Perkasakan Rakyat Malaysia Bukan PERKASA

Tanggal Sept 16 ialah Hari Malaysia – Hari Gabungan Sabah, Sarawak dan Semenanjung Malaysia. Walaupun pada zahirnya Malaysia telah bergabung, masih ada masyarakat Malaysia yang telah menumpahkan darahnya demi pembangunan Malaysia yang hidup dalam keadaan tiada serba serbi dan tiada kemudahan asas.
Pendekatan YAB Dato Sri Najib Tun Razak dalam mendekati rakyat melalui beberapa pelan Transformasi masyarakat haruslah mendapat pujian suara rakyat.
Tetapi pada hakikatnya nyata ada yang masih tiada kewarganegaraan, kad pengenalan biru dan kuasa untuk mengundi walaupun telah bermastautin dibumi yang subur ini semenjak 20 – 30 tahun yang lampau.
Sila bayangkan nasib kumpulan ini?
Pada masa yang sama, disudut yang lain NGO Melayu, PERKASA menuntut hak kaum melayu yang termaktub dalam Perkembangan Malaysia. Penubuhan NGO Melayu seperti PERKASA tidak di persoalkan oleh kaum lain tetapi pendekatan PERKASA melampaui batasan kerana ia mampu memecah-belahkan keharmonian kaum dinegara ini yang serba senang dengan pendekatan 1 Malaysia yang diwarkan oleh PM kita.
Cadangan saya sempana Hari Malaysia ini supaya Kerajaan YAB Dato Sri Najib Tun Abdul Razak memberikan kelulusan automatik kepada mereka yang berketurunan Malaysia, yang telah bermastautin di negara ini lebih dari 20 tahun dengan syarat boleh bertutur Bahasa Kebangsaan dan faham Prinsip Rukun Negara.
Sememangnya, inilah harapan Rakyat Malaysia yang harus diperkasakan dan bukannya tuntutan PERKASA.

1 Malaysia – Moving Beyond Racial Boundaries

Fifty three years has past since our forefathers, Tunku Abdul Rahman, Tun Tan Siew Sin and Tun VT Sambanthan fought for Independence. What was in their mind was to ensure we were free from the British colonisation and we were a sovereign nation. It never alluded in their mind that they were Malay,Chinese or Indian by ethinicity ,what was more important to them was they were Malaysian First .

But come this Merdeka, have our beloved nation achieved the same level of unity that we had in the past ?

Premier YAB Dato Sri Najib’s 1 Malaysia concept introduced last year is an effort that is transformational to reunite and take us back to the level of unity that we once enjoyed. But Is he getting all the support for this initiate?

I remember the days when Dato Lee Chong Wei won the All England Championship. We were all glued to the TV watching yet another Malaysian achievement. Never did we mind that he was a Malaysian Chinese. By the same token, Dato Magendran and Dato Mohanadass who succeeded in the Mt. Everest climb, yet another truly Malaysian football team comprising the legendary Mokhtar Dahari , Santokh Singh , Dato Soh Chin Ann and R.Arumugam who made Malaysians proud with the teams ability to take on the England Team and the South Koreans.

Albeit all this positive characteristic of a Malaysian achievement,the statement made by Dato Nasir Safar, a senior officer in PM’s office, the recent statement by a school principal in Kulai asking the Chinese students to go back to China and abusing Indian students about their religious beliefs and the incidence in Kedah reminds us that despite the bonding of 53 years we remain polarised by what ethinicity we belong to despite all our Malaysianes.

Remember we grew up having the teh tarik, nasi lemak ,roti canai and the kueh teow that we forgot their origins and in turn term this delicacies as a Malaysian food. Even vadai and puthu mayam is now sold by a Malay vendor when they had a different origin.

So what has really gone wrong over the years?

I was a part-time lecturer at a prime public university and had the opportunity to see how polarisation at universities has affected the student’s race relations. Time has come for students at beginning from primary schools are thought about respecting each others religion, culture and believes. Our multi cultural diversity and uniqueness among us is an advantage that can be harnessed to make Malaysia to greater heights. Each community in Malaysia has its strength and this strength in diversity has to be exploited to maximum to make the concept of 1 Malaysia a success. Lets walk the talk !

