KUALA LUMPUR: Education Minister Maszlee Malik today pledged that the 1MDB scandal would be included in Malaysian history to ensure that such mistakes are not made again.
“(The topic of) 1MDB will be included as part of history so that the younger generation will not repeat the same mistakes.
“I agree that the mistakes of the past need to be learnt from,” he said in the Dewan Rakyat.
However, he did not explain if the topic would be included in school textbooks or whether it would be made part of student discussions.
Ahmad Maslan (BN-Pontian) then asked the minister to also include the RM31.5 billion losses suffered by Bank Negara Malaysia due to its forex dealings between 1992 and 1994.
Earlier, Ahmad had asked how many years were needed before an incident could be considered part of the country’s history so that it would not be forgotten.
He also asked if the 60 independent Chinese schools learnt Malaysian history.
To this, Maszlee said the Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, the government body responsible for coordinating the use of the Malay language and Malay-language literature in Malaysia, had been engaging with the independent schools.
Since last year, he said, the history syllabus taught at schools was no longer solely based on the memorisation of facts. Instead, he said, students were required to carry out projects, among other criteria.
He added however that history teachers needed to be retrained beginning next year, to help them think critically and analytically while teaching the subject. - FMT
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