Ketuanan Melayu: A risky experiment
Mariam Mokhtar | Dec 6, 10 Malaysiakini
I was born Malay and was hardly conscious of my race, either at school or at home. Race hardly cropped up in conversation except when we had form-filling to do – like applying for an identity card. Religion was something sacred and the only time we’d be aware of our racial and religious differences was deciding what to wear for a wedding or whose open house to visit, during the various festivities.
Thus, the recent clamour for “ketuanan Melayu” is destructive and damaging – not just for Malaysia but more so for the Malays, the very people that the “ketuanan Melayu” concept is supposed to protect. It is wrong because “ketuanan Melayu” is a dangerous experiment in social engineering.
Our neighbours were both Chinese and Indian. As children, we studied and played with each other, even hitched lifts to school when necessary, whilst the adults shared garden produce, swopped certain special dishes for the various ‘open houses’ and practiced their own version of ‘neighbourhood watch’.
Today, the Wongs are living out their twilight years away from their children, who have now settled overseas. Their children were willing to pay for them to live in a gated community, but they refused. In gated communities, they said, people hardly know one another and lives are conducted behind high walls and electric fences. The Wongs are unwilling to trade their relative freedom for living in secure isolation.
Mrs Pillai is now a widow, living on her own. Both her son and daughter have emigrated and she is loathe to leave Malaysia. She tells me, her children saw no opportunities in Malaysia. Her daughter is particularly bitter at having to leave her mother and especially angry that she was denied a place at a local college, and denied help by a local political organisation who refused to recommend her for a study loan.
Several thousand non-Malays have left, but many Malays have also gone. Families are torn apart or wrecked by a false belief in so-called superiority. Our country has not benefited from the wasted talent.
Where’s the sense of equality and justice?
When will Malays understand that the call for “ketuanan Melayu” creates antagonism at best, and violence at worst? There is open hatred toward non-Malays. The Malays have become arrogant; and non-Malays have been forced to be compliant. But for how long? Perhaps, it is the Malay who has more need of change. Where is their sense of equality and justice?
If “ketuanan Melayu” is supposed to benefit the Malays, why are the majority of Malays poor? If politicians had genuinely wanted to help Malays, the majority of Malays would now be wealthy, after 53 years of Umno rule. But this is not the case. The majority of Malays are poor.
Former prime minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad warned that the Malays will “lose their power” if Pakatan Rakyat were to come to power. He labeled Pakatan leaders as a bunch of self-serving and racist politicians.
What “power” is he referring to? Is he referring to Umno’s potential loss? Will the loss mean no more abuse of power and enrichment of family, friends and cronies? Is he lamenting the lack of control over the media, police, judiciary and the parliamentary rights and privileges committee? Did he also mean the inability to detain those who dare speak out against injustices?
Malay extremists claim that Pakatan’s alternative call for “ketuanan rakyat” goes against the Malay rulers. However, no one objected when Mahathir clipped the wings of the royals.
Mahathir and Najib Abdul Razak have sought to suggest that Umno/BN is a caring party, but despite 1Malaysia, Malaysians probably feel less united today.
Perhaps, the Malay extremist politicians promoting “ketuanan Melayu” can rightly be called “Children of Mahathir”.
Why will the extremists not deal with the social ills that beset the Malay youth – drug abuse, abandoned babies, under-achievement, and Mat Rempit? They have been fed propaganda and expect instant rewards but soon become disillusioned. They then fall further into the trap that ‘non-Malays are robbing them of their rights’. Is it any wonder they are bitter and have little aspiration?
The same group of extremists expects other faiths to respect Islam – but they fail to reciprocate this. It is alleged that in some mosques, the sermons preach unbridled hatred.
Many loopholes and obstacles
Last Saturday, a 14-year-old girl and a 23-year-old teacher were married at a mosque in Kuala Lumpur, after a religious syariah court approved the union. The teenager said, “It has been hard trying to juggle two rôles – as a student and a wife – but I am taking it in my stride.”
Can no one else see that this is wrong? How does the state protect children from paedophilia? Has the child’s health and maturity been considered? What about her mental and maternal health, when she undergoes repeated childbearing at a young age? What about her education?
Muslim men can remarry easily. So who will support her should her marriage fail? Or if her husband leaves her for a younger woman or fails to support her when he remarries? Our syariah law and welfare system has many loopholes and obstacles. Some women claim it works against them.
Look at how Malay men perceive of their women. Despite equality in Islam, women are given short shrift. Nurul Izzah Anwar’s request for a debate with Ibrahim Ali was rejected. He called her ‘small fry’ and told her to contact the head of Wiranita, the Perkasa women’s organisation, instead. This demeaning attitude towards women is replicated in many Malay households.
