YOUTUBE VIDEO : WHAT HAPPENED TO MALAYSIA’S VISION 2020

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00:01 in February 1991 Malaysian Prime

00:05 Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad unveiled
00:08 his vision to turn Malaysia into a fully
00:11 developed nation by 2020 the idea which
00:15 came to be known as Wawa Sun do Apollo
00:19 do Apollo or vision 2020 listed nine
00:23 strategic challenges the country had to
00:25 overcome to reach the goal of a united
00:28 progressive
00:29 and prosperous nation the nine points
00:34 under - OH - OH
00:35 had helped the government to
00:37 industrialize when we started off in
00:40 1957 the GDP was not even worthy of
00:45 mentioning in modern days but now you
00:48 have got around let's say 9900 - US
00:54 dollars at per capita income it was
00:56 refreshing to reach such liberating
00:59 words like a United Malaysian nation
01:02 common and shared destiny in one bank
01:05 sir Malaysia in what was on 20/20 in the
01:08 nine strategic challenges but today
01:13 almost 30 years after Dr Mahathir first
01:16 mooted the idea Malaysia is still
01:19 falling behind it's 20/20 vision quest
01:22 it is not a complete failure
01:25 which I really like me and we share
01:27 about five years to make that develop
01:30 stated
01:32 why has Malaysia failed to achieve its
01:35 much-touted
01:36 20/20 vision what will it take for this
01:40 resource which nation to reach this
01:43 lofty goal
01:45 [Music]
02:11 1985 a historic moment for many
02:14 Malaysians
02:16 it was the year when Dr Mahathir Mohamad
02:20 put Malaysia on the road to
02:22 industrialization with the launch of
02:24 Malaysia's first national car project
02:27 proton his idea was to pioneer
02:30 Malaysia's industrial and automotive
02:32 revolution helped raise the nation's
02:35 engineering capabilities and boost its
02:38 growth twenty-nine-year-old leather bag
02:43 maker mohammad strolling in mohammed
02:46 zany and his father a proud owners of
02:49 proton cars owning a national car was a
02:53 dream come true for them in fact his
02:57 father bought the first generation of
02:59 proton cars known as proton saga which
03:02 was manufactured based on a joint
03:04 venture between Heavy Industries
03:06 Corporation of Malaysia Berhad or high
03:09 comm and Mitsubishi
03:12 religion still remembers watching the
03:15 replay the historic announcement on
03:18 television when a Malaysian first
03:20 national car was revealed to the public
03:24 in Brazil all one goes by any request
03:27 restoration editor daddy what to say it
03:30 doesn't pop rusty put aside God's
03:32 appreciate respond second generation of
03:34 proto Mira was a massive massive boost :
03:37 Aggie Jammu pasta and bangle to be
03:39 little box where I said a voice Emily
03:41 created them Diwali epic dances like a
03:44 scholar educator to me among Prosser and
03:46 Bango to my check out my mom received
03:48 Akunyili Sabu commandos pocketed the
03:51 partner crates about Kira's to bangles
03:53 about any greater Mashhad the lordship
03:57 proton was seen as a historic moment for
04:00 many Malaysians was a turning point in
04:03 the country's transformation from an
04:05 agriculture-based economy into a modern
04:08 industrialized nation after proton Dr
04:11 Mahathir became increasingly associated
04:13 with many other mega projects among them
04:18 the north-south highway the Kuala Lumpur
04:20 International Airport petronas twin
04:23 towers Putrajaya and the multimedia
04:27 Super Corridor projects
04:30 these were seen as part of the nation's
04:32 efforts to propel Malaysia into the
04:35 Industrial Age transform the physical
04:38 infrastructure of the country and
04:40 provide a catalyst for rapid growth all
04:44 these projects were also sparked by Dr
04:47 Mahathir is vision to turn Malaysia into
04:50 a developed nation by 2020 or better
04:54 known as vision 2020 it was kind of
04:59 telling that during that period growth
05:01 seems to be limitless and it was
05:04 generally a time where people felt a
05:06 rising prosperity and jobs were
05:08 plentiful incomes of rising etc so it
05:13 was a feel-good era of the past dr. rice
05:17 yeah Tim had served as a minister under
05:19 Dr Mahathir in the late 80s as well as
05:22 two prime ministers after him he feels
05:25 that the vision was motivated by dr.
