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Sumber :Harakahdaily dan PASWP<br />
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KUALA LUMPUR 21 Mei 2010: Presiden PAS, Datuk Seri Tuan Guru Abdul Hadi Awang serta Badan Perhubungan PAS Wilayah Persekutuan(Hj Mohamad Noor Mohamad)merakamkan ucapan takziah dan sedekah bacaan Alfatihah kepada ahli keluarga mangsa tanah runtuh di Rumah Persatuan Anak Yatim Al-Takwa, Felcra Semungkis, Batu 14, Hulu Langat.<br />
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“Bersabarlah dengan ujian Allah. Semoga roh mereka yang tekorban dicucuri rahmat dan ditempatkan di kalangan orang-orang yang soleh,” tulis beliau di laman twitter .<br />
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Kejadian itu juga turut mendapat perhatian Mursyidul Am PAS, Tuan Guru Datuk Nik Abdul Aziz Nik Mat.Selain mengucapkan takziah kepada keluarga mangsa yang terkorban, beliau juga mengajak seluruh rakyat Malaysia berdoa agar mangsa diberi ganjaran terbaik oleh Allah SWT.<br />
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"Takziah saya rakamkan kepada mangsa nahas tanah runtuh di Hulu Langat petang hari sabtu.<br />
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"Semoga Allah mengurniakan ganjaran yang terbaik untuk yang terkorban dan keluarga yang kehilangan ahlinya," katanya.<br />
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Dalam kejadian yang berlaku kira-kira jam 2.30 petang sabtu, seramai lebihkurang 24 kanak-kanak dikhuatiri tertimbus dalam kejadian tanah runtuh di Rumah Anak-anak Yatim dan Anak-anak Hidayah Madrasah At-Taqwa di Jalan Sungai Semungkis, Kampung Gahal, Hulu Langat.<br />
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Dilaporkan beberapa mayat kanak-kanak rumah anak yatim berkenaan yang berumur antara 11 hingga 14 tahun telah berjaya dikeluarkan dari tanah runtuh sehingga jam 8.00 malam kelmarin.Badan Perhubungan PAS Wilayah Persekutuanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03901492489653729040noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4192128809336656017.post-4668888020939525062011-05-16T08:17:00.000+08:002011-05-16T08:17:49.766+08:00Risalah Penerangan Edaran untuk PASWPKepada PAS Kawasan2 WP dan LAbuan minta download risalah2 berkenaan dan sampaikan kepada kawasan dan cawangan2,tksh<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Parti Islam SeMalaysia (PAS) berjanji akan menghapuskan saman ekor sekiranya diberi peluang memerintah negara dalam pilihanraya akan datang bersama Pakatan Rakyat. Kita akan bersama rakan-rakan Pakatan Rakyat membincangkan kaedah paling baik bagi menyelesaikan masalah tersebut dan kita percaya PKR dan DAP akan bersetuju dengan tawaran tersebut. PAS ingin menegaskan bahawa pelaksanaan saman ekor bukanlah kaedah terbaik untuk mendidik rakyat supaya berhemah dalam memandu di jalanraya.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><a name='more'></a><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">Parti Islam SeMalaysia (PAS) berjanji akan menghapuskan saman ekor sekiranya diberi peluang memerintah negara dalam pilihanraya akan datang bersama Pakatan Rakyat. Kita akan bersama rakan-rakan Pakatan Rakyat membincangkan kaedah paling baik bagi menyelesaikan masalah tersebut dan kita percaya PKR dan DAP akan bersetuju dengan tawaran tersebut. PAS ingin menegaskan bahawa pelaksanaan saman ekor bukanlah kaedah terbaik untuk mendidik rakyat supaya berhemah dalam memandu di jalanraya.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Kita memahami keperitan rakyat berhadapan dengan saman ekor yang tidak memberi peluang kepada rakyat untuk dibicarakan, membela diri dan dibuktikan bersalah, sebaliknya rakyat terus dihukum dengan nama mereka disenarai hitamkan dan pelbagai tindakan tidak berperi kemanusiaan.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Setelah beberapa bulan kita mengadakan kempen melalui KASE untuk mendesak dihapuskan saman ekor, tetapi kerajaan melayan dengan mengetatkan lagi akta berkaitan JPJ dan “menswastakan” urusan beberapa aspek saman ini, di mana tindakan ini akan lebih menyusahkan rakyat khususnya masyarakat luar bandar dan kurang berkemampuan. Sebab itulah, kita melihat bahawa rakyat tidak ada pilihan melainkan menukar pemerintahan BN kepada PAS dan Pakatan Rakyat dalam pilihanraya yang akan datang bagi melihat usaha murni kami ini dapat direalisasikan.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Dato’ Seri Tuan Guru Abdul Hadi Awang</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Presiden Parti Islam SeMalaysia (PAS)</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Selasa, 26 Rabiul Awal 1432 / 1 Mac 2011</div>Badan Perhubungan PAS Wilayah Persekutuanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03901492489653729040noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4192128809336656017.post-12100317332414387092011-02-28T02:53:00.000+08:002011-02-28T02:53:39.069+08:00PAS W.P Juga Mengucapkan Takziah<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-sbArsixderQ/TWqdi8xwFaI/AAAAAAAAALw/YNVA5kKuw68/s1600/BPPNWP.bmp" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="86" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-sbArsixderQ/TWqdi8xwFaI/AAAAAAAAALw/YNVA5kKuw68/s200/BPPNWP.bmp" width="200" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">KENYATAAN MEDIA PRESIDEN PAS</div><div style="text-align: justify;">27 Februari 2011</div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Takziah di atas pemergian Dr Necmettin Erbakan ke rehmatullah" </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Dengan Nama Allah Yang Maha Pemurah Lagi Maha Mengasihani</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Parti Islam SeMalaysia (PAS) dengan ini ingin menyampaikan ucapan takziah kepada seluruh ahli keluarga dan ahli serta kepimpinan Saadat Partisi di atas kepulangan Almarhum Dr Necmettin Erbakan ke rahmatullah pada hari ini 27 Februari 2011 bersamaan dengan 24 Rabiul Awal 1432 Hijriah.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><a name='more'></a><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">Sesungguhnya Allah SWT telah memanggil Almarhum pulang ke tempat asal yang dijanjikan oleh Nya, walaupun kehilangannya akan dirasai oleh seluruh penyokong dan pendokong gerakan Islam di serata pelusuk dunia. Beliau adalah seorang mujahid, ahli akademik, ilmua ulung dalam bidang teknologi, jurutera, mantan perdana menteri, pemimpin parti, bapa dan mentor kepada ramai pimpinan gerakan Islam di dunia ini, termasuklah pimpinan PAS sendiri.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Kepimpinan beliau terserlah, di saat dunia Islam berdepan dengan pelbagai kemelut sejak puluhan tahun ini, termasuklah pergolakan di Asia Barat dalam isu Perang Teluk, Afghanistan, dan gerakan pembaharuan dalam dunia Islam yang dilaksanakan oleh beliau sepanjang tempoh singkat Almarhum menjadi Perdana Menteri Turki pada tahun 1996 - 1997.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Tentunya kehilangan beliau dari persada politik antarabangsa akan dirasai, terutamanya kepada PAS yang sentiasa menjadi tetamu Almarhum dalam pelbagai seminar dan diskusi ekonomi dan dunia Islam yang dianjurkan oleh Almarhum setiap tahun.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Semoga Allah SWT merahmati dan menempatkan ruh Almarhum di kalangan para nabi, siddiqin, syuhada dan sholihin.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">AL FAATIHAH.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Dato’ Seri Tuan Guru Abdul Hadi Awang</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Presiden PAS</div><div style="text-align: justify;">24 Rabiul Awal 1432 H / 27 Februari 2011 M</div>Badan Perhubungan PAS Wilayah Persekutuanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03901492489653729040noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4192128809336656017.post-3156587070353081132011-02-27T02:59:00.000+08:002011-02-27T02:59:31.857+08:00KENYATAAN TIMBALAN PRESIDEN PASMENDESAK NAJIB UNTUK MENARIK BALIK TUDUHAN LIAR TERHADAP <br />
SYEIKH DR YUSUF AL-QARDHAWI DAN GERAKAN IKHWAN MUSLIMIN<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-I4qACfxWyNM/TWlNgt3k5uI/AAAAAAAAALs/8nbRT8w5qGs/s1600/images+%252825%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-I4qACfxWyNM/TWlNgt3k5uI/AAAAAAAAALs/8nbRT8w5qGs/s200/images+%252825%2529.jpg" width="147" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Merujuk dalam satu laporan berita yang disiarkan dalam laman web National Review Online, saya mendesak Perdana Menteri Malaysia, YAB Dato’ Seri Mohd Najib Razak supaya menarik balik tuduhan liar yang dilemparkan kepada gerakan Ikhwan Muslimin dan ulama’ terkenal dunia, Syeikh Dr Yusuf Al-Qardhawi. </div><div style="text-align: justify;">Memetik ucapan yang dibuat olehnya di Istanbul baru-baru ini, beliau mendakwa bahawa parti politik Ikhwan Muslimin terlibat dengan keganasan dan sifat ekstremis. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Ikhwan Muslimin merupakan sebuah gerakan Islam yang sah di Mesir. Malah, mereka turut terlibat dan berpartisipasi secara aktif dalam beberapa siri pilihanraya di Mesir. Tambahan lagi, mereka sering melaungkan tema “Penglibatan dan Bukan Penguasaan” disamping memelihara peruntukan-peruntukan yang termaktub dalam Perlembagaan Mesir. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><a name='more'></a><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">Walaubagaimanapun, hak dan nilai demokrasi mereka sebagai rakyat dan parti politik yang sah telah dicabul sehingga mereka terpaksa berdepan dengan ancaman, ugutan serta penyelewengan kuasa yang dilakukan oleh pemerintah Mesir. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Menyentuh mengenai kebangkitan rakyat di Mesir, Ikhwan Muslimin berpendapat bahawa segala kerosakan dan pencerobohan yang berlaku adalah disebabkan tindakan kumpulan-kumpulan samseng yang bersengkongkol dengan pihak-pihak tertentu untuk menindas kemahuan rakyat. </div><div style="text-align: justify;">Malah Ikhwan Muslimin turut memberikan penghargaan kepada seluruh tentera Mesir yang berkhidmat untuk menjaga keselamatan dan memelihara keamanan sepanjang tempoh revolusi yang berlaku. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Ini membuktikan bahawa Ikhwan Muslimin tidak terlibat dengan sebarang bentuk provokasi dan strategi bagi melakukan keganasan dan kekacauan di Mesir. </div><div style="text-align: justify;">Syeikh Dr Yusuf Al-Qardhawi yang juga Pengerusi Kesatuan Ulama’ Sedunia pula merupakan seorang tokoh ilmuan yang sangat terkenal seluruh dunia. Bahkan segala usaha-usaha yang dilakukan olehnya mendapat pengiktirafan serta penghormatan yang tinggi. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Sempena majlis sambutan Ma’al Hijrah 1431/2009, Timbalan Yang Di-Pertuan Agong, Tuanku Abdul Halim Mu’adzam Shah telah berkenan menyampaikan Tokoh Ma’al Hijrah Peringkat Kebangsaan kepada beliau atas sifat peribadi unggul dan sumbangannya yang begitu besar dalam agama serta dunia Islam seluruhnya. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Malah, beliau selalu berkunjung ke Malaysia untuk menyampaikan ilmu serta bertemu dengan ramai individu, parti politik serta pihak-pihak tertentu. Ini membuktikan sifat beliau disenangi dan diiktiraf oleh kerajaan Malaysia. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Kenyataan Perdana Menteri itu dilihat tidak cerdik. Saya berpendapat Najib harus menarik balik kenyataan tersebut dan meminta maaf kepada gerakan Ikhwan Muslimin dan Syeikh Dr Yusuf Al-Qardhawi segera. Jika tidak, beliau telah menunjukkan sikapnya sebagai seorang yang pro kuasa Barat dan takut untuk menzahirkan kebenaran. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Disediakan oleh </div><div style="text-align: justify;">NASHARUDIN MAT ISA </div><div style="text-align: justify;">Timbalan Presiden </div><div style="text-align: justify;">Parti Islam SeMalaysia</div>Badan Perhubungan PAS Wilayah Persekutuanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03901492489653729040noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4192128809336656017.post-52290738807417076942011-02-27T02:52:00.000+08:002011-02-27T02:52:51.390+08:00KENYATAAN MEDIA : DEWAN PEMUDA PAS WILAYAH PERSEKUTUAN<div style="text-align: justify;">NAJIB MEMALUKAN MALAYSIA DAN DUNIA ISLAM</div><div style="text-align: justify;">(26 Februari 2011)</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-B1tOIbQ5p6U/TWlL7JE8tLI/AAAAAAAAALo/iIqpjizJFZs/s1600/images+%252823%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="149" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-B1tOIbQ5p6U/TWlL7JE8tLI/AAAAAAAAALo/iIqpjizJFZs/s200/images+%252823%2529.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Dewan Pemuda PAS Wilayah Persekutuan (DPPWP) mendesak Dato’ Seri Mohd Najib Tun Razak, Perdana Menteri Malaysia supaya meminta maaf secara terbuka kepada ulama’ tersohor dunia, Prof Dr Yusof al Qaradhawi serta gerakan Islam terbesar dunia, Ikhwanul Muslimin kerana menuduh tokoh dan gerakan Islam itu sebagai pengganas dan mendokong keganasan.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">Tuduhan dengan mengaitkan Prof Dr Yusof Al Qaradhawi sebagai pengganas adalah tuduhan berat yang tidak boleh diterima. Tuduhan ini juga memalukan umat Islam khususnya di Malaysia. DPPWP percaya rakyat khususnya umat Islam amat menghormati Prof Dr Yusof Al Qaradhawi, serta kenal dengan peribadi serta doktrin ajaran beliau. Ratusan bahkan ribuan anak murid telah beliau lahirkan dari Malaysia dan tidak pernah didengari ada kalangan muridnya yang terlibat dengan keganasan.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Selain itu, Perdana Menteri juga menggesa Ikhwanul Muslimin disisih dari agenda perubahan di Mesir kerana terlibat dalam keganasan. Tuduhan ini sangat berat dan Perdana Menteri perlu buktikan bagaimana Ikhwanul Muslimin boleh terlibat dengan keganasan. Ikhwanul Muslimin telah menyertai pilihanraya dan proses demokrasi di Mesir secara aman sejak sekian lama dan menjadi oposisi di bawah penerintah rejim Hosni Mubarak, bagaimana Dato’ Seri Najib boleh kaitkan pertubuhan ini dengan keganasan?</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">DPPWP percaya, Dato’ Seri Mohd Najib Tun Razak tidak membaca sejarah perjuangan gerakan Islam itu serta mengenali Prof Dr Yusof Al Qaradhawi secara lebih dekat. DPPWP juga yakin, Perdana Menteri tidak diberikan nasihat yang betul oleh para penasihat agama beliau. Memang wajarlah Dato’ Seri Najib bertaubat dengan segera, menarik balik ucapan beliau serta memohon maaf secara terbuka kepada Prof Dr Yusof al Qaradhawi dan Ikhwanul Muslimin.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">MOHAMAD SUHAIMI BIN ABDUL AZIZ</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Naib Ketua</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Dewan Pemuda PAS Wilayah Persekutuan</div>Badan Perhubungan PAS Wilayah Persekutuanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03901492489653729040noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4192128809336656017.post-71973109244677896652011-02-27T02:47:00.000+08:002011-02-27T02:47:38.901+08:00KENYATAAN MEDIA DEWAN PEMUDA PAS PUSAT<div style="text-align: justify;">"Cadangan Penubuhan Gerakan Peminjam-Peminjam PTPTN-MARA (GPP)"</div><div style="text-align: justify;">25 Februari 2011</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-PSx7GMqbA0s/TWlKsfE--oI/AAAAAAAAALk/gtGLY-AUz9w/s1600/suhaizan+kayat.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="138" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-PSx7GMqbA0s/TWlKsfE--oI/AAAAAAAAALk/gtGLY-AUz9w/s200/suhaizan+kayat.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Pemuda PAS Pusat akan mengadakan pertemuan dengan peminjam-peminjam PTPTN dan MARA pada hari esok sabtu 26hb Februari 2011 jam 2 petang di Dewan Semantan Perdana, Hotel Sri Malaysia, Temerloh, Pahang. Berdasarkan kepada maklumbalas yang sangat positif setakat ini daripada peminjam, keluarga dan mereka yang bersimpati dengan peminjam PTPTN dan MARA maka Dewan Pemuda PAS Pusat mahu mencadangkan dalam pertemuan esok , penubuhan suatu gerakan rakyat yang dinamakan Gerakan Peminjam-Peminjam PTPTN –MARA (GPP). Gerakan ini akan dianggotai oleh para peminjam PTPTN, peminjam pendidikan MARA, peminjam pelajaran lain-lain agensi, NGO, parti-parti politik dan Individu yang bersimpati.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Matlamat penubuhan GPP adalah :</div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><a name='more'></a><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">1. Mengumpul maklumbalas seluruh negara daripada peminjam terhadap kesulitan yang mereka hadapi.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">2. Mengumpulkan tenaga pakar dalam bidang pinjaman pendidikan di Malaysia.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">3. Mengadakan persidangan meja bulat bagi merumuskan keadah penyelesaian yang bersesuaian.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">4. Mendesak kerajaan memberi perhatian kepada rumusan yang telah dibuat dalam Persidangan Meja Bulat</div><div style="text-align: justify;">5. Membuat tindakan susulan dengan pihak kerajaan.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Dewan Pemuda PAS Pusat mempunyai sedikit pengalaman menguruskan desakan rakyat sebelum ini dalam Gerakan Pemansuhan PPSMI(GMP) dan Gerakan Pemansuhan Judi Bola(GMJ). Kedua-dua gerakan rakyat ini telah membuahkan hasil yang manis kepada rakyat. Pihak kerajaan telah mendengar rintihan rakyat dan akhirnya PPSMI dan judi bola telah dimansuhkan. Dewan Pemuda PAS Pusat sangat optimis bahawa GPP akan dapat merumuskan jalan keluar terbaik yang sedang dihadapi oleh para peminjam pelajaran sekarang.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Antara keadah penyelesaian yang akan dicadangkan dalam pertemuan esok adalah mewujudkan sistem galakan kepada peminjam yang cemerlang dalam pelajaran. Contohnya pinjaman PTPTN atau MARA akan di tukar kepada biasiswa bagi mereka yang cemerlang. Cadangan kedua adalah kerajaan tidak seharusnya membebankan peminjam dengan caj perkhdimatan. Caj perkhidmatan harus di hapuskan. Ketiganya adalah memberi subsidi kepada peminjam daripada keluarga yang miskin. Cadangan-cadangan lain akan dikumpulan dan dirumuskan oleh mereka yang pakar dalam bidang ini. Peminjam-peminjam PTPTN dan MARA serta keluarga harus memberi sokongan terhadap gerakan ini dengan hadir dalam pertemuan esok. Jumpa di sana.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">SUHAIZAN BIN KAYAT</div><div style="text-align: justify;">KETUA PENERANGAN </div><div style="text-align: justify;">DEWAN PEMUDA PAS PUSAT</div>Badan Perhubungan PAS Wilayah Persekutuanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03901492489653729040noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4192128809336656017.post-82420493289089615882011-02-22T18:36:00.000+08:002011-02-22T18:36:18.502+08:00KENYATAAN PRESIDEN PAS PUSAT<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-mKmXhAGvUfw/TWORlY_YGZI/AAAAAAAAALg/6bhtvw9kyUc/s1600/tgh5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-mKmXhAGvUfw/TWORlY_YGZI/AAAAAAAAALg/6bhtvw9kyUc/s200/tgh5.jpg" width="162" /></a></div>Parti Islam SeMalaysia (PAS) mengutuk dengan sekeras-kerasnya tindakan kejam pembunuhan ke atas ratusan rakyat Libya yang meyuarakan tuntutan hak mereka. Rakyat Libya yang tidak bersenjata telah turun ke jalan raya menuntut hak mereka yang dinafikan selama puluhan tahun. Tindakan pihak keselamatan kerajaan di bawah pimpinan pemimpin Libya, Muammar Gaddafi yang telah menggunakan senjata berat ke atas rakyat yang menunjukkan perasaan mereka adalah tindakan tidak bertamadun dan tidak patut berlaku pada zaman moden ini.<br />
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Masyarakat antarabangsa, yang bermati-matian mempertahankan hak asasi manusia, demokrasi dan perundangan antarabangsa wajar untuk memberikan tekanan kepada kepimpinan negara Libya agar menghentikan segera kezaliman berkenaan dan menubuhkan badan siasatan bebas bagi menyiasat pembunuhan ini bagi memberi keadilan kepada mangsa-mangsa pembunuhan tentera dan polis Libya. Kepimpinan Libya yang telah menyekat hak rakyat selama puluhan tahun ini pula wajar untuk melepaskan jawatan dan mengembalikan demokrasi yang tulen kepada rakyat.<br />
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PAS bersama dengan gerakan Islam juga menyeru agar dunia barat tidak memandang serong terhadap peranan gerakan Islam dalam melakukan perubahan secara demokrasi. Dunia barat juga tidak wajar mengamalkan sikap double standard dalam mencadangkan penyelesaian kemelut di Asia Barat, kerana tindakan meminggirkan peranan gerakan Islam yang ingin bersama rakyat untuk melakukan perubahan secara demokrasi akan hanya merumitkan lagi penyelesaian ke arah keamanan sejati.<br />
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Dato’ Seri Tuan Guru Abdul Hadi Awang<br />
Presiden Parti Islam SeMalaysia (PAS)<br />
Selasa 19 Rabiul Awal 1432 / 22 Februari 2011Badan Perhubungan PAS Wilayah Persekutuanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03901492489653729040noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4192128809336656017.post-42191531263113554132011-02-22T18:33:00.000+08:002011-02-22T18:33:38.491+08:00KENYATAAN MEDIA KETUA DEWAN PEMUDA PAS PUSAT"Memorandum ke Kedutaan Libya"<br />
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1. Kebangkitan rakyat yang meletus di negara - negara Arab mutaakhir ini yang telah pun menumbangkan regim pemerintahan Tunisia dan Mesir, kini semarak kebangkitan itu terus menjalar deras seperti lahar yang sedang menuruni lurah dari puncak gunung berapi.<br />
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2. Suara dan himpunan kebangkitan rakyat itu telah melintasi sempadan Yemen, Bahrain dan Libya. Suatu kebangkitan yang saya sifatkan sebagai "time bomb" setelah mereka selama ini mendekam penuh sengsara dan derita berada di bawah sistem pemerintahan separa diktator.<br />
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3. Malangnya, kerajaan Bahrain dan Libya menggunakan kekerasan dalam menangani kebangkitan rakyat dengan menggunakan pihak keselamatan untuk menembak rakyat dan orang ramai yang menyertai rally kebangkitan rakyat tersebut. Sehingga kini saya difahamkan telah ratusan orang ramai yang terdiri dari masyarakat awam yang tidak bersenjata menyertai himpunan kebangkitan itu ditembak mati.<br />
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4. Dewan Pemuda PAS Malaysia mengecam sekeras - kerasnya cara kerajaan Bahrain dan Libya menangani kebangkitan rakyat tanpa senjata dengan kekejaman yang menumpahkan darah dan nyawa rakyat mereka sendiri. Sebaliknya regim yang telah berkuasa dan memerintah sewajarnya mendengar suara rakyat mereka dan bertindak sewajar tanpa pertumpahan darah sekalipun mereka terpaksa berkorban meninggalkan takhta.<br />
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5. Dewan Pemuda PAS Malaysia melalui Lajnah Antarabangsa DPP Malaysia akan menyerahkan memorundum membantah kekejaman yang telah mengorbankan rakyat tanpa senjata ke kedutaan Libya pada hari Selasa ini [ 22 hb Feb 2011 ] jam 11 am.<br />
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Nasrudin Hj Hasan At-Tantawi<br />
Ketua Dewan Pemuda PAS Pusat<br />
21 Februari 2011Badan Perhubungan PAS Wilayah Persekutuanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03901492489653729040noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4192128809336656017.post-28999824506359362222011-02-22T18:30:00.000+08:002011-02-22T18:30:09.689+08:00Muhyidin Mengaku PAS Kuat Di Sarawak<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-AofePf33qE4/TWOPpiaguJI/AAAAAAAAALU/t7_wOVH7TG8/s1600/sarawak.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="169" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-AofePf33qE4/TWOPpiaguJI/AAAAAAAAALU/t7_wOVH7TG8/s200/sarawak.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><br />
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Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin membelasah PAS di Sarawak menandakan PAS menjadi ancaman kepada BN di Sarawak. PAS tidak menyangka Timbalan Presiden begitu gerun dengan kewujudan PAS di Sarawak sehingga membuat tuduhan liar kepada PAS sebagai parti yang mengarut dan membawa pecah belah kepada masyarakat. Beliau memberi amaran kepada rakyat Sarawak supaya menjauhi PAS. <br />
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PAS merasa bangga dengan kenyataan Tan Seri Muhyiddin, secara tidak langsung mengiktiraf kekuatan PAS di Sarawak. <br />
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Taktik Timbalan Presiden Umno menghentam PAS hanya sebagai strategi untuk menutup kelemahan BN yang memerintah Sarawak. Sebagaimana beliau mendedahkan 600 buah sekolah di seluruh negara berada di dalam keadaan yang dhaif, sebahagiannya sekolah berkenaan terletak di Sabah dan Sarawak sehingga ada yang mahu sujud ke bumi.<br />
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Siapa yang memerintah Sarawak dan Sabah sehingga bangunan sekolah begitu dhaif sekali. Hampir pilihanraya maka pemimpin BN sibuk menyelami masalah rakyat. Selama 53 tahun apa pemimpin BN buat untuk membangun Sabah dan Sarawak. Ke mana hasil balak, minyak Sarawak? Tan Seri Muhyiddin kena malulah sikit. <br />
