Joint Statement Released by Dong Zong and Jiao Zong

March 11, 2020

Corresponding to the governing policy of the National Alliance government henceforth practices, Dong Jiao Zong herewith forwards its views as follows:

1. After the National Alliance had grabbed the sovereignty in recent political turbulence, Tan Sri Dato Haji Muhyidin bin Haji Mohammad Yassin immediately declared himself the National Prime Minister and pronounced his list of cabinet ministers. The governing policy of this new government inevitably becomes the focus of the nation.
2. Dong Jiao Zong urges the new Minister of Education Dr Mohd Radzi Md Jidin to run his office from panoramic and professional aspects and interact with non-government organisations such as Dong Jiao Zong, academic institutions, pundits and experts proactively as well as putting their heads together for the formation of appropriate education policies and measures thus to treat all vernacular schools equally for the promotion of quality and competitiveness in national education.
3. Dong Jiao Zong beseeches the Minister of Education to square up and resolve the besetting problems faced by Chinese primary schools and national-type Chinese secondary schools such as the shortage of teachers, the systemisation of appropriation and construction and relocation of national-type Chinese primary schools as well as the provision of proactive support for the development of MICSS. Besides, the Ministry of Education also needs to formulate and publish the regulations of school Board of Directors under the education Act 1996, properly settle the Jawi Scripts units argument in Chinese and Tamil vernacular schools and the lawsuit accusing Chinese and Tamil vernacular schools’ existence as violation of constitution thus to ensure the sustainable existence and development of all vernacular schools in the country to safeguard her multicultural constituent, prosperity and social harmony and integration.
4. Dong Jiao Zong also implores the government to disclose the UEC Task Force Report and formally recognise and accept the UEC.