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Storm Over Nanyang PP3739/12/2001 ISSN 0127 - 5127 / RM3.00 / 2001:21(5) STORM OVER NANYANG Aliran Monthly 21(5) Page 1 COVER STORY The Nanyang Takeover Crisis Representing or Opposing Community Interests? by Dr Francis Loh ow that its EGM is over, NN MCA’s takeover of NNN Nanyang Press Hold- ings Bhd is a fait accom- pli. MCA will probably follow the Prime Minister’s advice and shed part of its Nanyang shares to some ‘strategic partners’. The financial burden of assuming 72% of Nanyang shares alone should persuade MCA’s Huaren Hold- ings Sdn Bhd to do this, and sooner rather than later. Only 53 per cent of those who voted at the 24 June EGM favoured the takeover. Even so the ‘Gang of Eight’ led by Lim Ah Lek and Chua Jui Meng have declared that they will accept the EGM’s decision. Their road-shows will stop. The party will close ranks. But for how long? Even if there’s no mud-slinging within MCA, there is still a storm of protest in the Chinese commu- nity against the Nanyang takeo- ver. The protest will not die so quickly but will probably haunt MCA. Indeed Ling Liong Sik’s slim victory suggests MCA is so split that it will only be a matter of Perennial Consider the party feud that has time before another round of in- Succession Feuds festered in recent years between tra-party feuding occurs with MCA president Dr Ling Liong even higher stakes. Then the MCA has had a very fractious Sik and his deputy, Lim Ah Lek. Nanyang takeover which has past, not always because of Ling’s allies include two vice united Ling’s rivals as never be- substantive differences, but be- presidents, Ong Ka Ting and Dr fore will gift them with a critical cause of fierce contests for top Fong Chan Onn, secretary-gen- issue at the MCA party elections positions (see accompanying eral Dr Ting Chew Peh, Wanita due next year. box). chief, Dr Ng Yen Yen, and Aliran Monthly 21(5) Page 2 EDITOR'S NOTE The Uproar Over Nanyang CONTENTS This issue focuses on the MCA’s takeover of Nanyang. In the cover story, Francis Loh locates the controversy within the context of the party’s peren- COVER STORY nial factional feuding and the political ferment that ••• The Nanyang Takeover Crisis 222 has been brewing in recent years. ••• MCA's Fractious Past 999 Of significance is the widespread protest that has FEATURES erupted from groups and individuals, including ••• An Op-press-ive Council pro-BN organisations like the ACCIM. In The Making? 101010 ••• Aliran's ISA Watch 181818 Most heartening has been the stance taken by the ••• Straight From The Heart 212121 Chinese editors and journalists who have categori- •• Straight From The Heart 2121 cally condemned the takeover. Many of the usual ••• Everything For The Truth! 232323 columnists and contributors have stopped writing ••• Tian Chua Writes 252525 for the Chinese dailies involved. ••• A Test Of Faith 262626 ••• What Is Justice All About? 282828 The takeover of Nanyang confirms a trend of de- ••• Our Prayers Have Been Answered 292929 clining press freedom; so what do we make of offi- ••• Our Struggle Is Sacred 323232 cial plans to set up a media council? Anil Netto, in ••• Letter To The Prime Minister 393939 an accompanying feature, suggests that such a coun- ••• Mahathir's Future, cil may end up tightening control over the media Daim And The MCA 404040 rather than promoting media freedom. The Nanyang issue is also covered in our back cover REGULARS story by Maznah Mohamad, who reviews the re- ••• Current Concerns 121212 cent UMNO general assembly. She discusses the ••• LettersLettersLetters 151515 silence over a missing Daim and asserts that the ••• Thinking Allowed 191919 party leader’s personal survival has overridden everything else. OTHERSOTHERSOTHERS ••• Excerpts From ISA Judgment 242424 Make sure you read the ongoing series of heart-rend- ••• Letter To Home Minister 313131 ing first-person accounts from the families of ISA •• Subscription Form 3838 detainees. Aliran Monthly recently met a few of the ••• Subscription Form 383838 courageous wives and women activists at a ‘Women against ISA’ forum in our office in Penang. Prema Devaraj was on hand to describe the moving ac- counts that touched the hearts of the audience. Have you written to protest the ISA? If you haven’t, make sure you do so now! Published by Aliran Kesedaran Negara (ALIRAN) 103, Medan Penaga, 11600 Jelutong, ALIRANALIRANALIRAN is a Reform Movement dedicated to Penang, Malaysia. Justice, Freedom & Solidarity and listed on the Tel : (04) 658 5251 Fax : (04) 658 5197 roster of the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations. Founded in 1977, Aliran welcomes Homepage : http://www.malaysia.net/aliran all Malaysians above 21 to be members. Contact the