Category: Politik

  • Skim Pengiktirafan Asatizah Akan Diubah, Meliputi Semua Asatizah Tempatan

    Skim Pengiktirafan Asatizah Akan Diubah, Meliputi Semua Asatizah Tempatan

    Skim Pengiktirafan Asatizah (ARS) akan diluaskan untuk meliputi semua asatizah tempatan.

    Ia bertujuan meyakinkan lagi masyarakat bahawa golongan asatizah yang memberikan bimbingan agama, mempunyai kelayakan dan latihan yang sempurna.

    Pada masa ini sekitar 80 peratus asatizah menyertai skim ARS.

    Menteri Bertanggungjawab bagi Ehwal Masyarakat Islam, Dr Yaacob Ibrahim mengumumkan perubahan itu di majlis penyampaian sijil bagi satu program baru untuk asatizah.

    35 asatizah hari ini (1 Ogos) menjadi kumpulan pertama menerima sijil program Pemikiran Islam Dalam Konteks Kehidupan Masyarakat Pelbagai.

    Program baru itu bertujuan melengkapi asatizah dengan pendekatan kontekstual dalam mempraktikkan Islam di negara ini.

    Ia disertai asatizah dari universiti-universiti Islam di Timur Tengah dan Asia Tenggara.

    Dekan Akademi MUIS Dr Albakri Ahmad berkata, para peserta melihat program tersebut sebagai satu proses mengembangkan kefahaman mereka dengan pengajian-pengajian yang mereka alami.

    “Mereka juga dibantu untuk memikirkan bagaimana dengan tradisi yang ada dan juga kandungan-kandungan yang mereka belajar di universiti-universiti luar negara dapat dimanfaatkan dengan menggunakan alat-alat tradisi-tradisi yang digunakan oleh ilmuan lampau untuk membuahkan atau menghasilkan penyelesaian-penyelesaian cabaran masa kini,” tambah beliau lagi.

    Salah seorang peserta, Cik Zahratur Rofiqah Mohd Sandisi, mahasiswa Universiti Jordan berkata, program itu berguna dan bermanfaat sekali untuk membantu para peserta menjadi orang yang terbaik.

    Iaitu bukan sahaja sebagai asatizah masa hadapan kata beliau, bahkan juga sebagai masyarakat dan rakyat Singapura secara keseluruhannya.

    “Pertama sekali sebagai asatizah, orang melihat kepada kita. Jadi apa yang kita katakan, apa yang kita buat, orang akan menjadikannya sebagai contoh,” ujar Cik Zahratur Rofiqah lagi.

    Program kerjasama antara Akademi Muis dengan Program Pengajian Hubungan Antara Agama dalam Masyarakat Majmuk (SRP), Sekolah Pengajian Antarabangsa S Rajaratnam (RSIS) turut menampilkan ilmuan-ilmuan dari merata dunia.

    Ketua SRP Mohd Alami Musa berkata: “Kita dapat lihat bagaimana mereka menunjukkan penghargaan yang sangat mendalam terhadap apa yang telah disampaikan oleh sarjana-sarjana itu.

    “Bukan hanya pemahaman kandungan tetapi pemahaman kandungan di dalam konteks dan bagaimana aplikasinya disesuaikan dengan profil dan situasi masyarakat Islam dalam negara Singapura ini.”

    Dalam ucapannya, Dr Yaacob Ibrahim berkata program itu perlu bagi membantu asatizah memahami bahawa pengamalan Islam sebahagiannya dibentuk oleh konteks sosio-sejarah.

    Oleh itu asatizah boleh memainkan peranan membantu membentuk perspektif masyarakat ke arah pemahaman kehidupan beragama yang lebih progresif dalam dunia moden kini.

    Bagi memberi jaminan kepada masyarakat bahawa asatizah yang memberi bimbingan agama mempunyai kelayakan dan latihan yang sempurna, Dr Yaacob mengumumkan bahawa Skim Pengiktirafan Asatizah (ARS) akan diluaskan kepada semua asatizah tempatan.

    Muis akan bekerjasama dengan PERGAS serta Lembaga Pengiktirafan Asatizah untuk melaksanakannya.

    Skim tersebut memberi pengiktirafan kepada asatizah tempatan yang memenuhi kelayakan minimum untuk mengajar ilmu agama Islam di pelbagai institusi keagamaan awam dan swasta.

    Source: Berita MediaCorp

  • Osman Sulaiman: Work Hard And You Shall Be Rewarded!

