Sensitive Truths In Malaysia

Sensitive Truths In Malaysia

Author: AB Sulaiman

Publisher: SIRD

ISBN: 9789675832741

Pages: 382pp

Price: RM45.00

Weight: 0.600kg

AB Sulaiman has been an observer of human traits and foiblesever since he could remember.

In this book, Sulaiman notes that post-independent Malaysiahas been governed by leaders who harbour a traditional mentality which has notbeen fully synchronised with the modern world. They are unprepared for thisrole. In other words, they have allowed the Malay society to hibernate in thecave of its traditional thinking. The sense of the individual is not there, northe universal understanding of democracy, human rights and the rule of law. Thegovernment is being run by a singularity format where the legislators,executors and judiciary are all lumped into one single entity – the government.There is no trias politica, or check and balance. In an era where a country orstate has no friends but national interests, it is run by those with personalnot national interests. In a nutshell the leaders have not been able to managechange.

The country is not doing well as evidenced by its laggardperformance in social, economic and political arenas. Most of its comparativeindices indicate that it is slowly but surely sliding down the slope ofmediocrity. Along the way there has been the breaking down of institutions,like law and education, followed by a rise in racism and religious extremism.