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Sunday, July 14, 2013

Making Titas compulsory akin to indoctrination, say NGOs



A coalition of NGOs has described the government's plan to make Islamic and Asian Civilisation Studies (Titas) subject compulsory for local students in private universities as an attempt at indoctrination.

"We believe that this policy is effectively an attempt at indoctrination targeting all new students," said the Eight Major Chinese Youth-based Organisations (Emco), Buddhist Research Society of Malaysia (BRSM) and Buddhist Missionary Society Malaysia (BMSM) in a joint statement today.

Emco is comprised of the Young Buddhist Association of Malaysia, Malaysia Christian Youth Association, United Youth Movement of Malaysia, Malaysia Entrepreneurs' Development Association, Malaysian Young Graduates Association, the Federation of Clans and Guilds Youth Association of Malaysia, Junior Chambers International Malaysia and Young Malaysians Movement.

Young Buddhist Association of Malaysia secretary-general Wong Sook Kim who spoke for the groups said the move violated the federal constitution which guarantees the right to profess and practice one's own religion and prohibits the indoctrination of a religion that is not professed by one.

"We do not agree to the proposal for any religious instruction or religious civilisation studies to be made a compulsory subject in tertiary education. We believe that enforcement of this misguided policy will have negative repercussions.

"Therefore, we urge the government to seriously re-examine and review the issue to ensure greater objectivity and to respect the principles of academic freedom in tertiary institutions," he said.

Wong said the government should abandon its "narrow and sectarian" approach to education and respect the ethnic and religious diversity in Malaysia.

"In planning subjects related to religious civilisation, due consideration must be given to the history of major religions, their doctrines and the impact of religion on the development of civilisation.

"The design of the syllabus should not give prominence to any single religious teaching," he said.

Wong said subjects on different religious civilisations can be made as elective subjects, available to all students who are interested in it.

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