Malay Rights???

Assalamualaikum.. d

First of all, I would like to clarify that this topic is entirely based on my self opinion and I’m not trying to influence any person or parties. I’m writing this because I feel that this topic is full of arguments and interesting to talk about.

Ok, I’m Malay and I’ll try my best not to be bias. So, let’s see the advantage and the disadvantage about Malay rights. I’m sure all of you know about our country’s history. We learn about this when we’re in form 4 and 5. Go and refer back to your books if you forget so that you get what I mean later on.

Recently, many questioned about the Malay rights. Some agree with it and some against it so much. Even former prime minister also bemoaned the extreme reliance of Bumiputras on their privileges “We have tried to tell them if you depend on subsidies, you are going to be very weak. But they don’t seem to understand. We tell them if you use crutches, you will not be able to stand up. Throw away the crutches, stand up straight because you still have the capacity. I have talked about this thing and as doctor I know very well the meaning of crutches but somehow or rather they want the easy way out. If I get an AP ( car import permit) and I sell it and make some money, it’s all right, they say.” Seems to me what he said is so convincing but looking at only one view is not good. How about this one, on 10 Dec, Berita Harian published a column titled Pemimpin Cina, India dulu labih hormat hak orang melayu by Mohd Ayop, who argued that the non-Malays of the early Merdeka days were more respectful of Malay rights than the non-Malay rights today. In the column, the writer talked about former MCA president Tun Tan Siew Sin that defended the Malays, saying that among others, he told the non-Malays not to hope for and ask the Malays to give up what belonged to them. Tan’s view was the Malays were economically backward and needed help.

Our country has Malay race as the biggest population despite having Chinese and Indians. Why do we need this policy? It is necessary for us, the Malay people? Well, for me I think malay rights is relevant because firstly they are lagging behind and need some help to push themselves to compete with other races. Secondly, this land belongs to the Malay people and they get this special rights based on the agreement with the British to let the Chinese and Indians lived in the Malaya at that time. Moreover, since our country’s populations is mostly Malay and most of them are poor, so they need some help which is special rights from the government to ease their burden’s life. I know that we do have poor people coming from other races but their quantity is so small. They can request help from MCA and MIC which always there to help. Besides, they have such a large group of professionals in every field until is hardly to see any Malays around especially in medical and engineering. But having said this, the bad sides is that the Malay rights can be seen irrelevant too in the aspect of Malays have been given fish all the while without being thought how to fish. If this continues forever than we can never see the time they can be independent. How pathetic can this be? Always hoping someone to help you, looking like cat waiting for food. Not only that, if they continue to be pampered with these loaded privileges, they will never be tough and strong since they do not have to fight or work hard for it. They never know how precious the reward they can get if they try their best and not by taking shortcut.

So, now after many years, we still practicing this policy, have we seen any changes? We need to look at the statics to see the changes. But I do hear professional Malays feeling grateful for the opportunities their get from this policy which now have made them success. Many Malay students get to study overseas but unfortunately most of them never come home and dislike contributing their skills here in Malaysia. Well, at least they made it even though they shouldn’t do that to their homeland. But, how about the other Malays? Are they fail to realized that this is a great opportunities for them to improve themselves better than other races? Then, how come other races can become rich even though they don’t have any policy to help them but still survive and made it to the top? I guess they take this for granted, forgetting that one day these sweet times will over. But, I believe that we cannot stop the policy right now, it will be stopped but just not now. We still need it as our Malay races are already used to it and if we take it away suddenly I’m afraid we will having culture shock wave!! We must have proper ways to handle this because it can cause a life in the process. Therefore, the special rights of the Malays must, for now, continue to be protected because the Malay race at the village and rural areas will not be able to live without this right. If the policies were to abolished, sooner or later no one will care about their state anymore because everyone are busy thinking how to survive without any of this special rights… Haha… but then again, the opposite point is that our Malay people are becoming lazier. I used to hear from a friend saying that his Malay friend is never bother to study for SPM because he said no matter how bad his result is, he can still roll in university. Now, that is what I call stupid! Of course you get to be in the university easily but how about your life after that? Do you think is that easy? Keep dreaming….Besides, they should now stand on their own feet and not depending any more at the government to help them anymore because the quality of work they produce is bad and they will be unemployed.

So, who should we blame at for this thing to happen? The Malay politicians or the Malay people itself? I think our Malay minded is set in order of having so easy satisfied. For example the saying like this “Ala, syukur la aku dapat keputusan macam ni..nak buat macamana..ni je la kemampuan aku..” I feel so sorry for them because they already put a block to their mind, so no matter how hard they will try they can never succeed because they already set an unconscious believe in their mind that they are weak and not talented. Then, how about the malay politicians? Are all Malay people politicians greedy and selfish? Im sure not all of them are like that. Some of them are willingly to give their services to the community because they really want to help them. I believe they fight for the Malay rights because they pity with the current Malays people state which still have less proof to show that they are now better than decades ago. Besides, the Malay politicians continue to defend the Malay right because they want to help the Malay race to cope with the extreme economics’ race. The Malays are too weak to handle the world full of tricks and lying without the help from the authority. Therefore, we need to produce more professionals and talented Malays so that this apprentice can lead Malay people who are weak. But, we cannot deny that selfish politicians do exist, they are not trying to defend this privilege but eating them in secrets. Besides that, they do not actually care about the life of their race but just want to take advantage of the special right so they can expand their wealth.


In conclusion, this is what I think about this issue. Nevertheless, I’m not perfect and this is just a piece of writing coming from my brain…hahaha..Hope you guys can left comments after reading this..
Thank you..

P/s : please ignore my grammar mistakes while reading this k…^^