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Ketua Penerangan PAS PusatBadan Perhubungan PAS Wilayah Persekutuanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03901492489653729040noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4192128809336656017.post-38693906467490997352011-02-19T08:08:00.000+08:002011-02-19T08:08:02.842+08:00P'raya Kerdau serentak dengan MerlimauSumber:<a href="http://malaysiakini.com/news/156429">http://malaysiakini.com/news/156429</a><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px;">Kawasan tersebut mempunyai pengundi yang terdiri daripada 89 peratus <span class="adfire_term" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(255, 102, 51); border-bottom-style: double; border-bottom-width: 4px; cursor: pointer; font-family: Verdana, Arial; opacity: 1; text-decoration: none;">Melayu</span>, 6 peratus Cina, 3.7 peratus India dan 2.5 peratus kaum-kaum lain.</span></div></div>Badan Perhubungan PAS Wilayah Persekutuanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03901492489653729040noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4192128809336656017.post-57208514554169069022011-02-19T07:53:00.000+08:002011-02-19T07:53:41.364+08:00TakZiah<div><div><div><div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #22292b; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;"></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">AlFatihah:Kami warga BPPNWP mengucapkan takziah kepada keluarga Tuan Hj Mohamad Sabu, AJK PAS Pusat di atas kepergian ibu beliau ke Rahmatullah pada 14 Rabiulawal 1432H bersamaan 17 Februari 2011(1.18am) di rumahnya di Guar Petai,Moga roh beliau digolong bersama para solehat</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kkqopdXwsS0/SfCoVtK8xTI/AAAAAAAAAJw/r1qoJIL_vlo/s1600-h/v14.jpg" style="color: #3778cd; text-decoration: underline;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5327943450035537202" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kkqopdXwsS0/SfCoVtK8xTI/AAAAAAAAAJw/r1qoJIL_vlo/s400/v14.jpg" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.199219) 0px 0px 0px; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-color: transparent; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px 0px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-left-color: transparent; border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: transparent; border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-top-color: transparent; border-top-left-radius: 0px 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px 0px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; border-width: initial; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 44px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 8px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 8px; position: relative; text-align: center; width: 350px;" /></a>Ertinya: “Semoga Allah memberi ganjaran yang besar, mengelokkan dukacitamu dan mengampunkan mayat (ahli keluarga)mu.”</span></span></div></div><div style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"></div></div></div></div><div style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"></div>Badan Perhubungan PAS Wilayah Persekutuanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03901492489653729040noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4192128809336656017.post-26779460816259477232011-02-19T07:38:00.000+08:002011-02-19T07:38:15.814+08:00Buktikan Kenyataan TGNA Sesat?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-IZRPTzcj6F8/TV8CtGnYQQI/AAAAAAAAALI/8Gdq-OhEBM4/s1600/tga2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-IZRPTzcj6F8/TV8CtGnYQQI/AAAAAAAAALI/8Gdq-OhEBM4/s200/tga2.jpg" width="168" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Tuduhan Tun Mahathir yang mengatakan PAS telah longgar pegangan agama sejak berkawan dengan Pakatan Rakyat adalah tidak benar. Tolong buktikan di manakah kenyataan Tuan Guru Nik Aziz yang menyalahi syariat dan merugikan perjuangan Islam. PAS mempunyai bukti kenyataan Tun yang mengguris Islam dan umat Islam selama ini. PAS boleh buktikan dengan tahalluf siyasi Pakatan Rakyat lebih baik daripada Umno bersama Barisan Nasional dalam program Islamisasi. Masjid di negeri Pakatan Rakyat makmur dengan majlis ilmu sedangkan di waktu yang sama, di negeri Umno memerintah masjid mati sebelum penduduk mati. MCA berkawan dengan Umno 53 tahun gagal untuk memahami hukum salam lelaki dengan perempuan. Puncanya pemimpin orang seperti Tun gagal menunjukkan watak sebagai seorang Muslim yang hakiki.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><a name='more'></a><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">Kenyataan Tun agak kelakar, kerana menuduh Tuan Guru Nik Aziz hanya hendak menang pilihanraya. Mana ada parti politik yang bertanding tidak mahu menang. Parti tupperware saja yang tidak mahu menang. Sepanjang Tun memimpin Umno, bermati-matian melanggar segala undang-undang dan mencabul demokrasi, semuanya kerana hendak menang pilihanraya.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Memang PAS hendak menang pilihanraya, supaya Islam dihayati. Bukan dapat kuasa supaya Islam dimatikan dan syiar Islam dipadamkan. Perjuangan PAS berbeza dengan umno. Umno menjadikan Islam sebagai alat, bukan matlamat. Sepanjang PAS bertahalluf dengan parti yang berlainan ideologi, tidak ada yang rugi kepada Islam dan PAS di negara ini. Malah PAS mengambil peluang untuk berdakwah dan menjelaskan keadilan Islam. Selama ini mereka kabur, membuktikan 53 tahun Umno gagal menjelaskan Islam yang sebenar.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Tun juga mengatakan PAS tidak bela penindasan umat Islam di luar negara. Mungkin Tun buat-buat lupa atau sengaja membuat tuduhan jahat kepada PAS. Seolah-olah PAS parti bawah tempurung sahaja, tanpa memperdulikan umat Islam lain yang tertindas. Tun tidak sedarkah peranan yang dimainkan oleh PAS dalam isu Pelestin, perang teluk, perang Afghanistan, Selatan Mindanou, Acheh. PAS membantu dengan sekadar kemampuan sebagai parti yang tidak memerintah negara dengan memberi nasihat dan menghantar barang-barang keperluan kepada mereka yang memerlukan ketika misi kemanusiaan ke negara tersebut.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">1. Negara sekali lagi telah gempar dengan langkah pihak tertentu yang mahu membawa masuk seorang penyanyi yang bernama Mohsen Namjoo ke KLCC Convention Center pada 18 Feb 2011. Penyanyi ini diberi jolokan sebagai "Iran Bob Dylan" oleh New York Time satu ketika dahulu.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">2. Mohsen Namjoo merupakan seorang penyanyi kelahiran Iran dilaporkan kini beliau tidak lagi menetap di Iran. Apa yang menjadi persoalan ialah latar belakang artis ini mencetus kontraversi apabila beliau dikatakan telahmenghina Islam menerusi lagu - lagu yang dinyanyikannya.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">3. Mohsen Namjoo juga dilaporkan pernah dipenjara oleh kerajaan Iran atas kesalahan ini dan kemudiannya dibebaskan setelah beliau memohon maaf, namun beliau masih mengulangi perbuatan yang sama . Terakhir beliau membuat persembahan di Berlin dan masih mengekalkan sikap beliau dengan mengejek, menghina dan sinis terhadap agama Islam.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><a name='more'></a><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">4. Mohsen Namjoo sememangnya mendapat sambutan hangat di barat, namun jika benar sebagaimana yang dilaporkan oleh media bahawa beliau adalah seorang penyanyi yang gemar menghina Islam dalam persembahannya, maka saya mewakili Dewan Pemuda PAS Malaysia menyokong penuh pihak kerajaan membatalkan permit penganjuran dan menghalang kemasukan beliau ke negara kita untuk membuat persembahan .</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">5. Saya bimbang kehadhirannya ke negara ini dengan sifat beliau sebagai figure yang suka menghina Islam akan menyinggung dan mencetus kemarahan ummat Islam . Justeru itu, dimasa akan datang kerajaan melalui kementerian terbabit mestilah terlebih dahulu teliti dan mengkaji latar belakang penyanyi ini sebelum memberi tempat kepada beliau untuk membuat persembahan di negara ini.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">6. Selayaknya artis yang mempunyai rekod serta masih menghina Islam, mencetus ketegangan antara agama dan kaum, menyinggung perasaan masyarakat dengan persembahan keterlaluan seperti berunsur lucah tidak diberi laluan atau kebenaran [ permit ] oleh pihak berkuasa untuk tampil membuat persembahan dan membiarkan ia menjadi ikon kepada masyarakat.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">7. Kami percaya masih ramai artis dalam atau luar negara yang baik dan positif penampilan serta persembahannya yang boleh diundang untuk membuat persembahan. Kenapa mesti mengundang atau membiarkan artis yang mencetus kontraversi sebegini diberi laluan . Apakah kerajaan terlepas pandang atau sengaja tidak memandangnya ?</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Nasrudin Hasan At-tantawi</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Ketua</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Dewan Pemuda PAS Pusat</div>Badan Perhubungan PAS Wilayah Persekutuanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03901492489653729040noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4192128809336656017.post-62810216663270768842011-02-15T19:32:00.001+08:002011-02-16T07:28:46.496+08:00PERUTUSAN MAULIDUR RASUL PRESIDEN PARTI ISLAM SEMALAYSIA (PAS)<div style="text-align: justify;">Oleh Tuan Guru Haji Abdul Hadi Awang</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-jAygnHvr7ww/TVpkIGRp3xI/AAAAAAAAALA/LrTTHba64Aw/s1600/tgh7.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-jAygnHvr7ww/TVpkIGRp3xI/AAAAAAAAALA/LrTTHba64Aw/s1600/tgh7.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Sambutan Maulidur Rasul SAW yang diadakan saban tahun, mestilah diutamakan dengan memulakan azam baru bagi mengikuti tauladan Nabi Muhammad SAW yang diutuskan oleh Allah SWT, untuk membebaskan manusia daripada belenggu jahiliah. Jasa besar Nabi Muhammad saw adalah, membawa Islam yang menerangi manusia, yang memerdekakan manusia daripada diperhambakan sesama manusia, dijajah sesama</div><div style="text-align: justify;">manusia, dizalimi dan menzalimi sesama manusia, kepada manusia yang merdeka dan mempunyai hak yang dihormati.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Kejayaan besar penjajah barat ialah memesongkan umat Islam daripada politik Islam yang dibawa oleh Rasulullah SAW. Hasilnya lahirlah umat Islam yang menerima sahaja siapa sekalipun menjadi pemerintah mereka, walaupun zalim kepada rakyat, kerana bagi mereka urusan politik tidak ada kaitan dengan agama.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><a name='more'></a><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">Sedangkan pada diri Rasulullah itu adanya teladan politik Islam yang terbukti memberi keadilan kepada semua agama dan kaum, disambung pula oleh pemerintahan Islam selepas itu, yang membuktikan sesuatu kaum khususnya Arab tidak selama-lamanya menjadi pemimpin.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Rasulullah SAW telah membuktikan Islam tidak membenarkan perhambaan sesama manusia, Islam memberikan hak kepada rakyat, hak kepada wanita dan kaum minoriti, dan Islam memberi keadilan kepada seluruh makhluk di atas muka bumi ini. Teladan Nabi Muhammad SAW inilah yang sepatutnya kita ikuti dengan menolak perjuangan sempit atas nama perkauman yang terbukti zalim dan tidak memberi keadilan kepada rakyat.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Kita melihat bagaimana kehidupan masyarakat Arab jahiliah sebelum kedatangan Rasulullah SAW yang penuh dengan perhambaan dan kezaliman, tetapi semuanya berubah selepas kedatangan Islam. Justeru, saya menyeru kepada seluruh umat Islam khususnya, supaya memulakan tekad baru, menolak jahiliah moden yang menjadikan rakyat sebagai hamba, yang harta negara berlegar sesama mereka, yang rasuah dan zalim, kepada perjuangan yang lebih syumul iaitu Islam sebagaimana dibawa oleh Nabi Muhammad SAW.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">12 Rabiul Awal 1432 H / 15 Februari 2011</div>Badan Perhubungan PAS Wilayah Persekutuanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03901492489653729040noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4192128809336656017.post-90557752186777746492011-02-14T09:47:00.001+08:002011-02-14T09:48:26.582+08:00PAS Wilayah Perkukuhkan Skuad Media<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Khairul Izwan</span><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">"Penganjuran ini (seminar) diharap memberi pendedahan kepada ahli untuk lebih berkemahiran memberi berita yang kita(PAS Wilayah Persekutuan) perlukan terutama berita di ibu kota.</span></div><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">"Kita dalam usaha membentuk skuad media adalah satu projek yang mampu memberi kebaikan kepada PAS Wilayah Persekutuan," katanya dalam seminar tersebut.</span></div><br />
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Lanjutan dari itu, maka kami menyeru agar semua kumpulan Islam yang ada di Tunisia perlulah diberikan peluang yang adil dan saksama melalui sistem politik demokrasi dalam proses membuat pemilihan menerusi pilihanraya yang akan dilaksanakan nanti. Pihak dari Barat pula yang memperjuangkan demokrasi moden ini perlulah menerima hakikat akan pilihan oleh rakyat Tunisia nanti, dengan tidak memberikan tekanan kepada mana-mana pihak terutamanya terhadap kumpulan Islam yang selama ini menghadapi berbagai tekanan dan tindakan zalim.<br />
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Islam ditekan dengan sebegitu lama sehingga menyebabkan ulama-ulamanya di kenakan tindakan yang zalim berupa hukuman dan ada yang hidup dalam buangan sejak sekalian lama. Sedangkan mereka ini cuba membawa kehidupan Islam yang wajar dijadikan contoh dalam kehidupan rakyat di Tunisia, setelah puluhan <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1296946509_3" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(54, 99, 136); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 2px; cursor: pointer;">tahun Islam</span> telah dipinggirkan di negara Tunisia ini.<br />
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Islam agama yang memberi keadilan kepada semua manusia samada yangber agama Islam ataupun tidak. Oleh sebab itu, perbincangan Ilmu Feqah diletakkan juga perbahasan berkenaan dengan ahli Zimmah (golongan bukan Islam yang bernaung dibawah Negara islam.).<br />
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<a name='more'></a> </div>Allah SWT berfirman :<br />
Maksudnya : Allah tidak melarang kamu daripada berbuat baik dan berlaku adil kepada orang-orang Yang tidak memerangi kamu kerana ugama (kamu), dan tidak mengeluarkan kamu dari kampung halaman kamu; Sesungguhnya Allah mengasihi orang-orang Yang berlaku adil. (Mumtahanah ) <br />
Sabda Nabi SAW :<br />
عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عَمْرٍو عَنْ النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللَّهُ<br />
عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ قَالَ : مَنْ قَتَلَ نَفْسًا مُعَاهَدًا لَمْ<br />
يَرِحْ رَائِحَةَ الْجَنَّةِ وَإِنَّ رِيحَهَا لَيُوجَدُ مِنْ مَسِيرَةِ<br />
أَرْبَعِينَ عَامًا<br />
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Maksudnya : Sesiapa yang membunuh seorang yang mempunyai perjanjian (perdamaian), maka dia tidak akan dapat menghidu bau syurga, walaupun syurga itu dapat dihidu bauannya sejauh perjalanan 40 hari. (Riwayat Al-Bukhari)<br />
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Matlamat untuk membela keadilan semua golongan keharusannya adalah jelas berdasarkan kepada penghujahan syarak, bahkan ia wajib ke atas umat islam membela semua kaum dan bangsa tanpa mengira agama.<br />
Isu nyalaan lilin atau dikenali sebagai VIGIL banyak dipersoalkan pada hari ini, dan tidak kurang pula golongan yang sedang menunggu dengan panapisnya untuk menangguk di air yang keruh.<br />
Bagi pihak Majlis Pengkajian dan Penyelidikan Hukum (MPPH), isu ini memerlukan kepada penjelasan terperinci terhadap umat islam khususnya dan masyarakat Malaysia umumnya.<br />
Setelah membuat kajian dan penyelidikan, kami dapati memegang lilin tidak boleh disifatkan harus secara mutlak dan tidak boleh disifatkan haram secara mutlak.<br />
Ini kerana, tujuan dan cara penyalaan lilin serta sempenanya adalah berbeza, menjadikan natijah hukumnya juga adalah berbeza.<br />
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<b>Tujuan Nyalaan Lilin.<br />
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Setelah dibuat kajian dan penelitian, memegang lilin atau vigil dapat disimpulkan penggunaannya untuk beberapa tujuan. Antaranya:<br />
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1. Pemujaan: kebiasaanya diletakkan di kiri dan kanan gambar si mati. Ini diamalkan di dalam agama yang memuja mengagungkan serta meminta keberkatan dan restu daripada nenek moyang yang telah meninggal.([1])<br />
2. Berkabung: kebiasaannya dinyalakan oleh mereka yang mengziarahi si mati. Ia mengandungi kepercayaan tentang roh si mati yang sedang berlegar di sekeliling si mati dalam tempoh 3 hari untuk bersatu semula dengan badanya yang asal. Nyalaan lilin dipercayai boleh membantu roh tersebut.([2])<br />
3. Kepercayaan kepada kuasa: sebahagian daripada penganut buddha mempercayai bahawa lilin dapat memberikan kuasa dan nasib yang baik. Oleh itu, kadangkala lilin virgin boleh dianggap pembawa tuah dan berkat.([3])<br />
4. Simbol: Bagi kebanyakan budaya barat, lilin dijadikan simbol yang menunjukkan protes terhadap sesuatu perkara. Ia dijadikan simbol kecerahan dan cahaya sebagai simbolik terhadap tuntutan pembaikan pulih sesuatu perkara. Ia juga simbol kepada umur dan sebagainya.([4])<br />
Secara pastinya, ia bukan budaya kebiasaan dan adat umat islam atau kebudayaan kaum atau bangsa yang lahir daripada fitrah kemanusiaan, bahkan ianya lahir daripada kepercayaan dan fahaman.<br />
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<b>Hukum Berkaitan Kategori di atas.</b><br />
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A. Kategori pertama kedua dan ketiga.<br />
Selepas melihat kepada realiti dan tujuan menyalakan lilin, maka kategori pertama iaitu dengan tujuan pemujaan, kedua iaitu dengan tujuan perkabungan dan ketiga iaitu dengan tujuan kepercayaan kepada kuasa lilin adalah haram.<br />
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Dalil kepada pengharaman ini ialah:<br />
1. Umum ayat larangan.<br />
Antara ayat yang umum yang berkaitan ialah ayat-ayat larangan daripada mengikuti jejak langkah golongan yang bukan islam, antaranya ialah firman Allah SWT:<br />
Maksudnya: : Sesungguhnya telah dikabulkan doa kamu berdua; oleh itu hendaklah kamu tetap (menjalankan perintahKu seterusnya), dan janganlah kamu menurut jalan orang-orang Yang tidak mengetahui (peraturan janjiKu). – (Yunus: 89).<br />
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Dan firman Allah kepada Rasulnya SAW:<br />
Maksudnya: Kesudahannya Kami jadikan Engkau (Wahai Muhammad dan utuskan engkau) menjalankan satu syariat (yang cukup lengkap) dari hukum-hukum ugama; maka Turutlah syariat itu, dan janganlah Engkau menurut hawa nafsu orang-orang Yang tidak mengetahui (perkara Yang benar). – (Al-Jaathiah: 18).<br />
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2. Hadis yang melarang meniru kaum bukan Islam.<br />
Hadis nabi saw :<br />
مَنْ تَشَبَّهَ بِقَوْمٍ فَهُوَ مِنْهُمْ<br />
Maksudnya: barangsiapa yang meniru sesuatu kaum, maka ia termasuk dari kalangan mereka. – riwayat Abu Daud.<br />
Perkataan تشبه di dalam hadis ini bermaksud meniru, iaitu berusaha untuk menyerupai sesuatu kaum dengan usaha dan sengaja. Berbeza dengan perkataan شبه yang bermaksud menyerupai sesuatu sama ada secara sengaja dan usaha atau tidak sengaja dan tanpa usaha.<br />
Hadis di atas adalah hadis yang sahih melalui riwayat Abu Daud. Di sana terdapat pelbagai riwayat dengan pelbagai lafaz yang memberikan maksud yang sama seperti riwayat Tarmizi yang berbunyi:<br />
لَيْسَ مِنَّا مَنْ تَشَبَّهَ بِغَيْرِنَا<br />
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Maksudnya: bukan dari kalangan kami orang yang meniru golongan yang lain.<br />
Tetapi riwayat-riwayat yang lain dipertikaikan kesahihannya melainkan riwayat Abu Daud sebelumnya.<br />
Hadis ini sebenarnya mempunyai makna yang umum, iaitu barangsiapa yang meniru kaum yang baik, maka baiklah dia dan barangsiapa yang meniru kaum yang tidak baik dan kufur, maka ia juga sebahagian daripada mereka.<br />
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<b>Pengajaran hadis:</b><br />
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Penyerupaan kaum yang bukan islam bukanlah diharamkan secara mutlak.<br />
Kategorinya adalah seperti berikut:<br />
1. Jika penyerupaan itu mempunyai unsur ibadat yang bukan islam, maka ia adalah haram tanpa khilaf dan takwil. Jelasnya pengharaman memasang lilin bagi tujuan pemujaan adalah haram bagi umat islam berdasarkan hadis di atas dan dalil-dalil yang lain.<br />
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2. Jika penyerupaan itu tidak mempunyai unsur ibadat, ianya adalah budaya dan adat bukan islam yang bersusur galur daripada kepercayaan tertentu yang mempunyai hubungan kait dengan syirik, perbuatan tersebut tidak mempunyai manfaat yang realiti bagi pelakunya, atau alat tersebut digunakan bukan bagi tujuan asal pembuatannya, maka hukumnya juga adalah haram kerana termasuk di dalam kategori berusaha dengan sengaja menyerupai kaum tersebut. Jelasnya, kategori kedua dan ketiga iaitu menyalakan lilin bagi tujuan berkabung dan kepercayaan kepada kuasa juga adalah haram. Ini kerana, perbuatan ini adalah perbuatan dan amalan bukan islam, ia bersusur galur daripada kepercayaan agama, nyalaan lilin di dalam kategori kedua dan ketiga di atas bukan digunakan bagi tujuan asal iaitu menerangi ketika gelap.<br />
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3. Jika penyerupaan itu tidak mempunyai unsur ibadat tetapi ianya mempunyai manfaat yang realiti bagi penggunanya, maka ia diharuskan. Contohnya penggunaan kereta yang asalnya daripada bukan islam.<br />
Ringkasnya, hadis di atas asalnya merupakan larangan meniru cara golongan yang bukan islam secara umum dan mutlak, sama ada meniru perbuatan ibadat mereka, adat dan budaya mereka yang bermanfaat atau tidak bermanfaat bagi umat islam yang menirunya.<br />
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Tetapi meniru cara dan perkara yang bermanfaat daripada golongan bukan islam diharuskan berpandukan kepada cara penggalian parit yang ditiru oleh Nabi Saw daripada kaum Parsi kerana penggalian parit itu bermanfaat bagi umat islam guna sebagai strategi mempertahankan Madinah.<br />
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B. hukum bagi kategori keempat.<br />
Kategori keempat, iaitu kategori menyalakan lilin sebagai simbol tertentu, dikategorikan di dalam kategori syubhah. Syubhah bermaksud halal dan haramnya tidak jelas. Sabda nabi Saw:<br />
الحلال بين ، والحرام بين ، وبينهما أمور مشتبهات ، لا يعلمها كثير من الناس ،<br />
Maksudnya: Halal itu nyata dan haram itu nyata, dan di antara keduanya terdapat perkara syubhat, kebanyakan manusia tidak mengetahuinya.<br />
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Penggunaan lilin ketika memprotes sesuatu perkara seperti memprotes penyelewengan perlaksanaan demokrasi sebagai simbolik kepada perlu menerangi demokrasi yang telah malap, dianggap sebagai syubhat kerana:</div>1. halalnya tidak jelas kerana cara dan pengamalannya datangnya daripada golongan bukan islam yang mempunyai kaitan dengan pemujaan dan kepercayaan berkaitan roh dan kematian. Berbeza dengan melepaskan burung merpati sebagai simbol kebebasan, sekalipun ianya berasal daripada amalan dan cara mereka yang bukan islam, tetapi ia tidak<br />
mempunyai asas cara ibadat yang bukan islam sebagaimana penyalaan lilin.<br />
2. haramnya juga tidak jelas kerana ia mempunyai maksud dan simbul tersendiri yang mengenepikan maksud sengaja meniru kaum tersebut.<br />
3. alternatif lain sebagai simbol protes seperti membebaskan burung merpati dan sebagainya.<br />
4. Syubhatnya menjadi bertambah kuat terutamanya ketika perbuatan tersebut dilakukan bersempena dengan kematian.<br />
Sikap kita umat islam terhadap perkara syubhat sebagaimana pesan nabi SAW berkenaan perkara syubhat:<br />
فمن اتقى الشبهات استبرأ لديه وعرضه ، ومن وقع في الشبهات وقع في الحرام<br />
، كراع يرعى حول الحمى يوشك أن يواقعه ، ألا وإن لكل ملك حمى ، ألا وإن<br />
حمى الله في أرضه محارمه<br />
Maksudnya: Barangsiapa yang menjaga perkara syubhat, maka ia telah selamatkan agamanya dan maruahnya. Dan barangsiapa yang terjatuh (melakukan) perkara syubhat, maka ia terjatuh ke dalam perkara haram, sama seperti pengembala yang mengembala berhampiran dengan kawasan larangan, maka mudahlah (gembalaannya) menceroboh kawasan larangan tersebut. Ketahuilah, bahawa sesungguhnya bagi setiap raja mempunyai kawasan larangannya, dan ketahuilah kawasan larangan Allah di bumi ini adalah larangannya (perkara yang haram). Hadis sahih riwayat muslim<br />
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Justeru itu, sikap kita terhadap perkara yang syubhat adalah seperti berikut:<br />
1. Tidak boleh menganggap si pelakunya melakukan perkara yang haram.<br />
2. Perkara syubhat ini juga tidak boleh dianggap halal dan harus sehingga boleh dilakukan sewenang-wenangnya.<br />
3. Perlu disarankan mereka yang terlibat supaya menjauhinya kerana ia boleh menjuruskan kepada perkara yang haram. Berbeza dengan sikap kita terhadap perkara yang jelas haram, di mana mencegah perbuatannya adalah wajib.<br />
Niat tidak boleh jadi ukuran jika perbuatan itu adalah haram.<br />
Jikalau sesuatu perbuatan jelas pengharamannya dan bukan syubhat, maka niat yang baik tidak boleh mengharuskan perbuatan yang haram tersebut.<br />
Oleh itu, jika menyalakan lilin dengan disertai unsur persamaan dengan pemujaan, perkabungan kematian dan kepercayaan tertentu, maka perbuatan itu dihukumkan haram sekalipun dengan niat yang baik.<br />
Kaedah ini cukup jelas diperbahaskan secara panjang lebar di dalam kitab-kitab usul. Dr. Yusof Al-Qardhawi dengan jelas meringkaskan perbahasan tersebut dan menyusun penjelaskan yang begitu mudah dan terang di dalam kitabhnya Halal Dan Haram Dalam Islam.<br />
Oleh itu, umat islam tidak harus menyalakan dan memegang lilin di dalam upacara kematian atau upacara mengingati kematian sekalipun dengan niat mentakziahkan keluarga si mati.<br />
Kaedah ini,iaitu niat yang baik tidak boleh mengharuskan perbuatan yang haram bukan sahaja diaplikasikan dalam bab ini, tetapi di dalam semua bab di dalam fekah seperti ibadat, muamalat, perundangan dan lain-lain. Contohnya, seseorang tetap haram bersembahyang dengan menyembah (mengadap) pokok sekalipun niatnya ikhlas untuk khusyuk, seseorang pemain judi tetap haram sekalipun niatnya ingin bersedekah kepada pemenang, seseorang guru tetap dikenakan hukuman kisas jika membunuh muridnya sekalipun dengan niat mendidik, dan banyak lagi bab yang aplikasi yang sama di dalam semua bab fekah.<br />
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<b>Penutup, Kesimpulan dan Saranan.<br />
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Kesimpulan daripada kajian pihak MPPH adalah seperti berikut:<br />
1. menyalakan lilin dengan tujuan pemujaan, perkabungan dan kepercayaan-kepercayaan tertentu berkaitan dengan roh adalah haram.<br />
2. Menyalakan lilin sebagai simbolik tertentu adalah syubhat yang perlu dihindari oleh umat islam<br />
3. Meniru cara bukan islam hukumnya adalah seperti berikut:<br />
a. Jika ianya berkategori ibadat, maka hukumnya adalah haram.<br />
b. Jika ianya berkategori adat yang tidak bermanfaat, tidak mempunyai apa-apa makna dan erti yang relevant dan realiti dan mempunyai susur galur keagamaan, maka ia juga dilihat sebagai haram.<br />
c. Jika ianya berkategori adat yang bermanfaat, maka ia diharuskan. Bahkan jika ianya dikategorikan sebagai hikmat dan kebijaksanaan, maka umat islam digalakkan mengambil dan menguasainya kerana ia adalah barangan milik orang islam yang telah hilang sebagaimana menurut satu hadis.<br />
4. Hukum yang tidak membolehkan umat islam berkabung dengan cara memegang lilin, bukan dengan maksud umat islam tidak boleh bersimpati dengan kematian Teoh Beng Hock. Bahkan umat islam bukan sahaja diharuskan bersimpati, bahkan wajib membela kematian beliau, wajib mengenengahkan penjenayahnya, memerangi mereka yang terlibat dengan jenayah tersebut sekalipun umat islam terpaksa mengorbankan diri mereka sendiri. Dalil kepada kewajipan menentang kezaliman cukup banyak daripada Al-Quran dan Hadis, sekalipun yang dizalimi itu adalah non-muslim dan pelaku kezaliman itu adalah muslim sendiri.<br />
Saranan daripada pihak MPPH adalah sebagaimana berikut:<br />
1. Umat islam perlu menjadikan nas-nas islam sebagai sumber hukum hakam yang perlu dipatuhi dalam semua tindak-tanduk mereka, termasuk yang berkaitan dengan politik.<br />
2. Jangan menjadikan hasilan kajian ini sebagai bahan politik murahan dengan menangguk di air keruh bagi mendapatkan keuntungan politik.<br />
3. Jadikan kertas ini sebagai teguran dan garis panduan kepada umat islam umumnya.<br />
4. Pihak kami juga mencadangkan supaya pusat-pusat kajian yang mempunyai hubungan dengan kerajaan dan UMNO supaya tampil membuat teguran terbuka dan mendedahkan hasil kajian ilmiah jika pemimpin mereka melakukan kesilapan atau kesalahan yang boleh mengelirukan orang ramai.<br />
5. Kami mengharapkan, isu memegang lilin jangan distrategikan sebagai strategi murahan lapuk guna untuk menutup isu utama, iaitu punca kematian Teoh Beng Hock.<br />
6. dalam isu ini, media mestilah mengutamakan isu keadilan dan tuntutan ketelusan siasatan berhubung dengan kematian Teoh Beng Hock.<br />
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([4]) Takwilan ini adalah hasil temuramah dengan beberapa golongan muslim yang mengamalkan perkara tersebut. Contohnya seperti nyalaan dan tiupan lilin sempena memperingati hari lahir atau dinamakan sambutan hari jadi dan seumpamanya. Tetapi bagi pandangan penyelidik, ia adalah ikutan dan tiada asas yang kuat berkenaan takwilan tersebut.</div></div>Badan Perhubungan PAS Wilayah Persekutuanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03901492489653729040noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4192128809336656017.post-78716791208953478822010-06-15T01:37:00.000+08:002010-06-15T01:37:31.881+08:00Ustaz Hassan Shukri dalam kenangan<div style="text-align: justify;"><meta content="text/html; charset=utf-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"></meta><meta content="Word.Document" name="ProgId"></meta><meta content="Microsoft Word 11" name="Generator"></meta><meta content="Microsoft Word 11" name="Originator"></meta><link href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5Cuser%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml" rel="File-List"></link><link href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5Cuser%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C01%5Cclip_editdata.mso" rel="Edit-Time-Data"></link><style>
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</style> </div><div class="MsoNormal">Posted on Monday, June 14 @ 08:43:17 PDT by <a href="http://www.detikdaily.net/v5/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=8043">paktam</a><o:p></o:p></div><b>Oleh <span style="color: red;">Azamin Amin</span></b> <o:p></o:p><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_G1o54hbaFI4/TBZoWaDLLaI/AAAAAAAAAJ8/8c6Mu9fCn7o/s1600/hasan-shukri2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_G1o54hbaFI4/TBZoWaDLLaI/AAAAAAAAAJ8/8c6Mu9fCn7o/s200/hasan-shukri2.jpg" width="98" /></a></div><i>Pemergian Ustaz Hassan Syukri mengejutkan ramai pihak khasnya di dalam PAS. Ia merupakan satu kehilangan besar kepada PAS dan negara. Berikut adalah tulisan yang pernah dibuat wartawan AZAMIN AMIN yang disiarkan oleh akhbar Siasah Oktob<a href="http://null/imgres?imgurl=http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2F9nTcAJr7c/SyvCxO7d9UI/AAAAAAAAL7s/aHdhSLDb8Z8/s200/hassanshukri.jpg&imgrefurl=http://greenboc.blogspot.com/2009/12/ustaz-hassan-shukri-tokoh-maal-hijrah.html&usg=__fHoHFiWqoJHuRBNLC_Ojz5sp0UA=&h=196&w=200&sz=11&hl=ms&start=4&itbs=1&tbnid=eXcdyUw4ixaikM:&tbnh=102&tbnw=104&prev=/images%3Fq%3DUstaz%2BHassan%2BShukri%26hl%3Dms%26sa%3DG%26gbv%3D2%26tbs%3Disch:1"></a></i><i><a href="http://null/imgres?imgurl=http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2F9nTcAJr7c/SyvCxO7d9UI/AAAAAAAAL7s/aHdhSLDb8Z8/s200/hassanshukri.jpg&imgrefurl=http://greenboc.blogspot.com/2009/12/ustaz-hassan-shukri-tokoh-maal-hijrah.html&usg=__fHoHFiWqoJHuRBNLC_Ojz5sp0UA=&h=196&w=200&sz=11&hl=ms&start=4&itbs=1&tbnid=eXcdyUw4ixaikM:&tbnh=102&tbnw=104&prev=/images%3Fq%3DUstaz%2BHassan%2BShukri%26hl%3Dms%26sa%3DG%26gbv%3D2%26tbs%3Disch:1"></a><i>er 2009.</i><br />
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Belum sempat pun pejuang-pejuang Sungai Manik tiba di Kuala Selangor untuk turun ‘bermandi darah’ di Kuala Lumpur dalam peristiwa 13 mei, dia sudah terpacul tegap menantikan kedatangan mereka. Ketika berdiri di jeti Feri Kuala Selangor dengan badan tegap laksana panglima, dia secara tenang meminta para pejuang itu pulang semula ke Perak<o:p></o:p><br />
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Tidak ada satu biji mata pun melainkandia yang mampu berdepan para pejuang yang digeruni itu. Bimbang suasana akan lebih kecamuk Pengerusi majlis Gerakan Negara ketika tragedi 13 mei 1969, Allahyarham Tun Abdul Razak secara peribadi meminta dia menahan pendekar-pendekar dari kumpulan ‘parang terbang dan selempang merah’ untuk mara ke ibu kota.<br />
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Dek kerana menghormati ayahnya yang pernah terlibat dan bertempur dalam beberapa siri dengan peperangan di Sungai Manik pada zaman dulu, para pejuang yang sedang mengelodak jiwa dan amarah itu akhirnya akur dengan permintaannya lalu kembali ke kampung halaman masing-masing.<br />
