Kabinet Dapur Punyalah Besar Tapi Ramai Menteri Kayu...

Untuk apa 35 menteri berbanding 31 pada 2008 

Harakahdaily, 16 Mei 2013 

KUALA LUMPUR: “Untuk apa kita mempunyai 35 menteri berbanding hanya 31 menteri pada tahun 2008?” tanya penganalisis politik, Prof Madya Datuk Dr Mohammad Agus Yusoff di dalam Facebooknya. 

Menurutnya, Kabinet Jepun dan AS cuma ada 16 dan 18 menteri sahaja; United Kingdom 23, Bolivia 27 dan Belgium 21 menteri kabinet. India pula dengan 1.1 bilion penduduk hanya mempunyai 32 menteri kabinet. 

“Adakah Malaysia dengan jumlah menterinya yang ramai lebih baik dan lebih maju dari negara-negara di atas?” tanya beliau lagi. 

Berikut ialah pandangan beliau. 

Apabila PM DS Najib mengumumkan barisan kabinetnya, maka penganalisis yang bersetuju dengan barisan ini menyatakan inilah kabinet transformasi terbaik, kabinet gabungan muka baru dan lama, dan kabinet yang mampu melonjakkan negara ke depan untuk menghadapi saingan globalisasi. 

Bagi yang tidak bersetuju pula menyatakan inilah kabinet DS Najib untuk menghadapi pemilihan Umno tahun ini, kabinet kitar semua dan kabinet kayu mati yang mudah dimakan anai-anai. 

Saya tidak ada masalah dengan barisan kabinet ini. Mereka yang dilantik adalah hebat. 

Namun, yang menjadi masalah kepada saya ialah bilangan kementerian dan menterinya yang ramai. Untuk apa kita mempunyai 35 menteri berbanding hanya 31 menteri pada tahun 2008? Kabinet Jepun dan AS cuma ada 16 dan 18 menteri sahaja; United Kingdom 23, Bolivia 27 dan Belgium 21 menteri kabinet. India pula dengan 1.1 bilion penduduk hanya mempunyai 32 menteri kabinet. Adakah Malaysia dengan jumlah menterinya yang ramai lebih baik dan lebih maju dari negara-negara di atas? 

Meskipun Perlembagaan tidak menetapkan bilangan anggota kabinet, kita perlu bandingkan saiz kabinet Malaysia dengan kabinet di negara-negara lain. Kewujudan kementerian dan menteri adalah untuk menyempurnakan tugas dalam mentadbir negara, bukannya sebagai ganjaran kepada kawan-rakan yang menang.

Ini Khalid lah!!

KUALA LUMPUR: Hari ini (14 Mei 2013) merupakan hari bertuah bagi tiga rakyat Malaysia yang berkongsi nama 'Khalid'.

Tan Sri Abdul Khalid Ibrahim dilantik semula sebagai Menteri Besar Selangor bagi penggal kedua.

Menteri Pengajian Tinggi Datuk Seri Mohamed Khaled Nordin pula mengangkat sumpah sebagai Menteri Besar Johor.

 

Individu bernama Khalid yang ketiga iaitu Timbalan Ketua Polis Negara Tan Sri Khalid Abu Bakar pula dilantik sebagai Ketua Polis Negara baharu berkuat kuasa Jumaat ini.

Abdul Khalid mengangkat sumpah jawatan di hadapan Sultan Selangor Sultan Sharafuddin Idris Shah di Istana Alam Shah, Klang, pagi ini.
 

Mohamed Khaled pula mengangkat sumpah sebagai Menteri Besar yang baharu di hadapan Sultan Johor Sultan Ibrahim Almarhum Sultan Iskandar di Dewan Undangan Negeri, Bangunan Sultan Ibrahim, Bukit Timbalan, Johor Baharu, juga pagi Selasa.

 

Mohamed Khaled mengambil alih jawatan itu daripada Datuk Abdul Ghani Othman yang menerajui kerajaan negeri Johor selama 18 tahun sejak 1995.

 

Khalid menggantikan Tan Sri Ismail Omar yang bersara selepas tamat kontrak, Khamis ini.

 

Antara jawatan lain yang pernah disandang Khalid sebelum ini adalah Ketua Polis Negeri Sembilan, Timbalan Pengarah Jabatan Siasatan Jenayah Bukit Aman dan Ketua Polis Selangor. - BERNAMA

Bersaranya Tok Guru Nik Aziz Menyentap Hati Manusia

Bersaranya Tok Guru Nik Aziz Menyentap Hati Manusia

Bersaranya Tok Guru Nik Aziz amat menyentap hati-hati manusia yang mempunyai iman. Hujan sejak pagi renyai umpama menangis. Terima kasih Tok Guru Nik Abdul Aziz. Perjuangan mu menjadi benchmark bidang ilmu dan ketamadunan Islam.

