96% Bumi Graduates given HRM

Bumi grads not left out, says Fong

Fong Chan Onn, the Human Resources Minister said Umno Youth Public Complaints Bureau chairman Datuk Subahan Kamal's comments were unfair and biased. According to Fong, 96% of jobless Bumiputera graduates were given loans under the ministry's Skills Development Fund.

Some 500,000 youths had received loans from the Skills Development Fund, of which 95 per cent were Malays. And more than 90 per cent of applicants to the industrial training institutes each year are Malays.

He was responding to comments by Umno Youth Public Complaints Bureau chairman Datuk Subahan Kamal, who said the ministry was not doing enough to help jobless Bumiputera graduates find jobs in the private sector.

On Subahan’s call that the ministry impose a 30 per cent quota for Malays at all levels in the private sector, Fong said setting quotas did not come under the ministry’s purview.

"It’s not our responsibility to impose quotas," he said, adding that although there was no policy on Bumiputera employment in the private sector, the vast majority of workers in places like hypermarkets were Bumiputera youths.

What more do UMNO wants? 95% of them were already given to Malays; are they asking for 100%?

Quota system? Is 95% not more than quota? Even civil services is more than 90%; local authorities are more than 90%; Uniformed services is already more than 90%? Bank employees is already more than 80%; Hypermarkets have more than 65%; school teachers is more than 80%; Government-linked companies are more than 90%; what else do they want?