Hakim kanan dalam kes transgender tidak dapat naik pangkat...
Datuk Mohd Hishamudin Mohd Yunus(atas), hakim Mahkamah Rayuan yang membuat keputusan dalam kes membabitkan transgender dan memutuskan mereka dilindungi Perlembagaan, tidak dinaikkan pangkat dalam siri kenaikan kehakiman terbaru.
Hishamudin, yang akan bersara pada September, merupakan hakim paling kanan terlepas pelaksanaan kenaikan itu yang menyaksikan 4 hakim dinaikkan pangkat hari ini.
Seorang lagi hakim Mahkamah Rayuan, Datuk Zaharah Ibrahim, dinaikkan ke Mahkamah Persekutuan.
Hakim Mahkamah Tinggi Datuk Zamani A Rahim, bekas pengamal undang-undang, dinaikkan ke Mahkamah Rayuan.
Sementara Pesuruhjaya Kehakiman Vazeer Alam Mydin Meera dan Datuk Douglas Primus Sikayun disahkan sebagai hakim Mahkamah Tinggi.
Keempat-empat hakim itu menerima surat pelantikan masing-masing daripada Yang di-Pertuan Agong di Istana Negara, hari ini.
Persaraan Hishamudin tahun ini menipiskan lagi peluang untuknya mendaki tangga kehakiman, dan ada lebih banyak kekosongan di Mahkamah Persekutuan.
Beliau sangat diingati kerana menyampaikan penghakiman yang menjadi penanda aras pada November tahun lalu apabila beliau mengetuai panel tiga hakim mengisytiharkan peruntukan dalam enakmen agama Negeri Sembilan tidak mengikut Perlembagaan yang menghukum lelaki Islam berpakaian wanita.
Hishamudin dalam keputusan itu berkata lelaki transgender Islam ada hak untuk berpakaian wanita dan pihak berkuasa agama negeri gagal membuktikan kedudukan Islam mengenai bagaimana mereka yang menghidapi masalah kecelaruan identiti gender patut berpakaian.
Katanya, tiga umat Islam dalam kes itu bukan “lelaki normal” kerana mereka menghidapi penyakit kecelaruan itu, yang disahkan menerusi ujian psikiatri dan psikologi.
Pihak berkuasa agama tidak mencabar bukti perubatan itu, kata mahkamah rayuan itu dalam penghakiman bertulisnya.
Kerajaan Negeri Sembilan diberikan tempoh oleh Mahkamah Persekutuan untuk mencabar keputusan Mahkamah Rayuan itu. – tmi
Perjuangan Anwar tidak ada titik noktanya...
Gadis belasan tahun yang bernama Malala pernah menyatakan, ‘you can shoot my body but not my dream’. Beliau merupakan manusia bertuah dar Pakistan yang sudah ‘mati’ dan hidup semula.
Beliau telah ditembak dari jarak dekat dari sekpumpulan pelampau agama yang menentang pendidikan dikalangan anak perempuan.
Dengan izin Allah beliau telah dapat diselamatkan oleh para doktor dari Birmingham apabilau beliau dibawa ke sana. Dan ketika ditemuramah oleh Christiana Amanpour beliau telah melafazkan kata-kata hikmat itu.
Dan mungkin begitu jugalah perjuangan Saudara Anwar Ibrahim yang tidak akan berjumpa dengan titik noktahnya selagai hayat dikandung badan. Perjuangannya adalah ibarat seperti dian yang tidak kunjung padam yang akan sentiasa menerangi alam perjuangan rakyat untuk menuntut keadilan di bumi bertuah ini.
Walaupun jasadnya dipenjarakan, namun idealisme yang diperjuangkannya akan terus menjalar dan meresapi sanubari rakyat yang mahu meneruskan perjuangan beliau yang belum selesai.
