Inter-Research And Studies (IRAS)

Bajet 2021, bukan itu sahaja, malah bajet-bajet peringkat kerajaan-kerajaan negeri juga harus diteliti, dipantau, dan disemak dengan lebih mendalam bagi memastikan belanjawan-belanjawan tersebut adalah benar-benar untuk faedah rakyat dan negara, serta bebas daripada sebarang unsur penyalahgunaan kuasa agar ketelusan belanjawan tersebut terjamin dengan sempurna. Ini sudah semestinya merupakan tugas dan tanggungjawab institusi-institusi parlimen dan dewan-dewan undangan negeri dalam memastikan peranan semak dan imbang terhadap kerajaan-kerajaan pusat dan negeri dapat dilaksanakan dengan sewajarnya. Kita berpendapat bahawa golongan feudal dan simbolik tidak mempunyai sebarang hak eksklusif untuk menentukan sama ada belanjawan tersebut harus diluluskan atau sebaliknya. Kesemua ini adalah bergantung penuh kepada budibicara ahli-ahli parlimen dan dewan-dewan undangan negeri yang mempunyai peranan yang begitu penting sekali di dalam memantau, menyemakimbang dan meneliti kandungan-kandungan be...

In times of crisis, like today’s coronavirus widespread in our nation, the parliament as the highest institution in this country must ensure our people and the nation’s well-being are being prioritised by the government of the day. In this case, even if the coronavirus is yet to be under control and the movement control order (MCO) is being implemented, the period and time of the parliamentary sittings should not be reduced no matter what it takes in order to ensure the sitting government is properly checked and scrutinised in whatever it undertakes to ensure public interests are maintained, corruption, power abuse and mismanagement of funds can be prevented. It is the utmost responsibilities of the sitting government to ensure the smooth proceedings of the parliament by ensuring all member of parliament of their safety and security while the proceedings are ongoing while the crisis is being tackled. Today, based on our observation on the rebel government, they are obviously disappo...

We are gravely disappointed the way the rebel government handle and apply the movement control order (MCO) in this country. As of yesterday evening, there were reports both formal and informal indicating that some ministers, deputy ministers, a menteri besar, exco members, MPs or state assemblymen were seen in official functions with many attendees being invited to their events where food and drinks were also served to all invited guests. So, we would like to ask members of the rebel government. Just exactly how many sets of rules does your MCO applies to in this country? One for the normal people with harsh punishment onto offenders, while the other is an exemption for VVIPs like you all happily enjoying in your events and function there by showing of your “V” sign to the ordinary people? If that is so, the rebel government has not been fair towards our people, venting a heavy jail terms to offenders of ordinary background while those in higher caste or with high positions wer...

Kini telah genap lebih sebulan kerajaan pemberontak yang dianggotai oleh Perikatan Nasional (PN) memerintah negara kita berikutan kejayaan rampasan kuasa mereka pada hujung February 2020 lalu, di mana kerajaan Pakatan Harapan (PH) ditumbangkan oleh suatu siri pemberontakan yang dipelopori Bersatu dan 11 ahli parlimen yang menyokong Azmin Ali di dalam gabungan kerajaan terdahulu. Masa telah tiba bagi pucuk pimpinan PH untuk menyusun semula strategi mereka dan adalah perlu bagi mereka meneruskan perlaksanaan pembersihan dalaman parti-parti kompenen PH setelah melihat ramai di antara pemimpin dan wakil-wakil rakyat mereka memberontak dan berpaling tadah setelah bersetuju menerima tawaran-tawaran yang agak lumayan daripada kepimpinan kerajaan pemberontak PN. Perkara utama yang PH perlu berikan tumpuan adalah memastikan beberapa siri pembaharuan yang telah dirancang oleh kepimpinan mereka sewaktu berkerajaan sebelum ini diteruskan melalui kerajaan pemberontak PN dengan pemantauan dan pe...

