FACULTY OF ADMINISTRATIVE SCIENCE AND POLICY STUDIES

AM228

BACHELOR OF ADMINISTRATIVE SCIENCE(HONORS)

ADS509

MALAYSIAN PREMIERSHIP STUDIES

S3BA3F

ASSIGNMENT TOPIC:

ANALYZE THE EFFECTS OF THE GOVERNMENT TRANSFORMATION PROGRAM

(GTP) INTRODUCED BY DATUK SERI NAJIB BIN TUN ABD RAZAK

TOWARDS THE SOCIETY

PREPARED BY:

NAME MATRIC NO.

NUR ATHEERA FARHANA BINTI HAIREL 2014903695
NUR ATIKAH IZZATI BT ABDUL RAZAK 2014797369
NURUL SYAFIQAH BINTI ABDUL RAHIM 2014586827
NOR AFZAN BINTI ROSLI 2014917853
SITI ALYA BT MOHD KHALID 2013852282
FARAH AQILAH BINTI ROSLI 2014138069

PREPARED FOR:

MADAM SITI MELINDA BINTI HARIS

DATE OF SUBMISSION:

26TH MAY 2015

MAC 2015-JULY 2015

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Table of Content

1 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT i

2 INTRODUCTION 1

3 THE EFFECTS OF GOVERNMENT

TRANSFORMATION PROGRAM (GTP) TOWARDS

THE SOCIETY

2.1 IMPROVING EDUCATION 3

2.2 IMPROVING URBAN PUBLIC TRANSPORT 6

2.3 IMPROVING RURAL DEVELOPMENT 9

2.4 FIGHTING CORRUPTION 12

2.5 REDUCE THE CRIME 16

4 CONCLUSION 20

5 REFERENCES

6
APPENDICES
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

Assalamualaikum w. b.t.

Bissmillahirrahmanirrahim

Alhamdulillah, we want to praise Allah s.w.t for giving us an opportunity to complete this

assignment. We are grateful to Allah because of his mercy and his endowment, all our works and

cooperation to prepare this assignment has been successful and finally completed.

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Haris. With her guide and support we can finish this assignment and also her willingness to give

advised, ideas, comment and information in order to complete this assignment successfully.

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assignment.

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helped us in this assignment. We appreciate it for their help and contributions. Thank you very

much.
1.0 INTRODUCTION

Government Transformational Programme (GTP) was introduced in 2010 by Prime

Minister Dato’ Seri Najib Abdul Razak. The government had set out two objectives in this

programs which are priorities that most to the citizen of Malaysia and delivering fundamental

changes on a nationwide basis (PEMANDU, n.d). Thus, GTP is a programs which focus more on

the matters that people concern and the government itself wanted to be better in delivering basic

needs and changes to the citizen of Malaysia. As we know, Tun Dr. Mahathir has launched

Vision 2020 in 1990 with the purpose to make Malaysia fully developed country. Hence, GTP is

one of the way established by our current Prime Minister in achieving the Vision 2020. So

basically, GTP is all about the transforming the nation in order to bring the country more

advances, just society with high standard living for all. Dato’ Seri Najib once said “I am

confident that this Government Transformations Programme (GTP) Roadmap is what we need to

help chart our path towards Vision 2020. It details a bold and unprecedented programme to begin

to transform the Government and to renew the Government’s focus on delivering services to the

rakyat” (Jabatan Perdana Menteri, 2010).

In order to achieve the objectives, seven National Key Result Area (NKRA) were

introduced. There are reducing crime, fighting crime, improving students outcomes, raising

living standard of lower income household, improving rural basic infrastructure, and improving

urban public transport, These seven NKRA will be led by 6 Minister respectively. Such as

Minister of Home Affairs, Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department, Minister of Education,

Minister of Woman, Family and Community Development, Minister of Rural and Regional
Development, and Minister of Transport. The NKRA were chosen based on people priority and

important elements which will lead the country’s transformation.

