A Trascript of Sabah in the Limbo....

The following is the transcript from Malaysia Today, the commentaries to the letter posted to MT portal by a comrade of freedom fighters - 'batsman'.

Read his full article here - http://mt.m2day.org/2008/content/view/28181/84/#jc_writeComment

I find it read-worthy for those who are interested and will be concerned of the growing of East Malaysia politics - Sabah and Sarawak inclusive - and our brethren in those regions are faced with the limbo which we on the mainland may have ideas and views to extend the feelers into the far east domain, through this border-less and distant-less blogging facility and forum.

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1) written by RockyMountain, October 30, 2009 10:49:29
You are spot-on ‘batman’. I am a Sabahan and ain't expert on Sabah matters either, but at least I have the so-called first hand eyewitness accounts of events unfolding before my eyes. We the local Sabahans wish to determine and shape our own political destiny within Malaysia. We want to be parts of the policy-making process in the country. We want our voices to be heard. We want to be in the main stream of the nation building programs. But, alas, we are not allowed. Instead, we have been forced to swallow whatever the Central policy-making body (headed by UMNO) thrust down on us, like it or not. They treated, are treating and will treat us perpetually as their colony rather than a part of the nation with equal rights. I am sure I am speaking for the Sarawakians as well.

On top of that, we feel that we have been CHEATED by the leaders of these perpetuators. When our forefathers agreed to form a nation called Malaysia in 1963 Sabah, Sarawak, Singapore and Malaya were supposed to be countries with equal share in terms of political powers as well as and management of our economics and in the control of the administration of the nation. Alas, we were reduced to into one of the states of Malaya. We fought for this in the hope that the Central will recognise our aspirations and rectify the mistakes they made and to right wrongs they had committed. We did this through the ballot boxes. USNO was toppled because it was too close for comfort with the Central UMNO. The BERJAYA Government which took over from USNO too had forgotten the Sabah cause and became a very comfortable bedfellow with UMNO. BERJAYA received the same fate as USNO at the hands of the right-thinking Sabahans so PBS emerged. And can you guess the subsequent responses we got from UMNO? The Muslim Pendatang HARAMs from the Philippines and Indonesia were and are still today given the Malaysian ICs and registered as voters. Their population alone now is 1.7 millions against the locals who only comprised of 1.5 millions.

Now brother ‘batman’ whoever you are, your brilliant input is needed how to overcome this, not just rhetoric, please. Thanks.

2) written by batsman, October 30, 2009 12:21:38
RockyMountain - TQ for your confidence, but I am not Sabahan. Besides I am barely keeping my head above the water in West Malaysia as it is. heeheehee.

Still, I have great sympathy for your struggle. Hopefully most of you guys are not in politics just for the glory of your old mums. Good Luck!

3) written by Zorro, October 30, 2009 13:39:21
Dear Batsman,

The chinese has been around for more than 5000 years and with so much of wisdom and learnings during that period they can survive anywhere in the world presently.

Malays has probably been around for moreless 700 years, and are still a learning race and is no match for the chinese for worldly business knowledge, yet.

As for the natives of Sabah and Sarawak, we probably have existed much lesser years than the malays and the saddest thing is our ancestors did not have any means of communicating written historical datas for their generation to read because they were simply illiterate! My father was the first literate generation.

The real predicament of the Natives of Sabah(Sarawak still enjoys equal majority of natives to that of malays)is that we are now a diluted population whilst when Sabah actually joined malaya to form Malaysia our population were more than 65%! and if it were to grow naturally we should be the majority community in Sabah(as it is now, natives only account for 33% of the population).

By right, the natives should have a bigger voice of the state affairs but as it is now we were being let down by our own leaders and the new colonist master; the malays.

And the problem deepens as time goes by as most of the natives are still at villages living their lives poorly and nobody is telling them that they deserve better because sabah is a rich state with abundance of natural resources which if channeled wisely, the natives childrens would all be able to go all the way to higher education for free and sealed roads should have reached their kampungs long time ago( not like now only when BN is in danger then allocations to build infrastructure are coming in in loads).

We do not trust Anwar because he was one of the masterminds together with TDM to allow those newly made bumiputera muslim in the 1990s ( the practice to attract natives to embrace Islam started way back in 1960s during Mustapha time- many were offered nice positions and promotion if they did).

However, I was willing to put my trust in him last election because I did believe that he would give us a better future in being fair to all the rakyats if he becomes PM. But what he did recently in not appointing the chief of Sabah PKR as what most of the grass roots wanted made me realize that he is still the same Anwar.

