I think the NLD members of the government are, yes. Sometimes you will find members of the military party who are really interested in learning more about parliamentary procedure and how laws work, but at the end of the day, they have to fall in line and do what the military says.
Yes, I do think they are receptive to efforts. Both the officials in Naypyidaw, and the local government officials in places like Arakan State are open to learning more about governing, policing, or health care. I think there is a sense that Burma has turned a corner and we have to build a new government structure, a new society. For too long, this country has been basically run by the military. The very bureaucracy of the state got corrupted by the military.
I will give you an example. There is something called the GAD. It sounds like “god.” It is basically an administrative civil service institution superimposed over all the different ministries and parts of the government, and it is military-led. That general military-led agency has been the instrument whereby the entire civil service and bureaucracy of Burma has been controlled by the Burmese military for the last 60-plus years.
Unravelling that is going to be a lot of work. It is going to be district-by-district, province-by-province work to unravel that bureaucratic nightmare. It is very complicated. Yes, they need technocratic help from outside lawyers, parliamentarians, and others to unravel all these bureaucratic nightmares.