Tuesday, September 24, 2013
Monday, September 23, 2013
YB Dtk Amar Awang Tengah merasmikan mesyuarat agung cawangan PBB YB Ripin Lamat
PBB antara komponen BN paling kukuh: Awang Tengah
Utusan Borneo September 15, 2013, Sunday
MIRI: Parti Pesaka Bumiputera Bersatu (PBB) adalah salah sebuah parti politik komponen Barisan Nasional (BN) paling kukuh di Malaysia dan menjadi tulang belakang pentadbiran kerajaan Sarawak sejak dahulu.
Naib Presiden Kanan PBB, Datuk Amar Awang Tengah Ali Hasan berkata ia tidak akan berdiri dan bertahan sehingga kini jika tidak mempunyai barisan kepimpinan yang unggul sejak dahulu hingga sekarang.
“PBB telah diletakkan asas yang kukuh melalui kepimpinan dan kini kita harus meneruskan perjuangannya,” katanya pada majlis perasmian Mesyuarat Agung Tri Tahunan Perwakilan PBB Cawangan Lambir, di sini malam kelmarin.
Turut hadir Setiausaha Agung PBB Negeri, Datuk Dr Stephen Rundi Utom dan Ahli Dewan Undangan Negeri (ADUN) Lambir, Ripin Lamat.
Katanya, iktibar boleh diambil melalui beberapa parti politik yang dahulunya bertapak kukuh di negeri ini tetapi akhirnya lemah dan hampir terkubur oleh kerana krisis kepimpinan di dalamnya.
Mengenai hal itu, generasi baharu harus memahami dan sedar akan sejarah yang membolehkan PBB terus berdiri teguh sehingga kini.
“Kejayaan dalam PBB tidak datang melayang, malah telah melalui pelbagai rintangan untuk terus bertahan,” ujarnya.
Oleh sebab itu, beliau turut meletakkan harapan tinggi terhadap golongan muda untuk memastikan kesinambungannya.
Mengenai ahli-ahli parti, Awang Tengah turut menasihati mereka untuk meletakkan keikhlasan sebagai keutamaan dalam parti.
“Jangan kita biar ada bibit-bibit perpecahan untuk menyusup walaupun sedikit ke dalam parti kita (PBB),” jelasnya.
Dalam pada itu, Ripin yang turut berucap sebelumnya memberitahu PBB Cawangan Lambir kini mempunyai lebih 3,000 keahlian dan kawasan berkenaan kini mempunyai bilangan pengundi hampir 5,000 orang.
YB Dtk Amar Abang Johari merasmikan Mesyuarat Agung PBB Cawangan YB Datuk Abdul Karim Hamzah
Perpaduan, disiplin ahli kukuhkan PBB dalam BN
by Rusnan Mustafa. Utusan Borneo September 23, 2013, Monday
KEKAL BERSATU: Abang Johari bersalaman dengan ahli PBB Cawangan Asajaya selepas merasmikan mesyuarat perwakilan PBB Cawangan Asajaya semalam. Turut kelihatan Karim (dua kanan).
PBB kini menjadi parti kedua terbesar dalam Barisan Nasional selepas UMNO, kata Abang Johari
KOTA SAMARAHAN: Kejayaan Parti Pesaka Bumiputera Bersatu (PBB) menjadi parti kedua terbesar dalam Barisan Nasional (BN) selepas UMNO adalah hasil perpaduan dan disiplin setiap ahlinya di pelbagai peringkat.
Timbalan Presiden PBB Datuk Amar Abang Johari Tun Abang Openg berkata, bagi mengekalkan momentum berkenaan setiap anggota harus memelihara perpaduan dan disiplin yang tinggi dalam parti itu.
“Selepas kejayaan yang ditunjukkan pada Pilihan Raya Umum yang lalu, kita di PBB berjaya menyapu bersih kesemua kerusi yang dipertandingkan sekali gus menjadi tulang belakang kejayaan BN di Sarawak untuk memberi mandat kepada Perdana Menteri Datuk Seri Najib (Tun Razak) menerajui negara ini.
