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Jusuf Kalla slams Anwar Posted: 24 May 2013 09:34 PM PDT Anwar proposed the 'truce' but defied it. He promised to respect the decision of the voters but his craze for power has driven him out of balance. He tried to hide the truce with Najib but the man who 'brokered' the deal just could not contain his frustration anymore. Finally, he burst out and slammed Anwar for failing to comply. JAKARTA, Indonesia—A former Indonesian vice president with a history of brokering peace agreements has accused Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim of reneging on a secret deal to respect the outcome of Malaysia's elections on May 5. Jusuf Kalla revealed the pre-election accord in an interview with The Wall Street Journal, amid a public protest campaign by Mr. Anwar over what the opposition leader said was widespread vote fraud by the ruling National Front coalition. The election returned Prime Minister Najib Razak and the long-ruling National Front to power in the tightest national election in Malaysian history. Mr. Kalla said the two candidates—whom he said he considered friends of his going back decades—had made a written agreement in April to refrain from personal attacks during the campaign and to accept the outcome, in a deal first proposed by Mr. Anwar. Mr. Anwar acknowledged he had made the pact with Mr. Najib, with Mr. Kalla as mediator, but said the National Front had rendered it void by the way it ran its campaign. He singled out Malaysia's media, much of which is controlled or owned by the government or members of the ruling coalition. "How can you talk reconciliation when you demonize your opponent in this manner?" Mr. Anwar said to The Wall Street Journal. He also said it was Mr. Kalla, not him, who first proposed the pact. Mr. Najib stressed reconciliation in his first public remarks after the election, though both sides said that the other had rejected a clause in the pact that the winner was to offer the loser a role in a "reconciliation government." Mr. Najib's camp confirmed that the agreement was made and dismissed Mr. Anwar's view that it had been undermined by the campaign—during which both sides accused the other of low blows and distortions. Mr. Anwar had strong support among Malaysian Web-based media during the campaign. Mr. Kalla said he felt that both sides met their commitment to refrain from personal attacks during the campaign, and he hasn't criticized Mr. Najib over the conduct of the election. Mr. Anwar said he plans to step up a legal campaign to overturn the results in 29 electoral districts, raising political tensions in Malaysia, which has grown increasingly divided in the aftermath of the election. Mr. Anwar, a former deputy prime minister who has been the country's most prominent opposition leader for the past 15 years, has led a national campaign of mass rallies since the election. The scene has grown increasingly confrontational. Three prominent opposition activists were detained and later released in the past week. In the weeks before the election, Mr. Anwar alleged that the National Front and Malaysia's Election Commission were manipulating electoral rolls and mobilizing illegal voters. On May 5, Mr. Anwar said his alliance had won and accused the National Front of stealing the election. The National Front and the Election Commission rejected the allegations of electoral fraud. The Commission said there were extremely few irregularities, and that a record 85% of voters cast ballots. Mr. Anwar said he is pessimistic that courts would overturn results in key districts. The final vote count showed that Mr. Anwar's Pakatan Rakyat alliance won a majority of the popular vote, but Mr. Najib's coalition won heavily in many rural constituencies, where he has strong popular support, to emerge with a 21-seat parliamentary majority. Mr. Kalla said that the outcome of the balloting, held on a Sunday, was clear. "We had a commitment,'' he said. "On Monday, I asked Anwar to accept it and look at reality. But they said, 'No, no, no, no.' '' Read more...

Street monkeys Posted: 24 May 2013 04:30 AM PDT Not satisfied with the general election result? Go to the streets and protest! Discontented with the government? Go to the streets! Unhappy with the price of fuel? Go to the streets! Disagreement over water and land issues? Just go to the streets! Can't accept defeat? Go down to the street to seize back your power! What kind of a culture is this? There are many ways to channel our complaint over anything rather than taking to the streets and challenge the law. We have enough avenues for such complaints, and we have the courts and specific law to seek justice. Why must we turn into monkeys by holding demonstrations and rallies when the Constitution and existing laws are there to protect each and everyone's rights? The 13th general election result, for instance is being made a ticket for the opposition and anti-government groups to chant 'democracy' slogan all around. But what is the type of democracy that they want when they themselves failed to substantiate their allegation? PKR's Rafizi Ramli has been shouting like a monkey, claiming he got this and that proof of election fraud but has yet to take it to the Election Commission. He and the rest of the opposition leaders also ignored their rights for petition - the lawful practice throughout the world - but chose to go to the streets instead. And how could the law protect people like him and student leader Adam Adli who incited the public to take to the streets and topple the legitimate government, the one chosen by the voters? Without any check, they may go overboard, believe me. They are so obsessed by the Arab Spring and Tahrir Square uprising, the cues that would not only bring down the government but the whole country under bloody riot. What would become of the country under such a circumstance? And who would want to rule in a civil war torn country? Is Pakatan Rakyat willing to take over? But what if the 'war' rages on after they are in power? A good question, right? Of course, they will have to come down hard o n dissidents, barring public rally and street demo, haul up the opposition leaders and put them behind bar as a method of containment. What actually do they want? Power? War? Or foreign intervention? I personally believe they just want to be heroes of themselves, not for anything else, just like the monkeys swinging from a branch to another without any specific objective!

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