Tag: Malaysia

  • Legenda-Legenda Rock Malaysia Luah Rasa Bengang Search Digelar Kumpulan Hantu

    Legenda-Legenda Rock Malaysia Luah Rasa Bengang Search Digelar Kumpulan Hantu

    PETALING JAYA: Penyanyi-penyanyi rock membidas seorang pakar motivasi dikenali sebagai Muhammad Lukman Al Hakim Muhammad kerana menyelar kumpulan Search sebagai “hantu” yang dijemput mengadakan persembahan pada Festival Belia Putrajaya pada 24 Mei lalu.

    Vokalis kumpulan Wings, Awie berkata, kenyataan pemuda itu seolah-olah datangnya daripada seseorang yang tidak berakal tanpa memikirkan kesan akibat perbuatannya itu.

    Malah kata Awie, Muhammad Lukman langsung tidak menghormati vokalis Search, Amy sebagai seorang yang lebih tua daripadanya ketika membuat kenyataan tersebut.

    “Pada saya ketika dia membuat kenyataan itu dia tidak sempat berfikir perkataan digunakan dan langsung tidak menghormati Amy sebagai orang yang lebih tua daripadanya.

    Awie menganggap kenyataan lelaki itu sebagai dangkal.

    “Amy sudah berusia 57 tahun dan adakah dia sedar pengalaman Amy mungkin lebih banyak daripadanya?

    “Jangan hanya kerana dia menggelar dirinya pakar motivasi dia berhak mengeluarkan kenyataan dangkal seperti itu sehingga terlupa tentang perkara baik dilakukan Search atau penyanyi rock lain,” ujarnya.

    Jelas Awie atau nama sebenarnya Mohd Azhar Othman, 47, biarpun kenyataan itu tidak ditujukan kepada penyanyi rock lain tetapi sebagai ‘orang lama’ dalam industri muzik dia mengakui turut terasa.

    “Amy saya sudah anggap sebagai abang dan saya lebih mengenali siapa beliau. Bak kata pepatah ‘cubit paha kiri, paha kanan terasa’ dan sudah tentu saya juga terasa. Saya bersetuju apabila Amy enggan melayan pemuda itu untuk berjumpanya,” ujar Awie.

    Kenyataan dikeluarkan Muhammad Lukman menerusi laman Facebooknya.

    Muhammad Lukman yang juga Ketua Pemuda Ikatan Muslimin Malaysia (ISMA) mengeluarkan kata-kata cemuhan terhadap Search menerusi status di laman Facebook miliknya baru-baru ini.

    Dalam status berkenaan, dia menulis: “Setelah bertahun-tahun negara sambut hari belia negara, belia-belia kita menjadi teruk kerana hantu-hantu macam ini yang menjadi pengisinya”.

    Ia turut disertakan dengan gambar kumpulan Search yang mengadakan persembahan menerusi program itu.

    Bagaimanapun, dia bertindak memadam status berkenaan selepas mendapat kritikan pedas daripada peminat dan mahu berjumpa dengan Amy untuk menohon maaf.

    Amy menujukan lirik lagu sebagai balasan kepada kenyataan lelaki berkenaan.

    Amy dalam satu kenyataan memberitahu belum bersedia untuk bertemu pemuda itu namun telah memuat naik bait lirik lagunya, Meniti Titian Usang untuk menegur tindakan Muhammad Lukman itu.

    Dalam pada itu, bekas penyanyi kumpulan Gersang, Man Bai pula memberitahu, Muhammad Lukman sebagai pakar motivasi sepatutnya lebih tahu bagaimana untuk menegur tanpa menggunakan perkataan kasar.

    Man Bai memberitahu Muhammad Lukman cuba mencari publisiti murahan.

    Kata Man Bai, dia faham tujuan individu tersebut yang ingin memotivasikan golongan belia namun tersalah langkah dan menjerat dirinya sendiri.

    “Saya boleh faham mengapa dia berkata demikian tetapi salahnya adalah penggunaan ayat digunakan adalah kasar.

    “Ada cara lain hendak motivasi dan nasihat golongan belia dan apa bezanya dia dengan ‘hantu’ yang didakwanya itu dengan ayat sedemikian?,” katanya.

    Tambahnya lagi, tindakan Muhammad Lukman  itu jelas mengambil kesempatan untuk mendapat perhatian umum dan ia berjaya.

    Man Bai berkata, Muhammad Lukman seharusnya berasa bertuah apabila Amy enggan berjumpa dengannya dan memilih mengambil tindakan berdiam diri berhubung isu berkenaan.

