Present strength of the Malaysian Army is approximately as follows:
Malaysian Army Active: 110,000 personnel
Active Reserve: 41,600 personnel
Paramilitary: 18,000 personnel
RELA People's volunteer corps: 596,799 personnel
This makes it close to 800,000 Malaysian Military.
Strangely, this exceeds the Burmese Junta, which only has 492,000 Military.
What is even more surprising, is the fact that Malaysia only has a population of 25 million, while Burma, has a population of 50 million. So, while the world looks at Burma, and criticizes it for having far too much Military-to-Population ratio, I'm sure, that they forgot to look at Malaysia. Anything listed under the Military, is deemed "Classified", and out-of-bounds for scrutiny. Items such as a lone-thief with Jet-Engines bound for Iran, Stolen C4 for Mongolian BBQ's, Submarines which can only float, Sale of Burmese Refugees, and so on.
Looking at the above stats, one can only draw 2 conclusions.
1) The "Ketuanan Militar" (yes, I deliberately use the Indonesian word) is so useless, that it takes 4 times the number that of Burma, per capita.
2) Malaysia is preparing for Military Rule. Let's not forget all the recent announcements of new Military Purchases.

Around the same time, Parliament was informed that 70% of public university graduates are unemployed.
Whatever the case may be, the fact is that a lot of the graduates our public universities unleash on the country are not employable. And these unemployable people find employment in the government.
Brawn of the Prime Minister's Dept.
There were only 4,414 staff in 1981
It takes 43,544 staff to run Jibby's admin today. And that is a 1,000% increase, with the largest spike in 2010, from 25,332 staff to 43,544 staff. (this is an increase of 71.893% in ONE YEAR!!!!) It is ironic, and iconic that Malaysians simply became 1,000% more stupid since 1981. We definitely need more BTN programs.

The White House budget request for 2011 (pg 13 of this PDF) is for a total of US$393,883,000 which works out to RM1, 299, 813, 900.
The Budget for our Prime Minister's Office is RM4 billion (US$1.25 billion)



written by antares, September 30, 2010 15:36:08
written by syd, September 30, 2010 12:00:28
rela is just a volunterr corp.
Our army strength is just about what you mentioned:
Present strength of the Malaysian Army is approximately as follows:
Malaysian Army Active: 110,000 personnel
Active Reserve: 41,600 personnel
Paramilitary: 18,000 personnel
Down south in cheenapore, they have over one million in active mode as reservist.
And their standing army is more than us.
They also spend more money annually in their defence budget than us.
Why you compare to burmese junta.
Go compare our armed forces with the threat down south.
One reason why they do not want to dismantle the causeay is for defense purpose. causeway is more difficult to destroy than a bridge. Their defense is to invad southern johore and stop far enough out of range of milotary bombardment capability.
written by arazak, September 30, 2010 11:23:11
written by ibabonma, September 30, 2010 11:04:50
written by Logger123, September 30, 2010 10:57:01
Petronas, is controlled by Mahathir as in most of the Oil &Gas companies in Malaysia. The GLCs know that their bread is buttered by Mahathir. Most UMNO division chiefs are terrified of Mahathir and will obey him. Taib Mahmud is at this moment being brought to heel by Mahathir. The military leadership is aligned to Siti Hasmah, thus Mahathir. The Judiciary, Police and Royals kowtow to Mahathir, so no problem.
All Mahaterrorist needs is a spark to activate his plan. So thats why the barking dogs are let loose again in the form of Perkasa, BTN and more Malay ultra NGO's to come. The Bapak Anjing is making flanking moves to pull the rug from under Najib and neutralise him, but Najib still can's see it.
Pakatan is busy with their internal fights, no time for the rakyat now.
So all we the rakyat can do, as in other god forsaken failing states, is either go work in other countries, or just stock up food in the house and watch the game. Unless of course the rakyat has the guts to come out in droves to support a nationwide long term hartal and drive all investors and tourists off.
written by SadMalaysian101, September 30, 2010 10:43:56
It is not as far fetched as it might seem. If I am not mistaken, in the past before UMNO removed the power of the Malay Rulers, the military would have been divided in terms of loyalty (one faction supporting UMNO and the other the Rulers), but over the years as is all major government institutions, most of the the key and influential positions have been given to pro UMNO people. I hope John Doe is wrong. God help us!


























Dear Syd,
you wrote, "...Down south in cheenapore, they have over one million in active mode as reservist.
And their standing army is more than us. .."
Perhaps you should have read this first:
The SAF relies heavily on a large pool of conscripts in the active and reserve forces. It has an active strength of around 71,600 personnel and is capable of mobilising over 300,000 reservists
taken from:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singapore_Armed_Forces
Dear Syd, for them to have as many Military as you claim, then you're looking at 25% of the entire Singapore Population. Is this even possible? And where would you be fetching those numbers from?
And Singapore only spends US$456million on arms. That amount is still HALF of that spent by the PM's Office.
Taken from:
http://www.nationmaster.com/co...l-military
You want more info on Singapore's SAF, then head here:
http://www.mindef.gov.sg/imindef/home.html
Just remember that they WILL track your IP Address if you c***k this link.
Finally, I can't believe that you actually think that Singapore would invade Malaysia !! Ya, Mahathir recently accused Singapore for Malaysia's Racism, but that does not mean Singapore will attack. They have far too many Billions at stake to meddle with pitiful Malaysia. So what if they do? Singapore will assume a debt of unheard proportions !!! No thanks!
You can worship your Ketuanan till you bleed !! Singapore will NOT attack Malaysia.