1. Fakta, TGNA adalah insan pertama sebagai pemimpin yang mengadakan urustadbir kewangan Islamik.

2. Fakta, pemimpin pertama bebas segala aktiviti salah laku dan urustadbir paling walaupun dana disekat.

3. Fakta, pemimpin yang pertama tidak duduk di rumah Menteri Besar sebaliknya tinggal di rumah sendiri yang tiangnya bersambung dengan Masjid Nikmatilah Pulau Melaka.

4. Sanggup tidak ambil elaun gaji untuk bayar hutang rakyat Kelantan yang dibuat oleh pemimpin parti ‘Timbang Kilo’.

5. Dialah ulama, pemimpin, murrabi, guru, pentadbir, pemikir mantik paling halus dalam dunia, sahabat dan pendoa di tengah malam di kala bumi Malaysia panas dengan maksiat dan rejaman fitnah media. Halalkan ilmu yang pernah saya dengar, terima sama ada sengaja atau tidak sengaja.

4. Sifat daya juang anak Kelantan terdidik dengan ilmu dan tawaduknya.

5. Sepanjang memimpin Kelantan kami tidak pernah kebulur tapi ilmu dan semangat beliau menyebabkan anak cukup unik dan pandai berniaga.

6. Sistem pentadbiran kerajaan Kelantan patut dicontohi.

7. Sistem wang sunnah pertama di dunia dengan Kelantan Trade Gold dengan wujudnya dinar dan dirham.

8. Wibawa yang sentiasa mendapat rating tinggi dalam urus kewangan. Boleh rujuk Audit Negara (tidak pernah disiarkan).

9. Satu-satunya pemimpin paling banyak keluarkan buku dan mutiara kata antara yang terbaik dalam dunia. Seni mantik, timbang tara lengkap semua ijtihad kesufian Islam dengan kiasan penuh moral yang bertauhid Allah Taala.

Kami merindui perjuangan ulama ini yang disayangi dan disegani semua pihak. Bintang ini tiada tolok gantinya. Semoga Allah swt merahmati beliau dan sentiasa dalam rahmat kasih sayang-Nya. Dialah Tok Guru kami.

-harakahdaily-

Political gap narrows in Malaysia
  



PENANG - Malaysia's general elections returned the ruling Barisan Nasional coalition to power with a weak mandate and the potential for political instability in the weeks ahead. The opposition Pakatan Rakyat (PR) coalition led by Anwar Ibrahim has questioned the integrity of Sunday's result and has refused to concede defeat until investigations are conducted into numerous reported irregularities. 

On polling day, social media was abuzz with alerts, photographs and videos that showed the indelible ink used to prevent voters from casting more than one ballot was easily washed away. Other reports indicated that busloads of people believed to be nationals of other countries had cast votes. There were also widespread allegations of vote-buying. 

Bersih, a civil society coalition campaigning for electoral reforms, withheld its recognition of the polls and has not yet indicated whether it would protest the result. The activist coalition has held three mass rallies, including a demonstration in April that drew by some estimates 200,000 people, against an electoral system it believes is rigged in BN's and its main component United Malay Nasional Organization (UMNO) party's favor. Anwar on Tuesday urged opposition supporters to protest the result. 

There could be significant grass roots support for a follow-up rally. A petition on the website change.org appealing to the United Nations to investigate electoral fraud allegations had gone viral online with more than 200,000 signatures as of Tuesday. So far Anwar has called on PR supporters to remain calm while investigations are ongoing. 

On Monday, Najib Razak called for the opposition to accept the result while being sworn in as prime minister. According to official results, the BN won 133 of parliament's 222 seats, down from the 140 it notched at the 2008 polls and below its coveted two-thirds majority. PR increased its parliamentary representation from 82 to 89, according to the results. 

In a significant turn, PR won over half of the popular vote, with the BN lagging about three to four percentage points behind. According to the official results, PR polled 5.6 million votes to the BN's 5.2 million. The discrepancy between the share of popular votes and actual parliamentary seats won - PR won only 40% of parliament's seats - owes to periodic gerrymandering orchestrated by the BN to favor its candidates in rural areas. 

Notwithstanding possible rallies against the result, Najib's political future now hangs in the balance. He was appointed prime minister in 2009 following former premier Abdullah Badawi's relatively poor electoral showing at the 2008 elections. The danger for Najib is that, like Abdullah, he could be removed from UMNO's presidency - which traditionally brings with it the premiership - after an even worse electoral performance. 

