GOVT TO CONTINUE EXPLAINING 1MALAYSIA CONCEPT - M'SIAN DPM

PUTRAJAYA, Aug 3 (Bernama) -- Deputy Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin
said today the government will continue to explain the 1Malaysia concept so that
more people will understand it.

He said the government did not expect everyone to fully understand the
concept only after slightly more than a year since the idea was first mooted by
Prime Minister Najib Razak.

"We will explain the concept through various programmes so that the people
will understand the concept in a holistic manner.

"We expect that at one point in the future, everyone will understand the
concept and that there will be no misinterpretation on what 1Malaysia is all
about," he told reporters after chairing a meeting of the cabinet committee on
youth development here Tuesday.

Muhyiddin said the people were actually beginning to understand the concept
mooted by Najib last year which, among others, emphasises on acceptance of the
country's cultural diversity.

Former prime minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad said yesterday that the concept
must be explained in detail to provide a holistic understanding among the
people.

Muhyiddin said there were tendencies to interpret the concept based on the
views of certain groups compared to those spelled out by the prime minister.

"The prime minister has explained that 1Malaysia is based on the
constitution.

"That is the core concept and all interpretations should not stray from what
has been provided for in the constitution either in terms of the rights and
privileges of the Bumiputeras (sons of the soil), the position of the national
language and Malay rulers and Islam," he said.

Muhyiddin also said that 1Malaysia was a dynamic concept and not static and
that there would be people interpreting it based on their own understanding.
-- BERNAMA


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