No one knows for certain what the percentage of the quotas is in favour of the Bumiputera in the public sector, scholarships and permits or licenses. Is it 50 percent, 70 percent or 95 percent in favour of the Bumiputera?
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Write comment (10 Comments) The definitive term ‘Malay’ is a creation resulting from the birth of a modern nation state. Due to 
Malaya’s sizeable number of non-indigenous citizens, defining the socio-political identity of the majority race becomes most concerned with who the Malays should be.
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Datuk Chander may dispute the alleged 450,000 stateless Indian figure but he concedes that stateless Indians do exist in Malaysia.
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It is incidental that DAP has been restricted in its influence to mainly the non-Malay ground despite numerous outreach attempts to draw Malay participation. The difficulty for DAP is the country’s realpolitik where Malays are more impressed by Umno’s nationalistic approach.
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The Human Rights Party in a 2010 meeting with the National Registration Department had informed the officers that HRP estimated stateless Indians to number 450,000 nationwide. The problem of exclusion is one universally acknowledged to be the source of various social ills in any given society. This reduced Indian participation in Malaysian democracy that arose from the self-serving and myopic policy of the Malaysian elite has far-reaching consequences.
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