There are always secret that are not to be revealed even from God to humankind.

‘Everything is not a secret’, I say. It is lame excuse for lack of knowledge and poor services by YBs as well as government offices.

I really sympathise with the poor people especially the rural poor when they visit the government offices and are poorly treated and managed.

They spend time coming all the way from longhouses and waiting without complaint and many a time do not get what they come for.

They go home, thinking when can they come again, after spending so much money on this trip.

Who do they turn to when they fail to get what they want? Please pick a choice below”

a. A YB.
b. A community leader.
c. A District Officer.
d. A relative.
e. Nobody.

What have the YBs been doing on the above? Do they care to study the problems faced by the ordinary dayaks day-in and day-out, their many problems and burdens they are carrying, some of them could be your parents or uncles or brothers or cousins.

Have the YBs stood-by to help the people solve their problems? These common rural problems should be the priority of YBs’ everyday tasks in helping their people jointly with the government offices concerned to be productive and reduce the so-called ‘everything is a secret’.

The dayak YBs are the key leaders to ensure the dayaks are served everyday by those who are duty-bound to serve them.

Change ‘everything is secret’ to ‘everything is served’.

It is not true, “In Malaysia, everything is secret”.

It is as secret as we want it to be on matters that are not classified as ‘confidential’ or ’secret’.

It is in our mind or in the mind of those who want to play ’safe’ or ’stupid’ or ‘unhelpful’, that everything is secret.

It is up to us, everyone of us to dare to speak up, to dare to talk, to dare to discuss, to dare to help others, not for one own interests but to SERVE.

Yes, if you are a government servant, your job is to serve the general public. Since when have the civil servants been punished for doing their duties – in serving the public.

It is more likely the civil servants are not knowledgeable on their own organisation and the duties and responsibilities of their fellow-workers or colleages that they cannot explain the situation to their ‘customers’ and take the easy out by saying, “I don’t know’ or worse still, ‘I can’t tell’.

The answer is, when we visit a DO or a government office, insist on seeing the right person. He or she may likely provide the correct information or advice to us.

It is also true, some office makes the rural folks wait and wait and treat as nobody. Be bold, complain to the office boss or their YB for the poor service. Yes, dare to complain and demand for good service. That is lacking as far as I know. Rural folks dare not demand for their rights and courteous and efficient services.

The YBs must station themselves in government offices and spot-checks on the services rendered to the people and see for themselves whether they are happy with services provided. If they love their people, they would be the ones to cry FOUL. They would be the ones to cry, ‘why everything is secret, if they are all secret.

Since when you last heard of a Dayak YB complain of the service of a government servant or a DO? Try hard to remember.

Be smart and get the right asnwer when you visit a government office. No information that is ‘unclassified’ is secret or not within reach. You should get it.

The approach is important. After all, civil servants are human.

God bless you when you next try to get information from a government office.

Cheers and thank you.

What Akta Keterangan (Evidence Act) has to do with the civil servants? Are you saying that Evidence Act is relevant to the civil servants in discharging their official duties?

May I correct you, it is Official Secret Act and not Evidence Act, atau dalam Bahasa Malaysia Akta Rashia Resmi.

Yes, only a civil servant is required to give evidence in Court and he has to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, then Evidence Act is relevant.

walau bagaimanapun perlu dijelaskan dengan terang bahawa para penjawat awam/civil servants adalah tertakluk kepada perintah-perintah am, akta keterangan, kod etika kerja, pekeliling-pekeliling semasa yang berkuatkuasa dan berbagai perundangan dan prosedur tatakerja yang perlu ditaati.

oleh hal yang demikian kenyataan seperti “…In Sarawak specifically – EVERYTHING is a secret. The Civil Servants are very scared to help the people or even to show them what needed to be done. There seemed to be a “secret eye” everywhere in their office. So much so that the government servant has to be wary of who they sit and drink coffee with or just having casual talk. It seems words will get back to the “top’ and the person would be “blacklisted” or punish by the power that be.” ….adalah janggal serta berat sebelah dan perlu diperbetulkan.

adakah ini sebahagian dari taktik DB untuk mengelirukan orang awam seolah-olah civil servants are puppets on the making. by using a litmus test ask this question, Mengapakah jawatan-jawatan di sektor awam masih popular dikalangan pencari pekerjaan?

Hakikatnya civil servants are bind by the rules and regulations seperti kata perpatah melayu “Di mana bumi disembah di situ langit dijunjung.”

as a kerani opis welfare, i consider myself as an obedient civil servant.

remember “Saya Yang Menurut Perintah’” or, more or less “Your Obedient Servant.”