Hyperinflation In Zimbabwe..

In this world, everybody is rushing and chasing for the money.... Some people fighting and killing each others just because of money... In Zimbabwe , all the peoples having a lot of money but they're poor.... WHY ??

500 million note, just printed in May 2008.....everybody can have it....maybe just nice for 1 breakfast/lunch (equal to about USD 2)


Everybody is billionaire.........

CM Must Intervene ‘Sukau Tragedy’

By : RAYMOND B TOMBUNG

DATUK Dr. Jeffrey Kitingan, is urging the Chief Minister, Datuk Seri Musa Haji Aman, to take an urgent step to intervene into what it calls the ‘Sukau Tragedy’ in which houses are being bulldozed by a company which wants natives to vacate an NCR land. 

In an urgent appeal made here, the UBF Chairman, reported that he had just returned from a visit to the site of Kampung Km. 6, Jalan Sukau, Sandakan where he personally witnessed the debris of two houses which have already been bulldozed by Syarikat Campo Sdn. Bhd. which claims to have receive the title to the land, and considered the people there as intruders although they have been there since 1989. 

‘Stop calling for Sabah leaders to unite, Jeffrey’

Frustrated supporters of Jeffrey Kitingan are
demanding that he takes a political stand.

By Luke Rintod of FMT
KOTA KINABALU: Maverick Sabah politician Jeffrey Kitingan is causing confusion within the ranks of his supporters as the 13th general election looms with his ambiguous stand on politics in the state and country.

Their bewilderment was summed up by a veteran political activist who has thrown his lot behind the mercurial leader.

11 reasons for not having polls this year

KUALA LUMPUR: The talk in town is that a general election will be called this year some 17 months before this current government's term ends. We think not. And here are 11 reasons why we think the 13th general election will not be called this year:

1. Barisan Nasional is only meeting today to further discuss its seat allocations and, by all accounts, the 14 parties in the ruling coalition have yet to agree on many things, especially candidates. Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak is chairing the meeting to be held at the PWTC.

Najib goes to bank

NAJIB walks into Malayan Banking to cash a cheque.

As he approaches the cashier he says "Good morning , could you please cash this cheque for me?"
Cashier: "It would be my pleasure sir. Could you please show me your ID?"
Najib: "Alamak! I did not bring my ID with me as I didn't think there was any need to. "

The Issue of basic facilities in Sabah and Sarawak

KUALA LUMPUR: The issue of basic facilities in the rural areas of Sabah and Sarawak was one of the main issues raised during the debate on the Supply Bill 2012 for the Rural and Regional Development Ministry in parliament yesterday.

Datuk Seri Tiong King Sing (BN-Bintulu) and Datuk Eric Majimbun (Independent-Sepanggar) questioned the implementation of projects at the ministerial level as many of the facilities provided in both states still could not be used after so long.

Single party rule can happen again-Yong

PENAMPANG: Having a single party to rule a state or government is nothing new as Sabah is one of the three states in Malaysia which have done that.

"It is possible ... there are only three states in Malaysia which have had a single party government. Sabah during Berjaya and PBS as well as PAS in Kelantan and Terengganu. It has happened before and it can happen again," Sabah Progressive Party (SAPP) president Datuk Yong Teck Lee said.

‘Racist, evil’ federal leaders duping Sabahans

Where has the billions of ringgit which the federal government
claims was spent on Sabah infrastructure gone?

By Luke Rintod of FMT
PENAMPANG: Billions of ringgit have been spent on infrastructure projects in Sabah but there is little to show for it, especially in rural areas.

This has prompted a veteran political operative in Sabah to accuse federal government leaders of having an “evil” and “racist” attitude towards Sabah and Sarawak.

UMNO-led biggest finance scandals

What UMNO has done!...Melayu mudah lupa LOL....


"JASA BESAR" KERAJAAN UMNO-BN KEPADA RAKYAT MALAYSIA....UNTUK MELAYU YANG MUDAH LUPA!!!!!

1. PKFZ RM12bill
2. Submarine RM500mil
3. Simedarby RM964mil
4. Paya Indah Westland RM88mil
5. Posmalaysia (transmile) RM230mil lost

Awesome Conversation (Must Read) Don't miss even a single word... Too good

An atheist professor of philosophy speaks to his class on the problem science has with God, The Almighty. He asks one of his new students to stand and.....

