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2005-10-16T19:30:00.000+08:00

HOW “NO WHY” AND WHY “NO HOW”

     Ini universiti kita yang berkedudukan ke-111 di kalangan universiti dunia dan ke-2 (no yang nampaknya sangat baik) dalam Malaysia, berita yang begitu membanggakan dan menggembirakan segelintir warga USM (yang cepat berpuas hati). Setiap pemilihan dan kedudukan yang dibuat dalam senarai universiti terbaik berkenaan adalah berdasarkan lima indikator penting termasuk penyelidikan dan penulisan artikel, reputasi antarabangsa, staf akademik luar negara dan pengambilan pelajar antarabangsa (yang bermaksud pengambilan staf akademik dan pelajar antarabangsa akan meningkatkan kedudukan dan reputasi universiti, apakah relevannya). Persoalannya adakah ideologi sesebuah universiti diambilkira?
     Kita balik kepada maksud Universiti, apakah yang dimaksudkan dengan universiti? Menara gading ini ramai orang yang beridam-idam untuk masuk. Tetapi apabila saya telah memasukinya, saya tertanya-tanya adakah ia sebuah universiti? Universiti ini seolah-olah untuk membaca buku dan menjadi pak turut saja. Menara gading ini terlalu ‘menjaga’ mahasiswa/inya (dari segi pemikiran dan bukannya kebajikan) dan dilayani seperti budak tadika. Universiti dahulunya merupakan tempat yang teragung dan terkenal dengan ilmunya yang bersanjung tinggi. Ia merupakan tempat untuk menyebarkan ilmu dan melakukan penyelidikan. Semua sarjana-sarjana berkumpul di situ untuk melakukan perbincangan.
     Apa yang dapat kita perhatikan daripada universiti kita sekarang adalah, pertama, dari segi pensyarah. Pensyarah kita nampaknya hanya mengajar mengikut buku sahaja dan kekurangan kebebasan akademik, kalau adapun segelintir pensyarah (hampir pupus) yang berani melanggar peraturan tidak adil kerana pensyarah diwajibkan untuk menandatangani “aku janji” yang menandakan seseorang patuh kepada semua peraturan dan arahan universiti. Jika tidak dia akan diambil tindakan, lihatlah pemecatan pensyarah-pensyarah dari UM, Dr Terence Edmund Gomez, (kemudian dijemput balik) dan UUM, Dr Azly Abdul Rahman serta Dr Mutiara Mohamad, sudah dapat kita menyimpulkan universiti kita ini tidak lagi menggalakkan pensyarah-pensyarah  mengembangkan pengetahuan dan intelektual mereka seperti universiti pada zaman 50-60an dan universiti terkenal di dunia seperti Oxford dan Cambridge.
     Pihak autoriti universiti terlalu takut dan risau (menurut Confucius, hanya orang yang bersalah akan berperasaan begitu) pelajar yang berfikiran kritis (kerana mereka akan memperbaiki sistem yang teruk ini). Universiti hanya suka mahasiwa/i yang menjadi pak turut dan mematuhi segala arahan universiti (seperti kelab Aspirasi). Sebab pentadbir universiti sudah tahu mahasiswa/i yang tidak dapat membezakan kebenaran tidak akan mencabar pihak universiti walaupun banyak masalah dan kesilapan dibuat.
     NO WHY, persekitaran universiti kita cantik dan lokasinya strategik tidak pernah diragui. Pemimpin negara maju bekalkan “first class facilities, first class management”(1X1=1, masih first class). Pemimpin Malaysia pula hanya mampu membekalkan “first class facilities, third class management”(1X3=3, dah kelas ketiga). Tapi universiti kita ini tak mampu mencapai slogan ini. Jika nak tanya kenapa, fasiliti dalam kampus adalah jawapan, “third class facilities, third class management (3X3=9, dah menjadi kelas kesembilan)”
     Fasiliti lama sudah tidak dapat memenuhi permintaan pelajar dalam pembelajaran. Yang baru hanya fasiliti hiasan yang mahal lagi tiada nilai penggunaan sebenar. Dekan dan HEP beri sebab tiada pelajar pergi buat aduan, jika ada pun satu dua sahaja, maka bolehlah diabaikan. Mana wireless network pergi? Sudah juta-juta ringgit yang dilabur untuk menyediakan wireless network tetapi masih hanya terhad di tempat tertentu sahaja. Jangan tanya mengapa kerana tanya pun tiada jawapan. Dah masuk poket ke? Jangan fikir banyak juga, kerana lebih fikir, otak lebih sakit. Tapi, kalau tak tanya dan tak fikir, anak-anak, adik-adik dan junior-junior kita lagi tiada jawapan dan lagi sakit kepala
     NO HOW, selepas konvo, latihan akan diberi kepada anda. Jangan bimbang walaupun gagal kerana pendidikan universiti sebagai kilang. Anda sebagai barangan “buatan Malaysia” ada jaminan dapat dikembali ke kilang untuk diproses semula atau menaik taraf perisian yang telah dibekalkan di kilang. Kilang universiti gagal dalam pelaburan sebanyak beribu-ribu juta ringgit dalam pendidikan untuk menghasilkan barangan yang berdaya saing. Suara hati barangan yang tidak puas hati tak dapat disampaikan kerana bos sibuk menetapkan peraturan baru untuk memastikan pasukan aspirasi universiti menang dalam setiap pilihanraya kampus.
     Universiti yang macam mana menghasilkan pelajar yang semacam. Salahkah pelajar menganggur selepas graduate? Universiti kita, adakah kamu juga perlu bertanggungjawab? Akhir sekali, biarlah orang pendidikan terus mengajar; orang perdagang terus  berniaga; orang politik masuk kilang kitar semula; dan mahasiswa-mahasiswi sekalian terus dalam Universiti Sains Malaysia.

