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Thursday, December 27, 2012
11/12/12 Obama Menyinsing Lengan, Najib kelih keting.....

11/12/12 Obama Menyinsing Lengan, Najib kelih keting.....

Saat pilihanraya Presiden Amerika kian memuncak, Allah mendatangkan ribut taufan maha dahsat melanda sebahagian dari Amerika. Obama, seorang opportunist menguasai keadaan. Dengan pantas beliau terjun bersama AirForce 1 menyinsing lengan memberikan semangat juang kepada rakyatnya. Allah dengan mudah melowong beliau memenangi piliharaya buat penggal kedua. Dan pasti Obama senyap-senyap bersyukur Thank God for Your Storm. Namun apa muslihat Allah selanjutnya, kita perhati dan ikuti rapat. Di Amerika, dari bapa pengasasnya Abraham Lincoln sehingga ke Obama, asas kepada sikap kepimpinan mereka adalah Forceful Leadership. Rasanya belum ada dalam sejarah Amerika mereka memilih pemimpin yang sering ngantuk dan atau picek ngak bisa ngundur. Semua bersikap, I'm the commander In-Chief.

(2) Di Malaysia, kini Pantai Timur sedang dilanda bah. Najib dan Muhyidin pun terjun bersingsing celana, bukan lengan. Maka nampaklah keting betis. Nasib baik di Kelantan, keadaan banjir tidak meluas, jika meluas pasti PEMUDA/PUTERI UMNO akan mengadakan Fiesta Kelih Keting. Saban tahun kita saksikan gejala ini. Saban tahun samalah pendekatan kita.

(3) Sesungguhnya buat saya Rais Yatim atau para pegawainya kerana terlalu sibuk dengan acara gah-gahan maka mereka lupa untuk memerhati bagaimana Abdul Razak Husein mengatasi kemelut rakyat di zamannya yang serba kekurangan. Saya yakin dan masih ingat menyaksi bagaimana Abdul Razak Husein menaiki Nuri, pertamanya memeriksa keliling, kemudian singgah menyinsing lengan dan celana berkubang lalu bersila makan bersama rakyat. Tidak lama kemudian dia mengarahkan para pegawainya untuk meneliti aliran sungai Kelantan dan mengemukakan kepada beliau cadangan bagi mengatasi masalah banjir dan sengsara rakyat. Sesungguhnya pada masa itu, rakyat tidak kisah sangat tentang banjir, mereka juga seronok bila banjir. Banjir adalah pesta air bagi mereka. Yang merisaukan mereka adalah kerbau, sapi, kambing, ayam itik dan padi yang musnah. Abdul Razak Husein dapat menangkap itu. Dia sadar itu. Lalu dia memberi dan menyampaikan keperluan sebenar rakyat. Maka lahirlah KEMUBU, MUDA, dsb.

(4) Kini saya janggal melihat para menteri dan pemimpin sibuk tertayang hebat menghulur sebungkus maggie buat habuan rakyat banjir sedang tahun depan hidup mereka tetap juga akan banjir dan terus banjir. Inilah bedanya bila Negarawan bisa melihat Negara dari melihat undi. SubhannaAllah, Abdul Razak Husein meniggalkan baka yang apa mungkin punya mata, telinga, hati dan fikiran sepertinya. Semoga Allah merahmati rohnya dan kita semua menghargai jasanya. Cuma Najib, menapaknya di setiap langkah Razak Husein, dalam erti apa sebenarnya? Menumpang meraih simpati atau sejujurnya menjejaki jalan selari baktinya? Ya Rabbi, lowongkan dia ke jalan benarMu agar UmmahMu terbela selamat.

Kuching, Sarawak
28 Disemebar, 2012
10/12/12 KESAMARAN TAHUN 2013.......bersiaplah!

10/12/12 KESAMARAN TAHUN 2013.......bersiaplah!

Suatu ketika, kita gah kerana Timah. Kita pernah gah hebat kerana pembalakan dan industri perkayuan. Begitu juga kita sangat bergetah kerana Getah. Lantas, kita juga lemak berminyak kerana Koko. Lima belas ke dua puloh tahun sudah, Sawit banyak menyelamatkan Negara. Saat ekonomi dunia terombang ambing, lantaran ketidak tentuan harga petroleum mentah, kita bertahan baik. Paling istimewa, ekonomi di luar bandar terus berkembang dan menjadi sandaran baik buat Negara. Semua ini kerana kita adalah hebat dalam pengeluaran komoditi pertanian. Namun kini Timah, Balak, Getah dan Koko bukan lagi asas ekonomi kita. Semua komoditi itu kini ibarat ayam berak kapur. Kenapa?

(2) Harga sawit kini menjunam di luar dugaan para pengalisis komoditi Malaysia. Dulu kita juara dalam pengeluaran sawit. Kini kita kian tercorot di belakang Indonesia. Kenapa? Sepuloh ke lima belas tahun dahulu, banyak syarikat-syarikat perladangan Malaysia melabur di Indonesia. Samada kecil atau besar, banyak bergegas mengejar hutan dara Indonesia. Itu syarikat. Para pengurus ladang pula mengejar para anak dara Indonesia. Maka kita terperangkap dalam kegebuan Indonesia. Kini Indonesia sudah ada sawit jauh lebih luas dari Malaysia. Paling mendukacitakan, biar pada asalnya kebanyakan ladang sawit adalah milik syarikat-syarikat dari Malaysia, kebayakan ladang-ladang ini kini telah terjual kepada lima kelompok besar pengusasa Indonesia. Akibatnya, dua dari lima kelompok ini menjadi gergasi yang tidak pernah kenyang dan terus menguasai segala tanpa jemu dan henti. Kini, biar Sime Darby, FELDA, IOI, Tabung Haji, dsb dulu adalah gergasi sawit dunia, kini mereka sedang menuju menjadi Awang Kenit mengerdil.

(3) Paling dhaif, kerana kita asyik berpolitik, Najib-Muhydin asyik bertikam dengan Anwar-Lim-Nik Aziz, menjadikan seluruh pemikiran rakyat apa lagi bijak pandai Negara juga terbawa-bawa sehingga semua seperti lupa betapa mengurus ekonomi dan sosial Negara jauh lebih mendadak keperluannya. Dalam industri sawit khususnya, FELDA jadi sendiri-sendiri. Sama dengan FELCRA. Sama dengan Tabung Haji. Sime Darby pula dihantui para tamak haloba anak-anak Melayu yang Melayu dan Islamnya entah di mana? Begitu juga para pengusaha lainnya seperti IOI, UP, SOP, SPB dan semuanya seperti enau dalam belukar.

(4) Apa lagi kini dengan paksaan gaji Minimum RM800.00/bulan serta pelbagai kemudahan lain yang perlu diberikan kepada semua pekerja ladang, bagaimanakah agaknya keadaan industri perladangan sawit dalam keadaan Kos melambung dan laba menjunam ini?. Dengan cara itu, apa mungkin rakyat tempatan akan mahu ke ladang? dan menyaksikan rakyat asing berbondong-bondong pulang?. Saya mengagak pasti suatu hari kita akan termanggu melihat limpahan rakyat asing dan tergeleng-geleng kepala dengan kebodohan dasar buruh sekadar untuk kelihatan kita adalah glokal. Saya yakin Indonesia akan sekali lagi tersenyum sini melihat kita terperangkap sama seperti bila kita ghairah mengejar RSVO. Sesungguhnya lima gergasi perladangan sawit Indonesia sedang seronok melihat kebakaran dari seberang. Bodoh, saombonmg bodohlah kita jika kita tidak sedar akan prihal ini.

(5) Saya tidak menjangka fenomena kekalutan harga sawit ini; sebagai sementara. Suatu permainan serakah kapitalisma sedang melanda Negara. Jika dulu mereka bermain dengan mata wang, dan dapat merombak sistem perbankan banyak negara, khususnya negara-negara sasaran kini mereka sedang menyerang komoditi yang menjadi asas kekuatan negara-negara tertentu. Sesungguhnya Yahudi itu sangat licik, dan Allah pasti sedih melihat kita alpa dalam kebodohan. Peperangan dan reformasi politik kini telah mengukuhkan penguasaan mereka terhadap petroleum, maka kini mereka sudah boleh beralih kepada komoditi lainnya. Jika industri sawit Malaysia goyah, Najib jangan bermimpi akan tidur lena. Di Semenanjung Malaysia bahkan kian berkembang di Sabah dan Sarawak, para pekebun kecil sedang berkembang luas dan kegoyahan dalam perladangan sawit pasti menguncang kehidupan mereka. Lim Keng Yeik sudah mati. Maka matilah pengalaman panjang dalam kita mengurus komoditi. Saya berkira Peter Chin sedang terkebil-kebil bukan sekadar pening kipla dalam mengurus keadaan pasaran sawit, juga kehancuran parti politiknya SUPP. Shafiee Afdal, saya berkira kian mengelabah betapa Apa Khbar Orang Kampung? akan penuh dengan muka-muka sedih yang bertambah-tambah.

(6) Sesungguhnya sehingga kini saya belum mendengar apakah langkah-langkah segera Negara dalam mengatasi kemelut harga CPO kini. Samada dari segi tarif atau non-tarif kita belum beranjak cepat. Apa lagi dari dasar fiskal  apakah persiapan yang harus kita laksanakan. Industri sokongan seperti segala keperluan input dan penjenteraan industri sawit tidak pernah kita kaji. Semuannya kerana masing-m,asing asyik menjaga kepentingan sendiri. FELDA pentingkan bajanya. Sime darby pentingkan bekalan jenteranya. FELCRA pentingkan tak pernah berubahnya. IOI pentingkan oleo-chemical down streamnya. Tabung Haji, pentingkan entah apanya. Kita tidak ada kesatuan dalam menjaga kepentingan semua. Kecintaan kita kepada Negara, tidak ada. Saya nampak jika keadaan berlanjutan untuk tempoh dua ke tiga tahun mendatang, maka akan banyak para pengusasa ladang kecil dan sederhana akan gulung tikar. Soal ini akan menstruktur semula pemilikan perladangan di Malaysia, itu lain hal, sememang sebegitu haloba serakah kapitalismanamun saya mengira jika keadaan ini terjadi sebetulnya kita sedang bermain Zerro Sum Game yang paling mahal dan bodoh! Kebangkraban pengusaha kecil dan serderhana pasti akan menguncang ekonomi dan tata sosial masyarakat. Kita telah mengalaminya dalam  tahun-tahun 1999-2005 akibat kebodohan Anwar dan kedayusan Kabinet Mahathir lewat menyadari akan sikap mengikut telunjuk IMF lewat dasar Fiskal kapaitalisma erakah haloba.

(7) Kita sibuk berpolitik, kita lupa mengurus Negara. Para penjawat awam pula sedang terlalu sibuk membuka dada, bergoyang kaki tanpa kesadaran tinggi betapa terlalu banyak muslihat dalam segala unjuran statistik Negara, biar indek ekonomi, perusahaan dan atau kesejahateraan rakyat. Kelemahan ketara adalah bila pengalaman silam tidak pernah dihargai dan banyak kebocoran ilmuan-Malaysian Best Brain Drift-Killing sedang berlaku hebat di Negara ini Kita dan Pol Pot sepertinya kian mendekat MasyaAllah..

Kuching, Sarawak

29  Disembar, 2012
Saturday, November 3, 2012
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2/11/12 MEMILIK NEGARA PENGELUARAN MAKANAN......nationalise our food production

Di Amerika, 5 peratus dari penduduknya mengeluarkan makanan untuk 95 peratus dari penduduknya. Begitu juga di Belanda. Di New Zealand, bebirinya memutih sekitar 10 kali ganda dari bilangan penduduknya. Begitu juga di Australia di mana sebahagian besar tanah di luar bandar adalah milik hanya segelintir petani. Kanada begitu juga sifatnya. Cuma di Indonesia, Filipina, Thailand, Vietnam, India, Brazil, Argentina, Chile, hampir seluruh negara-negara di Afrika, kebanyakan tanah adalah milik penduduk luar bandar sedang hasil pengeluaran mereka tidakpun cukup untuk makan sendiri. Di China, perkongsian tanah antara rakyat dan pemerintah, menjadikan negara tersebut boleh berdikari biar dalam keadaan biasa masih tetap tidak kecukupan.

(2) Di Malaysia, sejak padi diperkenalkan di rantau ini oleh mungkinnya penghijrah awalan Melayu dari China, asalnya, penanaman padi hanyalah untuk sekadar keperluan sendiri, sara diri. Padi hanya menjadi komoditi dagang mungkin sekitar 1980an. Kini Vietnam dan Kemboja adalah pengeksport padi utama dunia. Thailand lebih cenderung untuk mengeluar untuk keperluan sendiri yang kian meningkat. Begitu juga China, India, Bangladesh, Indonesia, dan Filipina. Amerika dan Australia adalah juga pengekspot padi utama bukan kerana pengeluaran mereka adalah berlebihan, melainkan mereka tidak berapa mengerti makan sambal belacan dan gulai masak lemak.

(3) Saya berkira hampir-hampir 70 peratus rakyat dunia ini makan nasi. Nasi adalah makanan ruji untuk seluruh umat manusia di Asia. Kalau dihitung, itu saja sudah melibatkan hampir-hampir 60 peratus dari rakyat dunia (China, India, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Arab, dsb). Akibat penghijrahan dan pengaruh masyarakat Asia ke Amerika, Eropah dan Australia, nasi kian menjadi terkenal di sana.

(4) Namun penanaman padi sangat terkait dengan keperluan bekalan air. Tanpa pengairan dan saliran yang baik, penanaman padi menjadi suatu yang mustahil. Cuaca dunia kian berubah. Ketaktentuan penghasilan beras kian menruncing. Apa lagi akibat perluasan kawasan perbandaran dan perindustrian, kawasan utama penanaman padi kian menguncup. Dengan pertambahan penduduk Asia khususnya yang kian meningkat, pastinya penawaran bekalan padi menjadi tegar.

