Umno sebuah parti yang telah sekian lama berjasa.
Umno ditubuhkan pada tahun 1946 untuk membela hak orang-orang dan Raja-raja Melayu. Ia telah membentuk pakatan untuk menyatukan rakyat Malaya demi mencapai kemerdekaan pada tahun 1957. Pada tahun 1963, pemimpin Umno, Al-marhum Tunku Abdul Rahman Putra Al-Haj, menyuarakan visi yang lagi berani, iaitu penubuhan Malaysia di mana, pada 16 September, beliau mengisytiharkan adalah hasil “perbincangan, perbahasan, pertanyaan dan pemilihan yang melahirkan keizinan bersama” dan yang “diputuskan setelah difikirkan secara mendalam”.
Beliau menyuarakan rasa bangganya bagaimana “kita telah membentuk Malaysia melalui perdebatan secara terbuka dan bertolak ansur. Semangat kerjasama ini membuktikan keinginan kita hidup bersama.” Semangat inilah yang beliau namakan “asas Malaysia” yang bagaikan “petanda masa depan kita”.
Malaya dan Malaysia merupakan hasil visi yang dilaksanakan dengan pertimbangan yang penuh kesabaran. Pemimpin-pemimpin Umno menyuarakan visi ini, serta meyakinkan orang ramai, dan mengikat perlembagaan negara baru ini selama berbulan-bulan. “Langkah demi langkah, konsep ini mula bernyawa.” Perbincangan perlembagaan diteruskan walaupun menghadapi pemberontakan komunis serta konfrontasi dengan negara jiran, tambahan pula semasa Perang Dingin berlangsung.
Walaubagaimanapun, Tunku mengakui kejayaan kerana “konsep ideal Malaysia berjaya membangkitkan imaginasi rakyat kita”.
Beginilah Umno, pada mulanya, mencapai misinya sebagai parti orang Melayu serta parti sebuah negara. Beginilah Umno membela kedaulatan Raja-raja Melayu dan mencapai kecemerlangan kepimpinan politik Melayu. Kerana kami berjaya “membangkitkan imaginasi” rakyat Malaysia.
Kami mempunyai keyakinan dan kepimpinan yang diperlukan untuk mlahirkan negara baru, bukan sekali bahkan dua kali. Walaupun peluang pendidikan amat kekurangan bagi anak-anak Melayu pada masa itu, namun negara kita mempunyai pemimpin-pemimpin bermutu tinggi yang mampu menyatukan masyarakat majmuk dalam menyuarakan visi ini dengan penuh keyakinan dan berasaskan kedaulatan undang-undang.
Bandingkanlah sendiri visi kita lima puluh tahun dahulu, dan bagaimana kita mengenal pasti serta menyelesaikan masalah walaupun menghadapi ancaman keselamatan yang serius, dengan kelakuan kita sekarang – mengapi-apikan pelbagai ‘ancaman’ yang dibuat-buat sementara cabaran yang benar dan serius seperti pendidikan dan ekonomi negara tidak diambil berat.
‘Pencapaian’ Umno terkini merupakan perampasan kuasa dengan pelbagai tipu helah dari sebuah kerajaan negeri yang ditubuhkan secara demokratik. Perbuatan itu menyebabkan orang ramai berpendapat Umno parti yang terdesak dan bukan parti yang berkeyakinan.
Bezakan betapa luasnya dunia kita dahulu, dengan kesempitan fikiran yang kini semakin menonjol.
Dengan kepimpinan yang sedia ada sekarang, Umno tiada harapan lagi. Masalahnya ialah pemimpin-pemimpin Umno sendiri, yang telah menstruktur, menindas dan membeli parti ini supaya mereka tidak dapat digantikan oleh ahli-ahli yang benar-benar ingin berbakti memimpin.Tiada parti lain yang kini mampu melakukan tugas yang pernah dilakukan oleh Umno, dan masih perlu dilakukan sekarang.
Tunku Abdul Rahman’s Speech on Malaysia Day 16th September 1963“MERDEKA! MALAYSIA!
