AKAN ADA KAH 2 LAGI PRK?

SUMBER: http://www.sabahdaily.com/2009/04/prk-kepala-batas-usukan-serentak/

PERLETAKAN jawatan Mantan Perdana Menteri, Tun Abdullah Ahmad Badawi pada 2 April lalu akan diikuti dengan persaraannya sebagai Ahli Parlimen Kepala Batas yang diwakilinya selama lapan penggal atau 30 tahun.

Sabahkini.net menerima maklumat daripada sumber dalaman Umno, berhubung ura-ura Tun Abdullah akan mengumumkan perletakan jawatannya sebagai Ahli Parlimen selewatnya pada awal Jun 2009 iaitu menjelang sidang Dewan Rakyat.

“Pada rancangan awal beliau sepatutnya meletakkan jawatan Ahli Parlimen Kepala Batas ketika melepaskan jawatan Perdana Menteri. Agak ganjil juga jika beliau yang berpangkat Tun duduk bersama-sama dengan Ahli Parlimen lain di DEwan Rakyat,” kata sumber tersebut memaklumkan Sabahkini.net.

Sumber tersebut juga menyebut, pilihanraya kecil (jika kerusi diistiharkan kosong) akan diadakan serentak dengan Kerusi Dewan Undangan Negeri Usukan kerana desakan daripada pelbagai pihak agar Japlin meletakkan jawatan sebaik sahaja didakwa di mahkamah setelah diikat jamin sebanyak RM100,000 kerana terlibat dengan politik wang.

Bagaimanapun sumber tersebut tidak menyatakan tarikh tepat Kerusi Usukan akan dikosongkan kerana BN yakin tidak mempunyai masalah untuk mempertahankan kubu kuat UMNO berkenaan.

“Kita masih menunggu pengesahan daripada Suruhanjaya Pencegahan Rasuah Malaysia (SPRM) dan Setiausaha Dewan Undangan Negeri Sabah,” ujar sumber tersebut yang mengakui Japlin tidak dapat diterima umum sebagai usaha untuk membersihkan rasuah di dalam era Dato’ Seri Mohd Najib Tun Razak.

Mengikut sejarah, Pak Lah mula menjadi Ahli Parlimen Kepala Batas sejak tahun 1978 menjadikannya antara Ahli Dewan Rakyat paling lama berkhidmat iaitu selama lapan penggal berturut-turut.

Pak Lah pernah digugurkan daripada Kabinet mantan Perdana Menteri, Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad pada 1987 walaupun memenangi jawatan Naib Presiden Umno kerana beliau mewakili Team B yang diketuai oleh Tan Sri Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah namun beliau tidak menyertai Semangat 46.

Karier Pak Lah melepasi zaman gerhana selepas memenangi pertandingan Naib Presiden Umno pada 1990 menyebabkan Tun Dr Mahathir tiada pilihan dan terpaksa melantik beliau ke Kabinet sebagai Menteri Luar.

Sejak daripada itu bintang beliau terus bersinar sehingga akhirnya dilantik ke jawatan tertinggi negara sebagai Perdana Menteri pada Oktober 2003 selama lima tahun, lima bulan dan tiga hari.

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BGB'S COMMENT: PRK lagi? Maka bertambah sibuklah para bloggers nampak gayanya lepas ni.

Hope Over Fear…. Finally Sarawak Government Defeated over NCR… Rakyat Gawai Gift

Source: http://dayakbaru.com/weblog08/?p=3899

Posted by Cobbold@dayaknation.com

Finally the Sarawak Government was defeated today, as the federal Court has upheld the concept of NCR to Natives, to include not only Temuda (cultivated Land) but also also Pulau (communal forest) and pemakai Menoa (territorial Domain). In case initiated by local Malay Madehi Salleh to claim his NCR rights over former Sarawak Shell Concessions land in Miri. A new Hope for the Dayak people to claim back their NCR lands that has been taken by the BN Sarawak. Dayak Nation would like to thank Makanda Singh Shandu and his son Sathinda that represented Madeli. Taib and the rest of BN Sarawak must return back NCR land to the natives now. More news in Malaysinkini. Please spread the Goodnews to all Natives of Sarawak.

