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THE COMPASSMARCH 2021 ISSUE #7 SPECIAL FOCUS: COVID-19, Malaysia and Asia MARCH 2021 ISSUE #7 CONTENTS JEFFREY CHEAH INSTITUTE Prof Leong Yuen Yoong Professor Fan Gang ON SOUTHEAST ASIA (JCI) Prof Dato’ Dr. Mazlin Bin Mokhtar Director, National Economic President Prof Mohamed Ariff Syed Mohamed Research Institute; President of Prof Woo Wing Thye Prof Tan Sri Dr Noorul Ainur Mohd Nur China Development Institute (CDI), Dato’ Dr Ooi Kee Beng Shenzhen, China Vice President Prof Saidur Rahman Professor Elizabeth Lee Prof Shandre Thangavelu Prof Wong Chin Huat Chief Executive Officer, Associate Prof Zhang Miao Director of Strategy Sunway Education Group and Operations Karen Chand RESEARCH & Professor Tan Sri Dato’ PROFESSIONAL STAFF Dr Lin See-Yan Director, Economic Studies Andrew Fan Chiah Howe Chancellor, Sunway University, Programme Dennis Lee Peters Sunway University Prof Yeah Kim Leng Danesh Prakash Chacko Professor Kiyohiko Nishimura Director, Governance Studies Derek Kok Qi Ren Ho Yi Jian Senior Professor of Economic, Programme National Graduate Institute for Prof James Chin Jeremy Lim Jiang Shen Kavitha Ambigabadi Policy Studies (GRIPS) Director, Education and Social Kong Phui Yi Dr Mari Elka Pangestu Progress Programme Maswirda Morad Managing Director of Prof Leong Choon Heng Nur Amirah Abdul Majid Development Policy and Partnerships, Director, Special Studies Programme Lee Chooi Yee World Bank Prof Fun Woh Peng Low Wai Sern Professor Tony Saich Director of the Ash Center for JEFFREY SACHS CENTER NEWSLETTER EDITORIAL BOARD Democratic Governance and ON SUSTAINABLE Innovation, Harvard Kennedy School DEVLEOPMENT (JSC) Editor-In-Chief James Chin Chairman Dr Chalongphob Sussangkarn Prof Jeffrey Sachs Managing Editor Distinguished Fellow, Thailand Our Organisations An ASEAN Regional Green Development Ho Yi Jian & Karen Chand Development Research 3 18 Director Design Institute (TDRI) 4 President’s Message Strategy Must Guide ASEAN’s COVID-19 Prof Woo Wing Thye Shokelui Yap Professor Dato’ Dr Tan Tat Wai Recovery Plan Deputy Director Research Professor, Sunway University FOCUS: 20 Financial Inclusion and Vulnerability Prof Leong Choon Heng JCI INTERNATIONAL ACADEMIC ADVISORY Professor Graeme Wilkinson MALAYSIA, ASIA AND COVID-19 of ASEAN to COVID-19 Pandemic Shocks Director Of Graduate Studies Vice-Chancellor, Sunway University Dr Hendry Ng Han Swee COUNCIL (IAAC) 6 SDGs and Agenda 2030: HRH Sultan Dr Nazrin Shah Ibni Sultan Professor Dato’ Dr Woo Wing Thye Director Of Strategy And Operations The impacts of COVID-19 HIGHLIGHTS Azlan Muhibbuddin Shah President, Jeffrey Cheah Institute Karen Chand The Sultan of Perak Darul Ridzuan; on Southeast Asia 8 Malaysia under COVID-19 22 Events Listings and Highlights Royal Patron, Jeffrey Cheah Institute FELLOWS on Southeast Asia; Royal Research Dato’ Sri Idris Jala 10 The Bajau Laut in Sabah: Statelessness 26 JCI and JSC Milestones Prof Agamutu Pariatamby Professor, Sunway University President and Chairman, in a Time of COVID-19 27 Master in Sustainable Development PEMANDU Associates Dr Chen Jit Ern Professor Dwight Perkins 12 Malaysia: Access to Information under Management: First Cohort Graduates Dr Chong Kok Boon Harold Hitchings Burbank Professor Emeritus Professor Prof Fun Woh Peng COVID-19 for SDG 16.10 Emeritus of Political Economy, Harvard Richard Graeme Larkins AO Dr Goh Chun Sheng University Former Chair of Universities 14 COVID-19 and Working From Home LISTS Prof Gopalasamy Reuben Clements Australia Prof Koh Hock Lye Tan Sri Dr. Jeffrey Cheah AO Malaysia: Could an Educational Selected Staff Publications 16 29 Dr Lee Khai Ern Chancellor, Sunway University; Professor Sibrandes Poppema Revolution Arise because of COVID-19? & Presentations Founder and Chairman, Sunway Group President of Sunway University 4 PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE | JEFFREY CHEAH INSTITUTE PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE | JEFFREY CHEAH INSTITUTE 5 PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE PROFESSOR WOO WING THYE PRESIDENT, Jeffrey Cheah Institute on Southeast Asia; DIRECTOR, Jeffrey Sachs Center on Sustainable Development SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IS a multi-dimensional phenomenon, and so it ODL version and the traditional version of MSDM now offer courses jointly taught by Joining the SDSN has challenges us constantly with “chicken-and-egg” dilemmas. A system-wide perspective JSC faculty and experts from the SDG Academy. no cost associated with helps us to see that simultaneous actions on many fronts are needed. Coordination is membership, and enables clearly desirable both for reasons of efficiency and effectiveness, but there is no such As a result of the deepened JSC-SDSN collaboration, there will be three new thrusts in your institution to: comprehensive benign coordination mechanism in existence or being put in place the work agenda of JCI-JSC initiative in 2021. rapidly. n Gain global recognition for The first thrust is to work with the national chapter of SDSN in each ASEAN state to membership in the SDSN It is therefore gratifying to recognise that progress in Sustainable Development