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accept people’s aspiration, you
must also know the overall aim
that you have set out in your plan
to achieve for the beneits of the
people.
The leadership in
the civil service is closer
to the political masters
and they normally can
interpret what they
people want as interpreted by the government. Life is balance
between change and consolidation. Today we need change because
everybody knows that the world is getting much more prosperous from
the experience of trade and tourism, each can interact very well in
the globalized economy. But there are many things that will be put
off balance or even change because it touches something very dear to
people in the non economic sense. There are more
ights today in trying to preserve forests, we have
gone through that, and I think we are still under
observation by certain interest groups. Heritage
will be something that we have to think about in
Sarawak. We have got Kuching town, how do we
develop Kuching town, what are the things that we
have got to preserve in Kuching town?
Culture is another one, thanks God, we have
started very early. Straight away we say we want
to develop our culture and that we have the
philosophy of conluence that will try to preserve
what is most valuable in each of our community
but at the same time allow change to bring about
interactions between them because we the various
races have got to meet each other, we the various
races have got to interact with each other, we the
various races have got to eat on the same table with


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