After all that crap about the imbecilic nature of the Selangor State Government when it comes to handling the water shortage fiasco, I saw a nice tweet by my wife about the number of sewage treatment plants. It read:
“Kelantan has only 11 sewage treatment plants. Even Perlis has 33. Gulp. Johor has over 600”
“Wow!” I thought. But since it was early in the morning I thought it was about the number of water treatment plants, as Kelantan has a poor treated water supply coverage as well. Then I re-read the tweet and I realised how for the past 22 years, the Kelantanese State Government has been shirking its duties in ensuring the basic human rights to clean water supply as well as sanitation.
22 years.
Let us compare the states mentioned above in terms of population count versus the number of sewage treatment plants made available in the respective states.
Johor had 3.23 million in 2010. Perlis, possibly the state with the least resources, had 198,000 in 2010. Kelantan 1.46 million in 2010.
Johor has 600 sewage treatment plants for its 3.23 million inhabitants – that translates as having 5,383 persons per sewage treatment plant. In Perlis, the ratio is 1:6,000; while in Kelantan it is 1:132,727.
Let us go by size of each state: Johor is 19,210 sq.km; Perlis is 821 sq.km; and Kelantan is 15,099 sq.km in size. The ration of kilometer square per sewage treatment plant is 1:32; in Perlis it is 1:25; but in Kelantan it is 1:1,373. So, one sewage treatment plant in Kelantan has to cover an area that is 1,373 sq.km, and crap from 32,727 132,727 people.
Of course, the holier-than-thou attitude the Kelantan State Government adopts does not help the situation; what makes it worse is when voters have been brainwashed to think that whatever Cholera-shit that hit them is a test from God.
Unless the voters are given a knock on the head, my guess is they will continue to live in Holy Shit for another 22 more years.
If you follow PUSPEL on Twitter, you will realise how precarious the water supply situation in the Klang Valley is. Treated water is supplied at 4,371 MLD (million liters per day) in the Klang Valley, while the optimal reserve capacity should be between 15 to 20 percent that amount.
However, between 5th June to 11th June, the buffer was only between 1 to 2 percent. On 5th June, it was at 2.06 percent while on 7th June, it was at 1.22 percent. On 17th June, the demand for treated water exceeded supply at 4,410 MLD. This shows that there was a deficit of treated water. Because of this, the Minister for Energy, Green Technology and Water, Datuk Seri Peter Chin was reported to have said to reporters that “the danger zone is so near that we may resort to rationing water.”
While the effort to reduce non-revenue water (NRW) is ongoing, it would be more expensive as a short term goal to reduce NRW than it is to build treatment plants. The government would have to spend RM7.2 billion to reduce the NRW from 32.3 percent this year to 20.83 percent in 2020, and this would only save 126 MLD annually, while the Selangor-Pahang water channeling scheme, which involves building of the Langat 2 water treatment plant, would cost RM5 billion, but provide consumers in the Klang Valley a further 1,130 MLD. Of course, there is a need to educate the consumers in the Klang Valley the importance to conserve treated water. On average, Malaysians use 200 liters of treated water per person per day, while those in Selangor use 239 liters per person per day. To make matters worse, demand increases by 7 percent during the hot season such as now. In my opinion, the state government should increase tariff and not give free/subsidised water to consumers. This would help educate consumers to value water instead of looking at it as God’s eternally endless gift to mankind.
And with the bravado shown by the Selangor state government, we in the Klang Valley will soon be able to enjoy daily supply of ikan kering in lieu of water from the water catchment areas.
Ikan Kering instead of Water for water consumers in the Klang Valley if nothing is done soon to increase treated water supply
That is the traditional greeting of the Batak, Simalungun and Mandailing people, located in North Sumatera. Up until 1947 or 1957, the peoples of Sumatera were free to sail across the Strait of Malacca to trade or visit relatives on the Malayan side. When immigration laws came into force with the formation of both Indonesia and Malaysia put a stop to it all…almost. Malaysia is still a magnet for Indonesians to chance a better living, legally or otherwise.
I am a Mandailing by descent, and my ancestors are from the Nasution marga (family or clan). Although I know next to nothing about my people or their traditions, I am proud to tell fellow Malaysian Mandailing that I am a Nasution. There are many famous Malaysian Mandailing and they include the late nationalist educationist Aminuddin Baki (marga Lubis), the late Judge Tan Sri Hashim Yeop Abdullah Sani (marga Rangkuti), the late former Menteri Besar of Selangor Dato’ Harun Idris (marga Harahap), former minister Datuk Mokhtar Hashim (marga Harahap), actor Dato’ Ahmad Tamimi Siregar (marga Siregar), former Inspector-General of Police Tun Mohammed Hanif Omar (marga Nasution), former Chief of Air Force General (Rtd) Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad (marga Nasution) and last but not least, broadcaster and singer Rubiah Lubis (marga Lubis).
