Petrol subsidy

PUTRAJAYA: Save for unforeseen circumstances, the government will introduce a new measure of "fixed petrol subsidy for one car per person" beginning March. A large-scale car owner registration exercise will also be launched in conjunction with the new petrol subsidy mechanism to be implemented beginning May 1.

Under the new mechanism, even if a car owner has a few vehicles under his or her name, he or she is only entitled to petrol subsidy for one car only.

If the car owner finishes his or her monthly quota earlier, he or she would have to purchase the fuel based on unsubsidised market rates.

Besides, if the driver is not the owner of any vehicle, he or she will not be entitled to the subsidy.

According to reliable information from the finance ministry, although details of the new subsidy mechanism have yet to be finalised, the solutions being discussed include allowing all registered car owners to enjoy fixed monthly quotas of subsidised petrol with no regard to engine capacity.

As for how much quota will each car owner be entitled to, the sources said it could be anything between 100 to 300 litres.

Ku Li praised for brave stand on oil, rights of states

Pakatan Rakyat leaders praised Umno veteran Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah for his courage and non-partisanship in standing up for Kelantan’s oil rights and for calling for a review of the Federation Agreement, which details the rights of the 13 states vis-a-vis the federal government. “He is a very brave man, a man of tremendous principles to stand up to his party,” Wan Rahim Wan Abdullah, MP for Kota Bharu and former Speaker of the Kelantan legislative assembly, told Harakahdaily. “Not only is he speaking up for the Kelantan people but he is also trying to correct the abuses by the federal government in the way they allocate money and grants to the different states, including Sabah and Sarawak,” Wan Rahim added. “It is high time that the Umno-BN behaved like a gentleman and honour the Petronas profit-sharing agreement with the oil-producing states, of which Kelantan is one. They should not have double standards and pick on Kelantan just because it is ruled by PAS-Pakatan,” Hanipa Maidin, PAS central committee member, told Harakahdaily. “Imagine if you cannot honour an agreement with your own states, which country or multinational would want to have serious long-term dealings with you. These of sort things have a much deeper and longer-term implication than the Umno-BN cares to admit,” Hanipa added. Massive turnout for the PAS oil forum Indeed, Ku Li – as the Tengku Razaleigh is also known – is renowned for his stickiness for fair-play. The former Finance Minister, who was the first chairman of national oil firm Petronas, had in the 1980s challenged former premier Mahathir Mohamad and more recently Prime Minister Najib Razak for the presidency of Umno. A crowd of at least 50,000 turned up to see him share the center stage with PAS spiritual adviser Nik Aziz Nik Mat, whose party had organized the forum held at the Stadium Sultan Mohamed IV on Thursday night. They were not disappointed by the two veteran leaders. “I stand here representing only myself. I am here upon principle,” was Ku Li’s appetizer to the roaring crowd. The cheers grew even louder when he confirmed that he had decided to accept a Pakatan invitation to lead the parliamentary caucus on oil rights. The caucus was mooted after Najib refused to pay Kelantan – which is ruled by the PAS-led Pakatan state government - five percent in oil royalty and instead offered a much lesser sum in the form of compassionate money. “If Sarawak is due her five per cent royalty, no less is Kelantan, by the same principle,” Ku Li said. “Kelantan may be poor. But we are not beggars. We demand what is rightfully ours." He also told the crowd that Malaysia was a federation of sovereign states and the states have assigned only certain rights to the federal government, not all as the federal government would have it appear. “The oil caucus I will lead is not just about oil. It is to re-examine the relationship between the states and the federal government. Let us re-examine the terms of the Federation Agreement signed in 1948,” said Ku Li.

Berbanding DS Najib, TGNA jauh terkehadapan

Foto-foto ini jelas menggambarkan kemesraan di antara TG Nik Aziz yang beramah mesra dengan sebahagian tetamu yang hadir dalam majlis perjumpaan dengan ketua-ketua penganut agama di Kota Bharu sebentar tadi. 

