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DAP calls for a special and urgent parliamentary debate on the sharp drop of non-Malay civil servants from 29.7 per cent Chinese and 9.8 per cent Indians in 1980 to 8.2 per cent Chinese and 5.2 per cent Indians in 2003 – proof of government policies creating new injustices and imbalancesMedia Statement by Lim Kit Siang (Petaling Jaya, Tuesday): Three decades ago, the Barisan Nasional government initiated the 20-year New Economic Policy (NEP) followed by a 10-year National Development Policy to restructure the Malaysian society with the two-prong objectives to eradicate poverty and to end the identification of race with occupation. The answer given by the Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister’s Department, Datuk Kamsiyah Yeop in Parliament yesterday about the ethnic breakdown of the public service has highlighted the dismal failures of the government policies creating new injustices and imbalances. According to Kamsiyah, the ethnic breakdown of the public service are as follows:Bumiputeras 83.7%; Chinese 8.2%; Indians 5.2% and others 3.3%. This is most shocking and a far cry from the statistics in the early years of the NEP. For instance, the Fifth Malaysia Plan 1986-1990 gave the following ethnic breakdown of the public service for 1980 and 1985, which when compared to the figures given in Parliament yesterday, produce a most astounding contrast in the following:
DAP calls for a special and urgent parliamentary debate on the sharp drop of non-Malay civil servants from 29.7 per cent Chinese and 9.8 Indians in 1980 to 8.2 per cent Chinese and 5.2 Indians in 2003 – proof of government policies creating new injustices and imbalances, as they do not reflect the Chinese and Indian population share of 24% and 8% respectively. The Government should table a special action plan to rectify these new injustices and imbalances before the end of the Eighth Malaysia Plan in 2005. (21/10/2003) * Lim Kit Siang, DAP National Chairman |
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