Wahai Najib, Bebaskanlah Media!

Hari Kebebasan Media jatuh pada tanggal 3 Mei setiap tahun. Bersempena dengan perlantikan Datuk Seri Najib Razak sebagai Perdana Menteri baru, kita mungkin tertanya-tanya apakah halatuju media di mata beliau.

Dalam sebuah Negara yang berpegang kepada demokrasi yang digembar-gemburkan oleh kerajaan Barisan Nasional (BN), amalan media yang bebas menjadi pegangan.

Seperti yang kita sedia maklum, Malaysia mempunyai akta khusus bagi mencengkam kebebasan tersebut. Akta Percetakan dan Penerbitan menjadi kekangan dalam perihal ini. Sebarang penerbitan termaktub dalam akta ini termasuk pihak kerajaan mempunyai kuasa bagi menetapkan syarat-syarat penerbitan tersebut.

Semasa pilihan raya umum yang lalu, pengundi telah member isyarat yang agak kuat bahawa mereka mahukan media yang lebih bebas. Mengikut beberapa kajian yang dijalankan, tujuh hari sebelum pemilihan, New Straits Time memaparkan 17 halamannya mengutuk parti alternatif khususnya Ketua Umum Parti Keadilan Rakyat. Ini mendatangkan impak yang disebalik kerana kecaman-kecaman yang berlebihan tersebut bukan hanya telah menimbulkan rasa marah pengundi malah telah mendatangkan rasa belas kepada bekas Perdana Menteri itu.

Baru-baru ini semasa persidangan Dewan Undangan Negeri di Perak 7 Mei, had telah diberikan kepada media maya. Sekatan tersebut diberikan oleh kerajaan BN Perak. Pendekatan tersebut amat bertentangan dengan konsep “1 Malaysia” yang diperkenalkan oleh Perdana Menteri.

Sekurang-kurangnya, bekas Perdana Menteri, Abdullah Badawi telah mula member kelonggaran kepada media maya dalam menghadiri majlis-majlis rasmi kerajaan. Tetapi, sekarang nampaknya tahap media kembali selangkah demi selangkah ke belakang.


Selain itu, kerajaan pusat juga mengguakan Akta Multimedia dan Kumunikasi dan Akta Keselamatan Dalam Negeri (ISA) bagi member ugutan kepada blogger dan pihak yang turut serta dalam memberi komen di dalam beberapa laman.

Semasa kemelut perampasan kuasa kerajaan perak, Kementerian Multimedia dan Komunikasi telah mengambil tindakan yang tidak diplomatik dengan mendakwa blogger.

Pada September 2008, satu lagi penghakisan dalam kebebasan media apabila Raja Petra Kamarudin (pengendali laman Malaysia-Today ), Teresa Kok (anggota exco negeri Selangor) dan Tan Hoon Cheng (wartawan) dikenakan tindakan di bawah ISA. Raja Petra kini sedang dalam perlindungan kerana khuatir akan dikenakan di bawah akta yang sama buat kali ketiga.

Apa yang diharapkan di bawah pimpinan Najib, langkah pertama yang beliau perlu ambil ialah dengan menubuhkan Jawatankuasa Pemilihan parlimen bagi mengkaji semula undang-undang yang mencengkam media di Negara ini.

Labels: Akta Keselamatan Dalam Negeri, Anwar Ibrahim, Barisan Nasional, BN, freedom of information act, ISA, malaysia today, media, najib tun razak, Parti Keadilan Rakyat, perak, PKR, raja petra, teresa kok

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Things You Might Want to Know About Malaysian Politics

Dear comrades

I have been going around the world lately and meeting a lot of people who wants to know about Malaysian politics. Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) has something for you and possibly this might help.

Just click to this link:

http://www.abc.net.au/foreign/content/2008/malaysia_scandal_200k.asx

And also, there is a new book on Malaysian Politicians by my fellow friends, Amir Muhammad and Fahmi Reza.




Malaysian Politicians Say the Darndest Things (Vol 2)


Synopsis

Malaysia has already far too many tigers. They should be shot because there is no use keeping them alive." "If you come across a snake and a man from a certain ethnic community, you should hit the man first." Hot on the heels of the best-selling Vol 1 of Malaysian Politicians Say the Darndest Things, this compilation is further proof that we don’t need to travel far to experience shock and awe. Join us for another dance through some of the toe-tapping delights of the past two decades. Some of the quotes are witty and pithy, others are weird and prickly, and still others are just out-of-tune. If all History lessons were this painless, none of us would have ever skipped classes.

Product Detail:
ISBN: 9789834359669
Author: Amir Muhammad (compiler)/ Fahmi Reza (artwork)
Publisher: Matahari Books
Year: Second Edition 2009
No of Pages: 120
Price: MYR 25.00 (excluding postage cost)

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Labels: Altantuya, Amir Muhammad, Anwar Ibrahim, Fahmi Reza, General Election 2008, ISA, kem tahanan kamunting, Lim Kit Siang, malaysia today, najib tun razak, raja petra, razak baginda, teresa kok

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Raja Petra Prefer Jail Rather Bail

As an ex-columnist and reporter to Malaysia-Today, I receive calls from members of the public asking for his account number. The reason is to bail him from being prisoned. I tried calling him from morning and even Marina (wife) but to no avail.

Surprisingly (not me after knowing Raja Petra for years), he has his principle(s).

He refused o be bailed and prefer to be put behind the bars. I guess I would do the same thing!

Just look at the hearing; the hearing keep trying to find out the genuine of text message lah, what ever lah.

Like what Altantuya's father said while he was in KL, handphones did not kill his daughter.

Mind you, Altantuya was blown by C4! Who has access to these weapon(s)?

Labels: c4, malaysia today, raja petra

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