Isu Bazar Ramadhan Kluang : Dap Sengaja Cari Pasal, Lupa Tindakan Mereka Halau Peniaga

[UMNO Online}- KLUANG, 13 Jun – Insiden kekecohan di bazar Ramadhan bandar Kluang yang tular baru-baru ini adalah kesan dari sejarah lama di mana pemimpin Dap ketika itu telah meminta bazar ramadhan di kawasan itu dipindahkan.

Mengulas perkara berkenaan Pengerusi Jawatankuasa Perumahan dan Kerajaan Tempatan negeri, Datuk Md Jais Sarday, berkata insiden kekecohan turut berlaku di bazar sama beberapa hari lalu ketika Dap mahu memberi sumbangan kurma, seolah-olah sengaja mahu menguji kesabaran masyarakat serta peniaga Melayu dan tidak belajar daripada pengalaman lalu.

Jelasnya pada 2007 pemimpin Dap meminta Bazar Ramadan Bandar Kluang dipindahkan dari kawasan sedia ada ke kawasan lain, sehingga menimbulkan bantahan dan kemarahan peniaga Melayu.

Katanya, episod itu masih kekal dalam ingatan masyarakat Melayu Kluang, sehingga beberapa rayuan dibuat kepada Menteri Besar ketika itu, Tan Sri Abd Ghani Othman bagi membatalkan arahan itu.

Kesan dari peristiwa itulah menjadi punca mengapa kekecohan itu berlaku dan para penduduk dan peniaga di kawasan itu masih terkesan dengan peristiwa lama itu jelasnya .

Tambahnya lagi selepas menjadi dalang utama mahu menghalau peniaga Melayu berniaga di bazar yang terletak di pusat bandar Kluang itu, sekarang mereka datang pula ke lokasi sama. Apa motif Dap sebenarnya?.

“Sudah pasti kedatangan Dap dan pembangkang ke situ membangkitkan kemarahan masyarakat serta peniaga Melayu yang masih terluka dan terkesan dengan usaha mahu menghalau mereka daripada berniaga di situ”, katanya.

Ini semua tegas beliau adalah perangkap dan mainan politik Dap yang memang mahu pecah-belahkan orang Melayu.

“Padahal urus setia bazar juga sudah menasihatkan Dap dan anggota pembangkang supaya mengagihkan sumbangan kurma mereka ke kawasan lain, namun mereka berdegil dan tidak mengendahkan nasihat yang diberikan.

“Jadi siapa sebenarnya yang memulakan provokasi?”, soalnya.

Md Jais yang juga Setiausaha UMNO Johor dan Ketua UMNO Bahagian Kluang berkata, adalah tidak adil melabel orang lain sebagai samseng hanya dengan memviralkan video tanpa mengetahui perkara sebenar yang terjadi.

YB Jais, An Exemplary Leader

I am very happy to meet the Housing and Local Government Exco of Johor, YB Datuk Jais Sarday again, during a seminar held by Muafakat Pendidikan Johor (MPJ) at the Prime City Hotel in Kluang.

I last met YB Jais two months ago in Pasir Gudang on his last day as the Education, Information and Entrepreneur and Cooperative Development Exco of Johor, before he was promoted to his current position.

YB Jais is a very hard-working and a pragmatic politician, and he is also a friendly and a down-to-earth person.

I am always glad to meet him, and I see him as my mentor.

Johor is very lucky to have such a great leader.

Even though YB Jais is no longer the Exco of Education anymore, but I can see that the education sector is still close to his heart.

Mistakes In Designs Of Vertical Flags Of Johor

The districts of Johor, Malaysia were given their own flags on the 3rd March of 2015, and since then the districts flags are proudly seen waving in their respective districts.

All of the ten district flags come in two versions, horizontal and vertical.

The horizontal flags are the ones that we usually see either hoisted from poles or hung against the walls, fences and others.

(Please click here to learn more about the horizontal flags of the districts if Johor)

The vertical flags are the flags that are usually hoisted from a crossbar, either on lamp posts or on walls.

Below are the vertical flags of the districts of Johor:

 

Batu Pahat

Tangkak

Segamat

Pontian

Muar

Mersing

Kulai

Kota Tinggi

Kluang

Johor Bahru

 

But it is very unfortunate that when it comes to the districts of Johor vertical flags, I saw mistakes in the designs of some of the flags hung around the districts that I had visited.

One of the common mistakes is converting the design of the horizontal flag into a vertical flag by just rotating the horizontal flag and “stretching its background”.

