Biar MAS ‘terhempas’ ke bumi!

Dilema yang menghantui kerajaan sekarang ini ialah samada mahu terus menyelamatkan MAS (Syarikat Penerbangan Malaysia) atau biarkan ia ‘terhempas’ ke bumi; maksudnya menjual sahamnya dengan harga murah RM0.30 sen sesaham, satu pertiga dari nilai par.

Dengan kata lain mana yang lebih baik; MAS diswastakan atau pun pengurusannya terus diberi masa untuk menunjukkan prestasi yang baik dan kembali mencatat keuntungan.

Menteri di Jabatan Perdana Menteri Datuk Seri Idris Jala berkata, kerajaan harus mengundur diri dari industri penerbangan walaupun beliau tidak bersetuju MAS dijual dengan harga murah.

“Saya fikir kerajaan harus berundur dari industri penerbangan ini.  Apa yang kerajaan harus lakukan ialah tidak menjualnya dengan menanggung kerugian.

“Tapi kerajaan harus menjualnya pada harga yang wajar kerana ia melibatkan wang pembayar cukai dan tambahan pula MAS merupakan sebuah syarikat awam tersenarai,” katanya pada forum Global Malaysia Series, Kuala Lumpur pada Selasa lalu.

Bagaimanapun beberapa jam selepas itu, beliau mengeluarkan satu kenyataan dengan menyatakan “saya ingin memberi penjelasan buat masa ini kerajaan tidak mempunyai rancangan untuk menjual MAS.”

Berdasarkan kepada dua kenyataan beliau ini yang tidak selari, kita khuatir ada sesuatu yang tidak kena atau berlaku permainan wayang disebalik tabir atau wujud campur tangan politik peringkat tertinggi.

Untuk maklumat pembaca, dalam tempoh suku pertama tahun 2013, MAS mencatat kerugian sebanyak RM279 juta.  Pada tahun 2012, MAS mengalami kerugian sebanyak RM433 juta, 2011 (RM2.2 bilion) dan 2010 (RM234 juta).

Sasaran pengambilalihan

Memandangkan harga sahamnya kini jatuh merudum, dengan jumlah pasaran yang diurusniagakan di Bursa Malaysia (market capitalisation) sebanyak RM5.2 bilion dan tunai di bank sebanyak RM3 bilion, ia kelihatan menarik dan memikat para pelabur serta menjadi sasaran pengambilalihan.

Dilemanya samada kepemilikan MAS harus dipulangkan kepada pihak swasta atau pengurusan yang dilantik Khazanah Nasional Berhad dan Kerajaan harus diberi masa untuk memulihkan kedudukan kewangannya.

Khazanah memiliki 69.4% dari MAS manakala Kerajaan memiliki saham emas (golden share) dan mempunyai hak samada mahu menjual syarikat penerbangan itu atau tidak.

Sebelum berlangsung Pilihan Raya Umum ke 13 lagi, ada dua kumpulan yang berminat untuk membeli MAS. Salah satunya ada kaitan dengan Kumpulan Nadi dan seorang lagi bekas pengarah urusan MAS.

Kumpulan yang satu lagi terdiri daripada golongan profesional yang muda yang mendakwa mereka mempunyai pengalaman dalam industri penerbangan.

Pembeli yang berminat itu ialah Tan Sri Ahmad Johan dari Nadi dan Tan Sri Syed Azman Ibrahim dari Kumpulan Weststar. Weststar kaya dengan wang tunai manakala Nadi, yang dimiliki oleh Mofaz Air mempunyai kepakaran.

Jika MAS tidak dijual, kita bimbang MAS sebagai sebuah syarikat berkaitan kerajaan (GLC) terus menjadi kuda tunggangan ahli-ahli politik, mengurus MAS seperti sebuah parti politik melebihi dari mengurusnya sebagai sebuah entiti perniagaan.

