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Keynote address at Transparency International Anticorruption Summit 2018

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Text of PM Keynote address at Transparency International Anticorruption Summit 2018.

Excellencies ladies and gentlemen.

Firstly, I would like to say thank you to Transparency International Malaysia for this invitation to deliver a keynote address at this very important conference. This conference is about corruption.And how to combat corruption.
We in Malaysia have just emerged from a period where corruption was rife. Corruption in fact became a sort of slogan for the government in power. Indeed there were allegations that the Prime Minister himself might be involved in corruption.
Now when in a country the top men is corrupt the rest will follow suit.
Because the top man is responsible for trying to combat corruption but when the top man becomes corrupt there will be no attempt to combat corruption. Indeed the slogan of that time was Cash is King.
Now when you say Cash is King what you mean is that corruption is the way. Corruption will make you the king will give you power that in itself shows the kind of government we had previously.
But the people reacted. The people may be given money bribe etcetera.Although they will receive. They receive the money but they were still much against corruption.
And so when it came to an election the 14th general election in Malaysia the people exerted their people’s power they voted out the corrupt government.

That is just the first phase.

But in order to combat against corruption the new government must have a program
on corruption or anti corruption. This is not easy because not only was money used in order to win popularity but the whole government machinery has become corrupted because they too enjoy corruptions during that period.
And so we have a machinery of government that is defective.Defective machinery of government cannot easily combat corruption.
The machinery itself needs to be cleaned up.
And so the new government which was elected with a good majority in the 14th general election having taken over power in this country had a tough time trying to combat corruption.
To combat corruption you need the current the support of everyone in particular the government machinery. But as I said just now the government machinery has become corrupted and he will not be likely
do things to combat corruption.
The cleaning up involves removal of very senior officers.
But when the senior officers are removed we have need to replace with other officer who may not be so senior who may not be as experienced and so after the cleanup we have another weak machinery of government that has to combat again old practices and the extensive corruption that was happening before.
But the machinery of government has been reorganized in particular that is a good machinery of government that is dedicated to combating corruption.
We have actually 4 different agencies now which look into various indication of corruption in the government.
However, the fact that the new government is dedicated to the removal of corruption means that that machinery of the government itself must be clean from corruption.
We all know that when the top man is corrupt then of course the others will follow suit. So in this government it is important that government personnel elected during the election must avoid corruption. So new rules have been set has been put in place in order to combat corruption among the government leaders.
They now enjoy the same power as the previous government. The previous government abuse that power and as a result of the country became corrupt at all levels.

Now new government having vowed having promised to fight corruption must show from the very beginning that the government itself is free from corruption.
The promises had been made and agencies of government have been setup.
To date we have not heard of any government offices being corrupt at least not openly.
If they hide their activities, we have agencies which will seek them out and then ensure that the corrupt will be punished.
Currently the focus is on the corruption involving the previous government but if there is any evidence at all or corruption in the new government we hope that people will indicate will be good whistleblowers to inform the authorities that there are corrupt personnel in the new government.
So far we have not heard of any report of the new members of the new government being corrupt indeed many things were put in place to prevent corruption from taking place.
Where before appointments to various agencies of government agencies were from the the party forming the government these people do not care about you implementing the work they were tasked with instead they founded the power they wielded what’s good for them to make money for themselves.

But now all those party appointed officers have been removed and new offices who are not involved in politics have been put in place in order to ensure that they will run agencies institution and companies properly.
These are professional people they are not party members and they are tasked with eradicating corruption in their organisation. Apparently this has salutary effect facts on the institutions and we now have such blatant corruption as happened during the previous government but we have to maintain it.
Government on necessity must have power without power government cannot function.
But power can be abused.
There is a saying that power corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely so we must have the power but we must avoid corruption. We invite the public the people to report cases of corruption this will not result in action being taken against the whistleblowers this is because this government respect the separation of powers within the Legislative, Executive and Judiciary.

So if any one of these agencies are reported to be corrupted then the other two agencies will function during the corrupt person to Justice. This is the promise of the new government and this so far this has been implemented because today we do not hear as much as we did about leaders of the country being corrupt. We are no longer described as a kleptocracy.
A government of Thieves but today
we are implementing democracy in the best way possible.
We have resort the rule of Law so the Law previews in all cases should be there be any abuse of power by any one of the three agencies of government which exercises power the other two can take action in order to stop the corruption.
Today we are in the process of punishing those who were corrupt before it’s not the case of the government seeking revenge but the Law there is no one who is above the Law in this country if somebody is corrupt somebody abuses power then the Law will be applied and there will be judges who are free from corruption to decide on the guilt or otherwise the people accused of corruption.
We are watching the procedures going on and I’m sure that many of those people who are found guilty will be punished for their greed when they were in power.
The government has tough job because apart from trying to deal with corruption the government also has to rule the country and for that the government needs money.

When’s members of the public decided to help the government with his finances. The government started a fund. This fund is open to everybody to contribute it doesn’t matter how much money is paid. It is speed that count more. However, there has been attempt
to use donation to this fund in order to influence government business. This has been rejected by the government because when huge sums of money are given by way of donation to the fund.
The government has to reject the huge donation because it may become a source of corruption.
There are many things that we have to do but basically we need the support of the people. The people must understand that corruption is not good for them therefore they on their part must play their role in eradicating corruption.
We will have to punish not only the receiver but also the giver.
Unless we do this corruption will be come rife in this country. Up to the moment we have found that corruption or accusation, allegation operation is not as frequent as with the last government. Maybe that is a good sign that we have succeeded in telling the people to avoid corruption but the people themselves must know that corruption is a crime and they must never try to corrupt officials in order to get approvals for whatever it is that they are asking for. This is our hope that the whole country must be dedicated toward fighting against corruption.
Corruption may be stopped by the laws of the country but the better thing is that the people themselves regard corruption as crime and you don’t get involved in corruption. This means that we must have a high standard in our value system we must reject corruption as a crime which benefits no one not even the person who’s trying to get his approval from government agencies. So we hope with that the public showing the interest in eradicating corruption and the government officers
machinery being cleaned off we hope that this will result in reducing corruption if not eliminating it all together.
Public interest is very important because we depend on the public to tell us
instances of corruption which may affect them.
After that of course our agencies, implementors will make sure that the people who are corrupt will
be punished according to the laws of this country.
The rule of law is very important in combating corruption it is only when we abide by the law of the country that corruption be reduced or ended.
I hope in this meetingon good governance and integrity for sustainable business group
would make a members of the business Community aware that although corruption may win them something but in the end they will lose because this country will not grow will not develop, prosper if corruption is rife in this country. So with this hope that I launch this Transparency International Anticorruption Summit 2018.

Thank you.

 

Islam

Government and Governance in the Islamic World

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Full text of PM speech at the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies on September 24th, 2018.

Bilsmillahirahmanirahim in the Name Of Allah the Merciful and the Compassionate.

