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TJ MT MGG: Persidangan Melayu Yang Pramasa By M.G.G. Pillai 11/1/2001 10:54 am Thu |
MGG1001 [Terasa begitu indah dan lembut rencana yang bisa ini. Ia MESTI DIBACA
kerana iramanya yang indah itu pasti akan membuat pihak yang terkena insaf
dan kembali kepangkal jalan seandainya mereka empunya telinga dan hati yang
terbuka. Sejarah membuktikan Mahathir dan UMNO lebih banyak lari dari ikhlas bertemu.
Dan publisiti asyik digendang tetapi perjumpaan yang diharapkan tidak pula
menjadi realiti. Dia mengoyakkan PAS dari UMNO, setelah menusnah PAS di
Kelantan sedangkan dulunya dia meminjam PAS untuk bersuara. Dia juga
meminjam Anwar untuk menjadi juara. Dan kali ini Suqui dipinjam untuk
menang percuma. Tetapi rakyat sudah kenal dengan putar alamnya dan bagaimana
dia sanggup mencederakan sesiapa dengan kejamnya dengan tindakan dan
dengan suara. Dia sebenarnya maharaja kerala yang berpura-pura melayu.
sejak dulu. Dan kini dia cuba lagi mengganggu, tetapi semua orang sudah pun
tahu melainkan yang dungu. - Editor ]
(MGG Chiaroscuro: Malay Meeting premature)
Timbalan Perdana Menteri, Abdullah Ahmad, mahukan debat ketua pemuda
PAS-UMNO dibatalkan. Dia takut isu yang dibincangkan dalam debat itu akan
menggugat pertemuan di atara tiga orang presiden yang mengetuai UMNO, PAS
dan Keadilan. Itulah satu saranan yang sepatutnya tidak dilakukan.
Di antara tiga parti yang disebut itu, UMNO memang terlalu ghairah mahukan
pertemuan itu sebagai satu usaha menonjolkan imej kepimpinan yang tersohor
di kalangan masyarakat Melayu. Tetapi saranan Abdullah itu menyerlahkan
betapa samarnya pendapat beliau dan juga UMNO menegenai apa yang disebut
sebagai perpaduan Melayu itu. Perpaduan Melayu sebenarnya jauh berbeza
daripada apa yang difikirkan oleh para pemimpinnya.
Memang Abdullah tersilap menegah Hishamuddin Hussein membatalkan debat itu.
Alasannya bahawa debat akan mencetuskan isu yang mungkin menggugat
pertemuan tiga orang presiden itu memang tidak boleh diterima-pakai.
Masalah perpaduan memang tidak boleh diselesaikan tanpa perdebatan dan
perbincangan. Ia difikirkan tidak bersesuaian dalam suasana politik yang
hangat. Tetapi kalau lebih kerap dilaksanakan perbincangan di antara orang
Melayu, Cina dan India, lebih berkemungkinan munculnya satu konsensus yang
dapat diterima oleh semua pihak.
Kekecewaan UMNO semakin berganda setiap kali kerajaan Barisan Nasional
bertindak untuk memperkecilkan peranan mantan timbalan perdana menteri,
Saudara Anwar Ibrahim daripada sinario politik Malaysia. Kalaulah Perdana
Menteri menyinggirkannya dulu dan membiarkan beliau begitu sahaja, sudah
tentu dia tidak terjerut dalam keadaan politik yang mengancam masa depannya.
Kemelut Suqui hanya merupakan satu lencongan untuk memutarkan minda. Ia
merupakan satu krisis yang sengaja direncanakan, seperti juga ugutan akan
berulangnya peristiwa Mei 13 setiap kali menjelangnya pilihanraya. Trik dan
putar alam itu tidak berkesan kali ini, kerana orang Melayu tidak lagi
menyokong kerajaan. Perjanjian yang dicapai oleh Pemuda UMNO dan juga
kumpulan Suqui bukannya menyelesaikan krisis yang dicetuskan, tetapi ia
memperkecilkan lagi kuasa MCA dalam urusan masyarakat Cina. Ini akan
mencetusakan lebih banyak masalah lagi kepada masyarakat itu di satu hari.
Ia akan menjadi pasak yang sedia tertanam untuk disangkuti ugutan orang
bukan Melayu terhadap perpaduan Melayu, satu hari nanti.
