Umno, dibawah kelolaan TS Muhyiddin Yassin telah menggariskan beberapa program bagi menghadapi PRU ke 13, antara lain,
(i) membentuk modul latihan di semua peringkat dan sayap parti dengan mengambil kira landskap politik masakini dan ilmu tentang perlembagaan Malaysia, Rukunnegera dan kedudukan Raja-Raja,
(ii) Menganjurkan lebih banyak kursus motivasi dan khemah kerja bagi pimpinan di semua peringkat,
Peringatan buat UMNO: Cukup dengan menggunakan Biro Tatanegara, KEMAS dan Kementerian Penerangan untuk mendoktrinasikan ideologi UMNO, jangan tambah lagi dengan mengheret Kementerian serta Jabatan Belia dan Sukan.
*Umno Cuba Perbaiki Trend Pengundi Semua Kaum, Kata Muhyiddin(bernama)
*Two years to regain people's trust: Muhyiddin (sun2surf)
Umno Cuba Perbaiki Trend Pengundi Semua Kaum, Kata Muhyiddin
Timbalan Perdana Menteri Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin berkata Umno akan berusaha memperbaiki trend pengundian semua kaum terhadap calon dari Barisan Nasional (BN) bagi mempastikan kemenangan berpihak semula kepada parti itu.
Timbalan Presiden Umno itu berkata ini kerana berdasarkan keputusan pilihan raya kecil di Parlimen Bukit Gantang, Perak, masih belum kelihatan satu perubahan yang ketara berhubung sikap pengundi terhadap BN.
"Kalau ikut formula di situ pengundi majoritinya Melayu dan kalau ikut formula biasa majoriti Melayu kita menang tapi sekarang majoriti Melayu tidak boleh pastikan kemenangan kita kerana Melayu sudah berpecah.
"Dan kita pada waktu kempen mengharapkan mudah-mudahan undi dari kaum bukan Melayu akan berubah dan bertambah tetapi bila undi Melayu telah berpecah, undi dari bukan Melayu tidak berubah malah makin berkurang dan akhirnya kita kalah.
"Harap ini tidak merupakan satu trend tetapi ia nampak seperti itu. Sebab itu kita berhadapan dengan satu senario yang agak serius dan justeru proses pembaharuan harus dilaksanakan secepat mungkin," katanya ketika berucap pada majlis bersama petugas Umno dan Penuntut Universiti Teknologi Mara (UiTM) di sini malam Jumaat.
Pada pilihan raya kecil itu, PAS mengekalkan kerusi Parlimen Bukit Gantang apabila calonnya Datuk Seri Mohammad Nizar Jamaluddin memenangi pilihan raya kecil kawasan itu dengan memperoleh majoriti 2,789 menewaskan calon dari BN Ismail Saffian.
Muhyiddin dalam pada itu menyeru agar bangsa Melayu kembali bersatu di bawah perjuangan Umno kerana Umno merupakan satu-satunya parti yang relevan dalam memperjuangkan nasib Melayu.
"Walaupun kita perjuangkan nasib Melayu tetapi kita juga adil pada kaum lain tetapi ada yang kata kita tidak adil kepada mereka. Justeru kita perlu bertindak sekarang sebelum terlewat.
"Kita juga perlu menyokong kepimpinan Perdana Menteri Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak dan berusaha kembalikan sokongan rakyat kepada kita," katanya.
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Two years to regain people's trust: Muhyiddin
Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin said today Umno and the Barisan Nasional (BN) had this year and the next to regain the confidence and trust of the people.
He said people were talking of the 13th general election in 2013 but he felt that work must start right now on the approaches and changes, whether they were on the Umno organisation, structure or programmes.
Muhyiddin, who is also Umno deputy president, spoke to reporters after a "tahlil" and "doa selamat" for Umno members from his Pagoh division at his residence, here.
He said the primary focus of action during the two-year period would be to ensure that the leadership at all levels understood the new direction of the party and took measures to revive the party's image and improve the people's perception of it.
"I do not want the people to wait too long. There will be talk then that Umno has yet to change. There will be statements that the BN is the same as before. The 'wow' factor will not be there. This is not good for the party," he said.
As such, he said, Umno and the BN should work hard in the next two years, with the relevant targets in place and the party leaders at all levels understanding the government's aspirations and translating them for the benefit of the members and the people.
