Wednesday, December 5, 2018

MEMPERASUAHAN ORANG MELAYU

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1. Saya tidak tahu samada “memperasuahan” adalah satu perkataan dalam bahasa Melayu. Tetapi sama ada perkataan ini ada atau tidak, perbuatan memperasuahan memang kerap dilakukan dalam masyarakat manusia. Maknanya ialah perbuatan menyemai sifat buruk ini dalam masyarakat sehingga menjadi sebahagian dari budayanya. Masyarakat yang terima budaya ini, tidak lagi berasa segan atau malu dengan pemberian dan penerimaan rasuah, yang kadang-kadang disebut sebagai “tumbuk rusuk” atau “makan suap”.

2. Rasuah tetap diamal oleh semua masyarakat manusia. Tetapi biasanya masyarakat anggap rasuah sebagai satu amalan yang keji dan buruk. Mereka yang mengamal rasuah akan menyembunyi perbuatan mereka kerana sedar yang ianya adalah sesuatu amalan yang salah disisi undang-undang dan agama juga.

3. Tetapi apabila masyarakat terima amalan rasuah sebagai perkara biasa yang boleh diamal secara terbuka, maka tidak lagi ada perasaan segan silu apabila melakukannya, baik oleh pemberi atau penerima.

4. Di zaman pemerintahan yang percaya “cash is king” atau “wang adalah raja” maka pemberian dan penerimaan rasuah menjadi satu dari nilai hidup dan budaya, terutama dikalangan orang Melayu.

5. Apa sahaja sanggup dibuat jika disogok dengan wang atau pemberian yang diminati. Soal baik buruk sesuatu yang diberi atau diarah tidak termasuk dalam pertimbangan.

6. Percanggahan dengan undang-undang, bahkan berdosa dari segi agama tidak diambil kira. Yang diutamakan ialah pendapatan yang memuaskan nafsu.

7. Masyarakat tahu, mereka tahu sogokan dianggap sebagai perbuatan yang tidak baik dan dilarang. Tetapi penerima tidak fikir panjang. Baik, tidak baik; tetapi sogokan memuaskan nafsu dan dipercayai menguntungkan. Oleh itu terima sahajalah. Kesan buruk terhadap masyarakat adalah perkara remeh dan gampang.

8. Sudah tentu perasaan kebangsaan dan kesan terhadap bangsa dan negara tidak lebih utama dari nafsu penerima rasuah.

Monday, November 19, 2018

Selamat Menyambut Maulidur Rasul

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Assalamualaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh.

Alhamdulillah setinggi-tinggi kesyukuran ke hadrat Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta’ala kerana kita dapat Menyambut Maulidur Rasul pada tahun ini. Selawat dan salam ke atas junjungan besar Nabi Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, ahli keluarga dan para sahabat baginda seluruhnya.

Islam yang dibawa oleh Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wasallam merupakan bukan sahaja satu agama tetapi juga adalah satu cara hidup yang lengkap dan kita sebagai umatnya harus bersyukur kerana berpeluang menghayati kesyumulannya.

Kerana itu kita memperingati hari kelahiran nabi Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wasallam sebagai penyataan kasih dan sanjungan tinggi kita terhadap baginda di atas perjuangannya dalam menyebarkan syiar Islam.

Selamat Menyambut Maulidur Rasul.Sekian terima kasih.

Saturday, November 17, 2018

Inclusion in The Age of Disruption

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Full speech text, titled ‘Inclusion in the age of disruption: Charting a common future’ at the 2018 Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) CEO Summit. Courtesy NSTP. 


Ladies and Gentlemen,

1. Good morning. First and foremost I would like to congratulate Mr Prime Minister Peter O’Neill and the people of Papua New Guinea for successfully hosting this year’s APEC summit.

2. I would also like to take this opportunity to extend my personal gratitude to the Prime Minister and the people of Papua New Guinea for being such a good host. To my mind, no matter how efficient the hosts are, clockwork precision does not make the heart fonder. It is the warmth and those flashes of smiles that linger with the guests which I felt and saw here in Port Moresby which really tell how we feel.

