Published: Sunday November 29, 2009 MYT 5:42:00 PM
Govt to continue organising BTN courses in S’gor
JITRA: The government will continue organising National Civics Bureau (BTN) courses in Selangor, Deputy Minister in the Prime Minister's Department Datuk Ahmad Maslan said.
This was despite the state government's decision to bar state civil servants, students of state-owned institutions of higher learning and staff of state government-linked companies from attending such courses, he added.
Ahmad, who is in charge of the BTN, said not all things in Selangor were under the state government's jurisdiction.
"Federal civil servants, university students, youths and Federal Village Security and Development Committee members will be sent to attend these courses.
"The BTN is not the agency some quarters made it out to be. The BTN is to instill patriotism and has received the ISO 9000 certification from Sirim. It has a well-structured courses," he told reporters after receiving 200 Umno membership application forms here Sunday. He said that as the deputy minister in charge of the BTN, he would ensure that the courses would go on as they were in line with the 1Malaysia concept and had no racist elements.
Meanwhile, in KUALA LUMPUR, Deputy International Trade and Industry Minister Datuk Mukhriz Tun Mahathir described the decision by the Selangor government as inappropriate.
He said that the BTN courses were neither politically-motivated nor racially-motivated.
"It is impossible for the government to introduce racial elements in BTN programmes as participants are coming from other races as well," he told reporters after attending the Aidiladha sacrificial ceremony in Kampung Melayu, Rawang.
Mukhriz said BTN courses aimed to inculcate positive values and was not political indoctrination as claimed. - Bernama
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