There are 3 phases in GTP. The first phase is GTP 1.0 : The First Horizon which was

introduced in 2010. The aim of course to make the transformation and at the same time

introducing the changes to the citizen. Second phase is GTP 2.0 : Enhancing Change. It was

officially kicked off in 2013. The purpose is to improve and expand the GTP 1.0 meaning that in

this phase the government enhance the transformation. Finally GTP 3.0 : To The Future and

Beyond. The third phase will operate from 2015 until 2020. In this phase government establish

new innovative ideas which make prioritize people needs. Besides, government also will focus

more on economic (PEMANDU, n.d)

2.1 Improving Education

Generally, GTP is divided into two which are GTP 1.0 and GTP 2.0. For GTP 1.0 of

Education NKRA, there are five programs to enhance the productivity of the students, such as

increasing preschool enrollment rates, ensuring basic Literacy and Numeracy Skills (LINUS),

new deals for Principals and Head Teachers and last but not least, identifying and rewarding

High Performance School (HPS).

Before the implementation of GTP, children in pre-school have less confident, less

creative and innovative. The first program under NKRA by government is increasing preschool

enrollment rates. The importance of pre-school education, giving children a head start once in

primary school is well documented. Besides, pre-school and early childhood education improves

cognitive development leading to stronger learning outcomes throughout a child’s life and it is

also critical to ensuring an equal head start for all children irrespective of socioeconomic

background (PEMANDU,2009)

Basically, the pre-school students are the students who have the early education before

entering the primary school. The implementation of this program will help them to gain

experience before starting with the primary school. However, in GTP 1.0 government has set a

goal to raise the pre-school enrollment rate of children while the GTP 2.0 will see, the initiative

to improve pre-schools enhanced and it will also look to improving the quality of pre-schools by

introducing minimum standards.

 Next, the Government Transformation plan (GTP) also focused on ensuring basic literacy

and numeracy skills by the implementation of LINUS. The implementation of the LINUS

programme, which was set up to screen literacy and numeracy skill levels as students passed

through the first three years of primary school, has seen significant results. In addition to the

screening process, the LINUS program also provided remedial help for students identified to be

falling behind. However, the success of the LINUS program in the GTP 1.0 showed the

enormous impact early literacy and numeracy education can have on ensuring that all school

children have a basic command of Bahasa Malaysia and Mathematics.

Besides, government also has introduced High-performing school. This is to encourage

and motivate educators in choosing best performing schools by giving them reward. Basically,

HPS was identified through a stringent assessment that looked at the school’s academic and non-

academic achievement, strength of alumni and success at international competitions and

linkages. The recognize of high performing school will enable them to receive a grant of RM

700,000 which as well additional financial and curricular autonomies. However, the recognized

school will be more accountable towards the excellent achievement in order to maintain the

award as well as it received the additional autonomy.

The HPS NKPI aims to create world-class schools each with their own unique character.

These 20 HPS comprise 14 secondary schools and 6 primary schools, which are located in

various states across the country. Those HPS will be chosen based on their area of specialty.

Furthermore, NKRA also introduce the incentives towards new deals for Principals and Head

Teachers. An incentive culture where Head teachers/ Principal and teachers will be rewarded in

terms of financial and non-financial. The proposed reward to the top 2% of head teachers and

principals is expected to result in improvements in student outcomes. This is the main objective
of implementing this incentive as well. An incentive culture where Head Teachers/Principals and

teachers are rewarded for performances will spur Head Teachers/Principals to innovate, improve

and deliver even better performance towards their career.

2.1.1 Effects of Improving Education

Research has shown that the achievement of students has been increased which the goal

set for LINUS is to ensure that 95% of schoolchildren in Primary Two would meet basic literacy

and numeracy benchmark by 2010, but the actual results surpassed this target. In 2011, 97.5% of

the screened students in Primary Two were shown to possess basic literacy skills, while 98.6%

possessed basic math skills(Teo-Education, 2012). In addition for High Performing School, SK

Convent Kota Perak has received the award in the area of specialty of artistic performance and

language spoken activities. Besides, for secondary school, the example of secondary school

which won the award is Tunku Kurshiah college.

The high performing school has been rewarded the area of specialty in terms of

leadership and innovation and invention. These incentives have impacted on the performance of

the 20 HPS, resulting in better students’ outcome and the aim is to ensure they maintain their

high quality standards. By creating a performance culture in schools and providing incentives,

schools in the Band 1 category will compete to be among the next batch of HPS, achieving the

objective of lifting the overall performance of the schools. Moreover, the original target of this

initiative was to recognize and reward 50 HPS by the end of 2011, but the actual number of

schools identified 52 has slightly exceeded this target.

