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    PLAN MESRA - TAKAFUL ETIQA

    Manfaat Utama

    • Perlindungan dibolehkan sehingga umur 80 tahun.

    • Akhir tempoh kontrak keseluruhan Akaun Peserta akan dipulangkan + perkongsian keuntungan dari Akaun Peserta dan lebihan Akaun Khas Peserta.

    • Jika berlaku kematian, manfaat yang dibayar adalah jumlah perlindungan + Akaun Peserta Terkumpul + keuntungan Akaun Peserta.

    • Sekiranya berlaku keilatan kekal dan menyeluruh, jumlah perlindungan akan dibayar dalam 5 pembayaran. 10% daripada jumlah perlindungan serta amaun terkumpul dan keuntungan dari Akaun Peserta apabila sahnya keilatan, 10% pada ulang tahun pertama hingga tahun ketiga dan bakinya sebanyak 60% pada tahun keempat dari tarikh keilatan.

    • Nilai serahan Akaun Peserta terkumpul dari tahun kedua penyertaan. Boleh dikeluarkan tanpa perlu bayar balik.

    • Atas apa juga sebab, sekiranya anda tidak dapat meneruskan sumbangan, anda boleh memilih satu daripada pilihan di dalam ‘peruntukan bukan lucuthak’ untuk meneruskan penyertaan.


    MENJANGKAU HARAPAN MEMUGAR IMPIAN

    MENJANGKAU HARAPAN MEMUGAR IMPIAN
    Ketika mengendalikan Sistem SISMEP di Permatang Pauh. Sistem ini dapat mengenalpasti pengundi setiap rumah.

    Wednesday, December 31, 2008

    Rashid ada hak untuk saman, kami sedia hadapi - Tian Chua

    BEKAS Pengerusi Suruhanjaya Pilihan Raya (SPR), Tan Sri Abdul Rashid Abdul Rahman mempunyai hak untuk menyaman mana-mana pemimpin Pakatan Rakyat kerana beliau mempunyai hak untuk berbuat demikian, ujar Ketua Penerangan KeADILan, Tian Chua.

    Menurut beliau dalam satu laporan media, Abdul Rashid mempunyai hak untuk berbuat demikian jika benar dakwaannya semalam bahawa beliau sering difitnah oleh pemimpin pembangkang sepanjang menerajui suruhanjaya itu.

    Sebelum ini, media melaporkan Abdul Rashid akan mengambil tindakan undang-undang kepada pemimpin-pemimpin pembangkang memandangkan tuduhan yang dilemparkan terhadapnya seringkali bersifat peribadi.

    “Memang kita anggap beliau tak dapat jalankan tugas sebagai Pengerusi SPR dengan profesional dan adil. Beliau seringkali mengeluarkan kenyataan yang mempunyai unsur politik,” katanya sebuah akhbar online.

    Tian Chua yang juga Ahli Parlimen Batu menambah, sepanjang Abdul Rashid menerajui SPR, terdapat banyak kelemahan sewaktu mengendalikan pilihan raya hingga melahirkan rasa tidak puas hati banyak pihak.

    “Begitu banyak kelemahan SPR, hingga kita terpaksa menganjurkan perhimpunan BERSIH bagi menggesa SPR menjalankan proses pilihan raya dengan telus dan berkesan,” katanya.

    Katanya lagi, Abdul Rashid mempunyai hak untuk mengemukakan saman kepada sesiapa sahaja dan baginya, beliau sentiasa bersedia menghadapi apa jua tuduhan. - Suara Keadilan

    SAYA AKAN DEDAHKAN SKANDAL TERBARU KAPAL SELAM - Zahar Hashim

    Bekas Ketua Umno Bahagian Petaling Jaya Selatan, Kapt (B) Zahar Hashim, akan mendedahkan satu salinan dokumen yang ditandatangani oleh salah seorang bekas pegawai tertinggi TLDM (Tentera Laut DiRaja Malaysia) berkenaan pembelian sebuah lagi kapal selam.

    Menurut beliau dalam satu wawancara bersama Suara Keadilan, keputusan beliau untuk tidak lagi bersama Umno dijadikan akses untuk beliau mendedahkan kepada umum mengenai skandal-skandal Umno.

    “Dah keluar Umno ini lagi senanglah. Saya baru sahaja terima salinan dokumen yang ditandatangani oleh salah seorang bekas pegawai tertinggi TLDM (Tentera Laut DiRaja Malaysia) berkenaan pembelian sebuah lagi kapal selam. Saya rasa keputusan pembeliannya sudahpun dibuat atau diperingkat akhir perbincangan. Saya akan dedahkan semua ini tidak lama lagi,” katanya apabila ditanya Adakah lagi skandal berkaitan Najib dan Kementerian Pertahanan yang akan beliau dedahkan.

    Menurutnya lagi, beliau akan terus mendedahkan penyelewengan yang berlaku dalam kerajaan meskipun beliau tidak memegang apa-apa jawatan dalam politik dan sekadar menjadi pembantu khas kepada Yang DiPertua Pas kawasan Petaling Jaya Selatan.

    Pada masa yang sama, Zahar juga berkata antara sebab beliau keluar Umno ialah kerana berlaku penyewengan di peringkat Pemuda Bahagian ketika mencalonkan Muhammad Taib yang juga Pengerusi perhubungan Umno Negeri sebagai Timbalan Presiden Umno.

    “Kita telah hantar bukti yang cukup untuk menunjukkan pencalonan itu tidak sah disebabkan cawangan yang buat persidangan tahunan secara betul tidak diiktiraf oleh Pemuda bahagian, sebaliknya yang membuat mesyuarat yang tidak mengikut peraturan diiktiraf oleh Pemuda bahagian,”katanya.

    Dalam pada itu, keputusan untuk meninggalkan Umno diambil setelah beliau sedar terdapat banyak penipuan dan penyelewengan yang berlaku dalam Umno dan kerajaan.

    Menurutnya selama 27 tahun beliau berada dalam Umno dan 20 tahun memegang jawatan Ketua Bahagian, mendedahkan beliau kepada pelbagai keburukan yang berlaku dalam parti itu. - Suara Keadilan.

    SASARAN 30 000 KEAHLIAN PKR SARAWAK TERCAPAI

    Setelah lebih 10 tahun bertapak di Sarawak, dengan segala hitam pahit rintangan, akhirnya sasaran keahlian 30 000 orang akhir tahun 2008 tercapai.

    Kemasukan beramai-ramai 12 000 orang ahli bersama YB Gibriel Adit Oktober lalu , bekas MP Lubok Antu Jawah Gerang bersama-sama 2 000 penyokongnya dan ditambah 3000 orang pemohon terbaharu dari DUN Dudong, Lanang Ahad lalu menjadikan jumlah terkumpul melebih 30 000 orang. Tahniah dan syabas kepada semua aktivis dan ahli parti yang tidak jemu-jemu mengembangkan saiz keahlian parti.

    Sementara itu semasa majlis 90109 nanti dijangka akan diumumkan lagi permohonan beramai-ramai bekas ahli PRS masuk PKR.

    Sasaran terbaharu PKR Sarawak ialah mempunyai keahlian 150 000 orang menjelang akhir 2009. Kepada Jawatankuasa Perhubungan Negeri, Bahagian, Cawangan dan JDM, pastikan sasaran itu mampu digapai lebih awal. Insya Allah.

    Monday, December 29, 2008

    90109 JAMUAN MAKAN MALAM TERBESAR BAKAL DIADAKAN DI KUCHING

    PKR Sarawak sedang giat merangka satu aktiviti bersejarah yang bakal dinobatkan Majlis Makan Malam terbesar pernah diadakan di Sarawak, atau mungkin pertama di Malaysia. Majlis yang akan berlangsung pada 9 Januari 2009 (90109) dijangka meliputi 510 buah meja.

    Sebelum ini siri jamuan serupa telah diadakan di Sibu (320 meja) dan Miri (320 meja).

    Majlis akan dihadiri oleh Ketua Umum Keadilan, Dato' Seri Anwar Ibrahim. Turut hadir ialah YAB Tan Sri Khalid Ibrahim, Menteri Besar Selangor serta beberapa MP Keadilan. Pemimpin PAS, DAP dan SNAP turut diundang. Kita berdoa agar tidak ada pemimpin PR yang dihalang masuk ke Sarawak kali ini.

    Acara bermula jam 7.00 malam dengan siri ucapan pemimpin PKR tempatan dan wakil rakyat dari Semenanjung. DSAI dijangka bersama-sama lebih 5000 tetamu jam 8.30 malam.

    Ahli dan penyokong PKR dan PR yang berminat hadir bolehlah membuat tempahan tempat duduk atau menghubungi saya dengan kadar segera. 014-886 0118, 082- 645 178 atau email pieeling@yahoo.com

    AMK minta Ezam dedahkan 6 kotak rahsia di KT

    Angkatan Muda Keadilan (AMK) PKR Terengganu mengalu-alukan kehadiran Ezam Mohd Nor yang dijemput oleh calon Barisan Nasional (BN) dalam pilihanraya kecil Kuala Terengganu, Datuk Wan Farid Wan Salleh untuk membantu kempennya bulan depan.

    "AMK Terengganu meminta Ezam datang bersama enam kotak yang pernah didakwa oleh beliau berkaitan rasuah dan penyelewengan pimpinan Umno dan BN," kata Ketua AMK Terengganu, Fariz Muda.

    Katanya, seluruh rakyat Malaysia pernah diberitahu oleh Ezam - sewaktu menjadi ketua AMK dahulu - bahawa beliau mempunyai enam kotak bukti rasuah dan penyelewangan Umno/BN.

    "Sekiranya beliau masih terus konsisten dan serius dalam menentang rasuah, sudah pasti ini medan yang terbaik untuk mendedahkannya.

    "Rahsia enam kotak tersebut masih terus menjadi rahsia yang masih ditutup oleh Ezam," katanya Faris dalam satu kenyataan hari ini.

    Menurutnya, Suruhanjaya Pencegahan Rasuah Malaysia yang telah diluluskan oleh Parlimen, seharusnya digunakan sebaik mungkin untuk mendedahkan perbuatan rasuah tersebut.

    "Integriti dan kredibiliti Ezam akan kembali pulih selepas menyertai Umno semula, dengan mendedahkan enam kotak dokumen rasuah dan penyelewengan Umno/BN.

    "Ini kerana antara alasan beliau menyertai Umno semula adalah kerana menyokong Perdana Menteri, Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi menentang rasuah .

    "Para pengundi di Kuala Terengganu sedang menanti kehadiran Ezam bersama enam kotak yang diwar-warkan itu," tambah Fariz - Malaysiakini

    Sunday, December 28, 2008

    No way Pakatan can take over state govt: Dr Chan

    Kenyataan ego dan bongkak! Seperti dilaporkan dalam The Borneo Post hari ini, TK Menteri Sarawak George Chan menempelak kesungguhan Anwar dan PR untuk menawan DUN Sarawak dalam pilihanraya yang akan datang.
    Dalam politik apa-apa boleh terjadi. Politic is the art of possiblelity. Jika kini BN gagah memerintah sejak 45 tahun lalu, tidak mustahil tsunami yang dicetus di Padungan 2006, kembali melanda seluruh Sarawak 2010 nanti.
    Jika kita bermain di gelanggang yang sama rata, sudah lama BN goyah layu tersungkur. Tetapi kerana tahu kelemahan sendiri, maka segala jentera, kemudahan kerajaan dimanipulasi dan disalahgunakan. Dan akhirnya kita berharap rakyat sendiri akan menunjuk jalan keluar kepada BN. Hidup Anwar. Bangkitlah rakyat Sarawak.

    Syed Husin Mahu Pihak Bertelagah Tutup Mulut

    KUALA LUMPUR, 28 Dis (Bernama) -- Timbalan Presiden Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) Dr Syed Husin Ali mahu para pemimpin dalam Pakatan Rakyat (PR), gabungan pembangkang terdiri daripada PAS, DAP dan PKR, yang terbabit dalam perang mulut supaya berhenti dari menimbulkan perbezaan di antara mereka melalui media.

