PDRM - Contohi polis Australia bertindak cepat...

Ahli Parlimen Sepang Mohamed Hanipa Maidin menggesa polis Malaysia segera bertindak menyiasat dakwaan sogokan dalam kontroversi pembelian hartanah di Australia yang melibatkan Majlis Amanah Rakyat (Mara).

Hanipa, yang juga seorang peguam, berkata ini kerana rakan sejawat mereka di Australia sudah melakukan beberapa serbuan sejak liputan kes itu mula tersiar.

"Hari ini dilaporkan polis di sana sudah membuat serbuan.

"Diharap polis di sini perlu bertindak cepat. Jangan setakat kita serahkan kepada Suruhanjaya Pencegahan Rasuah Malaysia (SPRM) sahaja.

"Kita harap polis akan menyiasat kes ini secara keseluruhan," katanya selepas mengiringi bekas Ahli Jawatankuasa PAS Pusat, Dr Dzulkefly Ahmad membuat laporan polis berkenaan kontroversi itu, pagi ini.

Sydney Morning Herald (SMH) melaporkan pihak berkuasa Australia melancarkan beberapa serbuan di Melbourne susulan laporan kontroversi itu oleh akhbar The Age.

Polis Persekutuan Australia turut merampas beberapa komputer dan fail di sebuah rumah di Vermont South pagi ini, dan banyak lagi serbuan dijangka dibuat dalam operasi yang diberi nama Operasi Carambala itu.

Sementara itu, Dzulkefly dalam laporannya menggesa polis menyiasat pembelian hartanah di Australia yang dilakukan Mara.

Dalam laporannya, beliau percaya terdapat unsur jenayah seperti salah guna kuasa, pecah amanah, rasuah dan penipuan dalam uus niaga itu.

"Saya menggesa polis menyiasat secara terperinci dan mendalam berkenaan perkara di atas supaya mana-mana pelaku jenayah berkaitan isu pembelian hartanah di Melbourne itu dapat dibawa ke muka pengadilan," laporan Dzulkefly dipetik.

Kelmarin, akhbar The Age Australia mendedahkan Mara membeli sebuah pangsapuri pada harga RM65.2 juta walaupun harga sebenarnya hanya RM51.5 juta.

Lebihan pembayaran itu didakwa disalurkan kepada seorang pegawai atasan Mara, pegawai kanan dan bekas ahli politik.

Pemaju di Australia pula didakwa mengeluarkan invois palsu dengan butiran "perkhidmatan jururunding dan nasihat" daripada firma Malaysia. – tmi

 Balun Duit MARA - Polis Australia Lancar Serbuan...

Polis Persekutuan Australia hari ini melancarkan beberapa serbuan di bandaraya Melbourne ekoran penyiasatan ke atas pembelian sebuah hartanah di Australia yang didakwa melibatkan seorang pegawai tinggi Majlis Amanah Rakyat (MARA), seorang pegawai kanan dan seorang bekas ahli politik Malaysia.

Menurut laporan The Age, pihak polis telah merampas beberapa komputer dan fail dari sebuah rumah di Vermont South dan beberapa hartanah lagi telah disasarkan untuk serbuan lain.

Operasi yang dinamakan Carambola itu, dilancarkan susulan penyiasatan oleh Fairfax Media mengenai satu skim penipuan hartanah yang didakwa membabitkan berjuta-juta dolar Australia.

Laporan itu berkata ini adalah kali pertama pihak polis melancarkan operasi besar-besaran seumpama ini.

Siasatan itu turut mendapat perhatian di negara ini apabila laporan The Age sebelum ini mendakwa ia turut membabitkan beberapoa individu dari Malaysia termasuk mengaitkannya dengan pembelian hartanah oleh anak syarikat Majlis Amanah Rakyat (Mara).

Semalam, Perdana Menteri Datuk Seri Najib Razak berkata siasatan akan dilakukan terhadap laporan terbabit dan berkata sekiranya ada pihak yang didapati menipu atau cuba memperdaya ahli-ahli mesyuarat Majlis Ekonomi dengan butiran yang tidak tepat atau lengkap, tindakan undang-undang akan diambil terhadap mereka yang bertanggungjawab.

Pengerusi MARA Tan Sri Annuar Musa dalam sidang akhbarnya pada Rabu pula berkata pembelian hartanah Dudley International House di Melbourne oleh anak syarikatnya, Mara Incorporated Sdn Bhd (Mara Inc) mematuhi tatacara perolehan yang di tetapkan mengikut garis  panduan yang dikeluarkan oleh Kementerian Kewangan.

Annuar berkata  Mara Inc  juga telah mula disiasat oleh unit audit Mara dan Suruhanjaya Pencegahan Rasuah Malaysia (SPRM) sejak dua bulan lepas.

Beliau turut memberikan masa tujuh hari untuk Mara Inc mengemukakan ulasan bertulis mengenai perkara itu   dan dalam masa 14 hari lagi, sebuah mesyuarat khas Mara akan diadakan untuk membincangkan perkara itu.

Akhbar Australia The Age sebelum ini melaporkan seorang pegawai tinggi MARA, seorang pegawai kanan dan seorang bekas ahli politik didakwa membelanjakan jutaan ringgit dana kerajaan untuk membeli satu blok apartmen di Melbourne dalam penipuan hartanah.

Akhbar itu mendakwa "sekumpulan pegawai Malaysia yang amat kaya" terlebih bayar sebanyak A$4.75 juta (RM13.8 juta) bagi blok apartmen di bandaraya itu pada 2013.

Ketiga-tiga pegawai itu didakwa "membida lebih tinggi" bagi Dudley International House, daripada A$17.8 juta kepada A$22.5 juta (RM65.3 juta), dengan wang perbezaan itu dijadikan sebagai rasuah.

 Australian cops conduct raids over Mara scandal...

The Australian federal police is reported to be conducting raids in Melbourne over alleged property purchases linked to Malaysian politicians.
Australian-based daily The Age today reported authorities raided a home in Vermont South, Melbourne this morning and seized computers and files to aid in their investigation.

In addition, the report said several other properties are similarly targeted by police across the city.

The raid is part of their Operation Carambola to investigate a scheme allegedly “involving Malaysians using multimillion-dollar Australian properties to launder funds and return ‘kickbacks’ to Asia,” read the report.

The scheme allegedly involves Mara, and has elicited calls for its chairperson Annuar Musa (photo) to be sacked.   

According to The Age there is significant political interest in Australia over alleged corruption links in foreign property purchases in the country, but the raid is the first time the police had launched a full-blow operation.

The raid followed Australian media reports two days earlier claiming that Mara had purchased student flats in Caulfield, Melbourne, in 2013 at an inflated price of A$22.5 million (RM65 million), up from the market price of A$17.8 million (RM51.5 million).

The excess A$4.75 million (RM13.7 million) was then laundered out of Australia and was allegedly paid as bribes in Malaysia.

"The Malaysian firms that received the alleged kickbacks are closely linked to a senior figure at the Malaysian government investment agency, Mara.

"Another figure involved is a senior Malaysian official and former politician with close links to a Malaysian cabinet minister," said The Age in its earlier article.

Following the report, Mara chairperson Annuar Musa said he has no knowledge of any kickbacks or that the property was purchased at an inflated price.

As for the chairperson of Mara’s subsidiary Mara Inc, Mohammad Lan Allani who was implicated in the deal, Annuar said his fate will be decided soon.

"That will be decided by the Mara management soon.

"Mara Inc has seven days to write us a report and in two weeks, the Mara council will convene for a special meeting," Annuar told a press conference yesterday. - mk

Abdul Hadi jilat kahaknya yang terludah atas emas...

Semalam Abdul Hadi Awang, Presiden Pas yang baru diberi mandat secara "seraga ayam" telah membuat satu kenyataan ringkas lima perenggan yang memberi arahan kepada Pesuruhjaya PAS Selangor (tak ingat nama), agar mengarahkan semua Adun PAS di negeri itu memberi sokongan kepada Mohamed Azmin Ali sebagai Menteri Besar untuk membolehkan Azmin terus memimpin kerajaan Selangor.

Menurut Abdul Hadi, arahan itu dibuat sebagai untuk mempertahankan kerajaan Selangor yang dibina atas rangka kepercayaan rakyat.

"Ingin saya pertegaskan bahawa, kerjasama PAS dengan komponen dalam PR di Selangor adalah dalam kerangka untuk mempertahankan kerajaan yang dibina bersama melalui kepercayaan rakyat," demikian tegasnya.

Beliau juga menjelaskan arahan itu dibuat setelah menyedari bahawa iklim kerjasama yang dibina dalam Pakatan Rakyat ketika ini dalam keadaan mencabar dan berdepan dengan perbezaan prinsip dimana ianya perlu diselesaikan dengan adil.

Menurutnya, bagi PAS maufakat asal yang dibina adalah kebersamaan dalam perkara yang dipersetujui dan menjadi kepentingan bersama, manakala dalam masa yang sama mengikhtiraf kewujudan perbezaan pandangan dan prinsip perjuangan parti masing-masing dalam kalangan parti Pakatan Rakyat (PR).

Apa yang dimaksudkan Abdul Hadi keadaan mencabar itu apabila DAP telah mengumumkan Pakatan Rakyat telah mati, manakala beliau pula menganggap ia masih hidup. Justeru arahan itu bagi memulihkan keadaan dan mengukuhkan kerajaan Pakatan di Selangor.

Beliau juga menarik perhatian, kerjasama dalam PR adalah sebagaimana yang dinyatakan dalam ucapan dasarnya sempena muktamar tahunan PAS yang baharu sahaja berlangsung, yang menegaskan bahawa; “PAS akan terus dan tetap melaksanakan tahaluf siyasi bersama Pakatan Rakyat, selagi mana ianya tidak bercanggah dengan panduan al-Quran dan as-Sunnah.

Mendengar kenyataan dan sikap terbaru Abdul Hadi itu mungkin bukan sahaja saya yang bingung dan menggeleng-geleng kepala dengan telatahnya tetapi orang lain juga, termasuk para Adun PAS di Selangor. Boleh juga jadi Barak Obama dan Jokawi juga turut pening.

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 PKR main selamat selepas penceraian DAP-PAS...

Mendengar  kata-kata pemimpin de facto Anwar Ibrahim yang berada dalam penjara supaya gabungan pembangkang bangkit seperti phoenix daripada abu, PKR kini sedang dalam usaha membuat pakatan baru dengan pihak yang berkongsi matlamat bersama menjatuhkan Barisan Nasional.

