DingDong on Brain Gain at the SSS Website (Pt.1)

This is an insightful comment on the brain gain program by a commenter called 'DingDong' on a blog post called 'Brain Drain, Anyone? …. Should the Pseudo-Liberals Also Drain?' at the SSS website.


by DingDong 

We met a few Minister during their recent trip to London & Dublin. We suggested few ideas to encourage more Msian professionals to take up the Program Professional Pulang ke Malaysia (PPPM). We presented a brief memo with some figures & benefits.

From the feedback we received from around here many want to go back to help Malaysia but due to lack of fund (rumah/kereta AP/private school fees/kahwin/sufficient savings etc) or waiting to complete the minimum required years for PPPM therefore postponing their return.

For ur info those meeting the minimum required amount of years worked abroad in a specialised industry but only recently passed their relevant professional papers are not qualified for PPPM.They must be full members which could take between 3-5 years.Example a fund accountant in London with 7 years experience who just finished his professional papers in 2010 must wait until 2013 before being admitted as a full member.Malaysia need the fund accountant this year since our vision 2020 is in 10 years time.No time to lose.Plus the fund accountant might find it very hard to return after spending 10 years of working life abroad not including probably another 5 years as undergraduate thats almost like the majority of adulthood away from Malaysia.

We suggested small changes to the to PPPM which will benefit not only the professionals and increase qualified/professional workforce but the automotive industry of Malaysia as well.From our latest publicly available data of potential participants and suggestive amount spent per AP of RM100,000, Msian car dealers of imported & National car could get RM35 billion.Not to mention many will take hire purchase with local banks to finance the purchase.We reckon many spent more than RM100,000 for 2AP duty & tax free car since average luxury sedan cost £40,000 each so thats £80,000(RM400,000) for two.

Instead of money being spent here buying 2 cars cash, the professionals will bring in more money back 2 Malaysia.They will pay only a small portion for car d/payment and extra money could be invested in income generating units or other necessities.

Gov of Malaysia will get its much needed modal insan + foreign money 2 help Malaysia become more competitive and hopefully drive our country to modern state club.

We told the Ministers its a win-win situation.The response we received was quite positive.The Ministers asked us to liaise with the Embassy to get the latest Gov data & figures that we need to complete our report/suggestion/letter/wateva b4 submitting to MITI.

We would start sending around the draft of suggestion and benefits of improving the PPPM around our small circles. The problem is we need some publicity in order to get more suggestion/input/critics to the draft to improve the PPPM.

We are just professionals working abroad without any networking except facebook & IM.Plz dun blame us since our life is just work with little social interaction (ada laki,bini,anak sket,few friends&colleagues only) n limited opportunity to build networking.

Please email me if SSS & Co willing to help since our main objective is to get as many ‘brain deposit’ not the good riddance type back to help Malaysia make that final leap to the promised land.If we let them(padahal including us ;p) continue residing abroad chances are UK,US,China & India will benefit from these Malaysian brain deposits.

Please spread the word around and we sincrely hope SSS with its long networking tentacles could help somehow.

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