Subscribe in a reader | Subscribe by Email I was surprised to read that the number of applicants for between January and June this year was 797,973 while last year it was 760,840. Of this, the Chinese was 12,875 (12,111 in 2007), Indians 17,798 (18,553 in 2007), and others 101,085 (98,148 in 2007). Normal Malaysians application for the first six month of this year is 12,875 + 17,798 + 101,085 = 131,758, as compared to 128,812.
1. Note that the application from Indians actually DECREASED about 4% while the other groups
INCREASED 2.9% and 6.3%.
2. If normal Malaysians already account for 131,758 applications, that means privileged Malaysian account for (797,973 – 131,758) 666,215 applications. That’s a ratio of nearly 1 to 5.
According to Bernard Dompok, there are many vacancies for medical officers (doctors), administrative officers, Anti Drug Agency officers, and pharmacists.
All these numbers are look fine and dandy to me, until I saw statistics for period between July and December 2007 which was reported in May this year:
Tamil Nesan reported Sunday that about 47,253 non-Malays had applied
to join the civil service from July to December last year compared to
12,020 in the corresponding period the previous year.Jamaluddin said that of the non-Malay applicants last year, 5,421
were Chinese (1,347 in 2006), 6,113 Indians (1,953), and 35,719 (8,720)
from other races.
When we compare those figures we find that in 2007, January-June applications were 128,812 while July-December was 47,253. The pay rise for government servants were announced in July last year. So, how can the number of applications after pay rise announcement reduced to nearly one third (47,253/128,812 is 36.68%) of the first six months before pay rise?
Need to check SPA site later. Its statistics page is down at the time of this posting.
