Karim has leapfrogged both YB Abdul Rahman Junaidi and YB Roland Sagah. YB Roland Sagah was elected in 1996 (before Karim) and YB Abdul Rahman Junaidi was elected in 2001 same as Karim. Such promotion shows that he is highly favoured and is the rising star of sarawak politics.
Karim is also now more than assured of moving YB Datuk Fadilah Yusuf out as PBB Youth Chief. His second portfolio of Youth signals that karim has leadership blessing to replace fadilah yusuf as PBB Youth Chief. Fadilah Yusuf refused to defend Pehin Sri Taib Mahmud when Pehin Sri was attacked by UMNO Youth Chief Khairy Jamaludin after the sarawak state election. Everyone in the party leadership and grassroots were disappointed with fadilah yusuf as it is expected that a party youth chief must defend his party president.
Bernama
KUCHING: The state cabinet reshuffle that will take effect on Friday will see a new ministry being created, five ministries renamed and seven new faces including a woman to be appointed as assistant ministers.
Chief Minister Abdul Taib Mahmud said the new ministry would be named the Welfare, Women and Family Development Ministry, to be headed by Fatimah Abdullah and assisted by two new assistant ministers who are also new faces, Rosey Yunus and Robert Lawson Chuat Vincent.
“The other new faces as assistant ministers are Julaihi Narawi, Abdul Karim Hamzah, Len Talif Salleh, Dr Jerip Susil and Liwan Lagang,” he said, adding that the seven would be sworn in on Friday.
Julaihi will be appointed as Industrial Development Assistant Minister (Investment and Promotion) and Rural Development Assistant Minister, and Abdul Karim as Housing Assistant Minister and Social Development Assistant Minister (Youth Development).
Len Talif will be appointed as Resource Planning and Environment Assistant Minister (Environment) and Assistant Minister in the Chief Minister’s Office (Technical Education Promotion), Dr Jerip as Local Government and Community Development Assistant Minister (Public Health), and Liwan as Social Development Assistant Minister (Culture and Heritage).
“All the full ministers will be retained and some of their ministries renamed,” Taib said.
The five ministries renamed include the Social Development and Urbanisation Ministry, which is now known as Social Development Ministry and headed by Sarawak Progressive Democratic Party (SPDP) president William Mawan Ikom and Environment and Public Health Ministry, now known as Local Government and Community Development Ministry, headed by Sarawak United People’s Party deputy secretary-general Wong Soon Koh.
‘Not a big issue’
The Planning and Resource Management Ministry will be known as Resource Planning and Environment Ministry, Housing and Urban Development Ministry as Housing Ministry, and Tourism and Heritage Ministry as Tourism Ministry, with both the ministries under the purview of Amar Abang Johari Tun Openg, who is also Parti Pesaka Bumiputera Bersatu (PBB) deputy president.
Taib, who retains his portfolios in the Finance Ministry and Resource Planning and Environment Ministry, said there was no urgent need for the appointment of a second Deputy Chief Minister.
He said the one Deputy Chief Minister post now held by another PBB deputy president, Alfred Jabu Numpang, who is also Rural Development Minister, should not be a big issue.
He said Parti Rakyat Sarawak (PRS) president Dr James Jemut Masing, who had been retained as Land Development Minister, would also be holding senior minister porfolios together with Soon Koh and Mawan.
He said their role as senior ministers would be to coordinate specific development projects and programmes needed to be undertaken together.
He said PBB senior vice-president Amar Awang Tengah Ali Hassan would be the new Industrial Development Minister, as well as the second Resource Planning and Environment Minister and Public Utilities Minister, while Michael Manyin retained his portfolio as Infrastructure Development and Communications Minister.
He said the Public Works Department (PWD), Agriculture Department and local councils were also being revamped.
“The PWD revamp is almost completed while it may take about five years for the others,” he added.
Rising star? Emm.....let's see. Or to cool off certain wings in PBB?
ReplyDeleteWe need a YB like this. YB Karim ada semangat dan pendirian yg kukuh dan perlantikan beliau adalah berlandaskan kpd fakta ini. Tahniah dan semoga dapat memberi nafas baru ke arah pembangunan kementerian beliau.
ReplyDeleteAnother immaturity in politics for those who have tendency to apple polish. ( Take note I am using a mundane term )
ReplyDeleteIn western countries, public appointees are gauged by what they later do with their post and how the serve the people. They don't get praise for being appointed but rather what they later do, and how they serve the people and country.
I suggest that those praising an individual for his appointment stop stooping to that level. Praise an individual for his service yes, but not his post. Unless you have something else or something ulterior for your praise, which of course is somewhat self serving in it's veiled intentions. You do understand what I mean.