05:27 martyrs strong belief that Malaysia has
05:30 what it takes to rise up to the
05:32 challenge and achieve an equal standing
05:35 with many other developed nations well
05:39 as a thinking man as a man who wrote
05:42 Malay dilemma he wants to bring forward
05:44 Malaysia onto a pedesta of developed
05:48 nation he had been to Europe to America
05:51 to England to Japan to Korea and more to
05:54 Japan so what he saw militia should be
05:57 having at least a segment of what Japan
06:00 has a very sure-footed way of implanting
06:04 local wisdom into practice
06:09 apart from achieving its economic
06:11 objectives other observers see the
06:14 vision as a way to unite the disparate
06:16 ethnic groups in the country to rise
06:18 above racial politics and work towards a
06:22 common goal of bringing Malaysia into a
06:24 new phase of development generally
06:27 economically you can argue that the
06:29 government's achieve some of its targets
06:31 look the Hmong sizeable middle class now
06:34 rapid we saw rapid urbanization in the
06:37 late 90s mid 90s to early 2000s I think
06:42 on the political front we're not there
06:44 yet on the social front still you can
06:47 actually still not achieve this one of
06:48 the main objectives of creating a united
06:52 Malaysian race
06:58 70 year old pensioner gonchi quand was a
07:02 young civil servant in the education
07:04 ministry when vision 2020 was first
07:07 introduced in February 1991 the johor
07:11 native who is now living in April with
07:13 his wife says he was inspired by the
07:16 vision and was very hopeful and
07:18 confident about the nation's future at
07:21 the time
07:23 I was very excited in the after 20 years
07:26 or living under the divisive new
07:30 economic policy it was refreshing to
07:33 reach such liberating words like the
07:37 United Malaysian nation common and
07:39 shared destiny and one banker militia in
07:44 what was on 2020 in the nine strategic
07:47 challenges what was on 2020 is a
07:50 Malaysian dream and in tandem with that
07:53 Malaysians are to become more
07:55 open-minded and cultured and have
07:58 positive values a citizen of an advanced
08:01 nation I was a relatively young man then
08:05 in 1991 and I thought it is a dream
08:09 worth growing oh for that vision had
08:13 also inspired a generation of Malaysians
08:16 31 year old Emir Hadi as me is a
08:20 freelance reporter from a low star Qatar
08:23 which is also Dr Mahathir hometown he
08:26 remembers very clearly as a student in
08:29 Kedah how he used to engage in school
08:31 activities that revolved around the
08:35 20/20 vision I think that's the first
08:38 thing I remember going to school because
08:41 it was a big deal in school I remember
08:45 all the school assignments will be on
08:48 horse and open upload teachers would be
08:51 like asking me to write an essay about
08:54 life in Malaysia in the year 2020
08:57 Malaysia and early 90s was so very
09:01 different and we were doing very well
09:06 economy CLE and every few months they
09:10 will be achievement first Malaysian on
09:14 the average first nation second meeting
09:18 the world first Malaysian here first
09:20 mission there so it's almost assumed
09:23 that nothing is impossible and
09:25 visibility is definitely happening
09:29 back then many Malaysians also saw the
09:32 rapid transformation of the country's
09:34 physical landscape with the developments
09:37 of the iconic petronas twin towers the
09:40 KL international airport and the
09:42 gleaming new federal capital
09:44 Putrajaya malaysia at the time seemed on
09:48 track to become a developed country as
09:51 envisioned by Dr Mahathir the annual
09:55 growth domestic product or GDP was at
09:58 its peak in the early 1980s through the
10:01 mid-1990s averaging at almost 8 percent
10:04 every year the government and berries of
10:10 all sectors society they have succeeded
10:13 in transforming the nation from well
10:18 basically 80s it was still the country
10:22 that had a very strong intercultural
10:24 orientation and today if you look at the
10:29 economic orientation of the country it
10:31 is more orientated towards services and
10:39 it has got an industrial base it is also
10:44got a very important in the cultural
10:46 component so it's a much more diverse
10:50 economy
10:52 that I think is an achievement in
10:54 general terms one can argue that the
10:57 mathy leadership succeeded in building
11:01 of the nation's infrastructure
11:03 I think mega projects were the in thing
11:05 right and and rather than sort of
11:08 looking at anything gritty details of
11:10 household livelihood etc he built
