Pemerintahan Pakatan Rakyat (PR): Kajian pungutan pendapat di kalangan kakitangan awam Negeri Selangor, Malaysia (The Pakatan Rakyat (PR) rule of Selangor: An opini on study of public servants in the state of Selangor , Malaysia)

Abstract

Berbanding dengan institusi swasta, institusi kerajaan mempunyai disiplin kerja, latar belakang perjawatan, gaya hidup dan hirarki yang jelas dan tersendiri. Ciri yang paling ketara ialah kakitangan awam lebih terikat dengan beberapa peraturan yang mempengaruhi pandangan serta pemahaman mereka terhadap perkembangan politik negara. Kertas ini menampilkan hasil kajian mengenai pendapat kakitangan awam dinegeri Selangor khususnya terhadap tingkah laku, minat, penglibatan dan keyakinan mereka terhadap pemerintahan kerajaan Pakatan Rakyat (PR). Ia dijalankan di pejabat kerajaan persekutuan, negeri dan pihak berkuasa tempatan di sekitar negeri Selangor. Seramai 720 responden telah dipilih daripada ketiga-tiga pejabat kerajaan. Dapatan kajian menunjukkan bahawa 58.8 peratus menyatakan mereka memperoleh sumber maklumat politik daripada akhbar harian perdana seperti Berita Harian, Utusan Malaysia dan New Straits Times. Terdapat 25.6 peratus menyertai parti politik sebagai ahli. 56.9 peratus menyatakan mereka suka memilih muka baru dalam kepemimpinan negeri dan negara dan 52.9 peratus berpuas hati dengan keputusan pilihan raya umum 2008. Namun, 65.6 peratus responden menyatakan mereka tidak gembira dengan pemerintahan kerajaan Pakatan Rakyat di negeri Selangor. Mereka yakin dengan kewibawaan kepimpinan kerajaan negeri tetapi tidak yakin dengan dasar yang diamalkan oleh kerajaan negeri Selangor yang sedia ada yang dilihat lebih menguntungkan sesuatu pihak.

Katakunci: kerajaan / negeri, kerajaan persekutuan, Malaysia, pihak berkuasa tempatan, pilihanraya umum, sektor awam

Compared with the private sector, the public sector has a more fixed code of conduct, a more hierarchical structure, and more rigidly binding rules, order and values that influence not only the employees’ perceptions and understandings of things but also the manner in which they (should) choose to express those very perceptions and understandings. This paper presents findings from a field study of 720 employees of federal and state government and local authorities establishments within the Malaysian state of Selangor .The focus was on their behaviour, interest, involvement and conviction with regard to the rule of the opposition Pakatan Rakyat (PR) government. The findings show that 58.8 percent of the respondents referred to pro-National Front party (which forms the Malaysian federal government) mainstream newspapers, such as the Berita Harian, Utusan Malaysia and New Straits Times, as their main sources of political information. Only 25.6 per cent admitted to being a member of any political party; 56.9 percent professed preferrence for new faces at the helms of state and federal administrations; and 52.9 percent expressed satisfaction over the results of the 2008 general elections. Nevertheless, a high percentage of 65.6 expressed their unhappiness with the current Selangor state administration, stressing the point that it was not the state leaders’ capability that they were not confident of. Rather it was the state government’s policies which they could not identify with since they saw these policies as favouring only certain parties or groups of the society.

Keywords: federal government, general elections, local authorities, Malaysia, public sector, state government