Dear
@MyRapidKL
5 minutes between trains is too long. When it comes to transport, especially during peak hours, every minute counts! Why can't trains come every 2 minutes? 🙄
1. "Orang Melayu di lapangan hanya kisah tentang isu periuk nasi. Transparency bagai ni semua tak jalan. Itulah realiti."
Sejak saya mula bekerja lebih 5 tahun yg lalu, inilah pandangan yg selalu saya dengar. Dalam setiap mesyuarat dgn NGO lain, inilah yg dibahas tak habis2.
Ramai orang Melayu di Malaysia ada fantasi tentang kefasihan kaum Cina di Indonesia berbahasa Indonesia. Saya nasihatkan mereka baca dan hadam sejarah Indonesia, mereka membayar asimilasi dengan darah dan nyawa. Harap2 bukan itu yang diinginkan berlaku di tanah air tercinta.
Dr mungkin tak sedar tweet aku merujuk kepada Menteri yang bercakap di luar lunas undang-undang, dalam keadaan memperbaharui passport.
Asimilasi acuan Indonesia dijalankan atas beban sejarah di mana berlakunya pembunuhan beramai-ramai. Dr nak suruh ikut ke?
We need to normalise women making free, informed choices for themselves. Our society is so fearful of a woman who is able to make choices. We first need to normalise, and then work hard to create conditions that enable women to make those free, informed choices for themselves.
And all of this is (legally) shown on a hit Netflix series. I recommend you to watch it, not as a show of support to the monarchy, but to learn history. And boy is The Crown fantastic at teaching history.
fun royal family fact: queen elizabeth had two severely disabled first cousins who were publicly pronounced dead in 1940 and 1961 respectively, but they both actually lived in a care home with no visits or support from the royal family until their actual deaths in 1986 and 2014
When I read the news about
@imokman
deciding to step away from the next GE, I posted this on my Instagram. Today, James Chai wrote this beautiful piece that really made me ponder upon what it means to really want to change things for the better.
1. Dalam marah-marah kita pada Tajuddin, Annuar Musa, Hamzah Zainuddin, Ismail Sabri dan yang sewaktu dengannya, kita juga harus ingat beberapa perkara.
Ini ialah bebenang.
House Speaker Azhar Harun issued a notice to all members of Parliament, requesting each and every MPs to send their declaration to nominate only one name as the 9th Prime Minister.
MPs are required to send it to the Istana Negara latest by 4pm on August 18 (Wednesday).
DAP will be banking on 25-year old
@DanishZainudin
to wrest Pengkalan Batu from former party man and incumbent Datuk Norhizam Hassan Baktee.
The party will also field another newcomer Leng Chau Yen, 37 to contest Bandar Hilir.
Saya tak faham kenapa kita dah mula menormalisasi pendirian bahawa MP pembangkang harus berjumpa dengan TPM dan negotiate berapa jumlah peruntukan yang patut mereka terima. Ada beberapa masalah dengan pandangan sebegini.
Deputy Prime Minister Fadillah Yusof said Perikatan Nasional MPs, who were chosen to negotiate with him on the amount of allocation that opposition MPs should receive, have yet to do so.
He said he has not received any official letter from the MPs involved to hold any meeting.
Spent about a year working on a project about political financing in Malaysia, I learned so much but realised that there is so much more to be done too. Jemput baca Brief IDEAS saya yang pertama tentang pendanaan politik di Malaysia!
Our latest paper that provides updates on the developments surrounding political financing in MY and examines challenges that must be addressed to ensure that the Political Financing Act is implemented with holistic considerations in mind.
Read it here
Saya fikir, daripada kerajaan belanja berjuta-juta untuk beratus rakyat kita belajar peringkat ijazah pertama di luar negara, baiklah duit tu dibelanjakan utk menaiktaraf IPTA kita supaya ia menjadi pilihan pertama rakyat Malaysia. Kalau peringkat Sarjana, tak apalah.
Saya berpendapat MARA dan segala bentuk biasiswa sepatutnya membawa golongan yang tidak berkemampuan setaraf dengan orang kaya kerana golongan miskin tidak mempunyai pelbagai keistimewaan (privilege), peluang dan akses yang orang kaya ada.