In 2010, the Primary School achievement for Head Teachers exceeded the target of 2% of head

teachers receiving rewards, when 7.7% of head teachers of primary schools nationwide received
the new deals targets. However, not only head teacher/principal who would receive the award,

but other teachers and support staff from those schools also included. More specifically, high-

achieving principals and head teachers are offered a cash incentive of RM7,500 while teachers in

their schools are also rewarded. The top 5% teachers within the same schools will receive

RM1,800 while the rest will receive RM900 as well (PEMANDU,2009).

2.2 Improve the Urban Public Transport

Public Transport is the transport that has been used by the citizen in Malaysia,

particularly in the urban cities. Urban cities can be said as the capital city of each land in

Malaysia. It is a necessity of the citizen as most of the citizens used it as a transport for them to

travel to another place as some of the public transport users do not use their own vehicle to travel

from one position to some other. According to Cambridge Dictionary Online, public transport is

a system of vehicles such as buses and trains that run at even times on set itineraries and are

employed by the public.Hence,urban public transport is a need for the community living in urban

areas.

Under the GTP 2.0,which the focus is on enhancing the bus system,enhancing the rail

system,transforming Malaysia’s Taxi System and others.(PEMANDU,2011).In the element of

enhancing the bus system,it includes the efforts on establishing city-bus service within the CBD,

reorganizing the stage bus and feed bus network, monitoring bus lanes and stage bus drivers,and

implementing the Bus Rapid Transit (BRT).Next,on the elements of enhancing the rail

system,enhancing the KTM Komuter, extending the Kelana Jaya and Ampang LRT lines and

expanding the KL Monotrail capacity.Lastly,on the element of transforming Malaysia’s Taxi

System,there are ways outlined such as implementing a centralized taxi service system and

introduce a new taxi business model (PEMANDU,2011)

2.2.1 Effects of Improving Urban Public Transport towards society

Malaysian population is increasing so as the needs of urban public transport are

increasing. In the urban area,such as in the Klang area specifically,the traffic jam is a must to be

faced every day. According to Irsyad(2015), the city of Kuala Lumpur is not complete without

the traffic jam. Hence,in order for the workers who worked in Kuala Lumpur to reach to their

working place, they have to be escaped from the hectic traffic jam every single day.Thus,the

public transport will be one of their alternatives to survive from it.The importance of the urban

public transport is as the alternative to be escaped from the traffic jam. In addition,according to

SPAD chairman Tan Sri Syed Hamid Albar as cited by Irsyad (2015),the Land Public Transport

Commission(SPAD) had carried out a survey in 2012 and 2013,and the statistics involved all

land transport systems show commitment to improve. Furthermore, Malaysia’s road

infrastructure ranks 17th among the world countries (Porter and Schwab,2008,cited by Almselati,

O.K Rahmat, & Jaafar, 2011). Hence,it indicates that the urban public transport is ready to make

some efforts to move forward to the next level for the purpose of the community.(Figure 2.2.4)

Next, the use of urban public transport will tend to help in reducing the global warming.

According to Dictionary.com, global warming can be defined as an increment in the earth’s

average atmospheric temperature that boost the corresponding changes

in climate and that may result from the greenhouse effect. The rise of this issue was mainly due

to the thinning of the ozone layer in the atmosphere. The function of the ozone layer is to filter

the amount of sunlight that passes into the earth. However, in the aspect of economy, as the

Malaysian’s economy has been rising up year by year, so as the high cost of living of the

Malaysian society. According to the World Bank (2008) as cited by Almselati, O.K Rahmat, &

Jaafar, (2011), by 2008,the statistics has shown that the urban population of Malaysia is about

49.9%.In addition,132 people per 1000 people have access to car and the urban population has

improved sanitation facilities about 78%.Thus,most of the Malaysian can own their own private

vehicle.The urban population growth is affecting the success of transport sector in the concerned

region (Porter and Schwab,2008,cited by Almselati, O.K Rahmat, & Jaafar,

2011).Thus,scientifically, the public transport produces less emission as compared to private

vehicles and it will bring less harm to the society.(Refer to Figure 2.2.1)

Thus,there are some issues arisen that boost the government on the implementation of the

Government Transformation Program(GTP).Before the implementation of the Government

Transformation Program(GTP), it was stated that the public transport in Malaysia is very weak

and poor. Thus,about 24% increase of private transport usage was observed between the years

1985-2005 (Lynn and Boyle, 2008, as cited by Almselati, O.K Rahmat, & Jaafar, 2011). On that

current of time,the concern on the pedestrian,bicycle users and bus users are not taken into

consideration by the government.

