KUALA LUMPUR, January 19 – Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim invites the public to follow and understand the mandate of ‘Building a Civilized Malaysia’ which he will deliver today directly from the Putrajaya International Convention Center (PICC). The Prime Minister said, it is an effort to create a new leap for the country. “Today I will be at the PICC in Putrajaya to talk about how this country and order can uphold the values and ethics of good governance for the people,” he said in a post on Facebook.
Anwar is scheduled to deliver a message entitled ‘Building a Civilized Malaysia’ at 11.30am before completing the montage and gimmick of the book launch of ‘Building a Civilized Nation’. The book published by the Darul Ehsan Institute (IDE) brings together Anwar’s political experience and the results of his reading over four decades, starting from when he was a student to leading the reform movement. The special mandate will be broadcast live through local media stations such as Bernama TV and Radio Televisyen Malaysia (RTM) as well as through Darul Ehsan Institute’s Facebook Live.
The program is scheduled to start at 9 am with a welcome speech by the Executive Director of the Darul Ehsan Institute (IDE), Datuk Ismail Yusop. It is followed by the ‘Wacana Membangung Negara Madani’ slot at 9.15am which will be joined by four invited panels including Selangor Menteri Besar, Datuk Seri Amirudin Shari and IDE Executive Chairman, Prof Datuk Dr Mohammad Redzuan Othman,
Also invited as a panel in the discourse are the President of Dar al-Hikmah College, Prof Datuk Dr Muhammad Nur Manuty and the Director of the Institute of Social Science Studies (IPSAS), Universiti Putra Malaysia Prof Dr Haslinda Abdullah. Dignitaries are scheduled to arrive at 11 a.m. and the ceremony is scheduled to end at 1 p.m.