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Namanya cukup tersohor dan hebat di mata kawan dan lawan. malah ketika negara dilanda krisis, Tun Razak sendiri menghubunginya setiap<br />
hari. Sehari kadang-kadang sampai dua kali! Kini nama Hassan Shukri yang selalu meniti di bibir pejuang dan penyokong PAS selama<br />
ini agak kelam dan menyepi. entah mengapa, bekas Timbalan Presiden PAS yang juga antara pejuang terawal parti tertua di malaysia ini<br />
umpama membawa diri. Namun rajuknya tidak ke mana kerana batang tubuhnya masih sebati dengan perjuangan ini.<br />
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Hassan Shukri yang dipanggil ‘ustaz’ masih dekat di hati kebanyakan ahli PAS malah kelibat beliau sering kelihatan, sekiranya ada acara rasmi dan majlis ilmu yang dianjurkan di markas PAS Taman melewar, Gombak. Kadang-kadang tanpa segan, beliau menebas dan mencangkul di depan markas walaupun para pemimpin dan ahli PAS sedang menyertai aktiviti di situ.<br />
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Baginya kerja-kerja kebun dan kampung sudah berakar umbi dalam dirinya apatah lagi kediaman dan lamannya pula bersebelahan markas itu. Markas yang dahulunya dikenali sebagai Pejabat Agung PAS dan Pusat Tarbiyah sebelum berpindah ke Jalan Raja laut Kuala </span><meta content="text/html; charset=utf-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"></meta><meta content="Word.Document" name="ProgId"></meta><meta content="Microsoft Word 11" name="Generator"></meta><meta content="Microsoft Word 11" name="Originator"></meta><link href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5Cuser%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml" rel="File-List"></link><style>
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</style><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;">lumpur, begitu sinonim<br />
dengan Hassan Shukri.<br />
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Masakan tidak idea penubuhan markas itu, datang dari hati nurani ikhlasnya. Bermula dengan modal Rm20,000, beliau membeli sebidang tanah di situ, sebagai tapak awal untuk membina markas. <br />
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Kemudian beliau berbincang pula dengan Yang Dipertua PAS, Allahyarham Yusuf Rawa, Pesuruhjaya PAS Perlis, ustaz Hashim Jasin dan ustaz Nakhaei untuk mereka samasama membeli tanah dengan harga sekitar Rm26,000 bagi meluaskan kawasan markas sekitar tahun 1982. Selain menerima sumbangan wang, markas itu turut didirikan secara bergotong royong pada peringkat awalnya.<br />
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Kemudian dengan kebijaksanaan Hassan, beliau mengarahkan setiap satu cawangan PAS menyiapkan satu tiang bangunan tanpa menggunakan jengkaut untuk menggali lubang tapak asas.<br />
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Semenjak itu, markas PAS Taman melewar telah menjadi tempat persinggahan atau bermalam paling murah di Kuala lumpur kepada orang ramai yang mahu melancong atau berurusan di ibu kota malah hari minggu atau cuti sekolah, banyak bas persiaran serta bas sekolah singgah dan memenuhi laman markas itu.<br />
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Lebih menarik, ia menjadi persinggahan paling penting kepada rombongan haji sebelum melapor diri di lapangan Antarabangsa Subang sebelum wujudnya KlIA dan Pusat Transit Tabung Haji Kelana Jaya.<br />
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Cetusan idea Hassan itu kemudiannya menjadi buah mulut orang dan menjadikan PAS terkenal di setiap pelosok negara. Hassan dikenali sebagai tokoh yang membangunkan markas PAS dan ramai yang tidak tahu, beliau adalah individu penting di sebalik perlembagaan PAS dan merupakan “buku undang-undang PAS” yang masih hidup serta sentiasa menjadi rujukan.<br />
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Menceritakan kisah penyertaannya secara tidak rasmi dengan PAS sewaktu berusia 14 tahun pada 1951; Hassan memberitahu tindakannya itu didorong oleh satu peristiwa unik yang mencetuskan semangatnya untuk mendekati PAS.<br />
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“Sebabnya ialah loteri kebajikan yang saya terima daripada guru saya dan saya bawa pulang ke rumah.<br />
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“Akhirnya saya dimarahi dan dihamun oleh ayah saya...disebabkan itu, saya mula berjinak-jinak dengan mengikuti aktiviti PAS di kampung dan mula menyertai secara aktif pada tahun 1951,” ujarnya penuh semangat.<br />
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Hassan yang memegang nombor keahlian PAS 12,016 itu kemudiannya diberi peluang untuk bertanding di kawasan Parlimen Sabak Bernam pada pilihan raya umum tahun 1969.<br />
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Antara peristiwa yang tidak dapat dilupakan ialah usaha memujuk, mengugut, ancaman dan merasuah beliau untuk tidak bertanding, namun ditolak mentah-mentah Hassan dengan memberi kata dua yang cukup meninggalkan bekas kepada pencabar dan lawan politiknya. “Saya katakan kepada mereka, kalau nak masukkan guni, cubalah...!” katanya tegas laksana pahlawan yang bermaksud seolah-olah ‘jangan mencari pasal’ dengan beliau.</span><meta content="text/html; charset=utf-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"></meta><meta content="Word.Document" name="ProgId"></meta><meta content="Microsoft Word 11" name="Generator"></meta><meta content="Microsoft Word 11" name="Originator"></meta><link href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5Cuser%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml" rel="File-List"></link><style>
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</style><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Beliau turut mengimbau kembali kejadian ceramahnya di Sabak Bernam didatangi oleh beberapa orang berketurunan Jawa Penegoro sambil<br />
menghayunkan senjata parang. <br />
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Kebetulan kawannya, Hassan Adli boleh berbahasa Jawa, maka orang-orang yang berparang itu akhirnya “ditumpaskan” hanya melalui kata-kata berbisa.<br />
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Hassan juga menceritakan bagaimana musuh politiknya berusaha menjatuhkan maruah dan nama baiknya dengan cuba memerangkap beliau dengan dua orang wanita yang tidak dikenali di Kampung Parit, Sabak Bernam. Dengan kecekapan perisik-perisik PAS, beliau dinasihatkan untuk tidak memberhentikan keretanya suatu malam apabila diminta<br />
oleh dua wanita terbabit.<br />
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“malam itu di tepi jalan berhutan, sudah siap kamera dan beberapa jurugambar mahu memerangkap jika saya memberhentikan kereta untuk ditumpangi oleh dua wanita itu,” katanya sambil menasihati bahawa insiden dan taktik musuh itu masih diguna pakai sehingga sekarang.<br />
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Oleh sebab itulah, setiap kali bermesyuarat di Pejabat Agung PAS Pusat di Jalan Raja laut, berdekatan lorong Haji Taib itu, Hassan tidak pernah menggunakan jalan belakang bangunan PAS itu, kerana bimbang ‘diperangkap’ oleh kamera-kamera musuh yang cuba mengaitkannya dengan<br />
penghuni atau pekerja seks lorong hitam itu.<br />
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“Saya selalu menasihati beberapa pimpinan PAS untuk berhati-hati berjalan di lorong belakang itu bagi mengelakkan fitnah dan dimanipulasi oleh pihak-pihak tidak bertanggungjawab,” katanya tersenyum.<br />
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Setelah tewas dalam pilihan raya itu, beliau kemudiannya menunaikan haji di makkah dan kisah perjalanannya menuju tanah suci itu, penuh liku-liku dan peristiwa indah yang tidak upaya diluahkan memandangkan masa yang terbatas. memadai katanya, perjalanan itu memakan masa 6 bulan<br />
3 hari!<br />
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“Dari Pulau Pinang naik kapal laut. Sampai di madras, kami terus menggunakan jalan darat untuk ke makkah. “Dalam perjalanan ke sana, saya sempat menubuhkan Persatuan melayu Iraq di Baghdad dan setelah menunaikan haji, saya mengahwini isteri tercinta dan dikurniakan 6 orang anak,” katanya bangga dengan pencapaian anak-anaknya itu, meskipun beliau bukanlah seorang yang berharta.<br />
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Semasa beliau penuh aktif dalam PAS, Hassan pernah menjawat jawatan Setiausaha Agung PAS di bawah tiga orang Presiden PAS iaitu Datuk Asri muda, ustaz Yusof Rawa dan Almarhum Datuk Fadhil Noor. Beliau merakamkan semula detik-detik manis selama berada dalam perjuangan<br />
PAS ini sambil menceritakan beberapa kisah mencuit hati yang tidak dapat dilupakannnya.<br />
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Antaranya, beliau terpaksa mengendong atau mengangkut pembesar suara (speaker) sejauh empat batu menggunakan basikal, manakala ada perwakilan yang jatuh ke gaung dalam perjalanan ke muktamar PAS tapi tidak mengalami kecederaan.</span><meta content="text/html; charset=utf-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"></meta><meta content="Word.Document" name="ProgId"></meta><meta content="Microsoft Word 11" name="Generator"></meta><meta content="Microsoft Word 11" name="Originator"></meta><link href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5Cuser%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml" rel="File-List"></link><style>
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</style><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;">“Saya pernah merasa pengalaman tidur di Balai Raya Datuk Keramat. Ahli-ahli di situ menyediakan segala kelengkapan seperti bantal, tilam dan selimut untuk para perwakilan dan ahli PAS yang menyertai muktamar ketika itu,” katanya lagi.<br />
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Pada sekitar tahun 50-an, muktamar pada ketika itu, nama awalnya lebih dikenali sebagai kongres dan ditukarkan supaya ia tidak menyamai dengan parti-parti lain pada masa itu.<br />
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Bezanya dahulu, apabila muktamar berlangsung, semua perwakilan dan ahli-ahli yang datang menumpang teduh di merata-rata sekitar madrasah, pondokpondok agama, balai raya berhampiran dan juga rumah-rumah ahli yang secara sukarela menjadikan rumah mereka sebagai tempat tumpangan.<br />
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Beliau dalam masa sama menasihati supaya pemimpin dan ahli melahirkan semangat persatuan dan berpasukan di samping kerjasama yang mantapdan ada peningkatan dalam soal pemikiran dan kerja di semua peringkat.<br />
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“Apa jua kekuatan adalah kesatuan dan sahabatsahabat (ahli-ahli PAS) kena tahu ‘style’. Kena faham cara orang kampung bekerja berbeza dan tidak sama dengan orang Shah Alam (bandar) bekerja. “Tulis khutbah pun kena beza. Takkan nak baca yang sama. Begitu juga pendekatan, ada<br />
yang berhemah, tegas dan adakalanya secara berseloroh,” katanya lagi.<br />
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Beliau menasihati pemimpin PAS atasan atau pertengahan, mesti mengetahui serba sedikit suasana dan keadaan masyarakat di malaysia dan<br />
menambah di Nusantara terdapat 6,832 suku seperti Jawa, mandeling, Banjar dan lain-lain yang berjaya disatukan melalui Islam.<br />
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“Jangan lupa turun padang dan dekati orang bawahan akar umbi ini. mereka ini kita sapa dan senyum cukup besar hati dah...” kata Hassan yang juga bekas Senator. Selain itu, Hassan sebagai orang lama dalam PAS menyarankan segala masalah atau perselisihan pendapat antara pimpinan-pimpinan PAS disuarakan melalui syura atau mesyuarat dan perbincangan agar ia tidak dipergunakan oleh musuh untuk melaga-lagakan antara satu sama lain.<br />
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“Dengan cara itu tidaklah keluar kenyatan yang bercanggah. Kenapa media memainkan isu tertentu, supaya orang Cina dan India berhenti menyokong PAS...itu saja. Jadi jangan biarkan kita terdedah dengan perkara macam itu,” katanya ketika diminta pandangan berhubung isu-isu<br />
semasa.<br />
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“malah masuk PAS bukan kerana ikut orang, kalau ikut orang, sudah lama PAS ini terkubur. Sertai dan sokong PAS sebab hendakkan kepada Islam.<br />
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“Kita sudah lama tarbiyah ahli-ahli PAS bahawa jangan memuja pemimpin tetapi menjunjung perjuangan Islam,” kata bekas Timbalan Presiden PAS itu yang turut merujuk beberapa kepimpinan yang keluar parti itu seperti Datuk Asri muda dan Haji Ahmad Fuad yang tidak sedikit pun menjejaskan PAS sehingga kini.<br />
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Kini Hassan masih menyumbang buah fikiran dan pandangannya kepada PAS sebagai Ahli majlis Syura. Beliau juga masih lagi menyampaikan kuliahnya di Sabak Bernam serta </span><meta content="text/html; charset=utf-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"></meta><meta content="Word.Document" name="ProgId"></meta><meta content="Microsoft Word 11" name="Generator"></meta><meta content="Microsoft Word 11" name="Originator"></meta><link href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5Cuser%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml" rel="File-List"></link><style>
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</style><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;">memenuhi pelbagai jemputan majlis-majlis agama dan ceramah.<br />
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Walaupun usia telah menjangkau 70-an, Hassan masih kelihatan gagah dan berupaya mengingati satu persatu sejarahnya bersama PAS. Wawancara yang berlangsung hampir dua jam itu terasa begitu singkat, memandangkan kepetahan dan nada selorohnya, membuatkan penulis terpegun dan<br />
asyik dengan kisah lamanya.<br />
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“Tulislah dan saya suka bila orang mahu tahu sejarah saya dan PAS. “Bukan apa, setelah saya tiada nanti, apa yang anda tulis itu akan jadi satu dokumentasi sejarah,” katanya tersenyum semula.<br />
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Mengakhiri perbualan yang “berlangsung” di kediamannya sendiri Jumaat, 2 Oktober lalu, Hassan sempat menyuntik semangat kepada ahli-ahli PAS seluruh negara supaya sentiasa mengukuhkan perjuangan dan menolak sama sekali fikiran jumud bahawa jika bersama PAS, mereka akan menemui kesukaran dan kepayahan hidup. <br />
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“Percayalah...sesiapa yang memperjuangkan Islam, dia tidak akan susah. mungkin tidak kaya tetapi tidak ada yang susah atau tidak makan...Saya sendiri tidak pernah rasa gaji besar tetapi kehidupan saya tidak susah dan alhamdulillah makin bertambah baik.<br />
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“Bagi pejuang Islam, apa jua cabaran dan dugaan akhirnya Allah akan tolong juga dan bantu kita untuk teruskan kehidupan...,” katanya sambil mencebiskan nasihat kepada pemimpin agar sentiasa merapatkan saf antara satu sama lain termasuk dengan golongan bawahan supaya parti<br />
akan terus kukuh, disegani dan bertambah kuat di masa mendatang.</span><br />
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</span>Badan Perhubungan PAS Wilayah Persekutuanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03901492489653729040noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4192128809336656017.post-91683151062199964992010-05-28T01:49:00.001+08:002010-05-28T01:56:52.143+08:00Mantan Ydp PAS Titiwangsa merangkap Setiausaha Dewan Ulamak WP meninggal dunia<script type="text/javascript">
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<tr> <td valign="top"><a href="http://www.harakahdaily.net/v2/images/stories/11feb/ahmad_ismail.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img align="left" border="0" src="http://www.harakahdaily.net/v2/images/stories/11feb/ahmad_ismail.jpg" /></a><b>KUALA LUMPUR, 27 Mei:</b> Setiausaha Dewan Ulamak PAS Wilayah Persekutuan, Ustaz Ahmad Ismail <b>(gambar)</b> telah kembali ke rahmatullah jam 3 petang tadi di kediaman beliau, Taman Kasawari, Bukit Rotan.<br />
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Menurut anaknya, Mus'ab ketika dihubungi, Allahyarham akan dikebumikan di Tanah Perkuburan Kampung Teluk Piai pada pukul 10 pagi esok.<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_G1o54hbaFI4/S_6win8h8bI/AAAAAAAAAJw/3h1ur2-5whQ/s1600/us+ahmad+ismail.bmp" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_G1o54hbaFI4/S_6win8h8bI/AAAAAAAAAJw/3h1ur2-5whQ/s200/us+ahmad+ismail.bmp" width="90" /></a></div>Sebelum ini, Ustaz Ahmad telah menjalani rawatan kimoterapi kerana mendapat jangkitan kuman di kiri leher sejak beberapa bulan yang lalu.<br />
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Allahyarham yang juga merupakan mantan Setiausaha Kerja Dewan Ulamak PAS Pusat dikatakan tidak pernah ketinggalan semenjak pertama kali menjadi perwakilan Dewan Ulamak ke Muktamar PAS Pusat.<br />
"Beliau banyak banyak memberi tunjuk ajar dalam urusan organisasi parti terutamanya dalam hal-hal kepejabatan di Dewan Ulamak PAS Pusat," kata Ustaz Wan Ahmad Rashidi Wan Othman, Setiausaha Kerja Dewan Ulamak PAS Pusat.<br />
Allahyarham juga meninggalkan seorang balu dan tujuh orang anak.<br />
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<i style="color: red;">Makluman terkini</i> : Jenazah Allahyarham berada di no.11,rumah murah Taman Piai,berhampiran trafic light (blkg kedai perabot s & s / mesjid sultan ibrahim kuala selangor),waris yg boleh dihubungi :0173799419</td></tr>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span lang="MS"><span style="font-size: small;">Allahyarham berusia 64 tahun meninggal dunia di Hospital Kuala Lumpur selepas seminggu dimasukkan ke hospital berkenaan.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span lang="MS"><span style="font-size: small;">Menurut isterinya, Hajah Firda Gusni Firdaus, allahyarham diserang angin ahmar ringan ketika mempengerusikan mesyuarat PAS kawasan pada 16 Mei lalu.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span lang="MS"><span style="font-size: small;">Katanya, allahyarham sempat bertahan dan meneruskan mesyuarat hingga selesai dan pulang ke rumah dalam keadaan berpapah seterusnya dibawa ke hospital keesokan hari.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span lang="MS"><span style="font-size: small;">Difahamkan jenazah akan disembahyangkan di Masjid Abu Hurairah, Batu 5, Jalan Ipoh jam 10 pagi esok.</span></span></div></td></tr>
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_G1o54hbaFI4/S-Qtv4j5zSI/AAAAAAAAAJo/8ujIt_Dt3EM/s1600/sibu.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_G1o54hbaFI4/S-Qtv4j5zSI/AAAAAAAAAJo/8ujIt_Dt3EM/s1600/sibu.jpg" /></a></div><h1 style="-moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; -moz-background-origin: padding; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;"><u><span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">MALAYSIA'S GENEROSITY</span></u><u><span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></u></h1><div class="MsoNormal" style="-moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; -moz-background-origin: padding; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;"><span class="byline"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">By </span></span><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Dr. Mahathir Mohamad <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; -moz-background-origin: padding; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;"><span class="byline"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">on April 29, 2010 6:00 PM </span></span><span class="separator"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></span><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><a href="http://chedet.co.cc/chedetblog/2010/04/malaysias-generosity.html"></a> <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; -moz-background-origin: padding; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; margin-bottom: 14pt; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: red; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><a href="http://www.theedgemalaysia.com/in-the-financial-daily/164595-two-murphy-oil-petronas-pscs-off-brunei-terminated.html"><span style="color: red;">The Edge Financial Daily</span></a>, an article by Joseph Chin (<a href="http://www.theedgemalaysia.com/business-news/164501-murphy-oil-says-petronas-terminates-psc-for-2-blocks.html"><span style="color: red;">The Edge, April 22nd</span></a>) as well as <a href="http://www.bt.com.bn/business-national/2010/04/23/brunei-may-soon-start-drilling-blocks-j-and-k"><span style="color: red;">Brunei Times</span></a> reported a substantial oil producing offshore area in the South China Sea, namely Block L and Block M, were no longer a part of Malaysia</span></b><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; -moz-background-origin: padding; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; margin-bottom: 14pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Malaysians and the Malaysian media did not ask how this came about. It would seem that the loss of a huge oil producing area that had apparently belonged to Malaysia is okay<a name='more'></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; -moz-background-origin: padding; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; margin-bottom: 14pt; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: red; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Block L and Block M had been claimed by Malaysia based on historical facts</span></b><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">. Accordingly, Petronas entered into a production sharing contract with Murphy Oil to start drilling to produce oil. It is estimated that the reserves amounted to almost 1 billion barrels<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; -moz-background-origin: padding; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; margin-bottom: 14pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Abdullah Badawi negotiated with the Sultan to get back Limbang in Sarawak. In return he agreed to surrender the two blocks to Brunei. No Petronas representatives were present, only foreign office staff and the foreign affairs adviser to the PM.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; -moz-background-origin: padding; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; margin-bottom: 14pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">As we all know Abdullah triumphantly announced that he had settled the Limbang claim with Brunei (<a href="http://bernama.com.my/bernama/v5/newsgeneral.php?id=396573">here</a>). No mention was made of the two blocks.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; -moz-background-origin: padding; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; margin-bottom: 14pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Brunei disclaimed (<a href="http://www.bt.com.bn/node/68177/print">here</a>) that they had agreed to give up Limbang. The foreign office and Abdullah did not rebut Brunei's statement.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; -moz-background-origin: padding; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; margin-bottom: 14pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Now it is made clear that the two blocks are no longer a part of Malaysia.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; -moz-background-origin: padding; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; margin-bottom: 14pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Abdullah has caused Malaysia to lose at least US100 billion dollars (about RM320 billion) of Malaysia's oil in this agreement.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; -moz-background-origin: padding; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; margin-bottom: 14pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Can Wisma Putra please explain why it did not stop Abdullah<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><a href="http://chedet.co.cc/chedetblog/2010/04/malaysias-generosity.html">http://chedet.co.cc/chedetblog/2010/04/malaysias-generosity.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="color: #4b4a42; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Two Murphy Oil-Petronas PSCs off Brunei terminated<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #666666; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Written by Chua Sue-Ann / Friday, 23 April 2010 11:00<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">KUALA LUMPUR: Murphy Oil Corporation’s production sharing contracts (PSC) for the offshore exploration areas designated as Blocks L and M have been terminated by Petroliam Nasional Bhd (Petronas) as they “are no longer a part of Malaysia”.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The El Dorado, Arkansas-based </span><b><span style="color: red; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Murphy Oil announced to the New York Stock Exchange that the PSC was terminated after Malaysia and Brunei determined that the designated offshore areas were no longer a part of Malaysia</span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">“As a consequence, the production sharing contracts covering Blocks L and M, awarded in 2003 to Petronas Carigali Sdn Bhd and Murphy, were </span><b><span style="color: red; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">formally terminated by a letter dated April 7, 2010.</span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">“</span><b><span style="color: red; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Murphy’s potential participation in replacement production sharing contracts covering these areas is under discussion</span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">,” it told the exchange on Wednesday.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Commenting on this development yesterday, </span><b><span style="color: red; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">AmResearch Sdn Bhd said the PSC cancellation was unlikely to affect news flow of oil and gas projects, which were already under development in Malaysia</span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">“</span><b><span style="color: red; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Together with an expected pick-up in pace of new contract awards overseas in India, Brazil and the Middle East over the next three quarters, we remain positive on the sector’s prospects</span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">,” it said.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The research house remains overweight on the sector with its top pick being SapuraCrest Petroleum Bhd, given its huge order book, improving execution capabilities, healthy balance sheet, high stock liquidity and presence of Seadrill as a substantial shareholder as well. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">“We also like Kencana Petroleum, Coastal Contracts, Alam Maritim Resources, Tanjung Offshore, Dialog Group, Petronas Gas, Scomi Group and Wah Seong Corp. Our holds are KNM Group and Boustead Heavy Industries Corp,” it said. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The research house said the </span><b><span style="color: red; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">PSC termination was unlikely to affect Murphy’s current producing fields, which has been developed such as Kikeh block, which lies in Block K, not in the area under dispute with Brunei.</span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: red; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The second deepwater project Gumusut-Kakap and the next six projects — Malikai, Kebabangan, Jangas, Ubah Crest, Pisangan and Kamunsu — are also not in blocks L and M</span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">, it said. <br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><b><u><span lang="MS" style="color: black; font-size: 12pt;">MURPHY OIL CORPORATION ANNOUNCES TERMINATION OF PRODUCTION SHARING CONTRACTS FOR BLOCKS L AND M IN MALAYSIA<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS" style="color: black; font-size: 12pt;">April 21, 2010<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS" style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">EL DORADO, Arkansas, April 21, 2010 – Murphy Oil Corporation (NYSE:MUR) announced that it has been </span><b><span lang="MS" style="color: red; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">informed by PETRONAS</span></b><span lang="MS" style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"> that following </span><b><span lang="MS" style="color: red; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">the execution of the Exchange of Letters between Malaysia and the Sultanate of Brunei on March 16, 2009, the offshore exploration areas designated as Block L and Block M are no longer a part of Malaysia.</span></b><span lang="MS" style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"> <o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS" style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">As a consequence, </span><b><span lang="MS" style="color: red; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">the production sharing contracts covering Blocks L and M, awarded in 2003 to PETRONAS Carigali Sdn Bhd and Murphy, were formally terminated by letter dated April 7, 2010.</span></b><span lang="MS" style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"> Murphy’s potential participation in replacement production sharing contracts covering these areas is under discussion<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS" style="color: black; font-size: 12pt;">This press release contains forward-looking statements as defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These statements, which express management’s current views concerning future events or results, are subject to inherent risks and uncertainties. Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied in our forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, the volatility and level of crude oil and natural gas prices, the level and success rate of our exploration programs, our ability to maintain production rates and replace reserves, political and regulatory instability, and uncontrollable natural hazards. For further discussion of risk factors, see Murphy’s 2009 Annual Report on Form 10-K on file with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Murphy undertakes no duty to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><a href="http://www.murphyoilcorp.com/ir/modal.aspx?ID=836">http://www.murphyoilcorp.com/ir/modal.aspx?ID=836</a><span style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><h1 style="text-align: justify;"><u><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Murphy Oil block interests off Malaysia terminated<o:p></o:p></span></u></h1><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="articlepublicationdatecnt"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Apr 22, 2010 </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Eric Watkins<o:p></o:p></span></strong></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><em><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">OGJ Oil Diplomacy Editor<o:p></o:p></span></em></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><span> </span><strong><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">LOS ANGELES, Apr. 22</span></strong> -- Murphy Oil Corp.’s interests in Blocks L and M off Malaysia have been terminated after resolution of a dispute with Brunei over control of the assets. <br />
