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- Kenyataan Media Anwar Ibrahim, 28 Disember 2011
- Kenyataan Media Nik Nazmi Tentang Isu Salahguna Zakat MAIWP
- Economic Transformation Program: Government Fails To Answer Issues Raised
Kenyataan Media Anwar Ibrahim, 28 Disember 2011 Posted: 28 Dec 2011 05:29 AM PST Saya meneliti secara serius perkembangan mutakhir gerakan kebebasan akademik yang dipimpin oleh kelompok mahasiswa yang kini berdepan dengan pelbagai tekanan politik UMNO. Tatkala kesedaran menuntut kebebasan di kalangan mahasiswa mulai berkembang dan matang, pimpinan UMNO semakin gusar dan resah dalam menghadapi asakan ini serta bertindak melulu dengan menzahirkan ancaman fizikal bersifat biadab dan semberono. Komitmen pentadbiran Dato' Sri Najib Razak, kononnya mahu meminda Seksyen 15, Akta Universiti Kolej Universiti (AUKU) dan memberi lebih kebebasan kepada mahasiswa dalam politik kepartian kini dilihat tidak lebih sekadar omong kosong. Perkembangan membabitkan Adam Adli, mahasiswa dari Universiti Perguruan Sultan Idris (UPSI) yang kini berdepan dengan tindakan di bawah AUKU sememangnya menzahirkan ketakutan UMNO terhadap gelombang kebangkitan mahasiswa. Tindakan sama turut dilihat dalam beberapa kes terdahulu dengan tindakan keras oleh pihak universiti termasuk risiko dibuang kampus. Insiden remeh di depan ibu pejabat UMNO di PWTC yang dikaitkan dengan tuntutan mahasiswa tempoh hari diangkat oleh media milik UMNO seolah-olah ianya jenayah besar walhal isu-isu yang berkait dengan fitnah, ugutan bunuh, jenayah dan rasuah seringkali diketepikan. Tindakan menghukum dengan menggunakan peruntukan AUKU terhadap mahasiswa selepas insiden tersebut jelas bertujuan untuk menakut-nakut dan sebagai langkah untuk mengendurkan semangat serta iltizam mahasiswa. Saya menggesa agar dihentikan semua bentuk tekanan terhadap mahasiswa kerana jelas ini merupakan kehendak politik pimpinan UMNO yang terdesak. Saya juga mengulangi tekad dan komitmen Pakatan Rakyat untuk memansuhkan AUKU serta memberi penumpuan kepada usaha mengangkat mutu pendidikan yang berteraskan prinsip kebebasan akademik, pencerahan dan pemerkasaan intelektual. ANWAR IBRAHIM This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
Kenyataan Media Nik Nazmi Tentang Isu Salahguna Zakat MAIWP Posted: 27 Dec 2011 10:48 PM PST Jawapan Ketua Audit Negara November lalu mengesahkan Menteri di Isu ini yang telah dibangkitkan oleh YB Saifuddin Nasution di Parlimen dan dibawa ke Jawatankuasa Kira-Kira Wang Negara. Ketua Audit memaklumkan bahawa pada 11 Januari 2010 MAIWP menerima bil berjumlah RM63,000 daripada peguam Tetuan Zainul Rijal Talha dan Amir kerana mewakili ketiga-tiga mereka di atas bagi kes permohonan qazaf Anwar. Che Mat telah meluluskan bayaran RM31,500 daripada peruntukan am pada 28 Januari 2010. Namun memandangkan geran kerajaan masih lagi belum diterima, bayaran dibuat menggunakan peruntukan zakat pada 9 Februari 2010. MAIWP membuat pembayaran baki kos guaman RM32,150 pada 29 April 2010 menggunakan peruntukan zakat. MAIWP telah menerima geran kerajaan pada 22 Jun 2010 sebanyak Persoalannya, adakah begitu mudah untuk MAIWP menggunakan wang zakat yang dibayar umat Islam bagi asnaf-asnaf yang khusus untuk perbelanjaan lain? Datuk Mat Zain Ibrahim, bekas Ketua Jabatan Siasatan Jenayah Kuala Lumpur di dalm surat terbukanya kepada Ketua Polis Negara hari ini telah membangkitkan dwi-standard kes ini dengan kes membabitkan bekas imam di Kulaijaya, Johor, Redzuan Mohd Said yang didapati menyelewengkan RM19,510 kutipan zakat antara Ogos dan September tahun ini. Redzuan yang kemudiannya memulangkan wang tersebut telah dihukum empat tahun penjara dan tiga sebatan atas kesalahnnya. Jamil Khir tidak sepatutnya diam membisu dan segera menjawab persoalan ini yang pastinya menimbulkan kegusaran di kalangan umat Islam negara NIK NAZMI NIK AHMAD |
Economic Transformation Program: Government Fails To Answer Issues Raised Posted: 27 Dec 2011 05:33 PM PST THE government's response to my speech delivered on 15th December titled Debunking ETP: Widening Income Gap has failed to address the signifcant issues raised. As I had said, the ETP is not only an obsolete economic policy but is calculated to impoverish the nation even further by benefitting the rich minority at the expense of the poor majority. Come 2020, seven to 8.3 million Malaysian citizens will be earning less than RM1,500 monthly and will be consigned to the urban poor category. This represents 51% of the nation's workforce in 2020, as compared to 56% for 2009 which is a dismal increase of 5%. For all the fanfare and self-serving publicity extravaganza that came with the ETP unveiling, this indeed is a serious let down for the people. An economic program that fails to substantially improve the income of the majority while actually increasing the number of the poorest citizens is scandalous, reckless and represents an utter dereliction of duty of the government. This is the central issue that must be addressed by the Prime Minister himself and this he has failed to do so. Sloganeering and spouting sound bites may be a good PR exercise but will not deflect from the main concerns raised in my speech. For instance, the projected annual growth in wages of 3.6% from 2010 to 2020 as compared to the decade preceding it represents a mere increase of 2.6% while the rate of increase in cost of living for the same period will far exceed it. A Labour Market Survey of 2009 involving 24,000 employers and 1.3 million workers shows that 33.8% of these workers earn less than RM 700 montly. Extrapolated against the nation's entire work force, it would be tantamount to 34% being below the poverty line. The projected figure of 3.6% is therefore not only marginal but misleading in that it fails to show the increase in real wages which is a standard indicator of economic growth. Additionally, the projection that inflation will be around 2.8% annually till 2020 is also unrealilstic considering that the inflation rate for the last 12 months has been constantly above 3%. The target for achieving a per capita Gross National Income of RM 48,000 by 2020 will not be achieved if the inflation rate exceeeds 2.8% in the coming years. If the average inflation rate till 2020 reaches 4% per annum, an estimated 7.6 million Malaysians will be earning a montly income of less than RM 1,500 by then, an increase of one million compared to 6.6 million for 2009. But if the average inflation rate reaches 6% per annum the number will rise to a staggering 8.3 million! The most crucial issue that has been completely ignored is my statement that under the ETP the nation's wealth will be increasingly appropriated by the rich at the expense of the poor who will be incrementally marginalized. Prime Minister Dato' Seri Najib has failed to challenge my analysis that the ratio of wages to the Gross National Income will shrink from 40% (for 2009) to 33% (for 2020). This is a matter of grave concern. Under the ETP, the elite, the families and cronies of those in power will continue to pillage and plunder the nation's wealth while the vast majority of the people will continue to bear the cost of the self serving economic policies of a government which has no regard for accountability and transparency. ANWAR IBRAHIM |
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