11:13 something and the Moto probably build it
11:16 and they will come I think in a sense
11:18 that you know FDA was rushing in there
11:21 plenty of money to be spread around but
11:24 Malaysia's economic miracle and the long
11:26 period of remarkable growth came to an
11:29 abrupt end in 1997 when a financial
11:32 crisis hit the region it caught the
11:35 region including Malaysia off-guard
11:38 how did the regional economic meltdown
11:40 affect Malaysia's 20/20 vision
11:49 [Music]
11:54 the regional financial crisis the Thai
11:58 central bank has announced its scrapping
12:00 its pegged exchange rate system in
12:02 favour of a managed float that's in
12:04 shockwaves duration currency markets
12:06 Takata would continue the variation to
12:09 the IMF the past months have taught
12:12 Southeast Asia some sobering economic
12:14 lessons 1997 was the beginning of a
12:18 painful and unsettling period for many
12:20 countries in Asia a financial disaster
12:23 hit the region and the impact sent
12:26 shockwaves around the world the crisis
12:29 began with the collapse of the Thai Baht
12:31 it then created a contagion that spread
12:35 rapidly to other countries in Asia
12:36 including Indonesia South Korea and
12:40 Malaysia the economies of these
12:43 countries went into a freefall as a
12:45 result of the currency crisis Malaysia's
12:48 economic boom came to a hot the Kuala
12:52 Lumpur Stock Exchange lost more than
12:54 half of its value
12:56 following the capital flight from the
12:58 country its currency the ringgit came
13:02 under heavy speculative attacks and the
13:05 value depreciated by almost 50% against
13:08 the US dollar
13:11 the country's GDP growth flipped into
13:13 negative territory and the economy
13:16 across all sectors went into severe
13:18 contractions thousands of jobs were lost
13:21 in the process was a scary period GDP
13:25 growth I believe declined by six seven
13:28 percent in 98 alone and the financing
13:31 became scarce you just simply don't have
13:34 enough for investors who come in and get
13:36 the permanent money in the region
13:38 including into Malaysia and also the
13:41 realization that we we probably have
13:44 been living somewhat beyond our means
13:47 Amir Hadi's father was among those who
13:50 were affected by the crisis he was then
13:53 working as a manager with British
13:55 Aerospace but everything went
13:57 topsy-turvy when the currency crisis hit
14:00 the region
14:02 my father he lost his job because of
14:07 that he was working for a British
14:09 Aerospace he was really cushy job he was
14:10 bringing home but 15,000 ingot in 1990
14:15 value which is like a lot and he was
14:19 unemployed for I think 1-2 years he was
14:23 burning through savings so it was yeah
14:27 well it was quite bad for for everyone
14:30 we could see like all this development
14:35 boom in the early 90s are you ready to
14:38 hop like there's a few buildings to link
14:42 al they are abandoned directly because
14:43 of the activity seven crisis until now
14:47 it's still an empty shell so it's a
14:50 visible reminder too to some of us who
14:52 live through it
14:55 the crisis also led to the political
14:58 fallout between Prime Minister Dr
15:00 Mahathir Mohamad and his deputy unwire
15:03 brahim following months of economic
15:06 policy differences on how best to manage
15:09 and resolve the crisis while mr. Anwar
15:13 opted for high interest rates and strong
15:15 austerity measures to control Malaysia's
15:17 sliding currency the Prime Minister
15:20 wanted greater government spending and
15:23 lower rates to help revive the economy
15:26 in many ways you know I was approached
15:30 if every chance to carry it out
15:32 would have been a lot more so-called
15:34 Orthodox in the sense that you know the
15:36 battle crises the I'm a prescription for
15:40 instance would have been in a race
15:41 interest rate cut down government debt
15:44 and then clean up the house through
15:46 structural reforms the key plank of
15:48 Marcos policy was to close up capital
15:50 outflow just so that money doesn't rush
15:53 or offshore and then we continue to be
15:55 able to pack the currency at three point
15:58 eight a dollar at a point to achieve
16:00 some kind of stability so that
16:01 corporations were running a huge debt in
16:04 dollar terms were not you know failing
16:07 left right center so definitely a very
16:10 very different approach the latest AG
16:12 Deputy Prime Minister appeared in court
16:14 again today to face a fresh charge the
16:18 differences proved irreconcilable on
16:22 Wednesday the 2nd of September 1998 mr.
