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Dalam sidang media di ibu pejabat PKR Petaling Jaya hari ini, Tan Sri Jeneral (B) Md Hashim Hussein dilantik sebagai pengerusi MPKR dan bertanggungjawab menguruskan majlis tersebut.

“Sidang media hari ini ialah bagi mengumumkan perlantikkan Tan Sri Md Hashim Hussein sebagai pengerusi Majlis Penasihat Keselamatan Rakyat… ia diputuskan sebulat suara oleh kepimpinan tertinggi Pakatan Rakyat.

“Majlis ini akan membantu Pakatan Rakyat dalam hal ehwal pertahanan dan keselamatan negara,” kata Ketua Pembangkang Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim.

Hashim merupakan bekas ketua turus angkatan tentera darat Malaysia dilantik memandangkan pengalaman dan pengetahuan yang dimilikinya tentang aspek keselamatan dan pertahanan negara, kata Anwar lagi.

Hashim berkata objektif penubuhan MPKR antaranya ialah bagi bagi mengenalpasti mekanisma terbaik untuk keselamatan dan pertahanan negara disamping mencari jalan penyelesaian ketika berlaku sesuatu konflik atau ancaman terhadap ancaman negara.

“Antara objektifnya ialah penetapan tugas dan tanggungjawab bagi mewujudkan satu arahan selaras dalam arahan dan kawalan, serta melihat tanggungjawab Angkatan Tentera Malaysia dan Polis Diraja Malaysia dalam menangani isu-isu ancaman negara.

“Selain itu, ia juga akan memberi khidmat nasihat kepada pasukan keselamatan dalam menyelesaikan sesuatu konflik,” kata Hashim.

Mengulas lanjut, Hashim memberikan contoh insiden yang berlaku di Lahad Datu, Sabah dimana berlaku banyak pertikaian daripada segi arahan dan kawalan sepanjang insiden pencerobohan pengganas Sulu tersebut.

“Sebagai contoh, di Sabah baru-baru ini, saya lihat ada penglibatan politik yang luar biasa dalam menangani insiden pencerobohan tersebut.

“Itu apa yang saya nampak, contohnya ialah mengapa tidak membiarkan panglima tentera di Sabah mengendalikan isu tersebut kenapa panglima di semenanjung yang perlu ditugaskan ke sana? Ini wujudkan pertikaian arahan,” tegas beliau lagi.

KUALA LUMPUR: Majlis Pakatan Rakyat Sabah mahu Perdana Menteri Datuk Seri Najib Razak menjelaskan kepada rakyat apakah agenda sebenar pertemuan beliau dengan pihak yang medakwa diri mereka “Sultan Sulu” mahupun wakilnya yang dijemput ke perhimpunan agung Umno dan majlis-majlis lain.

(Gambar yang tersebar di internet mendakwa Najib bersama pihak Kesultanan Sulu)

Dalam satu kenyataan bersama semalam, mereka juga menuntut Najib segera memanggil sidang khas parlimen bagi membincangkan isu pencerobohan di Lahad Datu seperti yang dituntut pimpinan Pakatan Rakyat.

Kenyataan tersebut ditandatangani Ahamd Thamrin Jaini  Pengerusi PKR Sabah selaku Pengerusi Mesyuarat Majlis Pakatan Rakyat Sabah, Jimmy Wong  Pengerusi DAP Sabah, DSP Lajim Ukin Presiden PPPS, DSP Wilfred Bumburing Presiden APS dan Aminudin Aling Pesuruhjaya PAS Sabah.

Mereka yang bermesyuarat khas membincangkan isu pencerobohn di Sabah berkata, sehingga kini belum menampakkan tanda-tanda kes tersebut akan selesai dengan mudah apatah lagi terbaru, ada lagi anggota keselamatan terkorban.

Berikut adalah tuntutan lain yang diputuskan Majlis Pakatan Rakyat Sabah:

1. Meminta Kerajaan Pusat memberikan penjelasan kenapa kumpulan penceroboh dapat membolosi sisitem pertahanan negara dengan begitu mudah di Sabah.

2. Mendesak Datuk Musa Aman selaku Pengerusi Majlis Keselamatan Negeri membentangkan kertas putih dalam Sidang Dewan Undangan Negeri secepat mungkin. Majlis Pakatan Rakyat Sabah menyokong tindakan ADUN DAP Sri Tanjung Yb Jimmy Wong Sze Phin yang meminta sidang dewan undangan negeri khas diadakan dengan segera.

3. Mendesak diadakan satu persidangan meja bulat di antara pimpinan kerajaan negeri dengan pimpinan pembangkang dalam usaha untuk mencapai muafakat bersama berhubung isu ini.

