SOUND BITES

Where has the money gone to?

I reproduce here the payments made by Petronas to the Federal Government since 1976. That year the Government received RM300 million. The amount increased to RM2 billion in 1981. By 2003 it paid RM15.6 billion to the Federal Government. The total from 1981 to 2003 is RM168.8 billion in 22 years.

From then onwards it increased from RM19 billion in 2004 to RM67.8 billion in 2009. The total for six years is RM253.6 billion.

I am sure the Government had spent the money wisely. It would be interesting to know what the RM253.6 billion was spent on.

** FY        Payment (in billion)

1976                    0.3

1977                    0.7

1978                    0.7

1979                    0.7

1980                    1.8

1981                    2.0

1982                    2.6

1983                    3.8

1984                    4.3

1985                    4.6

1986                    5.0

1987                    4.0

1988                    4.4

1989                    4.3

1990                    5.5

1991                    7.4

1992                    7.1

1993                    7.7

1994                    7.3

1995                    6.7

1996                    6.8

1997                    8.8

1998                    9.6

1999                    8.2

2000                  12.0

2001                  17.1

2002                  14.0

2003                  15.6

2004                  19.0

2005                  28.1

2006                  37.8

2007                  44.1

2008                  56.8

2009                  67.8

** Petronas Group payment to Federal Government inclusive of taxes, royalty, export duty and dividends

247 thoughts on “SOUND BITES”

  1. Assalamualaikum YBhg. Tun,
    Diharapkan agar Tun sentiasa sihat dan dilindungi oleh Allah Swt sentiasa.
    I would like to share or maybe bring your attention to ongoing process in Petronas Dagangan Berhad. I’m a small time contractor serving PDB currently as a panel service and maintenance for the petrol pump in the central region. We have been doing it for the past few years with PDB and recently just got an extension for another 6 months. Alhamdulillah, thus far we have been performing very well and PDB is happy with our works. But the recent development is that PDB has initiated to get someone ( a big player in the market) as an umbrella company to take care of all the maintenance aspect from civil,mechanical,electrical and so forth.That is why PDB is given us an extension of 6 months. So by next year May or June (2010), we are no longer serving PDB, if this is materialized. What worrying me is that the new development will surely “kill” us the small bumiputra company if the so called ‘big gun’ is taking over the whole thing.What Petronas wants to do is to save few ringgits ( 20-30% in term of pay out to contractor, maybe), but at the same time losing us, the small time bumi contractor (and we have no choice but to scale down our manpower or maybe totally disposed off). Even if the idea that the Umbrella company do take us again, but for very sure it will squeeze us to our last drops ( you know, sub sub price). If Petronas want to copycat what other like Shell or ESSO is doing, then the responsibility of PEtronas as Malaysian own is void. They (ESSO and SHELL) are belongs to foreigners, so the so called social obligation should be different from Petronas.
    I have watched your Biography recently in ASTRO, and one of the reason you was expelled from the Party then because you’re loud in discussing about bumiputra rights, so I may experience the same by exposing this matter.
    Well, hope for the best and thank you for reading this comment. Maybe you could give me your views privately thru my email.
    Once again, thanks and hope you all the best.
    Assalamualaikum.

  2. Dear Tun,
    Thanks for the factual information given, looks like Pak Lah have done something, he have tried to straighten up the monetory system in Malaysia, he is trying to buy back the 36Tone of Gold reserved sold during Mahathir Era( Year 2000). That by assuming he does not used up the whole amount for the government administration and development.
    From the data provided, the sudden increase in Petronas Tax contribution to the Federal Goverment were in 1977 and 1980 which are 133% and 157% respectively. The beginning of Mahathir Era. The rest of 20years showed petronas contribution were varies from -8% to +40% on Year to Year basis.
    There are no abnormality or missappropiate expenditure during Pak Lah Era, by considering moderate Y-Y inflation rate as 4.3% from 1981 to 2009, the amount RM2billion recieved by Federal Goverment in 1980 is projected as RM67.8billion. Although the different in term of Money in Riggit is very wide, Ringgit have depreciated, the inflation explained the lower purchasing power with Ringgit.
    Apa ni Tun, pandai-pandai buang batu sembunyi tangan, campak isu untuk provokasi. To other readers, please beware !!!
    Yang Benar
    Hazrin Salim Marjan
    019-2856285
    [email protected]

  3. Dear sir, don’t worry about those critics. You have given us F1, KLIA, putrajaya, LRT systems, KLCC, Penang bridge, etc. You nearly had the bridge to singapore for us but somebody stopped the project. The billions you spent is worth it. Your successors have nothing to boast about, you have the right to question where the money goes. We also want to know.

  4. why cant some money be use to upgrade our public transport especially in big cities. living in big cities is getting more and more draining than ever before. traffics, kills ur sanity.there used to be less traffic in the old days and then, public transport like buses are so common and convenient. almost can travel to any places in buses and we dont have to wait long. since when had all this services died away. why they just faded so easily when it should have been there to benefit the majority of people in the cities and reduce traffics. and then people started having their own cars because they launch the national car and it’s so affordable and cheap in every aspect from head to toe. what a coincidence! looking at our neighbour s’pore i can only astounished by what they have done with their public transport. looking at the numbers of rapid kl bus dumped while it is still operable tells me something. why cant we have more ‘big guys’ out there that are smart and sincere to its people. i cant see vision 2020 been materialised perhaps it has always been vision 2200 (wrongly placed digits) alah…takpe la. malaysia boleh! boleh apape je..

  5. SELAMAT PETANG MALAYSIA…
    Duit dah banyak dilaburkan kepada projek-projek yang berteraskan kepada kemajuan negara dan kemakmuran rakyat…namun begitu…terdapat juga projek pembangunan serta infrastruktur yang dibina tidak menetepati spesifikasi serta standard SOP pembinaan. Seperti contoh projek kemudahan-kemudahan sukan di negeri Trengganu yang telah dan sedang mengalami masalah serta kerosakan yang serius, bahkan runtuh serta merta!
    Kuala Terengganu di negeri Terengganu adalah sebuah daerah yang terletak berhampiran dengan persisiran pantai Laut China Selatan yang terbentang luas. Maka jika diambilkira faktor geografi di kawasan tersebut ia sering terdedah kepada tiupan angin monsun serta sebaran air laut masin yang terbang bebas di udara. Pengumpulan air hujan daripada proses sejatan kawasan air laut yang terbentang luas dan seterusnya berlaku fenomena hujan lebat di kawasan ini menambahkan lagi faktor kerosakan yang berterusan kepada beberapa struktur binaan seperti besi, aluminium, plastik dan konkrit. Jika perkara alam ini berterusan maka ia merupakan faktor utama yang harus diambil kira dan dikaji dahulu sebelum memulakan sesuatu projek. kajian pada mutu bahan binaan serta ketahanannya terhadap perubahan kesan daripada dedahan air laut masin.
    Didalam rancangan Discovery juga ada memaparkan beberapa projek infrastruktur yang dibina berhampiran dengan persisiran laut dan di atas laut menggunakan teknologi, kaedah, rekabentuk dan bahan binaan mentah yang telah diuji terlebih dahulu ketahanannya serta standard kualiti terhadap dedahan berterusan pada air laut masin.
    Air laut adalah salah satu bahan penyebab paling utama dan lebih dasyat lagi kesannya kepada sesuatu permukaan dan bahan. Ia begitu mudah mengkaratkan serta mampu menghakis permukaan cat atau besi jika ia berterusan terdedah kepadanya.
    Lihat sahaja bagaimana sesuatu pelantar minyak,loji penapis minyak, kapal tangki dan lori tangki dibina. Apa kaedah serta bahan yang digunakan sewaktu membina dan membuatnya. Material yang digunakan adalah yang terbaik, berkualiti serta digunapakai oleh seluruh dunia.
    Tidak semua binaan yang besar boleh menggunakan bahan yang sama, faktor ketahanan bahan kepada faktor cuaca dan dedahan pada iklim yang berbeza perlu diambil berat dan juga perlu ada ilmu pengetahuan yang sesuai untuknya.
    Kontraktor-kontraktor tempatan harus lebih peka dan lebih berilmu jika ingin membina di kawasan seperti ini. JKR negeri juga perlu turut sama.
    Peka dan ilmu perlu seimbang agar ia tidak akan mendatangkan masalah dikemudian hari. Harus diingat, kerja didunia ini adalah amanah Allah dan adalah menjadi tanggungjawab kita semua untuk melakukannya dengan penuh amanah,berilmu, baik dan berdedikasi.

  6. Zaman Tun 22 tahun buat hutang, topup syarikat kroni
    Zaman Pak Lah bayar HUTANG la, bayar duit KWSP, topup Tabung haji dan banyak la lgi hutang yang diwarisi.

  7. Dengan Izin Tun Terima kasih..
    Hussein Ismail
    [[bagaimana lesunya Parlimen negara ini selama 22 tahun pemerintahan Tun….dan bandingkan sekarang..]]
    He..He..Prof_Ridcully..Tuan tolong lah jawab kenyatan berhemah ini..
    Komen Tuan-
    Pengiktirafan bukan boleh dipaksa tetapi ianya datang secara semula jadi. Ingatkah Saudara bagaimana seoarang Sasterawan Negara yang telah memberikan satu imej….yang amat memalukan kepada pemimpin yang Saudara banggakan ini.
    Balasan Komen saya..Panjang sikit..Harap maaf
    Terhutang Budi
    Battiston is particularly remembered for the 1982 FIFA World Cup semi final in Seville, when France faced West Germany. He came off the bench in the second half, and after ten minutes of play, following a through ball by Platini, Battiston was clear through the German defence racing towards goal. The German goalkeeper, Harald Schumacher, raced towards Battiston as the Frenchman took the shot, missing the goal. Schumacher leapt into the air, twisting his body and colliding with Battiston. In the process Schumacher’s hip hit the Frenchman’s face. Battiston, clattered, fell to the ground unconscious, with damaged vertebrae and teeth knocked out, later slipping into a coma. Emergency medics had to administer oxygen on the pitch.[1] Michel Platini later said that he thought that Battiston was dead, because “he had no pulse and looked pale”.[2]
    The referee did not give a foul, let alone send Schumacher off. Schumacher then proceeded to take the goal-kick and play resumed. After winning the game, the goalkeeper caused more controversy when he was told that Battiston had lost three teeth, and replied: “If that’s all that’s wrong with him, I’ll pay him the crowns.”
    Saya rasa amat tidak adil terhadap ‘kekejaman’ ini dan to ‘rub salt into the wound’ German menang dan masuk final!..Crime pays here..
    Itali menuntut bela bagi pihak saya bila mereka membelasah German 3-1 di final..Can even afford mising a penalty..
    Kerana Itali mengalahkan German..they avenge my anger and feeling of helplesnes of mitigating justice..saya terhutang budi untuk selama-selamanya kepada Bolasepak Itali..I am debted forever to Italy the 4 times world Champion..
    Kembali kepada Tun Dr Mahathir..
    Israel mengganas di Palestin dan saya amat merasa sakit dan utterly despaired in helplesness.Tun bangkit menyelar perbuatan Israel dan konco-konconya..Berani menentang mereka!!..Untuk ini Tun telah membela rakyat Palestin untuk saya..Dan untuk ini
    Saya terhutang budi kepada Tun Dr Mahathir untuk selama-lamanya!!!!
    Jelaskan jasa-jasa anda kepada Malaysia..I want to be proud of you too..:)
    Terima kasih Tun..

  8. Dengan izin, Tun,
    Saudara Hussein Ismail berkata
    //Itulah sebab saya tidak bersetuju atas pandangan Prof yang hanya melihat keberkesanan sesuatu program pembangunan insan berkisar kepada produk sistem sekular yang ada sekarang ini….kononnnya diukur daripada jumlah pegangan PhD, pendaftaran murid-murid dan juga data buta huruf dsb//
    Saya tidak dapat melihat bagaimana isu yang dibincangkan ada kait-mengait dengan sistem sekular, ataupun sistem tak sekular. Jika dibenarkan oleh Tun, mungkin saudara boleh memperluaskan hal ini?
    Saya tak ada masaalah jika saudara tidak mahu ukuran-ukuran ini digunakan untuk mengukur kebersanan apa yang digelarkan sebagai polisi pembangunan insan pentadbiran yang berslogankan ‘Gemilang’ ‘Terbilang’ dan….saya lupa yang satu lagi. Mungkin saudara tidak membaca komen saya betul-betul ataupun mengikut pautan yang saya nyatakan. Bilangan PhD, kadar buta huruf, dan ukuran yang lain bukan konon-konon atau buat-buat. Ukuran-ukuran ini bukan rekaan saya. Ukuran ini digunakan bukan sahaja oleh organisasi-organisasi pembangunan antarabangsa seperti Unescap, malah oleh kerajaan Malaysia sendiri.
    Saya sarankan sudah tentunya kita memerlukan kayu ukur untuk menentukan keberkesanan sesuatu program atau polisi. Jika tidak, kita hanya mengagak berjaya atau tidaknya program tersebut dan lazimnya kita akan membuat kesimpulan mengikut selera sendiri. Ia umpama prestasi pasukan bolasepak kebangsaan lah. Tanpa ranking FIFA, jika ditanya pemain dan pegawai persatuan, semuanya okay; kepada peminat, semuanya tidak okay. Kalau nak pasti kita kena semak ranking FIFA yang menjadi pengukur pencapaian pasukan kebangsaan.
    Ukuran sedemikian merupakan maklum balas. Ukuran objektif boleh digunakan untuk membandingkan keberkesanan sesuatu program bukan sahaja mengikut peredaran masa bagi sesebuah negara, tetapi juga untuk membandingkan kemajuan yang dibuat (atau tidak) di antara negara.
    //Adalah mustahil pemerintahan yang lama langsung tidak mempunyai perancangan yang strategik bagi membangunkan negara//
    Anda pernah baca berita mengenai Zimbabwe?
    //Harap lihatlah semula Prof dan mungkin lepas ini didoakan Prof akan berubah sepertimana Prof berubah daripada melihat Tun Mahathir peringkat awal dulu//
    Saya hanya rakyat biasa, bukan ahli politik atau aktivis, dan saya telah lihat semula. Saya mengikut sikap John Maynard Keynes (sila jangan panggil saya pemikir sekular, saudara Hussein) yang berkata, When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do Sir? Itulah sebabnya saya membuat kesimpulan seperti yang dinyatakan di dalam komen-komen saya. The facts about the previous ‘gemilang’ administration haven’t changed.

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  10. Yg Bhg Prof Ricully dan Saudara Wajaperak,
    By prof_ridcully on July 10, 2009 7:21 AM
    “Sebenarnya pentadbiran sebelum ini tidak berwasasan dan tiada rancangan teratur untuk membangunkan negara supaya Malaysia menjadi negara ‘gemilang’ seperti slogan yang sering kedengaran. Hanya slogan kosong yang diutarakan, dan kita semua tahu yang slogan sahaja tidak mencukupi untuk membangunkan negara. Ia lebih merupakan pentadbiran yang melaksanakan polisi dan projek pembangunan secara ad-hoc dan piecemeal tanpa memikirkan segala aspek polisi tersebut. Jika tidak, tak mungkin rakyat menggelarkannya kerajaan ‘flip-flop.'”
    Komen saya-
    Komen yang tidak menggambarkan corak pemikiran seorang yang berpendidikan tinggi. Inikah produk hasil daripada sistem pembangunan insan negara selama ini.
    Itulah sebab saya tidak bersetuju atas pandangan Prof yang hanya melihat keberkesanan sesuatu program pembangunan insan berkisar kepada produk sistem sekular yang ada sekarang ini….kononnnya diukur daripada jumlah pegangan PhD, pendaftaran murid-murid dan juga data buta huruf dsb.
    Saya cadangkan sebagai contoh Pof boleh buat perbandingan tentang kelayakan para pemimpin negara ini dengan jiran kita Singpura. Dari PM hinggalah wakil rakyatnya dan analisalah hasil perbandingan tersebut dan buat rumusan sendiri sama ada kita ini dipimpin oleh seorang yang berkelayakan tertinggi atau tidak.
    Inikah akan digunakan sebagai kayu pengukur atau tanda aras bagi menjamin keberkesanan sesuatu program pembangunan insan? Program yang memakan masa yang amat lama bukan 2 atau 5 tahun.
    Adalah mustahil pemerintahan yang lama langsung tidak mempunyai perancangan yang strategik bagi membangunkan negara.
    Sebagai contoh kecil, adakah pengambilan semula Perbadanan Pembangunan Bandar (UDA) daripada Bursa Malaysia bukan cetusan daripada perancangan yang tersusun dan strategik bagi menjamin matlamat sebenar kerajaan direalisasikan?
    Terimalah hakikat Prof! bagaimana lesunya Parlimen negara ini selama 22 tahun pemerintahan Tun….dan bandingkan sekarang.. terbuka luas semua pemimpin berbincang masalah negara dengan bijaksana…. tetapi mungkin kekecohan kecil hanya disebabkan mereka yang sesetengahnya masih tidak matang lagi.
    Harap lihatlah semula Prof dan mungkin lepas ini didoakan Prof akan berubah sepertimana Prof berubah daripada melihat Tun Mahathir peringkat awal dulu.
    By wajaperak on July 11, 2009 2:07 PM
    Tun amat banyak berjasa kepada negara ini tetapi tidak dapat penghormatan yang sewajarnya..Kalau anda sekalian tidak sudi mengiktiraf sumbangan beliau tidak mengapa, tetapi bagi mereka yang dahulunya memperlekehkan perjuangan Tun dan sudah insaf maka kembalilah ke pangkal jalan..Jangan pedulikan tuduhan yang akan di lemparkan kepada anda..
    Komen Saya-
    Pengiktirafan bukan boleh dipaksa tetapi ianya datang secara semula jadi. Ingatkah Saudara bagaimana seoarang Sasterawan Negara yang telah memberikan satu imej….yang amat memalukan kepada pemimpin yang Saudara banggakan ini.
    By wajaperak on July 11, 2009 2:10 PM
    Dengan Izin Tun..Terima kasih..
    Truthseeker..
    How about we gather the sound evidence to prosecute and if the ‘sources’ is intimidated, you can pass the buck to me..Another concerns citizen..
    Komen saya-
    Why not….proceed if any wrong doings done by our leaders, Tun Mahathir, Pak Lah or Najib.
    Common sense and wisdom should prevail…Wallahu’alam

  11. Dengan Izin Tun..Terima kasih..
    Prof_Ridcully..
    Amat berterima kasih dengan maklumbalas tuan..Hanya nak tambah sikit je..iaitu
    Idealism dan practicality.Suatu kisah..
    Di sebuah kampung nelayan pendalaman,seorang Doktor merawat pesakit kanak-kanak yang ‘malnutrition’.Kurang zat makanan akan menyebabkan banyak lagi jenis penyakit lain akan muncul..Oleh itu Doktor itu dengan berhemah bertanya kepada kanak-kanak berkenaan..Adik..jika adik-adik ini minum susu dan makan ikan bilis nescaya adik-adik akan sentiasa sihat…:)
    Doktor..Jika kami mampu makan makanan yang berkhasiat,tentu lah kami tidak datang berjumpa Doktor untuk rawatan!!
    This is one example of vicious cycle.The Dr have the idealism but does not have it applied.Hence the cycle continues..
    Saya berterima kasih dengan Prof_Ridcully kerana tak ramai cendekiawan dan ilmiah yang sanggup memberi kembali kepada masyarakat.( Giving back to society ).My comments is double edged sword..Where have all the Malays and Muslim professionals gone? Why they did not contribute back to the society ? Did they performs their social obligation clandestinely, reasons known only to themselves?..Or..They ignored their social obligaton? I professed I cannot feels any Professional contributions in my area..
    We needs to keeps remind ourselves of our civic duty.That’s why we needs to keep
    The Sword Of Damocles perpetually hanging on our head..In this sense it is our conscience..
    Tun and Prof is example of keep giving back to our society..What about the rest?
    Terima kasih Tun..

  12. Very interesting topic.
    Have you forget a simple sentence “actions louder than words”?
    A father asked his son not to smoke.
    The son said “But dad, you smoke.”
    Father answered “Yes son, but don’t follow me, it’s bad, always do the right thing even if i can’t do it.”
    Why scold your son if you cant even do it? Of cause your son and your grandson will follow your example.
    Your article is the best joke that makes my day.

  13. was just wondering? , with the oil that we have and the wealth. why is the countries development is still so bad. everything does not work well over here. it seems from the neighbouring country that i have visited. when im home. it felt like we are still 20 yrs back. do tell me why ?

  14. mmm sepatutnya kerajaan kena telus, kalau diminta oleh rakyat, kerajaan mesti kena tunjukkan ke mana duit ni telah dibelanjakan. saya rasa masa ni dunia dh terbalik, dulu rakyat dengar cakap kerajaan sekarang kerajaan turut cakap rakyat. ni semua pasal kerajaan dh lemah..

  15. Hanya ingin bertanya
    Prof_Ridcully
    Apabila tajuk ini digunakan ‘Where has the money gone to?’
    Majoriti yang meninggalkan komen ‘bersangka baik’ nampak nya.
    Tidak begitu?
    Who’s Bad?..by MJ

  16. By HOT ZOOMAuthor Profile Page on July 3, 2009 11:53 AM
    Wowow,
    Banyaknya duit Petronas.
    Kalau rakyat Malaysia diberi sorang RM 1 juta baru habis RM 27 juta.Semua dah jadi jutawan hehehe.
    Tapi duit banyak tu nak buat apa ye?
    Petronas kaya tapi rakyat banyak yang miskin tegar lagi.Kenapa ye?
    Kenapa?
    http://www.zoompanas2.com
    …………………………………
    i guess the calculation up there was wrong brother 🙂

  17. Salam Tun dan wajaperak
    Pertama-tamanya terima kasih, wajaperak, di atas sokongan tuan semasa saya ‘bertukar fikiran’ dengan Tempered 😉
    Jika boleh saya tambah sedikit lagi kepada pandangan yang diutarakan oleh wajaperak:
    Satu tunjang Peningkatan Modal Insan ataupun Development of Human Capital ialah penambahan ilmu yang melintasi keseluruhan spektrum pendidikan dari sekolah rendah hinggalah ke tahap ‘post-doctoral programs.’ Dan seperti saudara wajaperak katakan, bilangan pemegang PhD merupakan satu ukuran yang ketara atau ‘tangible’ keberkesanan polisi pembangunan insan. Faktor ini mungkin akan dapat dilihat pada dekad yang mendatang di mana bilangan pemegang PhD akan meningkat dengan mendadak. Mungkin. Operative word ialah mendadak. Jika tidak, peningkatan tersebut hanya merupakan ‘natural growth’ bilangan para sarjana yang sudah tentunya meningkat seiring dengan peningkatan bilangan IPT.
    Satu lagi ukuran ialah pelaburan yang dibuat di tahap paling rendah, yakni tahap sekolah rendah ataupun sekolah dasar.
    Beberapa organisasi antarabangsa, di antaranya UNESCAP, menggunakan kadar celik huruf sebagai ukuran bagi pelaburan ini dan seperti yang saya katakan, mengikut Laporan Ekonomi 2008 keluaran Perbendaharaan Malaysia, terdapat penurunan enrolmen sekolah rendah pada 2006; dan purata kadar peningkatan celik huruf di antara tahun 2003 dan 2006 hanya 0.3% berbanding 0.7% bagi jangka masa 2002 dan 2003.
    Sekiranya terdapat penekanan kepada pembangunan insan, haruskah kita melihat penurunan kadar enrolmen sekolah rendah (dan menengah) dan peningkatan kadar celik huruf yang juga rendah (mahupun positif) berbanding tahun-tahun sebelum polisi pembangunan insan diutarakan?
    Saya teringat satu masa dahulu (tahun 80-an) di mana terdapat ‘applied nutrition programme’ yang dilanjutkan ke sekolah-sekolah, terutamanya di luar bandar dengan tujuan untuk membekalkan makanan berkhasiat kepada murid. Malah, walaupun saya berada di bandar, saya pernah merasai makanan tersebut di bangku sekolah. Kemudiannya semasa di universiti saya pernah melawat sekolah yang mempunyai kandang ayamnya sendiri sebagai sebahagian dari program applied nutrition. Bagaimana mereka membahagikan ayam di kalangan murid saya kurang pasti, tetapi yang pentingnya terdapat aktiviti dan program ketara.
    Kalau tidak salah saya institusi-institusi di bawah naungan UN seperti UNDP, WHO dan UNESCO merakamkan kejayaan program seperti ‘reban ayam’ dan ‘roti’ di sekolah sebagai penyumbang kepada peningkatan kesihatan dan kecerdasan rakyat Malaysia. Alhasil, membangunkan insan.
    Saya menggunakan istilah ‘flip-flop’ di dalam konteks di mana sesuatu polisi diumumkan hanya untuk ditarik balik pelaksanaannya dalam masa yang singkat, kadang-kadang tidak sampai sebulan pengumumannya. Sebagai seorang rakyat awam ini menggambarkan satu pentadbiran yang tidak ‘think through’ sesuatu tindakan ataupun polisi sebelum ianya diumumkan dan dilaksanakan.
    Tun Mahathir merupakan seorang yang sangat saya hormati. Saya dan rakan-rakan siswa lain pernah melaungkan kata-kata kesat kepada beliau semasa beliau melawat universiti saya pada satu masa dahulu. Tetapi selepas bertenang dan melihat cara Tun berfikir dan memandu negara ke tahap yang tinggi ‘by the scruff of the neck’ dan, paling mustahak pada fikiran saya, menukar minda orang Malaysia, saya bersyukur kerana Malaysia telah dipimpin oleh orang yang berkaliber tinggi seperti Tun Mahathir. Seorang pemimpin yang ‘well read’ dan ‘well briefed’; seorang yang mengambil nota dan melakukan ‘homework;’ seorang yang rajin berfikir; seorang pemimpin yang tak ‘caught napping’ dan senantiasa ‘switched on,’ yang disanjung tinggi bukan sahaja di Malaysia tetapi di seluruh Dunia Membangun. Cuba tanya orang Bosnia, Swaziland, Kampuchea atau Maldives.
    Blog ini pun sudah memadai untuk memberi gambaran pemikiran seorang yang melihat jauh ke hadapan dan yang boleh memahami potensi di dalam sesuatu konsep. Berapa orang yang berumur 84 tahun (Selamat Harijadi Tun, semoga Allah SWT senantiasa memelihara Tun dan Tun Siti Hasmah) mampu memahami dan memanfaatkan Internet?
    Akhir sekali saya sangat setuju dengan saranan wajaperak yang Di dalam budaya Melayu kita kalau tersesat di hujung jalan, kembali lah ke pangkal jalan..
    Saya juga berpegang kepada prinsip Do not reinforce failure. Kalau sesuatu itu tidak boleh membantu kita mencapai ‘Aim’ kita, maka haruslah kita membuat ‘Appreciation’ semula dan membuat pertukaran.

  18. Dengan Izin Tun..Terima kasih..
    Truthseeker..
    How about we gather the sound evidence to prosecute and if the ‘sources’ is intimidated, you can pass the buck to me..Another concerns citizen..

