Keep national service and make it better


I SUPPORT the government’s decision to scrap the National Civics Bureau, as announced on Monday. It is an open secret that the Barisan Nasional government used the agency as an indoctrination tool.

But that is not the case with the National Service Training Programme (better known by its Malay acronym PLKN), which will also be abolished, according to Youth and Sports Minister Syed Saddiq Syed Abdul Rahman.

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