609 thoughts on “CRONYISM AND THE NEP”

1. Malay is the majority in Malaysia, regardless of how NEP work in the past, if you claim now many are better educated why do they still need NEP to success in business?
   I believe discrimination do happen no matter where you are, but the reason non-bumi successful in the business field is like other successful person in every corner of the globe, “Econimic Model”.
   If bumi’s product is price competitive, great marketing and quality, no matter what race you are, they will buy from you. I bumi have great ideas and proposal they should be able to bid for the contract.
   Look at Singapore Idols, Malay have won twice in a row even majority is Chinese.
   People are educated now, they know what is right and wrong, NEP might have work well in the past, I think it should still continue,
   but not only to Bumi to all the poor Bumi or non-Bumis

2. I am a professional a product of NEP proud to say so. I have a specialist professional skill that can make me earn millions but I choose to stay in the middle class income group as I am comfortable to be in the average groups I feel I can contibute more here. From the begining till today I always admire you as a great leader no matter what others say. You may have done something controversial but that is ok to me because sometimes that is the only way to move forward or to protect the majority as in the DSAI case the end result is peace and calm for the rakyat. Heaven and hell are Allah business we human beings dont decide who to go to hell or heaven. Some people will talk like they can decide who to go to heaven or hell, in reality they contribute nothing to the country and the people. I have travelled to many countries around the world and met many people around the world I dare to say that you have put Malaysia in the world map and proud to be Malaysian. NEP is a great thing. Unacheivable now not your fault, simply because the people whether malays or chinese are not ready yet. If the Malays and Chinese can work together honestly helping each other this is achievable in a short time. Honestly helping each other is the key word the chinese will also benefit from the NEP.Beside the malays the chinese should also be the focus, finding honest chinese and malays working together will accellerate the objectives of NEP

3. Cronism like Reformasi is a sloganised word
   to lure unthinking Mob and Youth
   ………This typical of DSAI
   He expert at this . Veterant on mobilizing Mob since 1970s
   Kronism is networking some body has to be someone else Crony
   to have a stable system may it Bussiness ,Organization
   ………The efficient and trustworthy will be krony that is economics.
   In multilevel marketing is call down line
   In single level is Importer ,Wholesaler,Retailer of Producers,Collecter,Whole saler ,Exporter and Distributory
   Financer Bank ,Contractor,Subcontractor,Team Leader,Worker
   Chinese has all along practice these without saying it.
   In NEP every one is a crony some how
   Hanya Kendakalan DSAI graduan Malay Study( know nothing of Economy inspite of Finance Minister )melihat ia sebagai satu dosa satu jenayah atau pura tak faham dengan tujuan mempolitikannya.

4. Kronism like Reformasi is a sloganised word
   to lure unthinking Mob and Youth
   ………This typical of DSAI
   He expert at this . Veterant on mobilizing Mob since 1970s
   Kronism is networking some body has to be someone else kronony
   to have a stable system may it Bussiness ,Organization
   ………The efficient and trustworthy will be krony that is economics.
   Chinese has all along practice these without saying it.
   Hanya Kendakalan DSAI dair Malay Study melihat ia sebagai satu dosa
   satu jenayah

5. To true_indian
   That is the problem you remain a true Indian,you will remain so for next 100 years and Expecting Benifit of Malaysian like Iban,Kadazan,Murut ,Orang Ulu who are far far behind in opportunity and exposure so are the people of Ulu Tembeling,Kampung Bantal all the deep Felda settlement…………..NEP is still relevent for more years to come.
   To Zarir on
   “The problem is, poverty among the malays, chinese and indians are not solved. All what NEP does is further creates segements in between the Upper and Lower class earning capacity.”
   Capatilism creat un equality depending on ability,opportunity and luck but overall standard of living rise.
   Communism will creat equality in poverty due to in efficiency ,non incentive
   That Economic Law at work
   NEP diverse the wealth and upper capitalist rich among all the races…..this shall give a spill over effect.
   British Settlement Policy and British Tin Industry,Rubber Industry had creat Middle class Chinese,Bussiness Class Chinese and Assest own Chinese because in this Industry where the money and income were……..not in planting rice or fruits done by the Malay because price remain low so the money never flow to Malay instead to Burma and Thailand who export rice.Malay never have reserve to expend their economy thus remain poor.
   ……..So no midlle class Malay,Capitalist Malay or Bussiness class Malay………..This result of British Policy : Logic as far British Bussiness is concern and Colonial economy is concern.
   These condition that gave Chinese better position and networking to Move Forward at faster rate leap and bound ahead of Malay.
   Not so with Indian because the are wedge erner in estate ,happy and contented until Chinese builder took away their Estate due property development partly parly increase in population push them into Urban life which they are not prepare. So they organise into gang of tarik kereta,parking attendant and some gangsterism though some wise one work in Factory or involve in Bas Kilang.
   Sticking to Tamil School make them less competitive in Chinese Capitalist Market who prefers Mandrin or English.The trap themselve as minority. Having small population and midlle class trade only in Indian product make them less ability to tap greater market like Chinese who tap even Malay and Indian Market………and International too.
   NEP help creat bumi middle class ,thus bumi spending this give rise to certain exten some Malay bussiness which mainly Food because of Halal nature. Other bussiness is still monopolise by Chinese who expends into service indusrties. So NEP beneifit the Bumi but benifited Chinese much more. When Felda was opening the Chinese were the Contractor and machine operators they get their share well before rubber is tapable!!!
   Without NEP the bumi will be worse. Think about it. And the country get even worser.

6. Dear crazyidiot,
   Tun has provide better explanation in his latest article Affirmative Action. I hope you can try open up your mind and heart, read the article before making any further judgement to NEP.
   My point from the previous post was actually NEP works as corrective mechanism in terms of wealth allocation between races. If you do some reading, you basically will understand the British policy in our country during the colonization era that cause wide wealth disparity between races. As the result, Malays (which used to be farmer last time) were handicapped to compete on the level playing ground with other races. The consequence, big chunks of the Malays were in poverty.
   The problem is, poverty among the malays, chinese and indians are not solved. All what NEP does is further creates segements in between the Upper and Lower class earning capacity.
   The list of the class segementation that I stated last time does not cover percentage (as my estimation might not be accurate). But I’ll try to illustrate how the new segmentation actually managed reducing the level of poverty:
   1. Most of the poverty cases were faced by the Malays post independent.
   2. At that point of time, assume that 90% Malays were poor, 8% Malays were in the middle class, 2% Malays were in the upper class.
   3. After the implementation NEP, it could be something like 5% Malays are poor, 75% Malays are in the middle class, 20% Malays are in the upper class.
   4. There is a reduction in the poverty level (of course we need more time to achieve 0% poverty level).
   In terms of earning capacity bet ween these classes, definitely there will be disparities. If you can find any country where every single people is having same amount of income throughout the country, please let me know. Since there is always be a disparity income, what we need to focus is how to actually to control this disparity within a tolerable ratio.
   I totaly disagree that there are no Upper class malays earning much more than middle class indians and chinese citizens.
   I’m sorry, but I never stated or meant that there is no upper class Malays earning more than middle class indians or chinese. What I meant was, I believe there are still poverty cases involving chinese and indians as well.

7. Dear Zarir,
   The problem is, poverty among the malays, chinese and indians are not solved. All what NEP does is further creates segements in between the Upper and Lower class earning capacity.
   I totaly disagree that there are no Upper class malays earning much more than middle class indians and chinese citizens.
   This is why I am complaining that NEP is part of the problem and not part of the solution.
   Doctor Mahathir, you know medicine. Is this phrase true???? “ONE MAN’S FOOD IS ANOTHER MAN’S POISON”.
   Don’t tell me 25 years is not enough to eradicate poverty among the bumis ??? You’re just lying to your own race!! You’re cheeting yourself and your own race!!

8. The special position of the Malays by Tun Ismail Abdul Rahman
   “This proved a less intractable problem because the leaders of the Alliance realised the practical necessity of giving the Malays a handicap if they were to compete on equal terms with the other races. The only point of controversy was the duration of the “special position” – should there be a time limit or should it be permanent? I made a suggestion which was accepted, that the question be left to the Malays themselves, because I felt that as more and more Malays became educated and gained self-confidence, they themselves would do away with this “special position” because in itself this “special position” is a slur on the ability of the Malays and only to be tolerated because it is necessary as a temporary measure to ensure their survival in modern competitive world: a world to which only those in the urban areas had been exposed.”
   This analysis provides insight into how Ismail perceived the Malayan situation. What is striking is Ismail’s belief that the Malays would do the right thing in the long run, as well as his faith in the Alliance as a model of government capable of meeting these challenges taken as a whole.
   http://www.sun2surf.com/article.cfm?id=16726

9. Hello botak x box,
   firstly I am sorry that you have encountered the sort of discrimination u described in the private sector.
   Discrimination of any sort should not be tolerated. I agree that the sort of discrimination you describe exists even in the private sector, but it is not only limited to malays, it exists between Chinese & malays, indians and malays, chinese and indians,vice versa etc etc etc.
   2 wrongs don’t make one right and many wrongs still don’t make one right.
   However I think organisations would do well to hire the right person to do the job irrespective of race or religion because at the end of the day it would be bad economics to higher someone of the ‘right’ race but wrong ability.
   If the sort of discrimination u mention makes you angry, imagine how systematic discrimination against the non bumis makes them feel.
   I personally witnessed the HR Director of a very big and reputable malaysian company come under fire during a Board meeting for hiring more non bumis. & the statistics were 90 non bumis out of a total 3000.
   But the fact remained that the 90 non-bumis held more executive & managerial positions in proportion to their population.
   How could this be possible when the Board of directors were almost completely Bumiputra?
   It isn’t because more non bumis in this company were given the oppurtunity but because the non- bumis along with bumis who had the ability to do the job were given the chance while the remaining 50% just went along for the ride.
   In the words of our Tun,
   “Kita terpaksa menerima hakikat bahawa ramai penuntut Melayu dan bumiputra lain yang diterima masuk universiti memiliki kelulusan yang kurang baik daripada penuntut bukan Melayu. Samada mereka mendapat ijazah universiti atau tidak bergantung kepada kegigihan mereka menumpu sepenuh masa untuk menguasai ilmu melalui proses-proses pembelajaran ala universiti…
   AUKU – AKTA UNIVERSITI DAN KOLEJ UNIVERSITI
   Posted by Dr. Mahathir Mohamad at August 18, 2008 11:45 AM”

10. Dear Tun,
    Your simple and easily comprehensable outlines on NEP were indeed excellent. I found some of your respondent’s views very interesting and informative such as from The Stig August 6 4.20 pm with attachment on The Charade Of Meritocrarcy by Michael D. Barr. But some were downright clowns and maturity not as parr, well this is what we called freedom of speech or expression..
    Cronyism is happening everywhere , be it in govt or private. It’ll become prominence when it usually associates with personality in the corridor of power. Rightly or wrongly cronyism will be a weapon used by your foes to bash every inch of your flesh. More so if it involves public monies and enriched few individuals, so to speak. But on the other side of the moon, we are unable to gauge the seriousness of cronyism in the private sector, where non-bumi personality is being favoured against other non-bumis, and bumi is well assumed to be out of picture here. Cronyism in Private Sector is being done behind closed doors and not for public consumptions.So this is called Freedom of Action..So why are we yelling at, it happens on both sides. One enthic group benefits from side and the other benefitted from the other.
    Open system as advocated by some parties,would certainly not the perfect solution of eradication of cronyism or perhaps corruption. Negative perception still prevail, as long as there are aspiring parties that failed in their endeavours and accusations will flow uncensored.Therefore,cronyism will still be the label of the day whether things are done in an open, transparent and accountable manner or not. It is hard to condone human reactions,good maybe bad and bad maybe good, depends on which side of the bread you are looking at. So, don’t blame the leaders if you failed and look around you, be humble and be accommodative to those who are not of your own skin or ethnic group. I’m pretty sure in longer terms we’ll be able to emerge stronger for having undergone this pain.
    NEP is not a cardinal script and does not contain divine truth, is a man made document. It is far from perfect and maybe flawed. It maybe had achieved some of its objectives, some failed. Failures were not the resultant of NEP wholely, it was perhaps due the implementation techniques and to some extent the abuses that happened. NEP is meant for all, but the universal negative perception among non-bumis is overwhelming, we can’t blame them for that.The problems with dissatifaction of NEP among certain section of the society are the doings of some of our leaders who are not down to earth in follow-up and/or they failed to comprehend the macro and micro aspects of the NEP and its relevance to all societies.
    No doubt NEP had created many successful bumis in various sectors of eeconomies but as well as non-bumis, please take note of that. Failures that followed were not because of NEP, but because of some external factors which were beyond our control,such as 1997 financial meltdown.We need to unwind these failures in honest and accountable ways, where everybody has the chance on the pie.To make NEP relevent today leaders must admit it is elevent to all ethnic group and ensure the sharing is ratio accordance with what is stipulated in it.For the non-bumis, please don’t harbour bad perception on NEP, we have to work together to make it works though it had flawed back then.Our ultimate is to make Malaysia truly Asian, harmonious and united across racial line.Why can’t we share what we have, though we have cultural and religous divide.We. Malaysian are growing because our basic tenets of thought and action are not based on negativism…so let us together ponder over for the sake of our future generations.Don’t let the heart rules the head, it will be disastrous.
    Thank you Tun. Have a nice day and see you some other time.

11. By crazyidiot on August 11, 2008 3:48 PM
    IF NEP was working correctly for the past 10 or 15 years, why is it that thsese kind of cases still exist?
    http://www.nst.com.my/Current_News/NST/Monday/National/2317765/Article/index_html
    NEP only will help people like Mat Zakaria Derus to build bigger mansions.
    NEP = NONSENSE ECONOMIC POLICY
    You missed the point !!!
    I take back my word on I don’t care you know nothing about economics. Look crazyidiot, first of all when you try to look on the economic point of view, I would advise you try to look on the bigger picture first. Before the implementation of NEP, most of the wealth portion was owned by the chinese, inspite of their numbers are less compare to malays. Thus, the 1st step for create more balance portion between races is to allocate more portion to the malays. Here we are talking about allocation between races.
    I must agree with you, inspite of NEP manage to do something about allocation between the races, it just managed to create something like this:
    Before:
    1) Upper class chinese
    2) Middle class chinese
    3) Poor chinese
    4) Poor malays
    5) Poor indians
    After:
    1) Upper class chinese
    2) Upper class malays
    3) Upper class indians
    4) Middle class chinese
    5) Middle class malays
    6) Middle class indians
    7) Poor chinese
    8) Poor malays
    9) Poor indians
    The article posted by NST would pretty much referring to the poor malays. I believe they are still cases including chinese and indians as well. You can’t just quote a single case of poverty out of millions of people just to say that NEP doesn’t work. You missed the point.
    And I plead everyone of us play our roles in helping those that really in poverty level.. We can make a lot of difference. Pay our tax, pay our zakat (for muslims), govern the country properly (for government) and last but not least lend a helping hand to those who need our help.

12. Salam untuk Tun dan semua,
    Hello mjolnir, who said Malay don’t work hard as other races. Even with the NEP we still have to prove our self. For your information i’ll bet u know already, Malay who work in private sector are not given an equal chance as their felloow chinese & indian colleagues. Malay in private sector have been denied their promotion, good salary good position even we work hard, we upgrade ourself with master degree but we still left behind all those chine & indian colleagues…. We all can see in most private sector company Malay only qualified as a office boy, clerk or low rank executive very few manage to get the top position (but their salary were lower than their chinese & indian colleagues). In place where i worked, i could see when new staff coming in, if it is Malay he/she would be a clerk even with diploma (with good grade), but if other Malay he/she with non related Diploma they would be an Executive. So it is just????? Simple exemple is when shopping the most of the Malay don’t mind buying from other races but the chinese & indian will look for their own race…
    Without NEP Malay businessman cannot survive… as there are lot of double standard… I realise when Malay businessman buy raw material they get it at higher price compare to chinese businessman… so if there are no rules and condition on government contract there will be no more Malay businessman… and the Malay will be the poorest in Malaysia. What the NEP do is just to guide and to stablise the Malay Businessman together with the Malay communities. Other reces also benefited from NEP, as there were alot of alibaba company where the absolute profit goes to the chinese or Indian funder with a little bit left for the Malay but at least we still get the share from the cake…
    I know u will lebel me as ultra Malay or ultramen or ultra whatsoever… I don’t mind about that but of course like Tun said if a Malay talk about other races they will called racist… but when other races talk about Malay it will be called forum / discussion / dialogue… hehehe we can see the DOUBLE STANDART… pegi mamp** ler…
    Tentang kronisma, kita sebagai orang Melayu tak boleh melatah itu adalah dakyah dan permainan orang yang tidak mahu bangsa Malayu berjaya kerana Allah SWT ada berfirman kalau seingat sayalah berbunyi lebih kurang begini – bantulah adik-beradik, saudara terdekat, jiran sebelah rumah sebelum membantu orang diluar – maafkan saya jika ayat ini kuran tepat, jadi sesiapa dapat tolong saya untuk dapatkan ayat yang tepat dan dari surah manakah ayat ini saya sangat berterimakasih. Saya menyokong apa yang Tun perkatakan menenai DEB, tapi bagi saya DEB perlu di susun semula dan implementasinya dengan betul serta sentiasa dipantau.
    Wassallam…

13. Assalamualaikum, Tun.
    Regarding the NEP, many non-Bumi consider the NEP to be unfair, and this has been highlighted everywhere, even as debate motions for competitions. One of their main contentions for this view is the mistaken notion that 1-‘if the NEP is so successful, why are there still poor Malays?’, and 2-‘the NEP is bad, because it only gives the Bumi the fish rather than teaching him how to fish.’ And of course, some people repeated this line of argument here as well.
    But here’s the thing. In answering question 1, one must understand that the NEP, while its main idea is to eradicate poverty, never mentioned that the government in charge of the policy is solely responsible in this goal. It was clearly stated in Tun Dr M’s book, ‘The Way Forward’, that the NEP is there to give Bumi entrepeneurs a chance to be involved in business, and when successful, help those poor people in return.
    On question 2, the NEP is mistakenly identified as such. It is not giving the man a fish. The NEP is rather the fishing rod, which is necessary to help the man catch the fish to eat.
    If indeed we remove the NEP in order for this man to learn how to fish, then there will be a new problem. Because now, the man has the knowledge on fishing, but lacking the fishing rod, goes hungry. Doesn’t actually solve anything, does it now?
    Thank you.

14. Hi lebaikudin
    Amazing story.Nicely told.I must compliment you!
    Here are my additions:
    So what?
    Ah Longs are the most cunning species of Ketuanan Cina Kapitalist(MCA) in Malaysia, remember this, in capitalism democracy government system, the majority consumers are at the top of human food chain, if one Malay politician especially from UMNO does not get the majority support-votes even from the support of non-bumi votes, how could he catapult himself to higher social status and with power to grant and receive contracts to help himself and his people (or is it his cronies-supporters who get the benefits?)
    If Ah Longs are so bad and heartless as you peceive, why not ditch them now and get rid of MCA and other parasitic-majority consumers non-bumi Malaysians as your political partners?
    So why do we still see UMNO-MCA-Gerakan-MIC partnership in BN-Capitalist regime?
    Then again, pray tell us what are the differences between Ah Longs and bankers,IMF,World Bank, WTO, other Western-style banking and financial institutions.
    Sure, Ah Longs are heartless, cunning, evil, greedy, business-minded creatures but it is you, the Ultra-rightist Malays, who allow them to flourish through NEP in the first place!
    Who are the moronic creatures here..?
    So,lebaikuidn, take a good look at yourself, are you or are you not part of majority-consumers-commoners of humanity first, if so, remember this:
    “Beggars cannot be choosing!!!”
    Now you can see all those beggars from China lurking around in K.Lumpur, can you not….

15. Orang Asli allocations – not how much but what reaches them?
    The Budget states that the government is committed to improving the quality of life of Orang Asli, allocating RM170 million to the Department of Orang Asli Affairs to carry out numerous programmes and projects.
    We should listen to the views of the Orang Asli community, and the following are some feedback from the Center for Orang Asli Concerns (COAC).
    With regard to the financing of Orang Asli development, the issue is not how much is allocated in the annual budget but how much actually reaches the Orang Asli in real terms, in concrete benefits.
    Non-delivery of benefits
    A survey conducted COAC, POASM, YKPM and other NGOs involved with Orang Asli issues found that subsidies and allocations meant for the Orang Asli were not delivered to them. This included the education support for students coming from poor households (which the PM announced last year was increased from RM30.00 per student per month to RM50.00).
    In some districts, the transportation for Orang Asli schoolchildren was disrupted as the contractors were not paid their fees for months at a stretch (in Tapah this year, about 250 Orang Asli students had to skip school when the bus contractors decided to protest the 7-month delay in payment of their fees by refusing to transport the schoolchildren).
    In fact, in yesterday’s NST, in a report on the launching of the K9 school for the Orang Asli in the DPM’s constituency, the Education Minister admitted that the Orang Asli are now getting what the Malays got 50 years ago!
    Land encroachment and development
    Encroachment into Orang Asli traditional lands — a result of non-recognition of these lands as titled Orang Asli territories — have led to logging, land-grabbing and outside development (for others).
    It is now generally accepted, even by the Jabatan Hal Ehwal Orang Asli (JHEOA), that there can be no real development for the Orang Asli if there is no security of tenure.
    Thus far, the courts have also accorded the Orang Asli recognition of full title to their traditional lands. The authorities, however, still choose to deny the Orang Asli this fundamental right, thereby allowing the remaining lands of the Orang Asli to be slowly whittled away.
    Some of the lands that were approved for gazetting as Orang Asli Reserves as far back as the 1960s and 1970s were never administratively gazetted. In fact, some of these areas have now been reclassified as state land or Malay Reserve Land, or have been given to individuals and corporations — without the Orang Asli’s knowledge, let alone consent.
    And while it is being bandied about that the proposed Orang Asli Land Policy will address the Orang Asli land problem by setting aside some 75,900 hectares for 30,000 Orang Asli families, the reality is that the Orang Asli will stand to lose 51,798 hectares (40 per cent) of the 127,698 hectares that the government already recognises in 2003 as Orang Asli lands.
    Furthermore, these 6.25 acre (2.53 hectares) family plots are assigned to them on a 99-year-lease basis. Nothing can be more graphic of the Orang Asli’s fate — that their inalienable right to their land now has an expiry date.
    Agricultural development contracts keeping Orang Asli in poverty
    At a time when high commodity prices for rubber and oil palm are enabling smallholders to reap excess returns on their hard work, many Orang Asli cultivators are only enjoying dividends of about RM1,200.00 to RM1,500.00 per year.
    This is because the JHEOA has contracted out the development and management of such agricultural schemes to contractors such as Risda and Felcra, as well as other private contractors, who charge huge amounts as management fees, apart from deducting for fertiliser, labour (usually foreign), and other costs. The Orang Asli are treated as mere share-holders, enjoying the annual dividend that works out to about RM100.00 per month. In fact, there has been at least one case of an Orang Asli being arrested and put away in detention for tapping his own rubber trees (in RPS Betau, Pahang).

16. Why do malays need the NEP? Why can’t the malay work as hard as the chinese or indians at school,university or careers & compete on a level field with the rest, By making it easier for the malay, is the NEP really helping the malay?
    Far from helping the Malay people better themselves, the NEP has made them dependant on it. The malay people should shed their crutches and show that they do not need the NEP.
    I believe the proverb is Give me a fish & I eat a meal, Teach me to fish and I eat for a lifetime.
    If a deserving non-bumi is deprived of an education seat and a less qualified bumi receives it, does the bumi really gain? Will he be the best that he can be?
    If the bumi wants the same seat he should work as hard as the non bumi. If the seat is a professional one ie doctors, engineers etc, then at least he will be a competent professional in the future.
    The NEP which was meant to be a push start for the malay people has now become their biggest enemy.
    The NEP is not a substitute for dedication & perseverance.
    In the words of the Reid Commission which comprised of our founding father Tunku Abdul Rahman & the Malay Rulers,”in due course the present preferences should be reduced and should ultimately cease.” It is quite obvious that they had foresight.
    Affirmative Action Programs have failed where ever they have been practised, The NEP is one such program and it is time we did away with it.

17. Some 5,000 UiTM students marched to the Selangor State Secretariat in Bangunan Sultan Abdul Aziz Shah from Dataran Shah Alam to hand over a memorandum of protest over the MB’s suggestion that 10% of UiTM quota be opened to non-bumiputras and foreigners.
    Well its quite amusing that many of these students are still living in an age of ignorance and self-inflicting fear. Such stupidity.
    I guess they don’t believe in the concept of providing equal educational opportunities to young people regardless of one’s race.
    These students should worry about how many of them would actually get a stable job after graduation, rather than going about protesting like mindless numskulls.
    Either some might operate burger stalls or would shoot up to PakLah’s 4th Floor. PakLah needs young people like them.

18. Tun – i was educated in SRJK (B) Linsum, Rantau. when i was in primary school, my result is so..so. always dapat ard 10-15 out of 40 in my class. all the top students were malay boys and girls (one of which was my dream lover!). i still remember her name – Suriaton!!when we go to secondary school, somehow i started to overtake. i suspect 2 things may have happen. i knew back then that if don’t study my socks off, i will never go to university (at least this is what my parent told me). on the other hand, my malay schoolmate knew all they need is an average result to go to university. slowly we began to distance ourself.
    my theory is that all of us is born equally. but yr NEP really destroy the Malay spirit to compete. you may not agreed, but i am entitled to my view. if the malay are poor, you can setup scholarships for the poor. since most malay are poor, then by right most malay will still get the scholarship. but dun..lah set quota on % of malay & chinese & indian. and yr little napolean in the IPT make even worst.
    Tun – pls comment.

19. Salam Tun & fellow bloggers,
    To Collosos 13 Aug I got story for you:
    Three close friend a contractor (crony),estate worker(drunken master) and Along(red paint) died in a horrible car crash.Greeted by God,each person will be granted one last wish.
    Crony:Gimme all the contract in the world so I can help my people
    God:Granted
    Drunken master:Gimme all estates in the world so I can give job to my people
    God:Granted
    Red paint:Puuuut!(Farting)Catch this and paint it red
    God:(Amazed) Don’t you have any other worldly obsession?
    Red paint:I bet you can’t do it.Let’s put it this way.If you win,burn me in Hell through eternity.But if I win I want all their contract,estates and anything between Heaven and Hell.Oh,one more thing.I’ll leave my heart with you,I don’t need it
    Wassalam

20. 54 Cambodians win Chinese government scholarship(Xinhua)
    Updated: 2008-08-12 13:50 Comments(0) PrintMailPHNOM PENH — The Chinese embassy here on Tuesday handed over admission notices to 54 Cambodian winners of the Chinese government Scholarship for the academic year 2008-2009.
    The winners are recommended by different ministries and institutions, and they are awarded the scholarships after rounds of strict selections, said a press release issued by the Chinese embassy.
    All of them, including 21 bachelor’s degree candidates, 29 master’s degree candidates, two general scholars and two doctor’s degree candidates, will register in their universities in early September, making the total number of Cambodian students staying in China in academic year 2008-2009 reaching 80, it said.
    The scholarships for the 54 winners all fall into the category of Chinese government Scholarship, which is provided to outstanding Cambodian youths annually and include tuition fee, fee for accommodation and study materials, as well as a monthly living allowance, it added.
    The Chinese government cares for study and life of the foreign students, Zhang Jinfeng, Chinese Ambassador to Cambodia, said at the handover ceremony held in the Royal University of Phnom Penh ( RUPP).
    From January 2008, the living allowance for foreign students has been increased in an overall manner, she added.
    Meanwhile, the Chinese embassy Tuesday also donated more than 1, 000 books, magazines and CDs to the library of RUPP.
    __________________________________________________________
    So is this the meaning of “Tanah Melayu, Ketuanan Cina”??
    So where do the Malays stand as compare to the Cambodians, after 50years of independence and more than 30 years of NEP?
    Tell me now,all you Malays praising NEP (especially to you, lebaikudin and penukul), are you or are you not a product of NEP, a product creation from the Western colony power-England&USA?

21. Hello Tun
    Wish to point out a few points.
    1. Cronysim or not, if the Government had shares in failed projects or provided assistance to businessmen who ultimately failed because they were dishonest, then the Government has wasted the people’s money. Would like to see you write a piece on the Perwaja issue one day since the case has been thrown out by the court and the man behind it has died.
    2. The Chinese voted BN in 1999 not because they actually supported BN but because they were not happy that DAP was co-operating with PAS. Like this time many voted PR not because they actually fully supported their policies but because they were fed up with BN which had become arrogant.
    3. I find MARA colleges and Sekolah Menengah Sains against your policy of establishing Vision Schools. You wanted children of all races to mingle in Vision Schools but you also support the policy of having selected older students attend these special institutions which are overwhelmingly Malay. Again I hope you can pen a piece on this.
    Thank you and wish you good health always!

22. Salam,
    Dengan izin Tun,
    LOLMLY quote this
    “90% of the taxpayers are non-malays”
    mana fact ko dapat ni LOLMLY.. cakap biarlah berfakta.. PETRONAS je bagi kat kerajaan 40% tax plus dividen… ko ingat takde melayu ke bayar tax…
    Aku yakin selagi bumi majoriti kat Malaysia ni selagi itu bumi will conquered.
    Semoga Allah menurunkan Khalifah yang boleh memimpin negara dengan aman, makmur dan sejahtera.
    Amin.

23. ASSALAAMUALAIKUM TUN,
    TERIMA KASIH KERANA TUN MASIH SUDI MENJADI ‘PEMIMPIN’ KAMI. BANYAK KOMEN-KOMEN YANG MEMBINA DAN TIDAK KURANG YANG HENTAM KEROMO SAJA, SEPERTI SI BODOHGILA (CrazyIdiot). HARAP DIA NI FAHAMLAH BETUL-BETUL ISI KANDUNGAN SERTA MAKSUD TULISAN TUN NI, JANGAN MAIN NAK BANTAI AJE. MALULAH SIKIT KERANA KITA NI RAKYAT MALAYSIA YANG TINGGI BUDI PEKERTINYA…
    TUN, KALAU KELAPANGAN HARAP TUN BUAT KOMEN SIKIT TENTANG RANCANGAN TV SEKARANG NI, SAYA PERHATIKAN TERLALU BANYAK RANCANGAN TAHYUL / MISTIK DSB YANG TAK BERFAEDAH.
    TERIMA KASIH TUN… Plese take care….

24. IF NEP was working correctly for the past 10 or 15 years, why is it that thsese kind of cases still exist?
    http://www.nst.com.my/Current_News/NST/Monday/National/2317765/Article/index_html
    NEP only will help people like Mat Zakaria Derus to build bigger mansions.
    NEP = NONSENSE ECONOMIC POLICY
    You missed the point !!!

25. Guys,
    Currently, there are a new breed of malays emerged. If we go to any new township, especially those with majority malays residents, most of the retail shops are run by malays,be it hardware, laundry, stationery, automobile workshop, computers, restaurant and etc. It’s a good sign guys, the malays are now going into retail business in huge waves unlike last time, the malays are only willing to venture into food restaurants (mainly kelantanese). So, I would like to take this opportunity to congatulate those who have the willingness to venture into retail business since it’s good for our economy before we can venture into distributorship and wholesalers. With that we can improve our GDP tremendously and maybe we can target for 60% shares in malaysian economy even better than the target of 30% thru NEP coz we are the majority guys..remember malays stand for more than 60% of the total Malaysian Population..just remember ‘9/10 punca rezeki dtg dari berniaga’ so what are we waiting for we must make the initiative to get involved in any possible business that’s possible in order to lift our race std of living a step or two higher.

26. By crazyidiot on August 6, 2008 10:31 AM
    Tun,
    Dengan dukacitanya, saya mengumumkan bahawa saya TIDAK SOKONG NEP.
    NEP adalah punca kenapa PROTON jual MV Agusta dengan Euro 1.
    NEP adalah punca kenapa PETRONAS SAHAJA yang dapat masuk dalam FORBES 500 dan bukan company company yang lain di Malaysia.
    NEP perlu dimansuhkan, dimusnahkan, dikoyakkan, dibuang dalam sungai supaya tidak memperbodohkan rakyat dengan cara memberikan insentif insentif yang di salahgunakan oleh Bumiputra.
    Wow~ What a statement from crazyidiot. I can’t tell you much on the Proton side, but your statement on PETRONAS is listed in FORBES 500 because of NEP ALONE, is pretty much irrelevant.
    Looks, croniysm couldn’t help any company to stay alive in global arena. Please widen your brain a little bit, and looks how PETRONAS is performing in the global arena now. They are not only operating in Malaysia, they are operating more than 32 countries and expanding. They are people who committed to contribute to our nation (basically to you), and you just don’t realize your life today won’t be as good as it is now without their contribution all this while. They make billions of profit, paying taxes and create job opportunities for Malaysians. Again, I said Malaysians, not Malays. Whatever you enjoy now in Malaysia, 30% is coming from them. So be grateful.
    The most beautiful thing about this GLC such as PETRONAS, they make money for the rakyat, which is being channeled to the government (whether the govt spend it wisely or not, you have to ask them) and not for group of small people which normally contribute to increase of income disparity between the rich and the poor.
    So think about it.
    Please grownup. Or perhaps you flunked your Sejarah Malaysia subject back in your secondary school (I don’t mind if you know nothing about economy, but it is a basic that you need to know why NEP is important to stabilize country).

27. 1)’cronyism'(if it is so call cronyism) is practice everywhere, office, community, business, suppliers, education, universities intakes, etc etc. even employment also exist this cronyism.
    2)say in employment, the candidate chosen can be a relative or ‘somebodys’ daughter or have some connectionlah
    3)some are done blatantly some in a hush hush way…
    4)well. people say biasalah tu…
    5)what to do even nik aziz say his son qualified..even rasullullah have related person in his office.
    6)kerja bagus pun org akan bising…kalu kerja celaru dan messy lagi org bising2(tapi cuma bising2 dibelakanglah)..
    7)kan semuanya kena pandai pandai…
    8)cakap pun kena pandai pandai..
    9)so kira oklah tu…
    10)wallahualam…

28. Dear Tun, A’kum.
    Its interesting to hear Nik Aziz now say that cronyism is in fact consistent with Islamic laws. If this was the case now, I presume it also was the case when you were our PM. Strange that he never bothered to mention this fact before…. 😉
    I do agree that cromyism is in fact a form of meritocracy. It would only be detrimental if NO opportunity was given to new comers to have a go at proving themselves. If this is the case, then cronyism becomes favouritism.
    Warm regards,
    RR

29. Who ever said LIFE is FAIR! But as human beings the sense of wanting fair treatment and justice is in-born. It a basic human need that Allah has given us.
    But what is fair to one Human will be very different to what is fair to another. To a society struggling with poverty, hunger and famine – access to life giving food and water will satisfy their need for their need for fairness and justice. Nothing else matters. To a society relishing the stablity of the economy, socio-political and are well fed; their need for the higher need for justice in being treated fairly in the distribution of wealth and opportunities becomes more apparent. It all depends on the needs level of the individual and a society as a whole, as define by Maslow in his study of Human needs.
    What it all boils down to, is the human definition of what is fair, is very much dependent of ones context or persepction or station in life. It is relative and NOT absolute.
    Granted the Chinese & Indians in Malaysia will feel slighted by the NEP’s bias towards the Bumis. Just as the Malays in Singapore feel the same way. The system in Singapore is pro-merit, but the Malays there are already a disadvantages group being less developed in their relatively young culture and realisation of the need and priority to education and financial indepenence in terms of developing sharp business acument, etc… the race started with them in a handicapped position. On top of that they have to fight of the stigma of the further advanced chinese’s (who are the majority) rulers and bosses that the malays, eventhough they have moved ahead and developed are not up to mark. This natural bias is also a human trait (albiet weakness).
    So it is in Malaysia, for the leaders the need of being fair has it priority in having a country which is stable, its people living in harmony and safety for all citizens. The context in Malaysia at its inception and also now, calls for the policy which cannot yet allow a level playing field for all races. Because history and the cultural developmemt of the races had already set the stage where the field is NOT level. For the sake of National Development of all citizens the NEP was the best inspiration mooted by our early leaders.
    It must also be said that with time and new developments the NEP needs constant review and dialogue with all the races represented by political parties in BN.
    Those supporting PKR be aware that you are asking for a change which is not tested, not clear and a grave danger to our nation. If you are itching for change you better be sure it works. The stability and security of our nation cannot be left to chance. It must be planned and not have even a 0.01% chance of failure as the consequence is very very severe to everyone. You can witness it in the events happening in other independent countries. PLEASE DO NOT GO THAT WAY!!
    For all the difference of the races and people of our beloved country – we need one thing that will glue us together – and that glue is the single VISION that all of us can share together. Tun had that in place – the Wawasan 2020. Whatever our creed or belief we all share this vision. It will unite US ALL as one nation.
    Granted Malaysia’s NEP policy will not please all and we will have people who will jump-ship to places they think will suit their aspirations, as many Chinese and Indian Malaysians have done and will be doing by going to Singapore. It is indeed Malaysia’s lost and Singapore’s gain. But than again these are losses that Malaysia can live with, in the name of Malaysia’s Security, Safety, Stability and National Development.
    Hidup Tun! Hidup Malaysia! Hidup Wawasan 2020!
    Lets be diverse BUT united in our Vision!

30. Assalamualaikum Tun
    mangkuk punya anuar sangup nak mansuh NEP janji dapat kuasa. kalau dah dapat kuasa apa pulak dia buat. 1. pertama-tama sekali halal kan sodomi. 2. ajak bush duduk kat rumah dia (senang nak buat projek) 3. kumpul harta banyak bayak.
    Semoga Tun dan keluarga sihat sejahtera . amin

31. this world has been for many centuries been the battleground of the good and the evil.the playground where the battle is to determine the standpoint of mankind against his decision to choose sides.during the battle there is no sense of standing on the fence to see which side wins or falls.it has been always team ‘A’ or team B’.one thing is certain ,if the evil wre to have won the battle ,there would have been many suffering in this world.the good have won in each battle since centuries ago.bringing fairness to everyone.
    otherwise there wouldnt have been prosperity and peace.there has been growing peace,harmonious culture,healthiness and equal distribution.
    as times goes by ,these things change.the evil manifest in the hearts of man.the lust ,greed,difference of clour ,creed and caste,so does the thirst for power and hunger for recognition of supremacy over others of his same kind.the intention and greed to overcome,rule and dominate others who are the same just like him.holding supremacy among the others who live just like him.
    here is where the darkside of man manifest stronger .everything will be done to ensure this in the name of goodness as the path only unveil,only one will overide to be supreme instead of equality to the grace of the entirerity.man forgets that some lives lavish as the others suffer and strive with hunger.
    whatever happens what we least realise is that the blood and bones are never seperated as these two never know anyting else except unity of the highest divinity and the law of nature.man does.why?
    man has feelings.feeling are never pure.no one takes the effort to filter it with commonsense.the word ‘common’ sense itself speaks of the meaning but least does man use them for the right purpose.god gave to man as a higher inteligence to differenciate things.most of the time the same commonsense is use against humanity whereby they use it to overide others and deny them the rights to live among many with equal rights.
    after many centuries this do happen.that is always the way of man.not mankind of course.the word man ‘kind’ is too human.who’s fault is this and who shall we blame.the margin is always there as time goes by.some are left behind to suffer and some live as lavish.the same lust ,greed and thrist of man for supremacy is the course of all this.
    history proves of many sufferings and the same history proves of the adjustments done.man are the cause,who else.cause for all the dame and destruction.who else must correct it except man corrects himself.the ego which clouds him will never be sacrificed.there is no price for that.too expensive!the nature has given signals of the overwhelming of human nature.it rebels now.nature is changing,will man change? an important question that each and everyone of us must ask themselves.
    the unconditional love beyond caste,creed and colour.the heart to give beyond the thirst and greed to withold.only there we will be able to find purity.where else except in the heart of the very man himself.now its dark.
    purity toward the nature of entirerity id the supremacy against and legacy i would say.the atmosphere will change.when comes punishment ,he becomes scared.he fears upon what he tought he has conquered.
    today we can see the highest technology and techniques of man fail to protect man of his ownb faults.he cant stop what is happening.he never can,never could and never will.why? this is a world of happening and not the world of doing.nothing was done,everything just happened.nothing was created by man either.everything was already there.he was blind whe he only could see the physicall part of the manifestation.where the physical eye cant acknowledge it declares it as void and unknown.the one who were brave went further to see into the operating and acknowledge some existence to find and what was put into technique’s and methods to be used in daily life.in actual it was already there operating in nature.we just tap it for daily use.there was never inventions or creations.it was just further acknowledgement which even in the slightest mean that man have conquered something.what is happening today is the prove to mans achievement.
    in olden days we had barter trade.life was simple.we want coffe we will have to trade with those who has coffe with what we have under mutual agrem,ent of the quantity and the quality.man wanted to interact on international level.the intention in the beginning was a good as to the trade was causing delay.they created money and started using under mutual agreement.money became the “tool of transaction”.many institutions and movements were set to control the flow.somewhere along the road,things changed.man also found how to make the most out of these movements without working and making others suffer.they found loop holes in transactions and found how to make the most out of it without sweat in their foreheads.money became the tool of supression and a whip to make others bow.it became a culture of the world that today man dont control any trade but instead bow to money as the master to be alive.just by wearing a coat and a neck tie he knows how to make money.everyone else bows to his power of wealth,in actual what he hold is just paper worth nothing.it was commonly agreed to be used as a tool.nothing more than that.today if everyone declares that they dont want this tool and want to return to barter trade ,many countries who declares supremacy upon owning wealth will suffer of hunger and poverty.the money has become evil.man does anything to gain money.it makes the world go round.wealth and money means power.more money ,more power.more power more evil! more evil finally becomes the devil among the living.so scary.
    today the drums of paper adminstrate the world at large.no one can deny this.what money was intented in the beginning is never the same as what it is achieved today.the paper is the same but the minds of man have been moulded towards something else.they have become slaves of this paper.nothing more.
    what can anyone do.there is no interval inbetween.today the rise of a country and a down fall of a country is because of the currency.how shamefull.even when a country have everything to live,yet things become tough and hard each and everytime.this is the trend of the world today.nothing more and nothing less.
    we have to look at the what a beautiful world that all of us have created.what a wonderful world.sometime i wonder to myself of what actually man wants.every day since we are born we are made to count death by second,minutes,hours,days,wekks,months,years and finally decades.the lucky ones counts to reach decades.some end counting by monhs or years only.this is what everyone is doing.,counting death everyday.when it will come and when our counting will stop,thats the suspense that god left for man.No suprise no fun.thats the name of the game.
    today we celebrate as a whole to what we have created without acknowledging the suffeing and the hunger ones who strive to live a daily life.many only celebrate the gain of supremacy against others.thats the victory for them.more paper,more wealth.more wealth will be always be followed by more greed.what else is there to live for in daily life instead of the rat race.
    if i write more than some one will say that i am promoting communism.i am just saying and pointing of the mind change in man who dont realize the use of money and the actual purpose of it.the world have changed and became cruel money and power man does anything.he becomes the devil.his heart becomes black.black heart ,dark minds.

32. the permatang pauh election will be very fierce.the heat is already on.
    almost everyone is talking about it.basically i think it is the reportcard for anwar for all his effort all this time.
    many will be focusing on the election results.the election is very important.whatever done the strategies must be well drawn.
    the art of war. i am sure he has already drawn it earlier.he must have been following something to gain success in the election.
    whatever he does and whatever he has planned always can be failed if efforts and smartness is there.the most important everyone get together and form a united team.
    indians are moving in fast and talking to each and everyone.
    from here i can see that teh team has started to move.if the indians are moving inbetween to gain the support from others then the only way to prove that indians are supporting the election is to move in the indians in mic during the election.let people watch teh amount of indians holding the barisan flag calling for unity.the ones moving in to talk to some people are only a few but scattered.they are giving confidence that the power and admistration will come to us,dont worry.we will take back soon.matter of time.
    all this are false hope tun.false hope given to them by the stupid man saying that indians or chinese will become prime minister.the important question here is when anwar wins,who will become prime minister? of course anwar,who else.during that time he will do exactly what umno and barisan did.nothing more nothing less.he will follow that trend because he wont have any more idea of his own self.
    the problem here is that he has instigated many.all this people already have the culture.for instance we see his own good friend nallakarpan has walked out on him after staying for sometime and fighting for him.now thats what is going to happen to many when he hold power.they will walk out on him.if they can do it when he is an adviser to pkr ,what will be situation when he becomes a pm.
    indians have a saying” korengge kitte pomalai kidacha materi” means ,like a garland in amonkeys hand.what if a monkey gets a garland? its actually a saying that monkey doesnt know what a garland is.what the momkey knows is to tear anything into pieces and move away after doing that once anything gets to its hand.
    he will have many tricks to safely sit in the parliament.if strategies are right then i think it will not be possible.he has his advisers.they are all dirty people.
    i read the chandra muzzafar statement in the press yesterday 09/08/08.it says that anwar is going to stand in the election and later it is a dirty way to take over the goverment.the statement is wrong.
    actually anwar have promised to take over the govt on the 16th of sept.there is no reason to say he wont.in fact that is only his imagination.whether he has won the seat or not doesnt make any difference.if he wins also he will the pakatan rakyat chief.if he dont he will be the adviser behind them.it doesnt make the difference as he is the one till now moving the pakatan andd holding them not to break with many empty promises.
    one thing i am sure.if he wins problem will be more.he will be able to access to press statements more and cause more chaos in the country.he will say many things which is not said in the parliment.he make a lot of blunder and say things against the govt.thats for sure.he will conspire with many among the govt representatives.he will either gain what he wants or he will destroy it.he doesnt care.he wants what he wants.he is not a man of good moral.

33. good morning tun,
    wow! i can see great comments pouring into your comments column.many are pouring in their toughts.tempat mengadu,tempat mencadang dan tempat menyokong.bantah pun ada jugak.
    the problem with the press is that they do come out with alot of articles.those articles are most of the time complaint as the toughts and statements from the goverment.the amount of people who support and the amount who oppose are never taken into consideration as the ones who read it leaves the paper so does the forgetful which clouds their mind later.
    however with the the beautiful words and the proper language plus the remarkable actual revelation is beautifully written.
    i admire alot of the ways of your language tun.makes many realize what is going on.makes people know what is what and what is not.you know why?
    because they are reading something whqt a former prime minister is writing.not just a reporter.a man who was a prime minister.for almost everyone ,that the word of authority.
    you word against anwar,i think just like a prime minister talking and a tpm saying something.who will people listen more? of course the words of the PM because he is the ultimate authority.
    this particular article would have opened the eyes of many.
    the one who comments are many beyond that amount are the ones who click in to read the articles.many also use that for opposition purpose and some to know the latest changes.
    a good comment from a former PM to many in a very fair manner.

34. SALAM SEMUA…
    NEP BOLEH DIUMPAMAKAN SEPERTI SEBATANG POKOK YANG BERBUAH EMAS.PADA DASARNYA POKOK BERBUAH EMAS INI ADALAH UNTUK SEMUA RAKYAT. NAMUN AKIBAT SIFAT TAMAK DAN TIDAK BERHATI PERUT POKOK BERBUAH EMAS INI HANYA DIKUASAI OLEH KUMPULAN KUASA YANG KUAT ATAU DOMINAN. KUMPULAN YANG BERKUASA INI TELAH MEMETIK HASIL(BUAH EMAS) INI SETIAP HARI SECARA RAKUS TANPA MEMBAHAGIKAN KEPADA ORANG LAIN YANG BERHAK. NAMUN SEKALI SEKALA KUMPULAN BERKUASA INI MEMBERI SEDIKIT KEPADA KAUM KELUARGA ATAU KRONINYA YANG TERDEKAT.
    AKHIRNYA KERANA KETAMAKAN GOLONGAN INI MAKA POKOK BERBUAH EMAS INI MENJADI SEOLAH-OLAH TIDAK BAIK DAN INGIN DIHAPUSKAN OLEH RAKYAT SEKITARNYA KERANA HANYA MEMBERI MANFAAT YANG BERTERUSAN KEPADA KUMPULAN KUASA YANG KUAT INI TADI.NAMUN KUMPULAN YANG BERKUASA DAN TAMAK INI TETAP MEMPERTAHANKAN POKOK BERBUAH EMAS INI DENGAN ALASAN IA TELAH MEMBERI KEBAIKAN KEPADA EKONOMI RAKYAT SEKITARNYA DENGAN MEMBERI CONTOH KEJAYAAN KRONINYA YANG BERASAL DARI PENDUDUK SEKITARNYA. JADI APAKAH POKOK BERBUAH EMAS INI TIDAK BAIK? ATAU GOLONGAN PELAKSANAKNYA(PEMIMPIN DAN KRONI BN) YANG TAMAK YANG MENJADIKAN POKOK INI SEOLAH-OLAH TIDAK MEMBERI MANFAATNYA? BAGI KEBAIKAN SEMUA PIHAK PERLUKAH POKOK BERBUAH EMAS INI DITEBANG ATAU DIHAPUSKAN DENGAN MENGGANTIKAN ATAU MENANAM POKOK EMAS AYANG BARU?
    ATAU KUMPULAN KUASA YANG DOMINAN(BN-UMNO) YANG TAMAK INI PERLU DIHAPUSKAN ATAU DIKURANGKAN KUASANYA…?
    FIKIR2LAH SENDIRI….

35. 2ND EDITION
    Salam AYAHANDA RAKYAT TUN,
    Izinkan,
    By fallendog on August 8, 2008 10:05 AM
    Of the 500 odd comments here, about 1/2 of them have serious rasict implications. I believe all those comments are made out of fear rather then pure hatred for your fellow msian brothers.
    My msian brothers must not fear that when the NEP is removed, you’ll will be once again left behind. ALot of things have changed since 1970. Do you’ll really believe that if the goverment stops the NEP , that all these bumis will end up back in the kampong ?…
    RACIST? FEAR? CHANGES? BALIK KAMPUNG?
    If the bumis are the racists, the immigrant races would not have enjoyed the rights to vote in this country.
    If we fear, its the fear of the recurrence of the black day on the immigrant races
    If there’s changes, its only the physical development and its infrastructures but the disparities in the socio, economic and political contributions are still to be desired.
    Its not so much that these bumis will end up in the kampungs but the non-bumis ‘retreating’ to the ‘Nirvana Memorial Parks’
    May we REPHRASE ‘fallendog’ statement.
    Of the 500 odd comments here, about 1/2 of them have serious rasict implications. I believe all those comments are made out of CONCERN rather then pure hatred for your fellow msian brothers.
    My SKIN brothers must KNOW that when the NEP is removed, you’ll will be once again live in FEAR. A Lot of things have changed since 1970 ESPECIALLY THE PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT AND ITS INFRASTRUCTURES BUT WE HAVE TO BE REASONABLE TO ACCOMODATE OUR MALAY BROTHERS. WHY DO WE STILL NEED OUR ASSOCIATIONS?, THE HAKKA, THE CANTONESE, THE HOKKIEN, ETC. WHY DO WE STILL INSIST ON CHINESE AND TAMIL MEDIUM IN EDUCATION? Do you really believe that if the goverment stops the NEP , that all these bumis will end up back in the kampong ?
    THINK AGAIN COZ I AM AFRAID WE CUD BE THE ONES RETREATING TO THE ‘NIRVANA MEMORIAL PARKS!
    We have to change OUR mindset TO ACCOMODATE OTHER msians ESPECIALLY OUR RACIST APPROACHES IN BUSINESS AND OUR ‘ANYTHING UNDER THE SUN’ BUSINESS CULTURE MUST BE ABOLISHED.
    People MUST be rewarded for merit and not be EXPECTED to be rewarded bcos of skin color AND OFFERINGS(BRIBES, WOMEN, VINE AND SONG). WE MUST UNDERSTAND OUR BUSINESS CULTURE IS ‘TABOO’ TO OUR MUSLIM BROTHERS.
    WHEN ONLY ALL THE ABOVE CAN BE ELIMINATED PERHAPS THEN WE CAN DEMAND THE SAME PLAYING FIELD.
    CAN WE?
    AS FOR ME, I WISH TO STAY AS ‘FALLEN DOG’ THAN AS A ‘FALLEN PIG’
    – I like to state here that I believe the NEP was necessary when implemented but now this policy threatens to destroy msians economic future.
    THINK AGAIN!
    THE TWO SIDES OF THE RINGGIT,
    THE BUMIS LOVE THE ‘AGUNG’ FACE
    THE NON BUMIS LOVE THE FIGURES
    SO LIVE AND LET’S LIVE.

36. Salam Tun,
    Satu artikel yang menarik.
    Negara kita sekarang sudah terlalu korup dan ianya bermula dari zaman Tun lagi. Ianya bermula dengan pengenalan konsep privatisation yang Tun bawa. Konsep privatisation Tun menguntungkan segelintir bumiputra seperti Tun Daim, Halim Said, Tajuddin Ramli, Wan Azmi, Wan Adli, Syed Mokhtar, anak Tun sendiri dan beberap yang lain.
    Kenapa projek utiliti ini perlu diswastakan kalau ianya boleh dikorporatkan sahaja? Bukankan sebelum ini kita telah berjaya dengan TNB,MISC,Petronas,Mas,Pernas?

37. Assalamualaikum Tun,
    saya sangat sangat setuju apa yang diperkatakan oleh Tun,
    Kini dengan kerajaan yang direrajui oleh Perdana Menteri@Abdullah Ahmad Badawi …
    tak cukup dengan pembahagian kontrak kepada Anak, Menantu dan sekarang ini, beliau dikata kan menolong kaum kerabat isteri baru kesayangan nya Jeanne Danker , melepaskan semua projek event yang besar besar didalam syarikat Petronas, semua disapu bersih oleh kaum kerabat kepada isteri beliau yang baru……….. iaitu Christine Danker/Francis Danker dbawah nama company …..”Memories Entertainment”.
    Sepatutnya Petronas memberi peluang kepada company bumiputera yang berkelibar, untuk menjayakan acara acara besar. Bukan nya tak ada organisasi pengurusan acara@event management bumiputera yang layak untuk mejayakan sesuatu acara besar yang dianjurkan oleh Petronas, tetapi acapkali diberikan kepada company yang sama sahaja iaitu “Memories Entertainment”, adakah ini patut.
    Bagaimana syarikat yang besar dan berjaya seperti Petronas seolah olah tidak ada bahagian Procument,,,untuk menapis segala sebutharga yang sepatutnya diagih agih kan kepada syarikat bumiputera? bukan nya hanya tertumpu kepada hanya syarikat yang sama sahaja.
    Saya amat berbangga sebagai anak Malaysia semasa Tun memerintah, tapi sekarang saya amat malu untuk mengatakan Abdullah Badawi adalah Perdana Menteri saya….maap je lah….
    Akhir sekali saya bagi pihak keluarga saya sentiasa mendoakan Tun sihat selalu…

38. I agree with some opinions here that there’s almost nothing wrong with the NEP itself; it’s the implementation. Maybe I’m wrong but I do feel that the implementation need to be revised; obviously there is way too much changes between now and a couple of decades ago.
    Amir Hamzah

39. Assalamualaikum Ayahanda Tun,
    Semoga Ayahanda sihat dan terus menulis untuk tatapan dan renungan rakyat Malaysia.
    Audi

40. To overseasm’sian,
    Why in God’s name, pray tell are the Chinese and Indians the more deserving race? Because you suffered whilst living in Malaysia? That we kept you segregated in the dumps of malaysia or denied you the right to education and health services? That you were not allowed to use the roads, electricity, water or sanitation? That you are unable to set up business and continue to employ only chinese speaking employees? That your ancestors were forced to give up all their titles and lands when independance was achieved?
    And what did you do to deserve more? Did you embrace the sekolah wawasan which was meant to integrate the races? Did you send your children to a sekolah kebangsaan so that they could learn to live with other races apart from their own? Did you even pass your BM paper in SPM?
    I am more than willing to get rid of the crutch that is NEP and open up all our MRSMs and so forth so long that the vernacular schools are abolished and we have one single education system and one single culture and identity – MALAYSIAN!!

41. “Iamhere”, I read your writing. Im not saing NEP is wrong. Simply do not over do it. Without NEP the chinese would have dominated the business in total and would have been impossible to inherit knowledge or know-how,even a tiny peck of it since it would have been “family secrets”.
    Indians would have dominated the academic and administration faculties and treated others as outcastes. Shame to BOTH !!
    The malays had their 1969, the threshold, the last straw that broke the camel’s back…….that was the natural course of action.
    The Indians had their Nov 2007 for the very same reason, but branded as bad people and extremists.
    Nature does not permit anyone to be cornered. It was simply a sign of desparation. Though there are many points raised by them which I disagree…… just because Dravidians are known as temple builders, one can’t just simply go around build temples everywhere. Majority of these temples are indivual family owned since it is the pride of a family for Indians/Tamils to own a temple. It may begin with a piece of brick and expand to megasize later. Malaysian Indians whould stop this very attitude. Anyway majority of them are from the rural and have no understanding of it nor education. Can’t blame them. The authorities have behaved like self-declared Wahabi’s and gangsta’s.
    Why such hatred? I have read, one of the Sufi masters once said that even to treat a poor man and a rich man differently constitutes violence.Such compassion! And people think religion and spirituality is cheap………

42. Salam Tun&bloggers,
    To Collosus Aug 8,
    You are missing the point my dear friend.Read the fine line.COMPARE how LUCKY you are living on our mercy!
    To T Aug 8,
    I hope when the next May 13,1969(God forbid) happen you try to stand in my way,lets see what happen..
    Wasalam

43. To those who feel so proud of their belief in Bumiputeraism, here are two important notes for you to chew on and digest:
    “Frankly, I’d be insulted if I were told the reason I was being hired was because of my ancestry. I would much rather work for someone like T.J. Rodgers, who is known to take time during meetings to tell his staff (which originated from almost every continent in the world) that they’re there because they’re the best at what they do, not because of whoever their ancestors were.” — Rick Gaber
    “Money dissolves skin colour on contact. The fact that Silicon Valley, the freest market in the world, has produced the United Colours of Geek proves it.” — Dan Gardner

44. This article is such a JOKE! Too many of us know that cronyism and nepotism were terms coined when this country was under your 22-year dictatorial regime. You malays know, that without your certain ‘rights’, you would be nowhere near the deserving races i.e. the Indians and Chinese who know what it means to come up the hard way.
    Assuming the NEP has worked for you lot, then how do explain the huge disparity between the rich and poor malays. The rich keep on getting wealthier through cronyism and nepotism whilst the poor degenerate into legless beings! So much for your ‘fair and just’ NEP. Why do you think there are so many malays out there who continue to whinge about not enjoying the benefits of the NEP?

45. NEP telah dilaksanakan dengan salah. NEP telah menjadikan contractor bumiputra menjadi takut bersaing. Ini kerana NEP telah memberi kuota kepada bumiputra walaupun sebut harga berratus kali ganda daripada harga pasaran.
    Ini telah menyebabkan kroni-kroni Dr.M menjadi kaya raya. Sebagai contoh UEM telah mendapat kontrak membina Jambatan Pulau Pinang. Sebut harga berbillion-billion. Maka bila tol dikenakan semestinya membebankan rakyat juga.
    Sepatutnya kontrak terbuka sepatutnya dilaksanakan. Oleh kerana kontraktor bumiputra kurang daya saing, “handicap” perlu diberikan. Sebagai contoh, sekiranya kontraktor bukan-bumiputra boleh buat projek berharga 1 billion, kontraktor bumiputra boleh diberikan “handicap” 15% maka mereka mesti boleh membuat kontrak dengan harga 1.15 billion. BUKAN 4 BILLION!!!!
    Setiap 5 tahun “handicap” boleh dikurangkan kepada 14%, 13% sehingga menjadi 0%. Maka ini akan memastikan bukan sahaja kontraktor bumiputra dibantu, ia juga akan membantu menigkatkan daya saing di mana satu hari nanti Bumiputra boleh berdiri tanpa TONGKAT!!!

46. Dear Tun M,
    Idea NEP tidak salah, malah saya yakin bukan-melayu menyokong matlamat awal NEP.
    Akan tetapi implementasi NEP telah tersasar. NEP diwujudkan untuk meningkatkan jurang kemiskinan di khaskan untuk golongan miskin semua kaum (melayu majority miskin). Akan tetapi ia telah disalahgunakan untuk membantu Melayu sahaja. Melayu miskin dan Melayu Kaya. Lihat sahaja lah berapa anak datuk dan tan sri mendapat baisiswa untuk belajar luar negara walaupun berkemampuan.
    Matlamat NEP kedua ialah untuk mewujudkan Melayu yang berkebolehan yang boleh hidup tanpa tongkat. Akan tetapi pada hari ini ramai graduan melayu masih tidak boleh bertanding tanpa subsidy. Megapa ini berlaku??? Ini adalah kerana implementasi NEP telah salah.
    Pada hari ini 80% daripada university tempatan adalah untuk melayu, itm 100% melayu. Malah di kolej-kolej persendirian juga pelajar melayu diberi baisiswa MARA untuk belajar. Hari ini seorang pelajar bukan melayu boleh mendapat 5A dalam STPM tetapi tidak boleh medapat tempat di university tempatan. Pelajar bukan melayu yang mendapat 10A tidak layak mendapat biasiswa. Ramai pelajar cemerlang ini adalah bukan melayu yang miskin. Tetapi kerajaan Malaysia telah melupakan mereka.
    NEP tidak salah, tetapi ia tidak patut menjadi halangan pelajar cemerlang daripada melanjutkan pelajaran.
    Sebagai contoh, semua IPT tempatan perlu ada kuota 50% dikhaskan untuk pelajar Bumiputra miskin. Selebihnya, boleh dibukakan untuk semua pelajar untuk bersaing untuk memasuki university. Saya yakin pelajar melayu mampu untuk bersaing samarata dengan bukan melayu untuk mendapat tempat di university. ini akan membuat pelajar melayu berkerja lebih kuat dan menjadi lebih berkualiti.

47. Salam Tun,
    I am one of those who benefitted from the NEP. The best part about Malaysia those days is that we were given a chance to succeed. Nothing more than that. We just want to live a life where we can live peacefully among other races without a feel of hatred. Probably the malays would want to have more because of the ‘social contract’ thing but personally that does not deprive other races to not succeed. Chances are always there. What is important is the will to succeed.

48. Tun,
    I totally agree. I’m proud to walk into my office today(private sector) to see many malays are managers and department heads.
    Thanks to NEP that improved Malays education.

49. hello everyone,
    The facts glossed over are:
    The last 30 years is a shameful economic performance by Malaysia based on its natural wealth. A simple comparison with Singapore attests to this, if only one is honest.
    Many eminent people globally blame the NEP and the ABUSES it engenders. Remember: The road to HELL is paved with good intentions.
    Th NEP aims certainly are full of good intentions but is now leading malaysia to economic HELL!
    Every program has pros and cons but the NEP has so many costs with very little questionable benefits, only silly or downright DISHONEST people defend it. As far as corruption is concerned we all know the sorry story here. Same with race relations. Tun M certainly was clever, diligent and had GOOD INTENTIONS but remember this funny thing about good intentions?
    To me this means simply that Malaysia’s top leadership in the last 20 years were of an extremely low calibre in terms of wisdom, integrity and true love of the country’s future to have us reached this sorry state of affairs. Without Petronas Malaysia would be in the dumps by now.

50. KEPADA pakbelalang…
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51. By LOLMLY on August 8, 2008 8:47 AM
    More than 90% civil servants are Malays.
    90% scholarships are given to Malays.
    90% of the students in public universities are Malays.
    90% of the taxpayers are non-malays.
    And you still say the M’sian chinese are greedy? Lo
    DEAR LOLMLY…
    May i know from which ‘MAZHAB’ you got all the stats???? r u sure u r MALAYSIAN???? Please give us specific references that made you conclude such a BLOODY-MINDED! Nilah TUN, org mcm ni lah bile kita ckp dia TIADA OTAK @ BODOH dia marah…mengamuk satu kampung! Cakap x habis sekolah pun melenting jugak si LOMLY ni nanti…Tapi conclusion yg dia buat memang nampak mcm org TAK SEKOLAH…..Org mcm LOMLY ni memang elok kalau CAMPAK JE KE NEGARA SINGA TU..BIAR DIA SEKALI KENA TELAN DENGAN SINGA-SINGA LAPAR KAT SANA……ORG MCM NI KALAU KITA CAKAP DIA BETUL PUN DIA MENYALAK BALIK DEKAT KITA!!!ADUYYAI….rendahnya mentaliti org mcm LOMLY ni..PERGI LA BALIK BACA BUKU DULU SEBELUM NAK CONDEMN ORG….Penuhkan dulu ilmu didada, baru masuk balik gelanggang…..

52. I think the issue of NEP has been misunderstood and twisted by certain politicians and businessmen.
    Does NEP means that all the scholarships/contracts/university placement are given to the bumiputras? That is the biggest contention here. There are parties who equate NEP with Malays(not other bumis) getting 100% of the scholarships/contracts etc. And when their demand is not met, they say that Malay rights is being questioned and eroded.
    Hope Tun can elaborate on this.

53. 80’s all these country are behind us:
    Singapore, Taiwan, Hong Kong
    90’s all these country are behind us:
    Korea, China, Thailand
    Now all the above countries either far more advance then us or already close to us.
    and now vitenum another one they call “mini China” are moving fast, will forsee within 10 years we will left behind him.
    This is because of the NEP implementation.
    do you know in 1995 a salary for a degree holder start at rm2K, but after 10 years the inflation already go sky high but the entry level for a degree holder now still getting rm2K! BTW during these 10 years there is a time the pay was dropped to 1.5K or less!
    what was this cause, what is the root cause, and causing our pay nothing change.
    Because of NEP!
    because of NEP, we can not compete with other countries, we are not develop out skill we just continue producing low cost item, and because of NEP causing we employing low cost foreign worker. also lossing out good people and these good people are important for the country to advance and develop.
    If keep on lossing our productivity, then at the end where the country get money to fund or run NEP? by that time everyone in the country are looser all die together!
    Let go to hell together!
    another Argentina in the making!

54. Below l talk about cronism as part of our culture, the role of the NEP in helping the malays and the reason for the financial gap between malays and other races is never going to meet it’s target.
    Sometimes if your company wants to hire people, instead of advertising they get people through recommendations, so you recommend someone you know or close to you to your company, is this cronism? You could say it is, because it isn’t fair to people who is really competent and need a job. But, the otherside of the argument would say, this is a private company, it’s my money that we use to hire, you have no right to
    say who we wanted to hire. Even if I hire all my uncles and aunties, we are not answerable to the public.
    However, if it is a public listed companies, who they hire is answerable to the public shareholders. So, for a public listed company it is not ethical to hire through recommendations, advertisement is a must, but
    I’ve seen companies still doing it. What do you call this? Cronism right? Don’t talk about hiring, when your company is looking for a product, they get a few vendors quotation, some of you would invite your friends
    or someone you know to quote. It’s part of a company’s policies to get a few quotations to minimise the chance of cronism but if cronism is part of your culture, it doesn’t matter what policies, cronism will still
    seep in. It is very important the senior superiors counter checks or have someone performing audits. Of course, the auditor or his boss must be clean as well, or we have a whole team of cronies.
    For government projects, to who the project is awarded is definitely answerable to the public, specifically the citizens who pay tax. Why was some projects not awarded with open tenders? Till this date, I’ve not
    heard an answer, why? Isn’t this fishy, Tun? Nevermind if there are open tenders, but it goes to company of relatives of the PM. If the government don’t want the people to suspect the government officers of practicing cronism, transparency is the medicine! When you award a big project to the companies of your relatives, show us a list of companies who tendered, let the public shareholders (citizen) judge if it was
    really no other companies better than the one of your relatives.
    Sometimes I wonder if the NEP is meant to enrich the malays or the relatives and friends of the government politicians. As far as it is understood now, it does makes the life of the malays a little comfortable (rather slow though), the datuks richer, the tan sris even richer, it seems the higher up you are, the percentage is higher. Although it has helped reduce the financial gap between malays and other races, on contrary, it has increased the gap of the rich and poor malays as well, the NEP has made three classes of malays in financial capabilities; the politicians and well connected businessmen, super rich; the kampong fella’s poor; modern malays who live in or near the city, they are medium (can live a comfortable lifestyle but not rich). I think the NEP helped the chinese and other races as well, but in smaller proportion. Top contractors
    sure malay one, sub sub contractors can be malay, chinese, indian, or other races.
    The government need to do is bring the poor class of malays out to the medium class at least, education had it’s role in this, but too bad with the expense of the other races. But education alone is not enough,
    because without enough demand (not enough companies who is willing to hire), we have over supply (lead to unemployments). Now, the private sectors practice meritocracy, but the public universities’ graduates have qualities issues, so the demand in private sectors for these graduates are very competitive, a number of malays have made it into private sectors, congratulations!, but there are still a large number who relies on bumiputra companies and government sectors. The big part of the reasons why the malays lag behind other races is majority of them are not paid well in the government sector. Of the 60% malays, how many work in the government sectors? I think a big part of it. There certainly not enough bumiputra companies to cater the entire malay population.
    With the exception of certain departments such as MCMC for example, most are not paid well. There is a super huge gap between government staffs’ wages and that of the politicians and those sit near to the top of the organization. Politicians, those who have the chance to have his face in the newspaper, at least ‘5 angka’ monthly salary, plus a lot of side income. It is understood not everyone has the capabilities to become entreprenure or businessmen, it’s part of a person’s characters. For example, I don’t like to be a businessmen, it’s not my style but I consider myself in the middle class. I’d say most who sit in the government office would stay there till they retire. If the pay in government sector is lower than the market rate, surely that will add into the financial gap between malays and the others who work in the private sectors, right? My final argument is, the gap between the malays and the others in the private sectors will NEVER be on par, if the government does not improve to be on par with the private sectors!

55. Permisi Tun,
    Rakyat malaysia sudah hampir 25 juta, umor bawah 21- 9juta. Kita tolak PATI tinggal lebih kurang 13 juta orang .Melayu atau bumi putra 65% = 8.45 juta.
    kaki tangan kerajaan ada lebih kurang 1.2 juta, katakan 90% kerje kerajaan,= 1.08 juta.orang ini nasib dia ok lagi.
    ada baki 7.37 juta yang mungkin kerja kg , atau swasta atau kerja sendiri,
    Hanya 10 % dari jumlah ini yang boleh dikatakan ,using standard deviation distribution.sama juga dengan 7 00,ooo people = translate into about 300.000 families approximately if 80 % got married.
    These are the families that may be have benefited from NEP .
    So there are still about 6.63 juta Melayu yang saya terpaksa hidup bertungkus lumus atau dalam kesusahan ,
    Inilah orang 2 yang cepat bengang dengan kerajaan apabila tersiar berbagai penyelewengan, ini lah orang mengundi membuta tuli atau tidak tahu cara memilih pemimpin.
    Pemikiran mereka telah disongsang kan oleh ulama, guru ugama atau pendakwah dengan dakyah orang perempuan hanya duduk rumah dan berbagai ideology spiritual jin hantu syaitan jembelang yang ditakuti selain tuhan.
    Bagi mereka sebagai contoh di taman melawati tu 90% penduduk Melayu, tetapi semau kedai tayar dan servis kereta dimonopoli oelh satu kaum, padahal pada satu ketika dahulu ada workshop Mealu tapi ada kat bawah pokok, itu tak penting.
    Tidak perlu kawasan riadah untuk kesihatan saperti berjogging etc , yang penting pergi masjid ,kalau anak2 bini dah gemuk macam badak , syukur sihat . kalau cepat mati boleh pasang lagi satu .

56. Salam AYAHANDA RAKYAT TUN,
    Izinkan,
    By fallendog on August 8, 2008 10:05 AM
    Of the 500 odd comments here, about 1/2 of them have serious rasict implications. I believe all those comments are made out of fear rather then pure hatred for your fellow msian brothers.
    My msian brothers must not fear that when the NEP is removed, you’ll will be once again left behind. ALot of things have changed since 1970. Do you’ll really believe that if the goverment stops the NEP , that all these bumis will end up back in the kampong ?…
    Racist? Fear? Changed? Balik kampung?
    If the bumis are the racists, the immigrant races would not have enjoyed the rights to vote in this country.
    If we fear, its the fear of the recurrence of the black day on the immigrant races
    If there’s changes, its only the physical development and its infrastructures but the disparities in the socio, economic and political contributions are still to be desired.
    Its not so much that these bumis will end up in the kampungs but the non-bumis ‘retreating’ to the ‘Nirvana Memorial Parks’
    May we REPHRASE ‘fallendog’ statement.
    Of the 500 odd comments here, about 1/2 of them have serious rasict implications. I believe all those comments are made out of CONCERN rather then pure hatred for your fellow msian brothers.
    My SKIN brothers must KNOW that when the NEP is removed, you’ll will be once again live in FEAR. A Lot of things have changed since 1970 ESPECIALLY THE PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT AND ITS INFRASTRUCTURES BUT WE HAVE TO BE REASONABLE TO ACCOMODATE OUR MSIAN BROTHERS. WHY DO WE STILL NEED OUR ASSOCIATIONS?, THE HAKKA, THE CANTONESE, THE HOKKIEN, ETC. WHY DO WE STILL INSIST ON CHINESE AND TAMIL MEDIUM IN EDUCATION? Do you really believe that if the goverment stops the NEP , that all these bumis will end up back in the kampong ? THINK AGAIN COZ I AM AFRAID WE CUD BE THE ONES RETREATING TO THE ‘NIRVANA MEMORIAL PARKS!
    We have to change OUR mindset TO ACCOMODATE OTHER msians ESPECIALLY OUR RACIST APPROACHES IN BUSINESS AND OUR ‘ANYTHING UNDER THE SUN’ BUSINESS CULTURE MUST BE ABOLISHED.
    People MUST be rewarded for merit and not be EXPECTED to be rewarded bcos of skin color AND OFFERINGS(BRIBES, WOMEN, VINE AND SONG). WE MUST UNDERSTAND OUR BUSINESS CULTURE IS ‘TABOO’ TO OUR MUSLIM BROTHERS.
    WHEN ONLY ALL THE ABOVE CAN BE ELIMINATED PERHAPS THEN WE CAN DEMAND THE SAME PLAYING FIELD.
    CAN WE?
    AS FOR ME, I WISH TO STAY AS ‘FALLEN DOG’ THAN AS A ‘FALLEN PIG’
    – I like to state here that I believe the NEP was necessary when implemented but now this policy threatens to destroy msians economic future.
    THINK AGAIN!
    THE TWO SIDES OF THE RINGGIT,
    THE BUMIS LOVE THE ‘AGUNG’ FACE
    THE NON BUMIS LOVE THE FIGURES
    SO LIVE AND LET’S LIVE..

57. Dear Tun,
    It is indeed true that Malaysia has gone true alot of Developments and Industrialisation during your era. Being an Indian in this country, I believe I am indeed gifted to have born in this country. For that I have to thank my parents & grandparents for deciding to make Malaysia as their home for the betterment of their future generations and also to all the leaders of Malaysia for their contributions in developing this country.
    But one thing I like to comments is that the disparity amongst the races seems to be widening. For example, you have mentioned that they were only 7 Malays in a class of 77 for medical degree during your era but during my time there were only 37 (Indians and Chinese) in a class of 120 for Engineering Degree in UTM during the eighties.
    Although I believe the Malays need to be accorded some kind of special privileges but there should not be too much of gap when it comes to opportunities.
    This is only my comment with regards to equal opportunity. I would like to stress that I am proud to being a Malaysian.

58. Selepas baca banyak ulasan dan saya nak beri panjelasan
    Tak ada yang nak kritik DEB tetapi masalahnya adalah pelaksanaan, bukan di semua bilang tetapi adanya kelemahan yang tidak di ambil berat oleh kerajaan and salah guna telah berlaku.
    Jika DEP hanya untuk pendidikan saya sokong 1000% tetapi DEP untuk permit dan kontract ini perlu dibincang dan pelakasanaan perlu dipertingkatkan.
    Kontract boleh diberi kepada mereka (Bumi) yang berupaya seperti TUN kata tetapi dia mesti berdikari dalam masa terdekat, kawan saya kontractor F dekat Kuantan hutang dengan teruk alasannya ialah Pembangunan kerajaan dekat east coast slow, lihatlah syarikat macam ini selain dari kontract kerajaan dia haruslah secure kontract-kontract dari swasta.
    Kontractor chinese sudah keluar pergi ke Dubai, India, banyak yang buat trading business kat China. Teruskanlah pelaksanaan DEB sekarang jika majority ingin dia diteruskan dengan cara sekarang ini.
    Akhirnya, Tun…What is the reason behind for TOLL concession agreement classify under OSA? Klang valley forks are paying toll like crazy. If this is not clarified, everytime they pay toll, everytime they link this to —– Crony. Can you run away from Public perception?

59. assalammualikum.
    dear all,
    Dasar DEB hendahlah diteruskan sampai bila bila tanpa tempoh luput selagi ada orang melayu di bumi ini.Pemimpim melayu/org melayu mesti mempertahankan DEB ini selagi hayat dikandung badan.
    Harus diingat DEB ini bukan tongkat utk org Melayu tetapi Lambang Kuasa orang melayu.DiUlang bukan Tongkat tapi Lambang Kuasa org Melayu.Cuba pikir tanpa kuasa dimana kita agaknya.Dgn adanya kuasa kita mampu membuat apa saja utk kebaikan org melayu tanpa mengabaikan kaum lain.
    wassalam,
    Sokong DEB 100% tanpa tarikh luput.
    Tahniah kpd pengasas DEB

60. To Ir. Syahrizan,
    You are among a handful who talk sense and is grateful just to be given the opportunity to study at a University in Malaysia.
    Do sometime spare a thought though of the thousands who did not qualify because they have worse academic grades, (in fact many have better grades). They lost the opportunity to go to the Uni only because they are born of parents who are non-bumiputras, a label that came into being in the late 1960s.
    How do you explain to kids of 16-18, that they would not be attending the University because they are born of the wrong skin colour, wrong religion, wrong set of parents?
    That was never spelt out in the school textbooks.
    And scholarships too were ‘banned’ to them, doesn’t matter that their forefathers have been in Malacca since the 18000s

61. Salam Tun,
    NEP pada dasarnya banyak membantu golongan Melayu
    yang kuat berusaha dan pandai memanafaatkan peluang yang ada..
    Dan ia sepatutnya turut merangkumi kaum bumiputra lain termasuk
    di Sabah & Sarawak.
    Kepada yg dah berjaya – Bersyukurlah..Jangan jadi Melayu Mudah Lupa.
    Kepada yg gagal – Jangan asyik nak bagi bermacam alasan dan salahkan orang lain. Kaji kelemahan diri sendiri….
    To Orang Lama & OLdedwardian – i agreed with u all.

62. Salam Tun dan Keluarga
    Rasa bangga dapat menulis di blog Tun ini kerana Tun merupakan idola saya sedari kecil,yang herannya orang melayu ni bantu macam mana pun masih dok juga mcm tu.macam-macam perancangan kerajaan nak bantu orang melayu maju setaraf dengan bangsa asing saya rasa masa Tun jadi PM dulu pun banyak perkenalkan program-program yang boleh membantu menjana pemdapatan orang melayukan?Tapi ke mana hilang orang-orang melayu yang maju? hanya boleh dibilang dengan jari!

63. By Moon on August 8, 2008 12:15 AM
    I’m chinese (non-bumi) from Tawau, Sabah. My family is poor. Father left us when i was young leaving my mother have to take care of me and other 5 siblings. She had to pajak ikan sikit sini dan sana just so she can try to sell just so she can untung a bit everyday. Being the eldest, when i finish form 5, she cannot afford me to go for further studies. I try to apply to go ITM (Institut Teknologi Mara), thanks to the NEP, the institute is for Bumis only. Those Bumis who can’t study and well-off manage to gain entry. I try to apply nursing, but instead was rejected because i was chinese, instead those bumis who pass form 3 only, manage to gain entry.
    For that lady who wrote to say that it’s sad to watch a malay sweeping the floor of a chinese bungalow. Lebih sedih, mak saya terpaksa pergi dari rumah ke rumah orang menanya jika ada kain mau di cuci. You think Malay saja yang kena victimize? Well, think again. Orang cina pun kena victimize bah
    ——————————————————————
    This is some of the flaws in NEP…
    sad to hear this…
    NEP bertujuan untuk menyeimbangkan taraf ekonomi antara kaum…
    Memang elok bantu Melayu,asalkan jangan lupa bantu kaum lain…
    Im grateful for NEP as now im working in industrial industry as engineer after graduating from U…
    During the early years of NEP, ia banyak membantu kaum bumiputra yg susah seperti saya
    Tetapi selepas sekian lama; lebih 20 tahun, orang Melayu jadi bangsa yang mengharap…mungkin tak semua,tapi majoriti!
    Sentiasa mengharap bantuan kerajaan, pinjaman, jawatan kerajaan…
    Saya yakin, pada waktu ini tanpa keistimewaan yg diberikan, Bangsa kita boleh jatuh…
    Memang itu kesalahan individu itu sendiri
    kerana salah mereka sendiri yang tak berusaha…
    Tetapi kita tak boleh nafikan NEP juga menyumbang kepada perkara ini…
    Saya banyak berurusan dengan kaum lain dalam industri (especially chinese)…
    Mereka MERESTUI niat baik NEP untuk membantu orang Melayu yg miskin, tetapi mereka juga persoalkan.
    kenapa selepas puluhan tahun taraf ekonomi orang Melayu masih berada di bawah?
    Kenapa tak gunakan peluang yang ada sebaiknya?
    Satu perkara yg saya sependapat dengan mereka ialah bantuan ini tidak sampai sepenuhnya kepada rakyat Melayu. tersangkut dengan YB?!
    You know the answer!
    Banyak yang cakap kaum bukan Melayu banyak yang kaya, Orang Melayu pun banyak yang kaya (mungkin tak seramai mereka)…
    cuma kita tak nampak saja!!
    Sebab tak boleh tunjuk kekayaan tu, atas sebab2 tertentu…
    Paling sedih, sekarang kaum kita susah untuk berdikari…
    Saya berpendapat (mungkin ramai yg tak bersetuju)
    bantuan seperti NEP ini hendaklah dikurangkan secara berperingkat
    sehingga tahap kaum kita sudah kuat sedikit boleh lah kita hentikan.
    Memang susah untuk diterima
    tetapi ini penting supaya kaum kita boleh mejadi lebih kuat!
    Orang lumpuh kaki pun kena bangun dari kerusi roda, jalani fisioterapi yang getir supaya boleh berjalan…
    Sebelum lumpuh selamanya…
    Kalau teruskan begini,saya risau sampai bila2 pun kita di takuk lama
    atau mungkin akan jadi lebih teruk!!
    Saya tahu ramai yang berfikiran terbuka dalam blog chedet ini
    so terima lah, sedar lah…
    bersusah2 dahulu, bersenang2 kemudian…

64. Dear TUN & ALL BLOGGERS…
    Maaf Tun, saya ada sikit kata2 NASIHAT utk si “dbaron” ke or “dbarua’ ni dan juga blogger2 yg tak reti nak memberi kritikan MEMBINA tetapi lebih nak condemn je…..Tak boleh tahan dengan SIKAP MANUSIA YG MCM TIADA OTAK NAK BERFIKIR….
    kalau saudara dbaron/dbarua nak belajar mengaji, belajarlah…..tak payah nak mendabik dada kata yg hang dok belajar mengaji….hayati balik ISLAM yg sebenarnya…kita jgnlah nak menunjuk2 yg kita ni tgh buat pahala!!!!Saudara dbaron/dbarua ni tau ke org2 yg anda sebut tu x mengaji??? Ape ke bengapnye saudara ni??? Satu lg saya nak tanya, mana awak tau politik parti2 lain tu x kotor??? namenya pun dah politik, paling tidak sedikit sebanyak pasti ada negative nya politik ni. Saudara tu BERSIH sangat ke? CONFIRM dah masuk SYURGA ALLAH yang kita dok ‘IDAM-IDAMKAN’ tu?
    Memang dah termaktub dalam islam, kita sebagai manusia perlu menegur antara satu sama lain sekiranya ada kesilapan2 yang berlaku. Berdosa kalau seseorng muslim itu TAHU seseorang itu melakukan kesilapan tapi BUAT BODOH/BUAT TAK NAMPAK dengan membiarkan sahaja kesilapan tersebut terus berleluasa…. Apatah lagi kesilapan tersebut melibat AGAMA, BANGSA & NEGARA! Ni saya nak menegur saudara jugaklah ni…FIkirlah dengan akal yg waras sikit….kalau marah pun cubalah CONTROLLLL….sabar tu kan separuh daripada IMAN??
    Satu lagi saya nak habaq mai….Almarhum Tunku Abdul Rahman, Tun Hussein bila dah kluar UMNO dok diam-diam tak kacau politik UMNO sebab ada ke masalah BESAR mcm skrg ni wujud pada zaman2 pemerintahan sebelum AAB tu? Masalah yg melanda MALAYSIA sekarang ni bukannye sebesar KUMAN lagi TAPI DAH HAMPIR MEROSAKKAN MARUAH NEGARA!!! Satu Malaysia tahu pasal kegagalan AAB mengemudikan Kapalnye..ATAU saudara dok kat ceruk mana tak tau perkembangan negara kita la ni? Kalau saudara ni org melayu, cubalah kurangkan sikit ego/sombong bodoh saudara tu utk sama2 membantu mengembalikan semula maruah negara kita…bukannye dok BERKOKOK kat situ dok mencari kesalahan org! Gunakanlah akal, fikiran, mata dan hati saudara utk menilai segalanya dengan adil dan waras….
    Satu lagi Tun,
    Saya ada terbaca komen sorang penulis ttg DEB telah melahirkan ramai golongan cerdik pandai (penulis menyebut di UM) yg gagal berkomunikasi dengan baik dalam bahasa inggeris. Memang tak dinafikan bahasa inggeris amat penting utk kita pergi jauh…tp janganlah itu dijadikan sebab oleh penulis tadi utk menganggap DEB sebagai GAGAL atau PUNCA BESAR kepada terjadinya perkara tersebut. Kalau nak dibandingkan, penguasaan bahasa inggeris di kalangan golongan cerdik pandai kita lebih bagus berbanding di Jepn, Cina dan beberapa negara Arab.
    Kalau kita lihat, Jepun yang merupakan sebuah negara yg cukup maju dan moden masih ramai di kalangan cerdik pandai mereka TIDAK BEGITU menguasai bahasa inggeris dengan baik (terutama sekali pronunciation mereka). Mereka sangat mengagung-agungkan bahasa ibunda mereka berbanding bahasa inggeris. Tapi negara mereka masih boleh maju…kalau mereka boleh PASTINYA JUGA NEGARA KITA MALAYSIA BOLEH! yang penting usaha yang berlipat ganda perlu untuk mencapainya.
    TETAPI ADALAH SESUATU YANG CUKUP MEMALUKAN APABILA ADA DIKALANGAN RAKYAT MALAYSIA YANG SUDAH HAMPIR 51 TAHUN MERDEKA MASIH TIDAK BOLEH DAN TIDAK FASIH BERBAHASA MELAYU/MALAYSIA!!! TAPI TANPA SEGAN-SILU MASIH MAHU MENUNTUT HAK SEBAGAI BUMIPUTERA????? HAK KESAMARATAAN SEBAGAI WARGANEGARA MALAYSIA???? Bukan saya nak menimbulkan hal perkauman…tp kaum2 lain perlu ‘hormati’kaum melayu juga…jgn terlalu selfish…Bukan banyak pun yg tinggal ‘KELEBIHAN’ yg diberikan kepada bumiputera…Dan JANGAN JUGA SEKALI2 TERLINTAS DIFIKIRAN KAUM LAIN BAHAWA ORG MELAYU/BUMIPUTERA BODOH TETAPI MASIH MENDAPAT BIASISWA UTK MENYAMBUNG PELAJARAN KE LUAR NEGARA (hasil darpada perlaksanaan DEB). SEMUA BUMIPUTERA YG BERJAYA KELUAR NEGARA TU ADALAH MEREKA YG BENAR2 LAYAK!!!BUKANNYA KRONI! MEREKA JUGA PANDAI SAMA SEPERTI KAUM LAIN!! SEBABNYA OTAK MANUSIA ITU SAMA! USAHA YANG MEMBEZAKAN ANTARA SESEORANG PELAJAR TU DENGAN PELAJAR YG LAIN! Ada fahamm???…
    Jangalah ingat semua org melayu tu malas sangat…asyik dok bergantung dengan bantuan kerajaan…Kaum lain pun dok bergantung juga dengan kerajaan! Bila subsidi minyak dikurangkan oleh kerajaan baru-baru ni, ada ke bumiputera masih membeli minyak dengan harga yg lama dan kaum lain beli minyak degan harga baru??? SEMUA KAUM kena beli minyak dengan harga barukan??? Begitu juga dengan subsidi hospital…klu fees utk klinik2 atau hospital kerajaan RM5,kaum lain kena bayar lebih daripada RM5 ke????
    SO, tolonglah wahai kaum lain jgn nak memperbesarkan ‘hanya sedikit saja kelebihan’ yg tinggal dinikmati oleh golngan bmiputera ni…Kerajaan Malaysia sebelum ni dah cukup baik menjaga hak semua kaum…FIKIRLAH DENGAN HATI YANG TERBUKA….SAYA ADA 7 TAHUN PENGALAMAN BEKERJA DENGAN SYARIKAT YANG DIKEPALAI OLEH KAUM CINA, DAN SAYA NAMPAK DENGAN CUKUP JELAS SENTIMEN PERKAUMAN YANG DIAMALKAN OLEH MEREKA – Perbezaan gaji yg cukup jelas diantara manager melayu dan manager cina serta jawatan2 lain, kadar kenaikan gaji yg berbeza diantara mereka, benefit yg cukup berbeza. Dalam kerajaan atau mana2 syarikat swasta yg dikepalai oleh kaum melayu, ada ke perbezaan gaji ni wujud? perbezaan faedah pekerja? Saya boleh berikan 3 nama syarikat swasta yg ternama (yg dikepalai oleh kaum cina), dimana Tun sendiri yg merasmikan pembukaan syarikat mereka mengamalkan sentimen perkauman ni. So guys, please…. never ever think that Malays (DEB) is using discriminatory practices if you yourself knew that other races performs the same method (but much worst)……Look at ourselves first before make any conclusion….

