As a Malaysian citizen, I wish to see a reform government in Malaysia. I would like to see a government that consist of people with a high degree of honesty, integrity and sincerity and other positive moral values. How nice if we have representatives of rakyat who are really trustworthy, sincere and honest?
I believe strongly that to restore the judiciary, we need high degree of honesty, integrity and sincerity in the government, in the cabinet, in the court, in the parliament, in the office, in the government department and on the street... How can we ensure that every decision made by us is a fair and just decision without any bias or without any influence from others...
From my observation, when dealing with family matters, we do make decision base in some form of distribution of powers, of course the father usually have the most weight in the decision making process, followed by the mother, and maybe each children have a fair vote... We usually have this kind of power distribution or norms because as a father, he will be the person who has the biggest responsibility for whatever happen in the family... If the father make a decision, even though he make the decision based on consensus of all family members, generally he will still shoulder the responsibility of the decision.... We seldom heard a case (although sometime its happen) people blaming the children for any bad decision...
From my point of view, it is very important for any decision making process to be made with the high degree of honesty, integrity and sincerity since it can eliminate all the negative spin-offs from the decision... we must also have other positive criteria as well such as transparency, flexibility and others which make a decision is much more credible and reflects the balance of mankind.
However, defining these moral values, trust, integrity and sincerity is not and easy task.
In a popular analogy of sincerity, it is describe that sincerity is like an ant on top of a black stone during a dark night with no moon (seekor semut hitam diatas sebuah batu hitam dimalam yang gelap)., meaning that it is very-very difficult to attain a true sincerity even if we think that we are sincere.. We must first forgo the self interest, the conflict of interest, the advantages and every other factors that may be perceive as a benefit or profit to us... We must ensure that we act in a manner that will only improve the situation without any thinking of reaping the benefit for ourselves... Well maybe someone religious can explain this better...
But, can we have a government who are base on honesty, integrity and sincerity? Can the Rakyat enjoy a government who are working towards improving this country to ensure that everybody can enjoy a better life. Does this country have the necessary resources? Human resources, monetary, natural resources, logistic, economy resources to develop a country with honesty, integrity and sincerity... Sometimes I observe how some members from a political party sacrificing their time and money and yet, it is the leader who enjoys these sacrifices... The party members without any dreams of becoming chief or exco but work hard to ensure the success of the party, but the leaders enjoys all the privileges and benefits...
I believe if there a strong emphasize on the need to promote honesty, integrity and sincerity, maybe this country can propelled into a more dynamic and progressive country... Well to do that maybe there will be stages where slowdown, change of lifestyle and re-engineering process which will take place, but if it is for the betterment of the country and for a better future, I do not see why we cant make these changes...
Maybe there is a lot of different of managing a government, a non-profit organisation and managing a profit-driven company... A government care about the people, an NGO cares about their agenda and a company cares about the money... But at the core of these organizations are people who have the heart and the brain... All decisions are made by people and people always have the ability to choose... It is the people who make decision to change, improve and to care about others...
So how can we promote these moral values? Maybe we can start off by making an effort to discuss more on the issue, promote it within our family and starting making our personal decisions base on these moral values...
I believe strongly that to restore the judiciary, we need high degree of honesty, integrity and sincerity in the government, in the cabinet, in the court, in the parliament, in the office, in the government department and on the street... How can we ensure that every decision made by us is a fair and just decision without any bias or without any influence from others...
From my observation, when dealing with family matters, we do make decision base in some form of distribution of powers, of course the father usually have the most weight in the decision making process, followed by the mother, and maybe each children have a fair vote... We usually have this kind of power distribution or norms because as a father, he will be the person who has the biggest responsibility for whatever happen in the family... If the father make a decision, even though he make the decision based on consensus of all family members, generally he will still shoulder the responsibility of the decision.... We seldom heard a case (although sometime its happen) people blaming the children for any bad decision...
From my point of view, it is very important for any decision making process to be made with the high degree of honesty, integrity and sincerity since it can eliminate all the negative spin-offs from the decision... we must also have other positive criteria as well such as transparency, flexibility and others which make a decision is much more credible and reflects the balance of mankind.
However, defining these moral values, trust, integrity and sincerity is not and easy task.
In a popular analogy of sincerity, it is describe that sincerity is like an ant on top of a black stone during a dark night with no moon (seekor semut hitam diatas sebuah batu hitam dimalam yang gelap)., meaning that it is very-very difficult to attain a true sincerity even if we think that we are sincere.. We must first forgo the self interest, the conflict of interest, the advantages and every other factors that may be perceive as a benefit or profit to us... We must ensure that we act in a manner that will only improve the situation without any thinking of reaping the benefit for ourselves... Well maybe someone religious can explain this better...
But, can we have a government who are base on honesty, integrity and sincerity? Can the Rakyat enjoy a government who are working towards improving this country to ensure that everybody can enjoy a better life. Does this country have the necessary resources? Human resources, monetary, natural resources, logistic, economy resources to develop a country with honesty, integrity and sincerity... Sometimes I observe how some members from a political party sacrificing their time and money and yet, it is the leader who enjoys these sacrifices... The party members without any dreams of becoming chief or exco but work hard to ensure the success of the party, but the leaders enjoys all the privileges and benefits...
I believe if there a strong emphasize on the need to promote honesty, integrity and sincerity, maybe this country can propelled into a more dynamic and progressive country... Well to do that maybe there will be stages where slowdown, change of lifestyle and re-engineering process which will take place, but if it is for the betterment of the country and for a better future, I do not see why we cant make these changes...
Maybe there is a lot of different of managing a government, a non-profit organisation and managing a profit-driven company... A government care about the people, an NGO cares about their agenda and a company cares about the money... But at the core of these organizations are people who have the heart and the brain... All decisions are made by people and people always have the ability to choose... It is the people who make decision to change, improve and to care about others...
So how can we promote these moral values? Maybe we can start off by making an effort to discuss more on the issue, promote it within our family and starting making our personal decisions base on these moral values...
2 comments:
'What can be seen may not be what seen it has been"
Honesty, Integrity and Sincerity are three of the very hardest nature of aspects to COMMIT, yet the easiest to OMIT.
I DO AGREE with you sir, absolute agreement, although mine isn't as high as sky-reaching hope like yours. I will be contented enough with them being good administrators whom LISTEN to the Rakyat, LOVE and CARE for the Rakyat. And WORK for the Rakyat.
I agree with your article and I wonder whether this is a far-fetched hope for Malaysians.
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