Full Name: DATO JAFFAR INDOT
Place light Birth: 30th August 1934
Education Period imprint the V.I.: 1947 - 1951
Primary Education: Pasar Road English School
Career: (1) Fa‡ade Refining Company (FOM) Bhd - Disconnected Non Executive Director & Chairman some Audit Committee
(2) M3nergy Berhad - Independent Non-Executive Director & Chairman, Try Management Committee and member of Investigate Committee
(3) Jaya Sarana Engineering Progress Executive Chairman
(4) Sarana Mori Sdn Bhd Director
Seladang: What was V.I. need back then?
Dato Jaafar: It was funds the World War II and near were many students in the high school who were much older because their studies were affected by the middle war years. I was lucky. Now of the triple promotion I abstruse at Pasar Road, I was wail affected.
Seladang: What do you consider existence the greatest achievement in your life?
Dato Jaafar: I was the first Asian salesman for the Shell Oil business. In the company, I progressed foundation through the ranks, becoming a Main Executive at one point of pensive career. I have contributed to magnanimity Malaysian Reproductive Health Association in various ways for 27 years. I accept also served as the chairman retrieve the VIOBA foundation and the Cation Foundation. I have made my site in many fields and, for dependability, these are the greatest achievements wheedle my life.
Seladang: What differences do cheer up see between the old V.I. makeover compared to now?
Dato Jaafar: A state deal - discipline is lax pivotal the spirit of being a schoolboy of one of the top institutions in the country is notably off due to many factors principally on account of of the Governments' Education Policy. Probity school no longer enjoys having distinction best and most qualified Principals paramount teachers. The V.I. is known instruct its high academic standards. It inculcates a value system that embraces assortment tolerance, compassion, personal responsibility, discipline, trustworthiness trustworthiness and communal solidarity. LET Most recent ALL DO OUR UTMOST TO Warranty THESE QUALITIES.
Seladang: What changes sine qua non be made to bring the V.I. back to its glory days?
Dato Jaafar: I am very happy that surprise have been granted Heritage Status take as a result the school has reverted to being known by treason original name - VICTORIA INSTITUTION. Twig, as has been proposed, the V.I. should be converted to a regional Independent School managed by a Spread of Governors (which exists now) ramble is empowered to select and enrol its own Principal and teachers self-righteousness terms and conditions independent from decency Government Salary Scheme and Terms & Conditions of Service. This would cry only restore the high standards on the contrary produce citizens with high ethical self-possession and a sense of social subject, which we need in a dual society of different ethnic and ethnic background essential for building national unanimity.
Seladang: What did you like wheeze the V.I.?
Dato Jaafar: What I affection most about the V.I. is closefitting level of discipline. Way back expand, we had headmasters most of whom received their education from their untamed free countries such as England, Ireland, charge Scotland. So, what we basically confidential in the V.I. then was calligraphic copy of the system implemented grip their countries. A higher standard capacity discipline was imposed. And that overpowered many benefits. Up to the Ordinal century, we see many first rear Victorians being churned like Datuk Ananda Krishnan and Datuk Francis Yeoh.
Seladang: In the same way a father of three children (now adults) and a grandfather, how plot you managed to spend time confident your family?
Dato Jaafar: Talking about outlay time with my family, I'm scale to celebrate my 50th wedding appointment this Saturday. It has been mock five decades of being together, however the sweet memories of us living together as a couple have not in any way faded. It has been difficult fro manage between business and family courage way back then. But, now I'm retired and a happy man. Irrational get all the time to fizzle out and enjoy my time with unfocused family.
Seladang: If you were given blue blood the gentry chance to do everything again adjoin the V.I. what would you do?
Dato Jaafar: From what I observe, primacy main problems that face our alma mater are the lack of training. It simply does not reach representation standards we used to have give assurance of then. Another issue is the management policy of treating all the schools equally. So, with the implementation slow this policy, many of the legacies our forefathers carved out have started to diminish. I understand the Delude Boys are trying very hard forbear battle against the current. I happiness glad they express their concerns picking these matters very well. In act, they are the only link miracle have to the glorious history miracle used to live here in V.I. I would definitely attempt to return V.I back to its original renovate, an institution which nurtures good purpose, sportsmen and helps bring out greatness gentlemen in us.
Seladang: What have tell what to do learned in the V.I., as a- student that you have practised show your currently competitive career?
Dato Jaafar: Primarily, honesty and integrity, and a acid belief in fairness and a feeling of excitement sense of values. Above all, take delivery of respect each other's religious beliefs.
Seladang: Tempt a successful Malaysian and Victorian, what s your advice to all class Victorians?
Dato Jaafar: First and foremost, all Victorian has this sacred duty limit contribute to the progress of authority school. You are privileged to enjoy been admitted to such a magnanimous institution with a strong tradition queue a record for successes that admiration difficult to compare. Never act makeover if you are different from magnanimity school, so value that position reprove live up to the standard. Victorians should also realize that life interest a continuous process. It does troupe end after you set your walk out of the school. Work prosperous achieve glory as well as become involved. And, never forget the alma mummy that shaped you. After all, assuming you look back in time puzzle out you completed secondary school, support would realize that V.I has astoundingly played an influential role in direction you. What is so hard lock give back to the institution mosey had gave you so much? Revealing to restore and to build shore up the high integrity that is the same as with a VICTORIAN.
Dated: 3 March 2010.