Assalamualaikum and very good afternoon everyone. Mr. Nizam, Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen. I feel deeply honoured that I had been asked to speak once again at Oxford University. I have chosen the subject called Government and Governance in the Islamic World. The first thing that you would note about the system of governnce in Islamic World is that it had hardly changed. At the time when the rest of the world were modifying their system of government. The Islamic World remained attached to the system the monarchy system which supports an authoritarian system. Nobody could think of any revision in that system. The ruler is supreme and obedience to him is a must. The ruler has absolute power. And this is accepted by the people in muslim countries that the ruler should have absolute power. Of course as you say absolute power corrupts and corrupts absolutely. Invariably this happens in most of islamic states. It doesn’t mean that they don’t provide good governance all the time. They have been rulers in Islamic state who have done a great deal for their country who have led their country to prominence until at one time of course the muslim appeared to be the most successful people in term of governance of their countries. They were strong they were able to conquer their neighbours. They were able to provide for the development of their countries. In fact they were so impressive they are letting a lot European countries felt they need to copy from the muslim governance system. And so therefore some time around 15th century Europeans began to study Islamic way of governance and development. They even studied arabic in order to gain access to the great libraries in Cordoba in Baghdad because they want to know how was it that the muslim so abled to build the great civilisation. The standard in those days was the muslim standard. Everybody felt that if they copy the muslim system they would progress. Indeeed they did around 15th century they gained access to the libraries of the muslim intellectual and they learned alot from the Muslim.
But unfortunately at about the same time the muslim decided that their system was wrong. They decided they were not Islamic enough. They thought anything that is not about Islam is not desirable. The study of other subjects will not gain merit for the after life. And so they cease to study all those subjects at which they excelled in the past. Of course we know of name like Ibn Sina, Ibnu Rusyd and the others who find many of the knowledge that gave muslim civilization the edge over other civilizations.
However, through out all these the whim and fancies of the ruler prevails. If they have good ruler then they succeed and they become very modern in that sense during their time. But the ruler upon gaining absolute power invariably abuse the power that they have and so we find that some of the intellectuals were the victims of jealousy on the part of the ruler. And of course they did not get the benefit of intellectuals in the governnce of their countries.
These prevail until today and now muslims have to admit that they are not leading the world anymore. They have been left behind and they have been left behind because they have discarded the learning that they find before. This has been taken over by the European and they find that they were left behind they continue to be left left behind. Eventually of course the great Muslim civilisation fragmented and almost all their lands and teritories were conquered by western countries. They no longer have anything to buy and to rule. This does not mean they are incapable they are very capable people but their opportunity to learn anything else other than religion had denied them. As a result they began to regret.
This is one of the things that happen when will give absolute power to anyone at all. They tend to be jealous of others and they tend to downgrade anybody else who may appear to be better than them. Throughout history of the Muslim word we see these things happening eventually they had to come around to prepare to accept the fact that they are no longer the great Islamic Civilisation that they used to be. They see all around them countries which had prospered greatly. These countries prospered because initially these countries learn from the muslim civilisation and they made progress from there on. After the muslim countries were conquered they felt that they were no longer able to compete with the West and they developed inferiority complex and they feel that they could do nothing right. The regression goes on and on until many of them migrated to
to live in other countries and and they find that other countries are doing better then their own countries. They find that giving power to one person is not right . They need to adopt the system that was developed in the West. Eventually of course they felt they too should become democratic.
But democracy is not the easiest way to manage. It is very complex it needs self restrain on the part of many people including of the people who have been given the right to choose their government but this is something that muslim generally does not understand how could the ruler be chosen by the people. The ruler should be because of his right because he comes from certain family even if the ruler is overthrown by some leaders in their community. The new leader inevitably adopt the title of ruler. They all became sultan and they all propagated same sytem of government in which the ruler does everything for the country for the people. Indeed all revenues go to the ruler. It is up to his generousity to distribute wealth to the country in order to grow or to administer the country .That is still stand today. Revenue of country belong to the ruler and it is up to him to be generous to pay for the administration and development of the country. And as I said just now invariably they become corrupt . So the answer to that is to change system of government and they found that system must be the democratic system and they were urge to overthrow their rulers and setup a democratic government.
We know they tried to do this now known as the Arab Spring but as you know democracy in the west did not become the system overnight. It took the West almost 200 years to develop the system of democracy. It required a certain frame of mind to accept having a ruler who is chosen by the people. The progress was slow. Initially only land owners were allowed to participate in voting for the government subsequently other groups were also allowed working people were allowed like to go to other government women took a long time get the right to vote for the government.
So you can see that the democratic system did not come to the West overnight. It took many many years before the frame of mind was such that they accept the result of simple things like a tick on a piece of paper called the vote to determine who will rule the country.

The other thing about the muslim world is that they believe in consensus that any decision must be agreed to by everyone. Until it is agreed to by everyone a decision cannot be made. It is almost impossible to have everyone agreed to anything invariably there will be wdifferences in their views and opinions as in order to achieve consensus they have to water down whatever decision to make until it becomes quite meaningless. So it is very difficult for Muslim countries to change on their own. They may have noticed the dictatorial ways of the absolute rulers but they could not think of changing the system because to do so need to have consensus. It took them a very very long time before some members of their community having been exposed to system of the government in the Western countries. For them to decide they took long time until they were forced by outside power to change. This was the regime change that they have to undertake.
It is now called the Arab Spring. Why it is called the Arab Spring is something that until now I cannot understand but the fact is that the the world caused is changing the system of government in the Muslim countries and this is something that is good . But they forget that it is not just the system that has to be changed it is also the mind set the value system of the people must change which has changed. From having hereditary king to having leader voted by the people is a big change which is not easy to adopt by whole country . So what we see is that they did carryout out revolution of sort to overthrow out the dictatorial leaders for all these they were all united . They thought that if the ruler is disposed then they will become the ruler. Always the thinking is still change a ruler for another ruler. They did not realised that the reason the why ruler was disposed was because there were many factions in their society wanted the leader to be dispose so for that reason they remain united. They have one objective to overthrow the ruler and they felt once the leader is overthrown then they will become democratic. But there are many factions which participated in the overthrow of the rulers and each faction believe with the ruler they will take over his place as soon as the ruler is overthrown they realise that the are many aspirants all wanted to pickup the ruler.
When they conducted election they found that through election one of them not all of them but one of them may achieve the desired number of votes in order to be the government.
But the loser do not want to accept this. They felt that something must be wrong if they themselves did not win. So a new government is formed with probably the people giving majority to one party the other party refuses to accept the result they would struggle to bring that government down In many instances of course they resort to violence and the new government elected by majoriy of people were pulled down and they’re either have to have another election or else somebody might elect to power . if there is a strong military force in society the military will take advantage of situation and form a kind of military government which of course is not democracy. Otherwise they might have an election they may be a new party would win but the new party will be subjected to the same forces which brought down the previous party. So sometimes you see something like musical chair with different parties becoming the government and being change without being able to rule the country.
This is because on the one hand the intellectuals may understand the workings of democracy but the vast majority of people do not understand that in the democracy you have to respect the vote. You have to respect the choice made by the people feel that if they are not being chosen there must be some mistake somewhere. So you find government being changed and change again some time through democratic processes at other time through seizure of power by some strong man or by military. You see this happening in many of the new democracies in the Muslim world.
If they are going to suceed I think it is necessary to give them more time to develop the mind set that understand that you can honour the vote of the people and accept there will be a ruler who is chosen by the people by the simple process of voting.

