PUTRAJAYA must stop using public servants, in particular teachers, to carry out any form of Islamisation in Sabah and Sarawak schools, said the Association of Churches in Sarawak (ACS).
ACS said the federal government should honour the promises and undertakings of religious freedom safeguarded and guaranteed to the people of Sabah and Sarawak under the Inter-Governmental Committee Report 1962 (IGC Report) and the Malaysia Agreement 1963 (MA63).
It was also “deeply concerned” with Education Minister Maszlee Malik’s recent statement in Parliament, in which he appealed to religious teachers from Kelantan, Terengganu and Kedah teaching in Sabah and Sarawak schools to make the states new fronts in their Islamic propagation activities.
“The statement by the education minister to make Sabah and Sarawak a ‘battlefield’ for propagation of Islam is not in the spirit of the MA63 and appears to be sanctioning Islamic religious teachers from Peninsular Malaysia to promote Islamisation and propagation to local students in non-religious schools in Sabah and Sarawak.
ACS said while it understood that sending teachers from the peninsula to serve in the two states helped alleviate its teacher shortage, it said educators “who are public servants should not be used as a tool to promote Islamisation in Sabah and Sarawak”.
The association also reminded Putrajaya of the peculiarities in Sarawak, where the state constitution provides for a secular government and society, and where Islam is not the state religion.
“It is clearly stated in the IGC Report that there should be no application to the Borneo states of any federal requirements regarding religious education.”
ACS also questioned Putrajaya’s will in the Borneanisation of the civil service of Sabah and Sarawak, a key agreement of the two states in giving the nod to forming Malaysia.
It said even after 55 years since Malaysia’s formation, the federal government’s promises and assurances had yet to be fulfilled.
“There would be sufficient qualified Islamic religious teachers from Sabah and Sarawak by now to teach in local schools if the government had honoured their promise of Borneanisation of the public service in Sabah and Sarawak,” it said, while reaffirming its commitment to promoting harmony and unity among the people. – December 19, 2018.
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