Anwar Ibrahim

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• Anwar: Deputy IGP should not be an Umno stooge
• [PRESS STATEMENT] On The Economy (TPPA, GST and Budget Deficit) And Crime
• ‘No end to 505 rallies until EC resigns’
• 7 tempat berkumpul demo ‘Black 505′

Anwar: Deputy IGP should not be an Umno stooge Posted: 18 Jun 2013 10:33 PM PDT Malaysiakini PKR de facto leader Anwar Ibrahim has warned deputy inspector-general of police Bakri Zinin not to behave like an Umno division leader to try and curb Saturday's rally at Padang Merbok. Anwar said this is a peaceful gathering and police should not be providing restrictions or warnings. "There have been no disruption to 14 previous rallies nationwide, except they have taken action on the organisers at the instructions of Umno. "He (deputy IGP) should not be another Umno division leader to take a hard stand against the rally," he said. The deputy IGP, he said, can invite us and we are willing to meet them in facilitating the rally.

[PRESS STATEMENT] On The Economy (TPPA, GST and Budget Deficit) And Crime Posted: 18 Jun 2013 09:54 PM PDT PRESS RELEASE 19 JUNE 2013 I cautiously take note of the announcement by Dato' Seri Najib Tun Razak of the formation of a committee that will focus on reducing the national budgetary deficit to 3% by 2015. An economic undertaking of that feat could have easily been achieved through strict economic governance and transparent government procurement without the need for any new taxes or cutting of essential government expenditures with direct impact on the people's livelihood. Unfortunately, Dato' Seri Najib continues to govern behind a veil of secrecy. There is a growing concern over his cabinet's conduct on the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) negotiations precisely because of his administration's refusal to be transparent and inclusive during the negotiations. In fact, much of the financial burden that adds up to the ballooning national budgetary deficit also originates from his unsound vote-buying schemes that cost the public billions of ringgit in the last general election. The BN government must not drag the public to cover for its economic incompetence and policy shortfalls. Any attempts to introduce a new Goods and Services Tax (GST) albeit in stages to reduce the budgetary deficit will be resisted much in the same force that the people had resisted electoral fraud. I maintain that GST can only be introduced if the average level of income of common Malaysians have risen significantly over a period of 5 years, in comparison to the low 2.6% average wage growth achieved in between 2000 and 2010. Dato' Seri Najib's does not have the full legitimacy in terms of popular votes, and he has not been able to deliver the most basic of his economic promises since being sworn in recently. The fact that his administration struggles to reduce car prices as promised in his manifesto exemplified the incompetence and hopelessness of his administration. Dato' Seri Najib has also failed to deliver on his promise to provide affordable and livable housing for the people. We shall track the BN government's performance on public housing closely and will consider it a failure if he cannot bring down the average prices of mid-range housing by at least 10% in the next one year. Crime The public is alarmingly concerned with the escalating crime rate especially violent crimes. It is not in our place as public officials to blame the concern on misperception as safety and fear are all a question of perception. Clearly, there is a serious credibility issue engulfing our police force that continuously dilutes the public's confidence in its ability to provide safety. Pakatan Rakyat can contribute constructively to allay the public concern. I offer Pakatan Rakyat's full assistance to the police force to work together in engaging the public to bridge the growing gap between credibility and perception with the real and honest work that the police has been putting. I will table to the Pakatan Rakyat leadership that a committee made up of Pakatan Rakyat and Barisan Nasional representatives is formed immediately to work with the IGP and his officers to address the concerns over safety. Finally I urge Dato' Seri Najib to meet the 3 demands put forth by the people's movement and allow for the peaceful gathering in Padang Merbok on 22 June to proceed smoothly. ANWAR IBRAHIM

