Pedalaman atau Pendalaman? Muhyiddin atau Mahyuddin?

Pedalaman atau Pendalaman? Muhyiddin atau Mahyuddin?

Kadang kadang pemimpin negara kita silap sebut.

Selalu saya dengar mereka menyebut Pendalaman bagi maksud daerah terpencil di luar bandar. Sepatutnya Pedalaman bukan PENDALAMAN sebab Pendalaman bermaksud mendalamkan sesuatu.

Ada juga pemimpin negara yang menyebut Mahyuddin ketika memperkatakan mengenai Timbalan Perdana Menteri Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin.

Sebutan benar ialah Muhyiddin bukannya MAHYUDDIN.

Satu lagi dulu orang keliru sebab di Sabah pengarah pelajarannya ialah Dr Muhiddin Yusin, sama bunyi dengan TPM yang juga menteri Pelajaran Muhyiddin Yassin.

Kedua duanya juga bertanggung jawab ke atas hal ehwal pelajaran.

Hmmm macham macham..

Kerajaan BN memang prihatin kepada rakyat Sabah

Selasa lalu, 17 Januari 2012, Timbalan Perdana Menteri YAB Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin turun padang ke Semporna, di pantai Timur Sabah untuk program agihan bantuan Rakyat 1 Malaysia atau BR1M selain program pemimpin bersama rakyat dan perjumpaan bersama penjawat awam. Ini lawatan pertama Muhyiddin ke Semporna sejak dilantik Timbalan Perdana Menteri pada 2009.



Dan keceriaan jelas terpancar di wajah pakcik ini setelah menerima RM500 BR1M daripada Muhyiddin sendiri di padang pekan Semporna. Untuk rekod, pakcik ini tidak boleh berjalan dan terpaksa didukung anak lelakinya dan terpaksa menaiki bot dari Pulau Larapan untuk ke Semporna bagi menerima bantuan RM500 ini, pastinya amat bermakna kepada beliau. Ringanlah beban beliau dan murahlah rezeki kepada mereka yang memberikan bantuan ini.






Pada majlis ini, Muhyiddin memberitahu bahawa pemberian BR1M adalah praktikal dan boleh dilaksanakan kerajaan meskipun ada 4 juta penerima dan kosnya kira kira 2 billion ringgit.

Bukan sahaja rakyat menerima BR1M berupa RM500 seorang, malahan pelajar sekolah juga mendapat bantuan RM100 seorang ketika awal musim persekolahan dan pelajar Tingkatan 6 pula menerima baucar pendidikan RM200 seorang.

Subsidi 22 billion ringgit tahunan pula disalurkan kerajaan untuk memastikan rakyat tidak perlu membayar harga tinggi bagi membeli barangan keperluan seharian.

Ini berbeza dengan pembangkang yang menjanjikan bulan dan bintang (atau roket) tetapi mustahil dilaksanakan seperti janji menghapuskan Tol dan Pinjaman Tabung Pendidikan Tinggi Nasional, PTPTN, yang sememangnya dan semestinya tidak praktikal.

Kalau nak hapuskan tol, siapa nak bayar kos 10 billion ringgit yang dibelanjakan syarikat pembina lebuhraya itu? Siapa? Anwar Ibrahim? Lim Kit Siang? Karpal Singh? Azmin Ali? Semestinya bukan dan tidak!!!



Gambar ini menunjukkan wajah ceria dan gembira seramai 37 golongan kurang berkemampuan termasuk warga emas, ibu tunggal dan orang kelainan upaya (O-K-U) menerima sumbangan sempena Tahun Baru Cina di DUN Tanjung Batu dalam kawasan Parlimen Kalabakan, di Sabah.

Sumbangan barangan keperluan asas seperti minyak masak, tepung, gula,
limau mandarin serta 'ang pau' itu disampaikah ADUN Tanjung Batu, Datuk Hamisa Samat di Pusat Khidmat Wakil Rakyat Dun Tanjung Batu, Tawau, baru baru ini.

