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proper education
FULL TRANSCRIPT AT THE LAUNCHING OF THE MAHATHIR–THATCHER CHAIR IN STATECRAFT AND IN AUGURATION CHAIR LECTURE THEMED THE WORLD NOWADAYS: ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL TURMOIL
UNIVERSITY OF SARAJEVO SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (SSST), 21 JUNE 2023
Firstly, I would like to say thank you to the University of Sarajevo School of Science and Technology for naming this chair - Mahathir-Thatcher Chair in Statecraft, with my name as well as that of Mrs. Margaret Thatcher. We were Prime Ministers at the same time and my relation with Margaret Thatcher is one of love-hate I would say. Because initially I was very much opposed to her and we had a problem with Britain, which resulted in Malaysia declaring to Buy British Last. As a result of the policy announcement, Mrs. Thatcher met me in London and subsequently making amends by offering scholarships for Malaysian students in the UK.
But in any case, we did not carry on with the Buy British Last for very long. We established good relations with the UK, which used to be our colonial masters. We were under British rule for quite a long time, and under British rule they introduced English language and English schools so that many of us are able to speak English quite fluently. So even after we became independent, we still make use of English as our second language. So that was how I got to know Mrs. Thatcher. And I think relationship at the end of a period as Prime Minister was good and continues to be good. Now that is about Malaysia and the United Kingdom.
I think you may notice that we live in a world in a state of turmoil of today. Today instead of getting the peace that the Second World War was fought for, the hope that war should not be fought anymore, that people would live in peace. But as you know, we failed. Today there is a war. There is a war between Russia and Ukraine. There are little wars in very many places, some of which were proxy wars. Wars fought not because of the countries involved wanting to fight wars, but because they were urged, they were encouraged to have conflicts with other nations and the result of such conflicts were small wars, proxy wars. And proxy wars are useful for people who sell weapons. So that is the failure of the Second World War.
But today, as I said just now, we live in a state of turmoil. We now have a population; the world population now is 8 billion people. And with so many people on earth, we are finding that governments cannot be effective anymore. People do not accept governance. They challenge the government, they take to the streets, they demonstrate, they have strikes, and sometimes of course there are civil wars fought because people cannot accept governments the way they used to in the past.
We also find that this huge numbers of people and the ease of travel, as well as the porosity of borders, has resulted in many people migrating. Europe is receiving millions of migrants from Arab countries, from African countries, and also from Asian countries. And this has posed many problems for Europe. Where Europe was once a birthplace of the Europeans, it was known as Christendom. But today there are many communities in all the European countries, communities who are of different faith. There are a lot of Muslims living in European countries now. There are a lot of people of other religions including Hindus, Buddhists and the like. In fact, today we have a Hindu Prime Minister of England, of the UK. That was something never expected before. But such is the result of migration that countries now have become multiracial like Malaysia. Malaysia as you know is a multiracial country. The indigenous people were the Malays. They now make up about 60% of the population. 40% of the population is made up of Chinese and Indians and many other races.
So, in the future we see migration taking place to other countries so that most countries would also be multiracial like Malaysia. And this, of course, poses many political problems. That is what has happened because of the increase in population numbers around the world. We have now 8 billion people. That's the first problem.
The next problem is climate change. We are witnessing climate change throughout the world. We see in many places snow falling. In other places the temperature may go up even up to 50 degrees centigrade. These mean that we need to adjust ourselves to climate change. We have tsunamis, a word that was not known before, a Japanese word, now commonly spoken in other languages. And the tsunamis can destroy huge cities. It happened in 2004 when the tsunami hit the island of Sumatra and a little portion of Malaysia. Tsunamis are not the only problems that come with climate change. High temperatures to very low temperatures. We see earthquakes as happened in Turkey and Syria recently with 50,000 people killed in the earthquake. We have a lot of volcanoes now which are erupting in many places in the Canary Islands, Philippines, in Indonesia, and in many other places where before there was stability and no eruption. So, climate change is going to affect a lot of us. It may affect our food supply even, because in many cases the growing of food becomes difficult because of very high temperature or very cold temperature. So, climate change is something that has affected the world, the whole world. And we are not prepared yet to deal with the changes in the climate.
