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| Friday, 6-Jun-2008 12:00 |
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Non-Sectarian Politics in Malaysia:
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The Case of Parti Gerakan Rakyat Malaysia
Description:
Since independence, there were a number of non-sectarian parties which have tried to break the narrow communal and religious barriers with limited success. Onn Jaafar, the founding father of UMNO, tried to open up UMNO to all races. However, his noble effort consumed his political career.
In 1968, a political party was created out of the same aspiration. A number of politicians, individuals, community activists, unionists and intellectuals came together to forge an attractive non-sectarian alternative against the entrenched communal ruling coalition.
Parti Gerakan Rakyat Malaysia, in the 1969 general election, gave hope to many that a non-sectarian party can win power. However, the 13th May 1969 race riots and its eventual membership in the communal centric alliance, Barisan Nasional, slowly changed the course of the party.
Proponents of non-sectarian politics especially budding politicians should read this book and take cognisance of the key events, lessons and mistakes made by Gerakan in the last 40 years which led to its eventual undoing.
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| Thursday, 5-Jun-2008 12:00 |
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The Malays: Their Problems and Future
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Publisher : The Other Press
ISBN : 9839541625
Author : Syed Husin Ali
Number of Page(s) : 254
DESCRIPTION
The Malays as an ethnic group has been defined on the basis of both legal-constitutional and historical-cultural factors. While it is difficult to speculate or visualise correctly the future of any country or people, it is possible to provide a general outline of the trends of the past and present, and probably attempt to at least indicate what should be avoided and promoted to ensure a better future.
This is what Dr Syed Husin Ali attempts in this book. In nine chapters, he discusses the Malays and their origin, history, religion, economy, politics and development up to the present day. He connects all of these to the various changes in the forms of modernisation and development programmes which affected, and continue to impact upon, the Malays.
Three decades have passed since the book was first published. During that time many changes have taken place in the country. But the basic problems facing the Malays, contends the writer, have remained the same. The current controversies on the declining power of the Malays, as perceived by some, affirm these problems, and make the book more relevant.
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| Wednesday, 4-Jun-2008 12:00 |
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Malaysia Human Rights Report 2007: Civil and Political Rights
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Publisher : Suaram
ISBN : 9789834407001
Author : Suaram
Number of Page(s) : 237
DESCRIPTION
In this 2007 report, we note that on this 50th year of Malaysia's independence, the state institutions intended to safeguard human rights failed to deliver. The most notable event was the exposure of the corruption in the Malaysian judiciary, with the revelation of a videotape showing the fixing of appointments and promotion of judges. Numerous demonstrations were organised throughout the year, culminating in two massive rallies in November on a scale not seen since the Reformasi era in the late 1990s. Despite harsh suppression of these public assemblies and dissent by the state, the Malaysian people continued to press for reforms, improvements in civil liberties, and the restoration of democracy. The government continued to drag its feet on the most crucial of the 125 recommendations by the Royal Commission to Enhance the Operation and Management of the Royal Malaysian Police, particularly the establishment of the Independent Police Complaints and Misconduct Commission (IPCMC). Draconian laws such as the Internal Security Act (ISA), the Emergency Ordinance (EO) and the Dangerous Drugs Act (DDA) were still used to detain individuals without trial. Other restrictive and repressive laws, including the Police Act, the Printing Presses and Publications Act (PPPA), the Official Secrets Act (OSA) and the Sedition Act were still invoked by the government to suppress dissent and curb basic freedoms of expression, assembly and association. The politicisation of Islam in recent years has also resulted in violations of human rights. 2007 saw cases of persecution of Muslims who chose to renounce Islam or practice religious teachings other than Sunni Islam. The rights of refugees, asylum seekers and migrants were also violated by the government, especially in the use of the People's Volunteer Corps (RELA) as bounty hunters in the crackdown on these vulnerable groups. The SUARAM Human Rights Report on Civil and Political Rights 2007 documents these human rights violations and the unrelenting struggles of human rights defenders to promote democracy and human rights in Malaysia.
