Tunku Abdul Aziz

I suppose it is good to know that you are the God’s chosen, as the Israelis obviously do, and don’t they flaunt their special position! They believe that not only is God on their side, but, better still, for them, they know that the man wielding the greatest power on earth, Hussein Obama, presently US President, is at their beck and call, like all the rest of the occupants of the White House in post-war America. The self-proclaimed Bastion of Democracy, in reality, is nothing more than a subservient proxy of the Zionist ruling clique, the regime that has shamelessly exploited the holocaust into an art form.

Jews, while playing on humanity’s collective guilt by squeezing the last milligram of sympathy from us for the dreadful sufferings of their people at the hands of the Nazi criminals, have themselves behaved even worse than the terrorists of the Third Reich as they have not shown even a “dram of pity” (with apologies to Sybil Kathysagu) to the Palestinians whose country they have occupied since the establishment of the Jewish State more than six decades ago. The holocaust, exploited to the hilt, was nothing as compared to the unimaginable heights of cruelty inflicted over several decades on an innocent population whose only sin has been to resist the illegal occupation of their land. The Jews may not agree with this, that what they have done to the Palestinians is even more cruel than being thrown into gas chambers. At least, so some people maintain, the victims of the Auschwitz-Birkenau died a relatively “painless” death. And some others even go so far, and I distance myself from this barbaric view, as to say that the “final solution” that the Germans inflicted on the Jews was not complete and final enough.

Surely even in the name of the survival of the Israel State, the end cannot, in this case, justify the means. I have not always seen eye to eye with Mahathir, and some cynics say it is my loss, not his, but for once he was dead right when he gave the Israelis a backhanded compliment by saying how a tiny nation could exert so much power and influence on the world stage, and best of all, by using proxies to fight their wars for them. I have always been sympathetic with, and fully support the idea of a secure Jewish State: they have as much right as anyone else to live their own lives, but I have become totally disappointed and disenchanted with the unconscionable acts of inhumanity and aggression on a people who have been driven from their homeland and kept in the world’ largest open air prison that is Gaza. The Jews justify their destruction of Palestinian lives and properties by saying that Hamas have been firing rockets into “Israeli villages” forgetting to understand the root cause of the problem.

If we care to look at the dozens of UN Security Council Resolutions (66 at the last count, and counting) that have been totally ignored by the Israeli in the full knowledge that the leadership of the most powerful nation on earth, that extension of the Jewish state generally known as the US is so besotted and beholden to Jewish money that whatever their personal feelings in respect of the situation in Israeli occupied territories, it is powerless to do anything in the face of the powerful Jewish Washington Lobby. Calls for sanctions have been vetoed time and time again. It is amazing how successive presidents of the US have allowed themselves to be led by the nose and kept on a short leash by a gang of thugs and state-sanctioned terrorists whom the US government declares to be its most important allies in the Middle-East. What a sad commentary on a people who fought for their independence by overthrowing English colonial rule and, later the American Civil War only to become Israel’s foot soldiers.

The US Government must come to terms with the rapidly shifting world opinion against its patently diabolically unjust and inhuman Israeli-Palestinian policies because quite apart from issues of morality and human rights, there is the issue of peace and security that seemed so important to the US Government that it fought two major wars to topple Sadam Hussein of Iraq on the flimsiest of excuses and now fighting little wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan as part of their “war on terror.” The war on terror will not stop until the Palestinian issue is put to rest by doing what is just and fair. The Israelis must learn to respect the rest of humanity. God’s chosen people must learn to choose peace, justice and global security. America must distance itself from the Star of David and, in the process, rid itself the Jewish cross, to the eternal gratitude of God’s people everywhere.

If I am angry because of what the Jewish State has done to dehumanise a proud and innocent people, I am even more angry with the Arabs whom I despise with all my heart. That they could stand on the sidelines and watch the cruelty, humiliation and dehumanisation of fellow Arabs is utterly disgraceful because God has bestowed upon them enormous oil wealth and they could have used it for the greater good of mankind. If I have little time for the Arabs, the Egyptians take my prize for the lowest form of human life and I do not really need to explain why in the context of the Israeli blockade of Gaza. May God forgive me for my dark and ugly thoughts!

