Good
Governance Government Malaysia or 3GM (new
Think Tank) from Sabah would suggest the following institutional reforms to
SAVE Malaysia for the pressing issues faced by the nation.
1. National
debts accuracy and off budget expenditure;
2. Government
linked Agencies and companies
3. Project
IC and national security
4. MA63
and compliance
5. Corruption
and win-win resolutions
6. Judicial
– data maintenance; judicial justification for the poor, the underprivileged, and
the oppressed; verification and issue of late birth certificates; who supervise
Judges?
7. Petronas
and its abuses for decades;
8. Sovereign
fund and how to go about it;
9. Ill
gotten gains and its illicit flight;
10. Patriotisms
and how to go about it;
11. Good
Governance Government.
12. Food
security.
Brief
summary of these items as follows:-
1. National
debts accuracy and off budget expenditure;
How accurate is the
National Debts owed by Malaysia as how would off budget expenditure/commitments
impact that figure? Is the amount owed by
Petronas of about RM200b included in the latest figure of over RM1 trillion?
2. Government
linked Agencies and companies
Do we know which are the
GLCs and GLAs? Do we have a public
register for such corporations? How do we
really identify a GLC and a GLA? Some or
most such corporations act as if they are the properties of the Board of
Directors especially the Chairmen and other key officials without any participation
of the public. When they encounter
financial upsets, they would seek bailout by the government and tax payers fund
etc. Have an Act to regulate such bodies.
1MDB? is such a classic case amongst many.
3. Project
IC and national security
Project IC albeit denied at the report stage of the
Royal Commission of Inquiry on Illegal Immigrants Sabah held in Sabah 2012-2014
still unresolved institutionally and undoubtedly such project IC holders do
endanger the nation in many aspects. Recommendation thereof should be implemented
without delay for New Malaysia.
4. MA63
and compliance
Since 1963 the institutional
measures as agreed for the formation of Malaysia till today have been largely
ignored. Non compliance of MA63 means Malaysia is in disarrayed symptomatic that
Malaysia faces a massive platform of illegalities. Hence compliance is a must
now and no longer subject to negotiation and discussion.
5. Corruption
and win-win resolutions
There is no panacea for such massive corruption
prevailing in Malaysia unless very tough institutional measures be enforced
without any further delay. While the standard legal processes seem to be largely
ineffective to nail the culprits in corruption, some long drawn out futile court
proceedings from the outset could not find the culprits or criminals for lapse of
time. While the punitive measures like
jail sentence and hefty penalties can only deal with some cases, most of such
culprits stay free to enjoy ill gotten gains as reflected by the properties
they own. Some if
not most those charged in court could be acquitted for whatever reasons. In China, corruption criminals/ culprits are “shot”
as punishment. In Malaysia we may not
want to do that but more suitable punitive measures to “rehabilitate” such culprits
can be taking them off the society like “house arrests”. They will have to feed themselves in a closed
up town/ shopping malls as there are too many such corrupted people/civil
servants (can be over millions for decades) and they have ill gotten money
stashed away- local or overseas or families/cronies / criminals comrades can send
them support money via the ATM machines. This will help the economy for the
recycle of ill gotten gains as many simply stay free by migrating. Restricted
residences or sending such culprits on transfer within the General service can be
ineffective as supervision is nil. Even
many declared bankrupt people still live very well in society off the ill
gotten gains as who supervise them.
You have the National Security Act and can be
applied for the corruption menace as normal prisons would run out of fund
containing such millions of corrupted people.
Mind you corruption come in many forms and the “rehabilitation”
processes must be win-win for all in society. In the mean time, you may need several large
enclosed township/shopping malls (businesses of traders can prevail therein) to contain the millions of corrupted
officials. I can clarify if need be.
6.
Judicial – data maintenance; judicial
justification for the poor, the underprivileged, and the oppressed;
verification and issue of late birth certificates; who supervise Judges?
The Judicial system
must be improved to meet current needs.
Do we have the adequate data maintenance to justify the present
judiciary?
I see many young
people in groups face criminal proceedings and charges, and being in a group some
of them may not be so guilty but likely face the same sentencing as most would
plead guilty without the important service of legal counsels (cannot afford
them). So it is all up to the prosecution by the Police and the magistrates to decide
the fate of such young people with some likely to be misled but live with the guilty
charges for life. Would there be
institutional justification for the poor, the under privileged and the
oppressed to have preliminary access to legal consultation for free? So not
only those subject to “death” sentence be accorded legal representation. I myself had encountered how the Police dealt
with case once with LIES. Somehow God provided my well deserved freedom for an
activism case.
Who supervise if any-
the magistrates and judges? Most judges find short cuts to strike out
cases.
7.
Petronas and its abuses for decades;
Massive wealth of Petronas had been abused for
decades and the people is just helpless.
8.
Sovereign fund and how to go about it;
The BN government had abused several major funds
like EPF for decades. If any sovereign
fund anticipated to be formed should have proper safeguards from any abuses by
the authorities of the day.
9.
Ill gotten gains and its illicit
flight;
Malaysia is infamous for this illicit fund flight
despite Money Laundering act since 2000.
Our system is lopsided and need to be addressed.
10.
Patriotisms and how to go about it;
Divide and rule system (meant initially to make some
correction then and now too long) generates scenario of patriotism adverse.
Other pressing issues like ethnic cleansing, social sways, suspected apartheid
(Malaysian version) and possibly genocide in the process cannot imbue
patriotism in society at large. A ‘propaganda’
to reverse past developments must be in place now to build a progressive society
in global context.
11.
Good Governance Government.
A Think Tank at all levels (Federal & State)
and even private ones supported by Government of the day for Good Governance
Government be advanced to generate a culture of sort. My more than 30 Police
Reports worth RM30 trillions have been largely ignored since 2004.
12.
Food security.
We are in difficult times of climate change and
food can be a great challenge. We should
endeavour to institutional food security as present authorities on food have no
clue on quality food to be available in abundant to meet our needs and beyond.
Any neglect or omission in proper development of food and its security an
important factor in cost of living and healthy living of the consumers can no
longer be tolerated.
In conclusion, the above measures would mean a lot
to Save Malaysia from its perils already in our horizon.
Joshua Y C Kong, proposed Think Tank on Good
Governance Government Malaysia (3GM) 28/5/18.
