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Updating Dr M on who runs the country
Written by Dr Lim Teck Ghee Wednesday, 07 July 2010 13:42
CPI Writings
Is it true that Umno has allowed the situation of Malay dominance to be so badly eroded that the community is facing a bleak and hopeless future?
The Ketuanan party is being overly modest if it refuses to take any credit for the Malays’ measurable success. In which case, we should all be content to attribute the advancement of Malays and Malaysia merely to takdir and the grace of Allah, and quite willing to discount human agency and Umno diligence.
But let’s see.
Bring back the civil service staff list
Until the early 1970s, the Malaysian government used to produce a federal civil service staff list annually that contained the details of key personnel heading the various ministries and departments of the federal authorities and agencies, and their positions in the service.
In most if not all states, there was also a similar staff list of officers serving in key management and administrative positions at the state and local levels.
This staff list served a number of purposes. It enabled the public and the people running the government at the highest level to keep track of which officer was in command of which agency as well as to get an overview of the total structure of government and its key personnel. It also enabled officials in service to keep in touch with their fellow officers, and to track each other’s career movement over time.
The staff list was a published document available at a small price to anyone. Although it was a practice that came to the country as a result of British colonial administration, it can be considered to be a good practice as it helped put names and details on an otherwise faceless, anonymous and often unaccountable bureaucracy, especially at its higher reaches.
That practice of a published and publicly accessible consolidated staff list was abandoned possibly because of the growth in the civil service and the increase in the number of senior positions which would make the publication a bulky one.
There may have been other reasons – possibly political. Perhaps the civil service leaders of that time and era such as Ramon Navaratnam can help explain the real reason.
With e-everything now …
Whatever the reason for discontinuing with the practice, the age of the Internet now provides the Malaysian government an opportunity to respond to calls for transparency and accountability of the civil service by producing an electronic list of its key personnel.
This e-list can be done cheaply, quickly and painlessly through an integration of the existing staff lists of all government agencies and ministries, and even extending to the GLCs and GLICs.
Such a measure is especially important to undertake because there has recently been concerns raised by the vocal former prime minister that Malays are being marginalized, and that the Chinese (and now, foreign immigrants) are taking over the country.
These concerns, echoed by Perkasa, and some of the mainstream Malay media, have confused many Malaysians, especially Malays, on what is the true situation today.
Besides responding to the communal hysteria being whipped up by Dr Mahathir Mohamad and his supporters, the electronic senior staff list is useful in the pursuit of greater transparency and accountability in the civil service – a sector that is paid for by all taxpayers.
Moreover, disclosure of who are the key personnel in the local, state and federal levels of the civil service will provide us with a factual basis for gauging the truth or otherwise of the public statements on the so-called Malay loss of power – an allegation that is gaining momentum as the next general elections draws nearer.
It is Dr Mahathir who gives the ballpark figure that “30 percent??? power is what Malays will be reduced to holding if they are disunited.
He injects more venom into the throbbing vein of Malay insecurity with his acid-laced claim that they will lose out on the good jobs. Adopting a physician’s bedside manner, he says in the most syrupy of tones: “Tak apa lah. Buruk sangatkah menjadi buruh kasar dan pemandu kereta???? (Never mind lah. Is it all that bad to be a hard labourer and driver?)
Dr Mahathir’s chip on the shoulder the size of a Pontiac Catalina was already visible in the late 1950s when, with apparent deliberation, he chose to hire a Chinese man to drive him around Alor Setar in his gas-guzzling car.
Fifty years down the road, the country must once more exorcise his May 13 phantoms lest he derails Malaysia and sends us crashing again.
So let’s look at some empirical data of who is in control.
People really running the country
Public perception is that Malays dominate the police and armed forces. This idea is indeed correct and the police and military high command is indeed truly thoroughly controlled by Malays. See the two lists of office holders we’re reproducing as sourced from the Mindef, Home Ministry and Polis DiRaja websites.
In a later article, we will be taking a look at another popular perception that public universities are dominated by Malays. Meanwhile, what is the perception of the outside world as to which race is the face of 1Malaysia?
From the list below compiled by CPI, we can see that the ambassadors in plum postings like London, Paris and Berlin are Malays, and most notably Jamaludin Jarjis in Washington DC. Two Chinese were posted to Cuba and Kazakstan respectively, and Indians dispatched to Lebanon and Nepal. Nobody wants the Zimbabwe job.
A quick glance at the 103 names including high commissioners, consuls and one or two temporary heads of missions as sourced from the Wisma Putra website reveals a scant sprinkling of Chinese and Indian officials in an otherwise 85 percent Malay-dominated list.