Tor-Tor Dance (courtesy of Malaysia Chronicles)
Recently, the Minister for Information, Communication and Culture, Dato’ Seri Utama Dr Rais Yatim announced his Ministry’s intention to preserve the Mandailing traditional TorTor dance and Gordang Sambilan as part of the Malaysian Mandailing heritage, and this, as did other attempts to preserve other traditions inherited from the Indonesian ancestors, got the Indonesians all riled up. On Twitter, hashtags such as #MalaysiaMiskinBudaya (Malaysia is Culturally-Poor) and #TorTorPunyaIndonesia (The Tor-Tor is Indonesian) ruled the timeline with Indonesians bashing Malaysia for allegedly stealing the former’s culture. What is more shocking is when an Indonesian Batak politician, Ruhut Sitompul, was quoted in the Jakarta Post as saying:
“Once in a while, I think it’s necessary that we bomb [Malaysia] as a form of shock therapy. Otherwise they will keep oppressing us. There’s no need for diplomacy – they always find excuses”.
It is funny that a country with 28 million people (plus more than a million who are Indonesian citizens working here) can be threat, oppressing Indonesia that has 240 million inhabitants. Perhaps, Ruhut Sitompul was looking for a way to shift the focus of Indonesian Muslims (the Mandailing are Muslims) from his recent fiasco with the Islamic Defenders Front (FPI) and Islamic People’s Forum (FUI) over the Lady Gaga concert ban.
Majority of the Twitter hashtag users were from the Jakarta side, rather than from the Sumatera side; while most Malaysians who laugh at the Ministry’s effort to preserve this culture from disappearing from the Malaysian Mandailing community altogether are either non-Malays, or those who are staunchly anti-government. Some of the comments can be found here . Perhaps, they would be happy too if China one day declares war on the overseas Chinese community who practice Chinese traditions outside of mainland China. And the Malays who do not support the preservation of heritage are the ones who are happy when the Wayang Kulit Jawa of Selangor and Johor have disappeared totally from the face of this planet, save for some puppets.
The Malaysian Mandailing Association President, Ramli Abdul Karim Hasibuan said that Malaysia intends to recognise the Tor-Tor dance and the Gordang Sambilan as a Mandailing heritage here, not claim it to be a Malaysian culture. After all, the two belong to the Mandailing, not Malaysia nor Indonesia. And I, would of course like to learn more about the culture of my Mandailing side. Maybe, a lesson in history is in order here, for the uninformed Malaysians and Indonesians as well.
Among famous Mandailings in Indonesia include Indonesian actress Tia Ivanka (born Artia Dewi Siregar), composer and musician Rinto Harahap, and singer Diana Nasution. However, two famous Indonesian Mandailing with ties to Malaysia are the late Adam Malik, a marga Batubara who was a foreign minister of Indonesia and also a Vice-President; and the late General Abdul Haris Nasution, a former Minister of Defence.
Adam Malik was actually born in the town of Chemor, near Ipoh in the state of Perak. His mother. Siti Salamah, was from Chemor. Every time Adam Malik visited Malaysia, he would take the opportunity to visit his relatives in Chemor (see Abdur-Razzaq Lubis, Adam Malik, anak Chemor, Surat Berita Mandailing, Jilid I, No. 2, 1996: 2-3.). In fact, both Adam and Haris hailed from the same village of Hutapungkut, right in the middle of the Mandailing homeland in Sumatera. And it was in major part due to these two Mandailing men that the Indonesian confrontation against Malaysia ended. They were both against the Confrontation. Haris even bluntly refused to go to war with Malaysia because he likened it to going to war against his own relatives. Why is this so? Haris, who was a General in the Indonesian Armed Forces then, had a nephew also from Chemor, Perak, who was in the Royal Malaysian Navy (retired as Vice-Admiral) Dato’ Mohammed Zain Mohd Salleh (see A.H. Nasution, Memenuhi Panggilan Tugas, Jilid 1: Kenangan Masa Muda, Jakarta: Gunung Aung, MCMLXXXII: 6). After the peace treaty was signed between the two governments in Bangkok in August 1966 to end the Confrontation, Adam Malik immediately took the opportunity to visit Chemor to assure his relatives (see Adam Malik, Mengabdi Republik, Jilid 1 Adam Malik Dari Andalas, Gunung Agung, Jakarta, 1978; Abdul Rahman Rahim, Jatoh-Nya Sa-Orang President, Penerbitan Utusan Melayu Berhad, chetakan kedua, 1967).
As such, the Indonesians and Malaysians have cross-border ties, ties that bind the two together as the same people divided only by political and diplomatic boundaries, but who are really one. Therefore, the Tor-Tor, Gordang Sambilan, should be preserved by the people of Malaysia as a heritage so they would and could remember how the bond of this Nusantara is still very much alive. And like the Barong dance of Bali that preserves the Hindu Epic of Ramayana from India, strengthens cultural and spiritual ties between nations. The only way for this to be achieved is to suppress extremism and getting rid of ignorance.
