The Education Ministry today agreed to reprint the controversial Interlok, the novel which was part of the syllabus for Form Five Bahasa Malaysia literature.Deputy Education Minister Dr Mohd Puad Zarkashi said the decision was made following complaints from teachers who had to use stickers to patch the corrections manually on nine pages of the books.The word 'pariah' would be deleted completely from the reprinted version, he said while commenting on an English newspaper report today about the teachers' complaints on the issue.
The cost of reprinting and distribution was about RM1 million and would involve recalling the 390,000 copies distributed to secondary schools in Putrajaya, Kuala Lumpur, Selangor and Negeri Sembilan. “We do not want to burden the teachers and also prefer the books to be clean without patch marks," he said.Interlok, a novel by Abdullah Hussain turned controversial for words deemed sensitive to the Indian community.
Source : Bernama
The cost of reprinting and distribution was about RM1 million and would involve recalling the 390,000 copies distributed to secondary schools in Putrajaya, Kuala Lumpur, Selangor and Negeri Sembilan. “We do not want to burden the teachers and also prefer the books to be clean without patch marks," he said.Interlok, a novel by Abdullah Hussain turned controversial for words deemed sensitive to the Indian community.
Source : Bernama
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