Obviously, the civil service, as the precursor of anydevelopment, must understand the working of the global economy and be able to lookat NGOs, some may be friendly and some very unfriendly, with differenteyes. The friendly ones can becomeallies while the unfriendly ones that tend to become big nuisance in whateverthe State has to do to bring development to the people, has to be dealt withdifferently.
In this respect, the Civil service must be able to developan independent assessment in dealing with NGOs and in determining the standardsthat are relevant for the progress and development of the State and country. Basically, politicians, who provide theleadership and the public and private sectors, must understand what the worldexpects from the State.
Generally, the requirements, being determined by developedworld, which dominates global trade and market, are very stringent and relativeefforts must comply with such standards. Hence, both the public and private sectorsmust endeavor to meet the global requirements and work within suchcontext.
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| Pehin Sri Haji Abdul Taib Mahmud officiating at the Public Service Assembly Day 2011 and awards presentation at the Borneo Convention Centre Kuching (BCCK) last year. |
Basically, the State has to deal with the world market, whichis exacting in judgment in trying to get the players to conform with therequirements, which developed countries have evolved at least over 200 yearsstarting from the industrial revolution.
However, the developed world expects developing countries tocomply with the requirements in lesser time or take much shorter time to workout the transformation. As aconsequence, the application of the so-called values or benchmarks in the localsituation or even in the national setting brings a lot of challenges.
For example, high polluting values whether in the area ofenvironment, human rights, freedom and democracy, challenges of climate change,slowing down of the degradation of the environment and others may be sound ideaswith valuable aims but do not spell themechanism on how they can be achieved within the situation and limitation ofrespective countries.
Obviously, the high polluting values, being outlined bydeveloped nations, make future changes and challenges tougher for developingcountries like ours. Therefore, the jobsas part of change, of the Civil Service are to make the transformation morepractical and the process of adaptation, successful. In this respect, the Civil Service mayconsider amending some of the exacting demands in order to make them to become more practicalto the local limitations and setting.
Obviously, Sarawak has tofollow the economics system that has been developed by the developed countriesfor a long time since World War Two. However,the changes are escalating and not changing in a steady manner.
Chief Minister, Pehin Sri Haji Abdul Taib Mahmud, in hiskeynote speech during a gathering to launch the High Performance team buildingprogram of Sarawak Civil Service in Santubong, says the opportunity for Sarawakto become more prosperous, is to develop competitive energy. Both oil and gas, which hitherto has providedthe sources of income for Sarawak are depleting.
More importantly, the world is in a situation where it couldonly discover one barrel to replace two barrels of oil that it has to use In other words, there is a growing deficit ofoil in the world. The prices have goneup almost to the breaking point of other people’s economy. Now they are coming up to US110 and somequarters are predicting that they will go up all the way to US200.
Pehin Sri Abdul Taib says the State has to find a source ofenergy as the basis for the economy to become competitive and guaranteed in theworld. Therefore, the State governmentdecided on the development of the renewable energy as the basis for attractingnew investments to Sarawak in the developmentof heavy industries. Besides, the world technologyis being developed in such a way that knowledge to manage it can be used bothin developed and developing countries.
He believes Sarawak canbecome part of the global system and profit from it. However both the public and private sectorsmust upgrade the capacity starting with the development of technical workers. The State needs 100,000 people with degree anddiploma qualifications and more than a quarter million technical workers all inone generation. Hence, the educationsystem must be transformed to become a strong and viable technical education
He says Sarawak will focus onthe training of people on smelting technology to enable them to serve the industriesthat will come up in Samalaju more efficiently. Besides, it is faster to train people with somedegree of specialization than those pursuing a wider spectrum of technicaltalents, as being done in Peninsular Malaysia, to cater for various industries.
He says as technical training will be more focused in Sarawak, it has abetter chance to succeed in the development of industries in SCORE developmentarea, in Samalaju in particular. The smelter technology has to be acquired as amatter of priority to produce or process aluminum. The State will not go all the way to steeljust yet until the aluminum smelting industry can be proven to be successful.The State cannot afford the industry to fail as there is no room for failure.
He says the State will stick to the processing of aluminum,manganese and felon silicon that will bring it to an intermediate position forindustrialization towards the year 2020 and beyond. The State will import manganese from South Africa and Australiaand bauxite mainly from Australiato be processed locally. They will beexported as semi-finished products to world class industries, which be veryexacting in their requirements.
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| Samalaju Industrial Park |
Pehin Sri Abdul Taib says the success of the first phase of thedevelopment of heavy industries will depend on the State’s ability to satisfythe steel makers and aluminum consumers of the world. All of them require a very high standard ofproducts, which can be done through partnerships, trading and teamwork. There is no room to do anything less than worldclass jobs.
He says as the State has decided to plunge into the globaleconomy, it is not a gradual entry, both the public and private sectors must dotheir level best in dealing with the hubof the industries of the world. Basically, the development of heavy industries inSCORE forces the State to become nothing less than the developed country innature.
For example, Halal hub comes from the fact that Sarawak has been successful in estates development toenable it to process large amount of agricultural produce into food and pharmaceuticalproducts. The agricultural produce willbe processed using advanced technology for the purpose.
He says the third component of SCORE is eco-tourism. Itsdevelopment and promotion will be made easier with the construction of roads tohydro dam sites deep in the interior of Ulu Kapit and Ulu Baram. Thedevelopment will entail modernizing the Penans and other ethnic groups toensure that they will not be bypassed by the new development.
He anticipates the emergence of big human questions thatmust be handled carefully by both the public and private sector in thedevelopment of eco-tourism. With all thechanges and challenges ahead, the basic functions of the administration tomaintain peace and harmony and look after the welfare of the people have to bereadjusted to the changing time. Basically, the civil service must do the jobsof the new Sarawak to be technologicallyentrenched in one generation.
He says the drive for tertiary education during the past 10years experience has enabled the State to escalate the training for the people. However, conscientious efforts must be madeto preserve the standard that is accepted all over the world. Generally, there is much more that can beachieved in the next phase of development in education and training. More importantly,preparations must be made to involve the people in the new momentum ofdevelopment towards the year 2020 and beyond.
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