Salam, everybody...today we will discuss again about social obstacles in development especially about corruption and traditional values and belief…such a nice issues that can be discussed. Here, we also provide the current issues to show you why this problem happens.
1) Corruption – In our opinion, corruption also is one of the obstacles that bring disastrous effect to development. Some of the country has their own culture where the corruption is normal practice and quite necessary for them. As in Africa, it has the potential to develop but the major problem is corruption. We can see it through the distinguished representative of the African Union had pointed out that the Millennium Development Goals are not being achieved because of the failure by many states to honor their commitments to provide adequate funding, while more that 1 billion people continue to live on less that a dollar a day. This is true!!....But according to reports we have seen, over a 30 year period, the leaders of one African country alone misappropriated some 300 billion dollars of their nation’s wealth; money which, had it been applied to human development programs would have gone far towards lifting the entire country out of poverty. This is because they think that corruption is a human rights issue, and unless certain national leaders begin to understand that their first responsibility is to their people and not to themselves. So, it is hard to see how any of the Millennium Development Goals can be achieved. Besides that, we can see in the Africa concept of appreciation and hospitality, a gift is a token. It is not demanded. The value is in the spirit of the giving, not the material worth. The gift is made in the open for all to see, never in secret. Where the gift is excessive, it becomes an embarrassment, and is returned. If anything, corruption has perverted the positive aspects of this age-old tradition'. For them, corruption is intrinsically linked to underdevelopment. As long as a person's normal income does not provide him with a decent living, the door will always be open to bribes.
2) Traditional values and beliefs- Some of the countries are having problem to foster their country's development when they are having problems with values and beliefs. The traditional values and beliefs also will hinder the development process. There is just one thing that we can say about traditional values and belief. If most of the people of the country are bounded to the traditional values and belief in the country, the harder it will be for them to cope with the needs to improve or develop because there will be some condition that require them to change their attitudes and mind-sets and they could do so because of that resistance. As we kow, Pakistan is the one country that bounded to the traditional values and beliefs. There are more than 1,900 registered all-female madrases in the country, around 15% of the total, that are experiencing a boom thanks to the failures of the Pakistani education system and an increasing appetite for traditional Islamic values among the lower middle classes. Nowadays, the new-age Islamic religious schools for girls are becoming hugely popular in Pakistan now. Female madrases in Pakistan are expanding at a dramatic rate, educating almost a quarter of a million young women and providing more than half of the candidates sitting graduate-level exams every year. There is an emergence of a very conservative value system. Madrases promote traditional roles for women and students feel confident about their position in society. You cannot associate this phenomena with poverty. The female madrases provide a lens to study the uncertain interface between traditional values and beliefs and global influences that often results in further radicalization of the traditional beliefs.
In a nutshell, we may say that we have to take more efforts to overcome the problem of corruption and traditional values and beliefs that become the major obstacles of development. We believe that the effectiveness of the government can be achieved without the existence of corruption and traditional values and beliefs. That’s all.....thank you.
Manager: Norzuriana binti Muhammad Nor
Saturday, September 4, 2010
Friday, September 3, 2010
economic obstacles
In developing the country, there might be some resistance that hinder the development to foster. here, we are going to discuss two problems in terms of economy.
1)NATURAL RESOURCES- some of the countries are having problem to foster their country's development when they are lacking of the resources like land. Land is the most important element that a country has. With lesser lands, there will be significant fall in cultivation activities which are the main source of income for poor countries such as India. Even though, they have been criticized for encouraging sugar cane and oil seeds instead of rice, wheat and cotton which have more comparative advantages.Also the farmers could not reap the benefits from the farming activities because of the lands that have been fragmented either through force by government to ensure fairness of the society or pass on from one generation to another like in Zimbabwe, large-scale has nearly collapsed of the last nine years under the government's controversial land reforms.On the other hand, Singapore need to focus on maximizing the level of technology,manufacturing especially since they have lesser lands. They have to build taller buildings as to maximize the place for living for their citizens. Other than having inadequate resources, untapped resources is another problem in the economics. most of the poor countries have the natural resources. Lacking R&D is the most possible reason why the resources are not fully discovered as in Zimbabwe also. No commercial deposits of petroleum have been discovered, although the country is richly endowed with coal-bed methane gas that has yet to be exploited. With the inefficiently managed the resources, it will also hinder the economic development. Many poor countries might be inefficient in production and allocation. we take back Zimbabwe as the example. it has corn as the largest food crop but since the government has management that has exacerbated meager corn harvests in years of drought or floods, resulting in significant food shortfalls every year since 2001.
