Adakah empat universiti awam yang akan menganjurkan Kongres Maruah Melayu pada Ahad ini sudi untuk menganjurkan Kongres Maruah Cina Malaysia, Kongres India Malaysia, Kongres Maruah Kadazan, Kongres Maruah Dayak, Kongres Maruah Orang Asli dan paling penting Kongres Maruah Rakyat Malaysia?
Empat universiti awam, iaitu Universiti Malaya (UM), Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris (UPSI), Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM) dan Universiti Teknologi Mara (UiTM) akan menganjurkan Kongres Maruah Melayu di Stadium Malawati di Shah Alam pada Ahad ini.
Adakah empat universiti awam tersebut sudi mengadakan kongres yang sama untuk kaum-kaum lain di Malaysia, sebagai contoh; Kongres Maruah Cina Malaysia, Kongres Maruah India Malaysia, Kongres Maruah Kadazan, Kongres Maruah Dayak, Kongres Maruah Orang Asli, dan yang paling penting, Kongres Maruah Rakyat Malaysia?
Ini antara persoalan yang dibangkitkan rakyat Malaysia sebagai reaksi terhadap penganjuran Kongres Maruah Melayu pada Ahad nanti.
Maruah Malaysia akan terpelihara sekiranya maruah setiap kumpulan etnik dan agama di negara ini turut terpelihara — iaitu dengan berpegang teguh terhadap prinsip-prinsip asas dalam Perlembagaan Persekutuan dan Rukun Negara.
Adakah Kongres Maruah Melayu ini akan menegaskan semula prinsip-prinsip asas dalam Perlembagaan Persekutuan dan Rukun Negara, dan mengecam prinsip memecah-belah dan membinasakan yang bertentangan Perlembagaan Persekutuan dan Rukun Negara, contohnya, pendirian yang mengatakan seseorang itu harus mengundi calon yang beragama Islam meskipun dia adalah seorang kleptokrat atau pendirian yang mengatakan orang Melayu hanya boleh menyokong calon yang beragama Islam!
Adakah Kongres Maruah Melayu ini akan merangka sebuah strategi untuk rakyat Malaysia membina sebuah keyakinan diri yang baharu untuk “mengapai bintang di langit”, sebuah semangat “Malaysia Boleh” yang baharu, bagi melenyapkan pelbagai momokan dan ketakutan yang diada-adakan, direka-reka serta tidak berasas, supaya Malaysia mampu meraih kejayaan dalam setiap bidang yang diceburi manusia bagi mencapai zaman keemasan Malaysia?
Malaysia telah mengalami kegagalan, keaiban dan kezaliman yang tidak pernah berlaku sebelum ini setelah dikecam oleh dunia sebagai sebuah kleptokrasi global di mana Malaysia diletakkan di dalam kalangan kleptokrat utama dunia. Apakah sumbangan yang boleh dibuat oleh Kongres Maruah Melayu untuk menebus semula kehormatan, maruah, reputasi dan nama baik Malaysia, di dalam negara dan di arena antarabangsa?
Malaysia kini berada di kedudukan 61 dalam Indeks Persepsi Rasuah Antarabangsa (TI) terkini. Sekiranya Malaysia mahu mengubah dirinya untuk menjadi sebuah negara yang berintegriti di dunia, ia sepatutnya memasang cita-cita untuk berada di antara 30 negara teratas dalam TI CPI 2030. Adakah Kongres Maruah Melayu akan menyokong objektif ini dan mempunyai sebarang idea tentang bagaimana Malaysia boleh mencapainya?
Penglibatan empat universiti awam dalam menganjurkan Kongres Maruah Melayu meletakkan pendidikan di barisan hadapan agenda tersebut. Apakah strategi yang dicadangkan penganjur untuk merevolusikan pendidikan bagi memastikan semua rakyat Malaysia menikmati pendidikan yang berkualiti, bukan sahaja untuk memastikan bahawa universiti-universiti Malaysia berada di kalangan universiti terkemuka di dunia tetapi murid-murid di sekolah di Malaysia juga berada dalam pendahulu satu pertiga dalam ujian antarabangsa untuk matematik dan sains bukannya diturunkan ke negara pendahulu satu pertiga di kedudukan di bawah.
Adakah Kongres Maruah Melayu menyokong visi Malaysia menjadi negara terkemuka bertaraf antarabangsa yang berteraskan perpaduan, keadilan, kebebasan, kecemerlangan dan integriti?
Malaysia kini berada dalam keadaan di mana setiap komuniti, sama ada Melayu, Cina atau India, dibelenggu dengan rasa ketakutan, kesangsian dan kebencian sehingga mereka percaya mereka berdepan ancaman eksistensial terhadap hak, kedudukan dan masa depan di Malaysia.
Ini disebabkan oleh penyebaran ucapan kebencian dan berita palsu khususnya di media sosial bagi mengapi-apikan perpecahan dan permusuhan antara kaum dan agama di negara ini.
Adakah Kongres Maruah Melayu yang dianjurkan pada Ahad ini akan memulakan kempen literasi media bagi menyahaktifkan bom jangka pembinaan negara yang hanya akan membawa bencana kepada keamanan, toleransi, harmoni dan kecemerlangan dalam sebuah Malaysia yang majmuk?