Prof:-So you believe in God?

Student:-Absolutely, sir.

Prof: -Is God good?

Student:-Sure.

Prof:-Is God all-powerful?

Student: -Yes.

Engaging All Quarters Crucial in Resolving Land Issues: LEAP

(From left) Independent consultant Birgitte Feiring
and Land Empowerment Animals People (LEAP) Executive Director
Cynthia Ong in a discussion with Sabah Lands and Surveys Department
Director Datuk Osman Jamal and his Deputy (Land) Lee Chun Khiong

KOTA KINABALU (28^th October 2011): As part of an assessment of a local land rights programme, two independent evaluators met the Sabah Lands and Surveys Department to gather information on related issues, in particular claims for native customary rights (NCR).

The recent meeting saw Land Empowerment Animals People (LEAP) Executive Director Cynthia Ong and independent consultant Birgitte Feiring of Denmark, getting feedback from Department Director Datuk Osman Jamal and his Deputy (Land) Lee Chun Khiong on land ownership among natives, including the state’s current focus in issuing Communal Titles.

From An Australian Newspaper about Malaysia

Discrimination of Non-Malays in Malaysia plain racists as PAS said . . . This list is a common knowledge to a lot of Malaysians, especially those non-Malays (Chinese, Ibans, Kadazans, Orang Asli, Tamils, etc.) who have been racially discriminated against.

Figures in this list are merely estimates, so please take it as a guide only. The government of Malaysia has the most correct figures. Is government of Malaysia too ashamed to publish their racist acts by publishing racial statistics?

Rakyat Sabah Di Lacur Di M Pub?

Oleh : JANET MAJUNGKI

NASIB pekerja asing lebih terbela berbanding dengan pekerja tempatan. Boleh dikatakan kebanyakan pekerja kelab-kelab malam di negeri ini ibarat kerbau yang terpaksa bekerja lebih, namun imbuhan dan tekanan yang dihadapi lebih dari segalanya. Malahan sesetengah pengusaha pusat hiuburan menganggap pekerja mereka sebagai hamba abdi.

Some

If sex with four people is called a foursome.

Sex with three people is called a threesome.

Sex with two is called a twosome.

I now know why some guys are called handsome.

The Third Estate

What do you know about the Third Estate? Basically, the Third Estate is the third of the traditional social classes after the clergy and nobility -- meaning the common people or rakyat. Whether you want to call this group of people the Third Estate (like 200 years ago) or the Third Force is immaterial. The important thing is this is the force that should tell the rulers/government what it wants and not the other way around.

NO HOLDS BARRED

Incredible pics of Borneo's Mulu Caves

Nature's wonderland and it's world's famous right at
our doorstep , have you visited our very own
UNESCO World Heritage site, the Mulu National Park.

Borneo Caves

These incredible images show British scientists on an expedition to map a 'never-ending' cave network in a project that dates back more than 30 years.

The twisting network of caverns underneath Gunung Mulu National Park, in Sarawak, Borneo, contains the largest cave chamber in the world, the largest cave by volume and what is believed to be the largest cave passage.

Nigeria Boko Haram attack 'kills 63' in Damaturu

At least 63 people have been killed in bomb and gun attacks in the north-eastern Nigerian town of Damaturu, the Red Cross says.

Witnesses said the bombs hit several targets, including churches and the headquarters of the Yobe state police.

The Islamist militant group Boko Haram told a newspaper it was behind the attack and that it planned to hit further government targets.

PPSMI: Sometimes Dr M makes sense

The former premier (Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad) says science is a dynamic subject and it was better to teach the subject in the English language.

It is never too late if the government wants to reintroduce the Teaching and Learning of Science and Mathematics in English (PPSMI) in primary schools, although it has decided to fully use Bahasa Malaysia in 2016, said Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad.

The Truth of SAS issue revealed

An eternal mockery of the anti-corruption move by the Malaysian government 
1. This letter is written with a view to disclosing the TRUTH hidden in the disastrous loss of SAS, which has been twice rejected the presentation of TRUTH in White Paper by the overwhelming majority of BN assemblymen at the Sabah State Assembly.

