RPK 又说人话了

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Raja Petra Kamarudin

(Bernama) – The Council of Eminent Persons (CEP) has given the assurance that Bumiputera contractors will continue to be assisted under the new government, said Malaysian Malay Contractors Association President, Datuk Mokhtar Samad.

He was among those summoned by the Council to identify improvements that could be taken to assist the Bumiputera contractors.

That latest development (read above) brings back the 30-year-old debate of 1985-1991 when the Bumiputera business community and the Malay Chamber of Commerce and Industry conducted a series of dialogues, forums and seminars as to what to do post-NEP or after the New Economic Policy expires in 1990.

Most Malaysians do not understand the difference between Article 153 and the New Economic Policy of 1970-1990. Actually, they are two different issues although they are in a way inter-related. The New Economic Policy of 1970-1990 was a response to the 13th May 1969 race riots, which Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad, in his ‘Open Letter’, blamed on the First Prime Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman.

Mahathir said the Malays were very unhappy that they were being ‘left behind’ and that is why they rioted. So, the government came out with its poverty eradication program, the New Economic Policy, to address this economic imbalance between the Malays and the Chinese and to close the gap between the haves and the have-nots regardless of race (which means the NEP was also for the non-Malays).

However, even before the NEP of 1970, the British had already come out with their own program on how to look after the Malays. Soon after the formation of the Federation of Malays in 1948, Umno began negotiating Merdeka with the British and Malaya’s colonial masters knew it would be a matter of time before the country would have to be given independence.

In 1950, the British formed the Rural & Industrial Development Authority or RIDA to look after the interest and welfare of the Malays. In 1956, the RIDA Training Centre was set up to train and educate the Malays. A year later, Malaya was granted independence or Merdeka.

On 1st March 1966, RIDA was changed to MARA (Majlis Amanah Rakyat) and the RIDA Training Centre to MARA College. In 1967, it became the MARA Institute of Technology and in 1999 Mahathir turned it into a university, Universiti Teknologi MARA or UiTM.

The British concern was in educating the Malays

Even earlier than that, around 1900, the British were already concerned about educating the Malays. On 24th February 1904, R J Wilkinson, the inspector of schools for the Federated Malay States (F.M.S), wrote to the resident-general about ‘establishing at a suitable locality in the F.M.S., a special residential school for the education of Malays of good family and for the training of Malay boys for admission to certain branches of Government service’.

The four F.M.S rulers — Sultan Idris Murshidul ‘Adzam Shah I of Perak, Sultan Alaiddin Sulaiman Shah of Selangor, Yam Tuan Tuanku Muhammad Shah of Negeri Sembilan and Sultan Ahmad Mu’adzam Shah of Pahang — supported the move and on 2nd January 1905 the Malay Residential School was set up in Kuala Kangsar, known then as the Eton of the East.

So, 114 years ago, the concern of the British colonial masters and the Malay rulers was about educating the Malays. And, since the NEP was launched almost 50 years ago, about five million Malays have been given higher and/or tertiary education. That is no small feat for a race that used to be 99% peasants.

The British plan was for the Malays to administer the country while the Chinese engage in commerce

Currently, the focus of the Bumiputera policy is only on business, contracts, permits, licences, quotas, discounts for Malays who buy property, and so on — in short, economic activities. But the policy is more than just that and education is more important than contracts, permits, licences, quotas, etc.

How often have we not heard the saying ‘teach them how to fish and not give them a fish’ being uttered? I first heard that saying in 1977 when a Thai Rotary Club member told us about how they eradicate poverty in Thailand: they teach Thais how to fish instead of giving them a fish. And that is what Malaysia’s policy was also supposed to be about: to teach Malays how to fish (and to date five million Malays have been taught that).

The first and fundamental thing to do is to un-politicise education and restore the education system to what the British had intended in 1900. I would like to believe that I am a product of a British education. We played rugby and cricket, had tea at 4.00pm, and enjoyed our cigar and brandy/whiskey after dinner (may the Lord forgive me). But then we Malays of the Merdeka era were ‘Brown Englishmen’. And then came the politicians who messed everything up and turned the Malays into Arabs (may the Lord forgive them). And that is all I want to say on the subject lest the Islamists start shouting ‘infidel’.

