Siapakah Perkasa Malaysia? .. A Great Nightmare for PR
Siapakah Perkasa Malaysia?
Perdana Menteri Malaysia IV dan Presiden UMNO V Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad hari ini menegaskan bahawa UMNO hari ini memerlukan PERKASA bagi menentukan sokongan orang Melayu masih relevan kepada parti nasionalis itu.
Laporan Bernama.com:
UMNO perlukan Perkasa untuk raih sokongan Melayu
KUALA LUMPUR 12 Sept. – Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad hari ini berkata, UMNO tidak mampu berbalah dan memisahkan diri daripada Pertubuhan Pribumi Perkasa Malaysia (Perkasa) jika tidak mahu menanggung risiko kehilangan lebih banyak sokongan.
Bekas perdana menteri itu berkata, sebaliknya UMNO memerlukan seberapa banyak sokongan daripada pertubuhan bukan kerajaan (NGO) jika parti induk Barisan Nasional (BN) itu tidak mahu kehilangan sokongan akar umbi.
“Saya berpendapat bahawa UMNO khususnya tidak begitu kuat, kita tidak boleh tolak sebarang orang kerana kalau kita hilang 100, 200 orang pun, mungkin kita akan kalah. “Jadi kita nak sokongan seberapa banyak, tak payahlah kita bermusuh dengan orang. Saya fikir, kita perlu dekatkan diri dengan seberapa kumpulan yang boleh,” katanya kepada pemberita pada majlis rumah terbuka Aidilfitri di kediamannya di Seri Kembangan, dekat sini, hari ini.
Pada Khamis lepas, Setiausaha Agung UMNO, Datuk Seri Tengku Adnan Tengku Mansor berkata, UMNO menjauhi daripada Perkasa yang lantang membuat kenyataan ekstrem mengenai isu-isu perkauman.Dr. Mahathir berkata, ahli UMNO ketika ini berpecah antara menyokong atau menjauhkan diri daripada Perkasa, sambil menjelaskan keadaan seperti itu boleh menyebabkan jurang yang lebih parah di kalangan mereka.
“Ia telah menyebabkan rasa serba salah di kalangan ahli UMNO sendiri. Ada yang akan kekal dan ada yang menjauhkan diri…ini akan lebih memisahkan mereka.“Selain itu, pada pilihan raya umum lepas, margin adalah amat tipis sekali.Katakan jika kita kalah sedikit…kita mungkin kalah pada pilihan raya,” katanya.Ditanya sama ada UMNO akan kerugian jika menjauhkan diri dari Perkasa, Dr Mahathir berkata: “Kita tidak mampu berbalah dengan ramai orang. Jika anda mahu bertengkar, bertengkarlah dengan seorang, bukan semua.” – Bernama
Pertubuhan Pribumi Perkasa Malaysia or Perkasa is a non-governmental Malay Supremacy organization that was formed by Ibrahim Ali in the aftermath of the Malaysian general elections in 2008. The group claims to have a membership of 300,000, though outsiders estimate the actual figure to be much lower. The major objectives for establishing Perkasa, according to Ibrahim Ali, are the "protectors of Article 153 of the Constitution of Malaysia" and to defend the rights of Bumiputera from being eroded by certain quarters. Perkasa is said to be fighting and defending the rights of the Malays which they feel are being challenged by non-Malays inMalaysia.
It has been branded a fascist organisation.
Leadership
Member of Parliament Datuk Ibrahim Ali is the founder and first president of Perkasa. The other leader of Perkasa is its Deputy President Dato Fuad Hassan.
Controversy
On 1 July 2010, the official organ of Perkasa, Suara Perkasa had published an article on its front page asking Dr. Wee Ka Siong to be detained under Internal Security Act (ISA) for questioning the special position of Bumiputera which is under the Article 153 of the Constitution of Malaysia. However, Wee had dismissed such allegation made by Perkasa. Suara Perkasa was asked to explain this controversial publication by the Malaysian Home Ministry on the following day. This article had received backlash by the component parties in Barisan Nasional, including United Malays National Organisation (UMNO), Malaysian Chinese Association (MCA) andMalaysian Indian Congress (MIC). On 5 July 2010, the controversial Suara Perkasa was let off by Home Ministry with a warning for publishing an article that could have jeopardised national unity.
Criticism
On July 9, 2010, the group was labeled 'militant' by former US Ambassador to Malaysia John Malott.
The group has been criticised by former opposition leader Lim Kit Siang for re-using the religion, race and nationalism card when it's been "proven obsolete and irrelevant in bringing progress and change to Malay social and economic development".
State Gerakan official and lawyer Baljit Singh has condemned Perkasa as the Malaysian version of the white American supremacist movement Ku Klux Klan, which openly advocates racism, religious extremism and fascism. He added that Perkasa incites racial hatred and social disharmony by threatening to wage a holy war against Christians and other ethnic and religious minorities in Malaysia.
A Nightmare for BN & DAP?
GEORGE TOWN: Penang Barisan Nasional today condemned Perkasa for conducting funeral rites for Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng outside his residence last Thursday.
State BN chief Teng Chang Yeow said it was “a foolish act or a stupid act”.
“We condemn Perkasa, we condemn it,” he told newsmen after a BN meeting here today.
He said it was not possible for BN to control the Malay rights group’s actions because it was not under the coalition’s influence.
“They are not even friends of Barisan. How to cap them? You tell me,” Teng said at a press conference.
He brushed aside a remark that the public perception was “Perkasa is Umno, Umno is Perkasa”.
“You can ask the Umno state chairman here,” he said, pointing to Zainal Abidin Osman, who was standing next to him.
Zainal Abidin claimed that his party had “no control or hold over Perkasa and its actions”.
“Perkasa is a NGO and Umno is a political party,” he said. “We can’t control them. They won’t listen to us.”
He denounced the Perkasa demonstration at Lim’s house.
During the 10-minute demonstration, about 30 people led by Penang Perkasa chief Mohd Ridzuan Azudin placed a garland over a portrait of Lim and pasted posters with swastika signs on his gate.
They held another noisy gathering, performing similar rituals, at Komtar about 30 minutes later.
They alleged that Lim had incited racial tension between Malays and Indians, in reference to the Chief Minister’s remark last week that he felt “all Hindu temples are in danger if Umno returns to power”.
State BN chief Teng Chang Yeow said it was “a foolish act or a stupid act”.
“We condemn Perkasa, we condemn it,” he told newsmen after a BN meeting here today.
He said it was not possible for BN to control the Malay rights group’s actions because it was not under the coalition’s influence.
“They are not even friends of Barisan. How to cap them? You tell me,” Teng said at a press conference.
He brushed aside a remark that the public perception was “Perkasa is Umno, Umno is Perkasa”.
“You can ask the Umno state chairman here,” he said, pointing to Zainal Abidin Osman, who was standing next to him.
Zainal Abidin claimed that his party had “no control or hold over Perkasa and its actions”.
“Perkasa is a NGO and Umno is a political party,” he said. “We can’t control them. They won’t listen to us.”
He denounced the Perkasa demonstration at Lim’s house.
During the 10-minute demonstration, about 30 people led by Penang Perkasa chief Mohd Ridzuan Azudin placed a garland over a portrait of Lim and pasted posters with swastika signs on his gate.
They held another noisy gathering, performing similar rituals, at Komtar about 30 minutes later.
They alleged that Lim had incited racial tension between Malays and Indians, in reference to the Chief Minister’s remark last week that he felt “all Hindu temples are in danger if Umno returns to power”.
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