Fuel Price Increase, End of Malaysia?

Protes lancar bantahan Sabtu ini

Abdul Rahim Sabri | Jun 11, 08 6:51pm
dikemaskini Gabungan Anti-Inflasi (Protes), yang menjanjikan demonstrasi besar 12 Julai di Kuala Lumpur, akan memulakan siri pertama bantahannya di Seremban berhubung kenaikan mendadak harga minyak.

Selain penyelarasnya Dr Mohd Hatta Ramli, program selama sembilan jam yang bermula pukul 3 petang Sabtu ini turut disertai naib presiden PKR Tian Chua, naib presiden PAS Mohamad Sabu dan setiausaha agung Parti Sosialis Malaysia (PSM) S Arutchelvan.

Program itu yang dimulakan dengan pengedaran risalah anti-kenaikan harga minyak dan sidang media di hadapan bangunan Umno Negeri Sembilan berakhir dengan ceramah umum yang disampaikan barisan pemimpin tersebut.

Turut serta di acara itu yang diadakan selepas solat maghrib di masjid Senawang, ahli parlimen DAP di Rasah, Anthony Loke Siew Fook dan wakil rakyat PAS di Paroi, Mohd Taufek Mohd Ghani.

Bantahan 14 Jun ini dalam siri jelajah Protes ke seluruh negara berhubung isu tersebut, kata satu kenyataan sekretariat Protes hari ini.

Sejak 2006, Protes - dianggotai 57 badan bukan kerajaan dan lima parti politik pembangkang - mengadakan beberapa siri kegiatan menentang kenaikan harga utiliti, minyak dan tol.

Sepanjang siri jelajah keseluruh negara, Protes bercadang mengumpul 100,000 rakyat untuk menyertai demontrasi besar-besaran di ibu kota bulan depan bagi menetang kenaikan terbaru harga minyak Rabu lepas.

Harga petrol naik 78 sen, manakala diesel pula RM1. Tarif elektrik turut naik mulai 1 Julai - dianggap keputusan kenaikan yang paling besar dan mengejutkan negara.

Sementara itu, Angkatan Muda PKR Wilayah Persekutuan membatalkan hasrat berdemontrasi pada 5 petang Jumaat ini di masjid jamek Jalan Tun Perak.

Pembatalan itu selepas arahan AMK pusat dalam mesyuarat malam tadi yang melibatkan Pemuda Pakatan Rakyat, kata naib ketua AMK Wilayah, Rozan Azen Mat Rasip hari ini.

Pemuda Pakatan merancang mengadakan perarakan besar-besaran sejauh hampir dua kilometer 13 Jun berhubung isu minyak, sehari sebelum siri pertama bantahan Protes.

Pergerakan Pemuda PKR, PAS dan DAP akan bergerak dari masjid Kampung Baru ke Suria KLCC selepas solat Jumaat.

Perhimpunan ini dipercayai yang terbesar pernah dianjurkan oleh parti-parti pembangkang selepas pengumuman kenaikan mendadak harga bahan api.

Penganjurnya menganggarkan kira-kira 3,000 orang akan hadir bersama ketua-ketua pergerakan Pemuda Pakatan - Salahuddin Ayub, Shamsul Iskandar Mohd Akin dan wakil Pemuda DAP.

Sejak minggu lalu, beberapa demonstrasi kecil diadakan di beberapa lokasi seluruh negara, antaranya di Kuching, Ipoh, Sungai Petani, Pulau Pinang dan Kuala Lumpur.

The article above is taken from Malaysiakini, the article calls for all Malaysian to unite and protest against the fuel price increase. It is truly shocking to understand and see that the only way out voices can be heard is through protest. However, even the protest might now work because it is illegal and all the goverment care about is stoping the protest by mobilizing the police. They don't care about what the people are saying and what the protest is about. The people protesting will just end up in ISA or some other prison. If more and more protest are being held then more and more people will be held. All the Malaysians will be gone, most of them that protest are intellectual people with strong opinions, without them I can't think of a bright future for Malaysia.

I am having a hard to time digesting it all in, why it is so hard to make the politicians/ goverment to hear our opinions and voices. Are they so arrogant that they have forgotten who gave them the power in the first place? This is a question that does not have a straight answer.

After the fuel increase I have heard and seen so many accusations toward Petronas. This is truly another matter that must be addressed. Petronas has nothing to do with the price and they are not making money from the increase. The profits gain from the increase goes to the goverment. Period that is the end of the story. Petronas do not have control on the fuel price. They are just a tool being used by goverment to generate large sums of money. The fact is that Petronas contribute 35% to the budget and truly with Petronas's money the goverment will go broke.

Honestly, I do not know why the goverment needs more money. I am sure that they have plenty of it and I also sure that alot of money are being spend recklessly.