    "Saya ingin menggesa dan merayu kepada pelbagai pihak dalam Pakatan supaya berhenti daripada membawa perbezaan dan konflik mereka melalui media terutama yang dikawal oleh BN (Barisan Nasional)

    "Ini termasuk bukan sahaja MB Selangor (Menteri Besar Tan Sri Khalid Ibrahim) dan Anggota Parlimen Kapar (S. Manikavasagam) tetapi juga Speaker Selangor (wakil DAP Teng Chang Khim) dan Anggota Parlimen Klang (wakil DAP Charles Santiago)," katanya dalam satu kenyataan di sini, Ahad.

    Perbezaan mereka ditimbulkan Jumaat lepas selepas Manikavasagam mengumumkan bahawa beliau akan keluar daripada Pakatan Rakyat atas alasan tidak bersetuju dengan Khalid dan cara Menteri Besar itu mentadbir negeri itu.

    Semalam, Khalid membalas dengan berkata bahawa Manikavasagam bebas untuk meletak jawatan jika beliau mahu berbuat demikian dan beliau tidak berminat untuk berjumpa Anggota Parlimen itu atau untuk memintanya menimbang semula keputusannya.

    Bagaimanapun, Santiago bingung selepas Teng menuduhnya bahawa beliau telah dibeli oleh BN dan bersikap seperti seorang pembangkang.

    "Mereka sepatutnya duduk bersama dan berbincang dan menyelesaikan perbezaan dan konflik secara dalaman. Terdapat banyak saluran dan prosedur untuk berbuat demikian," katanya.

    Katanya dengan ketiadaan Presiden PKR Datin Seri Dr Wan Azizah Ismail dan Penasihat Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim, yang kini berada di luar negara sehingga 6 Jan, beliau akan mengadakan mesyuarat biro politik Rabu ini bagi membincangkan isu utama dan berkaitan dalam usaha "untuk mencari jalan penyelesaian yang sesuai".

    "Isu berhubung ancaman Anggota Parlimen Kapar untuk meninggalkan PKR telah didedahkan seara berlebihan oleh media yang dikawal oleh BN. Mereka telah memutarbelit kenyataan sesetengah pemimpin Pakatan (Rakyat) untuk menggambarkan seolah-olah pakatan pembangkang dalm keadaan kucar kacir.

    "Sebenarnya, niat mereka adalah untuk memesongkan perhatian orang ramai daripada beberapa krisis dalaman BN dan juga di antara parti komponen di dalam kerajaan sehingga kepada pilihan raya kecil Kuala Terengganu," katanya.

    ANWAR DILANTIK PENGERUSI PERHUBUNGAN SARAWAK

    Sejak sehari dua ini, banyak pertanyaan daripada teman-teman tentang kebenaran Anwar menjadi Ketua Keadilan Sarawak.Mereka juga bertanyakan rasional di sebalik perubahan tersebut.

    Di sini ingin ditegaskan bahawa DS Anwar Ibrahim telah dilantik sebagai Pengerusi Perhubungan Negeri Sarawak menggantikan YB Dominique Ng Kim Ho.
    Seperti kelaziman selepas Kongres Nasional setiap tahun, Presiden berhak menukar kepimpinan negeri berdasarkan penilaian prestasi semasa. Tahun ini cuma Pulau Pinang, Melaka dan Negeri Sembilan sahaja yang tidak memerlukan perubahan kepimpinan.

    Dalam konteks Sarawak, YB Dominique Ng telah menunjukkan prestasi yang menggalakkan, tetapi demi menggapai hasil yang lebih besar, maka DSAI telah diamanahkan mengetuai Keadilan Sarawak. Dengan perkembangan pesat PKR Sarawak, maka semestinya perlu perhatian lebih daripada pusat. Lebih-lebih lagi Pilihanraya DUN yang semakin hampir, memerlukan perincian perancangan yang lebih mantap.

    Kemasukan beberapa figura penting politik Sarawak ke dalam PKR, memerlukan kepimpinan yang lebih dinamik dan berpengalaman. DSAI telah membuktikan perkara mustahil dalam politik, dapat direalisasikan. Jangan lupa peranan menyatukan PAS dan DAP adalah keajaiban DSAI.

    Kepimpinan DSAI yang terbukti disegani lawan dan kawan, sudah tentu membuat BN semakin gelabah. Petunjuk pertama ialah larangan terhadap YB Gobalakrisnan daripada memasuki Sarawak, beberapa hari selepas pengumuman perlantikan DSAI. Alasan yang digunakan di bawah Seksyen 66 (1) Akta Imigresen 1959/1963 amat dangkal. Ahli Parlimen dinafikan kebebasan dan ini bertentangan dengan Seksyen 66 (1c) akta yang sama.

    YB Dominique Ng, walaupun agak terkejut dengan perkembangan parti, ternyata menerimanya dengan hati terbuka. Seperti yang dimaklumkannya kepada saya, pertukaran kepimpinan perkara biasa. Apa yang penting Projek Tawan DUN Sarawak merupakan agenda PKR dan ini mesti diutamakan.

    Walaupun terdapat beberapa suara sinis yang mengungkitkan federalisme, perlantikan DSAI cuma untuk seketika sementara "menanti" kesanggupan satu nama besar politik Sarawak menggalas tanggungjawab tersebut.

    Diharap dengan kepimpinan Anwar PKR Sarawak akan lebih mantap. Arus kemasukan ahli berlipat ganda. Jentera parti lebih tersusun.

    Monday, December 22, 2008

    YB MENJADI PENGARAH 21 SYARIKAT

    Jika seorang YB biasa di Sarawak mampu menjadi Pengarah dan memiliki kepentingan terhadap 21 buah syarikat (link), bayangkan seorang YB yang menjadi Menteri Muda, Menteri, Timbalan Ketua Menteri hatta Ketua Menteri.
    Bayangkan juga berapa buah syarikat yang dimiliki oleh anak- pinak, saudara mara, kawan-kawan serta kroni yang menjadi proksi mereka.
    Inilah wakil rakyat yang dipilih rakyat Sarawak selama ini. Sesiapa yang menjadi YB dalam kerajaan BN, pasti kaya-raya yang melimpah-ruah.
    Saya kenal dan berkawan kepada seorang adik beradik kepada YB semasa sama-sama menjadi guru dahulu. Sekarang dia sudah menjadi jutawan. Apa tidaknya, menurut cerita classmate saya yang satu tempat kerja dengan isteri adik YB tadi, kerana hendak membeli sebiji kerongsang yang sepadan warna baju, sanggup mengajak classmate saya ke KL Segala perbelanjaan ditanggung, pergi pagi balik malam?
    Saya juga kenal seorang Setiausaha kepada seorang Menteri. Dulu dia sorang guru biasa. Setelah lebih 20 tahun bersama Menteri tersebut, kini dia kaya. Tidak mahu lagi menjawat jawatan guru. Dia sudah memiliki perniagaan yang berjaya. Memiliki rumah yang tersergam indah.

    Jika hendak menjadi kaya-raya, masuk BN dan menjadi YBnya. Jika masuk Pakatan Rakyat, jangan mimipi hendak menjadi kaya. Lawatan kerja pun menggunakan perbelanjaan sendiri.

    Sunday, December 21, 2008

    Anwar's letter of demand to Jabu

    A legal firm acting for Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim has served a letter of demand for an unreserved apology and monetary compensation on Sarawak Deputy Chief Minister Alfred Jabu for alleged defamation.

    The letter was delivered yesterday afternoon to Jabu's office in Bangunan MASJA in Petra Jaya, Kuching, by a dispatch clerk from the legal firm, Baru Bian Advocates & Solicitors.

    Jabu was quoted in the Eastern Times as accusing Anwar of not respecting Iban customs and traditions, during a visit to the Rumah Entirong longhouse in Nanga Tutong, Lubok Antu on May 24.

    He was further reported as saying that Anwar should not be allowed to hoodwink and mislead the people - Tony Thien

    Anwar sniffing victory in Taib's backyard

    DEC 20 - The winds of change are blowing in Sarawak. They are fanning the fire of Dayak nationalism and fuelling increasing Chinese dissatisfaction for the Barisan Nasional government over the state's lethargic economic situation.

    Even among the ruling Malay Melanau community, there is growing unhappiness over the reluctance of its leader Tan Sri Abdul Taib Mahmud to step down as chief minister after 27 years.

    For the Dayaks, the animosity towards the old stalwart is even stronger. As a young Kayan waitress I met in a Kuala Lumpur restaurant recently remarked to me: "I don't like Taib Mahmud."

    She added: "I have to leave my family in Kuching to find work in Kuala Lumpur because there are no jobs available there."

    Therefore, it's not surprising that Parti Keadilan Rakyat adviser Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim has set his party's sights on capturing Sarawak at the next state elections due in 2011.

    The once impossible ambition of the state's warring opposition parties to defeat the Barisan Nasional may actually come true with Anwar and PKR.

    They are hoping to ride the coat tails of Pakatan Rakyat's success in the March 2008 general election and finally remove Taib and consequently Barisan Nasional from power.

    PKR is expected to continue attacking the record of Taib's rule especially his family's dominant business interests in the state. It is also expected to manipulate the negative sentiments of the larger Dayak community to remove Pesaka Bumiputera Bersatu (PBB), which is seen to be the vehicle of the smaller sized Malay Melanau community, from power.

    The election is expected be decided on the issues of the day - considering the similar multi-cultural, multi-religious and multi-ethnic composition of both competing main parties, the ruling PBB and the opposition PKR.

    Among the issues expected to be aired in the election are denial of land titles to the Dayaks who occupy hundreds of thousands of acres of tribal land settlements in rural Sarawak. The Dayaks have claimed ownership of the land for decades but were denied by the State Constitution after the formation of Malaysia in 1965.

    Anwar's PKR is promising to award them the land titles if it wins the upcoming elections.

    PKR's junior partner in Pakatan Rakyat, the DAP, is expected to whip up racial sentiments and focus the hatred of the city-dwelling Chinese against Taib over the issue of extending their property leases which are due soon.

    The Sarawak Chinese have for a long time worried about the possibility of their livelihood being threatened if their leases are not extended. However, such an event is highly unlikely in Sarawak where the Chinese have benefited from the trust given to them by the Sarawak political leadership to develop the economy of Sarawak.

    The DAP is promising them freehold land titles as a reward for putting them in power. It would be interesting to see how the newly formed Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission would perceive these political inducements.

    Sarawak is also fertile ground for Pakatan Rakyat to test its much hyped Bangsa Malaysia values.

    Sarawak is truly multi-ethnic in nature. The politically dominant Malay Melanaus comprise 20 per cent, the commercially powerful Chinese comprise 30 per cent and the rest is made up of 26 non-Muslim indigenous communities collectively referred to as Dayaks.

    The ethnic barriers are broken down further by the high percentage of mixed marriages registered estimated at 30 per cent of all mixed marriages in Malaysia annually.

    And there are signs that PKR is fast gaining ground. At a recent party fund-raising dinner in Miri, about 3,000 people, mostly from the Dayak community, attended and raised an estimated RM300,000 for the state PKR war chest to fight in the state elections.

    The Sarawak state assembly currently has a total of 71 seats. Taib's PBB holds 35 seats, the Sarawak United Progressive Party (SUPP) 11 seats, the Sarawak Progressive Development Party (SPDP) eight and Parti Rakyat Sarawak (PRS) eight, for a total of 62 seats.

    According to reliable sources, the BN could lose up to 30 seats in the next state elections, which would mean that Pakatan Rakyat just needs to capture six extra seats to win power, if the elections were held today.

    Anwar is hoping that by capturing the state government, it would force Sarawak BN Members of Parliament to jump ship to Pakatan Rakyat and help him capture power at the federal level.

    He would then avoid facing a rejuvenated Umno under the heir apparent prime minister, Datuk Seri Najib Razak, at the next general election.