‘No end to 505 rallies until EC resigns’ Posted: 18 Jun 2013 08:14 PM PDT Malaysiakini Pakatan Rakyat’s Black 505 rallies that have been going on nationwide after the May 5 general election, will go on and won’t stop until the present leadership of the Election Commission (EC) resigns. PKR vice-president Tian Chua said this in an interview yesterday. “I don’t think the EC can go against the will of the people. Five years ago, people told me the government will never abolish the Internal Security Act (ISA), but eventually they did,” he said when asked about EC’s continuous refusal to heed calls for their resignation. “We went through midnight in Parliament to pass an election law, which was mutually agreed by both sides, which clearly specified that the indelible ink must last seven days. EC has deliberately violated the law,” he said, four days before Pakatan’s Black 505 rally at Padang Merbok, Kuala Lumpur. He said that the EC’s failure to provide foolproof indelible ink for the election was a “crime that cannot be forgiven”. “They (EC) should be out on trial for violating electoral law. The resignation of the EC is the bare minimum to show that they take responsibility for what has happened,” he said. ‘Once in a lifetime opportunity’ Chua believes however that the people would not grow tired of Pakatan’s series of nationwide rallies, “except for party workers, speakers, organisers and journalists”. “We follow the news every day, so for us it is repetitive. But for people who are in Batu Pahat for example, it is a once in a lifetime opportunity to be a part of the rally. “People are actually excited about the rallies. The fatigue is probably for the speakers who are running around from one place to another.” He said it was only though participation in rallies that the people would feel empowered. “It’s not just about the election. The gathering itself is a right that we have been fighting for. We cannot give up just because the government refuses to acknowledge the rise of the people. All struggles go through a long process.” He also said that, should Pakatan fail in its election petitions filed nationwide, it will again go to the streets in order to demand democratic electoral reforms. “If our law is correct, if our judges are just, then we stand a chance (of winning the petitions). If the courts cannot give us justice, we have no choice, we will take to the streets again,” he added.

7 tempat berkumpul demo ‘Black 505′ Posted: 18 Jun 2013 08:12 PM PDT Malaysiakini Pakatan Rakyat dan pemimpin NGO akan berkumpul di tujuh tempat di Kuala Lumpur pada Sabtu sebelum bergerak ke Padang Merbok untuk acara perhimpunan 'Black 505′. Tempat-tempat itu: Brickfields - dipimpin oleh Naib Presiden PKR Nurul Izzah Anwar, Setiausaha Agung Parti Sosialis Malaysia (PSM) dan pemimpin BERSIH Maria Chin Abdullah Masjid Negara - dipimpin oleh anggota Parlimen Shah Alam Khalid Samad dan Timbalan Presiden PKR Azmin Ali Jalan Pudu - dipimpin oleh Timbalan Pengerusi DAP Tan Kok Wai, setiausaha organisasi parti Anthony Loke dan pemimpin kumpulan anti-Lynas leader Wong Tack Jalan Raja Laut (pejabat PAS) – dipimpin oleh Presiden PAS Abdul Hadi Awang dan timbalab presiden Mohamad Sabu Jalan Raja Laut (Sogo) – dipimpin oleh Naib Presiden PKR Tian Chua dan NGO bekas-bekas pesara tentera Universiti Malaya - dipimpin oleh aktivis mahasiswa Safwan Anang dan Adam Adli, Ketua Pemuda PKR Shamsul Iskandar Mohd Akin dan Ketua Pemuda PAS Nasruddin Hassan Pekeliling - dipimpin oleh Naib Presiden PAS Salehuddin Ayub dan NGO ANAK

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Anak Muda Kampung Nak Senang

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• Pelatih PLKN Sri Ledang lahir bayi dalam tandas
• Sukarnya mendapat kerja hanya kerana memakai tudung
• Siswazah Melayu sukar dapat pekerjaan dengan kerajaan

Pelatih PLKN Sri Ledang lahir bayi dalam tandas Posted: 19 Jun 2013 02:53 AM PDT MUAR 19 Jun 2013 - Seorang remaja yang sedang menjalani latihan di Kem Program Latihan Khidmat Negara (PLKN) Sri Ledang di Jementah, dekat sini melahirkan seorang bayi lelaki di tandas kem berkenaan sebelum bayi tersebut dilaporkan meninggal dunia hari ini. Bayi lelaki seberat 2.7 kilogram itu difahamkan dilahirkan di tandas berkenaan kira-kira pukul 3 pagi sebelum kejadian itu disedari pengurusan kem yang kemudian membawa ibu bayi terbabit bagi mendapatkan rawatan selain membuat laporan polis. Remaja berusia 18 tahun bersama anaknya yang cukup sifat itu dihantar ke Hospital Pakar Sultanah Fatimah (HPSF) di sini. Bagaimanapun bayi tersebut disahkan meninggal dunia sebaik sahaja tiba untuk rawatan. Dia dipercayai berasal dari sebuah kawasan Felda di Kulaijaya dan dikatakan memasuki PLKN tersebut pada April lalu serta dijadualkan akan menamatkan latihan beberapa hari lagi. http://www.utusan.com.my/utusan/Jenayah/20130619/je_09/Pelatih-PLKN-Sri-Ledang-lahir-bayi-dalam-tandas