Sejarah MAS mencatatkan bahawa syarikat itu sentiasa berada dalam dunia perniagaan yang muram dan menjadi beban yang terpaksa ditanggung oleh rakyat Malaysia dan sehingga setakat ini tidak nampak ada tanda-tanda syarikat penerbangaan itu akan kembali pulih dari ‘kesihatan’ kewangannya.

Krisis

Krisis kewangan MAS ini dapat kita kesan sejak zaman Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad menjadi perdana menteri lagi. Tindakan Dr Mahathir ‘menyuruh’ Tan Sri Tajuddin Ramli membeli saham-saham MAS menjadi tanda tanya sehingga hari ini.

Pada ketika saham berligar di sekitar harga RM3.80 sesaham, Dr Mahathir mengarahkan Tajuddin membelinya pada harga RM8.00 sesaham; harga premium yang melebihi satu kali ganda dari harganya.

Harga premium MAS yang tinggi ini selain menjadi isu kontroversial, telah membebankan Tajuddin hingga tidak tertanggung lagi dan ini menyebabkan beliau menjualnya kembali kepada pihak Kerajaan.

Keengganan Kerajaan menjual saham MAS dikhuatiri kerana mahu menjaga imej dan memelihara maruah negara dan bukannya untuk menyelamatkan wang rakyat.

Persoalannya berapa banyak lagi wang rakyat yang perlu dihabiskan untuk menanggung ‘biawak hidup’ ini, hanya semata-mata mahu menjaga imej dan maruah negara.

Barangkali langkah untuk membiarkan MAS ‘terhempas’ ke bumi (baca: menjualnya dengan harga yang murah) adalah satu keputusan yang lebih baik.

Ini demi untuk menyelamatkan wang rakyat ketika negara menghadapi masalah menanggung jumlah hutang negara yang tinggi dan sangat kritikal itu.

Motorcycle Patrol Unit Rolls Out

Motorcycle Patrol Unit Rolls Out

21 Jul 2013

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PETALING JAYA: The Motorcycle Patrol Unit of the police, which was announced under the 2013 Budget, was officially launched last month by Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak.

The unit will start operations in selected areas in the Klang Valley.

The police will be spotting Kawasaki Ninja 250R bikes and will be on patrol duty in housing and business areas. Their presence will make patrolling efforts more effective to bring relief to members of the public.

The Prime Minister during the launch stressed that the government is committed to fighting crime of all layers and heed the people’s call for a safer country.

These are the main motivating areas that encouraged the introduction of the Motorcycle Patrol Unit, which is an Reducing Crime National Key Results Area (NKRA) initiative, under the recent Budget announcement.

Najib also added that, the allocation for the initiative can be increased even prior to the 2014 Budget announcement.

This will be done by increasing the current crime fighting allocation as it is a priority area for the government.

“I hope the public will give the unit a chance to do their job and prove their mettle.

“The last six months have been spent re-assessing the crime fighting initiatives to measure its effectiveness,” said Najib.

The introduction of the unit is crucial especially to address the issue of house break-ins.

“It will have a positive impact for the people and also assist in crime prevention efforts.

“This will be possible through the flexible nature of the motorcycle as a patrol vehicle in arriving at crime scenes and to chase criminals,” he said.

The unit has started with a total of 560 units of motorcycles out of the 1000 units planned for the initiative. The initial patrol units will be implemented in four states Johor, Kuala Lumpur, Penang and Selangor before the rest of the units are distributed to other states.

The patrol will function on a buddy system with two officers in each patrol team.

Three shifts are planned for 24 hours at residential neighbourhoods, business areas, recreational parks, industrial areas and schools.

The motorbikes will complement the police’s regular car patrol units and the mobile beat bases, Ops Payung.

A team of 1,000 officers will be assigned for patrol duty under the NKRA contingent.

The force will be divided into 50 supervising officers and 950 patrol personnel.

Source: The Star, Malaysia Originally published on: January 7 2013

Two crushed to death in bizarre factory accident

Posted on August 18, 2013, Sunday

HORRIFYING END: Medical personnel from Miri Hospital inspecting the bodies upon arrival at the factory yesterday, where the two were pronounced dead at the scene.

