The impact of Nizar Vs Zambry

Sumber : MalaysianInsider

MAY 11 – • Datuk Seri Nizar Jamaluddin – Nizar has maintained all along that he was the Mentri Besar of Perak.

He was ridiculed as “power hungry” by Umno politicians and portrayed as a traitor by the mainstream media for challenging Sultan Azlan Shah’s decision.

Today, he was vindicated by the High Court, which ruled that a mentri besar can only be removed through a vote of no-confidence in the state assembly.

• Speaker V Sivakumar – He was dragged out of his chair, roughed up and locked up for an hour on May 7 while Barisan Nasional installed their own man as the Speaker of the state assembly.

The High Court decision effectively returns the state assembly to the status quo, the way it was pre-February 4. This means that Sivakumar is still the Speaker of the House and even if the Datuk Zambry Abdul Kadir and other BN lawmakers want to propose any motion, it has to be accepted by him.

• The Stephen Kalong Ningkan principle – He was the first Chief Minister of Sarawak but was booted out in 1966 when the governor asked him to resign, showing him letters by 21 of the 42 legislators that said they had lost their confidence in him. He challenged this saying that the letters did not have the effect of a vote of confidence in the state assembly.

He was sacked by the governor but took his case to court. The High Court reinstated him and laid down the principle that the governor could only dismiss the chief minister if the latter had lost the confidence of the House. This principle was upheld by the High Court of Kuala Lumpur today.

• Deadlock or loss of confidence – One of the pivotal factual issues in the Zambry Vs Nizar case was this: did Nizar tell the Sultan that he had lost the majority of the House when he asked for the state assembly to be dissolved or did he merely say that the House was deadlocked?

Nizar said that during the audience with the Sultan on February 4, he informed the Ruler that with the resignation of three Pakatan Rakyat lawmakers, there was a deadlock situation in the assembly and therefore sought the dissolution of the House and fresh elections.

But Perak state legal adviser Datuk Ahmad Kamal Md Shahid in an affidavit said that Nizar told the Sultan of Perak that he wanted the state assembly dissolved because he had lost the confidence of the majority.

The High Court judge today made clear whose version of events he believed.

Nizar MB Perak Yang Sah

May 11, 09 3:45pm

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Mahkamah Tinggi Kuala Lumpur mengumumkan Datuk Seri Mohamad Nizar Jamaluddin sebagai menteri besar sah Perak setelah digugurkan jawatan tersebut awal bulan lalu.Mahkamah juga memutuskan menteri besar BN Datuk Seri Zambry Abdul Kadir dan enam exconya mengosongkan dengan kadar segera pejabat mereka - di Bangunan Perak Darul Ridzuan di Ipoh.Dalam penghakimannya, hakim Abdul Aziz Abd Rahim berkata seseorang menteri besar hanya boleh dipecat melalui undi tidak percaya di DUN, seperti kes Stephen Kalong Ningkan.Hakim menambah, dalam kes pelucutan Mohamad Nizar, tiada persidangan dewan diadakan untuk meluluskan usul sedemikian.

Dalam penghakimannya, Abdul Aziz berkata jika Sultan Perak mahu meletakkan Mohamad Nizar meletakkan jawatan, maka baginda sepatutnya mengambil sidang DUN untuk mengemukakan usul tersebut.Permohonan peguam Zambry, Cecil Abraham untuk menangguhkan penghakiman tersebut ditolak oleh mahkamah. Mengulas kemenangannya, menteri besar Pakatan Rakyat itu berkata beliau akan menghadap Sultan Perak berhubung penghakiman mahkamah tersebut.

Pada 13 Februari lalu, Mohamad Nizar memfailkan saman mencabar pelantikan Zambry di kompleks mahkamah Jalan Duta, kira-kira seminggu selepas rampasan kuasa BN dan sekali gus pelantikan wakil rakyat BN itu.Mohamad Nizar, ADUN Pasir Panjang, juga memohon mahkamah mengeluarkan perintah perisytiharan bahawa Zambry yang dilanti 6 Februari lalu tidak berhak memegang jawatan menteri besar. Dalam permohonan itu, wakil rakyat PAS itu mendakwa beliau masih menteri besar yang sah atas tiga alasan berikut:

(i) Tidak terdapat pembubaran DUN Perak;
ii) Tidak terdapat usul tidak percaya diambil dan diterima pakai oleh DUN terhadapnya sebagai menteri besar Perak; dan
(iii) Tidak terdapat peletakan jawatan menteri besar Perak.

