Marhaen Dan Rakyat

In January, at 100 years old, Mahathir suffered a fall at his home in Seri Kembangan that fractured his right hip. He spent weeks at the National Heart Institute undergoing physiotherapy without surgery. By late March, video footage showed him returning to his office at Yayasan Kepimpinan Perdana, moving carefully but working again through documents at his desk. Three months earlier, in a development few would have predicted, Malaysia’s Anti-Corruption Commission had confirmed it was investigating Mahathir himself. The irony cuts deep. Mahathir built much of his political comeback on a crusade against graft. When he returned to power in 2018 at age 92, he campaigned against corruption as the central justification for unseating Najib Razak and ending Barisan Nasional’s 60-year rule. His government promised investigations. His rhetoric was unforgiving. Corruption, he said, was destroying the nation. Now, at 100, he stands under investigation. The MACC confirmed in April 2024 that Mahat...

Memasuki usia seratus tahun, bekas Perdana Menteri, Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad masih enggan duduk diam. Beliau yang pernah dijulang sebagai artikek Malaysia moden kini dianggap sebagai figura yang mencetuskan kontroversi demi kontroversi. Mahathir sepatutnya dikenang kerana legasinya terhadap pemodenan Malaysia. Namun kenangan itu bertukar menjadi kebencian ekoran tuduhan, kenyataan kontroversi dan usaha berterusan daripada Mahathir untuk menjatuhkan kerajaan. SUMBER: https://malay.today/2025/02/19/tun-mahathir-arkitek-malaysia-moden-yang-penuh-kontroversi/ Salah satu kontroversi terbesar Mahathir adalah dakwaan pengkhianatan negara berhubung isu Pulau Batu Puteh. Kehilangan Pulau Batu Puteh bukanlah satu kesilapan, tetapi satu bentuk keputusan yang dilakukan dengan sengaja oleh kerajaan Mahathir pada 2018. Laporan Suruhanjaya Siasatan Diraja (RCI) telah mengesyorkan siasatan jenayah terhadap Mahathir kerana beliau didakwa sengaja menggalakkan Kabinet ketika era pemerintahanya s...

Bekas Perdana Menteri, Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad baru-baru ini mengatakan seorang calon Perdana Menteri mestilah individu yang mampu menyatukan orang Melayu. Kenyataan itu seolah-olah logik dalam konteks politik Malaysia, apabila orang Melayu merupakan kelompok majoriti dan penyatuan mereka dianggap kunci kestabilan politik. Namun, apabila meneliti rekod pemerintahan Mahathir sepanjang lebih dua dekat bergelar Perdana Menteri, beliau sendiri gagal membuktikan kemampuannya menyatukan orang Melayu. Sebaliknya, Mahathir lebih dikenali kerana mengutamakan kepentingan kroni termasuk keluarganya. SUMBER: https://www.malaysiakini.com/news/659484 Mahathir menjadi Perdana Menteri keempat pada 1981 bersandarkan imej sebagai pemimpin moden yang mahu membawa Malaysia ke arah pembangunan pesat. Namun, di sebalik retorik pembangunan bangsa, era pemerintahannya menyaksikan perpecahan politik Melayu yang semakin ketara. Pada 1987, berlakunya pertembungan antara Mahathir dan Tengku Razaleigh H...

Bersatu did not fracture by accident. The party that Mahathir Mohamad co-founded in 2016, built around the promise of a new Malay political vehicle, has spent the opening months of 2026 consuming itself: its leaders purged, its parliamentary bloc split, its chairman gone, and its position in Perikatan Nasional weakened to the point where PAS has stepped in to assume the coalition's leadership. The proximate cause was the bitter feud between Muhyiddin Yassin and his own deputy, Hamzah Zainudin. But the architecture of the collapse, the backroom manoeuvring, the competing loyalty claims, the toxic mixture of personal ambition and Malay unity rhetoric, bears the unmistakable hallmark of the man who built the party in the first place. Mahathir has not been a Bersatu member for years. He was expelled in 2020, formed Pejuang, lost everything at GE15, and has spent the time since in the role he has always performed best: the elder statesman with opinions and no accountability for the ...

Dasar penswastaan yang diperkenalkan oleh bekas Perdana Menteri, Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad pada 1980-an sering dipromosikan sebagai langkah strategik untuk mempercepatkan pembangunan ekonomi Malaysia. Melalui pendekatan tersebut, pelbagai aset dan perkhidmatan awam dipindahkan kepada sektor swasta dengan alasan meningkatkan kecekapan serta mengurangkan beban kewangan kerajaan. Namun, selepas lebih tiga dekad, realiti yang muncul jauh lebih kompleks dan penuh kontroversi. Banyak projek penswastaan yang dilaksanakan pada era tersebut menimbulkan persoalan besar mengenai ketelusan, monopoli kroni dan penggunaan wang rakyat untuk menyelamatkan syarikat-syarikat yang gagal. Projek lebuh raya, tenaga, telekomunikasi dan penerbangan menjadi contoh utama dasar berkenaan membuka ruang kepada keuntungan besar jangka panjang kepada syarikat tertentu, tetapi pada masa sama meningkatkan beban tarif kepada rakyat. SUMBER: https://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/opinion/2018/07/16/no-privat...

Parti Pribumi Bersatu Malaysia was born not out of a long-term ideological project, but out of political urgency. Its founding in 2016 was driven by a single overriding objective: to dislodge Najib Razak and weaken UMNO’s long-standing dominance of Malay politics. Under Dr Mahathir Mohamad’s patronage, Bersatu was designed primarily as a vehicle for his own political ambitions rather than any sincere attempt to serve as a party of the masses. n.Bersatu’s current collapse, marked by internal revolts, leadership crises and organisational disintegration, is not a sudden accident. It is the delayed consequence of how the party was conceived and led from the very beginning. Mahathir’s leadership style has consistently privileged personalised authority over institutional development. During his long premiership, power was centralised in the executive, weakening norms of cabinet collective responsibility, parliamentary oversight and internal party democracy. This cultivated a political cu...