apa-apa, dan perjuangan untuk mereka adalah begitumencabar. Hanya sebuah pemerintahan yang benar-benar perihatin diataspenderitaan mereka sahaja yang boleh merubahkan keadaan hidup mereka.Dan pemerintahan UMNO/BN telah gagal segagal-gagalnya!UMNO hanya hadir ke kampong mereka semasa pilihanraya, dan selepas ituUMNO tidak memperdulikan nasib mereka.Insya Allah, PKR akan terus memperjuangkan hak mereka dansekurang-kurangnya 2 kali sebulan PKR Kuala Krau akan hadirbersama-sama mereka.Di meeting kali ini, saya ada membawa kain baju, kasut dan sebagainya;ada yang baru dan ada yang lama, untuk diagih-agihkan kepada mereka.Dan kalau ada sesiapa yang ingin menderma kain-baju, kasut dansebagainya, silalah hubungi saya untuk disampaikan kepada rakan-rakankita Orang Asli di Kawasan Kuala Krau melalui talian 019-9321260 (HjSuhaimi Said).--Posted By Suhaimi Said to The Spirit of Lubok Kawah/Semangat LubokKawah at 9/07/2008 09:39:00 PM
Hari ini adalah meeting dengan ahli-ahli PKR Kg Pian untuk sayamenyampaikan maklumat parti kepada mereka dan untuk merekamenyampaikan maklumat kemasyarakatan kepada saya.Kg Pian adalah salah sebuah kampong yang penting bagi penduduk OrangAsli kaum Jahud kerana disana terdapat penduduk yang ramai dandikalangan anak-anak muda kampong itu telah memilih PKR sebagai wadahperjuangan.Cawangan PKR disitu dipimpin oleh Mohd Nazmi b Abd Majid selaku KetuaCawangan, Wan Kisam Daud sebagai Timbalan Ketua dan bekas SetiausahaUMNO Cawangan Sdr Bahari Ngin sebagai Setiausaha.Cawangan ini adalah sebuah cawangan yang aktif dan lengkap, iamempunyai Jawatankuasa Cawangan, Jawatankuasa Wanita dan JawatankuasaAngkatan Muda.Berbeza dari bulan-bulan lain, di Bulan Ramadhan ini meeting itu tidakadalah makan minum diantara mereka dengan Jawatankuasa Bahagian,tetapi mereka akan makan minum sesama mereka. Sebahagian kecil darimereka beragama Kristian dan majoritinya tidak beragama, cuma agamanenek moyang sahajalah.Orang Asli disini tetap mengharapkan agar tanah dimana mereka tinggaldan dimana mereka bercucuk tanam diberikan geran tanah. Mereka sudahlihat tanah-tanah mereka diceroboh dan mereka saksikan bahawapengangguran dikalangan anak-anak muda mereka amat tinggi, danpendapatan bulanan mereka amatlah rendah.50 tahun Merdeka tidak merubah nasib mereka. Mereka adalah Orang Asaldi Negara ini tetapi tidak ada pembelaan konkrit terhadap mereka.Mereka sentiasa diberikan "gula-gula" agar pemikiran mereka terusdijajah oleh UMNO khususnya sewaktu berhadapan dengan Pilihanraya. Dansetelah pilihanraya berlalu, mereka berbalik kepada keadaan yang asal.Jumlah penduduk dikawasan mereka semakin bertambah, tetapi sumberpendapatan di kampong mereka tetap tidak berubah. Tanah tapak rumahmereka menjadi kecil kerana banyak rumah terpaksa didirikan diatastanah yang berkongsi diantara ahli-ahli keluarga dan tempat bercucuktanam menjadi semakin kecil.Sukar untuk disenaraikan tuntutan-tuntutan mereka kerana mereka kinitidak punyai apa-apa, dan perjuangan untuk mereka adalah begitumencabar. Hanya sebuah pemerintahan yang benar-benar perihatin diataspenderitaan mereka sahaja yang boleh merubahkan keadaan hidup mereka.Dan pemerintahan UMNO/BN telah gagal segagal-gagalnya!UMNO hanya hadir ke kampong mereka semasa pilihanraya, dan selepas ituUMNO tidak memperdulikan nasib mereka.Insya Allah, PKR akan terus memperjuangkan hak mereka dansekurang-kurangnya 2 kali sebulan PKR Kuala Krau akan hadirbersama-sama mereka.Di meeting kali ini, saya ada membawa kain baju, kasut dan sebagainya;ada yang baru dan ada yang lama, untuk diagih-agihkan kepada mereka.Dan kalau ada sesiapa yang ingin menderma kain-baju, kasut dansebagainya, silalah hubungi saya untuk disampaikan kepada rakan-rakankita Orang Asli di Kawasan Kuala Krau melalui talian 019-9321260 (HjSuhaimi Said).--Posted By Suhaimi Said to The Spirit of Lubok Kawah/Semangat LubokKawah at 9/07/2008 09:39:00 PM
DEKLARASI PR TERHADAP AMANAH YANG BAKAL DIBERIKAN
Pakatan Rakyat junjung prinsip Perlembagaan Persekutuan
Majlis Pimpinan Pakatan Rakyat yang bersidang pada hari ini 8 September 2008 dengan ini menegaskan penolakan kami terhadap usaha-usaha menyemarakkan politik perkauman yang sedang dilakukan oleh UMNO akhir-akhir ini.
Kami amat bimbang isu ini sekarang digunakan untuk mengelabui pandangan rakyat yang sebenarnya merupakan usaha terdesak untuk menyelamatkan kepentingan segelintir golongan elit politik dan kroni mereka.
Kami sekali lagi mengulangi pendirian menjunjung prinsip-prinsip dasar yang termaktub di bawah Perlembagaan Persekutuan.
Ini termasuk soal-soal dasar seperti kedudukan Islam sebagai Agama Persekutuan dan menjamin kebebasan mengamalkan agama-agama lain, kedaulatan Bahasa Melayu sebagai Bahasa Kebangsaan dan mempertahankan hak bahasa ibunda, kedudukan dan kedaulatan Institusi Raja-Raja Melayu serta kedudukan hak-hak istimewa orang Melayu dan Bumiputera serta hak-hak semua kaum yang telah dijamin oleh Perlembagaan.
Berdasarkan prinsip-prinsip Perlembagaan ini kami menolak sekeras-kerasnya pendekatan politik perkauman sempit yang menjadi dasar Umno-BN. Pendekatan inilah yang sengaja digunakan untuk memecahbelahkan perpaduan dan keharmonian masyarakat majmuk negara ini.
Sehubungan ini kami membantah ucapan yang dibuat oleh Dato' Ahmad Ismail yang disokong oleh semua pemimpin Umno Pulau Pinang.
Isi ucapan itu mencerminkan dasar perkauman Umno yang sebenarnya bertujuan hanya untuk mempertahankan kepentingan segelintir golongan orang kaya Melayu serta suku sakat mereka yang menggunakan kuasa politik untuk mengambil kesempatan mengaut kekayaan negara dengan berselindung di sebalik membela kepentingan Bumiputera dan orang Melayu.
Sekian, terima kasih.
YB Dato' Seri Anwar IbrahimKetua Umum KeADILan.
YB Dato' Husam MusaNaib Presiden PAS.
YB Lim Kit SiangKetua Ahli Parlimen DAP._
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Malaysia’s Anwar Faces Sternest Test As ‘Power’ Deadline Looms
LUMPUR:Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim faces one of the sternest tests of his tumultuous political career in coming days, as the deadline he has set to seize power approaches.
The former deputy premier will also be summoned to court on Wednesday for a hearing that could launch a new trial on sodomy accusations — the same charge that saw him sacked and jailed a decade ago.
Anwar has pulled off a string of spectacular successes in recent months, including snatching a third of parliamentary seats in March general elections, and recapturing the seat he lost after his fall from grace in 1998.
But despite disarray in the ruling Barisan Nasional coalition, there are doubts that the 61-year-old maverick can achieve his new goal of toppling the government by September 16 with the help of defecting lawmakers.
“The hope is there, but I don’t think it will happen on September 16,” said Mohammad Agus Yusoff, a leading political analyst from the National University of Malaysia.
“But it will happen eventually, if the present scenario continues and the Barisan Nasional government doesn’t reform.”
Anwar is riding a wave of deep public discontent with the Barisan Nasional, a coalition of race-based parties which has ruled since independence from Britain, and which has been flummoxed by the resurgent opposition.
Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, a grandfatherly figure seen as weak and ineffective by critics including elements within his ruling party, has fended off calls to quit over his failure to check Anwar.
The spiralling cost of food and fuel, a slowing economy and fears of rising “Islamisation” by his party which represents majority Muslim Malays, has alienated voters, particularly from the ethnic Chinese and Indian minorities.
Anwar meanwhile has transformed his Keadilan party — which helms a three-member opposition alliance — into Malaysia’s first pan-racial party with support from all three major ethnic groups.
His unerring political footwork makes pundits wary of completely writing off his chances of persuading 30 coalition lawmakers he needs to switch sides within the next few days.
But Keadilan vice-president Sivarasa Rasiah said the government was going all-out to prevent a mass defection, and that the September 16 deadline might not be achievable.
“It’s very difficult to be specific about it because the situation is quite fluid… so we’re not fixated on September 16 as a date, but we’re committed to getting the numbers to join us,” he said.
“What we’re trying to achieve is certainly doable but we also recognise that Barisan is also putting obstacles in the way.”
Abdullah last week vowed to crush any attempts to topple his rule, and in what is being seen as a precautionary measure, coalition lawmakers are being sent on an impromptu “overseas study trip” from September 7 to 19.
Both Anwar and Abdullah have journeyed to Sabah and Sarawak states on Malaysia’s half of Borneo island, seen as the source of likely defectors. Both sides have accused the other of buying the support of parliamentarians.
Amid the high-stakes negotiations, Anwar and his lawyers are also dealing with the threat of new sodomy allegations levelled by a 23-year-old former aide, which could send him to jail for 20 years.
After being formally charged last month, he must appear at the Sessions Court on Wednesday for a hearing that could set the date for his trial, pass the case to another court, or even withdraw his bail and send him to prison.
“We’re not sure, anything can happen. It could be transferred to the High Court, and there may be an attempt to revoke his bail. It’s going to be quite political,” said Keadilan’s information chief Tian Chua.