Tetapi kenapa orang kaya nak juga?
Bayangkan kalau bangsa kita yang memburuh di negeri orang, legal mahupun illegal, dilayan macam ini - apa respon kita?
Malaysia, we are better than this.
Interested to learn more about politics, advocacy and community leadership? Want to follow the footsteps of female political leaders? Then join the SIRIKANDI programme NOW!
Kami tersentuh dengan tindakan ratusan pelajar Sekolah Menengah (SMP) Negeri 1 Namrole di daerah Buru Selatan, Indonesia yang membantah pernikahan rakan mereka dengan seorang tokoh agama yang berusia 15 tahun lebih tua daripadanya.
You'll be surprised (or maybe not) at the amount of "activists" in the CSO world who have these beliefs - the number of times I get looked at in "admiration" for being a Malay woman in a tudung who can *gasp* speak English well and *gasp* can talk about politics!
These comments under a Malaysiakini article on actor Ali Alasari rubs me the wrong way.
In particular the use of terms like "sophisticated Malays" and "rare breed of Malays".
[ TERKINI ] Profesor Diraja Ungku Abdul Aziz Ungku Abdul Hamid meninggal dunia akibat sakit tua di Hospital Prince Court di ibu negara pada pukul 4.30 petang.
#HapusCOVID19
#DisiplinMalaysia
#NormaBaharu
I wonder if those who are claiming Jocelyn's Malaysian roots realise that her success speaks more of the opportunities the US provides for minorities and immigrants to hold political office. Remember
@IlhanMN
came to the US as a refugee.
AMANAH, DAP & MUDA telah mengadakan rundingan untuk pengagihan kerusi bagi menghadapi Pilihan Raya Negeri Johor 2022.
Setelah siri-siri mesyuarat dan perbincangan pelbagai hala dilakukan, keputusan rundingan rasmi antara semua parti ini telah sebulat suara dimuktamadkan.
1/
In a multiparty democracy, elections are - and should be - fair game. Nothing is "yours" or "mine" to keep. The people should be able to choose whichever candidate they want. And living with the consequences of that choice - is also part of living in a democracy. Remember that.
Fundraising through crowdfunding sebenarnya adalah antara cara paling telus untuk parti politik mendapatkan dana. Tiada kebergantungan kepada seorang dua taikun atau syarikat besar.
Terima kasih YB
@hannahyeoh
. This goes back to my point about a lack of respect for Parliament as an institution. You do not use such language for anyone in the August House!
Saya rasa tak senang hati kalau tak bangun minta Tuan Speaker perintahkan supaya perkataan "Budak" tidak digunakan lagi untuk tujuan buli di dalam Parlimen
@SyedSaddiq
. Setiap Ahli Parlimen telah bertanding dan menang, mempunyai hak sama rata untuk bersuara, tidak mengira umur.
Memang betullah gelombang orang muda sedang kuat di Malaysia, sampaikan yang kononnya berkuasa pun tak sanggup nak luluskan parti yang hanya mempunyai seorang Ahli Parlimen setakat ini.
Hormatilah hak berpersatuan, hak semua berpolitik!
#BilaNakLulus
?
I mean, we all knew this would end badly, right? All this performativity in this Palestine tragedy has sickened me for weeks, and this one might just take the cake.
Concerns are being raised at viral videos and photos of schoolchildren made to dress in militant attire and brandishing toy guns, supposedly during the Palestine Solidarity Week ordered at all schools by the Education Ministry.
3. Saya lihat rata2 ada dua mazhab tentang perkara ini. Ada satu mazhab yg mempercayai bahawa ketelusan, kebertanggungjawaban, membanteras rasuah dan penyalahgunaan kuasa, semuanya penting dan harus diperjuangkan dgn apa cara sekalipun.
A dream come true to be selected this year and to work with the one of the best scholars of Malaysian politics
@merweissphd
at
@ualbany
this September!