16:26 Anwar was stripped from his post as
16:29 finance minister and sacked from the
16:31 ruling party unknown he was later found
16:34 guilty in sentenced to nine years jail
16:36 for corruption and sexual misconduct
16:40 but just a day earlier butter Mahathir
16:43 imposed sweeping capital control
16:45 measures to shield the ringgit from
16:47 speculative attacks the move helped
16:50 stabilize the ringgit it was only in the
16:53 year 2000 when the Malaysian economy
16:56 began to recover from the crisis in July
16:59 2003 Dr Mahathir resigned from his post
17:04 as Prime Minister and was replaced by
17:06 mr. Abdullah Ahmad Badawi but after six
17:11 years in power mr. Abdullah fell out of
17:13 favour with Dr Mahathir and was
17:16 succeeded by mr. Najib Razak although
17:21 the economy has fully recovered from the
17:23 1997 Asian financial crisis and the 2008
17:28 global financial meltdown growth failed
17:31 to reach the pre-crisis levels and that
17:34 had a deep negative impact on dr.
17:37 mahadji's 2020 vision
17:40 from a high of 8 percent growth hovers
17:43 between five and five point five percent
17:46 annually until today
17:49 it definitely distracted a lot of people
17:52 who have leaders I think if you remember
17:55 the East Asian financial crisis led to a
17:57 major political crisis that we are still
17:59 trying to deal with twenty years later
18:02 so yeah so the two crises that
18:04 definitely made a distraction and
18:06 similarly the global financial crisis in
18:09 2009 2008-2009 also led to a change of
18:12 leadership so these are these were
18:15 definitely distractions in in achieving
18:17 vision 2020 Dr Mahathir who returned his
18:22 prime minister of a new pocket and
18:24 Harappan government admitted the failure
18:27 of achieving vision 2020 he however
18:31 blamed the two prime ministers for not
18:33 putting the right policies for malaysia
18:35 to become a developed nation well they
18:40 must take some of the blame because
18:42 perhaps they didn't have the same
18:44 commitment to their vision but I don't
18:47 think it is fair to put the blame
18:49 entirely on those leaders because if you
18:54 look at what had really happened a thing
18:57 like strategy challenge number four
19:00 ethical and moral society we could see
19:03 the negative science even when he was
19:05 Prime Minister was he fighting
19:08 corruption the way he should have fought
19:11 corruption was power and position more
19:15 important than fighting corruption in
19:18 other words no he may have been a person
19:20 who is self born but he was not averse
19:26 to allowing people who were corrupt to
19:29 flourish
19:32 in recent years the oil price slump and
19:35 the global trade war have also dealt a
19:38 severe blow to the economy many say that
19:41 the era of high growth is over so will
19:45 Malaysia achieve a growth rate needed to
19:48 sustain its dream of being a developed
19:51 nation can its people see the days of
19:54 high income that is also equitable
19:57 across the different races and classes
20:01 well I think if we just look very
20:03 simplistically at the income you know
20:06 some people said that we need a 7%
20:08 growth to achieve that I think that that
20:11 looks a bit out of hand unfortunately I
20:13 think even China's having an issue on
20:16 that so I think there needs to be a bit
20:19 more of a major retooling and maybe a
20:21 refocus on that sort of sort of issue on
20:24 incomes
20:26 if that's the case is the gold still
20:29 within reach does Malaysia today have
20:32 all the right ingredients to achieve a
20:35 developed nation of status
20:38 [Music]
20:45 [Music]
20:53 one key objective of the 20/20 vision is
20:56 to create a united Malaysian society but
21:00 30 years on malaysia remains deeply
21:03 divided along racial lines the 1997-98
21:08 Asian financial crisis and the 2008
21:11 global financial meltdown had not only
21:14 derailed the nations sprint towards
21:17 achieving its 2020 vision it had also
21:20 weakened the government's efforts and
21:22 resolve to bridge the country's ethnic
21:25 divide former prime minister abdullah
21:28 Badawi
21:28 tried but failed in his attempt to
21:31 achieve the vision as shown by Barisan
21:34 Nasional poor showing in the 2008
21:37 general election the then ruling Barisan
21:40 Nasional lost its customary two-thirds
21:43 parliamentary majority as well as five
21:45 states in the election his successor
21:49 Najib Razak attempted to regain the
21:53 initiative through his 1malaysia slogan
21:56 but he appeared to have abandoned the
21:59 idea after non male voters withdrew
22:02 their support for the coalition yet
22:04 again in the 2013 general election it
22:09 was the series of discontentment but I
