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Universal design principles (Yuenwah San,The OKU Rights Matter Project)

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Universal design principles (Yuenwah San,The OKU Rights Matter Project)

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It's good to reinforce the need for clear adherence to universal design principles at all levels of planning, approval, M&E & construction.

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Yuenwah San,The OKU Rights Matter Project

We need disability-inclusive accessible public information on all aspects of the Budget via all government websites & portals that must conform with international accesssibility standards (e.g., WCAG 2.2).

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Women Leadership and Governance fund (Daniella Zul, AWL)

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Women Leadership and Governance fund (Daniella Zul, AWL)

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We have Women Leadership and Governance fund to train women for board and policy roles - we’d like to see political parties field more women to become wakil rakyat

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what about budget for grassroots sports development?

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MKBOKU this year is also creating an Akademi OKU with Women OKU leaders as a focal point.

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PERINTIS needs to expand its reach and be more inclusive. Something KWPKM need to take note.

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Omna

Why 1.2bn for electricity in Sabah when that sort of investment, can take on technology from Sarawak who leads in using hydrogen powered electricity.

Why go fix more of what’s harming the land and finite resources of petroleum when we can expand that for Ssbah drawing from how Sarawak had found successes in?

Robert Hii

This has largely to do with energy sufficiency. When bakun and baram were built, the energy production only went to swak compared to what they said capable of powering more. The alternative methods like hydrogen arent actually good for power creation yet, and sabah really needs some self sufficiency in that regard

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Carbon tax through who? Will it benefit people?

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Robert Hii 5:41 PM

Preemptive question, this looks like the most expensive budget. What guarantees that impact will be assessed and equitable

Beatrice Leong

This budget seems to be made to boost investor/FDI confidence, alot of focus on capital growth. Socially conservative, not using social development as macroeconomic variables.

I feel we are trading human capital and social resilience away for capital injections. Feels like going to chokehold national talents. While I think it’ll boost GDP, and hit his goal or lowering fiscal debt - but I don’t feel its MADANI at all..

Omna

Yes - The National Budget is one of the most important policy instruments of the government to steer the nation and meet the needs of the people. It not only informs us about the allocation of resources but also provides an insight into the national priorities.

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SURAYA (PurpleLily)

Not much details on aging initiatives

Beatrice Leong

I’m also worried the care homes is put under waqaf land

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Salary increase for public sector (Omna)

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Salary increase for public sector (Omna)

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Salary increase for public sector - everyone is facing high cost of living - what is in place to support  the 12.71 million Malaysians working in the private sector as of July 2025

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The call for gender-responsive budgeting (GRB) continues as there needs to be a more intersectional approach in our budget allocation and policymaking processes. GRB is a process that ensures equitable distribution of resources to different groups of women and men to provide equal opportunities for everyone. It is grounded in data collection and analysis to develop evidence-based policies. As such, resource allocations for ministries are essential to collect sex and gender-disaggregated data and through gender impact assessments, understand the lived realities and needs of different populations.

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150 juta ringgit Biasiswa Kecil Persekutuan

For Susah dapat persekolahan is a big thing for OKU, why no ring fenced budget to help them get an education?

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which aspect of the SMART is safe and inclusive with universal design architecture. Was the community consulted to consider their needs in mobility and lifestyle etc

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Beatrice

Sorry, students should not need to work to tampung Kos pendidikan. That’s not a sound solution.

Scholarships of RM120bn from PTPN to IPTA, but year after year after year, UPU system remove autistic kids from their dream courses.

Omna

IPTA scholarships for children from B40 Households - what would be the criteria and how will this measure manage equitable and inclusive access. Remember SDG tagline - Leave No One Behind by Reaching the Farthest FIRST

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How much of these allocations will also be used to raise awareness of the public and increase the number of special needs teachers? Children with disabilities are usually hidden, stigmatised, and marginalised. A UNICEF survey revealed that 1 in 3 persons in Malaysia feel that children with disabilities should be kept hidden and 43 percent feel that children with disabilities would be disruptive in mainstream class.

