Speech In Dewan Rakyat - Lim Kit Siang [ Pakatan Rakyat - DAP ]

Speech by Lim Kit Siang on the 2009 Supplementary Estimates in Dewan Rakyat on Tuesday, 6th April 2010:


Najib adopting extraordinary construction methods – building his 1Malaysia house with roof first then pillars without floor as NEM Part 2 has been deferred further from 10th Malaysia Plan to third quarter of the year

1. Ballooning budget deficit – Parliament has been presented with two sets of supplementary estimates, the second supplementary estimates for 2009 totalling RM11.36 billion (i.e. RM8.98 billion for Operating and RM2.39 billion for Development), after the earlier first RM 10 billionsupplementary estimates and the first supplementary estimates for 2010 totalling RM12 billion for both operating and development.

We are debating the second supplementary estimates for 2009 Budget which will be followed by the debate on the first supplementary estimates fo 2010 Budget.

These two sets of supplementary estimates before the current meeting of Parliament are most surprising, as the country was told by the Prime Minister cum Finance Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak when presenting the 2010 budget on 23rd October 2009 that the fiscal budget of the Federal Government had reached a peak at 7.4% of GDP in 2009, and that the fiscal budget is expected to decline to 5.6% of GDP in 2010.

With these two sets of supplementary estimates, Malaysia’s budgeting has again gone awry with the budget deficit in 2009 shooting to as high as 7.9 per cent of GDP in 2009 and over 7% in 2010.

A full explanation for this fiscal indiscipline and even irresponsibility should be given, as this is proof of imprudent control of public expenditure amidst inefficient utilization of the nation’s financial resources.

For instance, RM32 million is allocated in the 2009 Development Supplementary Estimates for the purchases of aircrafts for the police, which apart from allowing the Inspector-General of Police and top police officers to work in style makes no contribution whatsoever in the campaign to fight crime to make the country safe to work and play by Malaysians, tourist and investors.

The RM34 million would be better spent in purchasing say some 68,000 bicycles or 6,800 Honda cubs for all the police stations in the country to increase police visibility with frequent police beats, which is the best and most effective way to combat combat crime to keep the people in the streets, public places and private homes free from crime and the fear of crime!

2. The greatest tragedy of the country’s development history is the marginalization of rural and urban groups denied equal treatment as full-fledged Malaysian citizens – not only in Sabah and Sarawak but also in Peninsular Malaysia. One such group are the people in Pekan Kaki Bukit and Pekan Sayor Kaki Bukit which I visited over the weekend, to hear their tale of marginalization where the close to 1,000 people in the two areas have been living in their homes, some for three and even four generations for some 70 – 80 years without land titles. The the MP for Padang Besar, Datuk Seri Azmi Khalid is the Chairman of the Public Accounts Committee and former Minister is four-term MP for the area since 1995. How could he allow such gross injustice totally against the spirit of 1Malaysia to continue unchecked for the 15 years he was the MP for the area?

3. Now we are told that all this will be addressed in the New Economic Model unveiled by the Prime Minister on 30th March to enable Malaysia to escape the middle-income trap for the past decade and transform Malaysia into a high-income advanced nation with inclusiveness and sustainability.

When Datuk Seri Najib Razak became Prime Minister last April, he announced that the government would introduce a new economic model for the country to ensure that Malaysia makes a quantum leap to escape the middle-income trap to become a high-income country through greater emphasis on innovation, creativity and competitiveness.

In May last year, the Second Finance Minister, Datuk Seri Ahmad Husni Hanadzlah said the new economic model would be announced in the second half of the year.

Time is clearly of the critical essence to launch a new economic model as Husni subsequently admitted in a very frank speech in December that the country had lost a decade in economic stagnation.

In actual fact, the World Bank had recommended that Malaysia adopt a new economic model three years ago, stressing that industrial countries are already aiming for economic model 3.0, and with competition at economic model 1.0 intensifying, striving to achieve economic model 2.0 is not an option for Malaysia but a necessity.

The government has to explain why the World Bank’s advice that Malaysia migrate to a new economic model 2.0 was ignored for three years, losing more precious time for Malaysia to catch up in the international competitiveness race when the country had become a straggler as compared to other countries.

But there is more flip-flops and procrastination. The New Economic Model was not fully released on March 30, only Part I with Part 2 promised when the Tenth Malaysia Plan is presented in Parliament and launched in June this year.

