Buzz Sociopolitics Malaysia: Dear Dr. Mahathir Mohamad

Dear Dr. Mahathir Mohamad

January 31, 2012

Open Letter to Dr Mahathir Mohamad

by Mohd Ikhram Merican

January 30, 2012

Dear Tun Dr M,

Many years ago, in 1986 or '87, we can't recollect a exact year, we had a instruct of meeting we in a private family dinner. You were a guest of honour as well as we was a really immature boy, excited to be in a closeness of your soaring presence. we had most things we longed for to contend to we as well as when we walked up to where we were seated we could only manage a single rhetorical question.

You were really kind. Although in a surrounded by of conversation with my uncles, we stopped as well as gave me, a small boy, a few mins of your time. we spoke to a budding minister. It was my two mins of fame.

For a improved partial of my hold up we have been a Prime Minister of Malaysia. In all those years, we saw we as a best Prime Minister Malaysia has ever had. Sadly, I'm not so sure anymore. we do not despise we or loathe we though we question your motive for a good most things.

There have been so most issues which we would like to raise with you. It is near unfit to cover all here though let me begin with your latest blog post patrician "Kaitan Bangsa Dengan Bisnes". The Malaysian Insider reported this with a headline, "Dr M: Scrapping race-based policies will lead to chaos."

I find it tough to hold which scrapping race-based policies will lead to chaos. The standing quo is more unpropitious to a republic in a prolonged run. The existing race-based policies have finished small to urge a predicament of a Malays. In fact it has created a category order in between a Malay haves as well as have-nots. This WILL split a Malays since severe category inequalities have caused revolutions, even in unaccompanied! nations .

You hold not everybody has equal capabilities as well as a small people must be given special care in commercial operation as well as alternative areas formed on their race. This is an argument which conjunction creates clarity nor justifies special considerations. Let me elaborate. Would we allow an determined surgeon to turn a single around special considerations, even if he is innately bad at it? And would we trust your hold up under a blade with this person? This is what we propose.

Allow me to yield a further example. UiTM was founded in 1956 (as Dewan Latihan Rida) to facilitate a creation of Bumiputera professionals. Fifty-six years later, it ranks between a final in a QS World University Rankings. While it is a largest university in Malaysia, as well as has admittedly created most graduates, it has finished small to emanate world-class professionals.

The IITs of India were created with similar ideals to UiTM. The initial IIT was recognized in 1950, a mere 6 years before UiTM. In a same QS World University Rankings, IIT Delhi ranks in a top 200. The IITs have been internationally recognized for engineering as well as record with entrance exams which have been so tough, possibilities have make use of of Ivy League universities as a fall back in case they do not have a cut. Bill Gates has been quoted as saying: "And it's tough to consider of anything like IIT anywhere in a world. It is a really unique institution."

This happens when we pursue meritocracy. In your blog post we ask if it is true which race care in commercial operation vis-a-vis a NEP has mutilated mercantile growth. My answer is, approbation it has. The NEP's original goal was noble though it has turn a apparatus to clear as well as facilitate nepotism, cronyism and, contrary to a original purpose, inequality. The nation's resources have been unscrupulously plundered to good cronies NOT a usual man, be he Bumiputera or not. Yes, we've had a good run under your stewardship though a fundamentals have been h! indering us from a sort of progress which Singapore enjoys. In short, a complement which does not promote as well as reward performance is innately flawed. If we need proof, demeanour at Malaysia Airlines.

I allude to a book "Winning in Asia" by Peter J. Williamson (Harvard Business Press):

"Those Bumiputera companies with a one after another faith on favoured diagnosis as well as internal connectors as well as but a broader set of rival advantages have been incompetent to successfully enhance internationally. To grow, they have therefore diversified opposite industries within their home country, often resulting in a loss of concentration as well as an inability to set up deep operational cunning in sold businesses."

And so again, yes, a NEP has mutilated mercantile growth. You contend which when a placement of resources is disparate in between a races, there is a tall probability of animosity in between a poorer as well as richer races. After 40 years of implementation, as well as abandoned of poignant success, do not we consider there is a critical problem with a NEP as a apparatus to overpass a mercantile gap? Furthermore, a Malays, Chinese, as well as Indians have not been at any other's throats during this period. In fact, it is a ruling coalition which regularly stokes racial fire. The race card has been played to a hilt as well as it is now a misnomer for mercantile as well as social stability. we instruct we had more faith in us as well as a ability to co-exist.

Progress is hindered by fear. It is a fright of change, fright of any other, fright of betrayal, fright of riots, fright of racial tragedy as well as fright of so most alternative things which keep us from progressing. Amplifying a fears by attributing wrong causes to effects is not going to help with republic building. we hold which a socio-economic order can be closed through prudent government of a economy, a world-class education system, observance of a Rule of Law, as well as nation-building! policie s. we ask which we have make use of of your influence to condemn corruption, nepotism as well as cronyism. This is a real problem which undermines Malaysia as well as stifles a growth. malaysia-today.net