Many initiatives by Premier YAB Dato Seri Najib like the New Economic Model(NEM) ,The Tenth Malaysian Plan,The Government Transformation Plan are remarkable grand plans but the success of this plans is highly dependent on how we Malaysians of diverse ethnicity truly live to being Malaysian First. Not too many countries in the world who enjoy the diversity that we have and our failure to benefit from this will only be disastrous for our beloved nation. In not too distance future when the history is forgotten, what will be the state of our country ?

The staff of public service being the main drivers of the government ,should be re-trained on the 1Malaysia concept to ensure they utter the right word when addressing all communities and send out the right messages.
Many a times the wrong signals has been send and this hurts our race relations. The 1 Malaysia concept must be culturised i.e practice what is preached ,otherwise it will remain a slogan.

Reflecting on our 53th Merdeka, we need a team of Mokthar Dahari,Dato Soh Chin Aun , Santokh Singh and R.Arumugam with the burning spirit of Tunku Andul Rahman to make Malaysia a model country uniting in diversity to take on the world and remain economically competitive. Merdeka,Merdeka, Merdeka

Denyutan Nadi Rakyat Penentu PRU 13

Setelah kemenangan di Hulu Selangor, Barisan Nasional (BN) dan Pakatan Rakyat kini menghadapi satu lagi ujian Pilihanraya kecil (PRK) Parlimen di Sibu, Sarawak. Apa pun keputusan di PRK Sibu, kini terbukti BN dan Pakatan sudah tahu bahawa rahsia disebalik kejayaannya adalah memahami denyutan nadi rakyat.

Pengundi masakini lebih bijak menerima segala pertolongan yang dihulurkan tetapi keputusan dibuat berasaskan mereka yang sanggup menjalankan perkhidmatan untuk mereka dan memenuhi keperluan asas mereka.

Jesteru itu pemimpin BN haruslah turun padang dan meneliti keperluan rakyat. Berdasarkan pendapat dan ulasan ulasan yang diterima di PRU Hulu Selangor, penentu PRU 13 ialah memenuhi keperluan denyutan nadi rakyat. Antara perkara yang menjadi perkara asas yang harus di penuhi untuk memenangi PRU 13 ialah:

• Pemimpin mesra rakyat
• Pemimpin yang berkerja keras dan pemimpin yang boleh didekati rakyat
• pemimpin yang mendengar keperluan rakyat bukan pemimpin yang cakap sahaja tetapi tidak t ada aksi (talk and no action)
• Ketua Jabatan di Jabatan Jabatan Kerajaan haruslah bermesra rakyat dan memberi perkhidmatan yang tidak berbelah bagi untuk semua masyarakat Malaysia
• Pemimpin yang menumpukan khidmatnya dikawasannya dari sekarang sehingga PRU 13. Kaji selidik menyarankan peluang kejayaan tinggi untuk pemimpin yang memulakan khidmatnya mulai sekarang.
• Pemimpin yang boleh jadi “Role Model untuk pengundi

Nyata sekali PRU 13 akan menjadi medan pertarungan sengit BN dan Pakatan setelah Pakatan mendapat semangat dari PRU 12. Kejayaan tetap kepada mereka yang cepat menyedari denyutan nadi rakyat dan melaksanakan dengan segera langkah langkah yang dapat mendekati rakyat.

MIC Deserves 2nd Ministers Post

Now with the Hulu Selangor by election tucked in its pocket albeit a lower margin than the expected 6000 majority, the MIC can be proud of its achievements in drawing back the indian communities support that it lost in the 12th General Election in March 2008. With the support of IPF and the newly minted Makkal Sakthi things can only get better.

The last three by elections ie Bukit Selambau, Bagan Pinang and Hulu Selangor indicate that the indian community is still in need of the basic amenities ie shelter, food, bc, ic, citizenship issues , welfare and so forth. It is pathetic that some estates which is close to major towns like sg petani, port dickson and kuala lumpur are still having indians without this basic needs and if the problem is taken in totality nationwide it is a significant problem that need to be addressed.

Having spend considerable time in all this constituencies, I must share that by- election goodies are adhoc measures and a complete blue print need to be drawn to see the long term resolution to this issues. More need to be done on a continous basis to win the hearts of the indians in dilapidated estates and slumps.

PM Najib Tun Razak just completed his one year as premier and wants to go the 13th polls to get the full mandate to effectively run the country. According to the the Edge weekly this could come as early as QI or Q2 of 2011. Given the voting trends in the 12th general election and the 3 by elections it is clear that the indians are surely returning back to BN but the BN needs and overwheling support from MIC and the indian community to compensate for the expected loss from the erosion of votes from chinese community and others.

