Majlis Pelancaran Buku

Membina Bangsa Malaysia

karya Abdul Aziz Bari, Ooi Heng, Aida Idris, Dinsman, Abu Hassan Hasbullah, Syed Ibrahim Syed Noh

dilancarkan oleh A. Samad Said, Sasterawan Negara

Tarikh: 12 Mei 2012 (Sabtu)

Masa: 2.30pm

Tempat: K.L. Selangor Chinese Assembly Hall. No. 1, Jalan Maharajalela, Kg. Attap, K.L.

Anjuran: Strategic Information and Research Development Centre (SIRD)

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diikuti dengan

Diskusi
Pasca 428, Ke Manakah Arah Pembentukan Bangsa Malaysia?
Panelis: A. Samad Said, Dr. Wong Chin Huat, Safwan Anang

Terima kasih

Kaleidoscope: The Memoirs of P.G. Lim

Date: 20th April 2012 (Friday)

Time: 10.00 am

at
Presidential Suite, E & O Hotel
George Town, Penang

(Dress: Smart Casual)

Please RSVP with
Ms. Kartina Mohamed
kartina.mohamed@thinkcity.com.my
as space is limited

Tan Sri P.G. Lim has led a remarkable and eventful life at the heart of Malaysian affairs, as personal friend and confidante of all of independent Malaysia’s prime ministers.

This memoir starts with vivid images of her childhood in Penang during the years after the First World War, leading to three years at Cambridge University in the 1930s. 

The years of the Japanese Occupation were spent with her family in Penang, and after the war she qualified for the Bar. She found herself first thrust into the limelight when in 1953 she undertook the defence of a young communist woman who had acted as a messenger for the Communist Party.  As a young lawyer she confronted the full British judicial establishment and made her name by saving the woman’s life.

Thereafter, P.G. plunged into an active life of politics mixed with her legal activities, often involving cases in which she acted for trades unions. Her life then took an unexpected turn as she became involved as a diplomat, serving successively as Malaysia’s ambassador to the United Nations, Yugoslavia and Austria, and Brussels and the European Economic Community.

On her return, though well beyond normal retirement age, she accepted an appointment to head the Kuala Lumpur Regional Centre for Arbitration, which she developed, burnishing its reputation internationally over the next seventeen years before her retirement in 2000.

Her memoirs, which are generously illustrated with previously unpublished photos, will be essential reading for those interested in Malaysia’s development since Independence.

 Dato’ Henry S. Barlow

                                         Honorary Treasurer, Malaysian Branch of The Royal Asiatic Society

This much-awaited autobiography has finally arrived! Not only was P.G. Lim a member of an important Penang family with illustrious children who figured prominently in the early history of Malaysia, she herself played key roles as ambassador to a row of European countries and as a top lawyer. Needless to say, this wonderful book contains much that is of interest to all Malaysians or Malaysianists.

 Ooi Kee Beng

  Deputy Director, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore

Author: P.G. Lim

Publisher: Strategic Information and Research Development Centre (SIRD)

Year: 2012

ISBN: 9789675832390 (Pb)           

9789675832413 (Hb)

397 Pages

RM70.00/S$45.50

RM120.00/S$78.00

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Hasil kolaborasi enam orang penulis akademik dan bukan akademik, buku ini merupakan suatu usaha untuk mengupas cabaran dan hala-tuju rakyat Malaysia dalam membina identiti sebagai sebuah bangsa dari pelbagai aspek kenegaraan.

Aziz Bari memberi analisa kritikal tentang undang-undang, hak asasi manusia dan demokrasi; sementara kebebasan media dan maklumat serta potensi teknologi baharu dibicarakan oleh Ooi Heng.

Aida Idris merumuskan perkembangan serta masa depan ekonomi, manakala Dinsman merenung perkembangan seni-budaya dari perspektif seorang aktivis.

Permasalahan kepimpinan remaja dalam masyarakat multi-etnik ditinjau oleh Abu Hassan Hasbullah, dan akhir sekali Syed Ibrahim Syed Noh membincangkan suatu pendekatan holistik mengenai modal insan dan pembangunan sumber manusia.

Diharap penerbitan buku ini akan mencetuskan perbahasan yang sihat dan konstruktif untuk memajukan tanahair dan membina bangsa Malaysia, terutamanya dalam situasi di mana terdapat usaha di kalangan sesetengah pihak untuk memecah-belahkan perpaduan bangsa. Sememangnya, tanpa perbincangan yang jujur lagi terbuka, agak sukar bagi kita maju bersama.

Jomo KS

Edited by: Aida Idris and Abu Hassan Hasbullah

Publisher: Strategic Information and Research Development

Centre (SIRD)

Year: 2012

ISBN: 9789675832468

199 Pages

RM23.00/S$15.00

“Mr. Koon writes with perceptiveness and candour as well as with the voice of experience – qualities that are often missing in the writings of many political analysts that are provided with space in the mainstream media.  

