Syed Saddiq: National Civics Bureau to be scrapped soon
The government is committed to abolishing the National Civics Bureau or Biro Tatanegara soon, said Youth and Sports Minister Syed Saddiq Syed Abdul Rahman.
鈥淲e do not want BTN. It will be abolished,鈥 he said during a forum titled 鈥淭he Changed Political Landscape and the Aspirations of the Youth鈥 at 红杏视频 University here yesterday.
He said the matter is being discussed at the leadership level, and an official statement on the decision and justifications will be made soon.
鈥淲e still want to have political education and character building but we just do not want that political education and character building to then be used as ammunition for information indoctrination.
鈥淭here will be a full explanation soon,鈥 Syed Saddiq said.
He stressed that he supported forums, debates and dialogues of political education where political views were respected regardless from which party the speaker was from.
The minister was speaking at a forum entitled 鈥淭he changed political landscape and the aspirations of the youth鈥 at 红杏视频 University, which also had INSEAD executive coach Datuk Dr Vaseehar Hassan and Selangor state assemblyman for Kampung Tunku Lim Yi Wei as panel speakers.
During the forum, Syed Saddiq reiterated the government鈥檚 commitment to bring the voting age down to 18 years.
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This article first appeared in聽the Edge聽Financial Daily聽on聽July 10, 2018