Sample Letter for Urgent Appeal

2005-10-16T02:56:00.000+08:00

Sample Letter: Please Modify According to Your Own Organization or Identity

Y.B. Dato’ Dr. Haji Mohd. Shafie bin Salleh
Minister of Ministry of Higher Education Malaysia
Kementerian Pengajian Tinggi, Blok E3, Parcel E, Pusat Pentadbiran Kerajaan Persekutuan, 62505 Putrajaya
Telefon : 03-8883 5000
Faks : 03-8889 5854
E-mail: webmasterkpt@mohe.gov.my
Sir,

Launch Free and Fair Campus Reelection Immediate at All Malaysia Local Higher Education Institute

Refer to above title, I/ We ______________ showing our deep concern to Malaysia all 17 local higher education institute campus election system.

The unfairness and faulty practice by the authorities was heard and I/ we was told that it is a step to ensure the winning of the pro-authority or Aspirasi Team in the campus election, with this we feel disappointment and dissatisfaction on it.

As we know, campus election is a chance for the students to choose their representative regardless which camp/ team (pro-students or pro-authorities) the candidates was belong to, this was also tally with the principle of democracy. However the faulty and unfairness practice from the authority such as sponsoring pro-authorities, e-voting, threatening pro-students candidate and supporter and others malfeasance practice are violating the students’ right to choose their representative freely and fairly.

Therefore I/ we strongly urge the Minister of Ministry of Higher Education, Y.B. Dato’ Dr. Haji Mohd. Shafie bin Salleh to:

Declare the invalid of current campus election

Give order to each university to conduct a free and fair campus reelection or else take responsible for the corrupted electoral system

Ensure every misconduct behavior is not repeated and take immediate action on individual/ group/ department who are responsible for it.

Ensure campus election in the future will be not violating principle of freedom, fairness and democracy.

I/ We sincerely hope the Malaysia Ministry of Higher Education will take responsibility to ensure and protect the students’ rights and freedom to choose their representative. At the same time keep respect and practice the principle of democracy in the campuses.

Thank you.

Yours faithfully,

_________________
Name:
Oranization:

C.C. : All 17 Malaysia local higher education institute’s vice chancellor and rector.

URGENT APPEAL： Urging Free and Fair Campus Reelection

2005-10-16T02:50:00.000+08:00

URGENT APPEAL

Urging Free and Fair Campus Reelection

September 12, 2005 - Students under the name ‘Malaysia Students Solidarity’ visited to National Human Rights Commission (Suhakam) to raise the issue of Public Speaking Test in IIUM and cases of students being threatened on few campuses tovote for the pro-establishment students block.

September 21, 2005 - About 200 university students, held a 90-minute peaceful protest outside the Parliament building demanding for fair play during the upcoming campus elections. The students held placards with caricatures of the Higher Education Minister Dr Shafie Salleh, that were peppered with the words such as, ‘blur’ and ‘I don’tknow’, in reference to the minister’s recent comments on the campus elections.They also unfurled a banner that read 'Students demand for clean campus election, free campus', while sporadic chants of ‘student power’ was heard a few times.

September 26, 2005 - Nomination day for the annual campus polls turned out to be ‘boycott day’ at five public universities, where the pro-students faction (always labeled as ‘anti-establishment’ faction) refused to put up candidates to show protest against the unfairness and abuse of power that caused by the university administration. Five universities are Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM), Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM), International Islamic University Malaysia (UIAM), Universiti Telnologi Malaysia (UTM) and Sultan Idris Education University (UPSI).