MIRI: Two general workers of a tyres factory in Miri-Kuala Baram road died on the spot from serious head injuries, after a truck’s rim from tyres that they were working on flipped out of control before the side ring crushed them.
The bizarre incident occurred around 5pm at the factory located at about 20km from the city centre.
The deceased, identified as Lumpong Charlie, 36, and Nono Hartono, 32, have been brought to Miri Hospital for a post-mortem.
According to sources, there were among four workers working in the area at that time, before the rim flipped from the tyres and crushed Lumpong and Nono.
The other two workers had a lucky miss.
One of the dead had his face badly crushed in the incident.


Read more: http://www.theborneopost.com/2013/08/18/two-crushed-to-death-in-bizarre-factory-accident/#ixzz2cHhRzPcY

LIES ABOUT OIL PALM : 12 REPLIES

The report aims at strengthening the struggles of all those who are opposing large-scale oil palm plantations in the global South. After expanding in Indonesia and Malaysia for decades, large expansions have more recently been occurring in rural areas in countries in Africa and Latin America. These expansions of industrial oil palm plantations once and again preclude the way of life of rural communities as well as their proposals for how land be used in ways that improve their well-being. The purpose of showing the lies behind the oil palm industry’s claims adds to the efforts towards dismantling a socially and environmentally destructive model of production, commercialization and consumption.
The booklet focuses on twelve lies, namely:

1. Oil palm companies use land in remote areas or in areas not effectively used, or so called marginal lands.
Soil fertility and availability of water are key factors that determine where oil palm companies will establish their plantations. Hence, lands used for agriculture and cattle raising, and even forests are taken over by oil palm plantations.

2. The compensation paid to people for losing access to land is adequate.
Many people in the global South hold customary rights to the land they use and on which they have often lived for many generations. When they lose access to land as a result of the establishing of a large scale oil palm plantation, the rules established by the national government for how to calculate such “compensation” often exclude lands under customary use. So, in most cases they do not receive any compensation at all or are paid very low amounts and sometimes only for the crops grown on part of the territory used by a community.

3.The palm oil industry contributes to food security.
Malaysian and Indonesian rural communities can tell otherwise. Apart from outright loss of the land, decrease in local food production occurs when indigenous peoples and peasants stop producing crops for local markets because they start to work for oil palm companies and do not have time to work on their lands. Also, rising prices of staple foods is common, linked to a more general trend of speculation. These are some of the trends that undermine the livelihoods and thus the food security, and in general, the food sovereignty of thousands of rural communities where oil palm companies have been expanding their plantations.

4. Oil palm plantations have a minimal need for water and for chemical inputs.
How “minimal” can the impact of a large scale plantation be for local inhabitants? Oil palm plantations often cover thousands and thousands of hectares, and the “minimal needs” become large amounts of agrotoxins and fertilizers, applied to guarantee the high production that the companies pursue. Together with the effluent of the mills where oil palm fruit is processed to obtain the crude palm oil, the pesticides and fertilizers, too, pollute rivers and streams used by people to obtain drinking water, for bathing and washing clothes.

5. Oil palm plantations conserve the environment and contribute to reducing global warming.
How can a notorious driver of deforestation contribute to reducing global warming? Indonesia and Malaysia, where most of the world´s oil palm plantations are located, are the evidence for the destruction of forests by oil palm plantations while the same is happening in Africa and Latin America with the increasing expansion of oil palm plantations.

6. Companies say they are committed to listening to communities that will be affected by the plantations or that are already affected by oil palm plantations, and address their demands.
Top-down projects leaving no option to say no, pressure, promises of jobs and/or some social project are some of the strategies of the companies. When companies are contacting communities, it is usual for them to come to inform the community about the company plans so communities will not hinder but rather support them.