The Malaysian Institute of Integrity supports the MACC’s call to screen election candidates
Power corrupts, they say; or as the longer version goes, “Absolute power corrupts absolutely.”
Upon mentioning the word corruption more often than not our mind will wander towards our visual cortex playing visions of Barisan Nasional, the police, and on the lesser side the local authorities. Like it or not, the management of people’s perception towards the integrity of Barisan Nasional leaders continues to play a huge role especially in the cyber world and will have an impact in the 13th General Election. While Prime Minister Najib continues to win the rakyat‘s hearts and minds through his policy of openness, there is that little devil playing in the back of our mind asking if Najib would have the political will to remove certain people after the next general election he inherited from his predecessor who had stepped down mid-term. Let us hope that high-profile cases affecting Barisan Nasional’s integrity such as Shahrizat Jalil’s and Khir Toyo’s will reflect a continuous effort by the Najib administration to strengthen its integrity.
Fighting corruption in Malaysia is not a new thing. In fact, Malaysia became the first developing nation to have an anti-corruption law when the Anti-Corruption Act was passed in 1961. This was supported by the Emergency Ordinance (Essential Powers) No.22, 1970, and then replaced by the Anti-Corruption Agency Act in 1982. As part of a continual process to make better the fight against corruption, the Anti-Corruption Act 1997 was passed among others covering more types of corrupt acts, adding more powers to the prosecution and to the Anti Corruption Agency. To further show its seriousness in fighting corruption, the Government had also tabled (and passed by Parliament) the Witness Protection Act 2009, Enforcement Agency Integrity Commission Act 2009, and the Whistleblower Protection Act 2010.
One may ask how effective have these Acts been, especially in the Whistleblower Protection Act 2010 with regards to the NFC case? As we know, an employee of a bank here in Malaysia had divulged transaction information of an account belonging to the NFCorp to PKR’s Rafizi Ramli (who by chance is an accountant), who in turn made public the findings and demanded an investigation into the NFCorp. While we thank the two individuals for their concern into the misuse of public funds granted to the NFCorp to assist its real purpose, the bank employee had committed an offence under Section 97(1) of the Banking and Financial Institutions Act, 1989 for revealing details of a customer’s account, while Rafizi, whether foolishly or knowingly given that he is a certified accountant, had committed an offence under Section 97(3) of the same Act for disclosing information in contravention of subsection (1). Anywhere you go to, including Switzerland, you will never be able to get information pertaining to the banks’ customers’ account(s) unless compelled by law.
Aren’t Rafizi and the bank employee protected under the Whistleblower Protection Act then? No, they are not. All disclosure of improper conduct should be reported to any enforcement agency “Provided such disclosure is not specifically prohibited by any written law” (Section 6(1)). What the bank employer should have done was to lodge a report with the Malaysian Anti Corruption Commission (MACC) and let due process take place. It makes no sense to report a purported wrongdoing to the press, or on the Web, or in ceramahs, unless you are not interested in seeing justice being done, but rather throw it to the court of public opinion for political mileage.
Being able to govern the country is at its core all about power and influence. Elected politicians use their power to get things done. In an ideal world, we can hope to see this power used to benefit others, meaning voters. That would be in the form of socialised power. The other form of power would be called personalised power. This is used for personal gains. An elected politician can still use this power to benefit others, and at the same time make personal gains. After all, none of us have seen a poor former US President. We have, in our times, seen poor Prime Ministers (such as Tun Razak), but that would be a rare exception.
We have also seen the rearing of ugly heads when it comes to the Opposition-held states; the sand-mining scandal in Selangor, mushrooming of seedy health centers in Selangor, sale of Bayan Mutiara, allocating humongous projects in Kedah without open-tender being called, the contract to supply of tailor-made costumes to the Perak government being given to members of a state assemblyman’s family, and of course, the case Teoh Beng Hock died for. If you ask a layman like me, I see no benefit whatsoever that could be gained by Barisan Nasional coming from Teoh Beng Hock’s death, but those whose information the late Teoh Beng Hock was privy to, definitely benefited from his eternal silence. Only fools would think otherwise.
So, my fellow rakyat, voters, the answer is NO, REPLACING X WITH Y DOES NOT CHANGE ANYTHING. There are positive and negative sides of power. On the former, power makes leaders more assertive, confident and certain of their decisions. They must use the power to get the job done. On the latter, the more power a leader possess, the more they focus on their egocentric desires and as their power increases, they will gradually cease to see the perspective of others. What we want, as the rakyat, are leaders with integrity, and it does not matter which side of the political fence they are on.
Recently, the Malaysian Institute of Integrity had issued a press statement supporting the move by the Malaysian Anti Corruption Commission offering to vet potential candidates for the GE13. Datuk Dr Mohd Tap Salleh, President of IIM, said that “this proactive step would help party leadership to nominate candidates with integrity.”