Even the Malaysian ambassador in Beijing and the consuls-general in Shanghai and Kunming are Malay. Needless to say, almost if not all the overseas support staff in the diplomatic corps are Malay too.
On closer examination, among the non-Muslim names – Blanche Olbery, the Malaysian high commissioner in Papua New Guinea is the wife of a former deputy minister M. Kayveas, whereas the high commissioner in Pretoria, Kennedy Jawan (a Sarawak Iban) seems to be working harder than his Muslim-bumiputera counterparts as he is also concurrently overseeing five other African countries – Botswana, Lesotho, Madagascar, Mozambique and Swaziland.
A lot more work needs to be done in analysing the staff list and other key data related to the ethnic, regional and gender composition of the civil service; and the implications for 1Malaysia.
Hopefully the many hundreds of academicians and researchers in the field of public administration and political science can be persuaded to undertake this important work. It requires only simple empirical research on the civil service to answer the burning question of who runs the country.
Where have the ‘nons’ gone?
Slightly more complex research will be required to explain why there are so few non-Malays at the top rungs of the civil service, and likely even the middle rungs.
Is it because non-Malay civil servants are so incapable or that they are genetically engineered only to be successful in the private sector?
Is it because they lack the spirit of self-sacrifice and idealism to serve the country? Is it because of the way in which the intake operates?
Is there a ‘kulit-fication’ ceiling that holds non-Malays back in the way that a glass ceiling has traditionally held back women in the higher management ranks in many countries?
Is subservience to Malay dominance the price that more generations of non-Malay youth have to pay should they wish to join the service?
It should not be too difficult for the cabinet to make accessible a tiny portion of the huge pot of R&D funds contained in the 10th Malaysia Plan to help finance the research to answer the questions posed above.
CPI’s potential contribution
In the meantime, as part of our potential national service contribution to the country, CPI will be happy to establish and maintain this list of senior federal and state staff if the various agencies and ministries can provide access to their data bank. (Presently even some ministry web pages require authorized access to view).
We will also be happy to advise on the qualitative and quantitative methodologies and different sampling techniques available for Malaysian researchers wishing to undertake work on the other burning question: Why are there so few non-Malays in senior positions in the civil service?
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14-04-2011 | James Sebastian - snoopyjoe
Dr. Lim,
You are doing a great service; so continue. You may be a voice in the wilderness but people are surely seeing the light.Soon,hopefully, it will be a bright wilderness.
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01-10-2010 | Arvo
The answer is quite simple.
People of my generation have grown up being called Pendatang to our faces. It doesn't matter how many generations our families have actually stayed in Malaya, we are and always be "Pendatang". It is a fact. We aren't really citizens of Malaysia. We pay taxes and get nothing in return. With the threat of May13 constantly in the air, our tax money is more like blood money.
So as a Pendatang, why should I give a damn about Malaysia? I fought for every inch to get where I am today. And I competed against friends for loans and scholarships. I had to state why I should be given this loan instead of my best friend since primary school.
Do you really think after all that, after that kind of experience, anyone would willingly submit to some "Malay master", whose primary qualification is the race he/she was born in?
The primer minister will have to come on bended knee and beg me to work for the Malaysian government, before I would even consider.
Furthermore, my family made huge sacrifices to give me a university education. This sacrifice has left my family and I drowning in debt. And no job in Malaysia can pay back that debt in reasonable amount of time, let alone a government salary.
The only way to pay back my loans is to land a oversea. And that is where I am. Even then it will take me close to 4 years of hard saving to pay it all back. On a malaysia job? I'll be looking at 15-20 years. The cost of living in malaysia isn't cheap.
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25-07-2010 | JayCkat
And somehow the non-malays are believed to be a force that actually can control the nation?
Really, the entire nation is the hands of the Malays. I believe you will find nearly every CEO of nearly ever major Malaysian company is a Malay.
All this belly aching that the Malay people have no control is BS.
But there is one small facet of truth. The Malays are being marginalized.. but by their own Malay leaders. Actually all Malaysians are being marginalized by these ultra elite, who are BN politicians and their associates - Malay, Chinese and Indian.
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12-07-2010 | Retired - Democracy vs dermocracy
Dr M wants Malaysia to move from a democracy to a dermo-cracy (dermo- = prefix: variant of derma-; derma- = prefix: skin). One can say Dr M was a GP who aspired to be a dermatologist....
