{"id":270,"date":"2015-01-21T05:13:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-21T13:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/persatuan.utm.my\/kkautm\/malaysias-2015-ns-training-deferred\/"},"modified":"2015-01-21T05:13:00","modified_gmt":"2015-01-21T13:13:00","slug":"malaysias-2015-ns-training-deferred","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/persatuan.utm.my\/kkautm\/malaysias-2015-ns-training-deferred\/","title":{"rendered":"Malaysia&#8217;s 2015 NS training deferred"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left\">\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small\">The Star\/Asia News Network <br \/>21\/1\/2015    <\/span><\/p>\n<p>PUTRAJAYA   &#8211; The National Service Training programme (PLKN) for 2015 has been  suspended as part of cost-cutting measures, says Datuk Seri Najib Tun  Razak.  The Prime Minister, who announced revisions to Budget 2015 yesterday,  said the suspension of the programme would save the nation RM400  million (S$148 million), adding: &#8220;This will also allow the programme to  be re-examined and improved.&#8221;Defence Minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Tun Hussein said a discussion would be held to further enhance the programme.<br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif\">&#8220;Next month, the Government will conduct a laboratory (discussion)  involving all stakeholders, including parents, about reviewing the PLKN  and its direction for the next 10 years,&#8221; he said.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif\">PLKN director-general Datuk Mohmed Asri Yusuf they would talk about  matters related to administration such as standard operating procedures.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif\">&#8220;We will discuss with the Performance Management and Delivery Unit  (Pemandu) and we hope to implement our findings next year when training  sessions resume,&#8221; he said. The current intake since last December will be the last batch for the year. This training ends next month.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif\">Hishammuddin said the positions of all stakeholders including PLKN  centre operators, trainers and permanent employees would not be affected  by the move.Cuepacs president Datuk Azih Muda hoped that none of the trainers and  workers under the National Service would be terminated or given the  option to take any voluntary separation scheme.&#8221;We hope that they could be transferred temporarily to other relevant  agencies or ministries as they have financial commitments,&#8221; he said.<br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif\">There are three intakes for PLKN involving 75,000 to 80,000 students  every year. There are currently 32,000 trainers in the programme, which  started in 2003.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<p><\/div>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/cuepacs.blogspot.com\/2015\/01\/malaysias-2015-ns-training-deferred.html'>baca selanjutnya&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Star\/Asia News Network 21\/1\/2015 PUTRAJAYA &#8211; The National Service Training programme (PLKN) for 2015 has been suspended as part of cost-cutting measures, says Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak. The Prime Minister, who announced revisions to Budget 2015 yesterday, said the suspension of the programme would save the nation RM400 million (S$148 million), adding: &#8220;This [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":268,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dari-cuepacs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/persatuan.utm.my\/kkautm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/persatuan.utm.my\/kkautm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/persatuan.utm.my\/kkautm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/persatuan.utm.my\/kkautm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/268"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/persatuan.utm.my\/kkautm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/persatuan.utm.my\/kkautm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/persatuan.utm.my\/kkautm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/persatuan.utm.my\/kkautm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/persatuan.utm.my\/kkautm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}