Sukarnya mendapat kerja hanya kerana memakai tudung Posted: 18 Jun 2013 07:07 PM PDT SAYA merupakan pelajar lepasan Sijil Tinggi Persekolahan Malaysia (STPM). Saya menetap di luar bandar dan perawakan saya ialah seorang gadis bertudung sesuai dengan identiti saya sebagai seorang Muslimah. Sementara menunggu peluang melanjutkan pelajaran ke peringkat seterusnya, saya mengambil kesempatan menggunakan masa yang terluang untuk bekerja. Harapan saya agar pendapatan yang diperoleh nanti dapat menampung sedikit sebanyak keperluan saya, terutama untuk memulakan pengajian nanti. Saya memulakan langkah mencari pekerjaan di sebuah hotel yang terletak di Bandaraya Bersejarah selepas terbaca iklan mengenai peluang pekerjaan yang ditawarkan. Saya memohon untuk bekerja di bahagian pembersihan (house keeping). Penemuduga itu bersedia menerima saya sekiranya saya bersedia untuk tidak memakai tudung. Penemuduga juga memberitahu ia adalah syarat 'normal' untuk bekerja di hotel. Mungkin salah saya kerana tidak mengetahui akan syarat itu kerana kehidupan saya yang tidak terdedah dengan suasana di hotel. Mungkin juga tidak keterlaluan jika dikatakan itulah kali pertama saya menjejakkan kaki di hotel. Namun jauh di sudut hati saya terselit rasa kesal kerana saya tidak berupaya menerima pekerjaan tersebut kerana syarat 'normal' itu. Selepas itu saya turut memohon pekerjaan di sebuah pusat membeli-belah yang baru dibuka. Banyak kedai yang menawarkan jawatan kosong sebagai pembantu kedai. Tetapi apabila ditanya majikan turut meletakkan syarat 'normal' itu untuk saya diterima bekerja. Malahan kedai yang menjual barang permainan untuk kanak-kanak turut meletakkan syarat tersebut. Saya berasa begitu tersinggung dengan keadaan ini. Saya tidak faham. Islam ialah agama rasmi negara tetapi sensitiviti berhubung agama ini diabaikan. Sememangnya bukan salah mereka meletakkan syarat 'normal' itu. Tetapi adakah menjadi kesalahan saya berpenampilan sewajarnya yang ditetapkan oleh agama saya? Mungkin penampilan saya yang bertudung tidak menarik perhatian untuk pelanggan berkunjung ke kedai mereka atau menjejaskan imej mereka yang sering menjadi tumpuan pelancong asing. Mungkin juga isu yang cuba saya ketengahkan ini kelihatan remeh kepada sesetengah pihak, namun jujur saya katakan, ia agak berat untuk gadis bertudung seperti saya. Bagaimana nasib sesetengah gadis bertudung yang begitu terdesak memerlukan pekerjaan untuk menampung kehidupan mereka? Adakah kami harus mengorbankan identiti diri demi mencari rezeki di zaman moden ini? HYENA Negeri Sembilan Pengarah akaun hotel `dipaksa' berhenti kerana bertudung Seorang pengarah akaun sebuah hotel bertaraf lima bintang di ibu negara kecewa apabila terpaksa melepaskan jawatan yang dipegangnya sejak lebih 10 tahun lalu semata-mata kerana memakai tudung. Habsah Jaafar, 46, mendakwa beliau terpaksa berbuat demikian setelah diberi kata dua oleh pengurusan hotel terbabit sama ada mematuhi peraturan yang melarang pemakaian tudung ketika bekerja atau melepaskan jawatannya. Kata beliau, tindakan pengurusan hotel terbabit yang memberikan pelbagai `tekanan' seperti menghalangnya daripada datang ke tempat kerja jika memakai tudung turut memaksa beliau membuat keputusan berhenti kerja pada 17 Februari lalu. ``Mereka (pengurusan hotel) bimbang jika saya datang kerja dengan bertudung, ia akan mempengaruhi pekerja-pekerja lain untuk berbuat demikian,'' katanya. Menurut Habsah, isu itu mula timbul apabila beliau memohon untuk bercuti setelah mendapat tawaran mengerjakan haji pada bulan Disember lalu. Bagaimanapun katanya, permohonan untuk bercuti bagi menunaikan haji walaupun tanpa gaji ditolak dan hanya diluluskan lima hari sebelum beliau bertolak ke Tanah Suci. ``Dalam pertemuan dengan pengurusan tertinggi hotel, saya juga diberikan `gambaran' supaya berhenti kerja jika ingin mengerjakan haji,'' katanya. Habsah berkata, sekembalinya daripada mengerjakan haji, beliau yang sebelum itu mendakwa `terpaksa' membuka tudung ketika bertugas memutuskan untuk memakai tudung ketika masuk kerja pada 9 Februari lalu. Ekoran keputusan itu katanya, beliau telah dipanggil pengurusan hotel terbabit dan diberikan kata dua sama ada membuka tudung ketika bertugas atau berhenti kerja. ``Sebagai orang Islam, bila mereka suruh saya buka tudung, saya rasa seolah-olah mereka suruh saya berbogel,'' katanya yang sudah lebih 20 tahun berkecimpung dalam bidang perhotelan. http://www.utusan.com.my/utusan/info.asp?y=2010&dt=0420&pub=utusan_malaysia&sec=Forum&pg=fo_03.htm&arc=hive http://www.utusan.com.my/utusan/info.asp?y=2006&dt=0223&pub=Utusan_Malaysia&sec=Dalam_Negeri&pg=dn_02.htm