Najib has described his 1Malaysia concept has the roof of the Malaysia he is building, the Government Transformation Programme and the NEM as the two pillars, while the Tenth Malaysia Plan the floor, the basis where all Malaysians will move forward.

But there has been further delays and procrastination as the short-lived promise of the publication of Part II of the NEM has now been further deferred from June to the quarter of the year, according to the National Economic Advisory Council Chairman Tan Sri Amirsham A. Aziz.

So when Parliament meets in June to approve the Tenth Malaysia Plan, the floor of the 1Malaysia house will not be ready – which undoubtedly is going to create problems apart from the extraordinary construction method Najib has adopted like building castles in the air – the roof first, then the pillars and without the floor!

Actually there is nothing much new in the NEM which is 10 years too late. This is because many of the things proposed in the NEM had actually been proposed at various times in the past decade.

Former Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, for instance, in his speech to the Harvard Club in May 2005 said that Malaysia must rid of three addictions if it is to be a developed nation, namely cheap foreign labour, subsidies and rent-seeking.

But nothing has been done to resolve these “addictions” apart from making diagnosis of the ills of the Malaysian economy. In fact, we have many rent-seekers among Barisan Nasional MPs in this House!

In 2002, when launching the Knowledge-Based Economy Master plan also described as Strategic Initiative One of the 21st Century, the then Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Dr. Mahathir wrote in the foreword:

“Recognising the critical need for knowledge as input, Malaysia has embarked on the transformation from an input-driven growth strategy that had served her well in the past to one that is increasingly driven by knowledge in order to achieve sustainable high growth and development, The intention to migrate from a production based economy to a knowledge-based economy and the development of a Master Plan to chart the strategic direction towards the knowledge-based economy were first announced in Budget 2000. Prior to this, the Government has, however, adopted several initiatives aimed at developing Malaysia into a knowledge-based economy. Of significance was the establishment of the Multimedia Super Corridor (MSC) in 1996, providing world-class facilities to foster the development of high technology and innovations for both domestic and foreign companies and the implementation of several flagship applications, including the multi-purpose card, smart schools, telehealth, E-government and technopreneur development as well as the provision of tax incentives to promote an information technology-savvy society.

“The Knowledge-based Economy Master Plan marks yet another key initiative of the Government to further accelerate the development of the nation into a knowledge-based economy as well as in achieving the objectives of Vision 2020. The Master Plan provides a strategic framework outlining the changes to the fundamentals of the economy. It articulates a vision and mission besides prescribing seven critical areas with a total of 136 recommendations that need to be addressed in moving forward to the knowledge-based economy. It is noted that several recommendations of the Master Plan have already and continue to be addressed and implemented by the Government.”

Let us look at some of the 136 recommendations in seven critical areas made by the Knowledge-based Economy Master Plan to move Malaysia forward to an knowledged-based economy before 2010, viz:

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Put in place, by 2005, the e-education enabling environment for the entire education system;
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Prepare by 2002, all universities for professional assessment and rating;
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Step up measures to recruit those with Ph.D. qualifications into universities and set a target that by 2010 all academicians in all public universities will have a Ph.D qualification.
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Develop Malaysia as a centre of excellence in education and training.
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Grant automatic work permits and right of abode to top-level foreign talents.
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Grant right of abode to Asian/world class talents in all creative fields.
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Develop management of human resources based on competency.
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Attract some of the best brains into the public sector.
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Improve English language capabilities.
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Enhance access: Wire and electrify every nook and corner of Malaysia.
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Enhance access: Provide PC and Internet access to all schools.

The Knowledge-Based Economy Master Plan a decade ago was a total failure and that is why the NEM today has to recycle many of the proposals made then.

In the past decade, with many reports and plans, Malaysia is not short of analysis and solutions to the ills of the Malaysian economy, but what is lacking is the political will to walk the talk and to implement them.

As a result, Malaysia is faced with a full-blown national-building and economic crisis after a lost decade of economic stagnation.