"At times, there may be situations when party members do not understand what the leaders are saying, giving little impact to the message. This is not good for the party's image," he said.
Muhyiddin said the next general election was four years away but the next two years were important for the leadership to evaluate the people's support for the party.
"If we find that the people's acceptance is not there yet in the two-year period, that there are many weaknesses, then we have one more year (before the general election). That is how I work. I usually set a suitable schedule.
"Let's not remain complacent and then realise it is too late. If it is too late, nothing can be done. We have to accept the consequences of our failure or neglect," he added.
Muhyiddin said that to continue empowering the party, the spirit of the members must be rejuvenated, and added that this could be done by organising motivational programmes and work camps in which leaders at all levels participated.
These programmes should take into account the participation of leaders from the party's wings, something which had not been considered over the last several years, he said.
Muhyiddin said the party's management committee under his leadership would prepare a special training module based on the new political landscape.
He said that in instituting change, the focus should not only be on the superficial aspect but on the essence as well, whereby an understanding of such things as the Federal Constitution, the position of the Rulers and the concept of the Rukun Negara had to be fostered.
sun2surf
MUHYIDDIN MENGGARISKAN STRATEGI PRU KE 13
INSIDEN DI PATTAYA TELADAN BAGI SEMUA
Setiausaha Agung PAS Pusat, Dato' Kamaruddin Jaffar menegaskan tidak mustahil rakyat Perak akan melakukan perkara yang sama jika Dewan Undangan Negeri (Dun) tidak segera dibubarkan bagi membolehkan mereka memilih dan menentukan siapa pemimpin dan kerajaan mana pilihan mereka
Najib perlu ambil teladan apa yang berlaku di Pattaya
PAS menggesa Perdana Menteri Dato' Seri Najib Tun Razak mengambil teladan atas apa yang berlaku di Pattaya semalam.
Kebangkitan rakyat Thailand itu merupakan manifestasi daripada ketidakpuasan hati mereka terhadap rampasan kuasa dan usaha menjatuhkan pemimpin pilihan mereka.
Setiausaha Agung PAS Pusat, Dato' Kamaruddin Jaffar menegaskan tidak mustahil rakyat Perak akan melakukan perkara yang sama jika Dewan Undangan Negeri (Dun) tidak segera dibubarkan bagi membolehkan mereka memilih dan menentukan siapa pemimpin dan kerajaan mana pilihan mereka.
"Keputusan pilihan raya kecil Bukit Gantang merupakan referendum rakyat terhadap Barisan Nasional (BN) yang telah merampas kuasa di Perak secara tidak bermoral Februari lalu.
"Jika Dun tidak dibubarkan, PAS bimbang apa yang berlaku di Thailand akan turut terjadi di Perak dan jika ianya berlaku ia akan memburukkan lagi keadaan.
"Perdana Menteri sendiri telah melihat kesannya di Pattaya bila rakyat tidak berpuas hati dengan rampasan kuasa jadi seharusnya beliau bertindak segera," tegas Kamaruddin kepada Harakahdaily.
Beliau juga menegaskan BN tidak seharusnya mengenepikan suara rakyat di Bukit Gantang yang jelas menolak mereka dan penolakan tersebut juga merupakan petanda mereka tidak menerima kerajaan haram yang diterajui oleh Umno di negeri tersebut.
Sidang Kemuncak ASEAN ke-14 dibatalkan semalam selepas penunjuk perasaan antikerajaan merempuh pasukan keselamatan dan menggempur pusat media di lokasi sidang kemuncak itu berlangsung.
Penunjuk perasaan antikerajaan yang berbaju merah telah menyerbu pusat media berhampiran Hotel Royal Cliff sambil mengibarkan bendera dan menjerit slogan-slogan antikerajaan. Mereka turut memecahkan tingkap.
Sementara itu, tentera telah mengepung hotel tempat pemimpin-pemimpin ASEAN dijadual menghadiri makan tengah hari dan memutuskan sama ada akan meneruskan atau menangguhkan sidang kemuncak tersebut.
Berikutan itu, Perdana Menteri Thailand, Abhisit Vejjajiva mengisytiharkan darurat di Pattaya, resort tempat persidangan itu berlangsung, terletak kira-kira 150 kilometer dari selatan ibu negeri Bangkok.