Next,there was an issue arisen on the effectiveness of KTM Komuter.The problems

arisen were on the waiting time, ticketing systems and frequency of trains.Based on the problems

on the waiting time,there is a study conducted in the journal entitled, ‘User Perceptions of Rail

Public Transport Services in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia: KTM Komuter,’ it has been reported that

the maximum waiting time is 150 minutes.The first train during the peak hours(morning and
evening peak hours) were not being able to be catch up by half of the consumers and they had to

wait for up to the third train to continue their journey (Aqilah, Syahriah , Mariana, & Mansor,

2014).(Refer to Figure 2.2.3)

After the implementation of Government Transformation Program(GTP),the government

has made some efforts in order to curb the issues stated in the previous paragraph.The alternative

implemented by the government is by enhancing the KTM Komuter.There are several areas of

enhancement to improve the services of the KTM Komuter that has been identified in GTP

2.0.There are rehabiliation programmes,power upgrades of KTMB’s networks as well as

upgrading of the communication and electrification system.All of these alternatves aim to

increase the reliability and efficiency of the KTM.Furthermore,this alternative has achieved the

increment of KTM Komuter on-time performance during the A.M. peak hours to 95% whereas

the target is at 85%.Thus,it has exceeded the target of this alternative.(PEMANDU,2011)

2.3 Improving Rural Development

 GTP (Government Transformation Programme) is coming out with something that

benefit for the society. GTP is not only effect on economic but also in society and education

field. This programme is to ensure that public services are achieving the Malaysian needs. The

development of village reflect the develop country.

There is another plan under the NKRA (National Key Result Area) which helps the GTP

to be implementing in this country there is Improving Rural Development (RD). Rural

Development means its processes that are improving the quality of economic base and life of

people who live in populated areas. Rural development are commonly been exploit by land

intensive natural resources such as agriculture and forestry (PEMANDU, 2014)

Improving Rural Development was headed by Minister of Rural and Regional

Development, Dato’ Seri Mohd Shafie Apdal. RD’s to ensure that the mostly of rural Malaysians

have access to basic facilities including clean water, electric sources, paved roads, and good

quality homes as well as economic opportunities under the programme. The minister of Rural

and Regional Development said that these RD’s are important to ensure that the rural

communities is not far away from the current development and it also gave the opportunities for

them to generates their economic.

2.3.1 The Effects of Improving Rural Development towards the Society

2.3.1.1 Connecting the Rural Communities

The government identify each and every road to be built or upgrade because it can facilitate the

transportation and enhance activities in rural areas. There is 35% that are live in rural areas

which is Sabah and Sarawak. Farming activity is the source of income of rural folks. So, the

improvement of upgrading road to the rural folks give them potential to increase their side
income for example, they able to buy more fertiliser for their farms and can sold their yield to

others. It also makes them easier if they had an emergency. As we know rural area before this

they have no proper roads so they have to walk and the clinic are far away from them (Refer to

Figure 1). So, that the improvement of communication system provide by government can help

to minimize their journey. 783.10 km of new roads were built for the rural area.

2.3.1.2 Electrifying Rural Homes

As a Malaysian we want to live in the country which is provides safety, free from corruption,

stable cost-living and continuous developed. Another transformation in rural development ideas

are electrifying the rural homes which is provides them with electric source that are most

important in our daily life. But there is some challenges when the distances from the electricity

generator transmission infrastructure can be very far especially in rural areas. So they come out

with solar hybrid power generation or micro hydroelectricity helped to provide electricity to

many villages in rural areas. The electric supply involve the traditional villages include long

houses in the remote areas of Sabah and Sarawak, Orang Asli villages in Peninsular Malaysia,

villages on islands as well as settlements in small estates, which are less than 400hectares (less

than 1,000 acres). 27,266 houses received the electric supply to their houses for the first time.

(Sooi, 2011) It also can help to prevent danger and crime to the society because the area more

safe. Many of them now have their own electrical items, which is television, washing machine

and refrigerators.

2.3.1.3 Clean Water Supply

Previously,rural population is dependent on the river water, rain water catchment and wells. This

method is not always guaranteed clean and can carry diseases. RD provides of chlorinated water

that safe to drink and use for basic essentials. Water is very important to life. In addition, the use
of clean water contributes to the improvement of the health and sanitation of residents more

secures (Refer to Figure 2). There are more than 36,000 houses were connected with clean water

supply. With clean water supply, there will be better customer confidence in rural produce given

greater awareness of the water source. On top of that, a proper supply of water also improves the

existing irrigation system that is crucial to facilitate farming works, thus improving yields and

income of local farmers (Sooi, 2011).

