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PETALING JAYA: Unity in Malaysia has reached its lowest ever point and analysts agree that the causes of such a significant decline are politics and the National Economic Policy (NEP).
Universiti Teknologi Malaysia geostrategist Prof Dr Azmi Hassan said toxic politics has divided the people not only along racial lines but also in ideology.
“These factors have not only torn the different races apart, but also caused splits among people within the same racial group.
“For instance, Malays are no longer united because many have different political ideologies and belong to various political parties,” Azmi told
theSun.
He was commenting on a report that a secondary school in Johor had set conditions for co-curricular activities based on race.
Beating the salary revision drum 15 Apr 2021 / 20:51 H.
EVERY time a general election is round the corner, Cuepacs, the umbrella body of Unions of Employees in the Public and Civil Services, will be beating the drums for salary revision for civil servants.
With the general election highly expected well before the five-year term of the federal government ends in two years – the popular prediction is that this is an election year – Cuepacs is again beating the drums.
And more often than not, the government of the day would accede to such a “demand” because civil servants account for an important voting bloc, or vote bank.
Raise allowances of civil servants, says Guan Eng 13 Apr 2021 / 11:05 H.
PETALING JAYA: While civil servants have a right to expect a raise, any increment in salary should be tied to an equitable increase in productivity.
In line with this, the government must find a way to measure productivity of its employees, according to public policy expert Tan Sri Ramon Navaratnam.
Ramon, who is chairman of the Centre for Public Policy at the Asia Strategy and Leadership Institute, said that in all fairness, every civil servant should have a report card on his performance and that report card should be made public.
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APRIL 5 While efforts are taking place to mitigate the heavy impact of the health crisis caused by the unprecedented pandemic through the national immunisation programme and government stimulus packages, the emergence of identity politics appears to be accelerating in the country when the opposite is supposed to take place in the midst of times like this unity of Malaysians regardless of social status, race and religion.
Without the sense of unity and national spirit, it would then translate into race-based policies rather than needs-based and given the current demographics and overall socioeconomic conditions since the crisis, the latter should be given the attention.