BUILDING MALAYSIA AS AN ADVANCE PROGRESSIVE NATION
May 19, 2011 by mthago
Malaysia shall become an advanced progressive nation by the year 2020. This is
our vision. In order to achieve our vision by the year 2020, we must have
organized and systematic strategy towards achieving our vision. In my opinion,
we should lists down the steps that we should take in order to make Malaysia an
advanced progressive nation by the year 2020.
STEP 1.Define our vision. Our Vision is to make Malaysia an advanced
progressive
nation by the year 2020
STEP 2.In order to achieve our vision we must have missions to achieve. We must
define the missions that we want to achieve. An advance progressive nation must
have certain missions to achieve. In my opinion there are twelve missions that
Malaysia must achieve in order to become an advanced progressive nation. These
twelve missions must be made known to each and everyone in Malaysia. The whole
nation must have the same vision and missions. These twelve missions are:
1. Inviting good and forbidding the evils.
2. A religious and highly tolerant society
3. Food and basic necessities affordable to everyone
4. A united and cohesive society
5. A Multilingual communities
6. High income and high basic salary
7. Healthy and excellence in sports
8. An educated and highly technological communities
9. A Law abiding, disciplined society
10. A generous and loving communities
11. Clean, well planned and beautiful
12. Hardworking and good quality workers
STEP 3 In order to achieve each of these missions; we must have the action
plans. The action plan must be followed strictly by the nation. The leaders as
well as the people must know exactly what to do in order to achieve our
mission.
The action plans must be practical and achievable.
STEP 4 The results of the action plans must be analyzed and monitored
periodically and corrective actions must be taken to rectify the outcomes in
case the desired results were not achieved within the prescribed period.
STEP 5 Continuous monitoring and improving the achievement levels of the
missions. The achievement levels can be measured objectively using a sample of
the population.
When all the twelve missions have been achieved to a level of more than 50%,
then Malaysia can be regarded as an advanced progressive nation. When all the
twelve missions have been achieved to a level of more than 80%, then Malaysia
has become a truly advanced progressive nation.
A country cannot be regarded as an advanced progressive nation based only on
the
high percapita income of the country. There are situations, the country may
have
high per capita income but the majority of the populations live in poverty.
Although the income of the population could be high but if the costs of living
are also high, the population will still be living in poverty. When the costs
of
basic needs are high, many people will find it difficult to pay the bills for
their houses, foods, education, health and cars. Due to high costs of living,
many people will have a lot of debts to pay every month. After paying all the
debts they will have little or no money left to spend. In order to survive they
again resort to loans from the bank that charges them high interests. They end
up paying every month to the bank the interests and without realizing it they
have becomes the slaves to the bank. As a result, everyone in the country needs
to go to work almost every day and working almost twelve hours daily with
little
or no time to enjoy with the families.
The cost of basic needs increases whenever the government raises the salary of
government servant. This indeed causes great distress to the others who are not
government servants. What is the aim of making Malaysia a high income nation,
when the costs of goods are always on the increase? Is having high income will
ensures Malaysians to become prosperous. There is no trill at all to have high
income when the costs of basic necessities are also high. Is our government
able
to control the rise of the prices of basic needs or are they not? As we have
observed so far, the government is not able to control the rises of prices of
basic needs. Mere advices and words of warning will not help to reduce the
prices of basic needs. Government is not able to control the increase of prices
of basic needs because the setting of prices of goods lies in the hands of
traders and the consumers. In case the poor Malay and Indian consumers are not
able to buy the product, the rich Chinese consumers are able to buy the
products. Traders are not worried whether the poor Malay and Indians can buy
the
product or not because the rich Chinese consumers at anytime can buy the
product. Traders are only worried when their products cannot be sold in the
market when they increase the prices. As long as their products can be sold in
the market, the traders will continue to increase the prices. I still can
remember when the prices of fish such as tenggiri, jenahak and ikan merah used
to very cheap, but now it has become very expensive because there are peoples
who can buy these fishes at high prices. The mushrooming of Chinese and tom yam
restaurants have created buyers to these fishes and has caused the prices of
these fishes to increases beyond the ability of an average income earner in
this
country to buy these fishes. Chinese are traders and they are the wholesalers.
As long as they are buyers, the Chinese traders will increase the prices as
they
are only interested with money and not with the welfare of the consumers.
All peoples want to have high income provided the prices of goods remain the
same. A country with high income may not necessary be that each and every one
in
the country would have high income. It could be a situation where only a few
individuals in the country have a very high income while the rest of the
peoples
still have low income. When the amount of income of the peoples is divided by
the number of the population we will get the average income .On the basis of an
average income, Malaysia maybe regarded as advance progressive country but in
reality the majority of her population may still live in poverty. The buying
power of the peoples does not depend only on the amount of salary that they get
but also on the prices of goods. When the prices of goods are also high, the
buying power would still be low although the salary could be high. It is the
buying power of the average population that determine whether the country is
prosperous or not and not only the salary. In my opinion, although Malaysia may
have high income or high percapita income but if the buying power is low,
Malaysia in my opinion is not an advance progressive country.
We may build high rise buildings, good highways, and sport centers but the
general population is not going to benefit directly on these development.
Generally everyone in the country only wants a house of their own, a car to
drive their family around and sufficient good food to eat. What is the use of
Malaysia having high income, high rise buildings like Twin Tower and sport
centre like FI track but her population on the average is still cannot afford
to
have a house of their own, to have an average standard car and to eat
sufficiently good food. We will have the names of an advance progressive
country
but in reality we are not. Malays and Malays leaders in general are very fond
in
having only names; shape and appearance of anything but are not really serious
in achieving the reality. The Malays have a proverb that has shape the
mentality
of the Malays and this mentality and believes of the Malays has become the main
reasons why the Malays are backward when compared to the other races. The
proverb in Malay is ‘biar bergaya walaupun papa’. In general, this proverb has
shaped believe and mentality of the Malays. Malays and Malays leaders are only
satisfied if they can achieved only the shapes, names and appearance of
anything
and they are not so motivated to achieve the reality. Many Malays wears
religious attires as if they are very religious and pious but in reality they
are not. What I think we are trying to achieve is only the cosmetics of an
advance progressive country and not the reality of an advance progressive
nation.
Prof. Dr. Nasoha Saabin
May 2011
Dean of Faculty of Optometry
International University College of Technology Twintech
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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