"PROBLEM OF ATTITUTE," SAYS MUNIR MAJID

New Straits Times - Malaysia News Online:
"THE BIG PICTURE: Ensuring we make that quantum leap" - By Munir Majid

According to Munir Majid in his article on 22nd. May, "The government must structure and organise intensive crash courses for civil servants organised by Malaysians, not foreign consultants, to bring the new global realities to them, with whom they can be more open about their 'hang-ups' and reservations."

Is the Government listening and will they act?

According to Munir, "Fundamentally, the problem is one of attitude. ...There is, however, something more and bigger than that — a misconceived notion of trying to protect interests, for nation and race, which now need a different way of protection from what they had in the past been taught to do. ...They have to be told about the new realities, as not too long from now the top echelons of the civil service may be occupied by those who would, additionally, not have the English language capability to give them access to the appreciation of those realities."

I would not add further as the erudition by Munir will be self-fulfilling. Murphy's Law at work!