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拉贾佩特拉卡马鲁丁
（马尔代夫） - 马来西亚马来承包商协会主席拿督莫克塔尔萨马德说，知名人士协会（CEP）已经保证Bumiputera承包商将继续得到新政府的协助。
他是安理会召集的那些人，以确定可以采取哪些改进来协助土着承包商。
最新的发展（上文所述）带回了1985年至1991年30年的辩论，当时土着商界和马来工商会进行了一系列对话，论坛和研讨会，讨论后NEP或在1990年新经济政策到期后。
大部分马来西亚人不明白第153条与1970-1990新经济政策之间的区别。实际上，它们是两个不同的问题，尽管它们之间是相互关联的。 1970-1990年的新经济政策是对1969年5月13日种族骚乱的回应，马哈蒂尔穆罕默德在其公开信中指责第一任总理东姑阿都拉曼。

马哈蒂尔说，马来人非常不满，他们被“甩在后面”，这就是他们为什么暴动的原因。因此，政府出台了消除贫困计划，即新经济政策，以解决马来人与中国人之间的这种经济不平衡现象，并且无论种族如何消除贫富之间的差距（这意味着NEP是也为非马来人）。
但是，即使在1970年的NEP之前，英国人也已经出台了关于如何照顾马来人的计划。 1948年马来人联合会成立后不久，巫统开始与英国人谈判独立报，而马来亚的殖民主人知道，国家必须独立才是时间问题。
1950年，英国成立了农村和工业发展局或RIDA，负责照顾马来人的利益和福利。 1956年，RIDA培训中心成立，旨在培训和教育马来人。一年后，马来亚获得独立或独立。
1966年3月1日，RIDA改为MARA（Majlis Amanah Rakyat），RIDA培训中心改为MARA学院。 1967年，它成为MARA技术学院，并于1999年将马哈迪尔大学变成了Universiti Teknologi MARA或UiTM大学。
英国人关心的是教育马来人
甚至在1900年前后，英国人已经在关注教育马来人了。 1904年2月24日，联邦马来国家学校检查员RJ Wilkinson写信给驻地长说：“在FMS的一个合适的地方建立一个特殊的寄宿学校，以教育马来人的良好家庭以及培训马来男孩进入某些政府部门的服务“。
四个FMS统治者 - 霹雳州的Sultan Idris Murshidul'Adzam Shah I，雪兰莪州的苏丹Alaiddin Sulaiman Shah，森美兰的Yam Tuan Tuanku Muhammad Shah和彭亨的苏丹艾哈迈德Mu'adzam Shah支持此举，并于1905年1月2日马来西亚马来住宅学校在瓜拉江沙成立，当时称为东方伊顿。
因此，114年前，英国殖民主人和马来统治者的关切是教育马来人。而且，自从近50年前发布NEP以来，约有500万马来人接受了高等和/或高等教育。对于曾经是99％农民的种族来说，这是不小的成就。
英国的计划是让马来人在中国从事商业的同时管理这个国家
目前，Bumiputera政策的重点仅限于商业，合同，许可证，执照，配额，购买房产的马来人的折扣等 - 简而言之，就是经济活动。但政策不仅仅是这一点，教育比合同，许可，执照，配额等更重要。
我们多久听不到说'教他们如何钓鱼而不给他们钓鱼'的说法？我第一次听说1977年泰国扶轮社的一位成员告诉我们他们如何根除泰国的贫困：他们教泰国人如何钓鱼，而不是给他们钓鱼。这就是马来西亚的政策也应该是这样的：教马来西亚如何钓鱼（迄今已有500万马来人被教过）。
首先要做的是让教育非政治化，并使教育体系恢复到英国在1900年时的意图。我想相信我是英国教育的产物。我们打橄榄球和板球，下午4点喝茶，晚饭后享用我们的雪茄和白兰地/威士忌（主可以原谅我）。但是我们马德里时代的马来人是'布朗英国人'。然后是那些把一切搞砸，把马来人变成阿拉伯人的政客们（可能是上帝原谅他们）。这就是我想说的话，以免伊斯兰教徒开始喊“不信道者”。