Khamis, 10 November 2011

The Spirit of Lubok Kawah/Semangat Lubok Kawah

The Spirit of Lubok Kawah/Semangat Lubok Kawah

Two-party system in Malaysia

Posted: 10 Nov 2011 11:01 PM PST

I adhere to the idea of two-party system in the country to fulfill the democratic rights of the people to have a good choice of the government. With the formation of two party-system, the government will be run more democratically and the civil servants owe no allegiance to the party in power but to the govenment of the day.

Whichever party in the government will get all the support that they need from the civil servants to run the country smoothly for the benefits of the country in accordance to the policy laid down by the party in power but without due allegiance to the party in power.

The civil servants will be a neutral machinery, its work mainly and wholly to implement the policies of the government of the day and would not be involved in the political activities of the party in power.

With the formation of Pakatan Rakyat (the People's Coalition), the country is now almost acceptable to the idea of two party-system.

The advantages of two-party system is the race for good governance and eradication of bad habits of any party in power. There will be efficiency, good governance, less corruption, judicial independence, and more rights to be enjoyed by the people

The Republicans will automatically be replace by the Democrats in the event that the Republicans could not govern the country well and vice-versa. The Labour Government will give way to the Conservatives if it could not implement a policy that is acceptable by the people. The people then became the real masters to craft the democratic need of the country.

In Malaysia, such an idea of two-party system is being mooted out by members of the public who are more open to democratic changes and mainly by the educated lots. While the less educated member of the public are so indulged in a political party and would give all their lots to that political party, right or wrong.

By and large, members of Pakatan Rakyat are more tolerant towards the idea of two party-system, while members of Barisan Nasional are having minds too closed to accept such a concept. This is because the leaders of Barisan Nasional are having all in the country right now and slipping even a small cut of the cake would not be tolerated.

Younger people are more receptive to the idea, and with the falling out of the older generation, it will not be impossible for the two-party system to exist in this country.

Time will come and it will not be far away from now.

The product of Lubok Kawah

Posted: 10 Nov 2011 10:00 PM PST

Again and yet again, I remind myself that I am a product of Lubok Kawah, a small and yet a well-known village situate about 5 kilometers from the town of Temerloh in the Mukim of Sanggang upward stream along the Pahang River.

I was born there some 67 years ago to a poor peasant yet revolutionary family. My father and mother owned a small plot of paddy land and a small acreage of rubber trees.

In and around 1940's there were political changes in the country. The British colonialists chickened out when the Japanese occupied the country. The village people fought against the Japanese, and with the surrender of the Japanese and the reentry of the British Colonialist, the village people fought against the British, and they fought hard against the British.

My father and most of my uncles and aunties were deadly against the British and the Japanese, they loved independence. At the height of the war against British colonialism spread-headed by the Communist Party of Malaya and by the Malay Nationalist Movement known as the PKMM, my father along with my uncles, aunties and cousins and the villagemen, were detained by the British, and they kept in Temerloh Lock-up known as Rumah Pasung where now house the Temerloh tennis and futsal courts, then they herded to Kuala Lipis, the then capital of Pahang, and then to various detention camp in the country, mainly in Perak.

Although I was too young to appreciate what my father did, but I felt the great hardship upon the detention of my father. My mother became parent to my 4 siblings, and 2 cousins, the sons of my uncle and auntie, both of whom were also detained by the British.

My grandfather and mother stayed with us, allthough old but they led the family. We hopped from village to village when Lubok Kawah was declared a black area. Most of my relations were affected by the turmoil, and each of the family had to take care of their livelihood and none could help the other family. Although life was so hard we managed the turmoil.

Villages that we had to hop during the Emergency included Kg Bangau, Kg Chatin, Kg Penak, Kg Berhala Gantang and only in 1955 we could come back to Lubok Kawah. However, we hardly stayed a few months in Lubok Kawah when my father was released from the detention camp, and my grandfather decided to live in Kuala Semantan in a boat house.

