Richard Dorall
Dear RPK, you refer to your article "The NONs missed a vessel twenty years ago" dated March 4, 2012. you do not know what multi-ethnic conference hold twenty years ago upon a NEP which you have been referring to? you do know which Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad allocated in 1989 some 150-Malaysians (or which you was one) representing all sectors of Malaysian society, all political parties together with a opposition as good as from a BN, polite multitude organisations, NGOs, academics, etc, which was called theMajlis Perundingan Ekonomi Negaraor MAPEN (National Economic Consultative Council or NECC) to debate during a back of sealed doors during a PWTC a New Economic Policy (launched in 1970, as good as due to finish in 1990), as good as to propose a alternative.
Members of MAPEN (NECC) certainly interpreted what you were you do as engaging in a third book of theMalaysian Social Contract(the first prior to independence, a second deliberated by a consultative council set up in a evident issue of a May 13, 1969 incident, as good as which gave climb to a New Economic Policy, as good as now a third during a finish of a NEP 20-year period).
The MAPEN (NECC) deliberated for longer than creatively programmed by Government, as good as it submitted to Mahathir's Government (the cabinet) a long request detailing a accord concluded upon by all parties involved in a consultation, proposing a New Development Policy to replace a NEP which all concluded had ended a course. Mathathir, as you may good know, used a withdrawal of a couple of members of MAPEN (including, if my memory serves me correctly, a DAP as good as some alternative "oppositio! nists" w ho were acting, they said, upon "principle") to interpretation which he need not reside by all a MAPEN declarations as laid out in a notation document, as good as he voiced his own chronicle of a post-NEP Government process which he called "Wawasan 2020".
you wish to point out thatALL a ruling government parties, as good as their supporters, concluded with a accord request worked out by MAPEN, as good as they so rigourously indicated their acceptance of those proposals. The Malaysia Politics commission was headed by Abdullah Badawi, as good as he was upon a drafting committee which worked upon a final MAPEN request as good as a proposals. The commission representing Malaysia Politics (including, among others, Badawi, Sharizat, Mr bow-tie, Shahidan) supposed a concede request as good as a due post-NEP Development Policy. So did everyone else.
MAPEN deliberations during a back of sealed doors you were told would be giveaway from a laws of sedition, etc, as good as members were encouraged to openly verbalise their minds during a back of those sealed doors, but not to do so outside. It was fast evident to all of us, a vital complaint was in between those representing (or so they claimed) Malay interests, as good as what these persons declared were a target of their venom, "the Chinese".
you cannot re-call any statements made during a MAPEN which can be construed as having been destined some-more broadly during a "Non-Malays," meaning a Chinese, Indians as good as others. In fact, when it became clear which a deliberations were starting to be dominated by a Malay-Chinese dialectic, as good as which alternative Non-Malays were not a "target," a non-Malay, non-Chinese delegations (including myself) motionless to let a two Gajah in a room quarrel it out, whilst we, a mousedeers, would lay by in relative earthy safety as good as wait.
The Chinese, too, knew what was starting on, as good as ! adopted Muhammad Ali's famous rope-a-dope strategy. They as well sat by, as good as let a extremists in Malaysia Politics as good as a ancillary organisations talk, as good as talk, as good as talkad infinitum, until they literally burnt themselves out. The "moderate" Malay voices, of which there were many, also did likewise, as good as bided their time, by vouchsafing a "extremists" shout-out what they wanted, until these assertive persons got fed up of hearing themselves repeat their gasping similar to some damaged phonograph record.
you was sitting right subsequent to a single of a most vocal of these "Malay extremists." you am not starting to repeat what he said. But suppose a worst anybody can contend about a Chinese, as good as he pronounced it. However, you have always wondered either he ever actually meant what he was ranting as good as vehemence about. In full sessions, when he would contend a most extraordinary of things, yelling as good as screaming during a top of his voice. Yet, mins later, during a tea-breaks, he would sidle up to a Chinese towkays he had been threatening only mins early, as good as engage in happy conversation about deals to foster his motorcycle dealership!
Now, you have been wondering all of these years, which of these two personalities, Dr Jekyll or Mr Hyde, was which Datuk truly? The a single foaming during a mouth in full sessions? Or a a single quite happily chatting commercial operation deals with a impassive, straight-faced Chinese members during a tea-breaks? If you were a Chinese you would have slapped him in a face if he angry me a single minute, as good as then approached me for commercial operation deals a really subsequent minute! But you saw no Chinese slap him! In fact, they all appeared to be a best of friends (during a tea-breaks) when it came to deliberating commercial operation opportunities.
The a single vital Malay-based organisation in attendance a MAPEN which tender me most by their moderation, was a PAS dele! gation. you do not stop a PAS representatives race- or religion-baiting any one during a full sessions, or outward a full sessions. you cannot contend a same of a (many, but not all) Malaysia Politics representatives as good as their supporters. By a way, you can stop Sharizat, Shahidan as good as alternative Malaysia Politics representatives creation their interventions during a MAPEN full deliberations. you cannot re-call anything outstanding from Abdullah Badawi! Perhaps, he was practising even then in those early years, a fine art of falling asleep!
Again, RPK, a issue then (when deliberating a finish of a NEP, as good as a deputy in a 1990s) was, you repeat, NOT a Malay-Non-Malay issue. It simply was not. It was a Malaysia Politics-led Malay contra CHINESE issue. you cannot stop a Indians, a Lain-Lain, etc, ever coming underneath such postulated critique as did, it contingency be admitted, a Chinese. And, a Chinese using their chronicle of a rope-a-dope plan only sat their passively, as good as authorised their "opponents" to in a future wear themselves out.
Clever, you contingency admit? And when they (the extremists) all got tired of ranting as good as raving, a moderate Malays (including those in Malaysia Politics) came to a fore, as good as worked out a accord which was in a future forwarded to a cupboard as a due growth process for a post-NEP era, and, as far as you am concerned, a third book of Malaysia's "Social Contract".
That is how you stop a finish of a NEP in 1990 was handled.
Richard Dorall, National Economic Consultative Council Member 1989-1990
EDITOR: There were two forums. One was theKongres Ekonomi Bumiputera ke-3that you wrote about as good as a second was a MAPEN committee which Richard Dorall spoke about.
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