When will the champions of “ketuanan Melayu” talk about success, progress, innovation, creativity, harmony, sharing and excellence instead of alluding to the “only my rights matter” mentality?
We Malays must face up to our insecurities so we can live at peace with ourselves. The non-Malay is a convenient scapegoat for our failures. We need to admit we have problems and face up to them.
Our religious leaders must make a clear stand against polygamy, paedophilia, child-snatching and intolerance of other faiths. Our Malay leaders must learn to respect other non-Malay Malaysians and treat them as equals. Only then do we have the right to ask others to respect us. We must stop the hypocrisy and madness that is called “ketuanan Melayu”.
MARIAM MOKHTAR is a non-conformist traditionalist from Perak, a bucket chemist and an armchair eco-warrior. In ‘real-speak’, this translates into that she comes from Ipoh, values change but respects culture, is a petroleum chemist and also an environmental pollution-control scientist. -dari bloq Lim
Mariam Mokhtar | Dec 6, 10 Malaysiakini
I was born Malay and was hardly conscious of my race, either at school or at home. Race hardly cropped up in conversation except when we had form-filling to do – like applying for an identity card. Religion was something sacred and the only time we’d be aware of our racial and religious differences was deciding what to wear for a wedding or whose open house to visit, during the various festivities.
Thus, the recent clamour for “ketuanan Melayu” is destructive and damaging – not just for Malaysia but more so for the Malays, the very people that the “ketuanan Melayu” concept is supposed to protect. It is wrong because “ketuanan Melayu” is a dangerous experiment in social engineering.
Our neighbours were both Chinese and Indian. As children, we studied and played with each other, even hitched lifts to school when necessary, whilst the adults shared garden produce, swopped certain special dishes for the various ‘open houses’ and practiced their own version of ‘neighbourhood watch’.
Today, the Wongs are living out their twilight years away from their children, who have now settled overseas. Their children were willing to pay for them to live in a gated community, but they refused. In gated communities, they said, people hardly know one another and lives are conducted behind high walls and electric fences. The Wongs are unwilling to trade their relative freedom for living in secure isolation.
Mrs Pillai is now a widow, living on her own. Both her son and daughter have emigrated and she is loathe to leave Malaysia. She tells me, her children saw no opportunities in Malaysia. Her daughter is particularly bitter at having to leave her mother and especially angry that she was denied a place at a local college, and denied help by a local political organisation who refused to recommend her for a study loan.
Several thousand non-Malays have left, but many Malays have also gone. Families are torn apart or wrecked by a false belief in so-called superiority. Our country has not benefited from the wasted talent.
Where’s the sense of equality and justice?
When will Malays understand that the call for “ketuanan Melayu” creates antagonism at best, and violence at worst? There is open hatred toward non-Malays. The Malays have become arrogant; and non-Malays have been forced to be compliant. But for how long? Perhaps, it is the Malay who has more need of change. Where is their sense of equality and justice?
If “ketuanan Melayu” is supposed to benefit the Malays, why are the majority of Malays poor? If politicians had genuinely wanted to help Malays, the majority of Malays would now be wealthy, after 53 years of Umno rule. But this is not the case. The majority of Malays are poor.
Former prime minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad warned that the Malays will “lose their power” if Pakatan Rakyat were to come to power. He labeled Pakatan leaders as a bunch of self-serving and racist politicians.
What “power” is he referring to? Is he referring to Umno’s potential loss? Will the loss mean no more abuse of power and enrichment of family, friends and cronies? Is he lamenting the lack of control over the media, police, judiciary and the parliamentary rights and privileges committee? Did he also mean the inability to detain those who dare speak out against injustices?
Malay extremists claim that Pakatan’s alternative call for “ketuanan rakyat” goes against the Malay rulers. However, no one objected when Mahathir clipped the wings of the royals.
Mahathir and Najib Abdul Razak have sought to suggest that Umno/BN is a caring party, but despite 1Malaysia, Malaysians probably feel less united today.
Perhaps, the Malay extremist politicians promoting “ketuanan Melayu” can rightly be called “Children of Mahathir”.
Why will the extremists not deal with the social ills that beset the Malay youth – drug abuse, abandoned babies, under-achievement, and Mat Rempit? They have been fed propaganda and expect instant rewards but soon become disillusioned. They then fall further into the trap that ‘non-Malays are robbing them of their rights’. Is it any wonder they are bitter and have little aspiration?
The same group of extremists expects other faiths to respect Islam – but they fail to reciprocate this. It is alleged that in some mosques, the sermons preach unbridled hatred.