2. At first glance, you would come to the simple (as kindergarten) conclusion that "I am from SAPP" and "I am speaking for Yong Teck Lee". My simple and instant reply is: Bullshit!! Let me tell you this: I've never been a SAPP member and neither am I paid / or instructed to write!

Sabah Railway ....Why NOT make it better?

By Datuk Richard Yong

The initiative of Robert Mojolou who filed an application for leave for judicial review at the high Court Registry on Friday with regard to the government’s intention to close all illegal crossing will trigger some hard thinking.

Does the government think simply by closing of all illegal crossings is “the” solution to this problematic railway service? Is the government handling the illegal crossings like the way they handle the never ending illegal immigrant problems?

Final Warning: Malaysia may be bankrupt sooner than 2019

HORNBILL UNLEASHED
Maclean Patrick

Alarm bells should be sounding by now, yet the nation’s leaders seem to be adamant on keeping things sounding rosy and well. The Auditor-General’s Report for 2010 has shown how far down the barrel, Malaysia has gone.

It must be noted that when Malaysia was formed in 1963, the British left her with a solid administrative template. Yet, after more than 50 years of rule by Barisan Nasional, the template has not been improved on. In fact, it has gone to the dogs; replaced instead by a form of government that encourages leakages and corruption of all forms.

Benarkah Kita, ‘Stupid Sabahan?’

SAYA adalah seorang Dusun yang bekerja di sebuah pusat peranginan lima bintang yang terletak di Tanjung Aru dan ingin mendedahkan tingkah laku sesetengah pengurus kami yang amat menghina orang Sabah.

Hotel ini telah menggaji seorang Chef Australia dua tahun lalu dan saya kesal kerana Chef ini kerap memarahi pekerja lain dengan perkataan seperti ‘Stupid Sabahan’.

Mekah bagaikan medan perang bagi Najib dan Rosmah

By Anak Sungai Derhaka

 

Mekah bagaikan medan perang bagi Najib dan Rosmah.. bergerak sambil dikelilingi oleh hampir 20 anggota Keselamatan Arab Saudi.

Najib Nicked At Chogm, Perth.

Is heaven made of stupid people?

NOV 2 — I’m sure people had a field day laughing when the supposed Rapture didn’t happen May 21.

But I have a hard time laughing when PAS Youth again proves it has nothing better to do by objecting to a concert.

Leave Elton John alone, why don’t you? And Adam Lambert as well while you are at it.

I keep meeting and hearing from people who believe it’s their sacred duty to makeover the country into an image of holiness.

Sabah train tragedy

Despite spending millions of ringgit, some of the automatic
gates at major railway crossings are not functioning.

KOTA KINABALU: The morning after the train crash outside the Kota Kimabalu International Airport here has provoked fear and anger among city residents, with many saying that “it was an accident just waiting to happen”.

Widespread dissatisfaction and complaints have been brewing for years now over the railway line that has been plagued by controversy since the government approved a contract to upgrade the tracks a few years ago.

‘Natives can stay in forest reserves’

Natives have the right to stay in their villagers which have
been 'awarded' to companies for oil palm plantations.

By Luke Rintod of FMT
KOTA KINABALU: Sabah natives who have suddenly discovered that their kampungs are within gazetted forest reserves or inside the newly-created Forest Managament Unit (FMU) have every right under Sabah law to continue living in their villagers without being harassed by the authorities.

Former Chief Minister Yong Teck Lee said the state government had acknowledged the villager’s right in April.

PBS now echoing SAPP's call for RCI

PBS wants RCI on Illegals, only friendly
request, not ultimatum 

PBS wants RCI on Illegals, only friendly request, not ultimatum

Parti Bersatu Sabah (PBS) president Joseph Pairin Kitingan has called on the federal government to establish a royal commission of inquiry on illegal immigrants in Sabah next year as a sign of its commitment towards resolving the issue.

He said it was time the government took the matter seriously as requests on the issue had been made a while back.

"This is only a guideline but needs to be stressed on. Focus should be given on forming the commission to give assurance to Malaysians in Sabah.

SAPP Youth Edward speaking to press during RCI on Illegals Campaign

PBS Mula Buka Mulut Mengenai Suruhanjaya Siasatan Diraja

PRESIDEN Parti Bersatu Sabah (PBS), Tan Sri Joseph Pairin Kitingan meminta kerajaan menubuhkan Suruhanjaya Siasatan Diraja (SSD) mengenai pendatang asing tanpa izin (PATI) di Sabah tahun depan sebagai tanda kesungguhan dan komitmen menangani masalah itu.

