Category: Education

DAP calls for a policy of at least one university in the each State to solve the triple problem of higher education demand of Malaysians, the $5.8 billion Balance of Payments deficit and racial polarisation in Malaysia.

Speech by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Kota Melaka, Lim Kit Siang, at the Official Opening of the new DAP National Building at Cheras, Kuala Lumpur, on Saturday, 14th July at 10a.m.

DAP calls for a policy of at least one university in the each State to solve the triple problem of higher education demand of Malaysians, the $5.8 billion Balance of Payments deficit and racial polarisation in Malaysia.

A week ago, the Finance Minister Tengku Razaleigh, called for a national campaign to get every Malaysian to play a part in helping reduce the country’s balance of payments deficit, estimated this year to total $4.8 billion. Continue reading DAP calls for a policy of at least one university in the each State to solve the triple problem of higher education demand of Malaysians, the $5.8 billion Balance of Payments deficit and racial polarisation in Malaysia.

DAP calls for the establishment of a University in Malacca

Speech by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Kota Melaka, Lim Kit Siang, at the Malacca DAP State Convention 1984 held at Malacca DAP State Premises, Jalan Kilang, on Sunday, 24.6.1984

DAP calls for the establishment of a University in Malacca, and for a 1990-objective of one-university for every State
In justifying the 70 million people new population policy of the government as announced in the mid-term review of the Fourth Malaysia Plan, the Minister of Information, Datuk Seri Adib Adam, said that the nation’s most important asset is its people and its natural resources.

He said that the people, particularly Malays, need not be concerned by the population increase as it was the key to solving problems like poverty and shortage of quality of labour. Continue reading DAP calls for the establishment of a University in Malacca

DAP calls on the Police to explain the outcome of its inquiry into the SPTM exam papers leakage

By parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Kota Melaka, Lim Kit Siang, in Petaling Jaya on Saturday, 23.6.1984:

DAP calls on the Police to explain the outcome of its inquiry into the SPTM exam papers leakage

With the unsatisfactory outcome from the inquiry report of the Malaysian Examinations Council into the 1983 STPM exam papers leakage, the time has come for the Police now to make public the result of its separate investigations into the crime. Continue reading DAP calls on the Police to explain the outcome of its inquiry into the SPTM exam papers leakage

Is the STPM exam papers leakage another BMF scandal where a ‘heinous crime’ has no criminals?

By Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Kota Melaka, Lim Kit Siang, in Petaling Jaya on Friday, June 22, 1984:

Is the STPM exam papers leakage another BMF scandal where a ‘heinous crime’ has no criminals?

While welcoming the Ministry of Education and the Malaysian Examinations Council for making public the inquiry report into the 1983 STPM examinations papers leakage, the findings must have left the majority of Malaysian unsatisfied and unhappy. Continue reading Is the STPM exam papers leakage another BMF scandal where a ‘heinous crime’ has no criminals?

All on Dr. Tan Tiong Hong to explain why action has been taken against the KL teacher who forced students to study Jawi.

By parliamentary Opposition Leader, Dap Secretary-General and MP for Kota Melaka, Lim Kit Siang, in Petaling Jaya on Saturday, 9.6.1984:

All on Dr. Tan Tiong Hong to explain why action has been taken against the KL teacher who forced students to study Jawi.

Following the complaint in the News Straits Times Actionline of 31.5.1984 that a non-Malay Std. Four pupil in a school in Jalan Peel, Kuala Lumpur, had been forced to learn Jawi, and the comment by the Deputy Director of Education in FT, Zainal Abidin Haji Bahaudin that Jawi was now a compulsory subject for all pupils as it is part of Bahasa Malaysia subject, the Deputy Education Minister, Dr. Tan Tiong Hong and the Director-General of Education, Tan Sri Murad Mohd. Noor, had both come out with public denials. Continue reading All on Dr. Tan Tiong Hong to explain why action has been taken against the KL teacher who forced students to study Jawi.

