National Disservice
Naional Service in Malaysia is basically summer camp for free to all SPM leavers. It is a good three-month of fun, excitement and new experiences. Well, that sounds fair enough as the program is free of charge. Free things in life, more often than not, are not the best deals one will ever get. This is the rule of thumb for businesses. Ironically, it applies for National Service as well. Since the launch of this brainchild of Najib Razak in 2004, the number of deaths reported has reached twenty. That is averaging a bit below seven casualties per year. If the trend continues, seventy lives would be lost in this program due to several reasons which are unavoidable. Accidents, have not been reported officially, reaches to around a hundred in the past three years. The goals and objectives of the National Service program are commendable, and to a large extent it has helped in injecting a sense of reasoning in today's youngsters. However, when the implementation and execution is not sound, the whole initiative seems meaningless. Nowadays, parents are no longer looking forward to sending their kids off to the camp as they fear for the safety of these youngsters. This reflects badly on the noble program. Najib Razak should step in and shoulder the responsibility openly, rather than leaving it to Lee Lam Thye to answer to the public. It is his idea after all, the biggest contribution he has made as a cabinet member. It his Najib's legacy. Therefore he should use his larger than life political power to ensure the lives of these young citizens are not endangered.
2 comments:
the running of the national service itself is a shortcoming. being there myself, I ought to know. I don't understand why the trainers are from the army. After all, most of the death cases are caused by camp trainers. So Najib or whoever should be blamed not for initiating the program, but instead, by the way he runs it. He is in fact our defence minister isn't he?
OMG! i agree!
the mere fact that national service exist is proof that the malaysian education system is failing.
I mean, they say that the main purpose of NS is to foster 'racial unity' between youths of all the different races...
(yes, of course. 'gee, what would make teenagers patriotic and united amongst different ethnic groups? of i know! make them do jumping jacks every morning and march in the evening..., that'll show them!')
um, newsflash, doesn't that mean that current school curricula is failing in integrating all the different races to the point that we need to sent them to a 3 month boot camp as a way of 'fostering unity and character building'?
hello, isn't that why we go to school for?
omg, i have to say, NS is nothing more than a grand waste of legitimate tax payers money.
seriously
all of my friend whom went into NS pretty much came out no more different then when they went in.
Post a Comment