65. Salam Tun Dr. M,
    Adakah saya sekarang ni tengah melihat manusia2 yang berasakan dia bangsa Malaysia mula mengondem usaha Tun membangunkan Malaysia selepas 22 tahun???
    Tun, sekarang ni bukan melayu sahaja yang mudah lupa, orang cina, orang india dan pelbagai bangsa di Malaysia pun dah lupa bila dijaja cerita keji dari hingusan politikus Pakatan Rakyat…
    Untuk manusia2 yang merasakan NEP ini menindas mereka, lihat semula perbezaan semenjak NEP ini di jadikan dasar ekonomi negara, mengapa sejarahnya NEP ini dicadangkan, siapa yang mendapat faedah lansung, secara tidak lansung dan walaupun picisan.
    Saya tidak bermaksud untuk jadi racist, dan mohon maaf terlebih dahulu jika ada yang kecil hati, apa relevannnya jika anda ingin memohon kerja di syarikat milik bangsa cina harus pandai bercakap dalam bahasa mandarin, ataupun “preferrably chinese”,siapa yang racist???saya ada pengalaman kerja yang mana rakan sekerja saya yang mempunyai kelulusan dan kelayakan yang sama dengan saya menerima gaji yang lebih tinggi yang tidak munasabah berbanding dengan saya,jika di sektor swasta kami ditindas oleh manusia racist ini, tak mustahil melayu balik kampung tanam jagung jika.
    Jika betul NEP itu memusnahkan ekonomi negara, mana bukti??? economic comparison???Malaysia has become a well-known country under Tun, but i don’t think so Pak Lah will continue the prosperity.

66. Ybhg TDM,
    Nak tanya pandangan TDM serta DSAI(dia ni pun baca blog TDM juga)
    Pemikiran saya begitu kusut dan bercelaru…minta tolong jasa baik TDM dan DSAI menggunakan kepakaran masih-masing menyelesaikan masaalah saya ni…….begini ceritanya
    1)Ada seorang pemimpin yangmendakwa pergi mendapatkan perlindungan diri di kedutaan Asing kerana dijemput oleh Duta Negara tersebut.
    Tapi kemudian Duta tersebut mengatakan bahawa Dia tak jemput pun…tapi pemimpin tu yang datang.
    Ada unsur pembohongan tak?
    2)Pemimpin tersebut mengatakan bahawa beliau terpaksa mendapatkan perlindungan di kedutaan asing kerana bimbing terhadap keselamatan dirinya.
    Tapi berapa hari kemudian beliau memberi ceramah umum dihadapan beribu-ribu manusia.
    Mula-mula bimbang diri terancam kemudian boleh pulak beri ceremah umum….
    Ada unsur putar belik tak?
    Dua soalan diatas adalah untuk TDM dan DSAI?
    Buat alim ulamak pula saya nak tanya soalan ini…..Berbohong dan menipu adalah berdosa…Kalau tak salah saya antara ciri Munafik adalah berbohong…..Bolehkah orang Munafik disokong dan dilantik menjadi Pemimpin?
    Soalan ini untuk semua pembaca untuk membuat sikit homework….
    Cuba tanya soalan ini kepada kenalan atau sesiapa saja yang pernah mengamalkan sex luar tabie
    3)Sakit ke bila buat sex luar tabie?
    Akan terkoyak ke anus?
    Akan bernanah ke anus?
    Adakah akan ada tanda itu apabila terjadi sex luar tabie?
    Kawan saya kata semua itu tak semestinya ada…lagi pun katanya kalau tersiksa sangat…benda ni dah lama terhenti dan tak sapa sanggup buat pun….dah lah songsang…tersiksa pula….
    Buat hangatkan otak dan akal fikiran

67. Asalamualaikum YABhg TDM dan semua
    Tidak semua perkara dipersetujui oleh semua orang, hatta Baginda Nabi S.A.W pun tidak semua orang menjadi pengikutnya, ada yang masih kekal dengan ugama masing-masing walaupun kebenaran jelas ditunjukan…dan ada yang bersungguh-sungguh mempertahankan sehingga ke akhir hayat mereka.
    Begitu juga dengan Abu sayab, beliau tidak dapat menerima pertuduhan DSAI , siapakah yg sanggup mengaku perbuatan terkutuk kalau setakat mencari kepentingan duniawi semata-mata sedangkan azab yang sangat pedih dikhirat akan menanti, azab ini nanti tidak mampu ditebus bukan RM10K, 100K, 1000K, 10X10X10x10K walau satu dunia “K” sekali pun. Oleh itu fikir-fikirkan lah.
    Kepada NEP, 30% sahaja untuk bumiputra, 70% lagi untuk lain-lain, lihat majalah frobes, berapa % bumi’s. Walaubagaimanapun tidak semua manusia akan mendapatkan apa-apa yang dikehendakinya,ada yg berharap isterinya secantik artis, tapi tidak tercapai, ada yg ingin kekayaan, tidak tercapai, kerana…. hidup ini tidak berkhir disini sahaja. dari mana kita asalnya(sebelum dilahirkan ?) … dan ke mana akhirnya…. ada kehidupan dan pembalasan diatas apa yg telah dilakukan oleh Pencipta Alam dan Seluruh maklukNya
    sekian, mohon maaf dan wassalam

68. Assalamualaikom Tun
    Saya cadangkan Kesultanan Negeri Johor supaya membuat tuntutan hak milik keatas Singapura,yang suatu waktu dulu adalah jelas kepunyaan Negeri Johor.Singapura terlepas kepada British dengan cara tipu muslihat dan putar belit.Kaji semula perjanjian lama.
    Lantik peguam peguam yang terbaik di dunia dalam bidang ini,kumpulkan semua dokumen yang berkaitan,saya sanggup menderma,jika perlukan pembiayaan,tak kisah berapa lama pun masa diambil,kita mesti mulakan dari sekarang.Menang atau tewas kita berserah pada Allah.
    Dengan cara ini kita dapat menunjukan pada warga Singapura,terutama pada orang muda meraka,bahawasanya singapura pada satu waktu dulu ada lah hakmilik Negeri Johor dan dengan ini juga diharap mereka tidak mudah memperkotak katik kan Malaysia.
    Sekarang lihat lah pula apa yang berlaku,mereka dah mula nak menuntut EEZ.
    Kepada sultan Johor saya rasa ini lah cara yang paling terbaik untuk mendapat kan semula Pulau Batu Putih.
    Semoga Tun Sihat Selamanya
    Raden

69. sy sgt bnci pak lah.
    sy rs nk baling remote kt tv je bila tgk muka dia mncul. sy xnk harta sy ada muke dia.

70. .
    >>>>> for abu sayab >>>>>>
    (By abu sayab on August 7, 2008 10:20 PM
    Mahathir has let me down as my mentor
    M Raken | Aug 7, 08 3:44pm)
    Anwar Ibrahim : Pembohong, Pengecut dan Pengkhianat
    Contributed by taminsari on Thursday, August 07 @ 09:21:07 MYT
    Topic: KOMENTAR
    Pada tahun 1998 selepas Anwar dipecat dari jawatan TPM dan Timbalan Presiden UMNO, Anwar seperti hilang akal dan bertutur semacam orang gila talak. Lebih banyak Anwar berucap, lebih banyak pula terkeluar penipuan dan manipulasi beliau. Untuk kes liwat 2 ini pun sama juga. Macam-macam putar belit yang dilakukan untuk melepaskan diri?
    Penulis kasihan kepada bekas Ketua Pemuda UMNO ketika itu, Datuk Zahid Hamidi. Semasa perhimpunan agung UMNO diadakan pada tahun itu, beliau telah menimbulkan soal kronisme dan nepotisme dan telah dikritik secukup-cukupnya oleh Perdana Menteri dan pemimpin UMNO. Lepas itu, kembiri-kembiri politik Anwar yang datang berpusu-pusu ke merata cerok PWTC dan berkata bahawa Anwar tiada kaitan dengan apa yang diluahkan Zahid.
    Tetapi apabila Anwar dipecat, Anwar berkata bahawa beliaulah yang menyuruh Zahid bercakap mengenai kronisme dan nepotisme. Ini menunjukkan betapa hipokrit dan pengecutnya Anwar. Anwar berlindung di sebalik Zahid ketika itu. Kemudian Anwar tidak pedulikan Zahid yang terkontang konteng selepas cerita sebenar diketahui umum.
    Anwar sanggup mengatakan demikian walaupun beliau tahu bahawa Zahid akan terima bahana. Entah berapa orang lagi yang Anwar sisihkan demi menjaga hati Nalla dan Azmin. Orang ABIM nak buat appointment dengan Anwar pun kena melalui Azmin, bapa mertua Anwar pun kena dapat keizinan Azmin sebelum dapat bercakap melalui telefon dengan beliau. Apa istimewanya Nalla dan Azmin?
    Semasa dalam parti, Anwar kata bahawa beliau tidak akan menentang Tun Dr. Mahathir. Selepas keluar, Anwar kata bahawa Dr. Mahathir memecatkan beliau kerana Anwar akan menentangnya pada pemilihan parti akan datang. Bukankah ini mendusta namanya.
    Anwar mengaku bahawa beliau telah memberikan sample darah beliau untuk ujian DNA tetapi bila Rahim Noor menafikannya, Anwar gelabah dan tak mahu lagi bercakap tentang perkara itu lagi. Bukankah ini dusta juga?
    Lagi banyak cakap, lagi banyak Anwar berbohong dan menipu. Orang ramai tahu bahawa Anwar cakap tak serupa bikin. Dulu cakap lain, sekarang lain, macam orang tak siuman. Habis, macamana orang nak percaya cakap Anwar? Untuk kes liwat terbaru inipun beliau banyak berdolak dalih. Macam-macam alasan yang diberikannya hinggakan polis terpaksa mendapatkan perintah mahkamah untuk mendapatkan sample DNA beliau.
    Anwar mengkritik media, mengatakan bahawa mereka berat sebelah di dalam laporan mereka. Tetapi semasa beliau menentang Allahyarham Tun Ghafar dulu, Anwar gunakan orang kuat-kuat beliau dalam media ( yang sekarang ini telah dibuang ) untuk menjatuhkan hamba Allah itu. Itu tak mengapa sebab orang lain yang terkena. Kalau kena batang hidung sendiri, semua orang di salahkannya. Semua orang dari hakim, mahkamah, polis, Dr. Mahathir, rakan Kabinet beliau dan rakyat salah belaka. Anwar (yang tak angkat sumpah junjung Quran untuk membersihkan diri beliau dari tuduhan homoseks dan seks) sahajalah yang betul.
    Hidup Anwar sekarang ini bukan bersandarkan Islam lagi, semuanya berteraskan penipuan dan pembohongan. Bila beliau gelabah, hilanglah pedoman dan pegangannya. Yang beliau tahu ialah untuk memuaskan dendam dan amarah beliau.
    Sebaik sahaja Anwar dipecat, beliau berucap dengan panjang lebar tentang kononnya beliau akan ditangkap polis di bawah ISA. Apabila polis tidak menangkapnya dan kerana termalu dengan hal ini, beliau pun memimpin para demonstrasi ke Pusat Dagangan Dunia Putra untuk memecahkan barangan di sana. Ini adalah untuk memaksa polis supaya menangkapnya. Anwar juga merasuk para demonstrasi supaya berjalan ke kediaman PM untuk membakarnya. Dan apabila beliau ditangkap polis kerana tindakan tersebut, beliau dengan lantang berkata kepada penyokongnya, ” bukan aku dah kata ” untuk menunjukkan bahawa betul ramalan beliau akan ditangkap polis.
    Anwar tahu bahawa beliau berkemungkinan ada virus HIV kerana pergaulan homoseks. Sebagai mengelak dari apa-apa tanggapan, beliau berkata bahawa polis akan menyuntiknya dengan kuman HIV semasa dalam tangkapan. Taktik ini Anwar gunakan supaya sekiranya darah beliau benar-benar mempunyai kuman HIV, beliau bolehlah berkata bahawa ianya adalah sebab beliau disuntik.
    Anwar mahukan demonstrasi agar beliau tidak dibawa ke mahkamah kerana takutkan rahsia terperinci skandal seksnya akan diketahui umum. Beliau gagal dan terpaksa menghadapi perbicaraan. Namun, Anwar sudah ada rancangan lain. Beliau mengheboh-hebohkan kepada masyarakat asing yang sistem perundangan di Malaysia ini berat sebelah. Tujuannya adalah apabila beliau didapati bersalah di mahkamah , beliau akan berkata kepada para penyokong : ” bukan aku dah kata “.
    Kalau nak jadi pemimpin jadilah pemimpin yang sebenar dan harungilah cabaran bersama. Tetapi Anwar lain pula halnya. Semasa beliau mengetuai para penyokongnya melalui Jalan Tunku Abdul Rahman, Anwar sanggup tinggalkan penyokong, isteri dan anak-anaknya sementara beliau menaiki motosikal ke rumah untuk menyelamatkan diri. Apakah tidak dayus pemimpin macam Anwar ini?
    Begitu juga semasa Anwar ingin menentang Allahyarham Tun Ghafar, beliau telah memanggil ke semua anggota kabinet untuk berdiri bersama beliau semasa mengumumkan keputusannya untuk menentang Tun Ghafar. Sebelum itu, mati-mati beliau menafikan yang beliau akan menentang Tun Ghafar. Sampai sekarang pun Anwar perlukan ramai orang di sekeliling kerana beliau pengecut dan juga pembohong.Tak cukup berselindung di kedutaan Turki, panggil lagi 38 kedutaan asing lain mengadapnya. Tak cukup nak buat PROTES dijalanan, dimintanya satu stadium dengan harapan sejuta orang akan datang. Malangnya bukan ramai yang datang malah di hiburkan pula ” tayangan bontot ” oleh penyokongnya.
    Apabila melihat sandiwaranya kurang mendapat sambutan akhir-akhir ini, bolehlah Anwar Ibrahim memikirkan pula skrip baru yang perlu di lakonkan selepas ini. Kami sebagai penonton akan menanti dengan penuh minat dan kesabaran. Sama-samalah kita tunggu dan lihat.
    Taminsari
    Shah Alam

71. Of the 500 odd comments here, about 1/2 of them have serious rasict implications. I believe all those comments are made out of fear rather then pure hatred for your fellow msian brothers.
    My msian brothers must not fear that when the NEP is removed, you’ll will be once again left behind. ALot of things have changed since 1970. Do you’ll really believe that if the goverment stops the NEP , that all these bumis will end up back in the kampong ?
    We have to change the mindset of msians. People MUST be rewarded for merit and not be EXPECTED to be rewarded bcos of skin color
    – I like to state here that I believe the NEP was necessary when implemented but now this policy threatens to destroy msians economic future.

72. By Moon on August 8, 2008 12:15 AM
    I’m chinese (non-bumi) from Tawau, Sabah. My family is poor. Father left us when i was young leaving my mother have to take care of me and other 5 siblings. She had to pajak ikan sikit sini dan sana just so she can try to sell just so she can untung a bit everyday. Being the eldest, when i finish form 5, she cannot afford me to go for further studies. I try to apply to go ITM (Institut Teknologi Mara), thanks to the NEP, the institute is for Bumis only. Those Bumis who can’t study and well-off manage to gain entry. I try to apply nursing, but instead was rejected because i was chinese, instead those bumis who pass form 3 only, manage to gain entry.
    For that lady who wrote to say that it’s sad to watch a malay sweeping the floor of a chinese bungalow. Lebih sedih, mak saya terpaksa pergi dari rumah ke rumah orang menanya jika ada kain mau di cuci. You think Malay saja yang kena victimize? Well, think again. Orang cina pun kena victimize bah
    ——————————————————————
    This is some of the flaws in NEP…
    sad to hear this…
    NEP bertujuan untuk menyeimbangkan taraf ekonomi antara kaum…
    Memang elok bantu Melayu,asalkan jangan lupa bantu kaum lain…
    Im grateful for NEP as now im working in industrial industry as engineer after graduating from U…
    During the early years of NEP, ia banyak membantu kaum bumiputra yg susah seperti saya
    Tetapi selepas sekian lama; lebih 20 tahun, orang Melayu jadi bangsa yang mengharap…mungkin tak semua,tapi majoriti!
    Sentiasa mengharap bantuan kerajaan, pinjaman, jawatan kerajaan…
    Saya yakin, pada waktu ini tanpa keistimewaan yg diberikan, Bangsa kita boleh jatuh…
    Memang itu kesalahan individu itu sendiri
    kerana salah mereka sendiri yang tak berusaha…
    Tetapi kita tak boleh nafikan NEP juga menyumbang kepada perkara ini…
    Saya banyak berurusan dengan kaum lain dalam industri (especially chinese)…
    Mereka MERESTUI niat baik NEP untuk membantu orang Melayu yg miskin, tetapi mereka juga persoalkan.
    kenapa selepas puluhan tahun taraf ekonomi orang Melayu masih berada di bawah?
    Kenapa tak gunakan peluang yang ada sebaiknya?
    Satu perkara yg saya sependapat dengan mereka ialah bantuan ini tidak sampai sepenuhnya kepada rakyat Melayu. tersangkut dengan YB?!
    You know the answer!
    Banyak yang cakap kaum bukan Melayu banyak yang kaya, Orang Melayu pun banyak yang kaya (mungkin tak seramai mereka)…
    cuma kita tak nampak saja!!
    Sebab tak boleh tunjuk kekayaan tu, atas sebab2 tertentu…
    Paling sedih, sekarang kaum kita susah untuk berdikari…
    Saya berpendapat (mungkin ramai yg tak bersetuju)
    bantuan seperti NEP ini hendaklah dikurangkan secara berperingkat
    sehingga tahap kaum kita sudah kuat sedikit boleh lah kita hentikan.
    Memang susah untuk diterima
    tetapi ini penting supaya kaum kita boleh mejadi lebih kuat!
    Orang lumpuh kaki pun kena bangun dari kerusi roda, jalani fisioterapi yang getir supaya boleh berjalan…
    Sebelum lumpuh selamanya…
    Kalau teruskan begini,saya risau sampai bila2 pun kita di takuk lama
    atau mungkin akan jadi lebih teruk!!
    bersusah2 dahulu, bersenang2 kemudian…

73. Ybhg TDM,
    Saya amat tertarik dengan mereka yang benci tapi sayang kat TDM,marah tapi rindu kat TDM.
    Biarkan lah mereka ini dengan kata-kata mereka….seumpama anjing menyalak gunung…..Seumpama Pakar teori yang asyik mengutuk dan membidas orang..tapi dari segi realiti tiada apa sumbangan yang dilakukan….Mereka nak komen TDM…..tapi mereka ni hubuk pun tak ada…..TDM have proven track record….Kalau kata TDM teruk sangat kenapa masa 22tahun TDM tak ada pun pemindahan berjuta-juta atau beratus ribu penduduk Malaysia ke Luar negara….Tak ada pula dengar rakyat Malaysia menyeberangi sempadan dan sanggup merempat di Luar Negara untuk mendapat kebebasan politik dan ekonomi….semasa pemerintahan TDM……biaq p la kat depa tu…..
    Kalau betul benci sangat kat TDM jgnlah guna apa yang diilham dan diusahakan oleh TDM….tak payah guna segala benda…tengok bolehkah mereka hidup di Malaysia(Y still stay in Malaysia if other countries can offer better life no one stop any one to go to other country for better life….that y we have alot of Indian and Chinese and Indon here coz this is prosper country)
    Kita mengalu alukan dan bersedia untuk berkongsi kuasa dan ekonomi dengan mana-mana bangsa yang sanggup bersama-sama memajukan negara ini dengan ikhlas….sebab orang melayu selalu bertolak ansur sehingga mengelusur jatuh….Dimana bumi dipijak disitu langit dijunjung…Ramai lagi Non-bumi yang sokong TDM, jiran-jiran saya 100% non-bumi…hidup mewah dan majoriti mereka berjaya dizaman TDM tak pun depa complain pasai TDM atau NEP…tapi adala dulu complai pasai budak Anwar yang naikkan interest sampai nyaris business mereka gulung tikar…….Sebab mereka ini generasi dulu..yang tahu betapa susah hidup tok nenek mereka dinagara asal…tahu betapa susah tok nenek mereka merantau ke Malaysia dan kemudian mereka berjaya mengecapai kenikmatan hidup yang pasti lebih baik dari negara asal mereka….
    Buat mereka yang tak tak bersyukur baik Bumiputra atau Bukan Bumiputera….fikir-fikirkanlah…jangan guna emosi tapi gunalah akal fikiran….Orang Malaysia sekarang nampaknya mudah terpedaya..seperti begitu ramai yang pecaya video “pengakuan TDM menganaiya Anwar”….bahkan jika sesiapa yang menggunakan otak untuk berfikir tahu bahawa itu adalah edited video….tapi itulah pemikiran orang ramai yang mudah diperdaya.
    TDM teruslah menulis biar terbuka sikit pemikiran mereka-mereka yang tak tau fikir…

74. Dear YAA Tun
    I do not know who said this ‘ Good leader bad organization, organization will become good. Good organization bad leader, organization will become bad.’ It is simple for countries to move forward only the leader counts.
    No matter how we try to assess the NEP one thing is clear. Yes it has improved the lot of the bumiputras but, unfortunately, those who are not poor. In the early days of independence the policy was implemented fairly and many of my poor friends in the bumiputra community benifited. I have friends who came from very poor families who would not be where they are today if thery had not received assistance.
    The argument that they government had to do what it has done because the non bumiputra private sector had given assistance only to a certain group does not hold. They were following the tone set by government and felt that there should be a balance. To my mind the government is elected by the people and should look after everyone not only a certain group. I still cannot understand why the slogan ‘eradication of poverty irrespective of race was never implemented in spirit.
    Forget about all this talk of cronies becuse they are only a diversion from the main issue. One does not have to travel too far out of Kuala Lumpur to see the stark difference in standard of living in comparison to us in the urban areas.As a student in sociology I believe that ion the long run a poor man and a rich man will never be able to live side by side. Countries like South Korea which had a Per Capita income of US 100.00 in the early 60s relised this and poured vast sums of money into the rural areas to develop them and bring efficient government services to its people. Our founding fathers had this vision and the FLDA scheme stand as a good example of the efforts by government to improve the livelihood of the people in the rural areas. Tody every time I go back to my hometown it Pahang it pains me to see the living conditions in the the rural areas of whish I am product.
    As former Head of Governemnt I am sure that you will agree with the what a leading Korean corporate figure told me. ‘ The NEP may not be able to build a strong economy but a strong economy will be able to strengthen the objectives of the NEP. If we want to build a strong Malaysia and want the world to look up at us then we have no choice but to build a strong ecnomy which should then be used to towards build this nation that we all love..

75. Dear Tun…..
    You are definately BRILLIANT with your IDEAS, VISIONs, POLICIES, etc
    BUT…..you failed to ensure their proper IMPLEMENTATION, lack of
    control resulted in all those accusations.

76. Apa Khabar Tun…
    Dalam dunia ni, tak ada orang yang boleh buat kerjanya 100% perfect,kalau ada pun mungkin alam lain(taktahu pula alam mana).Orang-orang yang tak setuju dengan tun ni, mungkin orang kecewa yang tak sudah-sudah,
    1.idola dia dah tentu bukan tun,
    2.Tak dapat project mungkin, untuk memajukan diri
    3.orang yang pentingkan diri,duit ratus ribu tu, atau juta-juta
    4.pergi la duduk di Etophia atau yg setarap dgnnya, rasa cam mana..
    5.Orang yang tak pandai bersyukur.
    Takpe la,memang betul, mana boleh kita puaskan hati semua orang.Ahhhh biar la orang2 sperti ini rugi, janji kita terrugi sama…..
    Saya amat suka dengan apa yang ditulis oleh “OLDEDWARDIAN” pada 7 ogos,(ada diatas)sokong lagi 1000%.

77. NEP is (or was) a good policy, but it should be for all poor or disadvantage malaysian.
    I agree the wealth of country must shared among all races, I like the current goverment approach, increase the salary of civil servant and employee of GLC, that will create local market for bumi business.
    example one of my friend (Malay) had to close her internet cafe business due to people in that area owe her money and not afford to pay for their computer training.
    Secara amnya, saya sokong semangat DEB, tetapi saya tak sokong cara dia diuruskan atau dia dilaksanakan. Dari sudut pandangan makro-ekonomi, kita perlu mempertingkatkan M1 di kadangan pengguna bumiputra sebelum memwujudkan peniaga bumiputra, tetapi malangnya ada yang belanja semua wang yang didapati untuk beli barang yang tak ada nilai ekonomi, mereka harus faham teori Robert Kiyosaki.
    Saya lihat usaha kerajaan untuk memwujudkan ahli pengusahaan melalui petanian and perternakan, hasil dari inilah mereka eksport dan dapat membantu pangaliran masuk wang negara.
    Tetapi, adalah terdengar dekat kedai kopi siapa siapa dapat permit dan disewakan kepada orang yang memerlukannya, siapa siapa yang dapat kontract dan “alibaba”kannya, inilah menjadi kemalahan anak-anak muda semua kaum.

78. to MOON (CINA TAWAU SABAH)
    moon, aku dpt bygkn kesusahan family ko di sana, actually ramai antara kita yg bkerja keras, tp kenyataannya persekitaran kita mmng teruk. rasuah di tawau berleluasa, polis dgn selamba mngambil duit di dalam bas awam jika ada PATI yg trperangkap ketika ada road block dilakukan polis.
    tapi sapa yg ambil tau??
    sy bkerja di hotel MARCO POLO dgn gaji rm250 sbln. sdgnkn blnja harian adalah rm2 utk bas, rm8 utk mkn.
    keje EDO ICHI SUSHI gaji RM215 sbln.
    sapa yg peduli gaji kita di sana?
    Kerajaan cuma mnumpukan perhatian di kwnsn2 bndar utama, kl smnjung shj.
    kenapa kakitangan kerajaan dr smnjung yg bkerja di sabah sarawak mndapat elaun seberang laut sbyk RM750? sdgkn kakitangan sabah srawak yg bkerja di smnjung cuma dpt rm500??
    bg sy, sbgi manusia yg lahir di tawau sabah (shingga umur 18thn) perpaduan di sana adalah lebih kuat dr kaum2 yg ada di smnjung.
    ketika ada diantara kami mngadakan knduri doa selamat/arwah/berkaitan agama islam, perhatikan ada diantara yg hadir adalah bkn islam, x kira bajau, tidung, suluk, dusun kadazan, bugis atau sapa2 pn.
    kerajaan terutama UMNO harus mnghargai SABAHAN, yg slama ini terus memangkan BN, wlupn dianak tirikan.

79. tun, minta komen tentang halnya bar council ini. pada saya bar council bukan lagi sebuah ngo yang bebas pada hari ini tetapi lebih kepada perjuangan berunsurkan politik. lihat post ini.
    http://writtenbyhim.wordpress.com/2008/08/04/bar-council-make-your-voice-valuable/

80. Salam Tun dan para sahbat sekalian;
    2 soalan jeer.
    Pak Lah pergi sekolah ker?
    Sekolah mana?
    Sebab aku tak mahu hantar anak aku masuk sekolah tu. gerenti bodoh macam dia juga.
    Turun lah Pak Lah oooiiiii
    Orang-orang Penang ni dah menyampah sangat dah…..
    Mai la sini, perati la sign board, apa depa tulis…..
    Kuda kayu!

81. Salam Tun dan semua,
    Izinkan saya memebri pandangan kepada Saudara Abu Sayab yang sering membangkit persoalan siapa melayu. Soalan telah dijawab oleh saya dan bebera rakan lain dalam blog Tun. Mungkin dia miss kot!
    >>By abu sayab on August 7, 2008 8:22 PM
    1. Berkaitan “otak” dan “baca sejarah”
    Abu Sayab kata:
    >>Kepada Pejuang Bangsa dan beberapa org UMNO diblog sini, tlg pakai otak dan baca sejarah
    Pandangan saya:
    Saya tak pakai “otak” saya sahaja bila katakan siapa itu Melayu. Tetapi saya juga gunakan kepakaran pemimpin2 dahulu terdiri dari pelbagai kaum yang telah bersetuju takrifan Melayu yand dibukukan dalam Undang-undang perlembagaan Malaysia, perkara 160(2) menakrifkan Melayu sebagai (1)Seorang yang beragama Islam (2)Bertutur bahasa Melayu (3)Mengamalkan adat istiadat Melayu (3)Lahir sebelum hari merdeka sama ada di Persekutuan atau di Singapura atau pada hari merdeka, dia bermastautin di Persekutuan atau di Singapura.
    Bekaitan sejarah, saya juga cadangkan Saudara Abu sayab baca
    i. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaysia
    ii. http://www.yawningbread.org/guest_2007/guw-137.htm
    Kalau saudara tak berapa pasti boleh rujuk buku2 teks sejarah berkaitan siapa itu Melayu.Di UKM ada satu institut berkaitan Melayu, saudara bolehlah berhujah denganmereka. Satu lagi saudara pernah pergi tapak2 sejarah di Malaysia misalnya di Sungei Petani dan beberapa tempat lain(pernah pergi Melaka) ada bukti2 peninggalan orang melayu zaman dahulu.
    Untuk tambahan maklumat saya juga cadangkan saudara baca sejarah dunia seperti bagaimana terbentuknya negara England untuk memahami asal-usul kaumnya.(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_England). Ada banyak lagi maklumat berkaitan asal usul kaum2 di dunia di internet sekarang ini.
    2. Abu Sayab kata:
    >>Bukan kah Melayu UMNO menghina org Pas & Melayu PKR?
    >>Bukan kah org Melayu UMNO yg memiskinkan org Melayu Kelantan?
    >>Bukan kah Pemimpin2,Menteri2 & polis Melayu yg rasuah?
    Pandangan saya:
    Saya tak pasti saudara ini Melayu atau tidak, amalan kutuk mengutuk,hina-menghina bukan berkaitan dengan kaum.Ia adalah berkaitan dengan keimanan(moral values bagi bukan Muslim) seseorang itu. Saudara sendiri boleh di lihat di pejabat dan jiran2, ramai rakan kita kata-mengata dan hina menghina sesama lain tanpa mengira kaum atau fahaman politik/agama.
    Saya harap saudara tidak terlalu mengikut perasaan dalam menyatakan sesuatu hujah.
    3. Abu Sayab kata:
    >>Ketuanan Melayu,Ketuanan apa? Siapakah org Melayu??
    >>Hanya Orang Asli adalah Bumiputera yg tulin di Malaysia!
    >>Where is the special rights for Orang Asli?… masih tinggal di >>hutan…
    Pandangan saya:
    Mungkin saudara seorang Asli. Kalau begitu ya saya amat setuju saudara memperjuangkan hak2 orang Asli. Bagaimanapun di negara kita ada satu jabatan Khas untuk Orang2 Asli. Disamping itu mereka juga menikmati taraf bumiputera.Ramai juga diantara mereka telah berjaya hingga ke menara gading. Mungkin perlaksanaannya kurang memuaskan. Orang Asli Malaysia wajib dibela. Mereka perlu ada pemimpin2 bertaraf Menteri dan Wakil Rakyat.
    Disamping itu saya syorkan saudara juga membaca sejarah Malaysia untuk mengenali perbezaan dan persamaan diantara orang Asli dan orang Melayu. Di Sabah/sarawak kita takpanggil Orang Asli atau Ketuanan Melayu tetapi kita gunakan istilah bumiputera. Istilah saja saudara. Jika saudara betul2 ikhlas dan berminat mengenali asal usul Melayu dan orang Asli di Semenanjung , sila hubungi pakar Tamadun Melayu di UKM atau mana2 pakar sejarah Malaysia. Mungkin selepas ini barangkali tuan bolehlah wujudkan satu gerakan NGO untuk memeprjuangkan nasib Orang Asli bersama2 dengan Jabatan Hal Ehwal Orang Asli(http://www.jheoa.gov.my/) . semuga usaha murni dan perjuangan saudara diberkati Allah Ta’ala.
    Saya bukan ahli politik, bukan ahli sejarah . saya berlatarbelakang teknikal.Bagaimanapun bila ada masa saya cuba membaca untuk memahami keadaan semasa.

82. Salam Tun dan semua,
    Izinkan saya memebri pandangan kepada Saudara Abu Sayab yang sering membangkit persoalan siapa melayu. Soalan telah dijawab oleh saya dan bebera rakan lain dalam blog Tun. Mungkin dia miss kot!
    >>By abu sayab on August 7, 2008 8:22 PM
    1. Berkaitan “otak” dan “baca sejarah”
    Abu Sayab kata:
    >>Kepada Pejuang Bangsa dan beberapa org UMNO diblog sini, tlg pakai otak dan baca sejarah
    Pandangan saya:
    Saya tak pakai “otak” saya sahaja bila katakan siapa itu Melayu. Tetapi saya juga gunakan kepakaran pemimpin2 dahulu terdiri dari pelbagai kaum yang telah bersetuju takrifan Melayu yand dibukukan dalam Undang-undang perlembagaan Malaysia, perkara 160(2) menakrifkan Melayu sebagai (1)Seorang yang beragama Islam (2)Bertutur bahasa Melayu (3)Mengamalkan adat istiadat Melayu (3)Lahir sebelum hari merdeka sama ada di Persekutuan atau di Singapura atau pada hari merdeka, dia bermastautin di Persekutuan atau di Singapura.
    Bekaitan sejarah, saya juga cadangkan Saudara Abu sayab baca
    i. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaysia
    ii. http://www.yawningbread.org/guest_2007/guw-137.htm
    Kalau saudara tak berapa pasti boleh rujuk buku2 teks sejarah berkaitan siapa itu Melayu.Di UKM ada satu institut berkaitan Melayu, saudara bolehlah berhujah denganmereka. Satu lagi saudara pernah pergi tapak2 sejarah di Malaysia misalnya di Sungei Petani dan beberapa tempat lain(pernah pergi Melaka) ada bukti2 peninggalan orang melayu zaman dahulu.
    Untuk tambahan maklumat saya juga cadangkan saudara baca sejarah dunia seperti bagaimana terbentuknya negara England untuk memahami asal-usul kaumnya.(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_England). Ada banyak lagi maklumat berkaitan asal usul kaum2 di dunia di internet sekarang ini.
    2. Abu Sayab kata:
    >>Bukan kah Melayu UMNO menghina org Pas & Melayu PKR?
    >>Bukan kah org Melayu UMNO yg memiskinkan org Melayu Kelantan?
    >>Bukan kah Pemimpin2,Menteri2 & polis Melayu yg rasuah?
    Pandangan saya:
    Saya tak pasti saudara ini Melayu atau tidak, amalan kutuk mengutuk,hina-menghina bukan berkaitan dengan kaum.Ia adalah berkaitan dengan keimanan(moral values bagi bukan Muslim) seseorang itu. Saudara sendiri boleh di lihat di pejabat dan jiran2, ramai rakan kita kata-mengata dan hina menghina sesama lain tanpa mengira kaum atau fahaman politik/agama.
    Saya harap saudara tidak terlalu mengikut perasaan dalam menyatakan sesuatu hujah.
    3. Abu Sayab kata:
    >>Ketuanan Melayu,Ketuanan apa? Siapakah org Melayu??
    >>Hanya Orang Asli adalah Bumiputera yg tulin di Malaysia!
    >>Where is the special rights for Orang Asli?… masih tinggal di >>hutan…
    Pandangan saya:
    Mungkin saudara seorang Asli. Kalau begitu ya saya amat setuju saudara memperjuangkan hak2 orang Asli. Bagaimanapun di negara kita ada satu jabatan Khas untuk Orang2 Asli. Disamping itu mereka juga menikmati taraf bumiputera.Ramai juga diantara mereka telah berjaya hingga ke menara gading. Mungkin perlaksanaannya kurang memuaskan. Orang Asli Malaysia wajib dibela. Mereka perlu ada pemimpin2 bertaraf Menteri dan Wakil Rakyat.
    Disamping itu saya syorkan saudara juga membaca sejarah Malaysia untuk mengenali perbezaan dan persamaan diantara orang Asli dan orang Melayu. Di Sabah/sarawak kita takpanggil Orang Asli atau Ketuanan Melayu tetapi kita gunakan istilah bumiputera. Istilah saja saudara. Jika saudara betul2 ikhlas dan berminat mengenali asal usul Melayu dan orang Asli di Semenanjung , sila hubungi pakar Tamadun Melayu di UKM atau mana2 pakar sejarah Malaysia. Mungkin selepas ini barangkali tuan bolehlah wujudkan satu gerakan NGO untuk memeprjuangkan nasib Orang Asli bersama2 dengan Jabatan Hal Ehwal Orang Asli(http://www.jheoa.gov.my/) . semuga usaha murni dan perjuangan saudara diberkati Allah Ta’ala.
    Saya bukan ahli politik, bukan ahli sejarah . saya berlatarbelakang teknikal.Bagaimanapun bila ada masa saya cuba membaca untuk memahami keadaan semasa.

83. Dear Malaysians,
    The NEP was adopted as the Malays rights since 1970. The Malays should have improved in 1990, when the NEP should have been abolished. But then, the Malays were too comfortable to ‘let go’ the ‘birth right’ in the form of NEP that assured the Malays wealth and free walk in to the universities.
    Dr.Mahathir wrote in point # 24:
    24. Many went on to study for post-graduate degrees and doctorates. They now work as professors in universities, as specialists in various fields of medicine, as scientists, engineers, architects, veterinarians, agriculturists etc. They have not been left behind by the advances in new knowledge such as information technology, telecommunications and space science.
    On Nov, 2007, the Bernama news reported that from a rankings study done by the Times Higher Education Supplement(THES), that from a 3,000 universities worldwide, the following was reported:
    1. University Malaya was relegated from 192 to 246
    2. USM was relegated from 277 to 307
    3. UKM was relegated from 182 to 309
    4. UPM was relegated from 292 to 364
    5. UTM for the first time ranked in the top 500 by emerging at # 415.
    Now, my question to Dr.Mahathir: What is there to proud about the declining quality of our universities when compared to world standards? Is this the result of the Malays getting too comfortable with their ‘birth right’ quotas and went into a deep coma that it has become extremely difficult to wake them up. We can perhaps wake up someone who is really sleeping, but can we wake someone who is pretending to sleep?
    I’m sick and tired with the whole government structure. The component parties of the BN ( MIC, MCA, etc.) are equally stupid enough to follow the Malay leaders in the NEP’s implementation. This is why I feel that Lee Kuan Yew ( as kiasu as he and the Singaporeans can be) played his cards well to get kicked out from Malaysia to form Singapore. He was a visionary who saw into the future how Malays would one day demand everything from the government. He simply did not want to be dominated by the Malays. We can clearly see the rankings of Singaporean universities versus Malaysian universities. When you admit half baked students into our universities, you get only get a lame work force and half baked educationists at our universities.
    Dr. Mahathir had the chance to bring an end to NEP in 1990, but did not have the guts to do so, perhaps afraid the Malays will skin him alive. The first Malay leader who will abolish the NEP and the quotas will truly wake the Malays up from their deep dillema sleep. Until then, the Malays will be shooting their own leg by the ‘birth right’ that they claim to be theirs and theirs alone.
    May justice and truth sets us free.
    God bless.
    Anba

84. /// By lebaikudin on August 7, 2008 4:30 PM
    2.In Zimbabwe,property,estates,business entity belonging to whites (some of them even killed)taken by force & redistributed back to marginalised blacks… ///
    Great, now you are suggesting we should follow the shining example of Zimbabwe? Yea, why not? Then we can all be instant trillionaires with inflation running at over 2 million per cent per year. Moreover, Tun is a very good buddy of Robert Mugabe and they can learn from each other.
    Yes, yes, yes – let’s go the way of Zimbabwe…

85. More than 90% civil servants are Malays.
    90% scholarships are given to Malays.
    90% of the students in public universities are Malays.
    90% of the taxpayers are non-malays.
    And you still say the M’sian chinese are greedy? Looking at the comments and so called “rationale” of “ketuanan melayu” makes me want to laugh. How can you justify saying that chinese benefited through the NEP when the government gives out contract, the bumi companies sub out to chinese companies. This is like telling people that you are giving crumbs to your stepchild and so she has benefited from your generosity. And why is it that the contracts are sub out to the chinese companies? Are the bumi companies not at par or fit to do the job?
    If you have a family, and you take everything from one child and give them to another child, at the end both child end up hating you. The child whom you took everything from will, understandably, be angry at you for being unfair. The other child whom you gave everything will become spoilt and lazy, expecting everything but giving nothing in return. When you have nothing left to give, she will hate you for it as she thinks its her entitlement. And this is human nature.
    The ketuanan champions keep saying how S’pore marginalized the bumis. I can bet none of you have ever lived there. M’sia’s social welfare is much worse off than S’pore’s. Why? In S’pore, at least the poor have jobs, safety, world class transportation, good education system, high currency value etc. You claimed that the bumis are not holding high ranking jobs in S’pore. The percentage of them holding high positions is low but that is because of polarization. Less bumi population means less bumis holding high positions. The poor are given bonuses every year which amounts to S2K-S3K a year and is debited into their CPF. Let’s compare all this with M’sia. At the rate we are going, there are going to be even less jobs for bumis as our economy declines. There is also no safety in our country. Look at what happen to Sharlinie and Nurin. Robbers, thieves and rapist are getting bolder everyday with the questionable quality of our police. Public transportation is seriously not up to standards and expensive. Buses do not come on time, taxi services are lousy, MRT/LRT are expensive and not disabled friendly etc. The government only knows how to take money /tax its people eg. Toll, road tax, car import duty… Our education system only breeds racists. The Education minister does not even send his own children to study in local schools and that says a lot.
    Let me ask you a simple question, if you go to a hospital seeking for treatment of the terminal disease, do you go to a malay, chinese or indian specialist? Would you trust your life to a specialist produced by NEP? Also, when you decide to build that twin tower, why don’t you trust the NEP produced professionals to design and build for you instead of hiring foreigners? Even the management of the building is a foreigner, is that correct? Why don’t you trust your own NEP produced professionals to do the job?
    The ketuanan champions are just elevating the bumi status by suppressing others. They are just taking away the rights of other citizens so that the bumis don’t “feel” so bad. No need to be competitive as the government will take care of it. As such, bumis gained nothing but an inflated ego and a false sense of security. At the end, everybody lose out when there’s no bread left to eat as we are unable to compete outside for food.
    Also, Tun, do you all realize what kind of leaders Tun has churned out with NEP? Badawi (the sleeping beauty) and Najib (alleged criminal). And these are Malaysia’s highest ranking people. I can imagine what kind of quality the people in UMNO until you have to choose Badawi and Najib to be your successor.

86. Result of NEP, benefiting small group of “Malay” by using the name of BUMI privilege – the rich getting richer, look at the politically link companies & crony members.
    How many Orang Asli and poor kampung Malay beneficial from NEP? There are, but too little, after filter & filter by the Crony. Again, Crony wins.
    What about poor non-bumi? They are denied to get privilege, super rich Crony gets all privilege, even scholarships to oversea.
    We are suppose to be few times richer than Singapore, Hong Kong, Korea by today, but all these are screwed up by NEP & BN

87. Assalamualaikum, Tun dan isteri,
    Saya merasa pelik apabila non Malays sering mengatakan mengapa pecahan kaum dalam sektor pperkhidmatan awam begitu ketara perbezaannya; yakni dimonopoli oleh orang-orang Melayu. Melalui pengalaman saya yang pernah mengendalikan bahagian pengambilan kakitangan kerajaan, setiap kali tawaran pekerjaan dibuka, bilangan non Malays yang memohon amat kecil.
    Pada pendapat saya, ini adalah kerana orang Melayu tidak begitu berkira dgn tawaran gaji yang kecil daripada kerajaan. Mereka lebih mementingkan ‘security’. Berbeza dgn non Malays yang mengharapkan ganjaran gaji lebih lumayan. Apabila diambil bekerja, mereka cuma bekerja untuk jangkamasa yang singkat. Apabila mendapat tawaran lebih besar, mereka akan meletakkan jawatan.
    Kita sendiri boleh membaca drp bloggers di ruangan ini, betapa besar bilangan rakyat Malaysia (termasuk kaum Melayu) yang terus bekerja di luar negara sebaik tamat pengajian. Mengapa? Gaji? Pengalaman? Jadi tepuk dada, tanya selera…janganlah perkara ini dipersoalkan dan dijadikan isu yang besar!
    Saya bukanlah seorang racist, tetapi soalan yang sama pernah ditanya kepada Pak Lah …dan jawapannya…AMAT MENDUKACITAKAN….

88. Ybgh Tun,
    Kita mendapat masaalah dan aduan diskriminasi dari kalangan non bumi ni, implikasi dari dasar menjadikan mereka warga negara. Mereka dah tak sedar diri, kehadiran mereka ke negara kita tidak pun kita pelawa dan kita tidak sesangat mengalu-alukan. Malangnya lagi bila ada bumi yang x sedar diri, bersengkokol dengan pendatang ni, menuntut berbagai kemudahan.
    Kita wajib sekarang ni menyusun strategi bagaimana dapat menlenyapkan, mengusir, menghalau, atau sekurang-kurang nya menjadikan hanya bertaraf penduduk tumpang.
    Itulah satu-satunya diharapkan akan lahir sebuah pertubuhan yang bermatlamat memperjuangkan agenda tersebut.
    Mendoakan kesejahteraan dan kebahagiaan Tun n keluarga.

89. Assalamualaikum Tun,
    Seperti biasa Tun berjaya menjelaskan sesuatu topik dengan ringkas tapi padat dengan info dan mudah difahami. seringkali, saya semakin kagum dengan Tun setelah membaca artikel Tun yang terbaru.
    Apa Tun katakan disini memang benar. Orang sering melabel Tun sebagai pengamal kronisme, tapi mereka tidak tahu apa yang Tun lakukan sebnarnya. Adakah memilih yang terbaik untuk sesuatu itu hal itu salah? Apa yang dapat saya lihat, Tun sering memberi sesuatu projek itu kepada sesebuah syarikat bukan kerana pemilik syarikat tersebut adalah kawan atau saudara Tun, tapi kerana kejayaan sesebuah syarikat itu menjayakan projek tersebut.
    Mungkin orang Melayu atau rakyat Malaysia tidak sedar betapa pentingnya DEB itu. sy telah berpeluang untuk belajar di Indonesia dan ini telah membuka mata saya tentang apa sebenarnya kepentingan DEB itu. Di Indonesia, sewaktu berlaku kegawatan ekonomi, orang cina dipesalahkan. Mereka diperlakukan dengan begitu kejam oleh rakyat tempatan. Namun, di Malaysia semuanya berbeza. Tiada berlaku kekacauan dan semuanya berjalan seperti biasa. Ini kerana kerajaan telah berjaya menghadapi krisis ini dengan baik dan masalah perkauman pula telah lama berjaya ditanggulangi sejak peristiwa 13 Mei lagi.
    Orang cina sering mengatakan DEB itu tidak memihak kepada mereka. Apakah mereka lupa bahawa kebanyakkan mereka terdiri dari usahawan dan para peniaga? Jika kedudukan ekonomi kaum bumiputera stabil, maka kuasa membeli kaum ini juga meningkat. Memandangkan kaum bumiputera adalah majoriti rakyat malaysia, maka para peniaga cinalah yang dapat mengaut keuntungan yang berlipat kali ganda dari keadaan ini.
    Pada saya, mungkin pak lah menganggap Tun mengamalkan kronisme selama ini. Jadi, setelah berkuasa, dia pun melakukan apa yang dia pikir tun lakukan. Dengan memberi projek-projek kerajaan pada sedara dan kawan2 dia tanpa menilai dulu rekod dan pencapaian syarikat tersebut. Saya tak salahkan Tun, dalam hal ini. Tidak kisah la apa pun tanggapan pak lah kepada tun, tapi sepatutnya setelah berkuasa, pak lah sepatutnya melakukan sesuatu perkara yang dianggapnya benar dan bukan hanya mengikut.
    Saya rasa cukup setakat ni buat masa ni. Saya doakan hidup Tun sekeluarga sentiasa diberkati dan dirahmati Allah swt.
    ~La Motion C’Est La Vie~
    Wassalam…

90. Tun Mahathir,
    Salam Dengan Penuh Hormat,
    Saya menyambung semula dalam topic yang sama ia itu DEB/NEP.
    Kali ini saya ingin menceritakan sedikit pandangan saya terhadap tajuk ini dan pengalaman saya semasa NEP dilancarkan olih Tun Razak selepasa trajidi 13 May.
    Didalam ringkasan pertama saya menceritakan kisah “Si-Panjang” dan
    “Tiga Cupak Segantang” pengalaman semasa saya masih budak kecil dan baru memulakan persekolahan dan Persekutan Tanah Melayu masih belum mencapai Kemerdekaan dari penjajah British.
    Dikampong,orang Melayu semuanya berugama Islam dan Surau merupakan satu tempat orang kampong berjumaah sambil membinchangkan perkara2 untuk kesejahteraan masyarakat kampong.Kadang2 Tok Guru datang mengajar dan berceramah mengenai hal Ugama selalunya di sebelah malam selapas Isya’. Tok Guru biasanya orang Melayu tempatan kadang2 ada Tok Guru yang datang dari Indonesia biasanya dari Aceh.
    Pada zaman itu, masih ada ” Tukang Cerita ” bercerita tentang kisah “laila Majnun”, “Iskandar Zulkarnain” dan berbagai.Tukang Cerita ini selalunya pendatang dari India atau Indonesia, bolih bertutur dalam bahasa Melayu tetapi pelatnya agak pekat.
    Orang kampong keluar lebih ramai apabila Tukang Cerita datang kerana selepas bercerita ada barang yang di jual seperti,kain pelikat,selendang,batik lepas, batu cincin,manik,minyak atar,celak dan lain2 lagi.
    Saya masih ingat pada masa itu orang kampong jarang pergi ka Hospital apabila sakit tetapi memanggil dukun, bomoh atau pawaang untuk mendapatkan rawatan.Ramai orang kampong mengamalkan “belaan” seperti,jin,pelesit,hantu raya dan lln. Setahun sekali ada majlis “jamu” di hujong kampung untuk “belaan” ini.Para “pembela” akan berhimpun dan menyediakan “Jambak” berisi sirih pinang,rokok daun,sebekas darah ayam putih dan berbagai lauk pauk mengikut kehendak belaan masing2.Saya sendiri pernah melihat “belaan”ini di turunkan kepada pewaris dengan bantuan saorang pawang untuk menyeru dan menjalankan prosses peralihan tersebut.Teringatkannya,saya merasa takut juga tetapi itulah kenyataan bagi orang Melayu Islam di zaman lama.
    Di zaman “berpengetahuan” dan “bertemadun”ini,amalan seperti itu adalah salah dari sisi Agama tetapi dalam hemat saya masih ada yang mengamalkannya samada sebagai pewaris atau sukarela menerimanya untuk kepentingan diri sendiri.Masih ingat Mona Fendi?.
    Saya mula belajar tentang “Sejarah” dan “Ilmu Alam ” di peringkat Sekolah Menengah dan memahami bahawa Semenanjung Tanak Melayu terletak didalam Gagasan Kepulauan Melayu ” The Malay Archipelago”.Siapakah yang menamakan dan mengapa ramtau ini di sebut sebagai “Malay Archipelago” ? mangapa India di sebut sebagai “India” dan mengapa negari Cina disebut sebagai”China”.
    Mengapa setiap Negara mempunyai sempadan, bangsa dan bahasanya sendiri?mengapa ada perperangan dan mengapa ada penaklukan.Mengapa ada trade dan pertukaran bahan ? Siapa yang mengujudkan “wang” dan menentukan nilainya sebagai penganti barang tukaran dan jualbeli.
    Para archaeologist menyatakan bumi Tanah Melayu ini telah berpebghuni sejak beribu tahun. Buku sejarah lama mengatakan orang Melayu dizaman penjelajah terawal, tinggal diatas pokok dan sahingga kini masih ada parabumi di Gagasan Kepulauan Melayu yang tidak mencapai tamadun dan masih tinggal di atas pokok.
    Mengapa bangasa Siam,Bangsa Portugis, Bangsa Belanda, Bangsa Inggeris,Bangsa Jepun menakluk sebahagian atau sepenuhnya Tanah Melayu ini. Mengapa Bangsa Melayu tidak pernah menakluk mana mana negeri dirantau ini. Segketa di antara Kesultanan Melayu lama seperti Majapahit,Johor/Riau,Linggi,Melaka dan lain negeri Melayu seperti Pahang ,Terangganu,kedah dan Perak ada tercatit dalam sejarah tetapi apakah punca persenketaan ini ? Adakah bangsa Melayu Bangsa Penjelajah ? Adakah Bangsa Melayu suka berperang dan menakluk membesarkan jajahan.Tidak,saya tidak terbaca di dalam mana mana buku sejarah. Sebaliknya Bangsa Melayu hanya bertahan dan mempertahankan rantaunya dan selalunya kecundang. Mengapa? Bangsa Melayu kurang temadun,tidak mempunyai ilmu dan kekuatan berperang atau sikap yang cintakan aman damai dan tidah suka bermusuh.Ketangkasan Inggeris ,Kesultanan Melayu hilang Pulau Pinang,Bagan, Dinding, Melaka dan Tumasik.Walau pun dengan bantauan Inggeris Kesultanan Kedah dapat mengusir Siam tetapi hilang Pulau Pinang sebagai pertukaran.Melalui beberapa perjajian, Kesultanan Perak dapat balik Dinding dari penjajahann Inggeris,Melaka dan Tumasik terus di jajah dibawah Straights Settlemant.Walau pun Pulau Pinang dan Melaka dapat balik ke pangkuan tetapi Temasik hilang terus.Yang terbaharu Kesultanan Johor hilang Batu Putih.Di harapkan biarlah ini rantau Melayu yang akhir hilang jika AAB dan Kerajaanya berpegang kepada janji yang dipersetujui dengan ICJ.
    Saya melihat DEB/NEP sabagai satu semangat Nationalist,satu kepentingan untuk Negara Malaysia. Walau pun kepentinganya lebih kepada orang Melayu tetapi kebaikannya adalah untuk semua.Satu usaha untuk perpaduan dan keamanan Negara.DEB/NEP ini mempunyai matelamat dan tempoh masa.Jika tempoh masa telah lupus tetapi matlamatnya belom tercapai maka satu perancangan baru harus diujudkan untuk mencapai matalamat tersebut.
    Siapakah yang menentang DEB/NEP ini ?, pastinya mereka yang tiada semangat Nationalist,mereka yang tidak mempedulikan kepentingan Negara hanya mementingkan diri sendiri,keluarga sendiri,bangsa sendiri.Jika DEB/NEP memberi perhatian lebih kepada orang Melayu maka yang menentangnya mistilah berpihak kepada bangsa bukan Melayu. Mengapa bolih jadi begitu ?. Mengapa hampir 40 tahun DEB/NEP ini dilaksanakan, matlamatnya masih tidak bolih tercapai?.
    Yang menentang, menuduh angkara Rasuah. Para Pelabur dan Capitalist menentang content bumiputra participation yang telah diubah kepada local pearticipation dan kini telah diubah lagi untuk indutry tertentu para pelabur dan capitalist bolih memegang 100% equity.
    Jika di teliti kepada statistics, satelah DEB/NEP dilancarkan mengapa kemajuan berpihak lebih kepada bangsa bukan Melayu.Jika DEB/NEP memberi kebaikan lebih kepada bukan Melayu mengapa ianya perlu dihapuskan?. Adakah sikap berdasarkan Merit dan winner takes all bolih menjamin perpaduan negara dan mengujudkan Bangsa Malaysia?
    Saya tidak yakin.
    AAB harus memikirkan perkara ini dengan baik dan menanam sedikit semangat Nationalist didalam segala perangcangannya jika ia sudah bangun dan celik mata.Tolonglah cari punca kelemahan Melayu samada kelemahan ini semulajadi atau direnchatkan olih para Capitalist supaya Melayu terus menjadi penyubang tenaga dan pengguna sahaja.

91. I would like to propose additional surveys on private sectors:
    1) How many employees (including top positions) are of one race only with the exclusion of compulsory Bumi directors/shareholders?
    2) What is the difference of the salaries between the employees of different race of the same qualification and experience?
    If we cannot do good, let’s not do evil too. Stop being prejudice. Let’s move on possibly together.

92. It is abundantly clear that the politics of race has slowly and surely brought to this country to the brink of disaster.
    We are a nation divided, kept from strength by divisive policies that constantly remind us of our differences rather than our similarities and, in doing so, breed distrust and weakness.
    We have been reduced to nothing more than representatives of our different ethnic communities.
    Instead of being husband, father, wife, mother, child, lawyer, artist, accountant, doctor or public intellectual, we are instead Malay, Chinese, Indian or other, the value we can each add to this society limited by the box that keeps us in our respective categories.
    Though this may serve political interests, “divide and rule” having always been a useful strategy for ensuring dominion, it does not serve our interests and those of the nation.
    The NEP was intended to address disparities in income levels between the primary ethnic groups even as it addressed poverty across the board.
    I believe that over the years political interests had gradually hijacked the policy, so much so that Ketuanan Melayu has come to define the social contract for some while others believe that affirmative action is a permanent privilege of birth notwithstanding the policy having led to the enrichment of a small elite at the expense of the wider community and the nation.
    Accepting that this is a contentious issue, consider instead where race based policies have left the nation and the malay community respectively.
    Where public education is concerned, though the policy has allowed for greater malay student intake into institutions of learning at all levels, admission quotas and declining standards in a mass assembly style education system have led to the production of graduates, malays and non-malays alike, who are simply not good or confident enough to do what it takes or sufficiently experienced to deal with multi-racial existence.
    This has been influenced to an extent by political objectives that have suborned quality to quantity and, in having permitted race based appointments of educators, subjected the education system to a cycle that undermines it.
    Seeing as how local graduates, diploma holders or school leavers form the bulk of the work force, in part due to more young Malaysians choosing not to return home after completing their studies abroad because they do not believe they can achieve the quality of life they aspire to here, this cannot be a good thing.
    It is no secret that the country faces a major human resource shortage.
    This has had serious implications. One of the more evident knock-on effects is the impact it has had on the civil service.
    It is an open secret that race has played a big role, and continues to do so, in appointments and promotions, having resulted in a civil service made up almost entirely of malays, graduates of local universities and schools in the main.
    In time, it has come to be dominated by persons who are not sufficiently equipped with the skill, knowledge and experience to do what they have to, unlike their predecessors.
    The same can also be said of public institutions such as the Judiciary. Appointments to the bench have largely been from the Attorney General Chambers or the judicial services and in this way the civil service experience, such as it is has found its way onto the bench.
    In all of this and more, race has figured very prominently, even though it should not have.
    It is not insignificant that of the ten Federal Court judges currently serving, eight are malays, as are fifteen of the twenty serving Court of Appeal judges and thirty-three of the forty-eight serving High Court judges, the overwhelming majority of them having been appointed from the civil service.
    This raises important questions. Though affirmative action may be a relevant consideration for us, what is the cost we will have to pay for it? Do we have to sacrifice our competitiveness and sustainability?
    I think not. There are ways in which the poor and the disadvantaged, malays and non-malays alike, can be assisted without having to sacrifice the competitiveness of the nation or the individual Malaysian’s right to be the best he or she can be.
    Creating the methods by which this can be done requires maturity, a consideration of what this country needs in the long run and, above all, a jettisoning of political interests.
    Sadly, it would seem that the government has been incapable of this.
    Take the judiciary for instance. The prime minister has publicly admitted that we may not have the best persons for the job on the bench. It also appears as if race quotas have been imposed on appointments. How is it that that could have been permitted?
    The judiciary is a crucial institution, a cornerstone of democracy that requires the best minds to function as it was meant to.
    Leave aside the fact that the Constitution does not authorize such quotas for the judiciary, that justice can be served by reference to ethnic considerations defies logic and common sense. Justice is blind to all considerations, race and religion included.
    That the government was prepared to allow the judiciary to be subverted in this way is indication enough of how it is that other aspects of governance have been approached, especially those essential to the functioning of the pluralist democracy that Malaysia is.
    It is hardly surprising then that race relations has taken on an edge that it never had before.

93. Despite Malaysia pretty economic growth over these past few months, something just doesn’t seem to be right. It is almost as if the GDP growth figures were manipulated or spiced up.
    Well, they weren’t.
    Contrary to popular belief, the government does not really “jack up” economic figures. It just found clever ways to “spice up” growth figures. That is all.
    Let us use last year as an example. Abdullah found out that the economic figures were not good, and it couldn’t have been at a worse time. Elections were just around the corner and he didn’t want the economy to appear weak.
    So he did something very clever – he increased the wages of civil servants. This of course, leads to higher spending. And as we know, spending helps boost the economy.
    I am not saying that civil servants do not deserve a pay rise. But the reason why they were given one couldn’t be any worse.
    Yes, Malaysia is actually a failing economy. China and India are fast replacing Malaysia as manufacturing powerhouses. Half of Malaysia GDP figure comes from the manufacturing sector.
    If oil and palm oil prices did not increase last year by a mile, Malaysia would have registered an economic growth of somewhere near 3.5%. This is a measly figure for a developing country.
    By 2014, Malaysia will no longer be a net exporter of oil. In turn, this translates to losses for every sen oil prices go up.
    To achieve developed status by 2020, Malaysia should have registered at least an 8% economic growth annually since 1995 (a developed country should have Purchasing Power Parity of at least RM25000, and GDP per capita should be close to PPP figures).
    Right now, Malaysia has a GDP per capita of RM6500 and PPP of RM14700.
    We have only done an average of 5% increase in GDP growth from 1995 – 2007. So Vision 2020 will not be achieved despite what the government might claim.
    Furthermore, for Malaysia to move up the value chain (I define this as a country that is able to innovate and produce high-quality products, e.g. companies such as LG, Samsung from Korea), large amounts of foreign direct investments (FDI) are needed.
    To show you how low our FDI is, Malaysia has a pathetic RM7 billion of FDI annually while Singapore, a country 100 times smaller than Malaysia, has FDI of RM55 billion annually. Last year, nearly 50% of our FDI went into the Iskandar Development Region.
    This NEP in my opinion, is a project bound to be a major failure.
    When Singaporeans were invited to invest, they did. But when they started to invest, our silly politicians said this would chase the malays into the jungles.
    To summarise everything up:
    1. All the people tax money is being used for stupid subsidies and unnecessary mega-projects.
    2. Immigrants from Indonesia, Philippines are causing wages to remain stagnant.
    3. Malaysia economic growth is now based on oil and palm oil prices. (Malaysia will soon be a net importer of oil, and palm oil prices have reached their peak, meaning it will be downhill from here on.)
    4. Malaysia is suffering from a “brain drain”. No qualified professionals want to work in Malaysia anymore.
    5. Malaysia manufacturing sector is shrinking, thus unemployment rates will go up.

94. Salam AYAHANDA RAKYAT TUN,
    Izinkan,
    By murai77 on August 7, 2008 2:27 PM
    PILIHANRAYA KECIL PERMATANG PAUH
    Tarikh Penamaan Calon: 16hb Ogos 2008
    Tarikh Membuang Undi: 26hb Ogos 2008
    Tuan ‘Murai 77,
    Yang mana satu pilihan kalbu,
    PIlih BN …Buntut berNanah kita dibuatnya nanti dan depa akan jaja keliling kota dan desa kata rakyat masih percayakan depa.
    Pilih PKR ..Punggung Kurap dan Rebeh dibuatnya dan depa pi minta ubat kurap kat ‘ USA dan Yahudi’ konon hendak pulihkan sengsara kita. Baik2 ‘War Criminals’ tu ada makna tau?
    Tukang tilik tepi jalan ada cakap ‘BN gerenti menang, kalu itu ‘tidoouur’ punya kapla kasi keluar sekarang jugak. Tak mau tunggu lagi
    .
    Ayoyo, kapla ada pusing lah, macan!

95. Tun,
    You must be dreaming, thinking that NEP is a success?
    It is a TOTAL FAILURE!!!
    You use NEP, to sing it to the tune of the Malay’s masses, to garner their support for your political ambition in the late 60s.
    If NEP is so successful,
    Why do you quits UMNO?
    Why in the last GE, BN government loses so many states to the oppositions?
    Why do you still need to criticize PM Badawi and his BN-led government?
    For so many of you out there, claiming NEP helps you to where you
    are now, please remember this, you achieve those results because of capital derives from Malaysia’s natural resources, FDI plus the hard-work of the productive non-bumi citizens.
    Education, good jobs, wealth, better living standards, status, etc are all possible if there is money or capital allocated for them.
    So where do all these money are coming from?
    From the bankers who create them as debt or from other positive natural resources such as oil and gas?
    Any politicians-leaders who can wield capital too can achieve these results under what ever name for a so-called social-economics program they can conceive of.
    The hard fact remains, in capitalism democracy government system, the rich gets richer, the poor gets poorer and the powerful becomes more powerful!!
    So how could this be in align with NEP ultimate objective: “Membasmi Kemisikinan and Menyusun masyarakat”.
    Menyusun masyarakat according to what?
    Put the majority consumers ,the Malays above the minority non-bumis producer in the human food chain of this nation?
    Is that it??The real objective of NEP?
    NEP is nothing but capitalists’ tool to further their ambitions and to satisfy their greeds.
    You are nothing but a puppet-politician who dance to your puppeteer-capitalists’ tune!

96. For all your singing praises on the NEP and the other pro-bumi government policies that you had put in place during your reign as PM, I just wonder why you cried at UMNO national conference on 22 Jun 2002 and announced your sudden resignation?
    Was it because the NEP was so successful after 20 years under your charge that it brought tears to your eyes and forced you to resign voluntarily?

97. I’m chinese (non-bumi) from Tawau, Sabah. My family is poor. Father left us when i was young leaving my mother have to take care of me and other 5 siblings. She had to pajak ikan sikit sini dan sana just so she can try to sell just so she can untung a bit everyday. Being the eldest, when i finish form 5, she cannot afford me to go for further studies. I try to apply to go ITM (Institut Teknologi Mara), thanks to the NEP, the institute is for Bumis only. Those Bumis who can’t study and well-off manage to gain entry. I try to apply nursing, but instead was rejected because i was chinese, instead those bumis who pass form 3 only, manage to gain entry.
    For that lady who wrote to say that it’s sad to watch a malay sweeping the floor of a chinese bungalow. Lebih sedih, mak saya terpaksa pergi dari rumah ke rumah orang menanya jika ada kain mau di cuci. You think Malay saja yang kena victimize? Well, think again. Orang cina pun kena victimize bah.

98. Salam tun,
    semoga berbahagia,
    Pendapat pertama
    Ingin saya beri pendapat tentang penggunaan font di blog baru tun ni yang saya anggap tak menarik skit.
    berbanding font yang digunakan pada blog terdahulu(blogspot)
    sekarang bila di lihat font yang digunakan ialah “lucida sans unicode”
    sebabnya bila memakai font ini site ini bagai tidak siap
    sekiranya dapat ditukar kepada “arial” atau seangkatan denganya
    maka interface blog ini nampak lebih matang dan menarik.
    Pendapat kedua,
    sekiranya dapat dibuang perkataan “test” itu di address site ini maka lebih molek lagi.
    Ini kerana ia nampak tak sesuai berbanding kandungan nya yang sudah siap.
    saya berharap supaya blog ini kekal menarik dan kekal informatif
    sekian terima kasih.
    semoga tun sentiasa sihat.insyallah.
    maaf kerana lari tajuk

99. Salam tun,
    semoga berbahagia,
    Pendapat pertama
    Ingin saya beri pendapat tentang penggunaan font di blog baru tun ni yang saya anggap tak menarik skit.
    berbanding font yang digunakan pada blog terdahulu(blogspot)
    sekarang bila di lihat font yang digunakan ialah “lucida sans unicode”
    sebabnya bila memakai font ini site ini bagai tidak siap
    sekiranya dapat ditukar kepada “arial” atau seangkatan dengannya
    maka interface blog ini nampak lebih matang dan menarik.
    Pendapat kedua,
    sekiranya dapat dibuang perkataan “test” itu di address site ini maka lebih molek lagi.
    Ini kerana ia nampak tak sesuai lagi berbanding kandungan nya yang sudah siap.
    saya berharap supaya blog ini kekal menarik dan kekal informatif
    sekian terima kasih.
    semoga tun sentiasa sihat.
    maaf kalau lari tajuk.

100. GO CHE DET GO!!!!!!!!!!!!!

101. Dear Tun,
     I am a malaysian chinese from Sabah. My whole family and myself really likes Tun a lot. Tun, Malaysia has been independent for half a century (50 years). Previously, I saw in the paper you test drive a new Prosche why not choose a very old model Prosche?. Don’t you agree a new high tech upgraded engine is better and more efficient than the old one?. Tun, this is the reality NEP needs to be OVERHAUL to benefit all GENUINE Malaysian.
     My indonesian and filipinos friends after few months here got their IC and they can buy LAND, open ASB account, apply for SME biz/license, and their kids can go to University etc.. they should also thank Malaysian government for their generous NEP policy extend to them and not to the chinese or Indian citizens who lives here more than 1 century ago.
     Those who pro NEP gave their comments above is SELFISH in their thinking, because they think only to themselves and they don’t give a damn to other races. You feel proud because you have bumi status in years to come your kids or grandchildren will be competing with Indonesian, pakistani and Filipinos. They can work 24 hours can you? You see my grandfathers immigated here more than 1 century ago and we were born here. I feel that the chinese and indian were being marganised. Why? take one simple example, I cannot open ASB account, but a fellow indon or filipinos or pakistani just came over for few months able to open an ASB’s account. Where is fairness? Even my local bumi friends also ‘kesian sama saya’ and they also hate those illegals because those illegals sharing their bumi status.
     Tun, I genuinely believe NEP must be OVERHAULED.

102. Salam Tun dan semua pengikut chedet
     CRONYISM AND THE NEP
     Tak di laksanakan bermakna lari dari tanggungjawab kepada rakyat, terutamanya kaum bumiputra, apabila dilaksanakan kaum bukan bumiputra akan merasa kurang senang ,jadinya semua serba salah kepada Tun.
     Tanggung jawab terpaksa di jalankan walaupunn tidak popular.
     Cerita Lokman Hakim mengajar anak nya perihal perangai manusia,boleh disamakan lah seperti Tun menguruskan NEP dan negara.
     Pada satu hari Lokman Hakim berkata kapada anak nya ‘Wahai anak ku mari aku tunjuk kapada kamu perangai manusia”
     Mereka dua beranak mengelilingi kota dengan seekor keldai tunggangan memasuki lorong lorong di pasar.
     Lokman Hakim tunggang keldai, anak nya tarik keldai, orang kata dia zalim , menyeksakan anak nya yang kecil.
     Anak nya pula tunggang keldai,dia tarik keldai , orang kata anak nya zalim suroh bapa yang tua tarik keldai.
     Kedua dua beranak tunggung keldai, orang lain pula kata zalim kepada mereka berdua,menyeksa keldai.
     Akhirnya kedua dua beranak turun dari keldai dan tarik keldai, orang kata mereka bodoh ada keldai tak di tunggang, keldai adalah untuk tunggangan.
     Jadi “the moral of the story” apa yang kita buat akan tidak betul kepada sebilangan orang di sebilangan masa dan di sebilangan tempat.
     Kesimpulan-nya tanya hati, yakin dan “concious clear” teruskan segala yang dirancang.
     Gagal merancang adalah merancang untuk gagal.
     Kerja dari hati yang jujur dan ikhlas akan jadi sempurna dan mendapat barakah nya.
     Terima kasih Tun dan jaga diri baik-baik, salam kepada semua keluarga Tun

103. Salam Tun,
     The non-Malay businessmen did very well as brokers/agents for big military projects, so they should not complain that they get nothing from the NEP.
     For example, one Indian gentlemen have delivered several billions ringgit worth of military projects to our Ministry of Defence over the last 15 years. But sad to say, he is not seen to invest his NEP found wealth to help with the development of the country nor to help with the socio-economic development of the Indian community.
     In communist-ruled country they are considered as traitors, to be put in front of the firing squad.

104. tun,
     i guess many policies in msia is guided by the malay dilemma book

105. To My Muslim brothers and sisters,
     As Muslim do we do conspire such things?
     Do we fear Allah?
     Please read here:-
     http://us2.malaysia-today.net/2008/content/view/10901/84/

106. Assalamualaikum to all chedet muslim friends…
     Enough said…to all anti NEP…kindly refer to samuraimelayu on August 7, 2008 9:35 PM…
     Bravo Zulu my friend!!

107. Salam Tun,
     Siva (7 Aug 9.46pm)wrote a beautiful story about sharing.
     Question is are the majority rich non bumis willing to share or are they feeding themselves only.
     Siva, remember the Road to Heaven and Hell is your choice.
     Isa Effendi (6 Aug 4.27pm) wrote an actual experience of his.
     He saw how rich non malay whose children got better results than him were envious that he got a scholarship even though his family is poorer.
     The greed not to “feed others” for the well being of your fellow citizen to raise his standard of living is why we need NEP.
     Tun, take care.

108. Terima kasih Tun,
     saya bangga menjadi rakyat dibawah pimpinan seorang yg berwibawa seperti Tun..diharap lebih ramai negarawan seperti Tun akan dilahirkan…sejarah kesultanan Melaka merosot selepas Tun Perak harus dijadikan teladan kerana kita tidak mahu negara ini diwarisi oleh pemimpin yang lemah dan tidak berwibawa…semoga Tun dapat terus berkarya untuk kami menambahkan ilmu kenegaraan kami dengan suntikan pengalaman dan idea Tun…
     Semoga Allah memberkati Tun..
     wassalam

109. Kadang2 ada kita pertikaikan keMelayuan bbrp orang antara kita.
     Ada yg berdarah Turki, berdarah India, berdarah Jawa, berdarah Cina dan sebagainya.
     Maka, mereka ini dikatakan tidak cukup Melayu untuk membicarakan hak-hak Melayu apatah lagi memperjuangkannya dengan lantang.
     Tetapi hakikatnya, mereka inilah yg telah banyak berjasa kepada Melayu.
     Ada antara jasa tersebut tidak akan tercapai walaupun seribu tahun lagi.
     Ada antara jasa tersebut, jika tidak dijalankan maka tidak wujudlah lagilah bangsa Melayu.
     Dato’ Onn
     Tunku Abdul Rahman
     Tun Hussein Onn
     Tun Dr Mahathir
     just to name a few.
     Masih saya ingat kpd Cikgu Yusoff Muda, guru Matematik Tambahan saya di MRSM Langkawi 2004/2005.
     Beliau berdarah Cina. Tetapi semangatnya ingin mendidik anak bangsa telah mendorong beliau meninggalkan sekolah elite untuk mengajar di MRSM.
     Walaupun tidak begitu sihat, namun beliau tidak pernah tolak sebarang permintaan untuk kelas tambahan panjang ataupun sekadar soalan pendek.
     Masih ingat lagi ketegasannya.
     Menggigil kami semua apabila ditanya tentang kerja rumah buku Pelangi.
     =)
     Jadi saya rasa, jika kita merasakan kita ini berdarah Melayu tulen tetapi pada masa yg sama tidak pernah menyumbang sesuatu yg signifikan kepada masyarakat kita, wajarlah kita berasa malu.
     Tiada ertinya hanya dgn rasa bangga berdarah tulen ttp jiwanya tidak.
     Tidak layak kita mendabik dada, apatah lagi merendah2kan mereka yang telah bnyk menyumbang pemikiran dan keringat untuk bangsa kita hanya kerana darah mereka tidak setulen kita.
     “Kamu selalu berbangga dengan darah keturunanmu.
     Kamu selalu berbangga dengan darah keturunanmu!
     Sekarang cubalah kamu bandingkan darahmu dengan darahku.
     Bandingkanlah darahmu dengan darahku!!”
     – P Ramlee. Antara Dua Darjat,1960.
     http://nazirulhazim.blogspot.com/

110. YABhg. Tun,
     Salam hormat. Sebelum Malaysia, negara ini dikenali sebagai Malaya, Persekutuan Tanah Melayu. Kalau kita semak balik peta dunia yang lama, negara ini dikenali sebagai Semanjung Tanah Melayu..Rakyat Malaysia samada Melayu, Cina, India, Bugis, Jawa dan lain lain patut bersyukur boleh hidup, aman damai dan mencari rezeki dan kekayaan yang melimpah di negara ini. Dasar dasar yang dilaksanakan juga dapat membantu yang rakyat yang miskin, kurang upaya untuk sama sama mencari harta dan rezeki. Kepada kawan kawan kita (rakyat Malaysia) yang berbangsa Cina, India dan lain lain, cuba bayangkan sekiranya anda lahir di India, China, Pakistan dan lain lain dan menjadi warga negara berkenaan, kemungkinan anda akan datang ke negara ini sebagai expatriates untuk mencari rezeki kerana di negara anda tidak ada peluang untuk mencari rezeki. Ada yang datang dengan permit yang sah, ada yang menggunakan dokumen palsu dan ramai pula yang datang tanpa izin. You should be happy that you are borned Malaysians. No complains..Rakyat yang mendapat faedah dari dasar yang dilaksanakan oleh Kerajaan adalah kroni

111. Mahathir has let me down as my mentor
     M Raken | Aug 7, 08 3:44pm
     Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad has stooped from the level of a statesman when he passed a personal verdict on Anwar Ibrahim that he (Anwar) is guilty of the sodomy charges without any substantial evidence.
     It is so embarrassing to see a man so revered and at the pinnacle as a leader and the father of modern Malaysia stoop so low.
     A true Muslim will never succumb to the temptation of passing unsubstantiated false judgments on another fellow brother even if it may mean the gain of the whole world.
     It is the designated court, whatever it may be, that will pass judgment on the accused. Tun Dr Mahathir has failed to impress me that he is a true Muslim. As a non-Muslim, I am truly ashamed of Tun Dr Mahathir.
     Be logical whenever you say something Tun. Your followers, admirers and the people at large are intelligent to a certain extent. Why do you make yourself so cheap by casting aspersions on somebody like Anwar just by hearsay?
     Do you think the people will believe such fabricated stories? It is none of your business to make illogical conclusion and pass verdicts on another person. The court will do that job.
     God is mightier than Mahathir. I believe age, experience and time would have made Mahathir realise the power of the Unseen Hands that rule the world. Life is like a wheel of fortune.
     The suppressed will rise as it is the law of nature. At the end of the day, those who reap shall harvest the effect of the sowed deeds irrespective of their nature. So Tun, why not allow God’s will to prevail?
     Tun, you are wonderful person. Allow your magnanimity and your generosity and the divinity in you to prevail over your illusionary fears and predicaments and succumb to the will of God and accept Shakespeare’s advice that ‘Readiness is all’.
     Till your last moment of your life, be true to your conscience and the commands of God to think good, to say good and to do good. Time will remember you, Tun.

112. Salam Tun…
     Apa yang meyakinkan Tun bahawa DSAI memang terlibat dengan Liwat?(semasa Tun menjadi PM dulu)
     tk

113. salam Tun dan semua rakyat Malaysia….
     Semoga negara kita sentiasa aman permai dan kita semua dirahmati Allah…. luv u Tun!!

114. Salam AYAHANDA RAKYAT TUN,
     Izinkan,
     Setelah melihat kemarahan ramai Anakanda2 chedet.come terhadap si ‘crazyidiot’, kami telah pun membuat permohonan untuk memasukan dia keWad ‘ABI (Aggravated Brain Implant) tetapi bila diselidik lebih mendalam ‘penyakitnya’ yang lebih parah dari pesakit Wad ‘ABI’ kami cadangkan Wad ‘PIGSM'(Patients In Grave State(of)Mind)an ICU next to Wad ‘ABI’
     We wud advise that all Anakanda Chedet.com be immunized with the ‘Sabar’ serum prescibed by our Ayahanda Dr.
     Let us all pray and hope that the patients of Wad ‘ABI and the ICU Wad ‘PIGSM’ be cured from the ‘viruses’ affecting their ‘rationale’ thinking.

115. THINK YOUR COMMENT ON WHAT I WROTE AND MAIL IT TO [email protected]
     (SORRY FOR POOR ENGLISH)
     NATURE THING
     1) WHY THERE ARE BIG TREES AND SMALL TREES
     2) WHY WE HAVE RAIN AND SHINE
     SOCIAL THING
     1) WHY CRIME STILL HAPPEN EVEN WE HAVE LAW
     2) WHY WE HAVE GOOD PEOPLE AND BAD PEOPLE
     3) WHY WE NEED SOMEONE SUPERIOR
     4) WHY NOT ALL CAN BE POLICEMAN AND NOT ALL CAN BE FARMER. WHY SOMEONE GOOD IN ONE THING AND NOT GOOD IN OTHER THING.
     THE OTHER SIDE CAUSE BY NEP
     CONTRACT FLOW.
     ———
     1) SEVERAL MALAY GOT THE CONTRACT.
     2) SEVERAL MALAY GOT THE SUB-CONTRACT.
     3) A LOT OF CHINESE/INDIANS GOT THE OPPORTUNITY TO SELL RAW MATERIALS. (MOSTLY CHINESE)
     MY QUESTIONS… WHY THERE ARE LESS MALAY THAT CAN SUPPLY RAW MATERIALS?
     EDUCATION FLOW
     ————–
     1) SEVERAL BEST MALAYS STUDENT GOT SCHOLARSHIP
     2) SEVERAL AVERAGE MALAYS STUDENT GOT STUDY LOAN
     3) SEVERAL CHINESE/INDIANS GOT STUDY LOAN
     4) SEVERAL CHINESE/INDIANS STUDY BY THEIR OWN MONEY
     5) MALAYS CAN GO TO MATRICULATION. A LOT OF MONEY TO SPEND EVEN GOT SCHOLARSHIP. POOR EDUCATION QUALITY CAUSED BY INEFFICIENT MANAGEMENT.
     6) ALL CHINESE/INDIANS GO TO FORM 6. A LOT OF THING TO LEARN, BUT STAY WITH FAMILY. LOW COST OF LIVING AND ENVIRONMENT HAZARDS INVOLVED.
     WORKING OPPORTUNITY
     ——————–
     1) MALAYS LABELED AS LAZY PEOPLE. SO NOT EASY TO GET JOB.
     2) CHINESE/INDIANS SAID TO BE GOOD FOR THEIR JOB BECAUSE THEY STRIVE THEIR WAY TO SUCCESS
     SO… THINK… WHO GOT THE BENEFIT OF NEP.
     NOT ONLY SOME MALAYS, OTHER ALSO HAVE.. ONLY THAT, THIS NEP NEED TO BE REVISE TO MAKE IT MORE RELIABLE AND RELEVANT.
     SOME OF IT CAN BE PRESERVED AND SOME OF IT NEED TO BE REVISED.
     HOPE WE CAN THINK RATIONALLY, POSITIVELY, OPENLY WITHOUT FORGETTING THE RULES OF NATURE THAT NEED TO BE CONSIDERED EVEN WE ARE NOT TREES OR ANIMAL.

116. Ringgit sliding further and further under BN
     Gan | Jul 8, 08 4:03pm
     Recently, I interviewed some fresh graduates applying for jobs with my engineering company. I accepted two applicants on a starting salary of RM1600. It struck me as odd that 15 years ago, I myself
     started work as a fresh graduate engineer for the same pay.
     Indeed, if you compare the salaries of graduates now and 15
     or even 20 years ago, you’ll find little difference but that their
     purchasing power is vastly different. It’s the same story when you
     compare salaries of shop assistants, office staff, factory workers
     and others.
     To compound the effect of inflation, the ringgit has depreciated
     greatly against all major currencies. The real income of most
     Malaysians has moved backwards.
     This is why many Malaysians suffer under the petrol hike. The root of the problem is that our real incomes have shrunk in the face of
     inflation and depreciated currency.. Malaysians have not been spoiled by subsidy but are unable to move out of the time lock of
     stagnated and depreciated incomes.
     If you compare the per capita incomes of Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan and South Korea, they are a few multiples of ours although
     at independence all these countries were the on the same economic level as Malaysia.
     What has gone wrong? We were the rising star of East Asia,
     a country rich in natural resources with the most promising potential.
     The reason is massive corruption, plundering of resources, wastage of funds for huge non- economic projects, anti-public interest
     deals with politically-linked companies and passing-of-the -buck to
     the man in the street..
     Four decades of NEP where education, economic and employment policies are defined by race ensured that meritocracy took a back
     seat.
     Our university standard has declined and the today best and brightest of our youth emigrate to escape the racial inequality only
     to contribute to the economies of foreign lands.
     The reputation of our judiciary which was held in high esteem
     worldwide has sunk so low that foreign investors now insist on
     arbitration in Singapore in case of any dispute.
     We also have a slew of oppressive laws such as the ISA, OSA, Uuca and PPPA which stifle free speech and are designed to keep the ruling parties in power.
     We have become less attractive to foreign investors and now lag behind our neighbours in Asean for foreign direct investment. Even
     some corporations who have established themselves here are
     moving out.
     All the economic and social malaise cannot help but affect the value of our currency. The strength of a country’s currency is after all, a reflection of its fundamentals.
     Furthermore, Bank Negara has a policy of weak ringgit to help
     exporters, never mind the burden on the common folk. The government is pro-corporation, not pro-rakyat.
     While the poor and middle-class are squeezed, an elite group gets
     breathtakingly rich. We have the distinction of having the worse
     income disparity in Asean. A re-distribution of wealth is under way from the poor and middle-class to a select group of politically-connected elite.The end result of this re-distribution will be a small group of super-rich while the majority are pushed into poverty and the middle-class shrinks. This is what happens when the rich gets richer and the poor get poorer.
     There is much that is wrong with Malaysia. The responsibility for
     pulling the country backwards can be laid squarely at the door of the ruling regime. It is BN’s mis-governance,racial politics and culture of patronage which has seen the country regress economically and socially.
     We seem to be sliding down a slippery slope, further down with each
     passing year of BN’s rule. Another five years of BN rule and we’ll be at Indonesia’s standard under Suharto. Another 10 years and we’ll betouching the African standard. What a way to greet 2020.
     Is there any hope for Malaysia?
     Faced with the reality that BN will never change, many Malaysians desperate for change turn their lonely eyes to Anwar Ibrahim.
     Pakatan Raykat has promised to treat all races fairly, to plug
     wastage, fight corruption, reform the judiciary and make Malaysia more competitive.
     But some have questioned whether we can trust Anwar and his loose
     coalition of disparate parties..
     The question is not whether we can trust Anwar and Pakatan Rakyat but whether we can afford not to.
     Can we afford another ten years of BN’s misrule?