  19. Dengan Izin Tun..Terima kasih..
    Prof_Ridcully
    Harap tak keberatan saya tambah sikit..
    [[Bagaimanakah duit itu digunakan untuk pembangunan insan? Apakah program-program ‘pembangunan insan’ yang boleh kita lihat dan rasai?. Bilakah boleh kita lihat hasilnya dan dalam bentuk bagaimana?]]
    Pensyarah saya pernah menegaskan bahwa modal insan di Korea di nilai dari jumlah peratusan pemegang PHD nya..Siapa sudi bagi tau saya berapa ramai Jumlah pemegang PHD di Malaysia..sebelum dan selepas ‘debated time and issue at hand’?? And is it a contributing factor resulted from the ‘Modal Insan Policy’??
    [[Adakah anak-anak Malaysia di tahap sekolah rendah mendapat pendidikan percuma? Adakah murid diberi makanan berkhasiat percuma di sekolah? Adakah jumlah kutub-khanah bertambah?]]
    Jika mengikut WHO adakah kajian di buat secara proportional di dalam issue ini?
    [[Sebenarnya pentadbiran sebelum ini tidak berwasasan dan tiada rancangan teratur untuk membangunkan negara supaya Malaysia menjadi negara ‘gemilang’ seperti slogan yang sering kedengaran. Hanya slogan kosong yang diutarakan, dan kita semua tahu yang slogan sahaja tidak mencukupi untuk membangunkan negara. Ia lebih merupakan pentadbiran yang melaksanakan polisi dan projek pembangunan secara ad-hoc dan piecemeal tanpa memikirkan segala aspek polisi tersebut. Jika tidak, tak mungkin rakyat menggelarkannya kerajaan ‘flip-flop.]]
    Prof dan rakan blogger..Sikap Kiasu dan tuduhan flip flop sebenarnya adalah ‘mental prosecution’.Di dalam budaya Melayu kita kalau tersesat di hujung jalan, kembali lah ke pangkal jalan..
    Tun amat banyak berjasa kepada negara ini tetapi tidak dapat penghormatan yang sewajarnya..Kalau anda sekalian tidak sudi mengiktiraf sumbangan beliau tidak mengapa, tetapi bagi mereka yang dahulunya memperlekehkan perjuangan Tun dan sudah insaf maka kembalilah ke pangkal jalan..Jangan pedulikan tuduhan yang akan di lemparkan kepada anda..
    Anda bukan ‘flip-flop’ tetapi telah insaf dan kembali ke pangkal jalan.

  20. Salam Tun,
    You are right, Sir!!! where all the money gone?? Back in the 90’s everyone had a good life under your time. But after your time as a PM, all suffer until now. Even worst, most people loss their job. And some of them use their last saving to do some small business at morning market. But Federal Government (DBKL) never give them a chance to make a living. They sapu their last income for their family to live on. Malaysian try to look for low income jobs also can’t get becos of so many non-malaysian around. Want to earn RM50 a day also can’t get. Very sad to say there are not much hope for us malaysian now if Federal Government keep continue hiding all that money for unknow stuff. Our next generation will suffer even worst.
    Want to make 1Malaysia….give us a better life as a Malaysian

  21. Dear Tun,
    I know where the money have gone to….. Pak Lah is paying for your spending during your tenure as Prime Minister 🙂

  22. Warganegara, kenapa perlu bersangka buruk?
    Soalannya mudah sahaja. Tun telah bertanyakan soalan yang tidak terlintas di dalam hati ramai orang awam untuk bertanya: ke manakah perginya RM250 bilion itu?
    Bagaimanakah duit itu digunakan untuk pembangunan insan? Apakah program-program ‘pembangunan insan’ yang boleh kita lihat dan rasai?. Bilakah boleh kita lihat hasilnya dan dalam bentuk bagaimana?
    Adakah anak-anak Malaysia di tahap sekolah rendah mendapat pendidikan percuma? Adakah murid diberi makanan berkhasiat percuma di sekolah? Adakah jumlah kutub-khanah bertambah?
    Malah kadar enrolmen sekolah rendah menurun pada 2006 berbanding 2002; dan kadar celik huruf hanya meningkat 1.9% pada 2006 (92.5%) berbanding 2002 (90.6%). Ini berbanding peningkatan 0.7% bagi tempoh di antara 2003 dan 2002, yakni dalam jangka masa satu tahun. [Cebisan Laporan Ekonomi 2008 Perbendaharaan Malaysia ]
    Sebenarnya pentadbiran sebelum ini tidak berwasasan dan tiada rancangan teratur untuk membangunkan negara supaya Malaysia menjadi negara ‘gemilang’ seperti slogan yang sering kedengaran. Hanya slogan kosong yang diutarakan, dan kita semua tahu yang slogan sahaja tidak mencukupi untuk membangunkan negara. Ia lebih merupakan pentadbiran yang melaksanakan polisi dan projek pembangunan secara ad-hoc dan piecemeal tanpa memikirkan segala aspek polisi tersebut. Jika tidak, tak mungkin rakyat menggelarkannya kerajaan ‘flip-flop.’

  23. Mencapai Matlamat 1 Malaysia
    1. Menyemai Perpaduan Kaum Kepada Anak-Anak Dari Kecil
    Perpaduan kaum adalah factor utama yang akan membawa kita kepada matlamat 1 Malaysia. Kerajaan BN mestilah tegas di dalam melaksanakan segala mekanisma yang membolehkan matlamat ini tercapai. Jika perpaduan kaum masih di taraf yang ada sekarang, yang mana masing-masing kaum mengutamakan kaum mereka sendiri, terutamanya dari pertuturan bahasa serta pergaulan seharian, maka hasrat kerajaan untuk mencapai matlamat 1 Malaysia tidak akan tercapai. Matlamat 1 Malaysia akan tercapai sekiranya semua kaum di dalam satu-satu negara itu bertutur dalam satu bahasa dan bergaul dalam satu bumbung, satu kenyataan yang harus di terima oleh semua kaum. Namum begitu, dengan adanya satu bahasa itu, bukanlah maksudnya bahasa lain terus di basmikan.
    2. Negara Jiran Yang Berjaya
    Kita ambil contoh negara jiran, Indonesia yang mempunyai penduduk mencecah empat ratus juta orang penduduk. Sejak zaman Presiden Sukarno, Indonesia telah mempunnyai identitinya sendiri melalui penekanan pengunaan satu bahasa kebangsaan, iaitu bahasa Indonesia, pendidikan anak-anak hanya ke satu sekolah kebangsaan sejak di peringkat pendidikan awal dan juga penekanan mengunakan nama Indonesia. Ini adalah satu-satunya kejayaan yang dapat kita lihat bagaimana Indonesia dapat mengeratkan perpaduan kaum. Jika adanya orang dari Indonesia datang ke nagara kita, maupun melancung atau bekerja, kita tidak dapat membezakan samada rakyat Indonesia itu dari keturunan Melayu, Jawa, Cina, Belanda, Arab atau lain-lain kerana mereka bertutur dalam bahasa Indonesia dan mengunakan nama Indonesia. Inilah yang harus kita mengambil contoh dari negara jiran yang mempunyai penduduk sepuluh kali ganda dari kita yang dapat mumupuk perpaduan kaum yang begitu erat sekali.
    3. Kegagalan Kerajaan Yang Lalu
    Kita telah gagal melaksanakan matlamat ini, kerana sejak merdeka lagi kerajaan ketika itu tidak mengambil peluang ini. Kalaulah dulu kerajaan tegas melaksanakan identiti seperti di Indonesia, sudah tentu sekarang tidak ada masalah perpaduan kaum. Rakyat Malaysia kini, jika melancung ke luar negara, orang tidak dapat mengetahui yang kita datang dari negara Malaysia, kerana kita bertutur berlainan bahasa dan kita mempunyai macam-macam nama. Tidak ada bahasa dan nama yang boleh memberi identiti yang kita adalah warga negara Malaysia. Kita lebih menyanjung bahasa orang lain. Begitu juga kepada nama kita, kita tidak dapat mengidentitikan nama kita sebagai rakyat Malaysia kerana kita di beri kebebasan mengunakan nama mengikut kaum dan agama masing-masing.
    4. Implimentasi Hasrat 1 Malaysia
    Sudah sampai masanya kerajaan sekarang mengimplimentasikan dengan tegas factor-tactor yang membabitkan perpaduan kaum. Dari sekaranglah kita harus membentuk rakyat berbilang kaum yang mempunyai identiti sebagai warga negara Malaysia dan 1 Malaysia, supaya dalam masa lima atau sepuluh tahun akan datang, rakyat Malaysia tidak di kenali sebagai bangsa Melayu, Cina, India, Singh, Iban, Kadazan, Eurasian dan lain-lain, rakyat Malaysia akan hanya di kenali sebagai bangsa Malaysia yang bertutur dalam satu bahasa kebangsaan iaitu bahasa Malaysia.
    5. Sejarah Tanah Melayu
    Nah, inilah masanya kerajaan dapat melaksanakan matlamat 1 Malaysia. Kerajaan tidak harus khuatir atau takut dengan desakan-desakan jika adanya kaum-kaum lain yang akan menentang. Mereka mestilah faham dan akur sejarah Tanah Melayu, dan mengetahui siapakah penghuni sejak zaman purbakala dari nenek moyang kita dan rakyat juga mestilah mengetahui siapakah pendatang dan apakah tujuan mereka datang ke Tanah Melayu sehingga mereka rela menatap di Tanah Melayu ini menjadi wargnegara Malaysia. Kementerian Pelajaran mempunyai tanggung jawab yang besar yang akan memainkan peranan meresapkan sejarah Tanah Melayu kelada anak-anak murid di peringkat pendidikan awal lagi. Mereka harus mengenali siapakah Hang Tuah, Hang Jebat, Hang Lekiu, Mat Kilau, Leftenan Adnan, peristiwa Bukit Kepong dan pendekar-pendekar serta panglima-panglima Melayu serta Raja-Raja Melayu dari di cerobohi oleh kuasa luar. Pendidikan Sejarah Tanah Melayu harus bermula dari peringkat anak-anak kita di dalam sekolah-sekolah asuhan dengan mengenalkan siapakah pahlawan kita. Seterusnya di peringkat sekolah rendah pula, murid-murid di beri pelajaran pejarah Tanah Melayu yang lebih sehingglah ke pendidikan peringkat tinggi. Subjek sejarah Tanah Melayu ini mestilah menjadi subjek yang di mestikan lulus di samping subjek bahasa kebangsaan Malaysia.
    6. Perpaduan Bermula Dari Pendidikan Awal
    Satu-satunya kegagalan kita mencapai perpaduan kaum kerana adanya sekolah-sekolah rendah kerajaan yang berbahasa kaum lain, seperti Sekolah Rendah Cina, India dan lain-lain lagi yang merenggangkan pergaulan antara kaum. Kita harus memupuk dan menyemai semangat bertutur dalam satu bahasa kebangsaan dan juga mengujutkan suasana anak-anak berbilang kaum bergaul di dalam satu sekolah dengan mengunakan bahasa kebangsaan di dalam peringkat pendidkan awal, seperti di dalam sekolah-sekolah asuhan dan taska, yang mana mereka bersama-sama terus memasuki sekolah-sekolah bahasa kebangsaan di dalam Darjah Satu sehingglah tamat pengajian di dalam Darjah Enam. Semua sekolah-sekolah rendah berbahasa kaum-kaum lain hendaklah di transformasikan kepada sekolah-sekolah berbahasa kebangsaan. Namun begitu, anak-anak mereka yang berbilan kaum masih bebas mempelajari pertuturan bahasa masing-masing dengan menghantar anak-anak mereka ke sekolah-sekolah swasta selepas waktu sekolah seperti anak-anak orang-orang Malayu dan Islam menghantar anak-anak mereka ke sekolah-sekolah agama di luar waktu sekolah.
    7. Bertolak Ansur
    Kebudayaan menghantar anak-anak di dalam peringkat pendidikan awal ke sekolah berbahasa kaum masing-masing hendaklah di hentikan sama sekali. Jika kebudayaan ini terus di biarkan, maka matlamat untuk mencapai 1 Malaysia tidak akan menjadi kenyataan. Inilah rintangan pertama yang akan mendorong rakyat Malaysia berbilang kaum terus terjerumus kepada pertuturan kaum masing-masing yang tidak akan membantu mencapai matlamat 1 Malaysia.
    Kaum-kaum lain yang menjadi warganegara Malaysia hendaklah bertolak ansur membenarkan kerajaan melaksanakan matlamat ini supaya dalam masa lima atau sepuluh tahun akan datang semua warganegara Malaysia akan bertutur dalam satu bahasa, iaitu, Bahasa Malaysia, bukan itu saya, malahan mereka berilmukan dengan Sejarah Tanah Melayu. Dengan itu tidak akan berbangkit lagi soal-soal yang melibatkan kedudukan Raja-Raja Melayu, yang mana yang paling sedih sekali, adanya dari khalangan orang-orang Melayu sendiri yang masih sangsi akan kedaulatan Raja-Raja Melayu yang kita sanjungi dan sayangi itu. Inilah akibatnya jika kita tidak di ilmukan dengan Sejarah Tanah Melayu.
    Saya, selaku bekas perajurit yang telah menghadapi pahit maung ketika zaman kominisma dulu berdoa agar Perdana Menteri serta kerajaan dapat mencapai cita-cita membentuk nagara 1 Malaysia yang kuat dan disegani oleh komuniti seluruh dunia.
    capt (R) MNK

  24. Salam Tun and fellow bloggers,
    1. There were some idiots who confidently said tun was responsible for the spending…on putrajaya…my god, either they didnt understand or just plain stupid.
    2. Tun, thanx a million for this info…who else if not dollah who sang that song about tidak mahu harta berjuta…hes right, he wanted berbilion…that idiot, greedy fool and his dogs.
    3. And now, UUM is going to honor him…just declare him the biggest corrupted idiot in malaysia
    Tun, i am angry becos the petronas workers are not getting their bonuses, in fact, pays are deducted but dollah and his dogs sapu the monies!

  25. Salam semua,
    saya cadangkan agar dibayar hutang negara yang diwujudkan selama 22 tahun + 6 tahun ini. sekarang zaman membersih hutang. Dulu zaman membuat hutang dan berbelanja serta mendapat nama sanjungan.
    terima kasih.

  26. Tun,
    A simple logic if you want to ask me.Into some people’s pockets.If not where else???Money can never just walk away……..
    RT

  27. Assalamualaikum,
    Kenapa perlu ditanya soalan ‘kemana duit itu pergi’ sedangkan hanya perlu buka sahaja website Perbendaharaan sudah boleh dilihat Laporan Ekonomi Malaysia (mengikut tahun), menunjukkan semua belanja dan hasil yang diterima. Lebih menarik lagi defisit kerajaan dah wujud semenjak 1998. Once defisit wujud, tambahan pula kos meningkat saban tahun untuk aktiviti mengurus semasa maka untuk mengurangkan defisit kena berjimat

  28. Tun,
    Mengapa Tun tidak bersikap terbuka dan sepatutnya Tun lebih dahulu menjelaskan apa yang Tun belanjakan duit Petronas sepanjang 22 tahun sebanyak RM168.8 juta itu dan jumlah sebenar Tun belanja yang telah membuat akaun kerajaan dalam defisit…..barulah persoalkan cara dan bagaimana perbelanjaan seterusnya dibuat oleh Pak Lah.
    Tulisan Tun ini hanya mendorong banyak spekulasi negatif dan galakan fitnah.
    Sebenarnya kalau ditolak tahun 2004 (iaitu tahun di mana Pak Lah menjelaskan junlah terhutang oleh kerajaan Tun dahulu) dan tahun peralihan kuasa 2009, jumlah sebenar yang mungkin dibelanjakan oleh Pak Lah adalah RM166.8 bilion, bukan RM253.6 bilion.
    Setiap tahun kita semua mengikuti pembentangan bajet tahunan kerajaan dan semua jelas dibentangkan hasil dan belanja kerajaan. Terdapat defisit dalam akaun kerajaan sepanjang sepuluh tahun terakhir Tun memerintah.
    Apa lagi yang Tun hendak mengajak kami semua mempersoalkan isu sebegini atau semata-mata hendak menggambarkan perbandingan corak pemerintahan di antara zaman Tun dan Pak Lah untuk tatapan umum sahaja ke?
    Kalaulah hendak dipersoalkan adalah bukan jumlah terimaan hasil oleh Tun tetapi sepatutnya kita hendak tahu jumlah perbelanjaan wang yang sentiasa defisit dalam akaun kerajaaan sepanjang pemerintahan Tun…..itu seharusnya dipersoalkan…..bukan begitu?
    Tapi saya kira tidaklah perlu kerana semuanya ada dinyatakan dengan jelas dalam bajet tahunan kerajaan dan saya faham bahawa bajet defisit tidak semestinya menjadi petunjuk kepada keadaan ekonomi yang tidak sihat.
    Diharapkan janganlah Tun terlibat dalam mendorong rakyat membuat fitnah dan bersangka buruk itu sahaja…sebab Tun yang mencetuskan polemik ini akan turut bekongsi dosa-dosa mereka juga.
    Wallau’alam

  29. The bulk of money went to bailing your son’s failed companies, don’t you remember this?

  30. Salam buat Tun,
    Sangatlah dikhuatiri jika pembahagian (distribution) kekayaan negara tidak dibuat dengan berhemat dan adil, maka kelak telaga minyak kita akan kering kontang. Lepas itu pemimpin kita kering tekak pula menyalahkan pihak itu dan pihak ini yang menyebabkan penmbahagian tidak sampai kepada sasaran yang sepatutnya, kononnya. Ini berlaku apabila minyak sudah kering. Sebelum kering (sekarang ini) pembahagian yang sepatutnya itu nampak untuk segelintir sahaja.
    Wassalam.

  31. Politik! Oh politik!
    Sandiwara ataupun trick?
    Ilmu hisab atau matematik?
    Tak cukup sifat nak kata ilmu mantik.
    Dalam politik ada Pas,
    Orang lain semua dosa, tapi dia terlepas,
    Orang lain tak dak pahala, semua dia kebas,
    Orang lain masuk neraka, dia syurga yang teratas.
    Pas! Oh Pas!
    Cakapnya berpusing macam kipas,
    Jalannya melelong macam lipas,
    Belitannya banyak macam route bas,
    Cita-cita tinggi macam pokok kapas

  32. Ybhg Tun,
    22 tahun Tun jadi PM tidak sebanyak beberapa tahun pemerintahan Tun AAB. Era Tun ada lebuhraya, jambatan Pulau Pinang, menara dan sebagainya.
    Era Tun AAB pendapatan dari Petronas begitu banyak dan belum dicampurkan dengan lain-lain cukai, apa ada ???????????………..
    Kemana pi habis wang tu ………..
    SPRM apa tunggu lagi …..

  33. SALAM AYAHANDA RAKYAT TUN
    IZINKAN,
    By zaq25Author Profile Page on July 4, 2009 10:03 PM
    ….
    NO REGRETS?
    Are you absolutely sure beyond reasonable doubt that you will have absolutely no regrets whatsoever should Anwar overtake you as the greatest man in Malaysia and the greatest Malaysian in the world; that if you were to be superseded by your once deputy and protégé and later arch-adversary? Btw, there

  34. Dear Tun,
    Wow RM 253.6 billion is a lot of budget for a six year tenure and considering that most projects were canceled during the six year tenure, looks like Tun Abdullah has got a lot of explaining to do.

  35. Dear Tun & chedet readers;
    1. Some facts & figures info. to share from 1996-2009 only (source Malaysian Treasury internet search on “BUDGET”).
    2. From 1996 to 2004 under TDrM, oil royalty around 12.3% to 16.9% of total annual budget.
    3. From 2005 to 2009 under TAB, oil royalty around 28% to 32% of total annual budget.
    4. It can be concluded from 2005 to 2009 oil royalty is major contributor around (one third) to Malaysia annual budget.
    …..Royalty(bil)..Malaysia Budget(bil)…% budget from oil royatly
    1996……..6.8………….55.46………….12.3, Dr.M
    .
    1997……..8.8………….59.98………….14.7
    .
    1998……..9.6………….64.12………….15.1
    .
    1999……..8.2………….65.095…………12.6
    .
    2000…….12.0………….78.03………….15.4
    .
    2001…….17.1………….91.05………….18.8
    .
    2002…….14.0…………100.52………….13.9
    .
    2003…….15.6…………109.8…………..14.2
    .
    2004…….19.0…………112.5…………..16.9 , TDrM last term
    .
    2005…….28.1…………117.4…………..23.9 , TAAB onward
    .
    2006…….37.8…………136.8…………..27.6
    .
    2007…….44.1…………159.4…………..27.7
    .
    2008…….56.8…………176.9…………..32.1
    .
    2009…….67.8…………207.9…………..32.6, TAAB last term
    Regards,
    Naguib
    besutrepublic2.blogspot.com

  36. Dengan Izin Tun..Terima kasih..
    Abg Kamal Ahmad..
    Tq for your informative and truly intelligent posting like always..
    I would like to interject…Please bear with me..
    [[Abdullah acted on many advices on this hike, but my best bet was the ones from the Australians. So beware the Rudd-imental effect Najib.]]
    Tun by the same vein have been adviced from many quarters but he knows which advices to heed and not to heed..The best advices Malaysia could hope to get is from Tun himself..
    [[Makan nak, nah tambah sikit lagi telur masin. Tidur nak, buka baju kalau panas. Kita orang susah nak.]]
    It is just the tip of iceberg of rakyat anger..Beware Najib the repressed anger from Abdolla time to spill all over…( Tun who?? )
    [[My words are cheap, all words are cheap. That’s the beauty about them]]
    Why Najib needs to get into media good book? Because Altantuya Syndrome demands it so? Tun does not needs good media coverage..His works,legacy and good deed do the talking for him..Hence..Which Najib good works and deed will stand by him? Muslim words are not cheap..Allah willing to grant heaven for them for this deed..
    Dan Allah membeli jiwa dan harta mereka ( mukmin) dengan Syurga
    ( Maksud Al Quran )
    [[But the real question is: do you send out a white dove or a self serving corrupted dove? Or perhaps it is still day one on board the just settling Ark?]]
    Last but not least regarding the media exposure..Some media potrays that Noah Ark have been located…You can believe it anywhere but in Al Quran it is clearly stated
    Gunung Judi..
    They who depends on ‘undivine’ information will surely leds astray..
    Why not heed Tun advice? This Stateman is bigger then all of them combined and yet do they asks his advices??
    Thanks bro Kamal Ahmad and many thanks Tun..

  37. Salam Tun, Tun ni dok cucuk sarang tebuan ni. Dah tak tahan dah tu. Dulu dok komen fasal pertukaran pengurusan. PM baru tak dengar ke?
    Gini lah Tun: Cuba Tun cerita sikit bagaimana dan cabaran yang perlu dihadapi oleh sebuah firma kerajaan yang begitu mega dan global. Cerita mudah-mudah aje la, ya?
    Wassalam.

  38. YABhg Tun,
    Sir, you want to tell us something you know that we, the public don’t know….?

  39. Assalamualaikum Tun & family..
    MINTAK LALUAN SIKIT…
    CAN SOMEONE OUT THERE PLEEEEASE TELL US WHAT REALLY HAPPEN TO THE MORE THAT RM250 BILLION OF PETRONAS MONEY IN SIMPLE LANGUAGE AND NUMBERS RATHER THAN TRYING TO TUNJUK PANDAI AND ASK US TO REFER TO WEBSITES HERE AND THERE????
    MUNGKIN SOALAN CEK NI NAMPAK BODOH SIKIT TAPI TAK PE LAH DEMI KEBAIKAN BERSAMA….
    Tun please take good care of urself & Tun Hasmah..

  40. Tun,
    How come it should take sooooo long for someone like you & other honest Opposition Parlimentarians to voice concern abt the Govt coffers & expentiture.With Malaysia having so much oil,gas & other revenue it’s really shocking to know that there are some among us who have to scrape the pots & still live in squatter houses.It’s very SAD.
    RT

  41. Dear Tun,
    You should have done this long long long time ago when you were in crown. Expose the government expenses,but why now?
    Have all the mega project being paid?
    Common people, start asking question to government>ironically we can’t do this during Dr M as PM.
    Mazlan, what do you mean usah dipersoalkan. Macamana rakyat Malaysia nak jadi rakyat maju kalau tak bertanya?

  42. 1. i know this is not related to the topic but may i ask the honorable Tun why are cars in malaysia are overpriced?
    2. For example the price for a honda crv 4wd EX-L in the USA is only 27,245.00 USD which is equivelant to RM 96,581.91 but the price for this model in malaysia is a staggering RM 143,820.10 without tax. Malaysians have no choice but to buy this model RM 50,000 more than what their counterparts in the USA would.
    3. Not only that but the honda accord EX-L V-6 which is one of the best looking asian sedan cars is priced at only 28,705.00 USD in the USA. This is equivalent to RM 101,753.10. But shockingly the price for this model is sold in Malaysia at a whopping RM 243,167.50 without insurance. Malaysians have to pay an insane extra amount of RM 143,000.
    4. In fact not only the models that i have listed are overpriced but most of foreign cars are unjustifiably overpriced in malaysia. Are Malaysians richer than the Americans, Japanese and Europeans? i’m also beginning to realise that Proton cars and Perodua cars are also overpriced.
    5. Higher quality cars from japan and europe are overpriced in order to protect Proton. as a result the only affordable cars for malaysians are inferior cars from proton and perodua.
    6. Where is the ‘berkat’ of doing something when you are actually depriving these poor people of something better which they righfully deserve.
    7. The reason i’m raising this issue up is not to bash the government or Proton as the national carmaker is the brainchild of Tun Dr Mahathir whom i have the utmost respect for. But i have seen and i know of some of my dear malaysians who have to unfairly sacrifice their money just to pay back their loans for their Protons and Peroduas.
    8. I shed my tears watching these poor people spent almost half of their live savings trying to pay for something which are obviously overpriced cars in the name of supporting their heartless national carmakers.
    9. Please Tun do something to make it possible for Malaysians especially the lower income and middle income group to buy vehicles that they truly deserved.
    10. this is the time for the government to reset the prices of foreign cars at affordable prices for Malaysians.
    11. The majority of us Malaysian still have faith in the Barisan Nasional government headed by UMNO. We have voted for and supported the same government for more than fifty years. So please Barisan Nasional

  43. Assalamualaikum.
    Memang banyak sumbangan Petronas kepada Negara tercinta ini. Hampir separuh pendapatan Negara datangnya dari Petronas untuk belanjawan 2009. Marilah kita semua bersyukur atas KURNIA RAHMAT ALLAH kepada Negara bertuah ini. Cubala bayangkan nisbah sumbangan kita berbanding apa yang di kurniakan ALLAH kepada negara ini untuk dinikmati bersama. Adakah kita masih merasakan tidak cukup dengan apa yang dikurniakan ALLAH ini?
    Malangnya kita semakin tamak serta lalai untuk mengingati ALLAH. Maka jadilah kita golongan yang kufur nikmat. Kerajaan yang ada juga nampaknya gagal menjalankan amanah ALLAH ini dengan baik. Banyak penyelewengan berlaku walaupun amat sukar untuk dibuktikan ( ini hanya andaian saya sahaja). Andainya benar, pintu taubat masih terbuka dan belum terlewat untuk kembali menjalankan amanah ALLAH dengan sebaik mungkin.
    Usahlah dipersoalkan kemana dibelanjakan wang itu kerana ianya telah diumumkan dalam belanjawan dahulu dan ianya satu persoalan sinis. Tun juga tahu berapa banyak pinjaman Negara sewaktu beliau menyerahkan kuasa dahulu. Janganlah jadinya “mengata dulang paku serpih”.

  44. Dear Tun,
    For 2009 (RM 67.8bill), If we divide this fortune over 27mill people, each Malaysian will get RM2.5mill for one year. Wow!!!
    Just imagine what each Malaysian can do with this money.
    Buy a proper house, invest in a shop house, set up shops, go shopping to make the new shops that open viable, buy a car, buy land to farm, pay for good schools – ensuring schools become good quality to survive, Pay taxes, save (but must pay zakat)…wow there are so many things they can do to make the Malaysian Economy grow, prosper and come alive.
    Who pays for the Police, the Army, affordable health care, social safety net, etc…well again the people..they only pay for what they need no more no less. But they must pay good money to get good quality service standards.
    Police – high fines (can also help to deter crime), high engagement fees, high utilisation fees..
    Army – high defence taxes
    Health care – privatise hospitals..all will be able to afford as they had received the 2.5mill for 2009.
    Social safety network – from zakat and charitable organisation, etc..
    FREE MARKET ECONOMY – A MODEL FOR MALAYSIA’S Domestic market.

  45. Salam kasih dan hormat Ayahanda Tun. I second and fully concur with this view. We want to know and the government carries the duty to tell. This is the tip of the iceberg and Titanic sank on ignorance coupled to arrogance. Hopefully our present government would assist the Rakyat inquisitiveness into the matter as highlighted by Tun. This is an incredible exposure. And nothing except a full and transparent truth could put it to rest now. Thank you Tun.
    By Yahya Khan on July 5, 2009 11:29 AM
    Hello dear Malaysians,
    Please wake up. Please wake up and ask for Royal Inquiry into spending of Petronas money by 5th PM of Malaysia. RAKYAT MUST KNOW WHERE THE MONEY GONE.
    I also appeal to the opposition leaders to forget their differences with TDM and raise questions in parliament as to what happened to the huge sum of money paid by petronas to the federal government run by Tun Abdullah (2004-2009).
    Opposition leaders should not treat TDM’s allegations against Tun Abdullah as a “personal matter”, but instead, they should consider it as Rakyat’s matter because Petronas ultimately belong to Malaysians and people of malaysia have the right to ask Pak Lah to answer and give details of money spent (RM250+ billion).