Another sexual misconduct conviction would effectively end Anwar’s political career, but Sivarasa dismissed the saga as a “sideshow” and was also upbeat about his prospects even if the September 16 deadline is missed.
“One wouldn’t be able to avoid a sense of disappointment, but what we’re going to say is that taking power is inevitable, it’s going to happen,” he said.
“Anwar’s had a lot of difficult times in the past… but in terms of his political rehabilitation, he is the proverbial comeback kid.”
The former deputy premier will also be summoned to court on Wednesday for a hearing that could launch a new trial on sodomy accusations — the same charge that saw him sacked and jailed a decade ago.
Anwar has pulled off a string of spectacular successes in recent months, including snatching a third of parliamentary seats in March general elections, and recapturing the seat he lost after his fall from grace in 1998.
But despite disarray in the ruling Barisan Nasional coalition, there are doubts that the 61-year-old maverick can achieve his new goal of toppling the government by September 16 with the help of defecting lawmakers.
“The hope is there, but I don’t think it will happen on September 16,” said Mohammad Agus Yusoff, a leading political analyst from the National University of Malaysia.
“But it will happen eventually, if the present scenario continues and the Barisan Nasional government doesn’t reform.”
Anwar is riding a wave of deep public discontent with the Barisan Nasional, a coalition of race-based parties which has ruled since independence from Britain, and which has been flummoxed by the resurgent opposition.
Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, a grandfatherly figure seen as weak and ineffective by critics including elements within his ruling party, has fended off calls to quit over his failure to check Anwar.
The spiralling cost of food and fuel, a slowing economy and fears of rising “Islamisation” by his party which represents majority Muslim Malays, has alienated voters, particularly from the ethnic Chinese and Indian minorities.
Anwar meanwhile has transformed his Keadilan party — which helms a three-member opposition alliance — into Malaysia’s first pan-racial party with support from all three major ethnic groups.
His unerring political footwork makes pundits wary of completely writing off his chances of persuading 30 coalition lawmakers he needs to switch sides within the next few days.
But Keadilan vice-president Sivarasa Rasiah said the government was going all-out to prevent a mass defection, and that the September 16 deadline might not be achievable.
“It’s very difficult to be specific about it because the situation is quite fluid… so we’re not fixated on September 16 as a date, but we’re committed to getting the numbers to join us,” he said.
“What we’re trying to achieve is certainly doable but we also recognise that Barisan is also putting obstacles in the way.”
Abdullah last week vowed to crush any attempts to topple his rule, and in what is being seen as a precautionary measure, coalition lawmakers are being sent on an impromptu “overseas study trip” from September 7 to 19.
Both Anwar and Abdullah have journeyed to Sabah and Sarawak states on Malaysia’s half of Borneo island, seen as the source of likely defectors. Both sides have accused the other of buying the support of parliamentarians.
Amid the high-stakes negotiations, Anwar and his lawyers are also dealing with the threat of new sodomy allegations levelled by a 23-year-old former aide, which could send him to jail for 20 years.
After being formally charged last month, he must appear at the Sessions Court on Wednesday for a hearing that could set the date for his trial, pass the case to another court, or even withdraw his bail and send him to prison.
“We’re not sure, anything can happen. It could be transferred to the High Court, and there may be an attempt to revoke his bail. It’s going to be quite political,” said Keadilan’s information chief Tian Chua.
Another sexual misconduct conviction would effectively end Anwar’s political career, but Sivarasa dismissed the saga as a “sideshow” and was also upbeat about his prospects even if the September 16 deadline is missed.
“One wouldn’t be able to avoid a sense of disappointment, but what we’re going to say is that taking power is inevitable, it’s going to happen,” he said.
“Anwar’s had a lot of difficult times in the past… but in terms of his political rehabilitation, he is the proverbial comeback kid.”
DATO SERI WAN AZIZAH MENYAMPAIKAN BANTUAN KEPADA MANGSA BANJIR
PERMATANG PAUH 7 SEPT-Dato Seri Wan Azizah yang juga Presiden PKR kembali ke Permatang Pauh dan menyampaikan bantuan kepada mangsa-mangsa banjir dan juga orang kampung di perkampungan Jalan Baru dan juga Perkampungan Permatang Rawa petang tadi.Turut bersama anakanda beliau.Nurul Hana.Bantuan berupa beras dan juga bubur lambuk sebagai tanda ingatan wakil rakyat Permatang Pauh DSAI yang berada di luar negara.Beliau juga menyampaikan salam kepada orang kampung.
DSWA yang pulang setelah mengetahui berita berlakunya banjir di kampug-kampung berkenaan menyampaikan bantuan dan bertanya khabar penduduk kampung. Kedua-dua kawasan tersebut sering kali mengalami masalah banjir kilat akibat pembinaan dan pengurusan tebatan banjir dan juga masalah tanah yang rendah.
ATASI KELEMAHAN BUKAN HANYA DENGAN MENGKRITIK
Ramai guru Sains, Matematik lemah bahasa Inggeris
''Ramai guru Sains dan Matematik dikesan menggunakan wang itu untuk tujuan lain menyebabkan penguasaan bahasa Inggeris di kalangan mereka masih di takuk lama,'' katanya ketika ditemui selepas mengadakan perjumpaan dengan pengetua dan guru besar serta guru penolong kanan sekolah daerah Besut di sini hari ini.
Kenyataan diatas adalah satu kenyataan yang benar-benar berlaku dikalangan sikap guru-guru kita kerana duit insentif yang diterima bukan sahaja sepatutnya meningkatkan penguasaan bahasa Inggeris tetapi pencapaiannya anak-anak didik kaum guru seharusnya juga ditingkatkan.Tetapi malangnya duit yang diterima itu dianggap sebagai satu elauns gaji buta yang diterima.Bukan semua yang tak pandai dan mahu berusaha meningkatkan penguasaan Bahasa Inggeris namun pengunaan duit itu dianggap "haram" jika pengajaran itu dijalankan dalam bahasa Malaysia.ianya dibayar dalam bahasa Inggeris maka penyalahgunaan peluang ini tidak seharusnya berlaku.
Lagi satu ialah jika tidak mencapai sasaran, maka eloklah sekiranya di hapuskan sahaja program tersebut dan kembali seperti biasa.
CINTAILAH BAHASA KEBANGSAAN-adakah ianya hak-hak keistimewaan Melayu juga?????
''Ramai guru Sains dan Matematik dikesan menggunakan wang itu untuk tujuan lain menyebabkan penguasaan bahasa Inggeris di kalangan mereka masih di takuk lama,'' katanya ketika ditemui selepas mengadakan perjumpaan dengan pengetua dan guru besar serta guru penolong kanan sekolah daerah Besut di sini hari ini.
Kenyataan diatas adalah satu kenyataan yang benar-benar berlaku dikalangan sikap guru-guru kita kerana duit insentif yang diterima bukan sahaja sepatutnya meningkatkan penguasaan bahasa Inggeris tetapi pencapaiannya anak-anak didik kaum guru seharusnya juga ditingkatkan.Tetapi malangnya duit yang diterima itu dianggap sebagai satu elauns gaji buta yang diterima.Bukan semua yang tak pandai dan mahu berusaha meningkatkan penguasaan Bahasa Inggeris namun pengunaan duit itu dianggap "haram" jika pengajaran itu dijalankan dalam bahasa Malaysia.ianya dibayar dalam bahasa Inggeris maka penyalahgunaan peluang ini tidak seharusnya berlaku.
Lagi satu ialah jika tidak mencapai sasaran, maka eloklah sekiranya di hapuskan sahaja program tersebut dan kembali seperti biasa.
CINTAILAH BAHASA KEBANGSAAN-adakah ianya hak-hak keistimewaan Melayu juga?????
Malaysia's Anwar says on track to unseat government
JAKARTA - Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim said Saturday he is on track to meet a mid-September deadline to recruit enough members of parliament to topple the government.
The opposition is confident it will secure the defection of at least 30 members from the ruling Barisan Nasional government -- the number needed to unseat the government of Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi, Anwar said.
Anwar, speaking to reporters in the Indonesian capital after meeting with a think tank, said he was "quite positive from the initial response from the members of parliament."
"We have seen some very positive signs, but we have also seen the desperate acts by the government, threats and using institutions to discourage them," he said.
Government attempts to compel members of parliament to travel overseas until after his pledged September 16 deadline to take power would not work, Anwar said.
"The only issue now is that they are going to compel members of parliament to (travel to) China or overseas until after the 16th of September, so we'll have to deal with that. Probably we'll meet on the 17th because they'll come back on the 17th," he said.
The 61-year-old leader of the three-party Pakatan Rakyat coalition declined to name or give the number of lawmakers who have pledged to defect.
Asked if he had used his two-day trip to Jakarta to meet with potential government defectors, Anwar said: "I won't comment on that, but I will say it's a good visit."
Abdullah, who is facing calls from his party to quit amid plummeting popularity, has said Anwar's push to take power will fail.
The parties of Pakatan Rakyat gained unprecedented ground against the Barisan Nasional coalition in the March general election, securing a third of parliamentary seats and five states.
The opposition is confident it will secure the defection of at least 30 members from the ruling Barisan Nasional government -- the number needed to unseat the government of Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi, Anwar said.
Anwar, speaking to reporters in the Indonesian capital after meeting with a think tank, said he was "quite positive from the initial response from the members of parliament."
"We have seen some very positive signs, but we have also seen the desperate acts by the government, threats and using institutions to discourage them," he said.
Government attempts to compel members of parliament to travel overseas until after his pledged September 16 deadline to take power would not work, Anwar said.
"The only issue now is that they are going to compel members of parliament to (travel to) China or overseas until after the 16th of September, so we'll have to deal with that. Probably we'll meet on the 17th because they'll come back on the 17th," he said.
The 61-year-old leader of the three-party Pakatan Rakyat coalition declined to name or give the number of lawmakers who have pledged to defect.
Asked if he had used his two-day trip to Jakarta to meet with potential government defectors, Anwar said: "I won't comment on that, but I will say it's a good visit."
Abdullah, who is facing calls from his party to quit amid plummeting popularity, has said Anwar's push to take power will fail.
The parties of Pakatan Rakyat gained unprecedented ground against the Barisan Nasional coalition in the March general election, securing a third of parliamentary seats and five states.