2) LACK OF INVESTMENT- Generally, there are two ways for a country to generate fund. it comes from foreign loans and foreign private investment. however, these two ways have their own problem for funding those countries especially less developed countries (LDCs). Through foreign loans, for financing LDCs, the flow of capital comes from individual national government, multinational assistance organizations and multinational companies. the individual national government usually give financial assistance to LDC's mainly for their own economic and political interest. As long as the developing countries are protecting the interest of the donor countries, the flow of capital counties. it normally will be stopped or slow down when the recipient country is no longer benefit to them. As America has stopped from financial assisting Pakistan after Afghan War was over. That is why developing country cannot be dependent too much on foreign aid. sometimes, to get foreign aid, the developing countries need to accept unnecessary requirements from the donor countries. that also contribute to undeveloped economic developments. the multinational assistance organizations also did quite similar action to poor countries like World Bank and International Monetary Fund(IMF). These organizations are mostly funded by developed countries which literally do it for the sake of their economic and political interests. All developing countries including Pakistan are now knee deep in the debts of these organizations. as explained earlier the problem occurs will affect economic growth of poor countries including the problem of debt servicing and rescheduling. from multinational companies, they usually search for country which has transportation, power, cheap force labor and raw material. so, generally these companies do not help much in establishing development in developing countries' economy. therefore, the problem of lack of proper investment remains in developing countries.
Manager: Nur Atiqah Bt Mohd Nasri
1)NATURAL RESOURCES- some of the countries are having problem to foster their country's development when they are lacking of the resources like land. Land is the most important element that a country has. With lesser lands, there will be significant fall in cultivation activities which are the main source of income for poor countries such as India. Even though, they have been criticized for encouraging sugar cane and oil seeds instead of rice, wheat and cotton which have more comparative advantages.Also the farmers could not reap the benefits from the farming activities because of the lands that have been fragmented either through force by government to ensure fairness of the society or pass on from one generation to another like in Zimbabwe, large-scale has nearly collapsed of the last nine years under the government's controversial land reforms.On the other hand, Singapore need to focus on maximizing the level of technology,manufacturing especially since they have lesser lands. They have to build taller buildings as to maximize the place for living for their citizens. Other than having inadequate resources, untapped resources is another problem in the economics. most of the poor countries have the natural resources. Lacking R&D is the most possible reason why the resources are not fully discovered as in Zimbabwe also. No commercial deposits of petroleum have been discovered, although the country is richly endowed with coal-bed methane gas that has yet to be exploited. With the inefficiently managed the resources, it will also hinder the economic development. Many poor countries might be inefficient in production and allocation. we take back Zimbabwe as the example. it has corn as the largest food crop but since the government has management that has exacerbated meager corn harvests in years of drought or floods, resulting in significant food shortfalls every year since 2001.
2) LACK OF INVESTMENT- Generally, there are two ways for a country to generate fund. it comes from foreign loans and foreign private investment. however, these two ways have their own problem for funding those countries especially less developed countries (LDCs). Through foreign loans, for financing LDCs, the flow of capital comes from individual national government, multinational assistance organizations and multinational companies. the individual national government usually give financial assistance to LDC's mainly for their own economic and political interest. As long as the developing countries are protecting the interest of the donor countries, the flow of capital counties. it normally will be stopped or slow down when the recipient country is no longer benefit to them. As America has stopped from financial assisting Pakistan after Afghan War was over. That is why developing country cannot be dependent too much on foreign aid. sometimes, to get foreign aid, the developing countries need to accept unnecessary requirements from the donor countries. that also contribute to undeveloped economic developments. the multinational assistance organizations also did quite similar action to poor countries like World Bank and International Monetary Fund(IMF). These organizations are mostly funded by developed countries which literally do it for the sake of their economic and political interests. All developing countries including Pakistan are now knee deep in the debts of these organizations. as explained earlier the problem occurs will affect economic growth of poor countries including the problem of debt servicing and rescheduling. from multinational companies, they usually search for country which has transportation, power, cheap force labor and raw material. so, generally these companies do not help much in establishing development in developing countries' economy. therefore, the problem of lack of proper investment remains in developing countries.
Manager: Nur Atiqah Bt Mohd Nasri
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
economic obstacles of development: Session 2
Here we have two Prime Minister from Pakistan and Bangladesh making a conference about economic obstacles where led to the development of the countries. Let we read what about discussion is… (^_^)
PM of Bangladesh: Hello my lovely friend, how are you??...how your country?
PM of Pakistan: Hello, I’m fine thank you…not really well because nowadays a lot of problem arises in my country and I should aware about it.
PM of Bangladesh: Oouww..poor u, In term of what my friend? Actually my country also has problems right now and I think I need opinion from you how to solve it.
