Penang Forum released this statement yesterday, 6 October 2016 – but I didn’t notice any coverage of this in the media.
Syabas! Penang Forum would like to record our support for and the appreciation of the Penang Island City Council’s attempt to make Penang safer for pedestrians and more liveable for all users.
Amal Relief Malaysia, a wing of Parti Amanah Negara, will assist in providing security for the Bersih 5 Convoy activities in Penang, the Penang Bersih 5 team announced today at the Aliran office.
Whither transparency? There was much talk in Penang about freedom of information last week especially around Right to Information Day (28 September).
But sadly, when it came to the crunch, a freedom of information request to the Penang state government to disclose the 20-volume transport proposal by SRS Consortium was rejected.
Johor police appear to have acted professionally and firmly in keeping the Red Shirts away from a Bersih 5 convoy on 1 October 2016 without resorting to heavy-handed tactics or brutality. This is in sharp contrast to what happened in Perak.
Hopefully, their counterparts in the other states can emulate the Johor police in the way they separated the Red Shirts from the Bersih 5 supporters.
The attempt to intimidate those participating in the Bersih 5 Convoy started this morning in Lumut.
And later, see below. You judge for yourselves who is acting aggressively. This is happening right in front of a mobile police van. Why were the groups not kept apart?
Jamal Yunus juga telah menumbuk seorang lelaki dari pasukan #KonvoiBERSIH5 dan menolak mereka dengan kasar pic.twitter.com/8PSlnt72SJ
— BERSIH 2.0 (@bersih2) October 1, 2016
Bersih 2.0 reports that the Bersih 5 Convoy will be flagged off at 9am on 1 October 2016 and will run every weekend until the Bersih 5 rally on 19 November 2016.
Media reports have been full about the scarring and blasting at quarries in Batu Kawan which have alarmed nearby residents.
At the same time, over the last couple of weeks, the pile of rocks at the fishermen’s jetty in Bagan Ajam has grown higher. Where are these rocks coming from?
This video has started circulating on social media, as if to say, “We are watching you!” It looks as if work on the land reclamation off Gurney Drive and Straits Quay is going full steam ahead despite yesterday’s serious incident.
We mess around with Nature at our peril. This apparently happened in the last 24 hours near Gurney Drive in Penang where extensive land reclamation is being carried out.
The talk among a few locals familiar with the area is that the hive of activity at the otherwise quiet fisherfolk jetty in Bagan Ajam, Butterworth, across the channel from Gurney Drive/Tanjong Tokong, has something to do with land reclamation.