{"id":43664,"date":"2021-05-19T07:33:07","date_gmt":"2021-05-18T23:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dapmalaysia.org\/en\/?p=43664"},"modified":"2021-05-19T07:33:07","modified_gmt":"2021-05-18T23:33:07","slug":"jakoa-director-general-must-be-an-orang-asli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dapmalaysia.org\/en\/jakoa-director-general-must-be-an-orang-asli\/","title":{"rendered":"JAKOA Director-General must be an Orang Asli"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Media statement(2) by MP for Iskandar Puteri, Lim Kit Siang in Kuala Lumpur on 19 May 2021:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dapmalaysia.org\/en\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/189A89EF-6D56-4219-8038-01661F02C265-1024x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-21404\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n&nbsp;\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\"><strong><em>#KerajaanGagal52 \u2013 I &nbsp;fully support MP for Cameron Highlands that the JAKOA Director-General must be an Orang Asli<\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n&nbsp;\n\n\n\n<p>I give full support to the Cameron Highlands Member of Parliament Ramli bin Mohd Nor that the Director-General of the Orang Asli Development Department (JAKOA) must be an Orang Asli.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ramli claimed that officers in the Rural Development Ministry are trying to put a non-Orang Asli in charge of the Orang Asli Development Department (JAKOA).<\/p>\n\n\n\n&nbsp;\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\">This is going backwards and clearly a retrograde step.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n&nbsp;\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dapmalaysia.org\/en\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/E507ECF4-F81D-4387-B9BC-056DF3BFC687-1024x992.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-21401\" width=\"600\" height=\"580\"\/><figcaption><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.malaysiakini.com\/news\/575152\">Malaysiakini<\/a> article screenshot on Ramli Mohd Nor\u2019s statement. <\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n&nbsp;\n\n\n\n<p>In fact, JAKOA should be abolished and replaced by a body, headed by an Orang Ali, to spearhead Orang Asli upliftment to be in the mainstream of Malaysian development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>JAKOA has become the symbol of the failure of the UMNO\/BN government to uplift the Orang Asli communities to be in the mainstream of development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To date, there are too few Orang Asli holding senior positions in JAKOA and indeed in the entire civil service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to a 2018 &nbsp;parliamentary reply, out of a total 998 staffs in JAKOA, only 111 are Orang Aslis. Only One is in the \u201cManagement and Professional\u201d rank, the rest are all supporting\/lower rank staffs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n&nbsp;\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\">This is most disgraceful and shows the utter failure of JAKOA to represent a vibrant Orang Asli community.&nbsp;<\/h4>\n\n\n\n&nbsp;\n\n\n\n<p>After six decades of the country\u2019s nationhood, at least three quarters of the JAKOA staff should be Orang Aslis, and not just a puny 11% as at present, and an Orang Asli must&nbsp;head JAKOA and not just one in the management and professional rank of JAKOA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n&nbsp;\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dapmalaysia.org\/en\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Lim-Kit-siang-2_20191015152703_facebook.com-limkitsiang2.0.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16775\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\"\/><figcaption><em>MP for Iskandar Puteri, Lim Kit Siang. <\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n&nbsp;\n\n\n\n<p>In the entire civil service, there are 1,352 Orang Asli, but only 172 of them are in the Management\/Professional rank (mostly in the teaching service). Only one is in the Top Management position.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We&nbsp;talked for six decades about the upliftment and development of the Orang Asli with very little to show.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After six decades, we don\u2019t even have a Orang Asli as a Minister or Deputy Minister. This is most disgraceful, and the latest suggestion that a non-Orang Asli should be appointed as JAKOA Director-General should not be entertained and dismissed out of hand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Media statement(2) by MP for Iskandar Puteri, Lim Kit Siang in Kuala Lumpur on 19 May 2021: &nbsp; #KerajaanGagal52 \u2013 I &nbsp;fully support MP for Cameron Highlands that the JAKOA Director-General must be an Orang Asli &nbsp; I give full support to the Cameron Highlands Member of Parliament Ramli bin Mohd Nor that the Director-General [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43665,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[458,475,1743],"tags":[981,233,1899,335,1900,244,1901,1902,1903,1904,619,624],"class_list":{"0":"post-43664","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-current-affairs","8":"category-national","9":"category-tamatdarurat","10":"tag-barisan-nasional","11":"tag-bn","12":"tag-cameron-highlands","13":"tag-dap","14":"tag-jakoa","15":"tag-lim-kit-siang","16":"tag-little-napoleon","17":"tag-mp-for-cameron-highland","18":"tag-mp-for-iskandar-puteri","19":"tag-orang-asli-development-department","20":"tag-perikatan-nasional","21":"tag-ph"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dapmalaysia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dapmalaysia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dapmalaysia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dapmalaysia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dapmalaysia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dapmalaysia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43664\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dapmalaysia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dapmalaysia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dapmalaysia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dapmalaysia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}