My grandmother worked as a petty trader in the small town Kuala Semantan, now generally known as Temerloh, while my father worked at a restaurant as a cook and my grandfather being a qualified religious teacher taught the reading of the Quran to the folk in the town.

In 1956, my father decided to move to Kg Berhala Gantang, and I went to Kg Bintang Malay School having transferred from Temerloh Town Malay School. In 1957, our family moved to Lubok Kawah again and I was transferred to Kg Bangau Malay School and at the end of the year I took the requirement examination and became eligible to go to the Abu Bakar Secondary School.

Unlike any other pupils, I went to school with utmost hardship. I have to tab rubber on Saturday and Sunday, and the rubber that I tabbed had to be sold the next week to enable to have enought pocket money to go to school.

My headmaster made promises that any pupil that could come to the lowest of number 10 in the class would be given scholarships. I did well in my monthly class tests and annual examinations, I was never lower than number 6. Yet from year one to year five, I was never be able to have a scholarship.

After obrtaining my Overseas School Certificate, I applied for many positions in the clerical services in the government, semi-government and in the private sector. Not only that I failed to secure any offer, I was not even called for an interview.

I then started to work as a painter, I formed one partnership with one of my friends, and we pushed ourselves to be accepted by small contractors to work for them as independent contractor. We managed to secure painting works for the village halls, suraus and mosques.

We then braved ourselves to town offering our services to the many shops in town and we are given the opportunity to prove ourselves until my father forced me to continue my study at the MARA College, Petaling Jaya. I would not be where I am today would my father not force me to continue my study.

Lubok Kawah is so close to me. I came back to Temerloh but did not have the opportunity to stay in Lubok Kawah because I have nothing there. I don't own any land nor any house in Lubok Kawah. My uncle and aunty offered me a plot of land in his kampong, Kg Batu 4, Jalan Maran, Temerloh and I built my house there, a simple brick house for my family and today I am living in that house.

From time to time, I go to Lubok Kawah to visit my parents' grave yard, to offer my prayer and I prayed to God Allah to have mercy upon my father, my mother, my grandfather and my grandmother on my my father's and my mother's side.

Lubok Kawah is a revolutionary village, where great history had been created in the struggle of the Malayan people against the British colonialsm.

The good and the bad Communists

Posted: 10 Nov 2011 07:03 PM PST

Barisan Nasional leaders have come out with a theory why they are now willing to work with the Communists and the Communist countries especially China and why they were despising the Communists and the Communist countries especially China before.


According to Najib, the Communist Countries especially China has now open their walls to embrace friendship, diplomatic and commercial relations with the "free" world, and China has come out with a policy of respecting the rights of other countries regardless of ideological differences.


Malaysian leaders have tried to differentiate the stand of the Communists of the 40's and 50's with the present day Communists. Parti Komunis Malaya/The Communist Party of Malaya does not come under the ambit of this description. PKM was aggressive, subversive and worked against the interest of the country.


So much hate that the Malaysian leaders of the Barisan National even defended the British Colonialism and go all out to to paint the Malaysian Communists were against the interest of the people and the spirit of Independence.


The British Colonialsm plundered the country politically and economically and the freedom fighters be they from the political ideology of communism, nationalism, demcracy and Islam were detained without trial numbering thousands of them.


The early UMNO leaders were British puppets and became the willing tools to serve their colonial masters. It was the freedom fighters of all ideological fronts who fought the British, and the British highhandedly banned all their political parties in favour of UMNO, the willing puppets of the British masters.


These freedom fighters were all now classifed as the bad communists, and leaders of the Malayan Communist Party, Perak-born Chin Peng, is not even allowed a short stay in Malaysia to eanble him to visit his relatives in his own home town. What a sad episode for Malaysia when that old man has even apologised to the Yang Di Pertuan Agong and the country and was the man behind the signing of Peace Agreement between the Malayan Communist Party and the Malaysian Government.


