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Young Malaysian's Forum
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Date: 11 October 2006 (Wednesday)
Time: 7.30 p.m.
Venue: The KL and Selangor Chinese
Assembly Hall
(No. 1, Jalan
Maharajalela, 50150 K.L.)
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Datuk Seri Abdullah Badawi Ahmad Badawi, more affectionately known as
Pak Lah, started his premiership with promises of openness in society,
focus on anti-corruption, integrity in governance, public service
efficiency reforms and other such positive measures.
However, everything seems to be "faltering" at this point of time, with
many getting disillusioned with Pak Lah's leadership. Key pledges such
as the IPCMC appears to have been sidelined indefinitely. The initial
euphoria over arrests of several prominent personalities for corruption
ended abruptly with apparent lack of political will to charge other more
senior figures. Suddenly it was a case of “let's forgive and forget”.
Many initial policy liberalisation seem to have been reversed as press
freedom clamp down with veiled threats by the Internal Security Ministry
to newspaper editors, the restriction of carrying out forums to discuss
constitutional issues affecting all Malaysians such as the now infamous
Article 11.
There is therefore an apparent disjoint between his rhetoric, and
possibly even intent, with his actions, or more accurately, inaction.
The question we would like to ask is whether Pak Lah is shackled by his
own indecisive nature, hence making him an ineffectual and weak leader?
Or is this really his consensual style of politics whereby he takes into
account everyones interest, even if they contradict his statements and
intent? Is this just his style, or does he still have anything left up
his sleeve? Or is Pak Lah's hands tied by unseen and evil forces, forces
so powerful that Pak Lah risks his entire Mr Clean reputation built over
years?
The DAP has invited young Malaysian bloggers to be panelists for this
forum to represent the views of Malaysian youth. These young Malaysians
will discuss the above issues and identify how Pak Lah can be set free
so as to pursue the reforms promised in all sectors of government and
society which had won him an overwhelming 91% parliamentary victory in
the last general elections. We hope this forum will attract young
Malaysians to take part in the discourse to help Pak Lah find the
solution to “break free” to deliver what was promised to us in the last
elections.
The future of
Malaysia
belong to young Malaysians, and it is for these same young Malaysians to
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Invited Panel Speakers |
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| 1. Jeff Ooi |
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Jeff Ooi is the
founder of
USJ.com.my, a grassroot-managed community portal, launched in
1999, targetting
Malaysia's
K-generation. He is an e-business consultant for vertical
industries, an Open Source advocate, and a columnist in Malaysian
Business. Jeff is a blogger recognised internationally. He has won
many recognitions and awards for his blog at
JeffOoi.com including
being voted asthe FREEDOM BLOG ASIA by Paris-based Reporters Without
Boundaries (RSF). Jeff has been invited to speak and moderate at
various international functions including to
Harvard
Law School as a panel speaker for Internet & Society organized by
the Berkman Center for Internet and Society (2004), the “Expression
under Repression” event at World Summit of Information Society in
Tunis
(2005) and the Global Voices Summit held at the Reuters
Headquarters,
Canary Wharf, London
(2005). |
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| 2. Nik Nazmi Nik
Ahmad |
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Nik Nazmi Nik Ahmad
blogs at
www.niknazmi.com. He earned his LLB from King's College London
and was previously educated in the
Malay
College,
Kuala Kangsar. In the UK he was active in the UK Executive Council
for Malaysian Students (UKEC) Federation of Students Islamic
Societies and the National Union of Students, UK. His commentaries
in current issues have appeared in Malaysiakini, the Sun, the Edge,
Channel News Asia and the BBC World Service. Nik Nazmi currently
works in
Kuala Lumpur,
as a special assistant to a politician and director of a listed
company. Previously, he was a legal executive in a Malaysian
corporation. |
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| 3. Khoo Kay Peng |
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Over the last 8 years, Khoo has served as a management consultant
with several world-class consulting firms and top local
organisations. He consulted in the areas of business planning,
market study and marketing strategy. In the last three years, he has
served as a political and policy analyst at a local think tank. His
views, comments and articles have appeared in both local and
regional publications and online news websites e.g. the Star, New
Straits Times, Singapore Straits Times, Bangkok Post, Asia Times,
CNBC, Oriental Daily, Radio Singapore International, Malaysiakini,
Singapore Today, AFP and others. Khoo holds a degree in Economics
from the University of Malaya and a postgraduate degree in
International Relations from the University of
Warwick,
UK.
He is a Bristish Chevening scholar. |
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| 4. Tony Pua |
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Tony is currently a
Malaysian CEO of a public listed IT company. He graduated from Keble
College, Oxford University with a degree in Philosophy, Politics and
Economics (PPE). He is among the minority of ASEAN Scholars who has
chosen to pursue his career and settle in Malaysia, as well as a
former MTC Foundation Scholar. He worked for a multinational
consulting company for two years prior to starting his own company.
When he is not bogged down by work, he spends his time being an
economic analyst as well as an Education blogger at
educationmalaysia.blogspot.com. |
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Other speakers include
Sharizal Shaarani
of
Sharizal.net, Parliamentary Opposition Leader,
YB Lim Kit
Siang
and MP for Batu
Gajah, YB Fong Po Kuan
who blog at
blog.limkitsiang.com and
pokuan.blogsome.com respectively. |
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The forum will be
moderated by
Oon Yeoh. He is a columnist for The Edge (Malaysia)
and Today newspapers (Singapore).
He is also the host for Freetalk (klstream.com),
a podcast on current affairs. |
For queries, please contact
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http://dapmalaysia.org
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