And then of course, is tendency for people to go to war. After the Second World War and the dropping of the atom bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, we thought that people now know that wars can destroy the whole world, not just the warring nations. Apparently, we have not learnt to avoid wars and now we see a war being fought between East and West basically but in the form of war between Ukraine and Russia. There is also an attempt to provoke war in Southeast Asia, in East Asia, between the Chinese and probably the Americans because of Taiwan. So, we are not free from the threat of war and we have to learn how to deal with this problem which has affected our food supply, cost of living, etc.
Of course, now we have a problem with the economies of countries. Many people are suffering today from this economy, partly because of the climate change and the pandemic. The pandemic is another problem that the world is facing. Now for the first time the world has to face attacks by a virus throughout the world. And this virus can easily spread around the world because people nowadays can travel very quickly. At one time before to travel from China to Malaysia would take about three months or even more. And very frequently the ships did not arrive because of storms and other disasters. But today, in three hours you can travel from Kunming to Kuala Lumpur. And because of the speed of travel and the frequency of travels, there were great numbers of tourists crossing borders. If they carry diseases with them, very quickly the disease will spread throughout the world. And this is what happened with the COVID-19 problem. The disease has spread throughout the world. But the world, as I said, is not prepared to deal with these common problems, common to all countries. So we are living in a world that is so connected, so easily accessed, but on the other hand we are not able to control the environment in which we live in so much so that a pandemic like COVID-19 can cause millions of people to die.
And then we have the climate change, and we have the increase in population, which affects all these states, affects the economies and the trade between nations. And without the economy growing, and without trade, countries will all suffer. So, this is what we are seeing happening to the world today.
The United Nations should really be dealing with all the problems of the world. Unfortunately, the United Nations is not able to function properly because five countries have veto powers. And veto powers mean one single veto power can deny the rights of 190 members of the United Nations. So, there is a need now to set up an international organisation, some kind of world organisation that will deal with common problems faced by the world. Of course, internal problems can be dealt with by the countries themselves, but international problems, common problems of the world should be dealt with by a world authority. Maybe a modified version of the United Nations or maybe a world government, a new world government. And all this happened because we are still divided between countries. Some are rich, some are very poor, and because they are poor, they are less able to manage the changes surrounding us as are the rich people. Thus, when the pandemic broke, a vaccine was developed but the poor were not able to get access to vaccine for a long time and this means that control or attempts to reduce the spread of the disease was not very successful.
So, we are living in a very troubled world and we need to learn how to live together. We are all neighbours. For example, Bosnia-Herzegovina may be thousands of miles away from Malaysia. We used to think of Europe as very far from Malaysia, but the speed of travel and the ease of travel has made us actually our near neighbours. And as neighbours, what happens to one country may affect the neighbouring countries as well. And that is why we have a need to have better organisation, better understanding between the countries of the world so that when we have common problems, we can solve the common problems together with the wealth of the rich reaching out also to the poor countries.
So that is what I see after being involved in politics in Malaysia for the past 70 years and I think we have not learned much from our experience and failures. There is a saying by an American philosopher, George Santayana, who says that - those who forget the lessons of history are condemned to repeat their mistakes over and over again. And we see today we have not learned from the disasters caused by two world wars which killed millions of people. We are still preparing for wars and fighting wars. And we don't see the powerful nations learning any lesson from the past. They still wish to dominate and they sometimes get very violent and use their military strength to oppress other countries. Thus, we saw what happened to Iraq for example, because the Iraqis were not democratic America decided to change the regime by invading Iraq, by killing Saddam Hussein. But yet after a war which lasted only three months, it has gone to ten years and still the problems of Iraq are not over yet. So war is not a solution to the conflicts that we see in this world. We need to build up forces that will advocate war as a crime and that we should avoid wars because wars have not solved any of our problems that assail many parts of the world. So I think I will stop there. I believe there will be questions? Thank you.
