Merakyatkan Ekonomi Malaysia – Pembinaan kapasiti (Bahagian 4)
Posted by Kit in Budget Debate, Lim Guan Eng, Parliament on Monday, 26 October 2009, 6:12 pm
Ucapan Belanjawan Setiausaha-Agung DAP Dan Ahli Parlimen Kawasan Bagan Lim Guan Eng Di Dewan Rakyat Pada 26.10.2009 (Bahagian 4)
Teras III: Pembinaan kapasiti
Akhir sekali, DAP sangat menitik-beratkan pembangunan dan usaha menggalakkan bakat-bakat tempatan untuk membantu negara mencapai status negara maju. Sebagai tambahan, bagi meningkatkan daya tarikan Malaysia sebagai destinasi pelaburan global, beberapa rangkaian pendekatan akan diambil dalam sektor pendidikan, penjagaan kesihatan, pengangkuran, kewangan, teknologi, keselamatan, tenaga dan alam sekitar untuk meningkatkan daya saing di peringkat serantau dan global.
Kelemahan daya saing negara kini sangat ketara. Sikap kerajaan yang terus mendabik dada dengan kejayaan lalu akan menyebabkan kerosakan yang teruk kepada ekonomi dan daya saing negara. Walau bagaimanapun, jika kita menerapkan unsur-unsur ketahanan dan peningkatan daya tahan, kerja keras dan inovasi, Malaysia akan mendapat kedudukan lebih baik untuk merebut peluang pertumbuhan ekonomi dunia. DAP mahu membangkitkan semula semangat daya saing kepada ekonomi negara menerusi penerapan daya juang lebih tinggi, lebih bertanggungjawab dan peningkatan tahap ketelusan.
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Merakyatkan Ekonomi Malaysia – Penstrukturan dan pengagihan semula (Bahagian 3)
Posted by Kit in Budget Debate, Lim Guan Eng, Parliament on Monday, 26 October 2009, 6:12 pm
Ucapan Belanjawan Setiausaha-Agung DAP Dan Ahli Parlimen Kawasan Bagan Lim Guan Eng Di Dewan Rakyat Pada 26.10.2009 (Bahagian 3)
Teras II: Penstrukturan dan pengagihan semula
Amalan dasar yang lemah dan hilang hala tuju serta salah guna kuasa oleh kerajaan semasa telah menyebabkan berlakunya agihan tidak betul dalam sumber negara yang terhad dengan menumpukan kepada pemberian manfaat kepada mereka yang mempunyai hubungan serta kaitan politik, sementara kebanyakan rakyat yang lebih memerlukan terus diketepikan. Dasar Ekonomi Baru (DEB) yang berdekad lamanya diamalkan dengan tumpuan pengagihan ekonomi berdasarkan kaum sambil megenepikan aspek keperluan dan merit, telah menyebabkan kelemahan struktur utama dalam sistem ekonomi negara sehingga menghukum kebajikan rakyat dan kecekapan sistem ekonomi. Di sebalik itu, agihan tidak betul ini telah menjana kekayaan beberapa individu yang berjaya mengeksploitasi DEB. Justeru, suatu usaha perlu dilakukan untuk menstruktur dan mengagih semula ekonomi bagi memastikan pembangunan lebih seimbang antara golongan miskin dan kaya, selain menambah kecekapan dan keberkesanan ekonomi dan daya saing.