Baru-baru ini beberapa ahli parlimen Pakatan Harapan dan Bersatu yang menyokong Tun Dr Mahathir telah dimaklumkan bahawa peruntukan parlimen untuk kawasan masing-masing telah dibatalkan oleh Unit Pelarasan Perlaksanaan, Jabatan Perdana Menteri (ICU-JPM). Kami ingin mempersoal tindakan perdana menteri kerajaan Perikatan Nasional, kenapa beliau bertindak membatalkan peruntukan kepada semua ahli-ahli parlimen Pakatan Harapan dan Bersatu yang menyokong tidak sehaluan dengannya? Kenapa Mhyiddin bertindak demikian? Adakah beliau bermotifkan dendam semata-mata? Kerajaan Perikatan Nasional yang merangkumi Umno, PAS dan Bersatu perlu ingat bahawa, sewaktu pemerintahan Pakatan Harapan, semua ahli-ahli parlimen pembangkang ketika itu, Umno dan PAS turut diberikan peruntukan untuk kawasan parlimen yang mereka duduki, tetapi kenapa sekarang, apabila Perikatan Nasional mengambil-alih tampuk pemerintahan, cara dan layanan tersebut telah berubah kepada yang asal, yakni seperti zaman pemerintahan Um...

Kami ingin merujuk kepada suatu artikel dalam akhbar theStar yang dikarang oleh seorang penulis bernama Jahaberdeen M. Yunoos, yang merupakan pengasas Pergerakan Rapera (the Rapera Movement) baru-baru ini yang mendakwa kerajaan Perikatan Nasional tetap merupakan sebuah kerajaan pintu hadapan walauapajua dakwaan orang ramai yang mengatakan sebaliknya. Ingin kami memperingatkan penulis tersebut, jika sekiranya beliau ingin mengketengahkan pendiriannya yang sewajar, usah berselindung di sebalik Yang Di Pertuan Agong (YDPA) bagi mempertahankan segala hujahnya yang dikarang beberapa minggu yang lalu. Sebaliknya, beliau seharusnya mengarang dan mempertahankan hujah, pendapat dan pendiriannya dengan menggunakan seberapa banyak maklumat dan bukti sahih yang boleh diperolehinya. Di dalam karangannya beliau ada mengatakan bahawa parti-parti gabungan dalam Perikatan Nasional pimpinan Muhyiddin Yassin telah memperoleh sokongan yang mencukupi bagi membentuk kerajaan baru setelah tumbangnya keraj...

About four days after the so-called Perikatan Nasional took helm of the government seat in Putrajaya, they are beginning to unleash their manifestos one by one, some picking up the pieces from the past. The first was a former defence minister who is now taking up the foreign affairs portfolio in the Perikatan government pledged the six new army helicopters that he ordered many years back will be delivered by the supplier at the end of this year. Then, the PPSMI and the free breakfast in school scheme will be reviewed by the newly appointed education minister. Ties with Saudi Arabia will also be mend after the relationship between the two countries soured in the “Mahathir” previous government, follow by an attempt to resolve the palm oil spat with India and the Perikatan cabinet ministers are readying themselves to have their salaries reduced following the current economic uncertainties. Furthermore, the Perikatan prime minister had also pledged to re-introduce the GST after the begi...

The parliamentary caucus on reform and governance currently chaired by Port Dickson MP and PKR president Anwar Ibrahim was set up to lead the efforts to reform the parliamentary system and to address major issues on governance, looking into its weaknesses and generates initiatives to reform the administration. The parliamentary caucus is also reported to be planning to revive the Parliamentary Services Act which was abolished in 19992 by the then BN government who then transferred the parliamentary administration under the direct purview of the Prime Minister’s Department with a minister without portfolio appointed to handle all affairs related to the parliamentary staffing, budgeting and administration. To revive the Parliamentary Services Act, the caucus tasked to handle the effort must ensure that the future Act must be improvised and most not be part of the executive government’s instrument. The Act must ensure total independence of the parliamentary service, free from any inter...