This is something that is not really understood in the Muslim world which I said just now is much more familiar much more comfortable with hereditary ruler. We find that even though there may be change of government invariably would try to assume the position of a hereditary ruler. They cannot imagine that after they finished their term either somebody else might take over from them. So you find in some dictatorship resulting from the overthrow of monarchy. Also setting a new monarchy with same system of hereditary ruler.
The expectation is that once a person win with his family have right to govern the country through his family forever. So this is the process that can only be avoided over time by learning and understanding the democratic system .
I am saying this about muslim countries. Malaysia is a muslim country not 100% muslim. 40% of our people are non muslim and 60% are muslim . But upon independence we decided that this system we would adopt would be democratic system.
This was not so easy because we have 9 rulers 9 hereditary rulers. Most of the muslim in the country are very loyal to this ruler. How do we deal with them? We thought we should adopt the British system of constitutional monarch. But then there are 9 monarchs so we decided to have a change of the ruler every five years but confined to the hereditary rulers of 9 states. Somehow it has worked because the people in the country seem to find that they still have their rulers but they can still have their democratic system.
It is not been easy there are problems like race differences and religion but Malaysian are probably the most timid people. They don’t like violent they are prepared to endure hardship with that government until it changes by itself. They are not going to make any effort to overthrow the government. No violence no assinnation and the like and so in Malaysia it seems to have work. But Malaysia is not 100% muslim. I do not know whether Malaysia as 100% muslim country would be able to fuction as democracy or not. We need to test that.
Perhaps by depriving the non muslim of the right to vote but of course we are not going to do that. But in other muslim countries we see the transition has brought about changes which are disastrous for those countries I think there is a need of them to spend more time understanding for the people themselves to understand the democratic system if you don’t understand that in a democracy the vote is powerful then of course you cannot have a democratic system. This is the problem faced by many Muslim countries because there is still much more comfortable with monarchy with authoritarian system even if there is seizure of power by a non royal still the new ruler would assume the title of king or sultan whatever and rule the country thru their authoritarian monarchal system so this is a problem that cannot be overcome overnight he’s going take long time unfortunately because they don’t understand the system they are facing terrible disasters today and every time they tried for democratic system they will be fighting among them and the countries can be almost totally destroyed. For me as a Muslim I feel shame that muslim countries are not so well governed to the extent that Muslims run away from Muslim countries to live in non muslim countries. That is what is happening today they find that non Muslim countries provide better protection and security for them but their own muslim countries are unstable one and oppressive. So Muslim need to understand that power given to the ruler is not for him to use for his own self but actually for the country and the people. This is something that many of the absolute rulers do not understand. I say this with repetition because even in my own country we cannot say anything against the ruler and of course you have such powerful rulers as it would be some abuses of power. We have in Malaysia we have to suffer in silence and some how or rather more likely is this a difficult task for us in Malaysia it is even more difficult for the 100% muslim countries because their people do not understand the democratic system. A system in which the people choose their government and support the government in their period of time . They cannot wait until term is over they need to change immediately after an election try to overthrow the winners. They cannot wait until 5 years or 4 years before the next general election is held . This is what we have seen today in many Muslim countries and I think it is going to take time for them to understand
the working of democracy, time for them to learn to respect the vote and set up government which uses power in order for betterment of country and people. I thank you.

 

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Future of Democracy in Asia

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Thank you very much for this opportunity to speak to the audience here. Malaysia has gone through a very furious transition. I was the leader for 22 years of the government party which ruled Malaysia for 61 years.

Now I am now leading the opposition and the opposition has now become the government. So I am not changing my stand first I say that I still see have the same old ideas about the authoritarian rule which I might been accused of being dictator during my time. But I beg to differ I was not a dictator but that doesn’t make anybody change their minds. Whenever they mention my name they always described me as a dictator and today a dictator is going to talk about democracy. But I don’t know whether I’m qualified or not. But I will try.

In the first place of course democracy is not an Asian invention it came from the west. Again I suppose from Greece but now the whole world has been told that you have to become democratic else has seen rapid changes taking place in many places.

And as a result of trying to be democratic they have met worst fate then when they were under authoritarian rule. So does that mean that authoritarian rule is best. Well of course we deny that because we think that the only system of government that should be practised by all countries must be the democratic system. But democracy is not something easy to handle. The basic rules of course is that the majority of the people have a right to choose a government to govern their country. But even in a democracy there
can be autocrat to rule rather tightly as I have been accused of. But if you want to make government work you have to have certain disciplines.

Asian minds are not accustomed to the idea that country can be ruled by the people. We have always had monarchs with absolute power and we have survived in a way of course. There were a lot of criticism again the monarchies rule they tend to be rather cruel to their own people in order to sustain themselves.

But now Asian are told that they should have democracy. And democracy mean not having any monarch or any dictator. It is people who will choose their leaders would lead the country. The assumption of course is that the majority of the people must know what is good for themselves.

Unfortunately they are distracted by other things like money for example. If they’re given money some of them would vote for whoever gives money whether he is a democrat or he is an authoritarian ruler. So sometimes or rather quite often it happens that democratically elected ruler can behave like a dictator and that’s what happened to Malaysia since 2013 when the Prime Minister who has been ousted took over. He introduced into democracy a new slogan and that slogan is called Cash is King.

In other words he’s saying that it is legitimate and proper to bribe in order to do to get anything done. But prime ministers are not paid very well. I think if you are in the public sector doing business you’re better paid. But for Prime Minister who is running whole country the pay is very very low. So if you want to bribe and you don’t have money he had to think of some ways to get money. And the previous Prime Minister decided that he would steal the money because he hasn’t got enough money to give bribes which will change the minds of people.

That show that even if we elect a ruler doesn’t mean that he will behave himself. There are mechanism for removing ruler who is not fair who is cruel and all that but sometimes the whole system can be can be converted to the dictators ideas and they will carry out his instruction because they know that they will be very well paid for that. So even in a democracy there can be dictators. And we find that when working with the democratic government too many people have got ideas which they think should be carried out out by the government and because they had different ideas from the government we have opposition parties.

Opposition parties normally can only criticise the government but seldom they can overthrow the government or bring government down. Unless of course it is a two party system.But two party is not very democratic. It means some people will have to forget their own ideas their own ideals in order to be a part of the other party the opposition. Only if there is a united opposition can democracy, can there be election to form the government.But it is not easy to have just two parties because many people would believe that they they are the right people to form the government.