3. Just two days short of 20 years (on 15th November 1998), Malaysia hosted the APEC business summit in Kuala Lumpur and I delivered a speech entitled “Restoring Confidence, Regenerating Growth, Managing Globalisation Better.”

4. It was at a time when Malaysia, along with other countries in the region, was under a tremendous threat of being bankrupted, diminished and economically paralysed. In what is now popularly known as the Asian Financial Crisis (AFC), some of the East Asian nations, which prior to the crisis were dubbed Asian tigers, were thrown into utter disarray by currency speculators.

5. Years of hard work and progress evaporated overnight. Our economy regressed by decades even. We suffered. In a neighbouring country, nearly 40 million people lost their jobs.

6. Though we described them as rogue speculators, they were actually legitimate, a creature of a system which all the nations had embraced readily so that we become part of the global community.

7. But we were punished, whether by chance or design, while the currency speculators were laughing all the way to the banks.

8. Multilateral organisations provided some medicine to our weakening economy, but instead of making the economy healthier, it made us sicker. Their policies made it worse.

9. We decided to do it our way. We recovered much faster than those who had prescribed the conventional remedy they were advised to follow.

10. The rest is of course history.

Ladies and Gentlemen

11. The point is that, developing nations, in an effort to catch up with the leading or developed nations sometimes, if not always, end up losing and sometimes even worse than before they started. Many times, it is not because of our own doings.

12. But we soldiered on, some falling on the wayside; pick ourselves up only to face new challenges that are generally churned up by others.

13. Yes, some of us are still at it, trying to figure out what went wrong with our previous models in trade, economy, governance and political system and today we have to deal with what seems to be inevitable – the age of disruption, in particular of technological disruptions.

14. It is not a new phenomenon. In 19th century England, the usage of technology in the textile industry led to the machine-smashing and other forms of violence instigated by the Luddite movement.

15. But today, the age of disruption or simply disruption seems to be accepted, as the “catchall phrase for transformative change.” More to that, in the age of disruption we are expected to adjust our strategies and practices so as to be able to deal with the radical change.

16. It is not a new phenomenon, as I pointed out earlier. It is around us, be it digitalisation, robotics, artificial intelligence, big data analytics, advancement of automation and the advent of other new technologies that bring about sweeping changes in our lives and the way we do business.

17. In Malaysia, like in many other countries, is already being reminded of the effects of disruptive technology. The displacement of taxi-drivers to e-hailing taxi apps resulted in protests and demonstrations. Hoteliers complained of losing their clientele to home-sharing platform. Brick and mortar companies c

omplained of losing clientele to online retailers. These scenes are repeated in other countries, of those who losses out to new technology player.

18. The common theme in the three examples above is the strategy of increasing market share, through low cost operations and productive manpower. This strategy would be unusual two decades ago in the age before internet and when physical human involvements at all levels of business were necessary.

19. We can expect more disruptions ahead when we become more automated, with unskilled and even skilled workers becoming less and less relevant.

20. If unattended, it will cause employment crisis and upheavals.

21. That brings us to the title of this forum today – “Inclusion in the Age of Disruption: Charting a Common Future.”

22. The challenge is how to ensure no one is left behind in the age of disruption. Some will be slow on the uptake but others will be faster. But once we understand the pace will certainly increase. Still we must be careful that the disruption will not widen inequality. And inequality is bad for growth, and bad for social stability.

23. However, technology itself would not widen the income gap. Bad policies will. We must learn from the experience of others about good and bad policies, so we can avoid the bad ones.

24. The disruptions are not limited in the technological spheres, but also in politics and economics. Some of these are within our control.

25. The benefits of free and fair trade and economic integration have been ruptured, exemplified by Brexit and trade war between major economies. The trade war between the US and China has amplified further the disruptions to our trade and commerce.

26. How then government can respond to these new norms?

27. First, the policy must ensure that technology is accessible, and affordable to its citizen. Affordability and accessibility are key drivers in the widespread adoption of new technology.

28. But the biggest challenge facing any country is to ensure that technology does not widen inequality. For this, understanding of the technological base is important. Education is the answer especially knowledge of Artificial Intelligence and its application.

