Perdana Menteri Najib Abdul Razak telah menggariskan konsep "1Malaysia" sebagai "pedoman" pemerintahannya setelah mengambil alih tampuk kerajaan.
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As a journalist working fulltime for 25 years, I was mainly based in Peninsular Malaysia most of my working life, except for occasional short travel stints to Sabah and Sarawak, so much so I must plead ignorance on many things going on in the two East Malaysian states. To the extent I also feel sorry" for my fellow Malaysians who only came on board the Malaysian ship after chooisng to expand Malaysia to a bigger entity along with Singapore in 1963. Somehow, Malaysia does not make it any easier for its citizens of multi-ethnic origins to integrate, and if any Minister claims that NegaraKu is a united nation today, he surely must be either blind or speaking with one eye closed. Our country is soon to celebrate its 52nd birthday marking Malaya's gaining independence from the British colonial masters on 31st August 1957 -- could be only 46th for "Malaysia Day" counting from September 16, 1963 --but there are obvious barriers that stand in the way of the march towards fostering unity as One Nation. Here's one entrenched requirment that irritates every patriotic Malaysian every time we need to fill up any forms for officlaldom. All that is needed is quick, national-minded political will to do away such barriers,but all East Malaysians got was a comment of reuqiring "careful study" equivalent to a "keep in file" automated response from the top public servant in the country to a simple proposal to remove a divisive irritant.So what ails my motherland? -- YL Chong, Editor, CPI
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Hasil daripada babak sejarah penjajahan Barat ini, Indonesia yang mendokong ‘kesatuan dalam kelbagaian’ lebih keterbukaannya berbanding Malaysia.
http://www.aliran.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=934:another-lesson-in-pas-history-malaysian-public-doesnt-like-extremists&catid=76:2009&Itemid=40
Published by Aliran
June 10, 2009
A quick re-visit of Pas' history from the 1980s to the present will show that the Malaysian public has never had much appetite for violent, extreme and exclusive political discourse and behaviour, be it from Pas or Umno, observes Farish Noor.
The repercussions of the somewhat clumsy attempt by some sections of Pas to call for the investigation, and possibly banning, of the Muslim women’s rights group Sisters in Islam are still being felt today. Many questions have arisen in the wake of the proposal that was passed without debate at the recent Pas general assembly: How and why was the proposal passed as one of the ‘non-debated proposals’ in the first place? Why was it not vetted properly and why was it tabled at all? What does this say about the Pas' internal cohesion and internal discipline? Does this proposal reflect just a faction of opinion among PAS members, or is it actually representative of the party as a whole? And what does this mean with regards to Pas’ avowed claims to be a modern party that supports the democratisation process and dialogue with others?
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Pada sejarah tidak wujud sebarang gerangan yang lebih dikutuk berbanding ayah Mukhriz, Dr Mahathir Mohamad, dalam sejarah Gugusan Kepulauan Melayu dan barangkali juga seluruh Nusantara.
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