Masalah TM BELUM di selesaikan lagi...sejak 13hb

Lapuran dibuat 13/12/2012 - talipon tidak ada nada dail - kemudian diketahui ianya kerana kabel talipon telah lagi sekali dipotong dan dicuri - di tiang talipon nombor 2 daripada simpang Jalan Mentakab. Ini adalah kali kedua kejadian ini berlaku pada bulan Disember ini - dan untuk tahun 2012, ianya sudah berlaku lebih kurang 4 - 5 kali, di mana setiap kali masa lama diambil untuk memperbaiki masalah ini. Pemotongan kabel talipon kali ini berlaku kerana pihak TM bila pasang kabel membiarkan kabel gayut rendah (senang sangat untuk pencuri kabel)..

Aduan dibuat 13/12/2012 - TM kata masalah ini akan diperbaiki dalam masa 24 jam - lepas itu mereka kata akan selesai dibaiki pada 16/12/2012....dan kini diberitahu akan dibaiki tak lama lagi...tarikh siap tak dibaiki.

Akibat ini, saya terpaksa ke Mentakab ke kedai internet untuk beberapa hari(hari ini, saya percaya hari keempat) - setiap kali lebih kurang RM8 bayaran internet, bayaran parking kereta lagi, bayaran minyak lagi... Adakah TM akan potong Bil untuk hari-hari ia tidak memberikan perkhidmatan talipon/internet? Tidak - bil bulanan masih perlu dibayar...dan internet saya sahaja RM88 setiap bulan..Bila buat aduan kerosakan, dail nombor 100 - bukan sahaja masa panjang diluangkan paling kurang 5 minit - paling lama lebih kurang 1 jam... dan mereka caj bagi panggilan ini.

Memberbaiki kebel yang tidak panjang (kurang daripada jarak satu tiang ke satu lagi), mengapa harus mengambil masa begitu lama? Semestinya, ada kebel spare untuk segera memperbaiki kebel. TNB cepat dalam masa kurang 12 jam bolelh selesaikan masalah, kenapa TM begitu lambat...

Tahu ini tempat, selalu kena insiden curi kebel - tak bolehkah guna tiang tinggi...atau tanamkan kebel bawah tanah...atau pasang CCTV...atau 'alarm'

Kawasan terbabit kawasan kampung - adakah ini sebab kes ini tidak PRIORITY... 

Kegagalan adalah kegagalan kerajaan BN - walaupun mereka akan pusing dan menyatakan bahawa mereka sudah swastakan kepada TM - jadi kegagalan adalah kegagalan TM bukan BN. TM pula lewat kerana mereka memberikan kerja kepada kontraktor luar - tidak mengunakan pekerja sendiri memperbaiki masalah penguna... Apakah yang sudah terjadi kepada Malaysia? Kegagalan BN adalah membenarkan semua ini diswastakan ...bukan sahaja diswastakan sahaja tetapi membenarkan TM pula memberikan kerja kepada Kontraktor Luar.

Ada lori dan ada orang naik tangga dan membuat satu dengan kebel TM...siapakah mereka? Pencuri atau 'kontraktor TM' = kita tak tahu. Dulu senang, bila TM sendiri membuat kerja pembaikan - pakai Lori/Kenderaan TM, dan memakai uniform TM... kalau orang yang tidak berpakaian sedemikian atau mengunakan kenderaan selain daripada kenderaan, jelas kita tahu bahawa satu kesalahan berlaku dan kita boleh buat Aduan Polis...Aduan kepada TM... sekarang tak tahu..

Bilakah orang kampung akan mendapat kembali perkhidmatan talipon dan internet di Kampung Lubuk Layang, Batu 3, Jalan Mentakab, Temerloh

Blogging saya mengenai isu ini yang saya hebohkan dulu dalam Blog saya, CHARLES HECTOR dilampirkan dibawah ini...

 

TM Cables stolen again within a few weeks - TM too slow and inefficient

When TM fails to provide good service to paying customers...In 2012, there has been about 4 - 5 occasions, where the cable has been stolen - the last being early December 2012 - and gain now it has been stolen, and guess what the theft has happened in almost the same location. And every time it takes days and days for the cable to be reconnected...meaning that customers for phone and/or internet service suffers. Customers pay monthly - and sometimes the loss of service can last weeks... but TM does not deduct the period they fail to provide service...

Worse still, is that when we call that 100 number to receive service faults, it takes a long time with all their many 'press this button'...and that button - key in your phone number....etc - sometimes more than 10 minutes - the longest that I have been on line with the TM customer service person has been more than 1 hour. And they ask all kinds of funny questions like your operating system and modem brands... WHY? Are they doing some sort of market survey? Why do they charge customers for making reports...

And the delay is caused because they have contracted out repair jobs to outside contractors... On the other hand, TNB (Tenaga Nasional Berhad) is so much more faster when it comes to response time and repairs... Surely TM can provide better service - why 24 hours? ...which most time is not true for it takes much more time than that... Telecommunication service providers must respond and remedy errors immediately in 1 to a few hours... Charges go up...and up and these service providers.