(5) Penanaman padi bukanlah sebuah perusahaan yang menguntungkan. Jika menanam padi adalah sangat menguntungkan, pastinya semua orang Melayu di Kelantan, Trengganu, Kedah, Perlis, Seberang Prai, Tg Karang-Banting, Teluk Intan, Beufort-Lahad Datu, Simunjan-Sri Aman, Matu-Daro, sudah kaya raya, jika tidak miskin. Melainkan di California di Amerika dan Wilayah Utara Australia, sedikit di Jepun, Korea dan Taiwan, sebilangan besar bahkan mungkin 98 peratus penanam padi di dunia tergolong sebagai yang miskin.

(6) Biar sebegitu, kenapa pula masih banyak di antara orang Melayu (termasuk pelbagai kaum pribumi di Sarawak dan Sabah) masih tetap menanam padi. Di Kedah, Perlis, Kelantan, Trengganu, Seberang Prai, Tg Karang-Banting, apa penanam padi di kawasan-kawasan Pengairan seperti Muda, Kemubu, Semerak-Kemasin, Kada, Mada, dsb punya pilihan. Berapa luaskah kawasan ini telah dijadikan kawasan pengeluaran padi? Berapa ramai pula petani di sini terperangkap sebagai penanam padi? Kenapa mereka harus berkorban untuk terus miskin sedang yang menikmatinya harga beras terkawal tidak ingat akan pengorbanan mereka?

(7) Saya menjangka tidak kurang dari 200,000 hektar tanah di seluruh negara samada secara langsung atau tidak langsung telah diperangkap sebagai kawasan penanaman padi. Jika angka itu betul saya perhitungkan sekitar 200,000-500,000 keluarga tani adalah terperangkap sebagai misin tegar disengajakan. Untuk membuktikan hipotesis saya ini, analisalah perangkaan Penghijrahan Luar Bandar ke Bandar, perhatikan kadar Kemiskinan di kalangan penduduk luar bandar mengikut sub-sektor ekonomi, serta amatilah Petunjuk Kesihatan, Kadar Celik Huruf, Kadar Keciciran, Kadar Perceraian dan Penikahan Muda bahkan Kadar Poligami dan Ulang Penikahan di kalangan pelbagai sub-sektor ekonomi luar bandar. Saya yakin, kiblatnya pasti tetap menghala kepada petani padi dan nelayan kecil. Pasti perangkaan ini akan mengugat dan mengusarkan. Kenapalah penanaman padi sepertinya adalah kesialan buat umat Melayu?

(8) Apakah jalan yang perlu kita lakukan? Berapakah keperluan beras negara? Berapakah nilai import beras negara? Jawapan kebanyakan ahli akuantan pastinya, lebih murah import dari pengeluaran sendiri. Ahli 'ekonomi' pula mungkin akan menyaran, kita tanam padi di Kemboja, dan kita bawa pulang. Logik. Berasas. Namun soal saya adalah: "Apakah kita harus biarkan 200,000-500,000 keluarga penanam padi di negara ini terus miskin?". Juga, apakah rakyat negara ini akan terus berkurang? Jika dunia belum kiamat esok, bagaimana keadaan keperluan makanan kita 10, 100, 1,000, 10,000 bahkan 100,000 tahun lagi? Agaknya, masih adakah tempat untuk kita bertani dengan lebih cekap dan produktif? Buat saya, sesungguhnya di sinilah Allah telah menetapkan agar kita Menjadi khalifah di muka bumi. Memerhati, berfikir dan mengurus. Buat saya dunia akan cepat kiamat jika manusia semua sudah main tidak kisah serta sangat senang memilih jalan mudah.

(9) Jika dalam Belanjawan 2013, Najib sanggup memperuntukkan RM200,000,000,000 untuk keperluan mengurus yang saya pasti sebahagian besar adalah untuk mengurus agar rakyat memberinya Kemenangan Besar dalam PRU13, saya yakin banyak dari Perbelanjaan tersebut tidak akan memberikan Real Sustainable Growth. Perbelanjaan tersebut akan hanya memberikan Ujaan Semu Seketika lebih kepada Outlier Growth. Mustapha Mohammed, "Apa sudah jadi dengan saran Produktive Growth sedikit masa lalu?"

(10) Soal bekalan makanan negara tidak terbatas hanya kepada bekalan beras. Ianya mencakupi bekalan daging, susu, ikan, sayuran, minyak masak, gula, buah-buahan, rempah ratus dsb. Kita sesungguhnya sangat kekurangan dalam semua ini. Maka dengan sebab itu, orang Melayu masih banyak Kemetot biar badan mereka banyak sudah melebar namun tidak tinggi dan perkasa. Sebabnya, pemakanan kita tidak mencukupi dfan seimbang. Sebabnya, bekalan makanan kita tidak mencukupi dan sering tidak mantap. Apakah Melayu terus mahu kemetot dan cacingen? Namun itu bukanlah gejala mendadak yang harus kita terlalu risaukan. Najib harus sedar, saat perut lapar, otak berpinar, hati resah, nafsu bergelora, dan jika kelaparan sukar dibendung, rakyat pasti resah gelisah. Hamburlah sebanyak mana Wang Negara, mereka kan tetap resah. Sesungguhnya yang meresahkan rakyat sekarang ini adalah keperluan hidup yang semakin mendadak. Harga makanan kian melambung. Harga rumah sudah tidak terkawal. Harga perjalanan kian merimaskan. Harge perubatan meresahkan. Harga keselamatan merunsingkan. Semua, kerana kita sudah terbelenggu oleh Keparat Kapitalisma!

(11) Apa kita boleh buat? Seperti saya utarakan sebelum ini, kenapa tidak dengan berani kita Peruntukkan sekitar RM2,000,000,000 setahun selama lima tahun agar 200,000 hektar tanah petani jadi Milik Negara? Kerja gila? Sekali pandang memang gila? Membuat Baitullah di Padang Pasir Bekka itupun kerja gila jika kita lihat ianya sebagai gila. Bukankan lebih selesa jika Baitullah didirikan di Iskandariah, pinggiran Maditeranean kalau tidak di Lembah Tigris atau Nil yang lebih subur, hijau dan nyaman? Sesungguhnya yang payah itulah yang menyenangkan jika kita berfikir tekun, jujur, ikhlas dan bertanggungjawap. Konsep Milik Negara yang saya maksudkan tidak harus dipandang sama dengan cara Pemilik Negaraan pasca-kemerdekaan banayk negara termasuk di Malaysia. Apa yang saya maksudkan sebagai Memeilik Negara Jelapang Padi kita adalah menjadikan Perusahaan itu sebuah perusahaan yang bermakna dan menguntungkan secara berkekalan, Significant and Sustaibaly Profitable buat semua pemilik tanahnya. Bagaimana?

(12) Kita kena berfikir secara sosio-ekonomi-koprat, tidak semata-mata sebagai ahli ekonomi apa lagi akauntan, jauh sekali Kapitalis Tulin. Pemikiran kita harus menjurus kepada Pembinaan Ummah. Pertama, buat Nilaian Pasaran ke atas tanah-tanah berkaitan. Katakan Purata Harga adalah RM50,000.00/hektar atau RM20,000/ekar. Maka, katakan 200,000 hektar, pasti Nilai Pasarannya adalah RM10,000,000,000. Kedua, nilai purata Daya Pengeluaran Padi Para Petani, saya kira sekitar 7.00 mt/ha/tahun. Nilai padi sejumlah ini adalah RM10,000.00/ha/tahun. Nilai bersih mungkin sekitar RM6,000/ha/tahun. Bermaksud, Pendapatan Bersih Tahunan Petani untuk sekitar 200,000 ha adalah RM1,200,000,000/tahun. Andaikan dalam Perusahaan Bersepadu, Pulangan Positif akan hanya berlaku sekitar lima tahun selepas permulaan. Maka jika itu berlaku pasti Petani tidak tahan. Terlungkup periuk nasi mereka. Kerajaanpun terbang tonggang langgang. Ketiganya, rombak hebat institusi awam yang berkait dengan industri pertanian, khususnya Jabatan Pertanian (DOA), MARDI, FAMA, LKIM, Jabatan Perikanan, Jabatan Haiwan, Lembaga Nenas serta UniPutra dan segala fakulti institusi pengajia tinggi yang terlibat dalam pertanian dan biaoteknologi, asakan mereka untuk merangka Pelan Induk dan Pelan Tindakan Perusahaan Makanan Negara Bersepadu. Cara kerja awam yang menjadi darah daging mereka mesti dirombak. Mereka perlu digembeling dalam satu Pasukan demi dan untuk membangun Perusahaan Makanan dan Sampinga Negara dalam tempoh lima tahun ie 2018.

(13) Di Solo, Malang, dan Lembang di Jawa, saya pernah melawat dan meneliti bagaimana dari sawah padi lahir beras organik, daging, susu, ikan keli, ayam itek, telur, sayur-sayuran, buah-buahan, madu lebah, segala rempah, baja organik, gas asli, genting, pasu, segala macam kerajinan tangan dan industri sampingan. Cuma, semuannya terbuat secara nyambil kecil-kecil aja, sebabnya pemerintah ngak bisa bantu, apa lagi pabriknya. Inilah malangnya, bila Menteri Pertanian Malaysia, Noh Omar (?), hanya berpolitik, tidak menumpu kepada Membina Ummah. Pasti dia menuding jari kepada Penjawat Awam kenapa tidak memberi nasihat, well in Malays there is that proverb: Guru kencing berdiri, murid kencing belari, siapa peduli. Saya yakin, jika Pelan Induk dan Pelan Tindakan Makanan Negara dapat dirumus berdasarkan ilham-contoh di Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam dan Taiwan, kita boleh menukarkan 200,000 hektar tanah sawah menjadi RM120,000,000,000/year Income Generator dengan Pertumbuhan Pendapatan sekitar 5-7 peratus setahun terus kepada para petani. Cuma otak dan semangat kita harus terus kreatif dan innovatif. Apa tidak mungkin untuk memaksa Sime Darby, Tabung Haji, FELDA, PNB, MayBank, CIMB, PETRONAS, IOI, Berjaya, Kwok Group, Tradewind, dsb untuk mengembeling tenaga, fikiran dan kewangan untuk menyumbang Ringit ke Ringgit dalam bidang ini. Saya yakin merka boleh cuma kuatkah penumbok Najib. Rasanya wajar Mustapha Mohammed menjalankan tugas sebagai Menteri Perusahaan Pertanian Negara. Noh Omar, rasanya kurang berstamina dan berakal dalam bidang ini. Tan Sri Hassan Marican mungkin bagus dijadikan KSU Kementerian berkanaan. Kalau tidak bawa balik Sanusi Junid yang gila-gila itu kembali menanam padi di atas semua Kondominuim di Kuala Lumpur. Buat Sprinkler Watering, boleh juga menyejukkan hawa panas Kuala Lumpur.

(14) Sebetulnya saya membayangkan betapa telah terlalu banyak Wang Negara terbazir dalam bentuk subsidi, prasarana, gaji, operasi, keraian, dsb yang selama ini kita belanjakan, namun hasilnya tetap sama. Bayangkan 200,000 hektar boleh ditanami padi sekitar 2.50 pusingan setahun, pasti hasilnya adalah 12.50 mt/padi/ha/tahun. Pasti kita dapat menghasilan sejumlah 2,500,000 mt/padi/tahun atau sekitar 1,300,000 mt/tahun beras. Bayangkan berapa banyak jerami boleh kita hasilkan? Mungkin sekitar 22,500,000 mt/kering. Pastinya setinggi Gunung Jerai, dan berapa banyak daging dan susu boleh kita hasilakn dari jeramin sebegitu menggunung. Pada kadar Janaan Daging: Makanan 1:0.6 pasti ini jika diadun dengan baik dapat menghasilkan 13,500,000 mt/daging/setahun dan ini bersamaan dengan 45,000,000 ekor lembu. Angka ini pasti memberikan penduduk lembu kita dua kali ganda dari penduduk manusiannya. Pastinya bekalan daging kita adalah pada kadar 700k/per kapita. Apakah ini tidak mencukupi? Jika lembu yang di bela adalah jenis tenusu, pasti ini akan menghasilkan sekurang-kurangnya 13,000,000,000 liter/susu/tahun. Ini juga bermakna bekalan susu kita akan mencapai tahap 4,000litre/kapita. Pasti muak susulah rakyat kita. Itu baru jerami, bagaimana dengan dedak. Tidakkah kita mampu menghasilkan sekitar 1,350,000 mt/setahun. Jika dedak ini kita tukar jadi itek, ayam dan telur, berapa banyak agaknya? Bagaimana pula dengan sekam, apa tidak mungkin kita dapat menghasilkan 1,000,000 mt/setahun sekam kering. Apakah angka sebegitu tidak berdaya maju jika kita hendak membuka industri Activated Carbon atau Compress Fibre sebagai bahan bakar dalam penjanaan elektrik dan wap. Dari 27,000 ekor lembu, ratusan jutaan ayam dan itik berapa banyak najis dan air kumbahan yang mereka boleh janakan sehari. Jutaan mt dan billion liter/tahun, apakah itu tidak baik untuk pengeluaran baja organik dan pengeluaran gas asli. Juga bayangkan dari kulit dan tulang lembu, agaknya berapa banyakkah gelatin dapat kita keluarkan. Tidakkah ini boleh menyumbang kepada Industri Farmasi Halal akhirnya. Saya sudah hilang perkiraan jika sayuran, buah-buahan dan segala rempah ratus kita asmukkan sekali, Apa lagi jika segala bungaan dan ternak perhiasan digemebling bersama. Apakah 200,000 hektar yang diolah secara Intensive, Integrated, and Full Chain Industry tidak akan melonjak tinggi pendapatan Ummah. Cuba angka ini kita tingkatkan kepada 2,000,000 hektar, bagaimana perangkaannya? Cuba para GLC dan Najib fkirkan perkara ini. Janganlah keutungan GLC sering dibelanja besar untuk kepentingan dan keselesaan pengurusan. Sesungguhnya GLC adalah milik rakyat dan kembalikan hak rakyat sesempurnanya.