Menurut Hamisa, sumbangan itu bertujuan meringankan beban kaum
Tionghua sempena Tahun Baru Cina supaya mereka dapat menyambutnya
dalam keadaan gembira dan selesa.

"Diharap sumbangan ini membolehkan mereka membuat persediaan awal
sempena sambutan Tahun baru Cina ini," katanya selepas majlis
penyampaian sumbangan itu.

Nah, inilah keprihatinan kerajaan BN untuk rakyat Sabah.

Untuk rekod, BN Sabah mencatat kejayaan cemerlang apabila menang 59 daripada 60 kerusi DUN Sabah dan 24 daripada 25 kerusi Parlimen pada pilihanraya umum 2004 dan 2008.

Sekaligus digelar Fixed Deposit.

Lantaran tsunami politik di Semenanjung, Anwar Ibrahim dan kroninya terdesak untuk mendambakan sokongan pengundi Sabah dan Sarawak kerana dia kemaruk mahu menjadi Perdana Menteri.

Sebenarnya Anwar Ibrahim ada jalan mudah untuk menjadi Perdana Menteri pada 1993 apabila dia menang perebutan jawatan Timbalan presiden UMNO ketika menentang Timbalan Presiden ketika itu, Allahyarham Tun Ghafar Baba.

Ketika itu Anwar Ibrahim mendapat tendangan penalti dan dia hanya perlu menendang bola ke dalam gawang gol. Namun Anwar Ibrahim memilih untuk menendang bola itu dari kawasannya sendiri dan mengelecek beberapa pertahanan lawan sebelum cuba merembat bola, namun bola itu tersasar, tidak gol.

Anwar tidak cerdik menutup kelemahannya, dituduh seorang gay dan homoseksual sehingga dibenci dan dipecat oleh Tun Mahathir Mohamad. Anwar memilih jalan sukar untuk menjadi PM.

Oleh itu rakyat Sabah, ingatlah, pilihlah permata, bukannya kaca, negara bukan sahaja bakal bengkrap apabila ditadbir Anwar kerana dulu dia selaku Menteri Kewangan Malaysia mahu meminjam daripada Tabung Matawang Antarabangsa, IMF ketika dunia dilanda krisis ekonomi dan kegawatan kewangan global.

Indonesia meminjam dari IMF dan huru hara berlaku, rusuhan berlaku, bunuh membunuh berlaku dan Suahrto dipaksa letak jawatan sebagai Presiden.

Thailand juga begitu, porak peranda.

Nasib baik Malaysia dan Tun Mahathir tidak mengikut telunjuk dan cadangan Anwar untuk pinjam dari IMF, jika tidak binasa kita.

Orang macam ini kah yang kita mahu untuk mentadbir Malaysia?

Jawapannya tidak, sama sekali tidak.....

Berita baik kepada 13 ribu Guru Sandaran Tidak terlatih, GSTT

Gambar hiasan guru di pedalaman






Gambar hiasan dedikasi Guru

Setiap kali berkunjung ke Sabah, Timbalan Perdana Menteri Malaysia, Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin merangkap Menteri Pelajaran, pasti membawa berita baik kepada Guru termasuk Guru Sandaran Tidak Terlatih atau GSTT.

Pada Mac 2011 lalu ketika melawat daerah terpencil di Tongod dalam kawasan Parlimen Kinabatangan, Muhyiddin mengumumkan berita baik bahawa kontrak 13,000 GSTT di seluruh Malaysia yang sebelum ini ditamatkan, ditarik balik.

Ia bagi membolehkan GSTT terus berkhidmat sebagai pendidik anak bangsa termasuk di sekolah di kawasan pedalaman.

