00:00I remember vividly over 50 years ago in 1974, I was a young student leader in the rural town
00:28of Bali in North Malaysia. I stood with farmers who could barely feed their families. They were protesting
00:41hunger and rising prices. Supporting them led to my detention under ISSA, no ISSA.
00:50There was the Internal Security Act. Otherwise, Dr. Asma would be in trouble.
00:58Well, two years detention without trial because of our passion to cease and champion the cause
01:08of the poor and the destitute. I saw how poverty strips away opportunity. I saw how injustice
01:20had the potential to leave scars that would last generations. And I learned that solidarity
01:28and the struggle for justice can restore dignity and hope. Those early experiences shared by many of us
01:41must shape our conviction that a society is measured not only by its skyline, but how it protects the
01:52most vulnerable. Progress is ongoing, though far from perfect, but the conviction that guides us is
02:01clear. True prosperity is not measured by the size of our skyscrapers or GDP, but by the dignity of
02:14of ordinary citizens, how they live their daily lives. No country can face these challenges alone.
02:28In all humility, we acknowledge them. Therefore, on the order, collaboration with experts, with friends,
02:41where the same desire and commitment is essential. The pressures of our time, climate change,
02:50technological disruption, migration, displacement, no borders. If capital can cross continents in search of profit,
03:02then a measure of solidarity, too, must cross borders in the name of justice. We must begin
03:09to see social security as part of a global ecosystem. That ecosystem can take many forms,
03:19stronger financing for protection laws, global funds created for health and climate, fairer taxation across
03:27borders, and the sharing of expertise and technology so that no country is left behind. A world
03:38fractured by inequality cannot endure. Neither a country, nor a region, nor the global community can
03:50endure such gross inequality physically due to an oppressive system that do not recognize the dignity of our workers.
04:08So, I do not believe that this is a report of power to advance the risk of a democracy.
04:10So, I should move to the stewardship of a community of the sacred institutions .
04:12So, I will be the hope for it after two months. For what I do not believe in the
04:13future, I will be the hope of a decrease in my life. That's why I am not entirely
04:15to believe in my own belief. I hope I will be the hope of the dedicated
04:19life-based work of public service. And I'll make it a determination to you to be a
04:20championship. And I'm going to reinvest the race again to you today. I will be the
04:21next to you today. I hope you will talk about the future of this work today's work in my
04:22future. I will eventually study my career. But I do not believe in great
04:23that you are like so much but I will be the case in my life's work in your life. It's interesting to
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