4. Meminta kerajaan pusat dan negeri untuk menjelaskan kepada rakyat Sabah status tuntutan kesultanan di atas sebahagian negeri Sabah dan kenapa bayaran tahunan masih diteruskan.

5. Mendesak supaya Dato Seri Najib Tun Razak selaku Perdana Menteri, Dato Seri Hishamuddin Hussien selaku Menteri Dalam Negeri & Dato Seri Zahid Hamidi selaku Menteri Pertahanan dan Datuk Musa Aman selaku Pengerusi Majlis Keselamatan Negeri  untuk meletak jawatan di atas kegagalan mereka menghalang dan menangani tragedy ini sehingga menyebabkan nyawa perwira Negara terkorban, kerosakan harta benda dan ekonomi terjejas.

6. Menarik balik tuduhan bahawa Ketua Pembangkang Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim adalah dalang di sebalik pencerobohan di Lahad Datu.

As the Malaysian election draw near, two worrying aspects of the country’s economy are very much in evidence. They are just pointers but significant ones to a bumpy future.

This may seem a surprise to outsiders who are rightly impressed with the strength of the nation’s external position – RM139 billion (US$44.36 billion) in foreign exchange reserves and a record of huge annual current account surpluses dating back to 1998. Monetary policy is restrained and inflation is low.

But signs of concern are not just to be found in data but in anecdotes of behavior. One such anecdote that recently came to light courtesy of a Vanity Fair magazine article on London property is that Malaysians have now joined the ranks of Russian oligarchs, Nigerian oil plunderers and the latest generation of Gulf sheiks in paying astronomical prices for houses and apartments in the classiest parts of London. It may be an indication that some of the country’s richest citizens are voting with their money if not their feet in advance of what appears to be a very tight election.

According to estate agency Jones Lang & Wootton last year Malaysian buyers accounted for 17 percent of all buyers of new top-of-the-line central London dwellings. In other words almost as many Malaysian are buying as Britons, who accounted for only 19 percent of this market. Identifiable Malaysians figure as buyers of One Hyde Park, the most expensive new building in London overlooking Hyde Park and others probably lie behind the various anonymous offshore companies which figure as owners of most of the owners of apartments ranging in price from US$12 million to US$50 million.

It is hard to imagine that these are safe investments compared with Malaysia, given that the market is thin, the properties are often left unoccupied and that further price gains must rely on yet more flood tides of easily gotten wealth. Such floods have always been associated with commodity booms or banker banquets. London property has long been a destination for flight capital and bankers absurd bonuses, one.

But what does the Malaysian role now tell us about flight capital from an outwardly stable nation? And about the prospects for the commodity price boom of the past 10 years not coming to an unpleasant end?

That takes us away from London anecdote to actual data out of Malaysia itself. January saw Malaysia’s trade surplus sink to RM3.3 billion, less than half that of the same month a year ago. Of course one should not read much into one month’s figures but a downward trend evident in 2012 looks to be gaining momentum. Then total exports rose only 0.9 percent while imports rose 5.9 percent and the overall surplus fell from RM 124 billion to RM94 billion.

The worrying aspect is not imports, which need to be rising if capital spending is doing so but the trend in exports prices. Palm oil was down 27 percent, gas down 6 percent and rubber down 19 percent. These may have further to fall and continue the reversal of the huge terms of trade gains made over the previous decade.

Of itself this need not be a worry but for the other aspects of the external account. The services account has always been in the red and is no particular cause for concern. Tourism is strong and the Islamic financial sector too. The RM64 billion deficits last on combined services, transfers and investment income is growing but should be quite manageable even if the trade surplus slides further.

There are more worrying issues given the likelihood that gas and palm oil prices at least are looking at a sustained downturn as new projects come on stream globally and China’s demand for resources slows as the economy shifts emphasis.

One is that direct investment outflow is now almost twice foreign direct investment – RM51 billion against RM29. Some of this is doubtless one-off as Petronas has invested heavily in foreign oil and gas projects as its own profits have boomed and Malaysian banks have been buying overseas, especially in Indonesia. But there must be questions about the likely rates of return on much of this capital.

An even bigger question is how much has been squandered in lesser known ventures, particularly by politically connected and government linked- companies with scant accountability to shareholders. Some too is likely to be flight non-Malay flight capital preferring expensive but seemingly secure assets in Australia, the US or even London to the higher returns which ought to be available in younger, faster growing Malaysia.