Okay, Jeffrey carry a lot of baggage in terms of his conduct with previous parties with and his marital matters but hey, the BN leaders are worst off! Personally I don’t like his ways but the important thing is the common rakyat identify with him because he has been one of the most persistent leaders in voicing our rights and he would have brought in a lot of votes. Our aim is to bring BN down to their knees right?

You should come here to sabah batsman, not just to look at the political situation here..but to enjoy paradise on earth( u should visit kundasang to see the majestic mount kinabalu to get a taste of natural cold whether and then enjoy beautiful beaches and sunshine on islands around kota kinabalu, all possible in a day trip!)

4) written by masterwordsmith, October 30, 2009 14:09:16
Dear batsman,

An excellent write-up by one who has not been to Sabah but who truly loves Malaysia! smilies/smiley.gifThanks! May I request for one on Sarawak which is plagued by similar woes and predicaments as highlighted in this post?

As it stands, they have been hoodwinked left, right and center and stabbed in the back to boot. The saddest part is that their past leaders have hoodwinked them as the chase for money and glory overtakes their loyalty to their own community. Their leaders have quarreled incessantly over private interests and private glory. Even brothers no longer trust each other and belong in opposite camps. In such a situation, it is too easy to get angry and lose direction, retreating into an insular dream world.

I believe the preceding paragraph applies to the rest of Malaysia, not just to Sabah! Sad but true... smilies/cry.gif

Keep up your wonderful work to stir Malaysians flame for change.

5) written by Kopi37, October 30, 2009 14:26:04
"Now brother ‘batman’ whoever you are, your brilliant input is needed how to overcome this, not just rhetoric, please. Thanks. "........

Hi RockyMountain,

We know how much we all have been played out and being lived in the environment of haunting by the hegemonic Umno evil plots for more than half a century, sigh!

All the efforts of our forefathers in fighting for independence, expelled the most fiendish and rapacious occupation by the Japs, then the disguising and hypocritical British as the salvation army was virtually a pandemic of the colonial virus at that point of time, the western civilization was riding rough sod over the third world uncivilized countries! We were one amid the many resourceful primitive countries which were brought into the greedy plan of the Caucasians with Sabah and Sarawak being charted in the map for full exploitation of the richly grown and gifted natural resources, fertile soil, precious minerals underground, timber logs etc. etc. all those were actually the foreign invaders were/are all up to!

The import of the shiploads of immigrants before the cold war was a concrete testimony of those greedy suckers whom they worked on their plan of looting with cheap labors via slavery!

When Umno took over, they were supposed to excel and broke through the ever 'epizoon syndrome' where the Malays were spoon fed with unproductive careers of becoming part of the feudalistic mechanism in the then so-called British administrative system and bureaucracy! Instead they mutated it, they made the then immigrants and hardworking forefathers of ours to slog under the hot sun and sweated for the golden minerals and proliferation of rubber plantations and all that! They then reaped through not by means of weapons and guns, but their mutated way of reaping - via the so-called 'constitutional democracy' which they adulterated with the opium brand of 'Ketuanan', and the action was through - corruption! First they worked through the bureaucracy, blended now with politics aka Umno politico-bureaucracy and they openly reap and loot the national coffer and in the daylight, rob and sabotage the citizen rights of fair shares of hard earned resources, all forms of welfare, the justice had been lost to their acts of expurgating the FC and substituted with the most evilly agenda of racist and bigoted islamist ideology - they tagged it - the Malay Supremacy! They made it a successful recipe for decades liked they were modifying the brainwash tactics of the Japs during the cold war era - the opium war in China!

Hence the handed out of opium and little goodies to pacify their clans in the larger community and the intoxication with the well engineered devious rhetoric and heretical theocracy was managed to be sustained through their eloquent pleas, in modern day terminology, they called it the perception war!

Now that the younger generation has gone through the ebb and rise, the elite groups they have been well trained have become awakening enough to realize that they are virtually one of the victims of such venomous intoxication by their so-called benevolent leaders have shown their true colors of being the real malevolent demons, self-seeking yet bankrupt of any morality!

The youthful intellectuals have also become disenchanted of the cheap marketing strategy of umno which of no national interests but only the parish pump politics which belongs to the ideal cloud-cuckoo-land of umno, the ill famous hegemonic lunatic fringe!