“Malah, PBB kini menjadi parti kedua terbesar dalam komponen BN selepas UMNO hasil kerjasama, perpaduan dan disiplin yang tinggi di kalangan ahli di semua peringkat yang perlu dipelihara dan diteruskan pada masa depan bagi memastikan PBB terus kukuh dan menjadi tulang belakang kepada BN,” katanya.
Beliau berkata demikian ketika berucap merasmikan Mesyuarat Perwakilan PBB Cawangan Asajaya di Dewan Suarah Kota Samarahan di sini semalam.
Abang Johari yang juga Menteri Pelancongan dan Menteri Perumahan berkata, kecemerlangan yang ditunjukkan oleh PBB pada pilihan raya lalu juga telah membolehkan empat anggota Parlimennya dilantik menjadi menteri penuh sementara tiga orang lagi menjadi timbalan menteri di peringkat kerajaan persekutuan.
Justeru, beliau menyeru agar setiap ahli PBB di semua peringkat meneruskan perjuangan parti itu untuk terus menerajui Sarawak membangunkan dan memajukan rakyat dalam usaha mencapai matlamat menjadi negeri terkaya di Malaysia menjelang 2030 kelak.
“Perpaduan dan disiplin ini perlu terus dipelihara memandangkan perjalanan kita masih jauh dan pucuk pimpinan kita mahukan PBB menerajui usaha untuk menjadikan Sarawak sebagai negeri maju berpendapatan tinggi menjelang 2030,” tambahnya.
Pada Pilihan Raya Umum (PRU) yang lalu, PBB berjaya mengekalkan 14 kerusi yang dipertandingkan dan 34 kerusi Dewan Undangan Negeri (DUN) pada Pilihan Raya Negeri (PRN) lalu.
Sementara itu dalam sidang media selepas majlis itu, Abang Johari berkata PBB kini dalam proses menjalani program pembaharuan dengan mengetengahkan muka-muka baharu di peringkat cawangan dan ranting.
“Walaupun terdapat sedikit perubahan dalam kepimpinan di peringkat cawangan dan ranting namun ini adalah sejajar dengan usaha kita untuk meremajakan parti,” katanya.
Menurutnya proses pengenalan muka-muka baharu ini setakat ini telah dilaksanakan dengan baik berdasarkan perjalanan lancar proses pemilihan peringkat cawangan dan ranting parti itu.
PBB akan mengadakan konvensyen tritahunannya antara 18 dan 22 Oktober depan di mana pemilihan untuk peringkat kepimpinan tertinggi parti itu akan dijalankan.
Hadir sama Menteri Muda Perumahan Datuk Abdul Karim Rahman Hamzah, Ahli Dewan Undangan Negeri (ADUN) Sadong Jaya Aidel Lariwoo dan barisan ahli PBB Cawangan Asajaya.
Sunday, September 22, 2013
No law to stop Chin Peng's ashes brought back - Deputy Home Minister YB Datuk Wan Junaidi
No law to stop Chin Peng’s ashes being brought back, says Deputy Home Minister
Even as Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak rejected calls for the remains of former communist leader Chin Peng to be allowed into Malaysia, a deputy minister today reminded Putrajaya that it has no legal power to stop anyone from doing so.
“There is nothing any of the authorities can do. We have no laws to stop the ashes from being brought in or penalise anyone carrying the ashes in,” said Deputy Home Minister Datuk Wan Junaidi Tuanku Jaafar (pic) after closing a career carnival at the Islamic complex in Kuching today.
His statement closely followed a warning by former police chief Tan Sri Abdul Rahim Noor that Malaysia risked becoming a laughing stock to the world if it refused to allow Chin Peng’s ashes to be interred in the country.
Chin Peng, who died in Bangkok on September 16, had repeatedly voiced a wish to be buried in his hometown of Sitiawan, Perak.
