There is an article that appeared in yesterday's (27th October 2009) KOSMO paper on page 12 titled "Gagal didik anak dengan cara betul punca ramai Melayu menagih dadah".
Associate Professor Dr Samsilah Ruslan , a lecturer in Educational Psychology from the Faculty of Educational Studies, Universiti Pertanian Malaysia informed the paper of the findings of a survey done by the faculty to find out why Malays youth involve in drugs taking. Her findings were as follows:
1. The failure of Malay parents to educate their children in a proper way. 2. They have low parenting skills. 3. The parents pampered their children too much. 3. The parents always have the guilt feeling if they could not fulfill what their children want. 4. Most of the youth who are involved in drugs came from lower income group. 5. The youths are mostly lowly educated, either completed PMR or SPM.
Assalamualaikum, Hope everybody is fine. I am proposing to add to the introduction as in the earlier draft as follows:
INTRODUCTION
It is certainly admirable for young people to take an active parts in voluntary and charity work. Teenagers who involve themselves in voluntary work can develop valuable skills and a sense of responsibility that will stand them in good stead when come the time for them to enter the working world. But perhaps, more important, it is the opportunity for these young people to develop empathy and a sense of compassion for those less unfortunate. Perhaps, for these future leaders and citizens, developing compassion is the most paramount and most essential benefit of the voluntary work. If voluntary work is beneficial why is there lack of Malay youth in this honourable work ?
The purpose of this paper is to discuss ways on how to encourage more Malay youths to be active in doing voluntary and charity work. We have noticed that while the Malay being the majority population of this country, the Malay youth involvement in voluntary and charity work do not reflect that. Their contribution to society through volunteer and charity work is very small or negligible, should we say, when compared with the other races in term of percentage. with this study we hope to reverse the situation and at the same time eradicate the social ills that they are causing to society such as drug abuse, illegal motor race (mat rempit), loafing around (lepak) and free sex activity which lead to teenage pregnancy.
Comments are welcome. Anyone ?
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Thank you Sdra Adnan for your comments. I wish to give my views to question 1, ie. why the youths are not interested.
1. The spirit of gotong royong which used to exist in kampung is no longer being practised. What more among youths in urban areas.
2. Malaysians, that include the Malays, have become more materialistic and individualistic.
3. Society gauged youth success according to their academic success or excellence. Schools encouraged students to study hard and scored A's in the examination so that they bring good names to the school. Character development such as leadership, filial piety, volunteerism has taken back seat. Hence we have lopsided character of individuals when they grow up.
4.Parents are also to be blame for emphasising so much on academic excellence rather than overall character moulding.
May I have the group member comments. Please look into other questions and answers.
Video on Social Problems (in Malay)
Just look at the video below. Not many Malay students participate
I have perused the information gathered in this blog and during our recent meeting on the subject. While I would like to have more feedback through blog discussion, however, I have to make do with the information during the meeting as time is REALLY running out. Members immediate feedback is greatly appreciated.
TOPIC
To encourage more Malay youths to be active in voluntary and charity work.
INTRODUCTION
The purpose of this paper is to discuss ways on how to encourage more Malay youths to be active in doing voluntary and charity work. We have noticed that while the Malay being the majority population of this country, the Malay youth involvement in voluntary and charity work do not reflect that. Their contribution to society through volunteer and charity work is very small or negligible, should we say, when compared with the other races in term of percentage. with this study we hope to reverse the situation and at the same time eradicate the social ills that they are causing to society such as drug abuse, illegal motor race (mat rempit), loafing around (lepak) and free sex activity which lead to teenage pregnancy.
RESEARCH OBJECTIVES
We have established five(5) objectives in our research work.
1. To find out why is there very little involvment of Malay youths in voluntary and charity work in many Society such as Pemadam, Yayasan Salam, Mercy, Old Folks Home, House of the Orphans, etc.
2. To encourage Malay youths to be actively involved in voluntary and charity work and other beneficial social activity.
3. To encourage and divert the youths from getting involved in anti-social activities such as drug abuse, illegal motor race and loafing around.
4. To enhance the spirit of volunteerism and patriotism through strengthening the leadership and provide self-development program for this youth so that they can further develop more youth groups which will keep them active and thus lure them away from undesirable activities.
5. To get the involvement of major Malay political parties to provide infrastruture and develop programmes for these youth to be more active in voluntary and charity work so that they can contribute to the society, not just to their ethnic but also to the nation.
RESEARCH QUESTIONS.
1. Why do Malay youths do not like to do voluntary or charity work to help less fortunate society.
2. How can we encourage more Malay youths to get involved in volunteer and charity work.
3. Why do Malay youths easily influence involve with undesirable activities such as drug abuse, illegal motor racing, loafing around and sex.
4. Do schools, colleges, universities and government agencies fail to produce,encourage and develop the sense of helping the less fortunates among our youth, particularly the Malays.
