Laungan Reformasi Di Rumah Panjang

Di setiap Rumah Panjang yang UPUnya di Rumah Dingun, saya meninggalkan pesanan terakhir kepada penghuni-penghuninya dengan pesanan yang tidak mungkin akan dilupai mereka iaitu pesanan perjuangan yang nantinya boleh merubah kehidupan mereka dan merubah pegangan hidup mereka daripada menyokong BN kepada menyokong PKR.

Pesanan yang sangat berkesan itu adalah laungan Reformasi. Foto diatas adalah gambaran kaum Iban melaungkan Reformasi.

Dan saya cukup puas hati bahawa didalam kawasan Rumah Panjang dibawah jagaan saya iaitu untuk UPU Rumah Dingun PKR mendapat 199 undi manakala BN mendapat 171 undi. Snap hanya sekadar memungut 74 undi.

Tenaga kerja kami di 20 buah Rumah Panjang itu terdiri daripada Hendon Jaafar dan Kamariah dari Kuala Krau, Nasar selaku koordinator dan Ekok sebagai Pemandu.

PKR Kuala Krau sudah bersiap sedia menghadapi Pilihanraya pada bila-bila masa

Parti Keadilan Rakyat Cabang Kuala Krau yang telah berjaya mengadakan Himpunan Orang Asal Kuala Krau dengan kehadiran menghampiri 500 orang Peserta yang diadakan di Kg Penderas, Kuala Krau dan dirasmikan oleh Dato Fauzi Abdul Rahman, Pengerusi PKR Pahang dan akan mengadakan Himpunan Warga Felda Kuala Krau pada 1hb Mei 2011 nanti dan Kursus Pilihanraya yang akan berlangsung pada penghujung bulan Mei nanti, maka PKR Cabang Kuala Krau sudah bersedia untuk menghadapi Pilihanraya walaupun diadakan dengan cara mengejut.

Ranting-Ranting di perkampongan Orang Asal, perkampongan tradisional Melayu dan di rancangan Felda Jenderak Utara dan Jenderak Selatan sedang disusun semula didalam mesyuarat-mesyuarat Ranting yang akan diadakan dipenghujung bulan April dan berakhir dipertengahan bulan Mei 2011 mempastikan PKR Cabang Kuala Krau sudah menyediakan jentera Pilihanraya dengan lebih teratur.

Pada Pilihanraya Umum 2008, PKR Cabang Kuala Krau masih belum berdaftar dan merupakan Cabang yang baru ditaja dengan keahlian tidak melebihi 100 orang, kali inii PKR Cabang Kuala Krau mempunyai kedanggotaan melebihi 1000 orang terdiri daripada keanggotaan berbilang kaum iaitu Melayu, Cina, India dan Orang Asal.

Diperkampongan Orang Asal sahaja PKR Cabang Kuala Krau sudah mempunyai keanggotaan seramai 600 orang suatu kemajuan diluar dugaan.

PKR Cabang Kuala Krau juga telah menamakan 4 orang dari pimpinannya untuk diangkat oleh pucuk pimpinan sebagai calon, dan calon-calon ini bersedia untuk mewakili parti sebagai calon apabila dipilih.

Sementara itu, gerak kerja parti adalah untuk menambahkan keanggotaan disamping mendaftar anggota-anggota baru khususnya dikalangan anak-anak muda untuk menjadi pemilih.

Motto PKR Cabang Kuala Krau adalah: BUAT KERJA BELUM TENTU MENANG DAN TIDAK BUAT KERJA SUDAH TENTU SUKAR UNTUK MENANG!

Himpunan (Seminar) Peneroka/Generasi Baru Felda Kuala Krau

Parti Keadilan Rakyat Cabang Kuala Krau akan menganjurkan Himpunan Peneroka/Generasi Kedua Felda pada 1hb Mei 2011 bermula jam 8.00 pagi dengan pendaftaran peserta-peserta.

