Najib and the Politic of Suppression in Malaysia

KUCHING
Wednesday, 10th March 2010

PM Najib, the son of Malaysian second Prime Minister took over the premiership from Tun Abdullah Badawi to become the sixth Prime Minister of Malaysia on 3rd April 2009.

He took over from his predecessor when BN strength was at its lowest level. During the 2008 General Election (GE 2008) Barisan Nasional (BN) lost four states to Pakatan Rakyat (PR) . All of the states except Kedah are the most developed states in Malaysia.

In order to win all of these states back from the PR, Najib has been employing the politic of suppression. Najib politic of suppression started in Perak . Two YBs from PR, both who were Malays became the first casualties. Najib with the help of  Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC), had tricked the two YBs to accept bribes in the form of monies and prostitutes. Those two YBs were Jamaludin Mohd Radzi and Mohd Osman Mohd Jailu who were both from Parti Keadilan Rakyat or People Freedom Party (PKR). To avoid the prison, both of the YBs announced their defection and supported BN on 4th Feb 2009, and on the same date PR’s government in Perak collapsed.

After succeeded in Perak, Najib continued with his politic of suppression in Selangor. Using the same government agency the MACC, he harassed the PR YBs. Tan Sri Khalid was the first PR YB that was harassed . He was accused of corruption by using the state fund to buy cows for Haj festival in his constituency, and to service his personal vehicle. Both of the charges were proven not true and were dropped. Continued with their harassment in Selangor, MACC started to investigate and accused almost all of the PR YBs on corruption. The PR YBs could not spend their monies for political activities as the MACC were followings their every movements. The MACC operation in Selangor was put on-hold for a while after the death of PR political secretary the infamous Teoh Beng Hock murdered case. The inquest into the death of Teoh Beng Hock has been going on until now.

Najib Politic Will End Soonest

Najib politic of suppression is continuing until his own fall. Sooner or later, Malaysians will realize that BN and Najib is a dictator. Just like what had happened and happening around them, for example in Indonesia where people power had managed to force Suharto from his power, in Philippines Marcos was also ousted by people power (Najib and Rosmah combination is just like Marcos and Imeld). In Thailand, the Prime Minister was forced to step-down by the protester. Until now only in Myanmar and Malaysian government still manage to hold on to power despite the protests from people.

Sure Najib and BN Politic of Suppression Will be a Self Destruction to them!

In Malaysia, the “Reformasi” which had started with the rallies/protests since year 1998 to oust the BN dictator government , but until now still fail to bring down the government. In Myanmar, the protests led by monks in late 2007 nearly crippled the military junta.

In Malaysia, BN and Najib politic of suppression is still continued. But how long can they cheat the people? 1Malaysia concept that Najib introduced to unite it multi-races and religions in Malaysia, even though to Bukittunggal is just a rhetoric, is one of Najib strategies to avoid the people uprising.

To Najib and the BN, we have this to say :

"You can fool all of the people some of the time, and some of the people all of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time."- Abraham Lincoln

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OOPS...Police Do It Again

KUCHING
Sunday, 8th March 2010

Protect the people or protect thei boss UMNO

After reading an article from Malaysian Insider just now, being the citizen of this independent nation, I was so upset, but I am not surprised as they owed UMNO something. They owed UMNO their "pay raised" which was announced by UMNO boss last month!

The police main role is to serve the people means the servant of the people. They should not sided anyone  irrespective who they are ..be they Najib, Rosmah, Taib Mahmud or even the Pakatan Rakyat (PR) leaders.

But lately especially after the fall of UMNO in the 2008 election, the police start to supress cause fear to the PR leaders. So far their tactic has been very successful. Few PR MP have left the party and align themselves to UMNO.

The latest brutality or supressing by the police against PR leaders occurred tonight when The police moved in tonight to stop a Pakatan Rakyat public rally at the Sultan Sulaiman Club here to mark the second anniversary of the coalition’s landmark victory in Election 2008.

PKR vice-president Azmin Ali was stopped by Federal Reserve Unit riot police while delivering his speech to thousands attending the rally.