UMNO party elections are due to be held later this year. For its part, UMNO won 88 of the 119 seats it contested for a win-rate of 74%. However, all five of Najib's personal aides who contested a seat lost. During his victory speech on Sunday night, Najib and BN aides around him were visibly glum despite their win in what was a grueling electoral battle. 

UMNO now holds two-thirds of BN's 133 seats, further consolidating its domination over the ruling coalition. Affiliated parties from the North Borneo states of Sabah and Sarawak are now the largest junior partners. Other ethnic-based parties such as the Malaysian Chinese Association (MCA) and Malaysian Indian Congress (MIC), once major players in the BN's forerunner, the Alliance, have become bit players, reflecting the shrinking demographics of their traditional supporters. Many MCA and MIC supporters defected to PR ahead of the polls. 

There is political irony in the fact that it was Najib's father, former prime minister Abdul Razak, who broadened the diversity of the former Alliance from an UMNO-MCA-MIC coalition to a wider BN coalition that included other smaller parties following a poor electoral showing in 1969. It remains to be seen if Najib will now try similarly to enlarge the BN by luring PR-affiliated parties, whether directly or through a pact, into its fold. 

Within PR, the multi-ethnic but largely Chinese-based Democratic Action Party (DAP) recorded the biggest gains in parliament, raising its tally from 28 seats in 2008 to 38 this time. Anwar's People's Justice Party (PKR) largely held its ground with 30, while the Islamic party PAS slipped slightly to 21 seats. Najib, typical of his party's race-based perspective, labeled the opposition's gains as a "Chinese-tsunami". 

More than race
That ethnic portrayal, however, is not entirely accurate. The seats DAP contested were mostly in urban areas, where people irrespective of ethnicity were fed up with official corruption and the rising cost of living and readier for a political change. PKR and PAS also won in a string of urban seats they contested. 

Those results highlighted a more pronounced urban-rural divide in voting behaviors. Urban voters appeared more willing to set aside racial and religious barriers to focus on the "new politics" of democratic reforms and good governance the PR had promised if voted into power. Rural voters, many cut off from more critical online new sources, continue to rely on the pro-BN mainstream media and voted along those lines. 

Political scientist Johan Saravanamuttu suggested that many of these rural Malays have always seen the BN, or more accurately UMNO, as the provider of their basic needs. "They have become so ingrained into choosing the (BN) for years," he told Asia Times Online. In the early post-independence years, the Alliance-BN practiced the "politics of developmentalism" in providing for their basic infrastructural needs. When many of those needs were met, Najib took it one step further by reinforcing the perception of the BN as provider through direct cash handouts through his richly funded "1Malaysia" initiatives. 

BN's blatant attempts at vote-buying, seen in free dinners and entertainment performances for voters, put off many urban voters. That was seen by the even stronger majorities PR won in the economically developed states of Selangor and Penang. But the cash handouts appear to have had an impact in poorer rural areas, especially in the north Borneo swing states of Sarawak and Sabah. 

PR won 17 of the 22 parliamentary seats in Selangor, but could only raise slightly its tally of the 56 seats available in Sabah and Sarawak, raising the meager two seats it won in 2008 to nine at Sunday's polls. PR's inability to make stronger inroads into rural areas in North Borneo and peninsular Johor likely cost the coalition federal power. PR parties are still relatively evenly balanced at the state level, with the DAP helming Penang, a PKR chief minister leading Selangor and PAS in control of Kelantan. 

For those hoping Sunday's election would usher in a 'new politics', characterized by a focus on democratic reforms and accountable government and a shift away from narrow ethnic and religious issues - BN's win will likely reinforce the political status quo. Ahead of the polls, a Ubah! (Change!) slogan had spread like wildfire along the urban-oriented west coast of the peninsula, leading many to believe that PR had a fighting chance of forming the next government. But widespread electoral irregularities and politicized gerrymandering left many Malaysians with a palpable sense that the PR has been unfairly denied federal power, especially given that it won the popular vote. 

Overt race-based politicking, however, fared poorly at the polls. Ibrahim Ali and Zulkifli Noordin, president and vice-president of the ethno-nationalist, pro-Malay Perkasa group, were both defeated in the seats they contested. Similarly, independent candidates from the Hindu Rights Action Force (Hindraf), which once captured the imagination of Indian Malaysians with its zealous championing of their interests but later aligned with BN, likewise failed at the polls. 