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| Tuesday, 3-Jun-2008 12:00 |
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Frontier Encounters
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Indigenous Communities and Settlers in
Publisher : IWGIA
ISBN : 9788791563157
Author : Editor: Danilo Geiger
Number of Page(s) : 554
DESCRIPTION
Poverty and the maldistribution of land in core areas of developing countries, together with state schemes for the colonization of unruly frontiers, have forced indigenous peoples and settlers into an uneasy co-existence.
Presenting material from various Asian and Latin American countries, Frontier Encounters examines factors that make for conflict and accommodation, studies the role of policy frames, and looks at promising mitigation strategies.
The range of topics covered by the articles includes the texture of everyday-relations at the settlement frontier and the reconfiguration of ethnic hierarchies in tune with changing conquest cycles; settler land and resource use strategies; anti-settler riots and their politics; peace accords and what they can and cannot achieve as instruments for halting migration-induced violence; communal land titles as a promising avenue for conflict prevention and the empowerment of weak and defenseless groups; and the need for balancing indigenous rights advocacy with support and legal protection for disenfranchised parts of the settler population.
Danilo Geiger has an M. A. in social anthropology from the University of Zürich, Switzerland and is a lecturer in political anthropology. His experience includes fieldwork in the Philippines and Indonesia and he is currently coordinating a four-year comparative research project on conflicts between indigenous communities and settlers in South and Southeast Asia
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| Monday, 2-Jun-2008 17:18 |
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Keganasan, Penipuan & Internet: hegemoni media daulah pecah
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Publisher : SIRD
ISBN : 9789833782420
Author : Hishamuddin Rais
Number of Page(s) : 292
DESKRIPSI
Buku Keganasan, Penipuan & Internet ini adalah kumpulan tulisan-tulisan Hishamuddin Rais aka Isham yang pernah disiarkan di kolum Surat Tanpa Alamat dalam harian akhbar Oriental Daily berbahasa Mandarin.
Dalam kumpulan ini juga termasuk tulisan kolum Dari Brickfield dalam Berita Keadilan dan Dari Jelebu, blog Isham di Malaysia Today. Setuju 1000% dengan Hisham. Dahlah si tua bangka tu memporakperandakan negara selama 22 tahun, kemudian diwariskannya pula negara ini kepada si lembik yang suka tidur, jahanamlah kita Pekanpahang -22.10.2005
Anyway, aku salute dengan persembahan Hisham dlm tari dan lenggok kritisnya yg terkadang buat kita berfikir sekali lagi walaupun keputusan telah kita buat sebelum ini. Itulah kelebihan dia Dan dia sering berselindung di sebalik kelebihan itu Sadin Marina 1 Februari 2006 Menarik sekali cerita Hisham ini, sungguh kagum dengan sentence ‘…. Ditengah kehebatan pop yeah yeah dan The Beatles..’ Hisham buat apa di kamunting? Jaga atau tetamu? Stephen Bennit 6 Oktober 2006
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Publisher : SIRD
ISBN : 9789833782420
Author : Hishamuddin Rais
Number of Page(s) : 292
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| Sunday, 1-Jun-2008 06:54 |
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i-Witness
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Knowledge Economy in Malaysia: A Columnist's Insights
Author : Jeff Ooi
Publisher : REFSA
Year : 2008
Price: RM30.00 (excluding postage cost)
Description
i-Witness is a compilation of selected articles in Jeff Ooi's columns on Knowledge-based Economy published in Malaysian Business and SURF! between 2002 and 2007. It's a columnist's personal accountof the route taken by Malaysia in embracing K-Economy...lofty ideals, visionary plans, and a generous dose of missed opportunities. Issues discussed - from techpreneurship to cellular telephony, from reforming education to creating New Media - remain omnipresent as the country went through a leadership change from Mahathir to Abdullah. Is it time for market intervention? This book presents antimode scenario that we can no longer ignore.
