Economy Minister Rafizi Ramli on Wednesday (March 27) said that only a handful of politicians are against the Central Database Hub (Padu) and their adverse views should not be construed as the opinion of the majority.
Rafizi claimed that they were critical of Padu because of personal reasons, and one of them was Umno supreme council member Datuk Dr Puad Zarkashi.
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Rafizi claimed that they were critical of Padu because of personal reasons, and one of them was Umno supreme council member Datuk Dr Puad Zarkashi.
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00:00 What we are trying to do with Padu is to change from the current status quo.
00:11 And the current status quo involves so many changes.
00:18 Any change will always have a problem.
00:23 But as a government, we have to be objective in the perspective of managing stakeholders.
00:32 I remember when I gave a perspective to a politician who was very noisy,
00:40 he was Mr. Zakir Shi.
00:42 Even if he was a rich man, he still didn't agree with me.
00:47 I brought up the issue of 1MDB when he was a minister.
00:53 He lost the election and was removed from office.
00:56 It's personal.
00:58 If you look at it, the 45 people who were noisy were politicians who were noisy because it was personal.
01:05 But that doesn't stop, for example, in the past week,
01:09 every day there were 300, 400,000 people registering.
01:12 We will always be waiting for the 45 people who were noisy.
01:16 But what about the 300,000, 400,000 people who smoothly register every day?
01:22 So that's why I think we take a very objective perspective.
01:26 And the perspective is that the noisy people are the ones who are right.
01:31 If he says he's not sure about the security of data,
01:38 we've been putting up a wall since 2nd January until now.
01:42 Even though there were times when the attack reached 2M attempts per week,
01:47 it's still not leaked yet.
01:50 We've explained that all the data is encrypted.
01:54 Even if it leaks, it's encrypted.
01:56 They need to decrypt the data.
01:59 He never asked if the private companies that were giving out wallets and all the registration,
02:04 he never asked if the private companies were encrypted or not.
02:09 That's why I think, for now, I can swim.
02:13 But we should not lose focus.
02:15 Because the public is a very important component to some major government innovations.
02:23 That's why I think, and I also ask for cooperation from the media,
02:29 there are a few views, but if you go to Facebook,
02:33 for Zakarshi, the readers are more than 100 people.
02:37 And then you make it a national news, and then you come back to us,
02:40 and you turn it around, and it's a national news.
02:43 It is not.
02:44 It's suitable to be a political topic.
02:48 That's why I never responded.
02:50 This is the first time I've commented on Zakarshi's words.
02:53 Because he's enjoying it.
02:54 He's sitting on the side, writing Facebook, and the media is taking it.
02:57 Turn it into a national news,
03:01 when actually it's a comment of Tom Dick and Harry who can comment.
03:06 So you have to take everything.
03:08 Every person who comments on Facebook, you have to make it a news.
03:11 Because what is at stake is a lot bigger than a comment of 2-3 people's personalities.
03:18 What is at stake is our national fiscal stability.
03:22 What is at stake is aid to tens of millions of people.
03:27 So that's why I think we've gone through one year of the process with the government.
03:34 And I'm not saying that there should be comments.
03:37 But let's just leave the comments.
03:39 For example, if people comment on data security,
03:42 let's just leave the comments as a warning.
03:47 Because on the one hand, we give our data to everyone.
03:51 Those who want to buy a ticket to the cinema, we give them online data.
03:56 Those who want to shop, we give them data.
03:59 And those data are protected under the PDPA.
04:03 And PDPA is not as strict as it is now.
04:07 And it doesn't have strict liabilities like the OSA.
04:10 Whereas the data that is given to the government is data under the OSA.
04:15 So I think it's okay to have concerns.
04:19 But let's just leave it as a perspective.
04:21 It's a fair perspective so that we don't derail what is essentially a national mission.
04:28 And Padu is a component that is very key towards all this.
04:33 Thank you.
04:34 [end]