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How will the two food programmes be monitored and evaluated? Good practices in other countries implementing similar programmes have proven that a rigorous assessment of the costs and impacts associated with the school meals programmes was a clear priority for policymakers.  This is particularly necessary when considering scaling up the programmes.

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Will the repairs to schools also consider improving conditions that provide universal access to all persons with visible and invisible forms of disabilities? Will universal design specifications be included in the design of the repairs and renovations? Will an audit be conducted in schools to ensure compliance?

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Health tax passed to MOH is an absolute yes, how much of it will affect the disprivileged?

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good to see they are absorbed into permanent employment - there also needs to be adequate measures to safeguard doctors wellbeing - health workers in hospitals in Malaysia face several significant challenges including understaffing, heavy workloads, long working hours, low pay, burnout, and poor working conditions; contributing to fatigue and stress among healthcare professionals, leading to a high rate of resignations and a brain drain as many seek opportunities overseas.

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Healthcare initiatives focused dispropriately to critical illness care. Not General public healthcare, not a great move because if we are preventive, we can save more in long term and critical care. Take people out of the hospital, not ask them to get cancer then get healthcare support.

And don’t pass the buck to private GPs.

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Beatrice Leong

Allocations for OKU Training, to now be shared with training of care workers. What does this detail or imply? Train OKU as care workers? Or are we not facing OKU budget being shared with care workers training from non-OKU?

Vicky Chan

When the current govt. came to power , they reduced the aid to low-income individuals (those living alone without families) and individual OKU  by half from rm100 to rm50.  Will this forgotten  group of abandoned single OKU, Widow/widower seniors group  be given more $- to pay utilities, rent, assistive tools etc, since these B40 are  without any family support.

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 Independent Living : Aging in Place (Omna)

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 Independent Living : Aging in Place (Omna)

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1.       Community Senior Activity Centre (PAWE)

Increase funding, number and coverage of Pusat Aktiviti Warga Emas (PAWE) under Department of Social Welfare (JKM). Currently there are only 164 PAWE centres across the country with as few as 13 in Sarawak.  More PAWE centres should be set up (1 in every neighbourhood)  with training and monitoring to ensure safety and quality standards are in place.

2.       Alternative to PAWE Government can facilitate affordable community-based care programs that provide personalized care in neighborhoods; such programs can reduce reliance on institutional care while creating job opportunities in senior care

3.       Senior-responsive home modifications

Implement and expand social welfare assistance schemes including financial aid, subsidies for home repairs/modifications, and provision of assistive devices and technologies for seniors to facilitate independent living.

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Malaysians generally face financial challenges when it comes to affording care centres or hiring caregivers for their children or older parents. The cost of hiring a caregiver in Malaysia ranges from approximately RM 1,500 to RM 3,500 per month depending on the type of care—live-in, day-to-day, or medical care. Part-time caregivers cost about RM 30 to RM 50 per hour, and full-time caregiver salaries average around RM 2,100 to RM 2,500 monthly. Many Malaysian families cannot afford private caregivers, leading them to provide complex medical care themselves, often with negative impacts on both the caregiver and the recipient.

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KWAP allocation for independent living built for old folks home (Beatrice)

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KWAP allocation for independent living built for old folks home (Beatrice)

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Not too sure of KWAP allocation for independent living built for old folks home. It’s very much soft institutionalisation, money could be better allocated for accessibility, universal design and inclusive housing, so ageing folks can continue living in community, independently and with natural social ineteractions. Instead of segregated. Also closer to their existing needs, care and support, instead of transporting them to somewhere else

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The speech references courts (Mahkamah Bergerak) and some social protection, but I could not find dedicated Sarawak allocations for GBV services, shelters, counselling, legal aid or culturally-tailored survivor services in remote Dayak/Iban/Melanau communities — a common gap for frontier states. Mahkamah Bergerak expansion is positive but not enough on its own. No govt shelter for GBV in Sarawak

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This PERKESO iinitiative, would this cause over reliance or moving youths to concentrate in urbanised area? Would it cos more urban poor/poverty? Leaving behind families, or those who need care? Ageing small towns?

