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Defence minister: National Service Training to use new cost effective module (www.malaymail.com)

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Wait, what's version 2 of PLKN?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

wait why are they bringing this back

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Minister said it was to instill leadership skills and patriotism. This time though not a huge amount of students will attend, perhaps several thousand a year. Key is cutting costs and getting help from our army to hold courses.

By the way I got my answer: PLKN was suspended in 2015 as it was costly to run back then. A revised National Service "2.0" was reintroduced a year later, but after the change in govt in 2018, it was abolished later that year.