Jangan guna Akta Hasutan untuk survival UMNO, pesan Pak Lah...
Melalui blog miliknya, www.paklah.net hari ini, Abdullah, atau lebih dikenali sebagai Pak Lah berkata, survival parti itu Melayu bergantung kepada sokongan rakyat dan tanpanya, Umno tidak akan terus memimpin negara.
"Tetapi dalam keghairahan kita menyambut baik pengekalan Akta Hasutan, saya ingin mengingatkan ahli Umno yang Akta Hasutan bukanlah alat untuk diguna mengekalkan kekuasaan Umno.
"Kekuasaan dan kekuatan Umno datangnya daripada sokongan rakyat, ingatlah, jika rakyat sudah tidak menyokong kita, tiada rang undang-undang di bumi Allah ini yang akan menyelamatkan Umno daripada kehilangan kuasa," katanya.
Presiden Umno Datuk Seri Najib Razak ketika ucapan dasarnya sempena Perhimpunan Agung Umno ke-65 di Pusat Dagangan Dunia Putra (PWTC) di Kuala Lumpur hari ini berkata akta itu akan terus dikekalkan.
Malah, akta kontroversi itu juga akan diperkukuh dengan menambah peruntukan khas untuk melindungi kesucian agama Islam dan agama lain serta mengambil tindakan terhadap sesiapa yang menuntut pemisahan Sabah dan Sarawak dari Malaysia.
"Sebagai perdana menteri, saya memutuskan Akta Hasutan akan terus dikekalkan, malah akta ini akan dipertahan dan diperkukuhkan," katanya.
"Akta ini akan dikuatkuasakan secara adil supaya kita benar-benar mewujudkan Malaysia yang lebih aman, stabil dan harmoni," katanya.
Najib berkata, Akta Hasutan terus dikekalkan selepas dipertimbangkan dan mendapat nasihat semua pihak walaupun beliau pernah berjanji untuk memansuhkan akta warisan penjajah British tersebut.
"Setelah saya dengar pandangan pemuda dan puteri, akar umbi dan NGO, saya mengumumkan Akta Hasutan akan terus dikekalkan," katanya.
Najib pada 11 Julai 2012 dilaporkan berkata Akta Hasutan 1948 akan dimansuhkan dan diganti dengan Akta Keharmonian Nasional sebagai sebahagian daripada program transformasi kerajaan.
"Saya tertarik dengan dasar Najib pada Perhimpunan Agung Umno tahun ini.
"Selain memperingati ahli-ahli Umno akan sejarah perjuangan Umno dan juga pentingnya semangat solidariti, beliau juga sangat perihatin dengan keresahan kerisauan dan juga keinginan orang Melayu amnya dan ahli Umno khususnya," kata Abdullah.
"Keperihatinan ini terserlah bila beliau mengumumkan pengekalan Akta Hasutan yang disambut dengan ghairah oleh ahli ahli Umno yang berada di dalam dan luar dewan PWTC."
Abdullah berkata, beliau juga turut menyokong pengekalan atau penggubalan mana rang undang-undang yang menjaga keharmonian negara, menegakkan Perlembagaan, dan menentukan perjanjian kontrak sosial yang dimeterai ditepati.
"Dan saya menyokong rang undang-undang yang menentukan Persekutuan Malaysia tidak dihancurkan oleh mereka yang tidak bertanggungjawab.
"Ini semua saya sokong," katanya yang memimpin Malaysia dari 2003 hingga 2009 itu. – tmi
Najib kekal Akta Hasutan, kita tetap lawan - Mohd Sabu
UMNO can’t use Sedition Act to stay in power, warns Pak Lah...
Writing in his blog soon after his successor Datuk Seri Najib Razak announced a U-turn on his promise to repeal the act, Abdullah reminded Umno members that the party could only stay in power with the people's support.
"In our enthusiasm to retain the Sedition Act, I remind Umno members that the act is not to be used to keep Umno in power.
"Umno's power and strength comes from the people's support. Remember, if the people no longer support us, there is no law on God's earth that can save Umno from losing power," Abdullah said.
The former prime minister, however, agreed with the decision to retain the colonial-era law.
He also noted the enthusiasm with which Umno delegates had shown when Najib said the act would remain in his policy speech earlier today.
"I support the decision to retain or amend any laws that protect national harmony, that uphold our constitution, that affirm the social contract forged by our forefathers.
"And that ensures that the federation of Malaysia is not destroyed by irresponsible people. All this, I support," he said before stating his caution.
At the Umno general assembly, Najib had said the Sedition Act would not only be retained, but strengthened with amendments to protect the sanctity of Islam, curb insults against other religions and to punish anyone who called for the secession of Sabah and Sarawak from Malaysia.
Najib said he decided this after considering feedback from Umno deputy president Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin, Wanita Umno, Pemuda Umno, Puteri Umno, the grassroots, as well as non-governmental organisations.
"Hence I, as the prime minister, decided that the Sedition Act 1948 will remain," he said, amid roars of approval from the delegates gathered at the Putra World Trade Centre in Kuala Lumpur.
He said this was Umno's wish, adding that he believed their friends in Barisan Nasional (BN) would be with them.
Gerakan president Datuk Mah Siew Keong, however, issued a nuanced protest in a statement this afternoon, noting public dissatisfaction over the abuse of the act against academics and public intellectuals.
"Gerakan's fervent hope is that the Sedition Act will eventually be replaced with a comprehensive National Harmony Act. The new framework must include a set of punitive and positive measures to ensure societal stability but at the same time promotes national unity and harmony," he said.
Noting the "long struggle" of 20 years to repeal the Internal Security Act, Mah said he believed a repeal of the Sedition Act would be done "when all parties are ready and open minded".
"In line with the growing tide of democratisation, I believe this will eventually happen.
"In the meantime, I urge the authorities to act without fear and favour and do not abuse the Sedition Act to silence legitimate political dissent."
Mah noted that the failure to charge Perkasa president Datuk Ibrahim Ali over the call to burn the Malay language Bibles had fuelled perceptions that the act has not been used in a fair and just manner.- tmi
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