Bila Gambar Berbicara 3

Satu lagi gambar lama yang aku jumpa on Uncle Naguib's Facebook.

Gambar ini diambil oleh Uncle Naguib semasa Angah Midah came back to Malaysia for holiday.

Seingat aku, gambar ini diambil pada tahun 1991.

Di sebelah aku adalah sepupu aku, Mimi. Mimi adalah cucu perempuan sulung arwah Cikgu Jaafar. We were very competitive, back then in our school days. And she was the national youth shooter champion.

Next to her are my two sisters, Mira and Lia.

Behind us is the rumah pusaka Cikgu Jaafar. Well, it was not in its original built from 1960s. It was renovated in 80s to replace its kitchen and to install the tangga batu, three in total.

Can you see the Proton Aeroback? If I'm mistaken it was Kak Ja's first car. Kak Ja is the first in family to further study overseas! She went to Japan on JPA scholarship to do engineering degree. 

Behind the car, the was a small structure. Guess, what was that? Hehehe, that was our dapur kayu. My mother used it to cook ketupats, rendang and sambal for all Raya celebrations until late 90s. That was when my father renovated the house for three time, to replace half of the rumah tengah and dapur.

When I returned home in 2000, the dapur kayu was gone and mother cooked everything inside the house using gas cooker.

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Satu Petang Purnama Ketujuh

Sementara menanti minda ini bangkit untuk menukilkan sajak-sajak terbaru, izinkan aku menyiarkan kembali koleksi sajak peribadiku di Aku dan Sajak untuk segmen Ulang Terbit, pada setiap hari Khamis.

Satu Petang Purnama Ketujuh

Satu petang Isnin
pengakhiran purnama ketujuh
aku ke situ lagi
bersama buah hatiku nan satu.

Mengadap laut terbentang luas
mega yang kian ditelan gelap
camar riang pulang ke pangkuan
desir ombak berdendangan
beriringan bayu dari seberang.

Appa, Tata tak datang lagi?
betulkah Tata tak mahu temui Prisha?
Tata sayang Prisha, Appa?

Tata ada bersama kita, sayang
dia sentiasa di sisi kita
pejamkan matamu, en magalay
percayalah… Tata sayangkanmu.

Bayu berterus-terusan ke pengkalan
menyapu lembut wajah kami
membelai manja ikal rambut Prisha
selesa melihat kami berteleku di situ.

Mari kita pulang, Prisha
malam kian dingin
Amma tertunggu-tunggu di rumah
juadah menanti dijamah.

Sebentar, Appa…
Prisha nak ucap selamat tinggal
tapi Tata masih bergelingan
jangan nangis, Tata
nanti Prisha datang lagi.

Dia bangkit, gapai tanganku
pimpinku pergi
aku nangis dalam hati
anakku temui datuknya
terima kasih, Tuhan…

Appa, nanti kami datang lagi
satu petang Selasa
penghujung purnama ketujuh.

(Doaku buat mangsa tragedi pelantar jeti runtuh di Pengkalan Sultan Abdul Halim, Butterworth pada tahun 1988 yang mengorbankan 32 orang awam)


Hasmi Haron
Kuala Lumpur, MALAYSIA
12 Ogos 2006

11:45

Nota Kaki:

1. Ketika tragedi ini berlaku, penulis masih di sekolah rendah di Melaka.
2. Ini adalah karya kedua penulis tentang tragedi, tetapi karya ini mengangkat tragedi 'buatan' manusia.

New rules won't hurt consumer financing segment

The article was first published on Business Times.

'New rules won't hurt consumer financing segment'

Muhammed Ahmad Hamdan
2013/07/10

BANK Islam Malaysia Bhd does not see the new regulation on household debts introduced by Bank Negara Malaysia recently as having a negative impact on its consumer financing segment.

Business development director Khairul Kamarudin said Bank Islam is, in fact, optimistic of achieving around a 20 per cent growth in its consumer financing segment this year.