How serious is this crisis. Lets us refer to the New Economic Model (Ch. 2, p. 41) for a description of this Malaysian crisis:

a. Economic stagnation – “What little life remains in Malaysia investment (since 1997) has come from state direction rather than private strength; in the decade after 1997, private investment as a fraction of GDP declined to less than one third of its pre-1997 peak.

b. Structural weaknesses in Malaysia’s path of economic development – depleting resources; difficulty in doing businesses; sluggish bureaucracy no longer fit for purpose in a fast-moving world;

c. A disastrous exodus of human capital has flowed from the perception that in Malaysia’s labour markets, rewards have historically not been commensurate with skills, achievements and merits. Perhaps half a million talented Malaysians now live and work outside the country – 50% of them educated up to tertiary level, all embodying valuable skills no longer available to contribute to economic development in the country. Since 2000, the number of expatriates working in Malaysia has declined 9% a year.

d. Malaysia has reached a defining moment in its development path. It risks beings left behind or worse still, suffering a reversal in living standards unless it implements far-reaching and comprehensive reforms. Economic policies to date are no longer keeping Malaysia competitive enough, regionally and globally, to generate sufficient growth.

The NEAC ended Chapter 2 will the warning “We must act now before our position deteriorates any further” and devotes the final chapter, Ch. 7 on “The time for change is now – Malaysia deserves no less”.

But there is a total absence of urgency on the government’s part, which explains why the NEM report is not even presented in the House (we have only the Executive Summary) when there should be a full-debate.

This represent one of the three factors which NEAC has warned could cause the failure of NEM.

To quote the NEM (p. 110):

“Three factors may explain such failures. The first is insufficient buy-in by stakeholders affected by the required reform measures because they were not engaged at the policy formation stage.”

When there is no effort to “buy-in” the support of Parliament, by tabling the NEM and having a special debate on it, how could anyone expect that NEM would get larger national or civil society support.

(to be contd)

*Lim Kit Siang, DAP Parliamentary Leader & MP for Ipoh Timor

Sources : Democratic Action Party

'Umno APCO' heret Mahfuz ke JK Hak dan Kebebasan Parlimen

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Dzulfikar Mashoor

KUALA LUMPUR, 7 April: 'Umno APCO' yang disebutkan seumpama nada lagu nyanyian aktor filem Hindustan, Shahrukh Khan, membawa Ahli Parlimen Pokok Sena, Datuk Mahfuz Omar ke Jawatankuasa Hak dan Kebebasan Parlimen.

Ia dilihat seolah-olah Umno trauma dengan gelaran 'Umno Apco, Apco Umno' yang dipopularkan Mahfuzr di Dewan Rakyat sejak semalam lagi.

Hari ini, ahli Parlimen Kuala Krau, Datuk Ismail Mohamed Said membuat usul menggunakan Aturan Mesyuarat 36(12) mengheret Mahfuz ke Jawatankuasa Hak dan Kebebasan Parlimen.

Pertikaman lidah di Dewan Rakyat dilihat mulai panas apabila Timbalan Speaker, Datuk Dr. Wan Junaidi Tuanku Jaafar menyebelahi Ismail dengan tidak terlebih dahulu memberikan justifikasi yang matang pada usul tersebut.

Akibatnya, rata-rata Ahli Parlimen Pakatan Rakyat bangkit memprotes Dr. Wan Junaidi dengan melaungkan 'Umno Apco, Apco Umno' secara terbuka.

Dalam aksi protes itu, Ahli Parlimen Balik Pulau, Yusmadi Yusof turut meminta dirinya dikenakan tindakan seperti Mahfuz kerana menyebut 'Umno Apco, Apco Umno' di Dewan Rakyat.

Wan Junaidi kemudiannya menjelaskan bahawa kenyataan Mahfuz adalah mengelirukan dan membolehkan beliau dirujuk ke jawatankuasa tersebut menggunakan Aturan Mesyuarat 26(1B).

Ahli Parlimen Shah Alam, Khalid Samad kemudiannya bangkit mempersoal tindakan Wan Junaidi.

"Adakah menyebut perkataan Umno itu menghinakan, adakah APCO itu suatu najis," soalnya.

Ahli Parlimen Tumpat, Datuk Kamaruddin Jaffar pula menganggap usul tersebut adalah tidak tepat kerana Ismail dan Dr Wan Junaidi masing-masing tidak menggunakan Aturan Mesyuarat yang sama.

Tidak cukup dengan itu, menurut Kamaruddin, kaedah Speaker membuat keputusan tidak menurut Aturan Mesyuarat.

Ini kerana, menurut beliau, Dewan Rakyat tidak terlebih dahulu diminta membahaskan usul dan menerima usul Ismail itu.

