Experts: Reforms at constitutional and societal level needed to improve national unity


PETALING JAYA: The present government must have the political will to stop the country from being divided into racial boxes, say academics and activists.

Economist Professor Dr Jomo Kwame Sundram, for instance, said although multicultural societies in other countries were more successful in overcoming past legacies of racial divides, Malaysia wasn’t.

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