Tun Razak's Policies Continue Under Abdullah's Administration

is this the man who will continue the policies??









KUALA LUMPUR, June 15 (Bernama) -- Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi said today policies introduced by Malaysia's second prime minister, the late Tun Abdul Razak Hussein, continue to be implemented under his administration as many of them are still relevant.
The prime minister added, however, that several adjustments had been made to the policies to make them more suitable to current needs.
Some of the policies being implemented now included principles contained in the New Economic Policy (NEP) that emphasised restructuring of society because they had been proven to be effective, he said.
"The NEP policy and the philosophy of NEP are still being implemented today. They are important. We all believed in him and that is why we continue to implement although after 20 years of implementation there should be no NEP. Yes, there is no NEP as such, but the spirit of the NEP, the philosophy still remains and is still relevant to this day," Abdullah said during a special interview by the Umno Akademi Pemuda, excerpts of which were shown during the seminar on Tun Razak's Legacy to National Development, here.
Abdullah said Razak, during his administration, did not want to see the separation of the people along economic lines when the country continued to progress.
"He did not want to see that. In a Malaysian nation chasing economic progress, there was not going to be separation of the people, Chinese, Malays and Indians, along economic, administrative or labour lines.
"What he had wanted to achieve in terms of restructuring of society continues to be a guide until today," he said.
Abdullah said the current policy on human capital development took into account the concept of youth development emphasised by Tun Razak who had wanted the young people of the country to be equipped with education and skills to play a role in national development.
"It was during the time of Tun Razak that we established the student education unit which has today become the Biro Tata Negara (the National Civics Bureau). He was forward-looking and he regarded youths as a national asset that must be developed. The development of youths is also akin to development of human capital," he said.
Abdullah cited the example of the setting up of the National Implementation Task Force which is based on the National Operations Council of the Tun Razak administration, aimed at monitoring the implementation of government policies and projects.
"He prefers to go to the ground. Whenever he does anything, after he has given the instruction, he will go to the ground to see for himself. In fact, it was Tun Razak who came up with the concept of the operations room which South Korea has emulated. He wanted to see what was going on because he preferred to be briefed to enable him keep track of the progress of the implementation of any policy," he said.
Abdullah said Tun Razak was a pragmatic and far-sighted leader and a spirited Malaysian and as such his policies focused more on the future of the nation.
Asked whether his style of administration resembled Tun Razak's, Abdullah acknowledged that there was some semblance because both of them were quite close when they were on the National Operations Council (Mageran).
"There may be some semblance because, as the secretary of the National Operations Council, I had a close relationship with him. Often, when writing the minutes, I had to see him, to find out how to record a decision taken. There were many such discussions, and in depth," he said.
Replying to another question, Abdullah said he felt that the Barisan Nasional (BN) system of political parties founded on race and inherited from the Tunku Abdul Rahman era and expanded and strengthened during the Tun Razak era should be retained.
He said that though the policy seemed to support race-based parties, it actually fostered understanding among the races and every decision was made based on consensus.
"In fact, race-based parties such as Umno, MCA and MIC do not think along racial lines. As the parties represent race, surely we want to know the problems faced by the particular race.
"But, at the same time, we are also aware of the problems faced by the other races. The important thing is the decisions we take at the weekly Cabinet meeting, which takes into account the interests of all races.
"No one is left out. Tun Razak had said that we should not exempt anyone, we should not isolate any group. Everyone must benefit. We want everyone to have a role in the democratic process and participate in government, at the Cabinet level and also committees," he said.
Abdullah said the process of restructuring society would take a long time and the success could not be evaluated in the wink of an eye.
"To restructure a society is not an easy job. You cannot restructure with just one generation, you have to wait to two, to three generations. Today the generation of Malay entreprenuers, Malay executives, professionals is a result of the education given to this generation 20 years ago.
"That's why they are here today. It may not happen in one's era. The policy can be implemented, which one can see. But the evaluation, we do not know when it will come about," he said.

tunku : pak lah is trying to say that whatever malaysia achieved today is because tun razak and the achievement came to a halt after tun razak's era. there was no contribution from tun hussein and tun mahathir till he came in and continue tun razak's policies.after all he said that he had semblance with tun razak and they were very close.what a joke pak lah.are you trying to make the fool out of us.if you are so close with him than it's you the 4th prime minister and not tun mahathir.i understand that you're trying to impress the public/voters but not the cheap way.i pity hishammudin sitting there and listening all these without pak lah mentioning about his father.please go and kiss pak lah's hand 3 times, may be he'll mention your father's name in future.there is so much different between tun razak and pak lah, it's something like a diamond(tun razak) and a rock(pak lah).you are nowhere close to any of the past prime ministers.malaysia today is not what is used to be.i hope you have better ways to make public impress with you next time.