Tanpa memberikan justifikasi yang jelas, Wan Junaidi bertegas dengan keputusannya iaitu Mahfuz diheret ke Jawatankuasa Hak dan Kebebasan Parlimen.

Ahli Parlimen Subang, Sivarasa Rasiah kemudiannya meminta Wan Junaidi menjelaskan pula tentang kaedah menggunakan perkataan 'Umno' dan 'Apco' dengan cara yang betul supaya beliau tidak mengulangi tindakan Mahfuz.

Wan Junaidi kemudiannya dilihat seolah-olah terperangkap dengan keputusan yang dibuatnya kerana kedua-dua perkataan yang dianggap sensitif oleh Ahli-ahli Parlimen BN itu tidak memberikan konotasi yang salah.

Dewan Rakyat kelihatan kembali kecoh dengan laungan 'Umno Apco, Apco Umno', hatta Dr. Wan Junaidi terpaksa menangguhkan sidang Dewan Rakyat selama lima belas minit.

Wan Junaidi kemudiannya mengambil ketetapan Dewan Rakyat menggunakan undian suara.

Dewan Rakyat kembali gamat dengan laungan 'Umno Apco, Apco Umno' sebagai protes pada ketetapan Dr. Wan Junaidi.

Ahli Parlimen Sri Gading, Datuk Mohamad Aziz kemudiannya mencelah dengan mengatakan bahawa menyebut kalimah 'Umno' dan 'Apco' seperti memperbudak-budakkan Umno.

Ahli Parlimen Batu, Tian Chua kemudiannya membuat usul untuk membawa Mohamad ke Jawatankuasa Hak dan Kebebasan Parlimen kerana menyebut 'Umno Apco, Apco Umno' sebagaimana yang dilakukan ke atas Mahfuz, tetapi usul itu diketepikan oleh Dr. Wan Junaidi.

Menurut Wan Junaidi, kenyataan Mohamad tidak boleh ditafsirkan sama dengan kenyataan Mahfuz.

Tegas Wan Junaidi lagi, sekiranya sesiapa Ahli Parlimen Pakatan Rakyat tidak berpuas hati dengan ketetapannya, mereka dicabar mempertikai tindakannya menggunakan Aturan Mesyuarat 43.

Ahli Parlimen Jelebu, Datuk Seri Dr. Rais Yatim kemudiannya mencadangkan Dr. Wan Junaidi menggunakan kuasa muktamadnya berdasarkan Aturan Mesyuarat 90.

Ahli Parlimen Machang, Saifuddin Nasution Ismail bangkit lalu mempersoal kemampuan Wan Junaidi kerana soalah-olah mampu membaca apa yang terbuku dalam hati Mahfuz dan Mohamad.

"Mahfuz sebut Apco dan Umno, begitu juga Mohamad, bagaimana Tuan Speaker boleh menganggap Mahfuz salah dan Mohamad betul sedangkan kedua-duanya menggunakan perkataan yang sama," ujarnya.

Ahli Parlimen Ipoh Timur, Lim Kit Siang kemudiannya merumuskan Wan Junaidi telahpun melakukan kesalahan dalam menggunakan Aturan Mesyuarat.

Ujarnya lagi, Wan Junaidi dinasihatkan supaya menggugurkan Mahfuz dan Mohamad daripada dibicarakan oleh Jawatankuasa Hak dan Kebebasan, seterusnya meneruskan agenda menyuarat.

Sebagai respons pada cadangan Kit Siang itu, Wan Junaidi bertegas dengan ketetapannya sebelum itu.

Kekecohan dalam Dewan Rakyat mengakibatkan beliau terus menangguhkan mesyuarat secara tiba-tiba tanpa didahulukan dengan suatu usul penangguhan yang disokong oleh Ahli Parlimen.

Namun, beliau kemudiannya mengaku gagal mengawal perasaannya dan menangguhkan sidang dewan sehingga 10 pagi esok mengikut Aturan Mesyuarat yang sepatutnya.


Kes Kit Siang

Sebelum itu, Lim Kit Siang (DAP-Ipoh Timur) memohon agar anggota Parlimen Pasir Salak, Datuk Tajudin Abdul Rahman dihadapkan ke jawatankuasa yang sama.

Ini ekoran tuduhan Tajudin yang antara lain mengatakan ada antara pemimpin Pulau Pinang daripada DAP, kerap ke Singapura dan Hong Kong dan menjual rahsia negara kepada dua negara itu.