And so when you see the regime change taking place in the Arab countries they, every one of those people who campaign, who demonstrated in order to overthrow the authoritarian government every one of them felt that they were the ones who should be running the government. But they are not united they come from various parties and the only reason why they think the government should be brought down is because they think they would be able to rule after the government is overthrown. But there are so many people who wants to be the government and of course immediately after the overthrow of authoritarian ruler there be will quarrel among the people who overthrew him.

Because you belong to different parties with different ideas. The end result may be Civil War at least tension and instability in the country. And they see in some countries they lost the ability to run the country. They become Failed Nations because they kept on quarrelling quarrelling with each other and not getting any benefit at all from democracy.

So we cant claim democracy as if one size shoes which fix all because each country each people have their own cultures and some of their cultures are so strong that it is difficult for them to change from having a dictator of an absolute monarch and replacing him with someone you elect merely by making a tick on the piece of paper. This is not common with them and therefore this idea can not be easily practise in many many countries in Asia and the Middle East. So we need to accept that democracy is not a perfect system it has his flaws but to make it work the mindset and the value system of the people must be capable of accepting rule by a person who is elected every 5 years. Sometimes of course it doesn’t last 5 years or something may go on to rule the country for 5 terms.

But all these are still seen quite democratic but some will fail because of the quarrells that take place all the time with the people snapping at the government and the government spending time and money in order to govern the country. He will not be able to govern in the country because he has to face a lot of disruptions coming from the very people who elected him.

So in Asia today we find not too many democracies. India is supposed to be the biggest democracy and but the others are quite totalitarian such as kingdom and countries of central Asia. In the east of course although leaders may be elected the ability to rule is not so good because of the constant sniping at the ruler whoever he may be. So the future of democracy in in Asia I think well will be something that will will not be achieve overnight as happens with some of the Middle Eastern countries. They change over night and today we see more problems than it was before they had democracy. You see civil war you see a lot of fighting and you’ll see a lot of disruption of the environment and they are unable to rule well or to get others to come and invest in their countries.

So I hope that people will understand that it takes time for people to become democratic. The value system must be suitable for democracy before democracy it self can be used as a method of running a country.

Thank you very much.

 

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Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad’s speech at the general debate of the 73rd session of the United Nations General Assembly

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Madam President,
1. I would like to join others in congratulating you on your election as the President of the Seventy-Third (73rd) Session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA).
2. I am confident with your wisdom and vast experience; this session will achieve the objectives of the theme for this session. I assure you of Malaysia’s fullest support and cooperation towards achieving these noble goals.
3. Allow me to also pay tribute to your predecessor, His Excellency Miroslav Lajcak, for his dedication and stewardship in successfully completing the work of the 72nd Session of the General Assembly.
4. I commend the Secretary-General and the United Nations staff for their tireless efforts in steering and managing UN activities globally.
5. In particular, I pay tribute to the late Kofi Annan, the seventh Secretary-General of the UN from 1997 – 2006, who sadly passed away in August this year. Malaysia had a positively strong and active engagement with the UN during his tenure.
Madam President,
6. The theme of this 73rd Session of General Assembly, “Making the United Nations Relevant to All People: Global Leadership and Shared Responsibilities for Peaceful, Equitable and Sustainable Societies” remains true to the aspiration of our founding fathers. The theme is most relevant and timely. It is especially pertinent in the context of the new Malaysia. The new Government of Malaysia, recently empowered with a strong mandate from its people, is committed to ensure that every Malaysian has an equitable share in the prosperity and wealth of the nation.
7. A new Malaysia emerged after the 14th General Election in May this year. Malaysians decided to change their government, which had been in power for 61 years, i.e., since independence. We did this because the immediate past Government indulged in the politics of hatred, of racial and religious bigotry, as well as widespread corruption. The process of change was achieved democratically, without violence or loss of lives.
8. Malaysians want a new Malaysia that upholds the principles of fairness, good governance, integrity and the rule of law. They want a Malaysia that is a friend to all and enemy of none. A Malaysia that remains neutral and non-aligned. A Malaysia that detests and abhors wars and violence. They also want a Malaysia that will speak its mind on what is right and wrong, without fear or favour. A new Malaysia that believes in co-operation based on mutual respect, for mutual gain. The new Malaysia that offers a partnership based on our philosophy of ‘prosper-thy-neighbour’. We believe in the goodness of cooperation, that a prosperous and stable neighbour would contribute to our own prosperity and stability.
9. The new Malaysia will firmly espouse the principles promoted by the UN in our international engagements. These include the principles of truth, human rights, the rule of law, justice, fairness, responsibility and accountability, as well as sustainability. It is within this context that the new government of Malaysia has pledged to ratify all remaining core UN instruments related to the protection of human rights. It will not be easy for us because Malaysia is multi-ethnic, multireligious, multicultural and multilingual. We will accord space and time for all to deliberate and to decide freely based on democracy.Madam President,10. When I last spoke here in 2003, I lamented how the world had lost its way. I bemoaned the fact that small countries continued to be at the mercy of the powerful. I argued the need for the developing world to push for reform, to enhance capacity building and diversify the economy. We need to maintain control of our destiny.
11. But today, 15 years later the world has not changed much. If at all the world is far worse than 15 years ago. Today the world is in a state of turmoil
economically, socially and politically.
12. There is a trade war going on between the two most powerful economies. And the rest of the world feel the pain.
13. Socially new values undermine the stability of nations and their people. Freedom has led to the negation of the concept of marriage and families, of moral codes, of respect etc.
14. But the worse turmoil is in the political arena. We are seeing acts of terror everywhere. People are tying bombs to their bodies and blowing themselves up in crowded places. Trucks are driven into holiday crowds. Wars are fought and people beheaded with short knives. Acts of brutality are broadcast to the world live. Masses of people risk their lives to migrate only to be denied asylum, sleeping in the open and freezing to death. Thousands starve and tens of thousands die in epidemics of cholera.
15. No one, no country is safe. Security checks inconvenience travellers. No liquids on planes. The slightest suspicion leads to detention and unpleasant questioning.
16. To fight the “terrorists” all kinds of security measures, all kinds of gadgets and equipment are deployed. Big brother is watching. But the acts of terror continues.
17. Malaysia fought the bandits and terrorists at independence and defeated them. We did use the military. But alongside and more importantly we campaigned to win the hearts of minds of these people.
18. This present war against the terrorist will not end until the root causes are found and removed and hearts and minds are won.
19. What are the root causes? In 1948, Palestinian land was seized to form the state of Israel. The Palestinians were massacred and forced to leave their land. Their houses and farms were seized.
20. They tried to fight a conventional war with help from sympathetic neighbours. The friends of Israel ensured this attempt failed. More Palestinian land was seized. And Israeli settlements were built on more and more Palestinian land and the Palestinians are denied access to these settlements built on their land.
21. The Palestinians initially tried to fight with catapults and stones. They were shot with live bullets and arrested. Thousands are incarcerated.
22. Frustrated and angry, unable to fight a conventional war, the Palestinians resort to what we call terrorism.
23. The world does not care even when Israel breaks international laws, seizing ships carrying medicine, food and building materials in international waters. The Palestinians fired ineffective rockets which hurt no one. Massive retaliations were mounted by Israel, rocketing and bombing hospitals, schools and other buildings, killing innocent civilians including school children and hospital patients. And more.
24. The world rewards Israel, deliberately provoking Palestine by recognising Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.
25. It is the anger and frustration of the Palestinians and their sympathisers that cause them to resort to what we call terrorism. But it is important to acknowledge that any act which terrify people also constitute terrorism. And states dropping bombs or launching rockets which maim and kill innocent people also terrify people. These are also acts of terrorism.
26. Malaysia hates terrorism. We will fight them. But we believe that the only way to fight terrorism is to remove the cause. Let the Palestinians return to reclaim their land. Let there be a state of Palestine. Let there be justice and the rule of law. Warring against them will not stop terrorism. Nor will out-terrorising them succeed.
27. We need to remind ourselves that the United Nations Organisation, like the League of Nations before, was conceived for the noble purpose of ending wars between nations.

