YB Dominique Ng Kim Ho

PARTI KEADILAN RAKYAT SARAWAK
砂拉越人民公正党
PEOPLE’S JUSTICE PARTY SARAWAK
Padungan Service Centre :-
Lot 151, 1st Floor, Jalan Ban Hock, 93300 Kuching, Tel : 6082-239427 Fax : 6082-422996

PARTI KEADILAN RAKYAT SARAWAK
砂拉越人民公正党
PEOPLE’S JUSTICE PARTY SARAWAK
Padungan Service Centre :-
Lot 151, 1st Floor, Jalan Ban Hock, 93300 Kuching, Tel : 6082-239427 Fax : 6082-422996

PARTI KEADILAN RAKYAT SARAWAK
砂拉越人民公正党
PEOPLE’S JUSTICE PARTY SARAWAK
Padungan Service Centre :-
Lot 151, 1st Floor, Jalan Ban Hock, 93300 Kuching, Tel : 6082-239427 Fax : 6082-422996

5th Feb., 2010.

YB Dominique Ng, the ADUN for Padungan, has described the Roadmap for Government Transformation Programme (GTP) of the Prime Minister as a mirage to hoodwink Malaysians, especially in Sarawak, a roadmap which will not be realized or sustained.

6 key performance areas or six areas of improvement, or National Key Results Areas (NKRAs), were announced: reducing crime, combating corruption, raising the living standard of low-income citizens, widening access to education, improving infrastructure in rural areas and upgrading public transportation.

“ Sure these are not only valid areas of concern, but also an admission of the failure of governance under Barisan National; in Sarawak, these have been the neglected areas since the formation of Malaysia.” Says Ng.

“ Yet, these are not the only fields where the Barisan National Government has either failed, or has been strong on rhetoric but poor on delivery. With respect to Sarawak, I refer to the omitted or unmentioned areas of Healthcare in the public sector, social welfare, labour rights, public administration, human rights, tourism growth, environmental protection, historical and cultural heritage preservation among others, where Sarawak is trailing far behind.”

REDUCING CRIME

“The public is increasingly alarmed by the rising crime rate. In Sarawak, even some top public figures, and government officers and have fallen victims; the public now feel doubly insecure and vulnerable. Statewide, about 40 cases of crime are recorded per day on average, some 14,000 cases in 2009.

Suhakam Commissioner to Sarawak, Dr. Hirman Ritom, at an AZAM talk on Human Rights in October 2006, discussed poverty, education failure, unemployment and criminality. “I urge the government to address confounding fundamental issues which may be at the roots of rising crime rate.”

“Root causes promoting recruitment to crime must be addressed though broader political legislative and administrative actions to redress socio-economic injustice .”

Poverty and socio-economic alienation are the major concerns of the marginalized and dispossessed; they suffer directly. Government and society has to understand that poverty related crimes affect everyone of all strata of society.

Raising the living standard of low-income citizens

I had said that it is not merely the eradication of abject starvation-level poverty, but also ensuring that the poor-rich gap does not keep increasing till it reaches a socially unacceptable level. Relative poverty can reach levels at which it leads to widespread adverse outcomes, even social instability.
“Under the NEP, towards the aim of eradication of poverty, the Federal and State BN governments have clearly failed, jointly or separately. With rising costs and real incomes falling, some 30-50 % of the people may soon be suffering from relative poverty, depending on the threshold criteria used.

The PM’s proposal to institute a minimal wage, admittedly a worthy start, has however come too little and too late. The essential welfare of Malaysian workers have been neglected by the BN government too callously and for too long. There has not been developed under this government an inflation-indexed wages and incomes policy; simply a government sleeping at the wheels in basic social policy.

The fruits of economic growth in better times have not been fairly shared with the actual producers of growth, but been siphoned off by corruption, incompetency and wastage in Government.

At MR 750 per month, it works out to around MR4.70 per hour, a clear shade below MR 1000 per month proposed by Parti Keadilan Rakyat.. Yet MR 1000 may be inadequate, if the fuel subsidy is steadily withdrawn, GST kicks in or international food grain price rises, these among other price inflators.

If no wealth-distributive strategies such as developing a social safety net, are put in place in time, poverty in Sarawak and in Malaysia can be expected to escalate rapidly.”

COMBATTING CORRUPTION.