The 308 tsunami is an exert of people's power and the 'sophistication' of the mainland Malaysian and as the onlookers, we definitely hope that the Sabahans and the Sarawakians brethren will join in the formidable force to altogether fight for a notable cause of salvaging our Nation from all these rapacious ravages and stop it from being transmitted like the lethal pandemic to succumb our next generation to victimization, a doom-laden premonition?!...

As one of the fair-minded freedom fighters, shouldn't RockyMountain rise to the mount and preach the vast fraternity with your sermon on the mount with the manifest of the 308 tsunami and join force with all the comrades here from the mainland, made it happens, first from Sabah, then Sarawak?

This i feel is the real action to complement with batman's rhetoric, whatsoever, it's true! As RPK has always said - there's no second way about it!

6) written by batsman, October 30, 2009 16:50:01
Dear Kopi37 - we have our history just as you have yours. In west Malaysia a lot of Malays backed the Japanese in the hope of winning independence from the English. They were betrayed by the Japanese, so they backed the communists, and so on and so on. Often the current is too strong and even if we make the right moves, we still drown. Sad but true.

7) written by RockyMountain, October 30, 2009 16:53:38
Dear batman and Kopi37, thank you for the responses. You two write beautiful comments with brilliant English and fantastic writing skill and flare. I envy you. I wrote the above comment to prove to the MT ardent readers that Sabahans did indeed fight and are still fighting for our rights but failed, not because we lack the fighting spirit and courage but as I said in the above comment we were and are being outmanoeuvred with dirty tactics at every turn and with our hands tied up. Even Anwar who is now in PKR is a big letdown to the Sabahans because apparently the ‘UMNO mentality’ in him is still very much intact. This is also in response to comments from the avid readers particularly from our big brothers in Peninsula that we Sabahans and Sarawakians deserve to be ‘raped’ by these "Monsters" from KL again and again and again because we vote for BN in every election. Hence, we should not be cry-babies said RPK.

Can we really help it and stop crying like a baby?

8) written by mykantree, October 30, 2009 21:14:59
Dear RockyMountain,

I do agree with you that Sabahan politicians are constantly out-maneuvered by the UMNO all these years.Unless Sabahans are able to unite as one, you will continue to be out-maneuvered by UMNO.The way I look at it, the solution is simple.The 1st step is to reject UMNO and all UMNO affiliated Sabah political parties. These parties are no more than stooges of UMNO.

That's the only way Sabahan can regain its pride and a rightful place in Malaysia. Then you can all stop bawling like crybabies and spoilt kids.


LAST BUT NOT LEAST, I must thank 'batsman' for producing such an analytical writeup of the Sabah crisis though he admitted he had never set foot on Sabah land, yet with all necessary concise and precise in his articulation. Thanks Batsman. Viva people's power!

RPK replies to his 'big brother'......

(Malaysia Toady)-Monday, 26 October 2009 15:49
Posted by : RPK

I am very pleased to read the ‘open letter’ from my old friend Megat and thought I would respond with an open letter of my own. Yes, Megat and I go back a long way indeed, to 1963 to be exact. The last time we met was in Tengku Razaleigh’s house in 2007.

NO HOLDS BARRED

(Raja Petra Kamarudin)

Dear Megat, it’s been a long time since I have heard from you. It is certainly nice to hear from you again. I missed you at Tengku Razaleigh’s Hari Raya open house last year because I had to spend not only Hari Raya but also my birthday in Kamunting. And this year I had to spend Hari Raya, as people say, on the run.

But I am not actually running as such, Megat. I wish I was though because, as you can see from this photograph of me with the two Mongolian girls, I have put on quite a bit of weight. Sigh…the good food and cigars are certainly talking its toll on my figure. But let me tell you, Megat, this does not keep the Mongolian girls away one bit, as you would be very pleased to know.

Hey, why don’t you go see Najib and tell him that he and Razak had to share one while I have two all to my own. That should piss him off. No, maybe tell Rosmah instead and then add ‘no wonder Malaysians just love Mongolians’. That should get her panties all twisted into knots.

I can see that you are very frustrated that the longer I remain underground the longer it will take to kick Najib out. However, as I have told Tengku Razaleigh’s boys so many times, Megat, we can only do so much. Tengku Razaleigh has to also do his part and get the nominations. Even if we do manage to bring Najib down it would be Muhyiddin and not Tengku Razaleigh who takes over if he can’t even get two nominations.