"Melalui kenyataan media pejabat Sultan pada 5 Februari 2009, Sultan bertitah tidak akan membubarkan DUN dan sekiranya saya serta ahli majlis mesyuarat negeri tidak meletakkan jawatan, jawatan kami akan dianggap kosong. "Saya menegaskan bahawa walaupun terdapat usaha mengusir saya daripada jawatan menteri besar Perak, saya masih menteri besar dan masih menjalankan fungsi dan tugas dengan baik, cermat dan adil," katanya dalam afidavit, menyokong permohonan itu.

Mohamad Nizar juga memohon mahkamah mengeluarkan perintah supaya responden memberikan tunjuk sebab bagaimana dan di bawah dasar apa Zambry, sebagai responden, berhak memegang jawatannya sekarang. Beliau mendakwa responden secara tidak sah mengambil dengan tiada hak dan merampas jawatan menteri besar, serta menjalankan tanggungjawab, fungsi dan tugas sebagai menteri besar secara tidak sah dan bercanggah dengan Undang-undang Tubuh Kerajaan Negeri Perak.Nizar juga memohon perintah injunksi bagi menghalang responden daripada melaksanakan tanggungjawab dan tugas-tugas menteri besar di negeri itu.

(Sumber : Malaysiakini)

7 MEI 2009: HARI YANG MENGAIBKAN DEMOKRASI MALAYSIA

Oleh : Hamirdin

Assalamualaikum,

Hari yang dirancangkan oleh UMNO/BN untuk mengadakan sidang DUN Perak secara kebadutan adalah hari yang paling mengaibkan demokrasi Malaysia. Ini adalah kerana semua peraturan dan undang undang yang dibuat oleh negara dilanggar dan dipersenda oleh UMNO/BN. Perampasan kuasa yang mereka lakukan adalah tidak beretika, tidak demokratik, haram dan melanggar perlembagaan, dan kesemuanya ini dilakukan secara terang terangan.

Tambah mengaibkan ialah ada yang buta hati dan buta perut yang sanggup merestu segala bentuk pelanggaran ini. Kita baca berita bagaimana pihak polis pergi ke rumah ADUN PR dan mengmbil gambar rumah mereka dan famili mereka. Ini adalah satu bentuk ganggauan seolah ingin mempertahankan kerajaan haram UMNO/BN di Perak.


Ketua DAP Perak tetap mengatakan bahawa Zambru tidak boleh menghadhiri sidang DUN tersebut, kerana sebab sebab seperti yang telah diterangkan oleh peguam Hanipa Maidin dan juga Lim Kit Siang. Juga terlalu banyak kepincangan dalam peraturan yang telah dilakukan oleh UMNO/BN sehingga dengan mengadakan juga sidang DUN ini ia akan menjadikannya sebagai satu bentu perogolan kepada undang undang dan tatasusila serta budaya yang sedia di amalkan di Malaysia.


Memang sidang ini akan jadi kecoh. Kecoh. dan kecoh. Besar kemungkinan ia menjadi gaduh. gaduh. dan gaduh. Semua instrumen negara akan dikerah menmbantu dan menolong BN walau pun BN tu salah. salah. dan salah.

Oleh itu saya cadangkan kepada semua orang Islam yang cintakan kedamaian, dan bencikan kezaliman supaya melakukan sembahyang hajat memohon bantuan Allah agar Allah menggagalkan perancangan BN di Perak ini, terutamanya perancangan mereka dalam sidang DUN yang tidak mengikut peraturan ini.

Siapa yang mampu berpuasa, saya syorkan tambahkan satu lagi usaha dengan berpuasa sunat memohon Allah menjahanamkan perancangan jahat ini.

Sepanjang pengalaman saya, usaha kerohanian seperti ini tidak pernah tidak berhasil.

M.Bakri Musa : Environmental, Regional, and Global Challenges

M.Bakri Musa :

Chapter 14: Environmental, Regional, and Global Challenges



Another Giant Neighbor—Indonesia




One potential countervailing force would be Indonesia. Presently Indonesia could hardly keep itself intact; it is in danger of imploding with ethnic and religious strife. I do not see a would-be Indonesian Deng Xiapong who could change the nation’s direction. The recent election of Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (SBY) was promising. Who would have thought that after the long years of Suharto, and before that the even more dictatorial and disastrous rule of Sukarno, that Indonesia would today have three democratic and largely honest elections? If SBY could combine his economic talent and military discipline, that wretched republic may yet have a chance.



Malaysia would be the direct beneficiary were Indonesia to thrive; at the same time Malaysia would suffer the most, apart from Indonesia itself, were it to disintegrate. It is never good when your neighbor (or anyone else for that matter) falls upon hard times. If Indonesia were successful, some of it may spill over into Malaysia. Johore is prosperous because it enjoys the spillover of Singapore’s success.



