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We read with inter­est the arti­cle enti­tled “Abol­ish­ing PPSMI is not the answer” by Datin Noor Azimah Abdul Rahim (Sep­tem­ber 10, 2012), in par­tic­u­lar, the fal­la­cious argu­ments made in the name of sci­ence pol­icy.
Before going into the details of the argu­ment, it is best to remind one­self what the term “PPSMI” means Pen­ga­jaran dan Pem­be­la­jaran Sains dan Matem­atik dalam bahasa Ing­geris or “The Teach­ing and Learn­ing of Sci­ence and Math­e­mat­ics in Eng­lish”. What this obvi­ously implies is that every­one, regard­less of back­ground or first lan­guage, is, have been and will always be oblig­ated to learn the two sub­jects, sci­ence and math­e­mat­ics, in English.

NOW In the name of God the Com­pas­sion­ate, the Mer­ci­ful, I TUNKU ABDUL RAHMAN PUTRA ibni AL-MARHUM SULTAN ABDUL HAMID HALIMSHAH, PRIME MINISTER OF THE PERSEKUTUAN TANAH MELAYU, with the con­cur­rence and approval of Their High­nesses the Rulers of the Malay States do hereby pro­claim and declare on behalf of the peo­ple of the Perseku­tuan Tanah Melayu that as from the thirty first day of August, nine­teen hun­dred and fifty seven, the Perseku­tuan Tanah Melayu com­pris­ing the States of Johore, Pahang, Negri Sem­blian, Selan­gor, Kedah, Perlis, Kelan­tan, Treng­ganu, Perak, Malacca and Penang is and with God’s bless­ing shall be for ever a sov­er­eign demo­c­ra­tic and inde­pen­dent State founded upon the prin­ci­ples of lib­erty and jus­tice and ever seek­ing the wel­fare and hap­pi­ness of its peo­ple and the main­te­nance of a just peace among all nations.

If the father of the nation was alive today, one won­ders what he would make over the present tug-of-war over the “nam­ing rights” of our 55 th Merdeka Day cel­e­bra­tion. What would the late Tunku Abdul Rah­man say of the words and actions of some so–called lead­ers who have soiled Merdeka Day and the mem­ory of his legacy and our nation­hood? Never has Merdeka Day — a uni­fy­ing fac­tor for all Malaysians — if only for a day — been rel­e­gated to a source of divide and a pawn in the polit­i­cal one-upmanship of those to whom we have entrusted this coun­try to. From slo­gans, songs, themes and logos, who has the right to claim exclu­siv­ity in nam­ing our National Day festivities?

How does a Mus­lim vil­lage boy who faith­fully attends Quran classes and goes home to the works of Lao Tzu and Con­fu­cius, grow up to view the world — and his coun­try? The scope of Dato Seri Anwar Ibrahim’s world­view is matched by the breadth of his polit­i­cal ambi­tions. Hav­ing risen from the ashes, the leader of Malaysia’s oppo­si­tion is rar­ing to prove his met­tle at the upcom­ing elections.

Many Sino-Singaporeans who try to crit­i­cize the Malaysian for­mula due to their igno­rance of the real­ity of Malaysian pol­i­tics of race duly claim supe­ri­or­ity with the imple­men­ta­tion of their so-called “mer­i­toc­racy” sys­tem. It is also claimed that by the enforce­ment of the Malay spe­cial rights as pro­vided for in Arti­cle 153 of the Malaysian Con­sti­tu­tion, Malaysia is actu­ally mak­ing an “apartheid”-like pol­icy. Other than the fact that the ide­olo­gies and poli­cies of both coun­tries are rad­i­cally dif­fer­ent, the truth is that while the so-called imple­men­ta­tion of the “apartheid” poli­cies have brought about socio-economic bal­ances and har­mony in Malaysia, Singapore’s so-called “mer­i­toc­racy” sys­tem has caused much mis­ery to those other than the Sino-Singaporean major­ity and the for­mu­la­tion of many dra­con­ian poli­cies that formed the basis of the cur­rently Sino-dominated Sin­ga­porean government.

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