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All must help cut subsidies

The first quarter result of the economy is good and Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak’s momentum must be supported and continued, even if it seems radical.

If tough measures have to be taken, then we have to bite the bullet together.

Under construction: The new Istana Negara in Jalan Duta is being built at an estimated cost of RM812mil.

Since 1998, Malaysia has been operating on a deficit budget with the national debt increasing at 12% annually.

Even when the prices of petroleum and palm oil rocketed in 2003, we still ran a deficit budget, lacking the political will to put things right.

To do this, the Government has to cut subsidies, which amount to RM74bil annually and include subsidies for sugar and petrol.

Seriously, why should Malaysian taxpayers pay for your love of sugar, which is bad for your health, or the petrol for your three cars?

But many middle-class Malaysians, many of whom find themselves with little left to save after the monthly income tax and EPF deductions, also want the burden to be shared.

It must be a shared responsibility. It’s frightening that only over one million people pay income tax and they have to shoulder the huge responsibility.

Despite the reservations and objections, the Goods and Services Tax (GST) has to come into place for the net to be wider.

But if we wish to continue convincing Malaysians of the need to slash subsidies, they cannot be hearing about plans to spend RM800mil for the construction of a new Parliament building in Putrajaya or RM812mil for a new palace.

They cannot be blamed if they compare Malaysia with England where Westminster and Buckingham Palace, which are much older, are still being used.

It’s a relief to hear the Prime Minister saying that the proposed Parliament building is merely at a discussion level and it would depend on the availability of public funds.

No one, regardless of our positions, should be spared from keeping the country’s kitty tight.

If we are struggling to pay our bills, stop acting like a rich man, for God’s sake.

Buildings are supposed to be functional and not for cosmetic purposes.

Whether it’s the Parliament or state legislative buildings, the elected representatives only meet a few times a year, so it is unforgivable to spend huge sums for such buildings.

Our politicians can try to convince us that these are iconic structures but Malaysians are not in the mood to buy these stories.

There is also a need to look at purportedly private projects which are in reality subsidised by the public, especially independent power producers, toll concessionaires and water companies.

Jala has said that indirect subsidies amounting to RM56bil have been dished out.

Malaysians also need to be assured that the withdrawal of subsidies would be gradual.

In fact, it’s only a reported RM2.6bil to RM15.7bil by 2015.

Giving rebates for electricity bills, or even not charging those using below 100KW, is being considered, for example.

But while we consider reducing our subsidies, we also need to urgently step up our competitiveness in the region because foreign direct investments (FDIs) have been lacklustre while major local companies are investing abroad, where they believe that there are better growth opportunities.

Some have chosen to list their companies in Singapore and Hong Kong. Regionally, Vietnam and Indonesia have become attractive, especially the latter where investors now find the atmosphere less stifling.

We need to kickstart ourselves.

The New Economic Model should push through these programmes if we are serious.

The impression is that there are politicians who still want to keep the old ways even if they retard growth, and are seemingly prepared for short term gains at the expense of the country’s future.

We are slacking and underperforming. There is no point talking about ethnic equity distribution if the cake isn’t growing.

Yes, we have to endure the subsidy cuts because there’s no option anymore. The Government has to do it but it needs to also cut down on the excesses and waste as a result of incompetence or corruption.

A gentleman knows when to cut losses


On The Beat by WONG CHUN WAI

IT’S pretty straightforward. In any public listed company, it is the board of directors that leads and controls the company but the series of news relating to Sime Darby and Kenmark have put corporate governance in Malaysia in bad light.

It is not just the chief executive officer who must take responsibility but also the executive and non-executive directors for all decisions taken.

In short, all directors have the same fiduciary responsibilities as they are regarded as stewards of the organisation by the shareholders. The shareholders and employees expect them to understand the business operations and bear responsibility for their decisions.

In the case of furniture maker Kenmark Industrial Co, Taiwanese managing director (MD) James Hwang Ding Kuo and executive director (ED) Chang Chin Chuang have disappeared.

For the last five years, the company’s receivables – delivery of goods where payments are still pending – have been increasing with revenue decreasing.

In its quarterly report for 3Q 2010, receivables shot up to RM248.7mil even as revenue continued to drop with its cash balance as at Dec 31 standing at only RM2.2mil while debts totalled RM141.4mil.

It’s really a horror story. The point is this – why didn’t the directors ask what was wrong?

While the MD and ED have packed off, certainly the entire board must take responsibility for the disgraceful event in Kenmark.

Hwang has reportedly said he has been sick and unconscious in the past weeks and recuperating in China. But the company, which has been taken over by new shareholders, needs urgent handling.

In the case of Sime Darby, the overruns of its Bakun project has chalked up to RM1.8bil. It’s more than just a fiasco.

Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad, who has asked for shared responsibility, has revealed that the Government has made a RM700mil compensation to Sime Darby. We are talking of public money because the Government’s coffers come from taxpayers’ money.

