raja lanun menanyakan:
assalamua’laikum…
mohon pandangan dato’ seri tentang hasil kajian yang dijalankan oleh
ASLI berkaitan jumlah equiti yang dipegang oleh bumiputera di malaysia.
Sdr raja lanun,
Saya hanya meneliti rumusan dan ulasan kajian tersebut dan dapat mengesan kecacatan awal
Kelemahan ketara corak kajian sademikian adalah kerana terikat dengan kerangka dan pendekatan lama DEB.
Kedua kajian tersebut mahu membungkam hujah DEB tentang penguasaan ekuiti Bumiputra
dgn menokok kekayaan Bumiputra termasuk pegangan dlm khazanah negara secara
rambang.
Isu pokok adalah kurang pengagihan ketelusan dan rasuah serta
penyelewengan yang diamalkan. Wacana seharusnya menjurus kpd persoalan pokok pertumbuhan ekonomi dan cabaran serta keadilan utk semua
Salam sejahtera,
Siapakah yang bertanggungjawab meletakkan sasaran 30% dalam DEB? Adakah DEB bersifat statik dan tidak tertakluk kepada sebarang perubahan? Kalau dilihat secara kasar semacam tiada unsur keyakinan dalam DEB. DEB bersifat penakut dan sudah lapuk. Bagi saya tiada beza antara DEB dan Islam Hadhari. Keduanya hanya sedap didengar tetapi isinya kosong dan begitu jauh dari konsep ‘Islam Sebagai Cara Hidup’.
Saya tertarik dengan ulasan Ketua Dewan Ulama PAS, Dato Harun Taib mengenai kegagalan DEB dalam Fikrah Harakah 16 -31 Oktober 2006. Berikut adalah ulasan beliau:
“Usaha kerajaan tidak memadai dan tidak bersungguh-sungguh. Macam orang hendak masuk periksa, jika dia sasar sekadar lulus, mungkin dapat 50% sudah memadai, tetapi jika dia sasar untuk cemerlang, barangkali dia akan melipatgandakan usahanya”.
“DEB hanya sasar 30%. Ini tidak logik. Kenapa tak sasar 70%? Kenapa hanya sasarkan untuk majukan ekonomi orang Melayu 30%? Lagi 70% kerajaan nak bagi kepada siapa?”
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Saya amat menyesali kelakuan fahmi dan ramai yang lain kerana mempunyai pandangan myopic atau visi pendek dan fikiran cetek. Jika Malaysia bertanding dengan negara-negara lain dalam dunia globalisasi ini, siapakah yang akan berdagang dengan Malaysia jika 70% aktiviti ekonomi tertumpu kepada Bumiputera atau lebih menonjolkan lagi sepuak bangsa Melayu yang tamak haloba dan bukan semua Bumiputera yang layak menerima bantuan dari DEB.
DEB hanya untuk tempoh sementara untuk membina landasan pembangunan bangsa Melayu. Ia dirancang selama hanya 20 tahun sejak dilancarkan pada tahun 1970. Rancangan DEB semoga bangsa Melayu dan Bumiputera dapat berdikari selepas itu kerana DEB bukan satu-satunya kaedah pengagihan sumber yang efisyen. Ia tidak telus dan tidak menggalakkan penggunaan sumber yang efisyen. Tetapi, DEB sekarang sudah melepasi tempohnya dan digunakan oleh segelintir bangsa Melayu yang mencampuradukkan politik UMNO untuk mengaut kekayaan Malaysia dan merompak dari usaha-usaha dari masyarakat yang lain.
Inilah sebabnya Malaysia tidak mengecapi kejayaan seiras Singapura. Negara-negara lain seperti India, Vietnam, Thailand kian maju bertanding dan mungkin melepasi Malaysia sebelum 2020. Malah dikhuatari Malaysia tidak dapat mencapai Visi 2020 jika diteruskan perkembangan ekonomi yang tidak rancak kini. Perkembangan di bawah 6% yang dialami 2-3 tahun sekarang sudah tentu tidak cukup untuk mencapai Visi 2020.