22:13 think one of the main issues was
22:15 probably religion and religious rights I
22:18 think for the first time non-muslim is
22:20 fulfilling that his idea of rights were
22:24 being at least trampled to an extent
22:27 whereas before under the previous
22:30 regimes of previous governments there
22:33 was a lot of compromise but somehow
22:36 other in my own studies I felt that
22:39 during the beloved OE era a lot more
22:43 religious issues came out this is likely
22:47 because some it religiously says I'm a
22:49 bit more established and they were
22:51 already in very important positions
22:53 within the government as well as having
22:58 a very strong civil society movement see
23:03 among themselves so that's why there was
23:05 more assertion on the Islamic France
23:08 right and because there was more of that
23:11 assertiveness the non malaise that she
23:14 felt it retiree gonchi Quan had a long
23:19 career in the education ministry until
23:21 today he thinks that Malaysia will not
23:24 progress if it continues to rely on its
23:27 race-based policies as its main
23:30 governing philosophy race he feels is an
23:34 issue that can easily be manipulated by
23:36 politicians for their own personal gains
23:39 and that makes it harder for the nation
23:41 to move away from race-based politics I
23:45 think it's difficult for the country to
23:48 really move with this race be because
23:52 now politicians all they all depend on
23:55 all this race-based
23:58 rhetoric actually to survive and to win
24:03 words so he become some become a
24:07 necessity actually to have these or
24:10 race-based
24:11 policies for certain politician of a
24:14 certain political party to survive so I
24:17 think is no good for the country some
24:21 observers say the affirmative action
24:23 policies based on race started off with
24:27 good intentions the idea then was to
24:30 help lift the socio-economic position of
24:32 the Malays to be on par with other races
24:35 and the result is quite evident today
24:38 decades after it was first introduced in
24:41 1971
24:43 if you look at the situation in 1970 for
24:47 instance you look at the percentage of
24:50 Malays in the professions we are talking
24:53 of medicine law accountancy architecture
24:57 engineering you know professions of that
24:59 sort it was very small actually on the
25:02 average maybe between five and seven
25:04 percent in all this profession but today
25:07 you find that if you look at all these
25:09 professions and specially if you look at
25:11 medicine it is quite remarkable that
25:16 perhaps thirty eight forty percent of
25:21 our doctors are malaria and you find
25:26 that some of the best specialists in all
25:29 those areas within medicine actually
25:33 from the Malay community so that to my
25:35 mind is a great achievement given that
25:39 you know to become a specialist in one
25:42 of the sub disciplines in health care
25:46 and medicine it is something that one
25:49 can be proud of so there has been a
25:50 transformation of that sort
25:54 the special privileges accorded to the
25:56 country's bumiputra community however
25:59 were meant to last for only 20 years the
26:02 policies have continued to this day
26:05 in varying forms and that has caused a
26:08 lot of unease among the nominees all the
26:12 time the implementation is not focused
26:15 on the eradication of poverty
26:18 irrespective of race but every time is
26:23 on the race-based
26:24 policy so actually a policy can be well
26:27 thought out and well formulated but the
26:31 implementation by sometimes by over
26:35 jealous or features can go the other way
26:40 the politicians the leadership I think
26:43 do not have enough political will to
26:45 move away from from the base based
26:47 politics if you remember I think a more
26:50 politics speeches at the Assembly
26:53 General Assembly 1 year after year
26:55 become became more racialized heavier
26:57 and the youth shifted Hisham Budin
27:00 Hussein chose amélie like to symbolize
27:03 male leadership which was I think
27:05 otherwise I found it unacceptable so
27:07 that was the start
27:09 more racialized know when concept of
27:13 cilicia was abandoned by the party that
27:16 started in 1991 I think for a country to
27:19 move forward for the people to move for
27:21 together the First's have to have a
27:22 common goal common objective common
27:25 identity which is what is lacking in
27:28 Malaysia what is lacking is I think
27:29 people generally identify themselves as
27:32 ethnic Chinese first or ethnic Malia
27:34 first before they could call them such
27:36 Malaysian so that is a major obstacle
27:38 Malaysia owes its origins in Genesis to