He is right. The departure of chief executive officer Datuk Seri Ahmad Zubir Murshid isn’t enough. The whole board cannot continue to enjoy their directors’ fees and perks while refusing to take responsibility for the massive losses.

After all, the project has been delayed for three years and surely the board should see the cost overruns.

The directors cannot say that they were not aware of the project, the risk factor and the losses. And if they were aware, did they raise the red flag and put on record their reservations as required under the law?

Sime Darby chairman Tun Musa Hitam has said that he would leave it to the shareholders to decide whether the board should resign.

In fact, if the directors have any dignity and any sense of accountability, they should not offer themselves for re-election. There should be no sacred cows; if they have to go, they have to go.

In fact, the shareholders and even the public deserve to see a detailed and full disclosure of Sime’s losses in its energy and utilities divisions.

No project is guaranteed of profits and many profit-making companies have divisions that are still trying to make money but the board is required to conduct regular performance review and query the company’s project management panel.

The core business of Sime Darby is plantation – its problem started when it began to do business in areas it has no business to be involved in.

It is the board’s responsibility to study the risks involved in any venture outside the company’s core business and they must take responsibility for their decisions.

The public buy Sime Darby shares for its plantation concerns and certainly not for its utilities and energy ventures, or rather adventures.

Transparency is obviously missing in the case of Sime Darby and Kenmark. They have given Malaysia a bad name.

The directors of these two companies should just quit if they believe in good corporate governance and accountability.

Time to bring the bully to heel

If the rest of the world expects remorse and regret, they would have waited in vain; this is not the first time and probably not the last for such a display of arrogance on the part of Israel.

This is a country which clearly considers itself above international laws.

It is untouchable and no one can blame Israel for being smug when it has been let off with a pathetic watered down statement from the UN Security Council.

Thanks in part to Big Brother, the United States, which has made sure that the condemnation is not overly harsh.

There’s not even a squeak from President Barack Obama, who has conveniently made himself busy with the Louisiana oil spill.

As in previous violations of human rights or to be more precise, the simplest form of human decency, the Israelis see such a slap on the wrist as an encouragement to continue to disregard world opinion.

Earlier this year, a team of suspected Mossad agents murdered a political opponent in a hotel room in Dubai with all the agents using forged passports from other countries.

If it is prepared to kill a foreign opponent in foreign land, what is killing nine activists, quickly branded as violent anti-Israeli campaigners, in international waters.

During Christmas in 2008, Israeli staged a three-week assault on the Gaza Strip, killing over 1,400 people, of which a third of them were children.

The Gaza Strip is only 40.2km long and home to 1.5 million people, mainly Palestinians.

In 2006, the Israelis attacked Lebanon for over four weeks, killing over 1,000 people.

After the usual global condemnation, the world will move on.

It would be swiftly forgotten, including the attack on the flotilla, and the same action would take place again, possibly more killings. US officials would dust off their documents and issue the same sounding hypocritical condemnation of such aggression and persuade other countries to be soft to their Israeli ally.

It has been able to get away with it because the Arab countries, which circled Israel, are disunited and to be more blunt, corrupt and impotent.

For example, Egypt is a partner of the blockade which the aid activists were trying to break into with the flotilla.

Saudi Arabia is a strong ally of the United States, which has reciprocated with total silence on the state of affairs in this oil rich country despite its horrible record on human rights and non-existent democracy.

Kuwait gladly offers itself as a base for the American army while Iraq is essentially under US control.

So, despite the Arab rhetoric, the Israelis know they have powerful friends in Washington, DC who will back them in their justification – that they need to protect themselves against the sea of enemies.

What aids their cause is that Hamas and Hezbollah, which regularly send rockets to Israel, have terrorist affiliations and even the Arabs would admit that there are nutty Palestinians who target Israeli civilians.

These two groups are certainly no angels, let’s not kid ourselves. They are not Boy Scouts and are known to take civilians as hostages.

But the latest incident could cause the Israelis to lose some tolerant friends in the Muslim world. Turkey has diplomatic relations with Israel. As a secular nation, it is Israel’s longest standing and most strategically important Muslim friend.

Unfortunately, the ship which Israel attacked in international waters was flying the Turkey flag and nine of the victims were Turks, understandably sparking off a wave of protest in Istanbul and leading to Turkey recalling its ambassador from Israel.

In short, Israel treats its only friends with contempt. It doesn’t give two hoots what the world or its friends think of them.

Malaysia has no ties with Israel but allows Christian groups to travel to Jerusalem for organised pilgrimage with approval from the Immigration Department.

Six years ago, I travelled to Israel via Jordan where I had a first-hand look at how the Palestinians were treated by the Israelis.

Even the Malaysian group I was in was mocked at the check-point by the young army and immigration officers, making us wait until the check-point was about to close before letting us in.

