Teresa Kok

Minister of PM’s Department Dato’ Mustafa Mohamed replied my criticism on the training of Biro Tatanegara in Dewan Rakyat today. He said the curriculum of the courses of Biro Tatanegara are mainly on social contract, history of independence, loyalty to the country etc. He said more than 10 millions of people have attended the course and 7% of the participants are non-Malays. He said most of the participants of the course are happy with the course.

I replied him that if the courses by Biro Tatanegara is so great, why does the government only focus to the Malays as 93% of the participants are Malays, why doesn’t the government open the courses to all races, like national service? I said if all lecturers are Malays and 93% of the students are Malays, then there will be a tendency that lecturers of the courses will spread racist and religious extremist teaching. I also asked the Minister to allow we MPs to attend the courses by Biro Tatanegara, so that we can ascertain whether the courses by that bureau racist or not.

Mustafa replied that the government will consider the suggestions.