Inilah masanya bangsa Melayu bangun untuk menyahut cabaran untuk berdikari. Inilah masanya bangsa Melayu tidak bergantung kepada susu ibu lagi. Sudah masanya untuk makanan orang dewasa. Jika 20 tahun masa yang lama, berapakah lamanya lagi nak jadi bayi? Sudah 36 tahun DEB bergiat menghabiskan kekayaan negara dengan tidak menggalakkan pertandingan sewajarnya.
Biarlah 31 Ogos 2007 – tahun kelahiran Malaysia 50 tahun sebagai waktu membangunkan diri dan bebas dari DEB.
Semua hak-hak bangsa Melayu tetap di dalam Perlembagaan Malaysia tetapi bukan DEB. Bangsa Melayu dan Bumiputera sepatutnya diberi peluang pendidikan dan biasiswa tetapi tidak diberi lulus peperiksaan semata-mata dan kemasukan ke dalam universiti secara buta tuli. Kedudukan sultan dijaga tetapi kedudukan Perdana Menteri dan kabinet lain dibuka kepada mereka yang berwibawa tidak kira bangsa dan agama. Agensi kerajaan ditubuhkan supaya lebih giat memberi pinjaman dan nasihat untuk golongan peniaga Bumiputera tetapi tidak membenarkan mereka mengaut projek kerajaan melalui amalan tidak telus, tidak halal dan tidak adil. Inilah masanya bangsa Melayu menyahut cabaran globalisasi sebelum terlambat.
Mansurkan DEB Dasar Ekonomi Baru sebelum terlambat.
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Jika nak pandai, kita harus mengajar memancing dan bukan memberi hasil tangkapan beribu-ribu ikan. DEB hanya memberi projek kerajaan buta tuli dan mereka yang tidak mampu mengendali projeknya hanya menjadi penjaga tol untuk mengaut kekayaan tanpa sebarang kerja dan usaha. Ini tidak halal dan tidak menggalakkan pembangunan bangsa Melayu.
Mansurkan DEB Dasar Ekonomi Baru sebelum terlambat. Mansurkan DEB sebelum ulangtahun 50 hari jadi Malaysia 31 Ogos 2007.
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Di sini dilampirkan temubual dengan Khalid Ibrahim dari Keadilan yang dimuatkan di Malaysiakini…
NEP: ‘It will destroy the Malays’
Surprising “end it†call made by retired Guthrie CEO,
Khalid Ibrahim.
By Bede Hong. Malaysiakini.
Oct 4, 2006
Since joining Party Keadilan (Parti Keadilan Rakyat) as its treasurer in July, Khalid Ibrahim has called for the abolishment of the New Economic Policy (NEP) – an affirmative action scheme launched in 1971 to uplift the lot of poor Malays.
The call is surprising as it comes from a person once described as an ‘industry captain’.
Khalid, 60, is the former chief executive of Kumpulan Guthrie Bhd and former group chief executive of government-linked plantations company Permodalan Nasional Bhd (PNB).
He stepped down from Guthrie in 2003. He also set up an asset-management company managing funds from licensed offices in Kuala Lumpur and Singapore.
After spending nearly two decades in fund management, most recently with Malaysia’s National Equities Board (PNB), Khalid has made an about turn.
Interviewed by malaysiakini, Khalid, among other things, describes the NEP as ‘the devil’ and laments the lack of successful bumiputera entrepreneurs.
Interview (truncated)
Malaysiakini: If the NEP is not doing what it’s supposed to do, then what is it being used for?
Khalid: It is a known secret that all division heads of Umno have a chance to get contracts from the government in order for them to fund their political activities. They became Malay rent collectors used by non-Malays to become front-runners to get these projects. And it becomes a habit and a norm rather than an exception.
Now the whole country is in a mess. In fact, if you take notice, the on-going exchanges between (Dr) Mahathir Mohamad) and Dollah Badawi (Abdullah Ahmad Badawi) are centred on the failure of contract handouts rather than the poor or the marginalised people. The debate has left out the poor people of Sabah for example, where statistics show a very high percentage of poverty.
We do see that the NEP has become a tool for securing income, unearned income for those who don’t do work. It’s really a free income for those who have connections with the government.
The after-effect is that there is so much loss in government expenditure that the taxpayers are not getting the value on the expenditure made.
