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Dr. Boo Cheng Hau's Trilingual Blog: SAY WHAT YOU LIKE

Posted: 19 Jun 2011 07:26 AM PDT

Dr. Boo Cheng Hau's Trilingual Blog: SAY WHAT YOU LIKE


Isn’t a one-race civil service a form of apartheid?

Posted: 18 Jun 2011 07:44 PM PDT

I remember once as a young medical officer, I was boycotted by operating theatre staff when I wanted stern action taken against a staff nurse who went for a kenduri when she was supposed to scrub for a surgery.
An assistant nurse had to cover up for her delinquent senior. Both the nurses – the one who had absented herself and the one suddenly forced to relieve her duty – were Malay. The young patient lying on my operating table waiting to deliver her baby was Malay too. And also Malay, the anaesthesist and other operating theatre staff who gave me the cold shoulder after I remonstrated with the matron. 
I had informed Matron right away after I found the young nurse shivering in fear because she was thrown into the deep end and unprepared to assist in a surgery. If I had expected disciplinary action to be taken, I was disappointed. My colleagues who rallied around the race banner sadly failed to see that the patient (someone belonging to their own ethnic community) about to give birth deserved the best medical care.
What if it had been an emergency case where a life was at stake? Malays have to be made aware that an incompetent and one-race dominated civil service may not be beneficial to them and as the majority, they would be the ones ultimately most affected. With such experiences, you can understand why I resigned from the public health sector.
One of my Malay superiors urged me to "think about the service" but then again, if only the Malays themselves could think about how racism among civil servants has hindered their own progress.
1Malay first and foremost
Malaysia has a "huge and largely ethnic Malay civil service, completely loyal to Umno, but increasingly incompetent" that is the biggest obstacle to Prime Minister Najib Razak's 1Malaysia. This was the view of former Economic Planning Unit deputy director-general K. Govindan, according to a leaked United States diplomatic cable.
The WikiLeaks that appeared in Malaysia Today on June 6 had the cable further quoting Govindan's opinion that our civil service adopts "a very narrow worldview and will oppose, even refuse to implement, reforms perceived as damaging ethnic Malay interests, even if convinced of the long-run gains for Malaysia". 
Former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad has referred to the service as a "Malay administration". He did not even bother to pass it off as a "bumiputera administration" in which case it can be claimed by the non-Muslim natives of East Malaysia. Alas, the Orang Asli indigenous to the peninsula do not even figure in the equation.
Non Malays have been gradually cleansed from the public sector with only a few remaining now in crucial and inevitable sectors such as teaching in vernacular schools. The Orang Asli have been totally excluded.
Umno ultra nationalists defend majority-race dominance as justifiable opposed to the minority-race dominance previously in South Africa under apartheid. They're pretending their systemic racism is not discernible to the rest of the world even if the minorities in Malaysia are resigned to this supremacist order of public affairs.
The public sector should reflect the country's plural society or in other words, set the example and no longer display the same 'ethnic imbalances' blamed on the divide-and-rule policy under British colonial rule.
Not a 'reasonable' apportioning
Mahathir and his ultras claim their affirmative action differs from apartheid. Yet the end result of the affirmative or rather discriminative action is the monopoly of all aspects of socio-economic life by a single politically dominant ethnic majority. One example of the 1Malay administration at work is the annual Public Service Department (JPA) scholarship disbursement where top non-Malay students appear to have been systematically sidelined.
Even though Article 8 (2) of the Federal Constitution states that all citizens are eligible if suitably qualified by educational standards to enter any branch of the public service, and there can be no discrimination on grounds of race, religion and the like, in reality, the Malay ultras have ignored this constitutional provision.
The public sector can declare that it is devoid of racial discrimination only if its staff composition reasonably reflects the ethnic composition of the country and its intake based primarily on merit. The competence, integrity and efficiency of personnel must take precedence over one's skin colour and ancestral status.
In 1967, the Malays accounted for 68 percent of all civil servants (Supian Ali and Mohd Zainuddin: p.162). Chinese accounted for 16 percent and Indians 15 percent. In 1968, Malays outnumbered non-Malays only in two (administrative services and legal services) out of nine public service areas, and accounted about half of the uniformed services manpower (Mohamed Suffian: p.297). Nonetheless, many top administrative jobs, legal officer and technical posts were held by the Chinese and Indians.
Under clause (2) of article 153 in the constitution, it is the responsibility of the Yang Dipertuan Agong acting on Cabinet advice to ensure the reservation for Malays and natives of Borneo a "reasonable proportion" of positions in the federal public service. The constitution also prohibits any deprivation of a person of any public office held by him; and public servants all races of all levels must be treated impartially (Mohamed Suffian: p.294).
The constitution compels that any preferential treatment must still be reasonable to all ethnic groups and merit take precedence. The implementation of preferential policies has to be transparent.  
In 1978, the American court ruled in Regents of University of California v. Bakke that merit must take precedence over ethnicity in the implementation of affirmative action, and reverse racism as well as racial quotas are strictly forbidden. 
Strictly speaking, racial quotas have been found by the courts to be unconstitutional and not regarded as affirmative action in the United States. Instead racial quotas were the main feature of apartheid in South Africa
Consequences of racial quotas
The New Economic Policy imposed a quota in respect of Division I officers in the following services. The figures are shown in ratio:
Areas of Public Service
  Malays
Non Malays
Home & Foreign services
4
1
Judicial and legal service
3
1
Customs service
3
1
Police force
4
1
                     