October 7, 2005 - Complete with a black coffin which was draped with the Malaysian flag and had the words ‘Campus Democracy’, some 150 undergraduates staged a funeral procession in the pouring rain. The crowd marched from the National Mosque to the National Human Rights Commission (Suhakam) office in Kuala Lumpur to protest the end of democracy in varsities nationwide. In stead of sending reports to complain against those irregularities that happened during the campus election, the students were fighting on the street this time to demonstrate their deep disappointments on the violations.

It was warning notice from our young people to announce the imperative crisis that happened in our countries, campuses all around Malaysia was full of faulty and unfairness.

BACKGROUND

Campus election which is the necessary process to form Student Representative Council (SRC) held every year in Malaysia local universities. However, complaints of faulty, unfairness and abuse of power heard from every university.

Looking at the history of campus elections, irregularities like midnight raids on students’ rooms, crackdowns on activities organized by students who refuse to be stooges, physical assault of students who will not bow to orders and intimidation in other forms are alleged almost every year.
Memorandum after memorandum has been sent to the Suhakam and other relevant authorities, detailing such irregularities. Letters have been sent and dialogues held, and yet the issue be examined seriously enough. The result was still the same. The corruption of campus election was still uncertified, and the situation was gone even worst.

To date, none of the perpetrators have been brought to justice. The election commission headed by the deputy vice-chancellor in several universities has failed to ensure a free and fair election but acting unjust to ensure that preferred candidates win.

Then, what happened this year? Below are some case facts:
Universiti Islam Antarabangsa Malaysia (UIAM) and Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM) are using E-Voting which have no transparency, credibility and privacy.
6 USM campus election candidates and nominators’ family receive phone call and message (SMS) of threat.
At UTM, nomination form was increase from RM5 at year 2003 to RM50 and deposit was increase from RM10 to RM150 for campus level constituency and RM100 for faculty level constituency, protest form are sold with RM300. This is a clear financial pressure for student.
From July until now, campus authority of University Pendidikan Sultan Idris (Sultan Idris Education University) misused their power and organized at least 9 gathering with students with the motif of promote pro-university candidate. The campus authorities also threaten students to vote for Aspirasi’s candidate to prevent from being sent to rural area such as Sabah and Sarawak to work as teacher after graduate.

RECOMMENDED ACTION:

We call upon civil society group and concerned individual to write to the Minister of Ministry of Higher Education, Y.B. Dato’ Dr. Haji Mohd. Shafie bin Salleh, to express your concern towards the current corrupted election system and all the misconduct behavior happened at every university. At the same time, to urge Ministry of Higher Education to declare the invalid of current election at every campus and held a free and fair campus reelection by reforming the electoral system.

Please send your letter through fax or e-mail to the Minister of Ministry of Higher Education as soon as possible:

Calling Ministry of Higher Education to declare the invalid of current campus election

Urging Ministry of Higher Education to give order to each university to conduct a free and fair campus reelection or else take responsible for the corrupted electoral system

Calling to Minister of Higher Education of ensure every misconduct behavior is not repeated and take immediate action on individual/ group/ department who are responsible for it.

Calling Minister of Higher Education to ensure campus election in the future will be not violating principle of freedom, fairness and democracy.

EVERY APPEAL COUNTS!!!

PLEASE SEND YOUR APPEALS IMMEDIATELY TO:

Y.B. Dato’ Dr. Haji Mohd. Shafie bin Salleh
Minister of Ministry of Higher Education Malaysia
Kementerian Pengajian Tinggi, Blok E3, Parcel E, Pusat Pentadbiran Kerajaan Persekutuan, 62505 Putrajaya
Telefon : 03-8883 5000
Faks : 03-8889 5854
E-mail: webmasterkpt@mohe.gov.my
You are also highly recommended to send a copy of your protest letter to all the vice- chancellor of 17 public universities to show YOUr concerns:
1. Kept. Dato' Professor Dr. Hashim Yaacob
Vice Chancellor's Office Universiti Malaya50603 Kuala LumpurTel: +603-79673400, Fax: +603-7955 2975 Email: pej_nc@um.edu.my

2. Prof. Dato' Dr. Ir. Mohd. Zohadie Bardaie Vice Chancellor, Universiti Putra Malaysia
Universiti Putra Malaysia43400, Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia
Tel: +603-89466000 Ext: 6001/6002
E-mail: mzbd@admin.upm.edu.my, zohadie@pc.jaring.my

3. Prof. Dr. Mohd. Kamal Hassan
Rector International Islamic University Malaysia
International Islamic University Malaysia
Jalan Gombak, 53100 Kuala LumpurTel: +603-61964001/4002 Fax: +603-61964858
E-mail: rector@iiu.edu.my

