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Poster rasis sudah mula dinaikan. Itu petanda BN sudah kehabisan modal

Super Admin — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:41:25 +0000

Ini juga dapat dirasakan oleh UMNO dan sekutunya. Maka tidak terkejut jika mereka melakukan tindakan desperado ini kerana ini sahajalah jalan yang tinggal untuk menggagalkan usaha DAP untuik membuktikan yang parti itu benar-benar sebauah parti multi-racil yang sedang mendapat sambutan dari semua kaum termasuk dari kaum Melayu yang sudah tidak terkongkong dengan momokan gila parti-parti dalam BN khususnya UMNO.

Untuk memahami tujuan poster ini dinaikan tidak memerlukan seorang yang bijak pandai untuk mentelaahnya. Seseorang yang terbuka sedikit mindanya dan sudah bercampur gaul dengan mereka yang berpolitik secara jujur akan cepat tahu matlamat pihak yang menaikan poster-poster ini. Matlamatnya ialah untuk berusaha dengan cara kotor untuk parti ini mendapat sokongan dari semua kaum khususnya orang Melayu.

Kerja menakut-nakutkan Melayu ini memang cara UMNO untuk menjauhkan Melayu dari mendekati DAP. Puluhan tahun orang Melayu ditakutkan dengan isu 13 Mei untuk menjauhkan orang Melayu dari DAP. Tetapi isu itu sudah tidak dipakai lagi kerana rakyat tahu kaum Cina lah kaum yang takut dengan pergaduhan di antara kaum kerana mereka mahukan keamanan dan hidup berniaga di dalam negara yang tidak berpecah belah.

Rakyat pun tahu yang kerajaan Pulau Pinang pimpinan Lim Guan Eng telah menunjukan sikap mengambil tahu hal untuk semua kaum di negeri tadbiran beliau. Orang Melayu sekarang sudah sedar yang Guan Eng tidak boleh di nafikan ketelusannya dalam mentadbir negeri Pulau Pinang. Lim Guan Eng yang dituduh anti Melayu dan Islam oleh penyokong UMNO dan BN telah memperuntukan wang sebanayk RM64 juta untuk mentadbir urus hal ehwal agama Islam di Pulau Pinang. Semasa BN memerintah Pulau Pinang, peruntukan untuik hal ehwal Islam hanyalah sebanyak RM12 juta sahaja.

Walaupun negeri Pulau Pinang hanya sebuah negeri yang kecil dan jumlah orang Islamnya kecil jika dibandingkan dengan negeri-negeri lain, peruntukan sebanyak RM64 juta itu merupakan jumlah yang amat besar. Peruntukan itu termasuklah untuk menyelia elaun guru-guru KAFA, pentadbiran tanah perkuburan serta semua yang berhubung kait dengan agama Islam di negeri itu.

UMNO sedar yang Guan Eng tidak boleh lagi dipersendakan kepimpinannya. Jika benar Guan Eng anti Melayu bagaimanakah 70% dari kontrak yang diberkan oleh kerajaan Pulau Pinang itu diperolehi oleh Bumiputra? Kerajaan pulau Pinang tidak memandang bangsa dan ethnik dalam pembehagian kontrak-kontrak ini sebaliknya pembahagian itu adalah di dasarkan kepada ‘merit’ yang ada kepada kontraktor-kontraktor itu. Dengan keadaan itu maka terbukti kontraktor-kontraktor Melayu mempunyai ‘merit’ yang tinggi yang mereka tidak dapat buktikan semasa pemerintahan Koh Tsu Khoon dahulu.

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1Care or just “I don’t care”

admin-s — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 05:45:50 +0000

Malaysian Healthcare system, despite some inadequacies, has been functioning well in comparison to countries of similar living standards. In fact, the facilities of some of our hospitals rival that of the advanced nations.

In certain aspects, our system is even better than many of the advanced nations. Malaysians can have immediate access to medical care and treatment whenever they feel unwell, unlike in some of the developed countries, where it may take a few days or even weeks to seek an appointment to see a doctor.

Government healthcare cost has been on the rise. Part of this I blame it on ~~piratetisation~~ privatisation as well as leakages and wastage in funding hardwares as well as softwares. Billions have been spent on building new hospitals and medical equipment as well as the software system for the opeartion of such hospitals. But as in other aspects of Malaysian life, leakages and wastage could have amounted to 20-30% of overall spending.