  46. A lot of money.
    What can we do with Petronas money?
    Make a list.
    What Petronas money can do for us?
    Make a list.
    Twist?.
    Whichever path taken, the people want to know.
    Before DSN and after Tun, it was among other things for…, for example, compensating the judges, funding election [like the historic and big time lost and..,grrrr… that chap

  47. Salam Tun
    In The Star today (http://www.thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2009/7/6/worldupdates/2009-07-06T110346Z_01_NOOTR_RTRMDNC_0_-408279-1&sec=Worldupdates), US Vice President Joe Biden, has said, in ABC’s “This Week” show, that his country will not be responsible if Israel decides to bomb Iran before they can fully develop a nuclear reactor. Israel has bombed Syria (2007) and Iraq (1981) in the past to prevent them from having a fully completed nuclear reactor.
    Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s Prime Minister has said his country cannot tolerate and will not accept a fully nuclear-capable Iran as it is a threat to the existence of Israel and he quuotes Iran’s Prime Minister’s, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s remark to wipe Israel off the map. He has not ruled out military strike against Iran.
    A few further quotes from the Reuters article:
    “If the Netanyahu government decides to take a course of action different than the one being pursued now, that is their sovereign right to do that. That is not our choice,” Biden said. “But there is no pressure from any nation that’s going to alter our behavior as to how to proceed.”
    Similarly, Israel said it had never asked for Washington’s permission for operations or strategic policy.
    ————-
    MY COMMENTS
    Dear Tun,
    This what I think about the above article: it shows that US allows Israel a free hand to execute a military strike on Iran and Israel itself has not ruled out a military strike and has said it makes its own decisions and does not “kow-tow” to the US. What has been said by Benjamin Netanyahu and Danny Ayalon clearly indicates that they may strike Iran soon to prevent Iran from completing its nuclear reactor. I think this will trigger a full war between the Arab world and the US/Israel alliance and I think it will further escalate into a Muslim vs Israel war because all the Moslems in the world will rally behind Iran.
    Another result from what has been said by US and Israel leaders is that it now clearly gives Iran the right to deviate from its objective to develop nuclear electricity, and instead to develop nuclear weapons in order to protect itself from the imminent military strike by Israel. US and Israel are begitu angkuh in that they think they can possess nuclear weapons but other countries (specifically Iran) cannot. It’s time we teach these 2 kafir countries a lesson.
    I hope you can write a blog about this as this article has shown a very near threat that Israel will attack Iran any time.

  48. Zaman PAK LAH banyak cover untuk soft skill. Ada infra 1st class tapi rakyat 3rd class mentality. So pendidikan from pre-school until finishing school banyak govt spend money. 20 university from 7 existing. One university needs 330 mil on operation cost alone. just imagine. We have equipment that at par with Japan but production only 50%-60%. Mungkin tak tau jaga barang tu…
    Pak Lah goes on efficiency, but mungkin rakyat tak faham kot???

  49. Dear Tun,
    I think one of your reader by the name KWC should do some calculations on the royalty paid by PETRONAS. Amount paid during your time was RM 168 Billion(22 years..average RM 7.6 Billion per year) and during your successor Dr Abdullah Badawi was RM 186 Billion (6 years..average RM 31 Billion per year).. I am glad that you approved for the construction of Putra Jaya. Thank you Sir..salam. Mdrose

  50. Dearest Tun,
    Very obvious, at least from 1981 to 2003 (rm168.8b) we saw lots of things happenning in msia. But from 2004 to 2009 (rm253.6b) , we haven’t seen even a “single door” to all the “corridors” announced. Good that Tun let us informed of that. Take care.

  51. Ok , lets create havoc and chaos . Open up everything , transparence in all directions . In the end who will have the last laugh , surely not you and I.
    Dear Tun , for the sake of Malaysia , do something , focus on priorities and take it from there. I am very sure you are capable to out manaeuvere even the most cunning politicians , check mate.
    I still think BN and UMNO will be finished after PRU 13 , and the worst things is the rakyat will suffer. Meanwhile Malaysia is heading toward Zimbabwe in the fifth gear.
    HAMPA SEMUA TAK LETIH KA

  52. Salamz and Hie,
    Petronas, there’s a lot of issues to this Giant Oil and Gas Company. Our very own Oil and Gas guardian. At least they pay good salary and provide tremendous benefits to its workers. I believe that’s where most of the money went too. As for the money given to the Government’s coffer, I’m afraid only few selected people will benefit with that sum of money (in billions of ringgits!). The very reason Petronas should remain as GLC and NOT a full-fledge government body.
    Oil and Gas business is also capital intensive. You may get your return or non at all. It still follows the same ruling of business; “rugi atau untung”. Investment wise, it is normal to see such huge some of money spent on oil exploration, research and development. That’s why Petronas could produce huge surplus on yearly basis. The higher the risk, the higher the return will be. My concern as a normal Malaysian; is other industry or companies are doing the same thing? Are they rewarding their workers fairly?
    Point of argument is not about Petronas but, the issue is; “where is the money that Petronas gave to the Government gone too”? Its a very general question but it will need to be explained in a very detail manner (up to a single cents!). Kudos to Petronas as being one of the best Employer in the world. At least Petronas is not that greedy and knows how to give and take. As oppose to our local industries and other business entity.
    Such a saying goes; “If you want professional, you don’t pay them peanuts!” (Heck, even peanut is expensive nowadays, maybe we should use ‘kuaci’ instead).

  53. Dear Tun
    I am strongly believe if this trend is keep going non-stoppable the Petronas will be collapsed in a few years time.
    Where the monies have gone? No body can answer it except the government. Who is the government? BN. So, the government has to accept this challenge to answer it honestly. BN must show to the rakyat that the BN government is clean.

  54. Salam Tun,
    Micheal Jackson kaya. Dia tolong banyak orang sebab itu Allah matikan dia dalam Islam. Bagaimana pemimpin kita? Nampak macam tolong diri sendiri saja.

  55. Tun
    Pasti ada sebab Tun bertanya soalan ini. Kalau tak ada angin takkan pohon bergoncang. Tun lebih tahu apa yang kami tak tahu. Semoga Tun akan dedahkan segala manipulasi yang berlaku supaya petualang yang menghabiskan duit petronas didedahkan kepada umum. Tentang Omar ong, eloklah Tun bertahan dan jangan biarkan orang sebegini masuk ke dalam Lembaga Pengarah Petronas mahupun ke Peringkas Pengurusan tingginya. Tunlah harapan kami untuk “check and balance” dan untuk lindung Najib dari dikelilingi oleh opportunist yang pentingkan diri mereka.

  56. Salam Tun
    Please allow me again (very important point)…
    Dalam kerajaan sekarang kita ada laporan belanjawan tahunan (annual budget report) di mana Finance Minister will bercakap (and telecast live all over Malaysia) on what expenditure the Govt will be spending for the next year based on budget set. This is forward.
    I think we should also have backward. During the live telecast of laporan belanjawan tahunan, I suggest the Finance Minister should also report in detail how the Govt spent its money LAST YEAR.
    Also, don’t just bercakap saja dan tengok muka Finance Minister bercakap saja. The budget speech should be done with audio visual presentation with Powerpoint slides and video and all that. Baru canggih Parlimen kita! Ini masjid pun dah employ Powerpoint slide in khutbah and ceramah, apakan Parliamen masih dalam zaman batu !!!
    After that, public reports (just like Company’s Annual Reports) should be made free of charge to the public and accessible at public places like Post Office so that Malaysian public can get hardwritten black and white copies of the government’s perbelanjaan (just like Yellow Pages directory distribution)
    Ini baru kata kerajaan yang telus, ikhlas, bersih cekap dan amanah !!!

  57. Salam Tun
    A few points of mine :-
    0. Many thanks to you Tun for bringing up the Petronas figures for the rakyat of Malaysia to know. It shows you are an honest, transparent man, who loves Malaysia very much.
    1. Under your prime minister-ship, the total from 1981 to 2003 is RM168.8 billion in 22 years.
    Under Pak Lah’s leadership, it increased from RM19 billion in 2004 to RM67.8 billion in 2009 and the total for six years is RM253.6 billion.
    “RM253.6 billion spent during 6 years of the most transparent administration against RM168.8 billion spent during 22 years of the so-called autocratic administration.”
    Pak Lah must explain where the money went. If not, Malaysia admits that its government system is a failure since no proper accountability measure and internal controls is placed as to where the government spends its money but when it comes to companies and audits, we have a very strict regulatory and audit requirements for companies. I want to ask you Tun, Pak Lah and Najib. What are your Accountant Generals doing ? Don’t they know how to record accounting transactions properly? Where are the financial statements on the govt expenditure? Why are they not open to the public ? (Brings me to an article I read in The Star about an American journalist who tries to expose the expense claims made by British parliament members. What a furore she caused! But in the end after 20 over years, she won her case and the claims list will be out soon! Stay in touch!)
    The logic is very simple : if we the rakyat, do not know where the 168 bil goes in 22 years and where the 256 bil goes in 5 years, then 1) Malaysia does not have a transparent system 2) Malaysia government reporting has FAILED. Actually UMNO since taking government in 1957 have not had a transparent relationship with the rakyat, so UMNO has failed. I don’t know what kind of reporting the government has required from stakeholders such as companies, charities, NGOs and even its ministers and key personnel itself. A good government will make mandatory Asset Declaration Reports for all the stakeholders above especially rich people in Malaysia so that it is transparent and accountable to the rakyat. It is not we are trying to make rich people poor, I am sure they became rich to true hard work and seizing opportunities when it came to them (Allah SWT decides) but we need a transparent system to be confident in our government. The Asset Declaration Forms should have been implemented decades ago (since UMNO first governed Malaya in 1957).
    This brings me to an interesting article I read in The Star or your blog .. I cannot remember. The article’s topic is if companies go bankrupt, they apply for Bankruptcy Law. But if countries go bankrupt (as could happen in this financial downturn) what is the procedure?
    2. The internal controls, transparency mechanism, financial measurement and reporting, corruption checking and meritocracy measures (one member, one vote) of UMNO and the thus the Government of Malaysia is VERY WEAK since UMNO took over Government of Malaysia since 1957. If UMNO cannot even manage its own party with good internal controls and run it like a company, how can it manage a country?
    3. The atmosphere in UMNO (and orang Melayu in general) is that if you meet a Datuk or Tan Sri or Tengku or anyone driving a black high-powered Mercedes E-class or BMW 5-series, suddenly he or she seems to do no wrong! It’just “YES…YES…YES” from the mouth and all smiles and one can even forget oneself in order to head-over-heels, please the “Datuk”. Yes, here in Malaysia, certain groups of Malaysians idolize rich people for stupid reasons. This is wrong.
    4. Malaysia is not learning enough from the West how to put good accountability measures and how to manage its own country, government and people effectively. This should be done professionally (measurable, attainable), not emotionally (just to get votes). I have looked around the world. As much as we hate it, there is no other place to learn. Countries we can take examples from include the Northern European countries such as Norway, Sweden, Switzerland and Finland.
    5. Why did you not put proper internal controls and accountability measures in place for the largest companies in Malaysia when you were headng the helm as PM ?
    5a. Tun, going back to your previous blogs, I was confused when you wanted to build a zig zag bridge to Singapore. I thought we already have a Causeway so why we need to spend money to build another link ? But last week, I was fortunate enough (Alhamdulillah!) to visit Johor Bharu (after many years) and fortunate enough to visit a company located on the 33rd floor of Menara Landmark (opposite the Tambak) where I could see the Causeway clearly. Now I understand why we need the Bridge! I previously thought kapal can pass underneath the causeway (pardon my stupidity!) but I can now see that the Causeway is like a mole or a tambak where you halang water from lalu. So now I understand why ships cannot flow freely and also the water and I also understand now why Singapore doesn’t want the Causeway demolished because it will take away business from their ports ! I say just demolished the tambak and build the bridge as quickly possible. Kalau tidak kita rugi by the day !!! YES FOR ONE JOHOR BRIDGE !!!
    6. A statement about what I think of Program Angkasawan Negara. For me, this is actually, a near impossible golden opportunity that felt into the Government’s feet at the right place and at the right time. In real life, a country like Malaysia would never be expected to produce an astronaut or send somebody to space expect many tens of years later. But some skillful negotiation to set-off the Russian debt and Russia’s commercialization of its space program, allowed us this golden opportunity. I suspected Jamaluddin Jarjis played an instrumental role. And well done Sheikh Muzaffar! I do not hear of Azhar who sailed around the world anymore. Why so quiet? Why is he not being a role model ? Did we read him wrongly ? Has he migrated to another country ? Converted to another religion ? That would make the world sailing project a faillure.
    7. Sorry for digressing…but another statement about Iran’s elections. I have seen pics of Ahmad Mahmoudinejad lifestyle and I must admit from what I see, he is a humble man, pious and religious. Being thrusted to top position as Iran’s Prime Minister and facing a country election, we can clearly see how DIRTY politic is. A clean man can be smeared to seem like a “bad man” who “rigs votes”. Any honest person who has seen the pics of the everyday life of Ahmad Mahmoudinejad (widely distributed throughout the Internet some time ago) know that he is not the type of person to rig votes.
    So if we accept this, we can now see how low the opposition in Iran is prepared to go (especially in terms of morality). When a decision has come fairly, they don’t want to accept…they will only accept a decision if they win. So how ? Is Iran supposed to rig votes so that the over 12 million vote majority to Ahmad Mahmaoudinejad is tampered with so that it is the opposition votes ? I
    see a very dangerous 2nd group in Iran which is pro-West, low in morality which will cause problems in Iran. Thank God, the clerics and the fundamental group is still strong. But if they weaken, Iran will surely, like all other countries in the world including Malaysia, lose its identity, and become a nation tainted with ‘kebudayaan kuning’ with all the cinemas, McDonalds, cable TV, discos yang melalaikan and the Iranian people will lose their morality. Just look at what has happened to Afghanistan and what is happening to Iraq. But I hope President Obama can hold a strong presidentship and last a long term. He must realise that he cannot trust the Jews around him, many of which are his closest aides. He doesn’t realise this. The only way he can survive for a long time, is to put black people around him (where it matters) like his security guards.But he doesn’t realise this. If he doesn’t realise this, I cannot be sure what will happen to him…
    7. Ok…back to the Petronas issue. In Islam we have a special mineral tithe (zakat untuk kurniaan Tuhan yg datang daripada dalam tanah) which I think is 5%. Is Petronas paying this ? If it doesn’t pay then to hell with whatever money they make. I don’t want to know and just await the courts in akhirat to expose whatever we do not know about them here. If it does, then good, I will support Petronas and give my advise where I can.
    8. Also, another word about Hassan Merican. I think he is a reliable director technically with his accountant background but I think he may be too favourable to the government and allow Petronas to be expolited by Govt leaders with unscrupulous character. It is good to see Petronas a rich company with profits from the nation’s oil wealth, helping the Government but Petronas needs to think of itself first, and also ensure the money it gives to the Govt is used properly and not go into any politician’s pockets!
    9. Lastly, I would like to know your motive Tun, in exposing Petronas figures like this (and also Tambak Johor previously). It is good but shouldn’t the working government do it instead of an ex-PM ? Why are you doing it Tun ?

  58. Salam TUN ( Mintak lalu )
    Kepada orang lama….
    Saya sebagai seorang lagi penyokong UMNO tegar merasakan Posting anda benar2 memetik semangat yang mana diharap dapat memberikan kesedaran kepada mereka2 yang gemar memperjudikan nasib rakyat demi untuk mendapatkan sokongan yang tidak pasti…………
    Good Luck n PLEASE spark us again with your kind and rasional idea..

  59. Dear Tun
    Recently I went to east coast, frankly the poverty among the malays is everywahere for the politicans to see. Near cherating areas, Terengganu (besut) and on the way to Kota Bharu (pasir putih),. there are houses where the walls are full of holes and about to collapse anytime. I saw youths got nowhere to go and what I can conclude, to them their future is just about tommorow. The country got vision but they have no vision for themselve judging from their actions. The politicans are talking about Islamic state but I cannot see the real Islamic values except on trivial matters such as banners and religious talk on Loud speaker( to some louder is better probably more islamic) and jawi writtings. The hardship in life is there for everyone to see and people cannot relate this to failure of politican to generate economic activities. So when you mention about petronas money 250 billions, can the government use a bit of it, so that life will be more meaningful to this people. The people are being cheated unknowningly by politicans who fail to crack ther head to generate the economic activities in their respective states.

  60. Sir,
    This is another reason why the BN cannot afford to lose in the next general elections. PKR, if it wins, will not let the matter rest so easily. They will reform the entire administration of the country. I hope many UMNO/BN bigwigs will go to jail for criminal breach of trust. We don’t know how the money was spent but suspicion is high that there is a ‘siphoning off’ going on somewhere. Generally, the public have lost confidence in UMNO/BN. Malaysia should be far ahead compared with neighboring countries but after 50 years we are still backward. Sir, I believe you know the answers to this dilemma: where did the money go?

  61. salamun alaikum che det
    jemput hadir ijtimak di sepang pada 9hb hingga 12hb Julai 2009 ini. Hadirin anggaran 200 ribu jemaah tabligh serata dunia akan berhimpun, sama-sama memberi masa di jalan Allah swt, berfikir untuk memandu umat ke jalan yang diredhai Allah swt. Sekiranya che det berminat boleh berhubung dengan pihak urusetia di Masjid Sri Petaling, inshaAllah. No money involve, but you will have to spent some untuk keperluan sendiri seperti makanan & sebagainya. Jemaah dari arab boleh turun, takkan che det tak mampu? Saya dari australia pun sampai (inshaAllah) takkan che det dr Selangor pun tak sampai. Apa-apa pun che det, ini lah jemputan ringkasan dari saya ikhlas kerana Allah swt & semoga Allah swt permudahkan che det untuk hadir. Amin
    wassalam

  62. Salam Tun
    2004 =19.0
    2005 =28.1
    2006 =37.8
    2007 =44.1
    2008 =56.8
    2009 =67.8
    That amount spending…. compensating undone mega projects or anything else? TAAB where are you?

  63. Tun,
    1. It all has changed now. Politicians are blind of their own pocket.
    2. The true leadership was during our fighting against the colonial era.
    3. Then we try our best to govern our country to the best limit that we could.
    4. But now, the reason to govern the country is not the same as when we in the colonial era.
    5. We always think about ourselves, cronies and not the benefit of the people.
    6. Sad to say, when we talk about selfishness of outsider, we forget about ourself. We are no more different from them.
    7. Because we are now greedy, arrogant and act the same as people outside there that we so-called ‘enemy’. We are ‘friend’ to them.

  64. Dear Tun, salam sejahtera harap sihat sentiasa. Kiriman saya untuk tajuk ini….
    ………………OPENING CAN OF WORMS
    Saya berharap Pak Lah (Najib akan membisu) jawab tuduhan ini. Tapi perbadi Pak Lah bukan jenis melawan, bertelagah jadi kita akan dengar ‘silent sound’ pada ‘sound bites’ ini. Pak Lah akan kekalkan ‘golden silence’ seperti Musa dgn ‘elegant silence’ pada ‘sound of silence’ yg tiada akhir ini.
    Apa pun bagus juga Umno tayang pekung ini. Kalau saya tak silap, wang Petronas digenggam mcm dana Umno sebab ia pendapatan ‘off budget’ tidak tertakluk pada Parlimen.
    ………………LUPA BUDI
    Kakitangan kerajaan yg turut kecam jaga mulut kamu. Kecam melampau adalah kelompok tak kenang jasa. Tahukah jumlah tanggungan kenaikkan gaji kakitangan awam yg terpaksa di tanggung seumur hidup termasuk pencen yg ikut naik (tak sama projek mega yg ada tempoh).
    Projek gaji ini berbillion setiap tahun (tiada tempoh siap) hingga Pak Lah/Tun tiada di dunia, dan berlanjut ke anak cucu kamu menerusi pencen.
    Kenaikan teristimewa pada polis. Patut mrk rajin tangkap orang duduk berkumpul (yg tak akan lari!) Mat rempit, peragut, perompak mrk tak mampu kejar walaupun beratus kenderaan dan peralatan baru dah di beli.
    Penangkapan golongan ini menurun sejajar dgn kenaikan gaji? Tapi nak tunjuk ada buat kerja, dia tangkap banyak banyak orang berkumpul pakai baju hitam, menyala lilin, kayuh basikal!
    ………………HUTANG KELILING PINGGANG
    Pak Lah has to pay for all the loans taken during the gung ho Mahathirism era. Bapa beli rumah anak yg bayar hutang. Rumah atas nama bapa!
    Pak Lah ‘flip’ belanjawan hutang era Tun ke belanjawan lebihan. Peratus hutang krjn banding KDNK dibawah Pak Lah ‘flop’ dari membimbangkan (mengerikan?) ke tahap selesa.
    Tun tinggalkan harta pusaka dan warisan pendapatan pada Pak Lah? Hutang bertaburan adalah. Habis wang Perkeso, KWSP, emas BNM di pinjam. Siapa tanggung semua ini! Kalau Pak Lah tak bayar kita semua kena simbah cat!!

  65. Salam sejahtera Tun,
    Hubaya hubaya. Adalah dikhuatiri jika pembahagian kekayaan negara tidak disempurnakan dengan baik dan adil sumber kekayaan itu akan kering dan lenyap. Kemuan pemimpin kita kering tekak pula menyalahkan orang itu dan ini punya angkara. Kekayaan negara adalh anugerah Tuhan untuk manusia negara itu dan bukannya untuk tembolok segelintir orang,
    Wassalam,

  66. Sudah pening kepala saya baca komen-komen di atas. Ada jawapan yang macam betul tapi masih tidak meyakinkan.
    Saya masih menanti jawapan balas dari pegawai kementerian kewangan. Mana mereka? tidak kerjakah? tidak baca blog chedet kah? atau……

  67. Assalamualaikum Tun Yang Amat Dihormati,
    1.Pada zaman Tun perbelanjaan banyak digunakan untuk menjayakan projek yang boleh membawa pulangan kepada negara seterusnya boleh digunakan untuk memakmurkan rakyat dengan menyediakan banyak peluang pekerjaan.
    2.Zaman Tun Lah,kurang menjana pendapatan negara,tiada kesinambungan projek,terutamanya jambatan bengkok yang boleh memberi manfaat kepada negara dan rakyat dalam jangkamasa panjang.Apa yang berlaku melaksanakan projek tidak menguntungkan contoh Monsoon Cup,Masjid Kristal,menukar dasar negara dari negara perindustrian dan perkilangan ke dasar pertanian(langkah terbalik).
    3.Zaman Tun Lah,banyak upacara pecah tanah projek koridor(konon nak lebih gemilang daripada Tun),akhirnya projek tidak kemana wang yang habis untuk membayar syarikat konsultan dan sebagainya.Itu belum termasuk pembayaran gantirugi kerana pembatalan projek jambatan bengkok.Bayaran gratia peguam yang konon ‘teraniaya’.Banyak lagi yang lain dah penat nak ungkit lagi.Dulu(2005),nak membuat sebuah projek untuk bidang bioteknologi(Biovalley),memang bagus prospek ini,tetapi projek ini sudah menjadi gajah putih,tambahan pula dalam keadaan ekonomi sekarang.
    4.Tun Lah seorang pemimpin yang lemah dan tidak tegas serta tidak teliti dalam membuat keputusan,mungkin beliau sendiri tidak sedar bahawa kelemahan ini yang digunakan oleh pihak yang mempunyai kepentingan(menantunya and the gang,parti pembangkang dan Anwar Ibrahim).
    5.DSNTR pula,bagi saya beliau masih baru memegang jawatan PM.Masih boleh diberi peluang. Agak malang sekali,kerana beliau terpaksa mengambil jawatan dalam keadaan ekonomi dunia sekarang dan ‘daki-daki degil’yang ditinggalkan oleh PM ke-5.
    Saya ingin mengucapkan terima kasih kepada Tun,di atas segala jasa Tun kepada negara.Semoga Tun dirahmati Allah.
    BERSATU RAKYAT UNTUK KESEJAHTERAAN NEGARA TERCINTA,MALAYSIA.

  68. 40 bil during 1981 – 1989. 40 bil at that time is like how much for today or these few years? i think its unfair to judge from the above data. I’m more interested in both previous Pm declare their financial status, what you guyz think?

  69. Assalamualaikum wbt Ayahanda Tun, saya memohon keizinan YBhg Tun untuk sedikit laluan di sini. Terima kasih Tun.
    PERJUANGAN:
    Apakah makna perjuangan? Adakah bermakna kita melupakan masa silam, melupakan rakan kita yang telah kecundang dalam ranjau perjuangan kita? Apakah makna diri kita kepada perjuangan berkenaan?
    PENIPUAN:
    Apakah akhirnya kita berjaya? Apakah akhirnya kita menghasilkan perubahan yang positif? Atau pun kita telah merosakkan apa yang telah lama dibentuk oleh mereka yang sebelum kita? Yang telah dibentuk dengan darah, air mata dan keringat bangsa kita. Apakah kita sebenarnya penggadai itu semua? Penggadai Melayu sendiri?
    KEGAGALAN:
    Kita boleh menerima kegagalan sebagai suatu pengajaran. Atau juga kita boleh menukar rupa bentuk kegagalan tadi kepada suatu rupa baru

  70. Tun,
    If the money is not your own & you spend it lavishly on self & family how can you ever lift your head up & face the world.Come judgement day one still needs to face one’s creator.We have seen the dictators around us who had amassed a lot of ill-gotten wealth they ended up disgraced.The sin will somehow find the person.
    With so much Petronas money I would expect Federal Govt to be able to afford a MRT(underground transport system) for KL & its outlying residential,commercial & industrial areas.Surely the Govt can do something for the Rakyat to improve the lifestyle.The traffic chaos especially during peak & rainy times is terrible.
    RT

  71. Salam Tun Dr,
    Let’s confer with Tun Dr Abdullah. Tun Dr might be wide awake just now.

  72. Why Muslim politician from multiracial, multireligious, multiethnic Developing World country can not be appointed next UN Secretary General ???!!!!!
    My proposal is Dr. Mahathir Mohamad
    Dr. Mahathir Mohamad is true representative of Developing /Third World countries (China,Russia,India,Latin America,Asia,Africa, Muslim Arab and non- Arab countries)
    Do we know anybody else??? Unfortunately, I coud not list other names.
    Selams from Bosnia

  73. Aslmualaikum Tun,
    mohon Tun utk mengulas dasar liberalisasi oleh DS najib

  74. Salam Tun,
    In order to disclose all, I hope you must start to disclose it being 1st man to expose and also “Leadership by example”.
    We hope you will do so being so-called “Bersih, Amanah dan Cekap”.
    We hope you will do it as that reflect to your financial adminstrative too.

  75. Zaman TDMM 1981-2003(22 tahun) Petronas bayar RM168.8 bilion
    Zaman TAAB 2004-2009(5 tahun) Petronas bayar RM256.6 bilion kepada
    Fed. Govt. Saya mengajak semua rakan yang baru berpengetahuan meneliti
    dua nilai yang sangat luar biasa ini.Saya terperanjat!!!
    TDMM melaksanakan bermacam projek: kecil, besar, anak mega, mega, maha mega dan macam2 dengan menggunakan RM168.8b. Saya juga amat ingin faham RM256.8b tu untuk projek apa? …rakyat tak nampak. Nak buat jambatan bengkok, tak dak duit, nak buat rail KL ke utara tak dak duit,…tak nampak/tak didengar pun apa projek besar negara yang lain dari dulu…

  76. Assalammuailaikum Yang Berhormat,
    Orang biasa kata “the rich get richest and the poor get poorest”.
    Memang sistem kerajaan perlu menjaga kepentingan modal insan kita dan apa jua peruntungan drp bahan-bahan semulajadi.
    Memang sekarang masih ramai belum sedar kemajuan dan taraf hidup negara telah dihina oleh sekumpulan atau individu yang sentiasa ambil kesempatan dan tak bertanggungjawab ini.
    Sampai bila baru rakyat jelata dapat menikmati kehidupan sebab kurang langkah membanjiri kewangan oleh jabatan tertentu!
    Harap Tok sentiasa sihat dan hidup agak mesra terkini di peringkat sekarang sebagai tokoh yang berpegalaman menyedarkan “tok” muda yang baru!