IIM in this statement said that this process will ensure the degree of confidence towards the election and democratic systems will increase, and this will in turn interest the public to participate in the elections process and choose leaders. “This country needs political leadership with high integrity. With respect to that, leaders need to have in them pristine values such as trust, responsible, accountable, truthful, transparent, honest, and sincere, in order to serve the nation and its people,” Datuk Dr Mohd Tap added.
And I, as a layman, cannot agree more. I hope that the Government, political leaders, and the Elections Commission will take this offer seriously. Elected politicians must always remember that they have the mandate from the rakyat to administer this government and the constituency they represent to ensure it is done efficiently and the interest of the rakyat protected at all cost, not for their political nor personal gains.
It was probably a mess tin like the above, used by the British Army during the Second World War. His name was probably Lieutenant Ariffin bin Haji Sulaiman (Recruit No. 8), or he could have been Private Ariffin bin Abdul Rani (Recruit No. 856). The widow of one of them donated a mess tin given by her late husband to the Bukit Chandu Memorial, where both the Ariffins above, and the well-known Second-Lieutenant Adnan bin Saidi (Recruit No.90) fell after putting up a gallant fight against the Imperial Japanese Army.
Just before the fall of Johor Bahru, officers and men of the First and Second Battalion of the Malay Regiment shipped their family members back to their respective hometown by train. Before his wife’s departure, Ariffin did not know what to give her as a parting gift, knowing very well he would never see them again. He quickly grabbed his mess tin as shown above and gave it to her as a token of remembrance. It was with this mess tin that she would scoop up rice to cook and feed her children, as if Ariffin was with her to bring the children up together.
As members of the Armed Forces, the Army is here to ensure that that our nation and her economic interests are guarded and protected, so that we can live earn a living and live our lives with our family peacefully and uninterrupted. We know they exist, but we often forget their role. Of late, the Armed Forces has been subjected to negative publicity, no thank you to selfish politicians who have no better thing to do than to continually undermine the institutions that safeguard the interests of the nation, to achieve political ambitions through the obliteration of public trust towards these institutions.
As a result, the Army, through the Ministry of Defence and in conjunction with the celebration of the Army’s 79th anniversary, conducted a “Army with Media” day at the Sungai Besi Premier Camp, near Kuala Lumpur. Members of the media were given the chance to participate in competitions that depict daily lives of an army personnel such as the Spike Boot trail, accessorizing the working dress (or Number 3 Uniform), camouflaging their face, filling up ammo into a rifle’s magazine, and rifle shooting competition. the event was sponsored by Sapura, Maxis, AEON and several other co-sponsors. 32 media teams including bloggers comprising of 5 members each made it to the day-long event with the hope of a better understanding between media be they the mainstream ones or from both sides of the political fence, and the Army.
Army with the Media
I took the opportunity to interview Lieutenant-Colonel (Dr) Tan Hooi Mooi of the Army Medical Corps. A mother of four, she joined the Medical Corps in 1999 as a Captain (Professional Duty) and signed on for another five years service after completing her mandatory ten. Although her civilian counterparts working for the Ministry of Health earn more than she does, she finds it comfortable to be in the service even though there are times when she would have to leave the family to serve in areas of operation including shipboard during exercises with the Navy, or deep inside the jungle. It is good to see a non-Malay female officer attaining that rank. I spotted several non-Malay senior officers beneath several marquees entertaining journos that attended the event.
The Minister of Defence delivering his speech
In his speech, the Minister of Defence hopes that with the event, there will be better understanding between the Army and the Media about the service and its personnel, its continuous need to evolve into a better deterrent as time goes by. The Minister also hopes that there will be a larger-scale event involving the media in conjunction with the Army’s 80th anniversary. He also hopes to get several opposition representatives to attend the event.
As for me, this fading old soldier feels glad that there is much attention given to the betterment of the Armed Forces as a whole. Housing and facilities, pay and allowances, equipment, privileges have all improved – a far cry from what it used to be during my time. Yes, I envy them, but I am also proud of them. I hope they will maintain their professionalism and will continue to, as I still do, be loyal to His Majesty the King, and to the country.
I have always maintained that if I have to choose between the Devil and the deep blue sea, I can deal with the Devil and live, but would drown with the latter. For that reason, being no lover of the BN, I refuse to support the ideals (or lack thereof) of the opposition.
And almost everything else has been said about BERSIH 3.0 – the rubbish ironically caused by a movement that calls itself “Clean” is all but gone. DBKL workers are working double-time to ensure things are back to normal. Injured policemen are still in the hospital while their Logistics Department must be assessing the cost of damage to assets.
The cost of all the above will also be borne by the Rakyat – and when I say Rakyat, I mean people like me who are against public rallies simply because public rallies rarely pass the two tests that should be applied: the Clear and Present Danger test, and the Incitement test. There has been TWO BERSIH rallies prior to the last one – none ended peacefully. And BERSIH has never been apolitical through it association, no matter what its supporters may claim. I acknowledge the existence of idealists whose cause is pure, but on the topside, BERSIH is just another political agenda for its organisers and associates.
