The Malaysian Bureaucracy has become the "berukerusi"

With urbanity pervasively fast seeping into our Malaysian lives in the city, surburban and town areas it's goodbye to old adages : those wisdoms in short crisp expressions that today sound very square but wistfully missed.

When the spat between Lim Guan Eng and a Federal Officer in Penang blew up in the open, it gave the ugliness of Federalism a perceivable form. What now leads to further aggravation is the public disapproval and resentment on Government policies whose implementation underlies the many problems, controversies and dissatisfaction. A good example in Sarawak is the Penan problem with its larger complexity involving native land.

These problems instead of being addressed are further fed as fodder for endless controversies.

You feel like you're getting a raw deal with development, progress. It's like being unable to get a luscious rice crust with an electric cooker, the "kerak nasi" has disappeared. You can't get things done any more for want of something sorely lacking, like a luxury lost.

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