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Fakta Ladang Rakyat Yang Tidak Keluar Di Harakah #TukarKelate

Posted: 29 Mar 2013 08:00 PM PDT

Fakta Ladang Rakyat menurut Laporan Ketua Audit Negara

Keluasan tanah yang diberi oleh Kerajaan Negeri PAS kepada Perbadanan Pembangunan Ladang Rakyat (PPLR) ialah 81,095 ekar di jajahan Gua Musang, Kuala Krai, Jeli dan Tanah Merah Kelantan. Daripada jumlah itu 27,649 ekar tanah adalah yang telah majukan (rentah) oleh penduduk tempatan dengan tanaman dusun dan getah.

76,870 ekar tanah telah dipajak oleh PPLR kepada syarikat swasta (atau kita panggil tauke).

Menurut Laporan Ketua Audit Negara, Tauke akan mendapat pulangan bersih setahun sebanyak RM1.621.99 Billion setahun manakala PPLR hanya perolehi pulangan RM420.82 juta untuk 20 tahun (atau RM21 juta setahun).

Peserta Ladang Rakyat yang dipilih pula dapat RM200 sahaja setiap bulan. Peserta tidak dapat pemilikan tanah ataupun keuntungan lain. 639 pekerja adalah warga asing berbanding 282 warga tempatan.

Pencapaian ETP & GTP #BNBagus #Transformasi @BarisanNasional

Posted: 29 Mar 2013 07:00 PM PDT

Situasi Terkini Di Felda Sahabat, Lahad Datu #PrayForSabah

Posted: 29 Mar 2013 06:00 PM PDT

6 Fakta Ini Bakal Buat Guan Eng Panas #SavePenang

Posted: 29 Mar 2013 05:00 PM PDT

Sketsa Hamid Gurkha Ini Bikin Pakatan Pembangkang Panas

Posted: 29 Mar 2013 04:00 PM PDT

Perkembangan Terkini #OpsDaulat : Musuh Kini Tinggal Kurang 10 Orang

Posted: 29 Mar 2013 09:30 AM PDT

LAHAD DATU, 29 Mac (Bernama) -- Selepas 25 hari Operasi Daulat dilancarkan, pasukan keselamatan mengesahkan jumlah musuh kini kurang daripada 10 orang.

Pesuruhjaya Polis Sabah Datuk Hamza Taib berkata angka itu mengambil kira jumlah musuh yang ditembak mati dan ditangkap berbanding bilangan musuh semasa mula bertapak di Kampung Tanduo, 12 Feb lepas iaitu kira-kira 200 orang.

"Saya tidak boleh mengatakan bahawa musuh tidak ada atau sebaliknya...kami yakin musuh memang ada tetapi jumlahnya amat berkurangan, mungkin kurang dari 10 orang," katanya pada sidang akhbar di Markas Operasi di Felda Sahabat 16, dekat sini hari ini.

Sepanjang insiden pencerobohan, pasukan keselamatan menembak mati 68 militan, manakala 121 individu ditahan mengikut Akta Kesalahan Keselamatan (Langkah-Langkah Khas) 2012 (Sosma) dan 443 ditahan atas pelbagai kesalahan lain.

Beliau berkata gerakan ofensif yang disusuli operasi menggeledah dan membersih sehingga kini berjaya membersihkan tiga dari lima kampung yang menjadi lokasi persembunyian dan pertempuran antara pasukan keselamatan dan kumpulan pengganas.

Hamza berkata selepas Kampung Tanduo, Kampung Tanjung Batu dan Kampung Labian dibersihkan, pasukan keselamatan kini memberi tumpuan kepada kawasan Tanjung Bilis dan Lok Buani.

Beliau berkata penduduk Kampung Tanjung Labian akan dibenar pulang selepas ketua-ketua keluarga dan ketua kampung dibawa melawat ke kediaman mereka bersama-sama pasukan penilaian esok.