The Police should be commended for adhering to the Peaceful Assembly Act 2011. The Police allowed the rally participants to assemble even though no permit was ever issued to them. The Police was tasked to uphold the law – enforce a court order banning any entry into Dataran Merdeka. This they did, until the most famous hijacker of all, Anwar Ibrahim was videotaped by a pro-opposition blogger giving a signal to his loyal lieutenant Azmin Ali, to breach the police line. This act was apparently done AFTER the organiser of BERSIH, Ambiga.S ordered the participants to disperse.
I do not want to comment much about what happened after, but if you look at the video below, you can see Anwar making a sign for the deaf for “JUMP OVER” repeatedly (0.9s marked by a yellow square) to Azmin. Azmin acknowledges and instructs an Indian man next to him to remove the police barrier. Nobody won on that day, but democracy was hijacked by democrazy. The biggest losers are the suckers who thought they are idealists, but were merely mules ridden by the likes of Anwar for his political benefit.
Could all this have been avoided? The answer is a simple but definite YES. Ambiga was offered to hold her rally in stadiums, according the one she had requested for in BERSIH 2.0, but refused saying it was an 11th hour offer. Yet, she had no problem whatsoever demanding for her demands to be met by the Elections Commission immediately. There was clear incitement by political figures including Anwar, and even Nik Aziz admitted to giving RM200 per participant from PAS to join the rally, even to the point of issuing a “fatwa: saying that it is compulsory for PAS members to be part of the rally. Ambiga, through the previous BERSIH rallies should know better that incitements by political figures bring about highly-charged atmosphere; and that there is no way for her to control the behaviour of 25,000 people. Did she knowingly go ahead with the rally with these facts in hand? My answer would be YES.
So, should I trust BERSIH 4.0? Definitely NOT. Do I want a free and fair election? The answer is YES, but if I want to say my piece, I will do it during the next general elections. After all, the opposition made no qualms about winning five states in the previous one using the very same dirty (they claimed) electoral roll.
Who would I vote for? Definitely not for Scylla and Charybdis because there is no democracy there. Watch the video below and you will understand.
Not too long ago, I was both elated and afraid when the Vice-Presidency of PAS was filled with the likes of Nasharudin Mat Isa, who read at the University of Glasgow. For once, PAS was filled by people with IQ, instead of the Mullah-like characters from their Dewan Ulama. In 2009, all that changed when he was defeated by Mat Sabu and other Ataturks (Mahfuz Omar et al), who then went on to become the Deputy President of PAS in 2011, the first non-Alim (singular, Ulama is plural) to be in that position in over a quarter of a century. PAS is now said to be 60% in control of the Ataturks, and only 30% by the Dewan Ulama.
PAS was ultra-radical in its political approach and its battle-cry had always been to set-up an Islamic nation, based on its myopic interpretation of what is considered Islamic. The implementation of Hudud and Qisas (I wonder why Ta’zir was omitted) was their aim, much to the chagrin of fellow Barisan Alternatif partner, DAP. Somehow, it forewent this battle-cry in the 2008 General Elections to adopt a “more people-friendly” tagline of “welfare first.” With this, they had PAS Supporters’ Club formed for non-Muslim supporters of PAS.
It was a shock to many that a person of Mat Sabu’s morale got elected to the No.2 post of a supposed Islamic party. In December of 1995 (I stand corrected as to the actual date), Mat Sabu was charged for being in close proximity with one Normah Halim, wife of Bukhari Noor, a Kelantanese businessman, in Room 121 of Hotel Perdana in Kota Baru. While he was acquitted due to technical reasons (the two witnesses could not agree on the room number where the offence took place), one should not forget that the act was committed.
There was also a recording of a telephone conversation supposedly between Mat Sabu and Normah done back in 1994.
Mat Sabu made headlines last year after claiming that communist Mat Indera, who led the murder of 18 policemen at the Bukit Kepong Police Station in 1950, and then murdered their family, as the true nationalist. Nine days later, on 30th August 2011, Karpal Singh, a DAP veteran and MP for Bukit Gelugor responded saying that the 25 policemen were true nationalists and that Mat Sabu’s statements were ill-advised. PAS, however, has gone to defend Mat Sabu’s claims and statements. Mat Sabu, the joker, is now an idol worshipped by many in PAS:
Just last year, Dr Hasan Ali, a PAS VP, defended the actions of the Selangor Religious Department (JAIS) raiding the Damansara Utama Methodist Church for an attempt to proselytize Muslims. The full report submitted by JAIS has never been brought forth by the Menteri Besar, but His Royal Highness the Sultan of Selangor decreed that JAIS’s action was right and lawful, hence underscoring the dangers of proselytizing of Muslims by Evangelists. This was carried in PAS Selangor’s website. Yet, three months after this story was carried by the party’s state organ, Dr Hasan Ali was expelled from PAS for not toeing party line, or not following the spirit of Selangor’s Pakatan Rakyat.
