Category: Chinese Schools

Press Conference Statement by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Tanjung, Lim Kit Siang, in Parliament House on Thursday, Oct 15, 1987 at 4pm

DAP withdraws form Joint Action Committee of Chinese guilds and associations, and political parties, as the Cabinet Ministerial panel on the Chinese primary schools promotion issue does not satisfy the Tien Hou Temple Resolutions in Kuala Lumpur on Sunday to justify the cancellation of the three-day school boycott.

DAP Central Executive Committee, at an emergency today, decided to withdraw from the Chinese organisation/political parties Joint Action Committee as the Cabinet Ministerial panel set up yesterday on the Chinese primary schools promoting issue does not satisfy the Tien Hou Temple Meeting Resolutions in Kuala Lumpur last Sunday to justify the cancellation of the three-day school boycott of the affected schools. Continue reading DAP withdraws form Joint Action Committee of Chinese guilds and associations, and political parties

By Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Tanjung, Lim Kit Siang, in Parliament on Wednesday, October 14, 1987:

Support for the decision of 28 affected Chinese primary schools in Penang joining the three-day school boycott beginning tomorrow.

DAP welcome and support the decision by the Defend Penang Chinese Schools Action Committee that the 28 affected Chinese primary schools in Penang will join in the three-day nation-wide schools boycott together with 18 other schools in Malacca, Selangor and Federal Territory to protest against the refusal of the government to resolve the issue of promoting non-Chinese educated teacher as assistant headmaster and senior assistants. Continue reading Support for the decision of 28 affected Chinese primary schools in Penang joining the three-day school boycott beginning tomorrow

Speech by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Tanjung, Lim Kit Siang, at the emergency meeting of 24 DAP MPs and DAP Assemblymen from Malacca, Selangor and Penang help at Parliament House on Wednesday, 14.10.1987 at 2 p.m.

Directive to all DAP MPs, Assemblymen and leaders to help ensure that the three-day school boycott in 46 Chinese primary schools is orderly, peaceful and triumph of the democratic right of the parents to protest

At the Tien Hou Temple Chinese organisations/ political parties mass protest meeting in Kuala Lumpur on Sunday against the promotion of non-Chinese educated teachers assistant headmasters and senior assistants of Chinese primary schools, I suggested that the leaders of the three parties, in particular Ministers, Deputy Ministers, Parliamentary Secretaries, MPs and Assemblymen, of MCA, Gerakan and DAP, should visit all the affected schools on boycott to give support and be in the forefront of the protest. Continue reading Directive to all DAP MPs, Assemblymen and leaders to help ensure that the three-day school boycott in 46 Chinese primary schools is orderly, peaceful and triumph of the democratic right of the parents to protest

by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Tanjung, Lim Kit Siang, in Petaling Jaya on Tuesday, 13th October 1987:

Advice to Dr. Lim Keng Yaik to be abide by the resolutions of Tien Hou Temple meeting on the Chinese primary schools promotion issue and not to break ranks to disrupt the unity achieved on the issue

Parti Gerakan President Datuk Dr. Lim Keng Yaik said in Kota Kinabalu yesterday that the Chinese primary schools promotion issue had been blown out of proportion by the MCA and DAP. He said there should be no problem as the matter had been resolved during a Carbinet meeting four week ago. Continue reading Advice to Dr. Lim Keng Yaik to be abide by the resolutions of Tien Hou Temple meeting on the Chinese primary schools promotion issue and not to break ranks to disrupt the unity achieved on the issue

Speech by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Tanjung, Lim Kit Siang, at a meeting of the DAP Parliamentary Group on Chinese Education, Language and Culture held at Parliament House on Tuesday, 13.10.1987 at 3.30 p.m.