(14) Saya yakin dengan cara ini, Kerjaan bukan sekadar dapat membekal makanan mencukupi buat negara, malah menemukan bidang Pertumbuhan Baru serta membasmi kemiskinan di kalangan petani penanam padi, penternak dan nelayan. Saya yakin dengan ini, kita juga pasti boleh terus kembang meneroka Pengeluaran Makanan Halal buat seluruh umat manusia. Yang paling saya ingin lihat, rakyat benar-benar menikmati Pendapatan Tinggi, bukan sekadar negara.

(15) Model Pembangunan sebegini untuk dapat diterima oleh pemilik tanah sawah di seluruh negara, maka Pampasan Saraan Hidup di samping pampasan Harga Pasaran Sebenar Tanah, dan mereka mesti memiliki sekurang-kurangnya 30 peratus saham dalam keseluruhan Industri yang terbit dari Perusahaan di atas tanah mereka harus difikirkan. Kerajaan tidak perlu khuatir cara mana untuk mendapatkan kembali Wang Negara, kerana secara perlembagaan sudah ada caranya.

(16) Kita boleh perhalusi semua ini. Kita cukup pakar, cuma pakar kita terlalu banyak mesyuarah, tanpa arah, terlalu banyak selidik, yang ngak bikin kita lebih cerdik, terlalu banyak lawatan wisata sedang belajarnya sambi-sambi sahaja. Saya yakin, Mustapha Mohammed, a warokaholic and sharp minded person boleh merevolusi Industri Pertanian kita.

Terasi, Pendam, Sarawak
4 Nov., 2013
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2/11/12 MEMILIK NEGARA PENGELUARAN MAKANAN......nationalise our food production

Di Amerika, 5 peratus dari penduduknya mengeluarkan makanan untuk 95 peratus dari penduduknya. Begitu juga di Belanda. Di New Zealand, bebirinya memutih sekitar 10 kali ganda dari bilangan penduduknya. Begitu juga di Australia di mana sebahagian besar tanah di luar bandar adalah milik hanya segelintir petani. Kanada begitu juga sifatnya. Cuma di Indonesia, Filipina, Thailand, Vietnam, India, Brazil, Argentina, Chile, hampir seluruh negara-negara di Afrika, kebanyakan tanah adalah milik penduduk luar bandar sedang hasil pengeluaran mereka tidakpun cukup untuk makan sendiri. Di China, perkongsian tanah antara rakyat dan pemerintah, menjadikan negara tersebut boleh berdikari biar dalam keadaan biasa masih tetap tidak kecukupan.

(2) Di Malaysia, sejak padi diperkenalkan di rantau ini oleh mungkinnya penghijrah awalan Melayu dari China, asalnya, penanaman padi hanyalah untuk sekadar keperluan sendiri, sara diri. Padi hanya menjadi komoditi dagang mungkin sekitar 1980an. Kini Vietnam dan Kemboja adalah pengeksport padi utama dunia. Thailand lebih cenderung untuk mengeluar untuk keperluan sendiri yang kian meningkat. Begitu juga China, India, Bangladesh, Indonesia, dan Filipina. Amerika dan Australia adalah juga pengekspot padi utama bukan kerana pengeluaran mereka adalah berlebihan, melainkan mereka tidak berapa mengerti makan sambal belacan dan gulai masak lemak.

(3) Saya berkira hampir-hampir 70 peratus rakyat dunia ini makan nasi. Nasi adalah makanan ruji untuk seluruh umat manusia di Asia. Kalau dihitung, itu saja sudah melibatkan hampir-hampir 60 peratus dari rakyat dunia (China, India, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Arab, dsb). Akibat penghijrahan dan pengaruh masyarakat Asia ke Amerika, Eropah dan Australia, nasi kian menjadi terkenal di sana.

(4) Namun penanaman padi sangat terkait dengan keperluan bekalan air. Tanpa pengairan dan saliran yang baik, penanaman padi menjadi suatu yang mustahil. Cuaca dunia kian berubah. Ketaktentuan penghasilan beras kian menruncing. Apa lagi akibat perluasan kawasan perbandaran dan perindustrian, kawasan utama penanaman padi kian menguncup. Dengan pertambahan penduduk Asia khususnya yang kian meningkat, pastinya penawaran bekalan padi menjadi tegar.

(5) Penanaman padi bukanlah sebuah perusahaan yang menguntungkan. Jika menanam padi adalah sangat menguntungkan, pastinya semua orang Melayu di Kelantan, Trengganu, Kedah, Perlis, Seberang Prai, Tg Karang-Banting, Teluk Intan, Beufort-Lahad Datu, Simunjan-Sri Aman, Matu-Daro, sudah kaya raya, jika tidak miskin. Melainkan di California di Amerika dan Wilayah Utara Australia, sedikit di Jepun, Korea dan Taiwan, sebilangan besar bahkan mungkin 98 peratus penanam padi di dunia tergolong sebagai yang miskin.

(6) Biar sebegitu, kenapa pula masih banyak di antara orang Melayu (termasuk pelbagai kaum pribumi di Sarawak dan Sabah) masih tetap menanam padi. Di Kedah, Perlis, Kelantan, Trengganu, Seberang Prai, Tg Karang-Banting, apa penanam padi di kawasan-kawasan Pengairan seperti Muda, Kemubu, Semerak-Kemasin, Kada, Mada, dsb punya pilihan. Berapa luaskah kawasan ini telah dijadikan kawasan pengeluaran padi? Berapa ramai pula petani di sini terperangkap sebagai penanam padi? Kenapa mereka harus berkorban untuk terus miskin sedang yang menikmatinya harga beras terkawal tidak ingat akan pengorbanan mereka?

(7) Saya menjangka tidak kurang dari 200,000 hektar tanah di seluruh negara samada secara langsung atau tidak langsung telah diperangkap sebagai kawasan penanaman padi. Jika angka itu betul saya perhitungkan sekitar 200,000-500,000 keluarga tani adalah terperangkap sebagai misin tegar disengajakan. Untuk membuktikan hipotesis saya ini, analisalah perangkaan Penghijrahan Luar Bandar ke Bandar, perhatikan kadar Kemiskinan di kalangan penduduk luar bandar mengikut sub-sektor ekonomi, serta amatilah Petunjuk Kesihatan, Kadar Celik Huruf, Kadar Keciciran, Kadar Perceraian dan Penikahan Muda bahkan Kadar Poligami dan Ulang Penikahan di kalangan pelbagai sub-sektor ekonomi luar bandar. Saya yakin, kiblatnya pasti tetap menghala kepada petani padi dan nelayan kecil. Pasti perangkaan ini akan mengugat dan mengusarkan. Kenapalah penanaman padi sepertinya adalah kesialan buat umat Melayu?

(8) Apakah jalan yang perlu kita lakukan? Berapakah keperluan beras negara? Berapakah nilai import beras negara? Jawapan kebanyakan ahli akuantan pastinya, lebih murah import dari pengeluaran sendiri. Ahli 'ekonomi' pula mungkin akan menyaran, kita tanam padi di Kemboja, dan kita bawa pulang. Logik. Berasas. Namun soal saya adalah: "Apakah kita harus biarkan 200,000-500,000 keluarga penanam padi di negara ini terus miskin?". Juga, apakah rakyat negara ini akan terus berkurang? Jika dunia belum kiamat esok, bagaimana keadaan keperluan makanan kita 10, 100, 1,000, 10,000 bahkan 100,000 tahun lagi? Agaknya, masih adakah tempat untuk kita bertani dengan lebih cekap dan produktif? Buat saya, sesungguhnya di sinilah Allah telah menetapkan agar kita Menjadi khalifah di muka bumi. Memerhati, berfikir dan mengurus. Buat saya dunia akan cepat kiamat jika manusia semua sudah main tidak kisah serta sangat senang memilih jalan mudah.

(9) Jika dalam Belanjawan 2013, Najib sanggup memperuntukkan RM200,000,000,000 untuk keperluan mengurus yang saya pasti sebahagian besar adalah untuk mengurus agar rakyat memberinya Kemenangan Besar dalam PRU13, saya yakin banyak dari Perbelanjaan tersebut tidak akan memberikan Real Sustainable Growth. Perbelanjaan tersebut akan hanya memberikan Ujaan Semu Seketika lebih kepada Outlier Growth. Mustapha Mohammed, "Apa sudah jadi dengan saran Produktive Growth sedikit masa lalu?"

(10) Soal bekalan makanan negara tidak terbatas hanya kepada bekalan beras. Ianya mencakupi bekalan daging, susu, ikan, sayuran, minyak masak, gula, buah-buahan, rempah ratus dsb. Kita sesungguhnya sangat kekurangan dalam semua ini. Maka dengan sebab itu, orang Melayu masih banyak Kemetot biar badan mereka banyak sudah melebar namun tidak tinggi dan perkasa. Sebabnya, pemakanan kita tidak mencukupi dfan seimbang. Sebabnya, bekalan makanan kita tidak mencukupi dan sering tidak mantap. Apakah Melayu terus mahu kemetot dan cacingen? Namun itu bukanlah gejala mendadak yang harus kita terlalu risaukan. Najib harus sedar, saat perut lapar, otak berpinar, hati resah, nafsu bergelora, dan jika kelaparan sukar dibendung, rakyat pasti resah gelisah. Hamburlah sebanyak mana Wang Negara, mereka kan tetap resah. Sesungguhnya yang meresahkan rakyat sekarang ini adalah keperluan hidup yang semakin mendadak. Harga makanan kian melambung. Harga rumah sudah tidak terkawal. Harga perjalanan kian merimaskan. Harge perubatan meresahkan. Harga keselamatan merunsingkan. Semua, kerana kita sudah terbelenggu oleh Keparat Kapitalisma!

(11) Apa kita boleh buat? Seperti saya utarakan sebelum ini, kenapa tidak dengan berani kita Peruntukkan sekitar RM2,000,000,000 setahun selama lima tahun agar 200,000 hektar tanah petani jadi Milik Negara? Kerja gila? Sekali pandang memang gila? Membuat Baitullah di Padang Pasir Bekka itupun kerja gila jika kita lihat ianya sebagai gila. Bukankan lebih selesa jika Baitullah didirikan di Iskandariah, pinggiran Maditeranean kalau tidak di Lembah Tigris atau Nil yang lebih subur, hijau dan nyaman? Sesungguhnya yang payah itulah yang menyenangkan jika kita berfikir tekun, jujur, ikhlas dan bertanggungjawap. Konsep Milik Negara yang saya maksudkan tidak harus dipandang sama dengan cara Pemilik Negaraan pasca-kemerdekaan banayk negara termasuk di Malaysia. Apa yang saya maksudkan sebagai Memeilik Negara Jelapang Padi kita adalah menjadikan Perusahaan itu sebuah perusahaan yang bermakna dan menguntungkan secara berkekalan, Significant and Sustaibaly Profitable buat semua pemilik tanahnya. Bagaimana?

(12) Kita kena berfikir secara sosio-ekonomi-koprat, tidak semata-mata sebagai ahli ekonomi apa lagi akauntan, jauh sekali Kapitalis Tulin. Pemikiran kita harus menjurus kepada Pembinaan Ummah. Pertama, buat Nilaian Pasaran ke atas tanah-tanah berkaitan. Katakan Purata Harga adalah RM50,000.00/hektar atau RM20,000/ekar. Maka, katakan 200,000 hektar, pasti Nilai Pasarannya adalah RM10,000,000,000. Kedua, nilai purata Daya Pengeluaran Padi Para Petani, saya kira sekitar 7.00 mt/ha/tahun. Nilai padi sejumlah ini adalah RM10,000.00/ha/tahun. Nilai bersih mungkin sekitar RM6,000/ha/tahun. Bermaksud, Pendapatan Bersih Tahunan Petani untuk sekitar 200,000 ha adalah RM1,200,000,000/tahun. Andaikan dalam Perusahaan Bersepadu, Pulangan Positif akan hanya berlaku sekitar lima tahun selepas permulaan. Maka jika itu berlaku pasti Petani tidak tahan. Terlungkup periuk nasi mereka. Kerajaanpun terbang tonggang langgang. Ketiganya, rombak hebat institusi awam yang berkait dengan industri pertanian, khususnya Jabatan Pertanian (DOA), MARDI, FAMA, LKIM, Jabatan Perikanan, Jabatan Haiwan, Lembaga Nenas serta UniPutra dan segala fakulti institusi pengajia tinggi yang terlibat dalam pertanian dan biaoteknologi, asakan mereka untuk merangka Pelan Induk dan Pelan Tindakan Perusahaan Makanan Negara Bersepadu. Cara kerja awam yang menjadi darah daging mereka mesti dirombak. Mereka perlu digembeling dalam satu Pasukan demi dan untuk membangun Perusahaan Makanan dan Sampinga Negara dalam tempoh lima tahun ie 2018.