Question from the floor:
Firstly, I want to thank you for the lecture it was very useful and gave us a lot of information about the situation in today's world. Right here, I have your book, New Deal for Malaysia. When I was in high school, I thought the professor had this book, and I asked him to have a copy. So, he couldn't give me the original book, but he gave me this book and I copied that in the copy store. And here, I want to ask you, in the first couple of pages, you said something very important. And for me, this is very beneficial. So maybe I can ask you to explain a little bit what you have written. I don't know when, maybe in 2000, this is published here in Bosnia. So here you wrote that a stable family, a good education, and good religious background is the best standard to build a powerful and sustainable society. And you also here wrote that your mother had a good religious education and she taught you about the Quran. You had a very good religious teacher that came to your home and taught you about religious scriptures and Quran and that helped you in the future and helped you in your career as a doctor and as a politician. So can you explain the connection between religion, economy and building a sustainable society, especially today, because I think today we have a lot of turmoil and we have a lot of hostile attitudes towards religion in the 21st century. And for me, this is very interesting when I read about this.
Answer by Dr Mahathir:
Well, education and religion used to shape us all. We follow different religions, of course, and we get education which enables us to tackle many problems that face humanity. And with education, especially in the sciences, we have seen a lot of progress being made. Nowadays, communication is such that one can talk to anyone across the world immediately without any interference with operators and lines being occupied, etc. Just inside our pocket we carry a broadcasting station and a receiving station. Where before to broadcast you need a big establishment with many sophisticated equipment etc. But today with our mobile phone we can talk to anyone, anywhere and we can broadcast. I can broadcast now even to the rest of the world just through my telephone. So, we have made tremendous progress due to education.
All the time there would be research to find new ways of doing things and the absorption, the spread of knowledge has made the world much more progressive, has tackled many problems of the world.
Unfortunately, the stress is now only on acquiring knowledge. Of course, religion in many places has now receded. People no longer have faith in religion. What we see is a collapse of beliefs in religion to the extent where our moral values now have been affected. Not so much among Muslims but among Christians we see the rejection of Christian ethics. For example, in many of the developed countries in the West, marriage is no longer an institution. People do not get married and they can live together without being formally married and they can change as they like without formal divorce, without any legality. So that is the attitude in the West about marriage.
And now, of course, they have gone as far as to have marriages between people of the same sex, men marrying men, women marrying women. Now if this continues at that rate, the population will decrease because men cannot produce children and women needs men to produce children. If this new culture spreads throughout the West, their numbers would decrease. And indeed, the birth rate in many of the Western countries has diminished so much that the growth rate of 1% is normal in the very advanced countries like Sweden. Also, we find it has spread to the east. Korea for example is experiencing zero growth. The number of children being born is less than the number of people dying. So, if it goes on that that way the population will decrease in volume.
We hope that Muslims do not adopt these new ethics because if we do, we too would diminish. We are created in order to procreate the human race. For that there are men and women. God has created us as men and women so we can procreate, we can add to the numbers of people. But if they do not marry, if they live apart, if they have marriages between men and men, women and women, then the procreation process would be diminished and the numbers of new births would be less than the numbers of the people dying. So, if actually this happens, the human race will not grow.
At the moment, as I said just now, there are 8 billion people in this world. But unfortunately, the rich countries are the countries where the growth is minimal. But the poor countries are where most of the growth are taking place. Now you see the world divided into rich and poor. And when there is problems in the poor countries, they would want to migrate to the rich countries. This is what is happening today.
So, we need to rethink about our moral values. We have to rethink about the teachings of religion because religion gives us the value system that enables this world to progress and develop. But without religion, with just being atheists, not believing in any kind of religion, we may face the problem that the population of the rich countries would diminish and they would then become poor and the population of the poor countries would increase and they would migrate to the rich countries. This will result in all countries of the world becoming multiracial and as I said just now, we are not good at dealing with multiracial population.