Himpunan ini akan dirasmikan oleh Yang Berbahagia Dato Fauzi Abdul Rahman, Pengerusi Parti Keadilan Rakyat Negeri Pahang akan berlangsung di Felda Jenderak Selatan, Kuala Krau, Pahang.

Himpunan ini akan hanya dibentang satu Kertas Kerja sahaja yang dipadankan dari Kertas Kerja yang dibentangkan oleh Surina Suhaimi (Peguam) di Konvensyen Warga Felda dan Orang Asal di Kuala Kubu Bharu, dan akan dibentangkan oleh Haji Suhaimi Said, Pengerusi Biro Masyarakat Felda dan Orang Asal Parti Keadilan Rakyat.

Sdr Rebin Birham, Setiausaha Biro Warga Felda dan Orang Asal PKR, Sdr T. Kumar, seorang peguam dan Sdr Razali Ithnain, bekas pegawai MPOB akan membuat ulasan masing-masing sebelum majlis perbincangan dan soal-jawab dibukakan kepada para peserta-peserta.

Himpunan ini akan berakhir jam 1.30 tengah hari.

Pada jam 4.00 petang pula akan diadakan Mesyuarat Jawatankuasa Biro Masyarakat Felda dan Orang Asal Parti Keadilan Rakyat Pusat dengan disertai oleh Jawatankuasa Biro tersebut diperingkat Negeri Pahang dan peringkat Cabang Kuala Krau.

Pada sebelah malamnya pula akan diadakan Majlis Ceramah dan tiga orang tokoh PKR telah bersetuju untuk berucap didalam Majlis itu iaitu Sdr YB Saifuddin Nasution, Setiausaha Agung PKR Pusat, Dato Fauzi Abdul Rahman, Pengerusi Majlis Pimpinan PKR Pahang dan YB Nik Nazmi Nik Ahmad, ADUN Selangor kawasan Seri Setia.

PKR Kuala Krau membukakan juga penyertaan Himpunan ini kepada peneroka-peneroka Felda dan Generasi Muda dari Cabang-Cabang PKR seluruh Pahang.

Selamat Berhimpun.

Pahang mempunyai jumlah Rancangan Felda terbanyak di Malaysia

Dengan mempunyai 115 bilangan Rancangan Felda dan 43123 orang jumlah Peneroka, Pahang merupakan Negeri yang terbanyak sekali di Malaysia yang mempunyai bilangan Rancangan Felda dan justeru itu juga jumlah peneroka-peneroka.

Jumlah pengundi-pengundi termasuk daripada Generasi Kedua dan Ketiga merentasi 200,000 orang iaitu jumlah pengundi yang terbesar di Negeri Pahang.

Kecuali kawasan Parlimen Kuantan dan Indera Mahkota, kesemua kawasan Parlimen di Negeri Pahang samada mempunyai jumlah majoriti dari kalangan Peneroka-Peneroka dan Generasi Ke-2 dan Ke-3 atau mempunyai sejumlah pengundi-pengundi yang menentukan kalah menang kepada parti-parti yang bertanding.

Peneroka-peneroka Felda di Negeri Pahang setakat ini masih menjadi "fixed deposit" kepada Barisan Nasional. Tetapi fixed deposit ini menjadi semakin tipis, bahkan pengekalan mereka sebagai fixed deposit Barisan Nasional hanya dapat dikekalkan dengan pemberian rasuah politik yang melampau.

Didalam Pilihanraya Umum 2008 yang lalu, golongan terbesar daripada Peneroka-Peneroka ini, diberikan bayaran sejumlah RM5,000.00 atas nama pengembalian wang CESS. Dan semasa PRK Kerdau baru-baru ini, Peneroka Felda Jengka 22 telah dibayar RM13,000.00 yang kononnya dibayar untuk pengembalian wang Cess manakala Peneroka-Peneroka Felda Jengka 23 dibayar RM4000.00 kononnya sebagai bayaran insentif penanaman Kelapa Sawit dari MPOB.