The STPM exam leak report scandal: Is there a report or no report?

by Parliament Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Kota Melaka, Lim Kiat Siang, in Petaling Jaya on Friday, June 8, 1984 :

The STPM exam leak report scandal: Is there a report or no report?

The Ministry of Education statement in today’s press that the Minister of Education, Datuk Dr. Sulaiman Daud, had not yet received the STPM examination papers leakage inquiry report from the Malaysian Examinations Council has introduced a disturbing air of mystery to the inquiry and its report. Continue reading The STPM exam leak report scandal: Is there a report or no report?

DAP calls for removal of Jawi from the Bahasa Malaysia syllabus and be categorised as one of the optional ‘Pupil’s Own Language’ subjects

By parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Kota Melaka, Lim Kit Siang, in Petaling Jaya on Saturday, 2.6.1984:

DAP calls for removal of Jawi from the Bahasa Malaysia syllabus and be categorised as one of the optional ‘Pupil’s Own Language’ subjects

The handing of the ‘Jawi compulsory subject’ issue seems to confirm a pattern of the modus operandi of the Deputy Minister of Education, Dr. Tan Tiong Hong, which is to use denial as a delaying tactic to evade his responsibility over educational issues at least until he had left the Education Ministry when he would have no more responsibility. Continue reading DAP calls for removal of Jawi from the Bahasa Malaysia syllabus and be categorised as one of the optional ‘Pupil’s Own Language’ subjects

Education Ministry’s regulation that Jawi is a compulsory subject violates Article 152 of Malaysian Constitution

Speech by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and Mp for Kota Melaka, Lim Kit Siang, at the Selangor State DAP Committee meeting on Friday, 1.6.1984 at 8 pm

Education Ministry’s regulation that Jawi is a compulsory subject violates Article 152 of Malaysian Constitution

On 26th Feb.1984, when opening the Penang DAP State Seminar on Malaysian Culture, I stated for the first time that there was proposal, in conformity with the ‘One Language, One Culture’ policy proclaimed after the Barisan Nasional’s April 1982 general elections victory, to make Jawi a compulsory subject for all pupils, including Chinese and Tamil primary schools. Continue reading Education Ministry’s regulation that Jawi is a compulsory subject violates Article 152 of Malaysian Constitution

Malaysian Chinese must understand the real nature of the problem of National Culture Policy if they are to influence it instead of engaging in ‘the last gasps of opposition’

Speech by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Kota Melaka, Lim Kit Siang, at the Penang State DAP Seminar on Culture held in Penang on Sunday, 26.2.1984 at 10 a.m.

Malaysian Chinese must understand the real nature of the problem of National Culture Policy if they are to influence it instead of engaging in ‘the last gasps of opposition’

The year 1984 started with three uncompromising pronouncements on culture by three UMNO leaders, who made it very clear that there was nothing more to discuss or debate as far as the National Culture Policy is concerned. Continue reading Malaysian Chinese must understand the real nature of the problem of National Culture Policy if they are to influence it instead of engaging in ‘the last gasps of opposition’

BMF Scandal- ‘Let the chips fall where they should’

The Finance Minister’s 1984 Budget would probably go down in Malaysian history as the Budget which commanded the shortest span of public attention. It is not even a nine-day wonder, for after one’s day’s publicity, the Malaysian public returned to the greater preoccupation about the $2,500 million loans scandal of Bumiputra Malaysia Finance in Hong Kong, the biggest banking and financial scandal in the history of Malaysia since Merdeka.

I believe I am not the only one to be very disappointed by the failure of the Finance Minister. Tengku Razaleigh, to take the opportunity of the 1984 Budget presentation to make disclosures, either through his orang presentation or by way of an appendix to the Treasury report 1983/84, about the BMF scandal in Hong Kong in view of the colossal sum of public funds involved. Continue reading BMF Scandal- ‘Let the chips fall where they should’