Beliau berkata sudah tiba masanya kerajaan mengambil berat perkara itu memandangkan permintaan tersebut sudah ‘agak lama’.

"Ini hanyalah panduan tetapi perlu diberi penekanan. Tumpuan seharusnya diberikan untuk menubuhkan suruhanjaya ini supaya hati rakyat Malaysia di Sabah akan lega dengan reaksi daripada pihak kerajaan.

32 Tahun Kes Tanah Belum Selesai

Saudara Pengarang,

KAMI telah menerima beberapa surat penjelasan berhubung pertukaran beberapa nama dalam permohonan tanah di Kg. Moynod, Beluran yang telah dihantar ke Pejabat Jabatan Tanah dan Ukur Kota Kinabalu pada mei 2011.

KDMM a desperate attempt to entice KDMs to Umno

By Daniel John Jambun

Datuk John Ambrose, as the founder and President of the newly registered KDM Malaysia (KDMM) has been making a lot of publicity about the new association. Immediately we can sense that, although it is an NGO, it is not your usual type of voluntary organization. Firstly, it unashamedly declared that it number one purpose is to get KDMs to support Umno. KDMM has no intention to go into cultural and identity preservation work for the KDMs. It aims mainly to break the KDMs further by enticing them to Umno, i.e. away from PBS, Upko, PBRS and the opposition. So Datuk Dr. Jeffrey Kitingan is right in saying it a tool of divide and rule by Barisan Nasional.

EC chief: See no Evil, Hear no Evil

By Aidila Razak

INTERVIEW Claims about the systematic granting of Malaysian citizenship to thousands of illegal immigrants in Sabah in the 1990s is the stuff of legends.

And like all good legends, evidence of such a happening may seem aplenty, but there is nothing to irrefutably prove that it had occurred.

At least, that is what former Election Commission chief Abdul Rashid Abdul Rahman believes of the dubious operation popularly dubbed Project IC or Project M.

SAPP to raise SAS issue again in next sitting

TAWAU: Sabah Progressive Party (SAPP) will again raise the Saham Amanah Sabah (SAS) issue in the State Legislative Assembly (SLA) sitting in November and call for a white paper to reveal who was responsible for the shares losses amounting to RM500 million.

SAPP Women chief Melanie Chia said it was an issue which the Barisan Nasional (BN) had not tackled and Tawau people were talking on the issue.

Ustaz's 1Malaysia Plan for East Malaysia...proselytisation

An alleged move to second 80,000 teachers to Sarawak could trigger social
implications, says Parti Rakyat Sarawak president James Masing.

SIBU: Is an alleged move by the Education Ministry to transfer 80,000 teachers from Peninsular Malaysia to Sarawak an insidious plan to “convert” locals?

If it is, then Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak’s ruling Barisan Nasional (BN) government is digging itself into an even deeper hole here.

Already, the majority Christian Sarawakians are seething at the Umno-led government’s high-handedness and arrogant dismissal of the Federal Constitution in relation to freedom to practise one’s own religion.

Skandal Jabatan Tanah Dan Ukur

BANTAH......Karamah menunjukkan surat bantahan mengenai
tanah tersebut tetapi tidak menerima sebarang respon
daripada Jabatan Tanah dan Ukur.

Oleh : SHAIMON S JUMADI

KETUA Pemohon Tanah seluas 40 ekar di Kampung Sungai Sumpit, kawasan Nipah Tambisan, Tungku, Abdullah Hj Hamid yang mewakilkan kuasa kepada bapa mertuanya, Karamah Sajae (gambar) mendakwa bahawa Jabatan Tanah dan Ukur Kinabatangan melakukan penyelewengan dalam proses pengukuran tanah di kawasan tersebut.

Karamah mendakwa Pegawai Jabatan Tanah dan Ukur Negeri Sabah, Thomas Wong telah mengetuai kerja-kerja pengukuran di kawasan tanah yang bukan dipohon, tetapi tanah milik orang lain dan mereka mengukur tanah secara rambang; termasuk di atas meja mereka sahaja.

Land grabs: ‘Police colluding with company’

By Luke Rintod of FMT

Villagers in remote Sabah have accused police
of helping a company occupy their land.

