The DURIAN GGG to save Malaysia

The DURIAN GGG to save Malaysia

I have been waiting for national vehicle DURIAN GGG for some months to come forth to save Malaysia but maybe still in process at the  Registrar of Society.

So have we still got a good and decent chance to save Malaysia?

“Save Malaysia” (SM) has been in the lips of many and more so as General Elections 14 is now at hand with nomination on 28 April, 2018 and polling day on 9 May, 2018.

SM can be elusive as the political divide can be much questioned as they belong to BN/UMNO/exUmno people who had sort of contributed to the rottenness in Malaysia almost 60 years later.  It is very sad that regression/degradation instead of progress in most aspects has prevailed in the nation.

So far from the conversation with various people, people feels there is really no choice to send good people to the Parliament as they are re-cycled “criminals” or “kleptocrats” since UMNO rules the nation since 1963. The time bomb of 1969 could explode again.

DURIAN GGG with the fresh air can break that evil curse in 1969 in 2018, as either parties BN/PH wins there will never be any peace as the heated diatribe could escalate as exacebated  by personal vendetta of parties accusing each other of rigging. The electoral woes had already started.

So what would happen if low turnout at polling day and it is wasting billions of Ringgit for the costs of Elections Commission Malaysia and various excessive campaign expenses including wasteful elections paraphernalia.  If you go to UK, electoral paraphernalia is very limited and minimal.  Almost everyone know what BN/UMNO/exUMNO  have done, needless for any more campaigning. Most people know what to do.

Even, for Sabah people are thinking to support the new party of exUMNO members but be cautioned that it is in the same category of the peninsular counterparts be it BN/PH.  The culture of theft, corruption, mismanagement, embezzlement has been deeply embedded within.  Look at closely the logo Warisan -which cannot form the Federal Government and maybe just disturb the Sabah State Government – the Sabah map is not there, and the items in the logo seem to be of foreign context and so what is the intention or message of the symbols in the logo. Maybe instead of a horse, it is possible a “Trojan” boat. So beware Sabahans cannot be misplaced or misled again.

So what can the ordinary people do now within a very short notice inevitable to set up something so that the voters especially those fence sitters and those not going to vote the evil parites  would be urged to come out to support what we would call “people power” under DURIAN GGG. 

So in the short time and very limited resources, I would suggest that while we work, we give this case to God to provide adequate election fund (minimal) for 150 good/qualified standing candidates standing as INDEPENDENTS only for Parliament seats to enable the CHANGE to Good Governance Government Malaysia (3G) with victory in at least 112 seats or more to form the incoming Federal Government as all affairs are dominated by Parliament.  If the DURIAN 3G platform gets the majority the present main players with less than 80 seats would not be able to form the new Government with the clear message in PEOPLE POWER that the existing established parties are rejected.

So the immediate benefit of this DURIAN GGG would be Dynamic United Reliable Intellectual, Accountable and National platform for the Good Governance Government (3G).

So it is very urgent we implement this PEOPLE POWER at GE14 with a working committee in Peninsular Malaysia, Sabah and Sarawak as the nomination is on 28 April, 2018.  At the same time we need to obtain the adequate fund to support the candidates burning to have a go sacrificially for the first time to give Malaysia and Malaysians a decent chance to Save Malaysia.  Stop the GRAB in Putrajaya for 55 years.

Joshua Y C Kong 17/4/2018    012-8380897 whatsapp only & jknow823@gmail.com.

Ballot boxes frauds must be stopped in GE 14

Ballot boxes frauds must be stopped in GE 14

I have written a book “Malaysian General Election March 2004- a case of victory - landslide or rigslide” in 2007 after much research and concluded massive ballot boxes rigging by the Election Commission Malaysia (ECM) had caused the final electoral results on polling day very much distorted especially in marginal seats largely in rural areas and suburban areas bordering rural towns.  Only ECM can cause such discrepancies of ISSUED ballot papers.

It is all proven in that book with documentary evidence and vividly illustrated there to show a whole range of discrepancies of the ISSUED ballot papers in state seats and those issued in the parliament seat. There should not be any discrepancies and investigation of that would be meaningless and clearly impossible because any improper issued ballot papers in any seat would be difficult and also impossible to verify easily.

Most people would say such cheating was difficult too but not with ECM officials.  How can anyone explain how the discrepancies of ISSUED (not marked) ballot papers arise then?

I went to High Court in 2008 on GE 2004 and GE2008 after lodging two massive Police Reports over the massive ballot boxes rigging. The bias judiciary simply struck out my cases.

But the ECM got wiser when GE2013 came and to comply with what I found, ECM came out  with two Gazettes on a single general election thus giving two sets of results with the second Gazette making the “magical” 0 removing the earlier discrepancies of ISSUED ballot papers in the first Gazette.  So that is a criminal act to do that. So we really have illegal governments for decades.

So I propose that any patriotic and genuine citizen should join me in a new action “Monitoring GE14” in Facebook and Whatsapp to stop this Ballot boxes frauds to ensure the victory is for all Malaysians not to be cheated again and again.

A lot can be written on this critical matter but suffice to say that we must bold to implement Monitoring GE14 urgently.  With the confirmed Ballot Boxes frauds, the GE should have been declared illegal, no effect,  null and void.  Lets this happen in GE14 to save Malaysia.

Joshua Y C Kong 13/4/2018

Enough is enough blame BN Government and mismanaged GST

Enough is enough blame BN Government and mismanaged GST

What DPM  Zahid said can be construed as fake news and I quote  “The rise of market prices were not caused by the Goods and Services Tax (GST) but the actions of middlemen and “cartels” who manipulated prices for their own gain.”

