Paling mencuri tumpuan, selain pemimpin Pakatan Rakyat yang beragama Islam hadir sebagai tanda sokongan terhadap tuntutan itu, kehadiran ahli parlimen Ipoh Timur yang juga Penasihat DAP, Lim Kit Siang juga menambah seri himpunan yang bermula kira-kira jam 11 pagi tadi.
Nampak dak muka Nasharuddin Mat Isa dan Hassan Akidah... Malangnya, ahli parlimen Bachok, Nasharuddin Mat Isa yang lantang mengritik Ketua Pembangkang, Anwar Ibrahim berhubung kehadirannya di majlis MJ Akbar yang liberal Islam, tidak kelihatan.
Dalam Bajet 2013, kesemua sekolah bantuan penuh kerajaan, sekolah vernakular dan sekolah mubaligh menerima peruntukan sebanyak RM100 juta tiap-tiap seorang sedangkan sekolah agama rakyat yang melahirkan pelajar beragama langsung tidak dibantu.
Jurucakap Majlis Solidariti Pendidikan Islam Selangor, Zainal Abidin Kidam berkata, kira-kira 800,000 penuntutnya masih belajar bawah kemudahan di bawah paras sederhana walaupun ibu bapa mengeluarkan wang sehingga RM600 sebulan.
"Ini melibatkan lebih sejuta ibu bapa, yang memilih menghantar anak mereka ke seolah agama. Islam adalah agama rasmi persekutuan dan pendidikan bawah tanggungjawab kerajaan persekutuan.
Antara ahli parlimen lain yang hadir dalam demo tersebut adalah ahli parlimen Kubang Kerian, Salahuddin Ayub, ahli parlimen Padang Terap, Nasir Zakaria dan Exco Kerajaan Selangor, Dr Halimah Ali serta Ronnie Liu.
Kesemua mereka menyerahkan memorandum tersebut kepada Anwar dalam satu sidang media di lobi Parlimen.
Dalam reaksi balas, Timbalan Menteri Pelajaran, Puad Zakarshi menafikan dakwaan tersebut sambil mendakwa daripada 382 buah sekolah agama, hanya 156 sahaja yang berdaftar dengan kementerian untuk mendapatkan bantuan.
Selebihnya tidak berdaftar dan katanya kerajaan Umno juga memberi bantuan dalam kuantiti terhad kerana syarat penerimaan bantuan, kesemua sekolah mestilah berdaftar dengan kementerian kononnya bagi memudahkan penyaluran bantuan dilaksanakan.- jalan pulang blogspot
Sebaliknya...
RM111m untuk Program Permata Rosmah...
Seperkara yang menarik yang telah menimbulkan banyak tanda tanya dan menjadi perbualan ramai ialah peruntukan belanjawan untuk bahagian pendidikan.
Sebanyak RM1.2 bilion telah diperuntukkan bagi pendidikan prasekolah. Dan projek kesayangan Rosmah Mansor, Program Permata Negara, telah diperuntukan RM111 juta.
Apakah keistemewaannya yang dimilikki oleh isteri Perdana Menteri Najib Tun Razak, Rosmah, yang membolehkan Rosmah berhak RM111 juta? Apakah pencapaian program Permata Negara ini?
Apa program Permata lakukan bagi membolehkannya memperolehi wang pembayar cukai sebanyak RM2 bilion setakat ini.
Ia adalah titik hitam dalam bajet Najib. Dan tiada siapa tahu bagaimana wang itu telah digunakan.
Adakah projek Rosmah ini memerlukan wang pembayar cukai yang sedemikian besar amaunnya, memandangkan bahawa kebanyakan daripada pra sekolah adalah percuma atau dimilikki secara persendirian?-FMT
Where are the funds for 800,000 SAR students...
About 1,000 students and activists from independent Islamic schools (SAR) demonstrated in front of the Parliament building today demanding the allocation of funds for these schools in the 2013 Budget.
According
to spokesperson Zainal Abidin Kidam, this is because some 800,000
students are now studying in such schools that have sub-par facilities
despite parents forking out up to RM600 a month. “This involves more than a million parents, who choose to send their children to Islamic schools. Islam is the official religion of the federation, and education is the responsibility of the federal government.
“It is the right of the individual to receive Islamic education,” he said.
Zainal, who represents Majlis Permuafakatan Pendidikan Islam Selangor, said about 30,000 students sit for the Islamic stream Standard 6 examinations every year.
'This is not how they should be treated'
"Of these, 6,000 gain distinction, out of whom only 3,000 are catered by the government-aided Islamic schools (SABK). The rest are privately funded," he said.
"Those who go to Islamic schools are not marginal students, they are good students from good families. Islamic schools should be mainstreamed."
Funding
for such schools should also be included in the budget proper and not
be in the form of one-off aid and other forms off-budget spending. "This is not the way to treat Islamic schools," Zainal said, adding that these schools were registered with their respective state religious councils.
He also ticked off the federal government for pawning off the responsibility for Islamic schools to the state governments, which have much smaller budgets.
"Kelantan spends RM70 million to fund Islamic schools, Kedah RM50 million and Selangor RM250 million. On top of that Selangor allocates about RM6 million for independent Islamic schools," Zainal said.
He was speaking on behalf of about 100 NGOs from across the nation that support the cause.
Also present was Selangor executive councilor in charge of education Halimah Ali and DAP's Pandamaran assemblyperson Ronnie Liu.
Ministry: Register as SABK to get funding
Asked about this later, Deputy Education Minister Puad Zarkashi said that religious schools that seek funding should register with the Education Ministry.
"If
you want, register (as government-assisted religious schools, SABK). In
the budget there are allocations for the SABK," Puad (right) said. He said even teachers themselves preferred to register SARs to enjoy a higher pay scale and benefits, such as continuous education.
"It is the government boards, the mudir, that do not want to register. They are usually the school's founding families, for they see the mudir as losing control (over the schools)," Puad said.
In Johor, he added, 156 out of 382 schools have registered as SABK.- malaysiakini
BUT.....
RM111m ‘for’ Rosmah’s Permata...
An interesting area that has raised many an eyebrow and has set Malaysian tongues wagging is the budget allocation for the education section.Note a whopping RM1.2 billion has been allocated for pre-school education. And of this Rosmah Mansor’s pet project, Permata Negara Programme, has been allocated RM111 million.
Now, what has Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak’s wife, Rosmah, done to deserve RM111 million? Or, for that matter, what has Permata Negara programme done and achieved?
What Permata has done is to suck up taxpayers’ money to the tune of RM2 billion thus far.
It’s the black hole in Najib’s budget. And nobody knows how the money was or is being used.
Does Rosmah’s project require such huge taxpayers’ money considering that most of the pre-schools are fee-based and privately-owned? - FMT
Siapa dan golongan manakah yang mendapat faedah daripada program PERMATA dan ramai mana...
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