Naib presiden PKR Tian Chua memberitahu Semut Harian yang parti itu mengekalkan pendirian “semua hubungan rapat”, sehingga keputusan akhir di capai di antara DAP dan PAS tentang kerjasama di masa hadapan.

“DAP telah menerima fakta yang ia telah mengeluarkan kenyataan terburu-buru,” kata MP Batu itu, merujuk kepada keputusan terbaru parti untuk memutuskan ikatan dengan PAS dan mengumumkan ‘kematian’ Pakatan Rakyat.

Setiausaha agung DAP Lim Guan Eng  berkata yang parti itu hanya mengikut keputusan yang telah dibuat oleh PAS sebelum ini yang dilakukan  semasa penggulungan muktamar, walaupun kepimpinan pusat PAS yang kini didominasi golongan ulama kemudiannya menekankan yang keputusan masih belum disahkan oleh Majlis Syura dan jawatankuasa kerja pusat.

MP Batu itu antara pemimpin PKR yang menghadiri majlis berbuka puasa yang dianjurkan oleh MP Tumpat Kamaruddin Jaafar di rumahnya pada 23 Jun, bersama beberapa orang pemimpin DAP dan sekumpulan pemimpin progresif PAS yang dikenali sebagai G18.

MP Seputeh Teresa Kok kemudiannya berkongsi gambar perjumpaan tersebut dan ia mencetuskan khabar angin bahawa perbincangan lanjut sedang berlaku untuk pembentukan pakatan Pembangkang baru untuk menggantikan Pakatan.

Dalam catatan Facebooknya, Kok berkata yang pertemuan itu “memberikan harapan” kepada pembentukan Pakatan 2.0.

“Inilah kali pertama saya menyaksikan PAS yang progresif bersatu padu,” katanya.

G18 ialah kelompok pemimpin PAS yang semuanya ditewaskan dalam penentangan berdepan dengan  kelompok konservatif dalam pemilihan parti baru-baru ini dan sudah wujud cakap-cakap yang mereka sedang dalam proses menubuhkan parti baru, yang akan diumumkan tidak lama lagi selepas sambutan Aidilfitri.

Presiden NGO yang mempunyai kaitan dengan PAS Persatuan Ummah Sejahtera Malaysia (PasMa)  Phahrolrazi Zawawi juga baru-baru ini berkata yang ahli-ahlinya akan bergabung tenaga dengan pemimpin-pemimpin G18 untuk menubuhkan parti baru.

Apabila ditanya adakah PKR akan terpaksa memilih untuk bekerjasama dengan PAS atau mana-mana parti baru yang akan ditubuhkan, Tian Chua bagaimanapun berkata: “Jangan buat spekulasi. Tidak bagus buat begitu. Jangan masuk campur urusan orang lain.”

“Setakat yang kita (PKR) tahu, kita mahu bekerja dengan sesiapa sahaja yang menentang BN,” tekannya.

 

Antara pemimpin golongan progresif yang menghadiri majlis berbuka puasa itu ialah bekas timbalan presiden Mohamad Sabu, bekas naib presiden Salahuddin Ayub, bekas ahli jawatankuasa kerja pusat Mujahid Yusof Rawa, bekas pengarah pemilihan parti Dr Hatta Ramli dan bekas ketua pemuda Suhaizan Kaiat.

Kepimpinan PAS kini yang didominasi golongan ulama di bawah teraju presiden Abdul Hadi Awang dikatakan lebih terbuka kepada cadangan pembentukan kerajaan bersatu Melayu-Islam dengan Umno, tindakan yang ditolak oleh pemimpin kelompok progresif yang juga merupakan pro-Pakatan Rakyat.

Dengan kehancuran Pakatan Rakyat dan tambahan pula kedua-dua DAP dan PAS kelihatan  telah bersetuju untuk terus bekerjasama dengan PKR- nampaknya parti itu mempunyai kelebihan untuk menentukan masa depan pakatan Pembangkang Malaysia.

Ini meletakkan PKR dalam kedudukan penting untuk menentukan parti mana akan terus kekal dan parti mana akan disingkirkan, memandangkan PAS dan DAP nampaknya sudah tidak boleh berkerjasama lagi.

PAS juga nampaknya sukar untuk bekerjasama dengan PKR jika parti itu memilih untuk menerima serpihan PAS sebagai rakan pakatan.

Mungkin memikirkan perkara ini PKR dengan berhati-hati telah berkata yang ia terbuka untuk berkerjasama rapat dengan pihak lain selain parti politik sedia ada bagi membentuk masa depan baru.

Dalam kenyataannya yang menerima kehancuran Pakatan, presiden PKR Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail berkata yang parti itu akan mencari rakan strategik baru terdiri daripada parti politik, kumpulan masyarakat sivil dan pemimpin yang berpengaruh.

Walaupun PKR masih menahan diri daripada melakukan keputusan sukar untuk memilih, semakin menarik untuk terus diberikan perhatian kepada tindakannya dalam masa terdekat , jika semua usaha untuk mengekalkan Pakatan gagal.- Alyaa Alhadjri,theantdaily

With the arrest of Xavier "Najib and all involved in the 1MDB are now vindicated." Vindicated of what...

There is a ripple of excitement in Najib's camp at the arrest in Ko Samai on Monday of Xavier Andre Justo  - that  former official of PetroSaudi International Ltd. Xavier has been charged with attempting to blackmail and extort PetroSaudi International Ltd.

And (I almost forgot) ...Xavier is also said to be involved in an attempt to discredit the Malaysian Prime Minister, Najib Razak! 

And so, "they" told us,  with the arrest of Xavier "The PM and all involved in the 1MDB are now vindicated."

Vindicated of what? Vindicated of playing with himself?

Is Najib now vindicated of not being involved in her murder when the two UTK operatives were convicted of murdering Altantuya?

Is Najib vindicated of not persecuting Anwar Ibrahim for his political advantage when Anwar was convicted of Sodomy Two?

What about Rosmah's use of the Government Jet for her trip to Dubai? In the eyes of the Rakya was Najib vindicated of any abuse in using the Jet for his wife  when it was revealed that it was the joint decision of the Malaysian Cabinet that she should do so?

And we are told that Najib and Rosmah did NOT spend millions on their daughter's wedding nor were they paying for the subsequent trip to Kazakstan by many many guests as the groom was generous enough to foot the bill. Again in the eyes of the public, was Najib vindicated of the accusation that he was irresponsible in holding such a hideously over the top extravagant wedding for his daughter when the country and its people are in dire economic straits?

What about when he did not turn up for that "Nothing to Hide" forum because he said the IGP advised him against doing so as there was a credible threat to our national security? Has Najib been vindicated for doing the right thing or has he instead been vilified for being a coward?

Now let us go back to the arrest of Xavier. We are told :

All detractors who made their baseless and vile accusations against the PM and 1MDB must now retract their statements and apologise for not verifying the information they sourced from Sarawak Report.

According to the NST, “some of the emails and documents published on the blog were found to be tampered with, bringing into question the veracity of these allegations.”
The amount of damage on the prestige, reputation, and international standing of our country, our Prime Minister, our economy, and all individuals/organizations accused in this bizarre plot is colossal.

Action should be taken against all individuals, news agencies, writers who have done irreparable damage because of their footloose and irresponsible accusations.

As any citizen is ready to assume that anything on the Internet is truth shows the shallow mentality and the complete absence of thinking skills.

That writers can churn out article after article, slamming the government without checking on the veracity of the purported documents in the Sarawak Report is a disgrace to the media world.

It does not take much effort to check the forensics of those documents or to verify the information via a simple phone call.

It does not take much effort to check the forensics of these documents or to verify the information via a simple phone call?  
A simple phone call to whom?

To Najib or to the CEO of 1MDB.

If the CEO of 1MDB will not front up for PAC do you think he will entertain a phone call from me? Why me? Because I am also one of those who have hantam Najib over 1MDB. And I do so not because I know the full facts about 1MDB - we will not know the whole truth until history tells us so - but I hantam Najib on 1MDB because of his past record - as itemized above and by no means are these the only reasons I have gone hammer and thongs at Najib.

There is FGV, Permata, Saiful and a host of other instances when all he has done is to lie to us through his teeth and then went on to do what he wants to do for personal gain and profit of his sahabat and cronies.

The arrest of Xavier is just that : an arrest!

Let an open court decide the veracity of the charges laid against him - including being part of a plot to discredit the Prime Minister of Malaysia. How much more can Xavier discredit Najib Razak? Isn't Najib Razak already neck deep in fertilizer?

But nevertheless we are told that...

"An international cyber-security firm, Protection Group International (PGI) hired to conduct an in-depth investigation into the source of the data published on the Internet, as well as verify its authenticity revealed there is clear “evidence of the systematic theft of confidential company data by Justo prior to his departure from PetroSaudi” and that the “data was tampered with after it was stolen from PetroSaudi. It was believed that much of this tampered data subsequently appeared on Sarawak Report (SR) and served as the backbone of the blog’s claims of impropriety against 1MDB.” 

Really? Another "international company" hired? Who paid for the company? We the Rakyat or the Prime Minister's Department (PMD)?.

If it the PMD then is not their money our money too?

And now Najib's supporters are telling us that Sarawak Report is totally discredited for what it has done to "expose" Najib's involvement in 1MDB because of Xavier's arrests! Ptui!

Show me court authenticated original documents from PertoSaudi International Ltd and then show me where the data published by Sarawak report differs from the original and then maybe we may have the start of my doubting the authenticity of what Sarawak Report has accused Najib of doing. Then and only then, NOT NOW, can you begin to discredit Sarawak Report.

1MDB is still a work in progress. I will wait for what an open court will tell us about Xavier, PetroSaudi International Ltd and 1MDB.

Until then Najib Razak and anyone else connected to 1MDB is not off the hook. I go by this logic : If Mahathir has come out with guns blazing for Najib Razak re 1MDB then there must be something interesting in 1MDB that 1MDB does not want us to know.  Tun Mahathir has far more resources, more contacts and more wither all at his disposal then me....so let us see where all this goes to

For now the 1MDB gun is still pointed at Najib's head! - husseinhamid,steadyaku47

Mat Maslan bila Ringgit jatuh kau tak peduli. Kalau RM jatuh macam mana pula...

Today 24 June the Ringgit is at  3.755 to the US Dollar.