29. This education cannot wait. It must be promoted now.

30. History has shown that nations which respond quickly to disruption with systematic and coherent strategies for its citizenry had always been able to ride the wave of radical changes.

31. Again, in Malaysia, we have introduced several schemes and programmes to face the disruption and Industry 4.0. These programmes include re-training, new educational approaches, research and more scholarships for professional and post-graduate studies, as well numerous programmes that provide our youths with the latest the technology can offer.

32. We are in the midst of studying the possibility of introducing latest technology modules in the curriculum. The children must be exposed to latest skills sets from a very young age. They can cope with new technologies better than old people.

33. Second, the policy must also take care of the ‘losers’. For instance, those brick and mortar shops, taxi drivers, small hotels, and displaced workers who are losing to disruptive technologies must not lose out entirely. The policy must encourage them to be retrained and re-hired.

34. Third, there is a need to build capacity, especially in developing countries, to face the disruption. Investment in infrastructures such as in 5G can be facilitated by multilateral organisations. Every country must invest in advanced technologies.

35. Fourth, there must be a cooperation at the international level on how best to manage technological disruptions.

36. Are we to assume that the age of disruption that demands adjustments and sweeping changes so as to deal with the radical changes brought about by technological advancement also includes the need for us to re-evaluate trade globalisation and economic integrations?

37. The debate on data localisation, intellectual property rights, and other related matters will continue, but the philo

sophy of finding a mutual agreement is that it must benefit national government, and not just big multinational corporations or advanced economies.

38. There needs to be collaboration at the global level to ensure that everyone benefits from technological advancement. To a certain degree, the very process of building our capacity opens up opportunities for inclusiveness, especially in trade.

Conclusion

39. We have gone too far in free trade and economic integration to let them go under in this age of disruption. What we need to do is to adjust to it and from there build new partnerships and agreements to suit the changes.

40. What is worrying is not the strategy but the speed it is required to be implemented in order to be effective. It is a new frontier, mostly still unchartered. APEC too will have to deal with this disruption, failing which it too will become irrelevant.

41. It is time that member countries of APEC and other trade organisations realise that in the age of disruption, a fairer and more genuine cooperation between the developed and developing nations can help member states to deal with the disruption.

42. In a speech I delivered in the Malaysian Parliament last month, I mentioned that the government will focus on development that is inclusive and equitable to achieve the goals of a united country. We want to ensure that every citizen in Malaysia enjoys shared prosperity. APEC should also promote the concept of shared prosperity among its member states. I believe in the adage, ‘Prosper Thy Neighbour’ and not ‘Beggar Thy Neighbour’. Everyone gains from the former, while only one side gains from the latter.

43. Only with this win-win concept among APEC members can we chart a common and an inclusive future in the Age of Disruption.

Thank you.

Sunday, November 11, 2018

Keynote address at World Chinese Economic Forum (WCEF)

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WECF, excellencies, ladies and gentlemen.

Firstly I would like to say thank you to the Forum, Economic Forum of The Chinese. The Chinese not only occupied China which is a big nation. But you go anywhere in the world you will see the Chinese people.

They have contibuted much toward the development of many countries by becoming citizens of those countries. And certainly in Malaysian we have 30% of the population made up of people of Chinese origin who are citizens of this country. And there can be no doubt that much of development of Malaysia is due to original Chinese citizen of Malaysia. Malaysia fully appreciate Chinese contribution to development of Malaysian. Indeed we feel that without them much development of Malaysia would be lagging behind but they have come here and to live here become Malaysian citizen and to help in the development of this country. And I am quite sure wherever they go they will do the same.

Somehow they have the neck of creating wealth wherever they go. They are businessman and they know how to deal with money and business and as we all know.

It is the business people who create the wealth of a country.

Government is good at collecting that wealth. But we lost the business people creating that wealth the government can collect no wealth.

Yes there are countries of course which are gifted with a lot of natural resources among which is petroleum and these countries have developed quite well but in other fields they have not been able to develop.

But the Chinese contribution to the development of Malaysia is not confined only to business and the making of profits but also in many other fields.

And they are able to adjust themselves with changing world. Today business is not about

opening shops along streets which was what they did when they came to Malaysia. The street of Malaysia are lined by Chinese shops retailing goods of all kinds and providing services all kind but as we all know.