Dalam sebahagian daripada teras penstrukturan dan agihan semula, kami mahu usaha dilakukan ke arah pelaksanaan sistem kebajikan yang berkesan untuk memastikan rakyat yang lahir dalam keadaan miskin tidak terus terperangkap dalam kitaran tersebut. Kebajikan harus diberikan mengikut keperluan dan bukannya berdasarkan kaum seperti yang dizahirkan dalam DEB. Rakyat yang mempunyai kekuatan Read the rest of this entry »
Merakyatkan Ekonomi Malaysia – Penyahpusatan fiska (Bahagian 2)
Posted by Kit in Budget Debate, Lim Guan Eng, Parliament on Monday, 26 October 2009, 6:11 pm
Ucapan Belanjawan Setiausaha-Agung DAP Dan Ahli Parlimen Kawasan Bagan Lim Guan Eng Di Dewan Rakyat Pada 26.10.2009 (Bahagian 2)
Tema bajet alternatif kami iaitu Merakyatkan Ekonomi Malaysia bukan sahaja untuk memenuhi keperluan politik untuk demokrasi yang lebih besar malah mahu menjamin perbelanjaan kerajaan mampu dinikmati oleh rakyat yang membayar cukai sambil mengekang dasar kerajaan yang memihak kepada mereka yang mempunyai kepentingan politik sahaja sedangkan rakyat biasa berhak menerima bahagian masing-masing sejajar dengan sumbangan mereka dalam ekonomi dan keperluan kewangan rakyat.
Kami percaya dengan merakyatkan ekonomi Malaysia, kami mampu bukan sahaja membawa Malaysia ke tahap yang lebih baik malah menetapkan dasar dan institusi yang boleh menjamin hak ekonomi rakyat negara ini walaupun siapa juga kerajaan yang memerintah. Dengan Merakyatkan ekonomi Malaysia, kami menggalakkan pencapaian matlamat membina kerajaan yang Cekap, Amanah serta Telus (CAT).
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Malaysia Hanya Berjaya Menjadi Ekonomi Berpendapatan Tinggi Dengan Mendemokrasikan Ekonomi, Reformasikan Perkhidmatan Awam Dan Membebaskan Daya Kreativiti Dan Innovasi Sumber Manusia (Bahagian 1)
Posted by Kit in Budget Debate, Lim Guan Eng, Parliament on Monday, 26 October 2009, 6:10 pm
Ucapan Belanjawan Setiausaha-Agung DAP Dan Ahli Parlimen Kawasan Bagan Lim Guan Eng Di Dewan Rakyat Pada 26.10.2009 (Bahagian 1)
Malaysia hanya boleh berjaya menjadi ekonomi berpendapatan tinggi dengan mendemokrasikan ekonomi, reformasikan perkhidmatan awam dan membebaskan daya kreativiti dan innovasi sumber manusia. Syor-syor mendemokrasikan ekonomi telahpun dibukukan awal bulan ini oleh DAP dalam Belanjawan Alternatif DAP yang menggariskan strategi untuk menjana transformasi kepada ekonomi berpendapatan tinggi.
Refomasi perkhidmatan awam adalah perlu dengan ratio 4.68% anggota perkhidmatan awam dengan penduduk paling tinggi berbanding dengan Jepun 3.23%, Thailand 2%, Korea Selatan 1.85%, Filipina 1.8% dan Indonesia 1.8%. Emolumen sebanyak RM38 bilion pada tahun ini telah meningkat kepada RM42 bilion tahun depan ataupun meningkat 23.7% kepada 30.5% perbelanjaan mengurus. Sekiranya pencen ditambah adalah RM46 bilion pada tahun ini telahpun meningkat kepada RM53 bilion ataupun meningkat daripda 28.8% kepada 38.3% keseluruhan perbelanjaan mengurus.
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Praising Our Leaders Too Soon and Too High
Posted by Kit in Bakri Musa, Najib Razak on Monday, 26 October 2009, 9:35 am
By M. Bakri Musa
Malaysians are generous to a fault. We are too charitable especially to our guests and those new to us, without pausing to consider the significant burden it imposes upon us and those we love. This is best captured in our saying, Kera hutan di tetekan, anak di riba mati kehausan (We breastfeed monkeys in the jungle while our infants die of thirst).
We are also treating our leaders as kera hutan, indulging them only too readily. We are overly charitable to and very forgiving of them, especially our new leaders. I can understand the rationale for such a sentiment; we desperately want our leaders to succeed. By praising them so soon and so highly we hope to inspire as well as encourage them to lead us to greater heights.