So, this is why we need to understand to have proper education, not only about acquiring knowledge, but also in the building of the character of the people with the knowledge. If you have knowledge, but know you have your character is wrong, you may abuse the knowledge and as a result society would suffer.
On the other hand, of course if we have the teachings of morals promoted in the schools even in the universities then people will be more balanced and not follow just their own free will, assuming that they want to have freedom all the time, then we will have problem with human society. Thank you.
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titah
Tuanku Kedah dah berbunyi.. Johor juga turuti...kina Perak juga sudah perli.. baik hal Negara mahupun Negeri.. Perak yg dikasihi.... pic.twitter.com/GGWJJQQJhA
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tari lato-lato
Ekonomi tengah teruk, ringgit jatuh, inflasi tinggi, dia boleh ada masa buat benda2 gini 🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️ pic.twitter.com/eN9Q2xWxYw
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Sunday, 18 June 2023
dIALOG LATO LATO
Rakyat : Apa polisi ekonomi ? PM: Kita tidak akan mengizinkan rasuah. RAKYAT : Ringgit kita jatuh? PM: Kita akan banteras rasuah. Rakyat : Pasaran saham merundum? PM : Kita akan lawan rasuah. Rakyat : Harga barang keperluan meningkat? PM: Rasuah sudah sistemik, mesti dihapuskan. Rakyat :Tokoh- tokoh politik pembangkang bertemu? PM: Mereka marahkan saya kerana saya melawan rasuah. Rakyat : Pendidikan percuma? PM : Kita kena selamatkan negara daripada rasuah Rakyat : Jom tilawah Quran? PM : Hapuskan resyuah Rakyat : Itu TPM Datuk Seri ada 48 kes rasuah? PM : mmmm..errrr…mmmm..saya ulaanggg! Hari ini saya naik, esok harga minyak turuuunn…tanpa rasuah. Jadi ketua pembangkang pongpang pongpang usung nombor... jadi PM, pongpang pongpang tapi lupa dia usung tokoh rasuah...
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cerita sanusi
SPM: Keputusan SPM saya kurang baik berbanding best student kelas saya Dr Fatimah Hj Mat Amin. Dia 15 (P1) saya 27 (P2). Tetapi saya bersyukur kerana keputusan itu pun telah melebihi usaha saya sendiri. Saya kurang mengayuh, berharap kepada lajak sahaja. Di laluan berbukit saya tuntun saja...
Saya diberhentikan daripada sekolah berasrama penuh pada pertengahan tingkatan empat, diberi peluang menyambung persekolahan di SM Sik. Ada satu saja kelas aliran sains, pelajar lebih kurang 30 orang.
Saya lebih banyak 'bersastera' belajar tentang kehidupan di luar daripada kurikulum subjek asas di sekolah. Saya berkawan dengan brader penjual burger depan sekolah, Abg Art roti canai murtabak di Pekan Sik, Tajul tauke Family Fried Chicken (Dato' Mohd Tajuddin Abdullah), dan ramai peniaga pasar malam.
Ada subjek yang tidak dapat masuk kepala sama sekali seperti matematik tambahan (Cikgu Suaidi Saad) dan fizik. Yang saya ingat tentang fizik hanyalah Cikgu Hajjah Noraini
. Kimia pulak saya ingat Cikgu Zainal Abidin (Cikgu Non) dan Biologi saya ingat Cikgu Hj Yusof Desa (Allahyarham).
. Kimia pulak saya ingat Cikgu Zainal Abidin (Cikgu Non) dan Biologi saya ingat Cikgu Hj Yusof Desa (Allahyarham). Saya minat subjek geografi dan Cikgu Miskin Raboo, isterinya Cikgu Hjh Jamnah Pairan (BM). Sir Prasad mengajar bahasa Inggeris, Ust Abdul Hapis (Ust Ramli Hj Ibrahim) mengajar Agama Islam. Cikgu Azizah, Cikgu Asri ( matematik moden) Cikgu Hjh Najmi, Cikgu Ghazali Hashim (Allahyarham)... semua cikgu ada jasa masing-masing.