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Omna

while this is a need,

Is this programme also packaged with other accompanying empowerment programmes (upskilling, support services, job placement) and offered to the same beneficiaries to reduce welfare dependence, and empower them to prepare for and find meaningful livelihoods?

What has been the learning from the previous People’s Income Initiative (IPR)  programme that showed initial good outcomes? Has IPR been scaled up?

SURAYA (PurpleLily)

SARA - what about breakdown according to gender?

Omna

yes including female, elder and OKU headed households. it is important to have a more intersectional disaggregation to reflect how the provisions are targeting the farthest left behind

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Beatrice

Yes to raising from RM6,000 to RM10000, reflects inflation adjustments and true cost of OKU intervention services from private sector.

Robert Hii

Dedicated disability agents are known to be more effective for access

Over enhancing literacy

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The education outcomes of Orang Asli are a long-standing issue resulting in persistent gaps between Orang Asli and non-indigenous children. This is despite the investments into supporting the development of the Orang Asli in peninsular Malaysia over the years. It was reported in 2021 that 42.29 percent of Orang Asli children did not complete Form 5.

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Not only focus on higher education (April Chang (MartabatPJ))

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Not only focus on higher education (April Chang (MartabatPJ))

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For education, not only focus on higher education, but should just make sure all kids can master the 3Rs at each level before allowing them to move on to the next level as per automatic advancement now

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 Aid to low-income individuals (Vicky chan)

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 Aid to low-income individuals (Vicky chan)

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When the current govt. came to power , they reduced the aid to low-income individuals (those living alone without families) and individual OKU  by half from rm100 to rm50. With savings of 2.5-4 billions from BUDI Ron95, time to give this ‘Individual without family ‘ (single OKU, Widow/widower seniors) group  more $- to pay utilities, rent, assistive tools etc, since these B40 are  without any family support.

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Beatrice

RM3,000 pelepasan cukai for childcare in early years? Is he aware of how much it cost in urban areas where this is most needed? Not realistic and yet wages for women at workforce is not competitive. Why not tag on to company employing women returning to work to provide for these at work? and incentivise companies instead, better approach and wider impact.

Also most women here don’t reach taxable threshold.

Omna

We've mentioned time and again that tax exemption does not benefit the very community (B40) who need the subsidies and community based child care

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should attribute much of the efforts to Bursa and 30% Club's efforts to keep it on the agenda through mandatory reporting and close monitoring

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how much of this is focussed and prioritised to enable access to schools and gov clinics in rural/remote areas across Malaysia. Access needs to be designed holistically

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MWFCD recently had a big event on 30 years of CEDAW - would like to see it being adopted into domestic law proper, instead of only for certain parts

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Need to now see if it will make necessary measures to protect the finnacially vulnerable who are targets of such scams. Reporting mechanism is of course, not accessible at this current moment.

Blind person scammed, blind person need to go all the way to the bank, make a report, on a form that’s not accessible across board. BN system also not friendly to disabled,

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Toilets in Schools (April Chang (MartabatPJ))

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Toilets in Schools (April Chang (MartabatPJ))

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good that they are talking about toilets esp in schools. hope they equip school toilets with period friendly infrastructure (haven't been to schools in a while, but it was tough to change pads when I was a kid in school)

Robert Hii

The last two three budgets had a blanket fund for school improvement that included the toilets

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we are happy to see this but we hope other RUU such as a holistic Anti-Discrimination RUU  will also be enacted with the same level of priority

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Public Toilet (Yuenwah San,The OKU Rights Matter Project)

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Public Toilet (Yuenwah San,The OKU Rights Matter Project)

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Public toilets are a public indicator of the true status of a nation. Neglect of public toilets in Malaysia are open for all to experience and witness. No amount of whitewashing on other fronts will make this shame disappear unless a serious national, multi-level, all of government & all-of-society campaign for ckean, safe, functioning public toilets is systematically conducted for several years until thir present scourge is totally replaced. We need toilets that are safe and accessible for all, including growing numbers of older women.