The NEP is not being updated, compared to other institutions that were set up in the early days like PNB, Tabung Haji, Felda, Tabung Angkatan Tentera. Unlike the NEP, these other institutions are moving forward in a steady way.
They had wanted to create so-called Malay corporate leaders and entrepreneurs when in fact it’s very hard to find them now. Those who are the super corporate entrepreneurs now, in terms of world class standards, you don’t get bumiputera or Malay names.
You get names like T Ananda Krishnan, Yeoh Tiong Lay, Lim Goh Tong and Robert Kuok (laughs) … I think the whole of Malaysia enjoys the NEP because the NEP is not going to the Malays.
In our discussion on the NEP … participants were telling us since the early 1980s and 90s they (the top businessmen) were constructing companies and building real estates and so forth. They became major players, the companies grew from millions to billions. But until today, they are just sub-contractors in Malaysia.
But if you analyse them (the major players) in a cynical manner, their success (is founded on the ability) to use the Malays to get contracts, and they benefited enormously from that. This is the seed of corruption…These sub-contractors now have to increase their cost in order to compensate the bribe they pay the runners to get those contracts.
Can you imagine this in Malaysia that wants to have more corporate governance, to become a highly regarded transparent nation? I think the NEP has in fact destroyed us, corrupted the whole thing. That’s why we say, hey, it doesn’t please a lot of Malays, it also doesn’t please the Chinese or Indians, and it also destroys the good character of how we to do business.
People have been saying it’s only about implementation, but it has already taken the character of the devil (laughs). We cannot do with this. That’s why it (NEP) deserves to be cut off.
This instrument is going to be one that will kill us and kill the nation. It has become a cancer of society. And to solve the problem of cancer, we cut it off.
The fight within Umno is on how they’re getting the best of the NEP. The 3,000 (UMNO delegates) control the destiny of the nation. Ask people in the villages, they’ll tell you they wouldn’t know that they have big contracts waiting for them.
malaysiakini: How would things be like if the NEP is abolished or modified …
Khalid: Now, if it wasn’t for the NEP, we could have achieved better growth because of the better ability to use resources. We could have an additional three or four percent in annual growth.
If you look at Singapore or Malaysia, they started off about the same time, that means the per capita income in both countries were about the same. Now, Malaysia’s just below US$5,000 but Singapore’s US$21,000.
What does this mean? Should we be discussing about the NEP? The logic of the technical economic argument shows that the NEP hindered growth, while the proponents of the NEP during my period (said it) was to create political stability. Without political stability, there is no environment for industrial growth.
But the environment has changed, foreign investors are afraid of coming in. Investors have to consider this renter class that is going to tax you 30 percent.
I think the NEP has also condoned the lack of professionalism in governing and management, meaning it doesn’t care whether you are efficient or not, when you distribute to your friend. You can charge a higher price.
In order to hide all these mismanaged activities, the government is not being transparent. The government still relies on the OSA (Official Secrets Act) to hide the inefficiencies. Now there is no separation between the executive, legislature and judiciary in order for there to be check and balance.
In fact, the government has become a collusion with everybody rubbing each other’s back. Certain ministries and civil servants must be cunning enough to adjust some of the requirements of general order in order to accommodate the giving of these concessions.
And of course the politicians have to collude with the executive in order for them to have free trips to play golf in exotic places under the pretext of trying to set up real estate investment and study tours.
During the Anwar (Ibrahim) case, you can see this relationship (between the executive, legislature and judiciary). They became one team. That’s where we are now, the result of trying to implement the NEP … a creature that is going to destroy the future generation of Malays.
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DEB hanya untuk segolongan rakyat yang mempunyai kaitan dengan UMNO dan BN. Hanya mereka yang menjadi kaya sampai gila. Dibawah surat saya kepada editor yang keluar di Malaysiakini Aug6 2006:
Tun Mahathir’s race to make the malays successful through NEP has certainly raised a number of well known malay tycoons who made it big in the Malaysian corporate scene. Whether his legacy remains is another question which shall be seen in the next couple of months when the war of words unravels between the former premier and the current one through his supporters.
