NGO Peace Aman Malaysia Bantu Korban Gempa

Gempa Sumbar 30 September 2009 lalu mendapat simpatik dari berbagai lembaga yang ada di dalam maupun luar negeri. Organisasi kepemudaan (NGO) Aman Malaysia (Malaysians for Peace) sekali lagi memberikan bantuan kepada korban gempa Sumbar bekerjasama dengan DPD-RI dan Hipmi Sumbar. “Kita turut merasa prihatin atas bencana gempa terjadi di Sumbar ini, sebab hubungan antara Negeri Serumpun Malaysia dan Sumatera Barat tidak bisa dilepaskan dari ikatan emosional kita sebagai suku Melayu,” ungkap Wakil Pengurus Aman Malaysia Mohd Hasbullah Bin Awang di dampingi Setia Usaha Agung Hasnol Hadi Abd Rahman, dan Adi Suhaimy Abdullah kepada Padang-Today.Com saat menyerahkan paket bantuan sembako kepada anggota DPD-RI Hj Emma Yohana dan Ketua Umum Hipmi Sumbar Erick Hariyona di Jalan Veteran, Selasa (1/12). Dikatakan Mohd Hasbullah Bin Awang, misi kemanusiaan ini diketuai Pengurusnya, Datuk Ahmad Zaki Zahid yang akan ikut serta hadir memberikan bantuan ini. Namun, karena ada kepentingan lain, Datuk Ahmad Zaki Zahid yang merangkap Ketua Pemuda UMNO Bahagian Putrajaya tidak bisa ikut bersama kita. Selaku ketua pucuk pimpinan Aman Malaysia, Ia hanya dapat memberikan pesan kepada kami agar bantuan ini dapat mengurangkan rasa sedih dan duka dialami korban gempa di Sumbar. Terutama mereka yang rumahnya hancur dan tidur ditenda, rumah ibadah roboh tidak dapat dipergunakan warga, dan anak yatim serta sekolah rusak. “Sebelumnya kita telah beri sumbangan ke sini setelah pasca gempa. Saat ini pun kita kembali memberikan sumbangan. Dari beberapa sumbangan yang telah kita berikan itu semuanya berjumlah sebesar Rp 150.000.000 (RM 50 Ribu),” ucap Mohd Hasbullah Bin Awang diamini Hasnol Hadi Abd Rahman dan Adi Suhaimy Abdullah. Sementara itu anggota DPD-RI Hj Emma Yohana mengatakan, merasa bersyukur atas bantuan tersebut. Kita salut kepada NGO Aman Malaysia yang perihatin dan rasa sumbangsih mereka berikan terhadap korban gempa Sumbar. “Terimakasih kita ucapkan atas kepedulian lembaga Aman Malaysia dalam meringankan beban moril dihadapi warga korban gempa Sumbar. Kita dari DPD-RI juga turut serta menyalurkan bantuan untuk korban gempa. Termasuk baju sekolah, tas, dan keperluan lainnya bagi anak-anak korban gempa. Sebelum membagikan bantuan tersebut kita melakukan survei terlebih dahulu apa saja dibutuhkan. Termasuk mengukur baju bagi pelajar tersebut,” ucap Emma Yohana. Dikatakan, dalam waktu dekat ini kita akan memberikan bantuan kasur kepada warga korban gempa. Kita akan berikan ke tempat korban yang masih belum mendapatkan bantuan. Terutama di daerah Padangariaman, Agam, Kota Padang, Pessel, dan Pasaman Barat. Hal senada juga dikatakan ketua umum Hipmi Sumbar Erick Hariyona, dengan adanya bantuan yang diberikan Aman Malaysia kepada korban gempa di Sumbar, setidaknya dapat meringankan beban bagi warga tertimpa musibah gempa. Tidak itu saja, bantuan ini merupakan bentuk kepedulian Aman Malaysia selaku lembaga kepemudaan yang ada di sana. “Kita berharap hubungan antar dua negara ini dapat berjalan terus dan harmonis. Setidaknya, Hipmi dan Pemuda UMNO Malaysia merupakan suatu duta kecil yang akan siap menjembatani apa saja terjadi diantara kedua negara ini. dipetik dari Padang Today

Aman Plans To Send More Milk And Other Aid To Padang

PADANG (INDONESIA), Oct 8  — Aman Malaysia’s next aid mission to Padang would involve the supply of baby milk powder, baby biscuits, diapers, women’s sanitary pads, launch a charity fund, provide more medical aid and look into the possibility of providing tents and blankets.

Aman and Pemuda Umno International Bureau Chairman Datuk Ahmad Zaki Zahid told Bernama after his visit to Padang here today that he would brief Aman and Pemuda Umno regarding the needs of the Padang quake victims.

Ahmad Zaki who was working in concert with the Indonesian Young Entrepreneurs Association (Hipmi) in Padang to distribute Aman’s first reconnaissance aid supply, said the first mission involved the supply of baby milk powder, food, pampers.

