Kempen lemah DAP PRK P212 Sibu

DAP yang mencalonkan Pengerusi DAP Sarawak dan ADUN Bukit Assek YB Wong Ho Leng dalam PRK P 212 Sibu, menengahkan manisfesto yang tidak realistik dan dianggap lemah, bagi pilihan warga bandar majoriti etnik Cina Foo Chow itu.

Manifesto ini dipetik dari blog Wong:

AGENDA ‘SIBU, JOM UBAH’

1. Masa depan Sibu
Apabila DAP dan Pakatan Rakyat menjadi kerajaan negeri dan kerajaan pusat, kami berjanji untuk menyelesaikan masalah banjir di Sibu dalam masa dua tahun, di samping melabur dalam modal insan dan prasarana untuk menjadikan Sibu sebagai pusat antarabangsa bagi industri perkapalan, kejuruteraan marin dan pelancongan.

- Masalahnya, Pakatan Rakyat tidak akan menjadi Kerajaan Negeri Sarawak kerana rakyat Sarawak sudah matang memilih parti yang berjaya membawa aspirasi dan merealisasikan kepentingan mereka secara komprehensif.

DAP, PKR dan PAS merupakan parti ‘Semenanjung’ dan bukan parti ‘pribumi’ (indigenous) seperti PBB dan SUPP, yang lahir dan ujud kerana kepentingan warga Sarawak.

2. Warga Emas
Apabila DAP dan Pakatan Rakyat menjadi kerajaan negeri Sarawak, semua rakyat Sarawak yang berumur lebih 60 tahun akan menerima bayaran minimum RM100 setahun sebagai menghargai sumbangan mereka dalam membangunkan ekonomi Sarawak.

- Sebagaimana yang dihujahkan di Pulau Pinang, sumbangan RM 100.00 ini lebih meruipakan ‘penghinaan’ kepada warga emas kerana purata RM 3.30 sehari, tidak dapat memberikan apa apa kelebihan dalam kapasiti ‘membantu’ keadaan gayahidup seorang yang lebih 60 tahun umur.

3. Gaji minima
Apabila DAP dan Pakatan Rakyat menjadi kerajaan pusat, kami akan menetapkan gaji minimum RM750 sebulan kepada semua pekerja di Semenanjung dan RM830 sebulan di Sarawak.

- Pakatan Rakyat tidak akan menjadi Kerajaan Persekutuan, sebagaimana dibuktikan kegagalan Ketua Pembangkang-Tanpa-Parti Anwar “Mat King Leather” Ibrahim yang masih lagi gagal untuk melunaskan janji “16 September 2008″. Malah, perkembangan songsang’ sudahpun memperlihatkan PR kehilangan 4 MP semenjak 6 bulan kebelakangan ini.ru

Kerajaan Persekutuan bawah PM Dato’ Seri Mohd. Najib Tun Razak sedang melaksanakan transformasi ekonomi bawah Model Ekonomi Baru dan mengariskan ‘Ekonomi Nilai Tinggi’ dengan mensasarkan pendapatan per capita meningkat 100% dalam 10 tahun, tanpa menyebut ‘Gaji Minima’.

4. Pendidikan
Apabila DAP dan Pakatan Rakyat menjadi kerajaan pusat, semua sekolah akan diberi peruntukan mengikut keperluan sebagaimana yang dilaksanakan sekarang di Pulau Pinang, Selangor dan Kelantan untuk memastikan anak-anak kita mempunyai masa depan yang cerah.

- Program pembangunan bagi 10,000 sekolah seluruh Malaysia adalah sekata dan komprehensif berbanding tiada model sekolah pendalaman bagi Kerajaan DAP Pulau Pinang untuk membuktikan mereka benar benar mampu merealisasikan janji ini

5. Royalti minyak
Apabila DAP dan Pakatan Rakyat menjadi kerajaan pusat, Sarawak akan menerima royalti minyak sebanyak 20% dari Petronas, iaitu meningkat dari 5% yang diberikan oleh Petronas sekarang.

- DAP sengaja ‘memancing’ sentimen rakyat Sarawak dengan mensensaikan isu royalti kerana wang Petronas sebenarnya dibelanjakan oleh Kerajaan Persekutuan atas sejumlah besar program pembangunan, termasuk pelajaran, kesihatan, infratsruktur, keselamatan, pertahanan dan perdagangan dan industri.

6. Reformasi tanah
Apabila DAP dan Pakatan Rakyat menjadi kerajaan negeri di Sarawak, semua tanah NCR akan diukur nilai dan diberi hak milik manakala pajakan yang akan luput akan dilanjutkan tempoh tanpa syarat. Ini akan membuka peluang ekonomi besar di Sarawak.

- Ini merupakan kempen untuk menambat hati pengundi dayak sekitar Sibu tanpa benar benar mengariskan bagaimana cadangan ini hendak direalisasikan

7. Pentadbiran CAT dan demokrasi
Apabila DAP dan Pakatan Rakyat menjadi kerajaan negeri dan kerajaan pusat, kami akan mengamalkan pentadbiran Cekap, Akauntabel dan Telus (CAT) serta melaksanakan sistem tender terbuka, membenarkan kebebasan bersuara dan mengadakan pilihan raya tempatan.

CAT Pakatan Rakyat sebenarnya gagal, sebagaimana diSelangor dan Pulau Pinang. Rakan PR dalam Selangor sendiri seperti Dr. Hassan Ali mempersoalkan keberkesanan CAT.

Rasa tidak puas hati meluap luap dua MP PKR iaitu Bayan Baru Dato’ Seri Zahrain Hashim dan Nibong Tebal Tan Tee Beng adalah sebenarnya pemerintahan aka diktator Ketua Menteri DAP Pulau Pinang Lim Guan Eng, yang juga Setiausaha Agung DAP.

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Apa yang akan berlaku kepada warga P212 Sibu sekirnya Pakatan Rakyat gagal menubuhkan Kerajaan Negeri Sarawak (dalam pilihanraya negeri yand dijangkakan dalam tempoh setahun ini) dan Kerajaan Persekutuan (sebagaimana yang telah dibukti, setelah Mantan-Banduan-Salahguna-kuasa Anwar “Mat King Leather” Ibrahim gagal merealisasikan “Janji 16 September 2008″)?

Harapan yang Wong bawa sebagai calon DAP ke Dewan Rakyat hanyalah berlandaskan kepada senario ‘Jikalau’ (What if), dan sebenarnya gagal mengariskan agenda pembangunan sebenar yang boleh menguntungkan warga Sibu.

Jelas DAP sebenar tidak mempunyai agenda berstruktur untuk benar benar mewakilil aspirasi warga P212 Sibu, walaupun mewakili majoriti etnik Cina keturunan Foo Chow melainkan menengahkan agenda Chauvinis Cina dan menentang arus perdana dan aspirasi majoriti rakyat Malaysia.

Sekiranya dikaji blog YB Wong, maka menunjukan jelas beliau merupakan pemimpin agenda Chauvinis Cina dan tidak mewakili aspirasi rakyat Malaysia kerana bahasa utama blog ialah Mandarin sedangkan kemampuan rakyat Malaysia yang boleh menggunakan bahasa ini dengan baik kurang dari 10%.

Is the Civil Service ready for NEM?

Deputy Finance Minister Senator Dato’ Dr. Awang Adek Husin made a statement that part of the strategic plan to increase the Malaysian income per capita as part of the New Economic Model (NEM) is to increase the pay of the civil servants. They comprised of 1.2 million of the 11.3 million Malaysian workforce.

Bernama.com reports:

Civil service pay hike a key factor in NEM success

2010/05/09

KOTA BARU: A pay hike for over one million civil servants is one of the key ingredients in ensuring the success of the New Economic Model (NEM), said Deputy Finance Minister Senator Datuk Dr Awang Adek Hussein.
He said this was to ensure that the NEM’s objective of transforming the country from a middle-income economy to a high-income would improve the public sector’s productivity, thus ensuring successful development strides.

“Singapore shifted to a high-income economy several years ago by setting high pay for civil servants which has succeeded in improving its economic performance.

“So civil servants in this country cannot be ignored,” he said when closing the Kelantan Branch of the Peninsular Malaysia Technical Services Union annual general meeting here.

Awang Adek said the government would take steps to ensure that workers would enjoy better wages in line with the NEM’s objective.

He said 80 per cent of Malaysia’s workforce was earning below RM3,000 a month or a per capita of US$7,000 (RM22,893) while the government strive to increase it to between USD15,000 (RM49,057) and USD20,000 (RM65,410).
Awang Adek said 80 percent of the people earned about RM21,000 a year and the government aspired to increase their income to RM45,000 a year.

