Majlis Perundingan Pelajar Kebangsaan (MPPK)

On 4^{th –} 5^th August 2010 at 2.30 pm, a Pre-Meeting on Majlis Perundingan Pelajar Kebangsaan (Pra-MPPK) was held at ESSET, Kajang, Selangor. Three of four office bearers of SRC IIUM who are Muhammad Firwan Norliza (President), Hidayatul Karimah Mohd Mahyuddin (Secretary General) and Muhammad Syazwan Suhaimi (Treasurer) attended this meeting. The objective of this meeting is to gather all SRC from all IPTA and IPTS in Malaysia to discuss any issues which will not be discussed during Majlis Perundingan Pelajar Kebangsaan (MPPK).

During the pre-meeting, we were given chance to have dialogue sessions with administration of Ministry of Higher Education (MOHE), and a session with YB Dato' Saifuddin Abdullah, Deputy Minister of Higher Education. During these sessions, many issues have been raised by the students' representatives from various universities. Among the issues are as below:

1. Unemployment among graduation
   
2. Social problem among teenagers
   
3. Environmental
   
4. Industrial training system
   
5. Students' development-quality of current students and lecturers
   
6. Comparison on co-curriculum between local and overseas.
   
7. The government plan in order to ensure the usage of English among students after the abolishment of PPSMI
   
8. Reevaluation on Malaysia education system
   
9. AUKU
   
10. PTPTN
    
11. Budget allocated for students
    
12. Students' involve in politics
    
13. Ranking university
    

    
    

During this dialogue, representatives from SRC IIUM asked few questions. The details are as below:

No	Question/Suggestion	Answer/Response
1.	Sr. Hidayatul Karimah asked about the government planning on how to ensure the students able to learn English effectively and speak fluently due to the abolishment of PPSMI on 2012.	The PPSMI issue being catered under Kementerian Pembelajaran Malaysia. However, government certainly had their plan structured to cater the issue.
2.	Br. Muhammad Firwan asked about: Students are not allowed to involve in politics although the students are educated people. For example in IIUM, we managed to organized a forum on politic and got an excellent feedback from students. Why ranking university is very important? I was afraid if the university focus more on this, the moral value of the students will be overlook by the university. How government implements any new policy - implement then research or research then implement as for example the implementation of PPSMI being criticized by many parties.	YB Dato' Saifuddin answered: Everyone can have their own opinion and argument regarding the issue. As for me, I agreed if the students involved in politics. It is important as for Malaysia need to show the real performance. It's being reported that Malaysia's universities are not very good however in certain part; our performance is very solid but not being reported and publicized by media. Each policies to be implemented will go through a research then the implementation

Besides, an issue was decided by the Jamaah YDP to be forwarded to the Deputy Prime Minister which is the issue of students' involve in politics. The pre-meeting end at 5.30 pm on 5^th August 2010.

Meeting Majlis Perundingan Pelajar Kebangsaan (MPPK)

Mesyuarat Perundingan Pelajar Kebangsaan (MPPK) was held on 6^th August 2010 at Putrajaya International Convention Centre (PICC), Putrajaya. The meeting was chaired by YAB Tan Sri Dato' Haji Muhyiddin Mohd Yassin, Deputy Prime Minister.

The meeting was held for working paper presentation from five universities which their working papers have been selected among all working papers submitted by all SRC's. They are Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia (USIM), who presented on " Siaran Telavisyen sebagai Medium Pembentukan Masyarakat", Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM), who presented on "Model Ekonomi Baru (MBE): Satu Tranformasi Ketidakbergantungan Mahasiswa", Universiti Teknologi Petronas (UTP) presented on " Pelan Tranformasi Drastik ke Arah Melahirkan Masyarakat yang Sensitif dan Cakna dengan Isu-isu Alam Sekitar", Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM), presented on "Tranformasi Pendidikan Tinggi ke Arah Graduan Berketerampilan", and Universiti Malaya (UM) presented on "Memperkasakan Program Pertukaran Pelajar- Out Bond & In Bond."