"We welcome the new regulation by Bank Negara. We don't see it affecting our consumer financing segment as we have been practising similar guidelines since two years ago," Khairul said after launching Bank Islam's new Visa platinum credit card here yesterday.

Bank Negara last Friday announced that commercial banks must now set 10 years as maximum tenure for personal loan financing and 35 years for property loans.

"Ninety five per cent of our property loan borrowers has tenures of below 35 years.

"Our personal loan segment only offers a maximum tenure of 15 years, compared to other banks that offer personal loan tenures of more than 20 years," Khairul said.

Housing loan segment accounts for 50 per cent of Bank Islam's consumer financing portfolio, while personal loan is 30 per cent.

"We believe that Bank Islam has strong product distribution channels which will support the growth of our consumer financing segment," he added.

The new rules set by BNM were to curb excessive household debts and to reinforce responsible lending practices by key credit providers.

This is in light of the country's increasing household debts - averaging at an annual rate of 12 per cent over the last five years.

Khairul said Bank Islam expects to secure between 25,000 and 30,000 new subscribers for its new Visa platinum credit card by year-end.

"The target is relatively low as it is based on the industry's performance. Nevertheless, we will run various campaigns and initiatives to attract new subscribers for the Visa platinum credit card, including those who have already subscribed from other banks."

Currently, Bank Islam has a total of 138,000 active credit card members, including 2,000 Mastercard platinum credit card holders.

Its consumer card segment, which comprises 1.6 million cards, constitutes about five per cent of the bank's total consumer financing portfolio.

GST will be neutral to business costs

The article was first published on Business Times.

'GST will be neutral to business costs'

By Norhisham Hussein

THE introduction of Goods and Services Tax (GST) to replace the current sales tax and services tax (SST) system has been a long-standing issue in Malaysia.

First mooted in the 1980s, GST has been put off countless times due to the public's doubts over it.

Much of the criticism of GST fall into three distinct categories:

* GST is hard to comply with, as it requires proper accounting and audit systems;

* GST is "regressive" since it is a flat tax and doesn't take into account the income level of consumers;

* GST is supposedly inflationary since it is applied to the prices of all goods, at all stages.

All three criticisms have some validity but not to a degree that critics will have them to be.

First, because of the multi-stage nature of GST and input tax credits, businesses incur no tax liability. Businesses paying GST on raw materials can offset this cost against the GST they collect on sales, which gives them an incentive to invest in the systems. GST, therefore, also does not have a "cascading" cumulative tax effect.

In other words, GST will be neutral to business costs, unlike the sales tax, which is levied at the manufacturing stage and incorporated into the input cost at the retail level.

Second, the regressive nature of GST should be balanced against the equally regressive sales tax. In fact, the government can make GST somewhat more progressive than the sales tax, as basic staple goods such as food can be "zero-rated", i.e. not charged GST at all.

Certain other consumer items that are deemed beneficial, such as books, are typically often zero-rated as well.

Third, the historical evidence regarding the implementation of GST and other ad-valorem taxes (VAT) across the globe shows that, at worst, such taxes cause a one-time increase in the final prices of consumer goods.

There have not been cases where the introduction of such a tax has caused a systemically higher rate of inflation. Consumers only pay the final tax rate, not the cumulative effect of GST levied at each stage of production.

In cases where GST/VAT system has replaced a pre-existing sales tax system, the evidence suggests final prices change very little, and in one case (Canada), have actually fallen.

At the level that is being discussed (circa seven per cent) relative to the sales tax (10 per cent), the likelihood is that GST will cause little movement in consumer prices, if at all.

The arguments against GST are thus weaker than they appear at first blush.

To counterbalance any weaknesses, a GST system causes far less market distortions and is much more efficient than the SST, while promising to yield higher tax revenue at lower tax rates.

Consumers will see how much tax they're incurring on consumer goods, unlike under SST where the tax burden is "hidden". No tax system is perfect, but a GST is much less imperfect than many assumed.

Selamat Menunaikan Ibadah Puasa

Assalamualaikum.

