00:00When you're sitting on the bench, when you're looking at the rubbish discussion, and sometimes
00:12it's not to the mark, the expectation, especially the young MPCs. So we're expecting them to
00:21be more vibrant, more eligible, more tolerant, more articulate, more intelligent in putting
00:31across your ideas. And so to do something that finally brings me to believe that what
00:41is wrong in this equation. So finally I concluded that you can't blame them because actually
00:52they're absent on the system. The system is not there. So the system that trains our youth
01:02to be a leader, to train our youth to be orators, to train our youth to be future leaders.
01:11Now we have a programme we call Skolah Halimah, which we take off immediately after Hedaya.
01:20We planned some time, but we've been doing all this study, and we work together with
01:28Kabupiat Pendidikan. And finally what happened is that Kabupiat agreed that we would invite
01:40the head boys and head girls of rural areas, probably in Bali, in Kelantan, somewhere in
01:53Negeri Sembilan, those remote areas, whom we think on their own they will not come to
02:01parliament. Because these are rural areas, poor families, kids of poor families, stuff like that.
02:08So we organise them by taking them to visit parliament, then they get some idea what
02:16parliament is all about. Can you imagine a boy who never wears a jacket, or what you call it,
02:23blazer, come with blazer tied, he's proud. And that's important, that excitement. I think it's a
02:31key word, excitement. So probably that will be influencing that this is what Malaysia is all about,
02:40this is what democracy is all about. I've been there, I walked into the parliament, probably I spoke to
02:47the speaker, I took picture with them, blah blah blah. So after they finish their MPM, they go to PLKN.
02:58So mentally, they are prepared, why they are MPKN, PLKN, you know what I mean. Or L, they are shocked,
03:04because 70% of the curriculum, it's about military training, it's about pushing you to be a leader.
03:12But then if you don't have the pre-conditioning of the mind, then there might be a culture shock.
03:19Then now they are MPKN, as I told you, 70% of the entire curriculum for 45 days,
03:27about military training, meaning to say that it's not about to turn you to be a soldier,
03:32but the most important thing is that to tell you how do you develop yourself as a leader.
03:42These are the two, we're giving them all this exposure, what it takes to be a leader, what it
03:49takes to be someone that should command. Now among these 100,000 that we train,
03:55what I need is just 1% of that to become leaders. Political leaders, art leaders, SME leaders,
04:02whatever leadership. Now, 1% is about, say about 200,000, 2000 a year, then that is what we are
04:12preferring is parliament belayar. Youth parliament, then they can contest in the youth parliament.
04:19Then they can represent the youth, and we have modified the system to say everything is electronic.
04:30And starting with they got to form their own party.
04:36We just called the parliament belayar yesterday, talk to them, this is what,
04:41well they are supportive. So we will work with them, so that we want to introduce a new way of
04:48doing political business in Malaysia. Is there any other way? Yes, of course. Propositional
04:57representation. You need to say PR is the best, because everyone is not like PR now.
05:05When you said to form their own parties, that means, I mean how does it work? It's not a wing
05:12of the existing... No, this is where, because the Kementerian belayar has passed,
05:18this is a decision by the cabinet to pass this parliament belayar to Parliament Malaysia.
05:26So we need to say that it used to be under Kementerian belayar, but now the cabinet
05:31decided that this programme, youth parliament, should come back to parliament. So I had to form
05:38a team that looked at the whole entire thing. So what I'm saying is that if you do things
05:47year in, year out, doing the same thing and spread different results,
05:50I don't think it's the right thing to do. So there must be intervention. At the end of the day,
05:55let's change some of the objectives. The former objective was to produce youth leaders that can
06:03run youth clubs, youth institutions. I think it's a bit shallow. So I want to go deeper than that.
06:13What I'm saying is that the youth parliament should be a platform to train for the future
06:19leaders. They start from there and they end up here. Future MPs. But there must be a system.
06:28Number one is about exposure. When we say exposure, we mean to say that
06:36they must ask themselves, is there other options? We are calling all these university VC,
06:44explaining to them, why don't we start with university first? Meaning to say, as you said,
06:51they have to form a party. I don't want them to just use a regular party,
06:57Amno Apa, SKADILAN. That's not done. That's not outside the realm here. But I want them to start
07:04fresh. How do you form a party? What it takes to form a party? How do you draw your manifesto?
07:10How do you form coalition? For example, MU? Probably they want to stand on their own.
07:16Because they have alumni, thousands of alumni. I was from MU. Then probably UKM want to be on their
07:23own. But ITM want to associate with some other university. So this year, what we are doing now,
07:31we are setting up seven parties first. They can call Helam Merah, Merpati Putih, whatever you
07:37can. As long as I don't use Amno Apa, SKADILAN. Something that is not a religion,
07:44not a theory, something gigantic, more dynamic.
07:51Then they go and form a party, and they go to campaign. Who wants to join my party?
08:00As I said, they can stand on their own, or they can associate themselves with some other parties,
08:04or those kids who never go to university. Meaning to say that those 18 to 30,
08:10you have to register to be a voter. Not automatic. I want them to feel that they want to be in this
08:18program. So you must register. So I mean to say that the party leadership has to go down the whole
08:25country, using campaign, using media, why you should put Helam Putih, what are the reasons why
08:34we have multi-racial composition of leadership, democracy, etc. So I want to train them to do
08:45that. So you just don't get locked to the present system, which is, I think, no good. So that's what
08:54we're doing. So the elections is this year? Well, I hope everything will be done by this year.
09:01We'll probably start early next year. We've got to work with SPR, how they think, we've got to work
09:11with the system, media. I mean, we're putting all the resources together, so that it's going to be
09:17very exciting. And probably, certainly, we are proposing a proportional presentation.
09:28But yeah, we're not going to use normal constituency-based and first-party. We need to
09:35say party versus party, not individual versus individual anymore. It's a party list. But if he
09:40makes it, then he will announce his candidate, and hope to be MPs. So you fight. So you take
09:50away the heat between individual and individual, because there's no guarantee that you're going to
09:56be in the party list if your party don't win. So you've got to work hard for your party,
10:02it's not about you. You might be a hero, but your party lose. Nothing will happen to you.
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