{"id":6126,"date":"2015-03-29T16:46:46","date_gmt":"2015-03-29T08:46:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/?p=6126"},"modified":"2015-03-29T17:21:47","modified_gmt":"2015-03-29T09:21:47","slug":"united-against-conversion-without-consent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/?p=6126","title":{"rendered":"United against conversion without consent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The three components parties, Sarawak United Peoples\u2019 Party (SUPP), Parti Rakyat Sarawak (PRS) and Sarawak Progressive Democratic Party (SPDP) jointly held a statement urging the Education department to ensure that minors were not converted without the parents consent.<\/p>\n<p>Secretary general of SUPP, Dato\u2019 Sebastian Ting who represent SUPP said they were disturbed by news of a 13 year old who was enticed to convert.<\/p>\n<p>Ting said school is a place for education and the student is only 13 years old. He said at her age, she could not make a decision and has no legal capacity to make that sort of decision. \u201cEven if they express interest in the religion, the teachers should inform the principal as it is the principal\u2019s responsibility where the student is concerned,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Ting said the principal should keep in touch with the student\u2019s parents and not the teachers.<\/p>\n<p>Asking West Malaysian teachers to be sensitive to the religion in Sarawak, Ting said all these while Sarawakians has enjoyed harmony and peace with all races and religions. There was mutual respect for each other and such teachers should not destroyed the harmony here.<\/p>\n<p>Ting suggested that the department of education should give directive to all school principals that the teachers should teach as expected and not convert students. \u201cThose found doing so, appropriate action should be taken against them,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>He pointed out that it is time to get Sarawak teachers to teach the students here as they are more understanding on the cultural aspect.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG-20150327-WA00981.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-6127\" alt=\"IMG-20150327-WA0098\" src=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG-20150327-WA00981-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG-20150327-WA00981-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG-20150327-WA00981-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG-20150327-WA00981.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG-20150327-WA00991.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-6128\" alt=\"IMG-20150327-WA0099\" src=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG-20150327-WA00991-300x168.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG-20150327-WA00991-300x168.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG-20150327-WA00991-1024x576.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG-20150327-WA00991.jpg 1032w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The three components parties, Sarawak United Peoples\u2019 Party (SUPP), Parti Rakyat Sarawak (PRS) and Sarawak Progressive Democratic Party (SPDP) jointly held a statement urging the Education department to ensure that minors were not converted without the parents consent. Secretary general of SUPP, Dato\u2019 Sebastian Ting who represent SUPP said they were disturbed by news of a 13 year old who was enticed to convert. Ting said school is a place for education and the student is only 13 years old. He said at her age, she could not make a<a href=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/?p=6126\" class=\"read-more\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6128,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6126"}],"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=6126"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6129,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6126\/revisions\/6129"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}