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January 9, 2012: A Repeat of Paulian (Augustine) Judgment?
January 1, 2012
January 9, 2012:A Repeat of Paulian (Augustine) Judgment?
by Terence Netto
COMMENT As domestic theatre, Anwar Ibrahim's 18-stop campaign pitch through several states forward of a January 9 verdict in his sodomy hearing is sure to fool around to overflow audiences, judging from a distance of crowds that have attended his appearances upon a ceramah circuit a last month or so.
And right divided with Police as well as protesters opposite a 'Free Anwar Campaign' during work in Kelantan as well as Sabah respectively, obtruding identical to flies during mealtimes, Anwar's debate pitch is sure to beget a broadside as well as crowds that should keep it in a headlines.
With a verdict in Sodomy II unresolved identical to a proverbial long knife of Damocles over Malaysia's budding minister-in-waiting, audience-size during his ceramah as well as their appetite for what he says have been sure to be whetted by oddity about his fate.
Few things have been as manly a magnet for a extraordinary as a specter of impending severe threat upon someone who flaunts defiance. As a palm of judicial predestine closes in upon Anwar, a opposition leader's peripatetic review to a courtroom of open perspective resembles identical odysseys of a complicated epoch in politics.
In these episodes, charismatic leaders seen as embodiments of causes that ring across inhabitant boundaries, find themselves confronting overwhelming state-power opposite that they have had only their seductiveness to a rank as well as file to offer as defence.
As assorted times in their careers, Burmese opposition personality Aung San Suu Kyi, a late Philippine oppositionist Benigno Aquino, Polish traffic union personality Lech Walesa, as well as Czech playwright Vaclav Havel were in situations identical to Anwar's present position.
The preference any faced was either incarceration by a forces of hang-up or anointment by a rank as well as file as their leader-liberator of inhabitant destiny. The historical impulse is electric when personal as well as inhabitant dilemmas have been so starkly juxtaposed.
Credibility gap
In a courtroom of open opinion, a case opposite Anwar in Sodomy II has met with a same credibility gap that a sex video purporting to uncover him in a contract with a sex worker had already encountered: A wish of open idea in a authenticity.
Details identical to a timing of a recover of a sex video as well as a temperament of a people concerned in a buying as well as distribution have been more notable in review than during a time of a emergence.
Sodomy II was limping along in a High Court, several months after a sensational fanfare of a opening in January 2010, when a sex video was released.
It soon acquired a aura of a life-support machine being bending up to a hearing that had become moribund.
After a sensational start, Sodomy II entered a long distance in that issues of due process, specifically a stint of it to a counterclaim a intent of several challenges by Anwar's lawyers became a central point of a whole trial.
When a hearing reaches that sta! ge, a hi therto riveted audience may remove a concentration as well as a seductiveness progressively falls away. The reason for a flapping divided of seductiveness from Sodomy II was that all of a earlier focus, particularly to a Muslim audience (towards whom this case was wholly aimed), revolved around a subject of "Did he do it?"
Audiences driven by that unaccompanied concentration have been not unduly concerned with procedural issues. But procedural issues have been what unequivocally make a difference in law.
Just as science became complicated as an experimental routine for a acknowledgment of truths determined by systematic methods of inquiry, so law as a complicated source became bona fide when probity was seen to be a result of whatever only procedures had led to.
A wish of only procedures was what Anwar's counterclaim was intense in protesting as Sodomy II proceeded even as open seductiveness in a hearing waned as it declined in to a cockpit of procedural issues.
Symptom of a inhabitant malaise
In a interim, however, Anwar did not stay still. He campaigned upon a vocalization circuit, taking his case opposite various deteriorations in a body politic to a country's last arbiter: a people who will a ones who will opinion as well as ultimately decide.
Those deteriorations a solid drip-drip of crime as well as abuse of power, as well as a opacity of a electoral routine played out in a credentials to his sodomy trial.
Soon a hearing became only an additional symptom of a inhabitant malaise that a opposition personality has been vituperation opposite since his travails began after his sacking from UMNO as well as a supervision in Sep 1998.
Thus, it is not farfetched to say a last arbiters of a inhabitant condition have been no longer most concerned with a verdict to be delivered upon Jan! uary 9.< /p>
They have been more extraordinary to see how Anwar is comporting himself underneath threat of a Damoclean long knife that is why his 18-stop debate pitch is headed for high assemblage as well as what is right divided becoming utterly clear forward police attention as well as trammels.
