Sokong Perjuangan Datuk Seri Mohd Ali Rustam, Ketua Menteri Melaka: January 2009

Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Bubarkan sayap Umno?

Berikut adalah pandangan & komen YAB Datuk Seri Mohd Ali Rustam, Ketua Menteri Melaka yang juga Naib Presiden Umno mengenai saranan membubarkan sayap Umno oleh Tan Sri Tengku Ahmad Rithauddeen.

1. Cadangan ini perlu dibincangkan dengan lebih lanjut.

2. Pandangan saya adalah lebih baik jika diwujudkan suruhanjaya pemilihan Umno (SPU) dengan melibatkan 3.4 juta ahli Umno di seluruh negara untuk memilih pucuk pimpinan parti.

3. Dengan cara ini, politik wang dapat dielakkan kerana sukar bagi seseorang calon untuk memikat 3.4 juta ahli.

Terima kasih.

Pejabat Ketua Menteri
28 Januari 2009

Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Pembinaan Malaysia perlu terus dibuat berasaskan konsep & elemen 'Negara Bangsa'

Berdasarkan kepada sejarah kenegaraan, pembinaan negara ini perlu dibuat berasaskan kepada konsep dan elemen-elemen negara bangsa. Ia perlu memantapkan pembinaan bangsa yang berteraskan 'Raja-raja Melayu', 'Ketuanan Melayu' dan 'Kewibawaan Melayu' sebagai bangsa pribumi.

Elemen-elemen lain termasuklah Islam sebagai agama rasmi dan bahasa Malaysia sebagai bahasa rasmi. Simbol-simbol kenegaraan dan kebangsaan perlu berlandaskan kepentingan negara bangsa, iaitu kemelayuan. Walau bagaimanapun, dengan penubuhan Malaysia, kepentingan bagi membina negara bangsa yang lebih luas perlu diambil kira dari segi sistem pemerintahan dan sistem kenegaraan.

Dipetik dari buku Wawasan Kenegaraan tulisan Datuk Seri Ali Rustam.

Friday, January 9, 2009

Datuk Ali condemns Israeli inhumane acts

STATEMENT BY THE RT. HON. DATUK SERI MOHD ALI MOHD RUSTAM, PRESIDENT OF WORLD ASSEMBLY OF YOUTH (WAY)

Chief Minister of Melaka, the Rt. Hon. Datuk Seri Mohd Ali Rustam, who is also the President of the World Assembly of Youth (WAY), strongly condemns the irresponsible and inhumane acts of the Israeli forces in attacking the innocent citizens of Palestine, especially the women and children.

Mohd Ali strongly calls for the United Nations to immediately send an international peacekeeping force to the Gaza Strip to bring peace in the area and prevent any further losses of innocent lives due to the inhumane acts by the Israeli forces. The United Nations should also make a very strong stand and force the Israeli troops out of Palestine. The unnecessary killing of innocent people in Palestine must be stopped immediately.

Mohd Ali also called for the United Nations to immediately convene an emergency sitting to discuss and come up with workable resolution to put an end to these atrocious, irresponsible and inhumane acts of the Israeli forces. Mohd Ali also urges the governments of the United States of America and Britain to intervene to stop the Israeli forces from taking the laws into their own hands and go on killing the innocent people, especially the children of Palestine.

Mohd Ali also strongly supports the call for the United Nations to set up an international criminal tribunal for Israel to prosecute Israeli war criminals. He said that the UN General Assembly must establish an international criminal tribunal for Israel (ICTI), in view of the recent Israeli atrocities against Palestine which would emulate what the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) did for victims of international crimes committed by Serbian and the Milosevic regime in the Balkans. It is hoped that the ICTI would, among others, provide justice to the victims of Israeli war crimes.

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UMNO History

The British, during its administration in Malaya, had imposed the divide-and-rule policy where the three major races, namely the Malays, the Chinese and the Indians were segregated from one another. The colonist placed the Chinese community in town areas where there were more economic activities, the Malays in the villages where they were to cultivate lands, and the Indians to work in rubber estates. Only the Malay elite were accepted to work with the British administration.

World War II led the Japanese to Malaya and other parts of Southeast Asia. The Japanese inflicted "Asian Asia" in the minds of its colonies to help in their conquest, as well as to change the myth of the white men's invincibility.

After the defeat of the Japanese at the end of the war, the British did not waste their time in making their presence felt again in Malaya. They had to rebuild their colonies that had been destroyed economically and politically.

The colonist planned Malayan Union, a unified administrative unit, while making Singapore a separate colony. Under the proposed Malayan Union, citizenship was to be offered to all, irrespective of race or origin, and sovereignty of the Malay Rulers was to be transferred to the British Empire.

During the same period Dato’ Onn bin Jaafar became Menteri Besar of Johor. Onn formed the Peninsula Johor Malay Association. In March 1946, delegates from various Malay organisations in the Peninsula met at the inaugural Malay Congress, held at the Sultan Sulaiman Club in Kuala Lumpur. A resolution was made to form one central Malay organisation to fight against Britain’s Malayan Union scheme. A Second Congress followed soon after.

As a result of fiery Malay nationalism following the Malayan Union scheme, on May 11, 1946 during the Third Malay Congress held at the Johor Grand Palace, United Malay National Organisation (Umno) was born with Onn chosen as the first president.

The ultra-strong resistance from the young and vigorous political movement eventually resulted in the derailment of the Malayan Union plan.

The British administration was forced to begin negotiation with the Malay rulers and Umno, for a new constitutional arrangement. Britain realised that the Malays had taken the first big step towards gaining independence. The Federation of Malaya, comprising eleven states of the Peninsula, was formed and instituted in February 1948.

The following decade saw Umno forming the backbone of the Alliance (together with the Malayan Chinese Association and Malayan Indian Congress), the coalition that successfully negotiated with Britain for the Independence for Malaya.

In October 1951, an internal crisis in Umno caused Onn to resign as party president. The Malays then looked for Tunku Abdul Rahman Putra for leadership. The Tunku held the post of Umno President for the following 20 years.

Forty-seven years on since the historic Third Malay Congress in 1946, Umno stands strong as the choice of the majority Malays. Although a number of new Malay political parties emerged throughout the years, Umno is still the popular party among the Malays.