What the 2nd Ministers post can do for BN and MIC?

Tradionationally MIC had two ministers post in Transport Minister Tan Sri Manickavasagam and Law minister Datuk Athi Nahapan. The demise of Datuk Athi Nahapan, the situation changed and MIC had one ministers post ever since Dato Seri S. Samy Vellu helmed the presidency of MIC. It is acknowledged that the current Human Resources Minister, Datuk Dr S. Subramaniam has been discharging his ministerial job well and enjoys cordial relationship with PM, however given the multi-facet issues surrounding the community, he has more than he can chew.

Now that the cabinet reshuffle is imminent with the completion of the MCA election, PM Dato Seri Najib has an opportunity to reward the indian community with another ministerial appointment (Note:Dato G. Palanivel is to be sworn in as senator on monday). Both Datuk Dr Subra and Dato G Palanivel ( if appointed minister) can raise the community's concern and address them concretely and on a systematic basis to resolve many of the long outstanding issues.

The second ministerial appointment can also act as a political strategy to win over the hard core indians who are still not happy with government and this in return will further strengthen the Indians support for the Najib's administration. Will this be in the mind of the PM as he draws the best team to be in team heading into the 13th General Election ?

Hulu Selangor : High Stakes For BN

Finally the mystery surronding the BN Candidate for Hulu Selangor was resolved when Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhiyiddin Yassin named P. Kamalanathan as the candidate. So it is P Kamalanathan versus Dato Zaid Ibrahim

While it was a high drama before the candidature was resolved,there must be a better way of choosing a candidate for a general election given that BN has been facing elections and by elections year after year.

Now BN has its work cut out in Hulu Selangor given its parlimentary constituenty being located and spread in three states mainly Selangor,Perak and Pahang. All MIC branch Chairmans must come together given that it is the party and BN that matters at the end not any individuals.

Now who is P. Kamalanathan? He is a former Selayang MIC Youth Leader, appointed by MIC Party President, Dato Seri Samy Vellu as the Information Chief after the 63rd MIC AGM in September 2009. He has been very active during his youth days as i was his deputy division youth chief for one term before i became a branch chairman.

He has been actively posting information about MICs activities since he assumed the info chief post. P. Kamalanathan has a degree in mass communication from Edith Cowan University and works a Public Relations Manager with Beras Jati Sdn Bhd

The BN machinery is in full gear to work hard to ensure a sweet victory for BN although it is not going to be easy as Kamalathan said in his speech that he is new in the constituency and need all the support from all voters.

Time is ripe for the Hulu Selangor voters to decide whether they want a young, energetic person like P kamalnathan to deliver the unfilled duties left by the former (deseased )PKR MP Dato Zainal or voter from the unkept promises party PKR

It is a do or die mission for BN. The mission is possible given the rakyat open their eyes and see the reality.

1 Malaysia New Economic Model ?

Prime Minister and Finance Minister YAB Dato Seri Najib Tun Abdul Razak is scheduled to unveil the Ne w Economic Model (NEM) this Tuesday, one of the many economic initiates that is expected to move the nation to a high income nation.

Original Intentions Retained ?

While the NEM can be effectively used as an opportunity to return to the original intentions of The New Economic Policy (NEP) which was initiated in 1971, many challenges face the government of the day i.e balancing the demands of the voters who rebelled in March 2008 12th General Election, the demands of the investing community and the demands of the group who champion the Malay rights NGO like Perkasa.

It is clearly apparent that the governments stimulus package has not yet trickle in albeit the sluggish economy recovery due to the slack period which is expected to show its impact in the third quarter of the year, The Foreign Direct Investment(FDI) has fallen from RM62billion in 2008 to RM32.6billion in 2009. This calls for further boosting of private consumer spending which is the key driver to boost the sluggish economy. Will there be measures to increase the disposal income of the rakyat to spur private consumer spending?

The Prime Minister has spoken frequently of his plan to take the nation to the next level moving to high income nation i.e increasing the income per capita to US15000. This initiate is a huge task ahead as the country’s labour force and skilled work force are far fetched from the desired income level. To reduce the income disparity gap, the government need to train many skilled work force and professionals to take up jobs and possess the skills that will fetch high income levels. To further support this initiate the government needs to systematically plan and budget its spending on human capital development albeit a herculean task.