On goods and services tax (GST), he said the proposed four per cent GST rate would not burden the people when implemented in terms of price hike of goods and services.

“As we had studied the rate to be imposed, it would be unbecoming of traders to use GST as an excuse to raise prices.

“Even with GST being implemented, traders should drop prices. The GST has been implemented in 146 countries. It will become another source of income for the country as petroleum revenue decreases,” he said.

Awang Adek said, however, the GST would only be implemented after the anti-profiteering law (profit) was enforced to prevent unscrupulous traders from raising prices simply by making the GST as an excuse to do so. – BERNAMA

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The pay hike may improve the aggregate demand that will propel the economy further. It must commensurate with productivity. How the productivity is measured, it is still not clear. Credit should be accorded to the various front line government agencies and statutory bodies which have managed to improved service such as immigration, customs and inland revenue board. However, over all it is still much to be desired.

The civil service should have a quantum leap mentality change. The Federal Government should indoctrinate civil servants to the ’1 Malaysia’ drive; rakyat first, performance paramount.

Once ‘Mahathirism Economics’ where Federal Government work hard-in-hand with private sector in the ‘Malaysian Incorporated’ makes great economic sense. It is the single most important factor in propelling the economy towards industrialisation and on the track to be Asia’s second tier economic powerhouse. The Fourth Prime Minister Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad often reminded the rakyat that “The Federal Government has direct stakes in all business activities. 28% of all profits go back to the Federal Government”.

It is pertinent that the civil service be ‘intrapreneurial’ in their mentality and approach, to facilitate the growth of commerce, the most important ingredient in modern age capitalist economy.

Since PM ‘Flip-Flop’ Dato’ Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi’s tenure, the civil service has been seen not doing enough to facilitate business development in the country. It is far from actively or pro-active participate indirectly to ensure that businesses flourish. In fact, the bureaucracy had remained the same with archaic procedures and regulations still being enforced to a point is actually a huge obstacle and eventually a reason to ‘advocate’ corruption.

The civil servants have been known to be very slow with the demands and dynamism of the commercial sector. An example are the issues related to human capital.  They do not facilitate to demands of the industry such as archaic Employment and Immigration Acts, which in the final analysis Malaysia lost strategic businesses to neighbouring countries.  This lackluster in human capital regulation and management will actually be counter productive to PM Dato’ Seri Mohd. Najib Tun Razak’s desire to make Malaysia a ‘high income economy’.

Federal Government should really look into the KPIs of the delivery system. Policies could be formulated and decided but if the delivery system fail, then it would be another ‘wet dream’ failed to be realised for the betterment of the rakyat. Worse still, if it cost a lot of money. Case in point: the failed economic corridors (Iskandar Malaysia, NCER, ECER) which were planned and started to be executed half-way through PM ‘Flip-Flop’ Abdullah’s tenure.

The Operating Expenditure of the Federal Government annual budget is already almost as big as the Revenue. A big chunk of this is already going the emoluments. The corridors are good examples huge ‘human capital’ bills are spent but no tacit result is achieved except for abstracts and hopes. IRDA which employs 130 people, foot an emolument and a ‘comprehensive human capital’ bill of RM 48 million last year. Despite a very high salaried workforce, 40 different blueprints are being commissioned by various consulting outfits and yet non implemented to actually produce any result. NCIA which takes care of the NCER recently gave an average 20% increment to its 70 odd workforce for no real tangible results achieved.

Thus employing “people from private sector” and paid market rate still does ensure the work gets done. To make the objective in totality is realistically met, the nation must be able to see the difference for the ‘fee’ the system is ready to part with and what the fee can actually achieve. It is time that the rakyat gets what it worth for this very large expenditure.

In the late 80′s Fourth Prime Minister Tun Dr. Mahathir introduced the ‘corporatisation’ of government services, to reduce public spending and dependence of capital expenditure without impairing the nation building strategic goal and mid term objectives. It not only worked but managed to spur growth. In the corporate world there is a concept of  ‘risk and reward’. For civil servants to have their ‘reward’, they must actually earn it. Taking ‘risk’, is part of the game. ‘Delivery’ is part of that ‘risk’.

Mungkinkah skandal ‘Blok L & M’ sebab rasuah?

The 'Golden Goose' PM 'Flip-Flop' Abdullah Badawi gave away: Blocks L & M and disputed claims over Limbang

Semenjak pendedahan Perdana Menteri Malaysia IV Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad mengenai skandal ‘Blok L & M’ jauh diluar persisiran pantai Brunei ‘hilang’ dari penguasaan Petronas dan masa yang sama, tuntutan kepada Limbang tidak digugurkan oleh Brunei, tidak sebagaimana persepsi sebilangan rakyat Malaysia semasa PM ‘Flip-Flop’ Dato’ Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi sekembali dari lawatan tersebut Mac 2009, maka timbul  pula pelbagai spekulasi.

Mungkinkah berlaku rasuah mengakibatkan PM ‘Flip-Flop’ Abdullah di’nasihat’kan untuk ‘mengadaikan hak keatas Blok L & M’ tersebut dan Petronas sebagai pembangun utama projek hidrokarbon lumayan tersebut jatuh sebagai ‘sub kontraktor’?

Jika berlaku rasuah, angkara siapa? Siapa yang beroleh begitu besar ganjaran dan mendapat kelebihan dalam pengadaian taraf Petronas sebagai pembangun utama projek? Tidakkah tindakan ini, walaupun ‘tidak sengaja’ wajar dilihat sebagai ‘Mengkhianati Negara’?

Sebagai sub-kontraktor, hasil dari pendapat jangkaan USD 100 billion dari ‘Blok L dan M’ itu semestinya makin berkurang sebagai imbuhan kepada Petronas. Ini masih lagi merugikan negara dan kemungkinan besar ada pihak yang beroleh secara peribadi dari kegagalan Petronas ini.

Walaubagaimanapun, PM Dato’ Seri Mohd. Najib Tun Razak wajar menasihatkan DYMM Seri Paduka Baginda Yang DiPertuan Agong agar satu Suruhanjaya Siasatan DiRaja diujudkan segera, untuk menyiasat sepenuhnya apa yang telah berlaku dan siapa perlu bertanggung jawab.

*Perkembangan dikemas kini Ahad 9 Mei 2010 1000am

Ini penjelasan mantan Menteri Luar Negeri Dato’ Seri Utama Dato’ Dr Rais Yatim mengenai isu Limbang:

Penjelasan Rais isu Limbang

Oleh ZULKIFLI JALIL
pengarang@utusan.com.my

PUTRAJAYA 8 Mei – Rakyat tidak perlu bimbang dengan isu kedudukan Limbang yang dijamin akan selesai dengan sendirinya setelah lima perjanjian yang ditandatangani oleh kerajaan dan Brunei antara 1920 hingga 1939 diakhiri dengan kerjakerja mengukur sempadan.

Datuk Seri Dr. Rais Yatim berkata, beliau terpanggil membuat penjelasan itu ekoran ‘kontroversi’ penyerahan dua kawasan blok minyak, blok L dan M kepada Brunei baru-baru ini kerana terlibat secara langsung selaku Menteri Luar pada Mac 2009 bersama Perdana Menteri ketika itu, Tun Abdullah Ahmad Badawi dalam rundingan dan proses diplomasi dengan kerajaan Brunei.

Malah, kata beliau, persefahaman yang dicapai hasil Pertukaran Surat yang ditandatangani kerajaan dengan Brunei pada Mac 2009 sebenarnya turut menyebabkan Brunei kehilangan 5,165 kilometer persegi kawasan maritim zon ekonomi eksklusifnya.

Kawasan maritim negara kesultanan itu menguncup berbanding sebelum 1984.

”Saya dengar (dibangkitkan di Sibu dan diungkit pelbagai pihak termasuk akhbar pembangkang) seolah-olah Malaysia bodoh serahkan seluruh hak wilayah kita sedangkan ia (blok L dan blok M) tidak pernah menjadi milik kita.

”Silapnya pada tahun 1979, pemeta kita sekadar memasukkan tanggapan itu padahal ia terletak dalam Pelantar Benua Brunei dan diiktiraf Konvensyen Pertubuhan Bangsa-Bangsa Bersatu mengenai Undang-Undang Laut (UNCLOS) 1982.