Bagi penduduk Kampung Tanjung Batu, Hamza berkata seramai 20 hingga 25 penghuni yang rumah mereka tidak mengalami kerosakan teruk akan dibenar pulang ke rumah masing-masing esok, manakala pemilik yang rumahnya musnah dibenar untuk terus tinggal di pusat pemindahan sementara.

Beliau berkata sebagai langkah keselamatan, anggota keselamatan akan terus ditempatkan di kampung berkenaan untuk berkawal dan mendominasi kawasan itu.

"Selain itu kami juga akan melaksanakan khidmat kepolisan lain untuk memulihkan keyakinan penduduk apabila berada di kampung itu," katanya.

-- BERNAMA

Defisit Rm262.04 juta : Bukti Lim Guan Eng Gagal #SavePenang

Posted: 29 Mar 2013 08:41 AM PDT

Prestasi kewangan pusat dipersoal. Ditanya mengenai hutang walaupun jelas ada perubahan positif berlaku, diendahkan. Tetapi, bila prestasi kewangan mereka tak memberangsangkan, didiamkan sahaja. Malah mencanangkan mereka lebih bijak dalam pengurusan kewangan.

Pendapatan isi rumah meningkat #BetterNation #BNBagus

Posted: 29 Mar 2013 02:30 AM PDT

Oleh THOMAS CHONG

pengarang@utusan.com.my

PUTRAJAYA 27 Mac - Pendapatan isi rumah bulanan purata di Malaysia meningkat secara menyeluruh sebanyak 6.6 peratus setahun di bandar dan 6.4 peratus di luar bandar.

Menteri di Jabatan Perdana Menteri, Tan Sri Nor Mohamed Yakcop berkata, Penyiasatan Pendapatan Isi Rumah (PPIR) 2012 menunjukkan peningkatan pendapatan isi rumah bandar daripada RM4,705 pada 2009 kepada RM5,742 pada 2012.

Katanya, pendapatan isi rumah luar bandar pula bertambah daripada RM2,545 kepada RM3,080 dalam tempoh yang sama.

''Ini merupakan petanda kejayaan kerajaan dalam usaha menggalakkan pembinaan landasan ekonomi yang kukuh melalui pelebaran pembangunan di kawasan bandar bagi memenuhi kepesatan urbanisasi yang menempatkan lebih 71 peratus penduduk.

''Peningkatan di luar bandar antara lain disumbangkan melalui usaha Kerajaan Persekutuan dalam menyediakan pelbagai infrastruktur selain penawaran program dan skim yang boleh menjana pendapatan penduduk," katanya ketika mengumumkan hasil PPIR di sini hari ini.

Turut hadir Ketua Perangkawan, Jabatan Perangkaan Malaysia, Dr. Abdul. Rahman Hasan dan Ketua Pengarah EPU, Datuk Dr. Rahanat Bivi Yusoff .

Perdana Menteri, Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak terdahulu mengumumkan pendapatan isi rumah bulanan negara keseluruhannya meningkat secara ketara iaitu daripada RM4,025 pada 2009 kepada RM5,000 pada 2012.

Nor Mohamed berkata, semua negeri mencatatkan peningkatan pendapatan isi rumah purata dengan Kuala Lumpur mempunyai kadar pertumbuhan tertinggi sebanyak 14.9 peratus.

Beliau berkata, banyak negeri termasuk Perlis, Kedah, Perak, Kelantan, Terengganu, Negeri Sembilan, Sabah dan Labuan mencatatkan kadar pertumbuhan mengatasi kadar kebangsaan sebanyak 7.2 peratus.

Dari segi kategori etnik pula, Nor Mohamed berkata, pendapatan isi rumah bulanan bumiputera meningkat 6.9 peratus kepada RM4,457 sebulan manakala Cina dan India meningkat lapan peratus dan sembilan peratus, masing-masing kepada RM6,366 dan RM5,233.

Katanya, Pekali Gini yang diguna untuk mengukur jurang pendapatan mencatatkan pengurangan daripada 0.441 pada 2009 kepada 0.431 pada 2012 sekali gus menunjukkan pengagihan pendapatan kalangan isi rumah yang bertambah baik.