117. Assalamualaikum Tun sekeluarga..
     Terimakasih tidak terhingga sekali lagi diatas kenyataan diatas.
     Biarkanlah ‘mereka2’ yang tak puashati terhadap NEP ni..selagi tak sedar diri ‘asal usul’ mereka maka cerita ni takkan ada kesudahannya..
     apapun ayahanda Tun, teruskanlah dengan tulisan2 sebegini agar dapat menaikkan semangat satria dikalangan “true malay”…
     pada bukan dari golongan ini dan masih merasakan bahawa ramai dikalangan Non-Malay ini yang “terlebih pandai” dari “kaum bumi” di tanah melayu ini…maka carilah peluang ditempat lain..mungkin saudara mendapat apa yang saudara inginkan…sesungguhnya Malaysia tidak memerlukan anda kerana TERAMATLAH RAMAI lagi bangsa Melayu yang terpinggir dan masih memerlukan NEP ini…
     kepada “professor2 perasan” yang dah kononnya berjaya diluar negara dan taknak balik…teruskan tinggal disana dan jangan balik2 sebab “ketiadaan” anda sememangnya tidak dirasai oleh kami semua disini dan sedikit pun kami di Malaysia ni yang akan kerugian atau tak lelap tidur…
     Teruskan TUN perjuangan yang belum selesai ini…
     HIDUP MELAYU!!!

118. ASSALAMUALAIKUM AYAHANDA TUN DAN BONDA SITI HASMAH
     Anakanda tumpang lalu.
     To seorang seo: Dah lama juga aku pi belajax mengaji.pi mesjid,
     pi surau TAPI AKU TAK PERNAH DENGAR PERKATAAN
     ITTAQULLAH tu boleh di gandingkan dengan nama
     orang persaorangan. Kalau di sebut YA AYYUHAL
     LAZI NA’AMANU ,ITTAQULLAH.ADA LA besa aku dengax
     Awat ni MAZHAB BARU kot atau pun hang seorang
     MUALLAF.
     Hang kata lagi ‘BERTAUBAT ADALAH MEMOHON MAAF
     DARI ALLAH”
     Biax aku perbetui sikit no. Allah tidak
     pernah memaafkan manusia melainkan ALLAH SWT
     HANYA MENGAMPUNKAN MANUSIA.
     Perkataan MAAF tu hanya untuk manusia saja
     tapi perkataan AMPUN hanya untuk ALLAH SAHAJA.
     BERTAUBAT ADALAH MEMOHON AMPUN DARI ALLAH SWT.
     Aku harap apa yang hang tulis tu hanya lah
     TYPING ERROR SAJA.NO!
     Tapi kata guuru aku,kalau kita nak suruh orang
     BERTAUBAT kita kena BERTAUBAT dulu.
     NGOMONG2 HANG DAH BERTAUBAT KA?
     AKU BELUM LAGI.
     Semoga Ayahanda Tun dan Bonda selalu di dalam limpahan rahmat ALLAH SWT
     WASSALAM

119. One writer has suggested that non-bumis are the first to practise cronyism and nepotism since they help their own race first. He is right.It is simply human to protect oneself, one’s own family and then it expands in towards macro society.
     An intelligent man will not be tied down by such discipline. Intelligent man does not mean educated, in fact education has nothing to do with someone’s intelligence, as we can see the way our ministers think. Let me narrate a story i have once come across :
     A man died and was summoned by the angels at the gate of Heaven. Having been such a rightous man all through out his life and flawless deeds he was given the choice to visit both heaven and hell. AT first he was shown Heaven – strangely atthe end of the visit he found a group of people sitted along a large and deep pool and were feeding from it happily using extremely long scoop. They all looked very happy.
     Similarly at the end of the visit from Hell he found the a group of Hell residents sitted along a large and deep pool and were feeding from it happily using extremely long scoop. They all looked fragile and devastated.
     The reason – In heaven the residents were feeding each other and in Hell they were all trying to feed themselves.
     If you are a religious man with love in your heart, you will not allow others to suffer intentionaly. If you do find someone who says you must help your own race, that person must be rejected profusely. With a little awareness you will be able to distinguish the greed, it goes on feeding ad infinitum. Humans will remain poor despite all efforts made to enrich themselves. When you share it is immensely beautiful – forget heaven, you can make Paradise here and now. Sharing is for all without race, caste and creed. Heaven or Hell is your choice.

120. By Benderbuzz on August 7, 2008 10:36 AM
     Salam Tun.
     “Once upon a time, 3 good friends decides to open a business. Ali, Ah Chong and Muthu set up a transport company. They fork up equal shares each, no more, no less. At first, their business only concentrate on private sector. So Ah Chong takes care of finance & admin, Muthu takes care of operations while Ali takes care of marketing.
     Ah Chong takes care of finance and admin. He always decide on how the business runs. He purchase office equipment & stationaries from his relative, “Wah Liao Office Supply”. He bought the lubricant, tyres, batteries for their trucks from “Tan Poh Parts & Services”, he tailored the workers uniform at “Lee Tailor”, tax service from “Weng & Co”, account audited by “Lim Management”, Banking at “OCBC”, bought new trucks from “Ong Automobile”, built the trucks body at “Chan Engineering”. Buy motor vehicle insurance from “Chin Insurance Services” . In other words he controlled everything and kaotim accordingly.
     Muthu on the other hand, always buy used / 2nd hand parts from “Vellu Keling Botoi”, gets towing from “Samy Towing services”, repairworks done by “Subramaniam Workshop”, office cleaning & sewerage services from “Shri Cleaning Service”, sold scrap at “Manickam Scrap yard”, and the list goes on. And most important, he benefited from it.”
     So,Benderbuzz,I wish to seek your opinion on why Ali could not excel in his field? Is it because there is hardly any Malay business and Malay networking is small? Well, why is there hardly any Malay business?? Before Chinese set foot in Malaya, there wasn’t any networking for Chinese to build up business as well. It was not that the Chinese and Indian business just sprung up in one day. Chinese and Indians work hard, sacrifice and start from ground zero, but why cant the Malay as well? Again, back to my question, is it because of the cultural background that governs the attitude of survival instinct?
     I apologize if I have offended anyone…
     Cheers

121. Salam AYAHANDA RAKYAT TUN,
     Izinkan,
     By vesewe on August 7, 2008 8:10 AM
     Yes. Better fly off whenever you feel not satisfy.
     What I do know is that with so-called special rights, Malaysia lost a lot of talented brains. Those well-off enough go overseas to study and stay there. The rest just make do. Some turn out to be successful and big businessmen. The rest may be on smaller scale but beside business, what can they do?
     Dei, what talented brains the country lost? Do you know what the lost brains became in their dream land?, most of them set up restaurants and mini markets, as front desk clerks in hotels, taxi drivers and one of my old classmate qualified as a FCA in his adopted land is still a department ‘head’ after serving 30 years in the ‘white’ Australian government.
     By all means, we would readily assist you to go fly kite in your ‘promised’ land (if there’s one that will accept you) or stay and be grateful that your kind of people have been accepted as citizen although we are not as fair as the whites you outwardly think they are! Your departure will be a gain to this nation, unfortunately.
     Our favourite fabric is still the ‘Batik’.

122. Dear Tun,
     Cerita pasal kes Anwar, saya hairan mengapa setengah daripada masyarakat Melayu dan Islam sungguh taksub sangat dengan pemimpin sehingga ada kalanya menjadi hilang pedoman “what is right and what is wrong”. Apabila mereka terlampau taksub, pertimbangan akal mereka sudah tidak rasional lagi dan jadi kacau bilau.
     Mengapa kita harus menjadi terlalu taksub apabila berhadapan dengan pemimpin yang penuh dengan persoalan dan kesangsian tentang kewibawaan peribadi mereka? Jika mereka tidak dapat melahirkan peribadi yang berseh dan murni, sanggupkah kita menyokongnya membabi buta hinggakan mungkin satu hari nanti akan memudharatkan bangsa dan negara kita. Akhirnya yang untungnya ialah musuh kita di luar dan juga dalam dinegeri.

123. kepada belajar seo,
     Saya rasa saudara lebih sesuai berdakwah di laman web Malaysia Today, kerana saya lihat di sana ramai maknusia sesat hampir 99%, asyik dok kutuk, caci,keji, hina, sumpah seranah, mengumpat dari pagi sampai dinihari, tolonglah saudara pergi dakwah disana : Ud”uuilasabilirrabilhikmah, walmauezzatilhassanah, wajadilhumbillatiihiaahsan…

124. Lets stop Anwar.. please.. let Najib be our next PM.. he shall clean up all the mess created by Patrick BAdawai..

125. Aslmkm Tun,
     kepada dbaron,
     Sungguh dangkal pemikiran anda, nak mengaji koran x payah masuk Pas,tok guru kampong lagi ikhlas dari tok guru Pas, sebab Pas itu sendiri bukanlah parti Islam kerana ia juga berjuang untuk demokrasi dan adakah demokrasi itu cara Islam ?
     Pmmpin Pas lagi munafik, Mat Sabu dulu jaja kehulu kehilir kata Anwar Ibrahim suka meliwat tapi sekarang tidur sebantal, dulu kata berjuang ke arah Negara Islam sekarang tidur sebantal dengan DAP yg menentang penubuhan negara Islam, inilah yg dipanggil MUNAFIK BESAR.

126. crazyidiot yang memang crazy, idiot dan bangang tulis camni…….
     “crazyidiot is just a pseudonym and therefore, I do not see a reason to criticise it.”
     pseudonym ke, denim ke, syarifah hanim ke, kau tau pulak marah orang kritik nama jahanam kau tu. apsal tak tulis nama “aku seekor anjing yang najis” je?…. lagi pseudonym.

127. Salam AYAHANDA RAKYAT TUN,
     Izinkan,
     Hari ini Anwar didakwa meliwat, bukan atas paksaan tetapi suka sama suka?
     Menterinya pula berlatar belakangkan ‘Barrister’ buat kenyataan ‘how can the courts charged the complainant? he asked.
     Kalau satu hari nanti ada ‘test’ kes lelaki yang hanya suka meliwat teman wanitanya dan temannya kerana marah asyik kena liwat sahaja buat ‘complaint’ dirogol. Adakah lelaki itu akan didakwa meliwat atau merogol?
     We can’t be confused any further coz we are already confused.
     Nak acah cerdik pandai ‘BAR’ members je?… hehhe

128. Kepada,
     Pejuang Bangsa dan beberapa org UMNO diblog sini, tlg pakai otak dan baca sejarah!!
     Bukan kah Melayu UMNO menghina org Pas & Melayu PKR?
     Bukan kah org Melayu UMNO yg memiskinkan org Melayu Kelantan?
     Bukan kah Pemimpin2,Menteri2 & polis Melayu yg rasuah?
     Berapa kah org UMNO & Pemimpin2 nya adalah Melayu tulin?
     Tun- India
     Hishamuddin-Turki
     Khir Toyo-Indon
     Wan Azizah-Siam/Cina
     Pak Lah- Hainan Cina
     Dll…
     Tanya bapa emak,saudara dan kawan2,90% dari golongan kaum yg di panggil Melayu (akar) ada lah dari Indon,java,Sumatera,Siam,Fillipina,Kalimantan,Kamboja dll..
     Berapa % darah org Melayu ada lah yg tulin? Semua darah dah campur dgn Indon,Org Asli,Siam,Fillipina,Arab,India,Cina,Bangla,Pakistan,Turkey,Europah dll…
     Ketuanan Melayu,Ketuanan apa? Siapakah org Melayu??
     Hanya Orang Asli adalah Bumiputera yg tulin di Malaysia!
     Where is the special rights for Orang Asli?… masih tinggal di hutan…
     Semua org di Malaysia adalah RAKYAT MALAYSIA!!

129. Assalamualaikum Tun,
     Bila nak masuk UMNO ( Baru ) semula. Rasanya kalau joint semula boleh fight for president seat in this coming UMNO ( Baru ) election. 3 penjuru pun best gak. Pak Lah, Tun M and Tengku Razaleigh..Saya ni sejak UMNO dibatalkan pendaftarannya dah tak selera nak join UMNO dah. Saya dok kat PAS…politiknya tak sekotor UMNO ( Baru ). Sekurang-kurangnya dapat gak mengaji Quran ngan politician PAS. Nak harap Hishamudin, Rafidah, Najib, Rahim Tambi, Mike Tyson, Pak Lah buka kitab ajar mengaji…..belum tentu bila masa lapang mereka. Tapi kalau nak belajar politik Wang boleh kot.
     Almarhum Tunku Abdul Rahman, Tun Hussein bila dah kluar UMNO dok diam-diam tak kacau politik UMNO lagi…tapi yang sorang ni…masih berkokok…kalau nak masuk gelanggang daftarlah dulu beb.
     Wassalam.

130. Assalamualaikum Tun,
     Bila nak masuk UMNO ( Baru ) semula. Rasanya kalau joint semula boleh fight for president seat in this coming UMNO ( Baru ) election. 3 penjuru pun best gak. Pak Lah, Tun M and Tengku Razaleigh..Saya ni sejak UMNO dibatalkan pendaftarannya dah tak selera nak join UMNO dah. Saya dok kat PAS…politiknya tak sekotor UMNO ( Baru ). Sekurang-kurangnya dapat gak mengaji Quran ngan politician PAS. Nak harap Hishamudin, Rafidah, Najib, Rahim Tambi, Mike Tyson, Pak Lah buka kitab ajar mengaji…..belum tentu bila masa lapang mereka. Tapi kalau nak belajar politik Wang boleh kot.
     Almarhum Tunku Abdul Rahman, Tun Hussein bila dah kluar UMNO dok diam-diam tak kacau politik UMNO lagi…tapi yang sorang ni…masih berkokok…kalau nak masuk gelanggang daftarlah dulu beb.
     Wassalam.

131. Tun,
     We hope you are in the best of health.
     After checking out your site almost daily (agree to some and agree to disagree to some of your comments) and surfing other websites, I came across this website that gives “fatwa” that you should take on Anwar at Permatang. Well Sir, any comment?
     To verify what I’ve just said, this is the website =>
     http://www.fatwapujangga.com

132. Salam Tun,
     Ada lapuran di akhbar semalam yang mengisahkan tentang masaalah kelemahan berbahasa Inggeris dikalangan orang Asia di Amerika. Dan diantara contoh diberi ada pesakit di potong tangan akibat tidak berkomunikasi didalam bahasa Inggeris dengan betul. Dengan erti kata lain kalau tak tahu berbahasa Inggeris jangan tinggal diAmerika. Di Malaysia yang kononnya tak demokratik pula, ada yang nak gunakan semua bahasa yang ada. Apa kata Tun…..
     NEP memang sesuatu yang menarik bagi sesetengah tetapi bagi setengah yang lain akan memandang serong walau apapun. Namun selepas lebih 30 tahun dilaksanakan semakin hari semakin banyak timbul kepincangannya. Tolong hentikan sebelum ia lebih teruk lagi. Bagi saya orang MELAYU memang MALAS, buatlah apapun seratus tahun lagi. Ia tetap tak akan berubah……CUKUPLAH

133. Salam Tun,
     Satu lagi saya nak tambah berdasarkan logik dan fakta. Apa masalahnya pada taxpayer yang bukan bumiputera… Petronas sendiri membayar cukai dan menjadi sumber pendapatan kepada kerajaan hampir 40% termasuk dividen… bumiputera tak pakai duit tax bukan bumiputera.. Petronas sendiri majoritinya adalah bumiputera, usaha bumiputera dan hasil bumi dari tanah bumiputera… Tapi ekonomi bumiputera cuma 20%.. siapa sebenarnya yang rompak??
     Bukan bumiputera.. tak cukup kaya lagikah? anda mempunyai beribu2 syarikat dan adanya syarikat bertaraf multinasional… Syarikat kamu ini sebenarnya boleh jadi NEP bagi kaum anda.. tak bolehkah anda bantu sedikit kaum anda yang miskin… ada ke lagi yang miskin???
     Bumiputera kalau takda NEP korang nak tolongkah? Please la buka minda.. jangan persoalkan.. sama-samalah jaga keamanan negara untuk generasi akan datang…
     Lari Tajuk Sikit..
     Tugas saya adalah kecil menjaga usahawan-usahawan melayu di sebuah negeri di Malaysia ini. Salah seorang usahawan melayu mengatakan harga mesin yang dijual untuk orang melayu adalah lebih 30% dari harga bukan melayu.. nasib baik kawan saya ni pandai ambil pekerja dari bukan melayu dan enjoy harga untuk bukan melayu… cuma disini saya nak highlightkan siapa sebenarnya yang racism.. siapa sebenarnya opportunist dengan mengambil kesempatan orang lain.. tepuk dada tanya selera…
     Lari Tajuk Lagi…
     Dan kepada paklah… jika harga minyak naik.. harga barang akan naik.. produktiviti akan kurang… kuasa beli akan kurang… manufacturing untuk produk akan berkurangan kerana orang sudah mula berfikir dua kali untuk membeli.. keseluruhannya aktiviti ekonomi akan kurang… dan dalam konteks ini semuanya rugi baik manufacturer… peruncit dan pembeli… pemborong mungkin maintain tak rugi.. ketidakstabilan dalam ekonomi akan membuat politik tidak stabil… kesejahteraan dan keamanan mulai tergugat.. sebilangan orang akan menyalahkan orang lain dan orang lain akan menyalahkan orang lain…
     Respek kepada Tun pada tahun 1997-1998.. melonggarkan kadar faedah bagi melonjakkan semula aktiviti ekonomi.. melanggar prinsip ekonomi dengan menambatkan wang kepada dolar US… Kalau ikut teori konvensional oleh seorang mamat tu yang menaikkan kadar interest agak-agaknya ekonomi malaysia sekarang jadi lagi teruk… kalau tak teruk pun milikan rakyat melaysia jadi bukan rakyat malaysia yang punya…
     “Lu Orang ada Telinga Lu orang Dengar”
     “Lu Orang ada Mata lu orang Lihat”
     “Lu Orang Ada Otak Lu Pikirlah Sendiri”
     Assalamualaikum..

134. Salam AYAHANDA RAKYAT TUN,
     Izinkan,
     By murai77 on August 7, 2008 2:27 PM
     PILIHANRAYA KECIL PERMATANG PAUH
     Tarikh Penamaan Calon: 16hb Ogos 2008
     Tarikh Membuang Undi: 26hb Ogos 2008
     Tuan ‘Murai 77,
     Yang mana satu pilihan kalbu,
     PIlih BN …Buntut berNanah kita dibuatnya nanti dan depa akan jaja keliling kota dan desa kata rakyat masih percayakan depa.
     Pilih PKR ..Punggung Kurap dan Rebeh dibuatnya dan depa pi minta ubat kurap kat ‘ USA dan Yahudi’ tolong kita.
     Tukang tilik tepi jalan ada cakap ‘BN gerenti menang, kalu itu ‘tidoouur’ punya kapla kasi keluar sekarang jugak. Tak mau tunggu lagi.
     Ayoyo, kapla ada pusing lah, macan!

135. “mengapa raktay begitu menentang kepimpinan paklah. sehingga mantan perdana menteri sendiri menentang dan mengkritik kerajaan sekarang. kerana kerajaan sepatutnya telus dan jujur”
     http://writtenbyhim.wordpress.com/2007/12/18/government-is-not-a-money-maker/

136. Salam Tun,
     Orang kafir tidak akan mengikut orang Islam melainkan orang Islam mengikut agama mereka..
     Financial Economy telah dicipta oleh orang Yahudi bagi menakluki dunia.. dan sehingga hari ini 80% ekonomi adalah financial ekonomi.. Cuma 20% adalah Real Economy. Maka dengan itu Yahudi dan orang-orang kafir cuba menguasai dunia dengan mengumpul segala kekayaan yang dicipta mereka dari sumber financial economy.
     Jadi “sesiapa” yang nak kaya sangat gaji nak banyak seumpama hidup selama-lamanya pergila duduk negara lain (singapore ke.. kaya tuu.. boleh beli banglo besar, kereta besar… makan hebat2.. tanah pun banyak kat Singapore)…
     Malaysia adalah untuk Kesejahteraan dan Keamanan… Jangan cuba mencabuli kesejahteraan dan keamanan tersebut… Kami tidak perlu kekayaan melampau… cukup ada sumber rezeki, tempat tinggal dan udara yang segar..
     bagi mereka yang nak kumpul kekayaan lagi.. pergila ke Iraq dan buatlah pelbagai bentuk kemusnahan, ambil minyak dan jual pada harga yang tinggi… Dan kayalah kamu.. kamu boleh beli apa saja… tapi kamu tak akan dapat keamanan jika kamu lihat masih lagi banyak kemusnahan dan kemiskinan…
     Akhir kata… Tamaklah kamu.. carilah duit banyak-banyak.. tindaslah yang empunya hak… dan akhirnya kamu akan mati juga… 0 (zero)

137. MALAYSIA TANAHAIRKU…
     

138. Nice article Tun ….this article should give clear view about whoever doubt NEP …I’m amazed by how someone who in 80’s years old still have lot of insight than younger age? You are 1 in 10 millions.

139. Dear Tun,
     I am proud to say that I am a product of DEB. If there no DEB, i would have most probably followed my mother foot step, as a rubber tapper. With DEB i was able to have a degree.
     Thank you Tun for your fore sight.
     DEB has benefited Malaysian as a whole. Most of the negative comments here has a myopic view of DEB.

140. ittaqullah Mahathir. Masanya sangat dekat dan sangat hampir. Dan ingatlah ketika itu, tidak guna lagi kuasa, anak pinak dan harta benda kecuali jiwa yang sejahtera. Manusia merancang, Allah juga merancang dan sebaik-sebaik rancangan adalah milik Allah.
     Bertaubat adalah memohon maaf dari Allah. Namun dosa dengan manusia memerlukan kemaafan dari manusia kerana Allah sesekali tidak akan memaafkan kesalahan ke atas manusia yang dianiaya, diaibkan, dianiaya selagi kita tidak dimaafkan oleh manusia itu sendiri.
     Ini adalah peringatan dan perlu dibaca oleh semua orang. Kerana jika tidak disampaikan, takut manusia akan lupa diri.

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     TUN,
     Apa yang TUN buat semua tak kena bagi mereka….
     SEANDAINYA CADANGAN TUN DENGAN DINAR EMAS TERLAKSANA…..
     TUN ADALAH PENYELAMAT EKONOMI DUNIA KINI….!!!!!!
     YANG MENGALAMI KRISIS KEJATUHAN DOLLAR …KEJATUHAN BURSA SAHAM YANG AKAN DI JANGKA BERLAKU AKIBAT KENAIKAN HARGA MINYAK DAN MAKANAN DUNIA.
     http://isteri-mamak-tua.blogspot.com
     isteri.antimamak__
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142. Assalamua’laikum YAB TUN,
     Initially when reading your topic on Cronyism and NEP I wanted to
     refrain from posting my comment but somehow or rather the urge is to
     great after reading your posting for3rd time and reading the views of
     a few that urged me to participate.
     The mere meaning of CRONY as from oxford dictionary: CLOSE FRIEND OR COMPANION,and
     CRONYISM : THE IMPROPER APPOINTMENT OF FRIENDS AND ASSOCIATES TO POSITIONS OF AUTHORITY.
     Understanding the above meaning,having cronies is not wrong but practicing cronyism is very,very wrong unless and until the crony is
     qualified without the reasonable flaws to be skeptical.
     Why “reasonably” often used by me because we are all human,we are not perfect, but imperfection is no excuse if all efforts to rectify are not exhausted.
     It is a norm,if your own son as qualified as your friend’s son who
     would you give priority? I am sure it will be your son that is human
     nature.But do not exceed the assistance.Do not equipped wth clutches when he is able with a walking stick.
     Coming back to the subject matter,perceiving cronyism is inevitable.
     Every individual has their own argument,but what is imperative at this juncture, firstly, your conscience and secondly, it is factual that bumiputra are left behind and thirdly WHY and who are responsible ? Maybe the authority need to review the policy and the implementation procedures thoroughly.
     The policy must be accepted by all Malaysian and simultaneously assist the bumiputra as the malay proverd said,”tarik rambut dalam tepong, rambut pun keluar tepong tak berselerak.”So the present government must review and brainstorm on this. I agree this is not an easy task to have the consensus but again it must be reasonable and at times the government must put a stand to it.There must be a target period and not forever, because the non-bumi too does not want to be a second class citizen forever and MUST erase the feeling of distrust among the rakyat.This culture need also be inculcated in the private sector.
     What I have experienced,may it be in the government sector or private sector there are tick for tac syndrome going on or a harsher
     word vendetta. In the government malays are the dominant whilst the
     private sectors the chinese. Did anyone bother to sincerely go deep
     into it. The only reason I am hearing is the paycheck and that is not the only reason.So the government need to seriously look into this matter with urgency before any serious uprising.
     Implementation of the policy,the officers entrused must be dedicated
     and committed there must be an auditor to follow-up. But what I see,experience and observed,when a question is being asked which is not within the procedures stipulated, the person on duty tend to project his or her hostily.This has been a norm in the public sector. So to ensure the policy to succeed these bad apples must go or transferred to a cold storage if there is some empathy to them but be cautious these people that make good policy sour and affecting the instability to the nation and country.Should we be symphatatic to them?
     On education, just a short one. I am a bumi and my daugther is a bumi and she was educated ini Government religious school and attained quite a good result of 13 units in her SPM and applied to study law in IIUM but was turned down and instead she was placed in the school of economics.Ironically he hostel roommate only attained
     24 units(cukup makan for first grader) in her SPM and from the east
     coast was placed in the Law faculty and what furious me was not even
     a year in her matriculation she quit and go back to her hometown and get married and never hear from her since.What do you think of it?
     Later when my daughter completed her two years matriculation, and she exposed and joined the debating club the management offered her
     to study law but it had already disheartened her and mind you before
     she entered the matriculation and varsity life,she was one of the best speaker in during her last year in secondary school and was even given a free trip to Japan and through a concerted effort from her teacher an fellow debating member they contributed computers to
     their school.This incident occurred more than 10 years ago. So what
     sort of NEP implementation was that even among the bumi discrimanation took place what more to the non bumi. The reason why
     I relate this incident may be not of importance to you and others,but what I wanted to establish is the importance on the implementation of the policy to ensure success.
     I have said alot and thank you for posting this subject as this has been with me for more that a decade and trust me what I have said above were mostly my personal experience but please do justice to all the rakyat. Assalammua’laikum to you and your family.

143. salam tun yang amat dikasihi,
     saya dapt rasakan tun benar2 dipandu oleh ilham2 yang dtg dari tuhan, ilham dan gerak hati yang benar hanye dpat dirasai bile akidah kite betul2 lurus…
     mmg tun xnampak islamic mcm anwar, even family tun byk meragukan alam sejagat tentang pemahaman tun tentang agama.
     tapi tun saya percaya, tun menerangkan agama suci ni dalam bentuk baru (bukan jalan2 ulama n ustaz2 arini)
     hanya orang2 yang ikhlas mcm tun yang bole counter attack sume program dajal, yahudi n freemason.
     terima kasih tun atas jasa mu yang terlalu bnyk…
     tun la salehudin al ayubi zaman ni

144. Assalamualaikum Tun,
     Continue the NEP. Malaysia is our motherland, homeland and birthplace. We manage it the way we want and the way we can. We can discuss how the wealth can be shared with the immigrants the West brought i.e the Chinese and Indians.
     The West must be ignored totally. They are sick people with a sick culture which had all the while bent on killing and destroying others! They have a very poor human records and human rights, they never had any good records! I can cite a million instances! I went to the Red Fort in India and the walls are were filled with empty holes. Diamonds and golds were previously in those holds. The British came and stole it. It is now probably on Queen Elizabeth crown!. Slavery is the West product and culture. Look at all the wars and destruction! The West have no right to talk about humanity, rights and equality because they have neither of those traits!
     They are doomed and should be leveled with or lower than animals.
     Great nation, great leader and great Malaysia!

145. Sayangnya sebilangan mereka yang berjaya dalam kehidupan hasil dasar pendidikan DEB tidak mengenang budi. Ada yang menyokong kuat Anwar Ibrahim yang kini menentang DEB. Ada yang enggan bayar balik pinjaman pelajaran MARA dan sebagainya. Ada juga pemegang biasiswa JPA yang enggan pulang selepas tamat pelajaran di seberang laut dan terus bekerja di negara orang kerana mengejar gaji yang lebih lumayan.
     Sayang seribu kali sayang, sebilangan Melayu menjadi perosak dan penghancur DEB.

146. Sayangnya ramai Melayu yang berjaya dalam kehidupan hasil DEB ini tidak mengenang budi. Ada yang menyokong DSAI yang kini menolak DEB. Ada yang enggan bayar hutang pinjaman MARA dan sebagainya. Ada yang bekerja di luar negara selepas belajar kerana mengejar pendapatan yang lebih lumayan.
     Sebilangan perosak DEB sekarang ialah Melayu sendiri.

147. Dengan izin TUN,
     Only idiots like crazyidiot would choose such pseudonym to reflect his mentality whilst CSI could never enjoy the fruits of NEP as he was busy daydreaming for the past 22 years…

148. I live in the middle east. People here still reminisce of the good old days of Tun Dr Mahathir. Whenever i said that i’m a malaysian, people will mention Mahathir. Makes my life here so easy to get things done. Nobody knows AAB nor Najib. Hopefully they don’t. It will be an embarassment.
     Probably it is our last hope now that ACA investigate & charge AAB & Najib on these alleged corruption of the highest level.
     But like i do expect that ACA will come up saying that they found no grounds for these claims.
     May Allah save Malaysia from these crooks.

149. Dear Tun,
     The price of crude oil also have already dipped below USD120 per barrel this month… is there going to be a price adjustment for petrol?
     Anyway, selamat menyambut bulan merdeka dan diikuti dengan bulan puasa…
     http://hishamjabar.blogspot.com/2008/08/satria-dan-serikandi-negara.html

150. By Beh KC
     “I am non-bumi who was born and grow in Malaysia. Nevertheless I am fully supporting the NEP for its idea to reduce economy gap between bumi and non-bumi. The only doubt is, Should we slow down non-bumi to wait for the bumi or should we speed up the bumi so that they can achieve closer to the non-bumi. This makes the different, right?”
     yaa we definitely should think about this as this affect our nation economy…

151. SALAM SEMUA…
     NEP INI PADA DASARNYA MEMANG BAIK NAMUN APABILA ORANG YANG MELAKSANAKANNYA BERSIFAT TAMAK DAN MEMENTINGKAN DIRI MAKA IA TIDAK MENCAPAI OBJEKTIFNYA DAN JADI TIDAK BAIK. YANG DAPAT MENIKMATINYA HANYA SEGELINTIR SAHAJA. SELAGI ADA GOLONGAN INI SELAGI ITULAH NEP HANYA TINGGAL NAMA SAHAJA.
     BUATLAH APA2 DASAR EKONOMI YANG PALING SEMPURNA DI DUNIA INIPUN, SELAGI ADA MANUSIA YANG TAMAK DAN MEMENTINGKAN DIRI INI MASIH ADA, DASAR TERSEBUT TAKKAN KE MANAPUN.IA HANYA MENJADI BATU LONCATAN UNTUK MEMDAPAT KEUNTUNGAN PERIBADI. SAMA SEPERTI UNDANG-UNDANG JUGA, PADA DASARNYA MEMANG BAIK NAMUN APABILA PELAKSANANYA KEPALA TIDAK BETUL SELAGI ITULAH IA HANYA TINGGAL NAMA SAHAJA….YANG JELAS APA2 DASAR YANG DIBUAT HANYA MEMBERI MANFAAT KEPADA ORANG TASAN DAN KRONINYA SAHAJA….
     SUDAHLAH…AYUH BERUBAH…TAK PAYAH PEDULI DENGAN DASAR YANG HANYA PADA DASARNYA BAIK TAPI ZAHIRNYA MENGANIAYA….

152. SALAM SEMUA…
     NEP INI PADA DASARNYA MEMANG BAIK NAMUN APABILA ORANG YANG MELAKSANAKANNYA BERSIFAT TAMAK DAN MEMENTINGKAN DIRI MAKA IA TIDAK MENCAPAI OBJEKTIFNYA DAN JADI TIDAK BAIK. YANG DAPAT MENIKMATINYA HANYA SEGELINTIR SAHAJA. SELAGI ADA GOLONGAN INI SELAGI ITULAH NEP HANYA TINGGAL NAMA SAHAJA.
     BUATLAH APA2 DASAR EKONOMI YANG PALING SEMPURNA DI DUNIA INIPUN, SELAGI ADA MANUSIA YANG TAMAK DAN MEMENTINGKAN DIRI INI MASIH ADA, DASAR TERSEBUT TAKKAN KE MANAPUN.IA HANYA MENJADI BATU LONCATAN UNTUK MEMDAPAT KEUNTUNGAN PERIBADI. SAMA SEPERTI UNDANG-UNDANG JUGA, PADA DASARNYA MEMANG BAIK NAMUN APABILA PELAKSANANYA KEPALA TIDAK BETUL SELAGI ITULAH IA HANYA TINGGAL NAMA SAHAJA….YANG JELAS APA2 DASAR YANG DIBUAT HANYA MEMBERI MANFAAT KEPADA ORANG TASAN DAN KRONINYA SAHAJA….
     SUDAHLAH…AYUH BERUBAH…TAK PAYAH PEDULI DENGAN DASAR YANG HANYA PADA DASARNYA BAIK TAPI ZAHIRNYA MENGANIAYA….

153. FAIL
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     APA-APA PUN TERUSKAN MENGUNDI MENDESAK PAK LAH SUPAYA MELETAK JAWATAN:
     http://www.PetitionOnline.com/PakLah/
     VOTE SEGERA DEMI MALAYSIA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
     WASALAM

154. mr leo7
     kamu ikut sunnah siapa tu berniaga perlu berani menipu?

155. SALAM,
     TO ANYONE WHO ENJOY CRITICISING AND HATE TUN,
     COULD YOU NAME ONE LEADER WHO ARE BETTER THAN TUN IN EVERY ASPECT THAT QUALITY LEADERS SHOULD HAVE?
     PLEASE NAME ONE PERSON WHO ARE COMPARABLE TO TUN WHO CAN CHANGE ONE COUNTRY FROM THIRD WORLD COUNTRY TO DEVELOPING CONTRY?
     PLEASE NAME IT!!!!
     JUST ONE NAME!!!
     PLEASE VOTE on Petition to Get Malaysian Prime Minister, PAK LAH to Step Down. “Vote of No Confidence in Parliament”.
     http://www.PetitionOnline.com/PakLah/
     VOTE SEGERA DEMI MALAYSIA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
     WASALAM

156. “ali rustam pandai-pandai cakap tiada pertandingan dalam umno, akan kuatkan umno.siapa ajar?”
     http://writtenbyhim.wordpress.com/2008/07/17/ali-rustam-restrict-competetion-to-strengthen-umno/

157. “bagaimana BN boleh mendapat bantuan PAS”
     http://writtenbyhim.wordpress.com/2008/06/20/pas-relevan-sertai-bn-bantu-perkukuh-umno/

158. I have a story to tell:
     two of my best friends, let say I call it Mr. Richman and Mr. Poorman.
     Richman come from a rich family, his family give him a good education, went for oversea study and get the degree. When back to home, the family support him to start a business. He run the business without any financial issue. After a few year, the company go bankrupt and he restart another new business again with the help from his family. Due to strong financial backup from family he run the business not so serious and like passing his own sweet time. He got marriage with a beautiful girl, and spending on a grand marriage ceremony. Due to his cash reach, his friend trying to teach him how to suck money from his family, creating fault project, buying unnecessary items, spend on entertainment, etc. One day his father told him he is on financial issue and unable to support him already. Immediately his company go bankrupt and him self fly away to oversea to hide from the debtors.
     On the other hand, Mr. Poorman, come from a poor family. His family only support him study till standard six, and in secondary school he work part time to support his study till diploma. Then he came up from work and gain the experience. When he at 30 year old, he start his own small business with his own saving of 30K. After suffering for 15 years now his company got listed in the KLSE.
     So. Mr. Richman like the people who benefit from the NEP, at the end what he learn?
     1. how to make money fast
     2. how to cheat money from the family (NEP)
     3. how to spend money unneccessary
     4. how to ask money when business fail
     5. how to use money to by toy
     6. how to run away when the family (NEP) in problem
     As for Mr. Poorman, he did not get any benefit from the NEP. but he willing to learn, experience, accumulate, to adopt the change of the environment (globalisation) so that he can survive and successful! Furthermore with his successful, he contributed his earning back to the sociaty, e.g. good tax payer!… But what the tax money collected was use for NEP purpose, at the end, who lose??? I believe you will know!

159. Tun Mahathir,
     Salam Dengan Penuh Hormat.
     Saya memilih untuk memberi komen pada hari ini kerana kaitanya dengan Leo7(7th August}.
     Kerana sedikit lewat dan banyak komen komen dari rakan rakan bloggers,saya perlu hampir 2 minit to roll down the screen.Soal NEP ini telah menarik perhatian yang begitu meluas mempertkaikan pros & con terhadap issue ini.
     Saya mempunyai pendapat sendiri untuk di kongsi bersama jika ada yang berminat untuk membacanya dan ini “cerita ” saya ;
     1. PANJANG.
     “Panjang” adalah nama rakan datuk saya yang tinggal bersebelahan kampong saya.Ia saorang kaum Cina dan tinggal didalam kawasan penempatan kaun Cina yang dipagar olih Pemeritah British pada masa itu.Satu polisi membenteras ancaman Kominis.
     Setiap hari si Panjang akan datang kekampong untuk mengusahakan tanaman nenas dan beberapa jenis sayuran diatas sebidang tanah datuk saya seluas sekangkang kera.
     Sebelum pintu pagar di tutup jam 6 petang ia akan balik sambil memungut seperti pucuk paku, sireh,pisang,daun pisang,cempedak,nangka dan berbagai lagi yang bolih dijadikan bahan jualan kesokannya.
     Si Panjang berjaja di pasar di sebelah pagi dan di sebelah petang dia berusaha untuk mencari bahan jualan dikampong.
     Saya sering mengikut ibu saya kepasar setiap pagi untuk membeli ikan dan lain lain keperluan dan singgah di hamparan si Panjang di tepi jalan pasar tersebut dan si Panjang akan memberi sedikit wang pasar kepada Ibu saya mungkin satu bayaran untuk bahan yang ia telah pungut dari kampong yang telah dijual.
     Jika saya imbas kembali, apakah pengajaran dari episod ini;
     – Si Panjang rajin berusaha untuk mencari rezeki menyara
     keluarganya.
     – Si Panjang pandai berhubung dengan orang kampong dan
     mengambil kesempatan diatas hemah dan sikap orang Melayu.
     2. TIGA CUPAK SEGANTANG.
     Beberapa tahun kemudiannya, si Panjang tidak lagi berjaja di tepi jalan. Dia telah menggunakan sebahgian rumahnya untuk dijadikan kedai menjual barang runcit dengan di bantu olih keluaganya.
     Si Panjang tidak lagi masuk ke kampong tugas ini telah di ambil alih olih anaknya untuk menghantar barang barang pesanan orang kampong sambil memungut apa apa bahan yang bolih di jadikan bahan jualan di kedai runcit bapanya.
     Pada masa itu saya telah mula bersekolah dan semasa balik dari sekolah selalu singgah di kedai si Panjang dan anaknya akan membuat satu “ice kepal” tampa bayaran, untuk melepaskan dahaga semasa berjalan balik kerumah.
     Saya teringat kepada satu hari dimana ibu saya telah menyuruh saya membeli segantang beras di kedai si Panjang. Apabila saya balik dari kedai dan menyerahkan beras itu kepada Ibu saya, Ibu saya bertanya, “ngape regan benor ?”.Ibu saya tidak puas hati dan mengeluarkan cupak untuk di ukur semula. Lantang suara Ibu saya,”Kamu tenguk,mane ade segantang,tige cupak lebih sikit aje “.Ibu saya membungkus balik beras tersebut dan begegas ke kedai si Pnjang dengan saya mengekorinya.
     Saya tidak pernah melihat Ibu saya begitu marah hingga saya sendiri pun merasa takut semasa dia menuntut kebenaran.
     Si Panjang memberi satu bungkusan baru berisi segantang beras dan dalam perjalan balik, Ibu saya terus membebel “Ade ke katenye,anaknye yang salah gune gantang,yang aku tau empat cupak segantang, deme ni pandai bebenor nipu.”
     Apakah pengajaran dalam episod ini;
     – Jika hendak kaya kita harus berniaga dan jika hendak untong
     kita harus berani menipu walau pun terhadap kenalan sendiri.
     Soal moral adalah perkara kedua.
     – Jika kesalahan terbongkar, cepat bertindak membetulkan keadaan
     supaya pulih seperti sedia kala, sogok jika perlu.
     Dalam soal DEB/NEP ini orang Melayu masih memerlukannya kerana kita tidak mempunyai sikap yang ganas, membujur lalu melintang patah. Melayu mudah mempercayai, kita mudah menerima dan menganggap semua bolih menjadi kawan dan kita mudah MULUPAKAN.
     Melayu suka berseronok, senyum selalu, JOM HEBOH sana JOM HEBOH sini
     lepak sana dan lepak sini. Kita patut berterima kasih kepada TV3 kerana menarik minat untuk orang Melayu menjadi PENGGUNA terbaik di Negara sendiri.Ingin tanya sikit kepada mereka yang tahu, berapa kah pegangan share Media Corp (S’pore} dan Asia Corp {HK} dalam Media Prima secara terus atau melalui proxi mereka ?
     Ada kah statistics yang mencatatkan berapa ramai penduduk bandar yang menunton TV1 dan TV2 berbanding TV Stations di bawah Media Prima ?.Sudah pasti ada perbezaan tetapi soalnya adakah ini merupakan agenda bersepadu ataupun berlandaskan nilai commercial semata mata ?.

160. salam che det
     to me u did manage to develope the country
     from almost nothing, nowdays malaysia is something
     i remembered talking to one australian not long ago
     when i said ‘im from malaysia’, he simply replied ‘ah, the twin towers’..
     these kind of remark isn’t easy to get, especially from the orang putih
     but believe me the are still so many things to be done
     yang sedihnya sikap orang melayu itu sendiri, lebih tepat lagi, orang islam hari ini
     terlalu pentingkan diri sendiri, kebendaan, malas & penakut
     p/s abi, yes, che det ceduk strategi or idea mt
     but che det makes it better & track proven
     japan did the same thing u tak nak comment ke?

161. salam sejahtera
     Lain padang lain belalang.
     Ada orang kata kroni adalah saudara mara. Projek semua serah kepada saudara mara.
     Ada yang serah projek berbilion bilion kepada bukan Melayu yang “boleh buat kerja” in quote.
     Yang kaya ialah “orang-orang” itu jugalah.
     Di sarawak khabarnya ada empangan yang terbengkalai menjadi sarang pelacuran impot dari TANAH BESAR SANA, dan ada kilang besi dah jadi kilang BASI.
     Apabila projek besar hendak dijalankan di kawasan orang Melayu isu lain pula timbul. Ditohmahnya tanah orang Melayu akan tergadai.
     Belum pun projek dicuba… sudah seribu satu macam tohmahan.
     Politiking? lantik anak? lantik menantu? apa salahnya kalau ada potensi , berpendidikan tinggi dan berbakat?
     Yang tua membimbing yang muda, yang muda minta pentunjuk yang tua.
     Orang melayu kata, hati kuman sama dicincang, hati gajah sama dilapah.
     Saya berada di Malaysia sekarang dan sering bersantai di KLCC melihat the dancing fountain. Saya sangat bangga sebagai rakyat Malaysia kerana Malaysianya, bukan kerana kepimpinanya.
     Pada saya kepimpinan saling silih berganti, tetapi Malaysia tetap Malaysia.
     Semua orang menghadapi cabaran dalam hidup, sama ada disengaja atau tidak disengajakan.
     Semua orang berasa takut sekarang. Takut ? Kenapa takut? Saya melihat, ketakutan itu adalah disebabkan kesilapan kita sendiri. Kita cuba cuba memilih kerajaan baru.
     Orang Malaysia ni mungkin kurang pendidikan tentang memilih kerajaan dan betapa relevannya pilihan raya untuk menentukan nasib dan masa depan mereka. Mengundi tidak boleh mencuba -cuba.
     Memilih kerajaan dan memilih pemimpin adalah dua perkara yang cukup berbeza.
     Negara kita masih muda. Janganlah tua sebelum waktunya. Pertahankan kemakmuran yang ada. Inilah sahaja yang kita ada. tanah inilah sahaja yang kita pijak. Kubur mak, bapak, datuk, nenek dan moyang kita pun di sini – bukan di USA, INDIA atau BEIJING.
     Aib sekali kalau pada satu hari kubur kita dikencing oleh anak bangsa sendiri sambil disumpah seranah.
     Bersatulah..kita bukan bangsa bodoh.
     Bukan kerana harta benda dan wang ringgit, tetapi demi anak cucu kita.
     Salam,
     Johan ariff
     KLCC, menunggu soul lover

162. Salam Tun & fellow Bloggers,
     1.Indonesia enforce no chinese identity or culture should be practiced openly: even in naming children & chinese calligraphy.Assimilate or leave!
     2.In Zimbabwe,property,estates,business entity belonging to whites (some of them even killed)taken by force & redistributed back to marginalised blacks
     3.There are Chinatown,Indiatown,Arabtown etc across USA & Europe because they are not welcomed by locals, oppressed by strict regulations which limit their access to fair share of country’s wealth & rights
     4.Australian aborigines are herded,flogged & confined into ‘reserved lands’ with bad or no basic amenities.Drug abuse,alcoholics,high birth death rate are part of a systematic ethnic cleansing
     5.In India the gap between 800 or so sub-etnic, urban/suburban, is alarmingly getting wider.Racial & religious clashes often erupted all over the country
     6.Minority Muslim women no matter what race,are not allowed to wear head scarf
     in govt sectors,school,college let alone their socio-politic-economic rights
     Now for those champion out there who like to use racial card,just stop a while,think sensibly,compare and admit how @#*%king lucky you are!These are just some of examples why poor distribution of wealth will affect country’s stability,mayhem,public disorder.Need me to continue?
     Wasalam

163. Selamat petang TUN.
     Sewaktu di universiti dulu, saya sentiasa mengikuti ucapan TUN bila ada kesempatan. Dulu saya hairan dengan tindakan TUN terutama pulisi TUN dalam bidang pendidikan. Namunsetelah melihat kesan polisi terseut, barulah saya percaya bahawa pemikiran tun sentiasa kehadapan yang kebanyakkan orang tidak nampak. Terima Kasih TUN atas sumbangan pada negara, agama dan bangsa melayu.

164. Salam selamat kepada Tun,
     tindakan yg betul adalah dari memberi peluang pendidikan kerana dgn ilmulah kita dapat memperbaiki segalanya…

165. Assalamualaikum ayahanda Tun!!!
     ( maaf kerana tidak memberi komen tentang DEB di atas)
     Malaysia ini milik siapa? Anuar ke? Siapa dia tu? Kebelakangan ni bukan main lagi mamat tu..hari-hari muka kat TV. Makin naiklah toncet dia tuu..Usah layan jerr..Saya pun naik hairan juga yang wartawan asyik terkejar-kejar mamat tu..berkerumun macam langau..WAHH!! tambah popular la dia..Pas tu..dalam berita tv/radio kalau menyebutkan mamat tu asyik nak nyatakan DATUK SERI ANUAR IBRAHIM BEKAS TIMBALAN PERDANA MENTERI MALAYSIA….layakkah si mamat tu dinyatakan demikian, bukankah dia pernah merengkok dalam penjara..itulah status terakhirnya..kalau nak sebut, sebut sahaja..kalau tak mahu sebut..tak yahlah sebut apa-apa..baik datuk seri atau bekas timbalan perdana menteri..
     AAB tuu..apa halnya pulak tidak benarkan Ketua Polis Negara ( Datuk Musa) dan Peguam Negara ( Ghani Patail),formula KJ ke? Tindakan ini seolah tunduk kepada si Nuar tu..!
     Nampak sangat dah banyak perkara yang tidak betul dalam negara dan kerajaan sekarang ni.
     Pilihan Raya di Permatang Pauh?????!!!! Berapa keberangkaliannya BN akan memenangi kerusi? Tambahan BPR sedang jalankan siasatan terhadap Perdana Menteri dan Timbalan Perdana Menteri. Apa pandangan ayahanda?????
     Walau bagaimana pun. TAHNIAH!!!! kepada UMNO PJ Selatan!!!! Di atas tindakan kalian!!!!!

166. Assalammualaikum,
     syukur kerana ini pertama kali saya menjejakkan minda saya di blog tun, rasa gembira kerana dapat berada di ruangan ini biarpun tidak dapat berinteraksi bersama tun. hati teringin sekali berjumpa tun & isteri. saya akan sentiasa mendoakan kesejahteraan & kesihatan tun sekeluarga berada dalam keadaan sihat hendaknya. moga satu hari dapat kiranya saya bertemu tun. tun tetap akan menjadi idola saya, saya tidak perlu menjadi ahli politik cukup sekarang dengan tugas yang diamanahkan kepada saya dalam membentu belia menjadi insan berguna. betapa sukarnaya tugas ini, namun hati mula tertarik kerana saya dapat berinteraksi bersama belia terutamanya remaja. puas hati saya kerana saya dapat memberi sedikit nasihat kepada mereka. rasa tidak salah dengan pilihan yang dibuat oleh saya. memilih bidang dalam agensi kerajaan, cuma sedikit terkilan kerana saya tidak dapat berada ketika pemerintahan tun.. salam sayang bt tun sekeluarga. wasalam

167. Tun,
     saya ingin mengucapkan ribuan terima kasih diatas sumbangan tun pada negara yang tercinta. Sehingga kami mampu mengecapi kemakmuran dan keamanan.
     Tun,
     saya ingin mencadangkan supaya tun bertanding calon bebas di permatang pauh…
     saya harap tun dapat mempertimbangan cadangan saya..
     thanks tun…

168. Orang melayu perlu berubah buat kerja perlu berkualiti , pengurusan perlu cekap dan teratur,masa perlu tepat seperti yang dijanjikan,ilmu perlu dicari sebelum menceburi sesuatu perniagaan dan tingkatkan kemahiran /pengetahuan dalam bidang diceburi baru boleh bersaing dalam perniagaan.Bukan dasar tersebut gagal tetapi sikap kita(melayu)yang membuatnya gagal…yang paling penting jangan menipu mesti ikhlas buat kerja dan jangan tamak.

169. Dear Tun,
     I’m not agree with NEP, the reason is I never ask to be born as Chinese, if I can choose, I would choose to be born as Malay, this is becoz I can get many benefits & opportunities such as education, business, finance, housing, employment and etc etc etc…… There are many poor Chinese, Indian & other races that are poor and need government supports but NEP only help one race in Peninsular Malaysia, I’m not sure about other natives in East Malaysia. Many less educated Chinese involve in negative trade such as loan shark, pirated vcd, drugs, prostitution & etc becoz NEP never take care of Chinese, same with Indian.If one can choose, who want to do that type of work??? In our 5000 years culture, we regard government and its official as the “other parent” we have. We, the citizen are the “children” of this big family/country. All we want is our “other parent” do not treat us like a step son or step daughter. But u will not understand. Becoz u are the priviledge son of this land. In Buddha’s teaching, all human will be reborn, the one that has done good deed will become human again, hopefully u will be born as Chinese or Indian here, then u will know our true feelings. I think blood donated or organs donated should be given to the same race as donors becoz gonernment’s policy are skin color based, we as rakyat must follow government policy too, right???

170. to haris,
     i’m really sad that your heart is full hatred and anger coz u are jealous of something…..what a pity!!!!
     at least u still alive and gonna enjoy what Tun have achieved for us….

171. Salam sejahtera buat Tun
     Needless to say after years of implementation, DEB has in one way or the other benefited the Malaysians, especially the Bumis. As in any situation, benefits for one party usually generates chain reactions. Thus, we can assume that everybody has their share of the cake.
     On cronysm itself, one cannot dismiss the fact that as human we tend to sway in favour of one party compared to the other. that for some obvious reason. To award a contract to a company that do perform well and has good track record is in itself not considered as being favourable to that particular company though in one way or the other there is connection between the one who awards it and the party who got the job. Familywise, we do tend to favour one of our own kids compared to the other due to certain reasons. That in a way will teach them to reason out why and what should be done to win our trust. its all politcs.

172. NEP is success but it was temporary success to solve the crisis that happened at 1969.At future,i don’t think NEP still will be working at next 20 years.When time pass away,anything is changing specially human.Each human or Malaysian is demand for change with purpose better life.I am sure NEP will change at someday to better and suitable to all Malaysian.Maybe at someday,Malaysia will really united without care about different of race and religion.When i am 9 years old,i ask my parent about “Why we are different with Malay people?I believe we are same like human.”.My parent was unable to answer my question.

173. Thank you Tun for your blog. It has made me better able to understand your policies especially in respect to NEP. Before this, I had thought why only a small group of Malays had succeeded when you were PM. From your blog, I now understand that your Govt awarded more and more contracts to Malays who have consistently shown a track record of success. However in the end, only a very small group of Malays (those that were consistently successful) became very rich which is why overall we had a negative conception of your policies.There seemed to also be unfair allocation of projects. I have heard of projects awarded and changed at the last minute. In fact in the place I work, one company of only about 200 employees have created a product serving the whole Government throughout the nation because it was awarded the contract. This makes us very rich indeed. For something of such a high value like this, the wealth should be dispersed over several companies and spread over more people. I see many Govt contracts like this. Recently in the papers, I read about police intelligence project being given to a very small little known company working with Israel. Then there is Bakun Dam and Perwaja Steel, Vincent Tan, YTL Group, Sunway, etc. There appears to still be poor people in Kelantan and Terengganu.

174. Ayahanda Tun dan Bloggers;
     Jika dibandingkan Pendapatan Perkapita kita dan Negara luar seperti Singapore, Taiwan, Hong Kong dan se umpamanya…kita ternyata jauh ketinggalan…tetapi kita tahu ‘kuasa membeli’ kita jauh lebih baik daripada mereka semua…contohnya kebanyakan penduduk mereka hanya mampu duduk di flat sahaja…kita walaupun hanya bergaji RM2000/ USD600 tetapi dengan segala kemudahan yang ada, kita mampu duduk dibanglo seperti kebayakkan Cikgu2 kita di Kelantan…mampu pakai dua, tiga kereta dan sebagainya…
     Jadi tak payahlah nak bandingkan dengan dia orang…at the end of the day…dengan pendapatan yang kita ada apakah kita mampu capai apa yang kita inginkan, gembira dengan kehidupan kita..kemakmuran kita..kedamaian negara kita…dan keindahan negara kita…
     Dia orang… memanglah tinggi pendapatan mereka…tapi buying power depa lebih rendah daripada kita….untuk apa kalau RM100 hanya cukup untuk gunting rambut sahaja…
     Tapi sekarang ni susahlah jugak…kuasa membeli kita makin merosot..tak seperti zaman Tun dahulu..
     Semoga Allah merahmati Tun sekeluarga…

175. SALAM,
     Here is a personal notes statement issued by
     the current 2nd Finance Minister,
     Datok Nor Mohamed Yaakob on the
     Economic Crisis 1997-1998 – The Story … in 23Oct2003,
     ‘throughout the crisis, the PM (Tun) was focussed on resolving the crisis. Day & Night, he thought of nothing else but the crisis. He read all he could in finance; he kept asking me to prepare notes on various technical issues. Sometimes he was sick with bad flu and cough, but he did not take time off to rest. He was convinced that he had to understand the issues before he could work out the solutions. His native intelligence and ability to focus on core issues were there throughout the crisis. He do not shown any sign of fear even at the worst time, only concern at the fast deteriorating state of the economy.
     No other PM in the world, either in developed or developing countries, employs such a hand-on approach in managing the economy such as our PM – met with a small group of us (team) everyday for at least 2 hours to go through various economic data. And Dr. M continued to go through all the economic data with a sharp pencil.
     I made two additional point related to the financial crisis..Dr. M is not only save Malaysia but save our neighbourhood countries like Thailand, Indonesia & South Korea.And 2nd, he save Malaysia by the decisiveness and guts of Dr. M on his mechanisme.
     We owe Dr.M much gratitute for what he has done for Malaysia over the last 22 years. Solving the financial crisis 1997-1998 was just one; albeit perhaps the most important of all his achievement to the nation.
     On a personal note, over the last 6 years, I have come to admire this great man for his abilities, high moral values and, most of all his sincerity. Certainly a man like Dr.M is not born everyday…
     WASALAM

176. Salam Ayahanda Tun,
     Biasala tun..pihak barat mmg sentiasa akan mengapi2kan isu yg boleh menguntungkan pihak mereka..tapi yg sy geram sangat2 sekarang ni ialah pasal forum “memeluk islam”yg dianjurkan oleh Majlis Peguam..bole x tun komen on this issue..

177. Dear Tun,
     I doubt if the “Western Press” and local opponents of the “UMNO” lead “BN” Government would want to do an objective survey on all the contracts and scholarships given by the private sector, as suggested.
     In my opinion these group are anti-Malay racist, who will malevolently do anything to destroy UMNO, which is why a strong and capable Malay leader is required at all time! However these people must be quite happy right now, because AAB is happily destroying UMNO on their behalf!
     Therefore, all Malays must wake up and get rid of the “clutch mentality” ASAP! Don’t let these people win by default.
     Thank you,
     “Melayu Boleh!”

178. The NEP while it may have help the bumiputera to ventures into business but it also hinder their growth and potential with the facts that they are shielded from competition. This will make them complacent and will not gear up for actual competition in an even playing field. Competition and innovations is imporatant in the globalised world and also ability to adapt to the changing business enviroment. In the long run I think they will be worst off than before because they are not train to compete and innovate merely waiting for Government help or government contract.
     However, I do concur that the NEP do really help in the field of education as we can now see the bulk of Malaysian middle class are now bumiputera. However, meritocracy is important in admitting students into our public university as only the best and brightest is admitted regardless of racial backgroubd.
     Our neibouring country has been offering scholarship for our best and brightest and they are getting the Malaysia best talents for free. And we are willingly happy to do it just because they could not get a place in local university or a scholarship. This will definitely affect our competitiveness in the future as our best human capitals are being lure away by other countries.
     NEP has done all it can the bumiputera must now learn to stand on their own two feet. It must gain back their dignity, pride as well as the courage to venture forward in this competitive and globalised world.
     Wish you the best of health, Tun. Love your blog.
     Best regards.
     Hakim

179. Dear Tun,
     Well written. As a non-bumi I am not against the NEP per se so long as its not being abused in the implementation.
     Some comments from bloggers are not fair to non-bumis as we worked hard to better ourselves (without handouts). Are the non-bumis to be blamed if bumis sold off their contracts for quick cash – and did not want to work for them? Non-bumis have to slog and took lots of risks to complete whatever contracts – then earned whatever profits. That’s not too much is it? Bumis can well do the same if they want to have more money – catch is, work hard don’t sell off your contracts!
     Also another blogger complained that bumis being behind because non-bumis had higher passing ratio at universities exams! Are the non-bumis to be blamed if they studied very very hard to better themselves despite the quota system?
     The lists will never end; each side can argue till the cows come home(?) and still will not be satified.
     What I know was during your time TUN, all races have a good chance of making a decent living because of the good economic conditions and were happy with your leadership. Being humans we are never perfect. So long as there are understanding and tolerance we will prosper!! Work hard to better yourself to get the promotions you deserve and not blame anyone.
     Keep on writing TUN! May the Lord bless you with good health always!!

180. Terima kasih tun, harap orang melayu sedar kelemahan kita, bersikap rendah diri tapi mempunyai daya saing yang kuat untuk sama sama kehadapan bersama dengan bangsa asing. Tun betul, saya telah jatuh bangun dalam dunia perniagaan tanpa ada bantuan dengan sesiapa. Saya berusaha atas usaha dan keyakinan sendiri berpandukan kepada matlamat yang jelas dari tun. Setiap kali saya berada di bawah saya akan membaca apa jua artikel atau mendengar ucapan tun dari tv, ianya memberikan saya semangat untuk saya tabah. ‘Malaysia boleh’ terus terpendam di dalam diri saya. Tapi semenjak pak lah ambil alih heheh matlamat tak jelas hala tuju semua kelongkang.
     NEP membantu saya mendapat pendidikan yang terbaik. terima kasih atas usaha tun tersebut. Mereka (Melayu) selalu berpendapat bahawa NEP patut di hapuskan, dan saya sering bertanya adakah kamu sudah bersedia? adakah kaum melayu di kampung sudah bersedia? adakah kewangan orang melayu sudah mencukupi? adakah kita mempunyai daya saing yang cukup kental? adakah kita boleh meninggalkan konsep ‘tak apa” di dalam kehidupan harian? adakah kita mempunyai keupayaan untuk menjelajahi pelbagai sudut ilmu? mungkin seramai 1 juta kaum melayu di negara ini sememangnye telah bersedia,( saya telah bersedia 10 tahun lepas, namun adakah kita terfikir bahawa mungkin seramai 10 juta kaum melayu masih memerlukan bantuan dari kerajaan. Alangkah sedihnya apabila kita sebagai orang melayu merempat di negara sendiri akibat tersilap percaturan oleh para pemimpin yang dipilih. Alangkah malangnya nasib kita orang melayu dipinggirkan oleh bangsa sendiri, alangkah sedih menanggung rasa dan mengalaminya. Mereka ( bukab kaum melayu) akan terus berjaya dan berjaya dan mereka akan gelak dan terus gelak atas kebodohan dan kebongkakan pemimpin melayu yang bodoh.
     Tun, teruskan menulis, agar pemimpin yang telah diberikan amanah dapat jalankan kerja mereka dengan sempurna. Jangan asyik berlagak sombong dari hasil titik peluh kami.
     Tun hari itu dapat tengok Tun berbaju biru hilang rindu heheh, n tun masih lagi kuat. Tun jaga kesihatan dan diet makanan ok. Saya sangat sayang tun dan isteri.

181. The NEP has been abused and manipulated by Tun. Every non-bumi on the street knows that the NEP is supposed to be for a certain period of years after independence, but in your hands, YOU have actually “postpone” it to indefinitely.
     By keep saying the BUMIs are in poverty is non-sense and just another excuse to continue using the Tongkat.
     One of the commentators, Aniraz, said becoz of the NEP, he is who he is today, owning a company. All becoz he is from a poor family and therefore the NEP helps him. THEN WHAT ABOUT OTHER NON-BUMIS (in fact non-Muslims) WHO ARE AS POOR AS YOU WHEN THEY WERE YOUNG? Are they not Malaysian citizens as well? Why must the country’s tax payers money be channeled to help the BUMIS with this NEP and leave the non-bumis out?
     Why is it when it comes to annual tax – EVERYONE IS CITIZEN OF MSIA – therefore pay the same amount.
     But when comes to NEP – why only those poor Malays benefit from it? Are those Chinese and Indians not considered as citizens then?
     This is sole discrimination.
     We fought this motherland during Tungku’s time to gain independence. And now, we are second class citizen. We get even higher respect and better security in other countries like Singapore, Taiwan, China, USA and UK – though we are the true immigrants there!!! Just cannot imagine the rationale behind all this!
     U can say what u like, Tun. And for all the Malay commentators, of coz they will support you – becoz who dont want FREE CASH rolling into their pockets!?
     But the truth is – we are sick of all this. U can surpress a spring for long, but one fine day it will rebound so high up, that it will call on a “new dawn” to this Bolehland.
     The Law of Karma will prevail one day. Just sooner or later.
     Nobody will suffer forever, and the same goes to those who have been benefiting from this NEP. No one will enjoy forever too.
     Just wait and see who gets the last laugh…

182. Tun,
     NEP is one of the tools to ensure social harmony and progress in Malaysia. The failure of NEP is not much to be blamed on political masters but much to do with poor performance of the Government servants. The policy is there, the execution is poor. Thus the government servants have to be improved. TQ

183. Dear Tun,
     The best affirmative action to uplift the living standard of the Malays is still education. The government must continue to provide the best educational facilities to the Malays especially the rural Malay children. My grand father Haji Hassan bin Hj Taib and his younger brother Hj Jaafar who originated from Java built a brick madarasah in 1926 out of their own funds to finance the running of the school to cater for kampong children to learn English and Arabic languages as well as Islamic Studies. Unfortunately, when there was a great depression during that period both of them could not maintain the running of the school and luckily enough the state government agreed to salvage the school and converted it into a Malay Girls School. The late Governor of Penang, Tun Hamdan’s father, Tuan Sheikh Tahir was one of the teachers who was employed by my grandfather to teach at the Madarasah Parit Jamil, Muar, Johore. Recently, the school had been demolished and the premise is now being planned to build teachers’ quarters.

184. To “emdee”
     Well written!! I’m with you.

185. Tun,
     Indeed as being said Tun, You’re the PM which brought Malaysia to where it is now a respected, and sucessful country.It very hard to please people, and people being plased are mostly ungrateful, forgetful and wanting more, which is greediness.We understand that this is not a perfect world in which we live, Tun your way is the most stable and fairly managed.Thanks for the info being received so far, and please carry on with this honourable lesson learnt, for us.
     Take care and always supporting Tun. Regards to your Family, and fellow bloggers. Salam.

186. PILIHANRAYA KECIL PERMATANG PAUH
     Tarikh Penamaan Calon: 16hb Ogos 2008
     Tarikh Membuang Undi: 26hb Ogos 2008
     Marilah kita rakyat Malaysia, bersatu hati memulas keringat tidak kira samada di tanah Permatang Pauh mahupun di laman web dan blog, mari kita menentang mereka dari bangsa PKR ini yang tidak sabar untuk menaikkan Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim menjadi PM Malaysia, mereka yang tidak tahu untuk mengikut peraturan Demokrasi, mereka yang bacul pengecut kerana tidak mahu menunggu Pilihanraya seterusnya, mereka ini bakal menjahanamkan negara kerana tidak mahu mematuhi Undang2 negara Malaysia, Bangsa PKR ini sudah menjadi kudis dan nanah yang tidak boleh diubatkan lagi, maka kita rakyat Malaysia harus memalukan mereka di Permatang Pauh sendiri, biar mereka tahu Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim tidak mungkin akan menjadi Perdana Menteri Malaysia yang seterusnya…
     Salam Berdarah Perjuangan Rakyat Malaysia…

187. Dear Tun,
     DENGAN BANGGANYA SAYA MENYATAKAN BAHAWA KALAU TANPA NEP I WON’T BE WHAT I’M TODAY.
     Masalahnya sekarang ni kebanyakan ahli politik kita yang juga produk NEP tak sedar diri tentang kebaikannya. Dan bukan bumiputera pun sering membangkitkan pasal NEP, Malay rights/supremacy.
     Saya berasal dari family susah, bapak driver je dan dgn policy ini lah saya berjaya melanjutkan pelajaran. Menyedari kekurangan/kelemahan diri saya terima kerja di satu syarikat dgn gaji RM700 je, di mana dept tu saya the only malay. Dan terus bekerja di situ untuk 7 1/2 tahun semata2 untuk mendapat ilmu dan pengalaman dari mereka. Talk about double standard. Sekarang non-bumi melaungkan yang mereka di anaktirikan di bumi malaysia, tapi tanyalah diri mereka sendiri kenapa practise double standard di dalam syarikat mereka yang juga beroperasi di malaysia. why also practise the same things that there are so against. Tanyalah mereka yang pernah bekerja dgn syarikat2 seperti ini.
     And today i’m so proud to have my own company eventhough its a small one with majority of my clients is non-bumi. Dan sebenarnya dari ketirisan project2 siapa sebenarnya yang mendapat faedah?????
     Sebenarnya sedih melihat keadaan poltik malaysia sekarang. DAP/PAS/BN/PKR – entah apa yang diperjuangkan sekarang sebenarnya???? Kebaikan rakyat atau kepentingan sendiri??????
     Walaupun ada antara policy tun yang saya tak setuju, tapi pada pendapat saya you are still the best leader that malaysia ever had compare to all the clowns now whether from government or opposition.

188. It’s always a pleasure to read your comments.
     If I wanted to buy a pack of cigarrettes from the shop, have only a RM50 note in my pocket but too lazy to drive, do I?
     a) Get that Mat Rempit hanging out in front of my house to get the pack for me? or
     b) Get the neighbour, who drives a nice imported car to buy me a pack?or
     c) Get my housemate, who always buy my ciggies, to buy it for me for the 100th time?
     Forget a) with no track record, you might even lose all your money, b)who can do it but maybe won’t do it.
     I know c) will get the job done as he has done it many times before, and for his trouble, and won’t mind that extra RM5 for petrol.
     Everybody screams cronyism but the truth is, everybody practices it, irregardless of race or creed. I would not let an important job be given to people I cannot rely upon. The folks yelling cronyism as if it was a dirty word are doing so because they are not given the job. If it was on the other foot, they would have done the same thing.
     I’d just ignore the racist hypocrites comments…

189. I think MCA and MIC leaders must have been in Dreamland, Wonderland or Disneyland when NEP was implemented.
     I agree if NEP is reviewed every 5,10 or 15 years, but for it to be implemented indefinitely, gives an impression to the bumis that this privilage is for granted and it is their birth right.
     crazyidiot is just a pseudonym and therefore, I do not see a reason to criticise it.

190. tun,
     tun adalah seorang pejuang melayu untuk negara bangsa dan
     semua rakyat malaysia,
     tun banyak berjasa dan nasib baik tun banyak meninggalkan
     yang terbaik untuk malaysia tapi sayangnya selepas itu,
     kemudi yang diamanahkan mula lupa jasa tun, dsab ingat sampan di
     air dah selamat tapi dia lupa tentang ombak dan lanun dan cuaca…
     …kata orang zaman moden ni, kita ni rakyat malaysia sedang
     naik kapal terrbang dan sedang terbang dengan auto-pilot…
     pilot pulak sedang lena tapi dah pakai payung terjun…..
     lah lah lah…..seumur hidup saya, saya mengenang dsab sebagai
     perosak.
     dulu dadah musuh negara nombor satu tapi sekarang dsab dah ganti jadi perosak negara yang satu nombor satu…. ganti tempat dadah…

191. Assalamua’laikum YBhg Tun.
     First and foremost, a BIG thank you to you!
     I did not come from a well-to-do family and my late father (alfatihah) always emphasise that education will differentiate a man. His words of wisdom still linger on even up to today and I frequently share the stories with my kids as a constant reminder to them and myself.
     Alhamdulillah with NEP, I was able to complete my studies in aeronautical engineering in a foreign land. I do remember attending your talk in the UK (early eighties) and how your words deeply touch me. It made such a great impact and motivated me to excel for my religion, my country and myself.
     What saddens me most is when I see Malays that are so ungrateful! Having being given scholarships and education, most were contended with what they have, remaining status quo and not striving for more knowledge. Some were happy with their “four-figure” salaries and not pursuing any form of education to improve their competencies. In certain cases, there were those who were just reluctant to “pay-back” their dues so that other Malays can be given the opportunities. Of late, I have witnessed young Malays who were given the position in big corporation, totally forgot about other able and competent Malays where they were treated as threats rather than ally.
     Yes, I do agree that my first professional qualification was a result of NEP, but my quest for more knowledge and desire to help other Malays, thanks to your motivational speech, has led me to achieve two Doctorate degrees at my own expense. I now provide consulting services to Bumiputera SMIs, who could not afford the fees charged by those big players and serves as a visiting lecturer to various universities and colleges. Leaving whatever little knowledge I have on earth and not taking it to the grave.
     Again, a typical scene, there are consulting work done for these Malay SMIs still not being paid and majority of students attending part-time Masters and Doctorate level in the universities and colleges that I lectured are non-Malays.
     My final note, I concur with you that, it is not NEP, cronysim and whatever have you that fails the Malays, but the Malays themselves!
     I am glad to have experienced your Era and may GOD bless you and your family.

192. Greetings beloved TUN,
     I have my view on the NEP http://ffrreeddiiee.blogspot.com/2008/07/ketuanan-melayu-and-nep.html not so much in detail but postulating that the lack of such a policy in other countries have led to dire consequenses. It is also noteworthy that TUN had especially highlighted Education as a successful result of the NEP. As I had expressed, it is in the implementation that can be enhanced, embracing the other communities in the two important components ie living standards and education.
     To emdee,
     you have have a very sound comment but you would be well advised not to include Jews as an example in your treatise.
     Best wishes to Tun and your family

193. Salam AYAHANDA RAKYAT TUN,
     Izinkan,
     Setelah melihat kemarahan ramai Anakanda2 chedet.com terhadap si’crazyidiot’, kami telah pun membuat permohonan untuk memasukan dia kedalam Wad ‘ABI (Aggravated Brain Implant) tetapi bila diselidik lebih mendalam ‘penyakitnya’ adalah lebih parah daripada pesakit Wad ‘ABI’ maka kami cadangkan Wad ‘PIGSM'(Patients In Grave State(of)Mind) ‘an ICU unit next to Wad ABI’
     We wud advise that all Anakanda Chedet.com be immunized with the ‘Sabar’ serum as prescibed by our Ayahanda Dr.
     Let us all pray and hope that the patients of Wad ‘ABI and the ICU unit of Wad ‘PIGSM’ be cured from the ‘viruses’ effecting their ‘rationale’ thinking.

194. salam tun..
     tun tlg la perbetulkan keadaan skrng ni tun..
     kami rakyat amat keliru dgn keadaan skrng ni..
     kami rindukan kehidupan dizaman tu memerintah….
     insyaallah……..

195. Kepada Tun yang dikasehi, terima kasih kerana sentiasa menulis untuk memberi kesedaran kepada rakyat, terutamanya orang2 Melayu yang mudah lupa.
     NEP sememangnya telah berjaya meningkatkan taraf serta “menguatkan” orang2 Melayu terutamanya menerusi pencapaian dalam bidang pelajaran, sepertimana yang Tun sebutkan. Inilah salah satu jalan untuk kerajaan menolong orang2 Melayu. Pihak yang tidak senang hati dengan kejayaan orang2 Melayu telah bersungguh-sungguh “memfitnah” NEP dan mengatakan NEP adalah faktor yang menyebabkan orang2 Melayu menjadi lemah. Ini adalah “reversed psychology” yang dimainkan oleh mereka sehingga ada sebahagian orang2 Melayu yang percaya lalu sama2 menolak NEP. Bila NEP sudah tiada, hilanglah satu “avenue” untuk kerajaan menolong orang2 Melayu dan orang2 Melayu juga akan hilang “previlege”. Pada masa itu, mereka yang dengki dengan orang2 Melayu akan bertepuk tangan dan orang2 Melayu hanya akan ternganga mulut……

196. Salam AYAHANDA RAKYAT TUN,,
     Izinkan,
     By Radzian on August 6, 2008 6:00 PM
     Salam Tun, after reading your article, I wrote this small piece in support of the altruist manner of agreement of citizenship and Malay privilege.
     Altruism of Malaysia’s Affirmative Actions
     ….
     ….the endurance and shrewdness of Mr. Lee Kuan Yew. In an attempt, to end the British colonial rule, Mr. Lee has successfully persuaded a merger between Malaysia and Singapore as a smokescreen to his ambition. The British colonial rule, impressed by the astute and altruist behavioural conduct of Tunku Abdul Rahman Putra has given an agreement to this matter….
     PERINGATAN KEPADA SEMUA ANAK WATAN’
     MASIH RAMAI LAGI PELAKON WATAK LEE KUAN YEW YANG BERKELIARAN DINEGARA KITA INI DAN TELAH PUN TERBUKTI DARI KATA2 HINA YANG TERSURAT DIHALAMAN CHEDET.COM.
     KALAU BANGSA MELAYU MASIH ‘TIDUR’ MACAM PAK ‘NGANGAK’ DAN KAKI NGANGAKNYA, NESCAYA NASIB KETURUNAN KITA AKAN TERHIMPIT SEPERTIMANA YANG TERDAPAT DINEGARA LEE KUAN YEW SEKARANG.
     KAMI MAHON MAAF JIKA SAUDARA MELAYU KAMI DISANA TERSINGGUNG TETAPI APAKAN DAYA IANYA ADALAH KENYATAAN.
     PENGALAMAN KAMI DINEGARA SEBERANG DIMANA KAMI LIHAT PAK SUPIR MENGELAPKAN PELUH DAN MEMBUKAKAN KASUT ‘GOLF’ TOWKAYNYA DIDEPAN MATA PAK GENERAL. SEDIH DAN PILU HATI KAMI DAN TERMENUNG SEJENAK MEMIKIRKAN NASIB KETURUNAN KAMI DIMALAYSIA JIKA KEDUDUKAN EKONOMINYA DIANIAYAI OLEH KUASA EKONOMI KELOMPOK PENIAGA ‘RACIST’.
     JANGAN TUNGGU HINGGA NASI MENJADI BASI DAN BERKULAT.
     THE SOLUTION : UMNO LEADERSHIP MUST BE REVAMPED ASAP!
     BANGUN BANGSA KU DIDALAM UMNO, BANGUN BANGSA KU DIDALAM KERAJAAN, BANGUN BANGSA KU DIDUNIA PERNIAAGAAN, BANGUN BANGSA KU DIBANDAR DAN DIDESA…. BANGUN, TEGAK BERDIRI,MEROBOH, MENCANAI WALAU DENGAN KERINGAT DAN AIRMATA, MENJUNJUNG PANJI PANJI BUMI BERTUAH DEMI KEDAULATAN BANGSA, UGAMA DAN NEGARA.
     ‘JANGAN DIPAGAR NYIOR YANG CONDONG, BUAHNYA JATUH DILAMAN ORANG’
     BISMILLAHIRRAHMANIRRAHIM
     AL FATIHAH, AMIN YAAROBBAL ALAMIN.

197. Dear Tun,
     Good day.
     Firstly, I’m a non bumi. So I hope my words are taken as a perspective of this side of the fence, yet an attempt to be as unbiased as possible.
     I thank the forsight of the leaders circa 1969 for learning from one dark lesson that it is inevitable that the ruling class also has a stronghold on the economy. Any other equation will render the imbalance to cause sparks. Just look at what happened to Indians of Fiji and the Indonesian Chinese minority. In fact, I think that the Jews are less prone to such purges now because Jewish descendants from Europe look more alike the rest in countries like America. That was not the case for the unfortunate Chinese of Indonesia, for instance.
     The NEP HAD to be implemented. If not we would not have acheived the political stability that gave us 7% plus growth for such a long time. People tend to forget that political stability is imperative for prosperity. Just look at the vast contrast India and China potray. The world’s largest democracy is still grappling with badly needed basic problems, mainly a precipitation of the chaotic political environment. I recently spoke to an ex CEO of a major US bank who headed the China outfit for more than a decade and just joined another bank that is making inroads into India. When I asked him what were the major differences between the two, without flinching he mentioned that people in China trade their freedom for economic growth. The Indians are still fighting for individual freedom at the expense of growth. Similarly, look at our own competitor at our backyard, Singapore. Their success is entirely not possilble without the political stability they were able to guarantee to the MNCs.
     Therefore, political stability engendered by the NEP was a necessity for growth for us.
     But the leadership is forgeting that the economy is a dynamic flux that evolves based on policies that if left unchecked would leed to new negative phenomenons. In a nutshell, the NEP, whose reviews should also keep in check the progress of the non-Malays, has failed to address the realities faced by the latter group.
     Affirmative policies have led the non-Malays to compete fiercely for ever more scarce opportunities. When a person has become more competitive and yet finds himself enslaved by circumstances not bound by the rules of meritocracy, he either takes flight or just fights. The “flight” phenomenon is the terrible brain drain of non-Malays to percieved meritocratic environments. For instance, I was astounded by the number of Malaysian Chinese who join Singaporean universities every year. These hardworking youngsters are offered permenant residence status and spend much of their productive adult years working there. Some return to retire in Malaysia. Very few do so after graduation.
     The “fight” phenomenon has been demonstrated by the recent HINDRAF ruckus. Frankly, I think the whole concept behind the organizors of the demonstration was confused and many Indians were left wondering if these guys were fighting for the rights of a minorty religion or the economic status of an ethnic minority. Nevertheless, the group was able to tap on the contemporary silent protests of the under performing Indian minorities. I recently visited an oil palm estate in Sendayan, Negri Sembilan. Looking at the lifestyle of the people there, did not seem very different from other estates that I visited 20 years ago.
     Many Malaysians (Malays mainly) are angered by these demonstrations of flight or fight. I don’t blame them. To their eyes, it seems like a bunch of disloyal subjects; but they are forgetting that a huge chunk of the economic progress of post-independence was also contributed by these citizens. And now, it is these citizens who are feeling that they are fighting a dying battle to garner equal opportunities.
     Specifically, I strongly believe that if the backward non-Malay communities in rural and urban areas are not lifted the same way NEP helped to gap the bridge for the bumis, there will come a time when racial strife is unavoidable. I hope that we don’t wait till things get ugly.
     Pardon me if I was biased. I mentioned that this was an attempt.

198. SALAM,
     TO ANYONE WHO ENJOY CRITICISING AND HATE TUN,
     COULD YOU NAME ONE LEADER WHO ARE BETTER THAN TUN IN EVERY ASPECT THAT QUALITY LEADERS SHOULD HAVE?
     PLEASE NAME ONE PERSON WHO ARE COMPARABLE TO TUN WHO CAN CHANGED ONE COUNTRY FROM THIRD WORLD COUNTRY TO DEVELOPED CONTRY?
     PLEASE NAME IT!!!!
     PLEASE VOTE on Petition to Get Malaysian Prime Minister, PAK LAH to Step Down. “Vote of No Confidence in Parliament”.
     http://www.PetitionOnline.com/PakLah/
     VOTE SEGERA DEMI MALAYSIA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
     WASALAM

199. Dear Tun,
     If NEP is a good stuff for the country,then improving it further so that the disparities among THE MALAYSIAN (regadless BUMI or NON BUMI)will be reduced more. And it is the time when people could enjoy peaceful,stable healthy and wealthy life in the country.
     The success is highly depending on the government to counter check whether the implementation of NEP is not being misused and abused by the people!

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     APA-APA PUN TERUSKAN MENGUNDI MENDESAK PAK LAH SUPAYA MELETAK JAWATAN:
     http://www.PetitionOnline.com/PakLah/
     VOTE SEGERA DEMI MALAYSIA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
     WASALAM

201. Hello Tun , just a note for all our bloggers who oppose or agreed with the NEP :-
     Please find out the reason and objective of why NEP was created after our black May 1969 history first before giving any harsh self conclusion.
     As with all other policies , there is advantages and disadvantages but the reason for any policy to be created must have it root cause.( May 1969 ). If we want to live in a peaceful and harmony country , then you will appreciate more on the existence of this policy rather than judging the policy in the context of racial supremacy.
     However , the question to ponder is does this policy are relevant today based on the current socio ,economy and politic so that it may be time to review the policy ?
     Be peace and harmony resides in Malaysia forever.

202. Salam Tun,
     Ada juga manusia yang masuk kerumah orang dan memberi tahu bahawa dia membenci orang itu (si tuan rumah).
     Bertamadunkah manusia seperti ini?

203. Tun,
     All of us are here because of NEP….That’s cannot be denied.
     Anyone say that are not a part of NEP is a liar.
     Malay and non-malay prosper is because of NEP…..just that you have to work hard to gain more…..
     It’s good that everyone know the truth….rather than denied it ….

204. By Yeek on August 7, 2008 4:57 AM
     Hi Tun,
     I believe it is the disparity of wealth that separates races apart and continues to create problem. When the Chinese migrated to Malaya centuries ago, they were poor as well. Starting from zero, just like the first Malay who settled on the land of now Malaysia. Everyone has a fair share to develop their own future. However, generations had passed. I am not biased towards Chinese, but Chinese are viewed as much more successful compared to Malays even though Chinese are not helped by the government. Why is there a difference? Is it because of the culture? Attitude? Behavior? Survival instinct? Is it because Chinese are born to be mean and greedy? If the Malays are capable, they would have dominated the economy decades ago.
     when the British left, they’d inherited their governance discrepancies (i.e: Divide and Conquer)..Bumiputras are left hopeless… Chinese controlled the economy in the big cities…Bumiputras can’t even compete in all important fields (e.g: economy, education, etc)…NEP is a plan to demolish the barrier British had put onto Bumis..yes, Bumiputras can struggle to compete but with all they had in their disposals, it’s almost impossible..certainly it’s not impossible, but the pace will be very slow and this will bring unsatisfactions..Bumiputras will be left far behind and unable to catch up …we’re not talking about some Bumiputras here, but a huge bunch of Bumiputras..but I’m agree if NEP should be reviewed..
     I am not here to insult other races, and as a Chinese, I do not mind being governed by other races as long as the government knows how to deal with disparities between races. I am not against government in helping bumiputeras, but I am annoyed when those who still fail after being helped by the government blame Chinese for being like a “robber”.
     yep! i’d be annoyed too with that kind of people…they won’t accept their failure but quickly pointing fingers at others…those kind of people didn’t have any point to be taken seriously…

205. STUPID! IDIOT! suit your name crazyidiot….
     do you live in suffer like hell during Tun’s administration??

206. seesh, while i agreed that NEP had benefited some, but generally it has failed to achieve what it means to. How can you said NEP succeed when only a selected few Bumiputra success? And this are those who is closed to you? During the days in 1997, you allowed the government to bail out your cronies company, MAS for example, we paid more than the market price. We the rakyat were made to pay! and MAS is losing money like the tap water, even now. Then PROTON, your favourite toy, we were made to pay more for cars because you want to protect PROTON, but till now, where does PROTON stand? We subsidise every PROTON, but in the end, we were still suffering. Look at Thailand, they drive Toyota like their national car, because it’s cheap, and everyone of them can own one, but here, 30-40k for a KANCIL 60k for WAJA!!!
     If you can label Patrick Lim as Patrick Badawi, can you then blame others to label your cronies as well? Vincent Tan for example, get millions from the IPP deal, and that stupid electricity deal sucks TNB dry, and in the end, we the rakyat was made to pay, again!!!
     Education. And you call it a success. Yes almost everyone can enters the university, but look at the ranking. It went tumbling down, because every ayam,itik,kucing,anjing also can enter. In the end, everyone gets a lousy education while the best brain went some where else. This not only happens to chinese,but malays as well. Yeah degree, but look at the salary. RM1500 for a fresh degree holder, maybe higher till RM2000, and that was in the range of MISKIN. What can we do with RM1500 nowadays. BTW where is the BIOVALLEY???
     NEP was aimed at helping Bumi, but look at Sabah & Sarawak. What did they get all this years? All their petroleum money goes to Putrajaya, but what did they get in the end. NOTHING. Most of them live just like in the 60s. No improvement.
     Malaysia without NEP? Look at Thailand and Singapore. Do i need to say anything more? To those who still thinks we are better than Thailand, just go there and see for yourself.