Malaysian Insider

JUNE 5 — I am told on good authority that you cannot make good china with poor clay, and it is so obvious that we should know it instinctively. By the same token, I expect you cannot form an effective Cabinet with general election rejects.

Appointing them to Cabinet posts in such large numbers through the Senate is not illegal, but is it ethical? Jesse Jackson in a speech to the 1992 National Democratic Convention reminded his audience that what was morally wrong would never be politically right.

Datuk Seri Najib Razak, as our prime minister, would do well to ponder and reflect on the wisdom of this self-evident truth so that he would feel encouraged and inspired to bring moral and ethical principles to bear on the governance of this nation. I naturally hope that in the process, and with God’s help, he will find some time to dwell upon his many grave lapses that have brought his fitness for the highest political office in the land into serious question.

Some months ago I had occasion to allude to the fact that no prime minister in our country’s history had come into office, bent over not with the burden of leadership which would have been understandable, but in Najib’s case, it was his oversize baggage comprising a mix of potent allegations of impropriety ranging from the sublime to the ridiculous.

While some may be nothing more than coffee morning tittle-tattle among the leisure classes, and, therefore, to be treated with the contempt they deserve, one worrying aspect of Najib the man that refuses to evaporate into thin air is corruption.

People still point to the arms purchases made during his long stints as minister of defence, and what he got out of them through his redoubtable defence/political analyst, Razak Baginda.

Would the MACC care to take a look at the wealth behind the man so as to give our 1 Malaysia prime minister a chance to clear his name? And while they are looking at Najib, I think it only fair that they take a look at the wealth of Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad and his family. To show that they are not being selective, they might like to check out Tun Abdullah Ahmad Badawi and his family. I am sure these great leaders of ours are dying to clear their names for the sake of their reputation, however defined.

To return to the blatant abuse of the function and role of the Senate in the constitutional life of our country, it is clear that Najib does not put great store by basic rules of the game. He obviously plays by his own rules that postulate the inevitability of immoral behaviour in politics and that scruples are not for the prime minister of Malaysia.

This is a sad commentary on 50 years of Barisan Nasional rule that has seen this once proud country now on its unstoppable decline in social, political and economic terms. Is this the promised just reward for the people of this country for putting their blind faith in the Umno leadership?

It is also a sad reflection of the bankruptcy of ethical values that those whom the people of this country, exercising their rights to choose, cast aside in a democratic process, have now been brought back into the Cabinet.

Who are these recycled seconds supposed to represent? Even if they were a galaxy of Nobel laureates, it would still be totally indefensible for Najib to show such utter contempt and disregard for public opinion by appointing them to the Cabinet. And these are by no means the crème de la crème of Malaysian brains-those that have not disappeared overseas.

Najib plays by his own rules. For him, offering inducements to voters as played out in the Hulu Selangor by-election with a repeat performance in Sibu was par for the course. He obviously could see no contradiction in urging the people to fight corruption while he himself breaks the law with complete impunity, as always aided and abetted by the ever independent Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission, so it proclaims, and the equally fearless Elections Commission.

When will Najib learn that there is no substitute for integrity in national life? It is within his power to clean up his act so as to lessen the burden of the negative views and innuendos that he carries on his back to the detriment of his effectiveness as PM.

He must learn quickly that the ultimate decision whether he remains in office, and his party in power, will be made by the very people for whom he has shown such blatant contempt. He may, at this rate, be the last Umno prime minister. — mysinchew.com

The very idea that the headman of the MACC be accorded a status equivalent to that of the Inspector-General of Police was so hilarious that I, a grown man, was driven to sobbing uncontrollably before I doubled up, laughing my head off. I have, in my lifetime, been through many strange and unusual situations, but I must confess to a sense of incredulity that members of the Anti-Corruption Advisory Board headed by former chief justice, Tun Abdul Hamid Mohamad were prepared to risk their collective reputation by putting this recommendation forward. It is absurdity personified.