As the police approached him, Azmin told the crowd that the club belonged to the Selangor state government and was not “Umno property”.

“I call on the policemen to embrace the Pakatan Rakyat struggle,” he said to applause from the crowd.

“If we are given the mandate to take over Putrajaya, we will protect the interest of the policemen,” he added before police stopped his speech.

The action of this UMNO police could anger the public and cause them lost confidence in the police. Being the servant of the people they should not sided any party. PR should take note of this shortcoming, and to amend the Police Act to avoid police being used by governing party....Bukittunggal

Among those at the rally were PKR deputy president Senator Dr Syed Husin Ali, Penang Chief Minister and DAP secretary-general Lim Guan Eng and PAS vice-president Mahfuz Omar.

The police last night stopped a dinner organised by the DAP in Kepong, just outside the city centre.

The Pakatan Rakyat swept through four more states and captured 82 federal seats in a historic win that denied the ruling Barisan Nasional its customary two-thirds parliamentary majority.

However, Pakatan lost Perak when three lawmakers quit to be independents last year and support Barisan as the state government.

Pakatan lynchpin PKR lost three MPs and sacked another over the past month as the leadership anguished over de facto leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim’s sodomy charge, the second after he was sacked as deputy prime minister in September 1998.

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PKR says no to all-Muslim panel for Zul Noordin

KUALA LUMPUR
Thursday, 4th March 2010

PKR’s disciplinary board will not bend to the will of Kulim-Bandar Bharu MP Zulkifli Noordin’s demand for an all-Muslim panel and is expected to deliberate on his hearing despite today’s walkout, party secretary-general Saifuddin Nasution said today.

Saifuddin told The Malaysian Insider this evening that there was nothing wrong or disrespectful with the decision to maintain the present panel members instead of replacing them with only Muslim members.

Zulkifli had made the request for an all-Muslim panel in view of the fact that he was to answer to disciplinary charges involving his actions in the “Allah” row.

“He has to understand. He is not being tried for his stand on the word “Allah”. He is being tried for his act of lodging a police report against a fellow Pakatan Rakyat MP despite the party’s gag order on the matter,” Saifuddin said.

He added that the decision to reject Zulkifli’s request which was made by the party’s disciplinary committee would remain the same.

“We are trying him on his action of defying a party order, not about his stand. It is very different. That is why there is no need for there to be an all-Muslim panel,” said Saifuddin.

He added that Zulkifli was welcome to his beliefs on the “Allah” matter, whether or not it was in conflict with the party’s view. “But when you disregard a party order and lodge a report against a fellow MP, disciplinary action will have to be taken,” he said.

Zulkifli had lodged a report against Shah Alam PAS MP Khalid Samad over his disagreement in the issue. Saifuddin acknowledged that he had received a fourth letter from Zulkifli today, containing the same eight demands that the latter had made in view of his disciplinary hearing. He noted however that the decision would remain the same.

“The board will make their recommendations (of disciplinary actions) to the party’s supreme council for endorsement. This means that Zulkifli will have to make up his mind whether to concede to the board’s decisions, even though it was made by non-Muslim members, or leave the party.”

The maverick politician today staged a walkout when he was informed that his demands had not been met and the same panel who sat on Monday would be handling his case. Zulkifli had expressed disappointment that the panel comprised of only one Muslim member while the others were two Christian activists and one Hindu.

The muslim MP, Assemblyman and member of PKR must transformed themselves into this new entity of PKR 100%. They must understand that PKR struggle is for all Malaysians regardless of their races. If they feel that PKR should fight for the Malay and Muslim alone, they must make aright movement by resign from the party and join the racist Ibrahim Ali. PKR has no place for people like this Zulkifli Nordin! Bukittunggal.com

“I mean no disrespect to the members of the board but I refuse to recognise them for it is inappropriate for them to be passing judgement on a religion that they themselves do not understand.

“On this issue, I will not compromise. Who better to judge me then another fellow Muslim? I were to be punished by another Muslim for my involvement in this matter, I can accept it.