Hasan Ali Relieved JAIS Acted Correctly
The removal of Hasan Ali from PAS is another signal that the Ataturks are now in power. The level of distrust against PAS is further demonstrated by the other Pakatan Rakyat partners, DAP and PKR, when it was announced that the Menteri Besar, Khalid Ibrahim, who is from PKR, would hold the exco position instead of another PAS state representative. What qualification Khalid has is one issue. The other being, why not PAS? Khalid, of course, is being labeled by many as DAP’s mule, rather than being an effective PKR’s Menteri Besar.
I do not know how much power is wielded by the President, Hj Hadi Awang, who seems encircled by the Ataturks. Whether he still calls the shots in PAS, nobody really knows. Suddenly, I read in an online news that Hj Hadi offers himself to NOT be nominated to stand for the next General Elections.
Haji Hadi Tak Nak Bertanding PU13
I don’t know if it is a sign that he is not confident PAS will attain the same level of support from the masses and wishes not to be associated with any downfall, or if he is being forced to not lead PAS by the Ataturks, He would know best. However, reading Hadi’s statement below reminds me of one person who has yet to step down, although promised on several occasions to do so:
When is Nik Aziz resigning?
If Hadi resigns, that would pave the way for Ataturks like Mat Sabu and Mahfuz Omar to lead the so-called Islamic party – people with morale baggage that DAP could use to blackmail for support.
There is also talk that the Menteri Besar of Kedah, Dato Seri Azizan from PAS, will also be ousted from the party for not toeing Pakatan Rakyat’s stand on the Universities/University Colleges Act (AUKU). Azizan recently defended the use of AUKU against some KUIN students, and got salvos fired at him from every Pakatan Rakyat direction. Azizan’s rationale was simple: AUKU is an act of law, and therefore should be upheld.
If PAS in its present form cannot be trusted to lead a state’s religious affairs, respect Acts of Law, or even champion the cause of Islam, should we even trust it to run the states it is already running, let alone running a country while protecting the sanctity of Islam in this nation?
I think not. What you think is none of my concern.
With that, I leave you some entertainment courtesy of Mat Sabu and Ambiga.
After the first revelation via the press statement by the Vice Chancellor of UPSI sent yesterday, I received an E-mail from an undisclosed source that contained a copy of an E-mail sent by the UPSI College Principal.
Subject: ALIRKAN TENAGA POSITIF 2012 – RENUNGAN SEMULA RUSUHAN DI PINTU UTAMA UPSI
SELAMAT TAHUN BARU 2012 YANG PENUH DENGAN KEJAYAAN SEKALI LAGI.
IZINKAN SAYA BERKONGSI SEDIKIT. SAYA SANGAT SEDIH, SAYU DAN TERDIAM MELIHAT BETAPA KELICIKAN PIHAK LUAR DAN PARTI POLITIK MENGAMBIL KESEMPATAN PERISTIWA RUSUHAN PADA MALAM TAHUN BARU DI PINTU HADAPAN UPSI.
JUSTERU, TAGGUNGJAWAB KITA, PENSYARAH DAN JUGA ULAMA IALAH HENTIKAN FITNAH DAN ALIRKAN TENAGA POSITIF BARU PADA TAHU BARU;
BERDASARKAN MAKLUMAT BERSAMA INDIVIDU YANG BERADA DI TEMPAT KEJADIAN KENYATAAN POLIS BERTINDAK GANAS DAN KEJAM ADALAH TIDAK BENAR DAN FITNAH. SEBALIKNYA, PARA PERUSUH YANG KEBANYAKKAN ORANG LUAR UPSI (HANYA 2 ORANG PELAJAR UPSI TERLIBAT IAITU ADAM ADLI DAN YUYU LUNA) TELAH BERTINDAK GANAS MAHU MEMANJAT DAN MEROBOHKAN PINTU UTAMA UPSI.. IBU KANDUNG KITA. POLIS SUDAH BERIKAN MEREKA MASA BERUCAP DAN MENJALANKAN UPACARA MEREKA YANG PENUH PENGHINAAN KEPADA ORANG LAIN. NAMUN, ARAHAN UNTUK BERSURAI TIDAK DIENDAHKAN SEBALIKNYA PINTU UTAMA UPSI MULA DI PANJAT DAN HENDAK DIROBOHKAN. TINDAKAN PROVOKASI INI MENYEBABKAN POLIS MULA