Jumaat, 26 April 2013

Anwar Ibrahim

Anwar Ibrahim


Yusuf Al Qaradawi: Anwar Ibrahim paling layak jadi PM

Posted: 26 Apr 2013 01:36 PM PDT

KeadilanDaily

Mursyidul AM PAS, Datuk Nik Aziz Nik Mat petang ini baharu sahaja melancarkan surat terbuka Sheikh Dr Yusuf Al Qaradawi, tokoh Islam terkemuka yang kini Ketua Ijtihad Ulama Dunia.

surat terbukaPeluncuran warkah amanat itu disempurnakan pada majlis yang diadakan di Surau Apartment Pantai Permai, Pantai Dalam, 3 petang tadi.

Program itu dianjurkan calon KEADILAN Parlimen Lembah Pantai, Nurul Izzah Anwar yang turut hadir sama.

Di dalam surat tersebut, Yusuf Al Qaradawi menegaskan bahawa Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim paling layak menerajui negara sebagai Perdana Menteri Malaysia.

Berikut petikan kandungan surat Yusuf Al Qaradawi:

"Sesungguhnya saya sendiri perpandangan bahawa Anwar Ibrahim, berdasarkan sejarah dan pengalamannya, kebijaksanaan dan perjuangannya, kesabaran dan kecekalannya, sejak usia mudanya yang awal hingga ke hari ini, juga kecintaan yang diperolehinya daripada orang yang baik-baik dari kalangan rakyat Malaysia, dari kalangan Melayu dan Cina, maka dia selayaknya berada pada pilihan yang paling atas untuk memegang jawatan ketua kerajaan dan Perdana Menteri bagi memimpin Malaysia.

Sheik-Yusuf-QaradawiBeliau adalah orang yang paling layak menduduki kerusi kepimpinan ini. Paling layak untuk melaksanakan tuntutan-tuntutan bernegara pada marhalah yang cukup penting ini, bagi membangunkan Malaysia dan memajukannya pada semua sudut. Inilah perkara yang kalian sudah sepakati sepanjang masa yang lalu."

Nik 2Sebelum pelancaran itu, Nik Aziz menunaikan solat Jumaat di Masjid Putrajaya dan menerima sambutan yang amat memberangsangkan. Malam ini beliau akan menyampaikan ceramah di Shah Alam.

Jelajah Pakatan Harapan Rakyat Dato Seri Anwar Ibrahim Ke SABAH

Posted: 26 Apr 2013 01:34 PM PDT

27 & 28 April 2013 (Sabtu & Ahad)

27 April 2013 (Sabtu)

1) 11.00 pagi – Kampong Patau-Patau (P – Labuan)

2) 12.30 tgh – Rumah Dato' Lajim Ukin, Beaufort

(P – Beaufort / Sipitang)

3) 2.30 ptg – Pdg Rmh Panjang Kg Taningol, Matunggong

(P – Kota Marudu, DUN – Matunggong)

4) 4.00 ptg – Kampong Lominodip (Sebelah SMK Tambulion)

(P-Kota Belud, DUN – Kadamaian)

5) 5.30 ptg – Jalan Kiam Som, Inanam

(P- Sepanggar, DUN – Inanam)

6) 7.00 mlm – Kampong Nossob Baru, Penampang

(P- Penampang , DUN- Api-Api)

28 April 2013 (Ahad)

1) 11.00 pg – Batu 9, Jalan Labuk, Sandakan

(P- Libaran, DUN – Gum-Gum)

2) 12.30 tgh – Pasar Taman Mawar, Batu 5, Sandakan

(P- Batu Sapi, DUN – Sekong)

3) 2.30 ptg – Taman Gembira, Jalan Silam, Lahad Datu

(P- Silam, DUN – Lahad Datu)

4) 4.00 ptg – Jalan Kampong Simunul, Pekan Semporna

(P- Semporna, DUN – Senallang)

5) 5.30 ptg – Pej PKR, Taman Gek Poh, Tawau

(P – Tawau, DUN- Balung & Apas)

Manifesto PR lebih penuhi harapan rakyat – UMCEDEL

Posted: 26 Apr 2013 01:32 PM PDT

Harakah

Kajian yang dijalankan oleh Pusat Kajian Pilihan Raya dan Demokrasi Universiti Malaysia (UMCEDEL) mendapati, rata-rata pengundi bersetuju bahawa manifesto Pakatan Rakyat lebih memenuhi harapan rakyat berbanding manifesto BN.

