Racial discriminations in Malaysia

List of racial discriminations in Malaysia, practiced by government as well as government agencies. This list is an open secret. Best verified by government itself because it got the statistics.

This list is not in the order of importance, that means the first one on the list is not the most important and the last one on the list does not mean least important.

This list is a common knowledge to a lot of Malaysians, especially those non-malays (Chinese, Ibans, Kadazans, Orang Asli, Indians, etc) who were being racially discriminated.

Figures in this list are estimates only and please take it as a guide only. Government of Malaysia has the most correct figures. Is government of Malaysia too ashamed to publish their racist acts by publishing racial statistics?

This list cover a period of about 48 years since independence (1957).

List of racial discriminations (Malaysia):

1. Out of all the 5 major banks, only one bank is multi-racial, the rest are controlled by Malays
2. 99% of Petronas directors are malays
3. 3% of Petronas employees are Chinese
4. 99% of 2000 Petronas gasoline stations are owned by malays
5. 100% all contractors working under Petronas projects must be bumis status
6. 0% of non-malays staffs is legally required in malay companies. But there must be 30% malays staffs in Chinese companies.
7. 5% of all new intake for government police, nurses, army, is non-malays.
8. 2% is the present Chinese staff in Royal Malaysian Air Force (RMAF), drop from 40% in 1960
9. 2% is the percentage of non-malays government servants in Putrajaya. But malays make up 98%
10. 7% is the percentage of Chinese government servants in the whole government (in 2004), drop from 30% in 1960
11. 95% of government contracts are given to Malays
12. 100% all business licensees are controlled by malay government e.g. Taxi permits, Approved permits, etc
13. 80% of the Chinese rice millers in Kedah had to be sold to Malay controlled Bernas in 1980s. Otherwise, life is make difficult for Chinese rice millers
14. 100 big companies set up, owned and managed by Chinese Malaysians were taken over by government, and later managed by malays since 1970s e.g. UTC, UMBC, MISC, etc
15. At least 10 Chinese owned bus companies (throughout Malaysia, throughout 40 years) had to be sold to MARA or other malay transport companies due to rejection by malay authority to Chinese application for bus routes and rejection for their application for new buses
16. 2 Chinese taxi drivers were barred from driving in Johor Larkin bus station. There are about 30 taxi drivers and 3 are Chinese in October 2004. Spoiling taxi club properties was the reason given
17. 0 non-malays are allowed to get shop lots in the new Muar bus station (November 2004)
18. 8000 billions ringgit is the total amount the government channeled to malays pockets through ASB, ASN, MARA, privatisation of government agencies, Tabung Haji etc, through NEP over 34 years period
19. 48 Chinese primary schools closed down since 1968 - 2000
20. 144 Indian primary schools closed down since 1968 - 2000
21. 2637 malay primary schools built since 1968 - 2000
22. 2.5% is government budget for Chinese primary schools. Indian schools got only 1%, malay schools got 96.5%
23. While a Chinese parent with RM1000 salary (monthly) cannot get school-text-book-loan, a malay parent with RM2000 salary is eligible
24. 10 all public universities vice chancellors are malays
25. 5% - the government universities lecturers of non-malay origins had been reduced from about 70% in 1965 to only 5% in 2004
26. Only 5% is given to non-malays for government scholarships over 40 years
27. 0 Chinese or Indians were sent to Japan and Korea under "Look East Policy"
28. 128 STPM Chinese top students could not get into the course that they aspired i.e. Medicine (in 2004)
29. 10% place for non-bumi students for MARA science schools beginning from year 2003, but only 7% are filled. Before that it was 100% malays
30. 50 cases whereby Chinese and Indian Malaysians, are beaten up in the National Service program in 2003
31. 25% is Malaysian Chinese population in 2004, drop from 45% in 1957
32. 7% is the present Malaysian Indians population (2004), a drop from 12% in 1957
33. 2 millions Chinese Malaysians had emigrated to overseas since 40 years ago
34. 0.5 million Indians Malaysians had emigrated to overseas
35. 3 millions Indonesians had migrated into Malaysia and became Malaysian citizens with bumis status.
36. 600000 are the Chinese and Indians Malaysians with red IC and were rejected repeatedly when applying for citizenship for 40 years. Perhaps 60% of them had already passed away due to old age. This shows racism of how easily Indonesians got their citizenships compare with the Chinese and Indians
37. 5% - 15% discount for a malay to buy a house, regardless whether the malay is rich or poor
38. 2% is what Chinese new villages get compare with 98% of what malays villages got for rural development budget
39. 50 road names (at least) had been change from Chinese names to other names
40. 1 Dewan Gan Boon Leong (in Malacca) was altered to other name (e.g. Dewan Serbaguna or sort) when it was being officially used for a few days. Government try to shun Chinese names. This racism happened in around year 2000 or sort
41. 0 temples/churches were built for each housing estate. But every housing estate got at least one mosque/surau built
42. 3000 mosques/surau were built in all housing estates throughout Malaysia since 1970. No temples, no churches are required to be built in housing estates
43. 1 Catholic church in Shah Alam took 20 years to apply to be constructed. But told by malay authority that it must look like a factory and not look like a church. Still not yet approved in 2004
44. 1 publishing of Bible in Iban language banned (in 2002)
45. 0 of the government TV stations (RTM1, RTM2, TV3) are directors of non-malays origin
46. 30 government produced TV dramas and films always showed that the bad guys had Chinese face, and the good guys had malay face. You can check it out since 1970s. Recent years, this tendency becomes less
47. 10 times, at least, malays (especially Umno) had threatened to massacre the Chinese Malaysians using May 13 since 1969
48. 20 constituencies won by DAP would not get funds from the government to develop. Or these Chinese majority constituencies would be the last to be developed
49. 100 constituencies (parliaments and states) had been racistly re-delineated so Chinese voters were diluted that Chinese candidates, particularly DAP candidates lost in election since 1970s
50. Only 3 out of 12 human rights items are ratified by Malaysia government since 1960
51. 0 elimination of, all forms of racial discrimination (UN Human Rights) is not ratified by Malaysia government since 1960s
52. 20 reported cases whereby malay ambulance attendance treated Chinese patients inhumanely, and malay government hospital staffs purposely delay attending to Chinese patients in 2003. Unreported cases may be 200
53. 50 cases each year whereby Chinese, especially Chinese youths being beaten up by malay youths in public places. We may check at police reports provided the police took the report, otherwise there will be no record
54. 20 cases every year whereby Chinese drivers who accidentally knocked down malays were seriously assaulted or killed by malays
55. 12% is what ASB/ASN got per annum while banks fixed deposit is only about 3.5% per annum