ethnic-Malay civil servants. “People always criticise us for hiring only those from one race to work in the service but it is not true. The percentage of non-Bumiputeras hired by the Public Service Commission has increased in the past few years,” he stated. According to Murugiah 58.2% of the 1,559 Chinese applicants interviewed as of 15 June 2010 have been hired and that the number of Chinese employed in 2010 shows an increase of 9 percent over 2008. 1,833 ethnic Indians were interviewed as of 15 June 2010 and 42.7% of them hired. In 2008 6,106 ethnic Indians were interviewed of which 38.8 percent were hired.“There is no bias there. All races are given opportunity for top management positions. There is no quota system,” added Murugiah. Criticisms and reforms Malaysia has the highest Malay ethnic in the civil service, partly also due to the large Malay ethnic group in Malaysia, which consists of about 50.4 percent of the population. However, if the Malays and the other indigenous people (Bumiputera) are taken together, they compose about 67 percent of the population in Malaysia. Consequently, the Prime Minister, Najib Tun Razak has been trying to be open on the issue, and henceforth, increase the intake of other races, such as, the Indians, and Chinese into the civil service, with the latest, is the appointment of the Minister of Human Resources, Subramaniam Sathasivam, an Indian. Najib Tun Razak has been one of the more open leader to welcome the concept of pluralism in his cabinet, and also in promoting the 1Malaysia concept. Henceforth, among other cabinet Ministers are the Health Minister, Liow Tiong Lai, Minister of Tourism, Ng Yen Yen, Minister of Energy, Green Technology and Water, Peter Chin Fah Kui, Minister of Transport, Kong Cho Ha, Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation, Maximus Ongkili, Minister of Natural Resources and Environment, Douglas Uggah Embas, Minister of Plantation Industries and Commodities, Bernard Dompok, and others. However, oppositions of the government claimed that the number of civil servants, of other denominations, are still lacking in numbers, henceforth suggesting the number to be increase in a more fair and open system, one such source, is the WikiLeaks that appeared in Malaysia Today on 6 June had the cable further quoting K. Govindan, who was the former Economic Planning Unit, deputy director-general, opinion that the Malaysian civil service adopts 'a narrow worldview and will oppose, even refuse