If Indonesia fails, rest assured its problems would swamp Malaysia. There is no way Malaysia could control the inevitable flood of hungry and desperate people. Geo-strategically, an economically robust and militarily strong Indonesia is the best countervailing force against China. On the cultural aside, a thriving and vibrant Indonesia is the only way to make the Malay culture and language preeminent, but more on this in Chapter 17.



Malaysia should not be an idle bystander; it must be proactive to ensure Indonesia’s survival and stability, as that would be in Malaysia’s best self-interest. Malaysia must use its influence to help that country settle its internal squabbles with the Acehnese separatist movement. Similarly, Malaysian Christians especially the Dayaks must be examples to Indonesian Christians on how to coexist and actively collaborate with the Muslim majority for mutual benefits.



Malaysian leaders feel that Malaysia’s population and thus domestic market is small, hence its 70 million people strategy. There is one quick and dirty way to effectively expand this domestic market, and that is to have a common market with Indonesia (and also Brunei—the IMB concept I will pursue in Chapter 17). Suddenly we would have a combined domestic market of nearly 250 million—a quarter of a billion—people, and a combined GDP of nearly half a trillion US dollars.



A market of this size that is open, committed to free enterprise, and free of corruption would attract investors from all over. It would provide a viable alternative to lumbering India and tightly-controlled China.



Another attractive feature to this market is that even though it is geographically widespread, being an archipelago the whole area is readily assessable by water. With containerization and shallow-draft vessels, goods could be easily and cheaply transported from one end of the archipelago to the other. By launching satellites, telecommunications could be realized cheaply through wireless technology, obviating the need for expensive undersea cables.



There will have to be greater integration before this common market could operate smoothly. Integrating the two markets would be a good time to consider a common currency based on gold and silver, akin to the ancient Muslim dinar and durham. That would really be a trailblazer, quite apart from disciplining the leaders from printing useless paper money. It would also give the currency immediate credibility internationally. Right now no one trusts the Indonesian rupiah, while the Malaysian ringgit is only slightly more respectable.



Integrating markets of different stages of development is not impossible. America with its First World economy has a successful free market arrangement (NAFTA) with Third World Mexico. Both benefit from this arrangement. A similar integration of the Indonesian and Malaysian markets would do likewise. Trade between the two countries would blossom, and with it, prosperity for both. With common marketing, the region could rival the Caribbean as a tourist haven.



If Indonesia and Malaysia (preferably with Brunei) were to start the ball rolling with their own integration, the chances of success would be great. Socio-culturally, the two markets are alike. Developmentally, Indonesia is still Third World and commodity-driven rather than manufacturing, while Malaysia is further ahead and on the threshold of the K-economy. The different stages of development would make integration that much easier. If Germany and Hungary can be part of a common market, so could Indonesia and Malaysia.



A common market would also enhance the visibility and usage of Malay language. Malay books and periodicals would have an expanded market, thus ensuring their viability. If Malay and Indonesian language were to be unified, it would be the fifth most widely spoken.



At the June 2005 Islamic Development Bank and Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC) meeting in Kuala Lumpur, Abdullah Badawi called for establishing a common market and free trade agreement among Islamic nations. That is premature and overly ambitious. I suggest developing a common market with Indonesia first and work out the inevitable kinks before expanding.



Even without a common market (that will take decades to develop) there are many ventures both countries could undertake to encourage greater integration, like adopting common standards and terminology in emerging fields like ICT and biotechnology.



Standardization of the two languages would accelerate the integration. They are essentially the same language. In the 1950s there was a concerted effort at this but was derailed by the konfrontasi of the 1960s, and the momentum was lost. Today Malay and Bahasa Indonesia continue on their separate paths. I find it increasingly difficult to read or comprehend Indonesian writings.



Malaysia should encourage Indonesian students to study in Malaysia and offer scholarships to bright young Indonesians. Citizens between the two countries should be encouraged to travel by eliminating unnecessary paper work and visas. Citizens of both countries should not need a passport to visit each other’s country; any document with a personal picture (identity card, driver’s license) should suffice. Americans and Canadians do not need a passport to visit one another’s country. That may however change because of 9-11.



Greater economic integration and increased trading between the two countries would bring greater prosperity to both, as well as facilitate relationships in other areas. Peace would be greatly enhanced when both countries are prosperous and dependent on one another. That would also be the best and most powerful countervailing force against China.



