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- GLCs Under Fire? (A Most Important Posting)
- Apabila kata-kata pemimpin tidak diyakini - masuk telinga kanan keluar telinga kiri
- The US have Area 51, we have Kod Negara 71
- Namewee from a Chinese perspective
- Black Cat, White Cat - Both Catch The Mouse
- The triumph of civil society
- That bold speech on that historic day
- ISA, Don’t Count Your Chickens Before They’re Hatched
- BN Selangor - bermimpi di siang hari
- Stop the Charade!
- Jalur Gemilang approved by King George VI
- Why push for a Rakyat Reform Agenda?
- Something is rotten about migrant workers’ entry rules
| GLCs Under Fire? (A Most Important Posting) Posted: 19 Sep 2011 09:30 PM PDT The ones being hammered: Sime Darby (understandably), but others are getting whacked as well, Petronas Chemical, Axiata, MRCB, UEM Land, CIMB, AirAsia (new link up now can be considered as related GLC counter), ... even Kencana, IJM, SP Setia ... Foreign funds vote with their shares. Recent corporate governance issues have been very unpalatable. Some even say that certain parties are trying to push through certain deals prior to the elections, at all costs. Besides the Sime Darby-E&O deal, the AirAsia-MAS deal was a sour note ... not many mainstream media or analysts dared to mention that CIMB was advising both parties??!! What kind of crap is that? Its like a court case where the prosecutor and defending lawyer are from the same firm. Please show me ONE other case in global corporate M&A transactions whereby one investment bank advises both sides.
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| Apabila kata-kata pemimpin tidak diyakini - masuk telinga kanan keluar telinga kiri Posted: 19 Sep 2011 08:37 PM PDT Maksud nasihat ini ialah supaya kita membuat penilaian dan penelitian dengan sebaik mungkin terhadap perkara yang di timbulkan dan jangan mengambil keputusan dengan terlalu cepat untuk menerima atau menolaknya. Ianya mesti dihalusi dan dipertimbangkan dengan sebaik mungkin agar kita tidak mudah tersilap dalam membuat sesuatu perhitungan dan keputusan dengan baik serta bijaksana.
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| The US have Area 51, we have Kod Negara 71 Posted: 19 Sep 2011 07:25 PM PDT The revelations for the past few weeks have been alarming. After Mismah gate, there is "aqua ICs" discovery by YB Anthony Loke and now even official Bangladeshi website is revealing the assault of citizen's right and democracy in Malaysia.  Mismah's PR card, with kod negara "71"   "Aqua IC" where army husband's IC (ending with odd number) is recycled to register the wife as a postal voter hence the wife can vote as ordinary and postal voter. http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/malaysia/article/anwar-says-verifying-bangladeshi-vote-allegation  One aspect of the intrigue is the nation code "71". According to this excellent write up, tens of thousands of voters in Penang are carrying IC bearing the nation code "71", indicating that they are born in overseas and the JPN are not able to trace their country of origin. If this happens in Penang, I am quite sure other states would be plague with this as well…Selangor perhaps? xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx GEORGETOWN - Seramai 13,114 pengundi yang didaftarkan di Pulau Pinang didapati pemegang mykad yang mempunyai kod bernombor 71 yang mana Jabatan Pendaftaran Negara sendiri tidak dapat mengesan negara asal mereka. Setiausaha Dewan Pemuda Pas negeri, Afnan Hamimi Taib Azamudden berkata, berdasarkan sistem dalaman yang diproses dari daftar pemilih yang diberikan Suruhanjaya Pilihanraya (SPR) milik parti itu mendapati, ada jumlah pengundi yang 'tidak kena' dalam senarai berkenaan. "Kod 71 tiada dalam senarai JPN dan berdasarkan kod yang diberikan JPN, nombor 71 tiada di dalam senarai jabatan itu. Terkini iaitu dari April hingga Jun 2011, seramai 166 pengundi di daftarkan memegang kad pengenalan bernombor kod 71 menjadikan jumlah keseluruhan ialah 13,114 orang. "Jumlah ini tidak boleh dikesan oleh JPN serta SPR dari mana mereka datang, negara asal mereka. Apa yang kita bimbang, kemungkinan besar ini usaha-usaha pihak tertentu untuk jatuhkan Kerajaan Negeri Pakatan Rakyat (PR) Pulau Pinang serta memanipulasi pilihan raya dengan memasukkan warga asing ke dalam senarai pengundi," katanya. Menurutnya, apa yang membimbangkan Pas, seperti yang didedahkan JPN sebelum ini, seramai 72,334 warga asing yang memohon untuk menjadi warganegara Malaysia yang mana daripada jumlah itu, Menteri Dalam Negeri, Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein telah meluluskan 29,290 permohonan. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Incidentally, Mismah's IC is the ubiquitous but until now, unexposed "71". JPN has a long list of nation code listed in their website. I have did a count last week and list is a long and detailed one, allocating numbers to many nations which Malaysians would struggle to locate on an atlas, for example: Antigua & Barbuda (93), New Caledonia (83), Grenada (90) and Trinidad and Tobago (90). With such a darn detailed list, why JPN is using kod 71 to grant citizenship with people whose place of origin is unknown? Is it purely laziness on the part of JPN officers, or is Kod Negara 71 is a "very special" category by itself? Read more at: http://wangsamajuformalaysia.blogspot.com/2011/09/us-have-area-51-we-have-kod-negara-71.html#more
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| Namewee from a Chinese perspective Posted: 19 Sep 2011 07:15 PM PDT Namewee is in the news again for his just released movie Nasi Lemak 2.0 and his reported attempt at getting a meeting with the prime minister. A controversy magnet, Namewee has also at the same time attracted the anticipated brickbats and belligerent threats from the usual suspects. 没 有 天 那 有 地 没 有 地 那 有 家 没 有 家 那 有 你 没 有 你 那 有 我 Lyrics from the classic hit 酒干倘卖无 in which a girl sings about her adopted father: "Without heaven how can there be earth, without the land how can there be home, without home how can there be you, without you how can there be me …" Namewee's rap in Negarakuku recalls to me some echoing words in almost the same cadences: 我 愛 我 的 國 家 有 國 才 有 家 有 家 才 有 我 站 在 這 邊 跟 你 大 聲 唱 歌 (Translation: I love my country, [only] when there is country there is home, [only] when there is home there is me, now [standing] here singing song loudly to you…)  DAP Christian politician Hannah Yeoh in tudung It strikes me that Namewee expresses himself in a Chinese way you will not encounter from the likes of DAP 2.0's newly minted currency – called the Hasnah Yeop political coin. It may surprise you that in his controversial Negarakuku released in 2007, Namewee begins the rap by professing his love for Malaysia to which he later adds the wry 這 個 國 家 我 佷 喜 歡 "this country I like very much". Namewee's ambivalence is genuine of the generally conflicted Chinese here rather than the one-dimensionality of the Firsters and their "I'm-more-Malaysian-than anyone else" chest thumping . Embedded in the Chinese language and thus its ethos (remember, 'bahasa jiwa bangsa') is the concept of jia 家 (home), around which form the words 'family' and 'country'. Hannah Yeoh with her God-walks-with-me tweets fawned over by 30,000 faithful followers is on a totally different plane from the Mandarin-and-Hokkien speaking Namewee who pursued his tertiary education in Taiwan. In fact, the Chinese school student unable to get a seat in local universities is one of Namewee's grouses aired in Negarakuku. Caring for the Chinese? Nah
Therefore it boggles the mind how the party's detractors (read: Utusan/Umno bloggers) still keep claiming that DAP favours the Chinese. In truth, its leaders favour whatever is advantageous for themselves first and foremost. Whatever it takes for them to retain and expand their clout (power has gotten to their heads) so that they can continue to enjoy the perks of office. After all, in Penang which DAP controls, Lim Guan Eng takes so much pride in awarding bumiputera contractors 98 percent to 100 percent of the state tenders (quoting the chief minister's own boast). Thus, rhetorically speaking, DAP should have no issues either if 98%-100% of local varsity places were to go to bumiputera. So how can we expect this Anak Malaysia-sloganeering party to membela nasib kami orang Cina when DAP is so plainly contemptuous of our Chinese ethnicity and at the same time so deceitfully eager to elevate the Malay race and religion in order to please a pivotal vote bank? The struggle of Umno, according to its founding principles, is to resuscitate the Malay ('Hidup Melayu!). The struggle of PAS is for Islam whereas MCA and MIC have 'Chinese' and 'Indian' in their party names respectively. What values do the DAP stand for? Read more at: http://helenang.wordpress.com/2011/09/20/namewee-from-a-chinese-perspective/
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| Black Cat, White Cat - Both Catch The Mouse Posted: 18 Sep 2011 10:00 PM PDT And did not Russia too go this route? It always starts as a fight for the oppressed. And the oppressed rises up and throws out the oppressor. Then the oppressed discovers that it is easy to talk when you are not in power but not that easy when you now hold the reins of power. How much will the developer profit at the expense of the state and the rakyat?