1/ Congratulations, Aira Nurariana Azhari! From the Institute for Democracy and Economic Affairs (IDEAS)
@IDEASMalaysia
, Aira was selected for the Fulbright Malaysian Professional Exchange Program at University at Albany (State University of New York)
@ualbany
.
@FulbrightPrgrm
2. Kita tolak tepi dulu apa2 survey atau kajian yg menunjukkan bahawa orang Melayu hanya kisah tentang makan minum sahaja. Saya ingin kupas isu ini secara "big picture." Kenapa pandangan sebegini bermasalah dan kenapa ia perlu dipersoalkan.
6. Jadi wujudlah penentangan di mana individu/organisasi yg memperjuangkan pembaharuan institusi dan melawan penyalahgunaan kuasa dilabel "elitis", "Bangsar bubble", "kayangan" dsb kerana kononnya tidak peka dgn "realiti" masalah rakyat terbanyak.
"Menghadkan tempoh PM adalah langkah pertama untuk mengelak pemusatan kuasa kepada satu sosok yang boleh menyalahgunakan kuasa. Rakyat tentunya mahukan PM yang bertungkus- lumus untuk melaksanakan dasar-dasar yang menguntungkan rakyat."
@FakhurrRazi
14. Dengan alasan "org Melayu tak kisah, org Melayu lebih pentingkan 'bread and butter' issues." Sentimen2 inilah yg dimainkan utk mengelakkan org Melayu drp mempersoal penyalahgunaan kuasa, rasuah, dsb.
4. Rata2 golongan ini percaya bahawa reformasi institusi dan perubahan budaya politik secara menyeluruh amat perlu utk membawa Malaysia keluar daripada krisis yg sudah berdekad kita alami.
5. Ada golongan lain pula yg percaya bahawa tiada gunanya melawan rasuah dan kebobrokan institusi kerana hal2 itu a) tidak mendatangkan kesan kpd kehidupan seharian rakyat "marhaen" dan b) org Malaysia (read: Melayu) lebih pentingkan isu periuk nasi.
9. Kenapa pandangan sebegini bermasalah? Pertama sekali, sebagai seorang yg mengkaji sedikit isu2 yg membelenggu Malaysia sekarang, penyalahgunaan kuasa, rasuah, kebobrokan institusi dsb memang mempunyai kesan negatif kepada kehidupan seharian kita.
13. Akhir sekali, saya tidak selesa dgn konotasi2 sebegini kerana takrif2 "Melayu hanya kisah tentang makan minum mereka" merupakan sentimen yg dimainkan oleh ahli politik kita sejak berdekad lama utk menjustifikasi tindakan2 mereka meruntuhkan institusi kita.
Never ever underestimate the power of civil society movements, especially one led by youth. So much respect for
@UNDI18MY
@takterqyira
@TharmaPillai
for the tireless and thankless years of fighting for this. Also, credit to
@SyedSaddiq
who helped take it past the finish line.
15. Tambahan pula, ahli politik suka memainkan sentimen ini sebagai alasan utk mereka melengahkan reformasi institusi, penyuburan demokrasi dsb. Alasannya "kami perlu jaga kebajikan rakyat dahulu. Kami bekerja utk rakyat."
So, raising awareness about harmful racial stereotypes is now "manipulative" and "stirring racial sentiments" is it? These kinds of narratives sound familiar because it's what Trump and his supporters propagate too.
This tiktok video from
@SyedSaddiq
is proof of how he is not only manipulating generational/youth cards but now also playing with racial cards for his Muda's political gain. I condemn his behaviour for stirring a racial sentiment amongst us Malaysians. You can do better la YB.
11. Seterusnya, mengatakan bahawa org Melayu hanya kisah tentang periuk nasi mereka dan tidak mampu utk melihat lebih daripada itu merupakan sejenis "oversimplification" atau pengukuhan sterotaip yg saya kira tidak sihat.
Sebenarnya, apa yang disuruh Ketua Pembangkang ini menunujukkan dengan jelas betapa kritikalnya lapisan2 masalah dengan politik kita.
Ini adalah bebenang.