And thus Chin Peng is the new Communist willing to sacrifice his hard-headed ideological position to the position of agreeing to come to terms with the present reality, just like China, the one country that supplied arms to the Malayan Communist Party for the outthrow of the British Colonial Government and the Independent Malayan Government. China, according to Najib, has changed, so also the Malayan Communist Party.


The actual reason why the Malaysian Government is so willing to harb trade relations with China is nothing to do with the so-called change of heart of the Chinese Communists. But the Malaysian Government is now willing to tie a knot with the Chinese Communist Government diplomatically and trade-wise is not because of any ideological shifts from China but due to the success stories in the Chinese economic atmosphere.


China is now the economic giant of the world. The West is coming to trade with China, so also all countries of the Third World. Where would be Malaysia if she becomes the black sheep of the economic world.


Economically, Malaysia has slipped much below Singapore, Taiwan and Korea in term of economic advancement when it was Malaysia that was on top of them all.


Malaysia is slipping further and my be overtaken even by Vietnam, Thailand and Indonesia.


So the bad and good communists are just political jargons to avoid embarrassement politically on the home front. The world has changed. When will Malaysia change.

Reasons why 11.11.11 is no dissolution of Parliament - The Star

Posted: 10 Nov 2011 06:08 PM PST

1. Barisan National is only meeting today to discuss allocations.
2. Public examinations do not end til mid-December and school halls and classrooms will be in use.
3. The last batc h of haj pilgrims is not expected back until December 11 and they are voters, too.
5. Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak and Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin are going on hiliday in December.
6. The UMNO General Assembly is to be held from November 29 to December 3.
7. Najib will want the Pakatan Rakyat states to dissolve their assemblies and they may not agree.
8. The budget goodies will only kick in next year so it would be better to wait.
9. Flood warnings are out and heavy rainfall is expected - which could wash out the polls.
10. The Parliamentary Select Committee on electoral reforms has only just begun.
11. It's 11-11-11 and nothing has happened yet. So, its almost safe to say the polls won't be in the next 50 days...The Star 11-11-11.


Here comes Mr Chicken. If you would like to hit people from below the belt, you will make sure that you hit them when they are off guard.


Then come the real reason why Malaysian Democracy is just half-baked. In most of the advanced democratic countries, the date for the next General Election is known at the conclusion of the last General Election. No secret and not hitting below the belt.


In a democratic country, the people are given wide choice and power to elect the Government that they really need, a government that they think would bring forward their economic needs and welfare.


A failed government is detrimental to the security of the country and is detrimental to the economic needs and welfare of the people.


The Malaysian Government is a failed government, but the BN leaders in pursuit of their personal insterest, will clinch to the power at all costs.


By so doing, they have abused their powers, they resort to corruption, they have reduced all the government machineries as their willing tools to suppress the people giving a very bad image of the country world-wide. SPR, SPRM, the Police and the Judiciary have been reduced to nothing but their willing tools.


Worst still, they are recruiting foreigners to be registered as local voters by legalising their citizenship and handing out national identification cards. The process is still on-going, and they have targeted the PR State Governments for their grab.


This failed government is useless and not suitable to rule the country and this failed government only brings miseries to the citizens of this country and in the long term the country would be ruined.

Democracy - a subjective test or objective test?

Posted: 10 Nov 2011 01:34 PM PST

Every country in the world seems to claim that their kind of regime is democratic. The Communist Party of China seems to claim that they are the greatest democracy on earth. Why the party claims to be so?

In every country the society seems to be divided into classes, the upper class, the middle class and the lower class. It is argued that the lower class forms the majority of the stratum in society, being represented in the group by the working class in collaboration with the peasantry, the fisehermen, the military, the police and petty officials in either the government or the private sectors.

This class is also aligned to the petty bourgeois group of petty traders and petty businessmen. And they form the majority of the people in the country. The Communist Party seems to represent this vast majority of the people, and thus by accepting the concept that democary rules by the majority, so it is their right to claim that their form of rule is democary.

Even the hard-core dictatorship also claim to be democratic. The ruling elite seems to rule because of the inspiration of the people for the ruling class to run the country in a manner that would benefit the lower runk of the society, and as far as they are concerned they are doing just that, and so they claim to be democratic too.

