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MALAYSIA
In Malay heartland, struggle for daily living drowns out hudud zeal
BY SYED JAYMAL ZAHIID AND OPALYN MOK
MAY 19, 2014


Policies and red tape in the Kedah state government have made it difficult to re-zone the paddy fields as industrial areas, deterring manufacturers from setting up shop here and costing jobs. — Picture by K.E.Ooi

KUALA KEDAH, May 19 — Mohd Zamani Yaakob, 38, an electronics engineering graduate from the University of Kuala Lumpur toils hard to earn as little as RM5 a day fishing in the sea off Kedah, Malaysia’s rice bowl state.

“I pay RM87 a day for fuel to get me out fishing for a day and that is if it is subsidised. If it’s not then I have to pay RM126 … and I sometimes don’t even earn enough to pay for fuel.

“My life is a wreck… so to me my rice bowl is definitely more important than hudud,” a weary-looking Zamani told The Malay Mail Online as he prepared to head out to sea.

Rival parties Umno and PAS are vying for support in Malaysia’s Malay heartlands but struggling to make ends meet, Zamani and many rural voters like him feel disconnected from the politicians in Putrajaya and elsewhere.

For decades, though, Kedah has been a key voter base for the ruling Barisan Nasional (BN) coalition.

While the Islamist PAS was adopting moderation in its attempt to broaden its appeal, Umno grew more conservative to win over supporters turned off by its rival’s shift. And it paid off.

In the general election last year, Umno won 88 seats, 9 more than in 2008. Its improved performance was largely credited to support from the rural voters in the Malay heartland.

But PAS is pushing back, fighting for the hearts and minds of the Malay-Muslim voter with a renewed emphasis on religion.

Its ace in hand — the party believes — is hudud, which it is now agitating to impose in Kelantan, some two decades after passing state laws to implement the strict Islamic penal code.

Rice bowl reputation weighs on state

Kedah, the home state of two of Malaysia’s prime ministers, has been under BN rule since the country gained independence from the British in 1957 save for a single term between 2008 and 2013.

But the state remains one of the country’s poorest.

According to official data, average household income in Kedah is RM3,425,  the second lowest in Malaysia.

The only state where residents earn less is Kelantan, with an average household income of RM3,100 a month.

Yet the Kelantan government appears to be concentrating its energies to push for hudud.

A straw poll conducted by The Malay Mail Online during its visit here found that most saw hudud simply as politics.

“This hudud issue is only used to get support. Bread-and-butter issues should be the main agenda. While you talk about hudud Malays here can’t even find jobs,” Zamani said.

According to the state’s Malay Chamber of Commerce chief, Ahmad Fitri Othman, the federal policy to keep Kedah an agricultural  “rice bowl state” is constraining business efforts.

Ahmad Fitri said policies and red tape in the Kedah state government have made it difficult to re-zone the paddy fields as industrial areas, deterring manufacturers from setting up shop here and costing jobs.

“Kedah has been about agriculture but industry is really the way… but it’s really hard. Investors cannot invest here because of the policies,” he told The Malay Mail Online in a brief interview at his office in Alor Setar.

Ahmad Fitri said hudud would further compound Kedah’s economic problems as it might spook investors.

“If the non-Malays are educated about hudud then maybe they would say its ok but we have a weak information system so they won’t understand and this would make them run away,” he said.

Bread and butter issues

Din, a middle-aged man working on his paddy field, told The Malay Mail Online that life for people like him remains tough despite the government’s pledge to help rice growers.

“We have to keep on borrowing. Sometimes the harvest is not good enough,” he said.

Amid such pressing concerns, Din and others like him said hudud and other controversies such as the oft-reported threat of Christian proselytisation were far from their minds.

Rather than religious issues, those polled by The Malay Mail Online felt that the government should work on convincing voters that the introduction of the goods and services tax (GST) in April next year will not lead to a surge in inflation.

“I don’t care about hudud. What I care about is my livelihood and how to stretch my income to cover costs. Now, GST is really an issue that I’m more worried about because it means I have to pay more for things,” said Ismail Rahman, a 31-year-old salesman.

Even a civil servant from the middle income bracket believed that hudud or religious issues are secondary next to the economy.

