2006-09-26 21:29:49 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Travel ➔ Asia Pacific ➔ Singapore
Subject: Racism in Malaysia. Please Judge for Us - Fair or Unfair?
Introduction: Malaysia is a multi-racial country. There are three major races in Malaysia which include Malays, Chinese and Indian. Malaysia is a commonwealth country. The highest politics position of Malaysia government is Prime Minister. Before Malaysia get independent Malays are work as road-builder, Chinese are work in economy field and Indian work in agriculture field. When the Independence Day in Malaya, there are an agreement that Malaya Government sign with the British which only Malaysian who born in 1900 to 1940 knew about this agreement.. This agreement contains one major subject that written about the politics in Malaya that never expose to the citizen in Malaysia today. This major subject is that Malaysia Prime Minister should change every 5 years in an election. Each 5 years Prime Minister should change to other race. But there's a racism massacre happen in 13 th of May 1969. So the subject about the changing the Prime Minister to other race is gone since that racism massacre happened. And history today in Malaysia with British agreement is Malays should have the political power while Chinese SHOULD be satisfied with their commercial monopoly.
And today this is what happened in Malaysia racism,
These lists cover a period of about 49 years since Independence Day in Malaysia (1957):
(1) Out of all the 5 major banks in Malaysia, only one bank is own by multi-racial, the rest are controlled by Malays.
(2) 99% of Petronas (the only one petroleum company) directors are Malays, and the former Prime Minister work as Consultant in Petronas.
(3) 3% of Petronas employees are Chinese.
(4) 99% of 2000 Petronas gasoline stations are owned by Malays.
(5) 100% all contractors working under Petronas projects must be "bumi's status" (Malay).
(6) 0% of non-Malays staffs are legally required in Malay's companies. But there must be 30% Malays staffs in Chinese companies. And big companies in Malaysia require a Malays hold as director status with 51% shareholder. Which this mean non-Malays own company needs to give their property to Malays. And non-Malays citizen can't really own their business.
(7) 5% of all new intake for government police, nurses, army, is non-Malays.
(8) 2% is the present Chinese staff in Royal Malaysian Air Force (RMAF), drop from 40% in 1960.
(9) 2% is the percentage of non-Malays government servants in Putrajaya (Malaysia main government office). But Malays make up 98%.
(10) 7% is the percentage of Chinese government servants in the whole government (in 2004), drop from 30% in 1960. Only 2 position for non-Malays in political status.
(11) 95% of government contracts are given to Malays; even it is an open tender. Non-Malays contractors tender the lower price and use better materials can't get the contract that government given.
(12) 100% all business licensees are controlled by Malay government e.g. Taxi permits, Approved permits, etc. and all the license are given to government officer families.
(13) 80% of the Chinese rice millers in Kedah (north of peninsular Malaysia) had to be sold to Malay and controlled by Bernas (Government Org.) since 1980s. Otherwise, life is make difficult for Chinese rice millers.
(14) 100 big companies set up, owned and managed by Chinese Malaysians
were taken over by government, and later managed by Malays since 1970's
e.g. UTC, UMBC, MISC, etc. This company now is the sole company.
(15) At least 10 Chinese owned bus companies (throughout Malaysia, throughout 40 years) had to be sold to MARA or other Malay transport companies due to rejection by Malay authority to Chinese application for bus routes and rejection for their application for new buses.
(16) 2 Chinese taxi drivers were barred from driving in Johor (South of Peninsular Malaysia) Larkin bus station. There are about 30 taxi drivers and 3 are Chinese in October 2004. Spoiling taxi club properties was the reason given.
(17) 0 non-Malays are allowed to get shop lots in the new Muar (city in south peninsular Malaysia) bus station (November 2004).
(18) 8000 billions ringgit is the total amount the government channeled to Malays pockets through ASB, ASN, MARA, privatization of government agencies like Tabung Haji etc, through NEP over 34 years periods.