MENGAMBIL TINDAKAN TEGAS DAN MENAHAN MEREKA TETAPI PARA PERUSUH TELAH MENENTANG MENYEBABKAN BERLAKU SEDIKIT PERGADUHAN FIZIKAL. PERUSUH SANGGUP BERLARI, MENJERIT DAN TERLANGGAR PINTU KACA KLINIK SYIFA (ADA PENDAPAT MENGATAKAN SENGAJA UNTUK MENDAPATKAN KECEDERAAN), LALU BERDARAH DENGAN AGAK BANYAK LALU GAMBAR DIAMBIL UNTUK FITNAH POLIS MEMUKUL MEREKA DAN PROVOKASI MERAIH SIMPATI TERMASUK DARI ULAMA)-(BUKTI PERISTIWA PERUSOH TERLANGGAR CERMIN KLINIK SYIFA BOLEH DITONTON DALAM YOUTUBE). PERUSUH JUGA MENGELUARKAN KATA KESAT DAN BERLAKON CEDERA PARAH. JUSTERU, BERITA MANGSA KOMA DAN CEDERA PARAH JUGA HARUS DINILAI SEMULA KERANA LAPORAN HOSPITAL HANYA SEORANG YANG DIRAWAT SEBAGAI PESAKIT LUAR DI HOSPITAL SLIM RIVER. MUNGKIN HANYA PROVAKASI POLITIK MERAIH SIMPATI… DALAM KES INI JUGA SAYA SANGAT TERKILAN KERANA KEBANYAKKAN ULAMA-ULAMA YANG DIHORMATI TERLALU CEPAT MEMBERI KOMEN BERDASARKAN BERITA DAN SUMBER PROVOKASI, SEPATUTNYA MENUNGGU SEHINGGA MENDENGAR DARI DUA PIHAK (SEPERTI DALAM AJARAN ISLAM). SAYA JUGA TERGAMAM MELIHAT BETAPA PIHAK LUAR BEGITU PANTAS MENGGUNAKAN SISTEM IT DAN MEMANIPULASI SETIAP KENYATAAN INDIVIDU TERTENTU UNTUK DIMANIPULASIKAN DEMI KEPENTINGAN MEREKA. INI ADALAH TIDAK JUJUR. POLITIK PIHAK LUAR YANG MENJADIKAN UPSI SEBAGAI MEDAN POLTIK MEMERLUKAN SEMUA PIHAK MATANG MEMBERI KOMEN DAN SURAT. SAYA JUGA TIDAK MENYOKONG SEBARANG TINDAKAN PROVAKASI SEMULA OLEH UPSI SEBAGAI TINDAKBALAS… KERANA KITA AKAN MERENDAHKAN MAQAM DIRI DAN BERMARUAH SEPERTI MEREKA. TETAPI SAYA PERCAYA KITA PERLU MENYALURKN MAKLUMAT YANG BETUL, DAN SANGAT TEGAS BERTINDAK DAN MENGAMBIL TINDAKAN TATATERTIB BERANI DAN TEGAS BERDASARKAN HAK, PERATURAN DAN UNDANG-UNDANG YANG KTA ADA. SAYA SANGAT PERCAYA TINDAKAN PERUSUH INI TIDAK DISOKONG HAMPIR KESELURUHAN WARGA UPSI YANG SAYANGKAN PROFESION PERGURUAN. BAGI PELAJAR GALASLAH HARAPAN IBU BAPA, TARGET 4.0, BERFIKIR MATANG, BANYAK BERISTIGFAR DALAM HATI DAN YAKINLAH UNTUK MENJADI PENDIDIK KEPADA NEGARA… JIKA RAKAN-RAKAN BERSETUJU DENGAN PENDAPAT SAYA SEBARKANLAH KEPADA SEMUA – IKHLAS PENGETUA KOLEJ UPSI – DR MOHAMMAD AZIZ SHAH MOHAMED ARIP
I received a copy of a press release from the Vice-Chancellor (Students Affairs) of UPSI on the incident where 15 students were arrested for demonstrating at the University. Some students claimed that they got seriously injured after being roughed up by the police.
Or were they?
Kenyataan Akhbar Kronologi Peristiwa Perhimpunan Haram Depan UPSI pada 1 Januari 2012.
Pada jam 5pm UPSI dapat maklumat bahawa kumpulan mahasiswa Solidariti Mahasiswa Malaysia akan berkumpul di UM untuk mengadakan demonstrasi di UPSI. Demonstrasi ini adalah untuk mendesak kerajaan memansuhkan AUKU dan menuntut pertuduhan pada Adam Adli digugurkan.
Jam 10pm , kumpulan SMM dari UM dengan 3 kenderaan telah menuju ke UPSI. Wartawan dan beberapa kumpulan kecil mewakili pembangkang berkumpul di depan pintu utama UPSI dan kawasan sekitar
Pihak Keselamatan UPSI telah menutup semua laluan masuk ke upsi sepenuhnya, berkawal bersama bantuan suksis. Pihak polis berpakaian freeman mengawasi jalan-jalan utama di bahagian pintu timur dan utama selain rondaan traffic serta peronda (show force)
Demi menjaga maruah UPSI seramai 80 pelajar UPSI daripada beberapa kolej yang cintakan keamanan bersedia mempertahan UPSI dari gangguan pihak luar – dengan slogan “we love upsi “. Majoriti pelajar tidak suka dengan cara pihak luar campur tangan hal dalaman upsi. Upsi bertindak tanpa mana-mana tekanan pihak luar. Rata-rata Face book dan blog yang cintakan upsi, menyatakan sokongan agar bumi upsi tidak diganggu oleh pihak luar dan pelajar berhak pertahan nama baik institusi pendidikan ini.