KOTA KINABALU: The displacement of villagers is continuing unabated in remote corners of Sabah – out of the public eye despite claims to the contrary by the Barisan Nasional (BN) state government.

Yet another land-grab case has surfaced. This time, it is in Kampung Mapat and Kampung Mapad in Pitas.

The victims lodged a police report here yesterday claiming that police had assisted a private company, Syarikat Jayasama Sdn Bhd, alienate their NCR (native customary rights) land.

Billions spent on Sabah infrastructures, but how come not much improvements?

By Fredoline Edwin Lojingki
EACH year both the Federal Government and State Government announced hundreds of millions of ringgits for Sabah and in fact thousands of millions ringgits for the whole country for so-called rural development which focussed on basic infrastructures. What astonish me is little is felt here in many rural areas in Sabah. I have travelled to many parts of Sabah in recent times and i found it scaring to claim that those billions were ever spent for the Sabahan people.

No Thinking Muslim Support for Himpunan Sejuta Umat

by Dr. Ahmad Farouk Musa

3:15PM Oct 24, 2011

After much hype, the Himpun gathering at Shah Alam Stadium on Saturday was a non-event.  The dismal attendance of roughly 5,000 hankering souls was a total letdown from the expected one million.

Despite the claim that Himpun was a success by the organisers, it was clear that it was more of a self-reassurance. Himpun failed miserably in their effort to instigate thinking Muslims into supporting their crusade.

Gejala Rampasan Tanah Menghantui Etnik Bumiputra Sabah

Tanah merupakan nadi dan berkait rapat dengan kehidupan masyarakat etnik bumiputera Sabah. Namun kehidupan ini semakin lama semakin terhakis dan menjadi satu mimpi igauan yang ngeri terhadap masa depan generasi anak watan Sabah tulen yang bergantung hidup pada tanah. Ini disebabkan kejadian rampasan tanah yang semakin berleluasa oleh pihak - pihak yang berkepentingan dalam ketamakan mengaut keuntungan tanpa menghiraukan keperitan yang ditanggung oleh kaum etnik bumiputera.

‘Cease attacks on SAPP’

Lim Kit Siang has reminded Sabah DAP that their fight
is with Umno-Barisan Nasional not SAPP.

By Michael Kaung

PENAMPANG: DAP strongman Lim Kit Siang has directed party leaders in Sabah to bury the hatchet and stop the on-going war of words with fellow opposition member, Sabah Progressive Party (SAPP).
Lim, the DAP adviser, is worried that the quarrel between the party’s state branch and SAPP is distracting them from the real challenge in the 13th general election that could be called by Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak any time now.

Waiting to get paid

A new CEO takes over at a struggling company and decides to get rid of all the slackers.

On a tour of the facilities, the CEO notices a guy leaning against a wall. He can’t believe this guy would just stand around on the job. The new CEO walks up to the guy and asks, “What are you doing here?”

“I’m just waiting to get paid,” responds the man.

People's power and winning the battle for a future - S.Arutchelvan's paper presented in Australia

By S. Arutchelvan, Sec-Gen of Parti Sosialis Malaysia (PSM)

In Thailand, Malaysia’s neighbor - recently the Reds won the elections against the yellow. The Reds were mainly based in rural areas and from working class and farmers background but firmly also supporters of Thaksin – the former Prime Minister and telecommunication tycoon while the yellow were those within the elites, supporters of the royalty and the army and many of them are from the urban areas especially Bangkok itself. The NGOs and civil societies – a numbers of them stayed A-political and some call this group, “wait and see” while some lefties organization stood with the Reds because of their class characteristic as well as because they are seen as the democratic forces. The Reds have since won the elections but real reforms are slow to come. The Army and the royalty still very much in the picture.

Timbalan Menteri: Tarik balik penggantungan Aziz Bari

Timbalan Menteri Pengajian Tinggi Datuk Saifuddin Abdullah hari ini menasihatkan rektor Universiti Islam Antarabangsa (UIA) untuk menarik balik penggantungan kontroversi ke atas Prof Abdul Aziz Bari.

Malaysiakini ternampak mesej teks beliau kepada Datuk Zaleha Kamaruddin pagi ini, di mana beliau berkata penggantungan itu adalah “memudaratkan”.