Recorded portfolio investment still shows a plus – inflow of RM59 billion against outflow of RM36 billion in 2012. But the country has failed to regain the favor it once had with foreign fund managers and despite its growth record and strong currency the Malaysian stock market has lagged well behind most in developing Asia and emerging market generally. The main reason given, that local individual investors are bigger players than in many other markets. is that confidence in both short-term political stability and the longer term prospects for non-bumiputras is weak.

There is nothing new about the latter which is also reflected in the “errors and omissions” in balance of payments data. This is invariably a large negative number – RMB 33 billion in 2012. Again, on its own, it is not a sign of any particular worry.

Concern then focuses not on any one factor but the convergence of negative factors. The foreign exchange position is so strong for now that it would take a Black Swan event to create any sense of crisis in the foreseeable future. But the ability of the government to sustain economic growth with large budget deficits would certainly be threatened at a time when rural incomes and palm oil and gas profits were reducing both under pressure.

Malaysia is moving from a position where it could afford massive capital outflow, perhaps even welcome it as reducing domestic inflationary pressures, to one where outflow becomes a self-reinforcing problem of the interaction of politics and economic. As it is Malaysia’s strength over recent years has been more due to the commodity cycle than to the investment in people and industries that can get it out of the “middle income trap” to high income status. The money has been there but not the other inputs.

For sure Malaysia remains an attractive investment opportunity given its good infrastructure and wage and other costs which are competitive given its level of skills and facilities. But so long as its own people prefer to look overseas for political reasons the nation’s promise cannot be fulfilled.

The payments to conservative American opinion writers — whose work appeared in outlets from the Huffington Post and San Francisco Examiner to the Washington Times to National Review and RedState — emerged in a filing this week to the Department of Justice. The filing under the Foreign Agent Registration Act outlines a campaign spanning May 2008 to April 2011 and led by Joshua Trevino, a conservative pundit, who received $389,724.70 under the contract and paid smaller sums to a series of conservative writers.

Trevino lost his column at the Guardian last year after allegations that his relationship with Malaysian business interests wasn’t being disclosed in columns dealing with Malaysia. Trevino told Politico in 2011 that “I was never on any ‘Malaysian entity’s payroll,’ and I resent your assumption that I was.”

According to Trevino’s belated federal filing, the interests paying Trevino were in fact the government of Malaysia, “its ruling party, or interests closely aligned with either.” The Malaysian government has been accused of multiple human rights abuses and restricting the press and personal freedoms. Anwar, the opposition leader, has faced prosecution for sodomy, a prosecution widely denounced in the West, which Trevino defended as more “nuanced” than American observers realized. The government for which Trevino worked also attacked Anwar for saying positive things about Israel; Trevino has argued that Anwar is not the pro-democracy figure he appears.

The federal filing specified that Trevino was engaged through the lobbying firm APCO Worldwide and the David All Group, an American online consulting firm. The contract also involved a firm called FBC (short for Fact-Based Communications), whose involvement in covert propaganda prompted a related scandal and forcedan executive at The Atlantic to resign from its board.

According to the filings, Trevino was also employed to write for websites called MalaysiaMatters and MalaysiaWatcher.

Trevino’s subcontractors included conservative writer Ben Domenech, who made $36,000 from the arrangement, and Rachel Ehrenfeld, the director of the American Center for Democracy, who made $30,000. Seth Mandel, an editor at Commentary, made $5,500 (his byline is attached to the National Review item linked to above). Brad Jackson, writing at the time for RedState, made $24,700. Overall, 10 writers were part of the arrangement.

“It was actually a fairly standard PR operation,” Trevino told BuzzFeed Friday. “To be blunt with you, and I think the filing is clear about this, it was a lot looser than a typical PR operation. I wanted to respect these guys’ independence and not have them be placement machines.”

Trevino said neither he nor the client knew what the writers were going to write before it went up.

“I provided a stipend to support their work in this area and they would just ping me whenever something went up,” he said.

Domenech, a former Washington Post blogger who runs a daily morning newsletter called The Transom, said he “was retained by Josh’s Trevino Strategies and Media PR firm in 2010 with the general guidance to write about Malaysia, particularly the political scene there.”

“I did not ever have anyone looking over my shoulder for what I wrote, and the guidance really was just to write about the political fray there and give my own opinion,” Domenech said. “Of course, Josh picked me knowing what my opinion was — I stand by what I wrote at the time and I continue to be critical of Anwar Ibrahim, who I think is a particularly dangerous fellow.”

Domenech attached two pieces he’d written about Malaysia for the San Francisco Examiner as well as one for the Huffington Post in his email to BuzzFeed.