Aku nak ambil kesempatan ini untuk mengucapkan selamat menunaikan ibadah puasa kepada semua umat Islam. Semoga ramadhan kali ini lebih baik dari tahun-tahun sebelum ini.

Dan tahniah kepada famili dan kawan-kawan yang juga berkeputusan untuk berhijab. Semoga Allah taala berikan istiqamah dan akan
kekal berhijab santak akhir hayat.

Tahniah untuk kepada Fizul dan Nadiah di atas berita gembira itu. Semoga segalanya selamat, in shaa Allah.

Allah selamatkan Kak Aida

Happy birthday Kak Aida. All the best in your undertakings.

Moga murah rezeki, berkat usia dan bahagia sentosa.

Bestnya dapat belon! The cake was nice too.

Pedihnya di pagi buta

Aku tak tahu nak kategorikan apa post hari ini. Cuma aku harap tak ada yang loya membacanya.

Pernah tak korang kena paper cut? Tangan atau jari yang dilukai dengan bucu kertas. Sakit kan! Aku pun selalu juga kena, terutama kalau cuba nak masukkan kertas dalam mesin pencetak atau photocopy machine. Tak pun kalau sedang distribute handouts! Sakit tapi terpaksa control macho sebab depan orang ramai.

Pernah tak korang kena hiris jari? Sakin kan! Aku pun pernah juga alaminya ketika mengupas mangga kuini atau kentang. Itu bahananya kalau tak suka gunakan peeler. Apa reaksi spontan korang? Picit jari dan sedut darah ke?

Pernah tak korang tergunting ketiak? I don't to elaborate, nanti ada yang muntah pula. Aku cuba-cuba nak trim bulu ketiak dengan gunting. Tiba-tiba tergunting kulit ketiak aku. Sakit okey!!! Tu lah, orang suruh cabut, dia gatal-gatal nak gunting. Hah, rasakan!

Bertambah pedih apabila aku mandi pagi ini. Dan lagi pedih apabila aku semburkan deodorant ke tempat luka itu. Arrrggghhh!!! Masa tu baru teringatkan Mak di rumah :(

Bila Gambar Berbicara 2

Ada satu lagi gambar lama.

Gambar ini kalau tak silap aku diambil pada tahun 1983.

Dalam gambar ini, abang Janjan (Shalizan Sabtu) sedang mendukung Lia. Tembam betul Lia semasa bayi dahulu dan rambutnya kerinting lebat. Ada mak saudara yang memanggil Lia Kunta Kinte!

Aku pada ketika itu rongak gigi hadapan dan bersekolah di Tabika Kemas Bachang. Tetapi aku tak habiskan pengajian sebab aku yang mula masuk tabika seawal usia empat tahun, mengadu jemu. Balik-balik benda yang sama dipelajari. Dengan berat hati, Mak pun setuju untuk aku terus berhenti. Tapi, apabila ada sukaneka, aku akan terhendap-hendap tengok kawan-kawan beraksi.

Mak pun perli, "dulu orang suruh pergi sekolah tak nak pergi. Sekarang ni, terhendap-hendap tengok kawan-kawan!"

Di belakang kami tergantung pasu-pasu bunga yang ditanam oleh Nek Mok dan Along Ros.

Pokok itu ialah pokok mangga kuini. Pokoknya masih ada dan masih lagi galak berbuah. Tiap kali teringatkan mangga kuini, aku terkenangkan arwah Nek Mok. Semoga arwah tenang di sana. Al-fatihah.

Kak Pepah Lagi

Assalamualaikum dan selamat sejahtera semua.

Bertemu lagi kita. Alhamdulillah syukur kepada Allah taala. Harap-harap semua sihat wa'afiat.

Kak Pepah minta maaf sebab tidak menulis pada minggu lepas kerana ada perihal keluarga yang mendesak. Syukur kepa Allah taala segala sudah beres.

Cuma Kak Pepah tak faham tentang bintang realiti tv ini.

