45th Independence Day – Shall we happy of it??
Yesterday, we were praying for our beloved nation, Malaysia as we are now 51 years old in indepencent governance. We sang this song too: “Now is the time
For you to visit Malaysia
Speak Your mercy…”
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“Sekaranglah waktunya,
Kau lawat Malaysia
Nyatakan belas kasihMu Tuhan….”
As we pray, the pastor brinngs us to pray for the peace and freedom of the nation, the leadership and the ruling government. Though we are a very small congregation in Serian Good News Fellowship church, we pray for our nation every week. There was an evangelist from New Zealand preached yesterday. She stated that we must pray for our nation because it is our responsibility to bless our nation in prayer.
It’s the 51st independent anniversary for Tanah Melayu and the 45th for Sarawak. I am glad to be in such a harmony and peaceful country, Malaysia. It’s my 26th years to be in an independent country that has been mould by the greatest leaders and fellow ministers. As a small boy in my village, I feel very happy to see such a developing country with twin tower, F1-circuit, big airport, Proton Saga and Perodua Nautica and so much more. I believe that the hard works of our government has now producing fruits. Thank you to the leaders and ministers who worked days and night to ensure that we are developing well and balance.
Somehow, there is some lack that should never neglect which is the welfare of the aborigines despite Orang Asli, Kadazan, Iban, Bidayuh, Murut, Dusun, Kelabit, Kenyah and other tribes. These are the struggling tribe under the governance of the Malay, Chinese and Indian. Though there are quite much kind of policies to ensure that those aborigines are well preserved, we are still living under uncertainties and marginalization. We have NCR land but we could not develop them due to some issue concerning to the government policies. We have opened our land to SALCRA and FELCRA to plant oil palm on it, but now there are occupied with Indonesian workers. In Sabah, you might find Bajau and Philippines or Timorese in the oil palm estate.
Great Lost under NCR Policy
Last Saturday, on my return from college to home I saw a convoy of flag bearers with big bikes. It was fun to see them on the road with the flag they bear. How I wish to be in that convoy with my old noisy Honda EX5 motorbike in the midst of the Virago and Harley Davidson big bikes. In my heart, I persuaded my regret by waving to them as one by one of the riders passing by. I could not horn my bike since the horn system is faulty due to flatted battery.
Great Nation with Great Discrimination
What is theses nation in the heart of the Aborigines? We see independent day celebration on TV with great speech and firework show. Leaders spent million at Puterajaya and somewhere else to celebrate Malaysia Day and the next morning we have to toil all over again to get some food for the kids and folks. We raise national flag but never understand the meaning of independent. Truly, we had never affected by the British, Japanese, communists occupation because we are not the subject of profit to them. We still have relative in Kalimantan and never encounter confrontation from “Bapa” Sukaerno. Therefore, we had gain independent during the era of our forefather. We were free to hunt, fish, planting paddy with no intimidation. The only thing is that we have to send our kid to school which is 20 kilometers away or more (Teng Bukap and Dragon School). Father Reverend Howes came all over from Britian to teach grammar and adopted many aborigines to be sent to England to have proper education. We lost him as our “Bruno Manser” and we never have anyone like him though we have our own MP who representing us.
Does Robet Anak Wai independent from Poverty?
Shall we declare Independence at our hut while the others are playing golf on that very holiday? There are many golf courses on our forefather’s mountain but never get chance to play once. We are toiling to the hardest while some are playing golf up there. Will this Merdeka Day be the most emotional moment to us when we see our children could not spell and write? We saw helicopter on once in a four years to collect vote but the MP has never come for 8 years of in charge. That is marvelous to us. Pak Lah was in Hilton on that Day and made his way to Bandar Mutiara “before this it is called Tebedu” but he chopper flew very high and he could not see the huts of the aborigines.
"I have been in this hut for many years and I am comfortable with it. "
Merdeka,!! Merdeka!!, Merdeka!! That is the great loud of the nation on the next week event. Its always merdeka (independence) though, but we never live in such independence under Barisan Nasional.
Great Lost under NCR Policy
Great Nation with Great Discrimination
"I have been in this hut for many years and I am comfortable with it. "
9 comments:
Whether under British rule or not, Malaysia still under occupation. It's differs only in name: UMNO. Where got Merdeka until now. It's only a power transfer from British to UMNO rulers, the looting and corrupting is business as usual.
