BTN Ban for Selangor

Shocking news to here that the banning of Biro Tata Negara (BTN). It suppose to be a national program to promote unity, patriotisme, good values. Is it really so slanted as news report?

Selangor government bans civil servants, students and workers from Biro Tatanegara courses

By EDWARD RAJENDRA

SHAH ALAM: The Pakatan Rakyat-led Selangor government has ordered that its civil servants, students in state-owned universities, and workers with the state subsidiaries be banned from attending nation-building programmes approved out by the National Civics Bureau or Biro Tatanegara.

State exco chairman for Education and Higher Education Dr Halimah Ali said the order that took effect immediately.

“We will issue a written letter to all, to comply with the order,” she said at the state weekly exco press conference on Wednesday.

She claimed that those who attended the five-day training courses revealed that Barisan Nasional was using such activities to indoctrinate the younger generation aged between 23 and 30 with ideas that could create racial uneasiness. Read More