Dalam kajian terhadap 1,407 responden pengundi berdaftar yang dibuat pusat kajian itu, 42 peratus dari mereka bersetuju terhadap manifesto Pakatan Rakyat dan hanya 36 peratus bersetuju dengan manifesto BN, manakala 22 peratus memilih tidak pasti.

“Ini dalam keadaan manifesto BN dibentang secara langsung dua jam dalam televisyen, dan media memainkannya hampir setiap hari selepas daripada itu,” kata pengarahnya Profesor Datuk Dr Mohammad Redzuan Othman.

Beliau berkata demikian pada sidang media di Universiti Malaya semalam selepas membentangkan hasil kajian bertajuk Pilihan Pengundi Menjelang Hari Mengundi dalam PRU13.

Kajian tersebut dijalankan bermula pada 3 April iaitu hari pembubaran parlimen, sehingga ke hari penamaan calon pada 20 April lalu.

Antara tawaran paling memberi kesan kepada pengundi adalah tawaran penurunan harga minyak yang dijanjikan Pakatan Rakyat jika berjaya menguasai pentadbiran negara.

Tawaran lain yang turut disokong pengundi termasuklah, menghapuskan tol, menurunkan harga kereta, penurunan caj elektrik dan harga air lebih rendah, penghapusan PTPTN, pemberian permit teksi individu serta gaji minima.

Dari segi pecahan kaum, masyarakat Cina adalah paling tinggi bersetuju bahawa manifesto Pakatan Rakyat lebih memenuhi hasrat rakyat dengan 61 peratus, Melayu 37 peratus manakala India 21 peratus.

Bagi BN pula, majoriti yang mengatakan manifesto BN lebih memenuhi hasrat rakyat adalah kaum India dengan 53 peratus, Melayu 38 peratus manakala Cina 25 peratus.

“Kita bertanyakan kepada mereka, dan kebanyakan mereka ini menyatakan memperolehi maklumat manifesto Pakatan Rakyat ini daripada internet dan media alternatif,” kata Dr Ridhuan.

Nik Aziz launches Qaradawi letter endorsing Anwar as PM

Posted: 26 Apr 2013 01:26 PM PDT

Malaysiakini

PAS spiritual adviser Nik Aziz Nik Mat today launched a Pakatan Rakyat campaign pamphlet carrying an open letter from prominent international Sunni cleric Yusuf Qaradawi, endorsing opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim as candidate for prime minister.

NONENik Aziz (in white robe) launched the pamphlet at the Pantai Permai people's housing project in Lembah Pantai, Kuala Lumpur.

Accompanying him was PKR's Lembah Pantai incumbent Nurul Izzah Anwar, who is facing a tough battle to defend her seat against her challenger from BN, caretaker Federal Territories and Urban Well-being Minister Raja Nong Chik Zainal Abidin.

Nik Aziz's launch of the letter in the heart of the low-income Malay area is a clear attempt to shore up Malay Muslim support for the embattled giant-killer Nurul, who had wrested the seat from former minister Shahrizat Abdul Jalil in her maiden political appearance in GE12.

NONEPreviously, PKR big guns Anwar and party president Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail have also spoke at ceramah and make walkabouts in Lembah Pantai to shore up support for their daughter Nurul (centre in photo).

The letter dated March 2 this year was addressed to the people of Malaysia.

Qaradawi heads the International Union for Muslim Scholars, the highest body representing Islamic ulama worldwide.