7. Oil palm plantations create many jobs and thus contribute to employment in the region.
The jobs in oil palm plantations are usually badly paid and it is common for workers on oil palm plantations to work as day laborers, without contract or any additional benefits. In some countries, outsourcing of labor is a way of evading legal social obligations while it is also an anti-trade union tool that promotes informal and precarious labor. Furthermore, workers have to carry out hazardous activities like applying pesticides, with severe negative impacts on their health, often lacking access to safety equipment. Communities complain that most of the jobs are in the first years when the oil palm plantations are established and that afterwards few jobs remain. In the case of female workers, besides facing a double work load, harassment by foremen or security guards from the companies is also a common reality.

8. Involving peasant farmers in planting oil palm in expansion regions offers additional benefits and is an excellent alternative for them.
In the case of the smallholders, such as in Indonesia, they are seldom consulted about the oil palm project by which on the one hand they are forced to give up their customary lands, including forest lands they often depend on in many ways, while on the other hand, they get in return a 2-hectare plot of oil palm with a sort of “land title”. Apart from assuming a debt to establish the plantations that they often have difficulties to pay back, this means a violation of their customary land rights and often results in conflicts, of which hundreds exist today in Indonesia.

9. Oil palm plantations improve the supply of basic services to the residents (roads, clinics, schools).
Though often a network of roads throughout the plantations is set up by the oil palm company, its routing is mainly to facilitate the transport of the harvested fruits. The road can thus either benefit the communities or jeopardize them, for example when the company changes the course of roads traditionally used by communities. When it comes to building and offering schools and health services, communities often complain that these promises are delayed or not fulfilled.
At the end of the day, it is much more the company that benefits from government measures to ´help´ them – getting concessions for low or no fees and other advantages such as tax breaks, subsidies, loans with low interest rates, etc. - than that communities benefit from the company´s initiatives to support communities.

10. Oil palm companies contribute to sustainable development of countries.
India and China are the main global importers of palm oil, followed by the European Union. However, Europe remains by far the biggest per capita consumer of palm oil and vegetable oil in general, due to its excessive consumption pattern that includes the use of oil palm in a large range of different supermarket products, different from China´s and India´s use which is largely related to basic use for cooking purposes. The present expansion of oil palm plantations in Africa and also in Latin America is most often about supplying outside markets like the European Union (EU), where refining of the crude oil and transforming it into final products takes place. The jobs and wealth created around these activities do not benefit people in the producing countries.

11. The palm oil industry is committed to a number of high standards like ethical conduct.
The reality of the conduct of the palm oil sector in countries like Indonesia fails to substantiate these claims. To the contrary, the sector has been involved in cases of corruption, graft, and bribery as well as rent-seeking by politicians, public and government officials. Furthermore, many cases of violence have been reported in the hundreds of conflicts with local communities that companies are involved with.

12. RSPO guarantees sustainable oil palm.
RSPO suffers from structural problems that make it impossible to deliver this promise: the huge majority of its members are the big global players in the palm oil sector who maintain and fuel a model that guarantees huge quantities of “cheap” palm oil, mainly to fulfill demand in industrialized countries and for emerging markets, and generates enormous profits for them.
Another problem is that RSPO does not differentiate between different scales of operation, applying the same criteria to small plantations and to monocultures of tens or hundreds of thousands of hectares that per definition are never sustainable for local people and nature.

Much closer to a sustainable way of producing palm oil and many products based on it are the traditional systems of growing oil palm and processing palm oil for products sold on local and regional markets. These traditional oil palm economies are still practiced in many western and central African countries and in a specific region in Brazil. These diversified traditional palm oil systems, where palm oil is grown in agroforestry or intercropping schemes provide significantly more benefits for local and national economies in these countries, at a much lower environmental cost. RSPO just serves as a form of “greenwashing” of oil palm plantations and their image.

The booklet concludes that the presented claims of the palm oil industry are not only misleading, many times they are also false, including the statement that they improve the wellbeing of local communities. For most people life indeed changes dramatically with the invasion of oil palm plantations in their territory, but for the worse.