ADAKAH KERAJAAN TAKUT PADA 16 SEPT?ANWAR MASIH TEGUH DENGAN TARIKH 16
Anwar Ibrahim masih lagi teguh dengan kenyataan beliau bahawa tarikh 16 sept adalah tarikh yang bakal menjatuhkan kerajaan Barisan Nasional.Beliau yang menyatakan bahawa pada masa tersebut beliau sudah boleh mengumpul lebih 30 Ahli Parlimen bagi menjatuhkan kerajaan walaupun pihak Kerajaan pimpinan Abdullah Ahmad Badawi mengumpulkan lebih 40 Ahli Parlimen untuk melakukan lawatan ke Australia atau Taiwan atas alasan melakukan lawatan sambil belajar terutamanya dalam bidang pertanian.
Datuk Seri Najib semalam telah meluluskan perjalanan tersebut bermula 7 hingga 17 september ini dan menurut Anwar dalam sidang akhbarnya di Jakarta hari ini bahawa beliau akan tetap mengumumkan nama-nama ahli Parlimen yang terbabit apabila tiba masanya nanti.
Sementara itu beliau juga menyatakan bahawa jika bukan 16 september mungkin 17 september setelah mereka kembali ke tanah air semula.
Beliau menyatakan juga bahawa Kerajaan Barisan Nasional takut kepada bayang-bayang sendiri dan ini menjadikan mereka makin bercelaru.
"Saya akan tetap menyatakan bahawa makin ramai yang akan berhijrah kepada Pakatan Rakyat dan pagi ini saya menerima satu panggilan telefon dari seorang MP menyatakan bahawa jangan lupa masukkan nama beliau ke dalam senarai untuk melakukan perubahan dalam pemerintahan nanti"Beliau menyatakan demikian di satu sidang akhbar di Kota Jakarta hari ini.
Datuk Seri Najib semalam telah meluluskan perjalanan tersebut bermula 7 hingga 17 september ini dan menurut Anwar dalam sidang akhbarnya di Jakarta hari ini bahawa beliau akan tetap mengumumkan nama-nama ahli Parlimen yang terbabit apabila tiba masanya nanti.
Sementara itu beliau juga menyatakan bahawa jika bukan 16 september mungkin 17 september setelah mereka kembali ke tanah air semula.
Beliau menyatakan juga bahawa Kerajaan Barisan Nasional takut kepada bayang-bayang sendiri dan ini menjadikan mereka makin bercelaru.
"Saya akan tetap menyatakan bahawa makin ramai yang akan berhijrah kepada Pakatan Rakyat dan pagi ini saya menerima satu panggilan telefon dari seorang MP menyatakan bahawa jangan lupa masukkan nama beliau ke dalam senarai untuk melakukan perubahan dalam pemerintahan nanti"Beliau menyatakan demikian di satu sidang akhbar di Kota Jakarta hari ini.
INTERNASIONAL HERAILD TRIBUNE-
Doctor: Anwar accuser showed no evidence of rape
The Associated Press
Published: September 4, 2008
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KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia: A doctor who examined the man who accused Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim of sodomy stood by his claim Thursday that he found no evidence of the alleged rape.
Mohamed Osman Abdul Hamid spoke in public for the first time since Internet news portals leaked a medical report in which he wrote that he discovered no signs that Anwar's 23-year-old former aide had been sodomized.
"Please be assured that I had merely done my job as a doctor," Mohamed Osman told a news conference. "I am not involved in politics. I will always tell the truth."
Anwar, who has pledged to seize power from Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi's administration by mid-September, was charged in court last month with allegedly sodomizing Saiful Bukhari Azlan.
Anwar has said Mohamed Osman's findings proved the accusation was false, though hospital authorities have claimed that the doctor was not qualified to make any conclusions on sodomy.
Mohamed Osman examined Saiful at a private hospital June 28, two days after Saiful claimed the incident occurred. Independent news Web sites later published his medical report, followed by a sworn statement by the doctor affirming the contents of the report.
Mohamed Osman reiterated Thursday that his statement was "correct." He said he had gone on leave away from Malaysia following the release of the medical report because "there was a lot of pressure" on him.
Mohamed Osman said he did not know how the medical report leaked, stressing that he respected his patients' confidentiality and had "never at any time breached my professional ethics."
Mohamed Osman's lawyers said he could not elaborate on details of the case because Anwar's trial had not begun.
Mohamed Osman said in a previous statement that he had advised Saiful to go to a government hospital for a second examination. It is not clear what transpired there, but Saiful went to a police station and filed a complaint against Anwar the same day.
It was the second sodomy accusation in a decade for Anwar, a former deputy prime minister who was ousted in 1998 amid charges that he sodomized his family driver and abused his power to cover up his actions. He denied those charges but was imprisoned until Malaysia's highest court overturned the sodomy conviction in 2004.
Despite battling the latest charge, Anwar re-entered Parliament last month through a landslide victory in a by-election. He has vowed to topple the ruling coalition by Sept. 16 by luring government lawmakers to defect to his three-party opposition alliance.
Anwar faces up to 20 years in prison if convicted of sodomy, a crime in this Muslim-majority nation. He claims the charge is part of a conspiracy against him after the opposition prevented the government from retaining its two-thirds parliamentary majority in March general elections.
The Associated Press
Published: September 4, 2008
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KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia: A doctor who examined the man who accused Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim of sodomy stood by his claim Thursday that he found no evidence of the alleged rape.
Mohamed Osman Abdul Hamid spoke in public for the first time since Internet news portals leaked a medical report in which he wrote that he discovered no signs that Anwar's 23-year-old former aide had been sodomized.
"Please be assured that I had merely done my job as a doctor," Mohamed Osman told a news conference. "I am not involved in politics. I will always tell the truth."
Anwar, who has pledged to seize power from Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi's administration by mid-September, was charged in court last month with allegedly sodomizing Saiful Bukhari Azlan.
Anwar has said Mohamed Osman's findings proved the accusation was false, though hospital authorities have claimed that the doctor was not qualified to make any conclusions on sodomy.
Mohamed Osman examined Saiful at a private hospital June 28, two days after Saiful claimed the incident occurred. Independent news Web sites later published his medical report, followed by a sworn statement by the doctor affirming the contents of the report.
Mohamed Osman reiterated Thursday that his statement was "correct." He said he had gone on leave away from Malaysia following the release of the medical report because "there was a lot of pressure" on him.
Mohamed Osman said he did not know how the medical report leaked, stressing that he respected his patients' confidentiality and had "never at any time breached my professional ethics."
Mohamed Osman's lawyers said he could not elaborate on details of the case because Anwar's trial had not begun.
Mohamed Osman said in a previous statement that he had advised Saiful to go to a government hospital for a second examination. It is not clear what transpired there, but Saiful went to a police station and filed a complaint against Anwar the same day.
It was the second sodomy accusation in a decade for Anwar, a former deputy prime minister who was ousted in 1998 amid charges that he sodomized his family driver and abused his power to cover up his actions. He denied those charges but was imprisoned until Malaysia's highest court overturned the sodomy conviction in 2004.
Despite battling the latest charge, Anwar re-entered Parliament last month through a landslide victory in a by-election. He has vowed to topple the ruling coalition by Sept. 16 by luring government lawmakers to defect to his three-party opposition alliance.
Anwar faces up to 20 years in prison if convicted of sodomy, a crime in this Muslim-majority nation. He claims the charge is part of a conspiracy against him after the opposition prevented the government from retaining its two-thirds parliamentary majority in March general elections.
TIADA LOMPAT HARI INI-
KONONNYA
Satu sidang akhbar akan di adakan pada pukul 3 petang:
Gerakan,PPP,SAPP,SPDP,UPKO,LDP dan PBS akan mengumumkan mereka keluar dari Barisan Nasional.Ini adalah merupakan langkah awal dan pertama yang akan keluar dari Barisan Nasional.
Maka kerana itu sehingga jam 3 petang penerima sms ternanti-nanti kalau-kalau terjadi sungguh. Namun belum ada lagi.Nampaknya khabar-khabar angin terus menghantui orang ramai dan kerajaan Barisan nasonal juga.
kacau-kacau......
Satu sidang akhbar akan di adakan pada pukul 3 petang:
Gerakan,PPP,SAPP,SPDP,UPKO,LDP dan PBS akan mengumumkan mereka keluar dari Barisan Nasional.Ini adalah merupakan langkah awal dan pertama yang akan keluar dari Barisan Nasional.
Maka kerana itu sehingga jam 3 petang penerima sms ternanti-nanti kalau-kalau terjadi sungguh. Namun belum ada lagi.Nampaknya khabar-khabar angin terus menghantui orang ramai dan kerajaan Barisan nasonal juga.
kacau-kacau......
Anwar should not even if he could---by P. Gunasegaram
EXTRA! :: Comment & Analysis
EVEN if Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim can live up to his boast that he will topple the government on Sept 16 – we seriously doubt that because if he had the numbers, he would have already – he really, really should not.
He must accept the people’s verdict. If he wants to gain power, he must do it the straight and correct way, keeping alive both the spirit and the letter of the Constitution – at the polls. Anything else is underhand and shows he has not changed enough.
If he goes ahead, it will be morally repugnant, and will lead to an endless cycle of defections and re-defections which will further destabilise the already volatile political scenario. An excessive predilection with politics will come at the expense of other things that government must do and will cost the country dearly.
The figures show that it is not impossible for Anwar to do the unthinkable. There are 25 parliamentary seats in Sabah and 31 in Sarawak and only one from each state is in opposition hands. Anwar has said that if he comes to power, he will give these states an oil royalty of 20% against 5% currently. There are other dissatisfied MPs in the peninsula who would cross over for the right price, even if it is not money.
If 13 MPs from Sabah, 10 from Sarawak and seven from the peninsula crossed over, Anwar would have his 30. But at what price? Are these MPs crossing because they honestly believe in Pakatan Rakyat and its concepts? Money is not the only corrupting influence, power is too. And with power you can make money.
What assurance is there that if they cross to Pakatan, they won’t go back to Barisan Nasional for the right incentives? Is it not more than likely that the Perak state government, where Pakatan has a slender two-seat majority, won’t collapse when a government with a majority of 58 seats, just eight short of two thirds, can?