    Aweera turut berasa ‘panas’ dengan kenyataan tersebut.

    “Saya rasa dia pun sedar kenyataannya itu menjerat dirinya sendiri dan Amy boleh mengambil tindakan undang-undang terhadapnya tetapi beliau ambil pendekatan berdiam diri dan enggan bertemu lelaki itu,” katanya.

    Sementara itu, bagi penyanyi Aweera, 24,  biarpun dia adalah penyanyi rock generasi baharu namun dia tetap terkesan dengan kenyataan dibuat Muhammad Lukman terhadap Search.

    “Saya sendiri ‘panas’ kerana apa yang dikatakannya langsung tidak masuk akal tanpa mengetahui dan mengenali Search itu sendiri.

    “Alhamdulillah saya berpeluang mengenali Amy dan memandang tinggi kepada keperibadiannya yang sentiasa rendah diri dan tenang,” katanya.

    Selain menjadi penyanyi rock, Amy juga aktif dengan kerja-kerja amal dan mempunyai sekolah untuk pelajar tahfiz.

     

    Source: www.mstar.com.my

  • Challenge Lies In Fighting IS Ideology, Not Group

    Challenge Lies In Fighting IS Ideology, Not Group

    KUALA LUMPUR — The threat of the Islamic State looms large over Malaysia, where the authorities have arrested dozens of suspected militants and uncovered several terror plots planned in the name of the militant group in recent months.

    Those detained come from all walks of life, making it extremely challenging, if not impossible, for the authorities to profile suspects and pre-empt attacks.

    The country’s top counterterrorism official Ayub Khan said the challenge of dealing with the Islamic State is having to fight ideology rather than an organisation. “(The Islamic State’s) doors are open to anybody … We have our work cut out for us as we are monitoring not just organisations or groups, but also individuals,” he said.

    In the most recent case, six suspected militants were charged last week — the youngest being a 17-year-old. The six were part of a group of 12 who were arrested near Kuala Lumpur last month for plans to attack Putrajaya, the federal parliament and entertainment venues with explosives.

    The police also detained one of the youngest Malaysians who wanted to join the group in February — a 14-year-old girl who planned to marry a man, 22, in Egypt before heading to Syria to join the militant cause.

    Since April 2013, Malaysia has arrested 107 for suspected militant activities. They include military personnel, civil servants and university students, among others — a worrying sign that even people who serve the nation are buying into the group’s ideology. Two men from the Royal Malaysian Air Force were charged last month along with four other suspected militants for plotting to kidnap high-profile figures, rob banks and raid armed-forces installations.

    Malaysia passed the controversial Prevention of Terrorism Act Bill last month, giving the police sweeping powers to arrest and detain those suspected of terrorist activities.

    Last August, the police arrested 19 who had formulated plans to bomb pubs and a Malaysian brewery managed by Carlsberg. These were targeted reportedly because Islam forbids the consumption of alcohol.

    A group of radicals arrested last year were planning to attack several targets in Malaysia and had their sights set on a wider campaign — the creation of an Islamic caliphate that includes Singapore, said the counterterrorism division.

    The Islamic State has been adept at spreading its propaganda on social media, making it difficult for authorities to distinguish when pre-emptive action should be taken.

    “We don’t go after these sympathisers as there is no evidence to show they are involved,” Mr Ayub said, but added that the counterterrorism division is taking all possible measures for intelligence gathering and making arrests. Officers are also sent to engage the people by giving talks at schools.

    When asked if Singapore and Malaysia are on high alert for attacks, Mr Ayub replied: “The IS threat is a global problem. We are working with other countries through the exchange of information and intelligence.”

    Of the 200 Malaysians who were fighting in Iraq and Syria, some have died as suicide bombers and others in combat.

    Indonesia faces a similar growing threat from the Islamic State and launched a six-month operation in April to crack down on militants with suspected links to the group. The authorities believe about 500 Indonesians have joined the group in Syria and Iraq. AGENCIES

     

    Source: www.todayonline.com

  • Malaysia Mass Graves: Villagers Tell Of Immigrants Emerging From Secret Camps

    Malaysia Mass Graves: Villagers Tell Of Immigrants Emerging From Secret Camps

    The residents of Wang Kelian sensed something was amiss when a number of people stumbled on to their streets, weak and injured, and began to beg for food and water.

    “They would walk into my shop, with injuries covering their hands and feet. Some were just too weak to even speak properly,” said Lyza Ibrahim, who runs a food stall in the town on the northern Malaysian border with Thailand.

