Youth Ministry to work with ministries, NGOs to prepare youths to vote


  • Nation
  • Sunday, 30 Sep 2018

KUALA LUMPUR: The Youth and Sports Ministry will work with other ministries and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in educating and preparing young people to vote in the next general election, its deputy minister Steven Sim said. 

“If you want a youth to start voting at 18, political awareness must begin maybe in high school itself. We are going to work with different ministries, for example, the Education Ministry and also NGOs to create an enabling environment where people are free to express themselves,” he said after the closing ceremony of Malaysia Book of Records Live! here on Sunday (Sept 30).

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