(Rangkal penemu dikena ngemansang ke kitai Dayak)
Dikarang Dr. John Brian Anthony (DMgmt)
Introduction
It is important for the Dayak to progress at similar pace with Malaysia’s national growth. This would be benchmarked against the progress made by the major races in Malaysia. The progress however needs to be focused and the target should be achievable. The result will be a sustainable Dayak development and enable them to move towards national integration in an orderly manner. The 2020 targeted dateline would be more meaningful to Dayak community.
Preambles
Since joining Malaysia in 1963, Dayak has made important progress in most fields. This progress in education, business, agriculture, technology and politic will need to be accelerated to meet the national development and globalization practices.. In globalization, all factors of production; labour, land, raw material, energy, money become available to everyone and anyone. The challenge is no more local, it becomes global. Those with influence, power and money would be able to secure resources that they need. Likewise, we should be able to react and adapt to changing times. When there are people who needs the resources and procure it and there are others who do not see the possibilities or are not able to own it, a crisis will show up. This crisis points will need to be managed to ensure fair distribution of gains among the various communities in Malaysia.
Agenda
The DAYAK AGENDA (DA) is a practical framework to approach the area of conflict. Rather than focusing on the problems, the DA try to explore the possibilities of what we can do as a community to improve ourselves by focusing on a few areas of development. This area of focus is deemed to be critical to Dayak success while recognising that there are many other important development areas. What is needed is to build programmes and targets around it. In this way, we hope to inspire Dayak to take ownership and responsibility to develop their community in collaboration with what ever support and resources that is available and provided for by the government.
The educated Dayak resources has a huge task to identify and implement “capacity building” opportunities that will lead to efficient and sustainable progress in all important areas of community development.
Education
Our focus on education should start from pre-schooling to the highest level of tertiary education. The critical success factors in education are many. At this point I proposed parenting, community values and individual discipline to be recognised as the basic foundation for Dayak. Needless to stay, educational facilities must also be in place.
Diplomas and Degrees are not the only end product we seek in education. Through education, the community thinking process will improve, giving rise to making improved quality of decision making and the ability to be adaptable to changing environment and understand better of what is needed for the well being of Dayak community.
One suggested target is to have a university that is controlled and manage by Dayak. The other target is to get at least 10 graduates from each officially recognised longhouse.
Economy
We will also be “towkay” sometime in the near future, but we must build our business knowledge systematically. This knowledge will include clear and focus objectives, opportunistic traits, strong personal value system, persistent saving and investing mentality and last but not least, detail knowledge of business processes and good networking.
We must target at getting “ONE” business person from one family. There are many opportunities, from selling agricultural produce as hawker to e- business in electronic platform.
Our choice can be the setting up of a Dayak investment arm with good network to support Dayak business. The investment will then appoint a trustee to ensure the availability of fund as capital for starting and growing Dayak business.
Technology
Interesting enough, Dayak used of technology is usually accidental. Briefly, we started with guns, introduced by the British, outboard engines, rice mill, chain saw from the logging industries and now passenger / goods vehicles as there are many more roads feeding into the rural areas.
The employment of technology should be in synergy with the types of assets that we need to develop. In land development we would need heavy land machineries (excavator), in agriculture we would need planters and harvesters, and system of irrigation and pest control.
In the marketing of these agricultural produces we need logistical and stocking and keeping technology.
In education we will need more information technology to provide access and making available relevant data and knowledge.
We need to focus on technology to be able to understand and compete with the more advance communities in Malaysia.
We must thrive to own TWO excavators for agricultural development purposes for every 10 longhouses.
Politic
The Dayak has always been united. The Dayak voters has returned Dayak candidates in Dayak seats, even when a non-Dayak is seeking election in the Dayak majority area under Dayak political organisation, the candidate is returned as winner(s).
Democracy is all about sharing the greatest goods to the greatest number of people. The Dayak leadership will need a clear road map to ensure fair distribution of these democratic goods, well defined community interest and respect the individual rights of the people as prescribe under democracy.
The effectiveness of Dayak political struggle will depend on the ability of the Dayak leaders to influence the law making body to passed laws that is enabling and non-limiting to the Dayak. The political struggle should focus on both physical and mental development of the Dayak community through active societal interaction and stakeholder consultation.
The Dayak political leaders should strive to improve Dayak community development from expecting “project award” to “self sustaining” stage of sufficiency.