Pihaknya cakap dia digam, pihak stesen tv pula menafikan. Tapi tak pula Kak Pepah nampak kelibat artis ini di tv3, ntv7 dan tv9. Jadinya, betullah kena gam?

Sekarang ini tahun 2013, bukannya 1963 atau 1983! Dunia makin pesat berkembang dan bergerak.

Cuma pihak media massa di tanahair kita ini tak sudah-sudah:

1) nak mengampu tak tentu hala; ataupun

2) nak memperbodohkan rakyat.

Kak Pepah secara peribadi tak kisah sekiranya artis-artis yang digemari cenderung untuk memberi kritikal berbaur politik.

Di Amerika Syarikat, keluarga Baldwin pun tidak sepakat tentang politik. Di kala Stephen Baldwin berkempen untuk parti Republikan, abangnya menyatakan sokongan untuk parti Demokrat.

Tak masalah untuk keluarga Baldwin mahupun media massa di sana.

Tapi tidak di Malaysia. Andainya ada artis yang condong kepada PR, ada saja sekatan yang muncul tiba. Tapi yang sokong BN tiada pula kengkangan dari media massa.

Rakyat Malaysia sudah bijak dan matang. Mereka tahu itu semua adalah pendapat dan hak individu. Janganlah mempolitikkan industri hiburan tanahair!

Kepada Faizal Tahir, Kak Pepah ucapkan selamat maju jaya dan teruskan berkarya. Rezeki di tangan Allah taala dan bukannya ditentukan oleh pembodek-pembodek itu.

Alec Baldwin

Stephen Baldwin

Faizal Tahir

Ranhill Energy IPO

Another interesting IPO is coming to town. Will post more update such as whether or not it is a shariah-compliant IPO, and the analysts think of its indicative offer price of RM1.85.

Ranhill Energy seeks to raise RM753m from IPO

By Lim Cian Yai
bt@mediaprima.com.my
2013/07/05

Ranhill is due to make its debut on Bursa Malaysia's Main Market on July 31.

KUALA LUMPUR: Energy and utilities firm Ranhill Energy and Resources Bhd is seeking to raise up to RM752.95 million from its initial public offering (IPO).

Ranhill is due to make its debut on Bursa Malaysia's Main Market on July 31.

The IPO entails an offering of 407 million shares, with an indicative offer price of RM1.85 a piece. Of the total, 77 million shares will be available under an offer for sale by a major shareholder, therefore, raising RM142.45 million.

The proceeds will accrue entirely to the selling shareholder, Cheval Infrastructure Fund L.P. Upon listing, Cheval's stake in Ranhill will shrink to 15.8 per cent from 36.2 per cent at present.

The remaining 330 million new shares will be offered to the Malaysian public and institutional investors, raising RM610.5 million to the company.

"We hope to revitalise our capital structure through this listing exercise. We will use some funds to expand to China, which offers us a higher headroom, and also gear up a bit for more investment overseas," said Ranhill chief executive officer Tan Sri Hamdan Mohamad at the launch of its listing prospectus yesterday.

Of the RM610.5 million from proceeds, 60 per cent will be used for debt repayment and 33.6 per cent for business acquisition and expansion to increase Ranhill's market presence.

The company has identified four cornerstone investors that have agreed to buy 118.3 million shares.

They are Lembaga Tabung Haji, Eastspring Investments Bhd, Hwang Investment Bhd and Corston Smith Asset Management.

The book-building exercise started yesterday, with a price range dedicated to institutions being between RM1.70 and RM1.85.

"We received a strong response from investors and the shares are already oversubscribed," Hamdan said.

Ranhill hopes to boost water treatment capacity in China to 1,000 million litres per day (MLD) in the next five years.

It operates five water and waste-water treatment plants there, with a combined capacity of 270 MLD.

"If we hit 1,000 MLD, this will bring us RM500 million in revenue a year and a profit of around RM150 million," he said.

Last year, its business in China brought in RM150 million in revenue to the group.

Hamdan is considered a prodigy in the local corporate world. Along with Cheval, he privatised Ranhill Bhd in 2011 at 90 sen per share.

