BNYV Research Team

BNYV Research Briefs 14th ed (28-30th July2012)Writers: @AmirFareedRahim (FMT, The Sun); @AkmalSaufi (The Star); @Megat_Khalis (Harakah);@HarrithShazBNYV (NST); @NadhirAshafiq (The Malaysian Insider), @iMaduSmith (Mole.my);@Jasmine22ckm (Sin Chew Daily); @AzreeAriffin (Malaysiakini); @LianaKamat (Utusan, Berita Harian);@IzranKamal (Harian Metro); Najmi Kamaruzaman (The Star)Editor: @NadhirAshafiqRumusan/Summary1. No Crisis in SabahSummary: a) Barisan Nasional in Sabah remains strong and intact despite defection by two of its MPs who aligned themselves to the opposition. b) Chief Minister DS Musa Aman mentioned that the defection to Datuk Lajim, Beaufort MP and Tuaran MP Datuk Wildfred Bumburing has been anticipated. c) UMNO Vice President, DS Mohd Shafie Salleh said that they will not take this lightly and will strengthen the machinery. He also mentioned that Sabah would still become UMNO’s fixed deposit. 19 division members of Beaufort division are still firm with UMNO as opposed to what has been claimed by the Beaufort MP. (The Star)2. Perletakan jawatan Ahli Parlimen TuaranRumusan: a) Ahli Parlimen Tuaran, Datuk Wilfred Bumburing mengesahkan beliau bukan lagi Timbalan Presiden Pertubuhan Pasok Momogun Kadazandusun Murut Bersatu (UPKO). b) Katanya, keputusan itu atas kerelaan sendiri dan bukan disebabkan kecewa tidak dipilih sebagai calon pada PRU-13 atau tidak dilantik mengetuai UPKO bahagian Tuaran. c) Beliau mengumumkan akan meneruskan perjuangan politik menerusi Angkatan Perubahan Sabah (APS) sebagai saluran baru politik yang akan bekerjasama dengan pembangkang. (Berita Harian)

3. MP Tuaran keluar BNRumusan: a) Ahli Parlimen Tuaran, Datuk Seri Wilfred Bumburing hari ini secara rasmi mengisytihar keluar Barisan Nasional (BN) dan menyatakan sokongan terhadap Pakatan Rakyat. b) Pengumuman ini adalah yang kedua selepas Datuk Seri Panglima Lajim Ukin membuat pengumumkan perletakan jawatannya dalam Umno dan BN semalam. c) Bekas Timbalan Presiden UPKO, sebuah parti komponen BN Sabah itu juga berkata, APS (Angkatan Perubahan Sabah) akan giat turun ke setiap kawasan di Sabah untuk mengajak rakyatnya melakukan perubahan. (Harakah)4. Chinese Independent SchoolSummary: a) The Dongzong committee organized a 729 Peaceful Appeal Assembly with two resolutions as followings: i. Fully support the set-up of the Segamat Chinese Independent School and to urge the government to agree with it. ii. To urge the Ministry of Education to respect the rights of autonomy of the board of directors of the Chinese Independent School. b) It is different from the Chinese Independent School in KL as they request the students of Independent School in Segamat to be exempted from sitting in the SPM examination. c) The organizing chairman of this particular assembly hope that the government will approve the second Chinese Independent School in Johor, and at the same time, he told the press of which hoping to have about 10 Chinese Independent School in Johor. d) Dongzong chairman, Yap Sin Tian expressed his disappointment to the Government for not receiving any official approval letter although the setup of Chinese Independent School in Kuantan is approved. e) Yap Sin Tian stressed that he strongly disagrees if the government made SPM examinations compulsory for the students in the Chinese Independent School. f) Yap Sin Tian said the issue of whether the Chinese Independent School’s students sit for extra examination or not has to be the decision of Dongzong, not the Ministry of Education. (Sin Chew Daily)