Sebelum ini masa depan 13,000 GSTT itu dalam dilema kerana kontrak mereka ditamatkan ekoran ribuan Guru terlatih dari Universiti, Institusi Pengajian Tinggi Swasta dan juga Institut Pendidikan Guru Malaysia, sudahpun menamatkan pengajian dan sedia ditempatkan untuk mengajar di sekolah sekolah.



Dan pada Sabtu 18 Jun 2011 di Beaufort, Sabah, ketika merasmikan mesyuarat perwakilan UMNO Beaufort, Muhyiddin sekali lagi membuat 1 pengumuman gembira kepada 13,000 GSTT itu. Arahan telah dikeluarkan kepada Ketua Pengarah Pelajaran Malaysia, Datuk Abdul Ghafar Mahmud bagi melaksanakan program penyerapan GSTT itu menjalani kursus 18 bulan di Institut Pendidikan Guru di seluruh negara.

Selepas menjalani kursus 18 bulan itu, GSTT terbabit kini tidak lagi dipanggil GSTT kerana mereka sudah terlatih dan sebaik tamat latihan, program penempatan guru ke sekolah terpilih termasuk di pedalaman, dilaksanakan Kementerian Pendidikan Malaysia.

Sebelum ini, kerajaan juga sudah mengumumkan pelbagai bantuan dan insentif kepada Guru.

Ini termasuk memperkenalkan elaun tahap kesusahan kepada guru yang mengajar di pedalaman dengan tahap paling tinggi elaunnya bernilai RM1,500 sebulan, ganjaran khas kepada Pengetua Cemerlang, pengenalan Sekolah Berprestasi Tinggi, SBT dan kenaikan gaji dan gred Guru.

Di sebalik semua ini, kita tahu semuanya bertujuan menjadikan Malaysia negara maju dan cemerlang dalam semua bidang termasuk akhlak dan kerohanian.

Dan disebalik semua juga, kita tahu ada juga Guru yang tidak pandai bersyukur sebaliknya menyemai bibit membenci kerajaan kepada murid muridnya sendiri.

Ada juga Guru yang menyokong pembangkang dan ada juga menjadi calon pembangkang pada pilihanraya kecil atau umum.

Saya sendiri pernah mengalami ini ketika di tingkatan 3 pada 1986 di sebuah SMK di Seremban, Negeri Sembilan dimana guru Bahasa Malaysia saya sering menyelitkan rasa marahnya kepada pemimpin kerajaan selain pernah berkata "Kalau nampak pemimpin bernama ni..... Tembak Dia"!!!!

Apapun kita tahu, majoriti atau 99.9 % Guru di Malaysia sememangnya komited kepada usaha mendidik anak bangsa menjadi insan mulia, berguna, cemerlang dan dihormati di senatero dunia.

Tahniah Muhyiddin, Syabas Kementerian Pelajaran Malaysia dan Semoga Maju Jaya kepada semua Guru di Malaysia.

Terima kasih kerana membaca.

S.K Ulu Lubai, Limbang, Sarawak - Permata dalam Belantara

Sumber : Utusan Malaysia

17 Februari 2011 menjadi detik bersejarah bagi sebuah sekolah pedalaman di Limbang, Sarawak apabila dikunjungi pemimpin nombor dua negara - Timbalan Perdana Menteri merangkap menteri Pelajaran, Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin.

Mengapa Timbalan Perdana Menteri melawat sekolah berkenaan iaitu Sekolah Kebangsaan Ulu Lubai, nun jauh di Limbang, Sarawak??

Sekali imbas, SK Ulu Lubai hanyalah sebuah sekolah yang serba sederhana dari segi infrastruktur dengan bangunan kayu lama manakala satu-satunya binaan konkrit hanyalah tandas kegunaan murid dan guru.

Lokasinya terletak di tengah-tengah hutan belantara. Ia dihubungkan melalui jalan balak ataupun menggunakan bot panjang menyusuri Sungai Lubai yang membabitkan tempoh perjalanan kira-kira sejam daripada Medamit.