''Pekali Gini bagi bumiputera terus bertambah baik daripada 0.440 (2009) kepada 0.421 (2012) dan Cina bertambah baik daripada 0.425 (2009) kepada 0.422 (2012).

''Pekali Gini bagi kaum India bagaimanapun menunjukkan peningkatan daripada 0.424 (2009) kepada 0.443 (2012) yang mencerminkan peningkatan ketidakseimbangan dalam kaum India.

''Keadaan dalam kaum India ini disebabkan pertumbuhan pendapatan lebih pantas bagi kumpulan berpendapatan tinggi dan sederhana berbanding kumpulan berpendapatan rendah," katanya.

Mengenai kemiskinan, beliau memberitahu, pembangunan sosioekonomi yang menyeluruh membolehkan kemiskinan berkurangan daripada 3.8 peratus pada 2009 kepada 1.7 peratus pada 2012 manakala isi rumah miskin berkurangan 52.7 peratus daripada 228,400 kepada 108,000.

''Dengan pencapaian ini, sasaran Rancangan Malaysia Kesepuluh (RMK-10) untuk mengurangkan kemiskinan keseluruhan kepada dua peratus pada 2015 telah pun tercapai tiga tahun lebih awal,'' katanya.

Malaysia's Najib says economy at risk from weak election result #BetterNation

Posted: 29 Mar 2013 02:00 AM PDT

By Stuart Grudgings

PUTRAJAYA, Malaysia | Wed Mar 27, 2013 2:50am EDT

(Reuters) - Malaysian leader Najib Razak has warned that nascent reforms can't be done "overnight" and that Southeast Asia's third-largest economy risks slipping backwards if he does not win a strong majority in an election he must call within weeks.

Prime minister Najib said a reduced parliamentary majority could weaken his drive to curb Malaysia's budget deficit and raise investment, and even cost him his job.

"A strong government is necessary for us to accelerate the process of transformation in this country," Najib, who is also finance minister, told Reuters.

The election, shaping as the closest in more than 50 years of post-colonial history, must be called by the end of April.

 

"A weak government means instability and uncertainty and a country can ill afford that kind of scenario for the next five years given the external economic situation that's going to be between weak and rather uncertain."

Convincing Malaysians that his government is "transformational", as 59-year-old Najib puts it, is crucial to the ruling coalition's chances.

The ruling National Front is facing a confident opposition alliance led by former deputy prime minister Anwar Ibrahim, who says Najib's reforms have stalled and who is tapping into a potent desire for change after 56 years of rule by a coalition led by the dominant United Malays National Party (UMNO).

Najib's coalition, helped by economic growth that hit 5.6 percent last year and its own deep financial pockets, is favored to win against a fractious three-party opposition. But there is uncertainty over the outcome, helping make Kuala Lumpur's stock index Asia's worst performer this year.

Najib has delayed potentially painful reforms to wean the country off dominant oil revenues and stem rising debt.

He signaled that those steps would not be rushed through even if he formed a stronger government than the one that emerged from the 2008 election, when the National Front lost its two-thirds parliamentary majority for the first time.

"If you try to do it overnight like some countries are doing, there's a massive contraction of theeconomy," he said.

"We cannot afford that. We have to be mildly expansionary in our policies but fiscally responsible," Najib said.

ARAB SPRING COMPARISON

Malaysia's budget deficit fell to 4.5 percent last year from more than 6 percent when Najib took office. Its debt has crept up to around 53 percent of GDP -- close to a self-imposed limit of 55 percent -- from 43 percent in 2008.

Najib has overseen a deluge of handouts to poorer Malaysians in what opposition politicians call thinly disguised vote-buying. Najib counters that the opposition's plans, including free university education, would send the deficit soaring.

"The word 'change' has been abused so many times. As you know with the Arab Spring, there were no dividends," Najib said.

Taking power in 2009, Najib staked his fortunes on reforms aimed at spurring growth, increasing transparency and dismantling policies that favor majority ethnic Malays but which have alienated minority ethnic Chinese and Indians.