(13) Di Solo, Malang, dan Lembang di Jawa, saya pernah melawat dan meneliti bagaimana dari sawah padi lahir beras organik, daging, susu, ikan keli, ayam itek, telur, sayur-sayuran, buah-buahan, madu lebah, segala rempah, baja organik, gas asli, genting, pasu, segala macam kerajinan tangan dan industri sampingan. Cuma, semuannya terbuat secara nyambil kecil-kecil aja, sebabnya pemerintah ngak bisa bantu, apa lagi pabriknya. Inilah malangnya, bila Menteri Pertanian Malaysia, Noh Omar (?), hanya berpolitik, tidak menumpu kepada Membina Ummah. Pasti dia menuding jari kepada Penjawat Awam kenapa tidak memberi nasihat, well in Malays there is that proverb: Guru kencing berdiri, murid kencing belari, siapa peduli. Saya yakin, jika Pelan Induk dan Pelan Tindakan Makanan Negara dapat dirumus berdasarkan ilham-contoh di Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam dan Taiwan, kita boleh menukarkan 200,000 hektar tanah sawah menjadi RM120,000,000,000/year Income Generator dengan Pertumbuhan Pendapatan sekitar 5-7 peratus setahun terus kepada para petani. Cuma otak dan semangat kita harus terus kreatif dan innovatif. Apa tidak mungkin untuk memaksa Sime Darby, Tabung Haji, FELDA, PNB, MayBank, CIMB, PETRONAS, IOI, Berjaya, Kwok Group, Tradewind, dsb untuk mengembeling tenaga, fikiran dan kewangan untuk menyumbang Ringit ke Ringgit dalam bidang ini. Saya yakin merka boleh cuma kuatkah penumbok Najib. Rasanya wajar Mustapha Mohammed menjalankan tugas sebagai Menteri Perusahaan Pertanian Negara. Noh Omar, rasanya kurang berstamina dan berakal dalam bidang ini. Tan Sri Hassan Marican mungkin bagus dijadikan KSU Kementerian berkanaan. Kalau tidak bawa balik Sanusi Junid yang gila-gila itu kembali menanam padi di atas semua Kondominuim di Kuala Lumpur. Buat Sprinkler Watering, boleh juga menyejukkan hawa panas Kuala Lumpur.

(14) Sebetulnya saya membayangkan betapa telah terlalu banyak Wang Negara terbazir dalam bentuk subsidi, prasarana, gaji, operasi, keraian, dsb yang selama ini kita belanjakan, namun hasilnya tetap sama. Bayangkan 200,000 hektar boleh ditanami padi sekitar 2.50 pusingan setahun, pasti hasilnya adalah 12.50 mt/padi/ha/tahun. Pasti kita dapat menghasilan sejumlah 2,500,000 mt/padi/tahun atau sekitar 1,300,000 mt/tahun beras. Bayangkan berapa banyak jerami boleh kita hasilkan? Mungkin sekitar 22,500,000 mt/kering. Pastinya setinggi Gunung Jerai, dan berapa banyak daging dan susu boleh kita hasilakn dari jeramin sebegitu menggunung. Pada kadar Janaan Daging: Makanan 1:0.6 pasti ini jika diadun dengan baik dapat menghasilkan 13,500,000 mt/daging/setahun dan ini bersamaan dengan 45,000,000 ekor lembu. Angka ini pasti memberikan penduduk lembu kita dua kali ganda dari penduduk manusiannya. Pastinya bekalan daging kita adalah pada kadar 700k/per kapita. Apakah ini tidak mencukupi? Jika lembu yang di bela adalah jenis tenusu, pasti ini akan menghasilkan sekurang-kurangnya 13,000,000,000 liter/susu/tahun. Ini juga bermakna bekalan susu kita akan mencapai tahap 4,000litre/kapita. Pasti muak susulah rakyat kita. Itu baru jerami, bagaimana dengan dedak. Tidakkah kita mampu menghasilkan sekitar 1,350,000 mt/setahun. Jika dedak ini kita tukar jadi itek, ayam dan telur, berapa banyak agaknya? Bagaimana pula dengan sekam, apa tidak mungkin kita dapat menghasilkan 1,000,000 mt/setahun sekam kering. Apakah angka sebegitu tidak berdaya maju jika kita hendak membuka industri Activated Carbon atau Compress Fibre sebagai bahan bakar dalam penjanaan elektrik dan wap. Dari 27,000 ekor lembu, ratusan jutaan ayam dan itik berapa banyak najis dan air kumbahan yang mereka boleh janakan sehari. Jutaan mt dan billion liter/tahun, apakah itu tidak baik untuk pengeluaran baja organik dan pengeluaran gas asli. Juga bayangkan dari kulit dan tulang lembu, agaknya berapa banyakkah gelatin dapat kita keluarkan. Tidakkah ini boleh menyumbang kepada Industri Farmasi Halal akhirnya. Saya sudah hilang perkiraan jika sayuran, buah-buahan dan segala rempah ratus kita asmukkan sekali, Apa lagi jika segala bungaan dan ternak perhiasan digemebling bersama. Apakah 200,000 hektar yang diolah secara Intensive, Integrated, and Full Chain Industry tidak akan melonjak tinggi pendapatan Ummah. Cuba angka ini kita tingkatkan kepada 2,000,000 hektar, bagaimana perangkaannya? Cuba para GLC dan Najib fkirkan perkara ini. Janganlah keutungan GLC sering dibelanja besar untuk kepentingan dan keselesaan pengurusan. Sesungguhnya GLC adalah milik rakyat dan kembalikan hak rakyat sesempurnanya.

(14) Saya yakin dengan cara ini, Kerjaan bukan sekadar dapat membekal makanan mencukupi buat negara, malah menemukan bidang Pertumbuhan Baru serta membasmi kemiskinan di kalangan petani penanam padi, penternak dan nelayan. Saya yakin dengan ini, kita juga pasti boleh terus kembang meneroka Pengeluaran Makanan Halal buat seluruh umat manusia. Yang paling saya ingin lihat, rakyat benar-benar menikmati Pendapatan Tinggi, bukan sekadar negara.

(15) Model Pembangunan sebegini untuk dapat diterima oleh pemilik tanah sawah di seluruh negara, maka Pampasan Saraan Hidup di samping pampasan Harga Pasaran Sebenar Tanah, dan mereka mesti memiliki sekurang-kurangnya 30 peratus saham dalam keseluruhan Industri yang terbit dari Perusahaan di atas tanah mereka harus difikirkan. Kerajaan tidak perlu khuatir cara mana untuk mendapatkan kembali Wang Negara, kerana secara perlembagaan sudah ada caranya.

(16) Kita boleh perhalusi semua ini. Kita cukup pakar, cuma pakar kita terlalu banyak mesyuarah, tanpa arah, terlalu banyak selidik, yang ngak bikin kita lebih cerdik, terlalu banyak lawatan wisata sedang belajarnya sambi-sambi sahaja. Saya yakin, Mustapha Mohammed, a warokaholic and sharp minded person boleh merevolusi Industri Pertanian kita.

Terasi, Pendam, Sarawak
4 Nov., 2013
Tuesday, October 16, 2012
6/10/12 THROUGH PAIN, WE, THE MALAYS MUST STAND.....sudah terhantuk baru Melayu terngadah!

6/10/12 THROUGH PAIN, WE, THE MALAYS MUST STAND.....sudah terhantuk baru Melayu terngadah!

Synopsis

In this article, I try to present the hypothetical origin of the Malays, both from the archeological and Quranic sources. Thereon, I try to define the meaning of the greater Malays and Nusantara, their homeland and the pains that they had gone through, without neglecting their strategic strengths. By visiting the sustenance and fluidity of the Jews in their course to reestablish their glory promised homeland and kingdom, I then try to see how Heaven, Iman and Islamic Adeen are Allah given agendas for the Muslim Malays to be great. Thus, taking the wisdom of the presence of Baitullah as the divine monument for the faithful Muslims to attain the total achievement in the path of Islam, I try to present how Kampung Baru, Kuala Lumpur could be the baitullah of the Malays. I try also to define the Nucleus of Kampung Baru Develeopment. InsyaAllah.

Dalam tulisan ini, saya cuba mengutarakan hipotisis keberasalan manusia Melayu, dari sudut penulisan Sejarah Barat dan juga dari jalan pemahaman pribadi saya dari penceritaan Al Quran. Saya juga cuba mentakrifkan Gagasan Melayu dan melihat Nusantara sebagai alam Melayu, serta menurunkan serba ringkas pahit getir yang telah mereka lewati, disamping mengutara kekuatan strategik yang harus menjadi wacana bagi membangkitkan bangsa ini menjadi Melayu Raya. Lewat pengamatan mengenai kelestarian dan kelicikan Yahudi dalam menuntut janji Allah mengenai pribadi dan tanahair mereka, saya cuba mengutarakan bagaimana Syurga, Iman dan Adeen Islam adalah agenda besar Allah buat Melayu untuk jadi perkasa dan berbakti untuk umat sejagat. Maka, lewat hikmah kewujudan Baitullah sebagai tonggak Muslimin dalam mengejar keredhaan mutlak Ilahi, saya juga cuba melihat bagaimana Kampung Baru, Kuala Lumpur akan dapat menjadi baitullah Melayu untuk menjadi perkasa dan bermakna dalam ketemadunan Islam dan sejagat. Akhirnya, saya cuba mengutarakan inti pati komponen Pembangunan Kampung Baru. InsyaAllah.

Introduction

What formed or who actually are the Malays? To answer this question, we need to look at it from two perspectives ie anthropological and political. Based on my various reading, there is a theoretical history, extrapolating that the Malays were presumed to originate from the mountainous tribes in China, to be exact from the Mongolia-Manchu region. How true is such a theory, I suggest one also need to look at the early history of human being especially with the ascending of prophet Adam from heaven to the Indian mountain. By instinct, surely prophet Adam descendants must have established their colonies at his landing place as what the Malays' proverb says: tempat jatuh lagi dikenang, inikan pula tempat bermain. Thereon, some colonies further spread eastward to those Mongolia-China range. Probably due to drought and famine, most of them migrated to the lower plain of South China, with some remain on the present Vietnam-Laos-Vietnam and Burma mountain range. Nonetheless, due to fierce conflict with the plain native inhabitants, they were then further pushed to the coastal plain. The natives of the plain might also as not friendly, thus their migratory inclination then made them to explore the much accommodative territories. Probably without much choice, and believing that there are lives beyond their hostile territories, as well as their hereditary heritage instinct from their ancestor, prophet Noah, they built boats and began to take the sea as their new frontiers.

(2) If it was true that the Malays were of Mongol-Manchu descendants, the mountain tribes, definitely they were then not great farmers. They were great hunters. They were great desert hunters of the Mongolia-Manchu plateaus. Thus, once pushed out to the sea, they turned the sea as their new hunting fields. As they roamed the sea, they began to discover all those South East Asia islands. If we care to study the Malays settlements, definitely we would see that they were and are strongly associated with their hunting ground the sea. Thus, in the new found lands, they continue to occupy the coasts and riverines. Only some groups took the hinterland as their new habitats. Nonetheless, as time passed by, more began to take the land as their cause. As a cursory proves to such a theoretical history, does not the Ilanus of the South Philippines, the Rohingya of Burma, the Iban of Borneo, the Celebes Bugis, the horse riders Bajau of Sabah, etc carries the remnant characters of the fierce warring hunter Mongolian? Probably the politically classified Javanese, Champa, and Rhiau-Johor Malays landed as much advance farmers, while the Pattani, Sulus, Bugis, Kedayan, etc remain as sea conquerors.

(3) As a Muslim, I believe all human beings are of the prophet Adam-Eve origin. These would includes native races and tribes in the South East Asia that originally formed what I love to call as the greater Malays. Their dispersal, is by nature fitrah of prophet Adam innovative and explorative characters, whom, as Allah had commanded to walk the earth and to provide leadership for all His other creations. I strongly can't agree with the Darwinian Evolution theory, though in some case, that might be the truth as the Al Quran had said: ...from a drop of water, I made the other lives....  Darwin in deed was a Jew (?) whom differ in religious perspective over human fate as projected by the Catholic in the period of social distress in German before the emergence of Aryan Supremacy Movement (Nazi). The Malays in Borneo for instance can't be originating from the primate as Darwin had put up. So far, the archeological excavation in Niah Cave and Java, have not proved that. If Darwin is correct, then all the Orang Utan and Probocis Monkeys should have extinct. Or stupidly would not Darwin and some western archeologist and geologist began to have a better Evolutionary Theory about the Papua New Guinea, as compared to this original Evolution Theory which was based on the Galapagos observation, since there is no monkey in such Island. Thus the tribal Malays are just great brothers and cousins that being politically and religiously split for the benefit of the Western colonial masters.

(4) About 4,000 years ago, the greater Malays took Buddhism and Hinduism as their protector. They were united under such cultural religion, but as Islam emerged in the sixth centuries and began to spread Eastward in the eleventh centuries, the Malays began to adopt the new religion and thus by the fourteen centuries, almost all the coastal and riverine Malays adopted Islam as their new way of lives. The hinterland Malays due to accessibility problems, they were not only not submitting to Buddhism, Hinduism and Islam, they were left to their pagan lives. Nonetheless in the Middle East, the birth place of Islam, North Africa, as well as in Europe (Turkey and Andalusia), the Islamic empires began to collapsed and the reemerging of Christianity thus later developing into the expansion of new wealth and missionaries to the East, the Muslim Malays, as the West common enemies in Middle East, North Africa and Mediterraneans were subjected to the West hegemony and conquest. The Spain took the 'Sulus' and unite them into the Philippines, the British took the mainland archipelago and thus splitting the sub-region into Burma, Malayan, Pattani, and Borneo to form the Malays, while the Dutch were confined to the southern thousands of Island to form East Indies, the France took the Indochinese and dissociated the Champa into Vietnam, Laos, and Chambodia, isolating them from the Cham of China. To this day, legalized by the League, we now remain as such. The West, since religiously they can't Christianize the coastal Malays, they made all effort to breed Christianity in the hinterland as their next grand strategy to enclave the Muslim Malays.

Our Strategic Gifts and Challenges

Firstly we are located in the center of the globe dynamism. East and West, and even North and South are bridged by our lands and islands, which I love to call as Nusantara in it greater sense. World great religions such as Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam and Christian had merged here. Accordingly, the so called global free trade that then evolved into monopolistic hegemony also was born here. The region had experienced great wars among itself and transnational. We had experienced all forms of governance from leisure fare, to feudalism, then autocratic. The great worldly ideologies, democracy, communism, socialism had made it way into our lives. Lately, we were the surviving guinea pigs in the democratic and capitalist cult. In short, economically, politically, security wise, governance, and religio-culturally, we had all the experiences much advance of any groups of human clustering. Natural disaster, beginning with the eruption of Krakatoa to the worst Tsunami, we had experienced all. And, my question is, why did we never draw great lesson and or agenda from all such great experiences? This is the profound leadership and intellectual challenge that we must trust into our hearts and minds.