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Murphy was informed by state-owned Petronas that the two blocks are no longer a part of the country following an agreement between Malaysia and the Sultanate of Brunei. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Murphy said its potential participation in replacement production-sharing contracts (PSCs) covering these areas is “under discussion.”<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">The announcement follows recent reports that the two southeast Asian countries are trying to implement an agreement made in March 2009 to establish a commercial arrangement area. <br />
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<b><span style="color: red;">That agreement ended a dispute that erupted in 2003 when Petronas and Murphy were awarded two offshore leases, SB L and SB M. The blocks overlapped with Brunei's Blocks J and K, which had been awarded to Total SA and Royal Dutch Shell PLC.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">In a recent report, <b><span style="color: red;">the Economist Intelligence Unit noted that Brunei and Malaysia are “inching closer towards resolving their border disputes.</span></b>”<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: red; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">EIU noted in particular that “agreement on the land border could pave the way for a deal on the maritime border that would allow both countries to benefit from the discovery of new oil and gas deposits.”<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><span> </span><br />
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BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12pt;">Friday, April 23, 2010<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN" style="color: red; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">BRUNEI can start drilling soon in offshore Blocks J and K as the Sultanate retains ownership of the two blocks under a deal made last year with the Malaysian government</span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Second Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Pehin Orang Kaya Pekerma Dewa Dato Seri Setia Lim Jock Seng during a telephone interview yesterday confirmed this, adding that "<b><span style="color: red;">this has been sorted out during last year's agreement and is nothing new</span></b>".<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Asked whether Brunei can start drilling in the offshore blocks soon, Pehin Dato Lim said "Yes".<br />
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US-based Murphy Oil Corporation released a press statement yesterday saying that Petroliam Nasional Bhd (Petronas) has terminated its production sharing contracts of Blocks L and M (referred to as Blocks J and K in Brunei) as the two blocks are no longer part of Malaysia.<br />
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"Following the execution of the Exchange of Letters between Malaysia and Brunei on March 16, 2009, the offshore exploration areas designated as Block L and Block M are no longer a part of Malaysia," the statement added.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Yves Grosjean, general manager of Total E&P Borneo BV and Total E&P Deep Offshore Borneo BV, in a telephone interview with The Brunei Times <b><span style="color: red;">explained that Malaysia refers to Brunei's Blocks J and K as Blocks L and M</span></b>.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">"This could be very good news for us if what Murphy Oil writes is correct, Blocks J and K could be under Brunei's sovereign," he said, adding that they are awaiting more developments on the matter.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Grosjean also said that <b><span style="color: red;">Brunei's Block J was previously commissioned to Murphy Oil under Petronas, but wasn't sure about Block K.</span></b><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">According to the <b><span style="color: red;">petroleum map from the Brunei's Petroleum Unit, Block K was awarded in 2003 to a consortium made up of Shell Deepwater Borneo, Mitsubishi and ConocoPhilips. </span></b><br />
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During last month's State Legislative Council, <b><span style="color: red;">Pehin Dato Lim said that Brunei and Malaysia would start talks to resolve the land border demarcation issue in April.</span></b><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Pehin Dato Lim also noted the <b><span style="color: red;">recent establishment of a joint technical committee that would finalise the formalities of the boundary demarcation</span></b>.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN" style="color: red; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The modalities of the final demarcation of land boundaries were included in the Letters of Exchange (LoE), signed by leaders of both countries in March last year. The LoE was intended to settle the long-standing land and maritime boundary issues between the two countries.</span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
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Grosjean in a previous interview said that Block J is projected to produce more than 150,000 to 200,000 barrels per day, adding that the magnitude of this growth would mean doubling oil production in Brunei.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">"I think we are lucky. <b><span style="color: red;">I'm very pleased (that Total was) chosen by the Bruneian government to explore Block J initially and we are pleased to have this relationship</span></b>. Situations where there are disputed areas are not uncommon, especially in the oil industry or related to hydrocarbons. In actual fact, it usually takes a long time to come to a solution and the fact that we are about seven years into this situation, with positive signs of a conclusion this year, is something commendable for the Bruneian and Malaysian governments," he said, adding that working to an agreeable solution is not so common elsewhere in the world.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The Malaysian Embassy in Brunei could not be reached as of press time.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The Brunei Times<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</ol><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS" style="color: black; font-size: 12pt;">Both Leaders believe that the above-mentioned signing and exchange of letters will pave the way for the development of strategic partnership and closer collaboration between the two countries in all fields, especially trade and investment, energy and hydrocarbon resources, tourism, education, agriculture, infrastructure, banking, halal industry and people-to-people contacts with special focus on the Malaysian States of Sabah and Sarawak. The Leaders also believe that brotherly relations between Brunei Darussalam and Malaysia will contribute to the promotion of peace and prosperity in the region.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS" style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Bandar Seri Begawan<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS" style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">16 March 2009<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shapetype id="_x0000_t75" coordsize="21600,21600"
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Updated: Monday March 16, 2009 MYT 4:56:20 PM<o:p></o:p></span></h3><div class="MsoNormal" style="-moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; -moz-background-origin: padding; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 16.1pt; text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="MS" style="font-size: 12pt;">BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN</span></b><span lang="MS" style="font-size: 12pt;">: In a historic move, <b><span style="color: red;">Brunei has officially dropped its long-standing claim over Sarawak's Limbang district, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi said on Monday. <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; -moz-background-origin: padding; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 16.1pt; text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="MS" style="color: red; font-size: 12pt;">This was the result of the two countries resolving their various land and sea territorial disputes</span></b><span lang="MS" style="font-size: 12pt;">, he said.<b><span style="color: red;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; -moz-background-origin: padding; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 16.1pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS" style="font-size: 12pt;">"<b><span style="color: red;">Brunei has decided to drop the Limbang issue and as a result, Limbang is part of Malaysian territory</span></b>," he told a press conference with the Malaysian media at the Malaysian High Commission here.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; -moz-background-origin: padding; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 16.1pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS" style="font-size: 12pt;">"With this resolution, there are no more issues to haunt the close relationship between Brunei and Malaysia," he said.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; -moz-background-origin: padding; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 16.1pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS" style="font-size: 12pt;">The resolution was part of several disputes which were settled and sealed with the signing of Letters of Exchange by Abdullah and the Sultan of Brunei Sultan Hasannal Bolkiah at Istana Nurul Iman here on Monday.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; -moz-background-origin: padding; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 16.1pt; text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="MS" style="color: red; font-size: 12pt;">The other disputes include questions over where the common maritime boundary of the two countries in the South China Sea should run, the rights to exploit potentially rich oil deposits in the disputed maritime territory, the right of movement by Malaysian vessels over Brunei waters and the demarcation of the common boundary of the two countries.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; -moz-background-origin: padding; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 16.1pt; text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="MS" style="color: red; font-size: 12pt;">The dispute over Limbang can be traced back to the cession of the territory by Brunei to Sarawak's White Rajahs in 1890. The cession has been strongly disputed by the Sultanate which regarded the transfer as annexation by Sarawak.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; -moz-background-origin: padding; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 16.1pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS" style="font-size: 12pt;">The cession of Limbang resulted in a significant reduction of Bruneian territory and cut the sultanate into two parts.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; -moz-background-origin: padding; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 16.1pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS" style="font-size: 12pt;">On Monday, Abdullah thanked the Sultan for the resolution of the various disputes and especially that of Limbang.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; -moz-background-origin: padding; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 16.1pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; -moz-background-origin: padding; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 16.1pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS" style="font-size: 12pt;">He said bilateral relations between the two countries would now enter a new era.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; -moz-background-origin: padding; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 16.1pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS" style="font-size: 12pt;">On the points in the Letters of Exchange, Abdullah and the Sultan in a joint statement said they had reached agreement over the final maritime boundaries between the two countries in the South China Sea.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; -moz-background-origin: padding; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 16.1pt; text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="MS" style="color: red; font-size: 12pt;">They also agreed to establish a "commercial arrangement area" where oil and gas revenue in the disputed area would be shared between the two countries. How much each country would get was however not disclosed.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; -moz-background-origin: padding; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 16.1pt; text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="MS" style="color: red; font-size: 12pt;">The two countries also agreed to the existence of "unsuspendable rights of maritime access"</span></b><span lang="MS" style="font-size: 12pt;"> which guaranteed the right of movement by Malaysia vessels through Bruneian territorial waters provided Brunei's laws and regulations are observed.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; -moz-background-origin: padding; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 16.1pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS" style="font-size: 12pt;">Lastly, the Letters of Exchange also established the methods to demarcate the land boundary between Brunei and Malaysia.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; -moz-background-origin: padding; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 16.1pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS" style="font-size: 12pt;">With the resolution of the maritime boundary delimitation issue, <b><span style="color: red;">the leaders said the two countries would be able to embark on new developments in their respective areas.</span></b><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; -moz-background-origin: padding; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 16.1pt; text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="MS" style="color: red; font-size: 12pt;">The negotiations, which began in 1995, took 39 rounds of talks to reach resolution.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; -moz-background-origin: padding; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 16.1pt; text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="MS" style="color: red; font-size: 12pt;">The dispute over maritime territory arose out of a 1979 map published by Malaysia which indicated that all deep sea territorial waters off the coast of Brunei belonged to Malaysia</span></b><span lang="MS" style="font-size: 12pt;">. <b><span style="color: red;">The latest incident related to the dispute over maritime territory occurred in 2003 when Malaysia and Brunei awarded petroleum production-sharing contracts to four exploration blocks in the disputed area, close to where a 440 million-barrel discovery had been made the year before.</span></b><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; -moz-background-origin: padding; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 16.1pt; text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="MS" style="color: red; font-size: 12pt;">Petronas awarded its two blocks to US oild firm Murphy Oil while Brunei awarded one of its blocks to France's Total, BHP Billiton and Hess Corp and the othr to Shell, Mitsubishi and Conoco-Phillips.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; -moz-background-origin: padding; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 16.1pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS" style="font-size: 12pt;">Following the dispute, both countries agreed to stop drilling activities in the area. Earlier, before the signing ceremony, Abdullah had a four-eyed meeting with the Sultan at the Palace.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; -moz-background-origin: padding; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 16.1pt; text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="MS" style="color: red; font-size: 12pt;">Sarawak Chief Minister Tan Sri Abdul Taib Mahmud said the resolution of the question over the ownership of Limbang would enable several projects in the Sarawak district</span></b><span lang="MS" style="font-size: 12pt;">, which could benefit Brunei to proceed.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; -moz-background-origin: padding; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 16.1pt; text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="MS" style="color: red; font-size: 12pt;">He said one of them was the construction of a hydroelectric dam across the Sungai Limbang where electricity could be supplied to Brunei</span></b><span lang="MS" style="font-size: 12pt;">.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; -moz-background-origin: padding; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 16.1pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS" style="font-size: 12pt;">”This will bring Sarawak and Brunei closer together as we can supply electricity to Brunei,” he told a press conference at the Malaysia High Commission.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; -moz-background-origin: padding; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 16.1pt; text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="MS" style="color: red; font-size: 12pt;">On whether the resolution of the Limbang question would bring about easier access between that district and the rest of Sarawak, Taib said the problem was more to do with finding a convenient practice for immigration and customs checks.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; -moz-background-origin: padding; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 16.1pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS" style="font-size: 12pt;">He said the two countries had already agreed to using indentity cards instead of passports and further fine-tuning of the procedures could enable easier passage of people passing through checkpoints on the Brunei-Malaysia border.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; -moz-background-origin: padding; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 16.1pt;"><span lang="MS" style="font-size: 12pt;">Limbang's road network is cut off from the rest of Sarawak and those travelling to the district have to pass through two border checkpoints.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; -moz-background-origin: padding; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 16.1pt;"><span lang="MS" style="font-size: 12pt;"><a href="http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?sec=nation&file=/2009/3/16/nation/20090316130057">http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?sec=nation&file=/2009/3/16/nation/20090316130057</a><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><h1 style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><u><span lang="MS" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Limbang issue was never discussed: Pehin Dato Lim <o:p></o:p></span></u></h1><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS">Ubaidillah Masli BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN Wednesday, March 18, 2009<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="MS" style="color: red;">THE Second Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Pehin Orang Kaya Pekerma Dewa Dato Seri Setia Lim Jock Seng yesterday clarified that the issue of territorial claims over Limbang was never discussed in the agreements signed on Monday, which resolved the "outstanding bilateral issues" between Brunei Darussalam and Malaysia.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS">"From a press report, (it was stated that) Brunei has accepted Malaysia's reported claim on Limbang or that it (Brunei) has dropped its claim (on Limbang). <b><span style="color: red;">In actual fact, the issue of claims over Limbang was never discussed</span></b>," Pehin Dato Lim said. "<b><span style="color: red;">What was discussed is regarding the demarcation of land boundaries</span></b>."<br />
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The second minister of foreign affairs and trade had been referring to statements reported by news publications which quoted Malaysian Prime Minister Dato' Seri Abdullah Hj Ahmad Badawi speaking to Malaysian reporters at a press conference, saying that Brunei had dropped all territorial claims over Limbang as a result of the signing of the Letters of Exchange (LoE).<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS">"Brunei has decided to drop the Limbang issue and as a result, Limbang is part of Malaysian territory, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi announced to Malaysian media," according to a report by Malaysian newspaper The Star yesterday.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS">However, <b><span style="color: red;">Pehin Dato Lim neither confirmed nor denied the Malaysian premier's statement</span></b>.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS">Pehin Dato Lim made the announcement during the afternoon session of yesterday's State Legislative Council meeting, where he reiterated the joint statement issued by the leaders of both nations regarding the signing of the LoE and its contents.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS">According to the statement, the documents included the "final delimitation of maritime boundaries" between Brunei Darussalam and Malaysia, the establishment of the Commercial Arrangement Area in oil and gas, the modalities for the final demarcation of the land boundaries between the two countries and the "unsuspendable rights of maritime access" for nationals and residents of Malaysia crossing Brunei maritime zones to and from Sarawak, provided that Brunei's laws and regulations are observed.<br />
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Quoting the joint statement, Pehin Dato Lim said that the demarcation of land boundaries would be resolved on the basis of five existing historical agreements between the governments of Brunei and Sarawak, and where appropriate, the watershed principle.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS">Also during the State Legislative Council Meeting, Dato Paduka Hj Puasa Orang Kaya Seri Pahlawan Tudin raised issues pertaining to problems, such as long traffic queues, encountered by travellers passing through checkpoints at Kuala Lurah and Puni. He asked whether there would be any improvement to infrastructure at these control posts to address these problems.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS">In response to this, Pehin Dato Lim said that plans were in place to resolve the situation but could not be carried out until the border issue was resolved. A joint technical committee has been assigned to finalise the formalities of the boundary demarcation. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS">The Brunei Times<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><u><span lang="MS" style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><a href="http://www.bt.com.bn/node/68177/print">http://www.bt.com.bn/node/68177/print</a><o:p></o:p></span></u></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><u><span lang="MS" style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Isu tuntutan Brunei keatas Limbang - NDP minta ketelusan dan rakyat di rundingi<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS" style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">LIMBARUH HIJAU 19 MAC 2009 - PARTI PEMBANGUNAN BANGSA (NDP) sangat mengalu-alukan penjelasan yang di buat oleh </span><b><span lang="MS" style="color: red; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Pehin Dato Seri Lim Jock Seng, Menteri Hal Ehwal Luar Negeri dan Perdagangan mengenai kedudukan tuntutan Brunei keatas Limbang</span></b><span lang="MS" style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"> walaupun penjelasan sedemikian sepatutnya dibuat awal-awal lagi bagi mengelakkan kekeliruan di kalangan rakyat dan penduduk Brunei terutama mereka yang masih berkampong dalam kawasan yang di pertikai yang juga merupakan 'stake holder' terbesar dalam isu ini.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS" style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">"</span><b><span lang="MS" style="color: red; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Dalam masa sama NDP juga berpandagan kekeliruan yang timbul berikutan kenyataan yang di buat oleh Perdana Menteri Malaysia, Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi boleh di elakkan sekiranya pihak-pihak berkenaan di Brunei awal-awal lagi lebih bersikap telus dalam menangani isu penyelesaian pertikaian sempadan antara Brunei dan Malaysia dan isu Limbang tersebut</span></b><span lang="MS" style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">", tegas Timbalan Presiden NDP, sdr Mahmud Morshidi Othman ketika di minta pandangan mengenai isu-isu tersebut.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="style2" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS" style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">"Justeru atas sebab inilah (kesamaran maklumat) juga kenapa NDP awal-awal lagi tidak berani membuat sebarang komen", tambah beliau.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS" style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">"</span><b><span lang="MS" style="color: red; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Namun demikian apa yang jelas sekarang dan perlu di ambil iktibar oleh semua pihak isu pertikaian sempadan dan isu tuntutan Brunei keatas Limbang sangat menarik minat semua lapisan rakyat dan penduduk di negara ini. Kita dapat merasakan kekecewaaan ramai apabila media-media tempatan dan luar negeri menyiarkan berita yang mendakwa Brunei telah mengugurkan tuntutan keatas Limbang</span></b><span lang="MS" style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">".<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS" style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Dalam hal ini dan berpandukan penjelasan yang di buat oleh Pehin Dato Lim Jock Seng, tambah sdr Morshidi, </span><b><span lang="MS" style="color: red; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">NDP berpandangan isu sempadan dan isu tuntutan Brunei keatas Limbang merupakan dua isu yang berasingan</span></b><span lang="MS" style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS" style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">"Justeru </span><b><span lang="MS" style="color: red; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">NDP melihat perjanjian yang baru di tandatangani untuk penyelesaian isu sempadan Brunei dan Malaysia hanya merupakan satu pra syarat kearah penyelesaian abadi isu tuntutan Brunei keatas Limbang</span></b><span lang="MS" style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">".<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS" style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">"</span><b><span lang="MS" style="color: red; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Dalam lain perkataan NDP melihat penadatanganan Surat Pertukaran bagi penyelesaian isu sempadan darat dan laut antara Brunei dan Malaysia tidak merobah sedikitpun kedudukan Brunei dalam isu tuntutannya keatas Limbang</span></b><span lang="MS" style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">".