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| Saturday, 31-May-2008 12:00 |
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Singapore ~ Malaysia Relations: Under Abdullah Badawi
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Author : Saw Swee-Hock & K.Kesavapany
Publisher : ISEAS
Year : 2006
Price: RM55.00 (excluding postage cost)
Description
This book, a project of the ISEAS Malaysia Study Programme, documents the series of important events that have contributed to the warmer relations presently enjoyed by Singapore and Malaysia under Abdullah Badawi. The eight chapters cover background, solving bilateral ties, intensifying official visits, developing people-to-people contacts, deepening public sector economic ties, expanding private sector economic ties, renewing educational and sporting events, and uplifting future relations. Four useful appendices have also been included to provide the opinions of eminent persons on the current state of bilateral relations between the two close neighbours. In an era of rapid globalization and inter-dependence, the two countries have much to gain by maintaining harmonious relations and by strengthening economic cooperation to bring peace and prosperity to their people. The book provides readers, whether businessmen, analysts, politicians, students or policy-makers, with a greater appreciation of recent developments in the bilateral relationship that will have a profound impact on the future direction of the two countries.
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| Friday, 30-May-2008 12:00 |
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Shape of a Pocket
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Author : Jacqueline Ann Surin
Publisher : The Edge Communications Sdn Bhd
Year : 2008
Number of page: 202
Price: RM25.00 (excluding postage cost)
Dedcription
This book is a compilation of award-winning journalist Jacqueline Ann Surin’s fortnightly column in theSun newspaper which she wrote from mid-April, 2005 to the end of January, 2008 ; four previously spiked columns; and two news commentaries. Thoughtful, provocative and sincere, the selection of 59 essays examines, in unstinting fashion, the issues of Islam, democracy, the media, rights and identity in contemporary Malaysia.
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| Thursday, 29-May-2008 12:00 |
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Sharing the Nation :
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Sharing the Nation : Faith, Difference and the State 50 Years After Merdeka
Author : Norani Othman, Mavis C. Puthucheary & Clive S. Kessler
Publisher : SIRD
Year : 2008
Number of page: 99
Price: RM20.00 (excluding postage cost)
Description
Malaysia, nation, independence and its Constitution are grounded upon the political bargaining process and ensuing social contract? that made them possible. Yet two major questions central to the Merdeka process?
First, what exactly were the terms, and what is now the current standing and force, of that social contract? Still blurred and ill-understood after fifty years of national independence, the answers to this question remain central to the life of the nation.
Second, under the independence Constitution that rests upon what has become retrospectively known as the nation social contract?, what specifically was the agreed constitutional position of Islam? What was the mutually accepted religion and society status quo? that the Constitution, its framers and the parties consenting to its adoption sought to establish?
Did those understandings establish Malaysia as an Islamic state or indirectly permit it to evolve into, or even encourage its development as, an Islamic state? Or did they seek to preclude that direction of development?
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| Wednesday, 28-May-2008 12:00 |
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Malaysian Chinese and Nation-building:
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Malaysian Chinese and Nation-building: Before Merdeka and Fifty Years After (Volume 1) - Softcover
Author : Edited by Voon Phin Keong
Publisher : Centre For Malaysian Chinese Studies
Year : 2007
Number of page: 406
Price: RM60.00 (excluding postage cost)
Description
The primary purpose of this book is to examine the contributions of the Malaysian Chinese community in nation-building. Attention is focused principally on the post-independence period but with justified emphasis on the earlier era that constituted the formative stage of the country as a political state.
The areas and extent of Chinese contributions are multi-faceted. The present study deals with the more crucial areas that determine the vigour and durability of the Malaysian nation-state. These are identified as the economic, political and cultural aspects of life that combine to make what it is today and that will have a profound influence on its future prospects. Volume one is divided into three parts, namely, introduction, historical background, and economic perspective. Volume two will deal with nation-building from the political and cultural perspective.
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