If Peninsular Malaysians have utter disdain for their politicians, multiply that by 10 for Sabahans and Sabah politicians. Such is the situation in Sabah that nobody but nobody believes that any politician there acts in the interest of the public. The name of the game is self-interest. Ditto for Sarawak.
Are these the kind of people that Anwar wants to populate the ranks of the Pakatan leadership after the change?
Are these the kind of leaders who would lead the charge against corruption, patronage and nepotism?
What kind of a message would he be sending?
It would be the same old game all over again – the rape and pillage of Sabah and Sarawak. Unbelievably, Sabah is the poorest state in Malaysia (one in five Sabahans is poor), Sarawak not much better. How could that be with so much land, resources and so few (relatively) people? The answer: corruption.
Anwar, will you be helping the people if you put 20% of the oil revenue of these states into the hands of these politicians as you have said you will if you came into power with their help?
You, Anwar, have to become part of the change that you so much want to bring. You can’t be espousing high moral standards and then go out and do something dirty and devious to unseat the government. Your Pakatan now controls five states – show us what you can do with the mandate the people have given you.
With a machinery much smaller than Barisan’s, Pakatan gained major footholds throughout the peninsula. Anwar’s Keadilan itself came back from the brink of extinction with just one seat to become the largest single opposition party with 31 seats. Many political novices were elected just because they were on an opposition ticket.
That happened only because the public clamoured for a major change.
If Pakatan wants to spread its influence to Sabah and Sarawak, let it plant the seeds there now and bring the desired change at the polls.
And if Pakatan gets down to work, really honest work – weeding out corruption, bringing in efficiency, having open tenders etc – Barisan will have to follow or be demolished utterly at the next polls.
But if Anwar topples the government or even continues to threaten to do so, he will be short-circuiting the process and preventing all the changes that the public want.
History will judge him harshly if he does.
Yes, it’s tough for Anwar when there is so much resistance to his political return and there are battles to fight on several fronts. But arguably, the legal system will give him a much better chance now. Not to fight according to his stated principles is to give up the fight itself – he will become the enemy he so abhors.
There is a way out if all political parties come to their senses if only for a while: support a simple piece of legislation – any elected representative automatically vacates his seat if he leaves the party on whose platform he was elected. Then, the will of the people will be maintained and if someone wants to change that he will need to seek a fresh mandate from those he represents.
And finally, everyone can go to work running their state governments and the federal government properly.
If they don’t, they will risk losing their mandates in the next polls because for the first time in Malaysia, there is an alternative.
Question Time, a weekly column, seeks to highlight issues of public importance, stimulate discussion and suggest solutions.
P. Gunasegaram can be reached at t.p.guna@gmail.com. Letters can be sent to letters@thesundaily.com.
EVEN if Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim can live up to his boast that he will topple the government on Sept 16 – we seriously doubt that because if he had the numbers, he would have already – he really, really should not.
He must accept the people’s verdict. If he wants to gain power, he must do it the straight and correct way, keeping alive both the spirit and the letter of the Constitution – at the polls. Anything else is underhand and shows he has not changed enough.
If he goes ahead, it will be morally repugnant, and will lead to an endless cycle of defections and re-defections which will further destabilise the already volatile political scenario. An excessive predilection with politics will come at the expense of other things that government must do and will cost the country dearly.
The figures show that it is not impossible for Anwar to do the unthinkable. There are 25 parliamentary seats in Sabah and 31 in Sarawak and only one from each state is in opposition hands. Anwar has said that if he comes to power, he will give these states an oil royalty of 20% against 5% currently. There are other dissatisfied MPs in the peninsula who would cross over for the right price, even if it is not money.
If 13 MPs from Sabah, 10 from Sarawak and seven from the peninsula crossed over, Anwar would have his 30. But at what price? Are these MPs crossing because they honestly believe in Pakatan Rakyat and its concepts? Money is not the only corrupting influence, power is too. And with power you can make money.
What assurance is there that if they cross to Pakatan, they won’t go back to Barisan Nasional for the right incentives? Is it not more than likely that the Perak state government, where Pakatan has a slender two-seat majority, won’t collapse when a government with a majority of 58 seats, just eight short of two thirds, can?
If Peninsular Malaysians have utter disdain for their politicians, multiply that by 10 for Sabahans and Sabah politicians. Such is the situation in Sabah that nobody but nobody believes that any politician there acts in the interest of the public. The name of the game is self-interest. Ditto for Sarawak.
Are these the kind of people that Anwar wants to populate the ranks of the Pakatan leadership after the change?
Are these the kind of leaders who would lead the charge against corruption, patronage and nepotism?
What kind of a message would he be sending?
It would be the same old game all over again – the rape and pillage of Sabah and Sarawak. Unbelievably, Sabah is the poorest state in Malaysia (one in five Sabahans is poor), Sarawak not much better. How could that be with so much land, resources and so few (relatively) people? The answer: corruption.
Anwar, will you be helping the people if you put 20% of the oil revenue of these states into the hands of these politicians as you have said you will if you came into power with their help?
You, Anwar, have to become part of the change that you so much want to bring. You can’t be espousing high moral standards and then go out and do something dirty and devious to unseat the government. Your Pakatan now controls five states – show us what you can do with the mandate the people have given you.
With a machinery much smaller than Barisan’s, Pakatan gained major footholds throughout the peninsula. Anwar’s Keadilan itself came back from the brink of extinction with just one seat to become the largest single opposition party with 31 seats. Many political novices were elected just because they were on an opposition ticket.
That happened only because the public clamoured for a major change.
If Pakatan wants to spread its influence to Sabah and Sarawak, let it plant the seeds there now and bring the desired change at the polls.
And if Pakatan gets down to work, really honest work – weeding out corruption, bringing in efficiency, having open tenders etc – Barisan will have to follow or be demolished utterly at the next polls.
But if Anwar topples the government or even continues to threaten to do so, he will be short-circuiting the process and preventing all the changes that the public want.
History will judge him harshly if he does.
Yes, it’s tough for Anwar when there is so much resistance to his political return and there are battles to fight on several fronts. But arguably, the legal system will give him a much better chance now. Not to fight according to his stated principles is to give up the fight itself – he will become the enemy he so abhors.
There is a way out if all political parties come to their senses if only for a while: support a simple piece of legislation – any elected representative automatically vacates his seat if he leaves the party on whose platform he was elected. Then, the will of the people will be maintained and if someone wants to change that he will need to seek a fresh mandate from those he represents.
And finally, everyone can go to work running their state governments and the federal government properly.
If they don’t, they will risk losing their mandates in the next polls because for the first time in Malaysia, there is an alternative.
Question Time, a weekly column, seeks to highlight issues of public importance, stimulate discussion and suggest solutions.
P. Gunasegaram can be reached at t.p.guna@gmail.com. Letters can be sent to letters@thesundaily.com.
AVOID THAILAND AND MALAYSIA STOCKS ON POLITIC-CREDIT SUISSE
Avoid Thailand, Malaysia Stocks on Politics, Credit Suisse Says
By Chen Shiyin and Chan Tien Hin
Sept. 3 (Bloomberg) -- Investors should avoid stocks in Thailand and Malaysia as political turmoil in the two Southeast Asian nations intensifies, Credit Suisse Group said.
Thailand, which entered a state of emergency yesterday, isn't a buying opportunity yet because violence there will continue and the nation will become ``ungovernable,'' the brokerage said in a report today. Credit Suisse analysts also kept their ``underweight'' rating on Malaysian stocks, saying a power struggle between the government and opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim is heightening risks to the economy.
``These kinds of events will be a long-term negative,'' said Scott Lim, who helps manage $431 million as chief investment officer at CMS Dresdner Asset Management Sdn. in Kuala Lumpur. ``For long-term investors, who are a lot more risk averse, they don't see it as an opportunity. They want to stay out of the market.''
Thailand's SET Index has dropped 24 percent in 2008, and fell yesterday to the lowest since February 2007 after Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej issued the emergency decree. Malaysia's Kuala Lumpur Composite Index has retreated 25 percent after the ruling coalition had its worst electoral performance in five decades in March. They're the worst performers among Southeast Asian stock markets this year, after Vietnam.
The political upheavals come as economic expansion in the two countries slows. Growth in Thailand may ease to 5.5 percent in the second half because of a decline in exports, Finance Minister Surapong Suebwonglee said last week. A state agency said on Aug. 25 the economy expanded 5.7 percent in the first half.
Economic Growth
Malaysia's economy grew 6.3 percent in the three months ended June, down from 7.1 percent in the first quarter, the central bank said on Aug. 29. Gross domestic product may expand 5.7 percent this year, the slowest pace in three years, the Ministry of Finance estimated.
Thailand's SET Index dropped 2.3 percent yesterday, the most since July 16, after clashes between pro- and anti-government factions in Bangkok left one person dead and 43 injured.
The gauge fell as much as 0.8 percent today. Protestors are vowing to continue the standoff, with unions threatening a major strike today.
``Political upheaval provides a buying opportunity only if a resolution is within sight,'' Credit Suisse analysts Dan Fineman and Cem Karacadag said in a report today. ``The current situation remains far from reaching anything resembling equilibrium.''
They advised investors to avoid building-material companies and buy shares of telecommunications, consumer and media companies. The analysts didn't name any stocks.
Siam Cement Pcl, Thailand's biggest maker of the construction material, has dropped 32 percent in 2008. Advanced Info Service Pcl, the country's largest mobile-phone carrier, has dropped 8.8 percent this year.
`None The Wiser'
In Malaysia, Anwar is seeking to oust the ruling coalition on Sept. 16 by convincing ruling lawmakers to defect to the opposition. The opposition leader, who last week was sworn in as a lawmaker after winning a by-election, was charged last month with engaging in homosexual relations. He pleaded not guilty.
The charge heightens the political tension that has weighed on the country's stock market since the March election, which weakened Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi's leadership.
``While we are a step closer to political conclusion, we really are none the wiser as to what that outcome will be,'' Stephen Hagger, a Kuala Lumpur-based analyst at Credit Suisse, wrote in a report today. ``Malaysia offers some value versus the region, but it is not really cheap enough to justify the risk.''
Other brokerages are also forecasting tougher times for the two markets. Southeast Asian markets have ``not yet approached levels where visible risks have been fully discounted,'' Goldman Sachs Group Inc. said in a Sept. 1 report, citing concerns over the political outlook in Malaysia and Thailand.
