Where will we be at 2020??

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For those who started work around 1973, a 1.3 Litre Japanese car was RM7,000. Today the equivalent is.... let's say RM60,000........8.5 times

In 1973 a double storey house was about RM45,000..or less. Today it is about RM300,000..... 6.6 times

In 1973 an Engineer's pay was RM1,000. Today it is about RM2, 000+/-............2 times....

From 1973 to 2009........36 years.......what is the Trend?..... Bearish!!!!

In a stock market when the trend is bearish, what do we do? ..Exit !!! When a country's trend is bearish what do we do? This Bearish trend is more difficult to turn around as compared to the stock market.

I have used these 3 items: House, Car & Salary as a measurement of the country's performance for the past 35 years.... Foreigners also ask about these 3 items to gauge our standard of living.

There is a book I saw entitled: "Malaysia : The Failed Nation". Some of you may be interested to read it. I agreed with the writer..... (Al-Fatihah)

This morning I was having coffee at McDonald (now the coffee..100 % Arabica beans..is quite good @ RM 2.90....free refill !! I asked how much per hour is their pay? RM3.00 x 8 hours = RM24 per day x 25 days = RM600 per month.

My daughter works part-time during her University days..she worked at Gloria Jeans Coffee..... The pay?
Australian $14.00 @ 3.15 = RM44 per hour x 8 = RM352 per day x 25 days = RM8,800 ...13.3 times more !!!!!

Price of houses in Perth is about the same in KL.Price of cars are about 23% cheaper in Perth.I think more and more people are becoming aware of this Bearish trend.Developed country by 2020... means High income country!!

Let's look at some as of year 2005 (Financial Times)
USA GNP per capita US$35, 400
UK GNP per capita US$25,510
Australia GNP per capita US$19 ,530
Singapore GNP per capita US$20,690

These are developed countries by income measurement... Malaysia 's GNP per capita US$3,540

Year 2020..developed country? Really...a sad story. Worrying Trends, isn't it???Ringgit sliding further and further under this current government.Recently, I interviewed some fresh graduates applying for jobs with my engineering company. I accepted two applicants on a starting salary of RM1,600. 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 on the same economic level as Malaysia. Once we grouped with them and were called Asia little Tigers. Today all of them have progressed and become 1st World (OECD) except us. We are now compared with second tiered Thailand, Indonesia and Vietnam who also seem to have overtaken us...!

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 (cronies)and passing-of-the-buck to the man in the street .

For example, Hong Kong and Singapore eradicated massive corruption in the 80s-90s with their ICAC and promoted transparency and meritocracy with world standard education to uplift their economies. They now have universities ranked in the World's Top 50 (none in the 80-90s except University Malaya ).

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 today the best and brightest of our youths emigrate to escape the racial inequility 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. Are-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 be touching the African standard. What a way to greet 2020!!!!

Is there any hope for Malaysia?

OUR FUTURE IS IN OUR OWN HANDS!!!

TQ - God Bless Malaysia !

Salam Maal hijrah 1431H

oleh : ahmad baei jaafar



Menjelang bulan Muharam, kerajaan melalui Jabatan Kemajuan Islam Malaysia (Jakim) sibuk membuat persiapan untuk menyambut “Maal Hijrah”. Beberapa stesen radio dan televisyen turut menyiarkan iklan atau promo mengenainya selain daripada rencana dan drama bagi membangkitkan semangat hijrah dalam kalangan umat Islam.

Pada malam satu Muharam pula setiap masjid negeri mengadakan ceramah atau forum mengenai hijrah dan pada esok harinya kerajaan sama ada pusat atau negeri pula mengadakan sambutan rasmi. Pada hari itu juga beberapa orang diangkat sebagai tokoh Maal Hijrah.

Tetapi sebagai umat Islam, apa yang anda fikirkan untuk menerima dan menyambut kedatangan tahun baru, awal Muharam 1431H ini. Sudah bersediakan anda untuk berhijrah daripada sikap berlebih kurang tentang agama kepada yang lebih serius untuk melaksanakan Islam dalam diri, masyarakat, kampung dan negeri serta negara.

Apakah kita masih ada rasa takut untuk melakukan hukum Allah kerana takut apa kata orang, takut nanti orang bukan Islam kata apa-apa, dan takut nanti orang menentang dan memusuhi kita. Kita lebih takut kepada manusia daripada takut kepada Allah, inilah golongan syirik yang ramai tidak tahu.

Sebenarnya untuk melaksanakan hukum Allah di muka bumi ini adalah hak kita. Tidak ada sesiapa pun di dunia ini yang boleh menghalang kita melaksanakannya. Tidak undang-undang yang boleh menyekat pengamalan Islam kita. Tetapi yang menyebabkan pengamalan Islam kita tidak sempurna pada masa kini adalah kerana kita sendiri.