There are countries which by definition of democracy is democratic, represented by most of the countries in the Western Hemisphere.

They have periodical elections, there are political parties therein, and the political parties put up candidates in the election to represent the people in Parliament, Congress or Senate.

The common thing about "democracy" is that they have elections. The Communist too have their own election, candidates are drawn from amongst the outstanding Communist Leaders, these tested leaders vow to work for their country and people in a most selfless manner.

They manage to turn poverty into weath, and the Chinese Communist Party can be proud of itself to be the most successful party in the world to convert China from famine to "land of honey".

They claim to be democratic in favour of the people and they don't seem to hide the fact that they despise the upper class who use to oppress the lower working and the peasantry class.

Applying the subjective test, both democracies represent the inspiration of the people. In democracy like America, the people from all walks of life would make a free choice of their Representatives to run the country for them. They make a free choice, yet they are not in the Government to run the country for themselves. The country is run by their representatives who form the Government, making policies as the Government thinks fit and fair for the benefits of the country and the people.

Apply the same test, Chinese democracy too seems to represent the interest of the country and the people. They have periodical elections, all members of the Communist Party are allowed to the polls to elect their leaders to run the country for them and to rule the country for the benefit of the country and its people. By the standard that is applied, the Communist Party of China, by far and large is most successful in benefiting the people and the country as it had elevated the living standard of the people in a rate unknown to the progress achievable by any country in the world.

But there are countries torn between two-systems, democracy and dictatorship. Malaysia is such an example.

Malaysia practises periodical elections, each to last for the next five years. There are political parties, the Ruling and the Opposition.

The Cabinet is formed by the parties that won the General Election. The fascade of democracy is there.

However, democracy in Malaysia is neither of the Westminster type nor of the Chinese type, but from time to time, there are stringents of rules and conditions to negate the norms of democracy as practised in the Western world of which Malaysia tries to think that the counrty is part of that form of democracy.

Malaysia enacted laws which run in complete contrary to the spirit of democracy whereby the country prohibited human rights, political activities, free press, and freedom of the judiciary.

The government machineries have been made the tools of the ruling party to suppress the people's rights, and thereby the elections in the country is nothing but a mere endorsement for the ruling party to clamp for power.

Applying a subjective test seems to be more apt than the objective test if we were to accept that democracy is not for the purpose of free choice but for the purpose to give a machinery in power to the run the country for the benefits of its people, right or wrong.

Democracy - a subjective test or objective test?

Posted: 10 Nov 2011 01:34 PM PST

Majlis silaturrahim di Kg Pian

Posted: 10 Nov 2011 04:55 AM PST






Majlis silaturrahim anjuran PKR telah diadakan di Kg Pian, Kuala Krau pada 10.11.11 jam 5.00 petang tadi menjalinkan komitmen baru penduduk Kg Pian untuk berserta dengan PKR bagi menghadapi Pilihanraya Umum akan datang.

Didalam ucapan aluan Ketua Ranting, Wan Kisam, beliau mengajak penduduk Kg Pian supaya sentiasa memberikan sokongan kepada Parti Keadilan Rakyat dan mengucapkan terima kasih kepada pimpinan PKR Kuala Krau kerana tidak henti-henti mendampingi penduduk Kg Pian.

Kg Pian bersama-sama Kg Lubok Wong dan Kg Terbol merupakan JDM Kampong Pian dan Wan Kisam yakin ketiga-tiga kampong itu akan memberikan undi majoriti kepada calon PKR yang akan bertanding didalam kawasan DUN Jenderak nanti.

Diakhir Majlis itu, Wan Kisam telah menyerahkan senarai PACABA dan Sukarelawan mewakili JDM Kg Pian untuk bertugas di Pusat mengundi di Balai Raya Kg Pian nanti, dan pihak Sukarelawan akan memulakan bertugas dengan mencari tiang buluh untuk memasang bendera PKR.
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