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KARYAWAN<br />
ISSUES<br />
DIVERSITY AND REPRESENTATION<br />
Photo: © Singapore Press Holdings Limited. Reprinted with permission.<br />
In 2003, in a speech he made during a<br />
parliamentary session, Member <strong>of</strong> Parliament<br />
K Shanmugam suggested a helping hand<br />
to assist the Malay <strong>community</strong> to produce<br />
more icons <strong>of</strong> success. Six years later and now<br />
Singapore’s Law Minister, Mr Shanmugam sticks<br />
to his proposal for diversity even as he reaffirms<br />
meritocracy as a core principle. We reproduce<br />
excerpts <strong>of</strong> his parliamentary speech in 2003<br />
and a newspaper report in 2009 when he spoke<br />
on the issue.<br />
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I am suggesting that the<br />
principle <strong>of</strong> meritocracy can<br />
be leavened, with<br />
some steps which assist<br />
the Malay <strong>community</strong> to<br />
have its stars.<br />
Assuming 10 people made<br />
the cut-<strong>of</strong>f, try to look for<br />
some who are also from the<br />
Malay <strong>community</strong>.<br />
Source: The Straits Times, 6 July 2009 © Singapore Press Holdings Ltd.<br />
© <strong>Association</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Muslim</strong> Pr<strong>of</strong>essionals. Permission is required for reproduction.
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