Malays can rule on their own without sharing power with Chinese
Helen Ang
Below is the population chart of Malaysia based on our 2010 national census.
The three biggest states in the peninsula, going by the number of people, are Selangor, Johor and Perak.
In Selangor, the bumiputera population is 57.1 percent, in Johor it is 58.9 percent and in Perak 57.0 percent.
Source: Department of Statistics
They are Malay states
The smaller states are not multiracial.
The bumiputera population in Terengganu, for example, is 97.0%. The Department of Statistics unfortunately (or deliberately) gives the ethnic breakdown as “bumiputera” and not as “Malay”. But in reality, the orang asli pribumi are so small in number as to be negligible.
In 2003, the orang asli were a mere 0.6 per cent of the national population and numbering 147,412 individuals, according to the Center for Orang Asli Concerns.
Hence to all intents and purpose, ‘bumiputera’ in the peninsula refers to the Malays although a handful of Malaysians of Thai descent may be included in the bumiputera headcount. (I’m not sure whether mamaks were enumerated by the Stats Dept as ‘bumiputera’ but in any case, they are members of Umno – the United MALAYS National Organization).
So, we have:
Terengganu – 97.0 percent Malay
Kelantan – 95.7 percent Malay
Perlis – 88.4 percent Malay
Pahang – 79.0 percent Malay
Kedah – 77.9 percent Malay
Half of the peninsula are Malay states. If you lived in Kelantan, Terengganu or Perlis, you are ruled by a Malay government. This is the fact on the ground that cannot be negated by any amount of “political correctness”, i.e. the word “Malay” not allowed to be mentioned or else you’ll upset the Dapsters.
The same ‘Malay government’ situation is largely true for Pahang and Kedah too.
The only two states where the Malays are not an outright majority, i.e. not above 50 percent, are Penang (43.6 Malay) and the Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur (45.9 percent bumiputera). Only in tiny Penang and compact KL – please look at their sizes in the map above – can one escape from Malay rule … for the time being, at least.
