Will Sabahan able to move up the ladder of higher income by 2015?

Of course, Sabahan can move up the ladder of higher income if all the basic infrastructures promised over the years by the respective governments are fulfilled without further delay.

I feel like crying when I saw the above headline published in today's Daily Express.

I'm almost speechless after reading the news report as the announcement, and its implementation, is 20 years overdue.

I'm actually angry with the government for not seeing the lights during all these years.

However, it's still not too late.

Higher income will ease brain drain, or resources drains, question is how to achieve it?

Today, our country is losing talents or professionals to our neighbours such as Singapore because of the big income gap; now not only that, we are losing the low-level workers such as plantation workers too.

We have to nib it at the bud before it's too late as every bodies are fleeing for a greener pastures elsewhere.

Due to the developments, we need more retain workforces in all the industries and businesses, especially the plantation and the tourism industry.

We need more skilled workers in the ICT too.

We need to attract good peoples to work or live here, regardless of their origins.

The 1Malaysia fits the requirement, but would it succeed?

The public confidence has been going low with the sporadic negative comments from some BN's higher ranking officers lately though.

Today, ICT is considered the foundation and the locomotive for higher income where more revenues can be earned by making the industries and businesses more productive and efficient. But, a body to really spearheading the ICT application efforts in the government and the society is still very much lacking, or none at all. There's simply no concerted efforts or leadership on this important future infrastructure at all.

Had we adopted the ICT in larger scale in those early years, we'd have produced not only one 'Bill Gate' but many 'Bill Gates' if given the right environment to develop.

Our economy could have been 100 times, or more, than today's market size if ICT and modern technology were deployed early.

If, and only if, that our government, knows what they are doing, and stick to it, else, we may have to see all the expectations in our dreams only.

Help Workers To Attain Higher Income? Are You Sure?

2009/05/03 NST
Workers must power new economy, says PM
http://www.nst.com.my/Current_News/NST/Sunday/Frontpage/2547231/Article/index_html
KUALA LUMPUR: Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak wants workers to power a new economic model that will take the country to high-income status.

He said details of the economic model would be drawn up by an economic council to be set up for the purpose.

Najib said council members would comprise experts from Malaysia and abroad and provide input on how the nation could improve its economic position from the current high middle-income level to high-income level.

Najib was speaking after delivering his Workers Day message at the 2009 national Workers Day gathering in Bukit Jalil here.

The prime minister said the increase in workers' output should not be merely through increased productivity but also via innovation and creativity.


I have to say that the above remarks from PM is encouraging and a morale-uplifting to the workers in the country, unfortunately, it may be years and a little bit of luck, before the workers see the dream comes true.

First & foremost, the economic model itself is a chemical reaction of politic, delivery system, and integrity.

Our land has been plagued by corruption at virtually all levels.

While no one should deny that most of the economical activities of the country come from government spending. The employers should normally pass the deserving benefits to the employees, provided they are not “squeezed” to the level that they have no choice but to “squeeze” the employees.

The result of the corruption is usually seen in sub-standard finishing of government projects where the good investments of the nation ended in a drain after only few years of use. Unfortunately, for all these blunders, no one has yet been identified, and accounted for in the failure – this type of work culture must change!

In a nut shell, the workers are being “exploited” in order to make the employers survived and “profitable”. It’s therefore that the government must pay their staff well with KPI, and hopefully control the corruption level.

The lesser the malpractices in the economy, the better it is for the contractors and theirs workers who would be paid handsomely well.

The government can monitor the job market and the employers to ensure that workers are paid well within the law. The passing of the worker’s minimum wage/income law shall be a good point to start, otherwise, workers will be forever “under-paid” and becoming the sacrifice of the economy.

The Malaysian workers are also under the "unfair" competition from foreigners imported, legally and illegally, by local syndicate. Their income is indirectly affected by this government policy of allowing unregulated imports and controls.

MACC must be active in watching the source of the corruption problem, and the source happens to be in the government itself. Great political will in harnessing corruption must be asserted if they want to keep the workforce local and happy. The PM, as the head of the government, must set a good example in this agenda.

Good Governance is the key and the rests like the employers and employees, are just doors.

The government should be the one to lead the nation with the so-called “Innovation & Creativity” and if they fail, nothing else would survive.