UMNO itulah penjajah sebenarnya.
In Kota Kinabalu, every Mederka they will erect a grand stand for the Merderka day celebration. The next day it will be pulled down. This has been going on for many years.
There are so much wastage and corruption going on in our country.
In the rural areas the 2nd class Bumuputra are living day to day on their meagre income.
When are all these going to end ????????
Bukan waktu untuk melawat Malaysia tepati waktu meliwat Malaysia. Kes liwat..lah. Aap kamu tak backah kes liwat itu.
If you say your are glad, I doubt it very much because you have accused the government of marginalizing you all this while, you claimed that your kampong is not developed and the NCR land are all being grabbed by the government either through development, SALCRA or FELCRA. So now what is your stand, don't be a hypocrite because you are not happy and your ancestors' land had been grabbed. Don't be confused and don't pretend to be happy. You need to fight till the last drop of your blood if you feel that you are marginalized. I admired the Pakistanis for their patience in forcing tyrant Pervez Musharaff resigned from the President of Pakistan.
You are mentioning about the Kelabit in your posting, but do you know the number of Kelabits who are lawyers, there are a few Kelabit professors both in the IPTA and IPTS. Dr. Ramy Bulan is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law in University Malaya, a premier university in the country. There are countless others who are in different positions, an extreme example is Datuk Seri Idris Jala, one of the best CEO Mas has ever had and I don't think it is wise for you to say that they are marginalised. Of course their country Bario is in a far flung areas, but you see those who have migrated from Bario are successful. Some have lived in Kuala Lumpur, Kuching, Miri and Bintulu where there are ample opportunities for them to eke out their living.
You talk of the Kadazandusun, their leader have been the Chief Minister of Sabah, now their Hugon Siou of Sabah Datuk Joseph Pairin Kitingan is still the Deputy Chief Minister of Sabah. They have ministers and deputy ministers in the Federal Cabinet, they have formed the Kadazandusun Chamber of Commerce. There are many successful Kadazandusun throughout the world. Had it not been for the NEP and the sound education policies of which you have benefited from it I doubt you would have graduated in IT. Had you were born during the colonial era, you would be like your father, your uncle or even like your other relatives who may just ended with primary school education.
You may say that the Bidayuh are marginalized, well can you explain why were you given the Yayasan Sarawak student loan? had your obtained your first class your student loan would have been converted to scholarship and you would not be asked to pay not even a single cents back to the government.
You mentioned about Rev. Father Howe in your posting but can you tell me how many people did he send to England? If I am not mistaken, only a couple of them which include Rt. Rev. Bishop and the ex-YB. Rev. Father How never send someone from the other Bidayuh areas to pursue their degree in England, and this is not a fair statement. Don't you know that during those days, rural boys has to be separated from their parents at a very young age either to go to St. James Kuap and stay at a boarding school ans study until Primary six where they have to sit for their common entrance examination? If they passed, they will continue their Form One to Form three education at St. Thomas, then they have to sit for their Sarawak Junior Certificate. If the pass the proceed to pursue their Form Four and Form Five education also at St. Thomas as boarders until they sat for their Senior Cambridge. Don you know that some of those students who were from the interior part of Penrissen and Padawan had to walk on foot for hours to reach St. James Kuap. I remember, my uncle used to tell me that he has to take an early boat ride from the teacherous Sarawak River via Semadang, Giam, Git and Batu Kitang and walked from Batu Kitang to Kampung Kuap to attend his Primary 4 to 6 education there. He failed his common entrance and thus that was the end. However he was happy as he was able to land himself a job as a Hospital Assistant ( jaga mayat. But now he is grateful because all five of his children are graduates, some teachers while other are professionals and successful accountants. However, not all of us Bidayuh can be successful as this guys, basically we are not motivated, some are plan lazy, others prefer to do things their own ways. The government can't continue to give subsidies all the time. There are time you have to eke for you own living. On top of that we must know how to make full use of the opportunities given to us not just to complain. Look at the example of successful Bidayuh who have made their millions, they have a very strong social capital, very strong networking with other communities. I was talking to the Director of OUM a couple of days ago and I must be proud of him, from a kampung boy to a director of a university. However not every Tom Dick and Harry can make it if you do not have the right knowledge, the right attitude, the right mentality, the right education and every thing must be right.