“I am worried about the cost of housing. The GST. Hudud is a religious thing we as Muslims know but they are things we deal with personally,” Muhyiddin Yusof, a 29-year-old lecturer at a public university said.

In 1993, the PAS state government passed the Kelantan Syariah Criminal Code Enactment II, allowing it to impose the strict Islamic penal code in the state. But the laws have not been implemented.

PAS is now looking for parliamentary approval to implement hudud. It plans to put forward two private members’ bills in parliament. One seeks approval for unconventional punishments, some of which are for offences already covered in the Penal Code. The the other seeks to empower Sharia courts to mete out the unconventional punishments.

In all previous attempts, PAS had been frustrated by BN tactics to prevent any vote by employing a “talking out” tactic where BN MPs have been allowed to speak for an extended period of time to prevent such private members’ bills from even being debated.

However, Umno leaders have now said they have no objections to the implementation of hudud and have constantly challenged PAS to try to introduce the law.

- See more at: http://www.themalaymailonline.co ... thash.TYzckufG.dpuf

kucingTomey

kesimpulan dia ape?undi la umno?

-electrifying-

mmg musim menghentam hudud ek skrg... berbahagialah..

annehuda

KUALA KEDAH, May 19 — Mohd Zamani Yaakob, 38, an electronics engineering graduate from the University of Kuala Lumpur toils hard to earn as little as RM5 a day fishing in the sea off Kedah, Malaysia’s rice bowl state.

ade degree tp keje tangkap ikan je. erm aku malas la nk komen lebih2 tp kot ye pun pi lah carik keje yg bersesuaian kt penang nun. hujung minggu leh balik kedah.

Czaziq

annehuda posted on 20-5-2014 05:11 PM
ade degree tp keje tangkap ikan je. erm aku malas la nk komen lebih2 tp kot ye pun pi lah carik  ...

ntah2 grad 2.05 kot. jd xlaku

rashiman

annehuda posted on 20-5-2014 05:11 PM
ade degree tp keje tangkap ikan je. erm aku malas la nk komen lebih2 tp kot ye pun pi lah carik  ...

buat keje potong rumput mcm yg bangla buat, boleh dapat RM5,900/bln.

jengkoil

annehuda posted on 20-5-2014 05:11 PM
ade degree tp keje tangkap ikan je. erm aku malas la nk komen lebih2 tp kot ye pun pi lah carik  ...

Aku sokong ko anne...dok buang masa 4,5(kalo tak extend) tahun..pastu nak bising pendapatan tak seberapa...salah hudud ke tu?


Eh..dah mcm pejuang hudud plak gua...ehehehee

shernazz

Czaziq posted on 20-5-2014 06:05 PM
ntah2 grad 2.05 kot. jd xlaku

berkemungkinan besar juga tu,,
communication skill dia x bagus pon ye juga

jengkoil

The only state where residents earn less is Kelantan, with an average household income of RM3,100 a month.

mengikut hikayat bunda andani bunga andana yg dimainkan oleh kumpulan wayang kulit saufi - pendapatan rm3100 kat kelantan tu dah bleh buat rumah banglo setingkat dah tu...

dino

annehuda posted on 20-5-2014 05:11 PM
ade degree tp keje tangkap ikan je. erm aku malas la nk komen lebih2 tp kot ye pun pi lah carik  ...

kot2 la degree tak hbis.... motif ade degree electronics tuh..... bkn degree tech textile ka... tech makanan ka....
pasaran keje ade.... tp kena ade skill la....

annehuda

dino posted on 20-5-2014 07:34 PM
kot2 la degree tak hbis.... motif ade degree electronics tuh..... bkn degree tech textile ka... te ...

mase die amek degree dulu takde ke buat industrial training barang 1 sem ? impossible sgt la kalau nak ckp takde pengalaman, tu pun 1 pengalaman jugak. takde pun tryla mintak jd trainee dulu ke kt kilang mane2. kalau tak reti nk speaking pun tryla keje kilang tempatan kecik2 dulu. kalau btul2 nak keje interviewer leh nampak kesungguhan dan keseriusan kite nak bekerja.

aku nak bersangka baik jelah, mayb die ni ade masalah keluarga la kot tu psl blk kg jd nelayan. idakpun kt gurun tu berlambak kilang2 xnk ke try mintak?

totokreturn

rashiman posted on 20-5-2014 07:12 PM
buat keje potong rumput mcm yg bangla buat, boleh dapat RM5,900/bln.