    “One asked me, ‘[Is this] Malaysia?’ Then he pointed in the other direction, said ‘Thailand’ and shook his head to signal that he was not wanted there.”

    Wang Kelian is an unassuming settlement but it has been thrust into the global spotlight this week after the discovery in nearby jungle of dozens of secret camps used by people smugglers and nearly 140 grave sites.

    Police say some of those graves contain multiple bodies – raising the terrible prospect of hundreds of unexplained deaths. On Tuesday Malaysian authorities began the grim task of exhumation.

    Some of the campsites included wooden pens, some with barbed wire and guarded by sentry posts. In one pen, police found several parts of a decomposed body.

    A picture from Royal Malaysian Police shows an abandoned human trafficking camp where graves were found nearby, close to the border with Thailand at Wang Kelian, Malaysia.

    The camps appear to be part of a complex of bases stretching into Thailand on what had been a well-established route smuggling mostly Rohingya people from Burma and Bangladesh.

    But the trade has been in chaos since early May, when Thai authorities launched a crackdown after the discovery of mass graves on their side of the border.

    Thousands of migrants headed for Thailand started landing elsewhere in south-east Asia. And as the smugglers fled their jungle hideouts, migrants were spotted in Wang Kelian.

    Ibrahim said she had seen several migrants, whom she believed to be Rohingya, and heard stories about many others, including that they would go to a nearby mosque to ask for help.

    Others echoed her story. Another woman said she had spotted a Bangladeshi migrant wandering in the area and knocking on her neighbour’s door.

    “It is very sad. We have been hearing these stories, but we can’t do much,” said the woman, who declined to give her name. “We could only offer food, clean clothes, but we have to call the police and they will be taken away by the police after that.”

    Malaysian officials acknowledged the camps had been around for some time but defended themselves against criticism that no action was taken earlier. Authorities had previously vehemently denied there were any such sites in the country.

    “We have been building up intelligence and information,” the national police chief, Khalid Abu Bakar, told reporters on Monday, vowing tough action against any Malaysians involved.

    But anti-trafficking groups said the latest discovery came as little surprise and would cast an even harsher spotlight on Malaysia, which was listed as ‘tier three’ by the US State Department’s annual human-trafficking report, the worst ranking for countries which are failing to stop the trade.

    “There were stories about these camps that went back nearly 10 years,” Matthew Friedman, the former chief of the UN inter-agency project on human trafficking, told the Guardian. He now heads the Mekong Club, which campaigns against slavery in Asia. “We passed the information on to the local authorities, but there was no follow-up.”

    Bags with human remains at Wang Kelian, Perlis, Malaysia

    A report in 2009 by the US Senate committee on foreign relations found that “a few thousand” Burmese migrants had become victims of extortion and trafficking once they were deported across Malaysia’s border with Thailand.

    In addition, it said there were questions about the “level of participation” of government officials in Malaysia and Thailand.

    Villager Mahyuddin Ahmad said he has seen migrants in Wang Kelian for the past two years but more had been spotted in the past month – the largest group being about 10 people, including women and children.

    The 55-year-old businessman, who said he had given food such as instant noodles and clothes to migrants, added: “It is a common sight here. We didn’t suspect anything because we thought they just come from Thailand.

    “So we are really shocked to hear what the police revealed yesterday about the grave sites and jungle camps.”

     

    Source: www.theguardian.com

  • JAKIM – Sijil Halal Secret Recipe Di Malaysia Ditarik Balik

    JAKIM – Sijil Halal Secret Recipe Di Malaysia Ditarik Balik

    KENYATAAN MEDIA

    ISU PENARIKAN SIJIL PENGESAHAN HALAL MALAYSIA BAGI SYARIKAT SECRET RECIPE MANUFACTURING SDN. BHD.

    Jabatan Kemajuan Islam Malaysia (JAKIM) melalui Bahagian Hab Halal ingin memberi penjelasan berhubung isu penarikan balik Sijil Pengesahan Halal Malaysia bagi syarikat Secret Recipe Manufacturing Sdn. Bhd. berikutan kenyataan mengenainya yang disebarkan secara meluas di laman-laman sosial.

    Penarikan Sijil Pengesahan Halal Malaysia bagi syarikat tersebut adalah disebabkan telah berlaku perlanggaran terhadap Manual Prosedur Pensijilan Halal Malaysia yang melibatkan kesalahan-kesalahan kebersihan dan GMP (Good Manufacturing Practice) yang serius. Penarikan ini walau bagaimanapun adalah TIDAK disebabkan kesalahan penggunaan bahan haram dalam pemprosesan produk.