It is useless to deny the fact of GST that had given rise to general rise of market prices when that is known and obvious.

BN may even lose General Election 14 due to the lopsided implementation of GST by the Government agency which itself was and still is unsure of the whole process of implementation since April, 2015. Many rules and guidelines had been changed and still changing after three years of implementation of GST. Such changes can give rise to all sorts of costs as far as the software protocols are concerned.   Staff implementing the GST would need to attend regular updating costly seminars on GST and such costs are passed onto the consumers inevitably.

Another expected consequence of GST immediately was that consumers had to assess their capacity to absolve the additional costs of GST as 6% which was excessive as a starting rate. The purchasing power suffer much and as much as a 40% sudden drop in most businesses as reported.  With such decline, many small businesses were forced to close down leaving many employees jobless suddenly. Such scenario does impact the cost of living rising when the Government prior to the implementation of GST was saying GST would bring down the cost of living generally insisting the consumers go for exempt and zero rated items. But exempt and zero rated items also had prices rising simultaneously.  The whole scenario was exacerbated by other factors like the alleged total withdrawal of subsidies on fuel and the system of fluctuating weekly fuel prices at the pumps and the weakening of the Ringgit against all major currencies especially wages and income for most people had been stagnant..

Actually GST is a progressive system in the management of the affairs of all companies to be appreciated as it can upgrade the reporting process of properly operated businesses.  There are many softwares in place to assist companies to do that unlike in the early days of UK implementing VAT or GST using largely manual systems. I had just arrived in London in the early 1970s when VAT was first introduced there.   I was an accountancy student working in between full times courses.  There was not much complaints about VAT and the enforcement was quite lenient and accommodating in the teething problems then.

The Malaysia experience is “frightening’ with the GST Act loaded with very heavy penalties and compounds for whatever errors done even unintentionally.  There appears to be no leeway for any errors or simply carelessness in managing GST on behalf of the Government in the collection of revenues. The workload of managing GST is really very heavy, costly and likely abnormal.

Now the Government wants to “excuse” itself for the rising costs and prices mainly due to GST but when BN loses GE14, the government may blame GST/VAT as seen in some countries as the root cause for change of Government. The grievances are aplenty in three years so much so that some political parties want to withdraw GST once in Putrajaya. 

Withdrawing GST would be short sighted effort and a major disturbance to the economy as readjustments would be costly back to SST. Prior to 2015, I had advocated for a low starting rates as 2 or 3% for Peninsula and zero rate for Borneo States for 5 years as a learning and adapting period. Now it is all foregone and beyond redemption as some prices have doubled and more. I know it as I do shopping regularly and there have been no intervention by the Government or any consumer NGOs to monitor prices.

At this stage of this article, it is timely to give some of the key factors for sudden prices increase since GST and there are as follows (not exhaustive):-

1.       The system and the implementation thereof was quite complex thus it was very costly to comply for the relevant/registered companies. The costs of conversion had been substantial and some into a million of Ringgit and more and with little subsidies from the Government in most cases. So such costs incurred were passed onto the ultimate consumers with increases of consumer goods and services. Blame who now?

2.       Costly IT staff working with scarce accounting people to do conversion, training and then manage GST and all costs passed on to the consumers at large.  Penalties and compounds costs would be similarly passed on.

3.        Inevitable inclusion of the input GST albeit claimable at a later stage against output GST due to the timing difference could be treated as costs of production of goods and services due to imperfection in handling such costs ingredients.  Easy for some to buy overheads or raw material goods by the manufacturer with the billing as GST inclusive and no effort to re-calculate such items minus the GST portion. So in such cases GST would be treated several times to cause price increases from the suppliers of  raw  materials to  the end products via a passage of several agents like manufacturers ( including intermediate manufacturers for partial parts/ingredients etc), wholesalers, agents, retailers, before reaching the ultimate consumers.  Is there any audit done on the costs management?  The rate of 6% would really cause a big discrepancy if such mistreatment of costs occur in such processes. Some call it as “24%” in prices escalation.

4.       The Sabah factor is giving rise to more adverse impact on the purchasing power of the Sabah’s consumers as there is great disparity of Borneo with Peninsula Malaysia with various aspects like level in industrialisation, wealth distribution, backwardness in all infrastructures, lacking higher education, health facilities status and yet Sabahans have to pay same rate as 6%.  Sabah is more of consuming society rather than a producing nation hence we are at a great disadvantage economically.  Sabah should have more items in zero rates if not at zero rates for most consumer items like processed food. This would bring some relief until Sabah catches up the rest of the nation in various industries for a period of 5 years until we go on stream in competitive economy in industries. To add more disadvantage, Sabah still have to pay Sales Service Tax  of 15% as was done prior to GST.

5.       Is the Federal Government really sincere to honour the terms of MA63?  Lets say for the 40% of revenue of Sabah or for the past few decades to be returned may encounter calculation problems due to lack of data for that purpose, but for GST since 2015, has any amount of 40% has been returned to Sabah to bring some relief to the burden/adjustment of people of Sabah?

Does the Government really care or show any concern about the livelihood of the people of Sabah in the face of risen prices when the consumerism is very weak in Sabah?  Maybe only lips service to that aspect.

Cartel has been with us for decades but why blame it now and so it is fake news when most prices had been increasing in recent decades and with GST such prices were expected to decline but misplaced by the Government with fake messages for decades.

Joshua Y C Kong, 5 April, 2018