Back in 2004, Bul said he can get 60 nominations. Tengku Razaleigh ended up getting just one. Even that can’t be regarded as one but more like half since his own Wanita Bahagian did not nominate him. Then, in 2008, they again said they can get 60 nominations but, yet again, he ended up with only one.

So you see, Megat, what can we do if Tengku Razaleigh’s boys can’t deliver the promised nominations? Therefore, it really does not matter whether I walk into Kamunting or not. It will still not help Tengku Razaleigh become Prime Minister if his own boys are not doing their job. So I hope you do not start thinking that I have turned my back on Tengku Razaleigh.

I know you are keen for me to go to court so that my criminal defamation trial can proceed. Lokman and Nijhar also said exactly the same thing. Actually, my other trial, the sedition trial, is ongoing and far advanced compared to the criminal defamation, which has not even started yet. Why does no one talk about that trial?

Anyway, I doubt that even if the Colonel comes to court to testify that he was the one who informed me about what happened the night of Altantuya’s murder that would be strong enough to bring Najib down. Even Megat Junid and many others were involved in murder but that did not bring them down. I know Bul is hoping that the criminal defamation trial would proceed so that he can line up the witnesses to testify. I seriously doubt that this would be good enough for Najib to fall and for Tengku Razaleigh to take over. Furthermore, it could be Muhyiddin instead who takes over if Najib falls.

I know you are puzzled as to how I can support myself underground. Well, let me assure you of one thing. It is not Najib who is supporting me in an attempt to keep me away so that the truth will not surface. It is in fact the other way around. I am underground so that I can dig up more dirt and shit.

We all felt that if I sit in Kamunting this would not achieve anything. We have to look at what we can gain for the action we take. And we all felt that if I continue to remain free where I could dig up more dirt and shit then this would be better for the cause.

And that is why I am not in Kamunting -- not because I am scared of Kamunting as you suggested. Just see what I have been able to do over the last one year while out of Kamunting. And we have lots more to come, Megat. I am completing my parts 2, parts 3, and so on, for the Carpetman cum Bagman cum Toyboy cum when Rosmah wants him to cum story. I hope to release the story soon. Now that is really going to get Rosmah’s panties all twisted into knots.

Anyway, take care, Megat, and do try to cut down on the booze and girls. You may not want to admit it but age is certainly catching up on us. And see you in Putrajaya when we march in to form the new government. I am really looking forward to that day, which may not be that long away.

READ SOME INTERESTING COMMENTARY HERE:-

1. written by batsman, October 26, 2009 16:05:55

Heeheehee! RPK's in Mongolia! What Najib sows, RPK reaps double! heheheehee. This is a good day for laughing...

2. written by fireduck, October 26, 2009 16:54:06

This is real classic Pete. With one piece he gets to whack Megat so many times. With this one piece he has already put Megat in the 'other' camp. Now Najib's boys will keep an eye on him. Yet, as we all know, Pete also pointed out that Muhiyiddin is all ready to pounce on any opportunity to stab Najib in the back, just like he so deftly did so to that sleepyhead.

And of course, that last paragraph ... another whack on Megat's holier-than-thou ways. Pete can go anywhere in the world and I'm sure friends (and even strangers) will gladly offer him assistance without hesitation.

3. written by malgal, October 26, 2009 15:57:48

u see i always thought you are in ulan bator where the steppes are downy and fine. horse riding and all manner of sports non? marina looks lovely as always in the yurt tent. may the good weather be with you. say hi to gengiz's lovely brood altho i read somewhere they can really wreak bloodthirty revenge on those who ailed them. don't worry about the tummy, it becomes you.

4. written by Kopi37, October 26, 2009 17:48:08

Pete,

You really made everyone man here "stand" jealous you know! See where your left hand had rested, though I am as handsome and macho, I couldn't even have a minute chance of such close body contact with such pretty girls, let alone the intimacy of having to hold the fitness waists of two sisters of Altantuya! You said it right, Najis must be very jealous, he had to share blanket with his aide and you are being shared by two Mongolian fur blankets!

I must say Bravo to Mdm Marina of her understanding not to twist your ears into knots but still allowed you to pose with the beauties with all your organs undistorted! This probably in tandem with what you had just written, big head with broad thinking! Not like the religious bigots, upon close to the sexy girls with V-cuts, their brothers will be agitated and tomorrow, they will set law to ban V-cuts, just like they are banning condom!

So now your 'big brother' received your message loud and clear! His reverse psychology tactic had failed miserably and his anus is now stuck with your BIC pen and i guess he will be jumping with hee-haw the whole night long, even a barrel of whisky will not be enough to pacify his senses of pain, in his anus!