"I personally feel that Anwar, based on his history, experience, wisdom, struggle and perseverance from his youth till today, and the affection he commands from Malaysians, including the Malays and the Chinese, makes him qualified and most suited to head the government and hold the office of prime minister and lead the people of Malaysia," the Muslim scholar says in his letter.

Anwar is well-known to be a close confidante of the cleric as well as various influential figures in the Islamic world.

In his letter, Qaradawi also urged Malaysians to reject those who practised divisiveness and used subterfuge to victimise Anwar, and to unite as one in a coalition that encourages unity.

He expressed the support of the ulama as well as the full support of brotherhood they represent in Arab and non-Arab countries to a united Malaysia.

‘Vote for a gov’t that implements Islamic teachings’

In a short ceramah to the hundreds of Pakatan supporters who attended the launch, Nik Aziz reminded the mainly Malay Muslim crowd to "vote for a government that can and will implement Islamic teachings".

NONEHe said that this was in contrast to the present government which had elected to follow the Western secular model by separating faith and state.

"They promote prayers the Islamic way, fast the Islamic way, perform the haj the Islamic way, but in governing the country, they follow the Western way."

The present government, he said, was also too focused on nationalistic fervour, which is contrary to Islam's more egalitarian outlook.

The launch of the document by Nik Aziz is symbolic, not only as a show of international support for Anwar and to cement their battle against the BN, but as a reminder to certain people in PAS itself, who had spoken of alternate candidates for PM should Pakatan win Putrajaya.

The PAS stand, however, is in line with Pakatan's understanding that Anwar will be the PM if the coalition wins GE13.

Pemilih Muda Malaysia Condong Dukung Oposisi

Posted: 26 Apr 2013 01:37 AM PDT

BeritaSatu.com

Suara pemilih muda Malaysia diperkirakan berperan penting dalam menentukan hasil akhir pemilu Malaysia.

Lebih dari lima juta dari 13,3 pemilih terdaftar berusia di bawah 40 tahun, dengan dua juta orang adalah pemilih pemula.

Suara pemuda Malaysia dapat mengurangi kekuatan dukungan bagi koalisi Barisan Nasional, yang telah memerintah sejak kemerdekaan pada 1957 tapi saat ini bersumpah untuk mengakhiri korupsi dan otoritarianisme.

Saat ini, para pemuda Malaysia telah menyuarakan kebebasan berbicara dalam sistem pendidikan.

Bukhairy Sofian, seorang mahasiswa, sudah muak dengan larangan aktivitas politik di universitas-universitas Malaysia, yang disebutnya sebuah belenggu usang.

Pria berusia 23 tahun itu memimpin kelompok mahasiswa dalam menyerukan kebebasan akademik. Dia berencana untuk mendukung oposisi pada pemilu 5 Mei nanti.

"Hari ini, anak muda dapat mengetahui segala sesuatu melalui telepon genggam mereka. Pemuda telah membuka mata mereka (untuk melihat) bahwa mereka dapat mengubah Malaysia menjadi lebih baik," katanya.

Dukungan terhadap oposisi di kalangan warga Malaysia semakin tinggi.

Survei Pusat Demokrasi dan Pemilihan Umum Universitas Malaya (Umcedel) mengindikasikan 43 persen pemilih yakin pemimpin oposisi Malaysia, Anwar Ibrahim, memenuhi syarat menjadi perdana menteri.

Jajak pendapat melibatkan 1.407 responden yang tinggal di Semenanjung Malaysia pada awal April lalu.

Malaysian Chinese May Drop Najib as Fear of Riot Repeat Ebbs

Posted: 26 Apr 2013 01:07 AM PDT

Bloomberg

Malaysian businessman Stanley Thai says he's joining thousands of fellow ethnic Chinese citizens in abandoning support for Prime Minister Najib Razak and voting for the opposition for the first time in elections next month.

"Why are the Chinese against the government — it's simple," Thai, 53, owner of medical glove-maker Supermax Corp. (SUCB), said in an interview last month. "We don't want our children to suffer what we suffered, deprived from education, from career opportunities, from business opportunities."

