I’ve never been feeling so good to be part of this Bangsa Malaysia initiative until the recent do at my hometown, Penang.
The turnout was good with 100 participants and 4 speakers. They’re Datuk Seri Lim Chong Keat, Aliran’s president P. Ramakrishnan, lawyer Malik Imtiaz and independent political analyst Khoo Kay Peng with The People’s Parliament Haris Ibrahim as the moderator.
Four major points were distilled from the presentation of the speakers as imperatives if the concept of Bangsa Malaysia or one people, one nation is to become a reality :
- No more race-based political parties
- No more incompetence in Parliament
- Civil society taking ownership of governance of the nation
- No more racial delineation
More importantly, Haris was given the mandate to send out an invitation to Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi to attend a dialogue with Penangites, where Penang is Pak Lah’s home state.
To all participants who unanimously appointed Haris to undertake the responsibility, rest assured that the letter to the PM will be sent out anytime soon and I’ll update you guys the progress through the e-group, so please accept the invitation as soon as possible and to those participants who are yet to provide your email address, please send an email to bangsamalaysiapenang at gmail dot com.
Thank you everyone for making this event a success and let’s further our discussion in the e-group. Remember, it’s only the beginning of a long journey and every trivial effort in spreading the Bangsa Malaysia’s concept counts.
Meanwhile, please find time to watch the "Sepuluh Tahun Sebelum Merdeka" by Fahmi Reza, it’s a great movie and trust me, you won’t regret watching this!
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Glad that it was a success. May i know where to get the movie?
Tq for your effort to bring the Banfgsa Malaysa (BM) Forum to Pg! Good that the Forum -suspected by a friend to be a nother Gerakan event, prove to be better! We need to follow up-please start the e-group from the attendants ASAP before the heat goes away in 5 days…
oops. how come there are 2 trackbacks here? i didn’t know about them (they appear automatically!). please delete one off then.
nice meeting you, SK, after all the emails and SMS exchange we had. you did a good job with the registration list and invites.
let’s give ourselves a pat on our back as we managed to get 100 in the end!
Great work!
Thanks, SK and team for the great effort! However, I had hoped to see more Penang bloggers at the meet but only a handful turned up. Need to reach out to them and try to get them engaged. Power of blogs…….
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