Malaysia : National Service postponed, to be transformed

[eErotica69]

National Service postponed, to be transformed


PUTRAJAYA: Defence Minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein said the deferment of the National Service this year was for the transformation of the project, and that it would not affect its stakeholders.

"This one-year postponement will not affect NS camp operators, trainers, and those who hold permanent posts," he said after attending the special announcement by Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak on the current economic development and the financial position of the country at the Putrajaya International Convention Centre, here today.

Hishammuddin said a lab on NS would be conducted next month and it would involve all stakeholders including camp operators, trainers, parent representatives, and non-governmental oganisations.

"The lab which will be held with all the stakeholders is to ensure that they understand where we want to take the programme after 10 years (of implementation of the programme)," he said.

Najib, in his speech today announced that NS would be postponed this year, saving RM400 million, to enable the programme to be reviewed and improved upon.

In October last year, while tabling the 2015 Budget, Najib had announced that the NS, which had produced 800,000 trainees since its inception on Feb 16, 2004, would be reviewed, besides introducing new concepts to cater to the requirements of skill and patriotism.

Meanwhile in KUALA LUMPUR, the director-general of the National Service Training Department Datuk Mohmed Asri Yusof said his department will wait for the decision regarding the implementation of the NS transformation program and the introduction of a new course which would be discussed next month.

"After the discussion has been settled and the programme is set, we will conduct training courses for operators and trainers on the implementation of the new programme," he said on the postponement. -- Bernama

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[JohnTan]

National conscription is a technology. It is more than grabbing reluctant youths from their homes and villages, and putting a weapon in their hands. It is also about organizing them, training and feeding them, and being able to quickly mobilize them in times of war.

National conscription was honed to an art during the Warring States era in China, and the technology was lost after Qin Shihuang reunited the country. This technology would only make a comeback during the Napoleonic era, where France could mobilized hundreds of thousands of men, all trained and equipped for war.

Such a technology is way beyond our m&d neighbours, who are more concerned about ramming their Islamic laws down everyone's throats. Malaysia's NS is a joke, and a total white elephant in a war.

 

[xpo2015]

Matland is beefing up its defense capabilities.

 

[sorechai]

Matland is beefing up its defense capabilities.

Malaysia is not the worry, Indonesia is.

 

[Narong Wongwan]

Half year is not enough time to train soldiers for an army however intensive....at best a militia only.

 

[HigherGround]

To outsource to Mercenaries.

 

[Hans168]

up there NS was to torture non bumi............