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10-07-2010 | anonymouse
well done Dr Lim,keep up the good work....have to keep plugging away at the racist UMNO govt(pity the leaders of the other non-Malay/Bumi coalition parties - no self respect and too damn obsessed with making money, or just plain no balls to bail out or too blind to see what UMNO actually stands for!)
the non-Malays/Bumis have been bailing out of the Malay civil service for decades;the conspiracy by the UMNO hierarchy since May 13 is so bloody obvious and plain to see;
those non's who have no where else to go or chose to stay just have to participate actively in politics to kick UMNO out of power and to the dustbin of history;
otherwise , there's no hope and no meaningful future in a country run by UMNO racist, fascist idiots!!
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09-07-2010 | donplaypuks - I Accuse Dr.M
Well, I have taken Dr.M to task click here
or http://donplaypuks.blogspot.com/2010/07/i-accuse-d rmahathir-mohamad-jaccuse.html
Let's see if he answers.
dpp
we are all of 1 race, the Human Race
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09-07-2010 | migrated ex- civil servant
left 15 years ago. decided i could not take any more the daily crap and discrimination being dished out - no future for me and the other nons'Ms.
there was no leader willing to speak out and take up such issues. none with any b---s. i am so happy that Dr. Lim and cpi are taking up this and other sensitive issues. please keep it up. too late for me but may make a difference to others
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08-07-2010 | Anak Malaysia Dua - Where smart people work
A few years ago, I attended a government scholarship interview. I was interwiewed by 2 malay guys.
One them said to me, "you have worked for the civil service for 10 years. Only smart malays work for the government. Smart non-malays work in the private sector.
You can't be smart.
So tell me why should we give you a not-so-smart applicant a scholarship to do a MSc when there are so many other deserving smart malays?"
Needless to say I did not get the scholarship.
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08-07-2010 | Kongkor
Thanks for taking up my suggestion to install the 'share link' widget. Now, more Malaysian are able to help spread the word around and be informed of what is actually happening to the country for a balanced view that in one way or the other affect our daily lives for now and the future.
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08-07-2010 | A Cool - ordinary man
Dr. Lim,
your contribution is appreciated, and respected.perhaps this is food for thought for some. all those insidious claims/ statements brought forth by Dr. M/ Perkasa, are non other than to distract the Malaysian people/ society from the real issues that the country is facing. they only know how to use racial and religious slurs to achieve their aim of enlisting the bumi support and staying in power to enrich their cronies! so. let us not be distracted to continue to do our part to help every Malaysian to stay united against the onslaught of these wicked and self-serving people we all know who they are.
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08-07-2010 | yanee
Nicely said. Wonder who defends the country MALYSIA (Malays and non-malays)when it goes to war one day... the malays... cause we the non-malays not interested to join the army...
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08-07-2010 | Malaysian First - Ethnicity must be discarded for Malaysia to move f
The way I see it, the biggest damage that the NEP had inflicted on our nation is the emphasis on ethnicity or race in all aspects of our life.
In the zealous implemention to "rectify" the inbalances" in occupations, economic activities, wealth ownership", the BN Govt and the administration has lost sight of the importance of applyign meritocracy principles in the management of the country.
With such deep entrenched identification with ethnicity, how can Malaysians be able to view and approach any issues objectively. Take the imbalances of employement in Public Sector (mostly Bumi) and Private Sector (majority Non-Bumi) for example.
Due to the NEP, most Non-Bumi private firms will form the impression/view that Bumis are "not as good" as Non-Bumis to be considered for positions in their companies. Similiarly, the Bumis in the Public Service will favour the hiring of Bumi due to their perception that Bumi are being discriminated in the Private Sector. So, this will go on until we stop identifying everything with Bumi or Non-Bumi.
Anyone applying for a job whether in Public or Private sector should be evaluated purely from the candidates' merits. Any contractors who bid for a job shall be selected because they are the best candidate not becuase they are of a certain ethnicity. Can we do it today in Malaysia?
I am not too optimistic that it will happen very soon until our political leaders are willing to take the lead. Our PM cannot go around trumpeting the need to apply 1Malaysia principle when in other occasions he champion things like 30% quota etc. In this 21st century of open communication, you cannot fool the people so easily.
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08-07-2010 | najib manaukau - najib manaukau
Shenanigan Mahathir must think the people were and still are retarded to know from reading the list that he was and still is not a racist. That is why he is a bloody shenanigan !
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08-07-2010 | ramani
frightening situation - totally in contradiction to 1Malaysia.
thank you CPI for constantly highlighting issues that media will not touch with a ten foot pole
keep up the great work
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07-07-2010 | Rabid
The following should be in the online list for each department:
- The e-mail address of the "tuan".
- The supervising Ministry.