Next: ASEAN Follies

Minta YB M. Manoharan dibebaskan dengan segera

Angkatan Muda Keadilan ( AMK ) Mendesak agar YB M. Manoharan dibebaskan dengan segera daripada akta zalim ISA . Beliau yang juga merupakan Ahli Dewan Undangan Negeri ( ADUN ) Kota Alam Shah akan mengambil tindakan meletakkan jawatan sebagai ADUN kerana beliau tidak dapat menjalankan tanggungjawab beliau kepada rakyat di DUN Kota Alam Shah kerana beliau kini masih ditahan di bawah Akta Keselamatan Dalam Negeri ( ISA ) kerana terlibat dengan Hindraf .

Sekiranya beliau mengambil tindakan meletakkan jawatan dan mengosongkan kerusi ADUN Kota Shah Alam , satu pilihanraya kecil terpaksa diadakan dan sudah pasti Barisan Nasional di dalam situasi sekarang tidak lagi bersedia untuk berdepan dengan pilihanraya kecil kerana berdasarkan prestasi 4 Pilihanraya Kecil iaitu Permatang Pauh , Kuala Terengganu , Bukit Gantang dan Bukit Selambau , Barisan Nasional mengalami kekalahan yang teruk.

Justeru , AMK menggesa Menteri Dalam Negeri, Dato’ Seri Hishamudin Hussein supaya membebaskan YB M.Manoharan dengan segera dan sekiranya berlaku satu pilihanraya kecil sepertimana kenyataan oleh YAB Perdana Menteri ‘yang tidak diperlukan’ yang membelanjakan banyak wang, merugikan masa dan tenaga serta akan mengalihkan tumpuan negara dari masalah ekonomi yang dihadapi sekarang ini . Langkah yang terbaik ialah membebaskan dengan segera Tahanan Tanpa Bicara ini agar beliau dapat memberikan tumpuan kepada perkhidmatan dan gerakerja beliau sebagai ADUN Kota Alam Shah .

Namun begitu , bukan sahaja YB M.Manoharan sahaja yang wajar dibebaskan tetapi termasuk kesemua tahanan ISA lain . Hapuskan ISA !

Fariz Musa
Timbalan Ketua AMK

AMK BANTAH TINDAKAN MEROBOHKAN BANGUNAN MARA KUALA TERENGGANU

Angkatan Muda Keadilan ( AMK ) Negeri Terengganu membantah tindakan Majlis Amanah Rakat ( MARA ) mengambil tindakan merobohkan bangunan yang boleh dianggap bersejarah bagi Negeri Terengganu . Seharusnya pihak MARA mengambil inisiatif mengekalkan bagunan tersebut daripada merobohkannya dan dibaikpulih sebagai salah satu aset bangunan bersejarah di Negeri Terengganu serta boleh dijadikan sebagai salah satu destinasi perlancongan serta ekonomi di Negeri Terengganu Darul Iman .

Tindakan merobohkan bangunan tersebut oleh MARA bukan sahaja melenyapkan antara salah satu bangunan yang bersejarah malah yang satu ketika dahulu menjadi bangunan penting kepada warga Kuala Terengganu dan negeri Terengganu amnya .

Malah amat malang kepada para peniaga yang menyewa permis bangunan tersebut untuk berniaga terpaksa mengosongkan kedai-kedai mereka dan bersusah payah mendapatkan permis-permis baru untuk meneruskan perniagaan mereka sedangkan negeri Terengganu secara hakikatnya masih berkurangan ruang-ruang niaga terutama kepada para usahawan kecil . Adalah amat menyedihkan kebanyakkan peniaga yang menyewa di Bangunan Mara tersebut ialah merupakan usahawan kecil Melayu yang kini berdepan dengan segala permasalahan dan kini terpaksa mencari dana tambahan bagi membiayai kos perpindahan dan juga premis baru yang sudah pasti mencecah ribuan ringgit. Sedangkan semua mengetahui kos penyewaan , renovasi dan sebagainya adalah sangat tinggi di Bandar Kuala Terengganu sedangkan mereka adalah usahawan kecil Melayu yang sudah pasti menghadapi kesulitan kewangan lebih-lebih lagi dalam suasana kegawatan ekonomi ini .

Justeru , AMK Negeri Terengganu merayu kepada pihak pengurusan MARA agar dapat menghentikan tindakan merobohkan bangunan tersebut dan mengkaji semula tindakan yang telah diambil . Tindakan membatalkan perobohan bangunan tersebut dapat menyelamatkan para usahawan kecil Melayu agar mereka dapat meneruskan perniagaan mereka sepertimana biasa .

Fariz Musa

Ketua AMK Negeri Terengganu

5 Mei 2009

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