PM of Pakistan: let we discuss together…I’m starting first, my country now not very develop because of several obstacle happen regarding the economics. If the economic performance since 1947 is evaluated, the overall results are not very encouraging. The per capita income at market price is only 925 dollars per year in 2007 in Pakistan. The major portion of the population is just above the poverty line (poverty line 23.9%) The disturbing feature of the economy is that whatever economic growth has been achieved, it is accompanied by unequal distribution of wealth. This has created social tension in the country and has slowed down the rate of economic growth. Pakistan has devised various strategies to quicken the tempo of economic development but it has not been able to break the cruel circle of poverty and enter into take off stage. The main obstacles which have affected the rate of growth in Pakistan are the use of low level of technology in various sectors of the economy. We do not stress and even do not recommend that Pakistan should adopt most modern and sophisticated technology.
PM of Bangladesh: For my country it is according to the inadequate infrastructure facilities. Inadequate infrastructure facilities can be analyze in term of transportation, water services and else. Inadequate infrastructure facilities usually occur in poor country. This obstacle will make the country hard to develop in economy aspects. The lack of adequate water services will cause of much disease and illness and make the people sick. When people in that country sick, they cannot do their work, so it will decrease the productivity in the country. For example, a girl in Dhaka, Bangladesh bathes in water leaking from a giant pipe on March 22, 2000. The lack of water facilities will effect on the development. It can be look on the people difficult to get food, drink and else because sources water is very important. This crisis will impact of the food production. According to BIPSS article in 2000 the data water is as such: 96% for agricultural use, 3% for domestic use, 1% for industrial use. Sources of Irrigation water in Bangladesh are: Surface water 30.8% and Ground water: 69.2%. 63% water is used in Agriculture which provides 19% of GDP. But for present shortage and crisis of acute water hampers those activities. Besides, agriculture also directly impacts the critical crisis, most especially through its impact on human nutrition, which is probably the major influencing human resistance to critical which is toxicity.
PM of Pakistan: It is a serious crisis actually. In my country the technology to be applied in several countries should be appropriate to the conditions existing in the countries. For instance, my people preferably use cheap sources of energy, simple farm equipment, smaller plants and scale of machinery etc suitable to the local conditions. When it is happen, it will lead to obstruct the development because will decrease our market in the international trade. If the countries was useful the technology properly that countries are consider as a develop countries as we know the technology of Japan and Korean (automobile & advance in vehicles industry), and US (in term of technology of scientist). If the certain countries low level of technology the society such as like my country it cannot develop their life itself because my citizens cannot compete with each other’s and lack of experience and expertise.
PM of Bangladesh: hurmm…yup I agree with u because relating with my country other obstacles also can effects the development such as transportation. For example, I make a comparison between Malaysia and Bangladesh, Malaysia transportation is better than my country. The transportation is very important in develop country. It is because, with transportation, it is easy for us to go to other places. In Malaysia, they have many transportation such as buses, taxi, train and else. For example, train, Light Railway Transit (LRT), compete with develop countries like Japan, Korean, US. It makes people easy to go other places in short duration period of time. In Bangladesh, have lower transportation facilities. It will difficult to people or citizens in Bangladesh too hard to go anywhere. Due to lack of infrastructure facilities make Bangladesh country faces difficulties to develop their country and still remain as poor country.
PM of Pakistan: We have discussed the major obstacles to economic development. The practical means of setting aside the barriers to economic development are now to be stored out. It is a big challenge to the planners. We are of the opinion that if following measures are right earnestly applied; the rate of economic development can go up.
PM of Bangladesh: Hurmm….ya, in your opinion what the best way to solving this problem?
PM of Pakistan: In my opinion to solve the obstacle arises in my country, firstly I should be Expanding the tax base. For expanding the resource base, it is necessary that the coverage of indirect taxes be reduced. In designing the tax reforms, care has to be taken to minimize burden on the common man. The share of direct taxes has also to be increased. Secondly, Industrialization. Another approach to development planning within the framework of mixed economy is to give priority to the establishment of those industries which meet the basic needs of the various sectors of the economy. The production of improved basic agricultural implements will greatly help in raising the agricultural production. Lastly, Promoting Technology. For economic take off, it is very essential that we take effective steps in promoting science and technology. The technological development will help in keeping our products and exports competitive in the world market.
PM of Bangladesh: woow…great idea you get, I should do an administration reform in my country, there should be far reaching administrative reforms in the country. The professionally qualified personnel should be inducted and assigned specific targets to be achieved in the allocated sectors. There should be reduction in the administrative expenditure also. In addition, Development of physical and human capital, development of physical infrastructure, roads, railways etc. and increased investment on education, health and nutrition etc. can play a dominant role in increasing economic development in the country. When these stages are stable and more effective my country will develop properly and can allow foreigner to invest and making a programs in term of infrastructure.
Social obstacles of development
Merdeka!! Merdeka!! 31st August comes again.. The most meaningful day for us....
After 53years become an independent nation, our country is now moving towards development in various sectors. But there are barriers to achieve the development. Now, we want to discuss the social obstacles of development. The two obstacles that we will discuss are poverty and illiteracy.