Chinese, who make up about a quarter of Malaysia's population, are growing intolerant of affirmative-action programs for Malays propagated by Najib's alliance of parties, the most recent national poll indicates. Any mass defection by Chinese voters raises the risk of the ruling coalition's first election loss since it was formed after 1969 race riots.

The violence of 1969 helped persuade many Chinese to back Barisan Nasional, which Najib has led since 2009, as they accepted racial preferences for Malays as the cost of peace. Thai said thinking changed when the government's electoral take sank in 2008 with little sign of renewed social unrest. "Everyone said, 'Wow, the time has come,'" he said.

Now, the opposition, led by Anwar Ibrahim, sees the end of race-based policies that have hindered companies such as Supermax as key to long-term economic growth. Najib counters that his gradual reform of the affirmative-action programs will assure stability and avert a slide in stocks and the ringgit that would accompany any opposition victory.

Vision Contest
"It's a contest ultimately about visions — do you believe the country is Malay-centered or a state of all its citizens?" said Clive Kessler, emeritus professor at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, who has studied Malaysian politics for half a century. "Najib no longer has adequate non-Malay support," said Kessler, who estimates the ruling coalition must win about two-thirds of Malay votes to stay in power.

The FTSE Bursa Malaysia KLCI Index (FTSEMIB), which has lagged other Southeast Asian benchmarks this year, gained as much as 0.3 percent as of 11:10 a.m. today, poised to close at a record high. The ringgit was set to advance for a sixth week, its longest rally in more than three years, on speculation further monetary easing in Japan and Europe will boost demand for emerging-market assets.

Anwar's Group
About half of Malaysia's 29 million people are Malays, while roughly a quarter have Chinese roots and the rest are mostly ethnic Indians or indigenous groups. One in five ethnic Chinese think the country is headed in the right direction, compared with 75 percent of Malays, according to a February survey by the Merdeka Center for Opinion Research, the most recent available.

In 2008, the ruling 13-party Barisan Nasional coalition won by its slimmest margin since it was formed, with three Chinese parties losing half their parliamentary seats. Anwar's own multi-racial coalition, which includes a Chinese-majority party and a mostly Malay party that advocates Shariah law in criminal matters, has pledged to eliminate race-based policies to fight corruption.

"What we're seeing with the implementation of the policy is enormous rent-seeking and patronage and corruption," said Edmund Terence Gomez, a professor at University of Malaya in Kuala Lumpur who edited a book on the affirmative-action program. "The electoral trends clearly indicate that Malaysians are saying they've had enough of race-based politics."

Malay Preferences
In 1969, Malaysia suspended parliament for more than a year after race riots in the wake of a close election killed hundreds of people. Abdul Razak, Najib's father, then initiated the racial preferences in 1971 as the country's second prime minister.

The New Economic Policy sought to raise the share of national wealth to at least 30 percent for Malays and indigenous groups known as Bumiputera, or "sons of the soil," that make up about 60 percent of the population. They got cheaper housing and quotas for college places, government contracts and shares of listed companies.

While Najib has tweaked the policy for publicly traded firms and extended benefits to poorer members of all races, many other elements remain intact. Malaysia favors Bumiputera companies in awarding contracts from the government and state- owned enterprises, the U.S. Trade Representative wrote in a March report.

"We don't play the racial card — we play a moderate Malaysia, an inclusive Malaysia and we're talking about power sharing," Najib said in an April 17 interview. "That's the kind of storyboard that we are trying to convince the Malaysian Chinese."

College Rejection
Thai, whose father fled China in 1949 during the Communist takeover, is dubious. After growing up on a farm with 13 siblings in Johor, which borders Singapore, he failed to gain entry to a university where Malays received priority and moved to Canada to get a college degree. On his return, he built a business aimed at exporting rubber gloves to avoid restrictions on selling within Malaysia.