Sudah tentu tiada siapa yang boleh menghalangnya melakukan solat di rumahnya. Kalau pun isteri atau ayah menghalang, kita boleh melawannya. Di tempat kerja, tiada majikan yang mah menghalang kita untuk solat. Kadang-kadang ada majikan yang menghalang tetapi adalah kerana sikap pekerjanya yang menyalahgunakan peluang bersolat, mereka tidur atau berborak. Ertinya bukan majikan yang menghalang.

Mungkin ada orang berhujjah, kerajaan menghalang kita melaksanakan hukum hudud. Di sinilah kesilapan umat Islam dalam menilai haknya, dan mana pula hak kerajaan. Sebenarnya, hak melaksanakan hukum hudud dan qisas adalah kerajaan, tidak kena mengena dengan umat Islam. Kita tidak berdosa dengan kegagalan kerajaan melaksanakan hukum hudud.

Walau bagaimanapun dalam hal ini kita jangan lupa bahawa terdapat juga hak kita ialah hak tidak melakukan kesalahan hudud. Hak ini kekal walaupun kerajaan tidak melaksanakan hukum itu. Maknanya, semua manusia terutama umat Islam tidak boleh berzina, tidak boleh mencuri, tidak boleh murtad, tidak boleh minum arak dan tidak boleh membunuh orang.

Hukum ini tetap berjalan walaupun kerajaan belum melaksanakan hukum hudud dan qisas. Kalau semua umat Islam boleh menghindarkan diri walaupun belum ada hukum hudud dan qisas, kitalah sebenarnya umat Islam yang paling baik. Hal ini kerana kita dapat meninggalkan kesalahan tersebut bukan kerana takut hukuman yang disediakan tetapi kerana takut Allah.

Jelas di sini, tiada siapa yang boleh menghalang kita daripada tidak melakukan zina, rogol, mencuri, minum arak dan sebagainya. Namun kalau ada orang memaksa kita supaya berzina, mencuri dan minum arak dengan ancaman akan membunuh kita, maka ketika itu jika kita lakukan tidaklah dikira berdosa.

Jadi, sempena Maal Hijrah ini marilah kita bersihkan hati dan jiwa kita, dengan satu keazaman untuk melakukan segala perintah Allah, meninggalkan larangan-Nya dan membuat baik kepada semua orang termasuk musuh. Ingatlah jika kita boleh berbuat baik dengan musuh, dia akan mengenali hati kita sebagai orang yang jujur. Orang yang jujur mampu menarik orang ramai bagaikan magnet.

Akhirnya : Selepas 20 Tahun....

BERAKHIRNYA PENANTIAN 20 TAHUN ... Skuad bola sepak kebangsaan meraikan kemenangan selepas menumpaskan Vietnam dalam perlawanan akhir sempena Sukan SEA Ke-25 di Stadium Utama di sini. Malaysia memenangi pingat emas selepas mengalahkan Vietnam 1-0. --fotoBERNAMA

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Krisis Nilai...

Kita ditakdirkan hidup dalam era yang dikatakan bahawa serba serbinya berasaskan ilmu --- knowledge based society, knowledge workers, knowledge economy, knowledge is a power dan sebagainya --- walaupun dalam kenyataannya sering kali berlaku kepura puraan. Hingga ke saat ini masih berleluasa mengenepikan kriteria ilmu ketika meletakkan seseorang pada sesuatu posisi..

di tengah-tengah gembar-gembur "knowledge is a Power", sebenarnya kita sedang ditimpa krisis nilai yang ditandai dengan kegagalan meletakkan nilai ilmu di puncak urutan sistem nilai budaya kita. Ilmu sebagai ilmu tidak dihargai sepertimana semestinya. Ilmu hanya diperlukan sebagai alat untuk mencapai matlamat lain. Khususnya matlamat kebendaan. andainya matlamat itu dapat dicapai tanpa ilmu tidak akan ada lagi orang yang akan menuntut ilmu.

Krisis nilai ini tentunya akan membawa implikasi yang serius terhadap nasib bangsa. Kiranya dapat dibayangkan dalam era knowledge based sekarang ini, apa yang akan terjadi kepada bangsa yang tidak memiliki budaya ilmu, tidak memiliki budaya membaca, dan tidak menghargai ilmuwan. Masyarakat kita rata rata masih meletakkan nilai kuasa, ekonomi dan kadang kadang seni jauh mengatasi nilai keilmuwan.

Wafatnya seorang ilmuwan laksana Padamnya Sebuah Pelita, Justeru ilmuan adalah lentera zaman. fungsi para ilmuan adalah untuk memberikan khidmat penyuluhan dan pencerahan.