Written by Dr. Lim Teck Ghee Friday, 04 Jan 2013 09:19
Commentary
As you begin a brand brand brand brand brand new year, a unreasonable of old issues as good as hurdles confront a country. Chief amongst them have been secular as good as eremite tensions as good as a taking flight clarity of marginalization as good as disunion in between a minority communities while during a same time a infancy village feels in jeopardy as good as insecure.
Many of these problems have been deeply entrenched. Their goods have been no longer confined to a tiny part of a physique politic or arise as isolated as good as unconnected events. They have infiltrated into all sectors of multitude as good as expel a shade in a hold up of each Malaysian in a bland suspicion processes, in a alertness as good as in a actions.
The probl! ems whic h have been associated with a racial as good as eremite order in between Malays as good as non-Malays as good as in between Muslims as good as non-Muslims will not be resolved quickly. There is no enchanting remedy.
Many of these problems branch from a severely enervated amicable congruity as good as a growing disunity which a nation has gifted during a past four decades. The unsubstantial though potent glue of harmony, clarity of village as good as commitment to realizing a common great which binds countries as good as their people together has long damaged down in Malaysia.
The start of a brand brand brand brand brand new year is a great time to spend introspective upon how to redeem this suggestion of mislaid amicable congruity as good as to focus upon what can be done to reconstruct it.
Addressing a plight of tiny minorities
The clarity of disunion as good as marginalization is many palpable in between Indian, Orang Asli as good as alternative tiny minority communities. Although a little members of these groups can have their approach up a socio-economic ladder with their own resources, yet many of a rest have been wallowing in poverty as good as deprivation. They will require a special assisting hand if they have been able to ever escape from a straitjacket of impoverishment as good as stagnation.
As a race-oriented New Economic Policy is jettisoned in place of a brand brand brand brand brand new inhabitant process model formed upon need as good as not race, how do you safeguard which these groups which have badly lagged during a back of alternative communities in each single critical indicator of growth as good as wellbeing do not remove out again in a implementation of a New Economic Model during a next decade?
How do you guarantee which bad as good as needy members of tiny minority communities will be scrupulously as good as fairly targeted for assistance as good as do not vanish or have been mislaid steer of in a inhabitant bullet! in of gr owth which will be fundamentally dominated by a concerns of a dominant Malay, as good as to a little extent, a Chinese community?
To undo a negative impact of decades of government neglect as good as discrimination opposite a not as big minority communities as good as to steer a brand brand brand brand brand new trail for amicable congruity as good as amicable probity which will welcome all Malaysians, it might be required to settle a brand brand brand brand brand new Ministry which can muster as good as lead destiny efforts in a open zone aimed during mending a hold up prospects of downtrodden minority Malaysians.
Hindraf's blueprint
Two months ago, to mark a fifth anniversary of a movement's convene in KLCC upon Nov 25, 2007 a event which precipitated a brand brand brand brand brand new dawn of political alertness in Malaysia Hindraf unveiled a blueprint proposing solutions to overcome a plight of racial Indian community, generally a 800,000 displaced estate workers as good as 350,000 stateless Indians.
Towards a finish of a blueprint request is a offer to settle a Ministry of Minority Affairs which would devise as good as govern growth efforts to residence a educational, housing, resettlement as good as practice needs of marginalized Indians.
This offer to set up an wholly brand brand brand brand brand new Ministry might seem similar to an inappropriate one, entrance during a time when a efficiency as good as efficiency of a magisterial polite use has come underneath severe open inspection as good as censure.
However, it is in my perspective worthy of critical consideration by a Barisan as good as Pakatan parties, whichever coalition comes to energy in a entrance elections.
Justification for a brand brand brand brand brand new Ministry
The fact for establishing an wholly brand brand brand brand brand new Ministry devoted to a not as big minorities is compelling. Numerous studies have determined which fa! mily in between as good as within communities humour when people miss work as good as continue hardship, debt, low esteem, bad skills as good as bad living conditions. These simple necessities of hold up have been a foundations of a clever amicable fabric though have been lacking for many in a not as big minority communities.
Also, distinct a Malay as good as Chinese communities which browbeat a open as good as in isolation sectors, Malaysia's tiny minority communities miss a resources as good as poke to compete for a opportunities ostensibly accessible to all stakeholders in a manage to buy as good as society.
Already marginalized, when left to deflect for themselves in a future, they have been likely to tumble serve during a back of as a competition for scarce resources becomes some-more intense.
How most will it cost?
During a past 10 Malaysia Development Plans, a total sum of over a single trillion ringgit was spent. Little of this growth output was committed towards or trickled down to a not as big minorities (see table).
Development Expenditure for 10 Malaysia Plans
Total: RM1.155 trillion
Ninth Malaysia Plan 2006-10 RM230 billion Eighth Malaysia Plan 2001-05 RM253 billion Seventh Malaysia Plan 1996-2000 RM222 billion Sixth Malaysia Plan 1991-95 RM104 billion Fifth Malaysia Plan 1986-90 RM62 billion Fourth Malaysia Plan 1981-85 RM28 billion Third Malaysia Plan 1976-80 RM18.6 billion Second Malaysia Plan 1971-75 RM7.25 billion First Malaysia Plan 1965-70 RM4.5 billionHindraf has estimated which a tiny fragment of this large output RM25 billion supposing to a brand brand brand brand brand new Ministry will provide a first ditch effort to henceforth urge a hold up of marginalized Indians. The cost for fortifying a conditions as good as hold up chances of alternative minorities will be some-more modest.
The total check for mending a hold up chances of mar! ginalize d Indians, Orang Asli as good as others as good as restoring grace as good as a clarity of belonging to a not as big minorities is a cost a nation can good afford. But is a political will there in possibly Barisan or Pakatan parties to take this tiny step brazen in what could lead to a useful model change in a journey towards a fair, only as good as compassionate society?
A only multi-ethnic multitude is judged by how fairly it treats a smallest minority communities as good as provides them with access to opportunities which can urge their element circumstances as good as destiny hold up chances.
In India, a Government not long ago determined a Ministry of Minority Affairs in 2006 as a peak physique for a central government's regulatory as good as developmental programmes for a minority communities which embody Muslims, Sikhs, Christians, Buddhists as good as Zoroastrians identified as minority communities underneath Section 2 (c) of a National Commission for Minorities Act, 1992. Other countries which have determined similar Ministries embody Pakistan as good as Israel.
We should do no reduction in Malaysia.
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