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TJ MT MGG: Imigresen Membeli Hotel By M.G.G. Pillai 18/1/2001 5:34 pm Thu |
MGG 1401 [Langkah Ketua Pengarah Jabatan Imigresen membeli sebuah hotel sebagai pusat
latihan memang pelik bin ajaib. Nampak sangat kepingin membuncit kepada
keselesaan yang begitu menyeronokkan siap dengan irama ombak di pantai yang
menyegarkan. Patutlah kakitangan Imigresen begitu lembab melayan kerana
sudah disogok budaya selesa diri berlebihan sehingga ia menjadi tidak bersungguh
untuk menolong orang. Ia asyik menunggu loceng untuk terbang melayang....
- Editor] Penterjemah: -MT-
Oleh kerana Jabatan Imigresen menduduki tempat ke empat dalam pungutan
hasil negara, ketua pengarahnya, Dato' Aseeh Che Mat beranggapan tibalah
masanya untuk jabatan itu membeli sebuah hotel di Port d##kson. Dia mahu
menggunakan hotel itu sebagai pusat latihan. Berapa agaknya kos pembelian
hotel itu? Bukan mudah mengetahui harganya. Rupanya, pusat latihan mesti
diletakkan di tempat percutian. Kerana itu Port d##kson menjadi pilihan.
Apabila jabatan itu mampu mengutip hasil bernilai RM1,000 juta dalam satu
tahun, apakah dia tidak boleh membeli sebuah pusat latihan untuk pelatihnya
berhimpun? Adakah Parlimen dirujuk akan hal itu? Ataupun itu semua sudah
tidak perlu? Apakah memang sudah sedia peruntukannya? Perlukah itu diambil
kira? Apakah pusat latihan ini akan mempertingkatkan khidmat melayan
rakyat? Apakah itu mesti diambil berat? Apa perlunya membeli sebuah hotel
dan kemudiannya diubahsuai dijadikan pusat latihan? Ah, kalau sudah naik
mencapai nombor empat takkan membeli pusat latihan tidak boleh dibuat?
Kesesakan manusia di pejabat imigresen seluruh negara ada kaitan dengan
kakitangan yang tidak cekap dan perundangan yang mudah ditukar-tukar sesuka
hati. Sesiapa yang mempunyai urusan dengan jabatan itu terpaksa datang di
awal pagi menunggu sepanjang masa sehingga terlaksana hajat mereka.
Kakitangan imigresen beranggapan bahawa kita berada di depan mata kerana
mahukan sesuatu daripada mereka. Tidak ada langsung semangat mempercepatkan
kerja ataupun berkhidmat dengan segera. Dalam hal ini sikap mereka itu
memang tidak ada bezanya dengan sikap pegawai jabatan kerajaan yang lain.
Kalau sebuah jabatan yang memperolehi satu bilion ringgit setahun
memerlukan latihan, apakah jabatan yang lain tidak memerlukan latihan juga?
Apakah dia mahu mendedahkan bahawa kakitangan imigresen yang ada, selama
ini memang tidak cekap buat kerja?
Imigresen memerlukan satu semangat berkhidmat yang lebih bermakna.
Kewujudannya kerap mendorong rakyat marhaen memkikirkan elok lagi kalau
mereka tidak ada. Ada satu ketika dulu dimana orang awam perlu beratur
pada jam empat pagi semata-mata untuk mendapatkan nombor yang sungguh
terhad. Kesannya, seperti yang saya pernah lalui, memerlukan sesaorang
datang berkali-kali untuk mendapatkannya. Memanglah ada cara jalan pintas
yang boleh diambil untuk menyenangkan diri. Itu sebabnya ada orang tertentu
yang mudah memperolehi nombor mereka sedangkan orang yang menunggu dan
beratur lama-lama tidak pula mendapatnya. Apabila perkara ini dilaporkan,
saya diberi pengecualian pula dan diberikan layanan segera. Namun, ini
menunjukkan memang ada sebab kenapa pengecualian itu diberi; untuk menutup
cerita misteri. -MGG Pillai-
17 Januari,2001 Rencana Asal: The director-general of immigration, Dato' Aseh Che Mat,
decides his department, as the "fourth revenue generating
department", is in need of a hotel in Port d##kson. Not for
what hotels are for, but to turn it into a training centre.
How much would the hotel cost? You would know of it on a
need-to-know basis. Training centres, you understand, must
be in places people go for holidays. And Port d##kson is as
good a travel destination as any. With the department
collecting RM1,000 million a year, how could it not have a
training centre worth its name? Was Parliament consulted?
Does it matter? Is it provided for in the estimates? Does
it matter? Would this training centre improve service to
the public? Does it matter? Why then does the immigration
department need a hotel-converted-into-a-training centre?
Because it is the fourth revenue generating centre?
But Dato' Aseh is true to form. He would make a good
cabinet minister from Bolehland. He talks rubbish. He does
not think through his ideas. He says it because the
newspapers would tell readers what great plans the
immigration department has for the people. He says it deals
with 3.5 million people each month, roughly one is six of
the population, man woman and child. This seems excessive,
even taking foreign visitors into account. Never mind, the
immigration wants a hotel, the reasons why it needs it
should not be questioned. The important question is
unanswered: Does the immigration department need a training
centre in Port d##kson? If it does, why is not built into
the immigration department offices itself throughout the
country, instead of concentrating it in one area, as it now
plans? What is wrong with hiring existing training centres
as and when required, instead of maintaining a white
elephant. The huge crowds at immigration offices throughout the
country has more to do with staff inefficiency and rules
that can be changed at will so that one who has business
with the department must come early and spend about a whole
morning there for what he came for. The staff has this view
that we are there at their convenience. There is no sense
of purpose or urgency in what they do. In this, they are no
better than staff in government departments elsewhere. If a
department earning a billion ringgit a year needs a
training, should not that be for all departments as a whole,
if the aim is to increase efficiency. In any case, is he
saying he has horribly untraining staff?
More than training centres, the immigration needs a
sense of purpose. It exists now to make the public wish it
never had anything to do it. Once, it required the public
to queue up as early as 4 am to get a number, severely
restricted, so that one had to come, as I had to, two or
three times before one was obtained. Sure enough, short
cuts were taken. Suddenly, newly arrived people got the
numbers those queueing up for hours could not. When this
was reported, I was waved aside though, to prove it had
something to hide, I was attended to immediately.
What is this training centre going to do? How to make
life for those who deal with it difficult, or an extension
of the leisure they indulge in at work? Not only Dato' Aseh
but the home minister himself must explain why, in these
times of hardship and lack of funds, the immigration
department goes into the hotel business. Hotel business?
Yes, the rooms would have to be kept in shape for those
attending. If one is needed, would it not have been cheaper
in the long run to hire it as and when required? But how
could the fourth largest revenue earner go and not have its
own training centre? M.G.G. Pillai |