Your MP's Question of the Week #43

In the name of “privately funded initiative” and possibly privatizing the civil service!

Building an airport like KLIA East @ Labu, which has been given a swift “midnight approval” by the Abdullah Badawi administration to proceed, is not a development project for the timid and weak of heart.

To begin with, the said joint-venture between Sime Darby and AirAsia is slated to set both companies back a whopping RM1.6 billion which does not include land cost. And if you notice, amusingly, there’s this over-extended aggressive effort to assure the public that the project will be a “privately funded initiative” and consequently the often repeated mantra “not a Sen of the rakyat’s money will be used.” The sole spokesperson appointed to do all the talking, it seems, is none other than Dato’ Tony Fernandes, CEO of AirAsia. In contrast, Sime Darby, the possibly bigger joint-venture partner by virtue of its large landbanks and provider of the initial 3,000 acres for the project, is oddly unbecomingly shy. There’s nary a squeak from the world’s largest plantation company so far and its silence is eerily deafening. Anyway, isn’t Sime Darby a government-linked company and therefore its money would be considered public money?

Why, this desperate attempt for continual assurance by Dato’ Tony Fernandes that public money is not involved is most unusual. Is there an underlying fear that what’s being bandied about is not the whole truth and the project is flawed and would die still-born? Or is there really something big and sinister to hide by interested parties? Time will tell.

But rather than wait for the likely rotten news to blow up in our face and land on our lap, let’s briefly consider the other vital components that will be involved in the KLIA East @ Labu project. Over and above the bricks and mortars and ancillary materials for the construction of the physical structures, runways, highways or railways one cannot do without the human resources that goes into its operations. One of the most vital of which would include personnel for air traffic control, security, customs, immigration and fire-fighting at the airport.

Bad enough that the government has already given firm approval for the privatization of an airport at Labu which has far-reaching national security implications, does this mean that in the name of “private funding initiative” a company that has so-called deep pockets would also be allowed to privatize part of the nation’s civil service?

Would Dato’ Tony Fernandes be given a free hand to pick and choose, which seems to be the case with this seeming favoured son, his privatized air traffic control, security, customs, immigration and fire-fighting staffs from Malaysia Airport Berhad, the Royal Malaysian Police, Royal Malaysian Customs, Immigration Malaysia and Bomba Malaysia, respectively? Heaven forbid! Such boldness and derring-do to pull a fast one! Such straight-faced double-speak all this while!

Fellow Malaysians, do we see what are potentially at risks if this is even considered? Can we begin to unravel the other half of the story that has not been told us thus far? What more is hidden? What more is likely to be at stake?

Then the whole Labu deal would beg the question:

In all honesty, can KLIA East @ Labu, a joint-venture project between Sime Darby and AirAsia, ever be a truly “privately funded initiative” project if the government can never allow a private entity to have its own air traffic controllers, police, customs and immigration force nor will it ever allow that section of its civil service to be privatized because of national security reasons?

– Terjemahan oleh Lee Wee Tak – Ucapan ribuan terima kasih dari Wee Choo Keong –

Soalan Mingguan WR Anda ke-43

Laungan “usaha yang dibiayai oleh wang persendirian” dan menswastakan perkhidmatan awam!

Pembinaan KLIA East @ Labu yang telah diluluskan dengan cepat kononnya pada detik “larut malam” oleh pentadbiran Abdullah Badawi, bukanlah suatu usaha yang boleh dilaksanakan oleh pihak yang kurang berkemampuan dan ketabahan.

Pertamanya, usahasama tersebut antara Sime Darby dan AirAsia akan menelan dana kedua mereka sebanyak RM1.6 billion tidak termasuk harga tanah yang dibeli. Kelakarnya, terdapat suatu usaha yang melampau giatnya dalam menyakinkan ihak umum bahawa usaha ini adalah “dibiayai oleh dana persendirian” dan ungkapan nan sering disebut adalah “tiada satu sen pun wang rakyat akan dibelanja”. Orang tunggal yang dilantik berucap semua ini tidak lain dan tidak bukan Dato’ Tony Fernandes, Ketua Pegawai Eksekutif AirAsia. Secara perbandingan, Sime Darby, yang berkemungkanan besar rakan kongsi utama dengan milikan dana tanah dan pembekal sumber tanah permulaan sebanyak 3,000 ekar, nampaknya segan membuat sebarang ulasan. Tiada sebarang bisikan daripada syarikat perldangan terbesar sejagat dan bah kata ungkapan Inggeris, “pembisuan itu laungan besar yang boleh pekakkan semua”. Bukankah Sime Darby itu syarikat lingkaran kerajaan dan dananya boleh dianggap sebagai dana rakyat jua?

Usaha yang berterusan dan bermati-matian ini oleh Dato’ Tony Fernandes bahawa untuk menyakinkan semua bahwa wang rakyat tidak terlibat adalah sangat aneh. Terdapat kepercayan umum bahawa apa yang dilaung-laungkan bukanlah kebenaran dan sebenarnya usaha ini banyak kepincangannya dan mungkinkah akan gagal sebelum bermula? Ataupun terdapat “undang amat besar” sebalik batu yang cuba diselubungkan oleh pihak yang berkepentingan? Semua hanyalah akan terbongkar pada masa hadapan.

Kita tidak perlu tunggu tercetusnya peristiwa atau berita buruk dan secara ringkasnya berfikir sejenak mengenai perkara yang terlibat dalam pembianaan projek KLIA East @ Labu. Selain daripada bahan binaan untuk bangunan, landasan pesawat, lebuhraya aau landasan keretapi, kita tidak boleh mengabaikan sumber manusia yang terlibat. Paling mustahak adalah kawalan lalu lintas penerbangan, keselamatan, cukai dan kastam, imigresen serta kawalan kebakaran.

Dah cukuppadah pihak pentadbiran meluluskan penswastaan sebuah lapangan terbang di Labu yang mempunyai banyak kaitan dengankeselamatan negara. Adakah ini bermakna oleh kerana sesuatu usaha dibiayai oleh wang persendirian, sesebuah syarikat swasta jua dibenarkan menswastakan sebahagian daripada khidmat awam pihak pentadbiran?

Patutkah Dato’ Tony Fernandes, yang nampaknya adalah budak kesayangan, diberi kebebasan memilih dan mengambil anggota daripada pihak kawalan lalulintas udara, keselamatan, kastam, imigresen dan kawalan jebakaran daripada am Malaysia Airport Berhad, Polis Diraja Malaysia, Kastam Diraja Malaysia, Imigresen Malaysia dan Bomba Malaysia? Harap jangan sekali-kali ini boleh berlaki! Beraninya dalam membuat pembohongan. Berlidah belah dua dengan air muka yang berperwatakan kebenaran.

Para rakyat Malaysia sekalian, Nampak tak apa yang kita pertaruhkan dengan usaha ini yang dicadangkan? Boleh tak kita bongkarkan rahsia yang sebelah lagi yang belum dibongkarkan hingga kini? Apakah lagi yang masih belum diketahui dan dilindungi? Apakah lagi yang boleh diancam?

Maka usaha di Labu mendatangkan persoalan:

Bolehkah, KLIA East @ Labu, suatu usaha sama antara Sime Darby dan AirAsia, dianggap sebagai “usaha yang dibiayai oleh dana persendirian” jika pihak pentadbiran tidak membenarkan sebuah syarikat swasta memiliki kawalan lalulintas udara, polis dankastam ataupun membenarkan sebahagian daripada perkhidmatan awamnya diswastakan demi keselamatan negara?

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