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| Posted: 18 Sep 2011 08:44 PM PDT He looked at me intently. I will always remember what he said. Because what he said epitomised the man and his indomitable spirit. "Don't stop knocking on the door even if nobody open the door for you. You have to keep on knocking. Who knows, one day, even if nobody opens it for you, it will crumble down." That was what he said. Civil society has worked and campaigned tirelessly for the abolishment of laws which allow detention without trial, most particularly the draconian Internal Security Act. NGOs such as SUARAM and HAKAM for example took it upon themselves to make it heard that the ISA must go lock stock and barrel. Human rights advocates such as Malik Imtiaz, Harris Ibrahim, Edmund Bon and many others have almost dedicated all their free times towards campaigning against the ISA and various other archaic laws which transgress universal and fundamental liberties. The ISA is not the only oppressive law which was the target of these activists. The Police Act, which requires any planned gathering of 3 or more persons to obtain a prior police permit was also another example of an oppressive law which makes a mockery of Malaysia as a modern democracy. The Restricted Residence Act and the Printing Presses and Publication Act are another group of laws which deny the basic liberty of the people. To top it up, as I pointed out recently in this article, Malaysia is still under four states of emergency which have never been officially uplifted. It is the year 2011. That we are still technically in, not one, but four, state of emergencies – declared in 1964; 1966; 1969 and 1977 – make a mockery of our push for a developed state status by 2020. The fact that we are under states of emergency is of course insignificant if we do not consider the legal effect of the emergency. Under the Federal Constitution, almost all our liberties could be held in "suspension" when our country is under a state of emergency. It follows that all emergency laws and all regulations emanating from them, such as the archaic and totally repressive Emergency Ordinance 1969, could be enforced with impunity. The currency of the states or emergency is therefore a frightening weapon of the States against the liberty of all of us, the people. One of the most disconcerting aspects of the ISA is the complete misunderstanding of the law, not only among the police officers, the people in the Home Ministry but also among some of our Judges, right in the High Courts as well as the highest Court of the land, the Federal Courts. While arguing one of the ISA cases in the Federal Court about 2 years ago, I told the Federal Court that the ISA is a "preventive" law and not a "punitive" law. What that simply means is that the ISA – by its very nature and even by the very words used in it – is to be used to "prevent" a planned act or series of acts which may be detrimental to national security. Which means the act has not happened yet and the ISA is to be used to prevent that act from happening. That is why it is called a "preventive" law. The ISA is not a law which is to be used to punish a person or a group of persons for having done or committed any act, even though the act threatens national security. It is not "punitive" in nature. This is in line with the fact that under our system of law, only the Courts can punish. The government cannot punish the people without going to the Courts first. It is conceded that under Article 149 of the Federal Constitution, laws providing for detention without trial is permitted to be made by the Parliament. However, a close look at Article 149 would reveal that the law providing for detention without trial which is permitted by that Article must be a law designed to "stop or prevent" any action which threatens national security. It is clear that for such law to be constitutional under the Federal Constitutional, it must be preventive in nature and not punitive. I therefore told the Federal Court that the ISA was supposed to be preventive and not punitive. To my complete and utter disbelief, the most senior of the 3 Judges who presided over the case disagreed with me. He said the ISA is punitive in nature. I was also later warned by another Judge in the same sitting (who had since died) to be "careful with what I submitted." To be frank, I think it is the Courts and the Judges who ought to be careful with what they think and decide because really, it is the liberty of the people which they are deciding upon. In some circumstances, what they decide could affect the life of the people. To tell me to be careful with what I submit in an ISA case involving the liberty of our citizens is an act of judicial cowardice! The abuses of the ISA and the Emergency Ordinance are well documented. Recently of course, we had the case of the Parti Sosialis Malaysia's members who were detained for more than a month under the EO for allegedly trying to wage war against the King by reintroducing communism to Malaysia! They were of course released after a huge outcry. Today I learn that all charges against them are to be withdrawn. As for the various abuses of the ISA, one could just type the letters "ISA" in the search box of this blog and read about the litany of the abuses of the ISA. The most famous of all of course would be the detention of 106 people by Dr Mahathir under the infamous Operasi Lalang in 1987.