    Bahagian Hab Halal telah memanggil syarikat terlibat dan syarikat berkenaan telah berjanji akan melakukan tindakan segera berhubung kesalahan yang dilakukan sehingga mengakibatkan Sijil Pengesahan Halal Malaysia mereka ditarik balik.

    Penarikan Sijil Pengesahan Halal Malaysia adalah berkuatkuasa pada 7 Mei 2015. Walau bagaimanapun, penarikan sijil halal tersebut tidaklah menghalang syarikat berkenaan untuk memohon semula Sijil Halal setelah tindakan pembetulan telah dibuat dan mematuhi piawaian pensijilan halal Malaysia. JAKIM akan membuat penilaian semula terhadap permohonan tersebut berdasarkan pemeriksaan dan pematuhan ke atas Malaysia Standard 1500:2009 dan Manual Prosedur Pensijilan Halal Malaysia 2014.

    JAKIM amat memandang serius perkara ini dan mengingatkan kepada setiap pemegang Sijil Pengesahan Halal Malaysia agar sentiasa mematuhi piawaian pensijilan halal Malaysia dari masa ke masa. Tindakan juga akan diambil tanpa kompromi kepada mana-mana pihak yang melakukan pelanggaran terhadap pematuhan piawaian pensijilan halal setelah memiliki Sijil Pengesahan Halal Malaysia.
    JAKIM juga ingin menasihatkan pengguna agar tidak membuat andaian pelbagai dan menyebarkan isu ini secara salah. Sebarang maklumat lanjut, pengguna boleh berhubung terus dengan Bahagian Hab Halal Jakim di talian 03-8892 5000 / 5001 (talian utama) dan 03-8892 5048 (Pegawai Perhubungan Awam) dan semakan status halal juga boleh disemak melalui Direktori Halal Malaysia di www.halal.gov.my.

    Sekian dimaklumkan, terima kasih.

    HAJAH HAKIMAH BINTI MOHD YUSOFF
    Pengarah,
    Bahagian Hab Halal, Jakim
    26 Mei 2015

     

    Source: Jabatan Kemajuan Islam Malaysia (Jakim)

  • Mass Graves Of Rohingya Muslim Migrants Found In Malaysia

    Mass Graves Of Rohingya Muslim Migrants Found In Malaysia

    Malaysia today said it has found mass graves, feared to contain bodies of Bangladeshi and Rohingya migrants from Myanmar, near detention camps used by human traffickers on the border with Thailand, weeks after its police unearthed several bodies from similar shallow graves.

    The mass graves were found near 17 abandoned camps in Padang Besar area on the Thai side of the border and they are believed to be a part of human-trafficking activities involving migrants, Home Minister Zahid Hamidi said.

    The Minister said the General Operations Force (GOF) had found 14 large tents and three other smaller tents, believed to have been operational for at least five years but were abandoned when the authorities came to the location.

    “Today, the inspector-general of police (IGP) and his deputy are at the Malaysia-Thailand border for identification and confirmation. The graves were identified as those for the refugees in the human trafficking trade. Probably, one grave has maybe three, four bodies or maybe only one. So we are counting at the moment,” he said.

    As governments in Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia have launched crackdowns amid intensified international spotlight, human traffickers have abandoned camps on land and even boats at sea to avoid arrest.

    In many instances, these traffickers have been paid by the miniority Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar to help them flee to Malaysia or Indonesia.

    The traffickers reportedly held them to ransom in the jungle camps demanding more money and in many cases leaving them to die quickly burying them in mass graves.

    A few weeks ago hundreds of Muslim Rohingyas were found crammed in boats heading to Malaysia and Indonesia.

    Human rights groups and activists say the area on the Thai-Malaysia border has been used for years to smuggle migrants and refugees, including Rohingya Muslims, a persecuted minority in Myanmar.

    Since May 10 alone, more than 3,600 people – about half of them from Bangladesh and half Rohingyas from Myanmar – have landed ashore in Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand.

    Thousands more are believed to be trapped at sea in boats abandoned by their captains.

    Mass graves were discovered in Thailand earlier this month mostly in southern Songkla province bordering Malaysia.

    The Rohingya, numbering around 1.3 million in Myanmar, are believed to be one of the most persecuted minorities in the world.

     

    Source: www.siasat.com