Because of the increasing cost of the healthcare system, government is considering instituting a Health financing system, formerly call the National Health Financing scheme ( i have written a paper on this topic in 2006 – search under the masthead of this blog or see the link at the end of this post). This has now been conveniently renamed 1Care.

Very little is known about this 1Care. As in the Malaysian tradition with regards to policy matters, there is hardly any (or shall we say absolutely no) consultation with the end-users , the Rakyat and the consumer groups. Although the ministry is said to be working with the Malaysian Medical Association (MMA), even doctors know very little about this scheme.

What little info that is available hints at a system that will drastically alter our lifestyle. Unlike now, we cannot no longer choose our own doctors. Apparently under this 1Care system, each individual will be assigned to a doctor, presumably someone who is operating nearby. How this allocation will be done and what criteria will be used are unknown as yet.

Patients assigned to that particular doctor will have a limit as to how many times he or she can consult that particular doctor in a year. Those with chronic diseases like asthma, hypertension and diabetes will not be able to see their doctor as often as now, compromising their health.

All doctors will have to be in this scheme, and would be allocated patients. Doctors are not allowed to dispense medicine. As a compensation, their consultation fee is set to go up , as high as RM60 per visit. This contrasts with the present system where for a fees of around RM30 – 40, you can consult a doctor and be treated with medications for common ailments.

So who is to fund for this incredible scheme? The end users of course since there is no such thing as a free lunch in this world. From what is known, everyone will have to be in this scheme, and each house hold is supposed to fork out 9 to 10% of their income to a National Health Financial Agency.

For those who are young, hale and hearty, they have to fork out the same amount, which will probably be deducted from their pay as in EPF scheme. Like all other insurance scheme, this actually works on the concept of the more healthy subsidising the less.

But for the less healthy, dont be too happy yet. Apart from the limit on the number of times they can visit their assigned doctors, they also have to spend extra time and transport cost to get their medical supply from a pharmacy after seeing their doctors. There will also be certain diseases which will be excluded from this scheme, and out of pocket payments (OOP) will have to be made for these dieseases.

Because the doctors are now being paid a higher consultation fees and because extra costs are incurred for medicines to be dispensed by pahramcy, the total healthare costs will shoot up, as in the experience of many countries which have implemented health financing scheme.

The money eventually comes from the people. When the healthcare cost goes up, the NHFA is going to ask for more money and that will translate to more deduction from the rakyat.

What is ironical is that the present system is efficient and cost effective. Malaysians in fact spend much less on heathcare than their counter parts not only in developed countries but developing nations as well.

The above table (charted by me using WHO statistics) shows the percentage of Total Health expenditure of malaysia in 2002 and 2003 compared with many other countries.

Even countries with comparables GDPs in international dollars such as Mexica and Brazil spent much more on health care than Malaysia. Developing countries with lower GDPs such as China and India also spent higher proportion of their GDPs on the health of their citizens.

Jika Mempunyai Peluang, Saya Juga Akan Menyertai DAP

admin-s — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 16:10:46 +0000

Kenyataan ini seolah-olah saya mahu menyertai politik selepas tamat pengajian. Tidak, bukan itu maksud saya. Tetapi sedikit komentar dari saya setelah memerhatikan beberapa siri kejadian yang tidak disangka-sangka oleh ramai rakyat Malaysia yang aktif memerhatikan gelombang politik tanah air muttakhir ini.

Siri kemasukan ramai nama-nama besar melayu (terpulang kepada persepsi pembaca) ke dalam Parti Tindakan Demokratik (DAP) akhir-akhir ini menimbulkan persoalan, apakah tuduhan dan serangan UMNO selama ini terhadap parti tersebut tidak berjaya mempengaruhi orang melayu?

Saya membaca beberapa keluhan dan rasa resah dalam kalangan rakan-rakan saya dan komen-komen pembaca mengenai berita ini, dengan menganggap mereka yang menyertai DAP sudah lupa asal usul, terpengaruh dengan ideologi komunis, dasar tidak mengenang budi dan sebagainya.

Bagi saya, ini lumrah dunia politik. Orang akan mengecam segala 1001 perkara yang mereka tidak suka. Tambahan pula, apabila perkara itu berlawanan dengan kebiasaan mereka.

