Massive protest at KLCC?
Friday, March 3rd, 2006 | 10:42 am @ SK
[UPDATED VERSION] A massive protest over the government’s sharp fuel price hike will be taking place at the iconic Kuala Lumpur City Centre (KLCC) at 2pm this afternoon, where protestors are expected to march from the KLCC mosque after the Friday’s prayer.
PAS Central Committee member Hatta Ramli expects a crowd of 5000 people to turn up with placards and banners, in which opposition parties like Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) and Parti Sosialis Malaysia (PSM), human rights group Suaram and citizens coalition Jaringan Rakyat Tertindas (JERIT) are expected to turn up at the rally.
"This is not a PAS affair. Everyone who are angry over the petrol hike should come," Hatta stressed.
Imagine, angry people with angry faces in front of KLCC, which is one of the hottest tourist spot in Malaysia. If they are to protest over the petrol price increment, demanding an immediate government intervention, this blogger is praying hard for no other than — divine intervention.
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March 3rd, 2006 at 7:15 am
March 3rd, 2006 at 7:15 am
March 3rd, 2006 at 7:55 am
March 3rd, 2006 at 10:47 am
I look at this as another way that the opposition party is trying to be funny
March 3rd, 2006 at 10:59 am
yeah…agreed. The opposition party is taking this fuel price hike to gain the support from the citizens to protest our government. Wake up dear civilized citizens!!
March 3rd, 2006 at 11:13 am
Better focus on conserving our natural resources than getting angry over the price hike - Travelling to KLCC itself will use up fuel. The protest will be futile, and fuel will yet again be wasted.
I concur with JL.
March 3rd, 2006 at 11:18 am
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March 3rd, 2006 at 12:13 pm
At least the opposition parties are not the one that milk on you 3, make a fool out of you 3,discriminate you 3, cheat on you 3, no? Get a life.
March 3rd, 2006 at 1:30 pm
Perhaps the people protesting should go find themselves a job where they actually have to be AT WORK. Maybe then they would have money to buy petrol, eh??
March 3rd, 2006 at 1:32 pm
The external compound of KLCC Tower 2 is now full of FRUs. Red units already standby and closed traffic on the main route heading to the mosque.
March 3rd, 2006 at 2:13 pm
The crowd is now started moving to the direction of Petronas Tower 2
[SK] Those might be normal crowd walking back to Tower 2 after their prayers, don’t get the wrong alert. Last check down there, it’s only police and FRU, but no crowd. ;-)
March 3rd, 2006 at 2:37 pm
haha yeah my position was too high… mis-interpreted the crowd LoL
now FRU is lining up like marching
[SK] Those people started to walk from the mosque and went around to Jalan Ampang, in front of Pelita now. ;-)
March 3rd, 2006 at 2:52 pm
Well. it may be another joke in tomorrow’s newspaper for foreigners. Haiih…
March 3rd, 2006 at 2:55 pm
So does anyone have the pictures of the crowd?
March 3rd, 2006 at 2:57 pm
i feel its really stupid. not as if the pirce will drop after this.. I have never seen any drop of any priced that increased…other than sales :P
But then again we dont have sale period for petrol do we?
March 3rd, 2006 at 3:25 pm
we’re really starting to look like Indonesia… i don’t like this…
March 3rd, 2006 at 3:33 pm
These folks are the same ones who protested in front of Wisma Denmark for the ‘Banned’ Cartoons. Its a good excuse to not go to work. Largely made up of Office boys, runners and clerks who can’t be bothered about work.
March 3rd, 2006 at 3:34 pm
wow. they’re acting pretty hard on it huh?
i wasn’t affected by the increase of the petrol prices.
i don’t drive.
March 3rd, 2006 at 3:36 pm
i like klcc
March 3rd, 2006 at 3:40 pm
Not all the opposition parties are stupid like those 3 on top mentioned.
Go protest about proton cheated the public for lousy qualities car !
March 3rd, 2006 at 3:46 pm
To JL,
If our government have done it any better, then it would not give the opposition party any chance to protest, don’t you think? Please don’t be too naive, especially those who are not on the receiving end of unfair treatment, you will not feel any pinch of those shits. I hope ignorance is not what you’re looking for in life.
March 3rd, 2006 at 3:47 pm
This is interesting updates. Show more picture please…kekeke…Look like a real live show.
March 3rd, 2006 at 3:55 pm
Nothing will change after all these dramas.
March 3rd, 2006 at 4:00 pm
Petrol increase Salary no increase…this is the major point of the protestion. Agree?
March 3rd, 2006 at 4:00 pm
Hurray!!, Mr. Nice is too nice. Opposition parties using lousy reason to be on tomorrow newspaper 1st page. You fool go to work.