The other recommendations, including the establishment of a statutory commission on appointments, and the need to have interrogation rooms equipped with CCTV cameras, must rank as among the most facile suggestions ever made by a group of people who lay claim to expert knowledge and experience of a level considered sufficient to justify their being appointed to the advisory board.

In the event, by their earth shattering recommendations, they have confirmed what I have known all along: they know nothing about fighting corruption, or for that matter, the Chief Commissioner, if he had to be “advised” on what equipment was needed to be put in place to make the interrogation process more open and transparent, then he has no business to be there in the first place. I make no apology for using the word interrogation in relation to the methods adopted by the MACC when dealing with witnesses. The word interview is yet to be part of the MACC’s corruption fighting lexicon.

The recommendation to equate the head of MACC with the Inspector- General of Police not only shows a pathetic lack of understanding on the part of the advisory board of the duties and responsibilities of the Inspector-General of Police and the officers under his command and control in the overall scheme of national security and public order priorities, but also insensitivity to the intelligence of the public. To believe that an untried jumped-up middle rank public servant barely able to keep his head above water in the job is on par with the head of the Royal Malaysia Police is the height of fantasy. This is similar to proposing that the head of Rela be given the same status as the Chief of the Malaysian Armed Forces Staff.

PDRM is an organisation with a 200 year tradition of public service. Admittedly there have been some hiccups along the way in its long history of protecting life and property, but it has been through several baptisms of fire, and not once has it been found wanting whenever the nation needed it desperately. The makeover from the ACA to the MACC has not resulted in any marked improvement in its performance. It is the same old wine in a brand new Waterford decanter. The wine is still the same, not fit for the table.

My advice to the MACC Chief Commissioner for what it is worth is not to let his ambition exceed his abilities which have yet to be tested and proven. Until Malaysians are absolutely convinced that the organisation he has inherited by default, not his fault, naturally, can be relied upon to carry out its duties in the public interest, and thereby earn their respect and confidence, he will have absolutely no credibility or clout. A senior member of his staff has been to see me, of his own volition, for some advice. He is not happy with the ethical and moral dilemmas he has had to face under the present leadership, and it appears that unless staff morale is attended to sensibly and quickly, the Chief Commissioner’s tenure could be problematical.

So, as we have seen, public confidence, without which he might just as well close shop, is not a commodity that can be bought in a supermarket. He has to earn it the hard way; persuading the government to dress him up to look like a poor imitation of the Inspector-General of Police is not going to help him succeed in his job. People have yet to see the colour of his money, in a manner of speaking. He can say what he likes about doing a great job, but people want results. They are his judges, and on present showing he is seen to be long on self-publicity and rather short on productive effort. I know from inside information he has been busy hiring spin doctors to tart up his image and that of his organisation. Don’t throw good money after bad because public trust and confidence will not return no matter how much money is spent on cosmetic surgery.

MACC’s much touted independence is under close public scrutiny. I am told, again on the internal grapevine, that he insists that every MACC function must have a minister present. MACC should not have too much to do with ministers as this could cause embarrassment should it have to arrest them for corruption. But I suppose MACC’s independence stops short of calling corrupt ministers to account, and so everyone is a winner except the nation.

I see that the MACC Director of Investigation is probing the labyrinth of commercial networks and dealings in search of “elements of corruption” as he puts it, in the Sime Darby affair. The Director of Investigation is a fine man, extremely good at preparing slides for power point presentations but he would not know where to begin. It is a job for trained forensic accountants from the big audit firms with international connections. I know what the outcome will be-there is no evidence of corruption. Remember the Perwaja episode?

Sibu, that remarkable town on the mighty Rejang that the Foochows built all those long years ago with sweat, blood and tears, notched another milestone: the Chinese community decided that May 16 was to be the day when they would show the rest of Malaysia, and indeed the world, that Najib’s largesse however packaged had all the smell of moral decay, or not to put too fine a point on it, undisguised vote buying. This illegal and immoral practice is apparently endorsed and encouraged by both the Election Commission and the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission. Sibuans on the other hand would have none of it.