Supermax, the nation's third-largest medical glove-maker, now exports 24 billion gloves a year, said Thai, whose holdings in the company are worth about $93 million. For years he and other Chinese entrepreneurs were wary of publicly speaking out about corruption in the 42-year-old affirmative action program due to concerns of reprisals.

Fear Factor
"We have been brainwashed from Day 1," Thai said. "We were born and bred with fear and threats by our own government."

Mahathir Mohamad, who ruled from 1981 to 2003 and was Malaysia's longest-serving leader, alluded to those fears in a blog post this month urging Chinese voters in Johor to back the government. An opposition win would undermine the racial balance the Barisan Nasional aimed to achieve, he wrote.

"An unhealthy racial confrontation would replace Sino- Malay cooperation which has made Malaysia stable and prosperous," Mahathir wrote.

Najib said in last week's interview that his pursuit of gradual change would avoid the upheaval that engulfed the Middle East after longstanding governments collapsed. An opposition win could trigger "catastrophic ruin" that would cause stocks and the currency to plunge, he warned.

'Still Complaining'
Chinese parties in Barisan Nasional are urging voters to stick with the government to promote social justice and warning that the Malay parties in the opposition will seek to impose Islamic laws. Malays and other indigenous groups owned 22 percent of share capital at limited companies in 2008, compared with 35 percent for Chinese, according to the most recent government statistics.

"The Chinese feel that the government has not done enough for them, but the same can be said of the Indians and the Malays," said Wilfred Yap, an official with the Chinese- majority Sarawak United People's Party, which is part of Najib's coalition. "They are still complaining that the Chinese still control a big chunk of the economy," he said, referring to the Malay and Indian populations.

Meantime, Anwar's alliance is emulating Barisan Nasional's original formula by promoting policies that seek to unite races and religions, according to Liew Chin Tong, a lawmaker with the Chinese-majority Democratic Action Party, one of three in the opposition coalition.

"They are suffering now because they are now only focusing on the Malay votes," Liew said in an interview last month, referring to the government. "With Mahathir playing the racist card, they are speaking to only the Malay audience in the hope to push the Malay vote up to 65 percent."

Pengundi mahu Najib, Anwar debat manifesto PRU13

Posted: 25 Apr 2013 11:59 PM PDT

Sinar Harian

Lebih daripada 60 peratus responden yang dipilih secara rawak oleh Pusat Kajian Demokrasi dan Pilihan Raya Universiti Malaya (Umcedel) mahu Perdana Menteri, Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak dan Ketua Pembangkang, Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim berdebat berhubung manifesto masing-masing menjelang hari mengundi 5 Mei ini.

Kajian membabitkan 1,407 responden ini bermula pada 3 April lalu dan berakhir pada 20 April iaitu pada hari penamaan calon.

Sebanyak 23 peratus daripada responden mengatakan debat mengenai manifesto kedua-dua pemimpin ini tidak perlu sementara 14 peratus lagi tidak pasti mengenainya.

Hasil kajian yang dilakukan oleh Umcedel menunjukkan pengundi Cina lebih cenderung kepada manifesto yang dibentangkan oleh Pakatan Rakyat (PR) pada Februari lalu.

“(Sebanyak) 77 peratus pengundi Cina yakin janji PR menurunkan harga minyak,” kata Pengarah Umcedel, Profesor Datuk Dr Mohammad Redzuan Othman pada sidang media hari ini.

Antara manifesto popular PR yang ditanya kepada masyarakat termasuklah janji menurunkan caj air dan elektrik (64 peratus), menghapuskan tol (60 peratus), menurunkan harga kereta (61 peratus) dan pendidikan percuma (63 peratus).

Sementara manifesto BN yang turut ditanyakan ialah menaikkan Bantuan Rakyat 1Malaysia kepada RM1,200 (52 peratus), janji program transformasi seperti Klinik Rakyat 1Malaysia, Kedai Rakyat 1Malaysia (52 peratus) dan jani membina satu juta rumah mampu milik (51 peratus).

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Posted: 25 Apr 2013 11:36 PM PDT

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