”Begitupun Pertukaran Surat ini ada imbasannya (kaitan) pada Limbang. Apabila lima perjanjian berkenaan diselesaikan kehendak pengukurannya, soal Limbang tidak timbul lagi dan berhasil bagi Malaysia,” kata beliau kepada Mingguan Malaysia hari ini.

Lima perjanjian berkenaan ialah:

i. Perjanjian Mengenai Sungai Pandaruan dan daerahnya pada 4 Februari 1920.

ii. Perjanjian Sempadan Sungai Belait dan Sungai Baram 25 Ogos 1931.

iii. Perjanjian Antara Brunei dan Sarawak mengenai Trusan dan Temburong.

iv. Perjanjian Antara Brunei dan Sarawak mengenai Sempadan Limbang dan Brunei dari Pantai ke Bukit Gadong 24 Februari 1933.

v. Perjanjian 4 November 1939 antara kedua-dua pihak.

Kelima-lima perjanjian inilah meletakkan Limbang dan dipersetujui bahawa terusan-terusan Pagalayan hingga ke Bukit Traja ditentukan oleh perjanjian tersebut.

Rais yang kini menyandang Menteri Penerangan, Komunikasi dan Kebudayaan berkata, dakyah kononnya Malaysia kehilangan wilayahnya telah dibangkitkan menjelang pengundian Pilihan Raya Kecil Parlimen Sibu 16 Mei ini dan justeru beliau terpanggil untuk menerangkan beberapa aspek justifikasi demi kenegaraan dan hubungan diplomasi dengan Brunei.

“Brunei dengan rela hati bersetuju bahawa kawasan maritimnya menguncup selepas Pertukaran Surat 2009. Ini keikhlasan tidak ternilai dan Malaysia tahu jika dibawa ke Mahkamah Keadilan Antarabangsa (di The Hague, Belanda) kemungkinan kita beroleh hasil lebih positif lebih jauh kes Batuan Tengah di Batu Putih,” katanya.

Mengulas lanjut, beliau berkata, sebelum ini perairan di blok L dan M dikenali CA1 dan CA2 mengeluarkan hasil minyak dan hidrokarbon digunakan oleh rakyat Malaysia untuk mencari nafkah dan berniaga.

Namun secara tiba-tiba Petronas menganggap ia perairan negara dan mewujudkan kerjasama carigali dengan Murphy Oil di Sabah.

“Bagaimanapun Brunei dalam perbincangannya bersetuju untuk berusahasama dalam kedua-dua petak komersial tadi termasuk minyak di bawah tajuk Perolehan Kerajaan untuk Malaysia bagi tempoh 40 tahun bermula dari tarikh Production Sharing Contract (PSC).

“Juga dipersetujui oleh Brunei tentang hak laluan kekal bagi rakyat Malaysia dan Sarawak melintas dan menggunakan perairan itu untuk mendarat atau pergi ke kawasan sempadan Sarawak dan Brunei. Pendek kata, ia tidak boleh ditarik balik…berterusan,” kata beliau.

Pada masa sama Malaysia diberi 10 peratus faedah melalui kontraktor yang dipilih sendiri (iaitu Petronas) dalam hak dan obligasi yang sama.

Seterusnya Malaysia juga akan beroleh melalui Petronas 75 peratus dari hal dan obligasi

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Sekiranya sebelum pertukaran suratcara pada Mac 2009, Blok CA 1 dan 2 (L & M) dianggap Petronas sebagai hak untuk meneroka dan membangunkan eksplorasi hidrokarbon tanpa halangan dan kejadian diplomatik, mengapa Petronas perlu beralah pula sekarang?

Implikasinya sebenarnya lebih jauh merangkumi. Sekiranya perjanjian eksplorasi dan pembangunan kawasan hidrokarbon seperti ‘Blok L & M” boleh dibatalkan atau terbatal sebegitu sahaja, bagaimana reputasi Petronas sebagai salah satu syarikat pemaju pembangunan minyak milik negara paling disegani ini akan dilihat selepas episod ini?

Apakah ada pihak yang mahu membuat perjanjian lagi dengan Petronas, terutama sekiranya kemampuan syarikat ini menentukan hak untuk membangunkan kawasan operasi mempunyai risiko ‘hak daulat’ (soverreign right)?

Sekiranya reputasi Petronas mula menurun, maka pihak pembiaya projek seperti bank dan institusi kewangan dan pasaran modal dan sekuriti akan mengambil perkiraan risiko yang lebih besar kepada mana mana pembiayaan projek melibatkan Petronas akan datang. Ini semestinya akan mengakibatkan kos pengeluaran yang meningkat dan mungkin tidak akan menjadi kompetitif. Akibatnya amat buruk bagi Petronas, selaku pencari ‘sumber rezeki’ paling penting bagi Kerajaan Malaysia mewakili negara.

Persoalan kami di BigDogDotCom sekali lagi, apakah ujud unsur rasuah yang menungkinkan pihak berkepentingan memperolehi kelebihan dengan menafikan kedudukan Petronas dalam ‘Blok L & M’ ini?

MISC’s logistics business in Singapore being swooped by Keppel

They say in a dog-eat-dog world today, the moment you fall asleep, you would be eaten alive. There has been a sinister move to swoop MISC Bhd. interests in a logistics and depot joint venture in Singapore, the busiest logistics hub in the region, by the JV partner Keppel Holdings Bhd.

Transware Distribution Services Pte. Ltd. is a 50-50 joint venture between MISC and Keppel Holdings.

Chairman of Keppel Logistics Gui Eng Hwee yesterday suspended four members of the management team of Transware Distribution Services for a week. The purpose is to go for a witch-hunt in search of misconduct affairs of the company. Information from a reliable source close to the Keppel Holdings Group was said that the Chairman is on a personal vendetta because the management of the JV is not a “Yes man” to him. He is nit-picking to find faults to achieve his agenda to sideline MISC’s management control of the JV company.

The JV company is now making money and business for the rest of the year looks promising. Mr Gui is using the opportunity to the maximum to make himself look good. Especially since assuming the position less than a year ago, the JV company lost a number of key people who did not agree with him.

It appears that the Malaysian director of Transware Distribution Services has been ‘rairoaded’ by Chairman Gui and surrendering Malaysia’s territory. MISC as the flag carrier need to stand firm and not let the kiasus of the ‘tiny red dot’ run rough shot over our vested interest.

Its time that issues developing lately within Petronas such as the appointment of former PRM Vice President and an anti BN Government activist Sheryll Stothard, movements of key people which include appointments from outside which is expected to hurt the morale and this latest Transware Distribution Services poker-shuffle be looked into seriously by PM Dato’ Seri Mohd. Najib Tun Razak.

Gunatenaga professional Melayu dalam Petronas peringkat tertinggi mula tiris

Minggu ini berlaku penstrukturan semula dan penyusunan ‘modal insan’ dalaman bagi Petronas secara kumpulan. Semenjak PM Dato’ Seri Mohd. Najib Tun Razak mengambil alih sebagai Perdana Menteri VI, Petronas sebagai organisasi korporat yang diterajui professional Melayu paling berjaya dalam dunia sehingga layak menjadi sebahagian dari senarai Fortune 500 kini mula ‘membuka pintu’ kepada professional Bukan Melayu dalam jawatan tertinggi, termasuk yang dibawa masuk dari ‘luar’.

Bermula dengan perlantikan CEO Ethos Consulting Omar Ong kedalam Lembaga Pengarah, kini jawatan tertinggi pengurusan juga mula berubah. Semenjak kontrak CEO kebanggaan Petronas Tan Sri Hassan Merican tidak disambung kerana ‘usia lanjut’ dan digantikan dengan seorang Mantan CEO MISC Bhd. yang sama usianya dan telah pun bersara, Dato’ Shamsul Azhar Abbas Februari lepas, kini jawatan yang sebelum ini dilaksanakan dengan jayanya oleh professional Melayu mula diisi dengan professional Bukan Melayu pula. Ini berlaku dengan proses ‘naik pangkat’ dan ‘penambahan’ kepada jawatan eksekutif paling kanan diperingkat Naib Presiden dan Pengurus Besar Kanan, yang selama ini dijawat oleh  professional Melayu. Personaliti ‘anti Kerajaan BN’ dari luar seperti Mantan Naib Presiden Parti Rakyat Malaysia Sheryll Stothard juga dibawa kedalam untuk mengisi jawatan strategik bagi maklumat kumpulan iaitu Pengurus Besar Perhubungan Awam dan secara langsung mengundang kontroversi, terutama dikalangan pelayar bloggosfera.