5. Kerajaan Selangor dan Langat 2Rumusan: a) Kerajaan Pusat boleh mengeluarkan tender projek Loji Rawatan Air Langat 2 tetapi kelulusan mengenai pelaksanaannya hanya boleh diberikan oleh Kerajaan Selangor b) Pihak tenaga kerja profesional dilantik bagi membuat kajian dan menyiapkan laporan mengenai isu air tersebut dan dakwaan Menteri Kementerian Tenaga, Teknologi Hijau dan Air (KeTTHA), Datuk Seri Peter Chin Kah Fui yang mengatakan laporan Kerajaan Negeri tidak betul tidak boleh diterima. c) Menteri Besar, Tan Sri Abdul Khalid Ibrahim berkata, Kerajaan Negeri juga tidak akan terlibat dengan proses tender tersebut kerana beranggapan ia tidak relevan dengan masalah air yang didakwa wujud di Selangor. (Harakah)6. Duit raya untuk peneroka FELDARumusan: a) DS Najib Razak semalam mengumumkan pemberian wang raya kepada semua peneroka seluruh FELDA membabitkan peruntukan RM43.2juta. RM400 bagi peneroka FELDA dan RM200 untuk peneroka bukan FELDA. b) Sementara itu, Perdana Menteri turut mengumumkan kelulusan bantuan Kasih FELDA RM5 juta untuk membaik pulih 1,000 rumah di enam kawasan Parlimen membabitkan lima di Kedah dan satu di Perlis. c) Turut diumumkan, peruntukan RM920,000 untuk tujuan naik taraf longkang, tembok, padang dan lampu jalan di dua kawasan FELDA di Teloi Kanan dan Teloi Timur. (Berita Harian)7. 999 emergency caretakers to be trained professionallySummary: a) Call takers and dispatchers of 999 emergency line to be trained professionally and certified to the highest standards b) A government-backup body will ensure that calls answer within 20 seconds 10 seconds faster than current response time c) The implementation is in line with the Government Transformation Project (The Star)

8. Derek vs Raja PetraSummary: a) Petaling Jaya City councillor Derek Fernandez labelled Raja Petra Kamarudin (RPK) as someone without credibility. b) This is due to his recent article that claimed Petaling Jaya City council had outsourced legal matters to PKR lawyers such as Latheefa Koya and R.Sivarasa who are from the Messrs Daim and Gamany firm. c) RPK also alleged that with the influence of Derek alongside Latheefa who was former MBPJ councilor, legal work had been awarded to PKR leaders and their firms. d) Bloggers “The Unspinners” also carried all four parts of RPK’s documented claims on MBPJ including Derek’s denial that he had influenced the council in assigning work to any firm or lawyer. (Mole.my)9. Segregation in CinemasSummary: a) In a survey by NST on youths in Selangor, a majority of them strongly disapproved of regulations barring unmarried male and female Muslims couples from cinemas, such as that were nearly imposed in Kuala Selangor. b) The survey was held after the Kuala Selangor District Council (MDKS) raised this controversial issue; believed to have been advocated by the local authority’s Pas councillors, whose party has successfully introduced similar regulations in Kelantan. c) According to the survey, this ruling was not popular both from Muslims and also non- Muslims. One of the comments from the youths interviewed was for example: “…imposing this regulation would set the country back another 50 years. I think Malaysians are mature enough not to be told how to behave, where to sit and stand or even what to wear.” said Kishore Ramdas, a 25 year old lawyer. (NST)

10. Program Rakan COP ditambah baikRumusan: a) Program Rakan Cop yang bertujuan menggalak penyertaan masyarakat membantu polis memerangi jenayah akan ditambah baik dan diperkukuh setelah terbukti menjadi antara medium yang paling berkesan mengurangkan kadar jenayah. b) Menteri Dalam Negeri, DS Hishamuddin Tun Husseiin berkata sebanyak 1,538 laporan jenayah dihantar ahli Rakan Cop menerusi SMS sebanyak bulan ini dan sebanyak 1,013 telah diambil tindakan. c) Beliau juga berkata bilangan ahli Rakan Cop akan ditambah, perkakasan dan perisian komputer serta penyelarasan unit program itu akan ditambahbaik bagi mempromosi mengenai Rakan Cop. (Utusan)

Analisa/Analysis1. No Crisis in SabahAnalysisThis defection will have a dent to the UMNO’s so called fixed deposit. Even if the UMNO machineryin Sabah were still intact, it would still inflict some damage to UMNO’s image in Sabah. The Sabahmachinery should find out whether the two MPs are outstanding Parliament Members and howmuch have they contributed to their respective constituent. Secondly it is a must that the respectivedivisions gear up to introduce the upcoming candidate figure for the constituent so that they wouldhave a head start in fighting the incumbent MPs image and influence. As result of the defection 20MP seats are still with BN while 2 MP seats (Tuaran and Beaufort) are with Pakatan and 2 are beingheld by independent MPs (@AkmalSaufi)2. Perletakan jawatan Ahli Parlimen TuaranAnalysisPerkara seperti ini sebenarnya memberi tamparan hebat kepada kerajaan Barisan Nasional keranapenduduk di Sabah akan mula meragui kepimpinan UMNO di bawah pimpinan Musa Aman danUPKO secara khusus. Ini juga menunjukkan pengaruh parti pembangkang di Sabah semakin menular.Namun, dari aspek positif, teka teki tentang status ahli parlimen tersebut akhirnya terungkai.Kerajaan Barisan Nasional memerlukan pemimpin yang kuat pendirian dan berpegang pada misi danvisi parti tersebut serta memperjuangkan hak dan kepentingan rakyat Sabah. Bukan ahli politik yangmempunyai agenda tersendiri. (@LianaKamat)3. MP Tuaran keluar BNAnalysisDatuk Seri Wilfred Bumburing menggunakan alasan kerajaan pusat tidak dapat menyelesaikanmasalah pendatang asing di negeri Sabah sebagai tiket untuk keluar BN dan menyokongpakatan.(@Megat_Khalis)