Dato' Saifuddin Abdullah ada menulis sebuah artikel yang disiarkan oleh Sinar Harian berkenaan politik fitnah dan hikmah di Malaysia. Artikel yang bagus, seolah-olah Dato' Saifuddin ingin menegur barisan partinya sendiri mungkin. Ini telahan saya.

Jika dalam artikel tersebut, Dato' Saifuddin mengutarakan idea berkenaan politik hikmah yang wajib didasari oleh setiap warga Malaysia bagi menentang politik fitnah yang cukup keji, maka kali ini saya mengutarakan pula idea politik matang bagi mengatasi sindrom politik takut dalam diri rakyat Malaysia terhadap beberapa perkara yang dipalsukan kebenarannya oleh pihak-pihak tertentu.

Orang Melayu Sudah Lama Ditipu

Saya merujuk kepada beberapa penulisan oleh Aspan Alias dan Sakmongkol 47 selepas mereka berdua secara rasmi mengisytiharkan kemasukan mereka ke dalam DAP yang membongkar beberapa titik penting untuk dibincangkan dalam artikel ini.

Antaranya, orang melayu sudah sekian lama ditipu bulat-bulat oleh UMNO/BN melalui media mereka bahawa DAP itu parti Cina. Bukan sekadar cina, malah mereka menambah lagi garam dengan mengatakan bahawa DAP itu anti-Melayu, anti-Raja, chauvinist, mahu menjadikan Perdana Menteri dari orang cina dan pelbagai lagi.

Melayu ditakut-takutkan sejak sekian lama dengan kenyataan yang tidak berasas. Seolah-olah negara ini tiada perlembagaan, dan orang-orang DAP tidak tahu menghormati perlembagaan!

Orang-orang kampung apabila mendengar perkataan DAP, seolah-olah kita menyebut segerombolan komunis memasuki kampung. Sampai begitu sekali ketakutan yang UMNO/BN berjaya tanamkan dalam diri hampir keseluruhan masyarakat melayu terutamanya mereka yang lahir pada era 80-an dan ke bawah.

Malah, tidak terkecuali sebahagian besar mereka dalam kalangan generasi saya pun!

Menakutkan Melayu Demi Survival Politik

Rasanya mungkin ini hujah paling tepat kenapa sindrom takut ini ditanam dalam diri setiap warga Malaysia. Mudahnya, mereka yang sedang berkuasa ingin terus mengekalkan survival kuasa itu dalam genggaman tangan mereka.

Cara paling mudah ialah dengan memberi gambaran seburuk mungkin kepada rakyat terhadap pihak lawan mereka. Sentimen perkauman adalah bahan bakar yang paling mudah disambar api.

Pantang disentuh, pasti marak apinya tanpa mampu disekat.

Perkara biasa yang kini hampir basi ialah kedudukan Raja, Islam dan ketuanan melayu. Inilah melodi yang dimainkan oleh parti pemerintah sekarang untuk menakut-nakutkan orang melayu.

Mereka berbuat demikian dalam keadaan mereka menyekat pelbagai sumber lain untuk rakyat menilai dan berfikir. Minda rakyat terutamanya melayu dikongkong dengan sentimen basi ini. Pantang dikritik, pasti melenting dengan isu basi ketiga-tiga di atas.

Setiap kali pilihan raya, inilah antara melodi yang paling hangat. Rakyat bukan bodoh, tetapi mereka tidak mendapat maklumat yang meluas. Mereka dipaksa untuk menerima penipuan tersebut hidup-hidup.

Mereka yang tidak pernah di ajar untuk berfikir, akan cuma pandai bertempik dengan semangat kemelayuannya yang akhirnya pak menteri bina rumah banglo bertingkat-tingkat, rakyat yang diperbodohkan miskin merempat.

Setiap tahun mereka perbaharui penipuan ini di PWTC dengan laungan penuh semangat, Hidup Melayu!

Seperti saya tulis di atas, hal ini semua dilakukan demi survival kuasa memerintah mereka.

Dato' Onn Pencetus Idea Politik Matang

Saya masih ingat tentang sebuah artikel yang pernah disiarkan dalam akhbar Harakah, mengulas panjang tentang fenomena di Malaysia semasa dan selepas PRU-12. Kebanyakan orang tidak pernah terfikir bahawa suatu hari nanti orang melayu Islam mengundi calon Cina sebagai wakil rakyat mereka, dan juga masyarakat Cina yang sanggup menerima calon PAS sebagai wakil mereka.