Chuck DeVore, the Vice President for Policy at the Texas Public Policy Foundation (where Trevino now works), said he was unaware of the arrangement in an email.

“He knew of my expertise and suggested I write some pieces,” DeVore said. “As I’ve seen over the years, it’s not uncommon for freelancers to be paid for their work from various sources. I frankly didn’t think much of it, having been paid by papers in a few nations abroad and by PR firms, such as the one Mr. Trevino was running at the time.”

“He never told me who his client was,” DeVore said. “I wonder if they did the same via him? Interesting that he filed the paperwork, given it appears he was working for someone else.”

Mandel said, “I was blogging about issues relating to Israel and anti-Semitism in 2010, and Josh approached me about a Malaysian opposition figure who had made anti-Semitic comments and was affiliated with anti-Israel organizations. I had full editorial freedom — Josh never saw anything I wrote until after it was published — and I had no relationship with the Malaysian government. I was paid by Josh for what was probably a handful of blog posts in the fall of 2010, I believe, while working as a freelancer in Washington.”

According to Trevino, he was approached by publicist and social media executive David All in 2008. He never had contact with “the ultimate client,” he said. “I only had an assumption of who I was working for. I never knew exactly who APCO was dealing with, never knew exactly who FBC was dealing with.”

Trevino acknowledged that he shouldn’t have lied to BuzzFeed editor Ben Smith, then at Politico, when this first came up in 2011.

“When Ben Smith contacted me in July 2011, I ought to have come clean with him at the time,” he said.

As for why he waited until five years after the fact to register with FARA, Trevino said he didn’t know he was supposed to have registered until recently.

“The accurate answer is that I didn’t know there was a foreign agents database at all.” Trevino said. “When all the stuff with the Guardian went down in August, I had a friend ask me whether I regeistered with FARA and I said what’s FARA?”

“They allowed me to do a retroactive filing,” he said.

Trevino terminated his relationship with Malaysian interests when he joined the Texas Public Policy Foundation, he said.

This article has been updated to include comments from Mandel.

Update 2:33 p.m.: Trevino called back to say that he had actually checked with his legal counsel in 2011 after being questioned by Politico, but had been told at the time that he didn’t need to register anywhere.

“Ben Smith had actually asked me if I was a foreign agent back in 2011,” Trevino said. “I asked a lawyer friend, my counsel. I said, hey, is there anything I need to comply with? He came back and said no.”

“After the Guardian thing, I reached out to a different counsel, and I did some googling and found out about FARA,” Trevino said.

UPDATE: Trevino’s Malaysia-related posts have been removed from the Huffington Post and replaced with an editors’ note that says the author “violated blogger guidelines by not properly disclosing financial ties that amounted to a serious conflict of interest.”

Ali perlu berhenti membiadapkan pimpinan pembangkang yang peduli dengan permasalahan rakyat, sebaliknya Ali yang perlu lebih bersantun dan berlapang dada menerima kelemahan dan kritikan untuk menambah baik kualiti keselamatan masyarakat seluruh Negara.

Shamsul Iskandar Mohd Akin

Ketua Angkatan Muda Keadilan Malaysia

28 Januari 2013

 
AMK mengajak orang ramai untuk menyertai Berjalan Demi Kebebasan, Keadilan dan Demokrasi pada Sabtu ini. Dengan berjalan kaki ke Stadium Merdeka, semangat perjuangan bersama rakyat serta tekad kebangkitan rakyat untuk menuntut 8 tuntutan rakyat dapat ditunjukkan.
 
Sementara itu, tiga Pasukan Pertolongan Kecemasan akan bersedia untuk membantu semua peserta di sepanjang perjalanan. Semua peserta diseru untuk mengikut arahan penganjur serta pasukan keselamatan. Jangan terperdaya dengan pelbagai maklumat dan propaganda hitam yang disebarkan oleh pihak yang tidak bertanggungjawab.
 
Keselamatan peserta serta perjalanan yang lancar adalah diutamakan untuk mencapai matlamat yang ditetapkan. Dengan sikap yang disiplin dan tertib, AMK yakin HKR akan berjaya dilangsungkan dengan semangat kebangkitan rakyat yang mengubah lanskap politik serta mencatat sejarah di Malaysia.
 
Untuk pertanyaan yang lebih lanjut tentang Berjalan Demi Kebebasan, Keadilan dan Demokrasi, anda boleh menghubungi Saudari Ginie Lim (016-7183453) dan Haji Ramlan (016-6648032).
 
LEE KHAI LOON
Ketua Penerangan Angkatan Muda KEADILAN Malaysia
012-2258607