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CAN WE TRUST THE GOVERNMENT TO HIRE MORE NON BUMIPUTRAS?

The number/percentage of non-Malays in government service is so small that to mention it is an embarrassment.

On the surface, the government claims that it is doing its best to encourage Chinese and Indian applicants. Yet, when Indians apply, they wait for months or, in some cases, a year, just to get a reply!

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More non-Malays MAY HAVE APPLIED to join the Civil Service last year but the headline in the Sun front page article is WRONG, and so is the interpretation of the statistics by Chairman of Public Service Commission Malaysia, Tan Sri Mahmood Bin Adam.

Blogger gives his own analysis in dark print in italics.

More non-Malays joining civil service

PUTRAJAYA (Jan 3, 2013): The Public Service Commission’s (PSC) initiatives to encourage more participation from non-Malays have had positive results with a 75% increase in applications received in the second half of last year.

PSC chairman Tan Sri Mahmood Adam (pix) said the commission received 136,677 applications between June 1 and Dec 31, with Indians accounting for 21,481, Chinese (11,848) and others including Sabah and Sarawak bumiputras (103,348).

Mahmood said this is in comparison with non-Malays making up only about 2% of the total of 182,967 applications received in the first half of last year.

BLOGGER: That is an amazing increase, from 2% in the first half of 2012, to 24%  in the 2nd half of 2012. YES, THE PERCENTAGE OF APPLICANTS HAS SHOT UP.

However, it is NOT the increase in the percentage of applicants BUT THE INCREASE IN ACTUAL HIRING that is significant.

Look at the next part:

In terms of new appointments, Mahmood said there is also a rise in the number of non-Malays.

“In the second half of last year, out of the 47,335 applicants hired, 13,908 were non-Malays,” he said.

This is in comparison with 8,571 candidates out of 29,547 who were appointed during the same period in 2011.

BLOGGER: The actual figure hired has gone up from 29% in 2nd half 2011 to 29.38% in 2nd half 2012.

That’s correct: an increase of 0.38% in the actual hiring!

Look at the headline again: More non-Malays joining civil service

Conclusions:
1  No, the actual number of non-Malay newly employed has fallen, from 13,908 to 8,571. That is understandable the actual number hired fell from 47,335 to 29,547.
2 Yes, the percentage of non-Malay newly hired has gone up by an infinitesimal figure, 0.38%.
3 Given the HUGE increase in the percentage of non-Malay applicants but the TINY increase in the percentage of non-Malay hired, it is as obvious as before that the Government is still ALL TALK.

NO THE GOVERNMENT IS NOT HIRING MORE NON-MALAY.

More non-Malays joining civil service

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Sundaily

More non-Malays apply to join civil service: PSC

MIRI (Sept 4, 2012): The government’s efforts to get more non-Malays to join the civil service seems to be bearing fruit.

Job applications from non-Malays rose to 5.6 per cent between June and August this year compared to only two per cent as of May out of the 1.2 million applications received through the Public Service Commission (PSC), said PSC chairman Tan Sri Mahmood Adam.

He attributed the increase to the large-scale campaigns carried out through the Chinese and Tamil print media as well as the dialogues held throughout the country.

More non-Malays apply to join civil service: PSC

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My father’s thoughts on Chinese in the civil service

What was his observation of the changes in government service in the years after May 13? Government service will be increasingly offered to the Malay. We should forget about it. The government won’t hire us even if we are the best qualified. If they hired us because of some small quota they had to fill, that would be temporarily, and they would find some way of pushing us out. Discrimination would be their main weapon.

“Everything changed from May 13,” Father said. “When once discrimination was largely hidden, it is now explicit and direct.”

Today, long after my father died, his words remain true.

Discrimination is the reason why the Chinese won’t go into the civil service. Even if the government says that it genuinely wants Chinese in the civil service, the Chinese will perceive that as a lie.

Discrimination is also why emigration is largely an ethnic issue. It is the emigration of the Chinese, particularly the skilled and highly educated.

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Malaysiakini

Bernama 6:37PM Aug 5, 2012

Delays, bureaucracy deters Chinese from civil service

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Rampant racial discrimination

The most important reason why disparity in civil service participation amongst the races exists is the discrimination against non-Malays in recruitment and promotion exercises. This explains why the numbers applying have dropped dramatically. If there is going to be an uneven playing field and if others less qualified or less capable than you are promoted ahead of you – and this is perceived to be a standard practice – why stay in the job, even if it may be a well paying or secure one.

english.cpiasia.net/…the-civil–service–racial–imbalance… – Cached

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Someone who used to be very high up in the civil service has this to say:

Actually I believe that there are strong perceptions among many Non Bumis that the Public Service is monopolised by the Bumis and that it is meant mainly for them . Non Bumis hear about the low recruitment rates for Non Bumis and the poorer prospects of promotions for Non Bumis . They believe that even when they are promoted, the promotion posts are not the more attractive nor professionally satisfying jobs .

Tan Sri Ramon Navaratnam, Chairman Asli Center of Public Policy Studies.

You can read what he wrote in the following article

Why SO FEW NON-MALAYS in the public service – Ramon Navaratnam

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