(2) We are the nations of the tropic. A warm, juicy and colorful world of nature. Our environment is the most dynamic, that gives us the diverse opportunities either on land, in the sea or even in earth. Name its, what is there not made available by Allah to us. We have almost all the other parts of the world have. Our flora and fauna are much diverse from anywhere. Our soil is the most fertile. Our land and oceanic topography gives us almost all the needed climatic conditions for us to produce anything. Our minerals and all those geological contents, could propel us into greater nations. In fact, Allah had given us the greater Malays all the endowment that we need to be great. With all those, among others, the greater Malays could produce the best exotic foods and pharmaceutical products for the world. In short, I could say, the Nusantara the homeland of the greater Malays is Allah created paradise on earth. The Malays must know how to appreciate and safeguard those to make themselves forever as the citizen of the paradise. This is what I would call as the second leadership and intellectual challenge to the greater Malays to really ponder. Our universities, to name; Malaya, Chullalonkorn, Brunei, Bogor, Brunei, and Philippines should initiate lots of intellectual and technological transmigration among them. Our Madrasah, in what ever forms, had not established its real dynamism, why?

(3) Ethnic-wise, the greater Malays can be of great bridges of the South East Asian (ASEAN) nations. In the Quranic term, Allah had clearly implies, the socio-cultural diversity within the greater Malays had it significance. The Pattani, they can be the bridge between Malaysia-Thailand, the Rohingya for Malaysia-Burma, the Cham for Malaysia-Chambodia, Vietnam, Laos, and China while the Sulus between Malaysia-Philippines, and surely the Javanese should be the unification factor of the southern long stretch of islands and the north mainland, Malaysia. Bahasa Melayu is what unified the greater Malays in numerous dialects, and thus it originality must be sustain. If one care to think deeper, in fact Malaysia is the centre of the Malays sphere. This, I would say is the third leadership and intellectual challenges that the Malaysian Malays should seriously look at.

(4) In the early days especially in the era of the Islamic expansion in Nusantara, the greater Malays were either using Ringgit or Rial as their medium of trade exchange. Most part of Indonesia, the Malaya, the south Siam, the whole of Borneo, the Cham, and Sulu all were either trading in Ringgit and Rial which was of equal value. Does this not sparkle our mind, that 500-700 years ago, we were free trading nations? Once, we were much advanced than any other part of the world in term of our currency exchange, but what make us now differ and loosing? I believe, the Sri Vijaya, Majapahit, Langkasuka, Malacca, Makasar, Demak, Jambi, Pasai, Pattani, Champa, etc gave the greater Malays some foundation of international trading system. The Malays historian, writers, thinkers, where are they? I would see, reestablishing the greater Malays legacies is the fourth leadership and intellectual challenge that the Malays must take on. Surely the forms must be readjusted.

(5) Name it either the Indonesian, Malaysian Malays, Pattani, and Champa, in view of some political distressed had made lots of them are much acquitant with the Arabic and Islamic insight. Today, there are tenth of thousands Malays whom mastered the Arabic in various academic fields. I believe, there are millions of Malays now in Arabia doing all sort of professional and odd jobs. There are good numbers of the Malays whom are good in Chinese and Indian. Our Arab-Chinese-Indian association had gone through a very long assimilation process that had bred into the Wan-Sharifah, Baba-Nyonya, and Mamak-Mumi generations. Accordingly, for so long has the Malays are strongly associated with the English, Dutch, and now further dispersing all over the world to include the Russian, German, France, Japan and Korea. Allah indeed had blessed the Malays to have open and sponge hearts and minds, which are very flexible and absorbent. The Malays could adopt and adapt to any civilization and norms that make them successful, except as I could see it, the collectivity are very much lagging.

Our Survival In Question

As I had theorized above, the original Malays, they never accept their depressing prevailing lives and conditions to take toll on them. They took their forefathers Adam AS, Abraham AS and Noah AS survival traits to the best. They hijrah to the best to where we are now not only here in Nusantara but including in those places such as South Africa, Madagascar, and even Mali. Ferdinand Magellan will never discovered the Philippines, Vasco Da Gama will never passed the Cape of Good Hope, as well as Admiral Ang Cheng Ho armada will never made it half of the globe, without the guidance of the Malays sailors. The emperor of China will never knew about the Bird of Paradise without the Malays sailing up the Sepik of Papua New Guinea. But, all these grandeur and specialties of the Malays had perished without trace, and it seem we are now half death swimming rocking in our wavy samudera. Why?

(2) The West, learning from the mistakes (and fear) of all the earlier great civilizations, be it the Nile, Babylon, Ganges, Yangtze, or empires such as the Pharaoh, Greek, Rome, Persian, numerous of the Chinese and series of Islamic ruling such as the Four Caliphs, Ummaiyah, Abbassyah, Seljuk, Fatimid, Andalusia, Ottoman, and even the Khans, where the idea of one grand nation never works (or too dangerous to the survival of the West), thus after the WWI and WWII, they muted the idea of independent smaller nation states. The League where use to ensure such idea sustain but with hidden shrewd agenda well in hand. The break and rule governance philosophy were and are well planned to be then deployed. Initially, trade and monetary strategies were used to shaken any non-pleasing nations and later the military supremacy was and is the tool to be utilized if need be to make all the independent nation states of the East, South and Dark World to submit. Nonetheless, the West unite (vis Allied Nations, NATO, etc) not as a nation, but by objective ie sharing the globe wealth only among themselves, making the natives almost to pariah!

(3) Today, the sustenance of the prejudice that the West had successfully doctrinated in our soul, had blurred us to see things that are of our common ground for our renaissance. We the greater Malays continued to be played around and remain as sitting ducks to even an easy threat. The fate of the future Malays, the greater Malays are at stake if the present able and advantage Malays do not take the cause to save the greater Malays as their divine struggle. The Rohingya, the Pattani, the Sulu, the Cham, they need all the support of the able Malays in Malaysia, Brunei, Indonesia and Singapore to make all of us to stand and walk firm. We need to use or brain to succeed. Thus, what should we do?

Allah Given Grand Agenda

The Malays, especially the Muslim Malays, we need to adhere to our grand agenda to be great. Surely, lots will be pondering, do we have the great agenda. As many times I have said, Allah purposely never wants to make the Jews to perish from this world. Allah wants us to look at the Jews as something that we should see, listen, hear and feel to learn. From the Bible and the Al Quran, we know that they had been subjected to the cruelty of the Pharaoh, Roman, and Persian. History also had shown that, Palestine, their state, had also been subjected to drought and famine that had pushed them out into the larger Arabia and Africa. During Muhammad SAW and the four Caliphs, due to their hypocrisy character, they were isolated and being confined to certain regions. Conquest, isolation, and famine made them later spread and bred fast into Europe. Hitler and Mussolini, through their fascist ideology made the Jews to cross the Atlantic and found their godfather, the Protestant West, and thus brought over all their dreams and grand plan, which are now implicitly implemented through the World Bank, IMF in particular, Credit Cards, NYSE, NASDAQ, all those great American Universities , and those NGOs both in the US and EU.

(2) The present world's grand idealism, name it: Democracy, Communism, Socialism, Capitalism, now Psychopath, Free Trade, MNC, etc all were and are in fact the brilliant ideas of the Jews. Prior to WWII, the brilliant Jews flooded the European universities, and later they dominate the American universities to spread the new worldly ideology in line with the spirit of the Protestant American. Name it, where among any American best universities the best intellectuals are not the Jews? Indeed, the Jews had infiltrated the whole world, through the Western Education System to make their graduates to submit to their ideologies. In the modern political sense, that is part an parcel of Zionism, their grand agenda. But, spiritually, they uphold to Allah promised that there will be a messiah to bring and reinstate their grand kingdom as had been established during David-Solomon time. We know, they expected Jesus Christ to be their Messiah, but instead he came to validate Taurah and called the Jews to submit to the Bible, thus he was made their number one enemy, and their hypocrisy took Jesus Christ to the bloody cross, as portrayed in the bible, which is not the case in the Al Quran. The Jews, Home Coming is their living agenda, and thus Zionism which explicitly implemented through all means is their grand strategy. There is a writing, the Jewish messiah will only emerge after all the twelve tribes of the Jews that currently dispersing all over the world be united in Israel and they are looking at the whole Palestine as their Home State, their Promised Kingdom. They believe they can do so, because Allah had made them the chosen community, the best.

(3) Now let us go back to the cause of the greater Malays especially the Muslim-Malays. By default, as a saviour in our darkness, Allah had set a very precise agenda for us. First He had promised us an infinite Homeland, indeed better than Palestine called Heaven, a perfect hereafter environ. On the contrary He had also promised Hell if we choose not to take the Heaven, a destiny for those who devoted themselves to worldly heaven. Secondly, He had set the clear pre-conditions for us to be eligible to be in Heaven; one must submit to Him. The route to deity, or Iman is well defined and must be adhered to. One's degree of Iman, will determine one's position in Heaven. Allah had created seven hierarchies of Heaven to fit one's level of Iman.

(4)The Al Quran says: ....be hold to rope of Allah.... Clear Quality Control and Work Process had been set, not only in the Al Quran, but was well demonstrated by Muhammad SAW and the four Caliphs. This is what called Islamic Adeen. All Muslim, must know that Prophet Muhammad SAW and all the prophets before him, placed their whole trust on such demand and they did all what being commanded on them. They then exercised the third agenda that Allah had trust on them ie to lead to the best endeavors.

(5) To lead, is to bring goods to the followers. But, Allah demand that His leaders are to serve Him only, nothing less, thus the goods that the leaders should impart to their followers are those that would take them to Heaven. He demand the leaders to uphold good governance which is closely associated with Iman. Self interest is very much discourage. Reward for great leaders are barakkah and thus hereafter good lives in Heaven. Thus the Muslim leaders, doesn't matter at which level they are, they are to compete with each other to achieve the best. They are demanded to sacrifice more rather than taking. The competition and sacrifice must be confined to the path that He had clearly determined. Such competitive and sacrificing characters in fact were clearly demonstrated especially by Abu Bakar As Siddeeq and Umar Al Khataab. Both love to compete to give the best for the good deed of the ummah.

(6) Umar Al Khataab and Ali Abi Thalib in particular, worked hard to establish details of the Islamic Governance based on principles earlier set by Muhammad SAW. Umar Al Khataab in particular, while adhered strictly to strengthen the Iman of the Ummah, he worked hard to improve on the larger aspects of the Islamic Economic Management. In the Muhammad SAW (and even Abu Bakar As Siddeeq) days, sub-sectors of Finance and Trade Management were given greater emphasis. In time of Umar Al Khataab, with the expansion of the Islamic influence covering the whole of Arabia, African, Persian and Asia Minor, the fields of agriculture land management, settlement developments, infrastructures, education, ventures partnership, finance and banking, etc were given due attention. Umar Al Khataab indeed, established the expanded economic principle for the Muslim world. His economic doctrine should be read and debated elaboratively in the Muslim world.

(7) In deed, taking on Umar Al Khataab's governance, all the other Islamic empires thereon especially the Ummaiyah, Abbasiyah, Andalusia and Ottoman put great emphasis on Economic Prosperity so much so with lesser emphasis on the strengthening of Iman, at last made Allah to part from them. Due to much loving of the glorious worldly lives, the then Muslims leaders had breached Allah pre-conditions to the sustenance of heavenly living. The then events are history for us to mirror ourselves. But most important lesson that the Muslims could draw from all these historical paths, to me, we have to be serious about the Islamic Education and Financial Management System. I do strongly believe, that Iman and Islamic Adeen, our grand agenda could be well achieve if we could firmly establish the Islamic Education and Financial Management System

The Baitullah of the Malays

Every time going down to Kuala Lumpur, since I was a student to this day, I made all effort to have a feel of Kampung Baru of Kuala Lumpur. Either to buy fruits, those traditional cottage industries products, or having all sort of exotic foods down there, I made all effort to be there. My favorite was (and is) boiled or smoke cockles. Kg Baru, Kuala Lumpur is the early Malays settlements in the prosperous early day Tin Mining industry. The Malays, be they the local native of Malaya, Singapura, or transit migrants from Sumatera, Java, Celebes, even Pattani, and Champa, before they settle elsewhere, they in one way or another must had stayed or worked temporarily here. My grandfather, a Rhiau Malay was one of those. He served as a surveyor in the construction of various roads and railways in those days. Kg Baru indeed has all its legacy and interesting history. To me, this is the soul of the Malays of Klang Valley if not Kuala Lumpur or Malaya or Nusantara.

(2) In the Al Quran, Allah had clearly stated; ....look all around you, don't you see My Authority... or even His challenge ....can't you think.... Allah in deed at all times, remind us of how Powerfull is He that by mere Kun Fa Ya Kun, what ever He wants will be there or dismiss. Thus, the mountains, the deserts, the oceans, the stars, the planets, the winds, the plagues, all, are displays of His Greatness. All those, He created, including our ownself, are for us to steadfast to His cause, to be the best creature that was given part of His soul. Allah soul in us, in fact demand us to be good. We must do good, nothing but good. If we keep ourselves to be and do good, definitely we will be great.That is His promise. He has all the means to keep to His promises.