28. Wars are about killing people. Modern wars are about mass killings and total destruction countrywide. Civilised nations claim they abhor killing for any reason. When a man kills, he commits the crime of murder. And the punishment for murder may be death.
29. But wars, we all know encourage and legitimise killing. Indeed the killings are regarded as noble, and the
killers are hailed as heroes. They get medals stuck to their chest and statues erected in their honour, have their names mentioned in history books.
30. There is something wrong with our way of thinking, with our value system. Kill one man, it is murder, kill a million and you become a hero. And so we still believe that conflict between nations can be resolved with war.
31. And because we still do, we must prepare for war. The old adage says “to have peace, prepare for war”. And we are forever preparing for war, inventing more and more destructive weapons. We now have nuclear bombs, capable of destroying whole cities. But now we know that the radiation emanating from the explosion will affect even the country using the bomb. A nuclear war would destroy the world.
32. This fear has caused the countries of Europe and North America to maintain peace for over 70 years. But that is not for other countries. Wars in these other countries can help live test the new weapons being invented.
33. And so they sell them to warring countries. We see their arms in wars fought between smaller countries. These are not world wars but they are no less destructive. Hundreds of thousands of people have been killed, whole countries devastated and nations bankrupted because of these fantastic new weapons.
34. But these wars give handsome dividends to the arms manufacturers and traders. The arms business is now the biggest business in the world. They profit shamelessly from the deaths and destructions they cause. Indeed, so-called peace-loving countries often promote this shameful business.
35. Today’s weapons cost millions. Fighter jets cost about 100 million dollars. And maintaining them cost tens of millions. But the poor countries are persuaded to buy them even if they cannot afford. They are told their neighbours or their enemies have them. It is imperative that they too have them.
36. So, while their people starve and suffer from all kinds of deprivations, a huge percentage of their budget is allocated to the purchase of arms. That their buyers may never have to use them bothers the purveyors not at all.
Madam President,
37. In Myanmar, Muslims in Rakhine state are being murdered, their homes torched and a million refugees had been forced to flee, to drown in the high seas, to live in makeshift huts, without water or food, without the most primitive sanitation. Yet the authorities of Myanmar including a Nobel Peace Laureate deny that this is happening. I believe in non-interference in the internal affairs of nations. But does the world watch massacres being carried out and do nothing? Nations are independent. But does this mean they have a right to massacre their own people, because they are independent?
Madam President,
38. On the other hand, in terms of trade, nations are no longer independent. Free trade means no protection by small countries of their infant industries. They must abandon tariff restrictions and open their countries to invasion by products of the rich and the powerful. Yet the simple products of the poor are subjected to clever barriers so that they cannot penetrate the market of the rich. Malaysian palm oil is labelled as dangerous to health and the estates are destroying the habitat of animals. Food products of the rich declare that they are palm oil free. Now palm diesel are condemned because they are decimating virgin jungles. These caring people forget that their boycott is depriving hundreds of thousands of people from jobs and a decent life.
39. We in Malaysia care for the environment. Some 48% of our country remains virgin jungle. Can our detractors claim the same for their own countries?
Madam President,
40. Malaysia is committed to sustainable development. We have taken steps, for example in improving production methods to ensure that our palm oil production is sustainable. By December 2019, the Malaysian Sustainable Palm Oil (MSPO) standard will become mandatory. This will ensure that every drop of palm oil produced in Malaysia will be certified sustainable by 2020.
Madam President,
41. All around the world, we observe a dangerous trend to inward-looking nationalism, of governments pandering to populism, retreating from international collaborations and shutting their borders to free movements of people, goods and services even as they talk of a borderless world, of free trade. While globalisation has indeed brought us some benefits, the impacts have proven to be threatening to the independence of small nations. We cannot even talk or move around without having our voices and movement recorded and often used against us. Data on everyone is captured and traded by powerful nations and their corporations.
42. Malaysia lauds the UN in its endeavours to end poverty, protect our planet and try to ensure everyone enjoys peace and prosperity. But I would like to refer to the need for reform in the organisation. Five countries on the basis of their victories 70 over years ago cannot claim to have a right to hold the world to ransom forever. They cannot take the moral high ground, preaching democracy and regime change in the countries of the world when they deny democracy in this organisation.
43. I had suggested that the veto should not be by just one permanent member but by at least two powers backed by three non-permanent members of the Security Council. The General Assembly should then back the decision with a simple majority. I will not say more.
44. I must admit that the world without the UN would be disastrous. We need the UN, we need to sustain it with sufficient funds. No one should threaten it with financial deprivation.
Madam President
45. After 15 years and at 93, I return to this podium with the heavy task of bringing the voice and hope of the new Malaysia to the world stage. The people of Malaysia, proud of their recent democratic achievement, have high hopes that around the world – we will see peace, progress and prosperity. In this we look toward the UN to hear our pleas.

I thank you, Madam President.

PAS

KENAPA SAYA TENTANG PAS

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1. Orang PAS amat marah kepada saya. Selain dari mendakwa saya kafir, penyokong PAS tidak langsung sanggup mendengar kritik saya terhadap PAS. Saya percaya sebarang pendapat saya tidak akan dibaca oleh orang PAS termasuklah rencana ini. Tetapi saya harap mereka yang tidak fanatik terhadap PAS akan baca. Terpulanglah kepada pembaca samada menerima atau menolak pendapat saya.

2. Sesungguhnya orang Melayu dahulu tidak bermasalah berkenaan pegangan mereka kepada agama Islam yang semua mereka anuti. Mereka semuanya berpegang kepada tafsiran dan ajaran Ahli Sunnah Wal Jamaah (Sunni) dan berimam dengan Imam Shafie.

