Baby Dumping, BC & DNA Testing

Malaysian Insider reported that Government mulls DNA bank to curb baby dumping.

Is this an effective method???

Dont we have to DNA profile all Malaysian residents first for it to be of any use?

The government should instead allow DNA testing to clear so many pending BC/IC/citizenship cases.


It will do away with so much paperwork to verify if the person claims who he/she is.


DNA test should be allowed at the request of applicants for BC

Press Statement - The Need for Fitting Action Against HM's Derogatory Remarks

I am perplexed and distressed by the Education DG's statement that the matter concerning the Headmistress Siti Inshah Mansor's derogatory remark was due to misunderstanding and has been settled.

At least 17 reports has been lodged over the matter and numerous students/parents have complained. How could all of them have misunderstood? How can the matter be considered resolved when we were informed that she is on leave pending disciplinary action?

This is the third civil servant that has made racially derogatory & outrages remarks that has been let off the hook with a slap on the wrist.

It sends wrong signal to all Malaysians and threatens national unity. Government must put a full stop to such incidents with strict action against the perpetrators.

I call upon the PM, the Education Minister and the Home Minister to thoroughly investigate the matter bring upon the heaviest punishment of the law. Mere suspension or transfer will not do.

S.Murugessan

MIC CWC Member

Circus Comes to Town

The circus is back in town with the investigation of allegation of sodomy against Anwar. Oh boy, here we go again!

First of all this better not be a political conspiracy. If the Prime Minister gets even a hint of this, he should just haul up those guys and shoot them! Ok, that might be a little too dramatic and …unlawful.

The point is, the Prime Minister should expose anyone, no matter how high up or how close they are to him if there is a conspiracy to drum up these allegations. Besides being illegal and despicable, whoever that’s behind it (if at all there is a conspiracy) should be sent to the gallows for being outright stupid and unimaginative. A second sodomy charge when the trial for the first one was laughed at and was thrown out on appeal? Who are we kidding here?

Frankly, it is a scenario that the Prime Minister could well do without right now. It is as tight and dangerous as walking a political tight-rope as it gets.

This second allegation of sodomy against Anwar could either break the ruling government or the self proclaimed ‘Prime Minister in Waiting’. The stakes could not have been higher. More then Anwar, it’s our Police Force, Judiciary, Attorney General’s Office and the Government that is on trial here.

On this score the people have already judged that there could be a conspiracy. Not only must Anwar be investigated, charged and convicted beyond reasonable doubt; he must be convicted beyond ANY doubt. Anything less, will set off PKR’s PR machinery into frenzy to turn the table against the government. And they have already started.

That is why it is inevitable that the government handles this case delicately and with utmost care. The police must not only be fair but must also be seen to be fair. Every procedure and every rule must be followed to the dot. Anwar and his army of lawyers are waiting to pounce on every technicality.

On the other hand, there is this Complainant that has lodged a police report against Anwar. Pray that he does not do a ‘Bala’ on us all on this one. Although he might have been a ‘consenting adult’, he had sought the ‘protection’ of law and ‘wants’ justice. Should he be denied ‘protection’ and his day in court just because the person that he is complaining against is the self proclaimed ‘Prime Minister in Waiting’?

If Anwar is convicted of the charge after due process of law, PKR and his supporters must accept the verdict and go on with their business without demonstrations and taking to the streets.

Enough is enough. We have seen what it is like when the circus comes to town. Let the due process of law take its course and let the institutions discharge their duties without fear or favour. At the end of the day, the integrity of the institutions and the due process of law matters more for the well being of this nation then any individual or political party, whoever it may be.

Murugesan Sinnandavar

Employment In Government Sector

On 8th June, 2008, the Road Transport Department or Jabatan Pengangkutan Jalan (JPJ) published the list of successful candidates for ‘Jawatan Pembantu Penguatkuasa Gred N17’ in Mingguan Malaysia.

It is alarming to note that out of 751 successful candidates, only 15 were non-Bumiputras. It constitutes less then 2% of successful candidates. Out of this, only 10 candidates or 1.3% were Indians.

Grade N17 is for support staff and it is open for applicants with SPM or equivalent qualification. Most applicants for this grade are from lower and lower middle income group families. More often then not, they discontinue their studies after Form Five to find a suitable job to support their families.

How is the government to alleviate the socio-economic problem faced by the Indian Community if they offer such a low percentage of job opportunities to Indian Youths? Unemployment rate amongst Indian Youths is on the rise and unemployed youths below the age of 21 are susceptible to unhealthy activities that are detrimental to them and the society.

Whenever the issue of low percentage of Indians being accepted into government employment is raised, the standard answer is that there were insufficient number of applicants. However, the feed-back from divisional level MIC Youth Leaders is that many Indian Youths do apply for government jobs but are not called for interviews and out of those called, a very small percentage have been successful.

The JPJ and other government departments should be transparent and publish on the internet the name list of those that applied and also those that were successful. At present there is no mechanism for anyone to verify the number of applicants for a particular government position and we are solely dependant on the statistics provided by the respective department.

Government departments should also drop the practice of hiring based on the percentage of applicants from each race, i.e. if 80% applicants are Malays, 10% Chinese and 10% Indians, then the percentage of those offered employment by race will be 80:10:10. This methodology of percentage by number of applicants is not used elsewhere by the government (e.g. for PSD Scholarships and matriculation intakes) and therefore should not be used here when determining government employment. If at all the government is to set a quota for employment, then it should follow the percentage of racial composition in this country, not the percentage of applicants.

It is unhealthy for government departments to be constituted overwhelmingly by a single race in a multi-racial Malaysia. It is a hindrance towards nation building and does not reflect our true Malaysia.

The government should issue a directive to all government departments to correct this imbalance and be proactive in ensuring more non-Malays are employed in the civil service.

Murugesan Sinnandavar

Land for Temples in Selangor

I know I am in BN and I am supposed to criticize the other side and cheer our own side. That’s how our adversary based political system is supposed to work and that how it has been practiced in this country. Well, I don’t agree. We must praise or criticize based on the merit of the act or policy, not based on party politics.

I read with interest today’s (7th June, 2008) News Straits Times’ report in page 8 entitled “Size no longer matters for places of worship”. The new Selangor State government had abolished the requirement that new non-Muslim places of worship be restricted to 10,000 sq feet. It has also agreed to raise the annual budget for non-Muslim places of worship from the current RM 3 million.

After reading the report, I can’t help but say to “Well done and its about time!”

I am not sure whether the ‘requirement’ of 10,000 sq feet was a ruling or policy matter under the previous BN state government. If my memory serves me right there had been instances where the BN state government had granted one acre or more for new non-Muslim places of worship. However, I also remember that often time, land for new places of worship had been restricted to 10,000 sq feet. Numerous attempts to break this barrier by the then State Exco Member, YB Dato K.Sivalingam had been met with brick wall resistance by the then state administration.

As I understood it, the ‘requirement’ was introduced by a Dato Bandar of Shah Alam (I can’t remember who) and the ‘requirement’ was subsequently adopted by other local councils. No amount of internal objections and arguing persuaded the then state government to drop the unwritten restriction. They probably thought there was only one way of administrating the state. It was either ‘my way or the highway’.

Well, the state BN is on the highway now.

There are lessons to be learnt from all this. Governments must put its people first. It must realize that it is there because of the people and for the people. When we allow the whim and fancy of any officer(s) to take precedent over the need and sentiment of the populace, the people will be left with no choice but to punish the entire administration for the acts of some and inaction of the rest.

Murugesan Sinnandavar