What was so distressing was that the EC and MACC were ever so quick to affix their “No Action” tab on what clearly was corruption committed by Najib who offered financial inducements to the voters of Sibu to return the Barisan Nasional candidate. Similarly they took no action against Najib for his shenanigans in the Hulu Selangor by-election. Most surprising of all, there was not even a whimper from the self-proclaimed anti-corruption fighter, Transparency International Malaysia. Have they decided to flow with the tide of political corruption as well? Najib’s practice of bribing voters into supporting his election agenda shows a complete and utter disdain for public opinion and the law.

What is the point of spending hundreds of millions on beefing the MACC up, already bloating and bursting at the seams with gross inefficiency, when the prime minister bribes the voters of Sibu, with complete arrogance and impunity? To our complete surprise, the good citizens of Sibu, unlike some of their fellow citizens elsewhere, turned up their collective nose and gave Najib the elbow, more or less telling him to “take a running jump into the Rejang.”

I had misjudged the mood and the strength of character of the people of Sibu, thinking that the dangling by Najib of the millions of ringgit from his slush funds would be enough to overcome any moral scruples they might have had. I spent six days in Sibu shaking hundreds of Chinese, Malay and Iban hands. And never for a moment did it dawn on me that the Foochows of Sibu would stand up to Najib, who in the end was reduced to a figure of fun and ridicule, being described as Santa Claus dispensing ill-will instead of good cheer. Money may buy some of the people some of the time, but in Sibu principles won the day. They had had a surfeit of corruption, in all its manifestations, in their dealings with the Taib administration, and they did not need anymore of it.

It took a lot of courage and determination to withstand the onslaught of raw power of a prime minister, particularly one of indeterminate ethical provenance. As if that was not intimidating enough, they had a chief minister, so I was told who rules with an iron fist in a silken glove to contend with and whose voracious appetite for self-enrichment has long been whispered about by people too frightened to speak up against grand corruption at the top. His unbridled excesses would make Robert Mugabe look like Mother Teresa. And where is the much touted independent corruption commission?

To all those who voted for change for a better Sibu, a Sarawak free from the shackles of wonton, unremitting greed of one man and his family, and a Malaysia fit for all, regardless of who we are, I have this to say. You have, by your robust, ethical response to Najib’s unprincipled behaviour, earned for yourselves an honourable place in the pages our country’s history. Sibu has restored my faith in my fellow citizens who possess in large measure attributes that once inspired my old English headmaster at the Sultan Abdul Hamid College in Alor Setar to coin the phrase “the excellency of man.”

What Sibu has done will resonate in the weeks, months and years to come in the rest of this country. Najib’s approach to the Sibu campaign was unbelievably crude as well as insulting to the dignity of the Sibuans, particularly the proud Foochows. For him to apply the principle of one size fits all when he merrily parachuted into Sibu on what he thought was a his fail-safe “vote for money’ mission was totally ill-advised and insensitive. Najib is a believer in the exercise of power through the money bag.

The voters of Sibu knew Najib’s weaknesses more than he was prepared to concede, and while they were happy enough with the goodies he threw at them, they were suspicious of the proverbial “Greek bearing gifts.” In the event, the citizens of Sibu shut the city gate in his face, having taken the money and voting for the opposition. Good try, Najib. Winning the hearts and minds with your heart and not your pocket is a better option; it is more honourable and less likely to get you into trouble with the MACC, if and when it finally decides to open its eyes.

JAWAPAN LISAN DEWAN NEGARA YBM SENATOR TUNKU ABDUL AZIZ IBRAHIM PADA 6 MEI 2010

SOALAN:

Tunku Abdul Aziz bin Tunku Ibrahim minta MENTERI KEWANGAN menyatakan apakah tahap rahsia yang ada di dalam Kementerian sehingga taklimat GST 8 Mac 2010 diadakan untuk Ahli Parlimen Barisan Nasional.