The adulation of followers can indeed be a tonic to leaders, invigorating them to redouble their efforts; likewise with prestigious awards and public recognition. The Nobel Committee in awarding its Peace Prize to President Obama so early in his tenure is clearly expressing the hope of many that he would indeed bring about a more peaceful world.
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To restore public confidence in Pakatan Rakyat, PR component parties should make a 10 or 20-year commitment to abide by the PR common principles and impose discipline among their leaders to uphold and protect PR image and integrity
Posted by Kit in Corruption, Najib Razak, Pakatan Rakyat on Sunday, 25 October 2009, 11:18 am
The Prime Minister-cum-Finance Minister, Datuk Seri Najib Razak could not have a more disastrous end for his two-hour long speech for his first budget for 2010 in Parliament on Friday, as he said: “Our recent success in Bagan Pinang has sparked our zeal to embark on this journey of transformation to lift our beloved nation to greater heights.”
Najib’s last two sentences in his speech were virtually drowned in the shouts by Pakatan Rakyat MPs with their spontaneous chant of “Rasuah” – which was a dubious parliamentary record in the past five decades, not only for a maiden budget speech but also for any budget presentation by former Finance Ministers.
Najib had earlier failed to make any impression on MPs when he devoted two cursory paragraphs of his budget speech to “Combatting Corruption”, but which did not evince any political will on his part to break the back of the problem of rampant corruption in Malaysia.
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End the 50-year New Economic Policy if Najib wants to lay claim to innovation or shift to a new economic model as the NEP had stunted Malaysia’s economic growth and prevented the nation from becoming a high-income country
Posted by Kit in Budget Debate, Economics, Education on Sunday, 25 October 2009, 11:17 am
In his first budget, the 2010 budget, presented to Parliament on Friday, the Prime Minister and Finance Minister, Datuk Seri Najib Razak claimed that he is laying the foundation for the development of a new economic model to become a high-income economy.
He stressed that the new economic model must be based on innovation, creativity and high-value added activities so that Malaysian can remain relevant in a competitive global economy.
Najib announced that his government “will transform Malaysia through a comprehensive innovation process, comprising innovation in public and private sector governance, societal innovation, urban innovation, rural innovation, corporate innovation, industrial innovation, education innovation, healthcare innovation, transport innovation, social safety net innovation and branding innovation.”
So far, Najib’s most successful innovation in his First Two Hundred Days is “branding innovation”, as never before has a Prime Minister’s slogan, “1Malaysia”, been promoted so blatantly, not only during by-elections but there is even a 1Malaysia Toilet in Terengganu, Read the rest of this entry »
Idealism: The heartbeat of a nation
Posted by Kit in Augustine Anthony on Saturday, 24 October 2009, 6:29 pm
By Augustine Anthony
There are those who subscribe to the principle that to live is everything and by this they believe that we are all here to survive and in order to survive we just have to be practical (realism). On the other hand there are others who subscribe to the principle that a life without idealism is devoid of greatness thus such existence means little. Both are acceptable principles depending on the tint of the glass through which we look at things.
Idealism
The greatest of the leaders who have had captivated and captured the imagination of any movement or nation with their idealism are people with an aura of simplicity of life and a complexity of mind. In these leaders idealism manifested in all the greatness and glorious honesty to the point where people were passionately attracted to and magnetically drawn to these leaders to wholeheartedly support their cause even to the point of great cost to the personal well being of people .
But in our country today, what kind of leaders are we blessed or cursed with? Far from the simplicity of life and complexity of mind, these leaders manifest the blemished opposite which is a caustic complexity of life and simplicity of mind where superfluous needs takes center stage.
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MCA leaders as great a focus as Najib in the 2010 Budget presentation in Parliament
Posted by Kit in Budget Debate, MCA, Najib Razak on Saturday, 24 October 2009, 1:01 pm
MCA leaders were as great a focus as the Prime Minister and Finance Minister, Datuk Seri Najib Razak in yesterday’s 2010 Budget presentation in Parliament – the visibly uncomfortable MCA President Datuk Seri Ong Tee Keat and the forlorn MCA Deputy President Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai.