Well, if you say you were free to hunt, free to do what ever you want during the colonial or during the earlier part of the independent I suggest you interview some of the ex soldiers or even to some of those who were in either the police or in the army. Or I suggest you interview PWI (R) Kanang Anak Langkau who basically trade his life to fight for our country. Was there any political stability them? You were not even born when all these thing happened, and you don't read history books, because to you all these history books are all written by the manipulators. And only your own version of the story is true. That is why I still maintained that you are confused.
Those who play golf are those who have been successful either in their career or their respective profession. You one day, if you are promoted from being just a lecturer to a professor could play golf 'insallah'. But, if you are a real lecturer, with the right attitude, the right mental strength, the right knowledge, the right skill, the right social capital, you can be like othe Director of OUM. If you don't have those qualities, you will be just like me toiling along the knowledge superhighway and earning not even a cent and can't even have enough money to pay my green fees at the cheapest golf fairway. Please be fair to your self and your community. If you care for them, bring them our of the marginalized tag since you have been branded them as being marginalized.
Berikut ialah kenyataan akhbar Datuk Shafee Abdullah
17 August 2008
On the 6th, 7th, and 12th August 2008, Raja Petra published the 3 defamatory articles on me with other commenters publishing their comments following the 3 defamatory articles. All of the commenters are equally guilty of defamation and various offences of vulgarities under the Penal Code.
The Raja Petra website is a controlled website, meaning it is a moderated website. He chooses through that system to publish or not any article or comment posted on the blog site. He is therefore a publisher of all the articles and comments posted on his blog site and is therefore guilty of publishing, accommodating and adopting the contents as his. He has committed the offences of defamation, sedition and other offences in the Penal Code and the Communications and Multimedia Act 1998.
Raja Petra does not practise an open blog site. He only publishes materials that support him. All other materials that are critical of him or condemn him are not published. He is not interested in an open debate for alternative views. His claim that his website is a source of independent news is total nonsense. Clearly this blogger is a coward and one that hides behind his blog ( and as you can see in court last Friday, one that hides behind his wife as well) Any so called “Royalty” (as Raja Petra claims himself to be) who indulges in publishing vulgar statements over and above being defamatory ought to be ashamed of himself as his behaviour evidenced in the blog site is that of a common “pariah”.
I am lodging a police report today for offences committed by Raja Petra which are as follows:
(a) Criminal Defamation;
(b) Sedition under the Sedition Act 1948;
(c) Offences under the Penal Code for vulgarities;
(d) Offences under the Communications and Multimedia Act 1998; and
(e) Printing Presses and Publication Act 1984
The Order of the High Court has been officially served on him on the 15th of August 2008. But before this Raja Petra was aware of the contents of the Order dated 13th August 2008 as admitted by him in his article on the 14th itself. Under the law he should have obeyed the Order of Court counting from the 14th itself. I am monitoring closely if Raja Petra is complying with each and every order that the court has imposed against him. If he does not observe any of these orders, I will compel him to be produced in court for contempt of court. I will continue to do this for every contemptious act he commits and if the contempt continues I will make repeated applications for contempt against him. If the court of Appeal could find it sufficient to send Murray Hiebert, a bona fide journalist to jail in Malaysia, the crimes committed by Raja Petra would be far worse. Raja Petra is not a bona fide journalist or an independent news provider. He is truly a puppet of some political animal. Raja Petra’s website is a political propaganda website and Raja Petra is the chief puppet.
This year alone 2 successful defamation suits have been taken against Raja Petra. The cases are :
(a) Universiti Utara Malaysia & Vice Chancellor Tan Sri Dr Nordin Kardin v Raja Petra, where a defamation suit was taken against Raja Petra. Raja Petra never entered appearance nor defended the case. On 26th March 2008, Raja Petra was ordered to pay RM4 million as damages to the Plaintiffs. He has failed to pay the RM4 million. Raja Petra is a bankrupt and has been declared a bankrupt for quite sometime. As you know, an honourable bankrupt must defend his reputation about his credibility. Raja Petra never defended his credibility. He is not just a common bankrupt. He is also bankrupt of credibility and ideas.
(b) The case of Dato Seri Azim Zabidi v Raja Petra, a Kuala Lumpur High Court suit. Again judgment in default of appearance has been taken against him. The Plaintiff in that case has applied for damages to be assessed by the court. And the damages sum would soon be announced by the Court. Tell me why isn’t Raja Petra defending these suits? I suggest there is only one reason : he has no defence and he knows his stories are all propaganda and has no nexus to truth.
