COMMENT | The spirit of Merdeka and the unfinished agenda

COMMENT | As the nation moves into 2024, it is necessary to remind major political players of the original reformasi agenda to start taking action and change what has been repeatedly promised to Malaysians during the last two decades.

Even now, the promises and espoused agenda remain unfulfilled in most of its important aspects. It is one in which there has been deviation, perversion and regression.

In 2007, 60 of the country’s civil society organisations banded together to issue a declaration that identified the major failings and obstacles to Malaysia’s progress and advancement towards a more developed and democratic nation...