  77. Tun,
    Statistic Tun berat sebelah. Zaman Tun kerajaan tak pernah beri subsidi untuk minyak atau subsidinya terlalu sikit (harga minyak setong sekitar USD20) berbanding zaman sekarang (minyak pernah mencecah USD150) Sepatutnya beri statistik berapa billion subsidi minyak zaman Tun berbanding dengan sekarang.
    Saya percaya jumlah subsidi untuk MINYAK RAKYAT sangat banyak zaman sekarang. Siapa lebih banyak makan duit rakyat?

  78. Salam tun and readers,
    there are a lot of things i don’t know and i dont think i will ever get to know. I dont like telling people what to do. but these are my principles that I follow:
    1) don’t speak of something we don’t really know;
    2) do speak of something we do know particularly if its crucial information!
    3) its good to question anything suspicious or if there is anything unclear with the objective to get the truth;
    4) never accuse without proof that proves BEYOND REASONABLE DOUBT.
    5) its good to read, listen or look at sources with a BRAIN and not just mere naive belief;
    6) NEVER ACCEPT anything without questioning its truthfulness;
    7) verifying the truth on a statement may take a very long time but it should not stop us from seeking it! There is no easier way than this!! No short cuts! That’s why we invest billions into research which would either take years to produce results or just fail totally, or successfully produce new knowledge that we’re not seeking in the first place. Quality of information should be our priority!
    8) every statement comes with a motive (whether good or bad), everyone has its own interests;
    9) Don’t take on something that is too big for us to handle especially if it is going to effect other people! know your strenghts, weaknesses and be a specialist.
    10) Lastly, unless u have anything to say/ask thats covered in the above, JUST SHUT UP PLEASE! nowadays, there is sooo much information available (truth and lies). It’s very hard nowadays to believe who is telling the truth or who is clearly lying or who is merely (or id say recklessly) repeating a statement without believing in its truth.
    Being a realist, the above principles are easier said than done. cant say too much but cant say too little (if you get what i mean) 😉 I WOULD TRULY RESPECT A LEADER WHO CAN BALANCE THESE PRINCIPLES..
    I know there is too much going on in politics and government spending that i dont even have time, energy and source to research and understand. Id rather be ignorant in one area (which im not familiar with) and let the experts in those areas discuss, than making false accusations and causing trouble. Its either you become the experts or leave it to the experts! i’d still love the questioning though, keep it coming Tun 🙂
    what happened to all that money? inflation, bailouts, projects, more scholarships, education, transportation, increase in salaries of govt servants, legal fees, better police, level 4, ali baba, highways, incentives? im not sure. there’s a lot of possibile answers. but I do want to know (eventhough i know i wont get to know everything :p).
    lets hope the people will get the answers their looking for… Whether BN or opposition, if there is nothing proven credible to vote for, there is nothing I would vote for.
    Thank You.

  79. Dearest Tun,
    In my humble opinion, the money during your admin was well spent. You made malaysians (the reasonable ones at least)proud being malaysian and it sure does benefited the rakyat in one way to another. The KLIA, a magnificent gateway to the country, brought great image, investments and funds from tourism to malaysia. The Sepang F1 track, when we launched it, it was something great. Peolple start to realise where malaysia is. The singapore GP is nothing compared to what & when we had it first, by far. The tallest building onced brought undescribeable pride as an Icon to Malaysia. The LRT, highways and the list goes on. we see what was well spent during your years. Unfortunately i can’t say the same about Pak lah’s admin. It was a disaster except making Khairy Jamaluddin, his son. cronies, kalimullah etc richer. Thanks to Tun lah, he managed to spent it all rather than developing the nation. As a gift to Pak Lah for succesfully destroying the country I think it is only fair that the government repay his “kindness” and award him with the appointment as an adviser to the National airline. “Malaysia airlines really needs him to survive” OOhhh and so does the national corridor. Thank you pak lah for destroying what Dr M did, developing this great Nation. Merdeka!!!

  80. Dear Tun,
    Being man on the streets, we relied on the newspapers for what’s going on in this country, over the last 40 years.
    Now that we are able to read news from other sources, we realized that many things are happening beyond our imagination.
    Thank you for this posting.
    We need more of this,so what if BN looses in the next general election. We must save our country from going bankrupt. We love this country.
    Do you not agree that BN/UMNO in particular has been too proud and arrogant in all matters? Do they think that this country belongs to UMNO, and they can simply spent all the billions, as they like?
    e.g In the disguise of helping the Bumiputera contractors, the same road divider have been replaced several times in a year.
    ArifRusli, Kau rasis.
    Selagi ada orang macam kau, negara ini tidak boleh aman. Singapura maju, kerana mereka tidak mengabaikan Bahasa Inggeris. Raayatnya keturunan Melayu tidak sedikit pun merasa terancam. Mereka masih boleh menggunakan Bahasa Melayu di antara mereka.
    Sebenarnya,setelah Merdeka 50 tahun, mangapakah raayat masih di asingkan kepada Bumiputera dan Bukan Bumiputera di Malaysia?

  81. Salam kasih dan salam hormat Ayahanda Tun.
    Good morning Tun.
    1. Looking at the numbers we could credibly deduce that Petronas had made significant economic contributions to the nation

  82. Yang saya tahu RM 3 billion telah digunakan untuk melemahkan dan menurunkan penguasaan sains dan matematik melalui PPSMI.

  83. After reading so many unfair comment against Tun, I feel compel to give mine.
    DONT YOU GUYS FEEL YOU ARE KILLING THE MESSENGER.
    I have to agree with Syed’s “Tis The Season To Pukul Habis?”, it would be very unclever for Tun to bring up this if he was on the take.
    I, too have to agree that there are corruption on the numerous projects but to blame wholly on Tun is really “buta”.
    How many commentor have done government projects? I have done a few and have have the experience to say that one have to “pay” to get things done or going.
    Quotation escalate because of “partners” holding post or close to politician esp. Umno’s seeks huge profit.
    Come the preliminary, cost escalate again to cover related department head and p.i.c.
    During construction you need to entertain project managers, engineers and paymaster.
    Not to mention the need to settle their daily “expenses” ranging from car instalment and maintenance, petrol, phone bill, vacations & umrah to their wife’s shopping spree.
    And I need to remind you that its apart from the agreed amount paid or to be paid.
    Thats the reason for so many V.O. was “created” in government projects.
    Some of them sell names or claim to represent certain “top top VVIP’s” interest, yes in some instance but in most case, its more for their own interest or warchest.
    In the market everybody knows who is on the take and I can assure you that its not Tun style to ask or take, HE GAVE.
    Many felt bitter towards Tun for various reason, myself was bitter with Tun too but it was more of a feeling of desertion when he left us and left us with a incompetent leader.
    I know its unfair to him, how could he know what his successor would do.
    But after 22 year of him giving us answers, many expect no mistake from him, suddenly the solution he gave was faulty and everybody cry foul.
    When my co. has 50 employees, everything was easy and clean but now with more 2,500 employees, its rile with office politic, abuse of power and corruption.
    Imagine running a country, we cant just blame one person for the wrong of the whole country system.
    Corruption have became a “important” part of politic, civil service and business.
    Many perceived it as a way to instant success.
    No wonder Tun cried when he announced his step down, I now understand his pain & despair on the things he saw in Umno & the government and not able to do much to stop it.
    To cut short, at least Tun have so many of the supposed to be cost escalated projects to shout about with less than 3/4 the amount of his successor.
    We have to ask ourselves, what did we get from the RM253bil during Pak Lah time.

  84. Salam Yang Dimuliakan Tun
    Simple conclusion.
    YAB Dato Najib, from now on,has to work very hard, and be very serious with all his priminiterial duties until GE13,avoiding social and economic pitfalls on the way, solve inhospitable problems and while so doing, always exuding confidence to ensure the vast majority,particularly the Malays,are supportive of him to enable him to hold to the rein of power for as long as it is required of him.
    Wassalam

  85. Hello dear Malaysians,
    Please wake up. Please wake up and ask for Royal Inquiry into spending of Petronas money by 5th PM of Malaysia. RAKYAT MUST KNOW WHERE THE MONEY GONE.
    I also appeal to the opposition leaders to forget their differences with TDM and raise questions in parliament as to what happened to the huge sum of money paid by petronas to the federal government run by Tun Abdullah (2004-2009).
    Opposition leaders should not treat TDM’s allegations against Tun Abdullah as a “personal matter”, but instead, they should consider it as Rakyat’s matter because Petronas ultimately belong to Malaysians and people of malaysia have the right to ask Pak Lah to answer and give details of money spent (RM250+ billion).

  86. Salam Tun and all,
    The cumulative amount paid to the government by Petronas for six years (2004-2009) is RM253.6 billion.
    Tun asked a question, ‘Where has the money gone to?’
    That’s not a difficult question and it shouldn’t tax the government too much to provide the answer.
    Maybe the RM253.6 billion was spent on building a new administrative capital, transport infrastructure for KL, an F1 circuit, the world’s tallest towers, etc, that we’re not aware of. Curious minds want to know.
    Off topic — I watched with great pride an outstanding performance by a Malaysian in the Renault World Series at Silverstone UK yesterday. Fairuz Fauzy finished second in Race 1 after a brilliant battle with Bertrand Baguette who was joint leader at the beginning of the race. I hope Fairuz also does well for Race 2.
    I couldn’t help thinking if that achievement would have been possible without the foresight of a certain statesman in bring F1 to our shores and giving motorsports a great boost.

  87. Tun Dr.,
    as much as I agree with Askay’s point of view:
    By AskayAuthor Profile Page on July 4, 2009 10:20 AM
    Quote:
    1)HOWEVER,I WISH TO TAKE STOCK THAT SUCH IMMENSE WEALTH GIVEN TO MALAYSIANS ARE ‘NOT’ DIRECTLY THE RESULT OF HARD WORK BY MALAYSIANS ( WITHOUT INTENDING TO BELITTLE THE MAGNIFICENT EFFORTS OF PETRONAS), BUT ARE THE RESULTS OF RESOURCES ‘ENDOWED’ BY THE GRACE OF THE ALMIGHTY, ALLAH SWT;
    2)…USE THE OIL MONEY NOT FOR THE COMMON GOOD OF THE PEOPLE BUT ENDED UP IN OSTENTATIOUS DISPLAY OF LUXURIOUS PERSONAL CONSUMPTIOUS LIVING,THE PURCHASE OF MILITARY MIGHT
    3)LET MALAYSIA BE A WORLD MUSLIM LEADER…
    4)…WHO OFFER THANKS (SYUKUR) TO ALLAH, ALLAH WILL MULTIPLY HIS BOUNTY;
    unquote
    Kita semua yakin dan percaya dengan kebolehan kita. Hasil dari perancangan terdahulu, kita telah berjaya di satu peringkat yang membanggakan.
    Kita berjaya dengan hasil dari mereka yang terdahulu mengurustadbir harta negara, termasuklah diri kita sehingga ketahap pemikiran yang progresif dan saintifik.
    Apakah masalah kita? Wahai rakyat, apa lagi? This is not a political question.
    Kemungkinan sikap kita yang tak selari dan selaras dengan kehendak Maha Pencipta. Sikap yang mempunyai sifat2 hasad, dengki, tamak, haloba, riak, takabur, sombong dll seumpamanya terumata sifat jahat dan kita semestinya berusaha bersungguh2 untuk menghapuskannya!
    Justeru, maka dapatlah kita memberi cadangan penyelesaian untuk jawapan kepada persoalan kita.
    Namun masih ramai dikalangan rakyat terutama penuntut ilmu yang bijak pandai di menara gading dengan tesis2 mereka! Sedih, plagiarisme berluluasa. Itu hanyalah hipokrit semata-mata!
    Kita di uji dengan harta dan ilmu, awas! Bilakah masa untuk menewaskan sifat2 keji ini? Hampir saja kita terlewat.
    Insya Allah, kita bakal menyaksikan tanda2 dariNya bulan ogos permulaan puasa ini, bagi sesiapa yang mahu memikirkannya.
    Tiada persoalan lagi dari,
    Tukang kebun

  88. Askum YB Tun,
    Saya cadangkan keseluruhan Tambak Johor itu dimusnahkan samasekali dan bakal jambatan disebelah timur Selat Johor dibina. DENGAN itu nanti air akan mengalir lebih lancar dan kapal-kapal boleh bergerak dengan lebih selesa lagi.

  89. Salam Tun
    Tumpang tanya sikit mengenai apa yg di sebut keat siang DAP itu benar,
    Tun pernah hulur 2 billion kpd syarikat anak Tun Konsortium Perkapalan padas 1998 apabila dibelit dgn hutang sehingga nak gulong tika tu?
    apa pula dgn syarikat Proton Saga & MAS dlm isu sama?
    Bolehkah Tun jelas ini semua dlm Blog anda dulu pasal hal ni dlm article akan dtg….

  90. setiap kali pilihanraya, pandai mintak sokongan.
    masa persidangan UMNO, bukan main lagi cakap berdegar-degar, gegar satu dunia.
    masa perbentangan belanjawan, bukan main lagi.. report kat paper,.
    tapi lepas tu, mana report selapas belanjawan di bentang?
    siapa yang audit setiap kementerian ??
    korang jangan menipu..

  91. Tun,
    Salam Sejahtera.
    Apa pula motif Tun kali ini?. Jawapan kepada soalan Tun itu semuanya boleh ketahui (butir terperinci bagaimana hasil negara dibelanjakan ada pada bajet negara dan mudah diperolehi dilaman MOF dan kedudukan kewangan negara ada dilaman BNM )tetapi saya hairan kenapa Tun lontarkan soalan yang berbentuk provokasi pada umum. Apa yang Tun mahu sebenarnya dari mantan PM Pak Lah?….. Saya tersangat sedih dengan persoalan sebegini dari Tun.
    Wassalam
    ran03

  92. Syabas Tun. Petronas yang diasdaskan oleh Tun Abdul Razak, Tun Hussin Onn dan seterusnya dimajukan oleh Tun sendiri selama lebih 21 tahun sebagai PM telah banyak menyumbangkan kepada faedah dan kemakmuran negara. Saya amat berbangga atas kejayaan ini oleh sebab sebahagian pengurusannya diteraju dan dilakukan oleh anak tempatan khususnya Melayu. Jasa dan kebolehan mereka tidak dapat dipandang remeh. Kalau dahulu banyak projek-projek mega dibiayai dari duit PETRONAS, tahun lalu (2008) semasa negara meghadapi kegawatan teruk kesan dari knaikan harga petrol, juga diselamatkan dari wang PETRONAS. Sehingga kita dapat hidup selesa disaat-saat negara lain mengeluh kerana kenaikan harga petrol.
    Saya yakin anak Melayu boleh mnguruskan negara ini dengan baik tanpa perlu merasa takut. Kita hanya perlu ‘ukur baju dibadan sendiri’. Hanya mereka yang takutkan bayang-bayang sahaja merasakan Melayu tidak mampu, sehingga kita tepaksa mengurbankan banyak hak dan kepentingan Melayu hanya kerana ingin melihat kita berada setanding dengan negara-negara maju lain.
    Pengalaman sejarah kejatuhan Melaka dan sejarah silam negara-negara lain menunjukkan kerajaan yang sedang dilamun mimpi dek kemewahan sebenarnya sedang menghadapi zaman keruntuhan.
    Bagaiman Tun ingin menasihatkan mereka yang bertanggungjawab ini.?

  93. Salam Tun,
    Tak nampak peningkatan perbelanjaan yang jelas dapat dilihat dilihat sejak 2004, walaupun jumlah di salurkan Billion RM. Yang nampak jelas, bayaran elaun kat bekas hakim tu ada le? Yang lain samar-samar aje. Tiada projek mega pun, kalau ada, nampak le juga kat mana dibelanja?. Ni kena semak, macam-macam boleh berlaku. Duit rakyat jangan main-main, ni amanah, ramai yang miskin dan daif dalam masyarakat kita. Apa yang mereka dapat RM 100 sebulan untuk sara 10 anak ? Tak manasabah. Kita kena lihat pekara macam ni dulu sebelum belanja benda lain. Bukan projek untuk orang kaya didahulukan. Kita nak lihat orang kampung yang susah tu dapat bahagian lebih sikit dari sekarang supaya anak-anak mereka berjaya, bukan jadi penjenayah. Harga barang dah naik tinggi berbanding dulu, tapi sumbangan kebajikan pada mereka ditakuk lama. Kita ni kejam, tak perihatin dan kedekut kepada yang hak. Sumber makin besar , rakyat daif makin dipingirkan.TQ. Bye

  94. Salam Tun,
    Dah hidup melebihi 50 tahun di bawah AMENO, saya tak hairan sangat kalau duit boleh hilang sebab manusia datang Malaysia pun boleh hilang juga….. nasib lah dapat pemimpin macam ni. Masa no. 2 pun sukoi, scorpene dll boleh masuk kecek big mama, ni dah jadi no. 1, lagi lah.

  95. AAB seems to have embezeled billions under the rakyat’s noses. In his 5 years as PM nothing was done to benefit the people especially the bumiputeras. He ruled Malaysia like a royalty – only performed ceremonial duties. But it is also now very clear that Najib is following his useless mentor AAB. The poem below describes Najib who will suffer an even bigger loss in the next general election if he continues with his policy of robbing from the poor and giving to the already rich:-
    KITA berada dalam era yang kelabu.
    Tidak ada lagi warna hijau, merah dan biru.
    Sudah bercampur baur.
    Pudar, kelabu dan kabur.
    Kita dikatakan lepas bebas.
    Era globalisasi yang terbuka luas.
    Tetapi mengapa kita berasa terbatas?
    Terkepung, terbendung, terpintas
    Takut berhujah, bimbang berbahas.
    Kita agungkan globalisasi.
    Kita julang tinggi meritokrasi.
    Padahal kita keliru, tidak tahu.
    Apa ertinya istilah-istilah itu.
    [Macamlah berkhayal dengan Akademi Fantasia
    Dan wayang Hindi yang berjam-jam panjangnya.]
    Maka kita berbicara tentang kesamarataan.
    Tidak mahu lagi kuota dan bantuan.
    Lalu kita rungkaikan satu persatu.
    Tali-tali yang dulu mengikat kita jitu.
    Kita manterakan Malaysian Malaysia.
    Kita uar-uarkan Satu Malaysia.
    Kita kagumi Masyarakat Madani
    Kita berjinak-jinak dengan Islam Hadhari.
    Apakah kita kini cukup berani
    Yakin kepada kemampuan diri
    Sudah sedia untuk berdikari
    Atas landasan meritokrasi
    Keterbukaan dan globalisasi
    Atau sebenarnya kita lupa diri
    Umpama anak kecil bermain api
    Terbakar hatinya yang sepi?
    Adakah mampu Melayu di Ulu Benta
    Bersaing dengan Cina di Bukit Damansara?
    Atau Melayu di pedalaman dan hulu?
    Dengan Melayu baru di Bukit Tunku?
    Atau nelayan dengan anak jutawan?
    Anak buruh dengan anak orang berpengaruh?
    Bukan bangsa lain tidak utama
    Mereka pun rakyat Malaysia juga
    Tetapi realiti yang wajib diterima
    Orang Melayu dan Bumiputera
    Adalah majoriti rakyat Malaysia
    Pinggirkan mereka, bala jawabnya.
    Hatta saya dan adik-adik saya
    Kami pun tidak serata
    Kalau ikut meritokrasi
    Mungkin anak saya dapat biasiswa
    Anak mereka gigit jari
    Kerana sekolah di kota
    Segala lengkap semua ada
    Guru tuisyen dan segala benda.
    Tetapi apa halnya
    Dengan sekolah di desa?
    Kalaupun hendak bermurah hati
    Wajiblah kita berhati-hati
    Jangan abaikan hak majoriti
    Padahnya buruk kemudian hari.
    Buat baik perpada-pada
    Buat jahat jangan sekali
    Usah digadai tanah pusaka
    Nanti bangsa dihina dikeji.

  96. asalamualaikum Tun….kalau dikira dari thn 2004-2009 ialah 253.6 bilion..!begitu banyak,tak kan sampai sekarng belum ada bayangan jambatan Menumbok (Tanah Besar Sabah) ke W.P.Labuan lagi….!memang betul lah,BN cuma cakap kosong saja..pancing undi lah katakan…tak apa lah,pilihanraya akan datang tak payah lah undi BN lagi lah,lagi pun saya bukannya kerja dgn kerajaan,saya bekerja dgn swasta,tak banyak tempiasnya pun apa2 pakej yang di umumkan Najib…………..makan saja lah duit tu..nanti boleh nampak juga kalau tengah nazak,apa yang dibuat di dunia ni akan nampak juga bila Sakaratulmaut nak tarik nyawa penyangak ni,nak cakap apa lagi?penat lah………..loghat daerah kata,”malas tah ku ingau”…

  97. Assalamu’alaikum Tun & family,
    SOALAN TUN TU MUDAH, JANGAN DISUSAHKAN…
    KENAPA MASA TUN DUIT PETRONAS DIGUNAKAN RM21 JUTA / HARI
    TAPI ZAMAN PAK LAH GUNA DUIT PETRONAS RM139 JUTA / HARI (SAMPAI 7 KALI GANDA!)
    ITU SAJA LOJIKNYA. KALAU JUSTIFIED TAK APALAH. YANG SUSAH-SUSAH NAK ROUND SATU DUNIA BUAT ANDAIAN MACAM-MACAM TU BUAT APA…
    Tun u are still walking tall. Please take good care of urself and Tun Hasmah.

  98. Dear Tun,
    Those who accuse you for corruption and mismanaging the country are idiots of the first order. They have “monkey brains” trying to belittle your achievements and finding scapegoat. Very unintelligent and disgusting indeed.
    They are the elite few yang mudah lupa dan tak sedar diri.

  99. Dear Tun,
    It is now becoming talk of the town that Rosmah always seems to be in the limelight making all kinds of statements as if she is like a minister.
    Menteri pun tak dapat public exposure macam Rosmah. Mungkin dia ada “dealing” dengan Rais Yatim dan Johan Jaafar tak?
    She has to restrain herself NOT to go over board or over expose in her public appearance. People are now very observant and making negative remarks which are affecting Najib’s standing as a Prime Minister.
    ORANG DAH NAIK MELUAT.

  100. Saya setuju Malaysia bertuah, terutama pemimpinya seperti Tun, tetapi tidak rakyatnya seperti rakyat Kelantan yang ada minyak tetapi tidak mendapat royalti. Rakyat Trengganu royaltinya berubah menjadi wang ihsan, yang ditelan oleh jerung yang mempunyai ingsan. Tun tahu jawapannya ke mana wang itu pergi. Pokoknya semua mesti dijawab sekarang dan juga kemudian nanti.

  101. Assalamualaikum YABhg.Tun,
    TUN MENGAKU GAGAL MENGUBAH SIKAP ORANG MELAYU.
    —————————————
    Saya teringat peristiwa beberapa tahun dahulu.(jika tidak silap saya Tun hampir bersara dari jawatan PM). Peristiwa itu ialah Tun di tanya olih wartawan. Soalan wartawan lebih kurang begini.
    “SEPANJANG PEMERENTAHAN TUN SEBAGAI PERDANA MENTERI APA KAH YANG TUN RASAKAN GAGAL ”
    Tun jawap lebih kurang begini:
    “UNTUK MELAKSANAKAN PEMBANGUNAN NEGARA ADALAH MUDAH BAGI SAYA. TETAPI YANG SAYA RASA GAGAL IALAH “MENGUBAH SIKAP ORANG MELAYU”
    (pada tafsiran saya ialah Tun telah berusaha sedaya upaya namun ianya maseh gagal untuk mengubah perangai orang Melayu seperti berikut:
    ANTARA PERANGAI ORANG MELAYU YANG TUN GAGAL UBAH IALAH:
    1.Dari negatif ke positif
    2.Dari perangai tak baik nak jadikan baik.
    3.Dari malas nak jadikan rajin.
    4.Dari bodoh nak jadikan cerdik
    5.Dari miskin nak jadikan kaya.
    6.Dari pecah belah nak jadikan bersatu
    7.Dari jahat nak jadikan baik
    8.Dari kotor nak jadikan bersih
    9.Dari selalu sakit nak jadikan sehat
    10.Dari lemah semangat nak kuat kan semangat
    11.Dari tak terkenal nak jadikan terkenal
    12.Dari tak tahu berniaga nak jadikan pandai berniaga.
    13.Dari akhlak tak baik nak jadikan akhlak baik.
    14.Dari kurang islamik nak jadikan lebih islamik
    15.Dari kurang pelajaran nak di jadikan lebih berpelajaran.
    16.Dari kurang kemahiran nak di jadikan lebih kemahiran.
    17.Dari bergantung sangat kapada tongkat nak di kurangkan tongkat.
    18.Dari tabiat kurang menyimpan kapada rajin menyimpan
    19.Dari perasaan rendah diri nak jadikan semangat tinggi.
    20.Dari katak bawah tempurong nak jadikan masyarakat global.
    21.Dari tak mahir bahasa Inggeris nak jadikan mahir bahasa Inggeris.
    22.Dari tak tahu komputer nak jadikan celik komputer.
    23.Dari masyarakat pentingkan diri nak jadikan masyarakat penyayang
    24.Dari hati kotor nak di jadikan hati bersih.
    25.Dari malas membaca nak di jadikan rajin membaca
    26.Dari takut mencuba nak di jadikan berani mencuba
    27.Dari tak yakin bolih nak di jadikan yakin bolih.
    28.(DAN BANYAK LAGI….TAK LARAT NAK DI SENARAIKAN)
    Bagi diri saya segala nasehat Tun saya berusaha mengikutinya.
    Alhamdulillah….sedikit sebanyak telah ada kejayaan nya. Terima Kaseh Tun. Semoga Tun dan keluarga sentiasa mendapat perlindungan dan rahmat Allah di dunia sampai akhirat.
    Walau pun antara Tun dan saya tidak mengenali secara peribadi namun Allah selalu menggerakan hati Tun untuk menolong saya. Saya tidak tahu bagaimana ini terjadi. Apa yang saya perasan ialah secara ikhlas saya selalu mendoakan kebaikan untuk Tun terutama selepas solat. MUNGKIN INI LAH PERTOLONGAN DARI ALLAH UNTUK MENGGERAKAN HATI TUN.
    Antara pertolongan dari Tun:
    1.Pada Oktober 1995 Tun memberi semangat kapada saya di SOGO KL
    2.Pada Oktober 1995 Tun menjemput saya hadir ke pejabat Tun diJPM.
    3.2008 Tun ada menolong saya
    4.2008 Tun ada menolong saya.
    ( TERIMA KASEH YABGH.TUN )
    e-mail rosbidar : [email protected]
    h/p: 012-3093471

  102. Dear Tun,
    I think you are the best person to highlight where the money goes.You were the Prime Minister for over 20 years and I am sure most of the money spent were during your period.
    So it is appropriate time for you to do the explanation to avoid all the accusations and allegations that the government had been plundering Petronas money.

  103. Tun yang dihormati,
    Personally I think most of the leaders are not sincere in helping the rakyat!Otherwise they wouldn’t go to so much trouble to be elected to lead the people!
    Our prophet Muhammad s.a.w. warns us over 1400 years ago not to choose people who are too eager to become leaders!
    All muslim leaders around the world are not worthy of becoming leaders! Be it from Iran, Saudi or any muslim country.
    May Allah s.w.t. sends us a Mujaddid who could turn the tables around so that we are not laughed at like the kuffars are doing to us now!
    May Allah bless us all!

  104. Assalamualaikum YABhg Tun,
    WANG DI TERIMA KERAJAAN DARI PETRONAS
    ————————————-
    Jika ada pehak yang selewengkan wang tersebut saya cadangkan pehak pehak berikut memulakan siasatan tanpa menunggu mana mana pehak membuat aduan resmi.
    1.Suruhanjaya Pencegahan Rasuah Malaysia.
    2.Jawatankuasa Kira Kira Wang Negara.
    3.Jabatan Odit Negara
    4.Polis Di Raja Malaysia ( cawangan jenayah perdagangan)
    5.dll badan yang di beri kuasa menyiasat
    Masalah nya di Malaysia ini, jika ada pehak buat aduan resmi baru lah pehak pehak di atas bertindak. Jika tidak ada aduan resmi, mereka tidak akan bertindak walaupun perkara itu memang sahih berlaku.

