Malaysian leaders like to show off

Malaysia has been very generous in terms of aids to much poorer countries all this while. Every now and then we would hear news of tragedy and misfortune struck countries around us. And each time, Malaysia has never failed in giving aids whenever these tragedies occurred. Is this our obligations? Is this deeds of donations at the expenses of the Rakyat really praiseworthy? Do you think so?

For me, I personally do not think so!!! It’s just a mere act of seeking attention and praises (in Malay it’s called “minta puji”). Our leaders are doing it just for the sake of “minta puji” from the communities of the world!

The culture of giving does not necessarily mean we will be repaid later. Malaysia has wasted biilions of dollars in aids to other countries which are of the same level as Malaysia in terms of developments. When you look at the development in our country, especially so in Sarawak, we are actually in desperate need of this money. And yet Malaysia has given a considerable sum of money away. I am of the opinion that, this fund would be better off, had it been used to build better infrastructures, schools, creation of new jobs for the people and so forth. Our leaders must have forgotten about the proverbs that their ancestors has created, “Anak kera di hutan disusukan, anak sendiri mati kelaparan”.

I think, we, especially Sarawakian, deserves to know why Malaysia has become a welfare country since most of the revenues were extracted from the soil of Sarawak. Our leaders owed us an explaination. And that explaination must be done in a sincere manner so as to eliminate doubts within us.