KUALA LUMPUR: The National Professors Council (MPN) has identified race, social class, age and gender as contributing factors to polarisation among Malaysians.
Its chairman Prof Emeritus Datuk Seri Dr Zakri Abdul Hamid said it would form a working group of professors this month to help the Government in its national reconciliation programme by studying these four factors.
He said the group would research the polarising factors and needs of each community, and provide input to achieve national reconciliation.
“We used to have a National Unity Ministry but it has now been reduced to a department,’’ he pointed out.
MPN will reach out to experts in both private and public higher education institutions to create a platform for dialogues, said Dr Zakri.
He said the working group would be formed within the month and would be headed by MPN deputy chairman Prof Datuk Dr Shamsul Amri Baharuddin.
He added that MPN had been carrying out public programmes to “increase political literacy” among the electorate as people were allowing themselves to be divided by political institutions rather than ideas.
“A lot of our differences are now expressed through political parties and arguments in various forms of media,’’ said Dr Zakri.
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