    BN must work hard to stop Anwar and PKR from winning too many seats in the Sarawak state elections to prevent the erosion of grassroots support which will eventually lead to major losses in parliamentary seats in BN's once impenetrable backyard.

    A week is a long time in politics, many people say. But time is not on the side of ailing long-time strongman Taib.

    He is exactly in the same position where Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamd was in 2003. He needs to engineer a more sincere and smooth transition of power to a politically acceptable successor. That is his biggest problem.

    The next Sarawak state elections will hinge on his statesman ship. Failure todo so may launch Pakatan Rakyat into power in Putrajaya. MI

    ADUN PULAU PINANG BERKUNJUNG KE SADONG JAYA

    Baru usai majlis mesra bersama YB Hj Abdul Malik Kassim, Exco Perdagangan Dalam Negeri dan Hal Ehwal Pengguna Pulau Pinang di Kpg Semera, Sadong Jaya.
    Beliau sebelum ini pernah membantu saya semasa pilihanraya DUN Mei 2006. Kunjungan kali ini, lebih kepada menjejak kenangan semasa bertempur dengan jentera BN 2006. Pelbagai kisah pahit manis dan pengalaman diungkit semula.
    Rombongan 6 orang tiba di Sarawak 19 Disember lalu. Dalam ucapannya Hj Malik berjanji akan sekali lagi membantu kempen Keadilan pada pilihanraya nanti. Dengan pengalaman lebih 10 tahun berjuang bersama Keadilan, kalah menang sudah menjadi biasa. Diherdik, dihina, ditahan dan dimasukkan dalam lokap menjadi lumrah perjuangan.
    Jika sebelum ini, pihak lawan memandang serong perjuangan Keadilan, tetapi setelah 9 bulan memegang tampuk pemerintahan di 5 buah negeri, Keadilan dan Pakatan Rakyat sudah membuktikan kemampuan mereka. Apa yang tidak dilakukan oleh BN setelah memerintah 50 tahun, mampu dibuat oleh kerajaan PR dalam masa 9 bulan pertama ini. Contoh yang dikemukakan Hj Malik ialah pengikhtirafan kerajaan Pulau Pinang di bawah Lim Guan Eng kepada para hafiz Al Quran. Seorang Ketua Menteri keturunan Cina, mengemukakan cadangan agar para hafiz diiktiraf dan diberi elaun. Begitu juga pertambahan elaun guru KAFA. Perkara ini sepatutnya sudah dilakukan oleh kerajaan BN, tetapi kerana sibuk mengenyangkan diri sendiri, perkara ini terlepas pandang.
    Semasa krisis kekurangan beras dan minyak, kerajaan PR Pulau Pinang telah mengambil langkah proaktif dengan menyalurkan bantuan terus kepada rakyat yang susah tanpa memilih fahaman politik.
    Kerajaan prihatin rakyat yang menjadi dokongan PR, merupakan tonggak perjuangan Anwar Ibrahim. Walau apa pun orang memperkatakan tentang keburukan Anwar, perjuangan membela rakyat akan menolak segala dakyah ini. Jika pihak luar menagih kemahiran dan pengetahuan Anwar, malangnya pemerintah negara sendiri ketakutan dengan perkembangan yang ada.
    Hj Malik yang kenal rapat dengan Anwar, turut menolak dakwaan bahawa Anwar akan menggadai maruah Melayu. Siapa kita untuk mempersoalkan kemelayuan orang lain, sedangkan Anwar sanggup mempertaruhkan kedudukan, pangkat,harta benda demi menyelamat bangsa Melayu?
    Jika Anwar kurang sifat Melayunya, buat apa beliau berani menentang arus. Bangkit melawan kelompok yang memegang kuasa, setelah ditelanjang, diterajang, dikurung, dibelasah hingga hampir lumpuh? Buat apa susah-susah memperjudikan nyawa untuk menyelamatkan Melayu dan Malaysia daripada puak yang mementingkan kroni. Mengembungkan poket sendiri.
    Setelah 9 bulan menjadi Exco Pulau Pinang, Hj Malik, mengaku PR mampu mentadbir lebih baik daripada BN. Pokok pangkal keikhlasan berjuang demi kepentingan rakyat kebanyakan.

    Thursday, December 18, 2008

    KEMBALI BERSUA

    Salam perjuangan buat pemblog yang budiman. Setelah hampir 2 minggu bercuti dan berada di Miri, mengendalikan majlis makan malam PKR 14 Disember lalu, barulah berpeluang menjenguk blog sendiri.
    Bercerita tentang majlis di Miri dengan kehadiran Anwar Ibrahim dan Saifuddin Nasution, sekali lagi sambutan hangat rakyat Sarawak membuktikan tuduhan Taib Mahmud meleset. Anwar dikatakan tidak diterima rakyat Sarawak, tiada kredibiliti, tetapi keghairahan rakyat di Bekenu dan Miri ternyata sebaliknya. Sambutan tanpa dirancang rapi di lapangan terbang Miri mendapat sambutan memberangsangkan.
    Sejumlah 320 buah meja semasa makan malam tidak mencukupi. Masih ramai yang berada di luar dewan menanti dibenarkan masuk. Walau bagaimanapun jika tidak kerana sebab-sebab tertentu, sudah pasti akan ada lagi pengumuman penting malam itu. Pengumuman yang cukup membuat Taib Mahmud tidak duduk senang.
    Apa pun, satu lagi jamuan terbesar dengan 600 buah meja akan diadakan di Kuching Januari ini. Majlis itu nanti, akan ada lagi kejutan buat BN. Kepada sesiapa yang ingin turut serta, bolehlah membuat tempahan meja mulai sekarang.

    Tuesday, December 2, 2008

    PKR AKAN GEGARKAN SARAWAK

    DSAI telah menyusun strategi baru - menggegarkan Sarawak sebagai langkah baru menuju Putrajaya dalam merealisasikan ‘projek 16 September’ menukar kerajaan persekutuan.

    Katanya, beliau akan ke Sarawak pada pertengahan bulan depan dan mengarahkan semua pimpinan PKR bergilir-gilir untuk ke sana setiap minggu untuk meraih keyakinan masyarakat di sana menjelang pilihanraya negeri, selewat-lewatnya dijangka diadakan 2010.

    “Langkah pertama, gegarkan Sarawak. Sarawak barisan hadapan kita sekarang,” kata penasihat PKR dalam ceramah khas malam tadi bersempena kongres nasional kelima partinya selama dua hari di Shah Alam mulai semalam.

    “Selesai 14 haribulan saya ke Miri, saya akan minta menteri besar, ahli-ahli parlimen bergilir, tiap-tiap minggu mesti ada rombongan ahli Yang Berhormat dari Semenanjung yang turun ke Sarawak.

    “Tanpa kecuali, semua mesti tetapkan jadual dan ikut disiplin parti.”

    Kempen terbaru mantan timbalan perdana menteri itu dilancarkan di hadapan beberapa ribu hadirin yang memenuhi Stadium Malawati, yang ternanti-nanti kupasan terbaru berhubung isu pertukaran kerajaan, asalnya diura-urakan 16 September lepas.

    Langkah PKR itu diumumkan susulan penerimaan baik 12,000 penduduk Sarawak yang dilaporkan menyertai parti itu dua minggu lalu.

    Taib Mahmud menganggap usaha DSAI dan PKR sebagai sia-sia. Rakyat akan menolak DSAI kerana tiada kredilabiti. Itu kata-kata sebagai penyedap hati sendiri. Taib dan pemimpin BN Sarawak sedar akan penerimaan rakyat Sarawak terhadap PKR. Kehadiran Anwar sentiasa dinanti-nanti. Kebangkitan rakyat Sarawak semakin terserlah. Mungkin akan ada kejutan semasa jamuan dan lawatan DSAI di Miri pada 14 Disember nanti.


    Tuesday, November 25, 2008

    DELEGASI TERAMAI DARI SARAWAK KE KONGRES NASIONAL PKR

    Tahun ini, PKR Sarawak akan menghantar kontigen teramai ke Kongres Tahunan PKR yang akan berlangsung pada 20-30 November 2008. Kongres akan diadakan di Stadium Tertutup Melawati Shah Alam.
    Seramai 105 orang perwakilan dan pemerhati dari seluruh Sarawak akan mula berkampung di Shah Alam mulai 27 November, di mana persidangan Angkatan Muda dan Wanita dijadualkan pada 28 November. AMK akan bersidang di Hotel Quality, manakala Wanita di Stadium Melawati.
    29-30 November merupakan Kongres Tahunan yang dijangka dihadiri lebih 10,000 orang perwakilan dan pemerhati seluruh negara.
    Kontigen Sarawak pada tahun ini, telah mendapat layanan istimewa dengan kemudahan penginapan disediakan percuma dan tambang penerbangan dibiayai separuh. Manakala kerajaan negeri Selangor akan meraikan kontigen Sarawak dengan jamuan makan malam pada 28 November dengan Menteri Besar Tan Sri Khalid Ibrahim sebagai hosnya.
    Antara yang mewakili Sarawak ke Kongres tersebut termasuklah YB Dominique Ng, YB Gibreil Adit serta kepimpinan negeri yang lain. Beberapa tokoh politik seperti Datuk Daneil Tajem, Datu Bujang Ulis, Dato Sri Hjh Hafsah Harun turut diundang sebagai tetamu.

    Saturday, November 22, 2008

    PERJUMPAAN INTELEKTUAL : SURVIVAL POLITIK MELAYU DI SARAWAK

    Gelombang kebangkitan rakyat Sarawak terutama masyarakat Dayak menjadi bahan bualan hangat. Rata-rata orang Dayak, menolak pencerobohan dan pengambilan tanah NCR milik turun-temurun dan diberikan kepada syarikat perladangan tanpa persetujuan mereka. Rasa tidak senang terhadap kerajaan negeri dijelmakan dengan kemasukan beramai-ramai ahli PRS dan PBDS diketuai YB Gibreil Adit ke pangkuan PKR. Senario ini, menghasilkan impak yang bukan sedikit. Bila pula orang Melayu nak bangkit dan menuntut hak mereka?
    Makan rojak kucei di Batu Lintang, saya dan Hj Wan Zainal Abidin, berbincang keperluan untuk mengadakan perjumpaan intelektual Melayu. Perjumpaan ini diharapkan dapat mempertemukan intelektual dari pelbagai bidang kepakaran, untuk mengutarakan pandangan masing-masing tentang masa depan politik orang Melayu di Sarawak. Terutama menggunakan PKR sebagai wadah perjuangan mereka.
    Perjumpaan yang dimaksudkan itu bukan semata-mata untuk mereka yang pro-PKR. Dicadangkan mereka yang tidak menyokong perjuangan PKR turut dijemput.
    Matlamatnya ialah ingin mendengar melalui kupasan ilmiah, pandangan berlandaskan fakta, pendapat yang bukan dari pemikiran dangkal serta bukan semata-mata ingin mendengar perkara molek-molek sahaja.
    Hasil perbincangan itu akan dicatat dan dirumus sebelum dihantar kepada kepimpinan PKR pusat. Ini bertujuan supaya mereka mengetahui sedikit sebanyak latar belakang dan kehendak semasa orang Melayu di Sarawak. Rumusan itu diharap dapat dijadikan panduan dalam merealisasikan harapan PKR dan PR menawan DUN Sarawak.

    Friday, November 21, 2008

    KONGRES NASIONAL PKR DI SELANGOR

    DIJANGKA 10,000 perwakilan, pemerhati, pimpinan komponen parti Pakatan Rakyat, wakil kedutaan dan NGO dari seluruh negara akan turut ke Kongres Nasional Tahunan Parti Keadilan Rakyat(KeADILan) yang akan diadakan pada 29 dan 30 November 2008.

    Dalam satu kenyataan yang dikeluarkan Biro Penerangan KeADILan, Kogres Nasional ini yang akan diadakan di Stadium Malawati, Shah Alam bakal mencatatkan sejarah kerana kehadiran wakil-wakil rakyat yang paling ramai sejak penubuhan parti 10 tahun yang lalu.