Nang mr perfect lah king of saladin tok.. Sampei sik dpt maham apa maksud yg nak dipadah org lain.. Lain dipadah org lain dimaksudnya.. Or ngkali nya tok sik pandei bahasa melayu ya nya sik paham .. Pun kau jak semua ya jang!!
ReplyDeleteAssalamualaikum Brother. Saya minta maaf kalau Sdra anggap salah. Bukan itu maksud saya.
ReplyDeleteSaya cuma nyatakan nilailah seorang pemimpin itu dari baktinya pada masyarakat. Bukan semata mata jawatannya.
Maaf jika Sdra tersinggung.
Wassalam,
Boleh saya nyanyak, apa pendirian kukuh dan semangat YB Karim ya ? Boleh lebih jelas agik. Yg tauk saya Karim kukuh nyokong CM ajak. Mun nulis, guna fakta. Pendirian mesti atas dasar prinsip benar dan bukannya nyokong pemimpin yg dah lamak gilak megang jawatan.
ReplyDeleteboleh sdra 30 Sept 2011 ya jelas. Jangan nganok pendapat urang lain yg merik pendapat betul.
Sdra yang nulis pada September 30, jam 2.43 p.m.
ReplyDeleteAssalamualaikum. Saya menghormati pendapat Sdra. Saya mengalu alukan pendapat lain. Cuma saya menyarankan budaya baru dalam pemikiran kita. Budaya politik yg murni. Yang pemimpin itu dipuji di atas baktinya pada rakyat. Dan pemimpin itu betul betul memimpin untuk berkhidmat untuk rakyat dan negara.
Cuba kita tengok contoh di England. Di sana terdapat 3 parti politik yang dominan iaitu Parti Conservative, Parti Buruh dan Parti Liberal Democrat.
Tidak kira siapa dan parti mana yang memerintah Britain, rata rata pemimpinnya bersih. Tidak ada rasuah. Lihat menteri menteri di Britain. Ada di antara mereka yang sebelum bertanding pilihanraya dan sebelum dilantik menteri, mereka tinggal di apartment dan rumah mereka sendiri yang sederhana. Bila mereka jadi menteri, mereka tinggal di rumah kerajaan. Dan bila tidak lagi jadi menteri, mereka kembali ke apartment sederhana dan rumah persendirian mereka. Tidak ada apa apa pun yang diragui tentang harta yang mereka kumpul.
Lihat Tony Blair. Beliau lama jadi Perdana Menteri Britain dan memang ada 2 rumah, satu yang agak besar sebelum jadi Perdana Menteri. Dan satu lagi rumah sederhana. Beliau ialah dulunya seorang peguam sebelum menceburi politik.. Begitu juga dengan isterinya yang dulu seorang Hakim Daerah ( District Judge ) dan menjadi peguam Queen Counsel. Mereka ada membuat pengisytiharan harta semasa dan selepas Blair menajdi PM. Dan juga selepas Blair bersara. Memang ada peningkatan harta mereka, tetapi itu disebabkan harga nilai rumah mereka meningkat.
Tetapi tiada unsur rasuah di sini. Bila Blair berhenti menjadi PM, kerajaan Britain memberi gratuity pada beliau. Dan kini beliau menjadi agak mewah, kerana sering memberi syarahan yang berbayar pada banyak institusi di seluruh dunia. Buku yang beliau tulis juga laris.
Itu ialah pemimpin barat. Bukan kita nak mendewakan barat tetapi value yang baik ialah juga value Islam itu sendiri. Secara ratanya, pemimpin politik di England tidak ada membuat harta secara mendadak semasa berkuasa.
Dan untuk contoh dunia Islam. Lihat pemimpin Iran iaitu Presiden Mahmoud Ahmedinejad. Beliau ialah seorang lulusan jurutera. Sebelum menjadi presiden, beliau ialah Datuk Bandar Tehran. Iaitu jawatan yang dimenangi dalam pilihanraya. Selepas menang pilihanraya Presiden, beliau memegang jawatan Presiden hingga kini. Tahukah kita berapa sebenarnya harta beliau ?
Harta Presiden Ahmedinejad ialah sebuah flat sederhana yang beliau beli pada tahun 1980 semasa mula mula bekerja sebagai jurutera dan sebuah kereta model Fiat yang beliau beli semasa menjadi pensyarah universiti dulu.