Slogan ‘ the consciense of the majority’ yang masih terngiang-ngiang di telinga para mahasiswa University Malaya tahun 1970an akan terus berkumandang untuk memantak telinga para anak muda awal Kurun ke 21, walaupun Anwar Ibrahim terpenjara. Idealisme perjuangannya akan terus menyala seperti menyalanya matahari pagi yang menerangi alam Malaysia ini.
Sebagai pemimpin rakyat yang sentiasa memperjuangkan keadilan pastinya penjara adalah merupakan ‘mainan’nya. Kajilah sejarah perjuangan pemimpin-pemimpin agung dunia pasti akan terjumpa persamaan antara perjuangan mereka dengan yang dilalui oleh Anwar Ibrahim.
Tentulah tidak lengkap rencana ini sekiranya tidak disebutkan nama-nama pemimpin agung seperti Nelson Mandela dan Mahatma Gandhi. Tentulah tidak perlu diulang-ulang tentang kisah Mandela yang merengkok selama 27 tahun dalam penjara di Afrika Selatan tetapi akhirnya muncul juga untuk menerajui kepimpinan Afrika Selatan. Dan tentulah tidak perlu diulang-ulang kisah perjuangan Mahatma Gandhi menegakkan keadilan dan menentang penjajah British di India.
Titik noktah perjuangan mereka adalah ditentukan oleh Tuhan atau mereka sendiri yang menentukan. Tuhan menentukan nasib Mahatma Gandihi apabila beliau ditembak mati. Dan nasib Mandela ditentukan oleh beliau snediri apabila berhasrat mengundurkan diri dari memimpin Afrika Selatan.
Kita tidak tahu untung nasib Aung San Syuki tetapi kita yakin bahawa Anwar Ibrahim akan terus berada dipersada perjuangan menegakkan keadilan selagi hayat dikandung badan. Itu semacam merupakan ‘sumpah’nya.
Ucapan ‘perpisahan’ Saudara Anwar kepada para hakim yang mengadilinya membayangkan bahawa api perjuangan tidak akan kunjung padam. Antara is ucapan yang menarik ialah apabila beliau menyatakan bahawa,
“Going to jail, I consider a sacrifice I make for the people of this country. I have fought most of my life on behalf of the people of this country - for the people I am willing to go to jail or face any other consequence.My struggle will continue, wherever I am sent and whatever is done to me.To my friends and fellow Malaysians let me thank you from the bottom of my heart for all the support you have given me. And Allah is my witness. I pledge and I will not be silenced, I will fight on for freedom and justice and I will never surrender!
Dan nampaknya rakyat juga telah menyambut seruan Anwar ini dengan perasaan perjuangan yang terus membara. Dan pastinya rakyat juga tidak ‘terjumpa’ lagi titik noktah perjuangan yang sedang belum selesai itu. Nampaknya rakyat terus menerus melafazkan kata-kata keramat yang sudah ‘terpahat ‘ di hati pejuang rakyat ia itu, Lawan tetap lawan’.- abuhassanadam
Post-Nik Aziz, comes the twilight of icon politics...
Karpal and Nik Aziz were two visionary leaders whose strong ideologies shook those in power from BN and amassed huge followings for both DAP and PAS respectively. The two men did not see eye-to-eye of course, when it came to DAP’s secular state ambitions and PAS’ Islamic state ambitions.
Nevertheless, they retained great respect for each other’s persistence, and they had more in common than they would have cared to admit. Then in 2008, one man got the two men to meet eye-to-eye and finally, they agreed to focus on their commonalities rather than differences.
That man was Anwar Ibrahim. And Pakatan Rakyat, in its current form, was born. Anwar today is behind bars at the Sungai Buloh prison and is likely to remain there for at least another three years of his five-year sentence following a sodomy conviction.
An
entire generation of iconic opposition leaders are now no longer
leading the charge, bar a couple of individuals such as DAP supremo Lim
Kit Siang and PAS president Abdul Hadi Awang (left), although the latter no longer seems focused on the strength of Pakatan Rakyat.The contributions of these men to the opposition movement can never be overstated.
