ADUHAI GADIS MUSLIMAH....

Aku seorang gadis muslimah
Kamu juga seorang gadis Muslimah
Aku dan kamu menjadi cerminan antara satu sama lain

Aduhai gadis Muslimah
Jika antara kita berkelakuan tidak molek
Ia menjadi fitnah sesama sendiri
Malah ia menjadi fitnah besar terhadap agama kita, Islam yang suci


Aduhai gadis Muslimah
Aku kasihkan kamu kerana Ilahi
Aku tidak mahu kamu dengan dunia kamu sendiri
Dunia yang penuh dengan kemaksiatan
Dunia yang penuh kemungkaran
Dunia yang penuh keji



Aduhai gadis Muslimah
Dalam diri kita punyai satu tempat suci
Mahukah kau tahu???
Mari aku bagitahu
Ianya 'RAHIM'
Kurniaan terbesar Tuhan Ar-Rahim-Yang Maha Pengasih
Tempat awal wujudnya jiwa baru
Hidup dengan hembusan ruh dari Ar-Rahim
Jagalah ia sebaik mungkin
Jangan pernah dicemari dengan zina perbuatan keji


Aduhai gadis Muslimah
Sungguh, kejadian kita sangat indah
Seharusnya keindahah itu dijaga rapi
Dijaga seperti sebuah permata didalam peti besi
Kuncinya hanya dipegang oleh insan lelaki berjiwa murni
Dialah suami yang dijanjikan Ilahi
Pesanku sekali lagi
Jangan biar diri terjebak dengan zina perbuatan keji

Aduhai gadis Muslimah
Aku berdoa di dalam hati
Agar kita semua dipelihara Rabbul'Izzati
Agar diri kita diberkati
Agar diri kita menjadi pelahir satu generasi
Generasi kemudian penyambung warisan Nabi
Membawa panji penyebar Tawhid di segenap pelosok bumi
InsyaAllah

Aku jatuh cinta....
dengan lagu ini....
liriknya...
instrumennya...
fuhhh...
so touching...
i luv it ...
hari2 dengar...
hati terasa syahdu...

kupersembahkan kepada diri ini...


Aku Cinta Allah

(Dinyayikan oleh Wali Band)

Andaikan diriku bisa seperti yang lain
Yang Kau sayang
yang Kau rindukan
yang Kau cintai

Aku lemah tanpa-Mu
aku lelah aku sungguh tak berdaya
Tolongku
tolongku Ya...Allah

Setiap air mataku mengalir
Allah aku lemah dan tak berarti
setiap derai tangis membasahi
Allah jangan tinggalkan aku lagi

Aku sayang Allah
Aku rindu Allah
Aku cinta Allah

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CUTI DAN BERAKTIVITI BERSAMA SAHABAT KPIJ

Alhamdulillah, cuti kali ini meriah sekali. Bersama sahabat-sahabat KPIJ yang kukasihi.

1- KPIJ mengadakan kunjungan hormat ke Jabatan Mufti Johor

pada 28 Jan 2010/13 Safar 1431 H (Khamis)

jam 10 pagi

KPIJ bersama As-Sohibul Samihah, Mufti Johor, Dato' Haji Tahrir bin Hj Syamsuddin




2- KPIJ mengadakan kunjungan hormat ke Jabatan Belia dan Sukan

pada 28 Jan 2010/13 Safar 1431 H (Khamis)

jam 230 petang






3- KPIJ menziarahi sahabat KPIJ, sdri Adibah Ali




Adibah kelihatan ceria menyambut kedatangan KPIJ...
Semoga Adibah dan kelurga sentiasa di bawah Rahmat-Nya



4- KPIJ bersiar-siar di Bukit Timbalan

5- Meting KPIJ di rumah A.Zainuddin

jam 10 malam

6- Buat kerja2 KPIJ di pejabat di Mustika Embun

29 Jan 2010/ 14 Safar 1431 H (Jumaat)

jam 11pagi

7- KPIJ bertandang ke rumah Fiza, sahabat KPIJ juga di Ulu Tiram

jam 1 petang

8- KPIJ bertandang ke rumah Balqis

jam 330 petang

Lepas itu, aku balik ke Kluang bersama Zul Ikram pada jam 7 petang...

Sampai rumah jam 930 malam

Penat, tapi seronok...:)

Semoga ukhuwwah ini berpanjangan demi dakwah di bumi Johor

InsyaAllah

-TAMAT-

DIALOG RINGKAS TAPI BERMAKNA

Semalam (29 Januari 2010), aku di Mustika Embun, pejabat Kesatuan Pelajar Islam Johor. Demi terpandangkan seorang ibu yang tidak menang tangan mengangkat barang2 anak-anaknya dari Pusat jagaan kanak-kanak, maka terjadilah perbualan ringkas antara aku, Aliemran dan ZulIkhram.