Model pemimpin pemimpin inilah yang kita sanjung. Bersih dan ikhlas dan betul betul berkhidmat untuk rakyat. Dan hidup sederhana walaupun bergai besar. Sekarang Presiden Mahmoud Ahmedinejad tinggal di rumah Presiden yang rasmi dan besar tetapi jika tidak menjadi Presiden lagi, beliau bercadang nak membina rumah sederhana besar dengan gratuity yang akan diberi kerajaan kepadanya.
Jadi bila kita nak memuja pemimpin itu, pujalah kerana baktinya pada masyarakat, agama dan negara. Dan pujilah atas kesederhanaan hidupnya walaupun mereka sebenranya bergaji besar. Pujalah pemimpin yang bersih dan tidak rasuah sebab di hati pemimpin macam itulah terletaknya sayang mereka pada rakyat dan negara.
Wassalam,
You get it absolutely right !!! Gaji YB + allowances is less than 10K. No business and no longer in bar practice. Isteri sik bekerja dan asal family nang sik berada, kebanyakkan sahaja. Look at the life style !!! We are watching ......
ReplyDeleteSteady Bro Knight. Ur opinion hits the bull by the eye. Dasyat kitak merik pendapat, ya terlalu maju untuk pemimpin yg idup di hutan simpan kekal di Sarawak tuk. Kah! kAH ! Kitak dolok study siney kah ?
ReplyDeleteSaudara Knight, agaknya mun u lah jadi cm sarawak, gney kaya or taraf kaya/miskin u pilih..mun i pok kalah kaya cm masa tok..yalah x jdi jdi cm i tok..berangan jak..to me whoever up there, for as long as they keep the majority rakyat happy, they deserve to have something..honestly to me, for what cm have done to sarawak, i think he deserve something and rightfully so
ReplyDeleteAik.....org kelaka hal karim tok melelat CM juak. No issue with CM but the innuendo is meant for Karim. Apa cerita kau ya, apa KAU TEK KACAK ?
ReplyDeleteAssalamualaikum wrbt.
ReplyDeleteSaudara saudaraku, Janganlah marah marah. Senyumlah. : ) Ingat hadis Rasulullah s.a.w kita ".. Senyum itu satu sedekah..."
Kita di Sarawak jangan sampae berkelahi. Kelak bertemu juak dalam majlis kahwin kah, majlis kesyukuran kah. Kita besa berjarah dan berjabat tangan. Lepas tu ketawa sikit dan bertanya khabar. Ada yang suka tetawa banyak terbahak bahak, itu pun tak apa. Rasulullah s.a.w. pun suka ketawa tetapi Baginda tertawa sederhana, tidak pernah sampai terbuka mulut, dan cuma nampak gigi baginda yang begitu putih dan teratur. : )
Tak payah kita nak jadi seteru dan musuh Saudaraku. Persaudaraan kita masih kuat. Masa hari raya dulu, banyak rumah kita penuh. Orang bermaaf maafan. Dan kita mungkin ada kaitan kekeluargaan. Orang Melayu Kuching, kalau disusun betul betul susur galur maka ada sangkut jugak di sebelah ayahanda atau bonda kita. Percayak sik. Cuba jak susun betul betul. Zaman internet tok sik susah benda macam ya. Mun kita ada kaitan keluarga maka itu berita gembira.
Jadi kita dalam kesatuan ummah dan pertalian keluarga di peringkat mana sekalipun harus kita berbait bait bah. Kita bermuzakarah. Sebenarnya " there is no innuendo " or insinuation against anybody here ". Saya cuma sebut secara umum. Saya sebut pimpinan yang sepatutnya. Bila kita memuji seorang itu, itu atas dasar apa Saudaraku ? Biarlah kita memujinya atas dasar prinsipnya yang betul. Mun nya bagus dan sederhana, ya yang di mauk kita. Jangan marah dengan saya.
Cuba kita nangar pimpinan Islam tempat lain, yang betul betul bagus. Okay lah mun contoh pimpinan Rasulullah s.a.w dan sahaba zaman dolok susah gilak nak dibanding ngan orang kinek yok, boleh sik kita nangar zaman tok jak.
Pemimpin Iran ya contoh baik. Begitu juga Ayatollah Khomeini, bila nya ninggal dunia, yang ditinggalnya ialah rumah kecik, di bilit ya juak tempatnya nerima tamu, dan di sudut lain tempatnya makan. Al Marhum Tunku Abdul Rahman pun, when he left office, he was an average rich man only. Sederhana kaya. Walaupun nya keturunan Di Raja. Kita boleh madah Tunku tok sekular tapi bila nya sik jadi PM lagik, gagonya carik duit bukan untuk diriknya tapi untuk PERKIM dan RISEAP ( Pertubuhan Serantau Islam Asia Tenggara ) Apa kerja RISEAP ? Ya pertubuhan Islam yang menjaga kebajikan orang mualaf Islam, terutama sekali orang putih di Australia dan orang bukan Islam yang kemudian masuk Islam, RISEAP ya lah memberi perlindungan dan tempat berteduh dan pengajian Islam sidak ya. Jasa Tunku banyak, semoga di Rahmati ALLAH.