Now, I have to go to the internet shop many kilometers away...pay for parking and petrol and pay monies to access and use the internet...

Complain to the BN government - well, they will turn around and say that it is TM, a private company that is the service provider - so not their fault...

The GOVERNMENT MUST BE RESPONSIBLE - and in Malaysia, they must ensure that telecommunication services are all at the very best. TM should have their own staff responding and doing the necessary repairs...

Why are the cables being repeatedly stolen? Don't they have an alarm system? Why do they not keep the cables 'high' making it difficult to steal? One wonders whether it may just be the 'contractors' they use that is involved in these thefts - after all, more work...more contracts. We told them to fix the cables higher - but they still keep it low... 

Make a police report - Well the Ketua Kampung went to the police in Mentakab and made a report - they took it lightly....and said to go the TM and report - and then the Ketua Kampung gets a call from the Temerloh Police Station who asks him to come in again and bring his IC and make another report... Well, What about that CCTV that the police are installing ...should it not be installed here... The one in Mentakab, I saw was installed near the Maybank and the Public Bank in town in an area that is busy... Is it only Banks that need these CCTVs - no, the CCTVs must be installed in residential areas...kampungs and kampung baru where the it is not always filled with people and movement for these are the places that need more police protection...

Number of Police to 100,000 people

Malaysia - 370 (Total Number of Police Personnel in 2012) - Source: Interpol Website 

Singapore - 752 for every 100,000

Brunei - 1,076

Cambodia - 428

 

It is not just the numbers that matter, but also the quality as well as how the police are being used. In Malaysia, the problem some years back was that there was really insufficient 'Investigating Officers'(IO) - these are the police personnel that investigate the reported crimes. One IO once complained informally to me that every day when he comes in he has the interview and get details from about 30 persons who filed new reports daily - his complaint was that he really did not have time to go out and do further investigations...What we need is IOs that have the time to really investigate and find the criminal perpetrators

The case of stolen telephone cables ....will most likely not be solved given the state of affairs... To steal cables, you need the necessary lorry/vehicle and long ladders --- really, how many can there be? Surely, looking at the CCTVs, one will be able to reduce the numbers of possible suspects...remember these cables are beside roads - so not easy to identify the criminal.

But then, the problem is these contractors used by TM - they do not have easily identifiable uniforms or even vehicles with distinct TM markings - so the ordinary person will not know whether it is an official TM repair being done or whether it is some 'criminal' about to steal some cables... TNB is clear - as they use the TNB lorries/cranes and their personnel usually have the required TNB uniforms when they do their work... 

SOLUTION: Make sure that TM work is done by workers with the clearly identifiable TM trucks/vehicles wearing clearly identifiable TM Uniforms - With TM Road Signs when needed to be placed on roads when repair is being done...

When Cables are being stolen - insert CCTV - or place the cables on higher poles - more difficult to access...OR Bury the cables in pipes underground. Or get rid of the copper cables and change it to fiber optic cables which has no value and will not be stolen...

Poor quality Notebook for Temerloh school children.. (Sun, 17/9/2012)

Defects in 1Malaysia netbooks

Posted on 17 September 2012 - 09:19pm

Husna Yusop
newsdesk@thesundaily.com

TEMERLOH (Sept 17, 2012): 1Malaysia Netbook units distributed to school children in Temerloh district in June were reported to be of poor quality and defective, Sinar Harian reported today.

Dozens of the netbooks had to be sent for repair within days after they were delivered to the pupils.

Some parents claimed their children did not even have a chance to use the netbooks because of the defects. 

Most of the netbooks had problems with their hard disks, motherboards or monitors, according to technicians making the repairs.

Pahang Information, Science, Technology and Innovation Committee chairman Datuk Mohd Sharkar Shamsudin urged the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission to ensure the netbooks provided were of good quality.

"We will find a solution to this issue as we do not want the aid given by government to become a burden to parents and the public," he said to the daily.

“Lembu punya susu, sapi dapat nama” - Who struggled for MERDEKA?

Who struggled for the independence of Malaysia? That is the question. It is the appropriate time to look at some past writings on this issue...

 

“Lembu punya susu, sapi dapat nama”

By , on 4 January 2010

(From left) Ishak Haji Mohammed, Dr Burhanuddin Al-Helmy and Ahmad Boestamam 

The seeds of independence had been sowed long before the existence of Umno, notes Hishamuddin Yahaya.  This is a tribute to the unsung heroes of the Merdeka struggle.

Can Umno’s claim that they fought for the country’s independence stand the test of time?  The veracity of this claim is now shrouded with doubt.  A book in bahasa, entitled Anak Merdeka, written by Haji Salleh Majid and published in 1991, exposed the fallacy of this claim.  The author was no politician but an ordinary man who lived to witness the political development of this country evolving from the 1940s to the day of Merdeka.

