Congrats!
Org Asli kid did not do well in school won't have chance to enter university.
Rich kids got lots of tuition can enjoy state university

Rich gets rich, poor gets tax and debt.

Why Sarawak untrustworthy?
Good thing is talents will get university education.
But to blame tree people for living in tree then when they get subsidy, then you dont complaint bcos rich kids already got subsidized uni edu.

if rich kid is dumb then the scores will show as low, so how 'those dumbfuck rick kids will even get free tertiary education" ?

Acknowledge what you have said and experience.
Now he announce a reform into meritocracy system for Sarawak.
You don't agree with existing system but you don't support reform either?

Money being songlap while the people remains poor after 60 years of tongkat + mismanagement by incompetent leaders, so let's continue with that til the country collapse n rot. Meanwhile SG practices meritocracy n prosper to become one of the richest DEVELOPED country.

If "dumbfuck rich kid" gets 7A1s, then is he still dumb?

What kind of leeway and how much?

To blanket say all rural kids cannot succeed academically is also wrong.

Are those the exceptions or are those the norm?

You want to cherry pick those rare anecdotal stories, then how also we can argue till the cows come home.

Then how else to objectively benchmark who is smart or dumb, and whether they deserve a place in university?

What if the rich kid scores 3As, the poor kid scores 7A1s but the poor kid cannot enter u but the rich kid can,  because of quota system?

You have your point, but you are assuming only bumi students are poor and require quota to give them a leg up. Many non bumis are also too poor to enrol in private tertiary institutions if they can't enrol in public u.

Ask yourself: with quota in place, how many rural bumis still miss out on tertiary education? Using your reasoning (quota helps rural poor bumi), we should expect many rural poor bumi to be studying in university, kan? Is this the reality, especially among bumi orang Asli?

At least they don't use degrading terms like "tree-people" like yourself, give you unlimited education also no use.
Education, regardless meritocracy or not, should be made available to everyone.

It's a basic human rights. If they are really not achieving, what makes you think that they are eligible for university?

It states FREE EDUCATION FOR ALL, they did not say FREE EDUCATION COMPULSORY ENROLLMENT FOR ALL, there's a difference.
Provide education for slow learners is entirely okay, if the achievers are prioritized as per the meritocracy. If after priority still got space, why not?
Your opinion, heavily plagued with assumptions. Seems that education too, has failed you.

I too, can assume that you are just another keyboard warrior that have so much opinion on what others do, but does not contribute significantly towards your own local community.

Also while at it I might also add, enjoying aircond and does not know the hardships of walking through jungle and crossing river just to get education and then - get labelled by some forumer as "tree people" or even "dumb fuck".

Based on meritocracy, both equally deserve a spot. You cannot punish the urban kid for being born in that family, and vice versa.

That's meritocracy.