Ada beberapa kawasan Rancangan Felda telah memberikan kemenangan kepada calon-calon Pembangkang seperti kepada Dato Tuan Ibrahim Tuan Man bagi kawasan DUN Jengka dan Kepada Jefferi bagi kawasan DUN Chini.

Undi yang diperolehi Pembangkang didalam setiap kali Pilihanraya dari kawasan-kawasan Rancangan Felda telah bertambah dari masa ke semasa.

Selepas Pilihanraya Umum 2008, Rancangan-Rancangan Felda Negeri Pahang menyaksikan penubuhan Ranting-Ranting Parti Keadilan Rakyat sebagai tambahan kekuatan kepada Cawangan-Cawangan PAS yang telah lama wujud. Kombinasi kekuatan Cawangan-Cawangan PAS dan Ranting-Ranting PKR ini adalah satu fenomena baru yang berjaya menarik dua kumpulan tertentu didalam rancangan-rancangan Felda iaitu golongan peneroka-peneroka asal dan golongan Generasi Ke-2 dan Ke-3.

Daripada 43123 orang peneroka-peneroka asal, 33060 peneroka telah mendapat Suratan Hakmilik (geran) bagi tanah-tanah ladang dan kampong masing-masing dan terdapat lebihkurang 10,000 lagi peneroka-peneroka yang belum menerima geran mereka walaupun golongan itu telah menjelaskan BK dan CAC mereka.

Pembayaran kembali BK dan pembayaran sepenuhnya CAC adalah syarat utama bagi peneroka-peneroka mendapatkan geran bagi ladang-ladang mereka namun sesetengah Peneroka seperti Felda Kota Gelanggi telah menunggu hingga 14 tahun setelah menyelesaikan BK dan CAC masih belum menerima geran tanah mereka.

Golongan yang besar juga daripada mereka yang menanam semula bersendirian masih belum dibayar wang Dana Tanam Semula yang dicarumkan oleh mereka sendiri. Didalam isu ini, Felda gagal menjelaskan bayaran mengikut kaedah RM1700.00 bagi setiap ekar tetapi membayar hanya sebahagian daripada jumlah itu dan bakinya dibayar dengan cara pembekalan baja, walhal, baja dari Felda tidak diperlukan kerana peneroka-peneroka itu membeli baja yang lebih bermutu dari pengedar-pengedar swasta.

Isu peratusan perahan KPG yang dimanipulasi oleh Felda adalah isu yang dikongsikan bersama samada oleh peneroka-peneroka yang menjadi anggota pembangkang mahupun yang menyokong UMNO. Felda telah berlaku tidak adil apabila memberikan peratusan perahan sawit diatas kadar 17-18% untuk berpuluh tahun sedangkan apabila peneroka-peneroka ini mennghantarkan buah sawit mereka ke makmal, perahan yang diperolehi melebihi 27%. Walaupun kini Kilang-Kilang Felda telah menaikkan perahan kepada 20%, namun, kerugian peneroka-peneroka selama lebih 20 tahun amatlah besar dan Felda tidak berura-ura barang sedikit pun untuk merundingkan gantirugi kepada peneroka-peneroka.

Rata-rata peneroka-peneroka Felda yang menanam semula melalui Felda tidak berpuas hati kerana dibebankan dengan hutang setiap seorang melebihi RM70,000.00 manakala pendapatan bulanan mereka hanyalah diparas RM1500.00 suatu jumlah yang jauh lebih kecil daripada Peneroka-Peneroka yang menanam semula secara bersendirian.

Pendapatan peneroka-peneroka bersendirian boleh mencecah hingga RM5000.00 sebulan, dan mereka tidak menanggung sebarang hutang untuk dibayar BK kepada Felda, maka persoalannya, jika pendapatan peneroka-peneroka melalui Felda hanya dibayar RM1500.00 sebulan, kemanakah lebihan pendapatan hasil jualan sawit mereka, tidakkah boleh mengurangkan hutang mereka kepada Felda? Kenapa hutang mereka bertambah dari masa ke semasa dan tidak berkurangan setelah hasil jualan sawit mereka hanya diberikan RM1500.00 sebagai elaun sara hidup!

