COVID-19 In Malaysia: Can The New Poor Cope In The Post-Pandemic Era? | Insight | Poverty In Asia

COVID-19 has left many countries including Malaysia economically shaken. Unemployment has hit its highest levels in a decade. The economy is expected to contract between minus 3.5% and 5.5% this year. The impact is now being felt across all layers of society, especially the poor and the most vulnerable segment of the society. All of a sudden they've found themselves stripped of their economic livelihood and have now fallen into the poverty trap. The coronavirus crisis has driven up poverty levels in the country for the first time since the 1998 Asian Financial crisis. What has the government done to cushion the impact of the crisis? Can the new poor in Malaysia cope and survive the challenges in the new post-pandemic era?

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[theresalong]

Being a Malaysian makes me feel proud watching this documentary. It clearly shows how helpful and kind Malaysians are in helping those who are in needs. May god bless everyone who’s been affected by the pandemic. We will get through this!

[eraalta]

Malek and his wife are intelligent and hard-working people. I admire them. There is much to learn from their wisdom.

[peiyikuan]

i love how you've included the different people in the interview. What I learnt in the end, Malaysians are helping each other out without putting blame on just one party, instead of playing the blame game (which we can go down that rabbit hole) - action speaks louder than words. What may seem like just a packet of milk to a family or a meal/day to the homeless might not seem to be enough or solve the problem, at least we're doing something rather than nothing. We can do this together. Malaysia Boleh. <3

[eidznl]

I am so touched because so many malaysian are helping each other in this pandemic..

[qarmically]

Knowledge makes people humble, arrogance makes people ignorant. The more the knowledge, the lesser the ego.

[theknseng]

What a good person Jah is! Going around helping people, distributing food to everyone in need. It gives me hope for humanity. See, there are plenty of good people in the world helping each other out. If we could all be like her, what a good world it would be.😂❤️

[mybraintalks]

2:25 The way CNA showing and potrayed Malaysia is like some apocalyptic -disaster land, Mad Max style. Bukit Beruntung was in dilapidated and ruined way before 98 economic crisis and covid10. It was a bad planning coming from greedy developer who built the township in the early 90's based on speculations that gov will build KLIA in that area. Same goes to other township nearby like Lembah Beringin and Tanjung Malim.. the families that bought their house in that area was being cheated by the developer and they have to borne the consequences for the rest of the life. One of the reason why there are poverty in Malaysia is because greedy capitalist and tycoon who manipulated the pricing for everything, including the housing. btw, do you know that many housing developers in Malaysia only want to cater foreign buyers from China and Singapore and make the house price went skyrocketing in Malaysia? maybe you also can cover that story, CNA and also many Malaysian cannot get jobs because these greedy and selfish tycoon only want to hire cheap foreign labours from Bangladesh and nepal, which can work like slaves without SOCSO and EPF ? maybe you can cover that also, CNA..

[Boleh]

The closing of 'pasar malam', 'pasar pagi' or any 'pasar' make the regular sellers or rotating sellers lost their income. May things get better...

[edman]

Malaysia will not be this bad if the government has not been this corrupt.

[upsventure]

Very Inaccurate. The so called " poor people" who live in poverty in Sandakan as shown was mostly illegal immigrants.
Do u know how many illegal philipinos are there in Sandakan?? A LOT.
And those shown in KL are those people who chooses to live on the street by choice and some of them are drug addict or abandoned by their famillies. This is social problem not poverty.

The headline is SO MISLEADING, it should be about effect of the pandemic and not about poverty in Malaysia. Yes we have poverty in Malaysia, but not as bad as depicted.

Very misleading and was done in the intention of slandering.

[ramilherrera]

I am not Malay, I'm a foreign worker(Filipino) but this makes my heart broke, seeing Malaysian going to a worst economics scenario. Malaysia is like a home to me. Since this pandemic came i always praying that Malaysia can stand up and have a great economy again. Mahal ko ang Malaysia.

[dorayantz]

In the time of the pandemic, every day, when you woke up, is a blessing. Stay strong fellow Malaysian.

[bobafett]

Excellent documentary .. Well done CNA did a great jpb 💟 ... Malaysia is resiient, innovative and humble so there is no doubt the country will always rise ... Malaysia has so many natural resources and huge productive landscape so Malaysia sure Boleh all the way also their people very hardworking .... SG is lucky to be Malaysia neighbour 💝

[liro_mngbt]

Malaysians seem very resilient and upbeat. I love their attitude and hope nothing but the best for them. I’m sure once COVID is gone, they’ll be back on their feet in no time.

[debradesimone]

As I continued to watch the video I was struck by the positive outlook that this family put on the whole COVID crisis. They did what they needed to and it allowed them a new sense of calmness in their life now that they weren't living it just to earn money! I have been living like this for years, and the joy that it gives you not having to worry about paying cable bills and having a brand name for everything has been amazing! Although I have to admit that people around me think I'm lying about how I live that there is no way I can be happy without always having money to go out to eat or shop, they can't comprehend the fact that I've found my happiness within myself, my faith and doing things for other people. I had the cars the new furniture the credit cards and along with all those came constant worry about what if I got sick and couldn't work, you get the idea. In Asian countries things are so different they seem to care about each other and want to help collectively rather than how we are in America!

[ifques]

Sad part is, with high unemployment rate, and business being slow, price of good have skyrocketed. Especially in the urban area. It's more hard to survive now.

[soonyeehang]

If Malaysia can beat it once. Then Malaysia can beat it back again.

[ahmadkhalil]

This prove thats Malaysian not malas, stay strong Malaysia #kitajagakita #supportbarangkita

[hakimmohsin]

theres certainly ppl that are not affected much by this pandemic. i hope these ppl would support and help those in need. everyone shud do their part within our own capacity. #kitajagakita

[zaczain]

We learn about poverty in Indonesia, the Philipines, Malaysia....we are still waiting for the poverty in Singapore.