  105. Smoked Pink Salmon Recipe:
    KUALA LUMPUR: Senior members of Parti Keadilan Rakyat went on the attack against DAP yesterday, worsening a breach among the Pakatan Rakyat allies.
    The PKR member of parliament for Kulim Bandar Baru in Kedah, Zulkifli Noordin, said it was meaningless for DAP to remain in Pakatan if it could not tolerate its two partners in the alliance.
    Referring to Kedah DAP

  106. Assalamualaikum Tun,
    1.1981 – 2003 : RM 168.8b untuk projek Proton, Jambatan Pulau Pinang, Lebuhraya Utara-Selatan, Menara Berkembar Petronas,Menara KL, KLIA, Putrajaya, projek STAR dan PUTRA LRT dll.
    2.2004 – 2009 : RM 253.6b kalau orang tanya untuk projek apa? kita tak dapat untuk menjawabnya.
    3.Habis duit demi untuk kepentingan rakyat tak mengapa tapi jangan habis kerana masuk ke dalam poket sudahlah.
    4.Apa kata kalau KERAJAAN menggunakan duit hasil dari PETRONAS untuk membeli ASET2 PENTING umpamanya membeli Lebuhraya bertol supaya rakyat tidaklah terasa terbeban dengan kenaikan kadar tol.
    5.Kerajaan masih boleh mengenakan tol tapi tidak berlaku kenaikan dari tahun ke tahun seperti sekarang.
    6.Agar DSN dapat mengambil iktibar daripadanya,dan dapat menguruskan hasil negara dengan sebaik mungkin.
    Moga Tun sihat selalu.

  107. If your have reached this post then you must have already read tonnes of comments on Petronas payments. Therefore, you might want to take a short break and move over to something lighter and less taxing, and park aside for a moment the great fear and worry of where all the he money has gone to. Here are some tidbits…
    (btw, ask PakLah lah)
    NO REGRETS?
    Are you absolutely sure beyond reasonable doubt that you will have absolutely no regrets whatsoever should Anwar overtake you as the greatest man in Malaysia and the greatest Malaysian in the world; that if you were to be superseded by your once deputy and protégé and later arch-adversary? Btw, there

  108. Yg DiKasihi Tun,
    Kerajaan bawah pimpinan DSNTR wajib jawab persoalan Tun ini dengan menghuraikan satu persatu perbelajaan yang di lakukan dari penerimaan wang Petronas tersebut. Jangan pula hendak menggelak dengan mengalihkan perhatian umum kepada penyinkiran TS Hassan Merican dan kemasukan Omar Ong kedalam lembaga pengarah Petronas.
    DSNTR mesti ingat yang dia bersekongkol dengan TAAB dalam membazirkan wang Petronas yang begitu banyak itu. Walaupun banyak yang telah meluat dengan kebodohan pembangkang sekarang, namun was-was terhadap DSNTR masih tebal kerana beliau ni buta terhadap kehendak majoriti rakyat. Sombong tak habis-habis! Pelindung perasuah!
    Kita masih tidak merasa apa-apa kebaikan sejak DSNTR menjawat PM. Cakap aja!

  109. PETRONAS started with RM15 million capital. Delivered few hundred billions back to its shareholder. Despite of big challenges faced in the last financial year due to lower crude oil price and high operating cost, they’re still paying over RM70 billion to the government. Siap ckp lagi that the reason of this high operating cost due to high salary of PETRONAS employees, when it only contributes 3% overall cost. Stupid beyond imagination. And yet, the bashing to PETRONAS is stil happening. Ungrateful people, God is fair, God is just. You don’t have to wait long to see His judgement.
    Most of you talking, owh that’s a lot of money and that is my money. Bla bla bla. A lot of people sounds like they know how to run a Fortune 500 company. Hell yea. Let me ask a simple question, do you know what it takes to produce that amount of money? How much sweat, time and tears it meant to the organization? Stop complaining about you don’t have enough money when you sit down at your living room, watching AF and do nothing to improve yourself.
    Do you even try to make changes so that people can live better? Do you even pay your taxes? Do you even study properly when you were in schools and universities when most of the cost is being subsidized by these money? You must be kidding.
    Everybody want to know how government spend the money. Everybody want to know whether PETRONAS spend properly.
    Question yourself first before you question other people. How you spend your money? Drinking RM10 coffee at Starbucks? Paying your credit card debt because you overspend? Go for shopping stuffs that you don’t actually need? Buy branded stuffs so that you look cool in front of others? Modifying your car, so that you can rempit at the streets and cause accidents? Renovating your house to compete with your neighbours? Getting second wife? Got tricked into Skim Cepat Kaya?
    How many of you giving your money to someone who really need it? From my observation, when there is a disable people or beggars ask for some of your money, Malaysian can be so cold-hearted. Walking away and most probably think that they don’t have enough money for themselves. Yea right.

  110. Dear Tun,
    Minta maaf,sebab terkeluar topik.Realitinya pemilikan hartanah oleh bumiputra di Pulau Pinang adalah amat rendah terutamanya di kawasan strategik.
    Di samping itu sekiranya kalau bukan-cina ingin memiliki mana-mana hartanah ianya menjadi sesuatu yang kurang selesa oleh ‘salesman’ yg perlu menguruskannya.
    tambahan pula selalunya unit-unit rumah yang kita mahu selalunya dikatakan ‘sold-out’,’already taken’ walhal unit terbabit masih belum berpunya.perkara ini tetap berlaku berulang-ulang pada saudara saya dan keseluruhan keluarga kami di sini yg ingin membeli sebuah bungalow yang berharga jutaan ringgit..
    manakala bagi rumah/tanah org-org melayu di kawasan2 strategik mereka meronta-ronta ingin memiliki contohnya seperti rumah nenek saya yang mana mereka tidak senang hati melihat sehinggakan menulis surat dan melkan minta rumah ini dijual..tetapi alhamudillah kami masih survive
    so bagaimanakah perkara ini mesti diperjelaskan kerana org kita tidak mempunyai kefahaman serta kapasiti tentang hal ehwal hartanah..
    saya fikir perlu diadakan think-tank dan juga kempen lebih agresif untuk membolehkan dan mendisiplinkan bumiputra membeli hartanah di kawasan-kawasan stretegik khususnya di pulau pinang yang saya khuatir mungkin menjadi ‘Singapura kedua’ dan malaysia hanya mungkin tinggal 13 negeri sahaja..Tentu Tun mempunyai idea tentang hal ini
    disertakan copy yg saya taipkan pada ruangan komentar Lim Kit Siang
    ‘i think u should also highlight this matter
    why when non-chinese wishes to get a house somewhere in a strategic area especially within PENANG we often being indirectly blocked by the salesman by giving a reason that the unit has been taken up..would u be dare enough to speak up this matter in parliament to highlight the matter..when it comes to possessing hard-asset by non-chinese we are easilyn being marginalized
    also why when non-chinese wishes to purchase an asset often enough they will be turn and twisted with other sorts of sub-standard quality of property
    if you are truly voicing for the all people would u do something to balanced-up the population of malay-chinese-indian in penang state and slowly closed the gap??
    .if u could make it we really salute u
    do u function as a proxy of someone..
    thanks
    i hope my comment will not be blocked..’
    begitulah bunyinya komentar saya pada blog LKS itu..
    terima kasih..

  111. Tun,
    I hope some bright students pick up Petronas/Government spending for PhD thesis.TQ

  112. YABhg Tun Mahathir Mohamad,
    Salam Hormat dan Salam Kasih
    Pendapatan Pertonas Dan Sumbangannya
    (selepas trengganu dan naturna)
    Sekarang ini telah ada pertanyaan kemana arahtuju PETRONAS dalam tahun-tahun yang akan datang dan khususnya apakah jumlah sumbangan PETRONAS lagi kepada kerajaan apabila sumber minyak mentah negara telah kering telaganya dan siapa yang kah yang layak mengganti Hassan Merican?
    Bagaimana dinar emas dan sistem perbankan dan perdaganaan serta matawang islam itu dapat bertapak di Malaysia dan dalam keadaan sehat serta dinamik dipraktikan?
    Bolehkah kita mengharapakan kepada sumber minayk kita untuk memperkuatkan sistem matawang islam dengan minyak mentah sebagai satu tiang ekomoni diatasnya kita bina ‘ekonomi yang shariaah compliance’, Tun.
    Sekian, terima kasih dan salam kasih.

  113. Aslmkm Dear Tun,
    Thank you for enlightening us all. Now millions of Malaysians
    would really like to know where all the billions and billions
    of ringgit have gone.
    Pak Lah came into office with high pronouncements about integrity
    and transparency. We really would like for him to clear this up.
    SPRM must look into this matter with alacrity.

  114. Very funny,RM 253.1 billion? what Tun Lah did with the money? OMA!As I remember during 2003- 2009, so many projects announced by Pak Lah, and that so many projects are unsuccessful. Of course Pak Lah busy with his Islam Hari-Hari, but the Crystal Mosque in Pulau One Man, Taman Tamadun Islam, Monsoon Cup and bla…bla…bla…didn’t give any benefits directly to rakyat.
    Program ANGKA-SAWAN Negara costed more than RM100 millions. Maybe Pak Lah got SAWAN when he knows how much ANGKA PETRONAS pay to goverment.
    If PAKATAN RAKYAT rules Malaysia, PETRONAS will be transforms to PETROPAS, COZ I see Kelantan gov rules by PAS can be said almost honestly for state development although with small budget.
    Next GE, it’s not about PEOPLE’S ALLIANCE or NATIONAL FRONT, it’s about to choose a clean, honest and liable goverment to manage our country’s wealth.
    See, how UMNO/BN leaders comment this. If UMNO/BN leaders still in syndrome of denying, i will not surprise why their lose in next GE.

  115. Finally Tun Hussein can ‘smile’ from above and let out a loud sigh of relieve.
    At last someone has done much less and fared much worse than him.
    Hussein was lucky not to have suffered the same fate as Pak Lah. Close call. Malaysians were much more naive then. After being showed the way by Dr.M, no way will we tolerate such averageness and mediocrecy anymore. No way, and never again.
    What a sad story for two of Malaysia’s highest Mr. Clean, and what a tragic end for one.
    Pak Lah, prepare to meet thy doom.
    …and regardless of what becomes of him in the end, I still expect any ‘bocor’ from the 253.6 bil to be recovered.
    p.s. How can anyone at the highest office and worse still a PUBLIC office (open & seen by all) afford to sleep on the job? My goodness!

  116. Cepat, Royal Inquiry. Cepat pergi Kg Sg. Penchala tanya Dollah Badawi.
    “Get a search warrant fast. Prehaps it’s buried somewhere in the corner of his kampong.”
    Or maybe it’s in Australia. Now that he’s out in the cold, that’s plenty of time to go Australia, visit his son, go boating, and see Kangaroos.
    …and lots catching up with some sleep. Finally, DAMAI ABADI.
    Pak Lah better hide in Australia good or risk being caught, charged and hanged for national robbery in addition to two other charges of underperformance and destroying the fundamentals of the country.
    Quarter the time, but double the amount. Why milk the cash-cow so hard, Badawi?
    He’d better have a very good explanation for all this.
    This guy now has officially no legacy or anything legend.
    ABDULLAH BADAWI

  117. Salam.
    Saya melihat beberapa kebodohan rakyat Malaysia selepas membaca komen-komen diatas. Walaupun artikel ditulis dalam Bahasa Inggeris, jelas mereka masih tidak tangkap apa yang hendak disampaikan. Masihkan mereka mahu menghapuskan PPSMI?
    Ternyata ia ditulis oleh mereka yang kurang matang walaupun bersifat ingin tahu apabila mempersoalkan :
    “Tun sepatutnya tahu kemana wang tersebut dibelanjakan. Tun memerintah selama 22 Tahun… Projek gajah putih Putrajaya dan pelbagai accusations lain”
    1981 – 2003 : RM 168.8b
    2004 – 2009 : RM 253.6b
    Sudah tentu perbandingan jarak tahun dan jumlah diatas membuktikan bahawa sepatutnya Malaysia menjadi lebih maju dan lebih banyak pembangunan mega atau giga kerana dalam masa 22 tahun berbekalkan subsidi RM 168.8b dan lain-lain, Malaysia dapat dibangunkan dengan pesat dan mata rakyat dapat melihat dan menilai apa yang dibangunkan.
    Makanya, dalam masa 6 tahun, sudah tentu ia tidak sepesat 22 tahun, namun dengan wang yang banyak, sepatutnya menampakkan beberapa hasil yang dapat memberi pulangan wang, dan bukannya pulangan rugi seperti Stadium yang ranap, bayaran pampasan akibat pemberhentian projek jambatan bengkok, pembayaran wang “ihsan” kepada hakim-hakim dan koridor serta pintu yang tak menjadi.
    Jika Najib mengatakan kekecewaan kerana Bumiputra masih ditahap 19% selama 19tahun, beliau sepatutnya mengatakan kesal kerana Bumiputra tidak memperoleh apa-apa dalam masa 6 tahun ini. Pengabaian terhadap Bumiputera tidak boleh dipandang remeh. Bumiputera yang menentukan nasib pemerintah dan bukan kaum lain yang perlu diutamakan dan diagungkan.
    Sudah tiba masa sekolah vernakular dinaiktaraf menjadi sekolah kebangsaan. Sekiranya ia tidak dilakukan, kita akan dapat lihat lebih ramai kaum Cina dan India yang bersifat rasis dan “konon”nya mahu memperjuangkan keadilan di”tanah” air mereka.
    PPSMI tidak perlu dihapuskan sebaliknya ia perlu diperbaiki dan diperkasakan. Jika mahu memartabatkan Bahasa Melayu, martabatkan dengan cara yang betul. Menghapuskan PPSMI tidak mungkin akan memartabatkan Bahasa Melayu. Sudah jelas anugerah sastrawan negara tidak layak dipegang oleh a samad said. Saya melihat lebih banyak akhbar berbahasa Cina berbanding akhbar Bahasa Melayu sedangkan populasi Bangsa Melayu lebih berganda. Tiadakah sesiapa yang mahu memertabatkan Bahasa Melayu?

  118. Salam Tun,
    Ini Teka Teki ka?
    Tak pelah, saya pun kerja 12 bulan setahun tetapi gaji hanya 11 bulan. 1 bulan gaji kena bayar cukai. Tak tau pulak apa kerajaan buat dengan gaji 1 bulan saya tu. Ikhlas saja lah…
    Jayzek

  119. Tun,
    Surely the Government had spent the money wisely i.e. during your tenure, RM 166.8 billion (1982-2003 = 22 years) and during Pak Lah tenure, RM 253.6 billion (2004-2009 = 6 years).
    Since 1974 to 2009 a total of RM 426.6 billion was paid by Petronas. It means that during Che Det’s tenure, 39.1% was spent and during Pak Lah’s tenure, 59.4% was spent.
    It is quite puzzling that even tough the annual nation’s budget were tabled and approved from 1982 through 2009, we are still woundering what was the money spent on during the 28 years tenure.
    Anybody care to reply ….

  120. To ah_huat and kwc
    Hi friends. I think better don’t be too spoon-feeding Malaysians. Please spend few seconds to read and analyse the very simple statistics given by Tun DM.
    If you can’t understand, ask you standard six children to assist you. I think only those sicks or have ill-feeling against Tun DM can not understand the statistics.

  121. who make Petronas become the ATM machine? u r so forgetful, Tun ….
    banyak dosa …

  122. Jangan terlalu hairan sangat dengan jumlah sebanyak tu. Banyak pembangunan dan usaha membantu rakyat telah dilakukan oleh kerajaan dengan duit tu. Kita lihat sahaja , negara Malaysia sekarang ni, maju dan cemerlang kecualilah dimata orang – orang yang kufur nikmat dan tak tahu bersyukur.
    Kepada yg bergaji RM 5,000 sebulan yang telah bekerja selama 20 tahun, bermakna pendapatan dia selama 20 tahun ialah RM 1.2 juta. Cuba tanya orang ni, kemana duit sebanyak RM 1.2 juta itu yg dia telah belanjakan?
    Kepada yang menghisap rokok 1 kotak sehari yg beharga katakan
    RM 5, dan telah menghisap rokok selama 10 tahun. Bermakna dia telah membakar duit sebanyak RM 18,000.

  123. Dear Tun,
    We may need a Truth Commission to find out just what happened to all that money. The sums being thrown around nowadays are just tremendous. No more millions or hundreds of millions but billions.
    The politicians are really rich. They have tens of millions if not hundreds of millions in their pockets. Obviously this is ill gotten money.
    In all the State Assemblies (in both the Opposition and BN controlled States) the Opposition as well as the Wakil Rakyat from the ruling party question and debate every sen of money that is spent. It does not stop wastage but there is questioning.
    But the GLCs have become wild horses. They can spend billions but we dont even see their accounts. Where are Khazanah Nasional’s accounts? How do they spend their money? We want to see these things and we want to see it now.
    If the Government does not come transparent on all this spending, then these things will become more mysterious. The Government can get kicked out.
    Thank you for the expose.
    Syed Akbar Ali.

  124. Tun…Dato’ (beli punya kot) ni memang kurang ajaq dgn ayahanda, dengar cerita dia kroni kuat DS Najib & Khairy…patut la…
    http://sakmongkol.blogspot.com/2009/07/petronas-empire-strikes-back.html
    PETRONAS- the Empire strikes back?
    I thought the PETRONAS issue has come to an end. Someone told me to sudah sudah lah. Stop demonizing TDM.
    The issue is still alive. Tun Dr Mahathir has just published an account of the monies received by the government over a number of years. During his tenure as PM, the government received RM168 billion. From 2004 to 2009, PETRONAS gave 253 billion. The upshot of his argument: Pak Lah received more money and was not able to account for the application. Mana itu wang pergi?
    Tun Dr Mahathir speaks in the capacity as PETRONAS advisor. It is essentially a ceremonial post. It was meant as a goodwill post for retired PMs to spend their time. If anyone were to occupy it, other than TDM, that post would be inconsequential. If an ex minister were to occupy it for instance, the effect will be so too.
    But TDM was PM of Malaysia for 22 years and he is a larger than life figure. For 22 years PETRONAS was directly under him. The PETRONAS president reports to him directly and when they do meet there were 4-eyes meeting. The PETRONAS president will go back and brief the board; this is what the PM wants. If he says, I had a meeting with the PM, and he wants two of you to jump off the sky bridge, there is no way anyone can verify what were actually said. In other words there is no check and balance.
    The current PM now wants a check and balance. Hassan Merican has been PETRONAS boss for 15 years. The PM wants to balance the seemingly wide powers enjoyed by the PETRONAS president by modifying the profile of the board. But the CABINET of PETRONAS thinks this as interference in its domestic affairs. It is now carrying a rear guard action and will carry out a protracted battle.
    Enter TDM- the larger than life figure. The de facto numero uno of PETRONAS. From fortress PETRONAS which is essentially behaving like a government, the board becomes emboldened because it has TDM as protector. The PETRONAS board knows the present government is not that strong. It also knows that DS Najib is loathed to clash with TDM.
    For TDM, PETRONAS is his last bastion to flex similar ‘prime ministerial powers’. If PETRONAS likens itself as a government, that analogy confers on TDM a surreal sense of speaking as another PM.
    Hence, speaking as PM of PETRONAS, he asks, how did you people spend the 253 billion in 6 years compared to how I spent 183 billion over a period of 22 years? Only an overseer asks another who he sees as subordinate, the latter’s conduct. By asking the provocative question, TDM makes it out that our government is answerable to PETRONAS. Perhaps this sense of omnipotent powers derives from the knowledge that PETRONAS has been saving this country. It does so by paying out dividends, royalties, taxes and other forms of payments. Perhaps it is also thinking, it is better at managing its financial affairs than its ‘rival’ government.
    Let us see how it is in PETRONAS land. TDM has been PM for PETRONAS for 28 years. (1981-2009). Maybe the problem which DS Najib is facing with PETRONAS now could have been solved, if he had written to TDM instead of Hassan Merican. I do not think that TDM would give this Omar Mustapha Ong a second glance. But the character of this Omar Ong has assumed larger proportions because he is made out to be seen as a challenge to the autonomy of PETRONAS. This autonomous region in Malaysia called PETRONAS has a PM named Tun Dr Mahathir, the man who made Malaysia what she is today. That simply can’t be tolerated. It is impertinence of the highest order.
    So, the seemingly simple and as a matter of fact asking how we have spent the PETRONAS money, is highly provocative. TDM doesn’t do things without intending to influence the outcome.
    PETRONAS with TDM stand in one corner. At the other corner is the current PM. Omar Ong is just the water boy.
    We are currently witnessing an ongoing power play on PETRONAS stage. This is what it is actually. The PETRONAS board of directors whose security of tenure depends on the judgment of the PM is playing hardball. When they are doing is to make the PM lose face. The outcome is obvious.
    This whole thing about Omar Ong is just a rear guard action by the Hassan Merican and the Board. First to save his own job, having served 15 years as PETRONAS President having the power over death and taxes just like the PM. Heck! He may even think he is the other DPM to PM Mahathir. The real PM wants to balance things up and place his representative there. Why he likes Omar, we don’t know. Maybe he sees Omar all the time and sees nothing wrong with this chap. On the other hand he sees good talent.
    It seems the PM wrote to the PETRONAS president sometime in May this year appointing Omar Ong to the board. The letter wasn’t meant for further deliberations. The president must have taken this matter to the board and the board dutifully said no. We are not privy about the way he conveyed the message. Perhaps it was more like this: – ‘guys I hear the PM wants to appoint our friend Omar Mustapha Ong as board member. If we are not careful, you people will be put out to pasture. It will be the end of the world as we know it. Unfettered, unencumbered, we are the other government’.
    Imagine the horrors of the other members of the board upon hearing these words. No more first class travel, fat allowances, maybe some business deals, no more cavorting in the Petroleum Club. No more free access to PETRONAS Philharmonic performances.
    Hassan Merican has been called twice to see the PM and asked to explain why the appointment has not taken place. He is likely to say, it wasn’t his decision, but this board..Dato Sri

  125. Salam Ayahanda Tun,
    Sepanjang 22 tahun Ayahanda menjadi Perdana Menteri, saya boleh nampak dengan jelas dan terang mengenai ke mana perginya wang tersebut dibelanjakan. Boleh dikatakan kebanyakannya mendatangkan kesan yang ketara; misalnya, projek Proton, Jambatan Pulau Pinang, Lebuhraya Utara-Selatan, Menara Berkembar Petronas, KLIA, Putrajaya, projek STAR dan PUTRA LRT (kini masing-masing ialah Aliran Ampang dan Aliran Kelana Jaya), KL Monorail, Sukan Komanwel 1998 dan banyak lagi. Saya ingat lagi, diceritakan kepada saya pada masa tersebut apabila negara kekurangan wang, Ayahanda tetap mahu meneruskan projek-projek tersebut dan berkata kita akan cari wang kalau kita tak ada wang. Begitulah kisah tekad mendahului segalanya.
    Tapi bila tiba zaman pengganti-pengganti Ayahanda, semuanya cuma tahu cari alasan sahaja; kebanyakannya adalah alasan bodoh yang tidak boleh diterima rakyat. Oleh itu tidak hairanlah mengapa rakyat di 5 negeri menolak BN pada pilihan raya 2008.

  126. Salam Tun,
    No wonder ex-PM Pak Dol’s 4th floor greedy bungs wanted to run Petronas. Dengar kata Pak Dol takut kat menantu, jadi semua cadangan dia Pak Dol kena ikut, kecuali yang mana Tun cepat2 siarkan dalam blog saperti Labu Airport, IJN, Petronas, dll. Jika lambat sikit aje Tun hebohkan pada rakyat (Agusta, wang ehsan T’ganu), maka melelehlah air lior rakyat jadinya.

  127. Assalam mualaikom Dr Mahathir,
    Saya hairan kenapa Dr bertanya soalan sebegitu. Semasa pemerintahan Dr, pernahkah rakyat semua di beritahu secara terperinci mahu pun secara kasar kemana kerajaan membelanjakan wang yang diterima daripada mana-mana pihak sekali pun?
    Apakah tujuan Dr bertanya demikian?
    Kalau pemimpin sekarang juga tidak ada bezanya daripada yang sebelumnya maka pertanyaan Dr itu tidak akan terjawab sampai bila-bila.
    Saya ingin juga nak tahu , bolehkah Dr menjelaskan bagaimana RM168b yang diterima daripada Petronas semasa era pentadbiran Dr dibelanjakan?
    Terima kasih.

  128. Salam TUN
    Apa maksud/motif TUN buka topik macam ni???????mana ada rakyat biasa boleh jawab..SUNGGUH MENGELIRUKAN…. ke nanti TUN akan bagi jawapan nye macam topik tambak Johor hari tu???????????kalau macam tu takpe la……..
    topik yg TUN buka ni boleh buat masyarakat tak senang duduk la TUN. tuduh org tu,tuduh org ni…TUN pun kene jugak..tak elok la mcm tu.
    Perlu ada penjelasan,atau ada pulak yg buat kecoh tak tentu pasal pulak nanti…
    MARI LAH KITA LEBIH MEMIKIRKAN MASA DEPAN.MENGENANG PERKARA LEPAS ADALAH SUATU TAHAP YANG PALING RENDAH DALAM PERBUALAN..

  129. “Where has the money gone to?”
    something that public show knows in sequence..from 1976-2003 , 2003-2008 and 2009 onwards.
    See how the Goverment spend during different PM..

  130. salam Tun,
    to kwc and the likes,
    Please provide proof of Tun’s corruption.We are waiting.
    Don’t simple accuse blindly.
    We dont want you to end up like that scumbag who accused Tun of having secret bank accounts with The Israeli National Bank!
    Jeng3

  131. What we actually spent for:
    1) Aesthetic more than Function: – This is what the opposition is harping about.
    The recent good example the PUDURAYA will have a FACELIFT at 30 million!!!. 5 million from a developer and 25 million from the GOVERNMENT!!!. We just wait what the opposition will be shouting this time. A well design staircase, ram, practical for the type of users (heavy duty- toilet, materials used). Escalator facilitate (pampered) but high maintenance , The conceptual Digital Artist Impression are always impressive. Maintenance etc just will make the place deteriorate in no Time. Ads Space can be preplan and outsource to reduce the cost. Datas can already sell ad space to Telcos etc.. It have to be work inside out. FUNCTION (sustainable) against aesthethic!!!!!
    I remember a member of HVA International Bv partly owned by AmroBank, Holland into Bank Negara in the mid 80s. they were shock to see the Aesthetic in the Interior Architecture!. Recently I took the same person to my house he was amazed by the Auto Gate!!. I asked him why? He said ” Only Millionaires in Holland have auto gate. (I am not a millionaire).
    2) Marking up to cover the facilitators – I remember to supply a a High pressure hot water in a hotel costing MYR 300 a state own Hotel insist the assigned supplier (prefered member) to quote and supply for MYR 1,000 +.!!! Why???
    3) Pampering the Rakyat – KEMUDAHAN , KEMUDAHAN that are Physical but not sustainable. This will drive the country and the people into Bankrupt society.
    Technology facilitate our farming, quality life , health etc… but we must know how to optimize the usage instead of being a SUCKER just to have them.
    salam
    halimmalaysia
    http://www.sagrodmalaysia.blogspot.com

  132. Assalamulaikum Tun, semoga sihat selalu.
    Wang pemberian Petronas RM253.6 billion dari 2003 hingga 2009, secara purata setahun RM42.7 billion dibelanjakan. berapakah jumlah yang diberikan kepada semua kerajaan negeri setahun, berapakah perbelanjaan membuat jalan baru, senggaraan jalan raya dan semua pasarana kerajaan seluruh Malaysia, berbagai subsidi yang diberikan kepada rakyat dari keperluan makanan hinggalah ke bahan api, banyak lagi yang tidak dapat dikatakan.
    Apapun dengan keadaan kewangan yang begitu banyak pada pendapat saya kerajaan sepatutnya beri rumah yang selesa dan percuma kepada setiap keluarga rakyat Malaysia . Rakyat akan berkekalan dengan kerajaan. itu baharulah rakyat diutamakan.katalah sebuah rumah RM300,OOO.OO untuk 15juta keluarga jumlahnya baru RM4.5 billion.