convince the home country to support the ASEAN Green Deal as the key regional n Participate in National and has been made since 2015—when the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and development program in the next decade. The objective is the establishment of an Regional SDSNs and the Paris Climate Treaty were adopted by the global community—through largely ASEAN Green Future Coordination Unit under the ASEAN Secretariat. Thematic Networks uncoordinated self-initiated actions at the individual level, the community level, the n state level, the national level, the regional level, and the global level. The overarching The second new thrust in the 2021 JCI-JSC work program is to work with SDSN members Leverage SDSN expertise for teaching, research and human spirit and the individual audacity of hope are what that have inspired and kept in Northeast Asia, Southeast Asia, and Australasia to conduct research on how to bring local/national projects the Sustainable Development project going. The bad news is that the progress on about cost-effective deep carbonisation of their economies in order to be net zero- Sustainable Development has not been fast enough to ensure that ecologicide (“The carbon economies by 2050. n Pursue joint fundraising Sixth Extinction”) will be prevented. n Participate in SDSN’s The third new thrust is the initiation of the Mission 4.7 project of SDSN which seeks to annual events, such as the At the end of 2019, JCI-JSC had decided that its 2020 work agenda would be to provide “Education for Sustainable Development and Global Citizenship” from primary International Conference accelerate the pace of progress in Sustainable Development by supporting Southeast school onward. This is a joint project of SDSN, UNESCO, Ban Ki-moon Center for Global on Sustainable PARTNERING WITH Asia to launch an ASEAN Green Deal in 2021. However, with no thanks to COVID-19, we Citizens, Columbia University, and Sunway University; with Tan Sri Jeffrey Cheah being Development JSC THROUGH SDSN were not able to implement this work agenda in 2020. the Co-Chair of Mission 4.7. Mission 4.7 was launched on 16 December 2020. JSC will n Benefit from privileged implement the Malaysia component of this project, and work with other ASEAN access to SDSN’s online We hope that with the recent positive news on the RAPID development of COVID-19 members on their implementation. If you are an organisation community vaccines, and with our better knowledge and ability on how to contain COVID-19 n Collaborate with SDG committing substantial infection, we will be able to implement the 2020 work agenda in 2021. I am happy Therefore, the hiring priorities of JCI-JSC in 2021-2022 will be: (a) two SDSN-Asia Academy, a massive open resources towards finding or to also report to you that the Jeffrey Cheah Foundation has decided to deepen its Network Managers; and (b) two researchers on Deep Decarbonisation. The mission of online course platform implementing solutions for collaboration with the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) with the two SDSN-Asia Network Managers is to help create synergy among the myriad n Share research and sustainable development, the gift of another (almost) USD 10 million. individual efforts by Asian-Australasian members to achieve the 17 Sustainable analyses with other consider joining the Development Goals (SDGs) in the hope of initiating a virtuous cycle in Sustainable SDSN has experienced a tremendous growth in its global membership (now over Development at the ASEAN regional level. The JCI-JSC Deep Decarbonisation team members of the global Sustainable Development 1,300 think tanks and research insitutions), with particularly fast growth in Asian will work to help de-fossilisation of the Malaysian national energy system, and to help network Solutions Network (SDSN). membership. It has become increasingly difficult logistically for SDSN-NYC and SDSN- decarbonisation in other aspects of daily life. Membership is open to Paris to coordinate the expanding activities of SDSN members, and so a new SDSN- For more information and university departments, Asia office will be set up at Sunway University in 2021 to coordinate SDSN activities As you can see, 2021 will be a turning point in the trajectory of JCI-JSC in terms of application, visit https://www. research institutes, civil of members located in the New Zealand-to-Turkey geographical area, and to promote ambition and effort in accelerating the pace of Sustainable Development in Malaysia unsdsn.org/join-the-sdsn/ or email us at enquiries@sdsn. society organisations, and inter-regional collaboration between SDSN-Asia members and SDSN members in the and beyond. We will repay all the hardship that we have endured from COVID-19 in 2020 Americas, Europe, and Africa. with sterling achievements on Sustainable Development in 2021 that will justify the org.my. other expert organisations. renewed optimism we now have upon the imminent departure of Donald Trump from The SDG Academy—the educational arm of SDSN—will be relocated to Kuala Lumpur power and, with it, the welcome end of mismanagement of COVID-19, international as well.
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