Top 10 Largest Street Demonstrations in Malaysia Part II (Ranking 5-1)

5. HINDRAF RALLY

DATE: 25^TH NOV 2008

ORGANISER:  Hindu Right Action Force (HINDRAF)

AIM: to submit a petition to the British embassy that the government had denied the rights of the Indian community in Malaysia for the past 50 years.  One of the main event that lead to the rally was the demolition Hindu temples without any discretion.

STRENGTH: 40 000- 50 000+

4. MALAYAN UNION

DATE: 1946

ORGANISER: United Malays National Organization (UMNO, led by Dato’ Onn bin Jaafar)

AIM: unites all the Malays to refuse to British proposal of Malayan Union

STRENGTH: unsure, since held in several places such as Selangor, Perak, Johor, and even held for few weeks. However, one of the largest protests at that time that made a nation called Malaysia today. Even, the British at that time were shocked to look that the Malays had united.

3.BERSIH 1.0

DATE: 10TH Oct 2007

ORGANISER: BERSIH (consists of 26 NGOs)

AIM:

           1.  Usage of Indelible Ink

             2.Clean-up of Registered Voters Roll

          3.Abolition of Postal Votes

             4Access to the government-controlled print and  broadcast media for opposition parties.

Submit memorandum to the King

STRENGTH: local media (4000+), BERSIH (50 000-60 000) - however they could not gather at same place due to police blocks.

2. REFORMASI 98

DATE:  September 1998

ORGANISER: DS Anwar Ibrahim’s supporters

AIM:  to protest against the injustice of the sacking of the former Deputy Prime Minister DSAI from all his political posts.

STRENGTH:  police claimed 20 000+, other sources claimed 100 000+, some even claimed even more as it was held till Anwar Ibrahim was sent to jail.

1. BERSIH 2.0

DATE: 9^th July 2011

ORGANISER: Coalition for Clean and Fair Elections, (BERSIH) which consists of 62 non-governmental organisations. Chaired by former Bar Council president Ambiga Sreenevasan

AIM:

            1.Clean the electoral roll

             2.Reform postal voting

             3. Use of indelible ink

             4. A minimum campaign period of 21 days

5.       5. Free and fair access to mainstream media

6.       6. Strengthen public institutions

7.       7. Stop corruption

8.       8. Stop dirty politics

STRENGTH: local media claimed 6 000+, foreign media claimed 100 000+. This is the largest protest because there were at least 50 000+ people gathered in 4 different places (KLCC, Pudu, Masjid Jamek, Masjid Negara). Even some estimate it had reached approximately 250 000+. Moreover, government had taken precautions 2 weeks before the gathering. Police blocks, media access, total lockdown, refuse bus permits to kl, Friday prayers also refuse to go gathering. Police also arrested about 1700 civilians in order to reduce the number of protesters.

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Bersih 2.0 Latest Scenes by The Team

These are pictures taken from afternoon till evening at various places of the city...

Pic 1: The Al-Hijrah TV were here covering live on the rally

Pic 2: More crowd gathering towards Jalan Chulan

Pic 3: Crowd movement at Lebuh Ampang

Pic 4: Bikers at Maybank building

Pic 5: Crowd at Lebuh Ampang

Pic 6: More crowd at Lebuh Ampang

Pic 7: Crowd crossing the bridge at Lebuh Ampang

Pic 8: Crowd at Masjid Jamek

Pic 9: Reformation team marching on

Pic 10: Police on duty just planning to sit on bike and pose all day?

Pic 11 : PDRM standby on crowd control

Pic 12 : FRU having a hard time in the rain near Masjid Jamek

Pic 13 : Police on patrol together with other forces even in a bad weather

Pic 14 : The protestants who are determined and are ready to face any conditions

Pic 15 : Another shot at the bold protestants

Below are some pictures taken after the evening rain

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Leadership Crisis in Malaysia

 

As I was born and brought up in Malaysia, I always wanted a peaceful and safe country. Building a nation is not an easy job. No matter what people say, politic is the mastermind of all national’s agenda. Well I accept that politic is dirty, full of lies, and so on. But, every citizen’s fate is decided by the politicians chosen by the people.

Recently, I conducted an informal research on how many leaders, especially politic leaders whom graduated from the Institut Pengajian Tinggi Awam(IPTA). This research is to know how far our education system could produce caliber leaders.

Let us start from the highest rank which is the Prime Minister. Since 1957 till now, we had six PMs. Can u believe that only 1 PM is from IPTA which turn out to be Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamed from Universiti Malaya (UM). While the rest are graduates from overseas.

To my surprise, only less than 20 % of the current cabinet decided on 9^th of April 2009 are from IPTA. These are the ministers from IPTA :

IPTA	TOTAL	MINISTER
UM	9	-Tan Sri Muhyddin Yassin (Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Education) -Tan Sri Nor Mohd Yakoop (Ministers in the Prime Minister's Department:   Economic Planning Unit) -Dato’ Seri Ahmad Husni Hanadzlah (Minister of Finance II) -Dato’ Seri Khaled Nordin (Minister of Higher Education) -Dato’ Ahmad Shabery Cheek (Minister of Youth and Sports) -Datuk Ismail Sabri Yaakob (Minister of Domestic Trade, Co-operatives and Consumerism) -Dato’ Seri Sharizat Abdul Jalil (Minister of Women, Family and Community Development) -Datuk SK Devamany (Deputy Minister in the Prime Minister's Department) - Datuk Seri Dr. Ahmad Zahid Hamidi (Minister of Defence)
UKM	3	-Datuk Ahmad Maslan ( Deputy Minister in the Prime Minister's Department) -Dato’ Razali Ibrahim (Deputy Minister for Youth and Sports) -Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai (Minister of Health)
UTM	1	- Datuk  Dr. Wee Ka Siong (Deputy of Education Minister)

 If we look into the Opposition coalition, only a few are from IPTA, whom are Dato’ Seri Anwar Ibrahim (UM), Sivarasa(UM), Tan Sri Dato’ Seri Khalid Ibrahim (UM), Teresa Kok (USM), Nasharuddin Mat Isa (UiTM), and Hatta Ramli (UKM). While the rest are again surprisingly graduates from overseas(I could not find all the details of the opposition leaders).

In conclusion, it clearly proves that there are only a few leaders from local universities. Is our education system still capable to produce quality leaders or we still have to depend on overseas graduates to rule our country? We really hope our local universities will buck up to produce more outstanding leaders in the coming years.

By bhengbros                                                                                                                               (>_<)”

                                                                                                                                                    

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