Ini luar dari jangkaan ramai. Ketika Dato' Onn menyuarakan cadangan agar keahlian UMNO dibuka kepada bukan Melayu, beliau telah ditentang oleh ahli-ahli UMNO sendiri sehingga Dato' Onn membuat keputusan keluar dari parti tersebut dan menubuhkan Parti Malaya Merdeka (Independence of Malaya Party).

Menjadi persoalan di sini, kenapa Dato' Onn mampu melontarkan cadangan yang begitu luar dari kerangka masyarakat ketika itu berfikir sehinggakan ramai menganggap beliau sudah tidak relevan?

Hakikatnya, beliau sendiri telah nampak perubahan politik yang bakal berlaku pada tahun 2008 ketika itu.

Namun, pemimpin UMNO ketika itu membutakan mata mereka daripada memandang hal yang sama. Mereka lebih senang menggunakan helah dan penipuan seperti yang saya nyatakan di atas demi mengekalkan kuasa yang ada di tangan mereka.

Saya merasa amat yakin, jikalau cadangan Dato' Onn diterima ketika itu sudah tentu permasalahan sindrom politik takut yang melanda masyarakat Malaysia dapat ditamatkan.

Saya menghormati Dato' Onn kerana keberaniannya melawan arus masyarakat ketika itu, demi tujuan melahirkan sebuah masyarakat Malaysia yang matang dan benar-benar harmoni.

Beliau cuba mendidik masyarakat melayu ketika itu, menyedarkan mereka dari tidur bahawa Malaysia ini bukan milik orang melayu sahaja tetapi mereka berkongsi tanah yang sama dengan rakan cina dan india. Beliau telah mencetuskan satu arus pencerahan yang amat sukar diterima pada waktu tersebut.

Kini, idea cetusan beliau itu makin marak malah telah menyebabkan pihak pemerintah menggigil ketakutan. Bayangkan seorang apek cina tidak malu mengangkat sepanduk "Kami Sayang Tok Guru" dan PAS sudah siap dengan penubuhan Dewan Himpunan Penyokong PAS yang dianggotai oleh mereka yang bukan Islam.

Kini, orang melayu mula menyertai DAP secara berjemaah!

Kenapa Sertai DAP?

Ya, saya mahu menyertai DAP. Saya mahu mendidik masyarakat di sekitar saya bahawa DAP bukan komunis. DAP bukan cina. DAP bukan anti-Melayu. DAP bukan chauvinist. DAP bukan anti-Islam. DAP bukan semua tanggapan kolot di atas.

Hii Family Connection to Asia Plywood And Taib Family

admin-s — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 16:08:32 +0000

Asia Plywood, which rents the major saw mill ‘Tegas Kesuma’, based in Tanjung Manis, is Malaysia’s largest plywood company.

Earlier this week it was caught out deceiving regulators and customers in the UK and elsewhere by pretending that hardwood chopped out of Sarawak’s dwindling forests was sustainable pinewood. [see our investigation]

Tegas Kesuma - saw mill chewing up Sarawak's precious Meranti to make plywood.

We can now disclose that a major provider to Tegas Kesuma is the company Fonsen Timber Sdn Bhd, owned by the Hii family concern Fonsen Holdings.

The Hiis have been granted licences by their close associate, Chief Minister Abdul Taib Mahmud, to strip the remaining forests from areas around Bintulu, earmarked for further oil palm plantations.

Another major supplier to the mill was the now dissolved Excellent Future, which was registered at the same address in Jalan Masjid in Miri as Fonsen Holdings and likewise controlled by the Hiis.

Hii King Chiong, key crony and Taib funder

Insiders have confirmed that the main director of the companies is Hii King Chiong, who is the son of Hii Yii Peng, the tycoon who is best known as the owner of Kingwood Hotel group.

Top Taib cronies

Taib, who issues all concessions in the state, is personally responsible for the relentless and unrestrained plunder of timber over the past 30 years. Before him it was his uncle, whom at the time Taib saw fit to criticise for his greedy destruction of Sarawak’s irreplaceable jungle!

It is worth pointing out that no wood from Sarawak has ever achieved certification from the internationally recognised Forest Stewardship Council, simply because Taib’s logging has been so unsustainable.