This process of empowerment and simultaneous rejection of leaders who regard power and authority not as positions of trust and responsibility but to serve personal interest or as an opportunity for personal enrichment will be necessary if  Malaysia is to prosper and move ahead to join the modern and progressive nations of the world.” – Tan Sri Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah, Member of Parliament and former Minister of Finance

“Mr Koon has chosen to galvanise his years of experience in business and to reduce them into well written and well researched articles that will benefit all Malaysians. The articles are forthright and brutally honest in many instances and speak to the problems Malaysia faces and Malaysians must face up to. It is a must read for all those who believe that our children deserve a better Malaysia  and who believe, as clearly the author does, that it is our responsibility to ensure we leave them a legacy they can be proud of.” – Dato’ Ambiga Sreenevasan, Former President of the Malaysian Bar Council

Chairperson of Bersih 2.0

Author: Koon Yew Yin

Publisher: Strategic Information and Research Development Centre (SIRD)

Year: 2012

ISBN: 9789675832437(Pb)

            9789675832444(Hb)

400 Pages

RM50.00/ S$32.50

RM100.00/ S$65.00

Koon Yew Yin’s

Malaysia: Road Map for Achieving Vision 2020

by
Tan Sri Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah
Member of Parliament

Date: 1st April 2012 (Sunday)
Time: 2:30 pm
Place: Syuen Hotel, 88 Jalan Sultan Abdul Jalil, Green Town, 30300 Ipoh, Perak

(Dress: Casual/Smart)

RSVP & Enquiries
Koon Yew Yin (017-557 7822)
Anthony Lam (016-220 9419)
Email: sird@streamyx.com

Programme
2.30 pm    Arrival of guests
2.45 pm    Introduction by Mr. Chong, SIRD
3.00 pm    Book appreciation speech by Dato’ Seri Nizar Jamaluddin
3.20 pm    Speech by Mr. Koon Yew Yin
3.40 pm    Speech by Tan Sri Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah
4.00 pm    End of book launch

Buku ini merupakan genre yang jarang-jarang muncul dalam sejarah penerbitan tanah air. Surat-surat peribadi 1975-2002 Anwar Ridhwan dalam buku ini membicarakan pelbagai isu bahasa, sastera, penerbitan, budaya, politik dan sosioekonomi, termasuk yang ditulisnya ketika bermukim beberapa ketika di London, England. Ia mengandungi beberapa pandangan, fakta, data dan informasi yang boleh dijadikan renungan serta rujukan. Dengan menggunakan kandungan dalam buku ini sebagai rujukan, kita akan mengetahui beberapa kemelut masa lampau, dan akan menyedari seaneka perubahan berbanding apa yang telah berlaku lebih tiga dekad yang lalu.

Author: Anwar Ridhwan
Publisher: Strategic Information and Research Development Centre (SIRD)
Year: 2012
ISBN: 9789675832475
284 Pages
RM30.00/S$19.50

Majlis Pelancaran Buku

PRU-13 UMNO TUMPAS?

oleh Zainal Abidin Ahmad

Forum Umum

ANALISIS ARAH POLITIK MALAYSIA
PASCA PRU-13

Tarikh : 15 / 3 / 2012 (Khamis)

Masa : Jam 8 hingga 11 malam

Tempat : K.L. Selangor Chinese Assembly Hall

Anjuran : Strategic Information and Research Development Centre & Free Public Forum Malaysia

Panelis :
Hishamuddin Rais (Aktivis Sosial)
Dr Dzulkefly Ahmad (AJK PAS Pusat)
Prof Aziz Bari (Pakar Perlembagaan Malaysia)

Untuk maklumat selanjutnya, sila hubungi
Chong Ton Sin 016-379 7231, Shake Omar 013-296 5724

These recent writings by Dr Kua Kia Soong reveal one stark reality, namely that the Barisan National coalition that has ruled Malaysia since Independence in 1957 seems incapable of reform. In its 54 year rule, it has destroyed many of the democratic institutions that existed at Independence in 1957. Other institutions such as Royal Commissions of Inquiry have been systematically debased. Malaysia was in fact freer at independence than it is today.

In his unique polemical style, Kua applies his knowledge, training and experience over the years to a kaleidoscope of Malaysian political issues: democracy, freedoms, human rights, laws, police, detention without trial, racism, environment, arms spending, energy, politics, reform, and more. He urges Malaysians to think beyond the two-front political systems toward a third political force that calls for democratic planning, direct action and popular participation on the reform of Malaysian society.

Kua concludes this collection with the concrete reforms expected by Malaysian civil society of all parties and candidates in the 13th Malaysian general election. These reflect the aspirations of the Malaysian peoples at this juncture of Malaysian history and provide a new agenda for real change long overdue.

Author: Kua Kia Soong
Publisher: Suaram Kommunikasi
Year: 2012
ISBN: 9789671102107
200 Pages
RM25.00/S$17.50

After a two-month stand-off between Red Shirt protestors and the government of Protestors and the government of Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva, violence and arson scarred central Bangkok in mid-May 2010. This shocking turn of events underlined how poorly understood the deep divisions in the society and politics of Thailand remained, even five years into the country’s prolonged crisis. This volume collects analysis and commentary on those divisions from an unusually large and prominent group of Thai and foreign scholars and observers of the country. Contributions examine socio-economic, political, diplomatic, historical, cultural and ideological issues with rare frankness, clarity and lack of jargon.

Author: Aekapol Chongvilaivan
Publisher: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS)
Year: 2012
ISBN: 9789814345354
351 Pages
RM100.00 / S$39.90