1. BNYV Research Briefs 14th ed (28-30th July
2012)
Writers: @AmirFareedRahim (FMT, The Sun); @AkmalSaufi (The Star); @Megat_Khalis (Harakah);
@HarrithShazBNYV (NST); @NadhirAshafiq (The Malaysian Insider), @iMaduSmith (Mole.my);
@Jasmine22ckm (Sin Chew Daily); @AzreeAriffin (Malaysiakini); @LianaKamat (Utusan, Berita Harian);
@IzranKamal (Harian Metro); Najmi Kamaruzaman (The Star)
Editor: @NadhirAshafiq
Rumusan/Summary
1. No Crisis in Sabah
Summary:
a) Barisan Nasional in Sabah remains strong and intact despite defection by two of its MPs who
aligned themselves to the opposition.
b) Chief Minister DS Musa Aman mentioned that the defection to Datuk Lajim, Beaufort MP
and Tuaran MP Datuk Wildfred Bumburing has been anticipated.
c) UMNO Vice President, DS Mohd Shafie Salleh said that they will not take this lightly and will
strengthen the machinery. He also mentioned that Sabah would still become UMNO’s fixed
deposit. 19 division members of Beaufort division are still firm with UMNO as opposed to
what has been claimed by the Beaufort MP. (The Star)
2. Perletakan jawatan Ahli Parlimen Tuaran
Rumusan:
a) Ahli Parlimen Tuaran, Datuk Wilfred Bumburing mengesahkan beliau bukan lagi Timbalan
Presiden Pertubuhan Pasok Momogun Kadazandusun Murut Bersatu (UPKO).
b) Katanya, keputusan itu atas kerelaan sendiri dan bukan disebabkan kecewa tidak dipilih
sebagai calon pada PRU-13 atau tidak dilantik mengetuai UPKO bahagian Tuaran.
c) Beliau mengumumkan akan meneruskan perjuangan politik menerusi Angkatan Perubahan
Sabah (APS) sebagai saluran baru politik yang akan bekerjasama dengan pembangkang.
(Berita Harian)

2. 3. MP Tuaran keluar BN
Rumusan:
a) Ahli Parlimen Tuaran, Datuk Seri Wilfred Bumburing hari ini secara rasmi mengisytihar keluar
Barisan Nasional (BN) dan menyatakan sokongan terhadap Pakatan Rakyat.
b) Pengumuman ini adalah yang kedua selepas Datuk Seri Panglima Lajim Ukin membuat
pengumumkan perletakan jawatannya dalam Umno dan BN semalam.
c) Bekas Timbalan Presiden UPKO, sebuah parti komponen BN Sabah itu juga berkata, APS
(Angkatan Perubahan Sabah) akan giat turun ke setiap kawasan di Sabah untuk mengajak
rakyatnya melakukan perubahan. (Harakah)
4. Chinese Independent School
Summary:
a) The Dongzong committee organized a 729 Peaceful Appeal Assembly with two resolutions as
followings:
i. Fully support the set-up of the Segamat Chinese Independent School and to urge the
government to agree with it.
ii. To urge the Ministry of Education to respect the rights of autonomy of the board of
directors of the Chinese Independent School.
b) It is different from the Chinese Independent School in KL as they request the students of
Independent School in Segamat to be exempted from sitting in the SPM examination.
c) The organizing chairman of this particular assembly hope that the government will approve
the second Chinese Independent School in Johor, and at the same time, he told the press of
which hoping to have about 10 Chinese Independent School in Johor.
d) Dongzong chairman, Yap Sin Tian expressed his disappointment to the Government for not
receiving any official approval letter although the setup of Chinese Independent School in
Kuantan is approved.
e) Yap Sin Tian stressed that he strongly disagrees if the government made SPM examinations
compulsory for the students in the Chinese Independent School.
f) Yap Sin Tian said the issue of whether the Chinese Independent School’s students sit for extra
examination or not has to be the decision of Dongzong, not the Ministry of Education. (Sin
Chew Daily)