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| That bold speech on that historic day Posted: 18 Sep 2011 06:57 PM PDT They will, I think if the subject matter that is going to be announced affects them directly and immediately in a positive way. The response from the public will be lukewarm if the subject matter affects them indirectly and inconsequentially. Let us judge the administration on this score. All week, the public was thinking that PM will announce some measures to be taken by the government that will in substance, increase the efficiency of governance and government. In the end, those measures will translate into immediate increase in disposable income. What possible form can such measures take place? Maybe:- (1) Restructuring the GLCs including Khazanah so that they won't become governments unto themselves. Now that 15000 employees of MAS have threatened industrial action, that shows Khazanah has been doing some cloak and dagger corporate moves. (2) Replacing laggard key government officials with those with abilities (3) removal of structural impediments to transparency and accountability such as removing OSA. (4) Shaking up the institutions that deliver justice and the law such as the police and the judiciary (5) announce stronger measures on corruption including the conviction of the big guns. Further, things like direct transfer of money (oil money) to the public like what the Singapore government did during its recent general elections. Those states making mountains of money from petroleum royalties distributing money to citizens of the state; Felda Corporation which made lots of money giving out money to Felda settlers, etc., that would be the real goodies that would certainly induce the recipients to jump up in uncontrollable euphoria while proclaiming Najib - you are da man! We certainly need some substantive liberty enhancing policies from the current administration that would differentiate the Najib administration positively from previous ones. By liberty enhancing policies, I mean policies that reduce dependency on the government. There are some economic pressures which the government needs to address that have political ramifications. Inflationary pressures that cause the price of essential goods to rise make people more dependent on the government. More people in the rural areas will depend on the welfare department for assistance and when given, obliges them to be loyal to the benefactor. So what does a desperate government do? Maybe even condone the price increase. We are happy to note the administration is doing everything possible to contain the inflationary pressures. Maybe the scrapping off of the 50 over Billion MRT into improved transport system that is more public friendly, maybe the setting of a ceiling price for houses in the city so that lower income and middle income earners can work and stay in the city. Instead they have to look for houses in the outskirts of town while the city is reserved for the selects. Or maybe some form of a Buffet tax on the superrich. Or maybe the dismantling of Khazanah and all shares transferred to Amanah Saham Nasional or ASB. Compared to the announcement involving the ISA and the Printing and Presses Act, government actions on those would be more impactful. But isn't prosperity predicated on the removal of shackles and chains that perpetuate un-freedom? I am using the term un-freedom to define freedom and liberty as a state of being free from the arbitrary force and coercion of others. Yes it does- but the emancipation potential arising from the more down to earth policies could achieve the desired effects of freedom and liberty much more and faster. The ululating responses would of course make the Minister of Information look good and perhaps ensure one last hurrah as a cabinet member? It would be unfair for me to harbor misgivings aforethought. The desired responses were forthcoming. Everywhere PM Najib was declared a revolutionary and a bold PM. Rais Yatim must be beaming like a Cheshire cat. PM Najib is really Optimus Prime- the chief transformer. I have forgotten the never ending list of acronyms. Maybe the APCO people can issue a definitive list signed by Idris Jala of course. After the speech and announcement, the euphoria was I think premature. The subject of his bold and revolutionary steps to enhance governance and credibility of his administration are the ISA ad the Printing and Presses Act. Important as they are, I think their impact on governance enhancement and thereafter productivity is outstretched and indirect. The good intent of abolishing the ISA appears to be blunted by the forewarning that 2 new acts will replace the ISA. A person arbitrarily defined as a terrorist can still be detained without trial in open court. The empowering act of Article 149, the fountain from which springs ISA like enactments is till there and remains the overarching enabling repressive act. I was thinking of some announcement on measures to improve the quality of civil servants, or some measures assuring the best of civil servants that their effort will be well compensated, or the removal of bureaucratic clogs that prevent transparency, accountability and so forth. Perhaps, if there is full public disclosure we can once and for all determine for example, whether Bangladeshi workers are given citizenship to vote in the coming general elections. Perhaps also, if there is full disclosure instead of OSA, then we can resolve the double speak by the election commission that the final list of voters are with them and that what the public are looking at are outdated voter registers. Why would the updated and current list be withheld from public knowledge? I wouldn't want the Bangladeshi pump attendant to have the same voting rights as I do. How the elections commission can with impunity insult our intelligence by claiming the latest voters lists are meant for internal circulation is beyond any measure of decency! I was thinking maybe the removal of the OSA - more insidious than the ISA which prevents any public spirited citizen of this country from discovering the rationale of many government decisions on tender awards, on selection process and so on. Now THAT, I thought would have more far reaching impact on the voters.
