By: SELVARAJA SOMIAH MUSA AMAN will be behind in a saddle even after a 13th General Election which is approaching anytime now. As he returns to Sabah, a third term, as a longest serving Chief Minister of Sabah, as good as who has broken a 9 years jinx.
After generating a hope for a better for a average man upon a street, you am reminded of what a former ChiefMinister of Penang a distinguished alloy a domestic strategist par value a late Tun Dr Lim Chong Eu who had once told my late father as good as me when you visited him after he lost a 1990 Padang Kota state seat to Lim Kit Siang of DAP.
As Chief Minister of Penang given 1969, he was means to generate a expansion rate of 10 per cent as good as more, brought in tip Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in Billions of US$ as good as thousands ofjobs were combined when he brought in large name electronic multinationals similar to Intel, Motorola as good as many more. "And still people voted me out," he acknowledged.
"It was a bold awakening for me. you afterwards realised which a tall economic rate of expansion is no indicator of human development."
Dr Lim Chong Eu afterwards gave me a noted gem: "We were wrongly advised which you should take caring of GDP as good as it will automatically take caring of civic poverty. This is not correct. We need to take caring of misery as good as it will automatically take caring of economic growth".
This is exactly what Musa Aman did. And loyal to what Tun Dr Lim Chong Eu ha! d said, people of Sabah had voted Musa Aman behind to energy in 2008 with almost 98.33% success, winning 59 out of a 60 seats contested. Musa Aman invested in a people, as good as a people paid back.
A tall expansion rate of 5 per cent in in between 2004 as good as 2008 is not a reason because Musa Aman had been voted behind in 2008. Restoring a right to freedom as good as great governance was positively a first step. Simultaneously he followed it up with assorted expansion initiatives, which mainline economists would wrongly systematise as populist measures.
Providing free milk, food supplements, textbooks, uniforms, boots to school-going children, as good as reserving seats for women in JKKK as good as local bodies was part of a social engineering which he undertook. Program Pembangunan Rakyat Termiskin (PPRT), was introduced to assist a hardcore poor.
The programme determined a register upon a form of hardcore bad households as good as contained a package of projects tailored to meet their specific needs, such as augmenting their employability as good as income, better housing as good as educational assistance.
Direct benefit was given to a hardcore bad who were disabled as good as aged. In addition, a hardcore bad were supposing with interest-free loans to purchase shares in a section trust scheme (ASB-PPRT) so which a dividends can supplement their income. With a foundations right away good laid out, a plea Musa Aman faces in his third tenure are not usually formidable though if attempted in a some-more realistic as good as holistic demeanour can even chart out a new future for a country.
Unlike many other domestic leaders, you found Musa Aman to be some-more receptive as good as sensitive to a needs of a bad as good as marginalised. While a Sabah outcome a! bundantl y demonstrates his willingness to improve a lot of a rank as well as file mainly a natives.
And a 2012 state bill amounting to RM4.048 billion a highest as good as biggest bill ever allocated as good as announced in a story of Sabah Government is a transparent e.g. which Musa Aman cares for Sabahans.
With 80 per cent of a population involved in farming, Sabah's future revolves around agriculture. Except for rice which is still imported,Sabah is trying to achieve confidence in food prolongation as good as produces surplus vegetables both highland as good as bottom land vegetables, surplus of poultry as good as eggs, surplus of sea fish, surplusof milk, but, a fact remains which a State still has a large suit of population which is bad as good as there is still poverty.
The plea thus is upon how to move a synergy in in between cultivation as good as food security; upon how to turn cultivation economically as good as ecologically tolerable in a demeanour which it does not lead farmers in distress to sell off their land to 'outsiders' as good as turn landless as good as at a same time provide food as good as nourishment for a masses. A full of illness cultivation is also a first line of defence against poverty.
Sabah thus needs to discard a Green Revolution approach. It has to stop poisoning a soils, contaminating a H2O bodies as good as a sourroundings as good as pushing some-more as good as some-more farmers out of agriculture.
Sabah needs to shun a industrial indication of plantation growth, as good as set up an ecologically tolerable tillage indication driven by a futuristic vision. Agriculture has to be re-designed as good as related with a own normal time-tested public placement complement where a communities have been in control as good as have manag! ed a foo d needs in a kampong.
Instead of chemical fertilisers, vermi-composting as a cottage attention has to be encouraged upon a large scale. This will revive soil health, increase stand productivity, as good as reduce greenhouse gas emissions. It will also generate some-more rural employment.
Chemical pesticides need to be eliminated on top of a so expensive, you know you was in this attention in a past. Sabah can learn from a 'Non-Pesticides Management' complement of cultivation from Indonesia as good as Thailand. No chemical pesticides are applied in over 50,000 hectares in Indonesia, as good as yet a stand yields are very high.
Driven by a increasingly successful embracing a cause by farmers, Indonesia plans to lift a area underneath no-pesticides cultivation to half-million hectares by a year 2014. If this can happen in Indonesia, there is no reason because Sabah cannot learn from a success.
Sabah can emanate story by display a expansion trail which is not usually tolerable in a long-run though also brings prosperity as good as complacency to a masses. Musa Aman can certainly emanate story by display a world what loyal expansion means. And his time starts now.
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