Semasa cuti penggal untuk ke tingkatan lima, saya ikut rakan sekampung bekerja awak-awak bot bilis di Taman Intan Sg Petani. Saya bertahan 2 minggu sahaja tidur berak atas bot bilis. Awak-awak bot bilis ramai yang hisap ganja dan main kad. Saya takut merosakkan diri jika lebih lama di situ, saya minta berhenti. Tolak duit yang dah pinjam $50, baki tinggal $34. Sehari -$7.00 saja.
Kemudian saya jadi buruh binaan di Tanah Liat, menumpang rumah sewa kawan di Kubang Semang. Berjalan kaki menyusur landasan keretapi dengan Hamid Panjang, jadi capkang membancuh simen, angkut bata, tarik timba simen naik ke tingkat dua sebuah banglo cina. Umur saya 16 tahun.
Hari Ahad cuti, saya ikut taukey cina itu ke kilang, angkut sampah dan cuci setor. Dia jadi vendor kilang pakaian sukan jenama Reebok, bawa balik pakaian siap untuk dimasukkan ke dalam bungkusan. "Ini barang untuk hantar luar negeri saja ooo." kata taukey. Saya menitik air liur teringinkan track suit berjenama itu.
Saya masuk semula ke tingkatan lima agak lambat kerana asyik bekerja jadi buruh. Sewaktu di tingakatan lima, saya ikut pula Zaharin budak kelas lima sastera bekerja dengan Tajul (Dato' Tajuddin Abdullah) pada hari Isnin, Rabu, Khamis dan Jumaat berniaga ayam goreng.
Jam 4 petang sudah beroperasi di pasar malam - Sik, Kupang, Bukit Selambau, Yan dan Jeniang. Jam 12 baru sampai ke rumah sewa. Masa mana saya belajar hal-hal dalam buku sekolah? Mungkin suku saja alam persekolahan saya berada di sekolah. Selebih saya mencelupkan diri dalam semua persekitaran di luar. Ramu serba serbi, jadi serba boleh sekadar serba sikit.
Saya masuk belajar semula di tingkatan enam di Sek Men Derma, Kangar Perlis. Itu saja kelayakan terbaik SPM saya. Kali ini lebih fokus tetapi tidak 100%.
Dunia luar sekolah saya alih kepada aktiviti ko-kurikulum pula - sukan olahraga, ragbi, forum remaja, nasyid, ketua pengawas asrama, surau, mengenal budaya dan berkawan rakan pula. Ada satu hari saja sepanjang hampir dua tahun di tingkatan enam itu saya tidak tertidur dalam kelas - 21 April 1993. Tarikh tunggal itu kekal dalam ingatan menjadi sejarah.
STPM saya cukup makan saja untuk masuk U. Saya tidak pernah cemerlang dalam subjek apa sekalipun, semuanya biasa-biasa saja melainkan subjek Bahasa Melayu yang saya kekal dapat 'A' sewaktu SPM dan STPM. Selain BM, saya kuasai sedikit subjek geografi, sejarah dan pengajian am. Ekonomi setakat lulus Principle E saja.
Di universiti pun saya aktif berpersatuan, memimpin pertubuhan dan kelab mahasiswa, banyak aktiviti luar bilik kuliah. Semua kertas kursus lulus, tidak corot tidak juga top. Kursus Statistik dan Kaedah-kaedah Penyelidikan (Dr Tiun Ling Ta) saja saya terpaksa mengulang di semester 3, bersama ramai pelajar lain. Itu kes biasa. Akhirnya bergraduasi juga.
Kita dibina oleh jalan yang kita lalui, apa yang kita tekuni dan kita sambillewakan. Semua itu adalah mata pelajaran untuk menempuh dan membina masa depan. Serba serbi serba boleh serba sikit pun mampu jadi bekal hidup yang baik walaupun tiada deretan A pada sijil peperiksaan.
