Talk Responsibly

WHAT a hilarious statement by a deputy minister? I was surprising to learn a news, quoting deputy labour minister's answer on parliament. He said that Myanmar's unemployment rate is not as bad as people are thinking. He continues there is only 4% of our working age are jobless which is not bad compare to world's economy while giving some facts come from some regional and international countries. We all seeing some form of requests/ highlighting/ seeking FDI recently which were mostly made by our president or lady. They keep saying, their top priority is to create job as much as possible. ASSK once even said our youth will become time-bomb if their helpless problem with finding a proper job in time. The problem seems unaddressed by our authority as they are not good enough to turn around by their own capacity.

Hence, our top leaders keep asking for FDI so that they can ease our people find some jobs. Without FDI, how do we create badly need jobs? We all know that our graduate youths are struggling to find a proper job domestically. As a result, most of our youth trying to turn oversea job through agents because it is only one option to get a job nowadays. Some pessimist people might point at the trend by branding brain-drain out of mother land. I am sure that brain drain is better than brains being drained and rusted and increasingly become extra burden for government. According to unofficial data, there are few million migrant workers from Myanmar. In this scenario, deputy labour minister dared to say we have only 4% of unemployment officially. I don't know if he had done proper research to make this answer in parliament. But for sure is his answer is not relevant to given circumstance that our working adults are facing currently. 

Thanks for answer because there is a question, there must be an answer in parliament. However, it would be better to take responsibility for whatever you talk publicly. Our people are no longer laymen like before and will have at least intelligent to judge what is right and wrong. Being migrant worker myself who work in Singapore, I hardly see educated ASEAN nationals other than Philippine and Malaysia. It mean, people from other countries need not go out of their mother land to find a job. It suggest our graduates has not found enough pasture within our comfort zone. Who would like to go out of mother land if they can find a proper job within country? In brief, it is ridiculous answer to believe in. I sincerely expect our authority to talk responsibly as they are meant to. Otherwise they are unlikely to gain public confident in the future.