Education Minister Fadhlina Sidek told participants at the Distinguished Lecture Series on Youth Wellbeing lecture at Universiti Putra Malaysia on Thursday that Malaysian society needs to have more empathy and compassion to address the problem of discrimination and domestic violence against women.
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00:00Okay, hopefully we can take these two questions.
00:05Can have the girl there, lady there.
00:07Okay, sure.
00:08Assalamualaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh.
00:11Waalaikumsalam.
00:12I am Damia Faruiza, representative of the student representatives of MPPU.
00:16Oh, all the women, right?
00:18There are men.
00:19Among us, there are men.
00:20But the majority are women.
00:21Yes.
00:22Here, I have prepared two handouts for me to give ideas to YB.
00:25This slide is made with the title, let's read comics.
00:28Because I know that children are more interested in animation and storytelling based on many genres.
00:35Okay.
00:36And the second one?
00:37The second one is about empowering women.
00:40Where we know now that many women's cases are dead in the hands of their husbands.
00:44So, the empowerment of women involves sermons and also martial arts that are taught to women.
00:51Martial arts that are taught.
00:53You are so gone, brothers.
00:56The issue of how you can help us actually on the issues of cultivating the reading habit.
01:04This is a very good program that should be cultivated in the society as well.
01:12So, I think, yeah, I would say yes to the program and we would like to support you on that.
01:17Thank you.
01:18Number two on the women empowerment.
01:20I think this is where actually we've been very concerned about the safety of women in Malaysia.
01:29You know, the term that she used, mati di tangan suami.
01:35It's not something that really, I mean, the term is actually femicide.
01:44So, there's no guarantee.
01:47There's no safety.
01:49There's no actually how we can actually ensure the safety of women even in her own house.
01:58Yes, the data showed that the case that the femicide has been increasing lately.
02:07And we need more society that really concern empathy and have compassionate towards our women.
02:16When we talk about the well-being of a person, the well-being of a person is all about her or his safety as well.
02:28There's no place to argue.
02:31There's no ecosystem that gives her a chance to be supported in the way she makes decisions.
02:39I have delivered a distinguished lecture.
02:43In the context that I touched upon today, there are two main focuses that are closely related to empathy and compassion.
02:53It's about empathy and compassion that should be embedded in education.
03:02So, in general, the lecture covers several approaches and steps that we are taking.
03:15Not only from an academic point of view, but also in terms of the development of the character of our students.
03:24By giving women the philosophy of national education that emphasizes the holistic development of our children.
03:37It should also be welcomed by the society in providing a stronger and stronger ecosystem for our children.
03:46To defend their struggle, especially to gain empathy and compassion in the society.