(3) Muhammad SAW and his four immediate sahabah totally submitted themselves to the command and demand to be and to do good. They were willing to sacrifice everything; their lives, wealth, pleasure, and self interest just to gain the status to be and for good, not for themselves, but the general ummah. Their faith (Iman) to Allah was unshaken. Their struggle to establish the Adeen of Islam was rock hard. All because, they just want to attain to the highest level of the hereafter Heavenly living. They ignored and hate the worldly pleasures and glories. And to me, the very reason why they were so determined and uphold to their struggle to implant Iman and Islamic Adeen was because, Baitullah was there. Baitullah I would believe, is at hand monument that Allah purposely command to be built to remind and to make all human being to be focussed to the purpose of their creation. Human indeed was created to set the best example and to lead all His other creation. Human being is created to be a leader. A leader is to be and do nothing, but good. With Baitullah at hand, the Muslims are inspired to be and to do good. It is a spiritual monument for Muslims to keep to their great cause, to be and do good, to entitle them a good share in Heaven.

(4) As such, I believe, for the Malays, especially the Muslim Malays of Malaysia, for them to be great, to enable them to contribute the best to the whole humankind within the path of Allah, they must have close to home, to their nose, the morale booster. To me, Kampung Baru, Kuala Lumpur that is very dear to the Malays and our struggle to Independent, its must be sustained and further develop into the Soul and Body of the struggle to make the Malays great.

Nucleus of Our Struggle

As I have said, establishing Iman and Islamic Adeen are the fundamental components of Muhammad SAW and his sahabah struggle that Allah had entrusted onto them. Not only they were able to lift the Jahilliah Arabs from their darkness and destruction, they were also able to make the oppressive Persian empire to extinct as well as shrinking the influence of the equally cruel Byzantium (East Roman) ruling to the European soil only. Later, the various Islamic Amirs managed to expand their empires to include the Africa, Europe, Asia Minor and South Asia Continent. Just the Khan (Mongol) were not the maritime nation, thus they never made it to the Land of the Rising Sun. Probably, they were too arrogant that they may had ignored the Champa Malays as their strategic allies, thus they later perished in the monsoon storm.

(2) If we care to study deeper into the glory of those ancient Islamic empires, we could easily noticed that during Muhammad SAW and his sahabah period, in every cities and lands that they conquered, they will sent over tens and hundreds of Islamic scholars to educate the new Muslims of the Iman. They also sent great Islamic scholars as governors, judges, finance controllers, and military leaders to ensure they would established a proper Islamic Adeen among the Muslims and all the other subjects. Even during the cause of the wars, the scholars were to accompanied and took the sword along the armies, so as to safeguard that military exercise would not go beyond in human deed as practiced by other non-Islamic armies. And we also could see that the destruction of the Islamic empires were due to the degrading of Iman and the emergence of worldly pleasure and greed among firstly the leaders then the public officials which to me is succinctly about the poor economic management. Thus, reflecting back to the Jewish struggle, the modern Jewish agenda which is laid through the Zionism, is all about Education and Financial Control. The Jews, through the Western Liberal Education and Economic System had succinctly able to infiltrate transnational cultures and norms that gives them great benefit to be on the upper hand to this day. Thus, I would suggest, Kampung Baru, Kuala Lumpur should be the Islamic Educational and Financial Center.

(3) If we listen closely to the voices of the landowners in Kampung Baru, their very basic concern is over their sustainable equity of the whole development. Under current development science, we could easily concluded that the Malays in Kampung Baru should not take advantage of the two world. Meaning, they shouldn't take the market price compensated deal, and at the same time enjoy the benefit of the development on the same land. In today, development theory and practices, once compensated, the owners cease the right over the matter. While that is true in certain sense, but it couldn't be treated as such to Kampung Baru. If so, then sure some will say, then it is very difficult to redevelop such place.

(4) Let us just go back to the building of Baitullah at Beca Valley. The Al Quran says;....this is a place where nothing grow.... With such a misery, and yet Allah wants such a place to be a place where human being should glorify Him most. Just imagine in today contact, make everybody in misery, and thus request them to praise you most, would it work?. But it works with Allah, why? Before, Baitullah as it is of today, Quranically, Eve-Adam firstly suffered much here, then Hajar-Ismael left to thirst and starve, Abraham-Ismael were tested to the the limit to sacrifice, even the Quraish was almost crushed to death by Abraha, and Muhammad SAW himself, with Ali Abi Thalib willingly to lost his life in the cause to purify Baitullah. This is a place on earth where Allah declared a decree of the Tanah Haram where nothing that is not good should be practiced here. In view of such ruling, the ambient and social structure here are totally serene than any other places on earth. All Muslim knew this, and all Muslims that had visited the Baitullah, had felt it. Why? What makes the tamu Allah experienced such emotional cleanliness and submissive satisfaction? Can't we then not try to learn from such a wisdom, to make all those landowners in Kampung Baru to have such willingness as to forebear and sacrifice as Eve-Adam, Hajar-Ismael, Abraham-Ismael, Mutalib-Quraish, and Muhammad-Ali Abi Thalib. To me, Eve-Adam, Hajar-Ismael, Abraham-Ismael, Mutalib, and Muhammad-Ali Abi Thalib were willing to forebear and sacrificed were all due to their intended good deed for the overall humankind.

(5) I'm not suggesting for us to massage the Malay Sentiment of the Malays of Kampung Baru. What I try to say is that, sustaining the equity ownership of the redevelopment of Kampung Baru, must be aligned from a much purist and meaningful gain. Worldly, the property owners must not be denied their present livelihood, they must be able to improve even better, but the wider agenda, they must be given a ticket to go to Heaven as a reward to their their sacrifice and forebearing. Thus, how could the redevelopment of Kampung Baru would not only to make the land lords worldly better, as well as their willingness to take such redevelopment call as Amal.

(6) As I have earlier suggested, indeed, the way Muhammad SAW and his sahabah in pursuing the strengthening of Iman and unity among the Muslims were through the implementation of the Islamic Education and Adeen ie in today world,  through the cause of Islamic Education and Governance. Education is the tool to implant Iman into the heart and mind of the Muslim ie to develop their clean and trustworthy characters and values.  While, the profounding governance would be in the area of Islamic Finance based on the fact of what Muhammad SAW had said: ...poverty would lead to infidel...nine out of ten, the worldly rezeki is by mean of trading...and Allah forbade riba.... Indeed those were the cause taken by those grand amirs of Ummaiyah, Abbasiah, Fatimid, Andalusia, Ottoman, Seljuk, the Khans and even Mudzafar Shah of Malacca, the Majapahit, Langkasuka, Pattani, Champa, Pasai, Sulu, Makasar, Jambi,etc to make them great in their times.

(7) To me, Kampung Baru must be transformed into the Islamic Center of Educational and Financial Excellent. It should be the Mecca of the Fareast. It should be the most preferred place to live, work, celebrate, learn, innovate, recreate, and practice. It is an Organic Place. The Islamic Iman and Adeen must be the shine of Kampung Baru. Its new form, gave the loing search of soul and body of the Malays. That should be the goals of the redevelopment of Kampung Baru. Nothing less. With such, then the worldly and herefater equity of the Malays landowners of Kampung Baru be sustained and achieved.

(8) Malaysian Muslim Malays had been further blessed indeed, with the Allah guided leadership that we have, firstly Tunku Abdul Rahman made Islam and Malays as our constitutioanl right, Tun Abdul Razak Dato' Husein through his brilliant New Economic Policy (NEP) had left us numerous Conglomerate that had acquire great wealth for us to move on faster and much freely, Tun Husein Dato' Onn, in short span had established Permodalan Nasional Berhad to further enrich the Malays, while Tun Dr Mahathir Mohammed, had established and erected further landmarks for us to take speedious highways to the better. Tun Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, though had tried his best, but failed, I believe had give the Malays a great lesson to always bear in mind, never to give in without a clear trade off. Personally, I must also recorded some goods of Dato' Nik Aziz Nik Mat, the PAS spiritual leader, though he had failed to bring material goods to Kelantan, but I believe he had in one way or another made the general Malays to love Islam better. Without Nik Aziz being around I would believe, most of the Malays would just love to love the worldly lives. Allah, indeed as I have said loves the Malays so much, but we must not stay indifferent and be complacent

(9) To me as I have pointed in many of my earlier writings, the GLCs and conglomerate that are under thye Malays' arms must now be able to see their role from the dakwah perspectives. Tabung Haji, MARA, FELDA, MayBank, CIMB Bank, PNB, Sime Darby, etc and personalities such as Tun Daim Zainuddin, Syed Bukhari, Tan Sri Azman Hashim, etc should now be able to work under Malays Renaissance Task Force to draw detail enumerative gain for the Kampung Baru landowners as well as to make Kampung Baru as Fareast Islamic Center of Educational and Financial Excellent. I can't see, why all these Organization couldn't contribute to such goal.

(10) It is for Najib to really exercise his authority and wisdom to unite all the best brains and talents that the greater Malays have, be it in Indonesia, Philippines, Singapore, Brunei, Siam, Chambodia, Laos, Burma, Vietnam, China, South Africa, Madagascar, Mali, etc; as well as within the country to form the Advisory Council to transform Kampung Baru to be what I love to call Monument of the Malays Renaissance, the Mecca of the Fareast.

(11) We should make such as our socio-cultural agenda. Mahathir, Anwar, and Nik Aziz; it is time for us to get together. Our veteran age should give us all the wisdom to leave this world with the best gift for Islam, the greater Malays and the whole humankind. We should stop eduacting our new generation with political quarel, nothing but those stupid political quarel. Najib, the cards are yours, and no point to shout for glory yet we are wasting our time and energy just to condemn each other.

(12) Last but not least, I heard Sungai Besi is going to be developed into the Kuala Lumpur Islamic Financial Center, I hope that is not true, and if it is true, that won't impart great meaning to the Malays. Sg. Besi, because of Tin Mining, had made thousands of Malays be the slave of the British. Kampung Baru, did played its role in our National Independent and Malays survival struggles. I hope, not because of some difficulties that we are now facing with those landowners, thus we would love to leave Kampun Baru to the least choice of development. Once again, I would love to reiterate, Mecca or Baitullah was never returned to Islam with an easy ride. Allah purposely made it difficult for Muhammad SAW and the early Muslims to take and returned Baitullah to Islam. Najib, especially through Nong Chik, they must understand such a wisdom of Allah. SubhanaAllah, may He gives all of us the needed wisdom and firmness to be great.



Kg. Terasi, Pendam, Sarawak
14-22 Oct., 2012
6/10/12 THROUGH PAIN, WE, THE MALAYS MUST STAND.....sudah terhantuk baru Melayu terngadah! (Draft)

6/10/12 THROUGH PAIN, WE, THE MALAYS MUST STAND.....sudah terhantuk baru Melayu terngadah! (Draft)

Synopsis

In this article, I try to present the hypothetical origin of the Malays, both from the archeological and Quranic sources. Thereon, I try to define the meaning of the greater Malays and Nusantara, their homeland and the pains that they had gown through, without neglecting their strategic strengths. By visiting the sustenance and fluidity of the Jews in their cause to reestablish their glory promised homeland and kingdom, I then try to see how Heaven, Iman and Islamic Adeen are Allah given agendas for the Muslim Malays to be great. Thus, taking the wisdom of the presence of Baitullah as the divine monument for the faithful Muslims to attain the total achievement in the path of Islam, I try to present how Kampung Baru, Kuala Lumpur could be the baitullah of the Malays. I try also to define the Nucleus of Kampung Baru Develeopment. InsyaAllah.

Dalam tulisan ini, saya cuba mengutarakan hipotisis keberasalan manusia Melayu, dari sudut penulisan Sejarah Barat dan juga dari jalan pemahaman pribadi saya dari penceritaan Al Quran. Saya juga cuba mentakrifkan Gagasan Melayu dan melihat Nusantara sebagai alam Melayu, serta menurunkan serba ringkas pahit getir yang telah mereka lewati, disamping mengutara kekuatan strategik yang harus menjadi wacana bagi membangkitkan bangsa ini menjadi Melayu Raya. Lewat pengamatan mengenai kelestarian dan kelicikan Yahudi dalam menuntut janji Allah mengenai pribadi dan tanahair mereka, saya cuba mengutarakan bagaimana Syurga, Iman dan Adeen Islam adalah agenda besar Allah buat Melayu untuk jadi perkasa dan berbakti untuk umat sejagat. Maka, lewat hikmah kewujudan Baitullah sebagai tonggak Muslimin dalam mengejar keredhaan mutlak Ilahi, saya juga cuba melihat bagaimana Kampung Baru, Kuala Lumpur akan dapat menjadi baitullah Melayu untuk menjadi perkasa dan bermakna dalam ketemadunan Islam dan sejagat. Akhirnya, saya cuba mengutarakan inti pati komponen Pembangunan Kampung Baru. InsyaAllah.

Introduction

What formed or who actually are the Malays? To answer this question, we need to look at it from two perspectives ie anthropological and political. Based on my various reading, there is a theoretical history, extrapolating that the Malays were presumed to originate from the mountainous tribes in China, to be exact from the Mongolia-Manchu region. How true is such a theory, I suggest one also need to look at the early history of human being especially with the ascending of prophet Adam from heaven to the Indian mountain. By instinct, surely prophet Adam descendants must have established their colonies at his landing place as what the Malays' proverb says: tempat jatuh lagi dikenang, inikan pula tempat bermain. Thereon, some colonies further spread eastward to those Mongolia-China range. Probably due to drought and famine, most of them migrated to the lower plain of South China, with some remain on the present Vietnam-Laos-Vietnam and Burma mountain range. Nonetheless, due to fierce conflict with the plain native inhabitants, they were then further pushed to the coastal plain. The natives of the plain might also as not friendly, thus their migratory inclination then made them to explore the much accommodative territories. Probably without much choice, and believing that there are lives beyond their hostile territories, as well as their hereditary heritage instinct from their ancestor, prophet Noah, they built boats and began to take the sea as their new frontiers.

