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The
Proclamation of Independence of Malaysia states that the nation should
‘be for ever a sovereign democratic and independent state founded upon
the principles of liberty and justice and ever seeking the welfare and
happiness of its people and the maintenance of a just peace among all
nations’. In saying this, the forefathers of the nation wanted Malaysia
to be a place where freedom is celebrated, and in which a government
will be established to guarantee that liberty is granted to each
citizen.
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by Wan Saiful Wan Jan
The Prime Minister delivered his Budget Speech last Friday. The speech
started very well. I like Dato Sri Najib Razak’s admission that “The
biggest challenge I face in administering Malaysia … is how to balance
between policies that are populist in nature as compared to those
policies based on economic and financial imperatives.”
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by Tamanna Patel
I recently returned from an insightful trip to the northern states of
Kedah, Perlis and Penang. This was part of our study on the strengths
and weaknesses of an initiative created to help primary school children
from underprivileged families by putting them into a hostel facility.
We interviewed the children and parents who took part in that
initiative.
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by Wan Saiful Wan Jan
The Administration and Diplomatic Officers (Pegawai Tadbir dan
Diplomatik, PTD) Alumni Association held their international conference
on 9th and 10th September in Kuala Lumpur. PTD officers are the pillar
of Malaysian civil service. Not everyone in the civil service belongs
to the PTD category and usually many top government posts, in Malaysia
and abroad, are held by PTD officers.
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by Tunku ‘Abidin Muhriz
Raja Aziz Addruse was best known for being elected thrice to the
Presidency of the Bar Council, founding the country’s first human
rights NGO, and dealing with profound constitutional issues. To me, he
was also a family friend: I knew him only as Uncle Aziz and only later
realised his role in fighting for our democracy.
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by Tricia
Yeoh
AN Asian civil
society summit I attended in Jakarta recently discussed the often times
tenuous relationship between government and civil society in countries
within the region. Civil society in many of our neighbouring countries
face great challenges. Lack of funding, accusations of being
anti-nationalist, or worse, anti-government, imprisonment and sexual
harassment were some examples cited by colleagues from India, Myanmar,
Cambodia and elsewhere.
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Ketua Eksekutif IDEAS, Wan Saiful ditemubual mengenai Krisis MB
Selangor dan ketegangan antara PAS dan parti komponen Pakatan Rakyat
yang lain.
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On 24-25 September 2014, IDEAS hosted Valentine Zuber, Historian, Ecole
Pratique des Haute Etudes and Yves Teyssier d’Orfeuil, Deputy Advisor
for Religious Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, France. They are
experts on the history of secularism and religious freedom from the
perspective of France. Below is the podcast of the interview with BFM’s
Sharaad Kutan for Nightschool.
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In this Pre-Budget 2015 Grille, Tricia Yeoh of IDEAS & Azlan Awang
of Blindspot discuss fiscal consolidation, key issues like GST,
subsidies, wages, disposable income, risk of capital flight, bloated
civil service, the idea of Small Govt, worker competitiveness,
stagnating salaries, Supplementary Budgets and meeting deficit targets.
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