As we prayed, they laughed at us. It was a reminder to us that Jews are not Christians and one should take a broader look that they are so-called God’s chosen people.

As I continued my journey, I saw how a father with a child was made to wait for hours by the roadside while the soldiers checked his identity. I found out this is how Palestinians, who travelled into Israel, were treated daily.

My guide, an Arab Christian, who spoke excellent Bahasa Indonesia, had nothing but contempt for the Israelis. His sentiment was shared by many young secular Israelis I met.

The moral of the story is this – this is not a Muslims versus Jews story. There are also Arab Christians and secular Jews who want an end to the hawkish Zionist way. Also, most Israelis are not Christians and unlikely to feel for the Christian cause.

There are only good and bad people. There can be no excuse for heavily armed commandos to kill the campaigners, even if their plans were to grab world attention rather than aid and peace. Now, that’s really bad.

Perilous to stay on snooze mode

The last is the most difficult for Najib as Barisan president to handle without being seen to be interfering in the affairs of component parties.

These are leaders who see themselves as indispensable and believe that their parties would crumble without their presence. They forget that we are all mere mortals and that life would still go on tomorrow with or without them.

So, again, we have heard Barisan leaders saying they would carry out post-mortems to find out why they were defeated in the Sibu by-election. Really, many ordinary Malaysians would be able to give the reasons without having lengthy meetings.

Some politicians seemed to be able to give an intelligent explanation on why Barisan lost immediately after the results were out, but we should ask them why they did not share those insights earlier.

Missing the pulse

The worn-out political strategy of announcing financial grants no longer work in urban constituencies because voters see this as a duty of the government.

As taxpayers, they expect the government to make these allocations regularly during the five-year term and not just on the eve of an election.

Politicians should not expect voters to be grateful when this money is given. Why should they be grateful when it’s the people’s money? Where does government money come from? It certainly didn’t drop from the sky.

Helping elderly or rural people with no identity cards after they have lived in Malay­sia for decades or, worse, were born here, is good but it is also a double-edged sword because it is reflective of the government’s inefficiency.

As senior MCA leader Datuk Seri Dr Fong Chan Onn said last week, some Malaysians have demanded to know why it seems to be easier for many Indonesians to get their documents to stay here while there are Malaysians who face numerous problems to get theirs.

If we look at the March 8 results, it looks like many of our political leaders missed the pulse of the urban electorate and increasingly the rural voters. They do not want their elected representatives to be merely “hardworking and can bring development” to their constituencies. Looking at potholes and clogged drains will not win elections now, it’s as simple as that.

Barisan leaders continued to use this approach in Sibu even when voters talked about integrity, credibility, accountability and justice.

They want to hear the leaders talk about stopping corruption, discriminatory policies and the racial divide. They want to hear more about 1Malaysia and how the government plans to see it work beyond slogan shouting.

Such political language should not be the monopoly of the opposition. Barisan leaders should also be talking this talk.

These voices have become increasingly loud and as political leaders, they must have heard and surely want to respond to these alienated voices.

With a general election in about two years’ time, Barisan politicians including those in Sabah and Sarawak had better get out of bed quickly. They cannot remain in snooze mode for much longer.

Harsh truths

They cannot take for granted that the postal votes would go to the Barisan. As evident since the March 8 polls, soldiers and policemen have voted for the opposition, as have orang asli voters whose constituencies have now become semi-urban or even urban, as in the Bukit Lanjan state constituency in Selangor, which is located near two shopping complexes.

But the point is this: it is not enough for Barisan politicians to know the reasons and not address them. Post-mortems by political parties often focus on how they lose in elections rather than why.

In the latest edition of the Economist magazine, it was reported about the defeated Labour party in the United Kingdom that “they have concentrated on Labour’s failure to convey its message rather than on its substantive mistakes” and “they have described the defeat rather than properly accounting for it”.

Labour, it said, “needs someone with the gumption to take the ritual post-election hypocrisy beyond platitudes and into harsh truths”.

The story seems the same. The defeated politicians have blamed everyone, from “ungrateful” voters to the media to “barbaric outsiders”, except themselves. Finding scapegoats and sacrificial lambs is an easier way out than to face harsh political realities.

Politicians can choose to ignore the changing political landscape at their own peril because ultimately, it would be the people who would decide. By then, it could be a political wake if these politicians do not wake up.

The race is far from over

Many Malaysians have been buying the euro, pound and dollar when it began to decline against our ringgit.

For parents, it means it has become a little cheaper to pay for education and certainly to travel to Europe and the United States.

For businessmen, the cost of imports has reduced and would surely make the balance sheet look better at the end of the financial year.

The ringgit has also performed very well against the Australian dollar, which must surely be welcomed by many of us.

Year to year, the ringgit has appreciated by about 6% against the US dollar, 19% against the euro and 16% compared with the pound.

