Do we really have OneMalaysia or two Malaysias – one for the rich and the other for the lower-income group. Here’s something I wrote for Aliran:

The Najib administration has touted its One Malaysia slogan in the weeks leading up to the Merdeka and Malaysia Day celebrations.

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According to the latest household income survey, the following are the percentages of families in the various monthly household income brackets.

Household monthly
Percentage
income range
of families



< RM 1000
8.6



RM 1001 – 2000
29.4



RM 2001 – 3000
19.8



RM 3001 – 4000
12.9



RM 4001 – 5000
8.6



RM 5001 – 10,000
15.8



> RM 10,000
4.9





100.0
Source: Figures presented by Senator Amirsham A Aziz, Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department, in response to a query in Parliament by Dr Jeyakumar Devaraj, MP for Sungai Siput

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