Aku: Tengok ibu tu. kesian dia kena angkat barang-barang anak-anaknya . (masa tu kelihatan 2 orang anak lelakinya sedang berlari ke kereta, manakala anak perempuannya di belakang ibu tadi, suaminya pula duduk didalam kereta.)

Ali dan Zul memandang ke arah ibu tersebut.

Ali: Sepatutnya, ibu dan ayah tersebut mengajar anak-anaknya tolong angkat barang. Kalau tak diberitahu, sampai ke besar nanti mereka tak tahu. Nanti mereka terbiasa, semua mak ayah yang buat.

Zul: ......(mengiyakan sahaja)..........

Aku: Betul juga...

Moralnya, sikap 'altruism'-sikap suka menolong harus dipupuk sedari kecil. Justeru itu, ibubapa memainkan peranan dalam membentuk sikap anak-anak untuk senantiasa menolong. Mulakan dengan benda-benda kecil seperti tolong mengangkat barang. Lama kelamaan jika anak-anak di latih sedemikian, mereka akan membentuk sikap suka menolong orang lain juga yang berada dalam kesusahan. Sesungguhnya, sikap 'ringan tangan' untuk membantu semakin luntur di kalangan anak muda generasi kini. Wallahu'alam.

KISAH SI GADIS DAN SEBUAH CERMIN

(Khas untuk para gadis yang disayangi.)

Seorang gadis berdiri di hadapan cermin besar menampakkan sosok tubuhnya. Melihat dirinya, dia hampa.


Cermin: Kau cantik, tapi ada yang kurang.


Gadis: Apa??? arghh..katakan kepadaku wahai cermin, apakah kekurangan itu?


Cermin: Hidung ko. kalau mancung sedikit, pasti semakin cantik. Apa kata ko wat pembedahan sikit. Kasi mancung hidung ko tu.


Gadis: A'ah lah...hidung aku ni tak berapa mancung. Erm, nanti aku wat pembedahan plastik Lagipun, aku anak orang kaya. Untuk cantik mesti kena berani tanggung risiko.


Beberapa bulan kemudian....

Gadis itu berdiri di hadapan cermin. Melihat dirinya. Dia hampa lagi.


Cermin: Erm, ko semakin cantik dengan hidung mancung terletak. Tapi, masih ada kekurangan lagi.


Gadis: Kekurangan???? argh, aku tak suka dengar itu (nada marah). katakan kepadaku wahai cermin, apakah kekurangan itu?


Cermin: Kau memang dah cantik, tapi agak gemuk sikit. Kau tahu kenapa pakwe ko asyik bertukar ganti? sebab ko semakin gemuk. Banyak sangat lemak kat badan ko tu. Ko tak takut orang panggil ko badak ke, gajah ke dan sebagainya...kalau aku, aku malu. Tak sanggup dah nak hidup kat muka bumi ni.


Gadis: Gemuk? Erm, memang aku gemuk. Kerja aku makan je. Makanan pun semuanya berkolestrol tinggi. isyh..tak boleh jadi ni. Aku kena kuruskan badan gak. Aku kena berdiet dari sekarang.


Cermin: Cup...cup...cup...ko mampu ke tahan selera makan ko tu???? Aku tak yakin ko mampu tahan selera makan ko tu. Kalau makanan dah terhidang depan mata, aku jamin ko sebat semua masuk mulut ko. Masa tu, diet ntah ke mana???


Gadis: Erm, betul juga kata ko tu cermin. Habis tu aku nak wat camne ni???


Cermin: Aku ada idea, bravo punya!!!! nak tahu tak?? ko boleh kurus dengan cepat, tanpa sekat pemakanan ko.


Gadis: Apa idea tu?? ko cakaplah dengan aku, jangan wat aku tertunggu-tunggu..aku dah taksabar ni.


Cermin: Hahaha...apa kata ko buat pembedahan sedut lemak. Ramai wanita yang dah buat, dan semuanya berpuas hati. Aku jamin ko mesti suka punya dengan penampilan baru ko.Kurus langsing. Mesti ramai sangkut dengan ko punya lah...(nada meyakinkan).


Gadis: Erm...ok,prinsip aku, mesti berani tanggung risiko untuk cantik!!! (senyum dengan penuh keyakinan)


Beberapa hari kemudian, gadis itu pergi ke pusat kecantikan untuk membuat rawatan sedut lemak.

Tapi.....

Gadis itu menemui ajal tanpa sempat melihat tubuh barunya.

