Special meeting to discuss Malay issues
Page 13 of The New Straits Times of some weeks back carried the above caption.To many this is just another item of news. However to me it presents a momentus occasion for Malays to discuss their political future in view of the recent crisis of confidence among people of the Malay race.
Before the discussion mode is put into place, I think it is best that the word or term Malay and the issues to be discussed be clearly defined and agreed among the interested parties. The Malaysian Constitution defines the word "Malay" and if we are all are agreed on that, then what remains to be identified are the "issues" to be dicussed. Can we agree that economic achievement of the Malays is an issue? Can we also consider educational progress of the Malays as an issue to be discussed? So through a process of selection and elimination we may draw a long list of subjects which we can consider as the issues confronting the Malays.
There is no point just dicussing if we do not try to find the solution to resolve those issues. So if we get on to the discussion stage and also come up with the recommended solutions to those issues, who or which body will implement those solutions?
From our observation of the past two decades,most of the well conceived plans to help the common people have been wrongly managed and finally benefitted only a few. What happened to PERNAS which was born out of the Kongress Ekonomi Bumiputra is a case in point. What happened to HICOM which had achieved monumental growth in th 80s and early 90s is another example of massive diversion of public assets in favour of cronyism.
In conclusion, however well the Malays or for that matter the whole nation, try to resolve our issues and put in place a programme to overcome it, poor accountability,
lack of transparency and above all a corrupt political leadership will nullify all our national efforts. Unless we can find a way to stop all these nonsence, we may be wasting our time in carrying on these discussions.
MSABdullah.
Before the discussion mode is put into place, I think it is best that the word or term Malay and the issues to be discussed be clearly defined and agreed among the interested parties. The Malaysian Constitution defines the word "Malay" and if we are all are agreed on that, then what remains to be identified are the "issues" to be dicussed. Can we agree that economic achievement of the Malays is an issue? Can we also consider educational progress of the Malays as an issue to be discussed? So through a process of selection and elimination we may draw a long list of subjects which we can consider as the issues confronting the Malays.
There is no point just dicussing if we do not try to find the solution to resolve those issues. So if we get on to the discussion stage and also come up with the recommended solutions to those issues, who or which body will implement those solutions?
From our observation of the past two decades,most of the well conceived plans to help the common people have been wrongly managed and finally benefitted only a few. What happened to PERNAS which was born out of the Kongress Ekonomi Bumiputra is a case in point. What happened to HICOM which had achieved monumental growth in th 80s and early 90s is another example of massive diversion of public assets in favour of cronyism.
In conclusion, however well the Malays or for that matter the whole nation, try to resolve our issues and put in place a programme to overcome it, poor accountability,
lack of transparency and above all a corrupt political leadership will nullify all our national efforts. Unless we can find a way to stop all these nonsence, we may be wasting our time in carrying on these discussions.
MSABdullah.
posted by MSAbdullah @ 11:49 PM
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