EFFICIENCY OF PUBLIC POLICY IMPLEMENTATION IN THE STATE LEGISLATIVE AREA OF (N24) SEMENYIH, SELANGOR: AN OBSERVATION TO MALAY VOTER VIEW

The purpose of this article is to analyze the perceptions of Malay voters on both publicpolicies; the State Government and Federal Government policies. Public policy is afundamental guidline that is practised stritcly by the governtment to ensure that everydecision made is objective and fair. The State Legislative Assembly (DUN) constituency ofSemenyih, Selangor is dominated by the National Front/Barisan Nasional (BN) since the firstgeneral election until to the current present. The Malays are the main ethnicity that lives inthis area with which has also expereinced an increase of voters every year. Its electoral areaswould included cities/towns, rurals/villages, traditional Malay and Chinese villages, modernhousing estates and Indian estates. The methods used in this study includes distributingquestionaire to 100 respondents in Semenyih and also comes with a complete literaturemethod as well. The findings have shown that majority of respondents had agreed to bothpublic policies by the Federal Government and the Selangor Government. They are positiveabout any policy that is beneficial to the people regardless of political affiliations. The policy which prioritizes the needs and the welfare of the people will continue to gain the support from the people, especially the policies that are prove to be beneficial for them. Hence, the authorities need to be consistent in implementing good socio-economic policies to safeguard the welfare and well-being of the people.