Malaysia Post Election

Let me tell a story of what I see and listen before I link it to the economy and finance.

I pass by a street call Desa Setapak. It was a crowded street at the time I study around that area. I go back and walk along the street, there are eight main corner of the shop were previously famous with delicious food now demolish seven of them and left one corner. These places are the food supply for most of the people and students who stay and study around.

I chat with some of the hawkers around there what happen to the other hawker stall and the food courts? They say government send town board (DBKL) to demolish and army to guard the protestors without giving any notices to them. Their prompt action ruins the income source for most of the families and laborers.

I ask them whether they have any permit or license to open stall and do business there. They said all of them have permit and license. They get the approval from the previous party who win that area. This election result the previous party of that area loss to the opposition. What is interesting is, all the people and folks say they never see government work so hard that never rest and work so complete. Those demolishing worker can ruin all the structure one by one and before they leave, they make sure everything is fully damage and scrap. All the cement, walls, fences, floor, and stalls were break and damage by heavy machinery. The only left is the dust and rubbish they didn’t clean it up. Next day, these under mission worker can come back to continue break and confirm all the structure are collapse and break. One of the farmers tells a similar story that last time his area loss to opposition in the election, the government sends people some and cut all the vegetables and every single vegetable were split at least four pieces. This is to make sure the farmer cannot sell the vegetables anymore.

Well what make the folk there angry is the newspaper wrote and publish that these hawker didn’t have any losses because the authorize person let them move out the things that belongs to them. Besides, all these news were reported not clear, not detail, and bias to government.

What I see and curious are, why some of the stall and are didn’t demolish and damage by the government? These stall is just beside and some of them are in the middle of these demolish structure. The only differences I can observe for a long time are, those remain are not good business compare to those demolish. Those remain are Malay while demolish are all Chinese.

After the long story, now is time to share what is in my mind. Country economy is depend on the productivity and how well the business in the country. This phenomenon let me fell that government is revenge on the result they loss in the election. They don’t care economy and development but they only care their power in hand. They can give reasons to stop the development structure in the opposition area. They can demolish buildings or structures by no reasons or discussion given.
Here is an interesting phrase I read in the newspaper today, Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs Ministers Datuk Shahrir Abdul Samad says “Don’t think only of profit”. Does it mean in government mindset, they don’t want “profit” but other things?

When those people who suffering from no income, they don’t have things to eat, what they can do? The next is social problem will rise. The security of the country is now another concern.

If government can do this kind of action on the small business, I cannot get other reason that government will not do this to bigger business in the country. That’s why the economy future of the country is now a doubt and worry.