4. Y. Bhg. Profesor Dato’ Dzulkifli Abdul Razak
Universiti Sains Malaysia, 11800 Minden, P. Pinang, Malaysia. Tel : +6046533888 ext. 3449/ +604-6533106, Fax: +6046573761
E-mail: dvc_stu@notes.usm.my

5. Yg. Bhg. Datuk Prof. Ir. Dr. Mohd. Zulkifli B. Tan Sri Mohd. Ghazali
Naib Canselor
Universiti Teknologi Malaysia,81310 UTM Skudai,
Johor Darul Takzim, Malaysia.
Tel: (607) 5530001, fax: +607-5579376
E-mail: azilla@utm.my

6. Y. Bhg. Datuk Dr. Muhammad Rais bin Abdul Karim
Naib canselor Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris
JABATAN CANSELORI, 35900 Tanjung Malim,
Perak Darul Ridzuan, Malaysia
Tel: +605-459 6200, Fax: +605 - 458 2773
Email: muhdrais@upsi.edu.my

7. Profesor Datuk Dr. Anuwar Ali
Naib Canselor
Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 43600 Bangi, Selangor Darul Ehsan Malaysia Tel: (603) 89213370/8921 5057 , Faks: (603) 8925 4890
E-mail: ncukm@pkrisc.cc.ukm.my

8. Y.Bhg. Dato' Dr. Nordin KardiNaib Canselor Universiti Utara Malaysia
Universiti Utara Malaysia,
06010 UUM Sintok,
Kedah Darul Aman, MalaysiaNo. Tel: +604-9283000 / +604-9173171, Fax No: 604-9283019, 3016E-mail: nordinkardi@uum.edu.my

9. Professor Abdul Rashid AbdullahVice Chancellor Universiti Malaysia Sarawak,
Universiti Malaysia Sarawak,
94300 Kota Samarahan, Sarawak, MalaysiaTel: +60 82 671 000
Fax: +60 82 672 411
E-mail: webmaster@unimas.my

10. Prof. Datuk Seri Panglima Dr. Abu Hassan bin Othman
Vice Chancellor Universiti Malaysia Sabah,
Universiti Malaysia Sabah,
Locked Bag No 2073,
88999, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia,
Telefon: (+6088) 320474, Fax : (+6088) 320223 / 3201024E-mail: pejcslr@ums.edu.my, vcumsaho@ums.edu.my

11. Yang Berbahagia Dato' Seri Prof. Dr Ibrahim Abu Shah
Chancellor OfficeLevel 20, Twin TowersComplex S & TUniversiti Teknologi MARA 40450 Shah AlamSelangor Darul EhsanTel: +603-5544 2222, +603-5544 2001, Fax: +603-5544 2223 E-mail: ibrahimshah@salam.uitm.edu.my

12. Lt. Kol. Prof. Dato' Dr Kamarudin Hussin
Rektor Kolej Universiti Kejuruteraan Utara Malaysia
Taman JKKK, Kubang Gajah, 02600 Arau Perlis Tel : +604 - 9798000 / Fax : +604 - 9778011
Email : rector@kukum.edu.my

13. PROF. DATO' DR ABDUL SHUKOR HJ. HUSIN
Rektor Kolej Universiti Islam Malaysia
Kolej Universiti Islam Malaysia,
Bandar Baru Nilai,
71800 Nilai Negeri Sembilan
Tel: +606-798 8000 Fax: +606-799 3843
E-mail: pro@admin.kuim.edu.my

14. Y. Bhg. Prof. dato' Dr. Sulaiman bin Md YassinRektor KUSTEM
KUSTEM, 21030 Kuala Terengganu, Terengganu Darul ImanTel: +609 6683100, Fax: +609 6697418
Email: pro@kustem.edu.my

15. Prof. Dr. Mohamed Said bin Mat Lela
University College of Engineering & Technology Malaysia,Locked Bag 12, 25000, Kuantan Pahang Darul Makmur Tel: +609-5492020, Fax: +609-5492222
E-mail: said@kuktem.edu.my

16. Datuk Prof. Ismail bin Hassan
Kolej Universiti Teknikal Kebangsaan Malaysia,
No. 1 Jalan TU 43,
Taman Tasik Utama,
75450 Ayer Keroh, Melaka.
Phone: +606-2332234 Fax: +606-2332212
E-mail: canselori@kutkm.edu.my

17. Prof. Dr. Hj. Ismail Hj. Bakar
Kolej Universiti Teknologi Tun Hussein Onn, Beg Berkunci 101, 86400 Parit Raja, Batu Pahat, Johor Darul TakzimTel : 607-4536001 / 607-4536013, Fax : 607-4536548
E-mail: bismail@kuittho.edu.my

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E-mail: smm_msia@yahoo.com or
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