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| ISA, Don’t Count Your Chickens Before They’re Hatched Posted: 18 Sep 2011 03:53 PM PDT Heck, the sudden announcement caught many by surprise, even by huge crowds within the opposition. Hence one has to admit the latest move by PM Najib deserves some compliments – it was one hell of a good political advertising, tactical speaking. The opposition parties were in total chaos on how to react to such a brilliant political move by the ruling government. If PM Najib were to announce such move on the same day as budget day next month, he's almost guaranteed of the lost two-third majority. Hold on a second! Didn't Najib promised political and economic reforms in 2008 but the people have yet to see or at least feel the substance? You really need a Einstein to explain why in the world would the ruling government abolish both laws, which had help the present government in suppressing and oppressing peoples' basic freedom rights, particularly the opposition, for as long as one can remember. On the surface, it seems Najib administration has finally admitted something needs to be done in relation to the recent Bersih 2.0′s brutal crackdown. At least Najib recognizes the potential loss of more than 200,000 votes from the young generation, if the number of Facebookers asking for his resignation is anything to go by.
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| BN Selangor - bermimpi di siang hari Posted: 18 Sep 2011 02:17 PM PDT Apa yang di katakan oleh PM itu benar kerana tidak ada sesiapa yang perlu takut pada mana-mana individu. Saya yang begitu kecil ini pun tidak takut pada Anwar dan pada sesiapa sahaja yang melakukan rasuah dan salah guna kuasa. Yang perlu semua pihak takut dalam politik ini ialah rakyat yang ramai yang mempunyai hak kepada seluruh negara kita.
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| Posted: 18 Sep 2011 09:37 AM PDT Najib should stop the charade of claiming to want to be the "best democracy in the world" when what he should do is to immediately end Malaysia's ranking as a "flawed democracy" before Malaysia could qualify to rank among the full democracies in the world. The third edition of the Economist Intelligence Unit's (EIU) Democracy Index 2010 released early this year categorised Malaysia as a "flawed democracy" due to "a gradual erosion of civil liberties and political culture in the past year" with Malaysia's aggregate score dropping 0.17 to 6.19 out of 10 from the previous index in 2008, and the overall country ranking falling from 68th to 71st out of 167 countries. Twenty-six countries, headed by Norway, Iceland, Denmark, Sweden, New Zealand,Australia, Finland, Switzerland, Canada and Netherlands in the top 10, were in the first category of 26 "Full democracies" – which includes two Asian countries, South Korea (20) and Japan (22). Malaysia with the overall 71st ranking, is in the second category of "Flawed Democracies", trailing behind South Africa (30), Chile (34), Taiwan (36), Israel (37), India (40), Timor-Leste (42), Jamaica (43), Panama (46), Brazil (47), Mexico (50), Argentina (51), Sri Lanka (55), Thailand (57), Indonesia (60) and Mongolia (64). Who advised Najib that the repeal of the ISA (which is be replaced with two new laws raising concerns whether they would be ISA type of substitutes) and other reforms, Malaysia will catapult not only from the ranks of "Flawed Democracies" but to top the ranking of "Full Democracies" as to be the "best democracy in the world"? The EIU's Democracy Index is based on five categories: electoral process and pluralism; civil liberties; the functioning of government; political participation; and political culture. The condition of having free and fair competitive elections, and satisfying related aspects of political freedom, is regarded as the sine quo non of all definitions of a democracy. On "electoral process and pluralism", Malaysia trails behind 88 other countries – 26 "Full Democracies" and 62 "Flawed Democracies".
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| Jalur Gemilang approved by King George VI Posted: 18 Sep 2011 07:42 AM PDT National heritage?
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| Why push for a Rakyat Reform Agenda? Posted: 18 Sep 2011 06:05 AM PDT You will see that the People's Voice is a 4-page "what we don't want in our country" list.
