DUN Sarawak bubar selepas raya : Pas

KUALA LUMPUR (SH) – Pas menjangka pembubaran Dewan Undangan Negeri (DUN) Sarawak selepas Hari Raya Aidilfitri bulan September ini.

Timbalan Ketua Dewan Pemuda Pas Pusat, Azman Shapawi berkata, Pas telah bersiap sedia untuk menghadapi pilihan raya yang bakal diadakan sekitar bulan Oktober atau November depan.

"Kami sudah diberitahu supaya membuat persiapan menghadapi pilihan raya ini termasuk persediaan sekitar April dan Julai tahun depan untuk menghadapi pilihan raya umum kelak.

“Pada 1 hingga 3 Oktober depan kami akan mengadakan program ‘Ijtima Tarbawi’ (perkampungan tarbiah) Pemuda di perkarangan Masjid Rusila, Marang Terengganu sebagai persediaan menghadapi pilihan raya umum akan datang,” katanya dalam sidang media di Pejabat Pas di sini semalam.

Menurutnya, seramai lapan ribu orang bakal hadir dalam program tersebut yang turut dihadiri Mursyidul Am Pas, Datuk Nik Abdul Aziz Nik Mat dan beberapa tokoh ulama Islam lain.

“Selain itu, pertemuan dengan Timbalan Menteri Pengajian Tinggi Datuk Saifuddin Abdullah pada 23 Ogos ini turut diadakan untuk membincangkan kewajaran pelajar terlibat dalam politik.

“Kita akan menyatakan pandangan kewajaran siswa terlibat dalam politik berdasarkan pengetahuan dan kematangan fikiran pelajar ini dan sebahagiannya adalah pemilih dalam pilihan raya,” katanya.

Dalam pada itu, pelancaran kempen pengumpulan tandatangan bantah saman ekor akan diadakan di Bazar Ramadan Keramat pada 23 Ogos ini.

“Kita akan kumpul sekurang-kurangnya sebanyak satu juta tandatangan sehingga selepas Aidilfitri depan sebelum diserahkan kepada kerajaan.

“Pelaksanaan kempen ini turut dilancarkan ke seluruh negara bagi membantah saman ekor yang dirasai kebanyakan masyarakat kita ekoran perkara ini,” katanya.

Umno jangan tunjuk ‘cerdik’- Nik Aziz

KOTA BHARU : Menteri Besar Kelantan Datuk Nik Abdul Aziz Nik Mat melahirkan rasa kesal dengan sikap pemimpin Umno yang sentiasa membangkang apa sahaja cadangan baik yang diketengahkan negeri itu.

Menurut beliau, sebarang tindakan dibuat oleh kerajaan negeri, maka ramai pemimpin Umno yang menunjukkan sikap cerdik dengan memberi pelbagai komen.

“Kalaupun nampak janggal, tiadalah mereka peduli asalkan nampak hebat di mata pandangan gerombolan mereka. Seingat saya, sepanjang dua dekad usia kerajaan PAS di Kelantan bermula tahun 1990 ini, itulah yang sentiasa kami hadapi.

“Cuti dua hari seminggu digelar sebagai ‘budaya pemalas’. Akhirnya orang yang sama menelan kembali ludahnya. Cuti 60 hari kakitangan wanita yang bersalin turut dipandang sinis, kemudiannya tanpa segan silu ditiru,” katanya melalui satu kenyataan media semalam.

Katanya, tindakan sama turut diambil Kerajaan Pusat terhadap pemerkasaan perbankan Islam yang bermula dengan langkah Kelantan memindahkan wang kerajaan dari bank riba ke perbankan Islam.

“Itu belum termasuk program kebajikan seperti Skim Takaful Kifalah, Skim Armalah, Ladang Rakyat dan panjang lagi senarainya.

“Sekarang apabila kerajaan Kelantan melancarkan mata wang syariah dinar (emas) dan dirham (perak) pada 12 Ogos lalu, maka bersatulah pemimpin UMNO untuk menghentam langkah ini.

Ramadan yang sepatutnya menjadi bulan damai dan pesta ibadat menjadi pesta menghentam Kerajaan Kelantan,” katanya yang juga Mursyidul AM PAS.

Tambahnya, jika kerajaan pimpinan Barisan Nasional enggan memulakan sesuatu, jangan pula menidakkan usaha pihak lain.

Sistem ‘barter trade’

“Saya ulangi penegasan yang dibuat sebelum ini oleh ahli Exco saya, Datuk Husam Musa bahawa apa yang dilancarkan Kelantan bukanlah mata wang, ia hanyalah pengenalan kepada sistem ‘barter trade’.