Intelligence
Intelligence is created at home through daily transmission between adult and children. It is the responsibility of parents to give meaning of experience and learning to their children. Through the five senses, seeing, hearing, touching, smell and taste a human organism will collect their data, at the INPUT stage. This data or information is process or ELABORATED in the brain to be analyzed, prioritised, compared etc, usually describe as thinking skill then the human organism will conclude, perceived or summarized and communicate it as an OUTPUT. The output will need to be accurate and precise. When these cognitive functions are properly developed, then learning and understanding of new information become easier. In this way intelligence gets developed. Value systems and life principles will act as the internal reference and will dictate the manner in which we human response to a situation. Our response is observable as behaviour.
Dayak need to modify their meaning to certain experiences and learning. This modification will enhance adaptability to a new environment or situation and allow them to survive better and be more successful. Dayak will also need to create transcendence from their earlier culture and experience. In order to transcend, the faculty of exercising abstract thinking is a key requirement. In this way, Dayak will be able to understand implication and relationship better on their experience and learning.
It would then be our goal for Dayak to be able to create symbols that will act as an easily understood reference to successful living.
Culture
We can be deprived of our Dayak culture through the following means. We choose another culture and erase our cultural practice. We can also be deprived of our culture through the changing of meaning enforce upon us by a third party. Our culture can also be lost when there in not enough transmission in our home, between adult and children or by not explaining meanings of experience to the community. This is where suppression of logical reasoning becomes very dangerous. The community will lost its ability to reason out their experience and become dependent on others to lead them physically and mentality.
If we are to avoid Dayak downfall culturally, we need to focus on creating meaning, transcendence and symbolism. In this form, celebration, festival and ritual will contribute towards our cultural survival and therefore should be properly manage through community level organization and also the acquisition of such skills and knowledge.
Sustainable Development
This concept has been defined as “development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of the future generations to meet their own needs”. The Dayak pattern of consumption has always been on “needs” basis. Large corporation seeking high profit returns from their investment would forget sustainable development easily. As Dayak, this has cause for concerns as we are dependent on natural resource to sustain us or compliment our income. We need to seek new ways to counter and manage this threat. It would be to our advantage to be able to response by effective adaptation that needs to occur across all strata within our community.
Dayak should be able to compete for community development with sustainability values: that is new economic strength, active societal involvement and high integrity environmental practices.
Challenges
In order to be adaptable, we need intelligence. The need to intensify our effort and improve our community value system on education is a priority to Dayak. That we have somewhat become dependent on others to give us meaning and direction present a clear threat to our progress. We need to stand up and be counted on our effort to improve the Dayak lot without any fear, even to our self being.
Let us take the principle of “ it is my needs, it must be achieved through my own effort” . It is “me”, it is “ours” paradigm that will lead us to take that very first step towards determining our success as Dayak.
Drivers
2020 is just 13 years away. As we reach that point, we should be almost at par if not at par with other races in Malaysia. Then we need to look ahead to 2050 as the next mile stone. Our community will need to be distinguished in our performance as the other alternative is partial extinguish. That would be a very painful legacy to leave to our future Dayak generation.
CONCLUSION – Desired Outcome
The framework design for Dayak advancement should be a collective design and therefore it becomes our combine responsibility. From then own, individual personality and organization that champion Dayak agenda would play a more important role and less disunity at leadership tier.
All the parts and label used in this article would be expanded systematically to raise the specific details. This is “the first step to a journey of a thousand miles”.
Dayak Baru
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
Text received from BN supporter in KL
SNAP’s Deal with BN – The Damning Evidence!
Wednesday, March 23rd, 2011 GMT
Sarawak Report has received explosive evidence from the heart of Barisan National in KL, revealing that a secret deal has been forged with SNAP, in a desperate attempt to destroy the opposition and maintain BN’s grip on Sarawak after the election.We have learnt that the deal, which involves Federal BN pouring money into the newly revived SNAP (Sarawak National Party, which is meant to be part of the opposition alliance), was finalised during the visit by Prime Minister Najib Razak and his Deputy Muhyiddin Yassin just last weekend. The main broker was the UMNO information chief Datuk Ahmad Maslan, who joined the federal delegation to Kuching and met with key players from SNAP.
Our source, who described the plan as ”highly confidential”, is close to UMNO’s top decision-makers. He confirmed that the ‘game plan’ of the worried PM and Deputy PM has been to build up SNAP in order to split the opposition and ensure a three-way contest in every seat. He also makes clear that Federal BN are ready to ditch Taib, having seen poll results that point to him being a sure loser in the coming election. In one SMS text our source, who has also met and spoken with a Sarawak Report writer, says:
” Confidentially, UMNO will support SNAP and many BN Sarawak representatives will jump ship. Better to keep low key as nobody knows the game of the PM and Deputy PM”. (see above)
Details of the plot
UMNO Information Chief Datuk Ahmad Maslan acted as the key negotiator with SNAP during the PM and DPM's visit last weekend
While still posing as an anti-Taib/anti-BN party, SNAP’s initial job has been to disrupt the opposition by demanding all the winnable seats. In the wake of this disruption it is then planned to emerge as a separate opposition force on the eve of the election to confuse voters.