His flagship policy is the $444 billion Economic Transformation Programme (ETP), which aims to double per capita incomes to $15,000 by 2020. The ETP has won initial praise from investors, although it remains to be seen if private investment can play as bigger role as hoped.

Najib's reformist ambitions are widely seen as having been curbed by conservative interests within UMNO. He has announced few major steps to roll back ethnic privileges that distort the economy and are seen as favoring the elite.

Najib said that a "vast majority" of government contracts were now awarded through open tenders and that government spending was increasingly based on needs rather than race.

Political pundits expect that an unconvincing election win for Najib will result in a leadership challenge later this year from within UMNO, possibly from his own deputy Muhyiddin Yassin, who is seen by markets as less reform-minded.

(Editing by Paul Tait)

Video Yang Pasti Buat Nik Aziz Gelisah #TukarKelate

Posted: 29 Mar 2013 01:30 AM PDT

Tell us what your idea of a #BetterNation

Posted: 29 Mar 2013 01:00 AM PDT

You dream of a country.
Fair and true.
Progressive and strong.
A nation that works for you as hard as you work for it.
Cares for you as much as you care for it.
Listens to you as well as you listen to it.

You dream of a #BetterNation?

Let's make the #BetterNation.

Rafizi Ramli Terkantoi Lagi #HujahTurunkanHargaMinyak

Posted: 29 Mar 2013 12:30 AM PDT

Najib: Two-thirds majority for BN achievable #PRU13 #GE13 #BNBagus #BetterNation

Posted: 29 Mar 2013 12:00 AM PDT

REMARKABLE ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE: A Barisan Nasional victory will result in unprecedented boom in the stock market

 PRIME Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak is cautiously optimistic that the Barisan Nasional (BN) coalition will attain victory in the general election, which could be called in a matter of days.

In an interview with the Financial Times daily journalist Jeremy Grant at his office in Putrajaya last week, Najib said achieving two-thirds majority was "achievable".

"But I realise that in an election, anything could happen. That's why I say I'm cautiously optimistic.

"Investors are looking for a strong mandate for the current government. If we should, or rather when we get a good result, you will see an unprecedented boom in the stock market. I'm quite confident of that," he said.

Under Najib's leadership, the country had seen a remarkable economic performance, which the International Monetary Fund last year described as having "surpassed expectations".

The economy grew 5.5 per cent, driven by domestic demand and the buoyant exports of commodities such as gas and palm oil.

The daily reported that the country had also benefited from an economic programme introduced by Najib, who is finance minister, which aimed to double per capita income to US$15,000 (RM46,510) by 2020.

Such strong economic reforms have instilled external confidence in the current administration, which saw foreign holdings of Malaysian government bonds jump by 550 per cent to RM215 billion (US$69 billion).

According to the daily, the recent campaign by the Najib-led administration to root out Filipino intruders in Sabah could also give the premier a boost, especially from nationalist-minded voters.

On if he would introduce general sales tax, Najib said: " I will look at the tax structure, definitely, because we need to enhance the revenue base. The government's revenue base has to be predicted on much stronger footing."

Najib took a swipe at the Pakatan Rakyat coalition's economic proposals as contained in its manifesto, which included raising the minimum wage, abolishing monopolies in telecommunications and rice, and removing excise duty on vehicles.

"I think it is too risky to put faith in a coalition that does not have a clear sense of direction that they want to take the country in. They have also presented a manifesto that is not credible," he said, adding that the manifesto would send Malaysia's current account into deficit within a year.

The prime minister said the government was "equally concerned about corruption", adding that the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission was focused.

"Prostitution and corruption are two things that mankind has had to live with for so long, but we are determined to tackle it. It is a scourge. But it is something that will not go away overnight."

On his decision to make changes in Umno's constitution last year making it easier to challenge the leadership, Najib said by doing so, he had made Umno "more democratic, more inclusive".

"Of course, by doing that, I'm putting myself at risk. But I believe that what we're doing is good for the country and good for the party." - NST

Belum Pernah Ditonton: Video Eksklusif Insiden Memali Di Baling

Posted: 28 Mar 2013 11:30 PM PDT