Thinking about you

I don’t really know how the Malaysian people thinking. I just assumed that publics don’t get enough information about what is happening and what will happen. I think our people lack of information about knowledge but too much info about gossip and entertainment. ( plus bad politics’ situation)

When I take a look at the pool from PDRM’s website about the risk of not using the backseat seatbelt, the percentage of arguing is higher. I think, our road users are not really recognizing the risk around them. In order to say that maybe our people just don’t really care about safety, I rather claim that our people are lack of education about safety. Some will say that it is because of the enforcement. Our roads need police averywhere. But,our people are not really cared of being penalty or ticketing, aren’t they? People, who have money and power, will not be affected with this kind of enforcement.

In Japan, police seems has nothing to do rather than ticketing the bicyclists and drivers. Japan is somewhat very secure place even for kids. No robberies, no criminals. You are safe to walk alone at night. No body will take your wallet if you let it freely on the table in family restaurant. You will get your hand phone in safely return if you suddenly left it on the train. etc

So, how to change our people’s way of thinking and behave? A lot of things have been done according to this matter but the appropriate way is to understand what actually they are thinking and the factors that influenced their behavior. Questionnaire is a way how to get the information.

I just realize that data that we got from the questionnaire could describe the internal situation that the researchers never recognize. The raw data can give a lot of interpretations that would lead to other deep research in order to understand the human behaviors. Thus, it is better to share the results with the public, so they will know the exact situation rather than they keep on arguing about the policies.

In the easy way, I can say that the researchers gain the knowledge from the experiment towards the public and returning back the result to the public in the informative way. People might be more aware if the policies that been made is based by the strong and supportive research. This is the way to build up the trust towards policy. In risk management study, it is called as risk communication.

I think, we must develop research culture in our people’s mind since they are young. Do it in the interactive way. I found out that internet is very effective used in Japan, and for many other developed countries. People supposed get more information about the risk around them. But first, develop the culture of reading the academic materials not the comic!!!

However maybe, Malaysia is a country that lack of natural disaster or phenomenon like earthquake, volcano’s eruption, tsunami etc (but we have flood problem, landslides, higher numbers of accidents, cases of criminal, disease because of too much eating ……), we don’t really want to care about the matter of risk.

It is an interesting topic for me thou. It is related on people’s way of think and behave that are practically developed by the culture of one country. Culture and policies somehow mingle in a related way.