``We've been underweight in Thailand for the better part of the last two years because of a continuation of the negative domestic political sentiment,'' said Beat Lenherr, who oversees more than $20 billion of assets as Singapore-based chief global strategist at LGT Capital Management. ``Malaysia faces similar problems and we're heavily underweight there as well.''
To contact the reporter on this story: Chen Shiyin in Singapore at schen37@bloomberg.net; Chan Tien Hin in Kuala Lumpur thchan@bloomberg.net.
By Chen Shiyin and Chan Tien Hin
Sept. 3 (Bloomberg) -- Investors should avoid stocks in Thailand and Malaysia as political turmoil in the two Southeast Asian nations intensifies, Credit Suisse Group said.
Thailand, which entered a state of emergency yesterday, isn't a buying opportunity yet because violence there will continue and the nation will become ``ungovernable,'' the brokerage said in a report today. Credit Suisse analysts also kept their ``underweight'' rating on Malaysian stocks, saying a power struggle between the government and opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim is heightening risks to the economy.
``These kinds of events will be a long-term negative,'' said Scott Lim, who helps manage $431 million as chief investment officer at CMS Dresdner Asset Management Sdn. in Kuala Lumpur. ``For long-term investors, who are a lot more risk averse, they don't see it as an opportunity. They want to stay out of the market.''
Thailand's SET Index has dropped 24 percent in 2008, and fell yesterday to the lowest since February 2007 after Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej issued the emergency decree. Malaysia's Kuala Lumpur Composite Index has retreated 25 percent after the ruling coalition had its worst electoral performance in five decades in March. They're the worst performers among Southeast Asian stock markets this year, after Vietnam.
The political upheavals come as economic expansion in the two countries slows. Growth in Thailand may ease to 5.5 percent in the second half because of a decline in exports, Finance Minister Surapong Suebwonglee said last week. A state agency said on Aug. 25 the economy expanded 5.7 percent in the first half.
Economic Growth
Malaysia's economy grew 6.3 percent in the three months ended June, down from 7.1 percent in the first quarter, the central bank said on Aug. 29. Gross domestic product may expand 5.7 percent this year, the slowest pace in three years, the Ministry of Finance estimated.
Thailand's SET Index dropped 2.3 percent yesterday, the most since July 16, after clashes between pro- and anti-government factions in Bangkok left one person dead and 43 injured.
The gauge fell as much as 0.8 percent today. Protestors are vowing to continue the standoff, with unions threatening a major strike today.
``Political upheaval provides a buying opportunity only if a resolution is within sight,'' Credit Suisse analysts Dan Fineman and Cem Karacadag said in a report today. ``The current situation remains far from reaching anything resembling equilibrium.''
They advised investors to avoid building-material companies and buy shares of telecommunications, consumer and media companies. The analysts didn't name any stocks.
Siam Cement Pcl, Thailand's biggest maker of the construction material, has dropped 32 percent in 2008. Advanced Info Service Pcl, the country's largest mobile-phone carrier, has dropped 8.8 percent this year.
`None The Wiser'
In Malaysia, Anwar is seeking to oust the ruling coalition on Sept. 16 by convincing ruling lawmakers to defect to the opposition. The opposition leader, who last week was sworn in as a lawmaker after winning a by-election, was charged last month with engaging in homosexual relations. He pleaded not guilty.
The charge heightens the political tension that has weighed on the country's stock market since the March election, which weakened Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi's leadership.
``While we are a step closer to political conclusion, we really are none the wiser as to what that outcome will be,'' Stephen Hagger, a Kuala Lumpur-based analyst at Credit Suisse, wrote in a report today. ``Malaysia offers some value versus the region, but it is not really cheap enough to justify the risk.''
Other brokerages are also forecasting tougher times for the two markets. Southeast Asian markets have ``not yet approached levels where visible risks have been fully discounted,'' Goldman Sachs Group Inc. said in a Sept. 1 report, citing concerns over the political outlook in Malaysia and Thailand.
``We've been underweight in Thailand for the better part of the last two years because of a continuation of the negative domestic political sentiment,'' said Beat Lenherr, who oversees more than $20 billion of assets as Singapore-based chief global strategist at LGT Capital Management. ``Malaysia faces similar problems and we're heavily underweight there as well.''
To contact the reporter on this story: Chen Shiyin in Singapore at schen37@bloomberg.net; Chan Tien Hin in Kuala Lumpur thchan@bloomberg.net.
TEKA TEKI DAN SMS MAKIN HEBAT-NAMUN PIHAK PARTI TIDAK MENGETAHUINYA
KUALA LUMPUR- Berita dan maklumat melalui sms kononnya DSAI akan segera membentuk kerajaan bertiup kencang.Namun pihak PKR tidak mengesahkannya dan menganggap bahawa ianya adalah khabar-khabar angin semata-mata.
Antara khabar-khabar angin nya ialah bahawa sesetengah ahli komponen BN dari Sabah dan Sarawak akan mengeluarkan kenyataan keluar dari BN menjelang Jumaat 5 Sept ini.
Manakala menjelang Sabtu pula kononnya beberapa MP dari MCA dan MIC akan keluar dari Barisan Nasional.Pihak PKR khabarnya tidak mahu mengesahkan semua sms ini konon nya dari pihak pejabat Parti.
Malah R Sivarasa menjelaskan bahawa sesiapa pun berhak untuk membuat andaian kerana demam 916 makin kuat bertiup.
Hanya yang tahu mengetahuinya....mungkin....mungkin tidak.....
Antara khabar-khabar angin nya ialah bahawa sesetengah ahli komponen BN dari Sabah dan Sarawak akan mengeluarkan kenyataan keluar dari BN menjelang Jumaat 5 Sept ini.
Manakala menjelang Sabtu pula kononnya beberapa MP dari MCA dan MIC akan keluar dari Barisan Nasional.Pihak PKR khabarnya tidak mahu mengesahkan semua sms ini konon nya dari pihak pejabat Parti.
Malah R Sivarasa menjelaskan bahawa sesiapa pun berhak untuk membuat andaian kerana demam 916 makin kuat bertiup.
Hanya yang tahu mengetahuinya....mungkin....mungkin tidak.....
ANWAR'S BID FOR FEDERAL POWER:WHISHFUL THINKING?
Anwar's Bid for Federal Power: Wishful Thinking?
Tag it:Jed Yoong
Now for the hard part: Having won his by-election, Malaysia’s opposition leader seeks the big prize
After winning his by-election Tuesday with a decisive 66 percent of the 46,811 votes to return to parliament as opposition leader, Anwar Ibrahim now starts the endgame that he hopes will make him Malaysia’s prime minister. It probably won’t be as easy as he is trying to make it look.
Anwar and his party faithful paint the win in the Malay-majority constituency in a rural part of Penang state as an endorsement of him as potential premier, making his Pakatan Rakyat the dominant coalition in parliament. As Malays make up about 60 percent of the national population, support from this ethnic group is crucial for legitimacy to lead the nation and for Pakatan to form a stable federal government, which Anwar promises to create by luring 40-odd Barisan Nasional lawmakers over to his coalition. Currently, Pakatan has 81 federal lawmakers, the Barisan has 140 and one is independent.
But some analysts say that Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi's weak leadership is in part to blame and the by-election result as much a rejection of the United Malays National Organisation (UMNO), the largest ethnic party in the Barisan Nasional, as it was approval of Anwar. Agitation for Badawi’s scalp among the UMNO faithful, which has been considerable since the disastrous March 8 election that lost the ruling coalition its two-thirds majority parliamentary grip, is growing and intraparty factionalism is rife. Deputy Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak, who personally led the losing UMNO campaign against Anwar, is also facing increasing unrest over his leadership.
Besides putting Anwar in a parliamentary seat as opposition leader across the aisle from Abdullah Badawi, however, the by-election doesn’t change the big picture immediately. The number of national coalition and opposition lawmakers in parliament remains the same, one longtime Malaysian analyst pointed out. Anwar took the seat vacated by his wife, Wan Azizah Wan Ismail, shortly after he was accused by a onetime aide in his office of sodomy. Asked about the implications of the by-election, the analyst brushed off Anwar's comeback as a "non-event", adding, "The only difference is that Anwar will become opposition leader instead of Wan Azizah."
It is hardly a non-event. But there is the question of keeping the fractious opposition coalition together. The fundamentalist Parti Islam se-Malaysia, or PAS, in particular already feels it has been given a raw deal in states won by the opposition, according to the analyst, with PAS leaders asking why their role in state governments has been minimized. PAS feels it is the strongest party in terms of numbers, and that it provided the electoral foot soldiers, branch networks and logistical support that enabled the opposition to do well in the March election. That sits uneasily with the largely Chinese Democratic Action Party, the third leg in the opposition coalition.
At the PAS annual general assembly, some PAS speakers also pointed out that PAS worked together with Anwar in 1981 in Abim, a Muslim-based NGO that made Anwar’s name nationally, and that Anwar abandoned to join UMNO, from which he was ultimately ejected by former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad.
It is a “tricky dilemma for Anwar,” said the analyst. “If he fails to reassure his Malay/Muslim supporters that they still enjoy dominance, he will be in big trouble. But if he tries to burnish his Malay/Muslim credentials, he risks alienating his non-Malay supporters and he risks being perceived as an UMNO clone. Anwar was part of UMNO for 16 years; he thrived in UMNO's money politics culture and he was successful in UMNO because of his image as a strong Malay and Muslim leader.”
It is also questionable, despite his claim of having already done it, how many defecting federal lawmakers Anwar can lure from Sabah and Sarawak in East Malaysia, which between them have 54 parliamentary seats. But animosity between Anwar and Sarawak Chief Minister Taib Mahmud, who heads Sarawak's biggest party and has 14 federal lawmakers, suggests that few of the defections will come from Taib’s party, Persaka Bumiputera Bersatu. Taib is allegedly ticked off by disparaging remarks that Anwar made in the Sarawak state election in 2006.
Although Taib has reportedly said that he will support whoever takes over the federal government, loyalties in East Malaysian politics are even more fluid than in Peninsular Malaysia.
As the Barisan has 30 of 31 federal lawmakers in Sarawak, that leaves only another 16 lawmakers from smaller parties for Anwar to try to poach. Unless the lawmakers join one of the parties in Pakatan, Anwar may face the possibility of further fragmenting his precarious coalition if more parties leap onboard.
