LETTER | What is different in the new thrusts from that touched on in the Midterm Review of 11MP?
| Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad delivered an outstanding, honest and visionary speech on May 9.
I would think this is the first time in a public address we have heard so openly the challenge for Malay-Muslims, a large section of which feels they are being sidelined in development. There seems to be a strong perception that the Harapan government is dominated by Chinese and the DAP. However, these facts are not significant as the narrative that a loss for Umno is being viewed as a loss for Malays. Another major aspect of ministerial allocation in the Harapan government is that it is equally shared by all the four political parties so as to ensure no one party dominates in decision-making.
Strengthening national unity, social cohesion and harmony is essential, and this thrust is central to all delivery agencies, as well as through an independent National Unity commission as previously recommended. This must also include an independent media council.Mahathir set the agenda for the 12th and 13th Malaysia Plans theme thrust – shared prosperity.
The Sustainable Development Goals which Malaysia has adopted has a better disaggregated measurement in SDG 10:2 “age, sex, disability, race, ethnicity, origin, religion or economic or other status”. The shared prosperity agenda must address these concerns too. The above table reveals that there is a major shift in the public policy thrust from its original focus as highlighted in Parliament last Oct, where both institutional reform and sustainable development are a major thrusts along with economic growth, human development and social wellbeing.
Popular thought is that we need development but not human rights and institutional reform. What the people want addressed are bread and butter issues such as inflation, cost of living and inequalities.
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