{"id":7266,"date":"2010-10-12T00:00:15","date_gmt":"2010-10-12T00:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/?page_id=7266"},"modified":"2015-05-12T03:05:22","modified_gmt":"2015-05-12T03:05:22","slug":"ukm-sets-up-perkasa-to-help-overcome-social-ills","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/archive\/year-2010\/october-2010\/ukm-sets-up-perkasa-to-help-overcome-social-ills\/","title":{"rendered":"UKM sets up PERKASA to help overcome social ills"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main \"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">0<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ukm.my%2Fnews%2Farchive%2Fyear-2010%2Foctober-2010%2Fukm-sets-up-perkasa-to-help-overcome-social-ills%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/?p=7266&amp;via=https:\/\/twitter.com\/ukmtwit\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-toggle-container\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/images\/stories\/Campus_News_Picture\/Felda-0.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>TUESDAY, 12 OCTOBER 2010 15:33<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>By Abdul Ghani Nasir<br \/>\nPix by Saliman Leman<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nBANGI, 12 Oct., 2010 \u2013 The Youth Empowerment \u00a0Centre (PERKASA) set up by UKM to rehabilitate youths involved in negative and unsocial behaviours like illegal racing is ready to cooperate with any organisation willing to help the youths.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nDeputy Vice Chancellor (Academic and International Affairs) Prof, Dato\u2019 Ir. Dr Hasan Basri said Perkasa\u2019s objective is to bring the youth involved in the various social ills back on track to become exemplary members of society.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nIts set up is also proof that UKM have the resolve to help the government in carrying out programmes for the benefit of the delinquent youths.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\u201cPerkasa can plan, implement and evaluate youth programmes that could be the catalyst to help shape the way forward for these dilequent youths so that they can be useful members of society and be the pride of their family and country,\u201d he\u00a0 said at the Memorandum Signing Ceremony between UKM and FELDA, yesterday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nThe MoU, he said, will enable the university to carry out programmes to help reduce involvement of youths from FELDA in various unruly and unsavoury activities to become more resilient and responsible by developing their true potentials.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nProf Hasan believed that youths became involved in illegal motorcycle racing due to various factors.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\u201cBut whatever the reasons they definitely are the victims of their home environment which are not condusive to good living. Something must be done to overcome this problem,\u201d he stressed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nThe first programme organised by PERKASA involved 34 youths who showed that the wayward groups can be rehabilitated.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nAt the signing ceremony FELDA was represented by its Deputy General Manager, Haji Abidin Abdul Rahman while Deputy Minister in the Prime Minister\u2019s Office, Datuk Ahmad bin Maslan was present as a witness.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/images\/stories\/Campus_News_Picture\/Felda-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/images\/stories\/Campus_News_Picture\/Felda-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Datuk Ahmad said the number of FELDA youths involved in illegal motorcycle racing is actually not very big, 2000 out of two million people in the various schemes of Felda.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nToday only about 1,400 of them are still active while a few are involved in drug addiction, cases of incest and pregnancy out of wedlock.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nBut Datuk Ahmad said they are also many successful children of FELDA settlers who are now professionals including becoming judges.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\u201cThe programmes are designed to help bring down the crime rate among FELDA settlers to zero and making them to be proud residents of the rural areas,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nSixty youths from 10 FELDA schemes involved in illegal racing will take part in the first such programmes from 22 October. The participants either school dropout, not working, involved in illegal racing but are highly motivated to change their life for the better.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nThe camps will be held at FELDA Training Centre at Bukit Rokan, Gemencheh Negeri Sembilan, Outward Bound School, Lumut and FELDA Trolak, Perak.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nThe UKM-FELDA Revitalising Youths Program is in addition to FELDA Youths Vocational Training, Settlers Brigade and Rela Squads formed for the benefit of the younger generation living in FELDA settlements.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/images\/stories\/Icon\/ukmnewsportal.png\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/images\/stories\/Campus_News_Picture\/Felda-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/images\/stories\/Campus_News_Picture\/Felda-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TUESDAY, 12 OCTOBER 2010 15:33 By Abdul Ghani Nasir Pix by Saliman Leman BANGI, 12 Oct., 2010 \u2013 The Youth<a class=\"tukm-readmore\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/archive\/year-2010\/october-2010\/ukm-sets-up-perkasa-to-help-overcome-social-ills\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7272,"parent":1410,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-7266","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7266"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7275,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7266\/revisions\/7275"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1410"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}