Perjumpaan itu turut dihadiri ketua-ketua Majlis Perundangan Agama Buddha, Kristian, Hindu, Sikh dan Tao Malaysia, K. Kamalanathan dan Ketua Kesatuan Agama Kristian Malaysia, Bishop Ng Moon Hing.

Semoga Perdana Menteri 1Malaysia yang ingin menonjolkan dirinya sebagai "jaguh perpaduan kaum" serta "umno juara rakyat" khas untuk umno dan kroninya  saja akan berlapang dada melihat gambar kemesraan pelbagai kaum sebegini. 

PAS has at least 40% Malay support

Deposed Pakatan Rakyat Mentri Besar for Perak Nizar Jamaluddin said his PAS party still had minimum 40 percent support from the Malay electorate in the state, dismissing speculation that the coalition might lose in the event of snap elections. “We are very confident of a clear and decisive victory and that’s why we intend to call for snap elections the moment we can do so. Unlike Umno, which is why they dare not call for fresh polls,” Nizar told Harakahdaily.

Latest in-house surveys by PAS showed little change in Malay sentiment towards the party, although polls conducted by the Merdeka Centre and Universiti Malaya suggest it may have lost 7 to 8 percent of the electorate.

“We respect their views but we also have faith in our own research,” said Nizar, the Pasir Panjang assemblyman, who is also MP for Bukit Gantang.

The former tin-mining state has a mixed population of more than 2 million, of which 54 percent or 1.1 million are Malay, 32 percent are Chinese, 12 percent Indian and the rest other races.

If PAS can maintain its support base of 40 percent of the Malay voters, then its chances of re-taking the state government is very bright. Already, pundits expect the Pakatan - which also consists of the multi-racial DAP and PKR - to sweep the mixed constituencies, where non-Malays form a high proportion of the population.

According to him, Pakatan will soon be unveiling plans to lift from poverty the large pockets of rural Malay areas dotting Perak, and also introduce programs to inject modern facilities and infrastructure so that they could catch up with the urban parts of the state.

“Many of these place like Larut and Trong look like they are still in the pre-Independence era. They were completely sidelined and ignored by the Umno-BN in the state’s development plans," the 52-year old leader said.

“We intend to correct this by re-distributing the resources of the state in a more equitable and effective way, firstly by plugging leakage due to corruption.”

In the urban towns, where the population is mostly non-Malay, the Pakatan will announce business-friendly strategies to give all an equal chance to succeed.

"We will implement a new dimension, it will be a paradigm shift. No more stale investment strategies, no more corrupt ways of doing things," Nizar said.

"Those who doubt our ability to bring progress need only to look at the success and ingenuity of our land titles program. We are serious professionals who can get the job done well. If we had been allowed to continue, by now, we would have finished the target of giving out 150,000 titles to the poor and the homeless."

Nizar was the Mentri Besar before a coup d’etat engineered by Prime Minister Najib Razak toppled the Pakatan state government in February 2009.

His lawsuit challenging the legaility of Umno-BN leader Zambry Kadir as his successor will be decided by the Federal Court on February 9.

But even if he is not reinstated by the court, Nizar said the Pakatan would still go full steam with its rural redevelopment plan.

“If I win the court case, I would still call for snap election. If Pakatan loses the election, we would still find ways to co-ordinate with the private sector to fund the programs,” he stressed.

“Right now, we have 28 assemblymen and we are not going to sit and shake legs. Win or lose, we have to work and our work is to service our constituents and look for ideas and ways to bring them the change and development that they wish for.”

Currently, Pakatan has the same number of 28 seats as Umno-BN. However, there are also three Independents - whose status is still being challenged in the courts - who have declared allegiance with the BN.

Nizar also expressed optimism about his chances with the Federal Court, despite widespread concern that he may not be able to get a fair verdict given the judiciary's track record of bowing to political pressure from the ruling elite.

“Morally and legally, we are in the right. So I am extremely confident that I can win the court case,” he said.