5. Why is there lack of programs and activities organised by major Malay political parties to encourage Malay youth in volunteerism and charity work.
I have managed to sum up and arranged all the ideas as per above. Please evaluate each objective and question if they are relevant and important to the issues. Otherwise please give your views and suggestions. Please hurry so that we can start the words, sorry, work. We have less than 3 weeks to finish the job.
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I guessed all of us have agreed to the topic of the project: " How to encourage Malay youths to be active in social work.". However, when working on the draft, and trying looking for the definition of social work, I discovered the following differences:
social work - It is a profession done by social worker who are tertiary trained such as graduates who are trained in social works, sosiology, human sciences, etc.
voluntary and charity work - It is work done voluntarily by individuals who care for the less fortunate or non profitable organisations.
I believed in our mind we are more inclined to think of voluntary and charity work by Malay youths.
May I suggest that we changed the topic to " How to encourage Malay youths to be active in voluntary and charity work". Can I get your opinion on this. Puan Rozmel, I would also like to get your opinion on this.
Thank you to all members. I have read the recent comments and in the process of organising them. Mazli have gathered all the proposals and ideas ( objectives and questions)in his latest comment entry. I shall try to put them in draft copy for members to review and suggestion. May I suggest that new ideas, suggestions and comments be placed by the writer in "New Post" rather in comment column. This is to avoid comments being overlooked, should we fail to review previous posting. Thanks again , pals.
Salam, Dear Members, I copied this comment made by Sdra Azlan on 1st October in one of our earlier postings. So that no members miss reading it, I bring to the fore so that all members will not missed it, read it, comment, and discuss further:-
(Azlan's Views)
Salam Aidilfitri wishes to all especially for lecturer Dr.Rozmel and to all ‘study hard study smart’ bloggers. Firstly, I would like to apologize to everyone for not participating in the blogs activities as I was away to my hometown for aidilfitri celebration. The internet connection was not that stable there but I managed to finish the assignment given to siswasp group.
Dear all, I have read Dr Rozmel’s comments on the topic and personally, I’m very thankful for he gave a quick response even at that time we were struggling in preparing and learning to interact through this blog.
I second his opinion that the topic that we discussed on earlier which is ‘How to Encourage Malay Youth to be Active in Social Work’ is not complete. This is because we only had 2 research objectives when research questions should have 4 items. The total of research objectives should tally with research questions. The rational is, since there are five of us then we should have the same numbers for research objectives and research questions. Therefore, I second the idea that each one of us should be responsible for a research objective and question each.
Friends, the title ‘How to Encourage Malay Youth to be Active in Social Work’ is suitable and important to be discussed. This is because from my observation especially lately, Malay youngsters involved in negative and unhealthy activities such as skipping school, ‘mat rempit’, ‘bohjan dan bohsia’, drug addictions, alcoholics, and free sex and such. If we observe closely, most of the committers of these activities are Malays compared to other ethnic. It is sad to have these things happens even when we have lots of programs provided by the government such as Rakan Muda and such. These people should really be prepared as they are the strength and assets to be the leaders of the future.
To me, one of the main factors of this negativity is a family that is disharmony. Parents should control their children and give them the best education, academically and in terms of religion beliefs and practice. Most of the parents nowadays are either too busy or they just thought that their kids know how to take care of themselves. They purely ignore and blame the teachers or the governments when something bad happened to their child. One of the reasons includes poverty as the main contributor resulting the Malay youngsters to lose interest in life and to break away from the problems they got involved with unhealthy activities.
Therefore, I propose that for this topic discussion we put additional research objectives and questions as follows:
RESEARCH OBJECTIVE
i. To identify the contents in each programs in the social work that made the youngsters lost interest in joining them.
ii. To identify if it’s true that teenagers/youngsters love to have fun without thinking of their tributes to the nation.
iii. To find out if the reason that Malay youth have less interest in social works because of the benefits that they are offered are not up to their standard.
RESEARCH QUESTION
i. Why is the opposition parties cannot put aside their political differences and combine with the governments in ensuring and encourage these youngsters to be active in social work. For example they can hold a campaign or find other method that is suitable for the improvement of our beloved country. Thanks
Salam to all. I am happy to "see" all you in cyberspace. All of you have done a good job in making this blog interactive and lively. Very interesting and amusing entries. I would like for the group members to work on the 1st draft of the paper based on the oultine which was agreed upon earlier. Please cite the references which you find the information to be used in writing the paper(please refer to Gaya UKM and your texbook for citing sources) You may use phrases like "as stated by Mohmamad Ibrahim (2008)....", "Paul(2008) mentions that...." and so on. After the conclusion of the paper, you need to include the list of all the references.
Not forgetting to wish all of you "Selamat Hari Raya. Maaf Zahir dan Batin"
