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2019 penentu Malaysia Baharu berjaya digerakkan atau sekadar khayalan

2018, rakyat Malaysia berasa bangga buat kali pertama sejak bertahun lamanya dan melakukan perkara yang mereka sendiri tidak sangka, malah dunia sendiri terkejut, apabila berjaya mengubah tampuk pemerintahan di Putrajaya secara aman dan demokratik, sekali gus memberi harapan kepada rakyat Malaysia dan dunia supaya tidak terus berputus asa memilih demokrasi sebagai suatu sistem pemerintahan. 2018 mungkin akan menjadi tahun paling penting dalam sejarah negara, yang mana akan menentukan sama ada agenda Malaysia Baharu yang dibawa Pakatan Harapan yang terdiri daripada DAP, Bersatu, PKR dan Amanah berjaya digerakkan atau hanya sekadar khayalan.

9 Mei 2018, memberikan rakyat Malaysia peluang untuk membetulkan semula dasar pembinaan negara. Namun, sebuah Malaysia Baharu tidak boleh dibina atau disiapkan dalam tempoh 100 hari, dua tahun atau satu pusingan pilihan raya, tetapi memerlukan sedekad dua untuk dicapai. Malaysia Baharu sedang bergelut untuk dilahirkan dan semua rakyat Malaysia, tidak mengira kaum, agama, politik, jantina, sama ada di dalam negara atau diaspora seluruh dunia, harus turut serta dalam proses pembentukan sebuah Malaysia Baharu. Perjalanan menuju sebuah Malaysia Baharu harus berakar pada tahun 2019 berdasarkan pembaharuan institusi dan struktur bagi mentransformasi Malaysia daripada kleptokrasi global kepada negara peneraju integriti; mengembalikan semula kedaulatan undang-undang; mengukuhkan demokrasi; reformasi sistem pendidikan bagi menjadikan Malaysia sebuah negara bertaraf antarabangsa; menyatukan rakyat Malaysia pelbagai kaum, agama dan budaya serta mengangkat pertembungan pelbagai kaum, agama, budaya dan peradaban di Malaysia sebagai satu aset untuk membentuk sebuah ketamadunan global baharu.

Pendek kata, rakyat Malaysia harus bersaing dengan dunia luar dan tidak sekadar bersaing sesama sendiri sahaja. Rakyat Malaysia harus beralih dari era ketuanan Melayu ke arah ketuanan rakyat Malaysia. Pembinaan negara tidak harus menjadi permainan zero sum tetapi formula menang-menang. Kita harus memperjuangkan hak orang Melayu, tetapi tidak sehingga meminggirkan hak orang bukan Melayu. Kita harus memperjuangkan hak orang Cina, tetapi tidak sehingga menjejaskan hak orang bukan Cina. Begitu juga dengan perjuangan hak orang India, tanpa mengancam hak bukan orang India di Malaysia. Begitu juga dengan kaum Kadazan, Iban, masyarakat Orang Asli di Malaysia. Mari bersama-sama kita jadikan tahun 2020 sebagai tahun di mana rakyat Malaysia mampu menuai hasil daripada usaha pembinaan Malaysia Baharu. – Roketkini.com

2019 will probably be the most decisive year which will decide whether New Malaysia is a work-in-progress or a sheer chimera

2018, Malaysians stood tall for the first time in many years and shocked themselves as well as the world by carrying out a peaceful and democratic transition of power in Putrajaya to give hope to Malaysians and the world not to give up on democracy, however noisy and messy it might be, as a system of governance. 2019 will probably be the most decisive year in the nation’s history which will decide whether the New Malaysia the Pakatan Harapan coalition of DAP, Bersatu, PKR and AMANAH want to build is a work-in-progress or a sheer chimera.

May 9, 2018 allows Malaysians a hitherto unimaginable chance to re-set nation-building policies, but a New Malaysia cannot be built or completed in 100 days, two years or even a five-year general election cycle but will take a decade or two to accomplish. A New Malaysia is struggling to be born and all Malaysians, regardless of race, religion, politics, gender, sex, inside the country or in the worldwide diaspora, must take ownership of and participate in the process of the making of a New Malaysia. The journey towards a New Malaysia must strike deep roots in 2019 in terms of structural and institutional reforms in 2019 to transform Malaysia from a global kleptocracy into a leading nation of integrity; restore the rule of law; entrench democracy; reform the educational system to make Malaysia a top world-class nation; unite Malaysians of diverse races, religions and cultures and leverage on the assets of the different races, religions, cultures and civilisations which meet in confluence in Malaysia to build a new global civilization.

In short, Malaysians must reach for the world and must compete with the rest of the world instead of among themselves. From an era of ketuanan Melayu, all Malaysiansn must move to an epoch of ketuanan Malaysian. Nation building must not be a zero sum game but a win-win formula. We must fight for the rights of the Malays but not at the expense of the non-Malays. We must fight for the rights of the Chinese in Malaysia, but not to the detriment of the non-Chinese. Similarly, we must fight for the rights of the Indians in Malaysia without being a threat to the non-Indians in Malaysia. Similarly for the Kadazans, Ibans and Orang Asli communities in Malaysia.