Dia mati mengejut akibat kehilangan darah dan bendalir yang banyak ketika proses penyedutan lemak sedang dilakukan.

inikah yang dikatakan cantik?????

p/s: Kepada gadis-gadis yang disayangi, bersyukurlah dengan apa yang ada. Jangan terlalu taksub dengan kecantikan kerana ia membuatkan jiwa kacau. Sentiasa memikirkan kecantikan yang sempurna akan menyebabkan kita lupa dan menafikan kesempurnaan Tuhan yang Maha Pencipta. Yakinlah, setiap ciptaannya adalah yang terbaik untuk setiap orang. Tidak pernah ada cacat celanya.

KECANTIKAN ADALAH SUBJEKTIF, HARGAILAH DIRI ANDA SEADANYA.

BULAN ITU MEMBUATKAN AKU TERFIKIR....

Malam tadi sepanjang perjalanan pulang kerumah dari Kota Tinggi, aku asyik memerhati bulan separa di langit...indah dengan cahayanya yang terang.

Bulan itu membuatkan aku terfikir...

Dalam sirah Nabawiyyah, pernah diceritakan tentang bagaimana bulan terbelah dua untuk membuktikan keRasulan Baginda Muhammad S.A.W. kepada Kafir Musyrik. Bukan setakat itu, aku juga pernah terbaca lama dulu tentang seorang astronomi Barat yang pernah menjejakkan kaki ke bulan lalu melihat ada belahan diatasnya. Jika benar bagai dikata, Subhanallah, takjub sekali. Dengan izin Tuhan, Allah yang Maha Agung, mukjizatnya keRasulan Baginda kekal untuk generasi manusia yang terkemudian. Andai aku dapat menjejakkan kaki ke bulan itu....

Bulan itu membuatkan aku terfikir...

secara hakikinya bulan itu hanyalah sebuah batu yang sangat besar, permukaannya dipenuhi kawah akibat hentaman meteor-meteor di angkasa sana. Namun, di bumi, kita dapat melihatnya sebagai sesuatu yang sangat indah. Cahayanya menerangi alam. Cahayanya menjadi penyeri kepada malam yang gelap gelita. Subhanallah, indah sekali.

Aku cuba mengaplikasikan dalam kehidupan ini. Ya, kehidupan ini penuh onak dan duri. Apatah lagi hidup di dalam gerakan Islam.

Lihat sahaja pengorbanan manusia agung, Rasulullah, para sahabat dan para mujahideen. Terkorban mereka dengan tidak sia-sia. Kerana pengorbanan itu, kita berpeluang mengecapi nikmat hidup dalam iman dan Islam.

Alhamdulillah. Benarlah seperti yang dikata, perjuangan dalam Islam tidak pernah indah, penuh luka-luka, tapi percayalah ganjarannya sangat indah iaitu syurga. InsyaAllah. Walaupun, sebenarnya, pengorbanan itu hanyalah sekecil zarah jika dibandingkan dengan syurga yang di janjikan-Nya.

Bulan itu membuatkan aku terfikir...

Aku teringin menjadi seperti bulan. Walau dilanda pelbagai mehnah dan tribulasi, tetap mampu tersenyum memberi cahaya kepada manusia lainnya. Tetap mampu memberi manfaat kepada manusia lainnya. Tapi aku tidak kuat seperti disangka...langkahku kekadang tersasar. Hatiku kekadang terasa ingin mengalah.

Ya Allah, berilah aku kekuatan untuk terus istiqomah dalam perjuangan ini. Amin.

TREND SEKS DI LUAR PERKAHWINAN DI TAHAP GENTING

Beberapa tahun yang lepas, penulis pernah bertemu dengan seorang ibu melayu yang masih berumur 17 tahun bersama bayi kecilnya yang berusia seminggu di Pudu Raya. Penulis sempat berbual panjang dengannya. Ibu muda itu dengan naifnya memberitahu bahawa bayi yang bersamanya itu adalah hasil dari perhubungan haram dengan kekasih hatinya.

Yang paling menyedihkan, ibu muda itu ditinggalkan lelaki yang berjanji akan bertanggungjawab atas hubungan haram tersebut. 9 bulan dia terpaksa menghadapi kesukaran sehinggalah dia melahirkan bayi tersebut di sebuah pusat kebajikan Kristian.

Kisah benar di atas merupakan salah satu contoh kejadian malang yang berlaku ke atas gadis-gadis yang naif sepertinya. Penulis banyak kali berjumpa dengan kes-kes sebegini, di kawasan perumahan mahupun kawan di zaman persekolahan. Trend seks di luar nikah dan melahirkan 'anak tak sama taraf' amat meruncing dan perlukan perhatian khusus dari semua pihak.

Mengikut statistik sepertimana dipetik dalam Berita Harian Online, bertarikh 27 November 2009, 2,500 kes anak luar nikah direkodkan pada setiap bulan atau 83.3 kes pada setiap hari. Jika diunjurkan lagi, satu kes pendaftaran anak luar nikah berlaku dalam setiap 17 minit 17 saat!

