SDNU to help Dayak youths register with PSC
KUCHING: Sarawak Dayak National Union (SDNU) will continue to organise outreach programmes in its bid to increase the involvement of Dayak communities in the federal civil service.
Its vice-president Anthony Banyan said the union would embark on a series of roadshows throughout the state to provide consultation and help Dayak job seekers, in particular the rural youths, to register with the Public Services Commission (PSC).
He said SDNU would also provide guidance and tips to interested individuals on preparation for a job interview not only with the PSC but other government bodies such as the Education Services Commission (SPP), Police Commission, Armed Forces Council, state civil service and the private sector.
Anthony made this disclosure in light of the reply by Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Datuk Joseph Entulu Belaun to a question raised by Hulu Rajang MP Wilson Ugak Kumbong in Parliament on Tuesday.
Ugak had enquired the number of successful applicants in the federal civil service in 2014 and the breakdown for each ethnic race in Sabah and Sarawak.
In his reply, Entulu said a total of 37,707 applicants were recruited through PSC with the following breakdown: Malays (28,268), Chinese (2,545), Indian (1,963), Dusun ( 945), Iban ( 915), Bidayuh ( 526), Bajau (476), Kadazan (447), Melanau ( 287), Murut (107), Bisaya (107), Orang Ulu ( 90), Rungus ( 87), Suluk ( 68) and
SDNU would like to express its gratitude to the commission especially its chairman Tan Sri Mahmood Adam who has broadened the opportunities for the Dayaks to secure jobs in the federal civil service sector. We are calling on all employment commission of government agencies to emulate PSC in giving the Dayak people similar opportunities.
Datuk Joseph Entulu Belaun, Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department
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Of the other successful applicants, he said 23 were individuals from Sabah and eight from Sarawak classified as other Bumiputera ethnics while 228 were from the Orang Asli community in the peninsula and 583 were classified as ‘other races’.
At the same time, Entulu highlighted that PSC gave priority to applicants from Sarawak and Sabah to fill up openings in their respective states besides encouraging these applicants to take up jobs in other parts of the country.
“SDNU would like to express its gratitude to the commission especially its chairman Tan Sri Mahmood Adam who has broadened the opportunities for the Dayaks to secure jobs in the federal civil service sector. We are calling on all employment commission of government agencies to emulate PSC in giving the Dayak people similar opportunities,” he told The Borneo Post when contacted yesterday.
He urged all Dayak- based nongovernmental organisations ( NGOs) to continue helping native youths to be prepared and equipped for job interviews.
Sarawak Dayak Graduates Association (SDGA) president Dr Dusit Jaul applauded the government for its transparency on this issue, although suggesting that the recruitment figure was still “at an unsatisfactory level”.
“Arising from this, need we blame the Dayak community for their general perception that they have been looked over when it comes to recruitment into the federal civil service? Unhappiness bordering on anger seems to be the pulse of the community every time this issue is being raised,” he asked.
Meanwhile, according to PSC statistics for 2012, out of 44,243 applications, 2,717 Bumiputera natives in the state were absorbed into the federal civil service – Iban (1,036 successful applicants out of 27,155), Bidayuh ( 668 out of 12,896), Orang Ulu (100 out of 3,183) and other indigenous Bumiputera ethnics ( 913 successful candidates out of 1,009).
The following year a total of 3,690 individuals were recruited out of 91,031 applications: Iban (1,105 out of 57,144 applicants), Bidayuh (644 out of 24,942), Orang Ulu (103 out of 5,967) and other indigenous Bumiputra ethnics (1,838 out of 2,978 applications).