Sabah may offer the best hope, with Jeffrey Kitingan driving the charge in the state. After all, Kitigan, the analyst says, has plenty of experience in party-hopping, having crossed over from the opposition to the Barisan in 2000. It was also reported that Anwar was the mastermind behind defections which crumbled the government of Jeffrey's brother, Joseph Pairin Kitingan after Pairin's party, Parti Bersatu Sabah won state elections in 1994.
Aware of these threats, Abdullah Badawi distributed governmental largesse to both Sabah and Sarawak shortly after the March 8 elections that proved to be a disaster for the national coalition. East Malaysian politics traditionally have been driven by timber and money. Loyalty, especially to peninsular parties like UMNO, is more malleable.
While Anwar may have find it harder to put together his winning coalition than analysts think, UMNO and the rest of the national coalition are perhaps in even worse shape.
"What's clear is that the people rejected the prime minister, and this is also a big blow to Najib," a lawyer closely connected to the Mahathir wing of UMNO told Asia Sentinel in an email interview.
"UMNO could well be dead after this,” he said. “I think the PM made the mistake of dismissing Anwar's threat (of taking over the federal government). It may not happen all at once in September but he's edging there and given time who knows, with discontent so high."
Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah, the 71-year-old politician prince and longstanding contestant for the country's top job, is leading the charge in UMNO against Abdullah.
"Our leadership is rejected by the rakyat (people) and, moreover, is rejected by our own members," the onetime finance minister said in a statement released Tuesday. "The Barisan Nasional’s vote count was less than the number of UMNO members in the constituency. Within and among our component parties we ran a poorly coordinated and listless campaign against a motivated opposition. What scraps of credibility the Prime Minister and his deputy had left after March 8 are gone."
Mahathir, the former and longest serving premier who anointed Abdullah Badawi as his successor in 2003, has turned into the besieged premier's most vitriolic critic. After a Royal Commission suggested the Attorney-General investigate Mahathir for judicial corruption, which includes judge-fixing at the highest level, he loudly quit UMNO and is now an avid blogger at chedet.com.
"Listen to, look at what is demonstrated by voters in Permatang Pauh,” Mahathir wrote. “They did not vote for Dato Seri Anwar and PKR. They voted for that Barisan Nasional and UMNO to lose. The increased majority for Dato Seri Anwar compared to March 8 is definitely because in a period of only five months, support for BN and UMNO has further deteriorated. When do you want to wait till, UMNO members, before you realise Dato Seri Abdullah's leadership needs to be ended?"
Yesterday, he offered to rejoin UMNO to save it.
Victorious Anwar on path to power-ASIA TIMES
Southeast Asia
PENANG - Opposition icon Anwar Ibrahim's victory in a crucial by-election in the Permatang Pauh constituency in Penang on Tuesday has thrown wide open the political possibilities in the coming months. Standing under the banner of his People's Justice Party (PKR), he cruised to a 15,671-vote majority on the back of an over 80% turnout among 58,000 voters on the electoral rolls. His majority surpassed the 13,388-vote majority of his wife and PKR president Wan Azizah Wan Ismail in the March 8 general election. His showing was always going to be the benchmark as to whether Anwar could command enough public support for his bid to move "from Permatang Pauh to Putrajaya", the administrative capital of the country. His attempt to use Permatang Pauh as a launch pad for hiscoalition to eventually wrest power from the ruling Barisan Nasional (BN) coalition was one of the themes of the by-election that captured the imagination of many Malaysians hoping for democratic and economic reforms.
The by-election itself was dogged by the BN's exploitation of the sodomy charges against Anwar, which in the end did not make much headway among the voters of Permatang Pauh as Anwar captured two-thirds of the votes cast. He may also have succeeded in winning about 60-65% of votes from ethnic Malays in a constituency where the group makes up close to 70% of voters. Chinese and Indian Malaysian voters in the constituency are also likely to have voted in droves for the PKR. Anwar has successfully forged a coalition among disparate opposition parties comprising his PKR, the multi-ethnic but Chinese-based Democratic Action Party (DAP) and the Islamic party PAS. The coalition - known as the People's Alliance (PR) - won 81 seats in the March 8 general election while the BN secured 140, thus depriving the ruling coalition of its coveted two-thirds parliamentary majority.
The by-election itself was dogged by the BN's exploitation of the sodomy charges against Anwar, which in the end did not make much headway among the voters of Permatang Pauh as Anwar captured two-thirds of the votes cast. He may also have succeeded in winning about 60-65% of votes from ethnic Malays in a constituency where the group makes up close to 70% of voters. Chinese and Indian Malaysian voters in the constituency are also likely to have voted in droves for the PKR. Anwar has successfully forged a coalition among disparate opposition parties comprising his PKR, the multi-ethnic but Chinese-based Democratic Action Party (DAP) and the Islamic party PAS. The coalition - known as the People's Alliance (PR) - won 81 seats in the March 8 general election while the BN secured 140, thus depriving the ruling coalition of its coveted two-thirds parliamentary majority.
The by-election was seen as a barometer as to whether support for the PR had risen since the general election. It was also a gauge of public support for the BN after a sharp petrol price hike of 41% in June, though the price was reduced by 6% last week. For some time now, support for the ruling coalition has been eroding due to its slow pace of curbing corruption, its divisive race-based policies and its failure to introduce key reforms to institutions of democratic governance. Such failures have resulted in the BN's declining moral legitimacy in recent years. The setback to the BN on March 8, when it secured just over half the popular vote, suggests that the erosion of its political legitimacy finally caught up with the decline in its moral legitimacy. Taken together, the BN has been on the defensive since then, unable to stem the erosion to its credibility, as reflected in the result of the by-election. The highly anticipated by-election win thus gives added momentum to Anwar's bid to wrest power by Sept 16, as he has claimed he will do though parliamentary defections. The PR already controls five of 13 states in the federation. Still, it won't be easy to dislodge the ruling coalition, which has governed for close to 51 consecutive years. Public relations strategists probably chose September 16, Malaysia Day, for symbolic reasons. That was the date in 1963 when the federation was formed with the merger of the Malaya peninsula, Sabah, Sarawak and Singapore. (Singapore left the federation in 1965.) Anwar is hoping to lure parliamentarians from Sabah and from the United Malays National Organization in particular to defect from the BN.
He will now be sworn in as member of parliament on Thursday and the PR parliamentarians will select him as Parliamentary Opposition Leader. In his campaign speeches, he had said he wants to look Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi in the eye when the premier presents his budget address in parliament at the end of the month. The by-election campaign was in effect a de facto battle between Anwar, the man many believe to be prime minister-in-waiting, and Deputy Prime Minister Najib Razak, who under a transition plan is scheduled to succeed Abdullah in 2010. That remains to be seen as Najib's star may have faded somewhat after spearheading the BN's lackluster campaign for its candidate Arif Shah Omar Shah. Anwar's campaign itself captured the imagination of many Malaysians with his twin promises to improve national unity and revive the listless economy.
For the non-Malays, his call for a "Malaysian Economic Agenda" that would make the country more competitive globally carries with it the hope of a greater emphasis on meritocracy after years of race-based affirmative action policies favoring the Malays and other indigenous groups. At the same time, he has been able to allay the fears of ethnic Malays that they would lose out if the economic playing field is leveled with minority Chinese and Indians. "I will defend the rights of the Malays, let there be no doubt about that, but we will also help the poor of all races if their need help whether they are Chinese, Indians or others," was his constant refrain throughout the campaign. This approach has enabled Anwar to balance competing aspirations and concerns and build on his political campaign for Putrajaya. But he will first have to navigate past a mention in the courts on the sodomy charge on September 10 along with a new Anti-Corruption Agency investigation into an allegation brought up during the campaign by a former friend-turned-political foe. Anil Netto is a Penang-based writer.
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DATO ' SERI ANWAR BERUNDING PAGI INI
Seberang Jaya 31 Ogos-rundingan melibatkan beberapa komponen BN dan juga MP BN dari Sabah khabarnya akan berlaku pagi tadi.DSAI semasa berucap semalam menjelaskan bahawa rundingan tersebut akan berjalan.
Baca teks ucapan beliau di majlis sambutan meraikan petugas-petugas di parlimen Permatang Pauh.
Baca teks ucapan beliau di majlis sambutan meraikan petugas-petugas di parlimen Permatang Pauh.
MERDEKA 31 OGOS KE 16 SEPTEMBER
KUALITI GAMBAR KURANG MEMUASKAN ...
31 OGOS MERDEKA.16 SEPTEMBER MERDEKA SELURUH MALAYSIA
Seberang Jaya 31 Ogos- Dato Seri Anwar telah mengumumkan dalam ceramah bersempena meraikan kemenangan parlimen Permatang Pauh bahawa Malaysia sebagai sebuah negara yang merdeka harus mempunyai 2 peristiwa penting iaitu pada tarikh 31 Ogos dan 16 September sebagaimana kebanyakan negara-negara lain seperti India misalnya.Ini adalah kerana tarikh 31 Ogos tarikh merdeka yang di lancarkan oleh Al Marhum Tunku pada ketika itu belum melibatkan pembentukan negara Malaysia yang sebenarnya. Hanya pada 16 September barulah penyertaan semua negeri-negeri di Malaysia ini disatukan pada 16 September ,maka kerana itu perayaan bulan kemerdekaan bagi negeri-negeri dibawah Pakatan Rakyat haruslah dilakukan bermula pada 31 Ogos hingga 16 september di mana ianya adalah simbol kepada kemerdekaan negara Malaysia yang hakiki dan muktamat.Beliau berucap sebelum menamatkan ucapan di majlis jamuan meraikan petugas-petugas dan penyokong Pakatan Rakyat yang memenangkan pilihanraya kecil Permatang Pauh 26 Ogos baru-baru ini.
“Saya ingin menyebut disini 31 Ogos adalah tarikh keramat bagi kita tarikh kemerdekaan, 16 September adalah terikh penting dalam negara kerana ianya kemerdekaan satu negara Malaysia merdeka bersama –sama. Oleh demikian saya syorkan semua sambutan kemerdekaan di semua negeri Pakatan Rakyat, kita mula gegar kemerdekaan dari Semenanjung , Sabah , Sarawak kita sambut cuti awam pada 16 September. Maknanya kita angkat kawan-kawan kita dari Sabah Sarawak. 31 Ogos dan 16 September.”