Siswazah Melayu sukar dapat pekerjaan dengan kerajaan Posted: 18 Jun 2013 07:06 PM PDT SAYA terpanggil untuk memberikan reaksi terhadap laporan muka depan akhbar Utusan Malaysia Rabu 5 Jun, 2013 yang mendedahkan bahawa siswazah Melayu didiskriminasi. Pihak kerajaan, khasnya Suruhanjaya Perkhidmatan Awam (SPA) wajar mengambil iktibar terhadap nasib yang dialami oleh siswazah Melayu mutakhir ini. Sememangnya siswazah Melayu berdepan dengan cabaran untuk mendapatkan pekerjaan. Malah siswazah pendidikan keluaran Institut Pendidikan Guru Malaysia (IPGM) sendiri pun mengalami nasib yang sama. Realitinya, siswazah Melayu pemegang Ijazah Sarjana Muda Perguruan untuk sekolah kebangsaan (SK) juga telah 'didiskriminasikan' kerana sehingga kini belum lagi mendapat tawaran penempatan di mana-mana sekolah. Rakan-rakan mereka yang seangkatan dalam kalangan siswazah Ijazah Sarjana Muda Perguruan untuk sekolah jenis kebangsaan Cina (SJKC) dan sekolah jenis kebangsaan Tamil (SJKT) telah bertugas di sekolah-sekolah berkenaan seawal Januari lalu. Mengapakah perkara sebegini berlaku? Lebih malang lagi, para siswazah cemerlang yang telah ditemu duga pun masih menganggur. Apakah maknanya Guru Interim yang diwar-warkan dahulu? Lebih malang lagi, kumpulan siswazah tersebut seperti telah digantung tidak bertali. Pihak SPA telah mengeluarkan surat pelantikan jawatan kepada mereka sebaik selesai ditemu duga pada April 2013 tetapi anehnya dalam surat tersebut tidak dinyatakan sekolah tempat bertugas dan tarikh melapor diri. Ini bermakna siswazah tersebut masih menjadi penganggur terhormat dan dalam keadaan serba salah mengenai nasib masa depan masing-masing. Sehubungan itu, saya merayu kerajaan memberi perhatian dan mengambil tindakan segera bagi menyelesaikan permasalahan yang membelenggu siswazah tersebut. Warga Pendidik Tanjung Malim, Perak. http://www.utusan.com.my/utusan/Forum/20130619/fo_03/Bakal-guru-masih-menanti-tawaran-penempatan-tugas

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MEDIA Rakyat MALAYSIA

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MEDAN PUTERI FOOD COURT SEKARANG SUDAH ADA DAYA TARIKAN.... MPS DI GESA TERIMA CADANGAN BINA FOOD COURT DI SETIAP BLOK BANDAR TASIK PUTERI Posted: 19 Jun 2013 03:01 AM PDT

