Dua bloggers dan dua petugas KeADILan ditahan di Kuala Kangsar ketika sedang menyebar risalah. Mereka masih lagi berada dalam tahanan. Satu lagi cara penakut kerajaan UMNO dan BN… saya dalam perjalanan ke sana!
UPDATE @ 1:13 pm: Saya masih lagi di balai, belum selesai lagi soal siasat. Sudah hampir 2 jam!
Staf kerajaan negeri Perak telah membuka tingkap-tingkap pejabat di bangunan SUK melambai-lambai kepada MB Perak yang kelihatan dihalang oleh FRU masuk ke perkarangan bangunan SUK.
Trak-trak FRU telah dikerah menahan MB dan Exco kerajaan Pakatan Rakyat yang sah daripada memasuki pejabat mereka.
Demokrasi di Malaysia telah diaibkan oleh penggunaan kekerasan fizikal mengatasi kewarasan menurut landasan undang-undang. TPM Najib Razak menjadi perancang rampasan kuasa di Perak akan berhadapan dengan kuasa rakyat yang hanya akan berundur sekiranya segala kepincangan dan perlanggaran batasan perundangan dihapuskan.
MB Perak, Nizar Jamaluddin akan terus melaksanakan tugasan beliau sebagai MB. Beliau tetap akan ke pejabat dan sekarang sedang menuju ke sana.
Ketua Wanita KeADILan (Zuraida Kamaruddin), Exco Wanita (Rozaini Mohd. Rosli), Ketua Wanita Perak (Fathmawathy Salim) dan aktivis KeADILan Perak (Suzana Manja Ibrahim) telah menziarahi keluarga Allahyarham Ahli Parlimen Bukit Gantang, Hj. Roslan Shaharum, di kediaman mereka di Batu Gajah petang tadi.
Ribuan rakyat dan para pemimpin PR telah hadir mengiringi jenazah beliau. Allahyarham Roslan seorang yang sopan dan tepat bila berbicara, beliau telah berusaha untuk bertemu rakyat di semua kampung dalam Parlimen Bukit Gantang. Rakyat Bukit Gantang telah kehilangan wakil yang benar-benar prihatin rakyat. Semoga akan digantikan dengan yang serupa atau yang lebih baik.
Perancangan Tuhan tiada dapat ditolak walapun segala jentera manusia ingin menghalanginya. 
Kami dimaklumkan berita mengejut pemergian Ahli Parlimen Bukit Gantang sebentar tadi, Allahyarham YB Haji Roslan Shaharum, beliau diserang sakit jantung. Ketua Wanita KeADILan & seluruh Exco Wanita KeADILan mengucapkan takziah kepada keluarga beliau, semoga menerima musibah ini dengan penuh kesabaran.
Gambar YB Roslan dari blog beliau di http://parlimen059.blogspot.com/
Adun Bukit Selambau telah letak jawatan sebagai wakil rakyat Bukit Selambau.
Satu perhimpunan besar menyokong Datuk Seri Mohd Nizar Jamaluddin akan diadakan di Masjid Ubudiah, Kuala Kangsar selepas solat Jumaat.
Maju menyusun gugusan ke arah perubahan dalam pentadbiran negara
Suka duka 2008 telah berlalu, dengan permulaan yang gilang-gemilang PAKATAN RAKYAT memenangi 81 kerusi dalam pilihanraya ke-12, Mac 2008.
Kemenangan itu menandakan juga titik permulaan PAKATAN RAKYAT dalam usaha melengkapkan demokrasi tulen di Malaysia, mengembalikan Ketuanan Rakyat jelata.
Dengan penuh kesedaran bahawa rakyat inginkan perubahan berlaku sesegera yang mungkin, Wanita KeADILan akan meningkatkan usaha menyusun langkah dan tindakan agar sentiasa selaras dengan aspirasi rakyat dan mendokong amanah yang dipertanggungjawabkan dengan segala kemampuan dan kegigihan yang merentasi kemahiran-kemahiran sedia ada.
