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Meluluskan undang-undang dana pembangunan kawasan yang saksama adalah demi maslahat PH / A law for fairer constituency allocations would be in PH’s self-interest [ENGLISH VERSION BELOW] Projek Kestabilan and Akauntabiliti untuk Malaysia (Projek Sama) menggesa kerajaan Madani dan semua kerajaan negeri agar membentangkan undang-undang dana pembangunan kawasan (constituency development funds) yang saksama dalam sidang …

Malaysia’s wealth trap: How colonial capitalism became ethnocapitalism Malaysia’s political economy can be better understood in the context of its colonial inheritance. British colonial rule built a plural economy. Ethnic identity was often mapped onto economic roles. The ethnic Malays were concentrated in rural, agrarian subsistence, with significant numbers of migrant Chinese and Indian labour employed in the ext…

When women reach the top, but power remains the same: Murmu and Siljanovska-Davkova This may seem like a slightly belated reaction to India’s president’svisit to Macedonia on 20-23 July. Yet the event deserves a brief reflection through a gender lens. The real inspiration comes from my engagement in a two-year project aimed at encouraging greater participation of women in politics – Gender Equality Mobilization (…R…

Bebenang: An almost Malaysian story What does it really mean to be Malaysian? Is it the stories we’re told, the languages we speak, the histories we inherit, or the memories we carry? Bebenang: An Almost Malaysian Story is an original theatre production that explores those questions through the real-life experiences of ordinary people in Malaysia. Developed using verbatim theatre,…Read More https://aliran.com/web…

Debt, dependency and the modern colonial chokehold on Asia Benyasiri Eimviriyapong & Fatima Shahzad Over 70 delegates from 43 organisations across 17 countries gathered in Colombo on 16-18 July for the Hands Off Asia conference, organised by the International Peoples’ Assembly and Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. The choice of venue was no accident. Four…Read More https://aliran.com/web-specials/deb…

Once Upon a Malaysian Dream As Merdeka approaches each year, we’re often encouraged to reflect on how far Malaysia has come. But it is also a chance to ask some difficult questions: have we lived up to the ideals that independence promised, and what does the ‘Malaysian dream’ actually mean today? Those are the questions at the heart of…Read More https://aliran.com/web-specials/once-upon-a-malaysian-dream

Can student activists become good politicians? Our student movements have fed our parties for generations, from Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim of the Univeristy of Malaya and Abim to Adam Adli, who now sits in the cabinet. But every activist who makes that crossing faces the same question. Do you change politics, or does politics change you? BFM speaks to Zaim…Read More https://aliran.com/web-specials/can-student-ac…

Rocky, the Rohingya and the rise of hate: What links them? Ilaiya Barathi Panneerselvam “Before mass leaders seize the power to fit reality to their lies, their propaganda is marked by its extreme contempt for facts as such, for in their opinion fact depends entirely on the power of man who can fabricate it.” – Hannah Arendt What if three seemingly…Read More https://aliran.com/thinking-allowed-online/rocky-the-ro…

Pastor Rayamond Koh’s disappearance: Suhakam reiterates call for truth, accountability and justice The Malaysian human rights commission Suhakam is deeply concerned that the Court of Appeal’s decision to uphold the stay of the High Court’s orders relating to the investigation into the enforced disappearance of Pastor Raymond Koh will further impede efforts to establish the truth and achieve accountability. The ruli…

Gaji rendah memerlukan pembaharuan struktur / Low salaries require structural reform [ENGLISH VERSION BELOW] Isu gaji rendah kekal sebagai salah satu kebimbangan utama yang dihadapi oleh rakyat Malaysia pada masa kini. Walaupun telah menikmati pertumbuhan ekonomi selama beberapa dekad dan Malaysia muncul sebagai ekonomi berpendapatan sederhana tinggi, ramai pekerja masih bergelut dengan peningkatan kos sara hidup, …

Rohingya returns to Myanmar neither safe nor voluntary – NGO Asylum Access Malaysia (AAM) has noted the Prime Minister’s statement that Myanmar has agreed to take back 5,000 Rohingya refugees currently in Malaysia. We recognise the government’s stated intent to manage a difficult and increasingly strained situation, and we do not dispute that Malaysia has hosted one of the region’s largest Rohingya populations for……

Uphold international law, protect Rohingya from detention and return to Myanmar In recent weeks, the Malaysian government has suspended UN refugee agency (UNHCR) refugee registration, detained 110 Rohingya refugees following forced evictions from their homes, and called for a review of the UN refugee agency’s presence in Malaysia. The government has also announced plans to pursue the return of 5,000 Rohingya refuge…