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On the Question of School Choice
January 1, 2012
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On a Question of "School Choice"
By Wan Saiful Wan Jan, for The Edge 1 January 2012
Around this time final year you asked multiform contacts if they would be meddlesome to partner with us to reason a inhabitant discussion upon 'school choice'. All of them responded with a question: "What do you mean by propagandize choice?". Not many people have been informed with a definition of a phrase.
School choice is a judgment which you in Malaysia don't customarily talk about. In broad terms, it is about giving relatives ownership as good as shortcoming to select as good as manage propagandize preparation for their children.
The philosophy during a back of this judgment is rsther than straightforward. We as relatives have been a ones obliged for a preparation of a own children. Therefore it is us who contingency have a preference upon which propagandize a kid will go to. This is essentially one of a many critical decisions you have to have since a propagandize sourroundings will furnish a large impact upon a future of a children.
Not usually contingency you be since a right to decide, you additionally have a shortcoming to decide. How ironic is it that, while you would never concede a stranger to reason a children's hands to cross a road, you have been unexcited when surrendering all powers to strangers in Putrajaya to decide about a eleven years of preparation which a young kids will experience.
But, assuming which you do want to be obliged parents, you have been essentially still powerless. It does not have a difference how much you ! adore a children. If you live in a wrong area, you have no option but to send to young kids to a bad school. As a result, young kids in abundant areas customarily get improved schools than those in farming ones. The current policy of forcing a postcode lottery is cruel as good as immoral. By denying relatives a right to select schools, you perpetuate preparation inequity.
Unless you can means in isolation propagandize fees, a young kids have been completely during a mercy of the Putrajaya strangers. Perhaps a life of in isolation schools does yield a turn of choice. But detached from a little Islamic schools, almost all in isolation schools in Malaysia have use of split as their business strategy. you have not found any in isolation propagandize which takes a cost-leadership path.
As result, propagandize fees have been in all over a reach of a normal Malaysians. Children from bad family groups who desperately need improved peculiarity schools have been automatically excluded.
I have visited India twice to look for a intensity solution. Back in February I visited dual in isolation schools in a slums of New Delhi. And final month you attended a School Choice National Conference in New Delhi, organized by India's Centre for Civil Society. Both trips reinforce my idea which in isolation preparation can be made to work for those during a bottom half of a pyramid.
At a propagandize preference conference, you heard case studies upon how low price in isolation schools have improved entrance to preparation for young kids from bad tribes in north easterly India as good as for those in dive areas. you additionally spok! e to mul tiform operators of low price in isolation schools, who told me which many bad relatives they serve do have entrance to giveaway supervision schools. But they have been peaceful to outlay utterly a large chunk of their monthly income for in isolation propagandize fees since a supervision schools have been not as good.
Of march it would be wrong to blindly pretence which all in isolation schools have been improved than supervision ones. The point you am trying to have here is which a little relatives in farming as good as dive areas of India essentially have some-more choice, as good as exercise greater responsibility, than a normal Malaysian parents. Most of us simply accept whatever propagandize a supervision says a young kids contingency go to. But many bad Indian parents, out of adore as good as care for their own children, actively take things into their own hands. They exclude to be dependent upon government.
James Tooley (left), professor of preparation policy during Newcastle University, was additionally during a conference. As a world-renowned researcher-practitioner, he combines his work with using a sequence of low price in isolation propagandize in India as good as Ghana. When you asked him if a low-cost indication can be sustainable, he didn't usually attest a sustainability of a model, but additionally a profitability.
With all a hurdles confronting a propagandize system, as good as a dire need to urge a peculiarity of schools in farming areas, you am extraordinary what is essentially preventing Malaysian in isolation propagandize operators from seeking during a low-cost model. Why do you not nonetheless have a equivalent of Air Middle East as good as Mydin among a in isolation schools?
And because is a supervision not seeking during a in isolation zone as a intensity partner to residence ! preparat ion lack of harmony in a propagandize system? The Entry Point Projects in a ETP have been focused mainly upon formulating some-more reward in isolation schools. What will occur to a bad in farming areas, as good as alternative financially excluded young kids such as those who have been stateless as good as refugee? Is there not a business event to yield them with improved peculiarity education?
I firmly believe there have been bedrooms in a Malaysian marketplace for low cost, for profit in isolation school model. Several colleagues as good as you have been actively seeking into this matter, as good as you have been learning from a practice of a friends in India as good as alternative countries.
More propagandize preference will be created if you can rise a indication which charges usually 20-30 percent less which today's normal in isolation propagandize fee. At which level, a price might not be low sufficient for a poorest in society. But it is usually a really first step. Once marketplace foe kicks in, you suspect a intensity marketplace distance for a low-cost in isolation propagandize indication will be significant.