Walaupun Wanita KeADILan telah memainkan peranan penting dalam setiap pilihanraya umum/kecil dan insiden-insiden yang memerlukan kehadiran dan kecekapan Wanita keADILan membantu, masih ada ruang bagi Wanita KeADILan memperkemaskan jentera, gerak kerja dan sistem aliran tugasan dalam sayap parti Wanita KeADILan.
Perubahan lanskap politik negara tetap akan berlaku dengan sokongan dan desakan rakyat. Wanita KeADILan bersedia bersama-sama dalam PAKATAN RAKYAT mentadbir negara apabila ianya berlaku kelak.
Tahun 2009 akan terus mempamerkan keyakinan dan komitmen Wanita KeADILan dalam mengangkat Agenda Rakyat menerusi permuafakatan PAKATAN RAKYAT demi membina negara yang adil dan bermaruah.
Selamat Tahun Baru 2009 kepada seluruh warga Malaysia!
Zuraida Kamaruddin
Ketua Wanita
Parti Keadilan Rakyat
Januari 1, 2009
Penduduk yang terlibat masih lagi mengusung keluar barang-barang milik mereka dari kediaman yang belum selamat dalam keadaan tanah boleh runtuh lagi pada bila-bila masa.
Pihak berkuasa sedang meluaskan laluan kenderaan sementara agar trafik dua hala boleh bergerak serentak. Tidak seprti ketika ini, kenderaan terpaksa mengikut gikiran untuk naik dan turun. Aturan sedemikian sememangnya menyukarkan pergerakan para penduduk di situ untuk memenuhi keperluan seharian mereka.
Bekalan elektrik terputus siang tadi kerana didapati ada paku yang telah menembusi kabel sementara eletrik. Pihak TNB telah menyambung semula bekalan elektrik dengan saluran kabel baru di samping yang sedia wujud dua hari lalu. Saluran yang baru itu akan bertindak sebagai “grid” sekiranya berlaku lagi bekalan elektrik terputus kerana sesuatu sebab.
Kawasan Bukit Antarabangsa adalah termasuk kawasan tadah air yang tidak sepatutnya dibenarkan sebarang pembangunan berlaku.
Ia menjadi satu garis panduan yang perlu penguatkuasaan yang ketat kerana melibatkan nyawa manusia dan kemusnahan harta-benda yang sia-sia.
Laporan geo-teknikal yang telah lengkap dilaksanakan beserta gesaan yang terdapat di dalamnya perlu segera di hebahkan kepada umum.
Dalam perbahasan di Parlimen semalam mengenai tanah runtuh Bukit Antarabangsa, Menteri berkenaan tidak memberikan jawapan yang memuaskan dalam rangka para penggubal dasar di Dewan Rakyat mencari suatu penyelesaian mengenai kemelut dan bahaya yang dihadapi oleh penduduk di sana.
Tentunya pemetaan tentang risiko yang ditanggung oleh penghuni di Bukit Antarabangsa perlu diketahui oleh para penghuni agar pilihan tepat mengenai masa depan tempat kediaman mereka boleh diambil.
Seringkali masalah dalam pentadbiran negara di Malaysia ini ialah Rakyat senantiasa dalam kegelapan tentang perkara-perkara yang menjadi keutamaan yang perlu diketahui oleh mereka. Kenapakah sukarnya kerajaan Malaysia membenarkan maklumat yang berkaitan tentang keselamatan Rakyat sentiasa dihebahkan tanpa lengah?
Kelihatannya sekarang ialah, kerajaan telah mempetaruhkan nyawa Rakyat bagi kepentingan segelintir elit yang beroleh keuntungan daripada pembinaan perumahan dan kondominium di Bukit Antarabangsa.
Bolehkah dijamin seperti dakwaan Khir Toyo bahawa pemantauan dan langkah-langkah keselamatan akan mengelak tanah runtuh berlaku di Bukit Antarabangsa.