This was a departure from the Budget Day in Parliament in previous years when the budget for the new year had no competitors for attention and would be the cynosure of all eyes and ears.
This distraction is highly pertinent to the relevance of theme of Najib’s first Budget, viz: “2010 Budget – 1Malaysia, Together We Prosper”.
The question that immediately comes to mind is how there can be a 1Malaysia Budget when it is founded on such shaky foundations like “1MCA”, with all top MCA leaders totally discredited after treating the MCA Central Committee members, over 2,300 MCA delegates, the Chinese community and the Malaysian people as “suckers”.
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Three MCA factions of Ong, Liow and Chua re-assembled as “1MCA” under Najib’s “1Malaysia” dictate with RM12.5 billion PKFZ scandal as the greatest casualty as it has disappeared from the radar of the MCA leaders
Posted by Kit in MCA, Najib Razak, PKFZ, UMNO on Friday, 23 October 2009, 11:37 am
The three MCA factions of Ong Tee Keat, Liow Tiong Lai and Chua Soi Lek have re-assembled as “1MCA” under the dictate of Prime Minister Najib Razak’s “1Malaysia” but the “mother of all scandals”, the RM12.5 billion Port Klang Free Zone (PKFZ) scandal is the greatest casualty as it has disappeared from the radar of the MCA leaders.
When the Ong faction split asunder at the MCA central committee meeting of Oct. 14 following Ong’s refusal to resign as MCA President despite the passing of a motion of no confidence in his leadership at the Oct. 10 MCA extraordinary general meeting (EGM), Ong wrote in his blog to justify his decision:
“I still have a long list of unfinished business involving Party and public interests, like the direct election of the MCA presidency and the Port Klang Free Zone issue. It is my wish to see such issues be addressed without any abrupt disruption.”
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THE CIVIL SERVICE – a Malaysian perspective.
Posted by Kit in Hussein Hamid, public service on Friday, 23 October 2009, 9:46 am
The Civil Service assist the business of Government with the ruling party of the day. The Civil Service has in the past recruited its employees based on the principle of selection on merit and on the basis of fair and open competition. With the British the key element of the Civil Service is its political impartiality. The Civil Service administrative impartiality in Malaysia has been brought into question by UMNO’s distinctive approach to Public Administration. We need to examine what is the nature and impact of political involvement by the political elites on the Civil Service of our country.
When we first got our independence the Politician makes the policy and the Civil Servant execute it. There was no corruption and everything was accountable and transparent. To buy a small item one must have a quotation. The more expensive item has to be tendered out and the development project was carried out by the JKR.
But things slowly began to change, as UMNO wanted politically a committed Civil Service because they perceived that Party allegiance is important to those who were going to implement their policies. UMNO embarked on a strategy to enhance their control over the Civil Servants to ensure bureaucratic compliance with their way of doing things e.g. the award of tenders to preferred contractors and cronies, divide and rule of the people based on race, selective prosecution of the opposition, a Police Force that will do their biddings etc etc.
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Parliament should repay Karpal and Fong Po Kuan for illegally withholding their parliamentary remuneration when they were previously suspended from Parliament respectively in 2004 and 2001
Posted by Kit in Parliament on Thursday, 22 October 2009, 5:08 pm
Kuala Lumpur High Court judge, Justice Mohd Ariff Mohd Yusoff today ruled that it has no jurisdiction to challenge the 12-month suspension of DAP MP for Puchong, Gobind Singh Deo from Parliament, but ordered Parliament to pay Gobind his parliamentary remuneration as it does not have powers to withhold it.
Gobind was suspended for 12 months from Parliament without remuneration in March this year when he linked the then Deputy Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Najib Razak with the murder of Mongolian Altantuya Shaariibuu.
Parliament should repay DAP MP for Bukit Gelugor Karpal Singh and DAP MP for Batu Gajah Fong Po Kuan for illegally withholding their parliamentary remuneration when they were previously suspended from Parliament respectively in 2004 and 2001.
