1Malaysia concept as espoused by Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak should be accepted by all if it is to be implemented. In spirit or sloganeering alone is not enough; it must be implemented in deed and in action.
Under the concept “every race is equal” as Dr. James Masing, PRS president explained over Radio Iban some time ago.
But there are people, government departments, ministries and universities which are working against this concept.
For example, UiTM is one such organisation which does not practise 1Malaysia concept.
Starting 29 April until 7 May, UiTM campuses in the country are recruiting students who achieved only 4 credits to be adopted under “Destini anak Bansa” (literally it means the destiny of our children).
In its campus at Kota Samarahan, 500 students will be recruited for this programme for the various pre-university courses with food and lodging given free especially whose parents are earning RM500 or less per month.
The programme is ranging from six months to one year.
If you look into the programme, it appears that the UiTM staff and lecturers are concentrating only in Malay kampongs such as Tabuan Melayu, Sg. Apong, Kpg. Gita, Kpg. Tupong, Pusa, Bako, Senari, Gobil, Muara Tebas, Demak Laut, Semerah Padi, Buso, Kpg. Gedong, Simunjan, Asajaya, Limbang, Santubong, Mukah, Niah, Bekenu, Sematan, Lundu and Bintulu to name some of the kampongs.
Nothing is mentioned about Dayak Iban longhouses in places like Julau, Pakan, Meluan, Kanowit, Kapit, Selangau, Bukit Begunan and other Dayak Iban areas. Certainly, there are thousands of Dayak Iban students who only obtained 4 credits in last year SPM examination. And I am sure there are hundreds of thousands of Dayak Iban parents who are hardcore poor who also need help.
And at the same time all the teachers/lecturers who conduct the interviews are all Malays. But why are Dayak Iban lecturers not involved?
What the UiTM campus at Kota Samarahan is doing is certainly opening the eyes of Ibans and Iban leaders (if they can really open their eyes due to their eyes covered with greed, financial considerations and fear.)
This is only one organisation that is practising “Ketuanan Melayu”, and there are many departments, ministries and government agencies we know and we do not know that are practising this “Apartheid” policy.
Another case of injustice is the recent exercise in which some 800 students were interviewed for Public Service Commission scholarships to take up medicine, pharmacy, engineering, and etc in overseas universities. In Kuching alone, there were 300 students. In one stream of 185 students, there were only 11 Dayaks – four Ibans, one Orang Ulu and six Bidayuhs.
As far as the Kuching interview was concerned, this is indeed a very poor representation of the Ibans.
But can we blame the authorities for all these inconsistencies, unfairness and injustices? Certainly no! The Iban leaders themselves – the YBs and the Ministers – are to be blamed because they do not stand up and speak up for the Iban community.
Allow me to digress a little bit. I really appreciate what Dayak Bidayuhs like Peter Minos dare to demand (not ask) from the government. When they ask for one deputy minister, the federal government gives them not one, but two including the forthcoming appointment of my friend Richard Riot. The other is James Dawos. They also demand from SUPP that the post of chairman of Padawan Municipal Council be given to a Bidayuh or else SUPP and BN will lose two Bidayuh seats of Bengoh and Opar. They hold the government at ransom.
On top of that the Bidayuh community asked for RM4 million to repair or to renovate the DBNA building, the government not only obliged, but also gave them more than what they asked for.
And as for our Iban leaders, they do not stand up or speak up. Some of our YBs are just like the Iban expression “baka ramaong di rumah raong di tanah” (literally it means they are just like leopards/tigers in the house and toads on land). While at their constituencies or longhouses, they talk big, wanting to be heard by their wives and supporters, but in Parliament or State legislative assembly, they are sleeping. They are only “jagoh kampong” (local champions).
But there are others who are “raong di rumah ramaong di tanah”. While in the house they pretend to be very quiet, because they are scared of their wives, but outside they really enjoy themselves drinking in the company of beautiful women and singers. Some YBs keep not one mistress, but two or three. And I am not jealous when I point out this. Far from it. But what I want to stress here is that being a public figure representing our community, they should speak up and fight for the interest of the people who voted for them. Instead they are doing the apple polishing and womanizing.
No wonder Dayak Ibans do not get any respect from other communities, nor do they get anything from the government given the type of leaders we do have now. – The Broken Shield
Source: www.thebrokenshield.blogspot.com
in Subu Ketuanan Foochow….
in 2001, Kalimantan Dayaks blew their tops
http://www.fifthinternational.org/content/army-and-police-collude-massacre-madurese
I think any sane malaysian who does not agree to “every race in the country is equal ” is anti 1malaysia concept.
Lee Kuan Yew get name no 8 thinker of Time’s 100 must influential people. Mahathir, Najib’s ideological king, is fighting like crazy not to be proven the dirt-bag that Tunku Abdul Rahman says he is before he dies.
Enrolling students who achieved only 4 credits in their SPM into Uitm!