It may still be early days as we have just finished the first quarter of the year, but the 10.1% economic growth has certainly been impressive. Not only are we out of the woods but the figure is the highest quarterly growth in a decade.

Rosy outlook

There are simple reasons for these figures – exports are up, external factors are improving, there is low inflation, foreign money is coming in again and there is rising interest rates.

It is important to note that many Malaysian companies have reported a strong performance for the first quarter.

Public consumption has risen to 6.3% from 0.7%, reflecting public confidence and certainly job security, thus the willingness to spend, which helps to generate the economy.

The 10.1% first quarter result has prompted analysts to relook the earlier forecast of 5.5% GDP growth rate – now they are talking of 6.6% and even 7.0% to 7.5%.

There was also another piece of good news – Malaysia has taken the 10th spot on the Switzerland-based IMD's World Competitiveness Yearbook for 2010, a result that will make it more attractive to foreign investors. We are up from 18th placing last year, which is certainly a big jump. The list measures Malaysia against 58 countries this year, from 57 nations last year.

With an index score of 87,228, Malaysia has joined the ranks of the most competitive countries in the world ranking with Singapore, Hong Kong, the United States, Australia, Switzerland, Sweden, Canada, Taiwan and Norway.

Malaysia also made big leaps in government and business efficiency. It was ranked ninth, against 19th last year, for government efficiency and fourth for business efficiency compared with 13th previously.

The economic performance and the infrastructure factors improved to eighth, against ninth last year, and 25th, from 26th position respectively.

The question now is whether Malaysia can sustain the momentum for the rest of the year. The second quarter could be less robust, given the impact of the slowing down of fiscal stimulus spending while there could be external factors beyond our control.

While we deserve a pat on the shoulder, it is still too early for celebrations as there are a few factors that we need to recognise.

No room for complacency

Foreign direct investments continue to be a concern, our stock market is still lacklustre and private investments have still not recovered.

Our neighbours – Indonesia and Vietnam – have become attractive because of their cheap labour, large market and lower cost of doing businesses. Singapore continues to attract a steady stream of professionals and skilled workers.

Malaysia is still struggling, unable to pull in the best talent with some groups still insisting on clinging to their protectionist attitude and not realising that we will be left behind in a strongly competitive world.

The world has changed and all the talk about race supremacy is inconsequential if we are nobodies on the world stage.

We have to break out of this mode and create an identity for Malaysia as a place for the best brain and talent if we are to become a high-income nation.

The “Malaysia Boleh” slogan has instilled a sense of hope and confidence but some of us have also become unrealistic, even arrogant, thinking that we are among the best when we have lagged behind in the region.

The global market place does not tolerate mediocrity and flip-flop decisions. We need to change fast and certainly there is much hope on the New Economic Model (NEM), which was unveiled in March, with more details being released.

The first quarter 10.1% figure should also not be a reason for anyone to believe that all is fine and that the old ways are working.

The Prime Minister has to tear down the old structures, put up new frameworks and push for the changes under the NEM. Well done and keep up the momentum, sir!

Shift gear to higher mode


ON THE BEAT:By WONG CHUN WAI

WE cannot go on being known as the region's importer of cheap and unskilled labour. Malaysia is unable to attract the best talent but what is worse is that we are in danger of becoming an exporter of professionals.

Malaysia is attracting workers from India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan and Myanmar but they are mostly kitchen helpers, cleaners and security guards.

The country needs doctors, engineers, accountants, scientists, academics, bankers and lawyers but unfortunately they are not coming. And worse, the local ones are migrating.

More than 300,000 Malaysians, mostly professionals, are said to have packed their bags and gone off to seek greener pastures overseas between March 2008 and August 2009. They cited better pay and job opportunities as the main reasons for going.

In a study done in 2000, it was estimated that there were over 700,000 Malaysians working overseas, with about 40% based in Singapore and 30% in the United States, Australia, New Zealand and Canada. The other 20% were in Asean countries and the rest in other parts of the world.

That was 10 years ago; what would the current figures show?

Unofficially, the number of Malaysians working overseas is said to be around one million with about 20,000 scientists, researchers and engineers working in the US and Australia.

We can be sure more Malaysians will leave. This is not peculiar only to Malaysia because even in Singapore, which is able to attract the best talents to the island republic, many Singaporeans are also looking for the exit door.

But the point is that Singapore has been more successful than Malaysia in attracting the talented to the country. Quality education, cleanliness, safety and transparency are surely the reasons why many, even Westerners, do not mind moving to Singapore.

There are clear reasons why we are struggling to keep our best at home. Better salaries and opportunities aside, the push factors include an increasingly stifling atmosphere with religious and racist elements becoming more prevalent.

Worse, they seem to be getting recognition from powerful political players who are quite eager to play the racial card, seeing only short-term gains and ignoring the future consequences.