“The problem is there may be other factors involved. So we have to pray for God’s guidance and that the judges will all be guided by good conscience, good faith and wisdom.”

Selamatkan Malaysia

Negara akan terus lingkup di bawah Umno/BN (UBN). Pendedahan oleh Ku Li, berlakunya penyelewengan wang rakyat dan salah gunakuasa Bank Negara untuk kepentingan broker pertukaran dana asing Rosmah Najib amat mengejutkan sekali yang membuatkan rakyat sesak nafas!

Apa tidaknya, pada pertengahan tahun lepas (2009), perjudian Bank Negara yang tiada ambil iktibar daripada kesalahan yang sama yang pernah berlaku dalam pasaran perjudian tukaran wang asing. Bank Negara terus berjudi sehingga mengalami kerugian sebanyak RM32 bilion. Satu jumlah yang cukup besar yang bisa menampung bajet negeri Pulau Pinang selama 100 tahun.

Selain daripada itu , defisit negara yang berturutan selama 13 tahun membimbangkan rakyat. Hutang negara sebanyak RM363 bilion pula terpaksa dibayar sebanyak RM13,000 setiap kepala rakyat Malaysia. Lahir sahaja seorang bayi, sudah terhutang kepada negara sebanyak RM13,000. Warga marhein yang akan membayarnya bukan PM dan kabinetnya yang ‘joli katak’ dengan wang rakyat sebagaimana kata Ku Li.

Negara akan muflis jika salahguna wang negara dan penyelewengan terus berlaku. Tak cukup dengan penyelewengan dan kerakusan pembaziran yang dibuat oleh Badawi sebagaimana dakwa Mahathir sebanyak RM270 bilion dan Mahathir sendiri sebagaimana pendedahan Barry Wain telah membazirkan RM100 bilion wang rakyat yang dinafi cuma RM10 bilion sahaja adalah juga wang rakyat yang terpaksa menanggung siksa dan derita membayar setiap sen wang negara yang hilang dengan kenaikan harga barang gula, minyak dan sebagainya. Ditambah pula siksa-derita rakyat marhein dengan perjudian tukaran wang asing oleh Bank Negara Rosmah Najib sebanyak RM32 bilion. Rakyat yang membayarnya bukannya UBN dan kroni mereka yang menjadi kaya raya di atas keperitan rakyat jelata.

Kerugian Bank Negara tersebut pada pertengahan tahun lepas mengakibatkan pada tahun itu kakitangan kerajaan tiada bonus dan ada ura-ura cola akan dipotong dan minyak naik (selepas pilihan raya semula di Perak) dan sekarang makanan sekolah berasrama penuh dipotong dan  gula naik. RM270 bilion + RM100 billion  yang berjumlah RM370 bilion dan yang terkini RM32 bilion itu; berjumlah sekitar RM400 bilion. Jika UBN  terus memerintah dengan kerakusan dan ketamakan keqorunan mereka, tiada mustahil negara akan bisa jatuh bankrap. Bapak menteri bisa cabut luar negara dengan aset mereka di seberang laut tetapi rakyat bagaimana.

Sewajarnyalah rakyat golongan marhein bersama PAKATAN RAKYAT mendesak supaya harta Mahathir dan Badawi disita untuk menampung kerugian dan penyelewengan wang rakyat yang dilakukan oleh mereka dan kroni mereka, golongan Umnoputra Korporat Melayu Islam  di bawah UBN yang beramal dengan korupsi, kroni, nepotisme dan salahguna kuasa dan wang rakyat untuk projek yang membazir dan harga kos projek yang berlipatkali ganda daripada harga yang sebenar sepertimana yang pernah didedahkan oleh Chua Jui Meng, bekas menteri kabinet yang berpengalaman luas yang kecewa dengan sikap kerakusan Umno yang tiada akan berubah dan mutakhir ini bergiat cergas di dalam Pakatan Rakyat untuk membina tapak baru dan harapan baru untuk masa depan rakyat Malaysia.