Call on MCA, Gerakan, MIC, SUPP and PBS Ministers to table a joint motion in tomorrow Cabinet meeting to transfer out non-Chinese educated teachers who had been promoted to Chinese primary schools to resolve the educational crisis

The country is on the threshold of a grave national educational crisis, with Chinese primary schools affected by the transfer and promotion of non-Chinese educated to begin a three-day school boycott on Thursday if this issue is not resolved by Wednesday tomorrow. If the three-day school boycott by the affected schools is not effective, then it is likely to be followed by a nation-wide boycott of the 1,000 Chinese primary schools in the country. Continue reading Call on MCA, Gerakan, MIC, SUPP and PBS Ministers to table a joint motion in tomorrow Cabinet meeting to transfer out non-Chinese educated teachers who had been promoted to Chinese primary schools to resolve the educational crisis

Speech by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General, MP for Tanjung, Lim Kit Siang, in Dewan Rakyat Monday, 12.10.1987 at 5.30 p.m. on adjournment of House to discuss a definite matter of urgent public importance: the promotion of non- Chinese educated teachers as assistant headmasters and senior assistants in over 50 Chinese primary schools throughout the country

Call on Barisan Nasional Government to honour its general elections pledge to preserve the character if Chinese primary schools by immediately transferring out non-Chinese educated teacher from Chinese primary schools, which will be an important step in restoring confidence in the country

Fourteen months ago, the nation had our seventh general elections, and the Barisan Nasional won with a four-fifth parliamentary majority. Continue reading Call on Barisan Nasional Government to honour its general elections pledge to preserve the character if Chinese primary schools

Speech by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Tanjung, Lim Kit Siang, at the DAP demonstrating outside Penang Education Depart protesting against the promotion of non-Chinese Educated teachers to Chinese primary schools, held on Saturday, Oct. 10, 1987 at 10 a.m.

DAP resolves that Answer Ibrahim and Wong See Chin should resign as Education Minister and Deputy Education Minister respectively for their failure to resolve the issue of promotion of non-Chinese educated teachers to Chinese primary school by yesterday.

The DAP’s two-week deadline for the Education Ministry to resolve the issue of the promotion of non-Chinese educated teachers to become assistant headmasters and senior assistants of Chinese primary schools expire yesterday. Continue reading DAP resolves that Answer Ibrahim and Wong See Chin should resign as Education Minister and Deputy Education Minister respectively for their failure to resolve the issue of promotion of non-Chinese educated teachers to Chinese primary school by yesterday.

By Parliament Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Tanjung, Lim Kit Siang, in Petaling Jaya on Tuesday, 6.10.1987:

Warning to UMNO, whether State or Branch levels, or officials, to stay out of the controversy over Chinese primary schools and not to turn it into a Sino-Malay racial issue.

Malacca UMNO and Kelantan UMNO Youth have come out in support of the Education Minister, Anwar Ibrahim, over his stand on the Education Ministry’s promoting of teachers unversed in Mandarin as assistant headmaster and senior assistants in Chinese primary schools. Continue reading Warning to UMNO, whether State or Branch levels, or officials, to stay out of the controversy over Chinese primary schools and not to turn it into a Sino-Malay racial issue

By Parliament Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Tanjung, Lim Kit Siang, in Petaling Jaya on Monday, Oct. 5, 1987:

MCA and Gerakan should ask for the dismissal of Anwar Ibrahim as Education Minister if he defies the sensitivities of the Chinese community in refusing to budge from the decision to promote those unversed in Mandarin to senior positions in Chinese primary schools.

Education Minister, Anwar Ibrahim, said in Malacca yesterday that the government will stand by its decision to promote non-Chinese educated teachers as headmasters and senior assistant in Chinese primary schools. Continue reading MCA and Gerakan should ask for the dismissal of Anwar Ibrahim as Education Minister if he defies the sensitivities of the Chinese community in refusing to budge from the decision to promote those unversed in Mandarin to senior positions in Chinese primary schools

Speech by parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Tanjung, Lim Kit Siang, at the Selangor DAP State Leadership Training Course held at Taiwan Graduates Alumni Association Hall, Petaling Jaya on Sunday, 4.10.1987 at 10 a.m.

DAP prepared to co-operate fully with MCA provided it adopts a consistent and principle stand in Cabinet, Government and Parliament on the latest threat to the preservation of the character and identity of Chinese primary schools.

MCA President, Datuk Dr. Ling Liong Sik, announced after a five-hour meeting of the MCA Central Committee yesterday, that the MCA cannot accept the promotion of those without Chinese language qualification as headmaster, assistant headmaster or senior assistants in Chinese primary schools, as this will lead to the change in character of Chinese primary schools and violate the Barisan Nasional 1986 general elections manifesto. Continue reading DAP prepared to co-operate fully with MCA provided it adopts a consistent and principle stand in Cabinet, Government and Parliament on the latest threat to the preservation of the character and identity of Chinese primary schools