Permasaalahan yang sebelum ini tidak diambil kira adalah buah-buah sawit yang di "rejcct". Buah yang direject ini tidak terbukti dimusnahkan bahkan indikasi menunjukkan bahawa buah reject ini diproses bersama dengan buah-buah yang diterima.

Buah yang reject ini sewajarnya dikembalikan kepada peneroka-peneroka kerana pihak swasta masih mahu membeli buah-buah itu iaitu buah-buah yang dikatakan muda, tangkai panjang atau mekal walaupun dengan peratus perahan yang lebih rendah.

Peneroka-peneroka berkenaan dikenakan denda kerana kononnya membawa buah-buah yang reject, tetapi setelah dibuang buah-buah yang reject peratusan perahan kepada buah-buah yang diterima tetap juga diberikan peratusan yang tidak munasabah.

Kombinasi tuntutan peratusan perahan KPG dan buah reject memungkinkan setiap peneroka kerugian melebihi RM100,000.00 setiap seorang sepanjang 20 tahun manipulasi ini berjalan.

Kepada anak-anak muda dari generasi ke-2 dan ke-3, mereka menghadapi masalah pengangguran, masalah sosial, dan masalah tempat tinggal. Usaha daripada Felda untuk mengatasi masalah ini amatlah minimal. tidak bersungguh-sungguh dan tidak menampakkan kesan yang positif.

Cadangan dari PR untuk memansuhkan Felda Plantations yang membolehkan 79,000 peneroka-peneroka baru terdiri daripada Generasi Ke-2 dan Ke-3 memberikan jaminan yang munasabah kepada mereka untuk mempunyai masa depan yang cerah.

Apa yang dikatakan fixed deposit BN daripada peneroka-peneroka Felda dan generasi baru mereka tidak lagi menjadi jaminan kepada Barisan Nasional, dan peneroka-peneroka tidak lagi terbawa-bawa bahawa tanpa UMNO mereka akan menjadi terumbang-ambing, bahkan satu kesedaran baru telah timbul bahawa UMNO yang mengendalikan Felda hanya mendatangkan kesusahan demi kesusahan kepada peneroka-peneroka dan generasi baru mereka.

Maka Pahang yang merumahkan jumlah terbesar peneroka-peneroka Felda akan lebih terjamin apabila Pakatan Rakyat mengambil alih Putrajaya dan Negeri Pahang.

Saifuddin Nasution berceramah di Kuala Krau

Yang Berhormat Sdr Saifuddin Nasution, Setiausaha Agung Parti Keadilan Rakyat akan berceramah di Perkarangan Pejabat Parti Keadilan Rakyat Cabang Kuala Krau pada 24hb April 2011 jam 9.00 malam,

Akan berceramah sama adalah Dato Fauzi Abdul Rahman, Pengerusi PKR Negeri Pahang, YB Chai Tong Chai, ADUN kawasan Chuah, Negeri Sembilan yang akan berucap didalam tiga Bahasa iaitu Melayu, China dan Tamil.

Ceramah ini akan dipengerusikan oleh Pak Jabit (Man Kadir).

Orang Ramai dijemput hadir.

Sarawakians!

Sarawakians! Give yourselves a chance. Free yourselves from 30 years of misery! — Sakmongkol AK47
April 15, 2011

APRIL 15 — For once, the people of Sarawak must do themselves a favour. Give yourselves a chance. Not give others a chance. They have had 30 years. You only need this one chance. This is your hour. Let your progeny say in future, this was your finest hour.

This is your chance to regain your dignity and pride as a decent human being. Give yourselves the chance to determine your own destiny. Or, at the very least, show to those in power that you matter. There is nothing to fear except fear itself.

