KUALA LUMPUR: Dr Mahathir Mohamad (picture) is solely to be blamed for transforming Biro Tata Negara (BTN) into an indoctrination bureau, former BTN director Johari Abdul said last night.
After Dr Mahathir became Prime Minister, Johari said, Umno turned BTN totally into an indoctrination machine to maintain Malay loyalty to the party.
In one of the courses, he added, Malay participants were taught to defend the Umno-led government at all costs; they were made to believe that the Malays would become slaves in their own country if the Umno-Barisan Nasional government fell.
Speaking at a PKR forum last night, Johari said the situation got worse after Dr Mahathir sacked Anwar Ibrahim; the BTN then became a tool for demonising all opposition leaders.
Johari said that as a former Umno member he once believed in the BTN programme but later found “something wrong somewhere within [his] conscience.”
When the national civic course was started in the 1970s, he said, the aim was to counter the influence of activists and Islamic movements in universities.
Later, he said, the bureau was used to raise the confidence of Malay students by instilling ideas like Malay supremacy.
The BTN debate is seeing several Umno leaders agreeing with opposition Pakatan Rakyat leaders that a drastic change is required in BTN, but Dr Mahathir is defending the current programme.
FMT
09/12/09
After Dr Mahathir became Prime Minister, Johari said, Umno turned BTN totally into an indoctrination machine to maintain Malay loyalty to the party.
In one of the courses, he added, Malay participants were taught to defend the Umno-led government at all costs; they were made to believe that the Malays would become slaves in their own country if the Umno-Barisan Nasional government fell.
Speaking at a PKR forum last night, Johari said the situation got worse after Dr Mahathir sacked Anwar Ibrahim; the BTN then became a tool for demonising all opposition leaders.
Johari said that as a former Umno member he once believed in the BTN programme but later found “something wrong somewhere within [his] conscience.”
When the national civic course was started in the 1970s, he said, the aim was to counter the influence of activists and Islamic movements in universities.
Later, he said, the bureau was used to raise the confidence of Malay students by instilling ideas like Malay supremacy.
The BTN debate is seeing several Umno leaders agreeing with opposition Pakatan Rakyat leaders that a drastic change is required in BTN, but Dr Mahathir is defending the current programme.
FMT
09/12/09
1 comment:
mamakthir has to defend his stand for all the money he robbed during his tenure.all his children are billionaires,he needs to protect them,so people you and me are the kind donors.A leader claims to pray 5 times a day and robbed the people 10 times day!what is religion to them?just a blanket to hide!do not forget,you children and grandchildren will pay for for all you sin,Allah is watching!!!
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