We need a RCI on poverty in Malaysia

| As we approach the 56th anniversary of the formation of Malaysia, on Sep 16, 2019, we can reflect on some things which we can all be thankful for.

These groups are a stark reminder of how much more work we need to do to uplift their lives and the lives of their children. It is the Penans in Sarawak who find their land and livelihood taken away from them as a result of corrupt land deals. It is the Bajau Lauts in Lahad Datu whose children face bleak economic prospects because their statelessness restricts their schooling options.

Institut Rakyat, a PKR think tank, asked the then government to use relative poverty rather than only relying on absolute poverty based on the PLI.In 2014, then MP for Lembah Pantai, Nurul Izzah, called for the use of a Multidimensional Poverty Index to better reflect the incidence of poverty on the ground. This was later introduced in the 11th Malaysia Plan.

More recently, the Khazanah Research Institute has highlighted the need to measure relative poverty to complement more updated measures of absolute poverty in the country. Read in this context, the recent comments made by the UN special rapporteur on extreme poverty an human rights, Professor Philip Alston, on Aug 23, 2019, which included the assertion that Malaysia undercounts the number of poor, should not be that surprising.

Encouragingly, the new Harapan government is already focused on the needs of the B40 communities and have introduced new policies in the past year which target the B40 specifically. In this day and age of rampant fake news, it would not be surprising if someone, DAP will be blamed for this!

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