4 credits only, and I bet English and Maths are not among them
If those students were clueless up to Form 5, how can they cope with university? Unless the passing grades are lowered to accommodate them. And they would then swell the ranks of unemployable grads in bolehland
///While at their constituencies or longhouses, they talk big, wanting to be heard by their wives and supporters, but in Parliament or State legislative assembly, they are sleeping.///
It is not that they are sleeping. The true reason is they do not want their status and comfort to be taken away from them by their BN Master. Under BN, these people are well-fed, well taken care of and have share in ill-gotten wealth. If they speak out against their Master and question their Master’s unfair treatment to the Iban community, they will be punished and have their status, perks and other goodies taken away from them.
From the start, these people are not qualified to be MPs because they look after their own interests instead of the interests of those who voted them into Parliament.
Thank goodness, the Chinese community has now woken up and rejected MCA. The Iban community should emulate their Chinese counterpart to reject political parties which claim to represent them but in reality enrich themselves at the expense of their supporters/voters.
Digressing a little, I think the most telling condemnation of the lack of confidence in the 1Malaysia concept is the report in the STAR yesterday of the family of Tun H.S. Lee who donated all his papers to the Institute of South East Asian Studies in Singapore. It reported that ISEA would be the custodian of the legacy of Tun H.S. Lee. One wonders why the Lee family did not donate his papers to a Malaysian organization such as the National Archives. Those papers have wide historical significance for Malaysia and, as described by Prof. Wang Gang Wu, its Chairman, they fill a huge gap in the history of the independence of Malaya. What a loss!!
Strange as it is seen…..it is Najib that is against a united Malaysian will all races embraces each other as one..the Malaysians.
Stranger still….it his Najib that ignores People’s cry for freedom..having papers and TVs all giving one sided news.
What is this “People First..” and “I Malaysia” slogans all about?
So far school children and innocently being taken for a ride…so let it be.
But young voters are no fools.
Yes…UMNO B must keep fooling Malaysians…to win elections..to cover up their asses on massive corruptions charges…if ever they loose they government to PR.
It is a fight for their own lives…not for Malaysians at all.
And Mahathir is now fanning race issues again…..saying Najib gives in too much to Chinese demands…this and that.
Read all that in Malaysiakini.
There you can see..that old crook talks in terms of races…and not all as Malaysians.
His legendary dirty politics..now blaming Chinese are racists.
Structural inequality has been identified as the bias that is built into the structure of organizations, institutions, governments or, social networks. Structural inequality occurs when the fabric of organizations, institutions, governments or social networks contain an embedded bias which provides advantages for some members and marginalizes or produces disadvantages for other members. This can involve property rights, status, or unequal access to health care, housing, education and other physical or financial resources or opportunities.
Education is the base for equality. Specifically in the structuring of schools, the concept of tracking is believed by some scholars to create a social disparity in providing students an equal education. Schools have been found to have a unique acculturative process that helps to pattern self-perceptions and world views. Schools not only provide education but also a setting for students to develop into adults, form future social status and roles, and maintain social and organizational structures of society. Tracking is an educational term that indicates where students will be placed during their secondary school years. “Depending on how early students are separated into these tracks, determines the difficulty in changing from one track to another”
Tracking or sorting categorizes students into different groups based on standardized test scores. These groups or tracks are vocational, general, and academic. Students are sorted into groups that will determine educational and vocational outcomes for the future. The sorting that occurs in the educational system parallels the hierarchical social and economic structures in society. Thus, students are viewed and treated differently according to their individual track. Each track has a designed curriculum that is meant to fit the unique educational and social needs of each sorted group. Consequently, the information taught as well as the expectations of the teachers differ based on the track resulting in the creation of dissimilar classroom cultures.
School finance is another area where social injustice and inequality might exist. Schools in low wealth states and districts are especially hard hit, with inadequate instructional materials, little technology, unsafe buildings, and less-qualified teachers.The method in which funds are distributed or allocated within a school district can also be of concern. De-facto segregation can occur in districts or educational organizations that passively promote racial segregation.
An identified inequality that negatively affects health and wellness among minority races is highly correlated with income, wealth, social capital, and, indirectly, education.
There has not been significant changes in the major factors of income, wealth, social capital/psycho-social environment, and socioeconomic status, that positively impact the existing inequality.
Conceptualizing and
measuring structural inequality is a culture rule by umno in 53 years. Is a impossible impasses to put down a giant tree been deep rooted for 53 years by shouting in Parliment, unless…people power, perhaps..Thailand is a very good example, but there is a price for it.
The details of Bigjoe’s blurb above.
The concept of 1Malaysia looks like, smells like, walks like, and talks like Malaysian Malaysia. If only Lee Kuan Yew’s Malaysian Malaysia took hold when he was arguing for it in the Malaysian Parliament. Looks like Jib is some 45 years behind this great man.