The above precedent cases show that:
(a) Raja Petra is a coward in not defending the defamation suits against him.
(b) If he claims he can justify the contents of all his writings, the public deserves to know the truth and he should not behave like a coward and not come to court and prove his case.
(c) I challenge him to consent to our case being expedited for trial so that the public will know the truth whether Raja Petra is a liar or not. The court is the best forum to adjudicate on the conflict. In fact, alternatively, if Raja Petra wants an independent arbitration on this matter, with independent arbitrators chosen by a joint consent between him and me, I will gladly accept it and challenge him to produce the proofs of his allegations.
We are concerned that Raja Petra thinks that being a bankrupt he does not have any obligations to law and society. This is perhaps the reason why he is so dishonest and reckless as to what he publishes. If he thinks he can hide behind his bankruptcy, he is dead wrong. So far the conduct of Raja Petra clearly shows that his sole motive is to do propaganda and truth was never his consideration at all.
For your information, I can conclusively show Raja Petra is a total liar I have independent evidence, both oral and documentary, that will show neither the office of Shafee & Co nor this conference room you are sitting in or the whiteboard you are looking at or I personally are involved in anything close to the allegation by Raja Petra that we are involved in a conspiracy relating to the case of the sodomy allegation by Saiful against Anwar Ibrahim. Raja Petra will have to show his so-called evidence. He bluffs by saying he has got 6 witnesses 3 of them are datuks apparently. And I urge him that if he has that evidence, he must quickly agree for an expedited trial of this matter as the public deserves nothing less than the truth. If Raja Petra is found to be lying to the public he must be stopped fast so that the public is not misled.
For your information, I have been away in Kuching and Terengganu for more than 6 weeks prior to Anwar Ibrahim being charged, I was away from the 28 June 2008 until 7th August 2008 continuously with one week in Kuala Terengganu (all of them related to my work in relation to 3 Election Petitions). How could I be in this room to mastermind the operation with the police.
Why should the police want to do a black operation in this room? Don’t you think a black operation by its nature is secretive ? Should such an operation be done in this open conference room ? That is the reason I say even a person with a pea-sized brain would not believe his story. Raja Petra is not a clever bluffer. I would love to cross-examine him in court and I would offer myself to be cross-examined by his team of lawyers if this is the only way truth can be revealed.
I will tell him to stop being the coward he is. Come out into the open, in the open court and fight me like a man and not to hide behind his web site or behind the skirt of his wife.
Dato’ Muhammad Shafee Abdullah
"...There are countless others who are in different positions, an extreme example is Datuk Seri Idris Jala, one of the best CEO Mas has ever had and I don't think it is wise for you to say that they are marginalised."
---Best CEO of MAS?
Well it depends on how you look at it. Remember that during Vietnam war when Tet Offensive concluded, the Americans claimed victory against the VC but the VC poked it as how easy they can dupe American GIs, how fragile the American marines under guerilla warfare.
MAS may claim a record profit but in fact running a circus if not because of Idris Jala. Idris Jala is a good general but best for him to leave a lost war and let MAS flew to nowhere and die. The one burned the most is the Umno crooks inside MAS. When things settled down, Idris Jala will be relieved and replaced by another Umno goons CEO.
So you see Idris Jala as the MAS savior or Umno savior?
"...now their Hugon Siou of Sabah Datuk Joseph Pairin Kitingan is still the Deputy Chief Minister of Sabah. They have ministers and deputy ministers in the Federal Cabinet, they have formed the Kadazandusun Chamber of Commerce. There are many successful Kadazandusun throughout the world."
---Yeah right. After Pairin sold out and surrender Sabah to Umno, who are you to claim that Kadazandusun are happily successful throughout the world? Kadazandusun already become the Sabah version of U.S Red Indian/native American now. It's just nice if Sabah's new name is Sabah Darul Lanun Sulu.
"...Had it not been for the NEP and the sound education policies of which you have benefited from it I doubt you would have graduated in IT."
--I doubt it why not 30years ago NEP should be more biased for Dayaks students as NEP deemed a racist, biased policy? Why not Missionary schools under full govt funding 30years ago? You, your uncle, your grandpa and all Dayaks wouldn't care much about NEP/subsidies/handouts now as Dayaks are commonly well educated 30years ago. Dayaks could be another majority migrants in Australia, Canada, New Zealand as it's a perfect place for the rich and successful.