Justice requires for one to be tried by one’s own peers. Justice must not only be done, it must also be seen to be done,” he said in a press conference after the hearing.

Zulkifli is also facing the board for his open criticism of Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng. He is expected to leave PKR and join former colleagues Datuk Seri Zahrain Hashim, Tan Tee Beng and Mohsin Fadzli Samsuri, who defected recently citing loss in the party’s leadership.

Zulkifli had told pressmen today that “as of now” he had no plans to quit and wanted to stay on to defend himself.

He noted that the board had a deadline to make a decisiob by next Tuesday on the matter. “Then I will decide,” he said, adding that if his demands were not met, it meant that the party had no respect for the Islamic religion.

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Sarawak State Election As I predicted Earlier Is Very Near

KUCHING
Thursday, 4th March 2010

Based on what happened in Sarawak since late last month, Bukittunggal predicted that the state election will be held at anytime now.
This was further confirmed by Taib Mahmud when he asked his party party’s members to ready their election machinery for a state election which he said could be held at any time now.
“I may call it (the state election) sooner or later, depending on my inspiration,” he told reporters after the closing of the 12th PBB general assembly, here.
Abdul Taib, who is the Sarawak chief minister, said that based on the mood of the party members during the general assembly, they are motivated to face a state election.
Declining to say when the state election would be called, he said the party must be well prepared to face the election to ensure a thumping victory for the PBB candidates.
The term of the current government expires in July next year but many political observers and opposition parties believe the chief minister may call an early election to take advantage of the prevailing feel-good factor, with the economy recovering and the many goodies announced by Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak during his recent visit to the rural areas of the state.
Fuelling the speculation of an early state election are the constant visits of federal ministers to Sarawak once a month beginning last year.
The Barisan Nasional (BN) coalition won 62 of the 71 seats in the state election in May 2006, with the PBB winning 35 bumiputera-majority seats.

No matter what all the Barisan Nasional members in sarawak felt, being the member of the PKR, I am confident that this time BN will lost miserably. This is based on my observation and the survey that I conducted, majority of the dayak still angry with BN especially in matter involved their NCR lands and the development that until now still has not reaching about 95% of the longhouses. PBB and Taib might thought that what happened to PKR in Peninsular Malaysia will affect the strength of PKR in Sabah and Sarawak, he is wrong. Taib is digging his own grave.....BN will sure lose their grip in Sarawak!...Bukittunggal.com

Apart from the PBB, the other BN component parties in Sarawak are the Sarawak United People’s Party (SUPP), Sarawak Progressive Democratic Party (SPDP) and Parti Rakyat Sarawak (PRS).

On another matter, Abdul Taib said that during the PBB general assembly, delegates expressed the wish for all development projects planned by the federal government to be implemented as soon as possible.

He said many of the delegates wanted the projects to be implemented fast to propel Sarawak to be on par with the other states in the country

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Firus Quits PKR to Join Racist UMNO

KUALA LUMPUR
Monday, 1st February 2010

Former Penang deputy chief minister 1 Mohammad Fairus Khairuddin Sunday night announced that he was leaving Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) to join Umno.

He made the announcement in front of Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak, who is also Umno president, at a function with the Silat Seni Gayung Association in Ampang.

Mohammad Fairus then handed his Umno membership application form to Najib.

Earlier in his speech, Mohammad Fairus, said his decision to quit PKR was because he had lost confidence in the party leadership, especially on matters concerning Islam and the Malays.

"I see that the PKR leaders cannot uphold the sovereignty of the Malays and sanctity of Islam. I am also disappointed with the way PKR handles the issue on the use of the word Allah," said the former Penanti assemblyman.

Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) or People Justice Party is a party that fights for all Malaysian regardless of their races, religions or the states where they are from. The Party reinforced its stand on this issues through its 5 Janji (5 Promises ) which was launched nationwide last year. The reasons given by fairuz to quit PKR is in question especially in the fiollowings : (1) Is Malay being marginalised in PKR (2) By Joininmg UMNO means the rest of the parties in BN like PRS, MCA, MIC and Gerakan are "Mr Yes Man" to UMNO by neglegting the races and religions that they representing. For those Malay politicians that quitted  PKR...the truth prevails that they are yet racist just like the other UMNO members!...Bukittunggal.

PKR leadership

Meanwhile, Najib said Mohammad Fairus' decision to quit PKR shows that other leaders were losing confidence in the party leadership.

Najib said the action of Mohammad Fairus who was a senior PKR leader and who had held a senior post in the Pakatan Rakyat-ruled Penang, was a good example.

"From what I gathered from his speech is that he has lost confidence in the PKR leadership and that PKR had failed to protect the fundamental policy of harnessing the true values of Islam," he said.

In welcoming Mohammad Fairus as a new Umno member, Najib said: "We welcome him with open arms and I know Fairus made the decision based on principle and policy, not because of position or incentives. Welcome to Umno".

Source : BERNAMA

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Ethnic Conflict is In The Making In Malaysia With People Like Ibrahim Ali Allow to Move Freely!

KUALA LUMPUR
Saturday, 27th February 2010

About 50 groups today launched the Malay NGO Consultative Council (MPM) to defend Malay rights and Islam at the historic Sultan Sulaiman Club here, where a similar gathering nearly 60 years ago led to the formation of Umno.

Among the prime movers are Perkasa, ex-Umno lawmakers council Mubarak, Peninsula Malay Students Confederation (GPMS), Malay Professional Thinkers Association and Cuepacs.

The Malaysian Insider was barred from reporting the event but a media release said among those who spoke were Perkasa president and Pasir Mas MP Datuk Ibrahim Ali (picture), Mubarak chief Tan Sri Abu Zahar Ujang and Malay Professional Thinkers president Professor Datuk Dr Kamaruddin Kachar who is a former director-general of the National Civics Bureau (BTN) which the opposition claims spreads hate ideology.

The MPM was launched by GPMS president Jais Abd Karim followed by a dialogue and a signing ceremony to form the body.

The MPM press release said “following several discussions by several Malay NGO leaders, there was a desire for a consultative council to bring together as many Malay NGOs concerned about current developments faced by the Malays”.

“It is apparent that there is pressure on Malay rights and privileges in their own country, towards the position of Islam as the official religion, the position and sovereignty of the Malay Rulers that is always being questioned, the New Economic Policy that is being sidelined despite the lack of achievement by the Malays and also national security,” it said.

These are among several “sensitive” issues for the Malays which have become provocative matters by those who want to destroy the security and prosperity of the country, the statement added.

The statement said the consultative council is not a platform for confrontation unless they are forced by parties described as those “inciting” racial tension.

“The main function of this council is to act as a medium to gather Malay NGOs that share the same stand to handle pressures faced by the Malays, Islam, Malay Rulers, national security, public order and other related issues,” the statement said, adding the idea to form the body was made early last month.

Government must take drastic action toward these Malay extremists especially to Ibrahim Ali the most racist Malay in South East Asia. If he is allowed to do whatever he likes to do, Malaysia freedom will end. I served and sweat for the nation just to ensure that everyone regardless of their race, be it Malay, Chinese or Iban leave peacefully with each other. Government must be bold to sacrifice one Ibrahim Ali in order to save the rest 25 millions of the population!...Bukittunggal.com   

The MPM will form a task force that will be chaired by council members in rotation.

The statement also said the MPM had resolved each member should jointly study issues important to the Malays, Islam, Malay Rulers, national security and public order that is brought up or questioned by others, or to be championed by the community.

Others include the preparation and implementation of action plans to handle or oppose provocations against issues that relate to Malays and Islam, or issues seen as inciting or hateful.

The resolutions decided by MPM are:

(1) Resolutions must be based on facts and documents tabled at lawful MPM meetings;

(2) MPM members who disagree with the resolutions must accept the decision of the majority and be prepared to sign the agreed resolutions;

(3) MPM members who refuse or abstain from resolutions or decisions can choose not to sign off without affecting their membership; and

(4) If any MPM member opposes any of its resolutions or decisions, they will automatically cease to be members.