The plotters hope that the division of the opposition will help the BN candidates win through, but they are also confident that with the injection of massive financial support from West Malaysia they can make SNAP the strongest opposition force so that it will win all the rural seats where Barisan support has collapsed. Sarawak Report was told that the plotters plan to exploit what they see as SNAP’s trump card, which is its claim to be a local Sarawak party, unlike other parties which also have branches in West Malaysia. “We are confident SNAP will win” our source explained, “because they can go to the longhouses – target the longhouses”. However, devastatingly he went on to say that after the election SNAP would switch sides:
“SNAP and PKR have a problem. SNAP want all the rural seats, then SNAP will go to BN – it’s a game la!”Questioned over how a party which is supposed to be proudly Sarawakian could show such duplicity, our insider explained that it is no longer the same party that it had been years ago. Taib had broken it long ago by dividing it and paying bribes. “It is not the same party, you know, it is a different party”. Later he told us “They are the oldest party, but Taib played politics to divide and rule the party.. he paid money to buy people off”. However, demonstrating the viewpoint of a West Malaysian BN supporter, he concluded that the plan was a good way to get rid of Taib while keeping control of Sarawak. Adapting a quote that has often been used to describe the present Chief Minister he announced:
“SNAP is now the safe deposit for the UMNO/BN government. The Federal Government wants to use SNAP as an entry into Sarawak”Part of a wider picture
Publicly together this weekend. But, behind Taib's back the PM and DPM were desperately plotting over how to rid themselves of the discredited Chief Minister, who refuses to stpe down but is threatening to bring disaster in the elections.
The party, which was only just revived as a political force last year after a suspension in 2002 by the Register of Societies, has acted as an increasingly disruptive force in the coalition, demanding far greater status than its limited membership and party reach should allow. It has gone from requesting that 3 seats be allocated to its candidates last year, to 10 then 28 and now 40 seats, which would squeeze the main rural opposition party, Baru Bian’s PKR, into a tiny minority of opposition seats.
With only a handful of members and potential candidates at its disposal at the start of this year SNAP has meanwhile been desperately offering jobs and positions to anyone who would care to join and help build up the party as a credible political force. The incentive they have been offering is a mystery source of money, which they have been claiming is at their disposal.
Later denied - Granda Aing was portrayed as joining SNAP at the weekend!
An announcement last weekend that Granda Aing, who was recently disappointed over a failed leadership bid for PKR, had joined SNAP has also subsequently been denied. Baru Bian was even asked to withdraw to give way to a BN candidate in Ba Kelalan.
To make up for the shortage of experienced candidates SNAP has recently moved on to canvassing non-political figures in order to publish an initial list of 16 proposed candidates yesterday – even a member of our team on Sarawak Report was approached (he turned the offer down).
Admission by Stanley Jugol that SNAP is with BN
Key players in SNAP - Stanley Jugol (right) shakes hands with Daniel Tajem.
A source has told us that the newsman had asked Stanley why SNAP seemed hell-bent on attacking PKR but not the BN which was presumably its real “enemy”. Stanley replied that it was because SNAP ‘needed BN to deliver development to the rural native communities and that to attack the BN would only undermine delivery of development to these areas!’
This BN-style talk surprised the journalist, who then asked if SNAP was planning to cross to BN if they won any seats in the election. To which Stanley Jugol then replied ”yes”. According to our source, the senior pressman concluded that the Federal Government was funding SNAP to destroy PKR.
Edwin Dundang (left), President of SNAP
Speculation has raged for months as to what the source of this money could be. Till now it was assumed that a mystery businessman was involved, but it now seems certain that the source of the cash is in fact PR’s political enimies from BN and that this is an attempt to buy off electoral defeat by building up SNAP as a fake opposition party.!
Today Sarawak Report readers sent in further evidence that Edwin Dundang has in fact been indicating his support for BN now for several months. As long ago as August last year he went public in the Borneo Post with an article praising Taib Mahmud – a staggering move for a politician who claimed to lead an opposition party. In the article he went so far as to say that that he felt that Taib should remain CM, because after 30 years in power he still had things to do! This is a contention that we now know not even Taib’s colleagues in Federal BN agree with. But the possibility is that Dundang had made the gesture to show he was biddable – and it seems that gesture was taken up!
Edwin Dundang, SNAP's President, showing his true colours? - The Borneo Post last August.