Sekolah yang dibuka pada 1964 dan pernah ditutup pada 1976 sebelum dibuka semula setahun selepas itu hanya mempunyai 30 orang murid yang dibimbing oleh 11 orang guru dengan bantuan seorang staf sokongan.

Namun hari ini, SK Ulu Lubai mencatatkan sejarah gemilang apabila muncul sebagai sekolah pedalaman pertama yang diiktiraf sebagai Sekolah Berprestasi Tinggi (SBT) sekali gus memberi tamparan kepada sekolah lain yang berada di kawasan bandar mahupun luar bandar.

Menyifatkannya sebagai amat luar biasa, Muhyiddin yang juga Menteri Pelajaran berkata, kejayaan SK Ulu Lubai itu membuktikan bahawa semua sekolah mampu cemerlang tanpa mengira lokasinya.

"Kalau kita lihat persekitaran dan infrastruktur, ia amat sederhana, bangunannya sudah lama dan diperbuat daripada kayu, tidaklah seelok bangunan-bangunan konkrit di sesetengah sekolah.

"Tetapi kerana kepimpinan sekolah itu adalah cemerlang dan guru-guru serta ibu bapa bersama murid-murid amat komited untuk bantu membangunkan sekolah ini, berlaku lonjakan yang amat besar," katanya pada sidang akhbar selepas mengumumkan senarai 23 SBT Kohort Dua di SK Ulu Lubai di sini hari ini.

Muhyiddin juga melontarkan cabaran kepada sekolah-sekolah lain dengan berkata:

"Jika SK Ulu Lubai yang begini keadaannya boleh muncul yang terbaik, saya tidak fikir sekolah lain tidak mampu."

Terdahulu ketika berucap pada majlis berkenaan, Muhyiddin berkata, SK Ulu Lubai telah menunjukkan pencapaian akademik yang amat cemerlang dalam Ujian Pencapaian Sekolah Rendah (UPSR) dengan keputusan 100 peratus lulus sejak 2006 sehingga sekarang, menjadikannya sebagai sekolah terbaik di negeri ini.

Katanya, dalam penarafan sekolah kebangsaan, SK Ulu Lubai menduduki tempat ke-54 pada 2009 dan ia melonjak ke tempat pertama pada 2010.

Beliau memberitahu, lebih membanggakan, sekolah itu memenangi dua anugerah peringkat antarabangsa iaitu johan Commonwealth Education Good Practice Award 2009 dan finalis anugerah yang sama daripada Sekretariat Komanwel dan Kerajaan Malaysia.

Menurutnya, pencapaian terkini ialah pencalonan UNESCO Educational International Best Practices 2010.

"Di samping itu, ia juga berjaya merangkul lima anugerah peringkat kebangsaan, 14 di peringkat negeri dan 46 di peringkat bahagian dan daerah," katanya.

Dalam pada itu, Muhyiddin begitu teruja dengan inisiatif SK Ulu Lubai yang bergerak aktif dalam mewujudkan program jalinan dan jaringan dengan institusi pendidikan luar negara.

Katanya, jaringan itu bukan calang-calang kerana pada 2009 dan 2010, mereka mewujudkan jaringan dengan University Bristol, United Kingdom (UK), Jin Shan Primary School, Singapura dan Kingsford Community School serta Deptford Green School, masing-masing di UK.

Sementara itu, Guru Besar SK Ulu Lubai sejak 1998, Jaul Bunyau berkata, kunci kepada kejayaan sekolah itu ialah kerjasama daripada ibu-bapa kerana merekalah yang paling dekat dengan sekolah berkenaan,

Katanya, mengharapkan orang luar untuk membantu sekolah di pedalaman seperti SK Ulu Lubai amat sukar kerana keadaannya terpencil manakala prasarananya amat terhad.

"Jadi kita kena libatkan komuniti setempat dan guru-guru pula tidak boleh terpisah dengan masyarakat," katanya.

