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Promise 56: Establishing a Consultative Council for People's

Harmony

As a first step in positioning Malaysia globally as a moderate country

that thrives on inter-racial and inter-religious harmony, the Pakatan

Harapan Government will establish National Consultative Council for

Harmony. Its roles are to:

a) review and recommend policies and programmes aimed at

enhancing unity and integration of the different races and

eliminate discrimination from our culture.

b) Review and improve the nation's education system and ensuring

early exposure on race relations and religious differences and

similarities to students at all levels.

c) Be a platform for brain storming, consultation and reconciliation

between the races and religion.

d) Develop new political thinking that is no longer premised on race

and religious differences

e) Study and create a mechanism for a new Malaysian society that

practices a centripetal-based political model, a system based on

middle or moderate principles and rejects extremism.

The government will spearhead efforts to enact National Harmony Act to

ensure equality, eliminate discrimination in all respects, and criminalise

racial and religious hatred in accordance with the Federal Constitution.

The Council will be further mandated to carry out research and

brainstorming to produce recommendations to the Cabinet level for

implementation.

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