Jawatankuasa pilihan parlimen atau dalam bahasa Inggeris, parliamentary select committee dan terkenal dengan singkatan umumnya, PSC adalah suatu bentuk jawatankuasa yang merangkumi ahli-ahli parlimen yang dilantik bagi mengurus atau menyiasat suatu isu ataupun perkara-perkara yang berkepentingan umum. Pembentukan dan fungsi PSC adalah berasal daripada rangkaian sistem berparlimen era British yang menggunapakai model Westminster. Negara-negara seperti Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia dan India turut menggunakan sistem tersebut. Di Britain, contohnya, telah melaksana dan menggunapakai PSC di dalam parlimen negara tersebut sejak daripada tahun 1980 lagi di mana beberapa PSC dibentuk bagi memantau, menyemak-imbang kementerian-kementerian dan jabatan-jabatan kerajaan di negara tersebut bagi memastikan ketelusan, kecekapan dan akauntabiliti di dalam pentadbiran negara tersebut. Para PSC menentukan tajuk, halatuju siasatan, persoalan, peranan mereka sendiri dan mempunyai kuasa untuk men...

Ever since after the 14th general elections held on 9 May 2019 last year, we saw the most effective opposition coalition Pakatan Harapan (PH) coming into power at the federal level together with few state governments as well which had effectively pushed Barisan Nasional (BN) from governing right to the opposition bench. The BN opposition previously under the leadership of the then Umno president had put in order a group of Umno and MCA members of parliament to form a shadow cabinet in order to provide the necessary check and balance on the current PH government. However, to our dismay, this so-called BN shadow cabinet has not been working on what they are supposed to. Instead these BN MPs particularly those from Umno had continue to raise issues and tensions on matters relating to race and religion. Worst of all these BN MPs had failed to show their maturity during the parliamentary sessions. Trading insults and gender remarks against fellow MPS has been their kind of character...

Prior to the 14th general elections last year, the then opposition coalition Pakatan Harapan (PH) laid out its manifesto for the people to decide which coalition of political parties did they want to run the federal and state governments. And the people had made their choice on 9 May 2018 to kick out the then corrupt Barisan Nasional (BN) government and installed PH in place to reform and govern our nation with new policies, institutional reforms, combat corruption and to correct the wrongs in the judiciary system as well as civil service which has been killing our nation’s reputation for years. In aftermath of PH’s takeover of the federal seat, what has been discovered were our nation’s coffers had lost billions of ringgit as the result of swindling, mismanagement and corruptions by the leaders of the previous ruling coalition. Much has gone missing, unrecoverable and as the result of the nation’s debts which is at the highest ever, trillions of ringgit, our nation’s currency deval...

Multimedia and communications minister Gobind Singh Deo had recently said that authorities will be going after news portals for maintaining public commentaries which are deemed to be insulting, inciting hate on others as well as those which are considered harming. Going after news portals may not be fair in the sense that these websites are open to public for reading and providing commentaries over news or articles of interests. Some may even suggest that the authorities should instead go after those commentators for the said statements or words penned on the news or articles. Is going after these kind of people adding value? There are millions of viewers and commentators out there. Is the authorities planning to go after them one by one, arrest them all, charge them in court and imprison them? There will be no end to such incidents. Practically, our nation's prison will be packed with these kind of people if the government were to serious in enforcing some of those multimed...