Earn money to fuel your car. Protest don’t make your car move.FOOL!
March 3rd, 2006 at 4:05 pm
yeah, this is what people should do to show their power to the people-unconciousness government. those 3 on top, wake up, don’t fool by the government.
March 3rd, 2006 at 4:10 pm
Haha, I support my living by blogging and yet, I was there, cheering with them. Shows that you don’t have to stick inside a cubicle to make money. ;)
March 3rd, 2006 at 4:19 pm
Ended too peaceful… won’t help!
I think might help if someone jump from KLCC instead marching to KLCC.
All, sleep along the Jln Ampang… discourage ppl to drive… make big havoc to KL city traffic… might help u go in jail for few days… no need to work for few days!!
Really nothing to do after prayer hours?
March 3rd, 2006 at 4:44 pm
Here said we subsidise so much to petrol, PETRONAS earned tremendously….. !!! such a funny firgure…………
March 3rd, 2006 at 4:58 pm
Sure need to protest!!!!
If not, government will simply increase the petrol price in future.
At least, opposite party voice up the anger. But not just hide under the turtle shell.
March 3rd, 2006 at 5:05 pm
It’s useless altough 5000 people go protest at KLCC. The big shot will just look at this as a joke from people who are too free. But let’s see how good our public transport system can be improved.
March 3rd, 2006 at 5:08 pm
Oh yeah, talking about Petronas. I still remember how my friend who used to be a trainee there, wishing that he can be a permanent staff just because life is so easy working in Petronas.
March 3rd, 2006 at 5:12 pm
Some more pics here, click on the 2 pictures to see a list
March 3rd, 2006 at 5:18 pm
i will support they action, cos continues like that. next year maybe increase 50 send a year, how we can affortable ? as i know our country also had export petrol to other country, so where is the profit ? Don’t put the reponsible to our side, goverment should take this loss..
March 3rd, 2006 at 6:00 pm
[…] Demonstrations at KLCC organised by the Opposition parties in protest of the petrol hike in price. I’ve scoured the WWW and I found several links like this, this and this. Great pictures too. “People’s Power” in full force. Ironically this wouldn’t have been possible ten years ago. Thanks to the “quality” of Encik Jellyfish’s wonderful “leadership” however, demonstrations are now quite possible. […]
March 3rd, 2006 at 6:03 pm
[…] 6:00pm: More photos here. 3:53pm: First batch of protest photos available on the Net. 3:50pm: We will source for some photos later today. Thanks for visiting. 3:45pm: Crowd dispersing. 3:25pm: halo friend, we have an interesting encounter in Penang this morning with CVLB -who control our buses licenses. He renewed the licenses for the rotten operators and proved that $ is not all it take for improving public transport -Pak Lah’s excuse to hike fuel- (Message from Penang) […]
March 3rd, 2006 at 6:16 pm
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March 3rd, 2006 at 6:39 pm
we should get angry at the mamak restaurants for hiking up the prices of roti canais and teh tariks! let’s have a demonstration at every mamak stall/restaurant we can find!!!
n’ways… we all know the price of oil worldwide has gone up… is it really a surprise that the price of petrol and diesel will do the same eventually? i bet if the opposition parties were in charge, they’ll do exactly the same thing. this is a pure economics issue, not a political one.
March 3rd, 2006 at 7:20 pm
Omg!! I was at KLCC that hour. I thought I was in Indonesia or Indonesia peoples migrated to Malaysia.
I still like Malaysia though, minus those ugly demo.
March 3rd, 2006 at 7:30 pm
“zap fan” (mix rice) increase 30cent…
March 3rd, 2006 at 8:22 pm
Massive protest at KLCC?
mageP’s photo-blog report of the protest against the 30 sen price hike in petroleum prices. Some nice and clear pix on this blog.
March 3rd, 2006 at 8:27 pm
NBTD….
What will happen if opposition become gov? How sure are u the price won’t hike? We won’t know but my instinct tell me, debt will be even worse..and petrol sure naik oso no matter who protest…
This is the time for the opposition to seek popularity…They voice but not the right way as well…Y not make a petition, getting everyone sign up and send to Agung or PM. That would be better rite.
Doing demonstration is not a good way…it will cause traffic jams and affected other people’s life. Do it somewhere else. Putrajaya would be better. Spacious….
Politics……aih………take chance to get popular…..
March 3rd, 2006 at 9:53 pm
Tat protective is a good act… Would Chinese do that? i think no… Sorry to tell that? about this issue, i support they are right…. Government do something wrong, we must protest our benefits…
I just wonder that when Chinese can stand up and shout out feeling… Sometimes feel that Chinese Sukx… I’m Malaysian Chinese….