Prime Ministers of Africa and India are now sitting together in the meeting room, discussing about the challenges of the development faced by their countries.
PM of Africa: Africa has the potential to be developed but the major problem is the poverty level. The poverty level is very high among the citizens in India.
PM of India: Yes, my country also is facing the same problem. Many of the citizens have low level of education. This becomes the barriers for them to develop themselves for better life. When people don’t have education, they will be oppressed by the others.
PM of Africa: The education is the weapon for development. As you know, most of the society members in my country are also facing healthcare problems. When they have this problem, they cannot perform their work properly. This will low the level of human capital in the country and leading to decrease in the level of productivity. By end, it will hinder the growth of the country because citizens cannot make any contribution for the development of the country.
PM of India: Here, poverty is the main issue. When poverty happens in society, it will bring to the low level of savings, investment and economic growth. When all this spread in the society, this will become the social barriers faced by government to develop the country. Usually, when people had been in the poverty problems, it will low the level of education and healthcare. When the people lack of education, they cannot develop themselves to the higher level. Lack of healthcare will hamper the development because government needs to concentrate on the process to cure it. When most of the society members have no ability to work because of health problems, this will automatically lead to decrease in human capital. At the end this will low the productivity of society.
PM of Africa: In my opinion, the illiteracy problem also will hinder the development process. There are almost 900million illiterate adults in the world. Illiteracy is like a curse on mankind.
PM of India: As you’ve already rise this issue, there is just one thing that I can say about illiteracy. The more the illiterate people in the country, the harder it will be for the country to develop.
PM of Africa: That’s absolutely true. This fact can be clarified as all the developed countries like America and Canada have very low illiteracy rates, whereas countries like Bangladesh, Pakistan and Bhutan have a very high rate of illiteracy.
PM of India: Whenever we talk of making a country a developed nation, it should keep in mind that without literacy our efforts in every field would be useless.
PM of Africa: hmmm..yes..it will be useless. Literacy empowers the citizen of the country with weapons of rational thinking, liberty, cohesiveness and mutual understanding. Without literacy, the information cannot be conveyed accordingly to the people as the people cannot read. It will lead to the problem to spread knowledge to the people. Society will leave behind as they have lack of knowledge. They cannot survive in this competitive world. Illiteracy also is a major contributor, not just to poverty and unemployment, but also to the spread of diseases such as HIV/Aids.
PM of India: My country is developing but at a very slow rate, this is not the fault of a corrupt government but it is due to this problem of illiteracy only. Literacy enables a person to think rationally, to be understanding, to be more responsible and to make his/her own decisions. A literate person is aware of all his fundamental rights and duties. Literacy is the ultimate solution to fight problems like communalism, terrorism and under development.
PM of Africa: That’s right. Our government is of the people, for the people and by the people, but what is the use if people can not even make the right choice??
PM of India: I think we have to take more efforts to overcome the problem of poverty and illiteracy that become the major obstacles of development. I believe the other developing countries are also experiencing the same situation.
PM of Africa: Let’s fight for the development!!
PM of India: yeah..that’s right. Let’s fight together!!!
Manager: Amirah Abdullah
Wednesday, August 4, 2010
Career expo and open day of MDJ
Salam ‘alaik to everyone..emm..last week I went back to my village…I really miss my family..homesick..maybe..he33…
in my way to go back, I need to take three bus from dungun..first trip to temerloh..second trip to jerantut and last trip to Kota Gelanggi 1..
the story beginning when I and my sister took bus to jerantut city..my sister apply for leave to join career expo and open day of jerantut district council..so, I join her to go to that expo..
my brother is takaful’s agent..he and his wife manage their own company..so, in order to promote their service, my brother open 1 booth. My sister(ngah) also being an agent under my brother…
what the interesting things that I wanna share with you is, the activities that happen during the expo.There are few booth there,for instance,MDJ(Majlis Daerah Jerantut),IPTA,Hospital Jerantut,Celcom,Maybank,Avon,Police and so on...
Actually, this expo only 3 days..on the first day, there are color competition for children…at night, there are ceramah agama by Ust. Rujihan(very famous ustaz at Jerantut)..
second day,there are gotong-royong to clean the bus station, singing competition for children in the afternoon and singing competition for adults at evening.
the last day, there are lucky draw and other activities..actually I already go back to dungun on that day and seat for law quiz..hehe…so,I don’t really sure what happen at the last day…
I think this is the first time for me to attend this kind of expo. For me, it is good activity in order to build up good relationship between public servant and citizen. People will know who is MDJ’s staff, how many department there, their function and so on..and the important things, people will know MDJ’s location..it is because, this expo is in front of MDJ’s building…hehe..
Besides, it will promote other government agencies and also private agencies.