Hundreds of resistance struggles taking place in oil palm expansion areas in Latin America, Africa and Asia are testimony that communities do not easily accept all these impacts imposed on them. They struggle for recognition of their land rights and territories, and demand support for their alternatives to large scale plantation development.

Stronger alliances among communities and organizations in consumer countries and countries with large oil palm plantations are needed to more effectively challenge the ongoing expansion of oil palm plantations.

Besides exposing the lies and empty promises of oil palm companies, this will need solidarity with those defending the territories and forests on which communities in Asia, African and Latin American countries depend and that are at risk of being taken over by oil palm plantations. Solidarity is also needed with those working towards different production and consumption models which are not based on further destruction of forests and peoples’ livelihoods in the global South.

World Rainforest Movement
July 3rd, 2013

Bahas Akhir Negeri 2012 Piala Ketua Menteri Sarawak

Friday, 15 March 2013

Mengimbau kembali kenangan manis ketika berada di Kuching, Sarawak untuk berjuang dalam Pertandingan Bahas Akhir PKM 2012......
Kami telah menginap di De Palma Hotel, Waterfront selama 4 hari 3 malam.....
Sekitar  gambar bilik penginapan...

Ni nasib baik ambik gambar masa sebelum "dijajah", kalau selepas tu hanya bilik itu sahaja yang tahu.... Hehehe.... :P

Kemudian, keesokan harinya kami turun untuk buat rehearsal kat tempat ni...

Pusat Penerangan Islam Negeri Sarawak

Dan kat tempat ni jugalah, tempat kita org akan bertarung untuk menentang sekolah dar Kapit..... :)

Kemudian, kita org buat prep utk pertandingan pada tarikh keramat 30 OKTOBER 2012....

Tarikh penentuan segala-galanya.... (cewahhh) Gambar sekitar pertandingan....

                             

Rasa cam bersidang kat parlimen pulak tengok pentas tu.... hehehe.... angan2 mat jenin tul lah :P

                                      

Buat Poyo je muka masa ni

Mula2 tgok terkejut jugak mana taknya semua Perempuan... HAH???!!!??

Dah nak muleeeee....

Nak kongsi pulak wajah buku program diorang>>>>

RASA FAME!!!!!!!!!

klik gambar kalau nak zoom

Tu je lah perkongsian kali ni..... Cuma nak cakap ni adalahTHE SWEETEST MOMENT EVER IN 2012.....

                         

ADIOS :)

Dunia Debat Bermula

Bismillahirrahmanirrahim,
pemanis kata dari debat sainsri......
28/11/2012 bermulalah kehidupan blog ini, diharap dengan adanya blog ini ia mampu membantu para pendebat di luar sana mencari bahan dan bertanya tentang masalah debat....
Insyaallah... Pendebat sainsri tak lokek ilmu......

Sesungguhnya, kita semua berkongsi satu minat dan kebolehan yang sama, iaitu kemahiran berdebat.... Percayalah, kebolehan ini tidak dimiliki oleh orang kebanyakan dan hanya orang tertentu dikurniakan dengan kebolehan yang sedemikian rupa... Gunakanlah kebolehan yang sedia ada untuk menjadikan diri anda lebih baik dari sekarang dan akan terus maju kehadapan....

Debat Pasti Membantu Anda.......

Mengimbau Memori Suka Duka Anak 2012

Perjalanan Perjuangan Peringkat Zon G (MIRI)

Alhamdulillah, pada peringkat Zon G Miri ini... SAINSri telah diberikan kemudahan apabila tidak bertembung dengan musuh tradisi SMK MARUDI pada pusingan awal... Pada pusingan pertama kelayakan, SAINSri telah ditakdirkan untuk bertarung dengan pasukan bahas dari KOLEJ TUN DATU TUANKU HAJI BUJANG dengan membincangkan isu kokurikulum dan kemasukan ke universiti. Dan akhirnya peringkat ini dimenangi SAINSri. 

