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DAP calls for special Cabinet task force to reversse the plunge in non-Malay ratio in public service from 29.7 per cent Chinese and 9.8 Indians in 1980 to 8.2 per cent Chinese and 5.2 Indians in 2003 – which is not because Chinese and Indians do not want government jobs but because of unfair civil service recruitment policiesMedia Statement by Lim Kit Siang (Petaling Jaya, Thursday): DAP rejects the explanation by the the Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister’s Department, Datuk Kamsiyah Yeop when replying to the DAP MP for Batu Gajah Fong Po Kuan in Parliament on Monday that the Chinese do not want government jobs as reason for 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. The plunge in non-Malay ratio in public service is not because Chinese and Indians do not want government jobs but because of unfair civil service recruitment policies. DAP calls for an urgent parliamentary debate on the shocking revelation of the sharp drop in non-Malay ratio in the public service, from 29.7 per cent Chinese and 9.8 Indians in 1980 to 8.2 per cent Chinese and 5.2 Indians in 2003, which is in violation of the Second Outline Perspective Plan (OPP) 1990-2000 targets of 25.3% Chinese and 8.2% Indians in 1990 and 26.3% Chinese and 9% Indians in 2000 – targets which were approved by Parliament in June 1991.
It is most regrettable that the Cabinet at its meeting yesterday failed to address this issue. A special Cabinet task force should be set up to reverse the plunge of the non-Malay ratio in the civil service and ensure that the Second OPP objectives could be achieved in the mid-term review of the Eighth Malaysia Plan. (23/10/2003) * Lim Kit Siang, DAP National Chairman |
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