Menurutnya, apa sahaja (sebab-sebab untuk tindakan itu), ia masih
salah dari segi moral dan intelektual (kerana) Aziz belum didapati bersalah.

Sabah’s right: Jeffrey disputes historian’s view

A Universiti Malaya professor claims that Sabah and
Sarawak cannot 'legally' secede from Malaysia.

KOTA KINABALU: Malaysian history professor DS Ranjit has come under fire in Sabah for declaring that the people of the state no longer have the fundamental right to self-determination as their legislators had surrendered that power a long time ago.

The Universiti Malaya historian, whose talk entitled “Sabah prospects and retrospect: The aftermath of colonial rule” here on Thursday, put forward the argument that the British colony which had joined Sarawak, Singapore and Malaya to form Malaysia on Sept 16, 1963, would never be able to legally withdraw from the union.

UMNO dan PKR itu adalah serupa

Oleh Maslan Maginda

Aktivis Masyarakat, Maslan Bin Maginda

KOTA BELUD: Rakyat Sabah jangan terlalu mengagungkan pemimpin asing yang sedang menikmati kekayaan di Negeri sendiri. Kita harus meneruskan perjuangan Tun Fuad Donald Stephen selepas pertikaian isu minyak yang dilihat perkara itu sebagai melanggar pembentukan Malaysia dan menjajah ekonomi Sabah.

Apa yang kita dapat lihat pembangunan hari ini, hanyalah satu wayang kepada kerajaan pusat dan ini melambangkan bahawa rakyat Sabah hanyalah anak patung yang tidak bersuara dan seekor binatang yang hanya menurut perintah mereka sahaja. Cukuplah kita ditindas dari semua arus pembangunan perdana yang dilakukan oleh parti BN/UMNO.

Himpun berjaya, kata penganjur

Pengerusi bersama Perhimpunan Sejuta Umat, Mohd Azmi Abdul Hamid berkata perhimpunan di Shah Alam hari ini tetap merupakan satu kejayaan walau jumlah kehadiran peserta tidak seramai yang diharapkan sebelum ini.

Tambahnya, peserta perhimpunan itu juga berlangsung dengan tenang tetapi tetap bersemangat.
“Dengan tenang mendengar tapi dengan semangat, kenyataan
bahawa kita minta saudara kita hormati, negara ini letakkan kedudukan Islam kedudukan istimewa,” katanya dalam sidang media selepas perhimpunan itu berakhir lewat petang ini.
Dianggarkan seramai 5,000 orang hadir di perhimpunan berkenaan di Stadium Shah Alam.

Why is BN afraid of white paper on SAS?

By Daniel John Jambun

We all know the protracted issue of Saham Amanah Sabah (SAS) which was launched on a share value of RM1 and then got reduced to 20 sen ("Cheaper than kueh pisang," as many people put it) and caused a loss of more than RM400 million involving 55,000 investors.

And it is still raging today, with certain groups, especially BN leaders trying to point their accusing fingers at Datuk Yong Teck Lee who happened to be the Chief Minister when SAS was introduced.

Utusan Must Apology To All Christian

UTUSAN'S allegation was then featured on the front page of Utusan Malaysia on May 7. Another blog ‘Marahku’ also carried the allegation, reporting a plan to make Christianity the official religion of Malaysia and for a Christian to be Prime Minister.

Tim Hii, DAP Sabah ApiApi Branch Assistant secretary, has called for Utusan license to be revoked as its allegations against Christians, have caused severe defamations to Christian Malaysians' good image.

Utusan had dropped a bomb, which could potentially jeopardize the peace and harmony we Malaysians have long enjoyed regardless of races and religions. Tim elaborated.

The reason Malays don't respect Sultans

The federal Islamic development agency claimed today that many Muslim do not respect the authority of the Malay Rulers who are heads of religions for their respective states. On the eve of a planned gathering of a million Muslims to defend the faith, the Department of Islamic Development Malaysia (Jakim) prepared a Friday sermon that accused some parties of putting political interests ahead of the religion. “Many Muslims today do not respect the views and authority and in fact question the Sultan heads of the Islamic religious councils. The sanctity of the faith has been politicised and the split among Muslims has affected the function and role of the councils,” said the sermon titled “State Islamic religious councils drive the transformation of the faithful”.