This is how cheap a so-called close friend can be. This Megat bozo needed no further elaboration, sure we know that he's another flip-flop hypocritical Moslem who would only bring shame to his almighty God! A character of cheaper stuff than the condom! Tan sri some more?! ...alamak! smilies/cool.gif

5. written by Bigdawg, October 27, 2009 04:45:28

BTW Pete, while you're frolicking with these 2 chicks in the bunker in Gobi desert,
please don't forget to pay attention to precise aiming of those micro mini space missiles.

Satellite missile control is no child's play, and we don't want to be C4ed and obliterated together with those piggishly things in Putrid Jaya.

Say, you did not trade away MT2day to the Mongolians for those Chinese-made micro mini space missiles, did you ? We badly need MT2day; it's the only free broadcast station in May'sia.

6. written by Ghifarix, October 27, 2009 07:35:01
Oh Goshhhh! Megat Junid kill people too? Maha Phaoun said he prefer Megat though he was not a smart fella but because he'd do anything Maha command.
What booze- You telling us that Tan Sri Megat drinks? This the guys that will do anything for our "Mayau" unity? Tan Sri eh? got the booze in the Palace tak???!

7. written by vox populi, October 26, 2009 20:53:26

How naive, even stupid, can this Megat get! Maybe the booze and girls have something to do with it. And he sits shits on the boards of those high-sounding institutions (no wonder their KPIs are rock bottom)!!!

RPK can survive very well anywhere thanks to his legions of supporters and millions of Malaysians who count on him. Just one word and the contributions will come pouring in.

Anyway, Megat, you don't have to worry about RPK because he is well looked after by Aminah Altantunya=Saaribu Altantunya=Mongolian Government.

The best part of the 7-course dinner our dear RPK served Megat was the desert:

" And see you in Putrajaya when we march in to form the new government. I am really looking forward to that day, which may not be that long away."

RPK,I do hope you really meant what you said. After many an article where you sounded rather pessimistic about PR marching to Putrajaya, it was most reassuring.

Thanks and keep out of harm's way.

8.written by bakas, October 26, 2009 20:18:43

I was reading the Star which was published today. I was actually anticipating RPK to answer his friend, and voila! it came true. What I cannot understand is, if he claims to be a friend of RPK, he would have understand the need for RPK to "run away" so to speak, from the law, until I read it carefully. Read paragraph 2, his role is as 'Malaysian Anti Corruption Commission' (short MACC) advisory committee member. Now this is the same MACC that caused Teoh Beng Hock to 'miraculously' jump off the building, and the same MACC that uses selective persecution in their investigation. Pray tell me, how is he going to make his promise good, when he cannot ensure MACC function with transparency and accountability? He said "people will make noise if there is injustice", but look at Beng Hock! "Public opinion will protect him and ensure he gets a fair trial?". Well, that is if he ever gets to the trial, you cheeky monkey!

RPK, are you sure this is the same Megat that you know? In Bolehland, it may look like him, sound like him, but is not him!

World's Best Cities To Stay In 2009.

[People would rather be in 65 other countries... According to the UN index out today. - Reuters pic]
Vienna is the best city to live in 2009.
Germany has 4 cities listed in the top 20 , followed by 3 cities in Switzerland, 3 in Canada, 2 in Australia and 2 in New Zealand. No US city is listed in the top 20!!! Kuala Lumpur is not even listed in the top 50. Singapore is the only Asean city listed at No. 26.

The world's top cities offering the best quality of life.

(New York City is the base city with a score of 100 points). The world's top cities offering the best infrastructures.

(New York City is the base city with a score of 100 points)