Sarawak Report’s BN source made clear in the interview that this federal plan is also directed against Taib Mahmud, who the government regard as having ‘too much baggage’ to continue as Chief Minister. They are angered that BN will lose seats because the deeply unpopular CM is refusing to step aside before the election and they plan not only to retrieve these seats by using SNAP, but they are also planning for current members of the BN coalition to also jump ship after the election.
“If Taib tries to play around then these guys in the Federal Government know what to do”our Federal BN source explained. The plan would be to form a new BN coalition around another leader who would once again represent West Malaysian interests, just as Taib has done in the past. Among the individuals named as preparing to “jump ship” is William Mawan, who is hoping to be made the Dayak leader, However, in fact the intention is to continue business as usual with Abang Johari planned as the next Chief Minister under BN.
Our source emphasised again that these manoeverings by Federal BN are regarded as a top secret plan to snatch victory in the election:
“I am supposed to keep quiet, because the bottom line is we [Federal UMNO/BN] want to take Sarawak” he confided.
Leo Moggie is behind the plot
Leo Moggie - key player in KL
Our informant also detailed the management of the plot, explaining that the man behind it is the powerful and influential Leo Moggie, an Iban based in KL.
“He is very influential and he is the one reaching out to SNAP. Najib is very close to him. They think they can bring SNAP to UMNO/BN”Moggie’s key role is his contact with revered Iban leaders such as Daniel Tajem. Tajem used to be part of PKR and continues to endorse Baru Bian as a moral and good leader for Sarawak’s Dayaks. However, our source says that Moggie is now “working it out” with Tajem and exploiting his concerns that PKR “cannot manage their own leaders in Malaysia and that the party is going down”. The informant summed up his information saying:
“SNAP will leave PR and go to BN after the election.. they will do a deal with the other parties to make sure BN stays in power”A party with a sad history
Our researches have shown that this sad betrayal in return for money is part of a pattern of behaviour by SNAP politicians over recent years. The party is said to have had its sole ripped out by ruthless politicking and corruption master-minded by Taib in Sarawak. Recent stories include defections to BN straight after winning seats as the opposition candidate and failing to campaign against BN when nominated to be the opposition candidate. The individuals concerned have been observed to display an unaccountable new wealth in the aftermath of such incidents.
Drawn in? - Daniel Tajem is a target for the plotters.
The candidates have all been handed RM 10,000 as a deposit and told that they will be receiving far more money during the election campaign (although it is surely a little too late to spend it in an honest way). Political observers have noted that all these candidates are nonentities in terms of genuine political backgrounds and have concluded they are little more than a vehicle for SNAP to assert its position.
Given the comprehensive information that we have received about this plot and all the corroborative evidence that has become available, Sarawak Report would like some answers from SNAP as to whether they can confirm that they are in fact part of the BN coalition plans for after the election. If not, how can they defend their actions in disrupting PR’s on-going negotiations over seats, first by separately announcing 16 of their own candidates and secondly by going on to say that they will soon nominate 40 of their own candidates for the 71 seats, thereby ensuring a three cornered fight in every rural constituency?
Sarawak Report suggests that it is time SNAP showed its true colours. We also say it is high time to stop cheating the voters of Sarawak and playing money politics in what are supposed to be free and fair democratic elections.
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Let the Sarawakian Diaspora vote by postal ballot
We the undersigned civil society groups (CSGs) call upon the Election Commission (EC) to allow Sarawakians in overseas West Malaysia, Sabah, and even in different regions within Sarawak to vote by postal ballots in the coming Sarawak elections.
This is legally possible by the EC’s own admission and only requires a longer campaign period, which should be a minimum of 21 days considering the geographical spread of Sarawak constituencies.
Postal voting would enable some 50,000-200,000 Sarawakians – according to different estimates - to vote without taking leave and spending hundreds of ringgit to return home. Sabah faces the same problem too.
In the 2006 Sarawak state elections, the average turnout of its 71 seats was a pathetic 61.62%.
In the 2008 federal elections, Sarawak had the nation’s lowest turnout, at average of 58.16% for its 31 seats while Sabah’s 25 seats yielded 63.97%, in sharp contrast with the average turnout of 76.97% for West Malaysia’s 165 seats, If the West Malaysia’s 76.97% turnout was a reasonable benchmark, then by the same calculation, some 172,000 Sarawakians did not vote in the last elections.
The effective disfranchisement of the Sarawakian diaspora and out-of-town voters – who are higher educated, better exposed and more informed in average – has artificially preserved the conservative electoral outlook in rural Sarawak.