This situation changes over time and now today we see complete change in the way goods are marketed.

Where before we have streets line by Chinese shops now we have a lot of shopping complexes where the shop are gathered in a place that is nicely air condition and comfortable to be in and to do the shopping.

It is a change. And this change is brought about by the ability of the Chinese to make adjustment to different conditions just as they are are able to make adjustment to the countries where they leave they are also able to make adjustments to the development of the world.

Right now we are going into the Fourth General Industrial Revolution this is something that requires a complete change of attitude and a complete change in terms of our knowledge.

We are living in the knowledge age. And we still in this age we need to have as much knowledge as we can in order to be able to coupe with new ideas about how life is going to be about how business is to be carried out. We now talked of artificial intelligence, we talked about machines,thinking machines and I am told that today that the machines will be teaching as not us managing the machines. So the world has changed. The way business is done is change but as we change we see a change in the attitude and the way that people taking advantage of the new technologies and discoveries.

Malaysia will continue to benefit from Chinese Enterprise and ability to take advantage of the latest in the field of knowledge.

We are now entering the age of the knowledge where machine can now collect data. Enormous amounts of data and the machines can then analyze the data so that we can do things the better way. Indeed the machines can analyze the data to the point where we will know what the future, we will know what the people of the world want, choices their preferences and knowing these we can produce to cope with the new demand this is the New Age that we live in and I’m quite sure the Chinese diaspora.

Wherever they may be would have acquired knowledge and adjusted to this new age. We are fortunate in that by and large the Chinese are peaceful people who have contributed much to the development of the whole World wherever they may be.

They have contributed. so we in Malaysia very feel happy that we are multiracial country. A multiracial country is not easiest country to rule.

Is not easiest country to remain stable normally that would be conflict between the different races.

But in Malaysia the named races the Chinese, Malay and Indian have been able to work together in every field including in the political arena.

It is the cooperation between the three races together with 39 tribals that we have been able to turn around this country. Many people thought that nobody can overthrow a government that has been involved for 61 years ever since Independence. Nobody felt that these powerful government could be overthrown. But coalition of Malay, Chinese and Indians has enable us to do what is regarded as the undoable. We have on the 9th of May this year overthrown a kleptocratic government. Reinstall democracy.

Today Malaysia remain very stable and peaceful Nation.

Democracy has been restored and power has ceased to be a big as it was before today we live by rule of law we show sensitivity and respect for each race and each religion in this country.

So we welcome our guest from all over the world to Malaysia so that they can see not just Chinese contribution to development of this country but the ability of Chinese, Malaysian Indian and 39 different tribes to work together and and be at peace and develop the country. So with those words I would like to say thank you very much for this invitation and I now launch the World Economic Forum of Chinese Diaspora in this world. I thank you.

Monday, November 5, 2018

SELAMAT HARI DEEPAVALI

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Saya ingin mengambil kesempatan ini untuk mengucapkan selamat menyambut Hari Deepavali kepada semua penganut agama Hindu di Malaysia. Hari Deepavali yang merupakan Festival of Lights dan turut diertikan sebagai perayaan di mana kebaikan mengalahkan kejahatan. Diharap memberi makna yang besar kepada penganut hindu di Malaysia tahun ini. Sepertimana apabila perayaan yang diraikan oleh rakyat Malaysia yang lain ianya dikongsi bersama dalam erti kata kita turut berkongsi kegembiraan yang dirasakan oleh rakan kita yang lain agama ataupun bangsa.

Hari Deepavali ini juga tidak berbeza walaupun ianya perayaan bagi penganut agama Hindu rakyat Malaysia yang lain turut merasakan kegembiraan tersebut kerana ianya menjadi ketenangan dan berasa selesa yang dapat dikongsi bersama. Perasaan sebegini memberi makna kepada ungkapan hormat menghormati dan perpaduan di dalam perbezaan ataupun unity in diversity. Atas semangat ini saya mengucapkan Selamat Hari Deepavali dan berharap sambutan kali ini memberi harapan kepada hari depan yang lebih bermakna.
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