Y.A.B. DATO’ SERI ABDULLAH AHMAD BADAWI

Minister of Finance

Block Utama,

Bangunan Perdana Putra, Email: reduceredtape@ pmo.gov.my

Pusat Pentadbiran Kerajaan Persekutuan, Email: abdullah@kdn. gov.my

62502 Putrajaya Tel: 03 8888 8000

Fax: 03 8888 3444

01/07/2008 BY FAX/HAND

Y.A.B,

Re: 1) Only one Indian out of 400(1%) of the recent Inland Revenue

recruitment.

2) Race Relation Act Commission and Equal Opportunities Commission

proposal.

3) Only one Indian out of 161 PSD scholars secured a medical seat (NST

13/6/08 Pg 4 and 23/6/08 Pg 25)

We refer to the above matter and wish to register our protest that Indians are still being rejected for civil service jobs. The Inland Revenue Board for instance in the NST news report dated 23/6/08 at Page 25 that "fewer Indians applying for posts at Inland Revenue Board". This has been the excuse given over the last 50 years since independence for rejecting Indian applicants to civil service jobs.

The government to show sincerity must also start advertising for these jobs in all the three Tamil news papers and also the Finance Ministry and Public Services Department website. All the applicants names must then be put up in the Finance Ministry and the Public Service Department web site. Similarly the names and the positions applied by the successful applicants and the rejected applicants with their grades, qualifications etc must also be published in these web sites. This would show transparency and accountability which the current generation of Indians would expect otherwise we would no longer accept the standard form replies by the government that "there were no Indian applicants, Indians not interested etc.

The same practices of transparency and accountability should also apply for business license applications, PSD scholarships for local and overseas students, public university places, critical courses at public universities e.g. for medicine, engineering, biotechnology, pharmacy, dentistry etc with their grades and the rejected list with their grades, taxi permits, lorry permits, small and medium scale Industry loans, contracts, business opportunities etc. The people power movement "Makkal Sakthi" no longer accepts the standard excuses that the government policies are good but only that it’s implementation is weak which has been dished out year in and year out over the last 50 years.

We hereby call upon the end of racism and racial discrimination by the Malaysian government. To this effect we propose the formation of a serious and powerful Race Relations Commission and an Equal Opportunities Commission with unlimited funding, full investigative and prosecution powers and completely independent, which would deal with all cases of racial and religious discrimination and all cases of unequal treatment and unequal opportunities.

We have had enough of and grown tired of UMNO using the MIC to address the critical Indian issues which we have high lighted to your goodselves before on a piece meal and case by case base. We want a wholesome solution to these critical Indian problems which would reflect UMNO’s sincerity and credibility.

Thank you,

Yours faithfully,

…………………………….

P. Waytha Moorthy

(Chairman)