The meeting was end approximately at 12.00 noon.

KONVENSYEN MAJLIS PERWAKILAN PELAJAR INSTITUSI PENGAJIAN TINGGI AWAM (IPTA) 2010.

A Konvensyen Majlis Perwakilan Pelajar Institusi Pengajian Tinggi Awam (IPTA) 2010 was held on 6 till 8 August 2010 at ESSET, Kajang. The convention managed to gather almost all Students' Representatives Council for all IPTA. The convention was also organized to gather all former SRC to bind ukhuwwah with the current SRC.

During the 3 days convention, two issues have been presented to the participants who are 1 Malaysia and Model Ekonomi Baru (MEB) and were being discussed among us. The participants are divided into groups and SRC IIUM got together with University Malaysia Pahang (UMP) and University Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP). During the discussion, our group has been given questions to be discussed which are 'Sejauh Mana Kefahaman Mahasiswa Terhadap 1 Malaysia?' and 'MEB, Untuk Siapa?'. The come out from the discussion were being presented by all groups.

At the end of the event, the Jemaah YDP of MPP managed to hand over a memorandum to YB Dato' Saifuddin Abdullah. The memorandum entitled "Mahasiswa Berpolitik", requests the government to allow students to involve in politics. It also contain the result of 43% disagree, 53% agree, 3% unsure of the students are allowed to be involved in politics which the survey were being made among the students' representatives councils who attended the convention. YB Dato' Saifuddin promised that he will bring the issue to the higher authority to be discussed in further.

The convention end on 8 August 2010 at 12.00 noon and was launched by YB Dato' Saifuddin Abdullah, Deputy Minister of Higher Education.

Prepared by,

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HIDAYATUL KARIMAH MOHD MAHYUDDIN

Secretary General

Students' Representative Council 2009/2010

Verified by,

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MUHAMMAD FIRWAN NORLIZA

President

Students' Representative Council 2009/2010

Majlis Perundingan Pelajar Kebangsaan (MPPK)

The main objective of the Majlis Perundingan Pelajar Kebangsaan (MPPK) is to discuss issues of national students. International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM) was represented by four SRC excos, most notably Muhammad Firwan Norliza (President), Mohd Ayob Aklil (Vice President 1), Hidayatul Karimah Mahyuddin (Secretary General) and Muhammad Syazwan Suhaimi (Treasurer). Group 5 was lead by the President of the SRC IIUM proposed by the bro. Syahir (UM) and supported by the bro. Hadi (UMK).


Group 5 which included a total of 37 MPP nationwide and a proposed 14 recommendations agreed with the "Voice of Students at Level Delegation of the Parliament". Before the five present discussion paper, the President suggested that the SRC IIUM extended discussion for the time given by the management is very short while to discuss issues and proposals that involve national issue and requires discussion and debate as well. SRC IIUM president also urged the management to present the issues that were raised at the last MPPK and submit the proposals are still pending proposals that have been approved. In addition, SRC IIUM President asked that the previous proposals have been approved to be implemented properly. This is because, the average motion tabled by a group of up to four proposals that are quite similar and consequential (after getting feedback from former MPP 2008/2009). Among them is the issue of student cards and discounts to transport problems and issues of social and moral development in rural areas (Sabah and Sarawak).

There are also issues a very interesting debate. Among them are the discount airfares and issues of national defense. Group 5 and 6 also agree to proposed "Student representatives in Parliament" (group 6 suggest that the Senator used the term) in order to solve the problems arise. This is to ensure voice of the student's to be heard, recognized the role of students and student issues resolved in a way that student-oriented. Although this motion requires a deeply detailed, but it is a good beginning towards an independent student. Any suggestions, ideas or comments can be raised on this entry. Thank you from me.


MUHAMMAD FIRWAN NORLIZA
President
Students’ Representative Council 2009/2010
International Islamic University Malaysia
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