Source: Mohamed Suffian, 1976, p.29
As of Dec 31, 2009, the Malaysian civil service comprised 1,247,894 employees. Their racial breakdown can be seen below as well as in comparison with past years.

Malay
Chinese
Indian
Others
Before NEP 1971
60.80%
20.2%
17.40%
1.6%
June 2005
77.04%
9.37%
5.12%
8.47%
December 2009
78.2%
5.8%
4.0%
4.2%
Source: http://blog.limkitsiang.com, April 7, 2010
Shortly after Independence, there were about 40 percent Indians in the Johor civil service. Today the 8,372-strong Johor civil service has witnessed the dwindling of Indians to a mere 1.39 percent and Chinese to an even more miniscule 0.12 percent (The Star, April 8, 2010).
All of the Johor leading administrative officers, including state secretaries, secretaries, directors of various state agencies, district officers and land officers and special administrators are Malays in a state where non-Malays account for almost half of the population. 1Malay domination of the public service is prominent not only at the top administrative levels but also down to the general workers.
Is the absolute domination of the public service by the Malays to be deemed 'reasonable' and constitutional?
XXL size govt and payroll
As we all know, the Malaysian public sector is bloated and we have the highest proportion of civil servants to population compared with our neighbours. In fact, we're likely the world record holder!
Yet the civil service still keeps expanding. It keeps absorbing Malay graduates who would otherwise be. This will cause the Malay young generation to cling to the theory of Malay supremacy until the bubble bursts.
The public sector comprised 11.9 percent of our total workforce in 1970, peaking at 15 percent in 1981 but dropping to 12 percent in 1991 after an aggressive privatization programme launched in the mid-1980s (K.S. Jomo et al: p.65).
Country     
Civil Servants
Workforce
Population*
% of total pop.
Indonesia
3,928,658
219,883,000
1.79
Laos
70,354
5,657,000
1.24
The Philippines
1,445,498
79,999,000
1.81
Thailand
1,296,688
62,833,000
2.06
Malaysia
899,250
24,425,000
3.68
* Population as at 2003, UN estimates

Source:  UN online Network in Public Administration and Finance, 2004

Like other totalitarian states in history such as the Third Reich of Nazi Germany, Umno needs a large number of Malay civil servants to control the populace through racism. Its state-sponsored Biro Tata Negara propagates Malay supremacy from top civil servants down to the grassroots.
BTN has successfully infused not only Malay supremacy but also Sinophobia and xenophobia among Malay civil servants. The British were perceived as the colonizers and Chinese subsequently became the new bogeymen after Independence as the counterfoil for instilling Malay 'unity'.
Nonetheless, there are unintended consequences from the bloated number of Malay civil servants. Some of them living in urban areas take on second jobs – teachers give private tuition and sell insurance; nurses engage in direct sales; government office general workers work at petrol kiosks at night. But at least they are trying to augment their income through honest means.
Corruption among civil servants has even been justified as an acceptable way to "balance the income disparity" between the Chinese-dominated private sector and Malay-dominated public sector. The tragic thing about the whole issue is that corruption has not only victimized the non-Malay poor but has also denied the underprivileged Malays access to state resources.
The lack of promotion prospects has contributed to the phenomenon of many non Malays resigning from the public service besides deterring new prospective entrants from applying. The 'kulitfication' (skin colour) ceiling and other preferences along racial lines comes at the expense of public administration efficiency. Inefficiency in the public sector has in turn adversely affected our national economic growth and the incomes of those who dominate the public sector.
There were preferential policies during the apartheid era to upgrade the living standards of politically dominant white Afrikaner minority among other better-off whites. But apartheid is an immoral regime because it degrades fellow countrymen and refuses to allow that all human beings are equals. Such discriminative preferential policies are not 'affirmative action'; they are immoral. 
References
Jomo K.S., et al, 'Privatizing Malaysia-Rents, Rhetoric, Realities', Boulder, Colorado/Oxford, Westview Press Inc., 1995.
Mohamed Suffian bin Hashim, Tun, 'An Introduction to the Constitution of Malaysia', second edition Kuala Lumpur, Government Printers, 1976.
Supian Ali, Mohd. Zainuddin Saleh et al, 'Rancangan Malaysia Keenam – Prioriti Pengukuhan Negara', Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Bangi, 1994