Personaliti dari ‘luar’ seperti Dato’ Wee Yiaw Hin kini menjawat Naib Presiden Eksekutif Eksplorasi dan Produksi. Sebelum ini Wee  berkhidmat di Talisman dan Shell dan merupakan lantikan langsung dari luar. Lain lain peringkat Naib Presiden  dan lantikan dalaman diisi oleh etnik Cina, seperti Naib Presiden Infratsruktur dan Utiliti (bagi perniagaan Gas) Lau Lai Tuang,  Naib Presiden Teknologi dan Kejuteraan Collin Wong dan CEO Eksplorasi Gas Effendi Cheng. George Ratillal pula kini menjawat Naib Presiden Eksekutif bagi kewangan, yang satu masa dahulu disandang oleh Hassan Merican.

Persoalan yang kami di BigDogDotCom ingin timbulkan ialah: Apakah tidak ujud lagi professional Melayu peringkat spara tertinggi dan menengah dalam Petronas yang layak dan mempunyai kemampuan, produktiviti, pengalaman dan dayamaju untuk dipertimbangkan kejawatan tertinggi seperti Pengurus Besar Kanan dan Naib Presiden sehingga diberikan laluan kepada Bukan Melayu?

Mungkin hujah bagi tindakan strategik modal insan dalaman Petronas  pusingan ini ialah memenuhi prinsip ke 3 ‘Teras Teras Perpaduan dalam Gagasan 1 Malaysia’ iaitu “Keadilan Sosial, Semua rakyat Malaysia akan terbela dan tiada mana mana pihak yang akan dipinggirkan”. Namun begitu, persoalan serious kami bernilai  “Tigabelas Juta Ringgit” di BigDogDotCom ini ialah kenapa sekiranya ada professional Melayu yang layak menjalankan tugas ini dengan baik, mempunyai rekod kerja cemerlang dan sebenarnya wajar ditimbangkan secara serious untuk kenaikan pangkat, tetapi mengapa diberi kepada Bukan Melayu juga?

Realitinya, Petronas sebagai entiti milik penuh Kerajaan Malaysia mempunyai tanggung jawab moral dan sosial untuk memberikan sepenuhnya peluang dan ruang kepada orang Melayu dahulu, membatasi etnik lain sekiranya ada pilihan sebagai memenuhi peruntukan Perlembagaan Malaysia yang menetapkan orang Melayu dijamin kedudukan istimewa. Ini merupakan asas persetujuan ‘Kontrak Sosial’ yang dipersetujui antara Raja Raja Melayu, orang Melayu (sebagai pribumi dan ‘warga DYMM Raja Raja Melayu’ pra-proses perundingan Kemerdekaan)  dan etnik Bukan Melayu.

Penyusunan dan penstrukturan dalaman semula Petronas dalam minggu ini mungkin akan memberikan ‘produktif songsang’ (counter productive), sekiranya moral majoriti professional dikalangan orang Melayu dalam syarikat milik penuh Kerajaan ini dicalari.

Dalam dunia perdagangan, sebenarnya ujud ‘halangan kaca’ bagi professional dikalangan orang Melayu untuk menjawat jawatan tertinggi, termasuk eksekutif dan lembaga pengarah. Professional dikalangan orang Melayu telah terbukti mampu untuk menjawat dan memberikan perkhidmatan yang terbaik dan cemerlang, seperti Tan Sri Hassan Merican, Dato’  Seri Abdul Wahid Omar, Dato’ Seri Che Khalib Mohd. Noh, Dato’ Zamzamzairani Mohd. Isa, Tengku Dato’ Azmil Zaharuddin, Dato’ Mohd. Bakke Salleh, Dato’ Abdul Rahman Ahmad, Dato’ Shazalli Ramli, Amir Hamzah Azizan, Ismee Ismail dan sebagainya, dalam pelbagai sektor dan industri.

Namun begitu syarikat Bukan Melayu terutama yang dimiliki dan kuasai etnik Cina seperti Public Bank, Hong Leong Bank, Alliance Bank, YTL, IOI Properties, Country Heights, Lion Group, Rimbunan Hijau, Ekran Group dan Berjaya  Group tidak memberikan peluang dan ruang yang cukup bagi professional dikalangan orang Melayu untuk menerajui dan membuktikan kemampuan dan produktiviti mereka sebagai pengurusan peringkat tertinggi.

Yang lebih buruk lagi, terdapat usaha diskriminasi dikalangan pengurusan, pembangunan dan perancangan modal insan dikalangan syarikat Bukan Melayu  seperti mensyaratkan pengunaan Bahasa Mandarin dan sebagainya, sebagai ‘halangan kaca’ dan ianya berlaku secara meluas dan seolah olah di’rancang’. Pihak usahawan Bukan Melayu terutama golongan etnik Cina sendiri tidak langsung memainkan peranan (terutama secara ‘sukarela’) untuk menentukan Dasar Ekonomi Baru (DEB) yang mensasarkan peningkatan orang Melayu dengan memenuhi sasaran penguasaan 30% ekonomi sebenarnya tercapai.  Sebaliknya, apa yang berlaku ialah golongan usahawan Bukan Melayu terutama etnik Cina ini menyalahkan kegagalan DEB walaupun orang Melayu diberikan peluang.

Kepimpinan wajar menimbangkan perkembangan ini secara serious. Jangan biarkan golongan professional Melayu menghadapi keadaan ‘Kera di hutan disusukan, anak di buaian mati kelaparan’. lantas sebagai ‘anak tiri’ dalam rumah sendiri merasa bosan dan mengambil tindakan untuk mencari peluang diluar negara. Ini tidak akan membantu proses pembangunan negara-bangsa dan professional Melayu dalam peranan strategik untuk memacu pembaharuan dan pertumbuhan yang didambakan. Peribahasa Bahasa Inggeris juga menyebut ‘Charity begins at home‘. Professional di kalangan Melayu tidak mengharapkan ‘sumbangan’ (hand out) tetapi usaha strategik perlu untuk menentukan kesinambungan pencernaan pembangunan yang sebelum ini berjaya mengujudkan ramai intrapreneur Melayu diteruskan, terutama apabila penekanan masakini ialah tertumpu kepada sektor perkhidmatan. Persoalan samada ‘Agenda DEB’ masih lagi ujud dan diteruskan dalam Model Ekonomi Baru (MEB) masih lagi belum terjawab.

Apakah perkembangan terkini dalam Petronas ini melambangkan bahawa MEB acuan ’1 Malaysia’ ini sebenarnya secara strategiknya merugikan orang Melayu?

*Perkembangan dikemas kini 600pm

Dasar dasar ‘liberalisasi’ yang kita gunakan sekarang ini mula ‘memakan diri’, terutama datang dari ‘musuh tradisi’ orang Melayu Malaysia. Syarikat gergasi Singapura Keppel Holdings sedang mengusahakan secara licik agar penguasaan kepentingan MISC dalam usaha-sama perniagaan logistik dan depoh di Singapura diambil alih oleh mereka.

MISC merupakan anak syarikat Petronas.

Sila nantikan perkembangan selanjutnya.

*Perkembangan dikemas kini Sabtu 8 Mei 2010 400pm

Sebagai menyambung maklumat dari komen Anak Watan Malaya,  akauntan berkanun Harry K. Menon memang dilantik kedalam Lembaga Pengarah Petronas. Ini merupakan langkah yang dianggap proses ‘liberalisasi’  semenjak PM Dato’ Seri Najib mengambil alih jawatan Perdana Menteri Malaysia VI dan Omar Ong dilantik sebagai ahli Lembaga Pengarah (BOD), walaupun mendapat ‘tentangan’ ahli ahli BOD Petronas sendiri.

Laporan The Star:

Friday April 30, 2010

Petronas names five new independent directors

By YAP LENG KUEN
lengkuen@thestar.com.my

PETALING JAYA: Five new independent directors have been appointed to the board of Petroliam Nasional Bhd (Petronas) in addition to the existing two, bringing the current number of directors to 16.

However, sources indicate that some more changes could be in the offing to reflect a more balanced board, wider experience in the energy industry, corporate and legal sectors as well as a global outlook.

Besides keeping up with the status and expectations of Petronas as a Fortune 500 company, it is believed the aim is also to have a board composition that reflects 1Malaysia.

According to sources, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak had these changes in mind and the new Petronas president and CEO, Datuk Shamsul Azhar Abbas, shared the same thinking.

The appointment of the new directors – Datin Yap Siew Bee, Datuk Mohamad Idris Mansur, Tan Sri Megat Najmuddin, Harry Menon and Datuk Muhammad Ibrahim – is believed to be effective two days ago.

