Maszlee ready to meet protesters
KUALA LUMPUR: Education Minister Dr Maszlee Malik will meet a group of students who protested against his appointment as International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM) president.
Maszlee said he would meet them at his office on Wednesday to listen to their concerns.
“I could not meet the group’s demands to meet up right away as I am in Sarawak on a working visit,” he said in a statement on Facebook and Twitter yesterday.
Maszlee said activists from several non-governmental organisations were also part of the group.
He said ministry officials were instructed to ensure the welfare of the group was taken care of, including holding discussions with the police in Putrajaya to release two detained for questioning. Both were released on bail earlier yesterday.
IIUM expressed its readiness to accept any decision by the government regarding Maszlee’s appointment as its seventh president.
IIUM rector Professor Tan Sri Dr Dzulkifli Abdul Razak said: “That is the right of the government and the ministry. It is up to them to study the appointment of Maszlee. “Whoever appointed as president must deliver the pledge and not deny it,” he said after officiating the International Conference on Malay Medical Manuscript 2018 at the Malaysian Islamic Arts Museum.