Malaysia can or cannot?
What can we do?
As far as our nation is concerned, we are living well because of our resources. We're rich in 'good' petroleum, quality timber, excellent rubber, magnificent palm oil, and so on and so forth. And plus, we don't have very much natural disasters.
That's why Malaysia has one of the most 'laid-back' communities on this planet earth. We spent almost quarter a million for a single lamp post in Putrajaya (correct me on this.) Our construction folks dig holes on the road just for the other teams to fill it up again. Traffic lights will eventually hold off traffic instead of organizing it. Water supply quality deteriorates, as in, it is OK to provide good water only 80% of the time. Restricted sewerage flow causes flash floods in major cities (i.e. recent S.Alam and Klang inundation). We fill up our children schoolbags with books that they don't use. Despite the rise of Sekolah Bestari (Smart School) and all the IT introduction into education, we still fill them bags with the same amount of books (well, shouldn't we be decreasing it at least?)
Then, we spent almost another quarter million to reward an athlete instead of provide incentives for other sportsmen to become professionals. If people can't make a living as professional athletes (unlike in outside of third world countries), how would people economically decide to be part of it? Why do you still pay a premium of twenty ringgit or something when not a single minute is recorded on your land-line phone? Why are our graduates unemployed? Why is the crime rate climbing up? Why do spend 500 ringgit a month for entertainment gameshows SMS votes?
Back to the original scope -- how smart are we, by only exporting these resources? Why shouldn't we start processing and producing finished goods out of these resources? Maybe we do some electronics, gloves and certain tires. But we ceased our rubber research and sold off our quality woods by the sticks. And then we buy back all the finished products from overseas like polished furniture, parts (washers, seals, etc.), some garments, you name it. As long as we become more of a producer than just exporter (I'm not saying exporting is bad for economy) and reduce importing 'technological products' from overseas, we'll be better off in a long run.
Perhaps we should.. (lost my train of thought. Will continue later if I have time & the opportunity to do so...)
As far as our nation is concerned, we are living well because of our resources. We're rich in 'good' petroleum, quality timber, excellent rubber, magnificent palm oil, and so on and so forth. And plus, we don't have very much natural disasters.
That's why Malaysia has one of the most 'laid-back' communities on this planet earth. We spent almost quarter a million for a single lamp post in Putrajaya (correct me on this.) Our construction folks dig holes on the road just for the other teams to fill it up again. Traffic lights will eventually hold off traffic instead of organizing it. Water supply quality deteriorates, as in, it is OK to provide good water only 80% of the time. Restricted sewerage flow causes flash floods in major cities (i.e. recent S.Alam and Klang inundation). We fill up our children schoolbags with books that they don't use. Despite the rise of Sekolah Bestari (Smart School) and all the IT introduction into education, we still fill them bags with the same amount of books (well, shouldn't we be decreasing it at least?)
Then, we spent almost another quarter million to reward an athlete instead of provide incentives for other sportsmen to become professionals. If people can't make a living as professional athletes (unlike in outside of third world countries), how would people economically decide to be part of it? Why do you still pay a premium of twenty ringgit or something when not a single minute is recorded on your land-line phone? Why are our graduates unemployed? Why is the crime rate climbing up? Why do spend 500 ringgit a month for entertainment gameshows SMS votes?
Back to the original scope -- how smart are we, by only exporting these resources? Why shouldn't we start processing and producing finished goods out of these resources? Maybe we do some electronics, gloves and certain tires. But we ceased our rubber research and sold off our quality woods by the sticks. And then we buy back all the finished products from overseas like polished furniture, parts (washers, seals, etc.), some garments, you name it. As long as we become more of a producer than just exporter (I'm not saying exporting is bad for economy) and reduce importing 'technological products' from overseas, we'll be better off in a long run.
Perhaps we should.. (lost my train of thought. Will continue later if I have time & the opportunity to do so...)
posted by Zidni at 11:35 PM
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