  133. I say Tun, you open up window for the bloggers/commentors to slander, accused, ridicule, ……… I am sure all the monies were accounted for, just wonder the quality spending that were transacted. Most of the times, ‘Best Buy’ is on the price but not the material. So the culprit is everyone except the end-users.

  134. Assalamualaikum Tun,
    just a wild guess… maybe it has been spent on;
    1) stimulus package
    2) general elections
    3) jump-start all the ‘corridor-projects’
    4) pay-out some ‘judges’
    5) pay-back all the lobbyist
    6) pay all government’s related opearational-cost (overheads)
    7) all of the above are absurds, if you really knew malaysian people
    wassalam.AVI

  135. I believed The Rakyat want to know how the money go during the period:-
    1)Tun Mahathir: 1981-2003 (total: 168B)
    How did you spend 168B ??
    2) Tun Abdullah: 2003-2009 (total: 185B)
    Took over power in 5 years, we can’t see much of the nation progress. How did you spend 185B in such a short period??
    Please elaborate and give details explanation.
    The rakyats are waiting the truth from your mouth especially Tun Abdullah??

  136. Salam Tun.
    Majority of Malaysians (including UMNO members) want ex-PM Pak Dol’s son-in-law OUT. UMNO will never get the majority support from Malays if Najib continue to keep the country’s top liability, in fact people want to see Pak Dol’s 4th floor crooks brought to court, especially KJ.
    The manner and frequency that Tun blasted at ex-PM Dol and his morons all without reply from them proved their guilt, or else the corrupted KJ {as told by UMNO disciplinary committee) will definitely ensure Tun in court for making all those statements.

  137. Assalamualaikum dearest Tun,
    I may not be an expert on how and where the money was spent by the Government. So, to comment on this would just be blind assumption. However, as a former PM, do you know if there’s any way the information on Government spending can be made public? Don’t the Auditor General have some sort of financial statements to show such spending?

  138. ASLMKUM YABHG TUN N TUN. SEMOGA SENTIASA DLAM KEREDHAAN ALLAH SWT.
    SINCE YESTERDAY (3/7), I’VE BEEN WAITING FOR SOMEBODY WHO KNOWS ABT GOVET FINANCES TO RESPOND TO YR POSTING ON THE RM 254 BILLION USAGE OVR 5 YRS. BUT NONE HAS APPEARED. AS A RETIRED ACADEMICIAN, I DON’T HAVE ANY INSIDE INFO THAT CAN HIGHLIGHT THE USAGE OF SUCH HEFTY AMOUNT.
    HOWEVER,I WISH TO TAKE STOCK THAT SUCH IMMENSE WEALTH GIVEN TO MALAYSIANS ARE ‘NOT’ DIRECTLY THE RESULT OF HARD WORK BY MALAYSIANS ( WITHOUT INTENDING TO BELITTLE THE MAGNIFICENT EFFORTS OF PETRONAS), BUT ARE THE RESULTS OF RESOURCES ‘ENDOWED’ BY THE GRACE OF THE ALMIGHTY, ALLAH SWT. SUCH HAS BEEN THE CONTINUOUS AVAILABILITY OF ‘ENDOWED’ RESOURCES AND GIVEN WITH THE CORRECT BLEND OF LEADERS AND PEOPLES AT ALL LEVELS, MALAYSIA HAS ENJOYED SUCH HIGH STANDARDS OF LIVING COMPARABLE TO NONE.
    WITH RESPECT TO PETROLEUM RESOURCES, THERE IS A COMMENT. IT’S NOT DIFFICULT TO FIND OIL. YOU JUST HAVE HAVE TO KNOW WHERE THERE ARE MUSLIM COUNTRIES, THERE YOU CAN FIND OIL! THE POINT, HOWEVER, IS THAT NOT ALL MUSLIM COUNTRIES, WHETHER THEY ARE RICH OR POOR COUNTRIES, KNOW HOW TO MANAGE THESE INSTANT RICHES.
    MORE OFTEN THAN NAUGHT, THE GROUP IN POWER OF THESE MUSLIM COUNTRIES, BE THEY THE POLITICIANS, THE ROYAL FAMILIES, THE MILITARY AND ALL THEIR HANGERS ON, USE THE OIL MONEY NOT FOR THE COMMON GOOD OF THE PEOPLE BUT ENDED UP IN OSTENTATIOUS DISPLAY OF LUXURIOUS PERSONAL CONSUMPTIOUS LIVING,THE PURCHASE OF MILITARY MIGHT FROM NON-MUSLIM COUNTRIES FOR THE PURPOSE, AND INSIGNIFICANT AMOUNT ALLOTED FOR THE PEOPLES OVERALL.
    CERTAINLY, 254 BILLION OVER 5 YEARS IS NO SMALL AMOUNT. I HOPE, TUN THROUGH YOUR GOOD OFFICE, THERE SHOULD AN INTERNATIONAL STUDY OF HOW MUSLIM COUNTRIES MANAGE THE RICHES AND HOW IT SHOULD BE SPENT. ALLAH GIVETH AND ALLAH TAKETH IT AWAY. WHAT HAPPENS THEN? WE SHOULD REMIND MUSLIM LEADERS AT THE HIGHEST LEVELS OF THEIR COMMITMENT, AMANAH AND RESPONSIBILITY TO ALLAH. LET MALAYSIA BE A WORLD MUSLIM LEADER IN SHOWING HOW TO BE RESPONSIBLE MUSLIM COUNTRIES.
    FOR THOSE WHO OFFER THANKS (SYUKUR) TO ALLAH, ALLAH WILL MULTIPLY HIS BOUNTY. WASSALAM

  139. Salam,
    Tun kata:
    I am sure the Government had spent the money wisely. It would be interesting to know what the RM253.6 billion was spent on.
    Pandangan saya:
    Saya percaya semua rakyat biasa mahu tahu penggunaan wang RM253.6billon ini, harta pusaka Tanahair Malaysia yang diamanahkan kepada kerajaan BNasional.
    1.KEPADA TUN:
    Saya memohon Tun dedahkan jika ada penyelewengan berlaku. Saya dan kebanyakkan orang Melayu lebih pentingkan kelanGsungan kekuatan Melayu. Saya redha UMNO hancur dari orang Melayu beragama Islam yang hancur. Kalau PAS boleh tunjukkan depa lebih baik dari UMNO memajukan orang Melayu, sudah KEPASTIAN orang Melayu akan bersatu bersama PAS. UMNO cuma parti sahaja. MELAYU ITU LEBIH PENTING!
    2.KEPADA PM DATO SERI NAJIB TUN RAZAK:
    Saya setuju dengan pandangan Presiden PAS bahawa hasrat kerajaan mengamalkan meritokrasi untuk Biasiswa Nasional anjuran JPA tidak adil pada prinsipnya. Sungguhnpun pun Dato Najib dah terangkan berkaitan perlaksanaan meritokrasi utntuk biasiswa dan liberasi ekonomi tidak akan menggangu hak Melayu, saya masih tak jelas dan bimbang nasib orang Melayu. Jangan cuba nak dapat undi yang tak pasti di kalangan bukan Melayu,sehingga terlupa orang Melayu sendiri sehingga depa merajuk pi kat PAS.
    Seperkara lagi saya baca kat Internet berkaitan kekecohan Lembaga Pengarah Petronas terhadap CADANGAN lantikan seorang muda yang kurang dikenali di kalangan RAKYAT mALAYSIA. Jika Dato Najib yakin beliau layak dari segi meritokrasi antara kalangan orang Melayu umtuk ke Lemabaga Pengarah, saya sokong., Jika tidak carilah orang lain. PETRONAS adalah satu2nya lambang kemegahan kebolehan orang Melayu peringkat antarabangsa sehingga tersenarai Fortune 500. Serahkan lah kepada PETRONAS tentukan siapa lebih layak. Depa lebih berpengalaman.
    Jangan ulangi kesilapan Tun Abdullah Ahmad Badawi(Pak Lah) yang jatuh di sebabkan terlalu ikut kehendak/kata2 orang2 sekeliling nya. Setiap orang yang naik bukan melalui prosedur yang betul akan meyebabkan ketidakpuasan hati ramai pihak dan ini berjangkit2 ke pihak2 lain sehingga kepada rakyat! Ingatlah PRU12!
    3.Kepada PAS:
    Walaupun saya ahli tegar UMNO, jika PAS boleh buktikan lebih baik dari UMNO,maka PAS yang saya akan undi dan beri sokokngan sepenuhnya. La ni PAS Kedah dah mula tunjuk kebaikan dan kekuatan PAS seperti UMNO lama(bukan Semangat 46)- UMNO yang arwah ayah saya dan arwah2 lain adalah ahli biasa yang di “pass” kan kepada kita semua sekarang ni tapi tak disambut oleh orang PAS.
    (Nota: Saya tak sokong PAS Kelantan dan PAS Perak kerana depa lagi lembik dari UMNO. Tetapi pemimpin PAS Kelantan dan Perak kasar sesama Islam di Malaysia tetapi lemah lembut dan sopan santun dengan orang kafir).
    PAS Kelantan dan Perak, belajar lah kat PAS Kedah cara tarik perhatian orang Melayu. Cara berhikmah. Kawan2 saya dilkalangan UMNO dan tak berparti yang lain di Kedah pun diam2 mengakui pemimpin PAS Kedah (ya Kedah saja!)lebih baik dan dari UMNO. Pemimpin PAS Kedah jangan perasan terlebih, bimbang “takbur” pula. Pemimpin UMNO Kedah kena bersaing secara sihat untuk menawan hati rakyat supaya boleh menang PRU13 nanti. Berubahlah kepada pemimpin lebih baik, InsyaAllah UMNO ada peluang menang.
    Masalah pokok UMNO seprti kata Tun ialah RASUAH,Jika rasuah tiada ,InsyaAllah banyak amalan yang buruk dalam UMNO akan hilang. Suci bersih seperti awal penubuhan UMNO. Nampak gaya PAS Kedah dah mula ke arah tu! Allah telah bagi peluang kat hang pa PAS Kedah, gunakan lah peluang untuk memerintah dengan baik. InsyaAllah, hang pa akan terus maju ke hadapan. Orang Melayu menghargai persaingan sihat antara UMNO dan PAS. Masing2 berlumba2 melakukan kebajikan dan kebaikan lain. Salin tegur menegur demi kebaikan ummah untuk mecapai keredhaan Allah Ta’ala Yang Maha Esa. Siapa lebih baik, maka dia lah kita sokong. Ikut siapa lebih benar.

  140. Salam Bahagia Dear Tun M,
    Kami harap PETRONAS ditadbir olih orang yang amanah dan berpengetahuan dalam Explorasi & Pengeluran minyak dan gas,dan Petrochem, berterusan sebagai syarikat berdaya saing dan tidak diganggu olih kerajaan dalam urusan perniagaan nya. Kita tak mahu menjadi PERTAMINA walaupun PETRONAS pada peringkat awal penubuhan nya mendapat nasihat PERTAMINA.

  141. Ayahanda,
    Izinkan I sampai mesej ini kepada Geng2 CELEBRITY atau LEGEND kita:-
    Jangan main-main (don’t play play) dengan RUKUN NEGARA ini:-
    Geng A: DS Nazri Mohamad (Ketua MACC) dan TS Koh Tsu Khoon (Ketua KPI):-
    No. 4 – Kedaulatan Undang-Undang
    Geng B: Ahli2 Politik Tanahair Kita
    No. 3 – Keluhuran Perlembagaan
    Malaysia kini di tahap REMAJA, very REBELLIOUS and have their own thinking, and CHINA masih lagi di tahap Budak lagi, k!
    Good day Ayahanda.

  142. The bulk of Petronas’ income tax goes back to pay the petrol subsidy. If this subsidy is removed, then the government can free up billions to be used for other things, such as giving Rm5000 to each Malaysian.
    Azlan
    KL

  143. As’kum Tun
    Well looking at all those development done during your years (with petronas money) and compare to development done after you left (with huge amount of money received from Petronas), its uncomparable Sir. Something seems not right.
    Who is the Shark Sir? Can you tell us what is wrong? Not only you can keep advicing the current government but you also point us who the SHARK is……and why is He/She still on the lose?
    There goes our vision 2020……..
    Salam Tun

  144. Assalamualaikum ayahnda Tun,
    I as a Rakyat and tax payor and Petronas Patronage, who has also contributed towards the success of PETRONAS would love to know How was the BN government has Belanja all the money??
    May be the Ministry of Finance could share with us since we the Rakyat would not be able to attend the Parliament to ask the Minister himself.
    Since the Government has promise to be more `telus’ and `berjiwa rakyat’… please listen to the grass root so that Rakyat wouldn’t be listening to the PKR bullshit anymore!

  145. Salam Tun Dr M & Tun CT..Semoga Ayahanda dan Bonda untuk seluruh warga Malaysia ini berada dlm keadaan sihat-sihat selalu..
    Saya telah mengikuti chedet blog ini sejak dari tulisan awal lagi, rasanya belum pernah tertinggal walau satu topik, sbg seorang generasi muda yang lahir pada tahun yang sama Tun dilantik PM (1981), saya mengakui sepenuhnya yang saya adalah salah satu produk terhasil dari zaman pemerintahan Tun Dr M, zaman keagungan Malaysia..akan tetapi sebelum ini, saya tidak pernah berasa terpanggil untuk memberikan komen.. Hari ini, apabila angka-angka dipamerkan dan didedahkan, saya sgt teruja untuk berkata sesuatu, mungkin boleh dikategorikan sebagai sebahagian suara yang datang dari minda generasi muda, untuk sama-sama direnungkan..
    Apa yang mengejutkan saya ialah apabila melihatkan total pendapatan kerajaan yg disumbangkan oleh Petronas pada zaman pemerintahan bekas PM Flip Flop Pak Lah walaupun singkat, adalah jauh melebihi dari yang diterima oleh pemerintahan Tun Dr M.. Seingat saya, dari fakta yang pernah saya baca, Petronas biasanya menyumbang sekurang-kurangnya 30% daripada jumlah keseluruhan pendapatan Kerajaan..Jika sumbangan Petronas semakin banyak, maka secara kiraan yang mudah dan berkadar terus, pendapatan kerajaan semestinya menjadi lebih besar dan selesa untuk memacu Malaysia ke arah yang lebih mapan dan progresif. Kita sepatutnya boleh menyaksikan keajaiban demi keajaiban sebagaimana yang berlaku sebelumnya..Akan tetapi, apa yang berlaku sepanjang 2003-2008 seolah-olah menunjukkan Malaysia ketandusan segalanya, di mana-mana pun, keadaan seolah-olah statik, baik dari segi pembangunan fizikal, atau kredibiliti/kebolehan rakyatnya, serta penjenamaan Malaysia di mata dunia..Media memberitahu dan rakyat Malaysia hanya diwarwarkan dengan Projek-projek Koridor yng saya sendiri pun tidak pasti akan signifikan dan kewujudannya, selain modal insan yang dicanang dimana-mana, selain Islam Hadhari yang hanya mengelirukan.. Tempoh ini walaupun mungkin telah berlalu, sebenarnya amatlah merugikan Malaysia, negara yang telah dipacu di atas landasan yang betul dengan kelajuan yang sangat selesa sebelumnya. Saya sangatlah berharap agar Malaysia tidak lagi dikurniakan Pemimpin yang lembab seperti Pak Lah, dengan status negara Separa maju, hampir ke arah negara maju, kita tidak sepatutnya melantik Pemimpin yang mempunyai minda kelas ketiga sebegini, beliau sebenarnya hanya layak menjadi Pegawai Daerah sebagai jawatan tertinggi baginya..Mungkin kemenangan besar pilihanraya 2004, menjadikannya beliau ‘besar kepala’, tidak mengendahkan pendapat orang lain, lebih teruk lagi membantutkan projek-projek yang sepatutnya diteruskan dari zaman Tun Dr M, selain peranan yang dimainkan oleh menantunya yang gila kuasa, gelojoh dan mentah itu..
    Jika kehancuran berlaku kepada sebahagian kecil puak sendiri tidak mengapa, tetapi ini melibatkan lebih 27 juta rakyat Malaysia, selain maruah dan identiti kita di mata dunia terjejas teruk..Bagi saya, tempoh 2003-2008 adalah mimpi ngeri yang tidak ingin untuk diulangi.. Melalui perbualan di kedai kopi, sebelumnya ramai yang berpendapat, Mahathir banyak meninggalkan hutang akibat perbelanjaan yang boros pada zamannya, menyebabkan Pak Lah betul-betul tertekan semasa mengambil alih tampuk, disebabkan itulah banyak projek-projek dibekukan/diberhentikan pelaksanaannya, ramai yang bersetuju di awalnya, tapi jika dinilai semula sekarang ini, persepsi ini sama sekali salah..Pembangunan prasana yang dibina Dr M untuk Malaysia adalah idea perniagaan yang sofistikated dan bijak serta langkah yang futuristik sebenarnya.Syabas Dr M..Tambahan pula, dengan pendedahan angka ini (sumbangan Petronas), membuktikan wujudnya penyelewengan yang besar sepanjang tempoh 2003-2008.Ke mana wang tersebut telah pergi, mungkin salah satunya ke dalam kocek kroni-kroni tertentu yang membolehkan jawatan Ketua Pemuda berpihak kepada yang asalnya mendapat undi minoriti..Maklumlah, yang seorang ni, bercita-cita untuk menjadi Perdana Menteri termuda..
    Apapun, di era najib, saya sgt berharap supaya elemen-elemen Mahathirism diterapkan semula, kerana inilah antara acuan dasar yang memberi kegemilangan mutlak kepada kita. Saya berharap kepimpinan baru ini betul-betul ikhlas memperjuangkan bangsa, agama dan negara..janga diulangi kesilapan pemimpin-pemimpin yang bodoh sombong sebelumnya..dan janganlah menjadi bodoh sombong untuk tidak mengambil pendapat orang yang berpengalaman sebelumnya, yang masih berada di depan mata dan jauh sekali nyanyukpun..Janganlah hanya menghargai setelah kita kehilangan..
    Harapan saya untuk negara tercinta ini, yang masa depan nya terpikul di bahu barisan kepimpinan, jangan lah bermenung lagi,jangan ada rasa ingin leka di atas, perbaiki lah kerosakan dengan segera dan teruskan pelayaran yang sekian lama terhenti..Malaysia, majulah!!! majulah Satu Malaysia..

  146. assalaimulaikum Tun,
    i do not want to be such a sarcastic person and we know there have been a lot of corruptions happened in 2003-2009..
    so i dont need to think where does the money go..
    my question is:-where RM168.8 billion was spent in 22 years period??
    i would be glad if you reply to me personally to my email..
    love you..
    bye..
    [email protected]…..

  147. Tun,
    1)Would you think the citizens of this country would have the privilege, never mind about the right, to know the truth on how it is being spent?I have doubts the truth is ever going to be reviewed.
    2)For the last six years,Petronas paid RM253.6 billion to the Federal government which was led by your successor.
    3)I cannot imagine for one moment that it is wisely spent and it is depending on the speaker and the tpye of audience.
    4)A minister in the PM’s dept would probably be tasked to give a statement.I just cannot understand that minister is still holding that important portfolio when he is alleged to mess up the forex matter.
    5)There is no noticeable mega projects during the last years and it is no small sum which has nine zeros before the numbers.
    6)I have one thing to say to the people who had a hand in it that robbing the nation’s wealth and enriching one’s pockets to feed one’s family is not good.

  148. Good thought….. I just love the way you put your words such as ‘It would be interesting to know what the RM253.6 billion was spent on’. Maybe we need some ‘Alfred Hitchcock’ between us to solve the mysteries behind it. Mind you, RM253.6 billion is very hard to count.If you spend RM10,000 (eating gold and diamonds) a day for 365 days(a year)for 100 years (you need to live until that age) would only come up with 365 million..

  149. Assalaamu’alaikum Tun & Family,
    WAAH BANYAK TU.. CEK PUN NAK TAU JUGAK..
    THE RAKYAT WERE BEING TOLD THAT MALAYSIA WAS LEFT WITH NO MONEY WHEN TUN LEFT OFFICE, BUT IT DOESN’T SEEM TO BE SO FROM THE WAY IT LOOKS. I WONDER IF WE WERE MADE TO LOOK LIKE FOOLS..
    Tun please take good care of urself and Tun Hasmah..

  150. Tun,
    Interesting data.You must have insider report.But this information would be published in their annual audited report as well for the public to read.Govt has national expenditure to take care of too– a lot of it.I see pockets of poverty in all states particularly in the northern states like Perlis Kedah ,Perak even in the outskirts of smaller towns,even industrialised Penang with MNCs there,Kelantan & Trengganu not to mention resource-rich east Malaysian states.What is worrying to most Malaysians is not just seeing pockets of poverty & hardship here & there but that the income gap or gap bet Rich & Poor is widening after so many yrs of Independence.That is really amazing!!!
    RT

  151. Dear Tun Dr Mahathir,
    For this, PAK LAH definitely has to answer and present to RAKYAT what and how much has the government (during his tenure) for the last 5 years spent approximately 253 billion (if he can??????)
    I am sure that he can listed down every single money spent or vice versa. COme on, he is the former finance minister. Don’t tell me the majority was spent on WPI or his pet project at Terengganu (with patrick ong, kamaluddin and KJ).
    Under his 5 years tenure, i can’t see any damn thing happened to secure our economy for the betterment. Now, Dato Sri Najib has to get us out from this ecomomic turndown. Kesian Najib. Apa boleh buat, NASIB BADAN!!!!
    As for you PAK LAH, next time don’t sleep during meeting, seminar, etc. etc. etc. Tapi tu lah, nak buat apa. Kalau ANAK MENANTU DAN HANTU dah sapu licin duit. Next time, ikutilah gaya TUN DR. MAHATHIR.
    Sarcastic, sarcastic jugak, RAKYAT TETAP TERBELA!!!!

  152. YBhg Tun
    For no apparent reason I remember the missing Tsunami fund (more than RM 1m). We were told in an off the cuff manner that the money had been distributed to various govt. agencies. There was no investigation – nothing! zilch! nada!

  153. Asalamualaikum…mak aiiih cenggininyer banyak duit era pak dol kata ‘kera’jaan takde duit…mak aiiih….kaler di urus dgn bijak tentu duit tu makin bertambah….phewwwwwwww…..

  154. Salam sejahtera Tun sekeluarga yang dikasihi, juga semua pejuang Che Det.
    Bravo!Sudah terang lagi tersuluh.Ini semua kerja pasukan orang warak yang mencari rahsia kitab suci dan Al Ghazali.Musim depan pasukan bolasepak MyTeam sudah hilang kemampuan kewangannya.Sekarang pun sudah ‘broke’.Ini namanya pembangunan modal insan, tidak perlu infrasruktur atau pembangunan fizikal yang cuma membazirkan saja.Pembangunan modal insan ini memang tinggi kosnya,silap-silap negara boleh tergadai.Zaid Ibrahim adalah satu daripada contoh modal insan tersebut.Hampir kesemua pondok menunggu bas di sekitar Kuala Lumpur dirobohkan dan digantikan dengan yang berkonsep baru, walaupun yang dirobohkan itu tidak ada cacat celanya dan bumbungnya berkonsepkan keMelayuan.Walaupun tidak berkonsep Melayu masih dapat diterima,memandangkan sekarang ini kita berkonsepkan SATU MALAYSIA yang mana rakyat didahulukan.Tapi soalnya disini kenapa pondok bas yang utuh itu dirobohkan dan tidak diganti-ganti lagi,sudah berbulan-bulan lamanya.Saya maksudkan pondok bas di depan Wisma Indah yang bersimpangan dengan Jalan Peel.Pejabat UMNO Cheras terletak di Jalan Peel.Terdapat satu pondok bas baru dekat dengan pejabat UMNO itu yang mana baru-baru ini Utusan Malaysia ada melaporkan aduan penduduk di situ mengenai perkhidmatan bas RapidKL yang tidak lagi melalui jalan itu.Jalan yang ramai orang menunggu bas pondok basnya cuma tinggal lantai, sementara yang bas tidak lalu pondok basnya cantik.Ini pembangunan yang bukan saja rakyat didahulukan tetapi juga RAKYAT DIBUAHULUKAN.Perkara sebegini amat menyakiti hati rakyat, jangan anggap ianya enteng.Sepanjang hayat memangkah kerajaan ini, tetapi tiada yang ambil berat akan hal-hal sebegini.Kami rakyat kecil yang amat memerlukan pondok bas kecil ini,agar dapat kami duduk menunggu bas RapidKL yang adalah menjadi perkara biasa bagi kami bila bas yang ditunggu tak kunjung tiba.Luahan rasa di ruang Che Det ini amat mujarab untuk mengurangkan stress saya.Harap yang membaca faham.Terima kasih Tun yang dikasihi.

  155. ‘COLD WAR’: USA VS EUROPE
    I can assure the moderator that this is a related subject, given Dr.M

  156. salam
    i really think that we need to preserve petronas’s wealth. That state owned co is bleeding especially petronas carigali. Development cost for E&P activities just too high and with current price, none of the relevant oil & gas co can sustain. The budget is around RM12 bil only for 2009. Well no bonus for you guys there but somehow, Najib and the gang trying to touch petronas’s coffer. Najib is useless and Tun, you should be in the helm to rectify all the wrongdoings. We support you.

  157. ..suku sakat 11 dan 12, jangan lompat, sila terangkan dulu..
    beli rumah, rumah tak siap tapi janji saja sepanjang masa.

  158. Assalammualaikum Tok Det
    RM253.6 IN 6 YEARS??? BANYAK TUUUUUUU!!!
    1. GLC lain tak menyumbang ke? TNB, TELEKOM, POS, PLUS, dll?
    2. Pendapatan Cukai – LHDN, Kastam, Imigresen, KDN, JPJ, dll?
    3. Cukai tanah dan galian? Tol???
    4. Berapa pendapatan negara selepas 2003?
    5. Berapa pula perbelanjaan selepas 2003?
    6. Kalau duit banyak kenapa ada perbelanjaan defisit?
    7. Mungkin banyak government bail-out kroni, anak, menantu kot?
    8. Banyak pembaziran ke? Monsoon Cup? Corridor? Masjid Kristal? kapal selam? kapal layar?
    9. Mungkin belanja kempen pilihanraya burst kot.
    10. Mungkinkah dah digunakan dalam rasuah politik wang?
    KEMANA PERGI DUIT INI SEMUA?
    KALAU BANYAK DUIT PASAL RAKYAT TERUS DIHIMPIT?
    KERAJAAN BERMEWAH TETAPI RAKYAT KENA IKAT PERUT?
    KERAJAAN MEMBAZIR TETAPI RAKYAT KE BERJIMAT?
    KENAPA MINYAK, GAS, BIL LETRIK/AIR, TOL SEMUA NAK NAIK?
    KENAPA BELANJA MELANJUTKAN PELAJARAN SEMAKIN MAHAL?
    KENAPA SEMUANYA NAK NAIK?
    JADI MEMANG PATUTPUN SEKARANG ORANG KATA BN = BARANG NAIK!!!
    Macam ada yang tak kena dalam pengurusan dana negara. SPRM diminta jalankan tugas dengan BERSIH, CEKAP, AMANAH.
    PEMBELA
    http://pembelamelayu2009.wordpress.com/

  159. Assalamualikum Ayahnda Tun n Bonda,
    please allow me, again…
    during your tenure, we could see the projects that had been carried out and things still stand high for us to see – penang bridge, improvement of north south and east-west highways, the twin towers, putrajaya, sepang circuit, klia, development of many islands in Malaysian waters and the federal regions – so many things that you have done and we would like to see the legacies well cared for as these cannot be built at a wink…
    i wonder, too, what is new besides all that have been there. blurrr…
    May Allah bless you, Ayahnda n Bonda.
    wassalam.
    just my brain wave…

  160. ******************************************************************
    For 22 years of services..Malaysia once proudly declared to the World that We had The World Tallest “Twin-Tower” Building on the map of the World….even just for a total collection of M168.8B…making it well-known till todate around the world until Well-known Hollywood came to film it…like a poorly kampong..in the Concrete Jungle..!
    For merely 6 years of hard-services,Malaysia proudly collected under new slogan of Tranparency-Integrity..all-none-work-easy-come-money amazingly collected more than any corporation in the world amounting to RM253.6B..within just a period of 6 years,unfortunately..Malaysia still see nothing…in our beloved homeland..except for half-way-no- cause-bridge..,more rewards for retired old-men & mysterious mongolgirl.disppearing pi! May God Bless Malaysia….!
    ******************************************************************

  161. Assalamualaikum Ayahnda Tun n Bonda,
    please allow me,
    i dont know about other people but i am a loyal user brand of petronas. i dont fancy fuel from other foreign oil companies and i help my country by buying our own petronas oil. that’s the least i can do for my beloved country, Malaysia. i am also helping my students to realize all the benefits they get from this country – health facilities ever since they were born till their death, education that is almost free and of course many other things they cannot get easily elsewhere…
    another thing, my girl is studying under petronas n i think part of the money is being used to sponsor many brilliant students to study locally n overseas. the rest may have been allocated to many other areas which i believe have helped many people directly n indirectly but as usual, those who are ungrateful towards mankind and Allah SWT will always be scornful and think that they never get the benefit from it.
    i dont want to go at lengthy. i just hope that my children n students will be successful and work honestly to give back to their nation, InsyaAllah. if they get positive supports from their families and surrounding, they will become better…
    always be grateful and the best will come back to us. no point playing hatred game n become emotional at every thing. Ayahnda Tun put up these figures for us to reflect our insight. we will be able to see some people turn jerky when comes to $$$$$….
    May AllahSWT bless you Ayahnda n Bonda and the grateful visitors…
    Wassalam.
    just my brain wave…

  162. Tun, dulu nak buat sekolah harganya sekitar RM500/sqm..sekarang dah lebih seribu..jadi kalau nak bandingkan, zaman tun mungkin nilainya lebih 300 juta..come on lah Tun pleaselah…dah la tu, nanti orang ungkit Tun pnya hal pulak..mungkin kalu saya jadi PM baru ok kot!