Early attempts to gain independence

Early attempts to achieve independence were mostly unrecorded. For example, in the early 1940s and before the Japanese occupation of Malaya, Ishak Haji Mohammed (commonly known as Pak Sako), together with an Indonesian delegation, surreptitiously went to Japan soliciting Japanese help to fight for the independence of their respective countries.  This was followed by Soekarno meeting Dr Burhanuddin Al-Helmy to plan strategies for both countries’ independence.  Though both attempts failed for various reasons, the seeds of independence had been sowed long before the existence of Umno.

Ishak Haji Mohamad’s secret trip to Japan was risky business, inviting prosecution for treason, punishable by death, but such was the dexterity of this pure nationalist.  Though he was in the colonial civil service at that time, his patriotism and love for the country was never sacrificed to the colonial masters he served.  In fact it was while in Japan that the name Sako was begotten.  The Japanese found it difficult to spell and pronounce his name Ishak, so they called him Isako.  Later it became his pen name, Pak Sako.

Indonesia’s independence

The independence of Indonesia on 17 August 1945 triggered fire in the hearts of Malays of Indonesian descent.  After all, Indonesia was the “motherland”, separated only by the narrow Straits of Malacca.  Both were Malay lands; and if one could gain independence, why not the other?  Furthermore, an independent Indonesia could provide moral and material help to Malays in the struggle for independence.  Thus, begun the dawn of Merdeka.

Formation of PKMM

It was not until early 1946 that Malaya’s first independent movement was formed.  It was a political party called Parti Kebangsaan Melayu Malaya (PKMM).  Its founder members were Malays of Indonesian descent, notable among them were Ahmad Boestamam and Musa Ahmad.  The party published its first newspaper called Suara Rakayt at Hale Street, Ipoh.  The contents were one hundred per cent political.  In no time, PKMM opened branches all over the country with its headquarters at 2 Batu Road (now Jalan Tuanku Abdul Rahman) Kuala Lumpur.  It did not take long for Pak Sako and Dr Burhanuddin Al-Helmy to join the party.

“Merdeka!” was the greeting of party members whenever they met.  It was said in a spirited voice with clenched fist brought to the chest.  Anytime and anywhere they met, the greeting was “Merdeka!”

Formation of Umno

The United Malays National Organisation (Umno) was formed in June 1946, six months after the formation of PKMM.  It was established with the sole objective of opposing the proposed Malayan Union which relegated the powers of the Malayan Rulers to the British Residents.  Umno was not an independence movement.  In fact, it vehemently opposed independence as the leaders were mostly colonial civil servants who had sold their lives and soul to their colonial masters.  Not only was Umno opposed to independence, the word “Merdeka”was taboo to them.  Umno’s greeting was “hidup Melayu!”

The other reason Umno opposed independence was that the Malays were poor and uneducated; left to themselves, Malaya would be a failed state.

The PKMM, on the other hand, thought otherwise.  The party wanted independence first; then there would be ample opportunity to educate the Malays as the country was rich in natural resources, and it would not be a failed state.  These opposing positions divided the two parties and led to enmity.

PKMM and the labour movement

Enhanced by its committed leaders, the PKMM was a symbol of solidarity.  The spirit within party members raged like wildfire.  Branches and bureaus were established.  Apart from the youth and women’s wings, labour, agriculture and religious bureaus were established.  The labour bureau was the most active and most successful political agitator.  Through it, the PKMM penetrated the Malayan labour movement, which was very responsive to the former’s presence as the living conditions of the labourers at that time were deplorable.  In fact, the presence of the PKMM was welcomed and long awaited.

Incidentally, the Malayan labour movement had affiliated itself with the world labour movement, the World Federation of Trade Unions(WFTU), whose headquarters was in Paris, and not with the American-controlled International Labour Organisation (ILO), whose headquarters was in New York.  The WFTU was leftist inclined, and with the Malayan labour movement affiliated to it, the PKMM’s penetration into the movement heightened British suspicion of the party.

Organised strikes

Between 1946-1948, the labour movement was so active (except in Kelantan, Terengganu and Kedah) that intermitternt strikes almost crippled the rubber and tin industries.  The port workers of Singapore too joined in the strikes, crippling Malaya’s major port.

As expected, the British operative policy of divide and rule was immediately put into action. While pretending to acknowledge the labourers’ plight, the PKMM was declared illegal and its leaders incarcerated.

The organised strikes did not ease with the banning of the PKMM.  Day by day, British economic interests were in jeopardy.  The rubber and tin industries, the mainstay of the British economy, faced imminent paralysis.  By this time the colonial government had sent a loud and clear message to Whitehall.  By this time, Whitehall realised that the independence of India and Indonesia had given impetus to Malaya to free itself from the shackles of colonial rule.  This aspiration could no longer be contained and sooner or later Malaya had to be given its independence.

Independence on a silver platter

The British had learnt that independence achieved through war not only 

resulted in the loss of life and property, but left a grudge within the beneficiary state, resulting in the nationalisation of the colonialists’ assets.  This meant the British could lose everything.  So the only option was for a negotiated independence.  The question then was who would be the British protege so that their assets would be fully protected and the expatriates could hold on to their jobs a little longer.