Amat menyedihkan kerana menurut statistik pendaftaran kelahiran kelahiran anak luar nikah dalam tempoh 4 tahun sahaja (1999-2003) 30,978 dari 70,430 (44%) orang bayi tidak sah taraf yang dilahirkan adalah anak orang ISLAM.

Pecahan mengikut negeri:

Selangor = 12,836 orang
Perak = 9,788 orang
Kuala Lumpur = 9,439 orang
Johor = 8,920 orang
Sabah = 8,435 orang
Negeri Sembilan = 4,108 orang
Pahang = 3,677 orang
Kedah = 3,496 orang
Pulau Pinang = 3,412 orang
Melaka = 2,707 orang
Kelantan = 1730 orang
Perlis = 691 orang
Sarawak = 617 orang
Terengganu = 574 orang
JUMLAH = 70,430 orang.

sumber: http://www.topix.com/forum/world/malaysia/TS8NFMF11AE4UI75 6

Setelah dikenal pasti, punca utama kepada gejala yang tidak bermoral ini adalah kurangnya didikan agama dan moral yang bersungguh-sungguh dalam keluarga dan institusi pendidikan. Penekanan terhadap aspek pembangunan jasadi tidak seimbang dengan pembangunan aspek rohani. Akibatnya, mereka mudah terjebak dengan gejala tidak sihat hatta melanggar syariat.

Didikan asas agama dan moral bermula daripada rumah lagi dan seterusnya bersambung di alam persekolahan. Disinilah anak-anak menghabiskan masa, bersama rakan-rakan sebaya. Kesibukan para ibu bapa dalam urusan pekerjaan kekadang menghadkan masa mereka untuk bersama dan memantau anak-anak. Tanggungjawab ini diserahkan bulat-bulat kepada pihak sekolah. Namun malangnya, sistem persekolahan yang terlalu berorientasikan peperiksaan, tidak dapat membantu kepada pemahaman agama yang tuntas. Maka, membesarlah generasi muda ini dengan kekosongan jiwa dan rohani.

Agama menjadi panduan hidup setiap orang. Tanpa agama dan penghayatan yang jelas terhadap ajaran agama, hidup akan menjadi tidak punya matlamat. Sebab itulah semua perkara yang tidak berlandaskan ajaran agama akan meneyebabkan huru-hara dalam masyarakat.

Dalam konteks zina ini, tidak ada satu agama pun yang membenarkan hubungan seks di luar nikah ini. Untuk ini, Dr. Mohd Ridhuan Tee telah membicarakan isu ini dalam artikel beliau yang bertajuk, 'Isu Timbul Kerana Kejahilan Agama' diterbitkan dalam ruangan rencana, akhbar Utusan Malaysia Online bertarikh 6 September 2009.

Menurut beliau, semua agama iaitu Buddha, Kristian, Hindu, Sikh apatah lagi Islam telah melarang penganutnya terjebak dengan zina ini. Beliau juga menggalakkan pembaca untuk lihat pandangan ajaran Konfucianisme, Taoisme, Jainisme, Zoroastrianisme, Shintoisme, Judaisme dan Bahai dalam artikel bertajuk A Comparison of Morality from the religions from Around the World, http://usminc.org/other.html dimana larangan berzina amat keras sekali.

Kesimpulannya, trend seks di luar perkahwinan atau lazim diketahui sebagai zina merupakan satu dosa besar dalam ajaran Islam. Bukan sekadar, perbuatan zina tersebut, tetapi semua perkara-perkara yang menjurus kepada gejala ini termasuklah hubungan sosial yang terlalu bebas antara lelaki dan perempuan serta penayangan pornografi yang berleluasa di era 'langit terbuka' ini juga dilarang. Tambahan lagi, zina ini juga dilarang dalam agama-agama lainnya.

Trend ini jika tidak dibendung dengan bersungguh-sungguh, dikhuatiri akan menyebabkan huru-hara dan krisis moral dalam masyarakat. 83.3 kes kelahiran anak luar nikah setiap hari seperti yang dinukilkan di atas statistik cukup menggambarkan kepada kita keruntuhan dan krisis moral di tahap yang genting. Justeru, semua pihak sama ada institusi keluarga, institusi sekolah, institusi agama, badan-badan bukan kerajaan (NGO), media cetak mahupun kerajaan harus bekerjasama dalam memikirkan cara terbaik dalam menangani krisis ini. Wallahu'alam.

Policy Paper: Rape Cases in Malaysia

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(This paper was prepared together with my group members; Sara, Syazwani and Fiza.