Adakah Kongres pada Ahad ini akan melahirkan garis masa dan visi untuk Malaysia menjadi contoh kejayaan Perikatan Peradaban di mata dunia dan bukan kegagalan kerana konflik peradaban, kerana Malaysia adalah titik pertemuan empat tamadun hebat dunia – Melayu/Islam, Cina, India dan Barat?
Saya berharap jawapan-jawapan kepada persoalan-persoalan ini boleh temui dalam Kongres Maruah Melayu pada Ahad ini.
(Kenyataan Media oleh Ahli Parlimen DAP Iskandar Puteri, Lim Kit Siang di Gelang Patah pada Jumaat, 4 Oktober 2019)
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Four public universities, namely Universiti Malaya (UM), Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris (UPSI), Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM) and UiTM are organising a Malay Dignity Congress at Stadium Malawati in Shah Alam on Sunday.
Would these four public universities be organising a Chinese Malaysian Dignity Congress, Indian Malaysian Dignity Congress, Kadazan Dignity Congress, Dayak Dignity Congress, Orang Asli Dignity Congress and most important of all, a Malaysian Dignity Congress?
This is among the many questions that have arisen among Malaysians on the holding of the Malay Dignity Congress on Sunday.
There can be only be dignity for Malaysia if every ethnic and religious group in Malaysia enjoys dignity – which will be in keeping with the fundamental principles in the Malaysian Constitution and the Rukunegara.
Will the Malay Dignity Congress reaffirm these fundamental principles in the Constitution and the Rukunegara and denounce destructive and divisive principles which subvert the Constitution and the Rukunegara, such as the stand that one must vote for a Muslim candidate even if he is a kleptocrat or that a Malay can only support a Muslim candidate!
Will the Malay Dignity Congress craft a strategy for Malaysians to develop a new self-confidence of “reaching for the stars”, a new “Malaysia Boleh” spirit, to exorcise the various contrived, imaginary and other baseless fears and demons for Malaysia to excel itself in various fields of human endeavour so as to achieve a golden age for Malaysia?
Malaysia had suffered unprecedented infamy, ignominy and iniquity for being condemned by the world as a global kleptocracy with a Malaysian ranked among the world’s top kleptocrats. What contribution the Malay Dignity Congress can make to redeem Malaysia’s honour, dignity, reputation and good name, at home and in the international arena?
Malaysia is presently ranked No. 61 in the latest Transparency International (TI) Corruption Perception Index (CPI). If Malaysia is to transform itself to become a leading nation of integrity in the world, it should aim to be ranked among the top 30 nations in the TI CPI 2030. Does the Malay Dignity Congress endorse this objective and any ideas how Malaysia can achieve it?
The involvement of four public universities in hosting the Malay Dignity Congress put education in the forefront. What strategy it proposes for an educational revolution to ensure quality education for all Malaysians, not only to ensure that Malaysian universities rank among the top universities of the world but Malaysian school children are in the top one-third bracket in international tests for mathematics and science instead of presently relegated to the bottom one-third bracket of nations?
Does the Malay Dignity Congress endorse the vision of Malaysia becoming a top world-class nation of unity, justice, freedom, excellence and integrity?
Malaysia is now in a ludicrous scenario where every ethnic community, whether Malay, Chinese or Indian, is consumed with fear, distrust and hatred believing that it is facing an existential threat to its rights, position and future in Malaysia.
This is the result of the untrammelled spread of fake news and hate speech especially on the social media to incite inter-racial and inter-religious polarisation and conflagration.
Will the Malay Dignity Congress on Sunday spearhead a media literacy campaign to deactivate these time-bombs to Malaysian nation-building which can only spell disaster for peace, tolerance, harmony and success in plural Malaysia?
Will the Congress on Sunday give birth to a time-line and vision for Malaysia to be a show-case to the world of the success of Malaysia from an Alliance of Civilisations not a failure from the Clash of Civilisations, as Malaysia is the confluence of the world’s great civilisations – Malay/Islamic, Chinese, Indian and Western?
I hope answers to these questions could be found in the Malay Dignity Congress on Sunday.
(Media Statement by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Gelang Patah on Friday, 4th October 2019)
#1 by Bigjoe on Friday, 4 October 2019 - 10:29 am
Actually I do not have a problem with a Malay Dignity Congress or whatever. The issue is its a lie..They are couching it as a “dignity” event because its a political rallying point rather than confront the real issue – Malay political hypocrisy – it has been the real fundamental mechanics of Malay politics for and Malay leadership and not only remain so but in reality taken to new heights using religion dangerously this time.
POLITICAL PRIDE IS NOT AN ABSOLUTE ENTITLEMENT. POLITICAL PRIDE NEED TO BE EARNED. The failure of Malay leadership is their hypocrisy, not something or anyone else..
#2 by Bigjoe on Friday, 4 October 2019 - 8:25 pm
If the Malays want to talk about Malay dignity then let them answer why they are STILL NOT OUTRAGED by recent revelation by Najib’s aide and former 1MDB CEO about Najib’s dealing with China – that Najib-Jho Low obviously was RECKLESS with ECRL spending so that he can steal from the other projects with other Chinese companies that they now asked Daim to recover?
Why talk of dignity when there is not even outraged to take responsibility of the sheer national endangerment by Malay hypocrisy? Isn’t their hypocrisy as great as Najib’s reckless theft?