One Malaysia

What is One Malaysia? One Malaysia is an idea which has been inspired by Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak to overcome racial problems and issues. This idea is about uniting and integrating all citizens of Malaysia from all races and religion into one track towards peaceful and harmony Malaysia. It is to grow unity among various races in Malaysia based on particular important values that should become habit of every Malaysia citizens. It is not a new policy that separates from other policies of Barisan Nasional before this, instead, it is the completer to the existed approach to strengthen the unity in order to ensure stability, towards achieving higher development for the citizens and Malaysia itself. In other word, One Malaysia is built as a formulae that will help ensuring national aspiration, Wawasan 2020 to be achieved if it is instilled in every Malaysians soul and practised by every Malaysian. To succeed the idea of One Malaysia, firstly, we need to understand the concept of One Malaysia. One Malaysia concept is based on the point that is to achieve the developed country status as being suggested in Wawasan 2020, the main condition is a strong and stable country and this can only be achieved when all the citizens unite. Unity that is pictured by the idea of One Malaysia is quite different from the concept of assimilation that are being practised by other countries where the identities of ethnic races are eradicated and replaced by the one national identity. Instead, One Malaysia appreciates and respects the principles of Federal Constitution as well as ethnic identities of every race in Malaysia, and assumes them as an asset or advantage that should be proud of. One Malaysia also stress on accepting attitude among various races of Malaysia citizens, where each race accepts the uniqueness of other races as what they are so that we can live together in respectful environment as citizens in one country. To be the core of all, the principle of justice for all races that carries the meaning that the fate of all races will be fought for and there will be no group to be left aside. This justice has to count the matter of development rank of races that is in different grades. Therefore, government policies and constitution allocation that are given advocacy to those who in need, will still be carried out. One Malaysia is the continuation agenda to build the country. To achieve development to the country, citizens need to be developed first, and this is started with molding the accepting attitude between races, that leads to strong unity. When the unity achieved, national development process will run more smoothly. Other than that, in order to achieve One Malaysia idea, we need to understand too the bases of One Malaysia. There are few main basic of One Malaysia that we need to understand fully. The first aspect is the application of unity cores. This is to apply the unity cores as the part of culture and habit of Malaysians. These unity cores are the basic components that strengthen the spirit of unity among various races in Malaysia. This unity core is supported by moral values that should underlie Malaysian lifestyle.

The second core is application of aspiration values. Aspiration values that are stated in One Malaysia concept is the values that should exist in our progressive and dynamic society that will drive our country towards achieving developed country status. These aspiration values will help in producing citizens who are able to compete efficiently in global surrounding, thus helping in increasing our countrys economical health. As a conclusion, we should strongly agree with this idea of One Malaysia, and we as the citizens of Malaysia need to unite and become one in order to achieve One Malaysia, thus leading our beloved motherland towards peaceful, harmony, unity and integration among all different kind of races and ethnics in Malaysia.