One of the failures of Malaysia’s economic system as a whole is it has been infected by cronyism and corruption for a long time. Ever wonder, why the incredible Digi did not get the 3G license? Why the heck those 2 companies (TT Dot Com and MiTV) which do not have any TELCO involvement gets 3G license? Ask this guy (picture)
A lot of people say that our faculty representative got all the competitive conditions to be a public person. He got the conventional politician and businessman look-alike face, constantly having short conversation with students, officers and lecturers (a.k.a. social able), smart and helpful.
Not really. His biggest advantage is, he got a bunch of friends who have the same conditions that he already owned. So, what’s wrong with that? Seeing from the surface, this phenomenon should supposedly create a well-taken -care-of environment in Faculty of Economics and
Administration, University of Malaya. His friends would complement his weaknesses, widen his supporters’ base and do the impossible jobs. For instance, registration of tutorial classes which is regarded as a disaster period in FEA and all those scared-to-die (kiasu) things. Undeniably, this is the best strategy that they can adopt to survive. Any representative who is running a solo operation would means an academically or political suicide. To be frank, it is still consider too early to judge his performance.
The real fuss is his predecessor. I call him “the gel man” (the name explains everything as he truly put a lot of gel on his hair). If I’ve not mistaken, this gel man’s last words to current representative are “keep going on. People sometimes will not know although you did a lot of things” Wait a minute, what things that you did actually? Having a sweet journey to Philippine with your girl friend (thanks to their lovely couple photos on Facebook) although she does not holds any post in PEKUMA? Meanwhile, the Chairman of PEKUMA (I call him “Mr. Corrupted”) did not even disclose their three-person trip on announcement board. Did he open out the position registration for Career Path 2009, which they earned a huge amount of penny?
What I want to indicate is the cronyism of the student leaders - favoring personal friends. This form of cronyism is called "old boy network", in which appointees to official positions are selected only from a closed and exclusive social network – such as the alumni of particular universities – instead of appointing the most competent candidate. It is too easy to blame them considering the members of Career Path 2009 consisted most of the friends of gel man and Mr. Corrupted. However, the problem doesn’t stop at there and in fact the real ruckus goes off on the legacy left by the two sagas. The most respected Malay gang of FEA which had been bullied for quite long enough by the cronyism gave their strike in the PEKUMA annual general meeting, hoping their best man could hold the highest post. (to be continued)
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