Let 2020 be the year Malaysians can begin to celebrate the fruits of a New Malaysians.

Lim Kit Siang : Call for the holding of a National Orang Asli Conference in Cameron Highlands to present a blueprint for Orang Asli upliftment in New Malaysia

The Cameron Highlands by-election will be historic for many reasons. It will highlight the Pakatan Harapan’s commitment as expressed in the May 9, 2018 decision of the 14th General Election to save Malaysia by transforming Malaysia from a global kleptocracy into a leading nation of integrity. It will be the first by-election caused by the commitment of Orang Asli to a clean and incorruptible government, electoral integrity and hatred of electoral abuses including corruption and money politics. Corruption, money politics and electoral offences took place all over the country, but such electoral offences had been allowed to take place with impunity and immunity until the Orang Asli from Cameron Highlands took a stand with several of them becoming key witnesses in the election appeal which led to a Cameron Highlands by-election.

The victory in the Election Court resulting in the holding of a by-election on January 26 demonstrates that Orang Asli, like the Malays, Chinese, Indians, Kadazans and Ibans also want change in the national political system where every Malaysian citizen can enjoy justice and fair play. The by-election will be an opportunity for the Orang Asli in Cameron Highlands – which is the parliamentary constituency with the most number of Orang Ali voters, followed by Tapah and Gua Musang – to set the historic pace for the 200,000 Orang Ali in the country by holding a National Orang Ali Conference to formulate a blueprint for the upliftment of Orang Asli community in Malaysia. This National Orang Asli Conference must be decided by the Orang Asi leaders, and the idea should be discussed with JAKOA (Jabatan Kemajuan Orang Asli) and the Orang Asli NGOs.

I appoint the Deputy Minister for Water, Land and Natural Resources, Tengku Zulpuri, DAP MP for Bentong, Wong Tack and the former Pakatan Harapan parliamentary candidate for Cameron Highlands, A. Manogaran as members of a panel of advisers to explore with JAKOA and Orang Asli NGOs on the.possibility of holding such a National Orang Asli Conference.

The Kleptocrats including former Ministers and MPs – to apologise to all Malaysians for being “enablers of Najib kleptocracy”

As a step closer to closure of the monstrous 1MDB scandal and kleptocratic Malaysia, two days left for all who had aided and abetted Najib in his kleptocratic rule – including former Ministers and MPs – to apologise to all Malaysians for being “enablers of Najib kleptocracy”. The monstrous 1MDB scandal and other 1MDB-like scandals in Felda, Felcra, Tabung Haji and MARA as part of a kleptocratic Malaysia is not any closer to a closure despite close to eight months of the historic decision in the 14th General Election for a peaceful and democratic transition of power in Putrajaya.

As a step closer to closure of the monstrous 1MDB scandal and kleptocratic Malaysia, there are two days left for all who had aided and abetted former Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak in his kleptocratic rule – including former Ministers and MPs – to apologise to all Malaysians for being “enablers of Najib kleptocracy”. Those in the frontline who had aided and abetted the monstrous crimes of kleptocracy in the Najib premiership, the enablers of Najib kleptocracy, were foremost the Ministers in the Najib Cabinet, the Members of Parliament in particular the Speaker of the 13th Parliament who helped Najib to suppress the 1MDB scandal and Najib kleptocracy from being debated in Parliament, the Barisan Nasional political leaders who had received 1MDB funds from Najib and the media practitioners who had taken part in a great propaganda camouflage to hide the 1MDB scandal and the kleptocratic regime from the Malaysian public.

They have two days to make a clean breast of their past as enablers of Najib kleptocracy, and to declare and demonstrate their regret and contrition for not standing up to the crime of global kleptocracy and failing the nation – or they will carry the cross of being enablers of Najib kleptocracy into the new year. It is a terrible indictment on what is left of the three Barisan Nasional coalition of UMNO, MCA and MIC as well their former political parties that in the past seven months – whether in Parliament or outside – none of them had conceded that the 1MDB scandal was a national catastrophe or repudiated Najib for the monstrous kleptocracy when he was Prime Minister, and to express their apologies and contrition for their role as “enablers” of Najib kleptocracy.

In this context, the recent appointment of Najib to the UMNO advisory committee is a clear sign of UMNO’s unrepentant role of its infamous kleptocratic past, and why the 1MDB scandal and Najib’s infamous record of kleptocratic rule must continue to be kept in the public limelight until the country develops a culture of “zero tolerance for corruption”. Everyone of the BN MPs, including MCA’s sole MP Datuk Seri Wee Ka Siong, had been tarred with Najib’s kleptocracy, and they have not repented. The same applies to the PAS MPs as well. In fact, in during the 50-day meetings this year of the 14th Parliament, not a single one of the Barisan Nasional MPs whether UMNO, MCA or MIC – and this includes the PAS MPs – had given a speech on the 1MDB corruption scandal, although it is the single biggest global scandal confronting Malaysia.