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PBB TDC No Top Post Contest Could Cause Leadership Crisis should Anything Happens to Taib

KUCHING
Saturday, 27th February 2010

The triennial delegates conference of Parti Pesaka Bumiputera Bersatu (PBB) starting in Kuching on Monday may be a humdrum affair as there is no contest for key positions except for some seats in the party’s supreme council.

Still, for political reasons, this conference will generate much interest among political analysts and party members as the long-serving party president and Sarawak Chief Minister Tan Sri Abdul Taib Mahmud may choose the occasion to indicate his possible successor, at the very least.

Some in the party’s inner circle are speculating that Taib will provide some hints on his possible next-in-line as this might be his last term to head PBB, the most powerful political party in Sarawak. But will he really? Many are also doubtful that he will do so at this juncture.

“He should have an exit strategy by now but there’s no evidence of this,” said Datuk Seri Daniel Tajem, an Iban who served as deputy chief minister to Taib in the early 1980s.

Tajem, who is now an advisor to Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) Sarawak, said Taib should have just taken the bull by the horns and publicly announce that he would quit.

Political analyst Dr Sivamurugan Pandian believes that Taib will relinquish his top party position only after the next state election because if he steps down now, it might trigger be a power struggle within the party. “He has to groom someone to take over. We may see some indication who is likely the person after the PBB convention,” he said.

Dr Sivamurugan said from a political strategy perspective, it would not be wise for him to step down before the state election as the party might be focusing more on who is going to be the next chief minister instead of winning and retaining power in the state election.

“Which issue would they want to focus, the state leadership or state election? Taib would not become an election issue if he stay on and lead the campaign in the coming state election. The thinking of the people in Peninsular Malaysia, Sabah and Sarawak are all different. That’s why, it would be better for Taib to step down only after the state election,” he added.

The potential successors are likely to come from those in the party’s deputy president position, who are normally being groomed to take over the top leadership. But then again in Sarawak politics, it does not mean that this would happen for sure.

Taib, 74, is believed to be seriously looking for leaders to lead the party. He has helmed PBB since March 26, 1981, a period of about 29 years. What is interesting is that whoever succeeds him as PBB president is going to be the chief minister of Sarawak.

In the past, Taib has eyed a number of PBB leaders who could take over from him, including Tan Sri Dr Sulaiman Daud, Datuk Seri Effendi Norwawi, Datuk Bujang Ulis, Datuk Abang Abu Bakar Mustapha and Datuk Seri Adenan Satem.

However, all of them had somewhat disappeared into political oblivion, for a number of reasons. Some were said to be impatient, some just gave up waiting.

PBB was formed following the merger between Parti Bumiputra and Parti Pesaka in January 1973. In the party’s history, no one has ever challenged the party president and most of the party’s top positions went uncontested, except on two occasions, in 1998 and 2005, but it only involved the deputy president’s post.

In 1998, both Adenan and Datuk Amar Abang Johari Tun Openg challenged each other for deputy president, which was reserved for the Malay/Melanau section of PBB.

Abang Johari triumphed following strong backing from the Dayak members despite the fact that Adenan was strongly backed by Taib at that time. Adenan, the vanquished, was later appointed by Taib as the party’s senior vice-president. Seven years later, Adenan mounted another challenge on Abang Johari, but the delegates conference was postponed when it was reported that some of Adenan’s supporters were found to have allegedly duplicated branches in some 40 constituencies.

PBB was later advised by the Registrar of Societies to have the election or risk being de-registered like the now defunct Parti Bansa Dayak Sarawak (PBDS).

Taib hinted in 2006 that he would have one last shot as the chief minister. The term of the current state administration will expire by July next year. But, as early as last year, Taib sent a signal that he was preparing to step down and was reported to be looking for someone regardless of race to be trained to take over from him.