Menurut suatu kajian oleh badan yang membantu kerajaan Selangor Umno-BN dahulu, Bukit Antarabangsa merupakan kawasan perlindungan, tadah air yang tidak boleh membenarkan sebarang bentuk pembangunan, apatah lagi yang besar-besaran, kerana risiko tinggi runtuhan tanah dan juga batu. Kawasan sedemikian sepatutnya dibiarkan sahaja dalam keadaan asalnya tanpa disentuh oleh pembangunan yang boleh memusnahkan segala apa yang di tinggal dan dibina di atasnya.
Siapakah yang telah meluluskan projek-projek kediaman yang membawa risiko yang sengaja kepada penghuni Bukit Antarabangsa?
Mereka yang betanggunjawab itu, wajib dibawa ke muka pengadilan.
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Bukit Antarabangsa… Multiple tragedy
December 10, 2008 by drrafick
Today is D5 of the Bukit Antarabangsa tragedy. During the highland tower incident, I was part of the medical team assisting in the rescue and support effort but today I am a victim of a similar tragedy. Something that I never thought that would have an impact on me. Relatively in comparison, what happen to those families who loss their love ones is nothing compared to what me and probably 2000 other residents had to endure past 4 days. Many tragedies took place this time around. I am not going to be diplomatic about it. I will say it the way I see it.
Within 2 hour after being made aware of landslide, I and several resident of Taman Bukit Utama activated an Ops Centre (known as TBU Ops Centre). We look at importance issues that we need to tackle mainly water supply, waste disposal, security, food distribution and medical evacuation. What was supposed to be our Taman Ops centre became the Ops Centre to eight “Taman” surrounding ours who were cut off from the outside world. We had no electricity, water, fixed telephone line internet. Most people had limited food in their house as they had already plan to travel for Raya and did not stock up any food.
Within an hour after meeting, we setup and completed a temporary water supply by laying pipes to get mountain water for the resident. Ops centre was up in the next hour and we started communication channel with the outside channel via SMS and arranging food and drinking water supply. We took preventive measures to manage disease outbreak by managing waste. All this was done by a handful of people from Taman Bukit Utama Resident Association (PPTBU). We setup the helipad for the rescue team to come in.
With the help of a friend DSP Kumar, we manage to evacuate by air (Medivac) a total of 39 patients which consist of stroke patients, elderly people, kidney failure patients etc. The patients were evacuated by police air wing which was arranged by DSP Kumar from the UTK through his personal contacts. We did all this independently without the support of any help from the Base station at Ground zero.
Within the first 48 hours, while in darkness several homes was reported to be broken into by unknown people in residential areas adjacent to TBU where there was no or minimal residential coordination among the residents. Food was shortage and cooked food from PBSM (Persatuan Bulan Sabit Merah) did not arrive in timely manner. The longest time was dinner that only reaches us in the morning which was not consumable.
While we are stuck, we had VVIP visitors that come to our area. I would say out of many people that came only a handful was actually helpful. YB Elizabeth Wong, a state Exco came with a working group and arrange generators, fuel, candles, garbage bags and others. She came by foot with very few people and carried the relevant information without empty promises. The IGP came and given me his personal commitment and blessing that, I continue to handle all air evacuation with the support of Police Udara. I was told that the Minister of Information visited only the UMNO relief center at a Condo nearby. He did not come to our place.
The NGO that is worth mentioning is Mercy who gave me some drugs, INSAF who open a small medical clinic for 2 days and MAVFCL (Kapt Bala and his crew) which open a temporary access between Athenaeum condo and a generator set to charge hand phones and Bukit Utama which allows people to leave by foot. It is a regret to note that NO government agency deserves any mention in the first 36 hours of tragedy except for Polis Udara and Jabatan Kebajikan Masyarakat. I think they forgot about us.