Wan Junaidi, who fought the communists at the height of the Malayan emergency in Sarawak, said he wouldn't know how the authorities would deal with anyone found carrying an urn with Chin Peng's ashes at the airport.
“I can't imagine it," he said, adding he was not aware of any law to stop such an act.
And even if there were such laws, it would be difficult to prevent the ashes from being smuggled by those determined to do so, he added.
“There's nothing the government can do about it,” said Wan Junaidi, a lawyer.
Najib had on Friday said Putrajaya would not budge from its stand and challenged those unhappy with the decision to seek legal redress.
"The government has decided and those unhappy with the decision can challenge it in court," he said.
Wan Junaidi said that Putrajaya feared that allowing Chin Peng's remains into the country might have repercussions. He said the government feared Chin Peng's supporters would build a shrine at the site where his remains would be interred, even adding that such a site could stir a communist revival.
Wan Junaidi denied that the government's decision was racist, a charge made by Barisan Nasional's key partner, MCA. The Chinese party had contrasted the decision to the stance taken by Putrajaya in letting the bodies of two Malaysian terrorists be returned from Indonesia to be buried in their hometowns.
“It's not a question of race. It's all about his fight, his struggle and who he fought. If Chin Peng was a Malay, an Iban, a Kadazan or a Dusun, his ashes too would not be allowed back into the country. He was a communist who fought against the government of the day. He did not only fight the British.
“If he had stopped fighting after the British left, then history would have been different. He did not. He fought well into the 80s, well after Malaysia was formed,” explained the former deputy speaker of Parliament.
MCA publicity bureau chair Datuk Heng Seai Kie, in making the comparisons, had referred to the late Dr Azahari Husin and Nordin Mohamad Top, both accused of bombings in Indonesia between 2002 and 2005.
This was immediately countered by Home Minister Datuk Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi, who said: "Those terrorists did not kill our military or police personnel, or our people."
Chin Peng will be cremated in Bangkok on Monday according to Buddhist rites. – September 21, 2013.
No law to prevent Chin Peng’s ashes from being brought in’
Borneo Post on September 22, 2013, Sunday
KUCHING: The Home Ministry is in a bind over what law to use against any individual(s) who carts back the cremated ashes of communist leader Chin Peng, who died in Thailand, into Malaysia.
According to Deputy Home Minister Datuk Wan Junaidi Tuanku Jaafar, there is no law which could stop the ashes of Chin Peng from being brought across the Malaysian border and immigration checkpoints.
“I really discourage any attempts to bring the ashes into Malaysia as it might spark the communism ideology,” he said when met by reporters at the Sarawak Islamic Complex yesterday.
He also said that certain individuals were quick to take advantage of Chin Peng’s death to gain political mileage by questioning the government’s pre-emptive effort to discourage the bringing of the cremated ashes into the country.
Among the remarks and comments, said Wan Junaidi, is the racial profiling of Chin Peng which was said to have determined the decision of the government on how to deal with his cremated ashes.
“This is not a question of race. Chin Peng is a communist leader and any other race will also face the same fate and treatment,” said Wan Junaidi who is also Santubong MP.
In an unrelated event, Wan Junaidi said the recent meeting on Trans Border Crime held in Laos and attended by home ministers from the Asean region looks very promising.
He said among the crimes discussed during the meeting were human trafficking, smuggling and cyber crimes.
“To prove the strong cooperation among the countries, Japan and South Korea have agreed to lend their expertise and technologies to curb cyber crimes within the Asean region,” he said. He also said South Korea and China had also agreed to provide and develop another source of income for countries within the Asean golden triangle which depends on drugs to sustain their economy.
Government adamant about decision on Chin Peng’s ashes – Zahid
September 23, 2013, Monday
KUALA LUMPUR: The government is adamant that it will not allow the ashes of former Communist Party Malaya (CPM) secretary-general Chin Peng to be brought back to Malaysia.
Home Minister Datuk Seri Zahid Hamidi said the decision was to prevent any group from building a memorial in his recognition.