No contest of top post may indicate that Malay and dayak in PBB are all cowards..Bukittunggal

Talk of Taib preparing to pass on the baton picked up momentum in April last year after the demise of his wife, Puan Sri Laila Taib, who had been described as the pillar of support for Taib in his political career.

Thus, the focus of interest will be on the current batch of senior leaders — Deputy President I Tan Sri Alfred Jabu, Deputy President II Abang Johari and Senior Vice-President Datuk Seri Awang Tengah Ali Hassan as possible successor.

Alfred Jabu, an agricultural graduate and experienced politician, has been tutored by two of Sarawak’s best known politicians — Tun Abdul Rahman Yaakub, the former chief minister and Yang Dipertua Negeri, and later by Taib himself. Since having been elected as state assemblyman for Layar in 1974, he has been appointed to various ministerial posts, including deputy chief minister under Rahman, and since March 1981 under Taib.

Another chief ministerial candidate is Abang Johari, who comes from an illustrious family where his father, Tun Abang Openg, was the first governor of Sarawak. Holding an MBA degree from a British university, he is said to have shown his capability as industrial development minister before being moved to the tourism ministry. In the recent state Cabinet reshuffle, he was tasked to look after the state ministry of housing and urban development.

Taib’s son, Datuk Seri Sulaiman who recently resigned as deputy tourism minister, has also been mentioned as another possible candidate as there is speculation that his father wants him to return to Sarawak and be “trained to take over”. Political observers who have closely monitored Sarawak politics said although Sulaiman had not offered to contest any position in the party’s election, it did not mean that he would not be picked as a candidate in the next state election.

Another aspirant for chief minister is Awang Tengah, the minister of public utilities and the second minister of planning and resource management, which is considered by some as be the most powerful ministerial position after Taib in the state Cabinet.

There is also talk that Taib has also sought the views of people close to him, including some Dayak and Chinese ministers regarding his possible successor.

So, who will succeed Taib? The guessing game continues.

Source Bernama

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History Of UMNO Meddling In Dayak Politic Repeated Again

KUCHING
Thursday, 27th February 2010

An amicable solution may be in sight for the current problem in the Sarawak Progressive Democratic Party (SPDP).

Barisan Nasional (BN) secretary-general Datuk Seri Tengku Adnan Tengku Mansor is now in the state and apparently working behind the scenes to try and resolve the problem.

SPDP Meluan state assemblyman Wong anak Judat told Bernama here today that Tengku Adnan had met with party president Datuk Seri William Mawan Ikom, deputy president Datuk Peter Nyarok, secretary-general Nelson Balang Rining and treasurer-general and Bintulu Member of Parliament Datuk Seri Tiong King Sing recently.

“He is supposed to meet our former secretary-general, Sylvester Entri Munan, and others today.

“Then he hopes to meet with PRS president Datuk Seri Dr James Jemut Masing,” Wong said after attending a Chinese New Year gathering organised by the Julau Town Rukun Tetangga Sector, here.

He said Tengku Adnan would then meet with Sarawak Chief Minister Tan Sri Abdul Taib Mahmud, who is the state BN chief, before flying back to Kuala Lumpur.

SPDP Supreme Council member Paul Igai, when contacted, confirmed that Tengku Adnan was helping to resolve the hiccup in his party.

“He may most probably be attending our Supreme Council meeting this Sunday,” he said.

The problem in SPDP arose after its recent triennial general assembly when Mawan appointed Nelson Balang, who is Ba Kelalan state assemblyman, to replace Entri as the new secretary-general.

This did not go down well with Entri and four others — senior vice-president Datuk Peter Nansian, information chief Paulus Palu Gumbang (state assemblyman for Batu Danau), Rosey Yunus (state assemblyman for Bekenu) and Dr Tiki Lafe (MP for Mas Gading).

They then decided to merge immediately on their own with PRS without going through Peter Nyarok, who is the SPDP chairman of the proposed merger committee. 