    “Kongres KeADILan yang pertama selepas pilihanraya umum 8 Mac lalu ini akan menyaksikan kehadiran wakil-wakil rakyat yang paling ramai sejak penubuhan parti 10 tahun yang lalu,” menurut kenyataan berkenaan.

    Kongres yang juga pertama kali diadakan sejak Ketua Umum, Anwar Ibrahim menjadi Ketua Pembangkang ini bertujuan untuk membuka ruang kepada para perwakilan untuk membahaskan dasar perjuangan parti secara umum, dan polisi pentadbiran negeri Pakatan Rakyat secara khususnya.

    Kedua-dua sayap penting parti, Angkatan Muda (AMK) dan Wanita pula akan mengadakan kongres masing-masing secara berasingan pada 28 November.

    Selepas perasmian, Angkatan Muda akan bersidang di Stadium Malawati, manakala Wanita akan bersidang di Perbadanan Kemajuan Pertanian Selangor.
    Selain itu, orang awam turut dijemput untuk mengunjungi “Karnival Rakyat” yang terbuka sepanjang kongres bersidang dan mendengar pidato umum pimpinan parti khususnya Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim pada malam 29 November di Stadium Malawati. SK.

    PKR Sarawak akan diwakili 79 orang perwakilan dan lebih 50 orang pemerhati termasuk YB Gibreil Adit serta 10 orang kuatnya. Dijangka delegasi Sarawak akan menjadi tumpuan dan layanan istimewa lantaran bakal menghadapi pilihanraya DUN yang dijangka diadakan pada 2009.

    Wednesday, November 19, 2008

    PKR Sarawak Ramal Pilihanraya Negeri Diadakan Tahun Depan

    Lebih Ramai Pemimpin BN Akan Berpaling Tadah

    KUCHING, 19 Nov (Bernama) -- Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) meramalkan pilihan raya negeri ke-10 akan diadakan pertengahan tahun depan ekoran perkembangan terbaru politik di negeri ini yang menyaksikan bekas pemimpin dan anggota Barisan Nasional (BN) menyertai parti itu.

    Timbalan Pengerusi PKR Sarawak Hj Wan Zainal Abidin Wan Senusi, yang membuat ramalan itu, hari ini berkata kemasukan anggota Dewan Undangan Negeri kawasan Ngemah, Gabriel Adit Demong, bekas anggota Parlimen kawasan Sri Aman, Jimmy Donald dan beberapa pemimpin BN dan hampir 12,000 anggota BN akan memperkukuhkan PKR di Sarawak.

    "Saya optimistik bahawa lebih ramai pemimpin BN akan menyertai PKR dalam waktu terdekat," katanya dalam kenyataan di sini, Rabu.

    Beliau mendakwa terdapat petunjuk yang penduduk Sarawak mahukan perubahan terutama berhubung dasar tanahnya.

    Adit, 58, yang memenangi kerusi itu atas tiket Bebas pada pilihan raya negeri 20 Mei, 2006, menghantar permohonan untuk menyertai PKR Sabtu lepas. Dengan kemasukannya, parti itu kini mempunyai dua anggota dalam Dewan Undangan Negeri.

    Seorang lagi ialah Dominic Ng yang juga pengerusi PKR negeri dan wakil rakyat Padungan.

    Sunday, November 16, 2008

    SARAWAK STATE REP JOIN PKR SARAWAK

    About 11,753 people in Sarawak, including 6,000 supporters of Ngemah state rep Gabriel Adit, have applied to join PKR.Their application forms were submitted to PKR de facto leader Anwar Ibrahim at a huge dinner gathering in Sibu tonight which saw more than 4,000 people in attendance.

    Also signing up with the opposition party is controversial former PRS Balleh division publicity chief, Beginda Minda.

    Adit, 58, claimed that he had submitted the application forms for PKR membership from 6,000 of his supporters tonight.The other 6,000 new applications were believed to be from former PRS members including Jimmy Donald (ex MP for Sri Aman) and non-party members.

    In his speech, Adit, a four-term assemblyperson, told the crowd that the main reason for joining PKR was due to the “political castration” of the Dayaks under the BN state government.

    He added that PKR was the best vehicle to address the plight of the Dayaks. Adit also declared that Anwar was the most suitable and acceptable leader to become prime minister.

    “Enough is enough of BN. Now change is coming to Sarawak,” he said, adding that there are many BN members waiting to join PKR.

    With Adit’s entry, PKR now has two seats in the Sarawak state assembly. The other is Dominique Ng representing Padungan.

    Adit first won the Ngemeh seat on the now-defunct Parti Bansa Dayak Sarawak ticket in 1991 but in the 2006 state elections, he stood as an independent.His entry is seen as a major boost for PKR which is gearing up for the next state polls, due in 30 months.

    Ready for state polls

    The party is banking on the support from the Dayak communities who are increasingly disgruntled with the state government’s management of native customary rights land issues.

    The dinner at the Sibu Trade and Exhibition Centre was organised by ‘Friends of PKR’ with Adit chairing the organising committee. The gathering is believed to be one of the largest political dinners ever held in Sibu.

    Present at the gathering were Dominique Ng, national PKR leaders Dr Jeffrey Kitingan, Tian Chua and Sallehuddin Hashim, state DAP leaders Wong Ho Leng and Chiew Chin Sing. Other quest including Dato Sri Hajah Hafsah Harun (State PKR Advisor), Hj Wan Zainal Abidin Wan Senusi (State Deputy Chairman), former Deputy Education Minister Datu Hj Bujang Hj Ulis.

    Earlier, Anwar was given a big welcome at Sibu airport upon his arrival at this central Sarawak town.

    He was said to be visibly moved by the huge crowd who turned up to welcome him.

    In his speech tonight, he described Adit as a “true people’s representative” and that he would help PKR bring change to Sarawak.

    He urged everyone to work together to ensure Pakatan Rakyat take over Sarawak at the next state elections, which is due in two years’ time.

    Anwar also said that a number of other elected representatives in Sarawak will follow Adit’s footsteps in joining the opposition front.

    SARAWK IN HISTORY: YB GIBRIEL ADIT JOIN PKR SARAWAK

    SARAWAK- A CHANGE IN THE MAKING, Sarawak Menuju Perubahan merupakan tema Makan Malam meraikan detik bersejarah untuk PKR Sarawak khasnya dan Pakatan Rakyat amnya. 15 November 2008 merupakan titik permulaan kebangkitan suara rakyat Sarawak yang mahukan perubahan setelah sekian lama diperintah kerajaan PBB dan sekutunya.

    Pertama, YB Gibriel Adit, ADUN Ngemah secara rasmi mengisytiharkan diri menyertai PKR Sarawak. Ini menjadikan PKR mempunyai 2 wakil di DUN Sarawak. Peningkatan 100%.

    Kedua, buat pertama kali majlis makan malam terbesar dengan kehadiran lebih 4000 orang membanjiri Pusat Pameran dan Perniagaan Sibu. Meja rasmi yang disediakan ialah 300 buah tetapi ramai lagi yang datang walaupun tiada tiket masuk.

    Ketiga, buat pertama kali ADUN dari DAP menghadiri majlis rasmi PKR. YB Wong Ho Leng (Bukit Assek) dan YB Chiew Ching Seng (Kidurong) hadir bersama-sama meraikan makan malam.

    Keempat, permohonan masuk menjadi ahli PKR terbesar dalam satu-satu masa. Pada majlis itu, YB Gibreil menyerahkan 11,753 borang permohonan kepada DS Anwar Ibrahim.

    Pusat pameran yang menjadi lokasi majlis, sesak dengan lautan penyokong PKR, DAP, PAS, SNAP yang ingin menyaksikan detik bersejarah itu. Saya selaku MC malam itu, begitu teruja mengacarakan majlis yang terbesar dalam sejarah PKR mahupun PR di Sarawak.

    Wednesday, November 12, 2008

    Blow to Rimbunan Hijau: Logging in PNG ‘illegal’

    Papua New Guinea’s highest court last week delivered a blow to Malaysian logging giant Rimbunan Hijau by overturning its rights to log the country’s vast Kamula Doso forests.

    According to environment group PNG Eco-Forestry Forum, the PNG Supreme Court had on Oct 30 quashed the granting of logging rights to Rimbunan for the huge forest area in the country’s Western Province.

    The NGO has been fighting through the courts over the past two years to overturn Rimbunan’s rights to log Kamula Doso.

    Rimbunan conceded that their logging rights were awarded illegally just before the three-member Supreme Court bench was to begin hearing the case last Thursday.

    Environmentalists lamented that Rimbunan had fought the case for two years when it knew its logging rights were illegal.

    “For two years, Rimbunan has known that the concession was illegal but waited until minutes before the case was to be heard by the Supreme Court to admit their guilt,” said Sam Moko, Greenpeace Australia Pacific forests campaigner.

    “In those two years, it has used the PNG legal system to intimidate the plaintiffs in the hope that the case would be dropped.”

    Forum chairperson Kenn Mondiai described the decision as “a major victory for good governance”.

    “This decision demonstrates to the whole world what has been going on for far too long, and legally reaffirms the Forum’s claim of widespread illegal logging in PNG facilitated by the government and the logging industry.”

    One of world’s richest individuals

    Rimbunan Hijau was founded in 1976 by Sarawak timber tycoon cum media mogul Tiong Hiew King, an ex-senator for the Sarawak United Peoples’ Party.

    He controls the Chinese Malaysian newspapers Sin Chew Daily and Guangming Daily, as well as The National in Papua New Guinea and Ming Pao in Hong Kong.

    Tiong, who has an estimated net worth of about US$1.1 billion, is ranked 840th richest person in the world by Forbes magazine.

    In PNG, Rimbunan operates half of the biggest logging projects and directly accounts for one-third of the country’s raw log exports.

    Meanwhile, Forum executive director Thomas Paka praised the Supreme Court judges for showing that “the ordinary people of PNG can stand up to corruption and win”.

    The 800,000-hectare Kamula Doso concession is considered the jewel in the crown of PNG’s remaining untouched tropical forests with logging companies vying to get the rights to log the area.

    International environment group Greenpeace said 90 percent of all logging in PNG was illegal, mainly due to the lack of consent by traditional landowners and the failure of the PNG government to enforce its own forestry laws.

    “All existing concessions must be reviewed and any that are found to be in breach of forestry laws should be revoked. There should also be an immediate investigation into the serious allegations of corruption between politicians and logging companies,” said Greenpeace’s Moko.

    Rimbunan has been accused by locals and environmentalists of using violence, intimidation and bribery in pursuing its logging activities.

    NAJIB WILL BE A DICTATOR

    KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 10 — Opposition leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim has predicted a dictatorial regime under Prime Minister-designate Datuk Seri Najib Razak.

    “If he comes into the picture, everything will be clamped down,” he said to reporters in Parliament when told that the Finance Minister plans to roll out the RM7 billion stimulus package which Najib announced in Dewan Rakyat last Tuesday.

    “It has not been approved by Parliament. It has not even been tabled,” the Permatang Pauh MP said of the stimulus plan.

    “The public is not even aware this is a problem as conveniently most mainstream newspapers have covered this up just to protect him.

    “This is what we mean by arrogance of power, they control everything, dictate terms and monopolise the news and they can get away literally with murder,” he said.

    “This means you can anticipate the type of administration under Najib,” Anwar said, referring to the transition plan whereby Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi will hand over the reins to Najib after the March Umno polls.

    Anwar’s statement also reflected the opposition’s insistence that Najib’s speech last Tuesday, in which the stimulus package was announced, cannot be considered an approved policy.

    “In the issue of tabling this revised budget, the fact is that it was not done according to procedures.

    “If he says it will be disbursed in January, how do you disburse funds that have not been approved by Parliament?

    “So I do not know from where, maybe from his savings,” Anwar quipped.

    Najib, who is also Deputy Prime Minister, said earlier today that he expects the first projects under the stimulus package to “start to move on the ground” by the first quarter of 2009.