Transparency International Malaysia recently announced Malaysia’s position in the TI Corruption Perception Index 2009. In this latest survey, Malaysia’s ranking has plunged to its worst ever in the last decade, standing at 56 among 180 nations, with a CPI of 4.5 (out of 10).
The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission had also revealed that up to 60% of government allocations for Sarawak, amounting to billions of ringgit, and meant for vital infrastructure projects between 2002 and 2008, have been misappropriated.
“There is thus a serious competency, accountability and transparency problem concerning public expenditure festering for years in Sarawak,” Ng had said earlier. “Much was promised by the previous PM, and little of consequence achieved. The former PM, promised to deal with some 18 big crocodiles, but caught a couple of anchovies; which means the 18 or more crocodiles still thrive in the muddy streams!”
“There has been virtually nothing substantial in combating corruption in Sarawak, not even a meaningful beginning, “ says Ng. “Little progress shall we expect from the current PM.”

PUBLIC TRANSPORTION :

“I said before that the Governnment should make a master plan for the development of public transport in Sarawak. The people of Sarawak are indignant that the public transport in the State is far inferior to that of Malaya before 1957. Road infrastructure is fourth grade, rail service still a daydream, city Rapidbus may take a decade to introduce.

“Urban traffic congestion is worsening by the year from population growth, and increase of vehicles registered, alongside a public transport infrastructure so remarkably deficient. It all adds to stress of urban living, increased air pollution and loss of economic productivity in Sarawak.”

The Minister of Housing Development and Urban Development, Datuk Amar Abg. Johari has last month bemoaned the decrepit bus service of Kuching.

Improving infrastructure in rural areas

“The responsibility of rural backwardness is clearly the BN government’s decades of rural neglect. The track record in Sarawak under BN does not give room for optimism as basic rural infrastructure is still lacking in many communities, e.g. piped water, electricity, tar-sealed roads, and affordable housing, not to mention IT access. This is against the backdrop of native NCR land dispossession, large scale deforestation and mammoth palm oil estates, the benefits of these latter not shared by the rural communities as they deserve to.”

Widening access to education

“The fundamental right for mother tongue education is severely compromised when schools of vernacular streams and mission schools are not fully funded as national schools are. A vibrant multicultural nation must be founded on multi-cultural educational content, in addition to a core of national emphasis.
On the other hand, mere access to education has been greatly devalued by continued slide in the quality of education, especially higher education.”
Concluding, Ng says, “The BN government, Federal and State, is leading the people on a steep and slippery slope of decline in performance indicators in a range of socio-economic sectors.

To realize the dreams of raising the living standard of low-income citizens, a high income economy, widening access to education, better public sector healthcare, improving urban and rural infrastructure and upgrading public transportation, the critical drivers of success are
- political will for genuine and not bogus reform,
-clean and competent governance,
-sustained GDP growth,
-retraining and attracting both human and financial capital, among others.

The BN government has not just put its own 2020 vision in critical jeopardy. It is dragging the nation down in competitiveness viz a viz several other countries of the developing world, not to mention the little Dragons of Asia.

This Transformation Programme will have little impact at both macro and micro levels of national life.”

KUALA LUMPUR: The second day of Opposition leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim’s sodomy trial saw testimony being given in-camera before the court adjourned to the scene where the alleged crime took place.

His accuser Mohd Saiful Bukhari Azlan, 24, is believed to have shown the trial judge where exactly the act took place at an apartment at the Desa Damansara Condominium here on June 26, 2008.

He did this in the presence of Anwar, his defence lawyers and Solicitor-General II Datuk Mohd Yusof Zainal Abiden, who is leading the prosecution.

When contacted by The Star, Anwar’s lead counsel Karpal Singh said both parties went to the condominium unit to see the place.

Continue reading “Sodomy II: Saiful continues with testimony, CCTV video shown” »

PARTI KEADILAN RAKYAT SARAWAK
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人民公正党文告 / 新闻稿 KeADILan Press Statement

致：新闻编辑
To: The Editor

(古晋4日讯)

人民公正党浮罗岸州立法议员黄锦河律师表示，国阵的政府转型计划方向蓝图只是向砂州人民展示一张海市蜃楼图，给予砂州人民一场虚幻的惊喜，但一刹那间就会破灭而恢复萧条的原状。

他说，国阵的政府转型计划路图的6大关键绩效领域，包括降低犯罪率，打击贪污，改善公共交通，提升低收入家庭的生活水平，提升乡区基本建设，以及提升国民教育素质及增加受教机会，都是砂拉越自独立以来一直被忽略的长久落后的伤口，而且一直都未曾被仔细验伤及医疗过。

