Subscribe in a reader | Subscribe by Email “Najib said he was confident that the day was not far away when bumiputras would come forward to tell the Government that they no longer required help. “
– wishful thinking?
“For example, the Government has been giving out JPA scholarships to more deserving non-bumiputras as we feel that non-deserving bumiputras that get help were wasting our money and time,”
– you mean all this while undeserving useless people got scholarships and its was known to the leaders? no wonder the rest of us have such faith in the system!
Independent bumiputras
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KUALA LUMPUR: Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak has expressed hope that a day will come when bumiputras will no longer need privileges from the Government.
Najib said he was confident that the day was not far away when bumiputras would come forward to tell the Government that they no longer required help.
He said he wanted to see bumiputras become more independent in carrying out their tasks and not just rely on the Government for help.
Najib, however, said that the New Economic Policy (NEP) was designed for deserving bumiputras and non-bumiputras and hoped that only deserving ones received help.
He said the NEP was to boost small-time businesses, those from the lower-income group and was not for those people who had already established their businesses.
“We want the policies in the NEP to be accepted by all ethnic groups and if there are ways to further enhance it, then please let us know,” he said in his closing remarks at the Khazanah National Development seminar yesterday.
Najib said Malaysia had come a long way in the last 50 years, and to obtain the status of Bangsa Malaysia, there was a need to “de-racialise†things by looking at the quality of a person’s personality rather than the skin colour.
“For example, the Government has been giving out JPA scholarships to more deserving non-bumiputras as we feel that non-deserving bumiputras that get help were wasting our money and time,” he said, adding that he believed if people followed that basis, then the concept of Bangsa Malaysia could be achieved.
