{"id":1607,"date":"2011-10-05T09:57:14","date_gmt":"2011-10-04T23:57:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nurulrahman.com\/blog\/?p=1607"},"modified":"2011-10-05T10:20:04","modified_gmt":"2011-10-05T00:20:04","slug":"user-consumer-and-seller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nurulrahman.com\/blog\/?p=1607","title":{"rendered":"The user, consumer and seller"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Kita Pengguna, pembeli dan penjual <\/span><\/strong>(we are the user, consumer and seller)<\/p>\n<p>An interesting speech by Dr.M reminding Malaysian about the their roles and status as citizen at the World Consumer Day &amp; launching for the Harmonious Family competition on the 4 June 1996. Most of Dr. M speech can be obtained in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mahathir.com\/malaysia\/speeches\/1996\/1996-06-04.php\">online achieve<\/a> (most of it is in Malay language). The speech is related to the government efforts to  create an awareness among people in understanding the roles they play as consumer in their everyday life. Dr. M reminded the people that their everyday life can affect the country&#8217;s economical status, thus, they need to understand how they conduct and managed their everyday life. In his speech he discussed about roles as individual, a seller, and a buyer. He also includes in his discussion about the services that is provided by the government staff, that every services offered have to be acknowledge that it is part of the circle between user, consumer and seller.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nurulrahman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/IMG_2227.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1612\" title=\"consumer-SydneyCBD crossroad 2010\" src=\"https:\/\/nurulrahman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/IMG_2227.jpg\" alt=\"consumer-SydneyCBD crossroad 2010\" width=\"494\" height=\"370\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nurulrahman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/IMG_2227.jpg 640w, https:\/\/nurulrahman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/IMG_2227-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/nurulrahman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/IMG_2227-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 494px) 100vw, 494px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>Sydney CBD Crossroad-Image NurulRahman2010<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>For example a person who is a government clerk is also a user (which means he or she still have use the other services provided in everyday life, she or he still will be using the hospital facilities, paying electric and other household bills, etc). The same person is also a consumer, he or she will have to buy products for everyday life, going to the market, buy the household products, and other necessary needs for day to day life. In many ways, the person, is also selling or promoting a service, where he or she as a government staff is providing some sort of services to the others. If the process of productivity work accordingly the level of the inflation will be stable, and everyday life circle will be secured.<\/p>\n<p>There are other point highlighted in his original speech but these are among the significant one.<\/p>\n<pre>\r\n<pre>    6.    Hakikat  asas ini perlu kita ingati  sepanjang\r\nmasa.   Terlalu  ramai daripada kita  hanya  memikir\r\ndiri kita sebagai pengguna dengan tidak sedikit  pun\r\nsedar bahawa kita semua adalah pembekal.\r\n\r\n7.    Mungkin  kita percaya kita tidak  mengeluarkan\r\napa-apa untuk dijual kepada sesiapa.  Mungkin secara\r\nlangsung   tidak.   Tetapi  secara  tidak  langsung,\r\ndengan  kesan  yang  tidak sedikit,  kita  `menjual'\r\nkhidmat  atau  barangan  sekurang-kurangnya   kepada\r\nmajikan yang membayar upah kepada kita.\r\n\r\n8.     Kerani   dalam   pejabat   Kerajaan   menjual\r\nkhidmatnya  kepada  Kerajaan  dan  khidmat  Kerajaan\r\nkepada orang ramai.  Jika ia tidak cergas dan  cekap\r\ndalam  memproses  atau menaip surat,  kelewatan  itu\r\nmempunyai   kesan  kepada  bekalan  khidmat   kepada\r\npengguna.     Budak    pejabat   yang    melambatkan\r\npenghantaran  surat  pun boleh  merugikan  pelanggan\r\nkhidmat  Kerajaan.  Jika kerana ini Kerajaan menjadi\r\ntidak   efisien   maka   kos   segala-galanya   akan\r\nmeningkat.\r\n\r\n9.    Dalam syarikat pembekal khidmat atau barangan,\r\ntiap  seorang kakitangan menyumbang kepada  kejayaan\r\nmembekal   apa  sahaja  kepada  pengguna.   Daripada\r\nkerani   dan  pemandu  kereta  hingga  ke  eksekutif\r\ntertinggi, semuanya bertanggungjawab dalam  membekal\r\nkeluaran syarikat.  Kelewatan atau mutu yang  rendah\r\nbarangan yang dihasilkan bermakna kos meningkat  dan\r\npengguna  tidak  mendapat haknya.  Kemajuan  ekonomi\r\nnegara juga akan terjejas.\r\n\r\n10.   Jika  kita dapat ingat sepanjang  masa  bahawa\r\nkita  semua  adalah  pembekal  dan  bertanggungjawab\r\nkepada diri kita sendiri sebagai pengguna, maka  hak\r\nkita  sebagai  pengguna  akan terpelihara  sepanjang\r\nmasa. Jika hari ini pengguna berasa hak mereka tidak\r\ndiberi pertimbangan yang sewajarnya, sebabnya  ialah\r\nkerana kita hanya melihat diri kita sebagai pengguna\r\ndan lupa akan tanggungjawab kita sebagai pembekal.\r\n\r\n11.   Pengguna  dan gerakan pengguna memanglah  baik\r\nuntuk  memelihara kualiti khidmat dan barangan  yang\r\ndipasarkan.   Tanpa  gerakan  pengguna  khidmat  dan\r\nbarangan   akan   jatuh  mutunya  dan   harga   akan\r\nmeningkat.  Dengan itu bermacam-macam  masalah  akan\r\ndihadapi oleh masyarakat dan negara.\r\n\r\n12.   Barangan yang bermutu rendah atau\/dan harganya\r\nyang  tinggi tidak akan berdayasaing dalam  pasaran,\r\nbaik di dalam mahupun di luar negeri.  Untuk pasaran\r\ndalam   negeri  Kerajaan  akan  diminta   melindungi\r\nbarangan   tempatan.   Perlindungan  oleh   Kerajaan\r\nsebenarnya   bermakna  memaksa   pengguna   tempatan\r\nmembayar harga yang lebih atau menerima kualiti yang\r\nrendah.   Dengan perkataan lain bukan Kerajaan  yang\r\nmelindung  pembekal tetapi pengguna  yang  melindung\r\npembekal  dan memikul beban.  Ini sudah tentu  tidak\r\nadil kepada pengguna.\r\n\r\n13.   Sebaliknya  barangan yang  kos  pengeluarannya\r\nmahal  atau kualitinya rendah tidak dapat dieksport.\r\nDengan  itu jumlah keluaran tidak tinggi  dan  tidak\r\ndapat menolong mengurangkan kos pengeluaran.  Sekali\r\nlagi pengguna tempatan terpaksa menanggung beban.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kita Pengguna, pembeli dan penjual (we are the user, consumer and seller) An interesting speech by Dr.M reminding Malaysian about the their roles and status as citizen at the World Consumer Day &amp; launching for the Harmonious Family competition on the 4 June 1996. 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