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the skylines of most of our towns throughout the state. We are also
penetrating areas, which used to be isolated before, to communicate
and absorb the people into one big society called the Sarawak people.
Indisputably, we have been able to create, as far as we can, a
common society for the people, a Society of Anak Sarawak with the
people having the feelings and stakes for the community, state and
country. Nobody can deny the fact that today the people of Sarawak
have become one, but does this transformation in the attitude of
the people indicates that we have achieved the status of a developed
society?
The answer is no. Instead, we must work hard to achieve a much
higher level of progress in order to fulill the hopes, aspirations and
ambitions of the people towards the year 2020 and beyond.
For this reason, the civil service must restructure its organisation,
primarily to initiate new ways of doing things in order to to meet the
rising expections of the people. In this regard, senior oficers, who must be
knowledgeable about management, the ields of technology, development of
industries, economy, environment to ensure that the progress will beneit not
only the present generation but those that will come after us, make conscientious
efforts to upgrade the quality of their services. In other words, improvement
of quality and productivity must necesarily be entrusted to oficers in the top
echelon of the civil service.
For those in the lower level, who are entrusted to implement all the
policies, they must be knowledgeable of the environment in which they
are working. They must have thorough knowledge about the state, the area
where they are serving in particular. Besides, they must know the problems
relating to geography, land, rivers, obstacles, which they have to face and
the problems of communication with the people, whom they must serve.
Regrettably, sometimes, the people, whom we want to serve, oppose us out
of ignorance of what the government wants to do to help them. Consequently,
members of the civil service, at the lower level, cannot implement policies,
which have been formulated at the top level, on the ground.
For example, if we want to construct roads, there are bound to be people
who do not want their land to be used for the purpose. But road development is
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penetrating areas, which used to be isolated before, to communicate
and absorb the people into one big society called the Sarawak people.
Indisputably, we have been able to create, as far as we can, a
common society for the people, a Society of Anak Sarawak with the
people having the feelings and stakes for the community, state and
country. Nobody can deny the fact that today the people of Sarawak
have become one, but does this transformation in the attitude of
the people indicates that we have achieved the status of a developed
society?
The answer is no. Instead, we must work hard to achieve a much
higher level of progress in order to fulill the hopes, aspirations and
ambitions of the people towards the year 2020 and beyond.
For this reason, the civil service must restructure its organisation,
primarily to initiate new ways of doing things in order to to meet the
rising expections of the people. In this regard, senior oficers, who must be
knowledgeable about management, the ields of technology, development of
industries, economy, environment to ensure that the progress will beneit not
only the present generation but those that will come after us, make conscientious
efforts to upgrade the quality of their services. In other words, improvement
of quality and productivity must necesarily be entrusted to oficers in the top
echelon of the civil service.
For those in the lower level, who are entrusted to implement all the
policies, they must be knowledgeable of the environment in which they
are working. They must have thorough knowledge about the state, the area
where they are serving in particular. Besides, they must know the problems
relating to geography, land, rivers, obstacles, which they have to face and
the problems of communication with the people, whom they must serve.
Regrettably, sometimes, the people, whom we want to serve, oppose us out
of ignorance of what the government wants to do to help them. Consequently,
members of the civil service, at the lower level, cannot implement policies,
which have been formulated at the top level, on the ground.
For example, if we want to construct roads, there are bound to be people
who do not want their land to be used for the purpose. But road development is
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