They say Malay unity is at it's lowest!. How do you measure 'unity'? What kind of 'yard-stick' do you use?
Firstly, what is unity? Well, if you check in the net and it says, "oneness: the quality of being united into one".
People gets divided mainly by economic reasons. Separation of unity gets more obvious when hereditary comes into the picture. Hereditary is simply, having title or possession through inheritance or by reason of birth.
To me, hereditary is more of a 'disease' kind of thing. To make matters worst we have mixed marriages, western culture and lifestyle, elite societies etc which also leads to the separation of unity.
So, how do you 'reduce' this separation gap as far as unity is concerned? I've picked 3 most popular suggestions;
1. 'banyakkan berjema'ah di surau-surau dan di masjid-masjid' - everybody is equal
2. 'banyakkan mengerjakan ibadah haji & umrah' - every living soul is equal
3. 'parti politik harus menjamin ketuanan melayu' - which political party? UMNO?
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9 comments:
Good one bro,
Even the late Tan Sri P Ramlee knows about UMNO politics.
Pg.
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Alvin
Hi bro
TQ for coming, we will meet sometimes
All the best to you
DatOK ZeQ
Kelana Jaya, Selangor
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Salam,
Alhamdulilah,
Satu penulisan yang ringkas, jelas and punyai nasihat baik.
Salam takzim.
Kerajaan Rakyat.
Cadangan yang baik... berjemaah di Mesjid...
bro,
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alvin
Hi bro
Lama tak menulis??
Salam Blog
DatOK ZeQ
Kelana Jaya, Selangor
Bro,
Sudah lama tarak article baru?
I'm spreading the below article from The Edge Daily which I find most revealing. Simple and makes sense. Please read and let's all return back to using our minds (instead of just "Saya sokong", "Saya sokong", justice and righteousness.
Separate politics from economic management
By R B Bhattacharjee
Recent events involving leaders on both sides of the political divide are uncanny enough to stop people in their tracks. The first-ever US presidential-style debate between Pakatan Rakyat (PR) leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim and Information Minister Datuk Shabery Cheek last Wednesday, that had the startling PR theme “If we form the government today, we'll reduce the oil price tomorrow”, suggests an impatience on the opposition coalition's part to take over the helm of the nation. The signal that change may be in the air is surely not lost on the business community too.
The next day, further confirmation that all is not well in the political sphere came when Anwar was arrested by police in response to a sodomy report lodged by a former party volunteer. More precisely, the SWAT-style interception of Anwar's car by balaclava-clad police personnel in a convoy is not exactly the usual reaction to a sexual offence report. The strenuous explanations of the Home Minister and a senior police official, and the ruckus in Parliament over the arrest, all make the political point too obvious.
These developments, and many lesser tremors over the past several weeks, have generated a cloud of uncertainty over the political landscape. The message it bears for business is “wait and see”.
Naturally, therefore, Malaysia has been pushed to the side of investors' radar screens, together with Thailand, which is in the midst of political churn as well.
One weakness in the current governance environment in Malaysia is the overly powerful effect of political developments on the conduct of economic affairs. This is to be expected due to the unbroken hold that the same political parties have had over the federal government since Independence five decades ago. Now, however, the time has come for the administration to be separated from the economic management of the country. This is a journey towards good governance that we have to take. There are lessons in this regard that can be drawn from the experience of our neighbours.
During the 21 years of Ferdinand Marcos' rule over the Philippines, more schools, hospitals and infrastructure were built than in the tenure of the nine presidents who preceded him. Much of this was accomplished through hundreds of millions of dollars in aid from the US, which Marcos and his cronies unabashedly tapped for personal gain. The extent of the kleptocracy was so huge that till today no one is able to accurately estimate how many billions have been salted away.
The excesses of the Marcos regime finally led to his overthrow in the spectacular People's Power uprising of 1986. Ironically, after the dictator was deposed, the political situation became highly fractious. Not surprisingly, some became nostalgic for the orderly if heavy-handed government of his era, when the citizenry was law-abiding and disciplined.
Since the March 8 general election, Malaysia has entered a new phase of democracy that is tending to become rather turbulent. While there is a vast difference between the Philippines, which Marcos had to flee, and the political climate in Malaysia today, it is clear that the Barisan Nasional (BN) government is being challenged in unprecedented ways. The contest for the people's support between the BN and the nascent PR has led to exposés involving land deals to charges of questionable use of representatives' allocations and even an attempt to file a no-confidence motion against the prime minister and his government.
Clearly, this is a time for some honest reckoning to take place.
When economic mismanagement left the Filipinos with empty rice pots, they began to look overseas for jobs and incomes that their government had failed to provide. The well-educated and urbane Filipina domestic maids who are a familiar feature in many Malaysian households are testimony to this failure of development to meet the people's basic right to a livelihood.
The Philippines is also the largest supplier of maritime crew in the world, partly because a Filipino seaman can earn up to 500 times his local wages if he manages to get out of his country. So powerful is this incentive that impoverished rural youth go to great lengths to secure a certificate from the many maritime training centres in the Philippines.
However, shipping lines that employ these “instant” crew have found that their skills are extremely suspect, resulting in a high rate of accidents and indiscipline among them. Indeed, the credentials are so dodgy that international liners have set up maritime institutes of their own in the Philippines to ensure that their graduates measure up to the required standards.
Malaysia appears to be a long way from such a situation, but if its people are not to land in the same boat one day, governance authorities in both the public and private sectors need to uphold a strict code of accountability.
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