Wan Saiful Wan January is chief senior manager of a Institute for Democracy as good as Economic Affairs (www.ideas.org.my)
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Students injured as cops break up new year sit-in
The students along with 60 alternative associate activists had refused to disperse after repeated warnings were released by Tanjung Malim OCPD Othman Nayan.
The group instead changed to the locked university embankment as well as rattled it, perfectionist it be opened for them to enter the campus.
Subsequently, the police, numbering during about 30, changed in as well as forcibly grabbed the criticism leaders, many of whom resisted.
Among them was Kumpulan Aktivis Independen Mahasiswa (Kami) president Haziq Abdullah Abdul Aziz, who was cornered by 3 military officers though with his muscular build, he managed to chuck them off.
Five alternative military officers joined the dispute as well as they eventually pinned the tyro personality down to the ground.
Haziq Abdullah after mislaid alertness as the military were about to lift him away, though reporters during the scene were unexpected dreaming by the shrill bang.
The sound came from the nearby clinic where the students had damaged the door in the try to seek medical courtesy for another tyro leader, Gerakan Menuntut Kebebasan Akademik (Bebas) president Muhammad Safwan Anang, who had went in to the fit.
However, Muhammad Safwan (right) was incompetent to get treatment there as well as the students shortly left the clinic. Muhammad Safwan was immediately put in to the car as well as driven away, presumably to the hospital.
It was unclear if the alloy was present during the! 24-hour clinic though the medical staff toldMalaysiakinithat they were incompetent to treat such condition.
A witness who helped lift Muhammad Safwan in to the car pronounced the tyro personality had grabbed his chest as well as he saw which the tyro leader's mouth was bleeding.
"Everyone were dreaming by the arrest (of the alternative students). When we looked at the back of me, we saw 3 military officers perplexing to overpower Safwan. Then he went limp as well as started to shake. There was red blood upon his mouth," he said.
Arrests made during 2.40am
When military confronted them, they diluted as well as regrouped during the categorical embankment of the university during 2am, chanting "Bebas, bebas! Bebas Mahasiswa" (Freedom! Freedom! Free the Students).
The students activists were there to show oneness to Legasi Mahasiswa Progresif (LMP) Adam Adli Abdul Halim, who was additionally present during the demonstration.
Adam Adli (left), additionally the UPSI student, faces disciplinary movement from the university authorities for lowering the flag of Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak during the Umno headquarters in Kuala Lumpur during the march last month.
When military arrived during UPSI's categorical gate, the students lied down upon the highway as well as refused to budge.
They after stood nose-to-nose with the Light Strike Force officers, chanting slogans as well as unfurling the 30-metre prolonged ensign reading, "Bebaskan Mahasiswa!".
The strife occurred mins after - during about 2.40am - when the group changed closer to the UPSI gate.
By 3pm, many of the male students! were ei ther arrested or had accompanied Muhammad Safwan to the hospital, withdrawal at the back of womanlike tyro protesters whom the military did not act against.
The ruins of the tyro group subsequently left the area as military cordoned off the area.
PSM part of additionally nabbed outward military station
The university sit-in currently was jointly organised by dual tyro groups - the Solidariti Mahasiswa Malaysia (SMM) as well as Bebas.
SMM in the Twitter posting confirmed which Muhammad Safwan had been sent to Tanjung Malim hospital. He was after transferred to Slim River Hospital.
At slightest dual protesters had suffered damage during the scene, though some-more photographs of injuries have flush upon Twitter.
Another arrest was made during about 4am when Mandeep Singh, the Parti Sosialis member, chanted "Bebaskan Mahasiswa" outward the Tanjung Malim military hire where the arrested activists were held! .
According to PSM, Mandeep reported from inside the military hire through reduced content message which the sum of 17 students had their matter available there.
PKR Youth deputy report arch Rozan Asen Mat Rasip along with pro-opposition groups - Jingga 13 as well as Asalkan Bukan Umno (ABU) - were during the military hire to suggest assistance to the incarcerated students.
Rozan pronounced he was informed which Muhammad Safwan had suffered the damaged rib as well as he was believed to be in the serious condition.
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UPSI rally: 17 students arrested, one seriously hurt
The military came underneath severe defamation for a heavy strategy opposite a students.
Auku dari perspektif mahasiswa
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GE-13 may be delayed after a slew of scandals
January 1, 2012
GE-13 may be delayed after a slew of scandals
Datuk Seri Najib Razak is expected to reshuffle his Cabinet as early as this month as well as check job elections to later this year as scandals engulfing during least dual ministers have been threatening a feel-good cause of Budget 2012 where a Prime Minister dispensed direct income assist to a little 5.3 million households, UMNO insiders say.