With PKMM banned and its leaders incarcerated, the only organised movement that dominated the political scene then was Umno, which was seen as a safe bet.  Firstly, most of their leaders were British educated and had embraced British culture and values ever since their high school days in Britain or at the Malay College Kuala Kangsar.  Secondly, they were mostly the sons of the Malay rulers and chieftains who had been close to the British.  These people had regarded the British as their icons and mentors and viewed them as their savoir.

Umno, the opportunist

Umno was quick to seize the opportunity.  With its adversary, the PKMM banned and driven into oblivion, Umno took over where the PKMM had left off.  From an anti-Malayan Union organi-sation, it suddenly assumed the role of a force fighting for independence.  The British were very comfortable with Umno’s new role, and negotiations for independence took off.

The negotiations that followed were mainly technical and focussed on two major issues: to prepare the country’s constitution and to agree on the date of the declaration of independence.  A body was formed, headed by Lord Reid, to look into a constitution and the date of independence was agreed as 31 August 1957.  For political exigency, Umno would have to forge an alliance with the ethnic Chinese and Indian political parties,  and hence “Perikatan” (Alliance) was formed.

Pending full independence, Malaya was ruled by the Federal Legislative Council consisting of appointed members representing the various races and professions.  With independence granted on a silver platter, the British were successful in retaining the entire system and had their assets protected.  For Umno and the Alliance, the declaration of independence was a jubilant moment as it was achieved without shedding a drop of blood.

Declaration of independence

On 31 August 1957, Malaya was re-reborn.  As the clock struck midnight, the Union Jack was lowered and the new Malayan flag was hoisted in front of the clock tower opposite the Selangor Padang.  The shouts of “Merdeka!” — no less than seven times — reverberated and resounded in the air.  The shouts were led by Tuanku Abdul Rahman, who stood on a rostrum surrounded by his Cabinet Ministers, some of whom, I observed, were obviously drunk.

The official declaration of independence was held at Stadium Merdeka the next morning, attended by all the Malay Rulers, the British High Commissioner and the representatives of the Queen (Duke of Gloucester).  I was there with my father and sibling “representing” Temerloh, Pahang.

Thus, Malaya was born as an independent state, a member of the British Commonwealth and member of the United Nations.  It was the culmination of a long and difficult struggle, an achievement won not by the educated class, but by labourers, port workers and others — the downtrodden — whose existence we hardly knew.

They were the real fighters of Merdeka, whose actions created a landscape for independence.  Those were the people who laboured endlessly  to enrich the colonial masters in return for a pittance and who now lay in the graves unknown and forgotten.

They were Malays, Indians, Chinese and others and they were certainly not Umno members.  They were the unsung heroes who sacrificed their lives and freedom for future generations,  but who only found their own freedom in the silence of their graves.  It is those people who deserve to be commemorated on 31 August every year and not “the patriots” who hoisted the jalur gemilang on the roofs of mansions at the prestigious addresses of Kuala Lumpur or those who flew the jalur gemilang on the roofs of their flashy cars.

To the real patriots and the fighters of independence, we offer them our unreserved salute.  As for Umno, we only have this to say: “Lembu punya susu, sapi dapat nama.”

Dato Hishamuddin bin Haji Yahaya is a lawyer and  former MP for Temerloh. 

Source: ALIRAN Website, 

Warga Temerloh sudah matang boleh pilih Ketua Kampung JKKKK sendiri

Masalah dengan Majlis Perbandaran Temerloh dan kerajaan adalah tidak ada perbincangan dengan warga Temerloh - dan semua dilakukan tanpa proses konsultasi atau perbincangan dengan rakyat setempat.

Mungkin jawapan yang diberikan adalah bahawa mereka ada mendapat pendapat daripada Ketua Kampung atau JKKK - tetapi masalahnya adalah mereka tidak mewakili rakyat setempat - tidak langsung dipilih oleh rakyat untuk menjadi wakil, dan tidak juga melakukan apa-apa proses perbincangan dendan rakyat sebelum membuat apa-apa keputusan bagi pihak rakyat setempat. Rakyat Temerloh mahukan demokrasi tulen - di mana rakyat diberi hak untuk memilih wakil mereka diperingkat ketua kampung dan JKKKK, JKKKT, dan lain-lain.

Di negara Thailand, setiap 2 tahun penduduk setempat (kampung/taman) lebih kurang 300-500 isi rumah akan mengadakan pilihanraya setempat untuk melantik ketua kampung/taman serta jawatankuasa pentadbiran. Notis akan dihantar ke setiap rumah menyatakan masa dan tempat penamaan pencalunan - selepas itu senarai calun akan diedarkan dan masa diberikan untuk tujuan 'kempen' - selepas itu hari undi akan sampai dan pengundian berlaku. 

Yang dipilih adalah pihak yang akan pihak berkuasa berbincang dengan untuk tujuan pembangunan setempat dan sebagainya - mereka wakil sebenar rakyat.