207. to somewhat, i would agree with iammalaysian’s views.

208. For all your singing praises on the NEP and the other pro-bumi government policies that you had put in place during your reign as PM, I just wonder why you cried at UMNO national conference on 22 Jun 2002 and announced your sudden resignation?

209. Dear Tun,
     You said ‘Think of what would be the situation in Malaysia today without the NEP’
     I said ‘if without NEP the gap between singapore and Malaysia GDP would be narrow, at least not at current SG:MY, USD30,000:USD 5,000. about 6 times different’.
     The NEP only applicable in the context of grown economic and with 20 years timeframe. That mean if the economic grown 7% per year, out of the 7% will assigned according to the NEP. If there is no grown or economic stand still, there is no NEP.This is not social contract but is black & white agreement. Does the gov honous this agreement when implementing NEP ? After 1990, the gov continue the NEP with different name National Economic Policy without expiry date.
     How do you expect others to honous the so called ‘social contract’ that you mentioned earlier but choice to ignore the NEP agreement ?

210. if u r reading this….
     i want u to know that i hate you….
     tq…

211. salam tun,
     i agree with you totally. wish you would make a comeback. country in total mess now

212. salam Tun,
     It’s good to see you back to your biting best.Without the NEP the Malays would be left too far behind to catch up with the other races in many spheres of life,especially the chinese.
     I fully respect the chinese for their hardworking attitude,business sense and I feel that we Malays have a lot to learn from them in business.
     But never look down on us or imply that we are an ignorant and lazy race (as some bloggers here boast…you are just being racist to the highest degree) rest assured that in this evolution process we will slowly but steadily get better in business and someday get the due respect from other races.We are beginning to show traits of being business savvy and learning from past mistakes.We are starting to throw away our ‘subsidy’ mentality and learn to stand on our own two feets.
     Our generation now is technically competent,thanks to the NEP and we look forward to venture into areas long associated with other races.
     We’ll see what the future brings.
     God willing we will succeed,
     Wassallam.
     Jeng3

213. sungguh keji CSI Malaysia mengigit tangan yg sudah memberi.. ur nobody boy, kerana jika kau ditakdirkan memimpin sudah tentu kau lebih teruk dari yg lebih teruk..
     sungguh malang, sy katakan tun, spt raja petra pernah tulis lah, jika melayu itu dihentam, tiada isu racial atau prasangka baik akan dinyatakan, namun jika bangsa lain dihentam aka dikritik, kita dikatakan tidak baik.
     terus terang sy katakan tiada guna jika kemajuan NEP, pembangunan modal insan atau apa2 program pun jika kita memberi muka kepada biznes yg terang2 haram(arak etc) kerana ia memberi impak kolektif kpd semua termasuk yg tidak bersalah.
     kenapa perlu diberi muka kpd budaya tidak sihat..
     kerana ianya akan mengigit tangan org yg memberi..

214. salam …saudara sering kali dikatakan orang kita bangsa melayu lemah.. lekeh, ibarat menumpang di negeri sendiri.. tapi kenapa saya tengok suara-suara yang berkata sedemikian itu datang dari mulut kita sendiri.. x panas kah telinga kita.. tapi bila bangsa lain yang bersura sedemikian kita kata mereka tak sadar diuntung, keluar semua hak istimewa orang melayu, dan yang sewaktu dengannya…Pernah kedengaran kala mantan PM Tun Dr. Mahathir berkata lebih kurang begini; ” kalau dicabut semua bangunan di bandaraya, kita( orang Melayu) hanya ada Kampung Baru..Soalannya sampai bila kita nak merempat di negeri sendiri…
     Pada saya kita tak perlu lagi nak bertelaga sesama kita…cari formula kita untuk sama sama untuk menegak maruah bangsa…
     hilangkan salah faham dan ideologi politik…
     ulangilah keagungan Tamadun Melayu seperti Kesultanan Melaka dahulu.. biar ia bermula semula..dan lebih baik dari itu…
     Biar bahasa kita jadi Lingua Franca semula…
     jadikan jepun sebagai model yang memartabat bahasa mereka…
     Wasalam bangsaku..

215. salam …saudara sering kali dikatakan orang kita bangsa melayu lemah.. lekeh, ibarat menumpang di negeri sendiri.. tapi kenapa saya tengok suara-suara yang berkata sedemikian itu datang dari mulut kita sendiri.. x panas kah telinga kita.. tapi bila bangsa lain yang bersura sedemikian kita kata mereka tak sadar diuntung, keluar semua hak istimewa orang melayu, dan yang sewaktu dengannya…Pernah kedengaran kala mantan PM Tun Dr. Mahathir berkata lebih kurang begini; ” kalau dicabut semua bangunan di bandaraya, kita( orang Melayu) hanya ada Kampung Baru..Soalannya sampai bila kita nak merempat di negeri sendiri…
     Pada saya kita tak perlu lagi nak bertelaga sesama kita…cari formula kita untuk sama sama untuk menegak maruah bangsa…
     hilangkan salah faham dan ideologi politik…
     ulangilah keagungan Tamadun Melayu seperti Kesultanan Melaka dahulu.. biar ia bermula semula..dan lebih baik dari itu…
     Biar bahasa kita jadi Lingua Franca semula…
     jadikan jepun sebagai model yang memartabat bahasa mereka…
     Wasalam bangsaku..

216. salam …saudara sering kali dikatakan orang kita bangsa melayu lemah.. lekeh, ibarat menumpang di negeri sendiri.. tapi kenapa saya tengok suara-suara yang berkata sedemikian itu datang dari mulut kita sendiri.. x panas kah telinga kita.. tapi bila bangsa lain yang bersura sedemikian kita kata mereka tak sadar diuntung, keluar semua hak istimewa orang melayu, dan yang sewaktu dengannya…Pernah kedengaran kala mantan PM Tun Dr. Mahathir berkata lebih kurang begini; ” kalau dicabut semua bangunan di bandaraya, kita( orang Melayu) hanya ada Kampung Baru..Soalannya sampai bila kita nak merempat di negeri sendiri…
     Pada saya kita tak perlu lagi nak bertelaga sesama kita…cari formula kita untuk sama sama untuk menegak maruah bangsa…
     hilangkan salah faham dan ideologi politik…
     ulangilah keagungan Tamadun Melayu seperti Kesultanan Melaka dahulu.. biar ia bermula semula..dan lebih baik dari itu…
     Biar bahasa kita jadi Lingua Franca semula…
     jadikan jepun sebagai model yang memartabat bahasa mereka…
     Wasalam bangsaku..

217. salam …saudara sering kali dikatakan orang kita bangsa melayu lemah.. lekeh, ibarat menumpang di negeri sendiri.. tapi kenapa saya tengok suara-suara yang berkata sedemikian itu datang dari mulut kita sendiri.. x panas kah telinga kita.. tapi bila bangsa lain yang bersura sedemikian kita kata mereka tak sadar diuntung, keluar semua hak istimewa orang melayu, dan yang sewaktu dengannya…Pernah kedengaran kala mantan PM Tun Dr. Mahathir berkata lebih kurang begini; ” kalau dicabut semua bangunan di bandaraya, kita( orang Melayu) hanya ada Kampung Baru..Soalannya sampai bila kita nak merempat di negeri sendiri…
     Pada saya kita tak perlu lagi nak bertelaga sesama kita…cari formula kita untuk sama sama untuk menegak maruah bangsa…
     hilangkan salah faham dan ideologi politik…
     ulangilah keagungan Tamadun Melayu seperti Kesultanan Melaka dahulu.. biar ia bermula semula..dan lebih baik dari itu…
     Biar bahasa kita jadi Lingua Franca semula…
     jadikan jepun sebagai model yang memartabat bahasa mereka…
     Wasalam bangsaku..

218. Assalammualaikum,
     Semoga Tun dan keluarga dan semua bloggers dirahmati Allah hendaknya.
     Saya nak bercerita sikit tentang DEB / NEP ni. Ada seorang kawan saya ni, dia merupakan seorang penyokong kuat PAS dan PKR dan selalu kata yang DEB tidak adil kerana sebenarnya membawa keuntungan kepada mereka yang kaya raya sahaja, dan ianya semestinya dihapuskan kerana tidak mendatangkan manafaat kepada orang-orang bawahan seperti kami.
     Kami sering bertengkar kerana berbeza pendapat dalam hal ini. Bagi saya dia ternyata seperti “Kacang Lupakan Kulit”, manakan tidak, dalam pada dia beria-ia menentang DEB ni, dalam masa yang sama dia terlupa anaknya kini belajar di MRSM, ibubapanya adalah merupakan peneroka FELDA, cuba fikir dengan positif, kalau DEB dihapuskan apa jadi??? Bolehkah anak-anak Melayu kita berentap di arena pendidikan, bilamana memandangkan keadaan ekonomi kita tidak setanding mereka. Penguasaan ekonomi mereka memang top, jadi mereka boleh hantar anak-anak mengikuti tuisyen yang harga sejam je dah mencecah puluhan ringgit. Boleh ke kita???
     Saya selalu katakan padanya, jangan mudah terikut-ikut dengan kata-kata orang tanpa memikirkan tentang diri dan keluarga sendiri, kerana yang sibuk-sibuk sangat nak menghapuskan DEB tu, semua nyata-nyata dah dapat kaut untung dari DEB itu sendiri. Mereka dah kaya raya, hasil dari peluang yang diberikan melalui DEB, so sekarang ni tanpa DEB pun dia boleh harungi cabaran apapun apatah lagi dengan “sumbangan” dari agensi-agensi US dan Yahudinya….
     Tapi bagi kami yang tak seberapa ni??? Apa nak jadi kalau DEB dihapuskan. Bagaimana kami nak tempuhi masa depan, ini bukan bermaksud yang kaum Melayu ni jenis suka tadah tangan, spoon feeding atau sebagainya… Tapi kami perlukan sokongan dan bantuan bagi membolehkan kami bersaing dengan bangsa lain. Dari segi ekonomi dah memanglah Melayu ketinggalan jauh ke belakang, tapi berilah kami peluang pendidikan berbekalkan apa yang DEB perjuangkan.
     JAngan dok fokus dalam hal projek tu, projek ni je… Bila DEB beri peluang dan ruang kepada orang Melayu untuk melangkah jauh dalam bidang pendidikan, boleh belajar tinggi-tinggi, maka secara tidak langsung adalah peluang untuk kita meningkatkan taraf ekonomi orang Melayu…
     Kalau dah DEB dihapuskan… Cuba lah fikir, boleh ke orang Melayu pergi jauh kalau kebanyakan syarikat-syarikat swasta dimiliki oleh orang Cina… Bolehkah mereka memberi peluang yang adil kepada bangsa kita??? Sebagaimana mereka mahukan keadilan bagi bangsa mereka??? Bilamana salah satu syarat untuk bekerja dengan syarikat mereka mesti pandai berbahasa Mandarin?? Adil kah itu??? Itu belum lagi diteliti dari segi perbezaan gaji, walaupun taraf pendidikan dan dedikasi kita jauh lebih tinggi dari mereka, diskriminasi nyata wujud dan ketidakadilan itu amat ketara… Itu ke yang kita mahu???
     Tepuk dada tanya selera….
     Semoga DEB terus dipertahankan…

219. assalamualaikum & good morning to all bloggers……
     sebenarnya isu DEB ni takkan berbangkit kalau masing2 sedar diri tu siapa. pada bangsa2 bukan melayu yang ada kat sini macam cina & india cuba u all bayangkan u all suma bumiputra duk kat negara cina ngan india. pastu kami orang melayu jadi pendatang dan lebih kurang sama ramai bilangannya dengan penduduk sana. dan kami pulak atas penjajah yang awal2 lagi dah buatkan kami jadi peniaga dan jadi lagi kaya dari korang semua. abis tu korang nak duk diam dan tumpang senang atau mintak sedekah dengan bangsa pendatang macam kami ni?
     dah tentu tidak kan? abis tu korang nak buat apa? nak halau kami yang dah jadi warganegara korang? nak tetak kami suma sampai mampos? dah tentu la kerajaan korang kena ubah sistem jadi lebih kurang DEB ni kan? ni pendapat aku yang tak sekolah tinggi je. tapi ade logik jugak kan? pada bangsa2 melayu yang tak dek untung tu…..tunggu la satu hari DEB dihapuskan. baru la korang tau langit ni tinggi ke rendah…..
     lu pikir la sendiri…..
     assalamualaikum…….

220. Salam Tun.
     Let me respond to the arguments from bloggers like “crazyidiot”, “CSI M.” and the rest ….
     Once upon a time, 3 good friends decides to open a business. Ali, Ah Chong and Muthu set up a transport company. They fork up equal shares each, no more, no less. At first, their business only concentrate on private sector. So Ah Chong takes care of finance & admin, Muthu takes care of operations while Ali takes care of marketing.
     Their business turned out ok and they are thinking for an expension.They decided to venture into government sector. So, they formed a new subsidiary company fronting Ali as a majority share holder in order to obtain a bumi status company registered with MOF.
     Each of them still carry on their duties as agreed way back.
     Through the years, Ah Chong and Muthu became richer and richer without Ali realising it. Do you know why?
     Ah Chong takes care of finance and admin. He always decide on how the business runs. He purchase office equipment & stationaries from his relative, “Wah Liao Office Supply”. He bought the lubricant, tyres, batteries for their trucks from “Tan Poh Parts & Services”, he tailored the workers uniform at “Lee Tailor”, tax service from “Weng & Co”, account audited by “Lim Management”, Banking at “OCBC”, bought new trucks from “Ong Automobile”, built the trucks body at “Chan Engineering”. Buy motor vehicle insurance from “Chin Insurance Services” . In other words he controlled everything and kaotim accordingly.
     Muthu on the other hand, always buy used / 2nd hand parts from “Vellu Keling Botoi”, gets towing from “Samy Towing services”, repairworks done by “Subramaniam Workshop”, office cleaning & sewerage services from “Shri Cleaning Service”, sold scrap at “Manickam Scrap yard”, and the list goes on. And most important, he benefited from it.
     While Ali, still work and get paid as a working director. He could never recommend any friends to do business with because everything was taken care by his two partners. Sometimes he thought of bringing the matters up during the board meeting but always hesitated when thinking of the friendship they had built.
     Each time Ali manage to secure tenders, his partners will jump joyfully. So does their cronies. Ali is a proud man carrying an executive director title. Yet, he is no richer than his partners.
     He never felt used or cheated, eventhough his partners was laughing to the bank.
     Now, who do you think benefit the most from NEP? Pls, keep you eyes and ears open wide and THINK !

221. Dear Tun,
     The Malay is ready with other races. Let move & work together toward unity regardless the priorities. I believe many of us really wanna to see this and be part of it as ONE NATION, it is absolutely what you have been trying to put together since day one. I’ve no doubt that the malay, chinese, indian & alls love this country so much.
     Let start it NOW, before the present Political screen drown us all without trace.
     SAM (Saya Anak Malaysia)

222. I believe NEP concept is a success. However I doubt it now as the people implementing NEP use it for their own advantage.

223. totally agree in your last paragraph

224. Salam Tun dan semua,
     Izinkan saya memebri sedikita pandangan mepada koen beberapa peminat Tun.
     1. Nasib bukan bumi di bawah DEB
     Malaysia bukanlah negara kaya.Kalau lah nak bagi adil maka kena adil kepada semua kaum termasuk pendatang Indon, Filpina, Myanmar ,BanglaDesh dan lain2 lagi. Apakah kriteria memohon rakyat Malaysia? Mereka yang bukan rakyat Malaysia yang tinggal lebih 20 tahun tak ade hak ke? Mereka pun manusia juga!Jadi berapa tahun boleh dikatakan ada hak di Malaysia? 50 tahun ? Dua generasi?
     Yang sebenarnya negara Malaysia ni menerima bebanan tanggungjawab membela nasib bukan pribumi yang sepatutnya ditanggung oleh negara asal mereka. Maka disitulah adanya takrif Melayu dan bumiputera dan lain2 lagi! Maka disini lah dikatakan perlunya DEB untuk mempertahankan hak istimewa bumiputera. Negara2 lain lain tak ada DEB kerana mereka tak beri perhatian kepada bukan peribumi.Sebab depa diam2 sebenarnya tak iktiraf hak bukan peribumi. Kalau ada pun sedikit peratusan saja berbanding Malaysia!
     Bagaimanapun, saya kasihan kepada bukan Bumi yang terpinggir dengan DEB. Tetapi saudara semua sediamaklum, kaum bukan pribumi di Malaysia masih lebih baik berbanding dengan negara2 lain termasuk di negara2 maju.Kecuali US lah yang ada “US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission” ! Sebab tu orang putih US (bekas jajahan Eropah) ni rasa inferior dan serba bersalah. Jadi depa jaja polisi opportunity” seluruh dunia. Salah satu negara yangs edang ikut polisi “Equal Opportunity” ialah Singapura(pada kertas kot!). Mungkin lepas ni Malysia kot kalau Pakatan Rakyat memerintah, kunco2 US dah ada dah!Cuma tunggu masa kot!
     Bagaimanpun kerajaan BNasional haruslah menyediakan peruntukan/dana(“fund” la kalau tak tahu Bahasa Malaysia)orang MISKIN di kalangan bukan bumi. Orang MISKIN saja bukan untuk semua . Peruntukan ini harus dikawalselia oleh sebuah agensi atau unit di bawah Jabatan Perdana Menteri.
     2. Orang Melayu Yang Tak Sokong DEB
     Kalau dengan DEB pun ramai bumiputera sussah nak berdikari, nakan tanpa DEB boleh ke merea berdikari? Baru kerajaan nak uji tahap berdikari bumiputera dengan guna Bahasa Inggeris untuk Sains dan Matematik, dah melenting2 bumiputera Melayu. Kata tak de jati diri tapi sebenarnya tak reti Bahasa Inggeris kerana belum pasti boleh berdikari? Belum test yang lain lagi!
     Bagi orang2 Melayu yang tak sokong DEB saya cadangkan mereka janganlah menerima peluang2 yang ada jika ditawarkan kepada mereka berdasarkan status bumiputera. Keikhlasan dan pengorbanan saudara untuk menolak status bumiputera ini dapat menolong bumiputera lain yang amat berkehendakkan faedah DEB. “Tangan memberi lebih baik dari tangan meminta” .
     Tetapi saudara yang tak setuju DEB, janganlah tentang dasar2 kerajaaan yang mirip DEB kerana ramai bumiputera masih memerlukan DEB.
     Saya harap saudara semua dapat memahami dan menghayati DEB. Mohon maaaf jika tersinggung.

225. Hi Tun yang dikasihi,
     I never mis ur writing. It seems that I already addicted 2 it. Tis is my first comment and I wanna u to know that I really appreciate 4 what u have done 2 tis beloved country. Dont stop writing, pen out all ur thought and I feel so close 2 u.
     Take care.

226. Salam semua,
     Saya jadi pelik dan heran kerana ada orang meminta TUN berkempem untuk UMONO di permatang Pauh..
     “Abu Bakar berkata, jika calon BN dapat memenuhi ciri-ciri tersebut, “peluang untuk menang adalah 50-50”.
     “Lebih baik jika pucuk pimpinan BN memanggil Tun Dr Mahathir (Mohamad) membantu kempen calon BN kerana beliau boleh menjelas perkara sebenar mengenai Anwar.
     “Masalah yang berlaku di kalangan pemimpin Umno bahagian ialah mereka berbalah sesama sendiri hendak menjadi calon dan ini yang menyebabkan Umno lemah.
     “Bila tidak terpilih, mereka meminta konco-konco supaya mensabotaj calon dengan menyokong pembangkang,” katanya lagi. ”
     – Apa kata peluang ni TUN ambil dengan menawarkan diri untuk bertanding degan Anwar atas apa2 tiket, tak kisah lah BN ka or Parti Bebas ka apa2.. Yang penting TUN lawan… untuk masuk balik dalam parlimen…
     Demi Rakyak Tun… Tolonglah…
     Kami penduduk permatang pauh perlukan pemimpin macam TUN….

227. Aslmkm Tun……….. sememangnyer kehidupan kini semakin sukar terutama mereka di kampung-kampung. Semasa Tun di tampuk pemerintahan jarang kedengaran rungutan dan keluhan rakyat yang rajin dan dedikasi. Pada masa kini rajin dan dedikasi bukan lagi modal mencapai kejayaan sebab hak mereka telah dirampas oleh ramai kroni Pak Lah yang lalai tu……….Wslm

228. NEPOTISM IN DISGUISE:
     UMNO IN TUN’S TIME STARTED THE NO CONTEST FOR THE POSITIONS. YOU APPONTED PAK LAH AS YOUR SUCCESSOR. TODAY, THE CURRENT LEADERS FIND THIS IS THE MOST SUITABLE FOR THEM TO MANTAIN THEIR PERSONAL INTERESTS IN THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE COUNTRY. RAFIDAH NOW FOLLOWS SUIT BY CONTESTING IN THE NEXT PARTY ELECTION BUT SURRENDER HER ‘ALREADY WON’ POST LATER TO SHARIZAT. CLEARLY THIS IS NEPOTISM OF THE HIGHEST ORDER IN DISGUISE.
     TUN. YOU STARTED IT. NOW, YOU ARE NOT HAPPY WITH IT. MAY BE YOUR CONSCIENCE HAS BOTHERED YOU.

229. Permatang Pauh Voters decide for Nation? – Appeal by Nostradamus.
     Pengundi Permatang Pauh tentukan untuk Negara? – Rayuan oleh Nostradamus.
     1. Voters of Permatang Pauh will vote come 26 August 2008. Who to vote for and What to vote for?
     Pengundi-pengundi Permatang Pauh akan undi menjelang 26 Ogos 2008. Mengundi Siapa and mengundi untuk Apa?
     2. 50 Questions to test your Conscience at http://www.patek1472.wordpress.com
     50 Soalan untuk menguji Suara Hati anda di http://www.patek1472.wordpress.com

230. assallammuallaikum YB TUN,
     ini lah, cakap salah, tak cakap pun salah, jadi semua-semua timbul bertimbun-timbun masaalah,jadi siapa salah?,….takpalah….segera lah………baik pulih lah……susah lah

231. I wish to say thanks to Tun & previous leaders. My late father also admired you so much.
     As usual, you can’t please everyone, even prophet Muhammad couldn’t please everyone, especially his enemies and the munafiqun. So I guess you’re on the right track.
     Thank God we had had a leader like you. May the leaders that follow have the wisdom like you.
     Ian, SA

232. Why?

233. YAM Tun,
     Sir, you help our people…
     Your critics can say what ever they like…
     The most important thing is….YOUR NAWAITU…when helping them..
     that’s all that counts…and that’s all that matters…
     Your people have judged you…..
     You won your party elections…
     People have judge you…
     The Government you led won elections…
     Your deeds, sir……..
     Let ALLAH be the Judge to that…

234. Assalamualaikum ayahanda Tun…
     Semoga penjelasan ayahanda membuka pemikiran orang-orang yang tak faham atau pura-pura tak faham dengan DEB.
     AAB tidak pernah memperincikan tentang DEB sebagaimana ayahanda Tun..agaknya dia tak tahu kut…
     1.Apa komen ayahanda Tun tentang UMNO PJ Selatan yang membuat laporan kepada BPR terhadap Perdana Menteri dan Timbalan Perdana Menteri…
     2.Siapa yang layak bertanding di Permatang Pauh itu untuk menentang Anuar Ibrahim..
     Usah layan jer si Nuar tu..WAH!!!! kebelakangan ni si Nuar tu bukan main lagi..hari-hari muka masuk TV..tambah naiklah toncetnya..macam-macam hentam…saya percaya kalau si NUAR jadi PERDANA MENTERI…dia lebih teruk daripada AAB..yang bezanya AAB ni tak berapa nak cerdik bila bercakap..tak layak terima walau 1 bintang, si Nuar terlebih cerdik bila bercakap..memutar belit fakta untuk kepentingan dirinya..

235. Salam TUN,
     Kadang-kadang terfikir, hikmahnya ada blog Chedet sebab banyak pendedahan diutarakan yang mungkin kita tak tahu kalau TUN tak open Blog.
     Untuk CSI,
     Saya doa kepada Allah moga dibukakan hatinya menyedari dan dapat membezakan yang benar dan yang batil.
     Untuk rakyat Malaysia, kita kena fikirkan bersama apa yang patut kita buat supaya adab sopan, sayangkan negara sebati dalam setiap individu warganegara Malaysia dan bukannya hanya menjadi manusia yang sentiasa tidak berpuashati dan memporak perandakan masyarakat.
     Sekian

236. Well siad CSI,But the truth are never accepted and like blowing the trumpet into a deaf’s ear.
     With NEP pun cannot succed and the products are inferior products and the government are willing to compromise with such finishing.
     Thanks to the tax payers for doing good deeds for financing the lower grade and end up as rubbish at the govt depts and at chinese owned firms.Nak sack pun tak boleh,Tak apalah makan gaji buta sahaja lah.
     You are good CSI AND BOLD.

237. Salam Tun,
     I remembered when you were PM, you cried. Tun menangis kerana mendapati kalian Melayu masih enggan melepaskan tongkat-kerajaan untuk mara ke depan. Tun keras menasihati kita semua bahwa satu hari nanti, persaingan hebat dari Global Village terlalu kuat untuk kaum Melayu bertahan sekiranya dah biasa dengan pertolongan kerajaan.
     Below – Regime Paklah meletakan harapan cukup besar atas Kuwait datang melabur in Malaysia. Artikel dibawah melapurkan Kuwait telah dapat lubuk labur yang subur dalam negara Jepun. Konon nya kerana
     1. politik stabil tak macam kita SEK SEK dan SEK sahaja.
     2. transparency and accountable.
     Kuwait juga negara muslim. Kita negara muslim. Apa telah terjadi? Bangkit lah kita semua – jangan harapkan kerajaan dan tongkat dan apa nama, main perkauman. Sebab ia akan menghantar kita semua ke neraka.
     *** *** *** *** ***
     An Article from Money Morning Report dated 6-August-08
     Kuwait Triples Investment in Japan, Highlighting Sovereign Wealth Flight From U.S. Assets
     By Jason Simpkins
     Associate Editor
     The Kuwait Investment Authority (KIA), the oil-rich nation’s sovereign wealth fund, is planning to triple its investment in Japan to $48 billion, highlighting a global investment shift away from U.S. assets.
     The Kuwait sovereign wealth fund already has $15 billion to $16 billion invested in Japan, but Kuna, the nation’s state news agency, quoted Finance Minister Mustapha al-Shamali, as saying that the “KIA has an intention to double or triple its investment in the Japanese market.”
     That investment boost would follow Japan’s recent agreement with Kuwait to reduce – or end – double taxation on interest, dividends, and capital gains. Japan has similar agreements with about 60 countries, but the deal with Kuwait is the Asian nation’s first with a Middle-Eastern state, according to the Financial Times.
     KIA is currently invested in Japanese stocks and bonds, Shamali said, but is looking to expand into the nation’s real estate sector – and may also delve deeper into Japan’s stock market.
     As Money Morning has been reporting for some …

238. Yes, it is good that China will one day become a superpower and I am very proud of it too – as a Chinese. That goes too for India and I am glad it too will become a superpower.
     By the way, don’t be a katak, many businessmen friends I have are already having trading relationships with China, Singapore etc. Most with China, it is good money there if one is careful and knows the opportunities.
     We don’t have to return there, we can go anywhere. Today is global you know. We return here for rest and visit friends.
     Most make their money and keep outside the country – you know la to help the NEP. Not to have too much money in Malaysia to be counted as non-malay assets. Otherwise how can malays catch up with thousands of overseas Malaysian Chinese earning millions!
     Mind you, many of those top graders who are working overseas are earning many times more! My own niece is making in the region of 100000 pound sterling per year at the age of only 30!
     Actually Malaysian pay is very low compared to the West just like Indonesian pay is very much lower than Malaysian. So the lucky ones are enjoying their fruits of their labour.
     It is ok, we are helping to ensure NEP a success by decrease our percentage of wealth.

239. Viva Tun Berdua, terima kasih yang tak terhingga kerana telah memberi peluang kepada saya untuk menjadi berjaya dengan DEB yang Tun laksanakan secara bersungguh-sungguh. Saya telah berpeluang untuk melanjutkan pelajaran ke luar negeri sebanyak 3 kali. Tanpa DEB saya akan membantu Abah saya memandu bas MARA.
     Kepada ABI, Onlooker, Neil, OnesleepyEye dan yang sewaktu dengannya, saya sangat setuju supaya DEB dihapuskan sekarang.Tetapi jangan sebelah pihak saja la, kerajaan mesti menghapuskan semua halangan dan permit import dan monopoli yang kebanyakannya dipegang oleh Cina. So that the malays are free to import anything by them self, trade it among them self, and then we can see a real wealth and economic power of the Malay. We have been doing business long before the penjajah is here without the Chineese in Negeri negeri Melayu.
     By the way, Neil, when I was in USA, I have beaten all the Chinese from Mainland in my class(not just the Kononnya Cina Pandai from Malaysia), but I guess that is becouse the American must have given me the prefered treatment since I am a bumiputra.
     Dirgahayu Tun.

240. Yes. Better fly off whenever you feel not satisfy.
     What I do know is that with so-called special rights, Malaysia lost a lot of talented brains. Those well-off enough go overseas to study and stay there. The rest just make do. Some turn out to be successful and big businessmen. The rest may be on smaller scale but beside business, what can they do?
     With many families who had moved to a country that outwardly displays basic rights, it would be wiser the families who are still in Malaysia can really push themselves to get settled in Australia, from been regarded as second class citizens.
     With so many who had already established and became citizens of Australia, in all fairness they must pull the stranded families from the clutches of the evil and bigoted malay government.
     It is pleasing to the soul and heart to see success stories in this board, and hope many more can get out from the nightmarish and horrible daily events anyone have to go through been in Malaysia, that regards its other races as unimportant and not part of the fabric.
     Once again success comes from hard work and determination, and I know everyone has to go through to get the rewards, but in Malaysia there is no such thing for any to be successful from resolution, because it only favors one race and no one else.
     No matter how many times you tell your encounter abroad, they would just turn a deaf ear, continuing to practise their racial discriminatory policy.
     They are just like robbers. Time after time they’d said if you don’t give us what we want, violence is the only answer.
     Regretfully, there is no such thing as a free lunch in the real world. Whilst someone has to pay for it in the interim, everyone has to pay for it in the end.

241. The future of this Malaysia country is rather bleak if not doomed.
     Politicians here are living in their own twilight zone, harping on the success of this country, which I think very soon the northern neighbour Thailand will eventually overtake this country.
     For long years ago, the Malaysia prime minister was asked by Lee Kuan Yew, “Are you concern that there is a massive brain drain happening in the country, and most of them are Chinese?”
     Surprise surprise, the Malaysian counterpart told Lee Kuan Yew, “Let them go if they want to……….” That is the attitude of this country.
     They don’t realised that for a country to be prosper and advance, they need brains. That is why Singapore is doing all it could to attract brains all over the world. However it is different over here.
     Singapore does not have a national car and the world tallest building. For a small country, much smaller like Singapore, they still shine brighter.
     I think many fatal and non-fatal accidents are cause by Proton vulnerable car. Why do we have Proton? If not, we would be driving a brand new car at the price of a low. True!
     Well, Mahathir wanted it just like he wanted the Twin Towers – to let the world know we are here. It is like when people ask where is the Malaysia? We would use Singapore and Thailand to point out where we are – in the middle of it.
     Would you like to know the true fact about the malay language? There isn’t any in the first place. All the vocals are translated from all sorts of other languages like Tamil, English, Indonesian, Mandarin, Portuguese……….etc.
     Once upon a time, I have an Indonesian maid. When she started to work, she has only a working visa. Later she informed us that she got a “red IC” (citizens of Malaysia have blue IC) meaning she is a permanent resident. The last general election she was standing inline with me to cast votes and I did ask her, rather surprisingly elections are for citizens and why are you here. She just showed me her blue IC. Meaning to say she is a citizen.
     The other part of a story, a local woman married a professional from Australia. Due to our funny system, her husband cannot work in Malaysia because he could not obtain a permanent resident. They were happy to stay in this country of the environment and weather but because of the visa thingy, they went back to Australia.
     Now the story is, the bureaucrats would happily grant citizenship to those that are of the same religion (not Buddhist, Christian or Hindu) or the same race. I am not sure what is the policy of the country. Maybe the policy is to maintain labour intensive industry but not people with brains.
     I totally agree with emigrate. If given the chance to flee out of this country, I would do.

242. Tun,
     Please comment about the former chairman of Bumiputera Malaysia Finance (BMF) Lorrain Esme Osman speaks for the first time in more than two decades about the country’s biggest bank scandal and his trials and tribulations. For 23 years, he remained silent. Having served almost seven years at the Pentoville Prison and later at Brixton in the United Kingdom and at Stanley Prison in Hongkong, earning the dubious honour of Britain’s longest-serving remand prisoner, he never uttered a word. Now he speaks up the wrong doings under NEP weaknesses and failed policy.
     When Razak introduced the NEP, it had very noble intentions. The ASB is an example of genuine help to the Bumiputeras. Malaysians were just stumped as to what business was a novice bank like Bank Bumiputra (via its subsidiary) speculating in HK. Speculation seems to be our exalted one’s favourite past time as Forex losses were incurred because we speculated against the British pound.
     RM2 Billion in 1980 was a lot of money. Its probably the equivalent of RM8 Billion in today’s terms. No doubt it pales in comparison to RM25 Billion Forex losses in the 1990s but it shows how easy money can be mismanaged under the guise of the NEP.
     Was he used as a pawn in the protracted political battle between then prime minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad and Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah in the Eighties?
     He said that “I have no evidence of Mahathir’s involvement.”
     In 1986, a Commission of Inquiry headed by former auditor-general Tan Sri Noordin Ahmad established that what was going on in BMF was just “the tip of the iceberg”, implying that bigger hands were at play. The commission report was not tabled in Parliament and had limited public release – 2,000 copies at RM250 each. Noordin was ostracised by the Mahathir administration for his findings, where he was even accused of colluding with the Opposition.
     BBMB assistant general manager Jalil Ibrahim was sent to the then British colony to conduct an audit. According to court transcripts, on July 17, 1983, he told his staff that he was leaving to meet a “Datuk”. The next day, his body was found in a banana plantation outside Hongkong. The connection between Jalil’s death and BMF, and the unseen hands behind the collapse were never established.
     Rakyat cant help but wish that Lorrain’s interview would have been a lot more revealing. He was basically the fall guy and paid the price of his reputation. He should have used the opportunity to clear his name and set the record straight. Being a close pal of Tengku Razaleigh probably did not do him any favours at that time. But well done to Nades and Terence for this interview. The younger generation must understand the political and economical history of this country.
     That way, we either learn from it or become smarter so that we are able to cheat and deceive and not get caught.
     If there were those who expected him to exact vengeance on those who did him in, he perhaps embraced the adage: “love thy enemy and drive him crazy”.
     Alas, and like all other scandals in this august nation of ours, it will just remain just another brick in the wall.
     Who was the main culprits in NEP leads to BMF scandals unresolved today? Rakyat believed TUN owed a good explanation on this subject to clear his name under his past premiership mattter. Or more words from ex-prisoner, Lorrain to expose out the true stories in coming months?
     Rakyat need a GOOD ANSWER today ….InsyALLAH !

243. I can personally relate to those who choose to leave for greener pastures. As a local undergraduate, I am seriously contemplating leaving the country to somewhere where I could be given the best opportunity to grow and succeed.
     And why is that? Simply because time and time again I’d been denied my deserved and rightful places in either government scholarships or universities, whereas scores of ‘privileged’ people get offered courses because of the racial policies.
     I honestly see no future in staying and trying to change things. Who knows, maybe the love of my motherland would keep me here, but my patience is wearing thin.
     Maybe the Malaysia government should run a check on how many students in NUS and NTU now are Malaysians, rejected by local Malaysia education system. They were forbidden their opportunity even though they were the best of the best.
     Frankly, time and time again, the politicians and those in power have embarrassed Malaysia and its citizens. We are so much more capable to achieve bigger successes in the eyes of the world, but yet we aim for the short-term ones.
     Most of our Malaysia university courses are still in Bahasa Melayu and the embarrassing truth is that a large majority of our lecturers, including those with PhD and trained in English speaking countries, cannot speak and write proper English.
     Don’t believe me? Just go to UM and attend one of the professor inaugural lectures. Listen to the chairman introducing the speaker in English. Then you tell me whether it is fair to say, ‘Why can’t our local graduates speak and write proper English?’ Just for our local graduates? How about their lecturers in our local universities?
     Don’t blame the poor academics, not their fault as they are the wonderful products of our government lame policy – we reap what we sowed. Amen!
     Someday when 8 out of 10 Malaysians young adults shun our local universities – that is the heyday of Malaysians 2020 vision. Why? Disappointed students will leave our motherland to other countries for their higher education. And what Malaysia can offer? Better salary to woo them back? Yah RM1800 for local undergraduates?
     It really breaks my heart to see how dimwitted and shortsighted these supposedly ‘intellectual’ academics can become. Woe is Malaysia education going down the drain.
     Since NEP, the gap between Malaysia and Singapore deepen, and this clearly proves what Malaysia government has done so far. The main problem is the Umno warlords have abused the NEP to such an extent that the intended recipients, poor rural malays never reaped the benefits. Therefore they justified the retention of this policy.
     Sometimes I wonder, do these political bigwigs actually take us people as idiots or what? I’d really like to see a government that is competent and fair for a change, but that is not going to be possible if everyone conveniently forgets about all these dumb things, the government did – when they go to the polls in the next election and give them another overwhelming majority win.
     For the non-malays, who most of them were the best of their faculties in Cambridge, were not required to work off their bonds. They were told to just wait for six-months and they would be free. And now, they are i-bankers in London, New York and so on, without any real plan to come back Malaysia.
     The brain drain problem will continue on and on until those Umno warlords acknowledge their role in perpetuating the NEP as their personal cash cow.
     If you want further brain drain of local talents, keep the way as it was now. I shall stand tall and look down on you.

244. Well, it just appeared on the google page when I searched for racism subject this afternoon.
     I have been in New Zealand for 15 years and I have no intention to go back to Malaysia simply because there is an equal opportunity here for everyone, and I don’t feel less ranked in the society.
     I am not sure if I am part of the cream but I do have both bachelor and master degrees, and I am currently serving the New Zealand community.
     I love the place I was brought up in (Sungai Petani) and the memory I had when I was attending primary and secondary schools, but the way the Chinese and Indian people are treated by the Malaysia government is just flawed.
     I have no intention to go back, until I see a non-malay PM.
     Way to go!
     Let us celebrate the human spirit that strives against the odds! Persistence definitely bears fruits! And certainly they are sustainable and to cherishable!
     Universal truths!
     One got to be prepared to look for challenges, in any areas of your interest, beyond the shores of Malaysia.
     Malaysia’s economy is very small and unsophisticated. Australia’s economy is bigger than all of the South East Asia countries combined. Imagine Europe and USA!
     To be sure, I see this syndrome with our people. I see many non-malay Malaysians at Berkeley, Stanford etc, who got their first degree from Oxbridge but feel they need to further their studies.

245. She got 9As and chose to study in Sunway College. Look what our Malaysia public universities are attracting a bunch of monkeys making troubles. Hard to imagine our public universities becoming world-class rather going down the drain.
     For every good student out there, there would be ten others who have been:
     – denied places in local universities;
     – denied seats of their choice of courses;
     – denied scholarships of their applications;
     But the greatest grievance, insult and sin done onto them as equal citizens of this land is that they are forced to leave their homeland in order to further their ambitions.
     Let me tell you that, every year, there are thousands and thousands of Malaysians taking STPM (the most difficult exam in Malaysia) after finishing their SPM. These students, if they spend as much effort in London School of Economics from University of London, they all would have easily score distinction in every subject they are taking!
     It is unfortunate, but there exists a whole new generation of Malaysians making waves overseas who care nothing for the idea of making their homeland proud because their homeland has done very little to acknowledge or nurture their talents.
     True rewards only come to those who earn them, and you value most, that which you have worked hardest to achieve.
     Going about in life with the desire to “make our country proud” is irrelevant. Someone said that patriotism is but a tool used by the ruler to control the masses. We should no longer look at the world with the lens of a country anymore.
     We seem to take credit that someone who is not even a citizen anymore nor a Malaysian anymore achieves something great simply because he/she was born in Malaysia?
     As for racial lines, as long as our national leadership maintains that dividing line lopsided deals and opportunities that differentiates between races instead of poverty and wealth, says who belongs to what race and what religion and unequal treatment, these lines will continue to pop up at every opportunity.
     She should have stayed back in UK and worked there! Monkeys here won’t recognize her talent.

246. dearest unreplaceable Tun,
     this is indeed malay kingdom, but some malays think that they are ‘mat salleh’ from united kingdom. these people are the ‘si tanggang’ in the malay folklore. to the rest, why bother about NEP? we do what we want and best for us. do we rob anything from you? perhaps if you think that we treat you unfairly, try somewhere in the middle east, maybe you can get some of their oil rights too…
     i think we should do up like what our southern neigbour did to our brothers and sisters.. some were once like ‘si tanggang’ but some are not. look at them now. honestly, such a pity… ohh, i know that there’s no NEP for the other latter and the talks about ‘racial harmony’ is echoing all over. but in the ‘stealth mode’, what rubbish are you talking about?
     i hate to slam others about being ‘greed and cheaters’… because these people are everywhere in the globe. it’s their second to nature. but there’s one thing that i’m really sure of, the ‘worst’ ones are here in malaysia. yes, right here and right now. these ‘ungrateful’ and ‘unfaithful’ people is indeed walking among us.
     and also, the ‘hatred’ is being ‘inherited’, so they say. they are being passed ‘on and on’ to the other generations like ‘sowing the evil seeds of sorrow’. they are saying it clearly that NEP is biasing to us. but think deeply of what your ‘hidden agenda’ did in every aspect of your control and power. have you been good to us?
     i apologised to those that i’ve accidently offended. i do still believe that there are still good people among us, regardless of what race, religion and genre, that shares a good common vision and believe to move along forward. come on malaysians, let us be more mature and grow up.
     as to all ‘si tanggang’, we all know what happen at the end in the folklore. do you?
     by the way, does 51st merdeka celeberation means anything to you? the answer is ‘respect!’.
     warmest regards to Tun and family.
     suppie

247. Hi Tun,
     I believe it is the disparity of wealth that separates races apart and continues to create problem. When the Chinese migrated to Malaya centuries ago, they were poor as well. Starting from zero, just like the first Malay who settled on the land of now Malaysia. Everyone has a fair share to develop their own future. However, generations had passed. I am not biased towards Chinese, but Chinese are viewed as much more successful compared to Malays even though Chinese are not helped by the government. Why is there a difference? Is it because of the culture? Attitude? Behavior? Survival instinct? Is it because Chinese are born to be mean and greedy? If the Malays are capable, they would have dominated the economy decades ago. I am not here to insult other races, and as a Chinese, I do not mind being governed by other races as long as the government knows how to deal with disparities between races. I am not against government in helping bumiputeras, but I am annoyed when those who still fail after being helped by the government blame Chinese for being like a “robber”.
     “An orphan works hard for his future without the support from parents and eventually succeeds in buying a company from a failing business man, who used to be a rich child. The businessman then blames the orphan as a robber instead of his inability to save his own company.”
     Regards,
     Yeek

248. Dear Sir,
     I am just picking up some of your points and elaborate it as what I understand as a Malaysian. My answers might be provoking but my argument is logical to me and probably to many other’s, please advise me otherwise.
     2. I came in for virulent attacks because some Malays actually did well in business. They were all labelled my cronies whether they were indeed my cronies or not. Anyone who succeeded was immediately defined as my crony.
     Ans – This is completely unacceptable because I believe people like Ananda Krishnan, Vincent Tan, Robert Kwok and Lim Goh Tong also benefited a lot from the government. Is that cronyism?
     6. While most Bumiputeras who were given shares and opportunities to do business abused these opportunities, a few tried seriously and some of them succeeded. Obviously, these would be the people who should get more opportunities. Those who had abused their rights were also given second and third chances but as they continued to mess up their contracts and projects they were dropped out. Giving them more opportunities would simply be a waste. It would not help correct the economic imbalances.
     Ans – I completely agree with Tun, Many people were given 2nd and 3rd chances and they still failed and the government wasted billions on the pretex of “hope they will succeed”. Well it’s wrong to use tax payers money in order to find one good businessman out of one thousand. I think good businessman are not made, they were born with the art of business.
     8. Admittedly some of them failed and were dropped. The numbers who succeeded became smaller. As we cannot risk giving to failures, the few successful people seem to be getting all the Government contracts, privatisation projects and other business opportunities.
     Ans – Agreed, why waste money and hope miracle happens, give to the one who can perform. This people will start and complete the job without a hitch and eventually create many jobs for others.
     10. The number of successful Bumiputera businessman slowly increased. Angry that the NEP had actually succeeded in throwing up capable bumiputera businessmen and reducing racial imbalances the Western press and local opponents of the NEP began to label all the successful Bumiputera businessmen as cronies of the Prime Minister. It does not matter if the PM had never known these people, but if they succeed then they must be the cronies of the PM.
     Ans – I think the western media was not targeting the PM and his cronies but the NEP itself which they believe is unjustice.
     11. It would seem that the only way to avoid being accused of cronyism is to ensure that all Bumiputeras fail in business. Better still the NEP should be made to fail completely.
     Ans – Well, nobody can stop someone who wants to fail and there’s no stopping for the one who wants success, even without NEP, I think there will be many bumiputra who will be millionaires and billionaires. Success is not in what you get as handouts, it is what you desire and working hard towards it.
     14. When May 13th 1969 occurred they congratulated themselves as what they had predicted seemed to have happened. But the three races in Malaysia worked out their own solution and Malaysia once again stabilised and went on to grow and prosper.
     Ans – Thank You sir, the statement shows that the 3 races are civilized and their love for peace and harmony still very much intact in them.
     15. Despite dire predictions about the unfairness of the NEP affirmative action and cronyism, Malaysia continued to grow strongly and noticeable improvement was made in reducing the disparities between the races. The target of becoming a developed country by 2020 seemed achievable.
     Ans – I thought vision 2020 is to make Malaysia a developed nation as a whole and not reducing the disparities between bumi and non-bumi. Please explain sir?
     16. When the financial crisis caused by rogue currency traders took place, Malaysia remained calm and peaceful. The Malays did not blame the Chinese as happened in other countries. Apparently the Malays were quite satisfied with their share of the nation’s wealth after the NEP. The Chinese did not blame the NEP either.
     Ans – Majority of the contracts and projects are given to bumiputra companies, they give the jobs to non-bumi and cash out their small portion as commissions. They will try to secure another contract and do the same. How can the bumi and non-bumi complain or blame each other, NEP seems to be fair to all Malaysian.
     25. They have also gone into management, obtaining MBAs from well known universities such as Harvard and Philadelphia. Armed with these qualifications they have been employed as management executives at all levels. Some actually head multinational companies.
     Ans – I agree with the idea of free primary and secondary education, modern schools, many universities and of course thousands of graduates. This shows that the country is moving towards a developed and educated nation. We have the quantity but do we have the quality? A non-bumi probably need’s to score 4A’s or 5A’s to enter Medical faculty wheareas a bumi can enter with 1A, 4B or 5B. Both will graduate as doctors but obiviously the guy who scored 5A is a deserving doctor and will be an outstanding doctor and most of us would prefer to consult him if we have a medical complications. I will do that, will you sir?
     26. In the education field the NEP has been very successful. It has helped to correct the imbalances not only in the professions but also in business. Strangely Malays have become very successful bankers.
     Ans – That’s very strange, probably because he is deputy prime minister’s brother.
     28. So think again whether the NEP simply enrich the cronies of the PM and Government.
     Ans – NEP is for all Malaysian, even the Chinese and Indian’s are benefiting from it un-officially.
     29. Think of what would be the situation in Malaysia today without the NEP.
     Ans – We might not have the quantity but we would certainly have quality but to achieve vision 2020, we need quantity.
     30. If there is still doubt then do a survey of all the contracts and scholarships given by the private sector and work out how much they have contributed toward eliminating disparities between races, and who would be the poor in this country.
     Ans – Lets not go into that, we all love our country and happy with what we get even though it’s the dropping’s from the big boys and cronies. We will still collect it and turn it into gold because we have no other option’s or handouts, just hard work.
     Have a good day,
     Thank You.
     Captain……
     http://captain-r.blogspot.com

249. Salam Tun,
     Kepada semua pembangkang NEP, cuba lihat saja di negara jiran kita Singapura? Berapa ramai Melayu yang dipinggirkan? Cuba check dalam pentadbiran negara mereka. Berapa ramai Melayu yang memegang jawatan tinggi? Dalam askar jangan haraplar nak pegang jawatan besar.

250. agree with you Tun. i am one of the lucky bumi being accepted in one of the junior colleges in late 70s. i grew up during your time. i have worked with various people, foreigners and local non bumis. even at one time i was thinking i was accepted in a non bumi company maybe because of to fill the quota of bumi. later i realized i was accepted because i did well, even better than the non bumis. now i’m being posted overseas. NEP has given me the opportunities to improve myself, my self confidence and my family, without it, my parents didn’t have the funds to further my education in the early days. thanks to you and earlier PMs. and i’m not your crony, just one of the results of your vision.

251. Dear Tun,
     Everything happens for a reason. Before a doctor prescribes medicine, he diagnoses the illness first. There must be reasons why the non-bumis generally outperform the bumis in the economy. Money doesn’t come from the sky. The non-bumis don’t excel because of help from the divine. The law of nature rewards those who perspire, and punishes those who are reluctant to. The NEP, to some extent, brings disorder to this law of nature. The environment in which we conduct business is made inequitable.
     If racial harmony can only be achieved when those who don’t deserve the reward are rewarded, it is superficial and fragile. Please note that the reward oftentimes is at the expense of those who more deserve it. This creates disincentive for the more capable and more deserving ones, who just happen to be in the wrong group, to produce more for the country. And I believe they are far more productive.
     It is the government’s responsibility to build schools and make education accessible to everyone, with or without the NEP. Schools can also be built without the NEP, perhaps, would be even more and better if under an open tender system. The bumis, as well as the non-bumis, can have access to higher education if they wish to, if the government cares about increasing the capacity and the quality of local universities. It does not require that the non-bumis be placed at a disadvantage. It does not require the NEP.
     Poor people are poor for a reason. If they are always aided, it is hard to drive them out of their comfort zone. On the other hand, those who are put in adversity often prevail in the end, if they adopt the right attitude. How many successful people hadn’t gone through struggles before? They most likely had, and they had earned their success. When success is given and not earned, it is most likely transitory.
     The concept of closing the economic gap between the bumis and the non-bumis is good only when the “help” is made conditional and proper mechanisms are in place to punish those who abuse their power. Those who came and realized their quick and easy money should not be left unpunished for they had deprived the more deserving ones of valuable opportunities.
     Pat.

252. It is abundantly clear that the politics of race has slowly and surely brought to this country to the brink of disaster.
     We are a nation divided, kept from strength by divisive policies that constantly remind us of our differences rather than our similarities and, in doing so, breed distrust and weakness.
     We have been reduced to nothing more than representatives of our different ethnic communities.
     Instead of being husband, father, wife, mother, child, lawyer, artist, accountant, doctor or public intellectual, we are instead Malay, Chinese, Indian or other, the value we can each add to this society limited by the box that keeps us in our respective categories.
     Though this may serve political interests, “divide and rule” having always been a useful strategy for ensuring dominion, it does not serve our interests and those of the nation.
     The NEP was intended to address disparities in income levels between the primary ethnic groups even as it addressed poverty across the board.
     I believe that over the years political interests had gradually hijacked the policy, so much so that Ketuanan Melayu has come to define the social contract for some while others believe that affirmative action is a permanent privilege of birth notwithstanding the policy having led to the enrichment of a small elite at the expense of the wider community and the nation.
     Accepting that this is a contentious issue, consider instead where race based policies have left the nation and the malay community respectively.
     Where public education is concerned, although the policy has allowed for greater malay student intake into institutions of learning at all levels, admission quotas and declining standards in a mass assembly style education system have led to the production of graduates, malays and non-malays alike, who are simply not good or confident enough to do what it takes or sufficiently experienced to deal with multi-racial existence.
     This has been influenced to an extent by political objectives that have suborned quality to quantity and, in having permitted race based appointments of educators, subjected the education system to a cycle that undermines it.
     Seeing as how local graduates, diploma holders or school leavers form the bulk of the work force, in part due to more young Malaysians choosing not to return home after completing their studies abroad because they do not believe they can achieve the quality of life they aspire to here, this cannot be a good thing.
     It is no secret that the country faces a major human resource shortage.
     This has had serious implications. One of the more evident knock-on effects is the impact it has had on the civil service.
     It is an open secret that race has played a big role and continues to do so, in appointments and promotions, having resulted in a civil service made up almost entirely of malays, graduates of local universities and schools in the main.
     In time, it has come to be dominated by persons who are not sufficiently equipped with the skill, knowledge and experience to do what they have to, unlike their predecessors.
     The same can also be said of public institutions such as the judiciary.
     Appointments to the bench have largely been from the Attorney General Chambers or the judicial services and in this way the civil service experience, such as it is has found its way onto the bench.
     In all of this and more, race has figured very prominently, even though it should not have.
     It is not insignificant that of the ten Federal Court judges currently serving, eight are malays, as are fifteen of the twenty serving Court of Appeal judges and thirty-three of the forty-eight serving High Court judges, the overwhelming majority of them having been appointed from the civil service.
     This raises important questions. Though affirmative action may be a relevant consideration for us, what is the cost we will have to pay for it? Do we have to sacrifice our competitiveness and sustainability?
     I think not. There are ways in which the poor and the disadvantaged, malays and non-malays alike, can be assisted without having to sacrifice the competitiveness of the nation or the individual Malaysian right to be the best he or she can be.
     Creating the methods by which this can be done requires maturity, a consideration of what this country needs in the long run and above all, a jettisoning of political interests.
     Sadly, it would seem that the government has been incapable of this.
     Take the judiciary for instance. The prime minister has publicly admitted that we may not have the best persons for the job on the bench.
     It also appears as if race quotas have been imposed on appointments. How is it that that could have been permitted?
     The judiciary is a crucial institution, a cornerstone of democracy that requires the best minds to function as it was meant to.
     Leave aside the fact that the Constitution does not authorize such quotas for the judiciary, that justice can be served by reference to ethnic considerations defies logic and common sense.
     Justice is blind to all considerations, race and religion included.
     That the government was prepared to allow the judiciary to be subverted in this way is indication enough of how it is that other aspects of governance have been approached, especially those essential to the functioning of the pluralist democracy that Malaysia is.
     It is hardly surprising then that race relations has taken on an edge that it never had before.

253. Assalamualaikum Ayahanda Tun sekeluarga,
     Tkasih diatas fakta di atas,tiada apa yang kurangnya.
     Kepada “melayu2” yang dah lupa diri and to all anti NEP; kononnya produk NEP buat orang Melayu “less quality” or malas…migrate le ke negara lain…try China or Spore..tengok le pandai dorang ni smua kat mana…kalau jadi “somebody” pun, korang ni syok sendiri je la..
     Kalau buta mata bolehle berubat…
     Kalu buta hati maka banyakkan la berdoa dan bersukur…
     Yang mana “Melayu” tak sedar diri…bukak buku Tawarikh dulu2 dan mentelaah le…jangan sebab kononnya kualiti yang dicari maka bangsa tergadai…
     To nasirizal on August 6, 2008 5:45 PM.
     Way to go bro..
     Hidup Melayu!!!

254. Again, Tun has produced a clear and concise piece on a very important subject; this sould set the record straight for a lot of unweary Malaysians.

255. To Godfather,
     I am proud to be a crony of Dr. M!
     I am a product of NEP – went to a UK Medical school and was top student for the 1st 2 years and graduated with honours, thank you very much.
     If we are the truly mediocre people who got there just because of our skin colour then the Malay students wouldn’t have been the top students in any of the universities abroad coz they surely don’t subscribe to the NEP policy. I know that Dr. M’s good but don’t think his hands were involved in awarding me all those medals I won. By the way, the other Chinese students from Malaysia also did well but I’m afraid the Malays outperformed them – goes to show that on a level playing field we can do it too, if not better!!
     (I stayed on to get my post grad qualification and got into their specialist training program – in part because there were a few Malaysian Chinese doctors (3) there who were so arrogant and dismissive to their fellow countryman that I was determined to show them that I was their equal: one of them dropped out of the training program and is a non-practising MD holder, the other 2 are still serving the Mat Sallehs)
     I am now a servant of the Malaysian Government and treating all races without fear or favour.
     THIS IS HOW NEP HAS AND IS HELPING ALL THE POOR AND NEEDY IN MALAYSIA.
     By the way, I hate how people brazenly use the name of God in praying for another’s demise or bad fortune – please don’t hide behind or use religion (like Anwar Ibrahim) to cover up your evil heart. You guys give religion a bad name.

256. Tun,
     Because of NEP, getting a place to study Computer Science in a local University was not easy for non-bumiputra. So, in 1980, I managed to persuade my poor dad to borrow money (from his friend) to buy me a one way ticket to further my study in Canada.
     My plan to “work illegally” and to self-finance my 5 years study did not work out as employment was strictly not allowed during those years.
     So, I had to further burden my dad. I spent only about RM5,000 per year (others spent on average about RM11,000 per year) plus about RM4000 school fees per year, from 1980 to 1984.
     Interestingly, despite of his “financial suffering” to finance my 5-year stay in Canada, my dad did not even blame the government, he did not blame NEP. As a farmer, my dad knew and accepted the fact that NEP was designed to help bumiputra, after racial riots in 1969.
     My dad was a hard working individual, he always wanted peace and harmony, his little dependence on government help, until he passed away in 1996, was his greatest success.
     NEP has been successful but NEP needs to be reviewed and re-implemented properly.
     http://www.leading.com.my

257. Salam AYAHANDA RAKYAT TUN,
     Izinkan,
     By CSI Malaysia on August 7, 2008 1:29 AM
     Tun said NEP Policy is good …MY FOOT…..
     To CSI Malaysia,
     As a human with a weak brain and soul, we cud understand your frustration on the imperfect implementation of the NEP. Perhaps, you had some bad experiences during some of your endeavours in your miserable upbringing and luckless life.
     We would suggest you volunteer for admission as a patient into the WAD ‘ABI’ (Aggravated Brain Implant) for some ‘cleansing’ treatment on your troubled soul with love and respect and replaced the ‘virus’ infested brain of yours with good ‘virtues to enable you to think like what a normal human shud instead that of a moron.
     To our brader bloggers, please be immunized with the ‘SABAR’ serum to ‘shield’ yourself from acts of agitation by the patients in Wad ‘ABI’.
     We pray and hope the ‘psyco’ doctor will find the cure for these morons.

258. Dear Tun,
     Your conclusion on NEP’s real gain is true.
     Education indeed gain much from NEP. Plus, It is a strategic gain.
     No other gain can possibly bring the positive investment for the future education is able to provide.
     As a result of the success of education in producing professionals, it created a large proportion of middle-class population who is the main mover of the economy.
     Only from that, the nation has gained in education with higher and larger collection of knowledge,
     job creation with more FDIs wanting to take advantage of our skilled but moderately paid work force,
     politics with smarter people to run the country and making better long-term decisions and
     economic growth with consumers with more money and purchasing power to increase aggregate demand hence also aggregate supply. All in all, it means a long-term growth in our country.
     Moreover, it is not a ‘hentam keromo’ or ‘durian runtuh’ growth.
     It is a growth generated with knowledge and presumably wisdom in making strong and sustainable decisions.
     Hence, we are unlikely to fall as fast as we rise.
     Here, the 9 challenges of Wawasan 2020 is very important.
     We want to be rich and prosperous through our own way.
     Based on Eastern and Islamic values, not hedonism.
     Hedonism will creep in when we fail to have the maturity in managing our wealth and controlling our unwise desires.
     Our growth may be a bit slower but it is a strong and stable growth.
     It is better to be slow but strong than fast then fall.
     If not, we may not only lose the money but also lost control of the hand holding the money.
     “Biarkan bertatih
     asalkan langkah itu yakin dan cermat
     bagi memastikan negara
     merdeka dan bangsa terpelihara”
     Perjuangan Belum Selesai
     Dr. Mahathir Mohamad
     Mei 1996
     http://nazirulhazim.blogspot.com/

259. assalamu’alaykom!
     could having more universities helps?
     ummandrahmaan

260. In 1957, Malaysia had the second biggest per capita income after Japan, but now we are at the tail end among the front-rank developed nations in Asia.
     In 2005, Malaysia per capita income increased by only 17 times from 1967, as compared to South Korea which increased 100 times. Hong Kong 40 times, Singapore 45 times and Taiwan 60 times.
     Malaysia is far richer in natural resources than the other countries. Singapore for example has no forest, oil, palm oil, rubber, etc.
     The difference is in the development and utilisation of human resources. Malaysia has failed to make full use of the human resources in the country.
     The statistics indicate that Malaysia was competitive with the other countries up to 1967. Thereafter, the Asian tigers like Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan leapt forward to lofty heights.
     In 1966, the bumi policy was formally announced as a policy and in 1971, the New Economic Policy was launched. The various measures and regulations from these two policies slowed down economic growth considerably. Traders, businessmen, entrepreneurs, medium and small industries were put off by these policies.
     The reaction of international countries was negative, and many investors shied away from Malaysia. Foreign direct investments declined considerably to US$3.9 billion in 2006, whereas Asean countries had FDI of US$30 billion for Singapore, US$7.9 billion for Thailand, US$10 billion for Vietnam. China had US$70 billion FDI in that year.
     The New Economic Policy which compels reservation of 30% for malays in all economic activities has dampened investment interests of both foreign and local investors.
     With the launching of liberalisation policies in 1978, China leapt forward and it is on the way to become a world economic power by 2030.
     Malaysia too must implement global policies like liberalisation of all economic functions. Bumiputraism and New Economic Policy are the outdated measures, and must be replaced by more enlightened and pragmatic measures.
     If Umno stubbornly clings to old baggage policies, then it can be predicted that Malaysia per capita income will continue to lag behind the Asian tigers.

261. if u want malaysia to be fully developed by 2020, then NEP must go.
     but my thought is that you want malay to be developed by 2020, not malaysia in fact. too bad, there are quite many who did not appreciate. pls face the truth Tun!

262. To CSI Malaysia,
     Your foot stint! Big time, and it goes the same with your breathe.
     Why blame the system, blame on your brothers or sisters that become spoilt brat and they irritated you this much.

263. Salam Tun,
     I admire the way you have a logical and believable explanation to
     almost all subject matters !
     I would also like to state here on your blog that if not for the scholarship that my younger sister and I received from the Government, we would probably not be what we are today. We would probably not have set foot in England and Australia to pursue our studies in Law and Pharmaceutical Science/Pharmacy !
     Tun, I think this is my fifth or sixth posting, it would make me feel so honored if i were to receive a personal note/message/respond/whatever..etc.. from you in my email inbox. I have registered, you have my details….
     Rgds, MDB

264. DEB banyak dipertikaikan oleh pelbagai pihak selepas kira-kira 10 tahun dasar ini dilaksanakan.
     Sehingga hari ini masih tidak ada satu cara penilaian yang benar-benar dapat memberi ukuran terhadap kejayaan dasar ini, walaupun sudah 38 tahun.
     Semua pihak mempertahankan hujah masing, termasuk Ybhg Tun. Oleh itu, biarlah sejarah dan masa menentukan keberkesanan dasar ini…
     Sebagai insan yang cintakan negara dan keamanan, saya amat berharap semua pemimpin kita berfikir secara benar, bukanya berfikir secara betul, banyak perkara yang kita ingatkan betul, tidak semestinya betul belaka. Bantu kaum yang lemah atau ketinggalan dari segi ekonomi memang perkara yang betul, tetapi….
     Perkara yang benar dan betul yang harus kita lakukan ialah menjaga dan membantu golongan yang lemah, yang miskin dll yang bukannya mengikut kaum tetapi mengikut keperluan kumpulan sasaran…
     Oleh itu, dasar ekonomi baru (DEB) harus diberi konsep baru dan lebih menjurus kepada perkara-perkara yang benar, iaitu membantu golongan miskin ( tidak kira apa bangsa ), bukannya memperkayakan sesuatu kaum, itu tidak bermakna dan tidak membantu masa depan negara ini.
     Bagi menjamin kejayaan jangka panjang, perkara asas ialah golongan yang dianggap berjaya ini telah diuji, telah dilatih dan telah boleh berdikari dan sebagainya.
     Oleh itu, lihatlah perkara atau masalah yang pokok, ini termasuk masalah pekerja di ladang, golongan miskin di bandar, golongan tercicir dari pelajaran, golongan di kawasan pendalaman…..
     Oleh itu dasar ekonomi yang baru perlu menggantikan DEB, gantikan dengan nama Dasar Baru Ekonomi Nasional (DBEN)atau apa-apa nama yang sesuai.

265. Assalammualaikum,
     Ybhg TDM…..Saya adalah salah seorang kroni TDM, saya mendapat faedah dari ketegasan TDM melaksanakan NEP. Bapa saya adalah bekerja sendiri..tiada pendapatan tetap…Emak saya tidak bekerja…Duit dapur emak saya pada masa itu hanya RM 180 sebulan, kami kesekolah berjalan kaki tanpa sesen duit poket tapi ibu tanpa jemu membekalkan kami dengan air teh kosong serta 2 keping roti…Jika waktu hujan…kasut akan dibungkus dalam plastik agar tidak basah dan kami memakai sliper dalam perjalanan.
     Kemudian bapa saya diserang sakit jantung……menerima rawatan di ICU dan seterusnya diwad biasa……tinggal di hospital hampir sebulan…….dan apabila hendak discharge dari hospital…tertera di Kad beliau “PERCUMA”….Walaupun beliau bukannya pesara atau kakitangan kerajaan. Alhamdullilah syukur…..
     Atas kesungguhan perlaksanaan dasar NEP semasa pemerintahan TDM, seluruh ahli keluarga saya mendapat faedah….Abang saya mendapat peluang melanjutkan pelajaran Ke Jepun malalui program Dasar Pandang Ketimur…kakak saya melalui jalan yang lebih berliku dan bertingkat dalam pendidikan..namun akhirnya beliau berjaya menjadi Jurutera disebuah syarikat antarabangsa. Saya berjaya diterima memasuki MRSM (Maktab Rendah Sains ‘MAHATHIR”)….Makan minum tempat tinggal semuanya ditanggung bahkan duit poket dan tambang balik cuti semester diberi….Tugas kami hanyalah belajar dan belajar……dan akhirnya saya berjaya menyambung pelajaran diperingkat tertinggi dengan semuanya ditanggung oleh kerajaan.
     Mungkin ada yang berkata bahawa NEP menjatuhkan darjat institusi pengajian tinggi Malaysia kerana anak-anak Melayu berjaya masuk kerana dasar NEP dan kononnya bukan kerana keupayaan mereka………..buat mereka itu saya akan memberi contoh berdasarkan keluarga saya……Abang saya yang berjaya menyambung pelajaran ke Jepun, semasa pengajian beliau disana beliau berjaya menjadi salah seorang pelajar antarabangsa yang terbaik(Universiti jepun tak bagi extra point untuk pelajar Melayu)….Kakak saya berjaya menjawat jawatan sebagai jurutera di syarikat antrabangsa milik eropah(mereka tak amalkan NEP) dan saya semasa bekerja di syarikat milik USA telah menerima outstanding award bagi projek yang saya lakukkan(USA tak beri keistimewaan kepada anak Melayu)…….Apa yang saya cuba nyatakan bahawa anak-anak Melayu jika diberi peluang dan menggunakan peluang itu secara bersungguh-sungguh inshaallah akan berjaya berdiri sama tinggi dan duduk sama rendah dengan bangsa-bangsa maju lain didunia.
     Bangsa manakah diMalaysia yang menjadi miskin akibat NEP, bangsa manakah yang terpinggir akibat NEP…..Apabila syarikat Bumiputera mendapat kontrak kerajaan….berapa banyak spin effect yang memberi faedah kepada kontraktor bangsa lain.
     Saya pernah bertugas di Multinational Company di Pulau Pinang….berapa peratuskah pengurus-pengurus mereka terdiri dari orang Melayu…Berapa peratuskah kontraktor-kontraktor syarikat multinasional ini dari bangsa Melayu.Siapa yang menguasai purchasing deprt…Dalam lapuran syarikat akan menunjukkan bahawa majority pekerja adalah bangsa Melayu….yah kerana mereka ini adalah pekerja kolar biru……Tujuan saya menyatakan perkara ini adalah agar pembaca faham bahawa jika kerajaan tidak mengimbangi pengambilan bumiputera disektor awam maka bumiputera akan terus terpinggir….Berapa peratus kontrak syarikat MNC yang diberi kepada orang Melayu??
     Ada sesiapa yang menghibuhkannya? Adakah DAP akan menyatakan bahawa perlu memastikan bahawa kontrak-kontrak MNC perlu diberi 30% atau pun 10% kepada kontraktor bumiputera?? Adakah DAP atau PKR akan mengadakan polisi agar memastikan bahawa MNC dan sector swasta memperuntukkan 30% atau 10% dari jawatan tertinggi kepada Bumiputra. Tiadakah orang Melayu yang layak menjawat jawatan tertinggi sesebuah syarikat.
     Adakah orang Melayu boleh diperkotak katik dengan memberi gaji rendah di sector awam dan bila hendak menarik minat bukan Melayu maka gaji sector awam dinaikan….Ini seolah-olah bahawa bagi kerajaan…sekiranya hanya pekerja Melayu tak pa diberi gaji rendah…tapi jika nak menarik minat bangsa lain perlu lah di beri gaji tinggi…
     Saya membesar dan seterusnya memulakan kerjaya semuanya dizaman TDM….saya bersyukur atas segala nikmat dan kemudahan yang dirasai.
     Terima kasih TDM, hanya Allah akan membalas segalah niat ikhlas dan kesungguhan TDM bagi memajukan anak bangsa dan Negara Malaysia…
     Negaraku Malaysia semakin bercelaru……dan saya teringat lagu “Anak Kecil Main Api”…
     Buat TDM teruskan perjuangan walaupun dengan apa cara pun……

266. Tun said NEP Policy is good …MY FOOT !
     NEP Policy breeded the following many bad karmas in Malaysia:-
     (a) A corrupted government under BN dictator ruled for 50 years;
     (b) A tongkat ali Malay communities who lazy to work hard and too dependent on the help and assistance from the government;
     (c) An arrogant, greedy and kurang bijak Malays in UMNO leadership;
     (d) Cronyism, corrupts and nepotism system in Malay societies, civil servants, politicians and business communities;
     (e) Poor morale societies , high crime rates, drug addicts, law breakers, illegal immigrants and abused of power authorities etc.
     (f) A racist policy in BN agenda and destroyed Malay unity and Malaysian unity.
     These are few examples on how NEP had failed the true objectives to improve the fairness and equilibrium among Malays and other Malaysians in many ways. The NEP was used as a tool to enrich many UMNO and cronies in MCA,Gerakan, MIC, SUPP, LDP, PBS, SAPP, Sarawak component parties. The NEP has never able to serve all Malaysians regardless of races, creeds and religions.
     DR M had failed his duties as a PM for past 22 years and a shameful forced retirement by UMNO leaders and his own departured as member in UMNO too. Bravo !!
     Wasalam , InsyALLAH swt blesses all Malaysians.

267. Dear Tun,
     Saya salah seorang “anak” MARA yg mendapat faedah yg tiada nilai from NEP. I’m doing well in my engineering career (makan gaji) and earn up to 10K/month, but not just the money that satisfied me, it is more to be amongst the group of people whom 20yrs ago monopolised by others.
     Seeing more n more bumis. able to master these field make me feel energetic to be better n go further.
     Syukur kpd ALLAH kerana memberi ilham kepada pemimpin kita untuk melaksanakan NEP.
     May ALLAH bless u n your family Tun.
     Msg utk previous commenter; “CSI Malaysia”
     WATCH YOUR MOUTH BRO !

268. The national shame of Malaysia falling completely out of the list of the world Top 200 Universities in the 2007 Times Higher Education Supplement (THES) – World University Rankings had been equaled by the scandal that this Malaysian ignominy had been totally ignored by Umno leaders.
     This shows the superficiality of the commitment of Umno leaders to the slogan of “Cemerlang. Gemilang and Terbilang” and to transform Malaysia into a knowledge-based innovative economy marked by a world-class university system.
     Further details have shown that Malaysian universities have suffered a very serious drop in the international league of the world’s best universities.
     For the first time, there is not only not a single university in the Top 200 Universities list, there is also not a single university in the separate ranking of Top 100 Universities for five subject areas – Natural Sciences, Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities; Life Sciences and Biomedicine; and Engineering and Information Technology.
     For the Top 200 Universities List, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) and Universiti Malaya (UM) had fallen out of the ranking, with UKM plunging from 185th slot last year to 309th while University of Malaya plunged from 192nd last year to 246th spot.
     Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM), which was ranked as the only “outstanding” five-star university in a recent government survey, has fallen to 307th spot from 277 last year.
     The National University of Singapore (NUS) (No. 33) is ranked among the Top 100 Universities for all the five categories while Nanyang Technological University (NTU) (No. 69) is ranked among the Top 100 universities for three categories: Engineering & IT; Natural Sciences and Social Sciences.
     Even Thailand Chulalongkorn University is rated among the Top 100 Universities for two categories – Engineering & IT (No. 100) and Social Sciences (No. 83).
     Malaysians have not be told the real and true reasons for the shocking performance of Malaysian universities in the THES Top 200 Universities ranking.
     Malaysian universities have been consistent in increasingly deplorable results in world rankings, whether the THES, Shanghai Jiao Tong University World’s Best 500 Universities or the Newsweek’s Top 100 Global Universities.
     If the government is serious about its slogan of “Cemerlang. Gemilang and Terbilang” to create a world-class university system to transform Malaysia into a knowledge-based innovative economy, it must end the NEP-mentality in the universities and fully restore the policy of meritocracy and academic excellence coupled with social need to provide university education opportunities to economically backward Malaysians regardless of race.
     All universities should be allowed to enroll the most qualified students, employ the most competent professors and researchers with competitive remunerations and restore a culture of academic excellence and freedom.
     One simple test of whether the government is seriously committed to abandon the baggage of past NEP policies to create a world-class university system is whether it has the political will to end the brain drain depriving Malaysia of the best and brightest for the development of the country.

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270. What hope is there for Malaysia, when after sacking Singapore from Malaysia in 1965, they are still playing the same old game of race and religion politics. The Malaysian leaders isn’t aware of how much they have descended economically, politically and socially in comparison with the East Asian Economies during the 43-year period from 1965 to 2008. They don’t even realize that China, Japan, North and South Koreas, Vietnam and Cambodia were all devastated by war and yet all these economies except for N. Korea recovered within decades. Japan was at ground zero in 1945, China in 1979, South Korea in 1953, Vietnam in 1976, Cambodia in 1979. Singapore, Hongkong and Taiwan had to change constantly to cope with external happenings but Malaysia still plays its own race and religion game. Their leaders are more interested in what women wear, what people ate and how they ate, who should have more ‘hong baos’ or ‘green packets’, what moustaches or beard the men should adorn, how o!
     ften do peope pray, what costume to wear during formal social gatherings, what language to use in different settings, etc, etc. The Malays in Malaysia will never be marginalised by the non-Malays but they will surely be marginalised by the indifferent international community.

271. I am non-bumi who was born and grow in Malaysia. Nevertheless I am fully supporting the NEP for its idea to reduce economy gap between bumi and non-bumi. The only doubt is, Should we slow down non-bumi to wait for the bumi or should we speed up the bumi so that they can achieve closer to the non-bumi. This makes the different, right?

272. Assalamualaikum Tun;
     I do not understand why those non bumi not happy with NEP. It is true that the intake to local Universities during those time may be 70% bumis and 30 % non bumis with special quota for orang asli eventhough their SPM/STPM result not good enough they still enrolled in local Universities ( based on population ). If you see the result of how many actually graduated, 99% of the 30% quota for non bumis graduated with good results and probably only 50% of the 70% quota of bumis graduated. Final result , still bumis are left behind.
     Non bumis definitely benefit from NEP . Only some hard core non bumis should be helped and now quota of scholarship for non bumis already increased , non bumis should not complain. NEP also make the non bumis richer and non bumis still controlling Malaysian economy.
     Without NEP there will be serious racial tension due to unbalance living standard.
     NEP is a good thing for Malaysian but not to be misused and must be readjusted based on current needs.

273. By iammalaysian on August 6, 2008 6:22 PM
     Hi Tun M,
     Read what mushroom_soup got to say, betul ramai Bumiputra mendapat manfaat dari NEP, tetapi Bumiputra juga telah menjadi terlalu bergantung kepada NEP.
     Masalah besar NEP ia telah mewujudkan satu bangsa Melayu yang bergantung kepada tongkat selama-lamanya. Cuba lah baca berapa posting yang berkata sedemikian.
     NEP telah mewujudkan satu kuantiti besar graduan Melayu tetapi malangnya tiada berkualiti.
     Tun M mungkin bertanya, mengapa selepas berpuluh tahun NEP, melayu masih lagi tidak boleh berdiri di kaki sendiri. Inilah tabii manusia.
     Ambil sahaja contoh, seorang pelajar melayu di tingkatan 5 hari ini Dia mungkin bijak pandai dan berkemampuan untuk mendapat 10A dalam SPM, tetapi oleh kerana NEP dia mungkin berkata “buat apa nak berusaha keras untuk dapat 10A? Kan dapat 3A pun cukup saya boleh dapat biasiswa”.
     Malangnya inilah hasil NEP. Ramai pelajar melayu berpotensi tinggi hari ini menjadi substandard kerana NEP.
     soalan utk ngko?..klu allah haramkan makan n minum arak..ko buat jugak..sapa yang salah?..sama spt itula juga..napa tak salahkan budak tu je sbb malas?..nak salahkan DEB gak?..napa nak excuse satu perkara untuk kebergantungan perkara lain..Rasulullah datang membina masyarakat yang beraqidah?..maka tugas kita menyambung semua tu..kita berfikir untuk majukan bangsa..salah mereka mengambil mudah kesenangan yang ada..jadi jika begini..awak selaku ayah..janganla bagi anak anda TV..HP..tandas dalam rumah dan segalanya agar anak anda tak bergantung pada kesenangan yang ada..supaya jadi bijak n bagus sbb hidup dalam kesusahan..akai letak kat mana?..wasalam Tun..buatla yang baik kerana WAMAI YAKMAL MISQALA ZARRATIN KHAIRAI YARAH..
     semoga ada lagi seperti mu 100 tahun akan datang untuk bangsa melayu..
     lepasan uni Al-Azhar..cairo
     pegawai agama bahagian..sabah

274. I have said it before, and I will say it again:
     NEP AS PREACHED BY MAHATHIR IS NOTHING MORE THAN A GLORIFICATION OF MEDIOCRITY. MEDIOCRITY BECOMES EXCELLENCE UNDER THE NEP. NOTHING MORE THAN A FORM OF INCEST WHERE THE OFFSPRING WILL EVENTUALLY GO EXTINCT.

275. Assalamualaikum Tun,
     Hari ini saya hendak memohon maaf daripada kesilapan saya yang lalu.Sewaktu berlakunya krisis DSAI dengan Tun saya telah memilih untuk memilih DSAI keranan disangkakan dia teraniaya dan semuanya dilihat begitu sadis sekali.
     Setelah DSAI keluar dari penjara dan melihat tindak tanduknya,maka saya merasakan yang dia hanyalah seseorang yang terlalu mementingkan agenda sendiri hingga sanggup mengambil risiko dari pelbagai cara yang mana akan membawa kemusnahan Islam dan bangsa Melayu, boleh saya katakan.
     Sememangnya tidak wajar penulisan saya ini,tetapi kalau dilihat hakikatnya itulah yang bakal terjadi.Hari ini kaum Melayu telah berpecah belah dan akhirnya menunggu saat kemusnahan sahaja.
     Kalaulah saya telah terbuka minda untuk menjalankan perniagaan saya sekarang ini diwaktu Tun mungkin saya juga merupakan produk DEB atau NEP sekarang ini.Tetapi hari ini kerajaan yang sedia ada tidak lagi prihatin terhadap usahawan Melayu yang kecil seperti saya dan isteri.Setelah hampir 5 tahun bersungguh-sungguh berniaga tanpa apa-apa bantuan,Alahamdulillah perniagaan semakin maju dengan kontrak-kontrak kecil kerajaan dan peruncitan yang dijalankan.
     Disebabkan kenaikkan harga minyak maka,semua kos operasi turut meningkat dan saya memohon pembiayaan MARA tetapi terlalu perlahan prosesnya walaupun telah diberitahu bahawa semua proses boleh siap dalam masa 2~3 minggu tetapi memakan masa hampir setahun walaupun syarat-syarat telan mencukupi.
     Semakin parah apabila pemimpin UMNO yang sedia ada asyik bertelagah sesama sendiri dan bersikap penting diri sendiri tanpa memberi peluang kepada pemimpin baru untuk naik dan megenengahkan idea mereka.Disebabkan oleh itu maka,saya yang selama ini hanya menjadi ahli biasa dan pemerhati mengambil tindakkan untuk bergiat serius dalam parti bagi memulihkan semula parti keramat ini.
     Agak terkilan dan sedih dengan semua pendedahan Tun sewaktu pemerintahan Tun dan hari ini saya sedar bahawa perlu ada pemuda yang bangkit menyatakan kebenaran untuk menegakkan kebenaran.Saya akan sentiasa menyokong mana-mana pihak yang menyatakan kebenaran contoh anak Tun iaitu Mukhriz.
     Semoga Tun dapat memberi tunjuk ajar kepada generasi muda seperti saya dalam memulihkan kembali UMNO walaupun Tun berada diluar.
     Sekali lagi saya memohon maaf dan berharap semoga Allah akan memberi rezeki berupa kesihatan yang baik dan perlindungannya kepada Tun sekeluarga.
     Perjuangan agenda Melayu takkan selesai sampai bila-bila selagi ada kepimpinan Melayu yang tamak dan sombong.

276. ASSALAMUALAIKUM WARAHMATULLAH HI TAALA WABAROKATUH
     Yang di hormati dan di sayangi Ayahanda Tun dan Bonda Siti Hasmah
     Anakanda tumpang lalu:
     Kepada CSI dan lain2 nya :Kamu berhak untuk membuat teguran kepada sesiapa
     sahaja termasuk Tun Dr Mahathir.Itu hak kamu,tetapi apabila kamu mengatakan “INILAH BALASAN ALLAH TERHADAP DR.M YANG KEJI……..
     tidak kah kamu merasakan bahawa kamu telah CUBA MENDAHULUI ALLAH SWT dalam mentukan hukuman nya terhadap manusia?
     Apakah ALLAH SWT ada memberitahu kepada kamu bila dia hendak menjatuhkan hukuman terhadap manusia? Kamu hanya lah seorang manusia seperti aku juga dan JANMGAN LAH cuba hendal menyampaikan sesuatu yang menjadi HAK ALLH SWT kepada manusia lain.
     Kamu ada menuebut “DEMI ALLAH BERTAUBAT LAH DR.M KINI”
     Adakah sebutan kamu itu hanya di bibir dan di lidah sahaja atau dari dalam hati kamu? Aku percaya hanya dari lidah kamu sahaja kerana aku percaya kamu sendiri tidak apakah HAKIKAT SEBENAR NYA PERKATAAN DEMI ALLAH ITU.
     Kalau kamu kata kamu tahu maka ingin aku bertanyakan sedikit soalan kepada kamu dahulu:
     1) Berapa helaikah rambut yang ada di atas kepala kamu ? kamu
     tak tahu tai benda itu UJUD.
     2) berapa helaikah bulu ruma di sebelah kanan badan kamu?
     kamu tak tahu tapi benda itu UJUD
     3)berapa helaikah bulu ruma di sebelah kiri badan kamu? kamu
     tak tahu tapi benda itu UJUD.
     4) Berapa helaikah bulu kening,misai,janggut.telinga.kemaluan,
     dubur,ketiak,hidung dsb nya? kamu tak tahu tapi benda itu UJUD
     5) Berapa kah urat2 yang berada di dalam badan manusia? kamu tak
     tahu tapi benda itu UJUD
     6) Berapakah tulang2 yang berada di dalam badan manusia? kamu tak tahu tapi benda itu UJUD
     7) berapakah warna2 yang ada dalam badan manusia? kamu tak tahu
     tapi benda itu UJUD
     8) Berapakah lubang2 yang ada pada tapak tangan kiri,kanan dan
     lidah kamu ? kamu tak tahu tapi benda iotu UJUD.
     Aku boleh bertanyakan puluhan lagi soalan2 menarik dan jawapan
     nya kamu tidak tahu.
     Kalau itu pun kamu tidak tahu APAKAH KAMU LAYAK UNTUK MENYEBUT
     PERKATAAN YANG AMAT MULIA/MAHA MULIA/TERLALU MULIA ” DEMI
     ALLAH” hanya kerana hendak menyuruh seseorang itu bertaubat?
     SESUNGGUH ALLAH SWT PERNAH BERSUMPAH DENGAN MENGGUNAKAN
     PERKATAAN “DEMI” = DEMI MASA ,DEMI DHUHA
     Dari cara penulisan kamu maka aku andaikan kamu adalah seorang
     ISLAM.
     Adakah kamu yahu PERBEZAAN ANTARA ORANG ISLAM DENGANM “UMAT MUHAMMAD”? Aku pasti tentu kamu tahu bahawa Nabi Musa adalah seorang ISLAM dan termasuk dalam kelompok ULUL AZMI,tetapi mengapakah beliau berdoa ‘SESUNGGUH NYA YA ALLAH YA RAHMAN YA RAHIM.JADIKAN LAH AKU SEBAHAGIAN DARI UMAT MUHAMMAD”?
     Berhati2 lah dengan perkataan “INSYA ALLAH” kalau kamu tidak
     mengetahui HAKIKAT SDEBENAR nya perkataan itu.
     Aku hanya memberikan teguran sebagai sesama islam.terima atau
     tidak terpulanglah kepada kamu.tanggungjawab sebagai seorang islam
     sudah aku jalankan.AKU ADALAH ORANG YANG MASIH DALAM GOLONGAN YANG DI SEBUT MAKHLUK ALLAH. HAMBA ALLAH? — SESUATU YANG MASIH TERAMAT
     JAUH UNTUK DI CAPAI.
     Semuga Ayahanda Tun dan Bonda selalu berada di dalam limpahan rahmat ALLAH SWT
     Alif Lam Mim
     WASSALAM

277. dearest tun,
     during the 1998 economic crisis, everyone suffered and of course, the poorest suffered the worst. In Indonesia, the native bumis blamed the economic crisis to the chinese conglomerates that control the Indonesia economy. When the Indonesian mobs were hungry and angry, they turned their anger to their rich brothers and thus racial riots did broke. Many ethnic Indonesian chinese died during that crisis.
     At that time, as far that I can recalled many Indonesian politicians were looking at Malaysia NEP model, that managed to restructure the Malaysia economy and also provide equal opportunities to the masses.Many Malaysian chinese praised the NEP factor that prevent racial motivated bloodshed in Malaysia during the crisis.Thus, during the 1999 election,at that time, while most Malays voted for the opposition (due to Anwar factor), The Chinese and the Indians were solidly behind BN.
     I tend to believe in life eco system. There is a natural way or God’s way to ensure there is a balance in the life eco system, in order everyone shall be able to live and prosper within the life eco system. If a racial segment is found to be too powerful politically , militarily and economically, there will an opposite forces that will try to balance this.
     oodoombook

278. Dearest Tun.
     It seems that a lot of people don’t understand that NEP, although it benefited the bumis, in the long run, it is meant to benefit everyone including the non-bumis. People like ABI, crazyidiot and ect does not understand Tun. They do not have deep vision. If not because of NEP, the non-bumis could be very very wealthy now. But will this country be peaceful when all the non-bunis are filthy rich and the bumis are poor? If every buildings and complexs in KL belongs the the non-bumis, will the bumis just sit back and accept the fact that they are meant to be poor? No sir.
     Tension will rise and then one day, it will explode. It won’t be a pretty sight then. There will be no peace and blood will definitely flow. Everyone will suffer, be it bumis or non-bumis. Whatever development that had been achived will be destroyed in a matter of a few days. People will then live in fear and every races will be suspicious of each other.
     NEP is meant to prevent this disaster from happening. Does the non-bumis suffer from the implementation of NEP? Well, I don’t think so since NEP does not takes from the non-bumis to pass to the bumis. The government is simply giving a hand out to help the bumis. But giving a hand out doesn’t meant the bumis are getting a free ride. Only those who really work hard will benefit from the NEP. The non-bumis does not get a hand out but that doesn’t meant they are doom. Those who are really poor are still being helped by the government.
     Malaysia is a very peaceful country now thanks to NEP. There is no hatred feeling between the non-bumis and the bumis. So what if the bumis benefited from NEP. In a way, we the non-bumis do too.
     Wishing Tun good health always.