27:43 communal politics you cannot get away
27:46 from it
27:47 Merdeka was achieved by Arno's main
27:51 struggle assistant of course by Tan
27:53 Cheng Lord by srivasa Graham and the
27:57 rest can we do without it yes we can but
28:00 not in this generation
28:03 hanayo is Deputy Minister of women
28:06 Family and Community Development in the
28:09 new pocket and her open government Hanna
28:11 who is married to an ethnic Indian
28:13 dreams of one day when her children can
28:17 declare themselves as Malaysians first
28:19 rather than Chinese or Indian I grew up
28:24 in Scala kamancheh an and I grew up with
28:27 friends of different races and when I
28:30 married a Malaysian Indian and when I
28:34 had a my first child my husband and I
28:37 felt that you know we need to go and
28:39 register a child as Malaysian not
28:42 defined by race because she's of you
28:46 know mixed races and also we want our
28:49 child to start looking at issues no
28:53 longer from the perspective of race I
28:55 mean the baggage that we have in now
28:58 generation and the generation before
28:59 should not be carried by the generation
29:02 to come a cipher was very unfair for the
29:05 next generation to inherit that and if
29:06 there's something that I can do now you
29:08 know I should do it
29:11 Hannah believes that the battle towards
29:13 eliminating racism and discrimination in
29:16 the country should continue in spite of
29:18 all the challenges faced by the
29:20 government so far she feels that's what
29:23 the nation really wants
29:27 they just want a fair opportunity to bid
29:32 for a contract or to be enrolled into
29:36 university I don't think people are
29:38 asking for a lot of things and I don't
29:40 think they're asking for drastic changes
29:42 they just want to be treated fairly and
29:44 so if the leadership is fair and and and
29:48 we are able to explain policies and
29:51 resources based on needs I think
29:54 generally Malaysians will feel that we
29:56 are on the right track I don't I don't
29:59 believe that the last election people
30:01 expect a 360 degree turn but they do
30:04 want to feel respected the voters want
30:06 to feel that there must be a difference
30:08 in this batch of leaders compared to the
30:11 last how they treat Malaysians and we
30:14 are not just talking about Malay Chinese
30:15 Indian we're talking about Sarawak and
30:17 Sabah being treated equally too but
30:22 growing pressures from the Malays of
30:24 late have made it harder for the new
30:26 government to fulfill its election
30:28 promises according to a recent survey
30:31 done by independent pollster the Merdeka
30:34 Center 61% of those surveyed believed
30:38 that the country is headed in the wrong
30:40 direction they include the Malays who
30:44 were largely critical of the government
30:46 over the perceived erosion of Malay
30:48 rights and privileges even the non
30:53 Malays have grown impatient with the
30:55 government over its inability to fulfill
30:58 its promises packet ons major loss in
31:02 the tandem p.i election in 2019 was the
31:06 latest in a string of by-election
31:07 defeats by Pakistan harapan candidates
31:10 last year non male voters swamped
31:13 overwhelmingly towards the NCA candidate
31:16 which campaigned under the former ruling
31:18 Barisan Nasional banner
31:20 I think pocket anesthetic the people's
31:22 expectation very very high that's
31:25 obviously in the current political
31:27 climate is obviously not realistic to
31:31 move away from race-based politics
31:34 having said that the Prime Minister did
31:38 that in 1991 when he was facing the most
31:42 credible challenge from an all-male
31:44 opposition front led by smog at 46 and
31:47 passed his response to a more male
31:50 centric opposition politics at a time
31:52 was buxom Lygia vision 2020 so
31:55 unfortunately the current leadership or
31:58 maybe the Prime Minister does not have
32:01 similar powers of similar influence to
32:06 cease the narrative and try to move away
32:10 from race-based politics like like what
32:12 he did in 1991
32:14 market and fail to mobilize Chinese
32:18 support 42% of electrode is Chinese they
32:21 go the basis of a 20-18 mill election a
32:24 cotton may have obtained anywhere
32:27 between 85 to 90 percent of the Chinese
32:31 vote in than junk bi and that's the
32:34 reason why they were assured of that
32:36 seat yeah
32:37 so the Malay boats as they got was sort
32:40 of a bonus but this time the blade votes
32:44 did increase very much as far as the
32:47 Chinese water was concerned for pocket
32:49 and he declined considerably
32:52 it was a huge fall as far as the move
32:58 Chinese were just concerned but economic
33:02 adviser to the Prime Minister dr.