Emmm…I think that’s all for today..huhu..i feel like being a lecturer..ha33..maybe next time I’ll post other entry..ok,see you soon..wasalam…
There are few pictures:
Police’s booth
manager: mai
Saturday, July 24, 2010
Issues : Lesbian/ Gay
Issues: Lesbian/Gay
Hi… we think most of you know and familiar with this issues right???
With the improvement of technology and society, this issues was being common because we always heard about this in the newspaper, magazine and so on,,,,
Lesbian/ gay is a term most broadly used in the English language to explain sexual and romantic desire between females or male. It refers to women or male who see themselves having the primary characteristic of female/ male homosexuality and related to female/ male same-sex need.
In our country nowadays, issues of lesbian/gay being a part of social changes in
Component of changes
Now, we will describe about this issues in the component of changes. There are 5 components of changes which is identity, level, duration, magnitude and rate of changes.
| BEFORE CHANGES | AFTER CHANGES |
| Identity of change: People cannot accept and critics when the issues of lesbian is come out because this issues not very popular in this time. They feel afraid if this issues spread to future generation. | Identity of change: People feel common with this issue because it usually happen. Beside that, a lot of people think that it will be not effect for them because not happen surrounding us. |
| Level of change: In this time, this issue more focuses on the student who has the higher education especially overseas student. | Level of change: It more focus to community because influence from mass media. On the other hand, the people who have the lower education also get more influence from those issues. |
| Duration of change: People feel uncomfortable about this issues because they lack of knowledge and information. | Duration of change: Nowadays, this issues being comfortable and acceptance by the people. It is happen because mindset of people change time from time and more influence from the new environment likes advance in technology. |
| Magnitude of change: The quality of change for this issues really happen at this particular time because some of the people difficult to accept this issues. | Magnitude of change: People become more open-minded and easy to accept this issue. For example, according to Fatine case these issues become hottest because of the first gay couple married in |
| Rate of change: The momentum is very slow because in this time not all people agree with this kind issue. Before this, they disagree with this problem occurs and try to find the solution on how to overcome about that. These issues are newly happen that’s why they want tried to involve on that. | Rate of change: Mindset of people in this time show the scale of measurement continuously happens until today’s because this issues never stop. |
Sources of issues lesbian / gay
We know that, the cases of lesbian or gay not origin in our country but were adapted from the outside country because of the advanced and modern technology, the knowledge of people about this being widely and it may influence them to try and adapt this. So here, we can say that the issues or cases of lesbian were occurring in our society because of the technology the environment. For example, the introduce of internet may wide the scope which is they can know what the issues in outside the country.
Other than that, these issues also occur because of the norms and value of people. For example, in western country, the norms of people in that environment were not take serious and they seen in commonly without against theirs norms and value. So that, community in our country also think like the western people and they practice that without think about our culture and values……
You know them?
This is Fatine or the original name is Muhammad Fadzil bin Min Bahari. Both of them are male and they were getting married. First gay couple in
Manager : Hasmida binti Maliki
-FAST FOOD-
Last weekend, it was time for outing…and also time for “window shopping”…hehehe…mirah, fifah,ieyda,zirah,mai,alia & Nono.. Relaxing their mind from study & want to have fun…So, we rented a car to go to Mesra Mall..yeah!!..on the way to their destination, suddenly Mirah asked them.
Mirah: You all hungry??
Ieyda: Yup! Absolutely…girls??do you?
Fifah,mai,zirah,alia,fieda: we too!!!hahahaha (laugh) ;P
Nono: But where we want to take our lunch? hehe...
Alia: Hey girls...McD is fine right??…. (while her finger was pointing to symbol McD)
Fifah: Who agree to eat fast food today??lalala
All girls in a car said: All agree!!!haha (with singing..i’m lovin’ it!!!!!)lalalala~ (^_^)
After parked their car...once we entered to the McD restaurant, we saw a lot of people inside and had enjoyed their meal with full of exciting..after finished took an ordered,…we chose table far from people to have some peaceful environment while having their meal.…hahaha (actually just for the sake of having peace conversation)hehehe… during enjoyed their meal, suddenly alia voiced up.
Alia: Can you see..a lot of people eat here…is it fast food is their first choice in taking their lunch, mirah?
Mirah: Maybe or maybe not, ermm..zirah, do you think they take fast food as their routine menu?
Zirah: Hurm…let me think first (with smile goat) ;)
Mai: It’s not funny zirah..let me tell you about it. When we talk about fast food, what will across in our mind?? Some people say, it is a common food for people nowadays. Some will say it is instant food. But, do you know what’s real definition for it?? According to young women health’s website, fast food means food that is quick, convenient, and usually affordable. I believe that this term is not weird for us, right? But, do you realize that this kind of product is one of the social changes that happen in our country. It is because, this change related to the society.