    On Wednesday, Dewan Rakyat Speaker Tan Sri Pandikar Amin Mulia had ruled that Najib’s proposals were not part of the Budget to be debated at the committee stage.

    However, Deputy Finance Minister Datuk Ahmad Husni Hanadzlah had insisted in Parliament that the monies allocated in the stimulus plan only required an administrative order from the ministry and were not considered an amendment to the Budget Bill.

    “If you ask me what would I do in that position, last week after being told, I will just table it — what is the problem?” Anwar concluded.Malaysian Insider

    ISU TANAH - RAKYAT SARAWAK MULA BANGKIT

    PKR submits land memorandum to State Legislative Assembly, demikian tajuk berita yang diberikan Borneo Post hari ini. Memorendum dengan tema Change To Sarawak Land Code itu mencadangkan kerajaan BN Sarawak meminda beberapa perkara dalam Sarawak Land Code agar selari dengan akta yang sama di Sabah dan Semenanjung.
    Di antara kandungan Memorendum itu mencadangkan agar pemilikan tanah dilanjutkan kepada 99 atau 999 tahun, berbanding sekarang yang kebanyakannya cuma 60 tahun.
    Seperkara lagi ialah membenarkan pemilik tanah memperbaharui pajakan tanah sebelum 20 tahun daripada tarikh luput. Ini akan membolehkan tuan tanah mencagar tanah tersebut ke bank.
    Memorendum ini telah ditandatangani lebih 1000 orang, yang kebanyakannya pemilik tanah di Baram.
    Sementara memorendum yang diserahkan pada 10 November 2008 oleh gabungan beberapa NGO adalah berkaitan dengan NCR. Penyerahan yang disertai dengan piket lebih 100 orang itu adalah menifestasi dan respon rakyat Sarawak tentang pencerobohan tanah nenek moyang dan pusaka mereka yang sewenang-wenangnya diberikan kepada syarikat perladangan.
    YB Dominique Ng yang hadir dalam kedua-dua penyerahan memorendum tersebut menyifatkan, tindakan NGO dan rakyat Sarawak itu sebagai perjuangan mempertahankan hak dan menghantar signal kepada kerajaan BN tentang masalah yang dihadapi pemilik tanah.

    Teruskan perjuangan sehingga pemimpin BN mengembalikan apa-apa yang telah dirampas. PKR komited membantu dan konsisten dalam pendirian untuk mengembalikan tanah kepada mereka yang berhak apabila menerajui pemerintahan Negeri Sarawak.

    Tuesday, November 11, 2008

    Orang ramai yang berkumpul di depan Amcorp Mall disuraikan bukan semasa sedang menyanyikan "Negaraku", tetapi bukti video menyatakan sebaliknya.


    Setiap yang bernyawa akan kembali mengadap pencipta-Nya. Maka akan ditimbangsukat apa-apa dosa pahala yang pernah dilakukan. Jika merampas harta dan hak orang, maka Allah akan merampas kenikmatanNya.
    Wang ringgit, harta benda cuma di dunia, tidak dapat digunakan merasuah malaikat penjaga neraka.

    Sunday, November 9, 2008

    SURAT PRESIDEN IRAN KEPADA OBAMA SARAT MESEJ DAKWAH

    Fenomena Obama, melanda seluruh jagat. Pemilihannya sebagai Presiden Amerika Syarikat ke-44 amat menakjubkan. Pemimpin dunia berlumba-lumba mengucapkan tahniah. Tidak ketinggalan Presiden Republik Islam Iran, turut mengutus surat tahniah. Ini juga sejarah baru kerana Iran dan AS tiada hubungan diplomatik sejak Revolusi Islam 1979.

    Presiden Iran memulakan suratnya dengan kalimah mulia iaitu “Dengan nama Allah yang Maha Pemurah lagi maha Mengasihani” Dan diperenggan pertama suratnya beliau telah terus menyampaikan dakwahnya:

    As you know, the chances that God gives to his subjects pass swiftly. They can be used for the perfection of humanity and to the benefit of nations or, God forbid, to the detriment of nations.

    Sebagaimana yang Tuan tahu, peluang yang diberikan oleh Allah swt kepada hamba Nya bergerak deras. Peluang itu boleh digunakan untuk kebaikan manusia sejagat dan manfaat negara-negara lain atau, pohon dijauhkan Nya, untuk kemusnahan dunia.

    Melalui kemenangan Obama ini barangkali Ahmadieniejad melihatkan bahawa di sana ada peluang untuk Amerika berbincang kembali dengan Iran demi kebaikan dunia. Dan surat beliau ini juga mencerminkan keikhlasan negaranya dan besar jiwa seorang pemimpin Islam.

    Surat beliau kepada Obama ini sungguh cantik susunan bahasanya dan ternyata merupakan suatu permulaan yang baik ke arah kestabilan dunia dan menggugurkan sebarang dakyah dan prasangka jahat terhadap Islam. Beliau menambah:

    The great civilization-building and justice-seeking nation of Iran would welcome major, fair and real changes, in policies and actions, especially in this region.

    Negara Iran yang merupakan negara pembina tamaddun dan pencetus keadilan akan mengalu-alukan sebarang perubahan yang besar dan adil terutama dalam dasar dan perlaksanaan terhadap rantau sebelah sini.

    If steps are taken in the path of righteousness, toward the goal of carrying out the teachings of the holy prophets, it is hoped that almighty God will help and that the enormous damage done in the past will be somewhat diminished.

    Sekiranya langkah-langkah ini diambil menuju ke arah yang hak, ke arah perlaksanaan apa yang diajar oleh para rasul, adalah diharapkan yang Allah maha berkuasa akan membantu kita dan segala pergeseran yang lampau akan akhirnya berjaya diatasi.

    Demikianlah besarnya harapan dan impian Presiden Iran terhadap bakal Presiden Amerika ini. Memang tinggi harapannya tetapi bagi sebuah negara yang telah sekian lama disenarai hitamkan oleh Amerika, ia barangkali satu permulaan dan percubaan yang baik.

    Apa yang menarik perhatian adalah kekuatan mesej dakwah yang terkadung dalam surat ini. Sepatutnya kekuatan seumpama ini turut dipamirkan oleh sesiapa sahaja yang berjuang untuk memartabatkan Islam. Di penghujung suratnya Presiden Iran menyebut:

    I ask the high God to grant all of humanity and all nations health and happiness, honor and prosperity, and to grant rulers and officials the ability to learn from the past and to use every chance to serve, to spread love and kindness, to eradicate oppression, to do justice and to follow the holy guidelines.

    Saya memohon agar Allah mengurniakan pada semua negara dan bangsa kesihatan dan kebahagian, penghormatan dan kesejahteraan, dan mengurniakan semua pemimpin dan para pegawai mereka kemampuan untuk belajar dari peristiwa yang lepas dan agar menggunakan setiap peluang memerintah yang diberi untuk menyibarkan kasih sayang dan kebaikan, menghapuskan penindasan dan memberikan keadilan dan mengikuti garis panduan yang mahasuci (yang telah ditetapkan).

    Saturday, November 8, 2008

    MONGOLIA GOVT WILL TAKE ALTANTUYA CASE TO INTERNATIONAL COURT


    This statement was issued in the Mongolian press “MONTSAME” on Nov 7:

    Ulaanbaatar, /MONTSAME/ The world community is well aware of the ruthless murder of Mongolian citizen ALTANTUYA Shaariibuu on October 19, 2006, in Punchak Alam, Malyasia, being shot twice and blown up by an explosive.
    The Government of Mongolia reaffirms hereby that it has been consistently paying attention, from the very beginning of this cruel crime to the court proceedings. The Prime Minister and the Minister for Foreign Affairs (previous name) of Mongolia have sent letters twice each to their Malaysian counterparts expressing their confidence that related Malaysian authority would bring a murderer to justice and deliberate a fair court conviction for the case.
    The Government of Mongolia deeply regrets that the Malaysian high court judge made a decision on October 31, 2008, to acquit Abdul Razak Baginda–the murder suspect for killing Mongolian ALTANTUYA Shaariibuu.
    Although Mongolia has no legal rights to take part in the court proceedings, the Government of Mongolia is responsible for protecting legitimate rights and interests of its citizen under international treaties and national legislation.
    In connection with the recent court decision to acquit the suspect Abdul Razak Baginda, the Minister for Exterrnal Relations of Mongolia Mr. S.Batbold has sent another letter addressed to the Foreign Minister of Malaysia Mr. Rice Yatim requesting the latter to pay attention to and render support for ensuring conditions for a final court decision free from politics and other side influence.
    The letter carries a statement by Mongolia’s Government testifying that it will have a strong reasoning for turning to the international court in order to defend rights and interests of its citizen if the court’s final decision results in unfair trial and proceedings.
    A trial for the special unit officers charged for the murder is expected to take place shortly and the Mongolian Government keeps its eyes and ears wide open on the proceeding.
    S.Batbayar

    Friday, November 7, 2008

    RAMBUNGAN SEMAKIN TERHAKIS?

    Petang Rabu lalu, saya didatangi seorang pemuda sasa yang memperkenal dirinya sebagai Yan (nama sebenar dan identiti dirahsiakan dahulu). Dia mendakwa berasal dari Kpg Rambungan, Lundu. Walaupun perasaan takut dan gementar ada, beliau memberanikan diri datang ke Pejabat Perhubungan PKR Negeri di Jalan Matang,Kuching.

    Kedatangan dengan penuh harapan, agar permasalahan dan nasib penduduk Rambungan mendapat pembelaan. Menurut yang empunya cerita, kegiatan mengorek, mengambil, menyedut, memunggah pasir di laut dan muara sungai Rambungan telah lama berlarutan. Sekitar 8 tahun lalu, tetapi akhir-akhir ini semakin menjadi-jadi.
    Sebuah syarikat yang dikenali sebagai Hock Seng Lee, telah diberikan lesen oleh kerajaan negeri untuk operasi ini. Berbelas buah tongkang yang sarat muatan berulang-alik setiap hari dan malam.
    Kesan daripada kegiatan ini, hampir 70 ekar tanah di sepanjang pesisir laut telah terhakis. Pokok-pokok kelapa, buah-buahan, serta pokok ru sudah dihanyutkan air. Termasuk juga chalet yang diusahakan penduduk tempatan sudah roboh. Jika dahulu jarak chalet ini kira-kira 50 meter dari laut, kini tapak chalet adalah laut.

    Begitu juga sumber pendapatan penduduk yang bergantung harap kegiatan nelayan pesisir pantai. Jaring dan pukat rosak dilanggar tongkang. Tiada ganti rugi daripada syarikat tersebut. Udang tuahe (sejenis udang laut gred A), juga semakin pupus.

    Penduduk telah merayu kepada wakil rakyat supaya mengetengahkan masalah mereka. Laporan polis juga sudah dibuat. Jabatan Tanah dan Survei juga sudah diberitahu. Malangnya sehingga kini tiada tindakan positif diambil.

    Yan mengakui bahawa lebih 99% pengundi di Rambungan adalah penyokong kuat BN. Tidak kira samada calon dari PBB atau SUPP, hampir kesemua pengundi Rambungan akan mengundi calon BN. Ini termasuklah ayahnya sendiri yang pernah menjadi Ketua Kampung dan penyokong tegar BN.
    Balasan daripada kesetiaan mereka, adalah ketenteraman penduduk terancam oleh hakisan. Kini laut semakin menghampiri kawasan kampung. Jika keadaan sekarang berlarutan, 10 tahun akan datang, Rambungan akan hilang ditelan air laut.

    Banyak lagi yang diceritakan oleh Yan kepada saya dalam perbualan kami selama hampir 1 jam setengah. Sebelum balik, Yan mengharapkan bantuan PKR terutama YB Dominique Ng melihat permasalahan mereka.

    Kami di PKR biasa berhadapan situasi seperti ini. Jika sudah terdesak dan pihak kerajaan tidak ambil peduli, baharulah berjumpa PKR sebagai jalan terakhir. Inikah kerajaan yang kita agung-agungkan. Kerajaan berselindung di sebalik Politik Pembangunan, tetapi rakyat yang merana.

