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  • Damanhuri Abas Dan Bryan Lim Akan Bertanding Untuk SDP Di Philihanraya Nanti

    Damanhuri Abas Dan Bryan Lim Akan Bertanding Untuk SDP Di Philihanraya Nanti

    Parti Demokratik Singapura (SDP) memperkenalkan dua lagi calon yang akan bertanding pada Pilihan Raya Umum yang akan datang.

    Mereka ialah Encik Damanhuri Abas, mantan pengarah Kolej Islam Muhammadiyah dan Encik Bryan Lim, seorang pengurus hospital.

    Encik Damanhuri, 45 tahun, bapa kepada lima orang anak, sudah bergiat aktif dalam pertubuhan-pertubuhan Melayu/Islam selama 20 tahun, dan melakukan kerja-kerja sukarela di masjid selama 10 tahun.

    Menurut Encik Damanhuri, beliau berupaya untuk menyampaikan apa yang menjadi keprihatinan masyarakat Melayu/Islam khususnya dan rakyat Singapura secara amnya.

    “Saya berharap dengan penglibatan saya dalam pilihan raya kali ini, saya dapat menyumbang kepada pembangunan orang Melayu di Singapura, dengan pengalaman yang saya bawa sepanjang 20 tahun, melibatkan diri secara langsung di masjid, persatuan-persatuan Islam, dan juga di sekolah-sekolah dalam pelbagai bidang yang saya terlibat, latihan bengkel dan sebagainya.

    “Jadi saya benar-benar berharap bahawa saya dapat beri sumbangan kepada pembangunan masyarakat Melayu di singapura,” ujar Encik Damanhuri.

    Encik Lim pula menerajui unit operasi SDP yang menjalankan kegiatan seperti bertemu para penduduk. Beliau pernah bertanding di GRC Hong Kah pada tahun 2001.

    SDP telah memperkenalkan enam calon sejak beberapa hari lalu. Antaranya termasuk pegawai pentadbiran jagaan kesihatan Chong Wai Fung, pengurus akaun Khung Wai Yeen, pengarah penjualan Jaslyn Go, profesor perubatan Paul Tambyah, juruaudit Sidek Mallek dan pensyarah psikologi John Tan.

    Source: http://berita.mediacorp.sg

  • Damanhuri Abas – A Champion Of Malay Rights

    Damanhuri Abas – A Champion Of Malay Rights

    Until recently, Mr Damanhuri Bin Abas has been the Director of Muhammadiyah Islamic College. He has extensive experience in managing educational organizations, and spent over a decade teaching and training.

    Married with five children, Daman holds a Bachelor degree in Architectural Study from the National University of Singapore. Thereafter, he holds a Diploma in Teaching and Training from Cambridge, UK, and a Diploma in Counseling from Kaplan, Singapore.

    As a Malay Muslim, Daman is perturbed about the institutionalization of discrimination in Singapore. For example, many Malays feel that they are not being trusted to be in the arm forces. It is also easy to notice the lack of Malay students in Special Assisted School. Daman wishes to ensure that such inequality is being addressed.

    He joins the Singapore Democratic Party because it is the only party that concretely spelt out a stand on the Malay issues that he can identify with. An example of the effectiveness of the SDP’s Malay policy paper can be seen in the introduction of Edusave and the recent announcement by the Government to help improve secular education in Madrasah. He hopes Singaporeans will let him be their Voice in Parliament.

     

    Source: http://yoursdp.org

  • Walid J.Abdullah: Damanhuri Abas Deserves Plaudits For Joining SDP Based On Political Convictions

    Walid J.Abdullah: Damanhuri Abas Deserves Plaudits For Joining SDP Based On Political Convictions

    On joining the wrong party:

    Some have suggested that Mr Damanhuri Abas has joined the wrong party: had he joined WP, he would have had a higher chance of getting elected.