Can these Opposition MPs explain why? Furthermore, all political parties and politicians, including MPs of the 13th Parliament, should return to public coffers any funding and donations they had received from the 1MDB scandal. (Media Statement by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Kuala Lumpur on Saturday, 30th December 2018)

Kit Siang : Will Wee Ka Siong apologise and demonstrate his contrition for being an “enabler of Najib kleptocracy” in the last three days of this year?

Datuk Seri Dr. Wee Ka Siong is the Datuk Seri Dr. Zahid Hamidi of MCA. At least when Zahid claims to represent the Malays, he can do so without batting an eyelid. Can Wee honestly and honourably claim to represent the Chinese, even in the Ayer Hitam parliamentary constituency? Wee is the sole MCA MP in Parliament. But who sent him to Parliament – the Chinese of Malaysia or UMNO’s Malay vote bank?

Would Wee have the political honour and integrity to immediately resign as MP for Ayer Hitam so that he could truly, honesty and honourably speak on behalf of the Chinese in Malaysia? Wee had been proud to be compared to Zahid, but not after Dec 18. At least Zahid had the political instinct to step aside as UMNO President and have his portrait taken down at the UMNO Supreme Council meeting room. Have Wee the political guts to do the same? Nobody have said it better than former MCA President, Datuk Seri Dr. Chua Soi Lek who had condemned the MCA Ministers for not speaking out on the 1MDB scandal when in government. He said the MCA leadership had five years and many opportunities to transform MCA, but he had seen no changes. As Chua said, winning the MCA party election is the easiest part, but the real challenge is on how to transform MCA into an effective Opposition party.so as to regain the support and confidence of the party members.

As I observed early this month, the MCA General Assembly after Wee was elected MCA President must be the most humiliating experience of the MCA in its 69-year history – worse than the 2103 General Election when it became a 7/11 political party, or the 2018 general election, when it degenerated into a mosquito party winning only one parliamentary seat. I said: “In the last two days, whatever is left of MCA pride and dignity were dragged over the coals by UMNO leaders, with Zahid reminding MCA to know its place; UMNO Deputy President Datuk Seri Mohamad Hasan urging MCA to leave Barisan Nasional (BN) immediately, remarking that he would be ‘very thankful’ if MCA quits BN as ‘We cannot afford to have a burdensome friend when we are already having a tough time, politically’ while even the UMNO-owned Malay daily Utusan Malaysia also joined in the fray, lashing out at MCA for overstepping its authority, branding the party a ‘weakling’ and insignificant member of the former ruling coalition.

“But the most mortifying mistake of last Sunday’s MCA General Assembly was not the resolution that BN dissolves, but its craven and cowardly failure to repudiate former Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak for the monstrous 1MDB corruption and money-laundering scandal which turned Malaysia into a global kleptocracy.” I concluded my remarks saying: “MCA can recover from the attacks of UMNO leaders, however legitimate and justified, but it can never recover from its craven and cowardly failure to repudiate Najib for the monstrous 1MDB scandal which brought to Malaysia to the international infamy, ignominy and iniquity of a global kleptocracy.” Yesterday, Wee said the 1MDB issue cannot be the DAP’s multi-purpose excuse to be exploited every time Pakatan Harapan runs into controversy.

Wee cannot be so naïve as not to know that this is not the case as the DAP will not run away from issues. DAP is not in competition with MCA’s record of spinelessness – to use politics for self-gain, whether titles, position or fortune. This is why in my response to Tan Sri Clement Hii’s FaceBook posting, I had said in Luoyang, Henan on 27th December that the DAP would never become a MCA2, as the DAP would have no hesitation in leaving the coalition government if the objective of a New Malaysia is abandoned. Have MCA in six decades made any such-like statement? This statement was not a threat or announcement of our quitting Pakatan Harapan, but a statement of our political principles and commitment. But petty and small-minded politicians like Wee twisted it into a statement of intent and accused me of making a U-turn when the DAP did not quit Pakatan Harapan.

I do not think the Malaysians can be so easily hook-winked. In fact, the majority of MCA members do not believe in Wee’s obsession with so-called “U-turns”! There can, however, be no doubt that Wee is one of the “enablers of Najib kleptocracy”. Having aided and abetted former Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak in the monstrous 1MDB corruption and money-laundering scandal and the other 1MDB-like scandals in Felda, Felcra, Tabung Haji and MARA, is he prepared to apologise to all Malaysians in the last three days of this year so that he does not have to carry the cross of being an “enabler of Najib kleptocracy” into the new year of 2019? Wee has three days to make a clean breast of his past as an enabler of Najib kleptocracy, and to declare and demonstrate regret and contrition for not standing up to the crime of global kleptocracy and failing to defend the international honour, repute and standing of the nation.

What is Wee’s response?