Seterusnya kami ditakdirkan bertembung dengan pasukan dari SMK BAKONG. Namun, khabar gembiranya pasukan lawan menarik diri saat2 akhir dan kami telah menang tanpa bertanding.

 Akhirnya, kami sampai ke peringkat separuh akhir dan berjumpa dengan pasukan bahas SMK TELANG USAN dan kami membincangkan isu sains dan teknologi serta kesannya terhadap manusia. Kemenangan di peringkat ini membawa kami berjumpa dengan musuh tradisi yang boleh dikatakan kami geruni tapi mereka belum tahu bisanya SAINSri. iaitu pasukan SMK MARUDI>

Secara jujurnya, saya berasa sedikit gementar apabila bertembung dengan pasukan ini. Bayangkan mereka merampas kejuaraan dari SAINSri sejak 7 tahun yang lalu dan harapan yang tinggi telah diberikan kepada kami melalui usul

KESTABILAN EKONOMI PENENTU KESTABILAN POLITIK SESEBUAH NEGARA.

Selaku pihak Pembangkang memang cukup sukar pada awalnya kami mencari idea bagi menangkis hujah2 SMK MARUDI. Namun, setelah berusaha dengan payahnya akhirnya setelah 7 tahun kemenangan menjadi milik SMK MARUDI akhirnya SAINSri berjaya merampas kembali.. Benarlah 7 TAHUN MENYEPI KINI KEMBALI

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Vital to re-examine Dayak ‘adat’ on land

KUCHING:  Former Deputy Chief Minister Daniel Tajem has called for an urgent meeting of all Dayak elders, academicians and native organisations to examine the adat or custom on native customary rights (NCR) land which is prohibitive to the community’s socio-economic development.

His call comes in the wake of the recent contentious ruling by the country’s highest court.

“We cannot override or set aside the decision of the highest court in the country, but what we can do is to examine our adat within the context of development and commercialization and to initiate some changes,” he said.

Tajem, a well known lawyer on NCR land, was commenting on the Federal Court ruling last month. The court ruled that NCR lands could not be purchased through sale and purchase agreement neither could it be sold to another Iban from another longhouse.

The court also ruled that NCR land could not be sold to non-natives.

Hundreds of thousands of hectares of NCR land are now under joint-venture which the court had ruled  as illegal and thousands more had been sold through purchase agreements.

“We in Sarawak inherited the legal system from the British and if the court’s decision is against the core of current opinion, it is only the legislature that can initiate the change of the law within the context of current thinking.

“But what we should do now is to call for a meeting of our elders who are well-verse in adat, our lawyers and professors and other academics who are dealing with socio-anthropological studies.

“Dayak organisations such as Tun Jugah Foundation, Dayak Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Sarawak Dayak National Union, Sarawak Dayak Iban Association, Dayak Bidayuh National Association, Sarawak Dayak Graduates Association and other Dayak non-governmental associations should participate in this forum.

“We have to work together with Majlis Adat Istiadat Bumiputera (Council of Native Customary Laws),” he said.

Use Maori model as guide

Tajem, who studied law in New Zealand, said that the Dayaks should take a page from the works of the Treaty of Waitangi Tribunal which examined documents, history and talked to all people knowledgeable in native Maori land claims.

The tribunal is a permanent commission of enquiry charged with making recommendations on claims brought by Maori relating to actions or omissions of the Crown that breached the promises made in the Treaty of Waitangi.

“We should adopt this approach,” he said.

Tajem insisted that if the Dayaks want to see some changes in their adat which has been practised for centuries, then it is up to the community to initiate some changes and not others.

“After examining the adat, then probably the Majlis Adat Istiadat could take up the case and amend the angle of the adat which is very prohibitive towards the development of native land.