Other stalwarts of BN's old race-based politics, including former premier Mahathir Mohamad, appear to have made gains. BN recaptured Mahathir's mostly rural home state of Kedah from PR component party PAS, which bungled its governance of the state through infighting and unpopular housing policies. Mahathir's son, Mukhriz Mahathir, won a state seat and seems poised to take over as Kedah's chief minister. He may also rise within UMNO's hierarchy should Najib be voted down as party leader. 

That sets up the tantalizing prospect of the long-running Mahathir-Anwar duel, first ignited in the wake of the 1997-98 financial crisis, continuing into the next generation. In his political climb, Mukhriz, deputy minister of international trade and industry in the previous government, could soon bump up against a rising star within the PR, Nurul Izzah, Anwar's eloquent daughter who is seen as a future leader in her own right. In one of the highlights of the campaign, Nurul once again sensationally knocked out a Cabinet minister from UMNO in a closely contested urban seat in the capital of Kuala Lumpur. 

The BN may have been returned to power but the ruling coalition now finds its traditional rural support base shrinking with rural-to-urban migration and shifting perceptions of its rule through growing access to Internet-based independent news. Not only did BN lose the popular vote but the creative energy and youthful dynamism of the country's urban areas have decidedly shifted towards PR. While an unreformed electoral system allowed BN to carry the day in the controversial polls, the number of voters in search of a new Malaysia where old ethnic and religious barriers no longer matter is clearly on the ascent. 

Anil Netto is a Penang-based writer. 

(Copyright 2013 Asia Times Online (Holdings) Ltd. All rights reserved. Please contact us about sales, syndication and republishing.) 

ULAMAK TURKI DAN MESIR TURUT KELUARKAN AMANAT SAMA SEPERTI AMANAT HAJI HADI

ULAMAK TURKI DAN MESIR TURUT KELUARKAN AMANAT SAMA SEPERTI AMANAT HAJI HADI

14 Rabi'ul awal 1434H,

KUALA NERUS - Amanat yang memberi amaran tentang bahaya sekularisma kepada aqidah umat Islam bukan sahaja telah dikeluarkan oleh Presiden PAS Dato' Seri Tuan Guru Abdul Hadi Awang, malah amanat yang serupa pernah dikeluarkan oleh ulamak negara Turki dan Mesir.

Pensyarah Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) Dr. Azhar Yaakob berkata, Mufti terakhir kerajaan Turki Uthmaniyyah Sheikh Mustafa Sobri dan Ulamak terkenal Sheikh Abdul Kadir Audah dari Mesir turut berkata, umat Islam akan menjadi 'sesat' sekiranya menganut fahaman 'politik suku dan agama suku'.

"Mufti terakhir kerajaan Turki Uthmaniyyah Sheikh Mustafa Sobri berkata mana-mana dikalangan umat Islam yang menganut faham sekularisma, faham agama suku dan poltik suku, yang redha dengan faham penjajah sekularisma menjadi sistem hidup mereka, ia adalah jalan pintas kepada seseorang untuk 'murtad' dari agama Islam,

"ulamak Mesir Sheikh Abdul Kadir Audah mengeluarkan amanat memberikan amaran sekiranya ada dikelangan umat Islam yang redha dengan pemerintahan dan undang-undang sekular, agama uku politik suku, demi sesungguh seseorang itu meniti jalan 'riddah dalam hidupnya, murtad dri agama Islam,"tegas Ustaz Azhar.

Beliau bekata demikian ketika menyampaikan khutbah Jumaat di atas mimbar Masjid at-Taqwa Batu Enam dekat sini, hari ini 25 Januari.

Oleh itu, kata beliau adakah boleh kita berkata amanat dan pandangan kedua-dua ulamak itu adalah menyebabkan umat Islamberpecah belah sebagaimana tuduhan yang dilontarkan kepada Ustaz Abdul Hadi Awang.

Beliau menegaskan umat Islam di Malaysia sepatutnya bersyukur dengan adanya amanat Haji Hadi dapat menyedarkan orang Melayu beragama Islam 'sesat' dari agama Islam.

"di Malaysia seharusnya kita semua bersyukur kepada Allah kerana tampil apa yang dikatakan sebagai amanat Haji Hadi yang bukan untuk memecahbelahkan masyarakat tetapi untuk menjadi penyelamat menyedarkan umat islam tentang bahaya mereka berkiblatkan kepada Barat,

"menyedarkan masyarakat supaya mereka jangan mengambil ideologi sekular 'agama suku politik suku', menyedarkan masyarakat supaya mereka kembali kepada Islam yang syumul, yang lengkap dan sempurna,"jelasnya.