Tapi pengajaran kita ialah nya sik mengaut kaya masa nya di office.
Bukan saya sik suka pemimpin kita kaya tetapi kayalah dengan cara yang betul. Mun nya kaya sebelum jadi peminpin atau YB ( tok saya nyebbut umum dan bukan nuju sapa sapa ) dipersilakanlah. Cuma kayanya ya macam ne dolok ? Adakah atas kuasanya atau usaha persendiriannya ?
Sik hal lah Saudara saudaraku. Malam tok malam minggu. Kebetulan saya menghadiri satu majlis tapi saya mencuri masa untuk nulis makae blackberry saya, kerana saya gembira saudara saudaraku merik respons dengan tulisan saya.
Saya akan menulis lagi. Urang sebelah saya pun heran nangar saya lamak gilak menekan Blackberry sedangkan perbualan sidaknya macam sik di duli saya. Ya sik bagus sebab saya mesti juak menghormati tetamu yang lain.
Syukran.
Wassalam dan akan nulis lagi.
Saya setuju ngan Saudara Knight of Saladin. Penuh hujjah benar dan daya intellek.
ReplyDeleteSaya rasa janggal gilak sdra kita yg nulis pada October 1, jam 7.34 p.m. ya. Nya madah nya nak ngalah CM kinek tok dari segi kaya mun nyalah jd CM. Saya nak nyanyak ngan nya. Kau nak kaya macam ne ? Sik kau nangar perubahan zaman tok. Zaman dimana urang demand akauntabiliti dan pemimpin baik ? Kau nak jd kedak ne, kaya kedak ne kah ? Sumber dr siney ?
Please jangan nunjuk sikap sik tanggungjawab dr awal agik. Gelombang rakyat nuntut pemimpin yg bersih, bertanggungjawab. Jgn sik malu ngan benda yg sik betul. Sik u maca apa Tun Dr Mahathir madah dalam blognya minggu lepas. Dr M ingatkan MP dan ADUN BN supaya jangan menunjuk nunjuk kekayaan sidaknya sebab ya boleh memuakkan rakyat. So jangan jadi bodo dan madah kau nak ngalah orang lain mun kau jadi CM.
Bangga saya maca pendapat intellek Sdra Knight of Saladin ya. Nya telus dan negur benda yg salah dan sik betul. Hujjahnya kuat dan penuh contoh. Hujjah kau ya apa ? Faktanya penuh sementara fakta kau ya kosong.
Hentikan politik memuja pemimpin yg sik berdasar prinsip betul.
- Suka kebenaran.
Ball polisher politician .....
ReplyDeleteSalam rakan2 seperjuangan,
ReplyDeletePendapat semua bgus2 sekali. Pasal YB Karim tok not a big issue. The big issue ialah bila lagi menteri2 yang dah berabad megang jawatan mauk turun takhta? Semua aim nak jadi CM. Ada yang dah 5 penggal jadi YB. Beriklah peluang gik dgn muka2 baru. Bukan apa. Sebab terlalu lamak lah ada YB dah jadi kedak Bendahari.. nyimpan banyak duit yang bukan dari titik peluh sendiri...
Bukan nak mengata apalah. YB Karim jadi Menteri ya petanda yang bagus . Ada perubahan dalam tampuk pentadbiran Kerajaan Negeri. Tapi yang menyusahkan ialah Menteri2 yang dah terlalu lamak duduk di kerusi ya terpaksa di naik ke Menteri Kanan. Mun di Singapura, Menteri Kanan tok hanya dipegang oleh Lee Kuan Yew jak.. Di Sarawak wahhh lagik rami jadi Menteri Kanan.
Risau dengan perkembangan kedak tok.. Keranan nak menaikkan menteri2 muda , menteri2 tua terpaksa di naikkan setingkat lagik supaya ada terasa naik pangkat. Dolok ney ada jawatan Menteri Kanan ya. Ada Menteri Kanan embak parti kalah teruk dalam last election but then diangkat jadi pemimpin paling senior dalam Kerajaan. Pemimpin ada di dunia tok yang ada kelebihan kedak ya?. Going for a war but winning a few battles and yet crowned as Senior Leader.. Apa kes ni bro..?
