KUALA LUMPUR - A deputy minister has been taken to task for displaying ignorance of the “disgusting methods of brainwashing’ used by the controversial federal government’s Biro Tata Negara.
The MP for Batu Kawan, Kasturi Patto, said six slides, and one entitled “Racism” displayed on the BTN website last week were concrete proof of the racist intent of the bureau’s work.
“What more proof does Razali Ibrahim need to substantiate that this entity is villainous in nature,” she asked, in response to Razali’s challenge yesterday for BTN critics to prove that the bureau was racist.
She said BTN should not only be abolished and dissolved, but its policy makers should be exposed, together with those who call the shots and give instructions.
She criticised prime minister Najib Razak for advocating the Global Moderate Movement and the practice of wasatiyah but remaining tightlipped on “a cancerous organ such as the BTN under his very own office”.
BTN is a unit of the Prime Minister’s Department. Razali, the MP for Muar and a former deputy Umno Youth leader, is a deputy minister of the department.
Kasturi said six slides, part of a BTN teaching module, had been available at the BTN website from March until last week, when they were removed on a public outcry when independent book publishers, writers and “indie” music groups discovered they had been targeted as being part of an anti-establishment movement influencing youths to vote against the Barisan Nasional.
On Saturday a group of independent publishers demanded a public apology from BTN and a retraction of the accusations.
Kasturi, in her statement today, said the six BTN slides gave a detailed breakdown and analysis of seats held by the Barisan Nasional and opposition parties from 1959 to 2013.
They gave breakdowns of Malay, Chinese and Indian support in BN seats and Pakatan Rakyat seats, an analysis of the popular vote and the difference in votes for BN and PR.
She said phrases such as “akhbar Cina jarum halus menikam kerajaan melalui liputan berita yang mempromosi gerakan pembangkang” which said the Chinese-language press were daggers to stab the government with news articles to promote the opposition movement.
The election results were examined in great detail, by size of majority and ethnicity, and a detailed breakdown of MPs in the Dewan Rakyat divided into Muslim and non-Muslim MPs as well as by race or ethnicity.
It examined the Malay and Chinese support base and listed what Umno-BN needed to do to cement power.
There was also a breakdown of the richest men in Malaysia (mostly of Chinese ethnicity), the number of Tamil and Chinese vernacular schools in the country, a remark on Christians making up 9.1% of the population but granted permission to build a mammoth church, as well as an observation of what could possibly happen in the 14th general election.
There was “a strongly worded message on turmoil and uncertainty if there is a change of government, citing the Killing Fields’ Pol Pot regime as comparison,” said Kasturi.
She said the slides contained “absolutely nothing patriotic or remotely relevant to civil servants” but were “cheap dirty manoeuvres” by Umno-BN to cement their position and power in their preparation for the next general election.
She said the slides also attacked young Malay leaders in the DAP and the G25 group of eminent Malays.
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