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An American man showed his grandmother’s passport, which was issued by the U.S. Consulate in Jerusalem in 1932.
The man said, “It was always Palestine, and it will always be Palestine,” highlighting the period before the Israeli occupation.
I think my favorite scene in the movie was when Peter innocently told MJ that it was the most fun time he'd had years later after only a few minutes of chatting with Ned while building Lego together.
I think it was a small and sweet truth about living an isolated and introverted life. Even if it was only a tiny moment it personally touched me the most and my heart melted in the cinema
Se balancer sous la pluie et se laisser tomber en chute libre après avoir vu la femme de ta vie embrasser un autre gars, ouais ce Peter Parker est littéralement comme nous
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9. El resentimiento y el drama familiar te envejecen más que el sol.
Cortar con relaciones familiares tóxicas o perdonar deudas emocionales del pasado no es un acto de debilidad, es supervivencia.
La carga mental acumulada se traduce en cortisol alto e inflamación.
PRESS STATEMENT
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
9 July 2026
AUDITOR-GENERAL'S REPORT EXPOSES PAJ GOVERNANCE FAILURES: RM60 MILLION IN ARREARS, RM80 MILLION PAID WITHOUT APPROVAL
SIX REFORMS JOHOR STATE ASSEMBLY MUST DELIVER
1. I refer to the Auditor-General's Report (LKAN) 1/2026 on Perbadanan Pengangkutan Awam Johor Sdn. Bhd. (PAJ). The findings of this report deserve the serious attention of every Johorean, because they concern public money and a service that ordinary people depend on every single day.
2. PAJ, a company wholly owned by the Johor State Government through the State Secretary Incorporated (SSI), operates the Bas Muafakat Johor (BMJ) service used by millions of Johoreans.
3. The Auditor-General found that RM9.22 million was paid to operator companies without formal contracts, involving 41 BMJ routes. Paying RM9.22 million of public funds reflects basic failure of governance that leaves the people of Johor with no legal protection if things go wrong.
4. The Auditor-General further found that changes to routes, kilometres and trips were implemented without approval for periods of between 167 and 1,508 days (more than four years in some cases) involving payments of RM80.63 million. Eighty million ringgit was paid out for service changes that no one had approved, and no one noticed until the Auditor-General stepped in.
5. Most troubling of all, payments to bus operators were delayed by between 100 and 717 days, with arrears totalling RM60.10 million. An operator who is not paid for nearly two years cannot buy new buses, cannot maintain existing ones, and cannot pay drivers properly. It is no coincidence that the same audit found 12 of PAJ's 78 buses have exceeded five years of age, some as old as 12 years.
6. The audit also identified the root of the problem: after 13 years of operation, PAJ has still not achieved its founding objective of building a comprehensive public transport system for Johor. It has no Strategic Plan whatsoever. This is a company operating without direction and without discipline, using public money.
7. The BMJ service itself is a good product. The same audit confirms ridership grew by 1.08 million between 2021 and 2024, and passengers save RM1 to RM5 per trip compared to commercial fares. I do not attack the bus. I attack the management behind the bus because a good product wrapped in bad governance will eventually fail the very people it serves.
8. Here is a question worth asking: why has this report not become a campaign issue? Throughout this campaign, I have not heard either Barisan Nasional or Pakatan Harapan address these findings. The answer, I believe, is uncomfortable for both. For Barisan Nasional, this report is a verdict on governance at the state level: PAJ is wholly owned by the State Government that BN leads, and every failure documented in this report e.g. payments without contracts, two-year arrears, a company with no strategic plan, all of these happened under the state's watch as sole shareholder.
9. For Pakatan Harapan, the findings raise serious questions in the other direction. Bus operators and stage bus routes in Peninsular Malaysia are licensed and regulated by APAD, an agency under the Ministry of Transport which is a ministry held by Pakatan Harapan. The public deserves an explanation of how changes to routes, kilometres and trips could run unapproved for as long as 1,508 days under the nose of the federal regulator responsible for land public transport. When the state's failures embarrass one coalition and the regulator's blind spots embarrass the other, silence becomes a shared strategy. Only a party such as BERSAMA with no stake in either government is free to put this report before the people, and that is exactly what BERSAMA is doing today.
10. In this election, every party has promised more bus routes and better first-mile, last-mile connectivity. But bus route licensing is a federal matter under the Land Public Transport Act 2010. BN who promise more routes is promising what they cannot deliver. What BERSAMA promise is what the Johor State Legislative Assembly can actually do, and we set out six reforms below.
11. First, refer this audit to the Public Accounts Committee immediately, and establish a dedicated Select Committee on Public Transport. The DUN's existing PAC should examine LKAN 1/2026 with a fixed reporting deadline. But a PAC looks backward at money already spent. Johor needs a standing Select Committee on Public Transport that looks forward, with power to summon PAJ directors, SSI officers and operators, to scrutinise contracts before they fail, and to monitor the critical transition years ahead.
12. Second, impose payment discipline on PAJ through the instruments the State Government controls. The principle is simple: no contract, no payment. and operators must be paid within 30 days. As the sole shareholder through SSI, the State Government can write these conditions directly into its annual grant agreement with PAJ tomorrow. In the Assembly, if given the mandate, BERSAMA will use every tool available to a backbencher to force this including cut motions during the Committee of Supply to compel debate on the PAJ allocation and direct questions requiring the State Government to commit, on the record, that no payment will be made without an executed contract.
13. Third, legislate a Johor Public Transport Fund with multi-year funding commitments. The audit itself identified the year-to-year allocation cycle as the source of PAJ's financial instability as 89.2% of its operating income depends on annual state and local government allocations. A dedicated fund established by enactment, with statutory conditions on disbursement will end this cycle and makes proper planning possible.
14. Fourth, restructure PAJ from a company under SSI into a statutory body answerable to the DUN, with a statutory duty to prepare a five-year strategic plan and to table an annual report before the Assembly. A company answers only to its shareholder behind closed doors. A statutory body answers to the people's representatives in open session. If Johor Jaya gives me the mandate, I will work with the Government of the Day to bring this enactment forward, and if it will not act, I will table a Private Member's Bill myself.
15. Fifth, use the state's land-planning and local-government powers which belong fully to Johor to solve first-mile, last-mile connectivity properly. Transit-oriented development around the 32 planned E-ART stations and Bukit Chagar, walkways, safe and sheltered stops, feeder bus infrastructure through the local authorities: this is where the first-mile, last-mile problem is genuinely won or lost.
16. Sixth, guard the 2027–2030 transition with close oversight. The RTS Link is expected to begin operations in January 2027. The E-ART is only expected to complete around 2030. For at least three years, the entire burden of dispersing RTS passengers and serving Johor Bahru will fall on buses, to be administered through exactly the kind of contracting that this audit has just found to be broken. If we do not fix PAJ's governance now, Johor will squander a multi-billion ringgit investment at the moment it matters most.
17. These oversight mechanisms e.g. committees, questions etc only work if the Assembly actually sits. The Johor DUN must convene enough sitting days each year for real scrutiny to take place. Oversight that exists on paper but never convenes is not oversight.
18. An audit report like this should be the beginning of accountability. The people of Johor deserve representatives who treats it that way, regardless of which party forms the government. That is the work BERSAMA is asking for the mandate to do.
LAU YI LEONG
Candidate, N.42 Johor Jaya (BERSAMA)
9 July 2026