“We should call for a meeting urgently as it affects all the Dayak communities otherwise the communities will continue to live in stagnation,” he said, pointing out that he had spoken to some Dayak leaders on the issue

KUCHING:  Former Deputy Chief Minister Daniel Tajem has called for an urgent meeting of all Dayak elders, academicians and native organisations to examine the adat or custom on native customary rights (NCR) land which is prohibitive to the community’s socio-economic development.

His call comes in the wake of the recent contentious ruling by the country’s highest court.

“We cannot override or set aside the decision of the highest court in the country, but what we can do is to examine our adat within the context of development and commercialization and to initiate some changes,” he said.

Tajem, a well known lawyer on NCR land, was commenting on the Federal Court ruling last month. The court ruled that NCR lands could not be purchased through sale and purchase agreement neither could it be sold to another Iban from another longhouse.

The court also ruled that NCR land could not be sold to non-natives.

Hundreds of thousands of hectares of NCR land are now under joint-venture which the court had ruled  as illegal and thousands more had been sold through purchase agreements.

“We in Sarawak inherited the legal system from the British and if the court’s decision is against the core of current opinion, it is only the legislature that can initiate the change of the law within the context of current thinking.

“But what we should do now is to call for a meeting of our elders who are well-verse in adat, our lawyers and professors and other academics who are dealing with socio-anthropological studies.

“Dayak organisations such as Tun Jugah Foundation, Dayak Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Sarawak Dayak National Union, Sarawak Dayak Iban Association, Dayak Bidayuh National Association, Sarawak Dayak Graduates Association and other Dayak non-governmental associations should participate in this forum.

“We have to work together with Majlis Adat Istiadat Bumiputera (Council of Native Customary Laws),” he said.

Use Maori model as guide

Tajem, who studied law in New Zealand, said that the Dayaks should take a page from the works of the Treaty of Waitangi Tribunal which examined documents, history and talked to all people knowledgeable in native Maori land claims.

The tribunal is a permanent commission of enquiry charged with making recommendations on claims brought by Maori relating to actions or omissions of the Crown that breached the promises made in the Treaty of Waitangi.

“We should adopt this approach,” he said.

Tajem insisted that if the Dayaks want to see some changes in their adat which has been practised for centuries, then it is up to the community to initiate some changes and not others.

“After examining the adat, then probably the Majlis Adat Istiadat could take up the case and amend the angle of the adat which is very prohibitive towards the development of native land.

“We should call for a meeting urgently as it affects all the Dayak communities otherwise the communities will continue to live in stagnation,” he said, pointing out that he had spoken to some Dayak leaders on the issue

Jenglot boleh angkat kereta?

Misteri

Anda tentu pernah mendengar cerita tentang jenglot. Banyak dari kita yang bahkan belum mengetahui apakah jenglot itu.

Menurut cerita yang beredar dari mulut ke mulut, hantu jenglot adalah mumia dengan bentuk menyerupai manusia. Mumia ini berukuran kecil.

Dari beragam versi jenglot yang ditemukan (menurut pemiliknya, mereka menemukan jenglot itu), jenglot terkecil berukuran 10 sentimeter dan jenglot terbesar berukuran lebih kurang 17 sentimeter.

Secara umum, jenglot memiliki bentuk seperti manusia, lengkap dengan dua kaki serta panjang rambut yang bahkan melebihi panjang tubuhnya sendiri.

Desas-desus mengatakan bahawa rambut itu tidak berhenti tumbuh meskipun si hantu jenglot itu telah mati. Mumia hantu jenglot ini memiliki tekstur kulit yang kasar dengan warna gelap, khasnya mumia.

Bentuk muka hantu jenglot ini menyerupai tengkorak dilengkapi dengan taring mencuat. Pemilik jenglot percaya bahawa jenglot yang mereka miliki adalah mumia dari jenglot hidup.

Berdasarkan cerita yang beredar mengenai jenglot, banyak orang menyatakan bahwa mereka pernah mendapati jenglot hidup di beberapa daerah di Indonesia.