2.3.1.4 Provides Homes For Rural Folks

In our daily life basic infrastructure such as clean water supply, roads, supply of electricity and

comfortable homes is also important to build a better quality of life. An output of GTP under

Rural Development has helped achieve the objective of a Malaysians. Under the Housing Aid

Programme or Program Bantuan Rumah (PBR) initiative (Refer Figure 3), various district and

state level agencies have been recruited in the quest to identify needy households. House of

PPRT built for poor rural people to give a chance to feel comfortable and able to see the

development of the country. They have ability to improve their economic stability. If they have

comfortable place to stay they felt safe and can have the good relationship with neighbour and

also surrounded by clean place. It also can prevent the serious disease to be an epidemic disease.

(PEMANDU, 2013)

2.4 Fighting Corruption

Based on Oxford English Dictionary Second Edition (2009), ‘corrupt means doing or

involving illegal or dishonest things in exchange for money’. Accountablity, transparency and

honesty are the main topics in the corruption problems. The public often questioned the
government integrity in handling their money where the government should know how to fully

utilized all the taxes that have been paid by the customers. In additional, political institution is

the most serious in corruption problems which this will be exposed to the public regarding the

abuse of power by the politicians. Therefore, in order to fight corruption not just in political

institution but to other aspects, the government ready to take initiatives and think out the box to

overcome it. Now, the government come up with Government Transformation Programme

(GTP) which under this programme there is NKRA or National Key Result Areas that focus on

improving urban public transport, reducing crime, reducing corruption, improving the quality of

education, improving rural infrastructure and improving the living standards of the poor.

According to The Star (2014), it was reported in 2009 that the number of corruption cases

was 700 cases. Besides, it was also reported that the corruption trials taking too much time,which

it takes 8 and a half to 15 years to complete. Therefore, the government takes an action where the

corruption trials have to complete within one year period. This is because the conviction rate will

be decreases if they took too much time to complete the case because the witnesses forgotten

what already happened and some of them already passed away way before they can investigation

deeply. Plus, taking 8.5 to 15 years will weaken the investigation as well. All this happened

before the implementation of GTP and this lead to fighting corruption as one of government

activities. The most important is people still do not believe that government can handle those

cases that had been piled up for years now.

‘Name and Shame’ Database was one of the effort from the government in order to

control the number of backlog cases in Malaysia. Through this method, Malaysian Anti-

Corruption Commission (MACC) will list all the names, identity card and pictures those who

have convicted in the corruption cases. The revelation of those convictors will be published to
public. This has been practiced since the implementation of GTP. Therefore, the public will be

exposed those who involved in corruption and this will give lessons to the public as well. This

shows that the government is in serious mode where fighting the corruption will always be the

main focus(PEMANDU,2009).

Moreover, when fighting corruption was introduced as one of the main key areas, it was

found that corruption was the second biggest problem in Malaysia after economy. ‘In addition to

having to bear with public humiliation, offenders listed on the database also faced more practical

consequences. ‘The US embassy, for example, decided to use the list to bar the issuance of travel

visas to listed offenders, thereby curbing their mobility. Other embassies are expected to follow

the lead of the US government.’ Any parties taken the bribe as this will help the government in

order to ensure that there will be no misconduct whether from public or those who hold high

position. Actually that will fasten the process in order for the government in reducing of the

corruption (PEMANDU, 2009).

Moreover, the latest, the government has come up with new programme which is auditor

general online dashboard or what they called AG’s Online Dashboard. ‘This initiative will set up

an online dashboard that monitors the actions taken on issues raised by the AG report. The aim

here is to promote transparency and to induce pressure on the relevant authorities to act on

outstanding issues.’ The reason that lead to the establishment of AG’s online dashboard is

because there was no action taken by the government in order on issues raised by AG report. In

additional, people still doubt whether the government able to take serious action on solving the

backlog cases. Therefore, what can be conclude is the Malaysian citizens take this as serious

issues while they questioned as the government what they have done in order to combat the

issues (PEMANDU,2009)
 Other than that, the MP’s or the members of parliament will be given training in order to

ensure their effectiveness in handling public’s money as they hold the responsibilities to do so

and also the representatives of the public. 42% of Malaysian citizens believe that those who

involved in corruption cases were politicians. It aimed is to create further awareness and improve

MP’s understanding the corruption related to offences, penalties, impact and effect.

