Printing Press Act 1984 Case Study
The Printing Presses and Publication Act 1984 was first introduced by the British colonial government as the Printing Ordinance of 1984 at the beginning of the state of emergency, this act was appeared in an emergency situation. During that time, the communist activities are seen as a threat, which is why The Printing Presses and Publication Act were introduced to fight against it. The Act required all newspaper and printing presses must granted by the Home Affairs Minister before they publish their printing material or publications, and the license must renew every year. (Cijmalaysia, 2015) The Printing Ordinance of 1948 was revised in 1971, because of race riots in 1969. This incident was happened in Kuala Lumpur and Petaling Jaya in Malaysia,
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Because most of the press and publications was control by the government, in the Operasi Lalang incident on 27 October 1987, there are more than 100 people were detained under the Internal Security Act (ISA), which include social activists, opposition politicians, academics, human rights activists and social workers. Besides, the three mainstream newspapers publishing license also get suspended for a while because of they are reveal some ‘good news’ to the alternative press, which is The Stars, Sin Chew Jit Poh and Watan (Gomez, Wah & Teik, …show more content…
Although the educators are Chinese people, but they also must able communicate in Chinese with their students. Politicians from the MCA, the DAP, Gerakan and major Chinese-based parties joined a protests on 11 October 1987 to protest about this issue. The Chinese educationists, Dong Jiao Zong held a 2000 strong gathering at the Hainanese Association Building beside the Thian Hou Temple in Kuala Lumpur. This gathering decide to have a three-day boycott in Chinese schools if the government did not solve the appointments issues. (Admin, 2014)
At the end the boycott was officially postponed, but there are another worse matters appeared, which is the racial riots happened in 18 October, a Malay soldier who killed Malay and two Chinese with an M16 rifle in the Chow Kit area, this matter was split the relation between Chinese and Malay Communities (Human Rights Resource Centre Malaysia,
Because most of the press and publications was control by the government, in the Operasi Lalang incident on 27 October 1987, there are more than 100 people were detained under the Internal Security Act (ISA), which include social activists, opposition politicians, academics, human rights activists and social workers. Besides, the three mainstream newspapers publishing license also get suspended for a while because of they are reveal some ‘good news’ to the alternative press, which is The Stars, Sin Chew Jit Poh and Watan (Gomez, Wah & Teik, …show more content…
Although the educators are Chinese people, but they also must able communicate in Chinese with their students. Politicians from the MCA, the DAP, Gerakan and major Chinese-based parties joined a protests on 11 October 1987 to protest about this issue. The Chinese educationists, Dong Jiao Zong held a 2000 strong gathering at the Hainanese Association Building beside the Thian Hou Temple in Kuala Lumpur. This gathering decide to have a three-day boycott in Chinese schools if the government did not solve the appointments issues. (Admin, 2014)
At the end the boycott was officially postponed, but there are another worse matters appeared, which is the racial riots happened in 18 October, a Malay soldier who killed Malay and two Chinese with an M16 rifle in the Chow Kit area, this matter was split the relation between Chinese and Malay Communities (Human Rights Resource Centre Malaysia,