Tanah

Tanah rakyat, rakyat dan tanah.


Sumber: http://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/2011/12/09/umno-assembly-an-insult-to-malays/
(This excerpt originally appeared in sakmongkolak47′s blog)

Umno assembly ‘an insult’ to Malays
December 9, 2011

Umno has shown not just the rakyat but also the whole world how low class its delegates are.


And if he cannot answer that, why didn’t a single Umno delegate ask Muhyiddin about (the late Information Minister) Mohamed Rahmat’s exposure that Mahathir’s cronies tried to acquire villagers land at 80 sen psf so that they could re-sell at 1,780 sen (RM17.80) psf for the Second Link in Johor?


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Sumber: http://poskadsiti.wordpress.com/tag/bandar-sungai-buaya/
April 9, 2010

It took a builder’s unkept promise to break her
By Poskad Siti

It was heartbreaking for Timah and other settlers who lost their land and for some, their means of income. Timah said the settlers received the first payment of RM5,000 in 1994 when they signed the agreement. The payments then trickled to RM2,000 monthly, then dwindled to RM1,000 before it stopped completely in 2001.

“There were no more rubber trees for us to tap or land for us to grow crops, so we have no income. Most of us are just too old to work, anyway. There is nothing to do but hope that our children will take us in,” she said as her eyes glistened.

Timah said many of her contemporaries were ill because of old age. Some had died.

She said many of the settlers later were offered unsold housing units in lieu of cash, but the value of the house was only a fraction of the land value in the original agreement.

“We took the offer rather than have nothing at all,” said Timah who now lives in Bandar Sungai Buaya.

Today, the Felda is reduced to a cluster of houses in a village called Kampung Sungai Buaya.

New Straits Times, April 9, 2010


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“Rakyat itu selalu diam
Tapi ia pencatat tidak pernah lupa
Rakyat itu seperti naga
Melingkar dengan berat badan dan
diam dalam keheningan sendiri
Pancainderanya tajam
Kuat intuisinya dengan akal budi
Lalu jangan sekali-kali melukannya
Jangan melukannya berkali-kali
Kerana sekali ia bangkit
Rosaklah segala apa.”

Azizi Abdullah, “Harga Sebuah Maruah”, Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2007