Sebelum dari itu Dato Seri Anwar yang selesai menunaikan solat dan memberi tazkhirah di Masjid Jamek Jalan Sembilang di Bandar Seberang Jaya bergegas ke majlis jamuan dan memberi ucapan utama .Turut hadir YB Lim Kit Siang,YB Lim Guan Eng.Ustaz Salleh Man YDP PAS Negeri,YB Fairus, Timbalan Ketua Menteri 1, para jemputan khas YB-YB dan juga para petugas dan juga para wartawan-wartwan yang diraikan.Dato Seri Anwar memulakan ucapan beliau dengan mengucapkan ribuan terima kasih yang tidak terhingga kepada semua yang terlibat dalam menjadikan Permatang Pauh ini tumpuan dunia kerana ianya merupakan satu sejarah yang cukup hebat di mana satu-satunya kawasan di Malaysia diberi tumpuan oleh negara-negara luar baik barat dan timur.
“Hari ini kita sambut merdeka .Sukarno menyatakan merdeka adalah satu jambatan emas dari penjajahan , kezaliman, kebejatan kepada kebebasan,kemakmuran , era baru kepada seluruh rakyat Indonesia. Jawahal Nehru pula menyatakan kemerdekaan ialah muafakat rakyat berbagai kaum dan agama menolak penjajahan tulin berdasarkan demokrasi kebebasan menjanjikan demokrasi kebebasan dan mengangkat ekonomi rakyat.Mohd Ali Jinnah di Pakistan menyatakan rakyat merdeka menolak penjajahan Inggeris menjanjikan 2 perkara iaitu hilangnya kebebasan dan demokrasi di mana tentera menolak dan menentukan hala politik keduanya rasuah masih kekal sehingga menjadi masalah”
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“Tunku Abdul Rahman menjanjikan Malaya merdeka ,bebas ,ikut pembahagian kuasa menghormati hak kebebasan bersuara Melayu ,Cina dan India dan menjamin keselamatan rakyat.16 September selepas 51 tahun kemudian setelah terbentuknya Malaysia jenayah menjadi buruk,jumlah wang peruntukan kepada polis untuk membenteras jenayah , rasuah menjadi-jadi. Negara hukum dan hakim diperalat, sistem televisyen dan media dikuasai oleh UMNO dan parti pemerintah.Ramai telah ditahan tanpa bicara.Kita mesti ada tempat untuk memberi erti kemerdekaan.Kita, Orang Melayu terutamanya akan hanya dihormati kalau kita tunduk kepada hukum dan kita tegakkan keadilan, membanteras rasuah ,maka jika ada pemimpin yang tidak tunduk dan mengamalkan rasuah maka kita berhak menolak pimpinan mereka itu”
Beliau juga mengucapkan agar mudah-mudahan cepat menguasai kerajaan , harga minyak akan diturunkan dan tahanan politik ISA akan dibebaskan ,sebab sebagai negara hukum ada bukti perlu bicarakan ikuti bagaimana kes Syaidina Ali.Puasa menjadikan manusia mengambil pengajaran kesusahan dan puasa seharusnya menjadikan manusia menilai dan menghayati erti puasa .Puasa mengajar manusia agar menilai diri dan pemimpin harus faham dan tahu kesusahan yang dilalui rakyat.
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Sesungguhnya kemenangan ini tidak seharusnya menjadikan kerajaan yang akan dibentuk ini menjadi sombong , angkuh dan bongkak kerana ianya bukan ajaran dari mana-mana agama pun tetapi seharusnya di sambut dengan rasa penuh kesyukuran dan menilai diri baik pimpinan dan juga penyokong,
“Kia harus bersyukur,rendah diri dan terima kasih,kerana ini tidak mungkin jika tidak ada semangat perpaduan di kalangan rakyat. Bagaimana rakyat di Permatang Pauh , Pulau Pinang khasnya dimana semangat perpaduan ini dilahirkan dengan kerjasama semasa pilihanraya.Tidak ada majlis dimana pemimpin Melayu mebicarakan tentang keadilan bagi semua, tidak ada majlis pemimpin Melayu membincang masalah semua bangsa, tidak ada majlis di mana Ketua Menteri membincangkan masalah derita masyatakat Melayu , Cina dan India., pentingnya muafakat Pakatan Rakyat , pentingnya kita faham bahawa Tuhan menjadikan kita berbagai kaum untuk hormat menghormati. Ini adalah wacana di mana berbeza dengan apa yang dilakukan oleh UMNO dan BN.Apa yang mereka lakukan ialah mencaci ,mencerca dikalangan rakan-rakan mereka UMNO,MCA dan MIC.”
Dato Seri Anwar juga melahirkan rasa bersyukur kerana kesan dari pilihanraya ini bukan sahaja menampakkan betapa kerjasama antara kaum makin erat namun ianya tidak membataskan kepada cara berkempen yang melibatkan sifat-sifat perkauman.malah selepas dilantik sebagai ketua pembangkang, semua pimpinan bermesyuarat di pejabat ketua pembangkang bagi menentukan hala tuju Pakatan Rakyat dalam membentuk sebuah kerajaan yang mantap. Beliau juga menjelaskan bahawa 1 september beliau akan bertemu dengan wakil-wakil dari Perlimen sabah, Sarawak dan juga semenanjung untuk berbincang.
“Malah selepas saya dilantik kita berhimpun di pejabat ketua pembangkang,dimana turut dihadiri oleh Ustaz Hj Hadi,Kit Siang ,Karpal Singh , termasuklah cadangan menyambut kemerdekaan di Permatang Pauh pada 31 Ogos ini”
Beliau juga menjelaskan bahawa amanah yang di pikul oleh penduduk Permatang Pauh adalah terlalu berat kerana ini adalah satu tempat dimana semua beban yang akan dipikul untuk melantik beliau sebagai ahli parlimen adalah terletak di tangan pengundi Permatang Pauh.Maka kerana itu tanggungjawab mereka pikul ini adalah satu tanggungjawab yang harus diberi penghargaan kerana keberanian dan kebijaksanaan mereka menentukan masa depan negara ini. Malah satu dunia melaporkan bahawa dari India, Cina ,Hong Kong , fiipina ,Indonesia Eropah, Amereka malah Timur Tengah menyiarkan dalam dalam televisyen dalam akhbar bahawa Permatang Pauh ini adalah mesej kepada seluruh dunia.
“Ada yang menyatakan orang Permatang Pauh tidak faham berpolitik, tidak tahu berpolitik,hujan menjadikan UMNO kalah,saya ingin memberitahu bahawa orang Permatang Pauh sanggup pikul mandat ,pikul beban dibahu mereka untuk politik baru malah selepas satu tsunami politik orang Permatang Pauh telah mencatat satu politik baru, tidak hairan dengan kecaman, terhadap apa saja,bahawa konon nya dijadikan alat Cina, alat yahudi malah di setiap kampong edaran diberikan,jika saya menang dan Pakatan Rakyat menang habih hak-hak Melayu, malah apa yang saya alami ialah saya discerca dengan kata-kata lucah terhadap saya dan anak-anak kononnya saya ini pengkianat Melayu .Apa yang ingin saya jelaskan disini yang menjadikan orang Melayu merempat ialah pemimpin Melayu yang khianat,pemimpin Melayu yang rasuah,rompak orang Melayu, Cina dan India , orang Permatang Pauh cukup bijak dan matang dan berani melakukan perubahan yang besar .Saya berkata kepada Azizah bahawa kita memilih tempat yang sesuai.”
“Ianya bukan soal agenda peribadi dan pakatan rakyat tetapi ianya semangat 51 tahun merdeka .Saya ingin jelaskan bahawa rakyat mahukan perubahan. Kalau ada wakil rakyat yang memihak dan tidak mahu menipu rakyat ,tertarik dengan agenda kita ,apa salahnya Ada pemimpin yang bercakap soal moral ,saya ingin jelaskan bahawa mereka yang bercakap soal moral.Anda tipu dalam pilihanraya ,tidak fakir soal moral,anda tahan tanpa bicara bukan soal moral,fitnah,.gunakan hakim moral apa yang kamu bicarakan.Orang Melayu di tipu dengan memberi tahu bahawa dasar DEB untuk menyenang kan orang Melayu. Orang Cina di hina dengan menggangggap mereka kelas dua , Orang India langsung tidak dipandang.Saya jelaskan bahawa kita tidak akan mengorbankan dasar-dasar undang-undang.Kita membicarakan soal perpaduan,kita menjanjikan perubahan,keadilan perpaduan,mengangkat ekonomi rakyat . Kalau ada ahli perliman dari Sabah Serawak Semenanjung mempertahan prinsip ini pilihan ianya menyokong Pakatan Rakyat menubuh Malaysia yang tercinta”
Seberang Jaya 31 Ogos- Dato Seri Anwar telah mengumumkan dalam ceramah bersempena meraikan kemenangan parlimen Permatang Pauh bahawa Malaysia sebagai sebuah negara yang merdeka harus mempunyai 2 peristiwa penting iaitu pada tarikh 31 Ogos dan 16 September sebagaimana kebanyakan negara-negara lain seperti India misalnya.Ini adalah kerana tarikh 31 Ogos tarikh merdeka yang di lancarkan oleh Al Marhum Tunku pada ketika itu belum melibatkan pembentukan negara Malaysia yang sebenarnya. Hanya pada 16 September barulah penyertaan semua negeri-negeri di Malaysia ini disatukan pada 16 September ,maka kerana itu perayaan bulan kemerdekaan bagi negeri-negeri dibawah Pakatan Rakyat haruslah dilakukan bermula pada 31 Ogos hingga 16 september di mana ianya adalah simbol kepada kemerdekaan negara Malaysia yang hakiki dan muktamat.Beliau berucap sebelum menamatkan ucapan di majlis jamuan meraikan petugas-petugas dan penyokong Pakatan Rakyat yang memenangkan pilihanraya kecil Permatang Pauh 26 Ogos baru-baru ini.
“Saya ingin menyebut disini 31 Ogos adalah tarikh keramat bagi kita tarikh kemerdekaan, 16 September adalah terikh penting dalam negara kerana ianya kemerdekaan satu negara Malaysia merdeka bersama –sama. Oleh demikian saya syorkan semua sambutan kemerdekaan di semua negeri Pakatan Rakyat, kita mula gegar kemerdekaan dari Semenanjung , Sabah , Sarawak kita sambut cuti awam pada 16 September. Maknanya kita angkat kawan-kawan kita dari Sabah Sarawak. 31 Ogos dan 16 September.”