"...had your obtained your first class your student loan would have been converted to scholarship and you would not be asked to pay not even a single cents back to the government."
---Education is a basic right for all, not a tool for anyone to be made grateful/ungrateful of. You are in no position to dictate who gets what from any govt bodies. Are you deploying a holding ransom money game here? How you judge a 1st class degree holder, received full scholarship, decided to withdraw his nationality and migrate elsewhere? Would you branded him as ungrateful? Do you realised one of the reason is because of people like you and the racist biased education policy tend to make deserving student being cornered?
"...Don you know that some of those students who were from the interior part of Penrissen and Padawan had to walk on foot for hours to reach St. James Kuap..."
---Enough of your whining. Things may change now but the rot remains. Missionary schools aren't getting any better, still same old hut in the sense of 'hidden' govt policy toward Dayaks schools. Teachers are plucked from the lowest quality to send to Dayak-populated schools. All this shit happens and never you deny it. There are many efforts to stall Dayaks from getting proper education, directly or indirectly. Divide-and-rule tactics never been so effective with it.
"...Or I suggest you interview PWI (R) Kanang Anak Langkau who basically trade his life to fight for our country."
---When you cite Kanang, ever wonder why he always critical of the govt? Do you believe when he said govt favour the communists more than the soldiers who risk their lives? Right now, most of the ex-communists are god damn rich. They were given big area of lands, almost a size of a new state division just to stop them from killing even their own Chinese folks during Confrontation period. Not to mention hundreds RMmillions worth of govt projects given to them as well, happy for their next 7 generations.
In the end, the real crooks become filthy bankers but the brave, almost-suicidal soldiers just get enough to live for another day. History is funny eh? Should Kanang take Datukship? Bet your scrotum he's not. You can simply buy it for say, around RM30K.
Tell you one tip:
Group a commies for an uprising against Taib, make it real and big, until Taib offer us a deal.
I go for the money. How about you?
"...and you don't read history books, because to you all these history books are all written by the manipulators."
---History were written in favour of the victor, most of the time. Called it factual biased. It's ok to read some history books but never wholeheartedly believe it. Even govt can give phony historical accounts such as Hang Tuah as Malay warrior but highly doubtful after much cover ups the fact is Hang Tuah is Chinese. Japanese high school 'deleted' the Nanking mass rape by their soldiers during WW2 occupation of China in their History books but reviewed only recently. Do you believe what Dr.Chang, self-styled Dayakologist, written about Bidayuh history, so brief and superficial that Bidayuh existence merely some 200-300years ago? Where do we come from, Kalimantan Dayaks or Taiwan natives or outer space of alien race?
But as you said, history is written by manipulators. Only you forgot to tell, why manipulate the history? Your guess is as good as mine.
"...now their Hugon Siou of Sabah Datuk Joseph Pairin Kitingan is still the Deputy Chief Minister of Sabah. They have ministers and deputy ministers in the Federal Cabinet, they have formed the Kadazandusun Chamber of Commerce. There are many successful Kadazandusun throughout the world."
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The Sabahans have been living in the toilet bowl of Dato' Harun, Musa Aman and Harris Saleh.
Pairin is just another new dweller.
About " plant oil palm on it, but now there are occupied with Indonesian workers. ".
Indonesian workers came over because the Sarawakian natives too lazy or too egoistic to work in the plantation.
Yes you are right. Look at what they write about themselves, about others and about their leaders. The Bidayuh seemed to be the best breed and not the other communities. The dispies the achievement of other communities. But when it comes to helps their own communities they are not there. They look down on those who work for the government, they look down on those who graduated from local institution of higher learning. They look down on the leaders. Look at how TBS describes Datuk Palngima Joseph Pirin Kitingan. I am ashamed to asssociate my self with this blog. Look, at how they ptrayed Datuk Seri Idris Jala. But the guy who dispies Datuk Seri Idris Jala may be jealous of his achievement. That is why he says disrecpectful things about him. I hope one day he would stand a a candidate and see what the voters will have to say about him.
"The Bidayuh seemed to be the best breed and not the other communities."
Bidayuh maybe the best breed but it counts nothing if you keep being used/abused for the tyrant Taib. Such a dope.
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