NO HOLDS BARRED
Raja Petra Kamarudin

Therefore, the opinion that Rajas should be placed under a Constitution that determined the status and role of the Rajas was born. With this method, the Rajas could no longer act as they liked. The powers of the Rajas would be determined by the Constitution, that is the country's basic law. Yet, there were Rajas who were willing to hand over their own states to foreign powers while ignoring the Constitution.

Although the representatives were free to speak in the Dewan Rakyat and Dewan Undangan Negeri about any topic, but they could not touch on the Rajas because any criticism of the Rajas could be interpreted as sedition and they could be charged under the Sedition Act. This provision was a result of an amendment made in 1971. Before this, criticism of the Rajas could be made in the house. In Britain and other countries, the Parliament was free to criticize the Rajas. It is clear that that criticizing the Rajas does not destroy the Rajas' majesty.

While this prohibition on criticism is said to protect the Rajas' majesty, but when the Rajas are not criticized, they will not be aware of the wrongs that they have committed. Hence, maybe more wrongs will be committed and these wrongs may become more serious. This not only contaminates the Rajas' majesty but can also cause the People to hate the Rajas. It is not true to say the prohibition on criticizing the Rajas will protect the Rajas' majesty. Actually, the majesty of the Rajas will be contaminated because of this prohibition.
Unfortunately, because the Chief Ministers and Prime Minister are Malays that are unwilling to be on bad terms with the Rajas, when the Rajas do something that is not supposed to be done, no effective criticism is made. Even if there is, the unwillingness of the Rajas to care about the criticisms of these official advisers does not bring about any action towards the Rajas.

Hence, in the history of independent Malaysia, the actions of the Rajas and parties who hide behind the Rajas that exceed the rights and privileges of the Rajas become more serious over time. The possibility is that it will become more serious in the future. If there are no amendments to the law, like those suggested here, without doubt worse matters will happen that will cause the Raja Institution to be hated by the people. It is not impossible that if one day in the future, demands are made to completely abolish the Raja System although there are provisions in the Constitution.

Hence this amendment that is suggested aims to avoid or prevent the escalation of hatred towards the Rajas that could bring about demands to abolish the Raja System. This amendment is to save the Rajas themselves and the Constitutional Monarchy system. To strengthen the Constitutional provisions to maintain the Raja System, provisions are made such that any suggestion to abolish the Raja System will be interpreted as sedition and falls under Sedition Laws.

If Malaysia intends to become a country that practices Parliamentary Democracy and Constitutional Monarchy, the immunity that is given to the Rajas must be abolished. Because the Constitution in countries that practice the Constitutional Monarchy System doesn't give immunity to their Kings, the abolishment of the immunity of the Malay Rajas cannot jeopardize their sovereignty. In the modern era, only because the King can't commit crimes as they like, the King's status will not be jeopardized, especially in a country that practices Parliamentary Democracy and Constitutional Monarchy.

The interpretation of the sedition towards the King in the Constitution is so wide until no criticism is can be made in Parliament by members of the Dewan Rakyat or Dewan Undangan. Hence, the media also has no opportunity to report. Criticism can only be made by the Rajas' advisors behind closed doors. If this criticism is ineffective, there is nothing that can be done.

Actually all three former Prime Ministers, as advisors to the Rajas, have already criticized the Rajas many times while they were in service. I know criticisms have been made because this matter has been repeatedly reported in Cabinet meetings and also the UMNO Supreme Council.

It should be reminded that the respect of the People towards the Raja cannot be determined by laws. With your permission, 'Respect must be earned'. Having laws that scare the People will not bring 'respect'. With the realization that the Rajas can be brought to court, Rajas will certainly avoid committing acts that will cause the people not to respect the Rajas. Hence, the Raja Institution will be better respected and better preserved.
Extract of Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad's speech in the Malaysian Parliament (1993)

Yong: I am not the villain

Former Sabah chief minister Yong Teck Lee, who has been under 'assault' by the Barisan Nasional, claims he is a 'victim of circumstances'.

KOTA KINABALU: The villain of the month in Sabah is Sabah Progressive Party (SAPP) leader, Yong Teck Lee, if news reports are anything to go by.

A spate of exposé of possible land grabs by companies and a court ruling against a developer have all conspired to demonise the former chief minister.