    Thursday, November 6, 2008

    TAIB BLAMES DAYAK SHIFTING CULTIVATORS FOR CREATING NCR LAND!

    Sarawak’s Chief Minister Abdul Taib Mahmud must have forgotten there were some Dayak ministers, Dayak elected representatives, Dayak civil servants and Dayak farmers present at the Sarawak Agro Fest 2008 in Kuching when he condemned their forefathers for creating NCR land through shifting cultivation.

    If he knew, he would not have embarrassed them the way he did when he opened the function last Saturday, 1 November 2008; unless, of course, he wanted to pass a message through them to their parents and their folks in longhouses and villages.

    “You see, they (Dayaks) have two million acres under NCR lands just because of shifting cultivation. Apa itu?”, Taib said.

    What is 2 million acres of NCR lands which benefits at least half a million and maybe more of the natives of Sarawak, especially the Dayaks, compared to 7 million hectares and more of timber concessions which benefit only a handful of people, namely Taib himself, his family and cronies?

    No less than 5 million hectares of timber concessions in Sarawak are controlled by only 5 companies. Let us not even go into plantation lands.

    Almost all of the Dayak listeners, especially the Ibans, were jolted by the words used by Taib to hit back at the shifting cultivators. YB Francis Harden, assistant land development minister, and other YB Dayaks sat uncomfortably. Alfred Jabu, a senior Dayak minister, appeared to enjoy the criticisms.

    Yet none of them had the guts to speak out or walk off. If Sarawak Headhunter had been there, he would have shouted at Taib, "7 million hectares of timber concessions, apa itu?" Why should they be jolted when this is what they should expect, knowing Taib? Does anyone still want to deny that Taib is a bully?

    Taib’s choice of words not only smacked of arrogance, but also seemed to confirm Beginda Minda’s accusation that Taib was a big bully.

    Confirmed, lah!

    Since the amendment of the Land Code in 2000, the NCR lands have become thorny issues as the amendment not only declares all untitled lands including NCR lands as “State Lands” but criminalizes the land owners for defending their rights. Many have landed in jails.

    According to the 2005 reports of Land and Survey Department, some 1.2 million hectares of land have been approved for oil palm plantations, the bulk of which is NCR lands. And by the year 2015, some 4 million hectares of land are to be planted with oil palm. Out of the total, about 1.5 million hectares are NCR land. By then there will be a few acres of NCR land left, if any!

    Native land owners claim that their ancestral lands have been in existence for hundreds of years. Regarded as their life, now their lands have created nightmares for them and their children as they (the lands) are slipping away from their grips.
    From Sarawakheadhunter.blogspot

    Tuesday, November 4, 2008

    WHO IS THE IDIOT,TUN?

    Dato (Mindanao) Bujang Ulis today called me saying Tun Rahman was not telling the truth when implicating Stephen Yong over the Petrol Royalty.

    He said Tun was scared to blame the real culprit, an idiot who was then the Minister of Primary Industries.

    The political secretary of that greedy idiot at that time was a bright yob (but not very intelligent) by the name of Adenan Satem, sound familiar!

    Tun Rahman told Bujang Ulis that this bright yob came to see him to sign a document agreeing that Sarawak rights over petrol be handed over to Federal government.

    "He warned Adenan who earlier said Tun was stubborn and keras kepala. He told Adenan not to knock his head to the wall, because the wall is harder," Bujang Ulis recalled.

    What make Bujang suspect that Tun is suffering from memory lapse is the old man inability to remember Ming Court episode.

    "At the height of crisis, The (LATE) Sarawak Tribune was pro Tun Rahman, and Tun would write in a famous segment called Inside Story. One of the article was about that goon who was then the Primary Industry minister of Malaysia trying to make Sarawak petrol the rights of Malaysia federation. Tun objected this and meet Tun Razak expressing his disagreement(and settled for 5% royalty).

    "Tun is afraid because they have just reconciled (Tun and Idiot) but it is unfair to blame Stephen Yong," Bujang Ulis said.

    Who is that Idiot? Guess and win a free trip on board Matang Bus Company during rush hours for two - SARAWAKHABAR.BLOGSPOT.COM


    p/s Background - Bujang Ulis is a former PBB vice president and once a former deputy Primary Industry Minister and deputy Education Minister. His only recognition of Datoship is from Mindanao. Not from Federation of Malaysia or Sarawak government.

    POLEMIK PKNS - PEGAWAI MELAYU SENDIRI ADA KEPENTINGAN.

    In fact it was told that Tan Sri Khalid made the decision based on merit. When Tan Sri met with PKNS high ranking executives, only Madam Low was able to answer Tan Sri Khalid’s questions. The rest of the Malay senior executives can only smile and keep very quiet. Naturally they had a lot to hide and talking puts them in jeopardy. Not to mention, only Madam Low seems to not to have equities in PKNS’s subsidiaries.

    Rekod juga menunjukkan hampir 70% kontraktor yang mendapat tender daripada PKNS adalah bukan Melayu. Mereka ini dianugerahkan kontrak yang berjutaan ringgit. Manakala kontraktor Melayu cuma mendapat kerja yang kecil-kecil.
    Kontraktor bukan Melayu inilah yang juga membiayai beberapa politikus UMNO untuk meneruskan hayat politik mereka. Tak percaya tanyalah Khir Toyo n geng.

    NASIB KAKI TANGAN SEMENTARA KERAJAAN NEGERI DIABAIKAN.

    ''TERIMA KASIH DI ATAS KERJASAMA YANG DIBERIKAN SEPANJANG BERKHIDMAT DI JABATAN NEGERI SARAWAK"

    Orang berbudi memang sepatutnya kita mengucapkan terima kasih. Sudah menjadi amalan manusia sejagat. Tetapi dalam kes kakitangan bertaraf sementara atau kontrak yang bekerja di jabatan-jabatan kerajaan Negeri Sarawak, nasib mereka umpama habis madu sepah dibuang. Apa tidaknya, perkhidmatan mereka akan ditamatkan mulai 31 Disember 2008. Mereka yang bilangannya ratusan orang difahamkan berkhidmat di JKR Negeri, Jabatan Pertanian, DID dan jabatan lain sudah menerima surat penamatan perkhidmatan awal Oktober lalu. Notis 3 bulan telah dikeluarkan oleh jabatan masing-masing. Surat pekeliling mengarahkan penamatan ini telah ditandatangani oleh Serudu Sokhlai, Unit Pengurusan Sumber Manusia, Jabatan Ketua Menteri Negeri Sarawak.

    Apalah nasib mereka yang telah bekerja semenjak 1994 lagi? Periuk nasi mereka bergantung sepenuhnya kepada gaji tersebut sebagai sumber pendapatan. Apa nak jadi dengan perbelanjaan persekolahan anak-anak, perbelanjaan harian, pinjaman bank dan sebagainya. Ditambah lagi keadaan ekonomi yang merudum, menambah sengsara penghidupan mereka.

    Di manakah slogan Kerajaan Prihatin yang sering dilaung-laungkan pemimpin BN? Di manakah semangat membela nasib rakyat yang menjadi tunjang politik pembangunan Taib. Kenapa orang yang sama-sama berjasa, menabur bakti sepanjang perkhidmatan "sementara", diberhentikan begitu sahaja?

    Taib dengan megah menyatakan bajet RM4.3 billion Sarawak 2009, adalah bajet surplus. "Tidak perlu mengikat perut dan mengurangkan perbelanjaan" katanya kepada pemberita selepas pembentangan bajet semalam. Bajet 2009 lebih besar berbanding bajet 2008 (RM3.5 billion).
    "Sehubungan itu, rakyat perlu bekerjasama dengan kerajaan mengharungi kemelut ekonomi dunia yang paling teruk sejak 1930", tambahnya lagi.

    Sehubungan itu juga, kita berharap Taib dan kerajaan negeri memberi kerjasama dengan tidak memberhentikan perkhidmatan anak Sarawak yang malang itu.

    Kita menyeru pekerja-pekerja terbabit tampil supaya dapat diperjuangkan semasa persidangan DUN sekarang. Pejabat PKR ada menerima salinan surat arahan tersebut tetapi kami memerlukan maklumat yang lebih lengkap. Kepada rakan-rakan yang mengetahui masalah ini sila berhubung dengan YB Dominique Ng atau saya seberapa segera.



    SUBSIDI UNTUK KERAJAAN BN.

    " Shahrir berpendapat pada tahun hadapan sistem pemberian rebet akan ditukar kepada sistem yang lebih baik untuk kesejahteraan rakyat. Shahrir mendakwa dari maklum balas orang ramai, mendapati ramai yang tidak menyukai pemberian rebet tersebut, ramai tak setuju, ramai tidak menghargai usaha kerajaan untuk membantu rakyat.

    Kalaulah beruk seumpamanya boleh memahami apa yang diperkatakan oleh sharir hari ini pasti dibalingnya sharir dengan buah kelapa. Iya betul, ramai tidak setuju dengan pemberian rebet tersebut, ramai juga tidak menyukainya dan ramai juga tidak menghargai usaha kerajaan itu kerana jumlah rebet yang diterima oleh rakyat adalah tidak setimpal dengan kesusahan yang telah dialami oleh rakyat yang menanggung sengsara dengan kenaikan minyak yang melampau oleh kerajaan pada bulan jun yang lalu.

    Kini, rakyat tidak menyukai, tidak setuju dan tidak menghargai langsung usaha kerajaan itu. Kini rakyat terpaksa memberi subsidi minyak kepada kerajaan BN bukan kerajaan BN beri subsidi minyak kepada rakyat kerana harga minyak dunia turun manakala harga minyak di pam masih tinggi. Harga minyak sehingga kini 02.11.08 US dollar 67.81.

    Lagi kerajaan menyusahkan rakyat. Subsidi benih padi dihentikan dan pembekalan benih padi diambil alih oleh pihak swasta. Kenapa begini jadinya dalam keadaan kelembapan ekonomi yang tidak menentu. Betul kata petani tua di berita tv3 hari ini " kerajaan sepatutnya membantu petani, nelayan pula kerajaan dapat beri subsidi minyak, bagi petani langsung tidak ada subsidi, dengan keadaan sebegini bagaimana kerajaan mahu mengangkat golongan petani berada di golongan pertengahan ". Atau tindakan kerajaan ini merupakan balasan kepada rakyat yang menyokong PR pada PRU12 yang lalu kerana jelapang-jelapang padi utama negara terletak di negeri-negeri di bawah pemerintahan kerajaan Pakatan Rakyat

    Lihatlah apa yang telah kerajaan perlakukan terhadap rakyat. Sepatutnya kerajaan membantu golongan seperti ini. Tidak menghairankan jika harga barang naik disebabkan tindakan kerajaan seperti mana penarikan subsidi benih beras tersebut. Jelas, undi BN Barang Naik. Oleh keretaburuk

    Monday, November 3, 2008

    SWAK PKR SHOOTS DOWN SOI LEK'S 'RETURN' TO CABINET

    Two Sarawak PKR leaders have scoffed at talks of Dr Chua Soi Lek’s return to the Federal Cabinet.dominique ngSarawak PKR chairman and Padungan state assemblyperson Dominique Ng came out strongly, albeit in sarcastic fashion, against certain members of the cabinet.

    “In a cabinet filled with ‘suspicious characters’ of all shades, which allegedly include a high-class woman assaulter and corrupt-tainted people, surely a reformed corruptor of morals would not be out of place?

    “Indeed, he [Dr Chua] is in fine company and I might say to be merely among his high-flying peers!,” said Ng.

    Ng was among several people who spoke to Malaysiakini today on wide speculations that Chua could be brought back to the cabinet through the Senate.

    mca agm 181008 chua soi lekChua, who beat MCA secretary-general Ong Ka Chuan and two others in the recent party elections, was at the centre of the ‘Minister in the Sex Video’ scandal last year which forced him to resign his ministerial and party posts. Chua was also not re-nominated as a BN candidate in the March 8 general election.

