Not many Malaysian know how Felda was hijacked by UMNO to enslave a segment of Malays for secured Parliament seats

Not many Malaysians or even the Malays know that Felda was created not to uplift the lives of the Malays but to enslave them for political purposes. Show me one Felda scheme have strike it big and the settlers and now worth millions. Felda was needed to create safe 100% Malay Parliament and seat seats which will be UMNO-BN fixed deposit seats to enable them to rule and plunder Malaysia for eternity 

The plan was to locate 500,000 Malays to the hinter land of West Malaysia and creating settlements plantations in the virgin forest and ensure that these settlers do not get rich or comfortable and to be always indebted to BN-UMNO for giving them land and a place to call it home. The catch was that they continue to Support and vote BN-UMNO or lose it all. The original settlers who owe a debt of gratitude to BN-UMNO for enslaving them and relocating them in the middle of nowhere and keep them indebted to Felda for buying their produce and lending them money for replanting .Felda kept the prices low as not to make the settlers rich and comfortable and every elections an envelope of RM 500 will not be enough to make them grateful if they are rich and if poor will be grateful if poor. Scheme was thought of and implemented by Tun Razak as a BN-UMNO fixed deposit but destroyed as UMNO – BN fix deposit by his son Najib. That is what we call Karma 

Now it is going to change hands from one land lord to another land lord and treated as cattle folder only

The FELDA settlers are not but indebted labourers who are in a cycle of vicious debts that they cannot pay off because BN-UMNO made sure of it and also made sure they do not owe the land too.

PPBM: BN ‘safe deposit’ seats in Felda areas now history

Nora Jaswa | May 18, 2017 

Opposition parties will continue to bank on the Mahathir factor to capture more votes from Felda settlers in the next general election. 

PETALING JAYA: PPBM, the opposition party led by former prime minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad, believes the changing political situation in the country will help it make further inroads into electoral

constituencies covering Felda schemes which are dubbed “safe deposit seats” of Barisan Nasional (BN).

“Felda’s BN safe deposit seats are now history. People change as the situations change. If Felda is doing well, the settlers will continue to support BN. But it is public knowledge now what has been happening in Felda,” said PPBM information chief Kamaruddin Md Nor.

“BN might have had a strong hold in Felda areas in the past, but the settlers are able to think for themselves and they are aware of everything that is going on in Felda.”

Kamaruddin was referring to the financial woes and mismanagement besetting the federal land development agency, leaving many settlers with huge debts and struggling to make ends meet.

Settlers were also disappointed with the lack of returns from their investments in Felda Global Ventures Holdings, a subsidiary of Felda, listed in 2012 amid much hype of being the largest crude palm oil producer in the world.





The listing raised billions of ringgit and the settlers received a windfall of RM15,000 per family, but the company’s share price sank later from nearly RM5 apiece to below RM2.

The Auditor-General’s Report also raised concerns over the alleged improper spending of funds amounting to RM200 million.

“Though the Felda chairman (Shahrir Abdul Samad) admits that various things were done without following protocol in the agency, it will take time to win back the confidence of Felda settlers again,” said Kamaruddin.

He said opposition parties, which had been conducting their own programmes in areas fringing the Felda schemes, had received positive feedback from the settlers.

“The programmes had to be conducted outside the schemes because no approval was given by the Felda management but we still received positive turnouts when the settlers went out of the schemes to join our programmes,” Kamaruddin said.

He also refuted claims that Mahathir’s influence among Felda settlers was on the wane.

In fact, Kamaruddin said, opposition parties were banking on the PPBM chairman’s influence in the 14th general election to attract votes from among the settlers.

There are about 60 parliamentary seats covering Felda schemes, out of which 54 were won by BN in the last general election