Dari masa ke masa, akan juga di adakan pertemuan dengan penduduk untuk proses perbincangan, tanya pendapat dan membuat keputusan. Risalah memaklumkan apa yang dilakukan juga diedarkan dari rumah ke rumah. Kos - kerajaan memperuntukkan RM1,000 setiap bulan kepada Ketua Kampung untuk tujuan ini. 

Sekarang, sekira mereka yang dipilih ini tidak menjalankan tugas saperti mana diperlukan - sampai tarikh pilihanraya akan datang, mereka akan ditolak olelh rakyat setempat.

Siapa yang bertanding? Siapa sahaja - ada suri rumah tangga, ada cik gu, dan sebagainya - dan kesemua ini langsung tidak dikaitkan dengan mana-mana parti-politik. Jadi ianya bukan soal undi untuk parti ini atau parti itu - tetapi undi untuk orang perseorangan yang wajar dipilih sebagai wakil rakyat...

Di Temerloh, bukan sahaja warga Temerloh tidak diberikan peluang memilih wakil setempat - tetapi tidak adapun proses konsultasi, perbincangan dan proses memberitahu apa yang berlaku...

Transparensi - itupun tidak ada - berapa wang pungutan Majlis Perbandaran Temerloh, bagaimana wang tersebut dibelanjakan, dan lain-lain --- cuba pergi melawat Laman Web Majlis Perbandaran - adakah terdapat minit mesyuarat, keputusan yang telah dibuat, akaun.... 

Jejantas pejalan kaki - banyak yang rosak - tetapi masih lagi tidak diperbaiki... tak ada duit pasang atap fibre - pasang sahaja  atap zinc atau letak sahaja kain plastic - sekurang-kurang mereka yang mengunakan selamat daripada hujan dan panas... 

Perhentian Bas - beratap.... banyak tempat itu pun tidak ada. Dari jalan keluar kem Batu 3 sehingga simpang 4 Temerloh-Mentakab-Jerantut-.. tidak ada satu pun 'bus-stop' yang baik dan ini kawasan bandar sibuk benar dengan pasar Ramadhan - tempat lain di Temerloh tak perlu lah kita cakap...

Banyak wang saya percaya digunakan untuk 'batu dengan logo ikan patin - warna kuning' - adakah ini penting sangat. Berapa kontrak ini? 1 batu mungkin berapa.... 

 

Ikan Patin dan pendapatan warga Temerloh menjadi mangsa akibat keracunan...

Kekurangan penguatkuasaan oleh kerajaan membahayakan nyawa dan pendapatan rakyat Temerloh.... Kesedaran dan tindakan tegas diperlukan...

TEMERLOH: Over 500,000 patin and tilapia, reared in 350 cages in Sungai Semantan and Sungai Pahang, are under threat due to rampant poisoning.

Poisoning of the two rivers with a type of pesticide is not only killing the fish population but also hazardous to livestock and humans.

Breeder Mohd Salleh Lazim, 45, said some people had been poisoning the rivers at night and pre-dawn.

“The pesticide can kill fish in five to 10 minutes,” he said. “Some people have resorted to doing this to catch fish during the dry season from June to August.

“A variety of large and small fish will die when ingested with the pesticide,” Mohd Salleh added.

Last week, about 45,000 patin, bred in the two rivers had died of poisoning. Losses have been estaimated at RM100,000.

Yunus Aziz, 34, suffered RM20,000 loss when his fish in Sungai Semantan died four months ago while 3,000 more may die if the poisoning is not stopped.

He hopes that the Fisheries Department and enforcement agencies can stop the culprits.

Breeders fear that rampant poisoning will reduce the supply of patin and tilapia in Temerloh, a town famous for freshwater fish. — Bernama - Star, 23/7/2012, Poisoned rivers threaten fish farms

Friday June 29, 2012

Temerloh CID chief charged with bribery

KUANTAN: The Temerloh CID chief was charged in the Sessions Court here with accepting a RM2,000 bribe from a massage parlour operator.

Deputy Supt R. Sundralingam, 52, of Taman KSM pleaded not guilty.

He is alleged to have committed the offence in a restaurant in Jalan Temerloh, Mentakab, at about 5.25pm on March 23.

DSP Sundralingam is said to have accepted RM2,000 from Yow Yock Tai as an inducement not to take action against him and five workers for operating an illegal massage parlour.

He was charged under Section 17 (a) of the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission Act 2009, punishable under Section 24 of the same Act.

The offence carries a jail term of up to 20 years and a fine of up to five times the amount of bribes involved or RM10,000, whichever is higher.

Sessions judge Fathiyah Idris yesterday granted the accused bail of RM4,000 in one surety and fixed trial for five days from Oct 1.

Meanwhile, Temerloh OCPD Asst Comm Mohd Nor Mansor said he had been informed of the matter.

“For the time being, DSP Sundralingam is still the district CID chief.