How to make Mat Maslan understand that a falling Ringgit is bad for us? How to make the UMNO boys understand?

Ok lets try this. Bila orang America beli satu kilo daging ayam, dia bayar dengan duit sekeping saja.

Kalau Ringgit Malaysia jatuh lagi, untuk membeli satu kilo ayam, mungkin kita kena bayar dengan satu kilo duit kertas. Faham tak Mat Maslan? Kalau tak faham cuba lihat gambar ini :

 

Bila duit Zimbabwe jatuh, beli ayam se kilo dibayar dengan duit kertas berat se kilo.

I dont know how to dumb down further. Anyone here can pull the average down more than this? Falling Ringgit is good for chickens?

Two days ago, I believe the Ringgit hit RM3.80 to the US Dollar. I think Bank Negara has intervened to push up the Ringgit. Today the US Dollar is at RM3.755.  The Sing Dollar is at RM2.79.  

Bank Negara must be burning billions of our Foreign Exchange reserves in this futile attempt at artifically supporting the Ringgit. It is like that Gabrar Asset Management boys using public funds to support the price of their own shares before. Those crooks are still around  as well.

Here is one currency which is mucho grande against the Ringgit. The Chinese Yuan is now at 1.653 Yuan for each Ringgit.

It used to be THREE Yuan for every Ringgit. If you went to China or Hong Kong, our Ringgit could buy plenty of cheap Chinese products. Now the Yuan is at 1.653 to the Ringgit. Soon it will be 1 to 1 for Ringgit / Yuan. Our Ringgit is becoming paper lama. Like FGV shares.

There is no new productivity in our economy. Yesterday I was informed that the official figures show that there are FOUR MILLION legal foreign workers in our country.  There are another TWO MILLION illegal foreign workers.

But unofficially it is believed that there are EIGHT MILLION foreign workers in our country (legal, illegal, semi legal, close one eye etc).

And guess which State has the highest population figures? Selangor?? Ergggg. Wrong answer.

The correct answer is Sabah. First rate information from Sabah says the population of the State is 5.2 MILLION !!  And the vast majority have ICs  !!

It is the bribery at the border. The close one eye. Plus the UMNO cronies have the permits that allow them to bring in foreign workers. Satu Dato can get a permit to bring in 5000 workers or more.  I have met some of these people.  One fellow married a 20+ year old second wife.

So here is another reason why our Ringgit is falling. (Bab ini Mat Maslan IQ 3.85 susah sikit nak faham kut). 

If all these 8 MILLION foreign workers were rocket scientists, then our Ringgit will be higher than the US Dollar. This is NOT something we cannot achieve. Actually this can be done very quickly. - syedsoutsidethebox

cheers.

1MDBgate,FGVgate,MARAgate - depa kaki penyamun...

1MDBgate, FGVgate, MARAgate- selamat datang ke Malaysia Darul Rasuah...

Ini bukan soal masih mahu bercakap mengenai FGV. Malah ketika masa apungan lagi dalam tahun 2012, saya telah menulis dengan panjang lebar membantah apungan fgv. FGV is a bloody mistake. The fault lies with Najib.

By now, biarlah rakyat tahu, seperti saya sebut secara terbuka dalam parlimen- setiap pembelian, setiap projek yang dilakukan oleh kerajaan,  ejensi kerajaan dan oleh mereka yang mempunyai kuasa regulatory- merupakan alasan2 untuk balun duit rakyat.

Sama ada dalam projek2 kurnia dihujung tahun, tender terpilih, rundingan terus, belian kerajaan dan pemalsuan harga - setiap nya digunakan sebagai alasan dan wadah membalun dan menyamun duit rakyat.

Apa justifikasi bayar 2 kali ganda kepentingan Rajawali Group?
 

Tidak munasabah, FGV yang mengalami keadaan bisnes yang merosot,  bermurah hati membeli kepentingan Peter Sondakh dua kali ganda dari harga yang sepatutnya. Istilah willing buyer , willing seller adalah istilah yang meletihkan dan overrated. Permuatan antara pencuri yang sama2 willing- adakah ianya suatu transaksi yang morally right? Dan kalau melanggar undang2 adakah ianya legally right?

 

Kenapa murah hati sangat? Banyak sangat duit FGV? Dengan pembelian bayaran secara tunai dan saham, reseb tunai Felda/FGV berada dalam tahap minima. Ini akan mendedahkan Felda dan peneroka dalam bencana ekonomik.

Tipu jangan tak tipu.
 

Janganlah berselindung disebalik alasan2 bukuteks seperti synergy lah, disebalik membuat rantaian stratejik lah- ia nya tidak dapat mengelakkan sangkaan bahawa ini semua ada udang sebalik batu.

Saya perhatikan, para pemimpin UMNO kalau tidak dapat menerangkan sesuatu, akan mengunkap jampi serapah blue ocean strategy. Sama ada mereka faham atau mengkakaktua frasa blue ocean ini, saya sudah kurang pasti. yang saya pasti, kita rakyat mahu blue-ocean kan kepala pemimpin UMNO.

Do it the Isa Samad way.
 

Isa Samad telah menunjukan cara ini semasa pembelian hotel di UK dahulu- pemimpin UMNO masih tidur lagi dalam hal ini.

Hanya ada satu faktor sahaja yang menerangkan sikap pemimpin UMNO- mereka semua bersubahat dalam perkara ini.

Orang lupa, Isa Samad membeli hotel2 tersebut dengan harga extra RM100 juta. Mengapa bayar harga lebih? Ada grounds untuk percaya, harga extra ini ialah untuk agihan sesama broker, sesama pembuat pembuat keputusan dan pakar runding. 

Bilakah SPRM mahu mengemukakan penemuan2 siasatan mereka keatas beberapa individu yang berkait dengan pembelian hotel dan hartanah oleh FGV? Saya beri jawapan terlebih dahulu- tidak ada salah laku berlaku. semua clear dan above board.

Scam yang serupa dilakukan. Bayar pembelian kepentingan Sondakh dua kali ganda. Mesti ada fee broker, consultants, walaupun consultants itu banker.Bankers are not pristine and holy people you know.

The thieves come in all shapes, sizes and forms. 

Pencuri wang hari in datang dalam pelbagai bentuk dan nama, tidak kira alim atau tak alim semua berpotensi sebagai penyauk wang. Yang melakukan regulatory caputure boleh jadi sesiapa sahaja- alim dan kurang alim, ustaz dan liberal, tua dan muda, perempuan dan lelaki.  

Selagi mereka mempunyai ownership keatas sumber pengkayaan waimma sumber pembuat keputusan- mereka berpotensi meletakkan terma dan syarat kedalam keputusan hendak beli atau tidak, hendak beri kontrak kepada A atau tidak.

Forms of Rent Seeking: the rise of the Rentier Class.

 
Economists menggelar perbuatan ini dengan banyak nama; antara nya political atau state capture, atau regulatory capture. Ianya semua bermaksud rent seeking.
 

Yakni, orang2 tertentu menjadi kaya raya kerana mereka mempunyai hak milik, walaupun sementara keatas sumber pengkayaan. Dalam kes mereka yang ada kuasa eksekutif ditahap tententu, mereka boleh membuat keputusan dan memasukkan terma2 dan syarat2 yang menguntungkan mereka.

KSU yang hendak pencen, mencari projek ratusan juta untuk diluluskan dan akan berusaha meletakkan beberapa syarat dan terma yang diraih setelah pencen.

Ini sahaja yang menerangkan mengapa kita lihat KSU2 dan pegawai atasan yang pencen, menjadi kaya raya beberapa bulan setelah pencen.

Pegawai eksekutif seperti yang berkerja dengan MARA, meletakkan syarat2 kepada persetujuan MARA membeli suatu bangunan di Melbourne. Ini disebut sebagai regulatory capture sebab pegawai itu yang regulate dan kawal urusan antara MARA dan pembekal.

Semua projek kerajaan tidak terkecuali. Semua projek ialah mesin ATM untuk menteri sampai kepada pegawai paling rendah mengapur duit rakyat. Bayangkan jika apa yang berlaku dalam Melbournegate ini diulangi dalam semua kes pembelian hartanah mara diseluruh dunia.

Maka janganlah kita hairan sangat bila lapuran mendedahkan bahawa pegawai2 MARA dan ahli politik yang ada kaitan dengan MARA melakukan skim serupa seperti 1MDB-Petrosaudi, atau dalam kes pembelian hotel oleh FGV. Projek2 ini diguna sebagai wadah mengeCaj kerajaan untuk service perkhidmatan.

Pembelian Dudley House di Melbourne oleh MARA dikata melibatkan penyaluran yuran untuk consultancy sebanyak AUS4.75 juta berlaku, serupa cara dengan pembelian hotel di UK oleh FGV yang membayar RM100 juta lebih dari harga penilaian untuk hotel tersebut.

Penjual sudah setuju menjual pada harga AUS17.8juta, Melayu MARA murah hati kata- takpe mate- we pay you AUS22.5 million. Tapi AUS4.75million you must credit into our account in Singapre yeah!!!

 

1) Pemaju membina bangunan untuk dijual kepada MARA kononnya untuk menjadi asrama pemegang biasiswa luar negara

2) Orang kanan MARA dan ahli politik UMNO menaikkan harga jualan untuk memasukkan komisen ke dalam poket mereka

3) MARA bayar lebih kepada pemaju, pemaju salurkan duit komisen ke bank milik orang kanan MARA dan ahli politik UMNO ini diluar negara

Hidup Melayu (laung UMNO sambil satu tangan merompak badan amanah seperti MARA).

Siapa bilang orang Melayu yang pergi Australia tidak tahu berbicara Inggeris!

Rakyat Melaysia hanya perlu nanti- cerita seram yang akan terbongkar mengenai handal nya pengurusan Melayu keatas MARA, Amanah Raya, Khazanah Nasional, dan banyak lagi. Tapi buat masa ini, hal FGV yang mendedahkan peneroka kepada bencana ekonomi perlu diulangi kembali.

Perperangan keatas segala bentuk kezaliman adalah perperangan yang berterusan. Korapsi, salah laku, pencurian wang samun perbendaharaan mesti di lawan sampai habis.

Ramai keturunan lanun rupa nya dinegara kita. - Dato' Mohd.Ariff Sabri bin Hj. Abdul Aziz@sakmongkol ak47. 

Annuar: PM lulus urusan beli hartanah MARA

1MDBgate, FGVgate and now MARAgate...