The EC Deputy Chairman Datuk Wira Wan Ahmad has revealed in Kuching on March 19 2010 that the EC has employed the Subregulation (3) (1) (f) in the Elections (Postal Voting) Regulation [EPVR], which reads
“a member of any category of persons designated as postal voters by the Election Commission from time to time by notification in the Gazette”
to give police spouses, who are otherwise not entitled, to vote by postal ballots.
We hold that if police spouses are allowed to vote by postal ballots, then the out-of-town Sarawakians will have stronger reasons to be entitled to such facility, unless the EC has an agenda to register police spouses as postal voters and to suppress the vote of Sarawakians.
The EC can set up a few polling centres in Klang Valley, Johor, Penang and Sabah where many Sarawakians reside and a polling centre each for all other states and all overseas missions. The EC can even set up polling centres in major towns in Sarawak for voters from other regions in the state.
The postal ballots will then be counted by the voters’ home constituencies and the totals be added to the ordinary ballots cast in those constituencies.
This is perfectly practicable for the coming Sarawak elections. The granting of postal voting rights to out-of-town Sarawakians requires only a notification in the Gazette, which is published forthnightly. The EC can then allow a week for interested Sarawakians to apply.
In principle, postal voting should be made available to all with valid grounds and mandatory to none. When polling centres at embassies and consulates of our neighbouring countries have been opened for many years to allow their citizens abroad to vote, Malaysia should not be left behind.
Postal ballots for Sarawakian voters do not need month-long inspection and approval process for new registrations. This is because those registered for postal ballots under Subregulation (3)(1)(f) of EVPR remains on the ordinary voter list like other temporary voter groups such as election workers, EC commissioners and civil servants who are out of country temporarily on polling day.
Only absent voters – military voters and their spouses (by choice), civil servants overseas and their spouses, tertiary students overseas and their spouses – and police voters need to be placed under a separate list of postal voters, as stipulated by Subregulation 6(2) of the Elections (Registration of Electors) Regulations.
The undersigned groups:
1. Centre for Orang Asli Concerns (COAC)
2. Coalition for Clean and Fair Elections 2.0 (BERSIH 2.0)
3. Community Action Network (CAN)
4. Council of Churches Malaysia (CCM)
5. Jamaah Islah Malaysia (JIM)
6. Kuala Lumpur and Selangor Chinese Assembly Hall (KLSCAH)
7. LLG Cultural Development Centre (LLG)
8. Malaysian Consultative Council of Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Sikhism and Taoism (MCCBCHST)
9. Malaysian Election Observers Network (MEO-Net)
10. Malaysians Against Death Penalty and Torture (MADPET)
11. National Institute for Democracy and Electoral Integrity( NIEI)
12. Persatuan Kesedaran Komuniti Selangor (Empower)
13. Persatuan Masyarakat Selangor and Wilayah Persekutuan (PERMAS)
14. Pusat Komas
15. Saya Anak Bangsa Malaysia (SABM)
16. Suara Rakyat Malaysia (SUARAM)
PEMBONGKARAN SIAPA DATUK T ?
DATO’ JOHARI ABDUL
AHLI PARLIMEN SG PETANI
AHLI MAJLIS PIMPINAN PUSAT KEADILAN
23 MAC 2011
Saya dihubungi oleh seorang kenalan yang sangat rapat bermula sejak 15 Mac 2011 untuk berjumpa dengannya mengenai sesuatu yang penting. Pada hari Isnin 21 Mac 2011 lebih kurang jam 12.20 tengahari, saya mengesahkan bahawa saya ada ruang untuk bertemu beliau.Saya berjumpa dengannya di Hotel De Palma Ampang jam 4 petang hari itu, sebelum dibawa di dalam sebuah kereta yang lain. Kereta itu dipandu oleh dua orang yang saya tidak kenali.
Saya dibawa ke Hotel Flamingo Ampang, seterusnya dibawa ke sebuah bilik junior suite. Saya bertemu Tan Sri Rahim Thamby Chik dan Dato’ Eskay Shazril Abdullah yang telah menunggu di dalam bilik tersebut. Saya turut disertai oleh kenalan saya tadi.
Saya duduk di depan Tan Sri Rahim Thamby Chik sementara Dato’ Eskay Shazril Abdullah duduk di sebelah saya. Kenalan saya tadi duduk di atas katil di belakang di dalam bilik tersebut.
Dato’ Eskay Shazril Abdullah mula bercakap dan mengatakan bahawa saya (“Johari Abdul”) adalah ahli Parlimen yang pertama akan menyaksikan tayangan video yang sedang mula dimainkan itu. Dia juga meminta pandangan saya mengenai Dato’ Seri Anwar Ibrahim.