33:04 Muhammad Abdul Khalid says it's not a
33:07 zero-sum game and that both race and
33:10 needs based policies can complement each
33:13 other and be used interchangeably this a
33:18 debate that one should only focus on
33:21 need based not on race base it's not a
33:24 replacement need base and race based our
33:28 compliments to each other
33:30 there are times you used race base the
33:33 times use income base the at times use
33:37 geographical geography there are times
33:41 use gender based depends on the solution
33:44 that you want to solve
33:46 almost 30 years after Malaysia's vision
33:49 2020 was first announced the nation
33:51 remains polarized on the basis of race
33:54 so will Malaysia be able to arrive at
33:57 the idea of bangsar Malaysia or a
34:00 Malaysian race in years to come or will
34:04 the rise of identity politics threaten
34:06 to widen the country's racial divide
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34:24 Dr Mahathir Mohamad is often linked to
34:27 several mega projects when he was Prime
34:29 Minister of the country for more than
34:31 two decades the launch of these projects
34:34 was made possible by the economic boom
34:36 of the early 1980s through the mid-1990s
34:43 but the era of high growth came to a
34:45 halt
34:46 at the onset of the 1997 Asian financial
34:49 crisis and that had severely affected
34:52 the government's ability to reach its
34:55 2020 targets Malaysians like Shirley Hin
35:01 for one feel that Malaysia that its
35:04 current state will not be able to
35:06 achieve its vision 2020 largely because
35:09 of its own economic limitations look I
35:13 look at the texture on what's the budget
35:14 like a flu but to kind of color side up
35:18 Ali hi hello what to Scaroni who can
35:21 opposed to started up by myself belong
35:23 to pay I was in the food of blue so but
35:26 myself must eat blue by napalm bar wound
35:29 up with Burma go check out from bitola
35:31 the city economy stable economy they
35:34 keep the blue active better to do the
35:37 body work at adapt our Chapel was an
35:39 overflow reduction of poverty not just
35:43 absolute poverty but relative poverty
35:47 kind of making sure that the inequality
35:50 gap is closed is narrow making sure that
35:54 you have jobs and unemployment is it
35:58 those are the things that matters is it
36:00 to people at the end of the day so it
36:02 doesn't matter what name or what policy
36:04 or you call it as long as you achieve
36:06 the results and and I must say that on
36:09 that score the government is not
36:11 succeeding very well because the
36:14 messaging is very confusing and and you
36:16 have a bit of the allsey being retail
36:18 without any
36:20 austerity for substitute humans for some
36:22 of those all policies so that is a real
36:25 issue here Dr Mahathir who's in his
36:30 second stint as Prime Minister hasn't
36:33 abandoned vision 2020 but he has
36:36 introduced a set of new goals and a new
36:39 vision for the country known as the
36:41 shared prosperity vision 2030
36:47 but instead of reaching for grandeur as
36:49 enshrined in its 2020 vision focus this
36:53 time around is more down-to-earth one of
36:56 the key objectives is to reduce income
36:58 inequality close the gap between the
37:01 rich and the poor and achieve balanced
37:04 growth it's a tacit admission that the
37:08 explosive economic expansion before the
37:11 1997-98 crisis is as good as gone
37:14 forever
37:15 I don't think the SPV is a vision which
37:20 could be equated to the vision 2020 the
37:23 SPV is really a plan or a program to
37:27 resolve certain crucial recurring
37:31 problems in society so that's a
37:34 different vision a vision and a mission
37:35 I think that's very sad that you could
37:38 call that the SPV is a mission rather
37:40 than a vision because it's there to
37:42 solve problems right like poverty
37:44 inequality closing the income gap kind
37:49 of jump-starting the economy getting it
37:52 back to the level it was used before and
37:55 moving on it's a very short term I think
37:58 mission perhaps that's better as a plan
38:02 in which we can base on something that
38:05 can be implemented minister khaled abdul
38:09 samad says the emphasis on shared
38:12 prosperity is imperative if Malaysia
38:15 wants to continue to grow and prosper
38:18 a new concept of the shared prosperity
38:22 is one which gives emphasis to the
38:25 question of ensuring a more balanced
38:27 distribution of wealth because we cannot
38:31 deny that the wealth has been generated
38:33 since the 90s Malaysia is obviously a
38:37 lot richer but the wealth is not being
38:43 felt by everyone so I mean to kind or to
38:48 use the phrase which is being
38:52 popularized by our
38:54 Malaysian Institute of planners which is
38:57 more in town planning and development
39:00 for towns they use the phrase no one is
39:04 to be left behind
39:06 no one is left behind so whenever we do
39:09 our development programs projects and so
39:16 on and so forth we must make sure as far
39:18 as possible
39:19 that the maximum number of people will
39:22 benefit and the common man in the street
39:26 will feel the benefits of the
39:28 development and the growth the object is
39:31 still we want to be developed nation
39:33 which is same as vision 2020 it also
39:37 talks about being a dignified unified in