(2) If it was true that the Malays were of Mongol-Manchu descendants, the mountain tribes, definitely they were then not great farmers. They were great hunters. They were great desert hunters of the Mongolia-Manchu plateaus. Thus, once pushed out to the sea, they turned the sea as their new hunting fields. As they roamed the sea, they began to discover all those South East Asia islands. If we care to study the Malays settlements, definitely we would see that they were and are strongly associated with their hunting ground the sea. Thus, in the new found lands, they continue to occupy the coasts and riverines. Only some groups took the hinterland as their new habitats. Nonetheless, as time passed by, more began to take the land as their cause. As a cursory proves to such a theoretical history, does not the Ilanus of the South Philippines, the Rohingya of Burma, the Iban of Borneo, the Celebes Bugis, the horse riders Bajau of Sabah, etc carries the remnant characters of the fierce warring hunter Mongolian? Probably the politically classified Javanese, Champa, and Rhiau-Johor Malays landed as much advance farmers, while the Pattani, Sulus, Bugis, Kedayan, etc remain as sea conquerors.

(3) As a Muslim, I believe all human beings are of the prophet Adam-Eve origin. These would includes native races and tribes in the South East Asia that originally formed what I love to call as the greater Malays. Their dispersal, is by nature fitrah of prophet Adam innovative and explorative characters, whom, as Allah had commanded to walk the earth and to provide leadership for all His other creations. I strongly can't agree with the Darwinian Evolution theory, though in some case, that might be the truth as the Al Quran had said: ...from a drop of water, I made the other lives....  Darwin in deed was a Jew (?) whom differ in religious perspective over human fate as projected by the Catholic in the period of social distress in German before the emergence of Aryan Supremacy Movement (Nazi). The Malays in Borneo for instance can't be originating from the primate as Darwin had put up. So far, the archeological excavation in Niah Cave and Java, have not proved that. If Darwin is correct, then all the Orang Utan and Probocis Monkeys should have extinct. Or stupidly would not Darwin and some western archeologist and geologist began to have a better Evolutionary Theory about the Papua New Guinea, as compared to this original Evolution Theory which was based on the Galapagos observation, since there is no monkey in such Island. Thus the tribal Malays are just great brothers and cousins that being politically and religiously split for the benefit of the Western colonial masters.

(4) About 4,000 years ago, the greater Malays took Buddhism and Hinduism as their protector. They were united under such cultural religion, but as Islam emerged in the sixth centuries and began to spread Eastward in the eleventh centuries, the Malays began to adopt the new religion and thus by the fourteen centuries, almost all the coastal and riverine Malays adopted Islam as their new way of lives. The hinterland Malays due to accessibility problems, they were not only not submitting to Buddhism, Hinduism and Islam, they were left to their pagan lives. Nonetheless in the Middle East, the birth place of Islam, North Africa, as well as in Europe (Turkey and Andalusia), the Islamic empires began to collapsed and the reemerging of Christianity thus later developing into the expansion of new wealth and missionaries to the East, the Muslim Malays, as the West common enemies in Middle East, North Africa and Mediterraneans were subjected to the West hegemony and conquest. The Spain took the 'Sulus' and unite them into the Philippines, the British took the mainland archipelago and thus splitting the sub-region into Burma, Malayan, Pattani, and Borneo to form the Malays, while the Dutch were confined to the southern thousands of Island to form East Indies, the France took the Indochinese and dissociated the Champa into Vietnam, Laos, and Chambodia, isolating them from the Cham of China. To this day, legalized by the League, we now remain as such. The West, since religiously they can't Christianize the coastal Malays, they made all effort to breed Christianity in the hinterland as their next grand strategy to enclave the Muslim Malays.

Our Strategic Gifts and Challenges

Firstly we are located in the center of the globe dynamism. East and West, and even North and South are bridged by our lands and islands, which I love to call as Nusantara in it greater sense. World great religions such as Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam and Christian had merged here. Accordingly, the so called global free trade that then evolved into monopolistic hegemony also was born here. The region had experienced great wars among itself and transnational. We had experienced all forms of governance from leisure fare, to feudalism, then autocratic. The great worldly ideologies, democracy, communism, socialism had made it way into our lives. Lately, we were the surviving guinea pigs in the democratic and capitalist cult. In short, economically, politically, security wise, governance, and religio-culturally, we had all the experiences much advance of any groups of human clustering. Natural disaster, beginning with the eruption of Krakatoa to the worst Tsunami, we had experienced all. And, my question is, why did we never draw great lesson and or agenda from all such great experiences? This is the profound leadership and intellectual challenge that we must trust into our hearts and minds.

(2) We are the nations of the tropic. A warm, juicy and colorful world of nature. Our environment is the most dynamic, that gives us the diverse opportunities either on land, in the sea or even in earth. Name its, what is there not made available by Allah to us. We have almost all the other parts of the world have. Our flora and fauna are much diverse from anywhere. Our soil is the most fertile. Our land and oceanic topography gives us almost all the needed climatic conditions for us to produce anything. Our minerals and all those geological contents, could propel us into greater nations. In fact, Allah had given us the greater Malays all the endowment that we need to be great. With all those, among others, the greater Malays could produce the best exotic foods and pharmaceutical products for the world. In short, I could say, the Nusantara the homeland of the greater Malays is Allah created paradise on earth. The Malays must know how to appreciate and safeguard those to make themselves forever as the citizen of the paradise. This is what I would call as the second leadership and intellectual challenge to the greater Malays to really ponder. Our universities, to name; Malaya, Chullalonkorn, Brunei, Bogor, Brunei, and Philippines should initiate lots of intellectual and technological transmigration among them. Our Madrasah, in what ever forms, had not established its real dynamism, why?

(3) Ethnic-wise, the greater Malays can be of great bridges of the South East Asian (ASEAN) nations. In the Quranic term, Allah had clearly implies, the socio-cultural diversity within the greater Malays had it significance. The Pattani, they can be the bridge between Malaysia-Thailand, the Rohingya for Malaysia-Burma, the Cham for Malaysia-Chambodia, Vietnam, Laos, and China while the Sulus between Malaysia-Philippines, and surely the Javanese should be the unification factor of the southern long stretch of islands and the north mainland, Malaysia. Bahasa Melayu is what unified the greater Malays in numerous dialects, and thus it originality must be sustain. If one care to think deeper, in fact Malaysia is the centre of the Malays sphere. This, I would say is the third leadership and intellectual challenges that the Malaysian Malays should seriously look at.

(4) In the early days especially in the era of the Islamic expansion in Nusantara, the greater Malays were either using Ringgit or Rial as their medium of trade exchange. Most part of Indonesia, the Malaya, the south Siam, the whole of Borneo, the Cham, and Sulu all were either trading in Ringgit and Rial which was of equal value. Does this not sparkle our mind, that 500-700 years ago, we were free trading nations? Once, we were much advanced than any other part of the world in term of our currency exchange, but what make us now differ and loosing? I believe, the Sri Vijaya, Majapahit, Langkasuka, Malacca, Makasar, Demak, Jambi, Pasai, Pattani, Champa, etc gave the greater Malays some foundation of international trading system. The Malays historian, writers, thinkers, where are they? I would see, reestablishing the greater Malays legacies is the fourth leadership and intellectual challenge that the Malays must take on. Surely the forms must be readjusted.

(5) Name it either the Indonesian, Malaysian Malays, Pattani, and Champa, in view of some political distressed had made lots of them are much acquitant with the Arabic and Islamic insight. Today, there are tenth of thousands Malays whom mastered the Arabic in various academic fields. I believe, there are millions of Malays now in Arabia doing all sort of professional and odd jobs. There are good numbers of the Malays whom are good in Chinese and Indian. Our Arab-Chinese-Indian association had gone through a very long assimilation process that had bred into the Wan-Sharifah, Baba-Nyonya, and Mamak-Mumi generations. Accordingly, for so long has the Malays are strongly associated with the English, Dutch, and now further dispersing all over the world to include the Russian, German, France, Japan and Korea. Allah indeed had blessed the Malays to have open and sponge hearts and minds, which are very flexible and absorbent. The Malays could adopt and adapt to any civilization and norms that make them successful, except as I could see it, the collectivity are very much lagging.

Our Survival In Question

As I had theorized above, the original Malays, they never accept their depressing prevailing lives and conditions to take toll on them. They took their forefathers Adam AS, Abraham AS and Noah AS survival traits to the best. They hijrah to the best to where we are now not only here in Nusantara but including in those places such as South Africa, Madagascar, and even Mali. Ferdinand Magellan will never discovered the Philippines, Vasco Da Gama will never passed the Cape of Good Hope, as well as Admiral Ang Cheng Ho armada will never made it half of the globe, without the guidance of the Malays sailors. The emperor of China will never knew about the Bird of Paradise without the Malays sailing up the Sepik of Papua New Guinea. But, all these grandeur and specialties of the Malays had perished without trace, and it seem we are now half death swimming rocking in our wavy samudera. Why?

(2) The West, learning from the mistakes (and fear) of all the earlier great civilizations, be it the Nile, Babylon, Ganges, Yangtze, or empires such as the Pharaoh, Greek, Rome, Persian, numerous of the Chinese and series of Islamic ruling such as the Four Caliphs, Ummaiyah, Abbassyah, Seljuk, Fatimid, Andalusia, Ottoman, and even the Khans, where the idea of one grand nation never works (or too dangerous to the survival of the West), thus after the WWI and WWII, they muted the idea of independent smaller nation states. The League where use to ensure such idea sustain but with hidden shrewd agenda well in hand. The break and rule governance philosophy were and are well planned to be then deployed. Initially, trade and monetary strategies were used to shaken any non-pleasing nations and later the military supremacy was and is the tool to be utilized if need be to make all the independent nation states of the East, South and Dark World to submit. Nonetheless, the West unite (vis Allied Nations, NATO, etc) not as a nation, but by objective ie sharing the globe wealth only among themselves, making the natives almost to pariah!

(3) Today, the sustenance of the prejudice that the West had successfully doctrinated in our soul, had blurred us to see things that are of our common ground for our renaissance. We the greater Malays continued to be played around and remain as sitting ducks to even an easy threat. The fate of the future Malays, the greater Malays are at stake if the present able and advantage Malays do not take the cause to save the greater Malays as their divine struggle. The Rohingya, the Pattani, the Sulu, the Cham, they need all the support of the able Malays in Malaysia, Brunei, Indonesia and Singapore to make all of us to stand and walk firm. We need to use or brain to succeed. Thus, what should we do?

Allah Given Grand Agenda

The Malays, especially the Muslim Malays, we need to adhere to our grand agenda to be great. Surely, lots will be pondering, do we have the great agenda. As many times I have said, Allah purposely never wants to make the Jews to perish from this world. Allah wants us to look at the Jews as something that we should see, listen, hear and feel to learn. From the Bible and the Al Quran, we know that they had been subjected to the cruelty of the Pharaoh, Roman, and Persian. History also had shown that, Palestine, their state, had also been subjected to drought and famine that had pushed them out into the larger Arabia and Africa. During Muhammad SAW and the four Caliphs, due to their hypocrisy character, they were isolated and being confined to certain regions. Conquest, isolation, and famine made them later spread and bred fast into Europe. Hitler and Mussolini, through their fascist ideology made the Jews to cross the Atlantic and found their godfather, the Protestant West, and thus brought over all their dreams and grand plan, which are now implicitly implemented through the World Bank, IMF in particular, Credit Cards, NYSE, NASDAQ, all those great American Universities , and those NGOs both in the US and EU.

(2) The present world's grand idealism, name it: Democracy, Communism, Socialism, Capitalism, now Psychopath, Free Trade, MNC, etc all were and are in fact the brilliant ideas of the Jews. Prior to WWII, the brilliant Jews flooded the European universities, and later they dominate the American universities to spread the new worldly ideology in line with the spirit of the Protestant American. Name it, where among any American best universities the best intellectuals are not the Jews? Indeed, the Jews had infiltrated the whole world, through the Western Education System to make their graduates to submit to their ideologies. In the modern political sense, that is part an parcel of Zionism, their grand agenda. But, spiritually, they uphold to Allah promised that there will be a messiah to bring and reinstate their grand kingdom as had been established during David-Solomon time. We know, they expected Jesus Christ to be their Messiah, but instead he came to validate Taurah and called the Jews to submit to the Bible, thus he was made their number one enemy, and their hypocrisy took Jesus Christ to the bloody cross, as portrayed in the bible, which is not the case in the Al Quran. The Jews, Home Coming is their living agenda, and thus Zionism which explicitly implemented through all means is their grand strategy. There is a writing, the Jewish messiah will only emerge after all the twelve tribes of the Jews that currently dispersing all over the world be united in Israel and they are looking at the whole Palestine as their Home State, their Promised Kingdom. They believe they can do so, because Allah had made them the chosen community, the best.

(3) Now let us go back to the cause of the greater Malays especially the Muslim-Malays. By default, as a saviour in our darkness, Allah had set a very precise agenda for us. First He had promised us an infinite Homeland, indeed better than Palestine called Heaven, a perfect hereafter environ. On the contrary He had also promised Hell if we choose not to take the Heaven, a destiny for those who devoted themselves to worldly heaven. Secondly, He had set the clear pre-conditions for us to be eligible to be in Heaven; one must submit to Him. The route to deity, or Iman is well defined and must be adhered to. One's degree of Iman, will determine one's position in Heaven. Allah had created seven hierarchies of Heaven to fit one's level of Iman.

(4)The Al Quran says: ....be hold to rope of Allah.... Clear Quality Control and Work Process had been set, not only in the Al Quran, but was well demonstrated by Muhammad SAW and the four Caliphs. This is what called Islamic Adeen. All Muslim, must know that Prophet Muhammad SAW and all the prophets before him, placed their whole trust on such demand and they did all what being commanded on them. They then exercised the third agenda that Allah had trust on them ie to lead to the best endeavors.

(5) To lead, is to bring goods to the followers. But, Allah demand that His leaders are to serve Him only, nothing less, thus the goods that the leaders should impart to their followers are those that would take them to Heaven. He demand the leaders to uphold good governance which is closely associated with Iman. Self interest is very much discourage. Reward for great leaders are barakkah and thus hereafter good lives in Heaven. Thus the Muslim leaders, doesn't matter at which level they are, they are to compete with each other to achieve the best. They are demanded to sacrifice more rather than taking. The competition and sacrifice must be confined to the path that He had clearly determined. Such competitive and sacrificing characters in fact were clearly demonstrated especially by Abu Bakar As Siddeeq and Umar Al Khataab. Both love to compete to give the best for the good deed of the ummah.