Show those in power they can’t scare you with the presence of coercive instruments of power. The police and the army guarding your longhouses are there protecting you. Those Rela people out there are only there for a brief time. What’s left is how you determined your life.

Throw out corruption. Throw out incompetence. Throw out a lifetime of neglect. Reject the bullies.

Give your children and grandchildren the chance. Say it’s enough. You gave Taib Mahmud 30 years of chance. He has taken everything. He has taken the most precious thing from you — your sense of self-worth. Will the Dayaks continue to be complicit in the charade of showing they are only good at performing the ngajat dance and, in that process, be regarded as nothing more than objects of cultural curiosity?

Will that treatment give you decent housing, clean water, electricity? Has it given you that? Remember the misery of walking miles down the road to get a can of kerosene. Don’t forget the humiliation of being given portable computers where electricity is non-existent. Remember forests and the trees that are gone forever.

Can the heads with the same set thinking usher in a better future? The answer must be an emphatic NO. How can the SAME thinking coming out from the SAME heads, accustomed to keeping entire peoples in callous disregard, unchallenged incompetence and open arrogance, be capable of turning over a new leaf? Agreeing to this proposition is self-deceit of the highest order. It’s a crime against humanity itself.

In a previous lifetime of glory and pride, the only solution that Sarawakians are renowned for is to cut off their enemy’s head. Those in power are no longer your benefactors. They stand on the side of the enemy of the people.

If you give Taib and his government another chance, it means you are willing to allow him to perpetuate years of neglect, corruption incompetence and arrogance. It’s not going to be enough. It will be 30 years of the SAME neglect, incompetence and arrogance and corruption.

For 30 years, the chance to give yourself a decent living and the chance to give yourself dignity has been forcibly taken away. It has been taken away by 30 years of neglect, negligence and arrogance. The neglect exemplified most horribly by the waste laid bare on your land which forms the very spring and essence of your life.

What has the majority of the Sarawak people achieved? The fruits of development enjoyed by the elite while the majority languished in a world that time seem to forget? After 30 years, 6,000 longhouses are still without electricity and water in a state which boasts the biggest hydro dam?

This Sunday, dubbed Super Sunday will be judgment day for Taib Mahmud and his ruling PBB and his partner parties. These past weeks are the trial that leads to that judgment day. What is the purpose of the judgment day?

The purpose of that judgment day is for the court of the people to call up those who manage the state to account for what they have done.

That in essence is what accountability means. You are called up to account for the things you have done.

What has Taib and his party done to Sarawak for the last 30 years? Taib and his cabal of leaders have brought much development to Sarawak. To free Sarawakians from a primitive state of affairs — underdevelopment, stunted growth, primitive lifestyles, civilising the natives, bringing them into the 20th century and beyond.

All that, said the wise people, is spectacular development. Sterling! Screamed some people with lard-laden brains.

The people of Sarawak have only one response to give to Taib and his cabal of leaders — continue giving us the lies, we shall not stop uncovering the truths.

Right now, you have only one historic mission. Get Taib to step down as chief minister. Showing him the exit is the single most potent weapon and burning issue against the Barisan Nasional in the state election. Whoever sides with Taib stands for corruption and against the people.

Getting him out has united Sarawakians . This shared thinking is possible because 30 years of his kleptocratic rule as chief minister has bred and entrenched the habits of non-accountability, lack of transparency and absence decency of good governance. Remember kleptocracy is associated with the meaning of thief and theft.

That is none better illustrated by the mountain of allegations on abuses of power and rampant corruption under his rule which he has not been able to rebut. Datuk Seri Najib Razak is not unaware of what is happening to Sarawak with Taib at the helm, but Najib appears to have been immobilised by the phalanx of bomohs and witches surrounding Taib.

It is obvious Najib is even powerless to have Taib committed to an early date to step down . The PM has repeatedly been rebuffed by the chief minister and there is nothing the prime minister can do about it.