Hon. Secretary or visit our webpage. Printed by Angkatan Edaran Enterprise Sdn. Bhd. Lot 6, Jalan Tukang 16/4, Seksyen 16, 40000 Shah Alam, Selangor Darul Ehsan. Aliran Monthly 21(5) Page 3 Penang MCA leader, Dr Sak Cheng well as with UMNO leaders. How- In fact Lim had followed party tra- Lam. Closely linked to Lim are his ever, Lim didn’t expect Fong to be dition. MCA had not, at least not protégé, vice-president Chan MCA’s fourth minister. recently, allocated its ministerial Kong Choy, and Fu Ah Kiow and posts, or top party posts for that others from Pahang. At MCA’s 47th AGA, in June 2000, matter, according to the ‘more Ling claimed that his ‘hands were democratic’ principles which What is the basis of this dispute? tied’: there were four vice-presi- Ling was apparently upholding. Essentially it involves succession dents but only two vacant minis- to the party leadership, an issue terial posts. So he considered sen- For example, Yap Pian Hon had that goes back to Ling’s call to iority and popular support in de- polled the highest vote of all the older MCA leaders at the 1998 ciding who to promote. vice-presidents in 1996 and had Annual General Assembly (AGA) been a vice-president since 1990. to vacate their ministerial ap- A year earlier, five candidates had Yet Ling had not recommended pointments and party posts to vied for the four vice-president’s Yap for a ministerial appointment make way for younger figures. posts. Fong had the highest – as a delegate to the 47th AGA When Lim declined to contest the number of votes, followed by pointed out. 1999 general election, it seemed Chua, Ong and Chan. Yap Pian that the two top leaders had Hon, vice-president since 1990, The intra-party differences devel- reached a ‘gentlemen’s agree- came last. So, Ling kept Chua and oped in a peculiar manner in May ment’, which included Chan promoted Fong and Ong, evi- 2000 (see AM, 20, 4). Ling sud- Kong Choy’s replacing Lim as a dently in accordance with the denly announced his resignation federal minister. general assembly’s preference. as a minister, ostensibly to allow Chan to replace him: ‘He (Chan) Two other ministerial positions But this decision apparently was the only vice president with- were then occupied by Ting Chew didn’t honour the ‘gentlemen’s out a ministerial position.’ In the Peh and vice-president Chua Jui agreement’ reached between Ling event, Ling withdrew his resigna- Meng. Ting contested the 1999 and Lim. Lim had stepped down. tion after two weeks’ ‘reflection’. general election but was per- However, someone from Ling’s suaded to step down as minister. team, and not Lim’s protégé, had The feud reared its head again in Being younger than Ting, Chua benefited. early 2001. Lim apparently pres- didn’t think he was due for retire- sured Ling to set a ment. Indeed, some said that date for the latter’s Chua had cast his eyes on the retirement as minis- party presidency. ter. Simultaneously it was proposed But when Dr Mahathir reshuffled that Chan should the cabinet after the November be appointed acting 1999 general election, Ling and deputy president if Chua were re-appointed as min- Lim were to vacate isters while Ong and Fong re- his party position. placed Ting and Lim. There was a prec- edent for this pro- Ong’s promotion was predictable: posal: in 1996 he is Ling’s former political secre- MCA’s presidential tary, his protégé as well as his council had ar- unannounced successor. Ong has ranged for Lim to succeed Lee Kim a reputation for being a capable Undemocratic Criteria Sai as deputy president without administrator and maintains contest, while Ting was promised good rapport with the party rank- Had Ling applied the correct cri- the position of secretary general. and-file, Chinese associations, teria? Was Lim resorting to and the community at large, as cronyism? These decisions were subse- Aliran Monthly 21(5) Page 4 quently endorsed by the MCA Tan Koon Swan debacle and de- central committee and touted as posit-taking co-operative scan- evidence of MCA’s ‘culture of dals – that he would divorce MCA smooth succession’. from business. Maybe Lim meant to invoke this From Honeymoon To ‘culture’ but it looked as if the Disillusionment proposals only provoked demon- strations and counter-demonstra- In the background is the political tions. Ongoing Ling-Lim talks ferment within the Chinese were suspended in February 2001 Malaysian community. The mid- ‘to avert instability’. At any rate, 1990s saw the Chinese commu- the Ling-Lim dispute over party nity rallying behind Barisan succession hardly excited other Nasional and Dr Mahathir MCA factions, let alone the wider would be set on ‘a collision course Mohamad when BN polled 53.2 Chinese community.
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