Ieyda: Nice issue that can be discussed about..ermm…it is no doubt that almost all of people love fast food. But, do you know how Malaysians respond to the fast food when it was introduced?? Fast food has been introduced in Western countries almost 100years ago….quite a long time… Nowadays, many fast food was existence around the world and enter our market such as McD, KFC, pizza hut, Burger King and others. We take an example in Indonesia, fast food is considered as a high class food where the price are relative expensive, exclusive place like fried chicken, hamburger, hot dog and so on. Now people especially young generation feel proud to buy fast food according to the thought fast food as a high meal. It is faster, easy to get, and the most important thing, it’s delicious. (serious face)hehe..
Fifah: To me, the acceptance of Malaysians on the fast food can be classified as social change. Let’s do some research regarding this thing. We can analyze it based on important components of social change according to Steven Vago. There are identity of change, level of change, duration, magnitude of change and rate of change.
Alia: Let me answer! Let us talk about the identity. The modern lifestyle of Malaysians leads to the changes in term of needs, taste and preference. Most of the people are busy and they have no time to cook. Besides, women also further their studies and they do not really good in cooking as they spend most of their time to focus on study. Fast food is the best choice as it is fast, easy, finger licking and affordable.
Mirah: So, how about the level of change?....(confuse face)hoho (j_j)
Nono: The society in Malaysia loves fast food so much, either young or old people. Let say, we ask 5th years old children about fast food they will think about KFC, McDonald and so on. Besides, people who live in the urban area will be close related to fast food, right?? But, what about those in the village and rural area?? We believe that they are also familiar with this phenomenon. They know what is McDonalds and KFC.
Zirah: What about the duration? Is’t take a short term to make a society choose fast food in their daily life?
Fifah: Fast food is a long term change phenomenon. It is because, in Malaysia, it emerged around 1970’s. In the beginning, it is hard for fast food to enter the market. I think it is because majority of Malaysians have their own routine food and they prefer to take it compare to fast food. For example, Malay take rice for their meal especially for their lunch and dinner, but if they go to KFC for example, there only have fried chicken and it can’t make their stomach full and satisfied with it. Besides, the issue of ‘Halal-Haram’ is one of the reasons why fast food is quite hard to be accepted. The issue starts when people are questioning about the method used in processing the chicken. As we know, Islam has its own rules in processing chicken based on syara’. Everybody knows that the chicken have been processed at factory. In addition, is the machine followed syara?.Now JAKIM is concerning about this issue and the fast food factories are always in the supervision of JAKIM. So Malaysian now have no worry to take fast food as it is approved by JAKIM. Since it is already accepted in Malaysia, the fast food now is still very popular and became the favourite meal for the people.
Mirah: Okey, let I continue the magnitude and rate of change based on what we learn with miss Fisha in our class and my understanding about that. We can say that the change is incremental. We can see that, from time to time, there is some improvement in fast food. Let say, the Pizza Hut. It always comes out with new recipe which is something that unique and has their own originality. It shows that, people accept it very much. If not, how come the company really confident to come out with new recipe, right???? We believe all company desire to get more profit rather than loss. The rate of change of fast food is continuously. As we say before, from time to time there is some improvement in fast food. .So, by doing some improvement, it shows that fast food give full of effort to be accepted by people. As a result, nowadays fast food is already known.
Ieyda: Here we can say that all kind of discussion is all about the components of change. But, how about the sources of change, as we know any changes in society must reflect with several sources which are considered as factors in social changes right??...
Alia: Ieyda, let me tell you deeply…There are several sources of changes, which are technology, ideology, competition, conflict, political and economic. We can say that, ideology is the best sources that can describe fast food. What are the relationship between ideology and changes? Do you know about it?? According to Max Weber, the development of capitalism represents one of the most thorough efforts yet made to establish a relationship between ideology and changes.
Zirah: Alia, you talk like a lecturer..hahaha
Mirah: who knows, you might be a development administration lecturer later..kih3…
Mai, ieyda, fifah & Nono: we support you..!! (“,)
After an hour we talk about fast food and our discussion which related to the social change… we continue their destination with full of joy because their assignment was done!!!hehehee…...
-THE END-
Manager: Afifah
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
How far the existance of the civic society may increase the government competencies. Illustrate your answer with examples.
Hi everybody...we meet again...Now, before we will discuss on the questions above, let we introduce about the term of civic society. Civic society is the group of organizations and institutions with a community or societal interest that cooperate together in order to helping what the government unable to do. Other than that, civic society also known as the Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) in
As we know, the existence of this society play main role in our government competencies which is help in develops the society in achieves the national objectives. We know that, misuse of drug is a major problem or cases in our country. Drug addict may give more problems in our government if a lot of people misuse that. So here, NGO’s was established PEMADAM to overcome the problem regarding of misuse of drug. This society will organize the program regarding the drug like campaign, motivation program and other activity in order to give the awareness to the people especially who’s a drug addict.
