Rahmah Ghazali & Abdul Rahim Sabri | May 11, 08 7:12pm
Prof diraja Dr Ungku Abdul Aziz hari ini mendakwa bahawa tidak wujud kontrak sosial secara fizikal antara rakyat Malaysia yang pelbagai kaum.
Bercakap selaku salah seorang panelis forum ulangtahun ke-25 Dasar Pandang Ke Timur di Shah Alam hari ini, beliau berkata tidak wujud kontrak sosial seumpama itu.
Panelis lain termasuklah mantan perdana menteri, Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad dan Ketua Pengarah Jabatan Perkhidmatan Awam, Datuk Ismail Adam.
Sebaliknya, kata Ungku Aziz, sosial kontrak itu merupakan satu fantasi yang diwujudkan oleh ahli-ahli politik bergantung kepada kepentingan mereka.
Ungku Aziz berkata, kontrak sosial itu sepatutnya dipanggil ‘kontrak' untuk menjustifikasikan tindakan afirmatif dalam bidang pendidikan dan kesihatan untuk kumpulan paling memerlukannya.
Bagaimanapun, beliau tidak menjelaskan lebih lanjut mengenai perkara tersebut dan berkata beliau akan berbuat demikian di forum yang lain.
Dr Mahathir tidak setuju
Bercakap dalam sidang akhbar kemudiannya, Dr Mahathir bagaimanapun tidak bersetuju dengan Ungku Aziz dan menegaskan bahawa kontrak sosial wujud walaupun tidak dalam bentuk bertulis.
Jelasnya, kontrak sosial memang tidak ditulis secara rasmi, tetapi kefahaman tentangnya memang wujud di kalangan pemimpim utama Perikatan - Tengku Abdul Rahman dan pemimpin Perikatan yang lain ketika itu.
"Kefahaman kontrak sosial itu, yang harus di kongsi bersama ialah bagaimana Tengku Abdul Rahman memberikan satu juta kerakyatan kepada bangsa Cina, dengan harapan mereka memberi sokongan dalam usaha untuk menuntut kemerdekaan," katanya.
Katanya, kefahaman kontrak sosial itu juga memberi kesan terhadap perlembagaan apabila ia memberi hak kepada orang Melayu dan juga memberi hak kepada orang Cina dan India.
"Bukan sahaja Melayu akan menjadi bahasa rasmi yang diajar di sekolah-sekolah kebangsaan, tetapi bahasa Cina dan India juga diajar di sekolah-sekolah masing-masing.Dan itu hak-hak yang diberikan," jelasnya yang juga mantan presiden Umno.
Hak semua kaum
"Dan orang Melayu tidak boleh mempersoal dan mencabar hak kewarganegaraan orang Cina dan India dan di situ kita dapat melihat keseimbangannya," tambahnya.
Beliau berkata, begitu juga dengan agama. Islam yang telah menjadi agama rasmi negara dan semua orang bebas untuk mempraktikkan kefahaman agama mereka tanpa perasaan takut.
"Rakyat selalu bercakap tentang hak orang Melayu dalam parlimen, tetapi tidak melihat hak orang Cina (dan India) dalam perlembagaan," tambahnya.
Menurutnya, kontrak sosial ini meliputi perkongsian kuasa, kuasa dalam politik, perkongsian ekonomi dan pertumbuhannya.
Dan daripada pertumbuhan itu, katanya, ia diagihkan sebahagian besar kepada orang Melayu dan bumiputera. Kontrak sosial itu memang tidak ditulis tetapi ia termasuk semua aspek sosialisasi dalam negara ini.
Laporan Malaysia Kini 12/5/08
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Selasa, Mei 06, 2008
Kit Siang: Time to relook social contract
Kong See Hoh
PETALING JAYA (May 5, 2008): DAP central policy and strategic planning commission chairman Lim Kit Siang feels the time is ripe for all parties to relook the social contract upon which the nation was founded.
"We have not discussed the social contract since Merdeka" he said.
Speaking to Sin Chew Daily in an interview published today, the DAP veteran and Ipoh Timur MP said in the wake of the March 8 general election, parties from both sides of the political divide and the people should ponder where the country is headed.
He suggested the various political parties organise an all-Malaysian summit to examine the country's achievements for the last 50 years and determine the direction the country should take to forge ahead.
On the possibility that Pakatan Rakyat might lose the support of some Malays for proposing to replace Malay supremacy (Ketuanan Melayu) with people's supremacy (Ketuanan Rakyat), Lim felt that if the country is to head for the development of a Bangsa Malaysia, the emphasis should be on people's supremacy, and to rise above race, religion and party.
"And there should be no more distinction between bumiputras and non-bumiputras," he added.
"Fifty years since the birth of the nation, we have veered off course. Non-Malays feel they have not been given fair treatment. Have we gone against the Bangsa Malaysia concept of vision 2020? In fact, we have not really faced up to the most basic question," he said.