Beliau turut mengisytiharkan darurat di kawasan sekitar wilayah Chonburi selepas penunjuk perasaan menggempur lokasi tersebut.
Pembatalan Sidang Kemuncak ASEAN itu merupakan kejadian memalukan buat kerajaan Abhisit yang mula memerintah sejak Disember lalu.
Sementara itu, seorang pemimpin pembangkang, Jakrapob Penkair menyifatkan, kumpulan antikerajaan telah mencatat kejayaan melalui pembatalan sidang kemuncak itu, namun katanya, bantahan akan tetap diteruskan sehingga Abhisit meletak jawatan.
mns/Irwan Muhammad Zain/HARAKAHDAILY
USUL UNDI TIDAK PERCAYA DI DUN TERENGGANU
"Khabar angin di negeri ini semakin kuat mengatakan terdapat usul undi tidak percaya yang akan dibawa oleh Adun Barisan Nasional (BN) pro-mantan MB Terengganu, Dato' Seri Idris Jusoh."
Adun BN tidak percayai MB Terengganu?
Khabar angin yang bertiup kencang di kalangan rakyat Terengganu sejak hampir empat bulan lalu kononnya akan ada usul undi tidak percaya terhadap Menteri Besar (MB) Terengganu, Dato' Ahmad Said semakin menjadi kenyataan.
Justeru, satu amaran 'keras' terpaksa dikeluarkan oleh MB Terengganu tersebut terhadap mana-mana Ahli Dewan Undangan Negeri (Adun) Barisan Nasional (BN) yang berhasrat berbuat demikian.
Dato' Ahmad berkata mana-mana di kalangan Adun BN Terengganu yang mengemukakan usul undi tidak percaya terhadapnya akan berdepan dengan tindakan disiplin termasuk dipecat.
"Ya, jika usul itu datang dari pihak pembangkang (PAS) kami (BN) dalam kerajaan akan menolaknya. Tetapi jika, ia (usul) dibawa (kemukakan) oleh wakil rakyat Barisan Nasional, dia (Adun) akan dipecat, itu biasalah.
"Jika usul (undi tidak percaya) itu dapat sokongan, kita (saya) akan bubar dewan (Dun Terengganu) itu sahaja. Kita (BN) terpaksa menerimanya kalau dia nak (hendak) buat..apa nak kata," tegasnya ketika ditemui pihak media selepas merasmikan Taman Rekreasi dan Mini Zoo Kemaman, di Bukit Takal, 11 April lalu.
Dato' Ahmad yang juga Pengerusi Badan Perhubungan Umno Negeri Terengganu berkata usaha mengemukakan usul undi tidak percaya terhadap seorang Menteri Besar dalam persidangan Dewan Undangan Negeri (Dun) adalah satu perkara yang serius.
Selain itu, mengulas 'khabar angin' yang sama akan berlaku perubahan jawatan beberapa Menteri Besar termasuk di Terengganu di bawah pentadbiran Perdana Menteri, Dato' Seri Najib Tun Abdul Razak, Dato' Ahmad Said enggan mengulas lanjut.
Beliau menjelaskan tidak mengetahui apa-apa tentang hal 'khabar angin' (cadangan) bakal berlaku pertukaran Menteri Besar tersebut dan terserah kepada Tuanku.
"Itu (tukar Menteri Besar) saya tidak tahulah, Terengganu kena tanya dengan Tuanku sendirilah," ujarnya dengan menyelar pihak media yang sering kali menggembar-gemburkan isu yang tidak sahih dan 'khabar angin'.
Khabar angin di negeri ini semakin kuat mengatakan terdapat usul undi tidak percaya yang akan dibawa oleh Adun Barisan Nasional (BN) pro-mantan MB Terengganu, Dato' Seri Idris Jusoh.
Usul tersebut dikatakan akan dikemukakan dalam persidangan Dewan Undangan Negeri (Dun) Terengganu bermula Isnin (13 April) ini yang akan dirasmikan oleh Yang Dipertua Majlis Pemangku Raja Tengku Sri Panglima Raja Tengku Baderulzaman.
mns/Khairul Azlam Mohamad dan Sazali Mohd Noor/harakahdaily
NAJIB SHOULD START WITH ASSET DECLARATION SAID TUNKU AZIZ
"Let us see whether the new broom can keep up with a mountain of bureaucratic trash that has been generated in the corridors of Putrajaya." remarked Tunku Aziz, formerly held senior management positions in large private and public sector organisations in Malaysia, Hong Kong and the United Kingdom.