Bunch of thanks for your keen cooperation)

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1.0. INTRODUCTION

Crime rates in Malaysia keep increasing day by day and it caused fear to the society at large. According to the CPPS (Centre for Public Policy Studies: 2008), the Crime Index worsened from 156, 315 cases in 2003 to 224,298 cases in 2007 or 45% rise over past four years, increasing 13.4% in 2007 alone. Additionally, the report’s statistic showed that crime rate in Malaysia increased by 8.7% for the first months of 2007 compared to 2006. Violent crimes can be including murder, attempted murder, rape, and gang robbery with or without firearm. As reported by CPPS they are increased by 85% from 2003 to 2006.

Because of that, for the first time in Malaysian General Election, security issues have been used as campaigning issue specifically in the last Twelfth General Election to gain people’s votes. Both ruling party (BN) and Opposition parties (BA) did reflect on the people’s fear over the increasing crime rates especially violence and property crime. There are several types of crime contribute to the inclination of the rate. They are drugs trafficking, robberies and rape.

News Straits Times reports that while the general crime rate in 2007, January to June had dropped, there has been an increase in number of rape case. In addition to it, former opposition leader, Lim Guan Eng tells IPS ( Interpress News Agency) that in the last 7 months of 2007, there were five times as many unreported rape cases, making “Malaysian the ‘crime capital’ in Southeast Asia. Therefore, this policy paper will be focusing on crime rapes since it keeps increasing from time to time.

2.0. POLICY PROBLEM

Rape is one of crime cases. It keeps increasing from time to time. It contributes to inclination of crime index and quick action is truly needed. Society is worrying about this situation. Thus, we should understand in deep what rape is all about. According to Lee (1942), as quoted from Amir, (1971; Media &Thompson, 1974:12; Russel, 1982) rape refers to a physically forceful attempt at sexually intimacy when one of the individuals involved chooses not to become sexually intimate. While statutory rape in Malaysia defines that, any sexual intimacy with girl under age of 16-year old is considered rape even though it happens due to mutual consent.

Generally, rape can be categorized into three types, which are incest, stranger rape and date rape (Veeramuthu: 2008). Incest is sexual violence done by someone who have blood relationship or biologically related like father, brother and close relatives. Stranger rape is a sexual violence involving unrelated and unknown person like drug rape like a person puts pill or drug into your drink without your knowledge. Unlike the former type of rape, date rape or sometimes called as acquaintance rape is sexual violence involve persons whom the victims know well. According of WAO, there is nearly 80% rapists are people known by the survivor. The fact of rape that needs to be disclosed is a high percentage of rapists are acquaintances and friends in addition to relatives.

Statistics of Crime Index showed that rape cases are increasing from year to year ahead. In 1997, there were 1429 cases had been reported and in 2004, the number increased to 1718 (Royal Malaysia Police). According to United Nations’ report that refers between the year of 1998 to 2000, Malaysia was the second worst in Asia that having high cases of rape including ‘date rape or acquaintance rape’. Woman’s Aid Organization (WAO) reported that number of rape cases for 2007 were 3098, while incest was 360 cases.

Besides, incest cases also worry many parties as reported publicly by the Bukit Aman’s Royal Malaysian Police, which showed us 161 cases had been lodged into police reports from January to June 2008. In addition to it, the new trend of rape and murder has been widely reported. Based on one research, from year 1984 to February 2006, there were cases of rape and murder and only 23 cases or 26.4% of those reported cases had been solved where the criminals were sentenced to death.

There are many factors that contribute to this case such as influenced by pornographic movies, or books, and limited private space in a house or apartment. As mentioned by Abraham (2002) suggests that in the case of incest, the evidence indicates that the incidence tends to be higher among the underprivileged, ‘working class’, and under class and other racial/ethnic groups and individuals who find themselves being politically, economically and socially marginalized.

For us, we considered this issue as moderately structured problem. It means that this problem structuring involved one or few decision makers and relatively a limited number of alternatives. However the outcomes of the alternatives are uncertain. This is because, as we all know, lots of actions and efforts have been taken by government to reduce this case, but it keeps increasing from time to time. For example, the enforcement of harsher punishment and in 2001 the Penal Code has been reviewed. However it could not help in reducing the percentage. Meaning to say is that, the laws that imposed by government does not make any sense towards society rather than this case keep increasing.

Therefore in our policy paper, we want to examine and at the same time make a recommendation regarding the effective solution that government need to choose in order to reduce rape cases in Malaysia.

3.0. POLICY QUESTION

What is the most effective solution to reduce rape cases in Malaysia?

4.0. OBJECTIVES/GOALS

Because of rape cases keep increasing from time to time, for us it is our responsibility to search and research why the rape cases still increase despite of hard punishment has been imposed to rapist. We are also enthusiastic to find the best solution to lower and gradually zeroing the crime rates in Malaysia.