  163. Dulu harga proton RM16k..sekarang dah berapa?? cukup-cukuplah nak aibkan Abdullah Badawi, dah basi..biarlah dia hidup dgn senang hati..

  164. Dear Tun,
    Petronas has to pay for “everything” in my sheepish version while I still have incometax baggage of .00006 b for real since 1982(personal, with which I believed went into real building of this nation). Wonder why I did’nt leave it to them to pay for my portion…so much for akidah..ever feel great walking under KLCC? Unbelievely Mr Chairman.Lets try again before the wells dries out..sooner than expected.

  165. Assalamualaikum Tun.
    Data pendapatan kerajaan daripada petronas untuk 6 tahun yang terkini adalah 1.5X daridapa pendapatan dalam masa 22 tahun; era pemerintahan Tun. Yaaa Allah, ke manakah hilangnya wang sebanyak ini? tambahan pulak, ini hanya dari satu sumber. Kita perlu tanya; Mana kutipan road tax, pendapatan duit minyak pada masa 1 lt = RM2.70 tapi pasaran dunia jatuh bawah; 1lt = RM2 and all the income tax.
    Kerajaan boleh menyelasaikan banyak projects seperti LRT dari damansara-Subang-Rawang yang plan masih lagi plan. Jambatan kedua Pulau Pinang, Jambatan dimensi bengkok kat johor, beli PLUS higway, fix one price=rakyat happy boleh stop toll naik setiap tahun walaupun jumlah kenderaan naik berlipak ganda. Nak tunggu Mohd Nor siap plan, sampai ketua laaaa…
    Tun; Munkin bagi kat Terengganu, bina Taman Islam; Tak lama lagi akan di litupi lalang, Bina Stadium; Runtuh kedubooom, La ini nak bagi Notebook;tak tahu berapa harga sebuah, kalau rosak pi mana baiki, Objective celik jadi celak pulak. Memang baik bagi notebook tapi kenalah pastikan menafaat pada rakyat. Nanti adalak kaki nak jual notebook ini 1/2 price. Tak apalah janji rakyat terenganu dapat merasa……daripada pemimpin sapu 100%.
    Munkin juga belanja untuk meransang ekonomi… Tapi tak nampak apa-apa yang naik…Ini nak ada pakage #3 pulak.
    Macam macam laa Tun; Duit senang dapat…
    Tun yang perpengalaman sebagai PM selama 22 tahun, Saya rasa Tun tahu kemana hilangnya semua wang ini. Tapi saja, Tun tak nak malukan kerajaan pimpinan BN selepas Tun.
    Rakayt dapat melihat kemana hilangnya Pendapatan dalam era pimpinan Tun. Ada Petronas Tower, F1 Sepang, KLIA, Proton, Putra Jaya,Cyber Jaya,Putra-LRT-Monorail-KTM System dan lain-lain lagi. Dulu adalah segelintir rakyat malaysia (termasuk Saya) mengatakan yang Tun boros hingga habiskan duit KWSP, Petronas and pendapatan negara. Ampun Tun, masa muda itu kurang celik..he he he.
    Tapi saya sedar betapa pentingnys semua yang dinyatakan di atas and bagaimana all of them bawa kemakmuran pada negara.
    Harap kerajaan bagi tau apa buat dengan duit.. yaaaa nak tunggu tubuh suruhanjaya, lepas itu buat decision nak umum pada UMUM, lepa itu gaduh siapa komplot..
    Semua ini menyebabkan orang melayu berpecah and tidak dapat respect as majority.
    Semoga BN ubah secepat yang boleh..
    Wassalam

  166. Tun,
    67.8 BILLION in 2009!
    WOW! that was a huge amount.
    ***But I don’t see a major declaration by the petronas itself. Or
    perhaps all electronic media has been told by the government not to over exposed their income from petronas.
    Jikalau duit banyak tetapi tidak tahu akan kepentingan berbelanja apa gunanya.
    Izinkan saya menyentuh isu tentang kenaikan harga barang makanan yang masih tidak lagi turun harganya.
    Sudah terang dan lagi nyata, pengeluar dan pemborong masih lagi memberikan alasan yang sama.
    Tidak nampak akan keperihatinan kerajaan bagaimana hendak menangani masalah ini.
    Rakyat sekarang tidak memandang sumbangan kerajaan terhadap projek mega sahaja.
    Buat apa dibazirkan wang yang banyak untuk membina jambatan yang tak PROFITABLE? Bagi saya jambatan yang membawa keuntungan hanyalah jambatan yg bakal menggantikan tambak johor sahaja.
    Apakah penting bagi kerajaan membuang lebih RM6 billion hanya untuk sebuah jambatan?
    Bagi saya adalah lebih penting hanya RM1 Billion dibuang bagi mencari jalan dan menyelesaikan masalah barang keperluan makanan rakyat yang tidak turun harganya!
    Dimana langkah kerajaan untuk mengatasi masalah ini?
    Baru-baru ini rakyat sekali lagi dikejutkan dengan masalah kenaikan harga ayam. Alasan yang diberikan adalah Harga jagung impot yang terlalu tinggi.
    Di Malaysia ini ada ke tidak syarikat yang menanam ‘Field Corn’? Yang saya dengar, ada satu syarikat Bumiputera yang sedang dalam proses untuk menanam field corn ini di Mukah, Sarawak.
    Soalnya, ada ke tidak kerajaan membantu pengusaha ini bagi menjayakan projek penanaman field corn ini.
    Tun,
    Untuk pengetahuan, harga yang telah diselaras dan dipersetujui oleh ahli lembaga pengarah syarikat ini buat masa ini adalah sekitar RM750 satu tan.
    Harga satu tan RM750 ini adalah jauh lebih murah berbanding harga jagung impot sekitar RM900 hingga RM1300 satu tan.
    Saya yakin, ramai penternak yang berminat untuk mendapatkan jagung ini setelah bermulanya projek jagung ini.
    Tetapi, Saya ada dimaklumkan oleh seorang pengarah syarikat ini, bahawa status tanah pertanian ini masih lagi menunggu untuk mendapatkan kelulusan pihak kerajaan.
    Hai.. entahlah apa nak jadi dengan nasib kami ini.
    Yang kami lihat dari masa ke semasa hanyalah pertelingkahan YANG BERHORMAT di Parlimen. Masing-masing hanya hendak berlaga menjatuhkan masing-masing, baik dari pihak BN atau pakatan rakyat sendiri.
    Kemudian, ternampak pula ada setengah pihak yang melobi bagi mendapatkan kontrek projek mega bagi mengisi poket sendiri. Rakyat pula hanya melihat dari jauh.
    Ya, jauh disudut hati kami, pilihan raya umum tetap kami nanti, semakin menghampiri. Bagi menyampaikan suara kami, sekali lagi!

  167. info yang bagus tun…namun sejauh mana negara malaysia dan kerajaan bersedia untuk tidak bergantung kepada petronas jika negara kehabisan minyak kelak? Apa komen tun pegenalan petrol ron95 di pasaran? Sejauh mana kerajaan mampu menjimatkan subsidi kelak? Akhir kata salam sejahtera untuk ayahanda tun serta keluarga..semoga terus sihat untuk memberi idea yang bernas untuk negara..

  168. Wow.. Such a big amount of money !!! it should be spend wisely for the benefit of the people . but,I m still wonder why such many roads or highway in East Malaysia like Sabah still in poor condition. Electricity supply is almost interrupted every weeks . So please both state and Federal govt take note the need and the requirement of the people in Sabah .

  169. Petronas delivered a lot of money. That’s why we are enjoying it now. If the money keeps coming, the country will continue to enjoy peace and stability. If not, we may have to think other way. Thank you for sharing the figures. They are not secret after all.
    Wassalam

  170. Assalamualaikum Tun,
    Is the current government looking into this matter? Don’t let opposition use this as points for the next coming election.
    Rakyat Didahulukan Pencapaian Diutamakan.
    http://www.feruddinemir.com

  171. salam Tun
    Memang pun saya tak faham kemana wang tersebut pergi. Saya masih ingat zaman gawat 1998. Saya terasa segala tindakan kerajaan sampaoi ke akar umbi. Oakej rangsangan dan juga kewangan pada zaman tersebut terasa begitu berkesan.
    Sekarang, MARA pu menghadapi msalah budget yg teruk. Yg peliknya tambahan pakej rangsangan sampai RM 60 bilion tak terasa apa pa pun.
    Saya rasa kita tak buat mcm dulu2. MTEN duduk hampir tiap2 hari. Saya pula masa tu kerja di bank terasa bagaimana peritnya bank negara mengejar maklumat dari pihak bank2. Ini menyebabkan bank2 terpaksa menghantar laporan setiap hari.
    Kerja keras mencari sektor yg berkesan jawapannya Tun!!!Bukan main tabur duit ikut jumlah.

  172. ASSALAMUALAIKUM AYAHANDA TUN…
    MELIHAT KEPADA KEMAJUAN DAN KEJAYAAN PETRONAS DARI TAHUN KE TAHUN,JELAS MENUNJUKAN PETRONAS AMAT BERJAYA DI TADBIR OLEH MEREKA YANG ADA PADA HARI INI. SEBAGAI ANAK MALAYSIA SAYA AMAT BANGGA DENGAN KEJAYAAN PETRONAS SERTA BERTERIMA KASIH KEPADA AYAHANDA TUN, PENGERUSI PETRONAS SERTA WARGA KERJA PETRONAS DI ATAS KEJAYAAN YANG MEMBANGGAKAN INI.
    SAYA SEBAGAI RAKYAT MALAYSIA,INGIN JUGA RASANYA NAK TAHU KE MANA PERGINYA WANG INI DI BELANJAKAN OLEH KERAJAAN. SEBAB DENGAN JUMLAH YANG BEGITU BESAR,SUDAH TENTU BANYAK YANG KERAJAAN BOLEH LAKUKAN.
    INGIN TAHU…
    W A S S A L A M…

  173. Show us the money. Or better show us how you spend. Monsoon Cup? Election expenses….etc

  174. Salam Tun
    Lah ni ala kira2 Ali Baba kah! 50 tahun dah kekayaan negara ditelan org2 besar UMNO begitu je…
    kes PKFZ dah sapu masuk kapet,lah nak kira pula hal petronas…
    BN memang gegasi usang! patut terima ajar di pilihanraya lepas dan juga akan datang.

  175. Salam Ybhg. Tun.
    Tak dapat saya nak bayangkan betapa banyak nya duit itu jika dikumpulkan…,
    Tak dapat juga saya bayangkan banyaknya pembaziran dilakukan…,
    Firman Allah… “Lain syakartum laaziidannakum, walain kafartum inna a’zaabi lasyadid”
    Mungkin masalah yang sedang kita hadapi sebahagian dari Azab-Nya.
    Wallahuaa’lam
    taxidriversmind.blogspot.com

  176. nak kata beli kerbau dak juga…beli kambing tak juga…isshh..kita pun pening.pakai otak jepun tak kira punya la banyak duit.kata nak buat jambatan bengkok tak buat duit simpan?buat titi pun dak.la ni kawan2 mai kita tanya gomen pula..tegolek kalu tak leh jawab.nasib baik tun habak semua ni.

  177. Dear Tun,
    One day the money will run out! Before that happens Petronas could and should supplement their already huge educational commitment with a Motorsport University
    This would meet many of Malaysia’s 2020 fully developed nation goals, and is an institution that would also raise Malaysia’s global profile considerably.
    Thanks for giving me a platform for expressing my views,
    John Mansfield

  178. To be fair dinkum on this one
    why not the estmeed tun provide the expenditure chart for yrs 1981 till 2004 and abdullah/najib govertment give the 2004 till 2009
    this way we can see general govt policy over the years..

  179. Salaam. Semoga anda terus dirahmati, diampuni dan dipelihara ALLAH dalam ketaatan kepada-Nya sepanjang hayat. Semoga sejahtera dunia dan akhirat. Dunia hanya persinggahan, persiapkan diri untuk akhirat yang kekal tiada penghujung. (^_^)

  180. Tun, pada pandangan saya kita masih belum menjadi negara yang matang. Dalam banyak hal ada sesetengah pemimpin mengutamakan kepentingan peribadi dari kepentingan negara. Kemahuan untuk menjadi pemimpin adalah semata-mata untuk kepentingan peribadi adalah amat tidak baik dan boleh merosakan negara. Sepatutnya kepentingan negara diutamakan dan kepentingan peribadi dikemudiankan. Kalau hendak sangat untuk kepentingan peribadi tunggulah sehingga benar-benar sudah berjaya. Ini baru jadi pemimpin pemikiran hanya keutamaan kepentingan peribadi dahulu dan negara dikemudiankan. Sejak akhir-akhir banyak isu berkaitan ketidak puas hatian beberapa pihak yang sebelum ini tidak pernah timbul semenjak negara ini mencapai kemerdekaan atau tertubuhnya Malaysia ini. Bila cakap pasal ketidak puasan hati ini sebenarnya semua orang boleh rasa tidak puas hati sama ada dia orang Melayu, Cina atau India. Mungkin rasa tidak puas hati timbul seperti terasa disisihkan, macam kerajaan tidak buat apa-apa untuk membantu dan sebagainya. Inilah yang terjadi sekarang bila ramai orang rasa tidak puas hati. Saya khuatir jika ia berterusan akan menyebabkan negara ini menjadi kucar kacir. Semua kaum ada survival masing-masing dalam negara ini itu sebabnya ada sekolah aliran bangsa tertentu, melalui pembacaan maklumat sehingga sekarang ini tiada sekolah jenis aliran ini dekat negara lain. Di selatan Thailand walaupun majoriti Melayu muslim mereka terpaksa mengikuti sekolah aliran Siam walaupun mereka berbahasa Melayu, di Indonesia jangan cakaplah dan Singapura yang dianggap negara contoh oleh sesetengah pihak langsung tiada sekolah jenis aliran ini. Tidak kah mereka tahu bahawa sekolah jenis aliran Kebangsaan ini tidak cukup sesuai untuk untuk membina negara bangsa. Berkenaan wang Petronas ini, semua orang mahu wang tidak hendak kerja pun mahu wang, duduk sahaja tanpa usaha pun mahu wang. Iyerlah yang kaya pun mahu wang untuk bertambah bergaya dan yang fakir miskin hendak wang untuk keperluan, biasalah tu wang..duit..wang. Kaum melayu pakai wang, kaum cina pakai wang dan lain-lain kaum pun pakai wang or money. Kalau tidak ada wang tidak lengkap boleh jadi gila. Lalu beberapa siputar mengunakan kepakaran menipu dan menyeleweng mendapatkan wang untuk anak bini dan cucu miut. Takpalah apa boleh buat hendak hidup selesa lagi bergaya. Bagaimana orang lain hendak juga hidup selesa dan bergaya lalu ramai lagilah terlahirnya siputar setiap lubang corong dan peluang digunakan sepenuhnya. Negara dan rakyat yang memerlukan? ah pandai-pandailah engkau. Yang bangsa you tu ingat-ingatlah sikit inilah hanya tanah air kita tiada lain selain ini jagalah ia tolonglah sesama kita dan bantulah sesama kita. Mujurlah ada tanah air ini itu pun kena kongsi kalau tidak jadilah kita seperti Selatan Thai atau selatan Filipina senang cakap macam Plastine. Jadi uruskan lah baik sumber alamnya hasilnya gunakan sebaik mungkin bukan untuk poket sendiri. Majukan negara, majukan bangsa moga berkekalan. Insyallah.

  181. Tun M
    a valid question – I’ve always wondered what the Govt. spends it’s allocated budget on…
    During your tenure, there was lots of modern infrastructure put in place. I am sure you believe a lot of that money that was spent on was for useful nation building projects. Then there was also to make up for any losses that Govt supported organisation incurred.
    Again, I wish we as Malaysians were given the freedom as well right as citizens to question and challenge the Govt of day how and why they intend to spend on a specific initiative.
    Unfortunately, there was a lot of stifling of voices when such matters were raised. And when answers came out, they were also a bit like “here you go, this is it…now shut up” kind of response.
    I guess you can only try your luck asking the Govt of day of what they spend all this revenue on…you might have more luck getting the answers than we did say 8 – 20 years ago…
    All the best sir!
    (Ravi)

  182. What ? RM 253B within 5 years !!! Siapa PM masa ni ya ? At least before 2004 we can see banyak pembangunan.
    Apalagi , tolong audit mana pergi nya RM253B ini pergi dan “dibelanjakan”.
    I believed all the tax payers and Malaysians want to know. All the MPs kindly table this issue during next session.
    Too Much !!!!!!

  183. Salam Bahagia Buat Tun Sekeluarga,
    Moga terus berusaha menegakkan kebenaran, janganlah biarkan negara ini dipimpin oleh yang mereka yang tiada berakhlak mulia lagi mengjelakkan (DSAI) umpamanya. Adakah konco-konconya telah menyelinap ke segenap sistem pemerintahan negara ini dan juga syarikat Gergasi seperti Petronas untuk meneruskan niat songsang lagi jahat beliau.
    Moga Allah yang maha berkuasa akan menyelamatkan kita hamba-hambanya yang masih dalam kesesatan dalam menemukan kebenaran…
    Wassalam

  184. Salam Tun,
    Well from 1981-2003 ,during your tenure any layman like me would be able to guess where the RM 168.8 billion being spent in 22 years.I agree with you that it would be interesting to know where the RM253.6 billion tu pi kat mana.

  185. salam,
    wow.. thats alot of money and grow exponentially since 2004.. thanks tun for sharing. it would be good if MOF can share too.. is it under osa..?
    fears the future of malaysia.. corruption also grow exponentially.. huh.. wonder why..?
    “kepimpinan melalui teladan”

  186. Dear Tun,
    The tone of your question sounds suspicious. There is nothing suspicious about payment by patronas to the government. It is income to the government just like income tax and all government revenues. It should show in the annual budget. We spend on salaries of school teachers, soldiers, building of schools and every thing that is in the annual expenditure which is passed through parliament agreed by wakil rakyat meaning the rakyat approves it.
    Unless payment by patronas to government is not considered revenue to the government, and the money is stacked away secretly some where. Members of parliament should ask this question.
    amin tan

  187. Yg Bhg Tun,
    Banyak nya jumlah petronas sumbangkan pada negara, kemanakah sumbangan tersebut itu pergi? masa zaman Tun ada juga hasil yang kita lihat contohnya pembangunan klia,menara petronas, putrajaya, lebuhraya,litar sepang dll…… selepas dan kini apa pembangunan yang kita dapat lihat?……..kalau bolah ada jawapannya.

  188. Hi Tun,
    Is true that being one of the top 5 most profitable companies in Asia , no doubt Petronas is making tonnes of money but yes, the mistery always remained over where the distribution or the spending of the billion ringgit? Bail out, corruption , spending unnecessary etc.We really need to have a crystal clear transparent system over this issue.Rakyat in Malaysia always in the dark and do not really understand where a country having Petronas that are making billion of profit and yet paying so high for the fuel that we consume for our car.I guess we also need to send a team to audit in order to avoid any hanky panky or deviation or abuse of power in Petronas.

  189. TUN.
    Ya lah kita nak tahu juga macam mana kerajaan belanjakan wang yang banyak itu. Dalam tahun2 itu semasa pemerintahan Pak Lah (TUN Lah) apa yang telah dia buat dengan duit sebanyak itu.
    Dia kata kerajaan tak ada duit selepas TUN bersara. Jambatan bengkok terpaksa di batalkan kerana dia kata kerajaan tak ada duit.
    Macam2 projek2 TUN dibatalkan dengan alasan kerajaan dah tak ada duit. Ya lah rakyat macam saya mana lah tahu rahsia duit kerajaan. Angguk saja lah kena temberang Pak Lah dan Menhantu nya.
    Tak nampak pun apa2 projek rakyat di bangunkan. Asyik hebuh dengan majlis pecah tanah projek2 koridor saja.
    Eluk lah Pak Lah memberi penjelasan tentang hal itu. Tok Ajib pun kena lah transparent juga jika ternampak yang tidak telus dalam pengurusan kewangan Pak Lah. Dan di penhujung2 kuasa nya ketika itu Tok Ajib pun dah di lantik sebagai menteri kewangan mestilah tau kemana duit itu telah di belanjakan.
    Semasa TUN selama 22 tahun hasil wang petronas lebih kurang tak sampai 200 bilion, namun pelbagai projek nampak didepan mata rakyat.
    Semasa Pak(TUN) Lah 5 tahun dapat 250 bilion tapi tak nampak amenda pun. Aneh juga kan.
    Entah lah saya pun kan faham sangat pasal kira2 wang kerajaan ni.
    Tak dapat apa benda pun walau banyak manapun hasil kekayaan negara dapat di pungut oleh kerajaan. Setiap tahun saya kena bayar juga cukai pendapatan.

  190. Tun,
    I believe your good friend and nemesis, Mr Anwar Ibrahim asked this same question before. Probably you have the same thought with him on how the govt since 2003 had spent the money?
    Let us know what’s your suspicious mind is telling you?
    Cheers,
    WONG.

  191. Salam buat Tun berdua moga diberkati Allah s.w.t.
    1)Minyak adalah salah satu anugerah daripada yang menciptakan dunia ini.Rimba Emas mengelarkan bahan ini(benda hitam digambarkan dalam al-Quran)sebagai perniagaan yang akan menguntungkan kepada sesiapa yang memilikinya.
    2)Sayangnya dari pemberian yang percuma oleh yang maha berkuasa impaknya telah mengesan terhadap ‘NILAI’yang sepatutnya keatas bahan ini.Ujian menunjukkan bahan ini tidak kekal dan kegunaannya meresap dengan begitu cepat sekali dan bergantung kepada jarak semaksima yang digunakan.
    3)Oleh kerana ia ialah makanan kepada benda..maka kita sangka ia tidak seteruk seperti makanan kepada manusia jika HARGANYA NAIK…
    4)Kita semua harus membuang sifat ‘SANGKAAN’ sebaliknya lebih ‘LOGIK’kerana kesannya boleh membawa mudarat dalam kehidupan kita sebagai manusia.
    5)Minyak..,Makanan Asasi,Tempat Tinggal adalah satu perkara yang perlu disatukan dengan ‘NILAI YANG SEBENARNYA DAN DIKAWAL DENGAN HARGA ASAS YANG AWALNYA DARI PERCUMA ATAU KOSONG’..sebabnya keuntungannya boleh diperolehi dari BILANGAN PEMBELI YANG RAMAI…
    6)Contohnya walau pun minyak itu berharga 0.02 sen tapi ia mampu membawa keuntungan disebabkan jumlah yang ‘Wajib’ mengunakan bahan ini berbillion umat manusia.Tengoklah setiap sen kenaikannya dapat mengkayakan pemilik yang memiliki secara individu…malah satu bebanan kepada penggunanya berbillion kilometer perhari..
    7)Tidakkah anda yang telah dimurahkan rezeki oleh yang maha berkuasa dengan tanggungjawab ini sanggup melihat segala sumbangan dan yang menkayakan perekonomian itu tidak kesampaian kembali dengan menyembahnya serta bersyukur.Lihatlah wahai pembeli minyak bagaimana pemurahnya Allah s.w.t mengurniakan kepada kita dengan percuma…marilah kita sembah Allah s.w.t..pedulikan semua peniaga minyak ini..kepada Allah s.w.t kita berserah…Amin.
    8)WALLHUA’LAM.

  192. Asalamualaikum Ayahanda Tun,
    Semoga Ayahanda dipanjangkan umur serta sehat selalu.
    Memang patut Ayahanda dedahkan perkara ini.Supaya rakyat tahu. Pak Lah perlu bertanggung-jawab diatas keciciran duit tersebut. Entah berapa banyak masuk ke poket ..? Mereka2 yang terlibat serta tuhan sahaja yang tahu.2004 – 2009 RM253.6 bilion. Banyak tu…
    Kerajaan Pak Lah perlu jawab..
    TK

  193. Assalamualaikum Tun,
    Hope that you and your family are in good health.
    I wonder if Petronas made that huge amount of payments to the government in 2004 till 2007 then where did the money went to because I dont see any physical public mega projects being done at that time but only the slashing of the so called mega projects like the Johor bridge and double track railway lines, just to named a few.
    Sometimes make me wonder like the advertisement for burger king in the usa used to say “wheres the beef”….., during mr flip flop time, I guess the beef went overseas, australia maybe….
    Well I guess someone have to be accountable for it, who is going to be that someone????
    Last but not the least Tun, its good that you bring up these matters up because PAC are not doing a good job of smelling these things right under the armpit of mr “clean”. Thank you Tun for all the best years as our premier and I salute you “Hidup Tun Dr Mahathir, dulu kini dan selamanya”…..aminnn.

  194. dear tun,
    it would be good to have a full info especially on the turnover figure during the year in order to analyse the matter properly.