JAWAPAN:

Tuan Yang Dipertua,

Untuk makluman ahli Yang Berhormat, taklimat GST pada 8 Mac 2010 yang lalu merupakan satu sesi tertutup yang dikhaskan kepada Ahli-ahli Parlimen sahaja. Sesi tersebut merupakan antara program penerangan dan kesedaran GST yang sedang dijalankan oleh Kerajaan kepada rakyat. Program-program yang dijalankan ini diharapkan dapat memberi kefahaman yang baik kepada rakyat mengena mekanisme dan model GST yang dicadangkan di Malaysia, kesan pelaksanaan GST dan langkah-langkah yang akan diambil oleh Kerajaan di dalam menangani sebarang isu berbangkit dari pelaksanaan GST.

JAWAPAN BERTULIS DEWAN NEGARA YBM SENATOR TUNKU ABDUL AZIZ IBRAHIM BAGI SIDANG MEI 2010

SOALAN:

Tunku Abdul Aziz bin Tunku Ibrahim minta MENTERI DALAM NEGERI menyatakan bilangan tahanan Emergency (Public Order and Prevention of Crime) Ordinance (EO) yang ditahan, dibebaskan dan dikenankan Akta Kediaman Terhad (RRA) sejak Januari 2009 hingga Disember 2009.

JAWAPAN:

Tuan Yang Dipertua,

Saya mengucapkan terima kasih kepada Yang Berhormat Tunku Abdul Aziz bin Tunku Ibrahim yang mengemukakan soalan.

Untuk makluman ahli Yang Berhormat, berdasarkan statistik bagi tahun 2009, seramai 760 orang yang telah dikenakan Perintah Tahanan di bawah Emergency Ordinance (Public Order and Prevention of Crime) (EO) 1969 sejak Januari 2009 hingga Disember 2009. Dari jumlah tersebut, seramai 39 orang tahanan telah dibebaskan selepas representasi terhadap Perintah Tahanan mereka dibuat di hadapan Lembaga Penasihat. Manakala bagi Perintah Sekatan pula, seramai 247 orang telah dikenakan Perintah Sekatan di bawah Emergency Ordinance (Public Order and Prevention of Crime) (EO) sejak Januari 2009 hingga Disember 2009.

Merujuk kepada Akta Kediaman Terhad (RRA) 1933 pula, seramai 42 orang telah dikenakan sekatan di bawah akta tersebut sejak Januari 2009 hingga Disember 2009.

Tuan Yang Dipertua

Pertama sekali saya ingin mengucapkan terima kasih kerana mengizinkan saya membahaskan Rang Undang-undang Perdagangan Strategik 2010.

Saya ingin menyentuh mengenai terma “pegawai diberi kuasa” yang terbabit di dalam Rang Undang-undang ini. Mereka terdiri daripada

(a) pegawai kastam
(b) pegawai polis
(c) pegawai Agensi Penguatkuasaan Maritim Malaysia
(d) pegawai Suruhanjaya Komunikasi dan Multimedia Malaysia
(e) mana-mana pegawai lain yang dinyatakan oleh Pengawal ;

Di dalam rang undang-undang ini pegawai diberi kuasa mendapat kuasa mutlak. Izinkan saya baca fasal setiap satunya:

FASAL 29 – Pegawai yang diberi kuasa boleh menggeledah dan menyita
tanpa waran.

FASAL 31 – Pegawai yang diberi kuasa boleh masuk ke mana sahaja tempat atau premis untuk menjalankan siasatan.

FASAL 32 – Membolehkan pegawai yang diberi kuasa untuk mengakses data dalam komputer.

FASAL 33- Membolehkan pegawai yang diberi kuasa menggeledah pengangkutan.

FASAL 34 – Membolehkan pegawai yang diberi kuasa menggunakan kekerasan munasabah dalam melaksanakan urusannya !

Apakah bentuk ‘kekerasan munasabah’ yang dimaksudkannya ?

Bagaimanakah untuk mengukur ‘kekerasan munasabah’ ini?

FASAL 36 – Pegawai yang diberi kuasa boleh menangkap tanpa waran !

FASAL 37 – Mengadakan peruntukan mengenai pemintasan komunikasi oleh pegawai yang diberi kuasa atas pemberian kuasa Pendakwa Raya.

Jelas melalui fasal-fasal yang saya nyatakan, kuasa mutlak banyak diberikan diberi kepada ‘pegawai yagn diberi kuasa’.