Its utilities arm, Ranhill Utilities Bhd, was also listed before being taken private by in 2008 at RM3.50 a share.

Financial Services Act 2013 and Islamic Financial Services Act 2013 Come Into Force

Financial Services Act 2013 and Islamic Financial Services Act 2013 Come Into Force

04 July 2013 06:00 PM
by Jabatan Komunikasi Strategik
 

The regulatory and supervisory framework of Malaysia enters a new stage of its development as the Financial Services Act 2013 (FSA) and Islamic Financial Services Act 2013 (IFSA) come into force on 30 June 2013.

The FSA and IFSA is the culmination of efforts to modernise the laws that govern the conduct and supervision of financial institutions in Malaysia to ensure that these laws continue to be relevant and effective to maintain financial stability, support inclusive growth in the financial system and the economy, as well as to provide adequate protection for consumers.  The laws also provide Bank Negara Malaysia with the necessary regulatory and supervisory oversight powers to fulfil its broad mandate within a more complex and interconnected environment, given the regional and international nature of financial developments. This includes an increased focus on preemptive measures to address issues of concern within financial institutions that may affect the interests of depositors and policyholders, and the effective and efficient functioning of financial intermediation.

It is important that Malaysia's regulatory and supervisory system is adequately equipped to respond effectively to new and emerging risks so that confidence in the financial system is preserved and that the critical financial intermediation activities which are vital to the economy are not disrupted. The FSA and IFSA amalgamate several separate laws to govern the financial sector under a single legislative framework for the conventional and Islamic financial sectors respectively, namely, the Banking and Financial Institutions Act 1989 (BAFIA), Islamic Banking Act 1983, Insurance Act 1996 (IA), Takaful Act 1984, Payment Systems Act 2003 and Exchange Control Act 1953 which are repealed on the same date.
Key features of the new legislation include:

• Greater clarity and transparency in the implementation and administration of the law. This includes clearly defined regulatory objectives and accountability of Bank Negara Malaysia in pursuing its principal object to safeguard financial stability, transparent triggers for the exercise of Bank Negara Malaysia's powers and functions under the law, and transparent assessment criteria for authorizing institutions to carry on regulated financial business, and for shareholder suitability;

• A clear focus on Shariah compliance and governance in the Islamic financial sector. In particular, the IFSA provides a comprehensive legal framework that is fully consistent with Shariah in all aspects of regulation and supervision, from licensing to the winding-up of an institution;

• Provisions for differentiated regulatory requirements that reflect the nature of financial intermediation activities and their risks to the overall financial system;

• Provisions to regulate financial holding companies and non-regulated entities to take account of systemic risks that can emerge from the interaction between regulated and unregulated institutions, activities and markets. The Minister of Finance may subject an institution that engages in financial intermediation activities to ongoing regulation and supervision by Bank Negara Malaysia if it poses or is likely to pose a risk to overall financial stability;

• Strengthened business conduct and consumer protection requirements to promote consumer confidence in the use of financial services and products;

• Strengthened provisions for effective and early enforcement and supervisory intervention

The new laws will place Malaysia's financial sector, encompassing the banking system, the insurance/takaful sector, the financial markets and payment systems and other financial intermediaries, on a platform for advancing forward as a sound, responsible and progressive financial system. This is especially important to enable the financial system to meet the new demands for financing associated with Malaysia's economic transformation programme both during and beyond the next decade, the changing demographics of our population, and the increasing integration of the Malaysian economy with the region and the world.

Copies of the FSA and IFSA are available on Bank Negara Malaysia's website. Any query relating to the provisions of FSA and IFSA may be directed to FSAandIFSA@bnm.gov.my.

Bank Negara Malaysia
1 July 2013

Persona Perang

Sementara menanti minda ini bangkit untuk menukilkan sajak-sajak terbaru, izinkan aku menyiarkan kembali koleksi sajak peribadiku di Aku dan Sajak untuk segmen Ulang Terbit, pada setiap hari Khamis.