The Malaysian Insider understands which Prime Minister's Office (PMO) comparison officials have a list of potential new ministers as well as deputy ministers which will be seen as Najib's people to execute his New Economic Model (NEM) as well as domestic transformation programme as he heads in to a ubiquitous election.
"Najib needs more of his own group in a Cabinet. And he needs to reinstate those seen as sinister before he calls an election," pronounced an UMNO lawmaker tighten to a celebration president, referring to scandals surrounding Wanita Umno arch Datuk Seri Shahrizat Abdul Jalil, eremite affairs apportion Datuk Seri Jamil Khir Baharom as well as deputy apportion Datuk Awang Adek Hussin who admitted to reception a little monetary contributions.
There has been conjecture in a Chinese media as well as additionally among domestic analysts which Najib could dissolve parliament after a Chinese New Year celebrations upon Jan 23 for a Mar election, 4 years after Election 2008.
It is accepted which a Election Commission (EC) has req! uisition ed propagandize halls as well as village centres for a possible choosing in March. However, others say Najib is watchful for electoral reforms as well as a initial public offering by state land developer FELDA prior to job an election.
Another UMNO source pronounced a celebration is additionally not ready for polls notwithstanding Najib telling celebration members to be upon a "war footing" for an early election. "We have been not just ready. Some warlords do not wish to give up their chance of standing in a next polls," he told The Malaysian Insider.
The source pointed out only former Terengganu Mentri Besar as well as UMNO chief, Datuk Seri Idris Jusoh, has plainly pronounced he will not contest in future elections.
"Most warlords consider they can win if they have been picked. And if they have been not picked, they will exclude to work for those declared just similar to what happened in 2008," he added.
UMNO won only 79 of a 112 federal seats it contested in 2008 when a statute Barisan Nasional (BN) lost a customary two-thirds parliamentary infancy as well as 4 more state governments. Former celebration boss as well as budding apportion Tun Abdullah Badawi stepped down a year after a losses as well as handed a leadership to Najib.
Party officials as well as analysts say a popular Najib must regain a two-thirds parliamentary infancy or during least compare Abdullah's feat margin. "It isn't easy as well as a current scandals do not help Najib who is essentially a discreet man," one celebration central told The Malaysian Insider.
Several UMNO warlords have plainly asked Shahrizat to resign from her domestic posts over investigations in to her family's company, a National Feedlot Corporation (NFC), which a Auditor-General pronounced was in a mone! tary "me ss" after removing RM250 million in public fund.
The Women, Family as well as Community Development apportion has pronounced a association has nothing to do with her as well as Najib as well as his Deputy, Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin, have denied which she has sent a abdication letter. But a new examine by a Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) has sparked conjecture which Shahrizat will have to go rather than have a liaison smear UMNO.
UMNO is already upon a backfoot after former Selangor Menteri Besar Dr Khir Toyo was convicted of graft as well as sentenced to a year's prison last month in a land squeeze deal. He is appealing a case.
Jamil, a Minister in a Prime Minister's Department for Islamic Affairs, has denied he as well as dual eremite officials had misappropriated donation income to compensate their authorised fees in a box brought by opposition leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim.
An audit inform pronounced RM63,650 from a council's zakat account to settle their authorised costs incurred when Anwar declared a contingent as respondents in his qazaf application. It additionally reliable which a sum was repaid to a account after a legislature obtained a RM70,000 grant in Jun last year as part of a ubiquitous resources grant from a government.
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On the Question of School Choice
January 1, 2012
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On a Question of "School Choice"
By Wan Saiful Wan Jan, for The Edge 1 Jan 2012
Around this time final year we asked multiform contacts if they would be meddlesome to partner with us to reason a inhabitant discussion upon 'school choice'. All of them responded with a question: "What do you meant by propagandize choice?". Not most people have been familiar with a definition of a phrase.
School choice is a judgment which you in Malaysia do not usually speak about. In broad terms, it is about giving relatives ownership as great as shortcoming to select as great as conduct propagandize preparation for their children.
The truth during a back of this judgment is rsther than straightforward. We as relatives have been a ones responsible for a preparation of a own children. Therefore it is us who must make a preference upon which propagandize a child will go to. This is essentially a single of a most important decisions you have to make because a propagandize environment will produce a large stroke upon a destiny of a children.
Not usually must you be since a right to decide, you additionally have a shortcoming to decide. How ironic is it that, whilst you would never allow a foreigner to reason a children's hands to cross a road, you have been unexcited when surrendering all powers to strangers in Putrajaya to confirm about a eleven years of preparation which a young kids will experience.