  195. Salam YAB Tun,
    Izinkan saya beri sedikit pandangan sambil bersantai dipetang Jumaat ini dengan fikiran yang terbuka dan ketenangan yang di kurniakan serta sedikit kelapangan masa setelah tamat musim percukaian pada 30 Jun yang lepas.
    Hakikat yang terpaksa kita terima dan akui bersama adalah seperti berikut:-
    1. Hasil bumi daripada Allah untuk kegunaan dan kesejahteraan manusia. Kepada apa yang dibelanjakan oleh siapa itu perkara kedua dan akan disoal kelak.
    2. Kecekapan dan kejayaan Petronas dalam menjalankan tugas serta tanggungjawab terhadap negara harus dipuji dan dibanggakan.
    3. Kerajaan dibawah kepimpinan PM yang telah merancang dan membelanjakan berbilion ringgit untuk kesejahteraan rakyat dengan mengadakan pelbagai pasarana dan kemudahan harus dikenang oleh semua lapisan rakyat serta bersyukur atas kemakmuran dan keamanan selama ini.
    4. Minyak seperti hasil bumi yang lain akan habis juga dan tidak akan menjaminkan pendapatan lumayan selama-lamanya buat negara. Secara kasar boleh dikatakan hampir separuh reserve minyak negara sudah di keluarkan dan separuh yang tinggal hanya memerlukan masa paling lama 5 tahun sahaja untuk habis (Andaian ini adalah secara kasar sahaja tanpa merujuk lain-lain sumber dan mengandaikan tiada telaga baru ditemui untuk pengeluaran seterusnya).
    5. Jika kesemua minyak yang ada dan dimiliki oleh negara bernilai 1 Trilion (kepada Kerajaan Pusat), ini bermakna selama hampir 35 tahun kita telah berjaya menghasilkan hampir separuh reserve yang ada bersamaan dengan nilai 500 bilion. Untuk menghabiskan separuh lagi hanya memerlukan paling lama 5 tahun sahaja atau pada tahun 2015.
    6. Kita harus segera mencari alternatif kepada sumber tenaga dan bahan bakar lain untuk memastikan negara kita akan terselamat dimasa akan datang. Jika tidak negara kita tidak akan mencapai status negara maju seperti yang kita idam-idamkan pada tahun 2020.
    7. Kita harus memikirkan kaedah terbaik melalui R&D untuk merancang bagi mengunakan tenaga nuclear secara yang efisyen dan efektif.
    CADANGAN: Satu cara adalah mengunakan kaedah kita sendiri iaitu kaedah FOC (bukan free-of-charge tetapi Find-Open-Close) atau CBT: CARI-BUKA-TUTUP.
    Pertama kita cari lokasi dimana adanya bahan radioaktif seperti uranium atau plutonium dinegara kita. Jabatan kajibumi/Geologi dapat memberitahu dan membantu dalam menentukan lokasi. Setelah ada lokasi sesuai kita boleh pin-point dimana kedudukannya bahan tersebut seperti kedalaman dan sekitar struktur dan batuan apa maka kita ambil terus-menerus menggunakan kaedah canggih untuk tap sumber tersebut in-situ tanpa merosakkan alam sekitar dan apa-apa disekelilingnya.
    Setelah habis digunakan katakan setelah 100 tahun nanti, apa yang perlu kita lakukan ialah menutup balik seperti sedia-kala struktur atau lubang tersebut sahaja tanpa menjejaskan apa-apa pun.
    Ini cuma idea impromtu daripada seorang amatur. Cuba bayangkan kalau pakar-pakar kita yang ada dapat memberi cadangan yang lebih baik, pasti tidak mustahil kita dapat menghasilkan satu teknologi baru yang murah dan eco-frendly.
    8. Kita harus bersyukur kerana manusia masih belum mengetahui cara dan kaedah yang betul untuk mengunakan sumber air sebagai satu alternatif untuk menjana tenaga melalui pemisahan antara hydrogen dan oxygen untuk membebaskan kuasa tenaga. Jika tidak, pasti habis air sebanyak 2/3 permukaan bumi ini lesap, habis atau rosak tidak dapat digunakan lagi oleh setiap kehidupan yang memerlukannya.
    Maka sesiapa yang beramal semiskal zarah kebaikan akan diperlihatkan dan sesiapa yang beramal semiskal zarah keburukan akan diperlihatkan. Sama-samalah kita fikir-fikirkan tentang idea dan event janganlah membuang masa memikirkan tentang orang lain atau diri sendiri sahaja.
    Wassalam.

  196. $ YEARs %
    PK LAH 185.8 5 44%
    TDM 166.8 22 40%
    DSN 67.8 1 16%
    Total 420.4 100%
    Salam TDM and all;
    Sedih dan terharu tengok data from my simple math above. Hanya 40% shj total zaman TDM, tapi usaha gigih membela rakyat yg TDM buat tiada tolak bandingnya. Ke hulu ke hilir, siang dan malam dok pikir nak membela nasib nusa dan bangsa. Lebih Sedih lagi…yg 44% dan 16% tu, tak tau lah…mana perginya,,,,

  197. Dear Tun,
    Your guess is good as mine.
    Someone must have thought Petronas was the person and his family’s piggy bank.
    No need to dig deep to find the answers.
    Most Malaysians know.
    In the last five years a certain leader and his family members came first. The people at large came last.
    And all the hangers on condoned all the nonsense that was going on.
    And it continues to go on unabated. We now have an Umno chief minister and MP who were found guilty of corruption but continuing in their roles as if nothing happened.
    What else is there left to say. Might as well move a motion in Parliament that corruption in Malaysia is a virtue.
    By the way Tun, could you enlighten me as to how people who pray five times a day have no compunction about committing graft.
    I would have thought if people were reminding themselves of God’s calling every few hours, this country should be squeaky clean.
    But it does not seem to be the case. Is something wrong with the religion that this happens?
    Best Regards,
    Ataturk

  198. Salam Tun,
    What do you think of PM’s move to do away with ruling of the 30% reserve of stock to the Malays.

  199. Dear Tun Dr M,
    Petronas is definitely one of the top 5 revenue provider for the government. From the hint posted by the Dr Mahathir (The 4th and the longest serving Prime Minister of Malaysia)we are confronted to believe that there has been misappropriation of funds from Petronas. Can those involved, in both sides, to give an account of the said funds.
    I am sorry, even Dr Mahathir himself is answerable for the funds from from Petronas 1982 to 2003, during which he was the Prime Minister of Malaysia.
    I really hope that this is not the tip of the iceberg.

  200. Salam TDM dan semua;
    Jomm kita sama sama pakat2 perbetui mana2 yang bengkok tu. Harap TDM dapat tolong halang depa dari tukarq dan masukkan geng hat dok “konar” duit tu…

  201. I think you should know batter… since you are our former Prime Minister. Tetapi kenapa Tun bangkit hal ni? Adakah kerana our current PM try nak letak orang dia ke?
    Mungkin gak Petronas sahaja kek ekonomi yang tinggal kat Malaysia ni.. itu yg dia orang berebut nk curik..

  202. Salam to Tun and family.
    Sorry for my offtop, I wish Malaysian Gov, has spent money provided by Petronas in a appropriate way.
    World is strange. Only “minority” of people can now understand how world has been changed since 2001(9/11). Now we are standing in front of the global changes in the economical system of the co-called globalized capitalism. And now there is only chance for small countries to chose a right way to survive and protect own freedom and sovereignty. The speech of Obama is just trick to avoid peoples (especially in Islamic countries) attention from a real situation in the world. The reality is that USA’s policy on the global arena needed as much more as they can put instability in every part of the world to bring chaos just to reset own (USA’s) “newly polished” economic system.
    Why I am writing this things? Because of the macro economical situation of USA economy. Here we can see a statistical dates of Industrial Production issued by FRS (http://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/G17/Current/default.htm) where through monthly analysis we can see that USA Industry is in the deep stagnation. Moreover, the California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has declared a fiscal emergency in his state, as officials prepare to issue billions of dollars of IOUs to the state’s creditors. It is obviously a declaration of the hidden default of it’s economy i.e. bankruptcy. I guess, it is not a secret that the situation in California is a mirror of whole USA’s economy built up as a pyramid (a.k.a. neocolonial taxing of the whole world through the policy of strong dollar. I still remember your critics against Soros in 98 blaming him as a key person in Asian crisis but he was just a doll manipulated by hands from some Transnational companies (TNC). It is easy to trace. It is can be understood by looking at the list of statistics of the Thailand’s national companies that have been sold or swallowed by global TNC ).
    The question is what and how Malaysia and world should do to protect own security? Within a short time human beings will meet a global crisis that have never been seen in its History. The problem of Malaysian economy in its export orientated section. For example, Japan is one of the biggest economic partner of Malaysia now having worrisome problems (index of production industry -29.5%!!!), which can be seen by referring to Industrial production statistical dates provided here (http://www.meti.go.jp/english/statistics/tyo/iip/index.html ) is a biggest oil importer. But with the collapse of their economy involves Malaysia’s economy too. I just hypothesize, does Malaysia have some preventive ways in securing national economy, if USA’s national treasures or bonds (T-bills etc) will slump in near future?
    May be my post is kind of paranoiac essay, but I can feel a dangerous signals from all over the world.
    The way of keeping Malaysian economy and society from riots, social turbulence is in a realizing big projects (as well as subsidizing by Gov.) in Malaysian domestic market such as; 1. building infrastructures in railways, subways, monorails in KL, JB etc (to involve those who lost jobs or will) 2. Building big dams project in West part of Malaysia Peninsular (Pahang. Terenganu) to prevent every years flood disasters 3. To secure agriculture sector and etc.
    In the coming “dark ages” Malaysia (Gov.) also should prepare and do a policy by providing jobs for those thousands of Malaysians and expatriates who left country earlier to USA, Britain, Japan, Singapore etc. Because most of them are qualified and professional specialists needed in Malaysia. Also it is a good chance to invite and keep foreign professional specialists to cover all spec of specializations in Malaysian industry.

  203. Sallam Tun….
    I do hope the fund of RM253.6 billions would have been spent wisely and hope the present govt is willing to tell us where it went to…
    Perhaps, being our former beloved PM, Tun should be able to tell us weather the fund of RM168.8 billion (received from year 1981-2003) was spent wisely….
    Thank you

  204. That huge amount of money was spent on the followings:
    1. Hmmmm….
    2. What aaa??
    3. Don’t know laa….
    4. All the above
    5. Repeat 1 – 4

  205. Salam Tun,
    Kalau zaman Tun sepanjang 22 tahun tu, memang nampak bagaimana RM168.8 billion boleh menjadikan Malaysia sebuah negara membangun.
    Tapi zaman Pak Lah sepanjang 6 tahun tu pulak, RM253.6 billion tu Pak Lah buat apa, hah? Takde pun projek yg mega pun zaman dia macam zaman Tun dulu. Mana pi duit tu Tun??
    Semoga Tun sekeluarga sihat selalu, dimurahkan rezeki dan dipanjangkan umur. Amin.

  206. The best person to answer this is no other than our “beloved” Abdullah Badawi, and I bet he doesn’t have a clue to this.
    So, kes besar SPRM nak dedahkan harap betul-betul kes besar. Yang paling rakyat nak tengok ialah Abdullah Badawi tidak terlepas dari sisiasat SPRM.
    DAn yang paling pentng, no cover-up!!

  207. Salam Sejahtera YAB Tun,
    Tun, ini adalah kali pertama saya memberikan komen pada blog ini.
    Kalau diperhatikan dari apa yang telah Tun nyatakan RM253.6bil (6 tahun) itu merupakan satu angka yang amat besar dan saya sebagai penduduk Malaysia amat bebesar hati sekiranya kerajaan kita dapat memperjelaskan ke mana duit itu telah dibelanjakan?????
    Syabas dan terima kasih, sekurang-kurangnya kita dapat mengetahui berapa banyak pendapatan kerajaan diperolehi dari Petronas.
    Akiaku

  208. what do u think tun? What assumption do u want from us tun? Kami keliru.. Sebelum ni sebagai penyokong tegar kerajaan tak terlangsung fikiran kami utk mempertikaikan perkara di atas. Skg ni tun nak kami pertikaikan ke? Kalau ign pertikaikan dari segi macam mana tun? Minta tolong ajar dari tun

  209. Assaalamu Alaikum Tun,
    A lot of money Tun. Me too hoped that the money have been spent wisely and the most important thing is that it has significant inpact socially, economically and academically to the less fortunate group of society especially those in the rural area.
    Has the money met these groups need?

  210. Salam Tun,
    Saya amat mengagumi tun. Dari apa yang tun nyatakan disini, boleh saya rangkumkan, sepanjang pemerintahan Tun selama 22 tahun yang lalu, Tun telah membelanjakan sekitar RM170 billion untuk memajukan negara. Ini amat berbeza dengan pemerintahan mantan PM TAAB yang telah membelanjakan sekitar RM185 billion untuk tempoh kira-kira 2 penggal sahaja……. renungkan lah.
    Terima kasih.

  211. SALAM AYAHANDA RAKYAT
    IZINKAN,
    The total from 1981 to 2003 is RM168.8 billion in 22 years.
    WE SAW PEACE, PROSPERITY, HARMONY AND THE VISION OF A DEVELOPED NATION BY 2020 FOR THE GENERATIONS (ANAK CUCU)TO COME.
    From then onwards it increased from RM19 billion in 2004 to RM67.8 billion in 2009. The total for six years is RM253.6 billion.
    WE SAW INSTABILITY, SUFFERINGS, DISUNITY AND THE REFORMS TOWARD DESTRUCTION OF 22 YEARS OF PESPIRATION OF AYAHANDA RAKYAT VISION 2020… THE BOND FOR THE PROUD FUTURE ‘SAYA ANAK MALAYSIA’
    Where has the money gone to?
    SUBSIDIES FOR THE FUELS AND FOODSTUFFS FOR THE RAKYAT?.. WHO ARE STILL SUFFERING,
    MAINTENANCE OF THE FOURTH FLOOR FOR THE LITTLE RASCALS?.. TO PLOT THE WAY FOR THE YOUNGEST PM,
    CAMPAIGN PROGRAMS FOR PROMOTING ISLAM HADARI AND BATIK UNIFORMS FOR GOVERNMENTS DEPARTMENTS,
    COMPENSATIONS AND DINNER ORGANISED FOR THE EXPELLED JUDGES AND THE BAR(RUAH) COUNCIL,
    COMPENSATIONS FOR THE ABORTED ‘CROOKED’ BRIDGE’..NOT TO INDIMIDATE BRADER LEE AND DADDY.
    CONSTRUCTION OF THE CRYSTAL MOSQUE AND PROMOTION OF THE MONSOON CUP FOR TOURISM (TRENGGANU),
    PURCHASE OF A NEW AIRPLANE FOR THE PM USE,
    EQUIPPED OF THE ARM FORCES WITH NEW VESSELS, AIRPLANES AND WEAPONS IN ANTICIPATION OF INSURGENCIES (JI AND AL-QAEDA, P’HAPS) AND INVASIONS BY THE ‘MOGHULS’???
    GOODWILLS AND ETCETERA, ETC., EXTRA ORDINARY…SIX FIGURES EEEEEEXXXXXXPPPPPPSSSSSS!
    PERHAPS ONLY THE ‘LIZARD’ CUD TELL THE TRUTH..THE WHEREABOUT OF THE BILLIONS..
    AS OUR WISE BROTHER SAYS..WE ARE MERELY PASSENGERS..
    WE… NO SIXTH SENSE BUT ONLY TWO SENS COMMENTS..HE HE
    ALFATIHAH, AMIN

  212. Salam Sejahtera kepada Tun dan Keluarga.
    1)Waktu Tun melepaskan jawatan Perdana Menteri dulu ada desas desus yang membabitkan Tun membengkrupkan negara.
    2)Sekarang dengan faktor ini siapa yang bengkrupkan negara.
    3)Mereka sanggup mengheret seorang mantan Perdana Menteri dan Negarawan Negara ke mahkamah.
    4)Boleh kah sekarang Tun pula mengheret mereka ke mahkamah.
    Tun may Allah Bless You for Kind and Goods Deeds. Insha Allah

  213. Where has the money gone to? In politicians’ pockets and on their all-expenses paid “working” holidays and maintenence of their homes and offices and all other personal expenses!

  214. The total from 1981 to 2003 is RM168.8 billion in 22 years.
    From then onwards it increased from RM19 billion in 2004 to RM67.8 billion in 2009. The total for six years is RM253.6 billion.
    RM253.6 billion spent during 6 years of the most transparent administration against RM168.8 billion spent during 22 years of the so-called autocratic administration.
    You do the math.

  215. we should buy Eurocopter..it is vital for our defence..improve medical services, roads,public transportation,education,help to needy etc..and yes, it would be interesting what gov has spent on using that money. it’s a lot of money..in fact tons of money

  216. Infrastructure and landmarks… scholarships… schools… better teachers… better police enforcement… multimedia corridor… communication cable lines… better sewage systems…
    eh what the heck am I talking about? That certainly sums up to 253.6 billlion.
    I’m thinking a huge chunk went into some of the ‘government’ servants’ own pockets. Of course, I’m merely laying out totally unfounded speculation. Or am I?
    Adam

  217. Dear Tun,
    You were 22 years in power, you should ask yourself, did your government spend the money wisely? or just benefited a small group of people? you should know better than us!

  218. corruption by government, bailing out bankrupt companies.. or pay extra 20% for bridges while fat bosses and politicians get fatter. you know, things your administration was clearly aware off that are just as rampant today.
    hmph.

  219. From the info, total amount of payment from 1976 to 2009 is 426.6 billion ringgit. The money for sure had gone to nation development.

  220. dear tun,
    rm253.6 billion is spent to built klcc, star, putra and monorel lrt train station and railway, f1, klia, klia express, kl sentral, penang bridge, putrajaya, cyberjaya, kl mosque, jalan duta mahkamah, smart tunnel, plus highway, many expressway in klang valley, proton, perodua, and many more…..
    and during 1981-2003 the rm 15.6 billion is spent to give ur daugther and son a company call scomi, ecm libra and many more…..also not forget to mention pay compensate to scrap the big porject like sceneric brdige, vacation in australia, sailing in turkey, and no building that you build with this money…..yet opposite of those above…muslim intend to call u maha firauan but uztaz badawi son……whatever la stupid malay…….
    not to forget to mention price oil increase from 1987 to 2003 if i am not mistaken is from rm 0.75 to rm 1.35 increase of rm 0.60 for 16 years…sorry i cannot find price oil in 1981 but i rember price oil when i was 7 years old…..and the price oil increase of rm 1.37 to rm 2.70 increase of rm 1.33 for 5 years…..this is what we call kerajaan yang telus umpama imam ghazali bukan mahu cari hart menimbun…..lol

  221. Salam Tun… Semoga Tun sihat hendaknya…
    Bagi saya rakyat biasa 253 billion mmg angka yg cukup besar.Byk yg boleh dilakukan dengan duit sebanyak tu. Itu baru bayaran yg dibuat oleh Petronas belum termasuk cukai yg dibayar oleh rakyat , syarikat GLC yg lain, syarikat swasta dan cukai2 yg lain. Mungkin angkanya mencapai ratusan billion RM. Jd persoalan yg amat menarik.. KEMANAKAH WANG ITU DIBELANJAKAN ????
    Semasa Tun jd PM dulu saya tak pernah lupa utk menonton setiap pembentangan Bajet yg dibacakan sendiri oleh Tun. Jd secara tak langsung saya dapat mengetahui setiap perbelanjaan yg akan dibuat oleh kerajaan.Dan setiap kali pembentangkan Bajet ,saya sebagai rakyat biasa berdebar2 menanti potongan cukai atau pun apa saja rebat kami.
    Boleh dikatakan semasa Tun memerintah , Tun amat mesra rakyat. Tahu cara untuk mengurangkan beban rakyat. Harga minyak dan segala barangan taklah naik terlampau tinggi. Tapi bila Tun dah bersara.. Pak Lah lebih menjaga hati kakitangan awam . Macam2 yg diminta oleh CUEPACS…Mintak naik gaji, bermacam elaun .. byk yg dipersetujui oleh Pak Lah . Tak termasuk kursus2 dan hari keluarga pun dibuat di hotel mewah selain percutian diluar negara.Ini juga menambah kos perbelanjaan kerajaan. Jadi rakyat terutamanya pekerja swasta rasa terpinggir. Apa yg diminta oleh pekerja swasta pada saya memamg wajar diberi perhatian oleh kerajaan. Dengan kos sara hidup , yuran persekolahan anak selain pinjaman dgn kadar faedah yg tinggi oleh bank . Suami saya bekerja di sektor perkilangan dgn jawatan senior tech selama 6 tahun basic gaji baru mencecah Rm 1600 dengan kadar overtime yg rendah tanpa apa2 elaun.. Wajar tak kami dibela oleh kerajaan???
    Sepatutnya rakyat biasa seperti kamilah yg berhak merasa kekayaan negara dalam bentuk rebat atau pemotongan cukai . Kerajaan jg patut berjimat cermat dalam berbelanja. Seperti di Singapura berbagai inisiatif diberi oleh kerajaan kpd setiap jabatan yg berjaya meminimumkan kos samada elektrik atau air , penggunaan kertas dan peralatan pejabat serta perbelanjaan lain patut dicontohi oleh Malaysia. Disamping dapat menanam sikap lebih bertanggungjawab dan tidak suka membazir dlm menguruskan harta dan duit negara.
    Projek2 mega yg benar2 memberi manafaat kepada rakyat seperti jambatan bengkok yg dicadangkan oleh Tun dulu patut disambung semula.Selain sistem pengangkutan dan pendidikan perlu diberi perhatian untuk kesenangan rakyat. Bila nasib rakyat terbela tidak mustahil BN boleh menang di semua negeri pada pilihanraya umum akan datang. Sekian Tun. Terima kasih.

  222. Wowow,
    Banyaknya duit Petronas.
    Kalau rakyat Malaysia diberi sorang RM 1 juta baru habis RM 27 juta.Semua dah jadi jutawan hehehe.
    Tapi duit banyak tu nak buat apa ye?
    Petronas kaya tapi rakyat banyak yang miskin tegar lagi.Kenapa ye?
    Kenapa?
    http://www.zoompanas2.com

  223. When Tun Che Det, the Advisor to PETRONAS, starts saying It would be interesting to know what the RM253.6 billion was spent on I believe it would be wonderfuly interesting, indeed; and the Prime Minister Najib must be ready with a name to a face – a personage, perhaps – someone to shift the blame to.
    (Takanlah PM tak tahu mana duit itu semua pergi?!
    Dengan Chet Det, you jangan cuba nak temberang, Hassan Merican!)
    but then let’s us try not to shut the gates after all the horses have gone, Tun – it means time to clean up the mess or walk away from it all – the odor and the stink and the whole festering, undignified affair.

  224. Salam Tun,
    me too, want to know where is the money gone frm 2004 to 2009..
    i hope the govermnt will think very wisely in replacing Tan Sri Hassan Marican.
    He’s done a fantastic job in turning Petronas to be as good as today..none other can do a better job excpt from him.
    plus,he is a very down to earth, honest and only think for the benefit of this country..
    petronas, a pride for malaysian.

  225. Askm Tun,
    Saya teringat pada 2 tahun lepas rasanya bila petronas dikejam hebat hampir semua pihak terutamanya pihak pembangkang, sehingga presiden petronas terpaksa buat satu wawancara khas di stesen tv menerangkan tentang isu pendapatan dan perbelanjaan petronas….rentetan pada perkara tersebut saya mendengar berita banyak staff petronas yang menggunakan LRT ke klcc telah dimaki hamun dan diludah sehina-hinanya sehingga petronas terpaksa membuat arahan supaya staff tidak memakai pakaian seragam diluar pejabat. Kebetulan majoriti staff petronas adalah bangsa melayu. Sehingga kini saya medengar khabar angin petronas mengalami masaalah kritikal mengaliran keluar tenaga kerja mahir kerana dikatakan gaji pekerja petronas adalah antara yang termurah di dunia(dalm industri O&G), sehingga sesiapa yang meninggalkan kerja di petronas diugut sebagai tidak patriotik, dan kadang2 petronas terpaksa mengunakan korporat preasure kepada syarikat minyak yang mahu kontrak dengan petronas tidak sesekali mengambil kerja ex staff dia….
    dan kebanyakan pekerja yang hendak lari dari petronas terpaksa berhenti kerja seperti kahwin lari…urmmm
    jadi susah payah pekerja melayu yang diperah kerja di petronas telah membuat untung kepada petronas di tafsirkan dari nilai yang dibayar kepada kerajaan…tentang duit tersebut semua wakil rakyat adalah bertanggunjawab jika ada salah guna dan kalau baik dapat le pahala, jika ade rasuah ibarat makan daging babilah jika sesiapa orang islam melakukannya.(ambil dari kata Tun)
    pst: secara kebetulan kebanyakan bangsa bukan melayu tidak mahu berkhidmat di petronas bukan sebab takde peluang…kenapa ye..

  226. salam Tun,
    congratulations to Petronas which managed to turn itself into a world-class entity despite us not being an OPEC member.
    Off-topic…much as I view UMNO with suspicion due to KJ’s hollow victory at the recent PAU,I am more amazed at Pakatan’s latest round of bickering.This is too much man!
    As Dato Ong Tee Kiat mentioned,Pakatan should rename or rebrand itself as ‘Pakatan Pilihanraya’as they are only misleading the rakyat.There’s NO WAY Pas and DAP can get along merrily well as their purpose for existence are poles apart.’Bagai langit dengan bumi’.Meanwhile PKR sole purpose is to satisfy DSAI ambitions.
    Their only common ground is their hatred of BN and UMNO in particular.But my perception is,they are both sides of the same coin.Neither one side can claim they are better than the other.
    The most telling effect of the March 2008 GE is the prevailing and greater political chaos in the country and the rakyat is stuck in the middle.
    Wassallam
    Jeng3

  227. Salam Tun,
    Malaysia is still facing a deficit despite having significant funds.I wonder if the cost of handling a project is RM40 billion, RM10 billion will disappear along the way.
    This is true sign of weak management and corruption!!!

  228. Assalamualaikum Tun,
    Sesungguhnya bumi malaysia ini bumi bertuah dan dirahmati Allah. Hasil buminya yang melimpah sepatutnya menjadi kan negara kita ini makmur dan penduduknya mudah mencari rezeki yang halal.
    Tetapi apa gunanya kekayaan negara yang melimpah ruah tak dapat dinikmati oleh semua rakyat negara ini. Pembaziran dan projek-projek ‘kakilima'(corridor)yang entah kan jadi atau tidak tetapi menguntungakan hanya segelintir pihak.
    Semoga pentadbiran baru negara ini lebih berwawasan dan tidak hanya suka berjalan-jalan dari satu kakilima (corridor) ke kakilima yang lain.
    Semoga Tun di rahmati Allah sentiasa. Terima kasih.

  229. haa…ini yang kita x tau..
    yang x tau pi tanya pada yang tau..
    yang tau pegi bagitau pada yang x tau…
    something wrong anywhere,anything,anybody,anymore and etc…

  230. Of course it would be interesting to know how the government spends its money! But for the people who have the power to do so, do they want to? I’m sure they are willing to share things they have excelled at…but do they want to share their shortcomings?
    There is no one who wants to share this information because…
    There is no one who are responsible to do so because..
    There is no one made to be accountable for the things he had done or NOT DONE because

  231. Sesuatu yang amat malang jika kekayaan hasil bumi negara tidak dimanfaatkan sebaik mungkin. Kita amat berharap jika manfaat tu dapat kepada rakyat dan digunakan untuk tujuan pembangunan negara bukan untuk perbelanjaan yang membazir akibat dari amalan ketidakcekapan, rasuah dan sebagainya. Rakyat di negara ini amat bertuah kerana dianugerahkan kekayaan hasil bumi dan lagi bertuah jika diuruskan oleh kerajaan dengan cekap dan efisyen. Ini membolehkan rakyat hidup senang dan sejahtera dimana meningkatkan taraf hidup rakyat.

  232. Salam Dr. Tun,
    I must say those are interesting figures. For someone whom had lead the country for 22 years – you would be able to answer most of the it. But when you left, the figures grew much much bigger.
    You and all other Msians have all the rights to question, but will the govt disclose the spending? the way govt work is very lembab. Damn too slow. The PKFZ issue, PPSMI, and all other issues that public should know, is not make known. The politician is hiding in “Parliament” so that the behind could not be kicked !!
    Most Politician are avoiding making crucial decision – afraid of being unpopular. Tun, I hope PM would walk the talk, of putting the people first, performance now. Lets not make it “people first – BS now”
    PPSMI is close to me as my 2 children are still in primary school. Govt must be stern and enforce PPSMI. The jokers whom supposed to be “Pejuang Bangsa” should not object, but rather, improve BM in their respective fields. We dont need people who dont even shave and have a proper hair cut (you know who I am refering) to tell us we need to “mertabatkan bahasa Melayu” Should mertabatkan diri sendiri dahulu.
    I sincerely hope PM and his “Saf Baru” can execute fast, lets not be popular, lets just do what is right. Enough talk.

  233. Assalamualaikum Tun,
    Betul…kami pun nak tau kemana jumlah wang sebesar itu dibelanjakan. Tidak termasuk cukai yang kami bayar..
    Salam…

  234. OMG, more than 250b in the last 6 years. I dont think that much money is actually spent by the federal government run by Tun Abdullah (2004-2009). It looks really fishy since KJ was prime-SIL and in full charge of 4th floor. Oh My God where all that money gone ? No wonder how KJ managed to garner 300+ votes in Umno Youth election in March 2009, after all money can buy almost everything…..isn’t it???

  235. Dear tun,
    You yourself should know better where the money are spent on. Aren’t you the prime minister for 22 years and finance minister for couple of years? If you may have forgotten, I can refresh you a little. Putrajaya white elephant does ring any bell? 🙂 You have a good day with the wealth you have accumulated dear sir,

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