Selain itu, Lim berkata, anggota Parlimen Pasir Salak itu juga mendakwa beliau adalah bekas pegawai politik kepada bekas Perdana Menteri Singapura, Lee Kuan Yew (kiri).

Lim meminta Tajudin mengemukakan bukti atas tudhannya itu dan sekiranya gagal beliau dicadangkan dihadapkan ke jawatankuasa itu.

Tajudin selepas itu enggan menarik balik tuduhannya itu lalu menyebabkan anggota Parlimen Pakatan mendesak dia dihadapkan ke jawatankuasa itu.

Ekoran itu, undi belah bahagi dibuat yang menghasilkan 56 bersetuju dan 82 menolak cadangan itu.

Sumber : Harakahdaily.Net

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RAKYAT MAHU KERAJAAN BARU BUKAN MODEL EKONOMI BARU

OLEH : MOHAMED HANIPA MAIDIN

Pada 30 Mac yang lalu Najib Tun Razak mengumumkankan kepada rakyat kononnya satu reformasi ekonomi Malaysia melalui pengenalan bahagian pertama Model Ekonomi Baru ( MEB). Bahagian kedua MEB akan diumumkan pada bulan Jun nanti.

MEB mengandungi 8 inisiatif perubahan yang dicadangkan oleh Kerajaan BN.Di dalam laporan yang disediakan oleh Majlis Penasihat Ekonomi Kebangsaan ( MPEK ) didedahkan satu penilaian yang agak terbuka tentang apa yang tidak kena dengan ekonomi Malaysia sebelum ini . MPEK juga mendedahkan halangan-halangan yang mengakibatkan pencapaian ekonomi negara yang tidak memberangsangkan.

Kadar pertumbuhan tersebut mula menurun dalam beberapa tahun kebelakangan ini kepada purata 4.5 hingga 5 peratus sahaja.

MEB sepertimana slogan 1 Malaysia adalah slogan-slogan baru yang dicanangkan kepada rakyat negara ini. Menjadi satu trend dalam negara ini setiap kali berlaku pertukaran Perdana Menteri maka bertukar juga slogan-slogan manis yang dicanangkan kepada rakyat. Satu Malaysia ganti Islam Hadhari. MEB ganti DEB.

Bagaimanapun satu perkara yang tidak bertukar adalah sama ada konsep Islam hadhari atau 1 Malaysia atau DEB atau MEB idea-idea ini masih datang dari partai politik yang sama yang menerajui negara ini selama ini- UMNO atau Barisan Nasional ( BN ). Sejarah membuktikan idea-idea seperti DEB meskipun manis dari segi konsep dan niatnya namun bercelaru apabila tiba waktu pelaksanaannya.

DEB yang bertunjangkan idea yang baik iaitu untuk menyusun semula masyarakat dan menbanteras kemiskinan diakui oleh Najib sendiri dalam ucapannya dengan kata-kata berikut “ untuk sekian lama, perlaksanaan dasar affirmative ( DEB ) tidak sampai kepada pihak-pihak yang perlu kepada dasar tersebut”. Secara mudahnya DEB gagal.

Para penganalisa ekonomi meskipun mengambil sikap terbuka menerima konsep MEB ini namun masih ragu-ragu sama ada perlaksanaannya akan benar-benar dapat dilakukan dengan jayanya. Melihat kepada beberapa tulisan di dalam “the edge” seperti tulisan oleh Azam Aris ( “the missing political will” ) dan Anna Taing ( “So much to do and so little time to do it “) adalah jelas mereka percaya dasar ini tidak akan dapat dilaksanakan dengan jayanya selagi mana budaya “rent seeking and patronage” masih terus berleluasa.

Azam menulis “ budaya rent seeking dan sistem patronage adalah faktor besar yang menyumbang kepada ketirisan dan kebocoran dalam ekonomi- sebahagian menyatakan beratus-beratus billion ringgit- yang membawa kepada persekitaran ekonomi yang tidak cekap dan berdaya saing. Budaya ini berkait rapat dengan amalan rasuah”

Secara mudahnya budaya “rent seeking “ berlaku apabila mana-mana individu atau syarikat atau organisasi menggunakan segala sumber yang mereka ada untuk mendapat faedah-faedah ekonomi daripada Kerajaan tanpa mengembalikan semula faedah-faedah yang mereka terima itu kepada masyarakat. Contoh rent seeking adalah apabila syarikat melobi pihak Kerajaan bagi mendapatkan pinjaman, geran atau perlindungan tariff di mana aktiviti-aktiviti ini tidak mendatangkan apa-apa manfaat kepada rakyat bawahan kerana ianya hanya adalah satu pengagihan semula sumber –sumber dari pembayar cukai kepada golongan-golongan yang mempunyai kepentingan tertentu.

