The announcement by the new Youth Minister Ismail Sabri that until 21 May 2008, there were only 112 youth organisation applying for the registration with ROY and of that number 16 applications already been approved.
The figures provided by the minister in his keynote speech during the National Youth Consultative Council meeting on Saturday shocked many members of the council, myself included.
During the meeting I asked the minister why this can happened when there is an estimated existing 8,000 youth organisations registered with the ROS. Why the youth organisations are not forthcoming to register their organisations?
The Youth Act took more than 5 years to materialised and most of the youth organisations should be aware of this Act and the need to be registered with ROY. Many issues were already discussed, adjusted, changed, dropped and settled during the many meetings, discussions, consultations and drafting sessions between the ministry and all the stakeholders especially with the Malaysian Youth Council.
Are the youth organisations not taking this Act seriously or having a wait and see attitude? Some may have to adjust the structure of their organisation set up to adhere to the Act but for whatever reasons , it will not help if these youth organisations procrastinate or taking a "tidak apa" attitude on a government policy which affects all their members in the long run. It's better for them to look into this matter seriously rather than pressing the panic button when the ROS takes their organisation names off from the ROS register while they are still not registered with ROY.
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