Lim Guan Eng

Posted: 19 Jun 2011 01:20 AM PDT

Lim Guan Eng


Soi Lek Should Explain Why He Supported And Campaigned For A Corrupt BN Sarawak & Taib Mahmud (En/Bm/Cn)

Posted: 18 Jun 2011 07:05 AM PDT

Press Statement By Penang Chief Minister And DAP Secretary-General Lim Guan Eng In Kuala Lumpur On 18 June 2011.

Chua Soi Lek Should Explain Why He Supported And Campaigned For A Corrupt BN Sarawak And Tan Sri Abdul Taib Mahmud During The Sarawak General Elections.

MCA President Datuk Seri Dr Chua Soi Lek should explain why he supported and campaigned for a corrupt BN Sarawak and its Chief Minister Tan Sri Abdul Taib Mahmud during the Sarawak general elections. Chua was reported in Malaysian Insider that DAP may fail to repeat its Sarawak polls success in peninsular Malaysia as the Chinese vote swing there was based on dissatisfaction against cronyism and an allegedly corrupt state administration.

Instead of attacking corruption, Dr Chua has chosen to attack the Chinese voters for voting against BN by threatening to withdraw from government if MCA loses again in the next general elections. Clearly, Dr Chua's was only forced to this tacit admission of the stench of corruption hanging over Tan Sri Abdul Taib after Switzerland President Micheline Calmy-Rey ordered a full investigation of money laundering against Abdul Taib to demonstrate the Swiss government's commitment to fighting against corruption and the restitution of embezzled funds to respective countries.

Chua's desperate attempt at damage control is no different from the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC). MACC only confirmed its investigation into Sarawak Chief Minister Tan Sri Abdul Taib Mahmud over allegations of timber corruption only after the Swiss' investigation. This is a shameful example of trying to "bolt the stable doors after the horses have bolted"

Chua should explain the rationale and logic of supporting MCA when MCA does not fight moral and financial corruption but is willing to campaign for a corrupt BN Sarawak state administration and Chief Minister.

Is Chua willing to explain why he did not raise the loss of RM52 billion of bumi shares meant for poor Malays and East Malaysian natives that were "hijacked" by BN leaders? Or explain whether he is going to take action against MCA Vice-President Datuk Dr Ng Yen Yen for spending RM1.8 million to set up 6 Facebook pages when it is available for free?

So long as Chua can not demonstrate MCA's firm commitment and unyielding resolve to fight corruption wherever they exists, MCA's threat to withdraw from government is meaningless and irrelevant. Malaysians have lost hundreds of billions of ringgit from corrupt practices. Even Minister in the Prime Minister Department Datuk Seri Idris Jala had warned that Malaysia could be bankrupt by 2019. Only Malaysians can save the country from bankruptcy by rejecting leaders who are corrupt or removing leaders supporting those who are corrupt.