But, assuming which you do wish to be responsible parents, you have been essentially still powerless. It does not make a difference how much you adore a children. If you live in ! a wrong area, you have no option though to send to young kids to a bad school. As a result, young kids in affluent areas usually get softened schools than those in farming ones. The current process of forcing a postcode lottery is cruel as great as immoral. By denying relatives a right to select schools, you perpetuate preparation inequity.
Unless you can means in isolation propagandize fees, a young kids have been utterly during a mercy of the Putrajaya strangers. Perhaps a life of in isolation schools does yield a turn of choice. But detached from a little Islamic schools, almost all in isolation schools in Malaysia use split as their commercial operation strategy. we have not found any in isolation propagandize which takes a cost-leadership path.
As result, propagandize fees have been in all beyond a strech of a normal Malaysians. Children from bad families who desperately need softened peculiarity schools have been automatically excluded.
I have visited India twice to demeanour for a intensity solution. Back in Feb I visited two in isolation schools in a slums of New Delhi. And final month we attended a School Choice National Conference in New Delhi, organised by India's Centre for Civil Society. Both trips reinforce my idea which in isolation preparation can be made to work for those during a bottom half of a pyramid.
At a propagandize preference conference, we listened case studies upon how low price in isolation schools have softened access to preparation for young kids from bad tribes in north east India as great as for those in slum areas. we additionally spoke to multiform operat! ors of l ow price in isolation schools, who told me which most bad relatives they serve do have access to free supervision schools. But they have been willing to outlay quite a large cube of their monthly income for in isolation propagandize fees because a supervision schools have been not as good.
Of march it would be wrong to blindly assume which all in isolation schools have been softened than supervision ones. The indicate we am perplexing to make here is which a little relatives in farming as great as slum areas of India essentially have some-more choice, as great as practice greater responsibility, than a normal Malaysian parents. Most of us simply accept whatever propagandize a supervision says a young kids must go to. But most bad Indian parents, out of adore as great as caring for their own children, actively take things in to their own hands. They exclude to be contingent upon government.
James Tooley (left), professor of preparation process during Newcastle University, was additionally during a conference. As a world-renowned researcher-practitioner, he combines his work with using a chain of low price in isolation propagandize in India as great as Ghana. When we asked him if a low-cost indication can be sustainable, he didn't just affirm a sustainability of a model, though additionally its profitability.
With all a challenges facing a propagandize system, as great as a dire need to improve a peculiarity of schools in farming areas, we am extraordinary what is essentially preventing Malaysian in isolation propagandize operators from seeking during a low-cost model. Why do you not yet have a equivalent of Air Asia as great as Mydin between a in isolation schools?
And because is a supervision not seeking during a in isolation zone as a intensity partner to residence preparation inequ! ality in a propagandize system? The Entry Point Projects in a ETP have been focused especially upon creating some-more premium in isolation schools. What will happen to a bad in farming areas, as great as alternative financially released young kids such as those who have been stateless as great as refugee? Is there not a commercial operation event to yield them with softened peculiarity education?
I resolutely hold there have been rooms in a Malaysian marketplace for low cost, for distinction in isolation school model. Several colleagues as great as we have been actively seeking in to this matter, as great as you have been learning from a practice of a friends in India as great as alternative countries.
More propagandize preference will be combined if you can rise a indication which charges just 20-30 percent reduction which today's normal in isolation propagandize fee. At which level, a price might not be low enough for a poorest in society. But it is usually a very initial step. Once marketplace foe kicks in, we think a intensity marketplace distance for a low-cost in isolation propagandize indication will be significant.
Wan Saiful Wan Jan is chief executive of a Institute for Democracy as great as Economic Affairs (www.ideas.org.my)
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Sekarang ini tumpuan rakyat pastinya terhadap dua bentuk bantuan dari kerajaan dibawah module 1Malaysia iaitu Bantuan Rakyat 1Malaysia yang berjumlah RM500 satu keluarga, dan juga module Kedai Rakyat 1Malaysia bagi mengurangkan beban rakyat didalam menampung belanja keperluan harian.
Rakyat Perak pastinya menjadi penduduk Malaysia yang bertuah kerana baru 2-3 hari lepas, Menteri Besar DS Zambry telah mengumumkan untuk membuka sebanyak 59 buah Kedai Rakyat 1Malaysia di seluruh negeri Perak pada tahun 2012.
Inisiatif ini diambil oleh Menteri Besar tersebut kerana mahu meringankan beban rakyat yang berpendapatan sederhana dan rendah di negeri ini. Ini juga membuktikan bahawa DS Zambry ialah seorang Menteri Besar yang amat pihatin dengan kesempitan hidup rakyat.
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