除了上述的砂拉越的落后重伤点外，还有砂州人民的卫生，福利，行政，人权，历史，旅游，甚至环保等领域的落后发展，都不被纳入政府转型计划的关键绩效领域，显示政府对砂拉越发展的关注只是蜻蜓点水，走马看花而已。

我国首相纳吉不久前主持政府转型计划方向蓝图推荐礼，率先公布六大关键绩效领域，并表示政府将在三年内投入马币180亿元达致以上目标。

黄锦河就针对在国阵政府的政府转型计划一一的解剖分析，说明转型计划难寄以厚望。

第一关键领域，即降低犯罪率，政府准备在治安黑区增加4000名维持治安人员，政府曾在不久前有宣布全国有50个罪案热点，即表示每个热点之增加的维安人员不到100名。

其实在2010年财政预算案，首相纳吉宣布37亿令吉强化执法单位，以降低犯罪率，但砂拉越是否能从中受惠？到底有分配多少的警员及警长给砂拉越？以及在砂州增建多少的警察总部，警局和警亭？同时有增设多少个24小时操作的闭路电视保安系统？很多砂拉越人民都不了解。

但砂州人民知道砂拉越治安的败坏，今年1月12日，砂州警察总监拿督莫哈末沙烈有披露，去年砂州共发生1万3919宗犯罪案，以即表示，每天至少有有近40宗犯罪案在砂拉越发生，怎么不令人砂州人民人心惶惶？

黄锦河说，至于打击贪污问题，在砂拉越还没开始，或者说还是保持只会捉小鱼，不敢捉大鱼的“成就”。

数年前，当我国前首相拿督斯里阿都拉访问砂州时，曾向传媒披露，有18条大鱼有待反贪污局采取行动。

而当时的大马反贪污总监拿督朱基菲里亦曾在2004年5月间在砂拉越的民都鲁强调，反贪污局正积极处理“18条鲨鱼“的调查工作。

前砂州反贪污局局长莫哈末尤索阿谷曾在2006年7月24日一项职权移交仪式上表明：反贪污局从不手软，大鱼小鱼统统捉。

可是直至目前为止，已过了多年，人民只见捉小鱼，仍不见有任何的捕大白鲨行动。

黄锦河表示，他一向强调砂拉越的公共交通发展对于零，连最基本的巴士服务也难登大雅之堂，这点连砂州房屋发展及城市发展部长拿督阿玛阿邦佐哈里都认同的，在2010年1月20日，拿督阿玛阿邦佐哈里在一项新闻发布会上直批砂拉越首府古晋的巴士服务超烂，糟糕透顶。

因此第3关键领域的改善公共交通，在砂拉越实在是任重道远了。

他续称，国阵的政府转型计划的第4关键绩效领域中，政府正在研究制定最低薪金制，以确保所有大马人民享有每月最低750令吉或每小时4令吉70仙的薪资。

他表示欢迎政府制定最低薪金制，虽然和人民公正党所建议的最低薪金至少1000令吉有不小的差异，但至少会认同人民公正党的意见，即保障工人的权益，确保工人及他们的家庭都能享有基本的生活需求，及让工人可以拥有更有尊严的生活。

黄锦河指出，至于提升乡区基本建设，联邦政府似乎较着重于砂拉越再生能源走廊计划，并准备投入数以千亿令吉来进行一系列大型投资项目，来挖掘砂拉越的能源资源，而真正受惠的只有少数的国与州内的大资本公司以及跨国公司，砂州的发展商都只能望梅止渴，至于乡区与内陆的基本设施，如干净自来水，电供，公路，以及房屋发展等，将都会被那些大型发展的光芒所掩盖。

国阵的政府转型计划的第6项关键绩效领域是提升国民教育素质及增加受教机会，国阵政府在发展国家教育，应该以我国多元种族，多元教育的实质为根本，包括实行制度化每年定期充足合理拨款予马来西亚所有源流的学校，实践公正合理的全民教育政策，如果继续以种族为基础的教育发展，一切提升国民教育的努力都是徒劳无功的。

总而言之，马来西亚独立了46年，砂拉越在所有的发展领域依旧落后，如果国阵政府真有诚意来通过政府的转型计划来改善砂拉越，一切都需从根本出发，从头开始，而且务实性的针对穷点来对症下药，不然只是进行大而无当的计划，要在3年内改变砂拉越的贫穷落后现状，简直是天方夜谭。

2010年2月4日。

PARTI KEADILAN RAKYAT SARAWAK
砂拉越人民公正党
PEOPLE’S JUSTICE PARTY SARAWAK
Padungan Service Centre :-
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