4. Chinese Independent SchoolAnalysisThe Kuantan Chinese Independent School is finally approved by the government/ Ministry ofEducation on 27 July, 2012 after appealing by Dongzong and the Chinese community for about amonth and a half. However, Dongzong is complaining another issue as regards to ChineseIndependent School’s students taking the SPM examination instead of showing gratefulness to theapproval of the school. Most of the students in Chinese Independent School in KL are required to sitfor SPM in form 5 as well as the Unified Examination Certificate (UEC) in form 6. The students have achoice of not sitting for the UEC as they will graduate from the Chinese Independent School aftersitting for SPM. There are some students that have chosen such a path and continued their tertiarystudies in both local or overseas colleges and universities. The disadvantages of not having thestudents to sit for SPM, the government examination are rather apparent as what if the studentshave failed the UEC. They could be facing the difficulties of looking for jobs in Malaysia since they donot have SPM certification. Without having to sit for SPM, these Chinese Independent School’sstudents are very unlikely to take the initiative to learn Bahasa Malaysia as their learning modulesmay not require them to study Bahasa Malaysia. With that, it will cause these particular group ofyoung people another challenges of obtaining jobs in Malaysia. In a nut shell, the government shouldnot allow Dongzong to decide whether or not, to make SPM a compulsory matter for the students ofChinese Independent School in Kuantan, but it is a decision of the Ministry of Education, parents,teachers, and students. (@Jasmine22CKM) Editor: Agree 100%.5. Kerajaan Selangor dan Langat 2AnalysisKenyataan Menteri Besar Selangor bahawa hanya kerajaan negeri boleh memberikan kelulusanuntuk projek Langat 2 membuktikan bahawa kerajaan negeri mempunyai kuasa penuh untukmembuat keputusan ke atas utiliti air di negeri ini. (@Megat_Khalis)6. 999 emergency caretakers to be trained professionallyAnalysisThe government is still on-going in transforming itself. Even the simplest transformation can savelives and should not discounted (@AkmalSaufi)7. Duit raya untuk peneroka FELDAAnalysisPengagihan duit raya serta sagu hati itu bukti janji kerajaan untuk terus memajukan FELDA demimenjaga kepentingan semua warga peneroka. (@LianaKamat)

8. Derek vs Raja PetraAnalysisDue to this situation, it creates such a bad impression towards MBPJ and RPK shouldn’t be toobiased in judging them just because he is in the opposition party. (@iMaduSmith)9. Segregation in CinemasAnalysisAllow me to write a comment based on my own experience. I have friends who are good Muslimsfrom Morocco, Saudi Arabia and also Egypt. They have visited Malaysia before and some even livedhere for many years. One thing they truly admire about Malaysia is that though it is a Muslim state,yet the government is so mature in handling the religious and cultural diversity of the people. Theyadmire that people are free to choose how they dress, from the conservative niqab to the risquémini-skirts. Here, people are free to express their religious beliefs without being prosecuted byauthorities, or chastised by other religions. They admire that male and female could interact witheach other without restrictions from religious authorities. Everybody, regardless of race, gender oreven their orientation could live together in harmony. My middle-eastern Muslim friends, asMuslims feel proud that Malaysia is such a peaceful and free Muslim country. Recently, officials fromAfghanistan visited Malaysia to seek assistances to reform their country to emulate Malaysia. Weshould realize that currently Malaysia is an ideal model of a successful Muslim state. If they (Pas) areconcerned that ‘mixed’ cinemas are breeding grounds for maksiat, I believe this is based on one’smoral values and not influences from the culture. The government shouldn’t be blamed for theyouth’s maksiat because it is the responsibility of the parents to guide their children on having goodmoral values. Hence, it is unnecessary at all to impose gender segregations. What next, religioussegregations then ultimately, the apartheid? (@HarrithShazBNYV)10. Program Rakan COP ditambah baikAnalysisPerkara ini sejajar dengan perbincangan yang dilakukan dalam makmal 2.0 Pelan TransformasiKerajaan yang diadakan baru-baru ini. Menunjukkan kerajaan BN komited dalam menangani trendbaru perlakuan jenayah dalam masyarakat. Setakat ini sebanyak 500,000 ahli Rakan Cop wujud diseluruh Negara dengan ahli tertinggi di Perak diikuti Kuala Lumpur dan Selangor. (@LianaKamat)

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