    Osman Sulaiman: Work Hard And You Shall Be Rewarded!

    This is Shafiq. My Sales & Project Manager. He is the youngest member of my team. He has only been with us for about 1.5 months.

    Prior to joining me, he was working odd jobs to make ends meet. With nothing to lose, I persuaded him to join me and realise his full potential and the chance to earn a comfortable salary.

    Without any sales experience, he was naturally apprehensive about it. He knows nothing about doing renovation.

    Today, he closed his first deal. It sounded simple. Join me. Earn big bucks. Dont need to work so hard. But behind the scene, not many ppl know that he works diligently.

    His willingness to learn and acquire new skills makes the transition easier. Going out of his comfort zone to achieve his goals. His tenacity was what contributed to his first deal. A huge deal even for my standard.

    He now reaps the reward for his hard work and earns more than peers his age. To excel, paper qualification is secondary. Yes it is needed in a specific field but ultimately, it is not the only channel for success. Hard work is still the fool-proof way to achieve it.

    His success is my success. Im only able to provide the opportunity. Whether one succeed, it is up to the individual to find it.

    Congratulation Shafiq! Tomorrow, you’ll be able to treat me lobster!

     

    Source: Khan Osman Sulaiman

  • Damanhuri Abas: Ministers Must Be Held Accountable For Lapses In Financial Management In Their Ministries

    Damanhuri Abas: Ministers Must Be Held Accountable For Lapses In Financial Management In Their Ministries

    In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.

    On Thursday, the AGO released its report on serious and major lapses in financial management across several government Ministries and Statutory Boards  across Ministries, to the tune of hundreds of millions of tax-payers money.

    The Singapore government has always pride itself for its much vaunted so-called corrupt free practices and non-tolerance to any corruption. But this revelation from the AGO clearly provides evidences that may show otherwise.

    Singaporeans first need to salute and congratulate the AGO for being courageous in reporting the truth of financial lapses that may be pervasive across the government sectors. And it really begs the question of the kind of flimsy oversight being practiced under the watch of the million-dollar paid Ministers.

    Surely it is only just and fair for Singaporeans to expect a much better job by those premium paid Ministers. Or are they becoming precisely sloppy due to their own self being extremely cash-rich making them lacksadalsicle towards public money under their care.

    Firstly, Singaporeans demand to know from Ministers running those Ministries and Statutory boards their explanations for these serious financial lapses in their respective Ministries. Why and how can it be possible that given the enormous powers vested to them and the people they had assisting them, yet they failed miserably in supervising and ensuring such wastage of public funds given to their care by tax-payers who had to slogged it our tireless for their hard-earned money to pay taxes.

    Secondly, there are plenty of precedents of cases that were given much publicity in the press that led to jail terms to several individuals for lesser amount of money involved, such as the recent case of Hari Raya lighting involving Majlis Pusat. This case involved some inflations of invoices for payments while not going into the pockets of the management team involved, were deemed as CBT worthy cases. And now the expose by the AGO are plenty of worst cases of possibly CBT worthy ones such as the gross inflation of consultation fees of $410,000 for a Bin construction that only cost $60,000. Clearly someone pocketed much public money here.

    For these and many more reasons of consistency and transparency that the public demands accountability by all the Ministers whose Ministries were flagged by the AGO, for the clear failure of oversight.

    What is more fundamental here is the need to call these Ministers to task as they were only a while ago demanding such serious consequences to WP and its leadership for alleged financial lapses involving the AHPETC. Ministers were so bold as to even call for severe action even for hara-kiri as a benchmark for lapses of management of public money. Now these same Ministers have been very silent when they are now caught for much bigger quantum of losses of public money that they are responsible for.

    Singaporeans must not allow the AGO report to go quietly away but must insist that Ministers come clean and explain the serious failures of their own governance of public money and must take the full responsibility for it. Singaporeans remember clearly that these Ministers are paid premium justified precisely on terms that now dictate consequences upon their failures of duty.

    The government must now walk their own talk.

     

    Source: Damanhuri Abas

  • Damanhuri Abas: Ministers Job Is To Ensure Check And Balance, Not Defend The Wrongs

    Damanhuri Abas: Ministers Job Is To Ensure Check And Balance, Not Defend The Wrongs

    The AGO job is to flag the financial irregularities. The onus is upon the Ministries and Stat Board flagged to come clean and explain what happened. Already we have Grace Fu trying hard to justify the gross 410K expertise NAC engaged for a Rubbish Bin design.

