Khutbah isu filem lucah

KUALA LUMPUR – Kaedah pendekatan agama melalui Khutbah Jumaat di masjid dijadikan sebagai alternatif mendidik masyarakat berhubung isu pembelian cakera video digital (DVD) dan video cakera padat (VCD) lucah.

Alternatif itu adalah kerjasama Kementerian Dalam Negeri (KDN) Bahagian Kawalan Penapisan Filem dan Penguatkuasaan Wilayah Persekutuan Kuala Lumpur dan Jabatan Agama Islam Wilayah Persekutuan (Jawi) yang dilaksanakan pada 1 April depan.

Ketuanya, Noraziah Abdullah berkata, langkah itu untuk membendung penularan pembelian bahan lucah terbabit daripada terus berleluasa.

“Mencegah adalah langkah terbaik menangani masalah ini kerana bukan mudah menyekat premis yang menjual bahan terbabit.

“Kita cuba mendidik masyarakat terhadap kesan menonton bahan itu yang melibatkan agama, keganasan, lucah dan moral,” katanya pada sidang media di KDN Wilayah Persekutuan di sini, semalam.

Bagi merealisasikan tujuan pencegahan itu, KDN turut mengambil pendekatan bekerjasama dengan pihak YMCA, Hindu Sangam dan Buddha serta mengadakan pameran termasuk fokus terhadap pelajar sekolah.:

Dalam masa sama, langkah terbaru diambil, mengedar risalah kepada pengguna jalan raya di Plaza Tol Jalan Duta dan Tol Sungai Besi, semalam.

“Risalah itu mengandungi nombor aduan untuk cawangan seluruh negara bagi memudahkan orang ramai membuat aduan sekiranya mempunyai maklumat kegiatan penjualan DVD dan VCD terlarang itu,” katanya.

Dalam perkembangan sama, Noraziah berkata, daripada 294 operasi dijalankan, pihaknya merampas 472,806 filem pelbagai tajuk dan menahan 183 individu sepanjang tahun lalu kerana terlibat kegiatan menjual filem lucah.

Menurutnya, berhubung kaedah mendidik melalui khutbah itu, pihaknya menyediakan teks ucapan yang akan dibacakan kepada orang ramai ketika Khutbah Jumaat seluruh Kuala Lumpur, Labuan dan Putrajaya.

sumber : www.sinarharian.com.my

PTPTN: 26,000 dilarang ke luar negara

KUALA LUMPUR 1 Okt. - Satu senarai mengandungi lebih 26,000 nama peminjam degil Perbadanan Tabung Pendidikan Tinggi Nasional (PTPTN) telah diserahkan kepada Jabatan Imigresen untuk menghalang mereka ke luar negara.

Timbalan Menteri Pengajian Tinggi, Datuk Dr. Hou Kok Chung berkata, mereka bukan sahaja tidak membayar balik pinjaman lebih daripada lima tahun malah tidak mengendahkan surat peringatan PTPTN.

"Peminjam degil ini sudah bekerja sama ada di dalam mahu pun di luar negara tetapi enggan menjelaskan pinjaman.

"Saya ingin memberi amaran bahawa mereka akan mengalami masalah semasa mahu balik ke Malaysia atau semasa mahu ke luar negara jika pinjaman tidak dijelaskan," kata beliau.

Sumber: Utusan Malaysia 2/10/09

Bank Negara can supply info: PM

KUALA LUMPUR (July 3, 2007): Bank Negara is able to provide finance institutions the financial records of individuals, and CTOS (Credit Tip-Off Service) Sdn Bhd should play the role of assisting the central bank.

Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi said the credit information provider can prepare updated information for Bank Negara and people will have the confidence to use and benefit from the service.

”If it (CTOS) is left alone and uncontrolled, we will hear a lot of complaints about insufficient and incorrect information. That means it is not providing a good service,” he told reporters after launching the 2007 Malaysia International Commodity Conference and Showcase here today.

Asked about people having problems to secure loans because of outdated information provided by CTOS, Abdullah said the provider must get the updated information for its clients because people may be victimised owing to outdated information.

Last week, Deputy Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Datuk M. Kayveas blamed CTOS for not providing updated information.

He challenged it to prove that it had obtained the information in its database legally and alleged that there was widespread ‘blacklisting’ by it.

However, CTOS chief executive officer Chung Tze Keong said the provider does not have the power to blacklist anyone and it is just an electronic archive that provides information on a company or individual that had appeared in the public domain.

Meanwhile, banking institutions said that they do not depend solely on CTOS’s information to grant or reject loan applications.

Association of Banks chairman Datuk Seri Hamidy Hafiz said: “CTOS is purely used as reference and not as credit decision.”

He said banks also used the central bank’s central credit reference information system to identify loan obligations of applicants and the applicants are always asked to verify and clarify the information the banks had obtained.

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Lawyer sues the Malaysian Bar and the three scrutineers

KUALA LUMPUR, Wed: A Kuala Lumpur based lawyer, Foo Ton Hin today filed an action at the Appellate and Special Powers Division of the Kuala Lumpur High Court with regard to the election of members of Bar Council 2007-2008.

