Conflict Management Between Ethnic and Minority Population: Policy and Administrative Practices of a Country in General

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GXEX 1411 HUBUNGAN ETNIK PENGURUSAN KONFLIK ANTARA ETNIK DAN PENDUDUK MINORITI DAN AMALAN PENTADBIRAN NEGARA SECARA UMUM Conflict Management between ethnic and minority population: policy and administrative practices of a country in general 1. Summary In a multiracial country, both explicit and implicit conflicts are inevitable. Conflict is a process whereby an individual voice out the differences of beliefs, ideas and desires. Conflict will give rise to misunderstanding, prejudice, resentment and death and yet if well managed, it will benefit the country. The objective of this article is to study the existence of a conflict in a nation, particularly a multiracial nation and to study the internal policy in administrating a country to see whether it is positive or negative when facing the various ethnics and the minority. Conflict can be overcome through implementation of law, negotiation, fulfilling the demands, power sharing or division of authority. But every country required different strategy, so the authority needs to consider the cultural background, ideology and the vicinity of every ethnic in order to deal with the conflict between ethnics and the minority. 2. Opinion Differences between ethnic conflict and demand of the minority population The author claimed that the minority is often linked with less superior compared to the majority. This is not true. Take Malaysia for example, the Malay are linked with friendliness, the Chinese with mathematic skill and the Indian with their intelligent. Also, the majority never claim themselves as the dominant. It is true that they wanted to maintain their right and benefit so their status is unaffected, but this is due to the belief that they originated from this land, and they deserve such treatment. Seeing that the majority has special right toward certain issue, the minority started to demand for

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