(Nkracorruption,n.d.) three main modules focus for the training which is enforcement, code of

ethics and political financing and they will undergoes for three hours training. Even for the new

MP’s that are going to compete in the election has to go for training to ensure they were aware of

level of responsibilities and accountableness towards the citizens. This training automatically

increase the moral and ethics of the MP. As the matter of fact, the politicians are the public

figure where anything they did will be exposed to the public and imagine when their action was

publicized, the public will started to doubt the government abilities in administer the country and

the most crucial the public’s fund.

According to The Star (2014), ‘the 2014 CPI table, compiled by the anti-corruption

watchdog transparency international (TI), saw Malaysia scoring 52 points out of the full 100

points. based on scoring method, a score of 0 would ignify a very corrupt country while a score

of 100 would signify a very clean country.’ This result cannot be achieve by Malaysia if there

were no initiatives taken by the government. The government grabs many opportunities as

possible in order to achieve vision 2020. The efforts taken by the government is actually to clean

the corruption activities not only among the politicians also those who work for private and

public sector. This is the effect after few initiatives taken by the government under the

implementation of GTP in order to fight and combat corruption issues. According to Bernama

(n.d), ‘14 Special Session Corruption Courts established throughout Malaysia, coming into
operation on 16 February 2011 to speed up trials and clear backlogged cases.’ This is also one of

the success by the government where the establishment of special corruption courts were also

one of government initiatives in fighting corruption. Through this court’s establishment, in a year

75 percent of corruption trials have been completed.

2.5 Reducing Index and Property Crime

Nowadays, the amount of crime in our country increase drastically by years and it will be

effects to all people especially in term of their safety. The incidence of crime also will give huge

impact on economic development and quality of life because crime and fear of crime affects

quality of life, which is sometimes involving devastating effect. Furthermore, crime also affects

all people regardless of age, gender, race, religion or wealth. Thus, the government take

initiatives to reduce crime by a sense of security which is put national security at the highest

level through the National Key Result Areas (NKRA) Reducing Crime. As we know, reducing

crime under NKRA is led by the Ministry of Home Affairs which involve process of fighting

crime, crime pursuing and arrest, trial of offender, rehabilitation and many more. The

implementation of NKRA of reducing crime has divide by three parts which are GTP 1.0

reducing crime in years 2010-2012, GTP 2.0 reducing crime in 2013-2015 and now GTP 3.0

reducing crime starting by this years and so on.

Under NKRA reducing crime GTP 1.0, there are four key areas of focus followed by the

concern from public. Firstly, reducing reported index crime is composed of 14 categories of

serious crimes that occur frequently and serves as the main index to the amount of total crime in

Malaysia. Moreover, the targeted goal of the GTP 1.0 was to achieve a 5% reduction in overall

reported index crime annually from 2010 to 2012, but the actual results easily surpassed this
target after reducing index crime by 15% in 2010 and 11% in 2011 (PEMANDU, 2011). It also

involved reducing index crime including case of motorcycle and car theft, house break-ins and

others. According to Bernama on 2014, our Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Abdul Razak

stated the national crime index has been reduced to 40 per cent within five years of the

Government Transformation Programme (GTP). The vehicle-theft had been reduced to 20 per

cent and the crime trend showed a drop since the NKRA was introduced. Also, he clarified that

the cooperation between the police, local communities and government agencies would extra

strengthen the cooperation and ensures a peaceful environment for the people in our country.

Next, reducing reported street crimes are highly visible and more to preserve public

feelings of fear and insecurity like snatch theft, robbery and others. The first target for reducing

street crimes in first year is by 20% and it already achieved the target. Next, they continuously

increase the target after they had achieved for what they had planned until now. The goal is to

reduce street crime by a further 5.3% in 2012. The Safe City Programme, built on CPTED

(Crime Prevention through Environmental Design) principles, is credited for having greatly

reduced street crime levels (PEMANDU, 2011).

Thirdly, by improving the justice system, it will raise public confidence and it help our

people more satisfy for what they had done. According to Performance Management & Delivery

Unit (PEMANDU), 2011, another strategy is increasing public satisfaction with police

performance is one of crucial component in reducing crime as the people trust and cooperation

with the police can only be secured with increased satisfaction of the latter’s performance.