Taib is not an Umno member and his reaction to the PM’s announcement that Taib will leave office is like telling the PM to “**** off” from his turf. Taib is saying: who are you to tell me what to do with my office, in my state? Sarawak is Taib’s country. The PM can’t do anything, but the people of Sarawak can.

Give yourselves that chance. Don’t turn to others for succour. —sakmongkol.blogspot.com

* Sakmongkol AK47 is the nom de plume of Datuk Mohd Ariff Sabri Abdul Aziz. He was Pulau Manis assemblyman (2004-2008).

* This is the personal opinion of the writer or publication. The Malaysian Insider does not endorse the view unless specified.

WHEN DID U BECOME A MALAY, by Haris Ibrahim

Subject: An interesting article by Haris Ibrahim

I think our ex PM who has the hide of an elephant has a lot to answer for especially when he is playing the racial card so strongly. Let's see what he has to say about all this.


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Letter for Mahathir - By Haris Ibrahim.

Dear Mahathir
Malaysianinsider reports that you had "defended the social contract, the so-called unwritten agreement between the Malays and the non-Malays during independence, by affirming that without the agreement, Malaysia would not have been formed".
They quoted you : "If there was no social contract, the terms and conditions of allowing citizenship to non-Malays would have not taken place. One million outsiders were given citizenships at the time."

Now, this quote from you got me curious. Let me tell you why.

I conferred with my aunt, who confirmed that my maternal great grandfather, Eliathamby, of whom I've written previously in a posting entitled "The land that my forefathers helped build", would have left Ceylon and arrived in what is now West Malaysia, around 1870. He died well before the conclusion of that social contract that you spoke of, so my great grandfather would not have come within those 'one million outsiders' who acquired citizenship at the time of independence in 1957.

My maternal grandfather, Vellupillay T. Williams, never lived to see the formation of Malaya so he, too, did not make up the'one million outsiders'.

Enough of my family tree. Let's look at yours.
I got this from a blog, Malaysiana :
Perhaps, the most famous Malayalee to land in George Town was Iskandar Kutty, a merchant who married a Johor-Riau wife Siti Hawa Iskandar. They became the proud parents of Alor Star's top public school Sultan Abdul Hamid College's founder-principal and Kedah's royal educator Datuk Mohamad Iskandar.
Mohamad was the school teacher of Tunku Abdul Rahman. He and his wife Datin Wan Tempawan Wan Hanafi from the Kedah Bendahara's (Prime Minister's) clan, were the proud parents of Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad, Malaysia's Father of Modernisation and fourth Prime Minister.

And this from Malaysia Today :
Born in December 20, 1925, Dr Mahathir hailed from the state of Kedah, at the capital of Alor Star, whose father was a school teacher. His father was Indian who migrated from Kerala, who married a malay lady and sold banana fritters during the second world war. His early education was through vernacular school and at the Sultan Abdul Hamid College in the city.

My question, then, Doc, firstly, is whether your father was amongst the 'one million outsiders'?
And when did you become 'Malay', Doc? When did you move from being a son of an Indian who migrated from Kerala to a Malay? Not that I care, but when?

Speaking of Malay, do you remember your "Malay Dilemma", Doc? Do you remember what you said about the problem of inbreeding amongst the Malay community, and that whole business of genes? Back then, who had heard of this thing called DNA?

Who had ever imagined that science would one day make it possible for all of us to trace our genealogy?

Guess what, Doc? It seems, based on all this new DNA scientific knowledge, that there's no such thing as a Malay race. It would seem that you've gone from being a son of an Indian who migrated from Kerala to a 'does not exist'.

Just like that!
My cyber buddy, Michael Chick, has written extensively on this matter, in a three-parter in Malaysiakini. HERE, HERE, and HERE.
See what Michael writes in his final part: "The people Malaysians call 'Malay', are actually only a tiny sub-component of the much larger Austronesian group. And all Austronesians are the end-product of extensive inter-breeding between the Taiwanese and Dravidic Indians. All this has finally been irrefutably proven by independent DNA testings from world-class faculties".

