SARAWAK LIVE: Islam

RM41.6juta untuk sekolah, pendidikan Islam di Pulau Pinang sejak 2008

GEORGE TOWN, 21 MEI: Kerajaan Pakatan Harapan Pulau Pinang telah memperuntukkan RM41.6 juta kepada semua sekolah dan pendidikan agama Islam sejak mengambil alih pentadbiran negeri itu bermula tahun 2008.

Menurut Ketua Menteri, Lim Guan Eng, selain peruntukan tersebut, kerajaan negeri juga memberi tanah bernilai berjuta-juta ringgit kepada sekolah-sekolah tersebut.

“Sekiranya peruntukan yang diluluskan oleh kerajaan negeri bagi pembiayaan program keagamaan Islam negeri Pulau Pinang dari tahun 2008 sehingga April 2016 merangkumi pengambilan tanah, maka peruntukan yang telah disediakan dalam tiga (3) tahun kebelakangan ini adalah melebihi RM50 juta setahun,” katanya dalam penggulungan sidang Dewan Undangan Negeri Pulau Pinang di sini semalam.

Beliau yang juga Setiausaha Agung DAP menjelaskan, kerajaan Pulau Pinang sejak 2008 telah memberi sumbangan tambahan (ex-gratia) RM50 sebulan kepada guru-guru Kelas Agama dan Fardu Ain (KAFA).

Pada tahun semasa tahun ini, katanya, kerajaan negeri menyalurkan RM930,000 kepada Majlis Agama Islam Negeri Pulau Pinang untuk pembayaran ex-gratia kepada 1,550 guru KAFA.

Tambah beliau, kerajaan negeri juga mulai 2010 telah memperuntukkan dalam bajet tahunan pemberian bantuan khas kewangan/bonus kepada guru-guru KAFA, dan mulai 2012 telah menyediakan bajet untuk tujuan pemberian sagu hati Hari Raya Aidilfitri kepada guru-guru agama, tahfiz, pondok dan tadika Islam (Tadis).

Malah, menurutnya, kerajaan negeri turut menyediakan peruntukan bagi membiayai kos membaiki, menaik taraf dan membina sekolah-sekolah agama di Pulau Pinang.

Katanya, keseluruhan peruntukan yang diluluskan oleh kerajaan negeri untuk pembiayaan sekolah-sekolah agama di Pulau Pinang mengikut tahun adalah seperti berikut:

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Dakwaan Islamkan kanak-kanak tadika Baram tidak benar

Baram: Komuniti di pedalaman Baram diingatkan agar tidak mudah terperdaya khabar angin menyatakan penubuhan tadika Jabatan Kemajuan Masyarakat (KEMAS) di kawasan mereka ‘ada udang di sebalik batu’ seperti menukar agama kanak-kanak di situ.

Ahli Dewan Undangan Negeri (ADUN) Telang Usan, Dennis Ngau berkata, beliau kesal dengan khabar angin dianggapnya berbahaya itu.

“Saya tidak tahu bagaimana dan siapa menyebarkan perkara tidak berasas menuduh KEMAS menyebar agama Islam dalam kalangan komuniti pedalaman melalui tadika.

“Terdapat kumpulan dan individu tidak bertanggungjawab membuat tuduhan bahawa murid mengikuti kelas tadika di situ diajar mengucap dan cara bersolat.

“Kita tidak tahu sejauh mana kebenaran kerana setakat ini tiada menerima aduan atau laporan,” katanya.

Dennis berkata demikian semasa berucap merasmikan majlis penyampaian Sijil Kelas Pendidikan Literasi Fungsian Versi 2.0 di Long Laput, Baram kelmarin.

Seramai 18 dan empat suri rumah dari Long Laput dan Long jekitan menerima sijil kelas pendidikan tersebut

Dennis menambah, sebelum ini pengarah KEMAS negeri turut mencadangkan agar kelas di sini turut mengundang pastor dan katekis melakukan sembahyang bersama murid-murid.

“Sehubungan itu saya berharap ibu bapa tidak takut menghantar anak-anak mereka ke tadika KEMAS sebagai persediaan untuk anak melangkah alam persekolahan sebenar.

“Dalam hal ini, ibu bapa harus mengutamakan pendidikan anak-anak sebaliknya menegetepikan khabar angin yang tidak berasas,” katanya.