Malaysians shouldn’t be too surprised by the news about MARA overpaying in the purchase of Dudley House in Melbourne; it’s simply the latest instance of how the politically powerful commit robbery, says Raub MP Ariff Sabri in his latest blog posting.

“Every purchase and every project done by the government or by any government agency or by anyone who has regulatory power represents an excuse to swipe the rakyat’s money,” he says.

“No government project is an exception. Every project is an ATM machine for the minister down to the lowest official.

“So let’s not marvel too much at the report that MARA officials and politicians connected with MARA have carried out a scheme reminiscent of the 1MDB-Petrosaudi deal or the case of the hotel purchase by Felda Global Ventures (FGV).”

MARA’s purchase of Dudley House is said to involve a payment of A$4.75 million in the form of “introduction and consultancy” fees.

Ariff says this sounds much like FGV’s payment of RM100 million above the market price for the hotel it bought in Britain.

“The seller had agreed to sell Dudley House for A$17.8 million,” he notes. “But the MARA Malays were in a generous mood. ‘Never mind, mate. We pay you A$22.5 million. But you must credit AS4.75 million into our account in Singapre, yeah.’”

Ariff expects the emergence of more “horror stories” about what he calls the “efficiency of the Malay management” of MARA, Amanah Raya, Khazanah Nasional “and many other agencies”.

He says Umno leaders seem to have been sleeping through all this. But he adds: “There’s only one way to explain the attitude of Umno leaders; they are all complicit in this matter.”

Referring to the FGV case, he notes that it’s been some time since the MACC announced it was investigating a number of suspects. He asks: “When will MACC present the findings from its probe?”

Ariff says corruption is a form of oppression and the war against it is a continuing war. “Corruption, power abuse and the plunder of the treasury must be opposed until they are no more,” he adds.

He ends this posting with a wry remark: “It turns out that there are a lot of descendents of pirates in our country.” - fmt

'Pembelian aset MARA lain libatkan sogokan?'

Akhbar Australia Dedah Isu Penipuan Pegawai "Atasan" Mara di Melbourne...

Hari ini, Malaysia dikejutkan dengan pendedahan dari sebuah akhbar di Australia yang mendedahkan seorang pegawai 'atasan' MARA, seorang pegawai kanan dan seorang bekas ahli politik yang menggunakan dana kerajaan bernilai jutaan ringgit bagi membeli satu blok pangsapuri, Dudley International House, di Melbourne Australia.

Di dalam laporan dari akhbar The Age, satu kumpulan yang disifatkan oleh kumpulan tersebut sebagai "sangat kaya" menggunakan AS$4.75juta(RM13.8 juta) sebagai "kos tambahan" untuk membeli pangsapuri terbabit pada 2013.

Kumpulan tersebut didakwa membayar pangsapuri terbabit dengan harga yang lebih mahal iaitu AS$22.5 juta (RM65.2juta) daripada harga asal iaitu AS$17.8 juta, yang mana lebihan duit tersebut digunakan untuk merasuah di Malaysia, lapor akhbar terbabit.

Selain dari itu, akhbar tersebut turut mendakwa pemaju pangsapuri tersebut telah mengeluarkan invois palsu yang tertulis kononnya ia mendapatkan perkhidmatan jururunding dan nasihat dari firma Malaysia.

Selain itu, akhbar yang sama turut mendakwa kumpulan tersebut terlibat dengan pelbagai pembelian hartanah seperti satu blok pangsapuri dan pejabat di Melbourne yang bernilai AS$80juta.

Urusan pembelian ini melibatkan dua orang lelaki dengan gelaran "Dato". Mereka didakwa memudahkan perjanjian itu melalui rangkaian kenalan berhubung dengan Mara.

 

The Age turut berkata, kumpulan warga Malaysia sama juga terlibat dalam pembelian pelbagai hartanah seperti blok pangsapuri dan pejabat di Melbourne bernilai A$80 juta.

Dudley International House merupakan sebuah asrama pelajar dibeli Mara, badan kerajaan yang memberi biasiswa dan pinjaman pendidikan kepada pelajar Bumiputera.


Mara telah ditubuhkan pada tahun 1965 dengan tujuan murni untuk membantu golongan miskin di luar bandar.

Keputusannya untuk membeli Dudley House melalui anak syarikat, Mara Inc, menunjukkan sejauh mana ia telah sesat dari nilai-nilai terasnya, The Age mengulas.

Point2 utama...

1. Beli aset/hartanah guna agensi kerajaan. Dalam kes ni - MARA.

2. Lepas tu tingkatkan nilai hartanah atas paper.

3. Kemundian lebihan wang tersebut konon2nya digunakan untuk membeli hartanah menggunakan 'shelf company'

4. Urusniaga terjadi dan syarikat pemaju Australia dan pegawai tinggi Malaysia yang terlibat mula menukar2 invoice bagi menghalalkan 'wang rasuah' keluar dari Australia.

Hebat. Tahap rasuah Malaysia dah sampai peringkat international. Bukan cikai2 punya rasuah. Didedahkan juga bagaimana wang pembayar cukai digunakan sewenang2nya bagi melakukan aktiviti rasuah dan salahguna wang kerajaan di luar negara.

Mara boss on Aussie scam: Can't say 'yes' or 'no'...

Top Malaysian government officials and a former politician were alleged to spend RM65 million of public funds to purchase an apartment block in Melbourne, Australia, overpaying by RM13.7 million to allow for kickbacks back home.

Australian newspaper The Age, which made the allegations in an exclusive report today, also claimed the involvement of Mara, a government investment agency, which purchased the property in 2013.

The Age's investigative report said that a group of Malaysian officials, using the Malaysian government's investment funds, bid up the price for the Melbourne apartment block from A$17.8 million (RM51.5 million) to A$22.5 million (RM65 million).

 

The extra $4.75 million (RM13.7 million) was then laundered out of Australia and allegedly paid as bribes in Malaysia.

"The Malaysian firms that received the alleged kickbacks are closely linked to a senior figure at the Malaysian government investment agency, Mara.

"Another figure involved is a senior Malaysian official and former politician with close links to a Malaysian cabinet minister," said the report.

Malaysiakini has e-mailed Rural and Regional Development Minister Mohd Shafie Apdal under whose watch Mara falls, Mara's director-general Ibrahim Ahmad and its deputy director-general Salmah Hayati Ghazali for their responses to the corruption allegations.

The student hostel apartment bought by Mara was called the Dudley International House apartment block, located at the suburb of Caulfield.

The Age said about 150 Australian creditors, including tradesman and builders, have been left out of pocket or are facing bankruptcy after a company linked to the deal collapsed.

 

The Malaysians: Mohammad Lan Bin Allani says 

he cannot recall the Dudley House dealings...

Two businessmen, Yusof Gani and Ahmad Azizi, appeared keen to keep a low profile in Australia.

"We knew they were influencing things behind the scenes, but I never met them," says Bond. "All I know is that they are powerful back in Malaysia."

In Malaysia, Gani and Azizi have a much bigger profile. Each has been anointed a "Dato" by the Malaysian government -- the Malaysian version of a knighthood.

Facebook posts show Azizi and his two sons, Erwin and Erwan, mixing with the elite and getting around in Porches and Ferraris. Erwan hangs out at the Kuala Lumpur Porsche club. There is plenty of international travel, including a family trip to Paris.

 Erwan Azizi, the son of a Malaysian “Dato”, 

helped facilitate the property deal using his network of contacts...

In Malaysia, where wealth and political connections go hand in hand, the Azizis didn't just have the funds to invest in a multi-million dollar Australian property development. They also had the contacts to pull off a remarkable deal: the sale of this development to the Malaysian government at a massive mark-up.

According to confidential documents, it was Dato Azizi's Porsche-loving son Erwan who facilitated this deal via a network of contacts connected to a multi-billion dollar Malaysian government institution called MARA.

Created in 1965 with the noble aim of helping the rural poor, MARA is a household name in Malaysia. But MARA's decision to buy Dudley House through a subsidiary, MARA Inc, shows how far it has strayed from its core values.

Money-laundering hub

The same group of  high-ranking Malaysians were implicated in a deal involving A$80 million (RM231 million) worth of Australian property, including office or apartment blocks in Swanston, Queen and Exhibition streets in Melbourne's CBD.

The newspaper said this was the first hard evidence of Australian property prices being inflated as real estate is used as a safe haven or money laundering hub by corrupt Malaysian government officials.

In May last year, Bernama reported  that several Mara board directors and executives, headed by its chairperson Annuar Musa (photo) were in Melbourne to inspect two properties Mara had acquire, at a cost of about A$60 million, to house its students.

The 12-storey building at 746, Swanston Street, minutes away from the University of Melbourne and RMIT University, has 281 apartments, while the five-storey Dudley International House in the suburb of Caulfield, will accommodate 113 Mara students attending Monash University. The Swanston Street building was formerly a hostel for nurses.

Spokesman for the Mara group, Zainal Zol said Mara had more than 1,000 students in Australia with 309 based in melbourne and more than 500 in Sydney.

He said the visiting Mara leaders were pleased with the agency's property acquisitions here.

The Bernama report also said executives from UEM Sunrise Berhad, one of Malaysia's largest property developers and an arm of UEM Group Berhad, which is owned by Khazanah Nasional Berhad, were also in Melbourne  to negotiate the development of two prime land parcels it had acquired in Melbourne's CBD, in LaTrobe Street and MacKenzie Street.

Led by UEM managing director, Izzaddin Idris, they met the Victorian State Planning Minister Matthew Guy, Melbourne Lord Mayor Robert Doyle and Malaysian-born Ken Ong, head of the Melbourne City Council planning committee, to brief them on the projects.

Mohd Rameez said he was confident that both apartment developments will go ahead, thus enhancing Malaysia's presence in Melbourne.

Malaysiakini has also e-mailed and texted Annuar who is also Umno supreme council member and BN Ketereh MP for his comments. - mk

Aussie paper links MARA’s ‘elite’ officials to A$4.75m

Lebih baik Mat Sabu sertai DAP...

Bekas Setiausaha UMNO Bahagian Bandar Tun Razak, Zaharin Mohd Yasin mencadangkan agar bekas timbalan presiden PAS, Mohamad Sabu menyertai Parti Tindakan Demokratik (DAP) daripada membuang masa menubuhkan parti politik baharu.

