Social justice 'as important as sovereignty of law', Harapan told
A researcher has reminded the Pakatan Harapan government not to leave social justice behind in its struggle to improve governance and the justice system.
According to Azlan Awang, co-founder and researcher of economic think tank Blindspot, good governance and sovereignty of laws are not the only answer to all the problems faced in the country.
A researcher has reminded the Pakatan Harapan government not to leave social justice behind in its struggle to improve governance and the justice system.
According to Azlan Awang, co-founder and researcher of economic think-tank Blindspot, good governance and sovereignty of laws are not the only answer to all the problems faced in the country.
"For instance, during the apartheid era in South Africa, good governance and rule of law were a practice of the administration of the white people, but there were no social justice and human rights," he said.
"The same things happened in Israel," Azlan (photo, above) added.
"So, rule of law and good governance are not the most important when compared with other aspects. We still need to bring lots of changes to achieve a fair economic distribution."
Azlan said his in his response to two out of five thrusts stipulated in the manifesto of Pakatan Harapan.
Harapan leaders were seen to be emphasising rule of law when the BN leaders were hauled to courts.
On Tuesday, Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad launched the National Anti-Corruption Plan (NACP), which aims to tackle corruption in the country within five years.
The nine-month-old government is seen as being unable to keep up with the handouts and welfare provided by the previous administration, due to financial constraints.
In particular, the policy of the Harapan administration was criticised for not aiming to empower the bottom 40 (B40) income group.
Meanwhile, Parti Sosialis Malaysia committee member Dr Michael Jayakumar Devaraj said the Harapan government suffered an ideological impairment, for it failed to understand the problems faced in the country.
Jayakumar pointed out that Harapan leaders failed to understand that the low wages were not caused by any lack of productivity of the labour force, but by the manipulation of the global economic system by multinational companies.
These companies 'break and rule' to keep the costs in the supply chain comparatively low, he explained.
When a government respect social justice and human right it will be a clean and transparent government. Scandinavian countries have very high regards of Human rights and social justice and they follow the rule of even if it is not enforced. Automatically the rule of law will fall in place.Social Justice is important because it promotes and works toward a society that celebrates diversity and equality. Having more equality and diversity in a society is good for society because it promotes opportunity, growth and social well being.
If the acceptable definition of the Social justice is the equal access to wealth, opportunities, and privileges within a society then rule of law and good governance is the paramount. The reason for changes in the Federal Government mainly due to the lawlessness which created unequal access to basic needs of the Rakyat. Nowhere in the world social justice achieved in an anarchy. Malaysia won't be a exception to the rule. Let us work together to reinstate rule of law and good governance for the sake of distributing the prosperity to B40 communities at a minimum cost.
Without rule of law, you cannot have true social justice. The elite can get away with anything, and they do, as has been shown with the Najib Administration. Rule of Law is fundamental, else the superficial attempts at social justice end up as "You help me, I help You".
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