Many loopholes and obstacles
Last Saturday, a 14-year-old girl and a 23-year-old teacher were married at a mosque in Kuala Lumpur, after a religious syariah court approved the union. The teenager said, “It has been hard trying to juggle two rôles – as a student and a wife – but I am taking it in my stride.”
Can no one else see that this is wrong? How does the state protect children from paedophilia? Has the child’s health and maturity been considered? What about her mental and maternal health, when she undergoes repeated childbearing at a young age? What about her education?
Muslim men can remarry easily. So who will support her should her marriage fail? Or if her husband leaves her for a younger woman or fails to support her when he remarries? Our syariah law and welfare system has many loopholes and obstacles. Some women claim it works against them.
Look at how Malay men perceive of their women. Despite equality in Islam, women are given short shrift. Nurul Izzah Anwar’s request for a debate with Ibrahim Ali was rejected. He called her ‘small fry’ and told her to contact the head of Wiranita, the Perkasa women’s organisation, instead. This demeaning attitude towards women is replicated in many Malay households.
When will the champions of “ketuanan Melayu” talk about success, progress, innovation, creativity, harmony, sharing and excellence instead of alluding to the “only my rights matter” mentality?
We Malays must face up to our insecurities so we can live at peace with ourselves. The non-Malay is a convenient scapegoat for our failures. We need to admit we have problems and face up to them.
Our religious leaders must make a clear stand against polygamy, paedophilia, child-snatching and intolerance of other faiths. Our Malay leaders must learn to respect other non-Malay Malaysians and treat them as equals. Only then do we have the right to ask others to respect us. We must stop the hypocrisy and madness that is called “ketuanan Melayu”.
MARIAM MOKHTAR is a non-conformist traditionalist from Perak, a bucket chemist and an armchair eco-warrior. In ‘real-speak’, this translates into that she comes from Ipoh, values change but respects culture, is a petroleum chemist and also an environmental pollution-control scientist. -dari bloq Lim
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MARIAM mokhtar berkata bagi pihaknya..tul ler tu. Dia telah mendapat munafaat dari DEB yg kini jadi seorg professional dan fasih menulis dan brbahsa Inggeris dan mengatakan DEB telah gagal..
tapi bagaimana bagi pihak mereka dari bangsa Melayu yg masih susah? tak perlu ke mereka dapat peluang spt mana Adik Mariam perolehi? Tak perlukah mereka dibantu? mentang2 dah senang, takkan tak leh beri peluang org lain senang? mentang2 dah berdiri sama tinggi dan duduk sama rendah dan dah punyai keyakinan diri dan rasa dah mampu brsaing secara open..bagaimana mereka? sapa nak sediakan mereka utk jadi spt kamu? kamu ke? PAS ke? DAP ke? PKR ke? jika Saiful pun tak dapat peluang pengadilan baginya apakah kamu ingat kaum melayu yg kamu sendiri sedar masih ramai yg susah akan dapat pembelaan? Yong oiii ...
"Ketuanan Melayu"..Mariam ni faham apa mende? Jika kefahaman dalam agama masih berfikir ada yg tak "sesuai"..apa yg dia faham dari "ketuanan melayu".
Dan rasa2nya..sapa yg mula menyentuh pasal ketuanan Melayu ni, apa sakitnya dan deritanya? selama ni tak diusik pun, semua ok je? mereka yg mula dulu, kemudian nak salahkan org lain pulak..
Tapi puak2 ni biasa le, langgar perintah polis dan undang2..kemudian bila kena tindakan, maka polis disalahkan..
Bila Ibrahim Ali tak nak brdebat ngan Nurul Izzah, marah..Tapi Nik Aziz tak nak muzakarah ngan satu pendakwah bebas dahulu atas alasan yg sama, tak marah.
Jika dalam keadaan sedemikian tidak boleh berlaku adil dan terbuka..yakni mengutuk kedua2nya..sebaliknya membenarkan yg satu dan mengutuk satu lagi, bermakna MARIAM MOKHTAR bukanlah jujur dan telus.
Ketuanan melayu/ketuanan Islam..tergugatnya ketuanan melayu sama ler tergugatnya Islam..
Nabi saw brdoa semasa perang badar..mahfumnya..agar Allah swt bantu dan berikan kemenangan pada para sahabat ra, kerana kalahnya mereka bermakna luputlah Islam...
Setahu aku, org2 Melayu sangat2 jarang bebenor menyusahkan org lain...Mariam ni betul2 Melayu ke atau macam Zaid, saya pun melayu.