Persona Perang

Aku kembali lagi
dengan yang tersayang
untuk turut rasai
lain mana
kehangatan di sini.

Aku datang lagi
dengan yang tercinta
untuk kenal dan cinta
lain mana
kemeriahan di sini.

Tapi sayang seribu kali sayang
aku dan kekasih-kekasihku
tak bisa lama
untuk tonton
hangat dan meriah
pangkah memangkah di sini
tapi kami puas
dan terpersona
dengan perang poster
yang juga sama
di sana serta di sini.


Hasmi Haron
Mei 2006
Kuching, Sarawak.

Nota Kaki:

1. Ini adalah sajak pertama penulis yang mengangkat tema politik.
2. Penulis terpesona dengan perang poster semasa bercuti dengan ibu bapa di Kuching, Sarawak.

SingaPura & Malaysia punyai hutang isirumah tertinggi di rantau ini

Singapore, Malaysia household debts among highest in region

JULY 03, 2013

Singapore households are among the most indebted in Asia relative to what they earn, according to a Standard Chartered report this week, reported the Straits Times.

Households had borrowings worth 151 per cent of their annual income last year, second in the region only to Malaysia, with debt at 182 per cent of income.

This is mainly because consumers here take on large dollops of property debt, amounting to 111 per cent of household income - the highest level in the region, Stanchart said.

However, Stanchart warned that as rates rise, debt servicing may become more difficult for home owners who are over-leveraged, although current debt burdens are still manageable.Thanks to low interest rates, the repayments that Singapore households make on loans are also among the lowest in the region as a share of income.

Indeed, Stanchart's data shows that the overall debt service ratio for Singapore households has been rising since 2008. But they remain moderate, with total debt repayments coming up to only 13 per cent of total household incomes, the bank said.

This is lower than in Malaysia, South Korea and Australia, although higher than in the Philippines, Japan, Indonesia, India, China and Taiwan, which have debt service ratios between 2 and 7 per cent, it added. - July 3, 2013.

Going Green this Aidilfitri!

Kepada kaum keluarga dan sahabat handai, tiada lagi want kertas baru untuk Aidilfitri kali ini. Semua not adalah yang dikitar semula.

Mari kita sama-sama menjayakan kempen "Going Green"!

Di bawah ini adalah pengumuman daripada Bank Negara Malaysia untuk bacaan semua :)


"Going Green" dengan Wang Kertas Yang Sesuai untuk Edaran Semula Semasa Hari Raya Aidilfitri

Dalam usaha menyokong agenda nasional "Going Green", Bank Negara Malaysia akan mengedar semula wang kertas denominasi RM1 dan RM5 yang sesuai untuk Hari Raya Aidilfitri yang akan datang. Inisiatif ini merupakan usaha yang membabitkan Kementerian Tenaga, Teknologi Hijau dan Air (KeTTHA), Persatuan Bank-bank dalam Malaysia (ABM), Malaysian Environmental NGOs (MENGO) dan Yayasan Anak Warisan Alam (YAWA) untuk menggalakkan kelestarian sumber negara dan pemuliharaan alam sekitar.

Substrat polimer diperkenalkan pada tahun 2004 untuk RM5 bagi meningkatkan ketahanan wang kertas dan mengurangkan kos dan permintaan yang tinggi terhadap sumber yang digunakan dalam pengeluaran mata wang. Penggunaan substrat polimer diperluas untuk merangkumi RM1 pada tahun 2012 apabila wang kertas polimer RM5 mencapai rekod penggunaan yang positif. Wang kertas polimer dapat bertahan 2 hingga 3 kali lebih lama berbanding dengan wang kertas biasa. Dicetak menggunakan substrat yang sangat tahan lama, wang kertas RM1 dan RM5 dapat kekal dalam edaran lebih lama dan lebih berupaya untuk mengekalkan kualiti keselamatan dan estetika sepanjang hayat penggunaannya. Memandangkan hanya wang kertas yang berkualiti tinggi akan diedar semula, orang ramai adalah digalakkan untuk menggunakan wang kertas yang sesuai ini sebagai "duit raya".

