KUALA LUMPUR: The government wants to give young people in Malaysia more power, hence the implementation of Undi18, Prime Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob said today.
He said the move is proof of the government’s confidence in youth and how it wants them to participate in the country’s development process.
According to Ismail, he exchanged views and action plans for the improvement of the Undi18 initiative in a meeting with representatives of the National Student Consultative Council (MPPK) today.
“I received many interesting inputs, especially those raised by the MPPK president Amir Asyraf.
“The government is always open to hearing the views of young people,” he said in a post on his Facebook page.
Also present at the meeting was higher education minister Noraini Ahmad.
Ismail said MPPK, which consists of 41 student leaders from 41 universities, plays an important role in providing space for discussions and creating two-way communication between students and the government.
Ismail, who was the Universiti Malaya student representative council president for the 1982/1983 session, said he believed that some of the young people he met today would one day become the country’s leaders.
On Sept 21, law minister Wan Junaidi Tuanku Jaafar said the government had decided to go ahead with the implementation of Undi18 and the automatic voter registration by Dec 31 at the latest as ordered by the Kuching High Court. - FMT
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