Sejak Pakatan Harapan (PH) mengambil-alih tampuk pemerintahan daripada Barisan Nasional (BN) pada 9 Mei 2018 yang lalu, ramai di kalangan rakyat jelata yang mula merungut mengenai ketidakadilan dan ketidakberkesanan dasar-dasar yang dilaksanakan oleh kerajaan baru sekarang kerana bebanan yang terpaksa ditanggung atau dikongsi oleh orang ramai. Mungkin kerana rakyat jelata telah lupa. Kemusnahan dan keadaan yang tidak menentu yang ditinggalkan oleh BN berikutan kekalahan mereka pada pilihanraya umum yang lalu, rasuah, salahguna kuasa dan pengurusan kerajaan yang penuh dengan ketidakcekapan sewaktu era pemerintahan BN yang lalu. Siapakah yang kini terpaksa mewarisi elemen-elemen negatif yang kini berleluasa di kementerian-kementerian, jabatan-jabatan, agensi-agensi kerajaan dan GLC-GLC yang ada? Adakah kita menyedari hakikat yang sebenarnya pada hari ini? Ya, ramai di antara kita telah lupa ataupun mudah lupa dengan apa yang telah dilakukan di masa yang lalu kini telah membuahkan akib...

Ramai di antara kita pada hari ini yang tidak pernah melihat, membaca ataupun mengkaji tentang apakah itu pilihanraya kerajaan tempatan. Kerajaan tempatan tidaklah merujuk kepada hanya dewan bandaraya, majlis perbandaran, majlis daerah semata-mata. Kerajaan tempatan juga meliputi pentadbiran di peringkat kampung dan taman perumahan seperti rukun tetangga, majlis pengurusan komuniti kampung (dahulunya dikenali sebagai jawatankuasa kemajuan dan keselamatan kampung) dan institusi penghulu. Ini bermakna, institusi kerajaan tempatan ini merangkumi suatu aspek pengurusan kawasan yang luas dan bukan hanya terhad kepada dewan bandaraya ataupun majlis perbandaran. Inilah satu-satunya salahfaham di kalangan pemimpin yang harus diperbetulkan. Persoalan yang seterusnya adalah, kenapa ada di kalangan pemimpin, setelah berkuasa menyatakan kepada umum bahawa pilihanraya kerajaan tempatan ini akan mengakibatkan perbezaan antara kaum menjadi semakin ketara kerana terdapat perbezaan purata penduduk d...

Some parties to these area had started to put the blame on the government on oversupply of homes. Who should be blamed for the oversupply of homes and other kinds of unsold properties? The federal government, state government or the developers. To the general view of the public, the federal government outlines the housing policy, the state government enforce and ensure regulations on land and housing are adhered to while the developers acquire the land allocated, construct, built and sell the properties to the public. Developers wanted to sell for profit, the government wanted to collect revenues to increase their funds for the expenditures to facilitate the development of better infrastructures for the people in the country. Building houses, shoplots or even shopping complexes around selected areas, whose plans are they? Planning for affordable homes, determining the locations of these houses to be build, ensuring the prices are affordable to the public, building houses and p...

Akhirnya, rakyat Malaysia telah memilih perubhahan dengan mengundi memastikan kekalahan Barisan Nasional (BN) di dalam pilihanraya umum ke-14 (PRU14) yang lalu yang turut dikenali dengan singkatannya 905. BN telah memerintah negara ini lebih daripada 60 tahun lamanya dan kini terpaksa akur kepada kehendak rakyat yang inginkan mereka menduduki barisan pembangkang pada penggal ini. Kerajaan Pakatan Harapan (PH) yang baru di Putrajaya, tanpa membuang masa terus melaksanakan beberapa siri perubahan seperti yang telah dijanjikan di dalam kempen PRU14 yang lalu. Sehinggalah pada PRU14 ini, rakyat Malaysia hanya keluar mengundi untuk memilih wakil-wakil merek bagi peringkat parlimen dan dewan-dewan undangan negeri (DUN). Di negara lain, bukan sahaja pilihanraya umum diadakan untuk parlimen dan DUN, bahkan ianya juga diadakan bagi memilih kerajaan-kerajaan tempatan. Ahli-ahli Dewan-dewan Bandaraya, Majlis-majlis Perbandaran dan Majlis-majlis Daerah, semuanya adalah dipilih secara langsung o...