Urgent Email Open Letter to Ministers that Cabinet meeting today  should defuse ethnic tensions by apologising for the Prime Minister’s 43rd Merdeka Day Message as well as clarifying the Cabinet’s position on Suqiu at its meeting on Sept. 22, 1999


Media Statement
by Lim Kit Siang 

(Petaling Jaya,  Wednesday): Early this morning, I sent an Urgent Open Letter to all Cabinet Ministers by email and via the Internet urging that the Cabinet this morning should "boldly and wisely grasp the nettle of worsening racial and religious polarisation in the country" by  apologising for the Prime Minister’s 43rd Merdeka Day Message as well as clarifying the Cabinet’s position on Suqiu at its meeting on Sept. 22, 1999.

My Urgent Email Open Letter to all Cabinet Ministers reads:

I spent one fruitless  hour from 7 a.m. to 8 a.m. searching the various government websites  trying to locate the email addresses of the Cabinet Ministers which is not the best advertisement of the e-government that the Federal Government is introducing in the country.  There are photographs of the Cabinet Ministers galore on the Internet, but no email addresses for them to be reached in the information age.

There was also no help from the Malaysia Civil Service Link which has been described  as "MCSL Gateway, a single window to Malaysian Government Information", which clearly needs a total revamp in being unable to provide even  the email addresses of Cabinet Ministers.

Finally, I emailed the Urgent Email Open Letter to the Cabinet to the MCSL for "instantaneous forwarding to all Cabinet Ministers … so that the Open Letter can be brought up at this morning's Cabinet meeting".
 

 (6/9/2000)


*Lim Kit Siang - DAP National Chairman