Integrated Industrial Training Programme (PLIP) II Paved Opportunities for Bumiputeras

Kangar, August 22, 2016 - Bumiputera students placement opportunities in business or industries pioneered by non-Bumiputeras is made easier through the Integrated Industrial Training Programme (PLIP) which has been conducted for the second series, said Director of Social and National Integration (JPNIN) Prime Minister's Office (JPM), Suraya Wen.

She is confident the cooperation will give opportunity to more students, especially Bumiputera to participate in this program.

"The Associated Chinese Chambers of Commerce and Industry of Malaysia (ACCCIM) and Malaysian Retail Chain Association (MRCA) provides industrial training placement to Bumiputera students from Higher Learning Institutions (IPT) that are involved," she said in a speech during the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP); National Unity and Integration Department (JPNIN), Prime Minister's Office (PMO); The Associated Chinese Chambers of Commerce and Industry of Malaysia (ACCCIM); and Malaysian Retail Chain Association (MRCA) at Tuanku Syed Faizuddin Putra Library Auditorium (PTSFP), UniMAP Pauh Putra Campus, recently.

She added that such initiatives will strengthen the ties of unity between Bumiputera students with non-Bumiputera employers and co-workers to enhance interacial unity  and cooperation.

"This is very important in strengthening the bonds of interacial relations in this country for future generation.

"The initiative has a continuity potential of five years with a target that 5000 students will join the program starting in 2016 until 2020 guided by the second thrust in RMK-11 which is to improve the people's welfare," she added.

Also present at the ceremony are the Vice Chancellor of UniMAP, Dato 'Prof. Dr. Zul Azhar Zahid Jamal; ACCCIM president, Datuk Ter Leong Yap; Deputy Treasurer for ACCIM, and Chairman of the National Unity Committee, Dato 'Tan Tian Meng; and the Deputy Secretary-General of the MRCA, Dato 'Bruce Lim Aun Chong.

For the record, since PLIP was organized in the end of 2014, eight universities have signed MoUs with ACCIM and MRCA. University of Malaya (UM) and Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM) signed their MoU on 26th November 2014 while Universiti Utara Malaysia (UUM), Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM), Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM), International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM) and Universiti Kuala Lumpur (UniKL) Sepang signed their MoU on 18th May 2016 and the latest MoU signing is UniMAP on 20th August 2016.

ACCIM is joined by 28 thousand sectors of businesses in various fields while MRCA also has a membership of over 200 large companies consisting of ten thousand business network and the majority are non-Bumiputera companies operating across the country.