The last 22 years of Mahathir rule have seen a large group of malay businessmen gaining center stage. Some of them still have businesses around the world some are struggling to survive. Among the names are Tajuddin Ramli, Halim Saad, Samsudin Abu Hassan, Anuar Othman, Rashid Hussain,Wan Azmi Wan Hamzah, Amin Shah Omar, and Nasimuddin Amin. Perhaps even Daim? The collective income and assets of these individuals is prove that NEP under Mahathir was very successful depending on how one defines success.
How many have heard of Ahmad Hafizal or Jamal Harun? No they are not the tycoons of NEP past. Neither are they tycoons of NEP present. They are the 2 stories of malay families living well below the poverty line. They represent the many who live in rural Malaysia struggling to make ends meet. I shall never forget the stories of these 2 individuals highlighted in the newspapers last year. One, Ahmad Hafizal who was arrested for not attending National Service was later revealed that he and his mother lived on a meager income. Without his income, the family would starve. Then Jamal Harun who had put his baby up for sale so that he could give treatment for his other sick child. How many more Malaysians live in such dire straits?
Not being racial, how many more Indians and Chinese live below the poverty line or just struggling to make ends meet and live from day to day. When our ministers talk about building sports complexes in London or the millions paid out to Gerbang Perdana or the one eyed MP about his Masterpiece vs. the Kompressor; it certainly puts it all in perspective.
If one were to get a proper perspective of the effects of the NEP, one should read M Bakri Musa’s article in Malaysiakini “False promise and Premiseâ€Â. I echo Anwar Ibrahim’s statement, “It is important for us to think anew, discard the discriminatory practices of this new economic policy and use this to propel growth for all Malaysians.’’ and Marina Mahathir, “The original intentions were good; it was about equality, bringing up people so that there was a level playing field, but I think maybe nobody foresaw some of the psychological side effects..like a “sense of entitlement. Making a level playing field should be really about economic levels rather than based on race.â€Â
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hawaiichee,
Saya hanya bercakap mengenai SASARAN bukannya pembahagian kekayaan jadi kenapa perlu memandang rendah pandangan saya dan pihak-pihak lain. Sasaran itu tidak mesti tercapai tetapi sekurang-kurangnya apa yang dicapai tidaklah terlalu rendah. Kita bebas bersaing dalam apa jua bidang seperti pendidikan, perniagaan, pekerjaan dan lain-lain. Takkanlah kerana saya saya tetapkan sasaran saya untuk menjadi seorang jutawan maka anda akan kata saya myopic atau visi pendek dan fikiran cetek.
Berfikirlah dengan lebih positif. Berapa lama sangat kita hendak hidup di dunia ini. Terus-terang saya sebagai orang islam mengatakan bukan DEB yang akan menentukan kejayaan orang Islam tetapi Allah Yang Maha Kuasa akan menentukan kejayaan itu. Manusia hanya mampu berusaha.
Kalau kita pandai kan baik kalau kepandaian itu dapat kita gunakan untuk membantu orang lain tanpa mengira latarbelakang?
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Fahmi
Maafkan saya jika terlanjur kata. Saya tidak memandang rendah anda atau pendapat anda. Kita di sini berdebat pandangan dan mencari penyelesaian bersama-sama untuk memajukan Malaysia dan kaum Melayu dan Bumiputera. Jawapannya bukannya dengan semata-mata memberi projek dengan membuta tuli kepada satu-satu kaum kerana hendak memenuhi kuota. Ini salah dan tidak halal. Rezeki harus diperolehi dengan usaha. Sasaran dan matlamt individu untuk berjaya adalah bagus. Tetapi tidak usahlah meminta rezeki tanpa usaha. Ini menunjukkan DEB sudah melepasi tempohnya dan semakin disalahgunakan. Rasuah semakin menjadi sahabat DEB.
Jadi harus dimansuhkan DEB dan diusulkan rancangan baru yang menjaga kepentingan masyarakat Bumiputera dengan memberi latihan dan biasiswa tetapi tidak menetapkan kuota. Kuota DEB tidak di dalam Perlembagaan dan adalah masanya kaum Bumiputera tidak diberi beribu-ribu ikan tangkapan orang lain tetapi diajar bagaimana memancing ikan.
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