LIM GUAN ENG
================

Kenyataan Akhbar oleh Ketua Menteri Pulau Pinang dan Setiausaha Agung DAP, Lim Guan Eng pada 18 Jun 2011 di Kuala Lumpur
__________________________________________________________

Chua Soi Lek Seharusnya Menjelaskan Mengapa Beliau Menyokong dan Berkempen Untuk Barisan Nasional (BN) Sarawak dan Tan Sri Abdul Taib Mahmud yang Terlibat dengan rasuah ketika pilihan raya umum Sarawak yang lalu.
__________________________________________________________

Presiden MCA, Datuk Seri Dr Chua Soi Lek perlu menjelaskan mengapa beliau menyokong dan berkempen untuk Barisan Nasional (BN) Sarawak dan Tan Sri Abdul Taib Mahmud yang Terlibat dengan rasuah ketika pilihan raya umum Sarawak yang lalu. Dalam satu laporan yang disiarkan oleh Malaysian Insider, Chua menegaskan bahawa DAP akan gagal untuk mengulangi kejayaan pilihan raya Sarawak di Semenanjung Malaysia kerana undi rakyat Cina di Sarawak adalah sebab ketidakpuashati terhadap budaya kroni dan pentadbiran kerajaan negeri yang dituduh rasuah.

Sebaliknya menentang rasuah, Dr Chua telah pilih menyerang pengundi Cina yang undi untuk menentang BN dengan mengancam mereka bahawa MCA akan menarik diri daripada kerajaan sekiranya MCA gagal dalam pilihan raya umum akan datang. Jelasnya, Dr Chua terpaksa mengakui dengan tersirat terhadap tuduhan rasuah Tan Sri Abdul Taib selama ini selepas Presiden Switzerland, Micheline Calmy- Rey mengarahkan agar satu siasatan penuh dijalankan terhadap pengubahan wang haram yang berkaitan dengan Abdul Taib bagi membuktikan bahawa kerajaan Switzerland begitu komitmen dalam membanteras gejala rasuah dan pengembalian dana yang telah digelapkan kepada negara masing-masing.

Chua cuba mendesakan kawalan kerosakan salah laku BN adalah tidak bezanya kepada Suruhanjaya Pencegahan Rasuah Malaysia (SPRM). SPRM hanya mengesahkan siasatannya ke atas Ketua Menteri Sarawak Tan Sri Abdul Taib Mahmud atas dakwaan terhadap rasuah balak selepas siasatan dijalankan oleh Switzerland. Ini adalah contoh yang sangat memalukan seperti kata pepatah Ingeris "Selepas kuda dah lari diri barulah tahu tutup pintu"(bolt the stable doors after the horses have bolted)

Chua seharusnya menjelaskan secara rasional dan logik apakah yang MCA sokong apabila MCA tidak berjuang menentang rasuah moral dan kewangan tetapi sanggup berkempen untuk kerajaan negeri Sarawak dan Ketua Menterinya yang terlibat dengan rasuah.

Adakah Chua bersedia menjelaskan mengapa beliau tidak menimbulkan skandal kehilangan saham bumiputera sebanyak RM52 bilion yang sepatutnya diagihkan kepada kaum melayu yang miskin dan kaum Bumiputera di Sabah Sarawak tetapi telah dirampas oleh pemimpin BN? Atau menjelaskan sama ada beliau akan mengambil tindakan ke atas Naib Presiden MCA, Datuk Dr Ng Yen Yen yang membelanjakan RM1.8 million untuk menyediakan 6 laman sesawang Facebook sedangkan ianya boleh dibuat secara percuma?

Selagi Chua tidak mampu menunjukan MCA menegaskan komitmen yang tinggi untuk menentang rasuah sedangkan perkara ini wujud, ancaman MCA untuk menarik diri daripada kerajaan adalah tidak bermakna dan tidak berkaitan kepada rakyat. Rakyat Malaysia telah kehilangan beratus bilion ringgit daripada amalan rasuah ini. Malah Menteri di Jabatan Perdana Menteri Datuk Seri Idris Jala telah memberi amaran bahawa Malaysia akan menghadapi muflis mejelang tahun 2019. Hanya rakyat Malaysia boleh menyelamatkan negara daripada muflis dengan menolak pemimpin- pemimpin yang terlibat dengan rasuah dan pemimpin yang menyokong mereka yang terlibat dengan rasuah.