Hadir sama penyelia KEMAS Parlimen Baram Julitta Laja dan Timbalan Pengerusi Jawatankuasa Kemajuan dan Keselamatan Kampung (JKKK) Robert Luhat.-Utusan Borneo

Please be sensitive, do not make Islam so ugly in Sarawak!

COMMENTS by Theantdaily readers

Zainal Yunos: I think that appointing an ustaz from Kelantan as the principal of SMK Sungai Paoh is yet another insensitive act of the Education Ministry. After all, the majority of the students there are Dayak Christians. If that is not enough, is the ministry unaware of the ongoing grouses among Sarawakians against Putrajaya? Why fan the fire at a time like this.

I am a Sarawakian Malay and I can empathise with the sentiments expressed here. Imagine how the Muslims would feel if a Christian pastor is appointed as the principal of a Malay-majority school? As a Muslim, I would also object. Therefore, do not do unto others what you don’t want others to do unto you.

I believe it’s true that Malays in Malaya do not really understand the people of Sarawak. As a Sarawakian Malay, it does come naturally to me to understand and feel for the sensitivities, whether cultural or religious, of my fellow Sarawakians of other races and beliefs. I suppose that’s what being Sarawakian is all about.

On the subject in question, I would advise my fellow Muslims in Malaya, the Education Ministry in this case, not to turn Islam into an ugly religion in Sarawak. All non-Muslims in Sarawak respect Islam as a religion of peace. It has been that way since time immemorial. Do not make stupid decisions and implement policies that will not make Islam go down well with Sarawakians.

Islam is such a beautiful religion. Don’t make it ugly with stupid decisions for political expediency.

I say, transfer that ustaz back to his home state. We don’t need him here. We have our own qualified Sarawakian Islamic scholars to handle Islam in the state.

TheNextSaga: The truth is that so long as the present federal government is in power, its policies will continue to affect Sarawak, despite what Adenan says. Go figure...time to truly wake up to this reality which at the end of the day will depend on the will of all Sarawakians to determine what is it that they want for the sake of the children and their future generations.

John Fam: Come on Putrajaya, show them Sarawakians that you are not insensitive, take up their challenge and appoint a Christian Brother to be the principal in your sekolah agama in Kelantan or Trengganu.

Donor kebab: Umno has clearly read the Protocols…and has improved on its own version

Kooi Seng Chng: The BN government is committing educational genocide. Destroy the non-Muslims through the education system. This is now in progress.

Saul: Can I suggest the Dayaks take up head hunting again. The ustaz may then ask to be transferred out ASAP.

Jusoh: Send the Ustaz back to be principal in a Kelantan or Terengganu school.

Roy Gregory: He is alone out there in Sg Paoh. If he is naughty, just tie him up and throw him into the river to be eaten by the crocs. Nobody will notice his absence. Haha...

Susan Ritchie: Sarawak, take charge of your own schools and your own capable teachers!

Tc Ling: This is what you get when the ruling party politicise our education system.

Ling Kwong Wong: Why appoint an ustaz from Kelantan when we have so many qualified and credible candidates in Sarawak?

Michel Wright: It is simply called islamisation in the legal way and by the way it has been happening for decades

Johan L Ha: Has Putrajaya/Umno ever been sensitive to Sarawakians or non-Muslim Malaysians all this time?

Tan Ek Kiang: What's Sarawak CM's stand? Recall what he said about the federal government. See if he walks the talk!

Lim Paul: Sarawakians still sleeping. No one qualified for the post! Sarawak can use their federation rights to disallow West Malaysians working in Sarawak. So use it!

Yim ChangCherng: Sarawakians, Good Morning. Hope you guys are awake.

These comments are in response to the article Posting ustaz as principal to Dayak school is insensitive published on Nov 9.-The Ant Daily

No place for Ketuanan Melayu or Ketuanan Islam in Sarawak!

COMMENTS by Theantdaily readers

Chris: Don't expect us Sarawakians to take this without a fight. There is no place for both Ketuanan Melayu or Ketuanan Islam in Sarawak!

Woo Chee Seng: Fight for your rights and get rid of these pests and vermin! They have the cheek to tell others not to propagate Christianity to their kind and they are doing the opposite to the others!