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Anwar Ibrahim

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• The Opposition’s New Mandate
• Di Jakarta, Anwar Ibrahim Cerita Kecurangan Pemilu
• Anwar Ibrahim Pastikan Gelar Demo Besar
• Anwar Ibrahim Sambut Baik JK Jadi Penengah di Pemilu Malaysia
• Gambar Sekitar Sidang Media Dato’ Seri Anwar Ibrahim di Jakarta, Indonesia

The Opposition’s New Mandate Posted: 17 Jun 2013 08:12 PM PDT TMI Thousands of Malaysians voted abroad during the 13th general election. Many more returned from Singapore, Australia, Hong Kong, London and Taiwan, traditionally places with large numbers of Malaysians, to exercise their right to suffrage on May 5th. This is a peculiar phenomenon. Why do Malaysians who have found greener pastures abroad feel compelled to return to the country to cast their ballot? This certainly goes against the thesis of Albert O. Hirshman — who argued in a famous treatise in 1970 that when people have the chance to leave, they will, especially if they have found the entity to be increasingly dysfunctional and inefficient.  Malaysia, or rather its government, over the last few decades, has certainly manifested such features. Concurrently, those who decided to ‘stay back’ would attempt to improve the country by voicing out. Be that as it may, those who have left the country are not expected to express their voices anymore let alone to vote. Yet, vote they did. The quick and short answer to the above phenomenon is that they care. Indeed, not only do they care about the future of their immediate and extended families still in Malaysia, but they care about Malaysia, period. And that is where Malaysia draws its greatest pride from — Malaysians and their sense of belonging, of camaraderie. Beyond caring, they also know, through their collective exposure in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Singapore, if not as far away as United Kingdom, Japan and Australia, that Malaysia has been back-pedaling, especially on issues like corruption and crime let alone in building a vibrant democracy. Take corruption, for example. The national debt to gross domestic product (GDP) ratio at 54 per cent, it is one per cent shy of the constitutional limit; and this figure is a conservative estimate. When one lumps in the debt of the government linked companies (GLCS), often with the element of corruption still at work, the ratio is easily in the range of the mid-70s. While many do not like to use the B word (i.e. bankcruptcy), the next generation is expected to foot the financial profligacy of the present one. Malaysians abroad share the same concern and anxieties with those at home. Not surprisingly, up 75 to 85 per cent of the voters abroad, almost without fail, voted for the opposition according to exit polls. Like the 51 per cent of the people in Malaysia, they chose to throw their lot with Pakatan Rakyat, this despite the fact that Pakatan Rakyat did not have any offices or representatives outside the country. In fact, one may even wonder if they did so purely to register their disgust with Barisan National, rather than due to any objective attachment to Pakatan Rakyat; a trend that was discernible across all racial groups in urban areas from 2008 onwards. Even in rural places ostensibly ‘won’ by the government, the establishment is not out of the woods, if ever they can be, due to their indulgent attitude to corruption and sheer exploitation of the natural resources that impacts rural communities directly. My PAS colleague, Dr Dzukefly Ahmad, noted in a Malay op-ed that of the 11 constituencies with Dayak majority in Sarawak, all of them had experienced a dip of 10 per cent or more in the votes for the government. This is unprecedented in areas that are customarily the vote banks of the state government. Thus, if Sabah and Sarawak are the ‘fixed deposit’ of the government, the yield is only decreasing, not enlarging. Yet, this election, has allowed a minority government to be in Putrajaya, the seat of the Malaysian government. Like many in the country and abroad, the opposition is not so much shocked as it is outraged by the ‘enforced limitations’ of the electoral system; some of which are now being legally challenged by Pakatan Rakyat. The limitations were ‘enforced’ because the Electoral Commission, which was under the Prime Minister’s Office, failed to reform the electoral system in the more than four years available ahead of the recent 13th general election, the ‘disappearing’ indelible ink fiasco included. Electoral reforms were all the more imperative after repeated rounds of feedbacks from non-governmental groups like Bersih I, II, III, Tindak and Transparency International. But, whether by design or default, they chose to sit tight indifferent to the loud calls for free and fair elections. Even to the extent of allowing tainted electoral rolls to remain on the register, especially in my constituency that is Lembah Pantai. In moments like these, it is easy to hate the arbitrary nature and high-handedness of the ruling government too. This is all the more the case when the ruling establishment, once again, is showing signs of attempting to remain in power on the sly. Instead of seeking ‘national reconciliation’ advocated by the Prime Minister, the very first things that the Ministry of Home Affairs and Inspector General Police did was to arrest opposition figures and dissidents. A dragnet was imposed on those who spoke out against the unfairness of the election. Datuk Ambiga Sreenevasan, the co-chairperson of Bersih, was right to affirm that “the government has been using words (such as national reconciliation), which it doesn’t even understand”; this when the Prime Minister of Malaysia Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak is also a patron to a Global Movement of Moderates Foundation (GMMF) whose rhetoric is not even echoed by his own immoderate party at home. But Malaysians near and abroad must not fall into the temptation of blind hate, just as I am reminding myself too. To do so would be to stoop to the level of extreme jingoistic and mirror the narrative of such rabid malicious press likeUtusan Malaysia - the UMNO mouthpiece. On the other hand, Pakatan Rakyat’s demand for substantive action such as the immediate removal of the Election Commission’s leadership before participating in the Prime Minister’s offer of a Parliamentary Select Committee to manage the Election Commission, which now falls under the Prime Minister's Department will test the government’s readiness for reforms. Indeed, revamping the Electoral Commission is urgently needed, especially on boundary redelineation which have to be completed over the next two years which once again will determine the next election’s fairness. Beyond electoral petitions and all, the opposition has to govern well  in Selangor and Penang, too, without which they would not be able to arrest the growing skepticism of politicians emerging through out the country. Pakatan Rakyat will continue to push for legislative reform in Parliament, as we have done since Malaysians gave us their mandate. The opposition mandate is to stay vigilant, alert and efficient, even as it is confronting a set of legal electoral challenges. Failure is not an option in the face of an increasingly hawkish and change-resistant minority government of Barisan National. Indeed our march of history towards democracy will go on even if it is slightly bumpy, facing temporary roadblocks. For a mandate is still a mandate and should be the fodder for continued fortitude, determination and sacrifice for greater democracy in Malaysia.