“We will inform Bukit Aman of his case and await further instructions,” he said - Star, 29/6/2012, Temerloh CID chief charged with bribery

Jejantas pejalan kaki di Temerloh - kurang dan rosak - lebih baik lintasan 'ZEBRA' bertrafik light

Jejantas pejalan kaki di kawasan Temerloh, bukan sahaja, tidak cukup tetapi dalam keadaan rosak tak berbumbung. Sebagai bandingan, cuba lihat keadaan jejajantas dekat Hospital(Pusat Kesihatan) Mentakab ...jejantas dekat sekolan Hwa Lian/SMKM .... bumbung pun tidak ada. ADUN BN di kawasan itu - MP pun BN...Apa yang perlu adalah untuk 'repair' bumbung - tak siapa akan mengunakan jejantas sedemikian khususnya bila hari sangat panas atau hujan ...

Alternatif kepada jejantas - yang jauh lebih murah adalah 'pedesterian crosiing' yang mempunyai trafic light - yang boleh senang dipicit bila ada pejalan kaki mahu menyeberang jan. Ini lebih munasabah khususnya apabila menyeberang jalan-jalan saperti jalan-jalan di kawasan Temerloh ... tetapi kalau mahu projek besar - di mana ada yang dapat untung besar, kerajaan saperti kerajaan BN mungkin akan membina jejantas (berharga berjuta-juta ringgit) berbanding dengan 'pedesterian crossing' dengan lampu isyarat....

Bagi seorang pejalan kaki, yang berjalan dalam keadaan panas/hujan - pilihannya adalah jalan yang paling pendek dan cepat - it sebab lebih wajar dan praktis membuat lebih tempat melintas untuk pejalan kaki yang disertai lampu trafik ...mungkin juga sebuah 'bonggol' sebelum itu untuk memastikan kenderaan bermotor akan mengurangkan kelajuannya...

 

Pacific Mall - di mana bahaya pembinaan kepada orang ramai ada...

Pernahkah anda pergi ke Pacific Mall (Hypermall) - di mana letaknya juga panggung wayang Golden Screen Cinemas? Kawasan itu masih belum siap dibina - tetapi bagaimanakah mereka mendapatkan kelulusan untuk memulakan perniagaan....

Kalau kamu masuk 'Parking' bawah tanah mall itu, kamu akan lihat aspek-aspek keselamatan biasa kawasan pembinaan pun tidak ada... dan bahan binaan bertabur di mana-mana? Biasanya, apabila ada tapak pembinaan - ada pagar di-sekeliling untuk menjaga keselamatan orang ramai...

Bila pembinaan, berlaku sangat dekat ada 'construction safety mesh'...atau 'construction safety net' memastikan bahawa tiada barangan jatuh atas siapa-siapa di bawah (orang ramai dan pekerja-pekerja...) Tetapi di Temerloh - di tapak pembinaan dekat Pacific Mall - ciri-ciri keselamatan perlu untuk memastikan keselamatan orang ramai jelas tidak ada - dan sangat bahaya bukan sahaja kepada orang ramai tetapi juga kenderaan (tayar pun senang pancit, atau juga tergelincir kerana banyak pasir hasil proses pembinaan di sana...

Mengapa pihak berkuatkuasa tidak melakukan bahawa apa yang perlu dilakukan untuk menjamin keselamatan? Adakah UMNO dan BN 100% pasti bahawa Temerloh dan DUN Mentakab adalah kawasan kuat BN - maka keselamatan dan keperluan rakyat di sini boleh diabaikan...? Ahli Parlimen - seorang Timbalan Menteri --- bagaimana ini boleh bverlaku di kawasan Temerloh...?

Pihak Pacific Mall juga harus membersihkan kawasan ...kerosakan dan menjaga keselamatan pengunjung? Pihak berkuasa harus ambil tindakan wajar...

TM - kalau tak ada perkhidmatan, caj tetap juga harus dipotong secara otomatis

Adalah salah jika penguna terpaksa membayar kadar bulanan talipon/internet saperti biasa walaupun tidak mendapat perkhidmatan talipon/internet untuk jangkamasa tertentu dimana ianya adalah kegagalan pihak TM sendiri memastikan perkhidmatan itu terus menerus.

Dalam 3-4 bulan yang lalu, ada berlaku sebanyak tiga(3) kali berlaku pencurian kable telekom yang memberikan perkhidmatan talipon/internet kepada penduduk di Kampung Lubuk Layang, di mana anggaran masa keseluruhan tidak ada perkhidmatan adalah kini lebih kurang satu bulan.

Berbanding dengan perkhidmatan letrik atau air, telekom mengenakan bayaran tetap yang agak tinggi yang untuk setengah perkara tidak ada caj yang bergantung kepada pengunaan. Sebagai contoh, setiap bulan untuk internet saya membayar RM88-00 di mana tidak ada caj tambahan berkaitan pengunaan. Justeru, itu secara otomatis, mesti ada potongan caj perkhidmatan tetap talipon/internet yang mengambil kira bilangan hari perkhitmatan itu tidak ada. 

Ini bukan sahaja tanggungjawab TM - tetapi juga tanggungjawab kerajaan Malaysia. Kerajaan Malaysia tak boleh kini menyatakan bahawa mereka tidak ada tanggungjawab kerana perkhidmatan talikom sudah diswastakan. 