39:41 Malaysia which is the first aim of
39:43 vision 2020 a bank simulation this is
39:46 not different I would agree with you
39:49 it's almost a continuation of vision
39:52 2020 where we stronger focus or equal
39:57 focus not just on develop or unified
40:00 Malaysia by equitable Malaysia inclusive
40:04 Malaysia the everyone benefit
40:08 over the last 50 years the government
40:11 policy has been focused on improving the
40:14 economic status of the Malays against
40:17 the economically advanced ethnic Chinese
40:19 minority which enjoys a greater share of
40:23 the nation's wealth and various attempts
40:25 at softening the affirmative action
40:27 policy have had little impact due to
40:30 fears over a possible backlash from
40:33 Malay voters the shared prosperity
40:35 vision 2030 has also failed to
40:39 re-energize the issue in any significant
40:41 way it is an implicit kind of acceptance
40:46 that some things need to stay
40:49 particularly when it comes to kind of
40:53 protecting you know bumiputra
40:55 or Malay rights some of that has be
40:59 chipped away a little bit but not to a
41:01 large extent I think what's important is
41:04 at the psychological level I think each
41:07 government must not leave the impression
41:10 that Malay rights have been taken away
41:11 although at the practical level don't
41:15 think is this as aggressive as it was
41:17 before but that's likely also because a
41:21 lot more Malays had come up a lot more
41:24 Malays that receive higher education
41:26 which they didn't receive before a lot
41:28 more Malays are in the urban centers and
41:31 the middle-class among the Malays has
41:34 also kind of expanded so to a certain
41:37 extent that has kind of acted as a
41:39 moderating forces here against kind of
41:43 implementing affirmative action policy
41:45 fully and more extensively so it's
41:48 psychological level yes every leader
41:50 knows that you cannot just say we are
41:53 going to do away with it
41:54 although quietly in practice you can
41:57 kind of reduce it you know step by step
41:59 so there are times you use race base
42:02 there are times you use neat place to
42:05 eliminate race-based policy ironically
42:10 you have to do it very very well it has
42:13 to be really great so in the long run
42:16 you don't need race-based policy we be
42:19 in denial if we say we do
42:22 the race base the import is very
42:25 important to still use race based but it
42:28 must be very selective Malaysians like
42:33 gonchi Kwon says that Malaysia has
42:36 involved on many plans in the past but
42:39 none have fully succeeded in achieving
42:42 its desired goals because have been so
42:46 many for start and we are doing the same
42:50 things we are all doing the same things
42:53 every time and we are expecting
42:55 different results and actually when
42:57 Stein define insanity as doing the same
43:01 thing repeatedly he won't repeating the
43:04 same thing but expecting different
43:06 results so I don't expect that this time
43:09 by doing the same thing you'll get a
43:12 different result
43:13 probably for 10 years the next 10 years
43:15 I don't think anything will really
43:17 happen
43:21 unless you put it into constitutional or
43:24 legal form it will not work that well
43:27 policy alone is not enough
43:30 therefore this too old tree or shared
43:33 future is good on the earlobe but it may
43:37 not succeed after Mahadi is no longer in
43:41 that chair this is very frank statement
43:45 I may having served the country 45 years
43:48 and having seen Prime Minister's coming
43:52 and going and having served five of them
43:54 if you don't pass that in Parliament as
43:57 law I doubt it will be achieved because
44:01 these are whims and this are data these
44:03 are ideas that can be watered down when
44:07 the next master comes in we do not know
44:09 who will be but we will be on the watch
44:13 so to what extent will this new shared
44:16 prosperity vision 2030 be able to take
44:19 Malaysia on the path towards becoming a
44:21 developed country or is the vision
44:24 nothing more than an elusive dream which
44:27 can never be attained we're going to
44:30 give it our best shot
44:31 yeah we don't have a crystal ball to say
44:33 that yes is going to happen but I think
44:35 what's important is that everyone chips
44:38 in and gives it their best effort so
44:41 that what we envisage can be achieved
44:45 again I think given these uncertainties
44:49 policy and administration it's kind of a
44:53 weak move of the blocks as it were
44:56 whether they can get into a Striders
44:59 remains remains really people have been
45:03 really hopeful on that from the election
45:05 and I think they really owe it to
45:07 Malaysians
45:11 Malaysia's vision 2020 aims to turn the
45:15 country into a united fully developed
45:18 nation but until today the country is
45:21 still struggling to place itself among
45:23 the ranks of many other developed
45:25 nations in spite of all the progress
45:27 that it has made so far issue of race on
45:31 the other hand continues to cast a long
45:33 shadow over the country's political life
45:36 and it remains unclear if the shared
45:39 prosperity vision 2030 will become a
45:42 team rallying point that could bring the
45:45 people closer together as one united
45:48 nation only time will tell