The Najib administration has just in less than 6 months ago initiated the Government’s Transformation Plan (GTP) enlisting 6 NKRA and NKPI to propel the nation to address and further strengthen the areas that require immediate attention in its efforts to “culturise“ The 1Malaysia concept , People First, Performance Now. There is clear indication that the Najib administration is moving fast to catch up with lost time to create the quantum leap transformation to make Malaysia a competitive nations as neighbours Indonesia, Thailand and Philipines are slowly but surely catching up and will pose a treat to Malaysia. The Prime minister ‘s recent visits to Hongkong to meet the investing community has been well received and Credit Suise has forecasted a 6% economy growth as compared to Bank Negara 5.6%

PERKASA’s Demand Reasonable ?

Will the Prime Minister bow to the unreasonable pressure from groups who champion the Malay rights like NGO PERKASA who claim that the Malays and Bumiputeras should be allocated 67% of the nations economic wealth. They claim to have the Malays who represent 55% of the voters backing them. The Premier’s will to transform the nation is being challenged by his political conduits. To spur the nation to be competitive, The PM needs to address the needs of the business community among which:

· Further improve the governments machineries effectiveness by cutting red tapes and boosting productivity

· decreasing the cost of the doing business in Malaysia which will induce FDIs

· Increase Skill and Knowledge based economy by quantum leaping human capital development

· Boosting Promotion of Malaysia overseas

Equitable Income Distribution Key To Success of 1 Malaysia

Facts point to Malaysia having the highest income disparity in South East Asia, top 10% of the society holding 38.4% of the nations wealth (2004 figures)

Will the NEM be a etchnic based affirmative action plan or will it address to reduce the inter etchnic income disparity in line with the now famous 1 Malaysia and keeping with the original intentions of NEP ie to eradicate poverty of all Malaysia, to restructure the society and promote national unity ? NEM provides another opportunity for the government to meet the expectation of the rakyat before the next polls, will its political will decide the destiny of the nation!

Who speaks For Indians? A response to Terence Fernandez Down2Earth Column

I read with great interest the latest article written by Mr Terence Fernandez under the Column Down2Earth on the article “Who Speaks For Indians”.

While your input and suggestions are welcomed, I think it is unfair to say that MIC has not done anything for the Indians in its efforts to uplift the The Indian Community.

What about the millions spent on disbursements of study loans, micro-credit business loans, Tekun Business Loans, assistance provided to single mothers, rehabilitation of people with health problems etc to name a few. Was all this done by individuals or MIC?

MIC helps people who needs assistance wherever possible thru the Presidents office, division and branches and through its wings and associated establishments. Many of its leaders who do not hold any positions in the council, DUN or Parliament use their own transport incur time and money and through little donations assist the needy. Is this not selfless service?

I was at the Launch of the Government Transformation Programme (GTP) last December at Sunway Convention Centre. The leader who you said was invited to the stage was invited because is the leading MIC as it was also to reflect the 1Malaysia concept.
Why are you so selective of this leader? What about a leader of the BN component party who lost the whole state to the opposition and made a senator, a minister who was also at the stage ?

MIC has acknowledged its weaknesses and has taken steps to reconnect with the people with training for its branch, state and national leaders through various programmes. Only a party that has a passion for the community will rebuild itself.
While I admit MIC can do and will do more, the new generation leaders and the team elected in September 2009 party election will work with the leadership to come up with comprehensive programmes to further uplift the community.

I welcome u to visit many of the MIC programmes to find out what is actually going on the ground to enable you to do a fair and correct reporting.

Dato Nazir Safar, A Misfit in Govt Administration?Get Rid of other Dato Nasir in the Govt Administration

The special assistant to the PM YAB Dato Seri Najib Tun Razak, Dato Nasir Safar remarks that the Indians came to Malaysia as beggars and the chinese especially the ladies came here to sell their bodies AND HENCE THEIR CITIZENSHIP SHOULD BE REVOKED is an unacceptable remarks especially from someone who holds a high office at the PM's office and someone who should be going around explaning the PM's policies instead of drawing flaks from the rakyat

Our PM since coming into office has been walking the talk with his 1Malaysia concept to draw back the lost grounds in GE12 and working very hard to get back the votes from the Indian and chinese who are seen as the group who can sway the votes back to the governments favour.