Satu Malaysia ditipu oleh UBN dalam program JMR (JUARA MENIPU RAKYAT) tajaan UBN satu Malaysia. Isu penyelewengan demi penyelewengan wang rakyat ini; termasuk skandal PKFZ, cuba dialih fokus oleh UBN dengan perihal isu kalimah Allah yang diperbesarkan dan dieksploitasikan oleh mereka demi untuk mendapat semula sokongan orang Melayu dalam PRU13 nanti.

Namun, massa sudah celik mata akan sandiwara mereka dan tiada memberikan sokongan ke atas lakonan demonstrasi mereka yang cuba mencetuskan huru hara antara kaum dan antara agama dalam isu kalimah Allah di negara ini setelah huru-hara heret kepala lembu tiada mendapat sokongan orang Melayu apalagi daripada PAS yang berhati-hati dan menunjukkan kematangan siasahnya daripada masuk perangkap perkauman dan ugama manipulasi Umno. PAS yang semakin utuh di hati massa yang menyaksikan sendiri bukti kehebatan Islam yang dibawanya selaku gerakan dan Parti Islam SATU MALAYSIA di negara ini.

Bahkan Tok Guru Nik Aziz, Mursyidul Am PAS menyatakan memberi salam kepada orang bukan Islam itu khilaf dan boleh mengucapkan salam. Bahkan inilah yang sebenarnya mesej Islam supaya orang bukan Islam tahu bahawa Islam itu baik bahkan dinyatakan tuhan sebagai ‘Rahmatan lil alameen” ertinya rahmat kepada sekalian alam, manusia dan binatang; termasuk memberikan rahmat kepada bukan Islam juga sebagaimana terkandung dalam salamnya: “Peace Be Upon You“ ( sejahtera ke atas kamu ); secara literalnya adalah untuk dan kepada semua  manusia wajar diselamatkan.

Kehebatan gerakan Islam PAS amat dikagumi bukan Islam yang akan membenarkan bukan Islam menjadi ahli penuh dalam Dewan Himpunan Penyokong PAS yang bakal ditubuhkan dengan rasminya, insyaAllah yang setaraf, sesuara dan sehak dengan Dewan Muslimat, Dewan Pemuda dan Dewan Ulamak; menjadikan konsep keadilan dalam Islam dapat dicernai oleh Gerakan Islam PAS sebagai gerakan terulung massa dalam massa dewasa ini.

PAS di bawah  Mursyidul Am TGNA bisa melakukan reformasi uslub dakwah yang paling sesuai dengan waqi’ terkini bersama dengan rakan-rakan di dalam Pakatan Rakyat sebagai PILIHAN RAKYAT pada PRU 13, insya Allah di samping tiada menggadaikan prinsip perjuangan Islam yang sebenar yang anti nasionalisme, racialisme dan ekstremis agama.

UBN akan bertambah gusar dan fobia lagi apabila PAS sendiri akan meletakkan calon bukan Melayu dan bukan Islam yang sesuai untuk menentang calon BN daripada MCA dan MIC  bersama DAP dan PKR untuk membentuk kerajaan baru di peringkat federal. Oleh itu, perkemaskanlah daftar pemilih dan pendaftaran pengundi baru daripada sekarang khususnya anak- anak muda yang bersemangat tapi apa ertinya tiada bisa mengundi jika belum lagi mendaftar sebagai pengundi. Semakan tempat mengundi juga perlu disegerakan kerana SPR dan JPN adalah anggota UBN yang tiada berdaftar! Yang bekerja untuk tipu muslihat dan strategi UBN untuk menang secara penipuan dan cara jahat.

Justeru bilik gerakan bagi semua UPU (Unit Peti Undi) sepatutnya sudah pun bersiap siaga daripada sekarang khususnya bagi negeri Perak untuk memintas perancangan UBN dan agensi di bawah telunjuknya (JPN dan SPR) khususnya penggunaan ‘Mycard’ di kalangan anggota polis dan tentera.