Kabel telekom ada 'alarm' yang akan secara otomatis memberitahu pihak TM bila-bila kable telekom dipotong, tetapi baru-baru ini, saya diberitahu bahawa kable bekalan talikom ke kampung saya ini tidak ada 'alarm' sedemikian. Mengapa? 3 kali berlaku kecurian kable - mungkin juga pihak talikom atau polis memasang CCTV? Bila kable telekom biasa dicuri, penyelesaian biasa adalah untuk tanam kable tersebut di bawah tanah supaya sukar di curi - ini juga tidak berlaku. Mengapa? 

Berikut penulisan saya dalam Blog saya yang dalam Bahasa Inggeris mengandungi lebih banyak pendapat saya dilampirkan:

TM - no service - but still you pay full charges to Telekom. Government must act..

Over the past 3 to 4 months, in my kampung, i.e. Kampung Lubuk Layang, Temerloh, Pahang, we have had NO service for maybe now almost 1 month in total because apparently some body had cut and stolen the phone cable leading to the homes in this kampung. This has happened 3 times in the past 3-4 months. The first time, it took about 2 weeks for it to be restored, and on the last occasion, we lost it on Sunday and it only came back on Thursday evening(15/3/2012).

Unlike electricity and water, a disruption of service also means that you do not get get charged as there is no consumption, but in the case of telephone lines, telekom already charges fixed monthly rates for phone services, and for internet (in my case I pay a fixed rate of RM88 per month) -  but even if there is a disruption, the Bills come every time for the full rate - and this is very wrong.

Unlike TNB (our electricity provider), the response time for TM has been becoming worse. Here we are talking about cable 'thefts' maybe just about the length of 1 to 3 poles, which naturally could be very easily repaired within 12 hours (or 24 hours at most) - but it just do not happen speedily any more. 

WHY? Because of inefficiency ....and maybe also the practice of 'outsourcing' repair works to 3rd party contractors delays repairs. If they did it on their own, then maybe it may have been faster - but even if outside contractors are involved, the delay is not justified. Are they issuing 'new tenders' for each and every fault that needs to be repaired? Hopefully not....

When the phone line is out and the internet is down - there is a lot of loss suffered by the consumer. Today many people, besides using their internet for browsing, e-mailing, etc - also do subscribe to internet services like on-line newspapers/magazines, and in my case also on-line law journals that now cost me about RM2,000 per year. Now, there is also on-line banking, e-aduans, on-line SPR checking, etc... needed to be done,...not to mention disruption of rights of expression, communication which today is done a lot vide internet through blogs, letters to editors, email, social network sites like Facebook, twitters, etc. Lawyers too need the internet for their e-filings and many other transactions. So too other professions..

So when services are disrupted, more so not due to your own personal in-house line or equipment, lot of other losses are suffered by the consumer. As of right, Telekom when they issue their subsequent months Bill, MUST without being prompted make necessary deductions to fixed charges of phone and/or internet services, where the deductions be for days/weeks that the service was disrupted. This the Malaysian government must insist upon, and not escape liability and/or obligation and/or their duty to consumers on the grounds that this service has already been privatised.When complaints are made about service disruptions - I hope they are free, and consumers are not being charged for this as well.

As it is, many of the agreements these service providers (phone, internet, electricty, water supply,... does not impose any for the service providers to  provide disruption-free services. Maybe an obligation must be placed on prompt restoration of services not later than maybe 24 hours, plus also the obligation to communicate immediately to consumers if there is going to be any disruptions, or when there is an exact time when the service will be restored, failing they should be liable for all losses suffered by consumers.

In my case, they first said that the most recent problem will be resolved within 24 hours, latest 48 hours - later they said by 14/3/2012(an SMS was sent to me on 12/3/2012), but ultimately service was restored only in the early evening of 15/3/2012.

It is the Malaysian government's obligation to ensure that these basic services are never disrupted, and if it is then it will be restored forthwith certainly within 24 hours. And in the case of phone/internet services, the said service provider also make the necessary deductions of fixed rates for day/weeks whereby the service was disrupted without requiring consumers to chase after them for such deductions.

The right to claim damages for disruptions lasting longer than 24 hours, and for planned disruptions not communicated to clients in advance, must be made available. 

The government also need monitor service providers to ensure that their response time is fast - and if the using of outside contractors is the problem, then maybe we need to get rid of this, and TM should have their own response team, and should at all time have the required cable and other needed parts in their stores. 

Phone line cables, I believe, do have an inbuilt 'alarm' system, that will be triggered off immediately when cables are cut, so that disruptions of such will come to the immediate knowledge of Telekom who could immediately rush to the area (or get the police) to respond, and such thieves could easily be arrested and charged. Phone cables are items not easy to hide, and there is a need for certain kind of equipment (which are difficult to hide) when one is climbing to steal an overhanging phone cable. [The contractor repairing the cable leading to the kampung said that this cable apparently was not equipped with such 'alarm' - and I wonder why, for surely the cables most likely to be stolen are along kampung roads and rural areas - and that is where one needs to have these alarms.]

