Malaysia's Tenth Prime Minister

Malaysia's Tenth Prime Minister
YAB Dato' Seri Anwar Ibrahim

Friday, January 5, 2018

Eyeing Zahari Awang's thoughts and revelations

UMNO-Led GOVERNMENT Beyond 2020:

UMNO-led government STARTED in 1957. It grew-up & became MATURED around 1980-1990. The country started to bear FRUITS with Felda, Petronas, a lot of factories, highways & airports. That led Malaysia to become a newly industrialized country since the 1990’s. Meanwhile, certain people at the top started to pick-up the fruit of success (massively) since then. If the growth is still positive now, then the people will continue to see the benefits & will support the government. But if the perception of the people is negative, then the government will start a period of decline, leading to DEATH. Mahathir, DAP & PKR are praying for the death of the current government. But, I’m going to justify here that UMNO-led government will NOT end in 2018 (with GE-14). Indeed, it should go beyond 2020 to further develop Nusantara & ASEAN.
REASON NO.1 – Malaysia is growing rapidly now with a pace faster than before. Economic growth was very slow soon after the Asian Financial Crisis (in 1998). The stagnation was due to the Capital Control adopted by Mahathir. That resulted in less FDI’s coming into the country. Abdullah Badawi inherited this problem of slow growth & high unemployment, leading to a weak government. That motivated the followers of Anwar to gather momentum by blaming the cruelty of Mahathir as their main reasons. Thus, ill-feeling was felt throughout the 2000’s making UMNO-led government very unpopular. The peak of dissatisfaction was manifested in GE-13. However by now, the sitting government has managed to reverse this trend. The chain reaction was started by PKR, leading to the break-up of PAKATAN, and its subsequent reconstruction.
REASON NO.2 – UMNO-led government now is doing much more than before. Let’s compare Najib versus Mahathir (being the main challenger at the moment). The following simple statistics show that Najib is doing much more than Mahathir:
 Mahathir did PLUS-Highway (about 1,000 km long)
 Najib is doing Pan-Borneo Highway (about 2,000 km long)
 Mahathir built Petronas Tower (about 450 meters tall)
 Najib is building Menara-PNB-118 (about 650 meters tall)
 Mahathir created a Newly Industrialised Country (in late 1990’s)
 Najib is creating a Highly Industrialized Country (by early 2020’s)
 Mahathir did not build any railway line
 Najib is building LRT, MRT, HSR & ECRL
 Mahathir abused ISA, while Najib abolished ISA
 Both Mahathir & Najib lost money, but made more money for the country
REASON No.3 – Mahathir is already 92 years old, with a depreciation of some 25%. He has forgotten many things of ethical nature. I can give 10 reasons to support this claims. On the contrary, Najib is just 65 years old, with the right energy & motivation to do more for the people & the country. Further, Mahathir’s image is strongly diminished by DAP, a party with the objective of denying the Malay-Islamic values in the country. The other people who support Mahathir are former cronies & former commanders, but the number is falling down each day. Mahathir’s supporters are living in the world of yesterday, while the Malaysian people are living in the world of tomorrow.
Let’s look at Anwar if he has any value for GE-14. Well, Anwar does not represent an Islamic group anymore. Hijacked by DAP, his Islamic credibility is now as good as none. The remaining Islamic values are the old friends who are still indebted to him because of historical friendship & financial supports. His Islamic struggle has been replaced mostly by PAS. His democratic struggle is slowly becoming irrelevant as the country is more democratic today than yesteraday. His REFORMASI was ideal to combat Mahathirism, but now, Mahathir has jumped into the band-wagon to make it a sheer mockery. Muhyiddin is never a force to reckon with. Support for him is a lot cooler, perhaps, confined to Johore only. But anyway, GE-14 will confirm all these forecasts.
These are signs that NAJIB is set to continue into the 2020’s with more prosperity for the people & the country. Malaysia is set to become a fully developed country in early 2020’s. After that, the focus can be expanded into the nearby ASEAN neighbours, especially Southern Thailand, where 33% (or 3.3 million) of the people are Malay-Muslims, while a lot more people can speak & understand Bahasa. With Bangkok Metro already a fully developed area (like Singapore), linking Malaya to Bangkok will transform Southern Thailand quickly. Please see the attached maps.
Highways & railways will stimulate services & manufacturing industry into the Malay Region of Thailand. Malaysia can facilitate the transformation process. With the proposed canal at the Isthmus of Kra, plus the oil & gas exploration in the Spratlys, this area is potentially great after 2030. Let us develop together the Malay-Muslim people from Singapore right up to Bangkok. Let us transform Singapore-KL-Bangkok axis to become a very prosperous region in ASEAN. PAS & other parties are advised to join in & strengthen this idea. Welcome, Insya Allah.