Sekitar jam 2.10 pagi pelajar-pelajar akhirnya memulakan demonstrasi di depan pintu utama dengan melaungkan slogan menentang kerajaan dan menuduh upsi dan tnc mengugut pelajar, dan mereka mengeluarkan kata kesat (barua, anjing) terhadapPerdana Menteri, Kementerian Pengajian Tinggi, kerajaan, UMNO dan pemimpin UPSI. Mereka membawa kain rentang putih dan keranda daripada kotak serta membawa gambar PM sebagai simbolik pemansuhan AUKU. Polis membenarkan dengan pengawasan untuk mereka melaksanakan ucapan, jeritan, bacaan puisi dan upacara simbolik pemansuhan AUKU. Pada waktu ini Adam Adli dibawa terus ke depan pagar upsi dijulang utk berucap berkaitan kebebasan akademik, ada dikalangan mereka juga menjerit agar pagar dibuka dan memanjat pagar pintu utama. Mereke terus melaungkan slogan power mahasiswa selang seli dengan ucapan, tanpa henti dengan nada suara jeritan. Mereka disokong oleh beberapa wakil dari parti pembangkang sepanjang demo berlaku.
2 20am Polis menempatkan kenderaan dan anggota LSF (light strike force – bukan FRU) bagi menghadapi sebarang kemungkinan dan apabila LSF tiba mengambil tempat didepan simpang klinik shifa, kumpulan mereka (lelaki dan wanita) telah mengambil tindakan baring di atas jalan raya, bertindak sebagai perisai manusia serta konfran polis supaya tidak mengapa-apakan mereka atau berdepan tindakan revolusi pelajar seperti mesir dan Tunisia. Yang paling lantang antara mereka adalah Khalid Ismet, pelajar undang2 um (pakai baju merah, muka macam cina) cuba provokasi pihak LSF dan polis. Polis sekadar mengawasi, tiada sebarang kekerasan atau apa-apa tindakan provokasi.
235am mereka telah bergerak menghampiri pintu pagar utama dan melaungkan “Buka Pintu” dan mereka telah memanjat pintu pagar dan menjerit supaya “membuka pintu dan jangan menjadi barua UMNO”. Pintu pagar upsi telah digegarkan oleh mereka , ada yang memanjat pagar untuk memasuki dan apabila masa yang diberikan tamat, ocpd mengarahkan polis penangkap membuat tangkapan kepada kelompok tersebut selain ingin mengelakkan mereka menceroboh ke dalam upsi dan dibimbangi akan bergaduh dengan anggota pelajar suksis upsi, serta pemimpin pelajar yang berada dalam kampus. Pelajar-pelajar UPSI di dalam pagar tidak rela kampus mereka dicerobohi oleh para pelajar luar.
Oleh kerana mereka tidak mengindahkan arahan polis supaya bersurai dengan aman, mereka telah bergelut dengan pihak polis untuk membebaskan rakan mereka yang telah ditangkap dan waktu itulah rusuhan berlaku dan ada di antara mereka telah memecahkan pintu kaca (berkunci) Klinik Syifa dengan alasan rakan mereka sakit sesak nafas untuk dapatkan rawatan. Mereka dengan ganas memecahkan 3 panel dinding cermin klinik shifa. Polis tidak sesekali menggunakan kekerasan masa nak menangkap dan tidak memukul, mereka yang melawan sehingga terjatuh, malah anggota polis juga terjatuh semasa usaha menangkap mereka. Kecederaan berdarah yang dialami salah sorang dari mereka bukan kerana kekerasan polis tetapi terluka semasa mereka memecahkan dinding cermin klinik panel. Pihak polis telah menangkap 17 orang dan membawa mereka ke Balai Polis Tanjung Malim untuk ditahan, termasuk Adam Adli.
Keadaan kembali tenang selepas polis menahan 17 orang tersebut dan mengarahkan semua bersurai, polis tidak menahan pelajar wanita kecuali seorang pelajar upsi yang hadir ke balai dengan sukarela dan ditahan di sana. Polis meneruskan pengawasan terutama jalan utama depan upsi sehingga pagi bagi mengelak perkara tidak diingini berlaku.
Tindakan sepenuh pada tanggungjawab polis kerana diluar kawasan upsi dan tnchepa mengarahkan agar staf/pelajar berada didalam dan tidak membuat provokasi, sekadar memerhati walaupun dituduh dengan pelbagai kata-kata kesat.
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