If leaders are holding themselves so high as more capable
leaders than other leaders in Asean etc who could sway the whole
world with influence, like the way they conduct themselves to their
own citizens with such mighty arrogance, self-confidence about
their own eadership abilities and talents and not willing to be
subjected to good corporate governance or accountability processes,
then our foreign relation will also suffer big problems.
Being Leaders of a small country called the red dot by Habibie they
must learn to conduct such foreign relation with a certain extra
finesse which will win respect not only from their own people but
from all other leaders and people.
They have been having past difficulties with leaders of other
countries before and by now should have learned their lesson from
the past.
For example, do not adopt the attitude that they are never wrong in
their judgments or dealings with people or others like has been
happening in dealing with the Souzhou local authority over its sale
of local industrial lands. If our leaders have been more tactful
and not resort to arrogant showdown and threats will we have
sufferred so many setbacks.
In past dealing with Mahathir over the water issue - do our leaders
always have to publicised how right they are ? Do they really
understand foreign relations.
Our leaders must be more strategic in handling foreign relations
taking into account our strengths and vulnerabilities and not just
act more superior than the other countries in the neighbouring
region.
If we keep trying to tell our neighbouring countries we are
providing them with aids and we are better, we will not go down
well with their people.
As advised to the government Feedback Unit previously, being small
and vulnerable we must not conduct ourselves based on haughty
arrogance that we are more advanced or superior.
We must conduct genuine people-to-people good relation with actions
rather than a great deal of words and broadcasting about our taking
over other people's national assets.
So it is time for our foreign ministry to really come up with a
more strategic foreign relation master plan and implement it with
practical sensibility.
No need to show or broadcast about how good is our leaders'
abilities to the people. Just do your jobs as leaders with
abilities from actions and results.