Original Text;

S’wak gov’t defeated in landmark NCR ruling
Malaysiakini Tony Thien May 5, 09 7:16pm

The Federal Court has upheld the concept of native customary rights (NCR) to land as including not only one class of such land called temuda (cultivated land), but also pulau (communal forest) and pemakai menua (territorial domain).

The apex court delivered its ruling today in Kuching, in an application by the Sarawak government in a case initiated by local Malay Madehi Salleh to claim NCR rights over former Shell concession land in Miri.

Lawyers dealing in NCR cases were quick to point out the implications of the decision for some 200 land cases filed to date against the state government and companies that have obtained leases mainly for plantation and logging activities.

So long as NCR claimants can provide sufficient evidence to support their claims, logging and plantation companies may now find themselves in a quandary unless they are prepared to negotiate.

Madehi had taken the state government to court in 2007 over his rights to 6.6 acres of land and won the case.

However, the state government successfully appealed the decision in the Court of Appeal, following which Madehi turned to the Federal Court and won his case in October 2007.

The court recognised the pre-existence of NCR before the coming into force of any statue or legislation, in particular the Rajah Order of 1921. It said the reservation of the land under the Rajah’s Order for Sarawak Oilfields Ltd (SOL) did not have the effect of extinguishing NCR to the land.

There was no provision whatsoever in the Rajah’s Order that extinguished Madeli’s NCR to his tract of land, the judges said, noting that all it did was to reserve the land for SOL.

Furthermore, the Federal Court said native rights to occupy untitled land in accordance with customary laws subsisted in an area reserved for operation of SOL. Individual rights of natives were the same as communal rights, it added.

Application dismissed

The Sarawak government, unhappy with the decision, then applied to the Federal Court to review its own decision.

Today, however, the court disagreed that the applicants had met the threshold requirement and dismissed the review application with costs.

The Federal Court’s quorum comprised the Chief Justice of Sarawak and Sabah Richard Malanjun, Hashim Yusuf and Zulkifli Ahmad Makinudin.

Appearing for the applicants (Sarawak government) were State Legal Counsel JC Fong and his assistant Safri Ali. Miri-based lawyer Mekanda Singh Sandhu and his son Sathinda represented Madehi.

Sathinda told Malaysiakini later that the judgment can now be applied to all NCR land cases after this.

Millions of hectares of land have been leased out over the past 20 years to many companies and state agencies.

The Federal Court ruling re-affirmed a similar landmark finding in the Nor Nyawai & Others v Borneo Pulp and Plantation case in Bintulu in 2001

SIDANG MEDIA DS IR NIZAR

IPOH, 7 Mei (Hari Gelita) : Satu sidang media telah diadakan di Pejabat Badan Perhubungan PAS Negeri Perak, di Ipoh Raya petang tadi. Sidang yang diadakan berkenaan perkembangan persidangan DUN Perak telah disampaikan oleh YAB Dato' Seri Haji Mohamad Nizar, YB Drs. Khalil Idham Lim serta pimpinan lain seperti Ustaz Ahmad Awang, YB Dr. Hatta Ramli, YB Dr. Lo' Lo' Dato' Ghazali, YB Salahuddin Ayub serta Dr. Khairuddin.

