In search of good governance
In search of good governance
Reinventing what government is in Malaysia, and what it means to Malaysians.
It doesn’t matter whether the government is reformist or Islam-centric, as long there is good governance.
Good governance means different things to different people, but the bottom-line must be about making the best use of resources to produce outcomes that meet the needs of society.
This could mean steering towards a secular and inclusive model of government.
This would assist any government that is undertaking daily work and planning for future needs and requirements.
There are a number of models that can be looked at. Türkiye, Indonesia and even Thailand, have secular government models.
These countries balance their respective state religions with the demands of secular government.
Malaysia must have a leader who can get everyone on board to support project Malaysia.
History has shown this is not an easy feat. Malaysia is situated within the Nusantara archipelago, and its society still strongly reflects this.
The Malay sultanates are a major part of this, as are the Straits Settlements of Penang and Melaka. Sabah and Sarawak have their own cultural, social and political trajectories, but together, they make up what Malaysia is today.
This is Malaysia’s reality and the government must reflect this.
Under such a paradigm, federal-state relations are critical and must be rebalanced after 60 years of purposeful federal government power grabbing.
The Malaysia Agreement 1963 (MA63) must be regenerated into a completely new agreement to reflect the aspirations of Sabah and Sarawak today.
The other states must also be granted space to become more assertive, reflecting their own histories, cultures and social customs today.
The federal government will then become a facilitator of a true federal system, supporting rather than eroding state sovereignties.
This will require a restudy of Malaysian governomics to slim down and revitalise the federal and state administrations effectively.
At 1:19, Malaysia has the world’s highest ratio of civil servants to total population.
Next is South Korea at 1:44, followed by Japan at 1:46, Taiwan at 1:61, Singapore at 1:65, the US at 1:114 and the UK at 1:133.
Malaysia has 1.7 million civil servants for a population of 32 million. The UK has 500,000 civil servants for a population of 67 million people.
There is a lot Malaysia can do to streamline the government and drastically cut the size of the federal budget to bring back surpluses, and have more funds to eradicate poverty, enhance the quality of healthcare and education, and pay off public debt, which will result in lower taxes in the future.
Malaysians want an empathetic government.
The St Regis Hotel assault, the Selangor demand-responsive transit issue, the Kampung Sri Makmur demolition, rising utility prices and increasing press censorship appear arrogant to a population still struggling from effects of the Covid-19 era pandemic and rising grocery prices.
Many are disappointed that a government incorporating Pakatan Harapan should be just as arrogant as previous Barisan Nasional governments.
Finally, Malaysia must have a shared vision. This was part of the reason the Dr Mahathir Mohamad government was successful in the 1980s and 90s.
Wawasan 2020 became a shared vision, which Malaysians at the time identified with. The Madani branding has not created the same effect.
This is something for the current government to consider, the creation of a shared vision that Malaysians can identify with and share ownership.
Originally published in FMT 13th June 2024.
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Except for only two things, Malaysia does not need to be "re-invented".
Firstly, the monkeys need to go back to the factories to be re-designed and fitted with actual quality working brains. Failing that, the sane can only wait for robots to replace the fcuking cave-dwelling, tree-swinging excessively moronic smug and ignorant monkeys.
Thankfully, China will most likely fulfill the role and supply replacement populations that work, or at least walk the talk. Our middlemen should not procure the robots from Yankistan, you don't want our replacements to walk, wander around, talk or freeze or break down like fcuking Genocide Joe.
Secondly, and more importantly, Malaysia will only work when and where there is no Malaysia. The "East" and "West Pakistan", or rather, Gaza (Sarawak), West Bank (Sabah) and freaking fascist Israel (that sh*th*le g*d-given patch of promised soil stolen from the Orange Aslis) just don't and can't work together.
"Malaysia" is the typical unworkable colonial project of the shrinking Brit empire that was once held together by sheer brute force, bless them unwashed limeys some of our slave monkeys still want to religiously scuk the sh*th*les of.
The minds of the damn natives of both sides of the colonial invention "Malaysia" are farther apart than the long distance between the two patches of land. For a start, the "Malays" of the two sides are totally different in intelligence, temperament, and very likely even race.
For instance, the "Malays" of Sarawak and Sabah are still learning to be noisy and aggressive like their supposed "elder bros and cousins" of the Malayan "Malay" primal pack.
Take note the "Malay" race is itself an invention of the "white" uncles of some Asians, you can't really crawl in and out of caves and swing from trees merrily, and leave call cards identifying yourself as "Malay" Proton sales executive. There is no such "race".
Even so, our "Malays" are still busy inventing themselves, the "language" is still a rojak of everybody elses' gutteral, gibberish, patois, pidgin, chopsuey, strange tongues, and chicken liver pate.
Those monkeys, barring Dear Mullah Anwar and his sermons on Malaysia leading the world in "ethical global governance", have far to go, oceans to cross, get their own act right, have trances in deep reflections about themselves first before crossing the giant divide of the foreign-controlled South China Sea (or north North Kalimantan Sea), to preach and humour the damn natives.
The moron monkeys of "West Pakistan" always mistake the good nature and welcoming spirit of those in Gaza and the West Bank as humiliating submission and a subjugating conquest. Yes, all when a few Pinoy pirates could hold up our whole Bolehland army!
So, the takeaway here is not a few pieces of free fried chicken, it is a lay off Sarawak and Sabah, and a resounding fcuk off from Borneo.
Remember the new Indon capital is right next door, so, actually, is China - and its (our?) waters, there's more to look forward to those than the Caveman's Kingdom of Malaya. Malaya can always have a good shag with Singapore.
So, consider when you make your grand plans, there's no working "Malaysia", "Malaysia" is done fer, kaput! Just think about, make grand talks just for Malaya, etc. thinking just about Malaya would be more than enough for the monkeys there to further damage their tiny heads, thank you!
Now quit thinking about "Malaysia", it's "future", "governance" and all those brown stuff, hop along, buy yourself a nice robot to bugger, and fcuk off!
Btw, them Chinese robots would be more superior race to quite a handful of you, so set your robots to "low" or "no" intelligence. And "lowest" power if you don't want the Chinese robot to shag you stupid and upside down - and then break down with you stuck.
And get your Chinese friends to translate only the Chinese in those manuals with impossible English. Or the robots will fcuk you more than stupid and upside down...
A Malay centric government does not have the wherewithal of good governance. It is submerged in race and religion and cannot see anything other than these 2 issues. Good governance transcends these 2 issues and is not possible as long as you have a Malay centric government. For eg. PMX is decrying the lack of sharia compliant AI!! Is there a sharia compliant AI? But he talks as if there is and wants people to do it. All he talks about is Islam and more Islam. Now he is bringing in a radical muslim preacher from UK who is well known for his bellicose sermons. This is the opposite of good governance.