SCRIPT stands for Sustainability, Care & Compassion, Respect, Innovation, Prosperity, and Trust – six Malaysian values at the core of this living document which both lays out Anwar Ibrahim’s vision for a stronger, better Malaysia and provides a method of developing policies fit the contemporary and increasingly complex world in which we live. This book builds on Anwar Ibrahim’s more than four decades of experience in public service heading key ministries in the Malaysian government, leading various international development and peace organizations, and his time educating at leading universities around the world. Anwar Ibrahim has taken this experience and synthesized it with the thoughts of some of the greatest minds from around the world, and the input of the people of Malaysia he has listened to and learned from throughout his career.

Contents

7 – Introduction

23 – Our Vision

25- The SCRIPT Narrative

26-SCRIPT Policy Framework

34- SCRIPT Drivers & Policies

35 – Sustainability

51- Care and Compassion

65- Respect

79 – Innovation

95 – Prosperity

109- Trust

124- SCRIPT for a Post- Covid Malaysia

138- SCRIPT for Navigating Cost Of Living

152- Priority Policies for a Better Malaysia

157- Epilogue

159- Acknowledgements

161- Sources

Despite his or her title, the Speaker of the Dewan Rakyat is rarely heard.

Tan Sri Ariff Yusof reveals his side of the storey by dissecting the events and procedures of Parliament and providing an insider’s view of the unprecedented political developments that led to the fall of the Pakatan Harapan government in 2020 and his eventual removal in this brief recollection of his brief tenure as the Dewan Rakyat Speaker. Meanwhile, a global pandemic breaks out, prompting the government’s response to be shaky and Parliament to be suspended.

In the current state of affairs, can we expect any changes from the Parliament? Is there a political motivation to break new ground beyond race and religion? Is it possible for a single speaker to make a difference?

TABLE OF CONTENTS OF PARLIAMENT UNEXPECTED

PART 1: THE BEGINNING
Chapter 1: A Short History of Everything, Not Quite A Memoir
Chapter 2: Jumping Into The Fray
Chapter 3: An Unnecessary Show of Partisan Politics
Chapter 4: No. 3, Jalan Tunku, Bukit Tunku

PART 2: MANAGING THE DEWAN
Chapter 5: Taking Charge
Chapter 6: Speaker, You’re Our Boss!
Chapter 7: Point of Order!
Chapter 8: The Bad, The Crude, The Obscene and The Literary

PART 3: THE REFORMS
Chapter 9: Reforms and Changing Political Culture
Chapter 10: Merakyatkan Parlimen – Formulating A People’s Parliament
Chapter 11: Writing The Malaysian Erskine May
Chapter 12: Senate Issues: Money Bills and Anti-Fake News
Chapter 13: The Constitutional Amendments of Undi 18 and Malaysia Act 1963

PART 4: THE POLITICAL STORM
Chapter 14: The Gathering Dark Clouds
Chapter 15: The Sheraton Move and Its Effects on Parliament and The Speaker’s Office
Chapter 16: Parliament and The Pandemic
Chapter 17: Motion of No-confidence and The Half-Day Parliament
Chapter 18: The Truncated, Suspended Parliament
Chapter 19: Ouster!