2009/2008>> City<><> Country
======================
1 >>>> =2 > Vienna <> Austria
2 >>>>> 1 > Zurich <> Switzerland
3 >>>> =2 > Geneva <> Switzerland
=4 >>>> 4 > Vancouver <> Canada
=4 >>>> 5 > Auckland <> New Zealand
6 >>>>> 6 > Düsseldorf <>Germany
7 >>>> =7 > Munich <>Germany
8 >>>> =7 > Frankfurt <>Germany
9 >>>>> 9 > Bern <>Switzerland
10 >>> 10 > Sydney <>Australia
11 >>> 11 > Copenhagen <>Denmark
12 >>> 12 > Wellington <>New Zealand
13 >>> 13 > Amsterdam <>Netherlands
14 >>> 14 > Brussels <>Belgium
15 >>> 15 > Toronto <>Canada
+16 >> 19 > Ottawa <>Canada
=16 >> 16 > Berlin <>Germany
18 >> +17 > Melbourne <>Australia
19 >> =17 > Luxembourg <>Luxembourg
20 >>> 20 > Stockholm <>Sweden
21 >>> 21 > Perth <>Australia
22 >>> 22 > Montreal <>Canada
23 >>> 23 > Nürnberg <>Germany
24 >>> 24 > Oslo <>Norway
25 >> =25 > Dublin <>Ireland
=26 >> 32 > Singapore <>Singapore
=26 >> 25 > Calgary <>Canada
28 >>> 27 > Hamburg <> Germany
29 >>> 28 > Honolulu <> USA
=30 > =29 > San Francisco <>USA
=30 > =29 > Helsinki <>Finland
=30 > =29 > Adelaide <>Australia
32 >>> 32 > Paris <>France
34 >>> 34 > Brisbane <>Australia
=35 >> 35 > Tokyo <>Japan
=35 >> 37 > Boston <>USA
37 >>> 36 > Lyon <>France
=38 >> 38 > Yokohama <>Japan
=38 >> 38 > London <>UK
40 >>> 40 > Kobe <>Japan
41 >>> 41 > Milan <>Italy
=42 >> 48 > Portland <>USA
=42 >> 42 > Barcelona <>Spain
=44 > =44 > Washington DC <>USA
=44 > =44 > Osaka <>Japan
=44 > =44 > Lisbon <>Portugal
=44 > =44 > Chicago <>USA
48 >>> 43 > Madrid <>Spain
49 >>> 49 > New York City <>USA
50 >>> 49 > Seattle <>USA

(Research by Mercer Consulting)

THE FOLLOWING IS THE NEWS REPORT FROM THE MALAYSIAN INSIDER:--


Malaysia 66th most attractive country globally, third best in Asean.

KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 6 — Malaysia is the third most desirable country to live in the Asean region behind Singapore and Brunei. Overall, it was ranked 66th globally out of 182 countries, according to UN data released this week.

Data collected in 2007 before the global economic crisis ranked Singapore as the 23rd and Brunei the 30th most desirable country to live in.

Both countries were listed as having “very high human development” together countries like Sweden, France, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, Germany and the United States.

[Tan Sri Nor Mohamed Yakcop looking at the HDR report (middle) with Kamal Malhotra (left) and Jeny Klugman (far right). - Picture by Jack Ooi]

Tan Sri Nor Mohamed Yakcop looking at the HDR report (middle) with Kamal Malhotra (left) and Jeny Klugman (far right). - Picture by Jack Ooi
[Kamal Malhotra, the UNDP rep for Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei. - Picture by Jack Ooi]

Kamal Malhotra, the UNDP rep for Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei. - Picture by Jack Ooi
Other Asian countries ranked as having “very high human development” are Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, Kuwait, Qatar and the UAE.

Norway retained its status as the world’s most desirable country to live in, according to the UN data, which ranks sub-Saharan African states afflicted by war and HIV/AIDS as the least attractive places.

Data collected prior to the global economic crisis showed people in Norway, Australia and Iceland had the best living standards, while Niger, Afghanistan and Sierra Leone scored worst in terms of human development.

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) index was compiled using 2007 data on GDP per capita, education, and life expectancy, and showed marked differences between the developed and developing world.

Jeny Klugman, lead author of 2009 Human Development Report. - Picture by Jack OoiMalaysia was ranked in the category of countries with “high human development” together with countries such as Romania, Costa Rica, Mexico, Cuba, Hungary, Bahrain, Russia, Saudi Arabia and Lebanon.

In comparison, Thailand was ranked 87th while Indonesia came in at 111th, and were only classified as having “medium human development.”

According to the country report for Malaysia, life expectancy at birth in Malaysia 74.1 years, compared with 82.7 years in Japan.

Malaysia has a 91.2 per cent adult literacy rate which is lower than Indonesia’s 92 per cent and Georgia’s 100 per cent.

Malaysia’s GDP per capita in 2007 was US$13,518 (RM46,495), compared to Botswana’s US$13,604 and Liechstenstein’s US$85,382.

Singapore’s life expectancy was estimated at 80.2 years, its literacy rate was 94.4 per cent and GDP per capita was US$49,704.

Malaysia was ranked 63rd in previous year’s index.