LIM GUAN ENG

-Chinese Translation-
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槟州首长及民主行动党秘书长林冠英于2011年6月18日在吉隆坡发表的文告

蔡细厉有必要解释为何他在砂拉越大选的时候,为贪污的砂拉越国阵及丹斯里泰益助选站台。

马华公会总会长拿督斯里蔡细厉有必要解释为何他在砂拉越大选的时候,为贪污的砂拉越国阵及丹斯里泰益助选站台。大马局内人报导,蔡细厉认为民主行动党将无法在西马重演砂拉越的选举辉煌,因为砂拉越华裔选民是不满朋党主义及被指贪污的州政府才转投敌营。

马华应当谴责贪污,但是蔡细厉却宁愿选择怪罪华裔选民不投国阵,并威胁选民如果马华下届大选再度落败,将会退出执政的政府。很显然的在瑞士总统卡米瑞下令全面彻查泰益洗黑钱之后,蔡细厉才被迫施施然默认隐藏在泰益背后,那恶名昭彰的贪污指控。瑞士政府雷厉风行,显示该国政府打击贪污及归还被挪用的资金给相关国家的决心。

蔡细厉亡羊补牢般地危机处理无异于大马的反贪委员会。大马反贪会也是在瑞士政府下令彻查后,才敢确定要彻查泰益的木材贪污案。这贪污案现在才来亡羊补牢,简直是太羞耻了,就像英语谚语"马逃了才去关好马廐门"。

蔡细厉真的有必要解释马华为何舍弃道德及打击贪污于不顾,却愿意为贪污的砂拉越国阵及其首长站台助选?当中的逻辑与理由何在?

还有,蔡细厉是否也愿意解释为何他没有挺身为原本属于贫苦马来同胞及东马土著,但却被国阵领袖"骑劫"并消失的520亿令吉土著股权说一句话?或者蔡是否愿意解释他会不会对付马华副总会长拿督黄燕燕,因为她用了180万令吉设立原本就免费提供的面子书?

只要蔡细厉一天无法斩钉截铁承诺马华决心打击各种形形色色的贪污,马华威胁要退出政府根本毫无意义、无关痛痒。大马因为贪污已经失去数千亿令吉,首相署部长拿督斯里依德里斯已经警告2019年我国可能面临破产。如今只有马来西亚人本身可拯救大马免于破产,那就是让贪污的领袖及支持他们的领袖通通下台。

林冠英

Lim Kit Siang

Posted: 18 Jun 2011 11:25 PM PDT

Lim Kit Siang


Power is duty, not a prize

Posted: 18 Jun 2011 08:13 PM PDT

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“Creativity cannot be quantified” – Malaysians must thank their lucky stars it only cost RM1.8m

Posted: 18 Jun 2011 07:11 PM PDT

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Growing into my father’s son

Posted: 18 Jun 2011 06:59 PM PDT

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Bank Negara’s conditions tripping Abu Dhabi’s RHB sale

Posted: 18 Jun 2011 05:39 PM PDT

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Pemandu explains RM64 mil expenditure

Posted: 18 Jun 2011 04:53 PM PDT

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Soi Lek says Tourism Facebook pages incur more cost than personal ones

Posted: 18 Jun 2011 06:55 PM PDT

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Muhyiddin says opposition using Bersih rally to topple BN

Posted: 18 Jun 2011 07:47 AM PDT

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Isn’t a one-race civil service a form of apartheid?

Posted: 18 Jun 2011 07:45 AM PDT

By Dr Boo Cheng Hau June 18, 2011 | The Malaysian Insider JUNE 18 — I remember once, as a young medical officer, I was boycotted by operating theatre staff when I wanted stern action taken against a staff nurse who went for a kenduri when she was supposed to scrub for a surgery. An [...]

Some Saudi women challenge drive ban

Posted: 18 Jun 2011 04:42 AM PDT

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Rais demonising citizens through Bersih, says Ambiga

Posted: 18 Jun 2011 02:36 AM PDT

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BN strategy to muzzle PR reps and to punish Dayaks for NCR struggle in new Sarawak State Assembly?

Posted: 18 Jun 2011 01:33 AM PDT

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Iban language: Pick the right candidates

Posted: 18 Jun 2011 12:26 AM PDT

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‘Umno Youth, Perkasa want to foil Bersih rally’

Posted: 18 Jun 2011 12:23 AM PDT

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Changing the world in our own little way

Posted: 18 Jun 2011 12:20 AM PDT

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Bersih rally: People’s will or just politics?

Posted: 18 Jun 2011 12:16 AM PDT

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Anak Malaysia 2

Posted: 18 Jun 2011 12:13 AM PDT

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Mosque polls: King’s name being used, says don

Posted: 18 Jun 2011 02:09 AM PDT

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For anti-Lynas residents, the time for talking is over

Posted: 18 Jun 2011 12:02 AM PDT

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