3. 5. Kerajaan Selangor dan Langat 2
Rumusan:
a) Kerajaan Pusat boleh mengeluarkan tender projek Loji Rawatan Air Langat 2 tetapi kelulusan
mengenai pelaksanaannya hanya boleh diberikan oleh Kerajaan Selangor
b) Pihak tenaga kerja profesional dilantik bagi membuat kajian dan menyiapkan laporan
mengenai isu air tersebut dan dakwaan Menteri Kementerian Tenaga, Teknologi Hijau dan
Air (KeTTHA), Datuk Seri Peter Chin Kah Fui yang mengatakan laporan Kerajaan Negeri tidak
betul tidak boleh diterima.
c) Menteri Besar, Tan Sri Abdul Khalid Ibrahim berkata, Kerajaan Negeri juga tidak akan terlibat
dengan proses tender tersebut kerana beranggapan ia tidak relevan dengan masalah air
yang didakwa wujud di Selangor. (Harakah)
6. Duit raya untuk peneroka FELDA
Rumusan:
a) DS Najib Razak semalam mengumumkan pemberian wang raya kepada semua peneroka
seluruh FELDA membabitkan peruntukan RM43.2juta. RM400 bagi peneroka FELDA dan
RM200 untuk peneroka bukan FELDA.
b) Sementara itu, Perdana Menteri turut mengumumkan kelulusan bantuan Kasih FELDA RM5
juta untuk membaik pulih 1,000 rumah di enam kawasan Parlimen membabitkan lima di
Kedah dan satu di Perlis.
c) Turut diumumkan, peruntukan RM920,000 untuk tujuan naik taraf longkang, tembok,
padang dan lampu jalan di dua kawasan FELDA di Teloi Kanan dan Teloi Timur. (Berita
Harian)
7. 999 emergency caretakers to be trained professionally
Summary:
a) Call takers and dispatchers of 999 emergency line to be trained professionally and certified
to the highest standards
b) A government-backup body will ensure that calls answer within 20 seconds 10 seconds
faster than current response time
c) The implementation is in line with the Government Transformation Project (The Star)

4. 8. Derek vs Raja Petra
Summary:
a) Petaling Jaya City councillor Derek Fernandez labelled Raja Petra Kamarudin (RPK) as
someone without credibility.
b) This is due to his recent article that claimed Petaling Jaya City council had outsourced legal
matters to PKR lawyers such as Latheefa Koya and R.Sivarasa who are from the Messrs Daim
and Gamany firm.
c) RPK also alleged that with the influence of Derek alongside Latheefa who was former MBPJ
councilor, legal work had been awarded to PKR leaders and their firms.
d) Bloggers “The Unspinners” also carried all four parts of RPK’s documented claims on MBPJ
including Derek’s denial that he had influenced the council in assigning work to any firm or
lawyer. (Mole.my)
9. Segregation in Cinemas
Summary:
a) In a survey by NST on youths in Selangor, a majority of them strongly disapproved of
regulations barring unmarried male and female Muslims couples from cinemas, such as that
were nearly imposed in Kuala Selangor.
b) The survey was held after the Kuala Selangor District Council (MDKS) raised this
controversial issue; believed to have been advocated by the local authority’s Pas councillors,
whose party has successfully introduced similar regulations in Kelantan.
c) According to the survey, this ruling was not popular both from Muslims and also non-
Muslims. One of the comments from the youths interviewed was for example: “…imposing
this regulation would set the country back another 50 years. I think Malaysians are mature
enough not to be told how to behave, where to sit and stand or even what to wear.” said
Kishore Ramdas, a 25 year old lawyer. (NST)

5. 10. Program Rakan COP ditambah baik
Rumusan:
a) Program Rakan Cop yang bertujuan menggalak penyertaan masyarakat membantu polis
memerangi jenayah akan ditambah baik dan diperkukuh setelah terbukti menjadi antara
medium yang paling berkesan mengurangkan kadar jenayah.
b) Menteri Dalam Negeri, DS Hishamuddin Tun Husseiin berkata sebanyak 1,538 laporan
jenayah dihantar ahli Rakan Cop menerusi SMS sebanyak bulan ini dan sebanyak 1,013 telah
diambil tindakan.
c) Beliau juga berkata bilangan ahli Rakan Cop akan ditambah, perkakasan dan perisian
komputer serta penyelarasan unit program itu akan ditambahbaik bagi mempromosi
mengenai Rakan Cop. (Utusan)

6. Analisa/Analysis
1. No Crisis in Sabah
Analysis
This defection will have a dent to the UMNO’s so called fixed deposit. Even if the UMNO machinery
in Sabah were still intact, it would still inflict some damage to UMNO’s image in Sabah. The Sabah
machinery should find out whether the two MPs are outstanding Parliament Members and how
much have they contributed to their respective constituent. Secondly it is a must that the respective
divisions gear up to introduce the upcoming candidate figure for the constituent so that they would
have a head start in fighting the incumbent MPs image and influence. As result of the defection 20
MP seats are still with BN while 2 MP seats (Tuaran and Beaufort) are with Pakatan and 2 are being
held by independent MPs (@AkmalSaufi)
2. Perletakan jawatan Ahli Parlimen Tuaran
Analysis
Perkara seperti ini sebenarnya memberi tamparan hebat kepada kerajaan Barisan Nasional kerana
penduduk di Sabah akan mula meragui kepimpinan UMNO di bawah pimpinan Musa Aman dan
UPKO secara khusus. Ini juga menunjukkan pengaruh parti pembangkang di Sabah semakin menular.
Namun, dari aspek positif, teka teki tentang status ahli parlimen tersebut akhirnya terungkai.
Kerajaan Barisan Nasional memerlukan pemimpin yang kuat pendirian dan berpegang pada misi dan
visi parti tersebut serta memperjuangkan hak dan kepentingan rakyat Sabah. Bukan ahli politik yang
mempunyai agenda tersendiri. (@LianaKamat)
3. MP Tuaran keluar BN
Analysis
Datuk Seri Wilfred Bumburing menggunakan alasan kerajaan pusat tidak dapat menyelesaikan
masalah pendatang asing di negeri Sabah sebagai tiket untuk keluar BN dan menyokong
pakatan.(@Megat_Khalis)

