SUPP Youth publicity secretary Milton Foo today advised Wong Wang Yuen, 31, to submit her application to be a mathematics teacher to the Education Service Commission under the Federal Service Commission.
“If she approaches us, we are ready to help her by directing her application to the right channel,” he said at a press conference at the party’s headquarters here today. “We at SUPP are ready to assist her in applying to become a maths teacher in Sarawak.”
Present were SUPP youth chief Tan Kai and the party’s public complaints bureau chief Wilfred Yap.
Wong, a mathematics graduate, had applied to become a teacher through the e-recruitment system. Last month, her application was rejected by the Islamic department because it did not meet its “filtering criteria”.
State DAP leader Chong Chieng Jen has since taken up the case and called on Chief Minister Abang Johari Openg to clarify whether the religious department had been given the authority to vet and reject non-Muslim applicants for teaching positions.
Foo claimed the DAP is not equipped to handle such cases.
He said Wong might have erroneously applied through the e-recruitment website, which is for the state civil service and not for teaching positions.
“For an MP and assemblyman of over 10 years, Chong is either ignorant of the procedure in the application process and therefore has failed to do his homework, or he is just making use of Wong’s case for his own publicity and is not sincere in helping the desperate,” Foo said.
“Chong is once again reminded that he is taking a double salary from the people as an MP and state representative and thus, he has the utmost duty and obligation to verify his facts before going to the press.”
Foo said DAP should have assisted Wong by ensuring her job application went through the proper channels before approaching the media and “making an issue out of it.”
“As responsible elected representatives, it is unbefitting to make the people’s pain and suffering one’s own political propaganda.”
Wong graduated in 2013 with a Master’s degree, specialising in mathematics education from the Sultan Idris Education University.
Yesterday, state education minister Fatimah Abdullah said Wong had mistakenly submitted her online application for a job advertised by the Sarawak Islamic Department, which Chong denied today in a statement.