<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS" style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">"Apa yang perlu di perjelaskan sekarang sama ada Brunei masih berminat untuk meneruskan tuntutannya keatas Limbang. Perkara ini masih samar-samar dan perlu di perjelaskan bagi mengelakkan andaian-andaian yang kurang sihat". <o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS" style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">"Jika sekiranya Brunei masih berminat apakah syarat-syarat yang perlu di tetapkan oleh pihak Brunei untuk jalan penyelesaian isu tersebut?", ujar sdr Morshidi.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS" style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Walau bagaimanapun </span><b><span lang="MS" style="color: red; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">penjelasan Pehin Dato Lim Jock Seng sedikit membuatkan NDP berasa lega memandangkan Brunei masih di kedudukan yang kukuh dalam isu sempadan dan tuntutan Brunei keatas Limbang</span></b><span lang="MS" style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS" style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Katanya lagi NDP seterusnya berharap pihak kerajaan akan lebih telus dalam menangani isu yang sangat menyentuh jiwa rakyat dan penduduk yang merupakan 'stake holders' terbesar dalam hal yang bukan sahaja semata-mata bagi kepentingan masa depan ekonomi negara bahkan dalam skop yang lebih luas juga turut menyentuh maruah bangsa, kedaulatan, keselamatan dan keutuhan wilayah.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS" style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">"Dalam konteks ini NDP juga berharap pihak kerajaan akan merundingi rakyat dalam proses mencari jalan penyelesaian tuntutan Brunei katas Limbang", tegas sdr Morshidi.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS" style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">"</span><b><span lang="MS" style="color: red; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Keputusan untuk mengugurkan tuntutan Brunei keatas Limbang merupakan satu keputusan yang terlalu besar untuk di buat justeru rakyat perlu di rundingi untuk sama-sama bertanggungjawab kepada sejarah dan agar bukan satu pihak sahaja akan di persalahkan jika keputusan yang di ambil jelas, dalam jangka panjang, akan merugikan negara</span></b><span lang="MS" style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">", tambah sdr Morshidi. 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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><strong><u><span lang="MS" style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Limbang tidak pernah jadi isu perbincangan<o:p></o:p></span></u></strong></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS" style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN 19 Mac 2009 - </span><b><span lang="MS" style="color: red; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Isu Limbang tidak pernah dirundingkan oleh pihak Kerajaan Negara Brunei Darussalam dan Kerajaan Malaysia dan tidak dimuktamadkan mengenainya dalam dokumen Pertukaran Surat-Surat antara kedua-dua negara yang ditandatangani semalam</span></b><span lang="MS" style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS" style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Apa yang </span><b><span lang="MS" style="color: red; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">sebenarnya dirundingkan ialah berkenaan dengan sempadan darat seluruhnya</span></b><span lang="MS" style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">, tegas Menteri Hal Ehwal Luar Negeri dan Perdagangan II Pehin Dato Seri Setia Lim Jock Seng dalam sesi petang Majlis Mesyuarat Negara hari ini. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS" style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Beliau menjelaskan demikian ketika mengulas laporan kononnya Brunei telah menggugurkan tuntutan ke atas Limbang serta beberapa tuntutan lain yang diminta oleh Malaysia dan dilaporkan dalam beberapa buah akhbar hari ini. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS" style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Perkara berkenaan juga dibangkitkan oleh Dato Paduka Haji Puasa Tudin yang mahukan penjelasan mengenai perjanjian antara Kerajaan Negara Brunei Darussalam dengan Kerajaan Malaysia yang menyentuh mengenai tuntutan Brunei ke atas Limbang. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="MS" style="color: red; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Pehin Dato Seri Setia Lim berkata perenggan tiga kenyataan akhbar bersama yang dikeluarkan petang semalam menyebut kedua-dua pihak bersetuju kepada asas-asas bagi penyelesaian isu-isu yang telah berpanjangan seperti menggunakan perjanjian-perjanjian yang telah lama wujud sebagai asas dan prinsip-prinsip watershed</span></b><span lang="MS" style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS" style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Selepas itu </span><b><span lang="MS" style="color: red; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">satu kumpulan petugas (working group) yang akan melibatkan Juru Ukur Agung kedua-dua pihak akan menetapkan aspek-aspek teknikal untuk menyelesaikan sempadan darat, jelasnya</span></b><span lang="MS" style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS" style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Beliau berkata </span><b><span lang="MS" style="color: red; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">perenggan enam kenyataan akhbar bersama</span></b><span lang="MS" style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"> itu ada menyebutkan: "Pembatasan sempadan-sempadan tanah di antara kedua-dua buah negara akan diselesaikan berdasarkan kepada lima buah perjanjian bersejarah yang ada pada masa ini di antara kerajaan negara ini dengan kerajaan Sarawak dan juga jika bersesuaian prinsip-prinsip watershed, sejurus itu segala isu berkaitan dengan sempadan-sempadan tanah kedua-dua buah negara akan diselesaikan mengikut apa yang berpatutan." <o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS" style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Ketika membuat penjelasan itu, beliau membaca tiga perenggan yang relevan dengan soalan yang ditimbulkan itu iaitu perenggan dua, tiga dan enam. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="MS" style="color: red; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Perenggan dua kenyataan akhbar bersama</span></b><span lang="MS" style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"> itu menyebutkan: "Pemimpin kedua-dua buah negara telah mengadakan perjumpaan empat mata di Istana Nurul Iman pada 16 Mac 2009, kedua-dua pemimpin juga menandatangani Pertukaran Surat-Surat yang menandakan kejayaan perundingan terhadap isu-isu dua hala yang belum selesai di antara Negara Brunei Darussalam dan Malaysia." <o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS" style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Menurutnya, perundingan berkenaan yang telah berlangsung sejak beberapa tahun kebelakangan ini mengambil kira kriteria-kriteria berasaskan kepada sejarah, undang-undang dan faktor lain yang boleh diterima oleh kedua-dua pihak. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="MS" style="color: red; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Perenggan tiga kenyataan akhbar bersama</span></b><span lang="MS" style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"> itu pula menyebutkan: "Kedua-dua pemimpin mengambil maklum persetujuan yang dicapai oleh kerajaan Negara Brunei Darussalam dan Malaysia terhadap perkara-perkara utama yang terkandung di dalam Pertukaran Surat-Surat." <o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="MS" style="color: red; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Perenggan tiga</span></b><span lang="MS" style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"> itu juga menyebutkan bahawa itu termasuk pengehadan sempadan maritim kedua-dua buah negara, penubuhan Commercial Arrangement Area (CAA) di bidang minyak dan gas, cara-cara penyelesaian pembatasan sempadan tanah kedua-dua buah negara dan hak-hak laluan maritim yang berterusan bagi rakyat dan penduduk Malaysia di seberang zon-zon maritim Brunei sama ada bagi mereka yang melawati atau memulai perjalanan dari Sarawak, Malaysia mengikut undang-undang dan peraturan-peraturan Negara Brunei Darussalam." <o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS" style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Dalam majlis di Istana Nurul Iman semalam itu, Kebawah Duli Yang Maha Mulia Paduka Seri Baginda Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah Mu'izzaddin Waddaulah Sultan dan Yang Di-Pertuan Negara Brunei Darussalam berkenan menandatangani Pertukaran Surat-Surat dengan Perdana Menteri Malaysia Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="MS" style="color: red; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Kenyataan akhbar Jabatan Perdana Menteri Brunei Darussalam menyebut: "Penandatanganan Pertukaran Surat-Surat merupakan satu peristiwa dan bersejarah bagi Negara Brunei Darussalam dan Malaysia." <o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="MS" style="color: red; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Sementara itu Datuk Seri Abdullah ketika bercakap kepada wartawan Malaysia selepas majlis itu semalam mendakwa Brunei secara rasminya menggugurkan tuntutannya sejak sekian lama terhadap Limbang, bahagian di utara Sarawak. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS" style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Agensi berita rasmi Malaysia, Bernama mengutip beliau sebagai berkata perkara itu adalah sebahagian daripada peristiwa bersejarah berikutan pemeteraian Pertukaran Surat-Surat antara kedua-dua negara. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS" style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">"</span><b><span lang="MS" style="color: red; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Persetujuan yang dicapai dalam Pertukaran Surat-Surat itu ialah penyelesaian isu tuntutan ke atas Limbang yang Brunei telah gugurkan dan ini bermakna Limbang kini telah menjadi sebahagian Malaysia</span></b><span lang="MS" style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">," katanya pada persidangan akhbar itu seperti dilaporkan oleh Bernama. 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</ol><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18pt; text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="MS" style="color: red; font-size: 12pt;">Altogether 207.3 km of boundary had been agreed on but another 274 km of boundary now had to be worked out together using watershed principles</span></b><span lang="MS" style="color: #333333; font-size: 12pt;"> where appropriate. Officially a </span><b><span lang="MS" style="color: red; font-size: 12pt;">watershed is the "entire region drained by a waterway that drains into a lake or reservoir; total area above a given point on a stream that contributes water to the flow at that point; the topographic dividing line from which surface streams flow in two different directions."</span></b><span lang="MS" style="color: #333333; font-size: 12pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS"><a href="http://bruneiresources.blogspot.com/2009/03/brunei-limbang-boundaries-101.html">http://bruneiresources.blogspot.com/2009/03/brunei-limbang-boundaries-101.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></div><h3 style="-moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; -moz-background-origin: padding; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;"><span lang="MS" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></h3><h3 style="-moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; -moz-background-origin: padding; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;"><u><span lang="MS" style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Penjelasan Rais isu Limbang<o:p></o:p></span></u></h3><div style="-moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; -moz-background-origin: padding; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; line-height: 15.6pt; text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="MS" style="color: red; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Lima perjanjian berkenaan ialah:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div style="-moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; -moz-background-origin: padding; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; line-height: 15.6pt; text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="MS" style="color: red; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">i. Perjanjian Mengenai Sungai Pandaruan dan daerahnya pada 4 Februari 1920.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div style="-moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; -moz-background-origin: padding; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; line-height: 15.6pt; text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="MS" style="color: red; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">ii. Perjanjian Sempadan Sungai Belait dan Sungai Baram 25 Ogos 1931.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div style="-moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; -moz-background-origin: padding; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; line-height: 15.6pt; text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="MS" style="color: red; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">iii. Perjanjian Antara Brunei dan Sarawak mengenai Trusan dan Temburong.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div style="-moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; -moz-background-origin: padding; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; line-height: 15.6pt; text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="MS" style="color: red; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">iv. Perjanjian Antara Brunei dan Sarawak mengenai Sempadan Limbang dan Brunei dari Pantai ke Bukit Gadong 24 Februari 1933.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div style="-moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; -moz-background-origin: padding; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; line-height: 15.6pt; text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="MS" style="color: red; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">v. Perjanjian 4 November 1939 antara kedua-dua pihak.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><a href="http://www.utusan.com.my/utusan/info.asp?y=2010&dt=0509&pub=Utusan_Malaysia&sec=Dalam_Negeri&pg=dn_01.htm">http://www.utusan.com.my/utusan/info.asp?y=2010&dt=0509&pub=Utusan_Malaysia&sec=Dalam_Negeri&pg=dn_01.htm</a><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b><u><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Oil & Gas Activities & Opportunities – By The Petroleum Unit, Brunei Darussalam<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">UPSTREAM ACTIVITIES<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Concession Areas<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: red; font-size: 12pt;">The Petroleum Unit acts on behalf of the Government of His Majesty the Sultan and Yang Di-Pertuan of Brunei Darussalam as a regulatory body prudently monitors and oversees all activities that are carried out by concessionaires holding concession areas in Brunei Darussalam. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt;">Two major concessionaires are currently operating in Brunei Darussalam. They are Brunei Shell Petroleum Company Sdn Bhd (BSP) and Total E&P Deep Offshore Borneo B.V.(Total). Brunei Shell Petroleum Sdn Bhd is a company jointly owned by the Government of His Majesty the Sultan and Yang Di-Pertuan of Brunei Darussalam and Royal Dutch Shell. Total is the operator for Block B joint venture. Offshore Block B joint venture has its interest shared between the Government of His Majesty the Sultan and Yang Di-Pertuan of Brunei Darussalam, Total and Shell Deepwater Borneo respectively. Both BSP and Total now operate the 6,319.71 sq.km concession areas. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-right: 37.45pt; margin-top: 18.8pt; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Production-Sharing Agreement Areas</span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-right: 37.45pt; margin-top: 18.8pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Block J was awarded to a three-member consortium comprising Total, BHP Billiton and Amerada Hess as its successful bidder. The award was officially announced in 2003. Block K, was awarded to a consortium comprising Shell Deepwater Borneo, Mitsubishi and Conoco-Phillips.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt;">Both onshore Block L and Block M with sizes 2,250 sq.km and 3,010 sq.km respectively were opened for bidding to international oil and gas companies in October 2005. In 2006, Block L was awarded to Loon Energy Inc. and QAF Brunei Sdn Bhd. Block M was awarded to China Oil USA (Macao) Co Ltd (ChinaOil), Valiant International Petroleum Ltd and Jana Corporation Sdn Bhd.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-right: 37.45pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The deepwater and onshore blocks are designated areas of PetroleumBRUNEI, the National Petroleum Company of Brunei Darussalam.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-top: 18.8pt; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Open Areas<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-top: 18.8pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt;">Other open areas that will be made available for future exploration activities include the relinquished areas within the shallow water regions of the Brunei waters and the northern ultra-deepwater areas within the boundaries of the Brunei Exclusive Economic Zone up to and include the 200 nautical miles extent.</span><b><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><h1 style="text-align: justify;"><u><span lang="MS" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Early British intel report highlights Limbang legacy<o:p></o:p></span></u></h1><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Rozan Yunos<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN <o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Sunday, April 26, 2009<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS" style="font-size: 12pt;">MANY Brunei historians are familiar with the report on Brunei Darussalam prepared by MSH McArthur in 1904. That report influenced the British government that the remnants of the maritime power of Brunei should remain an independent country.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS" style="font-size: 12pt;">However, another much shorter report on Brunei was presented by another British civil servant, H Conway Belfeld, just one year later.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS" style="font-size: 12pt;">Not much is known about Belfeld, but on June 5, 1905 he filed a short report entitled "Report upon the Present Condition of Affairs in Labuan and Brunei" to Sir John Anderson, the Governor of the Straits Settlements Government from 1904-1911 and also British High Commissioner. The report was published in Kuala Lumpur by the Federated Malay States Government Press.<br />
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The 10-page report focused slightly more on Labuan (five and three-quarter pages). Labuan was seen as deteriorating and "signs of decadence are apparent in decaying wharves the almost total absence of movement at the water side".<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS" style="font-size: 12pt;">Government buildings in Labuan were described as "shabby" and the report noted there had been emigration to Brunei and Sarawak.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS" style="font-size: 12pt;">Before 1846, Labuan was part of Brunei. However, in 1846 Sultan Omar Ali Saifuddin II ceded the island to Britain and the island became a Crown Colony in 1848.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS" style="font-size: 12pt;">By the time the Belfeld report was written, Labuan had been part of North Borneo since January 1, 1890.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS" style="font-size: 12pt;">Belfeld acknowledged that McArthur had furnished full information about Brunei and that he did not have to write a long report, which is why Belfeld's paper focused more on Labuan than Brunei.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS" style="font-size: 12pt;">However, his report added and substantiated quite a number of issues. Belfeld was in Brunei for about three days, spending most of his time interviewing the Sultan, other Malay Chiefs and pangerans.<br />
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He was very optimistic. After meeting the Sultan and the other noblemen, he acknowledged that he had not produced a definite result, but he hoped that the meetings had left an impression on the Sultan and the other noblemen.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS" style="font-size: 12pt;">He was also well aware of the Malay style of negotiation, pakat. Obviously, Belfeld was experienced in Malay ways and had spent quite some time in the Malay states before coming to Labuan and Brunei.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS" style="font-size: 12pt;">Belfeld's description of Sultan Hashim depicted a ruler "whose intelligence to be more acute than he expected" and was "only stupid or deaf when it suits him to misunderstand a representation made to him. Upon subjects of interest to himself he is quite capable of arguing with some degree of force and logic".<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS" style="font-size: 12pt;">Belfeld added that "there is greater power of comprehension behind a somewhat immobile countenance than Mr McArthur gave him credit for".<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS" style="font-size: 12pt;">Sultan Hashim was ruling a country that was fast disappearing.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="MS" style="color: red; font-size: 12pt;">By 1905, the remnants of Brunei had already been cleaved in two, with Limbang forcibly taken by Rajah Brooke. Even though by then the British had not decided what to do with Brunei, McArthur's report had already recommended that Brunei be left as an independent nation and not be incorporated into Sarawak.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS" style="font-size: 12pt;">Belfeld's report also noted that Sultan Hashim had a "volubility which left him in no doubt as to the strength of his opinions regarding matters affecting the State".<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="MS" style="color: red; font-size: 12pt;">The Belfeld report also touched on the question of Limbang. He conveyed the British government's position that they would not pursue the issue any further.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS" style="font-size: 12pt;">However, Sultan Hashim had conveyed his position succinctly and forcibly. Belfeld's conclusion was similar to that of McArthur, that "it is improbable that His Majesty's Government (British Government) were in possession of all these facts when they gave consent to the transfer".<br />
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<b><span style="color: red;">At that time, Limbang was intertwined with Brunei and its loss not only crippled the resources of the government, but also affected trade and movement of people.</span></b><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="MS" style="color: red; font-size: 12pt;">Interestingly, Belfeld even recommended that should control of Brunei pass into hands other than those of its native rulers, the arrangement affecting such a change of administration should provide for the management of Limbang by the government of the state to which it properly belongs.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS" style="font-size: 12pt;">Belfeld also noted that Sultan Hashim and his ministers wanted a full-time British Consul in Brunei who would help in administration while leaving executive authority alone.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS" style="font-size: 12pt;">Sultan's Hashim reliance on Mr Roberts, manager of Island Trading Co Ltd, was also highlighted.<br />
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The company ran the cutch factory on the bank of the Brunei River and hired as many as 1,000 Brunei men. At the time, cutch was Brunei's largest export.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS" style="font-size: 12pt;">On the subject of the British Resident, Belfeld noted that most of Brunei's chiefs were ready to accept the assistance of an official adviser, provided that the "influence of that officer upon administration was tactfully brought to bear as to leave the Ruler and his Ministers the semblance of power to which they tenaciously cling to but have really lost already". This was no doubt due to the encroachments of Rajah Brooke on Brunei.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS" style="font-size: 12pt;">Rajah Brooke was at that time administering Brooketon (Muara) and was also at Buang Tawar. He had also acquired land at Kota Batu. Even though Rajah Brooke was an individual and private property owner, he was also exercising official jurisdiction in those areas.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS" style="font-size: 12pt;">However, some Brunei ministers supported Rajah Brooke. One in particular was said to be in the Rajah's pay and as the only chief in the country with any command of money, was able to impress his views on the ministers of Brunei. Belfeld noted that the best way to counteract this particular minister's view was to show the Sultan that another policy would serve him better.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS" style="font-size: 12pt;">Belfeld also reported on the poor state of trade and revenue for Brunei. His figures confirmed the information given by McArthur. Other than cutch, there was no other export. Belfeld noted that the introduction of a carefully regulated land system would eventually result in a material contribution to revenue.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS" style="font-size: 12pt;">This was no doubt the views of the British administrators. By 1909, the Torrens system of registering land ownership was in place, replacing the traditional recognition of land ownership that had been practised in Brunei for centuries.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS" style="font-size: 12pt;">Belfeld ended the report by noting that the work of administering Brunei would be difficult from the outset.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS" style="font-size: 12pt;">However, he was confident that it would be advisable to undertake control of the country with the consent of the Sultan, and that the country, its people and its trade would reap immediate benefit.Belfeld's report no doubt added to the force and strength of McArthur's 1904 Report and led to the 1906 signing of the treaty between Brunei Darussalam and United Kingdom.<br />
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This laid down the foundation of a new government with the formal introduction of the British Resident.<br />