These are the ones who have still not woken up to the new political landscape and are in danger of facing their political funeral if they persist in sticking to their politics of fear.

These are the ones who have dampened the mood in Malaysia, seemingly challenging Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak's 1Malaysia concept.

Issues like education, lack of high technology skills, meritocracy, low security standards and seemingly discriminatory policies cannot be ignored if we wish to be honest about dealing with the brain drain.

The quality of education, or the lack of it, will always be a major concern. Malaysian employers are struggling to recruit staff who are competent in English. It has reached a critical level, especially in media companies.

From secretaries who cannot send e-mail in proper English to managers who are unable to make a presentation in the language, the effect of our decision to abandon English in favour of the national language is taking its toll.

Recently, this writer decided to hire a Malaysian who had migrated to New Zealand as a trainer under a one-year contract. There were so many obstacles along the way that we finally gave up. It was easier hiring a foreign toilet cleaner.

For advertising companies, English newspapers and television stations, there is no option but to look at countries where lessons are still being taught in English.

The sentiment is that the quality of our education is no longer as good as it used to be. A distinction for English now is no longer as valuable as an A in the Lower Certificate of Education (LCE) for Form Three students and the then Malaysian Certificate of Education (MCE) for Fifth Formers in the 1970s.

We have created a generation of school-leavers and graduates with their string of As who believe they are tops in the world and are competent in English.

But the market thinks otherwise. The entry level for a top British university is only three As and they still produce top quality students.

Increasingly, affluent families are sending their children to private and international schools, where there is greater emphasis on English. In the case of the latter, the language used is entirely English.

For those aspiring to the highest level in higher education, they would look elsewhere and may not return unless our local universities are able to provide the same quality of research and opportunities for promotions on a fair basis.

The world has also become smaller due to better and cheaper air travel. It is common for Malaysians to work in Singapore or Hong Kong or Beijing but still keep Malaysia as their permanent address.

The statistics may show that they are still living in Malaysia but could be working elsewhere. The saving grace is that they are still Malaysians and so there's hope.

Najib has taken the right step – we have to move towards a high income nation if we are to take Malaysia to another height. The old ways can no longer work; and we cannot be stuck in the current mode.

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Where have all the Chinese gone?

For the Malays, the numbers will increase to over 670,000, up from 41.3% to 42%, in Penang, which will have a population of 1.6 million.

This is not exactly new. Last year, journalist Helen Ang wrote a well-researched article on the shrinking Chinese community, predicting that in another 25 years, the Chinese population will be down to a mere 18.6% of the population.

It is projected that while the annual growth of the bumiputra population in the next decade (2011-2021) will be at 1.98%, the corresponding Chinese growth will only be 0.73%.

Quoting researcher Saw Swee Hock, Ang wrote that by 2035, Malaysia will have 41 million people, of which 72.1% would be bumiputra.

The decline in the Chinese population is not just a phenomenon in urban areas in Penang, Kuala Lumpur, Ipoh and Seremban but also in rural Kelantan, Terengganu and Perlis.

The reasons are obvious – Chinese parents prefer to have only one or two children in a family that places great emphasis on education. Education certainly does not come cheap as many working parents do not expect or hope for government assistance.

Personal advancement is also high on the priorities of young Chinese and many are putting off marriage. The effects of such decisions have a serious bearing on fertility and family growth.

There is also perhaps lesser pressure on Chinese career women to settle down, unlike in other communities where parents sometimes take an active role in arranging marriages for their children.

There is also another disturbing trend – the Chinese are said to make up the largest num­ber of Malaysians who have migrated, with the number said to be over 300,000 in the last 18 months.

While it is easy to generalise that these Chinese migrated because of grievances with government policies, many could have decided to make these huge decisions because of economic rather than political reasons.

Many parents make the sacrifice of uprooting themselves, and sometimes settling for lower paid jobs, because they have calculated and found it cheaper for their children to have tertiary education in Australia.

This is not peculiar to the Chinese in Malay­sia alone, as it also happens in Singapore and Hong Kong. Even in China, career advancement and economic reasons would be the biggest considerations when the people decide to migrate.

But it cannot be denied that political reasons such as perceived injustices would be a push factor in shaping their decisions. Certain­ly in Malaysia, there are many Chinese who wish that the education system could be better and for a fairer deal and a more efficient and quicker economic pace.

The community works hard for the money. It is their entrepreneurial spirit that has helped ease the burden of the Government. They certainly are the biggest individual taxpayers in the country and we should be grateful for their contributions.

That is what the Chinese want, it’s that simple. They do not want the Government to owe them a living. They merely expect to be accorded respect and recognition. Surely they need not be reminded by petty-minded politicians to be grateful.

The majority of Chinese would stay in this country because they love Malaysia and they do not know any other country, just like their Malay and Indian brethren.

