Kuasa Sultan Perak dipertikai

Renung-renungkan...

1977...Kamaruddin Md Isa - Dato' Seri Ghazali Jawi - Dato' Seri Wan Mohamed Wan Teh

"...Pemuda UMNO mengadakan rapat umum mempertahankan tindakan Ghazali Jawi. Sultan Perak mempunyai hak melantik dan berkenan seseorang memegang jawatan Menteri Besar, tetapi setelah dilantik dan diperkenankan, Sultan tidak ada hak mengikut Perlembagaan Negeri untuk memecat atau memerintahkan supaya meletakkan jawatan. Hak untuk memecat atau memerintahkan Ghazali Jawi berhenti dari Menteri Besar, ialah Presiden Umno memandangkan Ghazali Jawi merupakah seorang ahli UMNO.

Di Pulau Pangkor, Sultan Idris masih murka dan bernazar tidak akan mencukur janggut dan jambangnya selagi Ghazali tidak berhenti menjadi MB dan untuk beberapa ketika baginda tampil di khalayak dengan keadaan berjangut dan berjambang sebagai menzahirkan kemurkaan baginda. Ghazali meletakkan jawatan hanya setelah dinasihati oleh Presiden UMNO ketika itu iaitu Tun Hussein Onn pada 1977. Surat perletakan jawatan dihantar kepada sultan.^[1] Dato Sri Wan Mohamed Wan Teh telah mendapat perkenan Sultan untuk menjadi Menteri Besar..."

Sumber: wikipedia.org - artikel: Dato' Seri Ghazali Jawi

2009... Dato' Seri Muhammad Nizar Jamaluddin - Dato' seri Zambry Abd Kadir

Karpal Singh Saman Sultan Perak.

"...Selaku peguam kanan, saman ingin difailkan oleh Karpal Singh dan Mohammad Nizar Jamaluddin terhadap Sultan Perak kerana tindakan ini dianggap tidak mengikut Artikel 16 (6) Undang-undang Tubuh Negeri Perak. Saman ingin difailkan di Mahkamah Tinggi Ipoh pada hari Selasa, 10 Februari 2009 kerana perlantikan Zambry Abdul Kadir tidak sah, wujud 2 menteri besar dalam satu masa dan menimbulkan krisis Perlembagaan Persekutuan dan Undang-undang Tubuh Kerajaan Negeri Perak. Sultan Azlan Shah diberi kuasa melalui Undang-Undang Tubuh Negeri Perak dan haruslah juga mematuhinya..."

Mahkamah Rayuan

"...Pada 22 Mei, panel tiga hakim Mahkamah Rayuan yang mendengar hujah-hujah mereka memutuskan Zambry sebagai menteri besar Perak yang sah, sekaligus membatalkan penghakiman Mahkamah Tinggi Kuala Lumpur minggu lalu yang mengesahkan kedudukan asal Nizar, atas hujah bahawa "bahawa hakim mahkamah tinggi Datuk Abdul Aziz Abd Rahim membuat kesilapan dalam keputusannya dan Sultan Perak layak melantik Zambry apabila Mohamad Nizar hilang majoriti dalam DUN..."

Sumber: wikipedia.org, Malaysiakini, Buletin Utama TV3

Kuasa Sultan semakin hilang dan dipengaruhi oleh politik. Adakah Sultan masih mempunyai kuasa di dalam negeri sendiri?

Renung-renungkan....

The Power of Complaining - Public Transport

I sent an email the other day to RapidKL (suggest@rapidkl.com.my) with a list of complaints/suggestions about the LRT service.

A few hours later my email was replied to, and not just generic, but with a point by piont reply to all my moans and groans.

One of the complains was about a persistently broken ticket gate at an LRT station, which has remained unfixed for well over a week. I told them which gate it was, and asked them to fix it.

The very next morning as I walked through the station I saw the offending gate, with it's lid off and a man fixing it. Today it works perfectly.