Sepanjang tayangan video tersebut, Dato’ Eskay Shazril Abdullah menjadi suara latar menerangkan beberapa perkara. Contohnya, dia menyentuh bagaimana cara individu terbabit menanggalkan kondom selepas perlakuan berakhir mempunyai risiko air mani akan terpercik ke kawasan yang besar. Menurutnya, tabiat itulah yang menyebabkan Dato’ Seri Anwar Ibrahim sering meninggalkan bahan bukti seperti yang berlaku dalam kes liwat pertama tahun 1998 dulu.
Dia juga mendakwa bahawa dia selalu membawa Dato’ Seri Anwar Ibrahim ke club house di mana berlakunya kejadian itu dan tempat-tempat lain di Thailand seolah-olah ini perkara yang kerapkali dibuat oleh Dato’ Seri Anwar Ibrahim. Menurutnya, setiap kali dia membawa Dato’ Seri Anwar Ibrahim ke tempat itu, bilik itulah (yang dirakamkan) yang digunakan Dato’ Seri Anwar Ibrahim sementara dia (Dato’ Eskay) menggunakan bilik bersebelahan. Dalam percakapan seterusnya, dia menyatakan kebimbangan kononnya rakaman-rakaman video seperti itu telah dipunyai oleh pihak perisikan Thai.
Sepanjang penayangan video tersebut, Tan Sri Rahim Thamby Chik kerap mencelah dan membuat komen pendek yang memburukkan Dato’ Seri Anwar Ibrahim. Saya percaya beliau cuba meyakinkan saya bahawa Dato’ Seri Anwar Ibrahim adalah seorang yang tidak bermoral dan tidak layak menjadi seorang pemimpin.Selepas penayangan video tersebut, Tan Sri Rahim Thamby Chik mula bercakap. Dia memujuk supaya saya meninggalkan KEADILAN dan Dato’ Seri Anwar Ibrahim. Dia berjanji untuk bawa saya berjumpa dengan Perdana Menteri, Dato’ Seri Najib Tun Razak. Tan Sri Rahim Thamby Chik juga menyebut bahawa dia akan uruskan segala keperluan kewangan dan keselamatan saya.
Tan Sri Rahim Thamby Chik juga cuba meyakinkan saya untuk membawa dan memujuk lebih ramai Ahli Parlimen KEADILAN berjumpanya, supaya dapat dipujuk keluar parti. Dia meminta saya mengepalai kumpulan Ahli-ahli Parlimen KEADILAN ini. Saya tidak memberikan komitmen, selain mendengar komen-komen yang dibuat.
Selepas itu, saya keluar dan diiringi oleh kenalan rapat saya itu. Di dalam lif, saya memeluknya dan memberitahu beliau, bahawa setelah menonton keseluruhan video tersebut, saya yakin bahawa orang di dalam video itu bukanlah Dato’ Seri Anwar Ibrahim.
Saya berkeyakinan bahawa pelakon itu bukan Dato’ Seri Anwar Ibrahim berlandaskan faktor berikut:
1. Pada awal rakaman, terdapat seorang lelaki lain yang sedang menguruskan rakaman video pada ketika orang yang mirip Dato’ Seri Anwar Ibrahim masuk ke dalam bilik. Sewajarnya orang itu (yang mirip Dato’ Seri Anwar Ibrahim) sedar bahawa perlakuannya akan dirakam. Mustahil sesiapa yang waras akan melakukan adegan sedemikian kecuali dia diupah.
2. Tempoh masa rakaman yang menunjukkan muka si pelaku adalah terlalu pendek. Ditambah dengan rakaman yang dibuat di dalam hitam putih; menyukarkan untuk betul-betul mengesahkan identiti si pelaku.
3. Bahu si pelaku terlalu lebar dan tegap berbanding bahu Dato’ Seri Anwar Ibrahim.
4. Bahagian belakang si pelaku (punggong) juga berisi dan jelas berbeza dengan tubuh badan Dato’ Seri Anwar Ibrahim.
5. Di akhir adegan, si pelaku bangun dan tubuh badannya dirakam dengan jelas. Perutnya adalah buncit dan terlalu besar jika dibandingkan dengan perut Dato’ Seri Anwar Ibrahim.
6. Warna kulitnya adalah terlalu cerah dan hampir tidak dapat dibezakan dengan warna kulit wanita terlibat.
Selepas itu, saya menyatakan kesediaan untuk membawa beberapa orang ahli Parlimen KEADILAN agar mereka juga dapat menonton video dan berjumpa dengan Tan Sri Rahim Thamby Chik. Saya dimaklumkan sessi tayangan seterusnya akan dibuat kepada ahli-ahli Parlimen KEADILAN pada jam 330 petang 22 Mac 2011. Kami hadir semalam di Hotel Flamingo Ampang dan menunggu hingga jam 530 petang, oleh kerana mereka telah sahkan bahawa perjumpaa akan berlaku. Walau bagaimana pun, perjumpaan itu dibatalkan oleh pihak mereka.