3. Mereka juga tidak menolak ajaran tiga lagi Imam Sunni, iaitu Maliki, Hambali dan Hanafi.

4. Oleh kerana semua orang percaya dan pegang kepada ajaran dan tafsiran yang sama, mereka tidak berpecah dan berpuak-puak. Sudah tentu mereka tidak bermusuh sesama mereka seperti yang berlaku antara Sunni dan Syiah di beberapa negara Islam. Di banyak negara Islam permusuhan disebabkan tafsiran yang berlainan berlaku sepanjang masa sehingga mereka berpuak-puak dan kerapkali mereka berperang pun.

5. Tetapi di Malaysia, walaupun dahulu ada ajaran yang berlainan, umpamanya kaum muda dan kaum tua, kumpulan Hj. Ahmad Matahari, dan lain-lain, tetapi tidaklah sampai kepada permusuhan dan perpecahan yang teruk. Sesungguhnya orang Melayu Islam bersaudara dan mengamalkan ajaran Islam yang sama. Mereka bersatu padu sebagai orang Islam sehingga bangsa Melayu dikaitkan dengan agama Islam. Dalam perlembagaan pun tafsiran orang Melayu ialah orang yang berbahasa Melayu, beradat istiadat Melayu dan beragama Islam. Jika seseorang itu tidak Islam maka ia tidaklah Melayu, walaupun bahasa ibunda mereka adalah bahasa Melayu.

6. Keadaan persaudaraan orang Melayu Islam ini kukuh sehingga dengan mudah mereka bersatu padu diwaktu menentang rancangan British untuk menakluk negeri-negeri Melayu secara langsung melalui Malayan Union. Demikianlah rapatnya perpaduan orang Melayu sehingga British yang baru sahaja menang perang, terpaksa tunduk kepada tuntutan orang Melayu. British mengakui kekuatan orang Melayu dan mengiktiraf parti yang mengalahkan Malayan Union dengan memberi hak kepada pemimpin mereka, Tunku Abdul Rahman menamakan calon-calon badan perundangan seperti Federal Legislative Council dan State Council (Dewan Undangan Negeri-negeri) dalam Persekutuan Tanah Melayu yang mengganti Malayan Union pada 1948.

7. Dalam parti UMNO pada masa itu terdapat semua aktivis Melayu dari yang berpelajaran Melayu, Inggeris dan yang berpelajaran agama. Mereka yang berpelajaran agama dikenali sebagai “ulama UMNO”.

8. Apabila British memberi hak kepada Tunku Abdul Rahman, Yang DiPertua UMNO menamakan calon, Tunku telah pilih pemimpin UMNO yang berpengalaman dalam bidang pentadbiran. Hampir semua dari mereka ini berpelajaran Inggeris. Yang berpelajaran agama, “ulama” hampir tidak dipilih sama sekali.

9. Maka kecewalah pemimpin yang berlatar belakang agama. Hasilnya ialah desakan untuk keluar UMNO dan menubuh Pan Malayan Islamic Parti (PMIP). Kemudian namanya dialih kepada PAS, Parti Islam SeMalaya.

10. Orang Melayu semuanya memang kuat pegangan mereka kepada agama Islam. PAS berharap dengan kaitan parti kepada agama Islam maka akan berjayalah PAS dalam pilihan raya.

11. British mencadang diadakan PRU pada 1955 untuk 52 dari 98 kerusi Federal Legislative Council. Bantahan oleh UMNO supaya semua 98 kerusi ditandingi ditolak. Pendapat British ialah tidak mungkin mana-mana parti memenangi lebih dari separuh, iaitu 50, untuk mengambil alih Kerajaan dari British.

12. Dalam PRU itu isu utama ialah kemerdekaan. Sementara UMNO dalam Perikatan tuntut kemerdekaan selepas PRU, PAS mendakwa Malaya belum layak mendapat kemerdekaan.

13. Hasilnya ialah kemenangan besar Perikatan. Dengan Perikatan mendapat 51 kerusi, British terpaksa beri kepada Perikatan, pimpinan Tunku Abdul Rahman, home rule atau Pemerintahan Dalaman. Hanya Kementerian Luar dan Pertahanan sahaja dikuasai oleh British. Maka bermulalah perjuangan untuk kemerdekaan secara bersungguh-sungguh.

14. PAS memenangi hanya satu kerusi. Jelas penolakan kemerdekaan merugi PAS. Maka bermulalah Agama Islam diperalatkan sepenuhnya untuk menarik sokongan orang Melayu.

15. PAS mendakwa bahawa orang yang bekerjasama dengan orang kafir menjadi kafir. Oleh kerana UMNO bekerjasama dengan orang Cina (Buddhist) dan India (Hindu) dalam Perikatan, maka PAS mendakwa orang UMNO tidak Islam, orang UMNO kafir.

16. Akibatnya ialah orang Melayu bukan PAS yang semuanya beragama Islam dan mengikut ajaran yang sama, iaitu ajaran Ahlul Sunnah Wal Jamaah, berimam dengan Imam Shafie, tiba-tiba dikafirkan. Perpecahan yang teruk dan mendalam berlaku.

17. Orang PAS tidak pun boleh bersama dengan orang UMNO, kenduri orang UMNO diboikot oleh orang PAS. Perkahwinan antara orang PAS dan UMNO tidak boleh diadakan. Mereka tidak boleh sembahyang bersama, tidak boleh diimamkan dengan imam yang sama. PAS sembahyang dengan lain imam di masjid dan mendirikan masjid berasingan dari orang UMNO.

18. Ada juga yang berpendapat perkahwinan ibu bapa mereka tidak sah dan ibu bapa mereka yang tidak jadi ahli PAS adalah kafir.

19. Kemudian Hj Hadi sebagai seorang dari pemimpin PAS telah mengeluarkan “Amanat” yang secara langsung mendakwa bahawa pemerintahan Barisan Nasional pimpinan UMNO adalah kafir. Pejuang-pejuang yang melawan Kerajaan UMNO/BN, jika mati, mereka mati syahid.

20. Dengan kepercayaan kepada amanat Hadi, pengikut Ibrahim Libya telah serang dan membunuh empat orang anggota polis. Dalam pertempuran antara polis dan pengikut Ibrahim Libya, 14 orang pengikutnya dan dia sendiri terbunuh.

21. Maka PAS pun dakwa pengikut Ibrahim yang mati adalah syahid. Mereka dikebumi sebagai syahid tanpa dimandi.

22. Adalah jelas bahawa PAS memecah belah orang Melayu Islam dengan amat mendalam. Sehingga ke hari ini masih ada sembahyang berjemaah berasingan di masjid yang sama.

23. Tiada ada ulama di Malaysia yang berani mendakwa bahawa pengkafiran orang bukan PAS adalah salah dan tidak menepati ajaran Islam. Pegawai-pegawai pemerintah yang bertanggungjawab berkenaan agama Islam juga membisu seribu bahasa.