THE great day we have long awaited has come at last – the birth of Malaysia. In a warm spirit or joy and hope, 10 million people of many races in all the States of Malaya, Singapore, Sarawak and Sabah now join hands in freedom and unity.
We do so because we know that we have come together through our own free will and desire in the true spirit of brotherhood and love of freedom.
We have made our decision after much care and thought, finally arriving at mutual consent by debate and discussion, inquiries and elections held over two and a half years.
We can feel proud indeed of the way we have created Malaysia through friendly argument and compromise. The spirit of co-operation and concord is living proof of the desire we share for a common destiny.
What better basis for Malaysia can there be, what finer augury for the future?
The road to nationhood has not been an easy journey. Surprises and disappointments, tension and crisis, have marred the way.
The peoples of Malaysia, however, have endured all trials and tribulations with confidence and patience, calmness and forbearance, with faith in our final goal – Malaysia.
In the first eighteen months of political and constitutional discussions, beginning from May 1961, things went ahead favourably, because the ideal of Malaysia caught the imagination of all the peoples concerned.
We can all recall the remarkable enthusiasm and interest aroused then in the evolution of Malaysia.
Step by step the concept came to life. The activities of the Malaysia Solidarity Consultative Committee, the merger talks between the Federation of Malaya and Singapore, the broad agreement reached in London to establish Malaysia, the appointment of the Cobbold Commission and its exhaustive inquiries in the Borneo Territories, and the subsequent establishment of the Inter-Governmental Committee – all these steps were taken in internal harmony and in full public view.
Suddenly towards the end of 1962 the situation chanchanged. Communist China committed unjustifiable aggression against India. I stood up for democracy and condemned China’s attack.
One immediate reaction was that Communists throughout South-east Asia retaliated by an indirect assault upon me by opposing my idea of Malaysia, and they set about creating every possible difficulty to baulk Malaysia.
Other external complications occurred – the Philippines’ claim to North Borneo, the sudden and abortive revolt in Brunei, and the startling adoption by Indonesia of a policy of confrontation against Malaya.
All these events projected an international crisis in South-east Asia this year, the climax coming in June. The successful meeting of the Foreign Ministers of Malaya, Indonesia and the Philippines, followed by my own conference with President Soekarno in Tokyo eased tension considerably and brought new hopes for harmony and peace.
Prospects for a Summit Conference were good, confrontation from Indonesia subsided, so we went ahead with arrangements for the final talks in London on Malaysia.
The Malaysia Agreement was duly signed in early July. Unexpectedly Indonesia reacted most strongly, renewing its policy of confrontation with the result that the Summit conference of leaders of Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines at the end of July began in an atmosphere of doubt.
The Summit conference ended in an agreement by the three countries to form an Association of States of Malay origin to be known as Maphilindo.
It was agreed that in order that the partners in Maphilindo could welcome Malaysia the United Nations Secretary-General should be asked to ascertain anew the wishes of the peoples of Sarawak and Sabah. That request has not been implemented.
Now finally the peoples of Malaysia are celebrating the establishment of Malaysia. This is the time to think earnestly and hopefully on the future of Malaysia as the whole country resounds with joy.
So I pray that God may bless the nation of Malaysia with eternal peace and happiness for our people.
The Federation of Malaya now passes into history. Let us always remember that the Malayan Nation was formed after many difficulties during a long period of national Emergency, yet its multi-racial society emerged, endured and survived as a successful and progressive nation, a true democracy and an example to the world of harmony and tolerance.
As it was with Malaya, so it can be with Malaysia. With trust in Almighty God, unity of purpose and faith in ourselves, we can make Malaysia a land of prosperity and peace.
In doing so let every Malaysian in all the States of Malaya, Singapore, Sarawak and Sabah ensure that our Malaysia is truly worthy of the aims and hopes we have shared, the trials and stress, we have endured, in working together to achieve our common destiny.
“MERDEKA! MALAYSIA!”
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