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Let me first ask you this question: now just since </span><b><span style="color: red; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">when did Limbang “officially” become a part of Negara Brunei Darussalam to begin with? <o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div style="line-height: 18pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">I must be careful in this topic as I have many dear friends in Brunei Darussalam who had been with me over the years through thick and thin and the easiest way is not to write, but then again that won’t be just quite vintage me does it now? So I ask anyone who may be in the know here: </span><b><span style="color: red; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">since when did Limbang “officially” become part of modern Negara Brunei Darussalam to begin with</span></b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">? You can’t credibly answer that really, because </span><b><span style="color: red; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">it never did “officially” happened, just as it never did officially ever become a part of Malaysia just as well too. It was at best a long overdrawn stalemate and a long historical impasse on both nations dating back to the late 1890’s. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div style="line-height: 18pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Let’s go into more details here; </span><b><span style="color: red; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Brunei certainly does have some legitimate historical claim on Limbang as history had put it that Limbang had been seized by means of force by the misguided former Sarawak’s “White Rajah” the Raja Brooke in 1890 and was immediately deemed as the “Fifth Division” of Sarawak</span></b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">. Then the Japanese came, kick the white Rajahs out of business to a temporary exile in Australia and then back for good to ole’ England. Then finally after World War 2, I think it was the </span><b><span style="color: red; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">“Third White Rajah” Charles Vyner Brooke who simply decided that being a White Rajah was simply the wrong line of work for him, and later sold-off Sarawak “lock-stock-and barrel” with all of its territories to the British government for a purported sum of ₤5 million and this was back in the later part of 1946. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div style="line-height: 18pt; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: red; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Moving in time to the year 1963, Limbang had quietly sneaked in and gained independence from Britain together with Sabah and Sarawak in joining Malaysia and ever since then the status of Limbang has never been dealt with officially by either Malaysia or even Brunei.</span></b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"> It was even reported that in the March 2009 agreement between Pak Lah and Kerajaan Brunei Darussalam, in the very “L of A” that has now come to be in question, there was not even any specific mention of the word “Limbang” on any part of the deal, but specific geographical references has finally been thought to at least provide for the precise delineation of their boundaries on a basis that amounts to Brunei’s acceptance of the status quo. Everyone was playing safe and polite on the issue for so long as we could see here but truly it would prove to be at Malaysia’s expenses ultimately!<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="line-height: 18pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">There was nothing in Limbang except for a remote sea outpost well known for smuggling in liquor and pork into Brunei (no liquor or pork’s are “officially” sold in Brunei). However, it must be noted that Limbang's economical prerogative has always been with Malaysia as could be validated through a representation of a Malaysian Parliamentary seat (P221), and a Dewan Undangan Negeri seat (N68) for the Sarawak State Government level. Today you may even find a Kentucky Fried Chicken outlet in <a href="http://limbangplaza.blogspot.com/2008/05/limbang-plaza.html"><b>Plaza Limbang</b></a> and a local 4-star hotel adjoining the plaza. In 2008 Pak Lah had briefly talked about making Limbang as our "Jelapang Padi Ke-Dua Negara". But that went no where at all. If Pak Lah had seriously looked at the facts even this loose and simple, he would come to the realization that Limbang has been developed by the Malaysian government ever since 1963 and on that realization alone, it would make no sense to even think in the mind frame he was perhaps in during the March 2009 agreement. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="line-height: 18pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Factually, ever since 2003, in what Malaysia refers to as Block L and Block M, and in what reciprocally Brunei refers to as Block K and Block J had seen no oil-exploration activities pending outcome of this gridlock. 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We have to establish the facts of the matter first.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">“If what Dr M says is true, issues like this should never be hidden. Pak Lah must speak. If not, people would be jumping to conclusions,” he told <em><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">The Paper That Cares</span></em>.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Yesterday, Dr Mahathir in his blog <a href="http://www.chedet.com/" title="www.chedet.com">www.chedet.com</a>, claimed that Abdullah, during the latter’s tenure as PM, had agreed to surrender two blocks of oil producing offshore areas in the South China Sea — Block L and Block M — to Brunei in return for Limbang in Sarawak.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">He had written that Block L and Block M had been claimed by Malaysia based on historical facts. The two blocks were awarded to Petronas Carigali Sdn Bhd in 2003 and entered into a production sharing contract with Murphy Oil Corporation to start drilling.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">It was estimated that the reserves amounted to almost 1 billion barrels.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">“Abdullah has caused Malaysia to lose at least US100 billion dollars (about RM320 billion) of Malaysia’s oil in this agreement,” Dr Mahathir wrote.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">He had claimed that when Abdullah negotiated with Sultan of Brunei Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah, no Petronas representatives were present but only foreign office staff and the foreign affairs adviser to the PM were present.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Dr Mahathir has called for Wisma Putra to explain why it did not stop Abdullah. A Wisma Putra spokesman said they are still investigating the matter.<o:p></o:p></span></div><h2 style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 115%;">Abdullah says Cabinet approved boundary pact with Brunei<span style="color: #111111;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></h2><div style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">KUALA LUMPUR: (Bernama) -- </span><b><span lang="MS" style="color: red; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Tun Abdullah Ahmad Badawi said he signed a land and sea boundary agreement with Brunei in March 2009 in which two overlapping offshore exploration fields came under Brunei after it was approved by the Malaysian Cabinet a month earlier.</span></b><span lang="MS" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><br />
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In a statement on Friday, </span><b><span lang="MS" style="color: red; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">the former prime minister confirmed that Block L and Block M concessions now belonged to Brunei but the agreement provided that Malaysia would be allowed to participate in joint development of oil and gas on a commercial basis in the two areas for a period of 40 years.</span></b><span lang="MS" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">"</span><b><span lang="MS" style="color: red; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">The financial and operational modalities for giving effect to this arrangement will be further discussed by the two sides. This means that in so far as the oil and gas resources are concerned, the agreement is not a loss for Malaysia</span></b><span lang="MS" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">," said Abdullah who had visited Bandar Seri Begawan for a two-day working visit on March 15 and 16 last year before he stepped down as prime minister two weeks later on April 3.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Abdullah was responding to questions raised by his predecessor, Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad, who said Abdullah had surrendered the two blocks in negotiations with the Sultan of Brunei in exchange for Limbang which straddles the Sarawak-Brunei border.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Dr Mahathir said the loss of the two blocks cost Malaysia at least US$100 billion dollars (RM320 billion) from an estimated reserves of almost one billion barrels of oil.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Dr Mahathir also said Brunei had disclaimed that it had agreed to give up Limbang and Abdullah had made no mention of the two blocks when he announced that he had settled the Limbang claim.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Last week, United States-based Murphy Oil Corp said Malaysia's Petroliam Nasional Bhd (Petronas) had terminated the production sharing contracts for Blocks L and M as they "are no longer a part of Malaysia".<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Abdullah, </span><b><span lang="MS" style="color: red; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">revealing details of the agreement for the first time, said he had signed the Exchange of Letters with the Sultan of Brunei on March 16 last year in specific steps to finally establish a permanent land and sea boundary between the two countries.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">"In my capacity as the Prime Minister of Malaysia, I signed the Exchange of Letters with the Sultan of Brunei after the Malaysian Cabinet approved the deal on 11 February 2009," he said.<br />
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"</span><b><span lang="MS" style="color: red; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">This Exchange of Letters was a culmination of a long-standing issue between the two countries to arrive at a mutually beneficial arrangement, which allowed Petronas to enter into new production sharing contracts for both blocks</span></b><span lang="MS" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">," it said.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">It also said that </span><b><span lang="MS" style="color: red; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">following the Exchange of Letters, the production sharing contracts covering Blocks L and M, which were awarded in 2003 to Petronas Carigali Sdn Bhd and Murphy Sabah Oil Co Ltd, were formally terminated on April 7 this year as these blocks were no longer a part of Malaysia</span></b><span lang="MS" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="MS" style="color: red; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Blocks L and M were redesignated as Blocks CA1 and CA2 respectively</span></b><span lang="MS" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">, it said.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Former prime minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad, in a blog posting on Thursday, had questioned why the two blocks were no longer belonged to Malaysia and said that the loss could cost Malaysia at least US$100 million (RM320 million).<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Dr Mahathir claimed that his successor Tun Abdullah Ahmad Badawi had surrendered the two blocks in exchange for Limbang.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Abdullah, who signed the Exchange of Letters, clarified that the land and sea agreement with Brunei was approved by the Malaysian cabinet and that Malaysia would be allowed to participate in joint development of oil and gas on commercial basis in the two areas for a period of 40 years.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="MS" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><a href="http://www.mmail.com.my/content/35121-oil-blocks-giveaway-brunei">http://www.mmail.com.my/content/35121-oil-blocks-giveaway-brunei</a><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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font-size: 12pt;">PETALING JAYA: Former prime minister Tun Abdullah Ahmad Badawi has </span><b><span lang="MS" style="color: red; font-size: 12pt;">refuted claims by his predecessor that he signed away Malaysia’s rights to potential oil revenue in the South China Sea to Brunei.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; -moz-background-origin: padding; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; line-height: 13.15pt; margin-bottom: 9.4pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS" style="color: #333333; font-size: 12pt;">Abdullah, who signed an Exchange of Letters with Sultan of Brunei Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah on Feb 16 last year, said </span><b><span lang="MS" style="color: red; font-size: 12pt;">the agreement allowed Malaysia to join in the exploration of petroleum resources from two areas known as Blocks L and M</span></b><span lang="MS" style="color: #333333; font-size: 12pt;">.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; -moz-background-origin: padding; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; line-height: 13.15pt; margin-bottom: 9.4pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS" style="color: #333333; font-size: 12pt;">He said he signed the agreement after the </span><b><span lang="MS" style="color: red; font-size: 12pt;">Malaysian Cabinet approved the deal on Feb 11</span></b><span lang="MS" style="color: #333333; font-size: 12pt;">.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; -moz-background-origin: padding; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; line-height: 13.15pt; margin-bottom: 9.4pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS" style="color: #333333; font-size: 12pt;">While the agreement stated that </span><b><span lang="MS" style="color: red; font-size: 12pt;">the sovereign rights of the resources in the two areas belonged to Brunei, he said it also included a commercial arrangement where Malaysia would be allowed to participate on a commercial basis to jointly develop the oil and gas resources in the area for 40 years.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; -moz-background-origin: padding; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; line-height: 13.15pt; margin-bottom: 9.4pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS" style="color: #333333; font-size: 12pt;">“This means that in so far </span><b><span lang="MS" style="color: red; font-size: 12pt;">as the oil and gas resources are concerned, the agreement is not a loss for Malaysia</span></b><span lang="MS" style="color: #333333; font-size: 12pt;">,” he said in a statement yesterday.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="line-height: 18pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS" style="color: #333333;">Abdullah was responding to a blog posting by Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad, entitled “Malaysia’s Generosity”, which asked why the two blocks no longer belonged to Malaysia.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; -moz-background-origin: padding; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; line-height: 13.15pt; margin-bottom: 9.4pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS" style="color: #333333; font-size: 12pt;">Dr Mahathir said the two blocks had been claimed by Malaysia based on historical facts and Petronas had accordingly entered into a production sharing contract with US-based Murphy Oil to start drilling to produce oil.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; -moz-background-origin: padding; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; line-height: 13.15pt; margin-bottom: 9.4pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS" style="color: #333333; font-size: 12pt;">He said the estimated reserves in the two blocks amounted to almost one billion barrels.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; -moz-background-origin: padding; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; line-height: 13.15pt; margin-bottom: 9.4pt; text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="MS" style="color: red; font-size: 12pt;">Dr Mahathir said Abdullah had negotiated with the Sultan to get back Limbang, which was claimed by Brunei but, in return, surrendered the two blocks to Brunei</span></b><span lang="MS" style="color: #333333; font-size: 12pt;">.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; -moz-background-origin: padding; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; line-height: 13.15pt; margin-bottom: 9.4pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS" style="color: #333333; font-size: 12pt;">Dr Mahathir said Abdullah had also announced that the “Limbang Question” was settled but this was denied by Brunei the following day.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; -moz-background-origin: padding; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; line-height: 13.15pt; margin-bottom: 9.4pt; text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="MS" style="color: red; font-size: 12pt;">The blog was posted after a statement by Murphy Oil on April 21</span></b><span lang="MS" style="color: #333333; font-size: 12pt;"> saying its production sharing contracts covering Blocks L and M – which Brunei refers to as Blocks K and J respectively – awarded by Petronas Carigali Sdn Bhd in 2003 were formally terminated by a letter dated April 7 this year.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; -moz-background-origin: padding; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; line-height: 13.15pt; margin-bottom: 9.4pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS" style="color: #333333; font-size: 12pt;">It said this was the result of Petronas informing it that the two blocks were no longer part of Malaysia.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; -moz-background-origin: padding; 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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; -moz-background-origin: padding; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; line-height: 13.15pt; margin-bottom: 9.4pt; text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="MS" style="color: red; font-size: 12pt;">On Brunei’s denial that the Limbang Question was settled, Abdullah said the two countries had agreed to undertake a joint survey to demarcate the agreed boundary</span></b><span lang="MS" style="color: #333333; font-size: 12pt;">.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; -moz-background-origin: padding; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; line-height: 13.15pt; margin-bottom: 9.4pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS" style="color: #333333; font-size: 12pt;">He said firstly, </span><b><span lang="MS" style="color: red; font-size: 12pt;">the joint survey would confirm on the ground the boundary in five sectors which had already been established by previous agreements in 1920, 1931, 1933 (two agreements) and in 1930.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; -moz-background-origin: padding; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; line-height: 13.15pt; margin-bottom: 9.4pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS" style="color: #333333; font-size: 12pt;">Secondly, he said in the </span><b><span lang="MS" style="color: red; font-size: 12pt;">other sectors where no land boundary agreement existed, the joint survey would determine the land boundary based on the watershed principle</span></b><span lang="MS" style="color: #333333; font-size: 12pt;">.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; -moz-background-origin: padding; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; line-height: 13.15pt; margin-bottom: 9.4pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS" style="color: #333333; font-size: 12pt;">“</span><b><span lang="MS" style="color: red; font-size: 12pt;">When the entire boundary demarcation exercise is completed, there will be establised a final and permanent boundary between Sarawak on the Malaysian side and Brunei on the other side</span></b><span lang="MS" style="color: #333333; font-size: 12pt;">,” Abdullah added.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="MS" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><a href="http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2010/5/1/nation/6173470&sec=nation">http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2010/5/1/nation/6173470&sec=nation</a><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="line-height: 18pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><h2><u><span lang="MS" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; line-height: 115%;">Sabah’s Block M and Block L, Is No Longer Part of Malaysia<o:p></o:p></span></u></h2><div style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">I remember during <b><span style="color: red;">Mahathir’s time the Federal government was trying to sell part of Limbang to the Sultanate of Brunei behind close doors</span></b>. Somehow the news leaked. <b><span style="color: red;">There was so much opposition from all quarters during that period of time that the Federal government had no choice but to abort the deal</span></b>. Never cross my mind, that while everyone one was watching Limbang so closely there was another deal which was struck right under our noses. This time it was a territory belonging to Sabah and not Sarawak and the beneficiary Brunei. An age-old conspiracy was being consummated right under our nose.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">See Map below. <b><span style="color: red;">Block L and Block M belongs to Sabah, Malaysia</span></b>.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">On September 28th, 2003, there was a production sharing contract for Block L and Block M between U S based Murphy Oil Corp and our Petronas Carigali Sdn Bhd for 250,000-300,000 bpd with a life span of between 15 to 20 years.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">But on Wednesday April 21, 2010, Murphy Oil Corp on its website said Petroliam Nasional Bhd (Petronas) has terminated the production sharing contracts for Blocks L and M as they “are no longer a part of Malaysia”.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="line-height: 18pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">It seems Murphy Oil Corp was informed by Petronas following the execution of the exchange of letters between Malaysia and Brunei on March 16, 2009, that the offshore exploration areas designated as Block L and Block M were no longer a part of Malaysia.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">“As a consequence, the production sharing contracts covering Blocks L and M, awarded in 2003 to Petronas Carigali Sdn Bhd and Murphy, were formally terminated by letter dated April 7, 2010,” Murphy Oil Corp said.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Wow, how did this happen? How come the Federal Government can give away its territory without the knowledge of its citizens. Can they do it? <b><span style="color: red;">These two blocks Block M and Block L is close to 6000 square Kilometers</span></b>. These two blocks can produce 250,000-300,000 bpd and has a life span of between 15 to 20 years. This works out to RM1.19 billion a year and RM17.85 billion over the lifespan of these two blocks. This works out to USD20.5 million or RM65.6 million per day in revenue!<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="MS" style="color: red; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">With oil royalty for Sabah at 5%, this means Sabah will lose out RM3.28 million a day.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">I am truly shocked. What is actually happening here? Is there a side deal between our politicians and the Brunei Sultanate?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><h1 style="-moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; -moz-background-origin: padding; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; line-height: 22.55pt; margin-bottom: 6.25pt;"><u><span lang="MS" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Petronas: Malaysia still has oil exploration deal with Brunei<span style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></u></h1><h3 style="-moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; -moz-background-origin: padding; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; margin-bottom: 6.25pt;"><span lang="MS" style="color: #999999; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 115%;">Sunday May 2, 2010<o:p></o:p></span></h3><div class="MsoNormal" style="-moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; -moz-background-origin: padding; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; line-height: 13.15pt; margin-bottom: 9.4pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS" style="color: #333333; font-size: 12pt;">PETALING JAYA: </span><b><span lang="MS" style="color: red; font-size: 12pt;">Malaysia will still have a commercial partnership with Brunei to develop petroleum resources from two areas in the South China Sea, according to Petronas</span></b><span lang="MS" style="color: #333333; font-size: 12pt;">.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; -moz-background-origin: padding; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; line-height: 13.15pt; margin-bottom: 9.4pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS" style="color: #333333; font-size: 12pt;">In a statement issued yesterday, the </span><b><span lang="MS" style="color: red; font-size: 12pt;">National Petroliam Corporation said it wanted to clarify that following the Exchange of Letters, Petronas was invited by Brunei to enter into an agreement to develop Blocks CA1 and CA2 on a commercial arrangement basis</span></b><span lang="MS" style="color: #333333; font-size: 12pt;">.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; -moz-background-origin: padding; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; line-height: 13.15pt; margin-bottom: 9.4pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS" style="color: #333333; font-size: 12pt;">“</span><span lang="MS" style="color: red; font-size: 12pt;">Petronas has set up a team that has begun negotiations with Brunei to work out the terms for this commercial arrangement</span><span lang="MS" style="color: #333333; font-size: 12pt;">. Both parties are committed to arriving at a mutually beneficial arrangement as soon as possible,” the statement added.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; -moz-background-origin: padding; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; line-height: 13.15pt; margin-bottom: 9.4pt; text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="MS" style="color: red; font-size: 12pt;">Former Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad had claimed that Block L and M (which have been redesignated as Block CA1 and CA2) belonged to Malaysia originally and that his successor Tun Abdullah Ahmad Badawi had signed away Malaysia’s rights to Brunei</span></b><span lang="MS" style="color: #333333; font-size: 12pt;">.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; -moz-background-origin: padding; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; line-height: 13.15pt; margin-bottom: 9.4pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS" style="color: #333333; font-size: 12pt;">In his blog posting entitled “Malaysia’s Generosity”, Dr Mahathir wrote that Abdullah had negotiated with the Sultan to get back Limbang, which was claimed by Brunei, but in return, surrendered the two blocks to Brunei.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; -moz-background-origin: padding; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; line-height: 13.15pt; margin-bottom: 9.4pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS" style="color: #333333; font-size: 12pt;">Abdullah had refuted Mahathir’s claims, saying that the agreement allowed Malaysia to join in the exploration of petroleum resources from the two areas.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; -moz-background-origin: padding; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; line-height: 13.15pt; margin-bottom: 9.4pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS" style="color: #333333; font-size: 12pt;">He said he signed the agreement after the Cabinet approved the deal.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><a href="http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2010/5/2/nation/6176292&sec=nation">http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2010/5/2/nation/6176292&sec=nation</a><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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Updated: Monday May 3, 2010 MYT 1:09:27 PM<o:p></o:p></span></h3><div class="MsoNormal" style="-moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; -moz-background-origin: padding; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; line-height: 13.15pt; margin-bottom: 9.4pt; text-align: justify;"><span class="storyheader2"><b><span lang="MS" style="color: #333333; font-size: 12pt;">Brunei is entitled to exercise sovereign rights over the area under the provisions of the UN Convention of the Law of the Sea (Unclos) 1982: Wisma Putra</span></b></span><span lang="MS" style="color: #333333; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; -moz-background-origin: padding; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; line-height: 13.15pt; margin-bottom: 9.4pt; text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="MS" style="color: #333333; font-size: 12pt;">PETALING JAYA:</span></b><span lang="MS" style="color: #333333; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><b><span lang="MS" style="color: red; font-size: 12pt;">Brunei has sovereign rights over two oil-rich areas under the provisions of the UN Convention of the Law of the Sea (Unclos) 1982 and the areas would be jointly developed with Malaysia, said the Malaysian Foreign Ministry in a statement.</span></b><span lang="MS" style="color: #333333; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; -moz-background-origin: padding; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; line-height: 13.15pt; margin-bottom: 9.4pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS" style="color: #333333; font-size: 12pt;">As such, </span><b><span lang="MS" style="color: red; font-size: 12pt;">the “handing over” of the two petroleum blocks by Malaysia to Brunei via the Exchange of Letters signed in 2009 was in line with international law, the statement said Monday.