Baru sahaja terbit artikel tentang kedangkalan hujah "orang Melayu kampung tak educated, mereka tak faham kenapa rasuah bahaya, mereka tak boleh say no to rasuah", harini berhadapan lagi dengan hujah sebegini. Kenapa politik kita jatuh dangkal macam ni? 😭
19. InsyaAllah kalau ada masa saya akan cuba mengembangkan hujah2 ini dalam satu bentuk artikel. Banyak lagi yg perlu dikupas dan Twitter bukanlah medium yg sesuai.
"Rakyat marhaen macam kita ni donate kat kerja kebajikan je, takpayah la bagi dekat parti politik."
Kalau bukan rakyat yang menderma kepada parti yang mereka sokong, parti politik patut dapat duit dari mana?
Genuine question for discussion.
12. Saya bukanlah pakar sosiologi, tetapi saya tahu bahawa konotasi yg menunjukkan org Melayu seakan-akan hanya mampu risau tentang hal2 yg "dekat" dengan mereka penuh dgn unsur "patronising" atau merendah-rendahkan pemikiran org Melayu.
10. Ya, mungkin kita tidak nampak kesannya secara "obvious" ataupun dgn cara hari ini ahli politik sekian2 menyalahgunakan sumber negara, esok rakyat jatuh miskin, tetapi hubungkaitnya memang ada, dan banyak badan pemikir dan ahli akademik sudah membuat kajian tentang perkara ni.
4. Sebenarnya, selagi para pengundi di Pasir Salak, Ketereh, Larut dan Bera memilih individu2 seperti mereka sebagai MP, selagi itulah ada peluang untuk mereka jadi Menteri, Timbalan Menteri atau Pengerusi GLC.
Dalam kita punya obsesi dengan parti mana patut dapat kerusi mana, ada tak kita berhenti sejenak dan ingat bahawa kerusi itu bukan satu ganjaran untuk dimenangi - ia tanggungjawab dan kerja yang sungguh berat, yang sepatutnya kita rasa sangat gerun dan takut untuk ambil.
7. Selagi pengundi di kawasan mereka sendiri tidak menghukum individu2 ini di peti undi, selagi itulah mereka berpeluang mendapat kuasa sebagai Menteri, Pengerusi GLC, dan sebagainya.
The development we achieved in the 22 years under his rule, pls ask yourselves, what price did we pay for all that? Is it worth it? To have this in our faces now? Remember, Nazi Germany didn't happen overnight. Govt needs to condemn this at the highest level. Enough is enough.
APA DIANYA MULTIRACIALISM, NEGARA BERBAGAI KAUM
1. Tidak pernah terjadi pendatang asing atau keturunan mereka yang diberi suaka di sesuatu negara menuntut supaya negara yang memberi kerakyatan kepada mereka ditukar supaya dijadikan negara kaum pendatang, iaitu negara berbilang
The Opposition’s job is to be a check and balance to the Government and propose concrete alternative policies, proving to the public why you are ready to take office. Not by obsessing over numbers and positions. Thanks
@501Awani
for having me.
Antara isu yang dibahaskan oleh YB
@SyedSaddiq
di parlimen hari ini adalah cadangan “Windfall Tax” kepada syarikat-syarikat pembuat sarung tangan getah di Malaysia yang telah menikmati keuntungan berkali-kali ganda dalam musim COVID-19.
7. Biasanya, kumpulan NGO yg dihentam dgn kritikan seperti itu, dan ketika PH memerintah, PH juga dilemparkan dgn tuduhan2 seperti itu. PH dikatakan tidak menjaga kepentingan dan keperluan org Melayu yg dikatakan (menurut sesetengah survei) lebih mementingkan isu2 ekonomi.
13. Kalau betul org Melayu tidak kisah tentang good governance, memerangi rasuah, reformasi institusi dsb, maka siapa di Malaysia yg kisah? Org Cina? Org India? Tidakkah semua kaum etnik di Malaysia juga kisah tentang "survival" mereka, terutama di zaman pendemik ini?
