Marhaen Dan Rakyat

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...

Dalam sejarah politik negara, Akta Keselamatan Dalam Negara (ISA) sering dilihat sebagai simbol penindasan dan autoritarian. Diperkenalkan selepas kemerdekaan untuk menangani ancaman komunis selepas darurat, akta tersebut membenarkan penahanan tanpa bicara selama dua tahun dan tempoh itu boleh dilanjutkan tanpa had. Namun, semasa era pemerintahan Perdana Menteri keempat, Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad dari 1981 hingga 2003, ISA bukan lagi alat pertahanan negara semata-mata. Akta berkenaan sebaliknya menjadi instrumen politik utama untuk menutup kelemahan pentadbiran beliau. Mahathir menggunakan akta terbabit untuk menyekat pembangkang, memberi tekanan kepada para pengkritiknya dan pada masa sama, beliau mahu menonjolkan diri sebagai orang paling berpengaruh dalam negara. SUMBER: https://www.hmetro.com.my/mutakhir/2015/10/85022/tak-lupa-dr-m-pun-salah-guna-isa Era pemerintahan Mahathir dibayangi dengan kelemahan pentadbiran yang ketara, termasuk isu rasuah, ketidakadilan sosial dan kel...