Encouragingly, this change in perception was also mirrored in external studies conducted by both

national and international bodies. The improvement involved the satisfactions by the customers

which are people who had a services, development of counsellings in the police station,
implementation of online system police reports and many more. It will comfort people having

services or sharing problems about crimes that happen among them.

2.5.1 The Effects Reducing Index and Property Crime

By having NKRA strategy for reducing crime, we know that there are advantages and

disadvantages that they got. First and for most, we go through the advantages of reducing crime

is increasing the people sense of safety. The government efforts towards ensure the safety of

people in our country is involved in many ways. They always make counsellings, activities and

engage with the public to make sure the safety of every one of them. Police officers can

participate by walkabouts and analysis in commercial areas or hot spots, streets and residential

areas because there are a lot of people and it will have many crimes happen. From the

participation of police officers, it will motivate others associations and people to give

cooperation together to reducing crimes in the areas, then, it can shows and prove to society that

PDRM’s officers could tackle the crime and give full commitment for this strategies. We can see

the result of reduced in street crime reduced by 40.6% while reduction of index crime decreased

9.8% after the implementation of Government Transformation Programme (PEMANDU, 2011).

Next, it will encourage volunteers and communicating with society to let them reports for

what happen in society. People who feel want to help the police office to fight crime is more

generates to feel secure in environments and areas. There are many associations that can help and

cooperate with police officers like Skim Rondaan Sukarela and Rakan Cop and work with

groups, such as Residents Associations (RAs) and Rukun Tetangga, to attach the drives of their

members into fighting crime (GTP Roadmap, n.d). Then, increased communication about crime

prevention and crime enforcement through a broadcast and collaborating media will help the
society to reduce its fear of crime, engage with the PDRM directly and reduce its exposure to

criminal acts. Through the broadcast and media such as news online, print, radio/ television and

many more can easily inform and give latest update for what happen around them. Confirmation

news and crime will be make sure by PDRM and it will published to let people in society know

the latest information that happen around them. It also was one of the advantages if there is

cooperation between society and police officers.

CONCLUSION

As a conclusion, we can see that GTP had give positive impact towards the society today.

Based on the research done, in 2011, 97.5% of the screened students in Primary Two were

shown to possess basic literacy skills, while 98.6% possessed basic math skills. In addition in

rewarding High Performing School (HPS), our government has identified 52 HPS in 2011. GTP

can be seen really effective towards community when incentive towards new deals for Principals

and Head Teachers was introduced whereby 7.7% of head teachers from primary schools

nationwide received the new deals targets and this has surpassed the target which government

only target 2% of them will received the incentives. This shows that the teachers work really

hard in improving students outcomes. Secondly, in 2012 and 2013 the land transport system had

improve time to time. As we know, public transport is as the alternative to be escaped from the

traffic jam and it can reducing the global warming Thirdly, after GTP has launched, rural area

especially in Sabah and Sarawak received transformation tremendously whereby 783.10 km of

new roads were built to ease their communication system, 27,266 houses received the electric

supply to their houses for the first time. (Sooi, 2011) and more than 36,000 houses were

connected with clean water supply. Next, 75% of corruption trials have been completed after the

establishment of special corruption courts. The initiatives government took in reducing crime has

motivate others associations and people to give cooperation together to reducing crimes in the

areas. There are many associations that can help and cooperate with police officers like Skim
Rondaan Sukarela and Rakan Cop and work with groups, such as Residents Associations (RAs)

and Rukun Tetangga. We can see the result of reduced in street crime reduced by 40.6% while

reduction of index crime decreased 9.8% after the implementation of Government Transfomation

Programme (PEMANDU, 2011).

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APPENDICES

Figure 1: The Upgrading of Road at the Rural Areas at Pekan Bario in Miri
 Figure 2: Dato’ Seri Mohd Shafie Apdal lauching the Clean Water Supply Programme at

Kampung Masjid, Tiris, Bekenu in Sarawak

Figure 3: Before and After Kampung Atas Air, Semporna received their electric supply and
newly- rebuilt
house for them
 The statistic after implement the Rural and Development Programme

The Result after the Rural and Development been implemented by government to Sabah and
Sarawak Residents.
Graph 2.2.1: The Graph on the Urban Population of Malaysia

Figure 2.2.3 The KTM Komuter

Figure 2.2.4 :The Traffic jam in Kuala Lumpur