Alas the statement by Dato Nazir at this time is like pouring oil into fire whilst th PM is working hard to draw the rakyat his way.

Is Nazir an enemy of the 1Malaysia concept, is he a misfit in the govt administration?, does he has his own agenda? or is he a proxy for someone to instil disunity in our multiethnic society. Only the investigation will reveal why he did what he did.

Praises to Dato Seri Najib's administration for implementing many good plans and policies like the 1Malaysia concept, Government Transformation Programme (GTP, the yet to be announced New Economic Model etc. But what good is all this good policies and plans if the government has officers like Dato Nasir Safar as implementers?

With GE13 around the corner it is time the BN govt work strategically to reconnect with the vote swayers as headways has been made by MIC to woo back the Indian votes.

It is time the govt relooks at its administration as there could be many Dato Nazir Safar in the administration who are not implementing the govt policies as devised by the govt instead hurt the feelings of the fixed deposit votes.

Government Transformation Programme (GTP)

Government Transformation Plan (GTP) Objective:

•Transforming the government into a more effective and accountable entity

•Catapulting Malaysia into an advanced, united, safe and just society with a high quality of life for all.

•The PM has earlier announced the 6 NKRAs and NKPIs

NKRA indicated in numbers while NKPI is in bullets

1.Widening access to quality education

•Ensuring people are able to read, write and count when they enter year 4, 2012

•About 1350 new pre-school opened with an estimated 27000 new student by 2010

2.Combating corruption

•Ministers no longer to sign “support letter" Disclosure of planned and awarded contracts at Ministries’ web portals

3.Reducing crime

•Reducing street crime by 20% by 2010

•Additional 1000 violent crime offenders to be brought to trial by Dec 2010

4.Upgrading low income households

•To reduce the incidence of poverty from 3.8% to 2.8% by 2010

•50% increase in house ownership/rental among rakyat with monthly household income below RM 2500 by 2012

5.Upgrading rural basic infrastructure

•Over 7000km of new and upgrade roads out of which 510km will be done by 2010

•360,000 houses to be connected to clear or treated water, 78760 houses by 2010

•50,000 new or restored houses to the poor and hardcore poor, 16,626 houses by 2010

6.Upgrading urban public transport (medium term)

•Increasing the number of public transport users from the current 16% to 25% by end 2012

•Adding 35 sets of four car trains to operate on the Kelana Jaya LRT track by end 2012

The government has drawn a very ambitious plan. While skeptics are not overall convinced of the grand plan, the man behind PEMANDU, Dato Seri Idris Jala, a turnaround manager at Shell Malaysia and move recently Malaysian Airlines, has a reputation for delivery, hence there is a chance for breakthrough. Yet again this is a chance for PM, YAB Dato Seri Najib to deliver his promises made at 100 days of his office. The GTP is a pre-cursor to GE 13 and if the Government could show some success it has the rakyat’s support. Let’s give PEMANDU and the Government a chance to prove itself.

Kenyataan dato seri samy mengenai penjara simpang renggam bukan mempolitikan isu tersebut

Kenyataan akhbar Presiden MIC, YBhg Dato Seri S. Samy Vellu semalam mengenai penutupan penjara simpang renggam, johor haruslah di beri perhatian serius oleh Menteri Dalam Negeri, YB Dato Seri Hishamuddin Tun Hussein.

kenyataan ini bukanlah bertujuan mempolitikkan isu tersebut malah ianya suatu kenyattan fakta setelah melihat banyak belia yang masuk dalam penjara tersebut tidak mendapat bimbingan untuk mengubah hidup mereka.

Baru- baru ini Pemuda MIC bersama PDRM telah mengadakan suatu seminar pencegahan gejala social dan antara mereka yang berucap adalah mereka mereka yang telah melalui liku liku hidup di Simpang Renggam. Rata-rata mereka berpendapat suasa disana tidak memberi peluang kepada banduan untuk berubah.

Melihat kepada statistik gejala sosial yang kian meningkat, maka kenyataan dato seri samy kena pada tempatnya. Jika cara sekarang tidak dapat membawa prubahan maka ianya haruslah dikaji dengan terperinci oleh Menteri Dalam Negeri, Dato Seri Hisham berlandasan NKRA yang telah ditetapkan.