00:00This is a statement from the Ministry of National Development,
00:07Education and Human Resource Development.
00:11We held a meeting on December 3,
00:17and we have called representatives from the Ministry of Defence.
00:23and the Ministry of Defence came together with the Malaysian Institute of Defence and Security, MIDAS.
00:34The objective of the meeting was to discuss the evaluation report and the impact of PLKN 1.0 and PLKN 2.0
00:47and evaluate the implementation strategy of PLKN 3.0.
00:55As we are aware, the government has announced that PLKN 3.0 will start next year with some new approaches.
01:09For example, it will start with pre-PLKN, involving 4th grade students.
01:20After that, for those who have completed secondary school, there will be at least 45 days of basic PLKN.
01:30And after that, there will be a continuation of PLKN.
01:36We have discussed extensively, and here is our conclusion.
01:45JKPK recommends that the government does not continue the implementation of PLKN 3.0.
01:53If the government still wants to implement it,
01:58then we believe that a more in-depth and detailed study must be done first.
02:08We are not satisfied with the implementation strategy of PLKN 3.0
02:16because there are some things that are unclear.
02:22There are some justifications that we found.
02:29First, the implementation of PLKN 3.0 does not have a clear objective and achievement target.
02:41This is because it is a continuation problem, a legacy problem due to an unclear objective and target of PLKN 1.0.
02:54I was there, I was the president of Majlis Belia Malaysia.
02:58And I know exactly that when PLKN 1.0 was launched, we did not know what the objective was.
03:08Therefore, there are many studies on PLKN 1.0, PLKN 2.0, and the achievements of all those studies are in the decree on 3 December.
03:25And that is also one of the reasons why we made this decision.
03:31Second, if PLKN 3.0 is to be implemented,
03:38then the decree and the module must be based on military training or semi-military training.
03:45It means that if you want to do PLKN 3.0, do it properly.
03:50Not like what is proposed today.
03:53It's just that if you do it properly, we feel that it really has to be military or semi-military.
04:00But the question arises, do we really need it?
04:05Do we, like other countries, really need such a program?
04:14Third, the PLKN 3.0 module proposed is mixed.
04:2270% is military-based and 30% is related to the state.
04:32That's why I said, what is this PLKN?
04:35It's more or less just PLKN 1.0, PLKN 2.0.
04:42So if PLKN 1.0 and 2.0 have a lot of problems,
04:45who can guarantee that PLKN 3.0 will run with a clear objective?
04:51Fourth, if we look at the modules available in PLKN 3.0,
05:00in the military base, some of the modules are not related to the military base.
05:1170% is military-based and 70% is mixed.
05:17Some are not related to the military.
05:20So if you want to do military, the military is correct.
05:23The 70% of the military is also incorrect.
05:29Fifth, the educational, technical and vocational training modules,
05:35as well as the national and other modules,
05:38which are not military-based, the 30% of them,
05:43can actually be delivered through programs or existing educational institutions.
05:50Why do we need to spend money through PLKN?
05:55It's available elsewhere.
05:57And some of the students have gone through it.
06:01There is a content about the nationality.
06:03The students have gone through it in secondary school.
06:05We have a rather comprehensive historical subject.
06:09Sixth, studies found that PLKN 1.0 and 2.0
06:17did not leave a long-term positive effect among the candidates.
06:23All reports say that there is an effect,
06:28but it does not leave a long-term effect.
06:33It means that it is not effective.
06:38Seventh, it was found that PLKN 1.0, 2.0 and 3.0
06:46involved a very high cost of implementation.
06:51The term very high cost of implementation is not our term.
06:54These are the PLKN 1.0 and 2.0 reports.
07:01So, it involves a very high cost of implementation
07:05compared to the negative positive effects that I mentioned earlier.
07:11Meanwhile, the same positive effects can be achieved
07:15using the available budget and programs
07:18at the available educational institutions.
07:21To put it simply, is it reasonable
07:25and we feel it is not reasonable
07:27to spend such a large amount of money
07:32for PLKN 3.0
07:35while the desire and target is not clear
07:40and we doubt it can be achieved
07:44and even if it can be achieved,
07:48it already has funds and programs
07:51at other educational institutions.
07:56To put it simply, it is not reasonable.
08:00Overlapping is not reasonable.
08:04For the 2025 budget that has been approved,
08:12it is approximately Rp88 million.
08:16As far as I can remember,
08:18based on the instructions for the three days of the month,
08:22it is not only the funds that are needed.
08:26Because if we look at the track record of PLKN 1.0 and 2.0,
08:34according to the officer who gave the instructions to us,
08:38every year we spend Rp500 million.
08:44So if Rp500 million for PLKN 1.0, PLKN 2.0,
08:51the target of PLKN 3.0,
08:54the number of participants is larger
08:56than PLKN 1.0 and PLKN 2.0.
09:01I expect that this Rp88 million is a one-off for the preparation.
09:08And maybe because next year is still in the process,
09:13meaning the actual program may start in 2025.
09:18So maybe the larger budget
09:20we will only see in the upcoming budget.
09:24So based on those three justifications,
09:28we state that we do not agree for PLKN 3.0 to be continued.
09:36We will write, and if we want to continue, we will conduct a thorough investigation.
09:40We are not going back and forth.
09:42We will conduct a thorough investigation,
09:44and we can help to solve it.
09:47But we cannot do it in the current form.
09:50And I will officially write to the Honorable Minister of Defense,
09:55because he is in charge of the Ministry of Defense
09:59entrusted with PLKN 3.0.
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