Giving the people a say – it’s their money after all

By Steven Sim

October 2015 FEATURE
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Launching the participatory budgeting project at Kampung Tok Suboh.
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Folks in Machang Bubok find themselves empowered with the novel – and perhaps even revolutionary – idea of deciding what to do with public funds.Sometime in December last year, at a forum on the state and national budget organised by Lee Khai Loon, the state assemblyman for Machang Bubok, I threw out a challenge which Lee and I eventually picked up ourselves: At which point can the people intervene in the government budget cycle?We are definitely not in a state...

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Steven Sim

is the MP for Bukit Mertajam and Deputy Minister of Youth and Sports.

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