In a country so accustomed to having a single party run the affairs of the whole nation while controlling every facet of information, these leaders preserved in political parties and ideologies that initially held very little clout among the general electorate - before finally inspiring their coalition to win the popular votes in the GE13.
Having denied the two-thirds majority for BN twice in a row, they had successfully established a two-party system and a check-and-balance in the country, though BN - still in denial - refuses to acknowledge the extra space it must give to a credible opposition.
Political giants
They won five states in 2008, and three in 2013. The clamour for change is no longer in street slogans alone, but now they have the opportunity to demonstrate their abilities in states being governed by Pakatan.
These were political giants who pulled in crowds by just having their names mentioned. People intently waited to listen to what Anwar Ibrahim, Karpal Singh or Nik Aziz had to say. They looked up to these men, as icons and leaders, as the men who set the direction in this bid to install change in the country.
But now that these men will no longer take the centre stages, Pakatan Rakyat, and the masses who had been looking up at these men, must now look at themselves.
Of course, they could also crumble without these giants pulling the strings. But for the movement to sustain, the whole approach of politics will now need to change - a movement must become more collective than it was before.
“In DAP, we have different people with different strengths in various areas. No one is great on their own; but together, we can make a great team.
"We
have someone who’s good when it comes to finance issues, someone who is
good for legal issues, and so forth,” DAP’s Liew Chin Tong (right), a political scientist, said.And he admitted that it is now dusk for icon politics.
DAP and PKR had often prided themselves in having prepared a second and third tier of capable leaders across the board, especially with DAP currently being largely represented by youths in their 20s and 30s.
PAS, however, does seem to have a genuine problem in preparing young professional leaders, as they struggle to come to terms with their own direction as a party - whether they want to champion their own causes of hudud and an Islamic state, or whether they want to do it within the Pakatan framework.
Differences had threatened to break Pakatan apart in the months preceding Anwar’s incarceration. Yet they are still alive, albeit in a state of complete inertia.
Even the likes of Anwar and Nik Aziz were unable, in recent times, to get the coalition partners to iron out issues within the confines of a meeting room instead of liberally issuing statements attacking each other through the media.
Is is now time for the second and third tier of these parties to step up and work collectively to keep the movement going. Anwar’s incarceration could be a reminder for Pakatan about their common enemy - and a reminder of their commonalities.
'Pakatan's new lease of life'
“In a way, Anwar’s incarceration has given a new lease of life to Pakatan. We need to use this opportunity to band together stronger than before, because we have a common enemy.
"But can Pakatan step up to the challenge, seize the moment and provide hope for the nation?” DAP’s Klang MP Charles Santiago (left) asked.Pakatan now needs to go beyond these icons and allow the next generation of leaders to set the course - not individually, but collectively.
Iconic personalities might not be there at the forefront leading the charge anymore, but the landscape has changed enough to have not one leader of the force, but several leaders forming the first line.
This is also a reminder for Malaysians - they can no longer look up. The icons will remain icons, but what’s left now is the path and the ample space they had opened and left for the younger generations of Malaysians.
Many have celebrated these icons and even revered them. But instead of being followers expecting their leaders to show the way, Malaysians need to start looking at themselves to collectively charter the path they want the country to go in.
Now, the movement for change must truly take a life of its own, beyond Anwar Ibrahim, and beyond even Pakatan Rakyat for that matter.
For that to happen, Malaysians - be it young politicians or the activist on the street - must stop looking for leaders to follow, and instead find comrades who share their ideologies. The people must take ownership of this movement.
The era of looking up the dais is coming to a close; now is the time to look in the mirror. If people fail beyond this moment, the blame rests squarely at our own feet.
Would we be able to think past our own preoccupations and daily complaints, and think about the betterment of a nation together? - mk
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