Sementara itu, Muhyiddin turut meluang masa melawat Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan (SMK) Tutoh Apoh di Long Panai, Baram yang 12 hingga 18 kali ditenggelami banjir dalam masa setahun kerana terletak bersebelahan Sungai Apoh.

Sekolah berkenaan pada awal tahun lalu pernah mendapat perhatian beliau yang kemudian mengumumkan peruntukan RM50 juta untuk pembinaan bangunan baru di tempat lebih tinggi.

Muhyiddin sewaktu berucap dalam majlis bersama penghuni rumah Panjang Uma Beluvuh bersebelahan SMK Tutoh Apoh menjelaskan bangunan baru sekolah itu akan dibina dalam masa terdekat dan ia dijangka mengambil masa kira-kira dua tahun untuk disiapkan.

Beliau menjelaskan, nilai sebenar projek yang kini berada dalam peringkat melantik perunding reka bentuk itu hanyalah RM30 juta.

"Kita juga sudah membayar ganti rugi pengambilan balik tanah membabitkan keluasan 12 hektar," katanya.

Dalam pada itu, beliau turut mengumumkan peruntukan RM2,000 bagi setiap 117 pintu Rumah Panjang Uma Beluvoh bagi tujuan penyelenggaraan kediaman.

Sibu by-election, DAP wins by 398-vote majority

Announced at 11pm, Sunday 16 May 2010 at Dewan Suarah Sibu.

DAP's Wong Ho Leng won the P212 Sibu by-election by 398 votes, garnering 18,845 votes to beat BN's Robert Lau Hui Yew (18,447). Independent Narawi Haron polled 232 votes and promptly lost his deposit.

It was a huge setback for the mighty BN, who hoped to retain the Sibu seat and after having won another by-election - the Hulu Selangor Parliamentary constituency, barely a month ago on 25 April 2010.

Despite relentless campaigns and the presence of BN super-heavyweights including the Prime Minister, the Deputy Prime Minister, the 3 UMNO Vice Presidents, the long serving Sarawak Chief Minister as well as other prominent figures, and huge media support, the BN failed to retain Sibu who has a majority of Chinese Foochows voters.

As for the Pakatan Rakyat especially DAP, winning the Sibu by-election is critical and crucial to reverse the recent losses of Pakatan Rakyat members of parliament, and serve as a critical launchpad for the second tsunami for change in the upcoming Sarawak state elections, as well as the 13th General Elections.

The Sibu contest was between Barisan Nasional and DAP, but it quickly narrowed down to a fight between the DAP and SUPP, or the Sarawak United People's Party.

SUPP is still smarting over the inroads made by DAP in the last state elections whereas DAP, emboldened by its 2006 wins, is hungry to add another notch to its belt.

The BN won in the rural areas encompassing the Ibans and Dayaks Long houses or Rumah Panjang and the Kampung Melayu, but failed to get enough support from the urban Chinese.

Maybe the perenial flooding problems in Sibu as well as other macro issues, refrained the voters from voting BN. The low voters turn-out may be a contributing factor too.

Except for the lone independent candidate, it was hard to predict which candidates, BN or DAP, had the upperhands from Day One. It was 50-50 all the way from nomination day, right up to polling day.

Either BN campaigns or DAP campaigns, both drew huge crowds, some numbering more than 10,000 people who thronged to listen to the ceramahs, speeches and campaigns.

Political observers had predicted that DAP would make Tan Sri Taib Mahmud and his family's vast business empire the No. 1 issue. But according to Joceline Tan of the Star, DAP does not seem to be pushing the limits where the Chief Minister is concerned. “Peh Ma” (white-haired), as he is known in Foochow, is still an issue especially among the Chinese but in a rather tired way.

They did poke fun at Sibu's 28-storey Wisma Sanyan which is also Sarawak's tallest building, claiming that “no one dares build anything higher.” The controversial building belongs to Taib's younger brother Datuk Tufail Mahmud.