Saya khuatir sekiranya pegawai-pegawai ini menyalahgunakan kuasa mereka dan ini akan mengundang banyak masalah.

Saya ingin memohon daripada Dewan Yang Mulia ini meneliti kembali rang undang-undang ini agar tidak ada pihak yang diberi kuasa sebegini meng had kan kuasa mereka di dalam lingkungan hak asasi manusia rakyat Malaysia.

Sekian, terima kasih.

UCAPAN YBM SENATOR TUNKU ABDUL AZIZ IBRAHIM – RANG UNDANG-UNDANG PERLINDUNGAN PEMBERI MAKLUMAT 2010

Tuan Yang di Pertua

Terima kasih kerana mengizinkan saya membahaskan usul rang undang-undang Perlindungan Pemberi Maklumat 2010.

Sebagai seorang yang dilantik oleh Pertubuhan Bangsa-bangsa Bersatu bagi menubuhkan program-program anti-rasuah berkembar, yakni Whistler Blower Protection (dengan izin) dan satu lagi program yang dipanggil Declaration of Interests (dengan izin) bagi pertubuhan antarabangsa ini, saya ingin mengucapkan tahniah kepada pihak Kerajaanatas initiative yang diletakkan bagi mengiktiraf rasuah sebagai suatu perkara yang berisiko tinggi.

Daripada pengalaman yang saya perolehi, di dalam kerajaan mahu pun di sektor swasta, pengaruh rasuah bercampur-aduk. Saya kira barangkali ini disebabkan oleh kurang keyakinan terhadap agensi-agensi yang terlibat.

Di dalam kes yang kita alami di negara kita, agensi-agensi penting yang terdedah kepada kegiatan rasuah ialah Polis Diraja Malaysia (PDRM) dan Suruhanjaya Pencegahan Rasuah Malaysia (SPRM).

Sungguh pun demikian, sama ada benar atau pun tidak, terdapat pandangan daripada rakyat yang tidak meyakini kedua-dua agensi ini.

Orang awam yang berpendapat sedemikian, dengan ke berangkalian besar tidak mahu mengambil risiko untuk berhadapan dengan kedua-dua institusi ini yang mana integrity badan-badan ini dipersoalkan.

Perkara penting yangperlu ditekankan ialah bahawa kedua-dua badan PDRM dan SPRM, secara khasnya mestilah “clean up their act” (dengan izin) sebelum kita mengandaikan sebarang pulangan positive.

Kita mengharapkan agar semua lapisan rakyat untuk bekerja sama dengan kita sungguh pun ianya sebuah missi yang bahaya untuk mereka.

Dengan melihat bahawa Akta Perlindungan Pemberi Maklumat satu langkah ke hadapan, adalah menjadi harapan agar pegawai-pegawai kerajaan kita mengetahu batasan-batasan keoerluan dalam menguat kuasa akta ini nanti.

Bahkan, di negara-negara di mana terdapat kadar rasuah mereka yang rendah, rakyat secara amnya yang digalakkan melaporkan kegiatan rasuah kepada pihak polis, tidak ramai yang orang awam berbuat demikian. Dengan reputasi SPRM pada tahap ini, saya mempunyai anggapan bahawa prospect incident rasuah yang rendah tidaklah diharapkan.

Di sini, saya ingin mengesyorkan supaya satu jawatankuasa bebas ditubuhkan bagi menerima dan menilai dengan segera sebarang pendedahan yang tidak mengikut tatacara yagn betul dan jawatankuasa ini mempunyai kuasa untuk terus memberi arahan kepada pihak polis dan SPRM untuk sebarang tindakan.

Pendekatan “arm-length” (dengan izin) ini akan menjadikan pemberi-pemberi maklumat di kalangan masyarakat umum satu lapisan perlindungan. Saya mengerti bahawa kaedah ini memerlukan sedikit penambahan kos. Namun, kita mesti sedar bahawa melawan rasuah bukanlah suatu yang murah.

Tuan Yang Dipertua,

Wang ringgit tidak boleh membeli kepercayaan dan keyakinan. Hanya integrity pegawai-pegawai pelaksana yang diberi kepercayaan boleh menjadikan penguatkuasaan akta ini berjaya.