(6) Umar Al Khataab and Ali Abi Thalib in particular, worked hard to establish details of the Islamic Governance based on principles earlier set by Muhammad SAW. Umar Al Khataab in particular, while adhered strictly to strengthen the Iman of the Ummah, he worked hard to improve on the larger aspects of the Islamic Economic Management. In the Muhammad SAW (and even Abu Bakar As Siddeeq) days, sub-sectors of Finance and Trade Management were given greater emphasis. In time of Umar Al Khataab, with the expansion of the Islamic influence covering the whole of Arabia, African, Persian and Asia Minor, the fields of agriculture land management, settlement developments, infrastructures, education, ventures partnership, finance and banking, etc were given due attention. Umar Al Khataab indeed, established the expanded economic principle for the Muslim world. His economic doctrine should be read and debated elaboratively in the Muslim world.

(7) In deed, taking on Umar Al Khataab's governance, all the other Islamic empires thereon especially the Ummaiyah, Abbasiyah, Andalusia and Ottoman put great emphasis on Economic Prosperity so much so with lesser emphasis on the strengthening of Iman, at last made Allah to part from them. Due to much loving of the glorious worldly lives, the then Muslims leaders had breached Allah pre-conditions to the sustenance of heavenly living. The then events are history for us to mirror ourselves. But most important lesson that the Muslims could draw from all these historical paths, to me, we have to be serious about the Islamic Education and Financial Management System. I do strongly believe, that Iman and Islamic Adeen, our grand agenda could be well achieve if we could firmly establish the Islamic Education and Financial Management System

The Baitullah of the Malays

Every time going down to Kuala Lumpur, since I was a student to this day, I made all effort to have a feel of Kampung Baru of Kuala Lumpur. Either to buy fruits, those traditional cottage industries products, or having all sort of exotic foods down there, I made all effort to be there. My favorite was (and is) boiled or smoke cockles. Kg Baru, Kuala Lumpur is the early Malays settlements in the prosperous early day Tin Mining industry. The Malays, be they the local native of Malaya, Singapura, or transit migrants from Sumatera, Java, Celebes, even Pattani, and Champa, before they settle elsewhere, they in one way or another must had stayed or worked temporarily here. My grandfather, a Rhiau Malay was one of those. He served as a surveyor in the construction of various roads and railways in those days. Kg Baru indeed has all its legacy and interesting history. To me, this is the soul of the Malays of Klang Valley if not Kuala Lumpur or Malaya or Nusantara.

(2) In the Al Quran, Allah had clearly stated; ....look all around you, don't you see My Authority... or even His challenge ....can't you think.... Allah in deed at all times, remind us of how Powerfull is He that by mere Kun Fa Ya Kun, what ever He wants will be there or dismiss. Thus, the mountains, the deserts, the oceans, the stars, the planets, the winds, the plagues, all, are displays of His Greatness. All those, He created, including our ownself, are for us to steadfast to His cause, to be the best creature that was given part of His soul. Allah soul in us, in fact demand us to be good. We must do good, nothing but good. If we keep ourselves to be and do good, definitely we will be great.That is His promise. He has all the means to keep to His promises.

(3) Muhammad SAW and his four immediate sahabah totally submitted themselves to the command and demand to be and to do good. They were willing to sacrifice everything; their lives, wealth, pleasure, and self interest just to gain the status to be and for good, not for themselves, but the general ummah. Their faith (Iman) to Allah was unshaken. Their struggle to establish the Adeen of Islam was rock hard. All because, they just want to attain to the highest level of the hereafter Heavenly living. They ignored and hate the worldly pleasures and glories. And to me, the very reason why they were so determined and uphold to their struggle to implant Iman and Islamic Adeen was because, Baitullah was there. Baitullah I would believe, is at hand monument that Allah purposely command to be built to remind and to make all human being to be focussed to the purpose of their creation. Human indeed was created to set the best example and to lead all His other creation. Human being is created to be a leader. A leader is to be and do nothing, but good. With Baitullah at hand, the Muslims are inspired to be and to do good. It is a spiritual monument for Muslims to keep to their great cause, to be and do good, to entitle them a good share in Heaven.

(4) As such, I believe, for the Malays, especially the Muslim Malays of Malaysia, for them to be great, to enable them to contribute the best to the whole humankind within the path of Allah, they must have close to home, to their nose, the morale booster. To me, Kampung Baru, Kuala Lumpur that is very dear to the Malays and our struggle to Independent, its must be sustained and further develop into the Soul and Body of the struggle to make the Malays great.

Nucleus of Our Struggle

As I have said, establishing Iman and Islamic Adeen are the fundamental components of Muhammad SAW and his sahabah struggle that Allah had entrusted onto them. Not only they were able to lift the Jahilliah Arabs from their darkness and destruction, they were also able to make the oppressive Persian empire to extinct as well as shrinking the influence of the equally cruel Byzantium (East Roman) ruling to the European soil only. Later, the various Islamic Amirs managed to expand their empires to include the Africa, Europe, Asia Minor and South Asia Continent. Just the Khan (Mongol) were not the maritime nation, thus they never made it to the Land of the Rising Sun. Probably, they were too arrogant that they may had ignored the Champa Malays as their strategic allies, thus they later perished in the monsoon storm.

(2) If we care to study deeper into the glory of those ancient Islamic empires, we could easily noticed that during Muhammad SAW and his sahabah period, in every cities and lands that they conquered, they will sent over tens and hundreds of Islamic scholars to educate the new Muslims of the Iman. They also sent great Islamic scholars as governors, judges, finance controllers, and military leaders to ensure they would established a proper Islamic Adeen among the Muslims and all the other subjects. Even during the cause of the wars, the scholars were to accompanied and took the sword along the armies, so as to safeguard that military exercise would not go beyond in human deed as practiced by other non-Islamic armies. And we also could see that the destruction of the Islamic empires were due to the degrading of Iman and the emergence of worldly pleasure and greed among firstly the leaders then the public officials which to me is succinctly about the poor economic management. Thus, reflecting back to the Jewish struggle, the modern Jewish agenda which is laid through the Zionism, is all about Education and Financial Control. The Jews, through the Western Liberal Education and Economic System had succinctly able to infiltrate transnational cultures and norms that gives them great benefit to be on the upper hand to this day. Thus, I would suggest, Kampung Baru, Kuala Lumpur should be the Islamic Educational and Financial Center.

(3) If we listen closely to the voices of the landowners in Kampung Baru, their very basic concern is over their sustainable equity of the whole development. Under current development science, we could easily concluded that the Malays in Kampung Baru should not take advantage of the two world. Meaning, they shouldn't take the market price compensated deal, and at the same time enjoy the benefit of the development on the same land. In today, development theory and practices, once compensated, the owners cease the right over the matter. While that is true in certain sense, but it couldn't be treated as such to Kampung Baru. If so, then sure some will say, then it is very difficult to redevelop such place.

(4) Let us just go back to the building of Baitullah at Beca Valley. The Al Quran says;....this is a place where nothing grow.... With such a misery, and yet Allah wants such a place to be a place where human being should glorify Him most. Just imagine in today contact, make everybody in misery, and thus request them to praise you most, would it work?. But it works with Allah, why? Before, Baitullah as it is of today, Quranically, Eve-Adam firstly suffered much here, then Hajar-Ismael left to thirst and starve, Abraham-Ismael were tested to the the limit to sacrifice, even the Quraish was almost crushed to death by Abraha, and Muhammad SAW himself, with Ali Abi Thalib willingly to lost his life in the cause to purify Baitullah. This is a place on earth where Allah declared a decree of the Tanah Haram where nothing that is not good should be practiced here. In view of such ruling, the ambient and social structure here are totally serene than any other places on earth. All Muslim knew this, and all Muslims that had visited the Baitullah, had felt it. Why? What makes the tamu Allah experienced such emotional cleanliness and submissive satisfaction? Can't we then not try to learn from such a wisdom, to make all those landowners in Kampung Baru to have such willingness as to forebear and sacrifice as Eve-Adam, Hajar-Ismael, Abraham-Ismael, Mutalib-Quraish, and Muhammad-Ali Abi Thalib. To me, Eve-Adam, Hajar-Ismael, Abraham-Ismael, Mutalib, and Muhammad-Ali Abi Thalib were willing to forebear and sacrificed were all due to their intended good deed for the overall humankind.

(5) I'm not suggesting for us to massage the Malay Sentiment of the Malays of Kampung Baru. What I try to say is that, sustaining the equity ownership of the redevelopment of Kampung Baru, must be aligned from a much purist and meaningful gain. Worldly, the property owners must not be denied their present livelihood, they must be able to improve even better, but the wider agenda, they must be given a ticket to go to Heaven as a reward to their their sacrifice and forebearing. Thus, how could the redevelopment of Kampung Baru would not only to make the land lords worldly better, as well as their willingness to take such redevelopment call as Amal.

(6) As I have earlier suggested, indeed, the way Muhammad SAW and his sahabah in pursuing the strengthening of Iman and unity among the Muslims were through the implementation of the Islamic Education and Adeen ie in today world,  through the cause of Islamic Education and Governance. Education is the tool to implant Iman into the heart and mind of the Muslim ie to develop their clean and trustworthy characters and values.  While, the profounding governance would be in the area of Islamic Finance based on the fact of what Muhammad SAW had said: ...poverty would lead to infidel...nine out of ten, the worldly rezeki is by mean of trading...and Allah forbade riba.... Indeed those were the cause taken by those grand amirs of Ummaiyah, Abbasiah, Fatimid, Andalusia, Ottoman, Seljuk, the Khans and even Mudzafar Shah of Malacca, the Majapahit, Langkasuka, Pattani, Champa, Pasai, Sulu, Makasar, Jambi,etc to make them great in their times.

(7) To me, Kampung Baru must be transformed into the Islamic Center of Educational and Financial Excellent. It should be the Mecca of the Fareast. It should be the most preferred place to live, work, celebrate, learn, innovate, recreate, and practice. It is an Organic Place. The Islamic Iman and Adeen must be the shine of Kampung Baru. Its new form, gave the loing search of soul and body of the Malays. That should be the goals of the redevelopment of Kampung Baru. Nothing less. With such, then the worldly and herefater equity of the Malays landowners of Kampung Baru be sustained and achieved.

(8) Malaysian Muslim Malays had been further blessed indeed, with the Allah guided leadership that we have, firstly Tunku Abdul Rahman made Islam and Malays as our constitutioanl right, Tun Abdul Razak dato' Husein through his brilliant New Economic Policy (NEP) had left us numerous Conglomerate that had acquire great wealth for us to move on faster and much freely, Tun Husein Dato' Onn, in short span had established Permodalan Nasional Berhad to further enrich the Malays, while Tun Dr Mahathir Mohammed, had established and erected further landmarks for us to take speedious highways to the better. Tun Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, though had tried his best, but failed, I believe had give the Malays a great lesson to always bear in mind, never to give in without a clear trade off. Personally, I must also recorded some goods of Dato' Nik Aziz Nik Mat, the PAS spiritual leader, though he had failed to bring material goods to Kelantan, but I believe he had in one way or another made the general Malays to love Islam better. Without Nik Aziz being around I would believe, most of the Malays would just love to love the worldly lives. Allah, indeed as I have said loves the Malays so much, but we must not stay indifferent and be complacent

(9) To me as I have pointed in many of my earlier writings, the GLCs and conglomerate that are under thye Malays' arms must now be able to see their role from the dakwah perspectives. Tabung Haji, MARA, FELDA, MayBank, CIMB Bank, PNB, Sime Darby, etc and personalities such as Tun Daim Zainuddin, Syed Bukhari, Tan Sri Azman Hashim, etc should now be able to work under Malays Renaissance Task Force to draw detail enumerative gain for the Kampung Baru landowners as well as to make Kampung Baru as Fareast Islamic Center of Educational and Financial Excellent. I can't see, why all these Organization couldn't contribute to such goal.

(10) It is for Najib to really exercise his authority and wisdom to unite all the best brains and talents that the greater Malays have, be it in Indonesia, Philippines, Singapore, Brunei, Siam, Chambodia, Laos, Burma, Vietnam, China, South Africa, Madagascar, Mali, etc; as well as within the country to form the Advisory Council to transform Kampung Baru to be what I love to call Monument of the Malays Renaissance, the Mecca of the Fareast.

(11) We should make such as our socio-cultural agenda. Mahathir, Anwar, and Nik Aziz; it is time for us to get together. Our veteran age should give us all the wisdom to leave this world with the best gift for Islam, the greater Malays and the whole humankind. We should stop eduacting our new generation with political quarel, nothing but those stupid political quarel. Najib, the cards are yours, and no point to shout for glory yet we are wasting our time and energy just to condemn each other.

(12) Last but not least, I heard Sungai Besi is going to be developed into the Kuala Lumpur Islamic Financial Center, I hope that is not true, and if it is true, that won't impart great meaning to the Malays. Sg. Besi, because of Tin Mining, had made thousands of Malays be the slave of the British. Kampung Baru, did played its role in our National Independent and Malays survival struggles. I hope, not because of some difficulties that we are now facing with those landowners, thus we would love to leave Kampun Baru to the least choice of development. Once again, I would love to reiterate, Mecca or Baitullah was never returned to Islam with an easy ride. Allah purposely made it difficult for Muhammad SAW and the early Muslims to take and returned Baitullah to Islam. Najib, especially through Nong Chik, they must understand such a wisdom of Allah. SubhanaAllah, may He gives all of us the needed wisdom and firmness to be great.



Kg. Terasi, Pendam, Sarawak
14-22 Oct., 2012
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