Now, likewise maybe there is a need for CCTVs to be installed more so since the theft of cables have occurred three(3) times in the space of the last 3-4 months.

The other option, is to bury the said phone lines underground making it even more difficult to steal - but alas, this too was not done, and I would not be surprised if more such thefts happen again at around same area/location.

Was the police informed by the Telekom about these 3 thefts in the last 3-4 months? For, too date I have yet to see any police investigation being done - no police have come to ask me anything.

It is the poor people that most suffer - and let us hope that the Malaysian government will step in and do something about this. To compound matters, the MP of Temerloh is in the Cabinet member. 

Hopefully, this government will not come and say that it is not their responsibility any more since this service have already been privatized..

Ceramah PR Sungai Gau ada 1,000 - 3,000 yang dianggarkan hadhir

Saya menghadiri ceramah Pakatan Rakyat di Sungai Gau malam ini - di mana apa yang disebarkan melalui SMS adalah bahawa Anwar Ibrahim, Wan Azizah, YB Syed (saya percaya Syed Husin) akan hadhir tetapi malangnya mereka ini tidak hadhir - tetapi ada penceramah lain saperti Tian Chua yang datang...Jika ada penceramah penting tidak dapat hadhir, lebih baik SMS juga yang mereka tidak dapat hadhir dan rakyat tidak akan terasa marah atau 'tertipu' apabila pergi jauh untuk mendengar penceramah ini...

Saya hanya sempat mendengar 2 penceramah, seorang dari PAS dan Saudara Tian Chua - yang hadhir cukup ramai, mungkin lebih kurang 1,000 - 3,000. Saya percaya ramai yang pulang sebelum saya sampai.

Apa yang harap mendengar bukan isu-isu lama - yang sudah banyak keluar dalam Harakah dan penerbitan dan Blog Pakatan Rakyat dan penyokong mereka tetapi apakah perubahan atau 'reformasi' yang akan berlaku apabila kerajaan Pakatan Rakyat (dengan parti pembangkang lain) mengambil alih kuasa pentadbiran...

* Berkenaan pekerja dan kesatuan pekerja - apakah yang Pakatan akan melakukan untuk mengembalikan kerja tetap sehingga umur bersara. Adakah pekerjaan sementara berasaskan kontrak jangka pendek dihapuskan, atau dikurangkan? Adakah perhubungan kerja adil di antara pihak majikan (tuan punya/operator tempat kerja) dan pekerja yang kerja di tempat kerja itu dijamin. Kini banyak kilang mengunakan pekerja pihak ketiga/kontraktor luar - di mana mereka ini tidak dianggap pekerja(employee) kilang tersebut, dan oleh kerana itu tidak boleh masuk Kesatuan kilang itu, atau berunding atau masuk CA dengan tuan punya/operator kilang. Hakikat di setengah kilang di Temerloh adalah bilangan tenaga kerja dalam kilang bekalan pihak ketiga melampaui 50%, di mana ini secara otomatis melemahkan kesatuan tempat kerja kerana 'bargaining power' untuk hak dan keadaan kerja lebih baik telah berkurangan.

* Berkenaan dengan isu perkhidmatan kesihatan - adakah Pakatan Rakyat akan menjamin tidak akan menswastakan perkhidmatan kesihatan, dan memastikan perkhidmatan kesihatan percuma (atau dengan bayaran RM1 atau RM5) diberikan. Kini jika sakit jantung - kena cari RM40,000 lebih untuk operasi - siapa boleh mampu?

* Mahu beri Lot Rumah untuk mereka yang miskin yang tak ada tanah atau rumah adalah baik dan adil, di mana dalam proses ini, quota perkauman atau agama tidak harus masuk

* Rakyat sudah tidak mahu BN dan sudah terima pembangkang, PAS, PKR, DAP dan parti pembangkang yang lain. (Satu tanda tanya adalah sama ada pihak Pakatan Rakyat akan bekerjasama dengan parti pembangkang yang lain atau akan bertindak sebagai kelab eksklusif parti Pakatan Rakyat sahaja???)

* Usah bercakap tentang kebaikan Anwar semasa dalam UMNO sebab ramai yang tidak mudah percaya - yang penting ada keinsafan sejak dibuang UMNO, dan kini Anwar BARU berjuang untuk rakyat, keadilan, hak asasi, dsb...

* Cakap Tian Chua bahawa PKR tidak boleh bergantung sahaja kepada Anwar untuk ceramah di sini dan sana memang betul - PKR perlu menampilkan lebih ramai pemimpin baru, bukan sahaja ahli keluarga Anwar atau pengikut Anwar lama ... Ini adalah kekurangan PKR. PAS dan DAP ada lebih ramai pemimpin yang dikenali ramai, yang juga akan menarik ramai bila mereka berceramah...PKR kena berusaha lebih - kena berusaha lebih menambahkan ahli dan cawangan juga.

Menunggu untuk ceramah akan datang...