“Next we will discuss with Hipmi to help build a mosque and prepare tents and shelter as make-shift schools for children. I will table a report to Aman and Umno Youth.

“We are fortunate that we have a distribution network in place through Hipmi which can identify areas that need assistance since aid from other organisations have not reached such areas yet.

“Even when we arrived, there were NGOs from Malaysia who sought our help to distribute their goods and aid to affected places,” said Ahmad Zahid.

Ahmad Zahid’s counterpart, Hipmi Peduli - Gempat Sumatera Barat Chief, Yuliandre Parwis said so far, they had distributed close to 20 tonnes worth of food supply and goods to areas that were badly hit and some in the Pariaman district have yet to receive aid.

“They have a lot of rice, instant noodles and bottled water. What they do need are medical supply, more doctors, more milk,” said Ahmad Zahid.

His statement was proven right today when the villagers of Kampung Dalam, Dusun Jua Banyak in the Pariaman district came in droves when baby milk powder was distributed.

Transcript of Chavez’s U.N. speech

Representatives of the governments of the world, good morning to all of you. First of all, I would like to invite you, very respectfully, to those who have not read this book, to read it. Noam Chomsky, one of the most prestigious American and world intellectuals, Noam Chomsky, and this is one of his most recent books, “Hegemony or Survival: The Imperialist Strategy of the United States.” [Holds up book, waves it in front of General Assembly.]

It’s an excellent book to help us understand what has been happening in the world throughout the 20th century, and what’s happening now, and the greatest threat looming over our planet. The hegemonic pretensions of the American empire are placing at risk the very survival of the human species. We continue to warn you about this danger and we appeal to the people of the United States and the world to halt this threat, which is like a sword hanging over our heads. I had considered reading from this book, but, for the sake of time [flips through the pages, which are numerous] I will just leave it as a recommendation.

It reads easily, it is a very good book, I’m sure Madame [President] you are familiar with it. It appears in English, in Russian, in Arabic, in German. I think that the first people who should read this book are our brothers and sisters in the United States, because their threat is right in their own house. The devil is right at home. The devil, the devil himself, is right in the house.

And the devil came here yesterday. Yesterday the devil came here. Right here. [crosses himself]

And it smells of sulfur still today.

Yesterday, ladies and gentlemen, from this rostrum, the president of the United States, the gentleman to whom I refer as the devil, came here, talking as if he owned the world. Truly. As the owner of the world.

I think we could call a psychiatrist to analyze yesterday’s statement made by the president of the United States. As the spokesman of imperialism, he came to share his nostrums, to try to preserve the current pattern of domination, exploitation and pillage of the peoples of the world.

An Alfred Hitchcock movie could use it as a scenario. I would even propose a title: “The Devil’s Recipe.”

As Chomsky says here, clearly and in depth, the American empire is doing all it can to consolidate its system of domination. And we cannot allow them to do that. We cannot allow world dictatorship to be consolidated.

CHAVEZ (THROUGH TRANSLATOR): The world parent’s statement — cynical, hypocritical, full of this imperial hypocrisy from the need they have to control everything.

They say they want to impose a democratic model. But that’s their democratic model. It’s the false democracy of elites, and, I would say, a very original democracy that’s imposed by weapons and bombs and firing weapons.

What a strange democracy. Aristotle might not recognize it or others who are at the root of democracy.

What type of democracy do you impose with marines and bombs?

The president of the United States, yesterday, said to us, right here, in this room, and I’m quoting, “Anywhere you look, you hear extremists telling you can escape from poverty and recover your dignity through violence, terror and martyrdom.”

Wherever he looks, he sees extremists. And you, my brother — he looks at your color, and he says, oh, there’s an extremist. Evo Morales, the worthy president of Bolivia, looks like an extremist to him.

The imperialists see extremists everywhere. It’s not that we are extremists. It’s that the world is waking up. It’s waking up all over. And people are standing up.

I have the feeling, dear world dictator, that you are going to live the rest of your days as a nightmare because the rest of us are standing up, all those who are rising up against American imperialism, who are shouting for equality, for respect, for the sovereignty of nations.

CHAVEZ (THROUGH TRANSLATOR): Yes, you can call us extremists, but we are rising up against the empire, against the model of domination.

The president then — and this he said himself, he said: “I have come to speak directly to the populations in the Middle East, to tell them that my country wants peace.”

That’s true. If we walk in the streets of the Bronx, if we walk around New York, Washington, San Diego, in any city, San Antonio, San Francisco, and we ask individuals, the citizens of the United States, what does this country want? Does it want peace? They’ll say yes.

But the government doesn’t want peace. The government of the United States doesn’t want peace. It wants to exploit its system of exploitation, of pillage, of hegemony through war.

It wants peace. But what’s happening in Iraq? What happened in Lebanon? In Palestine? What’s happening? What’s happened over the last 100 years in Latin America and in the world? And now threatening Venezuela — new threats against Venezuela, against Iran?

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