279. By crazyidiot on August 6, 2008 12:28 PM
     Singapore does not practice NEP and they have an economy better than ours now. Last time it used to be RM 1.50 = S1.00. Now it is RM 2.30 = S1.00. So what’s the big deal about NEP? Check your data before opening your mouth !
     salam Tun..
     apa ke halnya mamat ni memekak tak tentu pasal..kita bicara kejayaan DEB n NEP untuk memberi makan pada bangsa melayu yang miskin..memberi pendidikan yang buta ilmu..memberi peluang kekayaan pada bangsa melayu yang mahu berniaga..untuk tidak merasa tak puas hati dengan bangsa cina n india yang rata2 kaya n berpendidikan..
     soalan bonus dari saya untuk ngko..jika kerajaan malaysia ini di perintah oleh india n cina..apakah yang akan mereka sumbangkan untuk pembangunan bangsa melayu?..sbb tu kita menagih bangsa kita sendiri untuk maju sebab kita dari bangsa melayu juga..walau ada hak n rights untuk menggunakan keistimewaan melayu tapi melayu ini sopan santun n berbudi pekerti..sehingga tak merungut pun bangsa cina n india yang mendapat untung besar dari DEB n NEP ini secara umumnya..
     jika kesan DEB n NEP ini membuat cina n india hilang kekayaan takeprla jugak..nampak racist gak..ini untuk membangunkan..menongkatkan..menatihkan..menyuapkan bangsa melayu yang cukup miskin dan papa dari segala segi di bumi sendiri..tanah air sendiri..tumpahnya darah kita sendiri..bukan memperjuangkan hak rights kita di bumi orang..di bumi yang namanya malaysia..malay itu sendiri..salahkah kami di tolong untuk bangun sedangkan kami penduduk asal malaysia ini..adakah singapore? uk? us? korea? india? china? nak bantu kami bila kami miskin?..pada sapa lagi kami meminta selain dari pemimpin itu sendiri yang namanya melayu..sebab apa kami meminta sebegini..sebab apa dasar ini wujud?..sebab melayu itu miskin..buta huruf..ketinggalan dari segalanya..itu dasarnya!!! yang dah lepas2 dari ni salah sikap manusia sendiri..bila sihat lupa Allah..bila sakit baru kelam kabut cari sejadah n quran..sedeynya!!!
     lama dah tak tulis post komen dekat Tun..terima kasih tak terhingga..memperjuangkan bangsa melayu..walau di caci sebahagian bangsa sendiri..kami secara umumnya bersyukur..ada pemimpin seperti Tun yang tau survival bangsa melayu itu sendiri..kami bersyukur dengan mempergunakan peluang yang di beri sebaiknya dan alhamdulillah berjaya..bapa dan mak saya dah pandai driving dan guna hanphone sendiri..walau tak banyak sy sumbangkan sy bersyukur..skrg mereka tak perlu lagi pi kebun getah pagi2 cari duit untuk kami..sebab kami berjaya n bekerja dengan dasar yang di berikan ini…wasalam
     lulusan Uni Al-Azhar..cairo
     pegawai agama bahagian..sabah

280. Dear Che Det,
     Two words, “DREAM ON!”
     You are downright to the very basic definition wrong. That is why it never get to you, especially at this age. At least thank God you know the power of blogging.
     You points will be debunked in a single paragraph of mine. I am sorry but i did not meant to be bold.
     The so called ‘quotas’ allows for a higher opportunity for the Bumiputras but at the same time reduces the opportunity of other ethnicity to pursue the same thing. In Economics, Pareto Efficiency means an allocation of resources without making another individual worst off, and NEP is not achieving it simply because chances offered to most that gotten it are not cherished!
     Thank you for your time.

281. Salam Tun,
     Yang Tun kenal saja dapat kontrak Kerajaan.Saya cuba buat bisnes dengan Kerajjan selepas bersara dari ATM 12 tahun dahulu, tapi hingga sekarang masih belum berjaya.
     Kalau tidak ada ‘political connection’ jangan mimpi dapat kontrak Kerajaan.Jadi sekarang saya buat bisnes yang tidak ada kaitan dengan Kerajaan.
     Ketiga-tiga orang anak saya, saya hantar ke uuniversiti seberang laut pakai ‘papa and mama’ scholarships. Tidak ada sebarang bantuan dari Kerajaan.

282. Dear Tun,
     From what I gather, If not for the NEP, you would not build more schools and universities, you would not encourage or the goverment would not support the bumiputras to excell in education. You would not have improved the lives of the bumiputras and they would not have excelled in business as well.
     My question then is if there wasn’t a NEP, what would u be doing as PM for the country for 22 years ? Nothing ? Surely your role would be one of nation building. Your role would be to unite and to build all malaysians regardless of race,creed or religion. I distinctly remember voting for you and Barisan. Why is my vote for you and Barisan good enought for you but because I’m not a bumiputra, I should not be treated as equal ? Why don’t u suggest that the non bumiputras be disallowed to vote, at least you won’t look so much as a hypocrite.

283. Dear Tun,
     I quite suprise while the BN use a big amount of money to help the people not only in business also in other sectors. In Sandakan (one of the cities in Sabah), the bumiputeras have many opportunities to start their business and projects, but most of them failed. My opinion is the government must put their effort to look after them to organise their business or project to make sure that government won’t waste a single cent.

284. Salam tun,
     Topik menarik, dasar DEB bagus memang bagus, tapi bangsa lain tidak memerlukannya kerana melayu bagi sokongan, tetapi DEB perlu, kerana belum masa sesuai untuk orang melayu ditinggalkan begitu sahaja, masih belum ada kekuatan. Rasanya tahun depan ekonomi dikhuatiri lagi teruk, maka semua kena bekerja dan berusaha lebih keras untuk kehadapan.
     http://www.saarahali.blogspot.com…makan dan jin islam..
     saarah hj ali bashah

285. Dearest Tun,
     My views on NEP is it has been helping the Malaysian economy.
     If the bumis which constitute 60% (correct me if I’m wrong) of Malaysian population are brought out from poverty, it will give a bigger market for the local bussiness which are controlled by the Chinese.
     And of course it will help other races as more job opportunities are available.
     If the bumis are to remain poor, the economy will not grow and we will be like Indonesia. Large population but no buying power. When majority are poor, May 13 1969 will happen again no doubt about it.
     Where is the inequality? NEP creates equal oppoturnity to everybody. But of course some are left behind. Sorry to say.
     Lastly, to gilabodoh, lupa makan ubat hari ni ekk?
     Warmest regards to you and your family.

286. salam Tun
     dalam malaysia ini ada macam macam jenis orang melayu,orang kadazan,orang iban,……….orang mahathir, orang pak lah,orang najib,orang kj,orang rafidah,orang mahyudin,orang hilmi,orang anwar,orang umno,orang pas,macam macam lagi jenis orang
     Agak agak orang mana yang dapat membesar temolok dengan dasar ekonomi baru,……… orang melayu kena tipu lagi. PNB ditubuh untuk mencapai dasar DEB , ASN,ASB, amanah untuk orang melayu ,sekarang buka untuk semua, dulu dividen lebih 10% lepas 10 tahun ada bonus istimewa. Sekarang ini PNB sebok dengan kanival sana sini,duit PNB diguna sana sini,orang melayu kena kantoi lagi,

287. Salam AYAHANDA RAKYAT TUN,
     izinkan,
     By autaman on August 6, 2008 3:28 PM
     To say the least , I am not a bumi. However , I do understand why NEP was created although it contain a lot of biased elements which slants towards the malays.I myself do not blame much on NEP as we can still easily earned a living comfortabily by sticking to good morals , ethics and disiplin. I am sure those who practice these traits will be sucessful in their life to a certain degree……
     We believed that most Malaysians perceived the same thoughts but unfortunately there exists these ‘rats’ that will only share the economic cake amongst themselves. Worst still, they will changed the cover of proposals submitted by other people.
     The NEP was laid out in good faith by the policy makers but there are some of the implementors especially in the relevant departments of the goverment that abused it.
     Otherwise, why are the BPR offices throughtout the country ladened with corruption files!
     The hard facts. The very policy(NEP) the non-bumiputera detested are actually beneficial to their business community. How do you think the rich ‘AliBabas’ operate?. Sadly its a difficult task eradicating these unscuplous ‘elite’ group.
     Such is the business culture, the connected malay/bumi connects and the non-bumi manipulates.
     Sometime ago ‘Samuraimelayu’ submitted to the KDN boss a proposal for the development of new police IPDs, conceptually named ‘KIPP’ (Kawasan Ibu Pejabat Polis) to replace the old ‘Balai’ stigma. We never got the reply but the concept was apparently applied for the new Perda township Police station( with adjustments, of course).
     However, we are proud that the ‘surau'(paksi)’ the ‘dome’ and the ‘lanai’, the trademark of the concept were not ‘eliminated’ from the revision and how we wished that the ‘court’ for the new game that we designed named ‘Soccer Jaring’ was adopted too.
     On the positive note, we thanked the government for the implementation and we surrender to the Almighty
     Allah swt for blessing upon us the concept(idea)
     Alfatihah, Amin

288. Dear Tun,
     MELAYU LUPA DIRI
     1.I have no doubt at all that NEP proves such a great success in the field of education for the Malays.This in turn helps greatly in ractifying the inherent imbalances between the races in ,especially,socio-economic fields.
     2.To my knowledge,the ONLY country in the world which sponsor students from economically poor background pursue their higher education in large number overseas,is Malaysia.These are the children of poor farmers,low wage earners and others who never ,even in their wildest dreams,could fantasize that their children be given such opportunities.
     3.Alas,now, there are some who were given that privilege themselves,begin questioning the merit of such a policy. Mostly,these are the same people perhaps,imbued with the so-called Western liberalism and ideals such as meritrocracy,who wish that even NEP be done away with. A case of MELAYU MUDAH DAN SUDAH LUPA DIRI.

289. ABI and crazyidiot, both of u guys look like didn’t something benefits from malaysia. better u guys apply for other citizenship
     Shazrim Sharif
     UiTM Kedah

290. Assalamualaikum ayahanda Tun..
     Begitu baik sekali keterangan Tun hari ini tengtang DEB. Sekurang-kurangnya dapat membuka mata pihak-pihak yang sebelum ini buat-buat tak faham dengan DEB ini.
     Sebenarnya Tun, boleh dikatakan semua rakyat malaysia terutamanya bangsa melayu telah menikmati kesenangan hari ini adalah dari DEB.
     Tidak kira samada Kontraktor, Pengimport kereta, Doktor, peguam, cikgu, pelajar dan orang-orang kampung pun, semuanya telah menikmati kesenangan dari DEB ini.
     Bezanya, cuma ada yang perolehi secara langsung dan ada secara tidak langsung.
     SYABAS TUN, teruskan usahamu!!

291. Salam, Tun..
     Semoga Tun n isteri sentiasa sihat walafiat..AMIN..
     Tun, saya menyokong pendirian Tun demi perjuangkan tanahair,bangsa dan agama yang tercinta.
     AYUH BANGSAKU,
     BANGKITLAH DARI HAYALAN DAN LAMUNAN
     YANG DIULEK DAN DIGULA-GULAKAN
     OLEH PEMIMPIN BANGSA KITA SENDIRI..

292. Tun Salam Sejahtera Untuk Tun dan Keluarga.
     Tun terus kan perjuangan Mu yang belum selesai kami tetap menyokong,
     Pak Lah Undurlah Tun kembali lah
     Jaga kesihatan TUN

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294. PERANGKAPLAH MUSUH SEPERTI LABAH,
     SENGAT NYAWANYA SEPRTI LEBAH,
     WALAU MENGAKU HATINYA TABAH,
     TERSUNGKURLAH JATUH PASTI REBAH.
     SELURUH DUNIA AKAN KUCARI,
     SIAPA GERANGAN SI PENCURI,
     TOLONG SIAPKAN GARI,
     POTONG TANGAN PENGADILAN DI BERI,
     ITULAH TANDA MENGAKU SERI.
     DI LANGIT KU LIHAT DI BUKA GERBANG,
     JAHANAM NANTI SEGALA YANG TERBANG,
     TUBUH BADAN PASTI DI TEBANG,
     JANGAN DIPERMAIN SERUAN SUMBANG,
     TIPU MUSLIHAT LUBANG BERCABANG.
     MENGAKU DI HATI DIA LAH RAJA,
     KUAT SEPERTI SI BESI WAJA,
     SEMEMANG HATI PERLU DI BAJA,
     SUMPAH SETIA JANGAN DI JAJA.
     MENYERLAH SEKALI WARNANYA MERAH,
     LIHAT BARA SEWAKTU MARAH,
     TIDAK BERDOSA JANGAN DI PERAH,
     MENCURI MENIPU SEMUANYA BARAH.
     PENCURI PENIPU PASTI PARAH,
     KEPADA TUHAN SEGALA KU SERAH,
     TURUN PERINTAH TENTERA DI KERAH,
     ITULAH TANDA SUMPAH SEMERAH.
     KALAU JURAGAN PERGI BERDAGANG,
     JANGANLAH JADI SEPERTI TANGGANG,
     SUMPAH SETIA SEMESTI DI PEGANG,
     AYAT TUHAN JANGAN DI DAGANG,
     BENANG NYAWA KUJAMIN TEGANG,
     KEIMANAN DI JAGA JANGANLAH RENGGANG,
     SUNGGUHPUN TERBANG SEPERTI ENGGANG,
     LAJULAH LAGI SI BORAQ DI TUNGGANG,
     SEGALA SYAITAN KELUAR BEBAS,
     SAMPAI BILA BEBAS TERLEPAS,
     SEKELILING KULIHAT KEIMANAN KEBAS,
     PEGANGAN PULA SEPERTI KAPAS,
     SEPERTI EKOR DILIBAS LIBAS,
     SEMAK BELUKAR PASTI DI TEBAS,
     SAMPAI BILA BEBAS TERLEPAS,
     PASTI DI SEMBELIH SEPERTI KIBAS.
     LIHAT SANDIWARA SIMULUT MURAI,
     DI PISAH PISAH DI CERAI BERAI,
     KU AJAK SEMUA SUPAYA BERSURAI,
     LEBIHLAH WANGI SI BUNGA SERAI.

295. I am tired of non-bumi complaining about NEP. The reality is at least 3/4 of the businesses awarded to Bumi go to them. I used to work for a large bumi company. Almost 90% of the contracts were awarded to companies owned by Chinese contractors with Bumi directors. Malays should have been richer by now if none of these businesses go to non-bumi.

296. The NEP though had helped the malays to enrich themselves in general, on the other hand were not really fair towards other races, especially in terms of thirtiery education. It picks skin colors.
     I don’t want to dwell into contract tender abuses and flaws by the government but education alone.
     Because of the NEP, most malays get a chance to enter university, despite their results are poorer than someone of other race if they compete to enter the same course at the same university. Sure this is good for them. It’s understood. But on the other hand, due to limited place in universities, a lot of good students had to downgrade their applications or study overseas (if they can afford it but not all can afford). How can that be allowed to happen? How can the NEP that is merit blind be called good to the nation? Well, it’s good to at least 60% of the nation, so you can make assumption that it’s in fact good for the nation?
     I’m not denying it is indeed beneficial to the malays, but at least give the other person an alternative non-degrading route instead of rejecting or degrade his application. What do you expect the other person do? Apply overseas university? You are so sure he can afford it? Sure he can afford, right, because he/she is not malay, so his family must be able to pay for his fees!
     On another point, this practices had made our local universities (even for well known UM) rank to drop in qualities significantly.
     For those who have succeed, congratulations! But for those who have yet to succeed, work hard, don’t think of shortcuts. There’s no shortcuts to success. If you suddenly hit a one million riggit lottery, I don’t call that success but mere luck, but how long can a million ringgit last without strong foundation of success?

297. Dear Tun
     I am not a product of NEP but a product of affirmative action/policy of your predecessors. However, I enjoyed the NEP, not in wealth, but NEP built my confidence and raised my self esteem. I also enjoyed the success of your so called “cronies” as I was employed by one of them on a contract that I could prove myself to be a consultant in my field. I could ” berdiri sama tinggi ” with those so called western i.e. consultants from the US.
     Thanks Tun

298. Everyone should be treated fairly. Parents who care for their kids until such a time when the kids can be independent on their own. Once they are independent, it should be the kids looking after the parents and not expecting the parents to go on looking after them and even looking after their grandchildren. What is independence if it does not mean taking care of yourself instead of relying on others ? Being mature. Being responsible. Having your own vision. Planning your life. Imagine Malaysia being independent and yet still look to England for help. That will be strange.

299. Is it wrong to practise cronyism?
     When you are a succesful person in life, you should help people around you first. When you’re succesful, don’t let your own brothers and friends live in poverty. Don’t be ashamed of your background, like SiTanggang or practise “Anak Kera disusukan, Anak Sendiri mati kelaparan”.
     I’ve learned that in Islam, it’s more afdhal to help those near to you first than those that are further away. Thinking logically, one person alone being well-off, the society will not be strong. If more people in the society become well-off, the society become stronger and they in turn will be able to help other people.
     I believe that the key is in ‘giving opportunity’. Once given, it is the responsibility of the person who got the opportunity to perform in the task provided.
     In this post, Tun has elegantly explained this concept being put in practise – where the Bumiputras has been given the opportunities required. No doubt, many have squandered them but don’t forget that many others have benefited and in turn have been able to help other people, albeit in their own small way.
     Cronyism becomes wrong when corruption is involved. If a contract is given to a selected person, who is capable and at a cost that is at ‘market rate’. That maybe cronyism but that is not corruption. Those who mentioned Singapore and Korea as example of ‘clean’ economy, should know that many big contracts were given to ‘cronies’ – but they were not corruption as the cost and the result are compatible.
     If cronyism means helping your brothers’ life, let me have more cronies.
     As Tun has stated, it is better to award more projects to people that you know can deliver. In tender system, awarding the contract to the lowest bidder can often invite disaster when in the end they use substandard materials or even worse, abandon the project when their cost is more than the contract value.
     But if the contracts are given to selected person, at inflated rate or for sub-standard specification – then that is wrong. If disproportionate % of the contracts are given to just one party, you are taking away opportunities for others – that is also wrong.
     It is good ethics and individual integrity that hold the fine line between good cronysim and corrupt cronyism.
     The problem is ethics and integrity among us have lost out to greed. Along the line we’ve created monsters out of the original NEP vision. Admit it – these monsters happen to be those that have been entrusted with power to implement and greed has overcome them. Easy money to make. And this is the root of the problem for UMNO – this disease has become ingrained.
     This is the Malay Dilemma Part II. In a typical story-telling or movie making, there is an established structure of Act I, Act II and Act III. Act I is where the actor is having difficulty and contemplate ways to overcome the difficulty. Act II is when the actor try and face great obstacles in achieving his objective. Act III is when the outcome is determined and story ends either on a high note or sad ending. I believe we’re now in Act II and depend on what we do now, the outcome will be Act III to be enjoyed or endured by our next generation.
     Let us do the right thing to make sure Our Story will end on a high note and our next generation (as the audience of this movie) will be clapping their hands and sang praises rather than feeling depressed and crying.

300. looking at the amount of comments,reminds me of the few sites of some film starts i have browsed through before.not this much of comments.which means that the amount of dissatisfaction of the humans in daily life is more than appreciation.bila berhambur keluar ,wow!,banyak sangat.mawi dari AF pun kalah.
     i have seen lately that the oil prices are dropping.we cant blame anyone on this.this is the culture of offer and demand.there will be some measures installed and implemented to control prices of commodiy in the world market.however this talent sometimes are used to destroy some countries.who shall we blame the one who were destroyed or the one who is implementing the destruction.if you ask me i will say that the one who are being destroyed in the strenght is to be blamed.why? because they are not careful.it has been the way of any animals to destroy the weaker.the strong will always pry on the weak.this is how the strong will become stronger and maintain the position of being supreme.so the one who wins are the smartest.
     MSM is low in price.conversion can be done to be sued as bio fuel.the actual amount in the market and a proper distribution will avoid access to flood the market.nanti akan berlaku lambakan dan ini boleh membimbangkan keadaan kerana akan berlaku penurunan harga yang menjunam.withdrawal of some amount to balance the price is important.
     even now the fuel price is high.controlling it can gain some benefits.we can withdraw.kita tak perlu tunduk kepada sesiapa pun di dunia ini.barang negara kita punya.samada kita sanggup untuk menawar atau tidak terpulang kepada kita.memang menjadi budaya sesuatu barang itu di kawal oleh negara negara pengguna.tetapi sebenarnya kuasa mengawal ada pada negara yang menawar.merekalah yang sebenarnya berkuasa untuk mengwal harga.kalau barangan itu di kawal dengan baik dan harga berada di paras yang memuaskan ,tawaran boleh di teruskan.kalau tak memuskan ,can take a diversion in transforming the product to something else.
     harga minyak masak juga di pasaran tempatan boleh di kurangkan sejajar dengan penurunan harga dunia.this will bring benefit to the public as well as some satisfaction that the goverment is tolerant.
     1.nelayan juga boleh mendapat keuntungan ini.
     2.tenaga nasional boleh mengurangkan beban bahan api
     3.harga tambang pengangkutan awam boleh turun
     4.harga dan kos pengangkutan untuk industri juga boleh turun.ini satu penjimatan.
     5.harga sabun boleh turun
     something like the above.semua yang berkaitan engan kelapa sawit boleh diturunkan harga.
     selain daripada itu ,pekara sepert ini telah banyak kali berlaku.setiap kali harga minyak naik mendadak dia akan diturunkan ketahap yang paling rendah.pengkaji ekonomi sebenarnya saya rasa mengkaji pilihan dan peluang sebelum mengambil keputusan.
     oleh itu,saya rasa kajian oleh universiti tempatan perlu untuk mempelbagai kan kegunaaan minyak kelapa sawit jika berlaku penurunan harga.penggunaan untuk pelbagai yang lain akan memberikan kita keuntungan dan pengkaji pula tau bahawa satu keputusan di ambil untuk mematahkan permintaan untuk membawa penurunan harga akan menyebabkan kehadiran bahan ini di pasaran dunia akan berkurangan keran penawar memilih untuk mengunakan bagi tujuan lain.ini pula boleh menyebabkan penawaran untuk melonjak mengambil masa kerana perlu memproses untuk tujuan msm.di sini harga boleh di kawal dan satu penekanan yang tidak nampak akan ujud yang akan memberi pilihan yang rumit untuk membuat keputusan menjatuhkan harga di pasaran.
     kalau penkaji tempatan mengkaji untuk penggunaan yang pelbagai yang penting dan boleh mendapat harga yang baik di pasaran ,itukan bagus.
     here the people cannot sleep.they must think and work to set platform which will be the guideline for time to come.kita mesti ada plan ‘A’ dan plan ‘B’.then only we are good.
     kita selalunya tak bersedia.lebih berserah dan mengalah dalam banyak pekara.bila harga tinggi kita gembira,bila harga jatuh kegembiraan kita pun jatuh.why we have this attitude.kits mesti sentiasa gembira.orang tidak mempunyai kuasa untuk menentukan saat kita gembira dan sedih.kalau mereka ada akal dan teknik ,kita tak kurang dengan mana mana mereka di negara mana pun.
     sometimes we fail because deep inside ourselves even after 50 years we as the citizen and leaders of the nation still have inferiority in us.sometime we like to be in the comfort zone.all this wont last long.we will fail in future and keep on failing in time to come.
     we must decide our destinty.kalau tidak macam kata tun,pada pendapat kiata kita merasakan kita sedang maju kedepan sedangkan sebenarnya kita sedang mundur kebelakang.i smile to that.very true.sometimes overconfidence can harm us.
     berbincang mengenai minyak petrol pun sama.saya rasa negara negara pengeluar minyak mempunyai pilihan yang sama.mereka gagal berbincang dan mengkaji kejatuhan harga yang mendadak.pengkajian yang khusus mengenai perkembangan ini perlu di lihat dan di teliti.let things cool down for sometime then i think they should bring the price to a level of satisfaction among all the countries which is offering the commodity.menerima dengan tangan terbuka dan membuat sesuatu untuk mengubah is two different things.each make a difference of the person and nation who selects which as their culture.

301. Salam Tun,
     NEP is one of great policy introduced by goverment after 1969 riots.Malays/Bumiputras in general needs help from goverment so does other Malaysian putrasr like Indians and chinese origins.Lets Share the nation wealth in (67/10/23)ratio.I think it’s very fair for everybody.Please move forward to bulit prospereous Malaysia once again.

302. NEP was a tool to assist Malays.
     However presently we still find many Malays complaining (again and again) that they lack the expertise and opportunities for further economical advancement.
     I believe this situation would not stop, many Malays would continue to say that they deserve more and more over the other non-Malays.
     We must admit that poverty is also rampant and visible amongst other races. The lack of opportunities can be found amongst the Chinese, Iban, Indians, Orang Asli, etc and so forth.
     We should be thinking more of Tun’s Vision 2020 where equal opportunities and favors cover all Malaysians and not just one community.
     If we continue to depend on NEP now, we would always be living in an illusion of desperation, fear and ignorance. And we would continue living in a society where the non-Malays would be in a disadvantaged situation. Would this truly help any community at the end of the day? Would this help us achieve Vision 2020?
     I believe not.

303. Dear Tun Dr. M
     I’m Chinese, I know the NEP was created & implemented for the bumis thus for us non-bumis,there was a sense of unfairness. However, if one think positively, many a times, it was this unfairness that drives some of us to try even harder and thus become more successful! The reason why so many non-bumis was against the NEP is that financial helps( the taxpayer’s monies )were wasted times and again on the bumis who don’t perform, while the able non-bumis don’t even have the chance.

304. dear Tun and all the bloggers,
     For me,NEP is still practical until now but need to fine tuning to adopt the current senario.
     IF you are a frequent flayer,than you will appreciate you are born in Malaysia eventhough ou are not the NEP’s supporter.
     You will feel very happy to see your nation mate regardless their skin color.we usually greet each other and very confortable to eat on same table.
     Dont play this sensetive issue.Cronyism and double standard is every where in this world my dear malaysian.Most of the non bumis claimed that Singapore is very truely Asia.Well my friend,you can suck my thumb..
     Me myself, a Johorean,know this fact very cleary.Do you think Bumis easily can get work permit to work in Singapore eventhough their experience and qualification suit the job?Suck again..
     Then,if this bumis managed to get the job,do you think that they get the same wages compared to non bumi?suck it again…
     Did you notice that there are no Jenderal Malay in Singapore’s army?
     Singapore goverment is hasitate that this Malay will double cross them if Singapore is in war with neighouring country.wWhat we call this?equal race.?
     Then look at native people of Australia and red Indian in US.What happened to them.?
     Think my friend,think..

305. Ayahanda Tun Yang Dikasihi;
     Saya amat bersetuju dengan komen yang tun luahkan, sesungguhnya tun seorang pemimpin yang memimpin, teruskan memberi pendapat yang bernas sebagai panduan kepada penduduk malaysia & umat islam sejagat.
     Apa yang saya kesal hingga kini ialah mengapa tun meletak jawatan ketika kepimpinan tun masih amat diperlukan demi kesejahteraan malaysia. Sepatutnya tun teruskan menjadi PM hingga keakhir hayat. Pedulikan kata-kata nista dari mereka2 yang dengki akan kehebatan tun memimpin.
     Keep young and healthy. Be cool forever n smile alwayz…(“,)

306. good evening tun,
     dalam pada pelaksanaan DEB, itu adalah satu perancangan yang baik.kalau di lihat dari segi pelaksanaan terdapat pandangan serta tuduhan yang mengatakan bahawa pelaksaan itu tertumpu.banyak projek projek di berikan kepada yang rapat dengan kerajaan ataupun menteri.
     tuduhan ini bukanya datang dari yang bukan berbangsa melayu tetapi daripada kaum yang mana perancangan itu sendiri ditujukan.banyak kontraktor kontraktor mengadu bahawa hidup telah menjadi susah akibat daripada pilihan kerajaan dan daripada penyisihan mereka.seolah olah menunjukkan bahwa mereka di singkirkan daripada mendapat kelebihan yang sepatutnya seperti di rancangkan.lama kelamaan DEB di lihat sebagai satu pelaksanaan yang bertujuan mengaut keuntungan di kalangan menteri menteri dan kakitangan kerajaan yang hanya memilih siapa yang sepatutnya mendapat sesuatu kelebihan.
     pada saya apa perancangan pun boleh di buat tapi dari segi pelaksanaan itu lebih penting dari perancangan itu sendir.kalau takada perancangan tetapi ada pelaksaan yang adil tukan lebih baik daripada adanya satu perancangan yang kemudiannya di tuduh membelakangkan banyak pihak yang sepatutnya menjadi tumpuan perancangan itu sendiri.
     malah ahli umnolah yang memulakan semua ini.mereka menuduh bila tidak dapat pembahagian untuk mereka.semua orang nak duit.dia orang nak kaya.bila lihat ramai yang dapat dan menjadi kaya malah mereka berdiri dimana mereka berada,ujudlah bermacam macam tafsiran bahwa perancangan DEB ini adalah sebenarnya satu topeng yang di buat oleh setengah tengahpihak untuk mengaut keuntungan atas nama mereka mereka yang sepatutnya mendapat pengadilan dan pembahagian yang saksama.
     many of the blunders were started by the umno members.anwar saw all this as an opportunity.kalau pimtu di tutp orang pun tak boleh masuk.kalau pintu terbuka luas,pencuri tak payah pecah masuk,dia berterimakasih banyak banyak kerana kerja dia menjadi mudah.ibarat macam inilah.
     pada kalangan yang bukan melayu pula memeng sudah ada rasa tidak puas hati.keadaan ini memang ujud lama.like a ticking time bomb.ada setengah merasakan pelaksanaan ini terlalu lama.bila akan tiba masa satu penyesuaian untuk semua kaum secara saksama akan di buat.penerusan DEB untuk di lanjutkan ,membawa persepsi bahawa DEB tidak akan berakhir malah ia akan di teruskan sehingga satu perjuangan untuk memberhentikan di buat.melihat pihak kaum melayu sendiri merungut bahawa menteri menteri sudah jadi kaya malah bukan saja mereka mahu rumah ,kereta dan sedikit harta malah mencitakan berbilion bilion ringgit.kalau semua orang melayu pandai negara kita sudah lama maju dan mendahului negara negara lain.di sini kita perlu melihat sikap mereka.mereka suka mendapat sedikit habuan dan bersuka dengan apa yang mereka telah dapat.selagi belum habis ,mereka gembira.bila sudah habis ,kerajaan perlu memberi peluang lagi,kalau tidak protes akan di lakukan dalam bermacam macam cara.
     ada satu ketika,seorang kontraktor yang juga hli umno sentiasa merungut kepada saya bahawa pak lah tak bagus.must get this guy out.he must step down.later i learned that this man,didnt get any opportunity.as time went on he complained that since pak lah came ,susah nak dapat kontrak.sekarang dia hidup dengan apa sedikit sebanyak yang dia source dari mana mana.one day i suggested that the lower class kontraktor be given opportunity more.
     keluar di sratkhabar.saya pun jumpa orang ini lagi dan bagi tahu bahawa sudah kerajaan buka peluang.dia kata dia sudah baca.dari hari itu sampai sekarang mulut dia tak pernah nak kutuk pak lah lagi.
     dari sini kita lihat money plays a very important role.banyak yang kata orang melayu sendiri sudah tak ada semangat bersatu dan berjuang untuk melayu.sebenarnya persoalan di sini dalam dunia material,who cares about melayu ke bukan melayu.they only cae of what they can get to live a wealthy life instead of shouting ,”hidup melayu”.
     inilah salah satu masalah besar yang merangkumi persolan pelaksanaan DEB itu sendiri.
     setiap pojek,perancangan yang di buat di peringkat tertinggi itu tidak pernah membelakangkan sesiapa.kalau boleh di dalam setiap perancangan niat kerajaan supaya setiap seorang sebagai rakyat malaysia keluar dari kepompong kemiskinan.
     the biggest question of the rakyat here which became the weakness of the goverment is ,apakah pelaksanaan akan di lakukan dengan betul sehingga apa yang di cita itu tercapai.di dalam setiap perancangan yang membawa kepada pelaksanaan ,rakyat is the one who will evaluate and judge the success of the very implementation.
     rakyat kata ok,oklah.kalau rakyat kata tak ok mestilah tak ok.tambah lagi ada yang sanggup mengungkitkan kelemahan ini sehngga tercetusnya berbagai kontroversi.dari sini tercetus keberanian membangkitkan satu semangat melawan kerajaan sehingga boleh membawa kejatuha.
     salah satu dari sebab yang saya sebut di ataslah memgapa mereka kata ada unsur rasuah yang berleluasa.
     di dalam pelaksanaan di tuduh ada pilih kasih.di tuduh bolot segala yang di peruntukkan.pegawai pegai kerajaan pun sama.
     teh only way to avoid this is to do implementation from teh base line.any activities at the bottom line,yang menjadi dasar pekerjaan atau aktiviti itulah yang perlu di beri perhatian.
     when pak lah did this a few monhs ago,there was a lot of support raising for him.support increase.including from those non bumis.
     where was the mistake? the increase of the petrol price in a very wide margin.the mistake was there.
     peningkatan yang banyak telah membawa huru hara yang banyak.ramai yang menunggu untuk menaikkan harga.that happened.as the oil rise so diod the support for pak lah also took a small nose dive.
     thsi issue will surely be manipulated by the opposition.this is the strongest point in the coming by election.any one can speak anything but what is reality? harga barang sudah naik.
     have to control this.
     jabatan jabatan kerajaan sebenarnya penting.whats their designation?
     merekalah sebenarnya yang melaksanakan segala dari peringkat bawah dan memastikan semua yang di rancang itu sampai.tapi apa yang berlaku.anyone want anything , the law says you must gibve them something.sebenarnya itu semacam satu profit sharing yang mana undang undang ini di ujudkan sendiri oleh mereka.so the projects went to those who are wiling to give some profit sharing.untuk kakitangan ini bukan rasuah tetapi pembahagian keuntungan.tafsiran boleh di buat berbagai bagai cara.realiti itu apa,setengah setengah pihak berasa tidak puas hati dan terpinggir.
     seorang yang di beri tanggungjawab melaksanakan sesuatu adalah seorang yang perlu menganggap dirinya mulia keran di beri peluang yang mana boleh juga di berikan pada orang lain kalau perlu.mereka lupa.ini yang di katakan harapkan pagar,pagar makan padi.
     all this time of operation has accumulated as time went on and start ticking like a time bomb.no one was carrying a whip.anwar pretended that he will fight for all this.now he seems to be potrayed as a hero.in actual he is not the man who can be relied on.
     pak lah is many times better than him.maybe pak lah slow sikit tapi sebagai se orang perdana menteri dia bukanlah pelaksana,dia hanya perancang.sebagai satu orang apa yang boleh dia buat.mereka yang patut menyokong pelaksanaan sendiri belot.matilah pak lah macam ni.kadang saya tengok dia betul betul kesian.orang buli.anwar lagilah mahu buli pak lah kerana pak lah tak lawan balik.
     he is good man.what he did for the peace and the muslim religion to grow god will bless him.dia telah mencetuskan satu tindakbalas atau perangsang.satu gelombang pembaharuan kedalam masyarakat isam.dengan perangsang ini harap masyarat ini dapat berubah dan mahu maju.everything needs time.
     apabila saya kenangkan pak lah akan turun hati saya seolah olah jadi kosong,buntu.siapa yang akan berjuang lagi untuk keamanan di kalangan umat islam dan juga manusia sejagat dari segi kebaikan.seperti satu kehilangan mutira yang di tatah pada cincin.
     kalau dari dulu lagi ada yang sanggup tolong dan menyedarkan keadaan,mungkin dalam pilihanraya ini ,pak lah dan umno mungkin tak kalah.the time period was veryvery short.but they went all out.when he lost some seats he really wanted to takeback and fight for it.pak lah ada semangat.perwatakan dia memang sesuai untuk perkembangan masyarakat islam dan untuk keamanan manusia sejagat.i like him also.
     ramai orang yang tuduh dia macam macam,for me i think the one he did on religion and peace is more of enough on the good side of a man.he is god man.
     ramai yang marah tun kerana pilih pak lah.tun, bila tiba satu waktu apabila sesuatu terjadi terutama dalam siapa yang akan jadi perdana menteri,tidak adalah kekuasaan kita di dalam membuat keputusan.memang ada takdir dia menjadi perdana menteri dan mesi ada sesuatu sebab yang kita semua tidak tahu.maybe through him god wants to move something.maybe god wanted something to happen through him.ini bukanlah di dalam kekuasaan seseorang manusia kecuali ada perancangan dan keputusan tuhan bahawa pak lah akan duduk.saya rasa mungkin pada nama nya.whatever the changes has start taking place.the positive changes i hope will resume and develop into unity creating a mass form of divinity.

307. Dear Tun,
     Your 5th paragrash sounds strange. It seems to say the rich, very rich should be helped by the government to become even richer, mega rich. And it seems to be what is happening in Malaysia.
     Shouldn’t it be that the rich should achieve further wealth on their own? Being rich, very rich and still getting help from the government to become even richer only seems to happen in stories of corruption. It doesn’t sound right for a normal/healthy society.
     Usually the rich and the powerful tend to know each other. So it is hard not to make people think of cronyism.
     Regards,
     Galaxy

308. Tun,
     I believe in what you say is true and the implementation of NEP is a direct result of the special rights of bumis as agreed by our forefathers when the constitution was drawn up. It is undeniable that it is somewhat successful to some extent. It might not be perfect but it did its job. However, I am sure Tun knows about one of the major flaw is that non Bumis that are not financially capable should be given an equal chance as the Bumis when it comes to education. Scholarship should be given to those who deserve them , ie: those that are financially not capable but excelled in their studies regardless of race. There shouldn’t be quota or any sort of system that limits the proportion of race in an education system. Education/scholarships should be given to those who seek and needs it, it should never come to preference of race or religion.
     That is my take on NEP. I don’t really complain or detest the implementation of NEP as I am very well aware of the ‘social contract’ that Tun is trying to convey to us . I perfectly understand Tun’s reason and support for NEP as I would do the same if I am in your position as a leader. But I would also stress that after half a century of independence, Malaysians now know much more than the average Malaysian we know 50 years ago. Be it 5,10,20 or 50 years from now, NEP cannot stay on forever and change is inevitable.

309. yep tun i agreed with you accept i quite wondering …malay equity
     1983- 18.7%
     2003 – 18.7%
     2008 – ????
     what really happen..

310. INILAH BALASAN ALLAH TERHADAP DR M YANG KEJI CUBA MERAMPAS HAK HAK MELAYU DEMI KEPENTINGAN ANAK ANAK SENDIR DAN KRONI KRONI DALAM UMNO. KINI UMNO PAK LAH AND NAJIB LANGSUNG TAK HORMATI DR M ADALAH INDUK DALAM SISTEM KORUPSI, NEPOTISM DAN SALAH GUNA KUASA SEMASA KUASA DITKATOR PM SELAMA 22 TAHUN DI MALAYSIA.
     KINI RAKYAT MELAYU SESAK DAN SUSAH PASAL PAK LAH YANG DR M PILIH JADI PM LANGSUNG TAK ADA GUNA. PAK BODOWI AMAT SOMBONG, TAMAK DAN KURANG BIJAK YANG BOLEH HANCURKAN UMNO BILA BILA MASA SINGKAT LAGI. HANG TUAN BILANG ” MELAYU TIDAK AKAN HILANG DITANAH AIR SENDIRI” AKAN JADI KENYATAAN SEBENAR KALAU UMNO MASIH MEMIMPIN MELAYU AKAN DATANG. ZALAM KEGELAPAN MELAYU AKAN TIBA SELAGI UMNO MASIH TERAJUI BARISAN NASIONAL.
     ADOI! TUN,
     DR M BILANG MEMANG BETUL SEMUA KRONI KRONI MELAYU KAYA RAYA PASAL SISTEM KORUPSI KERAJAAN BN DALAM ZAMAN DR M DULU. MASYARAKAT MELAYU SEMAKIN HARI SEMAKIN SAKIT, SENSARA DAN SUSAH PASAL SISTEM KORUPSI , SOMBONG DAN TAMAK DALAM UMNO CUBA RAMPAS TANAH TANH MELAYU RESAB DAN MENAIKAN HARGA BARANGAN HARIAN. JIKA SDR ANWAR DI PENJARA SELAMA LAMA PASAL KES KONSPIRASI SODOMI AKAN HANCURKAN MELAYU PEMIMPIM BIJAK INI AKAN BAWA MALAPETAKA TERHADAP BANGSA MELAYU SENDIRI.
     PERCAYA CAKAP CAKAP ORANG TUA MELAYU BILANG :
     “SELAGI ANAK MELAYU DALAM UMNO KURANG BIJAK, KORUP, SOMBONG, TAMAK, NEPOT, MENIPU DAN SALAH GUNA KUASA, MAKA SUMPAH HANG TUAH AKAN JADI KENYATAAN TAK LAMA LAGI”.
     DEMI ALLAH BERTAUBAT LAH DR M KINI, BADAN MELAYU BINASA PASAL MULUT DR M MASIH BUAT BISING BANYAK.
     DEMI ALLAH ! RAKYAT BEBILANG KAUM AKAN HIDUP SENANG SELAMA LAMANYA KALAU DR M SUDAH TUTUP MULUT.
     INSYALLAH !
     ANAK MELAYU BUMIPUTRA BANGSA MALAYSIA

311. i still think that the BN formula is the best equation for power sharing in this country. However what was once a sincere and humble initiative to balance wealth and power amongst the poorer ethnic groups, quickly became an obsession to accumulate more wealth and greater control over the rest until the ‘dacing’ began tilting one side. Leaders became too powerful, their henchmen became greedy and the voices of the people completely ignored. UMNO, a party with sincere beginnings turned into a party full of aristrocats. When they talk you better listen. Alas a haughty spirit goes before a fall! MCA, a party of great tradition turned a party of great contradiction. It is well known that those enlisting to be members are in for some kind of ‘jalan’. MIC? enuf has been said.
     But if we truly go back to the people, repent of our sins, turn our wicked ways and revive the spirit of BN then I believe as all malaysian would love to have a wonderful Malaysia which is truly ASia! It is still a country where I could ask ahmad, muthu and ahseng to ‘teh tarik’ without qualms. God bless my malaysia!

312. Assalamualaikum Ayahanda Tun,
     Sebenar nya saya adalah salah satu daripada produk DEB. Saya bangga jadi anak Malaysia. Hidup Tun!
     Audi

313. Tun,
     As a medical doctor by profession, by right you should be aware that a deadline should always be planned for completely stop milking a baby. We cannot expect a mother to continue breast feed her baby when the baby has already grown up to the age of conduciveness for feeding on hard food. When the baby has already grown up to six years’ old, it is advisable for the mother to completely stop spoon-feeding him/her again. The baby has to learn how to feed himself/herself and learn how to go to toilet independently without continuing to rely on the mother or the maid to clean up the shit at the buttock for him/her. In other words, over-pampering a baby will tend to spoil him/her and impede his/her childhood development potential for achieving personal independence.
     A head of goat which was brought up in a feed-lot system would never learn how to efficiently graze on the green pasture even though the goat farmer had to unleash it to enable it to find its own edible feed when he can no longer afford to feed it with the expensive pellet feed, whereas a head of goat which was raised in a free pasture system would always know where to find its green roughage without much help from the goat farmer.
     NEP is just like the feed-lot system. And the feed-lot goat will be heading nowhere when some days in the future the goat farmer has to set free the goat for grazing by itself because he finds that the cost of prepared feed is no longer affordable to him. It is highly possible that such a feed-lot goat will never be able to adapt to the new feeding environment of a free pasture land because it will tend to complain that either the sunny day is too hot or the rainy day is too cold for it to wander around.
     In the end, it is not the goat farmer who will have the discretion to decide whether to continue with the feed-lot system. The decisive factor actually lies in the invisible hand of the market price mechanism. If the feed-lot system has to be continued further, then the goat farmer must first be able to convince himself that the system is still generating adequate cash flow internally and his bank account still allows him to continue with the old system. Otherwise, the end-result will be an inevitable bankcruptcy fate for the goat farmer himself!
     The goat farmer is an analogy of the present BN government, the feed-lot system is an analogy of NEP of Malaysia, and the feed-lot goat is an analogy of Bumiputra. A meritocracy system is like a free pasture land, where the goat farmer by implementing it can eventually find a lot of benefits which can be reaped from the ultimate cost-effectiveness in the goat farming business. However, the goat farmer must be careful to slowly change from the feed-lot system to the free pasture system by implementing the new system only on the new batch of goat kids. This is because it is usually too late to teach an old goat new trick therefore the goat farmer must endure his early decisional mistake until he has already gotten rid of his old goat either by way of natural death or by way of inviting a new investor to buy over his farm (change the leadership).
     I am sure there is a third choice for the goat farmer but I hope the third choice will not be adopted by the goat farmer by hook or by crook. Of course, the third choice is the most undesirable one for the feed-lot goat, i.e. to sell the goat to the butcher for slaughtering (let the colonists take over the reign)!
     Onlooker

314. Assalamulaikum Tun,
     Tun has wrote a very interesting topic. A topic that is very close to my heart. A topic that I must give comment. And that topic is the NEP. I would like to state that I am a product of NEP. It is wrong to say that the NEP benefited only a few or cronies. I benefited from the NEP and I am not a crony. I believe other commentors who benefited from NEP are not cronies as well.
     For those who condemn the NEP, especially politicians, would do so at their own peril. For one thing, the malays as a whole benefited from the NEP. They account for 62% of the total population. And most, if not all of the successful professional malays in Malaysia are products of the NEP.
     They hold very important positions in the government as well as in the private sector. If you really treasure their votes in the next election please do not condemn the NEP to have benefited a few or cronies. These people know the truth as they themselves are products of NEP.
     As a young malay professional, I understand Tun’s strategy of not only creating a strong malay middle class but also a strong malay upper class. As stated by Tun, there is a need to not only reduce the racial disparity in the lower and middle class but also in the upper class. Big businesses should not be exclusively for the non-bumis. We need malay millionaires and billionaires. I read with sadness and dismay in a magazine that the top 10 richest Malaysians, only 1 is a malay. Even then he was in the 8th or 10th spot. Even in the economic ownership, malays are only own 19% of the nation’s wealth. In my mind I say, only in Malaysia where non-bumis can become so rich and successful. The non-bumis are truly blessed to be citizens of Malaysia.
     I believe an economically stable and educated malay population is beneficial to the non-malays. For one thing, the malay race is famous for their generosity and well mannered. They make excellent customers. And they account 62% of the population. Think of the sales you can make out of that. Well as a poor malay won’t give much to sales business.
     Furthermore an economically stable and educated malay population will ensure the racial riots of 13 May 1969 will never happen again.
     The non-malays stand to gain as much as the malays if the NEP is successful.
     During the 1997 financial crisis there was no racial riots in Malaysia. However, racial riots did happen in Indonesia at that time and many Chinese Indonesians seek refuge in Malaysia during those times.
     Why racial riots happened in Indonesia but not in Malaysia? Both were attacked by the currency speculators. Something we should ponder about.
     I agree with Tun’s point that the NEP is successful in increasing the education status of the malays. Yes, there are many malays now who are graduates and professionals. However, I believe that for every 1 malay professional there are more non-malay professional. I do hope in future this ratio will be reduced. That is in terms of race.
     However, in terms of gender is another matter. How we always read in the newspapers universities nowadays are populated by the girl population. Where are all the guys? I am a guy and in my workplace there are so many girls. I guess the male population is an endangered species nowadays.

315. Assalamualaikum Tun..
     Hope you in good health.. Anybody that said NEP fail to achieve it goals should really look deep into the issue in order to realize that there are more goods than bads came out from NEP. Some race said that NEP only benefit Bumiputra and also that NEP are form of discrimination against other races other than Bumi’s. How can they said or write that? If we do some researches we will find that there are no discrimination in NEP. For example every year Forbes Magazine release top ten Richest person in respective countries. I might remind everybody that this Magazine published by USA not Malaysia.. As we look closely we can see that among the top ten, 7 to 8 persons are Chinese, 1 Malay(maybe) and 1 Indian. From the list itself how can we said that Government or NEP discriminate against other races when vast majority on the list are non Bumi’s. What NEP try to do are to close the dispairity between races so that it will lessen the racial tension. I am one of them that benefit from NEP when Government offer me scholarship to study abroad. If I have to wait for my dad money to study abroad I might not have a chance…
     NEP really help the Malays and Indian came out from where they used to live to more challanging environment.. If not Malay still in the Kampung become a farmer and Indian still in estate and be a rubber taper.. Now both malays and Indians are everywhere some of them become successful and are able to compete with Chinese thanks to NEP..
     Some people say that NEP have been there to long but for me we still need NEP but have to reform NEP a little bit in order to close those gap but with the method that are suitable in this century.. Cannot abolish them period… Remember we just merely 50 years celebrate our independence.. USA took more than 300 years of independence to become what they are today… But still cannot escape racial tension because of the gap of dispairity… Believe me if you have been to USA or even lived there you will understand what I’m talking about… It is nice to hear about the USA rather than living there…
     We still need NEP but we have to reform them a little bit… because NEP make what we are today.. Not to many riots between races, get good education… and many many more…
     Appreciate Tun effort to educate people about NEP…

316. Selingan – Tingkatkan ekonomi tanpa modal terutama di zaman meleset la ni.

317. Tun, saya masih ingat DEB bermatlamatkan SERAMPANG DUA MATA, ia itu MEMBASMI KEMISKINAN TANPA MENGIRA KAUM dan kedua MENYUSUN SEMULA MASYARAKAT MALAYSIA. Dilancar pada 1970 dengan harapan dapat mengujudkan 30% ekuiti negara ini milik orang Melayu menjelang 1990.
     Shukur alhamdullilah, walaupun target 30% tidak tercapai kita mampu memperolehi antara 20%-22% sahaja.
     Nyata sebelum 1970 dalam kampong saya yang memiliki kereta hanya kaum Cina dan orang Melayu yang memiliki kereta adalah seorang councillor dan Demang(penghulu).
     Manakala itu pada tahun 1969 terdapat seorang sahaja anak Melayu dari kampong saya yang berjaya menjejakkan kaki ke Universiti Pertanian. Saya masih ingat berduyun duyun orang kampong datang untuk mengucapkan selamat jalan kepadanya. Sambil bersalaman ada yang sedekah 50 sen dan ada yang hulur RM1.00. Kami rasa bangga seorang anak Melayu kampong dapat memijakkan kaki ke menara gading. Selepas bas rombongan berlepas menuju UPM, saya yang tidak mampu mengikuti rombongan itu memendam cita cita untuk mengikuti jejak beliau, tetapi cengkamam kemiskinan tidak mengizinkan saya melanjutkan pelajaran ke peringkat lebih tinggi walaupun memiliki SENIOR CAMBRIDGE CERTIFICATE.
     Perbezaan di kampong saya kini amat nyata jika dibandingkan sebelum 1970, semua ini adalah hasil kejayaan DEB. Sekarang setiap rumah sekurang kurangnya ada seorang yang berjaya memperolehi sama ada ijazah atau diploma. Setiap rumah sekurang kurangnya ada sebuah kereta dan menjelang hari raya kampong saya mengalami trafik jam yang amat dahsyat sekali. Saya dok bayangkan apakah akan jadi pada generasi kini di kampong saya jika Tun Razak tidak melancarkan DEB. Mungkin nasib kami lebih terok dari Indonesia.
     Saya juga bayangkan apakah akan terjadi kepada anak bangsa saya dimasa akan datang?. Apakah yang diperjuangkan oleh Pak Lah untuk menjamin orang Melayu masih boleh berharap kepada UMNO. Adakah DSAI yang memenangi ANUGERAH PELAKON POLITIK TERBAIK 2008 dengan mainan sendiwara demi sendiwaranya mampu untuk meneruskan perjuangan ketuanan Melayu????? Apakah perjuangan DSAI sebenarnya?
     Persoalannya sekarang adakah ekuiti Melayu masih kekal di tahap 22% atau pun telah menurun????????

318. SALAM TUN,
     NEP
     Anda boleh cakap macam2 tentang NEP. Mungkin pendapat anda ada betulnya dan ada salahnya.
     HAKIKAT YANG PERLU SEMUA MANUSIA TAHU adalah setiap tindakan atau dasar pasti ada kebaikan dan ada keburukan. Malahan sesuatu yang tidak baik pun ada kebaikan. Satu contoh, dengan wujudnya perompak maka akan ada:
     1.pegawai polis pelbagai jawatan juga jabatan,
     2.HQ jabatan polis,
     3.profesion untuk CSI,
     4.akan ada kerjasama antara polis dunia sesama mereka.
     5.profesion hakim dan peguam.
     6.tambah lagi bidang pengajian undang2 dan kepolisan
     7.universiti dan akademi polis
     8.macam2 lagi
     Kita tak boleh nafikan setiap tindakan pasti ada kebaikan atau keburukan samaada perbuatan itu baik ataupun jahat. Soalnya bagaimana dan berapa banyak kita menggunakan sesuatu tindakan atau dasar ke arah kebaikan?
     Dalam soal NEP, hasilnya pasti ada kebaikan atau keburukan tapi YANG PASTI ianya lebih banyak membawa kebaikan kepada semua rakyat terutamanya masyarakat bumiputera juga dalam masa sama mengekalkan kesejahteraan rakyat. HAKIKAT ini tidak boleh dinafikan setelah rakyat mengalami krisis 13 Mei 1969.
     Masalah kroni adalah kecil, sebaliknya apabila disemak kembali majoriti top 40 jutawan dalam Malaysia adalah non bumi dan pendapatan perkapita non bumi adalah lebih tinggi dari bumi.
     Masyarakat Cina dan India tak perlu risau akan dasar NEP. Semua rakyat telah berjuang untuk meletakkan Malaysia pada kedudukan sekarang menjadi negara membangun.
     MENJADI KEWAJIPAN RAKYAT PRIBUMI untuk mengekalkan keistimewaan dan hak PRIBUMI. Ini termasuklah negara CHINA dan INDIA tambahan negara maju dari EROPAH terus menjaga keistimewaan dan hak2 pribumi.
     Jadi soal NEP bukanlah masalah besar sedang negara lain juga mempunyai dasar-dasar untuk rakyatnya cuma ‘term’ yang digunakan mungkin berlainan.
     Kita sepatutnya bekerjasama menggunakan NEP untuk kepentingan semua rakyat supaya keamanan dapat dikekalkan dan kesejahteraan ekonomi terjamin.
     LAWAN ANWAR
     Sedang TUN sekarang ini tiada dalam mana-mana parti, apa kata TUN bertanding lawan ANWAR IBRAHIM dekat PERMATANG PAUH atas tiket BEBAS….
     Saya nak tengok juga reaksi Anwar bila TUN buat kenyataan nak bertanding parlimen tu. Kalau acah pun jadilah….
     Mesti gabra punya….
     “SAYA MOHON TUN BINCANGKAN CALON2 PENGGANTI YANG ADA DAN UMNO EGM AKAN DATANG.”
     APA-APA PUN TERUSKAN MENGUNDI MENDESAK PAK LAH SUPAYA MELETAK JAWATAN:
     http://www.PetitionOnline.com/PakLah/
     VOTE SEGERA DEMI MALAYSIA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
     WASALAM

319. Salam Tun,
     I would like to second with what was said by
     By OrangLama on August 6, 2008 6:07 PM
     What he said is correct (at least for me). The Kelantan Malays are in the opinion that Kelantan is perfect under PAS. Kelantan for the time being is insulated from political problem because of Assobiyah Politics. Jobs created in KL are for Kelantanese Malay as well. The Kelantanese Malay will send money to their parents . Kelantan Menteri Besar does not need to create jobs in Kelantan as the people will go elsewhere to work. But what will happen if Malaysia is becoming Kelantan. Without work where would the Malay go. The universities in Malaysia is full of Kelantanese? They are major benefeciory of DEB but why are they against the system? It is because they do not know that they are enjoying the system. Lack of information if I may say so. Even if Kelantan State is poor, their people are not so. Many Kelantanese resides elsewhere especially in KL and Selangor because they work there and they can send their money to their parents in Kelantan. So, lack of jobs in Kelantan is not a problem. Now, let us see a wider picture. Where would the Malay go if no more jobs created in KL and Selangor. The Kelantan Malay would go back to Kelantan and see what happen next.

320. Salam Tun.
     The NEP never feel…
     The NEP help all recal to get new income in cek economi.
     The NEP never become prite to steel rich people.
     I hope Tun can give more idea to make sure the Bumupitra can stand same level with enother level recal.
     Tun ..about croni…just forget about them. They just now to talk but dont no to work.
     May God Belese Tun and Toh Puan.
     Tun ples realse are BOOK…about you.
     Tq
     Hidup Tun…Hidup Tun…Hidup Tun

321. to crazyidiot,
     if there’s no NEP, alot of people in malaysia will still be poor you noe.
     who the hell is gonna buy stuff made by these chinese companies of urs. you chinese make up how many percent in malaysia? how many indians? is simple economic theory that hard to understand?
     how would racial harmony be achieved? you keep shouting equality. i assumed that you are doing this for the sake of a better malaysia. but how would malaysia be any better than now without NEP?
     you gonna use singapore as an example again arent you. how small is singapore? how many malays in singapore? how many poor people are there in singapore when they got their independence from malaysia?
     unlike lee kuan yew, our PMs needs to take care a lot more people and land. sabah sarawak how, perlis, kelantan terengganu how? most of the chinese is in KL. you think KL is the only place our government should put their concern on? how bout these other poor malay people living outside the wealth distribution area? ignored for the betterment of the non-bumis?
     you proved urself as a racist. that or ur juz dumb to see the bigger picture.

322. Salam, Tun & Family be in good health,
     The moral story of the father, son & an ass will be a good basis for one to be good leaders. Don’t give a damned what people said if you really believe abd sincere in waht you are doing is for the good of the country you lead.Successful leaders must have the ability to lead and the ones who have the vision and the skill to draw out and implement comprehensive affirmative actions to achieve that vision within the target period. Of course as you have rightly mentioned, people will always try to pull you down because of their jealously and personal agenda especially against the “underdog” like the Malay race.
     Whatever labels they have placed on you, have not deterred or discouraged you at all in proceeding towards achieving your vision for the Malays in particular and Malaysia in general. Of all many successes and achievements that you have created, one of the most important that the Malays and generation to come must remember, was your single-minded decision to do “MY WAY” in handling the 1997 financial crisis. It is a CLASSIC case study for MBA students in undertaking Finance, economic as well as political science subjects. If I recalled, nobody even the Malaysians including your deputy ( DSAI) supported your idea, but have predicted that Malaysia will be doomed. You had proved them wrong again & again.( US was indeed very disappointed as shown by Al Gore when you dismissed DSAI, the darling of USA, I believed). Under your leadership, Malaysia managed to go through that troubled period with “flying colours”, once again defied the prophets of doom. We must always remember that US will not and will never give-up their desire to “colonise” us by putting in-placed puppet leader to receive orders from White House.
     I’ve met a few foreigners especially from 3rd world countries indicating that if the Malaysian do not want you anymore, if there is a way they were willing to “buy” you to lead their country. Just like a good and skillful footballer is being hunted by top football clubs. Unlike football clubs however, these countries are unfortunately not the richest to pay you a fortune to secure your services. I have really a mixed feeling in hearing that kind of high recognition bestowed on you by the foreigners. One, I felt honoured being a Malaysian but on the other hand, I was really ashamed being a Malaysian for Malaysians themselves did not appreciate and be grateful to what you have contributed to bangsa Melayu and Negara.
     I can go on and on with the long list of your achievement during your premiership. In closing, I really pray that Allah provides you the strength and show you the way to save our beloved country called MALAYSIA. I would to call upon all Malaysians especially the Malays to honour you as what you deserved. “Melayu Boleh” tapi janganlah cepat lupa. We will unlikely to find another Malays or even Malaysian, maybe for next 400 years, to have another world leadership of you caliber.
     May Allah bless us all. OB

323. Sayang sekali polisi yang baik ini di salah ertikan oleh pihak yang tertentiu. Kalau bukan NEP, apakah polisi lain yang boleh memajukan kaum melayu atau mengurangkan jurang kekayaan antara kaum???

324. Tun,
     Looking at myself and my family certainly I am not your crony. However, I am thankful to your education policy which benefited me and my children to the most. To get sponsored by the government I must have good results in my exams; I have to attend interview boards meeting many spelt criteria; I have to convince them that I could have excelled in my studies.Thus my 1st,2nd and 3rd degrees are paid by the Government.Thank you to the Government under your leadership Tun.

325. Dear Tun,
     I can vouch for you that despite some shortcomings, NEP has indeed excelled in ‘human re-engineering’ i.e. assist the Malays & Bumiputera because without it I could not imagine what could happen to all of us.
     I’m proud to acknowledge that despite just being a kampong boy, a son of primary school dropout parents, I managed to graduate from a University overseas in Engineering field. I succeeded because I have the intellectual capacity to do so and not because I was a Malay.
     Had I not being assisted by NEP, I could still be another school dropout working in kampong.
     To those Malays who are belittling the NEP do ponder where would you be today if NEP has not helped or not assisted you even a little bit…

326. Assalamualaikum wbt.
     Dear Tun and All,
     DEB. Dasar Ekonomi Baru, satu dasar yang mengurangkan jurang antara bumi dan bukan bumi. Sememangnya ia dapat mencapai matlamatnya.
     Perbincangan mengenai kroni nampak seperti tidak begitu di jelaskan dengan begitu baik. Seperti Tun menunjukkan kegeraman terhadap mereka yang menentang polisi tersebut. Istilah kroni itu sendiri tidak diperjelaskan dengan baik. Kroni lebih menjelaskan suatu hubungan yang sgt rapat antara seseorang dengan individu yang lain. Gagal atau berjaya individu dalam dasasr ini tidak pernah dibicarakan dengan lebih mendalam terhadap isu kroni. Malah sekiranya benar sekalipun, tidak ada salahnya. Kalau kroni itu melayu, jadi polisi itu berjaya. Malah di sebabkan polisi ini Tun mendapat “kroni” baru, masih dikira polisi yang berjaya, perkara asas nya dia bumipurta.
     Katakan seseorang bumi di anugerahkan kontrak, tun tak kenal, kemudian berjaya dan Tun kenal dan “berkawan”, itu sendiri dari mata kaca keliling dia akan di panggil kroni.
     Rancangan yang wujud dari dasar ini mempunyai matlamat yang jelas tetapi matlamatnya sentiasa ada ruang untuk pelbagai perkara jahat untuk berlaku. Samaada dari sudut pihak didalam atau dari tindakan orang diluarnya.
     Tun seperti bermain catur, kalau orang biasa hafal 5-6 langkah, tetapi tun dalam 10-11 langkah.
     Hebat bagi orang biasa, langkah ke 12 dan keatas( mungkin selepas tun out of this world) tak terlintas diminda. Dasar itu seharusnya atau sepatutnya berubah ikut keadaan semasa. Dasar yang diwujudkan untuk mengembalikan keseimbangan dan mengetepikan keadilan.
     Kelangsungan dan kekukuhan dasasr itu sangat bergantung kepada pemimpin yang ada, kalau semua yang jadi pemimpin semua macam Tun, sebijik otak dari lepas tun lepas jawatan sampai kiamat mungkin boleh. Dan selagi melayu itu kekal malas nak kena suap ja, mungkin boleh jugak. Tetapi keadaan akan berubah, mahathir look alike impossible. Melayu semua berubah bawah sistem DEB, macam tun cakap melayu makin ramai pandai , malah ada yang boleh fikir 12 step keatas. Manusia tidak sehebat Yang Maha Kuasa.
     to be continued….
     (banyak nak cakap, brader pusat cc nie halau la plak, budak2 nak main game) brader nie hasil dari DEB ker???
     Hanya pendapat

327. Salam Yg diKasihi Tun,
     Another superb article! I agree with you. Some Bumiputras who actually benefited from NEP refused to accept this fact.
     I consider myself (I believe so) as one of Tun’s CRONIES since I am one of the products of NEP during your time (even though I’ve never been awarded with any projects).
     May Allah SWT bless Tun and family. Thanks Tun.

328. Tun,Even after the implementation of NEP,The malays are still far behind the other races in many sectors.This clearly shows they are not competitive and taking things easy.
     The main cause of such attitude is due to NEP,If they are left without being pampered,I believe there will be many MALAY achievers.Look at the INDIANS for instances,With a total population of only 8% out of the 28 mil,They seems to control more than 30% of medical doctors and Lawyers in malaysia.Imagine,If the same benefits and previliges enjoyed by the malays are given to the indians,Definately the figure would have surged futher and controlled the other proffessions too.
     Nothing much to be proud of,The standard of our BEST university are not even in the top 200 in ASIA.Ponder the cause of the drop,Strenghten the quality of intake irrespective of race and religion,Then you can see a massive surge.What we have now,Among the malays. Are only quantity and not quality.
     This is only one sector,I’m discussing about.(Education)If you look carefully,They have failed in all sectors even with the help of the government.There were many Malays,Who has progressed well before the implementation of the NEP Policy,During my primrary school days there were many capable and competent malay teachers.They had the quality with them unlike today.
     I know very well,Many many malay readers will hit me hard on this posting,As I have experience enough in the previous postings.My intention is not to hurt or insult but seeking justice for the minorities as well.WHY are the good grade indians neglected by the Government knowingly they are poor and unable to afford for their educations.I Hope this posting are not taken personnel.

329. Tun,Even after the implementation of NEP,The malays are still far behind the other races in many sectors.This clearly shows they are not competitive and taking things easy.
     The main cause of such attitude is due to NEP,If they are left without being pampered,I believe there will be many MALAY achievers.Look at the INDIANS for instances,With a total population of only 8% out of the 28 mil,They seems to control more than 30% of medical doctors and Lawyers in malaysia.Imagine,If the same benefits and previliges enjoyed by the malays are given to the indians,Definately the figure would have surged futher and controlled the other proffessions too.
     Nothing much to be proud of,The standard of our BEST university are not even in the top 200 in ASIA.Ponder the cause of the drop,Strenghten the quality of intake irrespective of race and religion,Then you can see a massive surge.What we have now,Among the malays. Are only quantity and not quality.
     This is only one sector,I’m discussing about.(Education)If you look carefully,They have failed in all sectors even with the help of the government.There were many Malays,Who has progressed well before the implementation of the NEP Policy,During my primrary school days there were many capable and competent malay teachers.They had the quality with them unlike today.
     I know very well,Many many malay readers will hit me hard on this posting,As I have experience enough in the previous postings.My intention is not to hurt or insult but seeking justice for the minorities as well.WHY are the good grade indians neglected by the Government knowingly they are poor and unable to afford for their educations.I Hope this posting are not taken personnel.

330. asalamualaikum bapak…
     org melayu ni kan bapak kan…bila tolong depa..depa sukaria gembiraria…kalo tolong org lain marah kan main…ceq bukan mengata..ceq ada kawan sekerje…sepupu suami dia ketua dlm satu jabatan..seme tender sepupu suami dia yg urus…kawan ceq kata sepupu suami dia teruk landsung takmo tolong adik beradik n sedara mara…ceq kata tu keje dia…mungkin ada etika kerje yg perlu dia ikut…kalo org lain tau n dia kena buang keje hangpa gak yg menyumpah dia kan…tu lah mentaliti melayu….
     penin2 dgn melayu…sabarrrrrrrrr jelahhhhhh……
     teruskan perjuangan bapak….go…

331. Perlukah diskaun bumiputra untuk membeli rumah bernilai RM 1 juta?
     Inilah DEB Dr.M

332. If NEP is successful why is it that it has not reach its desired target? Don’t you think there is something wrong with the implementation of the policy? After extending it to 30 years…and beyond…can it be still called “New”?

333. Menteri Besar Selangor Tan Sri Kahlid berkata beliau sendiri adalah produk NEP. Beliau berterima kasih kerana beliau berjaya kerana NEP. Tetapi beliau berkata kerana beliau hari ini telah berjaya, beliau tidak perlu lagi tongkat NEP untuk terus maju. Itu lah sebabnya wujud Agenda Ekonomi Malaysia. Tiada beza Agenda Ekonomi Malaysia dengan DEB, kecuali Agenda Ekonomi Malaysia bertujuan khusus untuk rakyat malaysia yang miskin.
     NEP hanya bertujuan untuk meningkatkan mereka yang kurang berkemampuan. Malangnya hari ini NEP digunakan sebagai umpan untuk orang melayu untuk selama-lamanya bergantung kepada NEP. Inilah senjata UMNO untuk terus merasuah orang orang melayu. Apa bezanya perang NEP dengan perang candu satu masa dulu?

334. Kamarul’s views seems to indicate that he has forgotten the goals of Vision 2020, and he is still living in a world of ignorance, self-interest and denial.
     Every Malaysian should be given equal opportunities in this country regardless of their background. After 50 years are we still in the position to be deciding who should be the 1st class citizen and who should be the 2nd class rakyat?
     However I suspect Kamarul is merely jesting with himself, if not, then dia yang tak sedar diri (or perhaps tak ingat dunia tak?).

335. Dear Faridah,
     “By Faridah on August 6, 2008 3:42 PM
     If not for the NEP i don’t know where I would be now. My parents were very poor but we were hardworking at school and became excellent students. Luckily, under NEP we were recognized and given scholarships. Now all my siblings are doing well and because we are not so poor anymore and mostly because we are highly educated, our children future are much brighter than if we were to remain poor and uneducated. Thank you to you and your sacrifice having to face all the malicious critics from inside and outside the country which were all ignorant and self serving.”
     Anda bercakap seperti diatas. Anda memang berhak untuk mendapat bantuan NEP. Tetapi fikirkan untuk sejenak, apakan yang akan berlaku sekiranya anda seorang yang sangat miskin tetapi dari bangsa bukan melayu. Terfikirkah anda bahawa anda mungkin masih lagi tersangkut sebagai orang miskin kerana NEP tidak akan membantu anda hanya kerana anda bukan-melayu walaupun anda miskin???
     Hari ini anda berkata anda dan adik beradik anda “doing well”. Adakah anda masih memerlukan NEP untuk membantu anda? Tidakkah anda sudah tidak memerlukan tongkat lagi selepas ini. Tidakkah wajar sekiranya NEP digunakan untuk membantu orang lain yang miskin tidak kira kaum dan agama?? Sekiranya anda setuju, inilah yang dipanggil Dasar Ekonomi Malaysia dipelopori Pakatan Rakyat.

336. Kpd Tun yg di hormati & dikasihi.
     Saya and 6 org adik bradik adalah product dari NEP. Kami semua telah di tawar belajar ke luar negara atas biasiswa penuh kerajaan di zaman Tun memerintah. Kami semua belajar bersungguh2 setelah kakak yg sulung ditawarkan biasiswa keluar negara tajaan kementrian pelajaran.Kami kini menjawat jawatan penting dlm bidang masing2. Ayah adalah bekas pegawai kerajaan yg tak terlibat langsung dlm politik dan ibu adalah suri rumah tangga sepenuh masa. Kami adik beradik ingin megucapkan jutaan terima kasih tak terhingga atas dasar NEP yang Tun laksanakan. Disebabkan NEP, kami sedar pelajaran itu penting dan peluang yang terbuka untuk berjaya. Guru English saya Mr Lai pernah memanggil saya & rakan melayu yg lain ( 4 malays amongst 35 chinese in one classroom during my fifth former at public school ) & dan menasihat supaya merebut peluang yang kerajaan berikan utk kami. Tiada cakapan iri hati dr beliau. Hanya ingin melihat anak murid melayunya berjaya & mengharumkan nama sekolah. Sebelum itu tiada seorg pun anak melayu berada dlm kelas A & tiada seorg murid melayu mendapat gred satu dlm SPM.Alhamdullilah 4 anak murid nya berjaya & semuanya ditawarkan biasiswa keluar negara.
     Morale of the story : Without implementing NEP in your tenureship dear Tun,My siblings & I & schoolmates will not be what are we of today & be part of contributing the development of this bless country.
     Our heartfelt gratitude from the bottom of our heart Sir.
     Thank you.

337. Dear Tun M & isa_affendi
     isa_affendi mentioned this in his posting
     “For example I finish 5th in my class & was awarded scholarship, while 1st-4th didnt get scholarship because they were Non-bumiputera. Their parents earn more than my parents, but they didnt notice. They only see unfairness.”
     Soalan pertama saya. Apakah nasib pelajar-pelajar bukan-bumiputra sekiranya ibu-bapa mereka adalah miskin? Mereka telah berkerja kuat dan berusaha dan belajar bersungguh sungguh walaupun ibubapa mereka tidak mampu untuk menghantar mereka belajar IPT? Hakikatnya mereka tidak akan mendapat biasiswa walaupun mereka miskin hanya kerana warna kulit mereka. Bukan kah begitu?
     Soalan kedua saya. Apakah sekiranya saudara affendi dari keluarga berkemampuan? Affendi tidak mempunyai merit untuk mendapat biasiswa kerana ada 4 orang lagi lebih bijak. Dan juga affendi cukup berkemampuan untuk belajar tanpa biasiswa. Tetapi cuba pandang sekeliling berapa ramai anak bumiputra kaya yang mendapat biasiswa walaupun kaya dan keputusan SPM lebih kurang sahaja.
     Ingatlah, bukan semua non-bumi kaya dan bukan semua melayu miskin. Inilah kelemahan besar NEP.

338. Sir,
     Salam & Good Day. May ALLAH continue to shower you & Tun Hasmah with good health & good appetite.
     I am a NEP’s product. Based on the government policy, I managed to become a graduate and now running my own practice.
     My Client? 95% either government department or GLC or government related company.
     I was in the private sector prior to establishing my own. I know lots of people that related to my works, some of them in the government & some in the private sector during my tenure working with one of the big gun. They know me & respect me professionally.
     Upon starting my own company, I went to see my friends. Here is the true scenario:-
     1. Government depts appoint me based on my merit.
     2. I haven’t got any job from the private sector although some of the top bosses know me personally. Usually they will use lots of excuses not to appoint me, but two (2) of them, CEO OF 2 PUBLIC LISTED COMPANY, bluntly told that although our bloods are same colour, red, our skins are not.
     Some of you may wonder why Malays have to depend to the government to survive? The answer is – Non-Malays practiced nepotism & croynism. They shall helps their own community prior to other community. So if we reciprocal the same arrangement, why do they make a fuss about it.
     I do think NEP should be implemented in perpetuity.
     Cheerio

339. Hi Tun M,
     Read what mushroom_soup got to say, betul ramai Bumiputra mendapat manfaat dari NEP, tetapi Bumiputra juga telah menjadi terlalu bergantung kepada NEP.
     Masalah besar NEP ia telah mewujudkan satu bangsa Melayu yang bergantung kepada tongkat selama-lamanya. Cuba lah baca berapa posting yang berkata sedemikian.
     NEP telah mewujudkan satu kuantiti besar graduan Melayu tetapi malangnya tiada berkualiti.
     Tun M mungkin bertanya, mengapa selepas berpuluh tahun NEP, melayu masih lagi tidak boleh berdiri di kaki sendiri. Inilah tabii manusia.
     Ambil sahaja contoh, seorang pelajar melayu di tingkatan 5 hari ini Dia mungkin bijak pandai dan berkemampuan untuk mendapat 10A dalam SPM, tetapi oleh kerana NEP dia mungkin berkata “buat apa nak berusaha keras untuk dapat 10A? Kan dapat 3A pun cukup saya boleh dapat biasiswa”.
     Malangnya inilah hasil NEP. Ramai pelajar melayu berpotensi tinggi hari ini menjadi substandard kerana NEP.

340. Salam buat Tun,
     Rasanya pemimpin2 zaman AAB semua takde telinga untuk mendengar masalah rakyat tiada mulut untuk bersuara tak kira dari UMNO maupun
     MCA dan yang lebih teruk MIC dan PPP.
     Saya pernah dengar AAB pernah berucap bahawa beliau adalah PM untuk
     semua bangsa kalau ya pun benar kenapa issue MAIKA Holding beliau tak pernah ambil tau.
     2 penggal jadi PM satu Malaysia atau mereka yang celik pasti tau siapa kah RAJA segala cronyism.
     Dulu semasa zaman Tun bila ada siaran lansung ucapan TUN kita sanggup menunggu depan TV untuk mendengar ucapan TUN dari mula hingga keakhir sekarang ini pemimpin membuat ucapan lebih baik tukar channel kecarton………………….
     Nasib baiklah atas usaha TUN walaupun dah bersara kita masih dapat mempelajari banyak daripada TUN.
     Keep up your quality and valuable comment.
     May god bless you with good health for many many years to come.

341. Salam Tun,
     1. Kejayaan Tun dan para pemimpin dahulu
     Pada pandangan saya jasa Tun paling besar terhadap negara ialah menjayakan Dasar Ekonomi Baru(DEB) yang telah diperjuangkan bersama2 dengan pemimpin dahulu. Saya katakan negara kerana DEB adalah satu daripada faktor penting untuk negara kita menjadi stabil dan aman. Saya percaya hampir semua orang Melayu (samada dirinya/anaknya/kaum keluarga terdekat dan jauh) telah menikmati faedah DEB yang diusahakanoleh para pemimpin kita melalui perbincangan rumit dengan parti komponen BNasional.
     Mohon maaf saya ni kalau nak kata ultra-melayu terpulanglah. Mana2 orang Melayu (yang menentang atau bersengkongkol dengan penentang2)DEB bagi saya adalah pengkianat kepada bangsanya. Kaum bukan Melayu/Bumi sudah mula terima DEB kerana mereka yakin orang Melayu/Bumi perlu maju supaya mereka boleh hidup dengan aman tanpa pertasaan syak wasangka, cemburu, berdendam dan sebagainya. Sejarah telah membuktikan peristiwa ngeri yang telah berlaku di negara kita dan beberapa negara akibat ketidakpuasan hati kaum pribumi.
     2.Kesilapan Tun (sorry Tun)
     Malangnya kebelakangan ini orang melayu dalam PKR dan PAS dah mula mempersoalkan DEB. Kononya hanya untuk orang UMNO saja. DEB inilah menghasilkan orang Melayu yang telah berjaya tapi tak sedar diri.Contohnya, DEB telah membantu anak2 kampung Melayu jadi Profesor, doktor, peguam dan lain2 walaupun depa ni asyik duk hentam kerajaan. Bila dia berjaya dia rasa dirinya hebat. Bila dia gagal dia salahkan orang lain.
     DEB hanya ada jasad tetapi tak ada rohnya!
     Ramai orang melayu mendapat jawatan tinggi di kerajaan dan swasta, tetapi ramai yang tak menghayati semangat DEB. Kegilaan orang Melayu untuk berjaya menyebabkan terlalu ramai orang Melayu bersifat materialistic dalam masa yang sengkat dan berlaku perubahan minda besar2an.Amalan langgar ketua (seperti Saudara Anwar langgar Allyarham Tun Ghafar Baba untuk jawatan Timbalan Presiden UMNO dan perkara sebegini berlaku berleluasa di jabatan kerajaan dan swasta.
     DEB itu elok tetapi kita perlu tambahkan nilai2 peribadi mulia didalammya.
     3. Orang kelantan dan Kaum Bumi Sabah/sarawak dan lain2
     Perlaksanaan DEB juga nampak kurang tumpuan kepada bumiputera Sabah/Sarawak. Kesian kat depa. Nasib baik depa masih berhati mulia. Tetapi kerajaan BNasional tak boleh biarkan lama2 nanti depa memberontaklah!
     Nampaknya orang Melayu yang paling dapat faedah dari DEB ialah dari Kelantan. Saya pun tak tahu kenapa? Maka depa perasan tak payah sokong kerajaan pun tak pe. Kelantan boleh dibawah PAS bertahun2 lamanya kerana anak2 Kelantan pergi luar negeri(luar Kelantan tapi dalam Malaysia) dan hantar wang pendapatan kat kampung. Jadi kerajaan Kelantan tak perlu kaya kerana rakyat dia bawa balik duit kat kampung. Jangan marah ya!
     Setelah orang Melayu lihat Kelantan bawah PAS pun tak pe!Masih boleh dapat kerja baik, masih dapat masuk Universiti kerana ada DEB. Maka orang Melayu lain pun apa lagi ikut lah cara Saudara2 mereka di Kelantan. nanti Pakatan Rakyat menang baru hang pa semua tahu “No more Malay rights, Malaysia for Malaysians. One for All, and All for One”.
     Saya nasihatkan anak2 muda (yang dah tua susah dnak berubah hati kot! Keras sangat!)supaya pilih pemimpin yang betul2 jujur dan amanah. Bagaimana nak tahu? Lihat sejarah kepimpinan beliau yang silam. Jika telah diberi peluang sebagai pemimpin , adakah beliau telah melaksanakan dengan baik. termasuklah pemimpin kerajaan dan Pemimpin pembangkang. Jangan tertipu dengan kata2 manis, janji2 palsu, mimpi2 indah kerana kebanyakan ahli politik cari makan cara itu!
     Tetapi saya tetap bersetuju Tun amat berjasa kepada rakyat Malaysia khususnya orang Melayu. Bandingkanlah Tun dengan pemimpin2 Melayu yang masih ada sekarang. Ramai yang bercakap lebih tetapi cakap kosong saja.
     Mohon maaf jika terusik hati.

342. Salam Tun, after reading your article, I wrote this small piece in support of the altruist manner of agreement of citizenship and Malay privilege.
     Altruism of Malaysia’s Affirmative Actions
     Malaysia is only 50 years of age. The successful creation of independent Malaysia came in a hard way through the struggles of our far-sighted founding fathers, blessed by the spirit of altruism in our own style of affirmative action.
     In the first year of independence, the Malay with an open heart has offered citizenship to the non-citizen – the Chinese and Indian , whose 90% of population, despite of being forced as tin-mined labourer and rubber estate workers respectively and has been living in Malaysia for more than 100 years, were not been given citizenship, either by the British Administrators or Royal Rulers.
     The “heroic” Malay altruism was symbolised by the deeds of Tunku Abdul Rahman Putra, and the corresponding “heroic” Chinese and Indian altruism were symbolised by Tun Tan Cheng Lock and Tun VT Sambathan through the recognition of the special privileges of the Malays in exchange of the citizenship.
     In fact, the Malay, who were separated from the Indian and Chinese through profession, bussiness and govermental design by the British colonial master, can with any reason, reject the idea of “giving citizenship” due to the spirit of selfishness, but history has not proven that the Malay are of a selfish lot. History has shown that Malay is a race that can compromise and co-operate given a fair share of deal.
     Amongst those who praised the spirit of altruism are the son of the founding father of MCA, Tun Tan Siew Sin and Tun V.T. Sambathan. Tun Tan Siew Sin and Tun VT Sambathan viewed that the act of giving citizenship in goodwill for the Malay race has accepted it in open arm, open heart and good spirit.
     In the words of the late Tun Tan Siew Sin (1916-1988), “The Malays, through UMNO, were generous enough to relax the citizenship laws of this country to such extent that within 12 months of independence, 90 percent were still non-citizens after nearly 100 years of colonial rule in the Malay States. In return for this major concession. the MCA and the MIC agreed to continue the policy of preserving the special position of the Malays while at the same time upholding the legitimate interest of other communities.”
     ( “Tun Tan answers critics on special previlages”, 3oth April 1969)
     Moreso, in the words of Tun VT Sambathan, “Now, in 1955 we won the elections with a great majority. Then we obtained freedom in two years time. During this period, we had to discuss citizenship and various other things. Now what did the Malays do – since we are speaking on racial lines – what did the Malay leadership do? The had 88 percent of the electorate still with them. What did they do with citizenship? If we look around in Asia and East Asia, particularly, you will find that my race the indian race, is not welcomed in Ceylon, is not welcomed in Burma. Look at my brother Chinnese race, it is not welcomed in Thailand, in Vietnam, in Cambodia, in all the other areas. What help do they get for citizenship in all these territories? In Burma, as we know, Indian have been send packing, in Ceylon they refused them citizenship and in Burma it is likewise. I know it, you know it. And yet in Malaya what happened? Here we found that the Malay leadership said, “We shall tkae them unto ourselves as brothers, we shall give them full opportunity to live in this country, we shall give them every opportunity to become citizens.” And so, in 1957, for the whole year, we waived language qualifications, and tens of thousand of Indians, Chinnese, Ceylonese and others became citizens…As I said, it has been my great good fortune to have born in this country. Where else can you find a more charitable, a more polite, a more decent race than Malay race? Where else can you get such politically decent treatment for any immigrant race? Where else in the history of the world? I ask you. These are the facts. Who are you to safeguards us? I am 10 percent minority race here. But I am happy here.”
     (State Assembly Debate, 1st of June 1965)
     The journey of Malaysia history has shown that for us to be continuously successful as a nation, the first ingredient shall be “political stability”. Political stability is achieved when good and excellent leaders managed the country. Excellent comes from being unselfish in dwelling in matters that involve thorny issues which is racial and religious in essence.
     However, in the past 50 years, not all journey is as nice as a bed of roses. Malaysian in gnereral, specifically Tunku Abdul Rahman has to gather our strength against the endurance and shrewdness of Mr. Lee Kuan Yew. In an attempt, to end the British colonial rule, Mr. Lee has successfully persuaded a merger between Malaysia and Singapore as a smokescreen to his ambition. The British colonial rule, impressed by the astute and altruist behavioural conduct of Tunku Abdul Rahman Putra has given an agreement to this matter.
     However, Mr. Lee, not being an altruist himself, whilst physically accepted the merger, emotionally and spiritually is against the “fair agreement” of “non-citizen” citizenship and Malay privileges. Knowing, the Constitution of Malaysia before the merger, Mr. Lee can of course opted not to agree with the merger but strategically, opted to agree with the merger to work his way to achieve his selfish objective.
     Soon, despite having obtained the merger and citizenship, Mr. Lee Kuan Yew demanded the abolishment of the special privilage of the Malay. After a few provocations, racial riot was successfully induced in July 21st , 1964 when a group of Malay, in a celebration rally of Prophet Muhammad birthday were thrown with bottles by a group of Chinese. 23 were killed and hundreds were injured. Consequently, more fights happened in 1964.
     In 1965, Tunku Abdul Rahman, in his speech has said that he has arrived to a very difficult conclusion to overcome the racial problem which is the separation with Singapore. Indeed, the decision of Tunku Abdul Rahman enabled Mr. Lee Kuan Yew to achieve one of his objectives – independency from the administration of British colonial master through lying to the British and Tunku that he is in agreement with the spirit of the constitution of Malaysia. The world has witnessed that the altruist Tunku is not in the same league of selfish calibre of Mr. Lee.
     However, Tunku’s separation idea is too late. The selfish and propangandist act of Mr. Lee Kuan Yew has certainly emboldened the egoism of the minorities. Racial relation which was thorny after the merger between Singapore and Malaysia and shrewd propaganda of Mr. Lee Kuan Yew undergone a “free for all” crisis in 1969. The telling signs before the 1969 crisis were clear but things were taken for granted.
     Consequently, the New Economic Policy which is inline with the spirit of the Malaysia’s Constitution was drafted to ensure that the Malay privilage ” is not only spelled in words but also having essence and form of it’s own”. After the rollout of NEP, the identification of race based on professions is restructured. As of today, this has created the single most important ingredient of a successful nation – “political stability”.
     The younger generations of Malaysia are indebted with the altruism and far-sightedness of previous leader – Tunku Abdul Rahman, Tun Tan Siew Sin, Tun Sambathan, Tun Abdul Razak to name a few. Their altruist works has shown positive effects such that , there is no racial riot after 1969, where-else the world witnessed racial riot in Indonesia and religious riot in Phillipines and Southern Thai. What come to my mind, the result is not achieved in one single day. Between 1969 and 1998 is a period of 20 years. But , the destruction of political stability can only be done in 1 year as evidenced by the merger with Singapore in 1963 and the racial riot in 1964.
     We should ask ourself whether we shall continue uphold the “altruist” traits of our previous founding fathers or we shall discontinue the traits ? Shall we treat each other using smoke screen or shall we be honest ? Just a word of caution, a fail gamble may cause our nation backpeddling to the period between 1964 and 1969.
     I do have one question in my mind , which is more evillish in nature – (1) To break the altruist agreement which shall see people losing citizenship and Malay do not need the privilege right or (2) To have political stability that allows us to be prosperous ?

