Calon-calon Parlimen Subang
Sambil-sambil berjalan kaki pulang dari Seminar Takaful Ta’awuni yang dihadir oleh ulama-ulama’ di seluruh dunia di Senate Hall semalam singgah sebentar membeli majalah Milenia di salah satu kedai di ruang legar kampus, mata sempat membaca tajuk-tajuk akhbar utama di kedai. Rasa terkilan menyelinap jauh di lubuk hati. Jangkaan saya pilihanraya tahun ini hampir ingin mengecualikan diri. Malah tarikh Parlimen dibubarkan dan penamaan calon pun saya tidak tahu kerana lamanya tidak membaca akhbar, menonton televisyen dan mengikuti perkembangan politik tanah air. Cuma baru-baru ini sempat meluangkan masa mebaca berita-berita terbaru di internet, berbincang dengan teman-teman dan pulang ke rumah serta singgah di pusat gerakan melihat suasana pilihanraya yang makin rancak. Hati manusia mana yang tidak inginkan keadilan. Kali ini tidak mungkin saya dapat lari melainkan jiwa sudah terharu benar dan amanah ilmu terasa menuntut walau kecenderungan politik hampir sifar namun kerana fitrah insani sangat cintakan keadilan tuan site ini akan mengenalkan mereka di sini. Terutamanya kerana kempen mereka yang sangat terhad dan terbatas. Hati bagai mengalirkan airmata terharu melihat senario Malaysia dan keikhlasan calon-calon kawasan Parlimen Subang. Mereka telah lama bergerak untuk memberi khidmat pada rakyat. Mereka boleh memilih hidup selesa, namun masa mereka untuk membela kebajikan dan keadilan buat penduduk estet, setinggan, peneroka dan pekerja-pekerja kilang.
Sivarasa Rasiah is a prominent Malaysian lawyer and human rights activist. He is co-founder of Suara Rakyat Malaysia or Suaram (a human rights NGO) and vice-president of Parti KeADILan Rakyat.Early Life
Though today he may be one of the top lawyers in Kuala Lumpur, Siva’s first degree was actually in genetics.
Reminiscing on his early days in an interview with the New Straits Times, Siva said, “I was trying to get into medicine after high school in Victoria Institution but didn’t make the grade. Form Five was great but I guess in Form Six, there were many distractions. So instead I went into genetics in Universiti Malaya and graduated with first class honours. Six months into my Master’s I realised that this was not my cup of tea and was already looking at other options.”
He then applied for a Rhodes scholarship to pursue law at Oxford University. After completing his law degree and the Bar in Britain, Siva took a year off and went to Germany where he spent most of his time in libraries there reading. He worked for a bit after that in London before returning to Malaysia on his 30th birthday.
Human Rights Involvement
It was while he was in UK that he got interested in human rights and “became involved with union workers and stuff like that there”.
His first involvement with an NGO was in 1997 when he got involved with a women’s group called Citizens Against Rape. Siva got arrested twice during the 1998 Reformasi period but shrugs it off as part and parcel of the job.
Cancer Survivor
This lawyer-cum-politician is a cancer survivor who lost his voice for almost a year due to thyroid cancer which damaged a nerve on his vocal cords. He had to speak with a little boom box and a speaker for a while due to this. Currently he has regained his voice but he says, “I can’t sing or shout, but at least I still can talk.”
Family life
He is married to Ann James, a prominent personality in the Malaysian theatre scene. Incidentally, he met his wife at a demonstration as well. “It was during Operasi Lalang and she was there too. We were kind off thrown together and that’s when it all happened. After a long courtship, we finally got married in 1993,” he revealed in the NST interview.
For someone who’s had a brush with the police, ironically both his father and his older brother were members of the force. His father was the registrar of the police force and his older brother was a senior police officer.
He is also an avid guitar player.
Bio-Data
Graduated First Class in Genetics from University of Malaya.
Read Law in Oxford University under the prestigious Rhodes Scholarship.
Senior Lawyer and former EXCO member of the Malaysian Bar Council.
Founding member of the National Human Rights Society which was initiated by former PMs Tunku Abdul Rahman and Tun Hussein Onn; Founding member and director of Suaram and the Institute for Democracy and Reform.
Married to Anne James, teacher, education advocate and renowned theatre actress. His siblings and their spouses - comprising all ethnic groups - reflect the ideal multicultural Malaysia.
Vice-President of Parti KeADILan Rakyat.Track Record
A leading lawyer in Malaysia on public interest court cases.
Involvement in landmark constitutional court cases on civil liberties and social justice.
Legal representative and adviser on rights of citizens, consumers, women and workers.
