Time for Majlis Profesor Negara to step in

THE Interlok saga which hogged headlines for weeks has been resolved. The novel by Datuk Abdullah Hussain will be retained as a literature component of Bahasa Malaysia for fifth-formers in schools. However, sections deemed sensitive to the Indian community will be amended. That members of th...

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spelling my.usm.eprints.32004 http://eprints.usm.my/32004/ Time for Majlis Profesor Negara to step in Abd Razak, Dzulkifli L7-991 Education (General) THE Interlok saga which hogged headlines for weeks has been resolved. The novel by Datuk Abdullah Hussain will be retained as a literature component of Bahasa Malaysia for fifth-formers in schools. However, sections deemed sensitive to the Indian community will be amended. That members of the Cabinet are involved in offering a solution to the quandary is rather unusual, since the issue is academic-cum-literary in nature. The last time the Cabinet was in this predicament was when a similar incident flared up, which led to it acting as an editorial board of sorts, directing a group of academics on how to write a book about race relations in Malaysia. 2011 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://eprints.usm.my/32004/1/DZUL15.pdf Abd Razak, Dzulkifli (2011) Time for Majlis Profesor Negara to step in. New Sunday Times.
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Time for Majlis Profesor Negara to step in
description THE Interlok saga which hogged headlines for weeks has been resolved. The novel by Datuk Abdullah Hussain will be retained as a literature component of Bahasa Malaysia for fifth-formers in schools. However, sections deemed sensitive to the Indian community will be amended. That members of the Cabinet are involved in offering a solution to the quandary is rather unusual, since the issue is academic-cum-literary in nature. The last time the Cabinet was in this predicament was when a similar incident flared up, which led to it acting as an editorial board of sorts, directing a group of academics on how to write a book about race relations in Malaysia.
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