    After his surprise victory in the party polls, there were talks that the party may be recommending him to be a senator in order to return to the cabinet. By tradition, the deputy president of the MCA gets a ministerial post.

    This has become a hot issue in the national press and DAP chairperson Karpal Singh was recently quoted in a national daily as saying that he has no wish to see a “porn star in the cabinet.”

    penans meet suhakam 130208 see chee howSarawak PKR Stampin division chairperson See Chee How (right) asked whether Chua is really a changed man now.

    “He was in the cabinet before and he has nothing to show, from his records, that he dares to stand up against Umno’s dominance in BN,” See pointed out.

    With his fall before the general election and rise after the party election, Chua may have given all MCA members and others a glimpse of hope but will MCA risk its position to shake Umno’s dominance,” he asked.

    See opined that Chua’s presence in the cabinet could put MCA in a more vulnerable position as he (Chua) would even be more reluctant to speak up against Umno’s dominance and wrongdoings because of his own skeleton in the cupboard.

    See said Umno’s dominance is the root cause of the country’s racial polarisation, corruption and poor governance and mismanagement of the various arms of government.

    According to him, the appointment of Chua as a senator and cabinet minister, if it happens, will allow the Umno-dominated BN to keep the forces in MCA in check more easily.

    Why? Surely, you cannot expect someone with a dark cloud hanging over his head to speak his mind against Umno people who are or could be just as ‘colourful’ as him, See added in jest.

    NGAJAT UNTUK JABU

    Atur langkah menggetar jantung
    Ilang bersinar memukau pandang
    lalu aku tidak lagi takut diugut
    hanya kerana dia berpakaian seorang pembesar!



    Sunday, November 2, 2008

    ZAID IBRAHIM BUKAN LAGI SENATOR

    Bekas Menteri di Jabatan Perdana Menteri, Datuk Zaid Ibrahim telah melepaskan kedudukan sebagai anggota Dewan Negara beberapa minggu selepas meletakkan jawatan Kabinet September lalu. Zaid, yang pernah secara terbuka mengkritik penggunaan Akta Keselamatan Dalam Negeri (ISA), mendedahkan perkara tersebut pada satu seminar di ibu negara semalam.

    Menjelaskan kedudukan sebenarnya, Zaid berkata, beliau bukan lagi digelar Senator kerana telah mengambil keputusan melepaskan jawatan tersebut. Kata Zaid, sejurus selepas berhenti daripada menjadi menteri beliau turut mengambil keputusan melepaskan kedudukan di Dewan Negara bagi membolehkannya memfokus terhadap yayasan yang ditubuhkan untuk mengeratkan hubungan rakyat pelbagai kaum negara ini.

    Pada September lalu, Ketua Umno Bahagian Cheras, Syed Ali Alhabshee mencadangkan Zaid dilucutkan jawatan Senator kerana tindak-tanduk politiknya bercanggah dengan prinsip Umno dan Barisan Nasional. Beliau menegaskan, mana-mana pemimpin UMNO yang dilihat bersekongkol dengan pembangkang hendaklah dikenakan tindakan tegas. Malaysiakini

    BEGINDA URGED TAIB TO STEP DOWN

    Malaysiakini's report:beginda minda prs 011108 04

    First, he called Parti Pesaka Bumiputera Bersatu (PBB) and Umno ‘bullies’.
    MCPX

    Now Parti Rakyat Sarawak’s (PRS) former publicity head of its Balleh division Beginda Minda has boldly called on PBB president Abdul Taib Mahmud to step down as Sarawak chief minister.

    Revealing bundles of flawed strategies in the Taib administration on Mkini.tv’s 'Uncensored' talk show, Beginda also held long-serving Iban Deputy Chief Minister Alfred Jabu equally responsible for the agony and sufferings of the Dayak community, adding that “Jabu should also seriously consider retirement as soon as possible".

    "Taib’s era has passed. It is time for him to give way to the younger generation to take over the reins of power in Sarawak. Twenty seven years as chief minister is long enough,"

    Beginda insisted that he was not launching a personal attack at these two Sarawak leaders but that he has decided to come out publicly to “say what has to be said” as he (Beginda) is also a member of a BN component party.

    “My request is for Taib and Jabu to step down gracefully and retire as honourable and respected statesmen. Surely, it is better to go that way than to be forced out of office through people’s power,” he reasoned.

    "Taib has been active in politics since the first days of independence in 1963 and has been chief minister of Sarawak since 1981. Alfred Jabu has been in active politics since 1974 and was made deputy chief minister shortly after.

    "Admittedly, these two gentlemen have done much for Sarawak. There have been pluses, I grant that, but there are many negatives as well," he said.

    Beginda touched on several issues close to the hearts of Sarawak Dayaks during the interview. He spoke at length on the land issue, uneven development in the state, lack of employment opportunities and the ‘sufferings’ of his Iban community.

    “It is a fact that after 45 long years of independence, many areas in Sarawak are still not being developed, including my hometown of Kapit.

    "Kapit is still the same as it has been during the colonial time of the British. During the time of Rajah Charles Vyner Brooke, we were rowing sampans as there were no roads to get out of Kapit.

    “Today, there are still no roads linking Kapit to other towns and we still have to use boats ... only that this time, the boats have engines.

    "I know that the two gentlemen (Taib and Jabu) will not be able to tolerate my public expression of these grouses. But the truth must be told. Enough is enough … my advice to them is not to wait until people demonstrate in the streets," he said.

    Beginda also reiterated that PBB has an ‘apparent policy’ of undermining their coalition partners in "varying degrees of subtlety".

    "The BN partners - Sarawak United People's Party (Supp), PRS or Sarawak Progressive Democratic Party (SPDP) - are in themselves complete organisations and their interests need to be respected. Interference by a senior partner, no matter the guise, is a form of bullying.

    "Bullying goes against the grain of good and just participation in political affairs and dilutes the effectiveness of coalition partners when in fact they (the partners) should be effective and are seen as effective.

    "Inevitably a coalition partner which is denied an effective delivery system will be held in ever diminishing esteem by the electorate," said Beginda.

    Beginda was removed as publicity chief of the PRS Balleh division on Oct 27 following his ‘bully’ statement published in Malaysiakini two days earlier. He maintained he has no regrets over what he said.

    taib mahmud alfred jabu pbb prs 011108Asked whether Taib could be behind the disbandment of Dayak-based parties, Beginda said: "It is very clear."

    "One of the impacts of political interference has been to wreck the political cohesiveness of the Dayak people.

    "Every decade, it seems that the Dayaks have to create a new party and as long as the party is young and new, it will be a junior partner. This is what PBB wants," said Beginda.

    “If you look at the history of Snap, PBDS, SPDP and PRS, you will know what I am talking about,” he added.

    Beginda also rebuked Sarawak's land policies which have not been reviewed since the 1960s although Taib has been in power for 27 years.

    "There have been many disputes over land ownership and the exploitation of resources, such as timber, which have pitted timber companies against natives who have traditionally regarded tracts of land to be theirs," he lamented.

    "In Sarawak million of acres of NCR land are affected and the economic opportunity for the Dayaks from their lands are lost. The natives need the ownership of their lands to be put in order through proper surveying," said Beginda.

    He urged the state government to adhere to growing public dissatisfaction regarding land policy and ensure commitment to review current land policies.

    "The uproar last month in Bekenu Sibuti, where the Kedayan people were under threat of an eviction order apparently made to make way for plantation development, need not have happened if a proper land policy that protects native lands and if a proper land adjudication had been put in place.

    "This is no longer just an abuse of power but oppression of the people. If this goes on, the natives will lose everything," he said.

    Baginda Minda pernah menjadi terkenal apabila kes liwat Anwar Ibrahim dibicarakan di mahkamah 1998. Pendedahan berani mengenai hubungan intimnya dengan Ummi Hafilda (adik Azmin Ali-Naib Presiden PKR) menggemparkan arena politik tanahair. Semasa bertemu beliau di Permatang Pauh Ogos lalu, saya berkesempatan mengorek cerita tersebut. Baginda dengan berani mendedahkan bahawa beliau dan Ummi Hafilda pada masa itu memang mempunyai hubungan intim. Dan jika Baginda enggan menuruti kehendak Ummi, Ummi mengugut akan bermalam bersama dengan seorang bekas ahli politik UMNO yang bertubuh sasa.

    Dan kini keberanian Baginda menyerlah lagi dengan menasihatkan Taib Mahmud dan Jabu Numpang supaya berundur dari jawatan masing-masing. Tahniah. Nya baruk Iban sejati.

    Saturday, November 1, 2008

    SUATU KEJUTAN AKAN MELANDA POLITIK SARAWAK!

    Mungkin ada di kalangan ahli PKR yang sudah mengetahui berita ini. Dan sudah pasti ramai yang masih tertanya-tanya. Benarkah sianu sianu akan menyertai PKR Sarawak? Siapakah sianu itu? Benarkah dia figura penting dalam politik Sarawak? Berapa ramai pengikutnya akan turut serta meninggalkan kapal yang semakin bocor?
    Segalanya akan terjawab pada 15 November 2008 nanti. Sama-samalah kita menanti detik itu di mana Anwar Ibrahim, bakal Perdana Menteri menerima borang permohonan figura ini dan pengikut-pengikutnya.
    Suntikan kemenangan moral sebelum berperang pada pilihanraya DUN Sarawak yang dijangka 2009 atau awal 2010.


    Wednesday, October 29, 2008

    PKR MPs TOLD NOT TO LEAVE MALAYSIA

    A PKR member of parliament told Sin Chew Daily that Pakatan Rakyat MPs had been instructed not to leave the country within the next two weeks.

    The PKR MP said he had received the instruction from party leadership that the party would table a provisional no-confidence motion in the Parliament against prime minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi over the next two weeks under a peaceful and constitutional framework, and that all Pakatan MPs had to stay within the country pending further instructions.

    "We have received very huge support in the country. Barring any unforeseen circumstances, the existing government will be replaced soon."

    According to PKR information, Pakatan Rakyat has reached an internal accord of reserving the PM and DPM posts for Malays once it took over the federal government, as the current political environment is not favourable for a Chinese or Indian to become the deputy prime minister.

    "You will be very shocked, as PAS president Datuk Seri Hadi Awang will be the deputy prime minister."

    "However, two important Cabinet portfolios, namely the home ministry and the international trade and industries ministry, will be reserved for the Chinese, and DAP's Lim Kit Siang is a perfect candidate."

    PKR vice president cum MP for Gopeng Dr Lee Boon Chye refused to confirm whether the MPs were instructed not to leave the country over the next two weeks, confirming instead that Anwar had told them to be on standby for further instruction.

    He felt that the period of time from now to the UMNO elections next March could be a crucial period for change of federal government. Sinchew

    Tuesday, October 28, 2008

    SALCRA SUCK THE BLOOD OF THE IBAN:

    SALCRA HELP REDUCE RURAL POVERTY: JABU

    Last year 5,433 participants received a total of RM12.4 Million in dividens from Salcra. " A total 11,470 hectares of land(our grandfathers' land) are now planted with oil palm, and from this total 9,932 hectares have already matured and bearing fruits.

    courted from: Borneo Post August 31, 2008.

    Analysis:-

    The Facts:-

    1. RM 12.4 Million divided by 5,433 participant and prorated by 12 months = RM 190.20 each month.
    2. 9,932 hectares time 30 tons time RM 410.00 per ton prorated by 12 months = RM 10,180,300.00 /month.
    3. RM 10,180,300.00 divided by 5,433 participant = RM 1,873.79 / month (if they do their own)
    4. 9,932 hectares NCR land valued at RM8,000.00 per hectare = RM 79,456,000.00 (NCR land value)

    Questions:
    1. Is RM190.20 per month reduce rural poverty ?
    2. Can rural people (Salcra particiapnt)send their kids to world's blue chips univeristy like Jabu(Chairman)?
    3. Who really benefited from Salcra?