Di Jakarta, Anwar Ibrahim Cerita Kecurangan Pemilu Posted: 17 Jun 2013 08:05 PM PDT Tempo Pemimpin oposisi Malaysia, Anwar Ibrahim, bertandang ke Indonesia. Dalam kunjungannya di Jakarta, Anwar mengundang sejumlah media di Hotel Crown, Ahad, 16 Juni 2013, untuk berbincang soal kecurangan pemilihan umum di Malaysia yang diselenggarakan April lalu. Anwar menceritakan “serangan” partai koalisi pro-pemerintah, Barisan Nasional, yang digawangi Partai UMNO, terhadap kelompok oposisi, Pakatan Rakyat. Saat masa kampanye, kata Anwar, partai oposisi diserang melalui media massa yang dia klaim sudah dibeli oleh partai penguasa. “Selama 24 jam kami diserang melalui siaran di televisi, isu-isu diembuskan,” kata Anwar. Contohnya, menurut Anwar, adanya isu jika Anwar Ibrahim terpilih sebagai perdana menteri, ia akan mengkristenkan Malaysia. “Bagi masyarakat yang tahu isu itu bakal ketawa, tapi masyarakat yang di pedalaman banyak yang termakan, mungkin mereka khawatir,” ujarnya. Lantaran partai penguasa menguasai media massa, kata Anwar, partai oposisi tak punya sarana kampanye. Satu-satunya cara kampanye dengan menyebar pamflet. Namun upaya ini sering kali menuai petaka. Beberapa kader Anwar ditangkap polisi saat menyebarkan pamflet tanpa tuduhan jelas. “Setidaknya ada 25-30 anak muda kami ditangkap,” kata Anwar. Kecurangan berlanjut hingga pemilihan umum tiba. Anwar mengaku menemukan praktek politik uang saat pemilihan umum berlangsung. Dia menemukan sejumlah masyarakat mendapat duit 500 ringgit. Dia juga menuding Komisi Pemilihan Umum Malaysia tak netral sebab terlalu membela partai penguasa. Dia menyebut KPU Malaysia tak profesional. Sebagai contoh, tak ada pengawasan yang jelas saat pemilihan dan penghitungan suara dilakukan, sehingga rawan terjadi kecurangan. Bahkan Anwar menyebutkan bahwa tinta tanda peserta pemilu dipalsukan KPU Malaysia. Tinta yang seharusnya permanen diganti menjadi tinta biasa yang mudah dihapus. “Bahkan lucunya di tengah pemilu ada yang mati lampu, ini, kan, rentan kecurangan,” katanya. Akibat kecurangan itu, partai penguasa dinyatakan menang. Sementara data yang Anwar punya menyatakan partai oposisinya menang lebih dari 50 persen. Anwar dan partai oposisi berjanji tetap kukuh mempertanyakan pemilihan umum Malaysia. Dia meminta lembaga pengawas pemilu Malaysia untuk mengusut dugaan kecurangan ini. Termasuk meminta pejabat KPU Malaysia untuk lengser dan bertanggung jawab. Berita internasional tentang Malaysia lainnya klik di sini.