Jika ada deretan A juga bersama pengalaman lain tentulah lebih baik. Tapi deretan A sahaja tanpa adunan rempah ratus dari luar kelas serba sikit itu akan menjadikan kita gagal memahami istilah 'bodoh-bodoh' dalam konteks ia diungkapkan. Lalu kita menjadi pandai-pandai dalam dunia kita sendiri saja.
Adik-adik yang dapat result SPM kelmarin saya ucapkan selamat menempuh kehidupan. Keputusan yang cemerlang dalam peperiksaan harus berhubung jalin dengan kehidupan sebenar.
Kepada yang kurang cemerlang, jangan putus asa, SPM bukan penamatnya, ia baru bermula. Kita masih punya waktu menganyam masa depan kita sepanjang laluan. Belajar adalah proses sepanjang hayat, bukan di sekolah sahaja. Cuma dalam dunia hari ini, kita perlu pantas, tidak boleh culas, bukan sekadar bangun tapi bingkas!
Akhir sekali, Allah swt lah yang menyusun hidup kita, menentukan segalanya, kita hanya menjalani dengan ihktiar usaha dan doa...
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tanah melayu
TANAH MELAYU
TANAH MELAYU
1. Jika kita teliti sejarah orang Melayu, kita terpaksa akui bahawa sepanjang zaman tanah air orang Melayu merosot kawasannya.
2. Demikian apabila British mengada perjanjian dengan Siam di Bangkok pada tahun 1909, empat buah negeri Melayu, iaitu Patani, Singgora, Menara dan Yala di selatan Siam, diserah kepada Siam.
3. Pihak British mendakwa bahawa Kedah, Perlis, Kelantan dan Terengganu diletak di bawah naungan British.
4. Perjanjian ini dibuat oleh British tanpa rundingan dengan raja-raja Melayu di negeri-negeri berkenaan. Tidak ada laporan berkenaan pandangan Raja-Raja Melayu terhadap perjanjian ini.
5. Maka terhilanglah sebahagian dari Tanah Melayu.
6. Di selatan pula terdapat Kepulauan Riau yang menjadi sebahagian dari negeri Johor. Apabila Belanda menyerang dan menjajah kepulauan yang sekarang dikenali sebagai Indonesia, mereka menawan juga Kepulauan Riau.
7. Johor tidak membantah kerana Belanda terlalu kuat. Maka kepulauan Riau menjadi wilayah Indonesia apabila negara itu merdeka dan semua wilayah yang ditawan oleh Belanda diiktiraf sebagai sebahagian dari Indonesia.
8. Maka terhilanglah Kepulauan Riau sebagai sebahagian dari Tanah Melayu.
9. Pada 1819 British membeli pulau Singapura atau Temasek dari Temenggung Johor, dengan harga dolar Sepanyol sebanyak 60,000. Menjadi amalan biasa apabila kuasa Eropah menamatkan penaklukan wilayah takluk mereka selepas perang dunia kedua wilayah berkenaan dikembalikan kepada negara asalnya. Dengan perkataan lain Singapura hendaklah dikembali kepada Johor, satu daripada negeri Tanah Melayu.
10. Semasa British menjajah Singapura, ramai orang bangsa Cina dan India diterima masuk sebagai pemastautin tetap. Akhirnya hampir seluruh pulau Singapura diduduki dan dimiliki oleh orang Cina.
11. Pentadbiran kolonial British akui bahawa Singapura adalah sebahagian dari Tanah Melayu. Seperti yang disebut di atas apabila penaklukan British tamat, wilayah yang dijajah oleh mereka, diserah balik kepada negara asal wilayah berkenaan.
12. Itulah niat British dan itulah juga kehendak Malaysia. Oleh itu apabila penjajahan tamat, Singapura kembali menjadi sebahagian dari Tanah Melayu.