Setiap tahun Bank Negara Malaysia mengeluarkan lebih kurang 750 juta keping wang kertas RM1 dan RM5 bagi memenuhi permintaan bermusim untuk Hari Raya Aidilfitri dan Tahun Baharu Cina. Walau bagaimanapun, lebih kurang 70% daripada wang kertas yang dikeluarkan tidak diperlukan untuk urus niaga pembayaran biasa. Wang kertas tersebut dipulangkan sebagai deposit sejurus selepas musim perayaan dan menyebabkan lebihan pengumpulan wang kertas RM1 dan RM5 di Bank Negara Malaysia. Cetakan tambahan 500 juta keping wang kertas untuk memenuhi permintaan perayaan menyebabkan kos dan permintaan yang tinggi terhadap sumber negara. Pengeluarannya menggunakan lebih daripada 80 ton dakwat dan 2 juta kWh elektrik yang cukup bagi kegunaan 7,500 rumah di Malaysia untuk sebulan.

Bagi musim perayaan ini, orang ramai diberikan jaminan bahawa terdapat kertas yang mencukupi dalam semua denominasi. ABM dan AIBIM akan bersama-sama mengambil bahagian dalam usaha ini untuk membantu aktiviti kitar semula wang kertas yang sesuai dengan mengeluarkannya melalui cawangan bank dan mesin ATM. Orang ramai digalakkan untuk menyokong usaha nasional "Going Green" dan menyambut bulan Ramadan dan Hari Raya Aidilfitri dengan semangat mengurangkan pembaziran dengan menyokong penggunaan wang kertas edaran semula.

Nazrol KL on Youtube

Siapa Nazrol KL? Tak kenal ke? Takkan tak kenal?

Okeylah, kalau nak kenal, klik di sini.

Bila sudah habis baca, jom tonton video beliau di Youtube. Dan jangan lupa untuk klik butang "like" :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=neLBlt6PpeM&sns=em


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Malaysia's crime is serious!

Note: The article was first published on The Malaysian Insider.

Satu persoalan di sini, apakah sesuatu situasi itu hanya dikatakan serius apabila ia terjadi kepada orang kenamaan?

My 2 cent:
PDRM berdepan dengan cabaran yang besar untuk mengikis persepsi masyarakat bahawa ia gagal membenteras jenayah. Satu tindakan segera dan drastik perlu dilaksana untuk mengembalikan keamanan serta kepercayaan rakyat kepada institusi kepolisan negara. Antaranya, menambah peratusan polis di bahagian membenteras jenayah (khabarnya cuma 9%!), mengurangkan peratusan polis di bahagian pentadbiran (mengapa perlu sampai 40%?), menubuhkan satu mekanisme untuk membolehkan rakyat membuat aduan terhadap PDRM secara telus dan penuh accountable.

Di samping itu, masyarakat juga perlu lebih peka dan prihatin tentang aspek-aspek keselamatan diri dan  harta benda. Keselamatan adalah tanggungjawab semua, bukan hanya PDRM.

Khairy concedes Malaysia’s crime situation is “serious”

JULY 02, 2013

The worsening crime situation in Malaysia is not mere perception as claimed by some quarters and Youth and Sports Minister Khairy Jamaluddin joined the ranks of believers after being a burglary victim over the weekend.

He conceded in a Facebook post that the burglary was something real and not at all perception, as claimed by some quarters, such as the police and the Home Ministry.

Previous Home Minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein and senior police officers have attributed negative sentiments on crime to the people's perception.

Kuala Lumpur police had confirmed over the weekend that a minister's home in Damansara Heights had been ransacked by thieves but declined to reveal his identity. It was later learnt that the bungalow belongs to Khairy's mother and that Khairy and his wife were residing there. Only the maid was home at the time of the robbery, which was revealed by Kuala Lumpur CID chief Datuk Ku Chin Wah to be around 5.30pm.