Gaya pemikiran org kita masih kedak ya juak duhal. Never changed since independence. We need a new breath of thinking, a new way of politics. Sik dapat kita nak main2 bila nyentuh hal masa depan negeri kita. Sbg org muda, kita harus menerima perubahan tapi dipihak org tua, mereka seolah2 tidak bersedia untuk membuat perubahan. Masih rami gik pemimpin muda yang boeh diangkat menjadi wakil rakyat yang bermutu. Sik semestinya org2 tua yang menunggu masa untuk pencen. Berilah peluang kepada org muda lagik mimpin negeri kita...
Mun nya dah maju gaya idupnya, tu rerzekinya. But to say he is the raising star in Sarawak politic is unjustifiable. He only dares to say good things about his so called-corrupted political master. Look at the plight of the Malays still backward.
ReplyDeleteIf we look into the lives of most great leaders of the world, we will understand a few important chronicles, that these great men, most of them do not aim for greatness, for greatness is later thrust upon them.
ReplyDeleteAbraham Lincoln was a son of a poor farmer and lived in a log cabin. He became a lawyer and won congressional election by convincing that he has better ideas and better ideals. He won the US Presidential election but not without it's test and trials. He won debates with his opponent Stephan A. Douglas, another presidential contender. Abe ( a name Abraham was fondly referred to ) Lincoln won the debate because he believe in the moral issues of opposing slavery and the ills of corruption.
When elected to the White House Abraham Lincoln did not aim to enrich himself. He believed in developing the nation's industry and progressing without taking away the fundamental rights of other human beings, and that is the right of every man to be free. Lincoln did not declare that he is the rising star in any event, and when elected his supporters expected much from him. It was his victorious win in the American Civil war that made him great. But in his victory, he did not thrumpeted his achievements.
But rather he wanted to heal a divided nation. History made him great and not his supporters.
In the Muslim history, no great Caliphs of the Rightful ( Khulafa Rashidin ) declare that they are great. They look upon their role as a trust from the Divine and they were too shy and cautious in dealing with the state treasury and state money. Khalifa Umar ibnu al Khattab is one glaring example, he did not rely on his advisers to rule a country but instead he went on the country to find out how many poor people were left behind so that they can benefit from the state treasury, the Baitul Mal. Umar ( r.a ) did not ask for any men to praise him for he feared that such praises would detract him from his duty as the vicegerent of ALLAH, for he knew that his role as the Leader of men will come into question by GOD HIMSELF if he fails in his duty.
Another Caliph, Khalifa Umar ibnu Abdul Aziz was also another GOD fearing leader, he orders that no one working in the government can benefit from the state wealth and even those who worked and earned what can be deemed as legal income by today's standard, Umar ibnu Abdul Aziz had thoroughly inspected their earnings and insisted that they give it up, if their success in business was actually due to their respected position in the government.
Sarawak politics is too primitive to the liking of most people. These politics of patronages and politics of money and politics of wealth creation had made politics the gold mine for many. Can we be honest and earnest to ourselves that those praising their so called leaders are not doing it for their gains ?
Look, I am trying to be lame and mundane in my observations but I find that those people praising some so called rising star are just too fallacious to be true. Why call some one a rising star ? In western countries, leaders who win elections receive congratulatory notes and compliments from all. They were not call" Rising star " when they win. Instead the people await for their actions and leadership and sees them as the steward in leading a country into progress and greater success.
I hope that those who are in high praise of a public appointee will correct their understanding on what a leadership is all about. It is about men or women who are given trust and that these public appointees must fulfill that trust before deserving any compliment.
Look at the state of Sarawak politics, when so and so becomes a public appointee then there is again this talk that " there is an old man blessing " that so and so becomes the head of a wing of the party. Do we not know that, that Head of a wing in a party is an elected post ? Leave that to the members to decide, rather than the patriach to dictate his will again and again.
Let freedom and democracy live and grow.
Regards
Kita tungguuuuuuu...Time will tell sapa Karim sebenarnya............
ReplyDeleteApa agenda tuanpunya blog Sebanaku tonjolkan si karim ni dalam blog beliau dengan tajuk yang agak provokatif? Kenapa tidak Yb Naroden, Julai, Daud atau sidak lain. Berik dolok peluang dengan Karim. Mun Nya sik bagus, tukar kan. Jangan lah belum mula kerja si karim tok, udah macam macam di hentam. Lihat muka dirik pun lok. Bagus atau tidak?
ReplyDeleteMalar jak angkat pelir. If this is the pattern set by a purportedly rising star politician, the Malays have no future. If one day people like Hitler were to rule Sarawak, he(karim) will do the same thing.
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