March 3rd, 2006 at 10:23 pm
i like the way u breakedown the timestamp heh heh…
but yea this is massive news man…
March 3rd, 2006 at 10:58 pm
The next will be Plus highway. 1 Jan 2007.
March 3rd, 2006 at 11:37 pm
Call that massive protest? More looks like my birthday party.
March 4th, 2006 at 12:34 am
living your live in ignorance is cool enough?
you all deserve to die when the war come!
die all the ignorance!!!!
March 4th, 2006 at 12:58 am
it’s not just about having the government to decrease the price of the petrol after the protest anymore.
for those who said that this protest is useless and a waste of time, i wouldnt blame you for saying out those naive and foolish words.
well, i think it’s time to let the governmemnt know that we will not just sit quietly and let them cut our throat just like that. and at the same time, this is to raise more public awareness and consciousness, especially people like you who thinks that this protest is a waste of time and energy.
perhaps you really wouldnt mind paying that extra rm1 for a plate of chicken rice daily from today onwards, and extra bucks on petrol just because your work requires you to do so!
March 4th, 2006 at 9:13 am
Typical Malaysians. Admit defeat before they even try. Its this sort of "no point protesting" mentality that allows this corrupt government to trive.
If you are financially well off, you dont have to worry. But what about the mamak man you buy your teh tarik from? What about the news paper vendor? They dont earn much in the first place. They are the one hardest hit.
Personally, the Malaysian gov sowed the seeds of reliance on subsidies. The people have been too reliant on. it. They sowed the seeds, well, the seeds of discontent are now sprouting out.
You may call the protests causing trouble, making you stuck in a jam while youre stuck in your air cond BMW/Mercedes/volvo/whatever. Spare a thought for the people who can only afford a motorcycle. their petrol bills will go up RM15/month just beause of the 30 sen hike.
The rich are the ones who make the biggest noise in the gov press. Its the poor that have no voice. And when they do get a voice tru the oppositon parties, the rich calls them making trouble.
REMEMBER: petrol subsidies only benefit the rich. Its the poor that suffer the most.
March 4th, 2006 at 2:04 pm
I heard a BrianLee mentioned about a petition? Even those non-muslim ministers send a god damn memorandum to Abdullah failed to bring any result…and you talk about a bloody petition, you know, thats so stupid.
I hope you don’t come out voting coz you got no balls to vote for the opposition even though this BN sucked all your blood,money…better stay at home and sleep when election comes, OK?
March 4th, 2006 at 7:42 pm
30 cent only? yup protest won’t make the price down but we shown to our goverment that we anger with the situation. we show to them that we are not lambs that can be kept cool down with some silly excuse and we know we have the right to protest. that why we must protest. we hope the protest will provent any future oil price increase and we hope that goverment will think more than twice or we put them in ‘a very good situation’ in the next GE.
March 5th, 2006 at 1:39 am
next time dont just simply vote for for Boleh Naik, coz this is what will happen..all can naik…why dont we put some check and balance in the cabinets, exercise your vote, vote for the opposition, i know they would win as a whole, but at least, what will it be if you can see those opposition party fight for things like these in the parliament…rite now, the opposition has not enough power to cancel out anything…what if we can give them more power..with that, they cannot do anything at their own will..any new action for the country will need to be tabled out in the parliament, discussed and then implement..with these check and balance in place, at least we can hope that the opposition party did some job to try and help us…i am a low income workor, and i am totally affected by these price hike..i do support the protest in klcc, if it’s done in a calm way..let the gov knows..that’s we dont take it easy..i just dont want to be those naive Malaysian person who reads only one sided views that was controlled by the gov..and just nodded their head, accepting all the outcome on all the news…they didnt see the broader side..read some alternative news and you will know how ‘great’ our gov is..:D
just my personal view..
March 6th, 2006 at 12:30 am
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March 7th, 2006 at 7:20 pm
I agree with Nian. I don’t understand how Malaysians can always quietly accept all those bullshits from our gov. Isn’t it time to exercise our brains and start thinking what is right / wrong, and what we can do as part of the society. Protest is one way to voice out. Nobody start a riot or something, right? So those are civilzed good people. Just sitting there your luxury cars and watch those with lower income suffer. How selfish and ignorance! You thought this is a good chance for opposition party to get publicity? Well, probably. But hey, this is fair and just world. If you do wrong, you will be critizised. Doesn’t matter if it’s by civilians or opposition parties. Who asked you to leave your brain under the bed when you manage the country? And by the way, didn’t someone mention that this petrol price hike is another coverup act because MAS is losing money?!!