Source: Bernama

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BEHIND SPDP AND PRS PROPOSED MERGER

Kuching
Thursday, 25th February 2010

James Masing and the Group of  Five 5 SPDP assemblymen  started Another Crisis In dayak Majority Parties!...Merger Will not happen Without William Mawan

Introduction

Dayak with it total population of about 1, 178,750 or 50% of Sarawak total population , is the biggest group in Sarawak.

Politically they are represented by all the parties in Sarawak, by the governing parties and as well as the opposition. In the governing parties , they are represented by the Parti Rakyat Sarawak (PRS) or Sarawak People Party, Sarawak Progressive Democratic Party (SPDP), Sarawak United People Party (SUPP) and Parti Pesaka Bumiputera Bersatu (PBB). Whereas in the opposition they are represent by Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR), Sarawak National party (SNAP) and the latest by Democratic Action Party (DAP).

What is Democracy and Why dayak Still marginalised

“Our constitution is named a democracy, because it is in the hands not of the few but of the many. But our laws secure equal justice for all in their private disputes and our public opinion welcomes and honours talent in every branch of achievement …on the ground of excellent alone…our citizen attend both to public and private duties and do not allow absorption in their various affairs to interfere with their knowledge of the city’s we decide or debate, carefully and in person of matters of policy holding…that acts are foredoomed to failure when undertaken discussed”...Pericles definition of democracy in Athens

Democracy is a form of government in which the policy is decided by the preference of the majority in a decision-making process, usually elections. Democracy as a form of government always has the following characteristics:

• There is a demos, a group which makes political decisions by some form of collective procedure. In modern democracies the demos is the nation, and citizenship is usually equivalent to membership.

• There is a territory where the decisions apply, and where the demos are resident. In modern democracies, the territory is the nation-state.

• There is a decision-making procedure, which is either direct (for instance a referendum) or indirect (for instance election of a parliament).

Based on the definition of the democracy above, the majority should rule. But why the dayak, despite being the majority they cannot rule? Dayak as I said earlier are representing by all of the political parties. Out of these so many political parties they are only majority in PRS and SPDP. This situation has caused their strength diluted.

SPDP Crisis and the Proposed Merger With PRS

The crisis in SPDP started on 22nd January 2010 when it President William Mawan Ikom replaced Sylvester Entri with Wilson Balang as SPDP secretary general. Mawan reasoned to replace Sylvester was to strengthen the party especially in the northern region of Sarawak.

But the group align to Sylvester Entri said that they walked out in protest over the appointment of Balang as the new secretary-general and Paul Igai, political secretary to the chief minister as his deputy. They believed that Sylvester Enteri was replaced as the secretary-general after he was alleged to have supported Philip Ngo in challenging the incumbent deputy president Peter Nyarok in the party elections last month.

On 21st February 2010, the group align to Sylvester Entri made a press statement that they will merge with PRS.

Conclusions

No matter what they called it, they were actually splitting from SPDP. The merger without the approval of both party Presidents will not going to happen. If merger between the two parties materialised, James Masing at this moment has an advantages over William Mawan as the new entity president. But will William Mawan accept the deputy president post. Judging from the dayak political history (take PBDS as an example) William Mawan would not accept James Masing as a President. So toward the end….Merger between SPDP and PRS will not going to happen and these 5 selfish representatives will be partiless.

This crisis will definitely weaken BN in the coming state election. Pakatan Rakyat (PR) must take this opportunity to wrest power from BN.

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Outdated political thuggery embarrasses Malaysia

Sydney Morning Herald
Tuesday, 23rd February 2010

Dumb autocrats use the army, goon squads and guns to repress the opposition. Smart autocrats use the law courts to do it. Indonesia's Soeharto was a dumb autocrat. Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew and Malaysia's Mahathir Mohamad were smart autocrats.

The Lee-Mahathir model keeps the outward facade of a functioning democracy, with elections, a parliament and supposedly independent courts. Behind it, the systems are gutted to guarantee the ruling party remains ruling.

In Singapore, where Lee's People's Action Party has been in power for 50 continuous years, the government simply sues opposition politicians for defamation. A tame court hands down ruinous damages, opponents end up in bankruptcy, jail or exile.