Org2 cina dan India rasa terancam pasal Ketuanan melayu..kah kah kah... apakah ni si Mariam ni fikir?
Adik mariam, cuba singkap kembali rentetan peristiwa 13 Mei..sapa ancam sapa?
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3 comments:
Saudara,
Saya merujuk pada tulisan Cik mariam yang mempertikaikan "Ketuanan Melayu".
Sebenarnya perkataan "Ketuanan Melayu" jarang didengar. Dua tiga hari ini orang sibuk bercakap bila Dr Wan istihar tidak mahu "Ketuanan Melayu" . Maknanya Dr Wan mahu "Ketuanan Cina".
Pemimpin UMNO bila bercakap selalu ingatkan Melayu akan pentingnya kuasa ekonomi. Mereka selalu berkata apa guna jadi penduduk asal namun miskin dan dipandang hina.
Namun UMNO selalu tegaskan yang untuk berjaya dalam ekonomi, orang Melayu perlukan kuasa politik. Kuasa politiklah yang memungkinkan ribuan anak Melayu dihantar keluar mnegeri belajar.
Jika 40 tahun dului susah cari jurutera dan doktor Melayu, kini berlambak. Kenapa? Kerana ada kuasa politik dikalangan orang Melayu. Kuasa politik ini diperolehi dengan Melayu memenangi pilihanraya.
"Ketuanan Melayu" bukan seperti White supremacy atau "Apartheid". Malah tida istilah "Ketuanan Melayu" dalam Perlembagaan.
Yang ada hanyalah peruntukan dalam Perlembagaan mengenai Melayu. Antaranya yang paling utama Raja-Raja, Islam, Bahasa Melayu, keutamaan dalam kuota, biasiswa, perkhidmatan awam pada orang Melayu.
Perlembagaan berlaku adil. Ia mmberi tempat pada bukan Melayu untuk Malaya merdeka. Dan ia mengiktiraf yang satu ketika dulu negeri ini hak milik eksklusif orang Melayu.
Kerana mengiktiraf sejarah, maka peruntukan terhadap Melayu diadakan. Perkataan Melayu disebut 54 kali dalam Perlembagaan. Kenapa ? Kerana Mat Salleh Penjajah pun iktiraf kedudukan Melayu.
Yang penting pada Melayu secara umumnya( tolak tepi Anwar dan orang macam Cik mariam) ialah Tanah Melayu yang merdeka mestilah diperintah oleh orang Melayu. apalah guna merdeka jika kuasa dipegang oleh bukan Melayu ( yaitu orang Cina).
Dan orang Melayu menterjemah aspirasi untuk menguasai politik melalui pilihanraya. Apa masalahnya ?
Ramai Melayu ( terutama budak budak muda) lupa kerana DEB lah orang Melayu ada sikit kekayaan didunia ini. Ramai Melayu lupa yang kerana kuasa yang dioegang UMNO lah baru ribuan biasiswa diberi pada Melayu.
Ramai Melayu lupa institusi Raja Raja kekal subur di Malaysia kerana kuasa politik mereka. Ramai Melayu lupa PERTAMA SEKALI YANG AKAN DIHUMBAN KELUAR jika Melayu hilang kuasa ialah Raja Raja.
Ramai Melayu lupa mereka boleh "claim" penduduk asal Malaysia kerana ujud sistem yang mengingatkan dunia yang negeri ini adalah asalnya negeri Melayu. Sistem itu ialah Raja Raja melayu sendiri.
Teruk sangatkah DEB sampai langsung Cik Mariam tak dapat lihat kebaikannya. Ya. ada orang Melayu miskin. Apakah jika ada oranng Cina miskin di negeri Cina maka seluruh negeri Cina mesti dikeji?
Tak ada langsungkah kebaikan di negeri yang diperintah Melayu ini? Tidak mahukah Cik mariam beritahu dunia Malaysia ADALAH SATU SATU NEGARA DIDUNIA yang benar Sekolah berasingan dan dibiayai oleh Kerajaan yang kita dok maki hamiun sepanjang zaman.
Dinegara lain Sori naik lori. Jangan harap mereka benarkan sekolah berasingan.
PENGHIJRAHAN memang berlaku. Kawan sekolah saya bekerja di Sudan. Anak penoreh getah yang miskin. Kerana ada satu kuasa politik orang Melayu, beliau berjaya jadi jurutera dan bergaji tinggi.
Berhijrah kerana banyak perkara. Yang utama gaji tinggi. Ada berhijrah kerana putus cinta. Ada yang memang jenis kacang lupakan kulit, berhijrah dan terus burukkan Malaysia.