Di daerah Jawa Timur misalnya, pernah seorang mendakwa melihat secara langsung jenglot hidup. Orang tersebut menyatakan bahawa pada saat itu, setidaknya ada 8 jenglot hidup sedang berada di pinggir pantai di daerah Jember tersebut.

Ali tahu bahawa jenglot boleh diproses (dibuat tarik duit). Tapi biasanya selepas proses, jenglot itu akan disempurnakan (dibunuh). Jika tidak jenglot itu akan mengganggu semua ahli jemaah tarik duit tersebut.

Malah jenglot juga boleh dijual dengan harga RM5 juta jika ia boleh angkat kotak rokok. Lebih mahal lagi kalau jenglot itu boleh angkat kereta atau tong gas.

Proses

“Ada orang nak jual jenglot. Ada buyer? ” kata Hisham kepada Ali.

“Buyer ada tapi lebih baik kita proses,”” jawab Ali.

“Nanti saya tanya tuan jenglot sama ada dia nak jual atau proses,” kata Hisham.

“Kalau jual setakat RM5 juta saja. Tapi kalau proses, lebih banyak kita dapat. Jenglot ini ada di mana?” tanya Ali.

“Ada di Taiping. Kawan saya, Eric yang kenali tuannya, Pak Mail,” jawab Hisham.

Hisham terus call Eric yang mengenali tuan jenglot Pak Mail. Pak Mail serah kepada Eric sama ada mahu jual atau proses Jenglot itu. Eric setuju jenglot itu diproses.

“U dah tengok ke jenglot tu dapat angkat kotak rokok?” tanya Ali yang turut bercakap dengan Eric.

“I tak sempat tengok. Tapi Pak Mail kata kereta pun dia boleh angkat,” jelas Eric orang Iban Sarawak yang duduk di Taiping selepas kahwin dengan orang Cina Taiping.

“U tahu selepas proses, kita kena bunuh jenglot itu?” soal Ali.

“Ya ke? Kenapa?” tanya Eric.

Jemaah

“Kalau tidak semua jemaah kita akan dibunuh,” jelas Ali.

“Ustaz Yahya pandai ke bunuh jenglot?” soal Eric.

“Itu memang kerja Ustaz Yahya. Dia yang lebih arif. Bila u nak datang KL?” soal Ali.

“Ada masalah sikit. Saya pun tak ada duit nak isi minyak dan bayar tol nak ke Kuala Lumpur. Kita kongsi dengan ahli jemaahlah,” cadang Eric.

“Okay kita semua lima orang keluar duit RM100 seorang untuk isi minyak, tol dan makan minum kalian,” Ali beri jaminan.

Petang itu bila Zaki balik kerja, Ali beritahu projek barunya itu untuk proses jenglot dengan Ustaz Yahya.

“Betul ke jenglot tu boleh angkat kereta?” tanya Zaki.

“Eric kata Pak Mail cakap macam tu. Entahlah kot kot kereta mainan. Hahaha,” kata Ali.

Petang Jumaat Pak Mail tiba di Kepong dengan Eric. Hisham yang mengenali Eric menyambut mereka sementara menunggu Ali dan Zaki sampai. Di kedai mamak itu. Malam itu terus mereka pergi ke rumah Ustaz Yahya.

“Mana jenglotnya?” tanya Ustaz Yahya.

“Dalam kotak ini,” kata Pak Mail sambil membuka kotak itu. Ustaz Yahya memerhati jenglot itu.

“Minta maaf ya Pak Mail. Jenglot ini mati. Bukannya hidup. Kalau hidup boleh buat proses,” beritahu Ustaz Yahya dengan jujur.

“Mati? Kata ia boleh angkat kereta?” tanya Ali.

“Entahlah. Pak Mail yang cakap macam itu,” kata Eric.

“Nampaknya terbang lagi duit aku,” kata Zaki.

Mereka semua kecewa kerana jenglot yang dibawa Pak Mail bukannya hidup. Angan-angan mereka nak jadi jutawan pada malam itu gagal lagi
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