Rahman Yii: It's very dangerous for a religion to have a political agenda.

Tan Chengchin: Sarawakians, time to wake up, do something this coming election as well as the next GE. Don't be like Sabah

Wendy Rodrigues: Many times bitten - no need to be shy about protesting already. Stop the contamination (conversion)!

Michel Wright: Yes! To all Christian Sarawakians, please stand up and stop all these subtle means of conversions taking place

TheNextSaga: It is very simple as the state government is in the same alliance as the federal government and even the recent UEC blockage by Putrajaya is clear evidence that more of the same will be happening in Sarawak, so please wake up to reality for the sake of generations to come, for sustainable real development to have a chance in Sarawak, as after all these years with its vast natural resources, Sawarak is still underdeveloped...go figure!

Satumii: Sarawak politicians sold their soul to Umno. And that is the botttomline. Dont blame the ulamas etc; blame your local politicians.

Roger 5201: “If indeed in 2006, as was reported that in an effort to propagate the spread of Islam, Kelantan offered Muslim preachers RM10,000 to marry Orang Asli women, plus free accommodation, a four-wheel drive vehicle and a fixed monthly allowance of RM1,000, then there is no compulsion but plenty of propulsion in Islam!

Saul: Plenty of temptation in Islam of all kinds! Apart from those mentioned there are the four wives of all ages, 72 virgins in heaven, trips to Saudi for whatever purpose. Free this and that etc etc.

Stephen Ngui: Huh! Why complain now? Too late as these 47% keep putting these people back in power for the past 50 over years. So stop whining and welcome all these people with hugs n kisses. And appreciate these highly expected conversion which is part of their agenda all along. Oooo…Haaaaa

Jihep Atoi: And you will hear of wars and rumours of wars; see that you are not alarmed; for this must take place, but the end is not yet. - Matthew 24:9

[Persecutions Foretold] Then they will hand you over to be tortured and will PUT you to death, and you will be hated by all nations because of my name.

Ling Kwong Wong: The West Malaysian teachers sent here are hopeless in teaching but busy with conversion.

George Guansing: Religion that teaches stealing RM2.65 billion of rakyat's money and government ministers committing corruption is not a sin. One of the commandments of Allah says "Thou shall not steal" and another says "Thou shall not covet thy neighbour’s goods". Do you still trust BN/Umno. Sarawakians, wake up. They are insulting your belief, dignity and intelligence. High time to replace this evil government.

Malcolm John: Had happened in Sabah in the 70s and still going on around the interior!

Krishna Superamaniam: If all Malaysians become Muslim, what is there next?

Azree Jamaluddin: Still don’t understand. In the peninsula, the situation is reversed. Christians try to convert Muslim children and nobody cares at all. But when Muslims do the same, people think like tomorrow, the world will end. Huh!

Cyndee Gan: Why force? Stupid ah? This is really making them look desperate.

An-tel Luhantu Luhantu: Only the people speak...very little from Christian leaders

Aaron Ting: So many missionary schools in Malaya have Malay Muslim principals. And I am not sure if it is a coincidence but the education standards of all those schools have gone down the drain. I was surprised to learn most of the students are Malay Muslims as well. There is nothing clandestine about the government's trickery. They have announced to the world that Malaysia is an Islamic country. And if one day Sarawak chooses to leave, they will claim we are taking Islamic land - their land! And the one thing Dar Al Islam never does is lose territory. So I am glad Sarawakians are finally waking up even at this last moment. We better fight for every square inch or we won't have a Sarawak we can recognise soon! A secular Sarawak will be in the history books!

Marsha Marshmallows Beh: At least you guys are making a stand. Here in the peninsula, we do not have any one standing up for the children. It’s an uphill better for many Christian parents who have children in mission schools with all these happening there.

Tony Yap: The only way to stop this is to change the government. What for speak out but no one will listen, make you all more stupid!

Mikey: Thank you Jimmy for enlightening us on the conversion of Sarawak Christians. I can tell your frustration judging by your comments. If politicians like Chief Minister Adenan Satem and PRS president Dr James Masing cannot do anything or turn a blind eye to this, it is high time Sarawakian vote for your own future. And vote wisely.

These comments are in response to the article Forced conversion: Sarawak’s Christians will not keep quiet published on Nov 8.

-The Ant Daily