Retain The Quota

Penang Deputy Chief Minister II P Ramasamy is not surprised that the cabinet has retained the quota system for admission to the pre-university matriculation programme at - 90 percent for bumiputeras and 10 percent for non-bumiputeras.

Fearing backlash from sections of the Malay-Muslim community, it is apparent that the Pakatan Harapan government decided to maintain the status-quo in the admission quota, Ramasamy said.

However, he noted that the number of admissions to the programme was increased to 40,000
students, while the intake has increased to 36,000 (bumiputeras) and a mere 4,000 (non-bumiputeras)
"With this figure, the admission of the bumiputera students increased from the earlier 22,500 to 36,000.

"Despite the clamour for more non-Malay admission, they only received an increase from 2,500 to 4,000 places - just an addition of 1,500 students," Ramasamy told Malaysiakini today.
"We are not in the position at the moment to determine the number of Indian students who will be admitted," added the Perai assemblyperson.

"It appears as though the cabinet was not prepared to take a bold decision in increasing the intake of non-Malay students, particularly Indians."

Ramasamy said non-Malay supporters of Harapan would definitely be disappointed.
"I am taken back by the decision. We failed to move forward but I am not giving up the fight for better Malaysia!" he added.

Yesterday, Education Minister Maszlee Malik stated that the cabinet decision was the best option to allow the matriculation programme to provide educational opportunities to all races.

Over the past week, debates on the numbers of matriculation seats for non-bumiputera students continued to rage, with many students complaining about being denied places despite scoring straight As in their SPM.

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Last year, 2,200 and 1,000 matriculation studies seats were allocated respectively for Indian and Chinese students but Education Minister Maszlee Malik said it was a “one-off initiative”, only for last year.

These "one-off initiative" was announced by former prime minister Najib Abdul Razak in 2018 in view of the 14th general election.

However, Najib has since refuted the claim by the Ministry of Education that it was a one-off thing.

Meanwhile, social activist Sudhagaran Stanley (photo) said the cabinet decision was "one of the worst and most disappointing decisions ever made" by the Harapan government.

He said Harapan leaders were quickly getting used to and ruling the country according to the "Umno way".

"What does this decision mean? Just 4,000 seats for non-bumiputeras and 36,000 seats for bumiputeras.

"How is this different from the UMNO and PAS way of ruling this country?" asked Sudhagaran, who is the Penang coordinator for the Center to Combat Corruption and Cronyism (C4).

"It only affirms Malay supremacy and treats non-bumiputeras as second class citizens," he added.
Sudhagaran said the 10 percent quota allocated to non-bumiputera students does not even reflect the non-Muslim population in this country.

The quota system should have been abolished, with places given on merit and needs.
"However, it seems that Harapan leaders are quickly failing the Malaysian aspiration and fast becoming like BN 2.0," he added, saying he felt crushed by the new development.

This post was copy paste from Malaysiakini. 

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Matriculation

Why are so many students with excellent SPM results rejected from gaining admission into our matriculation programmes?

Is there an ethnic quota, as in the days of the BN government rule, or is there a new system of intake designed by the newly-minted Pakatan Harapan government?

Whether ethnic quota or not, it is clear that many non-Malay students have been rejected and told to appeal.

If there is an ethnic quota, then the rejection must have been based on this affirmative action plan. Then, what is the point of appealing?

If an ethnic quota is operative, then the government should announce the numbers allocated to Chinese and Indian students.

At least the affected parents might know without having too much expectation.
I would think after the Harapan government took over, the method of admission could have been revamped with emphasis on merit, without sacrificing the opportunities for disadvantaged communities.

However, as in the case of matriculation, nothing has been done. Under the BN there were concessions made to MCA and MIC for the admission of Chinese and Indian students.

Since ethnic representation hase been done away, with the exception of Bersatu, there reigns confusion as how the government will handle admissions without relying on the outmoded methods of the former BN government.

In other words, with the absence of ethnic representation in the government, it lookslike the non-Malay students are getting a raw deal.
It might even be correct to say that the matriculation system has gone back to the earlier days when it was meant to address the educational woes of one community.

Is Education Minister Maszlee Malik aware of this?
It does not make sense for the system to take in students with lesser qualifications and reject the good ones.

I wonder whether the Education Minister Maszlee Malik (photo) is aware of what is happening to the admission imbroglio of the matriculation.

I can understand his initial infatuation with the weight of schoolbags and the colour of shoes, but we expect him to provide leadership to address some of the perplexing problems of education, such as the controversial problem of admission.

To be fair, Deputy Education Minister Teo Nie Ching is aware of this problem. She has been quick to respond to my queries on this matter.

I hope Teo, in consultation with Maszlee, can come up with an acceptable plan for all communities.
Whatever method is adopted, it cannot be worse than what was practised under the BN.

This is the major concern of non-Malay parents who voted for Harapan in the last general election.
More than 30 parents with their children have come to see me about the admission fiasco under this matriculation system.

I am sorry, but asking the students to appeal might not address the larger problem of discrimination in education.

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P RAMASAMY is the state assemblyperson for Perai. He is also deputy chief minister II of Penang.

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Rome Statute

“The jurisdiction of the Court shall be limited to the most serious crimes of concern to the international community as a whole.

The Court has jurisdiction in accordance with this Statute with respect to the following crimes: (a) The crime of genocide; (b) Crimes against humanity; (c) War crimes; (d) The crime of aggression.”

It goes on to state what these kinds of crime are. 

Only when these acts are committed would the Rome Statute kick in for any country which has ratified the statute. 

There is no question that members of the monarchy will not be affected by state actions as Malaysia is a constitutional monarchy.

Unless members of the royalty commit the acts themselves, they will not be affected.

“Of course, some members of the royal family also may be involved, but the whole idea is to get the royalty in Malaysia to go against this government. That is the motive. - Said Tun in one of him interview with MK.

Overall, the RS is such a move to create human among humanity. I mean every human / mankind must be treated as human.  No matter he is from a royal family or as an ordinary citizen. what ever back ground he is, humans shouod be traeted equally.

If anyone caught wrong doing, they must face the consequences by the law. No matter how influence they are, no matter the are the King nor his son, must face the law as they commit offences.

Is this inhuman or not fair to anyone?

Yes, it is only unfair to the wrong doers with immunity power, because they cant escape, they cant do wrong thing again. They can't go around hit beating and slapping people as they wish.

As to my understanding, this law is to protect all, this law is to preserve all and this RS is to find justice for all.

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