From left: Tan Sri Megat Najmuddin, Harry Menon and Datuk Muhammad Ibrahim

Among the current directors, four are believed to be stepping down – lawyer Abdul Kadir Md Kassim when he turns 70, as well as Datuk Shukry Mohd Salleh (director-general of the Implementation Co-ordination Unit, Prime Minister’s Department) and Datuk Noriyah Ahmad (director-general of the Economic Planning Unit) and her alternate Dr Rosli Mohamed.

According to sources, these two government representatives would likely be replaced by Muhammad, who is assistant governor of Bank Negara.

Yap, a consultant with Mah-Kamariah & Philip Koh, has served as legal advisor of Petronas while Harry Menon is an independent director of MISC Bhd.

Idris, who holds degrees in mining geology and exploration as well as petroleum engineering, resigned as independent director from KNM Group Bhd and Alam Maritim Resources Bhd on Wednesday to take up his appointment as non-executive director of Petronas with effect on the same day.

Megat Najmuddin is the president of the Federation of Public Listed Companies and Malaysian Institute of Corporate Governance.

The other board members of Petronas comprise Shamsul (whose appointment as president and CEO of Petronas took effect on Feb 10 this year); Tan Sri Dr Wan Abdul Aziz Wan Abdullah (the Finance Ministry secretary-general); Mohd Omar Mustapha (co-founder of management and strategic consulting firm Ethos & Co); the three Petronas vice-presidents – Datuk Anuar Ahmad (human resource management), Datuk Nasaruddin Md Idris (corporate planning & development) and Datuk Wan Zulkiflee Wan Ariffin (gas business) as well as Datuk Mohammad Azhar Osman Khairuddin (company secretary).

Both Kadir and Omar are independent, non-executive directors.

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Selain dari lantikan langsung Kerajaan Malaysia, kini sudah ada tiga orang ahli BOD Petronas yang Bukan Melayu.

Persoalan kami ialah, apakah syarikat syarikat besar dan gergasi Bukan Melayu terutama etnik Cina Malaysia begitu  terbuka dan ‘murah hati’ untuk melantik jumlah yang begitu ramai ahli BOD dari golongan professional Melayu, walaupun dalam kapasiti ahli BOD bebas bukan eksekutif (independent non executive directors) sebagaimana Ong, Menon dan Yap dilantik kedalam Petronas?

Untuk rekod, Petronas hanya melantik dua orang sahaja professional Melayu kedalam BOD sebagai pengarah bebas bukan eksekutif iaitu Dato’ Idris Mansur dan Tan Sri Megat Najmuddin. Lain lain lantikan pengarah BOD merupakan wakil pelbagai agensi dan kementerian Kerajaan Persekutuan.

Another sad story from Sime Darby Energy

The news about cost over run for Sime Darby Energy ‘jewel project’, the Bakun Dam, was out in the MSM today. The accumulated losses is RM 1.7 billion, which is the same contract sum calculated when the original award was given in 2010.

Starbiz has the report, which says it all:

Wednesday May 5, 2010

Sime’s Bakun losses balloon to RM1.7bil

By RISEN JAYASEELAN
risen@thestar.com.my

PETALING JAYA: Sime Darby has incurred around more than RM1bil in total cost overruns from carrying out the civil works contract for the Bakun hydro-electric project, sources said.

One estimate puts the total cost overrun figure in the region of a whopping RM1.7bil, almost the same size as the Sime Darby’s actual Bakun contract of RM1.8bil that it had secured back in 2002.

When contacted, Sime Darby did not deny or confirm this.

In an emailed reply, the company merely said that it had made provisions to the tune of RM130mil for its share of the cost overruns in the Bakun project.

The discovery of the more than RM1bil cost overrun in the Bakun project is believed to be among the findings of the special taskforce within the group that was set up late last year to probe losses in its energy and utilities division.

The taskforce is also looking into the reasons for the cost overruns and whether there were lapses in internal audit and whether other improprieties occurred.

It is understood the Government has agreed to reimburse Sime Darby for around RM700mil, leaving Sime Darby with around RM1bil to be dealt with, by some estimates.

Sime Darby’s energy and utilities division recorded an operating loss of RM110mil in the second half of its financial year ended Dec 31, 2009, compared with a profit of RM56.3mil previously. But within this division, its oil and gas and engineering divisions’ losses alone totalled RM201mil.

However, Sime Darby said this loss was due to overruns from another project, namely its RM2.1bil Maersk Oil Qatar (MOQ) project.

“Sime Darby recognised a project loss for MOQ amounting to RM210mil (including the impact of foreign exchange losses). As a result, the oil and gas segment recorded losses of RM201mil in 1HFY2010,” it said in the email to StarBiz.

Assuming the cost overruns have taken place in the Bakun project, the group will still need to deal with a significant amount of provisioning or expensing, which could seriously dent its profits for FY2010.

When asked if Sime Darby will be providing or expensing any amounts this year arising from the Bakun project, Sime Darby said: “As part of its disclosure obligations, Sime Darby regularly reviews its portfolio of projects and if required, makes provisions in accordance with the Group’s accounting policies.”

Assisting the taskforce in its findings were specialists from external accounting, legal and engineering firms, sources said.

To recap, Sime Engineering, a unit of Sime Darby, was awarded the civil works for the Bakun project in September 2002 at a fixed lump-sum price of RM1.8bil. It has been reported that Sarawak Hidro Sdn Bhd has approved a variation order for RM700mil for the Bakun project. Sime Darby did not confirm or deny this.

“As with all such construction projects of this nature, we have received periodic payments and agreed claims from the Government. In the past, some cost overruns were incurred due to increase in material costs and variations in design but these have been dealt with,” Sime Darby said in the email reply.

Sarawak Hidro is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Ministry of Finance Inc Malaysia and entrusted to develop and manage the Bakun project since May 2000.

Sime Darby had yet to reply to questions posed to it by StarBiz yesterday afternoon.

But in Sime Darby’s press statement when announcing its first-half results, president and group CEO Datuk Seri Ahmad Zubir Murshid said that there were issues with the energy and utilities division.

“We have faced several challenges with the oil and gas business unit especially with operational efficiency and project management. Nevertheless, with a new management team on board, measures have been taken to increase operational efficiency and improve our project management capabilities,” he had said.

A change in leadership at its energy and utilities division had taken place recently, following the resignation of Datuk Mohamad Shukri Baharom

Mohamad Shukri was replaced by Hisham Hamdan, who was previously the executive vice-president for group strategy and business development.

Sime Darby has also said it has been taking steps to prevent a repeat of the cost overruns, including reviewing and re-evaluating systems and processes in the division.

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This is the second major blunder SDE is facing, with regards to really huge losses. First that struck attention was the RM 800 million losses in the scandalous Qatar project.

This just to show how incompetent those guys who were entrusted to manage the division. Full clean up must be done and those responsible for these debacles must accept and that they had caused great injustice to the company and division. Some heads must be chopped to ensure that the division will not go into wrong and disastrous futile direction.

PM Dato’ Seri Mohd. Najib Tun Razak, who is also the Finance Minister must instruct a full blown investigation really fast. Sime Darby Bhd., now a huge conglomerate when Synergy Drive Sdn. Bhd. amalgated the three largest plantation and property based PLCs, Sime Darby Bhd., Guthrie Bhd. and Golden Hope Bhd. to the largest merger Malaysia and South East Asia capital market ever saw.

Sime Darby is also one of the mainstay for investments of Amanah Saham Baru and Amanah Saham Nasional unit trust holders. In the past, Sime Darby is one of the major contributor for ASB’s generous dividends pay out annually. The continuous slide of Sime Darby profitability will affect the ASB and ASN in the medium term.

Sime Darby’s blunder is not a good example for PM Najib to woo foreign capital and debt market investors and punters into the Malaysian corporate scene. In fact, it would be counter productive to the ‘New Economic Model’ ambitious agenda to transform Malaysia into a high value economy when the largest listed company keeps falling into ‘bad venture pits’. Of course, the audit must also look into possibilities of ‘hanky panky’ in the procurement of materials and services, which is the major factor of the cost over run.

Two consecutive huge losses must be bad for morale and confidence. Probably it is time that ‘people restructuring’ should take place. They say “Fish gets rotten from the head”. Obviously the perils that  SDE faces today is considerably due to poor management and probably controls. Since its spring time here in the northern hemisphere, so the ‘clean up’ should be across the board. There are considerable Malaysians, which include professional Malays with vast MNC exposure to assume positions in the board rooms and management.