Di Pulau Pinang, Guan Eng jadi KM. Isterinya jadi Pengerusi Tender Negeri. Bukankah ini kronisma?
Siapa Guan Eng? Dia orang melaka? Kenapa bukan Pengerusi DAP Pulau Pinang tak jadi KM?
Sebab dia anak Kit siang. DAP kan parti anak beranak>
Orang melayu lupa yang dalam PR, tiada Melayu sepoerti UMNO dalam BN.
Dalam BN, UMNO "bos" Dalam PR , DAP ialsh boss.
Tumbangnya BN bererti berakhirnya kasa politik Melayu. Maka HIDUPLAH MELAYU DIBAWAH KETUANAN CINA.
Sendiri mahu ingat, Cik Mariam
Depa (anti-ketuanan-Melayu) kata ketuanan Melayu adalah retorik tetapi kenapa Mariam bersungguh-sungguh menuntut agar sesuatu yang retorik ditiadakan? Pelik bin ajaib Kak Mariam ooo!
Makanya kerisauan dan rintihan Mariam bolehlah dilihat dalam konteks hantu. Depa kata hantu tidak ujud tetapi menjerit sakan bila ternampak hantu dalam drama di layar TV!
he he
MELAYU TERUS LAYU DIBUMI SENDIRI GARA GARA BUKAN MELAYU YANG TAK PERNAH IKTIRAF MELAYU DITAMBAH ORANG ORANG MELAYU MACAM MARIAM
AKU PERNAH JADI GURU AWAL 80AN YANG MENGAJAR SEJARAH , APA ANAK CINA RESPON BILA AKU CERITA PASAL TUNKU ABDUL RAHMAN DAN SEJARAH TANAH MELAYU.. CIBAI MELAYU .. ITULAH JAWAPANNYA. KALAU AKU TAK SABAR DAH MATI ANAK CINA TU AKU KERJAKAN
DAN PERNAHKAN MARIAM BUAT SURVEY BERAPA RAMAI ANAK ANAK CINA DAN INDIA YANG BENAR BENAR HORMAT DAN PATUH PADA GURU MELAYU AKA ORANG MELAYU ....???????? AKA NEGARA YANG ASALNYA MILIK MELAYU ????????
PERNAHKAH MARIAM BUAT SURVEY APA PERASAAN GURU GURU MELAYU TERHADAP PELAJAR CINA DAN INDIA .. ADAKAH KERANA RACIS ATAU LAIN LAIN
MARIAM MARIAM !!! SAPALAH YANG NAK NOBATKAN BANGSA MELAYU KALAU BUKAN MELAYU SENDIRI ... SAPALAH YANG NAK DAULATKAN BANGSA MELAYU KALAU BUKAN MELAYU ... SALAHKAH MELAYU KALAU SEKADAR MEMPERTAHANKAN MARUAH BANGSANYA ????
MARIAM SAYANG OOOiiiii !!! BAGI TAHU AKU , MANA NEGARA DALAM DUNIA NI YANG PENDUDUK ASALNYA MERELAKAN NEGARANYA DIBUAT SEWENANG WENANGNYA OLEH KAUM PENDATANG .. OOPPPPPSSS .. AKU RACIS KE ??? FACT IS FACT..
ATAU APAKAH MEMANG BANGSA MELAYU NI HINA HINGGA BANGSANYA SENDIRI MALU MENGAKUINYA
MELAYU DALAM BAHASA JAWA BOLEH MEMBAWA MAKSUD LARI.. APAKAH MELAYU MEMANG BANGSA YANG SENTIASA MELARIKAN DIRI ... ATAU KALAU MEMANG DAH BENCI SANGAT DENGAN PERKATAAN MELAYU NI KITA TUKAR SAHAJA PERKATAAN MELAYU KEPADA ASLI UNTUK MENGGAMBARKAN YANG ORIGINNYA BANGSA INI MEMANG BANGSA ASLI DISINI.
NEGARA = ASLISIA
KETURUNAN = ASLI
BANGSA = ASLI
AGAMA = MENURUT KEPERCAYAAN MASING MASING
DEFINISI ASLI: JAKUN , SEMAI, NEGRITO,IBAN, KADAZAN, MURUT, MELANAU, JAWA, BANJAR, MINANG, ACEH, SUNDA,LOMBOK,BATAK, DLL YANG BERASAL DARI KEPULAUAN ASLI
I WONDER WHO SUGGESTED THE WORD "MALAY"
THE NEXT TIME ANYBODY ASK ABOUT MY RACE , THE ANSWER IS ASLI OF JAWA ORIGIN
ME ASLI
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