Selangor meeting with JPN Director and district officers



Tuan Haji Mustafa together with community leaders from Selangor

 Over 45 people gathered at Shah Alam Registration office on Tuesday Jan 25, 2011 at 9.30am. The meeting was chaired by the Department’s state director, Tuan Haji Mustafa.

According to Datuk Dr Denison Jayasooria a number of factors made this meeting between federal officials and community leaders very unique.  

• First, prior to the meeting with community leaders, JPN officials had already met and organized a strategy
• Second, at the pre campaign stage, the department is willing to organize volunteers training at the district level so as to establish clear links between the district level officers and volunteers
• Third, all district level department representatives were present and by the end of the meeting the key community and department representative set dates for the training at the districts
• Fourth, that there was a need for a follow up strategy and action plan. In this context the department was willing to go to specific neighborhoods especially where there are cases that do not have sufficient supportive documents.

String hoppers with brown sugar & cocunut

• However the most unique aspect was the food catering. ‘String hoppers’ were served for the morning session.   In contrast to the frequent ‘nasi lemak’, string hopers met that the department was sensitive to serve a dish that was well liked by the Indian community.

Also present was Dato Siva Subramanian from the Taskforce and MIC Selangor Information officier, Mr S Siva who led the state officials. There were also representatives from the Malaysian Hindu Sangam and the Vijayaratnam Foundation.

Selangor has a high density of Indian population and many from the former estates are now living in the small towns. With a strong cooperation from the department this campaign will have a tremendous impact on the Indian community.

Meeting in progress at Shah Alam JPN