First week of budget meeting of Parliament does not show that Najib has the political will to effect the far-reaching changes he promised in his “1Malaysia. People First. Performance Now” slogan
Posted by Kit in Najib Razak, Parliament on Thursday, 22 October 2009, 1:26 pm
Apart from the announcement that Sept. 16 will be a public holiday from next year, the first week of the budget meeting of Parliament does not show that the Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak has the political will to effect the far-reaching changes he promised in his “1Malaysia. People First. Performance Now” slogan.
This week has turned into a week of horrors, not least, the annual horror tales of the bottomless pit of government extravagance, waste, abuse of power and corruption in the 2008 Auditor-General’s Reports, which caused nation-wide shock and outrage for a few days, which will then be forgotten until a year later when another new round of revelations of government financial excesses and abuses are exposed.
The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) has come out with a very guarded response stating that it is studying the Auditor-General’s Report 2008 to see if there are elements of corruption, misconduct and abuse of power in the management of public funds.
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Porntip expert testimony at TBH Inquest
Posted by Kit in Teoh Beng Hock, Twitter on Wednesday, 21 October 2009, 12:46 pm
10/21/2009 11:57 AM
inquest adjourned till 2pm
10/21/2009 11:37 AM
Coroner taking over questioning of Porntip after Selangor govt counsel Malik Imtiaz
10/21/2009 11:26 AM
In Porntip’s opinion cause of TBH death is 20 percent suicide 80 percent homicide
10/21/2009 11:22 AM
TeohBengHock inquest Thai Porntip expert testimony TBH injury compatible with manual strangulation TBH landed on his feet while unconscious
Planned International Internet Bandwidth for HSBB
Posted by Kit in IT, Parliament on Wednesday, 21 October 2009, 10:15 am
Lim Kit Siang [Ipoh Timur] minta Menteri Penerangan, Komunikasi dan Kebudayaan menyatakan beberapakah jalur lebar Internet antarabangsa yang akan ditambah mengikut perancangan oleh TM untuk menampung HSBB dan penggunaan Internet Streamyx bagi setiap suku tahun (quarterly) mulai 2009 sehingga 2014.
Jawapan:
Untuk makluman, perancangan penambahan kapasiti jalur lebar pihak TM dibuat secara tahunan dan bukan mengikut suku tahun. Sehingga 2 Jun 2009, jumlah kapasiti jalur lebar Internet antarabangsa adalah sebanyak 112.0Gbps. Bagi tahun 2009, kapasiti jalur lebar Internet antarabangsa yang dirancang adalah sebanyak 149.4 Gbps dan dijangka meningkat kepada 715.0 Gbps pada tahun 2013.
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International Internet Bandwidth
Posted by Kit in IT, Parliament on Tuesday, 20 October 2009, 10:05 pm
Updated with data from 1992-2004 (from independent source)
Parliament Q & A:
Lim Kit Siang [Ipoh Timur] minta Menteri Penerangan, Komunikasi, dan Kebudayaan menyatakan dalam jadual dari tahun 1994 sehingga 2009, berapakah kapasiti jalur lebar Internet Antarabangsa (International Internet Bandwidth) yang dipunyai oleh Malaysia mengikut syarikat yang
memilikinya.
Jawapan :
Kapasiti jalur lebar Internet antarabangsa secara umumnya dimiliki oleh konsortium-konsortium anatarabangsa. Kapasiti antarabangsa ini disampaikan melalui 12 kabel dasar laut yang disambungkan melalui stesen-stesen pendaratan kabel di Malaysia. Telekom Malaysia (TM) selaku penyedia perkhidmatan Internet terbesar di Malaysia merupakan pengguna dan antara pemegang ekuiti utama di dalam konsortium terbabit.
Syarikat-syarikat lain sama ada tidak mempunyai sebarang pegangan, atau menpunyai pegangan yang amat kecil di dalam konsortium yang membekalkan kapasiti jalur lebar Internet antarabangsa.