Religion was the flash point of the campaign.

DAP's Lim Kit Siang started it by daring SUPP to take a stand on the Allah issue which is still pending in the courts.

SUPP's Sibu warlord Datuk Seri Wong Soon Koh returned the volley saying that “a vote for DAP is a vote for PAS and the Islamic state.”

Meanwhile some ponders wether Robert Lau Hui Yew lacked the charisma of his predecessor, the late Datuk Robert Lau Hoi Chew??

Why did the Sibu voters showed no appreciation whatsoever to the huge development funds and financial assistance, announced by BN leaders to them?

Did they forget that RM65 million was announced by the PM to help finance the Chinese School in and around Sibu?

What more are they expecting?? What exactly do they want??

Did Lim Kit Siang, Karpal Singh, Wong Ho Leng, Anwar Ibrahim, Lim Guan Eng, Chong Chieng Jen, Nizar Jamaluddin, Nga Kor Ming, Violet Yong, Ting Tze Fui and other Pakatan Leaders had much more charisma, x-factors and crowd pulling antics than their BN nemesis??

Well, the battle of Sibu has been a hard-fought campaign, punch for punch and barb for barb.

According to the star, for the first time in a long while, the proxy scenario was not Najib vs Anwar or Umno vs PAS.

The battle for Sibu is not only about who is most capable of taking Sibu to Parliament but also which party can best represent the Chinese in Sarawak.

The air has been filled with charges and counter-charges. DAP calls for change; Barisan claims changes are already taking place; DAP counter-claims that change comes with reform. And the exchange of words rolls on.

Sibu residents say they have never experienced an election as contentious and exciting as this.

Then came the acroynm Sibu Sibuk (Busy Sibu)!!

The total number of registered voters in Sibu are 54,695. However only 32,742 or 59.86 % voters cast their ballots.

Election Commission chairman Tan Sri Abdul Aziz Mohd Yusof said he was not satisfied with the turnout, which was lower than the 67% recorded in the 2008 general election.

In the 2008 general election, Datuk Robert Lau Hoi Chew (BN) retained the Sibu seat with a 3,549-vote majority, beating Wong Ho Leng of DAP and Lim Chin Chuang of Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) in a 3-cornered fight.

The by-election was called following the death of Hoi Chew who was also Deputy Transport Minister on April 9.

This result means there is a reversal of almost 4,000 votes against BN and the ruling federal and state government needs to look at these factors that contributed to the electoral defeat.

We know that urban areas are tough for the BN to win, judging from past elections results. Look at the Polictical Tsunami of 2008, apart from taking over 4 states - Kedah, Perak, Penang and Selangor, the Pakatan Rakyat recorded landslide wins in majority of urban areas such as Wangsa Maju, Bukit Bintang, Lembah Pantai and Kota Kinabalu.

And so is Sibu.

Watch out for the 13th General Election - Lim Kit Siang said the current PM will not be PM on that day, but as Opposition leader??? Well, just wait and see...

Helikopter membawa Timbalan Perdana Menteri Malaysia, mendarat cemas di Mimpian Jadi Resort, Tuaran, Sabah

Sebuah Pesawat Nuri yang membawa Timbalan Perdana Menteri Malaysia, Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin terpaksa melakukan pendaratan di luar jadual di sebuah pusat peranginan di Tuaran, Sabah, 2.30 petang tadi, akibat cuaca buruk.

Kejadian berlaku ketika pesawat membawa Tan Sri Muhyiddin dan 14 yang lain termasuk Timbalan Ketua Menteri Sabah merangkap setiausaha Badan Perhubungan UMNO Sabah, Datuk Yahya Hussein, dalam perjalanan balik dari Kudat, di utara Sabah ke Kota Kinabalu.


Gambar Fail - sebuah pesawat NURI TUDM

Terdahulu, Tan Sri Muhyiddin merasmikan mesyuarat perwakilan Kudat dan Kota Marudu di Kudat.