Your Majesty,country needs a new lease of life. Start with an interim PM. Tengku Razaleigh will be well received. Election will soon follow. Hope will be restored and together we rise again
13. Persoalannya sekarang ialah - bagaimana hendak menghubungkait kebertanggungjawapan (accountability) dengan kemandirian politik (political survival)? How do we make our politicians pay for their incompetence via electoral outcomes?
17. Dah setahun lebih kita dalam krisis politik ini, saya rasa org Malaysia semakin prihatin dgn ahli politik kita yg sama sekali bukanlah org yg paling prihatin dgn nasib rakyat.
18. Jadi, tak perlu hujah2 "holier than thou" utk tunjuk siapa lebih faham apa yg rakyat (read: org Melayu) mahukan. Apa yg org Melayu faham. Perangai seperti inilah yg sebenarnya reduktif dan sgt menghina keberadaan dan "agency" org Melayu sendiri.
@jalilword
America's problems are complex and run deep, but what they don't have is feudalism and an irrational worshipping of authority. These 2 things infect almost every facet of Msia's society and institutions.
"Orang Melayu di lapangan hanya kisah tentang isu periuk nasi. Transparency bagai ni semua tak jalan. Itulah realiti." Gatalnya tangan aku nak unpack satu-satu statement ni. Nanti malam kita buat tulis bebenang satu ok. Nantikan.
There's a reason why the police in other places are very careful about following procedures when arresting people. It's because unlawful arrest can invalidate the whole investigation afterwards. But I guess Malaysian police don't give a shit about all that
#LAWAN
6. Saya pernah bermesyuarat dengan beberapa MP yg membantah saranan CSO mewajibkan semua MP mengisytihar harta mereka. Alasan mereka "buat apa saya nak isytihar aset? Pengundi di kawasan saya tak pernah tanya pun saya dpt duit dari mana. Buat apa saya nak bagitau orang ramai?"
8. Kumpulan NGO yg dituduh pula akan dilemparkan juga dgn kritikan bahawa mereka hidup dalam "bubble" sendiri, asyik cakap bahasa Inggeris, dapat dana Amerika, dan "orang2 kampung tak paham dan tak kisah pun pasal semua ni."
IBM (Ibu Bangsa Malaysia) Zuraida Kamaruddin, arrives in KLIA to a warm welcome by
#PBM
supporters and sings Que Sera Sera! Nothing fazes our IBM.
#IBM
#ZuraidaKamaruddin
A few people responded to my Sheraton article saying that the biggest impact of the incident on themselves is they have now lost faith in elections and political processes. Now I feel like writing a follow-up piece exactly on this topic.
5. Individu2 seperti ini hanya boleh dijauhkan daripada kuasa jika mereka kalah dlm pilihanraya. Realiti politik Malaysia - jaga kawasan, kumpul duit banyak2 dan jangan terlalu "rebel" dengan Presiden parti.
Gotta give credit to
@partimuda
for being transparent about the amount of funds they have raised so far. Good example they've set. We don't have a Political Financing Act yet, but nothing should stop parties from being transparent and accountable.
16. Dan yg paling malang sekali ialah, sentimen ini yg dicanangkan oleh ahli2 politik kita kononnya mereka yg lebih cakna dan lebih prihatin dgn rintihan rakyat, berbanding NGO-NGO yg hanya pandai bercakap dengan golongan awangan elitis.
"Progressives" in this country, blaming young voters for voting for PAS when what they should be doing is asking "why is it that progressive ideas do not resonate with so many young people?" or the harsher "why hasn't PH resonated with young people?"
Correct. The NGOs that promoted U18 and automatic registration are all remaining silent. The new laws were hailed as a huge victory by them. Yes, it was a significant triumph for PAS and
#politicalIslam
. The harm is irreparable.
Now, what can we do?
#MalaysiaMADANI
#Malaysia
Mungkin headline ni agak misleading, tapi saya tak bersetuju dengan kenyataan seperti ini. Kita tak boleh menyokong perluasan ruang demokrasi semata-mata untuk mengharapkan keputusan PRU memihak kepada kita. Ruang demokrasi harus diluaskan, full stop.