*Updated Thursday 6 May 2010 600pm

Sime Dary Bhd. issued this statement explaining a taskforce was set up to look into the issues raised here.

Demand for RCI: A political agenda above anything else

The lawyers acting on behalf of the slain 15 year old Aminulrasyid Amzah are demanding that a Royal Commission of Inquiry (RCI) be formed and conducted instead of a cororner’s  inquest, as per suggested by IGP Tan Sri Musa Hassan, Bar Council and even Malay NGO Perkasa.

NST has the story:

Aminulrasyid’s family calls for Royal Commission

2010/05/03

SHAH ALAM: The family of the 15-year-old teenager, Aminulrasyid Amzah, who was shot dead by police on April 26 has called for a Royal Commission to investigate the incident.

Aminulrasyid’s uncle, Kamarudin Hassan, 45, who spoke on behalf of the family said the commission was hoped to do a clear and transparent investigation.

“We appreciate the Home Minister’s move to set up a special panel to investigate but we want a Royal Commission which is more transparent and comprehensive,” he told reporters at Aminulrasyid’s family home in Section 11 here.

Also present were Aminulrasyid’s mother Norsiah Mohamad and two lawyers representing Aminulrasyid’s family, N.Surendran and Latheefa Koya.

In the 2am incident, Aminulrasyid died after police shot at his car.

A special panel headed by the Deputy Home Minister, Datuk Wira Abu Seman Yusop, has been set up to investigate the incident.
Several quarters like the Bar Council, Perkasa (Pertubuhan Pribumi Perkasa Malaysia) and the police force want an inquest into the case.

Surendran said he wanted the Royal Commission to be established under the Commissions of Enquiry Act 1950 and the findings revealed to the public.

“A Royal Commission has vast powers and can summon witnesses and provide confidence to the government relating to the incident,” he said, adding that the commission needed to set up soon. – Bernama

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The fact is that, lawyers acting on behalf of the Amzah family N. Surendran and Latheefa Koya are PKR members and staunch supporters. In fact Latheefa is the PKR Information Chief. They have in the past demonstrated their anti-establishment tendency, especially against the law enforcement agencies such as the Police, MACC and AG Chambers.

N. Surendran was the lawyer who submitted a Memorandum to the Police when an Indian ethnic A. Kugan was found dead whilst in Police detention at Subang Jaya Police Station.

The demand for an RCI is a political agenda and nothing else but to turn the case into an ‘Anti Police Circus Frenzy’. Since the Police is investigating and the fact that AG’s Chambers intructed them to re-record statements from three witness, which include the 14 year old boy who was a survivor when Aminulrasyid was killed, clearly shows that the process is on going an incomplete. And yet, N Surendran went on TV to arrogantly state that “We have no doubt that the shooter is guilty. Just complete the investogation and charge him. We don’t want any inquest!” and behaved like a ‘Judge, Jury and Executioner’.

Yesterday, N. Surendran and Latheefa Koya brought forth the 14 year old boy Azamuddin Omar, who is the  key witness to a media conference, to tell his story. The appropriateness to present this 14 year old boy to media is questionable. The Police said there were discrepancies to what the boy said as compared to the statement that was recorded from him, which is admissible in court. Some people believed that the 14 year old was ‘coached’ to say certain things absent from the Police report and statement.

On another node, Oppositions such as PKR and DAP thrives on controversial issues that could pin down credibility, integrity and faith to the tone of demonising the Police Force and other law enforcement agencies such as MACC, AG’s Chambers and others. However, when the situation is reversed, they did not do anything to highlight the welfare of the families of slain Policemen and survivors, which include their immediate families.

Random examples of the 15 deaths and 89 injured cases involving Policemen on duty since 15 years ago:

1. Const Yusri Yaacob died in ‘hot pursuit’ being hit a criminal on 1 August 2003

2. Const Ramlan Bachak died because being knocked down whilst in hot pursuit on 7 December 2003

3. Sjn Manja Manaf  was shot dead by kidnappers in Muar on 1 August 2004

4.  Const Mohd. Khairul Nizam was killed manning a roadblock in August 2004

5. L/Cpl Ridzuan Jaafar was killed after being knocked down by a ‘burning’ car in Jelutong on 18 May 2005

6. Const Fakaruddin stabbed to death while crime prevention patrol in September 2006

7. Const Rosman Mohd Arshad was shot by criminals during patrol in a police car on 5 February 2007

8. C/Inspector Mohamad Hatta Alias knocked down and injured at Ops Serkap Laju @ MRR2 on 16 December 2007

9. ASP Zulkefli Khamis was shot during an anti narcotics operation “Ops Waja” on 1 January 2008

10. C/Inspector Ang Weai Leong was shot by criminals in a shootout in Sg. Long on 4 November 2008

Where are the Oppositions, especially DAP and PKR in each and all of these cases? Don’t the families of these brave men deserve to be helped and assisted too? How come no inquiry on the deaths of these men ever been mentioned by the Oppositions?

In actual fact, the Oppositions have double standards. Recently PKR MP for Batu Tian Chua had an accident near Kota Tinggi and his car caused death to a motorcyclist, who is a serving soldier. To our knowledge, he did not even visit the deceased family but went to to do his ceramah. How come Surendran, Latheefa or Gobind Singh Deo did not call for an RCI and Tian Chua be “Investigated and charge for homicide not culpable to murder”?

It is only clear. The Opportunistic Oppositions only come forth if there is a political agenda that they can ride on and the same time, demonise the credibility and integrity of the law enforcement agencies, especially the Police. Then it is easier for them to harp further on very sensitive issues like racism and stir up racial sentiments, when in the long run the rakyat have a deep distrust against the law enforcement agencies such as the Police, AG’s Chambers, MACC and others and what ever action being taken against them will be deemed as ‘political incarceration’ and ‘unjust use of force’. Of course they will hide behind the universal intellectual blanket of ‘human rights’.

Case in point is when Theresa Kok raised in Dewan Rakyat about the ‘Naked-Ear-Squat-in-the-Lockup’ where she claimed that it is Chinese national being ‘humiliated’. When it was proven that the detainee was a Malay woman, she suddenly went silent about it. She did even apologise to the Police for making a racial issue out of it.

There is strategic agenda to the Oppositions’ move to ‘demonise’ the law enforcement agencies. The ‘unholy-marriage-of-(in)conveniece-between-strange-bedfellows’ will not work in the middle term (which is already proven now) and naturally in the long run it will fail. Of course they know it too and the deep distrust between them is very apparent. So far in the ‘Political Tsunami’ result of PRU 12 and several post GE by-elections (till PM Dato’ Seri Mohd. Najib Tun Razak took over from PM ‘Flip-Flop’ Dato’ Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi on 8 April 2009) is because the deep dissatisfaction against PM ‘Flip-Flop’ Abdullah & Co., which they vent their dismay via ballot box and BN gets the toll. Its not so much about BN. Hence, to strategically sustain, they have to resort to this ‘demonisation’ of the law enforcement agencies in the hope that more anarchy is promoted. Incitement, instigation and fanning of anarchism had only been the way DAP and PKR have managed to project themselves and gain attention.

PKR also finds the ‘shooting of Aminulrasyid’ could be conveniently used to generate some degree of anarchy, to deflect the attention from the second sodomy trial against party-less Opposition Leader Anwar “Mat King Leather” Ibrahim, which the Federal Court yesterday decided that should go on despite some legal attempts to disrupt and the same time confuse the rakyat.

Any effort to ride on the misfortunes any of the rakyat just that they can ‘demonise’ the law enforcement agencies are ‘capitalised to the max’. It is sordid political agenda and the DAP have been doing this with the Chinese chauvinist  tone and skewed along communist-terrorist-like agenda since the 1960s. It is still strong.

*Updated Wednesday 5 May 2010 1630hrs

An Israeli-Malaysian friendship hoax: Another sordid Anwarista attempt

This sordid attempt to link Malaysia, especially the Federal Government to Israel is clearly illustrating Anwaristas are getting really desperate.  A hoax was detected. A portal representing Caucus For The Improvement Of Malaysia-Israeli Relations (CIMIR) now exist.

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Chabad Mitzvah Tank in central Kuala Lumpur
An unlikely street-roamer in central Kuala Lumpur, this Chabad-Lubavitch ‘Mitzvah Tank’ was seen in the city’s busy Ampang quarter in March. Read more on Chabad’s presence in Malaysia.