343. Well Tun.
     NEP under you had become the Never Ending Policy.
     Any race based policy, no matter how noble, must have an end.
     Moreover, the gauge used for assessment of the success of such a far reaching program ought to be fair.
     Most non-Malays have no qualms about the noble purposes of NEP because the program emphasizes (i) removal of the identification of race to economic activities (ii) eradication of poverty.
     If we look at the situation today, we can see the emergency of an almost monolithic civil service, the decimation of non-Malays in the ownership of banking, services, transport & plantation sectors to a level well below their numbers and ability.
     Only in retail and manufacturing can the non-Malays still exert some influence.
     You could have tweaked the implementation to made the situation more equitable. You did not.
     You made most of the Malays dependent on the government to find employment. Even though you pampered them with educational opportunities, you did not do enough to ensure that those opportunities suitably prepare them for the right jobs outside.
     In the course of helping the Malays, you’ve neglected the other minorities, especially the Indians.
     It’s easy for you to blame Samy Vellu today as if you were the PM for the Malays only in your 22 years in office.
     One other thing that I find offence with is the involvement of ministers’ children and their families in securing lucrative government contracts and handouts.
     Don’t they have NO SHAME ???

344. YAB Tun,
     I was and still is not one of those who is of the opinion that the NEP is full cronyism and that it was a failed policy.
     On the contrary, I believe the NEP is the best policy that Malaysian have ever devised as a nation. The NEP demonstrated wisdom and vision carried out for the sake of the nation as a whole. Such policy is by far unique for a multiracial and newly independent country like Malaysia.
     Having said that, I also acknowledge that the NEP also pointed out the ugly side of Malays. The success of NEP have also showed us that the Malays can be consumed and misled by greed for unbelievable selfish purposes. It is happening now for all to see and swift action should be taken to solve these but not at the expense of condemning or discrediting the NEP.
     In all intent and purposes the NEP is success in anyway we choose to evaluate it. The gains and advantages easily beats the shortcomings of the policy. Despite the few bad apples that are now tarnishing the NEP, the policy is sound and should be continued.
     Why should we cut the whole apple tree just because theres a few rotten apples? It would be wise just to cut the few rotten apples or if further still the farm manager is the problem – then just sack the guy!

345. crazyidiot,
     your name sums up everthing about you..we do not expect anything intelectual-worth discussing from you.Please ignore him TUN..

346. The boarding school and the scolarships awarded to Bumiputeras were something that were mooted by Prime Ministers prior to Tun Mahathir. Despite the wealth gained through Petronas oil, the number of boarding schools built and scholarships awarded could have been a lot more. People in Terengganu unfortunately did not progress as fast as it should be. Imagine until today, the richest state of Terengganu does not even have the highway ready.
     To be fair to all Malaysians, there should not be any second class citizens. The deserving non-Malays should also be accorded with the same educational privillages.
     It has been 50 years since we achieved independence. Much has been achieved, but we could do more if we focus on ruling the country professionally as opposed to too much politicking.
     Thanks to Tun for making Malaysia what it is today but there are a lot more potentials waiting to be tapped in this rich country!

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348. Assalamualikum.
     Dear Tun. I have a friend who owns a pastry shop in Mutiara Damansara, and every night at 10 i will help start packing those unsold pastries to be delivered to the nearby orphanage. I do it myself so that the these pastries arrived safely to the ophans. No agent or cronies appointed to deliver these pastries. They may take home or sell it.

349. crazyidiot tulis macam ni…..
     NEP only looks after the bumiputras.
     What about the non-bumiputras? Where do they go for help?
     NEP should be abolished!!!
     We are in Malaysia not Malay land
     China is for chinese….
     India is for indians….
     Malaysia is of course for malay laaaa…..
     This is indeed a malay land. what are u talking about? haram jadah punyer crazyidiot.

350. Salam Tun,
     It brings tears to my eyes reading phara 22 & 23.How true it was. If it wasn’t for MRSM, I will not be where I am now.
     I come from a poor family, my parents worked in a sawmill, and our house didn’t even have electricity or running water until I was 10. Knowing education was the only way out, I studied hard and completed my degree in US.
     I’m indebted to NEP, for changing not only my life, but my parents as well.
     p/s: I went to the same MRSM as Mukhriz.

351. Macamana yang tidak dikatakan kronisma nih ?
     Adakah bila mintak kerja perlu fasih dalam satu-satu bahasa baru dikira tidak kronisma ?

352. u are true Tun
     but the drawback of this NEP is that
     WE HAVE BECOME TOO DEPENDENT OF IT… 🙁
     and usually the rich become richer
     while the poor getting poorer
     (due to corrupt politician)
     although now it worsen
     but actly these started during ur reign
     i dont blame u
     mungkin Tun tak sedar n tak dpt kawal org2 kat bawah
     sebab jauh sangat
     sedangkan mereka ini yg sepatutnya distribute all the advantages of NEP to the RAKYAT
     akhirnya, the rich become richer.while the poor getting poorer
     like u said,its not the SYSTEM thats wrong
     but the PEOPLE conducting it…
     but push that aside
     what worries me the most is
     we have become too dependent…always crying for help
     cant stand on OUR own
     by that, its hard for Malay to become STRONGER
     🙁
     So sekarang, tak tolong salah! tolong pun salah!
     perhaps we shud
     berSUSAH2 dahulu, berSENANG2 kemudian….

353. kalau ada sesiapa yang bermurah hati atau mempunyai kedai percetakan, boleh tak setiap blog tun ini dijadikan dalam bentuk buku ? Atau kalau yang lebih pemurah tuh dalam bentuk ebook ker.
     Bukan apa, boleh la baca balik kalau-kalau nak buat reference ker. Takut nanti kena hack ker, atau ada masalah dengan server ker, hilang la pulak nasihat tun nih.
     Anyway, ramai orang melayu yang terpengaruh dengan DAP tentang NEP, kalau tengok masa PRU hari tuh pon, boleh nampak anak melayu selain dari bendera PAS dan PKR mereka juga membawa bendera DAP malah bertakbir bila DAP menang, tapi saya tak nampak la pulak anak-anak muda DAP (Cina) yang mengibarkan bendera PAS.
     Mereka ini perlu tahu cerita sebenar Tun, apa sebenarnya yang terjadi pada tahun 97/98, ada budak universiti yang saya jumpa berkata Anwarlah sebenarnya yang telah menyelamatkan Malaysia. Betapa mereka telah dikelirukan Tun.

354. salam tun and all bloggers,
     i am extremely grateful to god for giving us such a brilliant leader like tun..i just wanna share my encounter with some ungrateful malay.
     when my kids were younger i used to take them to KLCC park for sunday morning picnic,one day seated near me was 2 almost middle aged guys talking.they came with their big families who are seen nearby laughing their heart out.what was the ugly part was the guys’ conversation.one said,’look at this place,what a wastage?what is the point of building such a place,membazir betul!and the other guy said,’yeah,wonder how much money we spent on maintenance,betul2 membazir and tak guna.’
     the irony was,these guys and the families were there enjoying themselves,using the very place the say was a wastage for entertainment for free…such a hipocrit.
     so to rakyat malaysia,be grateful that we are living in a peaceful country,don’t let some melayu mudah lupa ruin that for us especially not some power hungry guy who would do anything to get his way,by any means.

355. If NEP is about helping the Malays, why are we hearing Malays objecting to NEP????
     Bet they don’t even know what NEP is about, just like me, but not anymore after reading your blog Tun….THANK YOU!!
     Any chance of producing this latest posting in the mainstream media? Surely it’ll be an eye opener for the Malays who have forgotten..

356. nak sokong deb…
     dikata tak adil
     dikata penyokong kroni
     dikata pendukung rasuah
     dikata tak islamic(?)
     dikata penyebab segala masalah
     tak sokong deb…
     dikata tak kenang budi
     nak sokong apa?
     malaysia for malaysian?
     boleh jamin ke ada keadilan?
     keadilan tu subjektif
     dulu, datuk kita – india, cina, melayu setuju yg deb tu adil
     la ni dah tak adil la pulak?
     sekarang ni definisi keadilan mana kita nak pakai?
     boleh jamin ke tak ada rusuhan?
     ingat melayu atau parti yg berkepentingan nak duduk diam?
     boleh jamin 13 mei tak berulang?
     aku cuma rakyat biasa
     nak hidup aman dengan semua
     tak kira kulit hitam atau pelangi
     asalkan hati mereka wangi
     cuba tanya diri sendiri
     wangikah hati kita pada mereka?
     percayakah kita bahawa hati mereka wangi terhadap kita?
     jika ada sekelumit sangsi
     jangan sesuka hati nak kutuk deb
     sebab kalau suka main api
     bukan setakat jari yg akan terbakar nanti
     mungkin malaysia sendiri tak ada lagi!
     so, apa nak buat?
     mula-mula kasi buang bangsat-bangsat di Putrajaya
     beritahu mereka kita ni rakyat malaysia
     sanggup mati kerananya
     nak hidup aman dan selesa
     ingin berkongsi kekayaan negara
     inginkan keadilan(?) pada semua
     bila dah dapat apa dihajat
     pastikan yg baru tak ulang jahat
     semua bangsa mesti setuju
     definisi keadilan baru, jika perlu
     malaysia for malaysian atau deb baru
     tapi jangan sesekali berfikiran extreme
     ianya mesti win-win
     wahai pembaca yg bukan melayu
     aku tak benci kamu
     malah aku sayang pada kawan-kawanku
     tak kira agama dan bangsa.., tak pilih bulu
     jangan tersilap hitung dgn PRU yg lepas
     melayu tak sokong bn bukan kerana tak yakin deb
     mereka tak sokong sebab pemimpin berupa babi
     implement deb untuk perut sendiri
     biarku ulang untuk semua
     aku cuma rakyat biasa
     nak hidup aman dengan semua
     tak kira kulit hitam atau pelangi
     asalkan hati mereka wangi

357. By crazyidiot on August 6, 2008 4:08 PM
     This goes to show that your policies are not better than the current administration’s Flip-Flop case. You are just being a criminal of your own words. You condemn arphatheid and you support NEP when both policies are like identical twins
     Syhh..not too loud please..you’ll wake up the babies…
     Lets make comment in respectful manners could we?..
     Apartheid is nothing like NEP..Apartheid brought chaos while NEP stabilize this country once there was the 13th May chaos..if you insist, at least please give us some facts and let examine them instead of ‘shouting’ NEP is evil…
     I hate unequality.
     Having non-bumis as the richest people in the country does not prove that the majority is doing as good in financial/economic sense. There are 24 million citizens in this country. What’s happening to the rest of them ?
     NEP is not meant to having Bumiputras as the richest man in this country…you’ve got the idea wrong…would you mind to look into the past when the Bumiputras can’t even compete with non-Bumis…because of what?…because of the “unequality” that you hate..NEP’s goal is to eliminate this barrier..
     and if the implementation that you against for, then you’re with Bumis actually.. we saw the weakness..now we just need to work out how to improve the quality of implemntation of NEP..

358. Dearest Tun,
     I would like to thank the previous Government of Malaysia from Tun Razak until you Tun for implementing the NEP. It is only workable if a strong leader at the helm. Now Anwar is helping DAP to instigate other races in Malaysia to oppose NEP. I understand why DAP wants to scrap NEP, but why Anwar. This is because he knows that to garner support from other races he must use the ultimate weapon , that is NEP to make the present government weaker. In a hindsight, what will happen in the future. Anwar will be making a lot of uncertainties in the future as the bumi will realise who he is and when the time comes, hell will break loose. Racial tension will mount and other races will be threatened. The calm nation will be no more. Thus, 13th Mei will be repeated.
     Tun, my arwah father was a government servant earning about RM1,000.00 when he retired. He had 7 children whereby all of us went to universities, 4 to overseas and 3 local. I managed to grab my first job before I got my final exams result. That was how NEP helped me and my family. After that, I survive on my own .
     Tun, I also want to ask anybody here whether they know anything about Phileo Allied Bank and Shamsidar who was Azmin’s wife. Maybe somebody should check the story from Bank Negara Staff who once worked on the case and how Anwar was part of it.
     Thank you Tun .

359. Tun.
     Apapun gelaran kroni diberikan akepada mereka yang rapat dan berjaya dikalangan teman2 tun, masih terdapat ‘ramai’ yang berjaya.
     Tapi zaman ini hanya dua tiga kerat yang membolotnya… menantu dan kroninya… tingkat 4 la katakan…

360. The NEP is hugely successful in the field of education. One can surely understand that. The foundation must be strong enough to enable towering structures to grow. That is why in Business, greedy people have looked for a quick fix solution. With good education comes better knowledge and logical propositions.
     Malaysia belongs to Malays, no doubts. But Malays do not have to hate others for that. The civilization is a composition not a self-contained entity. We have inter-depended with each other and lead a good symbiotic life. Therefore to continously exibit racial prejudices is harrassment. The newly found civilization will then collapse under its own weight.Can we imagine Malaysia with only Malays living in it? Is it viable? You can’t clap with one hand.
     Malaysia was fomerly “Tanah Melayu”. “sia” was added probably adapted from “Asia”, therefore Indonesia, etc.But the word Melayu itself is not a malay word. It is of Tamil origin…..”Mallaiyur” which means “The land of hills”. Centuries ago when the Indian traders docked their ships, the mountains were their guide and the people residing in this land was called “mallaiyur makkal”. Hence the influence of Tamil words,culture and some philosophy has been embedded deep into the minds of the people for centuries. Many of the Tamil words used in Malay language is of ancient literature and in fact modern day tamil speaking person would not be able to recognise many of the words example the word “Pinggang” if from Tamil tantric word “Pinggalam”……
     Similarly the Chinese and Arabs have their share of their influences in the Malay civilization. Hence to say once childhood is a sin is unimaginable. It is already a part and parcel of the DNA encoding and runs deep into the bone marrows of today’s people.
     Education has uplifted the Malays. And we all have worked together sincerely to build this country but the racial polarity here is very obvious compared to Singapore. Though Singapore is often branded as Chinese chaunistic country yet the the Chinese,Malays and Indians there enjoy the true harmony. In fact the phrase “Truly Asia” belongs to Singapore and not Malaysia.
     Anyway it is so difficult to find a true “Melayu tulin”, the true descendends of Palembang are probably a handful. We are all minorities in our own country.Minority Report – everybody runs!

361. Asalamualaikum and Hello,
     Dear Tun,
     It seems your NEP aka DEB blog is under constant attack from the non-believers. You can’t blame ignorant people anyways (laughing). The truth is hurting ‘them’ too much. We Bumiputeras whom made up more than 60% of Malaysia population support you all the way. The Malays, The Dayaks, The Kadazans, The Bajaus, The Orang Asli and the rest of Bumiputeras will not forget the sacrifice of our fore-fathers has fought many years ago.
     Just a flash back lesson for our Malaysians why the NEP was first introduce; because the Bumiputeras have been “SLAVE-OUT” since Melaka was invaded by the Europeans in the 15th century. Ever since, work monopoly at cities and estates were only given to the Chinese and Indians. For “500 YEARS” until NEP was implemented in 1970’s; The Malays and Bumiputeras were totally neglected from the WEALTH and PROSPERITY RACE! The Sultans and Minority Leaders were removed from their powers and status. The Malays were then “hamba di tanahair sendiri”. Many thanks to the British, Spain, Portuegese, Dutch empires.
     Not to mention, see what happen to Singapore when it was removed from Persekutuan Tanah Melayu during the emergency time (Tragedy 1969). Tell me if there’s any rich Bumiputera over there? None, maybe from 7 million population, only one “kot”? It marks the end of one-sided economy dominated by one race at Malaysia. Unfortunately, not for Singapore yet. NEP has provide fair distribution of wealth to ALL RACES, not just the Malays, but to the Dayaks, Kadazan, Bajau, Orang Asli and so forth. The Chinese and the Indians are still enjoying the Wealth race as well, see outside there, which race drives Honda, Toyota, BMW the most? Just because somebody misuse it, doesn’t mean we have to actually destroy it. If it is broken, we fix it, if it is broken again, we still fix it again until it reaches that harmonious stats (fine tuning). That’s why we have general election every 5 years. Not to mention our MP representatives are all made from many races, interest-group and religious-group.
     Some people are just plain ignorant to accept the truth. Greedy Beasts. Think about it.

362. Tun, you cannot deny about cronyism, but you can deny those bumi big shot is not from your camp.
     I think NEP need serious revamp, this big company like for example NAZA can only perform well with the government giving them full life support, they;re like a company in ICU, the moment they step out of malaysia they bungkus.
     I find it waste of rakyats money to incubate these tycoon until they’re so super rich while we’re suffering.

363. Salam buat Tun serta Keluarga,
     Agaknya kalau Tun buat kenyataan lawan Anwar kat Pauh, BN terus tarik diri tak??? Best juga!
     Hehehe…..

364. NEP as implemented has always involved using government funds for the intended beneficiaries.
     When it was the intention of the government to create the richest malay to head the list of richest individuals, now announced by the prime minister, the government adopts the policy to give public funds directly or indirectly to private individuals so that he/she can become the richest individual malay in the country.
     Mahathir declared that NEP would have met its objective when the government was able to create a millionaire among the malays. It was the first time he extended the objective of NEP to make malay millionaires, and facilitated the use of public funds to enrich his cronies. Badawi now extends the creation of malay millionaires to become malay billionaires, and also to lead in the list of the richest individuals in the country.
     It is clear to the whole world that NEP created unfair hardships to the non-malays no matter how Umno wanted to justify it. Unlike article 153 which was supposed to be reviewed after 15 years from 1957, NEP was to be implemented for 20 years from 1970. There was no provision for extension, and the only clearly stated quantitative target was that malays were to achieve 30% of corporate ownership after 20 years.
     Badawi pretended that he wanted to be a prime minister for all Malaysians, and called for malays to forgo crutches. At the same time, he conveniently resurrected NEP and extended it to 2020, and his deputy suggested the continuation until 2057, for the present.
     Prime minister and his deputy promised a year ago to reveal the methodology adopted by EPU, to challenge the results of ASLI finding that the 30% target had been achieved. His recent announcement makes ASLI finding irrelevant since NEP will continue forever, whatever the actual results show.
     Ordinary malays appear to accept to pay a higher price for their motor vehicles when AP system which was exploited to enrich the well connected malays, they appear happy that NEP is continued even though NEP has caused a decline to their standard of living and level of earning.
     They accept that as a cost for enabling malays to lead the list of the richest individuals in the country.

365. Salam Tun,
     Tidak dapat saya bayangkan bagaimana bapa saya hendak menyekolah kami adik-beradik seramai 16 orang tanpa pertolongan DEB.Syukurlah ,selepas tamat dari perkhidmatan kerajaan sebagai Tukang kayu,arwah bapa saya diberi kesempatan sebagai kontraktor kelas F dan dari situ beliau mempunyai sedikit kemudahan untuk menyara keluarga kami yg ramai.Alhamdulillah,dari hidup kami sekeluarga yang masa kecil kecil dahulu ,kais pagi makan pagi,akhirnya dengan usaha gigih beliau juga dari kebajikan biasiswa kerajaan,10 adik beradik kami dapat masuk ke universiti.
     Kami sekeluarga tidak pernah lupa akan jasa DEB dan kami harap dia dapat membantu keluarga malang yang lain untuk meneruskan hidup dalam dunia yang semakin mencabar.

366. Assalamualaikum dan Selamat Sejahtera kepada Tun dan semua,
     Saya agak hairan kenapa rakyat bukan melayu masih berjuang untuk taraf/polisi kesamarataan, tetapi, dalam masa yang sama, tidak mahu sekolah2 jenis kebangsaan (dengan bantuan kerajaan) dan akhbar2 dalam bahasa lain (akhbar bukan bahasa malaysia dan inggeris) di mansuhkan?
     Pada saya, kalau bukan melayu di malaysia mahukan kesamarataan, sila pastikan yang rakan2 (bukan melayu) sanggup benda2 atau kebebasan tersebut dihapuskan. Nama nama individu pun sepatutnya ditukarkan untuk melambangkan diri kita sebagai Rakyat Malaysia (kita buat macam indonesia, France and etc).
     Saya rasa, macam ni baru adil. Anda semua sanggup?
     P/S: Kepada Melayu2 yang tak sedar diri – Ingatlah, kebanyakannya kita ni terhasil dari polisi-polisi kerajaan. Kalau tak dapat secara langsung, saya pasti secara tak langsung, kita dapat juga tempiasnya.

367. Asalamualaikum wbt,
     Semoga Tun sentiasa sihat hendaknya.
     Pada akhir zaman ini fitnah & penipuan amat dasat.. sekali.. semoga umat zaman ini peka bagaimana nak menangani isu dalaman dan isu luar negara.(sebelum sesuatu yang tidak diduga berlaku lagi)
     Dua (2 tahun) macam2 boleh berlaku..
     Saya suka dengan tajuk ini.. (setuju)
     Dari alam mimpi jumpa kat alam maya.
     sekian,
     Terima kasih,

368. Tun M:
     You seem to think, and erroneously so, that you are a sacred cow! The term “cronyism” came to be established during your 22-year old rule. You were a copy-cat- you tried to implement here the privatization policy introduced by the iron-lady Maggie Thatcher in the United Kingdom. You handpicked your cronies and you and Tun Daim Zainuddin gave them “hand-outs” and rescued them from their business fiasco. You accuse the present regime as being corrupt and practising “cronyism”. It’s like the pot calling the kettle black!
     As I have always said, you are no angel; you are not infallible; you are not free from any blemish. You should accept that fact before you lambast and condemn others. Here is an analogy from the holy scriptures to explain your despicable conduct: The sieve, replete with holes told the needle: “Why is that you have a hole in your head”!
     Come on, Tun M, let not realisation come too late in your life! It would be beyond redemption!
     ABI

369. Dear Tun,
     Whenever the word cronyism came out, it reminds me of my beloved Chief Minister of Sarawak, Pehin Taib Mahmud.
     It is like whenever you mention Scomi, you linked to Abdullah. Same goes to Pehin Taib Mahmud when CMS came out. Locally, CMS is also known as Cari Makan Senang/Chief Minister & Son.
     Projects, big or small, are given to his cronies without tender. The lastest and favourite contractor is Global Upline Sdn Bhd. Which, belongs to, also one of my favourite, Tan Sri Ting Pek Khing. Who brought us Kuching International Airport, BDC flyovers etc. It is also the big gun that constucted all the major airports in Sarawak. It’s latest project is TAR College, to be built in Bintangor, TPK’s hometown. Pledged during the latest election campaign only if the BN component party, Sarawak United People’s Party (SUPP) wins the General Election in Sarikei. Are there no other better, reliable contractor in Sarawak anymore?
     Rumour has it, our beloved CM wanted Tan Sri TPK as partner. I don’t know how true is that. But based on all the big projects that went Global Upline, one can’t help it but to take it as a fact.
     Another rumour is that the MP and Assemblyman for Bandar Kuching and Kota Sentosa, YB Chong Chieng Jen of DAP who is the sole Sarawak opposition representative in the Parliament, is now fighting out in court against a petitioner, Kho Whai Phiaw, who wants Bandar Kuching to be declared null and void because of misleading election manifesto. The filing of the petition is financed by the good buddy of our CM, Tan Sri Ting Pek Khing himself.
     YB Chong sure is a very unlucky man because prior to that, he got thrown out and suspended for no apparent reason or proper procedure during the State Assembly few months ago because he kept mentioning and picking CMS as a subject.
     Cronyism and corruption is very rampant in Sarawak. And nothing has been done by Abdullah. I would like to askhow much has been done to Sarawak. Even a small state like Malacca is on the way to become a developed state in 2010. What about Sarawak?
     Tun, can you highlight more on Sarawak and expose the wrong-doings of our CM for the sake of us Sarawakian?
     Regard,
     Joshua

370. u are true Tun
     but the drawback of this NEP is that
     we have become too dependent on it… 🙁
     and usually the rich become richer
     while the poor getting poorer
     (due to corrupt politician)
     but push that aside
     what worries me the most is
     we have become too dependent…
     by that its hard for Malay to become stronger
     🙁

371. Dr. M,
     The current Black Economic Empowerment ( BEE) has been implemented in South Africa using NEP as its role model.
     There was a paper published by Dr. Murphy of UCLA discussing BEE in South Africa and NEP in Malaysia.
     The title of the Paper: Affirmative Action in a Deeply Divided Society: Lessons for South Africa from Malaysia’s Successful Redistribution Policies
     read the paper here:
     http://www.allacademic.com//meta/p_mla_apa_research_citation/0/4/0/4/0/pages40408/p40408-1.php

372. If they ever tell my story..
     Let them say I was inspired by giants.
     Men rise and fall like the winter wheat..
     But this name will never die.
     Let them say I lived in the time of a father and a builder of nation.
     Let them say I lived in the time of Mahathir.
     http://nazirulhazim.blogspot.com/

373. Good morning, Tun,
     It’s really a good act to create NEP as it really helps the people, especially the poor people. Under NEP, many people got opportunities to receive scholarship, took some government contract…. NEP really helped many people for the past few years.
     We must thank Tun for the years while Tun was the PM. NEP really help many people, especially the bumiputera. However, Tun can do better than this if Tun try to change it little bit. NEP is really very good and we can’t lost it, FOR THE PAST 30 YEARS. Now, or 21st CENTURY, i think NEP should be changed too. In global this global era, global trade, NEP not only just help us little, but even slow down our steps of development. The situation get worse when somebody abuse it.
     One of the example is MRR2. Mrr2 is given to a contractor under NEP. But, what had happened? I think everyone should know! Hence, NEP not only waste the people money, but endanger our lives, if government simply give the contractor for those who have no experience! Or, government is clear minded, they give the project to some “expert” who are their friends, relatives…… NEP is now always aside with corruption!
     And we could see that 90% government project in Selangor before 308 were given to bumiputera contractors. After 308, we saw that 90% contractors of different company are under 10 boss, of the same person.
     People like to say Chinese seize Malay’s possesses, but in fact, is it? Or we seize our own wealthy for the “10 person”?
     In conclusion, NEP should be changed a little, to fight corruption and to increase the steps of development. However, till now, no one Minster or wakil rakyat stand out to give out their ideas, except one—-Anwar Ibrahim.
     It can’t to believe that no one in BN see this but one in Pakatan Rakyat see this. Who administrate the country? BN or PR??

374. Dear TDM,
     Excellent article. I am a Bumiputera and I have benefited the NEP. Problem NEP is subjected to race which will cause some tension.
     For example I finish 5th in my class & was awarded scholarship, while 1st-4th didnt get scholarship because they were Non-bumiputera. Their parents earn more than my parents, but they didnt notice. They only see unfairness.
     Point is, how do we solve this?
     Education? More Information? Or reviewing the NEP basis? I think we can now change NEP to be based on Income level instead of race. What do you think?

375. salam TUN..
     Harap Tun n famili dlm keadaan sihat..
     Isu kronisma mmg da sebati dgn isu semasa negara kita.cuma ianya xdiperbesarkn di media massa dan hanya ckp2 di kedai kopi (n blog).Mmg benar kata2 Tun mengenai kepentingan NEP pd org melayu khasnye, dan kami amat menghargainya.Tp yg rakyat marah skrg Tun amalan kronisma zaman pak lah skrg ni yg tlalu terang lg bersuluh..ckp jela kt sape2..sape yg xkenal menantu&Co dia tu yg kaki bolot smua projek2 kerajaan..kalo nk amalkn kronisma pn bpada2 la..sampai rakyat naik menyampah.sudah la rakyat tgh ssh skrg..dia n kroni2 dia amek kesempatan ats kesussahn rakyat..

376. assalamualaikum, Tun..
     1)saya setuju ng greenorge.. itu yang saya nampak dalam kerajaan lanih .
     2)saya tertarik dengan isu PTPTN. Tun, PTPTN ini memang bagus tetapi kadar pembayaran balik saya anggap memang membebankan dengan kadar 3%.
     saya sebagai salah seorang pelajar yg membuat pinjaman PTPTN x puas hati dengan kadar pemotongan setiap semester yang mana setiap semester pinjaman yang saya dapat tidak pernah penuh. mesti ada penolakan.yg paling saya tidak faham, kenapa ada pemotongan insuran PTPTN sedangkan dalam setiap universiti pun dah ada insuran. Insuran apa yg kami dapat? ntah pa2.. las semester, dipotongnya sampai dekat 300.. apa kejadahnya. notis apa pun x bagi.tiba2 potong. PTPTN is a good liar. dah la tiap2 semester dipotong pinjaman utk proses, potong lagi utk insuran.. pastu kadar pembayaran lagi 3%.. PTPTN is a big liar..
     3)sapa yg nak pinjam PTPTN, pikiaq la bg abih… pikiaq utk jangka masa panjang..
     sekian.. wasalam

377. Penjelasan konsep DEB yang amat mantap.
     Mengikut saudara Syahrol, matlamat “Bangsa malaysia” akan tercapai menjelang tahun 2020 berdasarkan visi 2020, seperti yang dijanjikan oleh kerajaan. Saya menganggap kenyataan ini sebagai satu dongeng. Kenapa? Cuba lihat kenyataan ini ” saya menganggap DEB paling berjaya dalam bidang pendidikan”. Saya difahamkan bahawa, taraf Univerisiti-universiti Malaysia semakin merosot, dan ianya sudah terkeluar dari senarai 200 universiti terbaik. Apa yang telah berlaku kepada sistem pendidikan Malaysia? Apakah “pencapaian” ini dianggap sebagai suatu kejayaan DEB, yang perlu kita rakyat malaysia banggakan?
     Saudara-saudari sekalian, perlu diingatkan bahawa, persaingan kita adalah dunia luar, bukanlah sesama kaum yang merupakan adik-beradik di tanah air kita, kita semua pun rakyat malaysia. Contohnya dalam kejohanan badminton, Kaum cina tidak akan berasa ghairah sekiranya pasukan Malaysia ditewaskan oleh pasukan China. Sebab apa? Sebab kita ni orang Malaysia. Begitu juga dengan kemenangan Pasukan Indonesian, Siam, Saudi Arab dan India, apakah rakyat Malaysia bersorak apabila pasukan negara-negara ini (Asal nenek moyang)menewaskan pasukan Malaysia?
     Saya amat tidak bersetuju dengan kenyataan “Pendidikan adalah hasil yang PALING berjaya dibawah DEB”. Masih ada segelintir rakyat malaysia berpendapat bahawa, jika BN gagal, kaum Cina (rakyat malaysia) masih boleh balik CHINA, kaum India masih boleh balik INDIA, Siam balik Siam, Indon balik Indonesia, Arab balik Arab dan sebagainya. Masih ada pegawai-pegawai yang berkuliah dalam program induksi dan biro tatanegara membangkitkan isu-isu sensitif sesama kaum (anda akan paham sekiranya anda pegawai kerajaan kerana anada terpaksa menghadirinya). Oleh itu, saya ingat bahawa istilah “bangsa malaysia” menjelang 2020 adalah suatu dongeng atau satu lagi projek gajah putih, dengan pimpinan yang sedia ada buat sekarang.
     Memang tidak dapat dinafikan bahawa, segolongan rakyat malaysia yang miskin yang berhasrat untuk berniaga telah mencapai kejayaan di bawah DEB. Saya amat bersyukur kerana rakayat malaysia telah mengamanahkan orang yang betul untuk mengendalikan ekonomi malaysia dari tahun 1980-2003.
     Cadangan saya, peranan Dr. Mahathir adalah amat penting dalam mewujudkan ataupun memperbetulkan minda rakyat kita terhadap konsep “Bangsa Malaysia” dengan MASA yang masih ada. Jasa TUN akan dikenang oleh seluruh rakyat Malaysia selama-selamanya. Tokoh yang boleh memperbetulkan minda rakyat patut digelar Tokoh perpaduan rakyat malaysia.
     Sebelum saya lupa, nak tanya tuan-tuan dan puan-puan, Identification of race with economic function: Goverment servant = ????

378. Tun,
     I think you should right about how the non-bumis also enjoyed the benefit. You shoud start writing about robert kuok and his sugar ap (one of the reasons he made it big. And out of all the privatisation and concession how many has been given to non bumis. And still we bumi is not fair? I like to point the reader of this blog on the so called meitocracy practiced in singapore called charade of meritocracy by Michael Barr. Sorry tun if take too much space.
     The Charade Of Meritocracy
     FEER, October 2006
     By Michael D. Barr
     The legitimacy of the Singaporean government is predicated on the idea of a meritocratic technocracy. A tiny number of career civil servants play a leading role in setting policy within their ministries and other government-linked bureaucracies, leading both an elite corps of senior bureaucrats, and a much larger group of ordinary civil servants. Virtually all of the elite members of this hierarchy are “scholars,” which in Singapore parlance means they won competitive, bonded government scholarships—the established route into the country’s elite.
     Scholars not only lead the Administrative Service, but also the military’s officer corps, as well as the executive ranks of statutory boards and government-linked companies (GLCs). Movement between these four groups is fluid, with even the military officers routinely doing stints in the civilian civil service. Together with their political masters, most of whom are also scholars, they make up the software for the entity commonly known as “Singapore Inc.”—a labyrinth of GLCs, statutory boards and ministries that own or manage around 60% of Singapore’s economy.
     The basis of the scholars’ mandate to govern is not merely their performance on the job, but also the integrity of the process that selected them. The educational system is designed to cultivate competition, requiring top students to prove themselves every step of the way. Singapore’s schools first stream students into elite classes after Primary 3 and 4. They then compete for entry into special secondary schools and junior colleges, before vying for government and government-linked scholarships to attend the most prestigious universities around the world.
     These scholarships typically require several years of government service after graduation, and the scholars are drafted into the Administrative Service, the officer corps of the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF), or the career track of a statutory board or GLC. The government insists that all Singaporeans have equal opportunities to excel in the system, and that everyone who has made it to the top did so purely by academic talent and hard work. Other factors such as gender, socioeconomic background and race supposedly play no more than a marginal role, if they are acknowledged as factors at all.
     On the point of race, the Singapore government has long prided itself on having instituted a system of multiracialism that fosters cultural diversity under an umbrella of national unity. This is explicitly supposed to protect the 23% of the population who belong to minority races (mainly ethnic Malays and Indians) from discrimination by the Chinese majority.
     But this system conceals several unacknowledged agendas. In our forthcoming book, Constructing Singapore: Elitism, Ethnicity and the Nation-Building Project, Zlatko Skrbiš and I present evidence that the playing field is hardly level. In fact, Singapore’s system of promotion disguises and even facilitates tremendous biases against women, the poor and non-Chinese. Singapore’s administrative and its political elites—especially the younger ones who have come through school in the last 20 or so years—are not the cream of Singapore’s talent as they claim, but are merely a dominant social class, resting on systemic biases to perpetuate regime regeneration based on gender, class and race.
     At the peak of the system is the network of prestigious government scholarships. Since independence in 1965, the technique of using government scholarships to recruit cohorts of scholars into the administrative and ruling elite has moved from the periphery of Singaporean society to center stage. Even before independence, a makeshift system of government and Colombo Plan scholarships sent a few outstanding scholars overseas before putting them into government service, including most notably former Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong. Yet as late as 1975 this system had contributed only two out of 14 members of Singapore’s cabinet. Even by 1985, only four out of 12 cabinet ministers were former government scholars.
     By 1994, however, the situation had changed beyond recognition, with eight out of 14 cabinet ministers being ex-scholars, including Prime Minister Goh. By 2005 there were 12 ex-scholars in a Cabinet of 19. Of these, five had been SAF scholars, including Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong. A perusal of the upper echelons of the ruling elite taken more broadly tells a similar story. In 1994, 12 of the 17 permanent secretaries were scholars, as were 137 of the 210 in the administrative-officer class of the Administrative Service.
     The government scholarship system claims to act as a meritocratic sieve—the just reward for young adults with talent and academic dedication. If there is a racial or other bias in the outcomes, then this can only be the result of the uneven distribution of talent and academic application in the community. As Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong put it when he spoke on national television in May 2005, “We are a multiracial society. We must have tolerance, harmony. … And you must have meritocracy … so everybody feels it is fair….” His father, former Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew, was making the same point when, in 1989, he told Singapore’s Malay community that they “must learn to compete with everyone else” in the education system.
     Yet if Singapore’s meritocracy is truly a level playing field, as the Lees assert, then the Chinese must be much smarter and harder working than the minority Indians and Malays. Consider the distribution of the top jobs in various arms of the Singapore government service in the 1990s (based on research conducted by Ross Worthington in the early 2000s):
     • Of the top 30 GLCs only two (6.7%) were chaired by non-Chinese in 1991 (and neither of the non-Chinese was a Malay).
     • Of the 38 people who were represented on the most GLC boards in 1998, only two (5.3%) were non-Chinese (and neither of the non-Chinese was a Malay).
     • Of the 78 “core people” on statutory boards and GLCs in 1998, seven (9%) were non-Chinese (and one of the non-Chinese was a Malay).
     A similar outcome is revealed in the pattern of government scholarships awarded after matriculation from school. Of the 200 winners of Singapore’s most prestigious scholarship, the President’s Scholarship, from 1966-2005 only 14 (6.4%) were not Chinese. But this was not a consistent proportion throughout the period. If we take 1980 as the divider, we find that there were 10 non-Chinese President’s Scholars out of 114 from 1966-80, or 8%, but in the period from 1981-2005 this figure had dropped to four out of 106, or 3.8%. Since independence, the President’s Scholarship has been awarded to only one Malay, in 1968. There has been only one non-Chinese President’s Scholar in the 18 years from 1987 to 2005 (a boy called Mikail Kalimuddin) and he is actually half Chinese, studied in Chinese schools (Chinese High School and Hwa Chong Junior College), and took the Higher Chinese course as his mother tongue. If we broaden our focus to encompass broader constructions of ethnicity, we find that since independence, the President’s Scholarship has been won by only two Muslims (1968 and 2005).
     If we consider Singapore’s second-ranked scholarship—the Ministry of Defence’s Singapore Armed Forces Overseas Scholarship (SAFOS)—we find a comparable pattern. The Ministry of Defence did not respond to my request for a list of recipients of SAF scholarships, but using newspaper accounts and information provided by the Ministry of Defence Scholarship Centre and Public Service Commission Scholarship Centre Web sites, I was able to identify 140 (56%) of the 250 SAFOS winners up to 2005.
     Although only indicative, this table clearly suggests the Chinese dominance in SAFOS stakes: 98% of SAFOS winners in this sample were Chinese, and about 2% were non-Chinese (counting Mikail Kalimuddin in 2005 as non-Chinese). Furthermore I found not a single Malay recipient and only one Muslim winner (Mikail Kalimuddin). A similar picture emerges in the lower status Singapore Armed Forces Merit Scholarship winners: 71 (25.6%) of 277 (as of late 2005) scholars identified, with 69 (97%) Chinese winners to only two non-Chinese—though there was a Malay recipient in 2004, and one reliable scholar maintains that there have been others.
     The position of the non-Chinese in the educational stakes has clearly deteriorated since the beginning of the 1980s. According to the logic of meritocracy, that means the Chinese have been getting smarter, at least compared to the non-Chinese.
     Yet the selection of scholars does not depend purely on objective results like exam scores. In the internal processes of awarding scholarships after matriculation results are released, there are plenty of opportunities to exercise subtle forms of discrimination. Extracurricular activities (as recorded in one’s school record), “character” and performance in an interview are also considered. This makes the selection process much more subjective than one would expect in a system that claims to be a meritocracy, and it creates ample opportunity for racial and other prejudices to operate with relative freedom.
     Is there evidence that such biases operate at this level? Unsurprisingly, the answer to this question is “yes.” Take for instance a 2004 promotional supplement in the country’s main newspaper used to recruit applicants for scholarships. The advertorial articles accompanying the paid advertisements featured only one non-Chinese scholar (a Malay on a lowly “local” scholarship) amongst 28 Chinese on prestigious overseas scholarships. Even more disturbing for what they reveal about the prejudices of those offering the scholarships were the paid advertisements placed by government ministries, statutory boards and GLCs. Of the 30 scholars who were both prominent and can be racially identified by their photographs or their names without any doubt as to accuracy, every one of them was Chinese. This leaves not a shadow of a doubt that those people granting government and government-linked scholarships presume that the vast majority of high-level winners will be Chinese.
     The absence of Malays from the SAFOS scholarships and their near-absence from the SAF Merit Scholarships deserves special mention because this is an extension of discrimination against the admission of Malays into senior and sensitive positions in the SAF that is officially sanctioned. The discrimination against Malays has been discussed in parliament and the media, and is justified by the assertion that the loyalty of Malays cannot be assumed, both because they are Muslim and because they have a racial and ethnic affinity with the Malays in Malaysia and Indonesia. Current Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong has historically been a vocal defender of this policy.
     This discrimination hits Malay men hard, first because it deprives many of promising careers in the army, and second—and more pertinent for our study of the elite—it all but completely excludes potentially high-flying Malays of a chance of entering the scholar class through the SAF. A Chinese woman has a much better chance of winning an SAF scholarship than a Malay man.
     Yet even before the scholarship stage, the education system has stacked the deck in favor of Chinese, starting in preschool. Here is the heart of Singapore’s systemic discrimination against non-Chinese. Since the end of the 1970s, the principles of “meritocracy” and “multiracialism” have been subverted by a form of government-driven Chinese chauvinism that has marginalized the minorities. It was not known to the public at the time, but as early as 1978, then Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew had begun referring to Singapore as a “Confucian society” in his dealings with foreign dignitaries. This proved to be the beginning of a shift from his record as a defender of a communally neutral form of multiracialism toward a policy of actively promoting a Chinese-dominated Singapore.
     The early outward signs of the Sinicization program were the privileging of Chinese education, Chinese language and selectively chosen “Chinese values” in an overt and successful effort to create a Mandarin- and English-speaking elite who would dominate public life. Two of the most important planks of this campaign were decided in 1979: the annual “Speak Mandarin Campaign” and the decision to preserve and foster a collection of elite Chinese-medium schools, known as Special Assistance Plan (SAP) schools.
     The SAP schools are explicitly designed to have a Chinese ambience, right down to Chinese gardens, windows shaped like plum blossoms, Chinese orchestra and drama, and exchange programs with mainland China and Taiwan. Over the years the children in SAP schools have been given multiple advantages over those in ordinary schools, including exclusive preschool programs and special consideration for preuniversity scholarships.
     For instance, in the early 1980s, when there was a serious shortage of graduate English teachers in schools, the Ministry of Education ensured there were enough allocated to SAP schools “to help improve standards of English among the Chinese-medium students, in the hope that they will be able to make it to university”—a target brought closer by the granting of two O-level bonus points exclusively to SAP school students when they applied to enter junior college. By contrast, neither Indians nor Malays received any special help, let alone schools of their own to address their special needs. They were not only left to fend for themselves, but were sometimes subjected to wanton neglect: inadequately trained teachers, substandard facilities and resources and the “knowledge” that they are not as good as the Chinese.
     This account of discrimination against non-Chinese might lead the reader to assume that the quarter of Singaporeans who are not Chinese must form a festering and perhaps even revolutionary mass of resentment. Such an assumption would, however, be a long way from the mark. Non-Chinese might be largely excluded from the highest levels of the administrative elite, but just below these rarefied heights there plenty of positions open to intelligent and hardworking non-Chinese—certainly enough to ensure that non-Chinese communities have much to gain by enthusiastically buying into the system, even after the glass ceilings and racial barriers are taken into account. There are many grievances and resentments in these levels of society but the grievances are muted and balanced by an appreciation of the relative comforts and prosperity they enjoy. For most, any tendency to complain is subdued also by knowledge that it could be worse, and the widespread assumption among members of minority communities that it will be if they seriously pursue their grievances. As long as the Singapore system continues to deal such people a satisfactory hand, if not a fair one, it should be able to cope with some quiet rumblings in the ranks.
     While this discrimination is not sparking a reaction that threatens the regime in the short term, the resulting injustices are certainly undermining the myth that the regime operates on meritocratic principles. This is worrying in the longer term because this myth, along with the capacity to deliver peace and prosperity, is one of the primary rationales by which Singaporeans reluctantly accept the many unpopular aspects of the regime, such as the lack of freedom and democracy, the intrusion of government into most aspects of private life, the pressure-cooker lifestyle and the high cost of living.
     The rhetoric of meritocracy has given Singaporeans the consolation of believing that their ruling elite are the best of the best and can therefore be trusted almost blindly on important matters, even if they are highhanded and lack the common touch. As this illusion gradually falls away—and today it is already heavily undermined—the trust that Singaporeans have for their government is becoming increasingly qualified. It remains to be seen how long the regime can avert the logical consequences of the contradictions between the myth and the reality.
     Mr. Barr is a lecturer at the University of Queensland and author of Lee Kuan Yew: The Beliefs Behind the Man (Routledge, 2000) and Cultural Politics and Asian Values: The Tepid War (Routledge, 2002).

379. Tun, NEP is a policy used to suppress the superiority of other race.Also this policy is used to whim and fancy of the ruling party.It’s dished out to the majority race randomly not caring whether they are eligible or not.Some of those selected are not up to standard resulting in them been expelled from colleges and universities when they couldn’t catch what the professors are teaching.For years the gov’t keep on sending sub-standard or third class students resulting in the losing of tax payer’s money.While there are many who are more eligible for the hangouts,instead they are left to fend for themselves.It this what the gov’t of the day call itself FAIR?

380. Salam Tun,
     Undeniably NEP has been successful in elevating Bumis economic status, however this policy in my opinion should not continue too long because other races might feel marginalised and good one among them in various field would leave the country as it is happening now, and the Malaysia as a whole will be net loser. There are many profesionals from other races who are working in Singapore and European countries because they are better appreciated not only in terms of pay but also allowing them to hold post of authority in their field.
     Already some Malays are being careless due to NEP, they would take things for granted and would not work hard eventhough they have the potential.

381. Salam Tun n chedet.com fan…
     Melayu Mudah Lupa…
     Pak Lah Mudah Tidur…
     zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz….dgn islam hadharinya….
     Anak Menantu Memerintah Negara…
     Rakyat juga yang sengsaraaaa…

382. when i was in form 2 (14 years old) .. i remembered that i wass very sad… to see a Malay old man.. sweeping at a garden of a Chinese Bungalow… i walk-pass the bungalow everyday.. it was huge & have such a nice tailored garden.. && i wondered are Malays only qualified to be a sweeper??

383. This goes to show that your policies are not better than the current administration’s Flip-Flop case. You are just being a criminal of your own words. You condemn arphatheid and you support NEP when both policies are like identical twins
     
     I hate unequality.
     Having non-bumis as the richest people in the country does not prove that the majority is doing as good in financial/economic sense. There are 24 million citizens in this country. What’s happening to the rest of them ?
     

384. Who are the non-Bumis to comment about NEP or anything at all in this country when the name Malaysia itself already suggests it belongs to Malays?

385. Salam Tun dan sejathera semua blooger
     1)Secara am , NEP untuk perpaduan.Oleh untuk kerajaan sedia ada perlu memperkemaskan perancangan dan perlaksanaanya.
     2)Samada dalam politik atau sosial ekonomi.Saya yakin jika Pak Lah meneruskan program atau perancangan/perlaksanaan digariskan atau diwariskan oleh TUN sudah pasti kerajaan malaysia lebih tegah, utuh dari segi kestabilan politik dan sosial ekonominya.Serta Pak Lah berjaya memamatkan era kepimpimannya dengan lebih bergaya.
     3)Perpecahan sudah dirasa didalam UMNO sejurus Pak Lah mengingkari janjinya pada TUN.Merugikan.
     4)Kegagalan kerajaan sekarang menangani kerana tiada mempunyai arah tuju yang jelas dan dianggap banyak membazir waktu dan duit.
     Perbanyakkan program program perpaduan sebagai contohnya Sambutan Hari Jiran untuk semua rakyat malaysia atau program-program yang berkaitan.Kerajaan tiada idea.
     5)Kekurangan Penjelasan dari pihak kerajaan yang tepat dan cepat setiap masalah juga menyebabkan banyak berlaku demo jalanan.
     Tks TUN..

386. u are true Tun
     but the drawback of this NEP is that
     we have become too dependent on it… 🙁
     and usually the rich become richer
     while the poor getting poorer
     (due to corrupt politician)
     but push that aside
     what worries me the most is
     we have become too dependent…
     by that its hard for Malay to become stronger
     🙁

387. tq tun…keep up the good work…

388. Tun,
     Bila di fikir terasa Tun tidak mengambil kisah lagi mengenai politik tanahair terutama pilihanraya di Permatang Pauh. Tentu sesuatu yang panas.
     Semalam Tun menulis mengenai sekolah Tun. Hari ini DEB. Dasar Ekonomi Baru.
     Terima kasih Tun dalam diam dengan niat atau tanpa niat telah memberi idea mengenai hal yang boleh menjadi bahan dalam menentang Anwar.
     Sebagai yang di ketahui bahawa DAP setelah menawan Pulau Pinang dengan sombongnya menyindir dan berniat untuk mengenepikan DEB. Anwar juga sehaluan pendapat mengenai hal itu demi mendapatkan undian.
     Tapi perkara ini berubah kerana kebanyakan pengundi di Permatang Pauh adalah lebih 65% melayu.
     Menggunakan senjata ini UMNO atau parti bebas yang bertanding boleh menjatuhkan Anwar.
     Kerana Anwar menyokong pembubaran DEB.
     Terima kasih Tun.
     Oleh itu MT UMNO boleh tidur lagi.
     Walaupun akhbar harian mendiamkan kempen panas Anwar di Permatang Pauh tetapi internet tidak.
     Jadi untuk AAB, persoalannya sampai bila akan ketinggalan dalam kemajuan internet? Adakah internet akan memusnahkan BN sekali lagi?
     UMNO tidak kah mau membuka laman khas internet mengenai pilihanraya ini. Mengenai kempennya. Ideanya.
     Sekurang kurangnya rakyat boleh menulis dan membaca. Tidak lah mendengar khabar khabar angin.
     Kok ya pun malu. Suruh la si Hisham tu. Suruh Pemuda buka laman web. Rakyat sekarang gatal tangan ni. Nak keluar semua mahal.
     Mahal beras dari bayar internet sebulan.

389. SALAM TUN,
     NEP
     Anda boleh cakap macam2 tentang NEP. Mungkin pendapat anda ada betulnya dan ada salahnya.
     HAKIKAT YANG PERLU SEMUA MANUSIA TAHU adalah setiap tindakan atau dasar pasti ada kebaikan dan ada keburukan.
     Satu contoh, kalau tak wujud perompak dalam dunia macam mana nak wujudkan
     1.pegawai polis pelbagai jawatan juga jabatan,
     2.HQ jabatan polis,
     3.CSI,
     4.polis dunia nak bekerjasama sesama mereka.
     5.macammana nak wujudkan hakim dan peguam.
     6.tambah lagi bidang pengajian undang2 dan kepolisan
     7.universiti dan akademi polis
     8.macam2 lagi
     Kita tak boleh nafikan setiap tindakan pasti ada kebaikan atau keburukan samaada perbuatan itu baik ataupun jahat. Apatah lagi contoh di atas.
     NEP hasilnya pasti ada kebaikan atau keburukan tapi YANG PASTI ianya lebih banyak membawa kebaikan kepada semua rakyat terutamanya masyarakat bumiputera juga dalam masa sama mengekalkan kesejahteraan rakyat. HAKIKAT ini tidak boleh dinafikan setelah rakyat mengalami krisis 13 Mei 1969.
     Masyarakat Cina dan India tak perlu risau akan dasar NEP. Semua rakyat telah berjuang untuk meletakkan Malaysia pada kedudukan sekarang menjadi negara membangun.
     MENJADI KEWAJIPAN RAKYAT PRIBUMI untuk mengekalkan keistimewaan dan hak PRIBUMI. Ini termasuklah negara CHINA dan INDIA juga negara maju dari EROPAH terus menjaga keistimewaan dan hak2 pribumi.
     Jadi soal NEP bukanlah masalah besar sedang negara lain juga mempunyai dasar-dasar untuk rakyatnya cuma ‘term’ yang digunakan mungkin berlainan.
     LAWAN ANWAR
     Sedang TUN sekarang ini tiada dalam mana-mana parti, apa kata TUN bertanding lawan ANWAR IBRAHIM dekat PERMATANG PAUH atas tiket BEBAS….
     Saya nak tengok juga reaksi Anwar bila TUN buat kenyataan nak bertanding parlimen tu. Kalau acah pun jadilah….
     Mesti gabra punya….
     Saya rasa kalau TUN bertanding baik untuk TUN kerana TUN mungkin boleh masuk PARLIMEN hentam KABINET dan PAK LAH CUKUP22222.
     “SAYA MOHON TUN BINCANGKAN CALON2 PENGGANTI YANG ADA DAN UMNO EGM AKAN DATANG.”
     APA-APA PUN TERUSKAN MENGUNDI MENDESAK PAK LAH SUPAYA MELETAK JAWATAN:
     http://www.PetitionOnline.com/PakLah/
     VOTE SEGERA DEMI MALAYSIA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
     WASALAM

390. http://gelamapisang.blogspot.com
     Dear Tun,
     Cronysm memang sukar untuk di elakkan. Semestinya, kita akan mencari orang yang kita percayai untuk meneraju sesuatu projek atau pun untuk menguruskan sesuatu syarikat.
     Amalan kroni sekarang ni terlalu melampau. Dengan pelbagai pendedahan ECM Libra, Scomi, seolah2 tiada syarikat tempatan lain yang layak untuk di agihkan projek.
     Masalah utama bukan terletak pada ‘kroni’ itu sahaja. Tapi ke paras politycal figure intervention dalam keputusan syarikat dan inter-company decision and relationship dan penentuan harga jual-beli yang merugikan industri dan mejadi penyebab kepada harga yang tinggi di pasaran.

391. Assalamualaikum Tun,
     Saya sentiasa menyokong NEP, alhamdulillah berkat NEP anak bangsa telah semakin ramai yang maju. Cuma mungkin perlaksanaan nya yang perlu dikemaskini dan diperbaiki agar kepincangan dikurangkan atau dihapuskan. Insyallah berkat kesungguhan dan kesabaran kita akan mencorak bangsa kita, negara kita tanpa dipengaruhi oleh anasir luar.

392. If not for the NEP i don’t know where I would be now. My parents were very poor but we were hardworking at school and became excellent students. Luckily, under NEP we were recognized and given scholarships. Now all my siblings are doing well and because we are not so poor anymore and mostly because we are highly educated, our children future are much brighter than if we were to remain poor and uneducated. Thank you to you and your sacrifice having to face all the malicious critics from inside and outside the country which were all ignorant and self serving.

393. DEB berjaya??
     Dasar Ekonomi Baru utk Bumiputra??? Pelik tapi benar buat kajian utk Bumiputra di Sabah dan Sarawak …
     Bagi bukti statistik pendapatan bagi rakyat termiskin ..
     Penduduk termiskin di Malaysia … Sabah!!!
     Bagi org Sabah 5 org PM termasuk skrg ni … sama saja.. harapan baru org Sabah terletak di tangan Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim ..
     Apa beza bumiputra di Sabah dan Sarawak dgn bumiputra di Semenanjung Malaysia.. sehingga bumiputra di Sabah dan Sarawak keciciran dlm mendapatkan bantuan ???
     Ko pikirlah sendiri Tun…

394. Dear Tun….pemimpin datang dan pergi.Ada pemimpin yg lama ditampuk kekuasaan & ada pula yg singkat & turun bila cukup tempoh waktunya.Ada pemimpin yg buta & tuli dengan suara & inspirasi rakyat malah tiada seorang pemimpin pon di dlm dunia ini kalo nak turun mesti ada peralihan kuasa.Kenapa perlu ada peralihan kuasa?.Kalo nak berenti kerja pon kena bagi notis 1 bln atau paling lama 3 bln lebih awal.Tidak perlu ada peralihan kuasa sekiranya tempoh masa tersebut agak lama.kalo dlm acara larian pelari terakhir yg akan menyerahkan baton adalah pelari terbaik & terpantas utk memecut kedepan.Andaikata baton lambat diserahkan khuathir akan hilang daya kekuatan utk memecut ke garisan penamat.Inilah senario yg kita hadapi, kalo berada di medan perang, bala tentera sudah hilang pedoman, musuh sudah ramai berada di depan mata, general masih lagi berkira-kira lagi nak ambil tindakan.
     Pemimpin yg gila kuasa selalu nya mengamalkan kronism & nepotism.Mereka cuma nampak org2 atau kelompok2 yg mengampu mereka sahaja.Kerabat2 yg ada kepentingan didahulukan malah budaya ini sudah menjadi sinonim sebagai tanda sokongan kepada pemimpin tersebut.Faktor wang menjadi agenda penting dlm menentukan kronism & nepotism ini kerana `Power of money can do anything’.Sukar utk menentukan kejayaan NEP di atas kertas dlm sektor2 tertentu.Namun begitu secara amnya ramai bumiputera yg telah berjaya & ada di antaranya yg memiliki harta yg banyak di dlm & luar negeri.Kejayaan ini adalah sebahagian drpd dasar Tun Mahathir yg mempelopori & menyakinkan dlm tempoh perlaksanaannya……HIDUP TUN MAHATHIR

395. To aditya
     Which school is that? it never happen to my school ….i am in one of the top class and there only a handful of malays and indians students the rest Chinese …and we were in that class because we were the one of the best group of students….and is nothing to do with races…
     And being the minority…..i have problem but i never do like the discipline teacher….all of us…do not like her….(coz we -pandai tapi nakal)

396. Salam Sejahtera Tun dan Toh Puan,
     1. Terima kasih saya yang tidak terhingga kerana berkesempatan memberi pendapat di dalam ruangan yang amat berwawasan dan intelek.
     2. Saya sangat bersetuju dengan pendapat Tun di atas isu NEP serta perlaksanaanya. Syabas saya ucapkan!
     3.Kita juga perlu insaf bahawa Bumiputera termasuklah kaum-kaum lain seperti Iban, Bidayu, Bajau dan sebagainya termasuk Melayu. Kita perlu tanya diri sendiri adakah kemudahan yang ada ini seimbang bagi semua kaum-kaum ini atau tidak?
     4. Kita juga perlu ingat bahawa masih terdapat kaum lain yang bukan Bumiputera yang masih merempat di estet estes sebab tiada keutamaan diberikan kepada mereka dan mereka ini pula bukan dari golongan ahli perniagaan.
     5. Saya rasa amat bertuah berada di Malaysia kerana ianya merupakan salah satu negara di dunia yang membenarkan rakyatnya menganut apa saja ugama malah tidak menghalang mana-mana kaum dari mengaut keuntungan kekayaannya selagi kita sanggup berusaha dan tidak putus asa.
     6. Kita perlu keluar dari mentaliti meminta sedekah/subsisdi atau bantuan tongkat kalau kita ingin lebih berjaya. “God will help those who help themselves”.
     7. Terima kasih Tun dan Toh Puan serta salam sejahtera.

397. Saya tersenyum membaca tulisan Dr Mahathir kali ini. Tersenyum kerana ramai juga di kalangan bumiputera yang MALU mengaku bahawa mereka berjaya kerana DEB. Kononnya mereka ini berjaya tanpa sedikit pun bantuan DEB dan kononnya DEB ini cuma untuk kepentingan kroni dan dasar DEB perlu diubah untuk lebih adil. Anehnya, mereka yang MALU mengaku mereka ini berjaya kerana DEB, kebanyakkan adalah bumiputera yang lahir selepas 1969 atau sedang menuntut ketika itu 🙂
     Rasuah memang berlaku baik dengan adanya DEB mahupun tanpa DEB.

398. Dear Tun ,
     To say the least , I am not a bumi. However , I do understand why NEP was created although it contain a lot of biased elements which slants towards the malays.I myself do not blame much on NEP as we can still easily earned a living comfortabily by sticking to good morals , ethics and disiplin. I am sure those who practice these traits will be sucessful in their life to a certain degree. The traits that we should practice are the normal attitude that our ancestors have been trying to lay down to us ; ie work hard , never give up , be sincere…. and so forth.With the NEP implemented , the difference is that the malays will benefit more easier . However , although this is in place ,if a person is still lazy and without working hard , he will fail as well.This was what TUN terms as ” abusing the opportunity” of what NEP can gave to them.
     Nevertheless , for those non bumis who don’t understand the reason for NEP creation will always term this as racial discrimination . This is very dangerous as it can lead to racial disharmony . At such , it’s very important for the NEP to be implemented in the most effective ways. I also of the opinion that this policy needs to be review and changed accordingly to cater for the changes in our enviroment in term of socio , economy and politic.

399. Salam AYAHANDA RAKYAT TUN,
     Bangun Tegak berdiri
     Mencanai, meroboh walaupun mulanya keringat dan airmata,
     NEP, OPP and Vision 2020
     The Masterpieces of the Malaysian leaders capped by none other
     than the brilliance of TUN,.. THE AYAHANDA, THE TAIPAN, THE SHOGUN, THE MAHAGURU, ETC .. of the ANAKANDA RAKYAT MALAYSIA!
     MAHATHIR BOLEH, MELAYU BOLEH DAN MALAYSIA BOLEH!
     Alfatihah, Amin

400. Dear TUN,
     No one with the right mind will oppose NEP blindly. Equally so, no one with the correct thinking will condone abuses and bad implementation of NEP whole heartedly in the name of affirmative action. What I think all Malaysians want is a fair and equitable implementation of the affirmative action program base on merits and needs, irrespective of race. We are a developing country, there are poor Malaysians in every race. These Malaysians are still poor because they were not given opportunity or had not met the right opportunity. Many of them are the potential gems of our country who are yet to be discovered, mined, polished and marketed as truly great gems of high value.
     I think you had admitted that a great deal of those “chosen want” in the name of NEP were in fact did not possess the quality to be successful. This I think is due to the “Easy comes, easy goes” logic. In the early day of mad rush to implement NEP, huge amount of money were just simply poured to nurture the selected few who are close to the power base of the Government. These people were selected not because of what they know but who they know. All these were also done in the name of race and in the expense of other races. I think many Malaysians could remember well too, “divide and rule “ tactics and racial politics were abused to the extreme where one race is pitched against the others while the Government were conducting what I termed as our version of domestic “cold war” against the other so called more successful races. These were the 1970s, 80s and 90s.
     Yes, some NEP successes were also produced which is a very good thing. Otherwise we would be compared to Zimbabwe, Sudan or countries like that. But is this something what we should be very proud of ? Not exactly. Any aviation engineer will tell you that a toilet can even fly if you put a strong enough engine in it. What we want is obviously not a flying toilet but an elegantly designed and fine tuned efficient plane. But are there “flying toilets” out there? I think Money politics is one good example of ‘flying toilets” which I think TUN had even cried over it in one UMNO General Assembly. Money politics are fuelled by people with easy money who would want and demand more easy money from more contracts. And there will be no end as greed knows no bound. Simply put, these easy money people do not have the interest of the Rakyat at hearts.
     Damages had been done and a great deals of the country’s valuable resources were also wasted. Rather than crying over spilled milk, we should look ahead for the future. I think the March 8 GE results are good indicator for a better Malaysia. The Rakyat wanted reform and wanted it fast. But alas, rather than riding on this great wave of change, more money politics and dirty politics were being orchestrated and played out.
     These are the challenges that we face. Rather than living the high lives, or should I say while we are living the high lives, we should also go back to the basic. The basic is to help the genuinely poor who need help and need the right opportunity or environment to grow and prosper. Rather than simply pouring more money or keep spilling more milk on those “flying toilets”, the implementation of the affirmative action program should be sharply focused and fined tuned to benefit all Malaysians who need it, irrespective of race. More money should be spent on education, training and human resource development of all Malaysians. We should handsomely reward our teachers who produce good students and also support the education and training sectors. The current infrastructure or “hardware” development in the country, as what our eyes can see are pretty good enough. I think the returning to the basic is to put more emphasis on developing the “software’ side of our people and discover more gems (e.g. like TUN and Anwar) within us so that Malaysia can become a great country that we are proud of.
     Regards
     Niuku
     ((This is a resend as early post not published..Please feel free to edit part as you think fit or email me.TQ))

401. Tun,
     sekiranya kejayaan saya melanjutkan pelarajandi UiTM sebagai merupakan tindakan kronism maka saya tidak segan silu untuk menyatakan bahawa saya adalah kroni tun.
     Sebagai kroni tun saya berjaya melanjutkan kronism tersebut dengan memastikan empat adik beradik saya melanjutkan pelajaran di kolej-kolej dengan pendapatan saya yang berasaskan kejayaan menjadi kroni tun.
     terima kasih tun kerana menjadikan saya kroni tun kerana tanpa menjadi kroni tun saya dan adik beradik tidak akan berjaya untuk melalui kehidupan dan berjaya seperti sekarang – walaupun pendapatan tidak berapa tinggi tetapi kami ada pendidikan dan pengetahuan untuk memastikan dapat berjaya dalam dunia yang mencabar walaupun dengan tekanan hidup yang sedang memuncak sekarang.
     terima kasih tun

402. dearest tun,
     i strongly recommend you to come up with a book on malaysia politic doldrums or ” malaysia dulu, kini dan besok “.
     your blog hittings is record breaking and i believe your new book should follow suit.
     best regards.
     AAJ

403. Assalamualaikum Tun,
     Other races that feel that they did not gain anything from NEP, is just simply thay are unsatisfied that this country is governed by malays. We all benefited from NEP regardless of race and religion. And that’s a FACT!
     Kalau tak puas hati lagi, balik kampung la!!
     Love you Tun.

404. Assalamu’alaikum Tun & family
     I’m not a racist but I feel sad that allegations are being directed at the Malays.
     The country is only 50 years old. Each and every race had benefitted fm the NEP but there are those who had incited hatred towards the Malays/Bumis due to political greed and arrogance.
     There is no other race in the world, with the exception of the Malays in Malaya, who had then agreed to accept and grant the chinese and the indians direct citizenship!! And they even share the political governance with the chinese and indians. Do you see this in America and Singapore ?
     The chinese is in complete control of the economy and yet complained that it’s not enough. Just look at all the shop buildings around you, who owns them?
     The indians too complained. From nowhere, they now have “little India” in Klang. And at Westport (Malaysian port of Madras),which is being run by one indian Tan Sri G, how many malay executives are there ?
     The container haulage industry, being a new industry in the 1970’s, was previously run by only Kontena Nasional Sdn Bhd. Due to increased requests by importers & exporters, licenses were given to Shapadu,MISC and Konsortium Perkapalan. Unfortunately, due to citations by non-bumis that Singapore has more than 100 haulage companies, Tan Sri Lee Liong Sik who was then the Transport Minister betrayed by creating more licenses. The mentioned companies above are either dead or on the verge of dying……
     Forgetting any sense of gratefulness to the Malays who had been very inviting to you, there are even those (eg Hindraf) who claimed that this land belongs to the aboriginese, not the Malays.
     Pls read:
     By MJ on July 28, 2008 5:50 PM
     Assalamualaikum Tun,
     Below is the statement taken from Dr. Khir blog which I think need to make known to others especially to young generation.
     UCAPAN PRESIDEN MIC merangkapMENTERI KERJAYA RAYA, POS DAN TELEKOM, TUN V.T. SAMBANTHAN DI DEWAN RAKYAT PADA 1 JUN 1965.
     “Now, in 1955 we won the elections with a great majority. Then we obtained freedom in two years time. During this period, we had to discuss citizenship and various other things. Now what did the Malays do – since we are speaking on racial lines – what did the Malay leadership do? The had 88 percent of the electorate still with them. What did they do with citizenship?
     If we look around in Asia and East Asia, particularly, you will find that my race the indian race, is not welcomed in Ceylon, is not welcomed in Burma. Look at my brother Chinnese race, it is not welcomed in Thailand, in Vietnam, in Cambodia, in all the other areas. What help do they get for citizenship in all these territories? In Burma, as we know, Indian have been send packing, in Ceylon they refused them citizenship and in Burma it is likewise. I know it, you know it. And yet in Malaya what happened? Here we found that the Malay leadership said, “We shall tkae them unto ourselves as brothers, we shall give them full opportunity to live in this country, we shall give them every opportunity to become citizens.” And so, in 1957, for the whole year, we waived language qualifications, and tens of thousand of Indians, Chinnese, Ceylonese and others became citizens…
     As I said, it has been my great good fortune to have born in this country. Where else can you find a more charitable, a more polite, a more decent race than Malay race? Where else can you get such politically decent treatment for any immigrant race? Where else in the history of the world? I ask you. These are the facts. Who are you to safeguards us? I am 10 percent minority race here. But I am happy here.”
     But then, is UMNO dead ?????
     Wassalam

405. Salam Tun,
     Pakcik saya pernah bercerita tentang kepayahan hidup pada tahun 70an. beliau terpaksa bekerja ke Singapura kerana peluang pekerjaan yang terhad dan ekonomi negara masih bergantung kepada perlombongan dan perladangan. namun ketika era 80an suasana telah berubah dan beliau mendapat pekerjaan kerana ekonomi negara telah berubah kepada perindustrian dan pembinaan dimana kedua-dua sektor ini melibatkan tenaga kerja yang lebih besar berbanding perlombongan dan perladangan.
     Merujuk kepada perenggan 21-27:
     Saya amat bersyukur kerana saya dapat bersekolah di MRSM. rata-rata kawan di sekolah adalah dari kampung dan keluarga berpendapatan rendah. saya sudahpun tamat belajar di universiti dan sekarang bekerja sebagai jurutera dan sedang berkira-kira untuk meneruskan pengajian ke peringkat master.
     Semua ini adalah kerana usaha kerajaan untuk memberikan kehidupan yang lebih baik kepada orang Melayu melalui cara pemberian pendidikan. Ternyata cara ini berjaya memandangkan saya sudah bekerja sebagai eksekutif dan memiliki ijazah, sepupu saya juga mendapat manfaat ini atas dasar pandang ke timur kerana mendapat peluang belajar di Jepun dan kini menjadi Jurutera Elektrik di sebuah syarikat multinasional. Ini secara tidak langsung meningkatkan taraf ekonomi keluarga.
     Siapa cakap NEP tidak berjaya dan membantu kroni kerajaan sahaja, kerana melalui pendidikan semua orang dapat merasai kemewahan negara ini.
     Entah apa akan jadi jika NEP tidak wujud dan ketidakseimbangan dari segi ekonomi berterusan hingga kini. Dimana saya sekarang dan melayu yang lain.
     Semoga wawasan 2020 terus menjadi kenyataan dan kita semua berusaha supaya NEP terus kekal agar memberi nikmat kepada semua warga malaysia.

406. To ‘crazyidot’
     By the very statement that you have made,you sure are crazy and an idiot!You just want to believe what you want to believe.You should be grateful my friend .I rest my case.

407. I wrote a comment on this blog mentioning about some gifts my family presented to him and Tun Dr Siti Hasmah.
     My two little sisters, Ezza Syafiqa n Hanis Sufiah and myself presented the gifts to Tun Mahathir and Tun Siti Hasmah on 14th of February 2003 at the Eden Garden Hotel, Johor Bahru (now The Zone).
     It was my first meeting with the great man.
     The gifts were a symbol of our appreciation and sadness as he was going to retire in October of that year.
     Tun M was coming back from Majlis Pecah Tanah Gerbang Selatan Bersepadu (Jambatan Bengkok) and was on his way to his hotel room to prepare for Solat Jumaat.
     The gifts are now on display in Galeri Perdana.
     They are placed along the section connecting the old building with the new one.
     I thought maybe somebody would like to see the them.
     You can see them here : http://nazirulhazim.blogspot.com/2008/08/gifts-in-galeri-perdana-langkawi.html
     Thank you.

408. assalamualaikum Tun Dr Mahathir dan Tun Dr Siti Hasmah…
     saya amat bersetuju dengan tun tentang dasar ekonomi baru yang telah berjaya membawa ramai anak melayu ke menara gading dan menjadi orang yang berjaya dalam kehidupan.Saya juga adalah produk daripada zaman tu sendiri bersekolah dalam daerah Kubang Pasu dari peringkat tadika sehinggalah ke peringkat IPT.Saya juga berasa begitu yakin dengan Dasar Ekonomi Baru tanpanya dan idea dari Tun tidak mungkin peluang yang dapat diperolehi oleh masyarakat iaitu untuk mendapat pendidikan teras yang utama,saya juga berasa amat terharu dan berbangga kerana Tun sendiri yang menjadi ketua parlimen Kubang Pasu sehingga hari ini walaupun saya sudah menetap di kota metropolitan yang besar masih lagi terbekas dihati saya bahawa tiada pengganti yang sehebat nama Tun Dr Mahathir yang dapat berada di parlimen Kubang Pasu,dan saya juga berikrar akan mengikut segala ideologi dari Tun termsuklah keluar dari parti UMNO sendiri.Rakyat Kubang Pasu masih sayangkan Tun,mungkin ada yang telah melupakan Tun tetapi bilangannya terlalu sedikit berbanding ramai lagi yang menyokong Tun.HIDUP TUM HIDUP MELAYU,teruskan perjuangan yang belum selesai kami senantiasa berada di belakanh Tun..saya doakan Tun dan Tun Siti Hasmah sentiasa berada dalam keadaan sihat sejahtera dan diberikan kekuatan untuk terus memimpin Malaysia dan rakyat.

409. Just so you know,there are non-bumis who have supported NEP.

410. Just so you know,there are non-bumis who have supported NEP.

411. To distractor
     I think Neil is not attacking any particular race but he is just showing how NEP is so lopsided in many ways except education. Majority of bumiputra do not get to enjoy NEP benefits except for education. Look at the big bumi boys that have all the special privileges, are they sharing their wealth with their own race? I think not! Billions of ringgit has been given to a few connected big boys and see what they have done, they take the money out of the country and not bothered to live in Malaysia.
     Look properly at one of NEP brainchild Proton, they sell cars with higher hire-purchase interest rate and with poorer quality than others and yet they claim they are helping the working-class. Who are the majority that buys Proton cars? We should totally remove monopoly in all industries so Malaysians can enjoy better quality of life and things.
     The not-bumis are not against NEP but the implementation is what we all Malaysian should question. Look like we have no choice but to give Anwar a chance as it cannot be worst that the current leaders. The “old birds” should retire and with new and fresh ideas we might able to claim back our former glories. (during Dr. M era)

412. Salam Tun:
     Say whatever they like or want, you are still my most respectable Malaysian. You do what you have to do, you got drive, energy, brain, determination. I am now with other grateful Malaysians enjoying the reaping of the harvest that you have planted while you are in office – although a lot of what you have planted have been or in the midst of being destroyed by the irresponsible, lack of ‘wawasan’ murmuring dozzy flip-flopper in office now.
     Tun, Malaysian still needs you to help rectify so much blunders that have been caused the last 5 years. Imagine what you did the last 20 years and plans for the future are now in disarray.
     Tun, I’m asking if you could comment and elaborate further in your blogs on the issue of DSAB shifting the blame of his failures and mega-blunders to the innocent civil servants during the meeting with his dept recently. I am not a civil servant, but this really flabbergast and pissed me off, and I am sure it is the same with those innocent personnels. I wonder if DSAB have got stone inside his skull. Instead of getting things moving in the right path with properly worked out blueprint, he choose to irrate these peoples with his remarks. I wonder if he is sleep walking when preparing the text of his speech (he looked like he was sleep-walking when delivering it though).
     I sincerely hope that Tun could agree on some comment on this.
     Salam Tun.

413. Salam Tun,
     There is a comment from “crazyidiot” yg kata dia tak sokong NEP and gave us some nonsense punya reasoning .. should we even entertain his remark looking at his ID .. blurrr sotong punya mangkok!
     As you have mentioned before “melayu mudah lupa” .. this is a quote that will be very relevant for a long time. The younger generation can’t relate to the past and cannot understand the conditions and reasons why such policies and measures were put inplace. The idealism in these youngsters believe there is a perfect world out there and Malaysia should be it.
     There is no perfect country and pleeease lah tok sah dok harap Pak Sheikh tuh will bring an ideal system to this country. Hypocrite besaq tuh!! Depa kata nak bagi semua sama rata konon .. share the economic wealth.. betoi ka tuh?? You actually believe that PKR tak dak company and friends yg dok tunggu nak rip off the country? You think that the $$MILLIONS$$ that the Jews give him has no strings attached?
     CrazyIdiot indeed!

414. 
     You condenmed the practicing of Arpathied, and here you are practicing a double standards in your own backyard.
     Please lah.. practice what you preach..Condemn yourself before you condemn others.
     Cakap tak serupa bikin.
     You’ve just put the whole country in a big mess. Congratulations! May you live to reap the fruits from the seed that you have sewn.
     

415. itulah sikap melayu bila melihat kawan berjaya ada jer sindiran diberikan, bila jatuh ketawa bukan main suka, berurusanlah dengan peniaga melayu yakni belilah barangan atau guna perkhidmatan mereka, biar lebih sedikit harga yang untung bangsa kita dari harga kurang sedikit tapi yang untung bangsa asing.Percayalah bangsa sendiri, buang mentaliti zaman berzaman peniaga ca ya nun alif lebih baik dari peniaga bangsa kita, kerana kita selalu nampak kesalahan peniaga melayu, kesalahan bangsa asing kita buat tak tau dan masih percaya kepada mereka.sama-samalah kita bantu sesama kita, bukan kerajaan yg boleh bantu ekonomi bangsa kita.Buanglah sifat irihati dan bermusuh sesama kita(Demi masa sesungguhnya manusia itu dalam kerugian kecuali mereka yg berpesan pada kebenaran dan berpesan pada kesabaran) berpesan-pesanlah sesama kita semoga bangsa kita tidak jadi fakir di tanah air sendiri.

416. Salam ayahanda Tun,
     Memang kita kena akui untuk berjaya dan terus berjaya adalah satu perjalanan yang penuh liku.
     Cabaran demi cabaran dirintangi.
     Apabila berjaya, pun banyak cabaran diharungi!
     Sebab itulah apabila kita dah berada di atas, ramai akan cuba menjatuhkan kita!
     Ayahanda Tun telah banyak menulis berkenaan ini. Terima kasih atas sumbangan Tun selama ini. Walaupun sudah bersara, sumbangan tetap ada!
     Wassalam

417. dearest tun,
     i strongly recommend you to come up with a book on malaysia politic doldrums or ” malaysia dulu, kini dan besok “.
     your blog hittings is record breaking and i believe your new book should follow suit.
     best regards.
     AAJ

418. These are absolutely ridiculous comments. The NEP under Mahathir gloried mediocrity since mediocre students were given places ahead of smarter students, and teachers were told to go easy on those mediocre students. Mediocrity breeds mediocrity, so when these people become “professors”, they also started to lower standards.
     Yes, you gave people several chances to perform, but you were reluctant to ditch them for non-performance as it would reflect badly on you. So the millions that went down the drain became billions. It doesn’t take a lot of brains to become a billionaire if the government diverts taxes meant for government coffers to the personal pockets of your cronies. Take APs as an example. How difficult was it to build a car business if the government gives hundreds of thousands of APs (a form of taxation) to a few select bumiputras ? Furthermore, the highest profile recipient of APs – NAZA – is now in shambles, having owed the Treasury hundreds of millions in unpaid taxes and duties. What does the government do now ? It “arranges” the sale of land and building at an inflated price to Felda !
     You call this NEP. I call this criminal misallocation of resources.

419. Hello Tun,
     I am one of Malay businessman. My age 35 years old. Now expanding the business by cooperate with european businessman. Sooner will open a factory in Malaysia (medium class factory). Not sure yet which state I will choose. Are you willing to do opening ceremony? If yes, I can invite you as well as your son Datuk Mokhzani, a great businessman! Waiting your reply.
     Thanks!

420. Dear Tun,
     Even though NEP is meant for the bumiputras, in reality, it is the non-malays who prospered from it. They are now strongly entrenched in the economy whereas the malays’ gains are superficial or surface depth only. It is there only because the malays remained entrenched in the public service. It will not last forever, especially with the erosion of the malays political supremacy as reflected in the last general election. Maybe it is time for our political leaders to come out with affirmative policies that are more suited to the needs of the current generation. I wish Tun is given the chance to influence the needed changes so that Malaysia can march foward to join the league of civilised and progressive nations instead of the stalmate that we are facing now!
     Salam sejahtera buat Tun dan keluarga.

421. YABhg Tun,
     NEP – THE SURVIVAL CIRCLE?
     I recall a malay obtained a RM6000 ‘NEP-help’ to open up a small food stall. He spent RM3000 to build the stall, RM2000 to furnish and equip it and RM500 on the stock (i.e.’gula,kopi,susu,etc).
     If we care to observe we will notice the RM3000 went to the hardware / foundry shops, RM2000 to the furniture and kitchen equipments stores and RM500 to the factories that produced the ‘gula, kopi, susu’ things.
     And everybody knows who the ‘towkays’ of these shops, stores and factories are. So in this case a total RM5500 or about 90% of the ‘NEP-help’ had been unofficially distributed to the non-bumis. These towkays provide employments to many people. These employees then spend their salaries on food, vehicles, house accessories, etc,etc and thus benefiting other towkays and their employees.
     Although this NEP cycle has been spinning for over four decades already, the bumis are still far from achieving the ‘30% target’.
     Surprisingly the complains must come from the other ‘side’.

422. Pada waktu itu, tidak ada sesiapa yang berani untuk merebut jawatan. Malah, jawatan yang disandang itu dilihat sebagai amanah dan hanya mereka yang ‘benar-benar layak sahaja’ yang akan diberikan jawatan.
     “Kalau kamu anak orang kaya sekalipun, belum tentu kamu akan diberi jawatan” ujarnya perlahan.
     Sesekali dia merenung wajah cucu-cucunya yang sedang asyik mendengar cerita silamnya itu. Di kala usianya yang sudahpun senja, dia seakan-akan mahu menyampaikan amanat buat cucu-cucu kesayangannya itu. Saya cuba mengamati setiap butir ayat yang cuba disampaikannya pada kami.
     “Parti itu ibarat sehelai kain putih. Jika hitam corak pemimpinnya, maka akan hitamlah corak parti itu.”
     “Tidak kiralah ‘parti’ apapun yang kamu pimpin atau perjuangkan. Parti yang putih boleh jadi hitam dan parti yang hitam pun boleh jadi putih”
     “Yang penting, kamu kena sentiasa berpegang pada kebenaran dan keikhlasan. Insya’ Allah… kamu akan menjadi pemimpin yang berjaya.” Tambahnya lagi.
     Bila ditanya pandangan peribadinya tentang masa depan UMNO, lama juga dia mendiamkan diri. Mungkin dia sedang tercari-cari jawapan yang ‘ikhlas’.
     “Sekarang ni, UMNO dah hancur. Untuk pulihkan semula UMNO, kena ada pemimpin yang benar-benar ikhlas dan baik. Malangnya sekarang ni, UMNO tidak ada pemimpin seperti itu. UMNO perlukan pemimpin macam Onn Jaafar, Tunku (Abd Rahman) ataupun Tun Razak.”
     Kata-katanya terhenti seketika.
     “Mahathir berjaya majukan negara ini… tapi dia gagal ‘majukan’ bangsa dan pewaris kepimpinan UMNO. Pak Lah sekarang hanya mewarisi kegagalan Mahathir. Banyak pemimpin baik dalam UMNO yang ditenggelamkan oleh Mahathir. Akhirnya, pemimpin-pemimpin yang baik itu tinggalkan UMNO ataupun dia orang ‘takut’ dengan UMNO. Akhirnya yang tinggal dalam UMNO adalah pemimpin yang tidak baik ataupun pemimpin yang tidak boleh memimpin.”
     “Macam kita sembahyang jemaah. Kalau imam salah baca, makmum kena tegur. Tapi, kalau makmum pun tak tahu apa yang imam baca, macam mana imam nak tahu yang dia salah baca? Akhirnya, apa makna sembahyang kita tu?”
     Soalan itu membuatkan kami berfikir sejenak. Tiba-tiba sepupu suami saya bertanya padanya.
     “Kalau UMNO dah hancur, apa yang orang kita kena buat Tok?” soalnya perlahan.
     Soalan itu dijawab dengan tenang dan yakin olehnya.
     “Kita kena tinggalkan UMNO. Biarkan UMNO lemah dahulu. Bila UMNO dah lemah, ‘semut-semut’ yang sibuk cari gula dalam UMNO akan mati kelaparan sebab gula dalam UMNO dah habis. Semut-semut ni nanti akan cari gula kat tempat lain pulak. Bila semut-semut ni dah lari, barulah kita bangunkan semula UMNO. Lepas tu, jangan lupa sediakan perangkap air supaya semut-semut ni tak dapat masuk semula untuk mencuri gula.”
     Jawapannya itu membuat kami ketawa kecil. Sepupu suami yang bertanya tadi menambah soalannya lagi.
     “Nak perangkap macam mana tok? Manusia ni kan mudah rambang mata bila ‘gula’ dah banyak depan mata?”
     Soalan itu pantas dijawab olehnya.
     “Ittaqullah…. (Takutlah kepada Allah). Hidup kita, bangsa kita, agama kita, anak-cucu kita dan semuanya akan selamat kalau kita semua betul-betul beriman dan bertaqwa kepadaNya”. Jawabnya sambil menudingkan jarinya ke atas.
     http://nuraflah.blogspot.com/2008/08/umno-dah-hancur.html

423. Salam, Tun
     Dilimpahi rahmat Allah sekeluarga.
     Org macam tun ni bila bercakap keluar emas bernas dan fakta.
     Tp kalau “LAH” bercakap tah apa butirnya pegi dekat ingat kan omeh ghupo eh hampeh. bekilau-kilau disangko omeh ghupo eh tepijak kaco rakyat malaysia di buek eh.

424. Anybody seen Mr. Antimamak? 😉

425. Dear Tun,
     Mereka-mereka yang mengatakan Tun mengamalkan kronisme, jika mengikut tafsiran kronisme mereka sendiri, sebenarnya juga kroni. Tuhan bagi mereka akal untuk berfikir demi kebaikan sejagat tetapi adakah itu yang mereka lakukan? Saya penuh yakin mereka tu juga mendapat pendidikan di negara ini. Inikah cara mereka berterima kasih? Kecik-kecik tak nak ******, dah besar menyusahkan orang. Sedarlah, bersyukur, janganlah golongkan diri anda dalam golongan munafik tegar!!