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Historians have been debating, it seems forever, whether individuals shape events or are their register. There can be no doubt about the answer with regard to Lee Kuan Yew, 86, Minister Mentor of Singapore. For 50 years, he has shaped the fate of Singapore. He became Prime Minister when an obstreperous city was ejected from the Malaysian Federation on the theory that it would have to come crawling back. Lee had a different vision. The mark of a great leader is to take his society from where it is to where it has never been. When Lee took over, per capita income was about $400 a year; now it is close to $40,000. Lee inspired his polyglot population to become the intellectual and technical center of the region. Because of his leadership, a medium-size city has become a significant international and economic player, especially in fostering multilateral transpacific ties. On his periodic visits to Washington, Lee Kuan Yew is received by the President and leaders of both parties. There is no better strategic thinker in the world today. Two generations of American leaders have benefited from his counsel.
Kissinger is a former Secretary of State
http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1984685_1984745_1985491,00.html
So this is 1malaysia all about— university for students with 4Cs but none for student with 15As!
http://www.mmail.com.my/content/35618-no-scholarship-student-15
Mass-production of unproductive graduates
The Land of Bodohs
The world’s most handicapped society …Bodohland
Let’s not go far anyway.
Can we have 1MALAYSIA try out at Petronas firm and see how we fare?
Let’s live by ACTION, otherwise all the saying and promises is just a wallpaper for decoration purposes only.
The very stupid UMNO leaders don’t understand that the universality of meritocracy means that it will eventually be prosperity for ALL; clever, innovative people will create opportunities for ALL. Brain-dead UMNO doesn’t see such simple truths.
This crazy ethno-centric policy is every bit a beggar-thy-neighbour policy! Then everyone ends up as beggars! MALAYSIA BOLEH jadi negara BEGGARS.
Stupidity breeds even more stupid off-springs.
Lack of intelligence = Unemployable graduates
No amount of spoon-feeding can help them.
Waste of tax-payers money.
Must change the government. Vote for PR.
We don’t need no education!
BN/UMNO = Passport to Money = 1-Money
1Malaysia appears to be NR one man show
Hijacked by Perkasa and UMNO
Can BN/UMNO implement a truly 1M? A big no
It can be executed by PR, let it have a go
The election in UK ended in hung parliament. The Conservative is talking to Lib. Democrat to form a coalition government. The political parties accepted the view of the voters, and the party that got more seats listens to the wishes of those who got fewer, but together they reach the Majority to govern. That is democracy.
In Malaysia, the politics are more elementary when the party in power in the past five decades simply ensured that the majority got the right to ram through what they wanted. The hung parliament in UK would have ended up as May 13 in Malaysia. Indeed May 13 was created when Alliance lost its 2-third majority.
The person who had caused hardships in Malaysia after his 22-year rule does not even know the essense of democracy. The fact that Chinese did not support BN only shows that BN did not care about the views of the Chinese. Mamakthir suggested that Najib should play more race cards so that Malays would support UMNO. Mamakthir turned democracy into gangsterism. He considers might is right, and he plays politics on how to get the votes to satisfy the only critierion that the majority gets to rule.
Mamakthir is God’s way in balancing the natural resources endowed to Malaysia.
Why only government and universities are subjected to be opened to non-malays for top posts? Why non-bumi owned company such as Public Bank, Hong Leong Bank, Alliance Bank, YTL, IOI Properties, Country Heights, Lion Group, Rimbunan Hijau, Ekran Group dan Berjaya Group have never and will never ever and will not have to open up high posts for Bumis??
WHY? WHY? WHY?
UITM will have the biggest enrollment in 2015 with 200,000 said the crab head.The only university in the world that practise caste system of India.
Most of the GSTT in schools are products of UITM with lelong degrees.Year in year out busy applying for KPLI or DPLI to become teachers.These graduates are no ways to be taken in by multi national companies cos of poor commands in English.How can UITM claims itself to be world class university.Self praise is not praise,what is the ranking in the world ?.Can PM explain how to improve the DAYA SAING of orang Melayu di dunia ?.
On the issue of Gomen condoning lower standard for certain institutions of higher learning designed solely for a single community that qualifies under the Federal constituitions, at times, I think we are wasting out time white-washing it. the only anger, I have is: what a waste of my tax payment.
in a ‘Flat world”, we all know that all the self-created black-magic would not work outside the compound of the Gomen agencies. they will comtinue to think in their own mind what the world SHOULD BE, bythe time, they realize anything, they would have landed in Zimbabwe. Maybe their Super Hero of 22 years had an inherent or innate revenge to seek upon this community by misleading them all these years. [ and still doing so!] So unless they have more real Leaders like those outside BN to help out, I reckon the path is clear come 2020. at the moment, looking at the current scenario, the path above appears imminent umless some thing really happens at the next GE. The incident of shooting at teenagers might be viewed as trigger-happy.But what cause those teenagers to behave the way they did? This is the result of indoctrinating a meaningless slogan like ” Ketuanan” and high and mighty feeling oozes out in the open as recklessness by the unthinking portion of the population. in life, every action is bound to have an reaction. The thought behind YIN and YANG cannot be dismissed no matter what your belief is! We have createda society or at least the majority of it, to behave in a way that resulted on sad endings.
Those who bliundly advocate the philosophy of Ketuanan, do remember, NOTHING is FREE!!