(19) 48 Chinese primary schools closed down since 1968 - 2000
(20) 144 Indian primary schools closed down since 1968 - 2000
(21) 2637 Malay primary schools built since 1968 - 2000
(22) 2.5% is government budget for Chinese primary schools. Indian schools got only 1%, Malay schools got 96.5%
(23) while a Chinese parent with RM1000 salary (monthly) cannot get school-text-book-loan, and a Malay parent with RM2000 salary is eligible.
(24) 10 all public universities vice chancellors are Malays. And politics in universities are held by Malays. If non-Malays want to form a politics parties, there is no way to get approved.
(25) 5% - the government universities lecturers of non-Malay origins had been reduced from about 70% in 1965 to only 5% in 2004 with the reason Malaysia Education Ministry give full support for Malays only.
(26) Only 5% is given to non-Malays for government scholarships over 40 years.
(27) 0 Chinese or Indians were sent to Japan and Korea under "Look East Policy".
(28) 128 STPM (High Study / A Level) Chinese top students could not get into the course that
they aspired i.e. Medicine and doctors (in 2004). Malays with not qualify result can get into the course.
(29) 10% place for non-bumi students for MARA science schools beginning from year 2003, but only 7% are filled. Before that it was 100% Malays.
(30) 50 cases whereby Chinese and Indian Malaysians, are beaten up in the National Service program since 2003.
(31) 25% is Malaysian Chinese population in 2004, drop from 45% since 1957 because government are not support non-Malays like government support Malays.
(32) 7% is the present Malaysian Indians population (2004), a drop from 12% since 1957.
(33) 2 millions Chinese Malaysians had emigrated to overseas since 40 years ago due to unfair politics.
(34) 0.5 million Indians Malaysians had emigrated to overseas.
(35) 3 millions Indonesians had migrated into Malaysia and became Malaysian citizens with bumi's status.
(36) 600000 are the Chinese and Indians Malaysians with "red I/C" (a temporary identity card) and were rejected repeatedly when applying for citizenship for 40 years. Perhaps 60% of them had already passed away due to old age. This shows racism of how easily Indonesians got their citizenships compare with the Chinese and Indians
(37) 5% - 15% discount for a Malay to buy a house, regardless whether the Malay is rich or poor
(38) 2% is what Chinese new villages get compare with 98% of what Malays villages got for rural development budget..
(39) 50 road names (at least) had been change from Chinese names to other names.
(40) 1 Dewan Gan Boon Leong (in Malacca) was altered to other name (e.g. Dewan Serbaguna or sort) when it was being officially used for a few days. Government tries to shun Chinese names. This racism happened in around year 2000 or sort.
(41) 0 temples/churches were built for each housing estate. But every housing estate MUST got at least one mosque/surau built.
(42) 3000 mosques/surau were built in all housing estates throughout Malaysia since 1970 with full government support. No temples, no churches are built in housing estates that supported by government.
(43) 1 Catholic Church in Shah Alam took 20 years to apply to be constructed. But told by Malay authority that it must look like a factory and can't look like a church. Still not yet approved since 2004.
(44) 1 publishing of Bible in Iban language banned (in 2002)
(45) 0 of the government TV stations (RTM1,RTM2, TV3) are directors of non-Malays origin.
(46) 30 government produced TV dramas and films always showed that the bad guys had Chinese face, and the good guys had Malay face. You can check it out since 1970s. Recent years, this tendency becomes less.
(47) 10 times, at least, Malays (especially Umno) had threatened to massacre the Chinese Malaysians using May 13 since 1969.
(48) 20 constituencies won by DAP would not get funds from the government to develop. Or these Chinese majority constituencies would be the last to be developed
(49) 100 constituencies (parliaments and states) had been racist re-delineated so Chinese voters were diluted that Chinese candidates, particularly DAP candidates lost in election since 1970s
(50) Only 3 out of 12 human rights items are ratified by Malaysia government since 1960
(51) 0 elimination of, all forms of racial discrimination (UN Human Rights) is not ratified by Malaysia government since 1960s
(52) 20 reported cases whereby Malay ambulance attendance treated Chinese patients inhumanely, and Malay government hospital staffs purposely delay attending to Chinese patients in 2003. Unreported cases may be 200
(53) 50 cases each year whereby Chinese, especially Chinese youths being beaten up by Malay youths in public places. We may check at police reports provided the police took the report, otherwise there will be no record
(54) 20 cases every year whereby Chinese drivers who accidentally knocked down Malays were seriously assaulted or killed by Malays
(55) 12% is what ASB/ASN (Malays Own banks) got per annum while banks fixed deposit is only about 3.5% per annum.