“Tukar suka sama suka dengan kerelaan tidak pernah dihalang di negara demokrasi ini. Setiap orang berkuasa ke atas barangannya dan berhak membuat keputusan.

“Apa yang salah ialah membuat keputusan ke atas barangan yang kita tidak berhak. Contohnya, memberi percuma dua blok minyak milik rakyat yang berharga ratusan bilion ringgit kepada kuasa asing atau merompak hak milik rakyat Kelantan ke atas telaga minyak dengan menafikan royalti,” katanya.

Beliau tertarik apabila seorang Timbalan Menteri baru-baru ini, heboh meluluskan lesen judi tiba-tiba mengeluarkan kenyataan bahawa ‘Dinar Emas dan Perak Dirham’ ini boleh menyebabkan kerugian.

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Is SUPP pulling out of Sarawak BN?

KUCHING : Sarawak is abuzz with rumours that the Sarawak United People’s Party (SUPP) is pulling out of the Barisan Nasional (BN).

Several Chinese newspapers here have played up speculations after after SUPP secretary-general Sim Kheng Hui declined to confirm or deny rumours that the long-standing BN partner was pulling out of the coalition.

Rumours began swirling last week following a secret meeting among SUPP’s top leaders and elected representatives in Kuala Lumpur.

The rendezvous was to have been a prelude to a meeting with Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak from whom SUPP is seeking help to settle problems affecting the party, one of which is that the party and the Chinese community have been ignored, bullied or marginalized allegedly by Chief Minister Abdul Taib’s government.

But SUPP leaders however failed to meet with the Prime Minister. Another meeting is expected to be arranged soon.

It is understood that during the KL meeting each one of the leaders, including ministers and deputy and assistant ministers, were asked to sign an undertaking to “sink and swim” with the party with whatever decision the leadership makes.

A few of them, including one minister, refused to sign the undertaking and this has prompted many to think that the oldest party in Sarawak is facing a major split.

“This is the worst crisis that the 50-year old party is facing,” said a party leader who was among those present at the meeting.

Right signals from members

Meanwhile, SUPP grassroots leaders and members are keen on the party pulling out of BN

Most have sent signals to the party leadership urging them to pull out of the state BN, but to maintain a status quo at the federal level.

“We have a precedent to follow,” they said, referring to the time in 1987 when Parti Bansa Dayak Sarawak was a member of the federal coalition, but an opposition at the state level.

“SUPP has become a toothless tiger in the state,” they said, pointing out that the party is expected to do badly in the coming state election if nothing is done to arrest the problem between the party and Taib.

SUPP has blamed its failures in 2006 state election - where it lost eight seats and the loss of the Sibu by-election in May this year - on Taib.

In order to win back the Chinese support, SUPP wants to be given the “full authority” to give assistance to the Chinese in terms of business opportunities, Chinese education, scholarships and places in universities.

So far Taib has not responded to the demands made by the party.

SUPP joined the Sarawak coalition government under Taib’s uncle Abdul Rahman Yakub in 1970 and later the state BN government.

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Jabu warns Sarawakians of bad politics

MIRI : Deputy Chief Minister Alfred Jabu Numpang has warned Sarawakians not to engage in the 'bad political culture’ practiced by the opposition parties from the peninsular.

He said such politicking will only throw Sarawak especially and Malaysia in general into the abyss of confusion and chaos.

He urged instead for all to embrace the 1Malaysia concept advocated by Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak.

Citing the fate of once successful African nations, he said Sarawakians must be wise to the destructive ways of bad politics.

“Don’t accept the bad political culture of the peninsular-based opposition parties.

“They want to bring their political styles here. They tried this in the recent Sibu parliamentary by-election. It was very sad because this has never happened in Sarawak before,” he said.

African example

Jabu was speaking to participants at the Dayak Association Miri (DAM) Members’ Solidarity Night held here recently.

Urging Sarawakians to support Barisan Nasional for their continued wellbeing, he said: “We have seen far too many bad examples especially in Africa.

“Some African countries gained independence earlier than Malaysia. At one time they were more developed and advanced than us.

“But look at them now. Some of these countries are suffering because there exists (political) confusion, riots and instabilities.”

Expressing hope that Sarawak and Malaysia will not relegate itself into such a state, he said the Dayak community was committed to working together with the BN.

“I pray that Sarawak in particular and Malaysia in general will not end up in chaos. We will continue to help one another...,” he said.

Touching on the Ibans, he said the community was still lagging far behind and urged the successful sons of the Dayak community to reach out to their brethrens.

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