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Saturday, May 9, 2015

Lack of non-Bumis in civil service must be addressed

DAP’s M Kula Segaran says special task force or bipartisan Parliamentary Select Committee must be set-up to remedy the situation.
M Kula Segaran
IPOH: DAP wants the federal government to set up either a Cabinet special task force or a bipartisan Parliamentary Select Committee to address the low and declining non-Bumiputra composition in the civil service.
Party national vice chairman M Kula Segaran said that while Putrajaya claimed that low interest was the main reason for the low number of non-Bumiputra participation in the civil service, the number of applicants and those called up for interviews proved that many were keen to be civil servants.
“Hence the (need of a) special task force or a select committee to look into effective measures to resolve this pressing problem,” said Kula, the Ipoh Barat MP, in a statement here yesterday.
In the recent parliamentary sitting, Kula submitted a question about the racial breakdown of the civil service, asking for the reason behind the low non-bumiputra composition and steps taken by the government to remedy the situation.
He also asked why many non-Bumiputras who attended interviews were not recruited, and added, “Were they not qualified?
“Many complained that although well qualified, they were not called for interviews or rejected after interviews.”
On April 9, Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Joseph Entulu replied Kula saying the following:
1 The total number of civil servants as at December 2014 was 1,606,463 made up of 78.8% Malays, 6.1% Bumiputra Sabah, 4.8% Bumiputra Sarawak and 0.3% other Bumiputras. Chinese made up 5.2%, Indians 4.1% while other races accounted for 0.7%.
2 The low number of applications and low interest from the non-Bumiputras were among the reasons for their low representation in the civil service.
3 In 2014, a total of 1,605,245 applications were received by the Public Service Commission. The breakdown was 1,265,543 or 78.84% Malays, 33,099 or 2.06% Chinese, 59,355 or 3.7.% Indians, 123,374 or 7.7% Bumiputra Sabah, 90,857 or 5.7% Bumiputra Sarawak and 3.124 or 0.2% Peninsular Orang Asli.
4 In 2014, 50.82% of the 5,338 Chinese applicants interviewed were recruited into the service and 35.63% of 6,158 Indian interviewees were recruited. For Malays, 27.99 % from 146,621 were recruited.
In October 2004, then Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister’s Department Kamsiyah Yeop revealed in a parliamentary reply that there was a sharp drop in non-Malay civil servants between 1980 and 2003.
The number of Chinese had dropped from 29.7% to 8.2% while Indians declined from 9.8% to 5.2% within 23 years.
In 2014, as revealed by Joseph Entulu, Chinese made up 5.2% while Indians, 4.1%.
“The federal government said that it had taken various steps to encourage non-Bumiputra participation in the civil service.
“But it is clear that the steps have not been effective.
“Such a low and declining percentage of non-Bumiputra civil servants is certainly unhealthy for multi racial Malaysia,” said the DAP leader.

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