Demikianlah halnya, saya berpendapat pertemuan yang dijadualkan itu belum
bertepatan masanya lagi. Sepatutnya mereka merundingkan apakah yang
difikirkan oleh kumpulan Melayu dan juga orang Malaysia, malahan juga
kumpulan cerdik pandai, mengenai apa yang patut berlaku secara perbincangan
terbuka. Jika tidak, pertemuan itu adalah laksana satu sandiwara lagi. Ia
hanya mampu menyorok segala perkara jelek-jelek dan dihimpunkan di bawah
permaidani bidalan orang Melayu yang cantik-cantik untuk dijadikan bahan
antik juga. -MGG Pillai- Rencana Asal: 08 Januay 01 CHIAROSCURO MGG Pillai The deputy prime minister, Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, wants the
UMNO-PAS youth chiefs' debate on Malay unity to be called
off. He fears that issues raised in that could disorient
the tripartite meeting amongs the presidents of UMNO, PAS
and Parti Keadilan Negara. He could not have made that
call. UMNO, more than the other two parties, wants Malay
unity talks, if only to reassert itself as the cultural
leader of the Malays. But Abdullah's call suggests UMNO and
he are still unclear what all this Malay unity is all about.
Malay unity is not what its leaders think it should be.
He is wrong in wanting the UMNO Youth chief,
Hishamuddin Hussein, to call off his debate with the PAS
chief, Mahfuz Omar. His reasoning -- that the debate would
spawn issues that might hamper the meeting of the presidents
-- more so. This cultural unity cannot be got without debate and
discussion. It cannot not be, as now, in a highly charged
politicial atmosphere. The more groups meet, not just the
Malays, but the Chinese and Indians as well, to discuss it,
the more likely a concensus would emerge that all could
accept. Malay unity is no more purely a Malay issue. PAS sees
this clearer than the other parties. Keadilan is caught in
coming to terms with its multiracial image and its
imprisoned eminence grise's role in shifting Malay
loyalties. And UMNO cannot accept it forced the Malay
cultural ground to move away from it. It is certainly not one which can be discussed over tea
amongst leaders of the three parties. The Prime Minister,
as head of government and as UMNO president, does not see or
meet them as often as he should. Now he wants their help to
remain in power. This meeting, when it takes place, would
therefore not be fruitful, even if broad agreement is
reached. But that is not enough. It should be thoroughly
discussed, not in the context of UMNO or Malay dominance but
how it would mesh in with a multiracial society. Not just
by politicians but by interested parties and discussed in
the context of a multiracial Malaysia. It can be. It
should be. The broad agreement must be fleshed out, and
that can only come with open debate and discussion.
But UMNO fears debate and open discussion. It would
not discuss the Anwar imbroglio as it should with its
members, as the government would not with the country. It
decides its is the only true version, and all others with
different views kaffirs who ought to be destroyed. But
Malay unity transcends politics. However much the three
leaders may discuss it, it cannot be enforced if the Malay
ground does not accept it. For it to accept it, a few hurdles must first be
cleared: (a) the Anwar affair; (b) the federal government
reneging on petroleum royalties to Trengganu; (c) the
judiciary must cease to be the instrument of government to
put down its enemies or critics; (d) the police
high-handedness must stop. They are interlinked; with (a),
(c) and (d) would not have risen in importance as they have.
UMNO's frustrations double with every move the National
Front government takes to remove the former deputy prime
minister, Anwar Ibrahim, from Malaysian politics. If the
Prime Minister had just sacked him and left it that, he
would not be in the parlous political situation he is now
in. Instead, he went out of his way to have him charged
with s###my and corruption. With all the investigatives
agencies at his comment, the Prime Minister could not find a
more serious charge he could pin on his former deputy than
what made the Attorney-General's chambers and the judiciary
looked stupid as he went on to jail. UMNO's angst about Malay unity springs from this. The
Malay ground is horrified he behaves not as a Malay feudal
leader, forgetting the old Malay belief that he whom he
wants destroyed should not be humiliated. In other words,
the present crisis of Malay unity is not political but
cultural, one that cannot be resolved with three Malay
political leaders over a cup of tea. The Suqiu affair is a red herring, a manufactured
crisis, like the regular threat before general elections of
another May 13. It did not work this time, because the
Malay ground had already shifted from the government. The
pact between the UMNO Youth and the Suqiu group underlined
not a resolution of the crisis but of sidelining the MCA
even further from Chinese affairs. This cannot but cause
more problems, especially within the Chinese community,
farther on. It became a convenient peg on which to hang on
perceived non-Malay threats to Malay unity.
Indeed, I would argue that the meeting is premature.
They should meet to discuss what Malay and Malaysian groups
and intellectuals think and feel, one that can only come
about with open discussion. Otherwise, this meeting is as
important as a sandiwara, yet another rootless exercise that
heaps more items under the proverbial carpet.
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