"In the past, our politics were raced-based and the recent general election was meaningful in that it broke down the race barriers. But how long can this last?
"How are we going to strengthen the present political milieu, so that we move towards the forging of a Bangsa Malaysia? These, we have to explore and make efforts (to achieve)," he said.
Lim recognised the fact that changes cannot take place overnight and that the people also need time to accept changes.
"The message of the March 8 elections is that 'we should focus our attention on the nation-building agenda'," he said.
In the interview, Lim also dwelled on the issue of Islamic state, which he felt will be an acid test for Pakatan Rakyat (PR) and an important factor that determines if the coalition lasts.
"If PR cannot come up with an effective mechanism to handle and set clear objectives of cooperation, there will be big problems (for PR) in the future."
He said PAS should learn from the failure of the alternative front in 1999 and stop raising the Islamic state issue again.
He also stressed that PR is not a platform for individual parties to realise their objectives.
"The people voted for PR in the recent election because they want a change. The people wanted a clean and transparent government, they wanted judicial reforms and rejected corruption. These are the changes they want and not an Islamic state," he said.
He said the establishment of an Islamic state is against the principles of cooperation within PR and the remarks by PAS top leadership that the component parties of Pakatan are able to accept the Islamic state concept are not reflecting the facts.
"Not only are the people worried about the Islamic state issue, we too are worried, because if it is not handled properly, PR will fail, which is not what we want to see. We want to realise the people's aspirations for change."
Lim said DAP has all these while been against the Islamic state concept "because it goes against the structure of our plural society".
"We don't want to change the present categorisation of (Malaysians into) bumiputras and non-bumiputras to one of Muslims and non-Muslims. It is against the social contract. Malaysia is a secular state and not an Islamic state. This is our principle," he said.
The Sun 6/5/08
PETALING JAYA (May 5, 2008): DAP central policy and strategic planning commission chairman Lim Kit Siang feels the time is ripe for all parties to relook the social contract upon which the nation was founded.
"We have not discussed the social contract since Merdeka" he said.
Speaking to Sin Chew Daily in an interview published today, the DAP veteran and Ipoh Timur MP said in the wake of the March 8 general election, parties from both sides of the political divide and the people should ponder where the country is headed.
He suggested the various political parties organise an all-Malaysian summit to examine the country's achievements for the last 50 years and determine the direction the country should take to forge ahead.
On the possibility that Pakatan Rakyat might lose the support of some Malays for proposing to replace Malay supremacy (Ketuanan Melayu) with people's supremacy (Ketuanan Rakyat), Lim felt that if the country is to head for the development of a Bangsa Malaysia, the emphasis should be on people's supremacy, and to rise above race, religion and party.
"And there should be no more distinction between bumiputras and non-bumiputras," he added.
"Fifty years since the birth of the nation, we have veered off course. Non-Malays feel they have not been given fair treatment. Have we gone against the Bangsa Malaysia concept of vision 2020? In fact, we have not really faced up to the most basic question," he said.
"In the past, our politics were raced-based and the recent general election was meaningful in that it broke down the race barriers. But how long can this last?
"How are we going to strengthen the present political milieu, so that we move towards the forging of a Bangsa Malaysia? These, we have to explore and make efforts (to achieve)," he said.
Lim recognised the fact that changes cannot take place overnight and that the people also need time to accept changes.
"The message of the March 8 elections is that 'we should focus our attention on the nation-building agenda'," he said.
In the interview, Lim also dwelled on the issue of Islamic state, which he felt will be an acid test for Pakatan Rakyat (PR) and an important factor that determines if the coalition lasts.
"If PR cannot come up with an effective mechanism to handle and set clear objectives of cooperation, there will be big problems (for PR) in the future."
He said PAS should learn from the failure of the alternative front in 1999 and stop raising the Islamic state issue again.
He also stressed that PR is not a platform for individual parties to realise their objectives.
"The people voted for PR in the recent election because they want a change. The people wanted a clean and transparent government, they wanted judicial reforms and rejected corruption. These are the changes they want and not an Islamic state," he said.
He said the establishment of an Islamic state is against the principles of cooperation within PR and the remarks by PAS top leadership that the component parties of Pakatan are able to accept the Islamic state concept are not reflecting the facts.
"Not only are the people worried about the Islamic state issue, we too are worried, because if it is not handled properly, PR will fail, which is not what we want to see. We want to realise the people's aspirations for change."
Lim said DAP has all these while been against the Islamic state concept "because it goes against the structure of our plural society".
"We don't want to change the present categorisation of (Malaysians into) bumiputras and non-bumiputras to one of Muslims and non-Muslims. It is against the social contract. Malaysia is a secular state and not an Islamic state. This is our principle," he said.
The Sun 6/5/08
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