{"id":23567,"date":"2018-12-20T13:36:15","date_gmt":"2018-12-20T05:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/?p=23567"},"modified":"2018-12-20T21:35:12","modified_gmt":"2018-12-20T13:35:12","slug":"pm-should-seriously-consider-to-appoint-a-new-education-minister-michael-tiang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/?p=23567","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;PM should seriously consider to appoint a new education minister!&#8221; Michael Tiang"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In response to Education Minister Maszlee Malik\u2019s recent statement in Parliament appealing to Islamic religious teachers from Kelantan, Terengganu and Kedah who are teaching in Sabah and Sarawak not to return to Peninsular Malaya, but urging them to stay in East Malaysia and make Sabah and Sarawak their Islamic propagation field (\u201cmedan Dakwah\u201d), Sarawak United Peoples\u2019 Party (SUPP) Youth Central Chairman Michael Tiang has made his comment in a press release today.<\/p>\n<p>After being appointed as Minister of Education, Dr Maszlee Malik has repeatedly thrown out policy statements that shocked the public, such as the implementation of the black shoes and black socks in schools, encouraging students to use the hotel pool for swimming lessons, and even believe that recognising the Unified Examination Certificate (UEC) of Chinese independent secondary schools would affect the unity and harmony among Malaysians, and most recently, he requested publicly in Parliament the Islamic religious teachers from Kelantan, Terengganu and Kedah to stay back in Sarawak to render their services and make Sarawak a \u2018medan dakwah\u2019. Tiang criticized Maszlee for failing to deliver the duty as the Education Minister to bring forth reforms to national education structures and to resolve dilapidated schools issues; instead, being an education minster Maszlee focused on propagating Islamization!<\/p>\n<p>Although Islam is the official religion for the Federation of Malaysia, Sarawak does not have any official religion. Sarawak has been advocating religious freedom since 1841 whereas the religions practiced by all ethnic groups had been, are presently and will be ensured of developing and growth.<\/p>\n<p>This was the very reason why the late chief minister Tan Sri Adenan\u00a0 Satem insisted 99% teachers in Sarawak must be of local Sarawakians. After all, only Sarawakians can truly comprehend Sarawak\u2019s social culture and promote Sarawak\u2019s educational model according to Sarawakians\u2019 aspiration.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am worried about the current development of our national education. The Education Minister Maszlee\u2019s remarks in Parliament on the 11th of this month to urge the religious teachers to turn Sarawak and Sabah into their Islamic propagation field was absolutely outrageous! This shows the Minister cannot grasp the East Malaysia cultures and sentiment, and worse still, the Minister failed to respect Sarawakians\u2019 emphasis on religious freedom. He even attempted to disturb the same!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom Mr. Malik\u2019s performance and remarks in the past few months, especially in respect of Sarawak\u2019s educational needs, Maszlee is incompetent and unfit to serve as Education Minister for all. Therefore, I appeal to Prime Minister Tun Mahathir to remove Maszlee from his office and replace with a more capable and mature Education Minister!<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt the same time, I am also very puzzled as to the silence among our 12 fellow Sarawakians MP from PH. When Maszlee put forward the &#8220;medan dakwah&#8221; remarks in the Parliament, where were the challenge from the 12? It\u2019s been more than a week since the speech was publicized, the leaders from Pakatan Harapan (PH) Sarawak, especially DAP remain silent inside and outside parliament. How can they represent Sarawak in defending Sarawak\u2019s rights and interests?<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_23568\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23568\" style=\"width: 261px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_2178.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-23568\" alt=\"Tiang\" src=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_2178-261x300.jpg\" width=\"261\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_2178-261x300.jpg 261w, http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_2178.jpg 891w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 261px) 100vw, 261px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-23568\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tiang<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In response to Education Minister Maszlee Malik\u2019s recent statement in Parliament appealing to Islamic religious teachers from Kelantan, Terengganu and Kedah who are teaching in Sabah and Sarawak not to return to Peninsular Malaya, but urging them to stay in East Malaysia and make Sabah and Sarawak their Islamic propagation field (\u201cmedan Dakwah\u201d), Sarawak United Peoples\u2019 Party (SUPP) Youth Central Chairman Michael Tiang has made his comment in a press release today. After being appointed as Minister of Education, Dr Maszlee Malik has repeatedly thrown out policy statements that shocked<a href=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/?p=23567\" class=\"read-more\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23568,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23567"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23567"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23569,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23567\/revisions\/23569"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}