March 8th, 2006 at 12:33 am
[…] If you think the hike of fuel only concerns the real world, wait till you see how the extra 30 sen per litre also affects the virtual world. […]
March 11th, 2006 at 12:14 am
if they do another one of these next week… and someone please tell me if they plan to… I’ll be there with a sign saying "Polis Hebat. Sokong Penghapusan Subsidy."
March 11th, 2006 at 9:42 am
I want good governance.
I want a government to know the consequences at every decision they make.
Not like this type of decision of hiking up 30 sen and then gauging the Rakyat response.
All these reactions from the Rakyat can be prevented if we have Good Governance.
March 20th, 2006 at 12:07 am
[…] Taiwan: Thousands of people are expected to join an opposition rally in Taiwan, protesting against President Chen Shui-bian pro-independence stance. France: Riot erupted after 1.5 million demonstrators took part in more than 150 rallies across the country against the government’s new labour law. Thailand: The worst are yet to come, with the emergence of anti-Thaksin and pro-Thaksin groups. Even in Malaysia too, albeit small scale, which leads me to ask myself this question: Is this a global trend? […]
March 28th, 2006 at 3:02 am
vs.
Currency = RM1.00 vs. Baht10.7
Petrol price = RM1.92 vs. RM2.52
Toyota
vios price = RM85k vs RM46k (Baht500k/10.7)
If consumption/month = Rm250 vs RM328 (RM250/1.92*2.52)
Car prices difference = RM39k (RM85K-RM46K)
Difference for petrol = 9.9 years (RM39K/RM328/12)
Base on above calculation, if you change a new car in every 10 years & consume petrol in , do you know that? You eventually dun need a single sen to buy petrol up for 10 years.
March 30th, 2006 at 11:13 am
I support u, choo! Why government dont wipe off the bloody AP and highly reduce the extreme excise duty for all import cars when they raised up the petrol price up to RM1.92/liter ?? Plus the toll fee will increase every several years, why don’t they reduce the toll fee as well ?? Government promised to reduce subsidy but increase the construction of the country. Can they really do it? They also promised to improve our public transport system, but the bus still taking 2 hours and 15 minutes for a ride from KL to Selayang baru, which actually just spend you 20 minutes drive by car or taxi.
It’s time to raise our civilisation mind to be a civilzed citizen! Voice out your dissatisfaction to the government. We must not be afraid to the government.
April 12th, 2006 at 12:09 pm
I also support choo’calculation too! Car taxation too high , petrol high, somemore is petrol production country!!!!
If include car loan interest, will be more than 10 years
gorvement like to use some country (without petrol production country) e.g singapore, hong kong or UK. But not use country that petrol production country? like brunei, arab saudi?
Somemore the new car sale in UK are cheaper than here. but gornverment didn’t say so? or they just know to focus on one particle things that benefit themselves only? without notice others issue? Can they still manage the difference or analysis or doing the comparision?
At this moment , i wonder malaysia still boleh ke? Will the gornverment lead us to advance country soon? or …H.e.lllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll?
April 12th, 2006 at 2:22 pm
" We ( civilian ) shall not afraid to the government. The government shall be afraid to us ( civilian ) because we are the one who determine the form of government… " by V for Vendetta.
May 26th, 2006 at 6:51 pm
[…] "This Sunday’s protest will be the peak after the series of protests and it will also be the last. After that, we will take different approach to continue educating the people on the two issues," he added. Are we to embrace another massive protest, again? […]
May 29th, 2006 at 11:37 pm
[…] I reckon, this was supposed to be another "peaceful demonstration", given that I’ve witnessed previous demonstration to protest the fuel price increment. […]
May 31st, 2006 at 1:53 pm
[…] The move would affect 340,000 households and 20,141 commercial businesses that each consumes more than 20 cubic metres of water a month. Perak residents must be well to do enough to embrace fuel, electricity tariff increment and now the latest — water tariff will follow suit. […]
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June 20th, 2006 at 1:32 am
[…] First, we’ve fuel increment. Then, electricity tariff. Now, sugar. However, Deputy Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak is unperturbed. "Two ways to tackle sugar shortage", he said. […]
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January 26th, 2008 at 6:31 pm
To JL & KL: whose gonna do something about all these issues non other then the oppositions? So as to my understanding on how you view oppositions - that they are the all true sincere fairy angel political party? Don’t be dumbos… please. Politics is politics… ruling parties or opposition parties!
January 26th, 2008 at 6:36 pm
These people better get jobs or better jobs? So they can afford the hiked up petrol? At least, they are not slaves to the goverment, like you all (those that agreed they should get a job bla bla bla).
March 26th, 2008 at 11:47 pm