I can only assume that the suggest@rapidkl.com.my service works so well, and is able to reply so quickly and thoughroughly, because nobody ever complains/points out faults/makes suggestions to RapidKL. Whilst many moan and groan and gripe, very few actually do so to the proper people. You may think it has no effect. Well I can tell you now, in my case the effect was almost immediate.

So there you go, start opening your mouths and moaning to the right people, and things may just start to improve, little by little.

The Star Blog Letter
Friday : October 2, 2009

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I believe that if complains are made to the appropriate channel, the action sure will be taken by respective organization. For public transport itself, I found that Transitmy lead by Mr. Moaz are providing the info + complaint & suggestion on public transport in Klang Valley.

I also found that there is a discussion page on RapidKL named MYrapidKL at Facebook. http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/pages/MYrapidKL/140496997536
Other links for complaining & suggesting on public transport can be found at Transitmy website.
http://www.transitmy.org/

Therefore, use proper channel when making your complains so that action can be taken a.s.a.p.

Public transport: Who is the boss?

THE Association for the Improvement of Mass Transit (Transit) regrets the government’s recent involvement in pressuring RapidKL to abolish the widely accepted all-day pass fare system for buses.

The directive, which is supposed to make RapidKL’s competitors happy, is a serious drawback in overhauling our public transport system.

A core criterion of an effective public transport system is the ability to maximise transit interchange possibilities of various public transport modes (bus, train, etc) to efficiently move a large number of people to reach their destinations faster and easier.

We have witnessed during the pre-RapidKL era how point-to-point travelling (where one mode of public transport is expected to carry commuters from their backyards right to their workplaces) was counter-productive to commuting convenience and created havoc with city traffic.

RapidKL was on the right track when it introduced the hub-and-spoke system, where commuters have the liberty to transit in between different bus routes without facing hurdles such as having to pay additional fares.

It is the lack of infrastructural integration to even facilitate fast and easy transit interchanges between different RapidKL bus routes (not to mention seamless integration with other operators and with different transit modes) and the lack of proper support systems to prevent the buses from being bogged down by traffic bottlenecks that cause commuters to shun RapidKL buses despite the attractive RM2 all-day fare.

Instead of addressing these root problems, the government bowed to the other operators and made RapidKL more unattractive to the masses by asking RapidKL to follow the fare structure of the other inefficient operators. Although these bus operators do not have access to taxpayers’ money as RapidKL does, the government cannot assume RapidKL has an unfair advantage with its low-fare pricing structure. The other operators are guilty of delivering poor quality service, and the government is guilty of not providing the necessary infrastructure and support systems, both of which evidently perpetuate the condition of the pre-RapidKL commuting environment.

Instead of pressuring RapidKL, the government should provide equal funding opportunities for other operators in return for meeting transit performance targets.

The High Court has set Sept 30 as the date to decide on a judicial review application by Metrobus to pressure the CVLB to enforce the same rates of fare on RapidKL, and it is with high hope that the government will finally have some sense to realise that public-funded public transport is a mobility right for every individual whose livelihood is affected by traffic congestion.

To force RapidKL’s fare and operational structure to follow that of other bus operators is equal to allowing the pre-RapidKL commuting environment to persist, and hence to deny the citizens of Klang Valley of their mobility rights.

Public transport investment (which is more accurate than the term “subsidy”) is imperative to negate all negative externalities associated with lessening quality of urban life as a result of dependency on private vehicles. Without the public sector’s lead, public transport will remain unattractive as it is natural for private investors to avoid absorbing the costs of setting up proper support systems needed to match the convenience that private transport offers.

A single occupancy vehicle driver takes up more public-funded travelling space than a passenger in a fully-seated bus, and hence uses a much bigger portion of the government’s coffers. It is time for the government to face up to the reality and decide who is the boss: the commuters or the shareholders of transport companies.

Text by Zulkarnain Hamzah
letters - sun2surf.com

1st post

This is my 1st post in my 1st blogging day..

Will add more post on various topics in English & Malay..

Hope will get positive comments...

Anyway, I wish Selamat Hari Raya Aidilfitri to all Malaysian...