(56) The latest news about the police in Malaysia. Believe that the Malaysia police officer have caught a Chinese girl and punish her with naked body nearby the windows that other people (believe that is police officer) can took video recording via mobile phones. This news spread to China, and finally Malaysia government told to public that is Malay girl. After that there's no more news about the case.
2006-09-26 21:46:34 · answer #1 · answered by nic c 1 · 6⤊ 15⤋
People write without thinking again.
The Chinese are discriminated against for the same reason the Jews were and still are in Europe. These tow groups concentrate on commerce and business so they tend to be the ones to have the money or at least others think they have. It is always those that succeed very well that others seem to dislike and mistrust. This a common reaction to those that have from those that do not have. Jealousy is one word for it. Many nations would not have done very well if the Chinese had not been there to help them progress.
2006-09-26 22:37:41 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 17⤊ 1⤋
No...The chinese language could have been taken care of greater advantageous - after all, it grow to be their efforts which helped outfitted up the rustic, with the help of coming up commerce which attracted distant places investors - as otherwise, Kuala Lumpur might nonetheless be a village with the help of the facet of a river...... No....they're taken care of badly and unfairly....yet i assume the government is being merciless to be style......The chinese language, consequently, have learnt to artwork greater stable, smarter and greater advantageous to get around all those stumbling blocks positioned up against them......
2016-10-01 10:12:36 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Probably for the same reason the Chinese discriminate against Indians in Singapore. They're the minority and they're easy to identify. I'm not saying it's right, just saying the Chinese have their own biases when it comes to race.
2006-09-26 21:41:50 · answer #4 · answered by spindoccc 4 · 17⤊ 1⤋
Probably because the majority (Malays) view them as a threat.
Also probably similar to why some Chinese seem to be discriminating against Malays i suppose.
2006-09-27 06:39:52 · answer #5 · answered by meiqi_87 2 · 15⤊ 2⤋
because the malays numbers are dominaring..and hence treat chinese as second class ..not to forgot bunei as well
2006-09-26 21:42:06 · answer #6 · answered by dior babe 3 · 15⤊ 0⤋
Wow!!. nic c, where did you get all those figures? It's awesome! How many % are truth?. I guess -- 80% or more?.
2006-09-27 00:00:22 · answer #7 · answered by Roti-Prata 3 · 17⤊ 0⤋
every country has an ethnic to discriminate
singaporeaans discriminate against Indians
USA discriminates against Mexicans and Muslims
Israelis discriminate against arabs
well, indonesia is not the case. The past president Suharto had very good relation of chinese. top 5 richest Indonesian(Forbes version) are from chinese ethnics. Many MPs and ministers of Indonesia are chinese. chinese took part in indonesian economy, most of indonesian commercial bussiness owners are chinese.
Mind your mouth before asking
2006-09-27 05:03:40 · answer #8 · answered by arifin ceper 4 · 6⤊ 12⤋
In Singapore "Chinese under LKY once set themselves apart Malays and claimed privileges for themselves while denying them to others,". If the author writes.... "Now, on the basis of race, Malays in Malaysia are claiming special status and reserving for themselves privileges they deny to others. Isn't one as bad as the other? The answer is no."
2006-09-28 08:51:52 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 11⤋
its them damn muslims again
2006-09-26 21:40:15 · answer #10 · answered by acid tongue 7 · 17⤊ 2⤋
Kudos to nic.
2006-09-27 03:58:00 · answer #11 · answered by Scouser7674 4 · 3⤊ 15⤋