Antara isi sidang media ialah :

Pihak Pakatan Rakyat tidak mengiktiraf Speaker Haram, Ganeson

PR akan terus berusaha melalui Sultan Perak memohon agar DUN Perak dibubarkan

Kira-kira 400 orang polis telah masuk ke dalam dewan melakukan keganasan di dalam dewan yang mulia

Kebanyakan ADUN Pakatan Rakyat telah dikasari dan dizalimi

ADUN Aulong, seorang OKU tidak ketinggalan diangkat oleh anggota polis secara kasar

Ada ADUN yang telah dipijak perut dan sebagainya kerana mempertahankan speaker Sivakumar

Peranan jahat SUK memasukkan SB-SB ke dalam dewan yang mulia

Pimpinan PR akan segera turun ke kawasan memberi penerangan kepada rakyat tentang isu ini

Speaker Sivakumar telah diheret dan dikurung di dalam stor bangunan dewan selama satu jam

Titah ucapan Raja Nazrin menyentuh aspek rangsangan ekonomi dan langsung tidak menyentuh isu politik Perak

SUMBER: http://zulmamakpng.blogspot.com/2009/05/sidang-media-ds-ir-nizar-malaysiakini.html

BIG BULLIES IN SARAWAK!

The road leading from Jalan Puncak Borneo into Kampong Bengoh, about 1 hour’s drive away from Kuching used to be a good road. It was tar-sealed and serving the villagers well with their mainly cars.
In case you wonder where it is, Kampong Bengoh is also where the infamous water reservoir dam is being constructed to supply water to Kuching until 2030. Bengoh Dam will flood three villages – Kampong Sait, Bojong Pain and Rejoi – but all four villages, plus Kampong Semban, will be wiped out of the map before the dam is built. But only if the villagers allowed that to be. Their hundreds of years of Bidayuh history (together with the heritage or cultural value, if we care) will be gone if they were uprooted to the proposed Medan Tun Razak Resettlement Scheme few kilometers away from where they are now.
In addition to these kampongs, the road also serves Kampong Danu, another Bidayuh village. However, the section from Kampong Bengoh to Kampong Danu was still a gravel road.

With the construction work beginning late 2008, heavy machineries and trucks began plying this basically rural feeder road. What is puzzling is not the road being damaged severely – tar-sealed road now resembles war zones with two sections narrowed when the road foundation literally slides due to the weight of the trucks passing by while the gravel-section of the road between Kampong Bengoh and Kampong Danu is now a muddy road after a downpour – but how it is being left at such devastating state for so many months and with no government intervention.

There is a primary school serving the Bengoh and Danu folks while the once peaceful Bengoh village has since been overwhelmed by outsiders. Danu is physically out of sight of the dam-building area. The dam sub-contractor has their mainland China workers living in the area while their exploited Bangladeshi and Indonesian cheap labor are grouped onto site-accommodation.
The outsider is huge while the villagers are tiny indeed!

Read more here: http://hornbillunleashed.wordpress.com/2009/05/05/%e2%80%9cbig-eat-small-in-sarawak%e2%80%9d/#comment-397

RAMPASAN KUASA DI PERAK.

Saya sejak dari awal pagi tadi sudah mengadap laptop. Apalagi kalau bukan mengikuti liputan terus dari DUN Perak. Saya rasa memang ramai yang ingin mengetahui dengan lebih lanjut tentang perkembangan perjalanan persidangan di dewan itu.

Untuk meringkaskannya, ADUN-ADUN BN berjaya menyingkirkan speaker dewan Pakatan Rakyat dan menggantikan beliau dengan speaker baru pilihan mereka. Bukan dengan cara yang mengikut perlembagaan tetapi dengan MENYERET beliau keluar dari dewan setelah beliau enggan keluar.

Saya bukan ahli politik dan bukan juga penyokong mana-mana parti politik tetapi saya tetap juga mengikuti sedikit sebanyak perkembangan politik tanahair. Pada saya, memang amat memalukan apabila seorang speaker dewan yang masih lagi sah di dewan diheret keluar sedemikian rupa. Tidak pernah dalam sejarah negara dan negara-negara komanwel seorang speaker diperlakukan begitu. Seluruh dunia sedang melihat negara kita dan ini yang dipertontonkan kepada dunia! Amat memalukan.

Hati saya memang tersentuh bila melihat foto-foto kekecohan di negeri Perak apatah lagi bila melihat seorang speaker dewan diperlakukan sedemikian rupa. Mudah-mudahan kita di Sarawak tidak akan berlaku hal-hal yang begitu.