Sekian, terima kasih.

SOALAN LISAN SENATOR TUNKU ABDUL AZIZ IBRAHIM DI DEWAN NEGARA PADA 6 MEI 2010

SOALAN:
Tunku Abdul Aziz bin Tunku Ibrahim minta PERDANA MENTERI menyatakan laporan penilaian terhadap penubuhan Angkatan Marin dalam mempertahankan kepulauan-kepulauan Malaysia dari menjadi perebutan dengan kuasa luar.

JAWAPAN:

YB LIEW VUI KEONG
TIMBALAN MENTERI DI JABATAN PERDANA MENTERI

Tuan Yang Di Pertua,

Kesemua Agensi Penguatkuasa Maritim (APM) Negara dan Tentera Laut Diraja Malaysia (TLDM) telah, sedang dan akan terus melaksanakan tindakan-tindakan yang selaras dengan perundangan Negara dalam memastikan keselamatan dan kedaulatan pulau-pulau dan entiti geografi yang berada dalam perairan Malaysia sentiasa selamat dan sentiasa dipertahankan. Antara tindakan-tindakan yang diambil dalam usaha mempertahankan kepulauan dan entiti geografi negara Malaysia dari perebutan kuasa kuasa adalah seperti berikut:

I. Pelaksanaan rondaan dan pengawasan harian secara berterusan oleh APM negara dan TLDM;
II. Menguatkuasakan undang-undang maritim negara di kawasan tersebut;
III. Menggazet dan menamakan semua pulau dan entiti geografi yang terdapat dalam perairan negara;
IV. Merekodkan semu rondaan yang dilaksanakan;
V. Mewujudkan kehadiran di seluruh kawasan perairan Negara terutamanya kawasan yang mempunyai tuntutan bertindih maritim; dan
VI. Membina sruktur atau monument fizikal di pulau-pulau dan entiti geografi negara bagi tujuan pengukuhan kedaulatan seperti di Batuan Tengah, Tawau dan Pulau Layang-Layang.

Sekian, terim kasih.

JAWAPAN LISAN PARLIMEN DEWAN RAKYAT YBM TUNKU ABDUL AZIZ BIN TUNKU IBRAHIM PADA 6 MEI 2010

SOALAN:

Tunku Abdul Aziz bin Tunku Ibrahim minta PERDANA MENTERI menyatakan laporan penilaian terhadap penubuhan Angkatan Marin dalam mempertahankan kepulauan-kepulauan Malaysia dari menjadi perebutan dengan kuasa kuar.

JAWAPAN:

YB DATUK LIEW VUI KEONG
TIMBALAN MENTERI DI JABATAN PERDANA MENTERI

Tuan Yang Di Pertua,

Kesemua Agensi Penguatkuasa Maritim (APM) Negara dan Tentera Laut Diraja Malaysia (TLDM) telah, sedang dan akan terus melaksanakan tindakan-tindakan yang selaras dengan perundangan negara dalam memastikan keselamatan dan kedaulatan pulau-pulau dan entiti geografi yang berada dalam perairan Malaysia sentiasa selamat dan sentiasa dipertahankan. Antara tindakan-tindakan yang diambil dalam usaha mempertahankan kepulauan dan entiti geografi negara Malaysia dari perebutan kuasa luar adalah seperti berikut:

i. Pelaksanaan rondaan pengawasan harian secara berterusan oleh APM Negara dan TLDM;
ii. Menguatkuasakan undang-undang maritim negara di kawasan tersebut;
iii. Menggazet dan menamakan semua pulau dan entiti geografi yang terdapat dalam perairan negara;
iv. Merekodkan semua rondaan yang dilaksanakan;
v. Mewujudkan kehadiran di seluruh kawsan perairan negara terutamanya kawasan yang mempunyai tuntutan bertindih maritim; dan
vi. Membina sruktur monumen fizikal di pulau-pulau dan entiti geografi negara bagi tujuan pengukuhan kedaulatan seperti di Batuan Tengah, Tawau dan Pulau Layang-layang.

Sekian, terima kasih.