Other than that, other NGO’S that establish in our country is Angkatan Belia Islam Malaysia (ABIM) or the Malaysian Islamic Youth Movement was founded in 1972 and is considered the most organized force in Islamic matters in Malaysia Some of its main objectives have included establishment and spread of Islamic view and principles as stated in the Quran and Sunnah of Muhammad and recruitment of Muslim youth. Many ABIM activists have occupied key leadership positions in religious, social, educational, and political arenas, giving it access to affect policy guidelines and the growth of the Islamic ethos in the country
In the other hand, civic society is order to establish a bottom-up development planning. NGO is the one of the implementation of such aspiration requires an environment which is conducive for people participation. NGO also may help the Government to solve the certain problems such problem in rural area. Rural development has been the hub focus of the Malaysian economic policies since independence. The rural sector plays important role in the country economic growth, social and political development. One of the major social problems of the rural sector is poverty. For example, Community Development Centre (CDC) is an association that helps to overcome the problem of Rural development which is one of important problems nowadays in Malaysia. Besides, it helps to educate the people from rural area through various programs like seminars and campaign. Besides that, this program also encourages participation of people in the rural area.
In conclusion, NGOs bodies play important role in order to ensure the national objective can be achieved. As we know, the government cannot stand alone without other parties whose support then in administration and development of the country.
That all...Thank you.
Manager : Nor Farah Fazleen binti Ab Aziz
How far the existence of the civic society may increase the government competency? illustrate your answer with appropriate with example.
Hi all! First of all, let us explain about the civic society. Civic society here is referring to the Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) in Malaysia. NGO is an organization, which has no relationship with governments, while at the same time not being focused on making a profit. It serves social or environmental objectives, empower people, engage in advocacy for change, and provide services. The examples are the Association for The Prevention of Drug Abuse (PEMADAM), Malaysia Mental Health Association, National Diabetes Institute (NADI), National Cancer Society of Malaysia (MAKNA) and All Women’s Action Society (AWAM).
In our opinion, the existence of the NGO is very important to help the Government in providing the needs and demands of the people. As we know, the Government itself needs to administer the whole country. It is impossible for the Government to cover everything. So, Government needs assistance to fulfill any aspect in which the Government is unable to do so. The NGO is the best assistance for the Government in providing better services to the public. Each NGO will represent and struggle for specific group and of course it will be more exposed and has better access to that group. It means that NGO will have more information regarding the real situation outside. So, it can understand the problems and needs of that certain group. The NGO will then represent that group by voicing out their needs and opinions to the Government. The Government can know their problems and will try to provide the necessities of the people. For example, National Human Rights Society of Malaysia (HAKAM), which promotes for better economic, society and politics. It defends human rights in Malaysia in which the citizens will have the opportunity to voice out any unsatisfied in several aspects such as for improving standard of living, welfare, socio-economic aid, and so on.
NGO also may help the Government to solve the certain problems by organizing various initiatives or programs. Thus, the capability of the Government in providing the services can be improved. For example, PEMADAM is an association that helps to overcome the problem of drug addiction which is increasing nowadays in Malaysia. It makes research regarding the misuse of drugs to help the drug abusers through the continuation supervision. Besides, it helps to educate the people regarding the dangers of the misuse of drugs through various programs like seminars, dialogue forum, related courses and counseling services. It also will record and collect the opinions of the expertise regarding the misuse of drugs and convey the information to the public.
Instead of focusing on people well being, there are environmental NGOs exist in Malaysia. They have been responsible for bringing about the welfare of environmental concern. In facing the globalization practice in the world, one of the challenges that will be faced by government is to balance the environmental and natural resource protection with social and economic advancement. It is important for environmental NGOs to sustain our environment for future generations of Malaysians and indirectly to encourage youths in appreciating nature. The Malaysian Nature Society (MNS) which is Malaysia’s largest and oldest non-government environmental organization has done some projects that concern with the environment. For example, one big project combined with IKEA (Ingvar Kamprad Elmtaryd Agunnaryd), which is IKEA-MNS “LOVE THE EARTH” project, which aim to reduce the use of plastic bag consumption and uncontrolled littering in our country. IKEA will not give customers free bag plastic anymore and if they want, they have to pay for it.
In a nutshell, we may say that the Government cannot achieve the development objective without the involvement from the NGOs. Thus, the effectiveness of the Government can be achieved with the existence of NGOs in the country.
Manager: Noridayati
Saturday, July 17, 2010
Analyze the impact of securing foreign aid to the development of the country.How far do you think the government should comply with the rules put by the borrowers?
Ok..How should we start?
Hurm…The thing is like this. The develop country is of course more powerful than the developing country.
So, they have the advantage which is giving foreign aids to those foreign countries and to get the foreign aids are not that easy because the borrower will ask the recipient to fulfill rules put by them.