426. Negara jadi kucar kacir, isu perkauman dan macam-macam isu pelik berlaku sekarang disebabkan pemerintah yang lemah. They don’t know how to govern the country. Kerajaan mahupun pembangkang cakap saja pandai. Tun, i really respect Tun because you bring peace, harmony wealth and many more to this multi racial country. Semasa Tun jadi PM, negara tak pernah jadi this messy macam sekarang. Tun, what will happen to this country because kalau dilihat tidak ada satu calon pun yang sesuai jadi PM. Lagi tak rela kalau Anuar jadi PM, dia hanya akan membuat negara jadi lebih kelam kabut. So memang tak ada conclusion untuk semua kegilaan yang berlaku di negara kita.

427. Salam Tun,
     Moga Sihat hendaknya dan di rahmati Allah. Syabas Tun.

428. Ybg Tun,
     DEB hanya berkesan untuk pendidikan sahaja dan bukanya perniagaan.
     Untuk pendidikan saya respect, tapi bukan perniagaan.
     Bagi perniagaan banyak gulongan kaya terutama taukeh2 AP dari(Pekema)bukanya hendak menolong kaum bumputra, sebalik telah berpakat dengan bangsa bukan bumiputra. Itulah sebabnya DEB tidak relavan untuk itu.Saya berharap agar korta AP bumiputra dihapuskan dan diberikan kepada semua rakyat Malaysia.
     Begitu juga Syarikat induk GLC dan Koprat melayu kebanyakkan sudah lama lupa akan DEB ini, apa lagi Kerajaan sekarang ini dan semasa Ybg Tun dulu pun lebih utamakan bukan bumputra dan bangsa asing.
     contohnya penjualan Tanah Kereta Api diSentul dan Penjualan Lot Kedai dan holtel dijalan Bukit Bintang, dari syarikat bumiputra yang diteraju oleh Dato Sulaiman Manan dan dijual kepada YTL, kenapa tidak dijual saja kepada syarikat bumiputra yang kaya pada masa itu. Inilah membuatkan DEB telah dihancurkan oleh kaum bumiputra itu sendiri….
     Saya secara peribadi agar DEB itu dihapuskan saja dan dikaji sekiranya ingin lagi dilaksanakan, jangan hanya mengaboi mata rakyat yang miskin saja.

429. NEP had greatly benefited all races in Malaysia, direcly or indirectly. I had strongly believed that TUN Dr M had not involved in practicing cronism in busines. The everage living standards of TDM’s siblings are one of the clear evidence.
     But surely I couldn’t say that that Abdullah Badawi. He is only interested to remain in power to enrich his families, (son in law especially) cronies and those who could ensure that he remains in power. Najib Tun Razak is no difference from Pak Lah. (Tun Razak would be so ashamed of what the son is doing now)
     From the current politics scenario now, I could predict that malaysia’s future is a bleak one…with certainty.
     I call to all malaysians, do not give up until Pak Lah is kicked out.

430. “Think of what would be the situation in Malaysia today without the NEP.”… – i juz wondering where am i if there is no NEP, maybe under trees and along sidewalk near so called corporate buildings….
     “If there is still doubt then do a survey of all the contracts and scholarships given by the private sector and work out how much they have contributed toward eliminating disparities between races, and who would be the poor in this country”… – To all Malaysians, please think deeply and freely, is that any problem with NEP? Bumiputras are struggling in their very own country, the only land they have, the only place where their origins begins. No other places to go if this lovely country is controlling by non-bumis. I’m not playing with racism issues, but i really need all Malaysians and all people in this world to think it ritely, without any agendas behind the thinking. What was happened to the Australia and America must not be happen in Malaysia. I’m not saying that other races must be slave or second class citizens, but i really hope that they just respect the master of this land, less thinking about to take any opportunities, as all people knows that most of them are opportunist.
     To Bar Council, you all really shaping non-bumis mind to take advantages on Bumi’s weaknesses. You as law practices should try to practice “The Golden Rule of Life”; as mentioned by Dr. Chandra Muzaffar. You still have low concern to the idea of unity, still cannot differentiate between Asian style of living and western way; sorry to say that. Deeply in my heart, i still thought about how the law can be uphold if the practices to make the law looks good is not being concerned by most lawyer. Most lawyer, and i’m not saying all lawyers. As a student in IPTA, i saw students who studying law are lack of criterias and quietly far from practicing ethics of law in their daily life. Sori to say that again.
     Finally, i would like to appreciate the govt because establishing the policy of NEP. I don’t think the level of knowledge of Bumiputras will increase without support from govt. The NEP had successfully increase the standard of Bumiputras in order to compete with people around the world. Not to forget the basic things, there are a lot of think to be think by all people in order to make the Vision 2020 success, think positively, not like what one of our leader said few days ago, sorry again.
     Love u Tun
     Shazrim Sharif
     UiTM Kedah

431. someone said that the cracked MRR2 was because of cronyism…. I do agree.

432. benar apa kata tun,
     nep adalah untuk setiap rakyat malaysia sebenarnya,
     dan benar juga kata tun, melayu mudah lupa…
     kenapa dsab tak mahu lagsung bertemu tun , sedikit sebanyak
     jumpa lah tun….hormat pda yg memberi, ini tidak,
     dia bagai monyet mendapat bunga…
     lah oh lah…kau lena

433. Dear Tun
     I refer to comment made by pewarisgenerasi – 6/8/2008
     Let put this straight. The Non-bumi are not the ungrateful lot. In fact lots of the non-bumis has recognise what NEP has done & education opportunities been explore & adopt. Non bumis realised there was wealth distribution uneveness prior to NEP. The government has done a lot for the Malays (but sad to say some of them are ungrateful or simply ignore to recognise what NEP had done for them or their children.)
     What the non-bumi concern is how long does the government need to hold the Malays hand. As long as it takes or Government should set a deadline so that the Malays would realise that they also need to stand on their own 2 feet. Kita tidak boleh seumur hidup bersandar pada tunggul. Because the government belongs to everyone and everyone contributes – taxes, royalties, etc..
     Non-bumi would cherish the government policies if wealth distribution to become raceless. It distribution has to be between the POOR & RICH, not between Chinese or Indian or Malays.
     That’s all what the non-bumis asked for.
     I like to refer to your comment mentioned that lowest paycheck are from the Malays. Have you check out why are they the lowest? Have you also check out the Indian living condition in the estate, have you checks out also they are poor chinese and what was they paycheck. Lowest – how lower compare to the low earning from the Chinese & Indian. What have we forgethen about the orang asli (who are the real bumis in our country)They are the poorest, but have our government done enough for them. Honestly I think our government has not done enough for them. They are better but still got a long way to go compared to the Malays.
     Also just take short break, if you are stuck in a traffic jam at Jalan Tun Razak.. checks out your neighbouring car… who is driving and what kind of cars? You’ll be surprise!
     Cheers Tun… we always grateful to you.

434. Salam Tun.
     There’s nothing bad or anything wrong about NEP. It’s just another way to promote harmony and eliminate dissatisfaction among the rakyat.
     Its not a tool for robbing the non-bumi’s wealth. Do you know any case where the non-bumis was robbed of their properties or monies by using the policy?
     If talking about equal opportunity, why don’t we liberalise the private sector also instead of banging the public sector to open bigger doors for more oppotunity to non-bumis.
     Recently a MNC company in KHTP had some opennings for a few positions. Guess what? None of the successful candidates are bumis.
     Were they really unqualified eventhough graduated in the same fields, same U, etc. Were they inexperience, no personalities, no business acumen? What’s going on here?
     But of course, don’t blame the private sectors, just blame the government for practising NEP.
     For me, i find myself working for a company belonging to one of the richest man in Asia. No need to guess very hard … the corporation involved in manufacturing of our needed supply of flour, sugar, confectionary, cold drinks, even in entertainment, banking, waste water, solid waste, housing & property, retailing, construction and engineering. It covers from every aspect of human life.
     Do you think i’ll be given an opportunity to climb the corporate ladder eventhough i’m qualified enough in education and experiences? I don’t think so. For the past years, i was given bosses for me to teach and guide them in business activities and rapport. They come and go, either resigned or got promoted. Me? I’m still here because i’m a bumi. Do you think it’s fair?
     Well stop arguing about what’s the NEP beneficiaries got. Life is just unfair and will remain that way forever.

435. ASSALAMUALAIKUM WARAHMATULLAH HI TAALA WABAROKATUH
     Yang di hormati lagi di sayangi Ayahanda Tun dan Bonda Siti Hasmah
     Satu lagi penjelasan yang tepat dan bernas dari ayahanda.Sememang nya adalah amat susah untuk menjadi seorang Perdana Menteri yang mahu memberikan persamaan kepada semua rakyat Malaysia tanpa mengirakan kaum dan NEP telah membuktikan bahawa di sebalik perlaksanaan nya yang penuh kontroversial tetap rakyat Malaysia yang berbilang kaum dapat hidup dengan aman nya.
     Hanya segelintir yang hendak menunjukkan KEJAGUHAN nya akan menidak2kan kebaikan NEP ini.
     Dahulu anakanda pernah terfikir bagaimanakah orang2 bukan islam boleh maju dan kaya raya dan orang2 islam tidak.Rupa2 nya anakanda telah menemui jawapan nya dalam satu hadis Rasulullah SAW yang berbunyi :
     Apabila Allah SWT MURKA kepada seorang manusia itu maka dia akan mengirimkan satu syaitan kepada orang itu untuk membimbang2kan kepada nya tentang hal agama dan dunia.
     Tetapi apabila Allah SWT AMAT MURKA kepada manusia itu Dia akan mengirimkan DUA EKOR SYAITAN kepada orang itu yang hanya akan MEMBIMBANGKAN orang itu tentang HAL DUNIA SAHAJA (MAKSUD NYA hal agama dia tak ambil tahu langsung)
     Jadi sesiapa yang BERAGAMA ISLAM rasa nya akan FAHAM akan maksud hadis tersebut.Bukan tak boleh berusaha TETAPI JANGAN LUPA AKAN HAL, AGAMA (ISLAM).
     Semuga Ayahanda dapat meneruskan lagi catatan Ayahanda yang BERNAS ITU. Semoga Ayahanda dan Bonda selalu berada di dalam limpahan rahmat Allah SWT.
     Alif Lam Mim
     WASSALAM

436. Salam Tun,
     Apa yang Tun nyatakan tentang kejayaan NEP dari segi pendidikan memang tepat. Saya dan suami adalah hasil dari sekolah sains berasrama penuh and I am proud that currently my daughter too is studying at science boarding school. Classic example is my husband’s siblings, all of 6 of them graduated either from local & foreign university despite coming from a poor farming community. Thanks to the opportunities opened by NEP-Education. Not wanting to totally depend on goverments’ aid, mom-in-law even pawned her land & cattles to ensure that all her sons get equal opportunities in education.
     Despite the so called quota system in entering University, I am proud that my STPM results is above average and at par with my non bumi peers. Being funded by MARA while pursuing my Economy degree in UM, I had fully paid back the loan hope it will be further extended to other students in need. Sadly, there are lots of “kacang lupakan kulit” among us. Not only these idiots tarnished the opportunities given to them, they also tend to bite the hands that has helped them in the first place.
     No wanting to be labelled forever as bangsa subsidi, we are doing our part by saving funds for our children’s education. And thanks again to NEP in education, we are earning fairly enough to do so.
     Keep on sharing your thoughts, Tun.

437. Di bawah adalah terjamahan saya untuk artikel Tun D. Mahathir di atas. Bukan pandai sangat pun tapi harap-harap dapatlah orang memahami dan tak lari jauh dari apa yang TDM sampaikan. Saya sekolah tak tinggi manapun.
     Kuncu dan DEB
     1. Apabila Dasar Ekonomi Baru (DEB) mula membuahkan hasil pada awal 80an, akhbar barat dan pembangkan DEB dalam negara mula bercakap tentang kuncu. Sesiapa sahaja yang berjaya di negara membangun seperti Malaysia boleh berjaya kerana mereka ini dipilih oleh kerajaan, terutama ketua kerajaan.
     2. Saya diserang hebat kerana beberapa orang Melayu telah berjaya dalam perniagaan. Mereka telah dilabelkan sebagai kuncu saya, samada mereka sebanarnya kuncu saya atau tidak.(itu tidak penting) Sesiapa sahaja yang berjaya serta merta dianggap kuncu saya.
     3.Banyak kawan-kawan, saudara mara dan ahli keluarga saya yang gagal dalam perniagaan tidak digelarkan kuncu.
     4. Bukan hubungan sebenar atau perkaitan dengan ketua yang melayakkan seseorang itu untuk menjadi kuncu Perdana Menteri. (yang menentukannya) ialah kejayaan seseorang itu. Gagal, tanpa mengira berapa rapat mereka dengan Perdana Menteri tidak akan dikatakan kuncu.
     5. Keadaan ini meyebabkan saya dalam dilema. Sebagai ketua kerajaan saya hendaklah memastikan kejayaan objektif DEB untuk mengurangkan perbezaan antara Bumiputera dan bukan Bumiputera. Pengurangan (perbezaan antara kaum) ini hendaklah dicapai pada semua peringkat termasuk golongan kaya dan teramat kaya. Tidak cukup jika persamaan ini hanya untuk golongan berpendapatan rendah dan sederhana sahaja, sementara perniagaan besar semuanya ditangan jutawan bukan Bumiputera.
     6. Sementara kebanyakan Bumiputera yang diberikan bahagian dan peluang untuk berniaga telah menyalahgunakan peluang tersebut, sebahagian kecil telah secara serius mencuba dan ada diantara mereka yang berjaya. Jelaslah, mereka inilah yang akan diberikan lebih banyak peluang. Meraka yang telah menyalahgunakan peluang tersebut juga masih lagi diberikan peluang untuk kali kedua dan ketiga tetapi kerana mereka masih lagi gagal menjalankan kontrak dan projek yang diberi mereka ini akan dibuang. Memberikan mereka ini lebih banyak peluang hanyalah sia-sia. Ini tidak membantu membetulkan ketidaksimbangan ekonomi.
     7. Bila peluang baru diadakan, mereka yang mempunyai sejarah kejayaan diberi lebih banyak projek dan kontrak. Bila penswastaan diperkenalkan mereka inilah diantara yang dipilih untuk mengambilalih entiti swasta yang besar.
     8. Memanglah, beberapa orang diantara mereka gagal dan dibuang. Bilangan yang berjaya semakin berkurangan. Oleh kerana kita tidak boleh mengambil risiko untuk memberi kepada yang gagal, sebilangan kecil yang berjaya seolah-olah mendapat kesemua kontrak Kerajaan, projek penswastaan dan beberapa peluang perniagaan.
     9. Sementara itu kerajaan masih lagi mencari-cari individu Bumiputera baru yang memiliki pengetahuan yang mendalam dalam bidang perniagaan. Mereka juga diberi projek, kontrak dan peluang perniagaan. Sekali lagi jika mereka ini berjaya mereka akan diberi lebih banyak projek, kontrak dll. Mereka akan diketegorikan sebagai kuncu.
     10. Bilangan ahli perniagaan berjaya dikalangan Bumiputera perlahan-lahan bertambah. Marahkan DEB yang sebenarnya berjaya mencungkil ahli perniagaan Bumiputera yang berkebolehan dan mengurangkan ketidakseimbagan (ekonomi) Media barat dan pembangkang DEB tempatan mula melebelkan semua Bumiputera yang berjaya sebagai kuncu Perdana Menteri. Adalah tidak penting sama ada Perdana Menteri kenal atau tidak mereka ini, tetapi jika mereka berjaya mereka mestilah kuncu Perdana Menteri.
     11. Ianya seolah-olah hanya satu cara untuk tidak dituduh mengamalkan ‘kekuncuan’ iaitu dengan memastikan semua Bumiputera gagal di dalam perniagaan. Dengan cara yang lebih mudah menggagalkan DEB sepenuhnya.
     12. Perlanjutan perbezaan antara Bumiputera dan bukan Bumiputera akan menyebabkan munculnya ketegangan antara kaum dan ketidakstabilan politik. Selepas itu wartawan barat akan mengatakan peribumi ini sepatutnya tidak diberi kemerdekaan. Tengok apa kerosakan yang mereka buat kepada negara mereka.
     13. Ianya mestilah membosankan pihak Media barat yang serba tahu itu yang anggapan mereka telah terbukti salah. Mereka telah meramalkan negara kita akan runtuh kerana orang Melayu merampas kekayaan orang Cina selepas kemerdekaan, tetapi ini tidak berlaku.
     14. Apabila peristiwa 13 May 1969 berlaku, meraka mengucap tahniah sesama sendiri kerana apa yang mereka ramalkan memang berlaku. Tetapi tiga kaum di Malaysia telah berjaya mencari jalan penyelesaian dan Malaysia sekali lagi telah stabil dan menuju kearah pembagunan dan makmur.
     15. Walapun ramalan yang dahsyat tentang ketidakadilan DEB dan pengamalan ‘kekuncuan’, Malaysia terus membangun dengan lancar dan pembaharuan dapat dikesan dalam mengurangkan perbezaan antara kaum. Matlamat untuk mejadi negara maju menjelang 2020 seolah-olah boleh dicapai.
     16.Bila krisis ekonomi disebabkan oleh pedagang matawang melanda, Malaysia masih lagi aman dan damai. Orang Melayu tidak menyalahkan orang Cina seperti yang berlaku di negara lain. Sebenarnya orang Melayu berpuashati dengan bahagian mereka dalam mendapat kekayaan negara selepas DEB. Orang Cina juga tidak menyalahkan DEB.
     17. Sebaliknya bila Kerajaan berjaya mangatasi krisis , orang Cinalah yang amat berterima kasih. Dalam Pilihan Raya 1999, undi orang Cina bertambah, mambantu parti BN menang 2/3 Majoriti, walaupun mata Anwar lebam.
     18. Bila saya meletak jawatan, pengagihan kekayaan malalui “affirmative action” didalam bidang ekonomi telah diagihkan dan menghapuskan pengenalan kaum menerusi fungsi ekonomi tetapi tidak sebanyak matlamat asal.
     19. Tetapi DEB lebih berjaya dalam bidang pendidikan. Bila saya menulis dalam Malay Dilemma pada tahun 1970, saya menyebut tentang pendidikan sebagai penghalang kepada perkembangan orang Melayu. Pada masa itu hanya sebilangan kecil sahaja orang Melayu mendapat pendidikan universiti. Terdapat juga beberapa orang ahli profesional Melayu.
     20. Dalam kelas 1947 saya di Kolej perubatan hanya terdapat 7 orang sahaja Melayu daripada 77 orang. Dalam fakulti seni pun peratusannya sangat kecil.
     21. Dibawah DEB lebih banyak sekolah dibina di pendalaman dan pendidikan awal adalah percuma. Pendidikan lanjutan mudah didapati dan banyak biasiswa diberi untuk belajar di universiti tempatan dan luar negara.
     22. Asrama membolehkan pelajar belajar didalam keadaan yang lebih baik daripada yang didapati dirumah kayu kampung yang serba kekurangan. Mereka diberi makanan yang lebih baik di asrama ini. Maktab Rendah Sains Mara berdasarkan Sekolah Asrama English telah menyediakan persekitaran yang baik bagi beberapa pelajar yang terpilih untuk belajar dan bermain.
     23. Hasilnya amat memuaskan. Beribu-ribu kanak-kanak lelaki dan perempuan Melayu dari keluarga miskin kampung mendapat peluang pelajaran yang lebih baik dan berjaya pula mendapat ijazah dari universiti didalam pelbagai bidang dan ilmu pengetahuan.
     24. Banyak yang melanjutkan pelajaran ke peringkat sarjana dan kedoktoran. Mereka sekarang bekerja sebagai profesor di universiti, sebagai pakar dalam pelbagai bidang perubatan, saintis, jurutera, akitek, veterinar, pertanian dll. Meraka tidak ketingalan dengan memajukan diri dalam pengetahuan baru seperti teknologi maklumat, kominikasi dan sains angkasa.
     25. Mereka juga menceburi bidang pengurusan, mandapatkan MBA dari universiti terkemuka seperti Havard dan Philadelphia. Bersenjatakan kelayakan ini mereka telah diambil bekerja sebagai eksekutif pengurusan pada semua peringkat. Beberapa orang juga sebagai ketua syarikat antarabangsa.
     26. Dalam bidang pelajaran DEB amat berjaya. Ini membantu membetulkan ketidakseimbangan bukan sahaja dalam kerjaya tetapi dalam bidang perniagan. Pelik juga orang Melayu berjaya menjadi pengurus bank.
     27. Kejayaan pembelajaran dibawah DEB telah tidak dihiraukan dan tidak dikenali sebagai sebahagian daripada pembasmi kemiskinan dan matlamat pembuangan pengenalan bangsa dari fungsi ekonomi DEB. Tetapi hakikatnya memang begitu.
     28. Jadi fikirkanlah samada DEB hanya memperkayakan kuncu PM and Kerajaan.
     29. Fikirkanlah apakah akan terjadi kepada Malaysia hari ini tanpa DEB.
     30. Jika masih lagi ragu, lakukanlah tinjauan kepada semua kontrak, biasiswa yang diberi oleh pihak swasta dan kiralah berapa banyak sumbangan mereka untuk menghapuskan perbezaan antara kaum dan siapakah yang miskin dinegara ini.
     Ulasan saya ;
     Tanpa artikel sebegini, saya takkan tahu bahawa pendidikan yang saya terima, tinggal di asrama sekolah dsb, adalah dibawah dasar DEB. Saya hanya menerima seadanya. Tanpa DEB keadaan saya pastilah tak sebaik hari ini.(Walaupun sekarang ni keadaan saya hari ini memang tak berapa baik).
     Terima kasih Tun M, Terima Kasih Malaysia.

438. You have ignored those less-fortunate, poor to the core Chinese & also Indians who have sacrificed so much for the NEP.
     Coming from a Chinese family my father earned a few ringgit driving a taxi in backward Kudat while my mother had to plant our own vegetables to feed our mouths. We could not participate in any Saham scheme because only the Bumis could invest in them.
     In the then filthy-rich Mustapha’s Sabah, my scholarship application to a full-board secondary school was rejected in spite of my excellent grades. As a “protest” my father then sent me to a Chinese Independent School.
     Today, thanks to the Chinese blood in me I can consider myself quite well-off in the corporate world, no thanks to the NEP!

439. Salam untuk Tun dan keluarga.
     I am a product of NEP ( boarding school n uni)and will always be grateful for it. As a Muslim it is my duty to stop accepting help when you can stand on your own feet. So that is why i did’t send my children to boarding school eventhough they all got a place for form one.
     to me let other deserving bumiputera family (i am currently staying in Sabah, i do get to see lots of poor family in Sabah) get the chance for good education for their children because i can afford to give good education to my children even if they are staying home with me.
     To those who criticize NEP, I would say you are short sighted. Because if you have a few children ( I have 5) you don’t treat them all the same. I’m not saying that I don’t love them equally but each and every children is unique. What if you have 3 ‘special – handicapped’ children and the other 2 is ‘normal’ then wouldn’t it be an injustice to treat them equal when the 3 special children do need more help.
     But it is the duty of the special children to stop asking for help once you are able to stand on your own feet.
     To those who want total abolishment of the current political contract, again i ask you to think again. If a political party is open for all, do you think there will be any Indian or Chinese descendent person in Parliment or State seat?
     They will be outnumbered in the party itself and nobody will hear your voice. It’s human nature to select someone like you. Just look at the ‘great’ democracy of the world – comprise of male n white majority. By having each race party you are ensuring that someone from your race will be represented and your voice heard.
     It’s a good thing that the Malays are willing to share their power. But even then there were lots of complain. Tak mengenang budi !
     To Tun, i would like to suggest to you, wife, dato seri sanusi junid and all friends who are really for the development of the race to devise a course for us Bumiputera to be as great as you all. Maybe an 18 weeks (because 18 weeks is more than enough time to make it a habit) course – like Napoleon Hiil – that can make us think and achieve goals like you. Let us have millions of Mahathir that love their God, country n race. That’s the paradigm shift for us. it’s time to walk the talk. I would be the first one to volunteer if you have such a project because my flaw is i cannot execute my planning.
     Salam to you and family and GOD BLESS

440. Tun,
     How about the disadvantages of NEP? Sure all project or plan been implement there is Good and Bad. How we going to overcome that and who should be the one look at it? As the world is changing a lot of plan must be run and suit to global change. Is current NEP suit this?
     Tun, who are the person that coming out the idea of NEP? Are they still providing the plan for our country future? If not then the team is capable or not?
     Do we need a team of ppl who look at Malaysia future to come out another “NEW” NEP? and who are they? What others than NEP Tun can suggest for us as Malaysian?
     I always think that Malaysia need a capable leader and team. If a good or even a best project and plan, there is no capable person leading it. The end is screw up.

441. Dear TUN,
     No one with the right mind will oppose NEP blindly. Equally so, no one with the correct thinking will condone abuses and bad implementation of NEP whole heartedly in the name of affirmative action. What I think all Malaysians want is a fair and equitable implementation of the affirmative action program base on merits and needs, irrespective of race. We are a developing country, there are poor Malaysians in every race. These Malaysians are still poor because they were not given opportunity or had not met the right opportunity. Many of them are the potential gems of our country who are yet to be discovered, mined, polished and marketed as truly great gems of high value.
     I think you had admitted that a great deal of those “chosen want” in the name of NEP were in fact did not possess the quality to be successful. This I think is due to the “Easy comes, easy goes” logic. In the early day of mad rush to implement NEP, huge amount of money were just simply poured to nurture the selected few who are close to the power base of the Government. These people were selected not because of what they know but who they know. All these were also done in the name of race and in the expense of other races. I think many Malaysians could remember well too, “divide and rule “ tactics and racial politics were abused to the extreme where one race is pitched against the others while the Government were conducting what I termed as our version of domestic “cold war” against the other so called more successful races. These were the 1970s, 80s and 90s.
     Yes, some NEP successes were also produced which is a very good thing. Otherwise we would be compared to Zimbabwe, Sudan or countries like that. But is this something what we should be very proud of ? Not exactly. Any aviation engineer will tell you that a toilet can even fly if you put a strong enough engine in it. What we want is obviously not a flying toilet but an elegantly designed and fine tuned efficient plane. But are there “flying toilets” out there? I think Money politics is one good example of ‘flying toilets” which I think TUN had even cried over it in one UMNO General Assembly. Money politics are fueled by people with easy money who would want and demand more easy money from more contracts. And there will be no end as greed knows no bound. Simply put, these easy money people do not have the interest of the Rakyat at hearts.
     Damages had been done and a great deals of the country’s valuable resources were also wasted. Rather than crying over spilled milk, we should look ahead for the future. I think the March 8 GE results are good indicator for a better Malaysia. The Rakyat wanted reform and wanted it fast. But alas, rather than riding on this great wave of change, more money politics and dirty politics were being orchestrated and played out.
     These are the challenges that we face. Rather than living the high lives, or should I say while we are living the high lives, we should also go back to the basic. The basic is to help the genuinely poor who need help and need the right opportunity or environment to grow and prosper. Rather than simply pouring more money or keep spilling more milk on those “flying toilets”, the implementation of the affirmative action program should be sharply focused and fined tuned to benefit all Malaysians who need it, irrespective of race. More money should be spent on education, training and human resource development of all Malaysians. We should handsomely reward our teachers who produce good students and also support the education and training sectors. The current infrastructure or “hardware” development in the country, as what our eyes can see are pretty good enough. I think the returning to the basic is to put more emphasis on developing the “software’ side of our people and discover more gems (e.g. like TUN and Anwar) within us so that Malaysia can become a great country that we are proud of.
     Regards
     Niuku

442. Assalamualaikum Tun.
     Saya bersetuju dengan apa yang diperkatakan oleh Tun berkenanaan DEB dan saya amat bersyukur dengan kewujudannya.
     Saya juga berasa sangat bertuah apabila membaca blog Tun pada hari ini kerana Tun memperkatakan tentang DEB. Saya merupakan penuntut di UiTM Shah Alam dan saya sedang menjalankan kajian yang bertajuk “Kesan DEB Terhadap Hubungan Etnik di Malaysia” bersama beberapa rakan.
     Ketika memilih tajuk ini, saya merasakan orang yang paling sesuai untuk saya jadikan rujukan ialah Tun.
     Sehubungan itu, saya bercadang untuk berjumpa sendiri dengan Tun dan bertanyakan hal tersebut. Diharapkan Tun sudi meluangkan sedikit masa dan Tun boleh menghubungi saya dengan alamat email ini; [email protected]
     Yang benar,
     Muhammad Muzamir Bin Abdul Rahman

443. assalamuailaikum Ayahnda Tun..
     Yes…i do believe in cronyism ayahnda Tun, every humans being have cronismatic character towards successfull of needs. Well distribution of wealth is the most important character of every mankind in order to maintaince peacefull of the world.
     NEP has shown good distribution of wealth to every races in this country.
     Thank you for be our leader Ayahnda Tun.

444. Salam Dr Mahathir,
     The NEP is a brilliant policy. Likewise with other economic
     and education policies that you helped set up while you were
     the Prime Minister.
     The problems, however,did not lie with the policy but its
     implementation.
     The implementators i.e. Banks and the Government Agencies
     ( Economic and Education) were the hurdles the Bumis had
     to face before they could enjoy the facilities offered.
     Bumis wanting to start business did not have capital neither
     the experties.
     Banks were not accomodative and set stringent rules.
     Unless you know somebody in the Government Agencies, your
     proposal paper would remain just papers.
     Worst of your ideas were being used by another party
     that had linked with people inside the organisation.
     Therefore Bumi businessmen either formed Ali Baba partnerships
     or those with capital and expertise will look for political
     connections to make their business deals smooth sailing.
     Of course those businesses that were politically-linked would
     rose to the top overnight.
     Such was the Economic Policy seen from one Bumi businessman
     who wanted to start small.
     This small businessman still thinks, we still need connection
     to stay in business either via politically-linked or with some
     help from a friend inside.
     p/s Dr pse comment about a book tittled, “A Tribute to Dr Mahathir Mohamad
     A Great Leader and Statesman”
     as advertised in StarTwo edition, yesterday , 5 August , 2008.
     Its being marketed by Various Marketing Channels based in Johor Bahru
     and costing RM370/- each. Like to know if you’d endorsed it.

445. Yes, I’m agreed with you Tun. I am also a fruit a NEP. The government support my studies since I am form 1 by giving scholarships until I finished my first degree.
     During schooltime, the distribution of the scholarships was correct. It was given to bright students of the poor.
     However during university time, I realized many of my friends who got the award are from rich families. Even some of their parents stay oversea. They just came back to Malaysia to take their SPM so that they can apply the PSD scholarships. That’s just to name a few. Why was that thing happened? Is it because of Malay quota?
     Next, many sponsored graduates were left unattended by PSD once they graduated. Its actually a loss to country assets by letting this groups of achievers gone by themselves. Why dont government do something to fully utilise PSD investment? I f this situation continues, in addition of the country becoming brain drain, PSD fund also would be drained as well.

446. Dear Tun,
     I am an UMNO member. I have spent the last 20 years helping you fight for Malay rights. But it is wrong and incorrect (morally, politically, economically) to deny other non Malays their opportunities. Yes we must (even now) send young Malays by the thousands overseas to study. I think there must be a new program to send young Malays (graduates, non graduates etc) overseas to look for jobs overseas in US, UK, Australia, Japan and so on. Our young Malays need experience living and working in foreign countries.
     Then maybe they can learn to compete with the real world and at the same time also forget about hantu, bomoh, kahwin empat, mengurat, ustaz, ulama and other such debilitating beliefs.
     But we should not prevent or deny non Malays equal chances. Every deserving non Malay child who qualifies must be given a place in the Govt universities. Not only do they pay income taxes but they are human beings too, just like the Malays. We owe a great responsibility to care for our fellow humans.
     Every non Malay child who gets weak grades in school should be given the same chances to enter the institute kemahiran, institute latihan belia etc just like the Malay child. And we should not prevent non Malay businessmen from getting licenses, bank licenses and so on. There should not be any restriction in the economy.
     The Government must bend over backwards to help the Malays but we must not put up obstacles on the non Malays. Here is the reason why.
     If there was an NEP in the US and we put restrictions on the white people there, then would Bill Gates have created Microsoft? Would Bill Gates have come here and helped us create the MSC? The answer to both is no.
     If there was an NEP in Japan and we had put restrictions on the Japanese, would there be a Matsushita, an NEC or a Fuji? Would they have come here to help create jobs for our young people? Again the answer is no.
     So we have wasted millions of opportunities by denying the non Malays, the Chinese in particular, from achieving their full potential.
     If the Chinese are allowed complete and unbridled economic opportunities they will help move our country forward at a much faster clip. The Malays would still hold the political power. But with a more vibrant economy ultimately the Chinese would have no choice but to employ Malays, become partners with Malays, sell to Malays, buy from Malays etc.
     On top of all this, your aggressive program to assist capable bumiputras would have been an added bonus. Amidst a vibrant non Malay economy we would still have had the Tajuddin Ramlis, Yahya Ahmad, Sapura, UEM and so on.
     Whether Chinese, Malay, Indian, Japanese or whoever, economic activity should always be encouraged and assisted. The problem is we took a political approach towards solving what is actually an economic problem. It will not work. An oil palm will only produce so much yield per acre. Whether it is a Chinese, Malay or Indian does not matter. We cannot increase the yield per acre in a Malay owned plantation by denying the Chinese planer opportunity to plant oil palm. It does not work that way.
     We must allow the Chinese to continue planting the oil palm. We must also help the Malay to do the same thing. What we have done now is we have denied the non Malay many opportunities. We have then poured free money to the Malays and still failed to increase his yield of oil palm.
     Until today the yield per acre of the Chinese plantations like IOI, IGB etc is higher than Sime Darby and so on. Should we deny IOI and IGB their plantation lands?
     The same goes for banking. Last year Maybank only achieved 2% loan growth – far below their target of 10%. This year they have lowered their targets to about 6%. Public Bank has outperformed the market and exceeded their growth targets.
     Should we deny the Chinese their banking licenses?
     No we should not. Let the Chinese plant as many acres as they want or open as many banks as they want. At the same time let us assist the Sime Darby’s and the Maybanks adopt good policies and practises that will also make them as competitive or better than the non Malays.
     Can the Malays do it? Of course they can. Just look at Petronas. It is run by Malays and it is a recognised international oil company. Oil exploration is the toughest business in the world. 30% of Petronas’ earnings now come from overseas where there is no NEP to help them. So the Malays can compete overseas. Let them do the same here.
     Here is just one way to make the Malays compete. Declare openly that certain Government contracts are only for bumis. But then open it up for tender but among bumis only. Let the bumis compete for the tenders and projects. No more serving contracts on a silver dish. You must compete for it, fairly and squarely, but only bumis are invited.
     The way things have been done until now is ‘Here you take this’ just because someone has shown past track record. That is not good economic management. I believe the Malays are in their present predicament because we just did not allow them to compete.

447. Dear Tun,
     You are mostly right about the benefits of NEP and how it is not often discussed. But I think the problem with the credibility of NEP is much eroded when one sees that UMNO and its members are the main beneficial of the policy which you have implemented! Furthermore, I think that your personal credibility is been question as you have always turn a blind eye on the problems of the NEP, without offering how you would “fine tune”! Your ONLY solution seems to be a change of the current leader! But what if the next leader is also a crook?
     Tun, I understand that you have to protect your legacy which many Malaysian recognised. But since you are no longer holding a political position and may I suggest that your legacy would be even more enhanced, if you can focus and make suggestion on how to fix the problems caused by the NEP.
     Malaysia would not change much with just a change of leadership. Malaysia would have a much brighter future and better direction if you can offer your consider your experince and feedback to your former party on how to fix the problem of the NEP and let them vote on it. Only then I think UMNO and BN would regain the heart of Malaysian.

448. Assalamualaikum Tun….
     Tanggapan seseorang selalunya dipengaruhi oleh perasaan dan perasangka yang berlainan tanpa berlandaskan kebenaran dan kejujuran pemikiran……….
     adakalahnya disebabkan kurangnya maklumat atau pengetahuan kepada sesuatu perkara kerana sikap malas mengambil tahu dan mengkaji, justeru memberi kesimpulan dan membuat tuduhan liar.
     Keadaan ini adalah menggambarkan cara orang-orang kita berfikir dan bertindak.
     Lebih teruk lagi apabila pemimpin dan ahli UMNO tidak ada pendirian dan tindakan yang berani memperjuangkan hak mereka sebagai ahli UMNO, sebaliknya mereka telah dikuasai sebagai pengikut dan penakut.
     Mereka tidak lagi mengambil kira rungutan ahli dan pengundi khususnya rakyat Malaysia terhadap kepimpinan negara………..so!
     UMNO tidak lagi boleh memperjuangkan hak orang melayu dan rakyat, Maknanya UMNO tidak lagi relevent kepada orang melayu kerana mereka hanya memperjuangkan pemimpin dan keahlian mereka semata-mata.
     Saya beranggap demikian kerana prestasi PRU12 adalah bukti jelas kepada UMNO.
     Kekalahan parti-parti komponan BN juga adalah berpunca daripada kepimpinan UMNO sebagai parti dominan BN.
     Sunggupun NEP telah tertera di atas kertas, jika UMNO dan BN menang mejoroti mudah sahaja, saya merasakan NEP agak sukar dilaksanakan dengan berkesan dan malahan ada pihak cuba mencabar NEP..
     Hehehe…. anak saya yang berpendapat begini, budak pun da tahu sikit!
     Salam untuk Tun sekeluarga.

449. Tun M,
     can Mukhriz contest for the president post
     rather then KPemuda??

450. Yg bising2 pasal NEP, kroni ni org2 Melayu jugak. Yg bukan Melayu ni, bila dah tengok kerajaan sekarang tak kuat, makin menjadi2 la permintaan mereka utk equal rights la, kaji balik hak2 bumiputera la, dsbnya. Saya tak dengar pun DAP bising2 sangat masa Tun memerintah. Tapi bila Pak Lah berkuasa, bukan hanya pembangkang, parti2 komponen BN (MCA dan MIC) pun boleh masuk campur sekali mempersoalkan mengenai ketuanan Melayu.
     It’s all about control dan kuat. Bila kita lemah, org akan serang kita walaupun kita tak buat atau kacau mereka. Bila anda kuat, siapa pun tak berani. Sebab tu la sampai sekarang siapa pun tak berani nak kritik lebih US. Takut nanti rakyat negara mereka tak makan sebab kena boikot ataupun kena economic sanction. PBB pun tak berani dgn US. Tun dan beberapa pemimpin yg lain saja yg berani menjawab dgn US. Tapi itupun bagi US, Malaysia ini terlalu kecil utk dibuat sebarang tindakan! Apa2 pun, melihat kerajaan sekarang dibawah pimpinan Pak Lah, semua org boleh bercakap. Semua org boleh menyatakan pendapat. Semua org boleh buat cerita2 sensasi. Semuanya atas tiket kebebasan bersuara, demokrasi, dan hak asasi manusia.
     Selagi Pak Lah tak maintain kuasa dan hanya menyerahkan perkara2 penting pada org2nya utk buat keputusan, selagi itu lah UMNO tak kuat, BN tak kuat. Dan klu tak buat apa2 lagi utk menyelamatkan keadaan, makin hilang lah kepercayaan rakyat pada UMNO dan BN.

451. Yes,I am one of those kg boy that benefited frm NEP…….Dip to MA! Now I am persuing my Phd at my own expenses, coz too old for a sponsorship.
     Tun, how grateful I am to those who had crafted,cherished and sustained not for what NEP is, but the spirit of NEP.
     But sad is DSAI (+ crony PAS,under PKR) is in to bury NEP.
     Current PM is in a state of a lamed duck or a ‘mother’ cock in KFC slaughter hse or a foul-smell frm a zombie.By defination – an offensive term for a person considered to lack energy(zzz-zz), enthusiasm(talk rubbish), or the ability to think independently(flip-flop).
     Oooohgh! Just can’t bear any more.

452. Dear Tun
     I fully agree with your point #27 because I am one of the poor Malays who benefit from educational successes of NEP.
     27. The educational successes of the NEP have been largely ignored and not even recognised as a part of the poverty eradication and the removal of the identification of race with economic function objectives of the NEP. But in fact they are.
     Based on my own experience, education is the best way to eradicate poverty.I am grateful to be given a headstart in education through NEP. I left home at 13 to study in one of the boarding schools in Kuantan. I studied in a local university on a MARA study loan which I had fully repaid. I am doing post-graduate studies in Canada with my own money, something my family could never thought that I could because we were so poor when I was young. I probably would be a rubber tapper like my parents without NEP.

453. Dear Tun,
     Everyones admire your administrative skills and good goverance, including me.
     The main factor for this cronyism and NEP have so many backfires is the implementation or cascading of wealth was not fairly cascaded to the poor. And after many years without any yeild of fruits, the rakyat began to turn thier back to government.
     Honestly, it’s good administractive idea to have NEP, which help the poor or narrow the gap of rich and poor. But the idealogy was not being defined by all or mis-manupulated. The poor in Malaysia is Bumi and of course the fact has twisted to help malay which is not true. And this created un-eazyness among non-malay and politician twisted it became an unharmonise tool.
     If both the wealth has been cascaded to rakyat properly and not at certain level, then the rakyat might not anger or frustrated and NEP will be successful and NO croynism will exist.
     Take care and good health.

454. Salam Dr M
     This is yet another great precise. The whole story of the NEP crunched in a single posting.
     I have read Malay Dilemma and that was the beginning of my awakening in the world of politics. Thanks Tun.
     I am now reading a book by Yusof Ishak’s niece which has Malay as the central theme.
     The western press usually obtains information second-hand from a so-called regional expert. And this second-hand info always include a “regional” vested interest. Although they will never be caught dead admitting that they respect your opinion, they were always listening to your ideas. One such idea was the Asian perspective to media coverage – and CNA was born.
     ‘Malaysian Malaysia’ is a lifelong crusade for some Malaysians and the neighbour. At every opportunity, they will try to jeopardise the NEP. So they will use convenient labels and accusations to halt the steady and constant progress of the economy.
     At the height of the 97 financial crisis, Ringgit earned higher interest rates in a neighbour’s banks. The World Bank and IMF were also roped in to join the crusade. They had also invested tons of the green stuff in a local charismatic puppet.
     These crusaders also began (grudgingly) to realise that the Malays were not genetically STUPID or LAZY (DNA tests have proven otherwise).
     As if these were not enough efforts to suppress Malaysia’s progress, they conveniently use the age-old “power abuse” tag, the KKN – cronyism, corruption and nepotism to level at Tun.
     In AAB’s era, the neighbour and the western press only used “weak leadership” to describe him. No more KKN? I’m sure they pray he stays on.
     The opposition states are NOW challenging the social contract, clamouring for name changes, questioning Jawi, suppressing the Azan, questioning Sultan’s rights, demanding land title deeds for certain Malaysians, enlarging pig farms… more to come.
     And (sigh) UMNOputras are too busy jostling for positions and posts. Money politics has given them cataracts. AAB has pledged to CHANGE the mindset of the Malays (which he proclaimed that Tun had failed).
     Lately there were calls to fly the Jalur Gemilang upside down. What is happening?? Wear a WHITE ribbon instead and launch a PURITY movement, a campaign to cleanse UMNO/BN of dirt and get aboard on the original right track.
     INGAT – Amanah rakyat jangan diperlekehkan. Masa depan anak-anak kamu juga tergugat jika harta kekayaan yang diperjuangkan.
     Our prayers for Dr M’s continued well-being and we hope for more postings. Take care Tun.

455. Salam Tun,
     Tun mengatakan bahawa sememangnya Tun tidak mengenali sebelumnya ahli perniagaan atau syarikat yang dilabelkan kroni ini, mereka yang berjaya ini hanya digelar kroni setelah Tun mengenali mereka dan terus memberikan kontrak kontrak dan projek projek kerajaan.
     Mungkin pada satu segi memberikan kontrak pada syarikat yang sama dan telah berjaya adalah baik kerana dapat memastikan kejayaan sesuatu projek itu memandangkan ahli perniagaan atau syarikat tersebut telah berjaya menyiapkan projek yang diberi terdahulu dengan baik. Namun begitu apabila syarikat ini diberi peluang dan terus diberi projek maka secara tidak langsung syarikat tersebut telah menjadi kroni kerajaan.
     Walaupun ahli perniagaan itu gagal, namun mereka tetap dilabelkan sebagai kroni contohnya seperti syarikat yang memegang saham dalam MAS dan Celcom dahulu, ataupun Renong seumpanya. Mereka ini masih dilabelkan sebagai kroni.
     Sepatutnya syarikat yang berjaya ini tidak perlu lagi cuba bergantung kepada kontrak dari kerajaan tetapi sepatutnya mencari projek projek yang lain dan sebaiknya dari luar negara yang seterusnya dapat membantu menambahkan pendapatan negara. Peluang peluang yang lain oleh kerajaan boleh diberikan kepada syarikat syarikat yang baru.
     Adakah benar kerajaan sentiasa mencari usahawan atau ahli perniagaan yang berkaliber untuk diberi peluang? Ataupun segelintir sahaja yang dapat peluang tersebut tidak kira besar atau kecil kontrak atau projek yang diberikan.
     Kadar kegagalan sesuatu projek menjadi tinggi apabila kontrak kontrak diberikan kepada pemimpin pemimpin UMNO dari bawah hinggalah ke atas. Berapakah ketua-ketua cawangan atau ketua-ketua pemuda atau jawatankuasa yang menjadi kontraktor yang memegang lesen F hinggalah ke A? Begitu juga masalahnya dengan sijil pendaftaran-pendaftaran Kem Kewangan untuk menjadi pembekal kepada kerajaan, berapa banyakkah pembekal dari kalangan pemimpin UMNO ini?
     Kebanyakan mereka ini tidak punyai kedai atau pejabat pun, malah kemahiran pun tidak ada. Saya pernah menghadiri satu majlis di mana ketua di situ yang merupakan seorang kontraktor tidak tahu apa itu “longkang 3 inci”.
     Walaubagaimanapun, propaganda barat berjaya kerana orang Melayu sememangnya tidak suka melihat orang lain berjaya terutamanya kalau yang berjaya itu adalah bangsa sendiri.
     NEP ada satu dasar yang amat baik, namun NEP dan ahli UMNO menghasilkan ramai kroni melalui rangkaian rangkaiannya.
     Wassalam.

456. Assalamualaikum Tun,
     Menjelang 2020 dan Bangsa Malaysia.
     Difahamkan Tun berpendapat kita akan dapat mewujudkan Bangsa Malaysia menjelang 2020. Pada waktu itu sudah tentu dasar NEP tidak akan diguna pakai lagi. Isu bangsa juga tidak wujud sama skali. Malah Tun juga pernah menyatakan tentang keseimbangan bangsa Malaysia. Bila kita sudah capai matlamat ini, bukan Melayu juga boleh menjadi Perdana Menteri.
     Saya amat merisaukan tentang keseimbangan ini di mana ia takkan tercapai menjelang 2020. Masih ramai lagi masyrakat Bumiputera yang miskin ketika ini. Malah sasaran 30% pencapaian Bumiputera masih lg di atas angin.
     Cuma saya berharap pemimpin kini lebih telus dalam mengatasi masalah ini dan perlu meneliti serta mewujudkan satu dasar baru agar masyarakat Bumiputera tidak dipinggirkan.

457. Salam TUN,
     Kalau NEP takada jgn harap nak tengok org melayu berjaya. Cuma saya harap org melayu yg dah berjaya ingat2 sama org melayu yg susah.Jgn pulak asyik2 nak tolong org non bumi saja.Konon org melayu tak boleh harap.
     Walaupun dgn adanya NEP ekonomi masih lagi dikuasai org non bumi. Lihat saja rating top 10 org terkaya di Malaysia.Harap Tan Sri Syed albuhary satu saja org melayu.
     Banyak bisnis diM Malaysia telah dimanopoli oleh kaum non bumi jadi bagilah ruang sikit utk org melayu. Memang NEP ada cacat celanya tapi itu dah lumrah, takada yg sempurna dlm dunia ini. Walau NEP hasilnya 5% saja berjaya kurang2 ada juga bumiputra yg berjaya.
     Janji PKR nak bubar NEP dan ganti dgn NEP BARU PKR sama saja kerana ‘ end of the day ‘ jadi cerita kroni PKR pulak. Lihatlah sekarang belum perintah Malaysia dah bagi jawatan pd kroni ( biar ada rekod jenayah pun takpa ), projek pd kroni, hutan simpan hendak tebang,entah apa lagi nanti.
     Jgn lupa potongan hasil tanah tak jadi tapi ladang besar-besaran bela BABI MESTI di teruskan.Apakan daya MB selangor pakar ekonomi, dulu jaga GUTHRIE punya projek perabot pun lingkup.Inilah org2 yg merosak NEP.
     Only failures and losera during TUN time yg benci TUN.
     Saya mendapat semangat dari kata2 TUN yg membuat saya berjaya sekarang.Dulu saya seorang guru mengajar selama 12tahun, kemudian kerja di swasta 6 tahun. Sekarang saya berniaga walau tak memcapai tahap multi millionaire tapi saya mampu berkereta mewah, motosikal mewah, ada kedai sendiri dll. Maaf bukan nak menunjuk cuma nak cerita bagaimana kata2 seorg pemimpin ( TUN ) boleh mencetuskan minda kita utk berubah dari hanya makan gaji kepada dunai perniagaan.
     Jgn sampai bumi dipijak milik orang.
     Salam pd semua blogger bumiputra dan non bumiputra.Ekonomi setaraf negara aman.
     Semoga TUN dan keluarga sihat waalfiat.

458. i got this story from a malaysian;
     A story of Ant and Grasshopper
     Older Version
     An ant worked hard in the sweltering heat all summer, building its nest and laying up supplies for the winter.
     A grasshopper thought the ant was stupid not knowing how to enjoy life. It spent its days laughing, singing & dancing thoroughly enjoying the summer.
     Came winter, the ant was warm, comfortable and had no shortage of food.
     The grasshopper had no proper shelter, no stored food, and couldn’t find anything to eat from the snow-covered ground. So it died and the story ended.
     Modern Version
     An ant worked hard in the sweltering heat all summer, building its nest and laying up supplies for the winter.
     A grasshopper thought the ant was stupid not knowing how to enjoy life. It spent its days laughing, singing & dancing thoroughly enjoying the summer.
     Came winter, the shivering grasshopper called a press conference and demanded to know why the ant should be warm and well fed while he was cold and starving.
     TV1, TV2 & TV3 showed up to provide pictures of the shivering grasshopper alongside to a video clip of the ant in his comfortable home with a table full of food.
     The majority of the Malaysian Parliamentarians were stunned by the sharp contrast. How could this poor grasshopper be allowed to suffer?
     Khairy staged a demonstration in front of the ant’s nest.
     Nazri went on a hunger strike along with other grasshoppers demanding that they be relocated to warmer climate area during winter.
     The Malaysia Government immediately passed a law forbidding all ants from working hard in the summer so as to bring about equality of poverty between ants and grasshoppers.
     Hishammudin increased ‘More Special Reservations’ for grasshoppers in Educational Institutions & in Government Services..
     The ant was fined for failing to share 30% of his food with the grasshopper. The Prime Minister announced that this was part of the NEP. No ant should question it.
     Many years later…
     Some ant migrated to the US and set up multi-billion dollar companies there.
     Hundreds of grasshoppers still died of starvation despite the ‘More Special Reservations’.
     Losing significant number of hard working ants and free loading the grasshoppers, Malaysia remained a developing country, despite its abundant natural resources.
     All because the remaining ANTS were still doing their work ………………………..
     Latest finding showed that almost all the grasshoppers in the political arena and civil service were hoarding corrupt wealth which they refused to share with fellow grasshoppers.
     Then come a comment from fellow malay…sian.
     Good story.
     But the story failed to include some basic yet important points:
     1) The fact that the ants actually came from a different land, migrated to the Land of Grasshoppers since there were no more food in their own land, no matter how hard they worked.
     2) The fact that if those ants stayed in their native land, they would have died of starvation anyway, no matter how hard they worked.
     3) The fact that if those ants stayed in their native land, they would have been deprived the rights to work for their own food, and to prosper on their own. All their hardwork would have been used to prosper a certain elite group, and mind you, its not other species… but its from their own ants family!!! (mind reading something about how the Communism or Caste systems work???)
     4) The fact that the ants were very lucky to have migrated into the Land of Grasshoppers who were very kind to let them worked for their own food. Had the ants migrated to other lands, say Land of Frogs or Land of Lizards maybe, they wouldn’t have that much freedom to live. Worse, instead of being allowed so much freedom to find their own food, they themselves might have been turned to be the food for the Landlords….???
     5) The fact that had the ants did not migrated into the Land of Grasshoppers, all the grasshoppers wouldn’t have to share the source of food and shelter with the ants, and the grasshoppers would have had enough food for themselves, be it summer, winter, spring or fall.
     6) The fact that what is meant by “the ants worked hard for their own food”, is actually “the ants also gets their food from the grasshoppers’ playgrounds”….
     7) The fact that in the process of “working hard for their own food”, the ants had eventually pushed the grasshoppers to “the other side of the field”, where there are naturally less resources for shelter and food.
     8) The fact that those ants migrated “elsewhere” recently and doing well, is because they are well-educated and trained, something which they obtained from what they went through in the Land of Grasshoppers! And they thought they were just born great….??
     I could have included a lot more, but then I would be called a racist. Huhuhu… wonder what the story-writer should be called then??
     😉

459. What Tun Said is True.. UMNO leaders are too self-centered as to, under the pretext of maintaing solidarity, applaud unlimited support to Pak Lah a weak leader.. God save the future of the Malays

460. Salam Tun,
     1) NEP did improve the social status of the Malays, but due to mismanagement and huge lending, these status were badly downed during the 1997 financial crisis.
     2) Under NEP even the chinese and indians did enjoy the benifit, because these two communities are the after the malays in terms of position in the goverment.

461. SALAM PERJUANGAN BUAT TUN YANG DIKASIHI.
     1)Sesetengah melayu mempunyai sifat dengki dan busuk hati yang amat sangat…mereka lebih rela membeli dikedai cina walaupun harga barang berbeza 5 sen…walaupun jarak kedai cina melebihi kedai dihadapan rumahnya lebih jauh…budaya “kita pakat mmapuh dia”,”cah keting”, dan “biar padan muka dia” sudah sebati….kata dimulut je melayu bersatu atau ketuanan melayu…tapi didalam hati tidak begitu…apa sebab melayu suka beli barang kedai cina??? :
     a)kalau nampak orang tu pakai kopiah atau serban…tauke cina terus panggil dia…”haji @ustaz @imam…hari ini apa macam??? baru balik masjid ka???”
     b)kalau nampak orang yang pakai kemas sikit,rambut belah tepi dan bercermin mata…tauke tu kata…”cikgu….masuk,masuk…nak beli apa cikgu????….
     c)kalau nampak orang itu selekeh atau serabai pun…tauke tu akan panggil….”halloo BOS…apa macam…mau beli apa???..”
     jadi mereka ini biasanya membiarkan cina panggil begitu…sebab bukan senang tiba tiba dapat pangkat bos,cikgu atau haji ni…lepas tu mereka akan tawar menawar barang….tauke kata…”hayaa..ini barang kalau kasi itu punya harga…modal pun tadak kasi balik maa..”…lalu melayu tidak akan teragak-agak membeli dengan lahapnya…
     jadi kesimpulannya…”bukan bumiputera” janganlah persoalkan DEB sangat..kerana duit melayu banyak tumpah di kedai-kedai kamu jugak…Melayu dapat KONTRAK atau projek…di ali-babakan kepada kamu juga….
     2)Ada satu cerita ingin saya kongsi disini…ada seorang tauke cina yang berniaga kedai runcit kecil-kecilan dikampung saya….satu sifat pelik beliau ialah tidak boleh berkongsi tandas dengan ahli keluarga lain.hanya dia seorang yang menggunakan tandas itu sampailah dia mati.dia selalu berpesan kepada anak-anaknya,bila dia mati..bolehlah anak-anaknya guna tandas itu..selepas 2hari kematiannya…anak-anaknya membuka tandas bapanya…tak ada apa-apa yang special pun…cuma ada 2 tong besar,bekas minyak tar jalan…apabila anak-anaknya ingin mengalihkan tong tu…teramatlah berat sangat…bila diteliti..ada satu lubang sebelah atas tong itu semacam lubang tabung duit…rupa-rupanya…2 tong besar itu…bila dibuka..penuh dengan duit syiling 1,5 dan 10 sen!!!! bayangkan…duit itu dikumpul agak lama dan bila dia mula mengumpulnya mereka tidak pasti……duit dalam bank pula tak tahulah jumlahnya!!!jadi kesimpulan dan pengajaran yang saya dapat ialah..orang cina ni…sambil berak pun simpan duit!!!…melayu pula????? amalan paling tak berfaedah bagi orang kampung ialah main kutu 10 orang…main kutu rm 5 seorang sebulan..bila nak kaya???
     3)Kepada bangsaku…bukalah mata dan minda…rebutlah peluang keemasan untuk mengejar kejayaan dalam apa jua bidang sementara negara kita masih aman dan kita masih boleh bebas kesana kemari untuk mencari rezeki dan sebagainya…bayangkan negara berada dalam darurat dan perintah berkurung….akibat permusuhan kaum dan sebagainya…semua kaum akan rugi…anak cucu akan merana….usahlah terpengaruh sangat dengan laungan demokrasi dan ketuanan rakyat…bersyukurlah dan berdoa…agar keamanan ini berkekalan…..dan kalau sipolan itu menang pun…apa yang kita dapat??? kita dok macam ni jugak…sipolan akan dapat jawatan dan gaji yang lumayan…anak bini pun YB jugak..kerajaan ni dah jadi milik keluarga dia je…kalau masuk kat dia ok je…BUKAN KRONI pulak…dia je yang paling bijak…bijak ekonomi,alim agama dan macam-macam lagi…orang lain semuanya bodoh,rasuah…
     4)kali ni saya sokong pendapat nazri samseng tu…dia kata
     ” nak bentuk kerajaan apa????…sila baca kat: anwar ibrahim dot com
     WOKYOH

462. akum tun,
     so spatutnye NEP tuh govt patut continue 4eva utk kesejahteraan malaysia….cos its a win win situation for bumi and non bumi

463. TUN
     YOU ARE RIGHT. THEY JUST CANNOT ACCEPT IT.
     NOTHING IS EVER RIGHT TO THE WEST. ONLY WE UNDERSTAND OUR COUNTRY.
     LET US DO THINGS OUR WAY. YOU HAVE DONE A LOT FOR US AND WE ARE HOPING YOU COULD DO MORE BUT….
     MISS YOU AND IBU HASMAH
     P/S Susahnya nak tengok muka tun kluar kat tv, teruk betul la depa

464. Salam,
     1.terima kasih kerana Tun menjelaskan peranan NEP dan kronisma..PM sekarang tak berani nak cakap soal ini.Pemimpin Umno sekarang langsung tak berani mempertahankan soal NEP. Tak dapat undi kaum lain terus kecut.
     2.Dasar NEP sebenarnya dirasai oleh semua kaum…dasar ini menyebabkan kaum Cina dapat berdagang dengan aman dan enjoy dengan adanya pasaran iaitu orang Melayu. Kaum Cina tak akan kaya kalau tiada orang Melayu yang mampu membeli.Lawyer India tidak akan kaya kalau cuma mengharapkan pasaran orang India. Sebagai penduduk majoriti apabila orang Melayu bertambah kaya kaum lain akan merasainya juga.So more opportunity should be given to Malay.
     3.Selama dasar NEP dilaksanakan kaum lain tidak miskin malah bertambah kaya.Adakah apabila kaum lain bertambah kaya dasar ini dikatakan tidak adil.Sekiranya dasar lain diperkenalkan dan menyebabkan orang Melayu bertambah miskin maka dasar itu tidak adil kerana yang kaya semakin kaya dan yang miskin semakin miskin.
     4.Sebenarnya kaum lain tidak menentang dasar NEP kalau adapun boleh dianggap ekstrimis (contohnya HINDRAF).Kaum Cina dan India menyokong BN dalam tahun 1999 and 2004 sebab mereka boleh berniaga dengan senang ,negara semakin makmur ,kekayaan negara bertambah.Penolakan mereka kerana keadaan ekonomi semakin parah dan pentadbiran semakin kucar kacir.mereka menentang NEP apabila orang Melayu sendiri mula mempertikaikannya dan mereka susah hendak berniaga.percayalah soal NEP dan ketuanan Melayu tidak akan diganggu selagi kaum lain dapat merasakan kemakmuran negara.

465. Dear Tun,
     The majority of the Malaysians are grateful and appreciative of even the smallest mercies they are granted with. The NEP is a mercy to all and not cronies alone. Yet, there are a small group of insecure individuals who can never be contented with life. These are the people who will create tension amongst peace loving Malaysians over baseless issues. It is the duty of the government to inform the rakyat on matters such as NEP and the rational of its implementation rather than succumb to twisted facts raised by its opponents.

466. Di doakan semua yang terbaik untuk Tun Dr.M,
     Assalamualaikum Ayahanda…
     DEB adalah satu rangka ekonomi yang cantik dan patut diteruskan oleh mana-mana pemimpin yang memegang tampuk pemerintahan Malaysia kerana DEB telah terbukti dapat memberikan kesempurnaan hampir kepada seluruh Rakyat Malaysia …
     Kalau bab kroni-mroni ni, orang yang berdegar-degar dulunya mengutuk mengenai kroni, kini dah nampak dia pun ada unsur-unsur yang sama, sebabnya ? sebab dulu dia melihat dari perspektif dia seorang yang tidak berkuasa – kini dah dapat sedikit kuasa dan ada back bencher yang menyokong di belakang, maka dia pun secara tidak sengaja (mungkin juga sengaja) terpaksa mengkronikan juga sistem pengurusan pentadbirannya …
     Kami faham dengan sikap kepimpinan Tun dulu yang cuba sedaya upaya untuk mengelak, dari terlibat (dan melibat) untuk menawarkan projek samada secara terus atau tidak kepada relative/else (baca: kroni) … Demikian Tun bertindak mempimpin dengan cuba sedaya upaya penuh ketelusan, tetapi sayangnya ada pihak yang busuk hati cuba juga mencari salah Tun sehingga kelubang cacing untuk dipersalahkan … biasa la Tun, puak2 yang busuk hati perut tu…
     Pada kami rakyat yang faham, sudahpun dan akan terus memberi sokongan kepada apa yang Tun rancang, tadbir dan laksanakan … kerana kami sayangkan Tun. Tun brilliant dan bervisi jauh …
     Tapi, sekarang punya pemimpin (current), wahhh! terang-terangan pula dia mengkronikan projek-projek … Patrick ke sapa ntah namanya tu … depa kata bin Badwie … hehehe … yang tu nampak sangatttt – dan terlalu jelas sangattt ! ….
     AloQStaQ
     http://AloQStaQblog.blogspot.com

467. SALAM AYAHANDA TUN…
     SEMOGA BERADA DGN KEADAAN KESIHATAN YANG BAIK…
     TERIMA KASIH KERANA ADA BLOG INI….

468. Dear Dr M,
     good article from you as always. Personally, i agree that NEP is a good platform for those who has the ability and willingness to work hard to prosper be given a chance to do so be it bumi’s or non bumis. Its a form of control on the part of the Govt to ensure that wealth be contributed accordingly in my considered opinion
     But then again, not all ppl want to work hard and just want to take thg easy.thats when everthing goes haywired rite?
     Many thanks for your input TDM and keep on writing…
     Regards,

469. Dear Tun,
     It is good to know your thoughts on DEB. As you said, chinese and Indian support DEB too, but the problem is in the implimentation of the Dasar. For example, I would like to see more transparent in issuing contracts.
     Most of the Rakyat dont mind pay tax, but we got furious when tax money is pay for corruption and “commision”.
     Dear Tun, you got so many gooddies here, can I suggest you arrange translation on Chinese and Tamil, for the benefits of the rest?

470. Salam Tun.
     1. Sepanjang DEB dilaksanakan terdapat banyak tafsiran yang diluahkan sehingga pada suatu ketika perkataan kroni ini muncul tanpa sebab yang masuk akal.
     2. Jika dilihat sememangnya amat mengelirukan kerana rakyat tidak pasti akan bagaimana DEB ini sepatutnya membantu rakyat jadi ianya mengambil masa agak lama untuk sampai pada suatu tahap dimana rakyat mulai memahaminya dan berusaha berdasarkan apa yang mereka percaya boleh mereka capai.
     3. Akan tetapi sekiranya silap langkah maka akan membawa padah yang amat teruk sekali dan agak sukar juga untuk bangkit semula tetapi gagal sekali itu bukanlah bermakna gagal selama-lamanya.
     4. Bergantung pada pendirian seseorang individu itu untuk menilai kemampuan dirinya kerana sasaran yang besar sudah tentu memerlukan risiko yang sama besar jadi penilaian yang tepat akan menentukan jatuh bangun sesebuah negara.
     5. Sebab itu sikap profesional dan berakal fikiran dengan menolak nafsu buas itu adalah perkara pokok dalam mengatur perancangan bersama jika mahu seiring dengan perancangan yang telah disediakan oleh Kerajaan.
     6. Mengapa harus mengejar sesuatu yang tidak terkejar sedangkan apa yang sudah sedia ada sudah cukup untuk kita merancang kehidupan seharian kita?
     7. Kita kena tanya kepada diri kita sendiri apa sebenarnya yang kita kejar dalam hidup ini kerana jika sanggup tanggung risiko maka sanggup juga menghadapi kegagalan berulang-kali dan akhirnya berjaya mencapai apa yang dihasratkan.
     8. Politik dan Kepercayaan menjadi perkara yang berbeza maka adalah penting untuk setiap golongan rakyat meneliti tanggungjawab masing-masing sebelum membuat keputusan drastik tetapi harus juga menetapkan kata putus agar rakyat memahami perjuangan sebenar sebagai negara berbilang kaum.
     9. Saya melihat negara sedang menuju kearah kemajuan minda sainstifik dan hanya golongan-golongan tertentu sahaja yang dianggap unggul akan berjaya mengharungi cabaran-cabaran sebegini.
     10. Tepuk dada, tanya selera. Tetapkan pendirian, teruskan perjuangan. Sasaran besar, risiko besar.
     Salam Tun. Stay healthy okay ^_~!

471. to leading,
     100% agree with you.
     to tun,
     NEP & cronyism = minor case
     NEP & Bumiputra ZZZZZZZZZZ = serious case
     if you want NEP, then you keep ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ

472. Singapore does not practice NEP and they have an economy better than ours now. Last time it used to be RM 1.50 = S1.00. Now it is RM 2.30 = S1.00. So what’s the big deal about NEP? Check your data before opening your mouth !

473. Dearest Tun,
     I believe the NEP has helped non-bumis (like myself) to strive harder and I somehow have you to thank for this.
     It is no surprise that with NEP has made certain bumis to be lazier because they think NEP as handouts and they will get spoon-fed.
     Still, your principle of NEP is very clear but abused by certain quarters.
     http://wtfmalaysiangovernment.blogspot.com/

474. Tun,
     It is so frustrating by these people who just so ungrateful. I’m one of the younger generation and I remember all this and felt very grateful to it. Some people just choose to blind their eyes and deafen their ears. It is sickening to be dealing with all this. Where’s our religion teaching in this. It seems like we dont have any.

475. Salam Tun n chedet.com fan…
     Semoga Tun dirahmati Allah sentiasa…
     Absolutely correct!
     Jika tidak kerana DEB, Melayu tidak akan se’gah’ sekarang…
     Tapi seperti yang Tun kata “Melayu Mudah Lupa”…
     Kroniiii…
     ECM Libra??? Scomi???
     Ini bukan kroni, tapi perniagaan keluarga…
     “Biar rakyat miskin janji keluarga kaya”
     Hampeh!!!!

476. Syabas Jidien !!
     teruskan usaha anda membantu dan mendidik anak bangsa..!!

477. What is the proof that NEP works?
     What studies have universities made that show NEP works?
     Show us the statistics in black and white.
     What proof do you have that NEP also helps the non-bumis?
     We have been Malaysians for 50 years and it’s going to be 51 years by end of this month, so why choose to be unequal to all Malaysians? Let Malaysia be for Malaysians and not just for Bumiputras.

478. Good day to All,
     Under the Tun leadership no one is purposely deprived of
     opportunities,most benefited from the expansion of economic cake.
     We have shown a very good example to third world
     Thank you very mich.

479. I believe you meant University of Pennsylvania (Kellogg School of Business) instead of Philadelphia.

480. There are millions of Malaysian who agreed the NEP implementation was a success. NEP has helped the bumis to open the gate to close the wealth gap. That is the main intention. Not to spoon feed, but to reduce the wealth disparity. Those who took the advantage of NEP implementation have succeed.
     NEP is one thing. Business oppurtunity is another. Some businesses are controlled by certain ethnic group. To name a few – automotive, tyres, newspaper delivery, hardwares, machinery etc. Theoritically, yes NEP helps the bumis to pursue higher education. In reality, NEP implementation tought the bumis (unconciously) only to become a more competent professional who works on private/civil sectors. No exposure on business awareness were nurtured – ergo the wealth disparity.
     What we need is a policy that has the similar weightage as the NEP but focus on business development. To do this, businesses should not be controlled by only certain ethnic group but to all.

481. Salam kepada YAB Tun dan rakan2 bloggers,
     1. DEB masih relevan. Hanya musuh orang Melayu/Bumiputra lain sahaja yang mahu hapuskan DEB, seperti si Anwar dan PKR, DAP dan pelbagai parti lain.
     2. Negara2 luar, lebih2 lagi barat lebih berminat mahu menggunakan DEB untuk memecahbelah rakyat Msia supaya mudah masuk jarum. Perhatikan Spore cuba hasut kaum Cina di sini bahawa Spore pakai meritokrasi bukan seperti Msia yang menidakkan hak mereka. Kita juga mendengar bagaimana rakyat kaum Cina diberi layanan mesra oleh Spore semasa bekerja di sana. Jika rakyata Msia tidak bersatu, musuh senang untuk masuk, macamana Israel pecahbelahkan rakyat Lebanon.
     3. Dalam perlembagaan sudah sedia termaktub kedudukan istemewa bumiputra, dalam kontrak sosial pun sudah jelas, tetapi pemimpin melayu dulu masih keberatan menggunakan kelebihan ini. Bayangkan jika kaum lain yang mendapat kelebihan ini, sudah lama digunakannya. Tetapi pemimpin melayu hanya menggunakan kelebihan ini apabila tercetusnya 13 Mei 69. Kalau tidak, sekadar atas kertas, tetapi kaum Cina dan India terus-menerus mendapat kerakyatan dan menggunapakai semua kelebihan termaktub dalam perlembagaan; agama, budaya, bahasa, dll. Walaupun dicatatkan bahawa hanya bahasa ibunda, tetapi hari ini digunakan bahasa tanah besar China iaitu mandarin! Pun kerajaan pejam mata sahaja. Nah, tak termaktub dalam perlembagaan pun dilanggar juga. Bila bumiputra mengikut perlembagaan, dicari pasal (oleh golongan ektremis).
     4. Balik kepada cerita kronisma. Tun dituduh bagi kontrak, bisnes kepada kroni. Saya percaya Tun memberi kontrak kepada mana-mana syarikat yang Tun sangat tahu/yakin prestasinya dan selain daripada itu kepada syarikat2 yang direkomen oleh orang lain kerana Tun tidak mampu untuk menyelidik sehalus2nya semua syarikat kerana masa terhad…you had to run this country!. Maka adalah syarikat yang tulen dan perform, dan ada yang mengguna Tun untuk kepentingan sendiri, tetapi tidak perform.
     5. Apabila Tun berani turun menjadi PM, saya yakin Tun yakin Tun bersih dari rasuah (termasuk menyalahguna kuasa)jika tidak sudah tentu Tun pegang jawatan ini sampai akhir hayat, supaya orang lain tidak berani kacau Tun semasa menjadi PM. Tun berani kerana kontrak2 yang diberikan adalah mengikut peraturan dan yang dipanggil kroni tidak memberi ganjaran apa2 kepada Tun. Kroni hanya kerana Tun yakin mereka boleh deliver. Mengikut definisi saya kroni adalah mereka yang memberi share/habuan/rasuah kepada Tun. Tetapi Tun saya yakin memberikan kelulusan dengan pengetahuan kabinet dan tidak mengambil habuan. Saya pernah mendengar ucapan Tun di mana Tun berkata apabila kita mahu melakukan perkara salah, sudah tentu akan melibatkan pihak lain dan sudah tentu orang lain tidak boleh menyimpan rahsia…oleh itu, elak daripada membuat perkara salah. Itu sebabnya Tun berani turun semasa masih hidup sebagai PM. Sudah 6 tahun berlalu, musuh2 Tun tidak dapat cari salah, maka setan menteri sudah kaitkan dengan kes Linggam. Itu saja menteri baghal? PM baghal yang memberi restu pula tu.
     6. Tetapi zaman Dollah ini apabila asyik Scomi yang dapat, Patrick yang dapat, Kera Jantan dapat, adik ipar, abang ipar, bererti ada habuan untuk diri dan sanak sedara…inilah kroni. Ini yang menyebabkan orang marah DEB, sebenarnya mereka inilah culprits nya.
     Projek besar sampai ke paling kecik pun disapu keliling, mana orang tidak marah? Semua orang bisnes, tidak kira bangsa terasa perit kerana bisnes kurang, tetapi mereka kroni PM yang sama mendapatnya. Walaupun bawah khazanah, bawah GLC, akhirnya kepada kroni2 ini juga.
     7. Sekali lagi, kekalkan DEB, buang Dollah.
     Terima kasih Tun dan rakan2 sekelian.

482. Kesejahteraan buat Tun..
     dan seluruh warga blogs..
     Tarik nafas tenang dan baca dengan perlahan-lahan..
     Purata pembaca yang melihat tajuk artikel ini, hanya membaca sampai ke tahap 3 sahaja,
     dan yang cuba memaksa diri untuk membacanya hanya sampai ke tahap 7..
     (Yang memang tak tahu apa-apa..terus “direct” ke bahagian komen pembaca..hmmm ?!.. )
     Artikel ini memerlukan sedikit “masa terluang” untuk menghayatinya..
     (“Jika BENAR” anda ingin menuntut ilmu, dan ingin mempelajari sesuatu..teruskanlah usaha
     anda, dan, buatlah nilaian dan kajian dari apa, yang anda perolehi ! ..)
     Moga diharapkan Tun, dapat mengalihkannya dalam ‘versi bahasa melayu’ untuk kemudahan
     pakcik dan makcik yang sentiasa mengunjungi ‘blogs’ Tun..
     (saya pun, lenguh juga nak rujuk kamus online nie..)
     Sekian..
     [snippets]
     Saya paksa diri untuk baca..hmm..sampai juga ke tahap 7.. then, rasa keseronokan mula timbul, dan..
     sampai ke tahap 10..malangnya. (Ada kerja yang perlu disiapkan segera..).Tak apa,
     malam nie, saya baca dari mula sehingga habis artikel ini, dengan cara bersantai..
     ( seurang ‘bilang’: ” With Kopi ‘O’ Kaw!!..” ) ( Komen akan bersambung kemudian.. )
     ( yang nak ‘femes’ cepat tu, buatlah komen secara membabibuta..dialu-alukan..kitaorang tak kesah!!.. )

483. Dear Tun,
     Agreed that the NEP did some good but it’s time is probably over. What should’ve been done was to refocus it for the current times and set a date for it to stop. As good as it was, it also contributed to the Malays being lazy and not using their brains as they should.
     The NEP should be turned into an action plan where the minds, attitude and behaviour of the young should be shaped to think positively, to remove boundaries in the mind and to teach them to think, to question. Only then can they stand on their own strong enough to compete so there wouldn’t be any need for NEP or whatever.
     To understand the universe around us, we have to ask why, that’s the most important question. The problem with this country is the politicians are afraid of the people asking why. Once the people are free to ask and receive the answer, they’ll be out of business.
     So this selfishness is based on their greed. Because they don’t want to lose control of power, power brings riches. That’s all, it’s just pure human greed. Malaysian politicians will never voluntarily resign if they had a scandal or made a mistake. Never mind what the rakyat thinks, whether we want a resignation or not, they’ll never do the honorable thing and resign first or at least offer resignation.
     This is an attitude problem. Tidak apa attitude. “Never mind, the rakyat will forget about it soon.” And every generation of politicians teaches the next and this problem perpetuates.

484. SAYA SOKONG DOSPENANG….
     TUN BUAT2 ACAH JER…PANGGIL PRESS…BIAR GEMPAK SATU MALAYA YG TUN LAWAN ANWAR….
     SOKONG TUN!!!!!
     biaq diorang terketaq lutut….hahahahha

485. Assalamualaikom Tun.
     Kalau Ayah saya masih ada,Beliau adalah sebaya Tun,orang kampung,bekerja sebagai pesawah padi,Ketua Kampong dan Pengerusi JKKK tahun 60-70an.Anak-anak ramai,belanja sekolah kadang ada (10-20 sen sehari)kadang tiada,mandi air telaga dan parit,pakai pelita minyak tanah,rumah kampong beratap nipah,TV tak ada,radio tak ada,yang ada hanya basikal.Bas ke bandar 2-3 jam sekali,Jalan ke bandar berlobang lubang,macam macam lagi.
     Saya Product NEP.Belajar kat IKML ( tempat budak tak pas SRP)saya juga tak lulus SPM.Sekarang bekerja dengan Company no 2 terbesar di dunia dan bergaji 5 angka sebulan.
     Tapi kami tak glamour seperti kata, Hassan Marican,Petronas melatih beribu anak melayu yang sekarang ini bertebaran diseluruh pelusuk dunia yang memerlukan dan mengiktiraf kepakaran mereka.
     Saya masih anak Melayu yang tak pernah lupa dan alpa.
     Terima kasih Tun dan Malaysia
     Raden

486. Salams Tun.
     I love your writings. Perhaps the last paragraph should be given as an assignment to Anwar and ask Raja Petra to do it for him. Then the ‘ceramah’ would be interesting.

487. Assalamualaikum Tun.
     This is my first writing to you. I alway remember your first step to help the Malay when you entered the cabinet 1974 was to be the education minister. It is like a mother waiting to give a child that would change the world. You patiently waiting to see the success of the Malay that can have better secondary education in rural area, went oversea for critical course degree, have good jobs and last be a competent businessman and CEO in.
     As what u stated down, I also strongly agreed that NEP had brought success in aspect of education and disparing the middle class. eventhough the number of Malay professional in various critical sector like lawyer, engineer, dentist, veterinar and other were not reflecting to its racial population, but NEP had bring of what we are proud now. That’s why the feeling of Towering Malays only felt in KL but outside KL, even in Penang the imbalance of wealth still in dilemma.
     I believe more young Malay middle class nowdays like to have own business on what of their expertised rather than work with other people compared 10 or 20 years. It show that we as Malay are more likely to be independent.
     we cant always depend on Tun in making our Nation and society, it all depend on us to build this great Nation as like Tun have thougt us. Thank You Tun, You always inspired me…

488. salam sejahtera buat TUN serta keluarga,
     Entah lah sedih juga tengok keadaan sekarang,
     Juga sedih melihat ramai anak bangsa yang lulusan luar negara atas ehsan NEP/DEB nie tak sedar diri.
     For u Neil,
     the march 8 disaster is due to the great imam hadhari, is not the policy it self.
     Care to share with us with a PERFECT POLICY?? I mean, not the policy to suit your personal fetish but a POLICY with a 100% record achievement no complaint for any individuals or no chance to be manipulated by the enforcer of the policy.
     Just name me ONE (1).
     Again salam sejahtera buat TUN.

489. Assalammualaikum Tun,
     Saya setuju dengan apa yang Tun katakan. Berjuta rakyat Malaysia yang masih berdiri teguh di belakang Tun sebenarnya pada hari ini. Teruskan pendapat dan idea mu yang bernas.

490. A’kum Tun & pembaca2 blog Chedet,
     Saya adalah salah seorang daripada beribu2 Melayu yg mendapat faedah dari NEP. Saya telah melanjutkan pelajaran di USA pada tahun 1994 dan berjaya mendapat ijazah BSc EEE. Hasilnya saya sekarang seorang professional engineer yang bekerja di dalam syarikat multinasional. Tanpa NEP, rata2 melayu seperti saya tidak akan mendapat exposure dan kelulusan tinggi. Saya kecewa ada juga Melayu yg telah mendapat pendidikan tinggi hasil dari NEP tetapi menghentam NEP dan senang2 mengaitkan NEP, kroni dengan kerajaan. Malah ada juga yang menyertai pembangkang. Mereka ini semua adalah pembelot bangsa.
     Kalau kita pergi ke syarikat2 multinasional, jumlah professional melayu boleh dibilang. Dan majority top management juga adalah dari bangsa lain. Mereka2 ini juga mengamalkan kronisym yang ekstrem sehingga kenaikan pangkat bergantung kepada warna kulit. Saya bukan racist tapi ini adalah kenyataan.
     Regards,

491. Salam Tun,
     I agree with what you mentioned in your article. If getting assistance from the government in terms of education and business is defined as cronyism then all Malays are croynies of the government.From the days of Majlis Amanah Rakyat till now we are still getting the support of the government and a lot of the Bumis passed the “contracts” to Non Bumis and in reality the Non Bumis too benefit from the policy (indirect business gain). So the disparities is still there and I hope it will not continue with such attitude of the Bumis. Anyway for those who worked hard to achieve the success, I congratulate them and for those who paased the contracts elsewhere…… damn you. Thanks for the article Tun, I love you so much that I cried whenever people say that you spoilt the system. Tried to explain to them to understand the current situation and make comparison, depa ni buta hati bukan buta mata. If Chairman Mao did not consolidate China during his time, I don’t think China will be what it is today. Bukan sokong tapi reality of it. Salam Tun.

492. Salam Tun.
     I agree with you that NEP contributed significantly in the well being, progress in education and a little economic acquirement of our country’s wealth by the Bumiputras.
     All those opposed towards this affirmitive action should never be entertained in the first place. Lim Kit Siang for instance on many occasions previously opposed building the Penang bridge, opposed the North South highway etc. Imagine the consequences if you sir allowed Lim KS obstruct all that you had proposed then we will never achieve anything at all.
     The Non Bumiputra should bear in mind that :
     1) Malays & other Bumiputras are indigenous inhibitants of Malaysia & other gugusan nusantara.
     2) Depriving the Malays & Bumis of progress economically is equivalent to sabotaging the rights & privileges. Thus emulating the white immigrants of America & Australia where Red Indians of America and Australian aborigines were sideline systematically.
     3) Malaysia is rich in resources. The Non Bumi must come to their senses not to be overcome by greed and constantly questioning the Malays & Bumis of their rights. Lets enjoy the fruit of independence together.
     4) The new generations of Non Bumi must be kept reminded of this status quo as not to continously raised the same matter ever again.
     We support you Tun.

493. salam semua…khas buat tokdir dan nek hasmah…semoga dilindungi Allah hendaknya…
     kroni…satu isu yg sensitif…even semasa saya kat ‘u’ dulu pun kroni memang dah diamalkan dari dulu lagi…
     kalau nak buat satu2 acara pasti kroni..geng2 yang ok dan sekepala dgn kita je yg akan dipilih…tapi konteks kroni ni adalah untuk melancarkan sesuatu function…biar nampak gempak gitu…
     tapi kroni yang boleh mengkayakan kaum kerabat…sahabat handai…kroni ni yang bahaya…coz hanya satu pihak yang buta hati saja yang senang…kaya…dan bermegah…apa ke hel ni beb…
     itulah beza antara kroni zaman belajor dgn kroni zaman cari makan…
     anda kroni mana???
     kalau nak kaya, kena jadi kroni AAB,budak tingkat4 dan seangkatan dgnnya…
     kalau nak jadi orang bebal..telinga tebal…tak tau malu…kroni mana yek…
     tapi kalau nak jadi kroni TDM kena lah semangat juang yang tinggi demi agama,bangsa dan negara…tapi tak jadi kaya…hahahah…tapi kaya dengan jiwa yang kuat..
     rezeki..ajal…maut…semuanya kita dapat dari YAng Esa…dok gitu???
     jumpa lagi…wassalam

494. Salam Buat Tun serta keluarga.
     Tun, memang adat didunia, bila ada jer org yang naik pasti ada desas desus yang orang tu ada “cable”.. nak buat macam mana..ianya dah jadi trend rakyat malaysia..lebih tepat lagi orang kita..
     You dont worry Tun, WE BELIEVE IN YOU TUN!
     Tun, pengorbanan Tun serta jasa baik Tun to this country is too many… my father is a foreigner, he hardly speak malay but when ever you appear on television he will watch you.. we do tell him that why do you listen to something that you hardly understand, He replied.. Ican read his face (tun) look at him, such a great leader and full with a leadership charisma.. i was young during that time and i was’nt sure what he try to say… but when i first attend you speech at PWTC about the terrorism in islamic country… i was flat.. i was in tear listening to your speech and looking at the pictures of the brutality of terrorist in the islamic country..
     Tun, kita sebagai negara yang menjadi ketua OIC apa yang mampu kita lakukan kepada insan yang se-agama dengan kita..terutamanya kanak2 kecil… adakah negara kita akan terus mengatakan ” NEGARA KITA AMAN, TIDAK SEPERTI INDONESIA, PAKISTAN AND SO ON” SEPERTI YANG BIASA DIUCAPKAN OLEH PAK LAH AND NAJIB-
     Tun we got to do something, kita harus membangkitkan kesedaran terhadap kepentingan menjaga AGAMA ALLAH..
     Maaf Tun, Tak berniat menyentuh tentang hal ini tp.. tetiba terasa that i need to say this to someone.. and i strongly believe you are the MOST right person to talk to about this.
     Saya sentisa berdoa kepada ALLAH SWT semoga usia Tun di berkati dan kesihatan Tun di rahmati, dengan itu dapatlah Tun membantu kami yang betul2 memerlukan Tun.
     Arwah Ayah saya selalu berkata: “kita tidak akan tahu kepentingan seseorang itu dalam hidup kita semasa mereka berada dekat dengan kita, tetapi kita akan sangat menyesal bila orang terpenting itu hilang dalam hidup kita”
     translasi daripada bahasa asal(malabary)
     wasalam.
     HaniMikail

495. Gud day TUN, semoga sihat dan bahagi selalu.
     Sememang dasar NEP itu bagus hanya ada orang orang yang masih tak mahu terima akan kebenaran itu. Biarkan mereka menyalak nyalak tak tentu arah..memang suka menafikan benda yg betul jd tak betul..itu lah manusia yang gila kuasa..hingga kan sanggup menanggung malu demi kuasa sampai ke tangan nye!!
     Kroni kroni ni memang ada di mana mana pun..tak dinafikan. Janji apa yang dibuat tu menguntung kan rakyat semua, bukan masuk poket sendiri saja. Sememangnye bangsa melayu itu mestilah diutamakan, kalau tidak….Tuhan saje yang tahu. Perangai2 orang yg tak bertamaddun ni harus/mesti dihindarkan agar mendapat keberkatan dari ALLAH sbw. Bila ada keberkatan maka hidup kita juga sempurna dan bahagia walau pun miskin.
     Oleh itu zaman pemerintahan TUN sungguh bahagia sekali dan banyak kebahagiaan itu dirasai di zaman TUN.
     Semoga TUN berbahagia selalu!!

496. sokong tun bertanding kat PERMATANG PAUH atas tiket BEBAS….