While 2000 people were surviving in the darkness and the absence of proper food, Concord Hotel, Ali Maju restaurant, Burger King and many others donated tons of food. Unfortunately, no one attempted to send the food to us. Residents that were not affected by the tragedy and the rescue workers were enjoying them. The kind of food they get down there was lavish. There was fresh roti chanai, tosai mee goreng etc. The best word to describe the situation down there is “food fiesta”. Someone commented that there is so much “Teh Tarik” that you can wash your shoes with it.
The landslide is a major tragedy. The bigger tragedy is that the failure of the government to act fast enough. While multiple agencies went into action fast, most of them work independently. On the 3rd day, we had 10 soldiers from RAMD with two officers with the rank of Major that came to our centre. I ask them a basic question on their role and the officers could not give me a straight answer. He was very blur. To me his presence was a liability to the ops center as we had to feed an additional 10 mouth with our limited stocks.
This is not the first time a tragedy takes place. The disaster relief operation was not well coordinated. The command and control was lacking. Information dissemination to the media was scattered and causes panic among the people. Many friends and relatives outside calls us and we could not entertain them, as our battery power was limited.
In terms of political publicity, I would say UMNO was a clear winner. This is because they control the media. Unfortunately, I would say that in the hearts of the people UMNO loss big time. The high-level conduct of their people on the ground and their selective helps that was given out was too much to bear. In fact, the Putri Umno head that I had known past few months was behaving in such a highhanded manner that really shows her true colours. They were hoarding food and distributing them to “their people”. Their action has only reinforced my idea that the Federal and the State Government must be from different parties. This is needed for check and balance.
Malaysian must realize that for the sake of our own lives and our own children lives, we have to have balance of power. It was because of lack of balance of power; the water catchment area that is a state land was given to MBF and is now known as “Bukit Antarabangsa”. In my assessment, the government is liable. In this case, the government was led by BN in the state of Selangor and at National level past 50 odd years that is liable for the suffering of the people of Bukit Antarabangsa. They are liable because they alienated unsuitable land for development. They are liable for giving the people the false sense of security by approving development plans and projects. They are liable for hiding information from the people that shows that the area that we are buying is not safe for living.
I will only vote for balance of power in the future and UMNO will not be part of that balance.
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Guidelines for hillside development are not good enough
December 8, 2008
KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 8 – In the wee hours of Saturday morning, the earth around the hill slopes of Bukit Antarabangsa, a suburban development in a thickly forested water catchment area in the city, groaned, shook and surged forward, buckling roads, overturning cars, snapping lamp posts, and flattening 14 houses in its wake.
Four people died, 14 others have been injured and over 2,000 people have been told to evacuate their homes.
Almost 15 years ago, 48 people, including the son of former Deputy Prime Minister Tun Musa Hitam, died after one of the three Highland Towers condominium blocks located within the same Bukit Antarabangsa area came crashing down as a result of yet another landslide. At the time, then Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad put a stop to further hillside development.
Was anyone listening?
One doubts it. Said Benjamin George, an 80-year-old doctor who survived the Highland Towers tragedy: “In three months, the tractors will start work again,” he told the press bitterly. “I have survived long enough to see all this nonsense repeated.”
Predictably, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, whose private secretary’s house was also crushed in Saturday’s landslide, echoed much of what his predecessor said 15 years ago. Saying that enough is enough, Abdullah decreed that there would be no more hillside housing projects in the area.
“Malaysians never want to learn from past experience,” said Abdullah, waxing philosophical. “They only want good views and developers only want to profit, but no one takes safety and soil stability into consideration.”
Abdullah is seriously missing the point here. In the first place, Bukit Antarabangsa isn’t an isolated case.
Last week, the earth moved in the swank suburb of Damansara Heights, burying 15 cars and forcing the staff of two buildings, including the headquarters of Malaysia’s largest investment bank CIMB, to flee.
And yet, residents of nearby Medan Damansara protesting a massive development of a hill slope area in their backyards have largely had their protests ignored.
Indeed, the developer has sued at least four members of its association for defamation. Even so, the hill slope has been largely denuded, leaving a gaping red wound in the area. Incidentally, Medan Damansara is about a kilometre or so from the CIMB building.
