August 30, 2012
My Response to Dato' Norhaidi of Wisma Putra
by Din Merican
I review a supposed rebuttal by a Foreign Minister's Political Secretary which you posted earlier upon this blog with considerable concern. It is a ultimate in a prolonged list of evidence of insufficiency as well as lack of professionalism in a Foreign Ministry, or Wisma Putra as it commonly known.
If anything, a come-back exemplifies a motto "It's improved to be wordless as well as suspicion a fool, than to speak up as well as mislay all doubt" for it usually done a Minister look worse than he actually is. Why purported? Well, Dato Norhaidi is not just well well well known for his fluency in English. Therefore, it is doubtful which this wayward come-back could be done by him. Furthermore, domestic secretaries have not been well well well known to do this kind of work.
A Ghost Written Rebuttal
The come-back is some-more expected to be a work of Ahmad Rozian Abdul Ghani, Wisma Putra's Undersecretary for Public Diplomacy as well as External information who was roasted in this blog a little months ago. Or it could have been created by a large committee headed by Rozian as well as approved by Kedah-born Tan Sri Radzi Bin Abdul Rahman, a Secretary-General? In any event, you goal which a genuine author would clarify things for a benefit.
However, it is not fair to lay a blame wholly upon a F! oreign M inister with whom you have exchanged views as well as ideas upon a palm phone, as well as upon this blog. He is after all a statesman as well as not a professional diplomat. The blame must, therefore, be borne by a Secretary -General as well as his comparison officers.
I have upon record as well as others toosaid which a benefaction set up in Wisma Putra is a most dysfunctional ever. The Minister is amateurish to conduct his comparison officers. Thinking which they have been quietly revolting against him, Minister Anifah, a non-Peninsular Foreign Minister, doesn't engage his officers.
Apparently, even a mandatory weekly meetings, introduced in a 1960s by a legendary King Ghaz (left) as "Friday prayers" where issues have been discussed, have been a thing of a past.
Without ministerial control as well as supervision, Radzi's underling par perfomance is serve ruining Wisma Putra.
To have himself look good, he has filled up key positions with sycophants as well as officers who had served with him rsther than with officers selected upon a basement of merit as well as expertise. That is how insufficiency perpetuates itself, similar to turtles all a approach down.
Wisma Putra: A Toxic Set-Up
I am told which even a Minister's requests to mislay amateurish officers have been apparently routinely disregarded.In management-speak Wisma Putra would be a great e.g. of a toxic organisation. It's easy to theory a state of a Ministry. There is a glaring absence of shared purpose as well as compelling clarity of mission. With insufficiency being routinely rewarded, resentment is tall as well as spirit low in Wisma Putra today.
Recently, a Secretary-General wrote a square in a Star entitled "Creating an ASEAN Community". Although which square was far superior to his earlier unfilled square upon a Ministry's consular services, his ultimate square also stands an e.g. of his inability to clear foreign process issues obviously as well as cogently beyond cutting-and-pasting tactful phrases taken from official communiqus which have been written some-more to conceal rsther than than elucidate issues.
Tan Sri Radzi (right) talks about ushering a community by 2015. What does this
meant for a typical Malaysians? We have been endangered which you could be during a fork of a dangerous lapse to a bad old days when Southeast Asia was referred to as "Balkans of a East".
As Malaysians, you have been very endangered which untrammeled major power rivalry, namely US-China relations vis-a-vis a Asia-Pacific, could mutilate assent as well as stability which you had well well well known for most of a lives.
It would have been much some-more responsible for him to express a concerns which ASEAN is right away upon a wrong track. It would be responsible for him to share a little extended thoughts upon Malaysia's main objective during a Nov 2012 Summit in Phnom Penh.
How would Malaysia, as a singular of a main petitioner states, work with others to safeguard which a abominable discord displayed in April would not be repeated? Without restoring ASEAN's liberty as a section of peace, leisure as well as neutrality, looking forward to declaring an ASEAN Community during a Chairmanship would merely be an empty PR exercise which would be bereft of definition or purpose.
Even if Tan Sri Radzi wishes to speak of a ASEAN Community, he could during least have explained which a ASEAN Community is not envisaged as a duplicat! e of a E uropean Community. If it not starting to be similar to a EU, what afterwards have been we, a typical citizens to expect?
What do these mean?
"Under a APSC, a part of states have affianced to regard their security as fundamentally related to a singular an additional as well as bound by geographic location, usual prophesy as well as objectives."
"When you have an ASEAN Economic Community, you shall see a giveaway flow of goods, services, investment as well as capital, estimable economic development through reduced poverty as well as socio-economic disparities. The objective is to spin Asean in to a singular marketplace as well as prolongation bottom by harnessing a diversity which characterises a shred in to opportunities to spin it in to a stronger shred of a global supply chain."
Obviously these conceptual questions have been too much for him as well as a Ministry.
Given a approach a Foreign Ministry is run these days, it is rarely expected which Malaysia will be able to fool around any meaningful purpose in more advanced an enlightened Foreign Policy.
2015 is an important year for Malaysia. As mentioned by Tan Sri Radzi, you will be a ASEAN Chair in 2015. The Foreign Minister also mentioned which Malaysia would find a non-permanent security council chair for 2015-2016.
It's best for Wisma Putra if a benefaction Secretary-General moves upon quickly as well as leave in his place a group of officers selected upon a basement of their proven ability so which during least you will have during least dual years to fully hope for to have sure which you have been up to a symbol to take upon these responsibilities.
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