Apa yang didedahkan oleh Azam bukan satu omongan kosong. Sejarah Umno mengurus ekonomi negara membuktikan apa yang dikatakan oleh Azam adalah satu realiti. Sebagai satu contoh kita lihat pendedahan yang dilakukan oleh Barry Wain tentang budaya rent seeking dan patronage” di dalam bukunya “Malaysia Maverick Mahathir Mohamed in turbulent times” . Di m/s 186 buku tersebut Barry Wain menulis bagaimana Mantan Presiden Umno itu menberikan kontrak projek empangan Bakun di Sarawak bernilai RM 15 bilion tersebut kepada Ting Pek Khiing yang mempunyai hubungan rapat dengan mantan presiden Umno itu.

Barry Wain menulis “Dr Mahathir memberi keizinan kepada Ekran Bhd ( syarikat milik Ting Pek Khiing ) pada awal tahun 1994 selepas Ting dan Ketua Menteri Sarawak yang amat berpengaruh iaitu Abdul Taib Mahmud secara bersendirian membincangkan projek tersebut hanya dalam beberapa minggu sahaja. Tiada persaingan /tender yang terbuka dibuat , Ekran yang tidak mempunyai apa-apa kepakaran atau pengalaman dalam projek pembinaan empangan tidak mengemukakan apa-apa cadangan kepada Kerajaan Negeri sebelum mendapatkan kontrak tersebut. Ting hanya mengemukakan kajian kesan kepada alam sekitar ( environmental impact study ) hanya setelah 6 bulan beliau mendapatkan kontrak tersebut.”

Barry Wain juga menulis rakan kongsi kepada Ekran iaitu “Swiss Swedish engineering powerhouse Asea Brown Boveri Ltd. iaitu syarikat yang dipilih oleh Kerajaan Malaysia bagi mengetuai Konsortium pembinaan empangan bakun itu telah bertelingkah dengan Ekran apabila Asea Brown Boveri Ltd. membantah pemberian kontrak berjumlah RM 9 bilion kepada empat syarikat yang Ekran mempunyai kepentingan tanpa tender terbuka. Bantahan itu mengakibatkan syarikat asing itu dikeluarkan sebagai rakan kongsi Ekran.

Pendedahan Bary Wain itu satu contoh daripada beberapa contoh yang menunjukkan budaya rent seeking dan patronage boleh merosakkan sebarang dasar atau teori ekonomi meskipun dihiasi dengan kata-kata yang indah. Apa jaminan selagi Umno memerintah budaya tidak sihat sepertimana dalam kes Bakun itu tidak akan berlaku dan merosakkan kata-kata indah yang mendasari MEB yang dicanangkan oleh Najib.

Sepertimana yang dikatakan meskipun MEB adalah idea baru namun ianya datang dari pemimpin Umno- parti yang sama memperkenalkan DEB dan dalam masa yang sama menggagalkan DEB kerana perlaksanaannya yang penuh dengan ketirisan, kronisme , nepotisme dan juga rasuah di mana-mana.

Apa yang lebih malang di zaman Umno memerintah krisis keyakinan melanda institusi –institusi penting negara ini . Keyakinan para pelabur terhadap integriti institusi kehakiman sebagai contoh sehingga kini masih belum pulih sekaligus ia merencat iklim pelaburan. Bukan menjadi rahsia lagi para pelabur asing lebih rela dan yakin kes –kes mereka dibicarakan oleh timbangtara yang dikendalikan di luar negara daripada dibicarakan oleh Mahkamah di negara ini. Atas dasar itu semasa menandatangani mana-mana kontrak di negara ini para pelabur ini akan mengarahkan para peguam mereka meletakkan klausa di dalam perjanjian bahawa sebarang pertikaian yang berlaku hendaklah diputuskan oleh timbangtara dan bukannya oleh Mahkamah di Malaysia. Lihatlah betapa hinanya institusi kehakiman setelah dirosakkan oleh Umno.