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; -moz-background-origin: padding; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; line-height: 13.15pt; margin-bottom: 9.4pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS" style="color: #333333; font-size: 12pt;">“</span><b><span lang="MS" style="color: red; font-size: 12pt;">Malaysia's oil concession Blocks L and M which coincided with Brunei's Blocks J and K are recognised under the Exchange of Letters as being situated within Brunei's maritime areas and over which Brunei is entitled to exercise sovereign rights under Unclos</span></b><span lang="MS" style="color: #333333; font-size: 12pt;">,” it said.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; -moz-background-origin: padding; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; line-height: 13.15pt; margin-bottom: 9.4pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS" style="color: #333333; font-size: 12pt;">It said </span><b><span lang="MS" style="color: red; font-size: 12pt;">the Government terminated the production sharing contracts over the two blocks to Petronas Carigali Sdn Bhd and Murphy Oil that was awarded in 2003 after the Letters of Exchange were signed in 2009</span></b><span lang="MS" style="color: #333333; font-size: 12pt;">.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; -moz-background-origin: padding; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; line-height: 13.15pt; margin-bottom: 9.4pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS" style="color: #333333; font-size: 12pt;">The letters also provided for a commercial arrangement to develop the area jointly with Petronas, the statement said.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; -moz-background-origin: padding; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; line-height: 13.15pt; margin-bottom: 9.4pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS" style="color: #333333; font-size: 12pt;">The controversy over the two blocks arose after former Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad, in a blog posting, asked why the two blocks no longer belonged to Malaysia.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; -moz-background-origin: padding; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; line-height: 13.15pt; margin-bottom: 9.4pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS" style="color: #333333; font-size: 12pt;">He alleged that former Prime Minister Tun Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, who together with Sultan of Brunei Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah signed the Exchange of Letters, had given away the blocks to Brunei in 2009 in exchange for Brunei dropping its claims on Limbang in Sarawak.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; -moz-background-origin: padding; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; line-height: 13.15pt; margin-bottom: 9.4pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS" style="color: #333333; font-size: 12pt;">Abdullah, who refuted this, said in a statement that Malaysia and Brunei had agreed to establish a final and permanent sea boundary in an exchange of letters on March 16, 2009.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; -moz-background-origin: padding; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; line-height: 13.15pt; margin-bottom: 9.4pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS" style="color: #333333; font-size: 12pt;">He had said that, while sovereign rights to the resources in the area now belonged to Brunei, the agreement included an arrangement under which Malaysia was allowed to participate commercially for a period of 40 years.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; -moz-background-origin: padding; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; line-height: 13.15pt; margin-bottom: 9.4pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS" style="color: #333333; font-size: 12pt;">On the land boundary, both sides agreed to a joint survey to demarcate the agreed boundary that would be final and permanent, he had said.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; -moz-background-origin: padding; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; line-height: 13.15pt; margin-bottom: 9.4pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; -moz-background-origin: padding; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; line-height: 13.15pt; margin-bottom: 9.4pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; -moz-background-origin: padding; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; line-height: 13.15pt; margin-bottom: 9.4pt; text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="MS" style="color: #333333; font-size: 12pt;">Below is the full text of the statement from the Foreign Ministry:</span></b><span lang="MS" style="color: #333333; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; -moz-background-origin: padding; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; line-height: 13.15pt; margin-bottom: 9.4pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS" style="color: #333333; font-size: 12pt;">“The Exchange of Letters between YAB Dato' Seri Abdullah Haji Ahmad Badawi, Prime Minister of Malaysia, and His Majesty Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah Mu'izzaddin Waddaulah on 16 March 2009, </span><b><span lang="MS" style="color: red; font-size: 12pt;">represents an agreement which has settled various outstanding issues between the two countries</span></b><span lang="MS" style="color: #333333; font-size: 12pt;">.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; -moz-background-origin: padding; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; line-height: 13.15pt; margin-bottom: 9.4pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS" style="color: #333333; font-size: 12pt;">The key elements are </span><b><span lang="MS" style="color: red; font-size: 12pt;">the final delimitation of maritime boundaries between Malaysia and Brunei Darussalam, the establishment of a Commercial Arrangement Area (CAA) for oil and gas, the modalities for the final demarcation of the land boundary between Malaysia and Brunei Darussalam, and unsuspendable rights of maritime access for nationals and residents of Malaysia across Brunei Darussalam's maritime zones</span></b><span lang="MS" style="color: #333333; font-size: 12pt;">.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; -moz-background-origin: padding; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; line-height: 13.15pt; margin-bottom: 9.4pt; text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="MS" style="color: red; font-size: 12pt;">With regard to the maritime areas, the Exchange of Letters established the final delimitation of territorial sea, continental shelf and exclusive economic zone of both States</span></b><span lang="MS" style="color: #333333; font-size: 12pt;">.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; -moz-background-origin: padding; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; line-height: 13.15pt; margin-bottom: 9.4pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS" style="color: #333333; font-size: 12pt;">Malaysia's oil concession Blocks L and M which coincided with Brunei Darussalam's Blocks J and K are recognised under the Exchange of Letters as being situated within Brunei Darussalam's maritime areas, over </span><b><span lang="MS" style="color: red; font-size: 12pt;">which Brunei Darussalam is entitled to exercise sovereign rights under the relevant provisions of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea 1982 (UNCLOS 1982).<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; -moz-background-origin: padding; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; line-height: 13.15pt; margin-bottom: 9.4pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS" style="color: #333333; font-size: 12pt;">The establishment of the CAA incorporating these Blocks provides for a sharing of revenues from the exploitation of oil and gas in the CAA between the two States.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; -moz-background-origin: padding; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; line-height: 13.15pt; margin-bottom: 9.4pt; text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="MS" style="color: red; font-size: 12pt;">The termination of the Production Sharing Contracts covering Blocks L and M which were awarded by Petronas to Petronas Carigali Sdn Bhd and Murphy Oil in 2003 is in accordance with the establishment of the CAA as provided for in the Exchange of Letters</span></b><span lang="MS" style="color: #333333; font-size: 12pt;">.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; -moz-background-origin: padding; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; line-height: 13.15pt; margin-bottom: 9.4pt; text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="MS" style="color: red; font-size: 12pt;">The Exchange of Letters is the culmination of 20 years</span></b><span lang="MS" style="color: #333333; font-size: 12pt;"> of tough negotiations between Malaysia and Brunei Darussalam on various issues including maritime boundaries.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; -moz-background-origin: padding; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; line-height: 13.15pt; margin-bottom: 9.4pt; text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="MS" style="color: red; font-size: 12pt;">The contents of the Exchange of Letters between the leaders of the countries were approved by the Malaysian Cabinet on 11 February 2009.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; -moz-background-origin: padding; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; line-height: 13.15pt; margin-bottom: 9.4pt; text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="MS" style="color: red; font-size: 12pt;">The State Governments of Sabah and Sarawak were consulted and fully briefed on the contents of the Exchange of Letters.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; -moz-background-origin: padding; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; line-height: 13.15pt; margin-bottom: 9.4pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS" style="color: #333333; font-size: 12pt;">The Exchange of Letters resulted in a new beginning in the bilateral relations between the two States.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; -moz-background-origin: padding; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; line-height: 13.15pt; margin-bottom: 9.4pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS" style="color: #333333; font-size: 12pt;">The Exchange of Letters which resolved the outstanding bilateral issues between Malaysia and Brunei Darussalam through amicable settlement will strengthen the existing relationship and enhance good neighbourliness between the two States.”<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><a href="http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2010/5/3/nation/20100503123605&sec=nation">http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2010/5/3/nation/20100503123605&sec=nation</a><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; -moz-background-origin: padding; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;"><b><span lang="MS" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><a href="http://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/fmt-english/politics/sabah-and-sarawak/5166-oil-blocks-deal-huge-financial-loss-for-sabah">Oil blocks deal: Huge financial loss for Sabah </a><o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; -moz-background-origin: padding; background: rgb(247, 247, 247) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;"><span class="createdate1"><span lang="MS" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; text-transform: uppercase;">Tue, 04 May 2010 09:00 </span></span><span lang="MS" style="color: #999999; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; text-transform: uppercase;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; -moz-background-origin: padding; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; margin: 9.4pt 0in; text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS" style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">By Queville To<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; -moz-background-origin: padding; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; margin: 9.4pt 0in; text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS" style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">KOTA KINABALU: </span><b><span lang="MS" style="color: red; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The contentious ceding of two oil blocks, which sit on Sabah waters, by the federal government to Brunei in March 2009 as part of a ‘deal’ to retain Limbang in Sarawak has cost Sabah RM16 billion in potential oil royalties, according to former Sabah chief minister Yong Teck Lee.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; -moz-background-origin: padding; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; margin: 9.4pt 0in; text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS" style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">He said </span><b><span lang="MS" style="color: red; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">the oil blocks L and M sat on three million acres of Sabah’s maritime territory and apart from depriving the state of oil royalties based on former prime minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad’s estimates, the Cabinet decision was also unconstitutional</span></b><span lang="MS" style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; -moz-background-origin: padding; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; margin: 9.4pt 0in; text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS" style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Yong said </span><b><span lang="MS" style="color: red; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">ceding a territory from Sabah required the consent of the Sabah state legislative assembly and the conference of rulers. This is stipulated in Article 2 of the Federal Constitution.</span></b><span lang="MS" style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; -moz-background-origin: padding; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; margin: 9.4pt 0in; text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS" style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">“The only one time that such consent under Article 2 was given was on March 8 1984 when the Federal Territory of Labuan Enactment 1984 was passed in the state legislative assembly.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; -moz-background-origin: padding; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; margin: 9.4pt 0in; text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS" style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">“</span><b><span lang="MS" style="color: red; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">It was one of the major acts of the then state government that caused its own downfall the following year</span></b><span lang="MS" style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">,” he pointed out in a statement issued today.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; -moz-background-origin: padding; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; margin: 9.4pt 0in; text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS" style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Yong, who is also President of Sabah Progressive Party (SAPP), further noted that </span><b><span lang="MS" style="color: red; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">it was only when Sabah (then North Borneo) together with Sarawak, Singapore and Malaya formed Malaysia in 1963, that the Malaysia territorial map was enlarged to include the Borneo states and their territories. The formation came with historical right</span></b><span lang="MS" style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; -moz-background-origin: padding; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; margin: 9.4pt 0in; text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="MS" style="color: red; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">This territory, he said, included Sipadan and Ligitan islands and the seas now known as Block L and M in the Petronas offshore plans.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; -moz-background-origin: padding; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; margin: 9.4pt 0in; text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS" style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Yong was commenting on Mahathir’s recent disclosure and comment that Malaysia’s right to Block L and M is based on historical right and that the loss of these blocks has made Malaysia lose RM 320 billion in oil in an area the was the size of the states of Perlis, Penang, Malacca and Selangor combined.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; -moz-background-origin: padding; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; margin: 9.4pt 0in; text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; -moz-background-origin: padding; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; margin: 9.4pt 0in; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; -moz-background-origin: padding; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; margin: 9.4pt 0in; text-align: justify;"><strong><span lang="MS" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 115%;">Unanswered questions<o:p></o:p></span></strong></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; -moz-background-origin: padding; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; margin: 9.4pt 0in; text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS" style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Yong said Malaysians in Sabah have a right to know if:</span><b><span lang="MS" style="color: red; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div><ul style="margin-top: 0in;" type="square"><li class="MsoNormal" style="-moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; -moz-background-origin: padding; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: red; margin-bottom: 9.4pt; margin-top: 9.4pt; text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="MS" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Sabah Chief Minister Musa Aman and his state cabinet had consented to surrendering part of the state's maritime territory</span></b><span lang="MS" style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> by the then Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi.</span><b><span lang="MS" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="-moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; -moz-background-origin: padding; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: red; margin-bottom: 9.4pt; margin-top: 9.4pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS" style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">What is the state government going to do about the </span><b><span lang="MS" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">loss of territory and potential oil royalties</span></b><span lang="MS" style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">? Based on the present five percent, the royalties are worth RM16 billion.</span><b><span lang="MS" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="-moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; -moz-background-origin: padding; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: red; margin-bottom: 9.4pt; margin-top: 9.4pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS" style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Did the </span><b><span lang="MS" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">federal ministers from Sabah know about the deal and what is their stand</span></b><span lang="MS" style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">.</span><b><span lang="MS" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="-moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; -moz-background-origin: padding; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: red; margin-bottom: 9.4pt; margin-top: 9.4pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS" style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Has treason been committed by Abdull and his cabinet colleagues for surrendering national territory without the necessary approvals of Parliament, state legislative assembly and the conference of rulers?</span><b><span lang="MS" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="-moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; -moz-background-origin: padding; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: red; margin-bottom: 9.4pt; margin-top: 9.4pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS" style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Why was there haste in surrendering the territory just weeks before a change of prime minister in March 2009?</span><b><span lang="MS" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="-moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; -moz-background-origin: padding; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: red; margin-bottom: 9.4pt; margin-top: 9.4pt; text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="MS" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Are the boundaries of Blocks L and M clearly demarcated by lines joining geographical co-ordinates in a certified map at the National Mapping Malaysia and the Sabah Department of Lands and Survey</span></b><span lang="MS" style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">? </span><b><span lang="MS" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></li>
</ul><div class="MsoNormal" style="-moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; -moz-background-origin: padding; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; margin: 9.4pt 0in; text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS" style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Yong also urged the </span><b><span lang="MS" style="color: red; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Barisan Nasional state government to make public the terms and conditions of the surrender of Blocks L and M and publish a map of Sabah that includes its maritime territory</span></b><span lang="MS" style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">. He said </span><b><span lang="MS" style="color: red; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">the state government should claim compensation from the federal government for the loss of Sabah’s maritime territory, shipping rights, fisheries and other resources in the area</span></b><span lang="MS" style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">. The </span><b><span lang="MS" style="color: red; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">federal government should also pay compensation of RM16 billion for the loss of the five percent petroleum royalties from the RM320 billion in oil revenues</span></b><span lang="MS" style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">, he said.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; -moz-background-origin: padding; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; margin: 9.4pt 0in; text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS" style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">"</span><b><span lang="MS" style="color: red; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The state government should insist that any future treaties and international agreements affecting Sabah shall require the explicit and official consent of the state government</span></b><span lang="MS" style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">.<br />
“We must not allow a precedent for the federal government to sell of chunks of Sabah to foreign countries. “If the Sabah state government is unable, unwilling or afraid to take up these responsibilities, then it should promptly dissolve the Sabah state legislative assembly so that fresh elections can be called to elect a new state government that can protect the rights and interests of Sabah,” he said<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; -moz-background-origin: padding; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; margin: 9.4pt 0in;"><span lang="MS" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><a href="http://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/fmt-english/politics/sabah-and-sarawak/5166-oil-blocks-deal-huge-financial-loss-for-sabah">http://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/fmt-english/politics/sabah-and-sarawak/5166-oil-blocks-deal-huge-financial-loss-for-sabah</a><span style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><h2><u><span lang="MS" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; line-height: 115%;">“Surrendering” Blocks L & M<o:p></o:p></span></u></h2><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="date"><span lang="MS" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">May 5, 2010</span></span><span lang="MS" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> <span class="addcomment"><a href="http://foaw.wordpress.com/2010/05/05/surrendering-blocks-l-m/#respond">Leave a comment</a></span> <span class="comments"><a href="http://foaw.wordpress.com/2010/05/05/surrendering-blocks-l-m/#comments">Go to comments</a></span> <o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Ah, the famous Blocks L and M, or Blocks J and K, if you are a Bruneian (see map above). Ever since the <a href="http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2010/5/4/nation/6186133&sec=nation">news</a> came up, many people have been particularly vociferous about the issue. Some actually called for the former Prime Minister to be tried for treason for “surrendering national territory” while <a href="http://www.sabahkini.net/v1/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3935:ceding-of-blocks-l-a-m-to-brunei-illegal&catid=35:berita-sabah&Itemid=27">others</a> have called it “unconstitutional because [it is] an act of ceding territory of a State (of Sabah)”, and questioned why the Sabah State Government was not asked its permission. Serious allegations indeed.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">The reality is, <b><span style="color: red;">before the Exchange of Letters and agreement as was executed by the former PM, Malaysia was standing on rather flimsy grounds as far as international laws apply when Malaysia claimed the disputed areas as its Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ). The relevant law is UNCLOS (United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, 1982) which was both ratified by Brunei and Malaysia, and came into force as international law in 1994. (<a href="http://www.un.org/Depts/los/convention_agreements/texts/unclos/unclos_e.pdf"><span style="color: red;">Download</span></a> full text of UNCLOS 1982, and see the history of the EEZ as a legal regime <a href="http://www.fao.org/docrep/s5280T/s5280t0p.htm"><span style="color: red;">here</span></a>.)<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">I quote <b><span style="color: red;">Article 56 of UNCLOS, which covered the rights, jurisdiction and duties of the coastal State in the EEZ: <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div><div style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="MS" style="color: red; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">In the exclusive economic zone, the coastal State has: (a)sovereign rights for the purpose of exploring and exploiting, conserving and managing the natural resources, whether living or non-living, of the waters superjacent to the seabed and of the seabed and its subsoil, and with regard to other activities for the economic exploitation and exploration of the zone, such as the production of energy from the water, currents and winds… <o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">As you can see, a nation, in claiming an EEZ, has only certain rights (certainly, these rights cover subsea minerals, including oil and gas) and are far more limited as opposed to what it can exercise on land or within its 12-nautical miles territorial seas. Also, under UNCLOS, a country can claim an EEZ that starts at the seaward edge of its territorial sea and extends outward to a distance of 200 nautical miles from the baseline. The coastal nation also have rights to the seabed of the continental shelf up to 350 nautical miles from the coastal baseline, where this extends beyond the EEZ. The exception to this rule occurs when EEZs would overlap; that is, national coastal baselines are less than 400 nautical miles apart. When an overlap occurs, it is up to the states to delineate the actual boundary.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">As you can see from the map above, certainly <b><span style="color: red;">Brunei has every right under UNCLOS to claim its EEZ. In fact, I am surprised that the Bruneians even deigned to throw a gratuitous bone to Malaysia in granting joint-exploration rights for 40 years in the two blocks.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Finally, let us talk about “Sabah’s” oil. <b><span style="color: red;">Beyond 3 nautical miles of the Sabah shore, any subsea minerals, be it oil, gas or others, is not Sabah (as a state entity) to own</span></b>. Let me explain: (and you lawyers knowledgeable in Federal-State laws probably know this a lot more) <b><span style="color: red;">The limit of state waters, under Malaysian Laws, only goes to the 3 nautical miles seaward; anything further is under Federal Jurisdiction—fisheries, mining, navigation, land, environment, etc. (That is why Pulau Layang-Layang is a federal territory, and why the Sabah Government do not issue land titles or TOL in these far areas.)</span></b> <o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="MS" style="color: red; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">The Sabah Planning Bill, if I am not mistaken, only covers Sabah’s 3-nautical-miles waters, and which extends a bit more in the West Coast—the sea areas between Kota Kinabalu to Kota Belud, and the two islands, Mantanani and Megalum.</span></b><span lang="MS" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"> So, at least in legal terms, Sabah is on shaky foundations to sue for “its” oil and gas. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape