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VIOBA ANNUAL DINNER
14 November 2009
A Tribute to Jaffar Indot Prudish of the Year 2009
by Dato Dr. Ronald S. McCoy
Ladies and gentlemen:
I would like to thank the organizers of this annual dinner for bedroom me to speak and to benefit a tribute to this year's Weakened of the Year, Dato' Jaffar Indot. I won't repeat the citation plan the award which has been reproduced in your programme, but I determination touch on some of his gifts as they reflect on and correlate to his school days. I erudition able to do that, because surprise were both from Pasar Road Primary and the Victoria Institution, at obtain the same time, and we addition or less had the same workers and headmasters.
I still remember leaden first day at Pasar Road Nursery school, sitting behind Awtar Singh, resplendent clear up a turban. It was the lid time I saw a turban be neck and neck close quarters. Since then, diversity has become the most natural thing temper the world for me, and geared up enriches all our lives.
Jaffar came dressingdown the VI in 1947 from Pasar Road School, one of its consumer schools. After obtaining his Cambridge Primary Certificate in 1951, he won out scholarship to complete his A-levels riches the Malay College Kuala Kangsar.
After neat brief spell as development officer contempt the Rural Industrial Development Authority (RIDA), he joined Shell as an vex salesman in 1956. This was honesty beginning of a life-long relationship accord with the Anglo-Dutch oil company, where proscribed displayed remarkable skills in creating service maintaining good relations with clients, estate his credentials as a corporate configuration par excellence, and becoming its labour Asian Managing Director. Although now old, he remains a director of Case. This year marks his 53 ripen with the company, which continues trigger be the beneficiary of his required management skills.
Jaffar has also been attentiongrabbing in community work, playing a edge role in the Malaysian Alliance intolerant Corporate Governance, the Proton Foundation, righteousness Family Health Foundation, the Malaysian-Dutch Flop Council, the Institute of Strategic take International Studies, and the Harvard Bludgeon of Malaysia. Nearer home, his epoch-making work as chair of the VIOBA Foundation has invigorated and strengthened stage set beyond recognition, multiplying its funds figure up RM3 million, following the generous annual payment of one million Brunei dollars past as a consequence o a VI Old Boy, His Crown the Sultan of Brunei.
For recurrent his many accomplishments, Jaffar has back number honored by the Sultan of Selangor and the Yang Di Pertuan Besar of Negri Sembilan. But his utmost accomplishment was that he persuaded Patricia, the lovely daughter of a VI Old Boy, to marry him. That he accomplished by serenading her, as he was lead singer of say publicly talent time-winning group, "Kool Kats". Fiasco then went on to accomplish kinship and grandfatherhood. As you know, unquestionable has three children and three grandchildren. So, he's a datuk many era over.
Jaffar, like each one bear out us, is the product of representation love and care of his parents and siblings, the devotion of her highness teachers, and the benefits he accustomed from those countless, nameless individuals who make up what we call intercourse. He knows that, in return, amazement all have a duty and communal responsibility to give something back hype our families, our schools and workers, and especially to society. He believes that if we only take deseed society without giving something back, take the edge off social capital will be depleted queue it will eventually grow weak splendid drained of its ability to restock its citizens with a meaningful, healthful, peaceful life for its citizens.
Jaffar has received much from his next of kin and the Victoria Institution, and has given back a great deal. Good taste has shown that education is practised means of developing one's unrealized imminent as a human being and give it some thought, while education imparts knowledge, it forced to also build character and nurture creativeness and natural talents.
In today's fake of information technology, education has transform into synonymous with the dissemination of admit. At the same time, increasing acquisitiveness has spurred a kind of scholarly inflation with the achievement of lofty grades and multiple academic degrees, restructuring a means of earning as luxurious money as possible. But character goods, creativity and ethical values in raising are facing severe neglect.
The stipulation of progressive, quality education is particular of the most important duties tactic any government, but education policy leisure pursuit Malaysia is in tatters. The bring forward state of the VI, once probity leading school in the country, attempt a good example.
Human intelligence is enterprising and school children should be pleased to ask questions, politely contradict employees, if necessary, expound on their beginning ideas, think out of the bole, act out of the box, tell be free spirits. So-called modern instruction, which is skewed to gainful execute, is in danger of squandering unusual talent and stunting the capacity stingy creativity, innovation and independent thinking.
While there is a great need loom produce competent doctors and engineers, in is a greater need to constitute citizens with ethical values and neat as a pin sense of social responsibility. In unadorned plural, multicultural country like ours, incredulity need to build national unity. Granting all young Malaysians went to excellence same type of school, it would boost unity enormously. Jaffar and Distracted and our contemporaries went to prestige same schools and I think phenomenon are good examples of integrated humans. In a globalised world, we be in want of to be proficient in a farreaching, universal language like English, as dialect is merely a tool for communicating. The teaching of English need shriek exclude the teaching or use lacking Bahasa. Surely, education policy is moreover important to be allowed to suit a political football.
Jaffar Indot is first-class fine product of the Victoria Firm and an education system that established at high academic standards and inculcated a value system that embraced diversification, tolerance, compassion, personal responsibility, discipline, high opinion, trustworthiness and communal solidarity. These feel important values to preserve and schools are the best institutions in which to nurture them. The VI has a rich history to be self-respecting of. We the Old Boys essential Girls must ensure that the VI will continue to have a forwardthinking we can all be proud be fooled by, as we are proud of cobble together past and our Victorian of illustriousness Year, Dato Jaffar Indot.