He began his business career with Guthrie Corporation Ltd and later became the advisor of Bank Negara. Later he returned to the private sector by joining Dunlop Malaysian Industries before being appointed a Sime Darby Group director.
He left Malaysia in 1985 to take up a directorship at the Commonwealth Secretariat in London before returning to Malaysia in 1992 following his retirement.
(source:sun2surf)
An untalented team lacking integrity
by Tunku Aziz
If you want my honest opinion, Datuk Seri Najib Razak’s People’s Cabinet is totally uninspiring and insipid to boot. And that is being charitable. What a sad commentary on the paucity of proven talent and integrity within the ranks of Barisan Nasional that all Najib has succeeded in putting on offer is a team of recycled political expendables, many with personal records of integrity that will not bear close scrutiny.
Najib has done nothing more than a bit of tinkering. Is this the clean and honest team that he has promised the nation? Instead of calling it a Cabinet, a more accurate and honest name for it is surely “baggage room” because most of those who are our new ministers, including Najib, unfortunately, are perceived to be carrying oversized baggage into office. If this had been a team chosen by Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad, I should not have been surprised.
But subjecting his ministers to the discipline of the KPI or key performance indicators is an idea whose time has come. However, the danger with management tools like Long Range Strategic Forecasting and Management by Objectives, now long forgotten, and the new panacea, the KPI, is in the distinct possibility of their being more honoured in the breach than in the observance. That being said, let us see whether the new broom can keep up with a mountain of bureaucratic trash that has been generated in the corridors of Putrajaya.
As part of his whiter-than-white government, he should have said something, when he announced the Cabinet yesterday, about revamping the declaration of interests/assets regime for all those holding elected public office in his administration, i.e. his ministerial colleagues. The present arrangements are as effective as using a pop gun when confronting an armed robber. They are hopelessly inadequate and the whole exercise is a total waste of time. No one is fooled by it. I speak as someone with some practical experience in this area.
I was responsible in 2006, as Special Adviser to the UN Secretary-General on the Establishment of the United Nations Ethics Office, for putting in place the Declaration of Interests (assets) and the Whistle Blower Protection programmes. It is interesting to note that when Dr Mahathir was prime minister, he proudly proclaimed that all his Cabinet colleagues should declare their assets to him.
To whom did the prime minister declare his assets? In the interest of curbing grand corruption in the Najib administration, I will be happy to share my knowledge with him notwithstanding the fact that I am a DAP man. Corruption should not be politicised. Anyway, if it is good enough for the UN, it should be good enough for the Putrajaya Mandarins.
The nation wants Najib to succeed in his “1 Malaysia” vision. He will if he keeps an eagle eye on key institutions such as the police, the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission, the criminal justice system, including the office of the Attorney-General, not to interfere with their work, but to ensure that they do not abuse their power and authority.
Stupid police behaviour in dealing with public order, for example, can unravel any good the administration has tried to do. Najib must implement without delay the Independent Police Complaints and Misconduct Commission that Pak Lah did not have the stomach to put in place simply because the police top brass did not like it. Will Najib be prepared to put public interests at the forefront of all his actions, or will the police be allowed to dictate terms to our citizens?
Najib as part of his reform agenda must listen to what people are saying about the office of the Attorney-General. Rightly or wrongly, it is seen as having compromised its professional independence. Its decisions have in recent years lost the stamp of moral authority in a number of cases. Najib should consider seriously making the Attorney-General a ministerial and, therefore, a political appointee acting for the government on purely political issues.
Najib should, in the interest of greater public confidence in the criminal justice system, create a position, that of Director of Public Prosecutions. A decision whether to proceed with a case or not should not be made by the director alone, but a panel of his senior legal officers.
The problem with the present office of the Attorney-General is that the A-G enjoys what amounts to absolute power, and as we all know this can lead to abuse. Ours is a parliamentary government based on the Westminster model, and Britain has found a system of checks and balances to be absolutely vital to protect the citizens from arbitrariness in matters involving public prosecutions.