Saya mengambil risiko membuat kenyataan ini diluar Dewan Rakyat kerana saya yakin bahawa episod terbaru ini adalah satu lagi rencana jahat untuk memfitnah Dato’ Seri Anwar Ibrahim.
EXCLUSIVE: Najib and Deputy Came to Sack Taib!
Monday, March 21st, 2011 GMT
This post is also available in: Malay
Show of unity, but behind the scenes there is fighting!
Sarawak Report has received privileged information from BN insiders in KL, revealing that Najib Razak and Deputy PM, Muhyiddin Yassin, came to Sarawak not to support Taib, but to make him stand down!
This was the reason for the unprecedented dual visit of both the PM and the Deputy PM at the same time.
“One held the pistol and the other a dagger and said ‘it’s time to stand down. We are not going to compromise with you anymore, you have to announce your decision or that’s it!’ ”, recounted our source.The 74 year old veteran of 30 years in office however did manage to negotiate a reprieve – on the basis that he would agree to call the election immediately and to leave office once a ‘transition period’ had established a suitable successor. Our sources told us that the Chief Minister, who has been refusing to stand down until he is secure that he can protect his wealth, has been infuriating BN colleagues in KL with his constant delays in holding the election. They were concerned he would hold out till the last moment, making a difficult situation worse.
“He is finished” – the devastating evidence from BN’s secret polling!
- The usual (illegal) promises of election handouts – RM200 million is promised to Serian! But even BN think the voters are past this tactic.
Despite the brave faces and continuing public declarations that Taib ‘cannot lose’, the federal hierarchy are now convinced that he will in fact lose badly in this election and may even lose his own seat.
Our contact, who is extremely well-connected and close to BN leading figures, says that Taib’s Information department has done extensive confidential polling in recent months. The sampling has involved at least 2,000 voters in each constituency and the results have been terrifying for BN:
“I have seen them [the results] with my own eyes. This election the PM and Deputy PM know that it is inevitable that Taib will lose”We have been informed that the findings show that the Chief Minister’s own party PBB will lose ‘at least’ 14 of its 35 seats and that George Chan’s SUPP will lose 90% of its current votes, amounting to 10 out of its 12 seats! SPDP and PRS will also lose at least one seat each. “These seats are in the black not the grey area”, it was emphasised, meaning it was not a question of possibly losing the seats but rather they are definitely going to be lost. BN are resigned to the fact that the existing parties are going to lose at least 33 out of the 71 seats and that the outcome may be far worse than that.
BN's best projections are that they will lose their majority - but they fear a wipe-out!
Talk of opposition hopes of merely denying BN its two thirds majority in Sarawak now looks hopelessly outdated, according to these figures. The ruling coalition itself is resigned to being swept away by a tsunami of change and they blame Taib Mahmud for the loss of their “fixed deposit”.
“He knows the game is up. He has run out of ideas and run out of Bomohs”, was the angry sneer. “Whichever way he goes, he will lose. It is time”The MACC is waiting till after the election!
Body language - Taib is pushed to the back as the anxious leaders from BN seek a new way forward without him.
For years Taib has been the over-mighty tail that wagged the dog in Malaysia, but they are at last determined to bring him to heel now that he is weakened by growing unpopularity.
There is clearly also a real anger and disgust over the scale of Taib’s greed and kleptocracy, which has worsened BN’s already tarnished record on corruption. Indeed, we were informed that measures have already been taken to trace and secure some of Taib’s stolen assets abroad. Privately Taib’s federal colleagues are determined not to let him escape with the loot!
“He is finished. This is not a question of stepping down, this is a question of being sued for corruption. The MACC are waiting until after the election” Sarawak Report was told.Taib’s exit plans have therefore been blocked it was confirmed, which has worsened the tension between Federal and Local governments. The Chief Minister’s original get-out strategy, mooted last year, was to accept appointment as Governor, thereby benefiting from a supposed immunity from prosecution. Najib refused. The resulting delay in the calling of the election as Taib searches for new options has caused the present crisis.
No safe exit for Taib
Clearly popular with Taib! Awang Tengah's new house is being built to impress - the 'future Chief Minister' is already big in the Planning Ministry and Taib hopes he will protect all his stolen land assets !