- The department's current budget, not to be erased until the next figure is inserted.
- A link to details of all resolved and outstanding complaints against it in the last 12 months.
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07-07-2010 | Tony Teh - Manager
I am working in China. I wrote to the consulate office iin Hong Kong about some visa issue. Know what...no response...and after repeated reminder...the reply came. Want to know what the reply is....i will leave it to your own imagination. Malaysian..wake up...
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07-07-2010 | gue
The answer is obvious isn't it, I am sure it is the brain child of the pseudo Malay who wants to get the non Malays out and what a better way than to get them to leave on their own accord when they cannot bear the discrimmination.
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07-07-2010 | frank - sir
as if you flers got balls to do anything about it!
umno rule ! ok ! get it through your thick skull !!!
live with it or ship out !!!
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07-07-2010 | Samuel Goh Kim Eng - Don't People Know What's Actually Going On?
DON'T PEOPLE KNOW WHAT'S ACTUALLY GOING ON?
Most people do really know what's going on
When there are so many things that go wrong
With blatant biased discriminations for so long
But with shortage of singers to sing this sad song(C) Samuel Goh Kim Eng - 070710
http://MotivationInMotion.blogspot.com
Wed. 7th July 2010.
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07-07-2010 | Zeng Xian Lian - Updating Dr M etc
How come the Chief of Defence Force is only a Brig-Gen? If the info is "as is where is", then the website needs correcting. Rank is rank. A junior rank cannot command a senior.
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CPI ADMIN: Thank you for pointing out our mistake. It has been corrected.
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07-07-2010 | Victor Tan
hi..
i graduated from UTM and I am glad you are doing an article on the dominance of one race in public universities. The academic staff in UTM is 99% malays.
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07-07-2010 | Eric M.
Graft in Malaysia’s Defense Ministry
Then, over the last few weeks, a third military scandal surfaced. Malaysia’s Auditor General, in a report tabled in Parliament on September 7, alleged that a contract to build naval vessels given to PSC-Naval Dockyard, a subsidiary of Penang Shipbuilding & Construction Sdn Bhd, which is owned by another UMNO crony, Amin Shah Omar Shah, is near failure.PSC-Naval Dockyard was contracted to deliver six patrol boats for the Malaysian Navy in 2004 and complete the delivery by last April. Those were supposed to be the first of 27 offshore vessels ultimately to cost RM24 billion plus the right to maintain and repair all of the country's naval craft. But only two of the barely operational patrol boats had been delivered by mid 2006. There were 298 recorded complaints about the two boats, which were also found to have 100 and 383 uncompleted items aboard them respectively.
The original RM5.35 billion contract ballooned to RM6.75 billion by January 2007. The auditor also reported that the ministry had paid out Rm4.26 billion to PSC up to December 2006 although only Rm2.87 billion of work had been done, an overpayment of Rm1.39 billion, or 48 percent. In addition, Malaysia’s cabinet waived late penalties of Rm214 million. Between December 1999, according to the Auditor General, 14 “progress payments??? amounting to Rm943 million despite the fact that the auditor general could find no payment vouchers or relevant documents dealing with the payments.
The auditor general attributed the failure to serious financial mismanagement and technical incompetence stemming from the fact that PSC had never built anything but trawlers or police boats before being given the contract. Once called “Malaysia’s Onassis??? by former finance minister Daim Zainuddin, Amin Shah was in trouble almost from the start, according to a report in Singapore’s Business Times in 2005. The financial crisis of 1997-1998 meant he was desperate to find funds to shore up ancillary businesses, Business times reported.
After a flock of lawsuits, the government ultimately cut off funding in 2004 amid losses and a net liabilities position. Boustead Holdings effectively took control from Amin Shah, reducing him to non-executive chairman.
http://www.asiasentinel.com/index.php?Itemid=178&i d=720&option=com_content&task=view
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07-07-2010 | X4get
Dr Lim
Thank you for your eye-opening data of employment in the civil service.
The next question are those listed are capable and professional in executing their job. That is, are they able to distinguish between ruling party and government.
In my view, those are all short sighted. They join the bandwagon of sycophant and corruption so as to have the taste of wealth and power, that is personal glorification. But, as time goes on, they have destroyed the country and every one suffers.
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07-07-2010 | SETIA - 1Malaysia or One Race Only M'sia.
From the list it is so clear how marginalised the non-malays are in the Country they have all contributed immensely and built and paid taxes.
Why do Umno want to divide the people instead of uniting them?
The Good people of Malaysia DO NOT need the poisonous medicine of Mahathir
ever again.
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