24. Inilah perbuatan PAS yang tidak boleh dimaaf. Sebelum adanya PAS orang Melayu tidak berpecah kerana agama. Hanya apabila PAS ditubuh barulah orang Melayu berpecah dan terpisah kepada dua puak yang bermusuh ketat. Perpecahan ini jugalah yang melemahkan orang Melayu. Demikianlah kelemahan orang Melayu sehingga PAS juga terpaksa meminta pertolongan orang-orang kafir. Tetapi apabila PAS bekerjasama dengan parti kafir, PAS dakwa mereka tidak jadi kafir. Sebab kononnya, kerana kerjasama PAS dengan orang kafir adalah “Tahaluf Siyasi”. Apa dianya Tahaluf Siyasi jika diterjemah ke bahasa Melayu. Maknanya ialah “Kerjasama politik” dan ini adalah sama dengan apa yang dilakukan oleh UMNO apabila bekerjasama dengan MCA dan MIC. Jelaslah bahawa Bahasa Arab (Bahasa Quran) diguna untuk mengIslamkan kerjasama PAS dan orang kafir.

25. Dikalangan ahli PAS, penerimaan ajaran pemimpin dan parti lebih utama dari ajaran Islam. Sebab itu walaupun Al Quran menyebut bahawa orang Islam itu bersaudara, ahli PAS sanggup bermusuh dengan orang Islam lain kerana ajaran oleh pemimpin PAS. Kerana sikap inilah orang Islam (Melayu) di Malaysia berpecah sehingga sekarang. Bukan Islam yang memecah orang Melayu tetapi politik PAS yang membawa perpecahan kepada mereka.

26. Walaupun sebahagian dari ahli PAS sudah tinggal PAS tetapi ramai dari ahli PAS yang masih taksub dengan PAS dan ajarannya. Dan perpecahan yang mendalam dikalangan orang Melayu adalah berterusan. Dia akan berterusan selagi PAS menyalahtafsir dan menyalahguna ajaran Islam.

27. Inilah sebabnya yang saya tentang PAS.

 

 

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Pendirian Kerajaan Berkaitan Hukuman Sebat

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Kabinet kerajaan Pakatan Harapan hari ini telah membincangkan kes yang mana dua wanita telah di sebat kerana melakukan hubungan yang luar biasa.
Pihak kami berpendapat bahawa ini tidak mencerminkan keadilan dan timbangrasa oleh agama Islam.
Sebaliknya kita tahu bahawa ini adalah kes pertama bagi mereka dan biasanya dalam kes pertama kita perlu memberi nasihat dan tidak seterusnya melakukan sebat sehingga diketahui oleh seluruh negara.
Ini memberi gambaran yang buruk kepada agama Islam. Sebab itu kami berpendapat bahawa kalau pun ada kes-kes yang semacam ini pertimbangan hendaklah diberi kepada keadaan tertentu yang mana dalam Islam kita boleh menjatuhkan hukum yang lebih ringan sementara kita memberi nasihat dan sebagainya.
Amatlah penting kita menunjuk bahawa agama Islam ini bukanlah agama yang bengis yang suka menjatuhkan hukum hukum
yang berat yang mengaibkan orang. Ini bukan cara-cara yang digalakkan oleh agama Islam ini adalah pendapat kabinet kerajaan dan kami harap kita berhati-hati dalam mempamerkan Islam sebagai agama yang tidak ada tolak ansur tidak ada bertimbangrasa sedangkan kita selalu apabila bermula sesuatu bermula dengan Bismillahirrahmanirrahim Dengan nama Allah yang maha pemurah lagi maha pengasihani tetapi kita tunjuk seolah-olah dalam Islam ini tidak ada perasaan pemurah sama sekali. Inilah pendapat Kerajaan Pakatan Harapan pada mesyuarat nya pada hari ini.
Sekian terima kasih.

 

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PERUTUSAN HARI KEBANGSAAN 2018

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Berikut ialah teks penuh perutusan Perdana Menteri Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad sempena sambutan Hari Kebangsaan 2018:

Assalamualaikum dan Salam Sejahtera kepada semua rakyat Malaysia.

1. Buat ke sekian kalinya, kita menyambut Hari Kebangsaan. Secara rasminya, ia adalah Hari Kebangsaan kita kali yang ke 61 mengikut kiraan hari pengumuman kemerdekaan pada 31 Ogos 1957 yang dibuat oleh Tunku Abdul Rahman di Stadium Merdeka.

2. Banyak peristiwa yang telah dilalui oleh Persekutuan Tanah Melayu yang kemudiannya Malaysia sejak mencapai kemerdekaan dari jajahan British kepada sebuah Negara berdaulat dan bebas melakar halatujunya mengikut acuannya sendiri.

3. Mulai dari hari itu tugas yang digalas oleh Kerajaan dan juga rakyat ialah mengisi kemerdekaan tersebut.

4. Cabaran yang dihadapi bukan sedikit. Sebagai sebuah negara yang baru merdeka, semuanya terpaksa dilakukan dari awal ataupun “starting from scratch.”

5. Ia bukan sesuatu yang mudah–hampir semua lapangan, pengalaman dan kepakaran dimiliki oleh pentadbir-pentadbir dan cerdik pandai penjajah dan amat sedikit dari kalangan anak bangsa yang mampu mengambil-alih sepenuhnya tanggungjawab itu.

6. Malahan sebahagian dari sistem pentadbiran dan perundangan yang ditinggalkan agak sukar untuk dilaksanakan kerana ianya direka bersesuaian dengan keperluan mereka sebagai penjajah. Penduduk tempatan tidak dapati sesuai untuk diterima sepenuhnya.

7. Namun kita boleh bersyukur jika dibanding dengan negara lain yang terpaksa hadapi keadaan yang lebih teruk kerana penjajah meninggalkan negara-negara itu dalam keadaan kucar-kacir, tanpa pentadbir yang terlatih atau perundangan yang sesuai untuk dilaksana.

8. Negara kita bernasib baik kerana kebijaksanaan kepimpinan Negara pada masa itu yang berjaya mendapatkan kemerdekaan menerusi perundingan dan bukan pemberontakan dan tumpah darah. Dengan ini bekas penjajah dapat membantu di dalam keselamatan, pentadbiran dan perancangan masa depan Negara.

9. Bantuan mereka bukanlah semata-mata kerana perasaan bertanggungjawab. Ia juga kerana keperluan kestabilan dan keamanan supaya pelaburan mereka dalam perladangan dan perlombongan terselamat.

10. Persekutuan Tanah Melayu ataupun Federation of Malaya yang menggantikan Malayan Union memang kaya dari segi hasil buminya. Kekayaan ini menyumbang banyak kepada kemajuan penjajah.

11. Dalam konteks ini, kemerdekaan yang dicapai cuma akan bermakna hanya apabila kita berjaya menghakis genggaman neokolonialisme atau penjajahan ekonomi yang mencemar kemerdekaan kita.