Tengah is in the middle of building a monstrous new residence in Kuching, a sure sign of favour from Taib and hardly in keeping with a politician’s salary! This is just the sort of typical display of wealth that has infuriated KL. They are pushing for their own candidate Abang Zohari, who has a reputation they say for modesty and honesty. Taib, however, is reputed to loath him.
The Federal visitors were equally unforgiving about Taib’s choice of candidates over the weekend, we are told. Taib had ten seats reserved for his own family in the list he was offering. Najib and his powerful Deputy told him to tear it up.“The PM and Deputy PM not only told him to calm down and dissolve, but also to choose candidates that are acceptable to the people and not just his own flesh and blood. That list has to change. He can’t put in his sons and nieces and nephews – he only trusts his family”!“Relations with KL are terrible now”
Najib, his powerful Deputy Muhyiddin Yassin, are unhappy to be stuck going into the election with the spent old men of Kuching and all their "baggage"!
With local politicians in Sarawak keeping silent out of fear of Taib’s ruthless reputation, he is proving impossible for Najib to replace before the polls. However, BN have identified him as a loser, a loser they dislike and a loser they want to see made an example of.
With just three weeks to go now, KL are looking for a way out and for a new image free of Taib and all his “baggage”. But, after years of tolerating the thieving White Haired Rajah of Sarawak, they are going to have a hard time convincing disillusioned voters, however genuine their regrets!
Taken from Sarawak Report
PKR-Snap solution by Thursday, says Azmin
A solution is expected to the on-going tussle for Sarawak seats between PKR and Snap after leaders of the parties meet in Kuching onThursday, said PKR deputy president Azmin Ali.
He said he had met senior Snap leader Daniel Tajem on Sunday and secretary-general Edmund Stanly Jugoh yesterday, describing both meetings as “encouraging”.
“I will fly down on Thursday morning to meet them. They will show us their wish-list of seats and candidates, and we will do the same and we will discuss from there,” he said when met after a Pakatan Rakyat meeting at the Opposition Leader's office in the Parliament tower block today.
Azmin (right) was commenting on the seat negotiations between the two parties - which at one point was on the brink of collapse due to what Snap claimed was PKR's “arrogance”.
Snap president Edwin Dundang last week announced the party's list of candidates for 16 of the 71 state seats up for grabs in the looming state elections, in what he described as a move to pre-empt PKR's alleged move to contest 52 seats.
He explained that the negotiations will be based on “winnability” of candidates, with both PKR and Snap willing to make way if either one has a better candidate for each seat.
Azmin however declined to say more than that, avoiding giving any definite figures on the actual number of overlapping seats between PKR and Snap.
“The details will come on Thursday,” was all he volunteered despite numerous questions on the issue.
Taken from Malaysiakini
He said he had met senior Snap leader Daniel Tajem on Sunday and secretary-general Edmund Stanly Jugoh yesterday, describing both meetings as “encouraging”.
“I will fly down on Thursday morning to meet them. They will show us their wish-list of seats and candidates, and we will do the same and we will discuss from there,” he said when met after a Pakatan Rakyat meeting at the Opposition Leader's office in the Parliament tower block today.
Azmin (right) was commenting on the seat negotiations between the two parties - which at one point was on the brink of collapse due to what Snap claimed was PKR's “arrogance”.
Snap president Edwin Dundang last week announced the party's list of candidates for 16 of the 71 state seats up for grabs in the looming state elections, in what he described as a move to pre-empt PKR's alleged move to contest 52 seats.
Azmin however has since declared that there is no major tussle between the two parties, refuting a media report that Snap has cut ties with PKR and Pakatan.
Overlapping claims
Asked about the status of the negotiations, Azmin admitted that both parties still have overlapping claims over the 16 seats that Snap has declared that it intends to contest.
“Most of the 16 Snap seats overlap (with those wanted by PKR), because these are Iban-majority seats, and (PKR) of course has an interest in Iban seats,” he said,
“Most of the 16 Snap seats overlap (with those wanted by PKR), because these are Iban-majority seats, and (PKR) of course has an interest in Iban seats,” he said,PKR also expects to settle negotiations with DAP soon over a “maximum” of three overlapping seats, he said.
Azmin expressed confidence that they will be able to get over “minor issues” that are outstanding between PKR and Snap by Thursday.He explained that the negotiations will be based on “winnability” of candidates, with both PKR and Snap willing to make way if either one has a better candidate for each seat.
Azmin however declined to say more than that, avoiding giving any definite figures on the actual number of overlapping seats between PKR and Snap.
“The details will come on Thursday,” was all he volunteered despite numerous questions on the issue.
Taken from Malaysiakini
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