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TJ MT MGG: Super Bumiputra Menyerang Lagi By M.G.G. Pillai 18/1/2001 4:46 pm Thu |
MGG1501 [MGG menyingkap rahsia disebalik krisis SRJK cina Damansara baru-baru
ini. Seperti biasa Menteri Pendidikkan baru(a) dilantik oleh Mahathir
supaya senang orang tertentu menerokai bidang itu. Malangnya Tan Sri
Musa tidak pandai bermain kata, tetapi mahu 'merotan' dan membuang pelajar
pula. Mahathir seharusnya mengadakan kelas percuma untuk mendidik Tan Sri
Musa terlebih dahulu, dan biar dia berguru dengan Samy Vellu. Kegagalan
Tan Sri Musa memberikan tamparan hebat kepada Mahathir kerana dia semakin
memberatkan lagi beg yang perlu dipikul untuk menghadapi pengundi cina.
Vincent Tan rakus lagi dan masih belum mahu berhenti walaupun projeknya
sudah banyak yang rugi. Menteri asyik berdalih untuk melepaskan diri.
Ibu bapa tidak sanggup sekolah bertuah musnah begitu kerana kasihkan
sentuhan kesaktiannya. Siapa yang pening kepala jika tidak pengiklannya?
- Editor] Super Bumiputra Menyerang Lagi Setelah mengarahkan polis berkawal di pintu masuk SRJK cina di Damansara,
kerajaan telah mengugut menyingkirkan para pelajar yang engkar. Di waktu
yang sama tidak pula disebut kenapa sekolah yang berusia 70 tahun itu mesti
dipindahkan. Sekolah itu terpaksa berpindah tempat ke satu tapak sementara
di kawasan sebuah sekolah lain. Lokasinya berdekatan dengan sebuah projek
yang dibangunkan oleh seorang peniaga yang bertaraf antarabangsa yang tidak
ada tolok bandingnya. Itulah dia Super Bumiputra Tan Sri Vincent Tan dan
adiknya Dato Daniel Tan. Keadaan masih tegang lagi. Kesilapan kerajaan menangani perkara itu telah
membabitkan perkara itu kepada soal pembelajaran masyarakat Cina dan
membabitkan para pendidik Cina pula. Ibu bapa dan anak-anak murid sekolah
itu telah berpiket di hadapan kementerian pendidikan dua hari yang lalu.
Kemelut Lunas, rencana penyelamat MAS, hak istimewa orang melayu adalah kayu
pengukur kepada semua keangkuhan itu. Kumpulan Super Bumiputra yang juga
dikenali sebagai (aka=also known as) pedagang antarabangsa yang tidak ada
tolok bandingnya telah mengkucar-kacirkan setiap projek penswastaan yang
diberikan oleh kerajaan kepadanya. Termasuklah projek Sports Toto yang
sungguh lumayan itu. Begitu juga halnya dengan pemberian tanah hutan simpan
yang beribu hektar luasnya di beberapa negeri. Tetapi si malaun ini terus
juga menghadapi kegagalan berulang kali.
Rencana Asal: The Government had the police guard the locked gates of the
SRJK Chinese school in Damansara, threatened the pupils with
expulsion, would not say why the 70-year-old school must be
moved. The school must shift to temporary quarters in
another school a few kilometres away near a completed
project of that internationally known business man of
unquestioned repute and "Super Bumiputra", Tan Sri Vincent
Tan and his brother, Dato' Daniel Tan. But the pressure
refused to die down. The government's mishandling of the
affair turned into a question of Chinese education, and
Chinese educationists entered the fray. The parents and
students demonstrated in front of the education ministry two
days ago. The flexible and, and true to style, unbending
minister, Tan Sri Musa Mohamed, flip flopped when he met the
parents yesterday (16 January 01) and decreed the school
would remain open. The official spin is different, of
course. He told the press if the SRJK (C) board of
governors could not persuade pupils to move to new schools,
the school remains it is. But is it the storm in a tea cup
he says it is now? Is it? The government inexplicably
raised the ante in the run-up to the move, riding roughshod
over the needs of the community. Its argument that the
board of governors had agreed to move is neither here nor
there. The board of governors, in this instance, has much
to answer for. This hidden motive is hinted of in news
reports of the confrontation. The school has to be removed, we are told, to realign
the area once the tolled highway nearby comes on stream.
The school stood in the way and had to move. Were it that,
it ould not have been a problem. It is more sinister. The
development plans of Super Bumiputra and brother around the
school would not be profitable without the schoolgrounds
betwixt their properties. Indeed, a Super Bumiputra company
builds an office block and needs the school grounds for
added value. Since the government gives them what they
want, it ordered the school moved out even before its new
school is built. Would it be constructed? I am sure it
would, but at the pace of the monorail project, another
Super Bumiputra project, which was to have been completed in
1998 but would now be, we are told, next year.
The government's black eye, self-inflicted unlike Dato'
Seri Anwar Ibrahim's, it gets so soon messing up its Vision
Schools plans, an elaborate smokescreen to divest schools of
valuable land for indifferently built schools in distant
suburbs. It insists Malaysians should not object when its
cronies, siblings and courtiers get what they covet, however
inconvenient to those consequently deprived of services.
When it goes out to bat for them, it is resisted, as now,
and it must back down. It is an incontrovertible fact that
all privatisation of government assets went to them, even
one of them. Every one is mishandled. Some have returned
to the government for re-privatisation.
The Lunas typhoon, the MAS bailout, the Malay rights
fiasco are markers in this arrogance. The Super Bumiputra
aka the internationally known business man of unquestioned
repute made a mess of every privatised project the
government gave him, including the cash-cow Sports Toto.
With every failure, he gets large parcels of land, including
forest reserve of a few thousand hectares in several states,
and yet he stumbles and helped again and again.
Did Tan Sri Vincent Tan and his brother pay for the
land at market rates? Not on your life. Was the school
given an option to convert the land first from that for use
as a school to commercial use, so that it could have ample
funds to keep it well-funded with facilities? Not on your
life. When he wanted to develop his golf club in Damansara,
the Universiti Malaya was forced to give up its land for the
highway that would otherwise have gone through his land.
Why? He continues to rack up losses and is picked up every
time he stumbles. Why? And more important why is he
allowed to prevent the growth of education for personal
gain? His shares on the KLSE are but a fraction of its par
value. Yet he is rescued, again and again. Why?
M.G.G. Pillai |