497. Dear Tun,
     The way I see it, even if a Malay contractor gets a project, he will need to subcon to a Chinese or other races, along the way. All parties will enjoy the wealth regardless of the amount. But if NEP priorities the Chinese, in no way Malays will enjoy the same treatment. The Chinese will screw everybody out.
     Under Pak Lah’s era, non-bumis have been bolder to question the NEP. Is just bad/sleazy economy portrayed by PK/KJ, to prompt them to question the policy.

498. Assalammualaikum Tun Dr Mahathir
     Sebagai anak Melayu yang menerima kebaikan dari Dasar Ekonomi Baru, saya insaf dan selalu menyokong BN dalam setiap pilihanraya. Ini adalah kerana Dasar Ekonomi Baru telah memajukan sosio ekonomi bumiputera hingga dapat hidup dalam keadaan yang selesa.
     Terima kasih kepada Tun kerana dengan izin Allah SWT, Tun dapat memikirkan dan menunjuk jalan dan cara terbaik memajukan orang orang Melayu khususnya dibidang ekonomi dan pentadbiran.
     Walaubagaimana pun pilihanraya yang lalu telah menyebabkan saya dan isteri, ahli ahli keluarga dan kawan kawan seangkatan telah menghukum Kerajaan BN kerana mengamalkan sistem kroni yang terlampau. Rasuah, tiada arah tuju, kedaulatan negara, pengikisan kuasa Melayu, ekonomi yang merudum menyumbang kepada hukuman ke atas BN. Negara kini telah ditadbir oleh sekumpulan budak budak baru yang hanya pandai memakmurkan diri sendiri.
     Rakyat pula telah dianggap sebagai Kelas Kedua.
     Dasar Ekonomi Baru sangat berkesan kepada seluruh orang orang Melayu sekiranya ditadbir dengan keinsafan dan rendah diri namun bersemangat dan ada jatidiri.
     Melayu telah hilang seorang pejuang sejati. Tak payah lah saya sebut namanya. Pejuang itu kini sedang dihina, dicaci dan dicuba untuk memadamkan legasinya.
     Patutlah Negara sedang kucar kacir. Pemimpin yang tidak tahu membalas jasa dan tidak tahu membalas budi ini sedang menerima pembalasan dari tuhannya. Ada sebab mengapa Tuhan memberikan dia sehingga 2010. Mungkin dia ingin bertaubat dan cuba membetulkan kesalahan dia.
     Cuma percayalah, nasib dia tidak akan berubah kerana orang orang sekelilingnya akan menimbus beliau hidup hidup pada 2010 nanti. Nantikan peristiwa ini!

499. Reducing or eliminating the NEP; Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi said,”Let’s not use the crutches for support all the time, the knee will become weak”. Badawi has not addressed any significant concerns about the NEP.
     Badruddin Amiruldin, as UMNO’s Deputy Permanent Chairman,during his speech while declaring, “No other race has the right to question our privileges, our religion and our leader”, continuing that any such action would be akin to “stirring up a hornet’s nest”.
     Dr. Pirdaus Ismail, a UMNO Youth Executive Committee member, stated, “Badruddin did not pose the question to all Chinese in the country. Those who are with us, who hold the same understanding as we do, were not our target. In defending Malay rights, we direct our voice at those who question them.”
     Historian Prof Emeritus Datuk Dr Khoo Kay Kim said any attempt to scrap the DEB was unwise and would trigger racial misunderstanding and tension.”I want to know why the DAP raised the issue in times like this. The DAP should explain why they seemed to have deliberately raised an issue that can cause disunity,” he told reporters after a forum on the 2008 general election.
     Ezam labelled DSAI a traitor to the Malays because he was also willing to do away with the New Economic Policy and bumiputra special privileges as long as he received support from the non-Malays. “Anwar has now shown his true colours. He is a man who cannot be trusted and I hope the Malays will fight him by rejecting him in the coming by-election in Permatang Pauh,” he said.
     Anyway, my points of view that NEP to be reinstated….
     Rakyat Melayu KAYA dgn harta hasil bumi(natural resource) tetapi kenapa banyak yg hidup dalam kemiskinan.
     I loves this statement by Tun,
     16. When the financial crisis caused by rogue currency traders took place, Malaysia remained calm and peaceful. The Malays did not blame the Chinese as happened in other countries. Apparently the Malays were quite satisfied with their share of the nation’s wealth after the NEP. The Chinese did not blame the NEP either.

500. assalammualikum,
     dear all,
     Pd rakyat Malaysia khasnya org Melayu hormatilah pemimpin yg terdahulu.Kenanglah jasa mereka.Tanpa mereka siapalah kita.Bukan mudah utk mentadbir negara kita Malaysia.Nak mengurus sebuah keluarga pun ada yg kecundang inikan pula sebuah Negara.Fikirkanlah..
     wassalam.
     Pm Sekarang berkorbanlah utk berundur sebelum terlambat.Anda dah kecundang.

501. Dear Tun..,
     I,m succesfull now in bussiness. Start doing it when under Tun legacy. Yup! I even dont know you or being part of your cronyism. But I managed as today because of the system in your era.
     Thank Tun..

502. Askm Tun Yang dihormati dan dikasihi
     Jasa Tun kepada rakyat tidak dapat kami membalasnya…
     But now, feel that our nation is not in her best situation… with the sloppy, sleepy and flip flop man.
     Maybe rakyat don’t see clearly about the cronyism even me also didn’t know who’s and who, seeing that many malays grown with the NEP some of the Malays are jealous about the successful of others.. typical malay style and simply said those are crony of yours. But if sudah terang lagi bersuluh like what happen now (ECM-Libra etc…) hmmm are we rakyat are blind or what?
     Luv u always Tun…
     Plz take care we need you still…

503. Salam Tun,
     Some people has a kind of prejudise . Once they fail to obtain of what they request, then they start making noice , and started accuse the govt cronyism , nepotism and ….
     Although my self wasnt involve in getting any benefit from NEP , but Im still appreciated the policy was made some my fellow bumi getting better opportunity such as awarded scholarship and had been studied abroad . However, when they came back with the brilliant mind suddenly they forgotten where they from. Anyway Tun, let bygone be bygone. You have done your job excellently for the last 22 years.
     Only those people donot know how to value the job you have done is to diny it.

504. Salam Tun,
     Some people has a kind of prejudise . Once they fail to obtain of what they request, then they start making noice , and started accuse the govt cronyism , nepotism and ….
     Although my self wasnt involve in getting any benefit from NEP , but Im still appreciated the policy was made some my fellow bumi getting better opportunity such as awarded scholarship and had been studied abroad . However, when they came back with the brilliant mind suddenly they forgotten where they from. Anyway Tun, let bygone be bygone. You have done your job excellently for the last 22 years.
     Only those people donot know how to value the job you have done is to diny it.

505. Assalamualaikum YABhg. Tun
     (Maaf YABhg. Tun kerana kali kedua post sebab geram dengan bloggers non-bumi dan pengikut fanatik DSAI yang mengkritik DEB)
     Alhamdulillah catitan YABhg. Tun pada kali ini membuka minda kepada kita peri pentingnya mempertahan, meneruskan dan mempertingkatkan pencapaian DEB.
     Bumiputera yang ketinggalan perlu diberi pembelaan. Membantu orang susah adalah wajib sebagaimana zakat diwajibkan dalam Islam. Jadi menentang DEB seolah-olah menentang hikmah zakat serta membelakangi hukum Allah.
     Kaum bukan bumiputera telah 300 tahun mendapat subsidi daripada British. Adakah menjadi kesalahan masyarakat peribumi dibantu selama 38 tahun (1970 – 2008). Adakah bumiputera telah berjaya berdiri sama tinggi dengan kaum pendatang dibidang ekonomi, pendidikan, sosial, pemilikan kekayaan dan sebagainya untuk membiarkan mereka bersaing dipasaran yang kononnya bebas.
     Malangnya terdapat dikalangan orang Melayu yang telah berjaya hasil dari DEB sanggup mencemuh bantuan yang diberikan kepada bangsa sendiri. Orang bukan Melayu pula berani meminta DEB dihapuskan bila lihat kuasa politik Melayu terhakis.
     Sekiranya DEB dihentikan seperti dituntut oleh kaum bukan bumiputera, besar kemungkinan peristiwa berdarah 13 Mei pasti akan berulang dalam bentuk yang lebih dahsyat. Ketika itu segala pemilikan kekayaan kaum bukan Bumiputera dimusnahkan dan diambil oleh orang yang tertindas.
     Bagi orang yang terhimpit dengan kemiskinan, mencuri itu bukan suatu kesalahan. Sejarah telah membuktikan bahawa hukum hudud tidak dapat dijalankan ketika kemiskinan berleluasa.
     Sumbangan YABhg. Tun dalam memertabatkan orang Melayu dan umat Islam akan dikenang dalam lipatan sejarah.
     Semoga YABhg. Tun sekeluarga dirahmati Allah.

506. the idea first mooted for the NEP was indeed noble and would have not been implemented if there had been no agreement by all parties involved. having a program endorsed and varied in their intent and purpose, its fairness in its implementation would not have carved any doubt that it would become discriminatory to others.
     your article on Multi-Racial Malaysia posted June 3, 2008 in this blog;
     quote:
     “The Malay, Chinese and Indian leaders of that time agreed that the disparities in wealth between the races must be corrected. That is why we introduced the New Economic Policy which proposes to eliminate the identification of race with economic functions.”
     unquote.
     the NEP would have evolved in some ways and have been suited to meet the times.
     quote:
     “The affirmative action of the NEP is good in principle but along the way there were misapplications and failures.”
     unquote.
     i guess whoever that helms the government would have to be wary of these hiccups, make adjustments to the NEP accordingly in all its fairness. but with thousands involved in these selective ‘affirmative actions’, there are bound to be self-indulgence of interests and abuse, if not, misappropriations of opportunities. but nonetheless, the system-in-place would have detected these.
     the way the article was written, it appears that the NEP is just like ‘talent scouting’, benefitting the country on the long run.
     one cannot blame the government for wanting to kill as many birds with one stone i.e. the NEP. the knowledge capital, the returns the nation reaps from qualified professionals, born leaders, corporate figures, innovative and contemporary business ideas and approaches from people who attended/ minggle the international networks. sometime there are sacrifices to be made, but a progressive society survives better than a stagnant one.
     i, for one is not a recepient of NEP, i was given the survival roads and had to compete.
     i had managed to contribute to this nation as a contributor [now retired] to its nation building for over 29 years in the oil and gas, and energy industry, forcing my way against the ‘quota’ employment system in the 70s, seeking my rights as a citizen in offering my services. i have maintained the integrity of my nation and ethnicity to the foreigners and locals alike. my writings in the english language is not a clear sign that i have foresaken my roots, infact i have strengthened it beyond reasonable doubts.
     sometimes its just not about opportunities being created or offered to you but how you make the opportunities that is none being offered to you, to turn it around and be the person you are supposed to be – a winner not the loser.

507. Salam Tun yang amat dikasihi.
     Seperti yang Tun pernah katakan..Melayu mudah lupa. Itulah yang telah terjadi dewasa ini. NEP dikatakan bersifat perkauman. Tetapi yang lebih malang lagi, mereka yang telah berjaya dan mendapat pulangan di bawah NEP ada yang hilang begitu sahaja. Jauh sekali untuk membantu para usahawan-usahawan yang baru mula hendak berniaga. Kita hanya melihat NEP dari sudut pembangunan ekonomi semata-mata, mungkin disebabkan RM tu agaknya. Tetapi majoriti rakyat Malaysia terlepas pandang tentang NEP pendidikan samada secara sengaja atau tidak. Rakyat Malaysia yang telah berjaya wajib mengakui kejayaan mereka dalam pendidikan sehingga taraf Ijazah, Master dan seterusnya sehingga dapat menjawat jawatan tinggi adalah atas peluang yang disediakan di bawah NEP. Namun ramai dikalangan golongan terpelajar ini menganggap kejayaan mereka adalah kerana kecerdikan dan kepandaian otak mereka sahaja. Ingatlah jika cerdik dan pandai sahaja tidak menjamin kejayaan seseorang itu jika tidak ada ruang, peluang dan tempat untuk menimba ilmu. NEP pendidikan berjaya membentuk rakyat Malaysia yang berilmu dan berjaya dalam hidup tetapi amat malang sekali mereka ini jugalah yang telah mendapat manfaat dari NEP ini hendak mempersoalkan keperluan NEP masa kini dengan menyatakan NEP sudah tidak releven atas dasar perkauman dan sebab-sebab politik. Kepada orang Melayu fikir-fikirkanlah…sudahkah anda bersedia untuk bersaing secara terbuka dan bebas dengan bangsa-bangsa lain dalam semua sektor di Malaysia? Jawapannya ada pada diri masing-masing.
     Jumpa lagi…

508. Salam mesra buat Tun&isteri tersayang,apa pun yang kita buat perlu dgn niat yang jujur.Baru segala tindakan kita diperkenankan olehNya dan mereka yang melihat juga akan menghargainya.Walaupun tidak sebesar manapun.Iaitu sepertiTun contohnya yang tlh banyak berjasa kepada negara dan kami rakyat M’sia dapat sama2 mengnikmatinya.Hanya mereka yang mempunyai hati yang busuk atau beririhati dgn Tun saja yang menafikannya.Bagi kami segala yang terjadi di M’sia sekarang ,disebabkan kesombongan ,hasad dengki dlm erti kata yang lain mementingkan diri sendiri tanpa melihat mereka yang dibawah. SALAM MESRA DARI KAMI SEKELUARGA,SEMOGA ALLAH MELINDUNGI TUN DAN KELUARGA.

509. good morning tun,
     Im an indian, now studying in local university. When i was in secondary school the indian students was seperated although there are some of them very good in their results. This means how good ur result it wont help u to get better classes in ranking if u r an indian.
     U may ask what is the problem u getting low ranking classes?,to ur information the lower classes will get a non- professional teachers
     ,for example i get english teacher who use malay to teach english and that teacher also will be in class once in a month. There is time where no teacher in class for certain subjects for one whole year. But those in better classes will get professional teacher who expert in particular subject. So the malay and chinese students will get better oppurtunity in their studies.
     This couse a lot of my friends who were very good in their studies in beginig became left out because of this kind of seperation of classes. The question i want ask u whether NEP is to make other races to be stupid by denying their rights to get better oppurtunity in studies. There was once this issue has been raised by SUHAKAM but not get respone by ministry. I dont know whether this kind of things still happening. Sadly, this entire thing happened when you are was prime minister.
     waiting for ur reply Tun,
     thanks….

510. Assalamualaikum tun,
     My personal thought about the NEP is that it works and it is a good thing that came out after 13 May 1969 and a whole lot of bumiputras benefit from its implementations. So whatever the western press or the local opponents wants to say, I don’t think it will make a lot of difference. Why should we listen to them? They don’t even do anything to help the Malays that are poor and needy.
     In term of contracts in the government sectors, the chinese are the most beneficial because the Malays that got the contracts ended by sub contracting it to the chinese businesses that have all the machineries and building materials. And these cost of materials and equipments are about 70% of the total cost. The thing that came in mind is that when the contracts by private sectors, I don’t see the the western press or the local opponents to the NEP making complaints about the bumiputra companies not getting these projects even when there is a lot of capable bumiputra companies out there bidding for the projects.
     Well after all that is said and done, I think it should be fair to say that the NEP is still much needed to help the Malays to benefit equally in the challenges that lies ahead.
     Wasalam Tun…… a provoking reality but its the truth that must be set straight. Keep up the good work Tun, you have my highest respect and we all love you for that. May Allah bless you and all of us……VIVA MAHATHIR, HIDUP TUN DR MAHATHIR DAN SEMOGA ALLAH MEMBALAS SEGALA JASA TUN, DIPANJANGKAN UMUR DAN DI SAMPAIKAN SEGALA HAJAT AMINNNNNN.

511. Assalamualaikum Tun,
     Semoga Tun dan keluarga sihat sejahtera sehingga ke akhir hayat.
     Tun,
     Memang,sudah menjadi resam manusia jika orang lain mendapat kejayaan dan ramai yang akan dengki dan mula menabur fitnah.tetapi jika kita beri apa juga projek yang berhubung kait adakah mereka dapat melaksanakan projek tersebut?
     Tun,
     Saya rasa amat bertuah membesar semasa dibawah kepimpinan Tun,Mungkin dahulu saya hanya bekerja makan gaji,tetapi semenjak menceburkan diri didalam bidang perniagaan, semuanya berjalan lancar.Bagi saya jika kita tidak berusaha.kita tidak akan mendapat ganjarannya.
     Tun,
     Kroni ini tidak wujud sama sekali, jika ada kepakaran dan kelebihan insaAllah kita akan mendapat ganjarannya.jika ada pun, hanya yang segelintir yang mana mereka yang tamak kan imbuhan.mereka ini yang akan merosakkan kepercayaan kita terhadap Kerajaan.mereka ini yang patut diambil kira.Akibat nila setitik habis rosak susu sebelanga.
     Tun,
     Terima kasih diatas kegigihan dan keberanian Tun untuk membela anak bangsa dari mereka yang hanyut dengan kemewahan dan hiburan.
     Biarlah apa yang hendak orang katakan bagi saya Tun adalah Pemimpin yang amat saya Kagumi.
     Tun,
     ‘perjuangan kita yang masih belum selesai’
     Terima kasih.

512. salam buat ayahanda tun sekeluarga
     cronyism
     fuh finally……this article
     truthfully, i’ve been hearing this A LOAD
     during your time sir
     i’m always skeptical though
     about you and the cronyism
     most organizations do practise this
     employees are being hired not because of the capabilities
     but because of cronyism
     and that is why most companies failed to excel
     point taken sir
     the fact that remains
     malays are still backward in
     attitude and mentality
     i mean majority of them
     that is the reason you cried
     during the UMNO assembly
     some ppl said you are being “”
     but i believe that it was genuine
     melayu mudah lupa
     join umno
     dapat contact
     dapat “title”
     dapat duit
     dapat kuasa
     then “misuse the power”
     kahwin ramai/pasang ramai
     forgot about the “whole” next generation
     thinking only short term….
     or shall i say pendek akal
     ada tanah pun senang je nak jual
     about nep
     well some suggest revise it
     a statement and two questions:
     let the aab clean up his mess
     his mess or others?
     clean up or making more mess?
     pls keep on writing
     may allah always bless us all
     and happy anniversary to ayahanda and bonda (52?)
     tak lama lagi my parents 45th anniversary pulak
     a question to bloggers
     do you non-muslims believe if the parents let the children
     change their religion to islam,
     the non-muslim parents is considered to have commit a sin
     well we muslims do believe that we committed a sin if we let the children convert to other religion

513. Dr M and fellow bloggers,
     Yes, there’s a valid prove that the introduction of NEP have really met its main purpose – eradicate poverty and identification of race with economic function. We, Malaysians really appreciate the leaderships and efforts by the government during your time to make this a big success.
     However, there’s a question now – how this rich millionaire as the product from this NEP give back to the society? We know some of them really putting effort back to the community but it seems major of this “successful” person have failed to return the responsibility to the country. I think this is where cronisym lies in our society.

514. Tun,
     you are wrong:
     1. why 1999 chinese support you because they scare may 13th happen again.
     2. do you read the may 13 1969 book talk about the history, i believe it was due to political issue. I believe you are aware.
     3. NEP is a good policy but it was wrongly used. the autority making use of this policy for their benefit and cause the current situation happen in malaysia.
     4. Not chinese did not blame the NEP, they just keep quite but getting difficult in their life. To do business need to pay unrecorded money to different level, autority trying to use it to make extra income for themself. this is the abuse use of the NEP.
     5. yes it help to increase the bumis in the university but our university world ranking is dropping i believe you are aware.
     6. although more bumis in professional area but how do you few their level of quality? can they compete with outsite world?
     7. yes we created more prefessional but do we keep them? the money we spent on them how many % of them work in the country?
     8. we can compare with Korea, Taiwan, singapore. I belive 20 years back, Taiwan people especially artist have to come to malaysia to cari makan, today, their yearly income is far higher then us. How about Korea? and how about our neightbour singapore, they have nothing but now their government able to distribute profit made by their GLC back to the citizen!
     9. and Thailand, their car industry is catching up very very fast, and how do you explain this?

515. Salam Tun,
     I must thank you for what I am today. I was able to achieved my 1st class honour university degree despite difficulties I was having. All because the government had made it possible with the scholarship and all.
     From my point of view, to be succesfull in leading his country, one must just follow Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad footstep. 22 years of leadership is good enough for Malaysian to emulate your style.
     The way you explain to the public and how you solve economics issues is the area very lacking in this ‘Abdullah and Co’s government.
     You are a true Malaysian hero Tun. Tun Siti is the heroin

516. Assalamualaikum Tun;
     Kelemahan yang amat ketara adalah sistem penyampaian ke peringkat bawahan (rakyat), kita cumanya berbicara tentang NEP, tapi berapa ramai melayu yang amat sedar akan adanya satu dasar untuk mengangkat mertabat Melayu. Ramai melayu yang lebih gemar bekerja samada dengan swasta atau kerajaan. Bagaimana nak merebut peluang dalam NEP, saya sendiri dan ramai Melayu tak tahu.. Tanyalah berapa ramai kontraktor-kontraktor klas F UMNO – dan apa yang telah jadi kepada yang bukan UMNO – mungkin yang duduk diKota besar tak berapa perasan akan hal ni, tapi cuba tanya sedara-sedara yang duduk kat kampung-kampung atau bandar-bandar kecil. Tuduhan kronism itu bukan ditujukan sangat kepada Tun, tapi kepada ramai orang yang dibawah Tun yang menyalahgunakan kedudukan atas nama NEP. NEP suatu dasar yang sangat mulia, suatu yang sangat membantu Melayu duduk dilandasan setanding dengan lain-lain bangsa. Tapi seperti lazimnya, kesempatan dan peluang yang timbul telah diintai oleh penyangak dan petualang bangsa. NEP adalah untuk mengangkat martabat melayu, bukan martabat Melayu-umno, Media bukanlah satu medium penyampaian yang boleh sangat diharapkan, tapi mata dan telinga takberhenti melihat/mendengar keperitan Melayu jatuhbangun dibumi sendiri.

517. Dear Tun,
     Actually it never crossed my mind you know, until you mentioned it – that only the successful Malay businesses were labelled as ‘cronies’, which is very true, on reflection. And come to think of it too… this term started to become quite rampant in use from the time of the 1998 noisy drumming for “reforms”, headed by u-know-who la.. (who obviously, didn’t or doesn’t have any cronies.. hehehe)…I suppose the unsuccessful Malay businessmen, who didn’t measure up to the label, joined in the chorus for “reforms”.. sour grapes maybe. 🙂

518. Assalamualaikum Tun;
     Kelemahan yang amat ketara adalah sistem penyampaian ke peringkat bawahan (rakyat), kita cumanya berbicara tentang NEP, tapi berapa ramai melayu yang amat sedar akan adanya satu dasar untuk mengangkat mertabat Melayu. Ramai melayu yang lebih gemar bekerja samada dengan swasta atau kerajaan. Bagaimana nak merebut peluang dalam NEP, saya sendiri dan ramai Melayu tak tahu.. Tanyalah berapa ramai kontraktor-kontraktor klas F UMNO – dan apa yang telah jadi kepada yang bukan UMNO – mungkin yang duduk diKota besar tak berapa perasan akan hal ni, tapi cuba tanya sedara-sedara yang duduk kat kampung-kampung atau bandar-bandar kecil. Tuduhan kronism itu bukan ditujukan sangat kepada Tun, tapi kepada ramai orang yang dibawah Tun yang menyalahgunakan kedudukan atas nama NEP. NEP suatu dasar yang sangat mulia, suatu yang sangat membantu Melayu duduk dilandasan setanding dengan lain-lain bangsa. Tapi seperti lazimnya, kesempatan dan peluang yang timbul telah diintai oleh penyangak dan petualang bangsa. NEP adalah untuk mengangkat martabat melayu, bukan martabat Melayu-umno, Media bukanlah satu medium penyampaian yang boleh sangat diharapkan, tapi mata dan telinga takberhenti melihat/mendengar keperitan Melayu jatuhbangun dibumi sendiri.

519. Salam Tun…
     Terima kasih di atas post kali ini…
     Sy tetap menyokong penuh DEB @ NEP….
     Ianya untuk orang melayu atau bumiputera tetapi tidak sesekali meminggirkan kaum lain seperti cina dan india….
     Lihat sahajalah semenjak DEB @ NEP dilancarkan sehingga sekarang, semua kaum di Malaysia merasai nikmat dan rahmatnya. Terutama sekali kaum cina yg sekarang kaya raya…
     *Jangan cuba main api….
     Tun, besarlah harapan sy sekiranya Tun dapat meluangkan masa dan tenaga untuk memberitahu di blog Tun ini mengenai “Majlis Peguam”. Sekarang ni, terlalu banyak majlis ini membuat forum/debat/perbincangan yg ada sangkut paut dengan orang Melayu dan Islam. Kenapa ya>

520. Dear Tun
     My questions are :
     1. When is this affirmative action going to last?
     2. When can all the races compete on equal footing? Not forgetting that we also competes with the world.
     3. Do you think that the continuing affirmative action, despite it’s certain success in educational and economic fronts, is not conducive to the long term development of the country?
     Thanks.

521. Cronyism as define in dictionary is – the practice of favoring one’s close friends, esp. in political appointments. Most of the projects by the government are offered without the process of tendering. Those bumiputra companies that are selected by Mahathir are mainly Ali Baba companies that took the project and sub contracted out to others, making huge profit without much sweat and work. Thanks to Mahathir, there are many White elephant projects that only look good but without much help to the nation that are costly, well, as huge as the elephant itself. Personally, I think he should be criticised with the same length and depth as Mugabe, Mahathir’s own best friend. Could Malaysia be a better country without Mahathir as the prime minister?

522. Arwah bapa saya selalu mengingatkan saya tentang NEP. Betapa dia bangga dengan pencapaian anak-anak melayu di dalam bidang pendidikan (Bapa saya seorang guru). Dia selalu berkata, tanpa NEP tak mungkin pencapaian orang melayu akan berada ditahap sekarang. Bapa saya tidak berpeluang melanjutkan pelajaran ke universiti kerana tiada wang walaupun mendapat keputusan yang baik di dalam STPM. Tetapi beliau harap anak-anaknya dapat belajar sampai ke universiti. Alhamdulillah, impian beliau tercapai. Daripada 6 orang anak, 4 telah menamatkan pelajaran di universiti, 1 masih lagi di universiti dan seorang lagi sedang belajar di sekolah menengah.

523. Harga Minyak Dunia telah Turun !!!
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524. Assalamu’alaikum Tun yang dikasihi and all netizen,
     Sometimes I wonder if all your non supporters did not get any benefits from all the goodness that you have provided for them during your 22 yrs being a PM.
     I mean non a bit? A tiny bit? Ridiculous!
     Like Neil for example, don’s tell me that you get your education from primary till .. not in Malaysia? If yes, then why came back here.. Stay out of Malaysia then!
     If you have all your education from Malaysia then you too have taken the benefits that the Govt gave you for making who you are now!
     Please think using your brain that god gave you or do you actually have one?
     Sorry Tun. I just need to release my anger. Everyday this guy gave me a heartache. Hating you and condemning you yet still open your Blog daily without fail to read what you have to say.
     Cheers Tun! You will always be my role model.

525. Convincing

526. Tun,
     Saya setuju dengan NEP yang telah mendekatkan jurang perbezaan kekayaan negara bagi orang Melayu. Jika diteliti, polisi ini tidak banyak membantu kaum India yang hidup di kawasan ladang ketika dasar ini diamalkan. Bagi kaum Cina, mereka tidak begitu peduli dengan polisi tersebut memandangkan mereka memiliki kekayaan yang mencukupi di samping bersatu mengatasi dasar dengan cara mereka tersendiri. Kita polisi ini dilancarkan pada tahun 1970, populasi rakyat Malaysia hanya 10 million tetapi kini populasi orang Melayu sahaja 12-13 Million. Bangsa lain ‘offset’ kos orang Melayu dalam pelbagai hal, etc. dari segi pemilikan aset dan sebagainya. Apakah rasionalnya polisi ini pada masa kini? Jika dulu negara kita negara dunia ketiga tetapi kini ‘advance developing country’ tetapi pemikiran subsidi orang Melayu tidak banyak berubah. Dari segi peluang pendidikan hinggalah pemilikan harta, semua keutamaan diberikan kepada orang Melayu dan berapa orang India telah dihantar oleh kerajaan untuk menuntut ilmu di luar negara sungguhpun mereka mempunyai kelayakan untuk berbuat demikian. Yang lebih teruk adalah, kerajaan cuba menyekat dominasi sesebuah kaum dalam sesebuah bidang dengan polisi tertentu yang saya rasa Tun lebih mengenalinya. Inikah NEP? Tidak diberikan keutamaan kepada orang yang berkebolehan tanpa megira warna kulit.

527. Assalamualaikum YABhg. Tun
     Alhamdulillah catitan YABhg. Tun pada kali ini membuka minda kepada kita peri pentingnya mempertahan, meneruskan dan mempertingkatkan pencapaian DEB.
     Bumiputera yang ketinggalan perlu diberi pembelaan. Membantu orang susah adalah wajib sebagaimana zakat diwajibkan dalam Islam. Jadi menentang DEB seolah-olah menentang hikmah zakat serta membelakangi hukum Allah.
     Kaum bukan bumiputera telah 300 tahun mendapat subsidi daripada British. Adakah menjadi kesalahan masyarakat peribumi dibantu selama 38 tahun (1970 – 2008). Adakah bumiputera telah berjaya berdiri sama tinggi dengan kaum pendatang dibidang ekonomi, pendidikan, sosial, pemilikan kekayaan dan sebagainya untuk membiarkan mereka bersaing dipasaran yang kononnya bebas.
     Malangnya terdapat dikalangan orang Melayu yang telah berjaya hasil dari DEB sanggup mencemuh bantuan yang diberikan kepada bangsa sendiri. Orang bukan Melayu pula berani meminta DEB dihapuskan bila lihat kuasa politik Melayu terhakis.
     Sekiranya DEB dihentikan seperti dituntut oleh kaum bukan bumiputera, besar kemungkinan peristiwa berdarah 13 Mei pasti akan berulang dalam bentuk yang lebih dahsyat. Ketika itu segala pemilikan kekayaan kaum bukan Bumiputera dimusnahkan dan diambil oleh orang yang tertindas.
     Bagi orang yang terhimpit dengan kemiskinan, mencuri itu bukan suatu kesalahan. Sejarah telah membuktikan bahawa hukum hudud tidak dapat dijalankan ketika kemiskinan berleluasa.
     Sumbangan YABhg. Tun dalam memertabatkan orang Melayu dan umat Islam akan dikenang dalam lipatan sejarah.
     Semoga YABhg. Tun sekeluarga dirahmati Allah.

528. Yes, I think the NEP should continue forever, in perpetuity. I am sure Malaysia’s neighbours and competitors will be very happy that Malaysia keeps shooting itself in both feet.
     Well done.
     🙁

529. Sir,
     Salam.
     I am totally agreed with you on this matter. If there is an individual who disagree with you on NEP, I will fight alongside you. Remember what you told somebody
     ” IF YOU KNOW WHAT I KNEW, YOU WILL BE WITH ME, FIGHTING TO THE END”. Please tell us more what you knew.
     I want to correct on that statement – “IF YOU KNOW WHAT I KNEW, YOU SHALL BE ALONGSIDE ME, FIGHTING TO THE END”
     I am one of the byproduct of NEP’s success. I am a kampung boy, grown up in one of the government quarters. My late father was a labour in one of the government department. The doctors are mainly Chinese and Indian. The highest position for the Malay was the clerk.
     My father used to challenge all his children to do better than his boss. He sacrificed ALL to ensure that all his children obtained good education. We pledged to our parent that we will do our best.
     Alhamdullilah, with NEP & various government policy, majority of our family members managed to become Doctor, engineers etc.
     With a good education, we manage to come out of poverty. Without education, SURELY, we will inherited our father’s profession.
     The government through NEP had sent me abroad to further my studies. During my stint abroad, some people had questioned me why the Malaysian government granted me, a Malaysian bumiputera, a scholarship whilst my course mate, a Malaysian non-bumiputera, was denied one.
     My answer was simple. I will not be at that particular University (a very good & prestigious university, over 500 years old) unless the Malaysian government sponsored me to study in order to correct the imbalance in Malaysia, whilst my friend & his brothers & sisters were being sponsored by their parent & the whole gang of their family members.
     In short, my family were poor and his family were filthy rich.
     After that explanation, that particular Mat Salleh understood but our friend & his cronies keep telling others that our government is unfair.
     I see that is still happening now. They keep telling people that NEP is not good. NEP make our economy goes backward, etc. They want to eradicate NEP but not the poverty.
     They will only satisfied if NEP fail & we will be back to the old days. To them, we are supposed to be in the kampung, become labour, driver, etc. We are supposed to be poor and shall be left behind.
     Just look at RIMAUPURA, what they have done to their Malays? LKY had succeeded turning Malays in Rimaupura as the second class citizen. For the Malays who are bright in education, LKY will ensure that this particular Malay will stay in their National Service for the max tenure. Upon completing their NS, they are already overage & tired to go for further education.
     I think LKY copied our NEP. Various Junior College (JC) & Junior Science College had mushroomed all over the Island. With education, they continued with a systematically way to suppress other ethnic community.
     We can only be going ahead with education. Islam had taught us that with knowledge, we are able to do anything. Alhamdulillah, NEP had put education as one of the important aspect.
     We should be thankful to our leaders for their longsighted in this matter. With that score, it is our duty to ensure that NEP will continually be the main policy of the government. As such, those people who oppose NEP are our sworn enemy. That goes to the people who associated with them. Anyone disagree with me?
     DSAI was among the early one who say TDM practiced cronyism during his tenure as DPM. I do think DSAI was and still the spokesperson or the agent for the Jews & US. DSAI (under the influence of his boss) is equivalent to LKY in term of kiasuism. They want Malays to suffer and submit to others, begging for mercy.
     Is DSAI is a Malay? I doubt it. He is a traitor to the Malays.
     Cheerio.

530. My beloved TUN,
     Semua rakat Malaysia harus sedar tentang peranan DEB dalam menstabilkan ekonomi antara kaum dan faedah-faedah yang diterima oleh orang melayu dari DEB. Kebanyakan mereka sudah berjaya menjadi pakar-pakar dalam pelbagai bidang dan pada ketika ini sedang menghentam DEB yang telah membawa mereka mencapai cita-cita mereka. TIDAK TAHUKAN MEREKA INI MENGENANG BUDI???
     Amat tidak berterima kasih sekali mereka ini, mereka boleh meludah kepada orang yang telah memberi pelajaran dan mengangkat mereka naik.
     Saya amat berteima kasih kepada DEB dan TUN, kerana kebanyakan pelajar melayu lepasan spm walaupun tidak memperolehi gred yang bagus dapat melanjutkan pelajaran ke university tidak seperti di zaman TUN. TUN telah bekerja keras Mengangkat Malaysia yang pada ketika TUN memegang jawatan pernah menjadi Negara yang begitu dihormati oleh dunia bahkan kita berani menentang Kuasa besar seperti US namun sekarang tidak lagi…..
     TERIMA KASIH TUN

531. Asalamulaikum YABhg TDM dan semua
     Bangsa melayu sepatutnya menghayati hasrat dan tujuan yang telah dibuat oleh pemimpin terdahulu bagi memartabatkan bangsa melayu di bumi sendiri.Jika bukan kita, siapa lagi yg akan mempertahankannya,memperjuangkanya dan meneruskan kelangsungannya..Walaubagaimanapun sudah pasti terdapat kelemahan dan kegagalan dalam NEP. Kegagalan ini kerana, sikap tamak dan kepentingan diri..tiada lagi ingatan kepada sesama bangsanya.
     Apakah kita yakin DSAI akan mempertahankan perkara ini dalam kempennya nanti? harap beliau tidak berdolak dalik,
     Apakah PAS akan menyokong bangsanya lebih utama berbanding Ugama Islam ? Apakah kedudukan Ugama Islam dapat di julang jika penganutnya dalam kedudukan yang sangat rapuh dan diperkotak-katikan.
     Bagaimana nasib rakyat Palestin, Ugamanya tetap utuh, tapi rakyatnya disiksa setiap hari. Bagaimana kita dapat memperjuangkan Ugama kita, jika kita sendiri dalam keadaan dhaif.
     Harap YABhg TDM dapat mengulas perbezaan perjuangan UMNO dan PAS supaya dapat difahami oleh semua.
     mohon maaf, wassalam

532. It is abundantly clear that the politics of race has slowly and surely brought to this country to the brink of disaster.
     We are a nation divided, kept from strength by divisive policies that constantly remind us of our differences rather than our similarities and, in doing so, breed distrust and weakness.
     We have been reduced to nothing more than representatives of our different ethnic communities.
     Instead of being husband, father, wife, mother, child, lawyer, artist, accountant, doctor or public intellectual, we are instead Malay, Chinese, Indian or other, the value we can each add to this society limited by the box that keeps us in our respective categories.
     Though this may serve political interests, “divide and rule” having always been a useful strategy for ensuring dominion, it does not serve our interests and those of the nation.
     The NEP was intended to address disparities in income levels between the primary ethnic groups even as it addressed poverty across the board.
     I believe that over the years political interests had gradually hijacked the policy, so much so that Ketuanan Melayu has come to define the social contract for some while others believe that affirmative action is a permanent privilege of birth notwithstanding the policy having led to the enrichment of a small elite at the expense of the wider community and the nation.
     Accepting that this is a contentious issue, consider instead where race based policies have left the nation and the malay community respectively.
     Where public education is concerned, though the policy has allowed for greater malay student intake into institutions of learning at all levels, admission quotas and declining standards in a mass assembly style education system have led to the production of graduates, malays and non-malays alike, who are simply not good or confident enough to do what it takes or sufficiently experienced to deal with multi-racial existence.
     This has been influenced to an extent by political objectives that have suborned quality to quantity and, in having permitted race based appointments of educators, subjected the education system to a cycle that undermines it.
     Seeing as how local graduates, diploma holders or school leavers form the bulk of the work force, in part due to more young Malaysians choosing not to return home after completing their studies abroad because they do not believe they can achieve the quality of life they aspire to here, this cannot be a good thing.
     It is no secret that the country faces a major human resource shortage.
     This has had serious implications. One of the more evident knock-on effects is the impact it has had on the civil service.
     It is an open secret that race has played a big role, and continues to do so, in appointments and promotions, having resulted in a civil service made up almost entirely of malays, graduates of local universities and schools in the main.
     In time, it has come to be dominated by persons who are not sufficiently equipped with the skill, knowledge and experience to do what they have to, unlike their predecessors.
     The same can also be said of public institutions such as the Judiciary. Appointments to the bench have largely been from the Attorney General Chambers or the judicial services and in this way the civil service experience, such as it is has found its way onto the bench.
     In all of this and more, race has figured very prominently, even though it should not have.
     It is not insignificant that of the ten Federal Court judges currently serving, eight are malays, as are fifteen of the twenty serving Court of Appeal judges and thirty-three of the forty-eight serving High Court judges, the overwhelming majority of them having been appointed from the civil service.
     This raises important questions. Though affirmative action may be a relevant consideration for us, what is the cost we will have to pay for it? Do we have to sacrifice our competitiveness and sustainability?
     I think not. There are ways in which the poor and the disadvantaged, malays and non-malays alike, can be assisted without having to sacrifice the competitiveness of the nation or the individual Malaysian right to be the best he or she can be.
     Creating the methods by which this can be done requires maturity, a consideration of what this country needs in the long run and, above all, a jettisoning of political interests.
     Sadly, it would seem that the government has been incapable of this.
     Take the judiciary for instance. The prime minister has publicly admitted that we may not have the best persons for the job on the bench. It also appears as if race quotas have been imposed on appointments. How is it that that could have been permitted?
     The judiciary is a crucial institution, a cornerstone of democracy that requires the best minds to function as it was meant to.
     Leave aside the fact that the Constitution does not authorize such quotas for the judiciary, that justice can be served by reference to ethnic considerations defies logic and common sense. Justice is blind to all considerations, race and religion included.
     That the government was prepared to allow the Judiciary to be subverted in this way is indication enough of how it is that other aspects of governance have been approached, especially those essential to the functioning of the pluralist democracy that Malaysia is.
     It is hardly surprising then that race relations has taken on an edge that it never had before.

533. Kalau DSAI kalah di pilihan raya kecil permatang pauh, bolehlah suruh dia cari kerja lain di Malaysian’ Jobs

534. The words cronyism and nepotism were convienently used by the anti-establishment groups to discredit the management of the day. In their zest to seize power, these disgruntled personalities teamed up like birds of the same feather to run down every thing the government was doing. And it was easy to convince the masses from the kampongs with some twisting and dramatising of facts. In fact this reminds me of how gullible some people could be. Take a look at the Black Money scam, the magic stone, the bomoh stories and many other con jobs that keep on attracting believers no matter how many times they are proven fakes.
     Similarly, the opposition used these tactics to con their followers to buy their story, hook, line and sinker.
     Talking about cronyism and nepotism, how dou you define these? Anwar,his wife and daughter teaming with Lim Kit Siang and his son, Karpal Singh and his son?
     Oh, that’s okay, because it is for the interest of the rakyat….. huh, (pun intended)
     It seems that whatever the opposition does is good, even if they sleep in the same bed.
     ” A mosquito ten miles away can be seen, but an elephant in front of you cannot be seen “.
     I could go on rattling for ever but I don’t think this will change the fixed mind set of the anti- establishment groups. I think if their leaders ask them to swallow poo, they would gladly do it too!

535. I has to write this. I am one of the product of NEP. Work in the field of medicine and now in the field of security defending the security of our nation. I hope with the small sacrify that I made saya dapat membalas jasa YAB Tun. Dengan NEP dan juga dasar pelajaran Tun semasa menjadi menteri pelajaran saya keluar membawa keluarga saya dari celah-celah hutan di pinggir gunong menikmati kehidupan yang lebih selesa dari dulu.
     But sad to say now people are not serious about the kedaulatan negara kita.
     There are many more people tinggal kat hutan dan bukit sekarang ni. Please offer them out…

536. Assalamualaikum Tun.
     Komputer saya dah rosak.
     Saya tidak dapat pergi ke siri ke-2 tournament pada hujung minggu ini.Pada siri pertama dulu abih komputer saya godam untuk upgrade permainan.Tapi tak menang pun kerana saya pergi bukan untuk menang.I’m bz.
     Masa kelayakan dulu,dapat no 4.Dapat hadiah RM150.Lepas duit minyak.Hilang penat drive 2 jam pergi balik.Opponents dari student UiTM,lecturer UiTM,Petronas player dan juga kawan-kawan yang bermain untuk bersuka-suka.
     Petronas player kalah.Saya offer draw,tapi tak mau.So,sorry…masa menentukan.
     Sekarang komputer saya dah rosak.Baru baiki dulu.Tak boleh upgrade permainan saya buat masa sekarang.
     Sekarang program komputer semakin canggih.World champion pun selalu kalah dalam pertandingan dengan komputer.
     Tetapi antara salah satu kelemahan komputer adalah tidak menganggap a draw move is a win move.Draw pun dapat hadiah RM150(saya terlepas satu round).Lambat sebab jauh.
     A draw move is a win move.Bersyukur sajalah.
     Terima kasih Tun.

537. 21. Under the NEP more schools were built in the rural areas and primary education was free. Secondary education was easily available and a lot of scholarships were given for the universtities in the country and abroad.
     BUDAK KAMPUNG TAK MUDAH LUPA TUN.
     30. If there is still doubt then do a survey of all the contracts and scholarships given by the private sector and work out how much they have contributed toward eliminating disparities between races, and who would be the poor in this country.
     I’M WORKING IN PRIVATE SECTOR… I KNOW THE ANSWER
     http://anakmalaysia81.blogspot.com/

538. Tun,
     Dengan dukacitanya, saya mengumumkan bahawa saya TIDAK SOKONG NEP.
     NEP adalah punca kenapa PROTON jual MV Agusta dengan Euro 1.
     NEP adalah punca kenapa PETRONAS SAHAJA yang dapat masuk dalam FORBES 500 dan bukan company company yang lain di Malaysia.
     NEP perlu dimansuhkan, dimusnahkan, dikoyakkan, dibuang dalam sungai supaya tidak memperbodohkan rakyat dengan cara memberikan insentif insentif yang di salahgunakan oleh Bumiputra.

539. Salam Tun,
     Untuk point yang ke 30.
     30. If there is still doubt then do a survey of all the contracts and scholarships given by the private sector and work out how much they have contributed toward eliminating disparities between races, and who would be the poor in this country.
     Saya hendak menghebahkan di sini bahawa kebanyakan jawatan Eksekutif di sebahagian syarikat-syarikat swasta dipegang oleh bukan-bumi, dan syarat-syarat untuk diterima bekerja di sebahagian syarikat-syarikat ini adalah kebolehan berbahasa Mandarin. Kalau tidak percaya silalah semak iklan-iklan pekerjaan di laman jobstreet atau surat khabar berbahasa inggeris. Saya telah memberitahu kawan sekerja saya dari India dan Singapura, mereka tidak mempercayainya kerana pada pandangan mereka mengapakah perlu untuk syarat-syarat tahu berbahasa Mandarin di Malaysia sedangkan Mandarin bukan bahasa kebangsaan. Setelah saya tunjukkan iklan-iklan tersebut barulah mereka mempercayainya.
     Seringkali kita mendengar desakan-desakan daripada bukan-bumi supaya peluang pekerjaan di sektor awam dibuka untuk mereka. Tetapi malangnya peluang pekerjaan professional di sektor swasta yang dikuasai oleh bukan bumi tidak dibuka dengan meluas, malah sekarang ini terdapat trend untuk merekrut professional dari negara India terutamanya dalam bidang IT. Saya mempunyai ramai kawan yang memiliki ijazah dalam bidang IT yang sukar untuk mendapatkan pekerjaan dan sekiranya diterima bekerja sekalipun di sektor swasta, mereka diberi jawatan pembantu juruteknik dan bergaji di bawah RM1000. Sukar untuk menerima hakikat begini, tetapi inilah realiti graduan bumiputra yang terpaksa diterima demi survival diri sendiri. Seringkali juga kita mendengar cakap-cakap oleh menteri supaya graduan tidak memilih pekerjaan. Kan lebih baik jikalau orang-orang yang sudah berjaya di dalam perniagaan, dan juga para menteri mencari jalan supaya graduan-graduan ini dapat dimanfaatkan sepenuhnya untuk memajukan negara. Malah pernah juga terdengar cakap-cakap daripada mulut menteri supaya para graduan menimbang untuk mendapatkan pekerjaan di luar negara. Nampaknya perkembangan ekonomi kita sudah terhenti, pelaburan di dalam bidang pendidikan oleh kerajaan tidak membawa erti apa-apa jika graduan ini tidak dapat terlibat bersama di dalam kegiatan ekonomi dan memajukan negara. Sudah belajar, harus membayar hutang PTPTN, tiada pekerjaan, tiada pendapatan, tidak berguna, kerajaan rugi juga akhirnya, generasi lama masih bekerja, generasi baru terumbang-ambing, tidak dapat memulakan hidup dengan baik, jika berkahwin dan beranak-cucu tidak dapat memberi pendidikan yang baik kepada anak-anak, hidup tidak stabil, maka seluruh generasi baru akan hancur. Ia akan tiba dan Barat akan ketawa sepuas-puasnya. Masihkah kita terlena dibuai mimpi indah?

540. Dearest Tun,
     Because of the weakness leadership of PM today, all non-bumis questioning about Malays Privileges i.e scholarship, religions, equtiy, NEP etc…and still its on going until these non-bumis get the same right like Malays or Bumi.
     They (non-bumis) should be thankful for all the prosperity, wealth that they & they generations gain from economics of Malaysia.
     The most important thing happen today is still the percentages of the ‘Poor’ races are coming from Malay people…believe it or not..read the frobes Magazines for the Malaysian richest man..whose the first? second? third? i bet its chinese and indian filled those postions. where the Malays rank goes..we know.
     But still non-bumis on and on questions about Malays Privileges in our own country.
     More prove for Poor Malays..come and work with private sector..go on for survey you’ll be shocked that lowest paychecked or salary are coming from Malay races.
     This (non-bumis) said the Malay people are strongest in the cronyism & get more wealth & better life from them. I quess they should realise that the most strongest cronyism & more richest races are coming from them.
     Sad to think about this..I rest my case.

541. Salam Dr.M..
     I think the NEP succeeded the most in term of national stability..if we’re looking at NEP in term of wealth distribution among Bumis and non-Bumis, NEP is not so successful…yep! we can see the increase in number of Bumiputra businessmen but the numbers who make use of NEP are small..I mean, there’re little of Malays(as I’m Malay and get no good in-sight of other races of Bumiputra)who grab the NEP opportunity, make effort then succeed…most of them are like, grab the opportunity, abuse it then hopefully can succeed…
     no I’m not saying NEP is failed..we just need to make a fine tuning..we’ve saw what is the main weakness in NEP…there’re more abuser than honest people..there’re Bumis who honestly in need of NEP…sadly, the abuser get the most share of NEP for many reasons..we should work out the mechanism to distinguih between these two groups of people..I think tranparency can make life tougher for the abusers..
     if we don’t do the right tuning to NEP now, i’m afraid, the Bumis will be at the lost side in the long run…NEP is excelling in term of education…this no one can argue…
     empowering the Bumis doesn’t mean we’re going to left non-Bumis behind…the racial perpetrators can say bad things about NEP, but I’m sure they can’t find a solution as good as NEP if not better…

542. SALAM TUN,
     LAWAN ANWAR
     Sedang TUN sekarang ini tiada dalam mana-mana parti, apa kata TUN bertanding lawan ANWAR IBRAHIM dekat PERMATANG PAUH atas tiket BEBAS….
     Saya nak tengok juga reaksi Anwar bila TUN buat kenyataan nak bertanding parlimen tu. Kalau acah pun jadilah….
     Mesti gabra punya….
     Saya rasa kalau TUN bertanding baik untuk TUN kerana TUN mungkin boleh masuk PARLIMEN hentam KABINET dan PAK LAH CUKUP22222.
     “SAYA MOHON TUN BINCANGKAN CALON2 PENGGANTI YANG ADA DAN UMNO EGM AKAN DATANG.”
     APA-APA PUN TERUSKAN MENGUNDI MENDESAK PAK LAH SUPAYA MELETAK JAWATAN:
     http://www.PetitionOnline.com/PakLah/
     VOTE SEGERA DEMI MALAYSIA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
     WASALAM

543. Assalamualaikum Tun.
     Memang benar DEB banyak membantu lebih-lebih lagi dari segi sapek pendidikan. Walaubagaimanapun pada hemat saya sistem pendidikan yang ada lebih-lebih lagi di Universiti haruslah diperhalusi dan diperkemaskan lagi. Ini kerana jika diperhatikan hanya pada subjek-subjek/kursus yang melibatkan teori dan peperiksaan sahaja yang kelihatan telus untuk menentukan siapa yang cemerlang ataupun sebaliknya. Akan tetapi bagi subjek-subjek yang membabitkan kerja-kerja studio seperti seni bina contohnya lebih kepada penilaian yang agak subjektif dan hakikatnya sekarang terlalu banyak berat sebelah di kalangan pensyarah-pensyarah lebih-lebih lagi di universiti pusat.
     Sebagai contoh jika seorang pelajar itu datangnya dari cawangan belum tentu boleh bersaing dengan adil dengan pelajar yang memang asalnya dari pusat. Saya pernah alami perkara ini sendiri. Sedihnya sekeras mana usaha yang dibuat tidak tercapai apa yang disasarkan jika dibandingkan dengan pelajar dari pusat yang hakikatnya tidak selalu hadir sesi kritik dan kuliah tetapi mendapat markah yang agak luar biasa seperti A+. Agak kebetulan kerana kebanyakan mereka datangnya dari pusat. Saya tekankan lagi ini bagi subjek seperti yang saya nyatakan diatas tadi.
     Jika perkara-perkara yang dipandang remeh seperti ini dibiarkan kelak nanti tidak ada satu pun sebagai contoh Arkitek Melayu yang akan mampu bersaing dengan bangsa lain dan lebih mengharapkan bantuan dari kerajaan dan kelak memusnahkan identiti seni bina negara sendiri dan hilang kualiti. Contoh-contohnya sudah ada sekarang. Hakikatnya adakah universiti kita melahirkan graduan-graduan yang benar-benar berkualiti?
     (Perkara yang saya nyatakan ini benar-benar terjadi di salah satu universiti tempatan kita)
     Harap ada tindakan yang akan diambil.
     Wallahualam
     revolutionist

544. salam Tun,
     it was a nice article from you…and the last statement was very questionable and may be there is an answer for it…
     “If there is still doubt then do a survey of all the contracts and scholarships given by the private sector and work out how much they have contributed toward eliminating disparities between races, and who would be the poor in this country”
     i belive that private sector in Malaysia would love to gives his contracts/scholarship more to their own race – as it will be one of the non-bumis ethnic in Malaysia, why the reason is simple, private sector in msia is conquered by this race so of course they dont want to share ‘the richness’ they belongs with other race as they are really strongly racism if compared to the bumi.
     im not racism as such and i have a lot of friends from different races and we do sit together and eat in one table, having said that, not all of them really wanna share the table with ‘us’ and they more comfortable sit with their own colors…therefore, people like me, who are not racism, sometimes have to behave as such…and i notice those who had their primary and secondary education mixed with bumi espeacially at town area more ‘open minded’ and willing to mixed with bumis…
     im sorry if my comment does not in line with your article …
     Nevertheless, i believe; of what i acheived today is the result of the hardworking and talented leaders of Malaysia…and few years back since Tun stepped down and replace with the next so called ‘successor’, impressively the condition seems to go backwards …well i think so…

545. This is the reason you smell dead fishes around.

546. Absolutely…….
     Salam untuk Tun sekeluarga.

547. Assalamualaikum.
     As far as I remembered, during my unidays, in my batch for applied physics deegree, there only 10 malays and the rest are chinese. I don’t whether now, the environment have change or not. 🙁 Sad but true.

548. Dear TUN,
     THIS IS A REPLY FOR THE INSANE – By Akulah on August 6, 2008 9:52 AM
     Assalammu’alaikum Tun yang dikasihi,
     Peliwat-peliwat negara sahaja yang menidakkan NEP untuk menjadi popular. Mereka-mereka ini dahpun dapat gelaran “Ustad-Ustad Hindraf”.
     ———————————————
     WHY do u need to say Ustad – ustad hindraf , so are you saying all the ustads in this country peliwat. What a shameful remarks agains the ustads. Please go back to sekolah pondok to study and learn to write again.
     By the way , did the Hindraf asked their claims from you or the goverment of Malaysia.NO, NO NO, What they want was to claim from British Government. So why stop & arrest them. Even if the money comes , it still comes to Malaysian Banks . SO WHAT. please la ,there are many more urgent matters in this country . WHERE IS SHARLINE, CAN YOU HELP TO FIND. ????.

549. Tun,
     DEB atau sekarang NEP telah banyak membantu bumiputra di Tanah Melayu. Saya percaya, tanpa dasar ini, kita tidak mungkin semaju ini.
     Sebagai seorang dari produk DEB/NEP (dari segi pendidikan) secara tidak langsung saya rasa amat beruntung atas initiatif kerajaan pimpinan Tun & sebelumnya yg memperjuangkan bumiputra agar setaraf dengan bukan bumiputra.
     Setakat ini saya masih lagi bertahan bekerja di syarikat MNC dengan satu hasrat membuktikan kepada org lain yg usaha melahirkan profesional bumiputra selain dari bantuan kerajaan, juga perlu sokongan dari golongan bumiputra sedia ada juga. Bagi saya, jika tidak ada golongan bumiputra yg memberi peluang ini, usah diharap golongan bukan bumiputra utk membantu. Ini adalah pengalaman saya selama 10 tahun bekerja di pelbagai syarikat MNC. Azam saya walaupun kecil sumbangannya, adalah utk memberikan peluang lepasan diploma/ijazah tempatan bumiputra mendapat tempat di syarikat MNC, membimbing mereka tata-cara kerja yg produktif atau setaraf, malah lebih baik dari bukan bumiputra. Selainnya terserah pada mereka utk berusaha & mencapai tahap yg lebih tinggi.
     Memanglah dalam 10 org, hanya 7-8 sahaja yg menjadi, selebihnya kita usah gusar kerana mereka sendiri yg tidak mahu berusaha. Maka kita tak perlu membuang masa utk orang yg tidak mahu memajukan diri sendiri. Mungkin saya tidak sekuat Tun utk terus berusaha memajukan 2-3 org itu, tapi pada saya, dalam sebiji nangka, tak semuanya baik.
     Saya amat berharap kerajaan sekarang/masa depan dapat mempertahankan dasar NEP sehinggalah terdapat bukti bukan bumiputra tidak lagi mengamalkan double-standard pada bumiputra dari segi pemberian pekerjaan, pendidikan, perniagaan, dan sebagainya.

550. Dear Tun;
     I’m one of the millions of Malay who got my degree due to the NEP policy.
     I’m very grateful and indebted to my past leaders including you. Now I got the opportunity to say a million thank you personally to you Sir.
     In fact, in every general election, I showed my thank you by voting the government.
     But my friends (who were successful under NEP policy) said its the government responsibility to give education to the rakyat.
     But they didnt realise that lots of Malay and Bumiputra students got the privileged of BETTER education and opportunities under NEP although with a very fair exam result.
     As you said in one of your UMNO speeches, Melayu Mudah Lupa. Now,this syndrome has infected our present leaders who betrayed the Malay and Bumiputra by reducing the quota in scholarship and university intakes just to get popular support from other races.
     Is there any Malaysian Boleh out there who could kick this weakling out of Putrajaya?

551. Tun,
     I agreed that bad implementation & ‘a few took the opportunity for granted’ have cause NEP the bad perceptions!
     http://sembang-kopitiam.blogspot.com

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     http://anakmalaysia81.blogspot.com/

553. Tun,
     Scomi dan ecm libra….ini yang di panggil kroni. Cuba beza kan…!!!
     Bagaimana kompany yang tak ada wang tak ada kemahiran , mencuri wang rakyat melalui kelicikan Meantu dn anak beranak.
     http://isteri-mamak-tua.blogspot.com
     kempen putih: tak nak Pak Lah
     kempen boycott Israel dan konco-konco
     kempen kesedaran Melayu
     isteri.antimamak

554. Asaalamualaikum Tun
     Miis your article everyday
     http://anakmalaysia81.blogspot.com/

555. NEP is just a huge pedestal to the bumis.
     They will not learn if they are given the half way mark to start with in a 100 meter dash. You give a man a fish, you feed him for a day, you teach the man how to fish, you feed him for a lifetime. NEP is just giving the bumis a fish.

556. Assalamualaikum Tun,
     Inilah hakikat kehidupan dunia, setiap yang baik sukar untuk bersyukur dann diikuti. Bagi saya mereka yang menentang NEP ini adalah mereka yang mementingkan diri sendiri ataupun lebih pentingkan kroni. Hakikatnya penentang ini telah lebih dahulu merasa kenikmatan NEP dan sampai masanya untuk mendapatkan lebih lagi mungkin melalui dasar yang lain. Jangan kata Mantan Perdana Menteri sahaja kroni, malah jika difikirkan seluruh kerajaan didunia mengamalkan keadaan yang demikian malah lebih dahsyat lagi. kroni ini bertujuan untuk membantu mengikut kelayakan, siapa yang tidak layak pasti akan kecundang. Malangnya yang menentang ini kebanyakannya yang dah berjaya. Raja gula, Raja motor(Boon Siew), Raja Genting, Raja Tambang Murah semua ini juga kroni, tetapi adakah kaum lain terfikir mereka juga diberi peluang. Tetapi kerajaan hari ini tidak mengatur dan mentadbir dengan baik kerana takut di keji dan dicaci oleh sebilangan penentang yang menuduh mereka menjalankan dasar NEP yang mementingkan kroni. Saya menyeru! bersamalah kita berdoa kehadrat Allah s.w.t dan berusaha untuk memastikan Islam dan Melaysia sentiasa aman, makmur, maju dibawah kepimpinan orang Islam yang ikhlas untuk keadilan semua agama dan bangsa sebagaimana yang telah dibuktikan pemimpin terdahulu. insyaallah.

557. NEP only looks after the bumiputras.
     What about the non-bumiputras? Where do they go for help?
     NEP should be abolished!!!
     We are in Malaysia not Malay land

558. Salam Tun!
     I’m one of the result of your NEP. Without NEP I may be at this moment, duduk kampung jadi house wife.
     Ayah saya kerja kampung, mak tak kerja, adik beradik ramai. Saya bertuah sebab dilahirkan with brains. Tapi kalau mengharapkan pendapatan ayah saya, memang tak mampu nak hantaq anak sekolah tinggi2. Thank God with NEP I was accepted to study in boarding school and get all the best educations, further my studies in local university & currently work in multi national oil & gas company. Thanks to your great vision I’m able to become a person that can contribute back to my family and country! I love you and grateful to you.
     Cheyan

559. salam tun,
     saya harap tun dapat memperincikan croni2 yang telah menghilangkan diri dari malaysia selah menjadi jaguh menteri kewangan sebelum krisis 1998. dengan itu tahu lah kami tentang perjuangan mereka hingga kini mereka bersekongkol dengan bangsa yang di impot oleh penjajah(british). adakah mereka2 inilah yang menhancurkan bangsa sendiri. tq n wassallam.

560. salam tun
     Tidak dinafikan NEP amat berjaya dari segi pendidikan
     sya merupakan salah seorang anak NEP.Tanpa NEP sememangnya sukar bagi kaum bumi untuk melankah lebih jauh.Dengan jurang perbezaan yang amat ketara dalam pendidika dan masalah kewangan yang masih membelenggu kaum bumi yang hendak maju dalam pelajaran.Namun amat dikesalkan kerana mereka2 yang telah berjaya hasil NEP ini mula menjadi “kerbau lupakan lumpur”.mereka sendiri telah mula mempertikaikan usaha yang dilakukan oleh pihak terdahulu sehingga mereka berada di tempat mereka sekarang.
     Dari segi pembahagian kontrak dan tender,saya masih agak kabur,keliru.mungkin latarbelakang saya yang tidak berpaksikan ekonomi.Namun seikit sebanyak tergugat juga dengan kenyataan2 yang dibaca dari pelbagai sumber.Namun syukur saya masih berpikir secara mendalam dan positif.
     teruskan menulis tun,ilmu dikongsi takkan susut nilai

561. Dear Tun,
     It is hard to come by someone that is so passionate in developing other human being. You are those people, the brilliant guy that help many.
     I am so thankful to you. All the opportunity that has been given to me, that put me where I am now. Better stats. With this, there’s a chain reaction… I can help my families, friends and others that is in need too. Now you can see, all the things that you have done, all the ideas that came from you, somehow flourish and made Malaysia the way it is NOW.
     Maybe others that is crazy for money and greedy has somehow corrupted the system, BUT somehow you know how to managed them. NOW… sigh… I don’t know what to say… it so ambiguous on the things to come. May there be someone out there that is wise, strong and passionate on developing himself and others and grow for the well-being of the nation….
     Regards

562. Assalamu Alaikum Tun,
     I agree with you Tun. Everybody irrespective of race and every part of the country have got imminent benefits from the NEP introduced to solve the imbalance between races in every espect of social and economic live of Malaysian.
     Is helping the weak or the needy are considered as practising cronism? I don’t so. It’s actully a common sense. Unless the power is at the hand of wrong leader then whatever system could be tarsnished cronism elements.
     Besides understanding the country’s history, Malaysian should also learn to accept the fact of the history. Through this we all will enjoy living in the country like Malaysia.
     Thank you Tun.

563. =============================================================
     TUN,
     Apa saja yang TUN rancangkan untuk kebaikan dan pembangunan Malaysia tetap dipandang serong oleh media luar. Ada saja penjelasan negatif yang TUN lakukan di sebarkan. Mereka mempuyai agenda tertentu untuk menghancurkan kredibility TUN.
     Bagi mereka semua projek mega yang TUN lancarkan adalah membazirkan wang rakyat, dan merupakan projek kroni TUN. Ini juga di terangkan oleh Gorge Soros dalam ulasan medianya. Kenapa ini terjadi.? Ini disebabkan mereka tidak terlibat dalam pembangunan yang TUN jalankan. Dan TUN tidak mengikut apa yang mereka ingin kan.
     Bagi rakyat Malaysia yang pernah bergiat dalam bidang business semasa zaman TUN dapat merasakan perbezaan kemewahan projek-projek yang dianugerahkan pada semua Bumiputera yang berkebolehan. Semua merasakan, cuma yang terbaik dapat mengulangi mendapatkan kerja kerja. Ramai Bumiputera yang berjaya dalam zaman TUN, dari kerja kerja yang kecil ( kontractor kelas F ) sampai lah ke kontractor kelas A.Begitujuga kepadqa kontractor-kontractor perkhidmatan dan pembekalan.
     Ya, TUN menjadi lumrah tidak semua yang berjaya. Tetapi semua mendapat kesempatan yang adil. Seandainya mereka berkemampuan pasti mereka berjaya paling tidak sekali. Itu adat lah dalam berbisnis.
     Kalau mereka mengatakan TUN punya ramai keroni, itu bermaksud TUN telah menganugerahkan banyak projek kepada banyak orang. Dan semua orang puas hati dan gembira. Saya juga merupakan seorang Bumiputera yang berjaya dalam Business di zaman TUN, tapi saya bukan kroni TUN. Tetapi kerana kejayaan saya, usaha kuat saya selama ini juga di katogerikan sebagai kroni TUN… Terima saja, kerana memang sikap manusia yang selalu iri dan dengki dengan kejayaan orang lain.
     Yang harus kita berhati-hati adalah mereka yang dari luar…musuh kita dari luar….
     Kita harus mengenal musuh dari luar kita yang sentiasa mahu meragut ekonomi dan demokerasi Malaysia. Mereka akan mengunakan apa saja demi kepentingan mereka. Mereka ini tidak lain adalah dari Yahudi laknatullah.
     Mereka sentias mengkaji kelemahan kita, untuk mencapai hasrat mereka. Sekarang dengan kepim[pinan yang lemah, sudah tentu mereka akan mengorak langkah, menyelinap masuk dan meracuni hati rakyat dalam mencapai tujuan mereka. Lihat saja apa yang berlaku sekarang, Blair yang merupakan musun Islam di sambut dengan gemilang dan terbilang…….
     Semoga rakyat meningkatkan kesedaran yang lebih dalam hal begini.
     Rakyat perlu lebih peduli dengan masalah yang bakal kita hadapi.
     BIARLAH KITA DI ANGGAP KARUT DAN BODOH DENGAN KEMUNGKINAN-KEMUNGKINAN YANG BAKAL MELANDA MALAYSIA DAN BANGSA MELAYU KHUSUSNYA, KERANA SIKRANYA IANYA BERLAKU…..TIADA JALAN PENYELESAIAN YANG MUDAH DAPAT KITA AMBIL.
     SALAM PERJUANGAN
     _isteri.antimamak_
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564. I notice some people say that since Dr M is urging Abdullah to step down and Najib is no longer has the good image he once possess…
     and since Anwar is also fighting for the premiership against Abdullah n UMNO n BN….
     and since sometimes Dr M’s and Anwar’s points are roughly similar….
     they concluded that DrM should support Anwar.
     Oh,Noooo…..!
     Abdullah is definitely NOT good…but Anwar is DANGEROUS.
     At least from what we can assess objectively from Abdullah’s performance and ‘circumstantial evidences’ implicating Anwar.
     Abdullah may not be able to bring up our economy…but Anwar will move our whole country to a whole different direction.
     What direction? This place may provide some ideas : http://anwaribrahimdotcom.blogspot.com/
     I’m quite sure Dr M knows this situation very well.
     http://nazirulhazim.blogspot.com/

565. Assalammu’alaikum Tun yang dikasihi,
     Peliwat-peliwat negara sahaja yang menidakkan NEP untuk menjadi popular. Mereka-mereka ini dahpun dapat gelaran “Ustad-Ustad Hindraf”.
     Semoga Tun dan keluarga sentiasa dalam keadaan sihat.

566. Salam TUN,
     problem for not all but the majority of malays including me, ‘rest to soon’ – which lead to the syndrome of want to get rich fast or with minimal effort. i don’t know if its in our gene or something but its very hard to get rid off.

567. Tun,
     You are so right that the Malaysians and NEP produce many world records since your era. You mentioned that NEP produces many top Bumi students and should recognize as a big achievement. This achievement must be the correct way to improve the Bumi status in Malaysia. Malaysians can be proud of two records and they are
     1. Malaysia is the only advance developing country in the world that protect and provide special privileges to the majority.
     2. Malaysia is the only country where all races live in peace but with a lot of whispering behind.
     All Malaysians should be given equal opportunities and there should not be any percentage quota. Then the world will respect Malaysia, its Govt. and its policies then finally Malaysians can stand proud and be united. As a non-bumi, when ever I go overseas, I am always bombarded with the same question of how I can stay and survive in Malaysia and I have to explain the NEP policies and the reasons. We should stop this and stand-up to face the world.

568. Salam Tun,
     Memang Melayu mendapat banyak manafaat di atas DEB ini tetapi sebhgn besarnya tidak faham dan cuba tidak mahu faham kerana mereka merasakan ini adalah atas usaha mereka sendiri. Apabila mereka memasuki bidang pekerjaan kebanyakkan mereka gagal ‘perform’. Ini menyebabkan moral dan produktiviti kerja samada kakitangan swasta atau kerajaan jatuh. Kebanyakan mereka tidak pernah ke luar negara dan kalau pergi pun atas urusan kerja. Jadi mereka tidak pernah cuba pergi mengembara sendiri. Sekiranya pergi dengan rombongan atau urusan kerja hanya akan di tunjukkan gambaran yang elok shj. Perkara yg teruk yg di hadapi rakyat negara itu tidak akan di pertontonkan tambahan mereka ini malas berfikir dan menerima kenyataan seperti si DOL kita.
     Hishamudin patut mengkaji tentang sistem pelajaran kita kini yg semakin remeh dan lemah. Guru-guru telah di benarkan berniaga sehingga ada guru yang menjual kain dan ‘sagon’ di sekolah dan menjadikan murid mereka sebagai pusat pemasaran yang terbaik. Sistem pelajaran kita sekarang ini telah menjadikan pelajar itu lebih mandom, lembab dan tidak bermaya.
     Saya berpendapat perkara dalam membentuk generasi baru ini perlulah di pertingkatkan dan di beri perhatian khusus dan bukan setakat menterinya yang ingin memperkemas serta mengukuhkan kedudukannya sahaja.
     sama-samalah kita renungkan.

569. Tun,If NEP is successful then we wouldn’t have march 8 Tsunami.NEP is one of the cause of this Tsunami.Many are dissatisfied with the imbalance in the distribution of hangout.Those that are more deserving are left out and those that are rich with powers and ties got it.So let history judge whether NEP is a success or a failure.

570. how to defeat anwar ibrahim –
     http://writtenbyhim.wordpress.com/2008/08/06/how-to-defeat-anwar-ibrahim/

571. Tun,
     You said “While most Bumiputeras who were given shares and opportunities to do business abused these opportunities, a few tried seriously and some of them succeeded.”
     Yes, only a few tried seriously. To me, most of them abused those opportunities.
     Sadly, NEP has resulted in the “poor ranking” in the local Universities, due to lack of transparency in admission and recruitment exercises.
     http://www.leading.com.my

572. Salam Tun and fellow netizens,
     I totally agree with Tun that the success of the NEP especially in the education sector can largely be seen by the number of Malay professionals in the country. I for one have greatly benefitted from the MARA schorlarship for which I couldn’t have pursued my studies in UK.
     It is therefore a disturbing fact that certain quarters are avdocating to abolish the rights of the Malays and branding the NEP a failure. Did they ever ask themselves whether THEY have benefitted as well from the NEP? All I can sum them up is HYPOCRISY

573. Assalamualaikum Ayahanda Tun
     Lumrah manusia, sekiranya ada benda yang orang lain dapat tapi dia tak dapat, dia akan PHD (penyakit hasad dengki) Bila dah PHD, keluarlah semua istilah yang Tun kata kan tu.
     But personally, I feel without a PM like you, Malaysia won’t be where it is now. Thank you so much Tun.
     Long Live Tun

574. Salam Tun,
     Very thought provoking. I understand you’re very strong stand on the subject, seeing that you underwent the pre-NEP era as a student.
     I am however perturbed with the Malays response to the NEP benefits – vis a vis the scholarship, study loans, enrollment quotas (no more?) etc.
     Many squander the opportunity given. They flunk their exams, drops out after the second year or so. Do not give 100% in their studies and are more content with looking good, going around with aweks and generally loafing.
     Of course, I am generalising, to my eyes, it would seemed that those who are striving harder are students from the middle class families, and not the poor.
     This is highly disturbing as education is one way out of the poverty quagmire for any families. The situation is not only amongst the Malay but also in some Indian families.
     So much were said especially in the liberal, chinese oriented newspapers about scholarships refused to good students. Who can blame them, Tun, when these students who gives their all are told that they cannot get a scholarship (or loan) on very subjective terms of extra co-curricular, or their conduct during interviews. It cannot be language, as some of the Malay students these days cannot speak well in either Bahasa Malaysia or English!
     In these students’ eyes, their failure is due to their being the wrong race and not from their qualifications.
     For your information, I too benefitted with a stint in the UK and have thus became a professional albeit a less than successful one from my own weaknesses.
     I agree with you that the NEP has benefitted the country, but it is one policy needing some clear rethinking. I am sure you would agree that anything that remains static and immobile would only gather moss.
     The world is marching onwards, and we cannot be left behind with blinkered views.
     Indeed the country in still in need of affirmative supporting measures to correct (some percieved) imbalances, but the methodology is in need of some tweaking to make sharpen its edge.
     The people can give ideas, but it is the government of the day who should make the all important decision.
     Wallahuallam, Tun.

575. Bangsa Melayu semakin lalai dan lupa akan asal usul mereka.
     Mereka leka dan alpa dengan kesenangan dan keamanan sekarang.
     Tanpa mereka sedari ketuanan melayu semakin lama semakin terhakis.
     Generasi pelapis Melayu leka dengan hiburan dan keseronokan.
     Terus hanyut entah kemana,bagaimanakah bangsa Melayu 15 atau 20 tahun dari sekarang… Makin kuat kah? atau terus lena?
     Salah siapkah ini semua terjadi? Adakah akhirnya MELAYU LAYU di
     TANAH AIRNYA sendiri?

576. Salam Tun and everyone.
     I cannot agree more with your points today. NEP has indeed become the right platform in reviving not only Malays’ but every race’s economy, education and social life in Malaysia, putting these back into the right track. It is pathetic enough for those who criticized the policy for apparently nothing. the policy did well in retaining peace and ensuring long term unity and security of all Malaysians today. I don’t think Malaysia will be at this level in such a short time without this policy. Thanks to NEP we have the role in the international stage.
     This policy is not meant to empower the Malays and other Bumiputras as the ‘Tuan’of Malaysia, but rather to install the peace and unity among Malaysians. Bumiputra is not the only one benefiting from the policy, largely every Malaysian is. it is important to note that this policy is not successful in making Malaysia for Bumiputra, but Bumiputra for Malaysia, the one serving the country and its fellow countrymen. I’m proud enough to be able to contribute something for my fellow non-bumis while being a Malaysian.

577. Dear Tun,
     Thanks for your explanation on the subject of NEP and Cronyism, at least it clear some air over this matter.
     The NEP is relevant in my opinion, but it needs to be properly monitored and implemented so that there is no abuses from it which will of course misinterpret by any Media or the Public as irrelevant and unequal to all races. There must be accountability and clear KPIs for the Bumis to not only qualify for it, but in terms of the performance in the whole macro of NEP as well. With this then it may reduce the cronyism perception held by the so-called anti-NEP group. Sometimes the Western Media fail to see that even in USA or certain countries in Europe and Asia, there is some form of affirmative action.
     In my opinion, the NEP needs to be clearly informed to the masses in order to clear the air or address the misinterpretation or wrong perception.
     Thanks Tun!
     Cheers!

578. Salam Tun dan keluarga
     Sudah menjadi lumrah manusia untuk mencari kesilapan manusia. Dan telah menjadi lumrah majoriti orang Melayu kini yang mempercayai kata-kata orang tanpa melihat akhlak orang tersebut. So kita mesti balik kepada fundamental ajaran Islam, seperti mana kata Tun. Kita lebih suka mempertontonkan kepada umum keislaman masing-masing daripada melaksanakan ajaran Islam dengan penuh keikhlasan seperti mana yang Tun lakukan.
     Kita terang-terangan menerima dakyah Barat bahawa kita mengamal kronisme, padahal pengamalan kronisme di kalangan mereka adalah lebih dahsyat.Semua isu ini ditimbulkan sebagai strategik untuk melemahkan negara membangun dan negara Islam, disamping untuk menutup kesalahan Barat yang telah merosakkan muka bumi ini.
     Semoga Tun dan kami terus berjuang hingga titisan darah yang terakhir.

579. Hi Tun,
     most of the people who do want to utilized their brain will actually understand the bigger picture of NEP.. pity on them…

580. Believe me, There’s no system in this world as good as this. the previous leaders make for us perfectly for the long term vision. And the mission clearly clarified! Thanks TUN for bring us as a better life..
     Hope god bless us whateva we do..!! syukur alhamdulillah 🙂

581. assalaaamualaikum Tun…
     suke sgt dapat masuk dalam ni..akhirnya dapat jugak nak berkomunikasi dgn Tun..kirim salam kat Dr. Hasmah.
     assalaamualaikum..
     saya tetap sokong Tun…

582. Salam Tun
     Saya anak NEP. Lulus cemerlang sampai dapat 2 masters degree ; semuanya dari berkat polisi pendidikan NEP – melalui bantuan kewangan.
     Kalau nak harap duit arwah bapak saya memang tak mampu ..orang kampung kais pagi makan, kais petang makan petang ….
     Saya amat bersyukur..dan seperti Tun kata saya bukan kroni Tun :). Terima kasih ….

583. Asalamualaikum and Hello,
     Yes, I’ve to admit NEP is a success, especially in the field of education. I’m one of the NEP product, manage to secure myself a decent job as an engineer, the fact that I’m also from East of Malaysia where opportunity is very scarce, many thanks to you Tun Dr. Mahathir for giving us Malaysian Bumiputeras the chance to develop ourselves. For ‘them’ to label us as crony is unfair, cause I still remember (just few years ago) I have to struggle very hard just to maintain an average CGPA of 3.0 which is not an easy task especially if you’re an engineering student. I DO NOT recall Tun Dr. Mahathir coming over to my university giving free Bachelor’s Degree certificate to these so-called cronies. I learn the hard way of life, there’s simply no shortcut. I manage to earn my bachelor’s degree and I’m looking forward to further my studies soon (using my own savings, not crony money). Laughing.
     You don’t see this kind of opportunity anywhere else in the world. If you’ve been in United States, the Blacks, the Browns (latin) and the Asians are considered minorities and they’re oppressed economically and socially. Hence, a lot of crime rates increased and dissatisfaction amongst these group of people. I don’t blame them entirely, is that the White government did too little to help them to prosper, this is what they called as “democracy”. We should spend some time watching Michael Moore’s films (Fahrenheit 911, SiCKO and etc.) just to get a brief view of what’s really going on over there, the so-called country of independence, democracy and freedom.
     The point is, NEP provided us Bumiputeras the opportunity to improve ourselves educationally. Not to mention, there are no cash intensive given to me or most of my colleagues during the university days. We have to make do with PTPTN loans, shove a little bit cash from uncles and aunties and relatives to buy airplane tickets (I’m from Sarawak anyways) and etc. There’re simply no shortcut. Yet, I’m grateful to be given the opportunity to study. Thank you again Tun Dr. Mahathir, may Allah bless you and your familiy. Personally, I’m not sure if your current successor could maintain this kind of quality leadership. May Allah help us all. Amin.

584. I am waiting for all these documents to be printed and published.. and many many more..

585. it seem that your point is same like anwar’s point to step down pak lah….why dont u give a support to anwar to be the next prime minister rather than najib and muhyidin because they not supporting u tun…they just follow the pak lah alhadari decision…

586. Yes, through the NEP I(as a Bumiputra) felt more secured, as there are many business own by bumis, and by looking at their sucess, the confidence was automatically injected onto me.
     That to me had become the source for a bumis to peform even better.
     Sad to say, now, it looks like we are going back to square one. Sorry, it’s just an opinion.

587. NEP is helping the Bumiputeras. Successful is small but growing and other abusing their oppurtunities. Show the way and give them what is theirs. Conjecture it will be the game but the truth may prevail at the end.

588. Cant stand point 30 lol.
     Really a hard knock into the head for those people who’re opposing NEP.
     Keep it up Tun. My prayers be with you.

589. Assalammualaikum YBhg Tun Dr. Mahathir,
     During the height of political crisis in 1998, the word cronyism was the buzz word for the Reformasi group. If you have any business link with the government, you’re conveniently called a government crony. I spent quite a bit to starve off such notion of cronyism then.
     As Tun is addressing the subject of cronyism, I believe it has resurfaced again and this time, the situation is similar but not the same.
     Similar because there is a political struggle and a stand off between the government and the opposition. The difference between then and now is that at present the opposition is led by a person who is so called de facto leader and self proclaimed PM in waiting.
     I believe cronyism is a dangerous concept developed by certain entity to disrupt the harmonious economic development of the country. With such disruption, this entity can destabilise the government of the day and seize the opportunity to position itself into the apex of power.
     On a personal note, everybody practice cronyism everyday. As parents, as administrators even as an executives in the private sector. As the decision maker, we constantly have to exercise discretion and make decision. Sometimes, those decisions involve people who are close to us; brothers and sisters, parents, children, friends, our subordinates etc.
     There is no one who is in position of power that did not practice cronyism.
     I’ve to sign off and will try to give my thoughts on NEP and education soon.
     Regards and Wassalam
     LoyalCitizen
     Shah Alam

590. Dear Tun M,
     Go, Dr M ! Millions of us are listening to you.
     Keep giving your opinions and thinking on important issues.
     No matter what people say, your say STILL matters.
     http://nazirulhazim.blogspot.com/

591. Assalamualaikum TUN.
     Suami saya berjaya kerana menggunakan sebaik mungkin peluang yang ada dalam DEB tidak di sia-siakan. lebih 30 tahun dia bertarung dalam dunia perniagaan. jatuh bangun entah berapa kali. Tapi Alhamdullillah dia tak kenal erti putus asa. Perniagaannya kini maju dan yang penting dapat bertahan lama untuk anak dan cucu.
     kejayaannya tak ada kaitan dengan mana-mana kroni parti politik ke, menteri ke atau Yb itu ke ini ke. Boleh dikatakan berkat doa anak isteri di tambah dengan usaha dan kesabaran dan bersederhana dalam segala urusan serta tidak boros berbelanja menjadikannya seorang ahli perniagaan yang berjaya kini. Hanya dengan DEB atau NEP lah yang bebar-benar memberi peluang kepada orang melayu dan bumiputra di malaysia yang betul-betul berusaha untuk maju dan berjaya selari dengan kaum bukan bumiputra.
     Salam untuk TUN dan TUN Asmah. Teringat ketika jadi ADC TUN Asmah masa di Sabah dulu.Terima kasih dengan cenderhati yang di beri. masih saya simpannya.
     Love U TUN always.
     Chesom

592. Bravo Tun!
     What an excellent article. NEP should be continued as long as bumiputeras exist. We salute all successful bumiputeras who work hard and they deserve it. On item 30, obviously if a survey were done to check on private sectors contibution in eliminating disparities between races, I think the result will be disappointed. As far as I know, private sectors who are dominantly controlled by non bumiputeras millionaires do nothing toward this. What they do is only enrich themselves and their own races.

593. Salam Tun,
     You are the greatest leader that malaysia ever had. I’m proud to be Malaysian because of you. Thanks a lot! I grew up in your era, yet I’m more proud to be KSAH student. (1988-1993)and now I m consider myself succesful in my career….thanks again Tun.
     Still wondering is out there, anymore good candidate to replace current PM?
     My flag stays in its box this year,The terrible shape this country’s in, The future looks nothing but bad.
     Pls save us………
     rgds.

594. Good morning Tun,
     Wish you and family healthy forever.

595. Yes Tun, NEP is a success. There are abuses too because of poor implementation. It needs fine tuning to fit in new realities. Everything evolves for the better.

596. I’m also wondering where would I be today without NEP. Oppositions are simply questioning the NEP without any concrete knowledge about the policy. They are also forget that all this while, their children, families and even themselves enjoy a great life in Malaysia because of NEP. Like you’ve said, “Melayu Mudah Lupa”, unfortunately, it is true!
     http://umnomuda.wordpress.com

597. Salam Tun,
     100% agree with you.
     Unsure why some malays still in doubts on what had happened in previous. Ignorance is the correct word to say for this people. DSAI memang perosak bangsa Melayu zaman moden.
     Wassalam

598. As’kum Tun, hrp Tun dikurniakan kesihatan yg baik sll. Sy amat sokong kenyataan Tun yg mana alasan kroni sllnya jadi modal pengkritik unk mengaggalkan NEP. Syabas!Tun msh pertahankannya bukan spt DSAI yg terdesak mahu sokongan Cina lantas hendak hapus NEP jika berkuasa, susah nak Malaysia dapat seorang lagi pemimpin spt Tun, nk harap DSAB ntahlah!

599. assalamualaikum Tun,
     saya sentiasa menyokong Tun…
     jaga kesihatan ye Tun.

600. Jika diimbau sejarah..
     Jika pemimpin terdahulu tidak memikirkan penekanan betapa pentingnya pendidikan..
     jika pemimpin terdahulu terikut dengan ideologi2 Sukarno dengan Indonesia Rayanya..
     Jika pemimpin terdahulu mengambil konsep ‘Merdeka dengan Darah’ dari konsep ‘ Merdeka tanpa Darah'(perundingan)
     nescaya ……aku rasa ramai antara melayu kita ni dok buang air besar kat sungai dan merata2 macam kat negeri jiran kita….
     melayu mudah lupa…

601. Dear Tun M,
     Go, Dr M ! Millions of us are listening to you.
     Keep giving your opinions and thinking on important issues.
     No matter what people say, your say STILL matters.
     http://nazirulhazim.blogspot.com/

602. Dear Sir,
     Excellent piece, exactly what i’ve ben telling everyone, the NEP is also largely about developing education for the poor.
     Thanks.

603. Dear Tun,
     Some are understood some are dont and some are trying to create problem because of theirs failure.

604. Thanks to NEP.
     Now its time for successful Malays help the anak bangsa.
     I am very sad with Malays nowadays who only busy with politics, yet forgot about their own economics development and all.
     Salam
     Farah
     http://makead.blogspot.com

605. Salam TUN,
     NEP works…
     Proven record…
     Survey? Just to Confirmed it 🙂

606. askum Tun..
     bout the cronyism..
     – then wat would u say bout scomi n other related compny wif KJ/Patrick? is it one of the success compny?
     – latest i heard bout project e-tanah. the pilot project in penang worth 67 million failed. Developed by Bumiputera(i also heard bout cronyism in this project. No open tender.)
     bout the education
     – thanks to the NEP but not to PTPTN. coz PTPTN is a liar!
     luv u Tun!!!

607. Good Morning Tun
     Have a great day ahead!

608. salam TUN…
     thanks tun kerana sggup meluangkan masa..
     demi rakyat malaysia…
     dengan ada nya blog tun baru saya tahu keadaan
     malaysia sekarang..
     thanks a lot TUN..
     Anak kedah..
     Langkawi Geopark

609. YESS TUN.. IM SUPPORT U.. IM NO 1 TODAY..

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