I refer to the Malaysiakini report The morning after...

In his very excellent article, the writer has briefly mentioned the issue of raising money and donations for the opposition.

I feel that this is currently one of the greatest failings and yet at the same time the greatest opportunity for PKR and the opposition alliance to quickly trounce the BN government.

For Sarawak and Sabah (and maybe parts of West Malaysia) it is clearly evident that it is very difficult for the opposition to mount an effective campaign because of the remoteness of many of the populations.

Plus the fact that the incumbent federal and state governments quite illegally control all mainstream media together with government-owned resources such as helicopters, boats, four-wheel drive vehicles etc.

But this is surely only a question of money and basically, President Obama has clearly shown the way for the poorer members of the community to vote out the rich and probably corrupt establishment figures from incumbent governments.

Obama raised huge amounts of money by appealing for very small donations from the poorer sections of the electorate but he did so in a way that was transparent and easy to do.

He used the Internet to get nearly all his billions of Ringgit - yes indeed - he raised billions of ringgit by getting the poorer masses of the population to send him small amounts of RM100 or less.

Let's do some simple maths here. So far as I am aware, in the last general elections in Malaysia, the famous March 8 tsunami, something like three million people voted for the opposition parties.

Now suppose we could get each one of those voters, who obviously are yearning for change, to donate just RM5 per month to a central fund that represents the opposition alliance. This would translate into RM180 million per year.

Now with this amount of money, the opposition alliance could beat BN and Umno at their own game.

The opposition's next great test will be in the Sarawak state elections and if they can raise substantial funds from small donations from all their three million odd supporters, then the sky is the limit quite frankly.

With this sort of money, the opposition alliance could even buy a couple of helicopters of their own together with a whole fleet of longboats and outboard motors and four-wheel drives so that they can effectively reach even very remote areas and therefore compete on a level playing field with BN.

So I would urge that Anwar Ibrahim, on behalf of the opposition alliance, immediately launches a centralised fund-raising campaign through which all opposition supporters can easily and transparently donate.

This would be best be done via the Internet because there is no doubt that the opposition's major strength of support lies with the younger and Internet-savvy sector of the population.

If this campaign were promoted by all the bloggers and Internet news portals, then I am sure that vast amounts of money could be raised so that the last advantage that BN possesses (via its illegal use of taxpayers' money) can be countered and eliminated by the opposition.