7. 4. Chinese Independent School
Analysis
The Kuantan Chinese Independent School is finally approved by the government/ Ministry of
Education on 27 July, 2012 after appealing by Dongzong and the Chinese community for about a
month and a half. However, Dongzong is complaining another issue as regards to Chinese
Independent School’s students taking the SPM examination instead of showing gratefulness to the
approval of the school. Most of the students in Chinese Independent School in KL are required to sit
for SPM in form 5 as well as the Unified Examination Certificate (UEC) in form 6. The students have a
choice of not sitting for the UEC as they will graduate from the Chinese Independent School after
sitting for SPM. There are some students that have chosen such a path and continued their tertiary
studies in both local or overseas colleges and universities. The disadvantages of not having the
students to sit for SPM, the government examination are rather apparent as what if the students
have failed the UEC. They could be facing the difficulties of looking for jobs in Malaysia since they do
not have SPM certification. Without having to sit for SPM, these Chinese Independent School’s
students are very unlikely to take the initiative to learn Bahasa Malaysia as their learning modules
may not require them to study Bahasa Malaysia. With that, it will cause these particular group of
young people another challenges of obtaining jobs in Malaysia. In a nut shell, the government should
not allow Dongzong to decide whether or not, to make SPM a compulsory matter for the students of
Chinese Independent School in Kuantan, but it is a decision of the Ministry of Education, parents,
teachers, and students. (@Jasmine22CKM) Editor: Agree 100%.
5. Kerajaan Selangor dan Langat 2
Analysis
Kenyataan Menteri Besar Selangor bahawa hanya kerajaan negeri boleh memberikan kelulusan
untuk projek Langat 2 membuktikan bahawa kerajaan negeri mempunyai kuasa penuh untuk
membuat keputusan ke atas utiliti air di negeri ini. (@Megat_Khalis)
6. 999 emergency caretakers to be trained professionally
Analysis
The government is still on-going in transforming itself. Even the simplest transformation can save
lives and should not discounted (@AkmalSaufi)
7. Duit raya untuk peneroka FELDA
Analysis
Pengagihan duit raya serta sagu hati itu bukti janji kerajaan untuk terus memajukan FELDA demi
menjaga kepentingan semua warga peneroka. (@LianaKamat)

8. 8. Derek vs Raja Petra
Analysis
Due to this situation, it creates such a bad impression towards MBPJ and RPK shouldn’t be too
biased in judging them just because he is in the opposition party. (@iMaduSmith)
9. Segregation in Cinemas
Analysis
Allow me to write a comment based on my own experience. I have friends who are good Muslims
from Morocco, Saudi Arabia and also Egypt. They have visited Malaysia before and some even lived
here for many years. One thing they truly admire about Malaysia is that though it is a Muslim state,
yet the government is so mature in handling the religious and cultural diversity of the people. They
admire that people are free to choose how they dress, from the conservative niqab to the risqué
mini-skirts. Here, people are free to express their religious beliefs without being prosecuted by
authorities, or chastised by other religions. They admire that male and female could interact with
each other without restrictions from religious authorities. Everybody, regardless of race, gender or
even their orientation could live together in harmony. My middle-eastern Muslim friends, as
Muslims feel proud that Malaysia is such a peaceful and free Muslim country. Recently, officials from
Afghanistan visited Malaysia to seek assistances to reform their country to emulate Malaysia. We
should realize that currently Malaysia is an ideal model of a successful Muslim state. If they (Pas) are
concerned that ‘mixed’ cinemas are breeding grounds for maksiat, I believe this is based on one’s
moral values and not influences from the culture. The government shouldn’t be blamed for the
youth’s maksiat because it is the responsibility of the parents to guide their children on having good
moral values. Hence, it is unnecessary at all to impose gender segregations. What next, religious
segregations then ultimately, the apartheid? (@HarrithShazBNYV)
10. Program Rakan COP ditambah baik
Analysis
Perkara ini sejajar dengan perbincangan yang dilakukan dalam makmal 2.0 Pelan Transformasi
Kerajaan yang diadakan baru-baru ini. Menunjukkan kerajaan BN komited dalam menangani trend
baru perlakuan jenayah dalam masyarakat. Setakat ini sebanyak 500,000 ahli Rakan Cop wujud di
seluruh Negara dengan ahli tertinggi di Perak diikuti Kuala Lumpur dan Selangor. (@LianaKamat)