Spring Periodical Paper available for viewing

The Spring 2010 periodical paper entitled ‘The Politics of Engagement’ is now available for viewing. It can be accessed in HTML format or downloaded as a PDF document. The paper presents a brief analysis of the various factors that would challenge a fresh Malaysian policy towards Israel and the Palestinians.

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There is even a part where there is an attempt to rubbish First Prime Minister and father of Malaysia Merdeka Tunku Abdul Rahman Putra with the Israelis.

The fact is there exist no relationship between Malaysia and Israel, be it diplomatic nor trade. Malaysia do not recognise the State of Israel and Malaysians are banned from entering the Zionist state. Neither can Israelis come to Malaysia. Israeli products are considered contraband and importation is strictly prohibited.

If such, why should there be any ‘caucus to improve relationship’ between Malaysia and Israel? Malaysia have no interest to do so and majority of Malaysians are comfortable at that.

This really low attempt to linking the Federal Government to Israel is getting old and stale. After his poor attempt in Dewan Rakyat to deface Prime Minister Dato’ Seri Mohd. Najib Tun Razak and linking the  former to Israel failed miserably and now facing  Parliamentary Rights and Privileges Committee, party-Opposition Leader Anwar “Mat King Leather” Ibrahim is really in a ‘hot soup’ and facing serious disciplinary action.

NST report on 23 April 2010:

Anwar to face music over Apco

2010/04/23

THE Dewan Rakyat yesterday referred opposition leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim to the Rights and Privileges Committee for disciplinary action over his allegation that the 1Malaysia concept was designed by a foreign firm, Apco Worldwide, which also created the One Israel slogan in 1999 for then Israel prime minister Ehud Barak.

However, the opposition, which claimed the motion was flawed because it presumed guilt, staged a walkout in protest after Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Datuk Seri Mohamed Nazri Abdul Aziz stopped replying to the points raised as the opposition kept heckling him.

Nazri later said he anticipated the opposition action. “The motion is already 10 days (it had been put in the order paper for 10 days). If they are serious and claim that they want fair play, they could have alerted me if they felt the motion was flawed.

“Why wait until today? These are all their tricks. They know for sure that the BN will be at full strength to ensure the motion would be carried. What choice do they have except to create a chaotic situation?

“They were looking for a way. They didn’t want to listen to my explanation. So I decided I might as well sit and let the chair call for the vote.”

Anwar told reporters that he would go to the Rights and Privileges Committee under protest.

The committee, chaired by Speaker Tan Sri Pandikar Amin Mulia, will now review the charge against Anwar and will make its recommendations which will then be tabled at the next meeting of the house.

Others on the panel are Deputy Speaker Datuk Ronald Kiandee, Deputy Youth and Sports Minister Datuk Razali Ibrahim, Datuk Dr Fong Chan Onn (BN-Alor Gajah), Nancy Shukri (BN-Batang Sadong), R. Sivarasa (PKR-Subang) and Karpal Singh (DAP-Bukit Gelugor).

Earlier in the house, Anwar, in defending himself, tried to deflect attention from the motion and instead focused on needling backbenchers on Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak’s visit to the United States and his meeting with President Barack Obama.

He repeatedly stressed this was brought about by the influential Jewish-linked Apco which arranged for the meeting. He said the meeting resulted in Malaysia being subservient to the US and willing to accommodate it on some foreign policy issues.

Lim Kit Siang (DAP-Ipoh Timur) said the motion did not augur well for Parliament.

“This is dark day in Parliament. I am very saddened. What is so heinous about the accusation that 1Malaysia is a carbon copy of One Israel? What is so big (about it)?”

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The fact is that Anwar “Jewish Neo Con Darling” Ibrahim is the one in the scope of the Neo Con Jews and even Israel. In fact he is very close to some notable Neo Con Jews along corridors of power and decision makers amongst  ‘high and mighty’ society between Washington D.C. and New York City. New Con Jewish controlled western media have been very active in their effort to rubbish Malaysia, especially on Federal Government leaders in the eyes of the international community.

This CIMIR portal looks suspiciously the usual signature of the sordid attempt of Anwaristas’ techno-cyber-anarchists. If fugitive blogger Raja Petra Kamaruddin is involved, then we are not surprised. He has been known and proven to make up really convincing stories from limited but manipulated and twisted facts and even lie. The highly imaginative and fictitious SD describing how Datin Seri Rosmah. Mansor being present ath the murder of Mongolian national Altantuyaa Shaariibuu two years ago was the most notable of RPK’s propsensity to lie, just to demonise PM Najib..

Why is Rais silent in the ‘Block L & M scandal’?

The 'Golden Goose' PM 'Flip-Flop' Abdullah Badawi gave away: Blocks L & M and disputed claims over Limbang

Dato’ Seri Utama Dr. Rais Yatim is the Foreign Minister when PM ‘Flip-Flop’ Dato’ Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi unilaterally ‘hived of’ Blocks L and M and thinking Malaysia got the hold of Limbang on 16 March 2009, just a mere three weeks before the sleepy-head Fifth Prime Minister bowed out in favour of PM Dato’ Seri Mohd. Najib Tun Razak.

On Friday, PM ‘Flip-Flop’ Abdullah aid that Cabinet made a collective decision to ‘approve’ what he did.

The Star reported:

Published: Friday April 30, 2010 MYT 6:30:00 PM
Updated: Friday April 30, 2010 MYT 7:11:00 PM

Pak Lah dismisses Dr M’s claims he gave away oil-rich areas to Brunei

PUTRAJAYA: Former Prime Minister Tun Abdullah Badawi has dismissed former prime minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad’s allegation that he had given away two oil-rich areas to Brunei in 2009 in exchange for Brunei dropping its claims on Limbang in Sarawak.

In a statement, he said that regarding the maritime area, Malaysia and Brunei agreed to establish a final and permanent sea boundary in an exchange of letters on March 16, 2009 aimed at settling the boundary issues between the two nations.

“This agreement serves to settle certain overlapping claims that existed in the past which included the area of the concession blocks known before as Block L and Block M.

“Sovereign rights to the resources in this area now belongs to Brunei.

“However, for this area, the agreement includes a commercial arrangement under which Malaysia will be allowed to participate, on a commercial basis, to jointly develop the oil and gas resources in this area for a period of 40 years.

“The financial and operational modalities for giving effect to this arrangement will be further discussed by the two sides.

“This means that, in so far as the oil and gas resources are concerned, the agreement is not a loss for Malaysia.

“ln my capacity as the Prime Minister of Malaysia, I signed the Exchange of Letters with the Sultan of Brunei after the Malaysian Cabinet approved the deal on Feb 11, 2009,” Abdullah said in the statement.

The exchange of letters between Abdullah and the Sultan of Brunei signed on March 16, 2009 represented an agreement between the two countries to take certain specific steps that would finally establish a permanent land and sea boundary between Malaysia and Brunei,he said.

Regarding the land boundary, both sides agreed to undertake a joint survey to demarcate the agreed boundary that would be final and permanent, he said.

This work would be carried out in two ways.

“First, the joint survey will confirm on the ground the boundary in five sectors which had already been established by previous agreements in 1920, 1931, 1933 (two separate agreements) and 1939.

“Second, in other sectors where no land boundary agreements exist as yet, the joint survey shall determine the land boundary on the basis of the watershed principle.

“When the entire land boundary demarcation exercise is completed, there will be established a final and permanent boundary between Sarawak on the Malaysian side and Brunei on the other side.

“When this is accomplished, there will no longer be any land boundary dispute between Brunei and Malaysia as a whole.

“This long-standing issue, which had existed in the past as an irritant in the relations between Malaysia and Brunei, will be settled without any disadvantage to Malaysia,” he said in the statement.

Earlier Friday, Dr Mahathir and DAP’s Lim Kit Siang asked Abdullah for an explanation after news reports last week that Malaysia might have signed away its oil rights.

Murphy Oil, which had entered a production-sharing contract with national oil company Petronas, for Block L and Block M offshore of Limbang, announced last week that it was ceasing operations because “it was no longer part of Malaysia.”

“Abdullah Badawi negotiated with the Sultan (of Brunei) to get back Limbang in Sarawak.

“In return he agreed to surrender the two blocks to Brunei. No Petronas representatives were present, only foreign office staff and the foreign affairs adviser to the PM,” Dr Mahathir had said in a posting on his blog Thursday

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Dr. Rais as the Foreign Minister must have advised the Cabinet then on the intention and implication. We here in BigDogDotCom already pronounced that the Cabinet did not posses the ultra vires power to decide on behalf on the nation for such a ultra mega decision.

