Race Never A Factor In Public Sector Appointments, Abdullah Says.
Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi has stressed that the government has never used race as the basis or pre-requisite in public sector appointments. In fact, he said, the government always welcomed the participation of all races interested and willing to serve as civil servants. "All citizens irrespective of race can apply to join any public service scheme based on the suitability of their academic qualification to the position applied for," he said in his written reply in the Dewan Rakyat Thursday.
He was replying to Opposition Leader Lim Kit Siang (DAP-Ipoh Timur) who asked the prime minister to state measures taken to ensure Malaysia had an efficient, productive, professional, multi-racial, apolitical and world class public service to achieve Vision 2020. On civil servants' involvement in politics, Abdullah said it was clear in the Public Officers Regulations 1993 that there were no restrictions for a public officer to be an ordinary member of any political party. However, public officers in the Top Management Group and the Management and Professional Group were prohibited from taking part in political activities or wearing any political party symbol, he said.
He said that for civil servants in the Support Group, they were allowed to contest or hold posts in political parties after they had obtained written approval from the Director-General of Public Service or the Secretary-General of the Ministry they were attached to.
Abdullah also said the government was aware that higher efficiency, productivity and professionalism of the public service was a crucial element in the efforts to realise the Vision 2020 objective to make Malaysia a developed country by 2020. In this regard, the government had and would take various actions to ensure that members of the public service understood and implemented the delivery system effectively and with quality, he said.
"Generally, the actions emphasised three main elements, namely human capital development, system and procedure improvement, and information technology and communication applications in the work process," he said. He said the improvement in the working system and procedures was an effort implemented continuously to enhance the quality of services rendered to the public.
**** That is what the PM had to say. I am wondering, if what he said is really precise then have we all been imagining that there is a lopsided civil service? That there has been no discrimination in recruitment, promotions and postings? Wow! I must have had a bad nightmare. So we do live in an egalitarian society where everybody is equal and treated fairly and we'll all live happily ever after. I'm so relieved.
He was replying to Opposition Leader Lim Kit Siang (DAP-Ipoh Timur) who asked the prime minister to state measures taken to ensure Malaysia had an efficient, productive, professional, multi-racial, apolitical and world class public service to achieve Vision 2020. On civil servants' involvement in politics, Abdullah said it was clear in the Public Officers Regulations 1993 that there were no restrictions for a public officer to be an ordinary member of any political party. However, public officers in the Top Management Group and the Management and Professional Group were prohibited from taking part in political activities or wearing any political party symbol, he said.
He said that for civil servants in the Support Group, they were allowed to contest or hold posts in political parties after they had obtained written approval from the Director-General of Public Service or the Secretary-General of the Ministry they were attached to.
Abdullah also said the government was aware that higher efficiency, productivity and professionalism of the public service was a crucial element in the efforts to realise the Vision 2020 objective to make Malaysia a developed country by 2020. In this regard, the government had and would take various actions to ensure that members of the public service understood and implemented the delivery system effectively and with quality, he said.
"Generally, the actions emphasised three main elements, namely human capital development, system and procedure improvement, and information technology and communication applications in the work process," he said. He said the improvement in the working system and procedures was an effort implemented continuously to enhance the quality of services rendered to the public.
**** That is what the PM had to say. I am wondering, if what he said is really precise then have we all been imagining that there is a lopsided civil service? That there has been no discrimination in recruitment, promotions and postings? Wow! I must have had a bad nightmare. So we do live in an egalitarian society where everybody is equal and treated fairly and we'll all live happily ever after. I'm so relieved.
posted by The Malaysian. at 7/06/2006 10:01:00 PM
3 Comments:
Pak Lah is not very good at telling jokes, is he?
anak merdeka, I prefer your sense of humour.
Lying thru the teeth has been the norm for a very long time in MY beloved country!!
Please tell Pak Lah to leave the comedy to the clowns(as it is in parliament, by our democratically-voted, monkeys in suits !)
Walk into any local municiple or government department and do you see a multi-raced sea of faces greeting you ? I'm not a bigot but please do things Malaysianlah. No point bragging to the rest of the world how culturally, religiously and ethnically balanced we are, when we all know how it is in the public sector in terms of appointments and promotions.Lets not pretend we don't know of a deeply entrenched unspoken rule that over-rides all this crap talk-lah and be brutally honest with ourselves ! I'm very proud to be a Malaysian but to tell the truth ( even when it hurts some !!) brands me as unpatriotic or disloyal or ungrateful. The day we accept our short-commings is the day we can all stand tall in this world and shout "Malaysia Boleh" !! Until then 'Lets Pretend".
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