A week in a foreign land, even China, is enough and they will yearn to come home to where they were born and will certainly die in.

The sharp drop in the Chinese population would certainly have political, economic and social ramifications.

Chinese-based political parties would obviously need to re-think their strategies, if not the future of their membership base.

Far-sighted Chinese businessmen, seeing the changing demography of Malaysia, have already reassessed their customer base. Direct selling company Hai-O, for example, began a radical shift towards the growing Malay market by recruiting Malay members and rewarding them with trips to the Holy Land.

Hypermarkets are said to prefer locating their premises in Malay majority areas because of the huge consumption of their bigger families compared with smaller Chinese families. For sure, the Malay middle class now has stronger purchasing power.

Many Chinese restaurants, especially in Kuala Lumpur, have changed their menus to pork-free or halal to win a larger customer base.

For some, the factors of demand and supply have simply led to the growing degree of integration or pressure of assimilation.

There would be other challenges for the community, including having to improve on their social and language skills, as Malaysia evolves.

Certainly, it makes little practical sense for Chinese guilds and associations to reward married couples with small amounts of cash to have children in their attempt to reverse the trend.

It is better that greater attention be placed on improving the quality of the young in the community, to rise to the challenges of the changing world, and become good Malay­sians. Quite simply, it’s the quality that matters.

No reason to tick off voters


On The Beat
By WONG CHUN WAI

STAND-UP comic Harith Iskandar is the product of Malay-English parentage. He has acted in plays and movies speaking in Bahasa Malaysia and earns a living telling jokes, mostly in English with some Malay and Chinese words thrown in.

He has been telling his audiences that he plans to get married soon with a woman of Chinese-Indian parentage. “I do not know how our children will fill up those forms. I think they will have to tick every box – Malay, Chinese, Indian and lain-lain.”

The predominantly Chinese crowd in Petaling Jaya roared when he asked when Malaysians could stop having to state their racial background. Then he delivered his punch line: “But I am a Malaysian first.” His listeners were on their feet by then, which goes to show how much the issue had struck a chord with urban Malay­sia.

With certain politicians asking the Chinese community to be “grateful” for getting their citizenship and Perkasa asking the community to “repent”, it does not need a political scientist or a sociologist to explain why many Chinese voters have refused to vote for the Barisan Nasional.

Yet, the Chinese electorate has often been pro-establishment, except for 1969 and then in 2008. In 1999, when Umno suffered badly in the hands of PAS, it was the Chinese voters who came to the rescue of Umno candidates.

Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak retained his Pekan seat with a 241-vote majority against unknown PAS challenger Ramli Mohamed.

Ibrahim Ali, who was then a deputy minister, lost his Pasir Mas parliamentary seat and certainly his predominantly Malay voters rejected him. We don’t recall him telling off the mostly Malay voters for being ungrateful despite being benefactors of the New Econo­mic Policy.

The Chinese voters backed the Barisan so strongly that even the DAP’s Lim Kit Siang and Karpal Singh lost their parliamentary and state seats in Penang. The Chinese voters were angry at the DAP-PAS electoral pact and wanted to send a strong message of disapproval.

The irony was that then PAS Youth chief Datuk Mahfuz Omar – now a vice-president – said Umno was increasingly dependent on Chinese votes.

“This would be very dangerous to the Malay sovereignty,” he said.

Fast forward 2010, we are hearing such similar statements from the likes of Ibrahim Ali, who have forgotten or chosen to forget that the Chinese votes can help Umno.

When the MCA and Gerakan were weak, it would be the Umno votes that helped these two parties. That has been the way since the Alliance under Tunku Abdul Rahman, who was aware that the inclusion of non-Malays in the government would be crucial to its legitimacy as well as to keep intact the politics of consensus and accommodation.

The power-sharing concept has worked so well that now the Pakatan Rakyat has adopted it via a PKR, DAP and PAS coalition.

Immediately after the 1999 electoral bashing, Najib, who was an Umno vice-president, said the voting trend of Malays – who favoured the opposition – was a signal for Umno to work harder in ensuring the party and Barisan success in future.

Umno, he added, must correct its mistakes and look at itself before pointing fingers at others for the defeat. That, however, seems to be the pattern of some politicians after the Hulu Selangor by-election which the Barisan won. Imagine how these politicians would have reacted had the PKR won the seat.

But it is encouraging for Najib to ignore these hollow calls by going to the Chinese school in Rasa with a RM3mil cheque to construct a building.

Najib is obviously looking further ahead. The RM3mil is a political investment for the next general election, not just for Rasa but for every Chinese majority constituency, as his gesture went down strongly.

There is no need to tell the community to be grateful. After all, the Chinese and Indian communities helped build the nation and the bulk of income tax is said to be from the Chinese community.