Atas dasar itu rakyat mempunyai alasan yang kukuh untuk meragui konsep MEB meskipun dasar itu dihiasai dengan pelbagai kata-kata yang enak dan manis didengar. Najib mengatakan bahawa MEB masih mengekalkan dasar affirmative tetapi ianya kini berdasarkan empat prinsip – prinsip mesra pasaran ( market friendly ), prinsip berdasarkan merit ( merit based ), prinsip berdasarkan keperluan ( need based ) dan prinsip ketelusan ( transperancy ). Ya memang sedap didengar tetapi dengan trek rekod yang buruk BN mengurus ekonomi negara ini adakah kata-kata yang indah itu yang diperlukan oleh rakyat pada ketika ini ?

Sumber : Peguam PAS

Portal KDN sahkan APCO terlibat

Dzulfikar Mashoor



KUALA LUMPUR, 6 April: Lawatan firma perundingan antarabangsa APCO Worldwide (APCO) ke Kementerian Dalam Negeri (KDN) pada 28 Oktober tahun lalu, seperti yang dilaporkan oleh laman iKDN, portal rasmi kementerian (gambar atas) tersebut seolah-olah memberi satu jawapan berhubung sejauhmana firma yang dikatakan pro Zionis-Israel itu berperanan dalam urusan keselamatan dalam negara.

Munurut portal rasmi kerajaan itu, http://www.ikdn.org, KDN telahpun mengadakan pertemuan dengan beberapa perunding antarabangsa paling lewat pada 23 Oktober tahun lalu.

Pertemuan itu, menurut portal KDN, adalah pertemuan kali yang kedua dari empat pertemuan seperti yang dipersetujui oleh kedua-dua belah pihak.

Jelas sumber itu lagi, persetujuan KDN melantik APCO merupakan aktiviti kesinambungan dari program 'Supporting The Goverment Of Malaysia: Building Intergrated Goverment Communication' anjuran Jabatan Perdana Menteri (JPM) sendiri.

Lebih mengejutkan, portal tersebut mendedahkah, dua siri pertemuan tersebut dipengerusikan sendiri oleh Ketua Setiausaha KDN, Datuk Seri Mahmood Adam. (gambar)


Pemakluman rasmi itu sekaligus mengesahkan dakwaan Ahli Parlimen Pakatan Rakyat sebelum ini, bahawa perlantikan APCO boleh mengakibatkan keselamatan dalam negeri terdedah pada firma pro Zionis-Israel tersebut.

18 Mac lalu, Menteri Di Jabatan Perdana Menteri (JPM) Datuk Seri Mohamed Nazri Aziz dalam jawapan lisannya kepada Dewan Rakyat memberitahu, inisiatif kerajaan melantik APCO menguruskan perkhidmatan komunikasi menyeluruh dalam kerajaan supaya kerajaan mampu meningkatkan lagi kapasiti perkhidmatannya dalam bidang komunikasi.

Jawapan Nazri itu adalah mewakili Perdana Menteri Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak.

Sumber : Harakahdaily.Net

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Buat Pendukung Perjuangan PAKATAN RAKYAT.
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Sumber : Mantan Ketua Dewan Pemuda PAS Kedah.

Islamic Jihad Calls For Capturing Israeli Soldiers

Monday April 05, 2010 11:30
Author by Saed Bannoura - IMEMC & Agencies

The Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine called for kidnapping Israeli soldiers in order to trade them with Palestinians imprisoned by Israel.


Islamic Jihad

The movement added that capturing soldiers is the only option to end the file of the Palestinian detainees and ensure their release from Israeli prisons.

Khalid Al Batsh, a political leader of the Islamic Jihad, stated that all options to ensure the freedom of Palestinian detainees are legitimate.

His statements came during a Sunday protest in front of the Red Cross in Gaza city.
Al Batsh called for considering the file of the detainees as a top priority as they are subjected to ongoing violations and attacks.

He further called for achieving unity between all factions, and stated that the Palestinian factions will never abandon the issue of the detainees, and will act for their release.

The protest comes parallel to a strike declared by the detainees in Israeli prisons.

The detainees decided to strike by not having visitations during the month of April, and also decided to hold hunger strikes on April 7, 17 and 27.

They stated that their strike comes in protest to the Israeli violations against them and their visiting family members, as the soldiers violate the rights of the families and conduct provocative searches against them.

Dozens of women were not allowed to visit their detained family members after refusing to be subjected to naked body searches.

Sources : IMEMC

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