Involvement in the arts, diversity and pluralism, youth, community, healthcare, education and environmental issues.
Speaker at the UN Human Rights Commission and the UN World Conference on Human Rights.
Involvement in the exposé of corruption by ministers, including the former Prime Minister’s family members and cronies, to the ACA.
UMUR : 37 TAHUN
ASAL : HULU LANGAT, SELANGOR
MENETAP : KAJANG, SELANGOR
KELAYAKAN AKADEMIK :
DIPLOMA SYARIAH, UKM,
IJAZAH UNDANG- UNDANG, UITM
PEKERJAAN : PEGUAM
PENGALAMAN KERJAYA : BBMB (1994-2000)
JAWATAN DI DALAM PARTI :
KETUA PENERANGAN KAWASAN,
EXCO DPP NEGERI SELANGOR
More here
3) CALON DUN KOTA DAMANSARA: DR NASIR HASHIM
Dr.Mohd Nasir Hashim Profile’s
• 1970, Ijazah sarjana Muda Biologi,
Monmouth College , USA
• 1974 , Sarjana MSc(Food Science &
Tech) Cornell University ,USA
• 1977, PhD(International
Nutrition)Cornell University, USA
• Timb.Dekan , Fakulti Sains
* Bekas Pengerusi INSAN, Institut Kajian Sosial * Bekas Pengerusi J/Kuasa Sokongan Peneroka
Bandar * Bekas Timb.Peng. Parti Sosialis Rakyat Malaysia , KL * Peng. Suara Warga Pertiwi
Pengasas SUARAM * Penasihat Gabungan Peneroka Bandar JERIT * Berjaya mendapatkan
perumahan untuk rakyat Ldg,Braemer, Ldg.Sg.Rasah, Ldg.Bkt.Jelutong , Bkt .Tinggi . Berjaya
perjuangkan gaji minima dan polisi perumahan untuk pekerja Ladang .Penasihat Gabungan
Pekerja Kilang * Delegasi Persidangan APCETII , East Timor * Pengasas Sambutan Hari Buruh
Rakyat ,1994 * Mengetuai Protes Perang Amerika Iraq * Pengerusi Gabungan Membantah GST
(Cukai Brngan & Perkhidmatan) *Mengetuai delegasi aduan Salahguna kuasa Polis ke Bkt.Aman
Ditahan semasa Operasi Lalang , 1987 ,selama 15bulan * *
4) CALON DUN PAYA JARAS: ELIZABETH WONG

ELIZABETH WONG (黄洁冰) has been involved in human rights since her student days in Sydney and subsequently during her work in Nepal. She was the secretary-general of the National Human Rights Society (Hakam) (全国人权协会)from 2000-2006 (now sitting as a member of the Ex-Com), a member of the Suaram (大马人民之声) secretariat and was a human rights fellow of Carnegie Council for Ethics and International Affairs (2002-03). She is also a political consultant and has been involved in the setup of the Asean Inter-Parliamentary Myanmar Caucus for Democracy and Solidarity Campaign for Human Rights in Aceh.
She is currently working on an initiative to develop further understanding on democracy and its mechanisms for possible reforms.
Wong enjoys looking at the paradoxes and intricacies of democracy and politics. In her spare time, she researches and writes on the War on Terror and security in the region.
Her interests are in political imagery and symbolism, history, South Asian politics, resistance and Islamism in Southeast Asia, technology and the politics of change.
Wong hopes to crush post-modernism and return such rubbish in its rightful bin. Buffy-style preferred.
She is still leaving the option of playing guitar in a loud band open, singing in Nepali and Arabic, though Nepali folk-dancing is hard and involves moving limbs while twirling round and round. Proceed with care.
This blog is primarily an archival site of writings and photographs, with the occasional notes-to-self to clear out some thoughts.
Photo credit: The Sun


All the best!
Sufi bersungguh2.
Haraki pun bersungguh2.
Bagus bagus.
Sebab itulah ‘Haraki should blend well with sufi’.
Gerak kerja seharusnya tersusun namun tidak pula melupakan munajat di malam hari, doa yang penuh bersungguh.
Maaf terlari tajuk sikit…
“ROBBIyassirwalatuasir”
Comment by dhuat — March 6, 2008 @ 8:24 am
Takbir!!! Nai, Kedah menghijau!!! Alhamdulillah. Allahu Akbar
Comment by albazrah — March 8, 2008 @ 6:47 pm
Alhamdulillah. Dr Nasir menang
Comment by Tawel — March 9, 2008 @ 9:30 pm
@ All my fellow sahabah.
Allahuakbar indeed!
Comment by Administrator — March 29, 2008 @ 1:16 am