Dengan usaha yang gigih kita berjaya memajukan negara sehingga kita dapat tebus balik kekayaan kita. Satu daripada usaha kita ialah dengan mengadakan ‘ Dawn Raid’ untuk membeli secara halal ladang Guthrie kita. Tetapi kita dituduh merampas atau nationalise.

12. Namun demikian kita masih sanggup menerima pelaburan asing (FDI) termasuk dari negara penjajah juga. Tetapi mereka tidak dibenar campur tangan dalam politik dan pentadbiran negara. Kemerdekaan kita tetap dipelihara.

13. Kemudian Persekutuan Tanah Melayu beralih menjadi Malaysia. Kesanggupan orang Melayu bertolak ansur tidak dapat dipertikai atau ditandingi oleh sesiapa.

14. Walaupun Malaysia mempunyai lebih banyak bangsa dan suku kaum, tetapi ianya tetap aman dan stabil dan membangun dengan pesatnya sehingga dikenali sebagai Harimau Asia. Sesungguhnya kemampuan Malaysia menjadi sebuah negara maju menjelang 2020 tetap ada.

15. Tetapi malangnya pertukaran pemerintahan membawa perubahan dasar dan pendekatan. Sistem demokrasi dan pentadbiran mengikut undang-undang digugur dan diganti dengan cara-cara lain. Hasilnya ialah Wawasan 2020 menjadi impian kosong.

16. Demikianlah kerosakan dan tekanan yang dirasai oleh rakyat sehingga mereka berasa seolah-olah mencapai kemerdekaan sekali lagi apabila PRU 14 menghasilkan perubahan pemerintahan.

17. Ya, rakyat mencapai kejayaan hasil pendirian tegas mereka. Tetapi nikmat tidak datang melayang kerana kemenangan dicapai. Tindakan terhadap penjenayah juga tidak dapat dilakukan dengan serta merta.

18. Seperti kita tidak suka kepada cara-cara pentadbiran dahulu begitu juga kita tidak boleh amalkan cara yang kita benci dahulu. Pentadbiran mengikut undang-undang memerlukan masa untuk dilaksanakan. Tetapi percayalah akhirnya penjenayah akan meraih hukuman yang setimpal dengan kesalahan yang telah mereka lakukan.

19. Sementara itu rakyat dan Kerajaan perlu berganding bahu untuk memulih semula negara. Tugas kita memang berat. Tetapi tidak ada kuasa yang boleh menghalang gandingan rakyat dengan pemerintah.

20. Kita sudah lihat bagaimana negara yang telah kalah dan hancur dalam peperangan dapat memulihkan negara sehingga dalam masa yang singkat dapat kembali maju kerana semangat dan usaha oleh rakyat dan pemerintah.

21. Kita juga mampu. Kita juga boleh pulih semula negara kita Malaysia.

22. Kerajaan boleh tadbir dengan baik, berjimat cermat, berdisiplin dan mengawal nafsu. Ini sedang dilakukan. Walaupun masih sedikit tetapi pencapaian dalam mengurangkan hutang sudah ternampak. Kerosakan jentera pentadbiran telah dapat dipulih semula. InsyaAllah dengan tindakan yang sedang dan akan diambil, negara akan sihat semula.

23. Tetapi rakyat juga perlu memain peranan. Jikalau Kerajaan tidak mampu hulur wang seperti dahulu, sebabnya ialah pembaziran seperti dahulu akan jejaskan proses pemulihan. Lagipun Kerajaan ini tidak mencuri wang rakyat untuk diberi kepada rakyat sebahagian dari hasil pencurian.

24. Cara sebegitu bukanlah cara yang terbaik. Kerajaan ini akan wujudkan lebih banyak peluang pekerjaan dan perniagaan. Dengan cara ini pendapatan yang diperolehi lebih memuaskan. Ia adalah hasil titik peluh sendiri dan sudah tentu ia halal.

25. Untuk ini Kerajaan akan memberi pelajaran dan latihan serta juga biasiswa. Kepakaran pekerja akan ditingkatkan supaya pendapatan akan bertambah.

26. Kita akan naikkan upah mengikut kemampuan. Tetapi yang perlu diingati ialah kenaikan upah tidak bermakna jika kos sara hidup naik bersama.

27. Untuk menentukan kenaikan upah menambah daya beli, produktiviti perlu ditingkatkan melalui cara pengurusan yang lebih cekap, peningkatan kecekapan pekerja, penggunaan mesin, robotik dan otomasi dan tambahan pelaburan oleh majikan. Kerajaan akan beri insentif dan hadiah kepada mereka yang berjaya meningkatkan produktiviti dengan kos yang terendah. Kenaikan harga hasil perusahaan hendaklah dikawal.

28. Tetapi sepanjang masa Kerajaan akan bantu rakyat yang benar miskin ataupun kurang upaya. Mereka akan dibantu lebih baik dari BR1M umpamanya. Memberi 500 Ringgit atau 1200 Ringgit setahun tidak mencukupi untuk hidup sempurna. Ya. BRIM akan dikurangkan beransur-ansur tetapi yang daif dan tidak bekerja ataupun tidak dapat bekerja akan dibantu secara lebih bermakna.

29. Kita rayakan Hari Kebangsaan kali ini dengan perasaan lega dan selesa. Sesungguhnya ini adalah Kemerdekaan kedua bagi kita. Kita sudah bebas daripada belenggu pemerintahan kejam. Hidup kita lebih selesa. Kerajaan PH ini akan jamin keadilan bagi semua rakyat, tanpa mengira kaum atau bangsa atau agama.

30. Sesuai dengan pencapaian dan perasaan yang kita lalui dan kongsi bersama, tema Hari Kebangsaan tahun ini ialah “Sayangi Malaysiaku.”

31. Adalah diharap agar perasaan ini kekal dihati kita semua. Saya yakin, selagi perasaan ini ada bersama kita semua, apa saja perbezaan, percanggahan dan rasa sangsi yang timbul, Malaysia akan tetap utuh dan maju.

32. Selamat Menyambut Hari Kebangsaan. Semoga harapan kita agar Malaysia terus maju, aman dan saksama akan kekal selamanya. Sayangilah Malaysiaku ini. Wabillahi Taufik Walhidayah Wassalamualaikum Warahmatullahi Wabarakatuh.

Terima kasih.

— BERNAMA

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SELAMAT HARI RAYA AIDIL ADHA

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Bismillahirrahmanirrahim
Assalamualaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh.
Selamat hari raya Aidil Adha kepada semua rakyat Malaysia yang beragama islam. Alhamdulillah kita boleh rayakan hari raya Aidil Adha ini dalam keadaan aman dan tenteram.
Dan negara kita sekarang ini tidak lagi berasa curiga terhadap kerajaan yang memerintah yang memegang kepada lunas lunas ajaran Islam. Dan kita bershukor dengan kerana nya.
Saya sekali lagi menyatakan kesyukoran kita kerana keadaan sudah pulih dinegara kita dan kita boleh rayakan hari raya Aidil Adha ini dalam keadaan aman damai.
Sekian terima kasih.