Abdullah should ask who are the people who approved such developments. Which are the agencies who agreed to allow potentially dangerous places to be sliced and diced into houses with a view? Clearly, some procedures aren’t being followed.
If they were, we might not be pondering the imponderable. How was a forest gazetted by the British as a water catchment area allowed to be developed in the first place?
All it takes is for the rules to be strictly enforced. There is, for example, a guideline issued by the Federal, Town and Country Planning Department which says that all development of slopes exceeding 25 degrees should be strictly prohibited.
But these strictures are largely ignored because they aren’t laws but mere guidelines. The solution is obvious. Parliament should make it a law. If it had, the nightmares in Bukit Antarabangsa and Damansara could have been avoided.
And proper drainage systems in a city that is palpably overdeveloped are a must. Anything less is neglect of criminal proportions. One only ignores nature at one’s peril. – Business Times Singapore
BULETIN
KONGRES NASIONAL WANITA KeADILan 2008
Shah Alam, 28 November 2008,
Kongress Nasional Wanita Parti KeADILan telah sempurna dilaksanakan pada 28 hb. November 2006. Perasmian bersama Angkatan Muda Parti Keadilan Rakyat telah berlangsung di sebelah pagi dengan kehadiran perwakilan dan pemerhati seramai lebih 2000 ribu orang. Timbalan Presiden, Syed Husin Ali, telah merasmikan Kongres Wanita dan Angkatan Muda serentak di Stadium Melawati, Shah Alam. 
Kongres Nasional Wanita 2008 telah diteruskan di Perbadanan Kemajuan Pertanian Selangor, Shah Alam. Ia dimulai dengan ucapan Setiausaha Wanita, Hariyati Ahmad, disusuli dengan ucapan dasar Ketua Wanita Parti Keadilan Rakyat yang membawa tema ”Wanita Berdaya, Harapan Negara”. Tema tersebut menjadi inspirasi dan motivasi kearah kesinambungan memenuhi tuntutan kepimpinan yang telus, tulus dan adil.
Ia mencernakan kefahaman, kesungguhan dan komitmen
Wanita KeADILan dalam menggarap cabaran, dan tanggungjawab membawa perubahan terhadap lanskap politik Malaysia.
Dalam rangka mencapai hasrat tersebut, strategi menyediakan takungan barisan pelapis dari golongan wanita muda akan diberi tumpuan utama.
Wanita KeADILan membuka ruang seluasnya bagi golongan ini mengisi barisan kepimpinan dalam sayap wanita sebagai persediaan jangka panjang.
Kongres Nasional Wanita KeADILan 2008 telah membawa tiga usul:
1. Usul Kebebasan Ekonomi untuk Wanita Malaysia
2. Usul Mewujudkan Majlis Permuafakatan Wanita
Pakatan Rakyat
3. Usul 30% Perwakilan Wanita di Semua
Peringkat Pembuat Dasar
Kesemua usul tersebut telah dibentangkan tanpa bahas dan mendapat sokongan sebulat suara oleh ahli-ahli Kongres yang bersidang.
Dua dari usul-usul tersebut, Usul Kebebasan Ekonomi untuk Wanita Malaysia dan Usul 30% Perwakilan Wanita di Semua Peringkat Pembuat Dasar akan diangkat pula ke Kongres Nasional Parti Keadilan Rakyat yang akan mula bersidang 29-30 November 2008.
Di sebelah malam, Pentas Wanita yang menggabungkan tujuh wakil rakyat wanita (Elizabeth Wong, Fuziah Salleh, Gan Pei Nei, Haniza Talha, Nurul Izzah, Rodziah Ismail, Zuraidah Kamaruddin) telah menjayakan acara hard talk yang telah membicarakan tentang mengarusperdanakan penglibatan wanita dalam arena politik.
Disediakan oleh Biro Penerangan Wanita KeADILan
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