Justeru katanya, tidak timbul soal untuk menarik balik amanat tersebut bahkan amanat haji Hadi itu adalah relevan sejak ia dikeluarkan pada tahun 1980an sehingga hari kiamat.-BO

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Arnaud Van Dorn penghina tegar Nabi Muhammad kini memeluk Islam

Gempar! Arnaud Van Dorn anggota Parti Kebebasan berhaluan kanan Belanda yang sebelum ini telah terlibat secara langsung dalam pembuatan sebuah filem yang menghina peribadi Rasulullah s.a.w yang telah menimbulkan kemarahan umat Islam di seluruh dunia kini dilaporkan telah memeluk Islam!

Akhbar-akhbar Saudi termasuk 'Ukkaz dan lain-lain melaporkan bagaimana Arnaud Van Dorn yang sebelum ini begitu menentang dan sangat membenci Islam, kini sedang berada di Arab Saudi malah turut menyiarkan gambar beliau sedang solat di Masjid Nabawi dan menjahit kelambu Kaabah!

Sewaktu beliau menziarahi Masjid Nabawi dan makam Nabi s/a.w.beliau dilihat menangis teresak-esak hingga dapat dilihat oleh semua yang hadir. Ketika ditanya apakah punca yang membawanya memeluk Islam. Beliau menyatakan bahawa sebenarnya reaksi dan kemarahan luar biasa umat Islamlah yang telah mendorongnya untuk mengkaji dan mencari apakah rahsia sebenar di sebalik kecintaan yang begitu mendalam umat Islam terhadap peribadi agung tersebut. Sehinga pada akhirnya, beliau mendapati bahawa Nabi Muhammad s.a.w yang pernah dimusuhinya itu sebenarnya adalah satu peribadi paling agung dalam sejarah peradaban manusia! 'Tangisan' beliau semakin kuat ketika beliau berdiri di hadapan makam Baginda s.a.w.. Kini beliau merancang untuk mengerjakan umrah dan akan kembali ke Madinah al-Munawwarah.

Najib jadikan PRU13 Pilihan Raya Termahal Asia Tenggara

Najib belanja RM4,364 setiap pengundi, terbesar di Asean – penganalisa

KUALA LUMPUR: Seorang penganalisa politik terkemuka rantau Asia Tenggara hari ini membuat penganggaran bahawa Perdana Menteri sementara Datuk Seri Najib Razak telah membelanjakan RM58 bilion atau RM4,363 setiap pengundi untuk PRU13 ini.

Dr Bridget Welsh (gambar), seorang professor madya sains politik John Hopkins University menulis dalam artikelnya di Malaysia berkata perangkaan tersebut datang daripada analisa beliau dalam 4,000 sumber berita sejak 2009 dan kajian terhadap tiga bajet dan bajet tambahan dari 2010 sehingga 2013.

“Saya secara konservatif menganggar bahawa pentadbiran beliau (Najib) telah membelanjakan RM57.7 bilion bermula dari hari beliau menjadi Perdana Menteri sehingga sebelum parlimen dibubarkan dalam insentif pilihanraya,” tulis Bridget.

Bridget berkata Najib telah membelanjakan RM46.7 bilion dalam pembangunan sasaran berjanji dan RM11.0 bilion dalam program 1Malaysia.

“Dua komponen terbesar ini adalah bersifat pengagihan sasaran politik dan perbelanjaan 1Malaysia. Langkah-langkah ini berunsur politik, kerana bukan sahaja mereka dicanang dalam bentuk politik, ia juga disebarkan sebagai sebab-sebab untuk mengundi BN di peti undi nanti,” kata beliau.

Bridget berkata pembelanjaan terbesar bukannya datang daripada RM5.6 bilion yang digunakan untuk Bantuan Rakyat 1Malaysia (BR1M) tapi di atas langkah-langkah populis yang lain seperti kenaikan gaji dan pembinaan sekolah menggunakan duit daripada pejabat Perdana Menteri.

“Dalam erti kata lain, anggaran itu mencadangkan bahawa pentadbiran Najib telah membelanjakan kira-kira RM4,363 setiap pengundi setakat ini. Setakat ini, ini adalah pilihanraya termahal di Malaysia. Memandangkan bahawa wang juga diperuntukkan kepada calon-calon untuk kempen, lebih banyak wang akan digunakan,” beliau memberikan amaran.

Najib, kata beliau, sekarang boleh dikatakan terlibat dalam pilihanraya termahal di Asia Tenggara.

Sebelum ini, ada satu laporan Maybank bertarikh 19 Mac menyatakan bahawa Jabatan Perdana Menteri telah membelanjakan sebanyak RM36.1 juta untuk menaikkan imej pentadbirannya di mata rakyat menerusi pengiklanan.

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