Sebelum dari itu Dato Seri Anwar yang selesai menunaikan solat dan memberi tazkhirah di Masjid Jamek Jalan Sembilang di Bandar Seberang Jaya bergegas ke majlis jamuan dan memberi ucapan utama .Turut hadir YB Lim Kit Siang,YB Lim Guan Eng.Ustaz Salleh Man YDP PAS Negeri,YB Fairus, Timbalan Ketua Menteri 1, para jemputan khas YB-YB dan juga para petugas dan juga para wartawan-wartwan yang diraikan.Dato Seri Anwar memulakan ucapan beliau dengan mengucapkan ribuan terima kasih yang tidak terhingga kepada semua yang terlibat dalam menjadikan Permatang Pauh ini tumpuan dunia kerana ianya merupakan satu sejarah yang cukup hebat di mana satu-satunya kawasan di Malaysia diberi tumpuan oleh negara-negara luar baik barat dan timur.
“Hari ini kita sambut merdeka .Sukarno menyatakan merdeka adalah satu jambatan emas dari penjajahan , kezaliman, kebejatan kepada kebebasan,kemakmuran , era baru kepada seluruh rakyat Indonesia. Jawahal Nehru pula menyatakan kemerdekaan ialah muafakat rakyat berbagai kaum dan agama menolak penjajahan tulin berdasarkan demokrasi kebebasan menjanjikan demokrasi kebebasan dan mengangkat ekonomi rakyat.Mohd Ali Jinnah di Pakistan menyatakan rakyat merdeka menolak penjajahan Inggeris menjanjikan 2 perkara iaitu hilangnya kebebasan dan demokrasi di mana tentera menolak dan menentukan hala politik keduanya rasuah masih kekal sehingga menjadi masalah”
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“Tunku Abdul Rahman menjanjikan Malaya merdeka ,bebas ,ikut pembahagian kuasa menghormati hak kebebasan bersuara Melayu ,Cina dan India dan menjamin keselamatan rakyat.16 September selepas 51 tahun kemudian setelah terbentuknya Malaysia jenayah menjadi buruk,jumlah wang peruntukan kepada polis untuk membenteras jenayah , rasuah menjadi-jadi. Negara hukum dan hakim diperalat, sistem televisyen dan media dikuasai oleh UMNO dan parti pemerintah.Ramai telah ditahan tanpa bicara.Kita mesti ada tempat untuk memberi erti kemerdekaan.Kita, Orang Melayu terutamanya akan hanya dihormati kalau kita tunduk kepada hukum dan kita tegakkan keadilan, membanteras rasuah ,maka jika ada pemimpin yang tidak tunduk dan mengamalkan rasuah maka kita berhak menolak pimpinan mereka itu”
Beliau juga mengucapkan agar mudah-mudahan cepat menguasai kerajaan , harga minyak akan diturunkan dan tahanan politik ISA akan dibebaskan ,sebab sebagai negara hukum ada bukti perlu bicarakan ikuti bagaimana kes Syaidina Ali.Puasa menjadikan manusia mengambil pengajaran kesusahan dan puasa seharusnya menjadikan manusia menilai dan menghayati erti puasa .Puasa mengajar manusia agar menilai diri dan pemimpin harus faham dan tahu kesusahan yang dilalui rakyat.
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Sesungguhnya kemenangan ini tidak seharusnya menjadikan kerajaan yang akan dibentuk ini menjadi sombong , angkuh dan bongkak kerana ianya bukan ajaran dari mana-mana agama pun tetapi seharusnya di sambut dengan rasa penuh kesyukuran dan menilai diri baik pimpinan dan juga penyokong,
“Kia harus bersyukur,rendah diri dan terima kasih,kerana ini tidak mungkin jika tidak ada semangat perpaduan di kalangan rakyat. Bagaimana rakyat di Permatang Pauh , Pulau Pinang khasnya dimana semangat perpaduan ini dilahirkan dengan kerjasama semasa pilihanraya.Tidak ada majlis dimana pemimpin Melayu mebicarakan tentang keadilan bagi semua, tidak ada majlis pemimpin Melayu membincang masalah semua bangsa, tidak ada majlis di mana Ketua Menteri membincangkan masalah derita masyatakat Melayu , Cina dan India., pentingnya muafakat Pakatan Rakyat , pentingnya kita faham bahawa Tuhan menjadikan kita berbagai kaum untuk hormat menghormati. Ini adalah wacana di mana berbeza dengan apa yang dilakukan oleh UMNO dan BN.Apa yang mereka lakukan ialah mencaci ,mencerca dikalangan rakan-rakan mereka UMNO,MCA dan MIC.”
Dato Seri Anwar juga melahirkan rasa bersyukur kerana kesan dari pilihanraya ini bukan sahaja menampakkan betapa kerjasama antara kaum makin erat namun ianya tidak membataskan kepada cara berkempen yang melibatkan sifat-sifat perkauman.malah selepas dilantik sebagai ketua pembangkang, semua pimpinan bermesyuarat di pejabat ketua pembangkang bagi menentukan hala tuju Pakatan Rakyat dalam membentuk sebuah kerajaan yang mantap. Beliau juga menjelaskan bahawa 1 september beliau akan bertemu dengan wakil-wakil dari Perlimen sabah, Sarawak dan juga semenanjung untuk berbincang.
“Malah selepas saya dilantik kita berhimpun di pejabat ketua pembangkang,dimana turut dihadiri oleh Ustaz Hj Hadi,Kit Siang ,Karpal Singh , termasuklah cadangan menyambut kemerdekaan di Permatang Pauh pada 31 Ogos ini”
Beliau juga menjelaskan bahawa amanah yang di pikul oleh penduduk Permatang Pauh adalah terlalu berat kerana ini adalah satu tempat dimana semua beban yang akan dipikul untuk melantik beliau sebagai ahli parlimen adalah terletak di tangan pengundi Permatang Pauh.Maka kerana itu tanggungjawab mereka pikul ini adalah satu tanggungjawab yang harus diberi penghargaan kerana keberanian dan kebijaksanaan mereka menentukan masa depan negara ini. Malah satu dunia melaporkan bahawa dari India, Cina ,Hong Kong , fiipina ,Indonesia Eropah, Amereka malah Timur Tengah menyiarkan dalam dalam televisyen dalam akhbar bahawa Permatang Pauh ini adalah mesej kepada seluruh dunia.
“Ada yang menyatakan orang Permatang Pauh tidak faham berpolitik, tidak tahu berpolitik,hujan menjadikan UMNO kalah,saya ingin memberitahu bahawa orang Permatang Pauh sanggup pikul mandat ,pikul beban dibahu mereka untuk politik baru malah selepas satu tsunami politik orang Permatang Pauh telah mencatat satu politik baru, tidak hairan dengan kecaman, terhadap apa saja,bahawa konon nya dijadikan alat Cina, alat yahudi malah di setiap kampong edaran diberikan,jika saya menang dan Pakatan Rakyat menang habih hak-hak Melayu, malah apa yang saya alami ialah saya discerca dengan kata-kata lucah terhadap saya dan anak-anak kononnya saya ini pengkianat Melayu .Apa yang ingin saya jelaskan disini yang menjadikan orang Melayu merempat ialah pemimpin Melayu yang khianat,pemimpin Melayu yang rasuah,rompak orang Melayu, Cina dan India , orang Permatang Pauh cukup bijak dan matang dan berani melakukan perubahan yang besar .Saya berkata kepada Azizah bahawa kita memilih tempat yang sesuai.”
“Ianya bukan soal agenda peribadi dan pakatan rakyat tetapi ianya semangat 51 tahun merdeka .Saya ingin jelaskan bahawa rakyat mahukan perubahan. Kalau ada wakil rakyat yang memihak dan tidak mahu menipu rakyat ,tertarik dengan agenda kita ,apa salahnya Ada pemimpin yang bercakap soal moral ,saya ingin jelaskan bahawa mereka yang bercakap soal moral.Anda tipu dalam pilihanraya ,tidak fakir soal moral,anda tahan tanpa bicara bukan soal moral,fitnah,.gunakan hakim moral apa yang kamu bicarakan.Orang Melayu di tipu dengan memberi tahu bahawa dasar DEB untuk menyenang kan orang Melayu. Orang Cina di hina dengan menggangggap mereka kelas dua , Orang India langsung tidak dipandang.Saya jelaskan bahawa kita tidak akan mengorbankan dasar-dasar undang-undang.Kita membicarakan soal perpaduan,kita menjanjikan perubahan,keadilan perpaduan,mengangkat ekonomi rakyat . Kalau ada ahli perliman dari Sabah Serawak Semenanjung mempertahan prinsip ini pilihan ianya menyokong Pakatan Rakyat menubuh Malaysia yang tercinta”
Majlis berhenti selepas DSAI mengumumkan tarikh peristiwa penting sambutan kemerdekaan dan tarikh 16 september harus di hayati dengan lebih bermakna.
LAWATAN DSAI DAN DSWA KE HOSPITAL SEBERANG JAYA
"APEK" datuk ini menghormati DSAI kerana ini adalah pertama kali baginya seorang tokoh politik melawat beliau.
SEMPENA HARI MERDEKA DSAI DAN DSWA MELAWAT DAN MENZIARAHI HOSPITAL SEBERANG JAYA DI BAWAH PARLIMEN PERMATANG PAUH
Seberang Jaya 31 Ogos-Sempena cuti kemerdekaan negara yang ke 31 baru-baru ini DSAI dan DSWA yang dalam rangka lawatan dan pulang untuk mengucapkan ribuan terima kasih kepada seluruh warga Permatang Pauh di atas kemenangan Pakatan Rakyat dalam pilihanraya kecil Permatang Pauh,telah sempat melakukan lawatan secara tidak rasmi di hospital Seberang Jaya
untuk berjumpa dan bertanya khabar para penyokong yang terlantar dalam kesakitan.
Peluang ini di lakukan kerana hospital Seberang jaya adalah antara hospital yang terletak di kawasan Permatang Pauh.
pekerja bawahan hospital beratur untuk bertemu DSAI
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