Social Development Strategies - Iskandar Malaysia

SECTION A
FRAMEWORK FOR COMPREHENSIVE DEVELOPMENT
Table 5.2 (continued): Occupational Categories of Various Racial Groups by Major Selected Industry Types in SJER, 2006
Designation
Managers
Engineers
Other
professionals
Technicians
Supervisor and
Clerical
Officers
Skilled workers
Semi skilled
workers
Unskilled
workers
General
Workers
Malaysian
FOOD
Foreigners
Total
Row%
Bumiputera
Non-
Bumiputera
Bumiputera
Malaysian
Non-
Bumiputera
CHEMICAL
Foreigners
Total
Row%
Row % 44.4 50.00 5.60 100.00 5.56 88.89 5.56 100.00
Column % 15.1 22.00 16.70 2.50 29.09 6.25
Row % 50.0 50.00 0.00 100.00 63.64 27.27 9.09 100.00
Column % 1.90 2.40 0.00 17.50 5.45 6.25
Row % 50.0 50.00 0.00 100.00 16.67 83.33 - 100.00
Column % 7.50 9.80 0.00 2.50 9.09 -
Row % 66.70 33.30 0.00 100.00 61.54 38.46 - 100.00
Column % 11.30 7.30 0.00 20.00 9.09 -
Row % 57.90 42.10 0.00 100.00 45.00 50.00 5.00 100.00
Column % 20.80 19.50 0.00 22.50 18.18 6.25
Row % 61.50 38.50 0.00 100.00 27.78 50.00 22.22 100.00
Column % 15.10 12.20 0.00 12.50 16.36 25.00
Row % 70.00 30.00 0.00 100.00 57.14 28.57 14.29 100.00
Column % 13.20 7.30 0.00 10.00 3.64 6.25
Row % 20.00 40.00 40.00 100.00 50.00 12.50 37.50 100.00
Column % 1.90 4.90 33.30 10.00 1.82 18.75
Row% 43.80 37.50 18.70 100.00 10.00 40.00 50.00 100.00
Column % 13.20 14.60 50.0 2.5 7.23 31.25
Source : Industrial Surveys,
2006 for the SJER
Development
Master Plan Study
Total Column % 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00
5.5 The Major Strategic Social Development Thrusts
The following Strategic Social Development Thrusts (SSDT) are proposed.
Various initiatives under these thrusts are detailed out in Section B, Part
2, Chapter 8, Social Development Initiatives of the CDP.
SSDT 1: Enhance coordination and cohesion of all government and
non-government agencies involved in social development
SSDT 2: Build social capital as the basis for social cohesion and
intergration
SSDT 4: Adopt and implement a regional and physical development
strategies that will result in the increase in the value of Bumiputera land
and also bring other benefits.
SSDT 5: Promote more mutual funds to spread benefit of the increase in
property and rental values to Bumiputera and to take out the allocated
new property units not taken up by Bumiputeras.
SSDT 6: Enhance and upgrade education and training programme
at all level of skills and with the cluster associations identify critical skill
categories for SJER development.
SSDT 3: Enhance ability of individual Bumiputera and privately owned
Bumiputera companies especially SMEs to acquire landed properties
and enhance their property portfolio by leveraging and participating in
the capital gain.
SSDT 7: Enhance cluster linkages among major public and private sector
corporations and research institutions with Bumiputera companies
especially SMEs.
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