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The New God of UMNO
Posted by Kit in Bakri Musa, UMNO on Monday, 19 October 2009, 11:02 am
By M. Bakri Musa
In his celebrated novel Ranjau Sepanjang Jalan (RSJ – Spikes Throughout the Pathway), Shahnon Ahmad chronicles the seemingly endless traps of poverty endured by a kampong family. Or in his elegant words, “bencana-bencana yang tidak bisa langsai selagi jantung berdegup [dan] nadi berdenyut … ” (never ending cycle of calamities endured as long as your heart beats and pulse throbs). Shahnon asserts that the pain could only be felt by those willing to reflect on and empathize with the struggles of our pap-pak tani (peasant farmers).
This thought haunts me as I reflect on the hoopla surrounding the recent UMNO General Assembly. The soaring rhetoric of “1-Malaysia” and of reform is a universe away from the world inhabited by RSJ’s main character, Lahuma. The irony strikes hard as the Lahumas are the very people UMNO professes to champion.
The biting irony does not end there. Many of the Assembly participants, including the high-flying ones, are only a generation or two away from the deprivations so painfully detailed in RSJ. Those agonizing memories must have been seared into them by their parents and grandparents. That should motivate anyone to do something to alleviate the debilitating poverty still experienced by so many today.
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Beng Hock’s bank account: It’s you, MACC, that’s broke
Posted by Kit in Letters, Teoh Beng Hock on Sunday, 18 October 2009, 10:36 pm
By Helen Ang | Oct 16, 09 5:21pm | Malaysiakini
I refer to the Malaysiakini report Ean Yong furious Teoh’s bank account revealed.
I’ve always wondered who it is that frequent five-star shopping malls like the Pavilion or browse in those posh bungalow boutiques. Now I know it’s not Teoh Beng Hock. He was a lot like me, an ordinary wage earner.
We learn from the MACC that Beng Hock had slim savings amounting to RM3,611.36. Counsel for MACC at the inquest, Abdul Razak Musa inferred this to support his contention that Beng Hock was in dire need of money to get married at short notice…to what purpose this insinuation by the authorities, I do not know.
But here is a case of Razak being unfamiliar with Chinese urban lifestyle. Of all the Chinese weddings I know of, every single one has made a profit from the reception dinner. The ‘ang pow’ collection, more often than not, generously exceeds the cost of the banquet. After paying the restaurant bill, the bride and groom hosts usually have change left over.
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Najib speaks with forked tongue
Posted by Kit in Kee Thuan Chye, Najib Razak, UMNO on Sunday, 18 October 2009, 1:07 pm
By Kee Thuan Chye | Malaysiakini
Najib Razak contradicted himself in his speech last Thursday at the Umno General Assembly. He spoke of the all-embracing 1Malaysia concept on one hand and of the need to retain the New Economic Policy (NEP) on the other. The Native Americans in old cowboy movies might have said that he spoke with a forked tongue.
How can you have the NEP and at the same time say that we are all 1Malaysia? The NEP is exclusive to a particular group of people, and such exclusivity sets them apart. There is no 1Malaysia; there are 2Malaysias.
Does Najib not see that or is his 1Malaysia idea merely PR spin or marketing hype?
This central contradiction is what makes many non-Malays sceptical of what he is touting. The only non-Malays who will buy it are those who are not discerning enough or who are easily bought.
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Malaysia, a land of growth no more
By Panglima Garang | Oct 1, 09 12:20pm | Malaysiakini
When I was at the KLIA airport recently bidding farewell to my family, the lingering thought in my mind was “Am I making a mistake leaving this country?”
The answer was just another question, “What good is there left in this country?”
I am not leaving Malaysia because I found something better. I am a bit tired of the social and economic mismanagement of Malaysia and racially anchored policies. I am already successful in Malaysia by any measure.
At the last count, I was in the top 1percent income bracket. I graduated from USM and joined the civil service just like any other Malaysian Indian did in the 1980s. I studied law at my own expense and time with numerous challenges just like many other Malaysian Indians did.
I awaited the first promotion you can get in civil service i.e. Senior Time scale A12.
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