Govt spent millions promoting unity, says academic

Chan Kok Leong Chan Kok Leong Updated 3 years ago · Published on 2 Aug 2019 7:20PM · 4 Comments

Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Associate Professor Shamsul Amri Baharuddin says a study has found that the government had spent RM700 million for programmes promoting unity in the past 5 years. – The Malaysian Insight pic by Afif Abd Halim, August 2, 2019.

THOUGH there are no formal programmes to promote ethnic relations, government agencies have in their own way spent millions doing such work over the last five years, said an academic today.

Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Associate Professor Shamsul Amri Baharuddin said a study found that RM700 million have been spent by government agencies over the past five years on such programmes even though there are no allocations for it.

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  • Prof, itu banyak wang pun sudah masuk poket orang

    Posted 3 years ago by SY L

  • Kalau tidak muncul umno, semua keadaan bagus.

    Posted 3 years ago by Tanahair Ku

  • On the other hand we have given permanent resident status to someone who is creating disunity by disparaging non-Islamic religions and claiming that Islam is the only true religion. So end of the day, has unity improved or disunity increased??

    Posted 3 years ago by Ravinder Singh

  • Looks like a bunch of UMNO apologists to me.

    Posted 3 years ago by T E