Umumkan minit lembaga pengampunan / Make pardons board’s minutes public – 37 NGOs

[ENGLISH VERSION BELOW] Pada ketika negara masih menanggung beban kewangan yang amat besar akibat berbilion ringgit yang diselewengkan dalam skandal 1MDB dan SRC International, persepsi bahawa seorang pegawai tertinggi yang telah disabitkan kesalahan, khususnya bekas Perdana Menteri Najib Razak, iaitu melalui pemberian pengurangan hukuman serta layanan penahanan istimewa (contohnya, diberikan hukuman tahanan rumah yang belum pernah berlaku sebelum ini) telah menjejaskan kepercayaan rakyat.

Beban akibat rasuah peringkat tinggi akhirnya ditanggung oleh rakyat, yang menanggung kesan melalui kehilangan hasil negara, beban pembayaran hutang negara, serta pengurangan dana untuk infrastruktur awam dan pembangunan ekonomi yang penting.

Terdapat kebimbangan kritikal yang menjejaskan negara kita. Keputusan berkaitan hasil perundangan Najib – daripada pengurangan separuh hukuman penjara asal 12 tahun dan pengurangan denda daripada RM210j kepada RM50j, hinggalah kepada peralihan bersyarat kepada tahanan rumah – menimbulkan persoalan mendalam mengenai ketelusan, akauntabiliti dan kedaulatan undang-undang di Malaysia.

Bagi menegakkan integriti sistem keadilan Malaysia dan memenuhi tanggungjawab kepada rakyat, lembaga pengampunan mesti mendedahkan sepenuhnya minit serta justifikasi yang direkodkan dalam proses membuat keputusan.

Pendedahan menyeluruh adalah penting untuk menjelaskan bagaimana kes yang melibatkan penyelewengan institusi berskala besar boleh berakhir dengan pelbagai pengurangan hukuman dan kini membolehkan Najib yang telah disabitkan kesalahan menikmati keistimewaan tahanan rumah.

Ketelusan penuh daripada lembaga pengampunan bukan sekadar satu permintaan – ia merupakan langkah penting untuk memastikan prinsip layanan sama rata di bawah undang-undang tanpa wujudnya diskriminasi dalam pelaksanaannya (antara dua darjat) ditegakkan dan membuktikan bahawa tiada individu yang berada di atas undang-undang.

English version

Make pardons board’s minutes public for accountability and transparency

At a time when the nation continues to bear the immense financial burden of billions of ringgit stolen through the 1MDB and SRC International scandals, the perception that a convicted high-level official, specifically former Prime Minister Najib Razak, receives sentence reductions and preferential confinement arrangements (ie given an unprecedented house arrest sentence) undermines public trust.

The burden of high-level corruption ultimately falls upon the people, who pay the price through lost public revenue, national debt servicing, and reduced funding for essential public infrastructure and economic development.

There are critical concerns that affect our nation. The decisions surrounding Najib’s legal outcome – from the halving of his original 12-year prison sentence and the reduction of his fine from RM210m to RM50m, to his conditional transition to house arrest – raise profound concerns regarding transparency, accountability and the rule of law in Malaysia.

To uphold the integrity of Malaysia’s justice system and satisfy its obligation to the public, the pardons board must release the full minutes and recorded justifications of its decision-making process.

Complete disclosure is essential to explain how a case involving massive institutional embezzlement resulted in multiple sentence reductions and the convicted Najib now given house arrest privileges.

Full transparency from the pardons board is not merely a request – it is a vital measure to ensure that the principle of equal treatment under the law, without discrimination in its application (antara dua darjat or double standards) is upheld and to prove that no individual stands above the law.

Issued by 37 organisations:

1. Martabat Untuk Semua
2. Persatuan Sahabat Wanita Selangor
3. Association of Women Lawyers (AWL)
4. Mandiri
5. Pusat Komas
6. Malaysians Against Death Penalty and Torture (Madpet)
7. Sustainable Development Network Malaysia (Susden Malaysia)
8. Aliran
9. Women for Equality Association (WEA)
10. G25
11. Persatuan Penjaja dan Peniaga Pasar Jelutong
12. DAP Malaysia
13. Dapsy Jelutong
14. JParti Amanah Negara Wilayah Persekutuan
15. Saya Anak Bangsa Malaysia (SABM)
16. Persatuan Kesedaran Komuniti Selangor (Empower)
17. Family Frontiers
18. Section 20, Petaling Jaya Residents’ Association
19. LLG Cultural Development Centre
20. Persatuan Hak Asasi Manusia (Hakam)
21. Tunku Abdul Rahman Association of New Youth (Tarany)
22. All Women’s Action Society (Awam)
23. Women’s Aid Organisation (WAO)
24. Persatuan Kebajikan Punjabi
25. PJ Sejahtera
26. JKOASM
27. Dapsy
28. Taman Sunway Cheras Residents’ Association
29. Wanita DAP
30. SIS Forum (Malaysia)
31. Reproductive Rights Advocacy Alliance Malaysia (RRAAM)
32. Persatuan Jalinan Usahasama Masyarakat Ayer Tawar
33. P49 Tanjong Service Centre
34. DAP Cheras Jaya, Balakong
35. DAP Wanita Pulau Pinang
36. RT Section 6
37. Tropicana Miyu JMB

and 385 individuals

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