I've never been very good at all these sciences, Doc, but if you're any better, and you think Michael's cocked-up big time in his conclusions, why don't you take him on?

Damn, I digress.

So when and how did you become Malay, Doc? Because of the definition of 'Malay' in the Federal Constitution, Doc? Article 160 (2)? That right?

So, right up until the last moments before Tunku's declaration of independence, you were the son of an Indian who migrated from Kerala, and moments later you were magically transformed into a Malay? And is not the definition of Malay in Article 160(2) stated to be for the limited purpose where the word 'Malay' appears in the Constitution?

But really, Doc, I don't give a toss whether you hold yourself out as Malay or the son of an Indian who migrated from Kerala. Whatever turns you on.

What pisses me off is this Bumi-non Bumi crap. November 19th, last year, The Star reported on Najib's balik kampung to Makassar in South Sulawesi. You can read the report HERE.
Courtesy of The Star, Najib is reported to have said: "I feel like I am returning to my roots," and, when asked to comment on the possibility that some people might view the fact that he had roots here in a negative light, Najib said: "I am not apologetic about it. This is my family history and I am proud of it."
According to the report, Najib said he was the direct descendant of Bugis royalty who migrated to Pahang in the 18th century. Well, at least this Malaysian is not ashamed of his roots!

Now, you know that aunt I mentioned earlier? You know her.
Aunty Rasammah.

I googled her name yesterday and this is what is written of her in Wikipedia.

"Rasammah Bhupalan, also known as Rasammah Naomi Navarednam or Mrs F.R. Bhupalan is a renowned Malaysian freedom fighter and social activist
Born in 1927, she has championed causes such as the anti-drug abuse movement, women's rights, education and social justice causes.

Rasammah was one of the earliest women involved in the fight for Malaysian (then Malaya ) independence. She joined the Rani of Jhansi Regiment, the women's wing of the Indian National Army, to fight the British. She served in Burma during World War II.
As founder president of the Women Teacher's Union , she fought for equal pay for women teachers and tried to bring disparate teachers' unions under an umbrella.

The former school principal was the first Asian representative of the World Confederation of Organisations of the Teaching Profess ion for two successive terms. She was also very active in the National Council of Women's Organisation (NCWO) and Pemadam.

She was a teacher in the Methodist Boys' School, Kuala Lumpur from 1959 to 1964 and was the principal of the Methodist Girls School , Kuala Lumpur for 13 years from 1970 until she retired in 1982. On 11th November 2007, Mrs.Bhupalan was one of the few veteran teachers who were invited to attend MBSSKL's 110th Anniversary Celebration Dinner. The dinner was specially organized to honour all the former and current teachers of the school".

Quite frankly, I think the write-up in Wikipedia does little justice to all that Aunty Rasammah has done for this country. But that is another matter.

More importantly, Doc, why are you, the son of an Indian who migrated from Kerala, and Najib, the descendant of Bugis who migrated from Sulawesi ,are bumiputra, whilst Aunty Rasammah is not?
IT IS WELL KNOWN THAT MAHATHIR IS A RACIST. READ HIS BLOG AND YOU WOULD BE REAFFIRMED.

WHILE RETIRED FORMER US PRESIDENT CLINTON IS DOING NOBLE SERVICES AROUND THE GLOBE, MAHATHIR IS BUSY INFUSING IN HIS BLOG WITH WORDS OF ANGER, RACISM (HE IS AN AVID PROPONENT OF "MALAY SUPREMACY" WHICH HE COINED, I BELIEVE) AND NEGATIVE VIBES.

NOTHING IN HIS BLOG CONTAINS WISDOM NOR NOBLE IDEOLOGY THAT WOULD CONTRIBUTE TO HELPING THE POOR; NOR IN HELPING TO FOSTER A STRONGER BOND AMONG THE RACES IN MALAYSIA.

IS HE A GREAT LEADER? YOUR VERDICT IS AS GOOD AS MINE.