Mr Charitable Gesture - Hii is back by Taib's side

So, it is particularly revealing to investigate the business interests that link the Hiis, who are such key beneficiaries of timber and plantation concessions, with the Chief Minister himself and his family.

Take, for example, one of the largest plantation enterprises in Sarawak, Delta Padi, which is currently blessed with concessions handed out at rock bottom rates by the Chief Minister. Delta Padi has lucratively logged thousands of hectares of wild forest in Pulau Bruit and in other areas around Mukah, before setting about planting oil palm. Local people were offered nothing for the destruction of their livelihoods.

Again, charitably at the CM's side..... Mr Hii supports Mukah Chinese Benevolent Board Building

So, who owns Delta Padi? It turns out to be a joint venture between the Hii family and a company Mesti Bersatu.

We have mentioned Mesti Bersatu before. It turns out to be owned by Abdul Taib Mahmud himself and members of his own family!

As numerous insiders have testified, the corrupt system favoured by the Chief Minister is for the money for such joint ventures to by put up by favoured tycoons. His own contribution to the venture is his willingness to abuse his position of political power.

Is the definition of a “Muslim” unconstitutional?

admin-s — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 02:15:25 +0000

An Indian Malaysian, Zaina Abdin @ Balachandran, who says he has spent the whole of his life – more than 60 years now – as a Hindu, is being unconstitutionally treated as a “Muslim” by the authorities.

Bala’s father, also of Indian ethnicity, went through a formal conversion process in order to marry his Indian Muslim mother in the 1950s. But Bala’s father and mother lived as Hindus and continued to profess and practice Hinduism as their religion.

In the early 1970s, Bala officially changed his name by a Deed Poll published in the Government Gazette. He went through a marriage registered under the Law Reform (Marriage and Divorce) Act 1976 to his Hindu wife, and was blessed with 3 children.

But Bala and his three children are all all still being treated as Muslim even though all profess and practice Hinduism.

Profess

The Constitution never uses the word “Muslim”. It uses the phrase “person professing the religion of Islam” whenever it refers to the people we call “Muslims”.

Bala professes Hinduism – he has never in his life professed Islam as his religion.

The problem is because in 1989, they changed the law to include a definition of a “Muslim” in the Selangor Administration of Islamic Law enactment which had additional definitions other than “person professing the religion of Islam”. Similar definitions founds its way into the State Islamic Law of all States.

The current 2003 legislation in Selangor includes as a definition of “Muslim” a person who is born to a Muslim parent and a person who by general reputation is considered a Muslim.

It is because of this that Bala and his three children are now caught in this crisis of identity.

Syariah Court and Islamic law

The Government of Malaysia, and the Government of Selangor, both say that Bala must go to the Syariah court first to get permission to “leave” Islam. They say the other definitions of “profess” are all mere extensions and elaborations of the phrase “person professing the religion of Islam”.

But Bala says that he is a Hindu. He does not want Islamic theological law applied on him when he is a Hindu. He says it does not matter to him that Islamic law classifies him as a Muslim – what is important to him is that the Constitution does not allow Islamic law to be applied if a person does not “profess” Islam, and the Constitution says he can profess and practice his religion in peace and harmony.

Malaysian Economy: The Real Fix

admin-s — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 02:12:40 +0000

The government has continue to act myopic when comes to actual and real economic reform. It should start by answering what are the key elements/ingredients to institute real economic reforms.

Malaysia must look into its education system if it wants to catch up with the leaders of the pack e.g. South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore and Hong Kong. Economic transformation in Malaysia has been hampered by an education system unable to train and produce skilled workers required by the industry. Today's speed of innovation has left behind the production capability of our tertiary education.

Policy makers have to answer to the people why these institutions are producing graduates who are unemployable and have to be immediately send for another round of retraining?

The foundation of a good education should start early. However, constant unprofessional and knee-jerk changes made to the teaching policy at primary and secondary levels have stalled progress, used up scarce resources and time which can be channeled meaningfully to improve and enhance the curriculum and caused much anxiety to parents.

Our education system has created a new social divide. The rich or higher middle class have opted to send their children to private schools and colleges. But the poor and lower income groups have to depend on a mediocre and highly politicized public education. A decade ago, when I was a head of a policy think tank, we had joked that education policy in Malaysia was all about language or medium of instruction. This is going to remain true for decades from now if some bright minds in the ruling regime do not intervene.