A political party is just like any company. It has to sell its product by convincing its customers why it is better than its rivals. In meeting sales targets, no company picks its customers according to their race. Every customer should be treated like a king and every effort should be made to win his heart and mind. So it is incredulous that one would ask his customers to be “grateful” and to “repent” or, worse still, even ask what more the customers want.

The electorate, like the customers, expect their sales persons to be nice to them if they still want to do business. If these salesmen disappear when their services are needed or act arrogantly, then we can expect the company to be out of business.

All is not lost for the Barisan because the scenario has improved. Besides, Najib’s increasing favourable ratings and the economy – a crucial key indicator for the Chinese – has seen some positive outlook starting with a stronger ringgit.

The feel good factor seems to be coming around and while the government’s expectations for the GDP growth is between 4.5% and 5.5%, others believe that 6.6% is possible.

Local companies have reported better market confidence in the first quarter results. In fact, monthly car sales reportedly recovered from a low of 33,000 in October 2008 to an average of 42,000 per month over the last six months.

The transformation plans would certainly have an impact on the country’s economy and the political scenario.

There is no need for anyone to play the racial card and Umno should distance itself from groups or individuals fanning communal sentiments. The fact that the MCA and the MIC put the word “Malaysian” first when they were formed is sufficient proof of their allegiance to this country.

Strangely, comedians like Harith are making sense while our politicians have become comics instead, often with their foot in their mouth.

Sugar, spice and everything nice…

A largely forgotten place – reporters have to ask how they could get there and where they could find accommodation – the by-election has turned it into a hotly-contested ground with politicians from both sides of the divide making all kinds of promises to the folks there.

If in the past, pledges of development allocations were made only by Barisan Nasional, this time Pakatan Rakyat was also able to do the same because the Selangor state government is under the opposition.

There was even a promise of securing Unesco Heritage recognition for Hulu Selangor from the Pakatan, which would have probably got Penangites and Malaccans questioning whether the place has enough credentials to apply for such status.

But this is an election and politicians must promise the sky, if not heaven, to lock in the votes to ensure a victory.

On Friday, the forgotten Felda settlers in Sungai Buaya received RM50,000 each from the sale of land for development 15 years ago. The money was handed to them by the Prime Minister.

Not to be outdone, the Selangor Mentri Besar promised to acquire the land if the federal government failed to resolve the issue.

It is said that the Felda settlers make up a huge chunk of the 35,000 Malay voters and they are likely to determine the results today.

For the Chinese voters, who are perceived to be anti-establishment in the polls, MCA president Datuk Seri Dr Chua Soi Lek has announced that Chinese independent school students are now eligible to apply for National Higher Education Corporation (PTPTN) loans.

It’s a big deal as education is an important issue for the Chinese community, and the announcement was in fact on the front pages of Chinese dailies.

The fight for the 16,891 Chinese voters was bitter as the PKR’s Zaid Ibrahim is banking on this segment to pull him through.

Zaid was probably picked because he is regarded as a liberal, never mind if he’s doubted by some of the Malay voters. But he would probably be liked by the Chinese voters.

He has admitted to owning racehorses but does not gamble. The Chinese voters would probably not care about this, but it would be challenged by Muslim voters.

After all, horses for equestrian purposes are quite different from racehorses, as Tun Dr Mahathir could not resist pointing out in his campaign.

The Barisan’s P. Kamalanathan also found himself in a spot when questions were raised if he had actually studied in Australia. Then it was revealed that he was a registered voter in Sungai Siput, Perak, while Zaid, a former Kota Baru MP, tried to impress on voters that he had been staying in Selangor for decades. Zaid still remains a registered voter in Kota Baru and is thus unable to vote today.

In the case of the Indians, businessman Tan Sri G. Gnanalingam appeared to say he had plans to steer Maika Holdings Bhd out of troubled waters after 26 years.

There seems to be something for everybody and we hope someone is keeping track of these promises.

Let’s hope there isn’t any caveat attached because those who made the promises must deliver them regardless of the outcome.

In a by-election, politicians seem to be extra nice and extra tolerant. Regardless of whether it’s a banner or a poster or a letter, there seems to be no nationalistic hang-up over the choice of language used.

At their ceramah, politicians accorded recognition to the two communities for their valuable contribution to the country’s economy. There were no recalcitrant politicians reminding them to be grateful and thankful for being citizens of Malaysia. How we wish there’s a by-election every day so that our politicians can behave better.

Malay rights champion Datuk Ibrahim Ali of Perkasa was campaigning for Kamala­nathan, an Indian, and not Zaid Ibrahim. Of course, he had to explain at his ceramah why he wasn’t insisting on a Malay this time. But he’s a seasoned politician with answers for every nasty question.

Datuk Nik Abdul Aziz Nik Mat, the spiritual leader of PAS, was hugging Zaid, who was seen wearing a kopiah in his meeting with the Kelantan Mentri Besar. Side-stepping media questions on Zaid’s alleged lifestyle, Nik Aziz brushed off these attacks as “personal and childish”.