    (For my friends of different or no faiths who may not understand the significance of this matter, this guy is the real deal. He is someone who has truly been ‘on the ground’ and has been active in many grassroots activities over so many years (real grassroots activities; not merely helping out at the MPS a couple of years before being unveiled as a candidate, and then claiming that ‘i have always wanted to help others’. This man is quite respected in the community.)

    The suggestion is perhaps right: WP definitely poses more of a threat to PAP than SDP does. However, one has to ask this question: could Mr Damanhuri have mentioned all those things he did in his first press conference had he been in WP? Could he have been as forthcoming and blunt as he was about discrimination if the careful WP was the conducting the press conference? Probably not.

    So the challenge then goes to WP: is it willing to openly champion minority issues as much as SDP does? And perhaps the larger questions are: will WP continue to tread down this conservative, non-committal path on such issues, and if so, what really is the difference between PAP and WP?

    On another note, it is highly refreshing to see someone joining a party based on his convictions, rather than on probability of electoral success. We will never have a shortage of people who want to join the ruling party to cause ‘change from within’, and to be honest, the more successful WP becomes, the more it will attract people who wants to try to ‘change from within’. But it is extremely rare, to have capable people – not disgruntled nobodies – who make a huge sacrifice and join a party, just so as to be true to his/her beliefs.

    For that, this man deserves a ton of respect.

     

    Source: Walid J. Abdullah

  • SDP Jufrie Mahmood Pertahan Sidek Mallek Kurang Fasih Dalam Bahasa Melayu

    SDP Jufrie Mahmood Pertahan Sidek Mallek Kurang Fasih Dalam Bahasa Melayu

    Parti Demokratik Singapura (SDP) hari ini memperkenalkan dua lagi calon untuk Pilihan Raya Umum pada 11 September ini.

    Mereka ialah Encik Sidek Mallek, juruaudit berusia 55 tahun yang juga calon Melayu pertama yang diperkenal SDP bagi pilihan raya kali ini; dan Encik John Tan, 54 tahun, pakar psikologi sosial.

    Sidek Mallek. (Gambar: Channel NewsAsia)

    Encik Sidek, bapa kepada empat orang anak, merupakan mantan pegawai perkhidmatan awam yang kini bekerja sebagai juruaudit di sebuah syarikat keselamatan.

    Menyentuh tentang skim CPF, beliau berkata: “Saya perlu mencecah usia 67 tahun sebelum saya dapat keluarkan wang saya, yang sebelum ini tidak boleh dikeluarkan, dan ini tidak adil bagi saya, kerana saya boleh menguruskannya sendiri.”

    Encik Sidek juga menyentuh tentang tekanan yang dihadapi kedua-dua anaknya yang kini di sekolah menengah. “Mereka perlu sentiasa mengikuti kelas tuisyen, terus di sekolah selepas kelas berakhir untuk kelas tambahan, perlu menyiapkan kerja rumah – apakah pendapat pemerintah tentang hal ini? Anak-anak kita perlu menikmati masa-masa muda mereka,” katanya.

    Apabila ditanya apakah yang boleh dilakukan beliau bagi masyarakat Melayu/Islam sebagai Anggota Parlimen Melayu, Encik Sidek bertanya sama ada beliau boleh dikecualikan dari menjawab soalan itu.

    Soalan tersebut sebaliknya dijawab oleh anggota jawatankuasa eksekutif pusat SDP, Jufrie Mahmood, yang berkata parti itu akan memutuskan (set out) apakah isu-isu masyarakat Melayu yang akan diperjuangkan Encik Sidek dan seorang lagi bakal calon Melayu SDP, yang belum didedahkan.

    Encik Jufrie kemudian menambah: ” Orang sekarang tidak banyak bercakap Melayu. Beliau seorang Melayu, jadi beliau bercakap Melayu. Namun untuk bercakap dalam keadaan seperti itu, beliau mungkin tidak dapat menjawabnya dengan sebaik mungkin… jangan salahkan beliau. Jika beliau dilantik, berikannya beberapa bulan, beliau akan dapat berbuat demikian.”

