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Wednesday, January 11, 2006
Pantai Manis: tidak semanis nama!
This is the sad story of Pantai Manis (Papar, Sabah). Once upon a time, this (now-deserted) beach used to be very popular among local and outside tourists.
Pantai ini pernah ceria dengan pelbagai aktiviti komuniti. Bukan saja tempat para pelancong bersantai-santaian. Ia juga jadi tumpuan ratusan keluarga tempatan (terutama sekitar Papar dan Kota Kinabalu). Pantai Manis menyediakan ruang untuk para ibubapa dan anak-anak bercanda ria, serta mengukuhkan semangat keluarga (sambil menikmati panorama alam anugerah Ilahi). Tidak kurang juga tempat para beliawan mencari cinta dan kenalan!
Sadly, those were some yesteryear memories that had long gone. Could be forever. For the past few years, Pantai Manis has been experiencing (yes, it still does!) a dramatic change – geomorphologically.
Pantai yang dulunya putih dan luas, kini semakin sempit dan terhakis. Year by year, it moves further towards the mainland. Banyak kemudahan asas (gerai, jalanraya, etc) rosak. Bahkan, elemen-elemen estetik asli Pantai Manis turut dibinasakan.
What has happened? Go and ask Sutera Harbour.
Sutera Harbour adalah rangkaian hotel-cum-resort super mewah bertaraf lima bintang di KK. Dibina di atas tanah tambak seluas 380 ekar, lebih kurang 2.5 km daripada pelabuhan utama KK. Kerja penambakan ini telah mengubahsuai proses dan pola geomorfologi pinggir laut di sekitar pantai barat Sabah – terutama dari KK-Papar. Akibat pengubahsuaian struktur asli ini, sebahagian besar tenaga ombak semulajadi telah dipindahkan ke kawasan-kawasan lain – termasuk Pantai Manis. This is where the problems start.
Sutera Harbour is specially built by the so-called super-rich capitalists to cater the needs of some minority bourgeoisies. Manusia kapitalis ini mengira untung setiap tahun. Juta-juta. Golongan bourgeois penderhaka – berguling-guling suka dengan segala macam kemudahan elit di Sutera Harbour.
Malangnya, Pantai Manis (dan, ratusan ahli komuniti tempatan – the working class especially!) – have to pay the price for this newly-created luxury. Yes, a luxury that they, themselves, will never have the opportunity to taste!
This is only a tiny slice of a much-bigger SAD reality. Now, can you blame me for becoming a hard-core communist (read as 'a capitalist life-time hater')?
Posted at 8:08 am by Rem
 | | | Name Aidah Ppr
November 15, 2009 05:26 PM PST
Ya itu adalah warning dari Allah ada insan yang berbuat sesuatu yang tidak diredhainya. Siapa harus dipersalahkan?. | |
| | | name
June 9, 2008 11:43 AM PDT
1991-1992; dl kawasan hotel promenade(klu inda silap nama la... dekat dgn centre point ) masih ada air laut yg berombak... tempat duduk2 ambil angin petang pula tu... panorama yg indah melihat matahari terbenam... itu kenangan lama sebelum pantai itu d tambak utk pembangunan...
10 ke 11 thn kemudian; bila sa pulang dr rantau org... aikkk... pantai itu tiada sdh.... yg ada cuma bangunan batu2... promenade... sutra harbour....apa lagi aaa??? inda berapa tau sgt sdh d kk sekarang. byk bangunan. tiada sdh pemandangan matahari terbenam d waktu petang d belakang centre point.... rindu oo....
keindahan d pantai manis mesti lebih d rindui olh pengunjung tempatan.... | |
| | | anna young
April 11, 2006 04:25 AM PDT
hi there ,
maybe we need to raise some money and built a bamboo hut type hotel ?
another thing kan,itu laut ada strong "current " l heard it before... tourist and local people need to know that an area is safe for them to go and visit.
so any ideas sabahans ? | |
| | | Anisah
January 20, 2006 12:20 AM PST
Jiwa, yes, the manifesto. It is indeed not as bad as the we were taught it. I would go one step further, it's not bad. If it has any flaws, it has no more, no less than any other economic theories.
Communism removes oppression of the poor by the rich by way of opportunities to create wealth. What we see as dictatorships, tortures, executions from the former Warsaw Pact countries is really what some social scientists term as "state capitalism". Instead of a class of people, the state is THE capitalist.
This term "state capitalism" actually came from Trotskyist communists who rejected the non-socialist characteristics of the former USSR and China. Trotsky himself, rejected the idea though. Works / books on this issue in English can be found as publications from Tony Cliff, the International Socialists and the British Socialist Workers Party. | |
| | | Jiwa
January 19, 2006 11:08 AM PST
Rem,
I'm currently reading the Manifesto by Engels and Marx. Their ideas is not as bad as what has been potrayed by the MCP during Emergency.
But, I believe the social differentiation between bourgeoisies and proletariat has diminished.