Anwar Ibrahim Pastikan Gelar Demo Besar Posted: 17 Jun 2013 08:03 PM PDT Tempo   Pemimpin oposisi Malaysia, Pakatan Rakyat, Anwar Ibrahim, akan menggelar demo besar pada 22 Juni 2013, menolak pemilihan umum yang dianggap penuh kecurangan. Rencananya demo besar itu akan dipusatkan di Padang Merbuk, Kuala Lumpur. “Kami minta komisi pemilihan umum Malaysia mundur dan bertanggungjawab atas kecurangan ini,” kata Anwar saat menemui wartawan di Hotel Crown Plaza, Jakarta Selatan, Ahad, 16 Juni 2013. Anwar mengaku pihak oposisi sudah pernah mengajukan keberatan serupa ke KPU Malaysia. Namun dia mengaku KPU menanggapi dengan arogan dengan mengatakan partai oposisi tak punya hak menggugat hasil pemilu. Namun upaya demo besar tanggal 22 Juni mendatang, diakui Anwar mendapat halangan. Sekitar 15 pemuda kader Anwar ditangkap oleh polisi Malaysia, Sabtu, 15 Juni 2013, karena menyebarkan pamflet ajakan demo masal. “Ini tidak ada semangat bawa perubahan demokrasi,” kata Anwar. Meski begitu, dia melanjutkan, tak akan membatalkan rencana demo besar tanggal 22 Juni mendatang. Anwar pun berjanji demo besar nanti partai oposisi tidak akan berujung aksi anarki. “Kami sudah nyatakan demo kami damai.”

Anwar Ibrahim Sambut Baik JK Jadi Penengah di Pemilu Malaysia Posted: 17 Jun 2013 07:59 PM PDT detikNews Tokoh oposisi Pakatan Rakyat (PR) Malaysia, Anwar Ibrahim, menyambut baik tawaran Jusuf Kalla untuk menjadi penengah di kemelut Pemilu Malaysia yang melibatkan Anwar dan kontestan pertahanan Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak. “Saya hormati inisiatif Pak JK. Tetapi komisi belum selesai dan isu Pemilu belum selesai,” kata Anwar Ibrahim dalam jumpa pers di Hotel Crown Plaza, Jl Gatot Subroto, Jakarta Selatan,Minggu (16/6/2013). JK, menurut Anwar, dianggap mampu menjadi penengah dalam kemelut diantara kedua kontestan Pemilu tersebut. Hal ini karena JK merupakan teman akrab kedua pihak. Selain itu juga, dia menilai JK memiliki rekam jejak dalam meredam konflik, tidak hanya di Indonesia, namun juga di kawasan Asia Tenggara seperti di Myanmar. Anwar yang mengenakan stelan jas abu itu menyatakan telah bertemu dengan Presiden SBY dua hari lalu di Bali. Dalam pertemuan itu dia berbincang mengenai permasalahan-permasalahan yang ada di Malaysia, khususnya terkait proses Pemilu Malaysia, dan beberapa kebijakan bilateral kedua negara. “Saya juga mengutarakan tentang peranan Indonesia dan semangat idealisme demokrasi tentang kebebasan dan keadilan,” ujar Anwar. Anwar menampik rumor yang berkembang selama ini bila ada agenda dirinya bertemu dengan PM Najib di Jakarta membahas isu-isu seputar Pemilu 2013. “Saya jelaskan, tidak ada pertemuan. Tidak ada rencana peremuan,” kata Anwar. Meski demikian, dirinya akan membuka pintu pertemuan bila sewaktu-waktu pihak dari PM Najib hendak bertemu membicarakan persoalan Pemilu. “Saya pikir harus lebih terbuka,” katanya.

Gambar Sekitar Sidang Media Dato’ Seri Anwar Ibrahim di Jakarta, Indonesia Posted: 17 Jun 2013 07:58 PM PDT

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