“We need to take into consideration the feelings of army and police veterans and their families who were the victims of Chin Peng’s atrocities when he headed the party,” he told the media at the Parliament lobby here Monday.
He said furthermore Chin Peng had never taken the opportunity to return despite two offers from the National Registration Department to do so after the Hatyai Treaty on Dec 2 1989.
Chin Peng, whose real name was Ong Boon Hua, 90, died of old age in a hospital in Bangkok, Thailand on Sept 16.
On the same day, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak announced that the government would not grant permission for Chin Peng’s remains to be brought back to Malaysia due to the atrocities he committed.
Meanwhile, queried on the competition he is facing in defending his Umno vice-presidency post on Oct 19, Zahid placed his fate in the hands of the delegates to make the best choice for the party.– BERNAMA
Saturday, September 21, 2013
Friday, September 20, 2013
UMNO Youth is struggling
Umno Youth is struggling
Wednesday, 18 September 2013 10:00 Habhajan Singh
The Malaysia Reserve
Umno Youth’s perceived dismal bite in the last general election and the wider space provided by the new rules for contest has led one Umno youth leader to mount a challenge to its incumbent. Akhramsyah MU Sanusi, son of a former Umno leader and minister, feels that the Umno’s youth wing is “struggling for relevance”. “I had expected Umno Youth to be an even bigger player in the 13th General Election (GE13). While we saw a lot of activities, Umno Youth should have been active at a higher level. “I was hoping the party agenda being more strongly influenced by Pemuda (Umno Youth) as a driving force,” he said in an interview with The Malaysian Reserve. During the interview, he confirmed earlier reports that he would take on incumbent Khairy Jamaluddin, who was appointed as Youth and Sports Minister following the GE13, also referred to by its Malay acronym of PRU13. Akhramsyah, 39, who read an engineering-based master, is currently a manager at multinational company Shell Malaysia, where he oversees the operations of some 900 petrol stations nationwide. Son of former long serving Minister Tan Sri Sanusi Junid, he is also a member of the economic bureau of Pertubuhan Pribumi Perkasa Malaysia (Perkasa), a right wing Malay pressure group founded and helmed by Datuk Ibrahim Ali, which has received strong backing from former premier Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad. Akhramsyah said he will be at the Umno headquarters on Saturday to fill up the form to contest. Nominations for Umno’s Wanita, Youth and Puteri wings will be on Sept 21, while nominations for Umno supreme council is on Sept 28. On what to expect, he said the 2013 Umno contest will be starkly different from the past as the number of delegates have increased, with him estimating that some 100,000 will be involved to cast their votes for the youth wing. “The reality is that no one knows how to win this election,” he said, noting that it would take a few elections before people truly understand the dynamics at work. Prior to the amendment in 2009 to the Umno constitution, some 2,500 delegates had voting rights. Under the new method, some 150,000 members will cast their vote for the party’s top leadership on Oct 19. “This is a fantastic opportunity to have a national conversation what Pemuda Umno should be. The Malay community has an opportunity to shape what they think Pemuda should be,” he said on the wider participation of Umno grassroot members. On his involvement with Perkasa, Akhramsyah said it should be seen as an excellent partner of Umno. “Perkasa is fighting for Malay rights in the context of the constitution. It exists because there is a vacuum. It used to be filled by the Pemuda Umno. That vacuum is the vacuum that champions the betterment of the Malays,” he said. In the 2009 Umno elections, Khairy, the son-in-law of then Prime Minister Tun Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, won in a tightly fought three-cornered contest against then Selangor Mentri Besar Datuk Seri Dr Mohd Khir Toyo and Datuk Mukhriz Mahathir. In that same polls, Akhramsyah had contested unsuccessfully for an Umno Youth executive committee post, backing Mukhriz. “He (Mukhriz) was bringing about this voice of change. Among the delegates then, I sensed this desire to chose people who are not the ‘Yes, boss’ type,” he said.
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