13. Malangnya penduduk Cina Singapura menimbulkan masalah politik dalam negara Malaysia yang baru didirikan. Mereka tidak bersetuju dengan syarat-syarat kemerdekaan Malaysia, iaitu keistimewaan bagi penduduk asal Tanah Melayu, iaitu orang Melayu. Mereka tuntut hak sama rata dengan orang Melayu.
14. Berhadapan dengan masalah ini, pemerintah Malaysia yang merdeka memutus untuk pisahkan Singapura dari Malaysia dan mengiktiraf Singapura sebagai negara bebas.
15. Dengan itu hilanglah sebahagian lagi dari Tanah Melayu. Semua kehilangan kawasan Tanah Melayu berlaku tanpa apa-apa bantahan oleh orang Melayu atau raja-raja mereka.
16. Sekarang Tanah Melayu sudah jadi amat kecil. Ia terhad kepada semenanjung ini sahaja. Negeri-negeri yang masih ada ialah Perlis, Kedah, Perak, Kelantan, Terengganu, Selangor, Negeri Sembilan Pahang dan Johor.
17. Wilayah yang dahulu ditakluk oleh British iaitu Melaka dan Pulau Pinang kembali menjadi sebahagian dari Tanah Melayu.
18. Ini sahajalah yang tinggal sebagai Tanah Melayu sekarang. Tetapi walaupun masih dikenali sebagai Tanah Melayu, sebenarnya tidak banyak lagi tanah Melayu yang dimiliki oleh orang Melayu.
19. Sebabnya di zaman British terutamanya, ramai orang asing berhijrah ke Tanah Melayu. Orang Melayu tidak bantah walaupun pada satu masa jumlah orang asing lebih ramai dari orang Melayu. Mereka yang datang dari negara China dan India, meringankan beban orang Melayu kerana mereka bersedia membuat kerja-kerja yang berat, kotor dan merbahaya yang tidak sanggup dibuat oleh orang Melayu sendiri.
20. Pendatang asing ini juga mengadakan perniagaan dan perusahaan yang memperkayakan Tanah Melayu. Tumpuan orang Melayu ialah kepada jawatan bergaji Kerajaan. Jawatan-jawatan tinggi dalam Kerajaan dipegang oleh orang Melayu.
21. Setelah pendatang asing tinggal lama di Tanah Melayu maka mereka pun diberi kerakyatan. Sebagai rakyat Tanah Melayu kuasa politik pun diperolehi oleh mereka.
22. Tetapi orang asing ini tidak dapat taraf kerakyatan sama rata dengan orang Melayu kerana mereka kekalkan kaitan mereka dengan negara asal mereka. Namun mereka menguasai ekonomi dan kekayaan yang dapat mempengaruhi politik negara.
23. Di Tanah Melayu tidak ada sekatan terhadap siapa sahaja dalam pemilikan tanah. Setelah menjadi kaya banyaklah tanah yang dibeli oleh puak pendatang dan keturunan mereka.
24. Menjual tanah menjadi punca pendapatan orang Melayu. Tanah, jika tidak dijual akan kekal selama-lamanya. Tetapi jika dijual, duit yang didapati tidak kekal. Duit akan habis apabila dibelanja.
25. Jadi apabila tanah dijual dan duit yang didapati habis dibelanja, penjual tanah akan jadi lebih miskin. Tidak ada yang boleh dijual selain dari tenaga yang ada di tubuh badan.
26. Pilihan yang ada pada orang yang miskin ialah dengan menjual tenaga sebagai pekerja buruh atau menjadi pengemis yang meminta-minta. Jika tidak sanggup bekerja dan dengan itu menjadi pengemis, kehidupan di dunia tentulah amat menekan.
27. Tak perlulah dijelas apa nasib pengemis. Agak terlalu lewat untuk mengembalikan tanah yang dahulu dimiliki oleh orang Melayu.
