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| [KENYATAAN MEDIA] Pemecatan Profesor Redzuan Posted: 29 Jun 2014 11:53 PM PDT KENYATAAN MEDIA Berita pemecatan serta merta Profesor Datuk Dr Mohamad Redzuan sebagai Pengarah Pusat Kajian Demokrasi dan Pilihan Raya (UMcedel) tidak mengejutkan tetapi tetap mengecewakan dan tidak wajar. Penyingkiran secara melulu bertujuan memberi amaran kepada semua ahli akademik bahawa kebebasan mereka akan berakhir semata untuk mempertahankan kepentingan UMNO. Dalam pentadbiran yang rakus ini, kebebasan mengkritik adalah hak mutlak kepada mereka sasarannya adalah pemimpin-pemimpin Pakatan Rakyat atau mereka yang kritikal terhadap UMNO-BN. Penghukuman yang cukup pantas ini akan menimpa mereka yang menyokong apa-apa pandangan atau pendapat yang kelihatan kritikal terhadap UMNO apatah lagi yang memihak kepada pembangkang. Nasib yang sama juga telah menimpa pakar ekonomi terkenal Prof Jomo KS, profesor sains politik Prof Dr P. Ramasamy dan pakar perlembagaan dan undang-undang Dr Aziz Bari tidak lama dahulu. Dan hari ini kita lihat ia menimpa Prof Redzuan yang telah terbukti menunjukkan prestasi akademik dengan profesional dalam bidang penyelidikan yang menuntut objektiviti lengkap dan kebebasan. Amat jelas bahawa keputusan untuk tidak menyambung tempoh Profesor Redzuan sebagai Pengarah UMCedel amat tidak wajar. Beliau sekali lagi menjadi mangsa penguasa angkuh yang enggan melihat sarjana bersikap bebas dan berani. Saya ingin mengingatkan Menteri Pendidikan, Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin dan Dato Seri Idris Jusoh bahawa kuasa pelantikan dan pemecatan bukannya mutlak dan tindakan terbaru ini bukan sahaja melanggar kebebasan akademik malah pengkhianatan terhadap harapan rakyat terhadap peningkatan mutu dan kedudukan institusi pengajian tinggi. ANWAR IBRAHIM |
| [PRESS STATEMENT] On Dismissing of Professor Redzuan Posted: 29 Jun 2014 10:40 PM PDT PRESS RELEASE Today’s news report that Professor Datuk Dr Mohamad Redzuan has been effectively fired as the Director for the Universiti Malaya's Center for Democracy and Elections (UMcedel) comes as no surprise, disappointing and unwarranted as it is. This totally uncalled for dismissal is intended once again to send that chilling message to all academicians that their freedom ends when UMNO’s popularity begins. In this terror reign, freedom to criticize is absolute as long as the target are leaders of the Pakatan or those groups critical of UMNO-BN. Swift reckoning will be brought to bear to those who espouse any views or opinions that appear to be critical of UMNO let alone in favour of the opposition. This was the fate that befell a reknown economist Prof Jomo KS, political scientist Prof Dr. P. Ramasamy and constitutional law expert Dr Aziz Bari not too long ago and today we see it happening to Professor Redzuan who has proven to have performed his academic tasks in a most professional manner in a research area that demands complete objectivity and independence. It is obvious that this decision not to renew Professor Redzuan's tenure as the Director of UMCedel is just a backhanded way of sacking him for his courageous stand in carrying out his work without fear or favour. I would like remind the Minister of Education, Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin and Dato Seri Idris Jusoh that their powers of appointment and dismissal are not absolute and this latest action is not just a violation of academic freedom but a betrayal of the people’s expectations for the enhancement of standards and rankings of our institutions of higher learning. ANWAR IBRAHIM |
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