Beliau dijadual merasmikan pula mesyuarat perwakilan UMNO Bahagian Penampang di Dewan Masyarakat Tun Fuad Stephens kira kira jam 2.15 petang.

Namun ketika itu, keadaan cuaca di Kota Kinabalu dan Penampang, hujan serta berkabus dan menghadakan jarak pandangan.

Pesawat membawa Timbalan Perdana Menteri tidak dapat meneruskan perjalanan ke Kota Kinabalu dan terpaksa mendarat di Mimpian Jadi Resort, Tuaran.

Dari sana, rombongan menaiki kereta ke Kota Kinabalu selama kira kira 45 minit.

Ekoran kejadian itu, Timbalan Perdana Menteri terpaksa membatalkan acara di Penampang.

Beliau berlepas balik ke Ibu Negara dengan pesawat khas kira kira 4.25 petang tadi.

Mesyuarat UMNO Penampang diteruskan, dengan Timbalan Perdana Menteri diwakili Ketua Menteri Datuk Seri Musa Aman.

Ketika ditemui pemberita di Lapangan Terbang Antarabangsa Kota Kinabalu, kira kira jam 4 petang sejurus sebelum berlepas pulang ke Kuala Lumpur, Tan Sri Muhyiddin berkata ``Saya ok, tiada masalah dan tidak terkejut,''.

``Saya lega kita ada juruterbang yang bagus yang merasakan adalah tidak wajar untuk meneruskan penerbangan ke Kota Kinabalu kerana cuaca buruk.

``Jadi, kita mendarat di Tuaran. Tiada apa pelik berlaku. Dia (juruterbang) telah melakukan perkara yang betul,'' katanya.

Kebanyakan media melaporkan pesawat itu melakukan pendaratan kecemasan atau emergency landing.

Namun ada juga media melaporkannya sebagai pendaratan tidak dijadualkan atau unscheduled landing.

Pendaratan yang tidak dijadualkan sudah banyak kali dilaporkan sebelum ini, iaitu di mana pesawat terpaksa dilencongkan dan mendarat di lokasi atau lapangan terbang lain akibat faktor cuaca yang tidak memungkinkan pesawat mendarat di lokasi sasaran ketibaan.

Namun, pendaratan kecemasan menggambarkan sesuatu yang lebih serius, seperti pesawat mengalami masalah teknikal, kerosakan enjin atau sebagainya.

Pesawat boleh berpatah balik ke lokasi asal atau mendarat di lapangan terbang lain atau mendarat di tempat yang bukan sepatutnya ia mendarat.

Jadi istilah mana yang tepat?

Pendaratan kecemasan atau pendaratan tidak dijadualkan??

Call not to appoint Najib as Prime Minister is illogical, said Tun Mahathir

(Source - Daily Express)

Kuala Lumpur: Former Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad said it is illogical to call on the Yang di-Pertuan Agong not to appoint Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak as the Prime Minister.

Commenting on the call by Datuk Zaid Ibrahim, urging the Yang di-Pertuan Agong not to appoint Najib as the Prime Minister, Dr Mahathir said, "He can say what he likes but he is just one person.

"Whether the Yang di-Pertuan Agong will listen to the opinion of one person will be up to the Yang di-Pertuan Agong," he said at a news conference, Thursday. Zaid, the former Minister in the Prime Minister's Department, claimed that Najib's appointment would divide the people.

Dr Mahathir said: "The person who made this suggestion is not someone who is regarded highly or someone who is rational. If I were the Yang di-Pertuan Agong, I wouldn't even want to read about this. It's too stupid.

Who does he want to be?"

Asked whether he would fully support Najib's appointment as the PM, Dr Mahathir said, "I will give a full backing to Najib on condition that he must not appoint any of the corrupt leaders to his Cabinet."

He also commented on perception that Najib was corrupt.

"I'm not talking about what people believe. A lot of people believe about something but there is no legal stand taken on whether Najib is corrupt or not."

