Dateline Kamuning:   President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. wants reform in the bureaucracy to curb smuggling, lower logistics costs and ensure ease of doing business as his government works to prop up investments and business activity in the country. During a meeting with the Private Sector Advisory Council (PSAC), the President said the present system isn’t working, stressing that government agencies must do something particularly to address rampant smuggling. “To be brutally frank about it, we have a system but they are not working. The smuggling here in this country is absolutely rampant. So it does not matter to me how many systems we have in place, they do not work,” the President told PSAC members in Malacañang. “So we really have to find something else. We cannot continue to depend on these systems which have already proven themselves to be quite ineffective,” the chief executive pointed out. Whether the systems are ineffective or whether it’s the way they’re being ope...