The impacts are firstly, the borrower will act as dominant economic power as they put the rules and of course they will put rules which give benefit to them too and it willl also promote the long-term development and growth. Like the money that we use to make big buildings which benefit the citizens will affect them maybe in 5 years more. Here, the degree of political effectiveness will play its role to what extent the resources will be used for.
Secondly, the foreign aids also will attract more domestic support by reducing taxes or increasing subsidies or distributing aids to elites to secure government control.
Thirdly, foreign aids will help to boost the development in a country where there is problem regarding the limited resources. And this problem is normally happened to the developing countries.
According to our views, the government should follow the rules put by the borrower to get the foreign aids but .it must not exceed the ability of our country to afford it. so that, we will not bear the cost that act we should not or cost that can avoid it or still the government can make some negotiation with the borrower to get the best result to the agreement.
Manager: Norzuriana binti Muhammad Nor
How you evaluate the political situation in Malaysia during 1960’s especially in term of people participation in politics?
Salam everybody!!!...today we will discuss again about our country’s political situation in 1960s especially participation of the people in politics…such a nice issues that can be discussed. Once upon a time…hehe…after independence, our country was administered by political elite, which is UMNO.
Malaysia's predominant political party, the United Malays National Organization (UMNO), has held power in coalition with other parties MCA -Malaysian Chinese Association and MIC-Malaysian Indian Congress since Malaya's independence in 1957. However, the political modernization has occurred during 1960’s. Other parties that exist in this era like Parti Islam Se-Malaysia (PAS), and Parti Gerakan as opposition parties.
At this time these political parties were struggling very hard to gain support from the people and why they do so???...jeng3x..actually…they try to prove to the public their strength and their spirit to represent the people of Malaysia which was absolutely good for the development of the country and will bring various benefit to the people.
How about people’s participation on that time??…the participation of the people in the politics was not that much because of lack of education and opportunity. As we know our country was a newly independent state, the citizens were very excited for development. Unfortunately, they did not have enough education to involve in politics…huhu… The government can manipulate the uneducated people to win their heart.
In fact, some of them were educated but, they were still influenced by colonial mentality. Besides, on that time, only few parties occurred. As Malaysian they definitely don’t have choice. So, they have to choose any party to lead this country, right?? As we know, in that era people really obsess about their races, so it will encourage them to choose UMNO.It is because, UMNO is one of the party who struggle for 3 main races in our country and also for country’s independence.
Here, we can conclude that the democratic political culture was there, but the participation of the people was still controlled…you guys agree with us???... Comments are pleasured…
Manager: Noridayati (aisya)
Thursday, July 15, 2010
From Me to You. note I
Salam.
Hi all.
We meet again. Well, after quite a long pause, I’ve decided to use blog as part of learning and teaching subject PAD 390 – Development Administration.
The concept stills much the same. Students are divided into groups – luckily, as I’m getting exclusive (read: getting unpopular) lecturer, the number of students who enrolled in my class in this semester is small, as compared to others. On the bright side, it is relatively easier to manage. And, on the other hand … sigh*! Whatever it is, I remain to be positive most of the time [pstt, pray for me OK – thanks in advance].
How this blog things work?
Every time after class, each group will be assigned different topic to be blogged – this obviously to enrich them as well as to avoid the boredom, if you know what I mean. Then, each group must respond to entries post by others. Since the number of students is small, everybody needs to respond individually. Fail to do so will cost them penalty [of what? .. yet to be decided)
At the end of it, I will mark their works accordingly, and obviously this will be part of their continuous assessment. As simple as that.
I’ve no other intention of beingso mean difficult but to destroy help them understanding the subject better. I take no credit for their future success even though I’m risking myself as subject to be blamed when they fail (Allah forbid!).
Lastly, I’m hoping everybody is happy. Bye!
Happy blogging for my students and happy reading for you … readers.
Have a nice day!
Hi all.
We meet again. Well, after quite a long pause, I’ve decided to use blog as part of learning and teaching subject PAD 390 – Development Administration.
The concept stills much the same. Students are divided into groups – luckily, as I’m getting exclusive (read: getting unpopular) lecturer, the number of students who enrolled in my class in this semester is small, as compared to others. On the bright side, it is relatively easier to manage. And, on the other hand … sigh*! Whatever it is, I remain to be positive most of the time [pstt, pray for me OK – thanks in advance].
How this blog things work?
Every time after class, each group will be assigned different topic to be blogged – this obviously to enrich them as well as to avoid the boredom, if you know what I mean. Then, each group must respond to entries post by others. Since the number of students is small, everybody needs to respond individually. Fail to do so will cost them penalty [of what? .. yet to be decided)
At the end of it, I will mark their works accordingly, and obviously this will be part of their continuous assessment. As simple as that.
I’ve no other intention of being
Lastly, I’m hoping everybody is happy. Bye!
Happy blogging for my students and happy reading for you … readers.
Have a nice day!
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