Indian groups from around the country lodged reports simultaneously at their different police stations against the novel they claim insults the community and demanding that it be withdrawn as compulsory reading by secondary school students.
Mass police reports are said to have been lodged at police stations in Ipoh, Batu Gajah, Sitiawan, Teluk Intan and Taiping in Perak, Kuantan in Pahang, Kota Bharu in Kelantan, Sentul in Kuala Lumpur, Tasek Gelugor in Penang, Jasin in Malacca and Port Dickson in Negeri Sembilan.
In a statement, Perak DAP Youth's political education bureau chief P Sugumaran said he had lodged the report against the attitude and position of the government and the ministry of education which he said “purposefully wants to prolong the controversial issue of the Interlok novel without taking the proper step of withdrawing it.”
“The Interlok novel written by national laureate Abdullah Hussain cannot be accepted by any Indian community with self-esteem as the contents (of the book) is without basis, insulting, touches upon ethnic sensitivities and contains historical inaccuracies that have purposefully distorted to disparage the Indian community as a whole,” said Sugumaran.
Dismissing the need for any further reviews of the novel or consultations with other quarters, the DAP activist said the novel should be withdrawn from the national secondary school syllabus urgently before the book become cause for the fracturing of inter-ethnic unity and harmony.
“The characters in the novel do not reflect positive values and, if used as a source of learning at the school level, will not promote any noble values but (rather) hatred for other races and for the Indian community,” said Sugumaran.
Mass police reports are said to have been lodged at police stations in Ipoh, Batu Gajah, Sitiawan, Teluk Intan and Taiping in Perak, Kuantan in Pahang, Kota Bharu in Kelantan, Sentul in Kuala Lumpur, Tasek Gelugor in Penang, Jasin in Malacca and Port Dickson in Negeri Sembilan.
In a statement, Perak DAP Youth's political education bureau chief P Sugumaran said he had lodged the report against the attitude and position of the government and the ministry of education which he said “purposefully wants to prolong the controversial issue of the Interlok novel without taking the proper step of withdrawing it.”
“The Interlok novel written by national laureate Abdullah Hussain cannot be accepted by any Indian community with self-esteem as the contents (of the book) is without basis, insulting, touches upon ethnic sensitivities and contains historical inaccuracies that have purposefully distorted to disparage the Indian community as a whole,” said Sugumaran.
Dismissing the need for any further reviews of the novel or consultations with other quarters, the DAP activist said the novel should be withdrawn from the national secondary school syllabus urgently before the book become cause for the fracturing of inter-ethnic unity and harmony.
“The characters in the novel do not reflect positive values and, if used as a source of learning at the school level, will not promote any noble values but (rather) hatred for other races and for the Indian community,” said Sugumaran.
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