Hari ini 2 Oktober. Isnin depan, Dewan Rakyat dah mula bersidang. Jummat depan, Belanjawan 2024 akan dibentangkan oleh PMX/Menteri Kewangan. Dan setakat ini, masih belum ada pengumuman tentang rombakan kabinet yg telah beberapa minggu disebut2.
@Iqtodabal
In some Western countries like the UK, the anti-Zionism/pro-Palestinian cause is rooted in the leftist movement - which also includes anti-colonial struggles as well. I think that's why it's more inclusive. Msia doesn't have a strong history of fighting for causes ideologically.
YB Datuk Aaron Ago Dagang, Timbalan Menteri Kesihatan II mengucapkan Selamat Menyambut Hari Deepavali khususnya kepada masyarakat Malaysia yang beragama Hindu.
Them: orang muda ni bodoh, tak tau apa pasal politik, demokrasi, tak layak mengundi
Also them: shut down people who actually want to teach politics and democracy to young people
🤷♀️
It's 2022. Mahasiswa sudah bebas berpolitik setelah pindaan AUKU dan Undi18. Xkan kita nak halang bila student uni minat belajar pasal demokrasi? It's already good that they even bother to come and learn
1. Dalam marah-marah kita pada Tajuddin, Annuar Musa, Hamzah Zainuddin, Ismail Sabri dan yang sewaktu dengannya, kita juga harus ingat beberapa perkara.
Ini ialah bebenang.
Malaysian politics as of 20 August 2021: all roads come from UMNO, and all roads lead back to UMNO. I don't have to type out here the number of studies that has been done to show that UMNO and the State are fused. Decoupling UMNO and the State must be our priority.
In Albany, New York, USA. Registered immediately for undi pos and it was approved quickly. But no news at all regarding when my ballot paper will arrive. I guess I expected this, but still. You had years to get your act together
@sprgovmy
.
Received info from postal voters that DHL Tracking no. generated but ballot papers have yet to leave Malaysia.
Many voters in UK (& other parts of the world) hv not received their ballot papers.
Only 5 more working days to 19 Nov Election Day.
‼️ SPR MUST answer to this ‼️
Highlight of my week - frank discussions on politics, democracy and what needs to change - with the best in the business
@merweissphd
and
@partimuda
friends ✨️✨️✨️
Obtained this gem for only RM18 at
@GerakBudaya
's Merdeka sale. I wonder where one can find Farish's earlier 2 volume work on PAS, Islam Embedded? I know it's incredibly rare. No one wants to take him up on republishing it?
Sebenarnya apa peranan Timbalan Menteri kalau kekosongan jawatan Menteri perlu dipangku oleh Menteri lain? Baik tak payah ada Timbalan Menteri kalau macam tu.
10. Apa yang kita inginkan ialah kemarahan rakyat di peringkat nasional menakutkan ahli politik, sekaligus menyebabkan mereka meminta maaf atau meletakkan jawatan. Namun, di Malaysia sekarang, keadaan ini susah untuk berlaku.
Akhirnya dapat peluang menulis artikel penuh tentang periuk nasi dan perihal orang Melayu. Topik yang luas, jadi mungkin akan diikuti dgn bahagian 2 untuk ulasan lebih terperinci. Terima kasih
@ajardemokrasi
@aminmubarak_
dan
@luthfieusry_
atas peluang.
Pertama, bukankah PH telah janjikan peruntukan sama rata buat semua MP dalam manifesto2 mereka sebelum ini? Bukankah prinsip asas demokrasi menuntut janji2 manifesto diambil serius, bukan untuk diketepikan sesuka hati?
It's not enough to use "keeping kleptocrats/criminals out of power" as a reason to persuade young people to come out to vote. What are the issues at stake for young people in this election? Who are the candidates that have pledged to solve those issues when they get in power?
Young people have the power to change the direction of our country by voting in this election. Climate change, reproductive rights, gun safety—all the issues you care about are on the ballot.
Register to vote at and encourage your friends to do the same.
Raised by civil servant dad, homemaker mum, attended SRK / SMK. Parents still Encik & Puan. Despite that one can have a decent career. So I’m all that. Thank you.