Our objectives and goals of this paper are:-

1. To inculcate self-awareness among citizens regarding rape cases.

a. We try to search an effective method to ensure citizens of Malaysia are exposing towards the disadvantage of rape, how they can prevent it and so on.

2. To reduce the number of rape cases within five years.

a. Thus we hope, our recommendation could help government in reducing the percentage of rape cases in Malaysia within 5 years.

5.0. ASSUMPTIONS OF THE POLICY PROBLEM

1. Lack of awareness among individual lead to rape cases

According to a report showed by WAO there are nearly 80% rapists are people known by the rape victim. Therefore, we assume that many of the rape cases are due to victims’ lack of awareness. They easily trapped by the rapists whom they close to like boyfriends, adopted brothers (abang angkat), and male acquaintances.

2. Lack of media control leads to rape cases

Media is very important in today’s life. It is where we know outside world. Unfortunately, negative part of media, there is lack control over it. Pornography items extensively available in media like videos and internet. People regardless of ages are easily getting access into 18sx website. Bergen and Bogle (2000) have found that there is relationship between pornography and sexual violence. Findings include that 28% of respondents reported that their abuser used pornography and that for 12% of the women, pornography was imitated during the abusive incident.

6.0. ALTERNATIVES AND RECOMMENDATIONS

Many parties including governmental organization, non-governmental organization as well as private sector have put lots of effort in preventing this crime to be happened and protecting the citizens to become victims. Among the available solutions and alternatives towards preventing rape to be happen are;

The first is that, imposing harder laws. This we can include it to the death punishment, life imprisonment, and double the number of whipping. According to Nadesan (2002), in Malaysian law as refer to Sections 375 and 376 of the Penal Code, it has been stated that a man who is said to commit rape shall be punished for a term which may extend to 20 years, and shall also be liable to whipping, if he has sexual intercourse with a woman without her consent as well as with or without a consent of women under the age of 16 years old. Then for incestuous rape the rapist shall be punished with imprisonment for a term of not less than 8 years and not more than 30 years, and shall also be punished with whipping of not less than 10.

In addition of this, it stated by Abdullah Ahmad Badawi (The Star: April 2002), he said that those convicted of these offences, especially against children, must be severely punished. He wants penal code to be reviewed since the responsibility of adult is to protect the children. Thus The Penal Code was amended to include a new section 376A, which separates incest from other forms of rape. It is supported by Rais Yatim in which he stated that the number of whipping to be meted out on those found guilty of such crimes. As mentioned by Mahathir Mohamad he is supported 'heavier punishment' for the wrongdoers in which as lessons towards them (The Straitstimes Interactive: April 2002).

The third alternative is castrate or ‘kasi’. It is suggested by president of the Association of Muslim Lawyers (Utusan Malaysia Online: April 2002). Castrate or ‘kasi’ means, inject or kill rapist’s penis with chemical to reduce their sex drive. However many parties such as former ‘Mufti’ of Wilayah Persekutuan, against this punishment since in Islam also, it also mentioned by Prophet Muhammad in which one of his companions wanted to cut his penis in order to control his desire when seeing beautiful women. But, Prophet disallowed this action rather than encourage that person to fasting.

The fourth alternative is change female’s school students uniform. This alternative is proposed by vice president of National Islamic Students Association of Malaysia or in Malay it known as Persatuan Kebangsaan Pelajar Islam Malaysia (PKPIM). She said that, white school uniform being the cause of incidences of rape and moral decadence (Malaysia Kini: May 2008). She recommended that the color of the school uniform should be changed to remove the source of attraction for men. However there is some argument that rape is a violent crime and is an exercise of power by men and their desire to subjugate those weaker and smaller than them. The way women’s dressing is not the cause of rape. Furthermore it stated by Hishamuddin Tun Hussein, it is unfair to blame the students or their uniforms that lead to sexual crimes.

The fifth alternative is continuously campaign purposely to inculcate the self awareness among society itself especially women. This would be conducted by various agencies including public or private sector as well as non-governmental organization.

The last alternative is sex education. Malaysia’s government has introduced sex education in 2006 in order to overcome social problems amongst juveniles. According to Jaafar and Chan (2009), quoted from Haffner, sex education is the knowledge of the functional, structural and behavioral aspects of human reproduction. Sexuality education is lifelong process of acquiring information and forming attitudes, beliefs, and values about identities, relationship and intimacies. Administrators, educators, parents and community leaders stated that this subject is important to control promiscuity and to eliminate all undesirable or negative problems amongst juveniles.

Therefore in analysis part, we would try to examine each alternative in accordance to feasibility’s criteria such as in term of political, social, economic, and technological as well as administrative aspects.