    The root cause is about genuine check and balance, safeguards and transparency. Its a chronic reality that begins from the very top when a culture of non-transparency on public money is justified for bigger sums like our CPF, reserves, and the like.

    In Parliament, MPs (especially opposition) have the privilege of demanding the Ministries to come clean on these financial lapses. Sadly the parliament is severely lopsided. Thus allowing the continuation of bad practices and lack or transparency on our public money to continue.

    Ultimately, its about democracy and parliamentary representation for the people to truly be able to voice their concerns. These are severely undermined by the current GRC system which allow for systematic demographic manipulation thru redrawing boundaries justified by irrelevant basis of ensuring minority representation.

    Bigger things r at stake for Spore. Singaporeans sadly r easily distracted.

     

    Source: Damanhuri Abas

  • Singaporean In Munich: ‘I’m Scared To Wear My Tudung In Public’

    Singaporean In Munich: ‘I’m Scared To Wear My Tudung In Public’

    Despite the recent terror attacks in Europe and the increasing level of hostility towards Muslims, Singaporean student Maahirah Mohammed has never been afraid to put on her tudung in public.

    That is until last Friday, when an attack happened in Munich, Germany, where she is studying.

    A teenage gunman opened fire at the Olympia shopping centre, killing nine people.

    The mall is just five minutes by train from the flat where Miss Maahirah, 18, and her cousin, Miss Hanim Zaini, 18, have been living for the last 15 months.

    Thankfully, they were on a picnic in the outskirts of the city with a group of friends when the shooting happened at around 6pm (midnight, Singapore time).

    Miss Maahirah told The New Paper in a phone interview on Tuesday that she found out about the incident on Facebook as she was leaving the picnic.

    She said: “I was quite shocked… because Munich is usually a very safe place. I kept thinking, ‘An attack? Here in Munich?’”

    The shooting resulted in a shutdown of the city’s public transport system, leaving thousands stranded in the streets.

    Mrs Norliza Asisi Maurer, 53, a fellow Singaporean at the picnic, dropped the cousins off at a tram station about 10 stops away from their flat, unaware that the trams were not running.

    Miss Maahirah described the situation as confusing at first, and then gradually becoming more chaotic and tense as time passed.

    “The streets were lined with people, and you could feel everyone’s frustration and anxiety,” she said.

    There were also rumours that two other shooters were on the run, which added to the girls’ stress and paranoia.

    The cousins, who both wear the tudung, were trying to figure out how to get home when an old man started yelling as he walked past them.

    “He was pointing at us and shouting in our faces in German about ‘another terrorist attack again’, and cursing refugees and Islam,” said Miss Hanim.

    The man walked away after his outburst and the girls quickly walked in the opposite direction.

    “It was over very quickly, but we were so shocked and embarrassed as his voice was louder than the (din of the) crowd, so everyone was looking at us,” Miss Maahirah added.

    The cousins said this was the second time they had been on the receiving end of anti-Islam sentiments.

    Last year, while Miss Hanim was waiting at a traffic light junction, a woman made a rude gesture at her from across the street and called out anti-Islam comments.

    Miss Maahirah said the shooting was the first time something had happened in Munich so now they are more concerned about their safety.

    She said: “I’m scared of wearing my tudung out in public after getting yelled at like that.”

    Unable to get home after the attack, the teens called Mrs Maurer, who is married to a German national and has been living in Munich for over 20 years. About half an hour later, she picked them up in her car.

    ROADBLOCKS

    But the journey home was not over.

    The roads to their residential area had roadblocks, so they went to Mrs Maurer’s home, which was a 10-minute drive away from the tram station.

    Miss Maahirah and Miss Hanim ended up spending the night there as public transport was unavailable throughout the night. Services only resumed at 4am so the girls returned home the next day.

    Mrs Maurer, who helps her husband run a software company, said: “The locals here are usually very tolerant, and it’s very unfortunate that the girls were on the receiving end of someone’s frustrations.”

    Miss Hanim’s family, who live in Saudi Arabia, frantically tried to reach her when they read about the shooting.

    Her sister, Ms Yasmin Zaini, 22, told TNP: “We had just completed our umrah pilgrimage in Mecca and news of the shooting sent us into panic mode.

    “We couldn’t reach my sister because her phone was off, but we found out that she was safe from Maahirah just a while later.”

    While Miss Maahirah thinks that Munich is still a safe city, much like Singapore, she admitted she would not worry about her safety if such an attack happened in Singapore.

    She said: “I don’t think Singaporeans would be hostile or look at us any differently.”

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