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font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">In a media statement, Wong, who is DAP Sarawak chairperson, questioned </span><b><span lang="MS" style="color: red; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">the role of the Sarawak government on this issue and why the Federal government did not consult the state government<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS" style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Wong called for a detailed explanation from the state government as to whether it was aware of such "trades" involving Limbang and Blocks L and M.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS" style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">He said the state government needs to clarify immediately whether it has neglected the interest of Sarawakians by giving up the jurisdiction on the two disputed oil-rich blocks to the Federal government.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS" style="color: black; 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font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 115%;">Revealed by Mahathir<o:p></o:p></span></strong></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS" style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad last week revealed that the two disputed oil-rich blocks are no longer rightfully owned by Malaysia which had incurred a possible loss in excess of up to RM320 billion.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS" style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Dr M had also accused his successor Abdullah Ahmad Badawi of giving away these rights to oil earnings for the exchange of Limbang in Sarawak. Both the Block L and M are situated offshore near Limbang.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS" style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Up till now, the Brunei government has not made it clear regarding its stand on the territorial disputes involving Limbang, according to Wong's statement.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS" style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">"Sarawakians deserve to know the truth about the handover of offshore oil blocks L and M to Brunei last March," said Wong<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS" style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Wong said he would raise the issue at the May 17 state assembly with two other Pakatan Rakyat state assemblymen. — <em><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Malaysian Mirror<o:p></o:p></span></em></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><a href="http://www.malaysianmirror.com/sabahsarawakdetail/12-sabahsarawak/38843-oilsovereignty-why-sarawak-not-consulted">http://www.malaysianmirror.com/sabahsarawakdetail/12-sabahsarawak/38843-oilsovereignty-why-sarawak-not-consulted</a><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span lang="MS" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">SABAH RIGHTS AND INTERESTS HAVE BEEN SACRIFICED</span></u></b><span lang="MS" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="MS" style="color: #999999; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Wednesday, 05 May 2010 07:03<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6.25pt; text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="MS" style="font-size: 12pt;">By: YONG TECK LEE<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6.25pt; text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="MS" style="color: red; font-size: 12pt;">THE weak explanation by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs that Petronas has been given commercial right to operate oil Blocks J and K in Brunei under commercial arrangement CA1 and CA2 (also known as Blocks L and M in Malaysia) has exposed the fact that the federal government has sacrificed Sabah’s rights and interests. In effect, the ministry was trying to explain an illegal and unconstitutional act. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6.25pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS" style="font-size: 12pt;">The Ministry had asserted that the key elements of the Exchange of Letters in Brunei on March 16, 2009 between Malaysia and Brunei was the delimitation of maritime boundaries, maritime access, commercial arrangement for oil and gas and land boundaries. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6.25pt; text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="MS" style="color: red; font-size: 12pt;">Why then did the then Prime Minister not mention anything about oil and gas and the loss of maritime territories when he proclaimed that Brunei had agreed to drop their claim on Limbang after the Exchange of Letters on March 16, 2009</span></b><span lang="MS" style="font-size: 12pt;"> between him and the Sultan of Brunei?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6.25pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS" style="font-size: 12pt;">In fact, immediately after our then Prime Minister’s declaration that Brunei had dropped their claim on Limbang, the Brunei Second Foreign Minister issued a vehement denial that Brunei had dropped the Limbang Claim. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6.25pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS" style="font-size: 12pt;">There was no response from Malaysia. So, at the time, <b><span style="color: red;">I had thought that it was the Bruneians who had got themselves a bad deal without realizing it until it was too late</span></b>. This is because I was doubtful that Malaysia would make such a mistake in bilateral negotiations. As we now know, <b><span style="color: red;">our then Prime Minister had told only half the truth by disclosing the Limbang issue but not the loss of the oil blocks</span></b>.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6.25pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS" style="font-size: 12pt;">Instead of disclosing the loss of our maritime territories, the then Prime Minister chose to declare only that Brunei has dropped its claim on Limbang. Why was the Prime Minister completely silent on the loss of Blocks L and M that Malaysia has signed away?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6.25pt; text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="MS" style="color: red; font-size: 12pt;">Why were the Malaysian people, including ex-Prime Minister Tun D. Mahathir Mohamed, made to wait until the announcement by Murphy Oil Corporation in the New York Stock Exchange on 22 April 2010 that the two blocks are “no longer a part of Malaysia”</span></b><span lang="MS" style="font-size: 12pt;">? The announcement shows that prior to the Exchange of Letters, the blocks were indeed a part of Malaysia. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6.25pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS" style="font-size: 12pt;">Why were Petronas, the Prime Minister and our Sabah Chief Minister completely silent on such an important issue? Was there something to hide? Or did the government find it impossible to justify the contents of letters of March 16, 2009? Why was neither Parliament nor the Sabah State Legislative Assembly informed?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6.25pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><h1 style="-moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; -moz-background-origin: padding; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;"><u><span lang="MS" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Persempadanan semula untungkan Malaysia-Brunei?<o:p></o:p></span></u></h1><div style="-moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; -moz-background-origin: padding; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;"><span class="author"><span lang="MS" style="color: #666666; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Neo Chee Hua | </span></span><span class="dated11"><span lang="MS" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 5.5pt;">May 04, 2010</span></span><span class="author"><span lang="MS" style="color: #666666; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"> </span></span><span class="dated11"><span lang="MS" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 5.5pt;">03:47:53 pm<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Isu pertukaran Limbang dengan lapangan minyak Blok L dan M semakin hangat dipertikaikan. Semua pihak yang terlibat, termasuklah bekas PM Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, PM Najib Razak, Kementerian Luar Negeri, hinggalah Petronas memberi penjelasan bahawa ini formula penyelesaian yang menguntungkan kedua-dua pihak, Malaysia dan Brunei.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Namun demikian, <b><span style="color: red;">apa yang terdedah setakat ini hanyalah kehilangan hak milik Malaysia ke atas Lapangan Minyak Blok L dan M</span></b>. Masalah yang belum menemui penyelesaian termasuklah;-<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">1. <b><span style="color: red;">Kerajaan Malaysia masih belum mengumumkan persempadanan semula terbaru yang dipersetujui antara Malaysia dengan Brunei. Di bawah persetujuan ini, adakah negara kita memiliki atau kehilangan zon cari gali sumber petroleum yang lain</span></b>?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">2. <b><span style="color: red;">Adakah penduduk Sabah kehilangan royalti minyak</span></b> lantaran daripada itu?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">3. Adakah kita hanya memperolehi hak milik terhadap Limbang pada akhirnya, apabila kita menukar dengan lapangan minyak yang bernilai ratusan bilion ringgit?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">4. Mengapa pula Limbang yang dipilih?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong><span lang="MS" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Pertukaran dipersetujui kabinet Malaysia</span></strong><span lang="MS" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Kenyataan Kementerian Luar Negeri semalam memetik <em><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">UN Convention of the Law of the Sea </span></em>pada tahun 1982, menyatakan bahawa Brunei memiliki kedaulatan ke atas lapangan minyak Blok L dan M (Brunei mendakwa kedua-dua blok ini berada dalam lingkungan Blok J dan K), namun cari gali dan pembangunan blok ini dijalankan oleh Brunei bersama Malaysia.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Oleh itu, Kementerian Luar Negeri menganggap penyerahan kedua-dua blok (L dan M) kepada Brunei melalui <em><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Exchange of Letters </span></em>yang dimeterai kedua-dua Malaysia dan Brunei pada tahun 2009, mematuhi undang-undang antarabangsa.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Secara ringkasnya, kenyataan PM Najib, bekas PM Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, malah Petronas telah mengesahkan bahawa kandungan dokumen "pertukaran" ini telah dipersetujui oleh kabinet Malaysia pada 11 Februari 2009, dan dimeterai kedua-dua kerajaan pada 16 Mac 2009. Dengan itu, Blok L dan M tidak lagi dimiliki Malaysia, dan kini dikenali sebagai Blok CA1 dan CA2.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong><span lang="MS" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Persempanadan semula: Dapat atau hilang?</span></strong><span lang="MS" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Biarpun Najib, Abdullah dan Kementerian Luar Negeri menekankan bahawa dokumen yang dimeterai antara Malaysia dengan Brunei menyelesaikan pertikaian yang berlanjutan antara Malaysia dengan Brunei selama ini, namun kerajaan Malaysia tetap tidak mengumumkan secara terbuka persempadanan baru darat dan laut yang telah dipersetujui itu. Malah, bekas PM <a href="http://chedet.co.cc/chedetblog/2010/05/not-so-generous.html#more">Mahathir Mohamad</a> yang menghangatkan isu ini menuntut agar dokumennya didedahkan, semalam.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Sekali imbas, <b><span style="color: red;">lapangan minyak Blok L dan M hanyalah sebahagian daripada kawasan laut yang menjadi pertikaian antara Malaysia dan Brunei untuk sekian lama</span></b>. Pada hakikatnya, <b><span style="color: red;">Blok J dan K yang terletak di luar Borneo (termasuk Blok L dan M), kawasan laut yang kaya dengan sumber petroleum ini adalah kawasan yang direbut antara Malaysia dengan Brunei selama ini. Sejak dulu Brunei mendakwa bahawa Blok J dan K adalah Zon Ekonomi Eksklusif yang dimiliki Brunei.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Kini, apa yang pasti, <b><span style="color: red;">Malaysia secara rasminya menyerahkan hak milik lapangan minyak Blok L dan M, dan mengiktiraf kedaulatan Brunei di kedua-dua blok ini</span></b>. Kita tidak mengetahui apa-apa selain itu. Sama ada kita memperolehi atau kehilangan wilayah darat atau laut yang lain, menurut dokumen yang dipersetujui tersebut.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Menurut maklumat yang sedia ada, <b><span style="color: red;">Blok L dan M terletak bersebelahan dengan Blok K, malah wujudnya pertindihan dengan Zon Ekonomi Eksklusif antara Blok J dan K</span></b>. Antaranya, <b><span style="color: red;">lapangan minyak Kikeh, telah ditemui oleh <em><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Murphy Oil Corp</span></em> bersama Petronas pada tahun 2003</span></b>. Dari segi <b><span style="color: red;">kedudukan geografinya, lapangan minyak yang besar ini terletak dalam Blok K (dakwaan Malaysia) yang bersebelahan dengan Blok L, dan bersebelahan juga dengan Blok J yang didakwa Brunei, malah mungkin berlanjutan ke kawasan Blok J<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong><span lang="MS" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Mungkin kehilangan lapangan minyak Kikeh</span></strong><span lang="MS" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Jika dirujuk <b><span style="color: red;">kepada kenyataan Kementerian Luar Negeri semalam, Malaysia telah mengiktiraf Blok J dan K sebagai wilayah dalam lingkungan kawasan laut Brunei, dan Brunei kini memiliki kedaulatan ke atas Blok L dan M.</span></b> Dengan kata lain, <b><span style="color: red;">Malaysia mungkin kehilangan hak milik ke atas lapangan minyak Kikeh</span></b>. <b><span style="color: red;">Lapangan minyak Kikeh dianggarkan mempunyai simpanan 400 hingga 700 juta tong petroleum, dengan pengeluaran yang boleh mencecah antara 120 ribu hingga 125 ribu tong sehari</span></b>.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="MS" style="color: red; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Antara lapangan minyak yang masih berada dalam kawasan laut yang sarat dengan pertikaian, termasuklah Kebabangan, yang diberikan oleh Petronas kepada <em><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Conoco Philips </span></em>pada Februari 2005 (terletak di kawasan laut 94 km dari Barat Laut Kota Kinabalu, Sabah); Kinabalu yang diberikan oleh Petronas kepada Sabah Shell Petroleum (terletak di luar Sabah, kawasan laut 34 km dari Pulau Labuan), Gasumut-1 (terletak di kawasan laut pertikaian Malaysia-Brunei), Malikai-1, ND6 dan ND7 di Timur Sabah, lapangan gas asli di Serai, Sarawak dan sebagainya.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Oleh sebab kerajaan Malaysia belum mengumumkan persempadanan baru yang dipersetujui, maka kita tidak pasti sejauh manakah Malaysia kehilangan hak miliknya terhadap lapangan minyak. Namun, menurut perhitungan bekas PM Mahathir Mohamad, nilai lapangan minyak Blok L dan M bernilai USD 100 billion (atau RM320 bilion).<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Menurut perkiraan pakar dalam bidang petroleum pula, jikalau dikira berdasarkan andaian pengeluaran antara 250 ribu hingga 300 ribu tong sehari di lapangan minyak Blok L dan M, maka lapangan minyak ini boleh kekal antara 15 hingga 20 tahun. Dengan kata lain, Malaysia dijangka kehilangan RM65.60 juta sehari, RM23.94 bilion setahun dan jumlah RM478.9 bilion untuk 20 tahun.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong><span lang="MS" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Penduduk Sabah kehilangan Royalti minyak 17.8 bilion<o:p></o:p></span></strong></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Jika benar dakwaan kerajaan Malaysia bahawa persetujuan ini merupakan formula penyelesaian "menang-menang", antara Malaysia dengan Brunei, maka persoalannya, apa pula yang diperolehi Malaysia?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Menurut kerajaan, Petronas diundang Brunei untuk menyertai dan membangunkan bersama sumber minyak dan gas di kawasan terbabit untuk tempoh 40 tahun. Dari tuan milik sumber semulajadi, <b><span style="color: red;">Petronas kini hanyalah syarikat yang diundang oleh Brunei dalam usaha sama mencari gali sumber di kawasan ini. Apakah ia "menang-menang" untuk Petronas? Dalam keadaan kehilangan kedaulatan ke atas Blok ini, sejauh manakah kepentingan yang boleh diraih oleh Petronas dalam usahasama ini</span></b>?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Di samping itu, <b><span style="color: red;">kerajaan negeri Sabah juga kehilangan royalti minyak 5%-nya, lantaran "pertukaran" ini</span></b>. Seandainya dikira berdasarkan annggaran di atas, <b><span style="color: red;">kerajaan negeri Sabah akan kehilangan royalti minyak sebanyak RM3.28 juta sehari, RM1.19 bilion setahun dan jumlah RM17.85 bilion dalam tempoh 20 tahun</span></b>.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Menurut <b><span style="color: red;">kenyataan Kementerian Luar Negeri, kerajaan persekutuan telah berunding dengan kerajaan negeri Sabah dan Sarawak dalam isu ini, sebelum perjanjian dengan Brunei ditandatangani. Maknanya, kerajaan negeri Sabah telah bersedia untuk "dikorbankan" (royalti minyak-nya), supaya akur kepada keputusan kerajaan persekutuan</span></b>. Untuk penduduk Sabah, apakah ini formula penyelesaian "menang-menang"?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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pengarang@utusan.com.my<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="-moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; -moz-background-origin: padding; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; line-height: 15.6pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">PUTRAJAYA 8 Mei - Rakyat tidak perlu bimbang dengan isu kedudukan Limbang yang dijamin akan selesai dengan sendirinya setelah <b><span style="color: red;">lima perjanjian yang ditandatangani oleh kerajaan dan Brunei antara 1920 hingga 1939 diakhiri dengan kerjakerja mengukur sempadan.</span></b> Datuk Seri Dr. Rais Yatim berkata, beliau terpanggil membuat penjelasan itu ekoran 'kontroversi' penyerahan dua kawasan blok minyak, blok L dan M kepada Brunei baru-baru ini kerana terlibat secara langsung selaku <b><span style="color: red;">Menteri Luar pada Mac 2009 bersama Perdana Menteri ketika itu, Tun Abdullah Ahmad Badawi dalam rundingan dan proses diplomasi dengan kerajaan Brunei.</span></b><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="-moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; -moz-background-origin: padding; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; line-height: 15.6pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Malah, kata beliau, <b><span style="color: red;">persefahaman yang dicapai hasil Pertukaran Surat yang ditandatangani kerajaan dengan Brunei pada Mac 2009 sebenarnya turut menyebabkan Brunei kehilangan 5,165 kilometer persegi kawasan maritim zon ekonomi eksklusifnya. Kawasan maritim negara kesultanan itu menguncup berbanding sebelum 1984. </span></b>''Saya dengar (dibangkitkan di Sibu dan diungkit pelbagai pihak termasuk akhbar pembangkang) seolah-olah Malaysia bodoh serahkan seluruh hak wilayah kita sedangkan ia (blok L dan blok M) tidak pernah menjadi milik kita.<b><span style="color: red;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div><div style="-moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; -moz-background-origin: padding; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; line-height: 15.6pt; text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="MS" style="color: red; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">''Silapnya pada tahun 1979, pemeta kita sekadar memasukkan tanggapan itu padahal ia terletak dalam Pelantar Benua Brunei dan diiktiraf Konvensyen Pertubuhan Bangsa-Bangsa Bersatu mengenai Undang-Undang Laut (UNCLOS) 1982.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div style="-moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; -moz-background-origin: padding; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; line-height: 15.6pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">''Begitupun Pertukaran Surat ini ada imbasannya (kaitan) pada Limbang. Apabila lima perjanjian berkenaan diselesaikan kehendak pengukurannya, soal Limbang tidak timbul lagi dan berhasil bagi Malaysia," kata beliau kepada <i>Mingguan Malaysia</i> hari ini.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="-moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; -moz-background-origin: padding; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; line-height: 15.6pt; text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="MS" style="color: red; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Lima perjanjian berkenaan ialah:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div style="-moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; -moz-background-origin: padding; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; line-height: 15.6pt; text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="MS" style="color: red; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">i. Perjanjian Mengenai Sungai Pandaruan dan daerahnya pada 4 Februari 1920.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div style="-moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; -moz-background-origin: padding; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; line-height: 15.6pt; text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="MS" style="color: red; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">ii. Perjanjian Sempadan Sungai Belait dan Sungai Baram 25 Ogos 1931.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div style="-moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; -moz-background-origin: padding; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; line-height: 15.6pt; text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="MS" style="color: red; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">iii. Perjanjian Antara Brunei dan Sarawak mengenai Trusan dan Temburong.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div style="-moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; -moz-background-origin: padding; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; line-height: 15.6pt; text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="MS" style="color: red; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">iv. Perjanjian Antara Brunei dan Sarawak mengenai Sempadan Limbang dan Brunei dari Pantai ke Bukit Gadong 24 Februari 1933.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div style="-moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; -moz-background-origin: padding; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; line-height: 15.6pt; text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="MS" style="color: red; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">v. Perjanjian 4 November 1939 antara kedua-dua pihak.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div style="-moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; -moz-background-origin: padding; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; line-height: 15.6pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Kelima-lima perjanjian inilah meletakkan Limbang dan dipersetujui bahawa terusan-terusan Pagalayan hingga ke Bukit Traja ditentukan oleh perjanjian tersebut.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="-moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; -moz-background-origin: padding; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; line-height: 15.6pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Rais yang kini menyandang Menteri Penerangan, Komunikasi dan Kebudayaan berkata, dakyah kononnya Malaysia kehilangan wilayahnya telah dibangkitkan menjelang pengundian Pilihan Raya Kecil Parlimen Sibu 16 Mei ini dan justeru beliau terpanggil untuk menerangkan beberapa aspek justifikasi demi kenegaraan dan hubungan diplomasi dengan Brunei.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="-moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; -moz-background-origin: padding; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; line-height: 15.6pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">"<b><span style="color: red;">Brunei dengan rela hati bersetuju bahawa kawasan maritimnya menguncup selepas Pertukaran Surat 2009. Ini keikhlasan tidak ternilai dan Malaysia tahu jika dibawa ke Mahkamah Keadilan Antarabangsa (di The Hague, Belanda) kemungkinan kita beroleh hasil lebih positif lebih jauh kes Batuan Tengah di Batu Putih</span></b>," katanya.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="-moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; -moz-background-origin: padding; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; line-height: 15.6pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Mengulas lanjut, beliau berkata, sebelum ini perairan di blok L dan M dikenali CA1 dan CA2 mengeluarkan hasil minyak dan hidrokarbon digunakan oleh rakyat Malaysia untuk mencari nafkah dan berniaga.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="-moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; -moz-background-origin: padding; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; line-height: 15.6pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Namun secara tiba-tiba Petronas menganggap ia perairan negara dan mewujudkan kerjasama carigali dengan Murphy Oil di Sabah.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="-moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; -moz-background-origin: padding; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; line-height: 15.6pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">"<b><span style="color: red;">Bagaimanapun Brunei dalam perbincangannya bersetuju untuk berusahasama dalam kedua-dua petak komersial tadi termasuk minyak di bawah tajuk Perolehan Kerajaan untuk Malaysia bagi tempoh 40 tahun bermula dari tarikh Production Sharing Contract (PSC)</span></b>.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="-moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; -moz-background-origin: padding; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; line-height: 15.6pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">"<b><span style="color: red;">Juga dipersetujui oleh Brunei tentang hak laluan kekal bagi rakyat Malaysia dan Sarawak melintas dan menggunakan perairan itu untuk mendarat atau pergi ke kawasan sempadan Sarawak dan Brunei. Pendek kata, ia tidak boleh ditarik balik...berterusan</span></b>," kata beliau.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="-moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; -moz-background-origin: padding; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; line-height: 15.6pt; text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="MS" style="color: red; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Pada masa sama Malaysia diberi 10 peratus faedah melalui kontraktor yang dipilih sendiri (iaitu Petronas) dalam hak dan obligasi yang sama</span></b><span lang="MS" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="-moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; -moz-background-origin: padding; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; line-height: 15.6pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Seterusnya Malaysia juga akan beroleh melalui Petronas 75 peratus dari hal dan obligasi<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="MS" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><a href="http://www.utusan.com.my/utusan/info.asp?y=2010&dt=0509&pub=Utusan_Malaysia&sec=Dalam_Negeri&pg=dn_01.htm">http://www.utusan.com.my/utusan/info.asp?y=2010&dt=0509&pub=Utusan_Malaysia&sec=Dalam_Negeri&pg=dn_01.htm</a><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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