Zaharin yang lebih dikenali dengan nama pena Sang Kelembai memberitahu bahawa, beliau menyokong Mat Sabu berserta beberapa bekas ahli jawatankuasa (AJK) PAS yang disisihkan untuk menyertai DAP dan sekaligus menjadi calon DAP pada Pilihan Raya Umum (PRU) ke-14.

“Saya cadangkan mereka semua bertanding di kawasan calon Barisan Nasional (BN) dari MCA kerana parti itu tidak lagi berfungsi sebagai satu parti politik yang mewakili suara orang Cina.

“Dia gagal sepenuhnya dan bergantung dengan undi orang Melayu dalam kawasan yang dimenangi. Jika calon-calon serpihan PAS ini bertanding di kawasan majoriti 50-50 atau 70 peratus Cina dan 30 peratus Melayu, saya percaya undi Melayu akan diberikan kepada calon DAP Melayu,” katanya seperti yang dipetik dari laman Facebook miliknya.

Jelasnya, berdasarkan fakta di Pandan, Raub, Bukit Bendera, Telok Kemang, Lumut dan Kuantan, calon-calon Melayu menang walaupun atas tiket PKR atau PAS.

“Masa jumpa Mat Sabu, saya beritahu dia, jangan tubuh parti baru. Alasan saya, kenapa hendak disahkan apa tuduhan oleh kelompok ulama kepada kelompok progresif.

“Masuk DAP adalah terbaik, akan bertambahlah lagi Ahli Parlimen Melayu di Parlimen,” katanya.

Mat Sabu kalah dengan perbezaan undi yang besar dalam usaha mempertahankan jawatan timbalan presiden PAS kepada pencabarnya, Datuk Tuan Ibrahim Tuan Man.- therakyatpost

Wanita terpaksa pakai kain tuala...
Story kat SINI dan SINI 

Amoi pakai baju kurung di majlis berbuka puasa mesjid...

cheers.

Ahli UMNO bakar bendera DAP...

Bendera DAP dibakar di perkarangan bangunan Komtar, yang menempatkan pejabat kerajaan negeri Pulau Pinang, hari ini.

Insiden itu berlaku apabila kira-kira 50 ahli dan penyokong Umno yang diketuai setiausaha Umno Pulau Pinang, Datuk Musa Sheikh Fadzir pergi ke sana untuk menyerahkan memorandum kepada Majlis Bandaraya Pulau Pinang (MBPP).

Protes itu adalah sebagai tindak balas terhadap keputusan majlis tempatan itu meruntuhkan papan tanda di Menara Umno.

Turut sama ialah Ketua Pemuda Umno negeri, Rafizal Abdul Rahim; Ketua Bahagian Permatang Pauh, Mohd Zaidi Mohd Said;  Ketua Bahagian Tanjong, Ahmad Ibnihajar dan Ketua PERKASA Pulau Pinang, Mohd Rizuad Belia Mohd Azudin.

Sebelum Musa dan pemimpin yang lain sampai ke tingkat tiga tiga di mana terletaknya pintu masuk ke pejabat pentadbiran kerajaan negeri, anggota keselamatan telah pun menutup pintu besi di situ.

Tindakan itu menimbulkan kemarahan beberapa orang penyokong, yang kemudiannya menjerit dan menghentak pintu itu.

Selepas rundingan diadakan, Musa dan beberapa yang lain dibenarkan masuk.

Rafizal pula melaungkan mengapa wakil lambat keluar untuk menerima memorandum mereka, sedangkan dakwanya, mereka begitu cepat memusnahkan papan tanda Umno.

Apabila Lai Hon Meng -  pembantu kepada Exco kerajaan negeri Pulau Pinang bagi kerajaan tempatan, Chow Kon Yeow - mahu menerima memorandum itu bagi pihak kerajaan negeri, Musa enggan menyerahkannya, dan berkata mereka tidak mahu berurusan dengan beliau.

Sambil menegaskan bahawa mereka menghormatinya, Musa berkata ia bukan perkara politik dan mereka mahu bercakap terus dengan pentadbiran MBPP - sama ada Datuk Bandar atau wakilnya.

Berikutan itu, pegawai keselamatan MBPP Mohd Feroze Md Noor menerima memorandum tersebut.- mk

UMNO members torch DAP flag...

A DAP flag was torched at the ground level of Komtar, which houses the Penang state government office, today.

The incident happened when some 50 Umno members and supporters led by Penang Umno secretary Musa Sheikh Fadzir went there to submit a memorandum to the Penang Island City Council (MBPP).

The protest was in retaliation to the local council's decision to tear down the Menara Umno signboard.

Also present were Penang Umno Youth chief Rafizal Abdul Rahim, Permatang Pauh division chief Mohd Zaidi Mohd Said, Tanjong division chief Ahmad Ibnihajar and Penang Perkasa Youth chief Mohd Rizuad Mohd Azudin.

Before Musa and other leaders reached level three where the state government's administration office entrance is located, security personnel had shut the metal door.

This angered some supporters, who then shouted and banged on the door.

After negotiation, Musa and a few others were allowed to enter.

Rafizal then shouted: "Why are the reps so slow to come out (to receive our memorandum), while they are fast in destroying our signboard."

When Penang state exco for local government Chow Kon Yeow's assistant Lai Hon Meng wanted to accept the memorandum on behalf of the state government, Musa refused, saying they did not want to deal with him.

"We respect you, but this is not political and we want to talk to the city council's administration directly. Either the mayor or her representative," he added.

Following this, MBPP security officer Mohd Feroze Md Noor accepted the memorandum. - mk

KL-Butterworth Electric Train Launch In July Will Cut Travel Time To Only 3 Hours...

If you’re a frequent traveller and you love to travel by train, here’s some good news for you.

It has been reported that the latest electric train service (ETS) linking Kuala Lumpur and Butterworth via Ipoh is expected to start operating in July. 

According to Transport Minister Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai, he expects full passenger service to commence next month. So instead of travelling to Penang from KL by driving or flying, you can soon opt to take the ETS.

“On July 9, I will personally head to Batu Gajah in Perak to attend a trial run with other government officials to check on the Ipoh-Butterworth trains. Only after that, I will announce the important details of this new route, such as the schedule and the fares,” said Liow.

Three Things You Need To Know About The ETS

1. The top speed for trains currently is 140 kph.

2. According to this website, the train will shortens travel time between Kuala Lumpur and Butterworth Penang to just 3 hours.

3. The ETS sets are manufactured by China-based train-making company named CSR Zhuzhou, which built the Class 92 trains for KTMB’s Komuter line. The train will be able to transport up to 350 passengers.

This is certainly a good news for working professions and students who stay in Klang Valley. Facebook user, Munwai Cheaw mentioned that he prefers the ETS because the train is clean, punctual, fast, and safer. 

 

“It’s also cheaper than driving if you’re travelling alone. Of course in a group, driving is cheaper. Onboard WiFi doesn’t really work that well, and data coverage along the track is spotty at some sections as compared to PLUS highway. Still, a good option for most travellers, as long as you have transportation at your destination.” 

While most people are excited about the train, some people are not happy that the train launched was delayed, at least this is what another Facebook user, Michael thinks.

“Initially said starting this month. Then now next month. Let’s hope no more further delays,” Michael Lee Gao Loong said.

One thing for sure, speaking from a Penangite’s perspective, this is definitely a step forward for the transportation industry in our country. And those holiday seasons? You will soon have an option to skip dull traffic jams. - vulcanpost

Mampukah Khalid Samad mempertahankan Shah Alam di PRU14...

Dalam PRU13 pada tahun 2013, Khalid Samad, salah seorang pemimpin progresif daripada PAS, berjaya mempertahankan kerusi parlimen Shah Alam yang dimenanginya lima tahun sebelum itu dengan mengalahkan calon BN Zulkifli Noordin dengan majoriti melebihi 10,000 undi.

Sesetengah penganalisa percaya ianya langsung tidak mengejutkan memandangkan Zulkifli, seorang peguam yang juga ahli politik yang berasal dari Kedah, telah mencetuskan kontroversi apabila sebuah rakaman video beliau menghina kepercayaan Hindu telah tersebar meluas sebelum pilihan raya bermula.

Pada hakikatnya, bandar itu yang terdiri daripada berbilang bangsa, meskipun majoriti muslim Melayu, telah menyaksikan konflik ketegangan kaum, politik dan agama selama tujuh tahun kebelakangan ini.

Satu insiden yang melibatkan beberapa kumpulan Melayu berhaluan kanan mengarak kepala lembu di bangunan Setia Usaha Kerajaan negeri pada Ogos 2009 untuk memprotes pemindahan kuil Hindu berusia 150 tahun, yang kemudiannya, mencetuskan kemarahan meluas daripada kumpulan-kumpulan Hindu dan lain-lain.

Dua belas orang kemudian telah didenda RM1,000 seorang kerana berhimpun secara haram oleh Mahkamah Seksyen di sini dengan salah seorang dari mereka dijatuhkan hukuman penjara selama seminggu.

Secara keseluruhannya, Shah Alam, yang merangkumi 54 seksyen termasuklah Kota Kemuning dan Bukit Rimau di tenggara pusat bandar itu, dan TTDI Jaya, Bukit Jelutong dan juga Kampung Melayu Subang di utara, adalah tempat yang aman untuk didiami.

Bermula dengan Seksyen 1 yang sekarang ini diduduki oleh kampus utama Universiti Teknologi Mara (UiTM), ibu negeri itu pastinya telah melalui perubahan yang besar.

Universiti awam yang sebahagian besarnya Melayu, pula sebaliknya, berharap sesetengah perkara kekal sama.

Pada Ogos 2008, UiTM telah menjadi tajuk-tajuk utama akhbar apabila 5,000 orang pelajarnya berarak ke Setia Usaha Kerajaan Negeri Selangor sebagai protes menentang MB Selangor pada ketika itu Abdul Khalid Ibrahim kerana mencadangkan universiti itu membuka pintunya untuk menerima 10 peratus kemasukan pelajar bukan Bumiputra.

“Jika Khalid Ibrahim tidak menarik balik kenyataan beliau, semua pelajar UiTM akan membuat perhimpunan besar di Shah Alam. Kami berharap isu kuota bukan Bumiputra tidak lagi akan dibincang,” Bernama memetik seorang wakil pelajar sebagai berkata.

Kemudian pada Oktober 2014, satu lagi kontroversi tercetus berikutan sebuah papan iklan mengiklankan festival arak Jerman Oktoberfest yang dilangsungkan sepanjang Jalan Subang, Seksyen U2.