The originating summons was served today on the Malaysian Bar and the three scrutineers, Datuk Dr Haji Yaacob Hussain Merican, S. Radhakrishnan and Inderjit Singh, by his solicitors, Messrs Tommy Thomas.

Rufaqa’ claims Ashaari can postpone death, says mufti

IPOH: The Rufaqa' movement portrayed former al-Arqam leader Ashaari Muhammad as orang tuhan (Man of God) who claims to have the ability to postpone the time of death of a dying person, said Perak Fatwa Committee chairman Datuk Seri Harussani Zakaria.

In announcing that the committee has declared the movement as having gone against the teachings of Islam, he said the committee made its decision after studying the contents of the Rufaqa' teachings found in a CD and a book.

Harussani, who is also Perak mufti, said yesterday that the presenter in the CD who calls himself Mejar Abu Zar claimed that Ashaari had the power to transfer the illness of a person to another.

He noted that the Rufaqa' movement had similarities with the al-Arqam movement banned in 1994.

“Rufaqa' used the same terms like Abuya, and its followers were former members of the banned al-Arqam,” he said.

Rufaqa' members were also trying to recruit new members, he added.

“As such, the committee has decided to declare Rufaqa' as having deviated from akidah (teachings) of Islam. The decision will be gazetted and made into a fatwa (decree),” he said.

Harussani said the Rufaqa' movement had surfaced here and in Manjung, where it had started several businesses.

On Sept 12, the National Fatwa Council made a decision to ban the Rufaqa' movement.

Tuesday, 05 December 2006, 08:58

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Bantah Penubuhan IFC

JOHOR BAHRU 5 Nov. – Cadangan Penubuhan Surahanjaya Agama (IFC) dan pembentukan konsep bangsa Malaysia perlu ditolak kerana ia nyata melanggar Perlembagaan Persekutuan.

Pengerusi Badan Perhubungan UMNO Johor, Datuk Abdul Ghani Othman berkata, cadangan penubuhan IFC akan menyamakan kedudukan agama Islam dan semua agama lain serta memberi kuasa kepada IFC menangani sebarang pertikaian berhubung agama.

‘‘Ini bercanggah dengan Perlembagaan dari segi Fasal 3 yang menetapkan bahawa agama Islam adalah agama Persekutuan dan menjamin sama agama lain boleh diamalkan dengan aman damai.‘‘Ia juga mempertikaikan kuasa mahkamah syariah yang dipertegaskan dalam fasal 121(A),” tegas beliau.

Abdul Ghani berkata demikian dalam ucaptama beliau pada Konvensyen UMNO Johor di Persada Johor, di sini, hari ini.Menteri Besar Johor itu berkata, cadangan itu juga akan menimbulkan kekeliruan bukan sahaja di kalangan umat Islam di Malaysia mengenai urusan keluarga Islam yang diputuskan di mahkamah syariah tetapi juga memberi gambaran yang salah kepada rakyat bukan beragama Islam.

Katanya, penubuhan IFC akan memberi kesan negatif seperti kebebasan murtad kepada penganut agama Islam, zuriat umat Islam di Malaysia bebas menentukan agama apabila berusia 18 tahun dan Islam tidak lagi menjadi identiti Melayu.

Selain itu, ia juga bersifat menghasut bahawa undang-undang syariah sebagai tidak adil dan menghakis kuasa Yang di-Pertuan Agong dan Raja-raja Melayu sebagai ketua agama di peringkat persekutuan dan negeri.

‘‘Oleh itu, Kerajaan Persekutuan bukan sekadar mengarahkan supaya dihentikan sebarang perbincangan mengenai artikel 11, malah hendaklah menolak terus cadangan penubuhan IFC,” katanya.

Sementara itu, Abdul Ghani berkata, konsep bangsa Malaysia yang dicadangkan juga bertolak ke belakang dengan perlembagaan kerana tidak ada satu pun perkataan yang menyebut mengenai bangsa Malaysia di dalam Perlembagaan Persekutuan.

‘‘Yang ada hanyalah orang Melayu, bumiputera Sabah dan Sarawak serta kaum-kaum lain.‘‘Perlukah bangsa-bangsa yang ada di negara ini dileburkan untuk menjadi rojak hanya semata-mata untuk mencapai sebuah impian yang belum jelas konsepnya,” tegas beliau.

Justeru, katanya, tidak perlu merasa malu menyebut mengenai agenda Melayu kerana ia bukan sesuatu yang ketinggalan zaman atau tidak relevan dan ia bukanlah perkara yang perlu disorok-sorok.

‘‘Agenda Melayulah yang menentukan kelangsungan hidup orang Melayu, tidak kira daripada generasi mana sekalipun, untuk mendapat peluang pendidikan, pekerjaan, perniagaan dan sebagainya.

‘‘Oleh itu, mempertahankan Melayu adalah proses semula jadi dalam negara ini kerana ia berpaksikan kepada perlembagaan,” katanya.

Sumber Utusan Malaysia