It is a small village in the kecamatan of Tambusai, Kabupaten Rokan Hulu in the Province of Riau, Sumatra. During the Padri Wars of 1830's , Tuanku Tambusai (aka known as Fakeh Hj Muhammad Salleh ) fought the Dutch forces together with Imam Bonjol and Tuanku Rao in West Sumatra and in Northern Sumatra .The last defence was in Benteng 7 Lapis,Daludalu which fell in 1838. He escaped capture and came to Malaya. He was buried in Rasah in 1882.
Monday, April 12, 2010
The Impregnable Fortress, Bukit Aman.
If one were to visit Bukit Aman for some reason, it is tightly guarded in terms of security like an impregnable fortress where one is not allowed to drive into the compound and the walk is quite far and steep. But that is only for the visitors who need to appeal on say the traffic summonses like I did more than seven years back. From what has been raised in Parliament by the leader of the opposition recently, it seemed the proverbial impregnable fortress has been breached by some erstwhile 'enemy' of the State which is rather embarrassing for the Home Minister and the IGP and their responses appears rather unconvincing. I would have thought when it was uncovered in 2008, such a serious lapse of our most strategic spot in the country would have been dealt with utmost urgency and those responsible should have been penalised accordingly. During the period of Emergency, our security personnel were trained to ensure that there should never be any compromise on the safety of our people and property against sabotage by the enemy, and even our government officers were required to attend courses conducted by the Government Security Office on how to detect breaches of security and the steps to be taken to prevent confidential material from falling into the hands of the enemy. However with the advent of the new millennium we have descended into a period of laxity and the idea of being infiltrated by the 'enemy' had been absent. This is rather dangerous because 'threat to our security' comes in many form and worst of all the lure of money to our own people can compromise our internal security. The people should be vigilant at all times and our intelligence services must be always proactive and prevent our secrets from being leaked out because it will spell disaster for our future. Heads must roll if negligence is proven, otherwise our PM's talk in Washington about how we defeated the Communists would be laughed at by the Americans when they come to know how easy it is to penetrate our Police records by foreign sub-contractors doing what seemed to be a job that could be done by our own local boys.
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It's very timely that you raise the national security issue, ya Akhi, coz both the pollce and military seem to be beleaguered by information leakages and a physical infiltration of their seemingly impregnable HQs. M16s have been stolen, jet engines, C4 explosive, computers, and many other things as we get to know through the informal media. What happens in Bukit Aman doesn't seem to remain secret very long. We can put the blame on lack of discipline but the underlying fact today is that, everything has a price. You pay and it can be delivered. Even Top Brasses are not as highly paid as the corporate executives and they've no big budget to play around with like their political bossses.
Sdr Norzah,
If nothing positive is coming out from all the exposed breaches and lapses of security is forthcoming then what some observers say that we are sitting ducks for saboteurs and terrorists will spell disaster for the country. If there is any dignity and honour on the part of the Ministers concerned, they should resign and only then they show the right example of accountability.
Dear Hal,
Espionage of modern times had pitted the free world against the Soviets. Americans, Ames and the Rosenburgs, Britishers Klaus Fuchs and the Cambridge Five all spied for the Soviets.It's the big powers knowing their enemies.
We are too small to be a bother to others. This may be the underlying feeling that make those responsible for security to be off guard - not really anticipating nor seeing potential danger from those with designs against our country.The little red dot govt is advised by Israelis. The contractor
was an offshoot of a co from there apparently. Still we took them! Wouldn't the contractor be tempted to pass on info, any info at all to them?
It doesn't take a genius to answer that.
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