Pakatan to maintain previous govt’s policy on tahfiz education

KUALA LUMPUR: The National Tahfiz Education Policy (DPTN) introduced by the previous administration will be maintained with improvements from time to time, says Deputy Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Fuziah Salleh.

“DPTN will be implemented with the cooperation of the Islamic Religious Department in all states.

“This policy is an effort at standardising management of tahfiz education, namely memorising of the Quran in Malaysia by taking into account the national education policy and the existing regulations in the states,” she said in the Dewan Negara yesterday.

She said the status of DPTN had been made known to the Council of Rulers in October last year and the policy had also been passed by the Melaka state assembly.

Fuziah was responding to a question by Senator Datuk Jamilah Sulaiman on whether the Pakatan Harapan government would review DPTN to improve the performance of tahfiz in the country.

Fuziah said the initiatives to improve DPTN, among others, would involve enhancing the laws and enforcement, strengthening the tahfiz education curriculum by making it on par with the mainstream education and empowering the governance of tahfiz institution.

“Through DPTN, an accreditation and certification system for tahfiz institution will also be introduced,” she said.

She also called on tahfiz operators to register their centres to facilitate security control and management to avoid incidents, such as the fire at Pusat Tahfiz Darul Quran Ittifaqiyah, Datuk Keramat, in September last year, which claimed the lives of 21 students and two teachers. — Bernama