    PRIHATIN JURANG PENDAPATAN KIAN MELUAS

    Encik Tan, 54 tahun, bapa tiga anak, seorang pensyarah dalam bidang psikologi dan statistik di Universiti Murdoch di Kaplan Singapore. Beliau menyertai SDP pada 2011 dan merupakan naib pengerusi SDP.

    Kata beliau: “Saya rasa sudah tiba masanya bagi SDP untuk diberi perhatian, oleh kerana dasar-dasar alternatifnya, dan saya di sini untuk membantu dalam hal itu.”

    Keprihatinan utama Encik Tan ialah jurang pendapatan yang kian meluas. Beliau berkata beliau berasal dari keluarga miskin, dan meskipun beliau melihat sendiri “kampung kecil” ini menjadi antara bandar terbaik di dunia, masih ada golongan berpendapatan rendah yang sukar menyara hidup mereka sendiri.

    Sebagai seorang pendidk, beliau juga prihatin tentang dasar-dasar pendidikan seperti menetapkan aliran pendidikan pada usia yang muda.

    Encik Tan berkata “desakan pendidikan yang keterlaluan”Cmenghapuskan keghairahan para murid untuk terus belajar, dan peperiksaan utama seperti PSLE sepatutnya dimansuhkan.

    “Saya rasa itu semua memberikan terlalu banyak tekanan yang tidak diperlukan ke atas kanak-kanak. Mereka perlu diberikan pilihan apakah subjek-subjek yang ingin mereka pelajari di sekolah.

    “Nampaknya sistem pendidikan kita dibangunkan untuk melatih para individu berdasarkan pasaran pekerjaan. Saya rasa kita perlu melihat setiap individu sebagai insan yang kreatif,” tambahnya.

    Ketua parti, Chee Soon Juan, sebelum ini berkata SDP akan menampilkan 11 calon bagi pilihan raya kali ini.

    Sejauh ini, parti itu sudah memperkenalkan empat calon sejak dua hari lalu – Cik Chong Wai Fung, Encik Gerous Khung Wai Yeen, Dr Paul Ananth Tambyah dan Cik Jaslyn Go. Namun SDP enggan mendedahkan di kawasan undi mana mereka akan bertanding.

    SDP menyatakan ia akan bertanding di GRC Holland-Bukit Timah dan Marsiling-Yew Tee, serta di SMC Bukit Batok, Bukit Panjang dan Yuhua.

    Source: http://berita.mediacorp.sg

  • SDP’s Sidek Mallek Wants To Champion The Plight Of Low Income Families

    SDP’s Sidek Mallek Wants To Champion The Plight Of Low Income Families

    Mr Sidek Mallek is a Compliance Auditor for a leading security company. A former civil servant, who in 1989, received the Finance Minister’s Commendation for Outstanding Work from Dr. Richard Hu, Sidek carries the same work excellence into the private sector. In 2008, his diligence earned him the Commissioner of Police Award for Outstanding Contribution.

    Sidek also holds a Professional Certificate from the Institute of Administrative Management. Married with three children, he enjoys cooking, baking, bowling and simply chilling with his family.

    Sidek joins the Singapore Democratic Party because he believes it a credible party that has studied and put forth many alternative policies to benefit Singaporeans. He is very concerned about problems low-income families face:

    “Many people cannot afford basic necessities. It is unflattering and irresponsible for Ministers to say people who earn a mere $1000 a month can buy and own a HDB flat.”

    Having contributed a fair share of his thoughts on such issues in the social media, Sidek is convinced it is now time to take them to parliament. He wishes to:

    • Highlight socio-economic problems faced by low-income families,
    • Cut red tape and provide assistance for needy citizens in a timely manner,
    • Improve job security and continuity,
    • Enhance educational opportunities for children of low-income families, and
    • Ensure single parents are treated equally in matters of housing, children education and other basic needs.

    Sidek believes in the democratic process in addressing issues that impact Singaporeans’ quality of life and wellbeing. He hopes constituents will let him be their voice in Parliament.

     

    Source: http://yoursdp.org