DR MAHATHIR BIN MOHAMAD
12 Jun 2023
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keterlaluan
Dr. M sifatkan keterlaluan tuduh Sanusi
lakukan jenayah berkaitan P. Pinang
KUALA LUMPUR – Adalah melampau untuk menuduh Menteri Besar Kedah, Datuk Seri Muhammad Sanusi Md Nor melakukan jenayah berhubung dakwaannya bahawa Pulau Pinang milik Kedah.
Bekas Perdana Menteri, Tun Dr. Mahathir berkata, daripada segi sejarah terdapat bukti bahawa Inggeris telah membayar Sultan Kedah selepas mengambilalih wilayah tersebut.
“Saya tidak mahu terlibat dalam kontroversi Pulau Pinang. Tetapi mencadangkan Sanusi, Menteri Besar Kedah melakukan jenayah kerana memberikan pandangannya tentang sejarah pulau itu adalah keterlaluan.
“Dari segi sejarah, Sultan Kedah berkenan supaya Syarikat Hindia Timur Inggeris mengambil alih pulau itu dengan bayaran 6,000 dolar Sepanyol setahun. Kemudian jalur daratan bertentangan telah ditambah untuk 4,000 dolar Sepanyol setahun.
“Selain itu perjanjian tersebut memerlukan syarikat British membantu dalam pertahanan Kedah sekiranya diserang oleh negara asing. Kita tahu bahawa British gagal untuk menghormati kata-kata mereka.,” menurut Mahathir.
Tambah beliau, ketika menjadi Perdana Menteri buat kali kedua pada 2018 beliau telah meminta Menteri Kewangan ketika itu Lim Guan Eng untuk memberi bayaran sebanyak RM10,000 setahun.
“Saya tidak akan berkata apa-apa tentang apa yang berlaku kepada dua wilayah Tanah Melayu ini kecuali mengakui bahawa saya memujuk Guan Eng sebagai Menteri Kewangan untuk memberi lebih RM10,000 kepada Kedah setiap tahun. Saya tidak meminta sesiapa untuk mempercayai saya.
“Perjanjian berkenaan penyerahan Singapura adalah berbeza. Ia jelas merupakan jualan secara terus. British membuat bayaran sekali sahaja sebanyak 60,000 dolar Sepanyol kepada Temenggong.
“Perlu diingat bahawa Sultan Ali, sultan pada masa itu tidak menandatangani. Beliau dianugerahkan sebuah rumah di Kampung Gelam di Singapura. Kemurahan hati ini tidak disertai dengan pengiktirafan British terhadap Ali sebagai sultan.
“Perbezaan antara perjanjian Pulau Pinang dan perjanjian Singapura adalah jelas,” kata Mahathir.
Polis Pulau Pinang sebelum ini mengesahkan telah menerima empat laporan berkaitan Muhammad Sanusi berhubung dakwaannya bahawa negeri tersebut milik Kedah.
Ketua Polis Pulau Pinang, Datuk Khaw Kok Chin berkata, kes tersebut kini sedang disiasat oleh Unit Siasatan Jenayah Terkelas (USJT) Bukit Aman.
“Adalah disahkan empat laporan polis telah diterima berkaitan Muhammad Sanusi berhubung dakwaan Pulau Pinang milik Kedah.
“Kes disiasat mengikut Seksyen 505(b) Kanun Keseksaan dan Akta Komunikasi dan Multimedia (AKMM) 1998 oleh USJT Jabatan Siasatan Jenayah (JSJ) Bukit Aman,” katanya dalam satu kenyataan pada Selasa.
Pada 29 Mei lalu, Muhammad Sanusi dilaporkan berkata, Kedah dan Pulau Pinang tidak ada sempadan kerana Pulau Pinang masih hak Kedah dan beliau mendakwa Kedah hanya mempunyai sempadan dengan Perak dan Perlis.
Sehubungan itu, Pengerusi DAP, Lim Guan Eng menggesa seluruh rakyat Malaysia khususnya penduduk Pulau Pinang bangkit menyatakan bantahan terhadap Muhammad Sanusi berhubung kenyataannya itu. – MalaysiaGazette
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