When a meddlesome foreigner, the deputy director for Asia of Human Rights Watch, Phil Robertson, said last month that ''Singapore is the textbook example of a politically repressive state'', the government just shrugged and said: ''Singapore is a democratic state with a clean and transparent government.''

The army is in its barracks and there are no goon squads smashing through people's front doors at 3am. It's all legit, see? The foreign investors and governments play along. So what if the ruling party holds 98 per cent of the seats in parliament? It has an elected parliament, and surely that's good enough.

Lee quit the prime ministership in 1990 and now holds a personalised cabinet post of Minister Mentor. But his system lives on. His handpicked successors as prime minister, Goh Chok Tong, and now Lee's son, Lee Hsien Loong, have been every bit as smart as the old man himself in preserving the appearance of legitimacy.

In Malaysia, Mahathir was never as subtle or as smooth as Lee. But Mahathir was still a smart autocrat who kept control through his puppetry of the judicial system. The pivotal moment was in 1988 when Mahathir complained that the courts were ''too independent''.

He purged the chief judicial officer, the Lord President, and suspended the five chief justices of the Supreme Court. The court system has never given any further trouble to the Barisan Nasional, or National Front, since. Together with its predecessor, the BN has ruled Malaysia continuously for 54 years.

It's infinitely smarter to use legal instruments to purge judges than to use guns against protesters. A judicial massacre makes lousy TV. You won't see one live on CNN. So it remains hidden from international view. Yet it can be every bit as repressive. So when Mahathir faced a power struggle in 1998 with his deputy prime minister and heir apparent, the charismatic Anwar Ibrahim, he naturally turned to the courts to purge his younger rival.

In a blatantly political fix-up, he had Anwar arrested and charged with sodomy, a shocking crime in a predominantly conservative Muslim country. Even today it carries a maximum penalty of 20 years' jail. The police Special Branch concocted evidence and coerced witnesses. Anwar emerged from his police cell to appear in court with a bruised face, inflicted, it was later learnt, when the chief of police beat him.

The verdict was never in question. The courts convicted Anwar of sodomising his aide and speechwriter, Munawar Anees. The former deputy PM spent six years in jail. Munawar, now living in the US, has since said he was coerced into giving evidence against Anwar. ''My detention by the Malaysian Special Branch taught me how it feels to be forcibly separated from one's wife and children,'' Munawar wrote in the Wall Street Journal last month.

''How it feels to be searched and seized, disallowed to make phone calls, handcuffed, blindfolded, stripped naked, endlessly interrogated, humiliated, drugged, deprived of sleep, physically abused. What it's like to be threatened, blackmailed, hectored by police lawyers, brutalised to make a totally false confession.''

With Malaysia under tremendous international pressure from Anwar's admirers, including America's Al Gore and Britain's Gordon Brown, and with Mahathir retiring from the prime ministership in 2003, a review court overturned the sodomy sentence. Anwar was released in 2004.

He was allowed to return to politics in 2008 to lead the opposition to the BN. He committed the crime of doing so with some success. In March 2008, under challenge from Anwar, the BN won a national election, but was shocked to lose its prized majority of two-third of the seats in parliament.

The new BN Prime Minister, Najib Razak, reacted exactly as Mahathir had to a challenge from Anwar. Four months after the ruling party's election setback, Anwar was once again charged with sodomy. Once again, it's a blatant political case. The newspaper The Star called the case ''Sodomy II''.

Why is Anwar such a threat?

''At the moment,'' says Carl Thayer, an expert at the University of NSW, ''there is no other leader who can hold together the opposition coalition of an Islamic party with a Chinese party, who is capable of being prime minister, and who has experience and international recognition that Anwar has.''

The case is a joke. It exposes the Najib government as desperate and underhanded. It makes Malaysia a subject of international ridicule. While under Mahathir this form of legal manipulation might have been smart autocracy, in today's world it just looks like Malaysia is playing around with its national future.

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