The Star melaporkan bahawa seorang ahli Exco Negeri PAS untuk Infrastruktur, Kemudahan Awam dan Industri Asas Tani turut menyelar acara itu kerana menentang norma sosial, termasuklah mereka dari semua agama.

Tetapi konflik agama dan bangsa bukanlah satu-satunya perkara yang telah melihatkan kenaikan dramatik.

Ketika saya dan keluarga saya berpindah ke Shah alam di pertengahan 80-an, rakyat di sini kebanyakannya tinggal di hartanah berlaman yang dibina oleh PKNS atau Perbadanan Kemajuan Negeri Selangor.

Hari ini, banyak kondominium dan pangsapuri servis telah dibina, dengan banyak lagi yang masih dalam pembinaan. Harganya pula melangkaui kuasa beli rakyat Malaysia biasa, dengan pangsapuri studio sahaja sudah berharga RM400,000!

“Bukan rumah mampu milik, ia rumah mampu tengok”, saya masih ingat MB Selangor Azmin Ali berkata berkaitan rumah-rumah PR1MA yang juga harga dalam lingkungan sama.

Tetapi bersyukurlah, bukan semua perkara telah hilang kawalan.

Menurut theSundaily, indeks kadar jenayah di Shah Alam telah menurun dalam empat bulan pertama tahun ini, berbanding tempoh sama tahun lalu.

Ketua polis Shah Alam ACP Azisman Alias mendedahkan pada Mei bahawa indeks jenayah telah menunjukkan penurunan sebanyak 22.6 peratus dari Januari hingga April berbanding tahun lalu.

Dari segi politik, Shah Alam sebelum ini dilihat sebagai kubu kuat Umno di Selangor sebelum Khalid Samad menumbangkan Aziz Shamsuddin pada 2008 dengan majoriti sebanyak 9,314 undi.

Sebagai Ahli Parlimen dua penggal, Khalid Samad telah bercakap tentang banyak perkara yang memberi kesan kepada kawasannya termasuklah hospital kerjaan yang telah lama dinantikan di Seksyen 7 dan juga kutipan tol Lebuh raya Persekutuan di Sungai Rasau dan Batu Tiga yang tidak pernah tamat.

Selepas kemenangan membanggakan pada PRU13, perkara tidaklah begitu baik buat bapa empat orang anak berusia 57 tahun ini.

Dengan kumpulan ulama telah menewaskan kelompok progresif pada Muktamar PAS baru-baru ini, diikuti pula dengan DAP mengisytiharkan Pakatan Rakyat telah terkubur akibat daripada pergeseran dengan parti Islam itu, persoalan kini timbul sama ada Khalid berupaya untuk mempertahankan kerusi itu dalam pilihan raya akan datang.- Lokman Mustafa,theantdaily

PAS MP to Hadi: DAP chauvinist? See mirror...

Former PAS central committee member and Shah Alam MP Khalid Samad has asked PAS president Abdul Hadi Awang and the new PAS leadership to look in the mirror, before describing DAP as being chauvinist.

PAS is becoming like Umno in labeling DAP thus, as in the past only Umno did that, said Khalid, in speaking to reporters after Anwar Ibrahim’s qazaf appeal at the Kuala Lumpur Syariah Court today.

“Is it correct to label DAP as chauvinist when we see more Malays joining the party?,” he asked, adding that PAS and especially the new leadership should reflect on this.

“You have to look at the party’s constitution before describing it as chauvinist,” said Khalid (photo).

It was recently reported that national laureate 80 year-old A Samad Said, former Johor PAS Youth member, Sheikh Omar Ali and rapper, Edry Faizal Yusof, had joined the DAP.

Yesterday, it was reported that Abdul Hadi said that the party would work with anyone except chauvinists in an obvious reference to DAP.

In fact, Khalid added, the new leadership is being chauvinist as the party has now lost its appeal especially to the non-Muslims.

He added that he would rather trust former deputy president Mohamad Sabu's response and assessment on the declining support of non-Malays on PAS, than the likes of Youth chief Nik Abduh Nik Aziz and central committee members, Nasruddin Hassan and Mohd Zuhdi Marzuki.

“Mat Sabu interacts a lot with the non-Malays and can associate with them unlike the three who do not interact with the non-Malays at all. Hence, I would believe Mat Sabu more than the others in his evaluation,” he said.

Khalid said the fallacy in the present leadership's logic is that they think the hatred towards BN is sufficient for them to get support.

However, he added that they did not know that the image of PAS is worse off as it is not only chauvinistic and not open, it had become exclusive and adopted a holier-than-thou attitude.

“Even the PAS supporters club now is feeling the change. My advice to the current leadership is to look at themselves in the mirror before labeling others as chauvinist,” he said.

PAS wants 'kopi susu' but no milk

Earlier, commenting on his blog posting made yesterday, Khalid said that Pakatan Rakyat has expired, is clear as day, and the sooner leaders admit it, the better for everyone.

The Former PAS central committee member said claiming Pakatan is still alive is akin to claiming that kopi susu (coffee with milk), is still kopi susu, even if the milk is missing.

He made the analogy to paint the absurdity of PAS’ claims that it is still with Pakatan, when it no longer wants ties with one of its key components DAP, as indicated in the motion passed during the recent party muktamar.

“Kopi susu is kopi susu as long as it has the combination of coffee, milk and sugar.

“When you take out the milk, it becomes kopi ‘o’. If you take out the sugar, it becomes kopi ‘o’ kosong.

“While they’re all still coffee, they’re not the same - in fact very different from one another,” he said in his wry analogy.

Khalid said there was little point arguing semantics as long as one party has declared the coalition dead and the other has expressed a desire to sever ties with another.

“There is no more obligation among the component parties, because Pakatan Rakyat is no more,” he pointed out.

Bury it and move on

Apart from the motion to sever ties with DAP, which had been the fiercest critic of the PAS ulama faction’s insistence on working with Umno to pass the hudud enactment in Kelantan and seek a Private Member’s Bill in Parliament to put the law into action, PAS president Abdul Hadi Awang had also declared that PAS would only cooperate with Pakatan on matters of common interest.

However, on Islamic matters such as hudud, Hadi said PAS would go its own way.

The decision has however put PAS members operating in the Penang and Selangor governments in a spot.

Khalid, who is one of the prominent Selangor leaders in the PAS progressive camp that was practically wiped out from the party leadership in the muktamar, said Pakatan’s demise following these developments is crystal clear even if some leaders refuse to answer the question directly.

“For me, the position of Pakatan Rakyat is clear and obvious. Pakatan is no longer in existence. Terms used such as ‘fainted’ or ‘not functioning formally’ and so on are just terms that cloud the reality.

“The earlier they admit the true situation, the easier it is to rectify things and make amends where necessary.

“There is no benefit in saying everything is good and okay, when in truth it’s the opposite,” asserted Khalid.- mk

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Hadi ajak Azmin sertai PAS bentuk kerajaang perpaduang...

 

 Hadi tawar Azmin sertai PAS bentuk kerajaan bersama UMNO, dakwa AJK PAS Pusat...

Mesyuarat Jawatankuasa PAS Pusat semalam dikejutkan pengakuan presiden parti Datuk Seri Abdul Hadi Awang yang beliau menawarkan Timbalan Presiden PKR Mohamed Azmin Ali menyertai PAS bersama beberapa rakannya bagi membentuk kerajaan bersama di Selangor.

Namun, tawaran itu kemudiannya ditolak Azmin.

Menurut seorang AJK PAS Pusat yang menyertai mesyuarat semalam, Hadi mengesahkan perkara itu setelah ditanya oleh ahli Parlimen Sepang, Mohamad Hanipa Maidin tentang perkara itu.

Ia diikuti pertengkaran hangat antara Hadi dan Hanipa.

AJK PAS Pusat itu mengesahkan kepada The Malaysian Insider pengakuan Hadi itu ekoran tersebarnya maklumat dalam laman sosial kononnya PAS menawarkan jawatan menteri besar kepada Azmin untuk membolehkan kerjasama dibuat dengan Adun PAS, Umno dan Tan Sri Khalid Ibrahim bagi membentuk kerajaan.

Menurut sebaran itu, isu itu bermula dalam mesyuarat semalam apabila seorang AJK PAS Pusat bertanya kepada presiden adakah benar perkhabaran beliau dan Setiausaha Agung Datuk Mustafa Ali mengadakan pertemuan dengan Azmin.

Presiden mengatakan perkhabaran itu benar.

"Kalau PKR boleh curi wakil rakyat PAS maka PAS pun boleh berbuat perkara yang sama," kata Hadi, menurut sebaran itu.

AJK yang sama bertanya lagi isi kandungan perbincangan dengan Azmin, lalu dijawab yang Azmin diajak menyertai PAS bersama dua atau tiga orang lagi Adun PKR.

AJK yang sama menyambung pertanyaan, “Kalau dicampur PAS yang 13 orang dengan Azmin dan 2 orang Adun PKR, bilangan cuma 16 orang. Bagaimana hendak mengadakan kerajaan?”

Belum sempat Hadi menjawab, seorang AJK lain mencelah dan bertanya adakah presiden bersetuju bekerja sama dengan Umno.

"Lantas presiden menyatakan persetujuan, malahan presiden memberikan alasan menjaga Melayu sebagai asas perpaduan," kata sebaran itu yang disahkan kebenaran sebahagian besar isi kandungannya oleh AJK PAS Pusat itu kepada The Malaysian Insider.

Azmin ketika ditemui wartawan semasa Kongres PKR hujung minggu lepas mengakui beliau ada berbincang dengan Hadi sehari dua sebelum itu.

Antara kandungannya, kata Azmin, adalah mengenai pilihan raya kecil Pengkalan Kubor.

Sebelum ini, The Malaysian Insider melaporkan, Hadi berkeras dalam mesyuarat itu yang Presiden PKR Datuk Seri Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail tidak boleh dicalonkan sebagai menteri besar Selangor kerana dia wanita dan kerana dia juga tidak layak.

Tindakan Hadi ini jauh berbeza dari sikapnya dalam mesyuarat 17 Ogos lepas apabila beliau sendiri yang mencadangkan nama Dr Wan Azizah dan Azmin untuk dipersembahkan kepada Sultan Selangor sebagai calon menteri besar Selangor.

Pencalonan Azmin pula ditolak oleh 13 Adun PAS Selangor yang masih tinggal selepas dua dari mereka menyokong pencalonan Dr Wan Azizah.