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| | | King Kong Warrior
January 16, 2006 05:25 PM PST
Hello. it's me again. You know..your cerita menarik gile but sayangnya our YB politician semua tak reti baca webpages lah.. Ada masa, why not also put the issue into the newpaper forum.
Sabah needs mentality changes but have to come from the young people, yang tua tua tu dah tak peduli dah...
Keep up the good work! :) | |
| | | Rem
January 15, 2006 03:59 PM PST
As, jangan kau tidak tau. Saya sekarang mengajar guna pendekatan "sosialis-realisme" (currently popular in most 'struggling nations'). Tidak lama lagi, ramailah graduan komunis di universiti kita! :) | |
| | | asmiaty
January 15, 2006 09:38 AM PST
rem sia dengar kan, di pantai manis tu, ada jin air hehehe...tiap tahun mesti ada orang mati lemas di situ.mungkin itu sebabnya orang tak berani datang situ..aku ingat, last kami p sana, si abg Tahir bawa tahun 1998 haha..memang macam tu juga rupa dia kalu aku ndak lupa..
tapi aku sukala aritkel ko yang membandingkan pantai manis ngn sutera harbour...pearl harbour?? macam ko insaf sikitla balik ngn teori2 geografi ko tu hakhak."Selamat Mengajar". | |
| | | Rem
January 14, 2006 09:12 AM PST
Anisah,
Yes, lacking of political literacy has always been the problem in Malaysia; and nobody seems care much about this 'illiteracy'. People tend to associate communism with atheism. And, they also believe that socialism is always equal to “anti-establishment” and must co-exist with “gangsterism”.
This is the way, how “we” (Malaysians especially, and Muslims in general) typically perceive communism and socialism. Isn’t that as misleading (or, sinful may be?) as the attempt to link Islam with terrorism? They are all based on unjustified prejudice. | |
| | | Anisah
January 13, 2006 12:03 AM PST
Rem, to people who fear that their flesh might not be accepted by the earth and their souls might burn in hell, tell them what Gordon Brown said on the Christmas of 2004.
The Labour Party (of Britain) is not so much built on Marxism than it is on Methodism. Methodism is a branch of Christianity; many Methodists in Britain are socialists. Yes, many communist governments in the former Warsaw pact are atheist and their policies are not religion-friendly. That doesn't mean that there aren't millions of Muslim communists and Muslim socialists.
At the end of the day, communism, socialism, capitalism are all degrees of liberalisation of economy. Without going into the definition of liberalism, which might be dissimilar depending on who you ask, all three are really systems of economies.
I dare say there are equal numbers of people who reject religion and God amongst the left and right of political ideology.
Non-left wingers might say that yes, there might be right wingers who are atheists, but no right wing government has actively curtailed religion the way left wing governments had. My retort would be, (un)surprisingly, "That which is profitable is holy." Therefore if religion is not a stumbling block to capitalism, the right to make profits, why spend time, money and energy to thwart it? | |
| | | Anisah
January 12, 2006 11:49 PM PST
Fear of conversion. Why? Tell them have no fear! There's no convert without realisation. There's no realisation without acceptance of unbiased facts.
You are merely giving facts, as unbiasedly as any university academic should and could. The rest is up to them to dwell on, develop and develop for themselves.
Of course, the problem with many Malaysian is that we don't have political literacy. They don't even know what is left or right political agenda to begin with. Everything to do with communism is bad because of our Emergency. Does that mean everything to do with capitalism is good because we weren't colonised by America the way the Phillipines were?
They don't realise that both communism and capitalism, two extremes of political ideology (right, the extreme right is not actually capitalism but fascism) has their limitations.
A sentence for thought: In Britain, school children are taught Marxism alongside Adam Smith's theory of free markets. Has anyone seen Britons taking up arm, hiding in the peat bogs of Scotland or in the English forests waging guerilla warfare to bring about a communist government in Britain. Of course not and such a thing will never happen. What we experienced with the Malayan Communist Party was a very wrong agenda on the part of the MCP. To politically illiterate people, that has crucified communism. Why don't people nail down the coffin on capitalism when the US and her allies invaded Iraq on the pretext of removing weapons of mass destruction, when the underlying decisive factor was securing a constant and friendly supply of oil? | |
| | | Rem
January 12, 2006 08:26 AM PST
Alb, bilalah kunun kau ni mau belanja saya di Kampung Air? :) (Tapi ya, kesian bah Pantai Manis tu..).
Anisah, I'm using "a socialisme-realisme" approach for my EIA course. And some of the students were very concerned that I might convert them all into communists! :) | |
| | | Anisah
January 12, 2006 12:09 AM PST
Those almost similar circumstances 'converted' me away from capitalism a few years ago. Welcome to the club! | |
| | | Alb
January 11, 2006 02:34 PM PST
Tepat sekali! Pantai Manis Tak Semanis Nama, tapi semasin Air Lautnya.
Kesibukan yang ada hanya hidupan bandar bergelar manusia mencari rezeki, kerang aka 'lukan?'.
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