Najib can yet redeem himself by showing, by word and deed, that we have misjudged him. Has he the intellectual honesty and integrity to do what is right by the people of this country?
The Malaysian Insider
NB Tunku Aziz is the DAP national vice chairman, former Special Adviser to the UN Secretary-General on the Establishment of the United Nations Ethics Office
Sun2surf Aug 24, 2008) : One of the country’s prominent icons for transparency, Tunku Abdul Aziz Ibrahim, who joined the DAP on Saturday and was today appointed one of its national vice-chairmen said his move to join the ‘rocket’ was not for monetary reasons but purely because he shared the same values and ideals as the party.
"There is no money...," said Tunku Aziz at a press conference attended by DAP stalwarts during the party’s 15th Triennial National Congress at a hotel here, today.
"If anyone thinks I have been bought, then they have to think again," he said.
MUSLIMAT PAS MENARUH HARAPAN TINGGI PADA SHAHRIZAT
LAPORAN Kosmo 30 Oktober 2008
KUALA LUMPUR - Mengejutkan! Sebanyak 257,411 sijil kelahiran yang didaftarkan rupa-rupanya tanpa dicatatkan nama bapa dari tahun 2000 hingga Julai lalu.
Perkara itu didedahkan oleh Menteri Dalam Negeri, Datuk Seri Syed Hamid Albar ketika menjawab soalan lisan R. Sivarasa (PKR-Subang) semasa sesi soal jawab Dewan Rakyat, semalam. Menurutnya, data itu dikeluarkan oleh Jabatan Pendaftaran Negara (JPN) ekoran anak-anak yang dilahirkan itu tidak mempunyai sah taraf atau anak luar nikah.
Menteri Wanita digesa basmi masalah sosial
Perlantikan Dato' Seri Shahrizat Abdul Jalil sebagai Menteri Pembangunan Wanita, Keluarga dan Masyarakat sememangnya dijangka oleh Dewan Muslimat PAS Pusat (DMPP) ujar, Ketuanya Ustazah Nuridah Salleh. (Foto DS Shahrizat kiri dan Ust Nuridah kanan).
Namun katanya, pengharapan tetap sama supaya pembangunan wanita diutamakan khasnya pembangunan dalam sesebuah keluarga itu sendiri.
Beliau yang dihubungi Harakah Jumaat lepas berkata, ini kerana masalah gejala sosial dalam negara bermula daripada masalah dalam keluarga.
"Keluarga merupakan unit paling kecil dalam sesebuah masyarakat. Kalau keluarga kita baik, masyarakat akan baik, tetapi kalau itu sendiri bermasalah boleh menyumbang masalah kepada masyarakat dan negara.
"Masalah tersebut amat perlu diberikan penekanan oleh Kementerian yang diterajui Shahrizat itu," katanya.
Ujarnya, masalah sosial yang berlaku dalam negara sangat serius.
Contohnya beliau berkata, masalah anak haram seperti mana dilaporkan media sudah mencecah 250 ribu kes.
Peningkatan tersebut dakwanya begitu ketara daripada tahun-tahun sebelumnya.
"Ini menunjukkan masalah gejala sosial sangat mencemaskan negara," ujarnya.
Oleh sebab itu kataya, beliau tidak meletakkan harapan yang besar kepada pihak kementerian atau Umno dan Barisan Nasional selagi mereka tidak keluar daripada identiti partinya.
Dalam pada itu, katanya, DMPP akan hanya memberi sokongan sekiranya Shahrizat menjalankan tugas dengan baik.
"Apa yang baik Muslimat Pas akan memberi sokongan tapi benda yang tidak elok itu kita akan terus memberi teguran yang sepatutnya," katanya.
Menyentuh mengenai perlantikan sepuluh wanita dalam barisan kabinet baru yang diumumkan Perdana Menteri Dato' Seri Najib Tun Razak pada 9 April lalu, katanya ia dilihat lebih baik daripada sebelum ini.
Namun katanya, mereka yang dilantik perlu menunjukkan kewibawaan dan tidak menyalahgunakan kuasa seperti rasuah dan sebagainya.
mns/Roy Rasul/harakahdaily