7.0. MAJOR ACTORS AND STAKEHOLDERS

In order to implement the best solution towards reducing the rape rates in Malaysia is success; all parties including public, private sector as well as non-governmental organization must play their roles. Thus, among the organizations that play their roles in this policy implementations are;

The first is in public sector which it is from government side. For example; Royal Malaysia Police Force. They also consist of Rape Squad that available in most states of Malaysia. They also can be considered as public administrators that play the role of executives. The aim is to create a more conducive environment so that rape survivors (women and children) feel more comfortable making reports to the police and they are more cooperative in providing evidence to assist in investigations. In addition, Ministry of Women, Family and Community Development also play their role in reducing the rape cases in Malaysia. As legislative roles, they need to strengthen the laws in Malaysia especially in preventing this case. Moreover there are one-stop service centers run by government hospitals for the victims of sexual offences. If a victim visits there and reports their injuries, the centre will report it to the police, and the victim can receive medical checks and treatment in the hospital. The centre has some psychological and psychiatric specialists, who interview and provide aftercare for the victims.

The second major actor is non-governmental organization (NGOs). It is any non-profit, voluntary citizens' group which is organized on a local, national or international level. This group can be considered as major stoke holders since they are collaborated with each other in order to prevent rape cases among women in Malaysia. For example All Women's Action Society (AWAM). This group highly focused on campaign against rape. Another NGO bodies which involve in assisting the rape crimes is KEWAJA. KEWAJA’s role and responsibilities are to ensure the safety and health of women and children who would be born legally or illegally. Some of their roles includes provide residential or vocational training centers and self-development for women and girls who had engaged in immoral activities and even personal problems that humiliate themselves and their families.

Last but not least is private sector itself. This organization should create a policy in their organization, or conduct seminar regarding the rape issue. Thus, all the staff are exposing towards this issue. In addition, media also must play their roles by highlighting this issue.

8.0. ANALYSIS

We already discussed several alternatives that could help in reducing and solving the rape cases in Malaysia. Then, we will forecast and predict each alternative based on its feasibility assessment. It refers to the comprehensive and multi- faceted approach. We will analyze our policy recommendation from different criteria feasibility such as technology, economic, political, cultural or social and administration.

Alternatives/ Feasibility	Harder punishment (A)	“Kasi” (B)	Change uniform for female students (C)	Continuous awareness campaign (D)	Sex education (E)
Technology	2	2	2	3	2
Economic	1	1	1	2	1
Politics	2	1	1	3	1
Cultural/social	2	1	1	3	1
Administration	2	1	2	2	2
Total	9	6	7	13	7

Scale	1	2	3
	Not Feasible	Feasible	High Feasible

Thus, we agreed to choose that, the effective solution to reduce rape cases in Malaysia is a continuous awareness campaign for all citizens.

It is because; other alternative such as harder punishment already has been imposed by government nowadays in our country. Technology’s development and enough infrastructures in our country will help government to implement this punishment successfully. However it does not give any impact towards the rapists itself. It means they are not afraid of those punishment enacted by government even though government already reviewed the Penal Code in 2002 by separating the incest case from rapes. Then under Section 375 of the Penal Code it has been amended to increase penalties for rape maximum sentence of 30 years imprisonment, a minimum of 15 years imprisonment for rape and incest rape death penalty against offenders if the rape victim died.

However it does not give any impact towards them. Thus, in terms of economics, we think government should spend the budget and resources to something that is valuable to society. In terms of political, social and cultural aspects, the security is highly demanded by the society at large. Therefore, politicians will act upon to this issue as response to society’s demands. Similarly, administrators are available to carry out this policy.

With regard to kasi punishment, even though technological devices are sufficient enough to carry out the punishment yet. This alternative already invites clashes of disagreement as it is violates religious, cultural and social values. The punishment is too harsh where it brings the rapists to permanent disabled.

In addition of this, we could see that, changes female students’ school uniform is irrelevant since clothes do not have any relationship towards men’s distraction. For example in the case of the rape and murder case of Noor Suzaily Mokhtar, a 24-year-old. She was raped and murdered in a bus in a year of 2000. Hanafi Mat Hassan, the driver of the bus, was found guilty of raping and murdering Noor Suzaily. He was sentenced to death for the murder and ordered to be given 12 strokes for the rape. During that time Noor Suzaily was wearing the clothes that covered her “aurah”. (Malaysia Kini: May 2008). Thus it shows that clothes do not prevent nor protect women from being raped. Furthermore, we should understand the situation of poor family if government implements this policy. They need to earn extra money for this purpose.

Next is sex education. We have quite satisfied technology and administrators to implement such alternative like related software and teachers. However, the problem now is, we have limited resources to satisfy unlimited wants due to economy scarcity. What more, every new policy needs a huge amount of money. Furthermore, this alternative arguable as it is not in tune with our Asian culture.