The People's Declaration, on the other hand, is a 19-page 'wish list' blueprint for nation-building. Both documents were sent out to political parties on both sides of the divide, with a request that the same be studied and, thereafter, to publicly announce if they would indorse the same. With the exception of the United Pasok Nunukragang National Organisation (Pasok) from Sabah, all other BN parties never responded. Pasok confirmed their support and indorsement of the two documents. As did DAP, PAS, PKR, PSM and MDP. On 23rd February, 2008, 2 weeks before we went to the polls, a historic event was hosted at what was once Blog House ( now Rumah Anak Bangsa Malaysia ). Malaysiakini has a report of the event which you can read HERE Given the indorsement by DAP, PAS and PKR of the People's Declaration, many, including Raja Petra and myself, went to ground to campaign for these parties during the 12th GE. Our objective : kick BN out, see DAP, PAS and PKR installed in Putrajaya as the 12th federal government and, we hoped, the beginning of the rehabilitation of the nation premised upon the People's Declaration. However, things did not quite turn out the way we had hoped. With the abuse of the postal vote, phantom voters, vote buying and the benefit of shameless gerrymandering, we found ourselves still lumbered with BN in Putrajaya post 8th March, 2008. Needless to say, nothing that has been laid out in the People's Declaration has seen the light of the day. BN will not give us the reforms the nation so badly needs. However, some of us have looked closely again at the People's Declaration and feel that this blueprint for reform probably envisages nation-building spanning over some 30 years. We felt that what was needed was a reform agenda that could be seen through during a 5-year period, that i, the full term of an elected federal government. An agenda that the non-BN political parties could not just pledge to implement but, if given the mandate to form the next federal government at the 13th general election, deliver these reforms to the people during their term in office. With this end in mind, MCLM wishes to share with the rakyat and the non-BN political parties the RAKYAT REFORM AGENDA (RARA).
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| Something is rotten about migrant workers’ entry rules Posted: 17 Sep 2011 10:36 AM PDT Is our country's defence system so bad? Forces involved include the Immigration Department, the Marine Police and the Navy, the Field Force, the Army and the Police. Why is the situation so bad? Why are millions of undocumented migrants on the streets? Search, search and search for answers and the only conclusion is that the government is all for the influx of such undocumented migrants. Why? Money, Money, Money! Or is the government trying to create a new racial balance? If the government really does not condone undocumented entrants, are we then to believe that our coastline is so porous? Are we to believe that millions of undocumented foreigners can move around and live in our midst without care? What are the authorities doing about handling the problem? Are we incapable? Don't we have the resources? Perhaps a Bersih-like demonstration is necessary to jolt the government into action! This situation is really getting impossible to take! Let's not say that the 6P programme is set to resolve the problem. On the contrary, this programme is a colossal disaster. A programme that was initiated from the top i.e. the Cabinet committee under our DPM and the Home Ministry began with biometric machines being allegedly manipulated. People appointed by the top management … so how authentic is the data collected? The implementation of the programme itself was postponed at least three times giving rogue and bogus agents a field day conning poor undocumented migrants, especially. I wonder if this was a deliberate act to allow (selected) agents to cash in on gullible victims? Besides, I hear, that hefty rentals were charged and agents told not to charge any fees at the 1st P stage. Who supplied these machines? How do all these conditions make sense? Then we had the police "being shocked" by the sheer number of undocumented migrants in the country and Hishammuddin going on screen quoting numbers (registered via the biometric system) and declaring "ini merupakan satu keadaan yang begitu serius". Well done-lah, Hisham! But people on the ground knew it a long, long time ago! On the other side, we have the Indonesian government making us beg for their domestic workers and the Malaysian government actually begging. Why do we need to? After all, millions have come and gone on their own free will. Do the Indonesians actually bother about what their government says? Just hop onto a boat, pay some money here and there and you are safely on Malaysian shores at a much cheaper rate. Allowing the people to seek and bring their own choice of domestic help into the country through social visit passes and then having them registered seems a perfect solution. The onus is shifted to the employer and the domestic worker to satisfy themselves. We only need a proper monitoring system in place. But domestic worker agencies in Malaysia and Indonesia and the Indonesian Embassy are up in arms. Why? Money again! In fact, The Star on Sunday (4 September) reported that the Indonesian embassy's minister counsellor for information, social and cultural affairs Suryana Sastradiredja warned Malaysian employers that they could be detained by Indonesian authorities because "direct recruitment violates our laws".
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