Dr Rais Yatim bowing down to Boss PM 'Flip-Flop' Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

Our question is that, where is Dr. Rais in this, at this point of time and why is he dead silent?

We want to know because the scandal involves our maruah (pride), sovereignty, diplomatic gambit, national natural  and future income and naturally the parameters for the defense of the realm. There have been unconfirmed reports of the navies of the two nation in standoff in the said area, which proximity could easily lead into an unlawful and undeclared military conflict.

PM Dato’ Seri Mohd. Najib Tun Razak claimed that “Malaysia is still talking to Brunei to jointly develop the area”.

The Star reported this also:

Monday May 3, 2010

Malaysia still talking with Brunei on oil blocks

By VANES DEVINDRAN
vanes@thestar.com.my

SIBU: Malaysia is still in discussions with Brunei on the development of two blocks of oil-rich areas that were supposedly surrendered to the sultanate in exchange for Limbang in Sarawak.

Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak said both nations hoped to find a win-win solution that could see opportunities for Petronas in terms of exploration and investments from Brunei.

“We are still discussing this and looking at all the aspects. This negotiation has not been completed but we will want to reach an agreement that profits both sides,” he told a press conference at Rascom Camp here yesterday.

Najib said the issue had been discussed for over 20 years with the principles achieved in 2009 and what was left now was to survey the area.

He said he was confident that it would resolve the sea and land boundary issues between the two countries.

The controversy arose after former Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad, in a blog posting, asked why the two blocks no longer belonged to Malaysia.

He alleged that former Prime Minister Tun Abdullah Ahmad Badawi had given away the blocks to Brunei in 2009 in exchange for Brunei dropping its claims on Limbang in Sarawak.

Abdullah, who refuted this, said in a statement that Malaysia and Brunei agreed to establish a final and permanent sea boundary in an exchange of letters on March 16, 2009.

He said while sovereign rights to the resources in the area now belonged to Brunei, the agreement included an arrangement under which Malaysia was allowed to participate commercially for a period of 40 years.

On the land boundary, both sides agreed to a joint survey to demarcate the agreed boundary that would be final and permanent, he said.

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If we are ‘still talking’, then how come Petronas and Murphy Oil had to cease operations last month, in the L and M well blocks?

Since Dr. Rais is the current Minister in charge of Multimedia and Information, he should also be the right person to explain this, now. Its been more than 84 hours since Fourth Prime Minister Tun Dr. Mahathir’s shocking revelation and in the cybersphere, that is an awfully very long time to be silent about it.

Kerajaan PKR Selangor ‘Flip-Flop’ dan kencing DAP dan golongan kesatuan pekerja

Kerajaan PKR Selangor bawah pimpinan MB Tan Sri Khalid Ibrahim telah ‘kencing’ warga DAP dan golongan pekerja kerana keputusan ‘Flip-Flop’ mengenai menamakan Jalan Barat di Petaling Jaya kepada Jalan V. David.

Laporan The Star:

Published: Saturday May 1, 2010 MYT 11:46:00 AM
Updated: Saturday May 1, 2010 MYT 1:28:30 PM

Jalan Barat not to be renamed after trade unionist (Update)

BY YIP YOKE TENG

PETALING JAYA: Jalan Barat will only be renamed Jalan Dr V. David when the Selangor state government unveils the redevelopment plan for Petaling Jaya, said Menteri Besar Tan Sri Khalid Ibrahim.

He said while honouring the icon, the move would also be in tandem with the redevelopment of PJ, which is one of the state’s economic stimulus efforts that will eventually make it self sustainable and repositions it to free it from the common perception that it is the suburb of Kuala Lumpur.

“Under the redevelopment, roads will be upgraded and some of them will be renamed after those who have contributed to the state’s development.

“One of them is Jalan Barat. Selangor will not be what it is today without the fight of these heroes,” he said at the Labour Day celebration at PJ Civic Centre here on Saturday.

“It will not show the significance if the road is renamed now. It will take place when we unveil PJ’s redevelopment to show that it has been planned.

“Under the new traffic dispersal system, Jalan Barat will be realigned slightly and we may also rename other roads around here,” he added.

Khalid said the developer had submitted the plans for approval but the state was still evaluating the traffic impact, adding that the plans would be announced within a year.

“To have Jalan Dr V. David in place of Jalan Barat is to make it a symbol of the power of labour force,” said Khalid, to the cheers of a large crowd of workers at the Labour Day celebration at PJ Civic Centre.

Also present at the celebration were state executive councillor Ronnie Liu, PJ mayor Datuk Mohammad Roslan Sakiman, Malaysian Trades Union Congress (MTUC) president Syed Syahir Syed Mohamud and deputy president Mohd Khalid Atan.

The change of name was to honour the late trade union leader, who for about 50 years served to uphold workers’ rights. He was also the MP for Bangsar, Damansara and later Puchong.

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Sebelum  ini semalam, Kerajaan PKR Selangor yang sama membuat pengumuman untuk menghargai V. David, seorang pemimpin golongan pekerja dan MP DAP bagi Bangsar, Damansara dan Puchong pada tahun 70-80an.

Laporan The Star semalam:

Published: Friday April 30, 2010 MYT 4:49:00 PM
Updated: Friday April 30, 2010 MYT 8:09:47 PM

Jalan Barat in PJ to be renamed Jalan Dr V. David

PETALING JAYA: Jalan Barat here will be renamed Jalan Dr V. David on Labour Day on May 1 by Selangor Mentri Besar Tan Sri Datuk Khalid Ibrahim, the Malaysian Trades Union Congress said in a statement on Friday.

MTUC thanked the Selangor government for recognising Dr David’s contribution to the labour movement.

Dr David, who died in July 2005 was a unionist and a former opposition DAP politician.

He won a seat in parliament representing the constituencies of Bangsar in 1959 and Damansara in 1978.

In parlaiment, he was known to be fearless and vocal in raising labour and Indian community issues.

He also served as MTUC secretary-general from 1976 to 1992. He was also the Transport Workers Union secretary-general from 1958 to 1995.

David was best known for setting up the Workers Institute of Technology (WIT) in Port Klang in the early 1970s, which provided education opportunities for thousands of workers’ children over the years.

At the international level, he served as the executive board member of the International Transport Federation and the International Confederation of Free Trade Union, and represented Malaysian workers at numerous International Labour Organisation (ILO) Conferences in Geneva, Switzerland.

He was arrested under the Emergency Ordinance in 1958 and then arrested again under the Internal Security Act 1964, 1969 (after May 13 racial riots) and 1987.

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DAP sebagai rakan kongsi Kerajaan Pakatan Rakyat Selangor wajar merasa tersinggung dengan keputusan ‘Flip-Flop’ MB Khalid ini. Golongan pekerja juga wajar merasai sentimen yang serupa. Namun kehadiran Presiden MTUC Syed Shahir Syed Mohamud semasa pengumuman sempena Hari Pekerja 2010 pagi tadi di Dewan Sivik Petaling Jaya tidak wajar dilihat sebagai MTUC menyokong dan merestui keputusan ‘Flip-Flop’ ini. Ini kerana Syed Shahir juga merupakan seorang politikus PKR dan dilihat sentiasa mendukung keputusan Kepimpinan.

Syed Shahir merupakan calon PKR bagi kerusi Parlimen Pandan pada PRU 12. Namun beliau gagal kerana dikalahkan Presiden MCA Dato’ Seri Ong Tee Keat.

Amat malang kerana Kepimpinan Kesatuan Pekerja seperti Syed Shahir, juga merupakan Timbalan Pengerusi Perhubungan PKR Selangor, diselubungi dasar politik kepartian dan kepentingan golongan pekerja merupakan sekondari berbanding dengan agenda politik. Ini kerana menjaga kepentingan politik, kepentingan golongan perkerja boleh dikompromi, seperti berlaku dalam mengangkat jasa seorang pemimpin kesatuan pekerja.

Keputusan ‘Flip-Flop’ untuk menamakan semula Jalan Barat kepada Jalan V. David sebenarnya menafikan satu satunya seorang pemimpin DAP yang berkemungkinan diiktiraf peringkat nasional, macam pemimpin parti lain seperti UMNO, MCA dan MIC. Ini juga menguatkan pendapat bahawa DAP tidak membawa sumbangan kepada proses pembangunan negara-bangsa, maka pemimpin mereka yang begiat dalam arena lain pun tidak diiktiraf walaupun oleh rakan kongsi Pakatan Rakyat sendiri.