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RM50b - how much of this will be allocated for women entrepreneurs- women owned businesses have been stagnant at 20.6%

Beatrice
I would reframe this to ask, how is the entire RM50bn be made accessible to women in their diverse intersectionalities and identities

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we need to encourage more research and innovation in the area of women's health and well-being

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Omna

What efforts are going to be made to ensure women entrepreneurs gain meaningful access to this budget?

Yuenwah San,The OKU Rights Matter Project
Especially the women aspiring to start or already running small & medium enterprises.

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How is TVET curriculum/infrastructure gender responsive? What measures are in place to enable better access for rural students to TVET centres that are predominantly located in urban areas.

My previous engagement with TVET centre show that the scheduled courses are not popular for Orang Asli as location is far. So ad hoc short term courses are run for them ie 1/2 day or 1 day. (Doris Padmini Selvaratnam, UKM)

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More adequate training programmes (Yuenwah San,The OKU Rights Matter Project)

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More adequate training programmes (Yuenwah San,The OKU Rights Matter Project)

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Malaysia needs more adequate training programmes to strengthen women's capabilities for leadership in local government positions; those must be disability-inclusive for women with disabilities to be included as resource persons and as participants on an equal basis with others. And, in parallel,  consider the feasibility of disability-inclusive affirmative action measures to increase women's participation in local government.

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Omna

Has Universal Design been instituted in all areas of the airports?

Doris Padmini Selvaratnam, UKM

All airports need to reflect the larger women composition. Most airports are old and often the washrooms are closed for more than a month (ie in KK) with no alternative temporary cubicles. In fact all building must have more female washrooms. Regardless in urban or rural location. In fact many restaurants also do not have proper washrooms.

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Mobile court & health services in Sarawak

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Mobile court & health services in Sarawak

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Are the staff trained to handled GBV & child protection

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what are the indicators that reflect multi-dimensional wellbeing of the population in the villages to ensure NO ONE is left behind. What has been the beneficiary analysis of the same measure in 2024?

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important to report on the progress / outcome of last year's projects. the reality is in the details

akan di BINA - we must insist that all new construction should integrate Universal Design

Kemudahan Asas - Membaik pulih kerosakan Lif - this is a good initiative but it should also be coupled with greater awareness of the PPR community in upkeep of the apartment complex and its amenities - PWDC's GRPB initiative is a good example of community led programmes to maintain their neighbourhood

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Public information on all government initiatives & measures (Yuenwah San,The OKU Rights Matter Project)

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Public information on all government initiatives & measures (Yuenwah San,The OKU Rights Matter Project)

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Must be disability-inclusive for persons with diverse disabilities to be able to access in formats and languages (especially Plain Language) that OKU can understand. Ensuring that will help many other marginalised groups who need similar consideration.

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Need to increase number of  women as Ketua Kampung as they are the touchpoints of the grassroots and families and understand the lived realities of households.

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does not reach mobility needs for the disabled and no security measures. When its tied to MyKad, and the verification at each petrols station, if one is a KOC user, or on wheelchair, they have to hand over the MyKad to someone else as the slot is placed above reachable height.

Issues of concern Is security of data and handover of MyKad to enjoy this benefits.

If they want to continue the digitalisation steamroll of govt services, as he said, accessibility is key because its the systematically marginalised communities that needs the benefits of this subsidies.

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World Bank, in its economic outlook for Malaysia, expressed concerns that poverty and inequality remain persistent challenges, requiring structural reforms and sustained efforts to create better jobs, manage living costs, and foster inclusive, sustainable growth.

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governance (include which budget 2026 Measure)

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governance (include which budget 2026 Measure)

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