Ekoran tindakan dua Adun PAS itu, Khalid hilang peluang untuk kekal sebagai menteri besar kerana bilangan penentang beliau membentuk majoriti iaitu 30 dari 56 kerusi dalam DUN Selangor.

Saari Sungib (Hulu Klang) dan Hasnul Baharudin (Morib) berpecah dari kelompok PAS apabila mengisytiharkan sokongan mereka kepada Dr Wan Azizah atas dasar untuk menyelamatkan kerajaan Pakatan Rakyat.

Dalam sidang media selepas mesyuarat AJK PAS Pusat semalam, Mustafa berkata, mesyuarat  mengambil keputusan menyerahkan kepada kebijaksanaan Sultan Selangor melantik menteri besar yang baru. – tmi

Hadi ‘admits offering Azmin MB post’ in unity government with UMNO...

PAS president Datuk Seri Abdul Hadi Awang yesterday told a stunned central committee meeting that he had offered Azmin Ali to join the Islamist party with a few of his PKR members to form a unity government with Umno in Selangor.

But the meeting was told that PKR deputy president Azmin had turned down the offer.

A PAS central committee member, who attended yesterday's meeting, said Hadi confirmed this when Sepang MP Hanipa Maidin asked him about it, which led to a heated exchange between the two.

The PAS central committee member told The Malaysian Insider that Hadi confirmed he offered the menteri besar position to Azmin in order for a pact to be formed between PAS assemblymen, Umno and embattled MB Tan Sri Abdul Khalid Ibrahim.

"If PKR can steal PAS assemblymen, then PAS can also do the same," Hadi had allegedly said.

The same PAS member then asked what was the meeting with Azmin about, to which Hadi said that he had asked the Bukit Antarabangsa assemblyman to join the party along with two or three other PKR assemblymen.

Hadi was also asked how the state government with Umno was to be formed, as 13 PAS assemblymen along with Azmin and two other PKR members would only make 16 assemblyman in the 56-seat state assembly.

Before Hadi could answer, another PAS member asked him if he was agreeable with cooperating with Umno.

The PAS president said "yes", adding that it was to protect the Malays.

This was revealed in a Facebook message which was being circulated, which the PAS central committee member confirmed to The Malaysian Insider.

Azmin, when met by reporters at the recent PKR Congress, had admitted that he had a discussion with the PAS president a couple of days before that. (It was later confirmed to be August 20).

One of the things they had talked about, Azmin said, was about the Pengkalan Kubor by-election.

The Malaysian Insider had reported that in the central committee meeting yesterday, Hadi had insisted that Datuk Seri Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail be removed as a candidate for the MB post, as she was a woman and was also not qualified.

Hadi's stand yesterday contradicted his earlier statement when he himself had suggested Dr Wan Azizah and Azmin to be presented to the Sultan of Selangor as candidates for the MB post.

Azmin, however, was rejected by the 13 PAS assemblymen at the meeting yesterday.

Selangor PAS reps Saari Sungib (Hulu Klang) and Hasnul Baharudin (Morib) had broken away from the party's consensus to declare their support for Dr Wan Azizah in order to save the Pakatan Rakyat state government.

In a press conference after the PAS central committee meeting yesterday, Mustafa told reporters that PAS has decided to leave it to the wisdom of the Sultan of Selangor to determine the Selangor menteri besar position. – tmi
 

'3 sekawan' PAS masih berteka-teki...

Tiga pemimpin PAS dari kumpulan progresif yang tewas dalam pemilihan parti itu baru-baru ini, masih berteka-teki sama ada akan menerima pelantikan untuk menganggotai Jawatankuasa PAS pusat bagi sesi ini ataupun tidak. 

Semalam bekas naib presiden Salahuddin Ayub dan bekas ketua penerangan Datuk Mahfuz Omar sementara bekas AJK PAS Pusat Mohd Taufek Abdul Ghani diumum dilantik ke jawatan tersebut.

Setakat ini, ketiga-ketiga pemimpin PAS itu mahu menunggu surat pelantikan terlebih dahulu sebelum membuat sebarang keputusan.

Salahuddin menyifatkan keputusan menerima atau menolak pelantikan sebagai ahli jawatankuasa PAS pusat sebagai "perhitungan hidup mati karier" beliau dalam PAS.

Walaupun telah menerima surat tersebut, beliau yang lebih 30 tahun bergelumang dalam bidang politik menganggap ia satu episod baru dalam hidupnya untuk membuat keputusan penting selepas gagal mempertahankan jawatannya sebelum ini.

Sementara itu, Mahfuz yang juga MP Pokok Sena pula berkata setakat semalam, beliau belum menerima surat pelantikan itu dan akan menjawabnya selepas menerimanya kelak.

Mahfuz sebelum ini berkata, beliau berasa seronok selepas tidak memegang jawatan dalam kepimpinan tertinggi PAS kerana boleh memberi tumpuan kepada parlimen dan kawasannya.

Manakala Taufek yang pernah menjadi pesuruhjaya PAS Negeri Sembilam turut memberikan jawapan yang sama dengan Salahuddin dan Mahfuz, sebelum membuat sebarang keputusan.

"Saya tunggu surat lantikan dulu baru komen," katanya ketika dihubungi Malaysiakini hari ini.

Semalam, Timbalan Presiden PAS Datuk Tuan Ibrahim Tuan Man mengumumkan pelantikan meraka dan pihaknya masih belum ada sebarang penolakan daripada mereka yang dilantik.

Dalam muktamar lalu, kumpulan progresif dalam PAS tewas di tangan kumpulan proulama untuk menempatkan diri dalam jawatankuasa pusat PAS ketika semua rakannya kecundang.

Ekoran kekalahan itu, barisan kepimpinan yang tewas telah membuat satu majlis yang dinamakan himpunan 'Jasamu Dikenang'.

Antara lain bekas timbalan presiden PAS Mohamad Sabu membayangkan beliau dan rakan-rakannya mungkin mahu mencari wadah baru termasuk menubuhkan parti politik baru.- mk

A muddle called Hadi Awang...

PAS president Abdul Hadi Awang said that his party is willing to work with all groups except what he called “chauvinists”.

He left unsaid the type of chauvinists his party would avoid.

The query is not disingenuous: there can be religious chauvinists just as surely as there are racial chauvinists, though the pejorative term for the religious variety is - precisely - supremacists.

The terms are different but they refer to the same disposition of wanting to feel and behave arrogant and superior.

Not the superiority stemming from an array of fact, transparently assembled and cogently argued; rather, it is the superiority of brass assertion, like the decision of the ulama wing of PAS to cut ties to the DAP and disallowing the motion for  debate by the floor at their muktamar three weeks ago.

Nothing in the recent conduct of the major political parties in the country beats for hauteur that action of PAS’ ulama wing, except perhaps for Umno vice-president Zahid Hamidi’s instruction to the police to “shoot first and ask questions later” with respect to criminal suspects, or his pronouncement of an anathema on Shiite Muslims.  

Like Zahid, Hadi Awang cares little for nuances: the ideologically driven mind do not bother with shades of grey; they see the world in monochromes.

It prefers to paint with broad strokes, as when Hadi said that Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak need not resign over the IMDB issue because there were several similar mishandlings of public funds in the past over which no sitting PM resigned.

Shortly after this backhanded endorsement for Najib to continue in office was pronounced, Hadi (photo) told the PAS muktamar that the IMDB issue was symptomatic of all that was wrong with Umno-BN rule.

How does one explain the gulf here between support for Najib to continue as PM even after it has become clear that the IMDB issue represents a colossal misjudgment, and the implied call for terminating Umno-BN’s stay in power for reason of its advanced decay?

One way is to see the first opinion as having been vented extemporaneously by Hadi at a press conference where the temptation to voice fragmentary and unpremeditated opinions is high, and the second opinion must be viewed as coming from his speechwriters via a presidential address by the chief.

The first opinion reflects Hadi in the raw; the second opinion is the gloss that his minders provided him.

Hadi voiced his opinion about PAS being willing to work with all except chauvinists after the first central committee meeting yesterday of the newly-elected committee following the elections at the party’s 61st muktamar in Kuala Selangor three weeks ago.

‘Willing to work with anyone at all?’

These days one must be wary when PAS says it is willing to work with anyone at all, though in this latest instance, it has entered a caveat against “chauvinists”.

Before the last general election in May 2013, PAS had intrigued Malaysian voters with its slogan ‘PAS for all’.

After having given that assurance, PAS, in the aftermath of GE13, proceeded to move to implement hudud in Kelantan on the grounds that the Islamic penal code was a longtime objective of the party.

No amount of pleas that hudud represented a radical departure from Pakatan Rakyat’s Common Policy Framework on which the coalition fought GE13 made any diference to the unilateralists of PAS.

Not only was the party adamant on implementing hudud in Kelantan, it staged a divisive internal election process in which candidates from the progressive wing of the party were wiped out, their rivals from the conservative flank winning all key posts.

It was a wipeout that bodes ill for the future of Pakatan Rakyat, the opposition coalition that had grouped the Islamic party with the avowedly secular DAP and the mildly Islamist PKR.

The PAS progressives were staunchly pro-Pakatan while the conservatives were ambivalent about the opposition alliance, formed in the wake of pivotal general election of March 2008 where the opposition triad denied the ruling BN its traditional two-thirds majority in Parliament.

Sceptics had warned that Pakatan was a house built on cards, the ideological differences between a theocratic PAS and a secularist DAP being too wide to bridge.

Their reservations were confirmed by the determination of the Kelantan chapter of PAS to go ahead in March with passing legislation that, once the requisite federal warrants were obtained, would enable the implementation of hudud in Kelantan.

DAP’s unwavering opposition to the move pushed the relationship  between the conservatives of PAS and the DAP secularists to breaking point.

The relationship became untenable once PAS adopted a resolution without debate to cut ties with the DAP at its muktamar.

DAP called the resolution the death knell of Pakatan, but Hadi has argued the point that Pakatan continues to exist because both PAS and PKR have not left the calition.

Rubbing the wound of its separation from DAP raw, Hadi has used the  term “chauvinists” for groups with whom the Islamic party disdains to work with.

Obviously, Hadi was referring to the DAP whom he regards as racial chauvinists.

One wonders if he had checked out the applicability of this term to the DAP now that national literary laureate A Samad Said has joined the DAP.

But such nuances are only for the carefully appraising, not for broad brushing ideologues.- Terence Netto,mk

 Mat Sabu, jangan tinggalkan kami...