Asked on his choice for the Umno Deputy President's post, Dr Mahathir said, it would be Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin, the International Trade and Industry Minister. "I think what is left is somebody who is... well, could not read English and therefore he did something wrong in Australia. So my choice is Muhyiddin," he said.

The contest for the deputy presidency is now between Muhyiddin and Tan Sri Muhammad Muhd Taib.

A third candidate, Datuk Seri Mohd Ali Rustam was barred from contesting after the party's disciplinary board found him guilty of breaching party ethics. Dr Mahathir also commented on the statement by Mohd Ali that he (Dr Mahathir) had a hand in the recent decision taken by the disciplinary board.

Dr Mahathir said: "I wish I had but I'm not a member of Umno. If I had been involved, I would have thrown him out from the very beginning but I'm not involved. I have to very reluctantly wait for the Decision by the Board and I'm not completely happy with it."

He said that Mohd Ali should be treated the same way former Umno Vice-President Tan Sri Mohamed Isa Abdul Samad was treated in 2005.

"Isa was thrown out because he was involved in money politics but he also lost his position as a Minister. But here, we have a very strange decision.

He was found to be corrupt but he can remain as the Chief Minister (of Melaka). Now we have a person who is confirmed corrupt but the party accepted him as the Chief Minister.

Meanwhile Muhyiddin described as "irresponsible and malicious" the statement by Zaid on the country's leadership transition.

He said the statement was clearly aimed at creating unease among Umno members in particular and Malaysians in general.

Muhyiddin said Zaid's statement was not helpful in uniting the people. It also showed his opportunistic character, said Muhyiddin.

"I strongly deny Zaid's claim that the country is in crisis over the appointment of the Prime Minister. The Umno leadership transition is progressing well and it has been proven that Najib has the confidence of Umno divisions to be the new party president," he said in a statement.

Muhyiddin also said it was clearly stated in Article 43(2) of the Federal Constitution that the Yang di-Pertuan Agong shall first appoint a member of the Dewan Rakyat, who is likely to command the confidence of the majority of the House, as the Prime Minister to preside over the Cabinet.

"The Barisan Nasional (BN) is the party that commands the majority in the Dewan Rakyat, with Umno having the most seats among the BN component parties," he said. Muhyiddin said Najib's appointment as the Prime Minister would unite the people.

"In this connection, I would like to remind the people and Umno members not to fall for Zaid's propaganda which is clearly ill-intent, irresponsible and putting self interest above that of the country," he said.

Umno Supreme Council member Datuk Seri Mohd Shafie Apdal described Zaid's statement as devoid of logic as it had been the practice to appoint Umno President as the Prime Minister.

He said the power transfer between Abdullah and Najib was progressing smoothly. Mohd Shafie who is Unity, Culture, Arts and Heritage Minister said what was important was for the Government to remain focus on the efforts to bring development to the people.

Motion of Confidence???

The former Umno President also spoke on the possibility of a "motion of confidence" be tabled in Parliament to have Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi remain as Prime Minister.

"It's a possibility; it's not against the law. The law provides that to be the Prime Minister, you must have the support of the majority in Parliament but it does not say from which party.

"According to the constitution, the person who shall be made the Prime Minister is a person who has the majority support in Parliament. If you appoint somebody who has no majority support, he will be out," he said.

Dr Mahathir said there was nothing in the Federal Constitution which stated that the Umno President must be the Prime Minister.

"There is no provision. That is only our arrangement," he said, adding that legally, the current PM Datuk Seri Abdullah could continue serving his term until the next general election if he wanted to.

"But of course he may face a vote of no confidence in Parliament... he has a good chance of winning with the support of opposition members but he will become the Prime Minister of the opposition," he said.

Dr Mahathir said opposition members also had votes in Parliament and if they, together with some members of the Barisan Nasional, were to vote for Abdullah, "then he will be the PM."