Rumah aku corner lot yg gunakan khidmat potong rumput... sekali potong upah rm30 yg memerlukan sejam lebih nak potong..., sebulan sekali potong.... cer tolong kirakan kat aku camna potong rumput sebulan bleh dpt rm5,900 macai umno bacul pengecut....?

vespa_oren

kucingTomey posted on 20-5-2014 04:06 PM
kesimpulan dia ape?undi la umno?

kesimpulan dia, hudud itu bukan keutamaan sekarang, yang penting kos sara hidup terutama GST

so xpayahlah nak buat hudud jika taraf hidup mcm negara yg buat hudud mcm somalia, pakitsan,

yg penting perut nak isi dulu, berdasarkan artikel nie...

vespa_oren

annehuda posted on 20-5-2014 07:40 PM
mase die amek degree dulu takde ke buat industrial training barang 1 sem ? impossible sgt la kalau ...

maybe dia kerja engineer dulu pastu kilang dia tutup, so dapat pampasan jadi nelayan

sekarang musim el nino, memang ikan kurang sangat, aku gie pasar pun xada ikan

rashiman

totokreturn posted on 20-5-2014 07:47 PM
Rumah aku corner lot yg gunakan khidmat potong rumput... sekali potong upah rm30 yg memerlukan sej ...

kalau rumah kau sorang aje yg corner lot, memanglah tak boleh dapat RM5900/bln.

Berapa banyak rumah corner lot ?
Berapa banyak rumah banglo ?
Berapa banyak rumah yang ada laman, yg ada tanam rumput ?

satu hari 7 buah rumah x RM30 = RM210
sebulan RM210 x 26hari = RM5460 ( 7 rumah x 26 hari = 182 buah rumah )

cuma perlu cari 182 buah rumah sebulan utk dilanggan secara tetap, habis 182 buah rumah selama sebulan, rumah yg pertama
dia potong dah panjang balik rumputnya...diulang balik potong rumput dari rumah pertama sehinggalah kerumah ke-182
begitulah seterusnya dan seterusnya dan seterusnya....dapatlah dia RM5460/bln itu belum lagi dia buat kerja overtime sehingga 31 hari.

sebab itu, kena ada fakta, baru boleh kira...
jika tidak, kita akan bersangka buruk kat orang lain, mulalah keluar...kata orang bodo...kata menteri bodo...tak reti kira..dll.

kucingTomey

Kah ksh rahimsn purta sudah jafi rashiman darab

rashiman

kucingTomey posted on 20-5-2014 08:44 PM
Kah ksh rahimsn purta sudah jafi rashiman darab

totok bagi soalan matematik....kenalah jawab...

roblucci

setuju sgt kawe dgn artikel ni.

totokreturn

rashiman posted on 20-5-2014 08:20 PM
kalau rumah kau sorang aje yg corner lot, memanglah tak boleh dapat RM5900/bln.

Berapa banyak r ...

Satu hari 7 rumah.... sekali potong sejam setengah... maybe ko tak tahu kot dok flat pprt... bermakna 2 biji rumah 3 jam...  sehari 12 jam... kerja sampai malam kaa..? Ada org nak potong rumput seawal subuh pagi atau tgh malam kaa...?  Setiap hari org tak gi kerja kaa sentiasa ada rumah sebab potong rrumput nih hujung minggu jerk....
Tak payah rehat..? Makan minum..? Travel dari rumah kerumah sehari berapa jam..?

Nak menipu org pun agak2 laa bacul umno...? Itu baru aku ckp soal masa jerk... fakta kunun... fak laa nak menipu org akal selevel ko bleh laa......

ikan_kaghing

Satu lagi propaganda kapiaq lahanat cina hudud untuk menidakkan hukum hudud.

Sebenarnya hukum Allah, yakni hudud adalah lebih penting daripada isu periuk nasi bagai.

Kalau kita menjaga hukum Allah, Insyaallah Allah akan menjaga rezeki kita.

Lagipun Hudud dapat mencegah orang tengah atau penyagak ekonomi (cina dap) daripada

terus melakukan 3M (Monopoli, Menipu, Menindas) kepada pengguna.