Therefore we come out with the alternative that is most relevant to be implemented which is continuous awareness campaign. Before this, it is being implemented but not in consistent way. The purpose of this alternative is to inculcate awareness among citizens especially for the women. Meaning to say is that, we try to focus more on preventing the women to engage in rape and the environment that could lead towards this incident and at the same time we want others especially men know the consequences of doing this awful action. In addition of this, basically the campaign key’s messages are about most rapists are people you know in which they can be your boyfriend, other relatives or acquaintance. For us, it is never too late to begin to heal as saying goes prevention is better than cure.

As we are living in such environment that values much on technological usage, thus we will use technology tremendously to achieve our objectives. Since the government has allocated some budget for public safety, therefore it might have no problem to continuously implement this policy provided with good political, social and culture. Meaning that, all parties will be participating in combating this rape issue as they share similar objectives without neglect the other parties.

The campaign method is different in terms of the level of individual itself. We will divide all the categories or the target groups into three levels in which level one consists of the kids or children at the age of five until twelve years old. The second level is focus more on secondary school in which those who at the age of thirteen until seventeen years old. The last category is to those who at the age of eighteen until thirty years old.

For the campaign, it will have different methods. In which we have decided to focus on media campaign, talk or seminar as well as workshop of self-defense and the distribution of pamphlet.

The first method we will use is media campaign. It is importance due to most of people in our society have influenced by watching the television, reading the newspaper and so on. Media including the newspapers, radio and magazine itself must play their roles in implementing this policy. It is being reported by Royal Malaysia Police College’s Journal, media plays an important role in developing and influencing society’s perception. For example, radio and television can show the short advertisement in cartoon version to attract kids in which it informs kids for stay away from strangers. In addition of this, media can disseminate information that can be understood by all levels on certain environment should be avoided by women in order to prevent them for being raped.

Referring to Malaysia Progress Report on CSEC (Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children: 2004), the main focus of the prevention the dangers of trafficking are through public awareness or media campaigns. Therefore we could apply this in preventing the rape cases to be increased. Moreover, mass media itself must always report the rape cases in Malaysia in order to make others aware about it especially women. It means that, mass media itself must constantly publicize and highlight the issues that could lead to rape, and the effect of this activity towards victims as well as rapist itself. All these hopefully could make women aware and avoid themselves to the situation that could lead to rape.

In addition to media campaign, we think that seminar and workshop on women safety is also crucial to create awareness among women. The seminar will be organized by the responsible organizations which will tentatively conduct four times in a year. This seminar will be a compulsory activity to public sector including schools, universities and Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) as well as private sector.

The modus operandi will focus on theoretical and practical aspects of women safety. In theoretical aspect, the module generally in form of talks and public lectures that emphasize on the environment that could lead to rape, while practical aspect will concentrate on how to defense ourselves from being attacked and raped. Warner (2002) mentioned there was 81% reduction in the likelihood of completed rape for women who used physical protective action, controlling for situational and demographic factors as well as the use of other strategies. This is why we feel that this type of seminar is one of the most effective ways to achieve our goals.

A series of activities is use to disseminate information on rape and to create public awareness of legal reform initiatives. For example AWAM can initiate a traveling road show to present the issues of rape and domestic violence to communities through dramas, skits and workshop discussions. Street theatre, public opinion surveys, petitions, exhibitions at shopping malls, and seminars in educational institutions and with community groups were also used. In fact they have done this before but the thing is; for the current situation all parties should collaborate and conduct this event continuously.

In order for this policy to reach their objectives, all parties must put their efforts by continuously conduct this kind of program in the society. The prime movers of this policy are students’ club in schools and universities, NGOs, political parties, police, public and private sectors as well as public citizens. They should constantly work together with the purpose of achieving the designated objectives. As reported by CPPS, in 9^th Malaysia Plan it stated that efforts will be taken to enhance the maintenance of public safety and security in order to further improve the quality of life. It is supported by Najib’s speech in which he mentioned that in budget 2009, an allocation of RM830 million was provided to implement social safety net programs.(The Malaysian Insider: 2009). Since the government itself has allocated some budget and resources, therefore we hope all major actors must play their roles in order to make this policy succeeds.

9.0. CONCLUSION

In conclusion, what we can summarize is that, rape cases one of the contributors to crime rates to increase. Because it keeps increasing, therefore we develop several alternatives that could reduce rape cases in Malaysia and we choosed the relevant one.

Thus, for us the effective alternative or solution in preventing and reducing the rape cases to be increased is continuous campaign. It can be conducted in many ways. Our concern is media campaign as well as seminar, talk or workshop on self-defense.

The target group is from the age of 5 until 30. The most important is that, he actors that involve in this policy implementation must be responsible which are government or public and private sectors as well as NGOs. We hope this alternative could reduce the rape rates in Malaysia and finally Malaysia able to promote zero cases in the society towards rape cases.

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