Editing Bumiputera (Malaysia) (section)

== Present condition of the bumiputera ==
In 2006, the Minister of Higher Education, Mustapa Mohamad, stated that he wanted public universities to recruit more non-bumiputera academic staff to "strive for world-class institutions", which may have signaled a move toward less racial discrimination in academia. However this does not affect entry into universities, which is still designed to restrict other races access to higher education in favour of the bumiputera.<ref>{{cite web |last=Goh |first=Leanne |url=http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2006/8/30/nation/15280966&sec=nation |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071023222954/http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=%2F2006%2F8%2F30%2Fnation%2F15280966&sec=nation |url-status=dead |archive-date=23 October 2007 |title=Archives &#124; The Star Online |publisher=Thestar.com.my |date=30 August 2006 |access-date=6 February 2014  }}</ref>

The manufacturing sector is exempted from the Foreign Investment Committee (FIC) Guidelines and the mandatory 30% Bumiputera equity and restrictions in market entry have been removed for all (manufacturing) sub-sectors.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.apec.org.au/amfta-Mansurpaper.pdf |title=amfta-Mansurpapar |access-date=6 February 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121030162537/http://www.apec.org.au/amfta-Mansurpaper.pdf |archive-date=30 October 2012  }}</ref>