    Monday, October 27, 2008

    BN=PBB= TAIB MAHMUD PEMBULI

    Jika MCA melalui kenyataan bekas Presidennya Ong Ka Ting, mendedahkan yang UMNO sebagai pembuli dan "too dominant", maka dalam konteks Sarawak, Parti Bumiputera Bersatu (PBB) yang Presidennya Taib Mahmud dicop sebagai pembuli.

    Dakwaan ini telah dibuat oleh Ketua Penerangan PRS Baleh, Beginda Minda melalui kenyataannya kepada Malaysiakini.
    Kenyataan MCA telah disanggah oleh Abdullah Badawi dan Muhamad Taib. Manakala kenyataan Beginda belum diulas oleh mana-mana pemimpin PBB dan BN di Sarawak.
    Beginda mengibaratkan PRS sebagai pelajar lemah yang sering dibuli oleh pelajar senior. Dua senario yang dimaksudkan Beginda ialah semasa Pilihanraya DUN Sarawak 2006 dan PRU12 Mac 2008.
    Pada 2006, BN telah "membenarkan" komponen BN yang lain mencuri kerusi kepunyaan PRS. Taib Mahmud sebagai Pengerusi BN Sarawak telah tidak bertindak sewajarnya membetulkan keadaan ketika mana PRS memerlukan bantuan komponen yang lebih berkuasa.
    Tidak ada pemimpin pusat dan negeri yang menghalang campurtangan komponen lain daripada mengganggu urusan rumahtangga PRS ketika itu.
    Sementara pada Mac 2008, calon-calon yang dikemukakan oleh PRS telah ditolak tanpa sebarang alasan oleh kepimpinan BN. PBB telah memilih calon yang direstui mereka tanpa berunding dengan kepimpinan akar umbi PRS untuk bertanding ke kawasan kepunyaan PRS.
    "Di mana prinsip kebebasan komponen mengurus pentadbiran sendiri dan menamakan calon seperti yang termaktub dalam piagam BN. Bukankah ini pembulian terhadap komponen yang lebih kerdil" soal Beginda.
    "Jika tiada usaha membendung situasi ini, keharmonian BN akan tergugat", tambahnya lagi.

    Sunday, October 26, 2008

    DUIT RM3.5 BILLION DIPINDAH KE CIMB?

    Sebelum ini saya telah mendedahkan bagaimana Ekonomi kita akan terjerumus kemelesetan yang teruk andai Umno kekal memerintah, dan jangan terkejut jika dana Pencen Pesara pun akan dihanguskan, Ya! Anda terkejut tiba tiba Najib mengumumkan dia menyuntik 5 billion ringgit duit EPF sehari selepas saya mendedahkan Menteri Kewangan yang baru ini akan mencedok segala duit Kerajaan dan rakyat. Tetapi apa yang kita tidak tahu adalah 2 hari sebelum umat Islam mahu menyambut hari raya Kerajaan (Kementerian Kewangan) telah sibuk mengeluarkan RM3.5Billion duit kerajaan yang didepositkan di dalam Bank-bank komersial di malaysia dan telah memindahkannya ke dalam bank CIMB yang mana kita sedia maklum bank tersebut dimiliki adik Menteri Kewangan iaitu Nazir Abdul Razak. Mengapa transaksi ini dibuat secara terburu buru?

    Dua hari sebelum Raya dan hari pertama Wall Street mengalami kejatuhan teruk semalaman. Mengapa perlu dipindahkan hanya BANK CIMB? Seorang pegawai bank negara telah mendedahkan kepada saya ketika pertemuan pada hari raya, di kalangan pegawai pelaburan bank bank Komersial dan Bank Negara juga tertanya-tanya mengapa Kerajaan memindahkan begitu banyak wang. Ada yang berkata kalau mahu dikatakan mahu membayar bonus kakitangan awam ia telah dibuat lebih awal, jadi apa yang tergesa-gesa Kerajaan pindahkan wang kepada CIMB Bank?

    Tidak cukup dengan memindahkan RM3.5 Billion duit kerajaan kepada CIMB Bank, tidak sampai 2 minggu sekali lagi Najib mengumumkan 5 Billion lagi digunakan untuk menyuntik ke dalam ValueCap iaitu sebuah syarikat pelaburan Kerajaan? Saya meminta mana-mana yang terlibat dengan Bank Negara boleh mengesahkan berita ini. Pada saya , saya memperolehi berita ini dari orang yang amat dipercayai. Transaksi itu telah dibuat pada 29.9.2008

    baca selanjutnya

    TAHNIAH, KETUA WANITA SARAWAK- IBI UDING


    Pn Ibi ak Uding, 46 telah dengan rasmi dilantik sebagai Ketua Wanita PKR Sarawak. Majlis pengumuman perlantikan telah dilakukan sendiri oleh YB Zuraida kamaruddin, Ketua Wanita Pusat pada 24 Oktober lalu di Pejabat Perhubungan Negeri Sarawak.

    Ibi Uding juga merupakan bekas calon SNAP di DUN Balai Ringin pada pilihanraya DUN Sarawak 2006 lalu. Setelah meletak jawatan sebagai Ketua Wanita SNAP,beliau menganggotai PKR awal tahun ini.

    Dengan perlantikan Ibi, lengkaplah kedua-dua sayap penting PKR Sarawak, Angkatan Muda Keadilan (AMK) dan sayap Wanita. Diharap PKR akan terbang lebih jauh ke seluruh pelosok Bumi Kenyalang.

    DONT FORGET THE RAPE OF THE PENANS

    The brief uproar over the alleged rape of Penan school girls in the national media has died down, while the white-wash campaign in the Sarawak media continues unabated.

    Recently, Sarawak Police Commissioner Mohamad Salleh reportedly said that a four-man team under his supervision went to Baram to start investigations. He announced that the team would investigate an alleged rape in 1994. He said, "Although the incident took place 14 years ago, I want to assure the public that are will investigate without fear or favour"�.

    I remember that old case well, as I was directly involved in having the police report lodged-at the central police station (CPS) in Kuching.

    I was still the sole opposition MP from Sarawak then. I was pressed quite a few times by my then colleague the MP of Petaling Jaya Dr Kua Kia Soong to look into the allegation of rape of a 15-year-old Penan girl in Baram. He had heard about it from some Australian NGOs.

    On returning to Kuching, I decided to send my personal assistant See Chee How to Baram and visit the Penans. The 2000-mile journey to and fro would take two weeks.I was already physically weakened by my diabetic conditions while Chee How was young, fit, and very well-trained.

    When Chee How returned to Kuching, he confirmed that the local Penan communities did tell him the story of a 15-year-old girl raped by some security personnel, and a six-year-old boy had also died from a tear gas attack upon a blockade put up to resist logging operations.

    Apparently, the Penans had made the long-trip downriver to Marudi and even Miri, trying to make police reports against the crimes committed on their children. But the policemen on duty in these places simply refused to accept their police report.

    We then decided that perhaps it would be better to bring the Penans to Kuching to lodge the police report. I was a serving MP, and had a little clout with the police, the media, and government departments and agencies in the capital city of Sarawak.

    It must have been a logistics nightmare, a huge financial burden, and a communication cul-de-sac across 1000 miles of the dense forest in Sarawak. But with the help a group of very supportive friends, Chee How pulled it off.

    Many months of hard work and thorough preparation later, the Penans walked into my office in Kuching one bright morning, in a single file, as they are wont to do in the forests. They wore street clothes and looked rather smart, though I surmised that they could not have felt very comfortable in them.

    There were 18 Penans in the party, including four tua kampong (village chiefs) village elders, women, and the rape victim whose identity was never revealed. They settled down on two rows of long benches and faced the excited crowd of reporters who had turned out in full force to attend the first press conference by some Penans in their lives. Even reporters from a TV station were there!

    A reporter would ask a question in simple Malay, such as "How many Penans in your area have been affected adversely by the logging?"

    Apparently, the idea of a single spokesperson was (and probably still is) alien to the Penan culture. A Penan man would turn to his nearest neighbour and a brief consultation in their Penan language would ensure in a soft murmur.

    That neighbour would turn to his nearest neighbour in turn, for a soft conference lasting a minute or two. The process would continue down the line until it returned to the first Penan who initiated the process. He would then give an exact number of Penans affected by bad logging in his area.

    Despite the reporters impatience for quick, shot-gun responses to which they were used, the Penans answered their every question with this languid laborious and amiable process of group consultation in low whisper!

    Naturally, there was little press coverage of what the Penans said at the press conference the next day. The media organisations in Sarawak were all either owned directly or under the thumb of the elite group who control political power and the logging interests in the state.

    Perfect hosts, perfect guests

    That evening, i invited all my visitors from the Upper Baram forest to my house for a meal. IAfter the meal, we sat around in a big circle on the cement floor and chatted, as was the fashion with friendly gatherings among fellow Sarawakians. A good time was had by all.

    Bright and early next morning, we proceeded as a single group to the Kuching central police station looking out to the Central Padang, where the Merdeka celebration is held annually.

    I had made an appointment with the commanding officer at the CPS, and he was prepared. We were invited to sit round a large oblong table in a conference room. We had prepared a long report of the rape of the 15-year-old girl and the untimely death of the six-year-old boy at the blockade. While the long report was copied dutifully word for word into the brownish official police report book, the visitors from Baram were treated to coffee or tea, and cakes. The hosts were perfect hosts, and the guests were perfect guests.

    During the remainder of the day, the Penan visitors made a few trips across town, trying to see officers in the Health, Education and other departments, and even the Chief Minister's office. It was no surprise to me that everywhere they went, the door was slammed shut in their face.

    The transport and communication infrastructure in the vast remote rural area of Sarawak is so primitive that progress in working with the indigenous communities would take years where it would take mere weeks or months in the urban centres.

    Unfortunately, my time ran out. In 1995, I was defeated in the parliamentary contest in Kuching. I was compelled to retire from politics because of my bad health.

    (Fortunately, my friends in Sarawak continued to work hard in their lonely cause of defending the rights of the Sarawak indigenous communities. Chee How had since qualified as a lawyer and he joined Baru Bian's law firm. Between them, they now have over 100 cases in court, representing various indigenous communities all across Sarawak against encroachment upon their customary land rights by the state government, loggers, and plantation companies).

    I tell this tale not for the self-serving purpose of showing how heroic I was in trying to bring justice for the Penans. I merely want to show how hard it is for the Penans just to make a police report if a Penan girl is raped, and a Penan boy, killed.

    That is the sort of injustice that cries out for the total overhaul of our political culture. Surely, the greatness or meanness of our Malaysian society is judged by how the weakest members of our Malaysian body politics are treated by the institutions of power?

    Since then, I have thought about that poor Penan girl often.

    Rapists are the real culprits

    In my book of crime against humanity, rape is very near to the top of the list. I am not merely being self-righteous. I just have to think of the numerous beloved female members of my extended family.

    I also agree with most women NGO's that rapes are not caused by women who are beautiful or who wear sexy clothes. Rapes are not crimes of sexual passion; they are crimes of violence. The rapists are the real criminals. They leave incurable and life-long psychological scars on their victims, who probably would never recover from their ordeal of being violated.

    Chee How told me a few days ago that the Penan rape victim has since moved from Upper Baram to Middle Baram. She has never married nor led a normal family life. She should be 29 this year.

    So now, the Sarawak police chief wants to pursue this case 14 long years later - "without fear or favour"�? One can only be "cautiously optimistic" about such a declaration of intent, which is the same as saying that one is down right cynical about the outcome of the police investigation.

    Meanwhile, in the last 14 years, how many Penan girls and women have been raped by outside parties in the remote hostile and god-forsaken forests of Sarawak? We will never know. Even making a police report on such a heinous crime is so difficult for the Penans!

    I have been cautioned many times not to reveal the identity of any rape victim. I will just say that the initial for that poor Penan girl 14 years ago is "S"�, in case the police needs reminding.

    I am very fond of her.

    Sim Kwang Yang