ISMAIL AB JAMAL
AGE: 54 YEARS OLD
CURRENT ENGAGEMENT: SENIOR HR CONSULTANT cum TECHNICAL HR ADVISOR
He has more than 30 years of working experience plus 20 years of HRM and HRD exposures in banking, finance, insurance, highway construction and engineering, an academic at tertiary education, marine transportation, engineering and haulage, SEAGATE storage disc drive technology manufacturing (MNC) and marine heavy engineering industries (ship-building and ship-repair). He has wide exposure in dealing with unionized and non-unionized environments, and also governmental relations. He conducted lectures and training courses in public and private sectors, private universities, colleges and higher learning institutions, presented papers in local and international HRM and HRD conventions, conferences, seminars and workshops, and managed HR consulting assignments in GLCs, PLCs and established organizations. He has championed, participated, implemented and internalized HRM and HRD initiatives. Currently, he is the Senior Consultant cum Technical Advisor with Irshad HR Consulting Sdn Bhd. A regular trainer and facilitator for PERMATA (PETRONAS Management Training Centre) and other established GLCs. A key contributor to KHAZANAH GREEN (Graduate Employability Enhancement) Programme. A prolific public speaker and motivator, he is known to be opened, practical, candour, candid, objective, non-conventional approach and blunt in explaining his comprehension of HR contemporary theories and models. He is contactable at e-mails guru54@streamyx.com or ismail@irshad.com.my or handset: 019-6448764.

THE DYING DAYS OF MALAY NATIONALISM

As the world continues to revolve around this demigod called Capitalism, bathed in the glories of a failed Raeganomics and Thatcherism, drowned in a "blue ocean" soaked in blood-red tapestry of ethno-religious-class-based conflicts, and inhabited by a global population of the haves and the have-nots and modern-day indentured servants, I ponder the question of Malay nationalism vis-a-viz post-industrial tribalism and how we can deconstruct ourselves to escape through the walls of the neo-colonial shackle. We must destroy the matrix we have allowed others to construct; these soul cages for each one of us.
These bring me to the question of the dying days of Malay nationalism and its imagined community.