Perkasa vs Perkosa

By Anak Mami

Malay rights group PERKASA President Datuk Ibrahim Ali said that Chinese were controlling the economy of Malaysia and Chinese tycoons were richer than Malay tycoons, while major industries were also manopolised by Chinese, "Could a particular group of Chinese just don't be so greedy?
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This bullshit again that the chinese control the economy! This cannard can be debunk (notwithstanding government/UMNO manipulation of statistics since 1969), Since 1969, UMNO instituted a broad range of measure to take effective control of the economy on a 'top-down' approach. This include:
(1) diluting the political 'powers' of the non-malays; (a) isolating the constituency of KL as a federal territory (b) gerrymandering of voters district to favour the malays (c) low cost housing projects to bring the rural malays into the urban heartland of chinese-KL and other key urban areas (the KL perkiliing flats were an early example);
(2) seizing or more correctly asserting control (as powers were effectively handed over to UMNO by the British on independence) of key ministries of which the most important were education, transport and finance etc. (other key ministry like defence and internal security were already under firm control).


These above were two major thrusts underpining the implementation of the NEP in the 1970s, a major trend- consequence being the gradual and consistent "sidelining" of the non-malay parties within the 'Alliance'. The Mahathir administration merely accentuated these trends bringing into sharp focus the EXCLUSIVE ascendency of 'Malay nationalism' into the national agenda. Thus those labelled as 'ultra' pre-1969 became 'mainstream' in the 1980s.

The signs are all around us, despite the constant "baiting" and red-heering by those firmly in control:
(a) control of the financial sectors are firmly under the government;
(b) the nations wealth (Petronas) is firmly under the control of the government;
(c) the transport sector are all firmly under the control of the government
(d) from the mid to late 1990s, the govt is slowly asserting control over the construction sector; Malaysia has the largest ratio of contractors per capita and the large construction companies originally under the control of the non-malays are being brought out or simply forced out legislatively or administratively.
(e) similarly for the housing property sector, large non-malay firms are being brought under the control of the government.

I can go on... (incidently government above actually translate to UMNO and nobody else).
The above trend is so pervasive that it extends not only into the economic fields but also into the social, cultural and even the sporting milieu.

Anecdotal:...
a) Just visit the food stalls along the rest-stops of the NS highway, you would never realise that there is actually a vibrant non-malay food-scene in Malaysia (that is why the NS highway is a culinary dead-zone).
b) Clinching contracts and projects are now not only being tilted heavily to bumiputra companies in the government sector even to many large private companies who are now under the control of the Govt (translate govt). If the chinese still thinks they control the economy, just ask any contractor/supplier/ consultants etc.
c) 5% discount for bumiputras in property, but do any of you know that in one state this policy is mandated to 15%! The pervesity of this policy is (1) the rich and well connected are the main beneficiary of this policy (2) ALL non-malays have been subsidising the Malays to the tune of ... (calculate the property market times by 5% etc.) ... and to think that we are being blamed for 'stealing' the wealth of the malays.
d) Of course the apologist of status quo, trots out the well-worn non-malay compradores who allegedly control the economy. These people are ... well just compradore http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/comprador.
Most compradore are just rent seekers and will fall flat in the real competitive world of business. A good example of the compradore system would be the tax-farm, opium-farm, gambling-farm operated by the British colonialist. Of course some things are still current...

Thus I DO NOT believe the non-malays control the economy. Ask ANY non-malay businessman big or small (not the compradores), and they will tell you the same thing ... increasing difficulty in doing business as an individual (if you are non-malay). I believe in time to come, the gini-coefficient among the non-malays will increase (i.e. the rich become richer whilst the middle class will be destroyed). It (the gini coeff) is already the highest amongst the Malays in Malaysia (which means the wealth gap of the philippines and thais are much lesser). The big non-malay firms will increasingly be fragmented, even it is not sure that the stocks of the non-malay compradores actually belong wholly to them.

Thus I refused to be blamed for the alleged backwardness of the Malays and I refush to take it lying that the chinese control the economy.