Skills development has been identified by up-and-coming economies such as Vietnam, Cambodia, Indonesia, Thailand and Myanmar as the most important cornerstone of their economic success. Alas, we do not feel the same in Malaysia. How many parents can really afford the expensive and often overly commercialized private education?

Unsurprisingly, Myanmar has signed a technical collaboration agreement with Singapore to assist the country's economic reforms and development.

The next most important issue is our labour policy. Malaysia does not have a policy which supports and encourages local knowledge workers to remain in the local economy. Entry pay level for undergraduates has remained stagnant over the last 15 years. Graduates with a degree or a diploma will immediate join a growing segment of urban poor after stepping into the working world. How many people can survive in Klang Valley barely earning RM2k a month? Many of our graduates also have to pay up their PTPTN loan upon graduation.

Escalating cost of living through higher service cost (telco & internet), poor transport system, food cost and accommodation cost are chipping off the real disposable income of our skilled workers. Hence, do not be surprised if more than 60 percent of our skilled workers are working abroad.

Pledge for press pariahs

admin-s — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 02:10:30 +0000

“Yes,” Anbalagan breathlessly announced, “the executive council has unanimously agreed on the matter as it is one of NUJ’s objectives – to practise ethical journalism.”

Amazing news, huh? Too amazing for words, as far as I’m concerned. Call me cynical if you will, but the moment anybody mentions the word “ethical” in connection with Malaysian mainstream journalism, I get extremely suspicious.

And not without good reason. Here, to jog both your memory and mine, is the Code of Ethics that the vast majority of Malaysian mainstream journalists, NUJ members or not, have routinely failed to practise:

National Union of Journalists Malaysia

Code of Ethics

1. Respect for truth and for the right of the public to truth is the first duty of the journalist.

2. In pursuance of this duty he will defend the twin principles: freedom in the honest collection and publication of news; and the right of fair comment and criticism.

3. The journalist reports only in accordance with the facts of which he knows the origin. He will not suppress essential information or falsify documents.

4. He will use only fair methods to obtain news, photographs and documents.

5. Any published information which is found to be harmfully inaccurate he will do his utmost to rectify.

6. He will observe professional secret (sic) regarding the source of information obtained in confidence.

7. He will regard as grave professional offences the following:

Plagiarism
Calumny, slander, libel and unfounded accusations
The acceptance of a bribe in any form in consideration of either publication or suppression.

8. He recognises in professional matters, the jurisdiction of his colleagues only; he excludes every kind of interference by governments or others.

Of course most of Malaysia’s offenders against the principles and ethics of journalism try and justify themselves by blaming the Umno/BN regime’s pernicious Printing, Presses and Publications Act.

And indeed they have a powerful point. The PPPA is the fundamental reason why Malaysia’s lamentable placing on the Press Freedom index so starkly gives the lie to Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak’s assertion at the 2010 Press Club-Naza Awards that “I, for one, believe that the Malaysian media is something that we can all be proud of.”

But there are job opportunities for journalists outside the mainstream media, and indeed outside Malaysia. And to judge by the standard of work I’ve seen in some cases, many mainstream so-called ‘journalists’ would be far better employed in some other field altogether.

As would a great many mainstream ‘editors’ who, in flagrant contravention of the fundamental principle of the press, the public’s right to know, are nothing but pimps paid to prostitute journalism for the political and criminal purposes of the ruling regime.

Frenchman Who's Above Malaysia's Immigration Laws

admin-s — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 02:08:53 +0000

If the foreigner is working for a ruling government's mammoth projects, he or she is exempted from actions of the laws and even high-ranking government officials (with Tan Sris and Datuks) will co-operate to cover up for the foreigner, despite numerous public conmplaints to the Immigration, the Public Complaint Bureau of the Prime Minister's Department and the Chief Secretary to the Government.

The Frenchman who allegedly rubbed shoulders with high-ranking Malaysian officials and is still working in Malaysia on an Employment Pass (even though he had deliberately abused his social visit pass and professional pass to work as General Manager since 16/3/2009 ) is Laurent Francois Savornin.

To all foreigners who are about to face deportations in the future, please feel free to ask the Immigration
officers on duty as to why you are discriminated against by Immigration Malaysia and why Laurent Francois Savornin was given the special treatment for the same kind of immigration offences.