Timbalan Presiden PAS Datuk Tuan Ibrahim Tuan Man mahu Mohamad Sabu, yang tewas dalam pemilihan supaya "memperkukuhkan parti" selepas membayangkan akan mencari "wadah baru" bagi meneruskan perjuangan.

"(PAS) harap dia akan kukuhkan parti," katanya dalam sidang media di Ibu Pejabat PAS Kuala Lumpur.

Tuan Ibrahim menjawab soalan mengenai kenyataan Mohamad yang mungkin mencari "wadah baru" bersama pemimpin progresif dalam program Malam ‘Jasamu Dikenang’ di Muar baru-baru ini, selepas ditolak dalam pemilihan parti.

Mengulas lanjut mengenai program itu, Tuan Ibrahim berkata PAS tidak menghalang mana-mana pemimpin terlibat dalam apa jua aktiviti asalkan ia tidak terkeluar dari landasan parti.

"Bila nak buat, kita tidak ada hak untuk larang. Aktiviti kita mesti jangan keluar dari parti,” katanya selepas mesyuarat Jawatankuasa PAS pusat.

Dalam program itu, Mohamad membayangkan beliau dan rakan-rakannya mungkin mencari wadah bagi memulakan perjuangan baru termasuk membentuk parti politik, selepas mengadakan perbincangan dengan semua pihak.

Selain itu, beliau atau mesra dipanggil Mat Sabu dan rakan yang lain boleh bergerak sebagai anggota biasa atau melalui NGO dan keputusannya bakal diketahui selepas sambutan Hari Raya Aidilfitri.

Dalam sidang media itu juga, Tuan Ibrahim juga berkata dalam mesyuarat tersebut turut dibangkitkan supaya jawatankuasa membincangkan mengenai usul memutuskan hubungan dengan DAP.

Bagaimanapaun, katanya, perkara itu ada dibincangkan tetapi usul untuk memutuskan hubungan dengan DAP ataupun tidak, akan diputuskan dalam mesyuarat Majlis Syura Ulama.

"Kita juga bincang tentang usul (putus hubungan dengan DAP) kerana ia akan diangkat dalam Majlis Syura Ulama. Ini baru mesyuarat pertama, selepas itu serah pada Majlis Syura.

"Itu usul Majlis Syura, (jadi perbincangan hari ini) tidak ada kena mengena dengan DAP," kata Tuan Ibrahim.

Beliau berkata Majlis Syura Ulama bermesyuarat petang ini.

Turut hadir dalam sidang media itu turut dihadiri Naib Presiden PAS Idris Ahmad dan Setiausaha Agung Datuk Takiyuddin Hassan.- mk

'Please don't go', Tuan Ibrahim sings to Mat Sabu...

Newly minted PAS deputy Tuan Ibrahim Tuan Man said whatever "new platform" his defeated rival wishes to undertake should be done within PAS.

He said his predecessor Mohamad Sabu should instead work to strengthen the Islamic party.

"Whatever he wants to do, we have no right to stop him. But our activities shouldn't go outside of the party," said Tuan Ibrahim at a press confernce at PAS' headquarters in Kuala Lumpur today.

"We hope he will strengthen the party," he said when asked about Mohamad's (left) announcement of a new platform for defeated PAS progressives.

He was speaking after the party's new central committee's maiden meeting today.

Tuan Ibrahim added it was raised during the meeting that the motion about severing ties with DAP should be discussed.

He said any decision would be made by the syura council.

The latter is to meet this evening, but it is unclear if the matter will be raised then.

PAS president Abdul Hadi Awang later told reporters at the PAS headquarters that the syura council will only discuss the split with DAP once spiritual leader Haron Din returns after performing the umrah.

He is expected to return to Malaysia on June 30.

In the PAS elections last month the progressives faction was completely wiped out from the party leadership with the exception of Mazlan Aliman.

The latter subsequently quit his central committee post in solidarity with his fallen colleagues, who have since been discussing new directions that do not exlude the formation of a new party.- mk

PAS sedang kehilangan sokongan daripada ahli parti yang kritikal terhadap Hadi ...

Kepimpinan beliau mungkin disokong oleh ulama dalam PAS tetapi presiden parti Abdul Hadi Awang tidak menujukkan contoh baik melalui tindakan (atau yang tidak dilakukan beliau) dan kenyataan kontroversi yang sering dikeluarkan.

Selain tidak hadir mesyuarat penting presiden Pakatan Rakyat dan kemudian membatalkan kuputusannya, untuk kali kedua sejak beberapa tahun kebelakangan ini, pendirian Hadi yang menuduh untuk kali kedua memfitnah individu lain dalam ucapannya - tindakan yang dalam Islam dikatakan sebagai ‘memakan darah daging saudara sendiri’.

Kali ini, calon presiden PAS yang tewas Ahmad Awang dilaporkan berkata beliau menimbangkan tindakan undang-undang ke atas pihak yang memfitnah beliau ketika pemilihan parti, termasuklah Hadi.

Beliau dilaporkan sebagai berkata bahawa walaupun beliau tidak menyesal tewas kepada Hadi dalam pemilihan itu, fitnah yang dilemparkan kepadanya telah mencetuskan keretakan dalam PAS.

“Saya sedang mempertimbangkannya (menyaman), termasuklah presiden yang melabel saya sebagai calon DAP.

“Saya tidak dapat menerima fitnah ini dan mahu membersihkan nama saya,” kata Ahmad yang hanya berjaya memperoleh 25 peratus daripada jumlah undi.

Sebelum pemilihan bermula, Ahmad dilihat sebagai memimpin kelompok progresif pro-Pakatan Rakyat untuk menentang satu-lawan-satu ke atas kem ulama dikepalai Hadi.

Malahan, sesetengah ulama telah pergi sejauh dengan mencipta senarai ‘cai’ atau menu mengundi kepada perwakilan yang mengundi, menyenaraikan calon bertanding dalam kedua-dua kelompok Hadi atau Ahmad dan berjaya menumpaskan kelompok progresif daripada jawatan tertinggi parti.

Hadi, dalam rujukan kepada Ahmad, sebelum ini telah berkata dalam satu kenyataan yang telah tersebar meluas dalam satu rakaman video bahawa pertandingan presiden parti antara pilihan DAP dan calon PAS.

Walaupun berkata perwakilan bebas untuk membuat pilihan dan terdapat ulama dalam kedua-dua kem, Hadi turut menekankan: “Anda (perwakilan) boleh memilih antara yang dipilih DAP dan yang kita (PAS) mahu.”

Tambahan lagi, bekas bendahari dan pengerusi jawatankuasa pemilihan PAS Asmuni Awi sedang mempertimbangkan mengambil tindakan undang-undang terhadap fitnah ke atas sesetengah orang dalam parti.

Pada masa lalu, Asmuni telah mewakili Hadi apabila beliau berhadapan dengan saman fitnah bernilai RM2 juta daripada bekas calon PKR Bukit Besi Mohd Shamsul bin Mat Amin, difailkan sejurus selepas Pilihan Raya Umum ke-13.

Ketika tempoh berkempen PRU13, Hadi telah mendakwa ketika satu ceramah di Terengganu terdapat calon PKR yang menjular ‘pil kuda’ (methamphetamine) dan beliau gunakannya sebagai alasan untuk PAS membariskan calon mereka sendiri di Bukit Besi dan dua kerusi Dewan Undangan Ngeri yang lain.

Umno akhirnya menang ketiga-tiga kerusi - Bukit Besi, Kota Putera dan Seberang Takir - di mana calon-calon PAS telah bertembung dengan PKR.

Sementara itu, pemilihan parti tahun ini telah digambarkan sebagai “paling kotor” bagi parti Islam itu, hakikat yang diakui bukan saja pemimpin yang tewas jawatan mereka tetapi juga para pentokong dan ahli di akar umbi.

Walaupun dilabel sebagai tidak setia dengan parti, terdapat laporan daripada ahli akar umbi di peringkat bahagian yang keluar parti kerana menzahirkan kekecewaan mereka terhadap pemimpin tertinggi sekarang.

Malahan, hanya pada 20 Jun, diketahui bahawa orang kuat DAP Lim Kit Siang dan Ahli Parlimen Kluang Liew Ching Tong, bersama sasterawan negara A Samad Said - telah berbuka puasa di sebuah rumah di Taman Indah Jaya, Kluang, dan pada masa sama menerima permohonan ahli baru daripada dua orang bekas ahli PAS.

Dengan DAP sendang menembusi kubu kuat tradisional Umno atau PAS, pemerhati mendapati bahawa parti itu sedang memperbaharui cubaan mereka memadam imej ‘cauvinis Cina’ menjelang Pilihan Raya Umum ke-14 kelak.

Dan pada ketika ini, kepimpinan ulama mungkin berfikir bahawa mereka boleh lebih baik tanpa ‘duri dalam daging’ tetapi jika Hadi tidak berwaspada, beliau mungkin menyebabkan PAS kelihangan lebih banyak sokongan daripada ahli parti yang semakin skeptikal dengan kebolehan beliau memimpin dengan tauladan. - Alyaa Alhadjri,theantdaily

Kopi Susu dan Pakatan Rakyat

Three PAS ‘progressives’ named to central committee...

Three “progressive” PAS leaders defeated in party elections have been appointed to the ulama-dominated central committee amidst uncertainty whether they would accept.

Deputy president Tuan Ibrahim Tuan Man said appointment letters had been sent to former information chief Mahfuz Omar, former vice-president Salahuddin Ayub, and former Negeri Sembilan PAS commissioner Mohd Taufek Abdul Ghani.

No one had formally rejected their appointments so far, “therefore, they are considered to have accepted the posts”, Tuan Ibrahim told a press conference here, The Star Online reported.

However Mahfuz denied having received the letter and would not say whether he would accept. “I will answer your question after I receive the letter,” he said, according to the report. Salahuddin and Mohd Taufek could not be reached for comment.

The report, quoting an anonymous source, said it was believed that all three would reject their appointments.

PAS also appointed former secretary-general Mustafa Ali to be the new election director, replacing Dr Hatta Ramli, another member of the “progressive” faction.

Takiyuddin Hassan was appointed secretary-general, former Federal Territories commissioner Mohamad Noor Mohamed treasurer, and Temerloh MP Nasrudin Hassan the new information chief.- fmt

Salahuddin, Mahfuz dilantik AJK PAS pusat

 

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