I first realised these mistakes during my visit to Felda Bukit Ramun, and since then, I like to observe vertical district flags whenever I travel around Johor; and I found that there are mistakes in designs of other vertical flags hung in other places too, including in Batu Pahat which I visited a few day ago.

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The mistakes in the design of the vertical district flags of Muar, Batu Pahat, Kluang, Mersing and Kota Tinggi flags at Felda Bukit Ramun in Kota Tinggi, Johor.

The mistakes in the design of the vertical district flags of Kulai, Johor Bahru, Pontian, Segamat, and Tangkak flags at Felda Bukit Ramun in Kota Tinggi, Johor.

From my observation as I travel around Johor, below are the common mistakes in the designs of the vertical flags of the districts of Johor:

The mistake in the design of the flag of Tangkak

The mistake in the design of the flag of Segamat

The mistake in the design of the flag of Pontian

The mistake in the design of the flag of Muar

The mistake in the design of the flag of Mersing

The mistake in the design of the flag of Kulai

The mistake in the design of the flag of Kota Tinggi

The mistake in the design of the flag of Kluang

The mistake in the design of the flag of Johor Bahru

The mistake in the design of the flag of Batu Pahat

 

Maybe some people are not bothered by these mistakes; and may consider them as little mistakes but for me this is a serious problem because of the importance and the significance of the flags as part of our love, respect and loyalty to the state of Johor.

Apart from that, it also can ruin the meaning and significance in the designs of the district flags.

The best example is the flag of Tangkak, where the blue triangle represents the Mount Ledang; but when the design of the horizontal flag is just rotated to turn it into a vertical flag, the triangle which represents the Mount Ledang is also rotated thus, it doesn’t represent the shape of a mountain anymore.

And that is why in the actual design of the vertical flag of Tangkak, the triangle is cropped at the sides so that the triangle shall remains as a symbol of a mountain.

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The integral aspects of the designs are the crescent and star, and the core colour which must be placed in the right positions of the flags.

The crescent and star in the district flags represent Islam as the religion of the state of Johor, hence they must be placed at the top of the flag or in the central part of the designs; and not at the lower part of the flags as in some of the “faulty” district flags of Kota Tinggi, Mersing and Muar that I came across.

Another mistake that people made when converting a horizontal district flag to a vertical flag is to place the center point of the orthogonally divided flag exactly in the middle of the flag, which what happens in the flags of Muar and Kulai.

And in the flag of Muar, they made the first and fourth quarters black, second quarter yellow with a red crescent and star, and the third quarter red with a white crescent and star.

The real flag has the first quarter red with a white crescent and star, the second and third quarters black, and the fourth yellow with a red crescent and star.

In the flag of Kulai they also made the first and fourth quarters blue, and the second and third quarters red instead of the first and fourth quarters red, and the second and third quarters blue.

The Flags of the Districts of Johor

The state of Johor has ten districts which are Batu Pahat, Johor Bahru, Kluang, Kota Tinggi, Kulai, Mersing, Muar, Pontian, Segamat and Tangkak.

And on March 3, 2015, all the ten districts were given their own district flags.

Six months later, the district of Kulaijaya and the district of Ledang were renamed as Kulai and Tangkak respectively by the Sultan of Johor, Ibrahim Ismail ibni Almarhum Sultan Iskandar Al-Haj.

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Flag of Batu Pahat district

Flag of Johor Bahru district

Flag of Kluang district

Flag of Kota Tinggi district

Flag of Kulai district

Flag of Mersing district

Flag of Muar district

Flag of Pontian district

Flag of Segamat district

Flag of Tangkak district

All of the district flags of Johor have similar characteristic, which are red, white and blue in colour and with crescents and stars.

There are five bend flags, Kluang, Kota Tinggi, including three per-bend flags which are Batu Pahat, Johor Bahru and Segamat; two orthogonal quartered flag, Kulai and Muar; two triangle flag, Tangkak, including one chevron flag which is Mersing; and one horizontal bicolour flag which is Pontian (charged with a white crescent and star).

The stars’ rotation angles are the same in all flags except for the per-bend divided ones, since the stars are aligned to the bend of the flag.

The designs of the flags symbolises the special characteristic of the districts, for instance in the case of Kota Tinggi’s flag, the colour white at the center field represents the Johor River where the old Sultanate of Johor was established on 1528.

In the case of the district of Mersing flag, the upper field of the flag symbolizes the South China Sea while in the district of Tangkak flag, the blue triangle represents the Mount Ledang which used to be the name of the district before August 2015.

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