Next question, please. None? Thank you, the MB is busy and he has to leave, thank you, ladies and gentlemen of the press.

Politics isn’t dirty, it’s the people who make it dirty, some say.

In Hulu Selangor, it was almost the best of the worst politics where nothing was sacred.

Malaysians can’t be faulted if they assumed Dr Mahathir justified these tactics with the explanation that all is fair in war.

From doctored pictures of Zaid and alleged pictures of family members of Barisan leaders to caricatures attacking Barisan personalities, both sides are guilty of using dirty tactics, but the blame is being shifted to the media and bloggers.

Next stop – Sibu. The hotels and resthouses there are all fully booked already. There will be more promises and more goodies for sure.

Treat the verbal diarrhoea

MALAYSIA is spending millions of ringgit trying to repair its image overseas but plenty of taxpayers’ money can be saved if our politicians exercise some self-restraint with their statements.

The foot-in-the-mouth disease seems to be rampant and many of us wonder why they even make these statements in the first place.

We are talking about politicians from both sides of the political divide whose astounding statements often make world headlines for the wrong reasons. Little do they realise the serious implications involved, including loss of foreign direct investments.

Ordinary Malaysians travelling overseas are often confronted with questions about such events that are widely reported, putting us in a tight spot and having to explain the circumstances behind these cases.

In an attempt to keep the national flag flying and national pride intact, we often explain that they should not read too much into these news reports.

But deep in our hearts, we all wish that our politicians would stop shooting themselves in the foot and spare us from these costly international embarrassments.

Unwanted publicity

At the Asia News Network Editors Meeting in Beijing recently, this writer was asked by a conference sponsor from Europe about an issue that was being highlighted in Hong Kong. This was the decision by the Home Ministry to relax the rules on gay characters in local films.

The move included allowing local movies to have gay characters as long as they repented and understood the consequences of their sexual preferences.

This is a huge step forward in Malaysia for local film makers, especially when the Govern­ment has to deal with conservative and religious groups like Perkasa, Jakim and PAS.

But the reports about the decision and a proposal by Malay producers to shoot the country’s first gay-themed movie made headlines from Hong Kong to the United States. As part of the background story, Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim’s ongoing sodomy trial was included.

When Kartika Sari Dewi Shukarnor was ordered to be caned six times by the Kuantan Syariah Court last year for consuming beer at a hotel in 2008, she was page one story in the United States and Europe.

Taking a taxi ride in London after the international media broke the story, this writer spent the entire trip explaining the case and pointing out the likelihood of the punishment not being meted out. She ended up doing community service but I am sure news of this would have been just a small item, if it was reported at all.

It was the same with the case involving three women being caned after they were found guilty of having illicit sex. Was there even a need to make this known in the first place?

It created a controversy that led to the Prime Minister being questioned about it at every business meeting with investors and journalists.

But that’s history now and we should learn from these incidents.

It’s the same with PAS politicians who love to issue statements protesting against concerts being held in Kuala Lumpur.

From Avril Lavinge’s to Beyonce’s concerts, their attempts to stop these shows became world news and Tourism Malaysia officials must have cringed as they watched the results of their hard work being torn down across Europe because of these narrow-minded politicians.

Likewise, although the Red Shirts’ protests are only confined to a small part of Bangkok, the dramatic reports portray the whole country being plunged into political chaos and have caused serious losses in tourism dollars for Thailand.

There is a perception that Malaysia is not progressive, which runs contrary to Tourism Malaysia’s multi-ethnic sell.

Image is everything. With Malaysia losing its attractiveness, the Government is renewing strategies to fight back but all this will be in vain if our politicians and officials keep up with their verbal diarrhoea.

They must understand the damage inflicted on Malaysia’s image each time they utter some outrageous remarks.

Last week, the Terengganu Mentri Besar said Pulau Redang should be turned into an exclusive island for the rich and famous.

It is the sort of announcement that would make Malaysians angry, and even if he meant well, we now have to deal with the repercussions.

International public relations do not come cheap. We would have read that Malaysia has paid RM77mil to Apco Worldwide for its work at government and country levels.

Local public relations agencies would surely be outraged by the huge fees paid to Apco but at the same time, we have to admit that Malaysian agencies would not have the connections to open doors in the United States and Europe.

From the powerful lawmakers to the media, we need to get these international personalities on our side.

Malaysian lawmakers hate the media for comparing them with their Singaporean counterparts. No doubt, the Singaporeans are a journalist’s nightmare but their lack of colour and news value also keep them away from unwanted controversies.

They would never make premature announcements, for example, and would only make their decisions public after taking into account the implications and putting in place the mechanism to make them work.

From their flip-flop announcements and silly remarks to going on about outdated political issues that should have been buried in the 1950s, it’s time our lawmakers stop putting their foot in their mouth.